SEO tool is telling me title, description and keywords don't exist, but they do. Where is the problem?

I'm using the following tool to analyse how 'optimal' a site that I'm working on is for search engines: http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test/ I enter the URL for the site - http://ftmsuat.moneymate.com - into the search bar, and it returns a breakdown of the contents of the page. I'm a little confused by what I see though. According to the results, the page doesn't have a title, description or keywords. But if you check the source of the page, those elements are definitely there. So I'm wondering now, which is wrong? seobook.com or my page?


header.php wordpress install injection on godaddy.com

Every few months I notice a warning in Google results that my site maybe compromised. Sure enough when I check the header.php file is full of all sorts of nasty stuff about viagra etc. I clear it out, change the password etc and a month or so passes and it's back again. I contacted the host, godaddy, who basically told me i need get a website scanner available of course from their products section... scam. Any ideas?


SSL / https login from a non-secure (http) page

I am setting up a login page, and I have some security questions / concerns. I have a login form (username, password) on a NON-secure page, let's say:               http://www.example.com/login.php       When the user fills in the form and clicks the "Submit" button, the form POST's a "clear-text" query-string to a secure page:   `https://somethingelse.example.com/post.php` or `https://entirelydifferent.otherdomain.com/post.php` The login form is a standard html form like:                <form method="post" action="https://somethingelse.example.com/post.php>        ...      </form>      So, the "query-string" is clear-text (not obfuscated or encrypted in any way), but I'm sure (I hope) the process of doing a "post" to an "https:" url will encrypt the query-string. The code in "post.php" validates the username and password in the form data, and redirects to a NON-secure page based on success or fail:   `http://www.example.com/success.php` or `http://www.example.com/fail.php` (or perhaps back to `http://www.example.com/login.php`) Is this a proper (secure) setup for "https:" login process, or does this cause security or other issues ? Should one or more of the "http:" pages (`login.php`, `success.php`, `fail.php`) be changed to "https:" (secure) pages ? Is it an issue (security or otherwise) if the sub-domain or domain changes between the various steps in the example ? Is it required by the process for certain of these pages to be on the same domain and the same sub-domain ? Also, it should be noted that I am not handling any critical data like credit card numbers on any pages.


How to create a site with these features without programming?

My girlfriend & I are creating a site as a side business. I'm a programmer but for this site I don't want to do any programming because a) I want to make the site quickly, b) it's a fun side project and I just want a point-and-click interface with no frustration, c) I want her to be able to update any part. I also don't want to hire programmers for budget and time reasons. Editing HTML/CSS/JavaScript/templates is fine though and expected. The site will have these features:   * User registration. Two distinct types of users with different landing pages, functionality, etc. (not just different subscription levels).   * User profiles with many custom fields. The profiles would be different for each user type.   * Create/Edit/Browse/RSVP for Events - an Event would have many custom fields, so many that using an existing calendar system might not be possible.   * Create/Edit/Browse Activities - an Activity would be a custom object with many fields (title, description, address, etc.)   * Be able to Rate and Review each Event, Activity, or user.   * Easily retrieve and display Events/Activities/Reviews that a user has attended or created in the system.   * One-time purchases and recurring monthly subscriptions. This should be automated and apply the appropriate "credits" to their account each month after their card is charged. This would require supporting an offsite credit card info storage system since we don't want to store that info ourselves.   * Fully and easily translatable. Many of the users will not understand English well so we need to be able to provide translations for each string on the backend (no need for enduser-supplied translations). We should also be able to present entirely different content depending on their preferred language - e.g. users preferring Japanese will see content about Japan. What ways are there of creating such a site without programming? Using CMS software is one way, but are there others? And if using a CMS, which would be flexible enough to support creating a site like this without custom programming? I'm quite sure existing modules or addons wouldn't completely fill my needs, so being able to create and manipulate custom objects is crucial. Thanks in advance for any advice. FYI: Related questions I found. These deal with simpler types of sites though:   * creating a tag-based website and not using programming?   * Is there a way to create a website without learning to web-program?   * Which CMS can I use to build a website without programming knowledge?


What are CNAME and A DNS Records?

What are CNAME and A DNS records? What are they used for? What is the difference between the two? **Edit:** Where does the CNAME record exist? On the server or with the domain registrar?


How to redirect if directory does not exist or should not be seen?

I am using Apache and want to modify my _.conf_ file for a website such that:   * If the request comes from my IP `1.2.3.4`, just display the URL/page as requested   * If the request is not from my IP and the directory does not exist, redirect to root   * If the request is not from my IP and the directory is one I don't want to display to anyone (`example.com/secret/`, `example.com/secret2/hidden.html`, etc.), redirect to root What is the best way to do this?


Indexing classified content scheduled to expire

Our website site has a "classifieds" section, where user can post a message. I would love those pages to be indexed. However those classifieds are scheduled to expire after 30 days. What is the recommended way to handle this? Avoiding dead links, penalties, etc... I also generate XML sitemaps, not sure how to deal with those.


How to tell Google my content will expire after a certain period?

Right now I'm facing issues with 404 (Not Found) errors, because my content will deleted automatically after two months. I cannot change this behavior, because it is a real estate web site and once it is rented or sold it needs to be deleted and also so many factors behind this. So I want to tell search engines about the availability of my contents and don't return a 404 error.


How to get a list of all page names (with namespaces) of a MediaWiki installation?

I want to export _all_ pages (in _all_ namespaces, and with _all_ revisions!) of a public MediaWiki installation. I’m just a visitor, so I have no admin access. The export is possible with the `Special:Export` page. It takes a list of page names and exports all given pages in a single XML file. Great! However, **how could I get a list of all pages?** There is `Special:AllPages`. Problems:   * The results are paginated.    * It doesn’t include the namespace in the page name (anchor text). Is there a better way? (I know that there may be various special extensions that allow visitors to export pages or download a backup, however, assume that the MediaWiki installation in question doesn’t use any extensions, it’s just a default installation.)


Will moving some ecommerce products from one domain to another with redirects cause SEO penalties?

I'm the developer for a small online webstore. We've just moved a subsection of products (the bodyboarding products), off surfhq.co.uk on to bodyboardhq.co.uk to sell them there instead. We didn't want to sell on both stores as search engines don't like duplicate pages - and domain2.co.uk has much better seo for bodyboarding - the site has been run as an active blog for sometime - we've only just added the cart. My question is, should I be using a 301 redirect on the old product pages (sending users to the new pages on domain2.co.uk), or should I just serve up a 404 not found? Google search currently lists a lot of broken links (I've gone down the 404 route for fear that permanent redirects will result in one of our sites being penalised). EDIT My question is not answered here where the 301 is to the home page and the products have been deleted. My products have been moved to another domain (the 301 would be to the product on the new domain). Also I'm concerned with the SEO effect on both domains.


Moving commerce products from one domain to another

I'm the developer for a small online webstore - surfhq.co.uk. We've just moved a subsection of products (the bodyboarding products), off surfhq.co.uk on to bodyboardhq.co.uk to sell them there instead. We didn't want to sell on both stores as search engines don't like duplicate pages - and bodyboardhq.co.uk has much better seo for bodyboarding - the site has been run as an active blog for sometime - we've only just added the cart. My question is, should I be using a 301 redirect on the old product pages (sending users to the new pages on bodyboardhq.co.uk), or should I just serve up a 404 not found? Google search currently lists a lot of broken links (I've gone down the 404 route for fear that permanent redirects will result in one of our sites being penalised). My question is not answered here where the 301 is to the home page and the products have been deleted. My products have been moved to another domain (the 301 would be to the product on the new domain). Also I'm concerned with the SEO effect on both domains.


What are the pros and cons of using Dublin Core meta tags?

This is an open question on why, how, or when to use or not use Dublin Core meta tags. For example, `<meta name="DC.title" content="Title of my Webpage" />`. Should this be used in addition to or instead of the `<title>` meta tag? Does a certain approach help or hinder SEO? Does adding a lot of "description" to a page outweigh the added code bloat to the page?


Are there any standards for marking the age suitability for website content?

As a responsible webmaster I want to mark some of my content as unsuitable for certain age groups, there's nothing illegal or pornographic but it does feature bad language and violence that might be unsuitable for children, mostly in images so a text parser won't pick it up. Is there a standard that internet filtering software will recognise? Obviously, I appreciate that nothing is going to stop children viewing the content if they are just using a vanilla browser on an open connection but if there is a content rating standard then I'd like to use it to help those able to honour it.


AdSense not displaying on my blog

Recently I started to work again with AdSense program, but when I placed code in my WordPress blog it didn't display even after 30min.   So maybe I'm doing something wrong?   I did setup the account.   Created ad for content.   Got the code.   Placed it in my themes sidebar. Maybe I have to add my webpage address somewhere or it takes more time to start displaying adds?   Thank you all for help.


For an internal page, which title and h1 I must use for SEO?

I have a basic question about SEO and HTML design. Most homepage of websites use the code below:                                   <title>Website name</title>
Website name
              ...some Slidebar That shows items list and artciles list...                    But for an internal page (like for an article), the code must be the following?                                           <title>Website name or Article page?</title>
Article page?

text of article
                            Which `<title>` and `<h1>` I must use? _Article title_ or _Website Name_?


Google Ads Blocking Other Site Elements From Loading

I'm using Google DFP to serve Adsense ads. In Google Chrome (this doesn't seem to happen in other browsers), the page will get stuck loading pagead2.googlesyndication.com. It will just load for hours if I let it. In the meantime, only about half or slightly more of the dynamic images on my page will have completed loading. It appears this is blocking other elements on my site from loading. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?


Problematic using Captcha on billing page

I have simple captcha on user page. I want make it refresh if user input incorrect captcha, I just wanna ask Should I do it or I just add a simple button to refresh it.


HTTPS To http redirect issue. How to overcome?

Have already seen suggests on how to rewrite https to http. currently using this technique :               RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http ://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]       Problem : I am currently on Hostgator VPS and have found Google indexing my HTTPS pages. Weird for me as never bought an SSL. My site is a blog only. When spoke to Google forums, ( https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/2Hz46t44nwk/7voZWudFtAQJ ), they say I should redirect https to http. Now when I have redirected this using the above method, I am still getting SSL warning in browsers. And found that Google is still indexing my new pages with https. I feel as I do not have an SSL, adding a redirect in https doesn't work. So if Google indexes my https page, then I should go and buy SSL, and tell there to redirect https to http. Why would I do that? Please help me, reduced the traffic by nearly 30% because of this. **Have even told search engines to go to this file (disallows everything) if they are on https**.               Options +FollowSymlinks      RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$      RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt


I need a little help with .htaccess rewrite

I need a little help with `.htaccess` file I have songs, singers and albums links I want to rewrite. I all ready rewrote the links and they are like this: the links for the songs is like this: `/song/song_name` for singers: `/singer_name` for albums: `/album_name` From my `.htaccess` file:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^singer/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?singer=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^song/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?song=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^album/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?album=$1 [L]      I need the links for the songs, singers and albums to be like this: for songs `/singer_name/song_name` for singers `/singer_name` for albums `/singer_name/album_name` can anyone help me with this please.


SSL certificate provider

I need a SSL certificate for a new site I'm building and I have to choose a SSL provider. What to look for when choosing and what's your experience dealing with them? Thanks!


Advice on buying SSL certificate

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SSL certificate provider What are the main things to consider when choosing between SSL certificates from different providers? I find they vary in price incredibly.


SEO links and ajax

Only my main page shows up on a Google search on site:domain.com and I start to wonder why this happens. I also use Google Webmaster Tools which confirms this. On my main page, I have these types of links               <a href="1234/some-nice-seo-text" onclick="loadPageWithAjax(1234); return false;">      The 1234 is the id of the page to load and the '/some-nice-seo-text'-appended is just a good description of the content of the page, which I hope the Google-bot will catch. The intended user will click the link and the same content will dynamically be loaded and shown. It seems like the Google-bot never follows these links - am I doing something wrong?


Some questions about social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+)

I have some questions regarding social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+). By asking the following questions I would like you to take into considaration the following parameters: I want my website to be fast, Search Engine Optimzation..   1. Which of the social plugins above really affects SEO - Why and How?   2. Is it enough to put an anchor link to the page in the social network (facebook.com/page, twitter.com/page ...) or do I really need the +1 and Like button? - I know that lazy people like to click as little as possible, but do they really click without to see the page itself before?   3. What do you think is the ratio between clicking on the Like button to clicking on the like button inside the company page on facebook? Thanks in advanced, Din.


What does "do following" blog mean?

I read a SEO book, it talks about do following blog. Does it mean I can put anything on the blog which includes my link and talk about anything?


Adding Video To Website - Embed or Vimeo?

I have been asked to add 3 short informational videos to a new page on the company website. I am trying to figure out if it would be better to embed them directly onto the page (html5) or use Vimeo or YouTube. Which would be better from a Google ranking point of view after the recent Panda updates? Naturally we would want to the whole site to benefit not just that 1 video page.


Seo and domain change

I had my website on mydomain.com for a few years and was number 1 on Google for my market. Due to a bad registrar and my own lazynes i lost my .com a year ago and it has taken me nearly a year to get it back. In that time i have put my site on a local domain mydomain.ie and changed a lot of the back links to the .ie domain so it is showing up in the results but not as well as my .com did. My question is which one do i use now and which one do i 301? Would i be better to switch back to the old domain and would it still carry the same value with Google?


How to set up a SPF record?

The clients on my VPS are all getting spammed. The spam seemingly comes from their own email addresses - it is clear that somehow something got into my VPS and was able to capture all the email addresses that existed and is now using them to send spam. I was advised to set up a SPF record, but I am unsure what this is or how to go about it. After reading, I have figured out how to create one in CPanel, but I cannot find what to do with it now. Do I copy it into somewhere in my DNS records in Zone Management? Can anyone point me in the right direction?


How can we redirect visitors outside our country to an international site without harming SEO?

We are looking for a way to redirect the visitors not in our country to our international website. Firstly, we have to detect their location with a Geo-location service, and then redirect them if they are not a native visitor. But we do not want to harm our existing SEO while we are doing this. Do we have to use 302 server-side redirection or a client-side redirection with JavaScript?


How can I make a webmail URL available from any hosted domain?

I run Roundcube webmail on my VPS. At the moment, it is only accessible from one virtual server hosted on the server, unless a separate Roundcube installation is created for other virtual servers. I would like to be able to make webmail available from any domain/ virtual server that I host, just by adding /webmail to the end. I'm sure Apache must allow me to do this - only problem is, I don't know how!


Searching for a page with a Very Unique title, doesnt find that intended page... Why?

a question about appearing in search results in google: A page of mine has this extremely unique page title: _**Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände_** Now, when I search the phrase: `Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände` Then all kinds of other irrelevant pages show up having only 1 or at best two words from my unqie title appearing, although I have searched for the entire phrase! And when I search the phrase in between quotes: `"Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände"` Then it finds 1 result, which is my page. What is going on? Why doesn't show the unique result without the quotes? Thanks: your ideas and suggestions are welcome and much appreciated


Site Search Settings and Query Parameter

I'm setting up Google Analytics Site Search in my profile, and wondering if I need to add all the query parameters of the search (up to 5 of them) or just the parameter that contains the user's search; I can't really imagine what Google would do with the other search parameters, but they're Google so who knows what use they might have for them.


Sort by Goal Conversions in Search Engine Optimization view in Google Analytics?

Goals are my favorite functionality in Google Analytics. They let you know which traffic sources, ads, or keywords are driving signups and buying stuff and downloading your Ebook. You can select for goals (after you set goals up) at most views in Google Analytics, but I can't figure out how to hook goals up to Search Engine Optimization > Queries. Is that possible? Is there another way to correlate search keyword with conversions in Google Analytics?


Semantic web and structured data - Will search engines increase the limit of the first number of indexed bytes on a page?

A web page's payload will increase with the added code that is necessary to create structured data. This means that you won't be be able to fit as much actual content in the first 120k or so of the page. Has there been any discussion about this in the past, and if so, what are the chances that this limit will be increased to allow for more data?


Does having over 80% dynamic and rapidly changing content affect SEO?

I have a website that pulls promotions of products from other website. My index page has a structure similar to this:   1. My Brand - Best Promotions   2. # Looking for great deals? Check out our top promotions   3. A menu - listing the promotions categories   4. 20 of the latest promotions (the best ones): I list an image; Promotion description (200 chars); Link to the promotion page. **Question:** More then 80% of my index page (maybe even 90%) is composed of the 20 promotions I list; these promotions change on a daily bases -> which dramatically changes the content of my index page. **Does the dynamic changing of the index page affect SEO?** Should I try to add more static text where I can? (which won't change) Ty


How to report abuse to website hosting company (GoDaddy)

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... Let's say that a website posted a picture of me, without my consent, and I want to be removed (it's something private, could compromise my career if it's seen by someone that shouldn't). I sent them an email asking nicely that they should remove it, but they didn't respond and the picture is still there. Using 'Whois' I found that the website is hosted by GoDaddy. Is there a way (an email address, for ex.) to report to GoDaddy that one of the sites they're hosting does something illegal and to force them to remove the photo? I searched the site and found nothing about such a thing. Thnaks in advance!


SEO: Twitter outranks personal site?

For some reasons, even though I websites has pretty great onsite SEO I thinks, my Twitter profile "outrank" personal site consistently in Google/Bing SERPs on different computer around country and different search engine accounts..… I can not overcome this. Advice?


How do thousands of backlinks to my subdomains affect SEO?

I have 90k backlinks from 3 websites. On a subdomain, I have catalogs and my clients have a link on their site in the header to these catalogs. This means that they have in all their pages a link to the catalogs from my subdomain. Should I reserve a new domain to host these catalogs? Or I do not have to worry because they are on a subdomain? If I have more than 90000 backlinks to a subdomain, will this affect the main website? Can Google penalize my website because of the backlinks to a subdomain?


Google Analytics: Find external sites which referred most visitors to a Goal

I have a goal setup in Google Analytics, I would like to track the number of visits that come from external sources. e.g. I would like to see how many visits come from google.co.uk vs google.ie


Dynamically change page content based on URL parameter?

The title of my question seems simple but here is an example of what I want to do:               http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infant-jaundice/DS00107      What happens on that page is whenever you click on a link to go a section (e.g. "Symptoms") in the article on "Infant Jaundice", it provides a URL parameter like this:               http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infant-jaundice/DS00107/DSECTION=symptoms      As the `DESCTION` parameter changes, you get different content on the same page `DS00107`. The content changes as well as `<meta keywords>`. Can someone please tell me how this is achieved? I was thinking it was an if/else situation programmed into the page itself to display different properties depending on the URL parameter. Any help or suggestions are very much appreciated and my thanks to you for reading my question.


Trying to collect input values using hidden input fields

I have the following fields:               First Name: <input type="text" id="tFName" name="tFName" maxlength="50" />     Last Name:  <input type="text" id="tLName" name="tLName" maxlength="50" />      Is the following the proper way to receive the values of the above fields in hidden inputs?               <input type="hidden" name="tFName" value="tFName"/>     <input type="hidden" name="tLName" value="tLName"/>


How do you feed reviews to Google places page for businesses?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to provide Google reviews information? Check out this google places page as an example: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&sugexp=erf1&pq=virginia+honda+&cp=17&gs_id=50&xhr=t&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&ix=sea&biw=1600&bih=1109&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=los+angeles+honda+dealers&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=honda+dealers&hnear=0x80c2c75ddc27da13:0xe22fdf6f254608f4,Los+Angeles,+CA,+USA&cid=17542835494479136794&ei=rnuxT_xqw4SDB4ynhakJ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=placepage- link&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CL0BEOIJMAI At the bottom you will see Reviews from around the web: citysearch.com (49) - insiderpages.com (18) - dealerrater.com (37) I'm working on a website that is a similar to these directories, people can come and review dealers. We've marked the reviews with rich snippets, the problem is sometimes they do show up on some google places pages and sometimes they do not. It seems completely random, google links to wrong pages, and also the count is not accurate. I was wondering if there is an official guide on how to do this properly or if this is less about technical aspects of doing this and more about business relationships with directories and google. Any help is appreciated.


What is a "SiteCon" user agent?

I've found some unusual activity in my site's Apache logs and every hit has this UserAgent string:               "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-gb; SiteCon/8.8.14)"      What is SiteCon?


Many external links affecting SEO?

I run a website that is for a non-profit organization and the site is mainly information for the consumer. A page on this site list stores that are a certain type of business. I am planning on adding websites to the information provided to the end user. My question is this: Should I `nofollow` the links to the external website? We are talking about 100+ links (and growing) on this one page. I do not want to negativity affect the SEO on my site nor on the other sites.


Importance of grabbing a domain tld

How important is it to grab all available domain TLDs for somewhat popular site? (Alexa Rank: ~20k)


PDF's showing up before relevant pages

When I perform a `site:example.com keyword` on my site I tend to get a lot of PDF's first and not the relevant pages with the keywords. We are trying to optimize our site for best SEO with Google and am wondering how this is effecting us? From my understanding these are going to be the pages with the strongest keyword relevance so when our site does appear in search results it will be in the same order (PDF's first). We really don't want the PDF's to be indexed since they don't contain the information we are trying to give the customers, they are mainly installation manuals, specifications, etc. Does any one have recommendations to resolve this issue or maybe I have completely understood this wrong?


How to see pixel density (Retina) in Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics, "Screen Resolution" is a default dimension under Audience > Technology > Browser & OS reports, but pixel density is nowhere to be found. How can I use Google Analytics to determine how many of my visitors are using Retina or other high-def displays?


How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?

Given `http://www.ocfaustralia.org/` and site 2 `http://griffith.ocfaustralia.org/`, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1? **That is, if I were to remove site 1 would site 2 go down as well?** The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked to do a major redesign for site 1 (the original developer's gone, left no documentations, the codes disorganized and everywhere, etc) and with the way things are, I figured it would be a lot easier and also better in the long run if I just delete everything and start again from scratch. Therefore I need to check for dependencies before pulling the plug.


How to deal with non-relevant keywords in Google Webmaster Tools

Google webmaster tools is showing keywords such as "cookies" in my keyword list. This is probably because we have links to our long legal disclaimer on cookies. We're a B2B service, so clearly I don't want my site to rank for "cookies". What's the best practice to deal with this? Should I remove the domain.com/cookies subdir from google webmaster tools?


Registering single letter domain, selling subdomains?

I am about to purchase x.yz or a.bc (not those, but same lengths). I want to sell subdomains like rst.x.yz to the public, and would be able to run my own DNS servers for it. Is there a system (iPanel or something, preferably free) that I can do this automatically, where the user purchases a domain and enters the IP to point it to (I am not hosting files) and have it create instantly? I am really trying to avoid the PayPal API as not to spend time re-inventing what could possibly exist already. Do you think I should just stick with cPanel and let users make their own accounts and be touted a "reseller" ? Other questions: 1) Should I run my own DNS servers as a backend to this? 2) How much to charge, and for one-time fee, monthly, or yearly? 3) Should I stick with redirects, or actually handle the DNS?


What is the recommended way to handle opening attachments from a webpage?

When creating a website, depending on how a browsers Mime-Types are setup, downloading attachments can have different behaviors. Is there a website that talks about this and suggests a rule-of-the-thumb that should be taught to all web developers? For example, among these methods shown below (which doesn't account for all the possibilities), which is preferred and why?   1. Click the download, prompt with "Save or Open" dialogue and if they choose "open" then open with the Windows default program.   2. Click the download, prompt with "Save or Open" dialogue, show a "remember this" checkbox, and then open using the web browser in a new window.   3. Click the download, auto detect the browser mime type and immediately open. Don't save unless they right-click the link and choose "Save As".


How to mark up a poem in HTML for SEO

I'm building poetry web site and I wanted some HTML structure tips for entries. Example:
This is poetry title

         Poem's line 1.
         Poem's line 2.
         Poem's line 3.
         Poem's line 4.

         Poem's line 5.
         Poem's line 6.
         Poem's line 7.
         Poem's line 8.

      Would this be considered well-designed SEO structure for poem?


Submitting multiple websites to search engines

There are many services that submit your website to multiple search engines. Are there any that allow you to easily submit _multiple_ websites to multiple search engines?


Does google alerts include results from other google feed services like news and blog search?

We are using google alerts in our study to catch and categorize new contents as they happen on the web. We want to be as comprehensive as possible and catch the more new results for a query is possible. But we know there are other services at google apart from alerts, like google news. So, our question is: Is google alert the most complete system so that we can expect that the results from news, blog search, youtube feed will always be a subset of the ones from alert? Since it's a research study, I'll be grateful if you could also post the source/ref. you base your answers on! Many Thanks!


Putting adverts on my website

I'd like to start putting ads on my site but _I'm quite fussy about the way things look_ so I'd like to have attractive adverts that work as a feature of the website as opposed to the nasty garish ones you occasionally see out there. BuySellAds.com do what I'm looking for. They don't accept your site unless it gets more than 100,000 hits per month so I can't use them. The ads on http://net.tutsplus.com/ are the sort of thing I'm looking to include in my site. What are my options here? Which companies offer this kind of service? I would use AdSense but I don't like the look of the text ads, in-fact I know that I don't even read them if I see them. I do however spend a lot of my time looking at, and clicking on, the attractive image based ads you see on sites like smashing mag and freelance switch


Referrals from googleads.g.doubleclick.net . I don't have adwords running

I am seeing referrals from **googleads.g.doubleclick.net** in Google Analytics reports off late. They are very sparse but it's there. I am confused as I understand this may be referral from AdWords but I don't have any campaign running (and never have for this domain). Neither do I have any affiliate program, so an affiliate running an ad campaign is also out of the question. So, what does that imply? Should I be worried or can I just ignore it?


How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?

As part of graduating from Area51 and becoming a full fledged site we sometimes change domain names from `http://topic.stackexchange.com` to `http://example.com`. Aside from the obvious 301 redirect rules to support existing urls transparently, are there other techniques that would aid in the preservation of PageRank?


moving blogs content to new website

I have a blog and I wanna move its contents to a new website that i have made recently ! my question is that my blogs pagerank is 2 in google and i wanna know if i move my blog's contents to the new website and then delete my blog, will my new website get the blog's pagerank in google after afew months? or not? considering the blog had got the pagerank 2 in google with these contents? thanks a bunch ;)


Changing domain name - what are the practical steps involved

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? I launched a website a couple of years ago, bright eyed and bushy tailed, with dreams of conquering the world. Unfortunately it wasn't to be. Now, that I am a bit older and wiser, I have spent some money on branding and creating more quality content etc, I am rebranding and relaunching the site with a new domain name. Although the traffic on the old site is laughable (i.e. non-existent), there are a few pages of good information on there and I don't want to lose any "juice" those pages may have gained because web crawlers have been seeing it for a few years now. Ok, the upshot of all that is this: I want to change my domain name from xyz.com to abc.com. I am maintaining the same friendly urls I had before, only the domanin name part of the url will change, so that any traffic coming to the old page will be forwarded/redirected? to the new page seamlessly. How do I go about achieving this (i.e. what are the steps I need to carry out, and to minimize any "disruption" to any credibility the existing site has with Googlebot etc? I am running Apache 2.x on a headless Linux (Ubuntu) server.


Why does my main domain sill show up as addon domain?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? I made my addon domain as a main domain, but Google search still show my new main domain as addon domain. What do i need to do to repair that? Do I need to use Webmasters tool to delete my old main domain or what? I really need help.


SEO implications of domain name change

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? Will changing a domain name of a popular web-site result in any SEO implications or will 301 redirects make the site stay exactly the same?


Will domain change affect my pagerank?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Renaming a domain and preserving PageRank I have two blogger's blog. (http://chankeypathak.blogspot.com and http://javaenthusiastic.blogspot.com) One blog has PR 3 and the other blog has PR 2. I want to buy the domain for both blogs so that they will become http://chankeypathak.com/ and http://javaenthusiastic.com/ I will follow all the procedures that Blogger suggests so that all the visitors to http://chankeypathak.blogspot.com will be redirected to http://chankeypathak.com/ and same for the java's blog. I just want to know that whether this will affect my pagerank or not? I want my PR to remain same and not to be change because of domain change. Let me know. Thank you. PS: I don't know whether one person is allowed to post his site's URL in questions or not. If it is not allowed then you may edit the question.


After a domain change, what can I do to recover lost traffic, rankings, impressions etc?

I moved my site to a legacy exact-match domain I purchased about a couple of months ago. I have seen significant reduction in traffic, impressions, and rankings. I did all the right steps/best practices: change of address in GWT, map old site hierarchy and match to new site for 301 redirects etc. Indexation has gone through the Google process: old site has all but dissappeared from he index and new site is indexed, albeit with some 404 errors which I am addressing. Does anyone else who has gone through eh domain change process have any thoughts/advice? Thanks!


Google Analytics doesn't show the correct landing page for my Facebook ads

Most of the visitors to my site are supposed to come from an external link with URL `example.com/en/var` from Facebook ads but Google Analytics shows that most of the landing page is `example.com/var` without `en` which is the prefix for English version of my site. Am I missing something to configure Google Analytics? Or is Facebook sending the visitors to the wrong URL (by the preview page of the Facebook ads the URL is set correct with the prefix en)?


SSL and green address bar

I am new to SSL so can someone explain why my address bar turns green when I'm on certain sites beginning with `https://` and sometimes it doesn't even though I know the site has SSL? Maybe these two nuances are not even related, but if I go to GoDaddy and order a new domain I notice their address bar is green the entire time I'm using the `https://` protocol, but then I go to Victoria's Secret to place an order and even though it says `https://` the address bar doesn't turn green.


How to find what keywords to target in large scale?

Currently we have a website with more than 300000 indexed pages and everyday there are 600 new pages added, the website is a news website. The strategy is that we start finding what keywords we should target and then start creating content and building links, etc. We know Google Trends, but we don't know about how to find 5000 keyword we should target (as an example 5000). Any ideas?


Where can I register .tw domain extensions?

I'm currently looking to register the Taiwanese version of my company's domain. Dynadot, doesn't register domains with that extension. I found a few places on the web: Godaddy has them, and a fewer smaller, shadier places claim to have them, but they start at $39.99/year which seems a bit outrageous. Has anyone found a more affordable, reliable registration company for .tw domains?


Googlebot keeps returning to crawl my page then the rankings fluctuate

I know that in order to get ranked the page has to be crawled by Google bots, I have had a page example of which I will get a better understanding of how the system works with Google. I have made a page on my website last month, it got indexed pretty quickly, then I found that it's in Google's page 15 on my keyword as a start, next day it made it to page 13, then after a week it was jumping back and forth in page 17/18 up to 20. Now a month passed by, when and it isn't listed in any position of that 'keyword' sometimes I will find it in page 30, but later I won't find it anywhere, keep happening this way these days. Even if it isn't listed in any page for my keyword if I do a search for `site:thepageadress` it will be listed which means I'm not penalized and my page is there for google to see, but it isn't in the search result for my keyword. But when I write `site:thepage_adress` and I hit "search tools" option and click on "Past day" or "past week" it isn't listed, it is only listed when I click on "Past month" which I think means that Google indexed the page, looked at it once when I published it, and never looked at it again, is this a fair statement? So two questions that comes to mind here.   1. Should Google keep looking at a page even if I haven't changed any info for it? and is this an indication for me that my page is doing fine? or is it normal that Google see's it once and thats it?   2. Why and how to fix the fact that my page keeps jumping back and forth in the ranking result for keyword, and sometimes it isn't even listed, what does that mean?


Enable mod_rewrite on OpenSuSE 11.04

I have a problem on OpenSuSE 11.04. I configured apache and enabled mod_rewrite but it doesn't working. on every php file I get 403 forbidden error.


How to incoporate Taiwan into ISO 3166-1?

I received a rather heartfelt e-mail from a user on our site explaining that Taiwan wasn't a province of China and that they wouldn't register until this was changed. Our site is made from a dozen or so valued contributors so we are going to change it. See issue here: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_specific.htm. I found the lines to edit in my CMS, but we have valued users from both China and Taiwan. I was wondering the most politically neutral way to amend my country codes. What should the entries for China and Taiwan say?


Is it possible to stream music/video from an Apache server?

I'm just starting to get into setting up a server. I've set up a basic Apache server to access some songs and movies. When I click one of the songs though, nothing happens. When I click one of the movies, sometimes it will open a new web page and act as though it is going to start playing, but never does. I know Apache is HTTP, not FTP and read somewhere that that could be a problem, but I'm uncertain of the differences. Anyway, is it possible to click on one of the songs and have it start streaming using, for example, Windows Media Player? If so, might someone either explain how to do so or direct me to where I can find it? Any information on retrieving media from an Apache server at this point would be most appreciated. -Edit- I don't know if it matters, but I'm using Windows 7 and Google Chrome


How do yelp and google business collect information about businesses?

* Do they work with some governmental sources ?    * Do they only use the information sent by business owners themselves ?   * Do they scrap the web to collect these information ?    * Do they have employees that go by themselves to locals and collect information from them ? I need the answer for a similar website I am working on, I am wondering how can I start with an empty database ?


Different authentication for HTTP POST and GET requests in Apache

I want to authenticate for POST requests for `http://path/to/logical/abc.xml` (but not GET requests to that URL). How do I put constraints like this in place? The paths are logical and location directive is not supported in `.htaccess`.


SEO for filename of images that are uploaded using Ruby on Rails

I'm use RoR 3.2 and carrierwave gem for upload images. I want will do SEO optimization for uploaded images filenames. For example I have model `Car(attributes: :id, :name, :avatar(carrierwave image uploader for this))` and model `Brand(attributes: :id, :name)`. After upload avatar for car, it creates an image with name _test1.jpg_. I want display this filename as _brand_name-car_name-filename.jpg_. And if the brand (or car) name changed - consider and display the correct brand name and car name. Is this important for SEO?


How to get rid of Heroku App domain in the search resutls

I am using Heroku to host my rails app and I have created a custom domain for the app at www.luminoto.com. I just did a search for "luminoto" and I see that the herokuapp domain (horschgallery.herokuapp.com) is popping up. Should I just create another domain in webmaster tools and use robots.txt to remove the Heroku domain from search results? Or will this in turn remove the Luminoto domain as well? Also does Google think that Luminoto is duplicate content or a cloned site?


WordPress .htaccess preventing subfolder access

This is sort of a goofy setup, but it's not in my power to reconfigure it at this time. I'm running in a shared hosting environment. The domain is `example.com`. This is an add-on domain on the host side with `example.com` being redirected to the `www/example.com` sub-directory. That directory houses a standard WordPress site which acts as the main site when you visit `example.com`. The _.htaccess_ file within that directory is:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^wp-admin/profile\.php$  /ssm/welcome [R]      </IfModule>      I have a subdirectory, at the root level with the `/example.com` subdirectory that houses a CakePHP application. That subdirectory is `/tracker`. My problem is that when I attempt to browse to `example.com/tracker`, I get a 404 from WordPress because permalinks are on. What I think I need is a rewrite rule in the WordPress _.htaccess_ file that short circuits the existing rewrite rules and permits `example.com/tracker` to work independently of the WordPress install. Or a rewrite rule at the root level that short circuits the redirect to the `/example.com` directory in the first place. Not sure how well I explained that so here's a summary. The `www/` directory structure:   * `example.com/`   * `tracker/` Add on domain of `www.example.com` redirecting to the `/example.com` directory with WordPress and a `tracker/` directory running CakePHP which I would like to access via `www.example.com/tracker`. If you need further info or clarification let me know!


Can I use a link rel publisher tag in the head of both of my business websites to connect them to my Google business page?

To connect my website to my Google business page, I should add   `<link href="https://plus.google.com/xxx" rel="publisher">`. But I have 2 pages because I have 2 different addresses. Should I add both of them? Which one will show up on the search results? My final goal here is to show my business info on the right side of the search results.


Configure Apache HTTP 2.2 for PUT method

I've written code for file upload and download using `HttpWebRequest`/`HttpWebResponse` class in C# with Apache 2.2 as a web server. In code I'm using `request.method = "PUT"`. I want to config my HTTP config file to support `PUT` method. I write PUT method script as:               <Location "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/output">     <Dav On     <LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS PUT>     Allow from all     </LimitExcept>     </Location>      That's not working. It shows error at program output: _(405) The method not allowed_.


Point sub directory to another IP?

We have a website that we want to keep on it's hosting - www.domain.com. We then want to point a sub directory to hosting that is somewhere else www.domain.com/new-website. Is it possible to have the root level of the domain to point to one hosting and a sub directory to point to another set of hosting using A records?


Tumblr Custom URL Not Working

I have bought a domain that I want to use as a unique Tumblr website but I can't get the url to pick up on Tumblr settings. The domain is a .com registered with 123-reg. I've set the CNAME to the correct tumblr url and also set the A record too. When I visit the url I get the Tumblr error page so I know that the domain is pointing, however when I go to settings in Tumblr and "Test" the url it says that it's not pointing and I can't save it. What could be the problem?


How to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com with DNS and IIS?

How can I redirect `example.com` to `www.example.com` using DNS / IIS? I wish to do this for an asp.net web site to prevent duplicate contents (Bad for SEO). I had 2 a record in dns (Windows Server 2008) for `example.com` and `www.example.com`. Also in IIS I added `example.com` and `www.example.com` in edit bindings. Which changes should I do in my IIS and DNS to redirect `domain.com` to `www.example.com`? Should I change the `web.config` file in my project?


Are there benefits of receiving external links from PR 0 or 1 sites for SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site? I'm thinking to do some link exchanges with PR0 or PR1 sites which have the related contents as my site. And my link will be in their link page and theirs will be in my link page. I have read somewhere that 1000 links from PR1 is equivalent to just 1 from PR4. Are there sill some SEO concerned benefits for doing this? Or if not above what PR will be worth exchanging links? Anyway I'm thinking to do it only with related pages.


Rackspace Cloud Servers in Europe?

We have setup a cloud virtual server at rackspace in the US, but we use it from Europe. I found out I am not quite happy with the response time. Of course I knew that there would be some latency. But I am not sure if it is the overseas latency (ping is 120ms) or also the minimal resources. It is the smallest machine, 256 MB, 10 GB, running a Mediawiki on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit. The Instance lives in the rackspace ORD1 datacenter. As soon as they have opened their new facilities in the UK we plan moving the incstance there. But we are planing more machines already. The pricing is quite attractive. I don't really want to do some measuring and benchmarking and this stuff, so I am asking just for your opinions and it would be nice to hear what you can tell from your experience. Maybe someone who uses such small instances in the US. And what can we really expect if we upgrade to more resources.


Structured data: Google Data Highlighter?

We're working on adding structured data for a richer snippet on search engine result pages. There are two type of structured data that I can't figure out how they're done. They seem to show up only on Google, so I'm suspecting Google Data Highlighter, but does anyone have any insights? Here are some examples.   1. Greyed out text list of products shown on that page. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/yMQGM.jpg)   1. Clickable links of products shown on that page. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TtxlL.jpg)


Syndicated blog content and search engines: helpful or harmful?

Against my advice, we've started buying blog content from a syndicator. The content is not unique, and searching for quoted phrases shows this content in use on a few dozen other blogs. My initial hope was that I'd be able to edit this material enough to make it unique before posting it, but there's too much of it and I just don't have the time. Realistically, the choice is between running the posts as they are, with very few edits, or not using the material at all. So, two questions:   1. Will using this content help us? It's unquestionably high-quality material that's informative, useful, and relevant to our line of business and prospective clients. We already have very good SEO, so it's hard for me to judge how helpful the syndicated posts are in bringing people to the site through a wider range of search queries. Obviously I wouldn't want to see our site show up in a list of results showing identical content (not to mention the dreaded "we have omitted some entries very similar..."), but that's hard to gauge too.   2. Will using this content _hurt_ us? The last thing I want is for Google's algorithm to perceive us as a content farm or a low-quality site. We run original posts as well as the syndicated ones, and I do still try to do _some_ editing on the syndicated posts when I have time. I've put a lot of work into ethical, white-hat SEO over the past couple of years, and as a result we're consistently among the most highly-ranked sites in our local area for our (very competitive) line of business. I'd do anything to avoid incurring a Panda penalty that undoes all that hard work.


Using RVsitebuilder

Does anybody have knowledge of using Rvsitebuilder to build a site? Would love some advice!


Google attempting crawl of URLs with parameter randomly placed in URL

We have a weird SEO issue; In Google Webmaster Tools we are seeing a huge spike in Not Found Server Errors. There are a set of several hundred dynamic pages which we need to maintain (though not have indexed) that look like this;               www.site.com/en-GB/Pages/job-details.aspx?job-id=123       But weirdly Google is generating thousands of 404 crawl errors trying to index URLs with this structure;               www.site.com/en-GB/Pages/job-id?/en-GB/Pages/job-details.aspx?job-id=172649       There are no;   * Internal links pointing to this or similar    * External links that we can find pointing to this or similar   * Errors in the sitemap.xml In a possibly related development; the URL Parameters section of Webmaster Tools, it’s listing some really weird parameters like; /en-GB/pages/job- details.aspx Which clearly is actually a chunk of the URL. We have tried excluding this and the ‘job-id’ parameter from Google by choosing Edit > Yes > No URLs Thought to no avail! My questions are:   1. Why would Google add a parameter mid-way through the URL and how do we stop it?   2. Why would Google think that a chunk of the URL was a parameter and how do we stop it? I’m pretty stuck on this, so your help is much appreciated!


Unwanted redirect from a domain to my site

An external person from my client company registered a domain and redirected to my client URL. For instance, if you type `unwanteddomain.com` it redirects to `myclientdomain.com`. Is there any way to block or redirect (for second time) to nowhere the `unwanteddomain.com` via cPanel or any rewrite rules on _.htaccess_?


Is adding a couple of keywords in the footer (no links) considered wrong doing?

Many posts claim that putting links with keywords in the footer is not considered a good practice by Google. Some claim Google may penalize you. But, is adding a couple of keywords without links in the footer considered a bad practice? I do notice that Google picks better ads, but does it trigger ranking penalties? How many keywords would be considered too much? Should I remove them overall? Here is a page example: http://myworldclocks.tostaky.biz/


Shopping Cart URL Structure

In regards to URL structure when it comes to guests and authenticated users, am I able to track traffic associated with both paths, but at the same time track total conversions going through the shopping cart? I have set up the following URL structure: **Authenticated users follow this path:**               /cart     /checkout     /checkout-confirmation-ty      **Guests go like such:**               /cart     /checkout-guest     /checkout-confirmation-guest-ty        1. can I track the authenticated and guest users separately?   2. is this possible with Google Analytics?


Redirect subdomain to local PC

I have a home web server which is constantly running. Is it possible to create a subdomain which would redirect traffic to another local PC? For example, I have one Server and one notebook (with web server installed for developing). Now I can access to notebook only from local network with IP. Server is also hosting domain example.com. Now I would like to visit " **laptop.example.com** ", which would be my laptop.


scorecardresearch dot com: weird tracking pixel

I'm seeing _very_ weird behaviour in relation to this domain and a tracking image. On a specific page on our site, I'm seeing a script that's being added dynamically, apparently via flash (I wasn't even aware that flash could alter the DOM ...) That script is located at: http://scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js When I request that URL, I see a 1x1 gif. Another weird point is that this domain appears to break all the web-based whois tools; entering that domain results in a 1x1 gif. This is even to the extent where, if I enter scorecardresearch.com into the Title as part of this question, GIF code appears just below it! Hence, the "dot" in the title. The only 'unusual' thing on the page is a slideshare 'widget', which is flash- based - that's why I'm concluding that flash is altering the DOM. Anyone know what is going on here? How concerned should I be?


Using Efficient CSS Selectors Page Speed 1.11

The new PageSpeed 1.11 does not suggest anything for using efficient CSS selectors. Does that mean that it does not affect the speed of my site. In PageSpeed 1.9, I scored and F (0) for not using efficient CSS selectors. Then, my overall score was 89. Now, there is no rule for efficient CSS selection and I score 93. Can anyone explain why Google has removed the rule.


How to interpret Events from Unique Events in Google Analytics?

I'm trying to add some javascript triggered Google Analytics events to a website that is already working with GA. I've included the following beneath the standard GA script (new ga.js script).               _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'Extension']);      Which seems to be working ok, but the results listed in the Events Overview report (after waiting 24 hours), don't make sense. It states that there have been 1 Total Events and 5 Unique Events (screenshot below). https://img.skitch.com/20110729-8hufapcq2366rq3cbpuihjgqjd.jpg


Meta description of my blog post changes

I have some problems in **Meta description** tags in my **Blogger blog**. When I update my pages in search engine with the help of the **Fetch as Google** feature in GWT, all my blog's results comes with a correct **meta description** like > Today I am back with a reason that "WHY IS ORIGINAL MEMORY IN HARD-DISK IS > LESS THAN PRINTED" on a box. If we buy any hard-disk or a pen drive... But after approx 5-6 days, it changes to my blog's default **meta description**. This is also happening after changing the default **meta description** of my blog. I want only one answer that **why** its happening? After deleting my blog and creating a new blog with the same name this problem was solved. Why this problem was solved? - I am asking this question because to solve problems in the future.


How do you disallow root in robots.txt, but allow a subdirectory?

Using robots.txt, how do you disallow the root of a site (http://www.example.com/) but allow a subdirectory (http://www.example.com/lessons/)?


Why Google indexing blog.mywebsite.com instead of www.mywebsite.com?

All subdomains works in my website, example this:               mywebsite.com     www.mywebsite.com     blog.mywebsite.com     feed.mywebsite.com     anything.mywebsite.com      But Google indexed some of my website pages with blog.mywebsite.com, any idea why google indexed **blog** instead of **www**?


Not able to stop hotlink

I am using following htaccess code to stop hot linking my image files               Options +FollowSymlinks     Options +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch          RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?article-stack.com/ [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$     ReWriteRule .*.(png|gif|jpg)$ - [N,F,L]      Still the imge of my site are accessible from other sites. how can i stop it?


Looking for a good mobile framework

I am looking for a good mobile framework. This is for a university library, providing access to some database resources, hours and the like. I have heard good things about the MIT Mobile Web Project and I know that some schools like Bucknell have used it and been pretty happy. Does anyone have any experience with this framework or any others? Thanks,


Online tool to convert photos into youtube video slideshow

I'm looking for a free online tool that would allow creating photo slideshows and uploading them to youtube. Animoto.com is a good example but only has a 30sec free option.


SEO techniques to handle frames

I have a webpage which has a topbar spanning across the top and then the content in a frame below. The content is on a different subdomain (i.e. the page is at `sub.foo.com` but the content frame at `site.foo.com`). When people search for the site on Google the link is often to the content subdomain (i.e. `site.foo.com`) rather than `sub.foo.com` which has the topbar, which they should be taken to instead. What are the best practices for handling this? We are implementing a redirect that will take the user to `sub.foo.com` if they go directly to `site.foo.com`, but I wanted to know if there were any SEO techniques we should be employing such as _robots.txt_ or canonical site tags to prevent the content subdomain being indexed and linked to from search engines. Needless to say, we do not want to lose ranking due to any techniques we employ.


how to control google's search engine result page of a website

lately google search seem to have interesting new result snippets and I wonder how they generate them. More specifically one got my attention, see the links "15 minutes - 5 minutes - Timer - E.ggTimer.com" in the screenshot. How can I generate these links?![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EJTvn.png)


Why does Google show sitelinks for our domain with one search and not another?

The name of our company is G2 Builders - What is happening is that if you go to google and type in "G2 Builder" with no "s" at the end, our website has sitelinks. When you type in our name with the "s" G2 Builders, we do not get sitelinks. My question is, does anyone know how I can fix this?


SEO domain redirect?

Lets say I have the following domains:   * Example.com   * Example.net   * example-two.com   * example-two.net Example-two.com and example-two.net redirect (godaddy domain forward) to a sub directory on example.com. Right now, I don't have example-two with any google results, how should I go about SEO for forward domains? Changing domains is not an option.


Getting the containing box of a given one in the CSS box-model

My understanding is that most layout (positioning and dimension) problems with CSS are the result of a bad understanding of which is containing box of the box you are trying to lay out. However as far as I can tell, there is no means to know which is that containing box in browsers development tools like firebug, chrome or opera's inspection utilities. So does anyone know a reliable way to get that information ? And if possible in a visual way, e.g. like the box margin, border and padding boundaries highlighting present in all modern browser.


GateIn + OpenAM 9.5.2

I'm actually trying GateIn for my firm and I don't manage to integrate OpenAM and GateIn. I follow all the steps in the GateInReference Guide but I've a problem. The scenario of the problem is :   1. Go to `localhost:8080/portal`   2. Click Administrator   3. I'm redirected to : `openam.vauban.com:2080/openam_s952/UI/Login?realm=gatein&goto=http://localhost:8080/portal/private/classic`   4. I filled in the form with root / gtn   5. I'm redirected to `localhost:8080/portal/private/classic` and the page is blank and the main fact is : The system seems to redirect me to this page infinitely.. Does Someone know an issue for this infinite loop? For information I have configured my OpenAM : Yo encode the cookies, use c66encode.


Sudden spike in pageviews in a WordPress site

A few days go I saw my "Pageviews" jump to an all time high....   * I did not add new content.    * I did not change or meddle with the WordPress plugins or themes    * I did not add edit or delete my site in Google Webmaster Tools  I am not complaining, just very curious why suddenly there's an increase? See the attached picture: ![Statpress Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ab9wy.png)


Are there any drawbacks to including UTM information on outbound links?

The question: > Pros and cons of tracking referral trafic with "utm" tags asks for pros and cons but is quite old at this point and doesn't have any Cons in the answer. Hopefully we can address the cons / drawbacks here without it being closed as a duplicate. Specifically I'm thinking of two things:   1. Some people use plug-in to automatically change or remove UTM codes just to "screw" with people.   2. Everyone has their own way of doing things with UTM and analytics and such, if they track at all. (I work in a B2B environment, and many of these guys have real old websites they hardly maintain or bother with.) So, what are the drawbacks to include UTM information on outbound links? We have a Dealer Locator and have started putting up Dealer Testimonials. I'm thinking it might be beneficial to include a UTM letting the dealer know the click-through came from us, if they check. But I'm not sure what risk there is since I certainly don't want to upset any of our dealers.


Subcategorising for URL structure

Please explain which is the best URL structure and why:               website.com/apartments-to-let/manhattan      or               website.com/apartments-to-let-manhattan      This is a property site. Is it best for the bots to break the properties/URL's down in categories?


Coverflow/3D slider jQuery plugin

I'm looking for a showcase jQuery plugin like this theme at: http://themeforest.net/item/showtime-business-and-portfolio-wordpress- theme/full_screen_preview/117367 It shows the focused image in the middle. It's the biggest. On the left or right there are smaller images and it flippes between them on click.


Meta description with post excerpt vs custom text (or none at all)?

I'm trying to understand what's the best option for SEO. I have a blog based in Wordpress. By default it doesn't have any functionality to add meta descriptions to posts, so I'm wondering whether this is on purpose or if should I install a plugin to add them manually or even generate them dynamically with the post excerpt. What are you doing in your blog today? And what is the best practice?


Is "Unlimited Bandwidth" bad?

I keep reading people saying "unlimited bandwidth hosting is a scam and you should run from hosting companies that offer unlimted bandwidth." While I know nothing is truly unlimited but is there a _real_ reason to not use a host that offers unlimited bandwidth other than the "gimmick" that most people see it as?


backlinks to our site are being ignored by google thus affecting our SEO

As a software developer company we do websites to our customers. In these websites we always put a link linking back to our site. However, we did today a Google search (link:http://mydomain.com) to see which sites were linking back at us, and the result was empty. Can someone explain why these backlinks on our customers websites are being ignored by Google?


Webmaster tools show old URLs are crawled

We renewed our website last year (2012) in December. After that we have put 301 redirection in place for the required pages. We removed some pages in old site when we moved to new site. For example : In the old site we had `http://www.mydomain.com/article/` and in new website we removed it. Pages that don't exist in new site we redirect it to 404 page. Since then, the `Webmaster -> Crawler Errors -> Not Found` report shows these old URLs with a **Response code** of 404. Also the **Linked from** section displays internal site links that refer to this page. When I checked these pages, the link is not found. I understand by reading this Google link http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409439 that these error don't harm our SEO, but I would like to know the exact reason why these happening.


Cookies Law- How will this affect my web Reports?

I would like to understand how the Cookies Law, will affect the web analytic reporting? Is there another way of tracking?


IP Banned from my own Website

So recently, I added a php script that had to refresh the page a lot. This apparently caused my website to think that I was DDoSing it, and it automatically ip banned me and a bunch of friends that were using it with me. I can access my site right now with a vpn, so I was wondering, how do I remove the IP ban from the firewall? I am using a paid shared hosting service, so I don't have root access to the server. I have access to the cpanel and all the tools that come with that. I'm thinking it isn't possible, but hopefully you guys have other ideas. Thanks for any help.


fireworks font / text problem

Fireworks cs5 (and cs4 for that matter) does not display fonts correctly. What I mean by that, Text appears different in browsers then it appears in fireworks. Changing anti-aliasing mode does not correct the problem and custom aliasing simply is not something I am willing to adjust every single time. Anyone knows a workaround or a fix for this? * * * EDIT: This link summarizes my problem. http://blog.hipchat.com/2010/11/03/how-adobe- ruined-fireworks-cs4cs5/


Static vs dynamic website search engine results

I am mobile software developer and I want to create a website like this one. I will have static webpages not dynamic ones (homepage, jobs, about, contact...). When people search on Google with this word: "iphone uygulama yaptirmak", and I want to be on the first page. Google wants dynamic pages, not static. That's why I want to ask you if it will be a problem for my website?


Email forwarding to Gmail accounts instead of maintaining a mail server?

I want to set up 4-5 email addresses on my newly purchased domain (from `namecheap.com`), for team size of just 2-3 people. But I really don't want to maintain my own mail server. I don't have the experience and I want to avoid the expenses involved. Maybe I could have kept the mail server alongside my webapp on the web server, but I want to avoid that as well. So I came across a workaround option to forward the emails. Thus I could setup email forwarding from NameCheap's management console to my free Gmail accounts. So all my emails would come to Gmail account, convenient & familiar interface as well free. Are there any serious drawbacks of this approach?


How transparent is a randomly named directory or file?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are files in a hidden directory safe? Let's pretend that I have a website and want to keep personal notes on it. If I make a directory like mysite.com/84eW93e7 or mysite.com/34aWe897.txt where the letters and numbers are random so randomly guessing the file or directory name are impractical. How secure is this directory? Could someone still discover the existence of the file or directory assuming directory listing is off? If so, how would they find out? Of course this isn't something I would do, I'm just curious.


Custom report for tracking webiste search within specific page

I've got a search page in my website: `www.example.com/?page=search`. It presents an HTML form with method="get" for searching the site so a search for "test" will result in url: `www.example.com/?page=search&q=test` There is also pagination so I end up with the following content pages tracked in analytics:               www.example.com/?page=search&q=foobar&page=2     www.example.com/?page=search&q=foobar&page=3     www.example.com/?page=search&q=foobar&page=4     www.example.com/?page=search&q=test     www.example.com/?page=search&q=test&page=2     www.example.com/?page=search&q=test&page=3     etc...      How is it possible to get a report for the search terms of "page=search"? Should I do it via the event tracking API or is there a configuration only way via Google Analytics? Maybe a custom report? thanks


How does Indeed.com make it to the top of every single search for every single city I search for?

I am very curious and want to understand how Indeed.com, the job board and job search engine company, is able to not only make it to the top of search engines for any city related job search but also dominate the top 5 to sometimes 8 positions completely on Google's first page of results when there is more than one city in the US with the same name. Try it - type in any combination like this: Austin jobs; New York Jobs; etc.. If you type in Boiling Springs jobs, a city name that is found in multiple states, you'll see they completely dominate the entire first page of results starting with position one. You can also see that same dominance if you type in a company name, like "GE Jobs" or even "PHP Jobs" How can they do this? First, this is a search engine - there are no real content pages on the site. If you get a list of results and click on one of the links, it takes you to the actual site where the job was found. Secondly, there are more than 40,000 cities in the US alone. I'll admit that there are some extremely talented SEO experts out there, but dominate every "word" plus "job" and "location" plus "job" combination that is typed into Google? Also, could their URL structure of the the search results have something to do with it? if you get a location result back, for example, its indeed.com/l-Boiling-Springs,-NC-jobs.html. From a developer's perspective, I have never used a construction like that before. As a side note, tripadvisor.com, who dominates almost every query related to travel, uses the same structure. What are these guys doing? Thoughts? EDIT: I was continuing my research and I typed in "indeed.com url structure." Guess what came up in the search results? http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Changing-Url-Structure-l-Arkansas.html First, I cannot imagine that there are so many jobs in the world, and so many backlinks to the page, that it merited it's on webpage but also showed up before any other possible result. How did it take my query, build a page on the fly, and then push itself immediately to the top of google for the result?


Does changing the URL of your website helps getting out of Google sandbox?

I believe one of my websites went into Google's sandbox, because it was under construction. I know there is a debate about whether the sandbox exists, but when I read about it, it really seems like it exists and that I fell into it. My site is now finished and clean white hat SEO has been applied. I can see that the web URL is in the index with the site command. However, it does not rank for its keywords (it does not appear in search result) for the past two weeks. Google Webmaster crawl stats are erratic. The cache command returns a pretty recent version of it. I have read somewhere that changing the URL of one's website helps solving the Google Sandbox effect. Has anyone tried this and did it work? Would you recommend this? Thanks. **Update** I have performed a small test where I copied my site on another server with another IP address and another URL. I made a small modification to the title, but the content remained the same. That new site was indexed quickly, but it did not help getting out of the sandbox. So, this time, I know for sure this technique does not help... However, I noticed that setting a sitemap in my `robots.txt` with proper `lastmod` values for modified pages, helped update the cached page and the keywords in Google Webmaster Tools. My guess is that Google reads `robots.txt` more frequently than it crawls my sandbox pages, which helps presenting more recent content to users and accelerate the exit from the sandbox effect.


Blocking referral traffic

I am currently getting a massive amount of referral traffic to my site (Spam), that can sometime generate 1-2 GB worth of traffic per a day (which kinda sucks, when you have a 10GB limit from the hosting company). I am seeing 4-5000 hits per day, generating 20-25000 page views... It seems that almost every day I'm having to add new sites to my .htaccess file to prevent my site being closed because I exceed my traffic limitations. From what I can see in the logs, whenever I add a site to be blocked, the traffic just starts coming from a new site within a couple hours. Here is something from my .htaccess file currently:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www\.everyoneweb\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://freefilearchive\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://4runnerforex\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www\.julznakomua\.strefa\.pl [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://drugbuyersforum\.org [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://protopage\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://stupidvideos\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^https://sourceforge\.net [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www\.sourceforge\.net [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www\.thoughts\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www\.youfreeweb\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www\.facebook\.com\\notes\\phentermine [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://theresaraatt\.over-blog\.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://grou\.ps [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www\.reverbnation\.com     RewriteRule (.*) http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]          order allow,deny     deny from 109.227.125.     deny from 109.227.124.     allow from all      Does anyone have an idea what could be done, about all that traffic coming my way ?


Difference between meta tags Content-Language and language

What's the difference between these two meta-tags               <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="de, en"/>     <meta name="language" content="de, en">      Are they both needed?


Yahoo Site Explorer API replacement?

Since the Yahoo Site Explorer Web Services API is going away at the end of 2010, are there any other web search APIs that offer similar information? In particular, I'm interested in services similar to Inbound Links API and PageData API. I've heard a little bit about Majestic SEO, but don't know much about what they can offer in terms of APIs. Information about them or any other service is much appreciated. :)


google analytics: what's the date range of front page numbers?

I'm new to GA. Below is my landing page for GA, but what is the date range for the circled portion? Is it all time since GA was installed on site? eg, have there been 1,332 visits on my site since the beginning of when Google Analytics was installed on the site? ![What is the date range of selected area?](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YTmHg.png)


How to show off press your website is getting?

My product has been getting some good press lately, and I'd like to link to those articles from my blog. My concern is that Google will see this as a reciprocal link, and I'll lose any SEO benefit that the articles gave me. Is this a valid concern? How do you show off press that your product is getting?


Should I add meta "noindex, nofollow" to a Tag cloud page?

I have a giant tag cloud on my site and I'm trying to optimize it for search engine crawlers in order to avoid keyword stuffing penalties. In your experience, adding `noindex` or `nofollow` to the Tag cloud page could have some Seo result? Are there some best practices to properly code a huge Tag cloud with hundreds of internal links?


What exactly is an SEO badge and how does it help my SEO?

I'm using attracta.com as an SEO tool to try and improve my SEO. They say that I should use an SEO badge to improve my ranking but I don't really understand what it is or what it does (a quick Google search didn't provide too much information). I was just wondering if any of you guys here at stackoverflow had any information they would be able to impart to me. Thanks for your help!


Is it good to generate dynamic keywords every time when page loaded?(SEO)

I have my web portfolio.   On my main page I have recently 6 added works from database(works with descriptions).   I have created a php script ,php script generaeted keywords from 6 texts more then 100 keywords.When page loaded ,sript randomly generate 10 keywords from 100


What is best practice for securing access to GMail for an enterprise?

Is there any way to restrict access to Gmail accounts from certain IP/MAC addresses ? For instance, can I setup Google Apps so that my users can access their GMail account from within the corporate firewall or from outside the firewall on a known machine, but not from a public browser or public machine. Or what would be best practice to prevent unauthorized access to corporate GMail accounts?


Fetch as Google error 403

2 weeks ago, Google started being unable access my website anymore. In Webmaster Tools I can't fetch any pages, always getting error 403, and the website has been completely dropped from Google search results. I can't figure why it suddenly can't see it anymore. I've checked .htaccess and there is nothing that blocks Google crawlers, and robots.txt is fine too. The site is accessible normally for users.   Has anyone had this problem?


vBulletin 3 spam solutions

We use vBulletin 3 for our forums, with a ReCaptcha, a simple "To verify you're a real person, what is the FIRST letter of the English alphabet?" question on signup, and a verified email address required to post. We're also using "TypePad Antispam Beta" to automatically monitor posts for spam content. Previously this has been enough to keep us down to 1-2 spammers every month or so, but in the last week we've had a sudden explosion of 3-4 every day. :( Are there any other common plugins or solutions we could try to keep spam under control? I'd rather not turn on moderation for new user's posts, as that'll create a lot of work for us to approve them. I've checked the spamming users, and unfortunately there's no common factor (IP address, email domain etc) to identify them as spammers like I've seen in the past. They're all from different addresses, they use competent email services like gmail etc, so there's nothing trivial I can do to block them that way.


Schema markup error in Google Webmaster Tools: Missing required field "name (fn)"

I'm receiving this schema markup error when I try to validate my code in Google Webmaster Tools: > Error: Missing required field "name (fn)". I'm trying to markup the following:   * Type: Schema product   * Property: Image This is my domain: www(dot)wishpicker(dot)com


Defunct website taken over by spammer. How to stop them?

A friend of mine used to publish a small literary fiction magazine, both in print and on the web. In 2011 she announced that she was quitting, put a note on the website, and carefully unwound the subscriptions. She continued hosting the site (with all the back-issues available for free) until the beginning of this year, when she let the hosting lapse and the domain name expire. Today she discovered that some unknown person has purchased her former domain name and put up a modified version of her entire site. The design is different but all the content is the same, including all of the back-issues of the magazine (and the stories by diverse authors contained within), their cover art, news posts, and even her contact information. All the content would have been available from Archive.org, so it's no mystery how they got it. The only thing noticeably changed is a column added to the front page titled "Favorite Videos", with around 35 links to Youtube videos. The links are named things like "Video (Worry)" and "Video (Squirting)" and the videos all feature a man named Leo giving dubious advice and promoting his life-coaching website. Here's one of the suspect videos. There does not appear to be any connection between the content of the videos and my friend or her magazine. I also posted to the Security StackExchange to ask why someone would do this and what the security risks are to her. What I want to know here is, what can she do to stop them? To be clear she doesn't want the domain name back. She just doesn't want her name and copyrighted material used deceptively. Also, what (if anything) could she have done when shutting down her website to avoid this happening?


Which meta names are case-sensitive?

I am the developer of an HTML checking tool. I want to check meta names to make sure they match case-sensitively when it matters. All I've come across so far (according to Google) is that this meta name ("google-site-verification") should be case sensitive as in:               <meta name="google-site-verification" content="XXX">      That is, you would not want to use this:               <meta name="GOOGLE-SITE-verification" content="XXX">      Are there any other meta names that are case-sensitive? I'd like to check for this in my tool. UPDATE: Looks like Microsoft has many more that are case-sensitive, most of which are msapplication-*: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en- us/library/ie/dn255024.aspx


vhost set up help -- domain and ip point to the same site

I have these virtual hosts set up however when I browse to `domain.com` or `123.45.67.89` they both point to `/var/www/html/`. How can I get them set up so they point to correct DocumentRoot?               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName 123.45.67.89       DocumentRoot /var/www/html/     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName domain.com       DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/htdocs     </VirtualHost>      **EDIT** : I actually had a seperate vhosts.conf file located in `/etc/httpd/conf.d/`. Subsequently this was being loaded (unbeknownst to me) by `Include conf.d/*.conf` before --               NameVirtualHost *:80     Listen 80      I have moved the vhosts out of that directory and into `/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/` and amended my Include file at the bottom of `httpd.conf` to --               Include /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/*.conf      I have also tried uncommenting `ServerName` and defining it as my servers IP and removing the first `VirtualHost`. The result of this is that `domain.com` points to the correct site though the IP points to that site now too.


Redirect all images in a directory to another website using .htaccess

How can I redirect all `.png` and `.jpg` image URLs within the `/tool/img` directory to another website? Filenames can consist of special (unicode) characters. For example, the following URL:               http://example.com/tool/img/filename-with-special-chars.png      Should redirect to:               http://newdomain.com/img/filename-with-special-chars.png


Using web.archive.org to recover website data

I had a mediawiki website and there were some images which were removed because of useless. Later all images were deleted but links to them were saved in the form like:               http://web.com/images/*/*.jpg      I've tried to put links to the from on https://archive.org/web/ Then I receive my images on the link:               https://web.archive.org/web/*some date*/http://web.com/images/*/*.jpg      How can I get all images contained in list.txt file which were saved with webarchive? My idea is to use curl because of complex POST and GET queries but I can't understand how to make it work with webarchive.


How to test a subdomain created with cPanel when using local hosts file entry for that subdomain

I'm using Wordpress and Vanilla to run a site with supporting forums. WP is the in the root folder and vanilla is in the sub-folder 'forum'. This works on my local machine with the following HOSTS file entries: 127.0.0.1 dev.mydomain.com 127.0.0.1 devforum.mydomain.com I moved all the code up to a VPS and imported the DBs (including minor DB record changes necessary for WP migration). On the VPS, I have used WHM/cPanel to setup www.mydomain.com and forum.mydomain.com, where the forum software is installed in a sub-folder of the main site. I used cPanel to create the subdomain and selected the correct sub-folder (public_html/forum/). The following entries in my local HOSTS file to map the VPS's IP address as I do not want global DNS servers to point the domain at my VPS just yet. Here are my local entries: 123.123.123.123 www.mydomain.com 123.123.123.123 forum.mydomain.com Wordpress works fine on www.mydomain.com, but the subdomain is redirecting to a default website page: forum.mydomain.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi Any thoughts on what I should be checking? I've triple checked everything I can think of, but it's saturday night and I think the coding beers are kicking in..


Writing a Web Instant messenger

I am trying to figure out how to write an instant messenger like Google talk/Facebook Chat for my website. The accounts would all be in a mysql database. How could I get started with this?


Should I escape the Apostrophe ( ' ) character with its HTML entity (')?

What characters should be escaped with their HTML entities. For example, `&` is escaped with `&`. Should `'` be escaped with `'`?


What payment options should we provide to maximize our customer base in Europe and the Americas?

With an international customer base, how do other sites decide what payment options to provide to users? I've been trying to find the most popular online payment service providers, preferably broken down by country. For instance, which payment service providers process the most transactions, when users in Mexico buy goods online? Ideally, I'd like to find the same data for all countries in North America, South America, and Europe. In the U.S., possible answers might include services such as Paypal, Google Checkout, or Authorize.net. Any idea where I might be able to find that kind of data? Or is there a better way to decide? Thanks!


Difference between forwarding and redirecting in GoDaddy?

I have a GoDaddy account with a domain and hosting, and I see that I can _forward_ the subdomains in https://dcc.godaddy.com/ or _redirect_ subdomains in Hosting->Settings->"URL Redirects". What's the difference between redirecting of forwarding a subdomain?


I am using PHPCake/cPanel/ HostGator/Win8 OS, How can I search for words/commands within many files at once?

How can I search for a specific string (function name or a variable name) in my files which are in various directories under cPanel file manager? I am a beginner. So please be extra wordy with your explanation :) I have seen other state something about grep, but I do not have linux or any special software. If someone could tell me what I need to get started would be greatly appreciated.


How to conduct A/B split testing with AdSense?

Ok so I have decided to A/B test my AdSense ads. I have run a few tests, but I don't know what conclusion to draw and how to keep track of things. Some specific questions:   1. If I have 2 test units, 1 wins. I test that with a new and so on. How do I find if say the fifth one did better than the first one? How do I keep track of things?   2. Do I let the variables independent of each other, because they certainly are not. In real life, font size can affect CTR even if the colors are different.   3. I can test blue color with red color, and then test Arial font with Georgia, but how do I know which combination is the best? This would result in way too many test units. I tried Googling a lot, but I could not find answers to these questions.


do text ads count as backlinks?

Do text link ads, like the ones from text-link-ads.com act as backlinks ? Surly they work as normal anchor text, but are search engines wise to this technique and just not count them ?


MODX based site has been compromised, and tagged by Google as malware

I'm the webmaster (inherited the site from the developer) for a site called kenbrook.org. The site is currently being tagged as malware infected by Google, and gives the following details: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=kenbrook.org Sadly, this is the second time it has occurred. I posted the issue when it happened last year originally on Stackoverflow on this post, shortly after I inherited the site. At the time the fix was a simple removal of a few lines of code from a .js file, but I never did discover or resolve the vulnerability. The site is built on MODX, which neither I, nor the original builder, have any familiarity with. I've tried to check for security updates from MODX, but updating that software has been a real pain also. Sooo...what's my next step to getting this whole issue resolved? Or steps?


How to set up a mail server on Linux only for sending admin/debug emails?

I need to send server reports to myself from my remote servers, and I don't mind them going to spam, so I don't need SPF, DKIM, etc. I tried using `mailutils` to send something like this: `uptime | mail -s "uptime" foo@bar.com`, but the emails don't go through. In /var/mail/root I received a message saying the HELO was invalid. So then I tried also adding `-r root@my-ip`, and now I don't get any error messages but I don't receive the email either. How can I do this?


What is your toolset?

What tools, free or otherwise do you use to help you with your "webmastering" I'm thinking along the lines of, Link checking, analytics, web stats, page validation, plus anything else you can think of! Personally I use: webmasters tools, google analytics, AWstats I'm looking for anything (free or paid) which maybe hovering under my radar which could be of use.


Ad serving applications - alternative to Openx?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  PHP based ad server ( alternative to OpenX ) I have been serving ads via OpenX on a site for a while now but was recently hit by the SQL Injection vulnerability in the software which caused all sorts of problems. I am looking for an alternative to OpenX. It doesn't have to be open source, so far Ad Butler is looking the most promising. Any one have any suggestions for a decent ad serving solution?


Best practice when translating sites into multiple languages - new domains?

For the same website I've got 3 domains: `.fr`, `.com`, and `.co.uk`. To start with it was to avoid people buying the same name. I used have my content in French only and redirected all the traffic to the .com using 301. Now I've got all my content translated from french wonder what would be the best thing to do:   * `www.domain.fr`: French content    * `www.domain.com`: English content or keep the 301 and go for   * `www.domain.com/fr/`: French content    * `www.domain.com/en/`: English content  The obvious seems to use `.fr` for French and `.com` for English, but what's about the `co.uk`? I'm planning on get it translated into Spanish and German, using               /fr/     /en/     /es/     /de/       It will be easier and cheaper than buying more domains. I'm planning to do my change in 2 weeks and once it's done, unless I start to create long and painful rewrite rules, I will lose my Google rank.


URL Rewrite http to https EXCEPT files in a specific subfolder

I am trying to force all traffic on my web site to use HTTPS, using the URL Rewrite 2.0 module added to IIS 7.5. I got that working and now have a need to exclude a couple of pages from using SSL. So I need a rule to rewrite all URL except those referencing this folder to HTTPS. I've been banging my head against the wall on this and am hoping someone can help. I tried creating a rule to match all URL except those in a nossl subfolder as in this example:               <rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">       <match url="(/nossl/.*)" negate="true" />       <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">             <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" />       </conditions>       <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Found" />     </rule>      But this doesn't work. Can anyone help?


Overuse of <h1> was bad, but now, with HTML5?

We know that the overuse of `<h1>` can lead to an over-optimization penalty, but now, in HTML5 it's allowed to use multiple `<h1>` in the same page (inside nested sections). What will Google do with pages containing `<h1>` titles only?


I used a 301 Permanent Redirect to a 3rd party site by mistake! Can I stop the redirection?

Oh Noes! I've been parking a domain name for a friend/client of mine on my hosting provider (Dreamhost, FWIW) for a while, and they eventually asked me to redirect their domain to a 3rd party website which is currently featuring some relevant promotional content. Once this period ends, we will probably go ahead and set up a proper website for the domain on my hosting account. I used Dreamhost's "redirect" hosting option in their domain configuration panel, not realizing that it would implement a 301 Permanent redirect, or what the implications were. Now it seems that for any client that has visited the site anytime recently, the 301 redirect is still cached/in effect, although I have changed the domain settings back to regular Dreamhost full site hosting. It seems that the only thing that can be done is to wait out the TTL/cache expiration for the redirect. I have no idea how long that might be, so I'm wondering if there is any good way to cache-bust the redirect or otherwise undo its long-term effects. I put a simple html meta refresh in the domain folder to replace the 301 to keep the intended functionality in place, but I'm still not able to access the domain's other content normally, even via FTP, etc. Isn't there anything I can do? Otherwise, how long does it take for a cached redirect to expire? It's gonna be a bummer if it's _really_ permanent.