Googlebot fetching lots of URLs with a "workaround" parameter

A certain page on our website keeps generating entries like the following on our IIS6 logs:               2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707368055555 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707277777777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707347222222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707291666666 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707263888888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707326388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707437500000 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707451388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707340277777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707270833333 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707381944444 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707284722222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707201388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0      Doing a reverse DNS lookup, these IP addresses making these calls seems to be a Googlebot. What does "workaround=" on this line mean? We always seem to be getting "workaround=" calls on 1 particular page only, sometimes multiple times within a few seconds like this example. What is the cause of this and how can I prevent it? This specific page does make AJAX calls via jQuery to a 3rd party service and they are reporting a spike in calls being made and I am suspecting this bot calls to be the issue.


Can I block requests that have no user agent because they cause 404 errors?

Is it OK to block requests that contain no user agent? I am getting random 404 errors on URLs I have never used. These requests have no user agent. If this is the case, will it affect any of my SEO?


What could make Google search strange URL in Google Webmaster Tools?

In my Webmaster Tools console I can see that Google tries to access very strange URLs, receiving a 404. For example: http://www.example.com/vacanze-hotel.html/vacanze-parchi/vacanze- sicilia-villaggi/vacanze-offerte/vacanze-parchi/vacanze-toscana- villaggi/vacanze-piemonte-villaggi/vacanze-liguria-villaggi/vacanze-marche- villaggi/vacanze-emilia-romagna-villaggi/vacanze-basilicata-villaggi/vacanze- campania-villaggi/ It's a very long URL indeed! and it's not listed in any _sitemap.xml_ , or linked from anywhere in my site (I suppose! it's a very big site) What could make Google search that strange URL?


Research about best way to present multiple products on one page

I am updating a webshop page. This is a fairly simple page that displays all the products that we currently sell. The page in development is visible here ( https://www.ortho.nl/wwebshop ). Now I was curious, and since I can't find anything via google etc..(probaly don't know the right keywords) what the best way is to present multiple products on one page. Should you use borders? Should you use colours? Which colours? what kind of tweaks will direct the customers attention to the right place? Does anyone know from experience or via research(and could you point me in the right direction to find that research) what the best way to present products is so conversion/clickthrough is optimised?


Is it possible to create website on Drupal that works same as Airbnb?

Is it possible to create website on Drupal that works something like Airbnb ? Specifications:   1. Reserving houses with online calendar and calculation of total sum of reservation.   2. Gallery of houses pictures.   3. Ability to pay with Visa/MasterCard and etc. In other words, this website should work as simple hotel website. I'd really appreciate if you'd give some examples (hotel websites).


CNAME cross subdomain mapping problem

I have the exact same problem as this but I don't understand the solution. I have 2 different domain name(with different hosting/provider) domain-one.com and domain-two.com which I want sub.domain-one.com to point to sub.domain- two.com using CNAME. All have been setup and propagate correctly but now when I go to sub.domain-one.com it goes to basic page of the server. If I go directly to sub.domain-two.com the page load correctly. I've tried to add the subdomain using Addon Domains on cPanel but the problem persist.


Problem with missing JSON functions on PHP 5.2.6 / Plesk 8.4

I have a vserver running openSuse 10.3, Apache 2 and Plesk 8.4. I can update/upgrade neither, as it is apparently not recommended to upgrade openSuse 10.3 (and an update to the EOL 10.4 does not seem to make much sense) and Plesk fails to update no matter what version I try (even fails to upgrade to 8.4.1). Still I can live with that somehow, primarily because I don’t have the time to do a fresh remote install on the vserver. What really is a problem is, that though the installed PHP is 5.2.6 it has no zip library and no json functions. The first is probably because PHP was not compiled with --enable-zip. The second is a big mystery though. As I understand it, it always comes with PHP unless its compiled with the --disable-json configure option. This is however not the case. And the json extension module is just not there. I even tried to enable it with extension=json.so with no luck either. the configure options of my PHP are (as shipped with Plesk 8.4)               '../configure'      '--prefix=/usr'      '--datadir=/usr/share/php5'      '--mandir=/usr/share/man'      '--bindir=/usr/bin'      '--with-libdir=lib'      '--includedir=/usr/include'      '--sysconfdir=/etc/php5/apache2'      '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php5/apache2'      '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php5/conf.d'      '--enable-libxml'      '--enable-session'      '--with-mm'      '--with-pcre-regex=/usr'      '--enable-xml'      '--enable-simplexml'      '--enable-spl'      '--enable-filter'      '--disable-debug'      '--enable-inline-optimization'      '--disable-rpath'      '--disable-static'      '--enable-shared'      '--program-suffix=5'      '--with-pic'      '--with-gnu-ld'      '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo'      '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2'      '--disable-all'      '--disable-cli'      As I understand it, PECL is not an option with 5.2.6. Or am I mistaken? Even if I was not, the openSuse repository only goes as far as PHP 5.2.4. The openSuse install even came without zypper, which I had to manually install. So is there a way to get ziplib and json running in PHP 5.2.6 without having to recompile the binary?


Why are users logged out when they toggle compatibility mode in IE?

On the PeoplePerHour website, If a **Internet Explorer** user toggles the compatibility mode - they get logged out of the website! What are the possible reasons for this? I was thinking perhaps the browser is clearing cookies and therefore the users session gets lost. Is this possible ( _seems unlikely!_ )? _Test environment: IE8 on Windows Vista._


Google Analytics - tracking across sites

We have two websites, A and B. A is tracked with Google Analytics. Users arrive at site A and log in to site B from there. We have teasers for content on site A on the log out page of site B. So: A -> B -> A My goal is to track how many visitors respond to the teasers on site B and visit A. I understand that after 30 minutes of inactivity a pageview starts a new visit. Am I right in assuming that if the user is done on site B **in less than 30 minutes** his original visit to A is simply continued? If so, would all traffic source info be "carried over"? For example, the user arrives via Google on A, logs in to B, logs off, goes to A. Would I then see Google as the traffic source when I look at the traffic sources of the landing pages on A? What would be a good way to accurately track clicks on the teasers? Tagging the links on B would be my preferred solution. We cannot install GA on B. Many thanks for your help! **UPDATE:** I decided to dig into this subject myself as I found a lot of contradictory info. Here's what I've found out so far:   * The Firefox plugin Firebug (to look at request headers) and its extension Firecookie are useful tools for research on this topic.   * GA's utmz cookie contains info on the referrer in its utmsr value.    * During the **same** session, referral info is not overwritten by a second referral. So if the user takes the following path X -> A -> B -> A, utmsr is X upon the second arrival on A (again, same session).   * Sidenote: utmsr is overwritten if the second arrival is coming from search/organic.   * When __utm.gif is requested, one of the GET variables of the request is utmr. utmr contains the page referrer, i.e. B in the path example above.   * GA seems to use utmz for referral reporting and not utmr. This is based on preliminary research. However, it would also explain why you sometimes see referring sites which don't have links to the specific page you're looking at.   * I'll do some more research and post it here.


Question about my public_HTML folder permissions

I have a shared hosting account that uses cPanel and I think su_php. By default, the permissions for my public_HTML directory are set to 750, which allows my site and all folders/files inside public_HTML to be viewable by anyone who visits the site. I'm assuming this is because su_php allows the server to run as my user, thus being able to process php, read files, etc, and serve them to site viewers; rendering any permissions for "other" unnecessary. But if I set the permissions of any folders within the public_HTML directory to 750 (instead of 755) and I try to visit a page inside that folder, the browser gives me a 403. I'm having trouble understanding why my public_HTML folder can be set to 750, but folders inside it need to be set to 755. If anyone could help me out with this, I'd really appreciate it!


Website performance tips?

I'm kind of having some troubles with the loading of my website. It sometimes loads fast, then when you refresh it, most of the time, it will just keep trying to load images. It will keep doing that for a minute or so, and none of the JavaScript will execute. I have followed most of the tips given by Yahoo, except caching, which I couldn't get working properly. Does anyone know how to do proper caching of image and JavaScript files using _htaccess_? Most of the code I found online won't work.


Extraction of whois data for country level domains( .us/.uk etc)

I'm using Domaintools.com whois api to get the whois info about domains. But they don't have data for country level domains like .us/.au etc. Is there any place I get the whois info using some api for many country level domains?


What is the best practice with KML files when adding geositemap?

I'm not sure how to deal with KML files. Now important particularly in reference to the Google Venice update. My site basically is a guide of many company listings (sort of Yellow Pages). I want each company listing to have a geolocation associated with it. Which of the options I present below is the way to go? **OPTION 1: all locations in a single KML file with a reference to that KML file from a geositemap.xml** _MYGEOSITEMAP.xml_               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:geo="http://www.google.com/geo/schemas/sitemap/1.0">      <url><loc>http://www.mysite.com/locations.kml</loc> <geo:geo>    <geo:format>kml</geo:format></geo:geo></url>     </urlset>       _ALLLOCATIONS.kml_               <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">         <Document>     <name>MyCompany</name>     <atom:author>         <atom:name>MyCompany</atom:name>     </atom:author>     <atom:link href="http://www.mysite.com/locations/3454/MyCompany" rel="related" />         <Placemark>     <name>MyCompany, Kalverstraat 26 Amsterdam  1000AG</name>     <description><![CDATA[<address>MyCompany
Address: Kalverstraat 26, Amsterdam  1000AG
Phone: 0646598787</address>
hello there, I'm MyCompany
]]>     </description><Point><coordinates>5.420686499999965,51.6298808,0</coordinates>         </Point>     </Placemark>     </Document>     </kml>          <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">     <Document>         <name>MyCompany</name><atom:author><atom:name>MyCompany</atom:name></atom:author><atom:link href="http://www.mysite.com/locations/22/companyX" rel="related" /><Placemark><name>MyCompany, Rosestreet 45 Amsterdam  1001XF </name><description><![CDATA[<address>companyX
Address: Rosestreet 45, Amsterdam  1001XF
Phone: 0642195493</address>
some text about companyX
]]></description><Point><coordinates>5.520686499889632,51.6197705,0</coordinates></Point></Placemark>     </Document>     </kml>      **OPTION 2: a separate KML file for each location and a reference to each KML file from a geositemap.xml** (kml files placed in a \kmlfiles folder) _MYGEOSITEMAP.xml_               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:geo="http://www.google.com/geo/schemas/sitemap/1.0">      <url><loc>http://www.mysite.com/kmlfiles/3454_MyCompany.kml</loc> <geo:geo>         <geo:format>kml</geo:format></geo:geo></url>     <url><loc>http://www.mysite.com/kmlfiles/22_companyX.kml</loc> <geo:geo>         <geo:format>kml</geo:format></geo:geo></url>     </urlset>       *3454_MyCompany.kml*               <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">     <Document><name>MyCompany</name><atom:author><atom:name>MyCompany</atom:name></atom:author><atom:link href="http://www.mysite.com/locations/3454/MyCompany" rel="related" /><Placemark><name>MyCompany, Kalverstraat 26 Amsterdam  1000AG</name><description><![CDATA[<address>MyCompany
Address: Kalverstraat 26, Amsterdam  1000AG
Phone: 0646598787</address>
hello there, I'm MyCompany
]]></description><Point><coordinates>5.420686499999965,51.6298808,0</coordinates></Point></Placemark>     </Document>         </kml>      *22_companyX.kml*               <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">     <Document><name>companyX</name><atom:author><atom:name>companyX</atom:name></atom:author><atom:link href="http://www.mysite.com/locations/22/companyX" rel="related" /><Placemark><name>companyX, Rosestreet 45 Amsterdam  1001XF </name><description><![CDATA[<address>companyX
Address: Rosestreet 45, Amsterdam  1001XF
Phone: 0642195493</address>
some text about companyX
]]></description><Point><coordinates>5.520686499889632,51.6197705,0</coordinates></Point></Placemark>     </Document>     </kml>      **OPTION 3?**


Where can I download list of all .com domains registered in the world

I just need registered .com domain names. I know this list is available at:   * http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/domain-name-services/grow-your-domain-name-business/tld-zone-access/index.xhtml ( looks like it could take 4 weeks for approval)   * http://www.premiumdrops.com/zones.html   * Also I can extract domain names using domain search API at domaintools.com Is there any other source where I can find this list?


International Targeting "no return tags"

Google Webmaster Tools has added an International Targeting Report to show hreflang errors. There's a section that reports "no return tags" errors with `Originating URL` & `Alternate URL` columns. ![International Targeting no return tags](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BTe4R.png) What do I need to do to fix these errors? Is there a way to "Mark as Fixed" once that's done like we can for Crawl Errors?


In NginX what means location ^~

If I'm not wrong,   `location = / {}` means "only the / folder, not the files inside, not the subfolders"   `location ~ / {}` means "the / folder, all the files inside, all the subfolders and their subfiles"   But what it means:   `location ^~ / {}`?   I found this configuration in the web, but I wasn't able to google an answer.   I found it in a tutorial while I was trying to protect with htpasswd a folder and everything inside of it. However `location ~ /` did the job, while even if `location ^~ /` protected everything as well, it did not let the php pages to work correctly.


SEO and JavaScript since Google admits JS parsing

We're planning on building a HTML snapshot creation service to provide the Google crawlers with static HTML of our JS driven single page application. Is this still necessary and/or encouraged since Google openly admits it is parsing JS now? How should I tackle this evaluation?   * Are there tools to provide data on when it's needed to provide snapshots and when google has sufficent parsing?   * Is it better because it would be much faster in comparison to the JS incremental rendering?


How to SEO optimise Ajax/Json loaded images?

I am using Galleria.io on a website to display a gallery of images. In the database, the images have a title and description to properly explain what the image is. I load the images into galleria using `dataSource` and a Json array. The gallery works fine and shows the title and description in the gallery however no keyword analyzer picks up the content of the title and description as the images are loaded at run time. What would be the best way of making the title and description available for a search engine to crawl while associating it to the appropriate images?


My application's bounce rate jumped from 30% to 80% overnight

My application is provided as a service that is embedded in other sites. I have google analytics installed on the login popup dialog which is a page of my application, which is opened from the host site (OAuth). About a week ago, I've noticed a sharp decrease in the number of new users registrations and a jump in the bounce rate (from ~30% to ~80%). **This happened without any change in the application**. I looked into technical parameters like page load time and error rates, but could not see any change in there. Any ideas what can cause this behavior?


Is there any reason for putting humans.txt except of acknowledgement?

Are there any valid reasons of putting humans.txt? The only reason I see so far is to give credit to the team who created the site, and open source libraries it is using.


SEO history of recycled domain name

I have purchased a recycled domain name and I have just been told that if I use the recycled domain name (that I now own) I will inherit any penalties that the recycled domain name may have attracted in its previous life. Is there any way that I can check if there are penalties associated with the recycled domain name that I now own?


How to make SubDirectories?

I have my server on WAMP, and domain under domain.com. How do you make sub directories on your website? (as in website.com/subdirectory) All i could get is the ugly (ipaddress)/(random folder)/asdf.html. I am new to website coding so explain it simply, please.


Best way to redirect in IIS

We have a website that has two URLs (one for the US side and another for the Canadian side which is then broken into Canadian English and Canadian French). For the purposes of my question, I will write as:   * www.us_url.com (US)   * www.canada_url.ca/ca_en/ (Canadian English)   * www.canada_url.ca/ca_fr/ (Canadian French) To make sure people are on the correct site, what do I do if they go to the US URL with Canadian English content (e.g. www.us_url.com/ca_en/canada.asp) but I want to make sure the URL is the Canadian one (e.g. www.canada_url.ca/ca_en/canada.asp) so it shows up properly in Google Analytics. We're using IIS 7 and classic ASP.


How can I track hits to areas of my web application?

We have a growing web application, and we currently use Google Analytics and Chartbeat to track usage and engagement (although we're open to alternatives). Unfortunately, both are geared towards content-based sites where everything is about the URL. Our URLs contain object IDs, making them less useful independently, and causing us to grow beyond Google Analytics' 50,000 unique URLs per day. How can we track hits to areas of our web application, essentially ignoring parts of the URLs?


How do I implement advertising on my page?

I want to make a little bit of cash on the side for my site.   1. Who should I use for advertising?   2. What are the best practices for ad placement?      * What are the best ways to keep advertising unobtrusive?   3. When is too much advertising too much advertising?   4. Are there better ways to make money from a site than text ads?


"Most linked content" - a page has disappeared

So for my site, under "Most linked content" there is a whole list of pages, but one top page has recently disappeared. It used to be on the list with about 1000+ incoming links. Now it's totally gone. Is this just something that happens? Or is there a reason behind it? I've fetched the page and resubmitted it, which I assume will take a while to come back. Thanks!


mod_rewrite for directories

One of our developers who built the framework that our website uses is no longer with us and I appear to have a stack of issues across the site currently, one being URL rewriting across the site. This is what we have at the moment:-               RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$  index.php?page_name=$1&sub=$2 [NC,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$      This currently rewrites URL's correctly in the sense that... **`domain.com/index.php?page_name=products`** would be rewritten to **`domain.com/products`** But if you try to access a path that exists on the server but not in the database such as. **`domain.com/fonts`** this is trying to be rewritten to **`domain.com/fonts/?page_name=fonts&sub=`** and throws a redirect loop error in the browser. I think I need to be rewriting directory paths as well as what we are currently - I'm not too sure whether this is code that has to be rewritten or whether we can easily achieve this from an addition rule in _.htaccess_. **Edit: To include full rewrite sections from domain following on from Justin's answer below...**               RewriteEngine on          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(jpg|png|gif|css|js|get.php|addon.php|script.php|rss.php|favicon.ico|feed.php|301.php|oldsite/|clientarea/|htc|PIE.php)$     RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$  index.php?page_name=$1&sub=$2 [NC,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$          ## FIXES TRAILING SLASH ##     RewriteRule (.*)([^/])$ http://www.domain.com/$1$2/ [R=301,L]          RewriteRule ^$ home/ [NC,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ^on$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/robots.txt$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /robots_https.txt [L]


What are user-defined variables inside Google Analytics

I am starting to look at my analytics properly and noticed that for one site under User-Defined variables I am getting results for:   * usercount-2012-14   * NO SILVERLIGHT Can someone explain what the idea of User-Defined variables is and if they ever come in useful?


Is it Better to Use a Separate VPS for Each Website or Have One, Stronger VPS?

In what situations should one purchase multiple VPSes to host multiple websites? For instance, renting three VPSes with 1GB RAM 3 times vs renting one VPS with 3GB RAM? The problem I am currently having with multiple VPSes is that I have to setup a lot of configurations on each, and as they generally all need email (PostFix), LAMP and the same Apache configurations, I'm finding it very frustrating to use. Therefore the top priority is going to be performance and ease of maintainance. Which path shall I take? I appreciate all opinions with points backed up.


Paragraph tags in different browsers with SDL Tridion?

In the SDL Tridion 2011 content management system, when editing a component in a rich text field (RTF) I noticed pressing enter results in different HTML tags in the source. I think it's based on browser since I get `<div>` with Chrome. How do I make sure I get `<p>` tags in all browsers? **Update:** SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 has the following in the default XSLT schema rich text filter, which appears to fix the scenario of pressing enter when editing regular Body Text or paragraphs. I still have the issue when pressing enter after a heading, which comes out as a `div` in Chrome.                     Updated question then is: **How do I make sure I get`<p>` tags in all browsers, even when pressing enter after a heading?**


Show other domain using DNS instead of iframe

I have two domains bought at different providers and I would like `http://aaaaa.com` to show `http://bbbbb.com/aaaaa`. Is this possible using only DNS? Must I transfer the domain to my hosting provider? I really don't want to use a redirection or iframe.


Which hoster for asp.net application using BlackfishSQL?

I am working on a asp.net application based on a desktop app I wrote which will use BlackfishSQL as its backend. Now I need a hoster. I think I can deploy this on Linux using Mono (and I will in fact test it that way) which means I have options and can choose between Windows and Linux hosts. BlackfishSQL itself is managed code. Can someone point me to a good Web hosting company offering Linux or Windows servers for projects like mine? I don't think I need much traffic and certainly not much disk space. I do, however, need .NET 2.0 (possibly higher) and Mono 2.4 or higher.


How to ensure apache2 reads htaccess for custom expiry?

I have a site with Apache 2.2.22 . I have enabled the mod-expires and mod- headers modules seemingly correctly:               $ apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES     …     expires_module (shared)     headers_module (shared)     …      Settings include:               ExpiresActive On     ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 minutes"     ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 1 minute"      Checking the headers of requests, I see that max-age is set correctly both for the generic case and for xml files (which are auto-generated, but mostly static). I would like to have different expiries for xml files in a directory (e.g. `/data`), so `http://site/data/sample.xml` expires 24 hours later. I enter the following in `data/.htaccess`:               ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 24 hours"     Header set Cache-control "max-age=86400, public"      but it seems that apache ignores this. How can I ensure apache2 uses the .htaccess directives? I can provide further information if requested.


Is there a way I can filter traffic by page-type based upon URL structure in Google-Analytics or Google Webmaster Tools?

I have a local business directory site. I'm trying to segment my incoming traffic by page-type such that I can find out what percentage of traffic is going to zip code pages exclusively and what percentage is going to city/state level pages. I basically want to filter by URL structure to find out what percentage of total traffic zip code pages account for. The reason for doing this is to find out if Google Tag Manager can help with this? Here are the two URL paths:   * http://www.example.com/ny/new-york/10011/   * http://www.example.com/ny/new-york


Navigation: Sub-menu item for section page

I'm considering some small navigation changes to one of my sites. Consider the following (simplified) site structure:   * About Some Technology      * About Some Technology   * Our Products      * Products Overview     * Product 1     * Product 2   * Our Services      * Services Overview     * Service A     * Service B [ _This is a vertical menu; in addition we have a horizontal menu with the usual suspects - Home/FAQs/Contact us_ ] In the current configuration, the three top-level menu items simply expand the sub-menus, So to get to 'About Some Technology', it takes a couple of clicks, which I think is annoying and wasteful. Most importantly, the MD doesn't like it so it's going to change. However, I'm torn between two alternatives; either would be fine, I'm sure - certainly that little bit better than the current. But I thought I'd find out what the community would consider good or best-practice. My two suggested alternatives are:   1. Clicking on main menu will redirect to the 'overview' page for that section.    2. We remove the overview pages, and make the main menu items into real pages, so when a section is selected, the page is rendered, and the menu is expanded to show other sub-items. I don't see any problems moving forwards, but there may be an issue going backwards. Image a user selecting Our Services and then Service A. Under Approach 1, they can go back to the overview page by clicking on it directly, by clicking on the Main menu item, or clicking on the breadcrumb links. Under Approach 2, you have the main menu and the breadcrumb trail. I have one person that thinks the original is the best, and that either of the two alternatives present usability issues - which I don't agree with. Another wants the 'simplest' option, i.e. removing 'unnecessary links' (#2). I think I currently prefer #1 because it eliminates unnecessary clicks but still presents a consistent and predictable structure for the user. So the question is, what do people think is best in terms of usability (and why)? I did go to the trouble of comparing some similar sites (in terms of size/industry/etc) but it wasn't that successful - there are some really shocking sites still out there!


Is it possible to track 404 images with google analytics?

I know I can track 404's using google analytic's, but our images are served from a CDN and we can't control the 404 page that is served from the CDN. Is there a way that I can detect missing images and track that via google analytics?


Should I still support a screen resolution of 1024x786 or can I ignore it and support 1280x720 and higher?

Only for websites, not webapps.   There are not many computers left with 1024x786, so why still support it?


What are some good resources for doing A/B testing of a website?

I know of Google Website Optimizer and have used it some, and it's pretty good. Are there better options? Any good blogs about A/B testing?


How do PR checkers work?

**How do the millions of online 'pagerank checker' tools work?** Don't get me wrong, pagerank means very little to me, I just wondered how they give you a pagerank number, given that many of them give you a different score to other tools...


Who is the "anti-Matt Cutts" in terms of providing factual comment on the SEO knowledgebase

Matt Cutts is so often quoted when attempting to provide facts that support the SEO logic which, without him, is otherwise just deduced or reverse engineered. We hang onto his statements to make facts out of the things we have culled together... and that's a good way to describe the knowledge base of the SEO community... "culled together." I mean this in no disrespect to anyone, including Matt Cutts and our profession as a whole. I have to wonder, though, who is an authority on SEO who is an active participant in online communities, but is _not_ conflicted due to their responsibility to their employer, such as Matt Cutts. My reasons for looking past Matt and the Google Webmaster Forums are:   * "We can't tell you what we're doing because you'll game the system."   * "Don't game the system because we'll catch you programmatically [and it will hurt]." To me, the natural response to those should be (in order):   * Seriously? I'd like to make sure that I publish my information in an optimal way that complements your particular algorithms because it's good for everyone.   * I know that my competitors cheat and you haven't caught them, and because they are cheating I cannot outrank them even though my pages are equally relevant and "do no evil" (to quote the GOOG). What am I to do? Should I resign just to hope your next algorithm will de-rank them and I'll suddenly benefit from my wholesomeness? **Who are the people publicly providing guidance to SEO technicians, backing it not with inside information** (and the restraint that requires), **but with evidence such as test results and citations from patent filings?** While some may decry my question as completely subjective, I'll state that in some other disciplines of our profession there are a number experts we have knighted such as Jakob Nielsen (usability).


Hosting blogs in tumblr and redirecting custom page

I've a blog hosted at tumblr (own domain). Before that, I was hosting my blog using wordpress. When I was using wordpress, my permalink is like `<domain>/<year>/<month>/<date>/<article name>`, but after shifting to tumblr, the permalinks are now different. So when people visit the old link, I want to make a 301 redirect; or at least prepare a custom page to inform them that the site has been changed. How do I do that??


Will Signing up for Yahoo Directory Significantly Improve SERP for a Flex Site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO: What are SEO benefits of submitting to Yahoo Directory? Is Yahoo Directory worth the $299? Will it generate any traffic? I've got a Flex 3 site, so unfortunately, I'm invisible in SEO terms. I was wondering if signing up for this would help. Thank you. -Laxmidi


If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact my search engine rankings for either URL?

If I have a blog on Tumblr that is also embedded on my website - will this negatively impact (because of duplicate content) my search engine rankings for either URL?


Website won't load in Firefox 3.6.13

After the latest version of Firefox came out, I've been having problems with my website. The site is: http://mojheroj.com It works fine in all other browsers, as well as older versions of Firefox and Firefox 4.0 beta 7, but it just won't load in 3.6.13. When I try, all I get is a blank page. I don't even get an error. At first I thought it might be a problem with the program, so I tried clearing the cache, reinstalling, opening the page in safe-mode, but nothing helped. After checking with some friends, they seem to have the same problem. The website is done in Joomla, with some jQuery. To make things even weirder, I can access the administrator part of the site through Firefox just fine. Also, when I change the browser's user agent, Firefox can open my page. So, I'm guessing that's where the problem lies, but I don't know how to fix it. I tried checking Joomla's .htaccess file, but the USER_AGENT property isn't defined at all. Could someone please help me how I could fix this? I really need the website to work in Firefox. Thank you.


How to force user to use subdomain?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I prevent access to an add-on domain's root directory from main > hosting domain name I am hosting a webshop with OpenCart and its current URL is e.g. http://mydomain.com/shop/   I have created two subdomains ( http://pg.mydomain.com/ and http://shop.mydomain.com/ ) and both subdomains are already working as they should. However, can I restrict direct access to mydomain.com/shop/ while leaving all the files (index.php, etc.) there?   Since both subdomains are pointing to http://mydomain.com/shop/, I thought this would restrict all access. So in the end, I would like my two shops to be accessable through http://pg.mydomain.com/ and http://shop.mydomain.com/, but not http://mydomain.com/shop/ while leaving all the files in http://mydomain.com/shop/.


Deploying GIT repository via FTPS to a shared hosting

I would like to start using GIT for version controling. Here are my prerequisites:   * I'm on **Windows**   * Most of the time I would need to work on **Wordpress templates**   * I have to deploy on multiple shared hosting services - **no SSH access**   * Some of the hosting services **offer GIT hosting** , but the connection is **only via HTTP (WebDav)** I think the solution might be:   1. Clone https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton to a local **main repo** to have always updated WP installation.   2. Turn on **Wordpress multi-site** to be able to develop more plugins on one WP installation.   3. Develop **Wordpress themes locally as GIT submodules** - _should I then add paths to the WP themes to main repo's .gitignore to not to track changes twice (main repo+submodule)?_   4. **Commit changes to BitBucket** account to have all of the repos at one place   5. When deploying:      * on hosting with GIT: add **remote GIT repository** (on the hosting), push to the repository via WebDav from the local repo and deploy     * on hosting without GIT: use something like - **git-ftp** : http://anantgarg.com/2013/09/25/git-ftp-for-windows/ to copy the changed files from local GIT to remote hosting via FTP - _but I wasn't able to find if it is possible to upload via FTPS_ What are the disadvantages to this? Is there a better (free!) solution? BTW: is it safe (secure connection) to connect to a remote repository like: https://username:password@myhosting.tld ? Won't anyone be able to see the username and password?


Virtual host in Apache Zend

I'd like to ask you if you can tell me why I can't get Vhost in Apache to work my Vhostconf is:               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost _default_:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com     DocumentRoot "E:/Archivos de programa/Zend/Apache2/htdocs"     ServerName localhost     <Directory "E:/Archivos de programa/Zend/Apache2/htdocs">         Options FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>     #AllowOveride all     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com     DocumentRoot "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis           documentos/NetBeansProjects/HealingHands"     ServerName healinghands.loc     <Directory "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis documentos/NetBeansProjects/HealingHands">         Options FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>     ErrorLog "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis documentos/NetBeansProjects/HealingHands/logs/error.log"     CustomLog "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis documentos/NetBeansProjects/HealingHands/logs/access.log" common     #AllowOveride all     </VirtualHost>     <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host2.example.com     DocumentRoot "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis documentos/NetBeansProjects"     ServerName dev.loc     <Directory "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis documentos/NetBeansProjects">         Options FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride All         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>     ErrorLog "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis documentos/NetBeansProjects/logs/error.log"     CustomLog "E:/Documents and Settings/dvieira/Mis documentos/NetBeansProjects/logs/access.log" common     #AllowOveride all     </VirtualHost>      My _httpd.conf_ is:               ServerRoot "E:\Archivos de programa\Zend\Apache2"          Listen  80          LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so     LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so     LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so     LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so     LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so     LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so     LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so     LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so     LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so     LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so     LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so     LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so     LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so     LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so     LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so     LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so     LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so     LoadModule imagemap_module modules/mod_imagemap.so     LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so     LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so     LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so     LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so     LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so     LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so     LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so     LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so     LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so     LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so     LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so     LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so     <IfModule !mpm_netware_module>     <IfModule !mpm_winnt_module>     User daemon     Group daemon     </IfModule>     </IfModule>     ServerAdmin admin@example.com          DocumentRoot "E:\Archivos de programa\Zend\Apache2/htdocs"     <Directory />     Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride all     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </Directory>     <IfModule dir_module>     DirectoryIndex index.php index.html home.php     </IfModule>     <FilesMatch "^\.ht">     Order allow,deny     Deny from all     Satisfy All     </FilesMatch>     ErrorLog "logs/error.log"     LogLevel warn     <IfModule log_config_module>     LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined     LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common     <IfModule logio_module>       LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio     </IfModule>         CustomLog "logs/access.log" common     </IfModule>     <IfModule alias_module>           Alias /NetBeansProjects "E:\Documents and Settings\dvieira\Mis documentos\NetBeansProjects"            ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "E:\Archivos de programa\Zend\Apache2/cgi-bin/"     </IfModule>     <IfModule cgid_module>          </IfModule>          <Directory "E:\Archivos de programa\Zend\Apache2/cgi-bin">     AllowOverride None     Options None     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </Directory>               DefaultType text/plain     <IfModule mime_module>          TypesConfig conf/mime.types          AddType application/x-compress .Z     AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz          </IfModule>               Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf          <IfModule ssl_module>     SSLRandomSeed startup builtin     SSLRandomSeed connect builtin     </IfModule>     Include "conf/zend.conf"          NameVirtualHost *:80     <VirtualHost *:80>          Include "E:\Archivos de programa\Zend\ZendServer/etc/sites.d/zend-default-vhost-80.conf"          </VirtualHost>          Include "E:\Archivos de programa\Zend\ZendServer/etc/sites.d/globals-*.conf"     Include "E:\Archivos de programa\Zend\ZendServer/etc/sites.d/vhost_*.conf"      And my host in Windows:               127.0.0.1       localhost     127.0.0.1       healinghands.loc     127.0.0.1       dev.loc      And I can't get any of the browser to recognize _dev.loc_ or _healinghands.loc_ but a ping does it. Localhost is working fine. I've spent 3 days now traying to solve this for my one but I finally quit and have to ask. The error should be this `Error Code 11002: host not found`. Background: this error indicates that the gateway could not find an authoritative DNS server for the website you are trying to access. Date: 5/20/2013 5:51:03 PM Server: Source: DNS problem. i'd like to add this ping               Haciendo ping a healinghands.loc [127.0.0.1] con 32 bytes de datos:          Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128     Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128     Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128     Respuesta desde 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 tiempo<1m TTL=128          Estadísticas de ping para 127.0.0.1:         Paquetes: enviados = 4, recibidos = 4, perdidos = 0         (0% perdidos),     Tiempos aproximados de ida y vuelta en milisegundos:         Mínimo = 0ms, Máximo = 0ms, Media = 0ms      Today i've tryed something: i've add this domains into the exceptions of mi ie proxy config. This worked for healinghands.loc but not for dev.loc i really do not understand why, both config are exactly the same except for de documentroot. I will continue searching


In terms of SEO, is it ok to have the same word in singular and plural in the URL? For example, I have a website to sell houses but I want to target for "house" and "houses", so if a person search "buy house" or "buy houses" my website can be in the results of Google. So, is it ok to have a URL like `www.nicehouses.com/house/type1.html`? Would Google process both terms? or will it be treated as spam? Is it a good idea to do this?


Google web search shows dateCreated instead of dateModified metadata

So today I discovered that the pages from my website are listed with an unexpected date value. I specify the schema.org properties `dateCreated` and `dateModified` for most of my content pages. I'd expect that search results show me when a page was last updated, to get a sense of the currency of the page. But it's showing the date of first publishing which may be years ago. That's a bit unsatisfying but I don't want to misuse the metadata because Google probably reads it wrong. Some search terms for you to try it out: "gitrevisiontool"; "easyxml"; "multiselecttreeview" (look for the results on dev.unclassified.de; the human- and machine-readable dates come at the end of the page) Does anybody know more about what's wrong here? Or does it work as designed? (What a stupid design that would be.)


SERP update frequency

Recently I changed my site improving the `title` and `description` metatags of many pages. Looking at Webmaster Tools I saw that Googlebot already crawled the new contents (and also found duplicate titles I promptly fixed), but the search results pages still have the old descriptions and titles. Is it know how much time is needed by Google to update the SERPs? In your experience, is it something happening really fast or really slow, supposing a rule to exist?


How can I match size information in an AdWords query?

I want to create keywords containing a size. eg.   * rugs 90 x 60   * rugs 180 x 120   * rugs 400 x 300 It seems this is possible as Amazon actually shows ads like this for such a query. They also insert it into the headline, body and URL. How can I do that? If I just create lots of keywords I can obviously not easily target every possible size. I am also afraid it is not so easy to have the ad not blocked for low impressions. UPDATE: I found out Amazon just has a list of very many popular sizes and ads will not trigger on odd queries like "rugs 91 x 53". This data can theoretically be captured on the server side to show a better landing page by using the query field in the referrer. It seems adwords is completely text based and nothing akin to Regexp is possible at all. One can also not mix exact and broad match keywords in one query to help write less ads.


web.config to redirect except some given IPs

I'm looking for a web.config which is equivalent as the .htaccess file below.               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^123\.123\.123\.123     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^321\.321\.321\.321     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/coming-soon\.html$     RewriteRule (.*)$ /coming-soon.html [R=302,L]     </IfModule>      Which redirects everyone to a coming soon page except for the given IPs. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with IIS.


Should I add some new texts in the existing page or make a new page for them?

I'm going to add new content about Paypal campaign on my site. But its content is not that big enough for a page(50 -100 words). And I'm wondering if I should add it to the existing related page (e.g. the page for using fee) or make a new page just for the campaign.


How does comScore determine gender?

I am curious how comscore determines gender, and would love to see some official documentation or information regarding this if possible.


My Flex 3 Website Doesn't Have Any Keywords Listed in Google's Webmaster Tools

I've got a Flex 3 website. When I in Google's webmaster tools -> Your site on the web -> Keywords, none are listed. Does anyone have an all-Flex site that has keywords listed for it the above? The sites been up for about a month. It's been indexed by Google. I have keyword metatags in the site, which from what I've read Google ignores. Where does google come up with the keywords for your site? Any suggestions on what I need to do? Thank you. -Laxmidi www.brainpinata.com


rel="Canonical": Ranking Benefits ? & specifying for PDF?

I think I understand the basic case for using rel="canonical": to tell Google which is the preferred URI when the same page/content may be accessed via more than one URI. This helps you avoid duplicate content penalties. But what else does it do? Does it also affect search ranking? i.e. will the page I specify in the canonical be ranked higher than the others? (if all else equal). And in the case of PDF documents, I understand that you can now specify rel="canonical" for them too, using HTTP headers (i.e. in htaccess). Again, this would obviously help avoid duplicate content penalties if the PDF content is the same as the HTML page or if it can be accessed in more than one place. But does it affect ranking? or are there any other benefits to doing this.


I want to be a developer (website and web application) and want to choose asp.net as a programming lang. I am currently an intermediate web designer. My friend told me that there are many things in asp.net My question is I am interested in **website and web application development** Is there any specific thing I have to learn to be a web developer or I have to learn the whole. Also, what does a developer has to do? key skills if he choose asp.net? Thanks :)


Which of these url for Feeds for the Sitemap should I use?

Does it matter which of these I add to my Sitemaps file?               http://example.com/?feed=rss      http://example.com/?feed=rss2     http://example.com/?feed=rdf      http://example.com/?feed=atom


Expiring domain transfer

A domain I own with a registrar is expiring next month. I want to change registrar. Is there a way of changing registrar exactly on expiration date or the only way is to start (and pay) the transfer procedure? I don't want to let the domain expire even for few minutes.


why is having (or excluding) 'www' in the URL affecting how my site displays to users?

I am cleaning markup on a website for my first customer. I did not build the site; I want to remove the table-based design and replace it with proper CSS, before I add a shopping cart to the site. http://www.theresheglowsdayspa.com I noticed by accident that the appearance will change if 'www' is removed from the URL. Can someone explain what's going on here? Also, is there a best practice with 'www' or no 'www' in the URL?


Forward slash on urls in the Sitemap file?

At the following page: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=183668#2 the urls given in the Sitemap example don't have a forward slash at the end. But i think i heard somewhere that they should. In my Sitemap file, should I include a forward slash/ on the end of each url? Or does it not matter?


Googleability on StackExchange questions?

There has been a recent discussion on the AskUbuntu StackExchange site about including the word "Ubuntu" in questions to provide better "googleablility". While I assume this is wrong, I don't know enough about Search Crawlers and the StackExchange platform to confirm this.


Why is Google still not indexing my !# website?

I have been working on a website which uses `#!` (2minutecv.com), but even after 6 weeks of the site up and running and conforming to the Google hash bang guidelines stated here, you can still see that Google still hasn't indexed the site yet. For example if you use Google to search for 2MinuteCV.com benefits it does not find this page which is referenced from the homepage. Can anyone tell me why Google isn't indexing this website? ## Update: Thanks for al lthe help with this answer. So just to make sure I understand what is wrong. According to the answers Google never actually indexes the pages after the Javascript has run. I need to create a "shadow site" which google indexes (which google calls HTNL snapshots). If I am right in thinking this then I can pick a winner for the bounty ## Update 2: Since this was posted we have now switched to having static HTML files on our server. This is simple, fast, and gets indexed properly by google


Does the server type matter when purchasing an SSL certificate from Network Solutions for NodeJS?

I am running an instance of ExpressJS using NodeJS and wish to have it start using `HTTPS`. My company purchases SSL certificates through Network Solutions. When trying to give them my CSR, Network Solutions asks for the type of web server I am using. (i.e. IIS, Apache w/ModSSL, Plesk, etc.) It doesn't offer any option for NodeJS or other. I have contacted their support with my question but while I wait I would like to know from the community.   1. Which server type should I use? and   2. Does it even matter? If relevant, I generated the CSR with OpenSSL on Ubuntu.


Should every page on every site be behind SSL?

This question stemmed from a discussion here: Ad networks that will serve via https? My question to the OP was "is it necessary to have every page behind SSL?" Admittedly at the time of posting this question, the OP hadn't got back to me to let me know what kind of site he had, was everything behind a login etc etc I agree that if everything was behind a login then yes, it should also be protected by an SSL certificate, but if (for example) the site was a wordpress blog, would it be necessary for the parts of the site that were just going to be viewed by your average user (i.e. one that's not logged in) to be accessed over HTTPS. Admittedly, if you were logged in and viewing the "front-end" of the site, it would send over your cookie, but as long as you took precautions against that then it should be ok, right?


Miscellaneous ways to get higher pagerank

I would like to get higher pagerank for my blog.   I know good contents are most important for SEO.   But I guess there are miscellaneous things(but legal) which site operators should know. These are something I wanted to know.   * What if I send a tracback to someone else's blog, does it help my blog's pagerank?    * If I register a comment to other blogs(with my blog address), does it help my blog's pagerank?    * http://benjaminlog.com/ <- I just wrote my blog address at here. does it help my blog's pagerank?    * If I send a tracback to someone's blog which is very famous, does it help my blog's pagerank **much more**?   * If I register a comment to other blogs which is very famous, does it help my blog's pagerank **much more**?    * If I write a post at newsgroup(include blog address to my signature), does it help my blog's pagerank?  If you have any tips else, please answer it.


<a> link color CSS not working for Chrome/Firefox/IE/Safari etc

Here is my site: http://dosrevival.com I can't seem to get the links to stop turning purple after being clicked in Chrome and IE (works in some Firefox versions?!?). In my CSS file I'm changing the a:link and a:hover 'color' to white and the 'text-decoration' to none or underlined as necessary. What's making Chrome throw this back up? Thanks!


How to see backlink history

Is there a way to see a graphical representation of a website's backlink history? I have tried Magestic SEO, but the data looks inaccurate: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0ylUJ.png) Does Google Webmaster Tools come with such a data visualisation tool?


Domain name coining issue

I've found two keyword search from Google keyword tool:   * "K1 run" (Phrase match,320,000 local monthly searches)   * "K2 run" (75,000 local monthly searches) K1,K2 are not dictionary word while run is. Will it be ok to register domain: **K1runK2run**? Or should I go with **K1K2run** ?


Directory structure for a website (js/css/img folders)

For years I've been using the following directory structure for my websites:               <root>       ->js         ->jquery.js         ->tooltip.js         ->someplugin.js       ->css         ->styles.css         ->someplugin.css       ->images         -> all website images...      it seemed perfectly fine to me until I began to use different 3rd-party components.   For example, today I've downloaded a datetime picker javascript component that looks for its images in the same directory where its css file is located (css file contains urls like "url('calendar.png')"). So now I have 3 options: **1)** put datepicker.css into my css directory and put its images along. I don't really like this option because I will have both css and image files inside the css directory and it is weird. Also I might meet files from different components with the same name, such as 2 different components, which link to background.png from their css files. I will have to fix those name collisions (by renaming one of the files and editing the corresponding file that contains the link). **2)** put datepicker.css into my css directory, put its images into the images directory and edit datepicker.css to look for the images in the images directory. This option is ok but I have to spend some time to edit 3rd-party components to fit them to my site structure. Again, name collisions may occur here (as described in the previous option) and I will have to fix them. **3)** put datepicker.js, datepicker.css and its images into a separate directory, let's say /3rdParty/datepicker/ and place the files as it was intended by the author (i.e., for example, /3rdParty/datepicker/css/datepicker.css, /3rdParty/datepicker/css/something.png, etc.). Now I begin to think that this option is the most correct. Experienced web developers, what do you recommend?


What is the best way to have the same website in multiple domains?

I would like to have the same website to sell a specific product, in multiple domains , to take advantage of keywords matching the domain name, for several different searches. However, I understand that having the same content in multiple sites will unleash the wrath of Google. If I have a redirect from all domains minus one, to that last one, do I still get any bonus for the "magic exact domain match jackpot"? Same question applies to canonical URLs... What's the best way to approach this? Thanks!


My site keeps getting rejected by a bot with empty reason & details

My site submission to Adsense keeps getting rejected by Google bot within an hour with blank reason and details(my first submission on Sunday, this time). When I raised it in Adsense forum, they have me mailed reason - site was down or unavailable.      I submitted a couple of times since Sunday but it gets rejected. First time my site was rejected due to navigational issues which I corrected. Second time came "Unacceptable contet". I then added Privacy policy & TOS.      Now all other advertising companies have accepted my site including Citika & Adbrite. What should I do now? I've another site coming up for approval in Adsense. Should I apply from my father's name? **Rejection message:** > We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. > > Issues: > > * * * > > Further detail: > > * * *


How to copy Wampserver functionality for localhost on Ubuntu

How to recreate a Wampserver like functionality on my localhost so I can see loaded Apache/PHP/MySQL Version, Loaded PHP modules, My Projects (actual directories in the "/var/www"/) and etc.


Sitemap for a one-page site

I'm wondering whether it's worth the effort to create a sitemap for a single- page site. By single page I'm not talking about a webapp made with Angular or Backbone, just a presentation site/page which has navigation links that link to sections within that particular page. For example:               About Us


How to track users who access an app three times a week in Google Analytics

I have an IOS app that is being tracked, and I'm looking to find unique users who use the app 3 or more times a week. I am able to find users who logged three sessions in a particular week, but I'd like to find users who log three sessions **every** week since a given start period. Similarly, I'd like to find the number of users who use the app > 1 time a week and one and > 1 time a month. Is this possible through Google Analytics?


Taking advantage of a portfolio of quality domain names

I own about 20 quality domain names (brandable/memorable, letters only .com) that include keywords relating to my web site. Most of them were purchased during the process of selecting a brand. What strategies are available to take advantage of these otherwise unused domains from an SEO or web marketing perspective?


SEO implications of blocking users viewing more than X pages

I'm considering the option to block non-premium users after viewing more than X pages. This basically means blocking the content after a fixed amount of pageviews per session. I can either:   1. Keep displaying full-content for Search Engines. Can this be considered cloaking?   2. Keep the real content in the background, and a pop-up that makes it not-viewable (like quora does). Can this make pages rank lower?


Wordpress 3.3.1 mySQL very high CPU usage

My host has given me this log and tells me its mySQL overloading my server:               | 266976 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 266978 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 29   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 266980 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 45   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 266996 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 43   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267002 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 44   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267008 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 10   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267011 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267013 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267016 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267018 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 13   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267023 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267033 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 44   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267034 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 44   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267040 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 43   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267041 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 10   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267050 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 42   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267058 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 38   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267060 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 29   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267062 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT p.* FROM wp2_posts AS p  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships AS tr ON p.ID = tr.object_id INNER |     | 267072 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 34   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267075 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 34   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267076 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT p.* FROM wp2_posts AS p  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships AS tr ON p.ID = tr.object_id INNER |     | 267084 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 19   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267087 | shonline     | localhost | shonline_sho2011 | Query   | 15   | update               | INSERT INTO accesslog (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) VALUES ('????         |     | 267088 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 2    | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |     | 267089 | db_name | localhost | db_name     | Query   | 30   | Copying to tmp table | SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp2_posts.* FROM wp2_posts  INNER JOIN wp2_term_relationships ON (wp2_po |      The server is a Xeon quadcore, 4GB RAM, 2Mbit up and down bandwidth. Monthly 2 million visitors. Apache set to 500 concurrent and SQL set to 250. Plugins: Adrotate / Contact Form 7 / Disqus / Events / Jetpack / Really Simple Captcha / Use Google Libraries / WebsiteDefender / Wordpress.com Popular Posts / WP-Page Navi / WP-Print / WP-Minify / WP-Super Cache How can I fix this?


The "Total Indexed" is always zero in Google Webmaster Tools

I'm a newbie in Google Webmaster Tools. I've verified my site, created my sitemap and submitted it to the google webmaster account. But after a week of waiting I've found that 46 out of 250 URLs in my sitemap are indexed (optimization -> sitemaps) but the Total Indexed is always a zero? Is this normal or do I have to do something else?


SEO for maps-based websites that require user interaction

I have a website that basically shows a lot of locations worldwide on a Google Maps like interface. The map itself is built using the Leaflet library and Open Street Map tiles. In the map, I show markers at each location I have. There is a popup window when I click on a marker that shows additional information and contains links to "detail" pages for this location. I fetch the location data for the viewpoint from an AJAX call from my server, so the additional information is not available in the HTML page itself. The detail pages are the pages my users are interested in. My normal users load the map, search the location they are interested in, click on a marker and click on a link in the popup window. However for search engines, this might look different. As this navigation pattern relies on user interaction, I think they might not be able to find the details page. My questions:   * Are search engines able to follow a navigation path like outlined above?   * How can I improve the navigation for search engines? (For example showing textual links below the map, sitemaps...)   * How important are internal links for SEO?


Why is RPM for mobile is much less than RPM for desktop in Google Adsense?

I have about 50% of my website's traffic on mobile devices (iOS and Android.) The RPM for mobile is much worse than RPM for desktop. Is there any way I should do to increase the RPM? Data here:               PV     | Click   |   CTR   |   CPC  |   RPM           Desktop     652,183  16,283   2.50%     $0.22    $5.43          High-end mobile devices      657,782  6,504    0.99%     $0.09    $0.93          Tablets     46,873   657      1.40%     $0.15    $2.08


What can I give back to my users for their donations

I want to give something back to my users, if they decide to donate to my website. Everything is free, so I need to give something virtually. Do you have any ideas? I thought about postcards (but didn't find api for that).


Google AdSense is not reviewing the URL I submitted, using my local virtual host url instead

I'm very confused. I'm trying to get my site (let's just say www.mysite.com) approved for Google AdSense. I submitted the application using " **www**.mysite.com" and I got a reply from AdSense saying my application was rejected because " **dev**.mysite.com" was unavailable. "dev.mysite.com" is my local virtual host that is set up in Apache and my Windows `hosts` file. It is NOT a public URL and will not work anywhere except my computer. My site uses relative paths, so "dev.mysite.com" is not in the source code anywhere. My two questions are HOW is AdSense getting my local virtual host URL, and WHY is it using that URL for approval instead of the URL I submitted in my application?


How to inspect code in case of Arabic language?

In case of English, I am able to view by inspect element directly. I want to do the same for Arabic. Using `body{direction:rtl}` only flips some views but it does not apply `body.rtl` specific CSS elements. For example if I say `body.rtl #abc{}` the properties under this wont work.


nofollow doesn't stop crawling?

In my website, most of the pages has a linkedin sharing button written in this way:

      I'm sure this is the only code that I use in all the pages for the button. I also have blocked crawling of all the '/link/share/' URLs in the robots.txt file. However, I saw many "Restricted by robots.txt" errors in Google Webmaster. These errors are all associated to /link/share/linkedin/ URLs. Almost every day I got hundreds of such errors, I'm afraid these daily errors will cause negative impact on the ranking of the website. So I'm wonder why google will report error for "nofollow" links, and what's wrong with my codes? ===Update=== I've got 400 such errors in 4/9/2011 and 370 in 3/9/2011. If there is nothing wrong with the website, then is there an option to get rid of it? Thanks!


Is the Google Webmaster Tools verification temporary?

When you add a site to Google Webmaster Tools, it asks you to verify it (e.g. via a `<meta>` tag). I verified a site a while ago, but when I logged in, I noticed that it isn't verified anymore. The history shows that it was verified 58 days ago, but then 30 days ago it tried and failed saying that "revierification failed". I'm not sure if this is a result of some setting I changed which required a reverification, or if Google Webmaster Tools periodically tries to verify the site. I was under the impression that the verification only happens once when you add the site, and then you can delete the `<meta>` tag. If this is not how it works, and it does reverify periodically, will it require a different `<meta>` tag value or can I keep the original one I used and never have to worry about it again?


Run a Google Adwords campaign during particular times for multiple time zones

Is it possible to have a Google Adwords campaign covering lots of countries and lots of different time zones, and to have ads showing only during particular times of day as per those time zones? For example, I want the ads to display between 9am and 5pm for each time zone where I have a campaign running. Is this possible?


Requirements Gathering Form?

Do you use a standard form to gather requirements from a customer prior to making a website? If so what are the questions you ask? **For example** Purpose of Website: (sell products, reduce number of enquires, reduce work load, etc) Do you have you’re an existing logo? (can you send it via email) Do you have a preferred font for the website text? Do you have a colour theme for your logo, business cards, shop you would like to keep on the website Do you have photos you can provide of your Products? etc Ofcause it would need to be tweaked slightly for each customer but I was looking for a generic document as a baseline.


What registrars can I use to transfer a .co.uk domain?

I am taking over a .co.uk domain from another party and need a reputable registrar. Network Solutions and Godaddy both state they can't handle .co.uk domains. What other reputable registrars can help?


Proper way to move Google Analytics code from one site to another one

Currently, I use Google Analytics for `www.example.com`. `example.com` is also added to GA and shows "Tracking not installed". Recently I added rewrite rule (301 redirect) to redirect all requests from `www.example.com` to `example.com`. How should I move/update GA code to properly track visits to `example.com`?


Is Wikipedia a good source of traffic?

I would like to know, from your experience, if having a link on Wikipedia could generate some traffic to the pointed site. For example, the references at the end of this sausages page points to : http://www.argentina.ar/_en/country/C161-the-gastronomy/... do you think that site is getting some major traffic from Wikipedia?


Posting public key

Should I put my public PGP key on my website so that people can securely contact me? I have seen personal sites where their public key is at the bottom of the page, such as this site by the computer scientist Peter Gutmann.   1. How should I include the key in my page?    2. Is there a standardized way to include the key? Many sites include them at the bottom of the page.


Can I get IIS to treat some .shtml files as .php files?

I want to be able to get IIS to interpret SHTML files (only in a specific directory) as PHP, and interpret the rest as SHTML. _If so_ , then **how**?


What benefit do you get from posting terms of service, privacy policy, etc.?

Just wondering why you'd post terms of service, privacy policy, etc. on a website.


SEO pros and cons of choosing a long title for my website

I've got a company website which offers website design services. I've just started to improve search engine visibility of the website. I've chosen some keywords and the first thing I need to think about is the title of my website. There are 6 important keywords for us. By including all keywords in the title of the website which is something like **company name | keywords**. I noticed that the title is long and not much readable for the readers on the browser tab. What are the pros and cons of choosing this long title for my website?


How do I use my own domain for my own openID login without having to make a myopenid domain account?

I have my own domain signed-up under myOpenID as follows:               openid.mysite.com      Everything is verified and seems to be working properly on the myOpenID site. However, now I want to setup my website so I only have to enter the domain name as my openID login. I have read http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/using-your-own-url-as-your- openid/ and understand the basic concept using header link tags. However, instead of...               <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server">     <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://username.myopenid.com/">      I want to use my own site for the openid.delegate as follows...               <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />     <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid.example.com/username" />      And this works on my site with no problems! However, I only plan to have one user authenticated through my site, me. I do not plan on having any other users, so I would simply like to have...               <link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />     <link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://openid.example.com" />      ...note the lack of username in the openid.delegate href. I want to do this not only for a shorter link href, but also so I don't have to make a domain account on myopenid.com, adding yet another login, etc. Does that make sense? Is this possible? Thanks in advance!


Duplicate content error results instead of a 404 page

My current URL is: `www.example.com/category/we-developer/` However, if any user mistakenly adds extra characters after the `/`, for example, `www.example.com/category/we-developer/fgggfgg`, it should take him to a `404` page. But instead, the user is again viewing the previous page (`www.example.com/category/we-developer/`) This is why Google is showing it as a duplicate page. What I wish is that instead of opening the same page, the user would be taken to a '404` page. Can you advise on how to do this? Note that my site is using CodeIgniter.


Keyword research: 'docx converter' in Google

Why did not **docxconverter.com** show up when I type **docx converter** in **google**? The closest match is **www.docx-converter.com**. My question 1: What are the reasons for **www.docxconverter.com** not showing up? My question 2: Which among the domain **www.docxconverter.com** and **www.docx-converter.com** is friendly with keyword phrase docx converter, and why?


What are the reasons not to use a .us domain name?

I have a client considering using a .us domain name. Are there any particular reasons, other than familiarity, not to use a .us name? In this case, the site visitors will likely be mostly non-us based - is it possible that this could mitigate any familiarity issues (with more international users being used to seeing non-.com domains)? Are there any SEO reasons not to use a .us name?


What Captcha Services are available for free?

I'm looking for a free captcha service for a html/css/php site. reCAPTCHA seems to be very famous. Is it effective? Are there maybe other good captcha services which are available for free?


Upgrading Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4

I'm planning to upgrade **Apache 2.2** running on my centOS 6.5 server to **Apache 2.4** , Does the new Apache version worth the update?


<title>word/word | etc..</title> or <title>word-word | etc.</title> re: SEO

With regards to SEO and the title tag would there be a difference between using a / for related words or using a - ? For example:                   Air/Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter      or                   Air-Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter      I've never been sure if it makes a difference. Thanks in advance for the input.


2 x domains for same site in Google make canonical or not?

A client has a site since 1999 with a domain consisting of two, very descriptive of the business, words (let's say dog-toys.ie). In about 2001 he decided to change to dogtoys.ie (was running radio ads and figured the dash may add confusion to the site name). So without thinking too much about it, I just parked dogtoys.ie onto dog-toys.ie. Also, for both domains, we have not made www canonical so www.dogtoys.ie/example.html or dog-toys.ie/example.html are the same page. We have read many times that Google etc do not like this, however the site has performed fairly well SEO wise for the last 10 year and the client and I are torn between leaving things as is, and fixing it to make www.dogtoys.ie canonical via mod rewrite (or would the dashed version offer better performance?) Thanks in advance!


How to make CloudFlare Cache all pages

CloudFlare seems to only cache my homepage, and I am wondering if there is a way to force it to cache all pages. Notice it when BlueHost went down today and only my homepage is cached by CloudFlare. Any thoughts? This is the free account on a Wordpress site. However, pages have not been updated since launch.


Are there cases where max width of the design can be 960px for 960.gs grid?

I know the standard width of content should be 940px if you want to use all its columns properly. But are there cases where I should use 960px for content? I am just having a dispute with my colleague about what's preferred size - 940px or 960px. As I understand it should be 940px, as it is being used on most sites that use this grid system. So, what's the right width?


Music on a web page?

When is it suitable to use background music on a web site? Do users like this?


A JavaScript Rich Editor That Doesn't Convert Non-ASCII Text to Character Entities?

I am working on a site for Spanish speakers, and I am looking for a UTF-8 enabled JavaScript Rich Text Editor that preserves non-ascii characters as text, instead of entity encoding. That is, when I type the words "cañón" and "pingüino", I want the RTE to preserve the non-ascii characters as they are, not to encode them into "cañón" and "pingüino". So far I have checked out CKEdit, MCEdit and Nicedit, and the three of them convert my text to entities.


Do you still get a bounce in Google Analytics if all the linked pages/content is loaded dynamically?

Google Analytics describes a bounce as a user that visits and leaves before after their first page. But if your site is a one page site, with content loaded dynamically using JavaScript, you could have a user on your site go through loads of info, text images; would that still count as a bounce? Or once they click on an **a-tag** even if it is `<a href="#">` can Google Analytics see that? I'm aware of click tracking in Analytics, but I was wondering does Google pick up these clicks by default?


Rel no follow on EVERY link?

Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I understand why you would want to rel nofollow untrusted links (forum posts, blog comments etc), but why would you not want to do it on EVERY link on your website? I know it's greedy and perhaps unethical, but if I write a blog post and link to an interesting website within that post, am I losing out in any way by not rel nofollowing it? Is my juice leaking?


SugarCRM and CodeIgniter integration

I am trying to integrate CodeIgniter inside SugarCRM by placing my CodeIgniter directory contents to my custom made SugarCRM module folder, but it doesn't work.


Can i export a wordpress site to html?

I want to export a wordpress site with themes and images to html format like we can do in blogspot. Is there a plugin or a tool for the same.


Does meta name=robots content=nofollow prevent indexing iframes?

Let's say I have a publicly accessible page that contains an iframe back to a different page on my own domain. By default, google (and other crawlers) will index that page and the iframe's content. It may also associate that iframe content with the parent page, but that's not relevant to this question. What I want to do is prevent links on the parent page from being crawled, but I still want to allow bots to crawl the iframe. If I add `<meta name="robots" content="nofollow"/>` to my parent page, does that also tell bots not to crawl the iframe?


Google not indexing the blogger-hosted blog after adding custom domain

I had a blogger-hosted blog (.blogspot) , it was in the first search results at Google when looking up about a specific keyword. 9 months ago, I transfered the blog to a .com domain from GoDaddy. When I did that, the blog posts were completely removed from Google. My website is not showing up at all when looking for the same keyword. The new domain has a page rank 4/10 added my new domain to Google Webmaster tools. I tried to change some meta tags, but nothing worked, my new domain is not showing up for anybody in Google except when searching the website name. What could the problem be?


How to renew 10 years registeration

**Do I have to loose my domain registered 9 years and 11 months ago?** ICANN says maximum length of time for registration is 10 years. As far as I learnt through registrars,I can renew my domain only up to 10 years. What if my site is successful? Shall all of my domain ends at the 10 years period? What google and other corporations do to keep their domain more than ten years. I'll be grateful to receive any insights from you


Does authorship markup interfere with Google rich snippets?

We are currently supporting a website where we have successfully added rich snippets on the product pages and they show up properly on Google search results. What happens when Authorship has been added to the website? Will they interfere with each other?


Need help writing .htaccess / Apache rule

I have some URLs which are now 404 due to site upgrade. I want all URLs starting with `www.example.com/archives/*` to point to `www.example.com/news` (notice that after archives there is a wildcard char). Can someone here please help me with the code for _.htaccess_ rules?


Redirect based on country

Let's say I have a site that has multiple versions for different countries, e.g.:               www.example.com/us     www.example.com/uk     www.example.com/ca      and I want to use IP geolocation to redirect users who go to `www.example.com` to the appropriate country version of the site. What is the best way to do that without confusing crawlers such as Googlebot or running into other SEO type trouble?


SEO Boost on launch?

Will Google give you a SEO launch on your start, so that you can rank upper or in the first 10-20 on the very same day you get indexed?


Does an SSL Certificate actually require a dedicated IP?

My web host which I have been with for at least going on 8 years now is requiring a dedicated IP address, which is $3.33/Month now for assigning a SSL Certificate with my web hosting package and website. Now, in the past, they never did this, till they changed their web hosting plans and options. In the past, I was able to assign an SSL Certificate by just entering the information required to do so, now I have to pay for a dedicated IP for the SSL Certificate. Even then, that isn't too bad, but it has to be an SSL Certificate through them. **Does an SSL Certificate actually require a dedicated IP address for it to work?** The hosting is Linux and done by BlueHost. I can not get a straight answer from the Customer Support, so I have to ask it outside of that. **Are they just trying to make more money or are is the dedicated IP a requirement?** Here is the information which I can provide about my web hosting package:   * cPanel for the Control Panel   * Linux Shared Hosting


Creating a CDN to boost page ranking?

I had a thought about CDNs and if they affect page rankings. Lets say hypothetically if I was to create a CDN as a subfolder in my site. This folder would contain a resource that is useful e.g. Javascript library. This resource I would then share with other sites who would include my CDN resource into their pages. Would this improve my rankings in Google etc. as their analytics will detect the resource link to my own website and then index it or record it somewhere?


Where is the Traffic Sources report in Universal Analytics?

Where is the `Traffic Sources Report` in Universal Analytics? I'm in Unit 2.2 of "Getting Started with Digital Analytics" and in the existing Universal Analytics account I can only find `Realtime Traffic Sources`, and there is nobody on my site at the moment. When I search for `Traffic Sources Report` in Analytics, the only thing that comes up is the `Real Time traffic sources`. Did they change this from the days of Google Analytics?


htaccess doesnt work in subfolder

I'm using xampp with apache on my windows machine. My directory structure is:               C:/xampp/htdocs     ---------------/Sync     --------------------/ProtectedFolderA     -------------------------------------/.htaccess     -------------------------------------/A.zip, B.zip ...     --------------------/ProtectedFolderB     --------------------/etc     ------------------------/.htpasswd, htgroup      I want to list the ProtectedFolderA and B if I open localhost/Sync/. They contain some files which are restricted by HTTP Auth. If i open them they should list the files in the way specified in the htaccess. The etc directory contains some images and css. I also change some preferences like header and icons. So this is my .htaccess in ProtectedFolderA:               RewriteEngine On     AuthType Basic     AuthName "Restricted Directory"     # Only allow request after authentication     AuthUserFile c:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/.htpasswd     AuthGroupFile c:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/.htgroup     require valid-user          Options +Indexes     IndexOptions HTMLTable     IndexOptions FancyIndexing     IndexOptions IconsAreLinks     IndexOrderDefault Descending Name     IndexStyleSheet C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_style.css     HeaderName C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_head.html     IndexOptions FoldersFirst     IndexOptions NameWidth=90     IndexIgnore *.php *.htaccess *.html *.xhtml *.xmi *.xml *.png *.jpg *.css *.txt     AddIconByType C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_stock_index_down.png application/zip      <Files *.zip>     deny from all     </Files>     <filesMatch A.zip>     AuthName "Download A.zip"     AuthType Basic     Require group A     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </filesMatch>          <filesMatch B.zip>     AuthName "Download B.zip"     AuthType Basic     Require group B     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </filesMatch>          <filesMatch C.zip>     AuthName "Download C.zip"     AuthType Basic     Require group C     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </filesMatch>      But there are no changes on the icons. Are the path to the css and pictures are wrong? I can't open the css file in the code view.               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">     <html>      <head>       <title>Index of /Sync/V6</title>       <link rel="stylesheet" href="C:/xampp/htdocs/Sync/etc/file_style.css" type="text/css">      </head>      <body>      Firefox says that it doesnt know the protocol "C". But I don't know a better path?! I don't know what I'm doing wrong. RewriteEngine is enabled. Some ideas?


Does redirecting old site's URLs to new site's front page hurt a page's ranking?

An old site that is being rewritten needs to have it's URLs redirected to the new site. There are a few hundred pages that may or may not have corresponding pages on the new site, probably with different slugs, and adding mappings manually will require more hours than we can spare. It was suggested that all old URLs be redirected to the new front page, but I remember reading somewhere that this confers a penalty in page rank because it's what link farmers do. Is this true or can we take the easy way out?


possible link exchange and duplicate content on 2 domains

I have two different domains, a forum and a blog, both about books and reviews. Tha last one is quite new, just about 2-3 months old. In the last weeks I've published several equal book reviews on both websites. For example there are two identical articles about Pride and Prejudice and the one on the forum has a link pointing to the one on the blog, saying something like "hey, this review has been published also in our blog, you can read it here". Well, today I saw on Tools for Webmasters that both have been probably penalized since impressions on SERPS suddenly dropped down of about 50% on both sites and in the same day (6th February). Now I got rid immediately of reviews on the forum, keeping only the ones on the blog but I'm not sure that it will be enough to make Google reconsider both domains. What should I do and how much time will it take to recover?


What are the Pros and Cons for password recovery change links in email?

Although a lot of sites still send your password in plain text through email, there has been a push to send a web page url instead. But how can that be any more secure than the password in clear text? If someone is going to intercept your email, they get your password either way. So isn't sending the url through email just an illusion of security?


How does google know my twitter name?

Sometimes when i google i see this result > Are you MyTwitterName on Twitter? If so, you can see more results like this > by connecting your Twitter account to your Google Account. Learn more How does google know my twitter name? I checked and it doesnt seem to be an iframe. I know sites are not able to access other sites cookies/data for exploits (stealing cookies/hijacking account but also for privacy) reasons. So how does google know my twitter name? Is twitter making that info accessible to every site i browse (and if so how?) is google guessing by whats on my browser (referals maybe?) or using data in my gmail account?


Google Analytics - aggregating data for multiple property IDs?

Is there a tool that can aggregate data for several property IDs across all your properties/accounts? I currently have an analytics account under which I have several properties setup for different clients. Can I aggregate data across all these? For example, if I wish to track general trends such as Facebook visits over time s, is there any efficient way of doing it without going into each account and setting filters for traffic sources? I came across http://www.reportingsuite.com but I'm looking for something more flexible.


Bootstrap tutorial

I am a newbie :( Out of a mix of curiosity and a desire to live on the edge, I just downloaded Twitter's Bootstrap! I see many cool bells and whistles there! The problem is I don't know how to go about building the next Insane Web site! Can some good folks here hand-hold me on the way to finding some good Bootstrap tutorial? I hope I haven't really asked a real 'newbie' question.Thanks a lot!


Preventing search engines to crawl on specific folders

I have set the robot.txt of my website as follow after seeing lots of errors in google's webmaster tools. Mainly because of the Smarty template files. So I changed my robots file as follow:               User-agent: *     Allow: /     Disallow: /templates_c      My question is, in the second line I allow every folder, and in the third line I disallow `/templates_c` folder. So which case will be evaluated by the robots? I mean if I am allowing everything but next line disallow one folder, what will be the result? Or should I add any folders that I want to be searched to `Allow` and then call `Disallow`?


round corner in IE 8 - made by a mistake

Recently I wanted to make an overlay on an existing page. Of course on all browsers works fine.. except IE. Although it made an interesting effect - one round corner - this can be seen at http://wenecja.com.pl/index_plakatowanie.html (you need to have adblock disabled on firefox). So how this had happen? Sorry for the sloppy css, but this wasn't an objective               #wrapper_lokacja { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%;                         height: 100%; display: none; -moz-box-sizing: content-box; }     #wrapper_lokacja #overlay_lokacja { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;          width: 100%; height: 100%;         z-index: 0; background: url( "/_img/lokalizacja/overlay.png" );         filter:alpha(opacity=50); -moz-box-sizing: content-box;          -khtml-opacity: 0.5; opacity: 0.5;     }          #wrapper_lokacja #text { width: 800px; height: 500px; position: absolute;          background-color: #fc0; text-align: center; font-family: "Arial Black";         border: 13px solid #333;         -moz-box-sizing: content-box;         -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 10px #222;         left: 50%; top: 50%; margin: -250px 0 0 -400px;     }     #label, #map, #paczka, #exit { position: absolute;-moz-box-sizing: content-box;          overflow: visible }     #label { top: 20px; left: 242px; z-index: 0; }          #wrapper_lokacja p,#wrapper_lokacja h1,         #wrapper_lokacja h2 { position: relative; z-index: 20; padding: 0;              color: black; font-family: "Arial Black"; overflow: visible;              background: none; -moz-box-sizing: content-box; }     #wrapper_lokacja h1 { font-size: 48px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0;              margin-top: 15px; }     #wrapper_lokacja h2 { font-size: 18px; line-height: 1em; margin: 9px 0 0 0;}     #wrapper_lokacja h2 { margin-top /*\**/: -9px\9; } /* IE 8 hack */     #high_text { margin: 2em 0 0 0; font-size: 14px;}     #wrapper_lokacja #high_text em { font-style: normal;  font-size: 16px;}     #map { bottom: 0; left: 0; z-index: 2; }     #mapkaT { margin: 0; padding: 0; position: absolute; bottom: 203px; left: 0;          z-index: 10; }     #mapkaR { margin: 0; padding: 0; position: absolute; bottom: 0 ; left: 184px;         z-index: 10; }     #mapaFrame { position: absolute; bottom: -5px; z-index: 5;}     #paczka {  bottom:0; right: 27px;}     #exit { top: 0; right: 0;}     #wrapper_lokacja #lower_text { font-size: 13px; color: #004460;          margin-top: 40px;}