Do I need to produce an xml sitemap for a social network?

I'm working on a social network that currently does not have an xml sitemap that has been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools. Will this add much benefit given that it is a social network with often updated content? If so will I have to update it daily (or use a tool to do so)? Thanks


Do you really need robots.txt and sitemap.xml if I want bot to follow every link?

I wonder if I really need _robots.txt_ /*sitemap.xml* files if I want bots to go through every link on my website without any restrictions? And if I do, what should I write in there?


How to make Google index all sitemap.xml records?

I have a _sitemap.xml_ index fine with 3 XML files in it with around 120 pages for indexing. A year passed and I still have 1/3 of it indexed. All the most important pages for indexing are in 1st sitemap file, however Google takes a similar amount from each of the sitemap files instead... How to make Google index all _sitemap.xml_ records? I have crawl rate set to MAX in GWT.


Is there a googlebot equivalent for RSS feeds?

I have a lot of feeds generated on my pages - and it seems to let them go to waste (Googlebot does not seem to see them). The RSS feeds display correctly in the pages when viewed through a browser, so I know they are working correctly. Is there a way where I can somehow make the RSS feeds 'discoverable' by the world? (so I can drive traffic to my site?)


How to charge for banner ads in a web application

I'm developing a web application which contains banner ads, and I don't know how to teach my clients how much to charge their customers for banner ads. Can someone help with a book or business strategy?


Error while importing .sql file in phpMyAdmin

Getting error while importing `.sql` file in phpMyAdmin please help.               Error     SQL query:          CREATE TABLE  `sbbleads_admin` (      `sb_id` BIGINT( 20 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,      `sb_admin_name` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL ,      `sb_pwd` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL ,      PRIMARY KEY (  `sb_id` )     ) TYPE = MYISAM ;      > MySQL said: Documentation > > 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that > corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near > 'TYPE=MyISAM' at line 6


Confirm (enter twice) pw and email at registration - good idea?

Many sites seem to require that their users enter their email and password twice during the registration process. How useful is it really? It seems it could be a pain in the neck for many users, for limited gains, no? Thanks, JDelage


Google Analytics: View for Affiliates: How to include only one brand in E-commerce module?

I am trying to create a view for a partner that is selling their products on our site. I assumed that filtering their brand name with **_E-commerce Item Name_** would result in the same report as filtering their brand name by **_Product_** in **_E-commerce_** > **_Product Performance_** report, but it didn't. How should I approach creating a view, which would include only e-commerce data related to their products?


Looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?

Been having issues with stackexchange creating weird usernames for me and grouping them with my account, it appears to be a known issue, and emailed the stackexchange team... which leads me to my questions, I'm looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?


Nameservers at freehostingcloud

How can I change the nameservers at freehostingcloud? I got a message: You need to change the nameservers for your domain exampledomain.net. The nameservers should be ns1.freehostingcloud.com and ns2.freehostingcloud.com.


How to stop Google indexing both www. and no-www versions of my website

When I do a search of my site in Google it shows both:   * `mydomain.com`   * `www.mydomain.com` In my .htaccess file I added code to redirect the non-www version to the www version, but both versions are still showing in Google's search results. _**Is there anyway to have Google only show the www version?_**


Adding custom handlers

I have a number of D language programs (.d extension) and a compile-and-run tool (rdmd)--I'd like to configure Apache (version 2.2) to handle URLs such as "mysite.com/d/hello.d" by running rdmd with the requested resource. The programs do output valid HTTP headers. I've researched AddHandler and Action, but have been unsuccessful in getting them to do what I want, namely executing rdmd with the resource. I suspect that the problem is that rdmd needs to be in some special cgi directory. Can someone walk through the steps necessary to configure Apache on a Debian based system, such that it executes my files instead of offering them up for download? Directory specific ('/d') or site-wide execution are both fine.


Strange domains as a blog's traffic sources

Watching my Blogspot analytics i saw several strange-looking domains, like bd053ac3.any.gs and others. So trying to identify them i got the following:   bd053ac3.any.gs - shows "Link not found" page   any.gs, dyo.gs - goes to linkbucks.com Yes, my blog uses AdSense, but i don't advertise it. So i wanted to understand why this can happen? ![Blog traffic sources](http://i.stack.imgur.com/IlGYx.png)


Is offering Google Bot a lite version of site skin considered cloaking?

If you have multiple templates a user can choose from on a site (like a forum), and you offer Google Bot a "lite" skin, is this considered cloaking? Or is this considered okay? The actual content remains the same, though the exact definition of "content" by Google seems questionable.


Website not loading completely

I have a client on Fiverr and had ordered me a job to design a website and upload it. I completed the site using wordpress and uploaded to his godaddy server.   The problem is that, He says the website doesn't load in his PC ( and he is using Mac). The page displays only the black background. And he even tried on some of his friends' PC and got the same problem.   But the site is OK and I can access it and I tried it in different PCs. The screenshot he showed to me was from the Safari browser.   I am a windows user and haven't tried in safari.   What could be the problem? Why isn't the site loading on the Clients PC?   The site is: Above & Beyond Escorts The screenshot provided by the client is: ![Screenshot from Client](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hS0iQ.png)


Is there any value in reposting someone else's article?

Say you get permission from the article's author to repost his article on your own site, and give a link back to the original author; is there any SEO value?


How do I ask google not to index certain parts of my page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page I was searching for an old review on my site today and I noticed that Google is indexing the headline text in my latest article list on every page that it appears, obviously I guess. The problem is if I search for my Dragon's Lair review specifically to my site like this http://www.google.co.za/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Alazygamer.net+dragons+lair+review Then it returns a ton of pages that aren't appropriate as they aren't related to the review at all. The reason why I care is that I have a second Dragon's Lair review that was posted years ago and now I can't find it. Is there a way to hint to google that certain text isn't relevant to the actual content on the page? is it a terrible idea?


Keep search engine from indexing specific content on your site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page I've got a pretty weird scenario that I was wondering someone could help me out with. I recently created a blog site and noticed that search engines have been including the content of my footer in with the description. This presents a problem because my footer is basic a brief legal statement saying that the views are my own and don't represent the company I work for (and yada yada yada). So, basically, I need a way to prevent search engines from indexint that content in my footer or even my footer altogether. I've been looking back through some of my SEO books and searching through forums but this doesn't seem possible.   1. Is it possible to keep search engines from indexing only certain content on a page?   2. If it isn't possible, what alternatives are there to ensure this legal mumbo jumbo doesn't show up in the results?


my website redirected by someone else

First of all i cant find true forum to post ,but i need a very quick help. I have registered a domain name with godaddy couple of days ago , but today, after i post my domain name for appraisal, it was redirecting to another domain name with just diffrent tld. extension Am i hacked? How can i resolve this problem? (domain manager shows its already parked to godaddy there is no problem with name servers they are allright but still redirecting the domain) windsurf.ws redirecting to windsurf.lv


Hidden text and search engine rankings

I am using hidden texts in one of my websites for better search engine ranking. After browsing the web, I found it better not to use hidden text. Does using hidden text of keywords in webpage affect rankings? Does Google block such types of site that use hidden text like same color of font as background.


Does google crawl css scripts to check of hidden content

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  hidden texts and page rank Does googlebot crawl CSS scripts to determine if content is hidden or not? If so, is it advisable to hide or not to hide content to improve on the SEO of a page. My main reason for asking is that I would like to improve on my ranking for certain keywords.


"County" showing up as top keyword due to drop down menu. Should I take steps to fix?

We have a database of dealers by state and county. It gets put into a dropdown form using `<option>` Currently it shows : `Select County: First County Second County ` So on as a drop down. As a result Google Webmaster Tools is showing the top content keyword as County, by a long margin. All of the other keywords look fairly accurate. Will having County at the top have negative impact on search results or since the others are alright it won't make any difference?


New or same URL on reactivation of user generated content?

We run a classified ad website. Our users can temporarily deactivate their classified ads. From a SEO point of view, when they reactivate it, should the ad use the same URL or use a new one? Each choice has its issues: duplicate content, removed from Google index, etc. Few details:   * when inactive, we return an HTTP 404.   * reactivation can be done only during 30 days.   * if no reactivation during the 30 days, we serve an HTTP 410. PS: How is(was) eBay doing it? When expired, the page is not searchable within eBay, but can be accessed with direct link or from Google. Some details are removed and it is labeled as "closed auction". Pro: the main content can still be crawled by the bots. Con: the user does not like that his auction is still findable from Google.


Moving to a custom domain in blogger spoiled my pagerank. Need help?

I had www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com as my blog on Blogger. I then purchased a domain www.chankeypathak.com and then I followed the procedure of redirecting all old pages to new ones (301 redirect). Everything is working fine. But the only problem is that I have lost my pagerank. Before it was 2 for www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com and now it is showing unranked for www.chankeypathak.com How can I get my pagerank back?


adsense leaderboard 728x90 for mobile?

I use the same html for both desktop and mobile version of my site, with a different css. The problem is the 728x90 leaderboard that doesn't fit into my mobile version layout. Is there a suggested way (by Google) to replace the 728 with a smaller adsense banner?


What kind of information can websites collect about a user/client?

This is a multi-part question: 1) What kind of information can websites collect about someone (someone's computer or device) when they visit your website? I know we log IP's, and can determine your zipcode, OS, browser type and native language but what else? 2) Is there any information collected and logged by the website that can be used to trace a connection back to a specific computer? Do computers, devices and phones, etc send some kind of unique ID to a website? I understand that law enforcement may be able to do this, but can this be done by a webmaster? 3) If someone attacks our website like a denial of service attack can we get the identity of or ban a specific computer/device? Or does someone like the FBI have to be enlisted to trace an attack to a specific device? I know we can ban IPs. I am sure this question has been asked somewhere before but I have had no luck finding an answer. I tried searching for this here and through google but I don't think I know the proper search terms. Please use laymen's terms as I am not particularly web-savvy.


Google search : pubdate issue

At some point this year, **Google Search** started to show the **publication date**. When I updated my website, I noticed that the publication date was actually my birthday, simply because it's the first date **googlebot** encounters. I can't delete it because it would defy the whole _"My website is my Resume"_ idea. I tried to solve the problem by wrapping it in **address** tag and putting the date in **time** tag with **datetime** attribute, but it didn't work out.               <address>

                 Porte à Camp 5
                 7971 Basècles
                 BELGIQUE

                  <time datetime="1984-01-29">29/01/1984</time>
                 Belge/Russe

                 +32 (0)493/.49.18.23
                 razine.ivan |                  Télécharger CV

     </address>      So far, the only way I could solve it is by deleting **q=show+the+publication+date** from the url. I have no clue how to fix that. Any ideas? This is my web page: ivanrazine.be And this is the search result (4th position): google search


Tracking Keyword user used to get to website

Is there a way we can add the ability to track what keywords the user has used to end up on our website? i.e. If they type in Software into google and our site pops up in the SEO list, when they click on it I want to log an entry into our db from logic in the home page to say the user used keyword 'Software' and also maybe offer some different features on the home page depending on the keyword used. Thanks


How can i find the most popular searches in Google that contain my keyword?

How can I find a list of the most popular searches in Google that contain my keyword, E.g If I want the most popular containing "Paris" or "London"


SEO of A/B testing

Let's say I have a production site for my company, and I have a page on it called "ERP" about our company's ERP-related services, and at the bottom of the page, I have a "call to action" sentence, something like "Enter your email address here for a free ERP services consultation". But I want to present site visitors one of 10 different "call-to-action" sentences in that space, maybe randomly, in order to see statistically which sentence gets the best response. What are some ways I could keep this from hurting my SEO?


Google analytics referral path

I run a website at the domain http://www.turkishbasics.com . Google Analytics is however showing the referral path of some of my traffic to be the domain itself (turkishbasics.com). How is this even possible? I've just recently moved my site from a .tk domain and this never used to happen before. I've used php 301 redirects to get traffic to the new domain.


Setting up an email only domain

I want to set up an email address with a custom domain. What would be the best way to do this ? My only real requirement is the email address, the service may be hosted or just email forwarding. Is it possible to just buy the domain and use some other services to set up the email ? **P.S:** A cost estimate and references to any how-to's would be great


How do I compress my JavaScript and/or CSS?

I know that there are ways to dynamically load it into the page, but if I want to compress my code so it loads even faster, how do I do it?


How to Preserve PageRank for Disappearing Pages?

Pretend that USA Today has a section of their site where the sell electronics, which they locate at http://electronics.usatoday.com. The subdomain is powered by an online electronics store called NewCo via a white label. Many of the pages on this subdomain have relatively high PageRank. But few, if any, external sites link to the subdomain--the PageRank of the subdomain is largely due to internal links from the usatoday.com root domain. USA Today's deal with NewCo expires and they decide to partner with my startup instead. But, unlike NewCo, we won't be providing a white-label solution; rather, USA Today will be redirecting all of the electronics-related links on their root domain to my site instead of the electronics.usatoday.com subdomain. They also agree to direct all of the pages on electronics.usatoday.com to me. Ideally USA Today would add 301's to all of their pages on electronics.usatoday.com that direct to the corresponding pages on my site, but they don't have the engineering wherewithal or resources to do this. Therefore, what is the best way to pass the PageRank from the electronics.usatoday.com pages to my site? Would it work to have USA Today change the CNAME for electronics.usatoday.com to my site and then create pages on my site that mimic the USA today URL structure? For example, let's say there was a page located at electronics.usatoday.com/ipods. Could we give electronics.usatoday.com a CNAME form my site and then create a page on my site located at mysite.com/ipods that 301'ed to the ipod page on my site? Would that preserve the PageRank?


Changing image upload directory

A couple of years ago I changed my websites upload directory to a subdomain (to images.mudfooted.com). I am now working on a major update on my website and wondering if the subdomain is actually the best option compared to a subdirectory (e.g. mudfooted.com/images). I get a lot of visitors via google images but am wondering if the hits to the images.mudfooted.com subdirectory only are not added to the mudfooted.com hits. I initially chose to use a subdirectory to increase the site loading speed. So my question: Is it better to change the upload directory to a subdirectory or subdomain, taking loading time and SEO into account. Thanks for you help.


PHP W3 Validator API, Is this good?

I was trying to find a way to see if my site's code was valid or not but I continuously going over to W3 Validator so I decided to make an "API" however it really isn't! I just wanted to know if anybody can find a better solution to the one I have made. This is what I currently use, with the usage of ?uri=http://www.mydomain.com :               <?php     if(!$_GET['uri']) {     echo "No URI!";     }     else {      $CheckURI = "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=".$_GET['uri'];      $URL = file_get_contents($CheckURI);      $Start = strpos($URL, "<title>") + 7;      $End = strpos($URL, "</title>");      $Title = substr($URL, $Start, $End-$Start);      if(preg_match('[Invalid]',$Title)) {          //Code is INVALID          echo "INVALID Source";      }      elseif(preg_match('[Valid]',$Title)) {          //Code is VALID          echo "Valid Source";      }      else {         //It Went WRONG         echo "";      }     }


SEO & Multilingual:  would be this a good practise?

I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course. **Here's my idea:** The internal links would be composed of the "www" subdomain so that people can share links regardless of their language. Anyway, their language is determined by the `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE` PHP variable. So, they would see http:// www.site.com/mydocument/123 in their adress bar and never see any links like "http:// fr.site.com/mydocument/123" or "http://en.site.com/mydocument/123" The user can always switch the page's language thanks to links in the footer.   The switching language link would be : http:// fr.site.com/mydocument/123 , and clicking on it would change his language session and redirects the user to http:// www.site.com/mydocument/123 **In case of a crawling bot:** I read that if the HTTP_USER_LANGUAGE variable was missing then it's a crawling bot. So, in that case, we set the defaut language as English. Each page, as I mentionned earlier, has a link for another language:   On the page: **http:// www.site.com/document/1323** , the link **http:// fr.site.com/document/1323** can be seen by the bot and be crawled.   * What do you think about this practise ?    * Would I get good SEO results for each language ?


What is g1sense.int.godaddy.com?

I recently looked at my list of referrers (ie, previous page the user was on), and one odd one is a link like `http://g1sense.int.godaddy.com:15871/cgi- bin/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=3372311093`. The domain name just redirects back to `godaddy.com` though and going to the link doesn't seem to actually do anything. The odd thing is, I'm not the only one seeing this mystery referrer according to Google. Because it seems so widespread, can anyone tell me what this is? Is my site being blocked by a user or in some other way?


How to maintain unique user per paid account in a website with given set of Email ID and password?

For a website, there is a free and a paid membership option. Once the user pays some amount he gets a membership for a month for additional products that are not in the free account on the website. Now once the user pays and gets a membership, how to make sure that only one user accesses the account ? I just want that only one user should use a paid account and even if he gives the set of Email ID and password to his friends, they shouldn't be able to login. So what do I need to do for this ? There are many sites that offer paid membership options. Do they do anything special to restict one user per paid account ?


What is the syntax for putting a nofollow attribute into a javascript file

Matt Cutts states in this video: > It turns out that as we are executing JavaScript, we do look at the > attributes. So you can actually use Javascript and put, like, a nofollow > attribute on individual URLs. I'm not clear to me what the syntax for that would be. How would I put a nofollow on a link in a variable like this?               var mylink = "http://example.com/";      or if it in AJAX like this?               $.ajax({         type: 'post',         url: '/path/ajax-handler/' + method,         success: function(data) ...


Find visitors to multiple subdomains on single visit with Google Analytics

I'm working on a site that has quite the backlog of Google Analytics data for their site network. One of our big questions is whether people enter on one site and move to another (and if so, of course, how do these visits differ from single site visits). The hostname report (Audience > Network > Hostname) shows all the host names and I've setup Advanced Segments to get site-specific data. That all works great, but I'm really having a hard time figuring out how to find visits to multiple sites as defined by visiting more than one subdomain or the root site and one or more subdomains. I do see that other hostnames somehow come through when I apply one of the segments to the host name report. Which I can't say I expected. Is that the best way to see if people are visiting 2+ sites?


Black background

Background of my site is black. Every reloads, browser's window **_blink_** , because default setting of browser binary is "white background". ( Chrome & Firefox ) Is there an exit, but rebuild whole browser from sources?


How is web hosting CPU usage measured?

Among virtual hosting providers, there is usually an amount of storage and bandwidth specified in the service description (example: 50 GB storage, 1 TB bandwidth/month) but no such thing for CPU usage. However, usually a clause in the agreement says something about using resources excessively.   * How is this measured?   * What is the measurement units?   * What is being measured?   * Is this a CPU usage percentage?   * Does the peak count or the average (over a period)?   * Excessive relative to what?   * Since no measure is specified in the agreement, what can be done to avoid being squeezed into more expensive plans?


Are Dynamics CRM 2011 webservices accessible from outside?

I am working on a CRM 2011 implementation and we need to give access to CRM webservices (for instance, the Update Account) methods. This is because, our CRM needs to be feeded by _n_ third party websites. Can this be acomplished? Can the, original, native CRM webservices be opened to internet? Note: We think, as an alternative, to wrap the original web service within a custom one, so, we expose our webservice, lets say "CreateAccount" and, from it call the local CRM webservice. But. this is a thing that we **really love to avoid.**


Should I store address in encrypted form?

What are the general rules relating to address fields and others. I only store password in encrypted form, the rest are not. Email is also used during login. Can someone give me a suggestion related to   * email   * address   * city   * zip codes and others you may thing of. I am the only admin at this point and no one else is viewing any record. What should be standard? As a side question, should I store address no matter what (or optional) since the website is about buying stuff?


Malware/Viruses on Server

I was contacted yesterday for a potential freelance job. The guy told me he has a WordPress site and that his host told him was hacked and there are code injected files in the install. The host has temporarily blocked all front end access to the site until these files are deleted or fixed. My question is in regards to the viruses/malware or corrupted files and opening an FTP or SSH connection to this hosting account. What risks are posed when opening a connection to this hosting account? Can these files potentially transfer any malware to my desktop and then again to other sites I open connections to? I am not familiar with this type of situation, and appreciate any insight into it.


SEO for pages that load from database

I have a very stupid question. I developed a website that has only one page at the public html directory(index.php). all content are dynamically loaded as different pages. How can i SEO my pages for google? i mean like the what we type in this site are .............i believe stored in database and search engine find these pages like any static pages... Just a little tip would be appreciable.......!


How to do SEO for database driven web? Asp.net

Hi to everyone and thanks in advance for your time reading this question. Im kinda new on this SEO stuff and there is something that I can't figure out how it works despite all the readings that I did. I've developed a new website which allows users to add recommendations for every kind of bussiness, places, professionals, etc, so other people can see if travel to X place is worth it for example. From what I've read so far (and from what I've understood, which are actually two different things haha) its important to make user and search engines friendly URLs and have proper keywords, title and h1 tags. (I've read this post SEO for pages that load from database and a few more) That's not a problem because I can do that on server-side code, but what I actually don't understand is how Google shows pages that collect info from databases on his search results. Lets put an example just to detail this a little bit more. If we go to Google and search for "abercruz paginas amarillas" google show us a link that send us to a page from "paginasamarillas.com" which has all the details about that store. Instead if we go to Google and type, "abercruz yousug" (which is my page) nothing shows up. I know that it could take a few days to Google to index my page but I don't understand HOW could Google "search" into my database (or page, or whatever) to end with the correct URL which shows the details of that Commerce If someone could explain me that or help me a little bit understanding how to rank content that is generated from a database I will very grateful. Thanks again!


What is Easiest Way to Change URL Structure of Dynamic PHP Website?

I am a SEO guy and always facing this problem, that PHP sites make dynamic URL with IDs. This is not SEO friendly structure—like this `/article.php?id=2987`—and need to be changed like this `/why-to-hire-a-seo- specialist`. Is their any easiest way to change this type of URL structure?


How can a Google crawlers see PHP dynamic content?

I'm reading the Google SEO starter guide and on page 11 it says you should prepare a site for users and one for search engines in XML. My site is about vehicles, and vehicle is not in a separate folder. It gets loaded dynamically with GET and PHP – so can Google crawl this if it's "not really there"? The pages are there under `?GET` variables like `home.com/seevehicles?2009-camar` so am I doing it wrong or can Google also crawl this?


SEO purpose: Does Google prefer html sites than wordpress sites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO for pages that load from database Will html sites have any advantages over blog sites while getting analyzed by Google bot?


How should I create URLs for database generated content that can be indexed by search engines?

I have learned how to retrieve data from a database to a single page by using a form, so I would not need to create many pages to show the elements of a catalog. The concern that I have is how to make this database content available for search engines. I have read that I need my site to generate different URLs for each search result, but in my test, the webpage always has the same URL without any additional parameter. I know that sites like Facebook and similar generate particular URLs for each profile and they are indexed, but I don't know if "physical" files exist for them or how this is done. I have read similar questions to this, but still can't figure how to generate the URLs.


Do Parallels Plesk Panel 11 have free inbuilt firewall?

I am new to Linux Dedicated server hosting and plesk panel 11 , i am looking for **inbuilt firewall module** . Is it comes with free in plesk 11 or i need to pay or plesk 11 doesn't support firewall?. I looked at the demo http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/demos/, but i couldn't find any information about firewall in plesk 11.


Problem with DNS

I bought a new website, and the company gived me another free domain name, so when I asked for the socond they created it and they told me to change the DNS to look like the first one. It's been a week waiting for it to propagate, today when I type the url I got this error message :               If you are the web site owner, it is possible you have reached this page because:          * The IP address has changed.     * There has been a server misconfiguration.     * The site may have been moved to a different server.      If you are the owner of this website and were not expecting to see this page, please contact your hosting provider. When I try to add the second domain to my cpanel (Addon domain) I get also another error : `The addon domain “abcdef.com” has been created.` `An account with that login already exists.` Do you have any ideas about this problem. Thanks. `EDIT` I tried to flush the DNS with `ipconfig /flushdns`, but It's not changing anything.


BBCode or WYSIWYG editor for non-technical people

I am creating a forum for non-technical people, and I can't figure out if BBCode or a WYSIWYG editor is easier for them to use. The forum is for craftsmen, and I am therefor in doubt if a BBCode editor would be too difficult to figure out. Does any of you have any good suggestions on what to use?


What is a rough maximum amount of page views per month that an average shared hosting service should support in your opinion?

Sorry for asking such an in-exact question, but I would really love to know what professional webmasters consider to be the rough limits of standard shared hosting services (GoDaddy, MediaTemple, ThePlanet, et al). I realise mileage varies massively, but I spend a lot of time wondering when to move growing sites from shared hosting to some more robust like a services like a VPS. Would it be fair to say that once a site hits 50,000 page views per month, one should consider better hosting, or should a shared host be able to handle this?


Should i add rel nofollow to menu links?

Should i add rel nofollow to the links from my site menu ? (to the links like: home, about us, contact etc... that doesn't have no connection with the site niche) Does this helps? What other options i have?


Should initials of names be seperated by a dot or by a hyphen for seo purposes

I wanted to use names with initials in the URL. For example if j.k. Brothers is the initials and name then is it good to make my URL like so:               sitename.com/j.k.brothers/listing/      Or would it be better to use hyphens like so:               sitename.com/j-k-brothers/listing/


SEO effect of linking text out of context

I came across a curious situation recently. I was reading an article where some text was linked but such that the link text was completely out of context. Here is an example: > as I work my way through the `<a ...>`best insurance`</a>` fraud crimes > making the news The linked text, "best insurance" is linked completely out of context as the "best" describes the "insurance fraud crimes". Is there any SEO effect to this? Is there any indication that search engines attempt to analyse context of links as closely as required to detect this?


Address bar showing long URL

I recently upgraded my hosting account to Deluxe where I can host multiple websites. I added a domain name and created a folder in the root directory giving it the same name as my domain name and uploaded my files. Now when I navigate the site the address bar shows: 'http://mywebsite.com/mywebsite/default.aspx' I want it to display: 'http://mywebsite.com/default.aspx' My thinking in creating folders that match the domain names is to keep them somewhat organized; never intended to have my domain names listed twice in the address bar.


are literary works published in my and various websites considered duplicate?

I have published an ancient literary work which is not copyrighted or owned by any party. i can see other websites, news magazines sites published the same long back. The literary work consists of 1330 verses which cannot be modified and we don't want to modify. _It is of 133 chapters with 10 verses in a chapter. so websites categorize as 133 pages normally. each verse is exactly 7 words. and all websites will have these verse with optional extra information. so if compared with different websites which had published this we can see an exact copy of 20 lines with optional additional information below each verse of in some other form. When talking about the original source it is from text books published long before internet appeared._ Will that be considered duplicate? if so then how to emphasize that it is a literary work common for all (i mean anybody can use it) ?


Launch of new website deleted google rank?

I think i might have slipped up here and would love some advice on this before i start making changes We have the domains www.mysite.com and www.mysite.co.uk Currently we have the main site on www.mysite.com , this runs a host of subdomains uand redirects for other sites, in asp.net I develop in php and as such thought it would be easiest to launch a new server and host the new site on www.mysite.co.uk and put a frame forward on the www.mysite.com domain. This would means no other changes needed, as i wasnt too sure about the DNS settings and certainly wouldnt want to play with the source code and server. This frame forward provided by 123-reg seems to have destroyed all page rankings though, cant find www.mysite.com in any searches Is there away to get the www.mysite.com ranking back up to the top again? Thanks for your advice


How to handle URL encoded parameter separators when responding to AJAX crawled _escaped_fragment?

I've been reading about how to handle Google requested URL here There is an example from Google :   * Pretty URL: `www.example.com?myquery#!key1=value1&key2=value2`   * Ugly URL: `www.example.com?myquery&_escaped_fragment_=key1=value1%26key2=value2` As you can see, in the ugly URL there is "%26" characters, as explained by Google that they need to be unescaped by the web server to obtain the original URL:               %00..20     %23     %25..26     %2B     %7F..FF       As in the example, the "%26" (ugly URL) represents the "&" (pretty URL), so in this case, we need to replace "%26" with "&" to get the original URL. How do we know which character is represented by the special characters that Google replaced?


Google Analytics Not tracking data correctly IP-address issue?

I have developed a small site for a client and the site has been placed inside a `<iframe>` at the clients site. The GA-script I'm using looks like this:               <script type="text/javascript">                  var _gaq = _gaq || [];             _gaq.push(       ['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-2'], //My company's GA-account       ['_trackPageview'],       ['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1'],  // Test GA-account       ['b._trackPageview'],       ['th._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-3'],       ['th._setDomainName', '.clientdomain.se'], // Client GA-account       ['th._trackPageview']     );                  (function () {                 var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;                 ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';                 var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);             })();              </script>     </head>      As you can see I report the GA pageviews to the client as well. The GA script is tracking visitors and pageviews at both ends. But the problem is that on my clients side the visitor-count is more than double what they are on my end (20 000 vs 5 000). At first I thought that it was being duplicated at some point but when I checked my Crazy-Egg account I saw that it had tracked over 10 000 visits and then stopped tracking because that was my limit on the account. The page my site is on is on a IP-address (http://XXX.XXX.XX.X/campaign/) and not on a "valid url". Could that be an issue why some of the visitors isn't beeing tracked? Thanks in advance


Measuring percentage of visitors connecting over https

Does Google Analytics expose information about the connection protocol used by site visitors? I don't see any option in the customization section... is this something I'd have to use a custom variable to capture?


Facebook like button in plain HTML, is it possible?

just a quick question, **is it possible to create an _FB Like_ button in plain HTML?** I checked out the Like button code dircetly cerated by developers.FB but it's an                     I also checked out the addthis.com and it's a bunch of **Javascript**. I mean: **is there a way to just use something simple?** Example:               FB like, click here      I know in this way it won't show anymore "how many people like", but I don't mind this, I just want something simple, so I can use my own icon or text, etc. In my understanding for the Share button is possible by just adding:               To share on FB click here.      So i suppose it could be possible also for the Like button.


Best way use a keyword rich domain to increase ranking of another website on that keyword

Consider the following scenario - we have an e-commerce enabled website selling (say) routers in Britain. Now, one of my keyword (of great importance) is "British Routers". My website is already on second page but not moving ahead for this keyword. A little bit of research revealed that the domain britishrouters.com was available which I bought. Now I want to make know what is the best possible way by which I can get my original website to move ahead on this keyword using this domain. Though I am no SEO person but I guess 301 redirects would already be covered by Google. My best possible bet is to probably do a wordpress install and write a few blogs having links to my original domain.


What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?

_This is a general, community wiki question regarding duplicate content._ _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._ * * *   1. What does Google consider to be duplicate content?   2. Will the way I am presenting my content result in a duplicate content penalty?   3. How can I avoid having my site's content treated as duplicate content?


product in multiple categories - duplicate content problem

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Content appearing under multiple categories; anything I can do to prevent > duplicate penalty? What is the best practice to display a product that may be in several categories without producing duplicate content as far as search engines are concerned? In the past I have used a default category for each product so only one url is ever displayed for each product, but this is not a nice user experience if for example a product is listed in: maincategory A, subcategory B and also maincategory B, subcategory D and the user navigates through B > D to the product and the page url is displayed as website/A/B/product - the user may have lost the subcategory they came from initially. Is it really necessary to remove the duplicate url for SER purposes? Or will the SE pick the most appropriate one to list?


Categories as duplicated

Would Google treat different categories as duplicated? On my website, one content can have up-to 10 different categories. That makes every content appears in all those categories plus the main page.


Can mass different log-in pages result in SEO duplicate and/or low quality punishments?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have internal pages that rely on an external API which I would like to build upon user request. Two options I thought about:   1. Make lots of 'thin' pages that specifies that if you want content about X, you need to log-in, and then the page will be built. Pros: user understands what he'll get when logging in. Cons: SEO implications of such a solution due to the mass 'low quality' and 'cross-sites duplicate content'   2. Make them all redirect to ONE same generic log-in page. Pros: No duplicate low quality content. Cons: Lots of internal links to the same log-in page.  Which would you recommend?


Could this be considered duplicate content?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm building a dating site at the moment. On the homepage I have a paginated list of all members on the site. Each page displays 10 members from newest to oldest. The pagination is simply "<< Prev" and "Next >>" links, so Googlebot should be able to crawl each and every member profile on the site. Now the thing is, these profile listings also appear on other pages. A listing block such as:               -------------------------------------     <IMAGE>          Jill / 28 / Straight     New York, NY          Likes: long walks on the beach, vodka     -------------------------------------      Will appear on the `Homepage ---> www.mysite.com/page/2` as well as on this category page `"Women seeking Men" ---> www.mysite.com/women-seeking-men/page/3` So that's two places where the same listing block appears. Is this considered duplicate content?


SEO with duplicate content

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have a nature photography site with multiple types of photo galleries. Each photo and associated caption on my site appears in several galleries. For instance, a photo of a goldfinch that was taken on a trip to New Mexico in 2008 will appear in the "goldfinch.php" gallery, in the "finches.php" gallery, and in the "New_Mexico_2008.php" gallery. This duplication is useful for my site visitors - User A may want to see goldfinch photos, whereas User B wants to see photos from New Mexico - but I am concerned about the SEO implications. The typical suggestions to deal with duplicate content, such as 301 redirects and canonical tags, probably won't work in this case, because the page content is substantially different (ranging from ~1% to ~90% duplication, depending on the specific example chosen). The obvious solution to me would be to edit robots.txt to only allow search engines to crawl one type of gallery - for instance, if they crawled only the galleries organized by species(e.g. goldfinch.php), all the photos on my site would be found exactly once. However, the Google content guidelines recommend against blocking crawler access to duplicate information. Should I go ahead and use robots.txt anyway? Or is there a better solution?


SEO - Listing Sidebar Code Before Content Code

On my website, I have always ordered my code with the code for the sidebar coming first, then the navigation bar, then the content section (with the individual paragraphs, images, etc... specific to each page), and lastly the footer. By order, I simply mean the code for my sidebar is first in the HTML document. The sidebar, navigation bar, and footer are all pretty much the same on all pages of the website. Is it bad that I am listing the duplicate content first? Should I be putting my content code first, because that is the part that is unique to each individual page? Does it matter what order code is listed in (especially for example if the navigation is absolute positioned and not within the flow of the document)? **Edit** This is specific not only about the order of HTML code but also the influence of duplicate content within the order of HTML. It may be that text that comes first in an HTML document is more heavily weighted, but does duplicate content apply to that as well.


I have domain.com and domain.org to the same site, should I use redirects to avoid duplicate content

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have both the .com and the .org for a domain name, and using Apache I point them to the same site content. I think this might be causing problems with the Search Engines because of duplicate content. I want the .org to be the essential website. How do others handle this situation? Should I be using 301 redirects to point all the .com requests to the .org? Should I just use the link rel="canonical" on each page to point to the .org?


What is duplicate content and what does it affect negatively?

I am fascinated by **SEO** and it's merits, so that's why I am going to optimalize my website. There are still a couple of questions that do pop up... Well, I am aware that duplicate content is not done, but I don't know what **duplicate content** is for `Google`... For example, I have a page which links to the top rated posts at the front page... If I click on another page, I do see the same link, but in a different context; not top rated, but just, a regular post... Question: is this duplicate? I have two links that are going to the same post, but is this seen as duplicate? On the other hand, I have a list of posts that I have ordered in a particular order. Now, I have three links that link to the same post. Besides, I have made an excerpt of the concept with a " **read more** " to the same post; I have 4 links to the same post... Is this duplicate content? If yes, what should I do? A `no-follow` on those links? On the other hand, I have **author pages** + **tag pages** in which the same posts pop out. Where do I put a no-follow and why? I would appreciate feedback and help.


Does Google penalize pseudo-duplicate pages for different locations?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My compony's site's home page was not specificly optimized to any location. Now, I am planning to optimize it to Boston, and create ten or so other landing pages for other locations we serve. If we made these new pages by copying the original Boston one and changing the location's name (s/Boston/Montreal/), would Google consider them as duplicate pages and penalize us? What is the best practice for this?


How to tackle this duplicate content issue?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I've a new website coming up with 1000's of page which will contain some city codes. I'd also like to place city info copied from Wikipedia(as per Creative Commons License).   Now the focus of the pages will be city codes. Wikipedia content will be there only to improve page appearance.   However it can be slapped duplicate content penalty so I should use rel=canonical.   But the main content/focus of site is some city codes and not Wikipedia info per se. Rel=canonical will give impression that whole part of page is duplicated lowering the page seo worth.      **What should I do to tackle this duplicate content issue?**


SEO penalty for "duplicate" content when a site's also accessible via another domain name?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? While testing searches for keywords on my site, I notice that a mirror of it at http://a8.8d.344a.static.theplanet.com/ sometimes appears at the top result rather than my primary domain. It looks like this is an alternative address for my server. Will the presence of identical content at this domain and at my primary domain result in a Google penalty? If so, what can I do about it? Thanks for any help...


Avoiding Duplicate Content Penalties on a Corporate/Franchise website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My question is really an extension of a previous question that was ported from stackoverflow and closed so I cannot edit it. The basic gist is a regional franchise company has decided to force all independent stores into one website look; they currently all have their own domains and completely different websites. After reading the helpful answers and looking over some links provided, I think my solution is to put a 301 on each franchise store site (acme-store1.com, acme-store2.com, etc) back to the main corporate site (acme.com). All of the company history, product info, etc (about 90% of the entire site) applies to all stores. However, each store should have some exclusive content such as staff, location pictures, exclusive events and promotions, etc. I originally thought that I would simply do something like acme.com/store1/staff, acme.com/store2/staff, etc for the store exclusive content and then acme.com/our-company, for example, would cover all stores. However, I now see two issues that I don't know how to solve.   1. They want to see site stats based on what store site they came from. If a user comes from acme-store1.com, is redirected to acme.com and hits several pages, don't I need to somehow keep that original site in the new url to track each page in that user's session and show they originally came from acme-store1.com?   2. Each store is still independently owned and is essentially still in competition with the other stores, albeit, in less competition than they are with other brands. This is important because each store would like THEIR contact info, links to their social media pages, their mailing list sign-up and customer requests on EVERY page. So if a user originally goes to acme-store1.com and is redirected to acme.com, it still should look to the user that it's all about store 1, even though 90% of the content will be exactly the same as it is in the store 2, store 3 and corporate site. For example, acme.com/our-company would have the same company history, same header/footer/navigation, BUT depending on the original site the user came from, it would display contact and links to THAT store. If someone came directly to the corporate site, it would display their contact and links (they have their own as well). I was considering that all redirects would be to store1.acme.com, store2.acme.com, etc (or acme.com/store1) and then I can dynamically add the contact info and appropriate links based on the subdomain or subfolder. But, then I have to worry about duplicate content penalties because, again, about 90% of the text in these "subdomains" are all the same. For reference, this is a PHP5 site. I've already written a compact framework utilizing templates and mod-rewrite that I've used for other sites. Is this an easy fix that I'm just not grasping? Any suggestions?


Duplicate content, point to original?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I am building a website for a client and would like to have some tabs on each product page with the instructions, postage info, ordering info in, the problem is that most of these tabs are universal and will be the same across more than one product. Will the site get penalised for duplicate content and is there a way to point to the original content in some way?


SEO problem for site with 2 domains

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have two domains pointing to the same site. I want both domains to co-exist, they share most of the same content, but they differ in design and they are aimed at different markets / rivaling communities. Is there a way to let google know that these two domains are the same site and don't cause me to get hit with a duplicate content penalty? Any other general SEO tips for this situation would also be welcomed. Thanks. Come on man, why was this closed. The linked page is completely irrelevant for me.


Two URLs pointing to almost the same content

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? What I would like to do is the following: I have a website at `http://dev.upcoming-djs.com` which display a music chart. And displays a music player at the right side. I would like to make an URL like: `http://dev.upcoming-djs.com/track` Which points to the same page only with the track loaded in the player at the right side. If I understand correctly it isn't good (SEO-wise) to point different URLs to the same page (with same content). Is this true? And if so is the penalty severe?


Does duplicate content inside your own website matter for SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm not referring to the duplicate content where you copy content from another site and publish it on your own. I am talking about original content that you produced. If on 10 pages on your site you have more or less the same content, would this affect your ranking with Google?


Duplicate content - linking to other versions of same page

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Two URLs pointing to almost the same content If I have a page, that has this url:   * domain.com/category/something/ but can also be accessed through these urls:   * domain.com/category/something/1   * domain.com/category/something/2   * domain.com/category/something/3 where the last number is used as an image-index to display a certain image on the page. So the content of the pages are the same, just with one image changed. How do I avoid google indexing the versions with /number at the end, so it only shows up once in searches - and is not considered duplicate content? Is it enough to put a rel="nofollow" on links to the /number links?


Mobile website causing duplicate content issue on Google - how do we fix it?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My website exists at `www.<site>.com` for desktop browsers and `m.<site>.com` for mobile browsers. We are now seeing that for some Google searches, our mobile site outranks our main website; it doesn't seem to matter if the search is done from a desktop PC or a mobile phone. Aside from that not being the desired behavior, we're concerned that Google is seeing our mobile site as duplicate content of our main site. At this point we're considering an outright block of Google's crawler on the mobile site (via robots.txt). Is that the best approach? Is there a way to make our mobile site show up for mobile search, our main site to show up on desktop search, and avoid the present confusion? Thanks! -James


Duplicate content for sub domains i.e. example.com/subdomain/index.php seen the same as example.com/subdomain/

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have a website with some sub domain folders and seomoz is picking them up as both duplicate content and duplicate page titles. In actual fact, its the same page i.e. www.example.com/subdomain/index.php is seen the same as www.example.com/subdomain/ I want to point everything to the later. I'm sure this will be done in the htaccess file. I sorted it for the main site (home page) and everything works fine but when I tried copying the code and re jigging it for the subdomains, either nothing happened or the page went down.


Same page in different "locations" on same site - duplicate content?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar URLs, namely:   * http://www.example.com/path/to/page.php   * http://www.example.com/path/to/page.php?catIndex=1 The URL param in this case affects all the navigation links on the page. Basically, the same page is accessible via two separate navigation routes. To the end user, who doesn't look at the URL, they could be perceived as two separate pages in different parts of the site, although the content is identical. I have a `rel="canonical"` link element linking to the first URL (without the URL param). Could a search engine perceive this as duplicate content? I think my eyes have gone square, but I was considering adding a robots "noindex" meta tag to the page when the `catIndex` URL param exists. But it is really the same URL and I do want the content indexed once, so I'm now thinking this would be foolish?!


Duplicated content in Google. Same subpage different link

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? At my website I can access published posts by two different types of links. For example http://mysite.com/posts/333 points at the same content as http://mysite.com/check/this-is-news,333 is . How Google search engine will deal with it? Is it example of duplicated content or not?


How much duplicate content percentage is considered as bad for SEO?

If a site contains 94% of unique content and remaining 6% of the content coming under duplicate, then can it be considered as bad for SEO?


Adding same text in each Wordpress blog post - SEO relevant?

I am adding a text below each blog post from my Wordpress PHP code. Since its always the same, I am wondering if thats counted as duplicate content by for example Google? What do you think? Thanks for letting me know :).


What happen If I post articles from other websites?

In my website I'm posting 5 articles everyday from different websites(sources), Will Google penalize for this behavior, if so how should I handle this ? I'm doing this for more than 2 years. Please suggest me a solution.


Redirecting domains to prevent duplicate content

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have 2 domains:               www.company.com      and               www.product.com      I like both domains, they both point to the same site. I have all my canonical links set up properly, but do I have to pick one of the domains to be the master? Some of my visitors really like going to               product.com/page.html      And others like               company.com/page.html      But should they ALL 301 and redirect to               company.com/page.html?


Duplicate subdomains and SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have two subdomains for the same website. One has quite a high page rank, the other does not register. Is there anything that I need to think about in regards of SEO in this scenario? EDIT: Example: `blog.example.com` and `drupal.example.com` are two aliases for the same content. The first has a very high page rank, the second has none.


Can duplicate content on a .com and a .co.uk site impact google ranking?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? Can you please tell me if launching a .co.uk version of an English .com site can cause problems with ranking in Google SERPs? We have a .com eCommerce site with 100,000+ indexed pages. The site is many years old and has a page rank of 5 so it has a long history and lots of links. We launched a .co.uk version which used the same content for about 50,000 products, but uses pounds sterling and UK pricing. Within two weeks, we went from getting 2,000 visitors a day to our .com site down to about 60 visitors per day. We have been struggling with this issue for the past 30 days and it's costing us a lot of money. We had not considered the possibility that a .co.uk site could cause this big a problem. The main .com website is still well indexed and crawled, but seems to have been filtered out of search results. The .co.uk site shows up in the US searchers on Google.com and the .com site seems to be in the more results section. Could this be the problem we are dealing with? Could the .com site be suffering from a filter that shows the co.uk site instead. If so, do you have any suggestions on what we can do to remedy the situation.


SEO: Duplicate content caused by pagination/tag/index pages

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I read that I should use a `NoIndex` tag for transitional pages like index, pagination, or tag pages. Is this true? I have a Tumblr blog that I am considering putting `NoIndex` on the index, search, tag, pagination, and date pages. Is `NoIndex` enough or are there other methods? Should the index page of a site be marked as `NoFollow`? That doesn't really sound too good. What are the pages you would put `NoIndex` on?


Universal navigation menu across domains - would it be considered duplicate content?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? Across different sites on different second-level domains exists a universal navigation bar with a collection of roughly 30 links. This universal bar is exactly the same for every page on each domain. The bar's HTML, CSS and JavaScript are all stored in a subfolder for each domain and the HTML is embedded upon serving the page and is not being injected on the client side. None of the links use any rel directives and are as vanilla as can be. My question is about Google's duplicate content rule. Would something like this be considered duplicate content? Matt Cutt's blog post about duplicate content mentions boilerplate repetition, but then he mentions lengthy legalese. Since the text in this universal bar is brief and uses common terms, I wonder if this same rule applies. If this is considered duplicate content, what would be a good way to correct the problem?


How to Keep SEO Score from Dropping with Duplicate Content

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm hoping that someone has a solution for what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm working on a travel agency web site and there's a "Overview" section for each cruise line. These overviews are located on the index page for each cruise line. Here's my issue: The company is creating a search engine that includes details on each cruise line. Their write-ups on each cruise line are great, so I'd like to include the overview they created for each cruise line, rather than having to create all new ones. However, I don't want duplicating their content to negatively affect the SEO scores of the pages they originally put this content on. It's gong to duplicate, since each page that's dynamically generated by their search engine is going to include a section about the cruise line (where I'd want to place the overview). Question: Is there any way that I can include these overviews (ideally, copying the exact HTML that they've already implemented) without the search engines indexing those particular code sections? I'd want the rest of the search result pages to be indexed...just not the section of each page that contains this duplicate code. I saw something about using a span class named robots-nocontent in Yahoo (not sure if this also applies to Bing) and googleon / googleoff tags in Google. Is this the best solution? I'm open to any suggestions, thanks!


Are multiple results from a website search considered duplicate content?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? The website is a Magento store , but I believe this applies to any product search. We have a search form which takes several parameters. Each combination of parameters results in a different set of products being returned. Obviously sometimes the same product will appear in a different set of products. Very little changes outside the products list when we filter the search: the title tag and the filters lists, the one major change is the product list, where some products will disappear, but most of the time they will repeat through different filters. Also since we have different urls the search engine is treating them as different pages. Is this considered duplicated content? Also what is the best way to make my search seo friendly? Listing all my products and using the canonical tag to point every search there is an option, but is this the right choice? Aren't I losing the possible keyword combinations from my filtres (category, price range, brand)?


How to avoid duplicate content penalties for "multi-homed" content?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My website is for U.S. military members, helping them enjoy their base more by providing places to go on/off base, and information to learn about the base. It is capable of supporting every military base world-wide. Each base has it's own landing page. From here users can see content like: place pages, "blog" posts, etc... Here's where my question comes in. Places can be viewed by bases within a given distance of that place, so some places will appear on multiple base pages. Blog posts are tiered. They can be global (appear on all bases), regional (appear in all U.S. bases, or overseas), sub-regional (appear in Japan, or Germany, etc...), or specifically for one base. **How do I avoid duplicate content penalties for places/posts that span more than one base?** For example: here is the same post on one base, and on another. The url is different, but the content is the same, but it's "legitimately duplicated".


Statics Banner Content Consider as Duplicate?

One Quarry!! Suppose if I have site having 10 pages (with 3 different categories) and all pages have one static banner which is running in all pages. Now let say it 3 categories be A, B , C defining 3 services and having few content on the banner representing the service then condition of duplicate content will arise or not??


Part of content is available in another page. Does that qualify as duplicate?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I know that duplicate content needs to be addressed in some ways, but this problem is bugging me for some time I have no clue how to solve it. I have a page say a product page with URL **/product/1234/name-of-product** that part of it is displaying a stream of news related to this product with a "more" button at the end, like Facebook stream.   This more button when clicked is intercepted by javascript code which will fetch the rest of stream through an AJAX request to URL **/stream/product?keyword=name-of-product**. However if the JS is disabled or for some reason the AJAX cannot be made the link works the normal way which will go to the URL above which will show only the stream. Now I don't know how to tell search engines that this PART of the page is the same as the stream URL. The thing is I don't want the stream URL to rank higher than main product page. Is it right to put a _rel=canonical_ on the stream page that point to product page? If true the product page is only showing a portion of stream and for more it links back to stream page again.   I'm confused a little here. Thanks in advance and I'll provide further information if required to clear this up.


Why Wikipedia does not have duplicate content issues with search engines?

I discovered that the following 2 URLs are serving exactly same content. Why is this not impacting Wikipedia's SEO? I've heard having same content across 2 URLs has negative impact on SEO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Data_mining Disclaimer: I'm a developer, not in SEO or marketing so don't know much about SEO.


How to send hundreds of emails an hour with content personalized to each user?

There are more than 10 categories in my site, users can register more than one category. My PHP script prepares content for each category, according to user preferences. My script merges those contents for each user, so every user can get personalized content from the categories they want. The problem is, I want to send 340+ mails per hour and DreamHost doesn't allow it. I think to a service like MailChimp but I couldn't find that scenario. Do they support personalized category & content? Can I use SMTP in DreamHost?


CMS for single user-editable pages?

Does anybody know of a CMS where users can edit their own page, and their page _only_ (something similar to about.me, except with more customization/options)? I'm not talking about profiles, but more like an individual web page for people's businesses. I want to be able to give local businesses the opportunity to make a single web page for their businesses with ease. I have looked at many CMS's, but I can't find anything that offers this type of functionality. I've check out the following:   * Unify   * Concrete 5   * Drupal   * Simple CMS   * CMS Made Simple (and more) If anybody knows a CMS with the functionality that I'm looking for, or even a regular CMS with modules/plugins that I would be able to use, that would be awesome. Also: the cheaper, the better :D Thanks, Gerard


Domain Mapping with Wordpress.com

My girlfriend has set up a blog/website for herself on wordpress.com but also has a domain name she'd like to use when giving out her website URL, instead of a wordpress.com subdomain. Wordpress has some info about that here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ I'm interesting in knowing more about the pros and cons of handing over a domain to Wordpress like this. Has anyone done it?


Howto use .htaccess with exclusions

I want all requests on a domain to be redirected to https, with the exception of just one particular file. I'm not sure how to accomplish that with .htaccess               -bash-3.2# cat .htaccess     ErrorDocument 404 http:// www.domain.com     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:// www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]     -bash-3.2#      The above code redirects everything perfectly, however I need the robots.txt file to be accessible via http:// vs the https:// only


.htaccess rules to rewrite URLs to front end page?

I am adding a new application to my site at example.com/app. I want views at that URL to always open myapp.php. E.g.               example.com/app -> example.com/app/myapp.php and     example.com/app/ -> example.com/app/myapp.php      **What's the correct form of rewrite rules in the .htaccess file?** I've got:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /app/     RewriteRule ^myapp\.php$ - [L]     RewriteRule ^myapp.php$ - [L]     RewriteRule . - [L]     </IfModule>      ...based on what the Wordpress front-end does. But all I see at example.com/app is a directory of files. :( (I put those rewrites at the top of my .htaccess file). Any ideas? **Update** What actually worked:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/app(/.*)?$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule . /app/myapp.php [L]      This is good because:   1. Explicit or implicit calls to app/myapp.php work.   2. example.com/app redirects to app/myapp.php   3. example.com/app/ redirects to app/myapp.php   4. example.com/app/subfunction redirects to app/myapp.php   5. All other calls to example.com/otherstuff are untouched. Item 4 is Wordpress-like Front Controller pattern behaviour. I think that rule               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/app.*$ [NC]      needs refining as it allows /app-oh-my-goodness etc. through too. Thanks for the answers.


Math to create web design grids?

I have my own grid layout, and I am creating multiple column designs for a website. Is there any formula I can follow to create different column designs with identical gutter space, ie. margins? Most are the alike, (through trial and error), however some are a pixel off and I am looking to make it pixel perfect.


Google search does not show sub-pages from my website

My website appears in Google search, but only the first page. Of course I have sub-pages linked from the first page, but the sub-pages do not show in Google search. Not in Yahoo, not in Bing. What should I do? It has been three years that sub-pages do not show. (I tried searching site:mydomain.com and pressed 'repeat the search with the omitted results included' link) What would you suspect the reason? My website addresses were like xxx.php?yy=zzz etc, etc, so I changed it to /yy/zzz using mod_rewrite. I thought it might be (X)HTML standard violations, so now I changed it. I hope Google will soon have my entire website, but I am a little bit pessimistic. Do you have any thought?


Google Adsense and Private Networks

As the title suggests, I'm trying to figure out if I can use Google Adsense on a private network. The network is accessible only by registered users, which made me think if it would work or not. Thanks in advance!


Using another domain with Google App Engine

I'm trying to change my google app engine domain (domain.appspot.com) to the domain I bought from 1&1.com (mydomain.com). I went into the google app engine settings and added the domain. After making a Google Apps account, I was asked to verify my domain. The directions say that 1&1 doesn't allow me to create TXT records, so I can't use that method for verification. Their alternative is to upload an HTML file to my server, but I didn't buy hosting with my domain, I just bought the domain. My files are on domain.appspot.com. How can I make mydomain.com point to domain.appspot.com? I've added the ns1.googleghs.com as my nameservers in my 1&1 DNS settings, but I still can't verify my domain with Google Apps.


What is the single most influential book about website promotion and internet marketing?

What is the single most influential, useful, famous book about website promotion and internet marketing?


I want to test major changes on my website without hurting SEO

I want to replace all my website files for new ones on the server and to test if they work alright but I don't want to be crawled while this is happening or if I am, I don't want the crawler to be able to see what's in the new page. I just want to change it for like 15min but i tested other stuff once for 5min and google for webmasters told me they had a lot of 404's during that period and I don't want that to happen again. Besides that I don't want to have to write my whole .htaccess file. I considered redirecting all the urls to my main page and apply the changes but I think this isn't probably a good practice, any good ideas?


Hide email adress with JavaScript

I read somewhere that hiding email address behind JavaScript code, could reduce spam bots harvesting the email address.               <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">       var a = "Red";       var t = "no";       var doc = document;       var b = "ITpro";       var ad = a; ad += "@"; ad += b; ad += "."; ad += t;       var mt = "ma"; mt += "il"; mt += "to";       var text = "";       if (text == null || text.length == 0)         text = ad;       doc.write("<"+"a hr"+"ef=\""+mt+":"+ad+"\">"+text+"</"+"a>");     </script>      This will not display the actual email-address in the sourcecode of the page, but it will display and work like a normal link for human users. Is it any point of doing this? Will it reduce spam bots, or is it just nonsense that might slow down performance of the page because of the JavaScript?


Are browsers supposed to automatically retrieve intermediate SSL certificates and do they?

I have recently encountered the following issue: a user couldn't access a website that was using an intermediate VeriSign certificate because it is no longer included in Firefox. Some sources claim that Firefox will import the certificate from websites that send it, others say that it won't. Will it? If not, is it supposed to?


Tools to check for common vulnerabilities?

Are there any good tools (desktop or online) which allow you to check whether your website has common vulnerabilities (e.g. SQL Injection, XSS)?


Webiste Testing for SQL and CSS injection

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Tools to check for common vulnerabilities? I would like to ask some tools or code for testing my new created website from **_SQL or CSS_** injection. The website in created in PHP and has login module which is use for ticketing system for support module. Url convention is **www.domainname.com/index.php** Thanks in advance.


How to create a redirect page in Google Sites? Example: Home → Page → _redirect_


Ideas to improve website loading speed?

Are there any ways in which I can improve the loading speed of a website? I know that Google is really pushing loading speeds and with the popularity of mobile websites it's now imperative that sites load quickly.


What is optimum time spent downloading a page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ideas to improve website loading speed? I saw on wpengine.com, > Google says they lose 20% of their traffic for each additional 100 > milliseconds it takes a page to load. Speed matters. Google also > incorporates your page-load time into your site’s search rankings. Faster > sites win, literally. That’s why WP Engine custom-built our EverCache > technology to deliver WordPress fast enough for Google, and at scale. The average download time of my site is 1216 ms. I think this value is too much. How can I reduce this time? Currently I am using shared hosting. If I switch to vps server, will this value reduce?


cloudflare for joomla website and how to make it more optimized

In our office somebody told to use cloudflare for better website browsing at client end.!! I've put our company's website on cloudflare, now.. what other changes should i make to make my website faster accessible by client end. The developer before me made our company's website in Joomla.. I'm not a good developer in Joomla either. Is joomla itself a faster kind of stuff producer??? And what other stuff should i follow to make my joomla website faster?


Really slow wordpress website admin panel with a total query time 1664ms for the home page

I have a problem with my WordPress website being too slow, I installed a debug bar to check queries in the home page, it reports 202 queries, and a total query time equal to 1665ms. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/47o3S.png) The cpu and the ram are in critical use. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SAev3.png) Here is what i tried to do:   * Optimize pluginDB to defrag the DB.   * ThemeCheck plugin to analyse and clean my template.   * W3C Total cache Plugin with object cachr enabled. Necessary plugins are:   * WordPress SEO by YOAST   * Jetpack service by WordPress.com   * Contact form 7 Thank you


Why is there a form which allows us to redirect our naked domain, yet it does nothing?

In Google Apps Domain Management, There is a page for me to change how my naked domain `http://example.com` is redirected. However, in that page, it tells me **You must change the A-record at your domain host for this change to take effect**. Now if I have to change the A-records in my domain host manually, why do I still need to access this page for? If I change the A-records in my domain host manually, everything will work fine just as a _usual non-Google domain setup process_ isn't it? So what's the purpose of that form at all? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MzlXQ.gif)


How to copy or replicate a complex website to local file and modify then

I am not good at designing the visual side of a website. I found a website which I gave 10 over 10 because its functionality suits my aims and also it seems very esthetical. I know HTML, PHP, mySQL and some degree of CSS. I don't know JS, Ajax, Jquery. So I want to replicate this web site (save completely) on my local and then modify it. (content, colors, icons etc.) I saved this web site in Chrome and IE. After clicking the site from my local folder, a saw an ugly & non-working site. My aim is to understand the functions of the parts that I don't know. For example when I delete a js in its page what will happen as the result of the deletion operation. Since the page is too complex it has lots of css, js files to download inside. I don't want to deal it manually. Is there any alternative and easy way to get the web page completely to my local which also works like a charm from local? regards


Redirecting a Preview DNS subdomain to a domain with htaccess

I want to redirect all the WordPress urls of the form `http://example.com.previewdns.com/my-favorite-post/` to `http://example.com/my-favorite-post/` I am trying to do this with the below .htaccess code.. But its not working               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com.previewdns.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]      Please help


Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?

I want to know, is there a huge difference in terms of SEO between these URLs: > mysite.com/ontario/toronto/listings > > or > > mysite.com/listings.php?p=ontario&c=toronto Will one URL rank higher than another? Is there a huge difference here?


How important are SEO Friendly URLs

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? Currently, my URLs look something like `http://mydomain.ext/question/5` where `question` is the Controller and `5` is the ID of the object or article retrieved. In theory I could spend some development time and some server resources to have URLs that would contain more information about the page loaded. However, seeing how websites like Youtube or many others just keep simple URLs with just an ID, I am asking, does it matter? It is worth it??


Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? I have a listing of members on my homepage. My dynamic urls are quite simple:               http://mysite.com/members?page=8      I just use the query parameter to go from page to page. Is this bad for SEO? Should I be doing something like this instead?:               http://mysite.com/members/page/8


parameters in a seo url

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? This should be a very simple question for seo experts. Let's say we have the following URLs:   * http://www.test.com/some-sort-of-page   * http://www.test.com/some-sort-of-page?pgid1189   * http://www.test.com/some-sort-of-page/page/1189   * http://www.test.com/page/1189/some-sort-of-page The first one is an ideal solution. What i need to do is to somehow pass a resource identifier in the url to know exactly what this url is pointing to, since it can be pointing to a lot of different things. In the second URL, "pgid" specifies that the resource is a "page". URLs 3 and 4 specify the same thing differently. I do not care if the URL is friendly to people, because, let's face it - 99.9% of people will never ever ever bother to remember such url no matter how "friendly" it is. So the question is: which of the last 3 URLs would be the best solution for search engines? My guess is it would be the 2nd with query string, but i might be wrong. Thanks for your thoughts P.S. please don't offer using the first url. There's no problem using it, but the question is not about that.


Is using URL parameters bad for SEO?

I recently noticed that my web page have problems with Google and good search results. Many of the existing SEO tools suggests that my website uses bad URLs for SEO. I'm using a single PHP file that handles all the sections via parameters. By example:   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php (Main Page)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=servicios (Services)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=blog (Recent news)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=blog&cat=2 (News category)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=blog&id=3 (A single entry) Is this ok? If it isn't, how can I solve it without having to rewrite my entire site?


What are the pro and cons of using friendly URLs compared to query parameters (and vice versa)?

I am noticing that more and more sites prefer using "friendly URLs" over adding information as query parameters. For example:               domain.com/product/3343/      compared to               domain.com?page=product&id=3343      Disregarding personal flavor, what are the core differences between the two approaches?


Best practice URL structure for pagination

Is one of these formats for pagination better for SEO?   * www.example.com/list/1    * www.example.com/list?page=1 What considerations or factors should go into selecting one format or the other? I'm relatively new to this and don't want to make the wrong call.


Apache mod_pagespeed ignores redirected pages

Using mod_pagespeed (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module) with an Apache Server, I noticed that some pages were not being processed. The pages in question all had one similar attribute - they were "redirected" pages - for example an ErrorDocument response or an "index.html" file serving as the response when a directory is requested. Is there any way to remedy this? I've checked the FAQ and had a good trawl through the PageSpeed Documentation but to no avail.


What is a light-weight "slideshow" script that could integrate w/ CMS?

I'm looking to reduce the footprint of my Strict html 4.01 front page. One possible way is to combine much of the "upcoming events" into a single small box, and have them automagically switch which one is displayed every few seconds. I'm sure there are a bunch of this kind of thing written already, and surely an open source one exists, but I haven't had much luck find one. I'd prefer javascript to jQuery as installing jQuery might not be an option, but if the best-fit script requires jQuery I'd certainly be willing to investigate that route. If it can display content from Wordpress that would be ideal.


Is 301 redirecting of *.example.com to example.com dangerous?

I bought a domain which has several subdomains that don`t exist anymore but are indexed in Google. Is it dangerous from the SEO perspective to do 301 redirect to my homepage from all kind of subdomains that I don't use/not exist? And does it help with the Google's index?


How can I change the order of the DNS records in the `dot.tk` DNS server?

I have a DNS record with three `A` records: the main site, and two backups. However, when clients perform a DNS lookup, they reach a backup site. How can I change the order of the DNS records in `dot.tk's` DNS server?


When multiple developers use cPanel, can they get individual passwords that prevent them from uploading into each other's directories?

I have multiple developers working on my cPanel account simultaneously. I want to assign them individual directories to work. I would need to be able to secure other directories from the developers not working on it. I want the website user to be able to access the pages via their web browsers and not be asked credentials.


Find out where a viewer comes from with Google Analytics

Does anyone know if it is possible to determine which company a visitor to your site comes from? For example, if a person is sitting in the offices at Coca-cola or IBM or whatever and visits your site, can Google Analytics (or some other service akin to that) tell that you are coming from those locations?


How do search engines handle hyphenated words?

I am not sure my title fully explains what I mean. I thought this might be an interesting question. If I had a set of keywords, broken with a dash or 2, will search engines consider the dashed split keyword as maybe a full keyword? Say I have a site that sort of breaks words down, like the dictionary sites do. So a keyword for that page, might end up in the page, and / or the URL, as broken by dashes.               Key-word = keyword     Co-op-er-at-ive = cooperative     Pho-to-gra-phy = Photography          www.example.com/key-word/     www.example.com/co-op-er-at-ive/     www.example.com/pho-to-gra-phy/      I know search engines will consider a dash (at least Google) as a space, and understand it as multiple words. But in the English language, a dash can also break a word down (at least I think it can, can't it?), so will search engines also take this into consideration? I did a 'little' research, I Googled some words and placed random dashes, and it returned the words I searched for, but this could be considered a typo from the user on Google's search end, so really I am wondering if I can purposely put a dash in a keyword, and have the search engine spiders still catch that keyword as the real word without dashes? I've done a little Googling and looking here on Stackoverflow, but everything comes down to dashes for multiple words, not really the specific thing I'm trying to figure out. Hopefully that makes sense, I am not an expert in SEO, yet, but get the basics and have been playing, and this is just really a random question to satisfy my knowledge of playing :P


Why does my 9 months old site with more than 400 pages has PR0?

I have a paid applicants' testing site with average traffic of 40 visitors per day. The site is very legitimate and allows people to take technical tests based on a unique content our private community creates. The site runs in production for 9 months now, and I get some traffic from Google. The thing that I fail to understand is that my PageRank is 0 (all this time). All the site's pages have special URLs generated according to their content and we gave special SEO attention to the pages using SEOmoz. What am I doing wrong? How can I tell what is the problem? The site name is `codelect.net`.


SEO on an existing platform

I'm given the task to increase user visits and conversions on for a recruitment website. Conversions would be interested job seekers submitting their CV. The manager would first like to increase the organic search results and optimize the website before starting with targeted campaigns. The problem is, they are using a proprietary recruitment software platform which I can barely add changes to. For example, the url's all look like dynamic url's without any semantic meaning and the markup is almost completely build automatically by that platform. I'm also confident that the lack of submitted CV's is due to a bad user experience of the website (no incentives or clear CTA to register) Besides optimizing the static texts and page titles, is there anything I can do?


The $1000-Dollar Bill

So I know that this question will vary heavily for the type of website, but here it is. Imagine you have a $1000 to spend on your new website. You can handle development and hosting yourself. In what way would you spend it to push it into a legitimate business? I would imagine most of it going towards advertising, yet I find it is very hard to assign a number to the about of users $1000 can buy. So to you veterans out there, how do you invest on your website? Withstanding the common overhead of development and maintenance, what would you spend it on? How many and how quickly can money buy users?


Migrated website: PageRank and 404's

We have recently migrated our website and a lot of pages that existed on the old website no longer exist on the new website. We did create redirect rules to match the URLs from the old and the new website with a `301` but only for `50%` of our content. We have around `195K` pages which give a `404`, and `180K` pages properly redirected. We know serving a `404` to search engine bots is bad for PageRank, but are wondering whether it's bad for the overall ranking of the website. Here are our questions: **Q1: Is a`404` on a particular page affecting the PageRank of other pages and/or overall ranking of a website?** We know we can remove the `404` pages from the Google index via the `webmaster tools` but given the number of URLs that were and were not properly rewritten, we don't think we will be able to remove only the `404`. We also know that eventually Google will remove those `404` pages of its index. **Q2: Is it better to remove everything and let Google re-index the website from scratch (and only non-`404` will remain), or leave everything and have the `404` pages removed over time by themselves?**


How to find the hidden download link of a file?

I want to write a flexget config file to download some subtitle files form http://subs.sab.bz/ The site provides rss feeds for its new releases. Unfortunately, the link provided will open a download page, but will not get the file. I browsed through the code of the download page and the download link in the code will open the download page again when pasted in the browser will re-open the download page again... Clicking on the download button, though, will start the download of a rar file. I want to get to the link for downloading this rar file(containing the subtitle files) Is there a way to bypass this behavior. I read that usually a script on the server will provide the direct link of the download, I want to get that direct link. Alternative solution will be a linux (Ubuntu 11.10 preferred) download manager, which is able to read RSS, trigger download based on filter( specific shows) download the file to specific location, and unpack it


How to create a dynamic grid that makes the current selection larger?

You see website http://stackexchange.com/sites containing lots of images. By clicking each image it expands and clicking another images it expands and collapse previous clicked image. I have attached images below.. ### Before clicking image webmasters: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rxhpv.png) ### After clicking image webmasters: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bRHBi.png)


Can I get source URL from Google search if I switch to HTTPS myself?

HTTPS cloaks the keywords, but I've read that by enabling HTTPS on my site I may at least get the source URL's - if the browser goes from HTTPS -> HTTPS it does not drop the source url in the packet header, but going HTTPS -> HTTP does end up dropping it. Is it true? Should I invest into a SSL certificate so that I may get at least some valid data for my eshop?


Will a 301 redirect help in maintaining proper page rank?

I have `http://www.example.com/article` Due to rampant content development by authors in my site, `http://example.com/article` has also been widely indexed by Google. Now, both are there roughly in equal numbers in Google search result. So, the total page rank for the corresponding keywords is shared between the two URLs. I want only `http://www.example.com/article` to be indexed and have all the page rank value that it deserves. Will doing a 301 redirect from `http://example.com/article` to `http://www.example.com`/article achieve it? If not, what else should I do?


Can Google index pages that use framesets generated by javascript (document.write)?

I was tasked to check on why Google can't seem to index a client site properly. The site uses a framework given by client's parent company (so we can't use other framework). The framework use frameset for almost every page; the main page is a frameset, and many pages inside the individual frame also use frameset. And those framesets are written to the page using javascript (particulary document.write function). I know Google bots can index content in framesets, and able to execute some of javascript in a page to get data. But can it properly index the combination of both?


Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content

Issue: Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like :               mysite.com/sale-united-states     mysite.com/sale-united-kingdom     mysite.com/sale-sweden          etc.      All these pages have 80-90% common content and 10-20% country specific content. currently all these pages canonically point to `mysite.com/sale- united-states`. The problem is when someone searches for "sale Sweden", Google correctly shows `mysite.com/sale-united-states` page, which does not feel correct as it shows US page instead of Sweden. Now I'm thinking of not using canonical url so that country specific urls are produced in Google saerch. But I'm not sure how 80% duplicate content is going to affect SEO? What should be the recommended approach for this situation? A friend of mine suggested a "separate subdomain per country" based approach but it seems overkill for one page.