Is it wise to use a country-based tld when a .com already exists, but is "Under Construction"?

So I have an idea I want to try for a side-business, and it's web-based. I think about names, and find one I like, let's pretend it's wibblewobble. I check for wibblewobble.com and it's taken, but there's no site there, just an "Under Construction" page. A whois indicates that the domain has been registered for about 9 years. wibblewobble.ie is available though, and I'm in Ireland, so I can get it. I imagine that after a few months of attentive site management, I should be ahead of the existing .com address. My fear though is that , should I be in any way successful, others may try to undercut me, and buty the .com to steal traffic from me. Is that a real risk? Do a lot of people automatically use .com, or do people remember tlds? I've tried contacting the .com domain owner, a private individual, but I've got no answer. I'd pay him a modest price for the domain if he's not using it.


Mobile device screen resolution statistics?

Are there any statistics (or an industry standard) for mobile device screen resolutions? I'm optimising a site for mobile. So far I've just used one media query and it works fine down to about 240px wide, but messes up a bit after that. I'd love to know what's the smallest size worth accommodating.


Is there a free blogging service that I can setup to point to my domain/subdomain?

I would like that because now I would have to extend my hosting plan to accomodate new domains, if I wanted to self host all my sites. My sites being very low traffic, the max domain count is the only thing I find limiting on my hosting plan.


How to write a blog for SEO purpose

I have a photo sharing website, which provides very little textual content. Users can add tags to photos and a description, but it creates a lot of duplicate content, because most of the descriptions will be 'wow', 'lol', ... I don't think I should rely on users to build my SEO. I think it would be a great idea to write a blog, and use it to describe the best photos, start contests, explain themes, in short: create original content that search engines will love. Our website's main URL is like `www.domain.com`, and our new blog is hosted on `blog.domain.com`. From a SEO perspective, is it a good idea to keep the blog separate from the main site? This has the advantage to leave the original site unchanged, but will it add any page rank to the `www.domain.com`? If the blog ranks well it will obviously pass some page rank to the original through links. What do you think is the best option from a SEO perspective? Include the blog in `www.domain.com`? Or leave it in `blog.domain.com`?


Google doesn't follow links outside sitemap

Today I was looking at what googles shows in relation to my site and I discovered something which I wasn't expecting. Here is what my site map looks like.               ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">     <url>       <loc>http://domain.com/pub</loc>       <lastmod>2013-06-06</lastmod>       <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     </url>     </urlset>       So to get an idea at /pub I have a number of articles which are doFollow (checked that) and everyone of the articles has a canonical link in the header                  <link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com/pub/article/327" />      Now I've discovered that google indexed only the /pub directory, without following the links to the articles. I read somewhere that it is not a requirement to have every article's link in the sitemap. In my case it is user generated content so I can't be updating that on a weekly basis it has to be automated in some way. What am I doing wrong? I need to get that content indexed.


Excess bandwidth usage, how do I overcome this?

I received a higher than normal monthly bill from my web hosting company. They have told me that I have exceeded my monthly minimum for bandwidth usage and advised me to reduce the file size of my web pages. Is there any way I could determine the bandwidth I require for hosting my website? Is there a tool that I could use to monitor the usage? I don't know which files I should be working on.


**I know that SERPs depends on many factors like backlinks, page authority, keywords placement etc. But I noticed that Google also look for the word count of the article.**   * In 2010,2011 articles with 250+ word count got ranked in Google. But in 2012,2013 the trend was different, If the post is 500+ words, it is likely to get ranked top in Google compared to 250 word count articles.    * In late 2013 we can see that all SEO bloggers(who watch the SEO trends) started to publish articles with 1500+ word count and they ranked better that the 500+ word count articles.   * Now I was googling for making a review about external HDDs and I found this post `http://goo.gl/J54Fzm`. Its word count is 12K and got ranked top for the keyword "portable hdd review" in just 5 days. The ranking will depend on many factors but I am a bit confused about the word count.  **MOZ, Searchengineland and other SEO specialists suggest in 2014 to keep the word count near to 1.5k** **`Q: What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?`** NB: Please don't mark this as a duplicate question. These questions are asked two years before. And I am asking about the trend in 2014. The image attached is from a post about word count published in march-2014. What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed? Ideal word count per web page? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jHsCN.jpg)


DNS: How can I determine which IP a subdomain is associated with?

I bought a domain(tohid.ir.tc) from a hosting company. it seems that it is a sub domain of this domain(Ir.tc). it made lot's of problems for me. I don't now to which DNS server it is pointing. both whois query and domain reseller say that it is pointed to my host. but the hosting company says that is is not pointing to their server. when I enter it it says "The server at tohid.ir.tc is taking too long to respond." "Ir.tc" domain is pointing http://zoneedit.com/. but I can't tell for sure where http://tohid.ir.tc is pointing.


Saving Image Path in SQL server

I want to know a proper way of saving image path to SQL server when working with ASP.net. I'm using SQL server 2005 & VB 2008.


better site analytics service / script: real time statistics and time spent on pages?

I'm looking for a site analytics software (service or script) that must be easy to comprehend. GA is simply too much complicated and it misses some key features (for me). Missing features are:   * real time statistics (very important)   * time spent on page (very important) about the "time spent on page"... i do really need a statistics software that does not calculate the time between two page views. this is not useful at all in my case. because i mostly do 1 pageview = 1 user but something that logs, for example, every 10 seconds spent on a page thank you in advance


What are the steps for starting a website from scratch?

Starting before design, before coding anything. What steps need to be taken to fully implement a working website? **EDIT** I mean both from a technical and a non-technical perspective.


How to charge for web maintenance services

Over the years we have developed many websites for clients. The issue we currently deal with is having individual clients wanting minor changes or enhancements to their site. Each client doesn't contact us often, but collectively this adds up into a bunch work. To date we don't have a clean way to charge for these services, and as a result it often seems easier to do a quick fix and in fact much of this work goes unbilled as it just seems to hard. Please outline what you consider to be a better system to handle these clients, links to any maintenance agreements. I considered the idea of charging clients for prepaid block hours of say 10 hours and then when they make requests we can just draw down from that, but we don't know of any good systems which already do this kind of thing. What should we do?


What are some great resources or books for learning about running a website?

You've just inherited the webmaster position but know little about the day-to- day operation of a website. What books or online resources should you look at to learn more about being a webmaster?


Google analytics how will ajax calls affect time on site, time on page, etc

I am in the middle of redesigning a site and am concerned about how my new page design will compromise my google rankings. Essentially I am going to a single page site, using AJAX calls to reload different elements of the site. I am using traditional anchor links to various parts of the site which trigger AJAX calls using jquery, so the hard links will link to the same info as is loaded via AJAX. My issue is that since only one page will ever be loaded by most visitors, will my 'time on site' be accurately reflected. Additionally, My site consists of a lot of links to external sites. I have forced these to open in a new tab of the browser, does google record this as visitor leaving my site. I am using jquery history api to push the history state in modern browsers so that bookmarking can occur and back buttons work, will google analytics record this as a page change or does it not take them into account. Finally, If all the above will spell disaster, is there any way to send updates to analytics with the ajax calls?


https (SSL) instead of http for mobile users

I am building myself a new website, out of privacy and security concerns I am contemplating trying to make it https only. It will be mobile-friendly using media queries but I am concerned--especially for mobile users--about the increased bandwidth. How much will doing so increase my bandwidth or slow load times? For pages where I'm not transferring sensitive information, should I leave external links (to a jQuery library, or a web font for instance) in http? Simply put, I have read articles saying the entire web would be more secure if everything was SSL but my actual knowledge of implementation is limited to payment gateways and log-in pages and such. I apologize for the open-ended nature of the question but anything, even just simple answers to the specific questions is welcomed.


Analyse reasons for Sudden Drop in Traffic

My site www canada updates dot com (remove spaces) had decent traffic till a month ago and now it has dropped to about 1/3rd. I would be thankful if any one could help and analyse giving exact reasons for the drop in traffic


Cumulative visit by hours in Google Analytics

I am tring to compare 2 different days hour by hour, (but cumulatively) For example comparing the total visitor count by 12 o'clock today, with yesterday. How can I find out what was the total count of visitors at a specific time ?


Force Google Analytics to re-check tracking code status?

Is there a way to force Google Analytics to re-check tracking code status? I just installed the tracking code but I want GA to verify whether I installed the code correctly. GA's last check is few hours ago, before I install tracking code. Current status is "Tracking Not Installed".


@Viewport @media use for input type?

I've searched high and low for some way to setup my HTML5/CSS3 for various devices. Going by screen resolution isn't the best route because some times the screen size of one device is the same as another [e.g. my chrome book runs at 1280x800 and my android tablet runs at 1280x800] I'd want the website to look different for the tablet because it has touch capabilities meaning I can build a more "app like" design for that that I wouldn't want for my chrome book. I've thought about the landscape vs portrait but that still doesn't get me there. @viewport and @media screen works to some degree as I can code for a browser vs mobile browsers but even the new iPhone/iPad has a higher resolutions than some legacy monitors. I am truly stumped as to how I could code in a way to detect input type and load appropriately. (ie if touch display X if keyboard display Y)


Using an already registered domain name

I've written an asp.net site for a friend and I'm ready to deploy. However, I've never done this before and have a few questions. My friend has already bought/registered a domain name, say for example it's `somesite.co.uk`. Q1. If he signs up to hosting company X how do we use that domain name with company X? Q2. Is it possible to get a similar email address with company X for admin? eg `admin@somesite.co.uk` through company X or does it need to be bought through the original company? Q3. Is there anything else I need to consider?


Can I register or renew a domain name without going through a commercial site?

If I want to register or renew www.therandomcatsite.com, I know for sure that I can pay GoDaddy about $12 to do so, and GoDaddy notes that the ICANN fee is $0.18. Is it possible to personally file a registration or renewal with ICANN (or whatever central organization handles registrations) and only pay the $0.18 fee?


Does adding external images or javascript to a website affect its SEO?

When adding images to your site, is it bad to use an image located on another site:               <img src='http://www.some_other_site.com/image.jpg'>      The same goes for javascript, is it bad to link to javascript located somewhere else:               <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.some_other_site.com/js.js'></script>      I ask this purely from an SEO perspective (I am aware that if the other site takes down their image, or something happens to their server, that will affect the content on my site). I am especially curious about javascript, since it is actually common practice to link to javascript libraries on other sites.


Looking for SSL certificates (first time)

I need to buy SSL certificates and it is the first time. 1) My option would be the "cheapest ones". What am I going to risk, what kind of service quality I'm going to lose if I buy the cheapest ? Are they less safe ? 2) I've been suggested to use geotrust.com However I'm developing a website in Netherlands and I was wondering if it is better to use an european certificate or it doesn't matter. If it matters, could you suggest SSL services in Netherlands, or near by ? Thanks


Using wildcard certificates

Can I buy a wildcard certificate to use the same SSL certificate on multiple domains? For example, `www.example.com`, `www.example.org` and `www.example.net` (on different hosting services)? If I can,   1. Is this a good and cheap solution?   2. What are the risks?


Paginating sitemaps

My sitemap is huge (200k+ articles), so I want to implement pagination of the sitemap itself. My question is what parameter do most search engines look for in a sitemap pagination? `page=...` or maybe `p=...`? I know about the sitemap index, but it would be a bit of an overhead to create that just now.


Recovery from accidental noindex of site

I've recently noticed that an entire site I manage had been set to `noindex` for about 3 weeks. This has caused the entire site to be completely dropped from Google's index (searching "`site:`" and then the domain name renders 0 results). What occurred was a redesign of the site was launched, the staging site had been set to `noindex` (in WordPress). WordPress does this through adding a meta `noindex` tag to all pages as well as through _robots.txt_. During the launch, in an apparent confusion by the team, the staging site was set to be indexed instead of the production site. This has also caused the staging site to be indexed in the 3 weeks since. What I've done so far:   * Set the production site to be indexed again   * Submitted the production site to be indexed by Google through Webmaster Tools   * Submitted a sitemap through Webmaster Tools for the production site (hadn't been done yet, should have)   * Submitted a reconsideration request through webmaster tools for the production site, explaining what happened (not sure if I should have done this, question below)   * Submitted a removal request for the staging site through webmaster tools Here are my questions: Should I have submitted a reconsideration request? I have a theory (maybe more of a fear, don't have anything to back it up) that possibly Google will wait until they review the request to re-index the site, even though it never violated their guidelines. I would think this will take much longer than waiting for it to be re-indexed. I did this in frantic action after discovering the problem but then had this thought afterwards. Secondly, because it was a redesign of the site being launched there were 301 redirects set up from old pages to new. When the site is eventually re- indexed, will Google look for those old pages again and follow the 301s, or would it have already written off those pages as gone? I've read some things saying that when this happens, normally sites regain their previous ranking, but I have a feeling in this case it may be a bit different as maybe the opportunity for Google properly follow the new 301s is now gone?


Difference between "/" at end of URL and without "/"

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not?   >  Why treat these as different URLs? I am doing a 301 redirect in my WP application using .htaccess and have mapped some of the URLs which have either been removed from the new domain or the URL structure has been changed. While doing I got a doubt I have following URL structure in my .htaccess file               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old.com$     RewriteRule ^tag/waiting$  http://www.new.com/tag/relationships [R=301,L]      while checking this i found that at some places URL is like `http://www.new.com/tag/relationships` while at others its like `http://www.new.com/tag/relationships/`, while both refer to the same location but not sure if this will make any difference to SEO and search engines. Please suggest if the way i am doing mapping is correct or do i need to modify it to handle both UR


Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not?

Does it make any difference to SEO ratings what-so-ever if your url has a trailing slash:               http://www.domain.com/some/slug/paths/      as opposed to one that does not:               http://www.domain.com/some/slug/paths


Verify my website when it is .tk

I'm trying to verify my website so it appears on google, I think, I'm very new with all this. However, it doesn't seem to be an option... My website is host in dropbox and the domain is free. Is that why I cannot verify? Have tried the different methods, but nothing. This is the web: www.angelinajoliemagazines.tk


How to determine which files are used by website

I recently became responsible for a PHP / HTML / MySQL website. The document structure is full of duplicate files and folders making the site appear more complex than it is. Is there any tool I can use to process the files and find out which files are used and which are not so that I can purge all the redundant code from the file structure? Also, can a tool identify if there are any missing files?


What's the best way to show a message for only IE 6 and IE 7?

What's the best way to show a text message for only IE 6 and IE 7 ? Should I add a html tag to my webpages and normally hide it with css for all browsers except the above mentioned ? And when I use IE6 IE7, should I hide the website with css and show only that html tag ? thanks


Using topic titles as img alt text on a forum?

I have a (mostly) standard phpBB forum so right now, images that are posted in [IMG] BB-tags don't have an alt text. I would like to change this and I'm doubting between two options:   1. Use the topic title as alt text   2. Use the most used words in the first post as alt text (I have a mod installed that sets those words as meta keywords) A page has a maximum of 30 posts and the subforums that have a lot of pictures aren't accessible to Google. So at most, I think there will be 5 images per page. Is using the same alt text 5 times bad SEO-wise? Is there anything else I can do to get the right keywords to add?


PageRank sharing between domains?

I own three domains, say.. **example.com, example.in, example.co.in** I have bought the .in and .co.in TLDs (Top Level Domains) only to protect the brand. But I have this question: If I make the other two also point to my hosting so that regardless of which one the user types, they are taken to the same website, will the Page Rank be split into three and will each domain have one third the actual PR value? What should I do with the other two domains? Where should I point them to, if I don't intend to use them at all (i.e., what should I give in place of the `ns1.myprovider.com`, `ns2.myprovider.com` etc..?)


Link tags in iframe widget

I have a rating community-site and I´m offering little `iframe` widgets with the average rating and some little other info. Does it make sense (for visibility, SEO) to add link tags to the `head` like:               <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="rssfeed" />     <link rel="index" title="main-profile" href="main-profile">      To get a logical association of the widget to relating pages? How would you do this?


What are the reasons to have a two step login? (Username on one page, password on the second.)

So I've recently been encountering more two step login processes, where I'm required to enter my username on one page and my password on a second. I really don't like this pattern, as it requires an extra page load just to log in. But I've been told by a couple of people that it is more secure. How is it more secure? Are there other reasons to inconvenience the user with this?


A couple of links to our products and 10 pages of crack/keygen/torrent/etc

If you try searching for our company and product name you'll get two useful links and 10 pages of hacker sites where eventually you can download the cracked version of our products. How can we clean hacker links and leave only useful links to our prouct pages? We already checked the Google URL Removal Tool but within the 'Removal Type' options we can specify there is nothing meaningful to specify in this case. Shall we proceed the same? Thanks.


GUI question : representing large tree

I have a tree-like datastructure of some six levels deep, that I would like to represent on a single webpage (can be tabs, trees; ....) In each level both childnodes and content are possible. Presenting it like a real tree would be not very usable (too big). I was thinking in the lines of hiding parts of the tree when you drill down and presenting a breadcrumbs or the like to keep you informed as to where you are... I guess my question boils down to : any ideas / examples ? Tx!


.co domain worthy for main site?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  .CO Domains. Worthwhile? Thought of a great name for the idea of my site, but the .com has already gone. However the .co is available. Is that common enough to use as the main domain for the site? It's a brand new site so it will be branded and promoted as sitename.co all the time. Anyway have any .co?


Why is Google showing up as a referral instead of a search engine in Google Analytics?

In Google Analytics, why does Google show up sometimes under an organic medium, and other times as a referral? (They frequently have the same landing page.) As I understand (and I'm just as likely to be dead wrong), the organic medium indicates someone found a link to my page in search results and the referral is when a link from site X leads to my site. I understand a search engine just populates a page with links, so how does GA determine when to call a Google referral organic as opposed to referral?


Would the IP-based content delivery be considered as cloaking?

All we know that Google will be looking more at cloaking in the first quarter of 2011. But, **my client's website is serving content to the users based on the IP address.** Now, I would like to know whether IP based content delivery be considered as Cloaking by Google. Or how Google is going to handle this issue?? Thanks, Parthipan.P


When creating DOM elements with JQuery is it better practice to style them with JQuery or in the stylesheet

I am working on a code base and am using JQuery to add DOM elements.I want to know if it is considered better practice to style them with JQuery or _just create them_ with JQuery then go to the style sheet and add new CSS blocks to style them. Thank you.


Creative ways to display long lists

I am working on redesigning a page that displays a 2 column table of approximately 200 manufacturer names. The page becomes very long but so far isn't incredibly unmanageable, but I'm trying to apply a more futuristic design. I provided a sample page to the client with a 5 column table of smaller logos, but due to the vast diversity of colors in the logos it made the page look extremely busy. The client does not want to have users click to view the manufacturer list (I proposed some jQuery goodness broken down by category). Anyway, just thought I'd check to see if anybody has any samples of displaying longer lists as I'm not the most creative person around. Thanks!


SEO/Architecture for multiple related websites

My question is two-fold, but first, a short background. I have a client that is a regional franchise for a service company and each physical site has its own domain and the main "corporate" physical site has its own domain as well. They each, as independent owners, also have completely different looking websites. They have since decided to have all physical sites (including corporate) websites to have the same look. They have also realized that probably 90% of the website pages will have the exact same information on them. The other 10% will basically be staff bios, pictures of their individual physical sites, and maybe some events that are exclusive to their own physical site.   1. From an SEO standpoint, does it make more sense to ditch all of the domains and just keep the single corporate site which holds all of the company wide info and then have the ability to show site exclusive content just as a function of normal site navigation? Or should each domain website look 90% identical, 10% exclusive and provide links either to all sites or only back to the corporate site? One point I'm considering is if corporate is in Town A and someone searches google for the search terms we've optimized, but they add a geo location of Town B (in which a franchise physical site exists) which is 30 miles from Town A, would we benefit from having multiple domains, each having it's own place page and it's address on each page of the site?   2. Ok, hopefully #1 was relatively clear. If we opt for multiple domains with 90% same content and 10% exclusive, what is the best way to architect this so I don't actually have to build and, inevitably, update nearly the same site 10 times? I would think that keeping identical content on the corporate domain and exclusive content on each franchise domain would be, theoretically, the best route but I'm really not sure how to go about doing that. I'm using PHP5 and have written my own, very small framework.


SEO preparation for upcoming new site

I booked a domain and I created an image saying that the site is soon to be launched. What SEO preparations should I make to avoid harming my SEO ranking? Because my page is blank, the image itself is displayed with CSS. Only the title is filled with information. There is no description nor keywords. Will it hurt my SEO ranking if Google or some other crawler would wander to my site?


How to see the domain list registered daily country or server wise?

Can someone tell me about listing of domains at daily basis with country name or any other specification like server name or any others ? I just wanted a majorly lists of domain which one daily registered and updated.


WordPress migration not showing images

I migrated my WordPress site from host to host, also to different domain, according to the guide at WPExplorer, however the images do not shown. I replaced the database records via "Search Replace DB Master" so the `old_domain.com` was set to `www.new_domain.com`. The images are still missing though (even in admin backend). If I right-click on the picture and copy its address, then put the address into browser search bar, the image works with no problems. So e.g. `www.new_domain.com/wp-content/uploads/XY.png` is the image on the web, it does not work. But if I enter this link into browser, the image does show up. Where could be the problem?


How to hide website's real address

I'm building a website for public use. It's a sharing website - everyone is allowed to download specific content, but I want to make sure nobody knows where all the files are kept, so I've decided to use URL Forwarding, e.g. when someone visits fakesite.com, it returns realsite.com without revealing/redirecting to realsite.com. I don't know how to make this work. Please help me by explaining how to use URL Forwarding.


Several images are displayed in one <img> tag that's changeable via JavaScript - is that OK for those images to be indexed by Google?

I have a page which should contain text and several images related to this text. I'd like to show only one image on the page and let the user change the image by clicking a "->" button (via JavaScript).   1. Will all of those images be indexed by Google (and others)?        2. How will Google decide which image to show to the user, as they all have the same position on the page, same text, description and other tags? Or could you suggest a better solution?


How to get a list of people who G+1 my website?

I want to add a G+1 button to my website with which I would like to gather feedback. For this to work I need to be notified each time someone G+1's and shares my website so that I can read the comment and see what other people are thinking about my page. Is there a way to get a list of +1 posts for a webpage?


Should I create a Separate Image XML Sitemap?

My websites currently have a sitemap XML file that use the rel="alternate" to indicate there is an alternate location to my content in another country and language. I am wondering what the best practice is. Should I create a separate Image sitemap XML file or simply add the image information ( etc.) to the current Sitemap XML file that uses rel="alternate". I ask because there are 10 different websites so I already see the XML file with lots of information because of the rel="alternate". Is there a best practice or is either way perfectly fine? Thanks in advance.


Is it necessary to create a DNS record for "website.com" when create one for "www.website.com"

When I create a DNS record for website "www.website.com", is it necessary to create a record for "website.com" first?


How Do Search Engines Rank Combined Keywords?

Suppose:   * A site that ranks very well (1st result) for something like 'best blue widget'.   * It also ranks very well (1st page) for 'blue widget'.   * It ranks not so well (2nd page) for 'widget'. Obviously, the number of monthly searches are much higher for 'widget' than for 'blue widget', which is still higher than for 'best blue widget'. Now the actual question: **When creating new external links, how does each of the following anchor texts affect SEO for of these searches?**   * widget   * blue widget   * best blue widget [HINT: The answer should be a 3x3 table] [NOTE: Assume the site is relevant for all these keyword combination]


I develop a project on GAE: how do I download the last deploy my colleagues made

I'm getting started with Google App Engine, and just got my first invite to a project that has already been started by someone else. How do I download the code to start editing it? (I do see the project in the `launcher` in red) If it has any importance, my permission is `Developer`


How does Google show a web page's recipe photo inline with the search results? How'd they do that?

On Google, if you search for "chana dal recipe," in the middle of the search results page you'll see one search result with an image of the meal, taken from the underlying web page. It's the only one. My Questions:   1. Did Google someone magically isolate the one image on the web page which summarized the recipe? or   2. Did the Webmaster/Page author somehow designate and promote that particular image so that Google would inline it in the search results?


Can I redirect Google bot to another domain with escaped_fragments?

I'm trying to make my Webapp SEO friendly. I read that I can redirect Google's bot to another URL with `escaped_fragments`. I'd like to use _Phantom.js_ to serve Google my pages. Unfortunately, I can't run Node with my hosting solution. Can I redirect Google bot to another domain? Will it hurt?


PECL extension in Ubuntu 11.10

while setting up mediawiki on my local development machine, the installer told me that since i do not have PECL extension to php installed, i will have to do with slower page load speeds with traditional php page loading. Does PECL really increase page load speeds? How do i install it on my Ubuntu LAMP server?


How do I stop Soft 404 errors from piling up for "No Results" page?

Recently, I noticed that I have a growing list of Soft 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools. They are all for dynamically generated search result pages that report "No matches found". I _do_ understand what Google means by _Soft 404_ and why they are reporting it for these pages. So I added `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` to these pages. However, Google is still reporting new _Soft 404_ errors for pages that are using the _noindex_ meta tag. Why does Google report **_any_** error for a page I told them not to index? The problem is that with all these unwanted errors, I can't see if there are any real problems that need to be fixed. Some have said that these pages should return a 404 status code. But that just shifts the problem over to the 404 errors tab. Besides, Google returns status code 200 for their _no results_ page. I don't want to block access with robots.txt because I want the links on these pages followed and I want Google to see the _noindex_ meta tag. Besides, there is no pattern that I could use to block these. Google found these URLs in the first place because the content used to exist, but has since been deleted. I can't return a 410 status code, because my PHP code has no way of knowing the reason why no results were found. Is there anything I can do to make it easier to see the real problems?


Does have a web address on your site affect SEO?

If I have               http://www.site.com      And               www.site.com      The second one is bad, but will the first one count as an out link?


Cascading matches in robots.txt

I was wondering if it's possible to let bots match two groups of `User-Agent:` blocks. I have this block of robots.txt               User-Agent: AhrefsBot   # https://ahrefs.com/robot/     Crawl-Delay: 5          User-agent: *     Disallow: /error.php     Disallow: /cron.php     ... and many more rules ...      Now, I wonder if AhrefsBot will now respect the crawl-delay and also respect the rules in `user-agent:*`? If not, then I'd have to duplicate everything under `user-agent:*` which would be quite unhandy.


What different email addresses should I use to test email coming out of my website?

I have recently noted a few clients complaining that emails from one of my sites always go into their spam folder. I don't know enough about email to start trying to work out even what level in my stack this is happening at - so first I want to collect as much information as possible and write up a test plan for emails coming out of my system. I was thinking about setting up accounts at the following places:   * gmail   * hotmail   * ymail   * same domain as the website   * custom domain on same server as website   * custom domain on another server Do you think this is a complete enough list?


Send additional product data to Google Analytics with Ecommerce tracking

Every GA Ecommerce transaction allows me to send just two variables, name and category, to describe each product. I want to send additional data to create more useful reports. For example, I have t-shirts, jeans, shoes... and I want to send the brand and size too.               _gaq.push(['_addItem',       'N. 87987',         // transaction ID       'TSATR5',         // SKU       't-shirt',      // product name       'men',          // category       'Adidas',        // A custom category       '25.99',        // price       '1'             // quantity     ]);      I know that the example above doesn't work because the _addItem() method does not accept extra parameters. I tought that custom variables could help me to solve this riddle but actually they couldn't. Is there a way to send this extra data to Google Analytics?


Create sprites automatically

I get the folder with the following structure from my designer*: > file.css > > images/ Is there any tool which can automatically create sprite from images folder and replace all images references from file.css to appropriate sprite section? *It is actually not a designer (the man who creates design in, for example, Photoshop) but the man who makes html+css from it. How is this profession correctly called in English?


SEO impact when using php include

I always make a footer and a header and include them in my php pages but I am not sure the impact of doing this for SEO. The header has only a main banner and the navigation menu, all the metatags including page description are unique to each page. So if I made just one header file and one footer file to php include on all pages , does it affect SEO?


Multisite permalinks for subfolder wordpress installation

I have WordPress installed in a subfolder of the main site: `http://www.example.com/blog/` Now I need to add second blog on `http://www.example.com/blog/second/` So 2 blogs should work on the following URLs:   1. `www.example.com/blog/`   2. `www.example.com/blog/second/` I configures WordPress and almost everything works fine, but I have a little issue with the main blog (`www.example.com/blog/`), the post URLs look like **/blog/blog/hello-world/** rather than **/blog/hello-world/**. Second blog URLs work properly. I tried to change permalink structure in site settings to /%postname%/, and all URLs look good after that, but all they cause 404 error. How can I get rid of double /blog mention in this case? Thanks in advance! wp-config settings:               /* Multisite */     define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );     define('MULTISITE', true);     define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);     define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.mysite.com');     define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/blog/');     define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);     define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);      htaccess:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteBase /blog/     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]          # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^ - [L]     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]     RewriteRule . index.php [L]


=~ (equal-sign tilde) and m" ... " in .htaccess directive

I saw this bit of code on an old forum post:               SSLRequire %{HTTP_HOST} =~ m"\.secure\.powweb\.com"      And I was just wondering what the `=~` and `m" ... "` meant. I've been searching online and in the Apache documentation for any mention of the _equal-sign tilde_ operator, but I've found no mention of it. I know that some directives can take a tilde to use a regular expression, but I've never seen the `m" ... "` form used before. What exactly is that `m" ... "` for? Where else would you see this form?


Best signature fonts

Are there any good realistic looking signature fonts you guys know of?


Terms and conditions for a simple website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  When does a website require a privacy policy and/or terms of use? I finished building a website for an online chess club which I am a member of. This is my first website. The site has blogging feature so the members can log in and write blog posts and comment on other posts. The membership is limited to users of an online chess site (freechess.org) and any member of that site can join this site as well. I was wondering, is it needed to put up a terms and conditions for my new website? If so, can I have a model of that? I searched and found some models but they are all for big sites that have e-commerce etc.


Website Form to deposit funds to your bank account

Is there a way to receive payments to your bank account from your website. I know PayPal is one option, and I know using a merchant account and gateway are another, but are there any other options?


Google Analytics: Multiple domain, One tracking ID, one email report

I created a new Tracking ID for 10 Drupal sites. However, why all 10 sites reports are the same in my Google Analytics? * * * **_update: added additional information_** Here are 10 sites info I got ** ### Drupal site 1: siteA.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-1**   ** ### Drupal site 1: siteB.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-2**   ** ### Drupal site 1: siteC.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-3**   . . . and so on         **PS: For each site, I added the** ## same 2nd tracking ID and code on Custom Javascript code in Google Analytics Module   code snippet(before):               _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);      Code snippet (after):               _gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-00000002-1”]);     _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);     _gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);         ### Also I added a Filter for each Google Analytics View on tracking ID UA-00000002-1. **on SiteA.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteA.com **on SiteB.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteB.com **on SiteC.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteC.com ... and so on


Swapped 2 accounts domains on WHM, now both no longer work

I have 2 accounts with websites on my VPS - one had an old website, the other I was developing a new website on. When I had finished the new website I simply went to 'Modify Accounts' and swapped the Domain Names fields of both accounts, so that the new account had the old accounts domain name and vice versa. Now neither site works - I just get the standard CPanel `defaultwebpage.cgi` place holder. Have I missed something? Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?


2nd Google Analytics account not working

I've created a site for a client and pasted Google Analytics script for both there account and mine. My account seems to track fine, but their account does not, even though both accounts have been verified by Web Master Tools. I've done this many times in the past but now notice GA's tracking code is slightly different. Is there a new way to add multiple GA accounts to one site? New Tracking code:               <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-12345678-5', 'mysite.com');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>


Backlink from page with low pagerank but site has high pagerank - effect from Google?

My understanding is that if I have too many backlinks from low PR (pagerank) sites, Google considers them to be low quality links and if you have too many, your site may even be de-indexed from Google: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how- to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings I've read that some people say backlinks from high PR pages can be helpful to your site. But what about a backlink from a high PR site with a low PR page? A lot of sites out there have higher PR, like Best of the Web directory. That is, the home page of Best of the Web has a PR of 6. But if you drill down to the specific page where a site is listed in the Best of the Web directory, the PR can be low (ie. PR of 0). Does Google look at the PR of the overall site rather than the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? Or does Google **ONLY** consider the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? If Google only considers the PR of the specific page, then it's not worth listing in a directory like Best of the Web because the actual page on Best of the Web that links to your site almost always has a low PR. In fact, listing on Best of the Web be harmful to your site because you're getting a backlink from a page with a low PR.


Make a domain point to another domain

I have never been able to figure out how to do this. I am working on a PHP script. With my script, each user will have access to their own site. For example, the URL for this would be `myscript.com/frontend/username` where this uses an htaccess file to generate their site based on the username in the URL. (hope this makes sense). Now I want to make it so that they can have their domain point to this. For example, lets say their domain name is `theirsite.com`. I want to make it so that, say if someone visits `theirsite.com/about` it really points to `myscript.com/frontend/username/about` More examples:   * `theirsite.com/about` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username/about`   * `theirsite.com/blog/post-12` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username/blog/post-12`   * `theirsite.com` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username` How do I do this?


Transferring maildir emails to another server

Is it safe to simply copy messages from one server and place them into the 'new' folder of an email account on another server without shutting down any of the mail servers? Both servers are Dovecot IMAP.


Using AJAX on homepage to handle feeds, bad for SEO?

I'm running multiple feeds of loops on my homepage much like youtube.com and I want to use AJAX to load them instead of tabbed content with jQuery. Since most of my traffic comes from posts I'd like to know how it impacts my site with Google with less crawlable links and excerpts. My question is this: How bad is it for my SEO to use AJAX to load the feeds on my homepage? Each feed contains links to new posts in different categories and I have 10 of them so loading them with jQuery Tabs adds load time but makes it all crawlable.


403 error with a 301 redirect in .htaccess

I wrote a rewrite rule for one of my pages. This rule is supposed to be for a specific single URL only hence the "static-ness".               RewriteRule ^picks/categorizedPicks/126$ search/?catalogue=11&module=20 [NC,L,R=301]      This rule is a permanent redirect with the `R=301` flag. The redirect works fine without the R=301 flag but gives a 403 error with it. Anyone knows what the problem is?


Best way to segment data in Google analytics?

I have a web site which has a number of distinct parts, there is a public marketing site, a members area and a admin section for staff, all three are part of the same website and currently the analytics are all merged. What I need to do is segment the data into three distinct sections, so I can see what is really going on. What is the best way to do this? three separate accounts? or would it be better to use a custom variable and tag the sections accordingly? or is there another way?


Cronjob doesn't seem to work in Parallels Plesk

I set up two cronjobs in Plesk using their interface, but they don't seem to work. What's wrong?               *   */1 *   *   *   curl --silent --compressed http://*****.com/assign_social_scores          */5 *   *   *   *   curl --silent --compressed http://*****.com/fetch_resources      They should be called the first every hour, the second every five minutes


How do I set up a cookie-less domain?

I've read that it's best to serve static content (css, javascript, etc.) from a cookie-less domain or subdomain for better performance. I assume a domain is not cookie-less by default. How do I specify that I don't want to use cookies?


How risky is putting sensitive files up on webroot?

I understand that having anything sensitive under webroot is not smart; someone may be able to access it via url. However, I do not have a choice with my web host (iPage) as they limit my server space to just the web root. So my question is: how risky is it to just have sensitive files in a directory in a webroot with just simple forbidden public access? Any insight on this topic would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: The 'sensitive files' are an installer for our startup's software and the php files that allow the download / control sql access.


How to remove adware pop up?

I get an ad pop up that should not be on the site. It has only appeared once. The HTML code for the pop up window that appeared:   * http://pastie.org/5674909 Here is the full HTML pastie:   * http://pastie.org/5674931 It is a rather new adware/malware software. I found other people having the same problem:   * http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/p,990200/sid,4b16e92c535d6716d6eaf04d6b6c8d78/   * http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49133& And last I found this forum where the Admin says it was a vulnarbility in the code:   * http://forum.cs-cart.com/topic/29635-malware-on-this-forum/page_st_20_p_152290#entry152290 But he does not mention which vulnerability.


Cannot access my website

I am not very sure where is the problem, but it is following: I have webhost http://dtech.id.lv which I cannot access from both of my home PC's nor via browser nor via FTP. It opens normaly if I use proxy or try to open this page on other then my home PC's Is there any suggestions/methods I can try to detects where is problem and whats blocking connection? I think problem appeared when I was messing with wordpress and .htaccess file which I deleted... (is there a way to reset webhosting without contacting anyone?) Thank you!


Title and path for periodic articles/analysis

Let say I have a weekly analysis of the market. This analysis only useful for that week. Although the content is different every week, the title and concept is the same. In order to have a better SEO which one is a better solution:   1. Add the time stamp to the title and URL of each file.   2. Choose a fix URL and title for this page and update the content every week. (Archive the older ones)   3. Or what? Also, I would be happy to know some SEO tips on this type of contents (periodically, with the same nature, but different content). Note, assume that the content is a bunch of charts, and we cannot select a unique title for each of them.


Is there a risk that custom URLs for Facebook and Google+ will compete with your own site?

Is there any downside to registering a Facebook page custom URL or Google Plus custom URL? My primary goal is to drive traffic to my site. Is there a risk of these social media custom URLs competing with my own domain's website and cannibalizing my own traffic? Specifically, I'm imagining the scenario where my Google Plus / Facebook page are ranked higher than my own domain in SERPs:               plus.google.com/+Example     facebook.com/Example     www.example.com      I mean Facebook and Google want traffic so they can sell ads and I want the same thing. I plan on having social media pages, but wondering if it's better to not get the custom URL. Or do the benefits outweigh the risks?


How can I get a free UK IP address?

I live in Germany, work for a real estate broker. I would like to list some of our properties on Gumtree.co.uk, however they don't allow submissions from outside of UK - they are automatically blocked because of non-UK IP address. Is there a way to do this without paying? If not, what paid service would you recommend?


Is my PageRank improved when someone else uses my images?

Let's say person A have a website named `www.asite.com`, and an image in `www.asite.com/images/example.jpg`. Now, someone else (person B) uses this image in his/her website with `<img src="www.asite.com/images/example.jpg"></img>` code. Question is, will A's PageRank improve?


Setting up Google Analytics filter to exclude any spam IP which hits wp-login.php

I'm launching a new website, not hosted on WordPress, but the majority of the (thin) traffic is junk like this:               46.165.211.194 "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 404 8012 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /static/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 404 162 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /recycle/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 200 29695 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /junkmail/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 200 80409 "-" "-"     199.19.122.114 "GET /administrator/index.php HTTP/1.0" 404 8051 "-" "-"      I'd like to find an automatic way to exclude any IP address that has hit a honeypot (like `wp-login.php`) in the last week. What would a GA filter for this look like, is it possible? Is there a good tool at the Apache level for this kind of sudden death honeypot? The spam traffic is the majority of traffic to the site, which makes log analysis a pain.


Why a page that works returns a 500 error?

I have this url that seems to work fine but it returns a 500 error. http://comehike.com/outdoors/hike_widget.php?hike_id=164&height=700&width=500 Any idea why that is possibly happening? I have like 10k such errors in my google webmaster tools :(


Retrieve static webpage on client cache from dynamic content

I was developing a website on a certain web host and they lost everything. They told me their disks crashed and even the backup are unretrievable. I am mad. As I was often accessing my website through my personal browser, is there any way I can get the static webpages from my cache? I managed to find the css, pictures and js files from my local cache, but I would really want to also get back all the texts (content) that I've written. The webpages were generated dynamically (php) from a database (mysql) so I found no html files containing the text for each of my pages. Is there a way I can get these texts or any trace of html source for my webpages..? Thanks in advance


Is logging personally identifiable information a bad practice or violation of law?

I know we all do semi-anonymous logging (server logs, Google Analytics, etc.). However, on one of our external web applications, we have some non- reproducible errors that the external users report occasionally. I chalk most of them up to a PEBKAC errors, but I always investigate the problem to see if I have the same problem. While talking to the internal user that manages it, she mentioned that it is too bad that we can't figure out what browser the person is using without having to call them. I told her that actually we can, but normally it is anonymous data that isn't directly linked to a user. I am curious, is this practice frowned upon? Actually tracking what browser an identified user is using to fill out our forms and log that information with their data. Nothing more than what is logged normally, just linked to a user. Thoughts? **Updated** : I thought I could get by without more details about the application and why. This is for a job application... application. I am trying to track down some "bugs". We hate to always call the user back and ask what browser they were using and how they got the error. If I link their browser information to their name as they fill out the form it removes one piece of the puzzle and I may be able to track down some of the browser-based errors. The real question is if this is against best practices and/or the law.


Google analytics new version has no summary?

I'm trying to understand this new version of Google analytics and I'm really puzzled. One of biggest assets (to me at least) was that I was able to see with a glance how my sites are doing. In the old version, this was easy as cake, but with new version, I'm stumped - how could they replace something so useful with ... NOTHING??? When I logged into old version I got this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zTgNR.png) And on new version I get this, which is nothing... ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jK57W.png) Is there any reasoning behind this or is it just a fluke? If this new version becomes only version, I'll be forced to find my analytics happiness somewhere else ...


Using scripts to visit site and leave immediately to lower Page Rank of competitors?

Using Google Analytics, in the past week we've noticed an extremely high percentage of people visiting our pages and leaving after less than one second. In some cases they are leaving after zero seconds... Anyone versed in today's SEO knows that Google track's the "time on site" statistic and uses that to help determine their rankings in search. What we think is happening is that a competitor might be doing this intentionally. Setting up CURL scripts or something to continuously visit a site and leave immediately, thus hopefully lowering our search rankings eventually. Perhaps they are doing it from multiple IP addresses, we can't tell using Google Analytics (or can we?). Has anyone heard of this type of behavior? Is there a specific name for it? How do you combat it? We've been considering tracking the time-on-site using `window.load` and `window.unload` and then recording the visited time along with the IP address in order to determine the IP addresses that are causing the problems. Any clues?


mod_rewrite to edit cookies conditionally

Is it possible to use mod_rewrite to modify values in cookies based upon a condition? I am completely new to HTTP, but I have tried a thing or two. The only regex I know is Perl-style, I hope it is okay.               RewriteRule s/.[0-9][0-9][0-9]/COOKIE=MSFNODE/g;        1. `MSFNODE` is a value in my cookie.    2. The thing I want to run my regex on is `SESSIONID` (also in my cookie). I'm not sure how to choose that as a target.    3. As the regex shows, I want to replace `.[0-9][0-9][0-9]` with my cookie value called `MSFNODE`, _but only if`MSFNODE` exists!_ Is `COOKIE=MSFNODE` the right way to do this? Also, I only want this to happen if `MSFNODE` exists — as it is now, will it just pass on through and not follow the rewrite rule if `MSFNODE` doesn't exist? I feel like even my most basic regex is flawed here.


LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?

Trying out LaunchRock, and ran across this: general-instructions-for-creating-your-cname-record Basically as far as I'm able to tell they only support using your sub-domain as the URL, not having the "launch page" at "subdomain-by-you.launchrock.com". Guessing the guide to changing the subdomain and CNAME means you create a subdomain and then while the user sees "signup.yoursite.com" the DNS call is really going to LaunchRocks servers and being routed to the custom page you set up with them, though that's just a guess on my part.


De-indexing pages and checking with Google's site: command

I am trying to de-index a certain url from google, but for some reason it just isn't working. I added this snippet:               <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"/>      To this page: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/parks/edit_park_topic.php?park_id=55621&topic_id=1&topic_name=General%20Information&park_name=Kings%20Canyon%20National%20Park And generally the page edit_park_topic.php which you can view source and see the no-index snippet. For some reason it isn't de-indexing those pages because if you search this in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors/parks/edit_park_topic.php - it will show almost 200,000 results. And it is actually adding pages since before it was less than that. Is the site: directive showing only the indexed pages or all of them? How can I get those pages de-indexed? Also, for the panda update, do you think having the 200k pages with that form will be damaging? I already got hit by panda for having other violations which I resolved, but my traffic had not come back, and I just discovered recently this form of which there are 200k urls. Thanks!


Does the "canonical name" in DNS make any difference to search engines?

Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent. Which is the best way?


404 working only with wrong extension

My 404 .htaccess works very well when I put a wrong extension at it in place of .php. Unfortunately the 404 does not work when I put a wrong name with .php. This is my .htaccess code:               <Files ~ "^.(htaccess|htpasswd)$">     deny from all     </Files>     Options -Indexes     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301]          ErrorDocument 404 /404/notfound.html     order deny,allow


Having trouble redirecting old product sites and categories to new pages

I recently upgraded a shopsystem to prestashop and imported the previous products (~1200), and I managed to keep the old `category_id` and `product_id`. I'm trying to set up those 2 rules to redirect all my old incoming links to the new page, however for some reason they always end up on the 404 page instead. So my old link was               detail.php?artikel_id=123      and now this product became               product.php?id_product=123      here is my .htaccess:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     # URL rewriting module activation     RewriteEngine on          # URL rewriting rules     RewriteRule ^api/?(.*)$ /prestashop/webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]          RewriteRule ^/prestashop/index\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/category.php?id_category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/index\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/category.php?id_category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/prestashop/detail\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/product.php?id_product=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/detail\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/product.php?id_product=$1 [L]          </IfModule>          # Catch 404 errors     ErrorDocument 404 /prestashop/404.php      Note that this is my test installation at my laptop, and the new shop is currently set up under `"http://localhost/prestashop/"`. I tried it with and without the `/prestashop/` in the rules, no effect. My .htaccess is in `http://localhost/prestashop/.htaccess`. Any idea of what I do wrong here? Did I escape it correct? How can I find out where it actually tries to redirect to me before i get the 404?


Combine websites without hurting SEO

I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. There's service A and B, based on the west side of our state; and service A and B based on the east side. Each has their own website (eg, eastservicea.com, westservicea.com). The previous web designer maintained completely separate and unique content, and unique designs, for all four sites. He is now wanting to merge all that together into a single site (statewideservica.com) with a new design. Right now all four sites are at the top of the searches for his niche market. The last thing we want to do is hurt that SEO. So the debate how do we merge these sites without hurting the SEO.   1. Keep the existing URL's and just make the content of all the same.   2. Redirect all the sites to the new URL.   3. Set a static page on all the existing URLs with content, but all links point to the new URL. Any thoughts?


Is there any way to improve the speed of Google Adsense/Analytics?

Whenever I run Google Page Speed or YSlow, many of the optimisations suggested stem from my use of Google Adsense and Google Analytics. For example, YSlow says there are "9 external Javascript scripts" - I only have one on my site, so the rest are obviously from either adsense or analytics. Also under "Reduce DNS lookups", these domains are listed: > pagead2.googlesyndication.com   >  googleads.g.doubleclick.net   >  www.google-analytics.com   >  altfarm.mediaplex.com   >  img-cdn.mediaplex.com   >  eu.bid.invitemedia.com   >  ad.doubleclick.net s0.2mdn.net   >  pixel.invitemedia.com adadvisor.net Is there anything I can do to reduce these or make other improvements to the speed?


In Adwords is it possible show ads during particular times for multiple time zones

Is it possible to have a campaign covering lots of countries / lots of different time zones, and to have ads showing only during particular times of day as per those time zones -- for example between 9a and 5p for each time zone?


Obtaining visitor stats without traffic monitoring software

A client would like me to obtain visitor stats for his website, but does not have any traffic monitoring software installed. So I'm wondering if it's even possible. The site is hosted on Heroku, so I might be able to trawl through the logfiles and pull out unique IP addresses, but I was just wondering if there's some other way.


robots "INDEX,FOLLOW" vs "ALL" is there any difference?

Hey folks, Is there _any_ if so, _what_ is the difference between these two? In order to allow everything a search engines wishes for `<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">` `<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="all"`


Mediawiki: Page is in category without linking in code

Normally pages are assigned to categories if they have a link like `[[Category:example]]` but recently I noticed that we have a new category which is not listed on any pages that are in this category. So:   * Category site `example` (contains multiple pages)   * looking at the code of one page -> no lik to this category How is it possible to remove the page from the category if no link to the category exists in the source code?


Do all search engines obey nofollow rel attribute on hyperlinks

I have been informed that search engine support is inconsistent for the rel attribute with the 'nofollow' value. Is this the case. From my research Google, Yahoo and Bing seem to obey this attribute and will NOT follow links with it present. I need to be sure before questioning the integrity of the SEO team :)


Effective combatting of 100's of spam links in Google Results

I have recently been the victim of this **hacking exploit** (blog post is for reference only and is _not_ my site. I'm in the process of following it and cleaning up after the attack). Note the exploit at the top of my `.htaccess` file;               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule myq-(.*).htm$ wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/img/style.css.php [L]     </IfModule>          Options +FollowSymLinks     IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>          <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          # BEGIN WordPress     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     # END WordPress     </IfModule>      So the exploit has had the effect of producing **hundreds of spam links** in Google, but under my domain name. Some examples;               ...          Printable coloring pages of a caterpillar mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-zjjcq.htm          Coloured lettering cut out mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-viki-60693.htm          Printable leopard coloring page mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-96.htm          Printable oedipus rex mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-ei9vd.htm          ...      What is the most effective way to combat these links by using Google Webmaster Tools and `.htaccess` to get rid of them from the Google results. Is it best to serve a 404? How can I achieve this using the `.htaccess` file? The site is hosted is on a shared server. I only have access to a limited cPanel and FTP for any form of site configuration. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Letting search engines know that different links to identical pages stress different parts of the page

When you follow a permalink to a chat message in the Stack Exchange chat, you get a view of the transcript page for the day that contains the particular message. This message is highlighted in yellow, and the page is scrolled to its position. Sometimes - admittedly rarely, but it happens - a web search will result in such a transcript link. Here's a (constructed, obviously) example: A Google search for > strange behavior of the \bibliography command site:chat.stackexchange.com gives me a link to this chat message. This message is obiously unrelated to my query, but the transcript page does indeed contain my search terms - just in a totally different spot. Both the above links lead to the same content, and Google knows this, since both pages have               <link rel="canonical" href="/transcript/41/2012/4/9/0-24" />      in their `<head>`. The only difference between the two links is _Which message has the`highlight` css class?_. Is there a way to let Google know that while all three links have the same content, they put an emphasis on a different _part_ of the content? Note that the permalinks on the transcript page already have a `#12345` hash to "point" to the relavant chat message, but Google appears to drop it.


GoDaddy 4GH Hosting Experiences?

I've just come across GoDaddy's 4GH Hosting. It's incredibly cheap and the sales blurb makes it sound amazing. Anyone tried it out yet (particularly for ASP.NET / MS SQL Server sites)? I'd love to hear your experiences.


How to force browsers/ISPs to look for my new DNS?

I have changed the DNS for my domain. what code (or header) should I use in my old server to tell the visitor's browser or ISP that it should check for my new DNS and the current content is old? is the temp redirecting to a subdomain should help? or you know a better way?


I have built a new site(finished last week, but no SEO, no clients). I know apply for ads need a long time. So I send my request to google adsense, and then do the `SEO`, send my site to web search. but yesterday I received an e-mail: `Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense at this time.` what is the preparation of before apply for ads? Am I ignore something must do before apply for ads? And how to apply `Google doubleclicks`? Or other ads service? I am newer for apply for ads. can anyone recommend me some good ads service? Thanks.


URL for website with multiple currencies

It seems that most of the websites which handle currencies keep track of the current currency throughout the user browser session and not through the URL itself. This way, when sharing the URL with friends, the content might not be the same since the browser session will be different. What do you think is the best practice to handle the URL of a website with multiple currencies? A different currency denotes different content hence my opinion is that it should be embedded within the URL itself, similarly to how one would embed the current language parameter within the URL or sub domain. What would you think is the best option?   * Querystring parameter appended to each page, e.g. `/en/my-page/?currency=USD`   * URL folder, e.g. `/en/USD/my-pages/` Anything else?


How can the Google Plus one Button aid in SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will Google's New +1 Count For SEO I have setup the Google Plus One button on my website. I would like to know how it could affect the SEO of my pages. I heard that only on our friends' and contacts' computers, the results are improving. Or does it globally improve the rankings. I'm concerned about it because the JavaScript (yes the newest one) of the button slows down the site.If it is useful for global SEO only, I want to continue using it. Please advise.


Extension to add button "Report to Bugzilla"?

We have:   * internal MediaWiki installation for internal documents (we don't use it in completely wiki-like style--only maintainers should normally make changes)   * internal Bugzilla installation for internal issues including these internal documents on the MediaWiki site Now only the icing on the cake is missing: an automatic button that would appear on each page, being able to   * open a Bugzilla page   * pre-fill some fields with information about that page Basically, name What I imagine as a best solution would be a sibling to the ubiquitous "[edit]" button, probably sitting next to it, like in this mock-up: ![Mock-up of a Bugzilla "report" button](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XikaX.png)


Finding out what features of regular expressions are supported by mod_rewrite in Apache 1.3?

Is there a particular regular expression engine that is used by mod_rewrite on Apache 1.3? I want to know so I can get a list of supported and non-supported features.


Google Adsense threshold estimation

I've an electronic music blog with traffic mainly from the North American continent, Western Europe and Russia. Daily I get about 100 unique visitors with 150-200 pageviews. Should I start Adsense or I need to work to increase the traffic stats. Can you suggest another appropriate monetizing option for the given case? How much time It would take me to hit the 100$ Adsense barrier with the given traffic statistics?


How do I add the copyright symbol to my webpage?


Preventing high bandwidth usage from Yandex

Although I put a row for Yandex into my robots.txt file, sometimes Yandex indexes my website aggressively. So I hard coded a part and check for user agent, and serve cached file if user agent is like this: `"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)"` But when I check statcounter logs I recently saw that other Yandex related bots frequently crawl my site. They are similar to following. I took this info from my cPanel log:               Beeline (128.69.243.12)     Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.2)     Referer: http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213          Beeline (89.178.108.247)     Referer: http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213     Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)      How can I block or serve cached pages these bots? When I check for `$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']` I can't see "`yandex.ru`" in referrer. Referrer comes empty. Is it possible to find out referrer in cPanel log, but can't take it from `HTTP_USER_AGENT` ?? And I also I don't want to ban IPs because there exist too many IPs related with this issue and they are changed periodically. So how can I find out this bot? Does anybody has similar issue? Thank you


List of websites/domain name that's registered daily

I want to know if there is a website that can provide me a list of domain names that is registered on a certain date. For example today or last week thursday? Does that website which can provide me such info exist? I really appreciate it if you can point out that web URL to me. Google is pointing me to different and irrelevant websites. I saw the whois but it don't display a list. Any help?


How do I handle having too many links on a webpage because of my menu

I am developing a website that has a drop-down menu at the top of it. The Menu has around 100 links in it that are repeated on every page. Every page also has some number of links below the Menu that may or may not be in the menu itself. My issue is that Google says they generally don't like pages with more than 100 links on them. Is there any way to change the links on the menu so that they no longer "count" towards my max of 100 links? It seems like there should be an easy way to do this but their really doesn't seem to be. the rel=nofollow still counts towards the number of links on the page at least according to Google, so what other options do I have? I looked into where the 100 comes from and I found that it used to be here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#2 but that is no longer the case. I found a more definitive and frankly muddier answer here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam- guru from Matt Cutts from 2007. Long story short, in 2007 they still felt 100 links was a good number but they stated you could go far beyond that. In fact, they said that pages with high PageRank could have 2-300. It did sound like having many links could reduce the PageRank of the page with all of the links or possibly all of the items linked to. Also, I know IIS7's SEO 1.0 toolkit suggests that pages should have no more than 250 links.


Safe directory for cron job PHP scripts

I have a website which I run a PHP script for updating its Database. What is considered to be an acceptable location on the server to store such scripts? Obviously only the root (running a cronjob to start the script) should have access to it. Thanks, Joel


Why doesn't FireFox cache my JavaScript file?

I've been trying to figure out why Firefox does not cache my JavaScript file. I don't have this issue with Chrome or IE. Here is what my server's Response Header looks like:               http://localhost:5012/bundles/scripts/jquery?v=FVs3ACwOLIVInrAl5sdzR2jrCDmVOWFbZMY6g6Q0ulE1     Cache-Control   public, max-age=2592000     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Length  42173     Content-Type    text/javascript; charset=utf-8     Date    Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:28 GMT     Expires Sat, 23 May 2015 14:33:22 GMT     Last-Modified   Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:22 GMT     Server  Microsoft-IIS/7.5     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-AspNet-Version    4.0.30319     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET     fod_vary_store  User-Agent      Please note:   1. There is no file extension. I use MS ASP.NET Optimization Framework to Bundle and minify my scripts.    2. My Firefox is 29.0.1. I have "Remember History" enabled. My question is a semi-duplicate of another question I found here: Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS (without an accepted answer). It hinted to older versions of FireFox not caching any resources with query strings. However some of the users answered that the issue had been fixed in newer versions.


Concerns regarding registering a domain name with a home address

If I purchase a domain, I'm usually required to enter an address. Usually, the address can be accessed publicly by any sort of WHOIS lookup. I'm uncomfortable publishing my real home address; what do people usually do? Lie? Purchase a P.O box?


Should I have both example.com and www.example.com?

I used to have a website which could be addressed by both `example.com` and `www.example.com` leading to the same page. Now, I moved to another server and only the `example.com` works. I got an email from Googlebot complaining that it cannot access `www.example.com`. I know I can make `www.example.com` point to `example.com`, but do I really need it? Why not have only `example.com`?


How can I keep track of changes to my website over time?

Sometimes the boss wants to know who changed something on the website or changes their mind several times on where a button should go, what color something is, or whether or not a page should show up at all. Is there a simple way for a small 2-3 person web team to keep track of these constant changes?


How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?

I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this task? Would using their API help? If so, how would I go about collecting this data (Company Page Name, URL, location)? Thank you.


How do I validate IP Address ownership for authentication?

I have a website where digital content is behind a paywall. We verify users have access by IP address. Our customers are all large companies, with static IP addresses. So, if a user is within the network of their company, then they automatically have access to our site. The problem is, we have no way of validating that the companies actually own every address on the list of addresses they give us. Anyone have any ideas of how we verify that the companies actually own the IP addresses they are giving us.


Google Translate data tracked with gaTrack is not showing up in Google Analytics?

I have a google translate widget on my website with `gaTrack` set to true and the correct `gaId`, but no translate events show up in analytics under content > Events > Overview after a week of the widget being live. The code snippet below was auto generated by the translate website, and works fine on the site. Any ideas why I'm not getting any translate events data?


Do iframes have access to the cookies of the hosting domain?

We want to build an ad-frame which will run on external sites (e.g. YYY.com). The external site will place an iframe to our site (ZZZ.com/ourAdContent.html) and we will show some ads in this frame. The question is, will our iframe have access to the cookies belonging to our domain even when the _iframe_ is on a separate domain?


Redirect multiple files using .htaccess

I have a lot of files with a lot of sub directories which I moved one folder up, so, say, instead of `example.com/cdn/folder/folder/file.html`, it now looks like this `example.com/folder/folder/file.html`. My problem lies in SEO, I have a lot of back links which point to files which used to be in the old directory structure, and everyone who tries to access these files via those links will get a 404. Now, I know that I can resolve the problem by adding a simple line of code in _.htaccess_ , so I have read quite a number of tutorials on the Internet which explain how to redirect files from one place to another using wildcards and `RedirectMatch` techniques. I have found a site which explains how to do it, but I can't seem to get it working. I don't know what my problem is. This is what I have come up with so far: `RedirectMatch 301 /cdn/folder/folder/(.*)/(.*) http://example.com/folder/folder/$1/$2` This, however, does not do what I want it to do. Say, if someone accesses a file via `example.com/cdn/folder/folder/file.html`, they will get a 404. The code above does not resolve the problem. But, it does what I want it to do only for `example.com/cdn/folder`. Someone trying to access the subdirectory of `/cdn` will be redirected to `/folder`. Please point me in the right direction.


Using other's contents in your website

How can I use someone other's article/post on my own website? What is the legal way of doing this? Usually what I do is that I mention the **source** from where I got that post. Is there any other way? What ways do you follow to prevent yourself from copyright issues? Can I just use their content and not mention their name? Can I use a hidden HTML link of the source?


How can I redirect old WordPress URL (with a query string) to new URL using .htaccess?

I transferred my WordPress site to static HTML website, but some other website have a link to my old WordPress site `mysite.com/?page_id=1103`. I want to redirect all traffic to new URL which is `mysite.com/mypage.html`, but my redirect in _.htaccess_ file doesn't work. Maybe someone can help me with the line of code in _.htaccess_ file. I tried following but it didn't work:               Redirect 301 /?page_id=1103 http://mysite.com/mypage.html


Can I use <link> tags in the body of an HTML document?

Can I use `<link>` tags in the body of an HTML page? I tried to find the answer to this question, but found contradictory information. When adding Schema.org microdata markup to an HTML page, I want to add canonical info in a link tag like this:
       The Catcher in the Rye—       <link itemprop="url" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye" />       by J.D. Salinger
      I got the example code above from Schema.org. According to them, this is the way to go for people that want to add a canonical reference to an itemprop, but don't want to place a hyperlink on their website. W3 however clearly states that `<link>` tags should only be placed within the head section, thus making the Schema.org example invalid. If I want to stick to correct markup, which advice should I follow?


Should I log the price when an item is added to a cart?

Imagine the scenario, someone adds an item to a cart and then proceeds to check out. On the very rare occasion that the price in the DB is updated before they have reached the end of their checkout process, what should happen? I see it happening one of two ways:   1. At some point (probably on the confirm order page) they will notice the price has changed. I would save the price around this stage because I would also save an order to the DB (status- Pending). This is slightly undesirable as it may cause confusion to the customer why their order is more than they expected.   2. When they add the item to the cart I actually save the price then so that if they continue without ever removing it from the cart they will get it at the price listed for. The problem I see here is if there was a sale or something similar then the item in the cart could be left at a cheaper price for a long time (I'm happy for items to sit in the cart for a while as it means they may one day be bought). Any suggestions/real world examples?


Dynamic remarketing AdWords

Dynamic remarketing have this note: > Dynamic remarketing requires a Google Merchant Center account. Google > Merchant Center is available in these countries: Australia, Austria, > Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, > India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, > Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. Is some way to use Dynamic remarketing for other country, like Lithuania?


Interpret data from Google Analytics (queries)

I have this data in my Google Analytics > acquisition > search engine optimization > queries: ![picture for my query](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KTJgP.jpg) I don't really understand how to interpret it.   1. What does it mean the writing under the big numbers? For example at Clicks it is written 251 and under it smaller it is written % of Total: 125% (200)    2. Average position it is shown 64 for keywords "erasmus plus" but when I search from a computer that I did not use before and without an account to see my position in Google for "erasmus plus" keywords I am on the first page. How is it possible?


How to get less visits to my website?

I've read that a huge percentage of traffic comes from bots - legit bots like search engine spiders and illegitimate bots like spammers and ones looking for vulnerabilities. I'm about to launch my website. The problem is that I am about to sign a copyright license for some of the content on the website, and the contract says that I have to pay a certain sum of money depending on how many visits the site gets (per month). The more visits, the more it will cost. So I have an incentive in limiting traffic to only legitimate hits by blocking the crap. I don't want the website to get popular, so maybe I don't want the search engines to do too much indexing either. What should I be looking into?


301 redirects. What's best way to get list of all my URL's to start the process of redirecting?

New Magento version of a site about to launch. What the best way to create a list of URLs on my site that ensures I haven't missed any - so I can do redirects on them? nd do I want to redirect all links that are indexed, or is there a reason not to do some? Thanks a lot for any guidance. For some reason the eComm/site admin guy here doesn't know the answer to this question.


Cannot access my own web page

I am developing, learning and experimenting with php,html,javascript,flash and so on. Having web hosting and all of the cpanel, phpmyadmin and other utilities. One day, while updating information, connection between my computer and website just went down. I found out that it is only from this computer, where I cannot access anything. I don't know what is the reason I cannot access website, however this is what I have checked so far:   * Everything else opens normally, having problem only with my page.   * Cannot access FTP,cpanel or any kind of information related to the domain and hosting   * ipconfigs detects IP, but shows request timed out (so its not browser related)   * Turned off Firewall,AV, Rebooted computer   * Cleared caches,temp,cookies,histry with CCleaner   * Checked connectivity with both (wired,wireless) networks   * ISP has dynamic IP that has been changed about 3 times since issue   * Checked host file I am out of ideas and understanding what could cause this kind of issue, however couple minutes ago, found out that everything works with proxy server (when adding IP and port to the browsers) Can someone point out what should I check or try to get rid of this problem? Also tried:   * ipconfig /flushdns   * removed all of the files from system32/drivers/etc Havent found solution yet, but I am very curious of what is causing this...


Cannot log in to phpMyAdmin with users account: Get root override message

I am trying to access phpMyAdmin but I get: `"You are logged in with the root, or reseller's password"` message, even though I am logged in using the users account (not my root account). I have tried clearing the cache and using another browser to no affect. Does anyone know a way round this?


Slow DNS lookup on my site?

I'm testing the loading speeds of my website. I've just done a test using Pingdom but it returns some strange (at least to me) results: ![](http://responsible-disclosure.com/img/pingdom-results.png) By the looks of it getting the DNS info takes the most time. Is this normal? Is there something I can do to speed this up?


How do I find where my website ranks in Google for a keyword or group of keywords?

I'd just like to know, if for a keyword, or a sentence, my website is in the search pages, and if so, where? Is there a way to do this?


WHY my domain points back to previous IP after 1 day

2 days ago, I applied a domain gtscomputers.com.au, and then changed the nameserver to the one from my hosting, and change all "A Record" to the IP 27.131.74.13. Yesterday, I applied another IP address 27.131.74.36 and changed all "A Records" to the new IP, this morning the domain has been pointed to the new IP. However, when I tried to access the website tonight, it has been point back to the previous IP address 27.131.74.13. I'm using 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) on my PC, and after I change to ISP's DNS, the website is pointed to the new IP which is correct, because this DNS has not been updated yet. Can anyone tell me what's going on? I have checked all DSN settings.


Why does the Bing bot request this URL?

While checking server logs, I have seen that often the Bing bot requests this URL. **URL:** /da-net/products/cadpac/cadpac_jis.shtml **Browser:** Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Can anyone explain this?


How does Google put the "shine" on the "block all foo.com results" link that appears?

To repro:   1. Go to google and do a search (for example, follow this link to search for Jeff Atwood)   2. Follow the first result.   3. Hit back in Chrome.   4. Observe that the text that appears that says "Block all codinghorror.com results" has a "shine" affect that occurs to draw your eye to it. This happens on all sites I follow a link from while logged in to Google using Chrome. How is this achieved? I've recorded it here. The HTML from the relevant section:               <img src="/images/experiments/shimmer_mask.png" style="position: absolute;       top: 64px; z-index: 500; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px;       border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none;       border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;       border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; left: 228px; ">


Is it possible to block an entire site to Google then list exceptions?

I usually disallow subdirectories in the robots.txt file and I was wondering if it's possible to do it the other way: block everything and list the main index file and the others pages I'd like search engines to index. Is that possible? My current robots.txt is as follows:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: yea.html     Allow: /


what are benefits of URL rewriting?

URL rewriting has become quite popular, but I think it only adds more complexity to the Web. Old fashioned URL's are often called "dirty URLs", so I'll use that term. It is argued that with rewriting it makes the URL more "discoverable" but how is it more discoverable with this URL               www.magic.com/date/2010/02/02       than this URL?               www.magic.com/date=2010-02-02      I believe people would discover more with the old fashioned URL than the rewrite URL. With the good old fashioned URL, using ampersands and equal signs, you are actually telling the search engines how they relate to each other. With slashes you can't. They don't know that `/2010/02/02` is actually a date or how the numbers relate to the `/date/`. It merely assumes that it's a different directory with different data. With `date=2010-02-02` I believe it'll allow search engines to figure out how they relate to each other. Dirty URLs can easily be shortened with URL shortener services, but everyone copies a URL and pastes it; they don't write it. It's much simpler if they write down a dirty URL that's well laid out. A URL like `goo.gl/8aPtuI` seems more cognitively difficult than `generic.com/awesome`. I read an argument that search engines stop at URLs that look dynamically generated, but I am skeptical. Virtually all websites are dynamically created, so why would they stop there? I'd also think that dirty URL's can be meta-rich if you do it right.               www.generic.com/rate=5&name=Allen&sex=m       and it's much easier for engines to see how they are related than doing this,               www.generic/com/rate/5/name/Allen/sex/m.       What are the real advantages?


Tool to check resource load order

Is there a tool I can show clients that will take a page's HTML and show:   a) the order in which external resources will load,   b) which resources are blocked on other resources being downloaded? For example: JavaScript in the head blocks any images from loading further down the page and browsers can only load 6 resources at a time from a given domain/subdomain.


Possible to drop the original query parameters entirely in a rewritten URL?

Original URL looks something like `domain.com/filename.php?id1=333&id2=444`. Desired rewritten URL is something like `domain.com/my-rewritten-url`. I can imagine creating a lookup table with columns for the ids and a column for the rewrite string, but is this realistic/practical?


Google Analytics Campaigns Not Tracking E-Commerce

I am running email campaigns via MailChimp and tracking the success of my campaigns via Google Analytics. I can successfully see data being tracked for:               Reporting > Conversions > Ecommerce (Receiving Data)     Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns (Receiving Data)      However, I am not receiving any Ecommerce data for the individual campaigns: `Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns > Ecommerce (No data)` So I see data like: `Visits: 18,501` `Revenue: $0.00` Everything I have read leads me to believe this should just `"work"` if Ecommerce is setup. Is there some additional action I need to take for this work? Any help would be appreciated!


Disadvantage of creating tracking source

Is there disadvantages of creating your own link tracking source (Example: ?src=publication ) instead of using Google's utm_source? Two things that I see that it's an advantage using my own tracking code are: A little bit cleaner in the URL I can easily filter the content by "?src="


How to properly use related search links on sites without taking a negative SEO hit?

On a search results page, I want to show related search links. These links are generated by user searches, that aren't already part of the site's regular links. This, in effect was to increase the number of links on the site. I had created a small widget that showed ten related search links. The site took a negative hit, and I'm guessing this was because on each page, ten new links would appear, and essentially creating thousands of new pages. I want to be able to dynamically add some user-generated searches to the site without taking an SEO hit. Obviously I can no-follow those links, but that then defeats the purpose. What's the best way to go about this?


MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Postgree, CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra or SQLite?

Who database engine is better, in performance and usability?


How to test robots.txt in googlebot to find out what is being indexed

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Should a mobile-only site use robots.txt?

I have a mobile site that is distinct from the corresponding desktop site. The sites share the same content, but the mobile site files are in a completely different directory. The main site had a robots.txt file, but I'm wondering if I need one for the mobile site too. Anyone have any thoughts?


Fake domain and hosted email addresses issue?

Many email addresses for domain `rustamtowel.com` have been compromised. My client forwarded me an old email which he sent me few days ago but I haven't received that email. That email was sent to `cs@rustamt0wel.com` instead of `cs@rustamtowel.com` (`0` zero instead of `O`). Then I came to know that another domain has been register just like my domain name. Someone also quote my client with wrong prices from wrong email address `ceo@rustamt0wel.com`. How can I check that who is involved and be safe for future. Who can be responsible?   1. My domain registration guy   2. My web hosting company   3. Someone from my own office