What is the best seo friendly url structure

What is the right link structure for search engines? We don't have the posts creation date, only the id of the each article. Is this a good structure? `http://www.example.com/1292/the-url-of-the-title`


Should I use the name of the segments in URI

I am making a site that has several sub-pages structured according to countries and categories. Which URL structure is better for SEO or does it even matter? Option I: www.site.com/australia/cooking VS. Option II: www.site.com/country/australia/category/cooking


url naming convention for improved seo and page rank

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? Using url rewriting methods, what is a better way to organize the structure of the URLs of your website for SEO and user experience? I am using examples from large sites such as: yelp, stack overflow, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, yahoo, and others. Each one uses a slightly different method... 1) Does the order matter? IF so, for what purposes? Are some better for blogs vs ecommerce vs content sites?   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title   * `/category/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title/{id}   * `/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title/category/{id} Note: the {id} is the unique identifier that must be included the URL 2) Is it better to separate words in the URL with dashes (-) or underscores (_), or something else, like plus signs "+"? In what cases should you use the different variations? 3) Should you keep the name of the programming language in the title of your URL, or remove it completely? What is better?   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title.html`   * `/category/{id}/name-that-corresponds-to-the-page-title` 4) Assuming I do my redirects correctly after making this URL structure change, how will I be affected in terms of page ranking? Will page ranking stay the same, or go down temporarily? And if so, for how long? (All of my pages have been indexed by the search engines already) My current URL structure is:   * `/carbonated-soft-drink-p-60.html` Note: the "p" stands for product I want to possibly change the URL to one of the following:   * `/sodas/60/carbonated-soft-drink`   * `/sodas/carbonated-soft-drink/60`   * `/carbonated-soft-drink/sodas/60`


URL SEO : Using directories or exact keyword phrase in the URL

I am trying to understand how to best optimise a url for a page to rank high for specific keywords. Example: a top keyword search is "rental properties in new york". Question is does this keyword need to appear as this exact phrase in the url or should it be broken up into different directories for a better structure e.g.: www.abc.com/en/properties/new-york/rental OR www.abc.com/en/rental-properties-in-new-york Which will help the page rank higher (given all other things on the page are exactly the same)? Thanks!


What is the most effective method of slug utilization in URL's

I'm trying to define what would be the best solution for my situation and especially how this would impact SEO. I have a website that currently has URL's which include a content ID. The ID was included as I was having duplicate URL's for different content.               www.example.com/123456/I-love-pro-webmasters      However, I wish to segment content into groups which I will add into the URL               www.example.com/123456/script/I-love-pro-webmasters     www.example.com/123456/design/I-love-UI      Is the latter acceptable methodology for SEO or should I be considering another solution. Would the addition of a keyword slug help with SEO? This post describes similarly what I was looking for, but is nearly three years old, therefore need to know if the rules are the same.


Best URL for cars related website?

If this was your website, what will be the URLs for each car on sale?               http://www.autoscout24.eu/Details.aspx?id=247572735&asrc=ha      I'm working on a car dealership website. What should be the best URL? Consider also that the company can have more models of the same car. I'm not asking for a url scheme, there are a lot of similar questions. My question is: in a car dealership website what is the best url for a car? What are by you the best variables I've to put on the url. Brand, model, year, location, color, miles/km, etc. This website, that url, this particulary case: what will you choose for urls? (even not in the following list)               audi_q5_2009.html     audi_q5_2009_used.html     audi_q5_2009_used.html     audi_q5_2009_used_in_alcobendas.html     audi_q5_2009_used/247572735.html


RewriteRule to send all URLs with `mod` in them to the `moderator` directory

I have a `.htaccess` file in the root directory of my project, that contains all the rewrite rules for the site to functions. Most of these rules belong to the `mod` section of the site, and only two of them belong to the front end, which the users use. Problem is, when a front end user uses the site, apache ends up matching all the rules including the ones for the mods and signup etc, until it reaches the one for the end user, which I feel is unnecessary. I've checked this in the `.htaccess` log.               # Mod RewriteRules, some 12 in all      RewriteRule ^/?(mod)/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)/(push)/?$ /moderator/index.php?mode=$2&push=0 [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(mod)/(all|new|edit|redo|reject)/?$ /moderator/index.php?mode=$2 [NC,L]          #signUp - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signup)/?$ /acc/signup/index.php?a=signUp [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(signup)/(process)/?$ /acc/signup/process/index.php [NC,L]          #signIn - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signin)/?$ /acc/signin/index.php?a=signIn [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^/?(signin)/(process)/?$ /acc/signin/process/index.php [NC,L]          #signOut - Again, not always needed     RewriteRule ^/?(signout)/?$ /acc/signout/index.php [NC,L]          # These are the only two that a front end user will use     # category/subCategory     RewriteRule ^/?([a-z-]+)/([a-z0-9-]+)/?$ /display/index.php?t=$1&s=$2 [NC,L]          # category     RewriteRule ^/?([a-z-]+)/?$ /display/index.php?t=$1 [NC,L]      If you look at the above rules, the last two are the only ones that a user using the front end will use. However, the cannot be placed on top, because they'll end up catching anything first, because of the way they are. Can I place all rules for the moderator, signup and signin in their own directories, and do a rewrite rule in the root `.htaccess` file, that when it detects a url with `mod`, like `/mod/all` will send that request to the `moderator` directory. That way the root .`htaccess` file will have only the last two rules for the front end user along with others like `no hot linking` ones. How can I do something like:               If (URL Starts with '/mod/' then send it to the '/moderator/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply) or     If (URL Starts with '/signup/' then send it to the '/acc/' folder where the RewriteRules there will apply)     and so on.      My directory structure is as follows:               /acc/ ...handles account login and creation     /display/ ... handles front end display     /moderator/ ...the sites administrator      How can I achieve this?


Facebook open graph protocol: how can I reach the scattered audience of people who liked individual pages on my website?

If you add Open Graph Protocol metadata to your website that is different for every URL (so the url in               <meta property="og:url" content="http://yourwebsite.com/somepage.html">      is the url of the page itself), you end up with an unmanageable number of "virtual" fan pages. I don't see a way to post updates to (newsfeeds of ) the fans of those individual pages all at once... Do you know of any "sitewide" update possibility? The alternative is that you set the URL parameter in the og metadata to a constant url - either your homepage or a "traditional" Facebook Fan page. This has the disadvantage however that if people like an individual posting on your site, in their newsfeed it shows up as a like of your homepage or Facebook fan page, and the link their friends see is their homepage or their individual fan page - a behaviour that seems illogical to most people and can be perceived as spammy. Anyone found a good solution for this conundrum? (BTW cross-posted this on Quora http://www.quora.com/Facebook-open-graph- protocol-how-can-I-reach-the-scattered-audience-of-people-who-liked- individual-pages-on-my-website ) PS: I tried to add the tags facebook-pages open-graph-protocol to this question, but lack the required reputation of 300 - maybe someone else can?


Why do "Registration-bots" exist? What do they gain from registering on my site?

I'm curious as i've been developing some anti-bot procedures for a website, only because I see others doing it. But Why?. What do the bots gain from registering hundereds of accounts? I'm building an e-commerce website and the only thing registered users can do is make purchases. Should I actually waste my time creating an anti-bot procedure (captcha/email verification etc) I have googled this but I can find the answer. I know that bots that register on forums are able to spam it with adverts, but what about sites that dont allow a user to 'communicate' with anyone?


Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Building for different screen sizes I am developing a site which needs to work on mobiles as well. I avoid specifying width and height by pixel. Mostly I am using percent for that but sometimes I need a specific area. for example, 300px `div` element. Which screen resolution should I target for modern mobile phones in general? I know it varies but what is the higher number. Most of my concerns are iPhone, Windows Phone and Android.


Is there an easy way to see the Top 100 Global Websites based on monthly uniques?

I can easily see the top 100 sites on Quantcast, or most of their competitors, but they're based on US uniques. Now, Quantcast provides Top Lists for non-US Visitors, but they're country by country, so I'd have to dump the Top list from each country and sum them, which isn't practical. Is there some other way to get the top X sites based on global uniques?


Age verification in website questions

I am working on a website for a client that is requesting a way to verify your age. I have debated on creating a cookie that stores your age but I am unsure on a few things.   1. How does SEO play into this if I create a landing page prior to the physical address?   2. Is there a better way to possibly go about doing this other than a cookie?   3. Should I create a separate page or code it within the header of the index page? This is something similar I am trying to accomplish.


Does social networking really help promote a site?

Every site promotion manual states that it's crucial to use social networks in a site promotion. But which specifically does this mean?   1. Even the FACT that your site has several social network satellite pages gets it higher in the search ranks   2. Only successful social networking (many replies, likes, shares etc) MAY help your site to get higher in the search ranks. Say, I create accounts in 10 major social networks and keep updating them constantly for several months. None of the accounts attracts a significant audience. Will this help promote my site or is it just a waste of time?


Should 304 Not Modified responses include the "Last Modified" header?

I've been using the most excellent http://redbot.org tool for testing have HTTP headers on my site correct (its custom code in PHP serving dynamic content - wanting to ensure it cached where possible - served by Apache2) One of the tests says:               The If-Modified-Since response is missing required headers          HTTP requires 304 Not Modified responses to have certain headers, if they are also present in a normal (e.g., 200 OK response).     This response is missing the following headers: last-modified.     This can affect cache operation; because the headers are missing, caches might remove them from their cached copies.      ... so resonse doesnt include the Last-Modified header. However the code does try to send it. Investigating further, it seems that Apache uses a whitelist of HTTP headers, it will allow on 304 responses...               if (r->status == HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED) {         apr_table_do((int (*)(void *, const char *, const char *)) form_header_field,                      (void *) &h, r->headers_out,                      "Connection",                      "Keep-Alive",                      "ETag",                      "Content-Location",                      "Expires",                      "Cache-Control",                      "Vary",                      "Warning",                      "WWW-Authenticate",                      "Proxy-Authenticate",                      "Set-Cookie",                      "Set-Cookie2",                      NULL);     }     else {         send_all_header_fields(&h, r);     }      This is found around line 1281 in modules/http/http_filters.c of the Apache HTTPD 2.2.22 source code. .... "Last-Modified" is not on that list. **So the question is - which is wrong, redbot, or Apache?** http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html doesn't seem to specify if the Last-Modified should be included. (it does say the Etag should be - and that is allowed in Apaches list) Just incase its useful, this is the test case: http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Fhelp%2Fsitemap - my code does include the Last-Modified header - its just that redbot never gets it (nor any custom X-.. headers).


GWMT Show Non Existent Backlinks "Via Intermediate Link"

I run 2 sites, Site A and Site B. These are ecommerce sites, with site A being built first, and both sites selling the same thing. They are hosted separately, use separate CMS (one magento and one pinnacle), and do not use duplicated content. We sell chemicals, this is important because we make available for download (by law mind you) the Labels and MSDS's for said chemicals. These are legal documents that are written by the manufacturers for the consumer's safety, etc. My problem is that my GWMT account shows over 16k backlinks going from site B to site A, and all 16k can be associated with 24 pdf files on site A that were simply copy and pasted into site b's server. GWMT shows them as backlinks "via intermediate" links which should indicate both a link somewhere AND a redirect somewhere, neither of which exist. **There are no links, there are no redirects anywhere in my code.** These should not be showing up in the first place. I have no unnatural link flag warnings. Is anyone having this issue, or have a solution for this issue? Why is google showing these as links in the first place? Am i being penalized for duplicate content?


Would having a './' in a URL cause any trouble with search engines?

For code simplicity, some of my URLs in my website might contain a `./` For example: > www.example.com/./something The `./` is automatically stripped-out by the browser, and the resulting URL is: > www.example.com/something My question is: could such URLs cause any trouble? Will search engines be able to correctly resolve these URLs?


What credibility indicators can be used for a new web app?

I understand that when you have an app which you launched an year back or so, its pretty easy to get testimonials from your users which then works as 'credibility indicators' when published on your website. They work in your favor and convert more visitors into your customers. But I want to know if there are any credibility indicators which you can use with a new web app or website?


Using .htaccess, can you hide the true URL?

So I have a web hotel with 1 main website               http://www.myrootsite.com/      and a few websites in subdirectories, in a folder called projects. I have domain names pointing to the subdirectories, but when holding the mouse over a link in those websites the URLs are shown as:               http://www.myrootsite.com/projects/mysubsite/contact.html      When I'm on `mysubsite.com` I want them to be shown as:               http://www.mysubsite.com/contact.html      I spoke to support for the web hotel and the guy said try using _.htaccess_ , but I'm not sure exactly how to do this. Thank you very much for your time! **Edit: For more information** My website is: `http://www.example1.com/` and I also own `http://www.example2.com/`. All of `example2.com`'s files are in: `example1.com/projects/example2/`. When you visit `example2.com`, you'll notice all of the URL's point towards:               example1.com/projects/example2/      but I want them to point towards:               example2.com/      Can this be done? I hope this is enough info for you to go on :). **Edit: For w3d** I go to the url `mysubsite.com` and the browser shows the url `mysubsite.com`. The services I'm using create an iframe around `myrootsite.com` and use the url `mysubsite.com`      I just hate that in Firefox and Internet Explorer, holding the mouse over link show that the destination url is: `myrootsite.com/projects/mysubsite/...`


Guide to migrating live Ubuntu server

Does anyone know of a good guide for migrating from one Ubuntu server to another. I am going to move the home of my live ruby on rails application and I need to have as little down time as possible, move all the databases and my postfix/smtp etc. I'd like to be aware of the pitfalls before setting out and a good hand-holding guide would be handy as this is my first time doing this on a live production server. Thanks. This is not a duplicate of best practice to migrate server My question: Does anyone know of a good guide? I mean a tutorial, not a simple list of some pointers but a step by step guide. The linked question: A handful of things to consider. Very much not a duplicate. I asked this on stackoverflow and server fault, it is outside the scope of those pages, however, there are much better answers on those networks already to the light list of things to consider. What I'm looking for is a guide or tutorial.


Server move - DNS change time

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  best practice to migrate server I'm planning on moving a large active forum to a new server soon. However, the main issue I have is the time it will take for the DNS to update on the domain to the new server. As a result, the only way I can really see to avoid things getting messy with both sites being "active" while the DNS propagates at different times around the world is to disable posting on the old server while things are moving over, and as people get the new DNS info they'll be able to post again as they see the site on the new server. I understand that setting a low TTL on the domain would pretty much solve this issue, but unfortunately this isn't an option and I'm stuck with the default 24 hours. As far as I'm aware, I'm not able to access the database outside of server itself due to security restrictions, so I can't have both sites pointing at one database either. Or at least I'm not aware of a way of doing it. I guess the main question I have (and I fear I may know the answer) is if there's any other way to speed up the DNS move or somehow tell the site/domain where to look for the new server? Making the site read-only day or so for a chunk of users obviously isn't ideal, but if it's the only option then I'll have to go that route I guess.


Reach Local Proxy Page - Duplicate content?

We have a client who has instructed Reach Local to manage their paid SEO work etc. RL have created a proxy version of the page at http://example- px.rtrk.co.uk which mirrors the existing site completely. Would I be correct in assuming that this would count as duplicate content and one or both of the sites would be penalized because of this? And would the addition of a rel="canonical" meta-tag on the proxy site assist with this? Many thanks in advance.


Are bad backlinks causing thousands of 404 and 410 errors in webmaster tools?

Our webmaster tools account is showing 250.000 errors related with weird links from other sites. These URLs are comming mostly from non existent sites or are being generated directly by our website. Here some examples of these URLs:               oursite.com/&q=videos+caseros+sexo+pornos+gratis&sa=X&ei=R638T8eTO8WphAfF2vG8Bg&ved=0CCAQFjAC%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F5%2Fpage%2F4/page/3      Our site is a popular spanish adult site, yet we don´t have keywords which are being mentioned in this URL. Apparently this link comes from our site. Some more examples:               oursite.com/&q=losmejoresvideosporno&sa=X&ei=U__8T-BnqK7RBdjmhYsH&ved=0CBUQFjAA%2F%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F4%2Fpage%2F3%2Fpage%2F2%2Fpage%2F3/page/4      Once again: not our queries, not out URLs.               oursite/tag/tetonas      We think that it might be other site, which is having a policy of extremely bad SEO based on other sites branding and keywords usage:               thirdsite/buscador/tetonas-oursite      The question is: if other sites are generating these URLs, how can we prevent this? Why the tag is being generated if no link was added to the other site? What should we do with these errors? 301? 410 gone? I have read all similar Q&A here but none of them seems to solve our problem. It is not likely to be a bad ad (Inspected them all). Maybe some all content which google decided to recrawl suddenly? Maybe third parties bad SEO policy? Maybe all of them?


Replacement for DirectoryIndexRedirect for older versions of Apache

`DirectoryIndexRedirect` is available in version 2.3.14 and later. (mod_dir) Is there an alternative method for older versions? I have different `DirectoryIndex` directive sets for a lot of directories and would like a generic rule I can apply on the root directory. That way I would not have to maintain separate redirect rules for each directory.


.htaccess two different rules but only one per time

I'm rather new to the whole .htaccess thing and I'm using the following right now to use 'pretty url's':               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L]     </IfModule>      Now i found my website a bit slow and decided to start gzipping my CSS files thru a php script I found somewhere on the web (the website). For this to work I need to rewrite the url to open the correct php file. That would look something like this:               RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ /csszip.php?file=$1.css [L]      But I only want the first to happen when the second doesn't and vice versa. In other words i'd like something like this:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         if request doesn't contain .css do             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f             RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L]         else do             RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ /csszip.php?file=$1.css [L]     </IfModule>      Can anyone help me with the proper code or a place where i can find a way to use some kind of conditional statement in htaccess files?


301 redirect bulk aspx URLs on IIS

We recently relaunched an old ASPX site as a new Drupal site on the same domain. No 301 redirect was implemented. I have outputted a list of 1000 URLs that need to be 301 redirected. Most of the URLs are the results of search queries that were committed on the website. I.E.:               http://www.mysite.com/electronics/CommunityDetails.aspx?FirstLetter=%&ID=444      We are running a Drupal site on IIS using a PHP plugin. Is there a way I can wild card a redirect of all ASPX pages? I know I can do it with _.htaccess_ but that doesn't apply here. Any suggestions appreciated.


Is it normal for a registrar to charge for nameserver changes?

My registrar, 34sp.com, wants to charge for changing nameservers for a domain. The domain is a .cc domain. If this matters. Is this normal? I've never heard of this before. Almost $30 US for a nameserver change?! Surely this is just a text file?


Explain DNS/Content/Registration with services such as Blogger and Go Daddy

I have this kind of settings for Google Sites and Blogger in Godaddy, below. I cannot get URL Framing (not URL masking) working with them. I am unsure what the problem, cannot understand what services such as Blogger and Godaddy really do. **Wrong A-records in Go Daddy!**               ; A Records     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.32.21     art 3600    IN  A   64.202.189.170     abc 3600    IN  A   64.202.189.170     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.34.21     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.36.21     @   3600    IN  A   216.239.38.21     lol 3600    IN  A   64.202.189.170          ; CNAME Records     www 3600    IN  CNAME   ghs.google.com     mobilemail  3600    IN  CNAME   mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net     pda 3600    IN  CNAME   mobilemail-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net     email   3600    IN  CNAME   email.secureserver.net     imap    3600    IN  CNAME   imap.secureserver.net     mail    3600    IN  CNAME   pop.secureserver.net     pop 3600    IN  CNAME   pop.secureserver.net     smtp    3600    IN  CNAME   smtp.secureserver.net     ftp 3600    IN  CNAME   @     webmail 3600    IN  CNAME   webmail.secureserver.net     e   3600    IN  CNAME   email.secureserver.net        1. Please, explain the "Custom Domain" and how can I hide my blogger url?   2. ok I am still unsure what the "custom domain" in blogger really mean, does it mean that the content hosting is moved to some other site?    3. Or does it mean that it just hides the blogspot url with other url?    4. Or is it this so-called "301" thing or "URL redirection" or something else? **Related questions**   1. Control Content Hosting, DNS Hosting and Registration with command line?


Should my Title tag be the same as my H1 tag?

I have read that I should make the contents of my `<title>` and `<h1>` tags the same. Is that the case or is does Google look at the content of those 2 tags separately?


How to move domain from 1&1 to fasthosts with minimum downtime

How can we move our domain name from 1&1's control over to our new host with as little affect (if any) on downtime for our domain name. We've tried moving name servers before and our site went dark despite us defining all the old records on to the new name server host, now this time we're going to move the entire domain to another company but we've been bit so many times by this that I'm trying to find out what the process should be, and whether it can be done in a way to prevent down time


Removing .html and index.html from URL

I'm having some problems trying to   1. Remove the .html extension from URLs   2. Removing 'index.html' from an URL 1) To remove the extension I have tried using this in my htaccess file.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html      However when I click links in my HTML such as `<a href="abcde.html"></a>` it doesn't remove the .html from the URL and I am left with `www.website.com/abcde.html` 2) I tried using this to remove the index.html               RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \/index\.(php|html)\ HTTP [NC]     RewriteRule (.*)index\.(php|html)$ /$1 [R=301,L]      But when I load an index.html file on my server, my URL looks something like this               www.website.com/folder//      I am left with an extra `/` at the end. Can anyone help me out?


Why did my new markup cause the site to disappear from Google?

Unfortunately this post isn't about something as concrete as a bug, but it's been driving me nuts. I recently updated my blog's theme and software (I basically rewrote it) from http://old.korokithakis.net/ to http://www.korokithakis.net/. Yesterday, I noticed all my pages dropping from Google's search results. My Python tutorial used to be 3rd for "learn python" and now it's 30th, if it even appears on the list. I've allowed robots, all the header tags are in place, titles are the same as they used to be and the URLs that changed have permanent redirects to the new ones (the tutorial URLs haven't changed). Still, all my pages dropped from the results. What can be having such a huge impact on the rankings? Thanks.


Movable Type on GoDaddy

I have deluxe linux shared hosting with godaddy, and it supports perl. but i dont know how to setup and use perl scripts. Also i have no folder named CGI or CGI-BIN or anything like that. As movable type requires me to put my content in the CGI folder, i cant. creating it also doesn't work. So can you guide me on how to install movable type on godaddy. Also i dont want to spend money and install it from the godaddy hosting connection. And please remember as i'm on a shared hosting, i might not be able to edit my apache server configuration file. Thanks.


Adding a second domain to a website

I want to direct an easy to remember domain url to my website that has nothing to do with the brand or the original domain. What is the proper way to add a second domain to a website without opening up the chance for being penalized by search engines? I don't want the second domain to show up in SERPs.


How does Google's Website Optimizer do all its funky goodness with an unbalanced </noscript> tag?

Last week one of the guy's at our office did a talk on using Google's Website Optimizer for AB multivariate testing. In the talk, he says that when you set it up you just add some special code to the page around the HTML you want to vary [ see #3 under multivariate test here ]               <script>utmx_section("Headline")</script>     Welcome!     </noscript>      What's going on with that unbalanced tag at the end? What magic is Google doing?


Contact YouTube

Is there any direct way do contact a „real” person, an YouTube employer? Someone created an account for the company I work for (previous employer). She entered some password and e-mail. The provided e-mail was valid, but since last login (more than two years), we changed our domain, and this e-mail is probably not valid anymore (and we even don't know it), co we can't use option to reset password. I have used all the options in YouTube help center, and no one worked. Also we _can't_ contact this previous employer to get any data she entered in the registration form. The only data I know is the username. All the movies present the products of our company, there are links to our site in movie descriptions, so there should be no problem to prove that the account is ours. This is an urgent case, becouse the movies contain outdated information.


What is user agent Issbot

I am seeing a lot of traffic to my website from user agent Issbot. This certainly looks like a bot, but is not listed in the www.user-agents.org listing, and I have not been able to find anything useful on Google. Does anyone know what or who this is?


I have a website which uses page refresh when the browser is resized below a certain point am I violating AdSense TOS?

Will google AdSense punish me for refreshing the page if the user resizes the browser below a certain point?


Why does bingbot access my sites the most even if I set crawl rate to the minmum?

Recently my sites got overloaded and it turned out bingbot was the culprit. I set the crawl rate for the minimum for my sites in bing webmaster tools, but regardless bingbot has the most access (about 30000 requests a day) among all the crawlers. Google has less requests a day. Do you also experience heavy traffic from bingbot? Why doesn't it behave when I set crawling rate to a minimum?


Install Moodle to subdomain with Softaculous via cPanel

I installed Moodle to a directory with Softaculous. Since it doesn't allow installing to a subdomain, after installing it I created a subdomain and pointed the destination (of the subdomain) to the previously created Moodle directory. Now when I go to the `subdomain.example.com` it says > Incorrect access detected, this server may be accessed only through > "`http://example.com/moodle`" address, sorry. Please notify server > administrator. I must be doing something wrong, when installing it was very similar to these instructions. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.


I need good CRM written in php

I need open source, mature, good, flexible, extensible php CRM with liberal free license that allowing for redistribution. I heard that SugarCRM is good one, but its not free, and right now their page is not working.


where should I use new → I see everywhere?

I currently use ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GWAKR.png) to refer to an external link on my personal website. However recently I have started noticing extended use of → for links. Is this a replacement for ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GWAKR.png) ? or is it used to convey some other meaning?


Is it legal for U.S. based websites to serve online gambling ads?

I have a site that hits the sweet spot for that demographic but my user base is 90% in the U.S.


Why is my favicon broken in Firefox?

My new favicon works in Safari and Chrome, but it's weirdly split in Firefox on Mac or Windows: ![Broken favicon](http://i.stack.imgur.com/i7Ccn.png) However, if you navigate to the favicon itself it appears fine: ![Working favicon in same browser](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CI9E3.png) You can see how it looks in your browser here: http://coastsider.com I created the file as a png and later a jpg in Acorn. I converted it to .ico using Graphicconverter. I've also tried converting the png to an ico in other programs. Has anyone seen this problem before?


Incoming Cname does not show the subdomain

I have a subdomain: sub.domain-one.com which has a CNAME which points to sub.domain-two.com. All good. But when I enter sub.domain-one.com I don't see the sub.domain-two.com, but the basic page of the server. What am I doing wrong?


How to allow customer to "View Cart" / "Checkout" in PayPal?

We're setting up a simple website with PayPal. We've implemented a bunch of **Add to Cart** buttons and they're working well. But we assumed we would also add a **View Cart / Checkout** button at the top, so that the customer can stop shopping and complete his purchases. I know the customer can - in PayPal - finalise/checkout any time he clicks on an **Add to Cart** (so he should do it on his _final_ add) but he may not have known at that stage that it _was_ his final purchase. Surely there's some PayPal code we can drop onto our **View Cart / Checkout** button which will take the customer direct to his PayPal checkout? But the PayPal page listing button types doesn't have a checkout button: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1wS0.jpg) Note: this question isn't about the button image (we're doing that ourselves), it's about what plumbing to put in behind the scenes.


Only First Link Counts

If anyone hasn't seen yet the following blog: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/3-ways-to-avoid-the-first-link-counts-rule It is describing that from at least two links (so two or more) that are located on the same page and both (or all if more than two) pointing to the same other page, only the first one will have some seo benefit (link juice). The rest won't count in seo benefit. Here doesn't count the links in images. I think most of us knew that already BUT:   1. As ''first link'' is probably meant the first one in the HTML code of particular page but what when we are in the process of designing the page? In this case the code is changing on the fly (xsitepro - ''what you see is what you get'' simplified tool for website design). First link in the code can be replaced with new first one at any time. Is there any fast way to see which one is really the first one in the html code of the page?   2. Sure the fact that first links only counts for seo benefit isn't relevant for images. But what about other links such as the ones in footer, buttons, potential testimonials, links in navigation menu and so on? Does absolutelly everything (except images) what is dofollow counts?   3. Is that fact relevant along internal links, also for outbound and inbound ones? Probably yes.


Dynamically load CSS

I'm using LESS for creating CSS and I'm considering using something like `grunt-render` on the server side in order to only load the CSS / JS that is needed for that page. My goal is to reduce overhead for page load. My CSS is fairly big, but I wonder; Will it matter if my CSS is minimized anyway? Will a few bytes less make any difference?


How to make CloudFlare cache everything?

I want CloudFlare to cache everything, PHP files too, every request from the domain, I want it to cache it. Is this possible? (There are PHP scripts on the domain that print out images, JS and CSS, they return the appropriate mime type, but I read that CloudFlare caches according to file extenstion, if printing out the mime type helps, it's good too.)


Facebook and Crawl-delay in robots.txt?

Do Facebook's webcrawling bots (for example facebookexternalhit/*) respect the `Crawl-delay:` directive in _robots.txt_ files?


Alot of Pirated Material on Someone's Website - What Can Be Done?

We've developed our website for over 10 years. Recently a website in China has begun to pirate our images and product descriptions (they are showing "new" March offerings). Nearly all of the items they "offer" are ours. Their whois leads to an outfit in France which by chance also hosts a website for Steroids, and both the Steroid and the pirate site share an 800 phone number (coincidence??). The pirate site lists "their" products as being available in mass quantities, though very often the actual product is one-of-a-kind. The images they've stolen appear in google searches alongside our own!! Clicking on any product at the pirate site leads to nowhere. Calls to the 800 number lead to a recorded answer. No reply to our emails (funny if they would have!) Any suggestions on what to do? Much obliged for any help. https://www.collectiblereview.com (the pirates) http://www.anabolic-store.com (steroids)


dns routing MX record

I want to move an old website from a client's office server to a new hosting account but I need to leave the email accounts on my client's office server. I have done this once or twice before and what I did was to change the domains nameservers to point to the new hosting account and then in the clients new hosting account I setup a new MX record to point back to their office hosting. The problem is that this there is a lot more emphasis on email and also I may have to do the transfer midweek and possibly in the middle of the day so they don't want any real email downtime. I have 3 questions   1. If something went wrong and I needed to switch back might it take a long time for the nameserver to propagate back. I guess the answer here is yes so if that was the case then would it be that the emails sent to the domain during that time would be lost.   2. Could I test that the new MX record on the new hosting was working properly before I switched the nameserver over.   3. If everything was setup completely right might I still end up with downtime.   4. If I did an MX lookup now would the IP that I find be the one I would use for the new MX record on the new hosting.


Multiple sites redirected to one main site

I have a client who insists of having multiple website domains all being redirected to one main website domain. It is getting out of hand and his server has become conveluted and riddled with garbage because of it, not to mention confusing at times. Each of these domains that he is setting up has no content, they simply redirect the user to the main website domain. Is this practice of having multiple domains pointing to one main website common? And does anyone know where I can get information to give to this client to let him know this is a bad practice if it is a bad practice?


Google Analytics still reports "Tracking not installed" even though the code is on the web page

I added the code listed on the Tracking Info tab on the GA page.               <script>         (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){         (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),         m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)         })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');              ga('create', 'UA-26738353-3', 'smokingfishgames.com');         ga('send', 'pageview');     </script>      Unfortunately, for several hours now the GA tracking info shows an error message of `Status: Tracking Not Installed`. I'm unsure why, considering that every few minutes when I refresh the page it says `Last checked:` with a very recent time. I added the code to http://smokingfishgames.com, where it should be visible in the source exactly as shown above. What am I doing wrong? Did I just not wait long enough? I've tried a bunch of solutions that were posted by other people, but many of them were extremely dated. Very frustrating--I'm having the same issue with another web page. Reports aren't being generated, either, so it's not a false alarm with the installation detection. ![GA Screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/baed5yE.png)


SEO : urls : best place for the id

I would like to know what's the best location for an id in a SEO optimized URL:               http://www.site.com/id/slug-title          http://www.site.com/slug-title-id      What do you think ?


Estimate of Hits / Visits / Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa Tier?

I was wondering if anyone could offer up rough estimates that could tell me how many hits a day move you into a given Alexa rank ?   * Top 5,000   * Top 10,000   * Top 50,000   * Top 100,000   * Top 500,000   * Top 1,000,000 I know this is incredibly subjective and thus the broad brush strokes with the number ranges... _BUT_ I've got a site currently ranked just over 1.2M worldwide and over 500k in the USA (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fstr.net) Pretty cool for something hand-built on weekends (pat self on back) I was applying to an ad-platform and was told that their program doesn't accept webmasters who have an Alexa rank of greater than 100,000. (Time to take back that pat on the back I guess). I know that my hits in the last 30 days are somewhere on the order of 15,000 uniques and 20,000 pageviews. So I'm wondering how much harder do I have to work to achieve my next "goals"? I'd like to break into the top million, then re-evaluate from there. It'd be nice to know what those targets translate into (very roughly of course). I imagine that alexa ranks and tiers become very much exponential as you move up the ranks, but even hearing annecdotal evidence from other webmasters would be really useful to me. (ie: I have a site that is ranked X and it got Y hits in the last 30 days)


(How) Could I import twitter posts as annotations in Google Analytics?

A site I maintain tweets every time a blog post is published. Since the editors of the site have gone a bit mad with the ability to change the apparent date a blog post was published (back-dating as a layout tool), the twitter stream is the easiest way I have of knowing the actual date of publication. I now need to make a case for the efficacy of blogging (in conversion terms) and have turned to Google Analytics, who have been hoovering up our visitor data for over a year. My first thoughts were therefore to add annotations for each blog publish event, so that the ramps and spikes are more easily interpreted. Is there any way of importing data to be used as annotations? How hard would it be to massage the twitter stream data into a format that Google might play nicely with? Would it just be easier to manually add an annotation for each tweet?


How to get out of google penalty for spammy links linking to my site?

One day I checked my google analytics and there was like a 60% drop in search traffic. There was no panda updates in that time. I checked my webmaster tools and saw about 200 spammy sites linking to mine that did not link to it before. So I figured I got penalized for having lots of spam sites linking to me. I sent a reconsideration request to google, and they said it wasn't a manual penalty, so they can't do anything. Any idea how I can get de-penalized from all these spammy links?


All articles with infinite scroll, or one per page for usability and SEO?

Imagine a hypothetical website with all user generated content of single page articles. Here are some ways to structuring such a website:   1. Putting up more than one article in one page and creating an infinite scroll or a pager. The fact that the articles may not be on the same topic makes this a less search engine friendly way.    2. Giving a unique page to each article and putting up a list of links/titles in the front page with or without a teaser and a thumbnail. This might make the home page look unprofessional.    3. Keeping the front page clean, without direct links to internal pages. Which method would be a search engine friendly and user friendly way to do this? How about combining 1 and 2, as in blog.codinghorror.com? Is there an advantage to it?


Confused about redirect and robots.txt

I am updating a site by creating new pages and deleting old ones. To avoid crawling errors should I use both a _robots.txt_ file and 301 redirect on _.htaccess_? _robots.txt_ :               Disallow: /products.php      _.htaccess_ :               Redirect /products.php /my-brand-new-products-page.php      Is this the way to go?


Author bio on all pages - is it duplicate content?

In a website with user generated content, I provide an author bio under every article on the site. The author bio will be the same under every article the same author wrote. For some authors, the author bio is no longer then a couple of sentences, but for some descriptive writers, it is a good 100 words. These 100 words get repeated in almost 15 pages, some of them without substantial original content (such as haikus). Will this lead to duplicate content issues?


Multiple Domains, SEO and redirections

I work for an ecommerce company which sells a core product, and am currently working on a site for a client. For this particular website, we've purchased a number of other domains (aside from the main one), that they'd like pointing to specific single pages. These pages would then have backward links to the main site. The purpose of this is to increase SEO, funnelling more users to the core website. e.g. www.fakesite.com www.seconddomain.com -> pointing to /FakePage.asp?ID=blah www.thirddomain.com -> pointing to /FakePage.asp?ID=blah The content on each page would be specific to the domain itself - e.g. a manufacturer page/domain. These pages may have links to "buy" the relevant product, which would then go back to www.fakesite.com. Alternatively I could have separate pages for each domain to point to. What I am unsure about is how to do this with IIS, and what the best practice would be for this in regards to SEO. I am a little bit unsure about redirects and how these affect SEO, or whether there is a more suitable way to do this. Any information you could give me would be greatly appreciated.


How to track where web page visitors are coming from?

My main web page is `nmjava.com/index.html`, I have posted "nmjava.com" in different places on the web, when visitors click on the link how do I know where they are from ? I've come up with the following method, but I wonder if there are any other ways to do it ?               <1> Create a few pages : Page_1.html , Page_2.html , ... Page_N.html     <2> Use 301 redirect to point them all to index.html     <3> Post the link to Page_1.html on site_1, post Page_2.html on site_2 ...     <4> When visitors on site_1 click on the link to Page_1.html, my web page access log         will record nmjava.com/Page_1.html is clicked, and by that I can tell the         visitor is from site_1, and if I see a log of nmjava.com/Page_N.html is clicked,         I'll know that visitor is brought by site_N.      Is there any other way to achieve this ?


OpenID login buttons for related modules of a site (especially a MediaWiki)

I am putting up a site. Right now it will include a MediaWiki (the sort that powers Wikipedia). In the future it may contain a blog (Wordpress?) and forums (Vanilla Forums 2?). I want the site to be viewable by the general public, but editable by anyone who signs in with an OpenID. I'd like a login page like the one used on a stack exchange sites, where the user is presented with a series of familiar buttons to choose an identity provider. Jeff Atwood has open-sourced the login component for Stack Overflow, which is awesome, but I am unable to use it as my shared hosting is on a LAMP stack, where the 'P' includes Python (2.4.3), Perl (5.8.8), PHP (5.2.4), and Ruby (1.8.7). The M is MySQL (5.1.50). I have tried a number of things with limited success. 1) MediaWiki with the OpenID login extension. When I manually install the php- openid library, and run the test, it complains about the lack of GMP support, does something strange with HTTP fetching, and complains about a lack of mod_encoding. I contacted support and they said that they will not install mod_encoding, and that GMP is already installed. 2) MediaWiki with MultiAuthPlugin against simpleSAMLphp. I think I partially have simpleSAMLphp working, but it is not clear to me what I need to do to make it an OpenID consumer -- its over my head. Then I decided that if I could authenticate against WordPress, I could use a MediaWiki extension to use that information to log people in. 3) WordPress OpenID plugin. Everything appeared to install correctly that is needed for OpenID consumption, although it didn't appear to work. I suspect it uses the php-openid library. I'm not sure how to debug it. More to the point, it just offers an OpenID textbox, which is not friendly for people who have no idea what it is -- I'd like buttons! 4) Google Friend Connect for WordPress. This is the first I've heard of friend connect. It was not clear that one was authenticated to do more than comment, and the intention is to be some sort of "social media" overlay on your site -- not what I had in mind. 5) Gigya Socialize for WordPress. Finally, a nice login using buttons and OpenID. (Mind you, when I tried to log in using it, it told me, "New user access is currently disabled for this site.") This is pretty slick, but:   * when I try to log in using my Google or Yahoo accounts, it asks for my contacts! There is no way that it is acceptable for my users to give up contact information to a third party just to log into my site.   * As I am authenticating, there is very little indication that this is authenticating me to my site; instead, it appears that the request is for Gigya.   * If my site becomes really popular, I'll have to pay money to allow people to log in! I haven't completed setting up JanRain Engage for WordPress, but I think it will be much the same as Gigya. * * * How can I have a unified, single sign-in for a group of related sites on the same domain, using OpenID and friendly google, yahoo, twitter, etc., buttons, which authenticates directly from my domain (ie. without claiming to be from a third party)? Barring that, how can I get users to log into MediaWiki using OpenID (without changing web hosts)? _Edit:_ Are there any wikis you would recommend that already have a nice OpenID login feature? I am happy to provide further details on my adventures so far. I am also a programmer, albeit not a web-programmer, quite familiar with python, and knowing enough Perl, PHP, and Ruby that I could hack on a near-solution to make it work.


Possible reasons RSS generated content won't index

I built a digg-like clone at fantasybookmark.com. Google crawled the site, but only indexed about 21 pages out of the 2,000 or so (and growing) pages on the site. We use rss feeds to find and generate content and allow users to comment. What are reasons we are not getting indexed? Are there ways to solve this?


Porting a Flash site to non-Flash site

I have many clients with Flash interfaces that they like quite a bit. But these things don't work on many (most?) mobile devices. This is a two part question:   1. If I get access to the original `.fla` files, is there a way to bulk export/compile Flash into individual images with hotspots?    2. If I don't have access to the original `.fla` is there a mechanism to turn a `.swf` into a format friendly to webkit devices? * * * **Comment:** My fear is that I'll be left with either **recreating** the interface entirely or **building something all-new**. It would be nice to have some automated options in terms of making sites more non-Flash available (possibly HTML5? possibly tailored to WebKit? possibly tailored to other mobile platforms?). Keep in mind, I love Flash, not looking to bash Flash, trying to see options for existing Flash content.


Setting DNS when registrar and host is different

Just to confirm that my assumptions are correct (if not, please let me know where I'm doing wrong):   * My domain refers to `jkwsp.com`   * The registrar where I have registered my domain is `hioxindia.com`   * My domain is hosted at `ixwebhosting.com` I have access to DNS settings in the registrar as well as in the hosting. **Setting 1**.- At Registrar DNS Setting: Name server is already entered by registrar.   * **Q1.1.** If I do `A record` to the IP given to me by the host, will it work?    * **Q1.2.** For subdomain should I make `Cname record` or a new `A record` point to the IP given to me for subdomain by my host?    * **Q1.3.** To access my site as `http://jkwsp.com` and `http://www.jkwsp.com` do I have to make the entry as: `*.jkwsp.com to IP` OR `jkwsp.com to IP` and `www.jkwsp.com as Cname`?  **Setting2**.- At Host:   * **Q2.1** Point the NameServers given by host in Registrar NS record and remove all `A record` mentioned under A record at the Registrar?    * **Q2.2** `A record` and subdomain entry is already created by Host. Since NameServer is pointed to Host now setting at host will take effect and `A record` will point to my site? And any future change needs to be done At Host Only? In Both Settings which one should be preferred?


Does Google host all the jQuery UI themes?

I have seen the base theme http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.3/themes/base/jquery-ui.css Are the other themes found in the gallery also hosted (Darkness, Smoothness, etc.)? If so, where?


How can I create an SPF record on my 1and1.com hosted domain?

Emails from my domain (hosted at 1and1, and using Google Apps Premier edition) have sporadically been going to recipients' spam folders lately. I did some research, tested, and found out that I do not have an SPF record for my domain. According to this Google Support page, I need to create one. Following the steps on that page is easy, until I get to #3: > Create a TXT record containing this text: v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com > ~all I see no way to create a "TXT record". Here is a screenshot of the admin panel: ![dns settings](http://imgur.com/csHEr.png)


Cross Browser CSS script?

a few weeks ago I stumbled over a javascript that you can add to your site, and it would automatically modify your css, to work around some bugs in browsers, and add features they don't support (e.g. drop shadow) Now I can't find it anymore. I found http://css3pie.com/ but that's not it. Any hints?


Mediawiki 1.16: Leaving timestamp in template

~~~~ is used to leave your timestamp with your name and date. I want to put this in a template so that whoever uses the template will have have the timestamp printed out as well. Is this possible?


Should a client pay to fix broken features because of changes in third party APIs?

**Is it reasonable to ask a web development client to pay to fix features that are now broken because of third party APIs?** Examples:   * We integrate a Twitter feed into a site's homepage, which works fine for months, and then one day just dies because Twitter change their API   * A spell-checking feature that relies on Google's spelling API one day goes down because Google decide to close down that API Can we realistically ask a client to pay for our time to fix those things? Or should we absorb the cost of that in order to maintain an ongoing relationship with them? In some cases, we set up and monitor the hosting for our clients, so there is some level of expectation that we keep their site up and running. Other clients arrange their own hosting. Does that affect the answer to the question? And how do other industries handle this kind of problem?


Does the calculation of time on page include the pageview of the exit page?

My question revolves around average time on page and how Google Analytics calculates this metric. I will provide an example to illustrate my question. I viewed 3 pages then exited.   * page one view time = 10 sec   * page two view time = 10 sec    * page three view time = 5 sec, then exit Questions:   1. Is my total time on page 20 sec or 25 sec?   2. would my page views be 3 or 2?   3. Is my average time on page 10 sec or 8.33sec. I ask because I pull time on page metric as part of my data pull and then I calculate Avg Time on Page in an Excel pivot. I am wondering if my calculation for Average time on page should be:               AvgTimeOnPage = total time on page/total page views      or               AvgTimeOnPage = total time on page/(total page views-total exits)


PHP won't load certain pages and images, Godaddy

I realize that Godaddy isn't the ideal hosting choice, but I'm running a site on an account with them. One of the pages on the site, /contactus.php refuses to load. Instead of loading the page, it loads my home page – even though the url displays /contactus.php. This issue only began to occur when I moved the site from Media Temple to Godaddy (don't ask – it's a weird string of events that led me to do that). When I run the site on MAMP, /contactus.php loads correctly. Here is the page on Godaddy (it incorrectly loads the home page): http://aandbinteriors.com/contactus.php/ – and here is a preview of the page on Media Temple that shows how it ought to look http://neilrenicker.com.s140277.gridserver.com/contactus.php/ The fact that it seems to load OK everywhere else makes me think it's an issue at Godaddy, but I'm not sure what! Any clues, anyone?


Making an advertising server ads from different ad networks

In India there are many ad-networks(other than Adsense) who pay per acquisition or per lead. So Javascript ad code is not required(as fraud clicks don't matter as long as one converts). So an ad network will have many companies and each company will have many banner sizes for ads. Also suddenly any ad may be stopped just because company's target has met. Which is a common nuisance since if we don't remove those url's then that company will get conversions for free. I've a dozen sites and removing the ads are difficult every now and then. Also CPA based ads may not convert at all. That means I'll need to remove non- performing ads regularly. I've gone through: How can I show multiple ad networks on my site? . I've also visited DFP solution but without Adsense they wouldn't let me open account. I want to make an ad server wherein I'll feed new ads (banner image + link for click). I want to maintain categories there like ( shoes, phones, books etc). So if an ad is paused - i'll simply remove/pause the ad there while other ads in the category keep running. Also changing ad code within sites will no more be required. For example - let me have an ad category "clothing" where I can add ads from different companies. So if one of my site requests an ad from there it'll randomly select an ad in this category and return it to site for display. Removing/adding ads within this category will not affect the site requesting those ads. Any idea how to implement it?


site:mysite.com shows home page as HTTPS, home page not showing in search properly

site: rockitpro.com I've been trying to figure out a problem with my site since August 2012, my home page fell off the map and won't show in Google unless I search exactly **rockitpro.com**. My home page doesn't show for my website's name **rockitpro** or any of my targeted keywords. If you search my main keyword **buy beats** my site is on page 2 but it points to a category page. I figured it was Panda/Penguin but after cleaning up my site and contacting Google, they said that no manual action had ever been taken. I just did a **site:rockitpro.com** and the first result shows HTTPS : //www.rockitpro.com/ In Bing searching for **buy beats rockitpro** shows https but searching for **rockitpro** shows the normal http. I checked my domain in Plesk and it has no SSL certificates, I've never enabled ssl security on my website. Searching site:rockitpro.com inurl:https -inurl:http shows a few weird links. Searched Google and found 18 sites that link to my site via https. How do I fix this and do you guys think this is the problem as to why my home page isn't showing up in search correctly or is it a deeper problem?


What percent of visitors should click on the next page before you enable prefetching?

Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome support prefetching via an HTML tag:               <!-- in chrome -->     <link rel="prerender" href="http://example.org/index.html">      I suppose it is always worthwhile to include this tag if 100% of users on a page click on the "Next Page" button or similar, and never worthwhile to include it if only 2% or 3% of users visit the following page. At what percent of clicks should you turn on prefetching of the next page? 65%? Also, does the calculus change if the current page is HTTP and the next page is HTTPS?


Can merging 4 sites into 1 help?

The company I work for has 4 websites. There is a related theme to them (all IT services or web design / development). All have unique content. I am hearing more and more that these need to be brought in under one domain and managed as one. In order for this to happen I will need to get the comapny to 'buy into' this way of thinking. And what Owners and Directors need to hear are facts! Can anyone supply any facts (or point me in the right direction) that I can report back as to why merging the 4 sites will benefit the company. Thanks Mark


Custom Analytics report with multiple tabs

Is it possible to set up a custom report with multiple tabs, and have each tab filter data differently? I have too many metrics to use a dashboard.


What to choose for a multilingual site with support for Markdown and commenting

I want to publish articles at a multilingual site.   1. I want to be able to write an article in two languages and have them available on separate URLs:     * thesite.foo/english-breakfast     * thesite.com/engelsk-frukost   2. If the users web browser is set to English I'd like to show a small notice at the top of the Swedish version with a link to the English one. The link should have an appropriate rel attribute for a translation (search for hreflang at http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html).   3. There should be a way to list all articles belonging to these sets: Swedish only, English only, Swedish versions + English only, English versions + Swedish only. I'd like to publish these as four RSS-feeds. And I would like to have two versions of the main site, one in Swedish (showing Swedish versions + English only) and one in English (showing English versions).   4. I shall be able to write the articles using Markdown, as that is the formatting language I find most convenient.   5. There should be a way for users to comment. And some kind of way for me to protect myself against comment spam. I am leaning towards learning Drupal. I suspect I'll have to code this behavior myself as a module. To be frank I'd rather work with Java. Is Drupal the way to go? Or is there something more suitable for this project?


Removing non-www support

I'm **not** an advocate of the no-www movement. I like the www because it adds as a buffer to distinguish between our public and private/static sites. The problem is that with one of our sites, our traffic is split pretty much 50/50 between those that use our www and those that don't. Should I bother rewriting those who hit our non-www site to our WWW site? Or should I just leave them alone? All our google SEO whatnot is on our www site, so I'm not concerned about any of that, only about user perception. Has anyone here had this problem before? I'm not concerned about the technial aspect (that's easy with a quick rewrite rule), primarily the social side.


Redirect of www vs. "all works"

I was asked a question from a friend if he should redirect `his-domain.com` to `www.his-domain.com`. I answered him that it seems more intuitive to just make both work. So if you enter by `his-domain.com` you get to `his-domain.com` and if you enter `www.his-domain.com` you get to `www.his-domain.com`. This is what I do on my sites. I have an ServerAlias in my apache.conf file that says `ServerAlias my- domain.com *.my-domain.com` But to my surprise,most major sites seems to take the redirect approach. Which I can understand if the sites are using SSL. But if they are not, I don't. So are there any objective reasons to choose one instead of the other? ### More nuanced edit It would be nice if you read my question before closing it. But from the reactions I get I guess the answer could be something like: "Don't make both www.domain.com and domain.com work side by side. Nobody does that. Just redirect one to the other". Even if none is willing to give a technical answer to my question I would hope someone could have answered at least that instead of closing as a duplicate and refering to different question (which to some degree was related)


Is there anyway to re-submit all sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools at once for a domain?

Something happened and I need to resubmit A LOT of sitemaps across a lot of domains.   Is there any way I can submit all sitemaps/all errorful sitemaps per domain even? It would make things easier for me.


Does favicon have any impact on SEO?

I'm looking for advice about favicons and their impacts on search engines. Recently I noticed a site called andriasang which changes its favicon every time you load another page without losing overall recognition of the favicon style. I'd like to incorporate this into my site as well but am I taking any SEO risks here?


Moving RewriteBase rule in htaccess to httpd.conf

I'm now working in a server environment where I can access and edit httpd.conf, which is preferable from a performance and a revision control standpoint. I have a few sites (they are Drupal) running in subdirectories along the lines of dev.blah.com/yourname, dev.blah.com/anothername, dev.blah.com/anotherdev. Right now they have a rewrite rule along the lines of RewriteBase /yourname in each of their htaccess files. This doesn't work in httpd.conf and some of the documentation I've been reading says Rewritebase is bad to put in httpd.conf anyway. Any insight into the right approach would be greatly appreciated.


Uploading a file automatically for speed test?

I am building a Web UI for a device for internet connection and one of the requirements in it is a speed test. I know the basic concept of how speed test works. A file is downloaded for a limited time then the same file is uploaded again and the speed is tracked at regular intervals. Downloading the file is not an issue, but how am I supposed to upload the file without the client knowing that the file is getting uploaded? I've read through a lot of documentation, but I'm still not able to get the answer to how I will upload the file from clients machine without asking him to select the file.


Pure CSS menu generator

I've been looking for hours for pure css, no js, menu creation software. All that I've found have either used js or did not have drop-down sub-menus. I have found one, but it's quite pricey for me and does more than I really need (although I do like it): css3menu.com Does anyone know of a good one? Thanks   Sean Gordon


Templates for forms, tabs etc? - Patterntap alternatives

I used to find http://www.patterntap.com quite useful to get inspiration to design forms, tabs, and other web elements etc. Unfortunately after the ZURB acquisition of Patterntap now they enforce you to sign in with your Twitter account in order to simply view larger images of patterns provided by the crowd. So in some way it's not free anymore. Do you know of **alternatives to patterntap** that are free and you are not obliged to sign in?


How can I find the administrator of a website?

The question above sums it up, but I will restate it here: What is a resource I can use to find the administrator of a website?


Free (Or Cheap) Alternatives For An SSL Certificate For Facebook Apps

In October (from what I remember) Facebook will require HTTPS connections to pages and app's that are hosted away from Facebook. At the moment, it comes up with a popup saying "do you want to turn secure browsing off". I think (as far as I know) that once October comes people won't be able to access these pages any more. Now, I know you have to pay for good SSL certificates. However, for a lot of clients this is just going to be a Facebook page, and not mission critical to their businesses. With this in mind, they may not want to pay for an SSL certificate. I was wondering if there are any free SSL certificates that could do the job? Even if there are no free ones, are there any cheap alternatives? Also, if you do use a free certificate, will it still work in the same way as a paid for certificate?


How to pass information across domains to ask for newsletter only once?

Lets assume following scenario, I have two sites:   * example1.com   * example2.com When user visits **1** there is a prompt "please signup to a newsletter". Same thing happens when user visits **2**. However when navigating from **1** to **2** I don't want signup form to be shown. * * * My first thought were 3rd-party cookies, but it seems that they are blocked / not working:   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4701922/how-does-facebook-set-cross-domain-cookies-for-iframes-on-canvas-pages?rq=1   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172223/how-do-i-set-cookies-from-outside-domains-inside-iframes-in-safari?rq=1 Another thought is to append `#noshow` for each URL but that would require some work - for instance a script that would intercept click / tap events and modify URL structure depending on the address. _(but that seems hacky)_ * * * I wonder if you know a robust well-established solution to this issue? Thanks


Background image strategies for a curved background

How would you handle a background image for a web page with a curve like the one below? Normally, I take a thin image and repeat it along the x-axis, but the curve negates that strategy as one side is lower than the other. Ideally, I'd like to have the lines continue along their current path (even on larger monitors) without having to use a huge image for the whole thing. Any tricks or suggestions to do this in a way that doesn't kill my page size? ![Curved background](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cyLoq.png)


How to know if any website is using Google Website optimizer for A/B testing? By viewing a source code. For what to look into view source which confirms that site is using Google Website optimizer


Account suspension on SMS

Hy Hello all, I have an idea to implement but I hate to copy if it is been used by any other website(s). My idea is about suspending an account using text SMS. The description follows. `When a user signs into his account he gets an text SMS saying "Hello Mr.X you have been logged into your account from IP xx.xx.xx.xx, If you are not the real user logged in send reply to this as BLOCK<space>15<space>random code.` So, here the user can suspend his account by sending a return SMS as BLOCK 15 to block his account for 15mins. This text SMS can terminate the user session and does not allow him to login for next 15mins even with correct username and password. Likewise he can suspend his account for any value of time and can release the same by sending UNBLOCKrandom code. Is this kind of feature used by any website? Please let me know if it is used. Else I wanna be the first person to implement it.


How can I alias domains to subdomains?

I have a main site with a bunch of subdomains created. Each subdomain is a blog and I want each blog to have its own domain name i.e. thisguy.com -> blog1.mainsite.com thatguy.com -> blog2.mainsite.com I bought the new domains and I set up the CNAME records as above to alias them to the appropriate subdomains. However, I get my hosts "a domain is pointing to one of our servers but we don't know anything about it" landing page. How can I set up these domains as aliases of my subdomains?


how to write seo-friendly titles where is no space ( in a column box )?

what is the best way to write long seo-friendly titles in sidebars?
Menu
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My long title, the very seo one
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      what else? thanks!


Upload image file: is compression on client side already possible?

When offering photo file uploading, usually the user will have badly compressed and huge (10+ megapixels) JPEG files from their cameras or phones. On the server side, these files will get re-compressed to something like 800x600px and JPEG quality 7 or 8. Is it (already) possible to do that re-compression on the client side? So that I would only need to transmit some 100kB (800x600px) and not 3 MB or more. Something like: (1) With javascript's new FileSystem API ( http://slides.html5rocks.com/#filewriter ) it would be possible to read the photo file's data into client side JS. (2) Then it would be necessary to re-encode the JPEG data, which is possible, but I counld not find any library for that (yet). Anybody knows such a library? (3) Last step would be to POST the re-compressed JPEG data to the server side for storage and get a URL to the stored photo file back from the server for inclusion into the client's HTML. I am looking for some jQuery plugin, other JS library or example web page that does this.


After adding *.xls to robots.txt how long will the results continue to show up in google

Is there an estimated amount of time before the document will not appear in google results? We have a public records document. **One** person raised a concern when they saw their "PUBLIC INFORMATION" on goolge. So, I've been tasked with removing the file from google searching. It's an xls file, so I can't add any meta tags to it. I want to know how long before it will be gone from google? Please feel free to enlighten me about the other search engines as well.


Google SEO tool that shows search questions based on keywords?

An SEO told me that he recently read of a Google SEO tool that shows actual QUESTIONS (rather than queries = Google keyword tool) that are typed into Google, based on the keywords one enters. Unfortunately, he could not remember the name of the tool nor where it was that linked to it. Since I run a Q&A site, such a tool would be extremely valuable to me for keyword optimization. Does anyone know of such a tool, or anything that is similar? Thank you in advance.


Display Business on Google Map

I want to be able to display my company on Google Maps. I have a places page set up. If you search for it Google will show my business with a red marker which links to my places page. I want it to display on the map all the time. Like the TM Lewin Shop in the example below. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UkxBw.png) Map Link How do I get it to do that. What does Google use to decide that. There are 3 business at our address. One of the companies is displayed on the map. Would that stop us displaying?


Does the domain owner get contacted if someone else back-orders the domain?

I'm trying to purchase a domain name that I like. I noticed that the domain is about to expire and has only been registered for a year now, Nothing really shows on the page when going to the site. It's not a very common domain name but I like it and wanted to know if back-ordering it notifies the current owner that someone else back-ordered their domain?


Things we can do with VPS Packages

I am planning for purchase of VPS Package. Beside Webspace hosting, what other features can we provide to our customers?


How to interpret number of URL errors in Google webmaster tools

Recently Google has made some changes to Webmaster tools which are explained below: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/crawl-errors-next- generation.html One thing I could not find out is how to interpret the number of errors over time. At the end of February we've recently migrated our website and didn't implement redirect rules for some pages (quite a few actually). Here is what we're getting from the `Crawl errors`: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PjmhJ.png) What I don't know is if the number of errors is cumulative over time or not (i.e. if Google bots crawl your website on 2 different days and find 1 separate issue on each day, whether they will report 1 error for each day, or 1 for the 1st, and 2 for the 2nd). Based on the `Crawl stats` we can see that the number of requests made by Google bots doesn't increase: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VXowF.png) Therefore I believe the number of errors reported is cumulative and that an error detected on 1 day is taken into account and reported on the subsequent days until the underlying problem is fixed and the page it's crawled again (or if you manually `Mark as fixed` the error) because if you don't make more requests to a website, there is no way you can check new pages and old pages at the same time. **Q: Am I interpreting the number of errors correctly?**


Unindex google code svn repository content from google index

I developed a small web site and saved the code to google code repository. Everything has been running smoothly for a while until results from google code svn repository started showing up before the results from the actual website. Is there any way I could stop google from indexing google code repository content or at least make its rank lower than the web site? I am not talking sophisticated seo techniques but rather some simple settings if there are any.


How can I get my Wiki to have the same in-built referencing tools as Wikipedia?

My Wiki, is still very much in its infancy, and I would like to know how I could replicate the referencing tools (like the autofill options for PMIDs and DOIs) and import the referencing templates (i.e., `cite journal`, `cite web`, `cite news`, `cite book`, _etc._ ). I have tried copy-pasting to my Wiki using the source code, but that did not work, see for instance this page where I have tried to utilize the `cite journal` template. I am especially interested in the `cite journal` template. If any additional details are required please feel free to ask me in the comments.


Unicode icons in <title>

If I want to put various unicode icons in my `<title>` for the sake of looks, could that hurt my SEO? Are there particular classes of unicode (code ranges) that offend search engines? I've noticed that many music and video playing sites including YouTube have started using the PLAY icon in their titles.


What is PageRank and how do I get it?

I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank?


Recovering domain name from a person I can't find

I have a problem with one domain and I have no idea how to go about it. I am volunteering for a small charity in Sheffield (UK), more specifically I am redoing their website. A while ago (few years) there was one guy who made that website for them, sorted out a free hosting with another charity, bought domain name etc. Since the domain name is registered in his name, and he disappeared and we have no way of finding/contacting him, we can't move it to different hosting or do virtually nothing about it. Somehow the domain is being renewed every year, we know which domain registration service provider it is registered with, we know the guys name, and that's about it. How would we go about re-registering that domain in the charity's name, instead of that guy, is that at all possible? If we happen to get in touch with him, what should we ask for?


WordPress page title repeated in SOME pages

I have created a Wordpress site and titles were working just fine. Then, some time and plugins installed later, I noticed that in SOME pages I get the title repeated 2 times. Example of wrong page title: **Contact - NAME | NAME** Example of normal title: **Our Services | NAME** Now, if I go to General Settings and change title it will change both, no improvement. SEO by Yoast has the option to reset page titles, but that just removes all titles leaving the current URL as page title, so no good either. Here is the code I originally had: `<title><?php wp_title(''); ?><?php if(wp_title('', false)) { echo ' | '; } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>` Here is the code I am using now: `<title><?php wp_title('|'); ?></title>` **To sum up, I think somewhere in the database there's a wp_title repeated: once using '-' as separator, another one (the current one) using '|'.** Any help will be most appreciated, thanks!


Need help with mybb forum robots.txt file

I have installed the mybb forum in subdomain of my site. The link to my site is here. but when I search Google even the pages that are disallowed are also index. What's wrong with the _robots.txt_ file?               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /captcha.php     Disallow: /editpost.php     Disallow: /member.php     Disallow: /misc.php     Disallow: /modcp.php     Disallow: /moderation.php     Disallow: /newreply.php     Disallow: /newthread.php     Disallow: /online.php     Disallow: /printthread.php     Disallow: /private.php     Disallow: /ratethread.php     Disallow: /report.php     Disallow: /reputation.php     Disallow: /search.php     Disallow: /sendthread.php     Disallow: /task.php     Disallow: /usercp.php     Disallow: /usercp2.php     Disallow: /calendar.php     Disallow: /*action=emailuser*     Disallow: /*action=nextnewest*     Disallow: /*action=nextoldest*     Disallow: /*year=*     Disallow: /*action=weekview*     Disallow: /*action=nextnewest*     Disallow: /*action=nextoldest*     Disallow: /*sort=*     Disallow: /*order=*     Disallow: /*mode=*     Disallow: /*datecut=*


Issue tracking multiple domains with Google Analytics

I have 2 domains `mydomain.com` and `mydomain.net` which I'm trying to track with the same `GA` code. Here are the options I turned on:               Subdomains of mydomain   ON     Examples: www.mydomain.com -and- apps.mydomain.com -and- store.mydomain.com          Multiple top-level domains of mydomain  ON     Examples: mydomain.uk -and- mydomain.cn -and- mydomain.fr      Which gave me the following code:                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-123456789-1']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.com']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);      In this help page I read that `_setDomainName` must be changed for each domain which I did:   -if you go to `mydomain.net` you get `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.net']);`   -if you go to `mydomain.com` you get `_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain.com']);` When I generate traffic on both `mydomain.dom` and `mydomain.net` and watches `GA` push requests made with `firebug` I can see requests generated for both domains and the parameter called `utmhn` has the proper domain value (which matches that of `_setDomainName` and the browser address bar). However when I monitor the realtime statistics under `Home->Real- Time->Overview` I see `pageviews` for `mydomain.net` **BUT NOT** for `mydomain.dom` :( **What am I missing to properly track both domains?** _PS:in the help page I mentioned they talk about setting up `cross links` which I didn't do for now as my understanding is that it shouldn't be needed to get what I'm trying to do to work. Also I want to mention that I do not have any tracking code for any of these 2 domains other than the one I mentioned._


Should I Include RSS Feed URLs in an XML Sitemap?

Simple question - Should I Include the RSS Feed URLs in my site's XML Sitemap? I am NOT asking whether I should USE an RSS Feed AS an XML sitemap, but rather, should I include the URLs to the various RSS feeds on my site in my XML Sitemap? I am looking for both general advice, and/or pointers to any relevant documentation supporting an answer to my question. Thanks in advance.


Images not being cached in Google

I have a banner printing site and my site is on top position in Google, but I have one problem - the images (Banners) of my site are not cached in any search engine.


Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?

I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks. I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for indexation. At the moment I am using this typology:               example.com/2013/04/22/articolo d'esempio/      that is composed by: the base URL of my blog, the complete date of the post and the post name. So I have the URL of posts like this:               example.com/2013/04/18/2-hello-world-in-spring-mvc/      Is this a good URL or are there some other permalink typologies that are better for search engine indexing (or for some other reasons)?


Is it possible to do shipping like this in Magento?

What I need is to have Magento charge a flat rate shipping for orders under a certain amount, and free shipping for orders over that amount. It's like having two flat rates. I have tried setting a flat rate and free shipping together but it just gives the option to the customer to chose between them via a radio button; which is not what I need.


Best compromise for low DNS TTL for failover, versus high TTL to reduce DNS lookup time

We're looking at lowering our DNS A record TTL to around 1 minute, to enable us to quickly switch to a backup server should the main one fail (whether this is automatic, using AWS Health Checks etc, or manual, is largely irrelevant to this question). I'm aware this will put a significantly higher load on the DNS server, but this isn't an issue. What I'm concerned about it how the total site load time will be increased, because of the additional overhead of having to look up the DNS records with a lot more requests. How to I balance these issues? I'm obviously disregarding factors outside my control, such as ISP DNS caching.


Minimize embedded youtube video to just listed to sound

Is it possible to embed a youtube video and hide video display and just show the player controls? That would be sufficient for playing songs. (I know, it would be a waste of bandwidth ;-) ...)


Download/submission directories are dead? Are they good for SEO?

We have just released a new major software product version. In the past if you wanted visibility you would create a standardized pad file and you would submit it to hundreds of directories or you used web service that would do that for you. These directories would then serve as first incoming links to your web site. How about today? I think download directories are pretty much dead? Do you think this is still good SEO approach today? Are these software download directories useless?


.htaccess Forward all mail subdomains to /webmail/

I would like to write a .htaccess rewrite command that takes any url with a subdomain mail and forwards them to whatever domain included that subdomain with /webmail at the end. e.g. mail.zane.com would forward to zane.com/webmail mail.prowebmasters.com would forward to prowebmasters.com/webmail. In short, I have a master domain with my host with addon domains in folders on the master domain. Any time I type mail.site.com it is forwarding to the index.html of the master site. Instead of doing that I want the sites to open /webmail/ of the site.


PHPFox caching?

I run a big phpfox website and I currently have server setup as follows: nginx (reverse proxy) --> Apache for dynamic content are there other ways to cache content with phpfox? I can't use memcache it's a shared environment.


Will google penalize my pages if I will hide by default the main page content?

I've read some similar questions but the mine is about a particular case. I need to hide the "main page content" as default, visible on user's request using javascript. This is lot of text - about 500-1000 words for every document. The secondary page content (schematic data, lists, images) will be visible as default. That's the solution that fits the needs of my customer. Will a site made like this be penalized? EDIT: The "main body text" is the text that should appear in search engine's results and it contains the keywords.


Embedding Quicktime Player behaves differently on XP/OSX/Windows7

We've got a page that embeds a `.MOV` file into a webpage. In the last 6 months it stopped working on some Macs. Then it stopped working on all macs. Then it stopped working on Windows XP. But it works fine in Windows 7. Here's what is embedded in the HTML:               <embed src="/Magic94Scripts/mgrqispi94.dll?APPNAME=FileManager&PRGNAME=prjfilmview&ResID=2784&size=9" style="float: left;" height="600" width="1030">      This has worked perfectly for years. The QuickTime player pulls the file out of the requester, inspects the MIME type from the response headers and plays the file appropriately. A Wireshark dump from a Windows 7 looks like this: ![Quicktime Windows 7 dump](http://goodoil.enets.com.au/QuickTime-Win7.png)   1. The intial request for the page that has the `<embed>` tag in it   2. The QuickTime plugin requesting the MOV file through the back-end requester Performing the **exact same** actions on OSX or Windows XP wields: ![Quicktime XP-OSX dump](http://goodoil.enets.com.au/QuickTime-XPOSX.png) The versions of quicktime and safari on all the different machines is the latest (5.0) and I assume this is something that was broken in an update, and as our clients moved to the newer version of the browser they were breaking one by one. Any ideas what might cause this? Is this a bug in Safari? Are there better ways of embedding the MOV file?


Fetching templates via API. Who provides this service?

I'm mainly a server side developer. I'm not a designer, even if I understand web layouts, grids, CSS, typography, valid markup, etc. and I'm able to do some graphic work too (almost). It just takes a lot of time and the result is not always beautiful. I know there are tons of website templates sites out there, and I'd like to use their designs as a starting point for my customers' works, giving them the possibility to choose the design they like more. I'd just prefer to show the templates catalog to customers from within my site, fetching templates info (screenshots, description, etc) from a remote server using an API. TemplateMonster.com provides, or provided, such API. But the service responds with "Unauthorized usage". Are there other sites offering this kind of retrieval service?


A tool to test web fonts on a live site

Are there any browser/online tools to quickly test a live site with web fonts, like Google Web Fonts? So, as I see it, I visit any site, for example, microsoft.com and click something like Analyze element in Firebug and change that font to some from Google Web Fonts list. Is there anything like that on the web?


How do I use the http://schema.org/GeoShape itemtype?

There are no useful examples for setting the property of this type anywhere. The GeoShape page references the rNews GeoCoordinate spec in passing and a forum post on meetup states that this spec is based on Simple GeoRSS. I have guessed that the Simple GeoRSS coordinate format is correct. Unfortunately, Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool doesn't inspire confidence in that conclusion. This is the ideal data format for my purpose (describing a service area of 20 miles centered on the city centre) so it is really frustrating that I can't test the correctness. This is a duplicate of my question on StackOverflow.


URL paths and their effect on SEO

We are developing a website where there will be two distinct types of content: galleries and photos. It makes little sense to use URL paths like /gallery/photo as some photos can appear in more than one gallery (and duplication of content is bad); so the current logic is to have a single depth on the site (/photo1, /photo2, /photo3, /gallery1, etc). Will this impact upon SEO as the number of single depth pages increases?, is it better for Search Engines in general to see a more RESTful interface (/galleries/gallery, /photos/photo1, etc)?, or is there a better way to handle this? P.S.: The photos will have a landing page of their own with deep textual content (as will the galleries).


Which special characters are safe to use in url?


Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?

If I am thinking about using one of the fancy country domains such as `.me` or `.tv` should I be worried about how Google treats such domains? Or to put it another way, if all other things are equal (good content, links etc.), will Google regard a `.tv` or `.me` as equal to a traditional `.com` or `co.uk` site?


Rank value of domain extensions in Google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? Is there any definitive information on how google values different domain extensions in its ranking algorithms? My assumption, all other things being equal, is .com > .net > .org > .co etc.


CO.CC domains SEO disadvantages

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? There is a free domain service http://www.co.cc . We can setup DNS settings at co.cc . But is there any SEO disadvantages for CO.CC domains?


Do different TLDs affect your search engine ranking?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have two identical domain names with different suffixes `org` and `com`. I just installed POSTFIX which has auto configured itself to the `.com` domain name but I generally use the `.org` tld based domain name as the primary (even the `.com` redirects to `.org`). Which is better to use as `myhostname` and `mydomain` are there any advantages to using one over the other?


Does the .ending on a domain need to be relevant?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I see a lot of people now opting to use > myname.im or > myname.me But after doing some checking, i found that `.im` domain names are meant to be Isle of Man endings. Is this correct, and does it matter that people opt to use this domain ending if they are not even based anywhere near the Isle of Man. It is Ok to use a domain ending purely for how good it sounds is what I'm really after. Or is it bad practice to do this.


Is it disadvantageous to use a .me domain?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? In a scenario like the following, **should I go for the .net or the .me domain?** Assumptions:   * I have a relatively informal website about _eating_.   * eating.com is already taken. Should I go for:   1. **eating.net** (might confuse visitors because the .com is occupied by someone else / a competitor)   2. **eat.me** (because it is so catchy) I have heard (just word of mouth) that Google would give less priority to .me domains, is that true? _PS: eating/eat is just an example, but my actual sitename is (almost) as catchy._


SEO impact of using regional TLDs like .me

It is common that people use regional TLDs with a fake meaning to register a good-looking website. A famous example is `.me`, which is popularly offered by most of registrars alongside generic domains. As far as I know, search engines somehow weight the regional websites. For example, a `.ca` is supported to be targeted in Canada. I understand that search engines are adjusted to the market popularity, but I am curious, if a regional TLD such as `.me` is considered as a generic TLD when targeting globally? In general, my question is that how much `TLD` affects the SEO for global audience?


Does using a country domain (TLD) negatively effect a site's search ranking if the site content isn't country specific?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have a website in which the content is not country specific. The TLD is currently .it but the company is hosted and based in the United States. I'm wondering if a .it domain will negatively effect the site's search rankings. Is it better to use a .com TLD? For example (I don't actually own these domains), would the domain love.it have a worse ranking than loveit.com? (Assuming the content of the sites is the same) I've been searching everywhere for an answer with not much luck. Any advice would be very helpful.


.com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog. Now considering SEO and ranking stuff, what is the best way to implement this. **myname.com** - _Portfolio_ || **myname.com/blog** - _Blog page_ (or) **myname.com** - _Blog_ || **myname.me** - _Portfolio_ i have absolutely no idea on how .tld's impact SEO and Ranking, so i seek the experts advice on this. Thanks in advance.


Itunes Podcast Feed: Itunes says it can't verify the identity of the server

I have created an iTunes RSS feed for my video podcast: http://designmind.info/feeds/itunes.xml For the first few weeks, it worked fine. But lately, iTunes has started giving this error message: iTunes can’t verify the identity of the server “www.designmind.info”. The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “www.designmind.info”, which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the server anyway? How can I fix this. It is not SSL hosting, so I am not sure why it needs a certificate.


Am I harming myself by having two domains pointing at the same thing?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO and multiple domains to same site I have a domain I recently purchased. I went ahead and pointed it at my website(via DNS) and by default, my server now serves my website on this new domain. Eventually, the new domain will replace my old domain(with 302 redirects and all that). However, I've not yet got my website ready for that because I'll need to do some rebranding and such. Am I actively hurting my SEO ratings and such by having these two domains point to the same thing?