Can AdSense crawler view pages that require cookies?

**Details** I require users to agree to terms and conditions before they can view several pages on my site. Once they have agreed a cookie is set and they can proceed to the webpage. If a user somehow manages to end up on the webpage without a cookie they will not be able to access the page's content. **My question(s)** Is the AdSense crawler able to set the cookie and visit these pages? If yes, how will it know to agree to the TOS? Is there some way to allow it access to the pages even if it couldn't use cookies?


Analytics - Total events divided by number of unique pages?

I am using Google Analytics events to track keywords on my articles - not necessarily the best system I know but there are too many for variables I can't easily change it right now - and I would like to be able to see how popular each keyword is by dividing the number of page views with a keyword by the number of unique pages. Is there a/what is the best way of doing this? **EDIT FOR CLARITY** I currently have a system set up where every time somebody loads an article an event is fired for each of the tags/keywords used, with the keyword being the label. I can currently view my view count for each of the keywords by looking at the total events for each label, however I would like to be able to see which keywords are the most popular by dividing the number of times the event has been fired by the the number of different pages it has been fired from.


What's the proper structure of an HTML5 page that briefly lists other articles?

The target is to provide the proper semantic for a page that briefly lists existent articles. At the moment my idea is the following:

Latest Articles

First Article's Heading

First article's brief description.

Second Article's Heading

Second article's brief description.

Third Article's Heading

Third article's brief description.

           The page (let's call it an _archive_ page) has the main article element containing children articles. Each child has only header because the article does not represent the full version but just a brief. Please, tell me if my version is semantically right (and why it is). Otherwise, propose your version. **UPDATED (AFTER THE ANSWER WAS ACCEPTED)** Example above is not full what may confuse and cause misunderstanding. I'll try to clear this providing a fuller example with comments.
Website Title

Website description.

Latest Articles

Last three articles in chronological order.

First Article's Heading

Supplement to the first article's heading.

Read more

Second Article's Heading

Supplement to the second article's heading.

Read more

Third Article's Heading

Supplement to the third article's heading.

Read more

Navigate Through Pages

Newer

Older

Copyright (c) ...
                  I just wanted to ensure if the semantic is corrent. It is. The question is clear.


Google Webmaster not indexing my site

I've moved my site from ak.net84.net to aramk.com, and I've redirected the pages from the old to the new using these methods in my htaccess for the old site:   * all pages redirect to the new site using a rewrite rule, with 301 http code   * manually specified redirects with 301 http code   * removing all redirects, so all links to the old site will result in a 404 (redirects to my host's error page) At the moment, it appears Google may be treating the sites as duplicates, so I've removed the indexed pages for the old site by using the "Blocked URLs" page in Google Webmaster. The problem I'm having is that for my new site, Google is crawling but not indexing: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dJBdY.png) There are not health warnings for the new site, but there are health warnings for the old site (saying I have removed URLs). Meanwhile the old site is still being indexed: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dW3eg.png) The old site doesn't have a sitemap, and the robots.txt is blank. The new site does have a sitemap, but it's not being indexed: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ydVVk.png) At this point I've been waiting about a month without any changes while I try different settings, and I'm prepared to just delete the old site from my host completely in the hope Google will stop indexing it. Any other suggestions?


Error in Google Webmaster tools

Google Webmaster tools says I have many faults. I wonder how I might supposed to improve them in a way such as to make a `robot.txt` to the server? Where I decide where you should go, etc? .. You can see the picture here what I mean: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fABsn.png) However, it must be said that I have made that about 2 times before so there have been many mistakes. But I have used woorank to help me a lot further to see what I was missing on the page. So, my question is simply: does `robot.txt` have anything to do with it, all the old mistakes? .. This is what my page NOT out more! ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DPX8g.png) Could it not also help a little of everything if I had a sitemap for my site? _Just tell if you do not understand what I mean. However, I am **dyslexic** so is bad for English .._


Public search engine which index HTML tags

Do you know a public search engine which allows search on HTML tags? The usage will be to search websites with HTML5 tags such as `<canvas>` being able to search over the class names could also be useful.


Domain registrar that doesn't encourage domain 'speculation'

Dealing with domain 'speculators' has been getting me down recently. Then I noticed my current registrar, name.com, have some deal with a domain auction company to list "premium" domains on their website; it may seem petty, but I don't want to support this kind of venture in any way. Are there any good registrars out there who don't list 'aftermarket' domains? I don't need much in the way of features, but a nice clean interface is always nice. Cheers.


Google Analytics profile filters does not work

I have a website and I need to separate traffic to it into two profiles. I need to exclude data from curtain IP address from Profile A and include data from this IP to Profile B. I have created 2 profiles. Setup exclude filter by IP for profile A, setup Include filter for profile B. For some reason all data still goes to profile A. I use my own public IP address in filter definitions so I know for sure that I have visits for profile B. In order to test that data come to Profile A I track event via _trackEvent with unique name, like test123 and I see this event in Profile A. What I am doing wrong? **UPDATE** : If I change filter to Country - everething work. I could easely separate traffic from me Country to another profile. So my guess something is wrong with IP.


Multiple domain names

I have a client that want a website with a single domain name with many different extensions like :               somedomain.com     somedomain.org     somedomain.net     somedomain.mobi     somedomain.tv     ...      Just to be sure the saturate the name and that nobody "hijack" the name. The client is a Searcher in "Numeric content" and has a PHD in that field of expertise. Personnally I think it would be overkill to go that road since the website will only attract a limited amount of people which will be refered mostly through official press documents and business cards with the web URL on it. Since he is a scholar I was looking for some published articles about that matters. P.S. In the end if he is still convinced that his way is the right way I will do it, but since it comes from a public funded Grant I was looking to save him money (and the general population) so he can use the rest on more useful areas P.P.S. I am from Québec, the most taxed state in North America, that is why I have those concerns :P


Storing image order without a database

The classic question is whether to store images in a database or on the file system. In my case I feel it is probably best to store it on the file system. However the specific order of the albums and images is very important. Originally I thought that I could do this by displaying images in the order of their last modified date and then artificially change that value to modify the order. However that method is flawed as adding new images to an album will reorder all the images as the modified time is changed unwillingly. Can anyone give me advice on how I can keep track of the order without using a database? (Not 100% sure if this question belongs here or maybe on stackoverflow, but I'm taking my chances and if I'm wrong feel free to correct it.)


Mapping an amazon server to a domain name registered with name.com

I have an amazon S3 web server and a domain name registered in name.com (the name is sam-experiments.com). I am trying to have a static page hosted on the amazon web server to be displayed on http://www.sam-experiments.com On the web server side, my bucket name is 'www.sam-experiments.com', and it links to here: http://www.sam-experiments.com.s3-website-eu- west-1.amazonaws.com/ On name.com, I added a new record with the followin characteristics:   * Record Type: CNAME   * Record Host: www.sam-experiments.com   * Record Answer: www.sam-experiments.com.s3.amazonaws.com. (as specified in the documentation here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosting.html#VirtualHostingCustomURLs)    * TTL: 300 However, nothing gets displayed on www.sam-experiments.com, and I am not able to find what I am doing wrong. I really would appreciate some tip. Thanks! Note: I already posted this question in stackoverflow, but didnt get any answer, so I thought posting here may be more appropriate.


Paging in table in PHP

Hey guys i have to make php program in which i have to take data from database (table is student(stu_id , s_name , s_emailid)) from which i have to display only 10 records on first page and 4 buttons First , Last , Previous and next . if user click on next in table i have to display next ten records on same page(replace older data of table) and if user click then previous then previous 10 records. and wiseversa for first and last. i have no idea how i can do this so plz guys help me..


How can I exclude a specific computer from web stats?

I'm using AWStats to track visits to my site. I know how to exclude specific ip addresses from the stats (using AWStat's .conf file). But how would I just exclude one specific visitor (me)? I want to exclude every visit regardless of my location. Just based on my specific computer, or cookies, or possibly a login password? Thanks


How can i check how many users can visit my website at the same time?

i have my website on a shared webhosting account. I would like to check how many people can visit my site at the same time without the server slowing down or crashing. I don't have SSH, if that makes any difference...


Was Instagram, the first one who started using "insta" word

I want to know, was Instagram the first one who started using "insta" word in domain name. There are so many other sites who started some word, and others followed their way for names. for eg Apple started i-something, myspace started mysomething, youtube started yousomething etc etc, I am not sure whether they were the first one, and invented the style of using them.


How much time to update the Structured data in Search Results?

We have updated the structured data for the ratings in the website and it is detected also by the crawler but I am not able to view the ratings in the search results page. I can see the breadcrumb results in the search results and can not see the other structured data in search results. Do let us know if there is any issue which needs to be resolved from our end. Thanks


Can I submit a private domain registration to bing

I have a private domain registration. Is there any way to submit to Bing without disclosing personal details?


Succesful hits on favicon are 49.9% as shown by Awstats, But 404s don't display favicon error. What's wrong?

On Awstats, one of the sections displays as it follows: > Successful hits on favicon.ico -> 49.9% Then, under 404s, i have the following: > Document Not Found (hits on favicon excluded) Therefore, if the 50.1% of errors on favicon are due to 404s, I wouldn't be able to see them. **I'm pretty sure, the errors on favicon are not 404s, as i have extensivly checked (I might be wrong though). If that assumption is correct, how come 50.1% are not successful hits? Is it because some browsers/tablets/phones don't support it?** Additionally, I store the favicon icon in a folder, but a favicon.ico empty file always appears on my root folder if deleted. That file was replaced with mine, so the error should also not be there.


Godaddy redirect doesn't show file names in URL

Bought a Godaddy doman and redirected & masked it (301) to a temporal free hosting site(freehostingeu), the redirection and masking works perfectly but the URL of the various pages in my server's folder doesn't show in the nav bar when I click a link that sends me to that page.


SEO and new site - visibility best practices

Since i launched a new web site, i was wondering which are the best practices to let the visibility of the site grow up faster then just leaving the site online? I mean which internet channels are good to speed up visibility of a new site? Can anyone show some tricks he do when launching new site? I'm not talking about spam, advertising and SEO tech tips (the site is well done with all the main SEO tech tricks).


Why some video posts from the same blog appear in google with thumbs, while others do not?

We own media blog - which is basically a big collection of various videos streamed through our branded player. Interesting thing is that some of our posts show up in google search results with a thumb denoting that the post in question is in fact a video. But more often they are not. We basically wonder why? What does affect it and can we control it somehow? All posts (their single pages) have facebook og meta tags in place.


How to deal with malicious domain redirections?

It is possible for anybody to buy a domain name containing negative terms and point it to someone's website in order to damage their reputation. For instance someone could buy the domain `child-pornography.com` and point it to the address `64.34.119.12` which is the address behind `stackoverflow.com` and people navigating to the domain in question would end up visualizing content from `StackExchange` which would be detrimental to `StackExchange`'s image. To illustrate this, I added the entry `64.34.119.12 child-pornography.com` to my `/etc/hosts` file and tested. Here is what I obtained: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Tn1nf.png) I personally found this user experience terrible as someone could think that Stack Exchange are in favor of child pornography and awaiting support from the community to create a Q&A site about it. I tested with other websites and experienced other behaviors that I would categorize as follows: **1 - Useful 404 page (happens with`stackoverflow.com`)**:   For me the worst way of handling this as the image of the targeted website is directly associated with the offending domain. The more useful the 404 page, the bigger the impression that the targeted website would be willing to help with child pornography. **2 - Redirection (happens with`microsoft.com`):**   For instance when accessing `child-pornography.com` you get redirected to `www.microsoft.com`. It isn't as bad as above as the offending domain name never appears alongside the targeted website's content, but still bad in my opinion as it gives the impression the targeted website bought the offending domain and redirected it to their website to get more traffic. **3 - Server error (happens with`lemonde.fr`):**   You get an error from the webserver which page doesn't contain any content that can be associated with the targeted website (e.g. default Apache 404 page, completely blank page). I believe that is good as the identify of the targeted website isn't revealed. Above are the various behaviors I experienced, but I also thought about a fourth way of dealing with this which is described below. **4 - Disclaimer page (haven't found any website implementing that technique):**   Display a message such as : > "You ended here because someone bought and linked the `child- > pornography.com` domain to our website. We do not own this domain and do not > associate ourselves with it. This request has been logged by our servers and > we will raise this issue with the competent authorities to have this domain > taken down. If you want to access our website, please click here." The good thing about this method is that it can be implemented at application layer (good if you don't have control over web server which happens with some hosting solutions), allows you to protect yourself from any liability, and offer the visitor to be redirected to your own website. **Which of the above options would you implement to deal with malicious domain linking (IMO only options 3 and 4 are worth considering) ?**


There must be a science to single-page product sales sites. What is it?

The sites I speak of are not landing pages, not really microsites in the sense that I've always had to deal with them. They are sites like the following:   * Credit Contraction eBook   * Homemade Strength eBook   * Earn1k ... plan   * The Truth About Abs I have seen them for all manner of things, these are just the ones I could remember off the top of my head. They all seem to follow an identical method of construction, marketing, call-to-action, content organization...There must be a science to building these sites. What are they called? What is this science? Tim Ferris wrote an article a while ago about The Truth About Abs's creator Mike Geary, mostly covering how he came to the idea and the things he does to execute upon it as a business. The article didn't really cover the science of the page though, the key to his success, except at the very end where there are a couple paragraphs that just graze the topic.


ads for a gaming network

I am very new to web development and in some weeks I start my own small gaming network. Now I am doing everything alone and I struggle to find good resources about advertising networks. And I don't want to have ugly ads on my website. I searched for gaming advertisements and I found ad4games and gaming online advertising. At the moment I don't even know if I can pay the server costs. This is really bugging me. I contacted several ad networks, but all of them don't want to do a contract with me before my site launches. -> I have to wait and gather information about my visitors. Now I was curious which ad network other sites are using, and I saw that stackoverflow is using adzerk as an adserver. If I am correct I can get ads from different adnetworks and put them on my adserver. But overall the whole topic is like a huge blackbox for me. Could you recommend me some resources or give me some insights? Edit: I am currently listening to http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/ and its really interesting.


Mysterious 403 errors on images with proper permissions

Recently I have been trying to install a forum on my website. At first I was having an issue with the forums alone but then I noticed it was occurring elsewhere on my website as well. When I have added images, they return in a 403 error. The images are there but they refuse to show up. I have tried it with multiple permissions numbers but every time I get the same result. After further inquiry, I discovered that some images were working. Here are a couple of examples: Working, 0644 Permissions Not Working, 0644 Permissions If you go to the directory that contains both of those images you will also see that no images show up in the directory. I do not know what's going on. In other parts of the website, images with full 777 permissions are resulting in 403 errors. I have talked with the hosting service but they have just directed me to change permissions, which I have done.


Deploying websites with a 'Maintenance Mode' switch

I'm working on a site where I need to add a 'maintenance mode' and became curious to see what methods people use to deploy their sites to live, when there is a required downtime. Some ideas that come to my mind are symlinked folder switching, .htaccess redirects or even some sort of switch in the application but what do you use and why?


Not so popular web : Change Domain and Web Name, SEO implications. Duplicate?

I have owned a site for two years, but never become popular. Today Google income from "clicks" is almost nothing. So I started to redesign the site: more features, a cooler design, and more data. I also bought a better domain name for this site. What you you would suggest   1. Redirect from old domain? (like 30 unique visitors per day from Google search :/ )   2. Start from scratch and forget about the "old" one.  I don't want to be "detected" as duplicate content. But it's possible that my actual site is penalized. I will post my site is allowed in a future edit :)


Use rel="nofollow" on internal ads?

I know you're supposed to use rel="nofollow" on outgoing ads, to keep from passing link juice, but what about internal ads? We have a number of links with pictures that I consider as ads to other parts of our site (usually to a sub-domain). Should I rel="nofollow" them? With google's most recent algorithm change this month, I feel like some things have changed.


Are 22 words too many for an h2 tag?

I'm laying out the structure of my page like this:               <hgroup>
Heading One

Tagline
     </hgroup>      And while I don't have a tagline per se, I have a short description about the company that totals up to 22 words. Should I put this in the h2, or should I drop the hgroup altogether and use put the description in a paragraphy? this is all going on in a  by the way.


How to avoid duplicate META and TITLE tag warnings in Google Webmaster Tools for the same URL in lowercase and CamelCase?

looking through Google's Webmaster Tools today I saw a long list of supposedly duplicate `<meta name=description>` / `<title>` tag content with all of them showing a duplicate count of 2. A lot of them show as the conflicting URLs something like the following:               /deutschland/Bayern/Camping-Allweglehen-19062     /deutschland/bayern/camping-allweglehen-19062      The only difference is the case of the first letters of some of the words. I have to admit I was surprised to see that Google treats these as separate URLs. But now that I know it does - what I can I do to clarify that this is the same website? I don't want to use `301` redirects as it would mean overhead for the user and a tiny bit for the server. I feel like I'll have to make sure all URLs that we put on our pages are lowercase so there won't be any reason for any crawler to crawl the same website twice. Is there any other trick / thing I can do to get rid of these duplicate warnings?


How to get google and bing to index original image, not thumbnail?

I've read this post Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail but my case is a little different. I have over a thousand images, in many different directories, with many different names, and in most cases the ones with full resolution are the ones indexed by google (bing is even better), but in some cases the thumbnails are the ones indexed, unfortunately. **I need to have 2 separate images** because we add a watermark to all our full-sized images since in the past i caught competitors stealing and using our images of our custom products, therefore, scaling down an image with a watermark would not look good. The images, when clicked on, lead to a page that displays the full image, with product description and not only the image itself. 90% of these pages are indexed by google and bing, and about 60% of the images (but still going up every day). Thumbnails are named asd-asd-asd_small.jpg (example) while full resolution pictures are named asd-asd-asd.jpg. **I useA1 Sitemap Generator for all my sitemaps, including images, but since i'm talking about over a thousand images, is there a practical way, easy to implement that would give priority to the full size images on indexing?**


Delivering a web application to the client?

A company I am working with built a web application that can be useful for many businesses. My question is what is the best way to deliver such an application? **Option 1:** 'Install' it on their website's server by getting their FTP information and giving them the application's files for them to use freely. OR **Option 2:** hosting it on our own websites server and have all businesses that need this service login in order to use it. I have been torn between the two for a long time and would appreciate any advice from someone how has some experience with this kind of problem.


Why does AVG complain with Exploit Blackhat SEO type 1703

I installed "AVG internet security", opened a page in internet explorer, and AVG complains about "Exploit Blackhat SEO (type 1703)" for object name Action sports stock footage with no further details. (Note that I have not written this page. It seems to have been written in the distant past by several different persons.) When I look at the html source code, I do not notice anything unusual. But then again, I do not know what I should look for or change to satisfy AVG. I tried Sucuri SiteCheck with the results               Security report (No threats found):     check       Blacklisted:    No     check   Malware:    No     check   Malicious javascript:       No     check   Malicious iFrames:  No     check   Drive-By Downloads:     No     check       Anomaly detection:      No     check       IE-only attacks:        No     check   Suspicious redirections:        No     check   Spam:   No      The links toward the bottom of the HTML page such as `http://clips.actionsportsstockfootage.com/sdf_clip.php` link to a different server but at the same domain. -- How do I solve the issue? In the meantime, I have sent a report to AVG at their AVG Incorrect page rating report page.


IP, and page-specific redirect?

I'm trying to send a particular IP, that is trying to get one page on my site, to another page, and do this through my .htaccess file. I've seen many general descriptions of how to do it (in many syntactically different ways) but frankly none of them work. I put these command s, of the sort               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^99\.888\.777\.66$     RewriteRule ^/askedforpage\.html /redirecttopage.html [R,NE,NC]       in my _.htaccess_ file ... but these commands simply leave my site non- functional. I'm using Apache 2.2, on a Mac with OS 10.6.8. How do I do this?? * * * Here is my .htaccess file, without the "deny" commands for malicious IPs.               Header set Accept-Ranges none        order allow,deny          allow from all        Redirect permanent xyz.html http://xxyyzz.com/header.htm


Does Google penalize you for using an outdated version of Wordpress?

If you are using an outdated version of Wordpress , do you get penalized for this ? In other words, does it matter for seo ? I know that from a security point of view it is always recommend to keep wordpress updated but on a specific site some of the custom plugins i use are not compatible with newer versions and it would break my site.


Anyone still using JavaScript disabled?

Is there anyone left that's not using JavaScript? When designing websites, is it worth to care about that fraction of visitors? At least in Firefox you can't even disable it anymore.


Are there any capacity planning resources for phpBB?

I know that busy phpBB forums can be resource intensive, but haven't run one myself, and can't find any sort of quantification of that. How do I plan hosting needs given an expected load of users/logins/posts/etc? My current setup won't be adequate, but I have no idea how much more I'll need. It seems like this must have been addressed before but any query with the terms 'phpBB hosting' has been SEO'd to death and turns up nothing but ads for hosting services.


How widely used is VPS hosting for personal sites?

I'm considering a move from my shared hosting setup to a Virtual Private Server. I'm aware of the major benefits and downsides of this idea. I have a few personal sites I would be running. Given the work involved in setting up and running a VPS, is it worthwhile for a few personal sites?


Deciding on a revenue model for a web application

When building a commercial web application, what are the factors that go into the decision of a revenue model? How many users are necessary for an advertising-supported application? What demographic factors of the user base makes them more attractive to advertisers? Conversely, when deciding on a subscription price, what factors go into setting a price. This seems like a decision we would want to get correct!


Things to consider while picking domain name?

We want to buy a domain name for our company. But all of the domain name we've discussed has already taken by some one else. Is it good to use trailing character to existing domain name so we have available domain name to register. E.g for:   * example.com   * example1.com   * myexample.com or using long domain name like:   * companyandproductname.com   * bestproductname.com   * my-product-name.com And also, is there any other thing to consider while picking domain name other than using company name and / or product on domain name? What is the advantage and disadvantage?


Wordpress/CMS for small business SEO?

It's oft-heard that Wordpress has top-notch SEO and there are even rumors that Google's algorithms (and other search engines) are designed to specifically favor Wordpress-based sites. If I'm in charge of boosting SEO for a small service business website whose only relevant customer base is in its municipality, should I remake the whole site (presently hand-coded) in Wordpress or some CMS? Do Google and others really favor CMS-based sites when evaluating local business search queries?


List of international top-level domains that allow foreign registrations

Wikipedia has a list of top-level domains but few of their entries specify availability or restrictions, such as having to be a citizen or have a business presence, etc. So, what are some top-level domains with no to little restrictions with regards to who may register? These are domains particularly useful in domain hacks.


How to change URL without affecting SEO

Please note that I have created a forum by installing the phpbb software in bluehost server in a folder named (lets give an example) "examplefolder" and thus the URL of a post is: `www.example.com/examplefolder/viewtopic.php` taking into consideration that this post appeared at first positions of google, bing, etc search enginees (after searching for the topic of this post), could you please let me know if the search engines' position of this post will be changed in case that I will change the name of "examplefolder" to something else.


Use web hosting as a external email server

I have this question is it stupid to use a shared hosting to host my domain for only my email address not for a website.


http-equiv=content-language alternative - the way of specifying document language

Lots of web sites uses following meta tag to specify the default language of the document:               <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="es-ES">      When I go to W3C site and read about HTML language mark up I get this: > Using the meta element to specify the document-wide default language is > obsolete. Consider specifying the language on the root element instead. What is the way of specifying document language now?


How to serve a DNS record for a hosted domain and Minecraft server?

I'm using DreamHost to host the domain craftnetwork.co. The Minecraft Server needs to be hosted on subdomain.craftnetwork.co. Can I setup DNS records to direct users to a website when in a browser and the server IP when in Minecraft?


Questions about infinite scrolling & SEO

I have a page with a lot of moderate sized images (100's for now), and I am thinking of implementing infinite scroll for users, and have pagination combined with link prev/next so SEO still picks up the later images (this will be hidden by js on document load) I know there are other questions about this, but I have certain questions which are not yet answered:   * For the hiding of the pagination using onload, if I use display:none instead for the pagination, will SEO still pick it up, or should I change display to none through js when onload event?   * If I implement the pagination as www.domain.com/content?page=1, ...page=2, etc, will SEO pick up the GET params and treat them as non-duplicates and crawl them appropriately?   * since this content is continuously being modified, the max # of pages can and will change, therefore do I need to add all the possible page numbers to sitemap.xml or will linking them from the first page be sufficient to be picked up by the crawlers?  Thanks!


Why is there are tilde (~) sign in most university URLs

My university provides a web URL and some hosting space and the URL is like http://homepages.iitb.ac.in/~pritampebam. Almost all universities I've come across seem to use this structure where there is the '~' sign right in front of the username. Other examples. http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/ http://users.design.ucla.edu/~reas/ Why is it so?


How to target geographic category keywords when pages are for business names

I am creating a website similar to Yelp where people come and add their businesses. I noticed that many people use search engines this way: _restaurant in new york_ , _auto repair in los angeles_. But the business page in my website should have a `<title>` that is the name of the business, example: _Mitchell's Ice Cream_ or _Luscious Garage_. What should I make to reach all these search engine users?


Firefox remembering telephone number as username

I have a registration page which includes all the standard fields e.g. phone no, email etc. The telephone and password are tab adjacent i.e. not physically adjacent but if you are tabbing it goes first name -> surname -> email -> telephone -> password. For some reason is giving users a prompt to remember their user name and password when they register (which is nice) but it is saving the telephone number as the username. Are there rules for helping it decide/stopping it from suggesting people remember the ever so useful telephone number/password combination? Thanks in advance **EDIT:**   * The names on the form elements are "Phone" and "txtpassword".    * I would like it to remember email and password. Is this achievable given the current situation?   * Unfortunately I cannot reorder the form fields. The order is given in the tabbing above.


Show events AND pageviews in Google Analytics

Each page on my site contains a file, and I have Google Analytics set up to track file download events. I would like to see what fraction of users who visit Page X download Page X's file. I can view number of events by page by clicking on `Content » Events » Pages`. **But I can't figure out how to see both events and pageviews (or visits) at the same time.** Visits and pageviews are not available in the `Secondary dimension` dropdown from the Events list, and Events are not available as a `Secondary dimension` in the regular traffic listing (`Content » Site Content » All Pages`). I want something like this:                  Page                         Pageviews     Events     1. /section/mypage                  1,000        123     2. /category/anotherpage              867         41     3. /about/download                     88          7      Is there a way to get this in Google Analytics?—to view events and pageviews, by page, at the same time?


Hide website data for Chrome and FF addons: IP Whois & Flags Chrome & Norton

I've got this addon and want to hide the information they publish for our website. They show Popularity, IP address info, nameservers, etc. Plus the traffic levels they report, 'popularity' reflects badly on anyone who uses them when traffic levels don't seem high and are not accurate.* It's like a shop displaying a counter of how many customers they get. Bad form to provide such information to the public. How does one hide this invasion of privacy?   * By not accurate, I mean they're subjective


Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results

So, on all of our sites that are not search facing we've applied a robots.txt file (per How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results ?, or any other similar question). However, if search terms are specific enough, the domain itself can be found via results. An example of this can be found here. As you can see from the link, the domain itself can be found (content is not cached, but domain is listed). Additionally, performing a search with `site:hyundaidigitalmarketing.com` should 3 results. Checking backlinks provides a few as well, but I obviously cannot prevent them (linking is allowed in context) or control how these are handled (can't tell the host to add nofollow, noindex). Now, I know this is a severe edge case, however my companies clients are doing just this. In fact, our domains are pretty good, so even seemingly arbitrary searches are turning up relevant results. Now, I have to write up a report on how/why this is happening. So, I turn to the wonderful Stack Exchange network to help me either understand what I am missing or understand what is happening. Links to industry articles are extremely helpful but, anything you can give is obviously greatful. I do intend to offer bounties the best I can to make this an answer to turn to in the future. **Edit:** I've opened a bounty on this question in hopes of getting some more responses on it. I've also provided the results of my own research below.


How to force search engines not to crawl my site, is there any special mark on them?

I want to block search engines from crawling my websites. Atleast for Msn, Yahoo, Google, and Yandex. i dont really trust robot.txt. Because they can simply ignore it and continue crawling. I would use rails as my web framework. How can i do it, atleast to decrease the posibility destructive action they do by simply crawling a specific page. Is there any special mark or identifier on them while they are crawling a site ? This question marked as duplicate with Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results Wich is i guess a mistake. Above questions is asking specifically why. I dont really care why google crawling my site. I just want to block it. Show 404 status.


Impact of using lazy loading on SEO

If I used lazy loading with Ajax, then am I right in saying that Google will not see the content in the lazy load? An example is if I have a part of my site featuring products towards the bottom of my homepage, but this section doesn't load until the user scrolls to it. Therefore in the source code of the page this would not be displayed nor would it be displayed in Google's cache. So is there a trade off with lazy loading? The site will download faster, but loses some optimization? Do you just need to be careful what to choose in the loading?


How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam?

My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes only a few sentences, without any links or images. Just plain text. How can I fix this? (Notice that I send mail with fake sender address, could that be main reason?).


Random behavior sending mails to Gmail

I am sick to warn website users (new and existing) who have Gmail accounts "Check your spam folder". I suffer this as a webmaster and as a user. For one website: The Port25 Solutions, Inc. team > ## Summary of Results > > SPF check: pass   >  DomainKeys check: neutral   >  DKIM check: pass   >  Sender-ID check: pass   >  SpamAssassin check: ham SpamAssassin check details: > SpamAssassin v3.3.1 (2010-03-16) > > Result: ham (-2.0 points, 5.0 required) > > pts - rule - name - description > >   * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] >   * 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message >   * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from > author's domain >   * 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily > valid >   * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature > Example 1) I have a website with fail2ban intalled. It sends a report to `smth@gmail.com` each time a firewall rule is broken. Plain text the messages only differs on offender's IP and some related data. Most of these mails go to Inbox but I found some gmail spam folder. Example 2) A Gmail user had registered in my system. He got the confirmation mail and following ones (purchases, whatever) but one day he recives a notice in his spam folder. I know that if the user answers just one of any of the emails he recives then Gmail "understands" my server is dependable and Gmail does not deliver my messages to spam folder. Maybe I should ask "Please answer this email to confirm registration" to accomplish that. But the problem is if this first mail is considered as spam. I've read a lot of advices about this issue and implemented lot of things. For some sites I had implemented MX in Google mail servers but it is not free anymore and people don't want to pay hundreds dollars on it. What do you suggest? # This is the body of Example 2 banned email (subject: _[Fail2Ban] SSH: banned 42.96.162.225) headers are always the same_ Hi, The IP 42.96.162.225 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 5 attempts against SSH. Here are more information about 42.96.162.225: [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to whois.apnic.net] [Querying whois.apnic.net] [whois.apnic.net] % [whois.apnic.net node-3] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 42.96.128.0 - 42.96.255.255 netname: ALIBABA-BJ-NET descr: Alibaba (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. descr: 9F,Tower A Winterless center,NO.1 West Da Wang Lu, descr: Chaoyang District,Beijing country: CN admin-c: PW270-AP tech-c: PW270-AP status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-lower: MAINT-CNNIC-AP mnt-irt: IRT-CNNIC-CN changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20110311 source: APNIC person: Peter Wang nic-hdl: PW270-AP e-mail: huijun.wanghj@alibaba-inc.com address: No.99 HuaXing Rd. Hangzhou,310099 phone: +86-571-85022088 phone: +86-010-65985220 fax-no: +86-010-65985401 country: CN changed: ipas@cnnic.net.cn 20080115 mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP source: APNIC Regards, Fail2Ban Of course the message varies according to whois IP


Prevent mail flagged as spam when switching mail servers (new SPF records)?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? For our business, we send out a significant amount of newsletter alerts to customers that sign up for it on our website. We used to send this mail directly from our web server via PHP. But because the web server limited us to the number of emails we could send per day, we purchased a VM server at a different host (that doesn't throttle email) and we are going to use that account solely for sending out the emails. Anyways, now that the SPF records are going to be different from what they used to be and the source mail server is different, what steps need to be taken to prevent these emails being flagged as spam? I know in Gmail, it's pretty smart about determining if the person actually sending the email is sending it from the server it expects (for flagging Phishing emails, etc). We don't want that to happen to our emails. Just sending a couple test emails out, Gmail's shows the SPF record saying:               Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com:     XXX.XXX.23.176 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record     for domain of root@mail.newserver.com) smtp.mail=root@mail.newserver.com      So is there anything we need to do with regards to SPF records as we move forward?


Visitors are getting phishing warnings and my emails are being delivered to spam/junk boxes

I run a forum and I have had reports of some members receiving phishing warnings when they attempt to register, and emails being sent out (e.g. to confirm accounts) are being delivered to junkboxes. This is obviously quite a serious issue as it means many would-be members are not able to validate their accounts and properly join. Is there any way I can address this? My site is obviously not a phishing scam or anything untoward like that.


Hotmail — avoid sign up confirmation / lost password being marked as spam

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? When sending legit large volume Emails from our IP (e.g. for sign up confirmation or Lost password) it gets marked as Junk in Hotmail. In the past, there was the Sender ID SPF Record Submission Form, where you could put yourself on the radar of Microsoft. See this old discussion. However, as of April 2012 this has been abandoned. Any hints what to do now? What is a good way to contact the Hotmail team?


How did my email end up in spam? Spam only filters this specific email, other email contents work

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? My website has users buy our products and when the purchase completes, it sends the user an email. However, this email always ends up in spam! When the user first registers, the site also sends an email, this email however is not filtered and goes into the normal inbox. I'm not quite sure why this is so, gmail vaguely tells me that " It's similar to messages that were detected by our spam filters." So I'm thinking that I need to reword the following email better. Can I get some tips? Or could something else be causing this? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xVyo1.png) thanks! here's the unformatted email:               Delivered-To: mugenex69@gmail.com     Received: by 10.112.32.98 with SMTP id h2csp61953lbi;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT)     Received: by 10.180.79.72 with SMTP id h8mr22836827wix.1.1332302953175;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:13 -0700 (PDT)     Return-Path: <contact@website.com>     Received: from mail26.elasticemail.org (mail26.elasticemail.org. [178.32.180.26])             by mx.google.com with SMTP id 6si518487wiz.41.2012.03.20.21.09.12;             Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:09:12 -0700 (PDT)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) client-ip=178.32.180.26;     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of contact@website.com designates 178.32.180.26 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=contact@website.com; dkim=pass header.i=@website.com     DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; bh=qjc8jxQuGy9pLN1YV9TR2PHQYKg=;      c=relaxed/relaxed; d=website.com; s=api;      h=DomainKey-Signature:MIME-Version:From:To:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type;      b=Odt+nYhjntXPl7JPVHeJWjkStemt6so+FPVYY6oMKziMFzmW8YiLhN8WwSLY0faMcn/rirKsO2dOm/kvcHlqUJC7ldhaydE6bPekkBDa9kBovlGwPNm6xy9QWPP9I1fXDLDCwqqeAXv8kN0daXbh3pVyqWNUOk5cgQ35OgpQpKI=     DomainKey-Signature: q=dns; a=rsa-sha1; c=simple;      d=website.com; s=api;      h=MIME-Version:X-Mailer:From:To:X-Priority:List-Unsubscribe:Subject:Date:Reply-To:Message-ID:Content-Type;      b=F7NNZIEyEV+64uYD8pVpe91WLP19Tw2Whk4OKpkLeAfkmrNIA7AjP0XYU1JWTlEyibHQJjjbhR62I3MvVJBSGp75eWfOuwb2AqYWZ/jAlMWznnfQLVv7OlYJsErGxYP6GUNNcuJaqlTPFDanJwtaEvR+tqXZRB7xrUisMd8lq2I=     MIME-Version: 1.0     X-Mailer: email.website.com     From: "Website Contact" <contact@website.com>     To: mugenex69@gmail.com     X-Priority: 3 (Normal)     List-Unsubscribe: <http://email.website.com/tracking/unsubscribe?msgid=su6g-8kfd0s0g>,      <mailto:unsubscribe+su6g-8kfd0s0g@bounces.elasticemail.net?subject=unsubscribe>     Subject: Website Tickets: event     Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:09:17 +0000     Reply-To: "Website Contact" <contact@website.com>     Message-ID: <4tlaxecj2jy8.su6g-8kfd0s0g@email.website.com>     Content-Type: multipart/alternative;         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0"               ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0     Content-Type: text/plain;         charset="utf-8"     Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64          SGVsbG8hIAoKIEhlcmUgYXJlIHlvdXIgdGlja2V0KHMpIGZvciBDVEFTIGVDc1RBU3kgMjAxMjog     CgpodHRwczovL2NhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQKClNp     bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0     aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl     Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS4KClNpbmNlcmVseSwKVGhlIENhbXB1c0FtcCBUZWFt     ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0     Content-Type: text/html;         charset="utf-8"     Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64          SGVsbG8hIDxici8+PGJyLz4gSGVyZSBhcmUgeW91ciB0aWNrZXQocykgZm9yIENUQVMgZUNzVEFT     eSAyMDEyOjxici8+PGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL2VtYWlsLmNhbXB1c2FtcC5jb20vdHJhY2tpbmcv     Y2xpY2s/bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyZ0YXJnZXQ9aHR0cHMlM2ElMmYlMmZjYW1wdXNhbXAu     Y29tJTJmJTNmdGlja2V0cyUyZjclMmZ5aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQiPiBodHRwczovL2NhbXB1     c2FtcC5jb20vP3RpY2tldHMvNy95aGloZ3Znd3Z3cWR3cXhtdnQgIDwvYT4gPGJyLz48YnIvPlNp     bXBseSBicmluZyBpdCB3aXRoIHlvdSBvbiB5b3VyIHNtYXJ0cGhvbmUsIG9yIHByaW50IHRoZSB0     aWNrZXQgb3V0IHRvIGJlIHNjYW5uZWQgYXQgdGhlIGV2ZW50LiBFbmpveSwgYW5kIHdlIGFwcHJl     Y2lhdGUgeW91ciBwdXJjaGFzZS48YnIvPjxici8+U2luY2VyZWx5LDxici8+VGhlIENhbXB1c0Ft     cCBUZWFtPGltZyBzcmM9Imh0dHA6Ly9lbWFpbC5jYW1wdXNhbXAuY29tL3RyYWNraW5nL29wZW4/     bXNnaWQ9c3U2Zy04a2ZkMHMwZyIgc3R5bGU9IndpZHRoOjFweDtoZWlnaHQ6MXB4IiBhbHQ9IiIg     Lz4=     ------=_NextPart_000_3F77_7A0DF805.A8C886C0--


Why are my emails going into recipients' spam folders?

My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes html. How can I fix this?


Improve email Delivery Rates

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have a web server that sends legitimate transactional email in high quantities. A reasonable percentage of users report that they never receive the emails. For every message sent, there's also a blind carbon copy going to an unfiltered email box on a different provider that I review to ensure the server actually sent the emails. All of the emails make it to my bcc box, so the server is sending the emails properly. It seems to be a spam filtering problem at other email providers. The hosting provider for the web server indicates a reverse dns lookup has been set at their level linking the emails ip address properly to my server and domain. **Question:** Is there anything else I can do to improve the rate that 3rd party service providers are filtering the emails I'm sending? Is there anything I can set on the DNS that I control to show that the server sending the emails is legitimate?


C-panel mail goes into spam instead of inbox in gmail

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? I have c-panel vps server. I have created a domain on the same server, but when I send mail through webmail to gmail email id it goes into the spam folder.               Note--->Mail ip note blacklisted             Spf records enable             DKIM enable             reverse dns are perfect     ======================================================================     Email header Information:               Delivered-To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com     Received: by 10.143.93.13 with SMTP id v13csp119806wfl;             Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:01:36 -0700 (PDT)     Received: by 10.182.52.42 with SMTP id q10mr26133912obo.46.1341586895571;             Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT)     Return-Path: <nandini@harishjoshico.com>     Received: from lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com ([50.97.147.134])             by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fx3si18028369obc.144.2012.07.06.08.01.35             (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);             Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT)     Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) client-ip=50.97.147.134;     Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of nandini@harishjoshico.com designates 50.97.147.134 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nandini@harishjoshico.com     Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:39016 helo=harishjoshico.com)         by lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.77)         (envelope-from <nandini@harishjoshico.com>)         id 1SnA2J-0006Nq-05         for robinfriendly5@gmail.com; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Received: from 223.189.14.213 ([223.189.14.213])             (SquirrelMail authenticated user nandini@harishjoshico.com)             by harishjoshico.com with HTTP;             Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Message-ID: <a545d976011d97b0fe9f945e15e0442a.squirrel@harishjoshico.com>     Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:31:35 +0530     Subject: ggglkhl     From: nandini@harishjoshico.com     To: robinfriendly5@gmail.com     User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22     MIME-Version: 1.0     Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit     X-Priority: 3 (Normal)     Importance: Normal     X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report     X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - lakshyacs-u.securehostdns.com     X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gmail.com     X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]     X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - harishjoshico.com          jhkhl               ================================================================


How to stop my mails reaching spam box?

I'm trying to send an HTML Emailer in bulk marking the destination emails in BCC from my official mail, but my mails are reaching spam box. How to stop this?


Reliability sending and receiving email (mainly about receiving)

I currently have a ‘forwards to’ set up in my godaddy account, so email sent to richard@richardclunan.com goes to my gmail. And I send email from my gmail so it looks like it’s sent from richard@richardclunan.com My godaddy account is using a POP server. I’m wondering about the reliability. It’s not an issue for me if some emails are delayed sometimes. But it is an issue if I don’t receive emails or if emails I send out don’t get to their destinations. Is this an issue with a POP server? I’m guessing any issue would be with me receiving email, rather than sending – since they’re sent from gmail, but received via a godaddy POP server. – I have my domains registered with godaddy, hosting on hostgator, and using POP email server on godaddy. I could use the hostgator email server if that might be a better set up; though I don’t want to change it unnecessarily. – Or I guess another option would be to use a Google Apps for business account, instead of my free gmail – would this mean better reliability? Would doing this mean I’d then not be using the godaddy POP server, or would I still be using a mail server at godaddy, since my domain is registered with godaddy? Thanks.


Admin form that generates an email confirmation ends up in SPAM

I have an admin form that I have setup for a client, that generates an email confirmation from a template I have designer. It works really well, but it ends up in spam some of the time. This is real frustrating as it is just confirming some details for the customer of what they have just booked. It is not at all spam, and is accessed via a page where the admin requires login. Any suggestions as to why this may end up in spam. It does have dollar signs ($$) as it is confirming a price, I'm assuming this is one problem, the rest of it is just general dates and info about the confirmation. Are there any suggestions on how to get this out of spam?


Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM - Please help

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? gmail is marking my emails as SPAM I used the great service: isNOTspam.com to check my email against spam I got the following But I don't understand what it means please help me! thanks               Thank you for using isNOTspam.          The isNOTspam team          ==========================================================     Summary of Results     ==========================================================          SPF Check : neutral     Sender-ID Check : neutral     DomainKeys Check : pass     DKIM Check : pass     SpamAssassin Check : ham     ==========================================================     Details:     ==========================================================          HELO hostname: mail-gx0-f193.google.com     Source IP: 209.85.161.193     mail-from: no-reply@codepigeon.com     ---------------------------------------------------------     SPF check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com     DNS record(s):     codepigeon.com.         14399   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all"               ----------------------------------------------------------     Sender-ID check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=no-reply@codepigeon.com     DNS record(s):     codepigeon.com.         14399   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:108.163.232.130 ?all"               ----------------------------------------------------------     DomainKeys check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     DKIM check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=no-reply@codepigeon.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin v3.2.5 (2008-06-10)          Result: ham (03.9points, 10.0 required)             pts rule name              description        ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------                  * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low        *      trust        *      [209.85.161.193 listed in list.dnswl.org]        *  1.2 SPF_NEUTRAL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral)        * -0.0 DKIM_VERIFIED Domain Keys Identified Mail: signature passes        *      verification        *  0.0 DKIM_SIGNED Domain Keys Identified Mail: message has a signature        *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message        *  0.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts        *  2.5 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16 BODY: HTML: images with 1200-1600 bytes of words        *  1.1 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG HTML-only message, but there is no HTML tag          ==========================================================     Explanation of the possible results (adapted from     draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header-04.txt):     ==========================================================          "pass"        the message passed the authentication test.          "fail"        the message failed the authentication test.          "softfail"        the message failed the authentication test, and the authentication        method has either an explicit or implicit policy which doesn't require        successful authentication of all messages from that domain.          "neutral"        the authentication method completed without errors, but was unable        to reach either a positive or a negative result about the message.          "temperror"        a temporary (recoverable) error occurred attempting to authenticate        the sender; either the process couldn't be completed locally, or        there was a temporary failure retrieving data required for the        authentication.  A later retry may produce a more final result.          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How to keep an email out of a recipient's spam folder?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam? When I user completes a form the information is sent to a specific email address which varies (and is not always on the same host). The SMTP I am using is gmail which originates from my website host. I have also specified Reply-To (which is the users email address entered in the form). The problem is that the email is going straight into the SPAM folder. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening?


Postal address in Whois information, how bad of an idea is this?

I currently have my full contact details (including my phone number and postal address) in the WHOIS information for all the domain names I have registered so far. I wonder how bad of an idea this is and whether I should remove such information from the WHOIS. What are the possible consequences of leaving such information there and what are the benefits (if any) for leaving it? Are there any known incidents for troubles because of WHOIS information? Finally, what would you recommend? Would you recommend using a WHOIS privacy service? Just to add, I believe there are services, like domaintools.com, that archive the WHOIS information, so, is it too late to remove my contact details? (if you think I should remove it). Many thanks **Update:** I just received an email from my domain registrar which included this: (Under ICANN rules and the terms of your registration agreement, PROVIDING FALSE CONTACT INFORMATION CAN BE GROUNDS FOR DOMAIN NAME CANCELLATION.) To review the ICANN policy, visit: http://www.icann.org/en/whois/wdrp-registrant- faq.htm So, it's clear that there's no choice as to providing your real contact details. A WHOIS privacy service is the best option if anyone wants to hide their contact details (this is best done from the beginning as there are services, like domaintools.com, that archive the WHOIS information).


What browser or bot has the user agent of "SD-1.30.1"?

I have tried checking on Google but to no avail. Does anyone recognize this user agent?


Embed Google Map with branded place markers

How do you setup custom place markers when using Google maps that are embedded on your site?


Managing multiple Adwords accounts from one Google account

I have a Gmail account linked to numerous Analytics accounts, and a couple of Adwords accounts - that is, I can track stats from a dozen or so sites, and have administration rights for a couple of Adwords campaigns. However, a client has already set-up their Adwords account and has invited me help administer their campaign. However, when I try to accept, I get the folowing error:               The Google Account xxx already has access to an AdWords account (Customer ID: ).       As many have discovered, for some reason Google won't let an account that already owns an Adwords campaign, to join another account. However, I wondering if there is any workaround for this? Temporarily, I'm using a separate Gmail account for this, but what is the longer term solution. Going forwards, sometimes clients will be happy from me to 'host' their campaigns (but providing them with access), but I'm equally sure that many will want to retain greater control. Surely there must be a better way than creating an additional Gmail account for each client? How do web/SEO agencies handle this?


ecommerce website development guidelines

I need a guideline to prepare a list of questions for my customer to build a e-commerce website What are the most important questions related to the online shop I should ask (such as: what's your bank account, what's your expected revenues.. etc) thanks


Article marketing for back links

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What role do article submission directories play in SEO? I'm interested what the consensus is on the likes of ezinearticles as a form of backlink building. There are a couple of similar questions here but given google's recent panda update apparently targeting article directory sites I'm not sure where this stands. I realise there are better backlinks, from established sites etc, however this is one approach that is consistently recommended around the internet. My current situation is I'm at position 16 of google.com for a keyword with 2.6 million searches a month. I had intended this month to publish an article or two each day on ezinearticles then duplicate on a couple more but before I set upon this tedious task, would I be wasting my time?


how can i best manage sitmap.xml with .co.uk and .com As they both point to the same site how do I tackle the sitemap.xml files, I see a lot of sites don't even bother with a sitmap.xml file is it even necessary?


SEO for e-commerce, how to keep links in each page to a reasonable number?

After reading this: _"Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number"_ [Googkle official site] And this: _"Users often dislike link-heavy pages too, so before you go overboard putting a ton of links on a page, ask yourself what the purpose of the page is and whether it works well for the user experience."_ [Matt Cutts official blog] I'm wondering **how to keep links on a given page to a reasonable number for a generic e-commerce site** , in order to make Google happy too. Usually these type of sites contains a left menu packed with all the products/articles in the shop catalog divided by categories/sub-categories. **Each sub-category has naturally a link to it** (on some sites even the main category have a link showing a page with the sub-categories listed as page contents) **Shops/companies usually have many categories/sub-categories to show, so generally these left menu are big with many, many links.** And since these left menu are repeated in each page (1) how could we keep the amount of links to a reasonable number? Any SEO considerations and suggestions are well accepted too in your answer (as always). * * * (1) note - I think these big menus repeated in all pages don't make the website less user friendly I'm talking about tree menus like this one for instance `www . nummus . com` these type menu use also Javascript to open nodes and on each page they keep themselves open, so I think they are very user friendly. Actually I think the opposite: **I can't stand navigating sites that change the position or the flow/contents of menus while I'm navigating.** And you?


What's the fluid-icon for?

I stumbled over a html meta tag I don't knew and wonder what it's about.               <link rel="fluid-icon" href="https://github.com/fluidicon.png" title="GitHub" />      I googled around, but couldn't find any explanation. What is this? A new favicon approach? And what's the difference to the one I already know:               <link rel="icon" href="images/2/mail_icon_32.png" sizes="32x32">      <link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://www.google.com/a/scoop-gmbh.de/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">


Why would it take longer for a web page to resolve when the url is entered without "www"?

I was looking up a new website a friend of mine just built, and when I typed in "youwho.com", it took like 3 minutes to return the page to me. When I typed "www.youwho.com" it resolved instantly. Why would this happen?


E-Mail Marketing "Width"

I am working on building an email marketing newsletter, is there a good general width that I should stick with? I have seen 600 as a number but I am unsure what others have encountered. I need this to work in as many clients as possible without the dreaded horizontal scroll bar. Thanks!


How do you load test your application?

What is the most effective way to load to load test your app? The main point is to determine how many users you could support at a single time with the application still running at a reasonable speed.


How to test high load on a website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do you load test your application? Hi, I am nearing a point of finalizing a website and it will soon be released. We have bought some traffic and advertisement packages and the nature of the site makes it heavier than typical static-like websites. I am looking for hear good ways to test how well the site performs under heavy load. I already know _ab_. Got any other tips to spare?


Is this way of using Pushstate SEO friendly?

As discussed in this question in Mauvis Ledford's answer and Pumbaa80's answer, Pushstate has many advantages in comparison to hasbangs. But I would like to discuss a single disadvantage Pushstate has, and then propose a solution. My question is whether that solution is SEO-friendly or not, and if not, what other solutions are there. **The problem with pushstate** The pushstate disadvantage relevant to me is the fact that whenever one opens a new page, a full page load must be done. With hasbangs this is not the case. Consider this: One opens up `example.com/gallery`, if one just clicks a photo, Pushstate works great. One's browser makes an ajax call, fetches some JSON, renders the picture, updates the URL to `example.com/photo1`. Everyone is happy. But if one _right clicks_ a photo and opens `example.com/photo1` in **a new tab,** a full page is requested and one does not enjoy the benefit of Pushstate. If one does the same with `example.com/photo2` and `example.com/photo3`. And all the way up to `example.com/photo10`. 11 full page requests will be made. Now consider the hashbang alternative: One opens up `example.com/#gallery`, now one rights click a photo and opens `example.com/#!photo1` in a new tab. One does the same with `example.com/#!photo2` and `example.com/#!photo3`. And all the way up to `example.com/#!photo10`. only `example.com` was requested, and it was cached. Then 11 tiny json requests were made. This is much better than fetching 11 full pages. In conclusion: When visiting a website and opening many pages in multiple tabs, hashbangs are more efficient. **The solution** I found a solution which would make Pushstate as efficient as hashbangs even when opening a website's pages in multiple tabs, but I wonder how it fairs when it comes to SEO. When a user opens `example.com/gallery`, this is what they get.               <meta name="fragment" content="!">                     The first line tells the web crawlers that this is an ajax page and that they should fetch a prerendered page somewhere else, please see this for more info. The second line loads the ajax app. The third line provides some JSON which is immediately consumed by the `App.js` and then the dom is generated. Thus only a single request was needed to render a full page. Now that the user has `example.com/gallery`, when they decide to click something which leads to `example.com/photo1`, the user's browser makes an ajax call, fetches some JSON, renders the page, updates the URL. Everyone is happy. Here's the magic: If a user decides to open `example.com/photo2` in a **new tab** , they will get this:               <meta name="fragment" content="!">                     And since `App.js` is already cached, this is as good as a normal ajax request. We just let `App.js` consume the JSON and render a full page. **The Question** Is this SEO friendly? Are there any better alternatives? Is there a catch here? Are there any well known websites which do this?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics unable to validate my site during setup I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I couldn't get GA to validate me. My environment is as follows: Site: www.example.com My default page contains the following:               <html>     <head>     <script type="text/javascript">          var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25700000-1']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {       var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);})();          </script>     </head>     example.com Google Analytics test     </html>      I am 10000000% sure that the tracking code provided to me is the tracking code included in the above script. I simply copied and pasted the code block. I've waited days after doing the config since I know it may take GA time, but certainly shouldn't take 3 days. The old version of GA shows: ![](http://i.imgur.com/zQZ0g.png) and the new version shows: ![](http://i.imgur.com/rbWZg.png) Note that the screenshot of the new version has the weird "December 1969" thing which I've read about in other forums and seems (?) unrelated to my problem. How can I make this work?


How to block pagination when the URL is just one number?

I'm trying to avoid duplicate content on a website by blocking pagination via _robots.txt_ , but it turns out the URL doesn't have a parameter passed into the URL I can simply block, it's just a number. Example:               /category/sub-category/product/          /category/sub-category/product/1          /category/sub-category/product/2          /category/sub-category/product/3      In the example above, the URLs that end with 1, 2, and 3 is pagination. Any idea on how I can block these? I don't want to just block all numbers, as this is not an ideal solution.


How to know how regular the pages of itpian(dot) com are indexed by google?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I control how often search engines visit my site? How to know how regular the pages of itpian(dot)com are indexed by google?


Registration form rules

I read somewhere that a registration form has to have some sort of notification about the storing of their info, is this true? If so, where can I find those rules?


How local is each country's version of Google?

I know that you can drill down on the particular language or country version of google from "Search tools," but even discounting for that, and removing personalisation etc, I'm still seeing different results for the same search between google.com and google.co.uk, for example. All things being equal, are these really supposed to be showing exactly the same results?


Mailserver at my hosting company is unable to resolve certain domains

I am hosting my site on HostGator. The problem is that I can not receive e-mails from some domains. Here is the SMTP transaction response received:               H=(sv2.elanceonline.com) [162.242.179.29]:38251 I=[192.185.51.218]:25 F=<bounce@svbounce.elanceonline.com> temporarily rejected RCPT          H=(sv2.elanceonline.com) I=[192.185.51.218]:25 sender verify defer for <bounce@svbounce.elanceonline.com>: host lookup did not complete     Unable to resolve svbounce.elanceonline      The support person at HostGator insisted that the problem is on domain-side, but I am very sure it is on HostGator's side because I never had any such problems before using HostGator, and now in the course of 2 days I'm having the same problem with 2 different senders. I can receive from both domain's emails to Gmail at the same time without any problem, but once I type `myemail@mydomain.com` (`mydomain.com` is hosted on HostGator) I cannot receive e-mail. What could be reasons for not being able to resolve `svbounce.elanceonline` or other domains? Should I trust HostGator and believe them that it's not a problem on their side?


How do websites with 'premium content' go about SEO?

While searching for news, I am often presented with pages that have 'premium content'. For example this story by The Australian. I checked it's canonical URL and it's same as the page I landed upon `http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/martin-parkinsons- blessing-for-tony-abbotts-plea-to-stay/story-fn59nsif-1226872844602` I checked the site's code hoping that 'premium content' might be hidden using CSS but that's not the case either. My question is - how have they managed to rank so high with a big popup & a fraction of full content that's supposed to be on this page when there are other sources with full stories and a much more pleasant user experience? Any chance they are serving full content to the bots?


cPanel redirects not working on extensionless files

I'm trying to redirect the address `http://example.com/newsletters/January%20Newsletter%20` to `http://example.com/newsletters/JanuaryNewsletter.pdf` using cPanel's redirect manager, but it doesn't seem to work on files with no extension. To test this I've tried redirecting similar files but with a `.txt` extension, and everything works fine. Any idea how I can get this redirect setup? My _.htaccess_ looks like this:               RewriteEngine on          RewriteOptions inherit          IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>     <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>     AuthName lakevalleygolf.com          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$     RewriteRule ^newsletters\/January\%20Newsletter\%20$ "http\:\/\/example\.com\/newsletters\/JanuaryNewsletter\.pdf" [R=301,L]      ![cPanel Redirect Manager](http://s22.postimg.org/5u8drc8xt/c_Panel_X.png)


Understanding data transfer/file requests - what constitutes my bandwidth usage?

I'm trying to understand how bandwidth works in relation to file requests, so that I can get a good feel of what, say, 100GB of monthly bandwidth would allow. Let's say I have a php file with the compiled size of `2kb` with no external file requests e.g images, surely that doesn't mean that file can be requested 50,000,000 times. What about database requests? What about the resources required by each individual php function? If someone could explain how bandwidth usage is calculated (assuming it's not bandwidth/compiled file size = number of allowed requests), it would be VERY much appreciated!


Issue with result of Microdata schema.org in Google Labs

Please note this code:                           <meta itemprop="name" content="webpage"/>
                    <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4">           <meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0">             <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5">                             <meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="100">
                      If I add an `AggregateRating` inside the `div` tag for article, Google Labs does not show the values of `AggregateRating` on its URL result So I must remove `itemprop="mainContentOfPage"` or add `AggregateRating` out of the `div` tag or add both. How can I fix this problem? `AggregateRating` belongs to `AggregateRating`, not `WebPage`!? For a solution I changed the code to this:                           <meta itemprop="name" content="webpage"/>                                 <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4">           <meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0">             <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5">                             <meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="100">
                    <meta itemprop="ratingValue" content="4">           <meta itemprop="worstRating" content="0">             <meta itemprop="bestRating" content="5">                             <meta itemprop="ratingCount" content="100">
                      But I'm not sure it's true or not!


Setting up a LaunchRock page without hosting

Looking to buy a 'dot-com' domain as cheap as possible, and set the DNS to forward to the LaunchRock service without having to setup a hosting act. Is this possible, and if so how? I've asked roughly the same question before, though at that point I thought I would have to have a domain and hosting, but in rethinking about it just now, since LaunchRock would be hosting the site via a sub-domain reroute using DNS setting, I'm thinking that I don't even need a hosting account to just run a LaunchRock landing page; though not sure if that's the case, or how it might be done. Here's the original question, "LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?" (and answer)-- which includes LaunchRock's "general-instructions-for-creating- your-cname-record",


Service that will help me visualize SQL db

I have a website that I've built and it uses a SQL DB. I want to be able to view that data, nicely graphed but with the relations made, so that I can keep track of trends over time. For example I don't just want to be able to look at the trend of users joining over time, I want to know which users did the most of an action, and what they did. This would involve joining several tables. So, can anyone suggest any tools to assist me in doing this? Ideally the product/service would import the DB (or access it), I'd specify which tables to join and on which attributes and it would produce the graphs. I don't want to go the custom route and build the graphs myself. I'd like something I could use there or in another similar situation.


SEO: pages' title for small websites (i.e. 5/6 pages) - repeat key-phrase or not?

It's well known that pages' `<title>` do impact Google positioning, beside this, they are also definitely important to catch user eye when he is looking at Google search results. Let's say I have a typical site of 5/6 pages for a bed and breakfast, let me list few pages and their possible titles   1. **HOME** - `title = "B&B town name, completely new, cheap price for the weekend."`   2. **THE HISTORY OF THIS B &B** - `title = "B&B town name – The History"`   3. **BOOK NOW** - `title = " B&B town name – Book online"`   4. **WHERE WE ARE** - `title = "B&B name, 234 Walnut ave. town name – CA"` ... As you can see I would typically repeat the key-phrase “B&B town name...” in all pages, thus to make sure any of the pages (wherever they'll be shown in Google results) would at least immediately describe the site content and possibly catch a potential customer's eye. **How would you else/better fill the titles?** **Do you think is someway bad to repeat the key-phrase “B &B town name...” in all pages?** I'm doing a specific example because reading answers for a specific example might be more easy to me to understand, but obviously the concept could be applied to any websites of almost the same size, so feel free to add your more general considerations and suggestions.


Google Analytics goal funnel does not recognize virtual page views

I have a setup wizard with 3 steps. Since I'm using AJAX each step uses a virtual pageview with an appropriate URL for each step (see below). The pageviews are being recorded in the Content section of Google Analytics but the Goal Funnel still shows zero for each step. I've tried advise on other forums such as...   * Make sure Goal URL is set to Exact match    * Make sure no steps or the Goal URL are a parent directory of any other steps. For example, don't track /wizard/ as a Goal/step and track /wizard/step2/. Not sure why this would be a problem since it is an exact match, but it shouldn't hurt so I tried it...   * Require (or don't require - tried both) the first step in the funnel ...but none of these seem to work. Thoughts? * * * ## Goal Settings Exact match : "/wizard/setup-complete/" Funnel   Step 1 : "/wizard/step1/"   Step 2 : "/wizard/step2/"   Step 3 : "/wizard/step3/"


Apache, Lighttpd, which one should I use?

Apache has always been described to me as the solution for hosting websites, but I have been using Lighttpd for many years now and seems pretty stable. What are the advantages of Apache towards Lighttpd ? Does it scale well for heavy-usage applications ? Is it stable enough ?


Blackhat SEO/Spam? Backlinking-blog entry has nothing to do with our site

I'm seeing some weird backlinks to our site. For example, there's a blogger with a site that is several years old and looking pretty legitimate, but he has links to our e-commerce home page site from his blog posts that have nothing to do with the type of products we sell. He has these anchor text that are keywords on our site, but are used out of context in his blog. For example, "... toothpaste caps" where `cap` is linking to our site where we baseball caps. Or, "... power outlet cap" where `cap` is linking to our homepage. Now, our last SEO guy, who I think was horrible, used to employ these paid services that would write fake reviews for you with a link to our site. So, it is not impossible that this was a result from that, but I need to find that out. What exactly is this type of behavior called by SEOs and search engine companies? I'd like to research more into what this is what how it affects our site and where it came from.


General Properties\Legal Domain warning on flash

I had a website containing 2 flash items (menu and banner). Everthing were fine, but for some reasons I had to change its hosting to a new server. Now, I have a warning frame on the banner that says: > Warning!!! Read this!!! > > Please, put this address into the General Properties\Legal Domain: ... What is this warning for and how can I remove it? _(The domain did not change)_


How to allow nonsense characters as web url for example: & * Ö :: and more

I have a database which contain many name with combination of those characters. Once i will reload them, they will become public web url. So that visitor if open this url (its valid??): http://www.example.com/&*Ö:: It will land to a unique page. But do you really allow those characters? Or filter them. Or there is no rule really, anything is allowed. (I can already see, `http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/23964/how- to-allow-nonsense-characters-as-web-url-for-example-and-more`, skiped my special characters and only took "and more". Is that the standard? I mean you can delete the main character?)


Is it possible to get the Google Alerts as structured data?

With the Google Alerts one can subscribe notifications about the newest search results to a given search terms. The alerts are sent to the email. Now, I'd like to analyse this data. Is there an API for it? (How) Can I get this data as JSON or in an other structured form?


What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?

I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this: `mysite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name` I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked websites. They have the same structure, except for one thing. In one case, the URL format was `thissite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.html` Another was `thatsite.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name.php` Now I know the text in URLs help with SEO. Is it more helpful to have a file extension? If yes, which one is better? Or if my current plan is okay, will it be better with a `/` at the end?


which URL is better for a search engine?

In 2 ways I can show The article URL in my website: My Breadcrumbs website for a content to both of ways is this: **home** >> **computer** >> **hardware** >> **cpu** >>this-is-an-article.html **The First way:** LINK of article : example.com/computer/hardware/cpu/this- is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com/computer.html catagory 2: example.com/computer/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com/computer/hardware/cpu.html **THe second way:** LINK of article : example.com/cpu/this-is-an-article.html catagory 1: example.com/computer.html catagory 2: example.com/hardware.html catagory 3: example.com/cpu.html **which one is the best for serach engine specialy google?**


Internal Link building strategy

I am having a few concerns about the best possible link building strategy for a large webshop. The category structure is something like this:               www.site.com     www.site.com/whitegoods     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded     www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens      Now I want `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines` to rank for the search _washing machines_ which is highly competitive. And I want `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens` to rank for search terms like _front loaded washing machines_ which is not very competitive. Normally you say that you want to pass PR down through the page structure but the page that really needs some juice is the `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing- machines` page that I want to rank for _washing machines_. In other words: is it a good or a bad strategy to link from `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines/front-loaded/siemens` to `www.site.com/whitegoods/washing-machines` with the anchor text _washing machines_?


which url is better for google SEO, recursively or directly?

Say I'm building a e-commerce website. I have a lot of products in different categories. For example one of them is: > Flat to Round Power Plug Convertor So I have two ways to link to this product, directly to it: > http://www.somedomain.com/p/flat-to-round-power-plug-convertor-1005874 or add the categories recursively before it: > http://www.somedomain.com/electrical-tools/plugs-sockets/flat-to-round- > power-plug-convertor-1005874 According to google's SEO guild it seems it's recommending to put content in their own folders so that both users and robots can understand them easier. Besides if user simply remove the last part of URL `flat-to-round-power-plug- convertor-1005874`, they can easily get to the category. The simply question is, when the product is in a 3rd or 4th level directory, the URL gets pretty long. I don't know if this long URL harms SEO or not. Or should I use the first form? **EDIT** : The thing that confuses me is the URL should be "descriptive", and it should be "short". Consider the following example: http://www.somedomain.com/apparel/women-shoes/lovely-pink-shoes http://www.somedomain.com/apparel/children-shoes/lovely-pink-shoes It would definitely help people find what they want. And when you got tens of thousands of products, this situation would happen a lot. Besides, Google definitely encourages to categorize content in their own folders as referenced above. The problem is, the more descriptive the URL is, the longer it is. How should I make choice between "descriptive" and "short"?


Best practices with multiple categories/tags etc. on URL (SEO)

I'm on the process of _building my eshop platform_ and encountered a **SEO** issue. My next step is to develop a _searching box_ , where user searches the products of a specific category (say, _desktops_ ). This box will contain characteristics of the category _desktops_ , for example, it will contain **RAM** and **CPU** for sure. _Notice_ that in my searching box one will be able to **select more than one** categories. My url (after rewrite) for _showing_ products of a specific category is as this:               http://localhost/products/desktops      I know how to add another rewrite rule in .htaccess but i won't until i find out.. **what is the best practice of adding multiple categories/tags in url without inflate it and cause damage (etc. page ranking) rather gain something**. For example, let's say someone wants to search _through desktops_ and by ( _CPU and RAM_ ) Of course, the following patterns is non-acceptable, regarding variable size of input and known google dislike of many folders:               http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU/RAM/..      What about the following?               1. http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU-RAM     2. http://localhost/products/desktops/CPU|RAM      The _1_ may seems nice but i learnt google is handling the hyphen (-) as words connector and these words are not connected? The _2_ is using the (|) pipe symbol since i learnt also google is using it to sort words of equal importance. I don't really if any of the above apply only to HTML content and/or not to URLs. **How can i feed my URL so to include a number of categories, say about 5 max.** and if anyone knows how google handle such issue, etc. penalty or how searches/archive that stuff. I don't really want to apply any _& filter_CPU=1&filter_RAM=1_ thingy in the end and defeating the whole purpose. **UPDATE:** Since my time was in essence i already went for the following approach/URL rewrite:               http://localhost/products/desktops/search-for/Celeron|Pentium|4gb-ram...      , where `..` are a collection of category's attributes (etc. type of CPUs, size of memories etc. whatever characterizes them) I thought _a lot_ about the **delimiter** to use. I can't use hyphens (-) since category attributes may already contain one and it's a rather typical character for such cases. I cant't use commas (,) or underscores (_) either for about the same reason and i don't like them (especially commas) on URL in general. **I prefer something like a pipe but was wondering how bad this is for SEO? How google will index my information passed as .. _Celeron|4GB-RAM_.. Will it sort it out as 2 words (as they are?)** or i should do something else?


for a blog with posts and categories what are all the best ways to create user friendly and seo friendly urls

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? I am creating a module in my website which displays ringtones. It is like creating blog posts and categories, and it will also have categories (tags) and posts. (I am using category and tag interchangeably.) I am using the following linking for this module:   1. `sitename.com/blog`   2. `sitename.com/blog/category/category-name-slug/` -> will list all ringtones of that category/tag   3. `sitename.com/blog/title/name-slug-of-the-ringtone/` -> will display the details and a download link In every page, at the left I display the category/tag . This is how I have formed the url structure. Will it be user friendly, and (I hope so) will it be seo friendly as well? Please hint if I am missing something or other ways to improve. Meanwhile I am browsing the net to get more information on linking content (categorizing) and to find best ways for the user and search engine.


Depth of URLs and SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Does the depth of an URL affect SEO/Pagerank? Is there any max or optimal level for URL depth? If you have, lets say, a website to map all the vegetarian local businesses (restaurants, shops, markets, etc.) in the world, which URL format would you choose?   1. `http://example.com/restaurant/name/city/country/1234`   2. `http://example.com/shop/name/city/1234`   3. `http://example.com/market/name/1234`


Which URL is better for SEO?

I have 2 main categories:   1. Software    2. Hardware Each of these categories has 10 subcategories for example hardware: `cpu/graphic/hard disk` and... Which URL is better for SEO?   1. `www.example.com/hardware/this-is-content.html` or   2. `www.example.com/cpu/this-is-content.html`