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body: After looking over our Analytics today, I realized that another website is also using our same tracking code #, which is cause quite a few incorrect hits to our Analytics. Are there any ways to prevent this? Shouldn't Google only accept hits from the same domain?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google > Sitelinks? I want to help Google build the `sitelinks`. Is there some HTML structure, css classes that I need to build to help it finding the relevant links? How does Google build the `sitelinks`, is there a way I can help? SiteLinks example (w3schools)

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there a better analytics package than Google Analytics? Is there any other more advanced web analytics tool than Google Analytics? Even though Google Analytics fulfills all my requirements now, I was just curious to know if someone had stumbled upon a better tool. Regards, Loveleen

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I found some web hosting service providers who provides very cheap shared hosting services with a lot of features which are generally not available with other hosting providers like Video Scripts Hosting, Social Network and Community Website hosting etc.   * arvixe   * pacifichost   * cirtexhosting But downside is, I never heard their name before. I visited many review sites as well but no one wrote about them. If someone who had experienced them before or know some other good shared web hosting providers for Video Scripts Hosting, Social Network and Community Website hosting etc. then please suggest me.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Make content area appear on the right of the menu_bar The following is the code i have written, this is the CSS part of it               body{     color:#000000;     font-family: arial, san serif;      } # container {               margin-left: 10%;     margin-right: 10%;     border: 1px solid #46A5E0;     width: 80%;      } # header {               margin-left: 0.5%;     margin-right: 0.5%;     margin-top: 0.5%;     margin-bottom: 1%;     border: 1px solid #46A5E0;     width: 99%;     height: 10%;      } # pathway{               margin-left: 0.5%;     margin-right: 0.5%;     margin-top: 0.5%;     margin-bottom: 1%;     border: 1px solid #46A5E0;     width: 99%;     height: 3.5%;      } # menu_bar{               margin-left: 0.5%;     margin-right: 0.5%;     margin-top: 0.5%;     margin-bottom: 1%;     border: 1px solid #46A5E0;     width: 20%;     height: 40%;      } # content_area{               margin-left: 25%;     margin-right: 0.5%;     margin-top: 0.5%;     margin-bottom: 1%;     border: 1px solid #46A5E0;     width: 20%;     height: 40%;      } # footer { margin-left: 0.5%; margin-right: 0.5%; margin-top: 0.5%; margin-bottom: 1%; border: 1px solid #46A5E0; width: 99%; height: 3.5%;   } This is making the content_area go below the menu_bar how do i bring it to the right of the menu bar.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? My boss just told me I have to create a dating website of one of our domains. I was wondering if you guys can give me an idea of a good dating CMS ? It doesn't matter if its paid or not. I installed Dolphin 7 but its too heavy for our needs. I need something that looks nice and supports different languages (if it includes Bulgarian it would be superb)

body: i want to have an image behind my google adsense just like the below image ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Lr8oX.jpg) but when i tried the following css               L{         background: transparent url("http://www.triphp.com/images/adback.png") repeat-x left bottom; padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px;         height: 352px;         padding: 50px 30px 0;         width: 350px;         }      i am getting image but as background check this image for this ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CXAuA.jpg) how can i make it like the above one??

body: How to choose between normal web hosting and cloud hosting, what are the key points that can make this decision easier. Does everything I can do in the normal web hosting is possible in cloud one? In Brief, when to choose which?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google Analytics data affect SEO? Does adding the google analytics .js file to a page improve it's google ranking?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to have a blogspot blog in my domain? i have a blog from blogger named as www.myclipta.blogspot.com. i am updating regulary. Then i bought a custom domain with myclipta.com. Now i want to redirect from blogger domain to my custom domain. i don't know how to do this . i heard that to set dns name servers and CNAME..But i am not able to do this.. can any one can guide me please..

body: I have a site which is multilingual. I need to target it for visitors from different countries, including United Kingdom and USA. The problem is that if I make the main site for USA, and subdomain `uk.` for UK, it will contain the same content, and Google will treat it as a duplicate. I want to also link my subdomains in a footer, like:               our site in spain,     our site in english,     our site for UK etc.      Will it help in this case or should I use some special meta-tags like `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="..." href="..." />` to avoid actions from Google? Or should I write different content for every english language version? (other languages' versions will be just translations from the main).

body: I asked google to crawl a site through webmaster tool and include it to the index. How actually it was done: Firstly, i picked some urls manually. Approx. after half of a day those pages were successfully added to the google. Then i asked him about another urls and chose one page (mainpage of foreign branch of the website) as a start point of crawling and indexing the whole website. After sometime the pages which were asked to be crawled manually were added successfully to the index, but google didn't add all pages, though i asked him to do this. I check the site through the seo-browser.com service and didn't find any glitches with linking pages etc. and didn't get any bad warning messages from google How does google actually treat manual request to crawl and index website? Would please someone recommed authoritative guide on this issue or provide with some advice? And another one interesting trick by google! Some of those pages which i had submitted manually at first time and google had added them to the index were removed from google index today, though they still in a a cache. What reasons entice google to remove links that previouslly were added in there??? It seems like google doesn't like my website at all)))

body: I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is. I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com On that domain I have 3 subdomains: london.az-studios.com newyork.az-studios.com paris.az-studios.com Each of them have 301 header redirections as follows: london.az-studios.com -> www.az-studios.com/london newyork.az-studios.com -> www.az-studios.com/newyork paris.az-studios.com -> www.az-studios.com/paris So I can maintain only one unique HTML document (that appears to be three different paths) I have setup .htaccess to use MOD_REWRITE as follows: www.az-studios.com/london -> www.az-studios.com?city=london www.az-studios.com/newyork -> www.az-studios.com?city=newyork www.az-studios.com/paris -> www.az-studios.com?city=paris This is so far the existing structure. I have recently purchased three (hypothetical) keyword rich domains: movie-studio-london.com movie-studio-newyork.com movie-studio-paris.com What I would like to achieve is to have these three domains pointing as following: www.movie-studio-london.com -> www.az-studios.com?city=london www.movie-studio-newyork.com -> www.az-studios.com?city=newyork www.movie-studio-paris.com -> www.az-studios.com?city=paris The only tricky thing I can't figure out is how I do that so that from a Google SEO point of view, it does not use 301 redirects, no frame. What I mean is that I want the response sent to the browser not to be a 301 redirect and no jump of url in the adress bar of the browser. I would like _www.movie-studio-london.com_ to show to visitors (and especially Google bots) as a standard website (with no funny JavaScript, links, 301 redirect, frames etc). Some of you might scream "duplicate content" but the websites, although using the same index.php are _very_ different. I am also aware that this could be seen as doorway but these new purchased domains really define (with keywords) my products and what the different websites are about. Any idea? Any more details, please ask... Thanks Vincent

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am primarily a software developer however I tend to delve in some web development from time to time. I have recently been asked to have a look at a friends website as they are wanting to improve their position in search engine results i.e. google/yahoo etc. I am aware there is no guarentee that their position will change, however, I do know there are techniques/ways to make your website more visible to search engine spiders and to consequently improve your position in the rankings i.e. performing SEO. Before I started looking at the SEO of the site I did the following prerequisite checks:   * Ran the website through the W3C Markup Validator and the W3C CSS Validator services.   * Looked through the markup code manually (check for meta tags etc)   * Performed a thorough cross browser compatibility test. From those checks, the following was evident:   * No SEO has been performed on the site before.   * The website has been developed using a visual editing tool such as dreamweaver (as it failed the validation services miserably and tables where being used everywhere!)   * The site is fairly cross browser compatibile (only some slight issues with IE8 which are easily resolved).   * URLs aren't very search engine friendly (e.g. index.php?page=home) I can see right away a major improvement for SEO (or I at least think) would be to change the way the website is structured i.e. change from using dynamic pages such as "index.php?page=home" and actually having pages called "home.html". Other area's would be to add meta tags to identify keywords, and then sprinkling these keywords over the pages. As I am a rookie in this department, could anyone give me some advice on how I could perform thorough SEO on this website? Thanks in advance.

body: Are there any kind of standard word limit's based on SEO for web pages? I've read around and I've seen advice saying that pages should aim to be no more than 500 words to maximise the SEO benefits. What's everyone's take on this? I get asked this question a lot and my answer is usually between 250-450 words per page to try to encourage people to write good unique content. We regularly get clients who want to put essays on the web so it would be good to come back with good reasoning as to why it's not a good idea to put 5000 words on a page.

body: I am running a website with PR2. On that site, I'd like to create a forum. For the domain structure I could either use: www.forums.yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com/forums According to SEO, what domain structure would be best? If I choose www.forums.yourdomain.com then it's a new subdomain with no PageRank (PR0) and if I choose www.yourdomain.com/forums then it's already a PR2 website. Can I also make my forum premium and earn through it? Will this decrease my PR2 site ranking? Kindly tell what your thoughts are on this ...

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there a domain search tool on the web that works well? I've run across a few of these but can't remember them right now (and I've probably missed a few good ones). The idea is that you provide some input (a word(s)) and it comes up with synonyms, rhyming words, etc. Ideally, I'd want to have some confidence that they aren't just registering all the domains I come up with.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Who is a great domain registrar company? What is the best place to buy/register a domain name? (eg. to get a web site like www.mysite.com) Also, once I have that how can I add content there? Any suggestions ? I am a bit new to this web business/programming so I apologize if this sounds like a funny question. Thanks.

body: I've been using the Index Explorer and Crawl Information in Bing Webmaster Tools to identify 301 redirects & 404 errors. I've noticed however that all of the links are listed without the `www.` before the root domain, even though the domain was added with the `www.` and shows as `www.domain.com` in the Dashboard. I'm also already redirecting `domain.com` to `www.domain.com` and have canonical links in place. Google Webmaster Tools has an option to set "Preferred domain" as either including the `www.` or not, but I can't find anything like this in Bing's version. Is there an option for this? Is there another way to stop Bing from reporting on URL's without the `www.`?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? **Scenario:**   I have a site called for example `foodeals.com` and a new bought domain `greatfooforyou.com` that simply does a 301 redirect to the main site **Question:**   do search engines index `greatfooforyou.com` at all?   Is it possible that, one day, searching for _"great foo for you"_ keywords, I will find the `greatfooforyou.com` exploiting the exact match of the search?

body: From SEO perspective, which language code format in the URL is better and more correct?   www.example.com/en-US   www.example.com/en_US Is the second format valid for the attribute `hreflang` in `<link rel="alternate".....>`? According to the Google guideline, the first format `en-US` is always described. I have already done my website with the second format `en_US`. Is it worth to move to the first format if it is a better one. # [UPDATE] Rather than trying to find an answer to choose underscores or dashes in URL, I would like to know about the correct language code usage in URL. For example, as I already used the `en_US` format, what is the correct usage? `<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/en_US" hreflang="en_US" />` `<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com/en_US" hreflang="en- US" />`

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How To Track Down and Stop Rogue Bots? I had an incident yesterday where my web site was taken down by a web crawler that was ignoring my robots.txt. I'm pretty sure nothing malicious was intended, but the crawler wandered into pages that completely overloaded my database with time consuming requests. What to do for "next time"? (1) Obviously make it harder to trigger onerous requests by just clicking on a link. (2) The other idea I have is to add "poison pill" links that would be invisible to humans, but would have a side effect of marking the IP address as a robot. The question is, would this be likely to trigger false positives, for example because the browser was trying to prefetch the "mark-me-as-a-robot" link.

body: I have created a web application. It lets you search facebook update with keywords at run time. How can I do SEO for it?   * There is just one page so its difficult to get ranking.   * Who ever I disscussed with, told me that you can not do SEO of such a website, you will have to market it on the social media. If so, how do websites like Google Search Engine, LinkedIn and many others made their way to get traffic from Google? Please guide. Thanks

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine In short, I have ~1000 URL's that need removing from the Google index ASAP, this is as of a week or so ago, and over that time the following has been done: * * * The website always had a robots.txt (live for several years), I recently updated it to disallow the URL's necessary. However, this is what I see in Google Webmaster Tools (Health/Blocked URLs), note the "Downloaded Never". I have tried resubmitting via 'Fetch as Google', which is supposedly a fix for this problem, and also a couple of removal requests of robots.txt from cache, which had no effect (over 48 hours ago). Google occasionally hit a 302 from the robots.txt pointing to itself due to a poorly written RewriteRule, but a 200 afterwards, this has now been corrected, would this have been significant? * * * As per the Google Custom Search on-demand removal documentation I have also tried submitting a sitemap with backdated expires dates for the affected URLs. Will this have any effect? +/- ? * * * Lastly, I have gone through the crawling stats and identified the URLs with the highest number of impressions and manually requested those for removal using the regular individual URL removal interface within Google Webmaster Tools, but obviously, this is quite time consuming, doesn't cover all the affected URLs, and I believe (from the documentation) that the number of submissions here is restricted. * * * Are there any obvious techniques I'm missing here or probable solutions to my robots.txt problem?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO and URL Shortners I am wanting to do tracking on links which I provide on my blog and was looking at something like bit.ly to do this, but I was wondering if this affects SEO due to all of my crosslinks going to the same domain. Does anyone know if using url shortening linked content affects SEO?

body: I have a new website with 140k pages, according to my sitemaps. After submission of my sitemap index to Google, the Googlebot has started crawling the site a couple of hours ago, and at a steady pace, but it's doing so too slowly: roughly one request per minute. At such rate, it'll take 100 days for the site to be indexed! Is there a way to increase the rate? Why does all Google documentation suggest that they don't recommend changing the crawl rate, and that changing the crawl rate will only make the crawling slower?

body: I have a static IP and hosted my site in this.Working fine. But I want to change the URL name (static IP) to a domain name. I have one domain name already registered. I have `http://xx.xx.xx.xx/` but I want to use something like `http://www.mydomain.com` How can I achieve this?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to recover a website from google cache? Does anyone know a script to grab all contents of a site from google cache?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? We've established on this site before (in this question) that, since there are so many legitimate uses for hiding content with `display: none;` when creating interactive features, that sites aren't automatically **_penalised_** for content that is hidden this way (so long as it doesn't look algorithmically spammy). Google's Webmaster guidelines also make clear that a good practice when using content that is initially legitimately hidden for interactivity purposes is to also include the same content in a `<noscript>` tag, and Google recommend that if you design and code for users including users with screen readers or javascript disabled, then 9 times out of 10 good relevant search rankings will follow (though their specific advice seems more written for cases where javascript writes new content to the page). > **JavaScript:** Place the same content from the JavaScript in a tag. If you > use this method, ensure the contents are exactly the same as what’s > contained in the JavaScript, and that this content is shown to visitors who > do not have JavaScript enabled in their browser. So, best practice seems pretty clear. **What I can't find out is** , however, the simple factual matter of whether hidden content is indexed by search engines (but with potential penalties if it looks 'spammy'), or, whether it is ignored, or, whether it is indexed but with a lower weighting (like `<noscript>` content is, apparently). (for bonus points it would be great to know if this varies or is consistent between `display: none;`, `visibility: hidden;`, etc, but that isn't crucial). * * * This is **different to the other questions** on `display:none;` and SEO - those are about good and bad practice and the answers are discussions of good and bad practice, I'm interested simply in the factual 'Yes or no' question of whether search engines index, or ignore, content that is in `display: none;` - something those other questions' answers aren't totally clear on. One other question has an answer, "Yes", supported by a link to an article that doesn't really clear things up: it establishes that search engines can spot that text is hidden, it discusses (again) whether hidden text causes sites to be marked as spam, and ultimately concludes that in mid 2011, Google's policy on hidden text was evolving, and that they hadn't at that time started automatically _penalising_ `display:none;` or marking it as spam. It's clear that `display: none;` isn't always spam and isn't always treated as spam (many Google sites use it...): but this doesn't clear up how, or if, it is indexed. What I will _do_ will be to follow the guidelines and make sure that all the content that is initially hidden which regular users can explore using javascript-driven interactivity is also structured in way that noscript/screenreader users can use. So I'm not interested in best practice, opinions etc because best practice seems to be really clear: accessibility best practices boosts SEO. But I'd like to know what exactly will happen: whether any `display: none;` content I have alongside `<noscript>` or otherwise accessibility-optimised content will be be ignored, or indexed again, or picked up to compare against the `<noscript>` content but not indexed... etc.

body: Check this: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:gunlawsbystate.com+kansas+gun+laws The title of the first result is "Kansas Gun Laws - Gun Laws By State". Although, **on the page google has cached** the title is different:               <title>Kansas Gun Laws - Kansas Gun Law - Reciprocity Guide</title>      Google shows the title that has been on the site **2-3 months ago**. Google bot has visited the website a lot of times since that, and as you see it even cached it (the latest version is of 15th Sept), however for some reason it doesn't change the title to the new one in the search results. We use hash-bang URL structure on this website. It completely meets google's requirements for AJAX websites (_escaped_fragment_ stuff). The issue I explained is happening with almost all hash-bang pages that got indexed. Questions:   1. Why does it keep old page title in the search results? Can it be connected to the fact that I'm using hash-bang URLs? There are lots of pages on the site that have the same issue, all of them have hash-bang URLs.   2. Another thing I noticed is that Google's "Preview" feature doesn't work for any hash-bang URLs on the site. Did I do anything wrong? It has got cached versions of the pages, why wouldn't it generate a preview? Thanks. PS. Here's a weird thing I also noticed: this search query https://www.google.com/search?q=Kansas+Gun+Laws+-+Reciprocity+Guide shows the **correct title** for the **same page** as in the example above. Why does google show different titles for the same page when you run different queries?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it feasible to run a public-facing website from my home network? I have just installed a portable WAMP (EasyPHP) in order to test a website. I can access the site via localhost but when I enter my public IP in a browser I get the "Welcome to Apache" type of page. What is the quickest way to make the website accessible over the internet?

body: A client's SEO "expert" has recently asked us to redirect hundreds of URLs to the home page but we're not sure if her request is the best way of going about it. **Here's the situation:** The clients site as a page called /knowledgebase.aspx. By default, this page shows the latest 10 articles. When using the search feature of the site, it goes to the KB and adds the search terms to the querystring eg `/knowledgebase.aspx?search=popcorn` it will shows a list of articles containing `popcorn`. A feature of the site recently removed is that of keywords or tags. Tags, like a blog, could be added to articles and the assigned tags were displayed under the article. Clicking on a tag of `fruit`, for example, would take you to the KB page with the url `/knowledgebase.aspx?keyword=fruit`. And, as expected, it would display a list of articles with a tag of `fruit`. As this tag functionality no longer exists the site no longer contains pages with links to the KB with `keyword` in the query string. **Here's the problem:** Apparently, in Google's webmaster tools, these tag URLs ranked well and so the SEO expert wants all URLs containing `knowledgebase.aspx?keyword=` to be 301'd to the homepage. (Wouldn't this mean lots of URLs with dupe content so google will decide which to use on its results pages?) We're thinking maybe add some 301s to a category page for closely matching content while using 404s for everything else (with human friendly content obviously). The SEO expert though has an allergy or something to 404s though, thinking them an "error" and "bad". What should we do? Make all URLs with `/knowledgebase.aspx?keyword=` redirect to the homepage? (as requested) 301 good URLs to relevant other pages and return 404 for the rest? (our current thinking) We could do nothing which presumably would have a similar effect to 301ing everything in that they will all have different URLs but the same content (in this case the latest articles as opposed to the homepage). Any advice, pointers & hints would be greatly appreciated :)

body: I used the data highlighter in webmaster tools over 3 weeks ago to mark up some local business data, but there is still no structured data being detected in webmaster tools. Does any body have any experience on approx how long it takes for Google Webmaster Tools to start reporting Structured Data that has been marked up with their data highlighter? I'm asking specifically about reporting on it in Web Master Tools Structured Data section, as opposed to actually appearing in the SERPs.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What Forum Software should I use? I am looking to create a commercial or business trading discussion board. I plan to get a forum software to install to my hosting.   1. My main concern is the security, as I need to ensure the discussion info is shared safely among the board members only, not lack to outsiders.    2. Cost whether Free/Paid is fine with me.   3. Feature: Account management, Theme of forum is customizable On my mind, I have phpBB, Simple machines, bbPress but I am not sure which will fill my need. Thus, please advise what forum software will be the best choice and recommended. Thank you

body: I am seeing quite a few conversions which have as source "accounts.google.com" (almost 40%). AFAIK, in the new Universal Analytics as soon as a user has a Referrer set a new session is started. So if a user is getting on my page, and creates an account using social auth (e.g. Google accounts) when being redirected back, will this create a new session? I guess this would explain that there are many conversions coming from accounts.google.com - is it safe to enter accounts.google.com into the Referral Exclusion List? And more - what about Facebook logins, those would show up as facebook.com, but i probably don't want to exclude facebook.com as referrer? Any ideas how to deal with UA referrers and social logins?

body: I want to make sure my product listing is 10 products per page which are not in a series (link). They have explained how to use `canonical` or `rel prev` for pagination when a long page has been divided into multiple page and the multiple pages becomes a series were as my condition is not that. They are unique listing which are not related to each listing... All the listing links leads to a product profile page. So lets say my site is all about cars and I have a _Used Audi_ page with 1000 Audi's for sale. There are 10 used audi cars on each page so there's 100 pages in the series. If I start to utilise `Rel="prev"` and `rel="next"` should I set page 2 onwards as `index,follow` or `noindex,follow`? The content on Page 2 all the way to 100 only changes ever so slightly as different cars will be for sale on different pages but from a "Panda" point of view the pages are incredibly similar as they'd hold the same meta data as page 1 in the series along with duplicate reviews & news etc. I want Page 1 in the series as the _Main_ page for Google to send users too and I don't see the point in Google indexing page 2 > 100. What's everyone's view on this? Lastly with the `rel="canonical"` tag should page 2 to 100 all point back to page 1 in the series or the individual page itself? E.G: `/used-audi/page-3/`.

body: Is it a good idea seo point of view to give `noindex` or `nofollow` to labels and tags? I am creating a blog with tagging post. What is the best strategy for tag pages?

body: I wrote a guest blog post that's located here: http://www.thestaffingstream.com/2013/10/08/finding-the-ideal-registration- form/ At the bottom I have my name linked to my G+ profile with the author relationship, as specified by Google to establish relationship:               J. Pablo Fernández      I assume the onclick and target is added by their CMS. Could that stop G+ authorship from being detected? I'm testing whether G+ authorship is being detected or not here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestaffingstream.com%2F2013%2F10%2F08%2Ffinding- the-ideal-registration-form%2F For other pages that I'm the author of, not only the authorship works but also a search result displays my picture and name, for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=to+shortlist+or+not+to+shortlist+pablo

body: I'm trying to view my website from different locations around the world. I tried browser shot but it's not really accurate and does not allow me to select which country I want. I specifically want to check from USA, Korea, China, Japan Australia, New Zealand etc. Is there a good online website that allows this kind of services? It seems like my cousin in Korea is getting website that is about 3 days old and cannot see any changes that I made since then. Could this be ISP propagation issue? I'm also using Cloudflare to speed up this process.

body: What are some alternatives to using Google AdSense for generating advertising revenue? Google requires that the website has a high enough traffic volume to make it worth while to them. My website is for different seasonal volunteer groups so the traffic is rather low. We still want advertising but we want it focused on things that users are interested in. An example of this is National Ski Patrol, it's volunteer, but we buy a lot of ski/snow related equipment, so we want to see advertisements from places to purchase ski patrol related equipment such as ski gloves.

body: I have a _sitemap.xml_ on one of my domains. It contains the following:               <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">     <url>         <loc>http://www.domain.com</loc>         <lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>         <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>         <priority>0.8</priority>     </url>     <url>         <loc>http://www.domain.com/blog</loc>         <lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>         <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>         <priority>0.5</priority>     </url>     <url>         <loc>http://www.domain.com/blog/blog-post-title-1/</loc>         <lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>         <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>         <priority>0.5</priority>     </url>     <url>         <loc>http://www.domain.com/blog/blog-post-title-2/</loc>         <lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>         <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>         <priority>0.5</priority>     </url>      Google in caching `http://www.example.com` perfectly but for some reason, it doesn't seem to be caching `/blog` very well. I would expect that the `/blog` would appear in the same search results that the search phrase for `domain.com` does - but it doesn't. It doesn't appear anywhere near the first couple pages for that search phrase (the search phrase is my personal name and it's a unique name so there's not much competition). When I search "firstname lastname blog" - it comes up, but when I search "firstname lastname" only `domain.com` comes up. Am I correct in thinking that something might be wrong with my _sitemap.xml_? I suspect that Google is not correctly caching `/blog` for some reason.

body: As a webmaster in charge of a tiny site that has a forum, I regularly receive complains from users that both the internal search engine and that external searches (like when using Google) are totally polluted by my users' signatures (they're using long signatures and that's part of the forum's experience because signatures makes a lot of sense in my forum). So basically I'm seeing two options as of now:   1. Rendering the signature as a picture and when a user click on the "signature picture" it gets taken to a page that contains the real signature (with the links in the signature etc.) and that page is set as being non-crawlable by search engine spiders). This would consume some bandwidth and need some work (because I'd need an HTML renderer producing the picture etc.) but obviously it would solve the issue (there are tiny gotchas in that the signature wouldn't respect the font/color scheme of the users but my users are very creative with their signatures anyway, using custom fonts/colors/size etc. so it's not that much of an issue).   2. Marking every part of the webpage that contains a signature as being non-crawlable. However I'm not sure about the later: is this something that can be done? Can you just mark specific parts of a webpage as being non-crawlable?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  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)

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  hidden texts and page rank I was wondering what would happen if we put some (around 25) relative keywords in the page using a hidden div so that the actual user does not see them but the search engines do?   do search engines consider this to be `keyword fraud`(!) ?

body: This following question by Jeff was in 2010 and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.   My problem: I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are user based. E.g:               Joe.example.com     John.example.com     Jil.example.com       So all of these subdomains have the content and the main site `example.com` becomes a mere **dummy listing all the subdomains**.   Now the question is, as of 2012, how is google treating `domain authority and page rank` in this case?   I understand the notion of page rank as page per se but when it comes to domain authority will the parent domain have the cumulative effect of the domain authority or will it be spread out?

body: I didn't see this question already asked but I also don't know if this may be called something in particular so my apologies. While learning SQL and PHP I was curious to know how do bots search a website if there is no physical `.html` files being populated onto the server? How do bots index the site?

body: I'm trying to set up tracking on a project that I'm working on.   1. The main site is at `http://www.example.com/`   2. The order page is at `https://www.example.com/index.php` Currently they have two different profiles under separate domains:   1. Main Site: UA-aaaaaaaa-1    2. Order Site UA-aaaaaaaa-2 This isn't giving me the results I want. When on the order page, I would like to see where on the main page users came from. Also, when on the main page I'd like to see when they navigate away to the order page, right now I can't tell the difference between an exit and order page click. I'm not even getting the main site as a referrer to the order page. What am I doing wrong? Should they be under one profile? Or two like I have them. Should I be setting the domain name `(_setDomainName)`? Should I be using `_link()` when linking to the order page. I can't find the right resource for what I need.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm working with a CMS that allows me to post content in to multiple categories. So, I have this link:               www.site.com/category/green-cars          Here are the GREEN cars         TITLE: A Big green car         INTRO: this is a great big green car.      But then I have this link:               www.site.com/category/big-cars          Here are the BIG cars         TITLE: A Big green car         INTRO: this is a great big green car.      So essentially - for every item of content, **header** and the **intro sentence** is the same regardless of the category the item appears in. Will a search engine penalise the site for having the same content in this way? I've looked at canonical links, but I don't think this is relevant here. All my content points to the same page - but the content may appear in multiple categories first. Or am I worrying about nothing? Thanks.

body: Recently I faced with the situation that the wrong site pages (with wrong URLs, wrong content) was indexed by Google during the site developing. Should I place robots.txt with               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      And delete it after the site developing was finished? Or I shouldn't bother with it at all?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Tools to check for common vulnerabilities? Are there any applications out there that can run random queries against my website and try and find holes in it? My particular concern is sql injections?

body: I have just moved a website from a shared host to a Google Apps site. Is there a way I can setup 301 redirects on my Google Apps site so that old links (with a different URL) can be 301 redirected to the new location on the new site?

body:
> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ideas to improve website loading speed? My page gets performance score 79 in yslow which is not bad. Yslow says the parts I can work on are 1) > Grade F on Make fewer HTTP requests It does make many HTTP requests but how can I make'em fewer? The page uses the facebook and gmaps API and quit using those features are kind of out of the question. 2) > Grade F on Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) I suppose I can but that seems like I need another hosting provider. 3) > Grade F on Add Expires headers I tried adding expires headers in `app.yaml` to my stuff but it seems it's the components from other sources that don't have expires headers. 4) > Grade F on Put JavaScript at bottom Again I'm forced to put some javascript at the top since it's the recommendation. Should I do anything special here? 5) > Grade B on Do not scale images in HTML I suppose I could do things another way than inline style elements. 6) > Grade B on Avoid CSS expressions I don't know what this is. So I want to make it perform even better. Do you have any idea how to optimize this code?               {% spaceless %}{% load i18n %}<!doctype html>            <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>     <title>{% trans "Jobs" %}, {% trans "Houses" %}, {% trans "Services" %}, {% trans "Cars" %}, {% trans "Commercial properties" %},</title>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />     <meta name="date" content="{% now "l, F jS Y" %}" />     <meta name="description" content="{% trans "VEHICLES" %},{% trans "Motorcycles" %},{% trans "Apartments" %},{% trans "Houses" %},{% trans "Cars" %},{% trans "Jobs" %},{% trans "Other vehicles" %},     {% trans "PROPERTIES" %},{% trans "Houses" %},{% trans "Commercial properties" %},{% trans "Land" %},{% trans "ELECTRONICS" %},     {% trans "TV/Audio/Video/Cameras" %},{% trans "Computers" %},{% trans "Home & Garden" %},{% trans "Clothes/Watches/Accessories" %},     {% trans "For Children" %},{% trans "LEISURE/SPORTS/HOBBIES" %},{% trans "Hobby & Collectables" %},{% trans "Music/Movies/Books"%},     {% trans "Pets" %},{% trans "BUSINESS TO BUSINESS" %},{% trans "Professional/Office equipment" %},{% trans "Business For sale" %},{% trans "Services" %}" />     <meta name="Keywords" content="{% trans "VEHICLES" %},{% trans "Motorcycles" %},{% trans "Apartments" %},{% trans "Houses" %},{% trans "Cars" %},{% trans "Jobs" %},{% trans "Other vehicles" %},     {% trans "PROPERTIES" %},{% trans "Houses" %},{% trans "Commercial properties" %},{% trans "Land" %},{% trans "ELECTRONICS" %},     {% trans "TV/Audio/Video/Cameras" %},{% trans "Computers" %},{% trans "Home & Garden" %},{% trans "Clothes/Watches/Accessories" %},     {% trans "For Children" %},{% trans "LEISURE/SPORTS/HOBBIES" %},{% trans "Hobby & Collectables" %},{% trans "Music/Movies/Books"%},     {% trans "Pets" %},{% trans "BUSINESS TO BUSINESS" %},{% trans "Professional/Office equipment" %},{% trans "Business For sale" %},{% trans "Services" %}" />        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/style.css" />

{% trans "Add" %}

{% now "d M" %}
                        {% if user %}
Logout Google
{% endif %}         {% if current_user %}
Logout Facebook
 {% endif %}     {% if not current_user and not user %}
{% trans "Log in" %}
{% endif %}

             {% if user or current_user %}
                     {% trans "Welcome," %} {{ current_user.name }}{% if not current_user %}{{ user.nickname }}{% endif %}
                 {% endif %}

     </script><g:plusone></g:plusone>

Market

{% trans "Post a photo" %}

                             <form method="post" action="{{form_url}}" enctype="multipart/form-data">
                 <input type="file" name="file" /><input type="submit" value="{% trans "Go" %}" />
 </form>

{% trans "Information" %}

 {% trans "You can post ads for free. You can search for classified advertisements from professionals as well as private individuals; such as: cars, property, employment, pieces of furniture, electronics and others." %}

             ©2011 koolbusiness.com

                         {% endspaceless %}

body: I can't change the URL of my website with .htaccess, because the query does not work anymore if I make it a pretty URL, so I am desparate to know what impact this will have on SEO. I mean, I have to use this one, because my community wants to see this page as the homepage, which I can understand, but I don't know what effect this will have on my pageranking. The funny part is that this page has no canonical URL and it has `noindex` on it, so that is not good at all, but I am asking you for the URL in the address bar specifically. Can someone explain to me what will happen?

body: I have a blog with around 40 posts, and i want to change the URL structure these posts. this is my old URL something like:               http://domain.com/blog/2013/02/04/string-here.html      i want to set the URL like:               http://domain.com/blog/category/string-here/      Now the concern is recently i have get the PR to my site after a long struggle ;) i am using wordpress for my blog, and will do url rewriting easily,   i just want to know should i have to use 301 permanent redirection so that i will not get the 404 page not found error for my old pages??

body: I have a website which is 2 years old and it is simple PHP pages. I had set up Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools for it. Just last week I removed that PHP website and installed a new WordPress website. I just created pages with the old site's content and also add few new images. The issue is: when I logged into my Google Webmaster Tools account **there were 170 404 not found errors!** How do I resolve the error messages saying 404 not found? How can I remove not existing page links from Google Webmaster Tools? Will it affect my website traffic?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the SEO rules for HTML 5? Will using HTML5 semantic markup negatively effect my search rankings? I have read that using properly semantic markup, besides a general best practice, is also a white hat SEO technique. However since HTML5 is not quite yet finished, is using an element such as and going to cause a penalty in search rankings?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I am looking for a shopping cart to implement on a simple website instead of the default paypal cart that is used with their add to cart buttons (I don't like the non-styeable new tab/window cart). However, I really like the ability to simply add the buttons to existing pages. I do not have a lot of products and do not want to deal with a storefront and complex templates. The main features I need:   * Self-hosted    * Easy to implement with existing website (copy and paste button code, etc.)    * Ability to have variations on one button with different prices (dropdown with sizes, colors, etc.)    * Ability to track inventory and disallow out of stock orders    * Ability to pass cart details to PayPal Website Payments Standard I have seen most of the large storefront options: oscommerce, zencart, cubecart, opencart, prestashop, magento, cs-cart, lemonstand, etc. but these are way more than I need. I don't need the storefront or customer accounts or templated pages, etc. I have seen e-junkie, which is not far off from what I would like, but it is not self-hosted and I would prefer an in-site cart (or dynamic overlay cart) rather than a lightbox or new tab/window cart. I also love the paypal minicart and its implementation, but there is no way to track inventory. So, does anyone have any recommendations that might meet these requests?

body: Before we launched our website, we had set up a "coming soon" page and google picked up the title and description from its contents. So the description in the search results said, **"Coming soon! Visit epicwhale.org for updates."** It's been a few weeks since we launched our website. We've even created a sitemap and submitted it to google. In the google webmaster panel, the pages have been crawled and all the pages are appearing as expected on google, **_EXCEPT the homepage which is still not updated! The title and description of the homepage in google search results still says coming soon.._** **The website I am referring to is textmewidget.com and below are the images of the search result.** Google: http://i.stack.imgur.com/vAkJg.png **I checked on bing too, but it appears to be fine there.** Bing: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q8O6L.png All other pages seem to be indexed fine on google. I don't even have any crawl errors in my reports. So what seems to be the problem? I've already waited for 2 weeks. Thanks in advance!

body: We are planning to launch a new website in the online test preparation space. The website will have different sections   1. Forum (Powered by vBulletin)   2. LMS (Powered by Moodle)   3. Job Board (Powered by Ruby on Rails)   4. Main website - (Powered by WordPress) We are doing this using multiple technologies because there is no single content system that can help us in all the areas. Individually there technologies are best at specific areas. Should we do it on sub-domain basis or sub-directory basis? Any suggestions?

body: I'm building a new website for a friend. He is switching from his old hosting provider and domain agent to new ones. He has six email accounts under his domain name and it's fairly important his emails don't go down for a long period of time. In the past I would have transferred the domain to the new agent, pointed the name servers to the new hosting provider, set up up the email in the new hosting account and change the incoming and outgoing servers in Outlook. My question is if there's a better way to go about this? It seems slightly long-winded.

body: Google has processed my XML sitemaps, and for one of the files, Webmaster Tools claims to have indexed 44,797 links even though that file only contains 4,582 links. Here's a screen cap: ![](http://f.cl.ly/items/2v2x0I193K373Q0T312a/Screen%20Shot%202013-09-04%20at%2010.28.57%20AM.png) I'm not terribly worried about this, but it is a curious state of affairs, and I'm sure there's something to be learned from it. What's going on? **UPDATE** : This is not a duplicate of the question: "Why is there a difference between urls submitted to a sitemap and urls in the google index?" Here's why, as I explained in the comment below: I understand that Google may index many pages that are not in my sitemap. In fact, Webmaster Tools indicates that there are many thousands of such pages. What's curious here is that the above table is supposed to report how many of the links **in a particular sitemap file** have been selected for the index, so it would seem to be impossible for this number to exceed the number of links actually in the file. Unless, of course, I'm missing something. One theory: Could it be possible that many versions of the same pages -- perhaps with different params -- have been indexed?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will JavaScript (document.write) content be indexed by search engines? I've got a site where people can list machinery for sale. Each item for sale has it's own dynamic page. On each of these pages we allow the person selling the item to have a link back to their own website. Some people only sell a handful of items and some people are selling dozens or hundreds of items. So in some cases we can have a 100 links back to their external site. Our SEO guy is saying this is bad (i'll open another question on that). So i was wondering if i take the links and spit them out using document.write, will that hide them from google and the other SE's ?

body: After having read various articles on this site about WWW or Non-WWW website setup, here, here and here, and after having setup a correct redirection rule in .Htaccess to at least eliminate duplicate contents (currently the non-www solution (e.g. `http://website.com`) I have a feeling that my site rank less since I changed this. My confusion was strengthened by these two opponents: **http://no-www.org** & **http://www.yes-www.org** Could the change of `www.website.com` >> `http://website.com` have a factual impact on ranking? Google does _not_ explicitly say either is better or worse. Are they holding information back? `I am confused fellow folks...` As much as I would like to separate facts from fiction, I am aware that not all the good valid information is written. Not on google webmaster site and perhaps not elsewhere. If so it seems out of date! **Does or does not not a WWW domain impact seo/rank better than its NON-WWW version?**   (Given that you have setup a proper redirect to avoid duplicates and go with one) Thanks very much for your light.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What to do with random pages after a 301 redirect? Currently, we are working on modifying the contents of a website of one of our products. Since we are re-positioning the product, we would like to delete roughly 50% (around 200) of the pages of the website. My questions, in terms of SEO are:   * Would it have a negative effect if Google suddenly sees the large page drop?   * Is it OK to provide a 301 to the start page of the website for all removed pages?

body: One week ago, I updated the sitemap and pinged Google and other search engines to alert them to the change. However, the site now has lost like around 50 indexed pages (yes the site is my personal blog which i am only building up) in a week. I have had done some research and came up with some possible contributing factors:   1. Google crawling had an issue (but this happened back in 2010-2011).    2. Something may have been wrong with the sitemap that was submitted to Google. (Although, I have checked this and there are no broken links.) Can anyone point me as to what might be the reason for this? Also, how can I go about re-indexing the pages ? This is similar to other questions on this site, but I have gone through Why is the number of pages on my website indexed by Googlebot decreasing? and Why the number of indexed pages decreased for a "site:" search and neither addresses a situation like this. Update : The site is continously going down in pages indexed and now it sits at a 100 pages less and in total there were only 300..:(

body: Observe the following results for searching the text "dictionary" on Google: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3UZWc.png) Notice that there is a custom search box at the bottom of the listing for dictionary.reference.com. Is there any documentation floating around that explains the criterion by which Google decides to display such a search box?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Favicon, icon, shortcut icon, apple-touch-icon: Are there any others? This is a two part question: The first is about favicons in general. Are there any good practices to follow when it comes to these icons? Currently my site had `<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://mysite.com/favicon.ico" />` in the `<head>` of my site pages and I have the file `favicon.ico` in my root folder to cover the basics. Are there other practies that are not as well known yet good when creating/using a favicon? IS 16x16 still the best size? Th second part of this question is about other "favicons" on the site. The main one I mention is the Apple's "favicon" for my site. I can put this code: `<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="somepath/image.png" />` onto my site and when a person using an iOS operating system adds my site to their homescreen it views my icon vs a thumbnail of my site. Do other devices/operating systems have anything similar? (Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry, etc.) Are there other things I should know? Note: This Question comes close to answering this but it is over a year old and much has changed in that time at least in relation to phones/tablets.

body: I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the `.com` extension for my intended name is already taken. The name I want ends in the letters 'in', to which I have noticed I could shorten the name and use the `.in` domain extension, which is not taken. Would this be a bad idea? I am not Indian, or have any affiliation to the country, but using this would match my other means of contact perfectly (an example would be if my email were `puffin@example.com`, and I made my domain name `puff.in`).

body: My blog is 7 months old. Recently i saw there is 1, 191 bloked URLs in My webmater tools. How i will get rid of blocked URLS. why Blocking of URLS will be happen

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use a file extension or not? I'm creating a website with a number of pricing options. Each price plan has it's own page and there is also a comparison page. As far as SEO is concerned, which of the following is better? or does it not make a difference? **Option one - folders** > /pricing/plans > > /pricing/plans/free **Option two- files** > /pricing/plans.php > > /pricing/free-plan.php

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  .htaccess Redirect Old Threads We had quite a hefty news site which had very ugly urls from a custom cms. We have since relaunched and moved all the content over to Wordpress and have used "pretty permalinks". We were also running a newsletter campaign throughout and would like to redirect all the ugly url's to the pretty one's. How can this be done? Can they be put in the htaccess file? We just want it so when the url is clicked in the newsletter it will redirect to the new url. Here is an example of what we want: We want this - http://www.domain.com/index.php?id=3&nid=91 to be redirected to this http://mediwales.com/this-is-my-pretty-permalink What type of redirect's should they be? UPDATE: This is my current htaccess file in the root:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^([0-9A-Za-z]+)$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]     # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress

body: I'd like to compare the traffic rank for some of the more popular sites in different categories. If I search Alexa for `webmasters.stackexchange.com`, for example, the only result is all of Stack Exchange. Similarly, if I try to search for `answers.yahoo.com` I get the results for all of Yahoo!. How do you separate out a subdomain when searching for the traffic rank of a site? I've tried manipulating the Alexa traffic stats URL with no luck.

body: According to Google Webmaster guideline "Hidden text" is not acceptable. Which means I do have a dov containing some good amount of title or paragraph with link or images if I make it display:none in my CSS, it is against Google crawl policy (thats how it seems). My question is if I use it within media queries how Google will react? I mean               @media handheld, only screen and (max-width: 767px) {         body {         }         .mobile-friendly{ display:none;}     }      for fluid website development we often have to hide certain contents to make the site mobile friendly. Rather than making css for each browser we now code css within same file and define browser behaviour using media queries. So is google take any action against it? --Additional Piont/Question Thanks @John Conde; You are right. Google still is not taking much action against Hidden text. But still pro SEO suggest not to use it. In Example using logo within tag on wordpress and text-indenting them to -9999px ... there are more of the tricks involved. As I am trying to play safe; this is annoying me a lot. Google Hidden Text Violation Guide You see they clearly mention CSS display properties. They didn't explain about these media query exception! As I am trying to be over sure and as Google didn't mentioned anything about it I'm still confused on this question. Any Advice? * * * Thanks for the edits by editors. I'm new here sorry for any inconvenience. Why you may require to hide few contents? The blog I'm desiring is responsive. I want to let my visitors know about it's mobile friendly design. I have placed few mobile icons for better user experience and usability assurance. But I want them visible only on desktop browser not on mobile. Because if they are already browsing from mobile they don't needed to be notify. Infact I can rather tell them this site can be used as web apps while they are on mobile.

body: I have compiled a list of items that may protect a web form from span. Which are actually effective? Please feel free to add additional items.   * Store a code as a hidden field and verify it when submitted.   * Use jQuery to set the method and action fields after page loads.   * (Also) Use jQuery to encode the action URL   * Encode the entire webform and use jQuery to decode it after the page loads.   * Use AJAX instead of the standard submit button action.   * Use CAPTCHA   * Place CSS-hidden fields of the form that only bots will find and fill in.   * Recording time between page load and submission, ignore if less that 1 second.   * Load the form into the page via AJAX, one second after page loads.

body: We have more than one content management system (eCommerce) running on our site and we want to know would it be wise to separate these systems and run on their own server for better performance, easier to manage and better for security, but our concern is the SEO impact. Is it better to run `site.com/this-is-our-other-platform/` or `this-is-our- other-platform.site.com`?

body: I'm adding a blog to a site. Would it be better for SEO to put it at `blog.example.com` or at `www.exampleblog.com`? I already own `www.exampleblog.com` . Would combining the words together to `exampleblog` have a negative effect?

body: Due to damage by malicious code, Google wrote: > Google Analytics web property: link has been removed from > http://swebdizajn.com November 29, 2011 > > Your Webmaster Tools http://swebdizajn.com site is no longer linked to a > Google Analytics web property. Possible reasons are: > >   * You are no longer the owner of the site in Google Analytics, and nobody > else owns both the site and the property > >   * Another site owner removed the link. > > After that I restored to backup and then accepted the Google message to tell them that all is well. How long will I have to wait for my site to return to the position where I was?

body: ## The situation Across the entire domain, we'd like the URLs to _hide file extensions_ and _remove trailing slashes_ , independent of the domain name itself (as in, works on any domain). ## Sample of our directory structure We're not using index.* files except for the homepage.   * /      * /index.php     * /account.php     * /account        * /subscriptions.php     * /login.php     * /login        * /reset-password.php ## The goal Some examples of how these files might be requested, and how they should look in the browser:   * `/` and `index.php` --> `mydomain.com` (literally just the bare domain name).   * `/account.php` or `/account/` or `/account` --> `mydomain.com/account`   * `/account/subscriptions.php` or `/account/subscriptions/` or `/account/subscriptions` --> `mydomain.com/account/subscriptions` As you can see, there are several ways to access each webpage, but no matter which of the 2 or 3 ways you use to get there, it only shows the one preferred URL in the browser. ## The question **How is this done with .htaccess using mod_rewrite?** I've banged my head against the wall trying to figure this out, but in general, the rewrite flow would seem to be something like this:   1. External 301 redirect ( `mydomain.com/account/` --> `mydomain.com/account` )   2. Internally append .php ( `mydomain.com/account` --> `mydomain.com/account.php` ) I've been Googling this all day, read thousands of lines of documentation and config texts, and have tried several dozen times... I think more brains on this would help a lot. # UPDATE We found an answer our question (see below).

body: I read the answers in this question, but they still leave my question open: Does Google cache robots.txt? I didn't find a way in the Google Webmaster Tools to invoke a re-download of my _robots.txt_. Through some error, my _robots.txt_ was replaced with:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      And now all my content was removed from Google search results. Obviously, I'm interested in correcting this as soon as possible. I already replaced the _robots.txt_ , but I can't find a way to make Google update the cached version. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BUisu.png)

body: Google news results have an acompanying thumbnail next to articles that show up in the results. If Google's crawler can't find a thumbnail to pull from our site, it uses its next best guess from another site, therefore linking the image to another site but still uses our headline. Example: Headline from Reuters, Image from Livemint: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uFfKq.png) Our pages absolutely have images, they are not massive in file-size or dimensions, yet we are not having them pulled / crawled correctly. We have read up on the suggestions from Google, and from others around the web and nothing is panning out. Has anyone had any experience where they can ensure Google news will pull a thumbnail of our choosing?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I would just trying to think of a popular website   that has hyphens in its domain, and honestly - I was having   problems naming one. I have a domain name that I have set my mind on, but it's taken.   However, the same domain with a hyphen in the middle is still available. What do you think?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Local SEO Strategies What does most local SEO services consist of? So far here's what I got:   * Add company to Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local and a bunch of other local engines like Yelp and yellowpages etc.   * Submit website to the 3 search engines up and get verified.   * Edit your WHOIS to have your address and keep address consistency throughout all pages, branding, engines.   * Get a Linkedin account for the business I feel like i'm being pretty naive though since most other companies are charging monthly fees. I look at most of these are one time set ups: fill out profile with pictures, keywords and some good reviews. Are there some key points I am missing? I've also seen companies talk about keyword research, but isn't that a website seo issue vs local seo issue? I feel local seo is supposed to go to these directory outlets before your website.

body: We have a main domain or primary domain (say xyz.com) on which we have our website hosted. For the sake of business/trademark we would like to book other domain with the same name but different tlds (say xyz.org, xyz.net, xyz.info etc). Also to refrain our competitors using most commonly used domain names of our common products, we would like to book 20-25 more domain related to our product line. We don't want to duplicate the content of the primary website for all these domains. We want all domains to shown the same content. How can this be achieved? I have heard that duplicate content across multiple domain is considered spamming by search engines. Many website have suggested 301 redirect. I have opened this questions to know more about pros and cons of any of the approaches which would shown the content of our website from any of these domains and also help us in page ranking. Also what would be the impact on the SEO front using any approach. I would also like to know, how am I going to track which website user comes using which URL. Any help is appreciated.

body: I'm trying to make an up to date chart of meta tags, for all of us, with their purposes, their use and their good (or bad) effects on search engines and being found. Also any body knows new or promising meta tags? I will add yours into my list so this chart is a result of live discussion and up to date. Also, it would be creative to invent your own useful meta, because **_we are the ones making the web_** , or aren't we? _LEGEND_   **P** PURPOSE? What does this meta tag do in 2011, if anything   **N** NECESSARY? Does every site really needs it or not?   **G** GOOD wether it will have a good effect for your site to be found   **I** INVENTED meta tag, who knows it will be accepted in a year!               META "METANAME" = PURPOSE?   -   NECESSARY?   -   GOOD EFFECT?          #### important     meta "title" = P consice summary + teaser - N very - G extremely     meta "description" = P description + teaser - N yes - G very     meta "robots" = P if needed, to skip default dmoz/yahoodir listing - N no - G?          #### new & promising! Thanks for input (John, )     meta "original-source" P url of whoever broke the news gets credits - N? - G?     meta "syndication-source"  P url for syndication of published news - N? - G?     meta "canonical" P? - N? - G?     meta "google" = P to hide the [Tranalate this page?] set it to "notranslate"          #### seems obsolete     meta "keywords" = P some keywords - N+G not for google but yahoo likes them     meta "language" = P overrule guesswork by defining language - N no - G?      meta "page-topic" = P topic/theme - N? - G?     meta "abstract" = P short summary - N? - G?     meta "copyright" = ?          #### invented by me     meta "audience" = P filteres audience: "+seniors, +parents, -children, -youth"     meta "mood" = P specifies textual style: "discussion, informative, commercial,                   sexual, fictional, scientific, romantic, therapeutic, technical"

body: (I hope I asked the question right..) ### Fake site Our site lists products for sale. eg : `http://www.myWebSite.com/products/some-drink-we-love-to-guzzle` Each product page has been translated into a few languages: English(UK), English(US), French, German, Chinese. Can Google (or any search engine) search our site and be smart enough to 'see' the localised version so people can find our products, if they search for it in their own language? eg. In my browser i have Chinese set as my default language. I then go to my favorite search engine or a Hong Kong search engine (assumption: it's defaulted to Chinese) and search for a product - in Chinese. The URL is in US English but the page should be found because the content was all in Chinese... Is this scenario possible? Can we tell search engines to hit my site as say you want french content, or German content, etc.. ?? so it knows to index that content under that language? Cheers :)

body: For example - comments. I mean, REALLY ignore. How can I do this? The problem is that lots of people submit spammy comments, like: > Hi cool article, visit site.com Then I get emails from the webmaster of `site.com` telling me to remove the comment because Google penalized his site because of "unnatural links" I have captcha, also the system is set up to ignore comments with 3 or more links, but spam still goes through :( Can I make Google ignore comments completely, and not use them to rank sites and stuff?

body:
> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead? Do you think that is actual difference between, as example
     Hello!,     welcome     to my     fantastic     website!
      and the simplest possible one
Hello! welcome to my fantastic website!
      ? thank you in advance HAPPY NEW YEAR

body: Why have the number of impressions reported by Google Webmaster Tools become so little? It used to be 10000 Daily but now is 2500 Daily! My Site: http://Lordia.ir

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO drawbacks of having paid links without nofollow? A few companies are will to pay us for links on our homepage. I am assuming these are legitimate sites although they are unrelated to our sites content. Would google penalize our site for having these links? We definitely need the revenue and we view this as selling advertising space- but I don't want to kill our good ranking. Does anyone have any insight, is it possible to ask google directly?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best Apache logs Analyzer? I am looking for something to do some basic apache log analysis server side, or remotely. awstats seems like it has all the info, but its too much, and it is so ugly. Isn't there some zero config, zero maintenance options out there to do simple server log analysis other than awstat?

body: I was curious about the date in URL segments, is there any SEO point of benefit? For example the following URLs:               http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands-later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows/     http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.in/2007/02/adding-favicon-icon-to-blogger-url.html      https://community.jivesoftware.com/blogs/jivespace/2013/05/15/eol-of-the-html5-ipad-web-app      In all the above URLs there is date segment. The information of those blogs can be fetched via blog stub like "netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands- later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows" so why to use that date part?

body: I have recently analysed my website with pagespeed addon on firebug. It suggested me to set expiration on CSS, JS and image files. I am wondering how do i do this?

body: I would like some cheap/free web analytic software to be used on my windows server (Server 2008). urchin seems to be way expensive. please provide me some good recommendations.

body: A few months ago I received the following notification on Google Webmaster for a website I look after. > Unnatural links to your site—impacts links Google has detected a pattern of > unnatural artificial, deceptive, or manipulative links pointing to pages on > this site. Some links may be outside of the webmaster’s control, so for this > incident we are taking targeted action on the unnatural links instead of on > the site’s ranking as a whole. Learn more. The question here is, should we actively attempt to disavow these links given that the action is seemingly targeted to just a bunch of keywords? I've downloaded the inbound links sample from Google Webmaster and so far I've been through the disavow and reconsideration requests process 6 times, each taking 2-3 weeks only to be supplied just 2 more links that Google don't approve of. At this rate it will take me the rest of my natural life to cleanup all these spammy links! It seems disavowing is futile as they haven't implemented broad actions against the website as a whole and (from what I can gather) have already nullified the value of those offending links. Under the quoted statement above however is a reconsideration request button that seems to imply I should be actively doing something here? **UPDATE 14th October --** I have since created a small .NET application that you can feed the CSV sample links file into from Google Webmaster. What this tool does is crawl all the links and looks for specific linking patterns as per some configurable match strings. I realised that many of the links that Google are taking issue with were created by a rogue SEO firm we hired several years ago. All the links are appended with 1 of 5 different descriptions. The application I built uses some regexes to isolate any link sources with these matching appendages and automatically builds the disavow txt file. In the end it had to come down to an algorithm as manually disavowing links on this scale would take weeks! I will post the app here once I've cleaned it up.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? I've got a simple website that uses a php script to geolocate a user's IP and redirect accordingly - UK users get sent to the .co.uk html site, while everyone else gets sent to the .com. Whenever the site shows up in google, however, the description is completely blank. I've tried adding tags to the html, and also via echo in the php, but still nothing shows up. The site's been up for a few months, so it's been well crawled and scores pretty highly for some search terms. Any ideas how i can get a description up on the SERPs? Thanks!

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are there any clear indicators that my sitemap file is beneficial? The good:   * You provide search engines with all the urls in your site But, does the search engine search further than the provided urls in the xml site map? If you have a website with a forum does every post need to be in the sitemap? What if remove the sitemap afterwords, will the search engine need to start over?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host? My company lets non-technical users build their own niche industry websites on our server, which we host. they can currently point their nameservers at their registrar to us, which ends up with them no longer having access to their email if they've already set it up through said registrar. We don't want to interfere with their existing email, nor do we want to get into the business of setting up email for them through our service. Thus, having them point A records/cname to us would work, but is this too complex for a non-technie user? We thought of having them point nameservers to us but pointing the MX records back to them, but this is also beyond their scope. Is there an easy way to 'point records' at their initial state? Any other ideas/feedback?

body: As Google and other search engines keep trying to get more and more 'human' in terms of understanding what's good and what's spam, is it known if they take into account the size of a heading ie. an thats font size is 40px is going to speak a lot more to the user than a thats font size is 14px? Similarly, does placement of text factor? E.g. a 300-word article at the bottom of a landing page (not in the footer but below the useful content) would be there just for seo purposes? I know they look at things like text-indent:-9999px; and white text on a white background, but what about these more border-line practices that both have legitimate uses, but also the possibility to be spammy?

body: I generate an index.html file in a PHP script to avoid PHP code within HTML and to show content that is delivered by another script hourly. (Like next flights within an hour.) This script overwrites the file each time the content is ready (I plan to do this with a cron job). Then, will my _index.html_ be indexed by Google or it will be punished for being generated content?

body: I want to run a small business website which features helpdesk / customer support software, which includes ticket management, and possibly a knowledge base. Does anyone have any recommendations?

body: I want to buy a domain name, but it has already been registered and I am unable to find any contact information for the owner on the site. How can I contact the domain's owner to inquire about buying the domain?

body: I am trying to understand the best link building process. I am confused that my ranking dropped when I worked daily on one website.

body: I have a jobs site and the search results are AJAX pages. Googlebot is not able to detect the links to the job offers listed in the search result pages. So I don't have any of the job offers in Google index.

body: I have a site `www.holiday-tuscany.com` that has been online for less than a month. If you put the keyword _Holiday Tuscany_ in Google the site doesn't appear in any of Google rankings. If I do the same search on Yahoo or Bing the site is in the first page around the world except USA and UK where is in 3 or 4 page. Why is this?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I make fonts render the same way across different web browsers? So I was working on our website and came across an interesting issue. I usually work with Chrome when building web content. In Chrome, our footer looks like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/X7oL8.png) From what I've heard, it looks like this in all Webkit-based browsers. * * * In IE and Firefox, the same place looks like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/F0z2P.png) As you might be able to see, the font is ever so slightly smaller (at least in width and/or kerning). * * * So what causes this? The font family I set is:               font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;      Obviously, I have Calibri installed locally (I work on a Windows 7 machine). I also tried setting up a webfont to see if that helps. It didn't (but maybe I messed up). I am aware that it is unreasonable to expect pixel-perfect matching between browsers. But in this case the difference is so drastic, that I assume I simply made a mistake.

body: _This question is here so we can offer users who are looking for information on how to make one or more common or basic redirects in Apache using the htaccess file. All future questions pertaining to finding information that is that is covered by the question should be closed as a duplication of this question.As per this Meta question._ _**Whats the point in this question?** The idea while not perfect is catch the most commonly asked questions regarding redirects using the htaccess on the Apache platform either on some type of lamp or a live server. The type of answers should be generally those that you could imagine are used by 100,000’s of sites world-wide and are constantly asked here at Pro Webmasters repeatedly over and over in various forms._ **A few examples of the type of answers we are looking for:**   * How can I redirect non-www to www?   * How can I redirect a sub domain to the main domain?   * How can I redirect a sub folder from domain to a root or a subdomain?    * How can I redirect an old URL to a new URL? **A few examples of the types of answers that we are not looking for:**   * Answers that do not involve a redirect.   * Any answers relating to NGinx, IIS or any other non-Apache platform.   * Answers that involve custom and complex string or query removals. **Resources for Advanced to Complex Mod_Rewrite Rules:**   * _Everything you ever wanted to know about mod rewrite rules but were afraid to ask_ _**Please note** : that this question is still in construction and may need some refining either by myself or a real moderator of Pro Webmasters, if you have any concerns or questions please use the meta page I made a few days back here._

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to restrict the download of all files in a folder? I want to make a private file available for download but not use username/password protection. I want to put the file into a directory called something like `download`. How can I ensure:   * the file does not become part of search engine results, and   * the file cannot be accessed by bots that might guess the directory name?

body: How rel="next" and rel="prev" helps in SEO, if used for pagination? Is it really required ? i.e. imagine you're on page 2:               <link rel="prev" href="http://www.example.com/article-part1.html">     <link rel="next" href="http://www.example.com/article-part3.html">

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  When designing a website, how do you usually start? What sequence shall one follow when he is developing a website. For e.g. shall i first finish all the basic structure of the website, then HTML embedded PHP and when the whole thing is working, then add style to it and add interactivity using CSS/Javascript or if i apply all the things at one to a particular page and then move on to the next page development?

body: my question pertains to the trailing slash and no slash in domains and the correct method for setting this up in Google Webmaster tools. I have read all other threads on this site related to this question and still cannot understand what is correct for my situation - please help. I recently created a new blog on Blogger and I registered the [http:// no "www" with no "/"] and [http://"www" with no "/"] with the latter (http://www.myunstoppablecareer.com) being nominated as my preferred domain. However, I recently noticed that both URL versions (slash (“/”) and no trailing slash) of my domain address return a HTTP/1.0 200 OK status code, which according to Google (e.g. Search Engine Optimisation Starter Guide) is bad and will cause issues in terms of duplicate content and diluted links /split page rank. From what I understand the method to rectify this is to create a 301 redirect from one to the other (depending on preference and/or performance). My preference would be to use the "www" and no trailing slash, purely because I think most people would use this. By the way, if I enter ["www" with no "/"] version of my domain in a browser bar it does not (at least I don't think it does) auto add the slash however, if I copy and paste the the domain elsewhere, it displays as [http://"www" with a "/"]?? Does this mean that I am NOT using the trailing slash? I am confused. How do I let Google know that I want the NO trailing slash version of my site recognized as my preferred site? Or have I already done this, by nominating http://www.example.com as the preferred site? Unlike a WordPress site, I do not have access to a htaccess file. Or do I register the [http://"www" with a "/"] version in Google Webmaster tools and nominate my existing [http://"www" with no "/"] a second time as the preferred domain? There is a redirect option in Blogger, but I think this is for pages and posts only…. I am not sure. Otherwise how do I use the rel=canonical tag in my template to achieve this? OR Do I need to nothing? Apologies for all the information, I am fairly new to this and need help to understand.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to protect PDF file from indexing? Hi guys, Really basic question here I'm sure - I'm not a webmaster however am thrown into it sometimes!! We have a particular file this is available for download on our site, however this file shows up in a Google search. My manager wants to make this file hidden from google if possible. Can anybody point me in the right direction for this? Right now the file is sitting with the following URL: > `http://www.example.com/document.pdf` The site is running on IIS7. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.

body: (Note that I am going to use screenshots here because I suspect writing about this will change the behavior over time.) If you do a Google search for > uiviewcontroller best practices either with or without the quotes, you end up with results like this: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6NmKH.png) ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/PfyMz.png) Note that **none of these pages resolve to the actual Stack Overflow question containing those words in the title**. They resolve to either a) sites that are mirroring our creative commons data _and_ correctly pointing back to the source question without nofollow, as properly specified by our attribution requirements or b) our own internal links to the question, but not the actual question itself. The actual page with the title ... > Custom UIView and UIViewController best practices? ... _does_ exist at this URL ... `http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3300183/custom-uiview-and- uiviewcontroller-best-practices` ... and apparently it is present in Google's index! ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CfRtP.png) But why does it _not_ appear when we search for > uiviewcontroller best practices ? We know that   * Google contains this page in its index   * Our search terms match the title of the question   * Stack Overflow has much higher pagerank than the other sites that are mirroring this question under Creative Commons I don't get it. What are we doing wrong here?

body: If I create a site and do not built any of the backlinks would it get crawled by Google?

body: I am moving a small business website to a new host without changing the domain. Will this affect their ranking in Google? Is there any particular way I should change the DNS to make sure that its ranking on Google is not disturbed?

body: I work on a SEO-dependent content website, and we are in the process of making our site adaptive/responsive. More technically, we are using CSS media queries to apply different CSS styles as the size of the browser changes. As the browser size shrinks to 320x480 and below (mobile), we use CSS to hide much of the content on the page - up to 75% of it. My question is - would Googlebot consider this practice keyword stuffing? My worry is that Googlebot may think we are stuffing the page with keywords to make the page relevant, but then hiding the keywords with CSS.

body: I have a website for desktop and mobile. **On desktop** I have a left sidebar with 10 images and a left content main with text and images content. **On mobile** On the mobile it's too much to show all 10 images on the same time. Now I list 3 images, some text content, 3 images again and so on. **How I did** I did this by present the content twice, one version for desktop and another one for mobile. With media queries I simply hide one version that is not going to be used. The words are the same. **SEO** How does Google look at this? It's double content, but one of them is hidden depending on the media query.

body: Some time ago I bought a "cool" domainname to match my username, namely, wol.ph. After looking in the Google Webmaster Tools recently it told me that the Geographic Target for my domain is understandably the Philippines. Since the Webmaster Tools don't allow me to change the target I was wondering if this will actually affect my site negatively and if I should just move the site to a different domain for it to show up in rankings. So... should I move my site to a different (`.com`, `.org`, `.net`, etc.) tld?

body: Google recently announced that they will no longer support older browsers on Aug 1st: > For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. > Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of > Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time > a new version is released, we’ll begin supporting the update and stop > supporting the third-oldest version. There is nothing worse than looking at the patching of code that takes place to support older browsers. If we could all move towards a standards only web (I'm looking at you IE9) then surely we could spend more time programming good web apps and less trying to make them run equally on terrible non standards compliant older browsers. So when can the rest of us expect to be able to tell our clients that we no longer support older browsers? Because it seems that large corporates will continue to run older browsers and even if google chrome frame can be installed without admin privileges (it's coming soon, currently in beta) we can't expect all users to be motivated to do this. I appreciate any thoughts.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to tell google that i have changed my website urls? I don;t know how to ask the question but situation is this. I have the old site with a lot of content that has recently been improved, built with another technology, among other things all the URL's have been coded in a nicer way. **Old site:**               example.com/1/4444/p23a.php      **New site:**               example.com/music/rock      The problem is that Google and other search engines already cached a lot of this content and is appearing pretty high up. If I just redeploy the site with new links, I'm afraid all the search results will be invalid. Is there a way to solve this? All pages are dynamic, so I can't go and do any batch renaming or inserting redirect code. Also, I would eventually like for the old links to phase out, but not that people get broken links in Google search.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Can anyone recommend a good SMS gateway for PHP? I am developing (not developer, just project manager) adventure booking system that will also have SMS notification embedded. So far I found Nexmo that I believe will suit my needs, (support for Croatia mobile carriers is one of the reason). What are alternatives? My system is going to be developed on WordPress platform.

body: When looking at my Apache2 access logs, I occasionally see GET requests asking my server for a page on a completely different server. For example:               xx.xx.xx.xx - - [18/Jan/2012:07:12:10 -0500] "GET http://someotherserver.com/?sometimesmorestuff=likethis HTTP/1.1" 200 389 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12"      I remembered reading something about that in the past, but at the time I had never seen that on my server, so I didn't worry about it. Now that I am seeing it on my server, I just ran a test and it appears that my site does indeed serve requests for content from other servers. This seems like a bad thing. So, two questions: A) Is this something I should be worrying about? B) How can I fix it? I've tried a little Googling, but I don't even know what this sort of thing is called, and that makes it difficult.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are meta keywords worth the effort? I am not a SEO expert, I just know the very basics. Today I read an article and I am confused. If the metatag for keywords is not useful anymore:   1. Where should we place our keyword list?   2. What alternatives exist?  I read googles beginers guide for SEO, but it says nothing about it.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Old pages still appearing in Google? I recently bought a new address for my Blogger blog, from yannbane.blogspot.com to www.yannbane.com. However, www.yannbane.com addresses do not appear when they are searched for! Is this natural? How much time will it take for Google to update its index? yannbane.blogspot.com 301's to www.yannbane.com. Both are added to my Webmaster Tools account, but it shows no data for www.yannbane.com (strangely). And, finally, is there something I could do to speed up the process?

body: I'm rebranding a site I own and moving to a new domain. I want the best process to manage this. I have heard that it's best practice to make a redirect for each page in the web.config - is this true? There are a lot of differing web.config examples out there - what's best practice? Thanks for any help, Joe

body: I have crosslinked 20 sites and I thought I have been penalized for this, asked this question and some experienced members told me maybe that crosslinking may not necessarily be the reason. The sites are on same host, different C class IP and every site in linked to each other. Each site targets long tail kewords. Site 1 - BMW Used Cars - and my area Site 2 - WW Used Cars - and my area And so on... When I crosslinked them (in the sidebar), I did it for the users; instead of repeating the terms used cars and my location over and over (since my users are targeted) I just crosslinked them using the brand: BMW, WW. Targeting locally, my niches are not overly competitive, so I did not need to many external links to rank on various positions on the 1st page. I'm thinking that when I chose to link using only the brand, google might have thought I wanted to actually rank for BBW and WW, hence the drop in my targeted local traffic. Could this be? I now have no-followed the links and I am noticing a slight recovery, but if it's not a interlinking penalty it would be a shame not to benefit from my links.

body: Is there any kind of tool to sketch the layout of website roughly? For example just to draw a basic sketch of the design to show others? Thanks

body: I need to open a website only for Australian customers. The fact is that our provider's servers are all housed in the UK. What do you suggest is better? Leaving our website in the UK? Or buy a service from an Australian provider? How can I have (or where can I find) some statistics for traffic and connection quality and performance for a website from UK to Australia? We don't use any country connection accelerator service.

body: Is there an add service like adsense that supports SSL ads? I wish to put ads on a secured (https) pages but Google Adsense doesn't support it. I know Adbrite works for text based SSL ads but I would prefer image based ads.

body: With a whole slew of new TLDs becoming available how will they affect SEO? While I realize some of these domains are fairly general, such as `.ninja` others are very specific such as `.dental` and this leaves me curious as to how this new TLDs will ultimately affect SEO?

body: I just changed the URLs for my entire website. I have set up 301 permanent redirects for all old URLs to new URLs. Rel=canonical are set to new URLs. All Facebook Like buttons count have returned to 0. Any way to get the original count showing on the new URLs?

body: I have been wandering around some SEO sites this evening and have been seeing this term _linkbaiting_. The word _bait_ kind of makes it not sound so great. What exactly is linkbaiting and how does it differ from article marketing? From the gist of some of these descriptions I'm seeing, this is something fairly new, but it seems almost identical to article marketing. What am I missing?

body: What's reason behind having a contact form on a website, when a simple e-mail link is enough? Why do so many web sites have contact forms? Is it just a habit?

body: I would like to look at my referral traffic over time on a per domain-basis in Google Analytics. This is what I have done:   1. Set New visits as advanced segment    2. Navigated to traffic-sources -> Referrals   3. Checked a couple of domains   4. Clicked plot rows The individual domains now show up in the graph, but the problem is that "all traffic" is also visible. All traffic is much bigger than the graphs for individual domains. This makes it very hard to see any changes as they look all values are Zero. Is there any way to hide "Visits" from the graph in order to zoom in on the vertical axis?

body: A client of ours has a CMS driven Blog in his hotel site - he would like to use the blog to add depth top his site and add SEO benefits relating to the blogs content. The current blog is a basic header / text field and doesn't contain any tagging / meta features. Unfortunately we don't have a `.net` developer in our team to alter the existing blog and add meta / tagging and there isn't budget to hire one - so I considered using a Tumblr blog - setting it up externally - giving it a `blog.hotelname.com` address and feeding it into the existing page via Tumblrs JS - which basically does a document.write into the page - which we can style. I understand from a previous post (Poor CMS blog vs Tumblr embed as a general rule most search engines ignore JS created content - but will the above approach act as an improvement on the existing system for now - as the blog will be setup externally with its own URL and also feed into the existing site?

body: How to rewrite my URL from `http://www.mysite.com/listingsecond.php?ID=1` to `http://www.mysite.com/listingsecond`? How can I rewrite to my _.htaccess_ in PHP to do this?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do search engines penalise ‘Home’ links and/or buttons? My work colleague has recently had conversations with some SEO consultants and after those conversations she has come to the conclusion that having a link to the home page on the home page will have a negative effect on the websites SEO. And because of this we are now building websites that don't have a home link show until you are on any page other than the home page. If the above argument is true then surely then if we are on the `about page` of a website we shouldn't show a navigation item for the page we are on, and that would the case for any other page of the website... So my question is: > Does having a home navigation item on the home page have a negative effect > on the websites SEO? And if not: > Why has my colleague come to the above conclusion? Could she be > misunderstanding something more important about home links on the home page > regarding SEO?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I get Google to show links to my site hierarchy in search results? In some search results I see something like categories below the results. But I have no idea at all what is this and how can I do it for my page. Sorry for this question and thank you in advance ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kaA4u.png)

body: Does the Google spider knows how to render JavaScript, or only HTML?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Validation Meta tags for search engines Should validation meta tag for the Bing search engine be left on the site following validation?

body: I would like to create a new domain name. When creating that name does Google take the name into account when doing it's searching. For instance if I had a drivingschool would it be best to have a domain name:               drivingschool.com     drivingschool.net     driving-school.org      Note it's just an example. I don't really have a driving school

body: We've determined that our website needs a privacy policy and a terms of use page to protect our interests. Are there automated tools that will generate these for us? How do we go about creating these parts of the website?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why My Adsense Account is not accepted I tried to submit my site for google adsense and it was rejected twice saying that it is not following google guidelines. I request that anybody go through my website and post your answer here as to why my site is rejected. I have Adword account which runs everyday. My site is Sulabhloan.com I will post further details if you ask.

body: Main index file is at mydomain.com/site I want to do a redirect from mydomain.com to mydomain.com/site. What is the most google-friendly way to do this?

body: How do I best approach common SEO techniques for a website with images as the main content? The problem here is the content is all image based, so other than Friendly URLS, H1/H2 tags, Sitemap, RSS Feed, Alt Img, what else can be done to gain search rankings? I realise most search engines (if not all) are text based and text is how they better understand the business and "usefulness" of a site and therefore compare it with other sites, but other than social media and driving constant traffic what is the best thing to do or focus on?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best way to redirect my naked domain? I have purchased a domain name with hosting. I would like visitor to my website http://www.smarttelecom.be to see only http://smarttelecom.be in their browsers address bar What is the there a way to do this, CNAME, Domain name masking, mod_rewrite or another technique?

body: In my blogspot i found huge page views from an adult site. But i checked my websites backlink and that particular porn site is not in that list. I don't know how those page views comes and how to avoid those links. Please give suggestion.

body: [See the notes below about duplicate questions.] We have a friend whose site sells different types of things-- rare coins, jewelry, fine art, antiques, etc. For SEO reasons (creating a high-quality information site about each market/topic), we were wondering if it was better to keep this all together as one site, with a somethingcoins.com type URL (and so jewelry would be somethingcoins.com/jewelry), or whether we should create a separate somethingjewelry.com and target that whole site on jewelry products and related information, to be an authority in that one jewelry market. So I guess the question is, for Google rankings, is it better to have multiple small sites which are each focused on a single topic/market? Will this lead to higher authority for the site? Or should we continue to group them all (like somethingcoins.com/jewelry) and trust that the aggregate number of inbound links and overall site authority will be better this way? It also seems more difficult for somethingcoins.com/jewelry to compete against other sites that are targeted/focused on jewelry only (or am I maybe wrong about that?). RE: DUPLICATE QUESTIONS. I know there are other questions here about multiple domains, but those seem to be asking how to redirect multiple top-level domains into a single site, or to show a single site's content on multiple top-level domains, possibly in different languages, but all assuming that the site content itself makes sense as one collection of pages. Our question here is different--- mostly asking if their current collection of coins, jewelry, art, etc, makes sense to group together on a single site if we're trying to create an authority site for each of those markets. Thanks so much for your feedback and ideas. UPDATE #1 re: DUPLICATE QUESTIONS. I should clarify that I'm not suggesting multiple domains like buygoldjewelry.com, buycheapjewelry.com, etc. which is the focus of the linked "Duplicate" question above. I agree with the advice on that question, that Google wants you to build a brand. But aren't BrandCoins.com and BrandJewelry.com two completely separate sites, target audiences, and markets? Each can be a solid information site for the particular market, since they are very different (rare coins vs. fine art, for example). Or more importantly, doesn't combining these all to just Brand.com/coins and Brand.com/jewelry actually LOWER the authority of the overall site in each category, when it competes against other sites focused on ONLY jewelry, for example?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Differences between google domains in different countries We are getting different results for the same search words at different countries. How can i get the google results for the same key words as if am in different countries.. in other words,                           how can i get different country google results??

body: A search on google for "iphone developer" turns up loads of websites which have "iphone" in them, a trademarked name by Apple. So I'm led to believe that having a domain such as iphonedeveloper.com is ok? Well, you're still using Apple's trademark, but it would be hard to brand yourself otherwise. You're an IPHONE DEVELOPER... right? Well, what if I want to provide a website where users pay to get a list of the best offers from Ebay? I might have a domain like ebaydeals.com (I don't... i'm just speculating!). Now I've heard that places like Ebay are really hot on the trigger and fire out emails to people who register domains like that straight away. But whats the difference? In both cases I'm making money from the trademark, effectively, so is it just down to how lenient the company who owns the trademark is? Or are there rules? Is there a specific "line" you don't cross? Thanks

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  There must be a science to single-page product sales sites. What is it? Really don't see them much anymore, but here's an example of what I mean: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pKUUx.png) **From comments:** These are "high pressure" sales pages, design to overload the user with information, sell them on the belief that what they're buying is what they need, normally have a lot of testimonials, highlighted text, etc. The pages I'm talking about are not user friendly, they're aggressive sales pitches designed to target users wanting to belief the webpage they just landed on will solve there problems for an "affordable" price. Here's an example: www_landingpagecashmachine_com (remove the underscores, since I'm attempting to avoid linking to a site like that...) **Bonus points:** if you're able to tell me the name of the guy/company that popularized these types of pages; recall hearing about his company years ago, after he died in a crash while racing on a track with his Ferrari club on the west coast of the US. ( **Update:** Appears Corey Rudl was the guy's name, and his company was called "The Internet Marketing Center." Even with that info, I've still been unable to find the name for these type of pages.)

body: If you have developed a JavaScript based website, is it worth doing the extra work to make it accessible for visitors who don't have JavaScript enabled?   * What percentage of visitors are in this position?   * Which browsers does it particularly affects?   * Are mobile devices JavaScript enabled?

body: Wordpress is the _de facto_ seo weapon of choice. I get that. What exactly is it about wordpress that is so special? It's blogging software, with some plugins, right? Why can I not use any old blogging engine, or even, a static file generator solution, like old school movable type? Is there a reason? Or just ease of use?

body: I'm refactoring my ASP.net application from ASP.net 3.5 to 4.0. Also I'm changing the URLs to user friendly URLs `/product.aspx?id=100` to `/product- name/100`. All my pages are indexed by search engines and the site has already been online for 6 years. I'm planning to do 301 redirect from the old pages to the new one. I want to make sure I won't lose the rankings and traffic. Any suggestion how to do it properly?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Robots denied by domain is still listed in search results I want to hide my website from all search engines for that i write robots.txt in that robots.txt i write code as               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      But still my website is in serchable why?

body: I know we should develop websites for users and not for search engines, for the longest time I agreed on that but I'm thinking of a case where I'm not so sure anymore. Assuming that we have a great sitemap, is it still a _sin_ to load categories (links, considered second or third in importance) via an AJAX call?. I'm not concerned about the content being ignored by the search engine (which is why I don't think this is a duplicate question of Impact of using lazy loading on SEO), but rather about the search engines seeing this as making a "special" version of the site to trick the search engine and thus penalizing us.

body: Please note that we are sending mails from the domain name `trendsinvogue.in` to Gmail. All mails going to spam folder only. Also the mail server ip is not listed in the spam database. http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a198.15.80.99&run=toolpage Please check and update us.

body: There are several popular article directories, namely:   * ArticleBase   * EzineArticles   * Buzzle And hundreds if not thousands of smaller ones all over the internet. **How can these websites be used to improve the SERP rankings of a website in Google/Bing?** With disregard to the potential added traffic form the websites themselves.

body: Whats the best method in having multiple domains online with the same content so that it does not affect SEO. Say a www.domain.com and www.domain.com.au. The *.com.au domain has significant SEO history and the *.com domain is brand new and currently only has a 301 redirect to the .com.au domain. Would I just put a copy of the same website up on both domains or will a redirect from one domain to the other do the trick? What would be the best method to go about this?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do you load test your application? Hi, I have finished 95% of my web application. Now, I would like to make sure that the website is stable even with 5000 or more concurrent connections. How do you test??

body: I had trouble setting up GA on one of my websites so I set up a very simple test environment with a new domain name and just a single page - the default page. Even in this simple environment I couldn't get GA to validate me. My environment is as follows: Site: www.example.com My default page contains the following:               <html>     <head>     <script type="text/javascript">          var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25700000-1']);       _gaq.push(['_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>     <body>     example.com Google Analytics test     </body>     </html>      I am 10000000% sure that the tracking code provided to me is the tracking code included in the above script. I simply copied and pasted the code block. I've waited days after doing the config since I know it may take GA time, but certainly shouldn't take 3 days. The old version of GA shows: ![](http://i.imgur.com/zQZ0g.png) and the new version shows: ![](http://i.imgur.com/rbWZg.png) Note that the screenshot of the new version has the weird "December 1969" thing which I've read about in other forums and seems (?) unrelated to my problem. How can I make this work?

body: I've been using the following line in the `<head>` of my sites for years: `<meta name="revisit-after" content="3 days" />` I recently discovered that it's not one of the meta tags that Google understands, which I take to mean that there's no point in including it, and that it's been doing no good at all for years. **How often do search engines crawl a website by default, and what reliable ways are there to increase or decrease that frequency?**

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? I have done some reading on what URLS should look like for search engine optimisation, but I am curious to know how mine would like, I need some advice. I have a tutorial website, and my categories is something like:               Web Development -> Client Side -> JavaScript      So if I have a tutorial called "What is JavaScript?", is it good to have a URL that looks something like:               www.MyWebsite.com/web-development/client-side/javascript/what-is-javascipt      Or would something like this be more appropriate:               www.MyWebsite.com/tutorials/what-is-javascipt      Just curious because I also read that it is wise to have keywords in your URLs. Do I need to add the identifiers of each categories in the link as well, something like:               www.MyWebsite.com/1/web-development/5/client-side/15/javascript/100/what-is-javascipt          1 is the unique identifier (primary key) of category web development     5 is the unique identifier (primary key) of category client side     15 is the unique identifier (primary key) of category javascript     100 is the unique identifier (primary key) of tutorial what is javascript

body: When building new webpage layouts, I think of all the devices out there - cell phones, tablets, desktops, etc - with a diversity of screen sizes. I can see two ways to accommodate this diversity. One is to build a fully fluid layout that adjusts to every screen size out there. On the other hand, I could try to create layouts that optimize for common sizes. This route could inevitably clash with some new device with a very different screen size, and would involve some amount of initial set up and testing for the targeted sizes. Would either of these routes be preferable to the other, or is there another option I haven't considered?

body: i'm planning to migrate my server from one hosting to another, hence I need to change the dns for my domain name. but the problem is, dns propagating takes a few hours to really complete. Problem is, my site has few thousands users and they enter data daily on my site. What is the best practice on server migration? because i don't want any non-synchronized or non-updated database later.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should my Title tag be the same as my H1 tag?   * should the `<title>` tag be the same as the `<h1>` tag?   * should the `<title>` tag contain the website name too?

body: I currently have a website with a company who I am not happy with. I have managed to do my own website on a website building company. How do I get that website onto my current domain? What information will I need from the other company and do I just have to give them notice? They only host it for me with an annual charge.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Alot of Pirated Material on Someone's Website - What Can Be Done? My company, http://www.dakim.com, has had its content mirrored by another site, www.ebrainease.com. They have done a search-and-replace for our company's name, but left our management team in place, so it looks like we're directly connected with their company. They're also using stock photos which we've licensed, and altered documents so it looks like the clinical trial we performed was done by them. Obviously, this is of great concern to my company. Whois reports that ebrainease.com is registered by a Liang Hongcai in China. We've emailed this person to request that they take down our content, with no response to date. Judging from ICANN's FAQ, contacting them won't be fruitful: https://www.icann.org/en/dispute-resolution/#content We are having trouble finding an address to email at the registrar, xinnet.com. We will also be contacting the host, CNC Group CHINA169 Henan Province Network. Due to the difference in laws between the United States and China, I'm not hopeful that we will have much luck with the host or registrar. (Perhaps I'm too cynical.) Are there any other avenues we can pursue?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO : urls : best place for the id My site uses URL rewriting in both formats (for different things), **but I'm wondering which one is the better approach?**   1. `http://www.example.com/695/title-goes-here`   2. `http://www.example.com/title-goes-here/695.html`

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Estimate of Hits / Visits / Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa > Tier? I remember using a tool in the past that did this, but can't remember what it was. Alexa.com/siteinfo doesn't seem to give estimates in user numbers (or maybe I'm not looking in the right place). It just gives rank. Is there a way to convert that rank to an estimate visitor number?

body: I understand that it is better to make a 301 redirect to make sure that all your links are seen the same on Google. Until now I always used erasmus- plus.ro without the www. for my website. Is it ok to make a redirect from www. to non-www. From my search on Google all users spoke about it the other way around. And somewhere I read that redirects are not good for seo. Is 301 an exception?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is PageRank and how do I get it? I am blogging since last june and got alxea rank for my site many days before... But I still dont get it that how to get Google PageRank for my site hosted on Google Blogger ?

body: We run a Bible site where users can request arbitrary passages (e.g. John 3:16). We would like to start showing passages highlighted within their context (e.g. John 3:16 would show all of John 3 to users, with the requested verse visually distinguished from the context, as this is more useful for Bible study. However, we still want to only display the requested passage to search spiders, as this is more useful to search engine users (and reduces our already-significant potential problems with duplicate content). As a concrete example of why it's important to display only the exact text of a verse in question to Google: it's common for searchers to search for a familiar phrasing in order to find the actual passage reference. If you search Google for `esv for god so loved the world` you'll get results for John 3:16, with the snippet providing the text of the verse in question. If we canonicalized John 3:16 to all of John 3, we would lose this. However, when a user _visits_ the page, it's most useful to see the verse highlighted in its larger context. Hence, switching the content from John 3:16 to John 3 upon page load. While _I_ recognize that this is not a duplicitous technique but in fact a better UX, will Googlebot recognize this? Will I get penalized for doing this?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have a `.com` and `.ca` domain extensions for my business. I have heard that it's better to have `.ca` for SEO as my business targets local customers, is that correct? Also is it better to make the `.com` resolve to the same server as the `.ca` or make it redirect to it?

body: * I have one website.   * I have two domain names that I want to point to the same site install. So whether you go to name-one.com or name-two.com you see the exact same site. Now, I can either set up name-two.com to serve 301 redirect header redirecting to name-one.com – or, I can set up name-two.com as a CNAME in the DNS pointing to name-one.com What is the different implications for SEO on this? What is recommended? I would guess it's better for branding to use a 301 redirect, so that visitors will see one consistent url for my site, right? The reason I want the two domains is that I want a version with regional letters ('ö' instead of 'oe' ) in the name.

body: I'd like to ask "What exactly is considered _a lot of traffic_ for a website?" What's the minimum someone could say - after stating their website receives a lot of traffic - as to not be laughed at? _Inspired bythis question on stack overflow_

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why don't large popular sites such as SO use keyword and description meta > headers? I noticed that Stackoverflow and the other Stackexchange websites have very few of the expected meta tags (keywords, description, etc) in their html. The stackexchange sites consistently rank pretty well so I was wondering why that might be.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are sources of free/cheap stock photos? (Additional requirements, read > description.) I like the stock images and illustrations on istockphoto.com but they're kind of expensive because you have to buy a $18,50 package if you want one image that would cost $3 to $5 dollars, and the odd currency of the site makes me concerned. So is there any website where I can get per image pricing and a good price for it? Lots of designer in this website so someone might have found a good site I assume, not asking for a free stock images website I have a big list of those but a cheap and per item priced website where an image for web won't be over $5 (800px+)

body: i have a web shop, and on some of the pages some keyword in used a bit more then on the others. For example: "hp toner" is used pretty much in the inscription of the product, in the alt tag, in the brand, and so on, an if i have let's say 100 of these products on the "HP PAGE", that means that "hp toner" is gonna show up at least 200 times more than some other random word... but the keyword stuffing is not intentional here.. it's just that, the quantity of the product is bigger, and so is that word that describes it.. _**Is that considered keyword stuffing in SEO terms?_**

body: I was developing a new version of our site on a subdomain (`dev.oursite.com`) and the _robots.txt_ with the `Disallow` got replaced at some point, so the site got indexed by Google and other search engines. It's not showing up high in results or anything, but it has all duplicate content and I'd rather it not be there. The subdomain is now gone and I have a 301 that redirects each page from `dev.oursite.com/page-name` to `http://oursite.com/page-name`. Is there anything else I need to do to get the dev site removed from showing up in Google? Will it disappear by itself eventually?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Comment spammer IP list? Is there a list out there that has IP addresses of known spammers? I wish to know so I can block them in my forum.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Web hosting options for Ruby on Rails applications I need a ruby script I wrote to run periodically (everyday) but I dont want to run it on my computer, depending on it being on, etc... Does anyone know of a free, or very cheap, hosting service that would allow me to do this? I dont need to host any front end or anything, just the script.

body: What are the best ways to implement cross browser css? Rule: one approach for an answer.

body: I have went live with my site and being new to search engines and SEO fields not sure what should be the best way to handle _sitemap.xml_. I have created _sitemap.xml_ and submitted it to:   * Google using Webmaster Tools   * Yahoo/Bing using Bing Webmater Tools    * Ask.com Now since site will get updated every 2-3 times per week I am not sure what should be the best approach.   1. Do I need to submit _sitemap.xml_ again?   2. If I need to submit _sitemap.xml_ again and again what should be the frequency to submit that?

body: As you are all most likely aware already all domain registrars ask for your personal information. _**Such personal information includes:_**   * Forename and surname   * Address information   * Email address   * Telephone number _**Personal information via WHOIS_** Depending on the domain type such as TLD or ccTLD this information may become immediately available after the registration of the domain via a simple whois. If you do not want that (and in most cases you certainly don't) they offer a service where you can remove this information from the whois service but of course hiding your personal information adds yearly costs to the domain purchase. What happens if I use fake details when registering a domain?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is the google +1 button domain dependent or url dependent? Lets say I have a blog at www.example.com . I have some blog posts and they are +1'd. What is the impact of these +1s for my Googlerank of www.example.com? Couldnt find any SEO related topics about this. Maybe someone tested it or knows something related to this.

body: Does Google consider bounce rate or something similar in ranking sites? **Background:** here at Stack Exchange we noticed that the latest Google algorithm changes resulted in about a 20% dip in traffic to Server Fault (and a much smaller dip in traffic to Super User). Stack Overflow traffic was not affected. There was an article on WebProNews which hypothesized that bounce rate might be a ranking signal in Google's latest Panda update. According to Google Analytics, these are our bounce rates over the last month:               Site           Bounce Rate Avg Time on Site     -------------  ----------- ----------------     SuperUser      84.67%      01:16     ServerFault    83.76%      00:53     Stack Overflow 63.63%      04:12      Now, technically, Google has no way to know the bounce rate. If you go to Google, search for something, and click on the first result, Google can't tell the difference between:   * a user who turns off their computer   * a user who goes to a completely different web site   * a user who spends hours clicking around on the website they landed on What Google _does_ know is how long it takes the user to come back to Google and do another search. According to the book In The Plex (page 47), Google distinguishes between what they call "short clicks" and "long clicks":   * A _short click_ is a search where the user quickly comes back to Google and does another search. Google interprets this as a signal that the first search results were unsatisfactory.   * A _long click_ is a search where the user doesn't search again for a long time. The book says that Google uses this information internally, to judge the quality of their own algorithms. It also said that short click data in which someone retypes a slight variation of the search is used to fuel the "Did you mean...?" spell checking algorithm. So, my hypothesis is that Google has recently decided to use long click rates as a signal of a high quality site. Does anyone have any evidence of this? Have you seen any high-bounce-rate sites which lost traffic (or vice-versa)?

body: What are the advantages and disadvantages (if any) of making sure that all pages validate compared to having non-valid HTML that however works on all major browsers? Also, is having valid HTML after Javascript executes just as important?

body: In Google, While searching my (`Magento`) site, the `meta title` appears twice. I am new to Magento, and don't know why it's `appearing twice`. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/L9z0z.png)

body: How is it that questions posted to the Stack Overflow show up as #1 in Google search results just minutes after being submitted? What SEO practices are being used to generate this sort of up-to-the-minute accuracy?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Online dead link alert service Is there a tool to monitor or discover 404's or broken links online? Google Webmaster 404 tool is a bit slow. I'd like to discover the 404's before Google Webmaster does. Edit: I use linux and i'm looking for online tools for 404 discovery.

body: Right now I have the following code to redirect all non-www URLs to www URLs:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      Besides that redirection, I also want to redirect all calls to /dev/ to dev.example.com. I've tried a bunch of different approaches but nothing has worked (the few that get close like ReplaceMatch will only redirect to the dev.example.com bit and will leave the rest as a query string). Any ideas? EDIT: Here's the full .htaccess for the root folder (a few rewritten for privacy reasons):               ErrorDocument 404 /404.html     AddType application/x-httpd-php .json     AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml          Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /          # disables image hotlinking     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?example\.com/ [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !google\. [NC]      RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !search\?q=cache [NC]     RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F]          # Stop htaccess rules from accessing these areas of the website.     RewriteRule ^(banner|boxart|cgi-bin|content|forums|includes|newsimages|newsimg|sidebar|union-files|google5e645385256c3a63.html) - [L]          # Redirects /page URLs to /page/     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.[^./]+$     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$     RewriteRule (.*) /$1/ [R=301,L]          # Redirect old URLs to their new URLs     RewriteRule ^reviews/badurl--43.html$ http://www.gamingunion.net/reviews/goodurl--43.html [R=301,NC]          # Redirect non-WWW to WWW     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]     RedirectMatch 301 ^/dev/(.*)$ http://dev.example.com/$1          # URL Directory Redirects     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /index.php?p=$1&urltype=slash [L,QSA]     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /index.php?p=$1&urltype=slash [L,QSA]     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /index.php?p=$1&lv1d=$2 [L,QSA]     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /index.php?p=$1&lv1d=$2&lv2d=$3 [L,QSA]     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /index.php?p=$1&lv1d=$2&lv2d=$3&lv3d=$4 [L,QSA]          # URL File Redirects     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?p=$1&urltype=dot [L,QSA]     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?p=$1&lv1p=$2 [L,QSA]     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?p=$1&lv1d=$2&lv2p=$3 [L,QSA]     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?p=$1&lv1d=$2&lv2d=$3&lv3p=$4 [L,QSA]          # For servers that support output compression, you should pick up a bit of speed but un-commenting the following lines.     php_flag zlib.output_compression On     php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5      The one in /dev/ is basically the same as this one, except that it has a password protection bit at the top and has a few redirects for some image folders that only reside on the root of the server.

body:
When I create a website for my clients, I always by default add the following to the footer:
            Website by
       Is what I am doing actually damaging me or my clients by anyway? I have researched and read few articles but they all are full of arguments and I really don't know which answer is right... also is it true - no-follow attribute need to be added?

body: My website is under attack by malware. How can I remove it and prevent its recurrence?

body: If I want my site to be no.1 for a particular keyword search, would it harm me or help me if I put `alt="keyword"` in all of the images I have in the site?

body: I'm using the Rich Snippets with two of my websites: http://www.meow.fr and another one. They both have the same two authors: Jordy and Jing. What is amazing is that the Google+ profile picture is shown for Jing but not for Jordy (which is me). I have NO CLUE why, it's beyond my understanding. And Jing is lucky because she didn't set a thing ;) Please check this Google result: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ameow.fr#q=site%3Ameow.fr+Japan&hl=en&prmd=imvns&ei=vBw_T6HdBK- wiQe-7ZDhBA&start=0&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=5ee9902973786e59&biw=1205&bih=724 Check the first page, the second, the third... basically, she has a badge for all her articles, but there are none for mine. I have no idea what to check, everything seems to be in order. There could be something wrong with my Google+ account but what? I don't know. Google is full of mysteries. Of course I tried the Rich Snippets Tool which works perfectly for every pages.

body: When I check Alexa rankings for my site it says that one site is linking to my site. Is it only showing back links? If it is then why are other website traffic checking tools like Google showing different different back links?

body: What does the double slash mean ? (I'm not referring to the beginning right after `http:`). For example:               http://www.imywebsite.gov/sectionA/sectionB//section/page/

body: I registered a couple of domains with the names of categories of products we sell. I then installed WordPress in one of those domains and played around with it for a bit, and left it alone for about a month. There was a link on my regular website to that secondary website and that website was also registered in Google Webmaster Tools, but that's that. I then searched on Google last week for that product category, and to my surprise, that secondary website showed up in the 2nd or 3rd page on Google. Now my question is do search engines index WordPress websites quicker? I had given up on using WordPress for that website, since it's so simple, but should I use it, would it give me better results?

body: Why use meta description, when we know, if we do not use meta description in a webpage, the Google will show the article text, in SERP? What role meta description serve?

body: I am fairly new to website design. I am currently coding a new site. I have a local server setup (localhost) using Apache and testing using Firefox Ver 21 and IE Ver 9. I am getting display differences between Firefox and IE. I am confused about IE compatibility mode. For my testing should IE compatibility mode in IE be set on (checked I suppose) or off (unchecked)? Any other suggestions on how to ensure the displays will be correct on different versions of IE? If I get the display like I want it in Firefox, some aspect is different in IE with compatibility off. If I turn compatibility on it might fix one issue but screw up another. I guess I just don't understand the correct process to attack the compatibility issues between browsers, if that makes any sense. Doing all the layout in CSS.

body: Okie i am not a seo i am a programmer and just launched a website for which i am really passionate and i don't wanna hire a seo for my website or promote it because i do not have the budget so i am trying to do all the seo tasks by myself i understand that it'll take time for goggle to rank up my website and start sending some traffic and till the i am thinking about using traffic exchange websites to drive traffic to my website till google starts sending a good amount of traffic ? 1) Is it a good idea to use traffic or text exchange websites to drive traffic in from a seo point of view? good points and bad points ? i tried to search on google for this but failed to find any thing.. Soory for my english :)

body: If a website's hosting is being transferred and is not online in between for approx. 14 days - would this affect the organic search positions when it's finally transferred? When they've since disappeared entirely from the search results?

body: In general I am aware of what SSL does and how, but I'm not exactly sure as to what's the accepted custom, i.e. whether I actually am supposed to use it for my blog. There will be no other users than me, no financial data circulating, and no truly critical information will be stored on the blog. However, I will still need to log in to the website from various places and devices. SSL would enhance security, but could also lead to link rot in the future, is kind of a hassle, is a strain on the processor, and makes caching the website harder. So, is it necessary to have my blog running over HTTPS? Is it a must-do in the community?

body: I have a webapp that is a customized Google Map; it's an interactive map of the Paris Metro. In Google's SERP, the only thing that appears beneath the domain name is "Sorry, we have no imagery here", which is really not helpful. Here's how it looks like: ![Sorry, we have no imagery here.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ukJmq.png) I believe this text comes from Google Maps. I tried to set the               <meta name="description"      and               <noscript>      elements, to no avail. What else should I do? Ideally I'd like to have the text in the meta/description tag show up in search results; but having _nothing_ would be better than "Sorry, we have no imagery here"... The site itself is here: vasyenmetro.com PS: it seems some of Google's own pages suffer from the same problem (this one or that one for example, found searching for 'Sorry we have no imagery here')...

body: Does GA's Real-Time or Audience Overview reporting make it possible to calculate peak concurrent users during a given hour of the day? If so, how would I make this calculation?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search? There are 2 basic ways I have been looking into to make a website multilingual: * * * **1. subdirectory/subdomain alias** e.g. _www.example.com/en/path_ or _en.example.com_ The server identifies the "en" in the path and returns language-specific content. _This is great_ because you can share and bookmark language-specific links without dependency on a user's previous selection. * * * **2. cookie-based, or session-based, server-side content swap** e.g. _www.example.com/path_ The server identifies the presence of a cookie, which is given to the user when they click on the language they want, and shows content. The path is the same for both versions. _This is great because_ it makes path and menu management easy, and avoids "duplicate content" on your site. * * * Is either approach an accepted standard? **For Option 1:** How do search engines handle the translations? Will they be able to index the translated content if it's only served when a cookie is detected? What happens if default is english, and I support Spanish, and somebody enters a google search in spanish? **For Option 2:** Will you get docked for duplicate content using Option 2?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Online Shopping Cart Solutions I'm in need of a shopping cart that I can sell licensed photos. I know some carts like Magento support downloadable products, but its not really optimized for photos. I was wonder if anyone knows of a good solutions out there.

body: We have a Google+ page, but on our homepage we have ~280 +1s: Is there any way to connect those likes to the business page? We have used the rel=publisher thing. Or do we have to start fresh like we have?

body: Is there anything I can do to speed up the time it takes to index my pages? It's currently indexing them on it's own time I believe which is every 2 - 3 days and when working in music and media I need to have the latest post fairly quickly. My _robots.txt_ file is.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-content/     Disallow: /wp-includes/     sitemap: http://vipes.us/sitemapindex.xml      If I am understanding this correctly, I would put this URL into Google http://vipes.us/sitemapindex.xml. But in doing so I still only get some of my pages indexed?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO? I have a html page that has a map of a country with lots of dots indicating location of companies through out the country. The dot's html link code includes the hash-bang + six characters. When the user clicks on a dot, the following happens: 1) A modal-dialog box displays an iFrame containing another page (from same site). 2) With the dialog box in open state, the "parent's" url changes (adds a hash-bang + six characters) which the user can use to bookmark the page with the dialog-box. When the dialog box closes, the url reverts to the original url. Am using jQuery and qTip for displaying the modal-dialog box and iframe content (no Ajax is used). Would the seachbots search/index the content in the iframe?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down? I've had an interesting day. I've been with a hosting company for 8+ years without a hitch. Today the MySQL on my server failed without any real reason. I had no idea so my site was down for 3 hours and of course I got emails from customers wondering what had happened. Not fun. What are ways to ensure my site is always live? It would be great if I got a text message saying it's down. Are there any practical things that one should do to ensure their site is performing?

body: After reading this question about meta keywords, I've been wondering : of all meta tags, which ones are really worth the effort ? I know that the description is used in google search results, and the content type and encoding are used by the browser, but what are the other tags that we should always include in our pages ?

body: how comes that some SSL certificates are free ? What does that mean ? Are they secure or not ?

body: (Cross-posted to Web Applications) I've posted it once to the adsense ad forum, but as usual Google does not respond to help requests, and I got no real answers. I am having issues integrating my Adsense and Analytics accounts on my website - http://draw3cards.com. The accounts seem integrated from Adsense (I get a working "go to analytics" link), but all the analytics are flatlined - they show zero revenues although they are non-zero. What can I do to resolve this?

body: So Google uses cookies when performing its usual duties of tracking users on a website. That is just it though; Google are setting the cookies and **not** your website as such. This is by virtue of the fact that the JS is all hosted by Google and merely included into your webpage. Wolf Software who have released a jQuery plugin to ask for a users consent before allowing GA seem to imply that it would be the developers problem on their associated web page: http://cookies.dev.wolf-software.com/ Is this then possibly Google's problem when the ICO comes knocking or should the developer not have implemented GA if they are aware of the potential cookie problem?

body: We've been told SEO is important and that we should conduct keyword research so that we can rank better? What is that and what tools will help me in the process?

body: I use Google's Traffic Estimator to calculate the Estimated Average Cost Per Click. I use the following filters:               Locations: Australia     Languages: English      and the following phrase `air conditioner melbourne`. When I use `Max CPC = $100`, the result is: `AU$6.08`. But, when I use `Max CPC = $10`, the result is: `AU$3.87`. Why is this difference?

body: I'm developing an application at the moment which shows local content based on location. Since the site is intended for local users, there won't be much need to change domain. For example: someone from London visiting `london.mysite.com` will receive only London-related content and would not necessarily be interested in anything on `edinburgh.mysite.com`. The whole subdomain vs. sub-directory thing has been haunting me though and I'm not sure if this approach is best or if we'd be better with `mysite.com/edinburgh`. Can any SEO gurus out there lend some advice?

body: I have a frequently updated website. That's why page contents change frequently. I mean the items that are on 1'st page become on 2'nd page a day after. Similarly 192'nd page which is my last page becomes 193'rd page a day after. So Google finds different content on a specific page than its previous visit. Is it bad for SEO?

body: Can competitors get your website penalized by performing some blackhat or spammy link submission methods? What is the possible solution if that happened.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to identlfy unused css selectors and rules for css pages which cover > multiple pages and are installed locally? I'm looking for a tool which is capable of indicating in which html files a css selector is being used. Ideally, this would also work on localhost.

body: In GWT I have been receiving soft 404 errors for some URLs of my online shopping website. Ichecked all those URLs and those pages are looking good and there is nothing wrong in that page. Then why I'm receiving that errors? This is the notification that I received in my GWT: > Dear owner or webmaster, > > While crawling your site, we have noticed an increase in the number of > transient soft 404 errors around 2013-06-30 16:00 UTC (London, Dublin, > Edinburgh). Your site may have experienced outages. These issues may have > been resolved.

body: I know you can guide Chrome to prefetch links you think users are likely to click on your site, but can you also do the inverse? Can you tell Chrome (or really _any_ browser) not to prefetch and prerender your site? Is there a tag or other way I can tell browsers that pre-fetching links from the currently viewed page shouldn't be done?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Anchor tag inside H1 or H1 inside achor tag : Which is better? I am being advised to place a H2 tag within a A href tag. To me this does not meet with standards and may even be considered as black hat techniques (or at least grey) I have expressed my concerns but they are insisting its a valid SEO technique. If I run the code past W3C Markup Validation Service it fails and must admit I do get a bit anal regarding using correct syntax on our website. Am I being too picky over conforming to standards which in my mind would make it easier for a search engine to read or am I missing a trick here. ?

body: I am attempting to redirect all users to a maintenance page, while only allowing myself to use the website. I currently have the redirect working, but cannot seem to allow myself to access the site. Here is the code I added to my .htaccess file:               # Maintenance Redirection     # Replace 555\.555\.555\.555 with your own IP address     # Uncomment first conditional to turn off the redirection     # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^$a     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !maintenance.php     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(css|font).+$     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^555\.555\.555\.555$     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\.0\.0\.1$     RewriteRule (.*) /maintenance.php [R,L]      I replaced the area with 555\.555\.555\.555 with my own IP address. I should note that I retained the backslash, but I am assuming that is an escape sequence? Thank you for the help in advance.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What determines the order of results for Google Places? I'm familiar with SEO and getting higher Google listings but for allot of services Google has recently been making there search results (were applicable) much more location orientated.. for instance searching for a "accountant in london" or "accountancy firm london" will through return the first half of page 1 as Google places listings, then under about 6 of these you will get your normal search results so someone who used to rank #1 on page 1 now will rank effectively #7. What I was wandering is that I cant see any reasons as to why the company that rank high in the places results get there, often they are not high up in the search results. Is there a way to optimise on or offsite to rise up the Google places listings in your city?

body: I was wondering if adding `http://` into my links was a bad thing for SEO optimization. I know that is unnecessary but I have several links that are displayed in multiple subdomains. I try to explain it better:   * The main site is in `http://www.example.com` and in every page there are some links to other pages   * I have, for example, `http://search.example.com` and `http://account.example.com` that has the same header with links that point to `http://www.example.com` So, my question is, if the spyder goes to `http://www.example.com` and finds several links that point to `http://www.example.com/page1` instead of `/page1`, ecc. would this hurt indexing?

body: I made a Speed Test on my site via online tool. The tool recommended enabling compression to speed up the site. As far as I understand this requires some changes on server (already done by hosting support) and making some entries into .htaccess file. I searched internet and there are many different recommendations about what to enter into .htaccess file.I am just a bit scared to screw things with wrong entries. does anybody know how to implement this method.   Thanks

body: I have two domains I'd like to use for the same blogger page (`some- example.bloger.com`) on two sites. One is `blog.example.ca`, the other domain is `blog.meta-example.com` Both should end up displaying the same blog, except I can't find a way to put two blogs together. Other than forwarding the sub-domain to go to a new site, do I have any way to make this work?

body: According to the FAQ's I am not sure if my question is a ok to ask or will be closed or should I post it in the meta or even I would blame some one for downvoting it. However it is one that has been bugging me since the trouble strated. Let me explain. I have this Web Site. It uses the Google Translate API (Can't post the link, does not open from this region) with the following code.               <meta name="google-translate-customization" content="9f841e7780177523-3214ceb76f765f38-gc38c6fe6f9d06436-c"></meta>          <script type="text/javascript">     function googleTranslateElementInit()     {     new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'en'}, 'google_translate_element');     }     </script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>      The problem is since this, it just stopped working. On the site you can see that I had to actually remove the above from here, here, and here while left it here, here, here and here. This is so because the the web site "refuses" to load at all with the pages that have the code (i.e., from this region.) If I use Firefox Stealthy Plugin and open the site in Firefox, It works like a charm without any problems. But with Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera Web browser, the site does not load/open at all because of the Google translate. (I know this because If I remove the Google Translate Code, the site works/loads fine) It was one thing to program for "cross browser compatability" and alltogether another to program for "cross region compatability". What can I do to make sure that the site works from anywhere? Do I completely remove the Google Translate code and just have to do without the additional functionality or Do I look for alternatives like this or according to this?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  .htaccess and browser caching There are a lot of snippets that enable caching on a website and I don't know which one should I use. The most popular is something like this:               <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"     </IfModule>      I also found something similar, but with keyword 'plus'. Like this: `ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"` What does it mean, because I didn't find anything in the documentation. Another snippet I found:               <ifModule mod_headers.c>       <filesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"       </filesMatch>       <filesMatch "\.(css)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"       </filesMatch>       <filesMatch "\.(js)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, private"       </filesMatch>       <filesMatch "\.(x?html?|php)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=600, private, must-revalidate"       </filesMatch>     </ifModule>      What is the best practice?

body: I am having an issue with one of the websites. Google is reporting that I am having duplicate meta descriptions for few pages. What we did is that we used URL rewrite to rewrite the pages to be more seo friendly. Here is one example with one of our product pages: Old format:               www.mysite.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=12345&SKU=44412-2212A      New format:               www.mysite.com/Products/12345-44412-2212a.aspx      What we are doing now, when someone will ask for `www.mysite.com/Products/12345-44412-2212a.aspx` they are taken to `www.mysite.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=12345&SKU=44412-2212A` but the URL still remains `www.mysite.com/Products/12345-44412-2212a.aspx`. But if someone type in `www.mysite.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=12345&SKU=44412-2212A`, they will see exactly the same page as `www.mysite.com/Products/12345-44412-2212a.aspx` since the data on the page is same. What I was thinking is to block `product.aspx` pages in _robots.txt_ file, but I don't know if that automatically will block Google bots from crawling this page too `www.mysite.com/Products/12345-44412-2212a.aspx`, since that one is only URL rewritted page from the other page format, `www.mysite.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=12345&SKU=44412-2212A`. What do you guys think, how can we tackle this problem, any advice, because GWT is reporting that I have duplicate meta description issue, and those are the pages reported as duplicate, I want to have only one page per product?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when > making them I have done this PDF's for online purposes and now they sometime appear in some google searches...that is not a problem, its ok, the problem is that google takes the title from the metadata **BUT does not take the description.** Instead it takes the first sentence from the PDF document(I think...not sure) The only problem is that in my case all the PDF's have the same sentence in the begining...(some info on the cover of the PDF that is all the same on all my PDF's(40+ in total). The only solution I found was to give up the info text from the cover page(page1) and then it would crawl to the next page where all the info is different and specifically relevant to that PDF... Or as an alternative, kind of dirty, place a 2pt small text, same color as bg, so invisible to the naked eye...but readable by google crawlers... but I really don't like this solution as it would be visible if you select all text on page... Did any of you encountered this issue before ? Any solutions ? Maybe this question is not relevant to the GD questions but I think it will be helpfull for those handling PDF stuff in the online world...

body: I own a small web design company and most of our backlinks come from having a link on our client sites, I am just wondering what is the best method of including a link on each clients website. Currently we tend to use: Web Design by **Company Name** and link on the company name. Occasionally we mix this up a little by doing something like: **Property Website by Company Name** and link on the whole sentence. We always do sitewide links at the moment. Is this a good method? Should we only be linking on one page maybe? (homepage?) any thoughts are much appreciated. Edit: I know similar has been asked before in this thread: Web designers back link on client sites but as SEO has changed a lot in the last year I think it's valid to ask this again.

body: I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it (http://www.foobar.com/loremipsum). I can find http://www.foobar.com in Google Search, but http://www.foobar.com/loremipsum no ... What should I do to index this website? Thank you. **update** My main site (http://www.foobar.com/, a WordPress installation) has an `.httaccess`:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress      Does it affect the index of http://www.foobar.com/loremipsum ? Thank you.

body: Posted this on SO before Ben Voigt was nice enough to direct me here. Anywho, here is my question: When I say size I'm talking about bytes not pixels. I'm curious if there is any consensus on what the maximum size should be for various categories. Specifically:               Broadband connections     Dialup connections     Mobile connections

body: I have heard about back links but am not sure what they are or how they affect search rankings and search engine optimization.

body: I've researched many methods on how to prevent Google/other search engines from crawling a specific directory. The two most popular ones I've seen are:   1. Adding it into the robots.txt file: `Disallow: /directory/`   2. Adding a meta tag: `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">` Which method would work the best? I want this directory to remain "invisible" from search engines so it does not affect any of my site's ranking. In other words, I want this directory to be neutral/invisible and "just there." I don't want it to affect any ranking. Which method would be the best to achieve this?

body: Because of a former error in our ASP.Net application, created by my predecessor and undiscovered for a long time, thousands of wrong URLs where created dynamically. The normal user did not notice it, but Google followed these links and crawled itself through these incorrect URLs, creating more and more wrong links. To make it clearer, consider the url > example.com/folder should create the link > example.com/folder/subfolder but was creating > example.com/subfolder instead. Because of bad url rewriting, this was accepted and by default showed the index page for any unknown url, creating more and more links like this. > example.com/subfolder/subfolder/.... The problem is resolved by now, but now I have thousands of 404 errors listed in the Google Webmaster Tools, which got discovered 1 or 2 years ago, and more keep coming up. Unfortunately the links do not follow a common pattern that I could deny for crawling in the robots.txt. Is there anything I can do to stop google from trying out those very old links and remove the already listed 404s from Webmaster Tools?

body: This is a real estate website with thousants of items published with information and pictures. There are a lot of other websites where I can send a XML Feed so they will republish the content and give me traffic. I did collaborate with this websites some time ago but stopped because I was struggling to get some organic traffic and the fact that I was recieveing visits from those websites did not seem to help with anything in increasing the organic traffic. But I really feel I am missing some customers if I don't send my content to those websites. What should I do? Keep the content for myself, send it to those websites and risk being penalised for duplicate content/images issues? Try to change the content and send them a modified version of the content? Anyone who could clarify this issue would be very helpful, I am sure I am not the only one in this situation. The problem is that I cannot just publish it and see what happens, I need to convince my team members that it is safe and won't hurt.

body: My company has a blog, that we release weekly articles on. A few have gotten moderate traffic (more than our actual site's home page). I am trying to figure out if the effort we spend on writing these articles is helping our main site's page ranking. Our site is company.com and our blog is company.com/blog. I know any traffic is good, but our main goal is to increase our home page's page rank for searches that are not related to blog articles. For example, we have a blog article about using social engagement in mobile apps, that is near the top when those keywords are searched. Does this help our page rank when people search for mobile development consulting companies (which is what we actually do)?

body: I read that sites have good reputation in google search index if it is fresh content. what does fresh content means from google's point of view? I have many pages. I have created articles and tutorials. These page dosent change except the comments which are at the bottom. I have made this page as static (.html) and never edit cause that is the information i wanted to be ever. cause the concept is not going to change? with these parameters how to judge whether my page is fresh or not?

body: A coworker and I are locked in a debate over the value of SEO keywords in the URL of a page. She wants to change all the filenames of the HTML pages of a fencing company so they look like `residential-home-chicago.html`, `contact- chicago-contractor.html`, and so on. She is convinced that because Google highlights keywords in URLs in search results, that means that putting keywords here is more valuable. My position is that these do not improve SEO, since Google doesn't seem to give keywords in the URL any more weight than keywords in the body of the page, and might even give them less weight. In the meantime, they make it harder for me to find the pages I want when its time to edit them, and the site as a whole looks cheap and spammy. Google's own SEO guide suggests to me that yes, keywords in URLs are useful, but not superior, and that they are more useful for human readability than search engine rankings. I'm looking for authoritative sources that support either position, not blog articles from SEO optimization companies trying to promote themselves.

body: Stack Overflow has made a change to their page titles such that the most popular tag for a question appears at the start of the title. The change is being deployed across the network, so check out the page title for this question. Compare the question title and the page title for this question:   * Question title:   Is it safe to use ASP.NET MVC3 RC?   * Page title:   asp.net mvc - Is it safe to use ASP.NET MVC3 RC? - Stack Overflow I understand the change to try and stop scrapers ranking higher on Google. Adding the most popular tag to the page title seems like a good idea. However, a side effect that I'm noticing is that with a lot of tabs open, now the only part of the title that I can see is the tag. **Would moving this keyword to later in the page title harm these efforts to improve SEO?** Possible title:   Is it safe to use ASP.NET MVC3 RC? - asp.net mvc - Stack Overflow

body: Maybe a silly question, but if you have a 404 error, than `Google` does not want to index your site. Of course you are going to say: 'who said that, that's not true', I know... But Google does not like 8000 `404 errors` either :) And that's the case on my site... Well, I have to say that the structure of my website is built this way. People can post from the front end and link to non-existing posts. That's fine with me, but not fine with Google. I have read many topics here and I saw that `redirecting` these pages to the homepage `(301)` is not good too... But what is than? In `Webmasters` I am seeing 8000 crawl errors, which are leading to bad results in Google (I know that, because before that it was much better). What should I do know? What is a solution if 404 and 301's are not?

body: What kinds of things should I look for when seeking to purchase a legacy domain (i.e. a domain previously owned and operated)?

body: I am aware of the fact that there are tons of questions in this section and in server fault dealing with re-directions from `non-www` to `www` URLs. But I couldn't find one dealing with this issue while preserving protocol. I am no mod-rewrite expert, and my code is just copy/pasted... Here's what I have:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.tld$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.tld$1 [R=301,L]      So now `http://domain.tld` and `https://domain.tld` are forwarded to `http://domain.tld`. How do I make it so that HTTPS stays on HTTPS while HTTP stays on HTTP?

body: I am working as an SEO on my client's domain. I am new to SEO. I need to change the extension of the default page and many other pages from `.asp` to `.html`. The website is in the top 10 for many keywords and I don't want to lose my ranking. Should I use a 301 redirect? Does redirection affect the ranking? If yes, then what percent and what are the other factors to consider while redirecting?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Looking for a sitemap generator Google has listed a couple of SMGs but I don't want to try every single one to find the best. Google's own Sitemap Generator is released only for Apache. I am wondering whether it can be tweaked to work with Nginx, and if not what are the best alternatives which are free and unlimited and work with nginx? Thanks

body: Some time ago I was a user of a website that allowed its users to establish contact with each other - for free via email, or at a minor added cost if you wanted to sms the other person right away. Does anyone have any idea what kind of system could be used for the peer-to- peer SMS-ing with an extra charge that benefits the website? Atm thinking about the UK, but an international system would be even better. Thx

body: I've been working on a music web application that so far always has a prominently displayed YouTube video that is the source of the music. Is there anything in the terms of service for YouTube that say I'm not allowed to hide the player? I'd still let the user control everything via the JavaScript api, and I'd hide it with something like display: none; or something. Is that illegal?

body: How can I remove _Search for product_ , _About us_ , _Log in_ , etc. which are displayed in Google Search? And how can I add particular categories like _Automobiles_ , _Mobiles & Tablets_, etc.? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FLwxH.jpg)

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to start and encourage an online community? How do you start an on-line community QA site similar to stackoverflow?

body: I am planning to add Disqus to my WordPress site. Now will my comments will be indexed by the Google as earlier or do I have to add any extra plugins or sitemap for comments.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to know that my site is getting index/rank by search engine Hi   I have uploaded dozen of new web page(those are xxx.html file) one month ago, but I can't find them on Google/Yahoo search result, how can I know that they are/aren't indexed by Google/Yahoo?

body: What are SEO risks and what are the best courses of action via Google, when an industry competitor duplicates 95% of your home page content and passes it as their own. Especially when your own website has ranked for years etc and held this unique copy for years. Further to this - what are the implications when another industry competitor replicates both your entire site design template and word for word content across your ENTIRE website?

body: As you may know Google updates PageRank roughly 4 times a year, out of interest and not for ranking purposes I often check when the next incoming update is. I do this by searching various sites and finding out the history, Well since I'm a regular on Pro Webmasters I thought I'd ask the question and provide the answer for myself and others webmasters alike. So the question is simple, what is the last updates and when we can expect another Google Page Rank (PR) Update. UPDATE: Still no Google Pagerank update yet - very late.

body: I've to do some big works to my website, so I've to put it offline for some hours, but I don't want to lose my rank in google. I've read this tutorial: http://www.branded3.com/blogs/handle-googlebot-during-site-downtime/ This is the correct procedure, right? I've also another question. Where should I put this code?               <?php     header("HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");     header("Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable");     header("Retry-After: 3600");     php?>      In the index.php, ora in a new page named errorpage.php in the root? Google will find this automatically? Thanks!

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to SEO a Single-Page website I created an online CV of mine a couple of weeks ago and it has had quite a few visits. Now I want to improve the chance it will appear in google search results; however, my web CV is a one-paged site and it contains only internal links (those with hash #) so I can't really submit a sitemap. I could have changed the internal links to normal links to be processed on server-side, but there's no point of doing so. I'm very new to web SEO so I would really appreciate if somebody can show me what should I do with a single-paged site with internal links to be effectively indexed by crawlers.

body: I need a website monitoring service to make sure my app is not only up but also responsive. Pingdom is great, but just so expensive. Is there anything like it but more affordable? **_UPDATE_** : I'd like 1 minute interval checks at least. By responsive, I'd like to know stats on the response times of the individual checks and an SMS alert maybe if the responsive stays below a threshold for a certain amount of time.

body: I recently changed one of my sites to HTTPS only and redirecting traffic to HTTPS from HTTP. This is all working fine however Google webmaster tools is complaining that it cannot access the http version of the website for obvious reasons. I have added the four version of the URL to my account as follows;   * http:// www.website.com   * http:// website.com   * https:// www.website.com   * https:// website.com I redirect non-www to www and http to https. The thing I'm a little worried about is that I may lose ranking as both versions of the site are showing in wmt and search results. I do not want to get penalised by duplicate content either? What I would like to do is to use the "Change of Address" feature in wmt to let Google know that my site is now https only. edit: I have updated my sitemap to use https instead of http and google dropped all indexed links and restarted again (my heart sank).. Any ideas?

body: My friend is going to start his own business and he wants to have a simple web site where he could exhibit some videos and pictures. As he has absolutely no experience in programming, he is considering hiring a programmer to build it for him. But I think maybe a free and open source CMS system would save him the expense. Unfortunately, there are so many CMSs that I don't know which of them are worth trying. Can u recommend some CMSs?

body: I am working on a brand new SaaS web application and need to estimate the initial bandwidth usage. Since the site doesn't exist yet, and since this is my first endeavor of this sort, I'm not really sure how much bandwidth to estimate to begin with. We will be using Linux, Apache, PHP and Mysql. The content will be generated dynamically. There will be images as part of the site design but user's will also upload images that will be displayed and documents that will be stored for download at later times. We'd like to be able to support 500,000 page loads per month with estimated image loads being about two to three times that. **Edit:** Since the site isn't built yet, we're looking for suggestions on how to create a good faith estimate for what we'll need at a minimum to launch the web app.

body: I would like to change background of my website social media icons. My question is.. Is this legal? If you browse web you can find many websites that do that. For example: Facebook "f" logo on black bg or "g+" logo on brown background...

body: I run a large and high trafficked WordPress powered platform. One of my editors informed me that our site is blocked at his workspace as a "games site". They use WebCat to filter the traffic. The issue here is that our platform is not a gaming site, although it does have a `games` category that covers news. And that is a very minor part of the site. My question is, what can I do to unblock the site? How does WebCat work? Do they use a universal database to filter the traffic (meaning that the site is blocked on all workspace with WebCat) etc. Obviously they need to improve their filtering algorithm.

body: I have an online marketplace platform. Because of adding new products/services, I had to update my links to match the new list. Earlier, Google has indexed most of my pages. Now with the new links architecture, most of the results shown by Google are 404. I submitted new sitemap and the new links are yet to be indexed. Question: Will 404 pages hinder my websites PageRank? If yes, how to mitigate it? Also, how can I get the new web pages indexed fast? Please let me know your inputs, as most of my traffic is from Google search, fixing this is very important for us. Thanks, Anji

body: I have a website which has a lot of user-sourced content that accounts for a significant portion of our organic search traffic. In an effort to avoid spammers or link bait type scenarios, we made the decision to globally make all of the URLs inside these posts have the `rel="nofollow"` attribute. This seems to be what StackOverflow/StackExchange does and I generally assume that what they are doing is roughly the "right" thing to do SEO-wise. After making this change, I have seen significant drops in organic search traffic, and I want to know if this could be the culprit. Does anyone have any advice to offer? Seeing as we don't (yet) have a spam problem I would be fine with turning these back on. We could toggle it on/off for posts from approved authors and/or approved posts specifically.

body: It's often the case that I want to change name servers because my site is messed up. Well, it takes a very long time for the name server to propagate. Is there something in DNS, or registrar or anything I can do to speed that up. Flushing my dns server using https://www.whatsmydns.net/flush-dns.html and it rarely works

body: One of my website i am using links like this:   * `http://example.com/web-development/`   * `http://example.com/web-designing/`   * `http://example.com/web-promotion/` Not like this:   * `http://example.com/services/web-development/`   * `http://example.com/services/web-designing/`   * `http://example.com/services/web-promotion/` can anyone tell me, is there any SEO point that i missed?? I means should i have to use the links like second example?? I think according to `breadcrumbs` view second example is good, but it would be great if i get some suggestion by SEO experts..

body: I think I'm in the majority of programmers in saying I can't do visual design for s***. But I do write programs occasionally, and I'd like to have a nice website to tell people about said programs. I used to use a site called "OSWD" to find templates, but it's been forever since it's been looked at, and most of the designs seem overly specifically tailored to a single kind of site -- for example, a site featuring a large picture of an ice cube wouldn't make much sense for a site displaying software for people to use. I know there are plenty of template sites out there which have freely available designs, but I'm not sure which ones are good, and which ones are garbage. Where is the best place to find website templates?

body: I have a Wordpress blog. Is it good to index category in search engines? Will it cause duplicate content issue? I'm little scared about Panda Google algorithm.

body: I was going through page hit logs on awstats and I noticed the following two entries:               /deleteme.lcivykmt.php     /deleteme.nctqicjg.php      I was wondering if anyone recognised them and whether I should investigate. I suppose it's nothing to be concerned about because they are listed as page not found errors by my cms but does anyone know what software this would be targetted at?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Majority of mobile devices support media queries for screen width? Is there any resource that lists which phones support media queries? I'm optimizing my site. It works fine on iPhone and the Android I've tested with, but now I'm using emulators to test more devices. My media queries seem to be ignored by the Blackberry 9630, but it is quite an old phone.

body: I added a _robots.txt_ file to one of my sites a week ago, which should have prevented googlebot from attempting to fetch certain URLs. However, this weekend I can see Googlebot loading those exact URLs. Does Google cache _robots.txt_ and, if so, should it?

body: I have moved a domain "`http://flymusic`" to "`http://www.1.flymusic`". The "Change of Address Tool" in webmasters tools won't allow me to tell Google about the new URL because it is a sub-domain. and the error is "Restricted to root level domains only" I see in Google webmaster guide that: > "Make sure that your new site is not a subdomain. For example, you can use > www.example.com, but not `www.example.com/newsite` or > `http://newsite.example.com`." This site has several thousand links and was doing well on SERPs and I would hate to lose the momentum that I have established. Thank you.

body: So I finally took the plunge and added a +1 button next to the Facebook "like" and Twitter "follow" buttons on most of my websites. The +1 count seems to be going up but I'm wondering if I can tell who is doing the +1ing

body: I am trying to submit the sitemap to google, but its not showing. Sitemap path : http://example.com/sitemap.xml

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What kind of spam is this? I'm running a web site with a forum where one small part is open for posting from unregistered users. The site uses captcha, but still some spam posts get through every day. Here is the thing. All of the messages follow the same pattern, but all also come from different IP's. That makes me thing this is some sort of automated scripted "attack" from a botnet of some sorts. The strange thing is that all the messages start with six random characters and contains a couple of links. The words have no meaning and the domains in the links does not even exist. Why would anyone use time and resources spreading these things? Below you can see two of these messages: > A5Zfs6 exrzvrbspntz, [url=http://nktqoqllnuab.com/]nktqoqllnuab[/url], > [link=http://wtrenldadvsy.com/]wtrenldadvsy[/link], > [http://rnlrqfgdvdot.com/] > > O2oLpL nqeffxhryfdk, [url=http://jutyurbpfxow.com/]jutyurbpfxow[/url], > [link=http://jpcdtmdalpow.com/]jpcdtmdalpow[/link], > [http://qopqwqxwjdjx.com/] Since all the messages come from different IP's I can't see blocking those will help much. For now I'm considering just dropping all messages following this pattern since it's quite easy to match with a regexp. Have anyone else seen these kinds of messages or know the point of posting them?

body: I`ve seen some people advertizing negative seo services and i`m being curious is it possible to harm someone`s search result position by applying some of these so called negative seo practices or it just a fraud ?

body: **Question** Is there a way to ensure that Google's Information Panel is created for your company/product, or to influence/improve its chance of creation and the quality of the information? **What I mean by`Google Information Panel`** Google search results sometimes include an Information Panel to the right, giving a brief summary of important related information without requiring the user to delve into the results. **What I believe so far** I've not found any authoritative sources of information on this, but it seems that these panels are created based on information aggregated from the web, often using Wikipedia and the company/product's site as primary sources of information. The content is allegedly based on common search questions related to the subject. I suspect there may be some manual intervention as the paragraph construction is generally high quality, suggesting something more than an aggregation algorithm; though I've not heard mention of this / Google could easily surprise me. Screenshot & original question can be found here: https://plus.google.com/105098010753329971119/posts/3XFyJ5z7v27

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Blocking Search Engines to Crawl Parts of a Website? I have a page which i don't want search engines to index or crawl. I am not sure hat should i put in my robots.txt file to tell search engines not to crawl/index that page. The page it itself is getting generated dynamically and do not have a predefined template for it all i know about its URL which is pre-defined and will remain unchanged. I have this page say at               www.mysite.com/my-nonindexable-page/      Please suggest what i should do to achieve this.I am using WordPress for my website

body: I'm creating a FAQ for my page. To help the user to get a better overview I want to hide all answers and only display the questions. If the user clicks on a question the answer is set to display:block. I know that google also reads and indexes hidden content, but I also know that hiding text is a common technique for spammers and thus probably discredited by google, resulting in getting wiped from search results. But I'm wondering; Does google always downrank pages that have large amounts of hidden text? I mean an FAQ like this is not that uncommon. Should I not use this kind of FAQ?

body: After changing my IP, my site no longer works in China. What can I do to test that more thoroughly? Is there a way to do so? I do not want to block Chinese visitors. I want the block removed by using an IP that is not blocked in China.

body: I have a site that reviews personal medical devices. Each year, these medical devices get replaced a few times by their newer/improved versions, so the old devices are not available anywhere commercially, and it doesn't make sense to let people navigate to those product pages on my site. However, many of those products are great long tail keywords which rank well and bring substantial traffic. My question is, what should I do with these product pages? My idea was to just make sure that they can't be navigated to from anywhere on my site, yet keep the links active, and put a "discontinued" notice on the product page, and recommend newer products. I'm wondering if this will hurt SEO though, to have links which cannot be found on the site be visitors? Should I take those links out of the sitemap, leave them in? Redirect the links to their newer product pages? Anyone dealt with this before?

body: I use conditional loading and media queries, JS, and CSS techniques for building responsive/adaptive designed websites. The HTML output for these sites depends on the number of horizontal and vertical pixels of the users's browser window. What resolution does Google use while indexing sites, which impacts the HTML output that's returned?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I bother supporting IE6? I'm thinking about IE6 support and when to give up on it. Do you have a percentage of total visitors figure in mind for when to drop support? Would you let a trend develop past this figure or are you just going take the first opportunity? I've seen a 44% drop in IE6 visitors in the past 12 months from 23%(ish) of visitors down to 13%(ish). Even if it was 5% it still seems too early to drop support to me (it's still 1 in every 20 users). What are people's thoughts on this?

body: Can anybody help me in creating subdoain through webmin. I want to create subdomain like test.xxxxx.com for this I tried with several reference site but no luck. exp. http://www.trickylinux.net/add-domain-virtualminwebmin.html http://codeboxlabs.com/add-subdomain-webmin-linux/ My current httpd.conf look like:                <VirtualHost *:80>     SSLEngine off      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/******/web     DirectoryIndex index.php     <Directory "/var/www/html/*****/web">     AllowOverride All     Allow from All     </Directory>     ServerName www.******/.com     ServerAlias ftp.*****.com     SSLEngine off      SSLVerifyClient optional     </VirtualHost>      Please help me to solve this issue.

body: `link:article-stack.com` is giving 5 links. all are from my site only. I wrote an article over sulekha.com many days. But it doesnt come in result until i secially search for it. Previously `link:article-stack.com` search was showing 6 links. some of them were from wordpress as well. Now those links are not coming in result while all links are still present.

body: I built up good rankings with search engines over the years with my old domain. I recently changed my domain name and have all the links 301 redirected from my old domain to my new domain. I also used Google's 'change of address' tool to help index my new domain faster. Will this affect my rankings at all?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I block indexing of my mobile site? Should I allow webcrawlers to index the mobile versions of my websites? Is that a good practice from a SEO perspective? Thanks, James Ford

body: I want to add the ability to send reminders to people via email and SMS for specific events that they have signed up for on a web application that I am building. The email part is not difficult, but I am wondering where to find a good solution for sending SMS messages. It would also be a plus if this solution allowed two-way SMS communication with my web application so that people would be able to reply with a CONFIRM or CANCEL type of a message. Has anyone implemented something like this? Does anyone know of good tools out there? **EDIT:** I am realizing that this is more of a "lots of ways to skin this cat" type of question and so I changed it to community wiki.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Installing python packages on shared hosting? I have designed a website that uses node.js and socket.io for the onsite instant messaging system. However, for running node.js, we need to run the node.js server module on the webserver as we all know that node.js is server side javascript. So, for this, I would need to install node.js and socket.io in the webserver and then run node.js server. Do the online webhosting accounts like those of godaddy.com or ipage.com allow the user to install stuff and run a server like node.js? Thanks.

body: I have heard(read) SEO experts who claims that you server position will affect your SEO. In the latest example it was about an international site targeting the Russian market so:   1. Does the server location affect how many visitor you will get from specific country.   2. Does the TLD affects SEO outside that it is easy to type the TLD of your country If the above have any effect what will be if you by TLD domain for the countries you are targeting and make them redirect to you international one, for example: domain.com - international domain.ru - redirects to domain.com/ru/ domain.de - redirects to domain.com/de/

body: I'm redesigning a website. This time it will be responsive, so that the same pages that are loaded into a desktop browser will be loaded in mobile browsers as well. The question is: can I use the same adsense units from both desktop and mobile platforms? Or do I have to configure special Google Adsense for Mobile units? Thanks

body: I want to switch from HTML to Wordpress. How will completely new pages and site structure affect my Google ranking? [I'm not sure what other clarifications or details to give - please tell me if there's anything]

body: We've got our website running and HTTPS / SSL works just great. **EXCEPT** : when users enter `http://www.mydomain.com` and then enter the secure area and get directed to `https://www.mydomain.com` it works fine. But when users enter just `http://mydomain.com` and then enter the secure are and get directed to `https://mydomain.com` they get a warning about the certificate being from a website called `www.mydomain.com` while they're trying to enter `mydomain.com` .... Does our SSL cert not cover both `www.mydomain.com` and `mydomain.com`? Are we suppose to buy TWO certs, on for each?? Surely not? Any help or pointers to the standard way of doing things like this would be great. We're using Apache HTTPD to forward requests to Tomcat web apps. Apache is taking care of all the SSL connections.

body: I have read that resolving HTML Improvements in Google Webmaster Tools can take as long as 6 weeks to show up, but those numbers seem to increase without decreasing even though I've been fixing almost everything that Google points out. I have checked some sites with the View as Google tool and the bugs are resolved (let's say "short meta descriptions" for example). Any idea why is this happening?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  At what visitor share do you stop supporting a given browser? I have a site (recently relaunched it with a new design) that I have put off optimizing for ie7 for far too long. I was just never too worried about it. The site is optimized for ie8-10, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.. Then I asked myself, is it even worth it? I checked traffic over the last couple months before the relaunch and about 1.3% of the traffic is coming from ie7. So, is there a general cuttoff percentage when you would not optimize for a specific browser?

body: When I search something in Google, I sometimes see the publishing date of the post/article underneath. I've also searched for an article of my own which I have on my Wordpress-powered site, and Google also recognizes its publish date. When I open my website's source, I don't see any special tags or anything that indicates the publish date. It is only written in a regular div, with nothing special tagged that would tell the SE that it is the publishing date (I could have any other dates of other things around the page too). So is it hardcoded into Google the exact place of the Wordpress publish date in the DOM tree, or am I missing something? I'm building a new website, with my own CMS, and I'm trying to find out how to implement date published recognition.

body: I am using Google Analytics, now here when I go to "Traffic Source Overview" under that it shows Keyword as "(Not provided)" which is almost 40% of my traffic source. Now more than 90% of search engine traffic is from Google and still out of that for more than 40% of keywords are "(Not provided)". Can anyone explain me what is going wrong here or how can I get that data? Because that comes as 1st option and is biggest keyword in the list. Will that be some crawler or secure google search?

body: I'm responsible for ICT at FOS Open Scouting, a belgian scouting organisation. Our website was hacked a few years back and blocked by Facebook as a result. After we regained control over the site Facebook continued to block our domain and this is causing us a number of problems. We have tried many times in the past year to contact Facebook using their 'I am blocked from adding content' form (https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=block_appeal) to no avail. We get the response "Thanks for contacting Facebook. You should receive an email response shortly.". The email has the following response: "Thanks for taking the time to submit this report. While we don't currently provide individual support for this issue, this information will help us identify bugs on our site." The blocked URLs are: http://www.fos.be and http://www.fosopenscouting.be Does anyone know how we should/could proceed? EDIT: The problem has been resolved. For anyone who finds itself in the situation above: Send a letter to Facebook HQ (1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 if you reside in the U.S. or Canada, or at Facebook Ireland Ltd., Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2 Ireland if you live outside the U.S. or Canada).

body: I know that when it comes to obtaining backlinks, a no-follow is pretty much worthless. However, does Google (or other major search engines) penalize for sites that have nothing but do-follow links? I have heard a long time ago (back in 2007) that having no-follow backlinks can make SEO efforts appear more "organic." Fact or fiction?

body: In website terms, hotlinking is > the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page > belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link > to the site where the object is located. What does anti-hotlinking mean? How can a website prevent requests originating from some other server?

body: Would you try for SEO, Adwords, or other ad programs? Why? How cost effective is it?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Can I access domain registration (whois) history? How to find the records for domain names purchased today and in past?

body: In Fiverr there is a complete subcategory to "Get Traffic". Some of the descriptions in the category claim that "these traffic will boost your ranking or your biz". Is it true? How new traffic could improve a website rankings?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do you evaluate SEO/SEM companies? What are common services/prices? How do I compare SEO reseller programs? Seems like support, pricing, and results would would be the major factors, but I really have no idea.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I see what pages on the internet link to my site? According to webworth.info, my website is linked to within Wikipedia. Where in the world is that reference found for my domain and how would you find it?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does server location matter in same country? Should i host the country specific website in the server at same country? for example I have a heavy traffic website for UK. which is only for UK people. and my client only ship his product to UK address only. then in terms of performance would it be good to choose UK based hosting company which server are in UK too, for better performance , latency of website. or even if hosting server is in USA will not effect to site.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly > than other… Our SEO advisors are claiming that having our URLs in the form:                www.example.com/category/subcategory/      leads to better ranking in the search engines, etc., but I'm not sure if that's true/valid. Do others use this practice in their own websites? The simpler alternative for us would be to do something like:               www.example.com/showcat.php?cat=Category-SubCategory

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  301 redirects for all except me I've been developing a new version of my website for a while now, on a different directory to my currently-live website. Shortly I'll be ready to move this directory to root and do a mass search and replace on the database dump. However, for the short period whilst I take the old files offline and put the new site in place - and test it to make sure everything is working correctly - I'd like to put up a **"coming soon, version 2 of the website!" image** to **all users apart from myself**. When I access the website, I want to be able to see everything as usual so that I can work on it. What's the best way to go about this? Thanks in advance,

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to point a domain to another subdomain? Is it possible to set up a subdomain to render content of another server? Let's say I wanted google.domain.com to render google.com (for example). Is this a matter of setting up a CNAME? Mod-Rewrite? How could I point it to another server? I suppose it's similar to how wordpress.com allows their bloggers to use their own domain when on their hosted service. But I'm not sure how they accomplish this in the background. We can't do iframes. And we've seen another example of someone using the same API to render the remotely hosted site on their own domain.

body: If I have mysite.com, and blog.mysite.com, do search engines see those as 1 site or 2? Will using subdomains hurt SEO? I have some technical reasons why I can't use mysite.com/blog.

body: first of all i m sorry if i post this thread on wrong website. Now my question is:                is there any method/trick to find the programming (scripting) language of       a website on which that website is developed.      for eg: i want to know the development language of **https://mydeco.com/** is above website is developed on **PHP** , **ASP.net** , **RUBY(ROR)** , **PYTHON** OR any other language. please suggest how to find?? Thanks for helping me always. i found a website where its display header information               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently      Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:36:54 GMT      Server: Apache      Location: http://mydeco.com/      Vary: Accept-Encoding      Connection: close      Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1      does anybody now can tell me the web language?? Keshav

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Twitter Product Preview on Tweets So I just saw the tweet below and was wondering, how does amazon get the extra information into the tweet? ![amazon tweet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/O2W6k.png)

body: I've mobile optimised a site with media queries and I now want to know which devices / emulators I should test with. Where can I find information on what mobile browsers are out there, ideally with a rough idea or market share? So far I've tested with Opera Mobile (desktop version), iPhone and iPad (actual devices), Windows Phone (emulator) and I'm attempting to install the Android emulator but having some issues. I've Googled but couldn't find much info on BlackBerry devices, so I'm downloading their emulator too. Are there any I've missed out?

body: The `SSL` certificate on my site has expired, which has caused `https` requests to the site to fail. While I am sorting out a new `SSL` certificate, what can I do to redirect `https` requests into the `http` requests? The `https` folder of my site is sym-linked to the `http` folder.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Title tag different from title appearing in Google? I have a site http://biocision.com and if you search for the phrase 'cell freezing' (broad), we used to get on the first page. However, all of a sudden the word 'cell' wasn't showing up in the title of the listing. Now it's down to the 2nd page and I don't know what the next step should be. Here's what it looks like in google's SERP: http://screencast.com/t/ZqVme22r1MrV Here's what the actual title of the page is: "CoolCell® Alcohol-Free Cryopreservation - BioCision :: Standardizing Samples™" Google is displaying: CoolCell ® Freezing Containers - BioCision Questions: 1. Does Google ever up-n-change the title of page outright? 2. Does having the title have the word "Cell" showing up twice hurt results? 3. What is the best way to get Google to re-index these pages, if that will even fix it? There's a 99% chance i've left out important information an expert would need to help me, so i'm standing by to fill in said missing info. AMA, etc. Other: the site is built in CMS Made Simple Please help! Thanks in advance!

body: I recently implemented many SEO techniques for a company on their asp.net website; in 6 months, we jumped from a PR1 to a PR3. But I'm having issues with google backlinking. _**Here are some of the things I've done:_**   1. Not only did I set up their own Google+ page 6 months ago, I update it pretty much daily with links, pictures, etc., and I blog about it on my own personal Google+ page and post links, etc. ...   2. They have their own Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all are updated almost daily.   3. I've listed in as many quality, relevant directories as possible 6 months ago; I've avoided link farms.   4. The site is solid SEO-wise. Key-phrase rich URLs, schema.org & rich snippets.   5. No duplicate content ... www or non-www 301's, trailing slashes, etc. ... all taken care of.   6. Probably a ton of other things, but basically, the site is all set, SEO-wise. _**Here's what's confounding:_** When I do a **link:www.example.com** in Bing/Yahoo, it shows **many backlinks**. When I do a **link:www.example.com** in **google, it shows up 0 links**. Or when I use a site-ranker like Web Site Rank Tool it's showing 0 backlinks from Google. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

body: Recently, a site of mine was rejected due to "Login Only": _"Login Only: During our review of your website, we found that the majority of pages on your site are behind a login, or there is restricted access. Please note that we will not approve applications for login-protected pages, as we are not able to review their content for acceptance into the program."_ Although the site does require login to send content, it doesn't require any to view any page. How do I tell the Googlebot or whatever is used to crawl pages to adsense that all the content is publicly available but registration is needed to post? **Current robots.txt** > User-agent: * > > Disallow: /moderation/ > > User-agent: Googlebot-Image > > Disallow: / > > User-agent: Mediapartners-Google > > Allow: /

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to recover my inclusion in google results after being penalized for > receiving comment spam? I put an update of my site live and I forgot to enable to comment approval queue. I noticed a few days later I was linking to Russian porn and my Google rankings dropped by about half. I have removed all of the links but I still have low rankings, Google has not crawled my spammed pages yet. Is there any way I can speed up the process and how long will these links tarnish my ranking?

body: I have h2 and h5 headings with generic names here: http://nybodyart.com (NSFW) such as 'editor picks' 'tags' 'all articles' would it be better for SEO to give them unique and almost playful names with keywords?

body: Is there a way to change the default date range of 31 days in GA? After changing it and clicking apply, only the current report changes? Next time I use GA, 31 days again??? ![Google analyitics date custom report date range](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WJ7Yh.png) ![Google analyitics date custom report date range drop down](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BagBu.png) Here is documentation on GA date range.

body: If I am a resident of the United States and I wish to run Google AdSense in my website, how many months old should my website be?

body: I have a website which is actually a search engine to search through our data. Each item has its own detailpage, and a search returns a list of matching data, with links to the detailpages. There are about 10 million items in our database, however, every day several hundreds are removed, and new ones are added. The new ones are no problem, but how should I treat the removed ones? Currently, I'm giving them a status 404, but Google is constantly complaining about this in the webmaster tools. I was thinking about two options: a 410 (REALLY gone), or make it a redirect (301) to the homepage?

body: We're a very niche domain marketplace, which has a few hundred domain names for sale, and most all of them are redirected to our site. Most get a few clicks a day, as they are non-keyword (generic terms) We've just gotten a big domain name on board, and it's gotten about 1000 visitors for the day -- MORE THAN our actual site traffic gets without it -- most of all which are bounces. We plan to also have more names like this soon, whereas we'll receive tons of redirect traffic. Is this bouncing traffic going to negatively affect our ranking or our SEO? Or is the added number of visitors of greater weight than the increased bounce rate?

body: Is there a way to remove or block external backlinks? There was a drop in the Google results from page 1-2 to page > 8. I am now looking at the external backlinks and I see now multiple domains that I don't want them to be linked to our website ( sex sites, spi directories, ... ). Also I have a domain with >1300 links on 1 page ( I see this in Google webmaster tools ). Can this also be the reason of the drop?

body: Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for my hosted blog website:               www.financewalk.com      Yes, I know I should have done complete offsite backups. Unfortunately, all my backups were on the server itself. Can you please mention any solution/ tools that will help me recover my lost data? Thanks, Avadhut

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Prevent virtual host on same server interact on apache I have a vps apache 2.0 webserver, with multiple domains and multiple IPs set. In document root `/var/www/html/` I have `http://serverA.com`, and I create a virtual host in folder `/var/www/html/serverB` for `http://serverB.com`. They work great for both, but the problem is I can access serverB files with the URL `http://serverA.com/serverB/`, which I don't want to happen. How do I prevent that?

body: I am currently in the process of redesigning a job advert site and am trying to put a lot more effort into my SEO. My question is how should I deal with the URLs that point to job adverts when the advert expires. The options I have thought of so far are:   1. Return a 404 error and redirect to a 404 page. Will it have an effect on ranking if there are a lot of URLs that return 404s after only being up for a few weeks?   2. Redirect to job listing page - When the user requests a URL for an advert that has expired just redirect to the main job listing page.   3. Show the advert but tell the user to has closed - Show the advert page but with a notification that the advert has closed. The issue I see with this is that the user will visit the page, see its closed and then leave the site again which would not be good for rankings

body: I am trying to figure out best-practise for moving a single page of content from one domain to another in a way that will preserve search engine ranking. I have found plenty of instructions for wholesale domain moves, but this situation is slightly different. I have a blog, one page of which gets a lot of search traffic for a specific term. I would like to take that one page of content and move it to an entirely new domain, which I will then use to start adding new content to. My plan so far:   * register the new domain   * remove the single page of content from the old domain   * put up the single page of content on the new domain   * set up a 301 redirect for the URL of the page on the old domain, pointing to the new domain  Is this the right way to do it? Is there anything else I need to do in order to keep Google happy?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are there any standards for marking the age suitability for website > content? What system of self rating should a site now use? SafeSurf seems to be the most natural fit to work with and the PICS system has become a well accepted standard. However the new system POWDER appears to be the upcoming standard. As the documentation for POWDER does not really explain anything and is about as much use as a chocolate kettle, which way are webmasters meant to go? There are many images which do not need moderation (unless selling in China - in which case you remove the image from the website regardless of local-side blocking) but several may be classed as "Not Safe for Work" (i.e. nearly topless women on a photographers site). There are other more subtle examples such as pictures on a Security company's website that show a hand coming in through smashed glass, they are not really suitable for young children (sends off the wrong image), let alone adverts that do not apply to teenagers and below that you'd rather they did not access. Flagging and self-rating would seem the natural approach, but with two competing standards and no obvious central databases to store your own self- moderation on what are the "best practises"?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I need a little help with .htaccess rewrite Hello, I need a little help with `.htaccess` file. I have songs, singers and albums links I want to rewrite. I already rewrote the links and they are like this:   * for the songs is like this: `/song/song_name`   * for singers: `/singer_name`   * for albums: `/album_name` This is the code in my `.htaccess` file:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^singer/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?singer=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^song/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?song=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^album/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?album=$1 [L]      I need the links for the songs, singers and albums to be like this:   * for songs `/singer_name/song_name`   * for singers `/singer_name`   * for albums `/singer_name/album_name` Can anyone help me with this please.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SSL certificate provider Hello, I'm trying to set up Https for my e-commerce site on webfaction hosting. Was trying to buy SSL certificate from godaddy.com which has my new domain, however, I see different plans and pricing and not sure which one to buy. I see it offering from Standard to Premium ( $50 - $100 ) and verisign offering from $399 - $1499(EV). They say more expensive one is more secure, so I'm little confused about the price difference. Does which SSL certificate I get really matter? if so, then what is a suitable SSL certificate for small to medium sized e-commerce site? Can I purchase SSL from any place? (verisign, godaddy, any hosting company that offers it?) and just implement it on my server? Thank you. Dave

body: In some search results Google displays nice stars and total reviews on particular webpage, it looks pretty cool, and I would like to know how does Google know, how many reviews this website has and what is actual score for reviews. Is there some kind of special API for that or might be some special tags? example search query

body: We are currently based in the UK and and have a .co.uk domain but we are now moving abroad so obviously want to change the domain. I recently purchased a domain similar to the .co.uk one as the same .com was not available. What I was wondering was if i create the .com with exactly the same content as the co.uk site and make the .co.uk site a forwader to the .com will this affect our google search results? Currently our .co.uk site is placing highly and I'd like the .com to do so also, but I read somewhere that if your site has the exact same content as somewhere else it is classed a bad thing. Sorry if this seems a bit here and there.

body: Site A and B are both new, with few incoming links, and no 'do-follow' outgoing links. Site A has PR1, and site B has PR0. I am curious - Can anyone predict what might happen to the respective PRs if I add a link from A to B (but not reciprocate)?

body: For SEO is it required to add Keyword in `<footer>` tag? Which one is better either writing keyword in `<footer>` tag or writing keywords in `<HTML>` table column?

body: We have a company website, let says it's `http://www.mycompany.com`. URL without the `www` (`http://mycompany.com`) is working and displays the same website. When Googling `mycompany`, first result is the website, with no site links. When Googling `mycompany.com`, first result is the website, with site links. When Googling `www.mycompany.com`, first result is the website, with different site links. Why is there no site links for "mycompany" keyword?

body: I have a directory on my ISP's web server, I don't want users to see files inside that directory, so I have a index.html file in it to redirect user to my main page, I wonder someone could still write a program and use http or other protocols to list the files in it ? I know they can't use browsers to access those files. Edit [ More specific ] : The dir look like this :               index.html [ redirect to main page ]     1z3n67xzs.dus     s737er.pds     rijvnjdfjndf.oef     Dir_Deeper_Hidden_1 [ a directory ]     Dir_Deeper_Hidden_2 [ a directory ]      These files and directories are not mentioned in anywhere else, I'm the only one who knows the names of these files and directories, can users still **list them** ?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  vhost set up help -- domain and ip point to the same site I have recently set up Linux CentOS on a little VPS. I have bought my own domain and made A records to my VPS like this.               mydomain.com         IP     *.mydomain.com       IP Everything here works fine. I've installed Webmin with Apache and everything. Then I've created a Virtual Server in Webmin, to host my website. Also works fine, and I can access it in my browser. Now I've created a sub-server to host phpmyadmin. I can access this on `phpmyadmin.mydomain.com`. But also on `klweridsncvx.mydomain.com`. It catches all subdomains. It's annoying because I tried to create an Alias to my Google Apps account. `mail.mydomain.com` should point to `ghs.google.com`, but it also goes to `phpmyadmin.mydomain.com`. Any suggestions how I can get rid of this catchall subdomain?

body: How can I search for a specific string (function name or a variable name) in my files which are in various directories under cPanel file manager? I have been using a library directory and functions on that directory are used in various apps and pages. Now, I am in a situation to change something in the library file, for which I need to know the impact on files which use this library file functions. How to search / find / grep through the files hosted?

body: I've used OpenX a few years ago and it worked fine. Now I see that it wasn't maintained for a while hence it became buggy on newer versions of PHP. Do you know any Ad server that is a good alternative to OpenX ?

body: I have a client account in Google Analytics. The client operates about 30 sites and I want to create a web property for each site under the umbrella central account. Looks like I cannot add more than 20 web properties under one central account. Can someone confirm if there's a limit to the amount of web properties you can create under one account?

body: I successfully mapped my `www.mydomain.com` to my Google site (as described here). However I would like to forward also my naked domain (`mydomain.com`) to end up in `www.mydomain.com`. I assume I should modify 'A' DNS record in my provider but what IP should I point it to?

body: I have a site and its load time needs improvement. When I monitor it, the DNS takes too long to resolve. Pls see the results here: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/GOv42ma85/http://www.escalaproperties.com/ Yes, there are a lot of issues (images not compressed, too many requests but my biggest concern bas hecome dns resolving. It takes 14 seconds to get resolved. I have looked on internet but didn't find anything ( maybe I am searching for the wrong thing ). Any thoughts, how to speed it up?

body: Recently I just purchased a domain name for my new site. I plan to post relationship and startup quotes in the site so I am looking for a domain to purchase with 'lovequotes' in it. Unfortunately there's a little to none for a .com TLD that is still available. So I decided to settle with 'lovequote' instead and added a common word. My question is could this affect my future ranking? Having a word quote instead of quotes in the url? Because by simply searching for these keywords give varying website results and suggestion.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting? Google Analytics reports are underestimating pageviews comparing to my server logs for around 40%. What could be the reason? Browsers not allowing cookies? Also webmastertools tells me that I get 400 to 500 vistis through google search engine per day, but GA tells me that there are only 250 visitors from googlesearch.

body: On my sites, I used the scheme that Google defines: "Dynamically serving different HTML on the same URL" when I offer a mobile version of my code. I have only one URL for each page. By checking the user agent, I decide the version of the site that should appear. I have already a normal XML sitemap of my site and now I want to add a mobile sitemap. Something like this:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"      xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0">      <url>         <loc>http://mobile.example.com/articolo100.html</loc>         <mobile:mobile/>     </url>     </urlset>      I know that I can add only URLs that provide mobile contents, in my case any URL dynamic serves desktop and mobile needs. How i can do? For me, does it make sense to add a mobile sitemap to make my site more search engine friendly? EDIT I don't wanna know if my sites will gain some pagerank with the attribution of a Mobile sitemap. I wanna know if is correct to add the mobile sitemap and the "desktop" sitemap in a site of type "Dynamically serving different HTML on the same URL". With this kind of content organization i have to remove all the sitemaps?

body: I'm wondering what are main differences and possible advantages between buying domain extensions like:               site.com     site.net     site.org      what changes in terms of Page Rank, SEO , Search Engine treatment and querying? ** > SOMEONE STATED THIS IS A DUPLICATE WITHOUT POSTING A GOOD RESOURCE, PLEASE > REOPEN THIS QUESTION OR POST GOOD AND DEFINITIVE RESOURCE **

body: A portion of a site that I maintain lists job opportunities available within an organization. The opportunities are listed on a single page with a short description which can be clicked on by the user if they desire more detail. Here's the site, for reference: http://goo.gl/mQVyO **Question** The opportunities are fluid and change often. They are editable by human resources and change without the knowledge of the programmer (me). As the frequency of the edits/updates/removals increase, I've noticed a lot more 404 errors in my logs. Currently, I'm redirecting to a 404 page when someone attempts to access an opportunity that no longer exists (they are accessing it from Google primarily). Is this the best way to handle this from an SEO perspective? I'm finding that the opportunities that have been removed are taking quite a while to be removed from Google's index.

body: In failing to check my robots.txt on a community site, it had:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      I only clued into this because of a message in my AdSense account saying that five URL's couldn't be crawled. Only five, out of about 600 that are currently indexed. Even though I mistakenly had `Disallow: /`, why were these pages still indexed and getting traffic?

body: When I search on Google my companies website its rank gets distorted on my computer through previous searches, my location etc. I use private mode in my browser, but I think this is still not an accurate search. I found some sites online that seem to check the ranking for me, but the ones I found all seem a little bit sketchy. So, how can I objectively check my search engine ranking for certain keywords?

body: Is there a way in google analytics to add multiple sites to and show all the stats together? So like the graphs and total visits/unique hits all combined for all the sites added to the google analytics account? For example if I have: site1.com site2.com site3.com Under one google analytics account, is there a way in google analytics tool to merge them together so I can see a sum of all traffic in one report?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it possible to register a ".er" domain. If so, how? Is there anyway to register a .er (for Eritrea) domain? I can't find information about, either registrants.

body: I have a landing page that can be called by HTTP and also by HTTPS. The canonical URL links to the HTTP version.   1. In some comments I have read that the HTTPS version is never read by a Googlebot. Is this true?   2. Some people say, you waste Google crawl credits because Google needs to crawl the same content again. Is this true?   3. Do I really have a problem with duplicate content?

body: I've got a website that works with my custom domain name with the www. but when I type it in without the `www.` it doesn't show up, and I've had customers wondering if my website is down because of this. I'd like my website to work with or without the `www.` whilst still showing the subdomains - eg: `www.website.co.uk` and `www.website.co.uk/`contact or `website.co.uk` and `website.co.uk/contact` but I can't get it to work without `www.` I'm not the most clued up person when it comes to DNS and servers and all that, so if you can give it to me in simple terms that would be great. I currently have my domain with 123-reg and my DNS forwarding is set up as follows:               @ CNAME website.site.com     www CNAME website.site.com      I also have web forwarding set up as 302 - `website.site.com` but I think this gets overwritten by the CNAME stuff Please help me to resolve this as it is so frustrating - but please put it to me in simple terms as otherwise I won't understand! Thanks so much in advance everyone!!

body: I'm trying to get to the first page of Google search for a keyword in swedish language but the site and it's content is in english. What's my best option here to get to the first page? Will anchor backlinks help me or do I need to make a landing page in swedish?

body: A law firm has decided to launch multiple websites with the idea of using keywords in the URL (i.e. `personalinjurylawyers.com`, `businesslaw.com`, etc. ) as well as one for their firm name. Even though the content for each site will be different depending on practice area, they will come from the same host/IP and will have some duplicate content (contact info, firm name, etc.) as well as layout. Will this be penalized by Google in terms of search rankings?

body: I started weeding through my site's search results from Google today, using a `site:` search, to determine if there are any links that cause 404s and thus need redirecting. To my amazement I noticed numerous `https://` results relating to various pages. My site doesn't have a SSL certificate, doesn't serve such pages, doesn't internally link to `https://` pages, doesn't include any such files in its _sitemap.xml_ and, for all of these, never has. I decided to do a Google search for `https://<my site>` and found one site that incorrectly refers to the root of my site with a `https://` prefix - I will try to contact them to get them to correct this. I'm not sure however how Googlebot managed to index the non-root files as `https://`. I can't find any external links to them and surely, without certification, Googlebot should have stalled at the first request? I've just added the following lines to the site's _.htaccess_ (although the surfer still has to navigate through the browser's "This site is a security risk. Abandon hope all ye who enter here!" message(s) first to get there):               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.<my site>.org/$1 [R=301,L]        * replacing `<my site>` with my domain name. My big question is this though - I would like to use the Google Webmaster Tools Remove URLs feature to remove the `https://` pages from the index. Can I be guaranteed that this will only remove the `https://` versions of each relevant page and not the valid `http://` versions? My thanks to anyone who can help me out with this particular question and the issue in general.

body:
Now a days many images display using css like below :

      Above `div` will show logo image, But as using CSS for logo instead of `<img>` tag. So not take the benefits of `alt` tag by SEO point of view. My question is : Which technique or method I use for image SEO in this type of image? I mean, Which technique is useful for image SEO, when images is coming from CSS?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I simulate a slow connection for page load? I found some old treaths about this topic but is there a new/working way to slow down the loading of a website (local websever) to a predefined speed, as if it were, for example, on a dial-up connection? I didn't find a good working one... (On Windows). It would be nice if it's a Firefox add-on/plugin. Any suggestions?

body: I need to register new domain name. I gone through many sites. All sites are showing different prices. Lowest price (99/- Rs) I found on http://www.bigrock.in/. On other sites, like GoDaddy or rackspace, its showing more than 600/- Rs. Why are these price differences? Are there any differences in services, up time, security? Is it safe to register at bigrock?

body: Well this might sound weird but yeah that's exactly what I want to know! Now as per US-English colors is the right word and as per British-English colours is the right word. Here in India we follow British English and also the local trend on Google Trends suggests that colours is more searched for in the market that my site is gonna target. Also when I went through my competitors site they are mixing both keywords colors and colours. As we all know Google returns separate results for colors and colours. So I am kinda confused. Should I go for mixing of both the keywords which I feel is wrong or should stick with one keyword?

body: How do Alexa and Compete get their data? which one is better?

body: I have a category page that leads to an additional 100 pages. For example: `www.example.com/category` <- this is my category page `www.example.com/category-2.html` <- this is paginated content My question is, do I need unique meta tags for each and every page, or is there any way that my category page's meta tags can be used by all the numbered pages?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do I need robots.txt? From my understanding robots.txt is only needed to do something different from the norm like exclude a certain file directory and such, but if this is true why do so many people think it is important on every website? Should I just put it on every website to be sure?

body: My website returns 0 results for **link:www.example.com** why it not showing any results ? Is it because of all backlinks are low quality or what ? but In Google webmastertools "Links to Your Site" section it shows the link count. Please suggest me why it not returning any results. And I set my preferred domain to www.example.com

body: I have a website `http://www.domain_1.com/` hosted in a shared webserver. I have used SSL for another website `https://www.domain_2.com/` on the same server. Due to some technical limitations (single IP), if you try `https://www.domain_1.com`, browser will show the same `domain_2` website. But this is not a concern for me. Question: will this scnario impact SEO of `domain_1` (non-HTTPS) site?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  www and non www can suffer duplicated content When I go for any website review the first point I get from the reviewers is both of my www and non www domains should point to one of them, otherwise this will lead to duplicate content. But my thinking is search engines should be smart enough to understand that and should consider it as one page not as duplicate. For example in Google webmaster tools we can set the preferred domain name. Please let me know whether it is really an issue in SEO point of view.

body: I am working on an ecommerce site, I told our SEO consultant that I plan to make the URL scheme: `/products/<id>/<name>`. This is similar to Stackoverflow's URLs which are `/questions/<id>/<title>`. He asked me if I could change the URL scheme to `/p/<id>/<name>` instead. I know why he wants this change, the word "products" isn't needed to find the correct product, and it doesn't offer any SEO, so shortening it to just `p` would make the relevant keywords in the `<name>` weigh more. His main priority is maximizing SEO, but the part that I don't think he is considering is how this effects the semantics of the site. Also having the word "products" looks like it has meaning and a reason for being there, just having a `p` looks chaotic and ugly to me. I also don't think it makes _that_ much of a difference does it? Stackoverflow doesn't use `/q/<id>/<title>` and they do just fine, I do realize that theres many factors at play here though, not just the URL. So I want some outside opinions on which is the better way and why?

body: To be clear: I am not asking whether or not I should use `www` in my url, or what the pros and cons are, that topic is well covered. I also wasn't sure if this was a Stack Overflow, Server Fault, or Webmaster's question - migration to a more appropriate channel is quite welcome. * * * **Background** : I was recently asked to convert a site's urls to all use `www`, as in `http://example.com` to `http://www.example.com`. The reason for the request is over my head. I present an excerpt from the email: > Got an issue, > > Apparently whenever the site was originally setup with their network (prior > to me), the installers chose to use the internal domain as 'example.com' ... > not good ... > > This is a problem trying to resolve externally .... I looked at a few qweb > page source coding and saw many links are coded as > 'http:\example.com\PAGE.XXX' ... > > Can it possibly globally be changed from 'http:\example.com' to > 'http:\www.example.com' > > I can resolve www, but once I hit a link it thinks the server is the > internal EXAMPLE which houses the domain 'example.com' ... Something to do with the client not being able to access the website on their own network. As I mentioned, I don't quite understand it. So, I implemented the change, but while testing, I accidentally typed in an extra `w`, and to my surprise - the site still worked. Then I tried several `w`'s, then two, then I typed in some nonsense and the site still worked. **EDIT** : To be more accurate, only alpha, numeric, dash, and underscore characters will resolve, anything else returns a _Server not found_ error in the browser. I just tested this on Stack Overflow and got redirected when I used `www`, while everything else returned a _"Server not found"_ error. Does anyone have any insight into what the point of this email request is, and why the accidents and experiments I mentioned worked? I can certainly provide more information, I'm just not sure what would be relevant.

body: I am hosting a website from my computer using XAMPP and Apache. However, they don't work even though they say they are online. I can connect to the website from the host computer using the DNS host, LAN IP, external IP, and local host, but when I try connecting to it from another computer it does not want to connect. I did all the port forwarding, and changed my host file but nothing seems to work. Any idea how to fix it to go public?

body: We're working on a site and have come to a choice between one long (not too excessive) main page and several subpages. The subpages would have custom metas/titles/h2 tags and the content that corresponds to them. The main page would have all the content and many more inbound links (pagerank) and with longer content encompassing the content we'd put on the shorter pages. Which would be better for seo and traffic in general? Both schemes are very usable to the user although we are a little concerned with duplicate content (the page's header/footer and other elements remain the same)

body: The business I work has currently has a verified business Google+ page and in the past this page has shown up as a thumbnail during Google searches. The thumbnail brings up basic information such as our picture and operating hours etc. However, since verifying the business page, the thumbnail overview of our business does not seem to show up anymore. I have tried Google searching our business on several computers and it still just brings up the normal search results. Is there a setting I need to activate in order for the thumbnail to appear? * _*_ *EDITED NOTES WE HAVE ALREADY VERIFIED AND SET UP OUR BUSINESS PAGE HOWEVER IT STILL DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF GOOGLE SEARCHES.

body: I've installed phpBB Forums last week and the past 2 days I've been getting users sign up and posting spam chinese emails on each topic. I have:-   * Added captcha on registration   * Made sure users have to verify subscription by email before allowing to post What else can I do to stop this from happening? I've banned their IP addresses but this doesn't stop them from using a proxy to keep spamming the forums. I've read I can block all chinese IP addresses through ACP but is this the best step to block all this? Seems to be all chinese spam at the minute, any help would be much appreciated.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Optimizing for load time VS staying organized I would like to speed up my website, and one of the ways YSlow! talks about is to reduce the number of files being downloaded during a request. How does one solve this problem, when having multiple javascript (or css) files (jquery.js, jquery.cycle.js, own js file)? I would prefer not to merge them myself.

body: On a live site, let's say there is a page that is really outdated with old information. Is it ok to just delete it? Or do I have to setup an Apache redirect or do a 404 or something special **for the web crawlers**?

body: I currently run a small web-app that connects local businesses with new customers in a very specific niche. In the past few months this model has worked very well and the growth is excellent, so much so in fact that I'm preparing to expand the app to support multiple sites/niches. Ultimately it will be structured very similarly to StackExchange in that each site will have it's own domain, design and focus, but running off of the same platform. With that said, I've been trying to think of the best way to handle the analytics (specifically Google Analytics) for this setup. My two requirements are basically that I want to be able to see aggregate statistics for all sites so that I can get an overview of how the system is performing generally on a day-to-day basis, but also be able to narrow down to specific site and track at that level for SEO, marketing, and debugging purposes. What I'm hoping is that other people who may have done this or have more experience with Google Analytics may be able to tell me whether I would be better off creating one multi-domain analytics profile (and figuring out how to break it out by site) or creating a profile for each site and having the unique profile id configured with the sites in my system. From a development standpoint I would much rather do the former. Thank you in advance for your time and insights!

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Hosting and domain registrations for multiple clients When creating a website for a client, how do you go about handling the domain registration and hosting? For example, do you signup for all of their accounts (registrar, hosting), pay for it with your own credit card, and then hand the credentials over to the client when the job is done? Or do you go make the client sign up for their own accounts and ask for the credentials to unload the site? My client doesn't have a lot of technical experience, so the latter may be time consuming and frustrating for both parties. Whereas the former option may be a big headache in the long run as well. I don't want to handle the billing or anything in the future. This ideally would be left to the client after the contract is finished. So how do you webmasters deal with this problem?

body: Over the past couple of weeks, we've noticed that the search results from Google for some of our drupal-powered sites are having their page titles hijacked somehow. An example would be: _free streaming porn - [Actual page title]_ There are other variations of the porn prefix, that's one of the more tame ones. I looked in the databases for each of these sites and the titles haven't actually been changed or anything along those lines. When you click on the result to visit the page everything looks normal (sans porn stuff). Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction as to what the cause of this is?

body: How to get this ratings for a website page like this? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8upZq.jpg) How much this is effective for a SEO?

body: Currently I'm going into my account settings and switching Web History to off. I then have to go back each time and switch it on again. Is there a quicker way to be able to do a search in Google not tainted by personal results?

body: I have a Linode instance of Ubuntu 10.4 using the LAMP stack to host an instance of Magento and a couple other things. I currently have megento set up at: http://123.459.780.123/magento When I apply my domain using the Linode tools, I can apply it so that I can access the magento site at: http://mydomain.com/magento I would like to host multiple sites, so that I can have /magento, /mysite, /aclientsite all hosted under Apache, but have domains resolve to those paths, so that the root of the individual sites are those, so I can have http://mymagentosite.com, http://mysite.com, and http://aclientsite.com. I've done this before using tools in GoDaddy, but never using just Ubuntu and ssh access. Can someone explain what I need to do to point domains to folders in Apache? Or at least the correct terms to Google. :)

body: i have following code where i m including my title and description for the page But google crawled only title not the meta description from the code. Where as meta description was read from the keywords present in html of the page.. Please guide me guys where i m coding wrongly               <!DOCTYPE html>          <html>     <head>     <title>title inserted here</title>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">     <meta name="description" content="description here"/>

body: Does really rich snippets (microdata) helps to increase the SERP position or it will be just for usability purpose? if adding rich snippets to page helps, then how it will affects the SERP position?

body: I currently have my email and webserver hosted through Yahoo. I'm having way too much trouble trying to integrate my application with their lack of php/mysql support. I'd like to use my domain name to keep Yahoo as my email host (ie. redirect all emails to them), but have another server as my web host (ie. redirect all web requests else-where) Thank you

body: I don't want Google to show sub domain name (red circles in the below image) in search results. How to prevent Google from showing sub domain name as title in search result? ![sub domain name in search results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sEql6.jpg)

body: Can I make a Google +1 button +1 a specific URL - e.g. my front page, http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ - rather than the URL the button's on? I've read that you can do this by putting that URL between the g:plusone tags like so:               <g:plusone>http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/</g:plusone>      However I've done this on both http://gwwc2.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/ & http://gwwc2.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/resources/index.php and it only seems to work on the former - if you click the +1 button on the latter, you'll be +1ing http://gwwc2.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/resources/index.php rather than http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  In what browsers do you test your websites? I'm in the process of setting up 3 windows xp virtual machines for IE6, 7 and 8. Have ie9 on my win7 host machine. Which versions of FF, Chrome and maybe Safari? should I consider also installing? P.S. Would be great if you could recommend a website that would help me test my websites on Macs(I don't own a mac and installing OSX on a VM is illegal and way too much to handle for me)... I bieleve I should be concerned how fonts would be rendered and any layout changes that might result from this.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Collapsible menu and amount of links in a web page One of my pages contain three levels of a collapsible menu (JS + CSS from mycssmenu.com). There are a dozen first level items displayed to users, each one with various second level items, and finally a lot of third level items, each one containing a link to open related content. This generates a lot of internal links (300+). Google SEO recommends to have a 'reasonable' number of links in a page. How would I change the menu without affecting the page usability? I would like to avoid users to have to open a new page just to only look for the wanted third level item he has found from the menu and follow its link. Hope I was clear, if not I could add a sample.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO - Reducing significance of irrelevant kewords I'm trying to make some SEO changes to my site. One of the problems i'm trying to eliminate is that the google webmaster tools is claiming the most popular words on my site are "700ml" and "USD". (My site is an online store with various currencies, USD being default, and various beverages with 700ml showing up in most of the item names). What can I do to make googlebot leave these 2 words alone? If I put a dash instead of a space between the price and currency (ie $5.00-USD), will it stop treating USD as a seperate word? How about the 700ml, anything that I can do with that? It's painful to see my site ranking so low on the words I want, but when i search 700ml and usd it's like on the first page =/

body: I know that it is in your best interest to enforce specific policies in regards to what is appropriate for your site, but are there any legal issues with not filtering their content? For example, could one of your users sue you if they feel you "allowed" another user to offend them with a negative statement? How do you protect yourself as a website owner providing user generated content?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do spambots work? I want to prevent web scrapers from abusing 1,000,000 on my website. I'd like to do this by returning a "503 Service Unavailable" error code for users that access an abnormal number of pages per minute. I don't want search engine spiders to ever receive the error. My inclination is to set a robots.txt crawl-delay which will ensure spiders access a number of pages per minute under my 503 threshold. Is this an appropriate solution? Do all major search engines support the directive? Could it negatively affect SEO? Are there any other solutions or recommendations?

body: I have more than 10 different topics on my homepage. The titles are all wrapped around `h1` tags. I've heard so much about how bad it is to have multiple `h1` tags on a page, that I wonder if this will affect a website's SEO negatively? If yes, how do I solve this problem?

body: I use Xenu Kubj Sleuth to find out 404s and server errors on websites, but I'm not enjoying it, is there a better free tool out there that can preferably run in bash in linux that does the same thing or more?

body: I maintain a local Japanese conversation group and we're getting big enough that we need to get serious about a real mailing list. What is a good solution? Good means easy, free, low-maintenance... I'm currently on a mailing list (unrelated to the conversation group) that only admits plain text messages... I would prefer my mailing list to allow any type of email. It would be nice if I didn't have to have a server to manage the list. I would like to offer the ability to let the users read the emails individually or in digests. Ideas?

body: Does anybody know whether the location of the datacenter affects the SEO value of a given website? In other words a site which has 100% of visitors coming from USA has to be hosted in USA for better SEO or no problem if it is hosted outside the USA. I know that it has to be hosted in USA because of some performance like in server ping and data transfer. thanks.

body: I am building a new site, but creating the content using a subdirectory on an existing site. I have never posted a link to this subdirectory anywhere, yet searching Google reveals that Google has found these pages on my site and indexed them. Further, I updated the site with a robots.txt file that WMT reports as being read, and testing the blocked pages using the WMT test tool indicates that the pages will not be indexed. Apparently this does not remove the pages from existing results, though I submitted a request to do so. How did Google find these pages to begin with? Is it because I used a common subdirectory name and Google guesses at common subdirectories?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Heading tags like <h1> and <h2> make a big differences during SEO? Are there any difference between `<h1> ... <h6>` tags for SEO ? For example, `<h1> Most Important </h1> <h6> Less Important </h6>`

body: For example, let's assume a string 'green apple'. Is there at least one SE (or, maybe 3rd-party site) which provides its statistics on how often do users search this concrete string?

body: Old site: http://www.tahlequah.k12.ok.us   New site: http://TahlequahSchools.org Our new site is located at the `.org` domain above; however, we have to keep our old domain/site up until we're sure none of our employees are in need of anything from the old site. Currently when you perform a search for `tahlequah public schools`, Google's search results are still giving priority to the old site. As such, our visitors will go to the old site first (or only there) where they are receiving outdated information. I'd like to request a "change of address"; however, when I go to this section in my Google Webmaster tools > Configuration > Change of Address, I receive this message:                Restricted to root level domains only      Is there a way for me to still request a change of address so that the search results are updated? Or is there a work-around for my situation of which I am unaware?

body: I've googled that and I've found many opinions on this subject, and I'm not sure, if, dedicated IP addresses actually really improve SEO? Is it _that_ different from shared IP address (of 50-100 other sites)?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  My Sites Were Hacked. What To Do? A few of my joomla sites were hacked. After I became aware of this, I did these things:   1. Changed hosting passwords (mysql, ftp, control panel)    2. Renamed joomla admin user name to "admin" in users table (Hacker had changed the user name how?)    3. Upgraded joomla latest Added php.ini root directory of host.    4. Disabled cgi access But the site is still hacked. I checked up on the index.php file and owerwrite original index.php but the site is still hacked. How is this possible?

body: Is it okay to load another page in an iframe in a modal pop-up window - in terms of legal and ethical standards around displaying 3rd party content? I remember a few years ago there was controversy and a debate about whether it was okay to load another domain's page content on your domain in a full-width iframe, with your site providing a masthead with controls for favouriting, linking etc (e.g. like StumbleUpon). I seem to recall that the consensus was, that it was okay so long as you were clearly in no way claiming ownership of the 3rd party content or attempting to modify the content and so long as there was a 'go to site' button or equivalent; and that sites could ask you to exclude them, but generally speaking, it's an acceptable practice. How acceptable would it be considered to be to load another site's page within a modal (lightbox-like) popup box (following all the above principles: clear attribution and a prominent button that kills the iframe and gives them the 3rd party original)? My expectation would be that it would follow the same principles, and be acceptable so long as these conditions were met. * * * _Note that I'm asking about the likely legitimate responses of the 3rd party sites and possible legal position, **not about usability orUX**. I'm aware that this should **never ever ever ever ever** be the standard way external links are loaded, and that 99% of the time linking to external content like this would be terrible for usability._ _My specific use case is one of those 1% of cases where loading a separate page in this tab actually **wouldn't** be the expected behaviour of a link: an interactive data visualisation tool that also acts as a 'browser' of external content (science papers underlying the data it navigates). All other links within the interactive will change something while staying on the same page. If the user clicked one of these external links by mistake (as people often do, even when they are clearly, noisily labelled) and then had to back-button back, they would lose their fine-grained position in the interactive tool (jquery bbq hashchanges being not appropriate for all elements of the tool). New window/tab will simply open the target page on the 3rd party domain._ _Opening a new window/tab would also be an alternative option (and has its own disadvantages) - my question is, whether this is an alternative that could be considered (in terms of acceptable practice around intellectual property etc), irrespective of which option is best for UX: which is something we'll decide the proper way, based on actual UX testing._

body: In order to show relevant ads to a user I just put Google code on my site and they target the ads based on their knowledge of that user. Is there anyway I can use AdSense or any other advertising company to decide myself what ads to show to the user from their pool? i.e. I will decide to show him a "technology" related ads? Thanks, Frank

body: My GA code is being used by some other website, which is spoiling my data. Is there a way to block that site from my Google Analytics account?

body: Given the following:   * The website does not call any external images or scripts, all the content is hosted on a server that is in our control.   * The website does not contain the meta tag, nor does it contain the html file that would authorize a Google Account access to Webmaster Tools.   * The access logs have not been provided to any 2nd or 3rd party. Is it possible for a 3rd party to get an idea of how many hits the site is getting, or are they limited to just seeing how high the site ranks? How could the 3rd party determine how well the site is doing under these restrictions? Is there a website for that that you know of?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google analytics - drop in traffic Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones. The problem we are getting, and sorry for being so general here, is we are getting a sharp decline in traffic as reported on Google Analytics. It's not a gradual decline, it seems to hit almost as soon as the new site goes live. I've just got a few questions to see if there is something we are doing wrong: a) We are using the same analytics accounts going from old to new site. Is this a bad idea? b) The actual analytics code is integrated into the pages using a server-side include. IS this a bad idea? c) We structure our sites differently to our old site. IE. The old sites would pretty must have all the web pages in the root directory, and hyperlinks would be linked to the page files: EG.                    Link      Our new sites now have a directory structure that pretty much reflects the navigation structure, and hyper links link to the pages directory instead of the actual page: EG.                   New shoes      Is this a bad idea. I'm really searching for a needle in a haystack here. Would appriciate any help or advice as to why we are getting such a sharp and sudden drop in traffic.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it possible for web crawlers to see static pages without following a > link to them? I have some URLs (some pdfs and static HTML files) in my website that I want only few people to know. These URLs dont have any pointing links from my website or any other source. So my question is this: **Can google crawl an URL (say some static HTML file) that has no incoming link?**

body: I want to use http://data.whicdn.com/images/28250497/we-are-never-satisfied_large.jpg As cover of my book. There is a watermark saying supermegatrolled.com However, it's unlikely that supermegatrolled.com owns the copyright. In fact, the sites use the material anyway without problem.

body:
> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Refactoring large/old CSS files Wondering if anyone knows of a product that would help you to "see" all the css styles currently defined on a page. For example... Say I'm working on a page and want to create a "leader" css value as a class for a span to make wrap around the first few words of a paragraph to make them bold. I could do something like...               .leader { font-weight:bold; }      and then...
Four score and seven years ago our Fathers...
      I may create this w/out realizing a class called "leadertext" was already defined in a stylesheet on the page. Without either having knowledge of it, or scanning through all the CSS I have I don't know of a way to know what's already set. Curious if there's some silver bullet I don't know about.

body: I would like to understand what does the keyword 'clicks' mean or constitute in web analytics

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter A domain grabber has registered a domain that I wanted. All they're doing on the site is display ads. How do I get the domain without paying their extortion fee?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Command-line website screenshot tool I have a list of websites that I need the "screenshot" of. Is there a script for any browser that could do that?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent Google mistakenly offering to translate a page? Our website is based in the U.S. and all of our users are in the U.S. and the site is written in english. When we open the page in chrome, an alert comes up "This page is in Serbian...would you like to translate it"? I imagine it is some javascript or other code that is triggering that. Is there a way to force chrome to use "English" as the language? We tried googling this question but came up with nothing. thx!

body: These are all strictly different urls:               http://www.example.com/page     http://www.example.com/pAge     http://www.example.com/page/     http://www.example.com/paGE/      I get that it conforms to the strict ISO rules, but why? How many websites are there out there that actually treat `page` and `page/` as different url's you can visit? Or actually use capitalisation to differentiate content? If they did I would tell them they are probably doing it wrong. Why do we have to waste our time conforming to these rules? Isn't it quite trivial for Google to work out that `page` and `page/` are the same page and probably _shouldn't_ be treated as duplicate content?

body: So there is the new domain extension .co which was released recently. What do you think of using this domain for a website? Is the upside of getting a decent name outweighed by the negatives? I think the similarity to .com and .co.uk alongside the lack of public awareness of the extension would lead to a lot of people going to the .com/.co.uk domains of the same name. What are you views on it?

body: I am curious to know if every website should have a privacy policy and/or a terms of use page. What are the legal implications if a site doesn't have them? Are there certain categories of websites that legally require them?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does the "canonical name" in DNS make any difference to search engines? Mu understanding is that CNAME should be used for subdomains and www is just another subdomain. Of course I could do a 301 redirect but it seems odd to do that when I've got it working now and I'm an apache noob so I rather wouldn't mess with it.

body: I read somewhere that google's new +1 feature is going to affect google's search results. Apparently the more +1s you have, the better your site will rank in google. Is that true? And if it's true, how much will having a lot of "+1s" affect my site?

body: All my blog pages are handled by three php scripts viewer.php?cno= (Dynamic) view.php?cat= (Dynamic) about.php (Static) So I was wondering if it puts me at disadvantage ? Can crawlers see my pages ?

body: Which keyword is better for targeting and on-page optimization, singular or plural? Like "baseball bat" or "baseball bats"?

body: I want to set up a couple of URLs to point to my main site. For example, if I were an SEO expert in London, would it be a good idea to buy the domain `seo- expert-london.com` (which would then redirect to my main site) in order to try and gain more business from London?

body: If I adjust the `meta:title` and `meta:description` in my page for SEO, how many days would google, yahoo, bing search engine update? BTW: if my sitemap set this page's `changefreq` is `daily`? Thanks.

body: We run an e-commerce site where products sometimes get discontinued. There are some links from other websites that points to one of our products (A) that doesn't exist anymore, but we have a very similar product (B) that either came out later or replaced the previous discontinued product. Questions:   1. Is it OK to internally 301-redirect a permanently discontinued product to a similar newer product?    2. How about when there are no comparable products available and we want to save this incoming link? Would a category page work? I've read some articles and posts and it seems to be OK to do `1`, but I want to check with the StackExchange community as well. I also know some e-commerce sites prefer to leave discontinued items on their site in an effort to preserve points earned from them, but we are not doing that for a few reasons, which is irrelevant to the questions asked here. Some things I read about the topic at hand: http://moz.com/community/q/401-redirect-to-product-page-or-category http://ecommerce-blog.nexternal.com/301-302-3-0-who-never-discontinue-a- product-or-category-without-reading-this/

body: I have two websites, say `a.com` and `b.com`. `a.com` is on a paid hosting service, and `b.com` is on 000Webhost. 000Webhost crashes sometimes, and my site `b.com` becomes unreachable. So is there any way that I can:   1. create a copy of `b.com`, in a subfolder of `a.co`m, like `a.com/bdotcom`   2. If `b.com` is unreachable, redirect it to `a.com/bdotcom`   3. If possible, keep the url as `b.com`

body: So there are two way of writing my site title. For example: Meow | Photo Magazine or Meow - Photo Magazine Which one is better (for SEO and for Users)?

body: I run a niche community and we have lots of users with very little experience, so it's hard to decide, sometimes, whether this is just a problem with amateurs butting heads with their virus software, or it's an actual issue that I just can't diagnose. Bottom line is that I have used every virus scan I can find, and have come up blank. But about once a month I have people emailing me about their virus scanners giving them multiple warnings that our site is infected by a virus. How can I ascertain what's going on here and fix it? Any suggestions are appreciated! Site: http://www.starbase118.net -- runs of the most current version of WordPress.

body: I am building a small portfolio website for a friend, and being in advertising and all, she hates the standard fonts and wants everything written in a custom font. As CSS font-embedding is not really an option for the moment, all texts (fortunately, there are not many of them) will be put as images. How could I still have the images content indexed ? For small texts (links, menu, etc...), I put the text in the alt attribute, but for something longer, I don't think that's the solution. What can I do ? Put the text in a hidden div next to the image ?

body: The new HTML5/CSS3 (Web8!) stuff sounds cool! Should I start using it now or stick with css/xhtml wait until more browsers can use it?

body: When I search for _Ride On_ + my site's name, I see that it's indexed. But when I search for _Green Horse_ + my site's name, I don't see my site appearing in the results anywhere! Here's my code:               Ride On	      Does this mean that `title` attributes are not indexed/shown by Google at all? What is better to use, `alt`? What are the other alternatives except `title` and `alt`?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will my new HTML5 website decrease my Google ranking? For example, currently, I understand that search engines give the most emphasis to `h1` elements, followed by `h2`, etc. However, it is valid in HTML5 to replace what is conventionally `h2` with `h1`, encased in `article` tags. But are search engines such as Google updated to become "HTML5 friendly"? Or will my site somehow be penalized by some algorithm for "`h1`ing incorrectly"?

body: From what I understand after reading Google's Controlling Crawling and Indexing:   * The purpose of **robots.txt** file is to disallow crawling of some URLs, but those can still be indexed (and appear in search results) if they are linked from crawlable pages   * To prevent a page from being indexed I need to make it crawlable and add the **noindex** meta tag in its head So, why would I setup a robots.txt file if, in the end, it has no impact on whether pages appear in search results or not?

body: I went through all the steps of setting up authorship on my website, but it doesn't seem to be working. My photo appears in some search results, but not for my website. I attached a screen shot of search results which shows my website at the top (without photo thumbnail) and other results with the photo. ![search results showing my website without photo, and other search results that include my photo](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cIwD5.jpg) How can I get it to show up with my website?

body: I'm working on a site with multiple authors, and am trying to set up Google authorship via rel tags. Since it's a multi-author site, the links to the authors Google+ profiles will be on their profile page. However, the profile page allows them to have links to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles as well. My question is, if I add rel="author" attributes to all these links, will Google still parse the authorship information? Or do I need to set it up to only have the rel="author" attribute on the Google+ link? Thanks for your help.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  bounce rate and Alexa ranking clarifications 30000 visits with 86000 pageviews, if there is a bounce rate of 54%, then does it means only 15000 users generated the 86000 page views or 30000 visits generated the 86000 page views. My website is [redacted] Even though i have got 86000 page views, my site alexa ranking is still reducing day by day. can any one suggest how to control that?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Identify "non-secure" content IE warns about   >  Firefox reports HTTPS page to contain non-secure elements My webpage is running SSL and it's showing that there is insecure content on it. In chrome I checked the console (ctrl+shift+i) and it's not showing any errors for insecure content. So, is there anything else I can use to find out whats causing chrome to flash my site as insecure? Some background on the content that I'm running. It's a custom google map using the google maps API and it's loading a kml locally using geoxml3 AND it's not accessible outside my network.

body: I've been reading a lot of information saying that hidden elements are bad and that search engines penalize pages for using them. I started to get really worried about it when I realized that MOST of my pages use them. This is the basis as far as I know of all CSS based cascading menus. The submenu have 'display:none' until the parent is hovered. The same is true of places where there are multiple tabs in a page (like browser tabs but within a page) to show multiple contents on the same page. So, is it true that the page ranking would be penalized? If so, is there a way to mark this somehow to not get penalized? I'd like to keep these features without resorting to less efficient methods such as Javascript or worse.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are shorter URLS better for SEO? I'm creating SEO friendly URIs on my site. Is there a big difference between these different options?               /this-is-my-title     /content/this-is-my-title     /this-is-my-title/1234     /content/this-is-my-title/1234     /1234/this-is-my-title     /content/1234/this-is-my-title      "content" would be used for all URIs. "1234" is the unique ID of the page.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  when does a domain name really expire before someone else can register it As my title says, my question is when can I buy a domain name when it will be expired in the next days ? The Registrar is NameBright.com

body: I have 3 URLS that serve the same data:   * `www.example.com/product/foo`   * `www.example.com/product/foo?id=1`   * `www.example.com?product=foo` For Google's sake I want the URL `www.example.com/product/foo` to be the canonical one. However, I have my code setup so all 3 of those pages are served from the same code so if I add in `<link rel='canonical' href='http://www.example.com/product/foo' />` to my code it will be applied to all 3 pages, including the one `http://www.example.com/product/foo`. Is there any issue with doing this or does having a circular canonical not cause any issues?

body: I have site named `janvhitravels.in`. On Google Search when we type _janvhi travels_ it show search result for _jahnavi travels_. Google thinks that _janvhi_ is wrong spelling and _jahnavi_ is wrong. So my site not appers in the list. If I click on "Search instead for janvhi travels" then my site shows up. Can we stop Google think like that? Is there any solution for this? ![screen 1 for initial search ](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UPDRn.jpg) ![screen 2 mentioning my site ](http://i.stack.imgur.com/x4biZ.jpg)

body: I'm wondering if the difference in case with the following two querystring parameters would cause any duplicate content issues for Google?               /detail.aspx?aID=164          /detail.aspx?aid=164      Within the web application I am using `aID` however on the sitemap I submitted to Google I inadvertently used `aid`. After 3 weeks and according to the sitemap charts (i.e. the ones that show URLs submitted and indexed) Google Webmaster has not acknowledged any of the URLs for detail.aspx?aid=xxx which actually makes up 90% of the site content. The odd thing is that Google are indexing and caching these pages under `aID` but it can't seem to join them up with the sitemap. For now I am updating the web app to use `aid`, just curious to know if this is even an issue at all?

body: Does anyone know how to get your business map location displayed in the right hand sidebar of the Google search results page? As in the screenshot below: Check this screenshot http://i.stack.imgur.com/97e54.png I already added my business to this link: http://www.google.co.in/business/placesforbusiness/. adding detail in above link is enough or I need to change my website coding.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How long before Google will update search terms matching my website? I have a webpage, and I have updated it with meta descriptions and keywords. I would like this data to be updated in Google search results. Is there any way to do this?

body: Lets say my website looks like this: News   -Hello world   -Foo   -Bar So the parent page will list the last 3 news messages. For each news message there is a sub-page. For the parent page I was thinking of setting the page title to: News - Hello world, Foo, Bar. Now if somebody adds a new message the title tag will also change. I googled this and read a few blog posts where people said that changing the title actually hurts the ranking of that page. So is this true? Should I just set a static title tag for all my pages?

body: How to set default message, I am using addthis button for invite a friend Email on a website. that default message should also work if user choose gmail, yahoo etc from addthis box.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Good Practice for Formatting SEO-Friendly URLs? I'm looking into seo-ing my urls and i was wording which of these link structures was better to use: 1) `www.mydomain.com/contact-john-smith/index.html` -or- 2) `www.mydomain.com/contact-john-smith/contact.html` -or- 3) `www.mydomain.com/contact-john-smith.html` I realize they're all basically the same but i was wondering if any of those permutations had an advantage over the others.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Website not coming in Search engine results because of a term I've somewhat recently forked a popular programming project and am trying to improve search engine visibility. The major issue I'm having though is that the name is so similar to the origional project name: I just took it and slapped an X on the end of it. The issue is that whenever I google for the project, Google always says "Showing results for project. Search instead for projectX". I do think this is hurting me as Google sees my project as a misspelling or something completely unrelated. People have to really search for my project to find it. Is there any way I can tell google or other search engines that my project fork is not a misspelling of the original project?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What's the best way to create your own website? I'm currently making plans for creating my own website (.com) and was looking for the cheapest solution possible that gives you the production tools you need. I was wondering, are most websites these days made by "website wizards" or whatever they are called, that you just configure and tweak, or do most websites involve a lot of programming? (I am currently a CS major but need to budget my time so website providers that give you a lot of flexibility and control over how your site works, but minimizes programming would probably be the best solution). I'm basically looking for the most direct way to establish my own website with its own domain name. Probably the most complex service it will need to provide is that (privileged) visitors with an account/password to my website should be able to edit the webpages. There will also be a need to make this visually appealing. Any tips out there are appreciated. Thanks!

body: It looks like my site hit an imaginary limit of 400 daily impressions. What is this limit based on? How can I "break through" that limit? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Vssws.png)

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to write content that uses keyword terms which are google stop words I am using Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast. When I have a title like,               "How to get slim in 30 days"      and the keyword to rank high is choosen to be               `Get slim 30 days`       It does not accept "get slim in 30 days" to have the keyword inside it. Now I am a little confused because when I search in google, it highlights all of the matching keywords, irrespective if a stop keyword like `in` is placed between them. Is the plugin not perfect or does it really matter if I remove the `in` from the title?

body: I was sent a link recently `http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/` I've occasionally noticed this appear in some web addresses, where does the "2" come from? Does it mean anything? How would I go about getting a **www2** web address if I wanted one?

body: I'm setting up an Nginx web server and and want to perform load balancing using the round robin method. This is what I have found thus far:               upstream backend  {        server backend1.example.com;        server backend2.example.com;        server backend3.example.com;     }      According to the page they says i need to add the above lines to my `nginx.conf` file and upload it to server to load balance. I do not understand what it means by `server backend3.example.com;`. How do I setup a backend instance?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should home page be just domain name or can it be in a folder? I have just put my first website online :D It's a revision website (that's how cool I am:p ). All my content and different PHP scripts are in different folders, to keep it all organised. My Homepage and all the other scripts, css, php etc... are in a homepage folder. Is this a really terrible idea? should it just be in the public_HTML folder loose? I have done barley any SEO on my site, and it was on the second page of Google, but now seems to have gone to the third page. I've got META tags, but nothing else. Is it going so wrong because of the sub directory? Thank you in advance :)

body: Is there a way to enter a new register to route all the request to myhost.com to www.myhost.com in the dot net panel.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are some good resources for doing A/B testing of a website? What (affordable) alternatives are there to Google Website Optimizer for A/B and multivariate tests? The pro's with GWO are basically that its free and that it integrates with Google Analytics. The cons: The relative high time cost of setting up a test. Some alternatives I've seen so far:   * Optimizely.com   * VisualWebsiteOptimizer.com   * Genetify (wiki.github.com/gregdingle/genetify/) Free, open-source, but seems like there's no developer community committed to the project.

body: How important is Yahoo Directory these days for SEO? It was important maybe 5 years ago, but what about today?

body: I have an add-on domain in my cPanel website. The root directory for it is under the root of the hosting. How can I prevent access through the main domain? For example, `addondomain.com` is configured to serve up files from `public_html/addondomdain`. How do I prevent people seeing the files at `maindomain.com/addondomain` and only when viewing them at `addondomain.com`?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SERP update frequency I sightly changed the title, h1 and some keywords in the content on some pages of my site. How long generally it takes to effect the google ranking? The dates those page were indexed are still a few weeks ago as far as I can see by the cache. The ranking can change only after google index them again?

body: I'f moving images on a site to a CDN how does this effect the image results in Google image search? Will any images come up in Google image search coming from the site?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should <a> tags with href=“#” use rel=“noindex, nofollow”? If I have a page http://www.example.com/blog/mypost/?section=attractions which has in it's `HEAD`               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/blog/mypost/"/>      When I link to the non-canonical version of the page should I add `rel='nofollow'` that way Google isn't wasting time crawling pages it won't end up using. A further complicating factor is that, in this case the canonical case is likely only linked in the sitemap, since all other incoming links to the post page will have context. Is this sort of optimization pre-mature optimization and thus a waste of effort. The thought came to me from: http://www.quicksprout.com/case-study- techcrunch/ technique #1.

body: I'm trying to develop a new website in HTML5 adhering to SEO standards where possible and I'm having a little trouble trying to figure out what tag my site name and slogan should live in. Originally I had my site name in a `<h1>` tag and my sloagan in a `<h2>`, but soon realised this wasn't fitting with the "each page is a separate document/article" approach. The site name is the largest text on the page (sometimes the same as my article heading), but I've currently got the text in a `<p>` tag with CSS doing all the styling work. My questions is, what should I do with the site name and slogan? Is the `<h1>` appropriate, then use another `<h1>` tag for each page title or should I continue using the styled `<p>` tag? Or should I convert this into an image and use that for the site name/slogan? (Side note: on my index page I want the site name and slogan to be `<h1>` and `<h2>`respectively as this makes sense with the homepage...)

body: Which of the following is _better_ and why please? Which is better for SEO? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask http://stackoverflow.com/index.php?p=questions&a=ask

body: I have put up a web-site with different kinds of calculators together, mainly focusing on Indian users and helping with some India specific calculations along with general purpose calculators. I have well defined navigation. I do not have lot of paragraphs but forms to be filled for calculator. URL of my site is - http://mycalculator.co.in/ When I send this site for google adsense it is disapproved saying 'insufficient content' I do not understand why is it a insufficient content when I have over 10 different pages.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to protect SHTML pages from crawlers/spiders/scrapers? My Heroku (Bamboo) app has been getting a bunch of hits from a scraper identifying itself as GSLFBot. Googling for that name produces various results of people who've concluded that it doesn't respect robots.txt (eg, http://www.0sw.com/archives/96). I'm considering updating my app to have a list of banned user-agents, and serving all requests from those user-agents a 400 or similar and adding GSLFBot to that list. Is that an effective technique, and if not what should I do instead? (As a side note, it seems weird to have an abusive scraper with a distinctive user-agent.)

body: I'd like to move all my media files to a CDN (Windows Azure is my best choice for now). Two questions :   * How can I avoid SEO and redirections issues for the previously uploaded media files ?   * For the next media files I'll upload, isn't using a CDN bad for SEO and search engine ranking ?

body: **Is it correct that there is no limit to how many DNS A records can be set on a domain?** My boss asked me this and it made me curious, I can't find anything online.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO? I am a bit lazy and I rarely enter anything in the "Description" field (which is a title attribute) when adding menu links. Does the presence of a description aid or hinder SEO?

body: I am a big fan of minifying everything whenever possible. It is a sin for me to don't do this. However, I recently read that one of the thousands tips to boost your website rank on search engines was to: > give you content context with good class and id name in your HTML [source] I always change id and class names to one or two character length... Is not that I don't believe what that guy said, but I really need some confirmation on this. For me it doesn't make sense why would that matter.   * Is that point correct?   * (in case it is) Why?

body: I am planning to move several websites to a new hosting provider - keeping the same URL but will resolve to different IP addresses. For example, some sites are Canadian content-only sites, hosted on .CA domains sitting on Canadian IP addresses. I want to move these to Amazon servers which have US IP addresses. The domain names will remain the same. **(1)** What is the SEO impact of this? **(2)** Will the site lose some ranking if the sites are moved to a new IP address (Canadian or not), and if so, what is the cleanest way of accomplishing this (some kind of 301's)?

body: Please consider a list of items (forum comments, articles, shoes, doesn't matter) which are spread over multiple pages. Different sort orders are supported (by date, by popularity, by price, etc). So, an URL might look like this (I use the query style here to simplify things): /items?id=1234&page=42&sort=popularity /items?id=1234&page=5&sort=date Now, in terms of SEO, I think I should be worried about duplicate content. After all, each item appears at least as many times as there are sort orders. I've seen Matt Cutts talking about the rel=canonical link tag, but he also said that the canonical page should have very similar content. But this is not the case here because page #1 in a non-canonical sort order might have completely different items than page #1 in the canonical sort order. For a given non-canonical page, there is no clear canonical page listing all the same items, so I think rel=canonical won't help here. Then I thought about using the noindex meta tag on all pages with non- canonical sort order, and not using it on all pages with canonical sort order. However, if I use that method, what will happen with backlinks that are going to non-canonical pages -- will they still spread their page rank juice, even though the first page googlebot (or any other crawler) is going to encounter is marked as "noindex"? Can you please comment on my problem and what you think is the best solution? If you think you have a better solution, please consider that 1) I do not want to use Javascript for this, 2) I do not want all the items to be on one page. Thank you.

body: What exactly is hotlinking? And why do people say you shouldn't do it?

body: We run a website where we sell access to a member area. We use Google analytics to optimize the site but i have a bounce rate in about 85%. The problem is that I'm not sure what count as a bounce and whats not. If a person go to my front page and log in directly. Will this count as a bounce because there is no analytics on the member pages or is Google smart enough to see that the link is on my side? Thanks a lot.

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How hard is to be the anonymous owner of a website? Is it possible to setup a website anonymously? I want to setup a domain and hosting but I don't want people to be able to track it back to me. Is this possible? / What are my options? EDIT I want to be able to use PHP and some SQL db. So it cannot be static

body: I'm looking for a tool/script/method to see live who's visiting my web site at any given time. My site uses the LAMP stack. Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks!

body: I am interested in learning about SEO, as many of you may already know. I am by far not a pro, but would love to learn. I currently own a number of domains etc that I am playing around with content and learning from various methods and techniques I hear online. My problem is that when I read some of the many SEO blogs floating around out there, I get majorly conflicting views. I come here and ask questions about these conflicting things and get conflicting answers. **How do I separate fact from fiction?** For example, I had always believed that no-follow links did nothing for SEO and had heard somewhere that they, in fact, DO help with SEO. I was very confused about this and came here and even got conflicting advice: Ratio of No-follow & Do-follow Backlinks **Are there any super authoritative websites/blogs that are notable for fact- based information and not speculation?** I used to read CourtneyTuttle and way back in the day JohnCow, but it seems like they and everyone else have these "pay to learn stuff classes" which turned off the appeal to these blogs... it's like if they've got uber secrets that they're not sharing in their blog, then why read the blog anymore?

body: I have Blogger setup with the Blog Archive panel shown on every page so that users can easily get to old posts. The problem is that it lists the title of each page in this panel, meaning that the current page is getting keywords not directly relevant to it but to a different page. For example, I might be writing about oranges, but a week ago I was writing about apples. The page about oranges is now seen by the search engines to also be talking about apples since there is a link in the Archive panel to my post from a week ago about apples. The opposite is also true where the apples page is also indexing the orange keywords. Is there any way to exclude a certain section of a page from being indexed? (e.g. like having a whole `<div>` which is tagged as `noindex` or something similar.) I know that Blogger has an option to remove the title of the pages in the Archive Panel, but I would prefer if they stayed there so that users know what posts are available.

body: I was wondering if anyone can help with this problem. So far I've had no luck experimenting and looking on forums. I have a client that had an old website. I made a new website for him with a new domain. He asked me to redirect everything on his old site, including all the pages such as website.com/shop or website.com/about. So far I've had no luck automating this. Is there any way I can redirect every page on his old site to just the homepage of the new site?

body: I have posted one blog post about SEO interview questions last month, but I found that someone copied the content of my post and updated in their wordpress blog yesterday with no change. He/she didn’t give link back to my post or anything referring my post. I don’t like this kind of activity. I asked them to give link back to me but no response. My post was cache by Google already and that stolen post hasn’t cache by Google. If it cache by Google will it affect my Post? How avoid those content copies? Does it possible to complaint Google above it?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Changing nameservers for a domain on GoDaddy I am redoing a website for a friend of mine. The domain was purchased on GoDaddy. The hosting was purchased elsewhere. After having problems with the hosting company and making some updates I decided to switch the hosting to Network Solutions. I have purchased the hosting from NS and just want to set the new NS nameservers on GoDaddy for the domain. I tried entering in the FTP server name from NS but it said it was not registered. Any help would be appreciated here.

body: If I wanted to take payments on my website, what options would be available to me?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank I am about to register a domain name (suppose) **someone.com** (with proper spelling), in mind targeting the keyword " **SOMEONE** ". But then I discovered on 'google keyword research tool' that not this but a typo " **SOME1** " _seems to be more popular_ and people search this significantly more often than the proper keyword. And luckily someone.com and some1.com both are available. I understand that I can register both the domains, but I don't know on which should I keep my website and redirect the other one. Should I make the typo "some1.com" my base site? But that's a _typo_. P.S., my site has a totally relevant content and not just keyword targeted worthless site. What do you guys suggest? I am confused. How would that affect my SEO ranking?? EDIT: Because the competition for the keyword I am targeting is fairly low, I think nevertheless whatever domain I choose, it will appear on the search engine first page.

body: We manufacture a very versatile product used in a wide variety of products using multiple brands. In order to market these brands, should we create a separate domain for each brand/market or use subdomains from our well established main domain? What would be best for SEO without breaking the bank?

body: A client reported to me that our script of ours, embedded his website was blocked by Sophos and Websense due to bogus "criminal activity" reports. I have already submitted a request for reassessment and re-categorization, but I would like to find out why that happened in the first place. Since "Criminal Activity" is a category that is not likely to be activated automatically due to features of the website or javascript code, I suspect that one of our competitors might have intentionally reported our website as criminal. I would like to try and verify if that is indeed the case. Does anyone here have any experience with getting such information from these companies? Is there some protocols you would suggest that I follow in this? Thanks!

body: I live in the United States. Lets say I want to register a domain name using a domain extension from another country like say for example, Bangladesh (.com.bd). I know that some countries require a physical residence in that country in order to be able to use their domain name, but not all do. What I'm wondering, is there any type of risk of losing your domain name in the future due to law changes if I registered a domain like this? I know it's kind of hard to answer since you don't know if some country would pass some crazy weird laws regarding domains in the future, but I figured I'd ask anyways. I wasn't sure if laws regarding domain name ownership change all the time in countries around the world very often or not... As long as I meet the current requirements for that country is there a good chance that everything would be fine? Or is there a big risk that I could lose it someday and isn't even worth registering?

body: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO - Changing file extension Hi, Is SEO effected when URL changes from .php to not including `.php`? For example, if you change a URL from `example.com/about.php` to`example.com/about`, do you lose the earlier SEO impact? I am replacing an older website, and want to keep the URL the same for SEO purposes. The problem is that the older URL includes .php at the end. I'm replacing the website with a new WordPress site, and when I add the `.php`) to the URL, the formatting is disrupted. I can create a URL that is the same, but I can't add the `.php` at the end. Does anyone know how I could add .php to the URL without having the format be interrupted?

body: I have a site that used to average 200 - 490 unique visitors per day (with about 80% of this coming from organic SEO) in December 2011. I turned it back on in the last week or so, and, (as you would expect) the SEO and number of unique visitors has reduced by approximately 90%. The search phrases that the site used to rank for - it does no longer. Infact, it's barely even ranking for it's own name since relaunching the site. So far I have:   1. Setup a `sitemap.xml` and `Google Webmaster Tools` and submitted the sitemap to Google for indexing.   2. Eliminated a few of the errors found by `Google Webmaster Tools` (some of the URLs have changed slightly, so I wrote some `mod_rewrite` rules to fix this.)   3. Ensured that the site is now on a fast, reliable and stable server. The domain name has stayed the same and the site has retained 80% - 90% of the content that it previously had. What can be done (if anything) to 'restore' the SEO that the site used to have? Thanks in advance.

body: Last year, I started a small blog on wordpress.com. Most of my blog posts are about computational statistics. When I look at the site stats, I've noticed a number of strange incoming links. Usually, the links have been shortened using a url shortener and the same sites appear each day (although the shortened url is differs). The sites clearly have no external links to my blog and the topics are unrelated. What's the purpose of these sites? Do they hope that I would link to them? Example site - warning I don't know if this site is a security risk, since I visit them under linux with noscript running: `www.iskandary.info`