domain expiration during transfer

What happens to domain expiration during transfer to a _different_ registrar? Currently my domain will expire in 2012. I wonder if it will be affected in any way.


PHP website template and response time

I have a website with static HTML files on a VPS server. The site's response time is very fast and was built with a FrontPage template, so every template change updates all the HTML files and requires uploading all the pages to the server. I am considering using a PHP template (with PHP includes). Will using a PHP template slow down the page's response time and if so, by how much?


How "google news" can recognise that article in my website has few pages? **Description** : My website has articles that I want will be taken by google news. if article content too long in my website - he divided to pages (the problem should be for google how recognise that it same article). **example from other website - same as in my website** : http://money.howstuffworks.com/ponzi-scheme.htm (1 page) http://money.howstuffworks.com/ponzi-scheme1.htm (2 page) http://money.howstuffworks.com/ponzi-scheme2.htm (3 page) The solution that I know now : put every article in same page and not split to pages, but this solution reduce pages for index in my website and will reduce website rating in search results (please write if I am wrong). Thanks, Yosef


PDF page flip (open source)

I'm doing a web site for a client, and he requested a PDF page flip on it. I've been looking for sometime, but can't quite find anything appropriate. I have the URLs to PDFs in my database, and I think the simplest way to implement this would be to just pass the URL to the PDF through HTML so it dynamically opens any PDF from the DB. Deas anybody have any good free PDF page flip engine? Thanks in advance for any input! Andrej


Why has bing crawled only 1 page of my site after three weeks?

I dont understand why its taking so long for Bing to index pages on my site. After three weeks after I added (and verified) my site, I find Bing has only crawled 1 page and indexed only 26 pages. I found I had exactly the same problem with Yahoo. When I asked in here, someone recommended that I add my site to Bing, since the Yahoo SE was being replaced with Bing (or words to that effect). When I compare the indexing/crawling stats with the numbers I had with Google, the difference is mind blowing (and probably explains Googles current dominance in the SE space). Within 3 weeks, Google had already indexed upward of 800 pages. I can't believe that the Yahoo and Bing SEs are that bad compared to the Google SE - so what on earth is going on? Incidentally (as an aside to the main question), should the numbers not be the other way round - how come 1 page has been crawled but 26 pages indexed - dosen't seem to make sense. Incidentally, should the numbers not be the other way round - how come 1 page has been crawled but


What's the proper way to handle Allow and Disallow in robots.txt?

I run a fairly large-scale Web crawler. We try very hard to operate the crawler within accepted community standards, and that includes respecting robots.txt. We get very few complaints about the crawler, but when we do the majority are about our handling of robots.txt. Most often the Webmaster made a mistake in his robots.txt and we kindly point out the error. But periodically we run into grey areas that involve the handling of `Allow` and `Disallow`. The robots.txt page doesn't cover `Allow`. I've seen other pages, some of which say that crawlers use a "first matching" rule, and others that don't specify. That leads to some confusion. For example, Google's page about robots.txt used to have this example:               User-agent: Googlebot     Disallow: /folder1/     Allow: /folder1/myfile.html      Obviously, a "first matching" rule here wouldn't work because the crawler would see the `Disallow` and go away, never crawling the file that was specifically allowed. We're in the clear if we ignore all `Allow` lines, but then we might not crawl something that we're allowed to crawl. We'll miss things. We've had great success by checking `Allow` first, and then checking `Disallow`, the idea being that `Allow` was intended to be more specific than `Disallow`. That's because, by default (i.e. in the absence of instructions to the contrary), all access is allowed. But then we run across something like this:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /norobots/     Allow: /      The intent here is obvious, but that `Allow: /` will cause a bot that checks `Allow` first to think it can crawl anything on the site. Even that can be worked around in this case. We can compare the matching `Allow` with the matching `Disallow` and determine that we're not allowed to crawl anything in /norobots/. But that breaks down in the face of wildcards:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /norobots/     Allow: /*.html$      The question, then, is the bot allowed to crawl `/norobots/index.html`? The "first matching" rule eliminates all ambiguity, but I often see sites that show something like the old Google example, putting the more specific `Allow` _after_ the `Disallow`. That syntax requires more processing by the bot and leads to ambiguities that can't be resolved. My question, then, is what's the right way to do things? What do Webmasters expect from a well-behaved bot when it comes to robots.txt handling?


What is the BCSI-CS-**** cookie for?

I'm undertaking an audit of the cookies we use on our external sites. There's one cookie that's used by all the sites, and by different domains within the sites. It starts BCSI-CS- and has random numbers and letters. It's the same cookie on different PCs on our network. Our own sites use it and Bing Maps, Google Analytics and Google Maps on our sites use it. This cookie does not seem to appear on PCs not on our network. We've figured that it's a cookie that our proxy server uses and therefore only an internal cookie, not one that our external site users will encounter. However, googling that cookie shows a lot of sites have listed a similar cookie in their "About our cookies" page with the same BCSI-CS prefix. Would we be right in thinking that these sites have got it wrong, that they don't have to list this cookie? After all, when I visit these sites, the cookie that they have listed does not appear on my PC. Can anyone confirm this, or explain what the BCSI-CS cookie actually is?


Tracking AdWords traffic from an unrelated account in Google Analytics

I have an Analytics account linked to my AdWords account, and have been using it to track progress of my campaigns. Now I've started an AdWords campaign with a third party, and would like to see their results in Analytics as well. My own campaign is stopped, but unfortunately the `google (cpc)` traffic source has zero hits. Nonetheless, the `google (organic)` results have increased significantly, which seems to indicate that those visitors are counted there. This is unfortunate in may ways, since I can't distinguish between real organic visitors and paid-for visitors. What can I do to differentiate between organic and paid-for visitors in case of an unlinked AdWords account?


In search of open source alternative to Sharepoint

Looking for suggestions on a platform whether paid or open-source that would provide a intranet-like solution for document sharing, blog, events posting, etc. Google Apps/Doc is not an option, needs to look somewhat professional and hosted on our domain. Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Remove a site in upstream sites in Alexa

Alexa has a list that's called upstream sites ("Which sites did people visit immediately before this site?"). Does anybody know how remove a site from this list?


A/B Testing a site-wide feature with Google Analytics

I am considering a major adjustment to the search-input feature on a website. This search feature appears on many pages. I do have e-commerce operating in Google Analytics. I have glanced at Google Analytics Experiments, but this seems to be more for individual pages and I am looking to measure the performance of a site-wide feature. What is a clean way to A/B test this new search-input feature in Google Analytics, measured by e-commerce conversion rate?


Reclaim snatched domain name

I'm looking for options to get back a domain name that just expired and was re-registered by an unknown link farmer. Between extended holidays, bank and hosting provider's opening hours and me the domain wasn't renewed and was quickly scooped up elsewhere.   1. How can I get hold of the new registrator (My contact information still appears in the whois databases)?   2. Is it possible to appeal to any authority to claim ownership?   3. Is it possible to contact google about removing the page from the search engines?


How to configure DNS for hosting a domain with 000webhost.com when purchased from whois.com?

I purchased a domain from `whois.com` (`juleex.com`) and I'm trying to host it on `000webhost.com` because I'm just learning and don't need tons of anything. I changed the name servers to:   * `ns01.000webhost.com`   * `ns02.000webhost.com` From:   * `ns1.whois.com`   * `ns2.whois.com`   * `ns3.whois.com`   * `ns4.whois.com` However now when I scroll to the DNS management section of the myaccount part of `whois.com` it says "your DNS management service is not configured correctly. To use this service, you must first configure your domain name to use our name servers." With what I changed it to in red and what was there in green with a button that reads "fix server names automatically". I'm so confused, I thought that's how you point a domain to the hosting services.


Google searches my old website contents not current content

I have my web application named like `www.myweb.com`. I used this website over 3 years. Now I have moved my website `www.myweb.com` in a virtual directory as its new path is `www.myweb.com/myweb`. When I search my content on Google it displays my old website path which is now moved.   * old path was: `www.myweb.com/vision/myvision`   * new path is: `www.myweb.com/Myweb/vision/myvision` Please provide me a solution.


Drupal - after installation the website invisible

I just installed Drupal. But after installation I can't see my installed site. Upon visiting the URL `http://localhost/drupal-7.0/` in my browser I do not get the web page as expected but see files and directories similar to FTP file browsing. Can someone explain what I have done wrong?


How to sell a single product rather than opening an entire ecommerce website

I have a single app product I want to sell. There are tons of e-commerce website, but these seem to be targeted to companies that sell more than one product. Is there some solution to make an attractive website that emphasises the purchase of a single product?


What's the difference between desktop and mobile IE

In a company I'm working we are planning to get some devices in order to test our software on it. We are doing web app, so I need to know Is there a big difference between **Windows 8 IE** , **Windows phone IE** and **Windows RT IE** In other words should we test on all three devices or testing on desktop IE should be enough?


Google Custom Search Engine tracking

I am having this problem for quite some time now: I have a WordPress website that is using Google's Custom Search Engine. I want to track what people/visitors are searching on in that Google CSE. Is that possible and how?


Dreamweaver document settings

Is there a way to change document settings in Dreamweaver like changing document background to black and plain text to white? I prefer a dark background when reading code like the snippets here. Any suggestions?


A simple and free guestbook script?

Looking for a free, simple PHP guestbook script - couldn't talk the client out of the idea - and I remember using something fairly easy to set up a few years ago that used a simple txt file to store the guestbook entries. Does anyone have experience with any such script?


How to remove %2F from the URL?

My Technorati URL shows as `http://technorati.com/blogs/www.financewalk.com%2F`. How to remove `%2F` from the above URL so that it'll start working.


Pointing a subdomain to Github Pages

I set up an Octopress blog on Github Pages at myusername.github.com. I now want blog.myusername.me (which currently has a Wordpress blog set up) to point to this Octopress blog. So I followed the instructions here on setting up a custom domain:   * I ran `echo 'blog.myusername.me' >> source/CNAME` in my Octopress repository, and then ran `rake generate` and `rake deploy` to deploy it to Github.   * I went to Namecheap, and added a new CNAME under my myusername.me domain: "blog -> myusername.github.com -> CNAME".   * Waited a couple hours. However, now when I go to myusername.github.com, it redirects me to blog.myusername.me (which is my old Wordpress blog), which seems like the inverse of what I want. (Going to blog.myusername.me directly still shows my Wordpress blog.) I checked http://www.whatsmydns.net/#CNAME/blog.myusername.me and it seems like my DNS has propagated (myusername.github.com shows up in the right-hand side). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?


Listings with keywords count as keyword stuffing / spamming?

I'm managing some "Hotel-Booking" projects where I get large lists with hotels. Let's say I want my main keywords to be "Foo-Town hotels" and I've around 180 hotels in that city. I already cut this list to 20 hotels by loading the other asynchronous (via Ajax with jQuery). But there are now like 20 hotels with a name like "My-New- **Hotel**brand **Foo-Town** **Hotel** ", the address (Foo-Street 2, 12345 **Foo-Town** ) and a 150 words description which includes the city name and the keyword "hotel". Does Google realizes that this list (its in a HTML unsorted list) is from a database or do I need to prevent Google from index the hotel list, and if yes, how I do it the best?


Is the organic search page rank I see the same as the organic search page rank you see?

The short story is that I'm trying to find out whether we'd all get the same results (more or less) from Google if we all searched for the same term at the same time. Our site targets 10 specific search terms for organic search results. We do no PPC advertising. When you search for most of the targeted terms (7 of 10), we're in the first 5 results. The rest of the terms are in the top 15. How consistent is that likely to be world-wide, especially considering   * searches in other languages might use our city name in English, but other terms in the local language, and   * the influence of Google+ and personalization. It's my understanding that personalization and Google+ shouldn't affect organic search results at all. Instead, they add information to the right-hand column of the page. I'm not really sure what to do with language, since the terms we target in English might be completely different terms--not just the same words in a different language, but different words altogether--in other languages.


Does it make sense to return a 410 instead of 404 when some page has been permanently removed?

Does it make sense to return a `410` instead of `404` when some page has been permanently removed? In this video, Matt Cutts says that Google treats them the same, but are there other reasons to implement a `410` (except for technical correctness)?


Are there security considerations with choosing shared vs VPS vs dedicated hosting

Are there security disadvantages to using a shared hosting environment instead of a VPS or dedicated server? Could using a shared server or a VPS be considered negligence in the event of a security breach on a client's software? For example, on some shared hosting I can see all the databases on the same server instance as me. I do not have permissions to access them, but I see their names in SSMS. Could a more experienced SQL Server admin use that as a good attack vector on my site that they would not have if I was using a VPS or dedicated server?


Advantages and Disadvantages of C CGI over PHP?

I've developed a lot of websites with PHP but sometime after learning C programming I found out that it's possible to do the same thing using C CGI. But I still don't know if it will be worth switching to C CGI because I don't know what are the main advantages and disadvantages that C CGI has over PHP. While talking to a friend that develops sites using ASP.NET he told me that one of the biggest advantages that compiled languages have over interpreted ones on the web is that they are a lot faster mainly for websites that receive a lot of visitors frequently for they are pre-compiled. Other than that what are the other advantages and disadvantages that C CGI has over PHP?   * Which one will be more secure to use when creating web applications? Which one of the two is more vulnerable to code injections? Is C CGI still used nowadays? Does it still get updates or have they stopped developing? Please I would appreciate if you didn't give me answers such as : Choose PHP because it's open source... Or Choose the one that you think you are good at etc... Thanks in advance.


Will Google relate keywords to those listed?

Our company offers service in all of the surrounding areas but I don't want to "keyword hoard" so I can't list each location and each type of service offered there in the meta keywords. But, we do have our locations and service areas listed on the actual pages. So then if I were to list our services only in the meta area, would Google/SE automatically relate them to the locations shown on the page? If not, what is the best strategy in covering these geographic areas with a list of our keywords without being penalized for listing out every location attached to every keyword we want to rank for?


Parallel website running a copy of my original website

We have been working on a gaming website. Recently while making note of the major traffic sources, I noticed a website that I found to be a carbon-copy of our website. It uses our logo, and everything else the same as ours, but with a different domain name. Their domain name is not however pointing to our site because at several places the links are like: `carbonccopy-website/our-links`. This website even has links to some images as: `carbonccopy-website/our-images`. How could they have done that, and what can I do to stop it?


Which search engines prefer an HTML sitemap over an XML sitemap?

Is there a search engine out there that prefers a full HTML sitemap over an XML one? On a site with thousands of articles, does it make sense to include a page that has links to every single page?


Redirect to an affiliate using PHP or JavaScript redirect?

I was asked to introduce a unified self hosted URL- Shortener/Forwarder/Tracking Service for an website that earns money from affiliates. One example I found was one of the bigger german sites for bargains. (mydealz) So I had a look at their way of doing it, and I was quite surprised. From my point of view, the only sensible way to do the forwarding and tracking is using a PHP header redirect, if 301 or 302 in my eyes is mainly a question wether you want to double track double links or not. But they do the forward using a small page using javascript `window.location.href`. But why? ![Screenshot MyDealz forwarder](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JSSbA.png) Is there any advantage that I don't see? Are there any disadvantages of the PHP redirect? As far I as tested no referer are lost while using header redirect. Thanks in advance for your help.


Google Webmasters structured data errors

I recently updated a wordpress blog to my own domain and have been moving everything over and coming to grips with making the site look half decent. When I run the domain through Google's Webmaster structured data, I get multiple errors. in fact, an error for every single item!!! Every error seems to have the same problem- **missing Author** and **missing Updated.** And mentions something to do with Hentry? I googled that to try and figure it out,but it pretty much made my head explode!! FYI I know nothing about CSS etc.And I know I'm a bit over my head with it all, but I think it's too late to turn back to the regular wordpress account now. ugh. So, are these errors important? and... how do I fix them?!


Why insert static files (CSS, images, JavaScript, ECC) in a subdomain?

Why so many big and little sites inserts static files (CSS, images, JavaScript, ECC) in a subdomain like `media.example.com` or `s2.static.example.com`? What are the advantages? Why not just a directory like `example.com/media/`?


Web form losing POST values in a proxy environment

I have an ASP.NET form (a login page), when I POST the values to the server (windows, IIS 6), the request passes through a proxy and the POST pareameters end up getting lost and ultimately the page just refreshes as there are no POST parameters. The thing is that this is not a constant issue as sometimes you can log in fine and generally if you clear your browser temp files it then works ok. I ran Fiddler to check what's going on and basically I'm getting:   * A regular POST request containing session id, POST data etc. The response (HTTP 407) contains a Proxy-Authenticate: Negotiate and Proxy-Support: Session-Based-Authentication header.   * The next request to the server contains a Proxy-Authorization: Negotiate header containing a long string (base64 i think). This request does NOT contain the POST values. The response is another 407 and actually now that i look at it Fiddler displays 'HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( Access is denied. )' as the header.   * Then there's a third request that contains the Proxy-Authorization header and returns 200 OK, but of course the POST values weren't sent Subsequent requests result in a HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied. ) response followed by a second successful but empty request. The client won't let me bypass the proxy as it's intermittent and all other pages in the application (that include plenty of web forms) work fine. Any ideas on what I can try?


Basic tracking of conversion from Adwords using referrer, is it possible? (both Ads in SERP and in Content Network)

Reading in AdWords Help it seems the only way to track clicks to my site from AdWords is to use the Google code snippet. If I don't want to use such snippet, and simply track the `referrer`, can we say that clicks coming from Google AdWords (either Ads in SERPs and Ads in Content Network) starts all with a certain url in the `referrer`? In other words, can we say:   * when `referrer` is `http://www.google.it/search...` or `http://www.google.it/url...` then it's coming from organic seacrh    * when `referrer` is `something else` ( **tell me what** ) then it's coming from and Ad of AdWords It would suffice for me to distinguish between who is coming form organic SERP and who is coming form click on Ad (I don't need to know which Ad or what keyword). Is there something (even if non-official) that analyzed this and you could suggest me to read?!


Is there any difference between a 'slideshow' and a 'carousel'?

Are Web "slideshows" and "carousels" the same thing? If not, what is the difference? For "Web slideshow" or "carousel", I mean HTML image galleries like:   * Flexslider by WooThemes   * Nivo Slider™   * Juicebox


Should <meta property="og:image" content="..."> have an alt tag?

I want to follow good SEO practices by adding alt tags to all my images. For Facebook sharing, I have this code:               <meta property="og:image" content="...">      can I add an alt="Facebook image" to that?


Drupal to Wordpress migration scope for SEO

I'm migrating a drupal site to wordpress and I was wondering what the concerns are with respect to preserving google rank, etc. while assuming the page content is somewhat similar. I've set up 301 redirects, and created a new site map, but the surrounding html / menus, etc are different. Is this considered a concern and are there a best practice for this kind of migration?


Are more pages in one site better for SEO?

I developed a site nearly 2 years (PHP, JAVA), but I am a new SEOer. My database has almost 1M articles. I have some questions I need help with:   1. Is it as a good idea to create static pages from all the articles?    2. Are more pages in the one site better for SEO?    3. If I created each article into a static page, that could be many GBs. How do I let the search engine crawler collect my database?


Is my .htaccess settings hurting SEO?

I have a site that I have redirecting to HTTPS. I do this to leverage wildcard SSL for my password protected pages. Everything seems to work fine with testing. For example, whether you type in HTTP or `www`, you always get redirected to the SSL HTTPS... That said, I have about 200-300 external backlinks -- many high quality, yet Google Webmaster (along with SEOMoz), shows I have just 4... Huh? I'm embarrassed to say I just discovered this. This has led me to hypothesize that maybe my settings in _.htaccess_ is messed up, so Google isn't recognizing a link because it's recorded on another site as HTTP, instead of HTTPS. Maybe? At any rate, here is my simple _.htaccess_ setting for 301 `www` to HTTP, and from HTTP to HTTPS.               RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]      Like I said, everything works fine for redirect over HTTPS, so I'd rather not screw up what works. On the other hand something is very wrong with Google finding all my back links, so I need to fix something... I'm just wondering that maybe Google isn't picking up a my backlinks from other websites recording me as HTTP because I'm at HTTPS. Maybe Google doesn't care and it's some other issue. Am I barking up the right tree? If so any quick fixes?


check when a page was first seen by google

Is there a way to see when a page was first published, by checking when it was first cached by Google (obviously its not 100% fool proof because there is a couple of days delay in some cases but it will give you a good idea.) The only other way I could think of checking it published date is if the page and post had a publicly viable time stamp on it, but in the case I'm looking for it, it doesn't have a publicly visible time stamp.


SSL certificate question

I'm looking into buying a SSL certificate for my website. I have found the following: http://www.rapidssl.com/buy-ssl/ssl-certificate/index.html   * Will this certificate prevent a MITM attack?   * Will this certificate show warnings to the user (because it isn't an EV certificate)


Google Bots Crawling my Site daily is this good or a bad thing?

Currently my site is being crawled by the Googlebot on a daily basis. Is a daily crawl from the Googlebot a good thing or bad thing?


How to inspect if flash banner does not spread malware or is harmful to site visitors?

I would like to take a third party ad - flash banner on my site, I can place it as an iframe (to show a page with the banner, hosted on other domain), or I can host it myself. I have seen, when browsing other sites, that sometimes my antivirus/anti malware software blocks the ads for being harmful... I know that flash is quite shady thing as it is possible to use it for things of a dark side. **Is there a good way of checking if flash banner has vulnerabilities, security holes or ways for the owner of it to target visitors of a site and spread malware or harm their computers?** As I understand, if there is a 'hole' in it, the bad guy under control can target visitors just on a specific time, or for specific browsers, platforms, OS'es, mobiles, countries, etc.


Free web "caching" services for a web service

I have a web service on Google App engine whose data is updated on a daily basis. To minimize bandwidth utilization from mobile clients connecting to it, I'd like to instead have an intermediary site where the clients will be getting their data from, and minimizing hits to my service to once or twice a day only. Is there such a service I can use? I'd like to explore this "pull" option first, before considering "push" options such as publishing to a blog site or a free website host that doesn't have bandwidth caps.


Conditional AddHandler Directive

**Is it possible to conditionally call AddHandler in the .htaccess under Apache (2.x)?** My present situation requires that a certain AddHandler is needed by one production server but that one breaks the development server. This requires to have 2 versions of .htaccess which is pain. So, instead I would like to wrap one AddHandler within a conditional. Something of this sort:               IF IP=='1.2.3.4' THEN     AddHandler type/foo .ext     ENDIF      _The problem is new but out of my control for now. I know this is far from ideal and the servers used to match 100% as they should but temporarily they cannot._


Using Local Network Users in MacOS X to customise access to webpages

Is it possible to use Mac OS local network users in a web application to be able to show/hide some pages according to users privileges?


why google ignore my links page?

I have a website, where I'm loading all the data via AJAX. Since Google doesn't work with AJAX and the ways to make it AJAX-friendly are a bit odd, I thought that by creating a links page, where it links, from server side, to all the links that I'm loading in AJAX - will solve the problem. But unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work. Google Webmaster Tools shows that even though my links page discovered, the content of it - the links - are totally ignored. I can only assume that google tend to ignore links in such pages. my question is - WHY?! and furthermore, how to overcome this.


Is repeated keywords in alt attributes considered keyword stuffing?

For example, I have 100 images in one page, all of them with `alt` attributes in this format:               alt="foo pics", alt="bar pics", alt="foobar pics", etc      Will `pics` be considered as stuffing?


I'm a Drupal fan - should I use Ubercart or learn a new eCommerce package?

I'm a big Drupal fan which is why Ubercart is the obvious choice for me when it comes to eCommerce. I've made a couple of Ubercart sites and I haven't been massively impressed. Ubercart doesn't seem very powerful. When you need extensive business logic, it can be hard to theme and has JavaScript reliance. Admittedly I've only played with others like Magento and Zencart, but Ubercart doesn't seem to lead in its field the way Drupal does. I'm reluctant to learn a new eCommerce package due to the time required, but the JavaScript reliance alone makes me wonder if I have to.


Why does Webmaster Impression Numbers and Local Search Volume does not match?

I a website which is ranking on top 5 positions for some keywords; however, when I check the impressions from Google webmaster for the same keywords it is very very very less. Hence, I wanted to understand even if I am ranking on 1 position by impression share should be the same as the local search volume. Please help me its urgent.


How to Migrate wordpress blogs from shared hosting to dedicated server?

I have some clients wordpress blogs on my shared hosting and now i want to migrate all to a new dedicated server. the shared server is on linux and the new dedicated is windows 2008. I know how to setup a new wordpress blog on the server using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, but i have no idea how to setup an already running blog, where to put the db , how to change the connection string if needed, i don't know php. Tell me if you faced this issue before or know a good article describe steps for this migration. Note the server has IIS 7


GoDaddy/NameCheap servers or my own servers?

I am in Pakistan. Here we have the latest technology but we have frequent electricity loadshedding. If I want to start an online education system catering the students of Pakistan only, should I create my own servers or use GoDaddy/NameCheap servers?


2 different businesses, 2 different top level domains, same company name - impact?

I have just started running ohanafilms.co.uk (Northamptonshire UK) and I have received a email from a chap who runs ohanafilms.com (Hawaii USA) who has advised me and asked me to change my name as it will directly affect my google search results and ranking but will also affect his. Firstly, is this true? Secondly, I would have thought with the content on my site referring to everything Northamptonshire UK Google would be smart enough to ignore the name and base its results on content? Thridly, should I change my business name considering I have just spent some cash on business cards, domain etc? I'm looking for the best advice please, the above might seem stupid or dumb but I want to make things right and not burn any bridges or go into legal matters etc.


How to Track Visitors Comming from Adwords and Disable form fields that is not on landing page

There is a lead form on my website where we track from which source visitors have arrived. I wanted to disable the drop down and auto populate it with predefined data if the visitor is from adwords. This form is not on the landing page. Is there a way I could do that by reading cookie or any other way.


How can I set my robots.txt file to let bots not crawl certain folders in root directory?

I have a small website with about 20 pages with .html extensions, containing unique articles I wrote consisting of about 1000 words or more. These 20 pages are the main feature of my site. **Root Directory** My root directory is structured in such a way that all 20 pages of my HTML files are in the root directory, not contained in any folder. I also have a forum installed on my website, and a PHP/jQuery poll plugin which is kept in the root directory in their two respective folders and this is where the problem comes in **My Problem - Question 1** I mentioned earlier I only have 20 HTML files which makes up my site. However, when I do a scan of my site to generate a site map more than 70 pages shows up, yet only 20 of those 70+ pages are my own original pages I want crawled and indexed. The other 50+ files contained in the PHP poll folders and PHP forum folders are all source code files and not unique and do not contain any real content. **Should I or can I block Google from scanning those two folders containing the poll and forum files? If yes, how would I do this in my robots.txt file?** **Question 2** If I have these poll and forum folders in my root directory, and a scan of my site shows 70+ files but only 20 pages of those are my own would it have any effect on my SEO? I have purchased GoDaddy SEO visibility service with my hosting, a crappy but basic product service. When I started my site and only had those 20 HTML files, I got a SEO score of 85+ after installing my forum and poll and re- evaluating my sites SEO score the pages increased to 70+ and my SEO score dropped from 85+ to the mid 50s. I realize these tools are not always accurate but it did prickle my curiosity, leading me to ask this question. I would also like to add that my forum is rather empty at this stage, but I do enjoy the poll plugin. **Conclusion** So what should I do:   * Block robots.txt from scanning those folders if so how?   * Should I just remove the forum and poll folder?   * Should I not worry about it, and accept products giving you a SEO score is crap?


Comments section being indented by mysterious CSS

I use Disqus comments plugin for Wordpress, and the comments section is indented to the right like a blockquote is. The code appearing in the front end post is:

      I cannot find any instance of disqus_thread or dsq using a search of the theme folder; not that searching inside file in Windows 7 isn't a complete pain in the arse. Can you see why this is happening? Example post here.


Why are perfectly legitimate pages on my website registering in Google Webmasters as 404?

I have seen this question asked several times here, but never clearly answered. I suspect it has something to do with my `.htaccess` file:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /         RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteRule ^moreinfo/(.*)$ http://www.kgstiles.com/moreinfo$1 [R=301]         RewriteRule ^healthsolutions/(.*)$ http://www.kgstiles.com/healthsolutions$1 [R=301]         RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1/ [R=301]         RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1/ [R=301]     </IfModule>      when I check the URL without a forward slash at the end, it registers as `404` (even though it renders fine in a browser), but when I write it without the forward slash at the end, it renders `200 OK`, but if I try to take off the forward slash with the `.htaccess` file, the browser gives me a `310` error (too many redirects) you can see the `404` and `310` with this url: `http://www.kgstiles.com/pureplantessentials.html` which redirects to `http://www.kgstiles.com/pureplantessentials/` (which is a 404), so what is a solution and why might this be registering as a 404? Any Help is appreciated! (I'm using WordPress, BTW)


Plesk site preview

I have this website hosted with Plesk Control Panel. All my links show some site preview prepended to it. I don't know what I should do?


What is USH.HTML and why do some robot try to access it?

I have been getting quite a few hits on my webservers for the resource `/USH.HTML`. I have never hosted this file, and do not know what it is. Is this a type of `robots.txt` file or something specific to a certain CMS? _**UPDATE_** I found out the answer, and it is a similar Japanese website that has a domain very similar to ours, but with a hyphen in the name instead. I guess all the 404s are due to a typo on the referring link.


How to remove Ever crawled web Pages by Google

I know that we can use noindex, nofollow and robots for excluding the pages from Google Index. This process takes a long long time to clean up website from Google Index. In Webmaster Tools => Index Status => Advanced => Ever crawled, How can I remove the Ever Crawled Pages by Google.


Custom eCommerce tracking

I am selling different software on my website and am offering a 30 days free trial. Is there someway that I can track the trial in Google Analytics? (And maybe, after the 30 days run out if they do not order remove them from the GA data?) What would be your recommended solution here?


rel="nofollow" SEO impact

I saw a technique used where there was a block with three parts:   1. Image (wrapped in an anchor tag)   2. Heading (anchor tag with heading text)   3. Paragraph (regular p tag with synopsis content)                 e.g.
          Good SEO Heading
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu...

 With the image tag there was a `rel="nofollow"` on the wrapped anchor tag. So the idea is that the users still has the ability to click the image and go to the details page, but the image link does not rank. When users click on the heading text, that is only what ranks for that specific page. Q: Is this the correct approach? Does this even do anything? What is the best practice?


How should I set the default virtualhost?

I want to run 2 websites. One for www.example.com, and the other for everything else (www.example2.com, www.example3.com) How I do it? I tried:               <virtualhost *:80>     ServerName www.example.com     </virtualhost>     <virtualhost>     #no server name     </virtualhost>      But I ALWAYS get the second website. Thank you.


Reading apache logs is there a way i can know of concurnent users limit?

I want to know on a analysis layer from apache logs which can tell me if the # of concurrent logins (using same username) has exceeded e.g more then 4. Is such a thing can be automated or it requires manual analysis. Thanks.


Cleanup incorrectly indexed subdomains due to wildcard DNS

I have site `www.example.com` which someone previously configured with wildcard DNS records and with no 301 redirects. As you may have expected, Google's index is now full of garbage like `w.example.com`, `pop.example.com`, `ns1.example.com`, `foobar.example.com`, etc. All of the indexed subdomains are almost exact copies of the main domain, duplicating every content from the latter one. I've set up 301 redirects if requests come from everything except `www.example.com`, but seems that it is not enough because after almost three months since the redirects where set up, all the incorrect subdomains still pile up on Google's index. So the question is: what could I do to speed up this cleanup process? I have heard of sitemap assisted redirects, but some people suggest that this approach is not viable, since Webmaster Tools may reject sitemaps containing URL's causing redirects.


what are good UI ways for editing xml files in web pages?

I have an xml file which contain a lot fields and sub fields, I am not sure yet, but around 100 or 200 of fields.   Fields value types may need true/false , others need drop down to select from, and others free text and some just numeric values. My questions is:   From the user and usability point of view, what will be the best UI to let users manipulate this xml file from a webpage. Also if you know samples to show me this will be good as well, I don't want code I just want to know how it should look like based on your experience.


Credit Card processor for UK company recommendations?

I'm looking for recommendations for a credit card processor to handle payments for purchases from an online store. The requirements are   * hosted payments page with state-of-the-art UX, and able to be configured to match the -parent website's look and feel as closely as possible   * settlement into a UK merchant account or includes merchant facility and can settle to a UK company with a UK bank acct, in GBP.   * looking to minimise PCI requirements for the parent web site as far as possible   * reliable and good support   * payments page doesn't require Verified By Visa or SecureCode   * ideally payments page can do multi-currency   * shopping cart is not required The UK-based processors I've found so far all have hosted payments pages that look like they are from the mid-1990's. Nice UX is a key requirement. Suggestions based on personal experience preferred.


How to find out if my hosting's speed is good enough?

There are lots of different online performance tests:   * Google PageSpeed Insights   * iWebTool Speed Test   * AlertFox Page Load Time   * WebPageTest Also there are several desktop/client software such as:   * ping tool   * YSlow   * Firebug's Net console   * Fiddler   * Http Watch I just want to decide if my hosting provider has a good enough performance or if I need to switch my hosting to another provider. So, which tool should I use to compare my hosting provider with other hosting providers?


At what thresh-hold should i get my blog its own domain?

Is there some kind of thresh-hold to start seriously considering buying a domain and moving away from the [name].[blogspot,etc].com? In this case I have a blog that focuses on personal miscellany (food, politics, etc); get about 110 visits, 350 pageviews, 3.6% bounce per month; have had that for a few months now; and am looking to grow. I'd like to buy my TLD since it's available, but am also wondering if switching to the TLD would drop/obfuscate traffic. (If it matters, it's on `[name].squarespace.com` currently.) Thanks


Subdomain versus .mobi domain

I'm planning to extend an existing website by a version which is optimized for mobile devices. Would it be a good idea to register a .mobi domain or is it better to use a subdomain (for example:http://m.////.TLD) for this site?


Can text content in an HTML5 <canvas> element be indexed by search engines?

I was wondering if content in an HTML5 canvas tags has any positive/negative effects on SEO, or if it is indexed at all.


What does "not set" mean Landing Page on Google Analytics

On the page `Google Analytic > Content > Site Content > Landing Pages`. What does `not set` as a landing page mean? User's visit on the website must land somewhere, and that landing page must have a url. Am I taking it wrong? In the `Traffic Source`, `Browser`, `Location`, etc. sections, I totally understand why there is a `not set` listed. But for `Landing Pages`, it appears quite confusing, at least to me.


How to secure robots.txt file?

I would like for User-agents to index my relative pages only without accessing any directory on my server. As initial thought, i had this version in mind:               User-agent: *     Disallow: */*          Sitemap: http://www.mydomain.com/sitemap.xml      **My Questions:**   1. Is it correct to block all directories like that - `Disallow: */*`?    2. Would still search engines be able to see and index my sitemap if i disallowed all directories?    3. What are the best practices for securing the robots.txt file? **For Reference:** Here is a good tutorial for robots.txt               #Add this if you want to stop Alexa from indexing your site.     User-agent: ia_archiver     Disallow: /          #Add this to stop duggmirror      User-agent: duggmirror     Disallow: /          #Add this to allow specific agents      User-agent: Googlebot     Disallow:           #Add this to allow all agents while blocking specific directories     User-agent:  *     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /*?*


How to integrate premium responsive html template to umbraco? I have been wondering, that whether there is any kind of set of standards OR Any additional code to integrate my premium html web template to umbraco cms?


How do I reconcile my Google Analytics numbers with my Squarespace analytics?

According to Squarespace, in the last month I got Page Views 259, Unique Visitors 172, and Robot Hits 1,965. According to Google Analytics it was more like 346 page views, and 97 Uniques (no data on robots). I currently have filters for self traffic (exclude home/work) on both analytics. How do I go about reconciling the two, or believing either one?Here is a link to the exported analytics; sorry pdf


Facebook Share Button and Counter no longer displaying any Count

Is it just me or did the Facebook Share button that displays the count of shares and likes just stop working over the past few days? The sharing still works, the count of shares no longer displays. The link that is generated look like this http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u= and the JavaScript file on my page is this http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share I haven't changed anything and this has worked for years


Do these IP addresses belong to robots?

When i check the traffic on my website, the top IP's have have statistics like this.               > IP           Page       Hits          > 91.212.x.x   7123        7123          > 91.x.x.x      249        249      These visits are for one month. Since the number of pages match number of hits, does it mean these IPs belong to robots? And how it can be the same? I do have pages which have does not have images which will give one hit but still. How it can occur?


Google, SEO and 301 redirects on root / top folder

I've got a pretty unusual problem. A client has their site hosted on a friend's server that is basically misconfigured to redirect http://clientname.com/ to http://clientname.com/clientname. After this 301 redirect, the site works fine and subpages can be accessed via http://clientname.com/clientname/subpage. However, the whole site is not indexed on Google and my FTP root folder resembles http://clientname.com/clientname/ which means I cannot put a `robots.txt` file on the top level. Moving to a different hoster is out of question for the client. What can I do? I'm desperate.


How can I judge whether Changing Domain from .Com to More expert style domain such as .org or .edu is worth it?

I have two problems with my current domain choice:   * it is com -ending (all related sites are under edu or org)   * it is meant for all people around the world but it contains a word that is different in different dialects of English How can I judge whether I should make a change to other domain? The domain is about 5 years old.


Some easy way to abandon Blogger sites to get more control over things such as DNS?

I am fed up Blogger's misleading error reports. The issue looks like this simple here (a few text file settings) but Blogger requires me something impossible that some other blogger user preserving my domain should stop using my domain (apparently just one line to fix), totally impossible for me (I do not know the email of the preserver and I am tired to start up some official procedure against the other user). So I want some substitutes. If I export my Blogger XML content -- can I easily use it with independent hosting with my comp?I mean whether there are some service that can read the Blogger XML and I can install it to my server? Btw I think the "other user" is the old version of the site with different url that is now removed. I think the real problem is messed up DNS handling in Blogger. Any idea how I can privately contact blogger devs about the issue?


Recording audio from webpage?

I'm looking for a way to record audio from somebody on a page on my site - any recommendations? Sorry if I haven't expressed that very clearly - please edit if not! Ideally looking for a new startup who is doing it rather than a little plugin, but no big deal which! Thanks, much appreciated.


See last visited pages in Google Analytics

Is it possible to see which pages were visited when? I want to see which pages where visited most recently. Can't find a way to see this in Google Analytics.


how to promote a web app?

i'm quite surprized this hasn't been asked yet so for a given web app and a given set of potential users of this web app the goal would be to reach this set of potential users. how to achieve this?


Which wiki system is better suited?

For my website and coming all sites from now on, i want to have a wiki system, which can - 1) Support internalization easily, that is the wiki has a system to serve contents based on the language user selects. For example keeping 'en' as default, the wiki has to be able to serve other language articles, if a different language version exists. If i have a F.A.Q. page in english and spanish, changing language would server appropriate content. 2) It should be light weight and easy to install. 3) Only i can edit contents, others has no edit option, the wiki system has to have a easy way to switch off editing by guests. All edits are admin only. I m considering MediaWiki, but i wish to know if there is a better wiki system agreed by experienced and veterans :) Thanks,   Anjan


youtube has changed the appearance after dec 2012 and how to revert to the old look

Youtube has changed the appearance. Now it looks like a junk blog created by a dummy designer. Every thing is looking like black ink blotted on a white paper. How do we revert it back to its classy distinguishable interface.


Mod rewrite - redirecting url with certain parameter to new url

I need some help redirecting a url with particular parameter value to a new url. For example how can i redirect these two urls with id 123 and 345 to a new url? Redirect   * `http://testserver.xyz.com/abc/content/content.jsp?contentId=123`   * `http://testserver.xyz.com/abc/content/content.jsp?contentId=345` to   * `https://newpage.silkroad.com/`


removing robots.txt

Will removing robots.txt make the website 'searchable' again.   Curious if you had a robots.txt to avoid indexing, but changed your mind and wanted to get indexed.


isp that serves international customers . possible?

I do not know if it is possible to find an isp, maybe in america or asia, that provides services to international clients i.e clients outside their region, possibly in africa. i believe it is possible. can anyone help?


Moving from wordpress website

Is there an easy way to move a blog from wordpress website i.e. at               http://myblog.wordpress.com/      to my independent domain i.e               www.mywebsite.com


Weird referral traffic

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Strange incoming links appearing on site statistics I'm getting weird traffic from Japan, from a site called ime.nu   Why weird? because I'm not able to identify the link and also when going to their homepage link it just shows an Apache Test Page, while I'm seeing it is a pretty big site in analysis sites (Alexa Ranked 121 in JP) Can someone help me understand the mystery?


How do I save user uploaded files outside of the web folder but use them on my page?

I have read that one of the best things to do for security with user uploaded files is to store them outside of the web folder, as there is very little you can do to ensure that that jpg image the user is uploading is really an upload (MIME can be faked, etc.) I have not seen a good tutorial on how to achieve this objective, however. I have managed hosting on a linux box, and my web folder is `/public_html/`, so how can I save files to `/useruploads/` but still serve up the files using PHP/html?


PHP Gallery Script

I am searching for PHP Gallery Script with:   1. get images from folders   2. thumb resizer   3. no admin   4. no db


Restrict all robots except Googlebot and Yandexbot

I want to allow Googlebot access all my pages with crawl delay. Yandexbot access only `index.html`. Bingbot access `/tools` pages.   All other bots will not be accessed my pages. Is this _robots.txt_ suitable for this?               User-agent: Googlebot     Crawl-delay: 300          User-agent: Yandex     Allow: /index.html     Disallow: /          User-agent: bingbot     Allow: /tools     Disallow: /          User-agent: *     Disallow: /


Is a CSRF attack possible for an intranet site?

I am starting to learn web deployment on my own. I just downloaded an open source, alfresco and trying few things on my own. After so much reading I managed to hide the 8080 url from the site using apache as a proxy server for tomcat. Today I faced a issue, I am able to see the login page but I cant pass through the login page. After seeing the log file I came to know the CSRF filter is causing the issue. I just went to my configuration page and I removed the CSRF filter and it is working.Now, Does CSRF filter required for an intranet site ? Is it possible someone from the internet can perform a XSRF attack on my application


ASP.NET MVC 2 Hosting in Australia

Firstly, I know there are alot questions about hosting recommendations. Let me just say I have looked (for this specific case), and couldn't find much. I would assume there are few people making ASP.Net MVC2 apps and would prefer to host it in Australia (local support, latency etc). I am after some **recommendations/reviews** of hosting companies that do **mvc in Australia**. I want cheap shared hosting around the $20 mark. I also would need a small mssql db as part of the package. Other than that, its all about support and uptime for me. I have looked and found the following but haven't a firm feel for any of them yet.   1. Studiocoast   2. webhostforasp   3. Expeed   4. aspwebhosting Cheers in advance!


Personal Domain Email Integration

i have a domain www.personal.pk with which i got my email... the company from which i got hosting from says the my email has following feature   * Email (pop3)    * IMAP Compatible    * WebMail   * Email Aliases (unlimited)   * Email Forwarding   * Catch All Email Address   * Auto Reply the thing is i am accessing my email and all the others email through Webmail using a service provided by the company called "HORDE"... when i open an mail account i can see the inbox of other by just changing slection of a **select(dropdown) box\list**.. meaning on user can see the email of others.. somebody told me the solution is integrate it with google and use the Gmails interface... HOW TO DO IT?


How do I get iFramed images to show up in RSS?

I switched to Skydrive for my image hosting recently, and after getting the page formatting the way it needed to be, I ran into an issue with my RSS feed. In particular, when I used `img src=` the image would show up in the feed. However, the images in iFrames do not. The iFrames are formatted perfectly for my margins and all I need to do is copy and paste an embed code. With the `img`, I will need to add all of the dimension code. Obviously I would like to continue using iFrames since they fit well and need little work, `img src` is a do-able but more involved solution (read: I don't want to have to tinker around in HTML if possible). Most of all I just want all the images on my page to show up in my reader: what are my options?


Difficulty enabling caching on inherited site

I have been asked to work on a corporate website a previous employee had created. The site is on shared GoDaddy hosting. One of the first things I noticed (after the 140KB JPEG on the front page, which is now 22KB for no noticeable degradation) was that none of the HTML pages being served were getting cached. Turns out every PHP file on this website is sending the following headers:               Pragma: no-cache     Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT     Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0      The 1981 expiry date is notable as it is an odd day/time to choose arbitrarily. This is not affecting other MIME types, just text/html (all of which are PHP-generated). As the server is running PHP 5.2 there's no header_remove() function. I have tried overriding them in PHP by using empty values:               header("Pragma: ");     header("Expires: ");     header("Cache-Control: ");      This didn't work. So I tried removing them via .htaccess:               <FilesMatch "\.php$">       Header unset Pragma       Header unset Expires       Header unset Cache-Control     </FilesMatch>      This also failed. I am beginning to suspect a GoDaddy shared hosting misconfiguration that I won't be able to fix :-/ Has anyone seen this before or got other ideas I can try?


What CPM can we expect once we outgrow AdSense?

I've been advised that once a site reaches a certain level of traffic it's possible to get more lucrative ad providers on board that give better return than AdSense. For a reasonable sized ad above the fold (for example 728x90 or 160x600) what sort of CPM can we expect? What level of traffic do we need to achieve before we become attractive to these bigger fish? Thanks in advance for any insights you can share, Gavin


302 redirect but leave the url intact

Am I able to issue a 302 redirect but leave the URL intact? I want to track accesses to a URL in Google Analytics but just display my home page. I am doing this on the assumption that Google Analytics tracks the URL in the address bar - is this correct? i.e. www.domain.com/landingpage google sees URL of www.domain.com/landingpage user sees content from www.domain.com (home page)


New URL after doing redirect using 301

If we do a redirect 301, one my expired job to another URL in my site, Google will record this redirection. But what if this original job URL appears again say after 1 year. Will Google remember this redirection even after a year or so?


Google Analytics: Tracking multiple domain names of one website

Suppose I have the website **www.example.com** and **www.example2.com**. I redirect all page requests from **www.example2.com** to their corresponding pages at **www.example.com**. Is there a way for Google Analytics to track visits at **www.example2.com**? I read http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55503 and suggested to add tracking code to the links on my second domain ( **www.example2.com** ). However, I don't have pages in my second domain as it always redirects to the other one. Is it possible to track multiple domains this way?


How do I create DNS records

My domain points to a rails app hosted on Heroku. Is it possible to have blog.mydomain.com point to a WordPress installation somewhere else, e.g. Dreamhost?


How does Google decide when to bold synonyms for query keywords?

When you type keywords in the search, Google will bold the requested keywords as well as their synonyms. For example if you type Japanese cars, the synonyms like vehicles will be bold as well. But not all of them are bold, sometimes even car is not bold either. Is there a certain rule when Google decide when to bold certain keywords and their synonyms? Is there a way to find out what synonyms use for each keyword?


What's the maximum length of the meta keywords tag?

Could you please tell me that what is the maximum length for meta keywords?


What search queries give my site highest rank?

This is just a curiosity to me. Is there a reasonable way to find out what queries put my site near the top of search results? I know it's not really a solvable problem, since there's an unlimited number of potential queries. And I could always search for a unique sentence copied from my site, and show up number one. But, for example, it would be neat if Google kept track of the top results for every query and let you search for your site against _that_.


Where to find twitter analytics data?

I cannot find twitter analytics data on ads.twitter.com On many articles is written that I just need to click the "Analytics" tab but I can't find it! ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7CZzY.png)


Read data from a folder in main domain folder (CPanel\WHM)

I have defined a host in my CPanel\WHM server and put all my websites under one host account. The host Main Domain is `domain.com`, and all other websites are Add-on Domains:               domain.com       --folder       --domain1       --domain2       --domain3       ...      The thing I need is that when calling `domain.com` in browser, the server read files from another folder. for example when call `http://domain.com` it shows us `http://domain.com/folder` BUT I don't mean a redirection, I want server do this in background without showing visitors the real path. I couldn't do this with Domain WildCard Redirection because it got error. How can I do this? With htaccess or ... ?


Why Is Another Domain Resolving To My IP Address?

I'm not really sure if this is something that I should worry about... I'm currently renting a dedicated server which is hosting a website I've created. The domain of the website was registered with GoDaddy. After submitting a sitemap to Google several months ago, I've noticed that another domain name is resolving to my IP address. This means that every page on my website is actually accessible from another domain. As far as I can tell, the other domain name is meaningless to me, so I'm not sure if this is something I should worry about or not. Is this a residual DNS record from another site that is probably no longer in use? Is it important from the standpoint of either security or SEO? My website is a .com which will later serve e-commerce purposes. The other domain has a top-level domain of st. It's the first one of those that I've encountered.


dynamic website development help

I am wondering is there such thing as a WYSIWYG / graphical editor for PHP based website such as Drupal and Joomla? I am from the print world, working with code and database just driving me nuts! Thanks~ Jeno


The Best Title for my Skill Set

I'm about to branch off into the freelance world. I'm starting an LLC and I'd like some input on what I should title myself as the owner. For example "creative specialist" or "creative technician" or something like that. My services would be:   * Website design / development   * Graphic design: icon design, templates, web graphics, business cards / brochures / letterheads / etc.   * Writing: content writing/copywriting, technical writing, editing / proofreading / copyediting   * Photography, photo editing Does anybody have any ideas on some general terms that would apply to this type of business?


How to Configure Name Servers using Webmin in Unmanaged VPS on Centos

I want to configure my site's name servers and all related stuff. I'm not able to find any good documentation steps to do it straight-forwardly without understanding the natty-gritty of this. I wish I could afford managed Vps I feel that I'm the odd one out looking for this documentation. I've followed doc at these places:   1. http://www.webtop.com.au/blog/how-to-setup-dns-using-webmin-2009052848   2. http://www.beer.org.uk/bsacdns


Problems using PHP on a Plesk Windows dedicated server

I'm having a few issues with my dedicated Windows server that has a Plesk panel: 1.) I can't send e-mail via PHP's `mail()` function, it always returns the following error: > SMTP server response: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable or > not local Which setting should I alter in order to enable sending mail? 2.) The `exec()` and `passthru()` PHP functions don't work; their outputs are blank even when I try to run simple commands such as `dir`. Is there an option that I can toggle in the control panel to enable this functionality?


Domain name explanations

I recently thought to myself why certain websites have very unique domain names. Is it possible for a website to have for example `www.aboutus.example.com` instead of `www.example.com/aboutus` ? Like for Stack Exchange, it has many different domain names? Is that what it's called? Domain names? For example:   * `http://android.stackexchange.com/`   * `http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/`   * `http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/` So if I want my website to have quite a few pages, can I actually create a website with   * `www.aboutus.example.com`   * `www.home.example.com`   * `www.contactus.example.com` What is this actually called and is it possible?


Is it good to buy multiple domains for competitive reasons?

I am attempting to convince the higher ups at my company that spending **_$55_** to renew one domain for a year is bad when they end up having 3-4 domains names for one website. They're reasoning for doing so is to keep these domains names out of the hands of the competition. For example, the company name is **Pie Consulting & Engineering**. They want to buy up `pieforensicconsulting.com` to keep it out of the hands of a competitor (we also do forensic engineering). Could a competitor use that domain in any kind of diabolical way? I mean I figure if someone is typing in `pieforensiconsulting` into the URL field, they know what they're looking for and if it redirects to another company, they're not just going to stay on the site.


RDFa + microdata + xhtml5 - Ranking factors

My website a Legal Search Engine lawmirror.com and there are about 600k records available online. Currently using xHTML5 and on some pages Microdata tags. Same record appears many times on different keywords search. Google already crawled about 1000K pages but traffic is very low. Does using the RDFa, improve the ranking and traffic.


Questions regarding web hosting

I'm about to purchase a shared web hosting plan at dreamhost but I have a few questions before I do.   1. Since I live in Sweden and gonna register a domain in the U.S I don't really know the laws regarding web hosting. Is it legally right to upload poster and cover art images for movies, music and other media? Shouldn't most companies see this as a positive thing? If someone owning one of these images would say that I must remove them, I would of course.   2. I don't have any experience using Dreamhost so I'm gonna try it out and see if I'm happy with it I keep it and if I'm not I can get my money back if I cancel in 97 days. Does anyone have any experience with Dreamhost, if so, what did you think?   3. If I would cancel my account, do I still own the domain? Found this on their wiki: > If you choose to cancel your account, we will disable your account with > DreamHost, yet you will retain ownership of any domain names that you have > purchased. If, in the future, you would like to have your domain point to a > different web host (say it ain't so!) you will be able to log in to the > Account Control Panel, and make your change there.   4. The content I upload, do I or Dreamhost own it? Don't know if webmasters is the correct Stackexchange site to ask this question so feel free to move it.


Which tags to use for good SEO on the page

I have a event page, where it has the following items.   1. Event Name   2. Venue Name(s) {some cases go upto 5 or more venues}   3. Event Info {Genre(s),Language,type(s)}   4. Date(s) on which the event is.   5. Event Description. Since, the Event name is unique, and present in the title, I am assigning `<H1>` to it.   However, venue names are multiple, plus the same venue may be repeated across the page, along with dates.   (Each)Event Info, is used a single time on the page Dates, are descriped in a styled manner using multiple spans, however, I am going to use a `title` on them. Event description is in `<p>` tag. So My question is which heading tags to use for a good symentic description and SEO.   Also the `title` on the dates, which format should I keep the date in? (dd/mm/yyyy)?


Optimizing large scale e-commerce sites

I have a few questions regarding optimizing large scale e-commerce sites with getting indexed. Over 1 million pages. Should you optimize images for e-stores with over 1 million product images? Should anything be automated for e-stores with over 1 million pages? What can be automated?


mod_rewrite issue, won't work when links contain "-"

I've been looking into mod_rewrite for my simple PHP CMS for a couple of days now and I found a rule that was supposed to work for me:               RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ view_post.php?url=$1      This is supposed to take www.domain.com/example-post to the view_post.php page and query the post from a DB. This doesn't work if there are "-" dashes in the name. However, if I try www.domain.com/examplepost, it will work as I can see the view_posts.php page loading and the SQL being constructed correctly, however no content loads because obviously that won't match anything in the DB. I could go a couple of ways around this, one would be to try to query the DB with both dashes and without, easily removed from the text with substr, however I would like for that rewrite rule to work with dashes as well for now. This is probably something related to the regexp, however it is beyond my comprehension. Any help will be much appreciated!


How does this website work?

By the looks of it this website is just a feed of articles from other sites. How does it import the whole articles like this? and how is the site ranking at all with the lack on original content? I am interested in finding out what would be involved with making a site similar to Mashable. I would want people to be able to login and add topics to their account, then the user has a feed of all the news for their topics. I was thinking of using Google news RSS feeds but I'm not sure. any suggestions?


Open-source trouble ticket system

I would like to centralize the support of my many sites. I'm looking for a open source trouble ticket system which: 1) I can host it myself or it can be hosted by a third party (think Wordpress) 2) It has email aliases, so the real email addresses will not be disclosed to the support person Which system would you suggest me?


Making search engine crawl my site

I have a site with visitors from all over the world, and I'm trying to optimize indexed pages on search engines beside Google (he indexed most of my pages). I see that on Japan search engines I'm aware of (rakuten & ocnsearch.goo) I have about 15% of my pages indexed. On Baidu & Yahoo & Bing I have only ~0.5% although I've given them sitemaps weeks ago. How can I make other search engines crawl my site? Is there a list of sites I should submit site maps to? Any tips?


will my continuing to use EW4 become a handicap someday later?

I am using Expression Web 4 SP 2 for building my web site but Microsoft says they won't do any further development. I keep hearing about HTML5 and XHTML, etc. and sure sure if my continuing to use EW4 will become a handicap someday later? Please advise. Thanks.


Can Programming Websites Be Accepted for Google Adsense?

Are programming sites not getting Adsense approval? I have a site with few articles. I intend to write more, but i looked around on the net and found out that programming and coding sites are not being accepted anymore. Is this true?


SEO of <span> in <h1> header

Does the `<span>` element have any SEO side-effects? Are there any semantic preferences between the following two or parsing differences between search engines? ## Clean `<h1>`:
Search Optimised Heading
      ## vs `<span>` in `<h1>`:
Search Optimised Heading


URL not found after rewrite

Using this _.htaccess_ file:               Options +FollowSymLinks      Options +Indexes      RewriteEngine On           RewriteRule matches/(.*)-v-(.*) matches/matchevent.php?event=$1%20v%20$2 [R=301,L]      This url: `http://www.example.com/sport/league/matches/team1-v-team2` rewrites to: `http://www.example.com/sport/league/matches/matchevent.php?event=team1%20v%20team2` However, the browser returns this:               Not Found     The requested URL www.example.com/sport/league/matches/team1-v-team2 was not found on this server.      The _.htaccess_ file is inside the `matches` directory where `matchevent.php` is. I have also tried it in the `league` directory. Could someone help me?


When do hours start when viewing visitors by hour in Google Analytics

When I use Google Analytics to view my website visitors by hour, when does the hour start and finish? For example, if Google Analytics tells me that I have 17 visitors at 14:00, does that mean I have 17 visitors between 1300 and 1400, or between 14:00 and 15:00, or between 13:30 and 14:30?


How can I see the referring domain of visitors who's source is a campaign?

Using Google Analytics, we have a campaign that is tracked as CPC, and has several possible sources. The campaign is tagged (using utm_campaign, utm_source and utm_medium) and tracking correctly, as are all the sources. One of the sources sends us traffic from several domains, but I see no way to separate out the domains in my reports. So let's say the campaign is called "Stack Exchange" and the source could be 'Webmasters' or 'Web Applications'. If 'Webmasters' can send traffic from 'webmasters.stackexchange.com' or from 'www.stackexchange.com' - how can I see this info? If I go to Traffic Sources > Sources > Campaigns and click the campaign and then the source in question, the only thing that shows up under the 'Source/Medium' column is the name of the source (like 'Webmasters'). It is not the same as going into Traffic Sources > Sources > Referrals, in this case the 'Source' column shows the domain, but campaign traffic is not included here. It seems like if a referrer is tagged as being part of a campaign and has a source, the source in the tag overrides the referring domain. Is there a way to get the domain as well?


How to name image files in multi language site?

I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example. What would be the proper convention to name image files? From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name it according to on which site it will be uploaded. It would be waste of resources IMO and unnecessary job to do. What do you think about this one?


Looking for free and reliable host for images

For this, I'm looking for a free and reliable host for images, where I can share the image with a direct link. Google Picasa is not a good option because it produces a very long direct link, any other suggestions?


How to calculate the actual count of downloads through bandwidth

I have a freeware hosted on my website, and use webalizer to track the traffic. I can get the data of my installation file from webalizer in section "Top 10 of 583 Total URLs By KBytes" (till Jan. 23):   * Hits: 21753 (6.45%)   * KBytes: 40150088 (91.27%) The size of installation file is 6564989 bytes, suppose it's 6565 Kbytes. Then the total downloads can be simply calculated as: 40150088 / 6565 = 6115, convert to weekly downloads will be 6115 / 23 (till Jan. 23) * 7 (days/week) = 1861. Now comes with my questions:   * Is the total downloads 6115 accurate here?   * What does the 21753 Hits mean? 2/3 of the hits failed or people using multi-thread download tools?


Is it possible to redirect a Google Apps (sub)domain to an external URL?

I'm using Google Apps to handle my personal email under my own domain. I would like to redirect (when it comes to typing a URL in a browser) traffic from the "naked domain" or at least a subdomain to my Facebook profile or an about.me page etc. Is this possible?


www in Sitemap URL's

I was under the impression that `www` was deprecated but a lot of the sitemap generators seem to rather I use it. I know that Google doesn't like if I mix the two, IE if the URL of the sitemap is `http://domain.com/sitemap.xml` and the internal links show `www.` etc. Can anyone enlighten me? Edit: Thanks for all the answers but I think I haven't been specific enough in the question, sorry; what I was trying to find out was why it seemed that the sitemap generators wanted me to put the `www` version in... I discovered from reading Dan Diplo's answer below that I was making a mistake in thinking that I could simply choose at the sitemap generator stage which was the canonical version - in my case anyway this had already been chosen (by me) at my server level and typing the other version into the generators was causing strange results. Thanks for the other informative answers too.


How Does One Make a Sitemap for a Flex Website?

I've got a Flex website and I'm not sure how to make a sitemap for it. For a standard HTML page, sitemaps are straight forward. As Flex sites use a "pageless" architecture, I'm not sure what I should do. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. UPDATE: As I understand it, Google doesn't look at anything after the # in a URL. So in a deeplinked Flex site, Google wouldn't see the second page-- where it reads view=12 in the sample sitemap below. Or does Google handle sitemaps differently? Should I go ahead and make a sitemap with all of the deeplinked URLS: http://brainpinata.com/#view=12, http://brainpinata.com/#view=4, etc.               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">        <url>           <loc>http://www.brainpinata.com/</loc>           <lastmod>2010-12-01</lastmod>           <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>           <priority>1.0</priority>        </url>             <url>           <loc>http://brainpinata.com/#view=12</loc>           <lastmod>2010-12-01</lastmod>           <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>           <priority>1.0</priority>        </url>     </urlset>      Thank you. -Laxmidi


Does placing Google Analytics code in an external file affect statistics?

I'm working with an outside software vendor to add Google Analytics code to their web app, so that we can track its usage. Their developer suggested that we place the code in an external ".js" file, and he could include that in the layout of his application. The StackOverflow question "Google Analytics: External .js file covers the technical aspect, so apparently tracking is possible via an external file. However, I'm not quite satisfied that this won't have negative implications. Does including the tracking code as an external file affect the statistics collected by Google?


Improving FAQ SEO with multiple pages?

I have a client who has over 200 Question/Answer style content blocks. Neither the questions or answers are very long and most of them have almost the same question but with a word or two differentiating themselves from the rest of the questions. Would SEO be helped or hurt if I would to put each QA on its own page with the title of the page the question being asked etc... Or, would that be considered "farming"? If not, what would be the best way (in SEO world) do present all these QAs? Thanks for any advice..


Free web mangement control panel

Hey guys I need some help. I will also apologize for not being able to be more specific. I'm looking for a specific web admin panel. that uses a login page via port 2222 or 4444. This is not vanilla forum or any forum. So the only way I know how to make this a legit question is to ask what "free" control panels do you use to manage your web sites. This means files and domains. Why do you use it? Where is it located?


Google Analytics: Greater number of pageviews from entrance source than content details

Looking at the Content Detail for a single page in Google Analytics (e.g. /blog), it's reporting that the page has had 94 Pageviews and 86 Unique Views. When I look at the page entrance sources it shows 136 pageviews and 121 unique pageviews from 4 different domains. Why is the number of pageviews reported in the Entrances Sources larger than the number in the Content Detail?


Are blog posts with the tags in tag clouds bad for SEO?

I usually know this stuff, but its a real concern. (I'm tired so i hope this makes sense.) I make a post and then add tags in the Wordpress backend. For example, the title of the post is "make big money". In the tag area I'm adding **make big money** , or **tools to make big money** , or **how does blogging make big money**. I'm wondering as these tags that are the ones usually in tag clouds. Are they still OK to use with all the Google updates? All those different tags go to the same post page. So I'm wondering if its considered duplicate content.


SEO best practices for a web feature that uses geolocation by IP Address

I'm working on a feature that tailors content based on a geo location lookup by IP address in order to provide information based on the general area where this visitor is from. I'm concerned that content will be interpreted as focused solely on the search engine spider's geo origin when it is indexed. Are there SEO best practices for geo location by ip address features? I appreciate any specific tips or words of wisdom.


Need to redirect Wordpress category archives

I recently changed my Wordpress category structure a bit, changing some of the names and placing some under different parent categories. I don't use category name in my post URLs, so that's not a problem. But my category archive pages are indexed and have page rank I don't want to lose. So I need to redirect: "/category/old_cat_name" to "/category/new_cat_name".   Or in some cases to /new_cat_name/new_sub_cat. I gather that I can't do this though the WP Redirection plugin and that I have to modify my .htaccess. Can someone show me what lines to add there--or is there another better way to do this? Thanks.


Sitemap: Hierarchical layout possible?

Is it possible to design my sitemap hierarchically? My site is laid out hierarchically into               World=>Continent=>Country=>State=>City=>Articles       Can I design my sitemap xml like this? Is there a benefit?


Using Google Analytics to establish busiest time of day

I am trying to find a way to establish my sites busiest hour, but when using the "hour of the day" metric, each seems to have a date specific code, rather than just a number from 0-23, as I would expect. Any ideas how to obtain this info, or if I should be using a different service?


OpenSourec PHP and MySQL based POS application

I was looking OpenSource PHP and MySQL based POS(point of sail) web application. easy to use for users and flexible for customizing the future. Which alive project you recommend? Thanks,


Googlepages URLs (to my old site) are no longer redirected to Google Sites

For a couple of years, I maintained a "mirror" of my blog on a free page hosted in Googlepages. Over the years, people started using links to that mirror instead of the primary site - and the Google bot learned about it, thus offering responses with URLs that pointed to the mirror (ttsiodras.googlepages.com) domain. After some time, Google announced it would migrate Googlepages to Google Sites, where people wouldn't be able to write their own HTML/CSS/JS, and instead would be forced to use an online editor. I had no desire to spend any effort doing that, so I (a) setup the redirection offered by Google, from the mirror URLs (ttsiodras.googlepages.com/whatever) to the new Google Sites page (https://sites.google.com/site/ttsiodras) and (b) modified my Google Sites page to contain direct links to my main blog page. That way, the "mirror" URLs could still be used to find the content. And it worked fine. Until now - or at least, until recently. I checked yesterday, and found out that URLs to the mirror site (ttsiodras.googlepages.com) are now getting 404s, and are not redirected to Google Sites. Did something change, recently, in the way these redirects work? (I checked some other peoples googlepages and it appears that it's not a "global" thing - they work). Maybe the redirection was a temporary service offered by Google? If so, I can't understand why - the resources involved in this are surely trivial for someone like Google. I have already asked on the Google forums, but got no response. Any hints/suggestions most welcome.


Aligning Images in Tables and Lists

I am trying to layout a list vertically that has a checkbox, image and description.... see here for an example... http://www.sk8loc8.com/deposit/list.jpg As you can see the images look a bit too high and i would like them to 'sink' a little to line up with the text and checkbox. i put them in a table to get around the issue, but it acts just the same as an unordered list and the image sits higher. i tried using valign=top for the text and checkbox but this doesnt seem to work, neither does adding a bottom-margin to the text, or adding a top-margin to the image. does anyone have any advice? here is the markup...

                 <input type="checkbox" />	                 	                 Park

                 <input type="checkbox" />	                 	                 Recommended Park

                 <input type="checkbox" />	                 	                 Skate Shop

                 <input type="checkbox" />	                 	                 Unconfirmed Park

      and the old code, as an unordered list...

                         Park

                         Recommended Park

                         Skate Shop

                         Unconfirmed                         Park


Switching hosting from Google Apps to GoDaddy

I am in a pickle here. I just bought a hosting service from GoDaddy and I already have a domain registered with Google Apps. So I went into the domain control center from Google Apps and I changed the nameservers to point to GoDaddy's and then I deleted all the A records and also removed the www and main CNAME. Then I created an A record with host "@" which points to the IP address I got from GoDaddy (this is the server address I see under the category Server in the GoDaddy Hosting Control Center). Also, I see that in this domain center, the domain forwarding is set to forward to my address "www.domainsite.com". So right now when I go to my website I see the error "This website is temporarily unavailable, please try again later." Does anyone know how to set this up properly or know what problem I could be having? Thanks!


Download Link for Custom File Type

I have a client that wants to make their products firmware files available for download on their website. The firmware files have a custom extension: .bi2. The client wants the files to be downloaded directly and not placed in a container (like a .zip file). Is there an IIS setting that will instruct the browser to download the .bi2 file instead of trying to open it as a webpage? Thanks in advance for your help!


302 redirect to homepage from removed pages

I have a site on which, when a content page gets marked as deleted, a 302 redirect to the homepage is performed. So `www.mysite.com/page/3424/my-slug` 302 redirects to `www.mysite.com` if that page gets removed. This is how I bought the site. I would like to issue 404s instead of those redirects, as I don't see how that indicates to search engines that the page was removed. The problem is that most of the site's traffic (around 115k visitors/day) is from search engines, so I don't want to break anything by doing this. What is the expected SE behavior if I do 404s instead of 302s, from your experience? Note that a lot of pages will get affected, there is content being removed and added daily.


Is a Google Analytics view updated when a filter is removed?

Several months ago a filter was erroneously added to a view for an entire domain. E.g. The view for `example.com` was accidentally limited to `raresubdomain**\\\\.example.com`, so almost no data shows up since that day. I've just removed this filter, and data for the full domain is now showing up in the Real-Time section, but will the view of the past days be updated in response to my filter removal? If not, is there anyway to request an update, or access all that data my site was sending them?


What are the best resources for a graphic designer looking to get into web design?

A friend of mine is a very competent graphic designer who wants to expand their skills and get into web design (just the visual design, no coding). While some skills certainly transfer over, web design also has its own specific disciplines that a print designer may not be familiar with (user experience/interaction design, web accessibility, differences in formats etc.). So what would you recommend as the best books/web sites/other resources for a graphic designer looking to get into web design? General introductory resources would be excellent, but if there's anything out there specifically covering graphic designers looking to transfer their skills over that would be fantastic. Thanks.


What is a good way to get many inbound links to your site?

How do you get links to your site from other sites?


Greater PHP version required

I have bought a new hosting plan and trying to install WordPress from the beginning. I am new with the installer I am using now. The error I get is unusual for me and i cant manage this problem. Should I wait my host feedback or I could solve it by myself? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/F5SG2.png) I think i need to update PHP version but I do not know HOW to...


Is it really a security problem to have non secure assets on an ssl page?

My understanding is that this is just an example of being overly cautious, but if my checkout form contains an unsecure asset on it, that doesn't endanger anybody's credit card numbers from being caught by a man-in-the-middle. I'm asking this because every once in while, maybe because of cached content or whatnot, somebody writes in saying that they are seeing this "error" (even though there are no unsecure assets on my page), but they want an explanation. So yes, I can tell all about encryption and certificates and trust and men-in- the-middle. But what do I tell them about this. How do I convince them that the site is 100% safe (and if it isn't let me know that I'm mistaken!)


Geolocalization and Redirection

I have a multilanguage website. My project was to add the Geolocalization so base on the country that open the site to redirect in the specific url with the right language. The structure of the website is               www.domainname (main domain)     it.domainname (subdomains for the languages)     de.domainname (subdomains for the languages)      All works fine but today i realize that i have the following problem. When someone from Italy try to open the website will be redirect to it.domainname. BUT if he wants to click in Flag of Emglish site(which is the www.domain) redirected again to the it.domainname. If wants to open any other language of the site it's not has a problem. My rule in .htaccess is the following:               RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^IT$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://it.domainanme.com/$1 [R=303,L]


Can I create a private shop with a public gallery with Magento?

I want to do a shop with a public gallery listing all my products, with texts and images. The gallery is not a shop, you cannot buy. Behind it, I want a private section with a shop, where the same products are listed in tables with all the necessary options to buy. Each customer for the shop will have a separate account. In the shop and the gallery products are on different page according to their categories. Is Magento able to do that ?


Google Analytics: Why is Avg Time on Site lower than Avg time on Page?

I have the following Custom Report set up in Google Analytics: Metrics:   * Avg Time on Page   * Avg Time on Site Dimensions:   * Page So a report looks like this:               Page                    Avg Time on Page         Avg Time on Site     /an-article             00:03:14                 00:00:11     /another-article        00:05:11                 00:01:07     /something-written      00:03:00                 00:00:31      Why is it that for each 'page', the 'site views' are significantly lower?


New traffic sources

How can I track _new_ traffic sources for my site? (with google analytics or other tool) For example, if site is mentioned on forum it gets some visits from here, but it isn't visible (easy) in traffic sources report because number of visits relatively small.


Will changing only a few keywords avoid duplicate content penalties?

If I reuse the content of the website, for example if the content of my Website for the URL `www.mydomain.com/NewYork` is `The Best Brown Bread in New York`, then if someone opened my other example URL `www.mydomain.com/Chicago` its content should be `The Best Brown Bread in Chicago`. My content is mostly static but replaced by the last word in the URL, then for `www.mydomain.com/myword` the keyword is "myword" and the output for the content comes like `The Best Brown Bread in myword` So, in case of large text, replacing just one word or few words will work? Or will Google penalize me for this?


Best SEO Practice for a long domain name?

I'm starting a website, with a domain name longer than 20 characters. The domain name is long but it is "memorizable", and it targets the keywords nearly perfect. So let's say my site is about learning how to play the guitar, and the domain name is learnhowtoplaytheguitar.com (this is not real) Now, obviously many users won't want to type that long phrase in the address bar, or Google search bar. So I'm planning of creating a "brand name" like **letplag** (kind of an abbreviation for _learn how to play the guitar_ ) so it is easier for future loyal-visitors. And I will have much greater chance with that query. So my first question is, should I do this, or make the brand name also "learn how to play the guitar" ? What I mean is,   * Should I try to utilize the power of the keyword-rich domain, and make my site title equal to the domain name,   * Or should I increase my chances of being in the first place, by creating a unique keyword? And if you are pro-letplag, my real question is, how should I do it? for example, -part of- site title can be "letplag", so the article titles can be like,               "learn major chords in guitar - letplag"      But I think this will decrease my chances for "learn how to play the guitar" query. Can I somehow associate the word "letplag" with guitar learning, in the eyes of Google, by making my social-media account names "letplag", or by any other means ? Thanks for any help !


What is the definition of "Avergage Monthly Searches" in Keyword Planner

Is the number represented in Average Monthly Searches the number of searches for that specific keyword and the maximum amount of possible clicks to my site? It seems the answer is obviously yes, but I need to confirm this as the average searches for one of my keywords is 400 which, if the above is true, will not be sufficient and I'll have to find a better keyword. This keyword gives me a 7 PR, but does nothing for volume. As a starting website, is there a good (minimum) number of monthly searches for a specific keyword that I should be targeting, but that is not overly competitive?


Does PageRank flow to pages that are only listed in the sitemap.xml?

Let's say you have a small website that has a PR of 3. On top of that you have on the domain itself a blog that is not linked to the website. The blog along with its posts are however listed in the _sitemap.xml_. Because they are listed in the _sitemap.xml_ Google will index them. Do they however gain any PageRank as well?


the zen of adwords

I'm a hardcore developer gone freelance and I'm getting more and more requests for adwords from my clients. I've just started to read up on it, and of course I'm starting with wikipedia and have moved onto the main site now. I wanted to post here if anyone has some tips or some good blog entires that describe how it works. Strategy posts would be awesome. As always, thanks!


Is there a way to disallow crawling of only HTTPS in robots.txt?

I just realized that Bingbot is crawling my company's website's pages over `https`. Bing already crawls the site over `http`, so this seems frivolous. Is there a way to specify `Disallow: /` for `https` only? According to Wikipedia, each protocol has its own robots.txt And according to Google's Robots.txt Specification, the `robots.txt` applies to `http` AND `https` I don't want to `Disallow: /` for Bing totally, just over `https`.