> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should page contents same all time for SEO? Hi, I have a frequently updated website. That's why page contents change frequently. I mean the items that are on 1'st page become on 2'nd page a day after. Similarly 192'nd page which is my last page becomes 193'rd page a day after. So Google finds different content on a specific page than its previous visit. Is it bad for SEO? What you think about it?


Maximum domain name length

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what's the **maximum length (in characters) for a domain name?** Let's exclude the `http://www`. I know the maximum length of an url is about 2000 chars. But here I'm more ineterested in just the domain part or the url. On Wikipedia they say: "The full domain name may not exceed a total length of 253 characters in its external dotted-label specification." But what does that mean?


How to prevent negative SEO?

Negative SEO can harm your website rankings, that's why a rival might decide to use negative SEO techniques against you to try to penalize your website rankings, and thus obtain higher positions on Google Search results than you. How can you prevent negative SEO prior to being attacked by a rival? Are there some special things you can do?


Looking for a mailing list system with click tracking capability

we are looking for a mail system with the ability to know it a client has visited the link. Our idea is to prepare a mail for a certain group of customers, on that mail we will include a url to our proposal/video/whatsoever . We would like to acknowledge if the customer has clicked the link. Is that possible? thanks.


is it ok to have 2 sitemaps on 1 website?

Do I have to have a sitemap page on my index page for bots to read it or can I just have it anywhere on my server? I have a phpbb/wordpress integration and I need 2 sitemaps mods for each one (or I need to have them somehow integrated together into one xml sitemap). Is this possible? Whats my best option? I would have the phpbb one something like this: http://www.example.com/phpbb/sitemap.html and the wordpress one something like this: http://www.example.com/wordpress/sitemap.html and then I would submit both off..but not have the links on my footer to confuse anyone.., the sitemaps would strictly be for search engines. Is this a good idea? what are you thoughts?


Planet feed aggregator for django

We are looking for a way to integrate a feed aggregator (like a planet, which takes a set of rss/atom feeds and posts the latest _N_ feed items) into a Django site. Ideally, the planet should integrate as part of a page of the site as a whole, rather than a standalone page like all other plants I've seen. We could use an iframe, but then style won't match. The best way might be something that just returns a raw list of last _N_ feed items, which we then insert into a template. Does anyone have any suggestions of how we can achieve this?


where is trac.ini?

I have setup trac with dreamhost one-click install, I read doc it says config is in trac.ini but can't see any under trac dir so where is it ? I have no conf dir ONLY admin, db, htdocs, prefs, etc... Is this the right forum or should I ask on server maybe ?


Should I use "Disallow", "NoFollow", or "NoIndex" for paginated listing pages?

I own a web site which has mainly two types of pages:   * Content pages: they are pretty much static, and link to the previous and next content page (chronologically). The structure is that of a double linked list.        * Listing pages: they are dynamic, and are paginated. The first one shows the most recent content. Older content is paginated via a GET parameter (e.g ?page=4). Every listing page links to several content pages. Google is indexing some of the listing pages, which will most likely be outdated when the users find them (new content is added at a pretty fast rate). This is undesirable, of course. Also, listing pages have extracts of the content, which could be seen as repeated content from Google's point of view (which I think is also undesirable, I'm unsure on this). The problem is, there are hundreds of thousands of content pages. Listing pages are very convenient both for visitors and for search engines to crawl the site. I am unsure if the linked list of content pages will be sufficient to allow search engines to crawl the site in a short time. I have thought about the following options:   * Add `Disallow: /?page*` to _robots.txt_ : listing pages (other than the first one) won't be accessed.   * Add meta `nofollow` to listing pages: similar to the first one, listing pages won't be accessed.   * Add meta `noindex` to listing pages: they will be accesses, but not added to the index   * Leave things as they are: eventually search engines will realize the 'page' parameter is for pagination, and won't index it. What are your suggestions? Adding the NoIndex meta to listing pages sounds like the best solution to me, but I don't dare approach such a large task without asking first :) Any other possible solutions I didn't think of?


How to identlfy unused css selectors and rules for css pages which cover multiple pages and are installed locally?

I'm looking for a tool which would be able to identify unused and/or duplicate css selectors and rules, with the following two restrictions:   * The tool would have to be able to analyze css pages which are used for many HTML pages, so a tool like Dust-Me won't help.    * The tool should also work on a local installation, because I'd also like to be able to check my css at development stage. This would rule out online css verifiers.


Can hreflang be used for city-specific content?

I know that I can use `hreflang` for country specific content in order to avoid duplicate content, but what about _city_ or _state_ specific content? Is that possible, and if not, how do I deal with it?


How many XML sitemap can generate for one site and is it hammer to SEO ranking?


Issues trying to run PHP4 alongside PHP5

I’m trying to get PHP4 running under CGI alongside PHP5 as a module in Apache. Long story short, I have some legacy applications that aren’t running under PHP5 and they would take a while to rewrite, so short term I should hopefully be able to run both PHP versions for now. Most of the sites I’ve come across state that running one version as CGI and another as an Apache module is the best way to go about this. I’m pretty sure I have my httpd.conf setup properly as I’m no longer receiving “file not found” errors in my logs. Posting changes below for reference:               AddHandler php4-script .php4     Action php4-script "/cgi-bin/php4"     …     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/opt/lampp/cgi-bin/"      My current error is “Premature end of script headers: php4”. I’ve tried some diagnosis that I found here. If I run `cgi-bin/php4 htdocs/test.php4` from the command prompt (where test.php4 is a simple `echo phpinfo()`), I get all the phpinfo data on screen, but no HTML formatting. I tried setting the PATH_TRANSLATE variable as the above link mentions and running cgi-bin/php4 but I never got any output doing that, possible issue could be this. Also I’ve checked and rechecked all my file permissions and everything looks good there. Any other thoughts as to what I could be missing? Other option is to run another Apache instance on a different port, tried this at first but it started to get a bit messy, though I may have to revert to this.


Connect with Facebook button, Gowalla's style

I am searching for over an hour for a Connect with Facebook button that is similar to the one Gowalla is using (link) Any help would be appreciated!


CSS development tools for Linux

What are some CSS editors and development tools available for the Linux operating system? I'm using `vim` for everything. Are there some things you would recommend to do rather in another editor because `vim` does not support them or it's unproductive? Or is vim absolutely suitable for editing CSS, you use it and know some good plugins or features? thank you


which URL should I chose for mobile?

I was looking everywhere (as well as on Google's blog) and could not find a straight answer to this question: which URL is the best for mobile from an SEO perspective? Is there a difference between: m.company.com company.com/mobile etc... Thanks!


How to use the easySlicer plugin?

I have installed the easySlicer plugin as well as the required E.A.S.E plugin in my TiddlyWiki (Version 2.6.4). I installed the plugins manually by copying the source-code and addind the `systemConfig`-tag. They are enabled, and everything seems fine, except that I see no effect whatsoever. Since there is no documentation I can find, can someone tell me what I might be doing wrong?


seo and php get variables

I'm building my own blogging system for my own website. If all I preload them using php get variables, will Google recognize and index them as different pages or do I need to do something in addition to get Google to recognize and index them separately?   i.e `page.php?blogId=00001&blogTitle=BlogTitle`


software for mapping links for site migration?

I have a project where I am migrating a website from one platform to another, but the look and feel will still be the same (this is for standardization within an organization). Through re-write rules, I have to maintain any of the links which someone could have bookmarked. The practical implication is that I have to inventory every link and make sure it goes to the right place on the new site. Since there are often multiple paths to the same pages, I've found that site mapping software that do a hierarchical tree aren't giving me everything I need. The ones I've tried so far just show me the first, shortest path that landed them on that page. What I want to see is the inter-connectedness of the site -- if 5 pages all link to the sales page, I want to see that. Is there a site-mapping software, preferably open source, what will show me the 'many-to-many' relationship of the site's pages, rather than the 'parent- child' hierarchy of navigation?


Can I host www.example.com/subpage on different machine?

If I am the owner of www.example.com that is hosted on one machine, is it technically possible to host www.example.com/subpage on different machine, with different IP?


Google Webmaster Tools returning 404s for pages that exist

I logged in to GWT today just to see how things are going. It is showing a bunch of 404 errors for pages that exist. I checked the server response and got: `SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 200 OK`. These pages are all `nofollow`. Has anyone noticed GWT throwing up 404 errors for pages that exist?


SEO to ensure visibility for a narrow, non-competitive, non-commercial site

I'm webmaster of a non-commercial site in English. A non-native-English speaker asked me why our site doesn't produce hits in Google searches she conducts for relevant keywords in her native language. I asked her for a list of keywords in her native language, and I naively tried inserting those into the META info in the page headers and waited a couple of weeks. No help. A little searching informed me that Google doesn't use the META info, and has not done so for a very long time. D'oh! To be entirely concrete, suppose the StackExchange folks want Russian speakers to find this site, Pro Webmasters. The direct translation in Russian of "webmaster" --thanks, Google Translator-- is: "вебмастер". (Not sure this will render properly, but that's not essential to my question.) Assuming Pro Webmasters has a common template for all pages it generates, inserting "вебмастер" into the Keywords META for that template won't help, it seems. What could StackExchange do to make this site visible to users searching with the Russian keyword "вебмастер" ? Pretty much all the advice I've seen boils down to this, if I understand correctly: use the desired search term often (but not too often) among site content, and the problem will be solved. That's great, but I don't think sprinkling "вебмастер" visibly all over Pro Webmasters is going to fly. Just for completeness, crawlers must be long immune to the invisible-to- visitors scheme, e.g, format "вебмастер" in a tiny text size in a color the same as an existing background, e.g. white-over-white. Or, put that text inside a div styled: ' style="visibility: hidden" '. Probably some other equivalents. I can only think of one slightly effective method, along these lines: place an unobtrusive link on the common template to a page titled "for international users" , and on that page list desired synonyms for "webmaster" in various languages on that page. A test case --admittedly, just one-- using my site implies that a Google search for               "international users"  вебмастер      will produce a hit for this page, and thus make the site minimally visible, despite the fact that the page will almost never be visited. At the moment, anyway. Note: All the SEO discussions I have found so far are about competitive and --almost certainly-- commercial sites. To repeat: my site is non-commercial, and it is about an obscure, narrow topic that is of interest to only a small number of people worldwide. This isn't about clawing our way to the top of competitive rankings, just making this content minimally visible to interested non-native-English speakers. Ideas? TIA


Using Google Analytics (or similar service) to track access to offline HTML files?

Is it possible to add code to a **static** , local HTML file on my computer, so that whenever I open the local file with a web browser (`file:///C/Users/...`), and assuming that the computer is connected to the Internet, my access will be tracked using Google Analytics or a similar service?


Google pre-rendering causing double and triple events

Is it possible to detect google chrome and firefox prerendering on the server side, or in .htaccess, and defer the prerendering for the purpose of monitoring traffic and website events, or do I need to move my website event tracking into javascript. =/ I am using laravel and angular js.


Identical blurb at end of each blog post - bad for SEO?

At the end of every blog post in a series (50-100 posts), I want to write something akin to "Like always, email me for help..." (about 25-50 words). I also hear that duplicate content is an SEO sin. I figure that I can have an AJAX script load this at the end of every post, but that feels like overkill. Is there a way to tag a section to not be considered as "part of the document", (i.e. to not cause problems if repeated on many pages)? Alternatively, is there a different solution to this?


How do I create a .htaccess file that would make my website work like Adfly

I need, but don't know how to make, an _htaccess_ file that will send a user, when looking for the home page, to _index.php_. It should not send them anywhere when they look for a URL like `/7fg4/`. Adfly, to the best of my knowledge, works like this: you make a link, it stores the shortened link. When the user tries to open the link the _htaccess_ file sends them the contents of another file which reads the URL and proceeds accordingly. My website should work almost exactly as Adfly does. Can anyone explain or write an _htaccess_ file that would do this?


Drupal Blog vs. WordPress Blog for a Drupal Website?

Is there a blog of preference for SEO, when it comes down to Drupal websites. I ask as WordPress seems to have the better plug-ins, though may not integrate as well. Any thoughts on this? I am asking from primarily a SEO perspective though also a design one as well. In other words, there are so many fabulous blog templates in WordPress and not sure if there are in Drupal. I seem to be having a struggle finding Drupal blogs to purchase, such as premium blogs.


Using google analytics goals to optimise goals in adwords

We have set up goals in analytics to do with time on site, we also have an adwords campaign running, i noticed in adwords you can set up a conversion in adwords. But this only works by putting code into a 'thank you' page that the user sees when they have completed an action. I was wandering if you can set up in adwords a conversion being a certain time on site ?


Point subdomain to another web hosting

I bought a domain from GoDaddy. Let's call this domain `abc.com`. I've a hosting account at web hosting A with `abc.com` as my primary domain. I created a sub-domain `pic.abc.com` and I wish it to be pointed to my _new_ hosting account. This web hosting B also uses `abc.com` as the primary domain. The main purpose of doing this is because I only want to use web hosting B to host my `pic.abc.com` contents. That's all. Other content from `*.abc.com` and `abc.com` will be remain at web hosting A. How to do this? Additional notes...   1. I tried to add `pic.abc.com` as an add-on domain to my web hosting B account. Unfortunately, I couldn't do that.   2. I also tried to use URL forwarding method using DNS management service like DNS Social. It doesn't work.   3. I'm using WordPress on the `pic.abc.com` site. Both web hosting A and B running cPanel - Apache servers (shared hosting).


CMS that allow pdf to be view online (not download into the computer)

Is there any CMS that allow user to view the pdf file on the CMS instead of downloading them into the computer and open using a PDF viewer? I notice that the CMS I encounter usually require user to download the pdf file to the computer and open it using a PDF viewer.


What's the practical difference between dedicated and virtual private servers?

I understand the physical differences but in a practical sense, what will be the differences? Speed? I understand that I have full control over a virtual private server in a software aspect as with dedicated servers - what then is the difference from my point of view? Surely VPS's are easier to upgrade. Why are they always so much cheaper for the same specs?


Should I patent a web application before launching it?

While discussing a website idea I had with friends and worked on it, they told me to be wary of theft regarding the website. Since the code I'd be working on would be mostly JavaScript and HTML, the likelihood of theft is quite high. Furthermore, if I'm lucky, the idea I have would be a breakthrough when it comes to being useful. So, you can see the problem here: I would be developing an application that's easily stolen, and unfortunately an application that companies larger than myself would want to provide. I'm also unsure if this idea has already been patented. I realize patent law is murky, as in you can create a vague patent and still claim others are violating it. So, I'd like to search existing patents for one that may be relevant to my idea, and I'd like to patent it in the meantime. Does anyone have any experience regarding this? Should I invite a lawyer into the mix?


Is there a way of listing files for a directory if it contains index.html?

On my server (over which I have little control), directories are listed by default, so for `mysite.com/images` I get: > **Index of /images** > > Parent Directory   >  BirdsAreHere.png   >  CanYouSpot-AdBlank.jpg etc. Is putting an index.html in that directory enough to prevent people listing the files, or is there still a way of getting at that list? Is it the same for my web root directory (`mysite.com`)?


IIS Reverse Proxy Failing on .svc pages and some other pages, works fine for plain html

Software situation: I have a public facing IIS site which needs to communicate to another site through a reverse proxy server. The other site is a SOAP API, with a couple of pages that assist in configuration of it. I'm using IIS URL Rewrite, and it is working fine for plain html pages, but it fails on come other pages. Some pages fail with               HTTP Error 404.8 - Not Found     The request filtering module is configured to deny a path in the URL that contains a     hiddenSegment section.      Others fail with simple 404. If I go to the URL directly from the proxy server it all works fine. Currently I am proxying from localhost:8080 to [remote ip]. My inbound rule is: (.*) and rewrites to               'http://[remoteip]/{R:1}'      Outbound rule is: pattern (.*), match content within A, Form, Img. Action, rewrite {R:1} What do I need to do to get the SOAP API working over remote proxy using IIS?


Redirect subdomain on tripod

I have an old subdomain on tripod which I'd like to redirect (301) to my new domain. They don't seem to offer redirection for subdomain even with a subscription. Has anyone had any luck permanently (301) redirecting a subdomain on tripod to a new domain? Should I do a "link rel canonical" to point to the new site together with a meta refresh redirect?


Static pages for large photo album

I'm looking for advice on software for managing a largish photo album for a website. 2000+ pictures, one-time drop (probably). I normally use MarginalHack's album, which does what I want: pre-generate thumbnails and HTML for the pictures, so I can serve without needing a dynamic run-time, so there's less attack surface to worry about. However, it doesn't handle pagination or the like, so it's unwieldy for this case. This is a one-time drop for pictures from a wedding, with a shared usercode/password for distribution to the guests; I don't wish to put the pictures in a third-party hosting environment. I don't wish to use PHP, simply because that's another run-time to worry about, I might relent and use something dynamic if it's Python or Perl based (as I can maintain things written in those). I currently have: Apache serving static files, Album-generated, some sub- directories to divide up the content to be a little more manageable. Something like Album but with pagination already handled would be great, but I'm willing to have something a little more dynamic, if it lets people comment or caption and store the extra data in something like an sqlite DB. I'd want something light-weight, not a full-blown CMS with security updates every three months. I don't want to upload pictures of other peoples' children into a third-party free service where I don't know what the revenue model is. (For my site: revenue is none, costs out of pocket). Existing server hosting is *nix, Apache, some WSGI. Client-side I have MacOS. Any advice?


Anchor tag inside <h1> or <h1> inside achor tag: which is better?

I am trying to use `<h1>` tags on my blog for the post title and came across one problem. Title is hyperlinked. Case 1:
  xyz
      case 2:
 xyz
        Which one is better in terms of SEO?


Should I link the main article heading?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Anchor tag inside H1 or H1 inside achor tag : Which is better?   >  Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link > to itself? Assuming, that I have an article page:               http://example.com/articles/article-title      with the main content like:
Article title
      **Regarding the SEO and semantic reasons, should I wrap the H2 tag/content in link?** e.g.
Article title
      or this way:
Article title
      (the `H1` in this particular case is reserved for the topic of the whole website, and linked to the home page.) As for the end user, clicking this link seems pointless, as this would just do a page refresh. But I sill see those headings linked all around.


Why, on StackExchange sites, is the post title on the question page a link to itself?

It may look like a question for meta.stackoverflow.com, but I'd like to know if this decision has something to do with SEO or if this improve the user experience somehow. It's a link to the same page you are, so I don't see the usefulness of this. On Quora, for exemple, on the question page, the question title is not a link.


How should I deal with a 'Contact Us' Form?

Often you'll see websites with a "For any questions, please contact us..." followed by a box for your name, email, subject, maybe some invoice data... When should these be implemented on a website? Are there any statistics out there on use of these? What are some alternatives?


How to set restrictions on my website?

Currently my website is under maintenance. I want to be the only person who's able to access/view the website online until I finish maintenance. How to set restrictions to others ? I hate stalkers.


What determines the order of results for Google Places?

I have a website that when you search for the key terms in Google, comes up first in the list. However, just above it in the Google Places section, it comes in second in the list. Does Google Places have its own optimization techniques?


Dedicated domain name VS just folders under a single domain

I run WordPress-Multisite for several sites. Each of these sites resolve under a single domain, e.g. example.com/foo/, example.com/bar/. I also have domain names for these e.g. foo.com, bar.com which are currently redirects, so if a user hits foo.com, they are redirected (301) to example.com/foo/. My question is, should it be the other way around? Should I use the dedicated domain names directly? What are the pros/cons of putting multiple sites under a single domain vs their own dedicated domains? I guess I'm asking with SEO and findability in mind.


how to send and display data from one domain to another?

I have my portal on asp.net, my friend have on php. He wants to me to return text data from my database by sending parameter and wants to display it on his portal. I have given him url say abc.com?id=1 for receiving text data. How can he display data returned from abc.com?id=1 on his portal with say "innerhtml" in javascript.


Absolute vs relative links

Our site's navigation links are currently in relative form:                     The SEO company I mentioned in my previous question recommends we change them to absolute links:                     This is to "ensure search engines get the correct and working URL for the pages". Is this really something that should be taken into account or is this another case of extra work with no added benefit?


Does it matter that our website can't be found without the www?

If you try and go to our website **without** typing the www. You get a page not found error. In my case it goes to a Yahoo 404 page where the website you typed is not even shown in the search results. My question is how important is it that customers cannot type this manually? I guess that google etc will just spider the www version and so it will show in the search results in the same manner. Also what is the reason why some websites can be found without the www and some not?


Is redirecting mydomain.eu & mydomain.net to mydomain.com using .htaccess spammy?

A client has asked me to develop their site - they already own 3 domains, `mydomain.eu`, `.net` and `.com`. They want all the traffic from `.eu` and `.net` to redirect to `.com`. I've explained to them that it is not that relevant as people will search for them in search engines rather than typing in the domain, but they still would like me to do it. As far as I know this is fine to do from an SEO point of view but I thought I'd just double check.


Photoshop Elements 9 VS Paintshop Photo Pro X3 For Web Design

I need a good image creation program for web design. I have downloaded both Elements 9 and Paintshop X3. So far I have found them both to be great programs. X3 seems like it has a lot of features, Elements seems like it's quite easy and stable to use. I think I'm going to go with Elements, but I wanted to get other opinions. Which program do you guys like better overall? What things do you think they lack for image creation/editing pertaining to web design, or what features do they have that are great for it? Thanks!


Website Design; SEO Dilemma

Okay so I designed a website for a restaurant and the design is aimed mostly to entice the viewer by using images of the restaurant's platters and foods. Not to say that text is totally non-existent but the design makes it hard to have enough keywords. Most keywords are found in the ALT attribute of image tags and a couple of headers. The reason as to why I am in this dilemma? I'm still new to web development and at the time I made the design, I didn't really know much about SEO. So I come here in search of help because I have an idea... **Would it be good practice to have hidden SPAN blocks that would help me fill with keywords?** For example a hidden SPAN would have text in bold to help with SEO. Of course, I will play it safe and not exploit this technique if it works. I have searched that this may be considered spamming by search engines and some companies are taking measures to prevent this. Thanks in advance!


HTML special character (glyph) looking not the same in different browsers

I am using an html crown in my website, character code is `♛`, but this looks different in the browsers.               Firefox 6.0 -> different     Chrome 13.0 -> different     IE 9.0, Safari 5.1, Opera 11.50 -> same      I have tried to explicit add a font-family to the span, but this does not help. Anyone have an idea how I can get this the same in the browsers. Check this post in differnt browsers and see how the char (glyph) changes. **♛**


Optimizing (reducing) web font requests

My homepage currently uses 5 web fonts--I'd like it to be 6 due to spotty support for Helvetica Neue. One of the fonts is 'FontAwesome' icons, the other 4 are only used for a word or two (i.e. I have a heading that reads "Optimization" written in letters that look like an old computer). 2 of these fonts are available through Google and I request only the letters needed (and that works great). However, the other 2 are from openfontlibrary.org, and are only available in a single format. Which isn't a big deal (I'll need them securely anyway so local copies are better), a quickie with the Fontsquirrel.com @font-face generator and I have them in multiple formats, and the CSS to boot. And then I test my page load time...ugh. I assume it would be possible for me to subset my local copies, anybody have have experience in this area?


Is there a high-load chat software / script out there?

We're in development of a website and we're looking into other options than just developing a chat engine ourselves. We've looked at CometChat and ArrowChat. Which look and seem to be great except that it uses PHP/MySQL. They offer to host your chat server which can handle 100,000+ but honestly we'd like to be hosting it on our own servers and handle way more than that. Know of any alternatives? We're looking for that Meebo/Facebook/CometChat/ArrowChat look and style but it needs to be fully customizable.


Dealing with broken links and dead pages on search engines

I recently had to reconstruct the way my website runs. Along with that I have to change the way my urls are formatted. My website is not terribly popular (hoping changes will fix that) but I do have 500+ pages indexed on just Google. My question is should I/can I do anything about removing these dead pages from Google and other search engines? What should I do about backlinks?


HTML Template Designs - Alternatives to Theme Forest

I'm looking to build a new corporate website using a ready made HTML theme so that I can focus on the business logic rather than on the presentation. Any recommendations for websites similar and alternative to Theme Forset?


duplicate content penalties for cross posting?

I have a blog (xyious.blogspot.com) and a website (xyious.com), i'm developing a tiny cms system for my website while posting some content. I always post the new content to my blog as well as the website for several reasons. Now i'm wondering how badly i will be penalized for duplicate content. The website is older than the blog, but never had a whole lot of content, and i obviously want my website to rank higher than the blog in the future when i stop posting on the blog in favor of having a website hosting all the content. Do i incur duplicate content penalty, and if so how severe ? Would it be better to stop posting to the blog altogether before the cms is in a state where it displays content correctly and has easy navigation ?


What should I do after changing DNS records and my site is not resolving?

My domain is not resolving after updating its DNS records 10 hours ago. I bought the domain from GoDaddy and hosted it on a different server. They guided me to alter two domain entries: the first is an IP address, and the second is `ab.example.com`. When I go to `example.com`, it is giving me the following error: `Webpage is unavailable`. Pinging my website ends up with a timed out error and 100% loss for 4 packets. It may be that I changed the nameservers three times in the last hour because of mistakes in the name. After that I set the nameservers to the default (`NS77.DOMAINCONTROL.COM` and `NS78.DOMAINCONTROL.COM`), and changed the `A` host record and `CNAME` alias as directed.


Question about name server propagation

I just did an overhaul of my company's website and changed the hosting provider, and it's probably been about 36-48 hours since I changed the pointers at my registrar to the new name servers. I have noticed some very strange behavior at my office, where we have a Windows Server domain-based LAN-- in particular, with two computers sitting next to one another, one pulls up the new site and the other does not--after repeatedly clearing the cache, resetting/flushing via ipconfig, trying different browsers, etc.--which is baffling to me. I was testing the site on someone's phone, and pulling up the site via the in-house wi-fi connection brought up the old version, while switching to his phone's LTE data connection pulled up the new one. What exactly is going on here? Clearly those computers pulling up the old version of the site are referencing the old DNS pointers that link to the old hosting provider, but how could this vary from machine to machine on the same network? Thanks for any clarification here.


crowd funding platform?

I have been searching for days. Is there a good crowd funding framework that I could use as the base for a project? Something like a kickstarter clone in Ruby on Rails or PHP? There are one or two out there, but they look terrible.


Google Analytics Audience Geo view: Can I have map that labels places with no sessions like those with sessions?

Looking at audience-geo-location I can view a map of the world by nation. I can mouse over the shaded nations from which 'sessions' arose to obtain a count and the name of the nation. However, for the grey nations (those without sessions) a mouse-over doesn't show the country name. The same would apply to U.S. states. It would be very good to have a list of these places so that I could make an effort there to attract visitors. If not on the map view, is there a way to include places with no sessions in the list of places. Knowing where visitors are is nice but knowing about places without visitors is also important. Am I missing something?


Will Page Rank affect if we delete index.php from URL?

Suppose a website having page rank 3 and it contains index.php in all its urls like below and their page rank www.xyz.com/index.php/about-us Page rank 2 www.xyz.com/index.php/services Page rank 2 . . and so on. So if we remove "index.php" now, will it affect in SEO page rank and search results? Thanks in advance.


I want to use gzip compression in Apache

I want to enable gzip compression for acethehimalaya.com. Can anybody please tell me what is the best way of achieving compression in an Apache Webserver?


apache rewrite .htaccess google adwords gclid

I've got an url coming in as:               /index.php?/location/&gclid=287ejek22kj      This is going to a 404 page because of the gclid... I need it to go to:               /index.php?/location      I've tried this, with no success:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^(.*)&gclid=(.*)$  $1 [L]      All help is appreciated. Thanks.


Website Remodel Redirects

We've recently built a site for a new client who has not inserted all the content that they had from their old site into their new one. Also a lot of content is dynamic with ID's not matching from the old site to the new one. We have added dynamic redirects for most of the patterns we could find in pages that were 404ing, but there are still a lot of pages that had content, or just jumbled urls that we cannot match up with content pages on the new site. Is it better to redirect these leftover pages to the homepage? Or leave them 404ing?


Bing vs google advertising

is it worth while to advertise using Bing's adcenter if I already have google's adwords?


Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?

Simple question:   I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing `www.mydomain.com` to my Google Sites site. I want to add another, pointing `mike.mydomain.com` to `https://sites.google.com/site/subpages/mike`, `dave.mydomain.com` to ...`/dave` etc. Is this possible? If so, where do I configure it in Google Sites? Comment: using site forwarding is not applicable here, since I'd like to have several subdomains.


SEO question, getting info about websites

I don't know much about SEO. I have a csv file with 200,000 links to websites i want to add another field (or maybe couple of them) to each link in the csv file with page ranking of each link and maybe other interesting metrics and info about the link. I saw a free API from http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/ i can maybe use to build a simple script, but it's limited to 3 links for second which will roughly take 1100 minutes or 18 hours to run any other ideas how to get this kind of simple metrics about each link ? thanks !


Clarity around Advanced Segment defintion

I am hoping to get some clarity around an advanced segment I created. For context, our website spans multiple domains. For reasons I wont get into, I created an advanced segment that looks for pages containing my subdomain of interest (subdomain.site.com). I want to ensure that my interpretation of this advanced segment is accurate. Simply, it flags all visits to our entire domain that viewed at least one page on my subdomain of interest? If I am off, what does this advanced segment represent? Many thanks in advance!


Why Opera browser is less supported than IE, FF and Chrome?

Why Opera browser is less supported by web sites than IE, FF and Chrome? IE understanding, but why less than FF and even Chrome?


Website Panel does it affect existing sites?

Has any one used Website Panel? Does it affect sites all ready running under IIS?


WP Yoast SEO's focus search term; is it necessary?

On `Yoast's SEO` plugin @ `Wordpress`, I can provide one search term per post, which is the key term, the **_focus term_** (don't know the English word for it). I am wondering what this keyword does... I don't see, if I fill it in, a thing related on it on my page source and I don't know what it does or what it should do. For example, I have a post called `"Hello World"` and I put in the **key term:** `hello`... What should Google do with this? Does it give priority? Does it do a thing or solely nothing? Can someone explain this to me? Because right now I have not filled in these fields, because I thought that it was unnecessary...


Reservation System With Calendar Integration

I am working on a Website for a tour guide. I need an self-hosted online reservation system that supports Paypal payment processing. I also need it to have some sort of iCal/Google Calendar integration. I have tried searching, but very few services offer calendar integration. Do you know of anything good, possibly open-source?


Is it possible to limit user access to folders using HTACCESS?

Is it possible to limit user access using a HTACCESS file? I'm not quite sure how to edit folder permissions with the host i'm with so I figure using an HTACCESS file might be easier.


SEO indexing with dynamic titles, keywords and descriptions

I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location. What I'm doing is to get information from the IP address of the user and show for example a dynamic title:               var userCity = codeToGetCityFromIP;          <title>Welcome to userCity</title>     // and same for description, keywords and headings...      Obviously the code is different. I'd like to know if it is a good solution to create multiple SEO indexing based on cities? I'm also using _GeoLocation_ and I do same using the returned values from it. I'm doing right or there are more effective ways to indexing in different countries and cities without create multiple website for each city of the world?


Does embedding youtube videos help SEO?

I hear lots of people talk about videos as being good for SEO, like it is more and different content. But to imbed a video, youtube makes it an iFrame, which means it can't be crawled by google, right? So then if it can't get crawled, its irrelevant for SEO, right?


Is it possible to have multiple subdomains point to the same Blogger blog?

For our application we want to have a status page which is hosted outside of the rest of our infrastructure so in case there are issues in our data center we can post updates for our users and our users will be able to access them. We registered a blog on Blogger and set it up with `xyzstatus.blogspot.com` and `status.xyz.com`. Everything seems to work fine. We need to perform some maintenance at our datacenter which will sever all connectivity so we're unable to have a redirect using nginx or apache. We'd like to do this with a short TTL CNAME DNS entry. Ideally `www.xyz.com` and `app.xyz.com` could be CNAMEd to `status.xyz.com`. When I setup the CNAME and go to that URL I get a Google broken robot 404 page. I figure I must need to let Google know it should associate traffic to `www.xyz.com` and `app.xyz.com` to the blog served up by `status.xyz.com`. But I can't see anywhere to do this in Blogger. Does anyone know if this is possible?


Best way to move your domain and keep the Google position

I have to move one domain to a new one which is semantically better for SEO. I would like to know the best way to do it so that the new domain keeps the google position. I know the basic steps:   * to put a redirection 301 in the old one, with an apache script, it can be very detailed, but the important is the 301 header   * for google you can tell them through the webmaster tools page   * try to gain pagerank for the new domain


Personal site/blog, my desired .com/.net are taken

I want to start to have a place on the internet I can call my own. Stack Exchange, Google+, and Twitter are nice, but they're all services where I have to play by their rules and I don't really own my own content. So I've decided that I really need my own site. The problem is, my desired `.com`/`.net` domains are taken. If it matters, my desired domain involves my name.   * Will people have difficulty remembering or typing a less common extension and/or will I be judged in a less favorable light if I don't have a `.com`/`.net`?   * If not, which extension would be best for a personal site? `.org`, `.co`, `.me`, `.us`, and many others are available?


Visual sitemap generater

I'm looking for a something to visually create a sitemap for one of my websites. Id like something in a tree structure, so I have the hierarchical view of my site. A couple requirements I have though, the ability to map password protected pages, and (not REALLY a requirement) the ability to integrate Google Analytics data.


Picking the right domain name

The issue I have is that my family name is relatively common, and I'm pretty awful at coming up with names. Yet I'd like to register a decent domain name that SEO won't hate. The point of the site would be about programming in general, and some things about android development. So I was thinking about registering fmdev.org (or .net any input on which of the two is more interesting is always appreciated). The reason for not picking a .com despite its obvious advantages is that I'm a bit leery about how the USA has been acting lately in regards to privacy/ownership of people from another country when they just own hosting in the USA/having a .com domain name). I first thought about going for the full blown development instead of dev, but that seemed a bit on the long side. And I'm guessing google's search engine will pick up on the meaning. (or am I mistaken in that?) Any advice/input is always appreciated.


How can I include location data in a page so that Google search results include a map?

I'd like to include extra information that would give us a bump in location specific search?


Is there a CDN for backbone.marionette?

Getting started with Backbone and Marionette, I was about to copy the file at `https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette/blob/master/lib/backbone.marionette.js` to my local server, but wondered if there was a CDN version of it. For Underscore and Backbone dev, I'm including these two files, respectively: http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/underscore-min.js http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/backbone-min.js Is there a similar URL for backbone.marrionette.js?


Storing Downloadable Content Securely

For a site where users can purchase videos for download. What would be the best way to store the media? Any other helpful considerations are more than welcome.   * Outside the root directory?   * Seperate server?   * Changing permissions? Also, to improve preformance, is there such a thing as hosting your website on one server. Then on another server configured more for large downloads and bandwidth, hosting all the downloadable content?


Migrating PageRank/rankings from one site to another

I've got a client's company site with decent PageRank, backlinks and search engine rankings. The client wants to change their company name and therefore URL. I will set up a redirect between the old site and the new. But I was wondering, is there a way to tell Google that they are moving while retaining all the rankings? It is the same people, services, office building, same everything, just rebranded under a different name and URL. Additionally if there is a way to do this, how does Google handle you buying expired domains and just pointing them onto your site? Could I buy several PageRank 3 domains all relating to the same sector and point them at my site or would Google catch on to this?


Retroactively view Google Analytics data by application version using a segment

I understand that filters don't retroactively apply to previous data. I have been learning segments, but I can't seem to figure out how to properly filter my data by the application version. I have tried adding an `Advanced -> Condition` with `App Version` `contains` `regex for version`, but this doesn't seem to do anything. I have noticed that the `Preview` and `Test` buttons are disabled. Am I missing something here? I am pretty sure that the regex is correct (`1\\.1\\.0-rc2` to match `1.1.0-rc2`).


How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work from a specific region)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to overcome politics of the net (Google translate code refuses to work > from a specific region) I have this Web Site. It uses the Google Translate API (Can't post the link, does not open from this region) with the following code.               <meta name="google-translate-customization" content="9f841e7780177523-3214ceb76f765f38-gc38c6fe6f9d06436-c"></meta>          <script type="text/javascript">     function googleTranslateElementInit()     {     new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');     }     </script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>      The problem is since this, it just stopped working. On the site you can see that I had to actually remove the above from here, here, and here while left it here, here, here and here. This is so because the the web site "refuses" to load at all with the pages that have the code (i.e., from this region.) If I use Firefox Stealthy Plugin and open the site in Firefox, It works like a charm without any problems. But with Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera Web browser, the site does not load/open at all because of the Google translate. (I know this because If I remove the Google Translate Code, the site works/loads fine) It was one thing to program for "cross browser compatability" and alltogether another to program for "cross region compatability". What can I do to make sure that the site works from anywhere? Do I completely remove the Google Translate code and just have to do without the additional functionality or Do I look for alternatives like this or according to this?


.htaccess and browser caching

I ran across these suggested htaccess edits. Is this a good practice? Is this something I should implement on my wordpress site?:               <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"     </IfModule>


How can I do? I accidentally delete google and alexa verification meta code

I accidentally delete Google and Alexa verification `<meta>` code from `<head>` and all have gone. I went to both Google Webmaster tools and Alexa but I cannot find where I can get verification meta code again. Anyone know where I can get it again?


How do you prove your traffic to potential advertisers?

Potential advertisers always ask me how much traffic my website has, the number of unique visitors, etc. I have all these stats but I would like more transparency (otherwise how do they know I haven't enhanced the stats?). Is there a website which does that (ie simply measuring the traffic - nothing fancy) so that I could tell potential advertisers to check my stats on that website. This way it would be completely transparent. I imagine I would have to install a javascript file (from their server) on my website so that they can measure my traffic. Thanks.


Pre-registering a second level gTLD domain name: what rules apply when collision happens?

Pre-registrations of second level domain names are open for a good number of the new gTLDs, and one can pre-register with many different operators. But let's say I'd like to pre-register a myname.guru or myname.ventures or myname.family domain name through one of these pre-registrars (those are just examples of gTLDs that will be open to the public). What will happen the day these domains open for actual registration (after the sunrise period) if someone else in another country did the same thing with another pre-registrar ? Is there a first-come first served rule ? Does it depend on the gTLD registrar who will be chosen or is there a general rule defined by ICANN ?


How to Track outbound clicks in google analytics

I know there are several ways that will help me find out how many times that user clicked on the outbound links but situation is pretty complicated. It is a school website, KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT and the home page of the website has a left sidebar with shortcuts (links). Website is built in School Wires (Content Management System) and the school wires does not provided us the code for the site shortcuts. Under site manager, we have site shortcuts tab (Look Below) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kHWaj.png) Basically we don't do any hardcoding for the shortcuts. So far I have tried:   1. I was first planning to use EVENT TRACKING 'onClick' in my anchor tag, but as soon as I found that my school website is not using hard coded links, I dropped that idea. My question is, Is there anyway that I can track the outbound links? Basically I want to count how many times that shortcut on the left sidebar has clicked?


Portfolio Website

What is the best approach to make a portfolio website for an artist? Any of these methods?   1. Using a template and customising? (Problem: most templates are product driven)   2. Use a CMS -> which one would be useful for a portfolio?


Google Webmaster Tools doesn't show any indexed pages after redirection

I have a website that was properly configured in Google Webmaster Tools and indexed in Google. Then I created a redirection from this website to my new website so that any request to: `www.mysite.fr` goes to: `www.mysite.com` I have added the new site to Google Webmaster Tools, but so far the number of indexed pages is zero. If I check the stats of my old website, it seems they were updated with the data of the new website (sitemap and indexed pages). This is very confusing, can someone explain what's going on? Is this expected behavior after a `301` redirect?


When I'm delivering a page with the XHTML mime type, should I use XML DOM or HTML DOM?

I prefer using the XHTML mime type for pages, instead of HTML, and serve a different mime type to IE, but when I do this, should I use XML DOM or HTML DOM?


Why does Firefox suggest I have mistyped my domain?

If I type my own domain into the Firefox address bar it will suggest that I may have mistyped it and offer to "protect me" by redirecting to a large commercial website which is the same as my own domain but with one vowel removed. If I check the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page there is "nothing suspicious" about my domain. I do not get the big red "malware" page, only a suggestion that I have mistyped something. What criteria is Firefox using to make this recommendation?


How can I disallow access to my website by its IP address?

I want my website to be accessible only by the domain name, not by the server’s IP address. How can I configure Apache to achieve this? Below are the VirtualHost configurations of Apache.               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName not.configured       DocumentRoot /var/www     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost my.server.ip.address>         DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html         ServerName www.example.com         ServerAlias example.com         ErrorLog logs/example.com-error_log     </VirtualHost>


Tracking affiliate referrals and sales with Google Analytics events

OK this is my situation. I did a lot of reading about GA events and I'm not still quite sure how I will be implementing this. I have a website that is accepting affiliates. I sell lots of genuine products and there quite a number of affiliates joining already. They requested a way to track the performance of their affiliate links. I am thinking maybe Google Analytics Events tracking is a good solution here. Currently I only provide the affiliate link and URL for them to use, it does not include any GA tracking information. This what I need to accomplish based: a.) When their affiliate URL or link sends a visitor to my site, I would like to send an event to their GA account with this information:   * Landing page   * Referrer page (so that they know what pages in their sites work best) b.) When that visitor made a sale on my site, I would like to send another event to my affiliates with this information:   * Product purchased   * Language With those two above information provided to my affiliates coming from the two events; it can help affiliates optimize the way they work with my site. **Possible Solution and Questions** a.) For the first event, I can add a radio button (yes and no answer) on their affiliate account page in my site something like "Enable Google Analytics notifications when we get traffic and purchases from you?". Then if they answer "yes". I can add onclick events to all tracking links (which they can paste on their website) like this:               _gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ’Category’, ’Action’, ’Opt Label’, Opt Value, ’Opt non-interaction’])      Is this the correct solution? Now that we have this event tracking set. They can login to their GA accounts and see what links that goes out as well as the referrer page. Or is their a way for me to send events to their accounts, such as the landing page information and referrer page? b.) For the second problem, I still don't have any idea on how to do it. Any advice would be highly appreciated. Apologies if the solution to this is very easy, I'm more of a web developer/coder and not a marketer or expert in GA.


Duplicate meta description for paging in Google Webmaster Tools

In Google Webmaster tools I get duplicate content warnings for paging pages. How do I fix this? Do I need to add Page 2, Page 3, etc. to my meta description? > HTML Improvements   >  Duplicate meta descriptions Meta description information can give users a > clear idea of your site's content and encourage users to click on your site > in the search results pages. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/p64Kr.png) I have these already in place.               <link href="http://site.com/youth-basketball-tournaments?page=2" rel="canonical" />      <link rel="prev" href="/youth-basketball-tournaments?page=1" />     <link rel="next" href="/youth-basketball-tournaments?page=3" />


What are the benefits of RDFa?

I've seen some blogs etc. about this new technology: RFDa, but is there any benefits in using it now. From what I understand, it's mainly used by search engines and other crawlers, but have Google, Bing and others implemented it yet? Will give a better rank on their pages if I use it, or will it just make my results more data enriched?


Guidelines for Opera Mobile

Opera Mobile fails to render two sites I help out with correctly and I cannot find the guidelines for Opera Mobile. All other browsers tested (even Opera for the Wii) show these sites correctly. There is an emulator to help development but it is impossible to help the browser work correctly without knowing the rules. Do things have to be presented to the client differently?, are there limitations on certain elements?, does JavaScript suffer from race conditions?, etc... or is there a universal "please use Safari Mobile" campaign in the same vein as the dump "Internet Explorer 6" efforts?


YUI Compressor and other minifiers tend to remove unnecessary whitespaces, causing long lines. Safari 5 seems to fail rendering some rules from the css files when the file has more than 5000 characters per line (blog post about my experiences). UglifyJS has a `\--max-line-len` (default 32K characters) and the author says at the page > _I’ve seen both FF and Chrome croak when all the code was on a single line > of around 670K_ **What is the maximum safe line length in css files?** I would like to support most of the still active browsers, while still removing unnecessary whitespaces. Any references to specifications would be useful.


Should I use both Robots.txt and META NAME="ROBOTS"?

I am currently using the Robots.txt file (the standard one of joomla, to say). Now I have found that there are also specific HTML meta tags that specify desired robot behavior. Is there a reason to use one over the other?


What is the correct way to code incoming links for SEO?

Our site is giving out 'badges' to our authors. They can post these on their personal blogs and they will serve as incoming links to our site. We want to give out the best possible code for SEO without doing anything that would get us flagged. I would like to know what you're thoughts are on the following snippet of code and if anyone has any DEFINITE advice on dos and don'ts with it. Also, let me know if any of it is redundant or not worth it for SEO purposes. I've kept the CSS inline since some of the writers would not have access to add link to external CSS. I've changed the real values, but title, alt etc would be descriptive keywords similar to our page titles etc (no overloading keywords or any of that)

articles on x,y,z


How can I decide if I should roll my own software or use a packaged CMS (and appropriate plugins)?

I'm a software engineer with little web experience currently in the process of wanting to actually using my web host and domain name for something other than a file dumping ground for files that I need to give other people access to. My plan is to somehow deploy a personal/professional website and blog, either using FOSS off-the-shelf products, custom software, or off-the-shelf components with custom modules/plugins. My requirements are:   1. Semantic HTML (well formed, proper use of attributes, microformats where appropriate, use of CSS for style and HTML for markup)   2. Validating HTML and CSS (XHTML, HTML4, HTML5 all acceptable - as long as it validates out of the box)   3. Support for a blog   4. Support for editing and managing my resume in HTML form as well managing uploaded files in PDF, ODT, and DOC formats that I make available for download   5. Written in a language that I know and my host supports - PHP preferred since that's easiest for my to host and I also am familiar with it   6. Easy to obtain or write a themes for   7. Support for static pages that change infrequently (about me), static pages that change sometimes (project lists), dynamic pages (blog, comments), and forms (contact me)   8. Plays nicely with other tools in the same environment - I use Trac on the same host for project management and might deploy other software such as a personal MediaWiki deployment   9. Easy to integrate with other social media (Twitter? Facebook? Pandora?) - not require, but would be nice   10. Generation and maintenance of the sitemap and/or robots.txt My questions:   * What, if any, FOSS solution would be appropriate for me? I've toyed around with Drupal and WordPress in the past - WordPress struck me as a solid tool, but at the time was very blog-focused (I understand it's changed more recently to be more CMS-like).   * What free (but not open source) solutions might be appropriate for me? I would prefer to have full access to the source, but it's not a requirement.   * If I am going to roll my own, where should I begin? I would prefer not to roll my own - my software engineering background tells me that my requirements should be common and I should be able to find some existing solution(s) that I can combine to make this work. Thanks.


How to set the Bit Length when generating SSL Certificat with Java keytool?

I'm going to create a SSL Certificate so I can use https on my web site. I have to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and I did generate such a file with the Java `keytool` following the guide Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) on Tomcat, but when I upload my CSR, I get a message from GlobalSign: > We suggest that a Bit Length of 2048 bits is used when generating your CSR. > Please regenerate your CSR and select this Bit Length. So how do I set the Bit Length to 2048 bits using the Java `keytool`? I generated the CSR file with: `keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias your_alias_name -file certreq.csr -keystore your_keystore_filename` And before that I created my certificate keystore and private key with: `keytool -genkey -alias your_alaias_name -keyalg RSA -keystore your_keystore_filename`


Testing websites on devices such as iPhones?

I'm aware of many sites that you can use for cross-browser testing and I was wondering if anyone knows any free sites that you can use to test sites on an iPhone?


Why Google may decrease PR of a site?

I found that Google decreased PR of my site and wonder why. Except recent submit of my programs to download sites and change of Google Analytics to asynchronous code there were no other changes to the site I can think of.


MediaWiki Error: Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "11"

I have a MediaWiki deployement at: http://wiki.tankpedia.org/ I have been importing templates from Wikipedia and am receiving a Lua error for the Convert template; the error is: > Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "11". The error can be seen here (you have to click on one of the 'Script Error' messages): http://wiki.tankpedia.org/index.php?title=M2_Light_Tank The Scribunto deployment this is dependent on is `chmod` to 755. The following error also appears on the same page: > Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[" Research online suggests this relates to the ParserFunctions extension however it is installed; I even added the following extra line in my config file and it did not help: > $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true; I reinstalled ParserFunctions Version 1.5.1 as well as trying Version 1.4.1; the reinstall of the first and trying the second both failed to resolve this issue. I also tried chmod the ParserFunctions deployment to 755 to see if there was a permissions issue; it did not help.


mobile subdomain seo optimization

Hi we developed a site and just released a subdomain for mobile   * mysite.com   * m.mysite.com we have different robots.txt and sitemaps for each so for a search engine they all look totally different although all the paths are sames. but is this a good solution ? eg:   * m.mysite.com/apps/stackoverflow   * mysite.com/apps/stackoverflow Is there anything to be done to match those site for google index and as well as to get proper facebook and twitter likes ? any meta tag ? Thanks in advance


Free Online Survey Form which enable me to insert image in survey question

All the while I am using Google Form to publish my survey. Now, I would like to have image on my survey form. I realize Google Form doesn't have such feature. Is there any other free alternative service I can use? Thanks.


Is PayPal (Website Payments Standard) appropriate for invoicing?

Here's what I want to accomplish:   1. Agent sends email invoice to client containing payment link.   2. Client clicks link, is brought to a site (ours or a payment processor's), and presented with a payment form.   3. Client submits form, charge is processed, and dropped in agent's checking account (minus whatever processing fee is necessary). Regular old PayPal's "Request Money" feature could be used for this, but that requires that the client has or creates a PayPal account. I'd like to avoid that, hence this question. A few other considerations:   * Volume is low enough that a full merchant account or service requiring a monthly fee is overkill.   * Agent sells a service, not shipped goods.   * Ticket price is static.   * Due to my requirements' likeness to that of phishing schemes and sex workers (we are neither), I am somewhat wary of PayPal's alleged habit of freezing the accounts of questionable businesses without investigation. I mention Website Payments Standard since as I understand it, we _could_ :   1. Have a page on our site (hidden from spiders, not linked to) with a WPS form.   2. Email invoices to clients containing a link to that page.   3. Client fills out form and PayPal processes the charge. I did look into FastSpring, which does have an invoicing feature like what I'm looking for, but their service can only be used (contractually) to sell digital goods. FreshBooks also came up in my search, but is too expensive and doesn't supply payment processing. So then--anyone care to drop the knowledge on what the best practice is for this? Suggestions of processors would be appreciated in addition.


Did anyone experience negative SERP movement after implementing rel=author?

I am not intrested in why I don't see the picture in SERPs. So I know this is borderline off-limits but I turned every stone in the web (including DDgo) trying to find anybody experiencing a worse position in SERPs after implementing `rel=author` tags. In Google Webmaster Tools: ![google webmaster tools snippet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/c2xG1.gif) Everything seems fine but the first results dropped 14 places in SERPs in the past two days. The original landing page went down from first page to 5th page in a few days. It is a useful site with original content concerning marriage laws. This specific page is no where to be found and now the first result leads to the home page. Assuming everything else is the same with no changes made to the site at all is there a reason the `rel=author` tag will cause such a plummet? Additional info that might be useful:   * The google+ account is as dead as a palm pilot.


Creating temp/fake URLs for user generated content

I'm working on a site that hosts classified listings. I'm currently using hash/query params and Ajax to display content. Example: `www.site.com/viewpost?id=34089` We are now interested in making unique URLs with more info for SEO. Example: `www.site.com/title/category/stuff/info-0037843.htm` How do I go about getting from example 1 to example 2? Are these URLs actual pages on the server? Or is there some rewrite trick to pull this off? I've seen this done on several other sites, but I'm not aware of how it's done. The site is on a shared hosting environment with a LAMP setup.


Looking for new placement on poor performing ads

I don't know if this is an acceptable question in this forum. But, I'm seeking advice on better ad placement for a site. I have a site that's averaging 2000 unique visitors a day right now. It's not getting a good CTR at all. You can see the add placement here Hollywoodnose.com. I'd put a screenshot but you need higher rep. points. As you can see I have the 3 main ads. I've tried a bunch of layouts. The right rectangle seems a little shoved in the users face. But, I've put it at the bottom too with a comparable CTR. Any suggestions on how to improve the ad placement? Thank you.


how to fix bad seo after being hacked

About a year ago my wordpress website was hacked & some company decided to go nuts and actually do some "SEO" on the various links it created. Some of the pages would show up on google as "payday cash advance" instead of "portfolio". The issue has been resolved, but now as I've been doing GOOD seo, I've noticed (when checking backlinks) that there are TONS of links still on the internet (mostly broken sites now) that have links to my website with titles like: "get a loan today" and so on. Is there a way to remove these links ? Can I tell google to ignore them ? Help !


Changing title (H1) of page- is it necessary to change URL?

I am planning to update content on an already performing page and expand the content on page. In order to accommodate the extra content, updating the title of the page is necessary and I think could help the SERP of the page. The question is around updating the URL as well, which would require a 301. The URL is constructed: http://www.domain.com/title How important is it to update the URL to reflect the new title of the page?


Setting Up CDN...beginner questions

I am using MediaTemple web hosting and they are using Edgecast's CDN network. I am planning to join CDN service, so I read through the guide, but I am confused about the 'Update your code' section: Does the CDN apply to my website automatically (without editing HTML) after I updated the DNS zone file? How can I control which files going through the CDN or not? Also, I need to make sure it won't affect the Google Analytics results.


The Joomla 'create a template' tutorial

I've recently downloaded Joomla using an instant download option, and now I'm looking to create my own templates. I went to http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla15/joomla_create_template.htm and am trying to follow the tutorial but I've failed at the first hurdle... where it says: > First, open the "templates" directory in your Joomla installation. Then > create a subfolder in it named "tutorial_template". All the files of your > template will reside in it. The problem is I have no clue how to do this, where is the directory to start with? The only thing I know how to get up is the administrator's screen, in which I have to choose one of the stock templates, which would be great if I didn't care about my own designs...but obviously I'm looking to have my own HTML and CSS coding used instead. How do I find where the folders are and how do I open them?


Save web page results in blank page

I tried to save my webpage "save as Webpage, HTML only" generated by php file. But when I save it and open it, it is blank. When I save it as "complete" then it is fine. Page is pure html/css after generating with php. Everything from css to javascript is included into that page, none of it is called outside


HTML (4.01) "lang" attribute: Best practice / Browser compat for where to place: HTML or BODY?

I'm just creating a new site from scratch. Each page in that site will have a default language and I'd like the markup to reflect it because there will be multiple languages. I'm using HTML 4.01 and I'm targetting older browsers as well (e.g. IE 6, Opera 8, Lynx etc.). Regarding Cross-Browser compatibility as well as of "best practices" where to place the lang attribute: To the HTML tag or to the BODY tag or does this make no difference at all? I'm going towards the BODY tag as it contains all the default languages text, while the HEAD might not always. But I have no clue if any browser is taking care of the lang attribute anyway. Any hints? (or is this a question for http://doctype.com/ ?)


Does a semicolon DNS record serve any purpose?

I'm helping my boss clean up our DNS records on Verizon and neither one of us is sure what to make of these. There are a couple records that consist solely of a semicolon. No record type, no address, no anything--it's just a semicolon. Do these serve any purpose, or can we just remove those records?


Are there any disadvantages to Cloudflare’s “Flexible SSL”?

Cloudflare let you serve your site over SSL without having to purchase and install a security certificate, a product they call “Flexible SSL”. (They act as a proxy and serve your site over SSL from their servers, while the connection from your server to their’s remains unencrypted.) They currently offer Flexible SSL for paid accounts that start at $20/month, but they plan to make it free for everyone by mid-October 2014. With Google's recent announcement that HTTPS is now a ranking signal, I'm considering switching several sites to Cloudflare, buying a Pro account, and turning on their “Flexible SSL” option, because it seems like the easiest way to serve several sites over HTTPS without having to purchase and manage multiple certificates. **Is there any downside to Cloudflare's Flexible SSL?** I'm comfortable using Cloudflare as a proxy – I'm more interested in two factors:   1. The experience for end-users. (e.g. Will visitors see security warnings?)   2. The level of security offered. (Presumably enough for a simple blog, but not for an online shop because they'd pass credit card data from their server to yours unencrypted? Or am I misinterpreting?)


How to analyze exits in Google Analytics

I am trying to track what a visitor does immediately prior to exiting our website. Specifically I have a number of events that are being logged and I would like to know which one, if any, happened immediately prior to leaving the site. I can see that segments now have a 'sequence' option so I was wondering if there was a way to use this. I had a go at creating a segment that includes events of this type immediately followed by 'exits > 0' but this just seems to return every session that triggers one of these events. I assume it's looking for a values of exits > 0 rather than a change in the number of exits which is what I was hoping for. Is there any way of analyzing events preceding exits like this?


How to make an apDiv show up in same spot on all browsers

I'm pretty new to the whole webmaster stuff and am just trying to format a slideshow on my homepage to be in a certain area with an apDiv, but as soon as I use another browser it's in a different location. Is there a way to make them appear in the same spot for all browsers? Here's a screen shot: http://i.stack.imgur.com/sFNUS.jpg


PayPal buy now button to charge different amount depending on the country the user is from

Customers to my website who are from the USA need to pay more P&P then UK customers. How do I make a PayPal button which charges a different amount depending on the country the user is from?


Does anyone know about some Flash or JS image gallery that allows multiple image selection simultaneously?

I need to show a list of image thumbnails, and the user should be able to select one or more images from this list and then the selected images should be "best fit" displayed. For example, with 3 selections a triangular presentation should be used, with 4 selections a square, and so on.


Is it possible to request Google and Bing/Yahoo to drop the cache of links they have indexed?

I radically changed the design of my site to not include embedded session keys which were part of the url itself i.e. /sessionkey/blahblah/blah to just /blahblah/blah. Now that I have relaunched my site. I am getting hammered with request for URLs which do not exist anymore. I am return 404 Not Found and 410 Gone to the crawlers, but is there anything easier than have them pounding on my server to get a bad response? I would use their remove feature but all of the session keys indexed were random strings. I would have no idea which session keys to specify. One thing I do know is all of the keys start with a number, I do not know if bots do regex on robots.txt? Thanks


How to reverse engineer the SEO on a website?

I have read this question. My question is a bit different from it. I want to know how can I reverse engineer another website that is ranking the best for some keywords. For example some website called `www.bla.com` is there and it ranks high for many keywords and I want to learn from it how can my website be of the same authority and get the same ranking (or probably better ranking if I found something that they are missing). Can anyone enlist it as a procedure, how to **reverse engineer** a website?


Find Email from URL link

I have a url link of a company. I need to find all email address of this company. Which is the easy way to find their email address by using url.


changing the subdomain and SEO issue

because of "government filtering" in Iran, once in a while we have to move the whole site into a new subdomain. For example i create a new sub domain on my public_html : `http://01.mydomain.com` I know Google webmaster has a feature to change domain, but it doesn't work with sub domains. as you can guess, the site is still accessible with www sub domain, now what's the best way to make Google to show the search results with new sub domain ? because the WWW sub domain is blocked now! any opinion would be helpful.


I have a lot of images for my website. However, they all need to be cropped. Is there a way using graphics magick?

I have about 4000 images that need to be cropped. The task is rather simple really. They all have a white border that **_varies_** but is always between say 20 and 50 pixels. I want to use graphics magick to remove that white border from all the images. How?


Which keywords to choose for SEO?

I have recently started a site. it's not even 5 months old. The site's major content is images. When naming the images, I am using google's adword tool. I am able to see keywords with most and least searches, highest and lowest competition etc etc. But what I'm not sure of is how to choose amontg these keywords, the   * one's with most searches or the one's with least,   * one's with least competition or most   * one's with most approximate cpc or the opposite.  Do these criteria of choosing has to be changed when the site gets popular. Please explain in detail.


Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when making them

The website I am working on has a few hundred PDFs in it. I don't think I have ever seen any of them come back in a search but there are linked to directly from out site. They are also full of keywords because they are product documents. Is there anything special we need to do to get Google or other search engines to crawl them? Is there any hard and fast rules for making PDFs to help Google like them more? For instance should I run them through ghostscript to clean up broken PDF tags that Adobe creates during generation?


Should I post my PDF library for SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when > making them When a Sales call comes in, the caller often says something like: 'I searched for 3 days before finding your product and it's exactly what I need!' That's telling me that I need some SEO work. We redid our website and streamlined it which removed many of our 'How-To' documents. Since those PDF documents contain words that people might search for, I was wondering if I could add a 'Complete library' link to the bottom of a page that will load up the entire PDF library. Would that help my ranking?


Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www on Ubuntu 11.04

I am getting a 403 when i access `http://mayfieldafc.local/` upon looking in the Apache logs I am getting:               [Wed Nov 16 12:32:59 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www      I have what i believe to be the correct permissions set on /var/www. hutber can create and delete files, hutber being my user. I can also execute as program on this folder. In mayfields vhost its:               <Directory /var/www/mayfieldafc/docroot>          Options +FollowSymLinks              AllowOverride None              Order allow,deny              Allow from all          </Directory>      I am pulling my hair out not being able to work on my sites with my work Ubuntu install. I know of nothing else that could be effecting this. So any ideas?


Determine Websites IP Address

Do you know how we can find out the IP address of our website? Our web host is Dreamhost and our Domain is with PlanetDomain, we need PlanetDomain to create a `Record` with that IP address so people can access our website. Some important information:   * We use shared hosting on Dreamhost. I am aware this means we share both a server with other clients and maybe also IP addresses or have a dynamic IP address? Maybe we can still obtain our IP address or send some other information to PlanetDomain? **_Why dont we give PlanetDomain Dreamhost's name servers instead of the IP Address?_**   Because we have a unique setup for our emails that aren't stored/controled by the web host. They are separate, so if we change the name servers it will break our emails. **_Why dont we just move our emails over to Dreamhost?_**   Honestly the boss doesn't want to do it. He thinks its too much work. He's not a technical person and I am not educated in domain, email setups so I dont know if it is really so much work to change. PS: Does anyone know what the name is for the setup we have? The setup being that the emails are not stored/controlled through the web host but are separate?


How to prevent my site getting caught in Google's child porn filter?

After Google and Microsoft take steps to block Internet search results linked to child porn, one of my sites which was about kid's photography got blocked in many search results. Actually my site is 100% clean of any pornography and it's been blocked by mistake. The filtering takes into effect when there are keywords like `kid` or `boy` in the user's query. I've lost almost 100% of my Google traffic recently. A query like `site:mysite.com kid` would return no results but `site:mysite.com somethingelse` works fine. I've received no message in my Webmaster's tools account about it either. How can I get back my site up the search results again? My site is clean and it's Google mistake.


Does Google consider W3C validation errors of a website? If so why www.google.com has 23 Errors, 4 warning(s)

Some SEO analysts says that fixing W3C validation errors of a website is an important _On Page Optimization_ if so why `www.google.com` has 23 W3C validation errors, 4 warning(s)? Does Google consider those errors? ![Google W3C Validation Errors](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SzCNy.png)


Store files only on CloudFlare's server

Does CloudFlare act as a standalone cloud server, or does it only cache files that already exist on your server? Is MaxCDN the same?


How can I manage multiple AdWords accounts using the same login?

This is the situation. I have an AdWords account which I use with my own email address. My girlfriend has another which she uses with her email address. However I am managing her ads for her so I want to be able to log into her AdWords and manage her account using my email address. Annoyingly though when I gave myself admin access I was told I would need to use a new email address. Buutt... I used to work with an agency that managed my AdWords; and all I did was give them access and as far as I know they were just able to log in using their own email address. Has something changed with security recently for AdWords to allow (agents) to manage multiple clients AdWords from a single email?


vBulletin API - can I pull thread, users, etc from third-party forums?

I'm trying to setup a site where I can pull hot threads from different forums, similar to an RSS feed. I've looked at the vBulletin API (http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/content.php/367-API-Overview) but its not too helpful. I know services like Tapatalk are using a similar infrastructure but I'm not sure if its a closed system. Do forum owners configure their site to work with Tapatalk directly or is there an API Tapatalk is using for this?


Why do people drop off site after clicking “connect to facebook”?

After doing some analysis on my website, I learned that 29% of web users, and 33% of mobile users drop off AFTER they click "connect to facebook." So they click on connect and then go to FB, and dont login and we never see them again. I am trying to figure out why, and my guess is that we ask for too many permissions, or our mobile site is not displaying using the m.facebook, but using the regular FB site. Are there any other suggestions you guys may think why?


Where can I find some CMS usage statistics?

Does anyone know a place where I can find some usage statistics on different CMSs? Also, do folks actually believe the massive massive Drupal share given here? (Netcraft claimed that Drupal was the sixth largest PHP-based CMS about a year ago; wish I could find the top five.)


Searching for acronym keywords in Google brings up full domain as first result

For years, I've had two domains (this is a ficticious example): `allbenchescatchdirt.com` and `abcd.com` They both do okay in terms of ranking for their keywords. However, I noticed something weird: If I search for " **abcd** ", the domain, `allbenchescatchdirt.com`, shows up as the first result and `abcd.com` shows up as second. I have a 301 redirect on `allbenchescatchdirt.com` and the _title_ tag of `abcd.com` is " **abcd** " and I've made sure that the keywords are placed accordingly in the content. I know it's difficult to provide information without knowing what the real domain is, but from a first glance, any idea why this is the case?


Starting from scratch xxx.yyy.com or www.xxxyyy.com (any SEO difference?)

I know there are lots of answers both here (e.g. this and this) and elsewhere which deal with subdomains and their impact on SEO. However, often the questioners are either asking about subdomain versus subdirectories, or they have an existing well trafficked main domain and are asking how introducing a subdomain will impact their existing site. Our question is simpler than that. If we are starting a website from scratch today, and we're worried about ranking well in SERPs for two keywords **xxx** and **yyy** , is there any disadvantage to using a subdomain as in:               xxx.yyy.com      versus               xxxyyy.com


How much traffic isn't reported by Google Analytics?

We keep finding inconsistencies between data in Analytics and the reports we get from other sources. In general, we notice about 40% less pageviews in Analytics than elsewhere:   * Correlating number of new accounts and number of views of the registration page.   * Comparing the pageviews on a subset of static page with the AWstats reports.   * Goals in our Analytics and reports from a partner tracking incoming links. The differences are not negligible. More than 40% difference can't be just due to users with disabled JS or to JS errors. Or can it? How to find out our rate of “lost” visits, visitors or hits? What is the industry accepted rate of lost traffic?


Is it a bad idea to seed a UGC site with duplicate content?

In order to get the ball rolling, make it look like it isn't a ghost town etc. I've been offered a license to some pretty good content for my Q&A site, but it would be duplicate. Where is the line drawn between high quality but duplicate content that makes the site look active, and dropping in the search engine rankings as a result? I'm presuming it's not wholly inadvisable to do this.


How to tell the world that I'm not an spammer?

In this question, I just found out that my website address has been reported as spam, by services like Akismet. However, I'm not really an spammer. I'm a web developer, and I'm not selling any product to advertise for. I tended to post "thank you" messages, but I'm not gonna send them even more. How should I inform the world that I'm not an spammer? How to return my name back to white list, instead of being on black list? Honestly, no site accepts my comments (which are truly relevant and link-free and ad-free). This bothers me a lot. I'm just so lost here. Please help.


RSS feeds and robots.txt

I have RSS feeds on my site. I've decided to follow Stack Exchange and disallow my RSS feeds in the _robots.txt_. I don't want search engine to display the RSS feed page to people, that's not really a good page to see for new visitors. Are there any advantage to allow search engine to crawl the RSS? Or is it a general good idea to disallow it?


Why does Internet Explorer's Developer Tools only emulate back to IE7?

Starting with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft provided built-in developer tools for Internet Explorer. IE8 provides IE8 Standards, IE8 Compatibility View, IE7, and Quirks Mode. IE9 provides IE9 Standards, IE9 Compatibility View, IE8, IE7, and Quirks Mode. I have often wondered why Microsoft choose to provide IE6 testing VMs instead of offering it as a convenient browser mode, while still providing Quirks Mode. Nobody wants to fire up a VM (now or three years ago) just to test a random IE6 report, so why did Microsoft choose to make IE6 testing so difficult for IE7 and every version following? Has Microsoft ever commented on that decision? **EDIT:** I know IE6 should be avoided and Microsoft wants to wipe it out for good as a browser. My question is looking for historical significance. I am wondering if Microsoft ever publicly announced that IE6 would never be supported by developer tools from IE8 on, which was released at a time that IE6's market share was still significant to developers. Even X-UA-Compatible Document Compatibility Modes lists everything, including IE5, but IE6 is missing from the list. Perhaps Microsoft began phasing out IE6 through developers long before they made a campaign targeting users, but I'm not sure why they provided VMs at all if that is the case.


Keyword Densities - do they still matter?

Let's say I have a standard issue web page with 500 - 600 words and I'm priming my page for two specific keywords (for the purposes of this example). We know that these words need to feature within the context of the page but how many times should they be used in the body text? How many times is too many? How few is too little? Does it even make any difference any more? Conventionally I have learned and used 2 to 7 % density and typically I've seen SEO organisations use roughly 4 % density for two word phrases. If I want this page to perform well in the search engines what are the best practises in relation to densities? What strategies have worked for you on real world projects?


Amazon Cloud Front - Changing the origin domain

Currently have a Cloudfront CDN with an **Origin** pointed to `http://mysite.com`. The CDN URL is something like _jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net_. Currently there are a lot of external consumers of a file hosted on my site and access it via Cloudfront ( e.g. `http://jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net/files/library.js`) so it's important that CDN URL remains the same. I would like to change the origin (`external.mysite.com` - which will include the same files and file structure) and I was wondering if this type of change would effect the **Domain Name** used by amazon (`jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net`)? I am assuming this will work, but given the number of people relying on the file I thought it would be a good idea to check before proceeding. Thanks in advance,


Do i need to have a separate page for each article on my website?

I am using a database to store data such as articles, titles, meta and so on. Do I need to Have a separate page for each article so that my articles show up in the list when searched on Google? Is is that Google can not crawl through the list of articles in the database and then give corresponding results? I am confused because i can see pages that are not connected to a database up in the list rather than pages that are retrieved from the database. Anyone got any idea regarding this? My scenario is this that , i have a tab on my navigation bar which leads to page that has a list of articles. `/home.php` (home page) has a link on navigation tab to `/articles.php` - this is the page where there's a list of all articles and this is PHP generated (fetched from MySQL). In this list again has href's to my articles but that is also just a single page with multiple id. **Example:** Article 1: `www.example.com/articlenew/display.php?id=1` Article 2: `www.example.com/articlenew/display.php?id=2` And so on... Will Google recognize my articles?


How does Google Analytics consider traffic?

Q1)If any automated bot visits my domain will Google Analytics consider it as traffic?   What all factors does the Google Analytics consider to be legit traffic?   Q2)If a user visits xyz.domain.com ,Does Google Analytics consider that it visited domain.com?


“http://localhost:1935” works but not “http://192.168.1.3:1935” in WAMP

Running a Wowza streaming engine and WAMP server               http://localhost:1935 works but not http://192.168.1.3:1935      Using windows 7 as my server Did the following. Added a line towards end of this section               <Directory "c:/wamp/www/">      Require ip 192.168.1     </Directory      ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SAkEU.png)Included 192.168.1.3:1935 in Listen directive as well Did port forwarding as well as shown in attached image What do I need to do to get               http://192.168.1.3:1935      working. This will help me run wowza streaming engine Thanks


Mobile Browser Usage Statistics

I'm looking for global mobile browsers usage statistics from time to time compared to desktop browsers. Any better ideas than http://gs.statcounter.com/ ? I need it as a reference for my college paper. Thanks


Hosting multiple client website on single hosting account

I'm WebDesigner and I have currently only a few clients for making website. I've unlimited hosting account and I want to host their websites in my account without reseller account (actually it is not needed for constness). Only my client's need is ftp access to their personal directory. So is it possible to give them saperate phpMyAdmin access in this strategy ? As per my knowledge it is done with "addon" domain pointing on my hosting account's directory with cPanel, am I right ? or there is another solution for it except reseller account ?


Unable to use anchor hash tag if using Google Analytics utm

If I want to user to go a particular section of my webpage, I will use               http://www.mywebsite.com/help_faq.html#contribution      However, sometimes, I need to track where user come from, if I use               http://www.mywebsite.com/help_faq.html#contribution?utm_source=jstock&utm_medium=help_menu      It fails to go to the particular section. Anything I can fix?


Web designers back link on client sites

We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this:   1. Should the keywords be in the title, alt and link text? E.g `<a href="domain.com" title="keyword">Keyword</a>`?   2. Should we make the keyword the same on all the client web sites?   3. Should we incorporate our company name as the link text? Are there any other general things I should follow? UPDATE: Currently we have "designed & built by Company". Are we better off having something like "graphic design & web design by Company"?


Locate sitemap at HTTP or HTTPS?

Our homepage has a 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS but all other pages on the site are on HTTP. (1) Should the sitemap be located at HTTPS and is there any problem if we:   * (2) include the HTTPS version of homepage (not including the HTTP homepage)   * (3) include the HTTP of all other pages within the HTTPS sitemap I have read conflicting information about including both HTTPS and HTTP in the same sitemap so any info is appreciated here.


SEO - 2 websites in the same domain

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO - 2 websites in the same domain I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it (http://www.foobar.com/loremipsum). I can find http://www.foobar.com in Google Search, but http://www.foobar.com/loremipsum no ... What should I do to index this website? Thank you.


SEO effect of “You are leaving this site” page for outbound links?

## The problem I am working on an aggregation website that collects reviews about specific products from various websites. The site has many thousands of outbound links (with "nofollow" attributes) to the content source websites where the reviews were collected from. The site has far more outbound links than inbound links and I have read that this is bad for SEO. ## The question Would adding an intermediate «You are leaving this site» disclaimer/warning page like this hurt search engine rankings? And can you provide any links about this topic? p.s. The exit page would be a POST form instead of a script, that notifies the user that he/she is leaving this site and provides a button to continue to the other website. p.p.s This kind of idea is implemented on many forums, aggregation websites with the purpose of warning the user that he/she is leaving this site and to block search engine bots from following those links because search bots do not submit forms.