How does the web server choose between unicode and utf-8 for accented characters?

I have a web server with my ISP which replaces accented characters in URLs with their unicode values: for instance é (eacute) is translated to %e9 (dec 233). For testing locally I use EasyPHP which translates those characters by their utf-8 equivalence: é is then replaced by the well known sequence %c3%a9 (Ã©)...   Browsers served by EasyPHP don't decode unicode values but they do if running locally (utf-8 and non converted accent also)... I have been unable to find where this behavior is configured in the server. This is a problem as some urls are built by my application using the php rawurlencode() which seems to always encode with unicode values on both servers.   Any idea?


Getting de-penalized from Google Panda?

My site was hit by Google Panda on June 16th. After that I did everything I could to de-index and de-link the bad content. According to some reports, the google panda algorithm was run again on July 26th. My site was not affected in absolutely any way. Still penalized - no more no less. Is it possible to get de-penalized? This is really damaging/killing my business as I had spent over 1000 hours investing in SEO for this business.


Does having an old copyright date on a website have any negative SEO impact?

In that a client feels having an old copyright date displayed in the footer across a site will have a negative SEO impact? My opinion is that it should make very little difference SEO wise and should only change if a substantial change has taken place with regard to the design of the site. I have done some Googling but have not come across anything "concrete" any pointers or if you have had experience changing from a static to a dynamically change year and the effect it had that would be great.


Suggestions on managing social media accounts

As a company we now have Facebook, LinkedIN, Twitter and now Google+, is there a way to easily manage all these accounts without having to log into them individually? Things like posting content to each one is becoming a full time job in itself, is there a way to post once that in turn posts to all other accounts? I used to use http://ping.fm/ a long time ago, has there been any advancements in something similar to this? With friend lists, news feeds etc etc for each one, I wish there was a way to manage them all in one place with a service/tool!


Embedding Google Transliterator (input tools) in my site. Help please?

I want a transliterator (google's) to be embedded in my site. I tried embedding it, I succeeded mostly. It is giving result but it is not showing all available translations for a word typed on typing each letter like it shows in google input tools online like this, ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3LP8a.png) Even I need such a feature in my site after embedding it. It is giving me at the end of the word when I hit space only not after every key I press. I tried looking at the web-conole(firefox), and understood that in the code that I have , is sending a request whenever we hit a space. But google input tools online sending request to POST a request after every key press but getting and printing data only after space. Could any body help me out in this regard. Thanks in advance


Do CSS class names have any effect on SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice? I have seen some of our competitors using keyword rich CSS class names. As an example, if I were in the pet grooming business, I would name my #menu as:               #menu.pet.grooming.moreKeywords.etc { ... }      Does this have any effect on SEO? If so, what is the best practice?


Subdomains regarding name servers/domains

I know how to configure subdomains like `sub.example.com` on Apache etc. My question is, do I need to make any changes to the name servers/domain that is provided to me? Would it work the same as `domain.com/sub`? Worth noting that I use `http://za.net/` as my domain provider (free domain) and zone edit as the name server provider which is also free. I think `.za.net` provides third-level domains, because when you register it, it becomes `example.za.net`. I'm not 100% sure that it provides third-level domains, but would I need to make any changes with that? Or would the setup in my Apache config as a subdomain for `sub.example.za.net` work without need to do anything with the domain DNS or name servers? `http://co.za/` is the same, but you pay for it. It's the premium domain provider in South Africa, but I've seen many sites with `sub.example.co.za` for example. Anyway... ultimately my question is: Would creating virtual hosts and stuff for a subdomain like `sub.domain.com` be sufficient? and would I need to change anything in the name servers or domain DNS management tools? The `sub.domain.com` would read the "sub" folder in the htdocs.


Effects of moving website to another server on SEO

If i shift my domain from One server to another does it effect SEO of website? I am just changing server not domain name.So only Ip address of domain gets changed. So please give information on this


Files not refreshing after uploaded and overwritten via ftp

I have been having some trouble with updating my website this morning. After editing some files, in special, a css file, and uploading it to the server, i would notice that the changes wouldn't happen, as if the file had not been overwritten. File size on my local machine would be 3.244 kb and on the server 3.080 kb. Even after deleting the whole folder itself, and uploading everything again, same error. Answer: Cloudfare.


Any chance to redirect homepage to a changing permalink without irritating search engines?

We have a php 5.3/Apache 2.2 based cartoon website that always shows the most current cartoon on the homepage (index.php). Now, a lot of people want to link directly to that cartoon (by copying the URL), so we added a little permanent link below the image (changing with the image id, like cartoon_1234.htm, cartoon_1235.htm and so on). However, quite a few still link to index.php without realizing that that will show a different cartoon every day. We considered using a simple header redirect - header('location: cartoon_xxxx.htm') - in our php code) that redirects whenever index.php is called, thus showing the desired URL in the browser. But we are afraid the for instance the Google algorithm will not like the constantly changing temporary redirect (or will it?). And we don't want to risk our good ranking by showing different content to people and to SE-bots. **Question: is there any recommended practice to implement this kind of homepage with permalinked URL?**


Convert secured website to PDF

I need to convert my MediaWiki site to PDF. The whole website, not just a page. Its a wiki with lots of articles. Adobe Acrobat has function for this, but the problem is that the site is secured and requiers login. Does anyone know a solution to this?


Page Speed Online vs Chrome Extension

In optimizing a content blog of mine with the goal of achieving the highest page speed score possible for obvious reasons (user experience, SEO, etc..), the results I'm obtaining are throwing me for a loop. For the sake of completeness, here is **my stack:**   * _CloudFlare DNS + CDN_   * _nginx 1.0.11 stable_   * _PHP-FPM 5.3.6_   * _WordPress latest stable (3.3.1)_   * _WP-Super Cache_ Moving on... I _originally_ was using Page Speed Online to have Google scrape the root URL and see what it turned up, as I assumed that'd be the most accurate representation of the speed it realized when evaluating the website for SEO purposes. However, the results are... _intriguing_ to say the least. I've **looked at the headers** _extensively_ ( **sessions, anonymous users, cached vs not-cached, etc..** ), yet Page Speed Online seems to report back incorrect results. After purging every cache that I had and still getting the same funny recommendations by Page Speed Online, I tried out the Chrome extension. **Here are my findings** :   * **Page Speed Online** reports that I should " _leverage browser caching_ " for the majority of my static assets, citing that the _expires_ duration on the majority of them is 24h or less, _despite the fact_ that I can repeatedly replicate viewing the headers and **seeing that the expires date is correctly set for 1 week** as I have in my nginx configuration. This applies to .js, .css. png, .jpg, etc....     * Also, CloudFlare states that it respects any expires headers you have greater than its default 4h, which doesn't seem to be a problem.   * **With** CloudFlare Enabled, **Page Speed Online** reports a score of a **75** , with only 2 medium-priority critiques (one of which is the above caching " _issue_ " which isn't actually valid) and one low-priority. **Without** CloudFlare enabled, I get a score of **88** with _the same_ 2 medium-priority reccomendations, but instead 9 low-priority (ex: I was having CloudFlare handle minification of static assets, asynchronously load some of the JavaScript, etc...).     * Keep in mind this is on a **613MB 32-bit EC2 Micro-Instance** with poor I/O performance and short CPU bursts. Granted, I'm caching a lot of trips to the disk, but an **88** _without_ CloudFlare and **75** _with_?    Fast-forward to **Page Speed Chrome Extension**...   * **No cached content, no CloudFlare** : _94_     * (1 medium-priority, 9 low-priority)   * **Server-side cached page, no CloudFlare** : _95_     * (0 medium-priority, 9 low-priority)   * **No server-side cached page, _with_ CloudFlare)**: _92_     * (2 medium-priority, 7 low-priority)   * **Server-side cached page, _with_ CloudFlare)**: _96_     * (0 medium-priority, 7 low-priority) Just to be clear, the **local** cache (cached by Chrome) was cleared before any of the above were run. In the case of the **first** and **third** , I ran the test as an administrative user with a session and _was not_ served the Super Cache page. For the **second** and **fourth** , I verified that the server-side cache was populated and requested the page as an anonymous user (and _was_ subsequently served the cached page). In the case of the requests **not** using CloudFlare, _no minification_ was present for the **first** , and _only HTML minification_ for the **second**. For the tests **using** CloudFlare, _HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification_ were performed/served automatically, and additionally, resources were combined and required asynchronously when applicable. Also, all static assets were **cached and served** _by the CloudFlare CDN rather than from my EC2 instance_. The only " _cache distinction_ " I make in these two tests was the case of a Super Cache _static version of the dynamic page_ being present in- memory or not (present && hit).    _Phew._   (It took about as long to cite this verbosely as it did to test).    **I say all of that to ask the following questions:**   1. **Why does Page Speed Online give such funky results?** Not accurate, but moreover, the major disparity between using CloudFlare versus not, _completely_ counter-intuitive.   2. **You can see above the night-and-day difference between Page Speed Online and the Page Speed Chrome Extension. Which is a more accurate representation of how Google's algorithm would rank your page in regards to speed?** I'm really hopping it's the latter :)   3. **What gives with CloudFlare scoring lower in the both Online and Extension cases without a server-side static cached page?** Intuitively, I'd expect that the several performance advantages that CloudFlare offers to at the _very least_ be superior to _any_ variation of a non-CloudFlare test (minification of JS, CSS, HTML, CDN for _all_ static assets _including_ images (a hefty portion of the payload), asynchronous loading, etc... **What gives?**    **I applaud you** if you've managed to read and stay attentive this far. Thanks so much for the time and consideration, and I appreciate any insights anyone can provide in advance! Just for the sake of transparency, I also posted this to Quora.


iFrame ads from site to site

How I can make the iFrame ads from site A to site B   not like this: `<iframe src="http://www.site.com"></iframe>`   Example:               site A     <script type="text/javascript"><!--     google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3434343507";     /* site */     google_ad_slot = "343435270";     google_ad_width = 728;     google_ad_height = 90;     //-->     </script>     <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">     </script>          site B     --iFrame--     <script type="text/javascript"><!--     google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3434343507";     /* site */     google_ad_slot = "343435270";     google_ad_width = 728;     google_ad_height = 90;     //-->     </script>     <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">     </script>     --iFrame--


Google Bot creating invalid GET Request

I have checked multiple times in page, and there are no recursive sort of links anywhere nor are there any links without base href but still I can see lot of links with 10+ level deep. like `GET http://www.example.com/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/foo_bar_page` which is invalid for me, but `example.com/a/foo_bar_page` is a valid page. I can temporarily block it in robots.txt but what if it starts requesting for `b/b/b/b/` sort of links ? How can I stop this ?


Would this be considered keyword stuffing?

we have a website with a lot of galleries filled under a couple of different categories. A while ago we migrated all the URLs from for example:               http://domain.com/blog/post/1225/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki/      to something like this               http://domain.com/cosplay/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki-1225/      Funny thing was that 2 days after this, we were hit by almost a total drop of traffic from what seems to be Google panda. In the past 6 months I fixed every imaginable thing I could think of. This made me think that google might consider this as keyword stuffing and therefore dropped the site from the results because of the URLs? I am now thinking of changing the URL schema to simply:               http://domain.com/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki-1225/      Do you think that's better? Or is there a better solution such as /blog/ subfolder or somehting? Thanks


Why Google stopped caching my site?

Today I noticed that Google has stopped caching my site. I don't know why? `cache:www.technostall.com` (that's how I check cached pages in Chrome) gives a 404 page. Can anyone let me know why is this happening? My site's meta robots tag is as follows: `<meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir"/>` which is perfectly fine I think, I didn't use `noarchive`.


Script injection on different hosting servers = FTP hacking?

I've been facing the exact same injected script on several of my websites for the last few weeks. Today I realize these websites don't share the same hosting servers, yet the attacks (1) started at the same time (2) are identical. Does this prove that my FTP passwords have been stolen (they're all stored in Filezilla XML file on my hard drive) ? What else could be the security hole?


Google Analytics - Bounced User Landing Page

In Google Analytics, is it possible to see the top landing pages for bounced users? That is, I want to see the pages users are landing on, not interacting with, and then leaving.


Is text in Javascript HMTL scripts taken into account in Google (or other) indexes?

I have a HTML page where I update the content of a div to display some introduction text when displaying the page. It is hard for me to create copies of this page for all possibilities and move the text as static content correspondingly. When I have a Javascript, something like this:                   <script type="text/javascript">             setIntroduction("This is my introduction text etc... etc...");         </script>               Does Google (or other index tool) take into account the `This is my introduction text etc... etc...` text, since it appears in the page? Or is it ignored?


Penalty issue for a duplicate page in site but original page doesn't exist anymore

I've a product page ranking well for a keyword which I duplicated from the company itself which contained faq about it's product. Now the website has removed that page so mine is the only one existing now. Does anyone have any idea if still duplicate content penalty will be applied to my page? Should I go ahead and remove it?


Deleted duplicate pages will search engine ratings improve?

I've just now deleted many pages from my website (with 410 status) which were product pages and copied from respective companies. Will now search engine rankings improve for my site? I hope it should take 4-6 weeks for this.


Is there an easier way to implement 301 redirects when converting a site to WordPress

I have just converted a website to WordPress. The old site has hundreds of hard-coded html files, and the new site does not match the old site's directory structure or file naming system (bad SEO in the original site), so I can't place any "blanket" 301 redirects. Its been at least 2 months, and the old links are still appearing in Google searches, despite a google-friendly sitemap.xml. Do I need to hardcode a 301 for every individual page in my htaccess file, or am I just misunderstanding 301s and apache? Is there some other way I can update Google about the fact that my entire site structure has changed?


Should my site be AJAX crawable?

I'm developing a website that uses a lot of AJAX. Now this is the first time I use AJAX and read something about making an AJAX website crawable I don't have any experience of SEO, but I read about it. I've got multiple questions.   1. Do Google crawlers follow links that are styled like this: `<a href="producten/mica.html" class="ajax-popup-link-mica" style="display:none"></a>` So with no text, and display set to none. The reason I use this is because of a plugin I'm using, `magnific popup`. Magnific popup requires you to give links a certain class, and if you click it, a modal/popup will appear with ajax content, retrieved from the above link. (with out refreshing the page) But the problem for me is that it won't change the browsers URL, so using this would make it impossible to send the link to someone else or to add it favourites. So what I did is use two links. The first one `<a href="#!/producten/mica" class="product_link">` with a div inside it with product image and product text. When this is pressed the browser URL does get updated (without refreshing the page), then using JQuery/JavaScript it triggers the `class="ajax-popup-link-productname"` so the modal/popup is triggered. So the main question is, is it necessary, using this technique, to also make the page AJAX crawlable. Or do I not have to, because the crawler can follow the link as seen in question 1?


Why web hosting providers use Apache for their plans?

As the title says, I see most web hosting companies provide plans that running Apache instead of Nginx. So, what is the reason that makes them stick with Apache? Although, Nginx is much more lighter and not heavy resources eater as Apache!


Who's viewing website source code?

Is there a way (either client side or server side) to see who is viewing your website's source code that is generated in the their browser?


SEO : Understanding Duplicate Content & Low Quality Content

We know that content of each page should be unique and useful for users. Google will penalize thin websites with low quality content and duplicate content. What I want to know is what is the exact meaning of " **Duplicate Content** " & " **Low Quality Content** ". Assume that we have a website with 10,000 pages and some parts of each page is repetitive in the **layout** in **all of the pages**. Look at this example : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hIMOJ.png) Does Google count repetitive content of the layout of pages as " **Duplicate Content** " ? Is this page a " **Low Quality** " page because the unique part is lower than 300 words ? When somebody searches a keyword including some of words that are in the layout words, does Google show them to the user ? Is " **Ratio** " of unique/repetitive content important ? if yes, how much it should be ?


Should I ask for additional CPU cores?

I have a website that has approximately 300 users and I get about 1000 hits per day. Due to an upcoming event next week, there is a possibility of all of a sudden getting between 20 and 25 thousand users per day, with between 60 and 70 thousand hits. I currently have 2 CPU on a semi-dedicated hosting. My host is aware that there could be a bump in users and said that he could quickly up the CPU as needed. However, there's also an option of prepaying for additional CPU. As the 20-25K users would be purchasing access to my site, I definitely want that aspect to go smoothly. Is there anyway to tell whether I should purchase access to the additional CPU? Additional information: 1) A screen shot of my usage of the last week (the spikes are nightly database/file backups and won't increase with the new users) 2) I use a CDN for images, javascript, css 3) My "purchase access to the site" script takes about 2 seconds to run as it's interacting with my payment processor. 4) Each page that the user accesses requires a check via php to see if they're logged in, and 1-2 trips to the database: typically page loads are under 5 milliseconds. If I'm being neurotic and shouldn't purchase more CPU, then that's fine for someone to tell me so. However, if this seems like a case where I should make the purchase, it would be great to know what number of additional CPU cores would be appropriate.


Website only displays correctly in IE using compatibility mode?

As the resident "IT Whiz" at work (ie: I know how to use a computer) I've been asked to develop a website for our small business. I've altered a wordpress theme for the time being and the company is very happy with the results. The only problem I am having with it at the moment is that for some reason the website does not display correctly and Internet Explorer unless I run it in Compatibility Mode. The main problem that I have is that my menu "slider" (it rotates pictures with links to articles etc) does not display at all, neither does the top menu they are just blink text based links. Even with Compatibility Mode enabled the slider and menus come back but the page is not centered unlike on both Firefox and Chrome. My googling has suggested the most common cause of this is old code but I'm not sure where to be looking. Is it likely in the css file or the actual php? Also any ideas on how to trouble shoot the cause of this? As in is there some dev tools or debugger I can use that would highlight "broken" code for me?


Google Webmaster Tools show only common words in the keywords list

I have a greek site with greek domain (gr) and even so, the keyword list of google shows in the first places the greek equivalent words of the common words like "in", "a", "and",etc. All them would be greek's Stop Words Thanks for any help


How to pay for servers without ads?

I have a website whose goal is to provide a free educational service (like wikipedia does, not on the same scale obviously). I wonder how I will continue to pay for the servers when I reach high traffic. I don't want to use any ads or sponsor things, because this is not the goal of the website (just like wikipedia once again). Does "please donate" works ? If no, is there any alternative to a "private/premium not free" part in the website ? Thanks


URLs in Google Web Index Has Dropped to 0!! Why?

Does anyone know why my website's URLs in Google web index has dropped to "0" ? It shows I have +350 link on my xml file and last week I had +150 URLs in web index. I didn't do any changes to my XML file.


Cannot access personal website from home IP. More details inside

This is a recent problem I've been having. My site can be accessed from almost everywhere else except from my home IP, where I do most of my editing/updating, etc. I've tested my connection from my school's network, a friend's connection from out of state (multiple states), and through a tethered connection with my friend's Android. It works in all those cases, both viewing, accessing the cPanel, and using FTP. Here's the problem that happens to me when I try to view it from my home IP:   * The page times out in Firefox, IE, and Chrome.   * Using the cmd, I ran tracert and ping, both as failed attempts. Log here.   * downforeveryoneorjustme.com says my site is up. So do the other site checkers.   * I can't access my cPanel or FTP accounts.   * I can't access the host site. (I use perfectz.info for hosting, and I can't access their site either.) System settings:   * No firewall enabled.   * Ports are seemingly properly forwarded. (e.g. The ports are open in the router settings, and are open everywhere else.)   * I have an email forwarder set up from the cPanel that **works just fine.** (i.e. I can receive emails sent to that address. If any other information is needed, I'll do my best to provide it. **UPDATE** @ilhan: I use two things: 1) The site cPanel from in-browser. 2) Dreamweaver CS5 FTP. @Matthias: I tested both, and it passes the dual stack with a 10/10. What should I do then?


Is it possible to keep google from using certain text as keywords?

For example, on my site I have a lot of flash content. But, I made sure to put plenty of keywords each meta description for each page, a descriptive title for each page, all the alt tags for images should be filled, i used the h1 and h2 tags with some sentences using key words that describe the site... But my problem is that I have a large TOS and Privacy policy page, and according to google webmasters it looks like its getting most of my key words from that single page. So my top keywords look like, "privacy" "policy" "liability" and stuff like that which is in no way relating to my site. I'd really appreciate any input that might help me get the privacy policy and tos keywords off the radar so I can get relavant searches coming to the site. Thanks!


Google Analytics: What to feed back to clients?

We have several successful websites all of which have Google Analytics. A few clients like to see some of the stats on the website and kind of like to have a "feedback" session. I usually go through the usual stuff like unique visits, most popular content, keywords etc. Although I feel these are important I'm not really sure how much the client is getting from this. I've recently come across the click overview where for each individual page it shows the percentage of clicks on the different links. I was just wondering what kind of things other people like to show? Are there some hidden little areas in analytics that could be of great use to the clients? How can I clearly show the success of the website?


Is there any good tutorial site to develop Drupal 7?

I would like to learn Drupal 7, is there any good sites to introduce Drupal 7?


Temporary website redirect: 3xx or php/meta?

I run a (small) news website which has also a forum in a subfolder of the root. I'm planning to give the site a facelift and a code restructuration, so I wanted to put some redirect on the home page that will point directly to forum's index (www.mysite.com --> www.mysite.com/forum) while I tinker with it. And that, given the little free time I have, will take no less than a couple of month. Being a news site I'm pretty sure that would affect it's overall ranking, but I need to do it, so: which is the best way to redirect? I pondered and read here and there about the different means, but I couldn't figure out which is worst for SEO. Do I use a 302 redirect or use "Location:newurl" in page headers using php? Or I just put a meta tag in the html page (or a javascript, what's better). Sorry but I'm not really into these things, I may have said something silly, I know... Thanks


Where to store users consent (EU cookie law)

We are legally obliged in a few months to obtain consent from users to allow us to store **any** cookies on the users PC. My query is, what would be the most effective way of storing this consent to ensure that users don't get repeat requests to give consent in the future, obviously for authenticated users I can store this against their profile. But what about for non-authenticated users. My initial thought, ironically, was to store given consent in a cookie..?


Monitoring/protecting GoogleAds

How do you monitor who has clicked an advert and what is possible in terms of protecting against abusive clicks?


Tracking 502 bad gateway error

I moved my Wordpress site to WP Engine and now I constantly get 502 errors. I spoke with support and they said that its because I have a lot of DB queries. I ran some tests and my frontpage only has 95 queries and page size is about 500kb. Most inner pages are around 60 queries. All queries are very short. Some people tell me its common with WP Engine because they run nginx. Why do I keep getting these errors and is there a way to track how many of them happen on daily basis? P.S. WP Engine log is empty so cant see the 502's there.


Some Adsense domain's ads are causing document.write() statements that remove the html from the page

All that is output on the page is the domain name of the advertiser, for example 'www.solar-aid.org'. The rest of the content is stripped, I believe because of a document.write() statement. I'd like to know if this is a common issue or something wrong with our setup. There are three domains causing the issue, which we've blocked from Adsense as a result.   * solar-aid.org   * kiva.org   * grameenfoundation.org Given the type of organizations I think they may be within the default group of 'public service ads' within the Backup Ads setting. If the issue doesn't completely resolve itself soon (one customer of ours complained today, even though I blocked them 5+ days ago), I'll disable public service ads and select the 'fill space with a solid color' option.


Duplicated titles - SEO

I have a site with product listings and I am not sure what would be better solution to avoid duplicated titles error. Example: http://www.mynautics.com/en/buy/powerBoat/ One solution could be to append page number to title. Result would be > Buy - Motorised boats/Power boats | Page 1 > > Buy - Motorised boats/Power boats | Page 2 > > Buy - Motorised boats/Power boats | Page 3 The other solution I found on the internet is to add canonical tag to links.               <a rel='http://www.mynautics.com/en/buy/powerBoat' href='http://www.mynautics.com/en/buy/powerBoat/curPage@2'/> ABC </a>      I would like to ask which method would be better for SEO and why is it better? The other thing that bothers me is if there is any way to add canonical data in meta tag? If I just add this data to links and if I put all pages in Sitemap result will stay the same since bot won't know that this is actually child site...


Can I use a photo in which we can see a known logo on my website?

I took a cityscape picture that I intend to use on my website. In the picture, we can see a recognizable logo (let's say a famous hotel chain) and I was wondering if it could cause any legal issue? It's a commercial website, but my business has nothing to do with the logo that can be seen in the picture.


Purchase existing domain and transfer to new registrar

I am purchasing an existing domain from the owner who has it registered with GoDaddy. I want to transfer the domain to another registrar and of course have it under my name. If they update the registrant info to my name then it will lock down for 60 days. That's no good. If they simply transfer it to my registrar, how will they update the registrant info? I know about escrow services, but I don't feel I need one because I trust the seller and the amount is (relatively) small. Advice? Thanks!


Using GA to track popular tags/categories in WordPress

I coordinate a few editorial content-driven websites that are built in WordPress. Most make heavy use of tags, categories and custom taxonomies. I'd love to track which tags/categories are most popular, retain visitors, etc. Not just the navigation pages, but also the posts themselves. For example, I'd like to know if posts in the category 'sweepstake' are more popular than others. Currently, the only way for me to do that is to generalize based on the category overview or to manually tally all the individual post data. We've experimented with using keywords in post titles and using custom post types, but that's too limiting. By default, this kind of WP-specific tracking is hard to do in GA. A post has a url that does not feature categories or tags in it. Given the fact that a post can belong to several taxonomy terms, this makes sense. It would also be bad SEO if a post's url would change by simply changing/renaming its tags. So, I was wondering if it would be feasible to use GA events for this. Would it be possible/sensible to trigger an event for each taxonomy term assigned to a post? Or is that a sick and twisted way to use GA events? I've already tried Wordpress's own Jetpack statistics, but they are way too crude and unreliable. Other stats tools/plugins also don't seem to cut it. GA has the huge advantage of being generally very flexible and most of our (new) editors have used it before, know what it is and don't need a lot of training to get basic intel out of it.


Adding a filter increases visit count

I've created a dashboard for one of my clients, where their pages are all `mysite.com/[clientname]/page`. I've added filters into each widget for `Path contains 'clientname'` however this is now showing a greater numebr of visits than my core dashboard. Using Custom Advanced Segments elsewhere achieves what I want, but I can't see how to do this in the dashboard?


Is it necessary to specify content-type in http response header?

Except for the html document, currently all the files (css, javascript and images) served from my web server do not specify the `content-type` in the http response header. I happen to notice this as I intend to remove the `type` attribute in both my `script` tag and `link` tag, but came across this answer which says the following: > The MIME type is also sent via the HTTP Content-Type header, so using > type="text/css" would only be extra bytes.


Redirecting to the file with the correct extension in nginx

I configured my nginx server to correct the file extensions on a domain that only serves static images. Example: A user request `/image` or `/image.png` although the file is actually called `/image.jpg`. The server answers with a 301 redirect to the correct file. I want to ask if it's possible to accomplish this without using `if` directives - or if the `if`s are safe in this context. This is what I came up with:               server {             listen 443 spdy ssl;             server_name example.com;             root /var/www/example.com;             location / {                     try_files $uri @alt;             }             location @alt {                     rewrite ^(\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+)\.(?:jpg|png|gif)$ $1;                          if (-f $request_filename.jpg) {                             return 301 $scheme://example.com$uri.jpg;                     }                     if (-f $request_filename.png) {                             return 301 $scheme://example.com$uri.png;                     }                     if (-f $request_filename.gif) {                             return 301 $scheme://example.com$uri.gif;                     }                     return 404;             }     }


Add site to search engines, even though not ready yet

I'm building a website, and until it's done, visitors will see a _"This site will launch on new year's day 2015"_ , and a description of what the site is all about The domain is new, and nobody knows about it yet, and I want to spread the word/buzz as soon as possible My questions is: Should I add the site to search engines now, or wait until the content is done? Will it effect later rank (or SE treatment) negatively to add it now?


Am I allowed to display a small image on top of a Google Maps Static Api map?

I am the webmaster to my company's website. I was asked to make the Google Map on this page smaller, but the interactive map doesn't work well at all at 300x200. I was asked to place a screenshot there but since that seems to be a violation of Google's terms I decided to use the Static Maps API. As you can see, on the page, I have a custom pointer icon. I don't want to lose it, so I intend to use HTML and CSS to place the pointer over the map, thus replacing the original pointer on the client side. Am I allowed to do that?


Google Webmaster Tools -> URL-Parameter after Migration from Magento

After migrating from magento to a different e-commerce system I can find lots of URL-Parameters with millions of monitored sites: http://i.stack.imgur.com/8CDVm.png Is it safe to reset those? Or better leave them? We already had a recent drop in our SERP-Ranking due to a lower amount of indexed pages. I really wanna avoid any further deranking but also wanna avoid crawling errors


Should rel=canonical point to page one of a set and still have rel=prev/next on the page as well?

I've got a page which displays search results and I've added rel=prev and rel=next meta tags to the page to cover the paging. However, someone is saying I should also add a rel=canonical tag to the page that points to the start page of the search results. So for example, say we're on mysite.com/search/xyz/page5 the canonical tag would point to mysite.com/search/xyz/ Is this wise? isn't the purpose of the prev and next tags to tell the SE that all these pages are of a set? But then putting the canonical tag in there is sort of telling the SE that the first page is unique and not part of this set? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=njn8uXTWiGg#!&t=7m6s According to that video from google, it sounds like we should not use the canonical link. But i just looked at ebay and they are using the canonical link instead of prev and next. Then again maybe they are showing a different page if you are bot instead of a user. The problem we are having is that if we go into google webmaster tools it's showing all the paged results on our site as having duplicate content (duplicate title and description). Is that really a problem? Do i need to do something kind of stupid and just put the page # in each title and description?


Analytics, multiple domains, one site

What would be the best way to set up Google Analytics to track multiple domains which actually are all one site? Example: mysite.com mysite.es gets routed to mysite.com/es, URL is mysite.es mysite.es/contenidos/stuff gets routed to mysite.es/contents/stuff, URL is mysite.es/contenidos/stuff I've already taken care of the technical side of this, but I'm just not sure about what's the best way to proceed with analytics. Any help would be much appreciated.


Microdata: How to set itemprop="duration"?

I'm trying to set a song's duration in microdata format. What is the best way to describe a duration in microdata? Is it by using itemprop="duration" in span?               4:05      Or using the time tag?               <time itemprop="duration" datetime="PT4M5S">4:05</time>      Or using the meta description?               <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT4M5S"/>4:05      Or a combination of all of them?                        <time itemprop="duration" datetime="PT4M5S">             <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT4M5S"/>4:05         </time>           I tried and they all worked in google's Structured Data Testing Tool except for the last one where the result was a three durations!


Image Hot-links & Google's Instant Previews

I'm trying to adjust my site:   1. stop Image Hot-links   2. block Googlebot-Image (because I do not want my images to be searchable)   3. allow Google's Instant Previews   I've tried this but the _Instant Previews_ still do not show my images. (I really do not want to start blocking/allowing by user-agent.) Has anybody achieved it ? .htaccess > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(favicon.ico)   >  RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(mydomain.com|google.)   >  RewriteRule .(jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [F] robots.txt > User-agent: Googlebot-Image   >  Disallow: / > > User-agent: *   >  Disallow: /phpcart/


Google Site SEO after domain mapping change

I have a google site https://sites.google.com/a/fractalsystems.org/buuf- decisions/ which used to be mapped http://buuf.fractalsystems.org Since stripping away that mapping SEO has not changed and it still points to the mapped domain name instead of the site.google page. Any idea if I can push this along or any ways of speeding it up? Am I SOL in any way?


What's the best (fairest) way to select a web designer?

I've been a freelance developer for nearly a decade, but have no desire to do web design. Most of the projects I get are maintenance-type projects that require only minor tweaks to existing graphics, or someone coming in with a new design already on hand. However, on rare occasions I get a request to do both programming and design. I've no problem farming out the work to capable designers, but I don't do enough design work to maintain any working relationships with any one particular designer. So what is the best way to shop around for a good designer? I'm willing to pay more to get good quality work (i.e. you won't find me asking on craigslist for free design work "to boost your portfolio"). For designers, what do you expect when a new client contacts you? (what do you expect in terms of information for the project, and what do you expect to be paid for conceptual work? For final design work?) For developers, what has worked for you in the past? I once tried this approach: > I'd like to commission some low-res, high-level design ideas from you. > Something the represents what you have in mind for the project, but it > doesn't have to be a production-ready design (watermarks, copyright, etc. > are OK as long as they aren't distracting) . I will pay you US$200 for your > time regardless of whether your idea is selected. Feel free to submit more > than one idea if you would like. Again, I'm only asking for ideas, not > complete designs. > > Once I have all of the ideas, I will run all of them by my client and he > will choose the one he likes the most. If your idea is selected, I will hire > you at a rate of US$1000 for the project (50% up front and the remainder on > sign-off). For that price I will expect you to work with me over the next 4 > weeks to tweak and finalize the over-all design for the site as well as help > me organize information for each of the pages (about 13 pages total) and > create a nice visual presentation. The client will be providing most of the > copy text; you will be provide the conversion of the final design to HTML > (including CSS; I can help with any JavaScript). It worked fine for the project at hand (the client was willing to pay quite a bit for design services), but I wonder in hind sight if it was too much (or too little). Thoughts?


Screen resolutions and browser canvas sizes

I've yet to find the ultimate resource that lists 'all' browsers and the actual visible canvas size (excludes browser chrome) for content. The closest was a table in the O'reilly book Web Design in a Nutshell: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RBsOh.png) The one thing is that this doesn't have the latest browsers. I figured that this community would be a good place to gather this info. I'll start by adding some: **Mac:** 1024 x 768   * Safari 5.0 - 1012 x 656 (w/ tabs)    * Chrome 6.0 - 1010 x 672   * Firefox 3.5 - 1009 x 654 (w/ tabs)


Why doesn't httrack follow robots.txt?

I'm trying to use httrack to mirror my blog, which is currently hosted on blogger. Problem: in spite of the robots.txt file, httrack tries to download everything in the /search subdirectory. This leads to an infinite regress of searches on searches. Here's the robots.txt file (I've replaced my blog name with "myblog"):               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:           User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated      I can limit the crawl to depth 3 or 4, but I still get tons of search*.html and search/label/*.html files in the mirrored directory. httrack claims to follow robots.txt. Why doesn't it work here? What can I do to fix it?


MediaWiki plugin for dynamic content via forms

Are there any plugins for MediaWiki that would allow me to create a page that has a form at the top that when filled in populates tags further down in the document? Say someone would put a form with "Source Server:" and "Destination Server:" fields at the top. Once those were typed in it would automatically populate those names into the content lower so that when following the instructions you could just read the docs and not have to mentally replace things, and possibly mess it all up. I'm not looking to make pages that are permanent, just ones that can have values entered before they are followed. Any suggestions?


What features in a website make you want to revisit?

I'm looking for features in websites that I may not have seen before that are unique, and are _excellent features_ that not only improve the user- experience, but help the surfers come back for more. Such as:   * StackOverflow's status update banner (seriously now this is awesome.)   * RSS feeds (when they were new)   * Hotlinks to social networks (facebook, twitter, etc..)   * Auto-posting to social networks (popup and auto-post link/content)   * Mobile phone integration   * OpenID login passthrough   * AJAX push/pull technology for content updates   * tinyUrl and others that concatenate URLS shorter. I can think of many more, but if there is something you've seen that is unique to a site or isn't very well known, I'd love to know.


What is the best way to launch a website to make it go viral?

Say for example I have a website that has finished BETA and is ready for full launch. I'm at the stage now I want it to be _very_ visible to start getting traffic. Right now, I am just getting some random search engine hits, word of mouth and a few referrals. How do I break out of this and really get some serious traffic to my site? Do I need to launch a huge ad-campaign? If so, what is the best/most cost effective way to do this? I have tried google adwords but at $0.45+ a click this jsut isn't practical for what I have.


CMS fails at finishing setup with PHP-FPM and Apache, but why?

I have installed Apache and PHP-FPM by following this tutorial. Unfortunately when I try to set up Drupal or PHP-Fusion it simply fails at the end of the setup. I mean it accepts everything and at the last step it does not load anything but a blank page. I suppose I have not installed a required PHP package, but I do not know which one it is. Thanks for your help in advance.


Show a single DIV from remote site to new site. Only http access to remote host

we have cisco CWS working which has a web administration site. On that site it has DIV with 'overall summary'. We would like to show that DIV on a centralized monitoring system web that we are doing for ourselves. Is it possible to do a proxypass from apache to only that DIV? How I should manage the autentication process before reaching that DIV?


How many keywords can I put in my page for google spiders ?


Ways for client to include page ID in query?

I'm no expert on web development, and need to find a way to let the browser call a PHP routine on the server with the current document ID as parameter, eg. http://www.acme.com/index.php?id=1 I then need to call eg. /change.php with id=1 to do something about that document. Unless I'm mistaken, there are three ways for the client to return this information:   * if passed as argument in the URL (as above), it will be available as HTTP referrer   * by including it as hidden field in    * by sending it as cookie I suppose using a hidden field is the most obvious choice. Are there other ways? Which solution would you recommend? Any security issues to be aware? Thank you. * * * Edit: I needed a way for the client to learn some of the information returned by the server, such as the document ID. Apparently, the right way to solve my problem is by changing the server-side code so that this information is included in hyperlinks/forms included in the HTML page.


Is there a good way to filter all the robots and domains they are on?

I have been working more on the bot filter for my website, but by no means is it complete. So far I have the main ones: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Baidu, Amazon, and a few others... Right now, I am using a filter to compare the referral URL, existing domain, and known browsers vs. non-browser useragents. Are there any other good techniques to detect if the hit is coming from a bot or not?


How to force browsers to always reload xslt files?

_Related:Apache: How can I force the browser to reload CSS files?_ I'm building an xml page (on an apache2) that is supposed to be translated to xhtml by the browser, so my server also serves a `main.xslt` which is used as stylesheet by the xml file, similar to the scenario with the css files in the linked question. However, none of tricks provided in either that answer, nor some issues on SO solve the issue for Opera. While Firefox responds to F5 by fetching not only the xml file but also the xslt file, Opera only reloads the xml file. I tried both, setting the `Last-Modified` HTTP header via an `.htaccess` file and using the `expires` module of apache2. This is what my `.htaccess` looks right now:               AddType text/xsl;charset=utf-8 .xslt     ExpiresByType text/xsl "modification plus 1 second"     Header set Last-Modified "Wed, 08 Jan 2000 23:11:55 GMT"     #Header set Last-Modified "Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:11:55 GMT"      If I open the xsl myself and manually reload it, the xml presentation is updated as well, but this is tedious **for development**. Note: There is no php or any kind of scripting involved. Everything is static.


MediaWiki: Show newest Pages from an Category

We are organizing most of our work inside an self hosted MediaWiki Installation. Now we want to show an overview page for an category, where the visitor can see the newest pages/changes from this categorys. Like: Category: PHP   * New Page: Added Documentation   * Changes to PHP 5. Is there any built function or an working plugin available? I know about the possibilty to show recent changes on all kinds of content.


Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeyword2.com or myotherwebsite/some-keywords, myotherwebsite/some-keywords

Hello   I'm thinking of creating a family of websites which use the same engine, but target different topics.   Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeywords2.com or myotherwebsite/some-keywords, myotherwebsite/some-keywords2.   For example: stackexchange.com/stackoverflow stackexchange.com/askubuntu instead of stackoverflow.com   askubuntu.com   Thanks


Google indexed my main site's content under subdomains

Google is indexing top level domain content as though it belongs on subdomains and I want to disable this. My site has wildcards enabled and we also have two subdomains with unique content. The first subdomain serves as a blog, the second one has only one page. Both have backlinks. Google has indexed content from the main site under the subdomains as well. Let's say that we have a page at example.com/page.html . The same page has also been indexed as subdomain.example.com/page.html as well and sometimes ranks better than the one located at the main site. The thing is that we never placed this content at the subdomain. I've thought about adding canonical tags at the subdomains to help with the duplicate content issue. How can I stop Google from indexing those pages? I don't even know how Google found those, since we never placed them at the subdomains.


HTML Improvements Duplicate title tags in images

For my website Google Webmaster Tool is showing more than 700 duplicate title tags. All are images url. I am in a trouble, because I have uploaded all images to wp-content/uploads. But in WMT the link of images are indexed as url of the post added with alt text of the image as attribute. I don't know from where they are coming from, as I have uploaded them on wp-content/uploads. What should I do to get rid of. Anyone who helps me will be appreciated. This website is on WordPress. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CDl98.png)


How do I setup origin domain for Google PageSpeed Service?

I have a WordPress site with cPanel (WHM) with VPS. Today I configured Google PageSpeed Service for my WordPress site. After I submitted my `WWW` domain, PSS automatically added my naked domain (without `www`) to Hosted By You. PSS works few hours without any issue. Now it's giving me "Fetching content failed due to a DNS error". According to this official DNS failure tutorial I added an origin domain to my WP site. If added `orgin.mydomain.com` (A record) and pointed it to my site IP (VPS main IP), it doesn't display my site. If I added `orgin.mydomain.com` to PageSpeed Service displays a blank site. How do I fix this issue? How do I setup origin domain name for my site?


How do I disallow robots to access links on a certain port?

I have a private web server set up on a non-conventional port (say 6677). All people can have access to the whole site's urls from 6677. The links by `mysite:6677` are also indexed by Google, which is not desireable, as I need to keep port 6677 discreet as a kind of workaround behind the front proxy which runs on 80. So, how can I disallow access to 6677 in `robots.txt`?


Which hosted ecommerce solutions allow customization?

Following my previous question, I'm now evaluating the possibility of using a hosted platform for the ecommerce project I have to implement. Before I start "playing" with each one of them, I'd like ask if anybody knows which ones allow a good degree of customization. At the moment I'm looking at BigCommerce, but it seems that customization is limited to templates, while I need additional features which require PHP Coding. Also, I'd need to be able to import additional product data into the system, and I'd need to do this via code; I had a look at some integrations, but they gave me the impression that they all run on the rendered page via JavaScript. For example, if I want to show Facebook Reviews on a product, I'll have to add some JS that will fetch it and show it on the page. This is not optimal, as I must cater for people with JS disabled, therefore I'd need to run my own PHP code. **Update**   As suggested, I'd like to explain that "customization", in my case, means altering or extending the normal ecommerce workflow by "tapping" into events and performing specific operations (in my case, I'd have to add a handler of a hypotetical "AfterPurchaseComplete" event). This can't be achieved in a system that just allows to add JavaScript (which, as I wrote above, can be disabled and, therefore, useless), as it has to be executed by the server itself, in the same way many framework's run plugins. I could understand that hosted solutions don't normally allow arbitrary code to run on their systems, but, unfortunately, this would preclude all chances of using them.


SMTP on a different port?

I would like to be able to run a SMTP server on port 25, but my ISP blocks it. Is there a way to use a different. I'm running XAMPP Mercury.


Accessing server stats using PHP

There are over 10 stats packages installed in my server (AWStat, Webalizer, etc) and cPanel has an interface to show them in terms of visitors, bandwidth, popular pages, etc. **It is possible to access those stats through PHP?** Possible applications include getting a list of most popular content, reporting on visitors and taking actions depending on bandwidth, etc. I know that many of these features can be implemented by creating my own stats counting system but since that information is already somewhere, it could be awesome not to have to write more code to collect it.


How to implement user-friendly paths in PHP without creating a file or directory for each page?

_NOTE: My terminology may not be entirely correct. I believe StackExchange does something like what I am asking, in case this can make things clearer._ Using **PHP on Apache** , I would like to handle URLs such as:               http://www.site.com/info/<brand>/<model>/<page>      For example with `<brand> = toyota, <model> = camry, <page> = 'safety'` And have all the URLs starting with 'info' (let's say) be handled by **a single PHP file like 'info.php' without the URL in the location bar changing**. In other words, someone navigates to:               http://www.site.com/info/toyota/camry/safety      But the code to handle this is in `info.php` but the URL in the browser stays as is. I do not want to have to create all the /toyota/camera/safety directory structure (there would be 1000s). My guess is that info.php would get the path components as parameters in order to know what content to serve. So the internal invocation invisible to the user would be:               info.php?brand=toyota&model=camera&page=safety      Seems like the question here are doing something similar since they get URLs like:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/13978/how-to-implement-user-friendly-paths-in-php-without-creating-a-file-or-directory      and I presume the path there is not actually created on the server.


Am I changing my title of the site for SEO reasons in a correct way?

I have a slang dictionary website. I saw that they only have the postname / title and there own website as the title. That was what I have, but I want to grow and to get higher on Google, so I changed it to `Posttitle ('definition' and 'meaning') > websitename` So I have added the terms `definition` and `meaning`, because I think that people look op un a word like `What is the meaning or definition of...`. Am I overthinking this? Is this overkill? Is it recommended? The post title can exceed the 70 characters, so will that be a problem? PS: changing it to `Posttitle ('what is it')` is also a thing that I can do. Is this fine?


gTLDs... Should they be something to look at?

I've received a few marketing emails in the last couple of days trying to sell seats at conventions wanting to explain the concept of gTLD's. My understanding is that gTLDs will allow the average joe (or at least, an average joe with $xx,xxx) to register custom domain extensions? For example '.sony' or '.band', allowing for phones.sony or metallica.band to be full domain names. Is this new functionality of any concern for the regular web user? Obviously it won't (or **shouldn't** affect search rankings - after all, it would allow those with the money to spend to buy their way up SERPS, but thats a different kettle of fish). Is the new gTLD system going to be another kind of 'domain' rush like in the late 90's? Is my understanding completely wrong?


Will redirecting my domain name temporarily to a placeholder website affect my SEO?

So we have this new customer, and they wanted to register their domain name themselves. Now they have this old company and old website which is outdated. So what they did, is register their domain names and redirected it to their old website. Normally I advice to not do this, just register and keep it, until the new site is up but it's already been done. So I have this question, should I act immediately telling them to disable the redirect, or should I just leave it. I know the old website is going to be indexed, this is not a good thing but my question is how harmful this is?


What is the default type search done by google, while, processing a query. Does it do 'broad' 'phrase' or 'exact' match searches?


What is a CSS form? How does one embed an AdSense ad into a CSS form?

One of the Google AdSense optimization tips says to, "Use a CSS form to embed the ads unit for more seamless design." What does this mean? How does one implement a CSS form?


Google doesn't always show rich snippets when the site uses structured data

I'm so tired of the Google structured data recipe. After some days, it loses the image and the extra information. Then I test it again, and it shows again. Some other days in the future it might go away even if it is still showing in test tool. What i can do? I tried with RDFa and schema.org microdata.


I have travel site that has some link exchange to another with free links. Last time, I and some friend use link exchange to give my links has good on PageRank and search engine that can give more visitor. Recent, I read some article on forum that know links exchange is violate, this article I get from Google. Does Link exchange technique become down my site? What should I do? Does I must delete my link exchange page.


Chrome causing 404's ending with "/cache/[hex-string]/"?

Since the last weeks we see many 404's on our sites caused by Chrome adding `/cache/[hex-string]/` to the current page URL. The hex strings we have seen are:   * e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728   * 1d292296547f895c613a210468b705b7   * 408cfdf76534ee8f14657ac884946ef2   * 9b0771373b319ba4f132b9447c7060a4   * b8cd4270356f296f1c5627aa88d43349 If you search for these strings you get matches from different sites, but they are most likely auto-generated (`/search/cache/e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728/` for example). Is this a known issue with Chrome (or an extension)?


Google Analytics: Why does  "/" appear in goal funnel visualization?

This is the goal funnel for checkout. Does anyone have any idea where the "/" is coming from? The cart page is at site: game on glove dot com (I don't want this stackoverflow page being indexed in google particularly well). ![google analytics goal funnel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/74OiL.jpg) Go to the site, click on the order button, make your selection, and click the button to enter the cart (it resolves to /Cart and /Shop-Cart). I believe I used the regular expression matching to match "cart". So why the "/" (I don't know what is causing the home page to reload when users are on the Cart page within a Colorbox lightbox where the only way back to home or "/" is to hit the exit button in the top right of the lightbox)? Here's my one guess for the former question but it doesn't seem likely: See the "check out with paypal" button? If you hovered over it, it does default to the home page which is what might be the "/"... but it really redirects the user to the paypal.com page so it shouldn't also load the home page.


What other choices do we have other than the 301 redirect and CNAME on DNS?

I have a main site http://qweop.com, and I would like to add an alias to it called http://qwepo.com. Now if I use a CNAME (currently this is what I'm using) on qwepo which maps `www` to `qweop.com`, then when i go http://qwepo.com I will be shown the content from http://qweop.com This is fine, however I want the browser address bar to show qweop.com instead of qwepo.com even if the user types visits http://qwepo.com and not http://qweop.com. Now I've heard of the 301 moved permanently, but it seems like it's a solution for people who have a new url for their website (which is of course not in my case here). What other choices do we have other than the 301 redirect and CNAME on DNS ? Basically the end result is that whenever someone types qwepo.com/foobar it will bring them to qweop.com/foobar AND the address bar will show qweop.com/foobar PS: is domain forwarding the same thing as a 301 redirect? is masking the same thing as a CNAME on DNS ?


i got mysql error on this statement i don't know why error is:               #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CONSTRAINT fk_objet_code FOREIGN KEY (objet_code) REFERENCES objet(code) ) ENG' at line 6      sql code is               CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `class` (       `numero` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,       `type_class` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,       `images` varchar(200) NOT NULL,       PRIMARY KEY (`numero`)       CONSTRAINT fk_objet_code FOREIGN KEY (objet_code) REFERENCES objet(code)      )  ENGINE=InnoDB;;


host and share files in my hosting

I currently have a domain+hosting with unlimited hosting space for our website. On the other hand, I use Dropbox to share our organizational files and photos between about 10 users. The thing is that sharing photos uses too much space for what a free Dropbox account offers. So I am thinking of taking advantage of my hosting space, but using FTP seems not to be ideal for users who are not too skilled with computers. In addition, it doesn't handle versions in case some user makes a mess of it. And using a public FTP to upload and giving them only download permission doesn't seem a good idea as I am only the CTO. So what I want is basically to implement a local Dropbox for a few users, but I'd prefer something that is not too complex to install/mantain. Thank you a lot.


Is there a visual web application builder or rapid webapp prototyping framework?

**Question:** Is there such a thing as a self-hosted framework or CMS especially tailored towards the creation of _interactive web applications_ **without -- or with an absolute minimum of -- programming?** (Substantially less programming than say a simple Rails app or a plugin for Wordpress, Joomla etc would require.) As for desired features I'd settle for whatever is available, but some ideas could be:   * A User authentication and Permissions system.   * A GUI-driven **input form** builder.   * A GUI-driven **template** / visual site design builder.   * A simple **scripting language** (think AppleScript-like simplicity)   * A highly modular architecture, with high-level business objects (users, forms data, etc) exposed for easy re-use. If something like the above doesn't exist, then what comes near this? **Need:** This is for self-hosted rapid prototyping of web applications, and limited user testing of webapp user interface designs in a closed user test. **Notes:** I know about Ruby on Rails (Rails), Django, Pyramid etc. I'm looking for something much faster to work in, for making prototypes. I know about CMS's in general but find that most of them are tailored towards _displaying_ information to the end users. If there is an exceptionally easy- to-master CMS with easy scripting (lets say much more so than for example Wordpress) then I'd be interested.


how can I change cpanel default page to index.php / index.html

I have created a new domain and uploaded index.html to public directory. but it isnt displaying and cpanel default page is displaying instead. how can I change the same??


Will the content of a PDF on our website affect SEO?

I know that Google crawls websites including PDFs, but does the content contained within PDFs affect SEO rankings? We want to put some PDFs on our website but don't want to see our results take a nose-dive as a result. I know I can just add a _robots.txt_ directive to exclude them, but I would rather not do this if I don't need to (and frankly don't trust the crawlers to not just index them anyway).


Is it legal to charge extra fees for copyrighted content on mobile platforms?

this question just came up as we recently bought content from image stock portals. Many of those altered their license agreement in favor of charging more for using in mobile apps. So instead of using their standard licenses, you need to pay an "extended" licenses which multiplies the fee easily by 5-10. That doesn't make sense as the mobile device is just a smaller browser and protects the content even better than a desktop computer. Are those stock agencies allowed to do that, and is it legal at all ? I am not a lawyer but I would even risk to go on with the standard license and wait to be sued in that matter.


cookie not being sent when requesting JS

I host a webservice, and provide my members with a Javascript bookmarklet, which loads a JS sript from my server. However, clients must be logged in, in order to receive the JS script. This works for almost everybody. However, some users on setups (i.e. browser/OS) that are **known to work** for other people have the following problem: when they request the script via the javascript bookmarklet from my server, their cookie from my server does not get included with the request, and as such they are always "not authenticated". I'm making the request in the following way:               var myScript = eltCreate('script');     myScript.setAttribute('src','http://myserver.com/script');     document.body.appendChild(myScript);      In a fit of confused desperation, I changed the script page to simply output "My cookie has [x] elements" where [x] is `count($_COOKIE)`. If this extremely small subset of users requests the script via the normal method, the message reads "My cookie has 0 elements". When they access the URL directly in their browser, the message reads "My cookie has 7 elements". What on earth could be going on?!


How is Apple's enormously image-heavy site served so fast?

Took a profile of the "Smart Cover" page on Apple's site using Pingdom. It's requesting 241 objects for a total page weight of 3472.6 KB! An absolute mammoth. How does this possibly translate into a 4-second download time? I'm not even on a great connection and it still loads in seconds using my clogged-up DSL. That interactive graphic towards the middle loads over 90 images per selected cover, at around 40k each. Still, it's done at blazing speeds. How do they do it?


Does responsive Web Design affect SEO?

I have watched the Webmaster Central 2013-11-18 hangout that is now on YouTube. According to John Mueller, a site will benefit in terms of SEO if it will be optimized for mobile devices. He said that in order to do this the webmaster needs to follow the Webmaster Guidelines for mobile websites. However John answered to this recent question in a completely different way. He stated that only common configuration errors are taken into account. According to the "Building Smartphone-Optimized Websites" guidelines, it's recommended for websites to be responsive: > "i.e. sites that serve all devices on the same set of URLs, with each URL > serving the same HTML to all devices and using just CSS to change how the > page is rendered on the device. This is Google's recommended configuration." 1) Is it true that **only** common errors are taken into account for SERP, or it was true at the time of that question? 2) I have a website that gives the same URL, same HTML and same CSS to all the kind of devices. There are absolutely nor rules that display the site in a different way to mobile. If I open my site on an iPhone for example, I see the website displayed full screen, and the users have to tap and zoom in order to read it. This means that my site provides the same HTML, CSS, and URL to ALL the devices, but it's not responsive because it does not adapt to mobile browsers. For example a responsive website for smaller screens might have a different navbar, the sidebar goes to the bottom automatically, etc... I would like to know whether it is advisable (specific to ranking benefits) to edit the theme of my website to make it responsive, for example using a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation, or just adding media specific CSS. Or maybe I can avoid making the website responsive because it's already fine as it is, since the same URL, CSS, and HTML are given to all devices, thus switching to responsive design will not affect my site's rankings at all?


Need a CDN with SSL

We currently use Edgecast through Speedyrails. Back when I did my research they were both fast and very cost-effective. I haven't looked in a while, but now we need SSL on our assets as well. I reached out to our current provider and they want a setup fee and something like 260 USD **per host per month** (we use multiple hosts currently). I looked at AWS Cloudfront and it seems the most cost affective way to get SSL, but it's not a custom domain then (e.g. cdn.example.org), which I could live with. Has any else researched this lately and has any providers to get in touch with - can be resellers or direct buys. I'm not looking for a bargain, I just want to get an idea what these things cost. **Edit, 2012-08-23** : Must have is custom origin. E.g. I don't want to manually upload files somewhere else. Edgecast and Cloudfront both support this.


Does Google Webmaster Tools allow me to find out which pages are indexed?

If I'd go to Crawl -> Sitemaps section there will be a list of sitemaps with the number of total pages in each one and the number of indexed pages indicated. However I didn't see any way of finding out which pages of the sitemap actually indexed. Of course I could use Google search with keyword "site:mysite.com" to have a look at the list of indexed pages but there will be no correlation to the sitemap. I will not be able to do any analysis of reasons the pages are not in index.


apache2 subdirectory access

I am setting up an apache server on my linux (debian) machine. I am making a website, with sub directories that contains my css and image file. Here is my config.               <Directory /var/www/*>         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews         AllowOverride none         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>      Is that configuration correct for access to sub directory


canonical or redirecting

When I have a page with the URI lets say `www.example.com/page` there might be the possibility that users or links end up sending the user to pages like this: `www.example.com//////page?` I could just use a canonical on the page which refers to `www.example.com/page`, but my fist question is whether a redirection via PHP with: `header ("Location: http://www.example.com/page")` might be more useful. It is definitely more user-friendly, which should be the overall goal. My second question now is, in case I use the canonical, should I include the canonical tag into the page standard html or should I just put it in there via PHP if the canonical differs from the current page URI?


How to get email from depreciated mail server (without FTP)

OK... a client of mine has switch DNS and webmail hosts - They have their email set up on the new host and is ready to go. However, there are still a whole bunch of emails on their old server - they didnt back them up locally before they switched. The old mail server is really minimalistic. It has CPanel but you can only access webmail and set up new email accounts from it. There is no file manager and you cannot access the mail via FTP. - Only via Roundcube or Squirrel Mail. Does anyone know a way I can pull the email off this server via Roundcube or Squirrel Mail? Or any other way for that matter?


Why not AJAX'ify entire websites?

Is there any solid reasoning as to why sites shouldn't be developed with ajax functionality that loads major parts of each part (assuming there are elements like the header, navigation etc that remain the same)? Surely it would be less resource-intensive since the server wouldn't have to serve content that appears on every page, benefiting both the host and end- user. Answer the question taking into consideration:   * The sites javascript behaviour degrades gracefully in every instance   * For my question I'm talking about new sites where this behaviour could be implemented rather from the off, so it doesn't technically cost any money - we're not returning to a finished product to implement it.


Remove home page from Google cache

The Google Webmaster Tools Remove URL section allows you to specify a page URL to be removed from the index, or cache, or both. However, I want to remove just the home page, which is / I want to remove it from the cache because it is indexed when the "under construction" page was up. This URL is not recognised by the Remove URL section as an individual page. Instead Google assumes you want to remove the entire website from the index. I've specified /index.php and /index.html to be removed from the cache, but this is not the URL listed in the search results for the home page I want removed from the cache.


SSL 128bit... Why not 256bit

Have set up an SSL certificate for a new site, and in checking with the browser, the SSL states it's encrypted with 128bit encryption. I have tried with the latest versions of Chrome, IE9 and FF, all with the same result. The certificate is from trustico - RapidSSL - which states up to 256bit is supported. This makes me think that it supports 256bit if the browser supports it. The site is being hosted on IIS 6. Has anybody run into this?


Need suggestions for automated file and MySQL database backup on shared web host

We have several websites at multiple hosting companies (all shared hosts - some using cPanel, others using Plesk) and we're looking for a way to backup all files and MySQL databases for each site. We'd like nightly or more frequent backups and prefer that it is completely automated. My current plan is to store all the backups on an Amazon S3 account or similar. But I'm not sure what tools are out there to accomplish the collection and transfer of the files and databases. It would be nice if there's a way to do everything through a centralized management system, but that's not an absolute requirement. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


What does it mean that hosting ToS DOESN'T allows HOTLINKS and WHY is it like that?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Hotlinking: what is it, and why shouldn’t people do it? Free hosting services often **doesn't allow** to use **hotlinks**. I'm not sure if I understand it well and what is the reason of such a disaproval. I would like to have pictures for my webpages in _Photobucket_ e.g. which is allowed to have hotlinks and use those pictures using hotlinks on my sites. Is it that what is not allowed? **What is a problem** for free host server owners to **accept such links**? Bandwidth of _Photobucket_ is used only as I understand and it is completely legal. I'v read quite enough abt hotlinks, but I can't understand this simple issue.


Does Google pick up anchor text that is in nested elements?

When Google looks at anchor text on a website, will it pickup the text if it is inside nested elements? So for example:               Visit Google      To:
             Visit Google
           The reason I ask is because I want to use css3 elements for certain links on my website, to style them as circles. But the anchor text needs to be picked up for these links, so I want to know wether or not the above is bad practice in this case.


Google Analytics: Can I track conversion rates from specific sources?

I'm looking around GA to see if I can find a way to track from specific websites and their progress on our website. I need to know the amount of people finding our marketing material on website A, then out of them showing me how many of the website A traffic has then signed up. Is this possible? I've looked into using PadiTrack but if I wanted to know the results from a specific website, I would have to create a landing page for each website where I post marketing material (I think). Are there any other ways to track conversion rates like this for specific traffic sources?


Will search engines penalize my site if I reuse a paragraph from the frontpage on the subpage?

My website's frontpage lists my various services with a synopsis for each. If I use that short synopsis as an introductory paragraph on the subpage for that service, would that be considered duplicate content? The subpage would have much more than just the synopsis on it.


What is bounce rate in google Analytics?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How does google calculate bounce rate? I hosted a new site and used google analytics in it. I noticed that they're giving a value called bounce off rate. Can anyone explain what it it?


Server flooded with Wordpress login requests. Need advice

Recently I was looking at the nginx access logs and found on 2 ocassions a large ammount of requests pointed towards my WP login page. There were over 50.000 requests coming from 2 different IP adresses. I don't think that these are coming from automated bots, but rather a person that knows what is he doing. My website published an article about government surveillance, and after it was published, the next day I was flooded with requests like these. Previously I haven't noticed any strange activity showing up. Is there any way on the server side to throttle / block this kind of requests? I'm using LEMP stack on a VPS from Digital Ocean. I see a lot of people are mentioning fail2ban as an option, but is there a more simple solution? If not, how do I properly configure fail2ban to identify and block requests that exceeds "n" requests / sec? Can you advice me something else to properly secure my website? I'm planning to implement https to the login page, I'm already using SSH keys, and using pretty hard to bruteforce passwords. Here's a small capture of the requests that were coming yesterday. I've already reported the IP address for abuse at the provider, but I don't think it will make a difference.               195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"


Can a domain registrar prevent me from keeping my domain name?

I have bought domain names from multiple companies (e.g, GoDaddy, `nic.com`, eNom, and Google Apps). Assuming that one of my projects will be successful, I wonder if one of these companies can take advantage of that and arbitrarily say that they won't renew the domain name for me, and eventually sell it to somebody else. Or maybe they could increase the renewal fee so much that will be impossible for me to pay it? Can this actually happen? If yes how can I prevent it?


Google Analytics events: set page url parameter

Is it possible to set custom page url parameter (named **utmp** in request), when tracking events with Google Analytics? I have set custom url for tracking pages ['_trackPageview', 'www.my.url.com/...'] But that does not have effect for events.


Plesk 11 SQL Server DB Restore from Zip Fle

This is a feature i had in DotNetPanel which i guess i took for granted because now that I've moved to Plesk 11, I don't have it anymore, and boy does it hurt. My database restore uploads have increased from around 2mb (for a specific site) to around 50mb uncompressed. No big deal in first world nations with super fast internet, but try this over a shitty connection in GUatemala or Nicaragua, and you'll know my pain. I'm wondering if anybody out there knows of any third-party apps that can help me? Sure i can ftp a zip file, RDP to the server, unzip, then restore from there, but RDP is sometimes painfully slow or even unavailable from some of these connections i'm forced to use, so i need something web-based. Thanks in advance Greg


SEO for Google Maps

Can't make sense out of the way Google Maps position their results. Here is my places page, that I'm trying to optimize for the "sprinkler hollywood florida" keywords and appears at the end of 3rd page, and here is the 4st place for those keywords. Their listing in Google places has less information than ours, they have a bad review and we have a good one, their web site is a 1 page web site, our is about 6, our site has more backlinks than theirs. I just can't find anything they could be doing that we are not. Maybe just that they have been longer in Google Places. Could this be what makes the difference? **Edit:** I just found one other difference that might be _what_ is making the difference. Their domain name includes the word "sprinklers". Could it be this?


Rewrite rule not working for redirect in subdomain hosted in a subdirectory of the main site

I am running a WordPress network. This means there are multiple websites produced by one installation of WordPress. Each website is a subdomain of the parent website. WordPress handles the creation of subdomain websites through a wildcard subdomain entered into cPanel, which points `/public_html`, which is where WordPress lives. This means there is one . _htaccess_ file serving all subdomain sites. My parent website is `www.doig.com.au`. My problem website is `tech.doig.com.au`. I need to 301 redirect `http://tech.doig.com.au/venom-media.html` to `http://tech.doig.com.au/portfolio/venom-media/`. Previously, I had the following in my _.htaccess_ file:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tech\.doig\.com\.au$ [NC]     RewriteRule . - [S=120]     |     RewriteRule ^venom-media.html http://tech.doig.com.au/venom-media/ [R=301]     |     RewriteRule ^services.html/feed http://tech.doig.com.au/services/feed [L,R=301]      However, this no longer works. This is my _.htaccess_ file. Why is the `RewriteRule` not working?


How can I stop adware affecting my site?

We have just started running our own ads on our site but are now getting bombarded with complaints from users that "Russian Bride" ads are showing up **below** our ads. We know this is caused by AdWare like the Ask tool bar etc. My question is, does any one know how to stop the AdWare from affecting our site?


How hard is to be the anonymous owner of a website?

I'd like to create a website with a very radical political message. It won't be unethical (encouraging violence, etc) but I feel the points I plan to list in it will definitely make me a lot of enemies. How hard would it be to protect my identity from anyone finding out who I am? I know domains always have a $10/year option for privatizing your registration information but is there any other protection I should think about having?


Is there a Lightbox style plugin that fits images to screen size?

I'm looking for a Lightbox type js plugin that would take into account the browser window size and resize the currently displayed photo so it fits - like the jquery-imagefit plugin does.


Can I use ClamAV on GoDaddy shared hosting?

My Linux shared hosting (godaddy) doesn't have ClamAV installed. Unfortunately, I'm not a Linux expert; so I don't know exactly what is involved in installing an application on a Linux. So, my question is:   1. Can I install ClamAV on my shared hosting?   2. If I can't install it, is it possible to still use it somehow? Thanks, James


Upload multiple images via website

I have a requirement to allow the users to upload multiple images at once, like the way you upload photos to a photo printing website. I am looking for suggestions as to what technology and which libraries that can be used to do this. I'm guessing Flash and JavaScript.


In SEO & SEM terms, use of a international domain vs a local domain

In terms of SEO & SEM if I have a .com and a .co.uk. Would it be better to use the .com and park the .co.uk, If I am selling the product locally (in the uk) and later moving out into the international market? Will I struggle more to compete locally with regards to local searches and Google Adwords, if I make the .com as the primary domain? Does the parking of the .co.uk or the .com effect the relevance of a web domains search locally and internationally?


Website Redirects

I've been having a bit of an issue today. I run Gematsu.com. At first I thought the site has been going slow all day due to the amount of hits we've been getting the past couple days. But then I realized we'd received even less today, so something wasn't adding up. I ran a check on a website testing site.Turns out I have a bunch of redirects from URLs that I've never heard of. I don't know if they're what's slowing the site down, but I can tell you the site wasn't taking a minute to load yesterday. I tried removing my advertising to see if it was anything on their end, but I still got largely the same results.


Permissions suddenly changed to '00' on sites images directory

A client's site images directory permissions have suddenly changed to `00`. This means no one can access the directories content; not even the browsers. I cannot access the directory or change its permissions via FTP. What could have caused this? Is there a way to reset the permissions?


Highlighting Data for an Architecture Firm

I'm doing some design work for an architecture firm here in town over the next few weeks. They had a very lacking website previously and want something newer and easier to use. In the process they asked if I could go in an do some basic stuff to optimize for Search Engines. They are a pretty well respected firm locally so they already have pretty good page rank locally but like anyone else they want to be as high as possible and be as relevant as possible to what different people are searching. Outside of doing other things to help Google better crawl and under stand the data on the pages I decided to go into their data high lighter and tag various information. For the most part it is all rather straight forward and easy to understand for me as someone who has limited experience with this. What I don't really know what to do is what category should I put their portfolio page under? At first I started out as local businesses because they are a local business and have photos of local businesses with information for the name of the business and space they designed. They have them then separated out into categories for all the different type of work they do. I tagged the categories and their company information as well and it kept giving me a warning saying Google can't quite figure out the category structure. Would it be better to tag the portfolio items as products even knowing they aren't for sale. They are just space design and building shots of what they've designed. In a sense I guess they could also be articles maybe. Even knowing they aren't really articles they are just a portfolio of pictures with a minor amount of text descriptions at the bottom. So what I'm generally asking here to not be so long winded is what is the best way to highlight data in a mostly image portfolio in Google Web Master tools. Specifically what category should I sort the high lighted data into?


Single billing cylce for paypal subscription?

The subscriptions method only allows at least 2 billing cycles. What's the best alternative method I should use?


Should keywords exact match keywords on a page be <h2> or <h3> tags?

On a search results page, the `<h1>` contains the searched keyword. However, should wherever the keyword appears in the results be `<h2>` or `<h3>` tags? I have had these as `<h3>` tags and there is no `<h2>` on the page. **-- UPDATE --** For example: `keyword = cat breeds`
Cat Breeds
      `There are a number of different <h3>cat breeds</h3> to choose from. The most common of the list of <h3>cat breeds</h3> below is the calico cat...`


Can changing nameservers while keeping the same host impact SEO for websites?

I host several Italian sites in a Virtual Private Server (VPS) located in Italy. At the moment, most of the domains are registered by the same provider, so all the nameservers are located in Italy too. I want to switch to a new ISP, whose nameservers are located in the UK, USA and Canada, for domain registration, while keeping the same VPS hosting. Could the DNS change have an impact on those websites' SEO? Keep in mind that the actual host (the `A` record in DNS) will remain the same.


What is the difference between <span> and <div> tags?

I am curious, the span tag seems to work the same as a div.


Why do people (or bots) spam a site with comments when its obvious that they end up being blocked?

Whenever I visit the Admin page of my WordPress site, I always find about 1000 new spam messages waiting there for me. The question is what is the motivation for people (or bots) to spam a site with comments when its obvious that anti-spam WordPress plugins are bound to catch them and filter them out?


Do sites using YouTube video API get indexed by Google?

Suppose I design a small app that heavily depends on Google YouTube API to dynamically fetch hundreds of YouTube video data. My site will be able to respond to users' requests, and generate several video pages. But what I don't get is this: does it means there's no hope of getting found (or indexed) for those videos on search engines since none of those videos actually resides on my server? Since I'll have very limited pages, what options do I have for SEO?


I have installed opencart and now looking to enable paypal pro services for UK, i am newby to paypal, do i need to register for payflow services on https://manager.paypal.com ? if not then what information should i place so that i can get out of the following error: This transaction cannot be processed due to an invalid merchant configuration.


Can I provide free subdomain service of TLD .pro ?

Can I provide free subdomain (second level) for free like `.co.cc` do? I'm trying to register a `.pro` domain individually.


Is Googlebot case sensitive? Should I use a 301 redirect to choose a preferred URL case?

The Googlebot reports the following: Pages with duplicate meta descriptions   1. `/Default.aspx?p=2`   2. `/default.aspx?p=2` Should I use a 301 redirect from `Default` to `default` or vice versa? Is Googlebot case sensitive?


Does text in the title attribute of links count as page content?

I've been told it is bad practice to have keywords in the meta tags that do not appear in the page content. In this context, does text in the title attribute count as content? For example if I had:               <meta name="keywords" content="apples">      And the word "apples" does not appear anywhere on the page, but I also had:               Fruit      Would this be considered bad?


Is using keywords without comma in title tag wrong in a SEO point of view?

On the `<title>` tag of one of my webpages I used keywords without comma. Is thist wrong in a SEO point of view?


.pw domain name risks

I am considering using a set of `.pw` domain names to provide CNAME access to content stored on a CDN. I have come across recent articles about how the `.pw` domain has become associated with spam. Given that I will not be using the domain to deliver mail should I care? Put it another way, - suppose I deliver an HTML page that contains:               <img src='http://example.pw/images/myimg.png'/> or     <script src='http://example.pw/js/myjs.js'></script>      Need I be concerned that a browser may automatically block download of that resource - or a firewall may do so?


Is there a way to add Google Docs-like comments to any web page?

You know the comments on Google Docs word processing documents? And how it creates a little discussion over in the right-hand margin? I love it. Great for collaboration. I want to free it from Google Docs so I can use it with clients to discuss mock-ups or scaffolded websites. Searching Google for "add comments [or discussions] to any website" only gets you results for adding blog-like comments (Disqus, JS-Kit, etc.) Anyone know of a solution for what I'm after here?


Transfer .cn domain to another registrar

I have to transfer domains hosted by a deficient local ISP in China. Can I transfer my domain registration without my current ISP's cooperation?


Is it possible to have Google index one page with one URL and have it link to another URL?

We want to tell Google to crawl a content heavy page but list a link to a much more performant JavaScript version of the page. Is this possible? I.e. Give Google a sitemap, then put canonical tags to the JavaScript version of that page.


Multilingual Publishing Pack (MLP): make a link to the corresponding page in the another language?

I am helping to build a bilingual website using MLP on TextPattern. It's trivial to put a link to the top level page of another language, but how to put a link to the current page in another language? Eg. `/en/contact` should link to `/de/kontakt` (the same article in another language). I'm sure there are some variables somewhere that I could put into the template that would be filled with the correct links.


Setting up a coming soon page. Should I create a whole database for "Sign up now for updates" email addresses?

I'm helping a friend set up a "Coming Soon" page for his website. Naturally, he wants people to enter their email addresses so they can get updates about the status of the website. I know I can set up a database for him but he's not very tech savy and won't want to learn how to check that database. So one solution I'm thinking of doing is setting up a webpage at friendsurl.com/pEbRuw3A (or some other random string so that bots can't easily find the page) and having the emails there in a csv format. That way he can continuously check it for updates. So, is this a stupid idea?


Google Analytics: Track user from opening email to following link to finishing form

We track the opening of our marketing emails by using the `utm.gif` image which works well. But, we would like to see how many users go from opening the email, to clicking a link within the email and then complete a registration form. Is it possible to track this sort of user flow and know how many users followed this path from the email?


Building links towards Category Pages?

I am current building some links and I want to get the best results out of it. I have had links towards my homepage, as well as detail page but not many are towards my category page. I assume having links towards category pages are one way to enhance the recognition of website by Google (showing category pages are useful to people as well). Is this as useful as in link juice wise? Or does this even sounds natural to you? What is the best link building practice? (will there be a golden proportion for how many percentage of links should be towards home page, how many to detailed and how many to category for example?)


How can I publish a container in Google Tag Manager?

There is some icons just after container name in Google Tag Manager, see image. but neither are clickable. As it has very simple interface, I doubt they just forget make them clickable. So my question is how can I published container? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jMz3U.png)