Will Google go by my sitemap.xml or also include it's own crawled URLs

I have a website which has recently employed "friendly IDs" like the following:               /users/bob-barker      I have created a very explicit sitemap.xml which includes the friendly URLs like the one above, but for some reason the Google search results for my site are still showing up like:               /users/143      There are still some links on my site like the above, so do I need to change them all to the friendly style to ensure Google is not aware of them?


Static HTML to Wordpress Migration SEO Implications?

Recently, I migrated a client's site to a new server and a new home within WordPress so they could more easily edit their website and start a blog section. The static site was 10 years old a was showing up at place #3 for it's primary keyword, consistently, according to my client, and has dropped to rank #6-8 following the migration. At launch, we made sure the urls were identical (save the removal of ".htm" which we used 301 redirects to compensate for) and we generated a new XML map and pinged Google with the new site. We keep a 404 log to make sure we're not losing any incoming links. We also have Google Webmaster Tools on this site and have zero errors/suggestions, everything seems OK. I was told by numerous sources that Google would not penalize us for the use of 301s, but it's the only thing I can think of right now that is different about the site, other than the platform. Any ideas about what we could be getting docked for?


DNS sub-domain registration

Is it possible to register a sub-domain if you don't own the base domain? For example, could I register NickLarsen.random.com if I don't own random.com?


SEO impact of 301 permanent redirecting a domain to a sub-directory of another domain?

I had my own experience of 301 permanently redirecting a domain to another (every page mapped) and Google properly worked everything out and it never had any problem SEO-wise. However, what if I'm redirecting a whole domain to the sub-directory of another domain in the same manner? For instance, `http://www.example.com/` 301 to `http://www.another.com/example/`. And everything underneath is correctly mapped such that `example.com/something/somepage.php?a=1` is 301 permanently redirected to `another.com/example/something/somepage.php?a=1`. Etc. Does anyone have any experience in this situation? Would it all work out good with regards to SEO?


Is there any overhead on making my webapp traverse more folders?

I understand there is a need of placing different categories of resources in separate folders for the sake of organization. But is there any noticeable decrease in page load speeds accompanied with it that adds up as you add more and more folders or go deeper folder within folder and so on?


Google Shopping: beyond the basics, how can I optimize for high placement?

Of course, including keywords in the product page title/description and associated feed. But what else? Would be interested to hear your thoughts on:   * PageRank of destination page    * how product pricing affects placement    * how age of page affects placement    * images **EDIT:** meant to say - the above are just some things that I'm wondering about, but any other general non-obvious tips also appreciated!


Is hiding content with JavaScript or "text-indent: -9999px" bad for SEO?

So apparently hiding content using "display: none" is bad for SEO and seen by googlebot as being deceptive. This according to a lot of the posts I read online and questions even on this site. But what if I hide keyword rich text using javascript? A jquery example:               $(function() {        $('#keywordRichTextContainer').hide();     });      or using visibility hidden:               $(function() {        $('#keywordRichTextContainer').css({           visibility: 'hidden',           position: 'absolute'        });     });      Would any of these techniques cause my site to be penalized? If googlebot can't read javascript then if I'm hiding through js it shouldn't know right? What about using "`text-indent: -9999px`"?


AdSense (reports) and custom channels

Please help me to further understand custom channels. As Google says it is a way to map your ads, but I still have a few questions:   * Is it correct that a single custom channel per 1 ad is not very useful, since you can specify Ad blocks in the AdSense reports?   * I have multiple Ads in multiple custom channels. After this I created 1 custom channel and added all the ads to it. I made this channel targetable, so people can target through this channel on all ads at once. Is this a good way to do it? In other words, is it possible to have ads in multiple custom channels (without targeting, just for analyzing) and then create 1 custom channel with targeting that embraces all the (desired) ads?   * Why is it not possible for me to analyze custom channels (or ad blocks & formats) per site in the Adsense (reports). Or am I doing something wrong? If not, I have to create different custom channels per site to see how certain ads are doing on a site level?


How to enable compression in WAMP installed on Windows Server?

How to enable compression in WAMP running on Windows Server 2008? I searched the net and I followed these steps given here: http://www.zigpress.com/2009/04/09/enabling-gzip-on-wamp/. But after restarting my WAMP the icon got yellow not green. Than followed this post: http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,93406. Again the same problem my WAMP icon after restarting gets yellow. This is the code I put in Apache _httpd.conf_ :               <ifmodule mod_deflate.c>      AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript   application/x-javascript application/javascript     </ifmodule>


Should I optimize the keyword density of a page OR of a site?

For example, I have a website to sell shoes. There are many types of shoes and many brands, so I will have many pages. In my main page, if I choose keyword "shoes" in my meta tag, it should be good because only 1 keyword. In my sport shoes page, if I choose keywords "shoes" & "sport shoes" in my meta tag. Now there are two keywords in this PAGE. The density in this PAGE should be 50%/50%. However, the keyword density of my WHOLE SITE will be 66% to "shoes" 34% to "sport shoes". My question is that whether google use the keyword density of a SITE or of a page??? If it is of a whole SITE, does it mean I will hurt the ranking if I have more keywords in my SITE?


Schema.org product variations with same url. Problem?

When displaying multiple products that are basically the same, let's call them **Product A** with different sizes, **30** , **40** and **50** , I choose to create only one page per product and avoid duplicates, since the size would really be the only difference. So in this page, I'm displaying the different product codes based on their size, ie: A30, A40 and A50. On a different page, for example, where **Product B** is listed, I would like to display related products, in this case, **Product A** (only a list with sizes and codes, no pictures). I can either display **Product A** by itself (which I don't want to, since a Product B30 would fit a product A30, for example), or display Product **A30** , **A40** and **A50**. Using schema.org, **itemprop="url"** , I would like to link to this product's page. The question here is, product **A30** , **A40** and **A50** are all listed in the same URL. Would linking these 3 products to the same URL pose a problem?


Goal completions 10x higher in dashboard

I have the following table in my Dashboard:               Page path level 1    Visits    Goal Completions     -----------------    ------    ----------------     /sub1/               994       1,295     /                    102       3     /sub2/               10        1      I know my conversion rate is 10-20%, and that actually in this period I only had 183 goal completions under `/sub1/`. My goal is set as a regular expression for a particular page (`/success?.*`), and I have a funnel set up which tracks the page before the goal (`/action`). The actual urls hit would be `/sub1/action` then `/sub1/success?1234` and `/sub2/action` then `/sub2/success?1234`. Why is my table in my dashboard giving me wildly wrong numbers? Have I done something wrong?


Does having same IP & some same content effect my SEO?

A client of mine came to me with a unique question that I wasn't sure of the answer to. He wanted to know that if he has a number of different websites (let's say 500 sites with their own domain name) on the same hosting package with the same IP, will that effect the SEO of the websites? I figured it wouldn't due to the fact they have their own domain but I wasn't sure. Another question, what if all 500 were on the same CMS and were all related in some way (category wise, let's say he's in the baking industry). Their content will be different (about 60% different) across the board but have the same template (only right now, eventually there will be about ten possibly more). Will that effect their SEO in any way (besides running the risk of duplicate content)? Thank you very much! I will try to follow up if anyone else has a question for me.


Adsense ads are not a good fit for my site

I run an academic network for college students to communicate at particular universities and we run Google Adsense. The site pulls in a decent amount for a side project but our CTR is horrible <0.2% and our RPM is equally low. The problem lies in the fact that Google pegs us as an education site (which we are) but shows our users ads for U of Phoenix, Devry U and other for-profit universities. All of our users are students of the more higher-caliber institutions and therefore have no use for these ads. I've known about this problem for some time but I don't know what to do to show more relevant ads instead (i.e. Spring Break, school apparel, poker, sports, etc). What would be the best way to change this?


YouTube Copyright

I am interested in making a trailer channel, but I need to know if I can just take recently released movie trailers and upload the videos to my channel. It might sound like a dumb question, but I am just wondering if I can do this without penalty (i.e YouTube deleting my account) For Ex. Taking the new star trek trailer and uploading it to my channel. Great answers so far, however I want to have a channel based solely on Trailers. How do I go about doing this?


Track/View new incoming links with Google Analytics

Is there a way to track **new incoming links** to my website? When I visit " _Traffic Sources -> Referring Sites_ " in my Google Analytics account I have a list with 5,391 sites so its quiet hard to discover new sites which link to me. Is there a way to just show new links? How do you differ between new and old incoming links? **Update:** I might have found a solution: http://tumblr.goloso.cl/post/1185978899/new-referrals-links-as-google- analytics-goals I will test it and report if it works.


Social Counters made my site pretty slow on yslow rating

Two days back I added social counters on my listing page and that screwed up my Page Speed Grade and yslow ratings pretty badly. Before: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/yQgAr.png) After: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/U7N5a.png) Sharing Options: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qZ21u.png) If I disable the sharing on landing page then I can see those awesome results back. Here is my blog link is How can achieve same or comparable results when social sharing is enabled.


Best practice for suEXEC on complex sites?

What is best practice for using suEXEC on complex sites? We've got a site running under a single vhost, and we want to be able to run different PHP web apps eg /forum /wiki /crm as their own UIDs, to help isolate any potential security threats. I've used apache2 + mod_fastcgi + mod_suexec to split multiple sites to unique UIDs by vhost before. However, mod_suexec's SuexecUserGroup directive only works inside a <VirtualHost> block, and is not valid in a more specific <Directory> or <Location> Is changing to lighttpd + suexec the only way to achieve this level of isolation without resorting to using a rewrite/proxy hack?


Under an Xampp install, I modify the apache httpd-vhosts.conf file and then my Apache server will not start

I have read all the articles but still must be doing something wrong... I modified the httpd-vhosts.conf file to access the project I am working on... I have tried many different configurations and none work. My apache service will not start (I am on Windows 7)... any ideas would be helpful - here is the code I added to the conf file: DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs" ServerName localhost DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/socengv1" ServerName socengv1.local I have also tried this with NameVirtualHost *:80 command with no difference to note.


What are the best user data collection and gathering tracking tools?

I know of a few tool that help markets gather data about visitors, Google Analytic, CrazzyEgg, and KISS Insights. What are other notable tools to help track information? What do you use?


Can we change domain of YAHOO

I am facing big problem with Yahoo account How to change Yahoo ID `abc@yahoo.co.in` to `abc@yahoo.com` I have an account like `abc@yahoo.co.in` but I kept all my **Recovery Mails, C.V's, Given to Friends** like `abc@yahoo.com`. So I was not able to receive any mails from anyone and everyone is saying that they are not able to send emails to me. It says mail address does not exits. I was not able to create or convert my account to `abc@yahoo.com`. Its so disgusting that Yahoo people can't make a solution for this. May be this is one of the reason they have lost some of their market share. :'(


Best Standalone Affiliate Link Management Software?

I'm looking for a good stand a lone affiliate link manager for a content site that will have many different affiliate links to manage. Basically... on my site I would place a links like mydomain.com/buywidget. These links would then redirect to my affiliate link of the merchant that sells that specific widget. Of course I don't want it to stop there... I would also like to be able to make notes next to the the links, maybe split test links and have other useful options related to the management of affiliate links. Anyone know of good software built specifically for this purpose? P.S. I'm not using Wordpress so using Wordpress plugins is not an option.


Why is Google PageRank not showing after redirecting www to non www?

I have a fashion website. I had redirected my domain `http://` (`non-www`) to `http://www` domain and my preferred domain in Google Webmaster Tools was `http://www`. Now I have redirected `http://www` to `http://` domain and have changed my prefered domain as well. Now Google PageRank is not showing for even a single page. Would any body please help me and let me know if I have done something wrong? Below is my _.htaccess_ redirect code:               RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.deemasfashion\.com$     RewriteRule ^deemasfashion\.com/?(.*)$ http://deemasfashion.com/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/     RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://deemasfashion.com/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ http://deemasfashion.com/ [R=301,L]


How can I track "user returns after X days" as a goal in Google Analytics?

I would like to set up goals that track specific cases of user behavior that we have decided are interest to us, such as when a user returns after having not been on the site for a week, or a month. So for example, I might report that of the 100 visitors to the site today, 33 of them were returning for the first time in a month, and 42 were returning for the first time in a week. This is already tracked to some degree in the Days Since Last Visit report, but the report seems very limited -- I really want a metric to use (like I use other goals) that just counts the number of cases of something. There are four types of goal available: Url, Time on Site, Pv/Visit, and Event -- the first three are not right, but it seems like I might be able to create an event that does what I want. I could do this by storing the last visit date in the database, or in a cookie, but am hoping to avoid this, as it seems redundant. Or maybe a custom variable that I set in some JS logic? Has anyone done anything like this?


google search result : webpage ranking order

![from google](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OJ2n4.png) I want to know when I typed - cheapest mobile phone in india. I get this website title inside the red box first (The title is not relevant to my typed phrase), whereas which is relevant, inside the blue box is positioned below.


Web content that cannot be found in Google's index is considered unique content?

What is the criteria for determining what unique content is? Is it content that cannot be found in Google's index? Or is there more to it?


Unusual Source in Google Analytics

When I'm reviewing the sources of my pages within Analytics, I'm occasionally seeing some values that appear to be incorrect/impossible. I'm not seeing it often, but definitely enough to skew some reports unless I add to my filter. I'm seeing a couple development sites that I'm working on (which have no relation to the production site that I'm viewing reports for) as sources for traffic to the site. These development sites have 0 links to the production site, so I'm not sure how Analytics is seeing them as sources of traffic in any way. There are times when I have both the production site and these development sites open in separate tabs on the same browser, but that's about the closest they are to connecting in any way. Any ideas on how this could occur?


Please recommend an one stop popular website for inspirational web design interfaces/ design snippet.


CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?

I have a web site `www.somewhere.com` and I want the alias `fr.somewhere.com`. I set up a CNAME record for `www.somewhere.com` alias `fr.somewhere.com`. When a user types in `http://fr.somewhere.com` in their browser, does the URL in the browser remain `fr.somewhere.com` or change to `www.somewhere.com`?


What is the difference between IAAS and web hosting?

I've been googling to find out exactly what IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service) is, but I don't understand how it is different from web hosting?


How to make Google consider subdomain as part of the main website in SEO?

I have a well ranked website on Google and Bing. In the last few months I've been feeding a blog for my webpage and now I'm trying to rank it on Google and Bing just like I did with my website. Unfortunatelly, for some technical reasons, I can't set the blog URL like this:               http://www.example.com/blog/(posts-permalinks)      In that way, it would be considered as a part of the website. So, I use subdomains, like:               http://blog.example.com/(posts-permalinks)      As far as I know, Google considers them as different sites, but I wish I could tell Google that they're the same website. Is there anyway to do that?


Force fresh content, not from the browser cache

I used the following code in the htaccess to put my site under maintenance and show the visitors maintenance.html.                Options +FollowSymlinks      RewriteEngine on      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$      RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L]      My site is now back online but now I see that all those browsers that tried to go on my site during the maintenance, they are still getting the maintenance.html. It works if I clear the browser cache and I sort of understand why it is happening. I think the browser caches the redirect and is still doing it. How can I clear this issue?


Webmin and SPF records

I'm using VPS server with ubuntu and webmin. And in one of my domain I'd like to use google apps, but neither in webmin panel nor in conf file I see a place to add this google spf :               v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all


Keyword repeated in tables columns and SEO keyword spamming

I have a table that lists episodes of a TV show and I have a genre column. Google sees the words in that column as keywords and I suspect that it thinks you are keyword spamming seeing as you may have the same word repeated over and over. How can I overcome this? It seems using images would act the same as the alt text would be the same as the text it's replacing.


Why is this website not getting PageRank?

One of my customer website is not getting ranked by Google. It's been more than an year and have 1500+ backlinks as per Google Webmaster Tools, but still PageRank is zero? Is this website being penalized and ranking against keywords are too low?


Do PHP-FPM (and other PHP handlers) need execute permissions on the PHP files they're serving?

I read in a post at Server Fault that PHP-FPM needs **execute** permissions. However, the answer in When creating a website, what permissions and directory structure? only grants **read** and **write** permissions to PHP-FPM. Maybe I don't quite understand how PHP handlers (or CGI in general) work, but the two claims seem contradictory to me. As I understand, when Apache / Nginx gets a request for `foobar.php`, it "passes" the file to an appropriate handler. That is, I imagine it's as if `www-root` (or `apache` or whomever the webserver's running as) were to run some command,               /usr/sbin/php-fpm foobar.php      Actually, no, that's naive, I just realized. PHP-FPM must be a running instance (if it's to be performant, and cache, etc.), so probably PHP-FPM is just being _told_ , "Hey, quick, process this file for me!" In either case, I don't see why **execute** permissions are necessary. It's not like the webserver needs to literally _execute_ the file, _i.e._               ./foobar.php      Is the Server Fault answer simply mistaken?


Statically mapping a PHP script to another script using an .htaccess file results in 404 errors

After having read a lot of posts on the topic of URL rewriting, I still remain stuck with `404` status errors. **My goal:** A **'static'** rewrite of URLs, as follows (user clicks or enters the one URL/script, but internally the other one is being executed - the parameters are also 'static', hence I think I cannot use any kind of pattern `(*.)` and `$1` in the rule...:   * `domain.tld/en/abc.php?foo` to `domain.tld/en/xyz.php?bar` (1st level)   * `domain.tld/en/abc.php?foo&blabla` to `domain.tld/en/xyz.php?bar&otherstring` (2nd level) **Additional Info:**   * Directory 'en' exists.   * Script abc.php **does not** exist   * Script xyz.php exists and works fine with the given static parameter(s) **My .htaccess:**               Options +FollowSymLinks      RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^en/abc\.php\?foo&blabla$ /en/xyz.php?bar&otherstring [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^en/abc\.php\?foo$ /en/xyz.php?bar [NC,L]      I already get a `404` error on this simpler last rule. I don't have access to the rewritelog.


I've had a feeling that my site was getting less visits than usual, and when I looked at Google Analytics in real-time as well as by operating system and mobile devices, I noticed that every single one of my visitors was from a mobile device and on my mobile site (`m.ninjawarrior.info`) and not a single one on the normal site (`ninjawarrior.info`). I can view my desktop site just fine but my visits don't show up. I double checked that I have the right tracking code, and I do. It's placed in my `<head>` tag towards the bottom with other `<script>` tags. Why is Google Analytics not showing desktop visits and how can I fix this problem?


block users by country in .htaccess

Is there a way to block users from a particular region. Currently I have compiled a list of over 100 IP addresses that I block in my .htaccess file. Unfortunately as the list grows I see a great number of offenders come for the same areas, like China. Can I block that entire country? Or region?


Why should I develop my applications using the MVC design pattern?

MVC seems to be very popular these days, but the "education overhead" of newly learning a chosen MVC framework seems to be quite high. Why should I choose to invest the time to do this, rather than just put my code in with my HTML?


Moving from static site to Wordpress

I'm moving a site from static to Wordpress where all the pages in the old site were XXX.html. This has gone ok as I included a Wordpress plugin to handle the renaming of pages/posts to .html. I was wondering what I should do with pages that I don't plan to migrate. For example I combined their old location and contact pages into one page in Wordpress. I'd like to redirect the old location page to the new page on Wordpress. Is there a plugin for that? I wasn't able to find something or I was searching the wrong way. I read others suggest using 301 redirects, is that the best way? Thanks!


What is the target time to have visitors spend per visit?

Looking at Google Analytics, It seems that people spend approximately 3.5 minutes per average on my web site, per visit. That's approximately enough time to read one article and perhaps leave a comment. Is this 'average' behavior for a typical technology / gizmo blog, or am I not doing a good enough job at encouraging visitors to spend more time?


Domain expired, want to transfer registrars. Will the domain be unavailable for the 5 day transfer duration?

I've been slowly moving my domains over to a new registrar just as they're about to expire. I let a couple expire by accident and now there's no DNS of course. If I begin the transfer process will DNS be unavailable until the transfer is complete?


Setting up Redirects for old pages

I have some old pages that for a website that are showing up in google search results. Until google reindexes the site, I want to redirect those urls to the new homepage. Yet, when I go through GoDaddys redirect setup, I get a warning that the site and url must be on this account. Example: Old URL               http://www.example.com/oldpage.html      This url/page is no longer on the server. So it should redirect to               http://www.example.com/new-page.html      But as I said, GoDaddy throws an error. Any ideas? Any help is appreciated.


Is it better to host your own blog or use Medium?

Is it good idea create a company blog on Medium instead of setting it up on your subdomain. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Medium for your company blog? Can you you post your article on medium after posting it on your blog? How would you avoid penalty by google for duplicate content?


META Tags not first in Head?

I am using Dreamweaver Templates on my site and they work well. However, I have always read that it is best to have meta tags as high in the `<head>` as possible if not first. The meta tags that apply site wide I apply to me template as the first set of tags. But when I apply them to page specific tags DW normally sticks them towards the end of the `<head>` tag. Does it matter if meta tags are at the end of the head? Note: The meta tags I am referring to would be description, robots, open graph type meta tags.


Collaborative editing and publishing software

Is there any CMS that focuses on collaborative editing wiki-style by anyone and publishing? Wikis are usable, but there is no 'publishing' per se - when you save a page and want others to work on it, it will be available to view to all. Work in progress should be separate and the final content can be published blog-style with RSS updates. An open license license is preferred, or at least free-to-use.


Magento store has home page url of just ip address and not actual domain name

I am looking into a friend's site which is really old and strange, and it has one thing really weird with it. If you go to the site here: http://www.crystalvine.com and click on "products" on the top menu, it takes you to the store's home page which is set up in Magento. Look at the url on that page. It is just an ip address. How could that be? Does anyone have any idea how to make it a domain name? I have access to the Magento account of that site, but can't figure out how to make the actual url show up. Thanks!!


How good is Traffic-Seeker?

I have recently setup my blog and I look forward to posting once a week. I want to increase traffic to my blog and was searching for good search-engine tools. I came across Traffic-Seeker and now I plan to buy it. Before I buy it, I wanted reviews from those who have already used it. Please let me know if there's any alternate to Traffic-seeker. I'm looking for a good tool to increase traffic on my blog.   * Is Traffic-seeker really good and does it work well?   * What other tools are available that can drive good traffic to my blog?


How do Search Engines Segment Against Locale?

Assume I run a multi-lingual website. If I had a Spanish section, it should be included in Spanish-segmented search engines such as   * Google Spain   * Google Peru   * Google El Salvador and excluded in the others. Likewise, even though the website would have content in Chinese, multilingual countries such as Singapore should feature content in their main language (English in this case). What is the best approach to ensure the appropriate language is associated with Google's search indices?


How to prevent access to website without SSL connection?

I have a website that has an SSL certificate installed, so that if I access the website using `https` instead of `http` I will be able to connect using a secure connection. However, I have noticed that I can still access the website non-securely, ie. by using `http` instead of `https`. How can I prevent people using the website in a non-secure manner? If I have a directory on the website, eg. `samples/`, can I prevent non-secure connections to just this directory?


Content loading during scrolling and seems infinite (what script)

I've noticed on several websites that when you scroll down it loads content as your scrolling and this seems to go on forever.... What script is used for that loading system?


Bounce Rate for Macintosh extraordinarily high

Google Analytics is reporting a bounce rate of 10.24% for Windows Operating System and 8.79% for IOS for our home page. However, for Macintosh, it's reporting a bounce rate of 42.39%!! Looking at browsers rather than OS, I see Safari has a bounce rate of 26.5% and Chrome only has a bounce rate of 8.44%, Internet explorer has 10.59%. What can I do to investigate this further? Do you know why this could be?


Google Analytics track url hash fragment identifier

I have a few pages on a website where some sections use a JavaScript slider to display content and I was wondering if it's possible for Google Analytics to track those sections? For now when a section is clicked on the URL changes to http://example.com/example.html#/example-section I'm trying to figure out a way I can track those sections with Analytics as well as have Google properly crawl them, any suggestions?


Google Analytics and Whos.amung.us in realtime visitors, why such an enormous discrepancy?

Since years I use in a site both Google Analytics and Whos.amung.us, both Google analytics and whos.amung.us javascripts are inserted in the same pages in the tracked part of the site. In real-time visitors, why such an enormous discrepancy ? for example at the moment, Google analytics gives me **9** visitors, whos.amung.us indicates **59** , a ratio of **6 times**? Why whos.amung.us is 6 times optimistic than Google Analytics in terms of the realtime visitors? Google ![Google Real-time Visitors](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rxSdm.png) ![Visitors tracked by whos.amung.us](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MzQ3h.png)whos.amung.us My question is:   1. More accurate is GA (smaller number), WAU (greater)?   2. whos.amung.us does not detect robots while Google does?   3. GA ignores visitors from some countries, not whos.amung.us?   4. Some robots/bots execute whos.amung.us javascript for tracking?   5. While no robots/bots can execute the tracking javascript provided by Google Analytics? To facilitate your analysis, I copy JS code used below: Google analytics:               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'MyGaAccountNo']);     _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>      Whos.amung.us:               <script>var _wau = _wau || []; _wau.push(["tab", "MyWAUAccountNo", "c6x", "right-upper"]);(function() { var s=document.createElement("script"); s.async=true;     s.src="http://widgets.amung.us/tab.js";document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(s);})();</script>      I've aleady signaled this to WAU staff some time ago, NR, I've not done this to Google as they don't handle this kind of feedback. Thank you for your explanations.


View website like a search engine

I once found a site where you can enter a web address and it returns a view of the website with the elements a search engine would 'see' but in the same layout as the original website. I found these tools: SEO-browser.com and MozBar but they don't show the site in the same layout. So for example adverts loaded by Javascript after page load would not appear in the search engine view but it would still show a similar layout to the normal website view. I realise a search engine doesn't see the site this way and SEO-browser and Mozbar are probably more correct but this tool helps me understand what's going on better. I'm pretty sure the site I'm trying to find was mentioned on SEOMoz or another reputable site but I cant for the life of me find it. Any suggestions or similar tools would be helpful?


How has my blog been getting pageviews from news.google.com?

I don't know how but my blog has been getting pageviews from `news.google.com`. How is it happening? Is it possible that my posts would show in Google News?


What third-party services/libraries exist for user registration forms?

I'm looking for any existing services/libraries `(PHP preferrably)` that I can implement into my existing solution (wordpress/symfony) to handle user registration (personal information like name, address, e-mail etc.) What options exist today, or will I have to pull out my own?


Why is the page rank of this site low even after redirection from a high PR site?

The title may seem funny, but deal is this: www.cricinfo.com was a famous and I think PR 7 site. Few months back, they changed name to www.espncricinfo.com . www.cricinfo.com now redirects to www.espncricinfo.com . Then why, still after two months, is the PR of www.espncricinfo.com still 3? I am especially curious because I hear google updated their PR in the last week or so.


Microdata with nested product and reviews

I have some HTML listing reviews with HTML like:

Loved it
          ......                     on Cool Product

      The problem here is that the product name is actually nested inside the review, and there is no way to distinguish it from the review title (which is also named "name"). Is there a way to solve this other than changing the HTML structure completely? For example, in made up syntax something like: `itemprop="Product:name"`or adding `itemref="../"` ? I believe I can duplicate the product name in a `<meta>` tag but that seems less than ideal. EDIT: I clarified the HTML example.


Working with an external programmer

Hello I want to build a website I found Programmer and He wants me I'll provide him a server with certain requirements. Where is the best website to rent a server ? What kind of access he needs ? How do I provide him access Without the ability to change things as payment information for your server ?


DNS zone record pointing to two different IP Addresses

I know this had been already ask a couple of times but all the answer I find doesn't seem to work.(See More: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/50103/33973) What A or CNAME DNS Zone Records should I put so these two conditions will work: (1)If my domain "this.us" is opened without the `www`, I want to point the domain to the bit.ly server: `69.58.188.49` (2)But if my domain is opened with `www` (www.this.us), I want to point the domain to a different server: `1.2.3.4`               This is what I've done so far:          A Record     @    69.58.188.49        www  1.2.3.4      But everytime I open my domain on a web browser, both domain with and without `www`, seems to open bit.ly instead of the two conditions stated above.


Universal Business Listing

For SEO purposes, would it make sense to register with Universal Business Listing and buy a package from them? Or it's just going to be a waste of money?


Transferring a .com domain... Realistic timeframe?

I'm transferring a .com domain from GoDaddy to 1and1 (UK) and I'm wondering if anyone could tell me a likely timeframe for its completion? 1and1 say "up to 5 days", but that's pretty vague. What's the usual amount of time **after responding to the ACK request?**


Google Dynamic Remarketing Excessive View Thru Conversions

We run several ecommerce sites that we had previously set up with tag-based remarketing. We created a new dynamic remarketing campaign and only tagged the product page to see how dynamically created lists would populate. Several of the dynamic lists began populating with more members than we had visitors to the store. There have also been more view through conversions than actual orders for that store. I have to think that because the dynamic remarketing seems to use a shared tag, and that tag isn't substantially different from our old remarketing tags, that it is errantly including all visitors and conversions for all stores in the lists (even though we haven't updated the tracking codes). Is anyone else experiencing this? How can we stop conversions from being counted from multiple stores?


Live chat with no email requirement

I want a bubble on my website that works just like zopim but _only_ requires the user to enter a phone number. Currently, they have to enter name and email - I don't need that. Once they have entered their phone number, the chat can begin (if we have anyone online). This ought to be done with a simple JavaScript I can paste in my website's footer, or by finding a zopim alternative that's customizable.


SEO Tweaking dating website / user profiles

i am running the social dating website called Latte42 and i can't seem to rank for the Keywords I'm after. I want to rank for things like "meet new people", "find friends" but somehow rank for things like "starbucks" and several other Cafe and Places because i have a index where you can chose from places to meet people.   I also rank for keywords like "31 years old" it's because google does index pages like user profiles.   * My question is, should i prevent google from indexing such pages and profiles?   * Would that make the "other" keywords i want to index more relevant?


http auth an iframe automatically so users don't have to login?

I have a members only site running WordPress and a stock images gallery running an old php gallery CMS. I want the members to only have to login once but I want to protect the gallery from the general public. I trust my members so I don't need anything spectacularly secure. I was thinking about using an iframe that auto logs into the gallery folder via HTTP authentication. Is this possible (if so how) or is there a better method?


Will auto refresh burdens my web app?

I am a self learner and I now I am trying Alfresco share Community Edition. It has a discussion site where user can ask questions. The problem here is alfresco does not provide auto refresh out of the box.So the user has to refresh the page continuously to find that someone is replying to his post or not. I dont have any knowledge in Java Scripts. What I learned is that Java script can be used to auto reload the page. But I have some doubts   1. Is auto refresh done in client side or in my webapp server   2. Will auto refresh burdens my webapp so when more than 150 members are logged in and auto refresh happens will it become unresponsive?


htaccess 301 Redirect with URI

How can I write a .htaccess mod_rewrite rule to redirect all traffic to a specific subfolder to a different subdomain, but include all the trailing URI and url structure and in a SEO friendly way. ie. www.site.com/photogallery/2010/January-Spring-Photos/ -to- photos.site/2010/January-Spring-Photos/


Atlassian Confluence batch.css blocked by firewall

Our internal firewall is blocking Confluence's `batch.css`. Error message is "security scanner detected". Has anyone experienced this issue? We are running Confluence 5.


creating subdomain(sub.domain.com) and redirecting to another server (sub.domain.org) whiles maintaining .com in the url

**Redirecting to different server but same domain.** I have 2 servers on different hosts. One has domain.com and the other domain.org. domain.org has more resources. Now i want to create a sub domain on the first one (sub.domain.com) and redirect to (sub.domain.org) whiles maintaining the .com in the urls. Thanks.


Should I use schema.org location tagging on every page?

I have a nicely tagged section on my homepage describing a restaurant's location, city, state, zip, telephone, cuisine type, price and payments accepted. Should I tag any of this info on every other of my pages, or is the home page the generally accepted place for this information? I do include the address and phone number in the footer on every page, if this helps.


Should a URL match the page's title?

Should the URL of a page match its title? For example:               Http://example.com/about-cats.html          <title>About Cats</title>      Furthermore, if that title were to be changed by the page's author, should the URL change to match and the old URL be redirected (301) to the new URL? **Edit** Also, if the pages author were to decide to revert his changes after several days, would it be right to remove the redirect and set up an new redirect from the amended URL back to the old URL?


Text Style behind an Image or Pic

There are times that surfers block images just to have a faster browsing (Block download images) I would like to have an option when this happen to show a style text with a large text in colors. So if the user block my images they still can see my main message.


How do I set up a double domain like domain2.mydomain.com and mydomain.com?

I would like to set up a server similar to Google's. Their domain acts like a double domain, like you can use these URLS, "play.Google.com" or "apps.Google.com", to go to different sites.. For example, my domain would now be "my_domain.com" but i would like another one to be "domain2.my_domain.com". My question is,what is this officially called and how do i set it up? I'm not sure if you need two servers or just 1;


Google Webmaster tools restricted to certain pages only

Is it possible to give someone access to webmaster tools, but restrict their access to specific pages only? We have a franchise and each franchisee might have their own SEO people who at the moment are asking for access to the Webmaster tools. But, we can't give them full access.


Two name servers?

I was told by my domain registrar that they require two name servers per domain name. I want to host my own DNS (to try it out, this isn't an important website) on my own server. I only really need one name server. Two questions: Is this two name server minimum a common requirement and will it work if I set ns1.website.com and ns2.website.com to the same IP address?


Managing pages without CMS?

This question should be quite general, although my interests are in Django. I'm very new to Django. My impression is that most sites don't rely on a CMS, but how are do they manage pages without using one? How do they keep the theme/design consistent throughout the whole site? Any insight into this will definitely be helpful!


how to rewrite %20 in .htaccess

I need to perform an equivalent rewrite to:               RewriteRule ^/this%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/      How do I handle the %20? I have tried               RewriteRule ^/this\%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/      and               RewriteRule ^/this(\s|%20)file.pdf http://www.example.com/      but these have not worked. The website is part of a Wordpress network, so it doesn't have it's own directory or subdomain where I can place a .htaccess file containing redirects; it's a virtual subdomain with domain mapping. So, the Wordpress .htaccess rewriterule is preceeded by               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]


Trying to publish blog articles correctly on Facebook

I have this blog here: http://www.mareva.es/noticias **The problem:** when I try to share an article in Facebook, I get in the pre- publish page this text `amistades guadalajara club deportivo`. It is true I used another website (related to an sporting club) as base to make this new website, but I can not find the text "amistades guadalajara club deportivo" in the new one. Any help?


Sosospider: what does it actually want?

On one website I have, looking at the logs, I find lots and lots of "Sosospider" hits. Is this the same for everyone, or just me? Now, I have never once been sent any traffic from anything which looks like it might be anything to do with Sosospider, so can anyone explain what this thing does? Does it cache the pages and send cached pages to users or something?


Encouraging users with AdBlock to whitelist your site - Google AdSense policies

**Description:** I found a nice practice on websites to deal with users who take advantage of AdBlock's software - here is an article on it (have a look at the image of the cat). I think this should be obvious now... **Problem to solve:** I have an ad container on my site and I will place in this container a short note about "whitelist my site", with the following options:   1. Use normal, formatted/plain text.    2. Use an image in the background. If user has AdBlock, the ad won't appear and my hidden text will appear for them. According to this AdSense support document: > Encouraging clicks > > Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive > implementation methods to obtain clicks. This includes, but is not limited > to, offering compensation to users for viewing ads or performing searches, > promising to raise money for third parties for such behaviour or placing > images next to individual ads. In theory what I'm planning is some kind of encouragement for clicking ads. **Question** : Will I be violating Google AdSense's terms if I implement a text only and/or image only "whitelist us" message? Might I have problems with this type of violation?


HTML default font sizes

Do the HTML font tags (like p and h3) have default font sizes universally in all browsers? For example, I'd imagine p is around 16px or so. Is there a standardized list someone could link me off to?


Free domains for site names?

I am going to create a forum for my clan from a game and I was looking for a way to point/redirect to an ugly/long domain name from a shorter domain name. I am looking for a provider similar to http://www.freedomain.co.nr/ but I am looking for more options and different domain extensions to decide which one would be easiest to use. So it would be something like www.niceclanname.domainext -> www.unglyhardnametouseandremember.com/clan/ What are the available services that do this?


What are the AllowOverride settings if you're hosted on GoDaddy?

I'm looking for the AllowOverride setting for GoDaddy hosting, does anybody know where I can find that?


pros/cons of hash navigation from SEO perspective

I'm working on an application that implements navigation based on hashchange events. Content is mostly loaded through ajax calls after hash changes (and displayed by DOM injections). **From a SEO perspective - are search engines able to index this injected content?   Are search engines able to follow my hash links (e.x. href="#page=1")?** If not - any workarounds besides having static content in my pages just for SEO reasons? Thx I found some similar threads on SO, but didn't find any satisfying answers, so forgive me to ask again.


How should a site respond to automated login attempts with phony usernames?

For the last couple weeks I've been seeing a consistent stream of 15-30 invalid login attempts per hours on my site. Many of them are non-sensical usernames that nobody would ever register for real, and often contain typical spam-related keywords. They all come from different IP addresses so I can't just IP block/throttle the requests. I'm not worried about unauthorized access to real accounts since they aren't using real usernames. And if it were a member of my site trying to brute force logins, they could easily scrape the valid usernames from the site, so I'm not worried about that kind of malicious behavior either. But what's the point of this type of activity? What would whichever bot operator is doing this have to gain by attempting all these logins?


How do I stop googlebot from guessing urls parameters

When the googlebot visits our sites it seemingly tries to visit urls that do not exist resulting in exception being thrown. The url is is like `http://ourdomain/thepage.aspx/x/8/x/` etc.x stands for no value in our application. It seems like googlebot seems which parameters it can use, because the urls are no link from the page. Is there any way to control this behaviour?


How to spread XML Sitemaps over several webservers behind AWS loadbalancer?

We have a web portal with almost a million products and way more other urls. I wrote a script that checks database. If there is a new url needed or an old one update, this script will update/create the XML Sitemaps. But we have several servers behind the load balancer at our rented AWS space. Further this script checks database for each url if there was an update so that it updates the appropriate xml file too. My question is how to spread those XML Sitemaps over all webservers behind this AWS load balancer? Our approaches/ideas:   * we could just generate them on one server with a cron job and copy them to the other servers, but this could be difficult because of automatic raising numbers of servers and so on.   * we put them on our S3 - but this one is not avaible thru our domain, so I guess google will have a problem with it   * I let my script run on every webserver but change it in a way that it will generate each time all xml files if they do not exist. But then I would have conflicts with updated URLs in my database, where I saved timestamp of last changed value of every url Is there another - better - solution that I do not know? Are there any special services by amazon for such cases?


Self-referential hreflang attributes for single language website?

I've been told by an SEO company to add a `hreflang` attribute to every page on a single-language website (ie. 'self-referential' tags), but everything I've read about the hreflang tag, including Google's take, suggests that it's only really useful for multi-language websites. Adding this would be a huge amount of work for this particular site, and I really can't see the potential benefits (or even any indication that such a thing is considered best practice by anyone). This Google Webmaster blogpost does recommend using _self-referential_ `hreflang` attributes, but only in relation to multiple-language websites. > "If you have multiple language versions of a URL, each language page must > identify all language versions, including itself. For example, if your site > provides content in French, English, and Spanish, the Spanish version must > include a rel="alternate" hreflang="x" link for itself in addition to links > to the French and English versions. Similarly, the English and French > versions must each include the same references to the French, English, and > Spanish versions." Is there any SEO benefit to adding such a tag to a _single language_ website? E.g. Just a single instance, like:               <link hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com" rel="alternate">      ...to the document `<head>`? (Please note that this is in _addition_ to the obligatory `lang="en"` attribute in the `<html>` element.)


I want to know price for local listing

I would like to get listing from some of local listing so I want to know about that price for listing to their internet sites? this is my list : 1 Info group               2.Axiom          3.Starkness/Localize          4.Factual          5.Foursquare          6.Super pages          7.Best of the Web


How do I disable SSL on a GoDaddy hosted site?

I've got a GoDaddy hosted site which currently has a long expired SSL certificate on it. The site is a simple static site with no data. However, since it's an outward facing site it falls under compliance regulations which require it to either have current and working SSL or not at all. I would like to just shut down the SSL as there's no point in paying money to have SSL on a site which does not need it. So far I've been unable to figure out how to do anything with SSL on it's control panel though. Is it possible to turn off SSL for it completely? If so, how?


Is there a website Virus Scanning Script?

Is there a script not a program that I can use for my file sharing site that scan files that are being uploaded for viruses and if it finds anything it will refuse the upload?


Understanding CTR in Google Webmaster Tools

I've got a site that's showing a 9% CTR for a phrase in Google Webmaster Tools, but the average position for my site is 14th (this includes 7 local results for this phrase). I was a little confused as to what the CTR actually meant, is it :   * for each person who searches for that phrase 9% of them click my site. or   * for each person who actually sees my site in the search results 9% of them click through (bearing in mind 14th is high on page 2 when the local listings are used).


Why does Google Analytics report 100% bounce rate when the page has lots of page views?

Google Analytics reports 100% bounce rate for a page which has lots of page views and an Avg Time on Page of 32 seconds. Shouldn't one of the following be true? Either the bounce rate is less than 100% when the Avg Time on Page is greater than 0 or the Avg Time on Page is 0 when the bounce rate is 100%. I fail to see how or why the report does not conform the above two conditions. ![Google Analytics 100 percent bounce rate](http://i.stack.imgur.com/kKsT8.jpg)


Authorized article copy

If I have authorization from a site to copy one of their articles and publish it on my site. What is the clean way of making sure I won't get penalized in my SEO efforts? Is there a safe way to give full credit?


Duplicate meta tags and descriptions in GWT but they are fixed

How do I remove the duplicate meta tags and descriptions found in the HTML Improvements tab on GWT? The issues reported are because some people were linking to us with spaces or dashes in the URLs instead of "+" or also without the trailing slash. I have fixed these issues by permanently redirecting the errant URLs which can be proved with the Fetch as Google, but these issues are still appearing as issues on GWT: why are they still there? and how can I remove them (there is no Mark as Fixed)?               Correct: http://digiguide.tv/pick-of-the-day/26+August+2008/documentary-dont-tell-the-bride-laila-and-nick-is-this-what-lalia-really-wants-on-her-big-day/          Broken: http://digiguide.tv/pick-of-the-day/26-August-2008/documentary-dont-tell-the-bride-laila-and-nick-is-this-what-lalia-really-wants-on-her-big-day/


Advantages of country TLD vs. .com

I want to get a domain for my site. The site's topic would be about Vienna, but the content will be in English. I was thinking, if I should get `.com` domain or `.at` domain. `.at` is both much cheaper and easier to get (there is less chance that my desired phrase is already registered). Is there any disadvantage in terms of SEO and page rank, if my domain does not end with `.com`? The site will be in English and targeted not just for Austria, but globally, mostly foreign tourists. I don't care if it's easy to remember the address, I expect most traffic to be from search engines anyway.


Registering a parked domain after it expires

I want to register a domain, but that domain is currently in use, parked. For the particular page, I queried _whois.net_ and found out that the domain expires 2014-12-16. How can I get the domain when it expires? When do I need to start placing the order for that domain? Can I simply do it with my preferred provider or should I contact _whois.net_ directly?


How to have google index a login protected url?

For example, my site: `http://abcde.foobar.com` is protected by a "single sign on" login page hosted at `http://sso.foobar.com`, so when a user visits "abcde", they get redirected to the "sso" login page always, and they have to login to access "abcde". It seems Google does not know about my "abcde" site at all, how do I make google know about my "abcde" site? Because a lot of my users are trying to search for "abcde" in google and the site doesn't come up. (my "abcde" url is very obsecure and not a word, so google should put my site on top if it had known about it)


What is the average acquisition cost of a Facebook "Like"?

Suppose you want to invest in a Facebook ad, targeted to a specific audience, how many $ would I need to spend to get one "Like" in my Facebook fan page? Note: I know not all users, industries, ads, landing pages, are the same, I am just looking for an average of past benchmarks on a $ per Like basis.


How can I compile an IP address to country lookup database to make available for free?

How would I go about compiling an accurate database of IP addresses and their related countries to make available as an open source download for any web developer who wants to perform a geographic IP lookup? It seems that a company called MaxMind has a monopoly on geographic IP data, because most online tutorials I've seen for country lookups based on IP addresses start by suggesting a subscription to MaxMind's paid service (or their less accurate free 'Lite' version, which requires a linkback and is updated once a month). I'm not completely averse to paying for their solution or using the free one, but the concept of an accurate open source equivalent that anyone can use without restriction appeals to me, and I think it would be useful for the web development community. **How is geographic IP data collected, and how realistic is it to hope to maintain an up-to-date open version?**


Process of automating domain registration?

I have a website where users register domain.com/user/username. I'd like to add a feature where users can search for and purchase a domain name that maps back to that URL. I'm not sure how big of a task this is - can anyone provide an explanation of what's involved?


301 Redirection for classic ASP website with IIS 6 server

I am new in the SEO field. I have relaunched my old website to a new one, and my guess is I need to 301-redirect some/many of my old pages. But I have deleted some of the pages from server which is not required in new website. That pages having good PageRank, so I'm thinking about 301 permanent redirect to relevant pages or home page. My website in classic ASP with IIS 6 server. Problem is that classic ASP does not understand a _web.config_ file. In an Apache server we can create a _.htaccess_ file and through which we can achieve redirection. So is there any option for classic ASP? I don't want those pages on server otherwise through properties I can set the redirection.


Multilingual website without language component in the URL

I'm working on a website for Canada which will have `French` and `English` versions. For `SEO` purposes, I would like to avoid using any language tag in `URLs` because I believe it will have more impact (e.g. `example.ca/products` better than `en.example.ca/products` or `example.ca/en/products`). I believe this is technically possible because the2 languages are sufficiently different that the `URLs` won't be conflicting with one another (e.g. if you want a "product" page, it will be `/products` in English, and `/produits` in French so you know which language the `URL` is about). Since `Google` (and most likely others) doesn't rely on the `URL` (nor `HTML` tags) to determine the content language I don't see any problems with search engines. To make this possible I've thought about using a `cookie` distinct from the session cookie (e.g. `example.org_language`) with long term expiry (e.g. `N` years) that will memorize the language chosen by the user. That way when people visit the website with a new browser session, they get served the proper language. I have already given up on users being able to switch one page from `English` to `French`: when people will chose `English` or `French` from the menu they will be redirected to the corresponding version of the home page. **Do you foresee any problems with not using a`language` component in the `URL` (whether domain or path)?** ( _as long as one makes sure`URLS` don't conflict_).


'Open in new tab' in PPC & tracking

When a user clicks on an ad but they right click to open in new tab does that cost the advertiser as if the user would of left clicked. I am new to all of this please handle me like that ;)


Getting fingerprint from Apache certificate (combined with key)

I have just created a certificate for my Apache SSL host using:               make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/private/myhost.crt      Now what is the correct way to get the fingerprint out of it? (So I can keep it in other place for visual comparison---in case I need to connect and really don't trust the network?)               openssl sha1 /etc/ssl/private/myhost.crt      Returns a different SHA1 than what Opera tells me about the cert. Is this because it's combined with the key? (...or am I spoofed already? :-)).


What causes Google Analytics tags to work on some machines but not on others?

The title of this question says it all. I am trying to update my code from the deprecated `_getTracker()` method to `_createTracker()`, but am experiencing inconsistent results. I have tried both traditional and Asynch methods (using a JSP include), but they all have the same result. My pageviews, and others in the office all show up in analytics, using both methods. The client visits from their own machine are not showing up. I have tried various test cases, but their visits using `_createTracker( )` just do not register at all for them, and mine do. Visits from their machines using `_getTracker ( )` do show up. They have tried on multiple machines, and I have walked through with them step by step, so I know it's not just user error. I have verified that independent computers elsewhere (outside my network) do have their visits tracked, so I am extremely confused why their visits are not showing. It's also frustrating to show that the new tags work for me, but just not on their machines. I know that if someone has javascript turned off will cause the tags not to work, but I am wondering if what else might cause their visits to not be recognized? I would appreciate any suggestions. Currently trying this code: (Successful in all my test cases, but not client machine)               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-x']);     _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);     _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>      Tried this (also successful but not on client machines)               <script type="text/javascript">         var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");         document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));     </script>          <script type="text/javascript">         var pageTracker = _gat._createTracker("UA-xxxxxxx-x");         pageTracker._setDomainName("myurl.com");         pageTracker._trackPageview();     </script>      This is the old code that still works on client machine:               <script type="text/javascript">         var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");         document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));     </script>          <script type="text/javascript">         var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxxx-x");         pageTracker._initData();         pageTracker._trackPageview();     </script>      **UPDATE:** So I did some more tests today, and the original tags are NOT working on the client machines now. To be clear all three versions are working in all other tests, so it seems not to be the code itself. At some point in the last month, something changed. I will check to see if it's their network or something on these two machines... but my question still stands... what on their machines might cause this. All answers are still appreciated as to what exactly I might examine to narrow down, and the first clue to lead me to the issue will not necessarily get the rep. If two or more answers are similar, but one explains it more correctly and/or completely, consideration will be given to what the best overall answer is. I also assume I can extend the deadline if I don't have the correct answer by the deadline, but if not I will make sure the rep goes to the rightful winner. **UPDATE:** #1 - I didn't realize that the rep just disappears at the end of the bounty period. `<hangs head>` I truly thought I would be able to wait until I had an accepted answer. #2 - Things are registering client side. The first code block is what we are using and it works just fine. The issue wasn't the analytics code, but rather something else that has "reverted" back. Not that it matters now that things are registering, but I was able to use the Chrome dev tools to verify the tracking beacon was sent.


If I use a web hosting service with a custom domain name then later want to move to a different host, will I be able to use that same domain name?

Disclaimer: I am new to everything web development so I might have looked over something basic, but I tried doing a bit of research and couldn't find an answer to my question, which is why I'm asking it here. So basically over the past few days I have really become interested in web development and want to create a personal web page. From browsing around, it seems like HTML+CSS+JavaScript is a good combo to get something basic going. Once I get my page ready, I understand I have to find a web host to put my site up on the WWW. My question is, let's say I find some cheap hosting site that allows a custom domain but provides little bandwidth and I make www.hey.com. Eventually, the site gets poppin' and I want to ditch the web hosting service I'm with to either find a better service that provides more bandwidth or host my own server (however all that works). If I move to this new, better web hosting service, will I still be able to use the domain www.hey.com or would it be somehow registered as a "used-up" domain name with the previous web hosting service? I ask because I've got a really good name for the site but I want to start off with a smaller, cheaper web hosting service to experiment around and if I ever manage to get things kickin' then I plan on moving to a bigger, better service. But I don't want to use up the domain name with the smaller service that I use just for experimental purposes if it won't be available for the better hosting service later on. Also, this brings me to another question. Once I eventually ditch the cheap service and shut my page down, will results of it still show up in Google? Because I know Google has this "cache" thing that you use to view pages from a previous date or something like that but I'm not completely sure how it all works.


How to change website on device orientation change?

This question is in the context of a previous one but I think deserves another thread on its own. Being able to detect user agent and serve mobile or desktop version is good, but **is there also a way to detect orientation to serve website version when orientation changes**? For example on large mobile devices in landscape orientation and width 1024px or more, I want to show the desktop version, but if put on portrait orientation, I want to serve the mobile version. **In summary**   * desktop: landscape website layout   * mobile-large-landscape: landscape   * website layout mobile-large-portrait: portrait website layout   * mobile-small-landscape: portrait website layout   * mobile-large-landscape: portrait website layout Conventionally, this can be solved by using media queries and responsive design. However, the landscape and portrait websites have very little similarities, so it is easier to create both sites from scratch.


Domain registration partnership + availability check

I would like to create a simple module for my website that prints keywords and tells the user if the keyword is available to register as domain. Is there any domain name registrar who gives any kind of api to do this? I would like to show something like this: Keyword | .com domain | .net domain Website | not available | available - register at XX for $0.99! (<- affiliate link) [edit] @Anthony Hatzopoulos, @Anagio - I wasn't specific because I don't really care about the form. It can be some kind of widget that just has to be implemented or a raw api that returns data that must be processed before showing it to the user. Raw API without any interface would be the best since you can modify and control outputted data. I do realise however that if there would be any api available people would use it not to generate income for domain registrar, but to use it as free "whois" api operator. I assume that if there exists a domain registrar with such a feature - than it's propably coded in JS to secure the data.


Alexa Sites Linking In

I have read that Alexa updates its "Sites Linking In" only once per month (although ranking is updated daily, as I monitor it daily). Are there any webmasters here who track "Sites Linking In" and know how often it is updated by Alexa?


Quick Question, robots.txt Disallow: /*/ does what exactly?

A SEO firm suggested changing the robots.txt to:               User-agent: *          Disallow: /*/     Allow: /ims/      I'm not sure what that would do, but my guess is that is would tell all robots to index nothing but the ims folder. I understand the wildcard, but I'm confused by the slashes and don't know how they would play out in conjunction with the wildcard. *** Update *** I didn't mention that there is a sitemap listed in the robots.txt file, but according to one tech blogger, ( _ETA: not true, see below_ ) he realized that sitemaps trump robots exclusions. So, even though this says in Google Webmaster Tools that everything with a trailing slash will not be indexed, the sitemap contains the important links. I did notice that the link count on Google went from 360 to 336, and the sitemap links under the URL scaled back to 3 from 6. I'm not sure the cause or what links were removed, though. Perhaps it cleaned out garbage. I'm still clueless why they would add in 'Allow: /ims/', that seems pointless. And a quick list of what would index according to the robots rules above (without the sitemap) using /*/: domain.com Indexed domain.com/page.html Indexed domain.com/folder Indexed domain.com/folder/ Not Indexed domain.com/folder/page.html Not Indexed *** Update: The Results are In *** Okay, for the sake of those wondering about using robots.txt to exclude everything and hoping that the sitemap will override, here is what happened. The SEO firm (not someone I hired, and a company I suggested against upon minimal research) basically set up a filter that the three major search engines followed. All indexed pages that were in a folder disappeared, except those which allowed worked without the trailing slash (domain.com/folder was indexed, but domain.com/folder/ was not). The only difference is that Google specifically used the sitemap declaration to pickup all the links and ignored the robots exclusion. On top of that, the sitemap links (which appear under the first search page result) vanished from the search engines. Eventually, I removed the disallow and allow lines and now I've seen a few of the sitemap links return a few days later.


Virtual Host under MacOSX not working

I have setup a virtualhost for MacOSX Apache installation. These are my steps:   * edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf removing comment from:              Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf         * edit /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, added:               <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName test.local     DocumentRoot "/Users/myusername/Sites/Test/public"     <Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites/Test/public">     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes     AllowOverride All     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     </Directory>     </VirtualHost>        * edit /private/etc/hosts added              127.0.0.1 test.local        * Restart Apache But the VirtualHost does not work. To further isolate the problem, I check the same configuration with `MAMP` and the virtual host worked right, so the configuration files should be fine. What can be wrong?


Is there a way to find out the search keywords in YouTube with Google's Keyword Planner?

Google's Keyword Planner tool enable you to find out the popularity for any key words searched in Google. I want to know if Google's Keyword Planner tool or any other tool enable to find out the popularity for key words in YouTube search engine.


SEO: Will Multiple Redirects (301, Permalink Plugin) affect ranking

I asked for help over at WordPress Answers StackExchange for doing a 301 Redirect for my website, which will involve a permalink structure change also. One of the suggested solutions was `301 Redirect` via `Apache (.htaccess)` and then use a plugin for internal redirects on the new site. The person who answered was not sure if using this two step approach will affect SEO and suggested I ask over here. So will doing a 301 Redirect and then having a plugin also redirect to the correct URL affect how Google indexes my new site, PageRank or any other SEO rankings?


What are the advantages of Schema.org's microdata vs Microformats et al?

I'm confused about which microdata methodologies to employ on my site, is there an advantage to implementing the attributes from Schema.org, vs one like Microformats?


Is there any direct/indirect relationship with the number of search results in choosing a successful keyword phrase? I have about 22,500,000 results for my keyword phrase, which I intend to target. I think doing seo according to standards set by google, I will won half the battle. Now, if I give 1 year with other marketing techniques like adwords. **How much time will it take me to be on the first page for my targeted keyword phrase?**


Google Analytics E-Commerce doesn't track

My problem is with the tracking of my e-com. Conversion doesn't work. I did it like in the guide of google. The debug console doesn't show any problems. My code:                   <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXXX-1']);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);          try{      _gaq.push(['_addTrans',           '<?php echo $id_eco ?>',            // transaction ID - required           'Bauer und Boecker',  // affiliation or store name          '<?php echo str_replace(",",".",$brutto_eco) ?>',           // total - required           '',            // tax           '',           // shipping           '',        // city           '',      // state or province           ''              // country         ]);                  // add item might be called for every item in the shopping cart        // where your ecommerce engine loops through each item in the cart and        // prints out _addItem for each       _gaq.push(['_addItem',          '<?php echo $id_eco ?>',           // transaction ID - necessary to associate item with transaction           '<?php echo $id_eco ?>',           // SKU/code - required           '<?php echo $bezeichnung_eco ?>',        // product name           '',   // category or variation           '<?php echo str_replace(",",".",$einzelpreis_eco) ?>',          // unit price - required           '<?php echo $menge_eco ?>'               // quantity - required        ]);          _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']); //submits transaction to the Analytics servers     } catch(err) {console.log(err);}            (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>      Any ideas?


Conditional redirect based on referring source?

Is it possible to redirect all traffic from a certain referring URL to a specific page?


is there any open source application like google code hosted in local server?

I'd like to setup such application in my company to host some small projects/tools, should have small wiki, source control integrated(svn,git...), bug track, summary..


What liability concerns do advertising vendors raise, and how can I address them?

One of the websites I administer wants to provide free advertising in the form of direct links to vendors at an event they are running. Up until now, there has been no advertising whatsoever on the site (or any of our other sites). The site is for a for-profit business. The idea of implicit endorsement of any vendors we advertise has been raised, which brought up the question of what we need to do, if anything, to protect ourselves from any potential problems such endorsement might create. I know that many sites have clauses in their Terms of Service that state that (in a nutshell) they are not responsible for any problems or grievances between the visitors to the site and any vendor advertised or linked. Are there other steps that a website typically takes when considering advertising, such as getting the advertiser to provide some sort of certification that their ad will not violate any trademarks or copyrighted material?


Is there any tool or add on or anything by which i can know how many times I have opened a website in a browser? I use google chrome. I want to know "whether I have visited a particular website before or not"


What could be causing this long waiting time on page load?

What could be causing a 1.18s wait time when my page loads? Just to make sure I did not have any conflicting or parallel scripts loading, I completely deleted all the script on my home page and ran the speed test again. Although I had a blank website and 5kb file size, there was still a 900ms "waiting" time. I'm wondering if it could be my server? Any other thoughts or suggestions as it doesn't seem to be scripts. ![website load](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oNJWA.jpg) EDIT - Just ran a DNS test on pingdom and here are my results. Does this tell me anything? No nameservers found at child? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YFuDx.jpg)


Combine user-agents in robots.txt

Can user-agents be listed together, followed by their common rules like so in a _robots.txt_?               User-agent: Googlebot     User-agent: ia_archiver #Alexa     User-agent: BingPreview #Microsoft     User-agent: bingbot #Microsoft     User-agent: MSNBot #Microsoft     User-agent: Slurp #Yahoo     User-agent: Ask Jeeves/Teoma #Ask     Disallow: /adm30_buds/


I want to change the host account for Google app email?

I have a standard (free) Google app Email Service. In the last 5 months, we have been using this service. Our website was hosted at a third party web hosting company. Now I am planning to change my web hosting provider. I want to keep my domain at the previous hosting company. Can Google Apps allow this option of changing web hosting for the registered Domain in the Google App for Email Service?


How to follow the evolution of position in SERP in Google Webmaster Tools?

Is there a way to see the evolution in time of the position in search engine results? In Google Webmaster Tools I can see the different positions where my page was showed but is there a way to "sort it in time"? E.G. I see this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/L01m4.png) But is there a way to see chronologicaly the evolution? And what is the actual position as of now? "6 to 10", "2nd page" or "3rd page +"? PS: I mean directly in GWT (I don't want to buy any SEO software...)


Duplicating someone's content legitimately & writing HTML to support that

I want to add content from other blogs to my own (with the authors permission) to help build additional relevant content and support articles I've found useful that others have written. I'm looking into how to do this responsibly - ie, by giving the original content author a boost and not competing against them for search traffic which should go to their site. In order to keep my duplicate content out of search, and to hint to the search engines where the original content is to be found i've implemented:                      <meta name='robots' content='noindex, follow'>       <link rel='canonical' href='http://www.originalblog.com/original-post.html' />           Additionally, to boost the original article and to let readers know where it came from i'll be adding something like this:
       Article originally written by        Authors Name        and reproduced with permission.
              Read the original article here.
      All that remains is a way to 'officially' credit the original author in the HTML for the search spiders to see. Can anyone tell me a way to do this possibly using rel="author" (as far as I can see thats only good for my own original content), or perhaps it doesn't matter given that the reproduced pages will be kept out of search engines? Also, have I overlooked anything in the approach?


How does delicious.com avoid being sued for copyright infringement?

With the recent redesign of delicious.com, they've added a much more graphical home page. The site continues to be a service for people to bookmark and share websites they come across on the web. The delicious home is now made up of images taken from those linked sites. See for yourself at http://delicious.com I would like to know what in the law allows them to do this, considering the images represent the main content of the page, and they clearly do not own copyright to those images? I know there is some leeway given to search engines where it is considered fair use to use a small portion of the content if the aim is to lead people to the originating site. Does that apply here?


HTTPS on all pages where user is logged on

I know this is considered best practise to prevent cookie hijacking. I would like to adopt this approach, but ran across a problem on our forum where the users post images which either aren't posted with URL's over HTTPS or the url itself doesn't support HTTPS. This throws up a lot of ugly browser warnings. I see I have two options:   * Disable HTTPS for the forum   * Force all user posted content to start with `//` in the url so it selects the right protocol, if it doesn't support HTTPS so be it Do I have any other options? How do other sites deal with this?


How to change my website's appearance in a Facebook wall post?

When posting a website link in a Facebook wall post, Facebook fetches some content (title, text and image) from the website to show it to readers. Is there a way I can adjust / propose which content is used / preferred by Facebook? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/itvcX.png) I found someone saying to use `<meta property="og:image" content="image.jpg">`, but this doesn't seem to have any effect. But maybe Facebook caches these results for a while?


Legal responsibility for emebedding code

On our website we have an HTML5 arcade. For each game it has an `embed this game on your website` copy + paste code box. We've done the approval process of games as strictly and safely as possible, we don't actually think it is possible to have any malicious code in the games. However, we are aware that there's a bunch of people out there smarter than us and they might be able to exploit it. For webmasters wanting to copy + paste our games on their websites, we want to warn them that they are doing it at their own risk - but could we be held responsible if say for instance a malicious game was hosted on an important website and it stole their users credentials and cause them damage? I'm wondering if having an HTML comment in the copy + paste code saying "Use at your own risk" is sufficient.


How do I write IDN domains?

How do I write a IDN domain name with IDN codes? E.g. `mjölk.com` with IDN codes? (mjölk is milk in swedish) And is there any list of available IDN codes and letters? E.g. all possible for .com ?


& in sitemap links, are they correct?

Simple question, I'm asking just to make sure. A Google sitemap generator generated a sitemap.txt fle with links written like this:               http://www.domain.com/category.htm?name=some-name&cat_id=8      is it correct to use the `&` in these links in place of the `&` or it's just an error made by the sitemap generator? Thanks.


Using RDFa with an image inside of an H1 tag

I come from a development background but just recently starting learning SEO along with RDFa. I am working on our companies new website where the designer is using our different divisions logos at the top of their respective pages. There currently are not any H1 tags. I know I need to add and H1 but the way the pages were designed the logos are where I would usually put an H1 heading. And if I added an H1 with text it would throw off the design. I also know that using images inside H1 isn't good practice even if I use the alt attribute. So my question is if I put H1 tags around the image, then use RDFa will Google find this acceptable or will this be penalized. Here is my code example:

      I defined my prefixes in the body tag and when I run my code through the validator at http://rdfa.info/play/ it seems like it would work, just not knowledgeable enough yet with SEO to know for sure.


Editable components

I would like to include global editable components in a website I am currently making with the 1.4 Symfony framework. Are there any plugin/library/anything that could do that? ### My attempts   * The best solution would have been something like http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfDoctrineEditableComponentPlugin. However:      * This plugin is still in alpha.     * I could not have it work (though it may be because I made an error during installation)     * The slots are not global.    * One idea would be to use a CMS. I tried with Apostrophe. However I did not succeed in inserting a_slots in templates of "normal" actions. It seems you can only inserts slots in pages created by Apostrophe. A solution could be to create a template for each pages/action. Then I could create an apostrophe page for each of those templates. But that would mean transferring all the Controller part in the templates, losing the assets of a MVC architecture.   * Doing it myself. I could do that, but I would have the feeling of reinventing the wheel. My needs do not seem quite specific, so I hope someone have done it before. ### The context I am currently making a website for an association of theater, dance and music. We produce an average of 1.5 spectacles by month plus some other events. In the current version of the website, I have done a backend application where you can edit all the informations about a given event. However, some people find it hard/weird to need to go to another page. Sometimes they mistake two fields; WYSIWYGs editable components seem perfect to me. They need to be global (indeed the title of an event appear in multiple pages).


What HTTP code to use when redirecting to random page

I have an URL `domain.com/random`, which will redirect to a random page. What would be the correct HTTP code for this? Plus, I'm inserting the link like this:               Show random profile      Spiders won't follow that link. Do I need to care about what HTTP code I send?


301 redirect + RewriteRule not working together?

I am using a 301 redirect to redirect a page to another page in the same website, which uses `RewriteRule` to hide the PHP variables in a friendly URL. My redirection code in .htaccess:               Redirect 301 /example/word1/word2/word3 http://www.example.com/word1/word2      As a result when I visit `/word1/word2/word3` it redirects me to the URL set by a previous RewriteRule which is `/word1/word2?var1=word1&var2=word2&var3=word3`. Where var1, var2, and var3 are the PHP variables that have for content word1, word2 and word3. I want the redirection to go just to `www.example.com/word1/word2`


Create friendly looking URL's with mod rewrite

I want to make the pages on my site more search engine friendly by turning the query strings into meaningful looking page names. For example I have a page that is this:               /search.php?c=18      I want it to look like this:               /doctors/MainCategoryName-18/      Sometimes there is a second query string so it would need to work with just one or both. For example:               /search.php?c=18&s=217      Should look like               /doctors/MainCategoryName-18/SubCatrogyrName-217/      Here's what I've tried so far but I can't get it to work.               RewriteRule ^search.php?c\=(.*)* /doctors/general-$1 [NC,R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^doctors/[^?/]*-(\d+)\ /search.php?c=$1&s=$2 [QSA      Thanks so much for your help,


.pro domain as a web designer/professional

I am looking at getting a .pro domain for my portfolio page as a web designer. I realize that .pro domains are for licensed professionals such as lawyers, engineers, etc. What kind of certifications would I need to qualify for a .pro domain as a web designer. And also which certs would you recommend such as w3c or cwp?


Unable to print login-required images in IE

I have some images in a section of a site that require the user to be logged in in order to view. These images are served by a PHP script, which checks the user's login state and if valid, serves the binary data with the appropriate headers. This all works fine. The issue comes when a user tries to print one of these images. In Internet Explorer, when they go to print preview, they get the broken image box with a red cross in the corner instead of the actual file. This is also what gets printed. All other browsers can print the images without issue. I have some images elsewhere on the site that are also served via. PHP but these don't require a login. These print fine. The PHP-powered HTML pages on the site that require a login also print fine in IE. It's just login-required images. When the user hits 'print preview', this does not seem to result in additional HTTP request to the server for the file. However I do see an additional HTTP request a few seconds later that comes from the same IP (may or may not be related), This request includes no host header, no REQUEST_URI and no user agent. The 'please login' page sends an appropriate 403 header. I've also added a far-in-future expires header to the image response itself to ensure that browsers can serve/print the files from their own cache but this hasn't made any difference. Why can't IE print the images and what else can I do to investigate or fix the problem?


Prevent users from preventing my website ADs from being displayed?

It may not be 100% of the users but even a localized amount of users that make use of ads blocking features will reduce your incoming. I do care about my users as well as I do care about receiving some incoming for my hard work. Currently I keep an watch on the ADs being displayed and remove the ones that have eye-hurting type of either images or text, ADs that are non-related to my content and I don't exagerate on ADs, i have 2 ads on a rather big content website and am planning to add an Amazon Store thing later. Now I would like to know:   1. What type of ADs do you usually remove from users view ?   2. Are there ways to prevent this sort of blocking ?   3. What kinda of work arounds you usually do to prevent it ? _**The difference between question 2 and 3 is that question 2 is related to legitmate ways to prevent this while question 3 is regarding any way to work around it._**   4. What ADs Format do you use the most, what type (image, flash, text) and how does it influence on the above ?


Subdomain pointing to wrong folder

I have an InMotion advanced dedicated server. I created a cPanel account and tried to create several subdomains there. I created and pointed multiple sub domains to a single folder `public_html/mobile` but instead all are pointing to `public_html/`. Pointing multiple subdomains to a single folder should not be the issue because my old server (with HostGator) was working fine. I don't have root access on server unfortunately; even though I don't know where can I fix this issue. Has anyone faced such an issue and how can I correct this association?


Android and low end phones not receiving sms

I have developed a web application for an organisation.I have to send sms to mobile phones from application and I completed this,but there is a problem.Android and low end devices of other models are not receiving the sms.Is there any problem with gateway.


Why do some large companies use a different domain for sending emails?

I've received notifications and newsletters from Microsoft and Facebook in the past and noticed that both emails came not from an address such as something@facebook.com or something@microsoft.com. Not event something@somethingelse.microsoft.com but both had different domains such as : reply@email.microsoftemail.com and something@facebookmail.com **Why is this? Any particular advantage in doing so?** Other than not polluting the employees email software, I can't see.


Facebook: When a page clicks my 'like' buton, the count does not increase

I have a small Facebook problem. I have created a page for my business and placed a 'like' button at the top. When an individual clicks like the count increases but if another business page clicks like it does not update the count, even though I get notification that they have clicked. Is there any way I can add the two counts together to show a total amount of likes? Many thanks Cate


How do I search server for all instances of a given database user?

We just migrated one of our machines to a new box. Same web host, but new IP and physical machine. I've found a lot of the databases are using a generic dbuser/pw combo. With the new server, I want to implement a more secure policy that all dbs need to have their own users, rather than a user that has global db privileges. Is there a way to search all the servers' web docs (Everything below /var/www/vhosts/) for references to a specific db username in any files? Is this a job for grep? Or is there a better solution?


Canonical tag on paginated pages?

I noticed that StackOverflow uses a `rel=canonical` tag on page 2+ of answers. For example, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470651/creating-a-memory- leak-with-java?page=2&tab=votes#tab-top Notice they have a `rel=canonical` tag that points to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6470651/creating-a-memory-leak-with-java As I recall, Maile Ohye at SMX Advanced said that you should NOT use a canonical tag in this way. The answers on page 2 are not duplicate content as to what's on page one, and duplicate content is the purpose of the canonical tag. Is this an appopriate use of the `rel=canonical` tag?


Is there a penalty for opposite of cloaking?

Let's assume I have 100 different web pages with original and good content. But I want to publish on these pages same advert content (text video flash pictures) If I decided to use ajax and jquery for loading that advertorial content after page load, would there be a penalty for that? I know using hidden div's and hidden text can cause penalties but what if it's the opposite?


Free, basic checkbox images for a todo list

Does anyone have a set of simple, free checkbox images (checked and unchecked)? I've got to throw a todo list on my site and I'm not exactly a designer. Ones that look like they are hand written would be great.


no description when searching keyword in google

I am new with SEO, and i following a tutorial about meta tags... when i search my keyword in Google, I can only see the URL of my website but it has no description....                search in google: surebooked     ---------------------------------      but return only: surebooked.com/      There are no description in Google when I search my keyword. Does anyone have an idea about my situation?


How do you tell search engines not to index this page just yet, but maybe in the future?

The company I work for has a content management system that builds pages automatically for certain content. E.g., There is a page in our system that has the ability to show you information about any composer in our database, depending on the input parameters and what information we have on them. However, every now and then, there is a composer that hasn't got any information, thus the page renders a blank page. How can we tell Google not to index the page at that moment, but maybe sometime in the future? Because the content is auto-generated, we can't just block pages from being visible, as it information about that composer may pop up at any moment. **Edit** Please note that our CMS system that does the fetching is seriously complicated and deep. The content part of the page WILL return some sort of data, so running an `empty($content) ? xx : yy` as has been suggested is not a quick fix. If a composer does not exist, the system won't have a page for that the composer, if the composer does exist, the system will. When that composer's page is rendered, the system searches every type referring to composers, such as works, to create a dynamic page.