Google indexed site's address by accident. What do I do now?

I was making a site for a friend of mine and he wanted to be able to see my progress as I worked on the site, so I decided to put the site on a server on my computer and enable access by a domain name registered to me. It turns out that I forgot to set up a `robots.txt` file for the site and somehow Google indexed the site. My question is: What do I do now? As I understand it, Google doesn't like duplicate content and my friend could have problems when I upload the new site to his server. Right now his current site, which only has a work in progress page, is first on Google when searching for relevant keywords and I really really don't want to damage that. Is there anything else I need to be concerned about?


Should I use nodindex, follow or rel canonical?

I have a site that lists offers, promotions from other websites. Since the offers expire rather quickly I don't save them into my database. I see no point in having a page from 2010 about 30% discount on a certain brand of shoes which isn't availabe anymore.   1. A visitor enters my website;   2. He clicks on the "shoes" category: `http://www.mysite.com/shoes/` Here he sees 20 available promotions from different online stores.   1. He clicks on a promotion and gets to a page like this: `http://www.mysite.com/shoes/promotions/prada` Questions: I use the template promotions.php and list all the promotions. /promotions/prada/ /promotions/otherbrand/ .... What I do is use "noindex, follow" for the links. Is that a good idea? Or should I use rel="canonical" for the promotion page? How do you advise me to handle this from the SEO point of view?


Why don't people upgrade their browsers?

Any web designer/developer will know that we have to make our code backwards- compatible with a number of (much) older browsers, just to cater for those that haven't updated. My question is.. why don't people update? Most new browsers will run on a wide variety of systems and it's not like they aren't advertised - I've seen numerous prompts on my travels around the web to install chrome or the latest Firefox and what not. So what excuses do people have for sticking with IE6 or older equivilents? Personally, I'm phasing out support for older browsers on a number of my sites - 'old-browser' visitors are sparse and I see it as a 'nudge' to join 2011...


how did Google Analytics kill my site?

Yesterday I created a google analytics profile for one of my sites and included the JS block in the layout template. What happened next was very strange. Within about 2 minutes, the site had become unreachable. I had been checking the AWStats page for the site when I thought to set up GA. After that had been done, I clicked on the link for 404 stats, which opens in a new tab. It churned for a long while and then showed a nearly blank page, similar to that when Firefox chokes on a badly-formatted XML page, except there was no error msg. But i was logged into the server and could see that that page has a 401 Transitional DTD. Strange! I tried viewing source but it just churned endlessly. I then tried "inspect element" and was able to see an error msg having to do with some internal Firefox lib. Unfortunately, i neglected to copy that. :-( All further attempts to load anything on the site would time out. Firebug's Net panel showed no request being made. Chrome would time out. So, I deleted the GA profile, removed the JS block, and cleared the server cache. No joy. I then removed all google cookies and disabled JS. Still nothing. No luck in any other browser. And now my client couldn't access the site. Terrific. I was able use wget while logged into another server. The retrieved page was fine, and did not contain the GA JS block. However, the two servers are on the same network. (Perhaps a clue.) The server itself was fine. Ping, traceroute looked great. I could SSH in. I tailed the access log and tried a browser request. Nothing. But i forgot to quit and a minute or so later I saw a request from someone else being logged. Later, I could see that requests had been served all day to some people. Now, 24 hours later, the site works once again, but is still unreachable by the client (who is in another city). So, does anyone have some insight into what's going on? Does this have something to do with google's CDN? I don't know very much about how GA works but what I'm seeing reminds me of DNS propagation issues. And why the initial XML error? And why the heck was the site just plain unreachable? What did google do to my site?! Sorry for the length but I wanted to cover everything.


Is it OK to have 10 rotating banners from Hostgator in the same banner slot?

I have 728x90 position on my blog and I have a php script that randomly choose number from 0 - 9 and display a random banner from Hostgator affiliate banners. Should I stick with one or is the rotating thing actually better and can bring more attention from the visitors as only one or two rotating banners in the banner slot?


AdSense block not displaying anything

I have copied and pasted the following code into my page, but it seems to be having no effect. It should have a fall back block colour, but nothing is showing. Code copied/pasted straight from Google:                   <script type="text/javascript"><!--     google_ad_client = "ca-pub-7972043490779920";     /* SALF */     google_ad_slot = "4085311300";     google_ad_width = 300;     google_ad_height = 250;     //-->     </script>     <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">     </script>


Disallowed images in the robots.txt of my Joomla site can't be displayed when shared in Facebook

I have noticed that since I have disallowed images using the robots.txt in my Joomla site, when sharing an article in Facebook, the image will not be displayed. Why is that? Is it indeed related? My robots.txt file:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /cli/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/


Google Analytics: Unable to create more Property and View

I have 20 Properties and one of them has 10 Views. The "Create new Property" and "Create new view" are grayed out, after I added those 10 Views. Is there a limit or something I did wrong?


Download swf files from a flash site embedded with SWFObject?

We need to download swf files from a Moto CMS and we don't have access through FTP. The swfs are embedded with object tags. Is there a way to get the data from an object without an FTP connection?


Are there other "approval" services for other email providers, like SenderID for Hotmail?

This question comes from: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/695/how-to-avoid-hotmail-live- rejections-for-legit-large-volume-emailing I never knew about this for Hotmail and I'm wondering if there are similar services for Google, Yahoo or others. I work on a few newsletter managers and I want to make sure the emails are getting to their recipients.


Need to Stop Bots from Killing my Webserver

I am having EXTREME bot problems on the some of my websites within my hosting account. The bots utilize over 98% of my CPU resources and 99% of my bandwidth for my entire hosting account. These bots are generating over **1 GB of traffic per hour** for my sites. The real human traffic for all of these sites is **less than 100 MB / month**. I have done extensive research on both robots.txt and .htaccess file to block these bots but all methods failed. I have also put code in the robots.txt files to block access to the scripts directories, but these bots (Google, MS Bing, and Yahoo) ignore the rules and run the scripts anyways. I do not want to completely block the Google, MS Bing, and Yahoo bots, but I want to limit there crawl rate. Also, adding a Crawl-delay statement in the robots.txt file does not slow down the bots. My current robots.txt and .htacces code for all sites are stated below. I have setup both Microsoft and Google webmaster tools to slow down the crawl rate to the absolute minimum, but they are still hitting these sites at a rate of 10 hits / second. In addition, every time I upload a file that causes an error, the entire VPS webserver goes down within seconds such that I cannot even access the site correct the issue due to the on-slot of hits by these bots. What can I do to stop the on-slot of traffic to my websites? I tried asking my web hosting company (site5.com) many times about this issue in the past months and they cannot help me with this problem. **What I really need is to prevent the Bots from running the rss2html.php script. I tried both sessions and cookies and both failed.** # robots.txt               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:      User-agent: Googlebot     Disallow:      User-agent: Adsbot-Google     Disallow:      User-agent: Googlebot-Image     Disallow:      User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile     Disallow:      User-agent: MSNBot     Disallow:      User-agent: bingbot     Disallow:      User-agent: Slurp     Disallow:      User-Agent: Yahoo! Slurp     Disallow:      # Directories     User-agent: *     Disallow: /     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /ads/     Disallow: /assets/     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /phone/     Disallow: /scripts/     # Files     Disallow: /ads/random_ads.php     Disallow: /scripts/rss2html.php     Disallow: /scripts/search_terms.php     Disallow: /scripts/template.html     Disallow: /scripts/template_mobile.html      # .htaccess               ErrorDocument 400 http://english-1329329990.spampoison.com     ErrorDocument 401 http://english-1329329990.spampoison.com     ErrorDocument 403 http://english-1329329990.spampoison.com     ErrorDocument 404 /index.php     SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Yandex*" bad_bot     SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^baidu*" bad_bot     Order Deny,Allow     Deny from env=bad_bot     RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} bot\* [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} \*bot     RewriteRule ^.*$ http://english-1329329990.spampoison.com [R,L]     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]     # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]     # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})     # Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$  [NC]     RewriteRule (.*) index.php     RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]     # Don't show directory listings for directories that do not contain an index file (index.php, default.asp etc.)     Options -Indexes     <Files http://english-1329329990.spampoison.com>     order allow,deny     allow from all     </Files>     deny from 108.     deny from 123.     deny from 180.     deny from 100.43.83.132      **UPDATE TO SHOW ADDED USER AGENT BOT CHECK CODE**               <?php     function botcheck(){      $spiders = array(        array('AdsBot-Google','google.com'),        array('Googlebot','google.com'),        array('Googlebot-Image','google.com'),        array('Googlebot-Mobile','google.com'),        array('Mediapartners','google.com'),        array('Mediapartners-Google','google.com'),        array('msnbot','search.msn.com'),        array('bingbot','bing.com'),        array('Slurp','help.yahoo.com'),        array('Yahoo! Slurp','help.yahoo.com')      );      $useragent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);      foreach($spiders as $bot) {        if(preg_match("/$bot[0]/i",$useragent)){          $ipaddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];           $hostname = gethostbyaddr($ipaddress);          $iphostname = gethostbyname($hostname);          if (preg_match("/$bot[1]/i",$hostname) && $ipaddress == $iphostname){return true;}        }      }     }     if(botcheck() == false) {       // User Login - Read Cookie values          $username = $_COOKIE['username'];          $password = $_COOKIE['password'];          $radio_1 = $_COOKIE['radio_1'];          $radio_2 = $_COOKIE['radio_2'];          if (($username == 'm3s36G6S9v' && $password == 'S4er5h8QN2') || ($radio_1 == '2' && $radio_2 == '5')) {          } else {            $selected_username = $_POST['username'];            $selected_password = $_POST['password'];            $selected_radio_1 = $_POST['group1'];            $selected_radio_2 = $_POST['group2'];            if (($selected_username == 'm3s36G6S9v' && $selected_password == 'S4er5h8QN2') || ($selected_radio_1 == '2' && $selected_radio_2 == '5')) {              setcookie("username", $selected_username, time()+3600, "/");              setcookie("password", $selected_password, time()+3600, "/");              setcookie("radio_1", $selected_radio_1, time()+3600, "/");              setcookie("radio_2", $selected_radio_2, time()+3600, "/");            } else {             header("Location: login.html");            }          }     }     ?>      **I also added the following to the top tof the rss2html.php script**               // Checks to see if this script was called by the main site pages, (i.e. index.php or mobile.php) and if not, then sends to main page        session_start();          if(isset($_SESSION['views'])){$_SESSION['views'] = $_SESSION['views']+ 1;} else {$_SESSION['views'] = 1;}        if($_SESSION['views'] > 1) {header("Location: http://website.com/index.php");}


conditional DirectoryIndex based on IP address, using .htaccess

I've got this in `httpd.conf`:               <VirtualHost xx.xxx.xx.xxx>         Options All +ExecCGI         ServerAdmin hostmaster@thehost.com         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain.com         ServerName  dl.domain.org         DirectoryIndex dlindex1.html     </VirtualHost>      ... which is fine (what I need as the `DirectoryIndex` for our 'dl.domain.org' subdomain), _but_ now I also need to alter that `DirectoryIndex` based on IP address, using `.htaccess`. Is this possible? StackOverflow posts are telling me that I cannot set `DirectoryIndex` conditionally.. but instead _have_ to use a `RewriteRule`. If that is true, OK, but what `RewriteCond` and `RewriteRule`? I am pretty noob in Apache, but anyway have tried many things, including (where the actual IPs are those of our 2 devs):               RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.222\.333\.444$    [OR]     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^555\.666\.777\.888$     RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^dl.domain.org     RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1/dlindex2.html      ..or even just (as an absolute test):               RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^555\.666\.777\.888$     RewriteRule (.*)/dlindex1.html$ $1/dlindex2.html      But it seems that whatever I try it just serves up the `DirectoryIndex dlindex1.html` as per `httpd.conf`, as opposed to the `dlindex2.html` I want served up as the default page in that subdomain when a devs IP is calling. Can any one point me to what I can do to get what I am after? i.e. this: ...to actually, or even just effectively, alter `DirectoryIndex` based on IP address, using `.htaccess`, on the fly?


Do quotation marks have any effect on the search engine robots?

I have a blog called `The Fall Journey` and it is about a series of trips that I intend to do that are based on the filming locations from `The Fall` movie. Unfortunately, a lot of people mistake the title for the season - `Fall` but the trip doesn't have anything to do with the season, only the movie title. So, when I search through Google and use `the fall journey blog`, I get my website in the search result because, obviously, it isn't a frequent search. The thing is that I do use `The Fall Journey` as a description for the site and the search engines get that and are therefore listing my site. I was wondering, if I started using `"The Fall" Journey` as my site description and use the quotation marks throughout the site (posts, pages, comments etc.), will I still get listed in the search engines for `the fall journey blog` query or will people have to write `"the fall" journey blog`? To simplify my question, do the search engines notice the quotation marks or not and will adding them have any effect on the listing in the search engines?


redirect using htaccess, if a url contains query string

I want to do permanent redirect using htaccess. For eg :- I want to redirect `/modules/pages/?pageid=7` to `http://www.xxx.com/aaa/`. This is what i have done `Redirect permanent /modules/pages/?pageid=7 http://www.xxx.com/aaa/` but it gives me 404 error.


Google index iframes on Facebook fan pages? (Hole website content)

I have a fairly simple question that I've tried to get help from the guys on the _Google Webmaster Help Q &A_ site but so far no joy so hopefully someone here can provide me with the information I'm looking for. I have a Facebook fanpage for my website, I have made an app that basically uses an iframe and puts the site within a frame within Facebook. All works good but Google is not indexing this page. I am using `<link rel="canonical" href="#" />` on my pages so prehaps this is an issue?


Evidence for automatic browsing - Log file analysis

I'm analyzing web server logs both in Apache and IIS log formats. I want to find the evidence for automatic browsing, like web robots, spiders, bots, etc. I used python robot-detection 0.2.8 for detecting robots in my log files, but I know there may be other robots (automatic programs) which have traversed through the web site but robot-detection can not identify. So I want to ask:   1. Are there any specific clues that can be found in log files that human users do not leave but automated software would?   2. Do they follow a specific navigation pattern?   3. I saw some requests for `favicon.ico` - does this implicate that it is a automatic browsing?. I found this article and this question with some valuable points.


Removing the script extension with URL rewriting on Apache

Given a (slightly theoretical) physical disk layout of:               \products\cameras\50d.jpg     \products\cameras\20d.jpg     \products\lenses\18-55.jpg     \products\lenses\28-135.jpg     \products.php      At the moment, I've URLs of the form:               /products.php/     /products.php/cameras/     /products.php/cameras/50d      With the products.php using the PATH_INFO to make a decision on what to display. I'm struggling to rewrite the URL to remove the .php, but still allow static resources to be retrievable though?


Why is www. working but no-www is not?

Right now my site runs on `http://www.example.com` but I need to run that without www also i.e `example.com` _**Can some body tell me here that how can i do that?_**


AWStats configuration issue

I have a an Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS server in which i host my website. The website is in Drupal. I tried to set up AWStats for my website but it is giving a lot of problems. I followed this link - `http://www.sysadminworld.com/2011/set-up-awstats-on- ubuntu/` But I am confused about the domain name that needs to be given. The website can be accessed from `http://xyz.com but the actual link is http://xyz.abc- def.com/root-folder`. What is the domain name in this case? So what should be the name of the conf file then?


H1 as an inline element

If I use H1 as an inline element (since it fits the design better) will it be treated the same by the SE crawlers, or will it hurt its effectiveness? Thanks, Joel


Are keywords listed in Google Webmaster Tools tied to ranking, and what does a blank keyword mean?

I have two questions regarding the terms listed under Content Keywords in Google Webmaster Tools: We've recently lost a lot of ranking in Google search after we changed our e-commerce platform and added translations to foreign languages. We run a US site, but most of our content is translated into Spanish and French for customers' convenience. Recently, we realized that the top 3 "significant" keywords are all in Spanish. 99% of our customers use English as their first language, and our Google search results ranking has dropped significantly for terms listed at much lower significance in Google Webmaster Tools (e.g. listed at number 8, 13, etc...). So my questions are:   1. If the quality of our English content didn't change but we added foreign languages to it, would the "foreign" content take away from our ranking for English terms? The top Spanish terms don't even display our site when searched on in Google. I know this isn't an exact science, but I'd like to hear some feedback based on experience. I read in this article that there is no relevancy between this list and actual search engine ranking (however, the author is suspicious).   2. At rank number 4, we have a keyword " ** ___ ___**", which is literally just an underscore. What does this mean?


Which scripting language for server maintenance?

What scripting do you use for basic server maintenance kinds of tasks, e.g. backups, moving files around, etc.? Do you stick to bash, ruby, perl, something else, or do you mix-and-match for different needs? What are the strengths and weaknesses of your choice(s)? I'm personally interested in *nix servers, but maybe the question could be relevant to Windows servers as well.


Does loading metas from database affect my website SEO?

I am developing a website which is fully dynamic. If I load metas and other information of the website from database, will it affect my website's SEO?


Restricting access using IP address / Network Redirection?

I have a situation where we have a web server (lets call it A) that is hosting a set of HTTP based services. Due to some client restrictions, this web server is not open to the outside world but rather has an IP address based restriction to allow only a certain fixed set of IP addresses. The idea is that there will be another server that will be the outward public facing server (lets call it B) and this server will then redirect all requests to server A - which accepts requests only from Server B. 2 questions :-   1. Does having such a server configuration add any value or any benefit which could not be achieved by just having "server A" alone?   2. If "server B" is only basically doing a redirect, can I do it using some networking hardware itself like a router etc rather than having a web server do it? And would that be more efficient?


HTTPS page loading non-https images

I have a https site which links to images from a cdn, as well as user- generated image links that are not https. I get errors like this in console: > The page at https://site.com displayed insecure content from > http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png. Does it matter? Should I try to fix this? Is it worth worrying about?


Creating a companion website for a book

I'm looking to put together a small microsite to accompany a book being written by a friend. The website will both serve to advertise the book, encourage people to buy it, and contains additional content for those who've purchased the book which is better presented in an interactive form. I don't have much experience of putting together a site like this, so can anyone suggest some things the site should have/do or point me in the direction of similar sites for books you've read. Thanks, Tom


Rewrite img and link paths with htaccess and serve the file from rewritten path?

I have a static mockup page, which I want to "customize" by switching a variable used in image-src and link-href attributes. Paths will look like this:               <img src="/some/where/VARIABLE/img/1.jpg" alt="" />     <link rel="some" href="/some/where/VARIABLE/stuff/foo.bar" />      I'm setting a cookie with the VARIABLE value on the preceding page and now want to modfiy the paths accordingly by replacing VARIABLE with the cookie value. I'm a htaccess newbie. This is what I have (doesn't work):                <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         # get cookie value cookie         RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} client=([^;]*)         # rewrite/redirect to correct file         RewriteRule  ^/VARIABLE/(.+)$  /%1/$1 [L]         </IfModule>      So I thought my first line gets the cookie value and stores this in %1. And on the second line I'm filtering VARIABLE, replace it with the cookie value and whatever comes after VARIABLE in $1. Thanks for sheeding some light on what I'm doing, doing wrong and if I can do this at all using htaccess. **EDIT:**   I'm sort of halfway through, but it's still not working... Mabye someone can apply the finishing touches:                <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         # check for client cookie            RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} (?:^|;\s*)client=([^;]*)         # check if an image was requested            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$         # exclude these folders         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !some/members/logos                # grab everything before the variable folder and everything afterwards         # replace this with first bracket/cookie_value/second bracket         RewriteRule (^.+)/VARIABLE/(.+)$ $1/%1/$2 [L]      </IfModule>      Still can't get it to work, but I think this is the correct way of doing it.


I'm having trouble with accessing my site's admin panel and CSS appears to be broken

I'm currently writing for Crafthub.net, and since yesterday, whenever I try to access the admin control panel (http://crafthub.net/wp-admin/), it gives me a 404. crafthub.net/wp-content/themes/magzimus/style.css gives me a 404 too. Trying to access any other pages shows me a broken layout, in all browsers. A picture: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4861882/arr.jpg Also, everything I try to access on the site - images, as an example - give me a 404. I tried removing OpenDNS, with no success, tried cleaning cache, Ctrl+F5, nothing. Anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks.


Embedding a Disqus forum on my website: showing scrollable area instead of expanding the height

I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html/css/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear. The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of my son (still not arrived :)). I intend to put some pictures on it, as well as some tips for a sustainable future. In addition, I would like to add a Disqus.com forum on it. I like Disqus, I use it on my blog and aggregates different discussions across the web. Very useful web-app. I put the code they provided me with on the site, and the forum is shown, but when opened using the left-menu, so inside the container, it is rendered inside a scrollable area. If you open it as a separate page, there is no scrollbar (that's as I would like it), but no padding on the left (does the CSS not work for javascript?). Maybe a stupid question, but I have never made a website before, so.. I am kind of stupid :) I hope someone can answer my question. The link to the website is shown below and the menu item you should click is called "Leg een ei" (Lay an egg). Thieme


non-cachable Canonical redirect of www to non-www

I know this question is debatable for the whole eternity, and most likely nobody knows the real philosophy of this problem. But I'm trying to solve the problem about 301 and 302 response headers in order to redirect correctly a canonical URL from non-www to www and do it **SEO-efficient**. At the moment I'm using the following method to redirect my canonical URL from non-www to www               #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.shangri\.us)?$     #RewriteRule (.*) http://www.shangri.us/$1 [R=301,L]      But using this code I get the following message in my PageSpeed report: > To speed up page load times for visitors of your site, remove as many > landing page redirections as possible, and make any required redirections > cacheable if possible. > >   * `http://shangri.us/ is a non-cacheable redirect to > http://www.shangri.us/` > So I'm trying to fix the PageSpeed advice about cacheable redirects (http://goo.gl/AWI0g4) I've read that I need to use 302 response header in this case. I know the difference between permanent and temporal redirects (301/302), but I have a big dilemma about how to implement this on my site. Although I don't want to use my root domain at all, I'm afraid of using 302 temporal redirect, because some people say it isn't the best way for **SEO matters** , but... aaaaaah I'm gonna go insane :(


Best way to lay-out the website when sections of it are almost identical

so, I have a minisite for the mobile application that I did. The mobile application is a public transport (transit) schedule viewer for a particular city (let's call it Foo), and I'm trying to sell it via that minisite. I publish that minisite in `www.myawesomeapplication.com/foo/`. It has the usual "standard" subpages, like "About", "Compatible phones", "Contact", etc. Now, I have decided to create analogue mobile application for other cities, Bar and Baz. These mobile applications (products) would be almost identical to the one for the Foo city, thus the minisites for those would (should) look very similar too (except for some artwork and Foo => Bar replacement). The question is: what do you think would be the most logical way to lay-out the website in this situation, both from the business and search engine perspective? In other words, should I just duplicate the `/foo/` website to `/bar/` and `/baz/`, or would it be better to try to create a single website under root path (`/`)? I don't want search engine penalties for almost-duplicate information under `/foo/`, `/bar/` and `/baz/`, and also I don't want a messy, non-localized website (I guess the user is more likely to buy something if he/she sees _"This-and-that is the application for NYC, the city you live in"_ , not _"This-and-that is the application for city A, city B, ..., NYC, ..., and city Z."_ )


Knowledge Base solution for Magento?

I'm looking for a knowledge base solution for magento. Does anybody know of any available?


Whats the Quickest and Cheapest Solution to setup a Affiliate Program for an Online Product?

I have a simple HTML landing page setup for an online product I want to sell. This product is a hardcover book. I want to be able to allow other people to setup their own landing pages and make a percentage of the sale from their site. What are some good payment processors or payment gateways that make setting up an affiliate system easy and fast? Clarification - When someone purchases an item, I want (whatever the payment processor is) to automatically route a percentage of that payment to the affiliate and the rest to the original author.) Are there any payment frameworks that already do this? I've found a few sites that let you do this, but they seem to restrict you to digital purchases only. However, my sites is selling a ship-able product and the affiliate system needs to support this.


How can I set the first two paragraphs as metada description on blogger?

I want to configure my meta description to have the initial bit of my post. On my template I just have `<data:post.body/>` and there is nowhere where I can get only the first bit. Is there a way to break down the `<data:post.body/>` to use in the meta description? maybe via javascript?


Mail server for every website on IIS

I'm using Windows 7 x64 and IIS 7 to serve several websites. What I want to do is set-up a mail server for every domain name (like in Linux hostings), and web-interface for example `domain1.com/webmail`, `domain2.com/webmail` ... Is that possible on Windows? Any suggestions?


Host your own website and DNS server

I pay yearly big money for my websites' hostings, domain registrars, etc. My IP is dynamic and provider allows HTTP port. In my local webserver, I can access to my websites like that: `localhost:80` - first website, `localhost:81` - second website, etc. **What I want to do** is to host low traffic websites (such as company pages, etc.) from my own computer, and reduce all costs that I told above. **Questions** :   * Is it possible to host my own DNS server and multiple websites (from multiple local ports) even with dynamic IP? Or should I buy dynamic dns service like DynDNS, NO-IP?  _Note: You can give solution with any OS (Linux, Windows doesn't matter, I'm ready to install)_   * Let's say I have static IP. I want to host webserver, DNS server from my own pc. And I registered domain name with some registrar like Godaddy, etc. What I need to do next?


Moving URL - telling Bing Webmaster Tools

We're moving a site, we've set up 301's from the old pages to the new ones and told Google about the move, but I couldn't find any were to tell Bing. Is there a feature to do this in Bing Webmaster Tools?


Alternative to nofollow: custom 302 url shortener?

Here's the scenario: lots of blogging platforms make it tedious to insert `nofollow` into links within the post content. I.e., you need to edit the html, format it correctly, etc. I have a client who posts lots of content with links that should be nofollow'ed, and I thought of a novel way to handle this, since the blogging platform they're using makes it hard: I install a URL shortener web app on the client's domain. The shortener works as normal, _except_ it redirects via 302 instead of 301. The pagerank will therefore stay at the shortener's domain, and not flow on to the target site. Part 2: In order to get the pagerank to collect meaningfully, say on the site's home page, the shortened URLs would be generated like this: `/link?12345` instead of `/link/12345`. And then, the path `/link` would 301 to the home page. This way, the id is a param, not a path element. And thus, all the incoming shortened links are going to one path, which transfers pagerank to the home page. So that's my idea. I wanted to see if anybody could find problems with it. Thanks!


How to get keywords from Google HTTP referrer?

Can the http referrer URL from Google be decoded so that I can see the specific keywords?               http://www.google.sk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&sqi=2&ved=0CFgQFjAK&url=http://www.peciatky.sk/238-plombovacie-klieste.html&ei=WastU8_WMI-O7QautoCYBg&usg=AFQjCNHAZhWGZeIoJGtAOoSgSG25l4Hyqw


Why are Awstats, Webalizer, and Google Analytics results so different?

I realize that comparing Awstats and Webalizer to Google Analytics is like comparing apples to oranges, but each of them track _at least_ basic statistics about visitors and pages. So why are there often very significant differences in their data? For example, comparing Analytics with Awstats using some numbers from a small site over the past week: Awstats   * 78 unique visitors   * 205 visits (2.62 visits/visitor)   * 1,072 pages (5.22 pages/visit) Google Analytics   * 115 unique visitors   * 240 visits (2.08 visits/visitor)   * 1,275 pages (5.31 pages/visit) They're similar on the number of visits, but page views and uniques are quite different. I'm familiar with discrepancies of a much higher magnitude on some larger sites, showing that this trend scales proportionally upward. What is the reason behind the different numbers, even when the data is quite trivial like unique visitors and page loads?


what's the best way to add the state in a page title for seo

For a page title, what's the best way to add the state to the page title for SEO purposes? For example, should it be: "Central Pennsylvania Shoe Repair" or "Central PA Shoe Repair" or "Central Pennsylvania PA Shoe Repair" I want it to be searchable and discoverable but is the last too redundant?


Where to buy .ha domain extesion?

Is there any website/service that I can get .ha domain extension?


Since Google reduces the value of links alongside nofollow links, what is an alternative?

Since 2009, Google counts `nofollow` links also as outgoing links, and thus reduces the value of the other links. What are some alternatives to stop Google counting outside links from my page? If I make links appear on my page source like this:               Link Name      and then in JavaScript replace **span** with **a** tag and replace **hrefs** with **href** for every span tag that has link="true". Will this help?


Wp-count Malware Injection

I received a malware notification from Google Webmaster tools yesterday for my blog which is running on Wordpress. After going through website I found that there is a file called `wp-count.php` creating malware code. I tried to delete that but it reappears again and again so I have erased coding inside. Now its there without coding but still I think it may be any other codes which are effect my website. How can I fix it?


Having <strong> tag inside the <h2> is advisable or not?

I have read that `<h2>` tags are important for seo and SEO expert prefer `<strong>` tags over `<b>` tags. But what if i want to use both (h2 and strong) together ? So suppose if i want to use tags with **tags, Ex. 1
 my title text
      Ex.2
 my title text
       Which one is better in terms of seo or both are same? UPDATE:** `<h2>` tag inside `<strong >` does not produce the Strong effect. So i will have to use the Ex.2 to make the words STRONG else it will be just a h2 tagged text.


Using AWS or Azure, what to do about emails?

I'm coming from a background of paying a hosting company X amount per month for a server. This server comes with IIS, WebsitePanel and Smartermail all bundled together. When I create a new domain using WebsitePanel it automatically creates my email account. All I then need to do is configure my DNS to point to the server. I've decided that it is more cost efficient to move to AWS / Azure. Has anyone come from a similar background and moved onto a cloud system? I'd be interested to know what you did regarding emails. So far, these are the suggestions I've seen:   * Use Google Apps for each domain   * Use something like Elastic Email to sent out emails   * Launch a new instance and host an email server on that The first option seems like quite a lot of manual configuration, the second one works good with outgoing emails but what about receiving? Option 3 would make it less cost effective. What is your experience?


rel="next" in anchor tag is not working

I have 100's of duplicate meta description issue in google webmaster tool because of the pagination. Pagination pages are showing as duplicate in tool. So I added the `rel="next"` and `rel="prev"` to the pagination link anchor tags. But it seems like not working. I red the Google office webmaster blog post. That never mentioned to add anchor tag to the rel attributes. So should only adding rel attribute with link work or it will work with anchor tag as well. example :                <link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2" />      I red few unofficial blogs that mentioned the it will work with anchor. So please can anyone tell what I am doing here wrong!


SEO traffic dropped suddenly

My website was doing relatively very well in terms of SEO, I was getting around 10 000 page impressions and more than a few thousand clicks per day for keywords that other than my brand name. Keywords such as "Hard Food", "pre- cum" and some drug names. And then one day I witnessed a sudden drop and since then I'm only stuck with a maximum of 1000 impressions per day and a few hundred clicks only for my brand name. My SEO score on WooRank is around 70%, my page load speed is 93% (according to GTMetrix, ySlow). The website didn't change, the only thing that might have changed was that we stopped the Google Ads. Is there anything I should consider? or maybe I'm looking for the wrong type of optimizations. Let me know if you need other info!


Local monthly searches in Google keyword tool

For a target keyword made of two words the Local monthly searches shows:   * Broad: 300,000 searches   * Phrase: 250,000 searches Competition is nil. Does it mean that -- this many people search for this keyword term in a month?


How to allow user to enter text or upload file, but not both

We used to have a two-step process for answering questions. On the first page the user indicated how he would answer: either by typing a response or uploading a file. On the next page either a textarea or file input was presented. Instead I plan to present a single page where the user can do either of those things, but not both. What is the most user-friendly way to do this?


Would you go about marketing a subscription based site differently?

Do you think that subscription based sites, that offer software as a service model, should be marketed differently than a content specific site. Beyond contacting bloggers, blogging yourself, and going to trade shows and events, how would you directly engage a paying client base to "spread the word" beyond affiliate marketing stuff?


Webmaster tools with Google, Yahoo and Bing

I am currently using Google webmaster tools. I submitted my sitemap using their tool, etc. I am aware of the fact that Yahoo and Bing offer theit own webmaster tools section. Can I use all three sites' tools or should I pick one of them and stick with it? Do not know if there is any kind of penalty for using many tools?


SEO analysis report not counting Facebook likes?

For my website I created a Facebook page. It has 21 likes. However, the SEO analysis report says the Facebook likes count to zero. How to get the Facebook likes count into the SEO analysis report?


Administrative and secured CMS for storing secret credentials?

My boss asked me to setup a secured area online, which will contain all the FTP, MySQL etc details related to our web products. This online area must be secured and will only be accessible by the user we define. It should be easy to understand and should have functionality to download details in PDF or in word format etc. And should be able to handle following type of scenario: A client has 10 websites so we'll need to store FTP, MYSQL etc details related to 10 websites, so CMS should be able to accept and present the data in easy way. Do anyone has any suggestions for me to handle such kind scenario. Please help. Thanks!


All social login

Is there any API available for connecting to all possible social networks (mainly facebook, linkedin, twitter, github, bitbucket, codeplex, stackexchange, google code) I am basically looking for one stop website which can provide me logins with all the above website, for eg.http://www.oneall.com Is there any website which provides all of this??


Which domain should I authorize in my .htaccess to let google spreadsheet access files on my site

I use google spreadsheet feature that allows one to let an image be the content of a cell. The cell is defined by:               =image("http://www.example.com/my-pics/my-pic.jpg")      It works pretty well. But, I don't want my pics to be public. So I added a `.htaccess` file in the `my-pics` directory of my web site. Here is the template I used               order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from <domain used by google-spreadsheet to get image>      My problem is that I don't know which domain I should allow? Do you have any idea? EDIT: Just an idea, but I cannot test it on my own (I use the web server my ISP provides me and I don't have access to logs). If my `.htaccess` is simply               order deny,allow     deny from all      and that google spreadsheet tries to access the image, it should be logged somewhere on my web server that domain `some-google-linked-domain.com` has tried to access the file. Am I wrong?


How can I register a domain that requires country residency?

I tried to register a .pm domain from ovh.co.uk, but they e-mailed me saying they want valid proof that I am a resident of the United Kingdom. I currently live in the United States though. **I am aware that I have to be a resident.** That's not the question I'm asking. I want to know if it's possible, whether through some website that will get residency or some 'hacking' method, to register the domain I am interested in without having to physically be a resident of the country. I will try and find out if ovh.co.uk will charge me an extra fee, but until then I am curious to know if there is any way I could do this. Also, is there any other website I could purchase .pm domains from?


My WP site got injected

Hey friends my wordpress site got injected, and now I have to solve it. here is my domain, http://webstutorial.com/ What I need to do, please help me. This is not a spam or link building technique


Is this tag real? rel="nofollow external"

I can't seem to find any documentation that officially comments on this tag. Maybe a few forum posts here or there, but nothing on Webmaster Guidelines and even here on Pro Webmasters, I'm not seeing anything relating to it. I encountered this as I was sifting through links to un-do some rather horrible SEO choices by some former SEO firms our company contracted with. My experience tells me that               ...rel="nofollow external">anchor text</a>      is just a way for the site owner to keep our links while making it seem like he's trying to help us? I contacted him about a week ago and we're about to go through our second round of emails. Since he never contacted me back, I'm likely going to try and get a hold of him again. I honestly don't remember if it had this attribute before I messaged him last time around, but I'm fairly certain it didn't. So, in a nut shell, my question is: will this actually remove the link from Google's radar or do I need to contact this guy again? EDIT: Just so it's clear, I understand `rel="nofollow"` is happy and wonderful, it's the external bit I've never seen before and I know people can make up their own meta tags to add stuff to the code that never gets used, like a KEYPHRASES meta tag.


Using schema.org to represent Person, Google's webmaster tool doesn't see it

I set a bunch of pages about people with the schema.org metadata for Person. The testing tool sees the metadata perfectly. However, the webmaster tools search appearance says there's no structured data on my site.


Website looks OK in IE9, but not in Firefox, IE8 and IE7

i have a problem with my site http://www.cyprusproperty-4sale.com/123456789.asp it looks OK in IE9 but not in Firefox, IE8 & IE7. Could you please help me with that?


Apache2 "pseudo" doc root

I have several folders in my /www folder that contain various applications. To keep things organized, I keep them in their own folders -- this includes my base application. Examples:   1. phpmyadmin = /www/phpmyadmin   2. phpvirtualbox = /www/phpvirtualbox   3. root domain site = /www/Landing The reason I segregate all of my sites is that I actively develop on some of these (my root site) and when I publish via Visual Studio, I choose to delete prior to upload - if I put the Landing page in the base folder, it would be devastating for me. My goal is that when I go to www.example.com - I go to my page. If I go to www.example.com/phpmyadmin, it does not work because of this in the Apache2 folder:               <Location "/"> # Error is the "/"       Allow from all       Order allow,deny       MonoSetServerAlias domain       SetHandler mono       SetOutputFilter DEFLATE       SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$" no-gzip dont-vary     </Location>     <IfModule mod_deflate.c>        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript     </IfModule>      If I change the location to say "/Other", then the base site is broken, and the aliases are restored for the other sites. If it is "/", then the base site works and no aliases work. What could I do to allow it to treat my /www/Landing as my webroot, but when I go to an alias, it GOES to the alias. Edit: Added in the default VirtualHost info.               DocumentRoot /var/www     <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin info@example.com         ServerName www.example.com          ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000     ExpiresByType image/png A2592000     ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000     ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000     ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 days"            MonoServerPath domain "/usr/bin/mod-mono-server4"       MonoDebug domain true       MonoSetEnv domain MONO_IOMAP=all       MonoApplications domain "/:/var/www/Landing"              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteRule (.*) /Landing/$1 [L]               #Need to watch what the Location is set to. Can cause issues for alias     <Location "/">       Allow from all       Order allow,deny       MonoSetServerAlias domain       SetHandler mono       SetOutputFilter DEFLATE       SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$" no-gzip dont-vary     </Location>     <IfModule mod_deflate.c>       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript     </IfModule>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log              LogLevel warn         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined     </VirtualHost>


How would you convince a domain owner to sell his domain to you?

I'm wanting to have a domain name for my business that has already been registered by someone but that he is not using. He is offering it to me for $1000 (which is too much for me) and I offered him the sum of $300, which he is not interested in. How do I convince him to sell me the domain for a lesser price? As per my findings, that name is also occupied at social media sites, and the .org domain name is also occupied.


Prevent crawling of mobile site

I have an issue with bots crawling the mobile site and returning hits on the mobile site for desktop users. The mobile content is in /mobile/ The regular site will redirect mobile users to the /mobile/ site Regular desktop browsers are allowed into the /mobile/ site and will see the mobile version (used for easy testing of mobile content from desktop). Can someone help with a sane robots.txt for this site that would work with Google and Bing. I want both crawlers to index the hole site, but only the mobile crawler should index the mobile site. I have found user-agent: GoogleBot-Mobile for google, but is there something like BingBot-Mobile or does it crawl only with bingbot? Also, is msnbot gone? Is this ok?               User-agent: *     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot,bingbot     Disallow: /mobile/     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile,bingbot-mobile     Disallow: /     Allow: /mobile/      I guess it would be better if desktop users got redirected away from the /mobile/ site to the regular content, but it's a bit outside scope of question. Thank you for your help!


Multilingual Site - Bing/Yahoo Ignoring Tags

We have a site that we just created in Spanish (regular version is in English). We setup the site following google's recommendations. All seems good on that side. However, today I noticed that Bing/Yahoo are ignoring the language setting on the page, and showing the spanish results for english users. Not all but some. I haven't been able to find any information from bing to what they need to fix this. Right now I am going to block those sites from indexing the spanish site. Has anyone had this problem? Suggestions welcome. EDIT: BELOW I ADDED WHAT THE INTEGRATION IS.               <html lang="es">     <head> <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.com/" hreflang="en" />     <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.domain.com/es/" hreflang="es" />     </head>      I followed the rules outlined here. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en


Page Speed Optimization Questions: defer parsing and specifying a char set?

Continuing to optimized a web site, I'm using Chrome's Dev Tool add-on for Page Speed. I've been able to do a good bit of performance tuning thanks to its suggestions, but these two have me perplexed: I'm being told I need specify character set, but I have this in all my documents (meta tag below). It's within the head, does it need to be done prior to the HTML tag? If so, what's the syntax?               <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />      Second one I'm getting dinged on is deferring of Javascript. I know back in the day you could add a defer="defer" to the JS, but I don't think that's valid, nor does that satisfy the Page Speed validators. How do I defer JS? Typically my sites have jQuery linked to Google's CDN, and then an overarching local site.js loaded right after the jQuery core, like so:               <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>     <script src="/lib/js/site.js"></script>


Can AdWords ValueTrack parameters be nested?

Google provides ValueTrack as a mechanism for adding dynamic parameters to your advertising URLs. I have successfully used it for tracking clicks from their search network and content network in separate campaigns:   * `utm_term={keyword}` in a search campaign to pass the keyword the user searched for to my site   * `utm_term={placement}` in a content campaign to passe the site where the ad appeared If I want want to combine the campaigns, can I somehow combine this tracking? I see that value track offers `{ifsearch:[value]}` and `{ifcontent:[value]}` options. Can the keyword and placement be nested inside of them like this?               utm_term={ifsearch:{keyword}}{ifcontent:{placement}}


Store customer in DB and PayPal?

I am working on payment page of my website but cannot figure out at which process to store customer's details before sending them to PayPal payment page. Here's the process:   1. Choose Product page    2. Fill in customer details page    3. Cart confirmation page    4. PayPal official site payment page if success   5. redirect back to my site   6. Login to their account   7. Fill in some form if not success (cancelled/denied/etc)   8. redirect back to my site to meet cancellation page. What is the best approach for this circumstance as I would want to store only the successful transaction, customer who actually did make a payment but that has to be after I received the IPN code from PayPal. Will I lost their customer data on the way if I decide the store their details in the database after they are redirected back to my website? If I choose to store customer data at stage 3 in the temp table, I guess I would have had a long list of unsuccessful records in the temp table and I have to update back and forth in multiple tables for this approach. What would you recommend?


Div with "itemprop=text" contains ratingblock. Will this harm SEO?

I am using WordPress and I am planning to use `schema.org` attributes to optimize the site for SEO. Because of WordPress' structure, I am forced to put the `itemprop=text` on a `div`, containing both the whole content of the `article` (which is fine), but also a `div` which contains a _ratingblock_ with thumbs... Is this fine or not? Will this be a problem? I know it's not optimal, but I guess I don't have another choice. Example:

     content of postcontent of postcontent of postcontent of post


rel=canonical required for HTTPS?

I'm offering a page through HTTP and HTTPS, both with the same URL scheme. I.e., a page is available as `http://www.example.com/page1.html` as well as `https://www.example.com/page1.html`. Should I add `rel=canonical` to one of those pages?


How can I decrease load time (see image)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  DNS takes too long to resolve ![PingDom Test results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UD9yf.jpg) This website loads pretty fast, in less than 1 second on localhost. I have made it live on the server and load times are as high as 15 seconds. The initial GET request is taking too long. How to rectify the problem and what exactly is the problem. I have been trying to find solution, but I believe, I am searching the wrong thing. Also the I'm using Namecheap DNS management.


How can an exception be created for Facebook on robots.txt?

I have a directory that I don't want Google to index because it could confuse people who don't know the site. However, I want everyone else to get updates when I post them on our Facebook page. The problem is that the general exception to the directory is also blocking Facebook access, which causes links to this directory impossible to post. Please ignore the fact about not allowing Google. I really just wanna know how to create an exception for Facebook but I thought I'd give the whole story to explain it better.


Should I use singular or plural nouns in a domain name and why?

Me and a group of people are in the process of choosing a domain name for a future website and we aren't sure whether the noun in the domain name should be plural or singular. Currently we have 2 options :   * echangehec.ca (English: exchangehec.ca) OR echangeshec.ca (English: exchangeshec.ca)    * livrehec.ca (English: bookhec.ca) OR livreshec.ca (English: bookshec.ca) What are the advantages or disadvantages of choosing one or an other ? **Note:** The funding for the project is minimal and purchasing both is an option that should be avoided if it's not necessary.


How the Linkedin network/degrees works?

Linkedin is great for its feature of people degrees, up to three levels. Is there anyone who know how such feature has been built and how to keep it scalable with millions of people? (tech docs and algorithms types are welcome) Thank you


How to block a spam bot .htaccess proper formatting?

I have downloaded my access log file from my cPanel and found I have a bot I would like to stop. In the access log, there `User-Agent` string reads the following; > 88.80.205.219 - - [08/May/2014:23:29:52 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 301 - "-" > "-"   >  88.80.205.219 - - [08/May/2014:23:29:56 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 29019 > "-" "-" What is the proper format in my _.htaccess_ file to block this bot only?


Schema.org MedicalClinic

I'm using http://schema.org/MedicalClinic on main page of my client's site. I've filled in as many as I can including address,name, url, image url, geolocation, descripition, opening hours, specialty etc. It's coming up ok when I test it on Richsnippet tool but I don't know what benefits I can get from using it. I don't see anything on the search result pages on Google. What should I expect from it? Would the image show up on the SERP? If so, wouldn't it be similar to what you would get with Publisher meta tag and Google Plus as it also allows you to get Google Plus image appearing on the SERP?


How to manage DNS from multiple registrars in one place?

I have domains from different providers (GoDaddy, domaindotcom, namesilo, namecheap, etc) is there any way to manage DNS from one panel? Sometimes when move to a new hosting server, we need to change each domain name server.. by login one by one.


Serve most of a domain with Apache, but use mod_proxy to serve some URLs from Lighttpd

So we wish to host some pages on a new server with apache2, and embed some of our old content & functionality from another server with lighttpd in an iframe. I'm looking at this configuration from the apache docs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html#page-header) under "Using Virtual_host and mod_proxy" together.               <VirtualHost *:*>         ProxyPreserveHost On         ProxyPass / http://192.168.111.2/         ProxyPassReverse / http://192.168.111.2/        ServerName hostname.example.com     </VirtualHost>      The only issue is that I want to proxy only on a subdomain, or even better, if I can keep the top domain and proxy only if the url contains a particular path ie. "/myprocess.php". So in essence the DNS will point to the apache2 as the "master router".


Do search engines see comments in the source code as a backlink?

I would like to know if Google or any other search engine would regard a comment in the source-code containing a link:                   <!-- domain.com -->      as a back-link. If yes how much weight is put onto it and if no why do so many script include back-links in the source-code commenting.


Will URL encoding the image names affect Google

Just wondering if it makes any difference to Google whether or not I URL encode the image names when linking to them. For example if I have an image named `"test-1234-!.jpg"`, does it make a difference if I ~~name it~~ refer to it as `"test-1234-%21.jpg"`? The reason I am asking is because I am doing a major shift in the way my website works and while all new image names will not be URL encoded, all of the past ones are. I want to see if it is worth it renaming all of them or if I should just leave it like that.


Disqus style plugin for contact forms

I've been using a combination of Swifmailer and jQuery to add a website contact form to sites that aren't using a cms, but the ease of implementing a Disqus module for comments makes me wonder if an equivalent is available for a contact form? I've looked high and low on the Web, and I still haven't anything that can be used outside of WordPress, Drupal etc or doesn't require heavy configuration on the back end


What is the correct way to track carousel click through using Google Analytics?

I have a simple carousel with multiple slides on our home page, and I want to use Google Analytics to track how effective each slide is. What is the correct way to do this in GA? I could use: **Event Tracking** Event Tracking is one option. User clicks would trigger the event and track which image the user interacted with. **Campaign Tracking** Campaign Tracking is another option whereby I could define the parameters of the slide and then qualify the pageview on the target page as being from the carousel. For this use case, what is the "correct" tool to use? I'd like to make sure that I'm doing this the same way everyone else does so if we bring in additional resources or contract with a vendor our GA implementation doesn't come out of left field.


When to reply 400 Bad Request

According to www.w3.org, a Web server should reply with status code `400 Bad Request` if: " _The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications_ " Does that mean only request that violates some HTTP spec?   Or does it include a request that my particular Web app thinks is broken?   When would you reply `400`? For example, if my Web app expects a query string to always include a "function=..." parameter, would you reply code `400 Bad Request` or `403 Forbidden`? (403 means that _"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it."_ )


Spatial data mining algorithms about local business web services?

Do you know any research paper about spatial data mining algorithms to retrieve trends about local business services (such as google places.. etc) let's say most rated restaurants this week.. etc ? I need scientific material about it. thanks


Google Analytics Liked Tool to Detect Visitor IP Address

I was wondering is there any free google analytics tool, which I can detect my visitor IP address? I try to use statcounter, but they are only limit the log to 500 entries. The reason I ask, because I want to detect Adsense click fraud activity on my web site. Thank you.


Accepting money on a website as payment: when do I move past PayPal?

I have a website I accept payments via PayPal. This works well, at what point does it make sense to change providers, given PayPal takes a higher percentage than some other services. What are the best alternatives to PayPal and how much should I be bringing in to have it make sense?


Using a CDN for CMS software (multiple sites)

I'm currently researching ideas for the media management side of a CMS I'm writing. I was looking at having images served from a CDN which is fine on a single site, but I want all sites that run the CMS to make use of a CDN (which will most likely be a custom developed one, rather than a third party service like S3). My main question is: **Is a multi-site CDN a good idea?** I can't think of a downside, but have probably missed something - obviously they won't share the same folder, as I invisage the requests to be `css.cdnsite.com/example.com/style.css` or something along those lines. Having multiple sites in the same place will obviously make it easier for us to manage, as well as being cheaper, but then I wonder if it'll be worth it... Long story short: **How should the CMS handle user uploaded media (separate installations)** Just keep a local copy of all assets and serve them from the same site, like in days of yore? Keep a local copy, force site to use `www.` and have CDN subdomains per site? Or use a single separate CDN for all sites? Apologies for the length of this question, not sure if this should be multiple questions or not, as all parts are kind of related and could affect each other.


301 redirect all pages with a specific extension

I have a website that is not on ASP anymore, it's a Drupal 7 website now. _**I need to use an .htaccess file to redirect with code 301 all pages with .asp extension to the 404 page or a specific URL._** (Background story: Drupal will catch non-existing pages such as `domain.com/test` and redirect to 404 page. But Drupal will not catch non- existing pages with ASP extension such as `domain.com/test.asp` and it will instead serve a generic Not Found Apache page.) For example, if someone tries to access `domain.com/test.asp`, the user should be taken to `domain.com/404` I have searched and searched but I can't find a solution to this particular problem. How can I code that in an .htaccess file?


Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting?

it's quite a long time Analytics is making me crazy: I have a 2 years old website, started with Aruba (an Italian provider) and then transfered on Hostgator. It's a blog Wordpress + MyBB forum, and on both the platforms I've the Analytics code in the footer. The problem is that the stats on Analytics are simply ridiculous compared to the numbers reported by the Aruba (before) and Hostgator (then). I think that the numbers of Aruba/Hostgator are correct, simply because just the daily users connected on the forum is higher than the Analytics numbers. I know it's a really confused request, but maybe you can help me to understand what's the problem.


Is CPanel: SSL certificate installed correctly?

My web host said they installed an SSL certificate for me. On Cpanel, in the SSL tab, is has the following:               SSL status   Enabled        CA certificate   Not installed         Is this what it should say if they have done the job properly?


How to present videos for Google Bot

i have a website which streams Flash Videos. For Google i have a special page due to using AJAX for normal Users (see articles on "_escaped_fragment_" for this). What i want to know is how i should present the Video in the Crawler optimized Page so GoogleBot can most easily recognize the video and maybe even add it to their Google Video search?


Wordpress blog in subdirectory of ASP.NET webforms application

I am trying to setup a Wordpress blog to run in the subdirectory of an ASP.NET wbforms application so I can have http://www.myapplication.com/blog I have Wordpress running on IIS 7 fine as it's own application but when I create the 'blog' subdirectory and set it to be an application with the Wordpress folder as the application root. I keep coming up against a configuration error...               HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error     Config Error    Configuration section not allowed to be set below application      I've done quite a bit of searching on this and I have tried modifying the applicationHost.config file to set the following value...               <section name="modules" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication" overrideModeDefault="Deny" />      But the configuration errors persist. Can anyone suggest any other config changes I need to make to allow the Wordpress application to run in the /blog subdirectory?


What document types can be included in an XML sitemap?

AFAIK, Google accepts sitemaps which are about ordinary URLs (text/plain), images (image/png, image/gif, image/jpg, etc.), and videos (video/avi, video/mpeg, etc.). My question is, how many Internet Media Types (formerly known as MIME Types) can have sitemaps. For example, if I'm a researcher, can I create a sitemap for my PDF files (application/pdf), or can a compose create a sitemap for his/her compositions (audio/mpeg3)?


Bad links point to old domain - should I disavow on new domain?

I am working with a site which we'll call `www.newdomain.com`, which was hit by Penguin this month despite no unusual practices. I found lots of really spammy links to their old site, `www.olddomain.com`, which 301s to the new domain. So I've gone through the process of identifying which links are really bad, made contact to ask for removal, and am at the stage of disavowing links. But wait! None of the bad links point to `newdomain.com`, and I worry that a disavow request via this domain in Webmaster Tools will damage something.   1. Do the old band links affect the new site?   2. If so, where do I disavow those old bad links? On Webmaster Tools for the new domain?


Why is my Custom HTML tag not fired in Google Webmaster Tools

I have a Custom HTML tag in Google Webmaster tools that is actually very simple. It consists of the following code (a GTM Macro):               {{html generator}}      This tag is only fired on the Thank-you page on my website. This firing rule works fine, as I'm using it for a couple of other tags. The Custom Javascript {{html generator}} macro is more complex. The macro generates one or two image pixels in HTML. Due to the complexity of the image pixels, I cannot use the Custom Image tag. :                     Via console.log I have verified that the macro Javascript function generates the correct string. Why is the HTML not executed? I don't believe it is a caching issue as the query parameters always have a different outcome. I believe it is a timing issue. Update: I think I found a solution, but still it is unclear to me why it did not work in the first place. Solution:                     This solution requires you to check the box: []Support document.write


Configuring an MX record for Amazon's Route 53

I am using Amazon Route 53 and have a correctly functioning `A` record pointing to an EC2 instance at `mydomain.com.au` with a Django stack running. My problem is, I tried to setup a Postfix mailserver but I could not receive mail, so I figured my problem is with the `MX` record (since local mail worked). This is what I have got for my `MX` record and just wanted to confirm if it is correct, or if it's nonsense:               (Settings as per AWS interface)     Name: left it blank (mydomain.com.au)     Value: 10 titan.mydomain.com.au      I have used "titan" because it's the hostname of my server - should I use "mail" instead? I keep seeing this on the web but can't find an explanation of if it's arbitrary. I want the e-mails to work such that `user@mydomain.com.au` gets delivered to the server. I have looked at this question and this one too, but didn't find an answer in them.


Google Analytics API: Issue with segment in which a page has NOT been visited

I have a simple funnel situation. The users start at /start/ . Some of them reach the result at /result/ and obviously some don't. So it seems logical to me that:               users who went to the start page  =       user who did see the result page afterwards     + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards      However my results are   * users who went to the start page << user who did see the result page afterwards + user who did NOT see the result page afterwards   * user who did see the result page afterwards is smaller than users who went to the start page and has about the same pageview ration as the api calls tell me.   * user who did NOT see the result page afterwards is just 10% smaller than users who went to the start page Does somebody know why? The calls are run via the spreadsheet addin to the API. all three calls share these attributes:   * Metric: ga:users   * no filter   * are for the last 30 days   * Sampling: HIGHER_PRECISION The segments differ for each call   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$;->>ga:pagePath=~/result/.*   * users::sequence::ga:pagePath=~/start/$;->>ga:pagePath!~/result/.* Does anybody have a hint? Thank you so much!


How do I server multiple domains from the same directory and codebase without my configuraton breaking when apache.conf is overwritten?

I have 20 domains on a VPS running cPanel. One public_html is filled with code, the remaining 19 are symbolic links to that one. (For example, `assets` is a directory within `public_html` ... for the 19 others, there's a symbolic link to that directory in each each accounts `public_html` dir.) It's all PHP / MySQL database driven, with content changing depending on the domain. It works like a charm, assuming cPanel has `suExec` enabled correctly, and assuming apache.conf does NOT have `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` enabled. However, every few weeks, my `apache.conf` is mysteriously overwritten, re- enabling `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch`, and disabling all 19 linked sites for as long as it takes for me to notice. Here's the offending line in apache.conf:               <Directory "/">         AllowOverride All         Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks IncludesNOEXEC Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     </Directory>      The addition of `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` disables the sites in a strange way ... the html is generated correctly, but all css/js/image in the html fails to load. Clicking any link redirects to `/`. And I have no idea why. I do have a few things in my `.htaccess`, which work fine when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` is not present:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         # www.example.com -> example.com         RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]         RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]              # Remove query strings from static resources         RewriteRule ^assets/js/(.*)_v(.*)\.js           /assets/js/$1.js [L]         RewriteRule ^assets/css/(.*)_v(.*)\.css         /assets/css/$1.css [L]         RewriteRule ^assets/sites/(.*)/(.*)_v(.*)\.css  /assets/sites/$1/$2.css [L]              # Block access to hidden files and directories           RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d [OR]         RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f         RewriteRule "(^|/)\." - [F]              # SLIR ... reroute images to image processor         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/images/.*$         RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]              # ignore rules if URL is a file         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         # ignore rules if URL is not php         #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$              # catch-all for routing         RewriteRule . index.php [L]     </ifModule>      I also use most of the 5G Blacklist 2013 for protection against exploits and other depravities. Again, all of this works great, except when `SymLinksIfOwnerMatch` gets added back into apache.conf. Since I've failed to find the cause of whatever cPanel/security update is overwriting apache.conf, I thought there might be a more correct way to accomplish my goal using group permissions. I've created a 'www' group, added all accounts to the group, and `chmod -R`'d the code source to use that group. Everything is `644` or `755`. But doesn't seem to be enough. My unix isn't that strong. Do you need to restart something for group changes to take effect? Probably not. Anyways, I'm entering unknown territory. Can anyone recommend the right way to configure a website for multiple sites using one codebase that doesn't rely on apache.conf?


Running Microsoft's IE VPCs on Windows 8

I am trying to run Microsoft's VPC VMs on Windows 8 but no luck. As you may know, Microsoft's Virtual PC software doesn't work on Windows 8. They are recommended to use their new virtualisation technology, Hyper-V, instead of Virtual PC. Okay, fair enough, but the problem is, OSes requires to re-activate when I bind them with a new VM. I extracted the VM's spec from VPC versions and tried to create exact machine but it doesn't work either. So, I need to find a way to work with old IE versions on Windows 8, preferably with those VMs.


Do multiple Google Analytics profiles share the same raw data?

I have two profiles under one web site in Google Analytics. The two profiles are essentially the same except one has defined parameters to exclude (e.g. id, page... etc) so that I could aggregate the page views while ignoring parameters. Now I begin to think it's a bad idea because my mail chimp (integrated with Google Analytics) only reports campaign data in one profile and not the other. Does data go into one profile and not the other? My impression was that Google Analytics stores all data in one huge database, and all views (profile, dashboard, statistics... etc) are all just database queries -- and even if I deleted profile and recreate it I'd still get the same data. Is this true? Or does each profile hold its own set of data, not shared with other profiles?


"pretty urls" with only JavaScript content changing

I have a small webapp that uses a single HTML file, but accepts any URL in the directory. I'm using mod_rewrite to make all of these send index.html. The index page may be accessed at, for example, either of these, but also any other number.   * http://stacklint.aboutscript.com/   * http://stacklint.aboutscript.com/18327507 Will I be penalized in search rankings if Google sees all of these URLs having the same HTML source? Should I declare all of these pages as canonical to the root?


Host website on UNIX, but email on Windows?

Client has web hosting and email hosting from one web provider. Their email hosting is integrated with their systems for their office — an Exchange server (located on their premises). Both are on a Windows server (the same one, TBC — security problem?), but this web host does not support PHP, a problem for:   * WordPress on a subdirectory   * PHP contact form scripts   * PHP includes Nor does it support .htaccess — a problem for things that I have built into the site:   * Redirects/404   * Various other enhancements Client has agreed to move the website over to either a UNIX server with the same web host, or I can also suggest another (cheaper/better) one. The email can remain hosted on the Windows server (as I understand Exchange will not work on Apache). Will it be possible to seamlessly and easily do this? Likely by changing A/CNAME/NS/MX settings for the domain?


Will ranking be affected with a mobile XML sitemap for a mobile site with the same URLs as the desktop site?

We have a site with both a desktop version and a mobile version. Most of the content are the same and both versions have the same URL, but the HTML generated is device specific. Looking at Google's recommendations for smartphone-optimized sites, one could get the impression that the mobile xml sitemap is only for sites with different URLs. Will ranking be affected - negatively or positively - if we add a mobile xml sitemap that effectively will be a duplicate of the desktop sitemap?


lazy loading images and effects on SEO

We are using the following technique to lazy load images in our site: For all images we put in the `src` attribute a url for a default img (i.e. a loader) and put the actual image url in the `data-src` attribute. Like so               <img src="loader.gif" data-src="img1.jpg" />      When the image is outside of the viewport nothing happens, but when the image goes inside the viewport, then the url from the `data-src` attribute is loaded and the image is correctly shown. This has as a result that Google sees all the images in the page (i.e. a search results page) as having the same `src` attribute. Because the google bot of course parses only the 'unloaded' img tag with the default `src`. My question is: **does having many img tags with the same`src` attribute affect the SEO of the page**?


Apache show file index as utf-8

I'm on a shared hosting which runs Apache on a Windows server. I am running Linux and I have uploaded some files that should be accessible directly via a public URL (that is known only by a few people). Now, some of these files contains accented characters (ex: "encyclopédie.pdf") but the file index show the files with replacement symbols (ex: "encyclopÃ©die.pdf"). Can I correct this via `.htaccess` specifying the charset of the index? Or do I have to rename the files without accents?


In Google Analytics, collect the site search query parameter only on a specific page

I've set up site-search for our main Google Analytics profile, which filters GET named "q". While this works nicely, it also collects data from our starting page (which contains a dealer locator which also uses the "q" parameter to search). Is there any way to seperate two different search engines, which use the same query parameter?


Finding a Payment Gateway?

I have a client who would like to sell glass pipes online. The problem I run into is with the payment gateway. Glass pipes fall into two categories `drug paraphernalia` or `tobacco product`. This leads me to here and asking: Does anyone know of a payment gateway that will process payments for glass pipes? Note: Doing some Google searching I read that Authorize.net will accept tobacco but when I spoke with them they said they do not.


Is this DFP error message the reason my ad won't show?

I'm setting up DFP to display ads and I have an ad tag (Javascript) from adtechus.com. The tag looks like this:               <script src="http://adserver.adtechus.com/?adrawdata/1.0/1111/11111/0/0/ADTECH;loc=100;noperf=1;"></script>      When I paste that tag into DFP, I get an error message saying it does't recognize the tag format: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xEGFB.png) ...and, more importantly, my ad isn't showing on the page. DFP seems to be taking my adtechus ad tag regardless and working with it, despite the error message. But could that be the reason my ad isn't showing? And how can I fix it?


Why would anyone need my registrar information for a new web site?

I work for a company that has an older website. We hired a firm to update our web site and index it properly. I have control of the actual domain name. I created an FTP site for them to use, but they are also asking for my registrar account and password. The only explanation I have gotten so far is that they need it for "indexing" the site to search engines. Is this a valid reason, or is their any valid reason they would need my registration information?


Multiple or single web site for company and subsidiaries

I work for a company that is specialized in servers & networking Equipment. The company holds 3 subsidiaries that have different IT activities (software Engineering & application performance management, IT security, Oracle based business applications). Each subsidiary has its own identity (Name, logo). We are thinking about rebuilding the company website and the main question I struggle on is to either create a single web site for the company and the subsidiaries, or to create one for each subsidiary. In the first scenario, the visitor have to dig deep to reach the information he wants. In the second one, he may miss an information that might be of interest. Are there any best practices or existing cases I should know about. Thanks in advance


Google AdSense ads per page limitations

In the Google's Ad placement policies stated that the limitation is "up to 3". However there are lots of sites having 6 or even more ads per one single page. Moreover on some site there is information that the limitation is actually - 6. So I'm a bit confused. How the things in real?


Competitor's website uses duplicate description meta tags

I have found that a website which appears above mine for a certain popular keyword combination has duplicated the Description meta tag. Is this bad practice? Is it something that Google might notice?


Responsive CSS grid having capability to change column order visually

Trying to find a responsive CSS grid with the capability to change column order visually. E.g., I have content before navigation, but visually it should be vise versa: left navigation, right content. I know ZURB's Foundation has this capability (pull, push) but I need something ready for production.


Kloxo - Use third party nameserver

Here's my case: I got my domain from a registrar. I got my VPS up from a provider who also offers free DNS hosting, on their own server (separately from my VPS, IP:111.111.111.111). So I got these third- party nameservers, lets name them:   * ns1.provider.com    * ns2.provider.com and pointed my domain registrar to them. I let it propagate for 24 hours so I believe its ok. (if I ping my domain I get the IP for these nameservers - 111.111.111.111) Afterwards I headed to my providers cPanel (the one they gave me for the DNS hosting service) and changed the default A Record IP from 111.111.111.111 to the IP associated with my VPS (IP:222.222.222.222). The last step, as I see it, is to configure my VPS via Kloxo panel and add the domain. Can someone guide me how can I achieve that? Is it just enough to create a new DNS Template and add as Primary DNS "ns1.provider.com" and Secondary DNS "ns2.provider.com"? Every tutorial I found is using Kloxo to create local nameservers on the same VPS which is something I want to avoid to save resources..


Consequence of redirecting ALL 404s on a site

I've just gone through my sites 404 list and redirected all of them to the front page. There were in general 2 categories of links. The first was relative links of client sites which we may have hosted (we are a web development company), which somehow have ended up relative to our URL. The second were links which were very general, most likely used by spam bots to register on the site (we have blocked all anonymous registration). **My questions is:** Should I not have done this? If any of these are spam style links from another site, will redirecting them to my front page actually harm my SEO ranking? How do other users deal with a list of 404 errors?


Pages wrapped in a form element. What effect would this have on SEO or other machine-readability?

I'm helping somebody with a site and I've noticed that all the main pages are wrapped inside a form. I mean:               <body>       <form>        [ everything in the page ]       </form>     </body>      Now I'm an experienced frontend dev, and find this markup horrendous. It's technically permitted, as a form can contain any flow content, but it's semantically horrible. Most of these pages don't even contain form child elements (input, select, etc.). However, in this case I'm only helping them with usability and findability, I'm not re-doing their frontend code. Will this weird use of a form mess up search ranking, or otherwise impact on automated parsing of a page, such as in assistive technology like screen readers?


Do advertisers use the keyword meta-tag to find potentially relevant websites?

A couple of days ago, I have read somewhere (but I can't find the page anymore) that one should set a `keyword` meta-tag with relevant keywords, because advertising networks use these to find potentially interesting websites for advertising. Is this true? This question is not related to ranking.


Can I tell Google which image to use for the preview in custom search?

I currently use Google custom search for my static site. When I use it, I sometimes get images next to the entry: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TkwQg.png) I think Google simply takes the first image in the article. But I would rather like it to take the featured image (which is most of the time not in the article at all, but much smaller than all images that are in the articles and shows the topic of the article much better). **How can I tell Google which image to use for the preview?**


Non-international domain names and SEO

My current domain name is meow.fr. However, the website is in French AND English (we can switch the language, and it's not automatic translation, it's truly a multilingual website). Still, the websites is still visited mostly by French (coming from Google), and not many english speakers. Why that? Should I get a .com / .org instead?


How to find the content that are directly copied from other websites?

We're managing a client's website for SEO. We have recently found that some of the content on my client's website are directly copied from other websites. As a solution provider we have recommended to replace the content with original content. Is there are way we can find out this. Any suggestion to speed up this process would helpful.


What should I know about shopping carts? (terms & services)

I'm building my first shopping cart. Is there something I should know about shopping carts? For example, should I tell my customer that he should prepare a terms & services document? My customer has a small shop of cosmetics. I would like to know all what I should know.


Why is the PageRank for my website listed as "unavailable" in this tool?

I usually check my site up at SEO Site Checkup. Now, my site isn't top-notch, and I don't expect it to have a high PageRank, but SEO Site Checkup says the PageRank is **unavailable** for my site (that's different from a PageRank of 0 or 2...). What does "unavailable" mean in this case, and how do I achieve a PageRank number? Here's a screenshot: ![SEO Site Checkup says my site's PR is unavailable](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vPebx.png) By the Way: My sitemaps have been submitted to Google, I didn't receive any messages in Webmaster Tools, and my webpages have been indexed by Googlebot. If you search `site:example.com` in Google for example, you get results from my site, meaning that my site is indexed. It's just that it never appears in real, natural searches (not `site:` based ones), and my PageRank is listed as "`unavailable`".


Any other services like MouseTrace? How useful is it?

I just need to know if there are any alternatives to mousetrace - http://www.mousetrace.com


Is it possible to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS?

I need to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS, My DNS server have much more options that I do need. Instead of setting cloudflare as my dns server, I have added it as a NS record from the `www` subdomain only. And at my DNS server I have added a forward from `domain.com` to `www.domain.com`. It appears to be working fine, however, my cloudflare is giving me: "websites" --> > "Finishing up. Waiting for your name servers to change to ***** Please allow > up to 24 hours to complete this process (info)" "dashboards" --> > "Analytics data could not be loaded. > > You do not have any initialized zones" Is there anything I need to worry about here ?


Google Webmaster Tools change domain from third level

I had a blog running on Tumblr on `foobar.tumblr.com` and at some point I thought I'd just get `foobar.com` and set that up as a custom domain. Yet, as far as I can tell, there is no way I can communicate Google a change of domain from third to second level, other than setting up 301 everywhere (e.g. there is no reference here, and the change domain option in Webmaster Tools is disabled). While the redirects are not an issue (Tumblr does that automatically) it seems strange that such a common operation can't be helped, and at the moment I see both domains in search results, which appears mighty strange. Is there something else I could do other than wait for the old domain to disappear?


Is it okey to start link building before my site get indexed?

Self explanatory question. If you have a fresh new site which is not yet indexed by google. Is it okey to start with link building or i should wait to google index my site?


How do I remove a picture from my wordpress site

I need to remove the gavel picture on this page but I still want it to be the featured images http://myradiocentral.com/2010/11/05/the-great-radio-auction/


What is the way to properly implement a Facebook Like button on a page for best SEO purposes?

On our site we want to put a Facebook Like button/widget-thingy. It is possible to create a like button, where the URL associated with the button is the page it sits on, rather than a Facebook page. I would imagine that pointing a Like button to a FB page allows for the tracking of conversations, which in the end does help SEO. In order to maximize our SEO efforts, which of the following is the best- practices method: Add a Like button to a page; button points to the Facebook page. That Facebook page then points to the original page where the Like button is on OR Add a Like button to a page; button points to the page the Like button is on, without creating a Facebook page (self-referencing)


Alternative titles or aliases for SEO

I am creating content pages with titles of pages for a non-English language where several words are read similarly.   * _Satya Harish Chandra_   * _Sathya Hareesh Chandhra_ This is the name of a movie which can be written in more 6 possible ways given each word can be written in 2 ways. Some times, more than 3-4 ways is possible with multiple _ee_ and _d_ instead of _th_ etc. A user can search for any of the combinations. I wanted to know if we can feed in similar data to Google and avoid duplicate content by having search engines learn that its the same content or data. Is there a way to link or point the content as an alias page or define dictionary words for aliases so that search engines make sense out of it?


Top and bottom gradient using CSS

I have a background that has a top and bottom gradient and I want it to show on a container layer. The problem is the bottom gradient since it has to appear at the very end of the container div. Any ideas? Here's some example code & imgur photo:

Dynamic stuff goes in here that differs on every page

      http://imgur.com/XAaIx The above code only shows the gradient at the top, but is there another way to achieve this effect?


Why does the website heading on pubvantage.com display arbitrary text when it is listed in google search results?

the website www.pubvantage.com has a permanent redirect to http://exchange.contextweb.com/sellingdesk/pubvantage/. The problem is, when a user enters the query +"pubvantage" in google, the site (www.pubvantage.com) displays with the header text of "Ken Lauer." Ken has nothing to do with the website, and his name appears nowhere in the source code. How can I change this?


Is there any SEO risk of using Javascript instead of real links?

Essentially I have a client who wants to change some links from something like:               Click me      to something like:               Click me           Essentially this would make the "Click me" text in the same way minus a few advanced link features (Mouse3 opens link in new tab, right clicking to see "Open in New Window" and other options, etc) also it would obvously not work for anything with Javascript disabled (or if Javascript on the page had any fatal errors) Are there any SEO downsides to this that anyone has experienced or any kind of comments from Google or others on this type of behavior?


Multilingual and SEO URLs - best practice?

What would you recommend as a URL structure for setting up a multilingual site when optimizing for SEO? I'm thinking:               www.yoursite.com/en/some-category/some-article/     www.yoursite.com/sv/en-kategori/en-artikel/ (Swedish)      Or would you prefer creating a subdomain (i.e. `sv.yoursite.com`) or similar instead? From what I know it seems easier integrating a `/language/` directory when in combination with .htaccess.


Do heavy graphics and/or a high load time affect a site's search rankings?

Does the use of heavy graphics/images (with `img` tag or in the CSS) effect a site's Google ranking? Sometimes sites are heavy because of the images used or Flash or lots of JavaScript - making the loading times higher. Does the loading time also effect a site's Google ranking? I've mentioned Google, but the question applies to all search engines.


Buying a web domain

I am planning to redirect my blog at blogger to my own domain. But I am confused by various options available outside. I see options like domain registration, bundled site hosting, design templates and more in Yahoo. GoDaddy offers just domain name at a price. There is one local provider who provides 10 free email accounts along with domain registration. Now I am just wondering which option to choose? Can I buy one domain and use it as custom domain in Blogger?


Does Googlebot support TLS v1.2? If not, what will my TLS v1.2-only site look like to it?

I currently redirect all non-HTTPS connections to HTTPS, and support TLS v1, TLS v1.1, and TLS v1.2. I reconfigured my testing server to accept only a very limited and secure cipher suite and TLSv1.2 only. Upon running the SSL Labs test I noticed that their compatibility chart showed Bing's and Google's crawlers as not supporting beyond TLSv1. Is this still accurate? I have not been able to find mention of the bots' protocol support anywhere except on the SSL Labs results page. **Does Googlebot really only support TLS v1? If I support only TLS v1.2 and Googlebot is unable to connect to my site, what status will Google consider it to be in?**


How does this site count clicks?

I found this site, http://psncardgenerator.com/ It has a unique ID generator, and click counter. I understand how the ID was made, but don't understand how the counter was made. Does anyone know? (I'm not promoting the site, since you can see I'm not even using an ID, I'm just interested to how they count the clicks.)


Is info@mydomain a bad choice for the sender and reciever of bulk email newsletters

Is it bad to use `info@mydomain.com` as the sender and receiver for bulk email newsletters? Would it be better to use, for example `newsletter@mydomain.com`. I realise there are many factors that effect the spam score but ceteris paribus would this have an effect? Would some spam filters give info@ a negative rating or should I not be to concerned about this?