Is a 302 redirect to a random URL from the homepage an SEO problem?

I originally posted this on Stackoverflow, but I believe here is a better place to ask. My web application is very similar to notepad.cc which redirects to a randomly generated URL upon access, e.g. `http://myapp.com/roTr94h4Gd`. (Please note that notepad.cc is not my site.) Probably because of this redirect feature, when I do "fetch as Google" or "fetch as Bingbot", I get a 302 and no html content. Not even a `<html></html>` tag.               HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily     Server: nginx/1.4.1     Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:37:37 GMT     Content-Type: text/html     Transfer-Encoding: chunked     Connection: keep-alive     X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.17-1~dotdeb.1     Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=vp99q5e5t5810e3bnnnvi6sfo2; expires=Thu, 03-Oct-2013 04:37:37 GMT; path=/     Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0     Pragma: no-cache     Location: /roTr94h4Gd      How should I avoid 302 in this case? I suppose I could modify my site to prevent the redirect, but it is a necessary feature of my web app to generate a random URL on each access. I added `<meta name="fragment" content="!">` tag into my index page and set it to return a static snapshot of my page when the flag is set. But this still returns a 302. I also added a header to return 200 before redirecting, but this had no effect, either. Could someone tell me a good suggestion to solve this problem?


Getting away from a customized Magento 1.4 installation - Magento 1.6, OpenCart, or others?

I'm dealing with a Magento 1.4.0.0 Community Edition installation with various undocumented changes to the core (mostly integration with an ERP system), an outdated Sweet Tooth Points & Rewards module and some custom payment providers. It also doubles as a mediocre blogging/CMS system. It has one store each for 3 different languages, with about 40 product categories for a few hundred products. The client is planning to redesign the site, and is considering upgrading to Magento 1.6 or 1.7 if it has improved from 1.4. The client is also open to other e-commerce systems. I've looked at OpenCart and it seems to be quite developer friendly with a fairly simple structure. I found some complaints regarding its performance when the shop has thousands of categories or products, but this is not an issue with the current number of products my client has. It seems to be solid ground for easy customization to bring the rewards system and ERP integration over. What should the client upgrade to in this case, are the newer versions of Magento genuinely better or should I consider another system entirely?


"Included" search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO

When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be simple to explain it using the following example. We develop and sell software development components, and one of them is an ActiveX grid control. We definitely know that "activex grid" and "activex grid control" are two best phrases we should use for SEO. And as you can see, one phrase includes the other one. But the dilemma is the following: what is the best phrase for the home page for the product? I.e. ourdomain.com/activex-grid or ourdomain.com/activex-grid-control? (sure, we will use the corresponding phrase "AciveX Grid" or "ActiveX Grid Control" in the title/H1) Can anybody tell us, will it have the same effect for Google ranking when the user searches for "activex grid" if we use "activex grid control" for the product home? In other words, do we dilute the strength of the "activex grid" search phrase when using one more word ("control") at the end?


Paid Website Code Review

I have written a pretty extensive webapp and it is going to go live in the next fews weeks and before I really publicize it I want to get some professionals to review it for optimization and best practices. Is there any online service or way to find local software engineers who would be willing to do this? Just to give some specifics that may be helpful, my site is on Google App Engine and written in Python and it is tough to find someone with extensive experience in that area.


Using Amazon S3 has increased the page load time? Why?

I am optimising the page load time for my site. After a bunch of changes, the load time had decreased. As suggested by a lot of people, I decided to use Amazon's S3 to store and serve my static content. This increased the page load time by almost a whole second. Why does this happen and how can I optimise the same?


Domain Alias with forward in plesk

I need to create a domain alias `alias.domain.com` to forward http to `www.domain.com`. It has to be a forward and not a redirect (I was told it can be done by creating CNAME). Note I am using Plesk and creating a domain alias in plesk creates an A record not a CNAME. Any thoughts please?


How to register a .eu domain?

I want register a domain under the .eu TLD, but I don't live in Europe [which is a requiriment to that]. I'd like to know if there is any website which register the domain on its name or any other solution.


Base top level domain name search not showing up in Google

We've had a few occasions over the years where certain domain names just won't show up in Google. Let me give an example: Let's say I have a domain that is called www.mybusiness.com. I search for mybusiness.com in Google and that domain pops up as the first result. Now, if I remove the .com part and run the search again, the domain disappears completely from the SERP. The site has a sitemap.xml file generated, we've linked up Google webmaster tools and have verified the site, it has the necessary meta tags in too and we've also tweaked page titles to the desired lengths. Some thoughts we had were:   * The domain is just very young and will start showing up organically over time. Not really an option for clients though. :)   * There's not enough substantial content on the home page to make the site rank organically?   * Too few links to the site?   * Extremely generic name or foreign language in the domain? I'd appreciate any feedback or insight.


Does "Service Provider" dimension correspond to "ISP Organization" filter in Analytics?

I'm trying to create a filter based on "Service Provider" dimension (Audience > Technology > Network), but there is no such filter field, only "ISP Organization" (and there is no such dimension in return). Do those two mean the same?


embed linux console in website/using web language to communicate with fedora/linux server

I have some problem here as I want to build a website which able to communicate with fedora server to create account.   The website will be something like this   * user will access an IP to access the website   * website is running in window web browser eg. IE, mozila   * the website will allow user to key in their own ID, username and password to create their user account    So, what I think will be is there any web language to communicate with linux/ run linux command eg. mkdir, useradd??? The webpage need to written in what web language in order to support the requirement??Any link for reference is appreciated Thanks in advance.


Submitting vBulletin Sitemap to Google

I'm using Google Webmaster Tools to get my forum out there, and when I go to submit the sitemap I get the following error: > Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap > format instead. I've gotten this on numerious directories and files. I thought `/public_html/forums/store_sitemap` would do it, but I got two of the exact same error message. I've even tried downloading and uploading a _sitemap.xml_ document, but it gave me the same thing. It's the same error message for everything. I'd like to keep this as automated as possible since vBulletin can generate a new sitemap upon my choosing.


Which registrar checks the most domains?

When I want a new domain, I usually use GoDaddy to check, and another registrar to register. This is because GoDaddy check my wanted domain against the most TLD's. Are there any other sites/registrars that checks against more TLD's? What I want is to type my wanted second-level domain.. Ex: bobsplace. And then it searches through bobsplace.com bobsplace.net bobsplace.me etc, and reports back to me which is availible or not


Question about AJAX saftey please help inquire

I have a social network that I am creating and have a security question. I have the ability to have friends on the website and when you request a friend it would be a button that would run a script with AJAX using jQuery. I know that javascript can be easily hacked and also read here http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/ajax.htm that AJAX is not as secure as it would seem. They state that "Since XML HTTP requests function by using the same protocol as all else on the web (HTTP), technically speaking, AJAX-based web applications are vulnerable to the same hacking methodologies as ‘normal’ applications" . So basically I don't want a worm to just keep running friend requests through my AJAX function and someone signs on the site and they have 14 million friend requests. This is also an issue with several other AJAX scripts that I run on the site. The question that I have is that should I just keep everything server side. I am using php so should every friend request just be a reload of the page as much as I would like to avoid such a thing? Please any help would be greatly appreciated.


safe to assume microsoft core fonts would be installed on client linux?

How safe is it as a web designer to assume that `msttcorefonts` would have beeb installed on a client machine viewing my website? If not what sans serif fonts should I use then? (for body)


From SEO point of view is hiding H1 in this case bad for indexing?

I'm having to use a 3rd party CMS and I cannot change the contents of the h3 (or the h3 itself) I've not had too much dealing with "cufon" - presume its an old fashioned way of using a specific font. I'm guessing it's not legit HTML so not indexed. Therefore I wanted to include the page's header in an `H1`
                <cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Alternative text " style="..inline styles..">        <canvas width="73" height="18" style="..inline styles.."></canvas>          <cufontext>Page </cufontext></cufon><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="Page" style="..inline styles..">          <canvas width="76" height="18" style="..inline styles.."></canvas>          <cufontext>Content</cufontext>        </cufon>

Page Content

This is my content etc
      where               .offthepage { margin-left:-10000px; position:absolute}      or               .verysmall { height:1px, position:absolute; left:1px; etc }      Would the page be penalised (from SE indexing perspective) for that? or is there a more robust / SE friendly way of doing it without it being consider keyword stuffing? thanks


Where do you draw the line on hate speech in user generated content?

Do **you** censor user generated content that's not illegal and doesn't personally attack another user of your website for being hate speech? If so, where do **you** draw the line? EDIT: A few cases where different people might have different ideas about whether speech should be censored: _"I would never vote for Obama because he's black and blacks have a lower IQ than whites"_ _"Homosexuality is a crime, just because some countries have legalized homosexuality doesn't mean that it isn't."_ _"Israelis should go home to where they came from."_ _"The holocaust never happened."_ _"Everyone who voted for Bush has blood on their hands."_ _"All Republicans are racist."_ What principle would you use to decide which of those statements are hate speech?


When a person lands on a personal website, what do they expect to see on the homepage?

I'm torn between making my homepage listing of (5-10 max) recent blog posts versus making my homepage my "about me" bio page. I can make the case for both (and if someone would like me to, leave a comment and I will). I think that my case for both is equally strong, but is there any evidence, scientific or anecdotal, as to what type of page or what content the homepage of a personal website should be? I should add that I am interested not only in presenting content that would be expected, but also producing something that would help in ensuring decent result placement when searching for my site. That said, SEO is not my primary concern - I would suspect that most people who visit my site are either friends or colleagues who I have told about my site, people who have read my profile on a public site and want to know more about me, or people who have received my resume and wish to know more about me.


Is PCI compliance scrutinised?

After reading the very strongly worded recommendations regarding the storage of credit card details here, I've got to wonder - what happens if a non-PCI compliant company starts storing credit card details (I'm 100% sure that there are companies out there doing this). For example, let's say I hadn't asked my question on here and I forged ahead and just decided to store customer credit card details and used some basic AES encryption. Now what? If we never get hacked, is anyone going to ask? Will Visa, or our merchant, ever want to inspect our servers? What are the consequences of not using PCI compliant infrastructure? Disclaimer: I get the hint - this is a **bad** idea and we won't be doing it, but I'm curious


CSS: single directive generic class vs. style-attribute on element

## Single directive generic class ### CSS               .text-center { text-align: center }      ### HTML
center me
      That is our (not really) generic class and while we see this more and more over the web, there is no real explanation given why one should use it. Explanations like _re-usable CSS classes_ don’t apply here. This class is as re-usable as the old `<center>` tag. Also, we cannot change the body of the rule, as it would not make sense anymore. It’s absolutely not semantic either. ## The good old `style`-attribute ### HTML
center me
      In the end, we have the same as above, but only in the place where we need it. ## Why? This might be a bad question, because the answer’s may be driven by taste. But personally I’d be interested in an answer that goes along with an explanation. Maybe something like _“using the CSS class will ensure that it’s rendered faster”_ and if possible combined with hard proof. ## Interesting Reads The following are directly related to this question, because they are the reason why I started thinking about this topic:   * Keep your classes clean   * Semantic class names


My wordpress site blacklisted as malware by Google

Two years ago I've built a small Wordpress site for a friend of mine, and some weeks ago I got a warning mail from my ISP, about a _worldwide attack to Joomla, Wordpress..._ (well, more or less, it was italian, of course). I had no idea what to do, and nothing seemed to happen. Two days ago, browsing to that site I got a message from my browser (Firefox), about possible malware being detected on my site. I think I've found something to clear, namely a _.htaccess_ under `/public_html` directory, containing only:               RewriteBase /     RewriteEngine on      Well, I can browse that and then I can delete it. But there is also a `skript.php` that I can't inspect - and then neither delete - insufficient permission. EDIT: Now I found also that in _wp-admin_ there is an `images.php` that also I can't inspect, and an _.htaccess_ containing the redirection to the site Google was advising against. I'm using FTP now to check the site, because cpanel (accessed of course with the browser) also give the warning. It's safe to use cpanel? I can't see other way to clean up my site.


How to set up Https on cPanel

Hello   I want to set up http **s** on CPanel! but I don't know how?   Is there anyone here that can help me? My cpanel version is cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1).


SEO: disallowing Google from indexing forms?

**From a SEO point of view, would you exclude forms from being indexed/crawled by Google or not?** I mean my forms hardly ever contains keyword/keyphrases. So I'm wondering what's the point of letting Google index them? Moreover I think these form-pages might reduce PR of all other pages in the site cause the other pages are linking to the form-pages. If your answer is "yes I would exclude them form indexing" would you simply use robots.txt to exclude them? Thanks!


Place google map on website

I want to place google map on my website, how can I place google map on my website? can you give any already placed google map link and explain how can I add it on my website also!!!


Where can I get Apple logo with free license

I am working on a site that provide free tools, some of the tools are multi- platform and therefore I want to put the Icon of each OS, I already got linux icon and windows icon with free license but I couldnt find the apple one. does anyone know where can I get it from? thank you.


Manage own framework

I have developed my own little framework for webpages. And for different websites I had to change some parts of the framework respectively developed new features / improvements. But in some cases I missed to copy the changes in the original framework code. How do you manage your frameworks? I copy the complete framework to a library folder in my projects folder structure. So I have a copy of the framework in every project. I would like to have it on one place in order to modify / improve / bugfix it once and then distribute it on the projects.


Several sub domains pointing to one folder. Fasthosts problem

I have a ASP.net website e.g. `www.website.com`. The idea is that you will go to the URL 'yourname.website.com' and my site will request the name from the sub domain, process it and change the content accordingly. I purchased my Fasthosts hosting package and created a sub domain which points to a folder on my web hosting package at Fast Hosts. e.g. `www.website.com/folder`. However when I now go to the URL `yourname.website.com` it is immediately redirected to `website.com/folder`. This means I cannot request the sub domain from the URL because it has been lost. I have tried contacting these guys but they don't understand and keep going on about some sort of redirect script (although I don't see how any further redirects can solve my problem). Is there something I am missing here?


Avoiding crawl time for noindex pages

I have pages with `noindex` in robots meta tag (specifically inner site search results pages). Because my site has many pages and Google hasn't crawled them all and I'm trying to help his crawler focus and not waste time on irrelevant pages (such as these `noindex` pages). If I add a `nofollow` to the **a href that links to these pages** , will that help? Is the `noindex` in the target pages helpful to avoid crawl time 'waste'? Should I make those pages in a specific folder and block through _robots.txt_?


Validating sitemaps with images tag

I am trying to add the `<image>` tag to my sitemap, but even trying to look at the XSD , as mentioned by Google at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=183668 , I get 404 Error not found (the XSD link: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap- image/1.1 ). How is that possible? Is there anyway I can validate it without the XSD?


Seeking .htaccess help: Converting multiple subdomains (both HTTP and HTTPS) to www.domain.com using .htaccess

I've been trying to get an answer to this question on other forums (the folks at SuperUser thought this was the place I needed to post) and via my connections, but I haven't gotten very far. Hopefully you guys can help me find an answer. I've got a dozen old subdomains that have been indexed by Google. These have been indexed as both HTTP AND HTTPS. I've managed to redirect all the subdomains properly, provided they are not HTTPS, but can't get any of the HTTPS subdomains to property redirect. Here's the code I'm using:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain1.mysite.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain2.mysite.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain3.mysite.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]      This works great until someone goes to:               https://subdomain2.mysite.com$      which is not redirected back to http://www.mysite.com$      How can I get this to work? Additionally, I'm guessing there is an easier way to make it happen than setting up a dozen pairs of `RewriteCond`/`RewriteRule`? Is there any way to do this in just a few lines, including one where I list all the subdomains? I'd actually also like to redirect everything on `https://www.mysite.com$` to `http://www.mysite.com$` except for 3 folders. These are `mysite.com/secure`, `mysite.com/store`, `mysite.com/user`. Is there any good way to add this to the _.htaccess_ file?


Hangul calligraphy (TTF)

I want a nice hangul font. Can somebody indicate one ? Something elegant and beautiful like this England calligraphy: ![Calligraphy](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JmIWA.png) I would like to apply it using css 3:               <!DOCTYPE html>          <html>         <head>             <meta charset = "utf-8">                  <style>                 @font-face {                     font-family: "hangul";                     src: url("hangul.ttf");                 }                      body {                     font-family: hangul;                 }             </style>                  <title></title>         </head>              <body>             컴 투 미         </body>     </html>      Thanks


Google authorship verification issue

I'm trying to get my blog content author verified so my face gets into the Google search results. I managed to achieve this a few weeks back - When testing my content in the Google authorship testing tool it reported that I had been verified and I could see my mug in the results. All I had to do was wait a couple of weeks before I started popping up in the search results (I think(?)). However, I seem to have thrown a spanner in the works. I set up Google apps for my domain and merged my old Google+ profile into my google apps account. This seemed to reset my Google+ profile (no biggy, since it was a new profile and only had 1 connection). I re-set up my G+ account and tied it all in to my blog and it's content. I am now seeing some very strange behaviour. If you take a look at one of my blog posts through the snippet testing tool: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.fraser- hart.co.uk%2Fjquery-fullscreen-background-slideshow%2F&html= You will see that it is not recognising me as an author. However, when you enter my profile URL (https://plus.google.com/108765138229426105004) into the "Authorship verification by email" input, you will see that it does in fact recognise it as verified. Now, if you try and verify the same page again, it reverts back to unverified. I thought I may have to just wait it out but this has been over a week now and previously (before I merged my profile) it happened instantaneously. Has anyone experienced this bizarre behaviour before? What is happening here? More importantly, is there anything I can do to resolve it?


Does placing more ads units reduce Adsense CPC?

I have read at many places, publishers saying that placing more ad units (like 3 on a page) tends to reduce the CPC of the ads. Is that so ?


Should my "convenience" link that redirects to page 1 be a permanent or temporary redirect?

So, I have a simple blog. Included in my blog is tags. There are two ways to reach the first page of the posts belonging to a tag though. There is `/tags/foobar` and there is `/tags/foobar/1` (where foobar is the tag). Right now I do a temporary redirect from `/tags/foobar` to `/tags/foobar/1`. Should I upgrade this to a permanent redirect?


Keyword ranking tracker that works on a per-domain basis

I'm looking for a keyword racking tracker tool for google. I have found a lot of them over the internet. However I need one that can track the ranks of a site on domain basis (not exact full URL). Because I'm not sure which page of my site comes up on the result depends on the keyword as my site has hundreds of pages. Any recommendation? Or do I have to set each URLs per keyword?