h1 title attribute

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why don't TITLE tags get indexed in google? Hello there, I have a h1 element on my page which is working great. I have also been using the title attribute on this element which I don't think has been causing much harm at all. My h1 title is "The Great Ocean Road" and the title attribute on that is "Great Ocean Road" - so it's a variation of the h1 text. These are both keywords for the site so i'm hoping it's a good thing for seo. Is that a bad idea do you think? I'm not sure what Search Engines think about using a title attribute or even if they would 'mark me down' for doing it in such a way. Do you think if the h1 text is "The Great Ocean Road", the title attribute should be "The Great Ocean Road" aswell? Thank you in advance


Do anchors in urls affect ranking in seo?               link 1      As oposed to:               link 2


Problem in Addon Domain name binding with existing directory in my webspace

I recently purchased a domain thinkzarahatke.com. At the time of purchasing i selected an option, say url redirect, to my existing site. Further I had entered Naming server detail. But I dint find any other option to change URL rewrite parameters under Domain Name Manager. From the cPanel of my hosting space, I had added new domain as addon and set a subdirectory for it. Now If I am trying to access my new domain directly, it is automatically redirecting to my old website. While if i access some inside directory, like thinkzarahatke.com/blog, then i am able to access to my new site. What wrong i done? Please tell me if i need to do some more settings with addon domain.


Keyword diversification/ site structure issues

I am wondering if you could help me out with some keyword/ site structure issues that I have. Firstly I will mention our background (to give context), and then I will mention the question at hand. **Background of our site structure:** We have our main site under greatlearning.com. Under this we have our main products greatlearning.com/ipc, greatlearning.com/imyc, greatlearning.com/lfl. These are separate products, however all to do with education. We outsource our web providers, and so far the current CMS system only allows us to have two levels below the products e.g. greatlearning.com/ipc/the- ipc/units-of-work. So the /the-ipc/ is fixed (main nav item), and the /units- of-work is editable. Sadly however we cannot create a level below this e.g. greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/units-of-work/page-or-section-goes-here. Enabling another level would require a great deal of work so this is off the cards. We have spoken to our developers and they have agreed to give us ftp access to one section on the website. This will allow us to create folders/ pages under the url of greatlearning.com/info/. This will allow us to create custom landing pages and any additional custom pages e.g. for events, questionnaires, freebees etc. An example of this would be greatlearning.com/info/questionair-2014/page.html. This is all great, however we really need to diversify our keywords on our websites e.g. on this page greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/what-is-ipc we ideally need to have links going off from this page onto other separate pages to talk about 'national curriculum updates', or 'ways it helps teachers', or 'ways it helps children learn' etc. So our problem at the moment is how to structure the site so that it makes sense for our keyword diversification. **Question:** Given that we have a new malleable section of our website (greatlearning.com/info/) could we then use this for our keyword diversification? For example on this page greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/what-is-ipc, could this then link off to urls such as greatlearning.com/info/ipc/national-curriculum- updates/, or greatleanring.com/info/ipc/ways-the-ipc-helps-teachers/. As for user experience, we will make sure the pages have clear links forwards and backwards to the main pages. Our main concern is what Google will think of this structure. Also, will it be strong enough to drive traffic to this new /info/ section.


My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive

I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of the bandwidth for this month (300 GB). I've experimented with Amazon S3 but that was costing me $5 a day, Linode currently costs me $30 a month. I get a tiny bit of revenue from ads (Adsense and Black Label Ads) but it's not enough to break even. What should I do? Obviously I'd like to keep running the site but not if it starts costing me a lot of money.


Link building campaign for externally hosted subdomain

I am launching a link building campaign for a subdomain. I plan to ensure that the subdomain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and increase authority, trust, PageRank, etc. Here is my question: this subdomain is hosted by a different web host than the parent domain. Does this affect SEO for the subdomain?


Will my new HTML5 website decrease my Google ranking?

I have a traditional HTML website that loads pages/sections of the site when people click on menu items. Pretty standard. Currently, I'm working on relaunching my website with a brand new HTML5 code & jquery that loads the whole thing, and just slides from one section to the next, sort of like this website: http://www.mino.pl/ My concern is that this will affect my ranking with google and websiteoutlook.com because it may seem like the website only has one page now instead of 8, making it look like I have less pageviews and making my site less relevant for search engine rankings. Are my concerns legit? If so, do you have suggestions on how to avoid it? I really like the idea of working with a page that 'slides' to different sections better than having pages load all the time. Any suggestions/thoughts would be very much appreciated. Thanks.


Ensure we're found in Facebook search for both full & abbreviated company names?

We have a client with a facebook page, let's say his company is called **Bob Roberts Super Widgets**. And if you search in Facebook for Bob Roberts Super Widgets then up he pops. But the shorthand he's commonly known by is **BR Super Widgets** and indeed the website we've created for him is br-super-widgets.com. In Facebook, searching for BR Super Widgets doesn't show up our Mr Bob. We don't have a lot of Facebook expertise, so asking for help here. Does anyone know how to ensure you're found in Facebook search for both short and long company names? Have found this this similar question in the Facebook forum but the poor old questioner never got a response.


Private registration of “.co” domains, is it possible?

I've registered a lot of domains in the past and have always usually purchased the additional service to make them have private whois info (e.g. domains by proxy) Today I registered two new ".co" domains from GoDaddy. I'm now trying to make these private registrations but it doesn't look like its possible. Its it possible to make ".co" domains have private whois info?


Are twitter backlinks counted

We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls. From an seo point of view a link on their site would have been preferable, but i was wandering if even though the links are nofollowed, does google give weight to links from twitter accounts with high social clout, as i know they have fire hose access to the twitter api ?


What alternatives to Animated GIFs are natively supported on all popular modern browsers on tablets, etc. without pluggins?

I was looking for an alternative animated images to Animated GIFS. But per CanIUseit support for APNGs seems to being phased _out_. And MNG support isn't even listed there and pages about it don't even mention Chrome (suggesting those pages are very very old) _Clarification_ : This is for a **web app** , so it'll need to support: - Safari on iPad (so can't depend on extensions) - Chrome on Windows and Mac - Safari 6.0+ on Mac - Chrome on Android


How to map URL to IP?

I'm completely ignorant when it comes to hosting. Suppose I have a web application up and running on IIS 6.0 locally, and then I publish it (somehow?) I assume the site will be accessible from `http://XXX.XXX.XXX.X/`, but what if I want a domain name to point at it? Can I do it on my own, dedicated server, or have I absolutely must go to a third party? I believe I need a DNS, but can I set one up for free somehow?


Configuring `mod_vhost_alias` to server subdomain-based websites

I am currently in the process of setting up an Apache server that will be hosting projects built from SVN using a continuous integration server. The problem is, however, that while I've managed to configure the build server to output the revisions of a project to a directory, I'm stumped as to how to actually configure Apache using `mod_vhost_alias` to serve the different projects. The directory structure is generated using the following pattern: > /usr/share/Projects/r[revision] Inside, there are two directories which I'd like to configure access via a subdomain: > api.r[revision].testserver.local -> ./server > > r[revision].testserver.local -> ./web There is already a local DNS server that serves the wildcards on `*.testserver.local` and already resolves them to the correct IP, but Apache needs to resolve the correct `DocumentRoot` for the different subdomains. The end result I'm hoping for is that as long as the build server outputs and configures the projects inside `/usr/share/Projects/r*`, Apache will know how to resolve these subdomains without the need to write conf files and reloading configurations each time a new revision is fetched and built from SVN.


Number of visitor widget

I am developing my own blog site in ASP.NET and I would have several blogs in future. I want to have a widget on page which will show the number of user visited to my page based on the URL {Because for every every blog I will a unique URL}, so that the new user could know that the blog has been visited how many times! I can make the same via coding, very easily, but I have database size restriction from my hosting provider and I can't go beyond that !! Please assist !


SEO Joomla URL to WordPress URL's

I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's.   1. The old links use this formatting: `/site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html`   2. I want to migrate it to `/wp/index.php?p=id` I have modified my .htaccess file but it doesn't seem to work.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^/(.*)/(.*)/[0-9]+-(.*)$ /index.php?p=$3 [L]      Does anyone have an idea how I can resolve this issue.


Shopping site catering to 2 countries where *most* content is same, except pricing. Duplicate content?

I'm working on redeveloping a small site for a boutique food producer. They are New Zealand based but are wanting to start selling in Australia. They have both domain names (.co.nz and .com.au). Essentially, most content on the site will be the same for both countries. There will be some minor differences (i.e. contact page, locations) but really it's just the product pricing that will differ. My first thought is to set it up so that .com.au and .co.nz point to the same site (codebase) and dynamically switch the content parts that change depending on the domain. This makes sense from a development point of view. However, will I be penalised for 'duplicate content'? and how could I avoid that. I could set canonical urls for all pages - perhaps to point to the NZ version but that would harm the AU SEO?


Strange results of google's indexing of my site

I have a site named comehike.com which got hit by the panda update and I am trying to de-index some bad pages. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors then I see about a 1000 results. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors/ then I see about 6,000 results. How can that be? The only difference is the slash at the end. If anything there should be less results or the same number. No?


Prevent file table from showing navigation links

I am trying to display the files in my folder, "Amir", but my table keeps displaying all of the files, "." and "..". How can I prevent my table from displaying ".." or "."? I have placed the code and a picture below.               <?php          echo '

         Name
';          if ($handle = opendir("amir")) {         //echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";         //echo "Entries:\n";                   /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */         while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {         //    echo "$entry\n";                  echo'
         '. $entry. '
     ';         }              /* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. */         while ($entry = readdir($handle)) {             //echo "$entry\n";         }              closedir($handle);     }          echo'
     ';     ?>      ![Image of my table](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Sulv4.png)


PHP rounding issue

We have a problem on our Google Shopping feed which seems to be a rounding issue. THis has caused Google to suspend our feed and the combined might of myself and 2 development agencies we use can not seem to fix it. The script does the following; Get the price (or special price if on special) of the product;                 if ($product->getSpecialPrice() &&          ($product->getSpecialPrice() < $product->getPrice()))       {            $tempPrice = $product->getSpecialPrice();       }        else        {            $tempPrice = $product->getPrice();       }      Add the VAT by multiplying by 1.2                 $_priceIncludingTax = $tempPrice * 1.2;      Using the PHP round() function to round the price to the nearest 2 decimal places (this should do half up and less down by default, i.e 1.5 = 2 and 1.4 = 1 (according to the PHP documentation))                 $_priceIncludingTax = round($_priceIncludingTax, 2);      This should work for all our products for example the 3 examples below; SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DL229 | 589.86 | 707.832 | 707.83 | 707.84_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _CB020 | 9.06 | 10.872 | 10.87 | 10.88_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DM056 | 16.93 | 20.316 | 20.32 | 20.31_


Website forwarding, keeping original URL

We have `example.org` (our main site) registered and hosted on an american server. We bought `example.gr` domain name in Greece, a local registrar. We made `.gr` point at `.org` DNS all right. A visitor types URL `.gr` and sees `.org` in his browser all right, but URL immediately changed to `.org`. Is there a way to keep URL `.gr` and still see `.org`? If a `.org` visitor then clicks on a link to `example.org/abcd.php`, could a `.gr` visitor clicking on the same link see the address bar show `example.gr/abcd.php`? Our American registrar told us to contact Greek registrar and ask for mapping. The Greek registrar basically set an iframe displaying `example.org` and called it `example.gr`. But that was wrong because obviously, each time a visitor would click on something, the address bar would always display one thing only, the same URL all the time, `example.gr`. So we cancelled that cheap mapping trick down, and I don't know what to do.


Can I allow access to a HTML page only if the user comes from a specific site with .htaccess?

A website with two HTML pages, A and B. Both can be accessed by typing the URL, of course. However, can I disallow any access to page B, and only allow it if the user is coming **from** page A? As in, a link in page A that redirects to page B. Is it possible with .htaccess, or are there other alternatives?


Unnatural Links Message from Google

We just recived (March 8 2013) a message from Google saying. > We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques that > are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly > artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended > to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying > links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. We encourage you to > make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once > you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in > Google's search results. Our site is AlternativeTo and it's a big well respected software site and we have never ever bought any links or anything like that. We recive natural links from places like BBC, Reddit, Lifehacker, cnet and so on. Anyway we do however have some sites that is using our API and are sending 100.000+ links back to us from their domains and i also see some other rather dodgy looking sites with low page rank linking to us. Nothing that i can clearly say are spam but well they look bad and have lots of ads on them. How the heck would i know what links to remove? I mean we have hundredthousands backlinks from all over the web to our site. Where to start? I found Matt Cutts suggestions about downloading recent links and so on but there are still hundreds of new links discovered by google each day .. Anyone have any suggestions about this? Should i ask the sites that are using our API to put no-follow on their links to us to avoid these 100.000+ links from single domain names?


If I don't want to set any special behavior, is it OK if I don't bother to have a robots.txt file? Or can the lack of one be harmful?


One larger site OR a medium and a one subsite?

I've build two webshops:   **A** - Sells watch straps only   **B** - Sells watches, tools for watches, more watches and more watch related objects. We've come at a point where a choice has to be made and we're having difficulty deciding which option is the better one: **Option 1:** Leave it as is (for the user). Make the appearance of two stops (A ánd B)   **Option 2:** Make the watchstraps a part of the site B, resulting in 1 larger shop I don't really know how to decide which is the better and/or why. Both sites are very similar (one is purple with orange, the other orange with purple), so merging them won't confuse too many people. **I'd like to know how to resolve this issue, how do I decide?** Offcourse is income the primary reason for these sites to exist, so SEO is muy importante. * * * For the replies: Thank you. I'm going to decide soon, maybe someone has something important to add. +1-ed for good info :)


Can't change HTTP Vary header from PHP

I have a test server running CentOS, and changing the `Vary` header there through PHP via:               header('Vary: Accept');      works as expected (it's added to the `Accept-Encoding` value that Apache already adds by itself). On the Ubuntu 10 LTS production server it does not. I tried to search the web for answers, but couldn't find any. Even setting:               header('Vary: Accept',true); // forces the header to be replaced      won't change the `Vary` header. Any help would be appreciated. The server is running Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) and PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26.


How can I host a website on a dynamically-assigned IP address?

I recently upgraded my internet to the point that it is much faster and more reliable than my current webhost. I would like to move my current domain to be hosted at home, but my IP address is dynamic. As far as I know, I only get a new IP when I restart my modem and or router (which is almost never) or when cable one (my ISP) pushes out a firmware update (rarely). There are a few ways I can see doing this:   1. Convince my ISP to give me a static IP   2. Assign my router my current IP to force a static IP (which might work?)   3. Set my DNS record to my current IP address and update it on the rare occasions that it changes. Obviously I'm hoping that the first one works, but I don't want to pay a lot of extra money (if that's what it takes) to get a static IP address. Which of these options will work most reliably?


Oracle EZConnect in Mediawiki

Mediawiki supports Oracle and I'm trying to configure it in the installer. The installers says you can use EZConnect...something like:               user/pass@//server.example.com/dbname      or since the installer has fields elsewhere for user/pass               server.example.com/dbname      The installer includes a link to the EZConnect docs: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/network.112/e10836/naming.htm. All the examples in that doc include a forward slash. But every combination I've tried results in an error like this:               Invalid database TNS "sever.example.com/service_name". Use only ASCII letters (a-z,          A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_) and dots (.).      I can't find any examples of EZConnect that don't include a forward slash. That error is from Mediawiki, not Oracle. I'm tailing the listener log and there is no connection made - Medaiwiki is returning an error without trying to connect. I'm using php OCI8 with the Oracle instant client. I don't have a tnsnames.ora setup for this client - which is kind of the point of EZConnect. I did write a test php script that connects via oci_connect just fine. Has anyone configured Mediawiki to use Oracle with EZConnect? If so, what did you use in the installer?


What's the name of this website component that shows images with right and left arrows?

I can't figure out what name is this supposed to have: ![We all know this little display-y things](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iTxhO.png) I am talking about those "featured articles" sections. I just don't know how to google them so I can find some tutorial or guide on how to do one of those. I won't ask that of you, I just want to know the "official name" for those.


How to add custom php code in Wordpress text widget

I cant make my PHP code work when I add it in WordPress text widget (without plugin). The same code works on main (`index.php`) , but not in widget. I searched for this question and found the answer - which says me to add the code in the end of the `functions.php` file, so I did but afterwards on the top of the header I mentioned the text I've just pasted in function file. **EDIT: adding the code**               <?php      error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); // hide all basic notices from PHP       //If the form is submitted     if(isset($_POST['submitted'])) {              // require a name from user         if(trim($_POST['contactName']) === '') {             $ContactNameError =  'Forgot your name!';              $hasError = true;         } else {             $ContactName = trim($_POST['contactName']);         }              // need valid email         if(trim($_POST['email']) === '')  {             $emailError = 'Forgot to enter in your e-mail address.';             $hasError = true;         } else if (!preg_match("/^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_.-]*@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$/i", trim($_POST['email']))) {             $emailError = 'You entered an invalid email address.';             $hasError = true;         } else {             $email = trim($_POST['email']);         }     /*           //  we need at least some content         if(trim($_POST['comments']) === '') {             $commentError = 'You forgot to enter a message!';             $hasError = true;         } else {             if(function_exists('stripslashes')) {                 $comments = stripslashes(trim($_POST['comments']));             } else {                 $comments = trim($_POST['comments']);             }        }*/     if(trim($_POST['phone']) === '') {             $phoneError =  'Forgot your number!';              $hasError = true;         } else {             $phone = trim($_POST['phone']);             if(function_exists('stripslashes')) {                 $phone = stripslashes(trim($_POST['phone']));             } else {                 $phone = trim($_POST['phone']);             }         }                        // upon no failure errors let's email now!         if(!isset($hasError)) {                       $emailTo = 'litehacker@mail.ru,  georgiantours1@gmail.com, info@travel-georgia.co.il ' ;             $subject = $_POST['subject'];                     $comments= $_POST['comments'];                     $dge= $_POST['dge'];                     $tve= $_POST['tve'];                     $weli= $_POST['weli'];             $sendCopy = trim($_POST['sendCopy']);             $body = "Name: $ContactName \n\nEmail: $email \n\nComments: $comments \n\n Subject :$subject \n\n Number: $phone \n\n $dge / $tve /$weli";                                 mail($emailTo, ": הודעה" , $body, "Travel-Georgia" );             /////////////////              // set our boolean completion value to TRUE             $emailSent = true;         }     }          ?>

                      <?php if(isset($emailSent) && $emailSent == true) { ?>
פנייתכם התקבלה במערכת
                 <?php } else { ?>

לפרטים והזמנות

0722-50-40-44

                         <?php if(isset($hasError) || isset($captchaError) ) { ?>
Error submitting the form
                         <?php } ?>                              <form id="contact-us"  method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">
                              שם                                 <input type="text" name="contactName" id="contactName" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['contactName'])) echo $_POST['contactName'];?>" class="txt requiredField" placeholder="" />                                 <?php if($ContactNameError != '') { ?>
<?php echo $ContactNameError;?>                                  <?php } ?>

     דוא"ל                                 <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['email']))  echo $_POST['email'];?>" class="txt requiredField email" placeholder="" />                                 <?php if($emailError != '') { ?>
<?php echo $emailError;?>                                 <?php } ?>

      מספר טלפון     <input type="text" name="phone" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['phone']))  echo $_POST['phone'];?>"> <?php if($phoneError != '') { ?>
<?php echo $phoneError;?>                                 <?php } ?>

     בחרו טיול

     <select  name="subject" size="1" >     <option selected></option>     <option>מבצע 8 ימים (מאורגן ג'יפים 1449$)</option>     <option>מבצע 8 ימים (מאורגן מיניבוס 1259$)</option>     <option>מבצע 6 ימים (סטודנטים/צעירים 990$) </option>     <option>מאורגן 8 ימים (מיניבוס)</option>     <option>מאורגן 10 ימים (מיניבוס)</option>     <option>מאורגן 12 יום (מיניבוס)</option>     <option>טיולי ג'יפים 6 ימים (מאורגן)</option>     <option>טיולי ג'יפים 8 ימים (מאורגן)</option>     <option>טיולי ג'יפים 10 ימים (מאורגן)</option>     <option>טיול עצמאי 8 ימים</option>     <option>טיול עצמאי 10 ימים</option>     <option>טיול עצמאי 12 יום</option>     <option>טיולים פרטיים/משפחות</option>          </select>

     תאריך יציאה

     <select name="weli" size="1">     <option selected >שנה</option>     <option >2014</option>     <option >2015</option>     <option >2016</option>     <option >2017</option>     <option >2018</option>     </select>

                    <select name="tve" size="1">     <option >חודש</option>     <option >01</option>     <option >02</option>     <option >03</option>     <option >04</option>     <option >05</option>     <option >06</option>     <option >07</option>     <option >08</option>     <option >09</option>     <option >10</option>     <option >11</option>     <option >12</option>          </select>

     <select name="dge" size="1">     <option selected >יום</option>     <option >01</option>     <option >02</option>     <option >03</option>     <option >04</option>     <option >05</option>     <option >06</option>     <option >07</option>     <option >08</option>     <option >09</option>     <option >10</option>     <option >11</option>     <option >12</option>     <option >13</option>     <option >14</option>     <option >15</option>     <option >16</option>     <option >17</option>     <option >18</option>     <option >19</option>     <option >20</option>     <option >21</option>     <option >22</option>     <option >23</option>     <option >24</option>     <option >25</option>     <option >26</option>     <option >27</option>     <option >28</option>     <option >29</option>     <option >30</option>     <option >31</option>     </select>

                          מכתב                                  <textarea name="comments" id="commentsText" class="txtarea requiredField" row="6" ></textarea>
                                                        <button name="submit" type="submit" class="subbutton">שלח</button>                                 <input type="hidden" name="submitted" id="submitted" value="true" />                         </form>
                      <?php } ?>

           ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JFAQA.png)


Why my website ranking fall?

Hi please can any one check my website that why my website ranking fall down by the keyword "backlink service, backlinks service"


Subdomain still times out after being set up a month ago

I would like to use the subdomain `www.high-res.domain.com` to be accessed by external customers with specific permissions to access the site (like FTP). We use Network Solutions to house `domain.com`. We recently added a new IP address to point to `www.high-res.domain.com`. I gave the IP address to the company that hosts our website. I pinged `www.high-res.domain.com` and it points to the correct IP address but still times out. It’s been a few weeks now and when you ping it, it still times out.               C:\>ping XXX.XXX.X.XXX          Pinging XXX.XXX.X.XXX with 32 bytes of data:          Request timed out.     Request timed out.     Request timed out.     Request timed out.          Ping statistics for XXX.XXX.X.XXX:     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss).      `tracert` times out as well. I even went to DNS tools and a few other sites for checking this and it shows the same thing. I recently went into the DNSmgmt on our server (wink2k3sp1) and created an `A` record under the DomainDnsZones which translated to a `CNAME` when you look at it. Under the domain it has two entries, one to the subdomain and the other to the website host. Each has separate IP addresses. Is this correct?


What happens if a banned domain is redirected to another domain?

What would happen if a domain that was banned from google was redirected to an unbanned domain? Would the ban follow over to the new domain, or would the new domain be unaffected? Also, if the ban follows over, wouldn't that mean that someone could sabotage a sites rankings by redirecting a banned domain? If so, what can be done about it?


Handling URL Rewrite in IIS5

On an older server, using IIS5, I have an error handling page which for some missing pages uses `Server.Transfer` to load other pages based on a database. The pages all work for a browser but some systems e.g the W3validator gets an error when viewing the page (500 Internal Server Error). I have               Response.Clear()     Response.Status = "200 OK"      before the `Server.Transfer` but the error still seems to be there. Very frustrating! Any suggestions as to why some systems fail when viewing the page would be welcome.


Will a domain(Y) redirected to a maindomain.com/product/ be indexed by SE?

We have several domains with the names of products we sell. The idea is to create mini sites in the future that specialize just in those products, mainly for better placement on SE results pages. As of now, none of these websites have any content, and it doesn't look like we will be adding any for a while. > For example, website **productA1.com** > > If i redirect that website to **mainwebsite.com/productA1/** will, will > **productA1.com** be indexed by search engines? In other words, will it be > displayed on Search engines as a result (productA1.com)? If so, should i use > 301 or 302 redirect? > > Or is the best option to upload that one html page from my **mainwebsite.com > to productA1.com?** I don't want to point any of them to the main root of my main website, only to the appropriate product categories. I just found a competitor that ranks #1 for a product we also sell, and that page (I'm not sure if entirely, but i believe so) is redirected to their main website/category but the address is masked. Which is exactly what I'm looking for, ranking up there with the keyword based website. > Edit: I found out that the competitor uses an iframe that renders in 100% of > the page, and the iframe displays mainwebsite.com/productA1/ Is that the > best practice?


Wordpress - Going from categories to tags

I have some aging Wordpress blogs where I made the mistake of creating way too many categories (50+ in some instances). This was, in part, due to the fact that tagging was not yet available in Wordpress. I'd like now to condense the categories and implement tags. The problem is, I don't want to break indexed links. What strategy and perhaps plug-ins could I consider to do this? Ideally, the category listing pages would permanently re-direct to the appropriate tags, which I would set. I've also got to deal with the problem of people who pull feeds directly from categories. Should I just chalk these few sites up to a learning experience and leave them alone, or is there a way for me to make this correction so late in the game?


How can WordPress be used, besides a blog?

WordPress has been primarily a blogging tool from the start. But recent releases have been very customizable and extensible, especially 3.0. What other purposes could WordPress be used for, besides just a blog?


Can I download raw data from Google Analytics for another processing?

I had disabled Apache log on my web so I have only data for a few last days. On the other hand Google Analytics tracks my web for months. So I'm interested if it is possible to get raw data from Google Analytics. I'm particularly interested in: visitor IP + my web URL address.


Author data not coming up in Google search

I was trying to add author information for search. I followed this link and did everything in option 2. Added `?rel=author` and added my blog in my Google+ account. But even after re submitting for index from Google webmasters author info doesnt come up. I have tested this through the Rich snippet testing tool in Webmasters account and everything seems fine and I do see a dummy result showing full info. And it also says _rel=author markup has successfully established_ So what am I missing out here ? EDIT: Ok after long time it did come up in search results last week, but now its not coming up ? Is it related to traffic to site(which is not too bad) ?


Purposes and priorities of Apache conf files

I've installed an Apache2 server on a Linux Box (Ubuntu 10.04 TLS) and am trying to setup some virtual host and proxies. There is some stuff in the `apache2.conf`, an empty `httpd.conf` (which was used heavily in the Windows setup I had), and then there are the invidividual files for the websites in my `sites-available` directory, call them `a.com` and `b.com`. What information needs to be where?   What is the priority of processing for these?   Will repeated information cause a problem?


How to implement rel=author on a page with multiple authors?

I have a forum, and I would like to add `rel=author` to my pages. However, each page has multiple authors, and I'm not sure how I should implement `rel=author` if I have multiple authors. Does anyone have any advice?


designing web UI

I'm pretty comfortable with the backend side of web development (say, using java spring mvc, or grails), but I really don't know where to start when it comes to client side UI (as in designing pages that look good). OK, I know that there's CSS and I can do just about anything with it, and I know about CSS frameworks like Blueprint. But how do front end designers actually design pages? Do they use a WYSIWYG editor of some sort? Do they code the whole thing in vim and rely on their magical CSS skills? Do they use something like Photoshop to visualize the page and then translate that to html+css? I'm hoping for some insight into the way professional developers actually do it, vs. "Go find a site you like, click view source, copy the things you like, repeat"; or "Go to www.freecsstemplates.com and download a template, copy into css directory". Unless that IS the way professional developers design pages, which would be sad. EDIT: Hopefully this doesn't get closed. What I'm asking is: Is it normal for people to simply code in notepad or vim or whatever, and just apply css knowledge. Is that the way frontend designers typically work, in industry. Its the way I imagine approaching it. Or do they do something else? I'd like to get better at it but I'd like to know vaguely the right approach.


Do twitter links adversely affect SEO?

I had planned on making a page according to a specific theme using content populated from the Twitter search API. With the new display requirements, I see I am obliged to include hash links, twitter username links and a lot of other garbage links. **QUESTION**   * Are these links likely to adversely affect my page's SEO?   * If yes, are there any ways I can minimise that (ie. add no follow or such).


Which editor creates file with extension html.add

My sister teaches HTML language on the university. Students have to build their own website during class but one of them gave the project with weird code which cannot be written by hand. Moreover each HTML file has something what looks like configuration file to visual HTML editor. Maybe one of you knows which HTML visual editor creates files with extension `*.html.add`. For example near file `index.html` we got file `index.html.add` with following content:               <LASTEDITED BY="Przemek"/>     <OPTION NAME="WORDWRAP" STATE="ON"/>     <OPTION NAME="LINENUMBERS" STATE="ON"/>     <OPTION NAME="SHOWALLCHARS" STATE="OFF"/>     <OPTION NAME="DIVIDEEDITOR" STATE="SINGLE"/>     <OPTION NAME="WYSIWYGMODE" STATE="OFF"/>     <LIVESPELL ENABLED="ON"/>     <AUTOCORRECT ENABLED="ON"/>     <PARSER NAME="HTML+PHP extended"/>     <POSITION LINE="58" CHAR="0"/>     <SELECTION START="1020" LENGTH="0"/>     <SELECTIONNEW LEFT="1" TOP="65" RIGHT="1" BOTTOM="65" ISBLOCK="False"/>


I am looking for a Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla plugin

I am looking for Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla plugin similar to this one, with product list and PDF attachments. Does anyone know if there is such a plugin?


Google structured data dashboard not seeing any data

When I plug my web page into Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool it grabs all of the schema.org info I've plugged in correctly, but it says it doesn't detect any structured data when I click on the structured data dashboard. Is the dashboard buggy still, being so new or is it possible I'm doing something wrong?


Silo structure on magazine site

I will have to code magazine theme using silo structure. Requirements of the design is to display most recent posts of each category on the home page, popular/last commented posts in the sidebar etc etc.. I cant think of anything else than setting nofollow attribute to each of mentioned links. But by doing so, on the home page for example i will have 50-80 nofollow links... Will that actually hurt SEO? What are your suggestions?


What HTTP header code does URL-Rewrite return?

If I used the native URL-Rewrite module to rewrite (not redirect) a URL, does it return 302, 301, or 200? Is this method OK to use for a permanent URL rewrite? Here is sample code for the redirect:                  <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Rewriter" patternSyntax="ExactMatch" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="foobar" />                     <action type="Rewrite" url="/actual/foobar.aspx" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>


How do I find text rendered using templates in MediaWiki?

I'm currently reworking a MediaWiki template that has some semantic design issues: there are two almost exact key/value pairs and one of them may be completely removed:               {{Template     | foo1 = bar     ...     | foo2 = '''bar'''     ...     }}      I'm also removing the `foo2` key at the pages that use this template, so I have an idea that some kind of marking may be helpful: I've changed the template source code so it could show a warning that the template usage is currently being reworked:               {{#if: {{{foo2|}}} |
The template is under construction.
     }}      So, if the template is used with the `foo2` key, then the warning is rendered at the page. That's great. But as I'm not aware with bots setup or implementation, I have to process the templates manually, and I simply iterate through every page that uses the template using `wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Template`. This is not a reliable way because I may skip a page. Another option I thought was able to work is searching for "The template is under construction". But unfortunately MediaWiki seems to be unable to search for text that is rendered under template transclusions. Is there any way to find text that's rendered with a template using standard search? (Bots are not an option in this case unfortunately because of several reasons. My MediaWiki version is 1.19.0)


Google Universal Analytics - Campaign ID

In the Google Universal Analytics doc, they show a parameter called Campaign ID. The problem is that there is no other information about the use and the interest of this parameter. Indeed, all other campaign related parameters are very usual (utm_...) but the Campaign ID seems very odd. Can anyone provide more insight about it, please?


OK to have partly duplicate meta description and title

On my homepage, I am planning on using the following meta description. > Premiere American Ninja Warrior website for fans and competitors. Train for > ninja warrior, find obstacle blueprints, and info on the show. On the other pages of my website I am planning on using a meta description with the following format > Premiere American Ninja Warrior website for fans and competitors. _brief > description of that page_ In this manner, I have a partially duplicate meta description. The first sentence is a brief overview of my site to generate Click Through s and is present on all meta descriptions, while the second sentence serves as a more specific description of that individual page. Is it OK to have a partially duplicate meta description like in that example? **Update - Extension Question** Does the same thing apply to the title tag. If I have a bunch of pages about Ninja Warrior Competitors, would it be OK to have these title tags? > James Mcgrath - American Ninja Warrior Competitor   >  Paul Kasemir - American Ninja Warrior Competitor   >  Chris Wilczewski - American Ninja Warrior Competitor   >  and so on...


text to code ratio and SEO

I've run sites that I've developed through various online SEO checkers over the years and some of them have checked me for my text to html ratio. I remember reading about this once or twice as well. I have to ask if there is any definitive proof of SEO penalties by, say, Google, when you have done your due diligence with alt/title attributes, schema.org, Facebook's Open Graph, etc, or when you are forced into one of those "div within a div within a div" designs where you end up with a LOT of code? **UPDATE** I guess I wasn't clear enough in my question. I understand fully that your page should be useful and meaningful to your end user and not Google. When you have marked up your code so that your page has semantic meaning to Google(as you should!), your code ratio just keeps getting bigger and bigger. My question was if there is definitive proof that Google penalizes your page if the code outweighs the content by a certain percentage. Is this true or some sort of SEO urban legend?


Transfer websites and domains to new server

We have currently around 40 websites and 80+ domains/sub-domains in a shared 1&1 hosting package, and we just acquired a managed dedicated server with 1&1 as well. Now it's time to start transferring everything over to the new server. Transferring just the websites and databases wouldn't be a problem, it would take time but it's pretty straight forward. The problem comes when transferring the domains, let me explain why. Many of the websites we have are accessible via sub-domains of a parent domain. Ideally, we would like to transfer the sites one by one, in order to check for each one that everything works fine in the new server. However, since we also need to transfer the domain so it's managed in the new server, once we do that means that all the websites using that domain need to be already in the new server before transferring that domain, thus not allowing the "one by one" philosophy. Another issue is the downtime when transferring the domain, from the moment it stops working in the hosting package and becomes active in the new server. I believe there's nothing we can do here. So my question is if there's any way we can do the "one by one" transferring of the websites (and their corresponding sub-domains) in the circumstances described above. One idea I had would be:   1. Let's say we have website A, which is accessible using subdomain.mydomain.com (and there are many other websites accessible via other sub-domains of mydomain.com)   2. Transfer the files of website A to the new server   3. Point a test domain in the new server to the website A's folder (the new server comes with a "test" domain)   4. Test if website A works with that "test" domain   5. In the old hosting, somehow point the real sub-domain (subdomain.mydomain.com) to the new location of website A, in a way that user always see the same URL as always 6. Repeat 2-5 for every website belonging to the same domain 7. Once all are working in the new server, do the actual transfer of the domain to the new server, and then re-create all the sub-domains and point them to their corresponding website That way, users wouldn't notice that there's been a change (except for a small down time of the websites when doing the domain transfer). The part I'm not sure about is point 5 of the above. Is there any way to do that? I mean do it in a way that users see the original domain all the time in their browser, even for internal pages (so not only for the "home page", which would be sub-domain.mydomain.com, but also for example for the contact page, which would be sub-domain.mydomain.com/contact.php). Is there any way to do this? Or are we SOL and we're going to have to transfer all at the same time?


Will get good traffic from Google if I pull content via RSS feeds?

Now-a-days, There are many plugins available in Wordpress to perform Auto Post / blogging. I know it grabs content from RSS feeds and posts it to our blog. Some of the Premium plugin will grabs full content from other sites and post it to our blog. But, I do not know how the Google search engine treats such blogs (copied content.) Will it give good traffic to such blogs? Will it give copyright related issues? Any suggestions and ideas for the above points?


How to throttle email server wide on a shared server?

I have multiple programs that send email on a shared server with a relatively low email limit. These programs are completely separate and can each individually throttle mail but cannot do so in relation to the others. Currently, whenever the hourly limit is reached, our host just starts dropping the emails. They say they have no way to change this behavior and basically suggested that I ask around. Does anyone know of any programs that will throttle email server wide on a shared server?


Is it okay to have no A records for a domain?

There is one domain I'm using for email only. MX records are set up and everything works. The A records for `@` and `www` are pointing to a machine, which just redirects to `google.com`. I am now wondering if I could just delete the A records for `@` and `www`. Are there any consequences except that the domain wouldn't be available via a browser if I do so?


Trying to register website with Google AdSense but Ads won't display

So I've been waiting 8 days now for Google to verify my domain, I'm on their 2 step process. > Welcome to AdSense Your account is just one step away from being fully > activated. Click the button below and you'll be guided through these last > actions on your end: You've successfully created an ad unit Place the ad > code on. The "You've successfully created an ad unit" has a tick by it, but "Place the ad code on http://mywebsite.co.uk" has no tick. I've added my code to my live site on the home page and other pages, I can see the iframes being loaded but not ads. I still have the big red warning bar that my site is still under review but I assumed it only gets reviewed once it has detected the ad code on my page, which it hasn't at the moment. I'm also getting > Our crawler was unable to access your page to determine its content and > display relevant ads. When our crawler can’t access the content, often we > won’t show ads resulting in lower revenue and coverage. Other times, we’ll > show ads that are irrelevant resulting in lower CTR. Follow the links in the > ‘How to fix.’ column to correct these errors and improve AdSense > performance. And my `robots.txt`:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-includes/          Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml.gz


Impact of having an international domain?

I'm looking to get an .es domain. Just wondering how this might impact search results and rankings as I'd like to make the website available worldwide.


How can I get access logs from TMG? (e.g,. GET method requests)

I'm using QRadar as a SIEM solution. I want to integrate TMG logs so that I can obtain/search GET requests with specific extensions (e.g., `.jpg`, `.html`, `.php`). I know in Apache you can get this through web access logs.


Set up development site on another server/host

I'm developing a site for a client. They've got a site now that's hosted at hosting.com. I'm going to move them to my VM hosting solution at edge web but I want to run some tests and have the client approve the site before changing the name servers to the new site/hosting location. How do I make this happen? I'm running a red hat/Apache on linux for the edge web hosting. I don't have control of the domain name (i.e. the client controls that right now). Edgeweb has set up a dns zone for the domain name so that when the time comes to switch we're ready to go. I'm a web developer and I understand the technologies that make a user experience 'work' but I'm unfamiliar with the server jargon and all that so, please be patient. Thanks in advance.


How do you add a Opera thumbnail for your site?

I noticed that in the "Speed Dial" feature of Opera, some sites will display their logo as preview image, while other sites just a screenshot of how the site looks when you add it to speed dial. I don't know for sure but I think Chrome has the same behavior. Stackoverflow for example has the logo :D So how do I make my site display the logo when users add it inside speed dial?


False positives when testing IE6 in virtual machines

I'm a tester for a small organization that creates web applications supporting the full gamut of IE versions. One of my jobs is to ensure that the application works well in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. To do this, I have a range of virtual machines and the IE6 testing suite. The problem is, none of these environments seems 100% reliable. My virtual machines (VirtualPC and VirtualBox) have both thrown me errors that the developer team can't replicate - even when testing native installations. We've had particular problem when developing for a client of ours who use IE6 exclusively. During field testing, we found our javascript-heavy functionality could throw up bugs in virtual machines which did not appear in real life. IETester can also throw false positives, especially with javascript. Whilst I have never seen any false _negatives_ , this has still caused us many headaches and wasted a lot of time on bugs that don't really exist. My question is this: **does anyone know if any particular virtualization environment achieves perfect IE6 'emulation', or do I have no choice except to hunt down an old WinXP IE6 box? Has anyone else experienced similar difficulties - if so, how did you work around them?**


Hide from google while developing

I will be building a (wordpress) web site. While I am developing, other team members will be pushing content. I'd like to have it hidden from google while under development. It will be hosted on godaddy. I have thought of not pointing the domain name to it until live and using "preview dns", or buying a static IP during development. Or hosting dev site in a sub-directory ("/dev/") until ready and then moving it up a level. If in the dev directory I'd add htaccess or robots.txt to not crawl. Is any of this a bad idea? Will google penalize for any of this - like search by IP and then associate that with the domain later on? Any better ideas?


Where should the robots.txt file be?

If I have a subdomain:   subdir.a.com that redirects to a.com/myfolder/   should the robots.txt file be in:   subdir.a.com/robots.txt or in   a.com/myfolder/robots.txt


Nginx 301 redirects folders appending a slash

Nginx is currently doing the following: > example.com/folder 301 redirect to: > example.com/folder/ How can I prevent it from doing this? Thanks. Edit: Added Nginx configuration ` server { server_name www.example.com; listen *:80; listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on; return 301 http://example.com$request_uri; } server { server_name example.com; listen _:80; listen [::]:80; root /home/usr/www; index index.htm; location ~_ .(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ { expires max; log_not_found off; } } `


Why won't Webmaster Tools let me set a preferred domain? (says to verify, but it should already be)

I've got a domain that I apparently forgot to set a preferred domain for, so I just tried to do it. Webmaster Tools instead popped up a little box: > Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own > `http://www.example.com/`. Please verify `http://www.example.com/`. I'm running into some problems following these instructions:   1. As far as I can tell I already did verify sometime in the past. There's a TXT DNS record with the gibberish Google tells you to set for it that I couldn't have come up with myself.   2. …and nothing is telling me this information is bad.   3. So let's assume the site is somehow _not_ actually verified. All the various methods' instructions start with "click the Manage Site button next to the site you want, and then click Verify this site." That button doesn't even exist on my screens. (It presumably goes away when you successfully verify?) Those instructions were all updated pretty recently, and the DNS one in particular just a couple weeks ago so it seems a bit unlikely they're inaccurate.    4. I am not using Apps, and won't be, so can't try out the verification through there. Note that I also have another domain that I have _not_ done any verification for which is showing the same behavior(no such button, being told to verify when it seems impossible etc.) so something appears to just be broken. I already have a no-www process in place server-side, so we can skip that. I'm just trying to get the box checked off in GWT. If I don't get any resolution, I'll eventually scrap the TXT record and see if the site gets un-verified(or whatever since it thinks it isn't), and see if I can just restart the process. It's not urgent so I'm just trying to figure out if I've gone blind to something or what. Did the button move?


Joomla Wrapper with auto height to display the content without frame's scrollbar

Is it possible to display the content of other website in my Joomla page (using the "Wrapper" menu item type) with autodetection of its height? I don't know the exact height of the embedded dynamic page in pixels, but I want to display it without vertical scrollbar inside of my frame. Joomla 1.5.22


amazon associates: how well does it perform

I'm thinking about adding some amazon associates affiliate links to one of my sites, and I'm wondering if anyone who has any experience with them can tell me how well they perform on their site. Also, amazon associates offers several advertising widgets: can anyone tell me which one performs the best (brings in the most revenue)? Thank you very much :)


Using a company for Google authorship?

Can you use a company's page as the author for google authorship or does it have to be an actual persons google + account for it to work ? I.e. could i have it showing in search results as "-by acme co" rather than "-by simon smith "


How do I change the default email that my host sends from php mail from in Justhost's C-panel

I'm trying to work with sending mail through PHP for the first time and I've done pretty well with the exception of one thing. All mail i send is from an email address that ends in "justhost.com" (justhost is hosting my site). I was wondering is anyone could help me change this to a different email address. P.S. Here is the php I'm using to send things from:               $to = "example@email.com";           $subject = "Mail Test at ".strftime("%T", time());           $message = "This is a test.";      $from = "Mike <mike@mysitename.com>";     $headers = "From: {$from}\r\n";     $result = mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);      echo $result ? 'Sent' : 'Error';      (sorry about the spacing I'm not sure how to fix it)


How do people buy Domain Names?

GoDaddy charges $8 for a domain and name.com charges $10. Some people seem to buy many domains to increase their SEO or to sell them later for more money than they paid. Do these people pay less per domain because they buy in bulk or are they doing something else to pay less for their domains? It seems like it is expensive to buy that many domains just for SEO or to resell.


Google Adsense / Gambling workaround

I've run a website since 2001 with betting sites adverts for most of that time and Google Adsense for many years as well. Five or six years ago I was generating £100-£200 per month from Google, but this has fallen by over 90% subsequently - people don't click them, basically! So the following isn't a disaster. Anyway, on 18 April I got an email giving me 72 hours to remove all betting adverts and betting related content or Google Adsense would be disabled from the site: > VIOLATION(S) FOUND: > > GAMBLING: As stated in our program policies, AdSense publishers are not > permitted to place Google ads on sites with content related to gambling or > casinos. This policy includes driving traffic to online gambling sites > through links or advertisements. More information about this policy can be > found in our help center Their 'review' of websites seems to be a direct result of the FBI action on 15 April, so advertising and content that I've had (and submitted to Google Search) is no longer acceptable after several years with no complaints. **Does anyone have a constructive workaround that may satisfy Google without affecting my long-standing advertising policy?**


What design/feature aspects assist in visitor conversion rates?

Web design being around for so long, I would imagine we have some rules or guidelines regarding this topic. When a user visits your website for the first time, what particulars have been shown to take that visitor and transform them into a member/customer? There must be some proven methods of doing things -- something that shows a big cartoony graphic isn't the best way to do conversion (or maybe it is). Off the top of my head, I'm thinking of things like, login box in a clear spot, simple graphics, showing the product, etc... In my own searching I just keep hitting websites that talk about UI design of registration forms themselves.


Explanation of ARTICLE tag

In explanation of tag W3SCHOOL : > The tag defines external content. What's the meaning of **external content** exactly ? It's mean _quoted (from somewhere) text_ ?


How do bounce rate and page views change Alexa rankings?

My site has 30,000 visits with 86,000 page views. If the bounce rate of 54%, then does it means only 15,000 users generated the 86,000 page views or 30,000 visits generated the 86,000 page views. My website is www.cricandcric.com Even though I have got 86,000 page views, my site's Alexa ranking is still getting worse day by day. How do I control that?


How are visits, pageviews, and bounce rate related in Alexa's stats reporting?

My site has 40,000 visits with 76,000 pageviews. If there is a bounce rate of 44%, then does it mean that only 15,000 users generated the 67,000 page views or that 50,000 visits generated the 78,000 page views. My site's Alexa ranking is still getting worse day by day. When I started to do SEO for my site, it was at 13,000 but it is now at 23,000. I am highly disappointment about my Alexa Ranking. It's keep on increasing day by day. I drove 10K+ traffic everyday to my website from different sources such as Search Engines, Social Media and other quality referral's. Can any one suggest how to control that?


I got a lot of indexed soft 404 pages they actually don’t exist

I just saw in my WMT that I have a lot of indexed soft 404 pages. They all starts with `mysite.com/index.php/somepage.`. The problem is that I don't have not a single page starts with `index.php`. Can someone explain me:   1. Why is those soft 404 pages generated at all when I don't have `index.php` part on my site?   2. Now the thing that worries me is that I have for example 700 soft 404 pages, and after some time I have 300 and I didn't change anything.   3. Are they harmful for my site?   4. Can this be fixed in using some rewrite rule in Apache to prevent them for been indexed at all?


Identify "non-secure" content IE warns about

As many know, if you serve a page over https and the content loads resources (images, stylesheets, js, SWF objects, etc) over http, older versions of Internet Explorer will show the user a warning saying "This page contains both secure and non-secure items". This is discomforting to many non-technical users. Usually, I can look at the HTML source and identify which item(s) are triggering this error. Sometimes a Flash object will load something else or some embedded javascript will put a new object in the DOM and trigger this. What tools are good for quickly tracking down the source of the warning?


Firefox reports HTTPS page to contain non-secure elements

When I visit our web site pages with IE over HTTPS, it reports the web site as protected (i.e. no elements are taken using HTTP). The same page, when loaded to Firefox, causes Firefox to complain that some elements are non-secure. I checked the source code of the page and the list of resources of the page (Firefox displays the list of resources) - there are no http resources, only HTTPS ones are listed. The question is - how do I diagnose, what resources (images or CSS or JavaScript) are loaded using HTTP and not HTTPS? I assume that some plugin is needed. Firebug doesn't have anything helpful, as it seems. Update: The mystery has been discovered. Under certain [rare] combination of conditions Facebook instead of providing a PNG image of the page statistics (embedded into the page) reports the error (some HTML via Javascript). As the original resource is a PNG, Firefox simply doesn't display that PNG, but seems to execute the javascript code, sent by Facebook. Obviously, this JavaScript could not be easily tracked as it was not being displayed or even mentioned anywhere (except maybe deep in the DOM inspector). Changing the conditions eliminated the erroneous javascript. However, the question regarding the tool that would help discover such "hidden" code and other resources remains actual.


How do I register two-letter domain names for URL shortening?

Some websites - mainly for URL shortening - have short domain names. Now my question is: how can I register two-letter domain names like `aa.com` or `bb.in`?


Space in img:s "ALT" attribute good/bad for search engines?

I am trying to make it easier for search engines to crawl my website, as it is almost 100% dynamic. I have a couple of transparent images which are actually links to sections of my page. I wonder, if I add an "alt" attribute containing space characters to explain the target, will this improve SE rankings etc? For example:               <img src="blabla.png" alt="post new classified">      Or will this just result in errors? Ànd, what should I put in the alt attribute if I can't use space? PS: Another different and short question, will javascript-rich content make a page less important to crawlers? Thanks


How to smartly optimize ads on website

I've a content website that presents ads. Now, my team want to optimize it for a better experience for the users. (we really believe our ads are good for our users.) We are sure that every website deals with this issue and there must be some known ways and methods to deal with it, that smart people thought of before. so what i'm looking is a tested, working method to optimize ads. for example:   * if i was asking about optimizing my website in Google, I would expect you to answer me: learn SEO   * if i was asking about optimizing the use of my website: usability testing.   * navigation: information architecture what is the field that deals with optimizing ads?


Duplicate meta descriptions after Permalink change

I recently changed my permalink structure on Wordpress to remove the year and month from the URL. **Old structure** - http://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2012/10/mtech-lite- retain-barc-regulars-for-winter-series/ **New structure** - http://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/mtech-lite-retain-barc- regulars-for-winter-series/ I have a canonical that has the new structure in the URL but google Webmaster tool is flagging up duplicate meta descriptions and title tags. Currently it is telling me that I have 9000+ duplicates but obviously the pages are the same thing and there is only one instance of this. Should I worry about this or is this something that will naturally correct itself over time?


Finding out the shared hosting providers located in a particular data center

I know the physical location of data-centers that I want my website hosted in. One of these is located on **350 E Cermack in Chicago, IL**. My problem is that I am looking for all the providers of low-cost shared hosting in this data center. Do you have a list? And if you do have such a list can you please tell me how you came up with it? I know many discount hosting providers are physically located in the Arizona- Utah areas. But I am located near Chicago.


Google Rich Snippets read, but not recognized

I put data on my page, required to make Google Rich Snippets. Page URL (for example) is view-source:http://vitocars.net/part/100225305. In Google Structure Data testing tool I can see this screen: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/p0K17.png) So, the price and availability is recognized, but anyway, not working. Can anybody give advice to me, where to look?


90% sudden drop in search engine ranking with no changes made

This is a recurring topic, but I am very very panicking right now... I noticed a 90% "impressions" drop (from 60k to 5k) from **2013-03-05** to **2013-03-06**. My keywords dropped, and for a few of them I don't even appear in the first 25 search results pages that I checked. This happened in just 24 hours, **without** me making absolutely **any** change on the website. I'm really panicking now, I never did any black-hat SEO, I always followed Google "rules", and see where it leads me :( I believe I'm providing a good quality website, at least my members thank me for it, this means it should be good enough. I'm doing everything I can to provide quality. I really don't know what else to do apart from paying someone thousands of euros to help me with SEO. Does someone have any idea about that scary drop? I would love to follow each and every possible lead one could give me. Thank you in advance,


Having trouble understanding my domain's DNS records

When I view my domain's DNS records via WHM, I don't see any A records pointing to my server's public IP address. The only A records I see point to 10.x.x.x, which is a private IP address, correct? If this is the case, what gives? I'm just trying to develop an understanding of exactly how requests find their way to my server and I'm completely baffled by the DNS records I'm seeing. I would appreciate any help you can offer! Thank you. **Edit #1:** The following is what my domain's zone file looks like in WHM:               mydomain.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.host.com. alerts.host.com. (                        2012022403                        86400                        7200                        3600000                        86400     )     mydomain.com. 86400 IN NS      ns1.host.com.     mydomain.com. 86400 IN NS      ns2.host.com.     mydomain.com. 14400 IN A       10.10.17.37     localhost     14400 IN A       127.0.0.1     mydomain.com. 14400 IN MX    0 mydomain.com.     mail          14400 IN CNAME   mydomain.com.     www           14400 IN CNAME   mydomain.com.     ftp           14400 IN CNAME   mydomain.com.      **Edit #2** whois mydomain.com says that the registrar has published the same nameservers listed in my zone file. dig @8.8.8.8 mydomain.com returns this:               <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5_7.1 <<>> @8.8.8.8 mydomain.com     (1 server found)     global options:  printcmd     Got answer:     ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1534     flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0          QUESTION SECTION:     mydomain.com.       IN      A          ANSWER SECTION:     mydomain.com. 14400 IN      A       10.10.17.37          Query time: 66 msec     SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)     WHEN: Fri Mar  2 21:11:28 2012     MSG SIZE  rcvd: 59      **Edit #3** I am connecting to the server from outside its local network. Also, access logs show visitors are reaching the website without any trouble. I'm not sure what the difference is, but I used the tool located here: centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx and it reported different DNS records. It showed a record pointing my domain to my public IP address. I'm thoroughly confused! **Edit #4** After further examination of the Domain Dossier output, it shows a zone file serial number different from the one appearing in my WHM. The serial number in my WHM is 2012022403 while the serial number reported by Domain Dossier is 2012022402. Edit: Actually, it probably makes more sense that WHM isn't showing the serial number that is saved, but the saved serial number + 1 so the next time you make changes you won't have to increase the number yourself. If this is the case, then the serial numbers do match. However, Google's DNS servers are seeing one thing, and the DNS servers that Domain Dossier uses are seeing another. I'm not sure if this means anything, but the in the DNS records reported by Domain Dossier, it shows the correct nameservers, but they're in a different order. My WHM has ns1 listed first in the zone file, but this report shows ns2 listed first. Could be nothing, but it seems strange. **Edit #5** Slightly embarrassing, but I managed to figure out what is going on. My web host translates the private IPs to the public IPs when updating their nameserver. I still learned a lot from trying to figure this thing out! Thanks for your help, Charlie. I appreciate it. I'll be sure to vote up your answer once I get the reputation required to do so!


Is there a class or id that will cause an ad to be blocked by most major adblockers?

Is there a general class or ID for a html element that a high majority of popular adblockers will block on a website it has no information for. My intention is to have my advertisement blocked, avoiding automatic blocking is easy enough... I was thinking of maybe lending some ids or classes from big advertisment companies that area already being fought off quite actively. right now my html

      Will this work or is there a more solid approach?


What's the best way to determine users' preferred language?

In determining which language to display content in by default, there are, as far as I know, three basic methods:   1. Examine the Accept headers sent by the browser.   2. Use IP geolocation to determine the user's location and guess an appropriate language.   3. Force the user to explicitly select a language, as exemplified by Wikipedia. It seems to me that option 1 is far more reliable, as the default headers sent by the browser are the same as the OS's interface language, which will normally be a language the user understands. On the other hand, geolocation doesn't reveal anything about an individual user's preferences; it only reveals what the majority in a location prefer and has a tendency to annoy and/or confuse people who may be traveling (how come Facebook suddenly changed to Korean?). For these reasons, it would seem obvious that all the major sites would be using option 1. However, my experience as an English speaker living in Korea shows that the major sites (such as anything by Google, Facebook, Skype, etc) all use option 2. Why? If I create a multilingual site, should I risk annoying users such as myself and choose option 2, as well? **EDIT:** As for option 3, I think there's a good reason why most sites don't follow Wikipedia: It's a terrible way, because it forces the user to configure something that the site should figure out. Many people in the answers and comments have mentioned making it easy to change the language. I agree that it's important, but I think it's a bit off- topic unless you're recommending option 3, because this question is about choosing the default language. **EDIT 2:** I'm especially interested in the reasons why many sites do things the way they do. Option 2 seems incredibly obvious to me, but I assume that the major sites that have chosen option 1 must have _some_ sort of reason for their choice.


Google reducing indexed page count

Our website has more than 6,000,000 pages, all of them were generated using my software (those were keyword replaced pages), but all of them are actual pages. Google indexed most of those pages and we are happy, but recently, the past two weeks, Google reducing the indexed page count, now its about 2,000,000. Is there any Google new update in that last couple of weeks is there any work around for this to get our pages index? Update No page error. no server down, DNS is fine, wat else pretty much everything is fine. apart from qualify of content as some is duplicate.


htaccess preventing sqlite database being downloaded

I have a VPS, running apache2 on Debian 6. Created a file called .htaccess on the web root, which included:               <Files ~ "\.db$">         Order allow,deny         Deny from all     </Files>          <FilesMatch "\.db$">     Deny from all     </FilesMatch>      Can still manually download the database.db file that exists in the same directory as the .htaccess file. Restarted Apache2, same. What gives?


Migrating Ruby on Rails website to new server (Linux)

I have an existing website that is a Ruby on Rails project. I have another server I need to transfer the existing website too. The server I wish to transfer too was originally hosting the website so has the necessary gems/configuration are installed. I have tar the current releases shared dir from the old server and transfered them over to the new server. I have then unpack the tar in the apps directory to the new location which is a different URL path. My problem is now as you can see below that the path on the current -> is pointing to the old URL. (I ran `ls -la` to see ownership). How can I change this current path to read with my new web address? Current releases shared sitepack.tar.   root@server1: `/var/www/clients/client1/NEWSITE.com/web/apps# ls -la`   Current -> `/var/www/OLDSITE.com/web/apps/releases/20120130171636`   root@server1: `/var/www/clients/client1/NEWSITE.com/web/apps#`


Google finding irrelevant keywords on my pages?

I have a dynamic site with thousands of pages (database driven). Every page has a log in link up in the header. Not so unusual. All of my pages have a title which is an H2 (I am changing it to H1 soon). According to Google Webmaster Tools, "log" is the most relevant keyword on my site. How can I prevent this from happening? Surely I'm not the only website with the words "log in" in their header, appearing on every page.


Does having a website inside a frame (<frameset>) helps or affect search engine rankings?

I have been working to promote my website from long time but not getting such traffic as work I have done on that. My website is running online with another domain using framset so is it somewhere affecting on search index & ranking. My parent website is http://www.battle cancer.com and using               <frameset frameborder=0 framespacing=0 border=0 rows="100%,*"noresize>     <frame name="frame" src="http://www.battle-cancer.com" noresize></frameset>      It running online with the http://www.elimaysupplements.com/.


Pre-defining tabular structures in MediaWiki

I have installed a fresh MediaWiki. I want to fill it with articles that will contain free text, and tabular information in the right hand column, like Wikipedia does: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/16v06.png) I want to pre-define templates for this information, and I'm a little lost on how and where to get started. I know how to create templates, I'm just not sure where to build these kinds of tables and define parameters that then get filled in in the actual page. This must be some sort of Wikipedia standard as almost every one of their pages has something like this, but I'm stumped as to how to use it in my own Wiki. The default formatting guides are of no help, of course; I think I need to delve into advanced templates, but fail to find the right resources to start with. Could somebody provide me with a few pointers to start with? The correct term for this or a manual link would already be enough.


Why does Google index pages of my blog in seconds, while pages on the rest of the website take longer to get indexed

I have a questions and answers website in Portuguese about a specific subject. My Q&A website also have a blog, on a sub-directory like `www.site.com/articles`. I had not written on the blog for almost a year, and a few days ago, I wrote a new article, and for my surprise it got indexed by Google in less than a minute. After this, I continued writing new articles. And they are always indexed in less than a minute. It's amazing. * * * By the other hand, the home page of the website, where the new questions added by the users are shown, was last indexed by Google on May, 17. I would appreciate your opinions about why does Google is indexing in seconds the blog, and not behaving on the same way for the home page and questions published by the users. Another point to consider, is that due to a problem with the server, before yesterday, the full website went off for over 5 hours and I didn't notice it. After solving the problem, I wrote a new article to test Google, and for my surprise again it was indexd again in less than one second. So, It's really crazy and good this behaving of Google.


Securing Access to Server

We have servers at an ISP and a firewall in place. At our main office, we have a VPN. For an added layer of security, I'm thinking a good model may be to have developers connect to the corporate VPN and then only allow traffic in to the servers through the firewall from the VPN's IP. My questions: 1) Does this sound like a sound method for connection? 2) What is the best method for validating user at VPN? I've used a cryptocard in a previous environment, but I'm not real familiar with the technology or competitors. Thanks, D


When is it time to make a "micro"-site for long-tail search content?

Patrick Mackenzie, of Bingo Card Creator fame, uses what I'll call micro-sites to dominate certain keywords. For example, search for "halloween bingo cards" and you'll see the first hit is http://www.halloweenbingocards.net which is a micro-site of a few pages of halloween specific content about bingo cards. If you search for "bone bingo cards", you get a link to his main site with one page of content about bingo cards and the human skull. He owns the long tail on basically X + bingo cards, but went all out to build a custom site for the halloween bingo card search (note, the domain name almost guarantees this as a first hit in search results). If you had a bunch of long tail content sites, how would you figure out when it makes sense to pull one out and make it into it's own standalone site at a different url?


Using addthis on a high traffic website

Would custom social sharing buttons work better than the bulky addthis widget on a highly trafficked website (100mil pageviews/day)?


Switching website DNS with minimal downtime

I need to change my domain's DNS, but here in Thailand the ISPs don't follow any standards for renewing their cache of records, so it can take the full two days. I have a new website with about 1,000 members currently who are sending messages and uploading photos. I don't want both sites on the old and new server running at the same time because then I'd have to manually merge the database and transfer uploaded photos. It would be a huge pain. Both servers also a unique URL from my host, e.g. website12345.hostingcompany.com (old host) and website67890.hostingcompany.com (new host). I don't have much experience with this, but I think what I can do is on www.mysite.com, use .htaccess to do a masked redirect to the new server's URL (website67890.hostingcompany.com). Is it possible to do this and keep all URLs being masked? For example, www.mysite.com/profile/username will actually be loading website12345.hostingcompany.com/profile/username. From Google searches it sounds like this is possible, but I don't understand why this is possible due to security issues, since what's keeping people from masking their site to URLs like facebook.com? I could really use some advice here! Thanks!


mitigating lost emails when switching provider

We're about to change to Gmail from a web mail provided by our hosting provider, I understand changing the MX records and all. But my main worry was if there would be any emails that would fall through the gaps of the two systems during change over. I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of how the MX record works. Is it like a DNS record change, ie. it needs to propagate? If that's the case would there be a period were its left my current email provider but not switched to the new Gmail account? Thus allowing emails not be delivered or worse, lost?


Can I register / track convertions from my UTM campaigns

I currently got a couple of UTM campaigns setup with all the correct parameters to determine each campaign from another. The converting goal on my homepage is when a visitors creates a user profile. Can I add some analytics code on my converting page / globally, that will enable me to see if the user that clicked through my UTM campaign ended up creating the user profile?


Have SQL reports on separate database than same database that is serving web app?

We use SQL reports in a .NET web application, but some of our reports are heavy and involve more table join and columns. As you know we cannot index all the involved columns (performance problem). These reports impact web application performance. Now we are running reports against the same database that is serving web application. What are some solutions to have reports on a separate database?


google chrome : http authentication issue on iframe

I have an HTML file with 2 links both links are in an iframe to load the contents inside the iframe. I have two protected directories one on the same server and other on another server. If you click on either link it will popup the login box, same for both links in all browsers except google chorme. google chrome doesn't show login box for the protected folder on another server, how can I fix this ?


Does Alexa Widget increase Alexa Rank?

I'm not sure about this problem and I found nothing on Alexa.com talking about this problem. Anyone knows exactly that is this true?


When are accessibility features required?

I've mostly done intranet development and never worried about accessibility features. For a public website, is there certain types of sites or data where specific accessibility features are legally required? Or is it always just my decision based upon my targeted demographic?


Wlll links into pages that are restricted by Disallow rules in robots.txt help SEO?

I have a search-engine based website, and the search functionality itself is not crawlable because of a `Disallow:` rule in `robots.txt`. Other content is on the site is crawlable. If I get incoming links to the search portions of the site, will they be as good for SEO? (Like links to the front page of the site would be.)


For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?

I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it `bobthebuilder.com`. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking in to it. As a result, this site has a PR of 1. My client also has another site, again, with a bunch of blog posts, on a subdomain. Let's call it bob.builders.com. This site is rich in information (again, unique to my client) and has a PR of 3. My client has hired me on to take care of the SEO of his business, not indicating specific sites. I face several options, and would like to get some recommendations, please.   1. Continue writing and optimizing content for bob.builders.com and leave the other site as is   2. Do a permanent redirect from `bobthebuilder.com` to `bob.builders.com`, lose existing content from `bobthebuilder.com`   3. Do a permanent redirect from `bobthebuilder.com` to `bob.builders.com`, transfer all blog posts and content to `bob.builders.com` What would be the best course of action? Thank you!


Trying to host server for external access - Apache, VirtualBox & Portforwarding

Banging my head on the wall at this stage... Trying to host my Apache site on Ubuntu 12.10 with VirtualBox. Running Windows 8 host. Things I've done:   * Ensured Apache is listening on ports 80, 443 and 8080 (for thoroughness)              tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd           tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd           tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd           tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      681/sshd         * VM is using bridged network connection    * Assigned a static IP to my Ubuntu VM, which can be accessed fine from within network.   * Forwarded TCP ports 80, 8080, 443 on the static IP of VM on my router   * Given my VM a static NAT Address   * Turned off Ubuntu firewall and router firewall   * Read on forums that my ISP (Eircom) allow port 80 to be used And I still can't access my site using the WAN/External IP (checked internally and using `CanYouSeeMe.org`). It says all the ports I mentioned are closed. I'm really at a loss of what to try next... Am I missing something silly here? Note: I haven't assigned a static IP address within the router, on within the VM. And DHCP server is enabled. Is that bad?


Use Google Analytics to record newsletter clicks to an external website

Note: by external website I mean a website that we do not have access to the code. For example www.facebook.com I want to record how many social share clicks we have from our customer newsletters. For example, when a customer receives a newsletter they can click "Share this on Facebook" which shares the hosted version of the newsletter. If I wanted to record these newsletter clicks to our website I understand we'd use Google URL Builder (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en) to create a UTM URL but because we're linking to an external site, how do we record this?


Is there a way to limit the horizational flex of a fluid CSS layout?

**Example:** Currently it does this: <--> Want it to do this: <--|-|--> **Meaning the core never gets smaller than say 900px, but the core stretches on forever if it's bigger than 900px. Note, currently it's a 3-column, and the sides are fixed, it's the center that grows.** It's also be cool if I could control the max flex: |<--|-|-->| **Meaning the page would not get smaller than 900x, but not larger than 1200px** ...so, maybe none of this is possible, or it's crazy easy -- but I've searched high and low for an example, or CSS specs on how to do this, and no luck so far. Thanks! * * * ## UPDATE: * * * Thanks to Dave, I was able to find a solution... :-) ...thanks Dave!! **Example of code**               #wrapper {        width: 960px;        width: expression(           (document.documentElement.clientWidth > 962)? "960px" :              (document.documentElement.clientWidth < 762)? "760px" :                 "auto"        );        height: 1%;     }      **-- OR here's the full HTML with inline JavaScript and CSS --**               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">                     <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">         <title>Example of max- and min-width</title>

Example Content...

                       **SOURCE:** Friendly Bit, Min-width and Max-width template NOTE: Stack Exchange... Rocks!


Replacing well ranked e-commerce site with a CMS site and new e-commerce site & maintaining as much SE ranking as possible

I am looking for advice on the steps to take to re-structure my website. We currently have an osCommerce based site in the root of the site (i.e. mysite.com/index.php). Our plan is to have a CMS based site as the main site (at mysite.com), and have a _new_ e-commerce site as a sub-domain (store.mysite.com). The existing osCommerce site is well ranked in Google, Bing & Yahoo, and we'd dearly love to retain as much SE ranking goodness during and after the changes. I had thought the steps would be to 1) move the current site to a sub-domain, 2) place the new CMS based site in the root, and 3) when that lot has "settled in", replace the e-commerce site with a new version. Does this sound about right? If so, what's the best strategy on implementing wholesale redirects from mysite.com to store.mysite.com in the first step? (We have about 70-80 pages on the site including product pages). I would very much appreciate any help or advice before I embark on this onerous task. TIA Edit: We're replacing the old osCommerce site because it is out of date, heavily modified and the design is old and needs replacing. The company has more services that it offers now, so a CMS would suit our website better, but still with a more modern e-commerce site.


PHP as a first web development experience

Your experience is valuable. What would be your advice for an aspiring web developer who decided to give PHP a try? Thanks


Does google always downrank pages with hidden texts

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are temporarily hidden elements bad for search-engine rankings? I'm creating a FAQ for my page. To help the user to get a better overview I want to hide all answers and only display the questions. If the user clicks on a question the answer is set to display:block. I know that google also reads and indexes hidden content, but I also know that hiding text is a common technique for spammers and thus probably discredited by google, resulting in getting wiped from search results. But I'm wondering; Does google always downrank pages that have large amounts of hidden text? Does Google have some kind of intelligence? I mean an FAQ like this is not that uncommon. Should I not use this kind of FAQ?


Example of live site with trusted, signed but revoked certificate?

I'm drawing up some documentation for users with the intent on educating them on certificate revocation. I would like to include screen shots of browsers to demonstrate the user experience when encountering a revoked cert. The revocation can occur via either OCSP or CRL. I've tried digging around CRLs, but they list the serial number of a certificate and don't provide a URL for me to try connecting. Could someone provide a URL to a live site with a non-self-signed but revoked cert? Or perhaps there's a way to look up certs in a CRL and cross reference them to a URL?


Free Places to List a New Site?

I recently launched http://www.comehike.com and promotion has not been easy. I currently have $0 promotion budget and am wondering where are good places to get free links, and some traffic? Any tips or tricks would be appreciated? An example of what I am looking for is something like diystartups.com


Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage?

Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage?   Better community than the other to receive help?   One made for corporations vs for private? Seems like WordPress is very popular, too, but can it do the same things as the others? Also, how long (in approximate hours) does it take to set one of these up? Thanks!


Google Analytics indicates tracking code is not installed

I have 4 websites using Google Analytics. Two of them are being tracked perfectly without any problem. The other two however are appearing as "Tracking Not Installed". It's there, but it's not working for these sites:               www.evusa.org     www.usagreencard.co.uk      It really makes me feel not very confident about using Google Analytics now. If the tracking code appears as "not installed" when it is actually installed, why I should feel sure that the numbers they provide are actually real. Here's the tracking code for the first site:               <!-- GA -->     <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-49488235-8', 'usagreencard.co.uk');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>      And here's the tracking code for the second site:               <!-- GA -->     <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-49488235-7', 'evusa.org');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>


What is the minimum recommended page title from an SEO perspective? Would there be any problems if I use a two words title? I know that there is a maximum recommended, but I did not find anything about the minimum length.


SEO and other impacts of using rel="dns-prefetch"

I recently came across a site that had the following code:               <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//ajax.googleapis.com">      In looking it up it says it is used to `Reduce DNS lookup time by pre- resolving at the browser.` So my question is, other than (hopefully) making the site feel a touch more faster, does it have any other impacts on SEO or the site in general?


google search differences

i'm preety new to SEO, so please bare with me if the question seems dumb.. I have a webshop, for which I made a sitemap and sent it to google to index.. now, when I am logged in to my google account and type the domain name into google (without the "www." and ".hr"), google puts that site first.. OK... when I log out, and do the SAME search, the site is 5th or 6th... how is this possible?? also, site appears on google (i sent it like 3 days ago), but in my webmaster google account it says that 0 pages are indexed... so, just putting site ON google and indexing it is not the same thing?   I can provide site domain name so you can see for yourself if it's needed...   I have one more site with the same (strange) issues...   thanks for the anwsers!!!   Andrej


Filezilla claims there is not enough disk space on our microsoft azure webserver

We run a website on a microsoft azure webserver, but today we face a problem when trying to upload files to that webserver using Filezilla FTP client. Whenever I try to upload anything, filezilla responds with "550 There is not enough space on the disk". I then log on the administrator account on for microsoft azure, and see that we have only spend 2% of our 50 GB available disk space. I tried restarting the webserver, but that did not do the trick. Any ideas or suggestions? I can't seem to find any similar thread of this issue. I don't have much experience when it comes to websites and servere, so any help would be appreciated.


Robots.txt error "Crawl postponed because robots.txt was inaccessible" from Google Webmaster Tools

On the _robots.txt_ fetch tab there is a yellow triangle when hovered over. I am getting the following message. "Crawl postponed because _robots.txt_ was inaccessible" However I am showing 0/151 Errors/attempts. I use the same _robots.txt_ on other sites and there is no problem.               www.dtnmgt.com/robots.txt


AdWords traffic not (properly) reflected in Analytics

I have an AdWords account, which was set to use Auto-tagging of URLs. When looking at the Analytics account for that site, I couldn't find any reference to AdWords traffic either in the Advertising section or the Traffic Sources section. So I manually constructed the URL tags, and updated the Campaign Ad. Once the ad was approved and the clicks started coming through again, I could see the results in the Traffic Sources section of Analytics. In the Sources > Campaigns section, my campaign was listed, and under Sources > All Traffic, it was registering the same level of traffic from `google/adwords`. However, the Advertising > AdWords section is still drawing a blank. Any ideas? Are there explicit steps needed to enable full tracking of AdWords campaigns? If it is relevant, the Adwords campaign was set up with one account, and the Analytics tracking with another, but both accounts have full access to both AdWords and Analytics.


What does one look for to increase conversion rate of landing pages?

I'm about to create several landing pages. I'm trying to find methods or means to produce the highest conversion rate possible. What could someone do to increase ones conversion rate for a landing page? I'm looking for an answer that has experience, references, or metrics to back up their claim. I know a lot of this is an art.