Drupal 7 shared cloud hosting problem

I'm hosting one drupal 7 website on site5.com cloud shared hosting and it seems to be that drupal cache queries go very slow on almost every table that starts with name cache_... This site is using 1-2 custom modules, i18 module only for front page text, about 13 custom types fields and has about 650 nodes. Now site has been used only me and my client. I contact hosting and they say that problem aren't their, but I have been thinking, I have one drupal 7 site, with webshop in croatia with 7000 nodes and active 30 users per seconds on poor host and everything is going well. My questions are, it can be something with a new drupal 7 update (7,19) or my website is really that slow (highly doubt) or cloud shared hosting is only a cheap trick from site5.com?


how to make backlinks for Malayalam sites either english or Malayalam

I am new to SEO.I need help ? The website is fully in Malayalam content so how to make backlinks?But keyword is English. any body pls help me


Google news not showing images from my site

I have a question for you. One of the sites I'm working on has been accepted in Google news. Now, my issue is that most of the time,no image is fetched, while some other times a related image from another website is shown instead. I have read somewhere that the image needs to be nearby or in the title tag - is it so? Any idea what I am doing wrong?


Track Promotional Code Sales

Is there a way I can track actual sales on purchases utilizing Promo or Discount Codes obtained through my site? My site will link to e-commerce sites where users can use those promo codes on their purchases to save money. My site will not actually be selling any items, it is all referrals to other sites. I want this to be done outside of any 3rd party commission platform such as Commission Junction or LinkShare. Thanks!


Does page impression get counted for unique visits?

in Google adsense, if a user from any territory revisits page impression is getting updated but that eCPM is not getting updated its showing zero only, does it work only for unique visitors? Thanks Sneha


What should I do if I have 2 UI tabs with content that allows the user to access the same page?

I created an employee review application that has top-level stateful tabs just like the ones on this site. There is a tab called "My Employees" and a tab called "Employee Management" (used by HR only). The issue that I have is that when you are on the "My Employees" tab or the "Employee Management" tab, the associated information that is displayed both give the user access to the "View Employee" page. So right now, since you can access the "View Employee" page from both of these tabs, I am deactivating all tabs when the user is viewing that page. I'm doing this because I don't know which tab to have active. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there a better UI navigation technique that I should be using if I have these types of scenarios, or does this indicate a flaw in the UI design in general? Is it ok for "View Employee" to be accessable from 2 tabs? Should I just use stateless tabs (buttons) or is that poor design as well? Thanks and I appreciate any help you can provide.


Using Google Webmaster & Analytics, what data to look at to improve website performance?

Using data from Google Analytics and Webmaster tools, what data should I be looking at to improve my websites performance? I want to improve the SEO, usability and just general performance of my website. EDIT: It's a portfolio website that we've done the initial SEO for, also optimised all images etc and made the site as fast as possible. What kind of things should I be looking out for in the analytics and webmaster data to improve performance for both the SEO and each individual page. EDIT: Is there kind of a weekly/monthly checklist of things to check to improve SEO and performance.


Using nofollow when crosslinking my own sites

I have 20 sites in the same domain, different niches and I want to interlink them for USER EXPERIENCE. I want to know from someone who tested this: Will using a nofollow attribute for the links keep the sites safe from google link scheme penalties?


Will search engines penalize spam links in Facebook comments for websites?

I have many static HTML web pages in which I had used Facebook comments. A user had posted a spam link in one of the page's comments. I logged in as a moderator and deleted it, banned the user, and marked it as spam. Yet Facebook displayed the message: `Comments from USERNAME will only be visible to his friends. Undo`. As the message says, it provided an undo link. The problem is in the future when search engine bots crawl Facebook comments, and if they use the links posted in the comment which lead to spam websites, then I may get a penalty for linking to spam sites. So how do I remove the comments entirely from Facebook, so that not even the user's friends would see it? May be if only their friends can see it then search engines cannot crawl it. But if his friends use those links then that might add a link to the target site, which leads to my site being the referral to the span site. So what should be done?


List of all URI elements for a website

Does anyone know a good way of getting a list of all the URI elements for a website? I plan on moving a website to a new CMS and would like to setup some 301 redirects for articles, images, css, and js files that will be moved to a new location. I'm looking for somewhat of a "site sucker" application that creates a list of URI elements for a website, instead of downloading them.


Multiple top level domains - should I redirect/rewrite or leave them?

I have a website which has many top level domains e.g.   * mywebsite.com   * mywebsite.org   * mywebsite.co.uk   * mywebsite.org.uk The website is advertised as `mywebsite.org.uk`. But I expect lots of people will type `mywebsite.com` or `mywebsite.org` because its more familiar/easier. I could just leave the url alone or I could redirect visitors to the "correct" `mywebsite.org.uk` domain. Is there any guidance on what I should do?


SEO to avoid possible duplicate content

My website is about bands and musicians, but I have two problems with it: 1.) A musician can create a profile and add his bio. Bands can also create a profile and add band members and their bio. Many musicians are members of several bands, so I will have the bios of them repeated on several pages of my website. Any idea how to control this since the site will be populated and controlled more or less by its users? Here's an example: A band has 10 members and will create a "band" profile. Lets say half of the band members will create their own profiles, while half don't care and will never do this, or they have it on some other website and won't bother doing it again on my website. 2.) If musicians will have bios on my website, there is also a (huge) possibility that they also have their own website with the same bio that will just be copy-pasted, or have the same bio on MySpace and similar websites, which will again result in duplicate content. If I disable the option for users to add their bios, then the whole concept of the website doesn't make sense.


What is the screen size used by Google's PageSpeed Insights for mobile previews?

Google's PageSpeed Insights allows one to check a website's speed issues for both desktop and smartphone devices. I have some media query CSS for smartphones on my website, but I am unsure about PageSpeed's smartphone screen size. Does anyone know the screen width?


Why does internet explorer want to preload these 2 linked html pages?

After running a WebPagetest.org for one of the pages of our website, I noticed - because of the red marked http file not found errors - that Internet Explorer (IE) wants to preload two html pages after the last javascript has been loaded. Not all linked html pages are being preloaded by IE. The undesired page preloading happens with both IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10. The links are encapsulated within a `li` tag, to be precise the path is: `html > body > ul > li > a` . I can't prevent this unwanted IE page pre-loading by adding a `rel="nofollow"` to the link: http://crashplan.probackup.nl/bugs/ie-link-will-preload- page/a-rel-nofollow2.en.html and an IE8 test result. Why does Internet Explorer want to preload these specific linked html pages in the first place, and how to prevent this undesired preload?


What would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted

I am thinking to transfer all my domains to one registerer so that the control will be easy. But I am a little bit worried about the following question: what would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted?


Can a registrar ransom a domain name which has become popular?

I am slightly paranoid about my domain name I have. I think the site I am building could have potential and take off in the future. I am worried though if the people I registered the domain name with might try and extort more money off me or take away my domain name for themselves. I am guessing when Google first started out they must have bought their domain name through a registrar, so how did they get to keep a hold of it and make sure no one stole it from them or prevent the company they registered it with extorting more money from them? How much do you think Google pay to keep their domain name? Do you think its still the original price they paid back all those years ago? Do registrars do this? If so, what is the likelihood it could happen with my domain name? How can I protect my domain name? Who actually owns a domain name? Maybe I am just being paranoid but I would hate to see that when my domain needs renewal the cost jumps from $10 to like $1 million dollars etc.


How to manage and organize 'requests' for website updates from a variety of departments: To Do List

I am taking on the responsibility of managing two websites (Wordpress) for nonprofit societies. I receive multiple requests for mini-content changes from a variety of committees and departments. As a volunteer, I'm hoping to park these requests into a chart or to do list that I can then use to work through a slew of easy, one minute content changes all in one go. I considered creating an excel sheet for this, but then thought that the professionals on PW.SE might be able to point to a template or to-do-tracking system that is already done up and better thought out than what I could cob together. When it's time to work, I need to direct myself to the page that needs updating, input/upload the desired changes, and then check it off the list.


Is there an easy way to see amount of gzip compression in Chrome

I am busy checking how my webserver is doing gzip. I'm confident now that gzip is on as chrome shows the content-encoding: gzip header. Is there a easy way to see how much a file was compressed in the Chrome developer tools?


Google spam report, have they ever punished a bad site you reported?

You have reported a bad site on Google Webmaster Tools SPAM report. Assuming you are sure it was a bad site, **did you see Google punishing it or doing something after your report?** Thanks


What do you look at when viewing competitors websites?

BradB's post has me thinking about competitors websites, what do you look at, and how long do you spend doing it? I thinking along the lines of content (how much, how well written), site structure, SEO techniques.


Creating a facebook page with your domain name

I want to create a facebook page that has my domain name like this : http://www.facebook.com/TrimHold But I can't find the way. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks.


Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name?

Both in terms of `SEO` and user friendliness, is it better to put hyphens in a multi-words domain name or not ? For example, is `www.stackoverflow.com` better than `www.stack-overflow.com` ?


Should I include dash in domain name?

Willing to buy a new domain name, I wonder if it worths in SEO terms by including a keyword with a dash or it would be better avoid dashes? Without a dash, it can be unreadable. See below:               www.psychologist-smith.com     or     www.psycologistsmith.com     or     www.smith.com


Best SEO URL name for two word searches

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name? QUESTION: What would work better for a two word search string as "green shoes"? Acquiring the domain greenshoes.com OR domain green-shoes.com? Or another? Any other tips on how to score high with two word searches Help appreciated!


which domain is better for SEO purpose?

i'm building a website to convert PSD files to PNG and i have two options to choose a domain:   1. convert-psdtopng.com   2. convertpsdpng.com I need the word convert to be there too. Which one do you think is better to rank on "convert psd to png" keyword? Thanks!


Do you think that adding a dash (-) in domain names would impact in SEO?

For example, do you think that google and other search engines make a difference when one domain name is like www.siteaboutsoccer.com and other named www.site-about-soccer.com ? Is it better to separate the keywords ?


Using a hyphen in the domain name

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I am looking to buy a domain where the obvious choices have already been purchased. Example: `domaintest.com` or `domaintest.co.uk` So, I am looking to mix things up a little with a hyphen. Example: `domain-test.com` or `domain-test.co.uk` I have been looking around the web & stack to get a solid picture of why or why not to use hyphens in the domain and am a little confused. The key factors for me are usability (can users remember the domain, can they type it easily on a phone etc..) and seo. Ian


SEO domain keyword adventage - alltogether.com or all-different-words.com?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I have heard that if someone searches for a term, and your domain name matches that term (e.g. stackexchange.com ranks well for "stack exchange"). If there are 2 (or more) words that you are targeting (e.g. "stack exchange"), do you get a better google keyword bonus if you make it alloneword or if you use hypens? e.g. If you want to target the search term "stack exchange", should you register stackexchange.com or stack-exchange.com ?


Domain Name has hyphens and exact match, should I change it?

The blog is currently a blogspot blog. Used part of the name of the real website that I got the idea to start a blog for. Time to get a registered domain for it, instead of the( name.blogspot.com )it is now I got itchy and bought a domain name that has 4 words and hyphens. Also, I believe it is an exact match domain. I see now that hyphens are possibly bad and so maybe are exact match domains. I am not sure if it is wise to use this new domain name or get a different one. Or, if I use this domain name should i just get it with no hyphens, just a run on of 4 words. A different alternative is to use the name of the site i originally started the blog for and add a couple words which I think would be exact matched domain. If I do that should I use hyphens or no hyphens. Summary, Use hyphens or not in domain with 4 words but the 3 word is actually the letter n such as cookies-n-creme for example. Or, use the real websites name plus the two word exact match meaning NAMEwordword.com If I go this route do i use hyphens or not. I hope you can understand this question. Hard for me to put it into typing. The reason it is exact match name is that it is actually descriptive of the blog and I haven't been able to come up with anything descriptive that isn't.


404 errors How to deal with a large number of broken internal links for SEO

I have recently updated my website. In fact I have completely rewritten it using wordpress. It was originally constructed using ASP. In the process, I have recycled a a large amount of my original website. This resulted in a large amount of broken links. Google webmaster tools report more than 30000 broken links and most of them are internal. These mainly result from there being reported links to urls not used anymore. That is links to scrapped, obsolete url from the previous version that does not exist any more. From SEO perspective I have read that if 404 errors are from internal links, it is best to delete the links. When I click on a broken link from the list displayed at health-> crawl errors, google shows me where this broken link appears at 'linked from' tab. When I click on links from 'linked from' , the purported broken link is not displayed on the 'linked from' page. That is the users of my website has no chance of trying to load this broken link. The broken link still shows up in page source. i.e. when i try view page source from chrome. The broken link is usually used in some javascript To clafiry, let www.myhomepage/broken_link be the broken link reported by google webmaster tools. The google 'linked from' tab shows that this url was linked from www.myhomepage/some_other_page. When I view the page source, the broken link is usually in [script type="text/javascript"]var _bpfbRootUrl="www.myhomepage/broken_link";[/script] Again, i read that it is advisable to just delete internal broken links, but there are just so many of them and it would be very time consuming to manually delete each and every of them. What would be the best way to deal with this situation? I would like to avoid using custom 404 page. 302 does not seem like an option either, parsing url using regular expression to not redirect valid pages seem very complicated too Google webmaster tools report that index on my page had been sharply declining since it was rewritten with wordpress and dropped to 10% of original. Thank You.


What is the reason for this site's sudden drop in traffic?

My one site's traffic has dropped in single day from around 4000 to 800 visitors. My other sites are getting normal visitor count. I'm not using any blackhat techniques nor trading links or having a bad neighbourhood or any copied materies. But yes it's a pdf documents download site with bounce rate of 32% and 3.5 pageviews per person. No issues reported in Google webmastertools. I find that for the relevant keywords my site has been pushed far way in Google. What could be the reason? **EDIT** I've uploaded two updated reports( webmaster top keywords and analytics 1 month graph). ![google analytics 1 month graph till yesterday\)28th\)](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fwmLw.jpg) * * * * * * ![Today's updated webmaster's top queries report from 22nd-26th\(Monday\)](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tg1Qs.jpg)


How do I "bind" social networks account to my blog?

My girlfriend has a WordPress blog for a while now, but when we check tools like websiteworth or woorank, it tells us that she has no twitter or G+ account, which is false. Is there a way to "bind" her social network accounts with her blog ?


How can i replicated this functionality?

http://www.astorandblack.com/ab/bespokevisualizer/ (click on "continue as guest") A client wants this "bespoke visualizer" on their site. Is there a third party plugin I can buy for this? It can be in Flash and/or JavaScript, it doesn't matter. Also, if there's no third-party plugin that's similar to this web app, then how could I code this from scratch? Thanks, Steven


Does editing a Wordpress Theme from scratch affect SEO?

I'm a web designer and I'd like to make a custom wordpress theme for my upcoming blog. The template is already made in photoshop but I need a good starting point. I don't have too much experience with Wordpress but I want something that is SEO friendly which I can edit without risking getting poor search results. I Know about Starkers and that there are other blank themes out there, but are they good for SEO?


Unique Visitor count increases when pages are excluded

For a date range greater than one day the total number of Unique Visitors is greater when I exclude pages ending in "foo" than when I look at all pages. The difference is ~4%. Why would this be happening? For daily totals of Unique Visitors the difference disappears and there are slightly fewer Unique Visitors when I exclude pages ending in "foo". Related to this, What is the difference in applying this through Advanced Segments vs. Filters? They both show subtly different answers. Cheers!


Can I view my PC localhost test site on my android tablet without uploading it?

I am working on a web site which is running on my PC via XAMPP. I want to test the site on my android tablet (galaxy tab) to make sure that the responsive design behaves that way it is designed to. I am wondering if there is a way to connect my tablet to my PC in a way that will allow me to view my localhost site on my tablet. This would allow me to fix bugs without having to upload every change.


Web assets and SEO - albums on WordPress

I'm told that it is considered good SEO practice to have multiple digital properties "around" a website. For example, Youtube, Flikr, Social Media pages etc. Fine. I have linked my website to my G+ page, for example. I'm about to upload an album to WordPress. The pictures exist on my G+ album. I was just going to download the pictures from G+ and them re-upload them to my WordPress Gallery. Is there any SEO value in displaying the album directly from G+, rather than downloading and uploading to WordPress? This is a specific example, but what about other digital assets like Youtube videos? What's best practice here? Does this "branch" of SEO, if it exists, have a name?


Local SEO Strategies

What are your strategies for local SEO? For example, if you had a web design company in Lincoln, Nebraska, what would you do for your website from an SEO perspective?


How should I improve my position in map listing?

I don't understand on how the map listing are displaying the results in Google SERP. Please see the below screenshot, I just want to improve my SEO on map listings, but I have no idea to work on this. Anyone have experience on this ? and also why it is not showing for all the keywords and also I noticed it displaying on some browsers and sometimes not on other browser. why this is happening ? > ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fJ39P.png)


Google SEO local ranking

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Local SEO Strategies The new feature on google search which uses local search (like users City), how do we make sure our website is hosted in other countries but content/location is specific city.


Client's website is not showing up as expected in Google local searches or maps

I'm working for a client who runs a wellness center. He has a website as well as a Google Places account for the business. The Google Places account has a lot of tags associated with it that are relevant to the offerings from the center, and yet it doesn't show up on Google maps or in the local search results for really obvious searches like "massage [name of city]". I don't have access to the Google Places account yet, but I'm wondering if there's any way to check to see if there's some obvious problem with how things are set up. I can include the link to the website/Google Places pages. I didn't want to do that right away in case it wasn't allowed. Thanks in advance for any help! It doesn't seem to me like this question is a duplicate of the one indicated. In this case there **is** a Google Places account, but it's not showing up in the local search results or anywhere on the map for anything other than the name of the wellness center itself. If this Google Place account isn't working properly, would it be advisable to create a new one for the same location, re- verify with google, mark the old one for deletion and then hope the new one works better? Are there any obvious configuration issues I should look for that might explain why this center doesn't even show up on the map for a search of "[name of first listed category] [name of city]"? I have worked with Google Places before and never encountered this type of problem.


SEO for multiple counties and cities

I wanted to know the best practices for improving our SEO for service areas. We have a central office but cover all of Northern Virginia for our Web Design services and are currently only ranking in the areas surrounding our office address. How can I improve our SEO for multiple cities and counties? I appreciate the advice! Thank you


I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer. I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway:   1. The average website intends to reach the higher audience possible.   2. User generated content by comments is an efficient way of increasing the relevance and the valuable information of the average website.   3. Indexing comments will make any site attractive to spammers.   4. Indexing comments is more convenient for new/low-traffic websites than it is for old/high-traffic websites.   5. The web in general is currently choosing not to index comments in the average website because of fear to the SPAMMERS.   6. The average author of a content-valuable comment would like his comment to be indexed   7. Not indexing comments discourages the creation of content-valuable comments. So, what do you think finally? Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments? Why?


How to prevent copying of the image folder of your website

How to Prevent copying of the original image folder when the entire website is being copied. Also,what are the measures that should be taken to prevent guessing of the original images.


Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords? I intend to know, how many relevant searches does google display but with thousand of keyword. Actually, I am researching on the competition on various keywords. If there is a tool or a quick way, other than going to google and typing and then entering the keywords.


Track page size of web app for performance

I'm about to start trialling optimisations on my web application (apache & tomcat). My main interest right now is:   * The total page size (including external js files such as jquery)   * The number of GETs per page I'd like to setup a systematic way of measuring the consequences of the various changes I make over time. Are there any tools that are useful for recording a sequence of page hits, playing this back (as I change the config) and record the size of each page ? Ideally I'd like something that can make work with a continuous integration server such as Continuum. Rgds, Kevin.


What should I consider when choosing a hosting provider?

I finished my website. It's awesome! How should I go about selecting a hosting provider? What features should I look for? What "got-chas" should I be aware of?


Adding direct advertisements to a mediawiki installation

I want to add sidebar ads to my mediawiki installation. I am planning on making direct advertisement deals, as opposed to using the built-in adsense/bidvertiser functionality. How do I put the ads in my sidebar?


How to block baidu spiders

Most of my visits are from baidu spiders. I don't think it helps search engines at all so I'm thinking of how to block them. Could this be done via iptables? I'm using nginx as my webserver.


I have a joomla website installed and working good. i installed Qlue404 component which redirects 404 page to a custom page., sometimes when i try the symbols ' and some others the 404 page appears with the message "Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." also it shows the server information *Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at mywebsite.com Port 80* how can i disable this message? i swear this leads to get all information for a hacker to do an Sql Injection.


Sudden decrease in pages crawled per day

During the last few days, Googlebot has crawled much less page in my site than it normally does. I'm not seeing any new errors, and haven't identified a reason for this. Is such a hugh and sudden decrease a sign there is a problem? Can this be just a temporary thing? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xU3G2.png) **Update:** The `Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)` graph remained steady.


Cannot logon to POP server on my VPS or recieve emails

I recently purchased an unmanaged VPS to host my business websites, however I am struggling to get the email accounts working as I have only ever had experience with shared hosting. The VPS is running CentOS and I have Webmin/Virtualmin installed. I have added my domain, which is lyke.org.uk, and that is working OK. However, when I've added a user and tried to access their email account using Apple Mail, I've been able to establish a SMTP connection but I've not been able to login using POP. Furthermore, I've set up squirrelmail and I can send an email to any email address from there but I haven't recieved any that I have sent to that email address from other accounts. I would very much appreciate any help or suggestions as I am completely new to VPS and web hosting without Plesk or cPanel.


multiple domains for one site

I'm maintaining a website of a lodge which has a golf course, a spa and a restaurant and they all have seperate urls. Now, the main Lodge page contains all the content and for now, the other URLs just forward to the specific pages e.g. spa.com forwards to www.lodge.com/spa. Now I assume that this is not the optimal way to make use of these additional domains... now, how do I best go about this? I thought about linking from within my lodge.com page to spa.com as soon as people click on the spa link but then again if someone looks for a lodge with spa e.g. it would rank lower as the spa would appear to be seperate from the lodge... how do i best go about this?


How can I add my website to DMOZ?

I have a new website that I tried to list in DMOZ, but as of now it's still not listed. Please tell me what I have to do so that my website will get listed in DMOZ.


How do you use 'site:' to search Google for just the domain without all the other subdomains appearing?

When I use the `site:` operator to search for domains, it returns all the other matched subdomains as well. However, I only want to see what's indexed for the main site. For example: `site:google.com` returns result of `abc.google.com` as well, but I only want to see what's on `google.com` I don't want to use `site:google.com -site:abc.google.com` since I don't want to enumerate through all the other subdomains. Is there a way to do "exact" match with the `site:` operator?


I have verified my domain through a TXT record by google, however, my site hasn't indexed yet and I face with sitemap errors in google webmaster tool. I run dns health check from http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/ ,and everything seems ok. But as you can see from the snapshot below webmaster gives `General HTTP error: Domain name not found` error. I will appreciate for any help and thanks anwyway. EDIT: My site is buraktas.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lU8nw.png)


Google wont apply adsense policies for session based websites and Ajax loaded sites?

I have seen so many websites (Mostly User generated content - Getting contents from Third party API's) still displaying Adult like contents (with images) but still they are running well with Google Adsense without any issues. Below is url that displays the Adult contents (you can view only if you logged into the Instagram.) http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/635186136754514912_477290089 I wont say this is a bad or Adult site. Because of user generated content, the page contains Adult content (Even you can see the F..k word too). But they are displaying Google ads. My Questions here is, If a website main content loaded via Ajax (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer). So Google adsense or Google can not able to find violation in the page. Is this correct? If a website displays main content only by visitor login (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer), So Google crawler can not able to find violation in the page. Am i right in the above points?


How to redirect a website from a folder to the root folder?

I was running a website on a folder (www.example.com/folder). The new version of the website is live and runs on the root folder. How should I redirect users who visit the website using the old URLs (either because they bookmarked it or through search engines)? And in the long term, can I 'clean' the search engines results by removing the old links that show up?


Do web hosting companies allow server-side scripts to make external data requests?

I'm currently ready to deploy an asp.net website and looking at web hosting companies. The C# code behind periodically uses `HttpWebRequest` to pull data from an external website to insert into a SQL database. This is only a server script and clients won't have any affect on when or how it runs. This my first time deploying a site, so my question is.... do web hosting companies allow external http requests? Is there anything specific I should be looking for to ensure this will work when deployed?


What meta/link html tags important for seo?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond What are meta tags important for seo? Especially for blogs. I often find something new, maybe you will correct me and add something else?               meta name = description - description of page     http-equiv = Content-Language content = "ru" - language of page     http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text / html; charset = utf-8"     rel = "alternate" type = "application / rss + xml" - Link for RSS-chanel      Another thing I remembered but had forgotten indication nofollow / follow, index / noindex on the page. Somebody remind me? I also saw a Wordpress rel = next / previous page is important for SEO? Something else that I do not have?


How do I force a www subdomain on both HTTPS and HTTP?

For whatever reason I can’t seem to get this right. I’ve looked at many examples on here and on the Apache website. I’m trying to force `www.example.com` instead of example.com on **both** HTTP **and** HTTPS, but I am not trying to force use of HTTPS instead of HTTP. The following code seems to work for all HTTPS connections, but will not cause a redirect for HTTP connections.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]


What's the difference between nofollow and canonical?

I'm confused about the difference between `rel="nofollow"` and `rel="canonical"`. I currently use nofollow for any links that I do not want followed (for example rubbish content but small importance) and I use canonical for duplicate content (for example: `http://example.com/price.php- sortby=price` vs `http://example.com/price.php-sortby=alphabetic`). Maybe I'm using these wrong. I need good advice on what's the best way to use **nofollow** and **canonical** correctly.


Upgrading phpBB2 to phpBB3: easy or difficult?

I recently took over a site which is mostly a phpBB version 2 forum for a niche audience, surrounded by a few fairly static pages written in PHP. Our forum user base is about 3000 users, with a hundred or so forum posts per month. We have modified a few of phpBB2's source code files from the standard issue. Now phpBB version 2 is no longer supported as of mid-2009, though alternate phpBB2 support communities exist. The current version is phpBB version 3. The outgoing webmaster said that they had decided against upgrading to to phpBB3 software because the expected it to be a difficult task with little feature benefit. What is the general experience with upgrading a phpBB2 site to phpBB3? Is the experience generally difficult, or generally easy? phpBB3 provides a conversion path for phpBB2 sites; how well does this work? Let's leave the question about the _benefits_ of upgrading to a separate discussion. Let's just talk about difficulty.


SEO considerations for multilingual websites

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I'm developing a website that will be translated into two languages: English and French. I'm just wondering what the best practices for such a site would be when it comes to SEO? So far, the website has two root sub-directories, which means URLs look as follows:   * `http://www.example.com/en/home`   * `http://www.example.com/fr/accueil` And in my `<html>` tag I specify the page language using the `lang` attribute (depending on which sub-directory we're in, i.e. `<html lang="fr">`). Will this be enough for the site to rank and be indexed correctly in local versions of Google, i.e. English pages to achive the best ranking they can on google.co.uk and the French content to achieve the best rankings it can in google.fr?


Do GET variables have bad effects on a page?

I am developing my own site, and I want to add multilanguage to my site. My approach is to have a GET variable `lang=LANG` to handle different languages. So, my URLs will be as such:               mysite.com/index.php?lang=EN     mysite.com/index.php?lang=AR     ...      Do Google consider these as a single page? Do they have one PageRank? As I know "canonical" is a solution to such issue, but I read on this site that Google will still consider them as different pages. Here is what I found: seo and php get variables


Multiple Language Website and SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? Sorry, this post became a bit loquacious - but I haven't found any satisfactory answers on the web thus far. I've been developing a website for a while now, into which I've built support for multiple languages. All the terms, words and phrases are stored in a file in JSON format which is decoded and converted into an array. With this, it's easy to create the entire site in a different language. The website consists of 100% home-cooked code... no Wordpress, Drupal or any other framework, so none of the multi-language plugins for the aforementioned will work. To switch language, the user clicks a link at the top of the page (positioned at the top, in reality, it's at the bottom of the HTML structure). Each page of the site has this menu, whereby a query string parameter is added. `/hotels/index.html` becomes `/hotels/index.html?lang=fr`. The script sees the `lang` parameter, changes the user's cookie and loads the appropriate JSON file, and they are returned back to the same page they were on without the `lang` parameter. This has been a very convenient way to switch languages, as the user remains on the same page, and the links are exactly the same. I built it this way after another site that required multiple language support where SEO was not a priority (an internal company-only program). If a visitor comes to the site for the first time, the script looks at the `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG` constant and loads the appropriate language and sets the cookie (instead of geo-locating, which takes longer, and I personally dislike - I live in Thailand, and even Google serves the Thai version even though I have my OS and browser in English). My question is - I'd eventually like Google and other SE's to index the site in these other languages, but without the `lang` attribute in the URL. If the user uses Google in French or Russian, they get served the site in French or Russian, respectively. Since the URL `/hotels/index.html` would have a version in English (default), French and Russian, but still having the same URL, I assume this is a problem for Google and other SE's. Can someone explain how Google indexes multiple-language sites setup in this manner? Would using a sub-domain work best to separate them? I do not wish to alter the way URL's are handled on the site, as I like to keep as few query strings as possible from being indexed. On another note, I accidentally opened the site for indexing with the language links, and somehow, the redirects did not work properly, and I have links such as `/something/index.html?lang=ru?lang=ru` indexed in Google. I've detected these in the script and placed a 301 redirect to remove these `lang` parameters... will these bad links be replaced with the redirected URL's in Google over time?


SEO problems with multilanguage site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I have recently started a CMS project in PHP, the site will be multilingual. Assumptions are as follows:   * 2 languages in the beginning (pl-pl, en-gb)   * language auto detection based on browser language   * for all other languages than the above, fallback is en-gb   * site will have links to change language, but they will be shown as AJAX / JS widget! I know from my experience that sometimes there are problems with correct Googlebot indexing for home page. My question is whether Googlebot is able to index both language versions of the website, and whether I should use subdomain (`en.webpage.com`) or PHP get (`webpage.com/index.php?lang=EN`) to see the best results.


URL strategy for multilingual website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an Italy based company). I was thinking about site.com/it and site.com/en, not showing any content at site.com and redirecting the visitors to the localized site when they try to access site.com. What about buying an additional domain, site.it, and then redirecting to site.com/it? Are these good ideas? If so, **regarding of SEO** , which are the best redirect methods for both site.com (to site.com/en or site.com/it) and the additional (if available) site.it (to site.com/it)?


Will echoing content from a simple XML loaded with PHP cause the page to show up in search results (SEO)?

I want to know if I'm using PHP right to create search friendly content. I'd like my images to start showing up in Google for my website, so I'm passing an RSS feed to PHP file using the `simplexml_load_file` command and writing content to the page with `echo`s.               $rss = simplexml_load_file('~~RSSfeed~~');          foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {         echo  '<li>'. $item->description .'</li>';     }      Will displaying a list of images and text (there's other formatting and divs that I didn't include) make this content show up in search results?


Small AdWords campaigns with low budget

Having a Google AdWords campaign of a daily budget less than 10€ ($13, £8.5), I had these: **Setup 1**   * (1 campaign with 100% budget) x (3 ad groups) x (2 to 3 ads) = 40-60 clicks/day   * long list of keywords per ad group   * budget ends up being spent on the ad group with the highest traffic/competition **Setup 2**   * (3 campaigns with 1/3 of budget) x (3 ad groups) x (3 to 4 ads) = 20 clicks/day   * less keywords per ad group but more closely related to the ads' purpose and phrasing, which summed up match and extend the keyword lists of Setup1   * all around performance dropped and in some cases a lot (i.e. clicks) * * * **Questions** In specific to small campaigns, which I feel are not addressed as much by most guides I found around the web:   1. My assumption for the above is that the **main** reason for the drop in performance of Setup2 is the extremely low budget. Even though generic and simplistic, is this correct?   2. How can I best manage the budget, so that it is spent more universally or up to a specific limit for each ad group?   3. Finally, does anyone have any suggestions specific for campaigns of this level?


Server requirements for thousands of concurrent connections?

I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight into the approximate server requirements (CPU, RAM, etc) for thousands of concurrent connections to a small text file. The actual number of concurrent connections will vary, but it could be as high as 100,000 or more per second at times. The file that will be accessed is a very small text file (a few KB).


Content blocks on dedicated pages rather than listed on one page

I am doing a web site for a client. The descriptions for all his services are rather short and precise so I decided to put them all (about 10 of them) on one page and have a sticky menu in the sidebar for quick access to each of the services. I find that a very usable experience. And for mobile (through the responsive approach), swiping through the services is more convenient than navigating to each service on a dedicated page. But now an SEO guy comes in and tells me to put all services on dedicated pages, and the client then also has to transform all the about 60 words descriptions into 400 word descriptions, because Google demands 400 words to be on a page to be a page. I my opinion this is a major step back in regard of accessibility/usability. And stuffing the descriptions with 'nonsense' just for the sake of the presumed SEO advantages? I really don't think so. I am about to tell the client, that the SEO guy might not be right about that situation, but I am not sure, so who is right?


How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?

_This is a general, community wiki question to address all non-specific spam prevention questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * For purposes of this question, spam will include:   * Any automated post   * Manually-posted content which includes links to spammers' sites   * Manually-posted content which includes _instructions_ to visit a spammer's site


Stopping comment spam with links(need suggestion)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control? After bearing 1 year spammy comments with links in those in my 10 sites, finally I've disallowed comment posting with prefix of "http" or "https" ( with message that I'll add prefix http if needed). I'm happy with the results. But could it be hurting site or site visitors in any way? Any ideas?


Moderator with no power to fix spam bot issue

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I think this is the correct site to post this. So I'm a **moderator** (not administrator) on anddev.org and it's completely infested with spam bots, just as fast as I ban them, more post. I'm sure they can sign up faster than I can ban them. There is a two stage first post sign up validation that they have clearly got around. I'd also like to delete all posts by that user when they are banned. (which I can't see an option for) Is there anything I can do? _EDIT_ This was closed for the wrong reasons: **I'm just a moderator not an administrator** I can't do any of the things in that wikipost. I wanted to know what I can do as a Mod, or how I can find more options, or even what the software is I am moderating!


Major spam issue... CAPTCHAs and email verification aren't working

We have a user who claims to have a vendetta against our community. We run a fairly large social networking website, and for the past four or five weeks, this particular person (or maybe people?) has been spamming our largest discussion groups and personally attacking other members by leaving hateful comments and death threats on their pictures. We employ CAPTCHA and email verification on signup. We also have cross post analysis that catches users mass-posting a single thing to a lot of groups. It seems as if he has hundreds of legit emails (they're all gmail, hotmail, yahoo) and looking at our logs, it seems as though he's sitting there and legitimately solving these CAPTCHAs. For hours. Every single day. When he caught on to our cross post analysis, he started generating random titles and bodies to post. He'll hit a dozen of our top groups with those over and over again until we delete his user account or he gets banned by a moderator. His IPs change constantly. Many are Tor nodes, some are vanilla HTTP proxies. His user agents change for every new user he signups. Sometimes they're even "GoogleBot", which I thought was amusing. So my question is, are there best practices we could be following besides employing CAPTCHA and email verification? Ones geared towards an extremely motivated human generating spam?


PHP software to detect spam?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I'm looking for something like spam-assassin or similar, except it only focuses on the message rather than inspecting an entire email header. It doesn't even need to be really fancy, just do the classification of messages. In theory we could provide meta-data such as IP. I'm doing this because I want an feedback forum without authentication or recaptcha or having to put every email in the "pending" bin before it's published.


Tons of spam on phpBB even with recapcha enabled

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I am running a phpBB forum where the requirements were that users shouldn't have to sign up in order to post. They could just give a name and post as long as they used recapcha before posting. Problem is that there are like 30 pages of spam in some threads. The software is up to date. The forum gets very little legitimate traffic. If I can't fix this I will either have to require registration or remove the forum all together.


How to prevent common spam on a WordPress blog

Right from the day I installed WordPress on my site, I started getting spam comments/trackbacks. I have also prevented anonymous comments. I get the following email whenever a new spam is posted:                New trackback on the post `"<post name>"` is waiting for your approval     `<url>`          Website : jackettl36 (IP: 112.111.173.89 , 112.111.173.89)     URL    : <redact>     Trackback excerpt:     fake OAKLEY sunglasses...          ...      How to prevent such automated spam?


Recommended Spam Best Practices

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Are there any recommended admin tools or interfaces for reviewing and moderating spam on a community-driven UGC site?


Does anyone run a site with Pligg? What is the most effective way to stop spam sign ups?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Specifically trying to combat things like this! http://www.autopliggdotcom (didnt want to give them a link!)


Is there a way to control spam on a site where user contribution is allowed without accounts?

I am in the process of designing a database and accompanying website where users can submit local dance events. Part of the site will be the posting of new events but also the vetting of current events. Users will be able to flag event info as correct or incorrect, flag info for review, and mark an event as interested/attending. Is there a way I can mitigate the amount of noise and spam since the site will be public and not have accounts?


Free spam blocker service

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Is it possible to get a free and good spam blocker for your website? I would really like to avoid having to serve CAPTCHAs to my site's users, but I don't want spam bots to be able to post links etc.


Spammers in my Magento blog comment section!

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I have a blog extension installed on my Magento website. But I regularly receive spam comments on the blog. To help fight against automated and manual spam comments on the blog I have enabled a Captcha service. But even with the Captcha service running the site still receives spam, is there a more effective method to avoid spam?


Effective captcha solutions

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? ReCaptcha is all the rage at the moment, Based on customer/user feedback, what other captcha or general human verification tools have you used for your website? Links to the API/Site appriciated, Thanks guys!


Can I create test accounts in Google for testing Oauth in my application?

My app contains Sign in from Google function that uses Oauth. To test it I'd want to create test accounts at Google. But Google doesn't allow me to create ordinary accounts without entering captcha so I can't create ordinary accounts for testing. Can I create test accounts in Google to test Oauth in my application?


How much should a newbie charge a client for web design work?

I was asked to design a website for a client. Personally, I'd work for free since I'm just in it for the experience of working with a client but they insist on paying me so I will get an idea as to how freelancing works and for them to know how much they should pay for future services. I have very little experience when it comes to real work since I'm still a student but I've had internships as a web designer/developer in some software companies here in my area. I can build decent web pages using HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Java/JSP/J2EE and SQL. I am also familiar with some CMS like WordPress and Joomla. How much do you think should I charge my client if I were to design a simple static but somehow functional website for them and how should I charge them for my services? I forgot to mention that I am located in the Philippines. Since it's a 3rd world country, I'm pretty sure the rates here are lower than most areas.


Better Image Hosting for MediaWiki

We're using MediaWiki and writing a lot of articles / tutorials that require images / screenshots. Image management in MediaWiki is painful. I was hoping I could use something like Dropbox to store all the images we need and then share them via external links. However, public folders aren't sharable and I can't make shared folders public. Is there something like Dropbox where I can easily just drop the files in a folder, they sync with all my colleagues, and I can get static URL's to the files to put on MediaWiki?


What terms/conditions should I have in place for a site popular with children/teenagers?

I'm working on a site with a forum, for which the current user base is fairly young. For the forum, where do I stand legally with children/teenagers signing up? For example, I believe Facebook restricts membership to 13+. Should I have this restriction too? (We don't really have the means for any kind of age policing.) Are there any standard terms/conditions I can add to the site?


Set goal in funnel not to be neccessary

I have a start page which can link to a discounts page and then three possible extras pages (one of which will definitely be reached) and all three of these lead to a confirmation page. I have set up goals on each page and on the confirmation page I have the following funnel:               Step 1: /G1/StartPage     Step 2: /G1/(Extra1|Extra2|Extra3)Page      However I want to include the discounts page, but not all customers can see that page. e.g.               Step 1: /G1/StartPage     Step 2: /G1/DiscountsPage (may not be read)     Step 3: /G1/(Extra1|Extra2|Extra3)Page      Can I do this in the same funnel, or do I keep my current funnel above, and a create a separate funnel (of which the goal is the confirmation page again) and only include the discounts page?


Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead? Is it important from an SEO point of view?


Phantom activity on MySQL

This is probably just my total lack of MySQL expertise, but is it typical to see lots of phantom activity on a MySQL instance via phpMyAdmin? I have a shared hosting plan through Lithium, and when I log in through the phpMyAdmin console and click on the 'Status' tab, it's showing crazy high numbers for queries. Within an hour of activating my account I had > 1 million queries. At first I thought this was them setting things up, but the number is climbing constantly, averaging > 170/second. I've got a support ticket in with Lithium, but I thought I'd ask here if this were a MySQL/shared host thing, because I had the same thing happen with a shared hosting plan through Joyent.


Tracking pages without analytics code

Do you have an idea how Google can track pages on the server without analytics code? The folder is prohibited by `robots.txt` too! I can see the URL of those pages on the real time counter.


Google Analytics - comparing metrics for different cities approach

I receive traffic from a number of different cities across the world, these being: Washington, Bratislava and Belfast. In Google Analytics, I would like to be able to compare a variety of metrics (side by side), however i'm not sure how to go about this in the best way. Am I looking at creating 3 advanced segments, 3 profiles or should I be doing it in one custom report? Or is this even possible in Google Analytics version 5?


How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?

**EDIT** : Reworded & Cleaned Up to Ease Understanding There has been a significant drop (90%) in traffic from Google to one of my well-established sites (6+ years) in the last week. Searches show that the top 3 wide keywords all dropped 4 spots. Searches for other keywords do not show ANY results in the first 10 to 25 pages of results, while previously one 1st or 2nd page at most. Since there are 200 factors for ranking, the question really is: **What steps are necessary to figure out what caused such a drop?** There have been no major changes during this period or the last month on the site and certainly not in the homepage which has dropped in rank. Over all the years of running this site and plenty of others, I have never experienced this. There are is duplicate content on my site and I have rigorously used canonical links for the last few years to ensure it is not misinterpreted as such.


Keywords ranking dropped on Google?why?

My website keywords ranking dropped on Google result as suddenly. What to do get ranking for those keywords. Even there is no spam content and spam linking for those keywords. Thank you for your response


Can site's SERP ranks be lowered by Google because of bad/toxic backlinks?

The site is not under Google's manual penalty it has no other warnings in GWT about something wrong going on, it is not out of the Google index. But the ranking positions on SERPs are lower than before. Do I need to invest in backlink analysis to detect the bad ones and then disavow them? UPDATE: (to why my question is different than the other topic) I don't need to diagnose other things, as I already took the course of making changes, I clearly asked a specific question about bad backlinks and would like to get an answer to it.


Why is this site's rank dropping?

I built a site for a company a couple of months ago to bring it up to date: Proper coding, SEO, the works. _Their old site was poorly compiled HTML_ * Apparently, they used a service through a company that I'm assuming added back-links all over the place and likely some black hat SEO practices. The site has been #1 for their target search term but now it's at the bottom of page 1. Any ideas why the sudden drop? I'm even doing SEM through google, and that's where it's dropped.


My blog which gets 300+ daily impressions has stopped appearing on the 1st page of Google

I have a blog regarding Placement papers from December 2010. My monthly impressions are around 4000. For the last 2 days, my blog has disappeared from Google search engine result pages. Impressions have reduced drastically. Please check Stat reports: ![Stats Reports](http://i.stack.imgur.com/enaUW.jpg) My blog is still on the search engine because when I search `site: mydomain.com` on Google, I can see my all pages indexed over there… But my pages which used to appear on the first or second pages of Google do not appear any more. Example: If I search with query `GE round 2 code writing test` on bing.com or Yahoo search, the first link on the result page is my blog. But if you do same on Google, my URLs do not appear even on the 1st 3 result pages. I used to get lots of visitors by these search query earlier.


Search ranking for important keywords has gone down drastically

Firstly, we are a small entrepreneurial team of 3 persons and I am more like an amateur webmaster of the company's website as we cannot really afford a technical guy/department right now. A few weeks earlier, our website traffic and rankings for most keywords decreased overnight. I did a lot of reading henceforth and learned about Penguin 2.1 which people said is the reason for the drop. Something like this had never happened before. Now, I have gone through the entire Google webmaster help section. It says there that if a manual penalty is taken against us, we would notice a message in Manual Actions page. So far, we haven't received any notice from Google for web spam. Some SEO guys I contacted said they found spam links in our backlink profile. I do believe I had mistakenly purchased a cheap link/SEO scheme when I was yet very new to SEO. This was more than a year back but since then we have been legitimate. Moreover, how do I find out which is a spam link and which is not? Our content is all original, refreshing and the best you will find in our niche. We also have a blog but on a different domain (wordpress.com) from where we send out anchored links to our business website. Is this a good thing to do? Now, how should we proceed and recover our traffic/rankings. I tried searching in webmasters for a way to reach google and ask them why the traffic has decreased suddenly, but I couldn't find a contact form or something. Can someone please go through our website and help in making things more clear regarding the reason for the drop, along with a solution. Will really appreciate this as I can't get to figure this out and its taking a lot of time. Vaivhav


Page lost from Google Search

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I wrote this guide on how to root HTC Desire, http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2011/10/perm-root-htc-desire- gingerbread-233.html . I had been getting decent visit from Google Search and also the page use to rank in top 3 for queries relating to "perm root htc desire gingerbread". But from last few days the comments on the post nearly stopped. Upon investigating I found that Google doesn't show my page any more for such queries. What could have gone wrong? Can anyone please shed some light onto this.


Sudden drop in google position

Our website used to show up on top 10 positions for a competitive keyword till 1 month back but now has drastically dropped down more than 100 positions. What could be the reason?


Google ranking - Modal views - google analytics events

I modified a site recently : - I added many google analytics events, to better understand user behaviour. - I added also two buttons on almost all the pages of the site. Those buttons show modal-views (I am using bootstrap) with questions about user opinion. This modals views are on almost all pages of the site. After this modification the ranking of the site decreased on google search from the second place to the seconde page :( Is it the events-collected or the model-views added ? If the model-views are the reason, then how to better do similar surveys ? Did you have please similar experience, or explanation to this ? Perhaps it is the effect of panda4 update. In this cas, what can I look for to improve the site. How to debug the problem/reasons ?


The sharp decline Statistics of website

My website has had 10 months ago, the statistics are very high. Very high ... But after 10 days of server failure, Marm was 20 times less. I got lost for a long time without making a mistake, do ... I am the source of links that they've hired a writer to pen the final results are seen. But a strange thing: Approximately every two months and was hit again 20 more times and then low again after 10 days! my website url : www.sooran.com (food.sooran.com) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ocRgm.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tDlGJ.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QxRSN.png)


Aug 3rd 2014 HUGE DRop in visits

i am not a pro at this but i have built my website using freeway pro and for the past year i have managed to get between 100-130 visits a day to my website but on Aug 3, it dropped to 40… then now 15 a day… I do not know what happened and clearly freaking out on the situation as this is my shop window. There are no warnings or errors in Google Webmaster tools. Please help me out how to understand this issue. Has anything been happening with google around this time??


Google impressions going up and down, where do I start looking for the problem?

So, my website, had been stable on the number of impressions & clicks for quite a long time, suddenly (8/14) it dropped about 50%, then it started recovering after two weeks, but then it dropped even more (9/7), after three days it recovered, but now again it's going down again, with more than 90% loss from the original stable period. ![Stable, down, more down, a bit up, down again...](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pI2w2.png) My question is: where do I start? link disavow? how do I diagnose the real problem?


High Google page ranking lost overnight

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I had achieved a high ranking for a page on my site of the form: http://domain.com/mypage.htm Overnight the page is not even in the first 10 pages of Google, my company has effectively disappeared. I think it is related to a limitation with my domain name hosting company, they no longer support forwarding of pages of the form: http://domain.com/mypage.htm which previously redirected to http://www.domain.com/mypage.htm However, now it will only redirect to the root page, i.e. http://www.domain.com I am guessing that this explains why my page http://domain.com/mypage.htm is no longer visible to Google. The solution would seem to be to set www.domain.com as my preferred domain in Google with Web Master Tools. However, two weeks after doing this my site is not appearing anywhere in Google. I have also resubmitted my crawl maps (which orignially explicity used the www subdomain) and sent for site reconsideration but no luck. Any suggestion for tools to diagnose or a solution? Or is it just a question of waiting and hoping?


My site link dissappeared from search results after the link building started

I have a site named keralatourmate.com. While searching One of the important keyword "kerala honeymoon packages from bangalore", it dissappeared. Actually it was on the 4th page till yesterday.We started directory submission for this particular keyword 3 days before only. Please tell whther this is a negative effect of directory submission or some other factors.


Why are the rankings of my webpage down on single phrase?

One webpage used to rank better in search. It had more visibility and had site links. But in the last few days, it is down three position on one phase, and it no longer has site links. What caused this to happen?


google traffic suddenly become very low after website problem

My website was having some Database problem in past few days, due to which my website wasn't available for much time. I fixed it and site is again up. But my per day hits are now just 5-20. Before this problem, site traffic was around 100-200 per day. My most of traffic was from organic search. So why does it happened? Google have stopped indexing my site? Google a day or two ago sent me email that sitemap of site is unreachable so asked me to fetch if from google webmaster tools again, I did so as my site was fixed till then. But still don't see that traffic coming from organic search. So is there a way to monitor that how search engines are handling it and when to do what? Also there was a crawling error but it was only that google wasn't able to find updated and author "hentry". So is it something related to it? Also I have just now seen google authorship verification with google plus, so is my site not getting traffic because authorship is required? Or is it something else? How to know and how to get back the previous position?


Suddenly ranking of my site is thrown from top first page and seems disappeared in the search

This is Prabin Dhakal, manager at nicennaughty.com.np from Nepal,Asia.Need to ask you something regarding our company's website nicennaughty.com.np,it was ranking in the top when typed keyword sex toys in nepal but now it had disappeared suddenly from the entire search while still indexed when typed site:nicennaughty.com.np and there is no message in webmaster tool too.Hope this site is not penalized but may be happen due to link devaluation.Don't know how it happens suddenly,does our site will be back again after few days or need to do something else to make it in the same position. Google search even throw our site while typing nice n naughty nepal and no domain is shown in the first or 2nd page but it was in the top before a week ago.This problem is started from a week ago. Can you please put your kind advise how it happens and will we get our site back automatically after few days or need to do something to fix this.


How to help WikiLeaks remain up and running?

WikiLeaks is under a lot of attack. It has been ousted from DNS servers, Amazon has kicked it out. It is facing massive DDOS attacks. Under these circumstances what can WikiLeaks do to remain afloat?


How do I automatically redirect people from my Blogger blog?

My blog is a Blogger blog and I'm going to be moving it soon to a .com domain and a Wordpress site. How do I redirect people (and links) to my new site?


Using @import in CSS files

OK, I get it, CSS files should be grouped to reduce HTTP requests. My question is whether the @import method does a good work? Also, can I somehow group print and screen stylesheets?


What is the correct order of previous - next buttons in paginated results?

We are developing an XML DITA content system that allows users to view their search results in a paginated form and navigate through these results backwards and forwards, page by page and we have placed the "next" and "previous" links in this format: **Previous Search Result**           **Next Search Result** Our customer has now asked for the order of these two links to be reversed so that the Next Search result precedes the Previous Search result. **Next Search Result**           **Previous Search Result** We and our customers are both English speaking companies and we feel that the obvious and correct way to display these links is the back link to the left and the forward link to the right. The same as if you were reading a book and wanted to go to the next page. Or the undo and redo buttons in applications eg Microsoft Word. But, I have seen some people state that the primary function, which is Next, should be the first button/link as this is what users will be looking for and using most. Also for those users with screen readers or who are tabbing through the page it is easier this way round. But.... "Previous" being placed to the left of "Next" is such a strongly accepted convention in Western culture that I feel changing it will confuse a considerable proportion of our users. In the same vein, we could ask about the form buttons: clear and submit. I always expect the clear button to be on the left and the submit submit to be on the right but as filling out a form is a linear process and I always Tab through the fields, would it not make more sense to have the submit before clear so you can tab once from the last field and submit? I know this is a bit of a subjective question, but it is key to web usability and I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of studies that give credance to either view. Or is there an overwhelming yay or nay from users?


SEO advise for WordPress WooCommerce

I'm using WooCommerce and have selected "shop" page as homepage in WordPress settings. Therefore `http://www.example.com` and `http://www.example.com/shop` are one and the same page. In this case what I should do? Use canonical element in header or 301 redirect? I have read several things about both, but I'm unable to judge what's perfect for this situation. I'm here to seek some advise from SEO experts.


dns hosting - url forwarding - hiding forwarded url?

I have free dns hosting with the domain registrar and I'd like the dns hosted domain www.example.com to display contents of www.myotherlongdomain.com. I only have 301/302/iframe forwarding options, however I want to mask the redirected (longdomain) url. If I use frames, users can view the source and see the (longdomain) url the contents are coming from. How can I hide it so it always displays www.example.com? There is no cloaking/masking option with the registrar. Thanks.


What is the SEO-recommended method for using underscores and dashes in URLs that contain geographic locations?

In reading through this article: > In Subfolder & File Names, Use Dashes, Not Underscores Good: > > Good: http://www.domain.com/sub-folder/file-name.htm > > Bad: http://www.domain.com/sub_folder/file_name.htm In my URL's, I may have one or two city names, ending with the province/state: `Burnaby_New_Westminister-BC/[some search term]`. My URL rules currently are defined such that everything after the dash is the prov/state. Some geographic locations already contain dashes: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (in QC), which I would convert to ~/Notre_Dame_de_Grace-QC/ I thought of placing the prov/state after another "/", however in some cases the province/state name may not exist, thus ~/Notre_Dame_de_Grace/, so the first term after the domain name contains the geo location {city, city_name- state}. I am now revisiting this, and wondering if this rule set should change, and if so, what is the recommended way of implementing this? **-- UPDATE --** After reviewing this video, I see that I should be using the dashes, rather than underscores. However since I still want to have my geo locations in the first URL section, is there anything wrong with using a double-dash separator - ie: /city-name--state/ ?


Can 302 redirect on WordPress homepage affect SEO?

I manage a website. In order to lead the visitor to the latest post when entering the website, I set a 302 redirect from the homepage URL to the latest post URL. There's 1 to 2 posts a month so the redirection is made manually each time a new post gets published. Despite the website registration on Google it doesn't get indexed at all. After searching for some solution on blogs and forums I understood this issue might be related to the 302 redirection. It's the first time I use redirections on a website, can someone help me?


Why are 20% of keywords still provided when Google is using HTTPS across the board?

Most of the searches that appear in my analytics are "not provided" because Google has encrypted their all searches. However, if all search results are now encrypted with HTTPS protocol then how is Google analytics still able to track some (20%) of the organic keywords details? There are still some keywords appearing in my organic keywords section. So how did Google analytics do this tracking? Does it bypass the HTTPS restrictions for the referrer?


Does the link we provide on various networking websites counts as a backlink?

Does the blog/website address we add on various sites like Facebook count as a backlink in the eyes of search engines, especially Google?


Is it valid to have multiple form input elements with the same name?

Is it valid markup and is it valid to the html/http spec? If I wanted to have               <form>     <input name="email" />     <input name="email" />     <input name="email" />     </form>      is that valid?


SEO drawbacks of having paid links without nofollow?

I've just signed up to text-link-ads.com, which doesn't appear to use `rel="nofollow"` on the links. After reading a couple of sources it appears to be against their TOS to add nofollow to the links myself. So my question is, what are the downsides of having this type of links? I know Google doesn't like those links, but do they penalize sites for using them?


Subdomains on WampServer

I'm working on WampServer for development, I've set up the domain tuniguide.local and it works fine with this configuration: DocumentRoot "D:\www\tuniguide" ServerName tuniguide.local But when I wanted to add a subdomain fr.tuniguide.local I get a 404 Not Found with this configuration: DocumentRoot "D:\www\tuniguide\fr" ServerName fr.tuniguide.local It gives me this message: The requested URL /www/tuniguide/index.php was not found on this server. Is there someting that I missed? Thanks.


Find out when a new domain appears in search results

Does anyone know a way to perform the following: I want to know whenever a new domain starts appearing in the google search results for a particular query. For a given google search query, I'd like to receive an alert whenever a new domain pops up and starts appearing in the search results for that query. Alternatively, it would be great if you could just sort google search results by the age of the domain, making it easy to find new sites. As far as I can tell you can only sort by when the page was "last updated". Is something like this possible? EDIT: Following John's suggestion of Google Alerts. The problem with Google Alerts is that it sends you any new PAGES appearing in the search results, not just new DOMAINS.


Email Newsletters

I want to send Newsletters to my clients and customers. I tried out a shared hosting account but it was blocked cause of sending about 5000 mails in a day. I then checked various sites that offers this newsletter options but they charge too high, even over 100$ p.m.. Is there an alternate solution. Should I go for a dedicated IP with a small hosting pack? Will that work?


What exactly does "keyword" mean in the context of AdSense CPC?

I have read in a lot of places that CPC depends on the value of "keywords". However I don't understand what this means. I will set forward some scenarios.   1. Suppose I run a blog about knitting and this is a low paying niche. However I suddenly write five frontpage blog posts about forex trading and insurance. When people click on the frontpage ads, would I be getting paid for the low CPC knitting content or for the high paying forex content?   2. Suppose somebody finds my webpage by searching for knitting. However the actual content of the landing page is filled with high paying keywords. Is the CPC for this page determined by the low paying search or the high paying content?


rel=author and rel=me in Wordpress

I came across rel=me and rel=author from joost's blog. I don't know how much value they're going to be in future for SERPS as they look more of eye candy in search than anything beneficial to surfers. It is difficult to use rel=me and rel=author on wordpress blog. Most of the plugins are working with all the themes. I'm using thesis and genesis frameworks and plugins seems to be not working for some of the themes on these frameworks. My Question - Is there any theme-agnostic plugin that does the job for rel=me an rel=author ? Another question- what are the benefits are there for webmasters ?


What's the best TLD for a personal, international website?

I'd like to register a domain for myself. On it, I'll publish SciFi stories that I'm writing. The stories will be available in English and German (the two languages that I know) but if fans want to translate them, I'm open for other languages as well. When I read `.de`, my impression is "it's in German, only." Which is the best TLD for a non-commercial but language agnostic site? `.info`?


When to use rel="tag"

I've been looking at the 'Microformat' rel="tag", but am a little confused as to its propper use. From the spec: > By adding rel="tag" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of > that hyperlink is an author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the > current page. What do they mean by the 'destination of the hyperlink' is a 'tag'? In what situations might it be used?


What is the best Apache logs Analyzer?

**What real-time log analyzer can you suggest for Apache access and error logs?** There is a list of web analytics software on wikipedia, but it would be great to hear opinions from people with experience without having to try all of them. Please don't suggest Google Analytics or any other hosted/javascript analytics suites, already using them, GA is not real-time and it is missing some data that the logs show. For example 404 errors, script errors, the full query- string of the referral, IP addresses, visitor path through the website, etc ...


Website signaled as containing malware

I've got a nasty problem with one of our websites. It has been signaled to us by Google and other agencies that it contains malware. We weren't able to understand how to cope with the problem. Could anyone drive us in the right direction? UPDATE: I used google webmaster tools to review the suspicious website. And now it says it's ok! Even if I didn't change anything! How could it be? false alarm? UPDATE 2: The site looks infected again...


Marketplace site development: what skillset am I looking to hire?

I'd like to have a site built by a freelancer, but I don't know how to find the right person because I don't know which expertise/skill set would be best to look for given the functionality I'd like the site to have. The site will be basically a marketplace for (a certain kind of) sound files. It will need the following: a) users to be able to create logins and (simple) profiles b) users to be able to upload MP3 or WAV files to the marketplace c) users to be able to search for or browse all the files, and preview them for ~10 seconds; files organized by title or category d) users to be able to buy (and then download) the files, and get paid when others purchase those they've uploaded e) a rating system where people that have purchased a file can rate it based on a 5-star system, and also leave a brief (less than 140 character) review; highest rated files are displayed first for duplicates Essentially I'm fairly new to web development (only basic HTML/CSS) and don't know how to bring a site like this together (i.e. what's necessary or optimal on the front and back ends) - and don't even know what to look for in a freelance web developer. Any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks.


Can I buy a domain from one company and use it at another web host?

I've been out of the loop of this kind of stuff for a while but can someone please explain to me how buying a domain name and then getting it hosted works. Let's say if for example I bought a domain name `xyz.com` from `godaddy.com`. Could I then purchase the hosting services from a different hosting company and still use the domain I bought from `godaddy.com`?


Does the position of the content in the source make a difference to SEO?

Is a site penalised if the first propper (human readable) content comes after a lot of structural HTML code? Is there any benefit to having the text content come earlier in the source (e.g. less HTML before it)? Thanks.


How To Track "Similar Product/Page" Links In Internal Site

So I just created a new widget that would show up in a product page in my site. This widget will show several products similar to the product that is displayed in the current page. The purpose is to help users compare similar products. Let's say in the product page A `http://domain/products/A` The Similar Products widget will show   * `http://domain/products/B`   * `http://domain/products/C`   * `http://domain/products/D`   * `http://domain/products/E` My question is how to track this " **Product B page were visited X times from Product A page via Similar Product widget** "? (And there is also chance that Product B will show up in the widget on Product C page) I have this idea using the Event feature from Google Analytics. But I'm still not sure if it is or what is the common best practice for this.


If I have a page that gets a lot of StumbleUpon traffic, will that traffic fall if I move it?

Say I have a page that gets a lot of traffic via StumbleUpon. It's an ancient page, and I might want to move it to another site as part reorganizing my old site. I intend to keep the content identical, other than maybe a slim header or footer. If I put in a `permanent 301` redirect, will my page be penalized by StumbleUpon or other social bookmarking sites? Will I lose the existing traffic?


Using Google Tag Manager to define the page type

So, I am looking to add a tag that I want to use for A/B testing, however we don't have a page-type URL structure. Fortunately the tool can recognise page type if I pass it by Javascript.               <script type="text/javascript">     window.isProductPage = true;     </script>      I have been told to use the above, I have created the script in Google Tag Manager (GTM), however I now need to know how to make this run on those pages in GTM. I have looked through the code and there are div class that are unique to each page, can I use this as an indication of page type?


We changed our URL and our impressions dropped almost 100%

The company I worked for changed their domain about a month ago and updated the URLs for all of the pages. We mostly removed the .aspx from the ends and decreased the depth of many of our pages. We created a sitemap.xml for the new site and added 301 redirects from the old pages to the new within the site. We did update our address through Googles Webmaster tool so they know. Once Google crawled our site we saw a drop in our Google imprints from nearly 1000 to just 20-30 a day. We know we missed a few redirects that have now been fixed (probably less than 10%) but we are still not going back up in impressions. Is there anything we should be looking into or is this just a natural occurrence caused by us switching pages and domains?


How Come This Website Is Not Suffering From Duplicate Content Issues?

If you visit the following website http://onedesigncompany.com/ and scroll down then you'll notice that the URL is being changed in the address bar. So, isn't it a duplicate content issue? Is not multiple URLs pointing to the same page with exactly same content? How come it is not suffering from duplicate content issue? Thanks


Godaddy redirection for domain URL

I have mydomain.co registered with Godaddy. In the zone editor I have the @ record pointing to my cloud server. I would now like to redirect mydomain.co/blog to a different server where I'll host a wordpress blog. I cannot figure out how to do this on Godaddy. All Godaddy support pages describe buttons that do not exist on my domain control panel. I'm sure my question is a dupe, but I just can't find the original.


How long should I wait before redesigning a website?

I am the webmaster of a local news website which is online for 6 months now and I considered redesigning it. The website is running on a Wordpress CMS, so all I had to do is to apply a new theme. But instead, I just tweaked fonts, text sizes and color schemes for more reading comfort. Why tweaking instead of redesigning ? Because I thought that it may be _harmful_ to user-engagement if readers would have to rediscover the site all over again, only 6 months after it's launch (not to mention all the work just to put everything in order again). Does redesigning a website frequently good or bad ? How long should I wait before redesigning the site (regardless of platform and content types) ?


How does removing pages from a site affect Google SEO?

I have been told by one of my clients that Google must be notified if you intend to remove pages (e.g. discontinued product pages) from a site, because Google will penalize your search results if you remove those pages without notifying them. Is that true? I thought that Google would simply update its search results on the next crawl. He also says that there is a way to create a diff of the old sitemap file and the new sitemap file, and submit that to Google as the notification of deleted pages. Is any (or all) of this really necessary, and will it affect his SEO either way? I have control over the website programming (it is an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 site). Should I just mark deleted pages in the database, and make them respond with `410 gone`, as described here?


Do I need SSL for "Coming Soon" email signup form?

My website is a few months from going live, and marketing efforts are beginning. I would like to put up a short _coming soon_ page with an email field to sign up for updates. Does this require an SSL certificate? Is there a rule of thumb you use to determine when to use an SSL certificate and when not to?


Hosting my own website on apache2, what information do I need from my domain registrar (bluehost)

I have lamp-server installed and am ready (and excited) to host a domain I purchased from bluehost on the server in my room. I have a few other things set up like openssh. What information do I need to get from my domain registrar and what files do I need to change in apache2?


How can I block traffic from this referrer?

I'm getting a lot of spam referral traffic from `semalt.semalt.com/referral` on my website. I took a look at the link and there’s very little information about this. The number of website visits is 185 this month, and they result in a 100% bounce rate. So how I can block this website?


Why is this stack over flow article comes up on first page of google just typing 3 keywords?

How to increase your site's position in google? In this above article. when I entered just three keywords in google: increase site position This article comes on the first place. Please help me understand the reasons as why only just by these three keywords? **My observations** : I researched and observed that the phrase "increase position" have global searches of 110 (by doing phrase type search in google keyword tool) and very low competition. Does it means that the article is covering users who use increase position as a phrase to search answers for their site making them use the three keywords (increase, site, position) to ask the query.


Connecting to my local WampServer from mobile?

I want to make an app for file transfer between mobile and a web server. I don't have web space yet and want to simulate that. The mobile part is ok. I have the PHP code too, Is there anyway I can run the PHP code to accept the file from the mobile by the PHP code and save the file to the WAMP server on my computer?


Flipping text is good for SEO?

My client's name company has a flipped letter on its name, so for example "PEOPLE" the P is flipped, I managed to flip the P with 2 span tags, but now I am thinking to do this for SEO reasons is not good, because of the SPANS. I have the feeling the search engines might not underestand a flipped P, and it is better just use a normal name. What do you think? thanks, the flip html is `<span class="flip"><span>P</span></span>`


What is the advantage of using post dates in my permalink structures?

I am trying to achieve the best permalink structure for my site. It will be a multi-author site where users will be posting artciles on a daily basis. I want the permalink structure to be as follows:               http://sitename.com/username/postname      However, I have seen many sites that put the post date in the permalink like this:               http://sitename.com/username/postdate/postname      What would you advice me to do? Will I get any advanteges on using the post date in my permalink strcuture regarding SEO? PS: I already checked out this answer What is the best WordPress permalink structure for a website with daily new posts and updates? but I was not happy with it.


Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP headers

I just finished a website that I designed and submitted it to Google PageSpeed Insights for performance reviews, and this is the results I got: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qjcMD.png) It says I need to set expiry date or a maximum age in the the HTTP headers, but I don't know how it is possible to set the expiry date for anything other than cookies/sessions, so I have no clue what this means or how to do it.


Thumbnails for videos in multiple formats?

I have some intranet training videos made over the years in a bunch of formats (AVI, WMV, MOV, RealPlayer) and would like to provide something like a preview function - maybe a thumbnail animated GIF with a few representative screens, or maybe a thumbnail sheet I can show the user with an image every few seconds of video. Is there an easy image tool I can use that can create such things? Platform agnostic would be great, but it's a one off (for now, haha), so Windows, Mac, or Linux would be fine. Thanks.


How to let Google read but don't display results from page

If I have a page which I want to allow Google to crawl to find links but not display in search results, is there any way to do that?


Moving from a static site to a CMS with new URLs and meta-data for pages

I am in the process of rebuilding a site from static pages to a CMS which will be using mod_rewrite to generate new page URLs. In this process our marketing people and myself have decided to tidy up the descriptions, keywords and titles. Eg: a page which who's URL is currently "website-name/about_us.html" and has a title of "website-name - something not quite page specific" will change to "website-name/about-us/" and title: "about us - website-name" and may have a few keywords and the description changed. Our goal with updating the meta data is to improve our page rankings and try to keep in line with some best practices for SEO. Though our current page rankings are quite good in many aspects, there is room for improvement. All of the pages will also have content changes (like rearranging heading tags, new menu on all pages, new content in footer, extra pieces of dynamic content relating to other pages). In this new site process I plan to use 301 redirects for all the old URLs pointing to the new URLs. My question is what can I expect to happen to the page rankings in Google, in the sort term and long term? Will this be like kicking off a new site which will have to build up trust over time or will the original page rankings have affect?


Search engines that do _not_ respect robots.txt?

Are there any search engines that do not care about robots.txt?


Why do some bad websites rank well?

Consider the following scenario: you are pitching SEO/Website Optimisation to a prospective client and you explain to them the importance of great copy and content, how acquiring links (ethically) can increase page rank, why the quality of the HTML build matters (H1, H2 tags, w3c validation etc), why keyword research is beneficial, you may drop in a few Google Webmaster Guideline or Matt Cutts references to back up your claims and rubbish the "back hat" approach as being no longer effective for good measure. Your advice is ethical and in the eyes of best practices, spot on. Then, the client points out to you some of their long established competitors on Google and you see these competitor websites ranking in the top spots (1 to 3) for medium to highly competitive search phrases that your client wants to compete for. These websites totally contradict your ethical approach and pretty much violate every best practice previously noted. They even out perform other "white hat" competitors who are in accordance with the above guidelines. I experienced this today. One of these well ranking websites had:   * About six microsites with more or less the same copy and a _slightly_ varied layout   * Little or not textual content   * I would almost say duplicate content across the sites, but there was so little of it it could barely qualify for being duplicate   * All the content in Flash (with a music track that kicked in on each page load, not so much of an SEO issue - but it helps paint the picture)   * Keyword stuffing behind the Flash file with a bunch of black text on black background in the style of keyword 1 keyword 2,keyword1,keyword 2,keyword 2 keyword 3 and so on...   * The exact keyword stuffed combination present on every page of the website   * A bunch of clearly self made links from poor quality forums and directories with little or no Page Rank   * Links exchanged across the microsites How do you explain your way out of this when this hard evidence is sat in front of you undermining your great pitch?


Is there any alternative to web analytics websites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin There are sites that provide web analytics solutions. But I don not want dependence to external sites and I want embed an analyzer in my PHP-based website. Is there such off-the-shelf solution so I can embed it in my site with no dependency to other sites? What is pros and cons of each one? Which one is most extensible?


Looking for tool like google insights/trends but not limited to 5 comparison

Looking for tool like google insights/trends but not limited to 5 item per comparison + 50-100 request per account for 24 hours. My Task (not possible to do with google trends/insights): take 350 keywords and sort them according search rating. (I am doing that with php and not manually) Thanks in advance


Copy Virtualmin's scheduled backup settings

Just wondering if there is a quick way to copy all of my scheduled backup settings from one virtualmin server to another? I have migrated all of the websites across with no problems, but though I would check if anyone knows how to import the backup settings or has a quicker way of setting them up? I have quite a lot of separate backups configured, e.g. for each day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc) and each month (Jan, Feb, etc).


How to get a facebook page with URL like facebook.com/mycompany

I've seen other facebook 'company/brand/product' pages with URLs of the format: facebook.com/mycompany How do you set this up? If I use pages/create, I get an address like: facebook.com/pages/mycompany/234266