Can I set www.something.com to be my AName record

I was just hoping someone could point me in the right direction. I want to have my website hosted which I want to display as `www.mydomain.com` I also need `mydomain.com` and `blog.mydomain.com` to go to the same IP. Do I need to create:   1. 1 x AName record for `www.mydomain.com` which points at my server static URL   2. Then create 2 x CName records which both point at `www.mydomain.com` ? Because if thats the way it's done then I want to set a redirect up on my IIS server to 301 to `www.mydomain.com` if it sees the URL as `mydomain.com`. Does this sound okay?


Provide Search Across Multiple PDFs

I know there are probably many solutions, but what's the easiest and/or most user friendly way to provide search capabilities across PDF files? I'm thinking of a webpage that links to several PDFs and I want to offer the user the ability to search them all at once.


Paging Google Custom Search via XML

I am trying to set up a custom search on my site and just for testing was checking out the search API's. The trouble is that the API do give me the valid results and total number of items found etc, however when I try to go to second page of the search they do not provide me with any data. Is it because I have to pay for the custom search engine?


Will your blog rank lower if you remove its comment section?

Yesterday I noticed a warning in my Google Webmaster Tools. It told me that one of the posts on my blog had a slow load time - a post which happened to be by far the most commented on. So, to rectify this, I lowered the maximum number of comments per page to 50 and resubmitted my sitemap. (This means that newer comments appear on a separate 'comments page'.) Now I've noticed that my site has slipped to #2 for my top search term, for which it had ranked #1 for since October '13. So this got me thinking: has my decision to move the newest comments to another page affected it badly? Reduced its freshness, maybe? Or could the negative effect have come from the resubmitting of the sitemap? Edit: Also, just checked. CTR was increasing, as were number of social media shares.


Schema.org: errors on UserComments tags

On my site, http://whatgoeswiththis.co, I'm getting persistent errors found by Google Webmaster Tools for my markup of UserComments - it's saying that at each instance I'm missing location, name, and startDate (2 times) properties. I didn't see anywhere that these are required, and I don't have geolocation of any users' comments on my site. Is this simply an error I can ignore, or might it be better to simply remove the UserComments markup from my site? Update: it appears from this page that because UserComments is a subcategory of the event property, google seems to require these three fields: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/164506?hl=en&ref_topic=1088474 Perhaps the answer is to use 'comments' property instead? Or just leave as it is? Thanks!


What to do if Google start to index less pages of your site?

How may I find why Google indexes less webpages in my site? I´ve recently find this: ![Google webmaster tools last check](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cvJE4.png) And I wonder why could make Google index less pages. I´ve then tried the Google help, and it wasn´t that helpful: > A steady increase in the number of crawled and indexed pages indicates that > Google can regularly access your content, and that your site is being > indexed. > > If you see a sudden drop in the number of indexed pages, it may mean that > your server is down or overloaded, or that Google is having trouble > accessing your content. > > To see the percentage of your site that’s accessible to Google, compare the > number of crawled pages with the number of pages blocked by robots.txt. > Sudden spikes or dips that appear in several charts can indicate problems > with site configuration, redirects, or security. Now, on June 3rd Google says: Googlebot can't access your site > Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 179 errors while attempting to > retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS > queries for your site is 5.0%. Now, I´ve recently (january 2013) updated my site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and some links were changed. I´ve tried to solve the issue, and after that I´ve followed Google´s instructions: > After you think you've fixed the problem, use Fetch as Google to verify that > Googlebot can properly access your site. I´ve clicked "fetch as Google" and it says "success" URL and linked pages submitted to index. I´ve clicked on those site errors, and it says: DNS OK Server Connectivity OK Robots.txt Fetch OK So, how may I find issues? Should I go and check out every single page of my site? What if I find a link is broken because I no longer use it?


How to block a wildcard subdomain in httpd.conf

So I am able to block specific subdomains like this:               SetEnvIfNoCase Referer knownsub\.sorryspammer\.com sorryspammer          <Location />     Order Allow,Deny     Allow from all     Deny from env=sorryspammer     </Location>      which does successfully block visits to any site on my server that come from the referrer, knownsub.sorryspammer.com So now, I am getting visits from referrers like 1.sorryspammer.com, 2.sorryspammer.com, 8.sorryspammer.com, 22.sorryspammer.com, etc., and I need to set an environment variable to block any subdomain coming from the referrer domain sorryspammer.com. I know I need to set the same basic rule for the environment variable but with a wildcard for the subdomain part. I've tried a couple of things, most recently this:                SetEnvIfNoCase Referer (.*)\.sorryspammer\.com sorryspammer      but I am still getting visits from referrers from subdomains on sorryspammer.com. I know I'm missing something real simple. Not sure if it matters, but keep in mind that this is not going in an .htaccess file but is going in the httpd.conf file to apply the rules server wide.


apache2 running but doesnt load my index.html

I have a linux server running apache2, I have my own user folder: /home/me/... I added a .htaccess to my folder with:               DirectoryIndex index.html      in it and the server IP is: 123.456.789.111 I tried: http://123.456.789.111/index.html to no avail. I know I probably doing something wrong, I never used apache.


Is there such a thing as an "exact match subdomain"?

Google's exact match domain SEO boost is well publicised (including in a recent Stack Exchange podcast). But is there any evidence that an "exact match subdomain" gets any kind of boost? I'm talking about the difference between `word.example.com` vs `wordexample.com` (and maybe `word.com/example`) in a search for "word example". (Note: I'm not actually considering using this technique, I just heard someone mention it and am interested if there is any evidence for it.)


Custom Page for Suspended Website - Plesk

I have suspended a website on Plesk and i want to show users a custom page. Do you guys know how to do it?


Why am I getting hits to pages with ?fb_xd_fragment=

I have added a Facebook like box and like buttons on my blog and, recently, I've been seeing on analytics a lot of hits to pages ending with `?fb_xd_fragment=`. I've found a related thread on the Facebook Forums which, worryingly, mentions that for some weird reason IE8 users are being redirected to a blank page! This is terrible, am I losing a significant portion of my visitors because when they try to visit my blog they're greeted by a blank page? (I don't have at hand a Windows computer with IE8 to check) Also on a related question on SO, it is suggested to add `xmlns:fb="facebook.com/2008/fbml"` to the main `html` tag (which I've done just now), and to add a `channel.html` file. But I can't do the later, because my blog is hosted on blogger and I can't upload html files. So my question is twofold:   1. even after adding the `xmlns:fb`, could this still be an issue that affects IE8 visitors    2. how should I go about to fix it for my blog on blogger?


Google search showing "Index of /. cgi-bin/"

I recently decided to leave GoDaddy in choice of NameCheap as my preferred hosting package for my mothers business, I also had to bring my domain name to the guys i register my local domain names. Once I had finally gotten control of my domain name I changed the DNS settings and set up the hosting package and waited for the domain name to resolve.. 24/48 Hrs (as I wasn't in a big rush) later I went back to check and found it had finally resolved. I then uploaded the old site that used to be hosted with godaddy via ftp to my nameCheap server... However once I had done this I decided to search for my mums business on Google and found it looked like this ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qlLPh.png) So I logged into ftp and found the cgi-bin and deleted it thinking that was the problem.. but still no luck. If you click the link it takes you to index.html perfectly... its just in the search result I have this weird erro, any idea how to fix would be greatly appreciated.


Counting total number of distinct real people that have seen a web page?

What is most accurate method to count total number of distinct real people that have seen a web page? (not number of times that a page is requested). In other word what is your idea to make counting it a little more accurate? What combination of IPs, cookies, or authentication info may be used for this purpose? How we can maintain related data in DB effectively?


Find origin of the 403 error (not my server)

We are running an Apache server that provides files to several users. Some users are getting the 403 error when trying to access any download url on our Apache. I don't see those 403 errors in our access log. Most of the clients are able access those urls. I'm guessing something between the client and the Apache blocks the connection. How do I found out who that is? Thanks


Why should we prefer table over div when it comes to emailers?

When it comes to converting designed email templates to html format, how is a table layout better than a div? What are the exact reasons we tend to choose table over div for emailers?


How to prevent a search engines from indexing a section of a page?

I have many pages with lots of text in it. But I will always have two sections of text and I want to prevent one section from appearing in search results, the other section must be indexed.
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never index me please
      I thought that maybe if I load the "please don't index me text" with JavaScript maybe search engines wouldn't look for it. But I am not sure it would work and this is not really nice. I was wondering if there is a way to tell search engines "hey, this text you can't grab, move on". So, is there a way to do it?


Best way to optimize joomla cache. Difference between Global configuration cache and system cache plugin

I need to know for a Joomla site > there is system cache plugin > > then there is global configuration setting to enable cache - how is it > different from system cache plugin below are some of speed optimization i have already done > Enabled system cache plugin > > ExpiresActive On with ExpiresByType done > > AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE done My site has mostly database queries been updated in terms of new product listings. Does enabling global configuration conservative cache can also help in reduce loading time (despite face where we have already enabled joomla system cache) How is Global configuration conservative cache different from joomla system cache plugin. What is the difference Thanks


Google Analytics Subdomain Tracking for WordPress

I'm looking for the best solution to track my website's traffic using Google Analytics. I have a website that (currently) has two subdomains. The subdomains are about very different content, the TLD shows some basic information about me and also shows excerpts from the two underlying subdomains. I'd like to be able to see information for the whole site, but also be able to specify per subdomain. Obviously I'd like to use the more recent Asynchronous Google Analytics script. I couldn't find any decent and more importantly, recent solutions or implementations for this. Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.


Linking out to other websites and SEO

I have searched for this, but couldn't find anyone actually asking this same question. I'd be happy to be pointed to a previous answer though. I have built a one page website that links to other websites to provide people with links to unsubscription pages. So I'm simply linking to those websites directly, however I have now thought that maybe I should be linking to my own website using an SEO optimised URL, that would then redirect to that page. i.e. `www.mywebsite.com/?site=ebay-uk` which would then redirect to Ebay. I'm not sure this actually makes any difference in terms of link building, but my website being a one page only kind of thing, I figured it could do with some internal linking, but I was just wondering if that would actually make any difference at all. Would anyone be able to answer that?


Why isn't my site showing on google.com but it's on top of another local Google search results?

I'm trying to figure out why my site doesn't show up on `google.com` (from the United States). Even if I search for the domain name (`mysitename.com`) on `google.com`, the site doesn't show up. The only way to find the site is searching for `mysitename .com` (with a space). However, if I try with a local Google site (spanish language), like `www.google.co.ve`, `www.google.cl`, `www.google.es` or `www.google.mx`, it shows up on top with a little effort. The default site language is english (we also have spanish and portuguese versions). The site is for an office space rental agency in the United States, therefore it should appear on `google.com` search results. I understand that some keywords could be very difficult to rank, but I don't understand why even using the site name, it doesn't show up. I already setup the Google Webmaster Tools and chose the United States as site's target. We use a hosting provider from Venezuela. Could be that the problem? The site is `www.gmtbusinessplace.com`.


I need help with rel=canonical

I have troubles understanding rel=canonical the way google wants me to implement it. I have a job site that uses filters to show subsets of the total job list. Nothing fancy... normal stuff. So if you go to /jobs you are able to paginate through all of them. You can than apply all sorts of filters like: /jobs/new-york or /jobs?jobs_position_id=3 (I know this is a "bad" url. I will change it to show actual words, but this does not change my canonical question) Also there is a search like /jobs?query=FOO(&job_position_id=3 additional with filters). How should I apply rel=canonical here? I tried some strategies, but I had the feeling Google didn't like it. Right now there is none... Thanks


No search data in Google Analytics or Webmasters

I have a domain that has been registered in Google Webmasters and using Google Analytics for over 4 months. I get lots of analytics data, but am getting no information on Google searches in Webmasters, or Queries in Search Engine Optimisation in Analytics, even though I am getting keywords for traffic coming to my site from search engines. I have a test sub-domain with the same setup (except not HTTPS) that is getting some of this information through, even with much less data and visits. What could be wrong to stop me getting this information?


Searching for an online shop accessible via API

I need an online shop with a custom interface (customizing items with Ajax, with a preview included). Writing it myself does not make too much sense (implementing all the payment options etc.), so I would like to use an existing online shop (OpenSource). I would like to build my own UI which, for example, tells the shop to add an item to its cart -- i.e. without using the online shop's native UI. More precisely, it should be an online gallery where the user can directly order an image if he likes it. The final checkout/payment page can be native again. Is there a shop system that supports this? Or is it still faster to write it on my own? Or are there better options? **Additional information** I have written a JavaScript image gallery. The idea is that when the visitor finds an image he likes, he can then click some _buy now_ button and is then shown a new page where he can see how the picture will look like (different sizes, borders, etc.). Finally the image goes to the shopping cart and the user can proceed to checkout. This is where I would like the online shop system to kick in. Not before, i.e. not in the previous paragraph. **Update** In the meantime, I have found another system that really only provides the API: Moltin. Just in case somebody else is looking for a shopping API.


Creating hosting accounts in WHM on a single IP

I've just purchased a VPS with the hope of transferring multiple shared hosting accounts onto it. The problem is that I've only got 2 IP addresses with my VPS. I can create an account and assign it an IP address, but once I've done this once, I can't do it again. (1 IP address is my main root WHM IP, the other is my new hosting account IP). Can I create multiple hosting accounts and use the same IP? How would I manage multiple hosting accounts in this way? The domain for this hosting account has been purchased by the client, and they hold it (can't transfer for 60 days), so I need to adjust the DNS settings to redirect to my newly created hosting area - how can I do this without a dedicated IP address?


Help needed with joomla template installation

I got a new template which is bit huge as compared to my connection speed (15mb). When I tried the normal way, couldnt use the upload and install it. Since its doing nothing (time out). Is there any way that I could manually upload via FTP and install the template?


A homepage consisting of nothing more than a search form and a few words (good/bad idea?, will it show up in SERP?)

I am working on a portal and for my homepage, I want to present the user with a search form which requires the user to type in a word (or search query) in order to search for information on my site. The page (which happens to be my homepage) has very few words and is actually modelled on Google home page. I am wondering, since Googlebot (and other crawlers) will not type a query and 'submit' it - whether Googlebot will only be seeing an effecively 'blank' page for my homepage - which inevitably, can't be good for SEO. In caqse my assumption of Googlebot seeing a blank page is correct, I have an idea to get around it - but since I am new at this, I would much rather wait and see if someone (more experienced) has a similar (or better idea). Any comments/advice (pros/cons) on such an approach as described above?


Sudden drop in visits on Intranet site (Google Analytics)

We've had Google Analytics running against our Intranet for years now, and on the 12th August 2011 our number of **Visits** went down by a third and remains at the reduced figure daily. It transpired that a change was made to GA on the 11th (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/community/gajs_changelog.html), one of those changes is regarding a session not being closed when users close their browser. Given that everyone in our company has the Intranet site as their home page would this make sense? I'm very close to drawing a conclusion from this change, but I just wanted to see if it's feasible that this would cause this sort of drop?


Set initial robots.txt restrictions so high, Googlebot won't even try to access the updated less strict file.

When I initially setup my blog I put the restrictions on robots.txt way too high. They were so stick that googlebot can't even access the udated less strict robots file. I've been at this problem for days, I'm in a bind. I will be extremely grateful if someone could help me out.


Testing a website on a local server displays differently to offline

I am currently designing a website and at the moment it is getting quite annoying as the design doesn't seem to be displaying properly when testing it through WAMP in server mode. It displays perfectly well if I simply double click the php file and display it without any server code, however this is also frustrating as I would like to be able to see my server code with my design. I have already cleared the cache, and I still get the same result... Any help on this situation?


How to set htaccess working on opensuse for codeigniter project

I'm trying to have htaccess work on codeigniter project but the module is not working and I don't know how to enable rewrite module. To have read the htaccess. The OS is Opensuse 12.2. I have this directive in the default-server.conf               Alias /safememoirs/ /home/gabriele/Web/safememoirs/          <Directory "/home/gabriele/Web/safememoirs">       Options Indexes MultiViews       AllowOverride None       Order allow,deny       Allow from all     </Directory>      But I don't understand A how to enable the module B Where should I put the .htaccess directive id in the default-server.conf or in the site directory?


Best Web Site Copying Software

I just wanted to get some opinions on the best "web site copying" software out there (free or commercial is fine). I have a site that I've recently become responsible for managing, and the previous consultant has not provided operating system access. As such, the plan is to re-host the web site. I realize there are a lot of different issues to consider in doing this. However, I don't have much choice in the matter now. The plan is to use web site copying software (ala HTTrack) to "rip" the web site, and then modify what is downloaded back in to a maintainable site. This, of course, involves HTML, css, javascript, etc on the front-end. I'd like to recover as much of the site as possible to make re-creating it as easy as possible.


Dynamic php pages getting direct traffic

I just launched a website and for the 1st 30 days was only getting word of mouth traffic with good analytic #s. Bounce rate around 32% and average of 3 minutes visit duration. Now that I've submitted a sitemap, I am getting about 72% bounce rate and only 1 min on the site. The weirdest thing is the direct traffic landing on dynamic php pages is the bulk of the high bounce rate and most of them show 0 seconds for duration. I submitted these dynamic pages in my site map so wondering if someone is using that information and crawling my site???? Example of the dynamic urls:               www.example.com/good-gas-station-new-york-ny.html     www.example.com/bp-gas-station-miami-fl.html      Any ideas of what it could be? Should I be worried?


Hosting a website for 10-20 users

I am thinking about a way to stay in touch with friends from college and many people don't have Facebook/Twitter/etc so I wanted to make a very minimal website in which users can login (username / password) and post links to websites or just post text. Ideally it would be forum style and I would like to host it from a home computer. I have minimal experience with Ubuntu but think it is possible. Here are my questions:   1. If 20 people log onto a website that I am hosting from a home computer, will that use a lot of my internet bandwidth?   2. Other than a static IP and Apache server, is there anything else I need to install to get going?


html tag for grouping forms?

I thought I remember seeing this somewhere but maybe not. Isn't there an HTML tag for grouping forms similar to the tag for grouping headers? so for example:               <fgroup>         <form>             <!-- misc. data -->         </form>         <form>             <!-- misc. data -->         </form>     </fgroup>


GWT: reporting crawling errors for non existing links

Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed. They all mention `joomla/` which is not the cms used on this domain (it's wordpress fyi). Exampled: `http://example.com/joomla/index.php/component/user/register` Linked from: `http://example.com/joomla/component/user/login?return=L2######` What is going on? **UPDATE 1** I tried something: I provided one of the faulty urls to the "Fetch as Google" functionality. Instead of returning a 404, it returns a 301 to another Joomla page.               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Server: Apache/2.4.3     X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4-10     X-Pingback: http://example.com/xmlrpc.php     Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0     Pragma: no-cache     Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1fgr5v2oip39miibuptd51s8h0; path=/     Set-Cookie: woocommerce_items_in_cart=0; expires=Sat, 12-Jan-2013 11:44:01 GMT; path=/     Location: http://example.com/joomla/component/user/register     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1     Content-Length: 387     Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:44:01 GMT     Via: 1.1 varnish     Connection: keep-alive     Accept-Ranges: bytes     Age: 0          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
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The document has moved here.

Additionally, a 301 Moved Permanently     error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


cdn.domain.com indexed by Google. The content is being considered as duplicate content

I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having same content and is being considered as duplicated resulting ranking issue. I tried contacting the developer and he was not able to help. I hope there is some way to avoid such issue.


Brand name showing before the title in search results

If we search for our brand name or any keywords that relate to our website, the first words to appear in the title shown in the Google result preview follow this format: `Brand Name: Title` Here's a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CJrsM.png) I am using Yoast WordPress SEO, and each of the pages are not optimized the same as the above result. Here's the WordPress code:               <title><?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php  bloginfo('name'); ?></title>      If we comment out the PHP code inside the title, the page itself has no title then. I wanted to have the title first, followed by the brand name in the search results.


Measurable goals for a new web team/department?

I'm part of a new web team (the area is new) and we have to define goals. I need to define this goals so they can be measurable maybe monthly and yearly. So my questions is if these goals should be monetary only or quantity of websites reached, both or if there are better parameters than the ones cited? I will be so grateful if you at least can point the right way to find them.


What happens if I try to set a cookie on a bot?

I'm building my site to include some user-identifying cookies. When a visitor chimes in, I will set a cookie with a unique visitor id (a guid) and the date- time of the visit, and save a visit record (including his user-agent, referer (if any), and so on, in my database. I plan to check each user to see if they have the cookie I've set, and then create a visit record each subsequent time they come by, to include if they click any links on my site. The site is very very new (only about a week old as of today), but I've been tracking my visitors in a text log and I see that I can identify visiting bots by their user-agents (the Google and Bing bots/crawlers have come by, along with a couple of others). It occurs to me that they probably won't accept cookies. Does anyone know this for sure? Or do they also collect cookies in addition to site information?


How you solve "preventing common words from Google" issue?

My topic seems to be solved by stackexchange engine but me (a human) couldn't find a solution here. As you may understand on subject, I have many repeated words on my site like "comment", "like", "read more" and also some system messages like "mysql_result","error", "php" etc. I saw that my most valuable words are these on Webmaster's Tools. Some people suggests to load those texts from a js file and restrict access to those files. Or using iframes for those text areas. Both have some negative sides, too. I think about another solution which is using images instead of repeated texts but it is neither practical nor seems well. Thank you for suggestions.


How to track outbound links in Google Analytics?

I'm having trouble tracking outbound links from my page. I can see the visits to the page in Google Analytics, but still I can't see what I'm doing wrong (of course I have replaced the UA-XXXX code with my own code). Can anyone spot anything wrong with the below code? One interesting thing is that when I include the tracking function in the `<head>` section, my page doesn't load correctly in Firefox. So, I checked the syntax and all seems ok. I've added this just before the closing `</body>` tag:                          I have this just before the closing `</head>` tag:                     This is an example of an outbound link:               blah site


Google search of links:mysite.com returns less links than imagined

I did a Google search `links:mysite.com` and it only returns 3 results. I know there are a lot my more back links in existence than that. Why does Google not show the other links I have to my site?


Write to an alias directory on Apache

How do I enable writing via PHP to an alias directory. I have the following on my `VirtualHost`:               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName domain.com     ServerAlias m.domain.com          ...etc          AliasMatch ^(.*)/user/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/images/(.*) "C:/Apache/webroot/user/$2/images/$3"      <Directory "C:/Apache/webroot/user">         Options Indexes MultiViews         AllowOverride None         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      So if I tried to view a file or an image from `m.domain.com` I can see it being fetched from the `alias` directory; however, when I try to write it fails. for example if i tried something like `<?php file_put_contents("user/sam/images/sample.png", $img); ?>` it would fail. Any suggestions or ideas is really appreciated.


Login script with member area/user

Is there a free script which I can use to: Share some PDF with my partners. But i need the user to reach only those PDFs which they have privileges for. So I need:   * login script with registration (i will make the registration if need. So registration function will public)   * every user should have their own member area   * I will upload PDFs to the specified user areas   * when my partners sign in they can see only those PDFs that they have privileges for


Setting up domain name for google apps domain and google app engine appplication

I have deployed a app or a static web page on comingsoonjoineventus.appspot.com, when the users click joinevenuts.com they should be redirected to the appspot link. But its redirecting to google sites home page of the domain. I check the domain settings in both godaddy and also google domain cpanel. I am not able to figure it out. kindly help me in this regard


Can I use GMail to manage my emails?

Say I buy a domain `foo.com` - can I easily use GMail to receive and send emails from an address of that domain. For example, `admin@foo.com`? Is this possible or do I have to install a mail server on my VPS? I would prefer something free.


Does Googlebot (and/or search engines) index a forwarded page?

Let's say I have `example.com` domain, and I force the user to use the HTTPS over HTTP. The question is as browsers just accept and load the forwarded/new page (when the request for `http://example.com` -> `https://example.com`), does the Googlebot (or other search engines) accept the forwarded page and index the new page and just ignore the old page? In other word, does search engines accept HTTPS beside the HTTP?


'Back button' functionality, how important is it?

It is increasingly common for "rich" applications to break the back button. I've always held that this was bad form but perhaps that view is outdated? Is it ever Ok to break the back button? And if so, what are the criteria? * * * **Edit:** To clarify I was more referring to applications where clicking the back button basically just sends you right back where you were. Effectively disabled but not in any way harmful to press.


how can I set my site root from: localhost/mysite/ to: localhost/mysite/view/ via htaccess

hi just wondering if this is possible, when you access my default site directory localhost/mysite I want to set the path to render localhost/mysite/view/ all my html pages will be rendered here just like an php MVC structure can do... is it possible with htacces? I'm an absolute newbie so I apologize if you find this question somehow stupid. thanks so much in advance :)


About the <link rel="index" /> tag

I'm trying to figure out how to use it. I understand that this tag tell Google which page is the root parent / parent of the current page. So, for example, on a page that's listing a product from a certain category, the `rel="index"` value should be the product category page (the page which lists all products from that category). Am I right? And the index value of that product category page is the "Products" page, ie. the page which lists products from all categories (or featured / most bought / popular products or whatever). Is this how index should be used? If yes, then what if the page which the index points to has `"noindex, follow"`, because it serves duplicate content?


Custom Domain for Tumblr

I am trying to set up a custom domain for my tumblr account. http://blog.scribeair.com/ to http://scribeair.tumblr.com Can some one help me how to set up the DNS records for the subdomain. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7saDZ.png)


We are building a finance website and need to chart stocks along an x and y axis and would like to use pinch and zoom interaction to change focus on the charts. What is the most accessible charting framework for mobile devices? We are building for all current generation smart phones and require our users to have JavaScript enabled.


Making my domain show up instead of my sitemap.xml in Google search results

If I search Google for a term or my site name, Google returns the URL `sitename.com/sitemap.xml` on the first or second page of the results. _I want the main site to return in the results and not the sitemap_.


Can using Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site if I already use CloudFlare?

I'm using CloudFlare right now. Can Varnish still help to improve the performance of my site?


Embeddables and moving from wordpress.com to self host

I transfered my wordpress blog from .com to a self host but it is full with embeds from youtube and flickr, written like thus: > [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=someurl] and so how do I go about converting those wordpress.com embeds to normal embeds? Thank you


How can I query over a page name at google analytics

I am running a website that every customer has a different query string attached to the url plus one random guid attached at the end:               /myPage/?cust=one&randomGuid     /myPage/?cust=two&randomGuid     /myPage/?cust=three&randomGuid      I would like to measure how many page views I have using only the `cust` query string parameter discarding the random part of the string. The regex for this job would be `cust=(.*?)&` but I don't know how to apply this in google analytics


Restricted Flow Of Power

I'm sure all is fine, but i need some reassurance. Last month my company launched consolidated two of their websites into one new website. www.fdmgroup.com and www.fdmacademy.com into a newly designed www.fdmgroup.com. Because the FDM Academy grew as it's own brand we decided not to just forward the domain to the fdmgroup website, but instead just mirror the new FDM Group website and use a canonical tags to the FDM Group domain (so the link juice will pass to the FDM Group domain pages) The website has be live for nearly a month and i don't believe any power has passed down through the FDM Group website to it's deeper pages even though 301 redirects from the legacy group and academy domains in place. I am also seeing the same problem on the FDM Academy domain, but i expect to see this as every page has a canonical to the same page on the **Is there anything which is restricting the flow of power through the site, or am i just being impatient?**


How to fix 404 crawl error of a website

I have a navigational links in a php page `nav.php`, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below               +top_folder          -config.php           +includes_folder            -nav.php  (conatins links to all pages in my website)          +courses_folder            -course1.php            -course2.php            -nav.php      **config.php**               <?php          $main_url = "http://www.myapp.com/";     ?>      **nav.php file**

<a href="<?=$main_url?>courses_folder/course1.php">Course 1

<a href="<?=$main_url?>courses_folder/course2.php">Course 2

      So, I am including the `top_folder/includes_folder/nav.php` file in all pages. But I also placed `nav.php` in other location: `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` and I am not including this file in any file of my website. `$main_url` is only defined in `config.php`, which I am including in all files, Not in `nav.php`. So the `$main_url` is being displayed as blank in crawled page i.e. `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` Google has crawled `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` page also. The links are not proper bacause $main_url is null in this case. So It's been a 7 months since i done this changes. Is it a good idea to just include the `config.php` in `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` file **OR** Do i need to create the files and folders (As links in `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` file). **OR** Do i need to disallow the links (`robots.txt`) in `top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php` file Among the above, Which is the recommended solution to solve the 404 issues without affecting the SEO.


How to add lock symbol to my website using private SSL in https pages

I just purchased SSL for my website from hostgator, so that I can add lock symbol in my website, when users visit `https://www.mysite.com` For example: ![SSL Certificate](http://i.stack.imgur.com/q5KQ4.png) Now they have installed the certificate, but I am unable to make this thing visible on my site. When I am opening the site with `https://` it shows no lock symbol. Please help me to show lock symbol and security certificate information when `https://` pages open in my PHP Script.


Several link on one page - Effect on SEO and User Experience?

I've been researching the question if several `<a href=“#”>link</a>` links on one page have a bad impact on SEO and User Experience, for quite a while now but didn't really come to a conclusion. This method is used when a site structure is ready from the start but content etc is missing. So you put up a frontpage with those links and extend the whole site step by step over time. So time after time those links will be removed with the actual link but it can take its time. Lets say we have a big site with 50 pages and 5 pages have several of those "unready" links. Lets clear the facts: **User experience:** For the user it should be a really bad experience when they see a link for more information and expect to get these information but then just get linked to the top of the current page. If a page is full of such links I can imagine its frustrating and they will leave immediately. **Google's View:** Their crawlers see the site structure right from the start and it should be more cost effective not to recalculate link juice etc with every update. And we know Google really cares about costs and effectiveness of their crawling. But on the other hand, they also really care about the user experience and consider this as one major ranking factor. So my question is: Does have several of those "not ready" links on one page, a bad impact on Google rankings? I'm really interested how different webmasters see this topic.


Recovery from URL structure change?

in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from: > **Post** : domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by- > chinatsu/ > > **Category** : domain.com/blog/index/cosplay/ to > **Post** : domain.com/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu-986/ > > **Category** : domain.com/cosplay/ Everything was (supposedly) properly redirected with 301 redirects and it first seemed that the traffic returned after a couple of days, but it has now been close to 2 months and things keep going worse although Google is slowly indexing the changes. ![The red line indicates the URL structure change](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EhYmd.png) What is worrying me even more is that the **Pages crawled per day** from Webmaster Tools started drastically dropping a few days ago and has just reached a new low in months (from over 2000 to 700). Should I be worried or will things sort out eventually?


Online Video Platform for own servers

I need an application, similar to Ooyala, Vzaar, Brightcove, that manages & encodes all videos. The only difference, is that I want to host the software and content on my own servers, preferably Ubuntu, using PHP. Software does not have to be free. The closest I've got to is Kaltura OS.


php+mysql account management software?

I need an account system added to my website as a plugin to all of my HTML pages. The account system plugin needs to,register new users, log in current users, remove users who want to disconnect service, and manipulate all of these things via database on my web server. However, I do not know how to program in the PHP language or create and manipulate MySQL databases. I want a program that can create and manipulate the MySQL database automatically for my website and handle also PHP calls automatically. Are there any open source freeware programs out there that i can use? If so what are the names of these freeware?


How to remove our IP address from Microsoft's email blacklist?

We have a website, users sign up and receive links to confirm they signed up BUT:   1. Microsoft blocked our IP (no one with Microsoft email account can receive our emails.)   2. We tried contacting microsoft submitting the detailed form about our problem.   3. We posted 3 times in their community about our problem.   4. We tweeted they about our problem.   5. We tried finding out some telephone support number (the few there are aren't helping at all.) Do you think we solved? the answer is **NO** :/ We are still unable to send emails from our IP to Microsoft email accounts and have been unable to for the last 3 months. Our emails are perfect. We checked all the email headers following Microsoft's guidelines, but it seems not enough. Checking our IP reputation it seems everything is OK, indeed we can send email easly to any other provider: Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Here is the full error returned by Microsoft:               host mx1.hotmail.com[65.55.37.120] said: 550         SC-001 (COL0-MC4-F28) Unfortunately, messages from 94.23.***** weren't         sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their         network is on our block list. You can also refer your provider to         http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors. (in reply to MAIL         FROM command)      We are running NGIX + PHP mailer from a virtual private server (no Hosting or shared hosting.) Are there any other way to try to get help?


How To: Super quality images and text

Sometimes I come across sites that are different than others in terms of quality. For example (sorry for the ad), http://www.taskrabbit.com/ . The image quality is perfect, everything "shines" and the text,buttons, background is also super quality. How it's made? What's the secret? Thanks


Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing /index.php/)

Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the /index.php/ part? How link looks now: > `http://www.example.org/index.php/stuff` How link would look after URL rewrite: > `http://www.example.org/stuff` The old code (j1.5) at this link doesn't work: http://docs.joomla.org/SEO_and_IIS_ISAPI


Can copying site content for a mobile version of the site impact SEO?

I am thinking about copying our content (text content especially) from our main site (eg: `example.com`) to the mobile version of the site (eg: `m.example.com` or `example.com/m`). What are the SEO side effects of doing so? Do SEO experts recommend this practice? If you have external articles or reference, hope you guys can share here also.


Cloudflare is it safe?

I am thinking of signing up with cloud flare, but since i'm not very familiar with the technical side of things, I wanted to ask here first. How safe is it to sign up with services, like cloud flare? Do they ultimately own my domain? Are they able to take away control of my domain? The way I see it, I transfer ownership of my domain to them, and they will also appear as owners in whois. Is this how it works? I'm confused. Note, I am not asking how reputable cloud flare is, but rather how it works, and if they are **technically** able to snatch my domain.


How does my server validate my email address

I am attempting to send emails from my website (localhost, test and live) and I am finding that only a fraction ever reach their destination. One of the problems may be that my web server is not communicating the fact that my emails are coming from a valid email address and/or source. I've read that my web server (or DNS) may be contacted by an email system regarding the emails that that appear to be sent from my domain. If the server does not respond and tell the email system that the email address or IP address is trustworthy, the email may be treated as spam. How does this validation system work? How do I add emails and IP addresses to my server so that they are regarded as good sources? In general, I want for emails to be seen as valid when they come from my server and when they come from my localhost (for testing reasons.)


I can't find my backup for the cpanel in whm/cpanel

**The Problem:** I have made a complete backup from the cpanel for the whole home folder. I have placed this folder in the default home directory. Thereafter, i tried to restore this file from the WHM, but i couldn't find it. Does anyone know what causes such problems? **Additional Details:**   1. I am the administrator of the cpanel and i have complete access to the reseller WHM.   2. Check more details below with images:  ![The Location of the Backup File in the cPanel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RwD1h.png) ![No Backups were found in the WHM panel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dex3a.png) ![An error message of cannot restore is printed down upon trying to search for available backups for the username "admin"](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kSdPA.png) Thanks in advance for your help! any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.


How to make search engines display only the title of a web page on their search results?

I want to make search engines display only the title of my web page on their search results.   And I don't want to show any descriptions and any texts of my page on the search results.      For example, this site is displayed like:               Stack Overflow     A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.     stackoverflow.com/ - Cached - Similar         In this case, I don't want to make search engines display the text `A language-independent collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers.`.   And I want to make them display like:               Stack Overflow     stackoverflow.com/ - Cached - Similar


How do you perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name you already owned

Last year, I just purchased 2 domain names from a domain registrar company. Now, my owned domain names are going to expire in few more months. When I decide to continue to renew the domain names with them, I realize they increase the renewal price for more than 100% I want to know what price I will pay for, if I renew the domain names with other domain registrar companies. However, when I perform such checking on the other domain registrar companies' websites, they will state that the domain names is not available. (As I'm still owning them) So, may I know, how can I perform renewal pricing comparison on the domain name I already owned, and not yet expired?


Redirecting multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD: delete the 'old' domains in Google Webmaster Tools?

We are planning to redirect our current multiple ccTLD's (`.com`, `.de`, `.nl`) to 1 gTLD with country specific subdirectories (`.com/en`, `.com/de`, `.com/nl`). We will use permanent 301 redirects from the ccTLD to the relevant subdirectories of the gTLD. With this move, should we delete the multiple indexed ccTLD's in Google Webmaster Tools and only have the new gTLD indexed?


Use new hosting which is already used buy a domain, for a new domain

I am new to web hosting n stuffs, I am having a domain called www.yassershaikh.com from domainz.in, from where I had taken a LINUX hosting. I am running a wordpress blog there. Now I have taken a another domain from goDaddy called www.codera.org, now here I want to use Windows hosting, but that I am not planning to buy for atleast 6 months. So I was thinking if it's possible to use the hosting(LINUX) which I am using for my first site. Is this possible ? Please guide me on this please. (Also for now I am just redirecting it to one page on my blog.)


Can a HTML form submit to a secure SSL location that keeps the user on the HTTPS site?

I've enabled SSL for my apache server so when I attempt to go to `https://mysite/private/index.html`, my browser displays a generic dialog asking me to provide my username and password to log in. How does one use an HTML form to start a secure session? For example, do I need to set the action to a PHP script that can somehow start the same secure session that Apache uses? This is an acceptable solution; however, I'd like to finesse things a bit by making a login page with an HTML form that would somehow start the SSL session and then take me to `https://mysite/private/index.html`. How would one do that?


Does google adsense ban sites which has links to mp3 files on other websites?

I wanted to build a website that will have the links to mp3s on other websites. Does google permit us to put the adsense on such website?


In regards to SEO, is a site map important for a small 3 page website? I understand that it is not needed for the convenience of a user visiting the site, but will it help the search engines find it?


Move the DokuWiki data directory somewhere else?

I need to move the DokuWiki data directory away from its default location (because I keep the installation and configuration in version control, but data needs to kept elsewhere, in order to be properly backed up and not be clobbered when upgrading the software version). How do I this? Is there a simple configuration file? Are there any gotchas?


Sound effects for websites

Is there a standard go-to place for sound effects for websites? Preferably ones that are free to use for whatever I'd like. Kinda like a bootstrap for sounds instead of css and javascript.


www and non www can suffer duplicated content

Do you know if i should use canonical tag, or 301 redirection from `http://mydomain.com` to `http://www.mydomain.com` To avoid duplicated content penalty in case other pages link to the domain without the www.? or is Google enough smart now just to identify whats the canonical one?


Removing the subdomain as a subdirectory in Apache

I simply trying to make my webpage come up as `owncloud.example.com` instead of `owncloud.example.com/owncloud`. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4, and using OpenSSL. I have tried changing things in my _apache.conf_ and _conf-available_ , and I have changed the root directory to `/var/www/` and put the first one in there without any luck.


How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager

so I've set `www.mydomain.com` to point to `ghs.google.com`, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to `mydomain.com`, it doesn't redirect/forward to `www.mydomain.com`, it just hangs. is there a way to change this in the Godaddy DNS manager?


Improvement of url by changing slash to underline or dash

I have a website with links similar to:               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948/css-set-background      if I change links to:               http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4183948_css-set-background      ( `/` to `_` ) does it improve my website's SEO rank? if it does why most of websites avoid doing that?


Prezi HTML 5 & html5 book recommendation

I was wondering what were you thought on being able to build an app similar to prezi (presentation app) using HTML 5. Also while you're at it, I'm looking for a good HTML 5 book recommendation. Thanks!!


Custom page title in list of pages in a category

The display name of the page in Mediawiki can be changed using the magic word:               {{DISPLAYTITLE:name_with_underscore}}      But the list of pages on the category page displays the original name (without the underscore in my example). Is there a way to display a custom name in this list?


How can i distinguish revenue from different folders in Adsense?

I am currently running three websites using adsense. Since i do this more to be useful than to earn something, i have a subdomain of a free hoster and my websites live in subfolders e.q. mydomain.hoster.com/website1, mydomain.hoster.com/website2, to which i link with .tk aliases. Is there a way to distinguish adsense income from website1 to website 2? I tried using custom channels, but somehow this part of adsense eludes me. Can someone shed some light on this?


Website address hacked, emails created but not showing in manage your account

I have a website, `thebleudoor.com`. It is hosted by yahoo. It gets 2000-3000 hits a day and has been for at least 5 years. A few months ago, as admin of the website, I started getting bounced back emails from newly created emails like `d4f7a91f9@thebleudoor.com`. Yahoo only shows 2 emails for my account. They said they can't do anything about it. Now, my " _spam hacked email accounts_ " are getting spam. They haven't altered or used my website or email or bank info, just the good name of my website. Is there anything I can do? Do I need to be concerned? Changing my provider won't really help will it?


Is it possible to create a 301 redirect and MX records at a naked domain?

I'm wondering since I found out that creating a CNAME and an MX record is not allowed. I want to create a 301 redirect from `example.com` to `www.example.com`, and have email with `@example.com` addresses. I'm using 1&1 as my registrar, btw.


SEO: 301 redirects and canonical tag

from the book "Art of SEO": > 301s carry cross-domain functionality, meaning you can redirect a page at > Domain1.com to Domain2.com and carry over those search engine metrics. This > is not the case with the canonical URL tag, which operates exclusively on a > single root domain (it will carry over across subfolders and subdomains). What does the 1st line mean? Say if I move domains, I can 301 the old domain to the new and have the same search engine ranking? I don't really get how the canonical tag fits into the picture. Can someone explain?


Recurring Profile and Bundled Item (Magento)

I have a subscription service that people pay monthly for, so I’ve setup a “Virtual Product” with a Recurring Profile. At the same time, I want to have it so they can add different one time products. To accomplish this I’ve tried creating a “Bundled Product” with all the different one time products and adding the “Virtual Product” to that “Bundled Product”. However, when I go to checkout it says “Nominal item can be purchased standalone only. To proceed please remove other items from the quote.” How do I allow people to subscribe to the service and purchase the products at the same time? **note: I am using Paypal Website Payment Pro as my merchant account.


How do you determine the monetary value of an established domain / website?

I have some domains that I've been building for the last few years and now I'd like to sell them. I tried several services (including Sedo) to try and ascertain just how much money each domain was worth, but not one service agreed with any other service's assessment. I don't want to sell myself short, but I don't want to make the asking price inappropriate. Is there a formula to determine this, based on rank / traffic / etc? I know it can't be an exact science, but I'd like to be sure that I'm not selling myself short. Additionally, I'd like to be able to tell if I'm paying to much for a domain if I want to buy one in the future.


How can I simulate mobile device browsers to test websites on a desktop?

Are there any good tools that can be run on desktop machines (Windows or Linux) that can simulate a mobile device, preferably with some options as to screen size and mobile browser (user agent if not full render engine). I know it is never going to be perfect (especially without an actual touchscreen), but having a tool on our development machines to do what testing we can that way would be very useful.


Is it true that the Google Spider gives the most relevance of a search result to the first 68 characters of the <title>?

I am reading documentation about my CMS and it states that an HTML page `<title>` tag is really important in SEO. It states that the Google Spider gives the most relevance to the first 68 characters of a site title. (68 characters being the number of characters that Google will display in it's search engine result pages,) Can anyone verify this is still true? I read in The Information Diet that content farms were getting too good at gaming Google's algorithm for collecting and posting SERPs and so google had to change the search algorithm.


SEO value of duplicating content externally

I run a website that includes a blog which was hand-coded by myself and is hosted on the same domain. My partner in this endeavour thinks it would be a good idea to open up a Blogger/WordPress blog and duplicate the on-site blog on this off-site blog. AFAIK the main reason for doing this is the SEO benefits of the inbound links that this off-site blog will create. I think this is a bad idea, because:   1. Effectively what we're doing is creating a (very small scale) link farm.   2. We're more likely to be punished than rewarded (in SEO terms) for duplicating our content across domains.   3. This introduces a problem of synchronising our content across domains. For example, if a blog post is edited on the on-site blog, then ideally the off-site blog should be similarly updated. I know very little about SEO, so I would be interested to hear what more informed readers have to say.


How to prevent a 404 Error when creating a subdomain and using www to access it?

I have installed a multi-site installation of WordPress onto my domain. I then added the necessary code to the `wp-config.php` file and `.htaccess` as instructed by WordPress. I also installed a plugin called Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin which allowed me to place a 301 redirect onto the main domain as I only want to use the sub domain and not the main domain. Then I also added the following line of code to the `wp-config.php` file to redirect the main domain `define( 'NOBLOGREDIRECT', 'URL Redirect Address' );` The site works fine with a redirect on the main domain and my subdomain runs fine when you type in `subdomain.example.com` or `http://subdomain.example.com`. However when I enter `www.subdomain.example.com` or `http://www.subdomain.example.com` the following error message is returned: > Not Found > > The requested URL / was not found on this server. > > Apache/2.4.9 (Unix) Server at www.subdomain.domain.com Port 80 Any help with this would be much appreciated.


How do I go about assigning my computer to my domain name?

I've just registered a domain name, just to test how uploading a website works (I've made heaps, but never uploaded one), and I am unsure of where to go next. I wish to use my own personal computer just to test it, then later on I will see what my options are. It'd be a waste for me to buy hosting if I feel the whole website thing isn't for me... I understand that in order to appoint my computer to the domain name I need to specify some DNS servers, but how do I set this up on my computer? I'm running Windows 7, I've installed IIS and have my site working nice in my LAN, but I want people outside of my LAN to access it using the domain name I've purchased. Please excuse me if things don't make sense or I'm doing something wrong; I'm new and just trying to learn.


Forward .html/.htm to .php with .config

I'm moving a site from my linux hosted server to a client's windows hosted server. The .htaccess file no longer works and I'm told that windows servers use .config . How can I forward all users accessing .html & .htm files to the equivalent .php file. Server Info... OS/Hosting Type: Windows / Shared Hosting .Net Runtime Version: ASP.Net 2.0/3.0/3.5 PHP Version: PHP 5.2 IIS Version: IIS 7.0 Data Center: US Regional EDIT *Hosting provided by GoDaddy Was told by a friend following should work but it has no effect on the site.               <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <handlers>             <add name="PHP-FastCGI" verb="*"                  path="*.html"                  modules="FastCgiModule"                 scriptProcessor="c:\php\php-cgi.exe"                  resourceType="Either" />         </handlers>     </system.webServer>     </configuration>


Is it ok to optimise my site for “freevideos” instead of “free videos”?

I am optimizing my website for SEO and after doing some research on google keyword tool I found out that there are a lot of searches for glued keywords with very thew competition in the search results. As an example:"free videos" has around 45,500,000 monthly searches with 92.600.000 result pages with exact match But... the keyword: "freevideos" has about 1,500,000 monthly searches with 128.000 result pages with exact match As you can see the ratio searches/page results is very very high in the second example then in the first. So the question is: aren't there any draw backs by optimizing for such a keyword? There are tons of such keywords with millions of searches with little to no competition. I already got a few visitis being on positions 70-100 so that makes me think that the numbers are right.


Clean URL: with or without "?"

Simple question What is better:               http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html      or               http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456      As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my end. Please explain to me which is better and for what reasons.


htaccess rewriterule for aliasses

On our main domain we are running a CMS which feeds several domains with different input. The domains are directed with A records to the main ip address. The htaccess works fine it will bring up the right pages if you type in a url, lets say `www.ictzorg.nl` It will show the url `www.ictzorg.nl` in your browser which is originally `www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL` This is the htaccess code               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?ictzorg.nl$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/$1 [P]      Problem now is that if you click on a link on that page it will search for               www.ictzorg.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/Page/450      It should direct to               www.ckc-seminars.nl/Event/ictzorg/2013/NL/Page/450      and should be shown in the URL bar as               www.ictzorg.nl/Page/450


Best practices for SEO of YouTube video content

What are best practices for search engine optimization of YouTube video content? By that I mean filling in descriptions, titles, tags and so on. I can't find good information about this on the internet, about which keywords to use, optimal/maximum lenght of texts and other (?) issues


I'm about to remove a large part of a website in order to replace it by a better alternative which, unfortunately, cannot be mapped to older URIs with URL rewriting. The part of the website I want to remove is indexed by Google. Would Google penalize me for removing indexed pages?


Why sometimes URLs are reached without the "www"'s in the url?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What does WWW do? The usual form of an internet adress is for example `http://www.example.com`. Sometimes I encounter pages, that have the `www` missing, like in this real world example:               https://service.discoplus.de/      Why is that so? If I type in `https://wwwservice.discoplus.de/` (with www) it asks me a security question and then rerouts me to `http://www.discoplus.de/`. So obviously internet adresses with and without `www` are not equivalent. Thanks for any enlightening!


How to Remove Extensions From, and Force the Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?

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I'm a small U.S. business and a company in China contacted me to say they want to use my domain name as their own and also make it their internet keyword. The name is not trademarked. Don't I have legal exclusivity rights to this domain when I paid the annual fee? How should I respond to them? I do not want them to take it.


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While looking back over HTTP response codes today I noticed that the 301, 302, and 304 response codes were defined in HTTP/1.0 but not the 303 response code. Does anyone know why the number 303 was skipped in HTTP/1.0?


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My client's website has had a couple of visits from the referrer — plus.sandbox.google.com. I looked it up and there isn't enough information available regarding this. Does anyone know what this url is?


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I have several dedicated servers and VPS servers, and some of those are at companies that have provided me with native IPv6 blocks (in addition to the IPv4 IP addresses). Does it currently make sense to point an AAAA record to an IPv6 address on my server, in addition to the A record pointing to the IPv4 address? This would be for (for example) the www subdomain. (the networking and web server software would be set up on the server to respond appropriately). A while ago I read that a small percentage of users (1 in a thousand?) would have slow or no access if a subdomain had both A and AAAA records because their networking software asked for one and got the other. Is that still the case, will adding an AAAA record inconvenience some users, or is the percentage already smaller and falling? In other words, is now the time to get around to adding native IPv6 support for a busy website aimed at the general public, or is it still too early?


How to restrict access to my site using htaccess

**How to disallow access to site except me?**


Should I let Google index tag archives on wordpress?

I'm working on SEO for my WordPress page, and I'm having second thoughts about having my tag archive indexed. I'm not using categories at all, so I've set robots to `noindex, follow` for category overviews, making tags the main taxonomy. Part of me says that having tag archives indexed is useful because those pages are full of content around one specific keywords, and they also link to more pages concerning those keywords. Also, the posts are truncated with a 'read more' link, so there's not going to be a problem with duplicate content. On the other hand, these pages might dilute the pagerank for my actual posts. What is the use of people finding my tag archive pages if they could also find actual articles? Wouldn't it be better to just follow the links in my tag archives but not have those pages indexed? Should I index them or just let google follow the links?


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On my web site there is a (self-coded) search functionality that searches through the web site's specific contents. However I'd like to display one banner in addition to the site's results, showing ads relevant to the entered search terms. Can I do this e.g. with Google Ads? I want the ads to be based only on the search terms from the user, not the rest of the site's content, so there has to be a possibility to pass these search terms to the ad provider and get a banner based on these search terms.


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I have a website hosted at (for example) `website.com`. The thing is, I also have my own server and a different domain name registered with a different company. Let's say I own `example.com` and it points to my own server. When a user visits `example.com` I want them to see what is displayed at `website.com`. As much as possible, I want them to see `website.com` while the address bar says `example.com`. I have full access to `example.com` but I only have access to the content being displayed at `website.com`. I can do a redirect from `example.com` to `website.com` but that is not what I want. I can also just use an iframe at `example.com` but I was wondering if there is a better way to do this.


<center> is not supported in HTML5 but its still working. How?

`<center>` tag to make texts centered is not supported in HTML5 but its still working in the latest version of chrome. Is Chrome making up for the mistake or is it still supporting the deprecated tags along with the new HTML5 tags?


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I have a website at `mydomain.com` that uses Analytics. I have a blog that resides at `mydomain.com/blog/`, which also uses Analytics They are on different profiles. The main site uses something like: `_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-6']);` While the blog uses:               _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-7']);     _gaq.push(['_setCookiePath', '/blog/']);      My issues is that this seems not to track referrals from the blog through to the main site when, for instance, the logo which links to the main site is clicked. Ideally, I would like the clicks of this logo to report that the `source` was `mydomain.com/blog/`, but because they are at the same domain they seem to register as `direct` traffic. Have I missed a step in my configuration, or will I _have_ to resort to linking to something like `mydomain.com?ref=blog`? Thank you.


Can I use Google Analytics to show visits by browser as a percentage of total visits?

I would like to know if I can get a report from google analytics that can show me how Internet Explorer 8.0 (for example) usage as a percentage of total visits is trending over time. Even just the two columns of data would be fine. ie.                     Visits from IE 8.0    |      Total Visits     -------------------------------------------------     Jan          100            |          500     Feb          108            |          560     Mar          92             |          584     Apr          81             |          602


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I have an A record in GoDaddy pointing to my web server. I want to move this now to Route 53. The last time I did this it took almost 48 hours to propagate. I think because of the order I did things. This is the process I think should hopefully minimize downtime:   1. Create hosted zone for my domain to get the 4 name servers that I'll use as my delgation set.   2. Add the 4 name servers to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has 2 other "Informational" name servers defined that look like you can't delete them?   3. Now in Route 53 add a record set. Create A record to IP of my web server.   4. Wait to see if dns propagation has happened. With dig?   5. Remove A record from GoDaddy. Will this process work with minimal or no downtime? Will dig tell me enough information to see that it is safe to remove the A record from GoDaddy?


What things required to host a website at home

I have a Linux server runing Ubuntu. On it I've installed PHP, Mysql, and Apache. I need to host a site on my server having static IP, but I don't have any experience in web hosting. Can you please tell me that what are the things are required to host a site? I suspect I need web space and an IP address. Can you please also tell me which is the best hosting plans available in UK market for a beginner? I read somewhere **if we are using non-fixed IP it takes 24 hrs to change DNS** is this correct?


How to create a temporary staging server on my home machine

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What things required to host a website at home I want to create a temporary staging server which can be accessed (i.e. via browser) by other people that I want to show the website to (a business partner who is half way accross the world). IIRC, my ISP issues dynamic addresses so I may need to register with a (DNS server?) - not sure about this. Although I'm a software developer, I don't know much about the hardware side of things - and would appreciate help in getting me setup so I can show a website to a business partner. Here are the relevant details: Web server: Apache 2.2 OS: Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS modem/router: ZyXel P-600


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I use Google Universal Analytics and track many events on my website. I have defined an **event based goal** , based on the 'user signed in' event. When looking at the reports, I figured that the goal conversion rate is calculated as:               (number of 'user signed in' events) / (total number of unique events)        1. Is that really the way the rate is calculated? Since I have many unrelated events on my site, the conversion rate is meaningless   2. How exactly are unique events calculated?   3. What I'm trying to track is the number of unique visits in which the user signed in. Is there a proper way to track it (preferably without creating fake pageviews)?


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While observing the source of the Swiss airlines website, I noticed the use of hidden text. I first looked it up on Google and found many SEO-related benefits but also the risk of negative scoring in search engine algorithms. The text being hidden on Swiss.com though doesn't look SEO related, e.g.:
navigation

Skiplinks
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I've been trying to get rid of this DNS error for about a week now but I can't seem to wrap my head around it. The website is `herbelixirs.com`. The Google Webmaster Tools screen shot is below. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kxkYk.png) The DNS errors are below. http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=herbelixirs.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DIwjs.png) Can someone tell me what this means and what I can do about it?


Removing preview DNS from Google Index

I just discovered that Google have indexed the preview version of my site with a subdomain `previewdns.com` appended to my actual domain. I need to remove those URL's from the search index. How can I do so?


Why aren't we supposed to use <table> in a design?

What are some clear and logical reasons for why we shouldn't be designing websites with tables? Where are the benefits, what has been driving this idea in the industry? When is it okay to use a table?


How to assign foo.example.com to one IP address and example.com to a different one?

Say that I have a domain name called `example.com` and two server located at 2 different IP addresses: `1.2.3.4` and `6.7.8.9`. How could I assign `example.com` to `1.2.3.4` and the subdomain `foo.example.com` to `6.7.8.9`? [EDIT] I did try to put a A record linking from `@` to the first IP address and from `foo.example.com` to the second IP address, as illustrated below: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/02vkc.png) And I did configure a vhosts called `foo.example.com` on my server at IP address 2. The `@` record works. But after 3 hours waiting for the result (DNS delay), nothing happened with `foo.example.com`, which link to nothing. Why?


Is there a professional name for deciding which information should to be show in a website, it's not IA

It's not IA(information architecture). cos IA decide how to organize information, not to decide which information should be show in a website.