Blog is not indexing in google search

I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped indexing my blog in its search results. Can anyone answer why this happening?


How to promote travel blog?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?   >  How can I increase the traffic to my site? I know this question might seem a little off topic, but blogging may become important part of travel. Nowadays, in time of Facebook, Twitter and similar services, keeping a travel blog may seem a little _archaic_. It's not 2005 anymore. But a lot of my travel colleagues update their blogs and have significant number of readers. I also tried to keep my blog when I travel. However it seems that the only reader is my mum ;) **What is your advice on promoting a _travel_ blog?**


How to start learning SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm a web developer (.NET) and a newbie to the SEO world! Where and how to start ? What are the steps to go from a newbie to be a more experienced SEO ? Thanks in advance =)


My website not getting any traffic, How to get traffic?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I increase the traffic to my site? I have done pretty nice SEO of my website , the website is made in php , anyone can submit article and the submitted articles are moderated by the moderators , the site is online from more then a month but still the user count is 10-20 only total impressions are 700 according to webmaster google , how much time does google webmaster takes to refresh the data , cause from 3 -4 days the impressions shown in the dashboard are 700 only , I am posting 2 article each day , please help me , I am very disappointed with all my effort and i really need a good motivation to carry on my work. Please help my website url is http://www.viewloud.com


Is Anyone Facing Ranking Problem with their Website and indexing is quietly fine?

My Website gosarkarinaukri and sarkarinaukricareer both are Indian Educational Portal, if i update my pages on these websites, it get indexed by Google but they are not ranked properly as they used to do. Problem is, when i copy entire title and paste in Google, Google doesn;t show any Result from my website? Is anyone facing same problem, suggest me any good.


Only 10% of my site are indexed

I'm newbie in Google Webmaster Tools and I use sitemap.xml to submit urls.   The problem is that I've submitted 150 urls and only 17 are indexed! Is that a problem or they will be indexed later?


Hoping to boost traffic to NFP site. SEO info? HELP!

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm doing work for a not-for-profit looking to boost traffic to the site. I need to learn a tremendous amount about SEO and backlinking in a short length of time. Any tips you can give me, or sites you can refer me to, I'll be most grateful. A million thanks, Chaz


How can I increase the traffic to my site?

I don't want to do link exchanges or anything shady. I just want some legitimate ways that I can direct a little bit more traffic to my site. How do I do that?


Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0

Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed. I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find the entries on google when I query the entry name, (e.g "relaxacion.com musica para dormir bebes" shows at the bottom of search results first page) Is there any problem with my wordpress setup?


How can I bring my website up in the google search result?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have developed my website few months ago and I added meta tags and described everything as much as I could but my site is still not on the top when I search kashif ejaz on google. Please help !


After replacing all tables in an old website with divs, what other steps should I take?

I have designed a website a few years back, and it ranks pretty well, customer is happy, no problems there. I took one of the pages and replaced manually all the tables with `<div>`, used structured data and got the website to look exactly the same. I would like to know what other steps should I take to improve or at least not hurt this page's rank, or if perhaps I should just not bother altogether. What are best practices here? By the way, the page is not live yet.


Google crawls my website too slowly

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I think Google crawls it too slowly (every three days). I updated it daily and it's kind of frustrating. Should I build more backlinks? The robots.txt looks ok.


Why isn't my website ranking highly and what can I do to improve it?

What I can improve to make my website rank better on search engines for my target keyword - "address labels". I've tried a lot of things to make it better but I'd love to hear some more suggestions! the address is www.thelabelroom.co.uk


Increase traffic to site

I have made a social networking site and it's been on the web for over 6 months and it has over 8,000 members but I want it to grow bigger. What tools/methods can I use to grow its popularity? e.g CEO, PPC advertising Tools/methods requiring money and without and comparisons? Thanks in advance, Jack.


How to be on google first page results?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the web and find a lot of "techniques" to be on the first page results of google or yahoo. Is it possible to pay for that?


Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo

When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas? Here's my `site:mytgp.ph` query on Google: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GuwCW.png)


Our indexed website appearing and disappearing from Google SERP

Our website www.skadate.com used to appear on Google search when searching for a keyword "dating software", now it doesn't. It doesn't come by any other keyword (it used to come up with) as well. Sometimes our index page appears on SERP, sometimes doesn't', usually a PHP page appears. Why is it happening, any ideas?


cannot find my site in Google/Bing - live 4 months

I have a site, led-lights.ie, which went live in January and it is still getting just a handful of visitors a day. I cannot find it searching Google using various terms even after going through over 20 pages of results. However, site:led-lights.ie shows over 100 pages in google also its images are indexed. Google WMT tools shows no errors and that the XML sitemap has been processed. An Alexa site audit got a score of A/91%, (SEO / Performance / Security / HTML scored A, Reputation C ) only issues being Duplicate or long title tags and duplicate meta descriptions. As far as I can tell, the domain is “new” i.e. no previous usage or penalties. Can anyone see if I’m missing something obvious with this site SEO wise? Thank you.


How to get the content right for better showing in google results

I am looking for basic help or guidelines for making my site earn better visibility in google and other search engine results. My site is a price- comparison engine for products so I want to know what shall feature in my meta keywords, meta description, images and content. For example, you can think of Nokia Lumia 920 as one of the products.


SEO/performance - building blog article page

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I've been using WP up and until now, but want to spread my wings and build a bespoke blog for my website. The reason I want my own blog is that I cannot get my WP site to match the branding/design of my main website, and because my blog is very basic, there is a ton of stuff on WP that I really don't need. I'm using ASP/Windows IIS7 and the URL rewrite module, which is all working fine (tested), plus I've built my database and administration pages. I'm now about to tackle the article page itself. Before I get started with it, I would like to hear some suggestions/ideas/tips on building the page correctly, mainly for enhancing SEO rankings, but for general performance too. I know using heading tags (h1-h6), paragraph tags (p), and alt/title attributes will enhance rankings if used correctly. I'm also familiar with meta keywords and description tags, especially being dynamically produced. What other building requirements are there that will help with successful SE ranking and general performance? Is there anything else I should be aware of when building this article page? And also, I'm not bothered that my user cannot remember the URL of the page, but will using a URL like www.mydomain.com/articles/12334435544 be a problem to SE's, using only numbers (representing article ID) and no text?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why isnt google crawling on my blog? What is the best way to get robots to crawl your site from google? With reference to our site [site elided]


New webserver offering HTML for download, not for browsing

I recently purchased a hosting plan from a provider. They gave me temporary url of accessing the hosting space, controlpanel, ftp details. Now when I deleted all the files from public_html and put up a index.html, then on clicking on the temporary url,everytime a files gets downloaded (with download name). What can be the issue?


Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other

There is a website and the layout looks something like below:               home->approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..          home->not approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..      **On homepage, one would see two links - approved and not-approved.** Once you click on any of the links, relevant entries will come up and then both pages also have filters on top for further drilling, see above. Urls are organized like below:               Home/Approved will pull up all entries.      Home/Approved/Education will pull up education only (and so on).      Home/Approved/Education/Kid will pull up educational kid only (and so on).       **I am planning to organize my sitemap to have two static parent nodes - approved and not approved, and then add all entries dynamically to the sitemap to these two parent nodes and not include sublevels in sitemap at all.** Do you see any problem/pitfall with this approach - in terms of seo or anything else?


What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ideal word count per web page? I'm seeding a new site with hundreds of (high quality) posts, but since I am paying per word written, I'm wondering if anybody in the community has any anecdotal evidence as to how many words of content there should now be for a page to be counted just the same as a 700 word+ post, for example? I know there are always examples of pages ranking well with, for instance, 50 words or less of content, but does anyone have any strong evidence on what the minimum count should be, or has anyone read anything very informative in regards to this issue?


SEO - Is it right that only 20% of visitors come on the homepage?

few days ago I was discussing with a xoogler about percentage of people incoming on a website, and how many of them really come on the homepage. He said that in a website that has been studied well only the 20% of traffic comes from the homepage. I didn't know much about this percentage so I ran to my computer to find out more, but I couldn't find nothing about this percentage. Of course make a xoogler speak is pretty hard, so I'd prefer to make a search by myself, do you have any link of knowledge about this? I understand that the homepage does not have the "really" content an user may be searching for, but I'd read more about who and where did take this percentages.


command-line zip not working

I have a Wordpress site on a Debian/Linux dedicated server, with a Backupbuddy plugin for making automatic backups. The plugin, however, gives an error 'Your server does not support command line ZIP'. My knowledge of Linux commands is very limited, but I managed installing zip with the command `sudo apt-get install zip` However, I still get the same error message. Plugin documentation mentions the problem could also be caused by disabled exec() or safe_mode - but exec isn't disabled, and safe_mode is off. Any ideas what might be causing this, or how to fix it? The only thing I could think of, is it might be caused by wrong permissions?


Can inbound links through template-based layouts result in penalties?

So obviously link building is encouraged as long as it is natural, organic and has meaningful links with content relevant to your site. Obviously with the constant release of new updates to algorithms, Google is flagging sites for unnatural links to their sites. My Question is:   * Can this be caused by templating systems? With WordPress for example, where you can add a link on the footer and it is repeated throughout the entire website generating thousands of links?   * If we don't add any links, Good Content will be re-posted and linked to, surely if your content is constantly linked to this will flag your site for "unnatural" content as it's difficult to see if someone has been paid to write an article on your content.   * Or does Google just simply want us to audit some of the links to show we are making an effort? As you can tell we have had a Manual action for: `Unnatural links to your site—impacts links`. However, this seems to impact our website as well. Edit: To clarify the question: Can you get penalised for paying for advertising on a site that uses a templated sidebar. So when they create a new blog/page ect your link is also added onto the page hence resulting in 1000's of links to one page on our site. I know that one effect maybe a 0 pagerank web page linking to your page dilutes the PR of our page. However the links are only inbound not reciprocal


Remove SSL from Google Search results

I am working on a WordPress site that serves up HTTP pages statically. The problem is that some of the pages are shown as HTTPS in Google Search results. For instance, if the search term " _Example Press Kit_ " is entered the search result site link comes up as:               https://example.com/presskit/      We don't have a site SSL certificate, so surfers are being bounced. I have tried everything. Most recently I created a new website in Google WebAdmin for the HTTPS version of our home page. Then, I added site links that should have redirected site links intended for `https://example.com/*` to `http://example.com/*`, but it doesn't work! Google still shows a dead link to `http://example.com/presskit`. I didn't think dead links lasted very long on Google results, but there they are, two weeks later. Any ideas? A `301 redirect` won't work because the site doesn't even allow redirection from HTTPS. It is served by CloudFlare.


Does shortened URL carry less weight in terms of SEO?

Which backlink would carry more weight in terms of SEO between the original URL to a webpage (like `http://www.example.com/Zqe9`) or a URL shortened from Google (like `goo.gl/Zqe9`)?


How do Expires headers and cache manifest rules work together?

I find the W3C's official Offline Web Applications specification to be rather vague about how the cache manifest interacts with headers such as ETag, Expires, or Pragma on cached assets. I know that the manifest should be checked with each request so that the browser knows when to check the other assets for updates. But because the specification doesn't define how the cache manifest interacts with normal cache instructions, I can't predict precisely how the browser will react. Will assets with a future expiration date be refreshed (no matter the cache headers) when the cache manifest is updated? Or, will those assets obey the normal caching rules? Which caching mechanism, HTTP cache versus cache manifest, will take precedence, and when?


Is Google showing ads from other companies or WordPress plugin is injecting ads which are not mine?

I am using WordPress for managing my blog website. I am using an Ad Injection plugin to place my ads where I want in a post. The plugin seems very good, but I saw some ads which were not from ad networks which I was using. Now I have injected a Google ads leaderboard at some place but I saw advertisement from this advertiser: http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy?utm_source=evidon&utm_medium=AdChoices&utm_campaign=privacy%2Bpolicy So I want to know whether ad injecting plugin is doing some trick or Google is using ads from other networks too?


Redirection based on user's location

I'm about to redirect my French users from mysite.com to mysite.fr. Is it possible using **DNS CNAME records** or should I write some **GEOLocation** codes to do that? I will appreciate any other ideas. Regards,   Shakib


Does iframe affect SEO of its parent page?

I would like to know that, does _iframe_ affect the SEO of its parent page (the page contains _iframe_ )? I've done some searching, such as Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO? and Using iFrame: SEO and Accessibility Points, which tell me that:   * **The content in an iframe** is not considered part of the parent page.   * **The page within an iframe** may be spidered and indexed (or it may be not) but no PR is definitely passed. But these are the content **in the iframe** , what about the parent page? Does the PageRank of the parent page will decrease because the _iframe_? Or maybe Googlebot wouldn't crawl the parent page? Or is the parent page not affected at all?


Does browser understand PHP?

I know that PHP is server side scripting language, but I got confused when asked in an interview if the browser understands PHP? I have Apache installed in my system. If in a PHP file I write `<?php echo 'HELLO' ?>` and I open it in a browser it shows HELLO. Now how does it happen if the browser does not understand PHP?


Using CSS sprites and hidden text - effect on SEO?

I am using CSS sprites for buttons on my website, They are used for stop/play/download etc. If I'm using for example an `<i class="preview">preview "track name"</i>` play button with the text then I hide the text using `text-indent:-9999px`. Would this be enough to get penalised? (keep in mind there can be 60 products per page and each will have 3 sprites with hidden text!)


practical reasons for using separate domains instead of subdomains?

Quite often, I see web sites that draw resources from multiple domains. Made up example: Foo Bar Ltd has a main web site at foobar.com, which references files at fbltdcdn.com and foobar-rewards.net. They send emails directing people to foobarlatestmarketingslogan.com, which immediately makes me think "phishing scam". Why is this a common practice, rather than using cdn.foobar.com, rewards.foobar.com, slogan.foobar.com, etc?


Relative link to a subfolder

Let's assume that I have a website with three files:   `/home/blog.html`   `/home/picture1.jpg`   `/home/files/picture2.jpg`   Now let's edit that _blog.html_ file. When I want to make a link to the current folder, I'll do it this way:   `<a href="./">Current folder</a>`   But what's the right way to make a link to a file in the current folder, to a subfolder or to a file in a subfolder? It can be either:   `<a href="picture1.jpg">Picture 1</a>`   `<a href="files/">Files</a>`   `<a href="files/picture2.jpg">Picture 2</a>`   or   `<a href="./picture1.jpg">Picture 1</a>`   `<a href="./files/">Files</a>`   `<a href="./files/picture2.jpg">Picture 2</a>`   As I checked, both ways work fine in my browser. But I would like to know which of them is the preferred way? Is any of them in some detail slightly better?


How to Distribute File and get Download Statistics?

One of my Clients wan't to distribute there monthly print-magazine also as free PDF download. Similar to HackerMonthly. We are currently not using any CMS so we are open to every solution. I could be done with Google Analytics if I specify a separate Goal for every file that will be available but I hope I do not have to go there. Important statistic would be:   * # of Downloads per File   * Geographic region of the downloader moderator: add tag "file-distribution" if you consider it appropriated


How much Google takes to deindex pages after disallowed from robots?

By accident I have let Google index lots of junk pages. Now I have added them to disallow in _robots.txt_. Will Google completely remove the pages after seeing the are disallowed from robots? Please note that I have far to many pages to manually remove these pages in Google's Webmaster Tools.


Set the base url of any menu item in Joomla

I'm not sure if this belongs here, superuser or stackoverflow I'm using virtual domains, which means that www.company.com has one template www.community.com has another template user accounts are shared the site is also in 2 languages now there is a common global Menu navigation and some links should be on the company.com url and some on the community.com url. however menu links stay on the current domain I'm on for example: 1. i'm on company.com/de/about 2. click on forum link 3. want to land on community.com/de/forum however I land on company.com/de/forum but i don't want to use "external links" because if I am on community.com/en/forum and click on about link i need the url to be company.com/en/about so the urls still need to be dynamic for language support. In other words I want to be able to set the base url of any menu item no matter what component, where should I start? Thanks!


Subdomain versus subdirectory

I recently moved from having a main site like `www.example.com` with a subdomain associated site `yyy.example.com`, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like `www.example.com/yyy/`, with the same hierarchy underneath the subdirectory, and now `yyy.example.com` is just a redirect page to the subdirectory, so `yyy.example.com/abc/page-x` is redirected to `www.example.com/yyy/abc/page-x` and so on. The effect has been that the traffic increased by several times (the total page views are more than ten times at the present rate) what it was to the `yyy` subdomain. Previously almost all of the traffic to the `yyy` subdomain was from the `www` site. This is from monitoring the old `yyy` site for a year or more. I'm curious to know if there's any research or results which would indicate whether this is universal (subdirectories beat subdomains) or "just me".


Do I get penalized for hosting a blog in a subfolder?

First of all, I know this is an ongoing debate, I’ve read forums and seen different opinions but I’m still confused. Here’s my problem. I’ve started my website from scratch (design and code) and now after a couple of months I realized that it’s not very SEO friendly and my search traffic is close to none. As a result I decided to add a Wordpress blog to it as it’s SEO friendly out of the box and has some good plugins like Yoast. My problem here is that I don’t want my current website to affect the blog section (get lower search results on the blog because my website is poorly optimized). On the other hand, I already have a couple of backlinks to my current website because I keep releasing design freebies and people share those (would those links benefit my blog?). As I understood, if you make a blog on a subdomain, then google will treat it as a new website in which case the backlinks won’t help me. If I choose to go with a subfolder then I may benefit from the backlinks but wouldn’t I get penalized because of the existing website which is poorly optimized and maybe has a couple SEO issues that Google doesn’t like?


Optimize SEO: 2 websites or 1 main website and subdomain?

I'm working on a WordPress website of a little company, let say: `www.xxx.com`. Now they want a different website for their workshops. What is the most optimal construction thinking of SEO? 1) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx-workshops.com` 2) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx.com/workshops` 3) `www.xxx.com` + `workshops.xxx.com`


SEO and multiple simple websites

From a **SEO point of view** , which one is "better" for a not so little company: **Having one huge site** containing everything regarding the company **or having multiple one?** I think one site is better, because it is easier to optimize and advertise, but I just started working in a company, where we have multiple simple websites (almost single page) to handle offer requests. My boss don't want this site structure changed. (These sites have no connection at all, but the first thing I would do is link them and by linking I mean adding a page where there are links to the other pages). It is easier to explain through an example. We have domains structured like this (not the real ones):   * forkliftparts.com : for forklift parts   * forkliftseat.com : for ordering seats   * forklifttire.com : handling orders regarding tires   * forkliftbattery.com : and for batteries   * ... The sites are basically the same, with a little color difference. Should I start advertising the pages separately? What could I do to improve the standing in search engines? The sites are built with WordPress and with the use of SEO plugins, so I am more interested in **off-site seo**.


Wordpress installation - Subdomain or as folder?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory I got a client portfolio website and he opens a Wordpress blog with articles related to his profession. What the best for SEO - install it as subdomain or as folder?               www.myclientsite.com/blog/      or               blog.myclientsite.com      This is fresh domain without any previous content.


SEO and location targeting , sub-domain or sub-directory?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory With regards to say a national service that has locations based in 10 cities. Each city needs to have individual content, such as blogs, info pages, etc. Is it better to have (or does it matter): `chicago.example.com` or `example.com/chicago` Furthermore if I go with a subdirectory and each city has a blog, how do I enable it so the blog only effects its parent. For example `example.com/chicago/blog` should not affect `example.com/washington`


example.com/blog vs blog.example.com

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm about to start my own blog (adding it to a domain already owned by me) and I'm wondering what is the best way to set it up. There are two common alternatives for blogs: `domain.com/blog` and `blog.domain.com`. My question is: what are the advantages and disadvantages and of each alternative and which one do you think is the best? (in terms of SEO, etc)


SEO: Is it ever good to use subdomains?

I just built a site that I split up as follows:               www.MAINDOMAIN.com         --> a landing page the redirects you to one of the following pages     blog.MAINDOMAIN.com        --> a blog     restaurants.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a page that lists restaurants     shops.MAINDOMAIN.com       --> a page that lists shops      Problem is, won't google see his as 4 seperate domains? i.e Would I not have been better off with something like this:               www.MAINDOMAIN.com     www.MAINDOMAIN.com/blog     www.MAINDOMAIN.com/restaurants     www.MAINDOMAIN.com/shop


Benefits of placing keywords in domain name

I'm now considering the site structure and I need to choose between productname.mysite.com and mysite.com/productname URL format. Question is the following: is there any ranking reasons to use first type of URL or the difference is behavior factor? If the difference is minor I'd choose the second URL type as it is simpler to handle (Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are not really friendly to multi-domain sites).


Better SEO from sub-directory or sub-domain?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm working on a site that will act as a sort of companion site or sub-site to my main site. Is there a difference in SEO of setting it up on a sub-domain or sub- directory?


For SEO purposes, should I put my blog on a webpage or a subdomain?

For example if I want to post under a webpage called “blog”, should I make that `example.com/blog/category/article` or `blog.example.com/category/article`, assuming that example.com has an about page, a music page, a merchandise page? What is best for SEO, or does it even make difference?


Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Subdomain versus subdirectory Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder               keyword.abc.com      or               abc.com/keyword/      Which of this two is good to manage?


Priority of tags vs posts in a sitemap.xml file

I have a content based website and I'm in the process of creating a sitemap.xml file. I was wondering if it would be best to give high priority to tag urls or to post urls. Has anyone experimented with it ? What will give you better rankings in google and eventually bring in more visitors ? Edit: @John Conde I know that. However I assume that when someone searches for a term for which I have two pages of equal relevance priority may make a difference (at least in some search engines). What I want to find out is how important that suggestion is considered by search engines. To give you an example. I'm publishing a small CSS framework. Once every few months I give away a new release 0.1, 0.2 etc etc. All these posts have the keywords "mainframe css" in the title, url and post body. The same keywords are also found in the relevant tag page (site.com/tag/mainframe-css). I also have a "static" page that serves as a welcome page for the project, with links to all available downloads and stuff. So the way I see it, there are maybe 10 pages of equal relevance. However I want visitors to be taken to the project page. One solution I can think of is linking from every post page to the project page. Anyway thanks for the answers people. You got me covered :)


What do you call the effect when you gray out the background behind a dialog?

What do you call that effect? Looks like this ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YqDmF.png)


Hosting speed tests?

Are there any sites to test the speed of your hosting? I know there are sites that will tell you why your site is slow, e.g. - YSlow, etc., but how about the speed of bandwidth you get from your hosting provider?


Best Practise for Micro-Sites that Google will not consider to be doorways

On behalf of my client, I have purchased a few really good URLs, to assist with their SEO. I want to understand whether my proposed use of these domains, as micro-sites to _encouraged_ visitors to visit the main site, will result in blacklisting.                Here's my invented example:          'Farmaceuticals' Ltd. They sell big, purple Tractors.      I would like to know whether is acceptable practise thesedays. If not, can something be done with micro-sites that is acceptable? Apart from the desired action of users clicking through to the main site, I want to ensure all other features are above-board, such as not using hidden keywords and focusing each site on one specific feature.    Examples:   * www.bigtractors.com:    _"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the biggest tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com"_      * www.purpletractors.com:    _"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the most purple tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com"_    What makes a micro-site a destination worth ranking, and not to be seen as a direct doorway to redirect visitors? One _extreme_ step could be to provide content that its completely unique to each micro-site, and does not appear on the main site. But, I wonder whether despite all efforts, having a link to take people elsewhere will make each micro-site appear as a 'doorway' whatever I do?


Understanding the EU Cookie Directive Rules?

I work on a service that has multiple EU clients. The service is hosted and maintained in the US. Before I even worry about compliance, I'm trying to figure out whether my service needs to comply at all. Is there an anything out there that explains the new EU cookie directive rules in plain English?


Will using social submitting/seo marketing tools harm my site in the long run?

I'm looking to drive more traffic to some blogs I maintain. We've had good success with submitting to sites like Reddit and Digg but the process is long and tedious with the amount of content we have. I saw products like Social Submitter and xgenseo that automatically create accounts (scarily xgen also creates dummy yahoo mail accounts and even solves the captcha) and submits articles for you. The tools seem like an extremely easy way of building up back links on relevant and important social sites without the tediousness of doing it manually. The only thing I'm worried about is that using tools like this will eventually harm my blogs traffic. Does anyone have any experience with such tools or opinions on the subject?


fsockopen() error : Network is unreachable port 43 in php

i've writed some Php code that lookup for domain (whois) but it fails !! this is some of my code :               function checkdomain($server,$domain){     global $response;         $connection = fsockopen($server,43);         fputs($connection, "domain " . $domain . "\r\n");         while(!feof($connection)){             $response .= fgets($connection, 4096);         }         fclose($connection);     }     checkdomain("whois.crsnic.net","www.example.com");      the code work on my localhost ( apache,php,mysql, OS -> Win XP ) but when i uploaded it to my host (Linux) it failed. and i always see the Below Error/message : Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to whois.crsnic.net:43 (Network is unreachable) in /home/hamid0011/public_html/whois/whois.php on line 37 what should i do ? is this my host's problem or whois server ( but it work in localhost ) or my code ? TNX


Why won't webmail receive emails from outside my domain?

I'm new to GoDaddy Linux cPanel web hosting. I've created multiple email accounts @my-domain using cPanel. These addresses can send mail successfully to each other and also to any other email account outside my domain (like Gmail). But all emails @my-domain can only receive email from each other not from outside my domain. That is, if I send an email from my Gmail to my @my-domain account it doesn't appear in my @my-domain account web mail inbox. Why is this happening and what's the solution?


What is the meaning of this sitemap error in Google Webmaster Tools?

In my Google Webmaster Tools, I received an error which I am not understanding: > When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of > the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible > misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a > 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All > reachable URLs will still be submitted. I received this warning for a URL that is currently working perfectly. Can you please tell me if this a serious warning, or what it means?


Get IP range of "Microsoft Corp" network provider

I'd like to find the IP range of the "Microsoft Corp" network provider. How can I find this out? So far I've only been able to find this site which has a list of ip addresses, not necessarily an explicit range. There is a related Stack Overflow question, but doing a "whois `157.56.237.102`" on any whois site I've yet found doesn't give a range (have left a comment hoping for clarification)


Google Blogger Website CName and/or Text File Issues

I have a blogger Blog website and I would like to have it show up on my company website. I have read a couple articles out there on how to do it. A hand full of them talk about using FTP which is old and no longer available. However, I am trying to following along with this one: http://www.infinite42.com/small-business/integrate-blogger-blog-website Which seems pretty easy but I am having a problem getting Google to Verify the DNS CName or Text Record that I created on my Windows 2007 Server. Do I need to create this record at the registrar level. Right now the domain is setup at the registrar to point the www record to my server where on my server I tried the Txt Record and the CName Record with no luck in DNS. Here are the Google instructions for creating a CName file record in DNS: Follow the steps below to create a DNS (Domain Name System) record that proves to Google that you own the domain. Add the CNAME record below to the DNS configuration for abc.com. CNAME Label / Host: CNAME Destination / Target: Click Verify below. When Google finds this DNS record, we'll make you a verified owner of the domain. (Note: DNS changes may take some time. If we don't find the record immediately, we'll check for it periodically.) To stay verified, don't remove the DNS record, even after verification succeeds. Here is the link to do it with a CName: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/08/domain-verification-using- cname-records.html When I go to add my CName record on my server's DNS the only two fields available are Alias Name and Fully Qualified Domain Name. How am I suppose to create this record can someone please tell me? Thanks, Frank


AdSense: Will Google ban me if I list "No ads" as a reason to sign up at my site?

Can't find anything about this in Google AdSense's TOS. Basically I want to remove ads for logged in users on my site -- but will Google allow me to use this as a value proposition on my front page? > Sign up today for extra benefits: > >   * No ads >   * Personalized profile page >   * Bla bla >


Homepage redirect and impact on SEO?

My website is basically a gallery of pictures that I display one at the time (as seperate posts). I have no need for a landing page and so I redirect all users who visit the homepage to a random post:               <?php     if (have_posts()) {         query_posts('orderby=rand');         while (have_posts()) {             the_post();             wp_redirect(get_permalink(), 302);         }     }          ?>      My homepage is still/and should be the most visited page and so I am wondering if the redirection will have any negative impact on SEO.


Top commentators widget compatible with Facebook comments

I created a project on `freelancer.com` but then I was wondering if this thing is possible knowing Facebook comments has its own restrictions and limitations. "Hi, I want a widget on the sidebar that displays the top commentators of the website. I am currently using Facebook comments. The widget should show something like the name of the top 3 commentator and the number of comments they left on the site..." So I just want to know if something like this is doable with Facebook comments.


Duplicate page content and the Google index

I have a static pages with dynamically expanding content that google is indexing. I also have deep links into virtually duplicate pages which will pre-expand the relevant section of content into the relevant section. It seems like Google is ignoring all my specialized pages and not putting them in the index. Even after going through web-masters tools, crawling and submitting them to the index manually. I also use the google API for integrating search on the site, and the deep linked pages won't show up. Is there a good solution for this?


How to stop browser from rejecting my downloads?

I have a portfolio site where I am trying to host some of my work, so people can download my work. Some of these files include exe executables, and some are `.jar` executables, which are run through batch. When a user tries to download my apps, it says that the file is not commonly downloaded and may be harmful, and therefore blocks the download. If I zip the folders, it still does the same thing. Any format I choose, still blocks the downloads. How can I stop chrome from doing this. Is there a way I can verify my files so they will be considered as trusted?


Do many users turn off cookies?

Just how generally prevalent is it that users have cookies disabled in their browsers? I want to set a cookie during a user's session so that all the pages know that the presence of a particular software program (required for certain functions on my site) has been detected. I can't really require cookies in this website, but cookies would be the easiest way to do what I need to do. So, do many users turn cookies off?


Why is my DKIM invalid?

When I use http://dkimcore.org/c/keycheck to test my DKIM it says               This is not a good DKIM key record. You should fix the errors shown in red.          DNS query failed for 'key1._domainkey.board67.com':NXDOMAIN          A public-key (p=) is required      But I do have a public key ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/1W3ON.png) Now I am getting this error:               p=  MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCvjT4cF+/SV69t38ihp7TOMZ2m ruxwtcicE/DmuZJdMcHuEmN9iN03Q8wMdU4TFeirkF79nJMh4wDma1N2LGUiOZrv j1YtCpKZZRlV0IAr7MtA7jjaBEGNU5EsWYcZXriGhkyzl39TXdVIaBuuuqWBN9lk pD+jlA6zCM3nPL6b1wIDAQAB          The p= field must be base64 encoded


Google doesn't show my site's results even for a direct search

> In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries > very similar to the 21 already displayed. > > If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included. When I do a direct search for my blog. This is very disturbing because I've created more than a dozen articles and none are shown in the SERPs for a direct search. The only way to view my pages seems to be on the third page when all the results are exhausted there's the text I've paste above and it's linked. Now clicking that link is the only way to view my pages. You can check this phenomenon out here:   http://google.com/search?q=moviesreva.blogspot.com/


How do I copyright my website?

My website has been in development for a long time and cost a lot of money. How do I go about securing an enforceable copyright on my website design and what is the proper way to post a copyright notice on the site so others know the work is copyrighted?


Feedburner is Displaying an Inactive Email Address When Logged In

I have set up a Feedburner subscription through my Google account login. For some reason Feedburner displays an old inactive email address in the top right when logged into Feedburner. I'm concerned since I don't have access to this email account. If for any reason I need to move my Feedburner Feed I'm concerned I'll need to access this email account which is impossible. My email address is correct in every other Google account, profile etc. and has been updated to a working and correct email address. How can I change this? Do I need to be concerned?


What images to use when using a post to a link

I want to be able to use some kind of images for when I put up a post to a link (story, article somewhere else on the web), but what's the rules for what images I can use? can I use an image from the source that I'm linking to? or do I have to completely use stock images?


Schema.org: Having a Product as "about" property

I want to define a Product as the main content of a webpage using Schema.org markup. My idea with the following HTML is to use the structure:                - Webpage      -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage)      --- Product (about of WebPageElement which is mainContentOfPage of Webpage)      However, using this markup, Google does not seem to recognize the Product properties such as the aggregateRating. The "structured markup tool" is only satisfied if I remove the "about" property on Product. But then the structure breaks into:               - Webpage     -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage)     -- Product      Product is no longer a part of WebPageElement. Even if I use the property "mainContentOfPage" directly on the Product node, I get the same result: The Product is not recognized properly. It seems like the Product node cannot have any itemprops. **So how should I proceed?**

Acme Toaster Oven

It toasts AND bakes.

Rated 3/5 based on 2 reviews

A great toaster - by John,                     <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
5/5
                     First I had bread.  Then I had toast.  Magic!

A small oven - by Mary,                     <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
1/5
                     My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.

           The HTML can be tested here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ## Update After experimenting with "itemref", I got pretty good results with this code in Google's tool and Yandex and the Structured Data Linter.
             <meta itemprop="about" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product" itemref="theProduct" />

Acme Toaster Oven

It toasts AND bakes.

Rated 3/5 based on 2 reviews

A great toaster - by John,                 <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
5/5
                 First I had bread.  Then I had toast.  Magic!

A small oven - by Mary,                 <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-10-16">October 26, 2013
1/5
                 My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.

           The only side effect is that the reviews and aggregateRating seem to connect to both the WebPage and the Product. I don't know if that's bad.


Is there a domain search tool on the web that works well?

I would like to search for all available domains ending with a particular word. The best tool I've found for this so far is domainsbot, but it doesn't seem to work as it should (it will only give you the first 10 or so results for your criteria) Does anyone know of a good tool on the web for this type of search?


What is occurring in this .htaccess file in regards to rewriting to clean URLs?

I have the following code in my _.htaccess_ file, which is working fine and using "pretty" permalinks to reroute everything back to `/index.php`, and using `$_GET` values to serve customized content based which URL was requested.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^([-\w.]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [R=302,L,QSA]      I'm just trying to get an understanding of how this code is working: I get that the two _RewriteCond's_ are there to avoid this behavior in the case that someone is requesting an actual file or directory. But my question involves how removing those two _RewriteCond's_ causes a different error. If they are removed, and I request `example.com/register`, is the browser is redirected to: `example.com/index.php?page=index.php`. I can't see how these two things are related, so I was just wondering if anyone could explain why this happens? (I have `R=302` set just for now so I can see where it's redirecting me to).


What schema.org should be used for User Profiles?

I might be taking this a little too far outside of the box but I'm curious about what Microdata from schema.org to use for a user-profile on my site. On the front page for instance (`http://www.findgamers.us`), a random gamer profile loads every time the page is loaded. Would I use the Person schema.org hierachy to make that structured data?


Can minification in Google PageSped service break Adsense?

A few days ago I applied for Adsense account. But it was rejected due website being down. Here is the full message: We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues:   * Difficult site navigation * * * Further detail: Difficult site navigation: While reviewing your site, we found that it was down. Google ads may not be published on a site that is not fully launched, functioning, or easily navigable. Once your site is functioning and has enough content for our specialists to review, we will be happy to reconsider your application. If there is a typo in the URL submitted, you can resubmit your application with the correct site by following the directions below. I monitor uptime using Pingdom. The site was not down for a single minute during this period. In fact during last month it was down for only 2 minutes. I may have may have singled out the problem: I'm using Google **PageSpeed** service. This service has a **JavaScript minification** option. What it did was was strip the comment and `<!-- / -->` tags from Adsense code. So the Adsense code for my site which was originally like this:               <script type="text/javascript"><!--     google_ad_client = "ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";     /* Top Of Post */     google_ad_slot = "4962340904";     google_ad_width = 728;     google_ad_height = 90;     //-->     </script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">     </script>      looked like this:               <script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client="ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";google_ad_slot="4962340904";google_ad_width=728;google_ad_height=90;</script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>      I have disabled minification. Can someone confirm this was the problem ? And how should I proceed with reapplication ?


Back link report

Is there an application or site that can generate a back link report for a give web page? The sort of information I'd like to see in this report, for each back link, would be:   1. Page's Title   2. Page's PageRank   3. Page's URL


Jquery lie about size of download

When you go to jquery.com you see on top right "Grab the latest version! Choose your compression level:" its saying 32Kb for Production (compressed) version in reality when you download it its 91Kb. Go figure if they forgot to update it or want to mislead people who new to it into that its compact thing.


Why would an IE8 in a desktop has a 'Tablet PC 2.0' in its user-agent string?

I am just curious, why would a windows 7 desktop, installed with ie8, have Tablet PC 2.0 in its user agent string.               Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2;     .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media     Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet PC 2.0) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE     8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR     3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet     PC 2.0)      Is this a feature in Windows 7, how can I turn this off in IE8? Other browsers on the same computer don't have such string in the user-agent string they send. As a result, one of our web application confuses this particular **desktop** client as a mobile (because of the tablet), hence returns the mobile version of our website to it. Thank you!


ClickThrough on Google Webmaster Tool and Traffic Source in Google Analytics

I'm new to SEO and website management, but eager to learn. I manage a newly revamped site and I'm tracking it on Google Analytics and in Google Webmaster tools. The Webmaster tools show that I get about 3200 impressions and 180 click through's a week. Google Analytics show that no traffic comes from search engins, all of the traffic is direct. On average, I get about 60-80 visitors a day, shouldn't Google Analytics show at least a few of those visitors as having come from the search engines?. What does that discrepancy mean? I can't seem to wrap my mind around it... Thank you in advance, Svetlana


free tool to analyze competitors website

I am competing to get the highest rank search in Google for a particular keyword search. My site is now ranked at the third page. I would like to know what back links does the site that rank 1st is coming from, if possible what are the different strategy they have done. Is there a free tool that would allow me to do this? Any tips on what I need to do to proceed? I have done all the basic stuff, ranging from meta tags, title, h1, update your site regularly, keep it clean, relevant, useful, no errors on the page, submit sitemaps, social bookmarking... what else am I missing here?


Who is a great domain registrar company?

I have used numerous domain registrars in the past, including Godaddy, 1&1, Host Monster, IX web Hosting, the list goes on. (not talking about hosting) I currently use GoDaddy, however, I'm not to happy with them. I need a great registrar! One who:   * makes transferring easy   * registration pain free, no up-selling   * has great domain management   * has amazing customer service Maybe such a company does not exist. I don't know. Do you know of one?


Domain Registration

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Who is a great domain registrar company? Hi, I'm about to make my first domain purchase, actually I'm going to buy in bulk ... Any idea about a good host and registrar? I`m looking for a good host with lots of features and not expensive.


Suggestion for cheap but good domain-registrar for com, org or net?

Does anybody have recommendations for good - but cheap - domain-registrars for the com, org or net domain? I'm not after hosting, just registering a few domain-names (unless there's a _really_ good package-deal). Lower prices when registering multiple domains would be a plus. I'm after good personal experiences here... PS: I am going to use the domain, either host them myself or get a web-hotel later... it's not just to register and park indefinitely.


PHP Image Gallery without javascript

I am looking for a simple PHP gallery with the following characteristics:   * Pure PHP   * HTML   * CSS   * SQL   * Excludes JavaScript    * Handle Subcategories   * Easily customizable I have tried to search, but I find only with JavaScript or Ajax.


Soft links over the Web?

Take this scenario. There is a server(say, A) at www.mysite.com .Now, there's a dynamic number of servers A knows about (knows the IP-adresses to). The problem is, if a user arrives at http://www.mysite.com/B, we need to redirect him to the server that the URI B will map to( assume that there exists a mapping from such URLs to the list of known servers, and that 'B' is valid here). Is there a way of doing this without redirection? (First deployment will be n GAE, so this redirection is not possible). What I want is the browser showing http://www.mysite.com/B, but rendering content as delivered by the server running on B. I think that this _may_ be possible, as, multiple webservers are indeed used within the same domain today.


What is 'lack of original content'?

It is written everywhere that lack of original content is has a negative impact on ranking. But what is lack of original content? (I am not talking about duplicate content) I guess if you copy other site's content, this makes sense. But, assuming one develops its own functionalities, but similar functionalities are already available on other sites, is this considered lack of original content? Can Google decide to not index such pages (i.e., not give them a chance at all)? Are there other definition of 'lack of original content'?


Google Analytics "Goals" .. numbers seem inflated?

When I look at the Google Analytics goal report for yesterday, it shows that I had 3,000 conversions for a given goal - 74% completed, and 6% abandoned.   * Where is the missing 20%?   * My numbers show more like 500 conversions for this goal. Why are Google's numbers so different?


sitemap for non-CMS based website

I've just finished a new version of my website but now I don't know how to generate a correct sitemap.   Now the website is based on `PHP` files and folder and in blog folder there is Wordpress.   This is ho my tree structure looks like:               index.php       about.php       contact.php       support/index.php       support/faq.php       blog/       and so on...      On Wordpress I can generate the sitemap automatically but how can I include the others link like `about.php` etc.?   Thank you so much for your help!


How to optimize website for SEO when content is accessed via one search field

We are developing a website (sort of information index for companies) where almost all content is accessed via one search field (similar to Google): you type a search phrase, get results and then can click on the link that leads to actual information page of the company. These are the most important pages to be indexed. In company page, there are keywords (tags) that you can click on and get resuts for that keyword. Obviously, search engines won't enter all possible search variants to that search field to get links to the companies and I guess that keyword linking in the company info page is not enough. I think that submitting sitemaps to search engines should help a lot. But are there any other solutions to get content indexed on the website of this sort?


Return first image source from google images

Is there a way to fetch the first image source from google search if I have a search term? For example if input is `tomato`, ouput would be `http://www.cksinfo.com/clipart/food/fruits/tomatoes/tomato.png` Thanks!


Three-month freeze on domain transfers?

I am planning on hosting a web app on Google App Engine. I am planning on buying the domain from GoDaddy. Will I have to wait 3 months before I can transfer the domain from GoDaddy to GAE (or at least change the DNS settings to point to the GAE severs)?


Webmin install not successful on Rackspace CentOS VPS

I exactly followed Rackspace document here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/index.php/CentOS_-_Webmin_1.470 to install webmin on CentOS. Every step is successful, except, in the end, I can't access webmin using the following link: https://50.57.109.50:10000 It's a fresh activated image. Have you tried to install Webmin on Rackspace CentOS VPS? * * * I followed the instruction here: http://www.webmin.com/firewall.html As you can see the port 10000 is open. I can't even deploy webmin on CentOS. Can you help? Thank you! * * * I use the http instead https, then it works~ I don't know why. really confusing~


Stop searches showing tld domain sites appearing as subdirectory of main holding site domain?

I'm not sure if this is a problem specific to how my hosting is structured or not. Let's say the main domain for my account is maindomain.com (for purpose of discussion) I am building other sites, e.g. anothersite.com and website.com The folder/directory structure on my hosting would therefore be:               maindomain.com (root)     +     +---> anothersite.com (subfolder)     +     +---> website.com (subfolder)      The domains are mapped such that they map to their respective folders. So for example, anothersite.com takes the visitor to the index.php in the folder anothersite.com However, in Google, as well as just search results for these sites and their content - anothersite.com and website.com (what I want), I also see results that include: maindomain.com/anothersite.com maindomain.com/website.com Obviously this is not the way I want search data for these sites to occur. I would like them to be omitted from the search results. How can the hosting be configured so that the results for each of these respective domains are separate, i.e. not concatenated, so if I search for items relating to these respective sites, I only get results for anothersite.com relevant to it, same for website.com and same for maindomain.com - also used itself. Such a solution to this problem should not damage the results that I do want to see. I'm aware of robots.txt but I'm not sure what I need to put in these to stop the mixed-up/concatenated searches without damaging the real results. Or even if all search engines obey them. Is there something I can also do with .htaccess ? As it is shared-hosting, I don't have complete control over how the folder/directories are structured for this hosting so I would have to stick with the structure but ideas as to how to get desirable search results are welcome.


The effect in Google of the word "the" in a URL?

Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word "the" in a URL, as in `www.thewebdesigner.com`, is a bad idea or not is very hard to find information on. Searching has yielded next to nothing because the definite article is a special case in search algorithms. That is, you end up searching for the word "the" which is a bit too random. I'm wondering if this is a good idea, because as in the example case, "web" and "designer" together in a URL would theoretically be a fantastic step in solid SEO. However, if Google somehow reads it as a stop word or treats it differently, it might not be so smart. Can anyone tell me the effect of "the" at the start of a URL like `thewebdesigner.com`, and if this is good or bad practice, and a good or bad idea for a quality URL?


Would reducing the quality and/or size of images fall under fair use?

I was looking on flickchart tonight and was wondering how they legitimized the usage of movie posters on their site, as I figure that those posters would be copyrighted. However it's been online for a few years now, the posters are still there, so I figure they're considered fair use. What my question is would this line in their TOS under copyright complaints they have the following line explain it? > It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution forms of said > media to provide criticism or comment qualifies as fair use under United > States copyright law. So I guess my question is if that is actually valid, and if so, would the legislation be affected by the physical location of the servers that provide said content? I'm looking into projects that would utilize multiple images but the whole "what is fair use" issue has been both putting the projects on hold, and being a stubborn issue to resolve. Thanks for anyone that can help to shed some light on this issue.


How Many Google +1's Does a Website need in order for Google WebMaster's Tools to Show Characteristics?

I have added the Google +1 Button to my website and discovered the new Social Activity section in Google WebMaster's Tools. Apparently, one of the interesting things you can learn about your audience is demographic data. But in GWT, the _Social Activity > Audience_ section for my site (currently 127 +1's), says the following: > Your site doesn’t have enough +1′s yet to show characteristics But I'm not sure how many +1's is enough. Google's official help page for the Audience section offers little insight: > The Audience page displays information about people who have +1'd your > pages, including the total number of unique users, their location, and their > age and gender. > > All information is anonymized; Google doesn't share personal information > about people who have +1’d your pages. To protect privacy, Google won't > display age, gender, or location data unless a certain minimum number of > people have +1'd your content. But what is that "certain minimum number"? I've tried Googling this but all I could find to date was this page which doesn't answer the question. So how many +1's does a site need before GWT will show me audience demographic characteristics?


How to maintain and optimize SEO for multiple store locations with individual websites as subdirectories from a main landing page?

My question is how to maintain and optimize SEO when moving a site from the domain root to a subfolder, creating a second parallel subfolder, and having the domain root be a landing page that allows users to choose between the two subfolders. Hopefully a (fake) example will illustrate my question best. Imagine the website for a small local business that serves its surrounding neighborhood -- let's call it ACME Cleaners of Crown Heights. Crown Heights is the neighborhood. The URL is `www.acmecleaners.com`. This site has good SEO and does well for searches looking the cleaning services in the Crown Heights area. Now the business has expanded to a second location in a different neighborhood in the same city, let's call it East End. The new location is called ACME Cleaners of East End. As for the website, the homepage, `www.acmecleaners.com`, which used to be the homepage for the Crown Heights location, has been changed to a landing page that simply shows the ACME Cleaners logo and gives the user a choice between the two locations. The user is then taken to either `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights` or `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`, which are individual WordPress sites for each location. The location is saved in a cookie and users are redirected to the individual location site next time they visit `www.acmecleaners.com` (with a 302 status code thanks to PHP's `header` function with the "location:" parameter). Specific questions:   1. What should I keep in mind to maintain the strong SEO that the Crown Heights location had now that its site is moving from `www.acmecleaners.com` to `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights`?   2. Specifically, how do I "tell" Google that the right URL for searches for "cleaning in Crown Heights" is now `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights`, not the domain root?   3. Likewise, what do I do to get searches for "cleaning services in East End" to show `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`? Interestingly, without me doing anything, this search is already generating first-page results for pages within the subfolder, e.g. `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end/about-us`, but not for the location "homepage" which is simply `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`.    4. What SEO should I do for the new landing page at `www.acmecleaners.com` to support good SEO for both store locations/website subfolders?   5. Any other do's and don't do's in this situation?


Linkpushing for SEO, real or fake?

While I was googling today, I noticed this site: http://linkpushing.net/ this ensure you to be pushed at the top of the google research's stack, by creating random reference to your sites on random blogs and/or articles.   I can't believe that Google doesn't do anything against techniques like this, and I would like to know from someone more able than me on SEO subject if it's really possible to tease the google service in this way. And if you suggest to use this tecnique to my site.


How to set preferred URL in Bing Webmaster Tools

My site is `www.example.com` and Bing Webmaster Tools keeping telling me to submit a sitemap for `example.com`, so it is possible to stop Bing stop bothering me the `example.com`?


Database for student Portal(A school website)

I am presently working on a school website, it is going to have student portal in it. Please, i need idea on how you think the database structure will look like. Its a university web, students are in different departments under different faculties. The students will also be offering different courses based on their department.


excluding URL query parameters and setting the site search query param in Google Analytics

I have a Google Analytics free account and would like to know if I strip "searchparam" out of your URLs as the `site search query parameter`, do I then need to specify "searchparam" in the `Exclude URL Query Parameters` field under Profiles > Profile Settings? Or is this unnecessary?


Is it important to show the current year alongside my (c) Copyright symbol?

Should I update the copyright notice every January? as in > (C) ACME Corp 2011 I'm not asking about how or whether to claim copyright at all (that is dealt with here), but whether the **year** has any importance.


Will having multiple domains improve my seo?

Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all. The title of my "Website" says:                 <title>Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here</title>      Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term **buy used cars** , I end up on the second or first page. Now, I want to end up higher, so I go to the google adwords page where you can check how many searches are made on specific terms. Lets say the term "used cars" has 20 million searches each month. Here comes the question, could I just go and buy that domain with the search terms adress, in this case **www.usedcars.com** and make a redirect to my original page, and this way when people search for "used cars", my newly bought domain name comes up redirecting people to my original website (www.automobile4u.com)? The reason I believe this benefits me is because it seems search engines first of all check website adresses matching the search, so the query "used cars" would automatically bring www.usedcars.com to the first result right? What are the downsides for this? I already know about google spiders not liking redirects, but there are many methods of redirecting... Is this a good idea generally?


How does SEO work when redirecting to a different site/domain

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? I have a site (e.g. www.foo.bar). When someone attempts to browse this site, they are redirected to a different site (e.g. www.test.com). I only reason of having foo.bar is because of the domain name. test.com is a 3rd party. I want people to come to foo.bar, so I can market on the domain name. If I am selling parts (e.g. Ford car parts). I want to configure SEO so that my domain name and "Ford car parts" are associated. The intention is when someone googles "foo.bar" and "Ford car parts" search engines start ranking my site/domain. foo.bar isnt the site housing the sale of the parts....the 3rd party is, but I would like to SEO woo.foo.bar if possible to accomplish my intention. Is what I am looking to do possible?


Domain Extensions - redirect from .com or .org to country side domain like .am

i was wondering one thing. Actually `.com` and all generic domain extensions specifies that the site is available for all countries while country side domain extensions like `.fm .mx or .sh` specifies to search engines that your site is developed for that specific country, What if i buy 2 domains like `thisismysite.org` and `site.am` and then i redirect `thisismysite.org` to `site.am` , will `site.am` be treated like a a general domain extension then? OR i'll need anyway a generic domain to say to search engines that my site is generic all country sides available?


2 domain pointing to single website with different meta description and title in SERP

Let's say I have one website `abc.com.my`, and now I want to create a new domain `xyz.my` but with its own meta description and meta title which points to `abc.com.my`. So I need to create one `index.html` inside the `xyz.my` domain then redirect to `abc.com.my`. So in SERP I hope to see `xyz.my` with its own meta description and meta title and `abc.com.my` with a different meta description and title but both point to `abc.com.my`. So will this affect my ranking or is it bad for SEO? ![expected search results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7DNjA.jpg)


Is a good technique to buy abandoned domains to get link juice?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Yesterday I was discussing with a friend an idea he had. To promote your site about, for example, fashion (i.e. example.com), the idea is:   1. Find an expired domain (i.e. fashionsite.com) with a good amount of links from fashion websites (it is, a site that has been abandoned, but still keep a lot of inbound links).   2. Recreate the site structure (i.e. if you have inbound link that points to fashionsite.com/files/boots.html, you have to add a page that responds to this structure).   3. Add links from your new site (fashionsite.com) to the old one you want to promote (example.com) in order to give the link juice to your site.   4. Goto 1 until you cannot find more expired domains related to your site topic. This is a non-trivial process that could take a lot of time, so the question is: worth it? has anybody tried something like this? In fact, maybe that's a well known technique my friend and I didn't hear about it... Definitely I believe we haven't discovered a new technique :) NOTE: I've forget to explain that this idea is specifically to improve a site link building for Google, we are not interested in other search engines by the moment.


Keywords in domain name

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Let's assume we have a generic website " **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** ". We discover that a lot of people are searching for " **Make games** ". We find that the domain name **MakeGames.com** is free so we register it with the assumption that a keyword specific domain such as this will rank favorably for the search term we have discovered. We now have two options with the domain name:   * We can 301 redirect **MakeGames.com** to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com**   * Or we can make a simple webpage on it that intends to feed visitors to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com**. The reason for registering **MakeGames.com** was to target that specific search, however I have a feeling that you lose the benefit of the keywords in the domain by 301ing it. Is it better to make a sort of landing website for **MakeGames.com**? If you 301 the domain to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** will it now rank better for the search **Make games**? Which is a better method?


Add-on domain for better SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? So here's the thing. Suppose I have my domain called BUSINESS.COM that sells shoes. Now, I want people to find me through Google by searching "best shoes". So on my BUSINESS.COM site I will set all meta descriptions and titles to have a relationship with the keyword "best shoes". I was wondering, is there any way I can buy also the domain BEST-SHOES.COM and make it an add-on domain to my hosting and redirect it to NIKE.COM to improve SEO? I mean so when someone searches in Google for best shoes, my site will appear first because it has those keywords on the url. Or the only way to improve SEO is to make another website with no duplicate content in BEST-SHOES.COM that links very lightly to my site NIKE.COM? Like a site that reviews shoes.


What is the best way to use multiple similar domains for a single business with SEO aspects?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will having multiple domains improve my seo? **Scenario:** There are around 15 freshly registered domains. All the domains are intended to support a single business activity. **Example:**   * something-useful.com   * something-extraordinary-useful.com   * extraordinary-useful-something.com   * useful-something.com   * etc... What will be the best approach to use these domains to get benefit of SEO? Or to promote the business online? What are the possible approaches to use these domains?


Multiple domains

I got 6 domains : `company.ca` and `company.com` (because both where free, but we are a canadian company but can do business with the rest of the world). Then, we sell sportwear because of the company name is totally unknown to the world. Our product is we have bought product specific domain : `chandails.ca` and `t-shirt.ca` as well as `shorts.ca` and `shorts.com`. So those 6 domains are mine. Now what is the best way to do? Now all are 301 redirect to the main company name (`.com`) or make micro-site, super simple one page optimized for just shirt and one for shorts, then tell people to know more, go to the _main_ site. Because now, I cannot really find the benefit of the _search word in domain name_ edge if never somebody see something in that domain... I got confused and don't find strait answer to this question.


Does SEO ranking based on domain apply to domains with forwarding?

Lets say I have a site at "myrandomdomain.com". I want to target a keyword "my keyword" and so I buy "mykeyword.com". Can I still have the keyword benefits of having mykeyword.com when it just forwards to myrandomdomain.com? The domain would not be masked. My guess would have been no but SEO Moz seems a bit unclear about it: > A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link > juice (ranking power) to the redirected page. I'd just like to make sure before I switch my site over. If it would have the same effect to forward it I'll just do that.


Will having multiple domains with redirects to my main domain have an impact on search rankings?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? If I register 10 or so related domain names and 301-redirect them all to appropriate pages within my website will this hurt or help google ratings? Or will it be a neutral event? For example if I operated a daycare center would it be wise to purchase bostonchildcare.com, bostondaycare.com and bostonpreschool.com and then 301 redirect them to all to appropriate pages on my site? Thanks for your help with this!


Is it bad for SEO to forward multiple top level domains to just one domain?

For example, I registered `myName.com` and I also registered the `.net`, `.info`, and `.org` extensions for `myName`. I'm wondering if it will hurt my SEO to forward these other TLDs to `myName.com`?


Is it okay to redirect all mobile users to a mobile coming soon page?

I recently read this article on google webmasters blog which said that we should avoid redirection of users on mobile to one single page as it interrupts their flow. Now I have a site on which I have a mobile coming soon page to which a user is redirected the first time he/she visits the site. Once a user clicks "view web version" on this page a cookie is set and he/she is taken to the homepage. Now if the user comes again on my site he/she would be taken to that respective page and wouldn't be redirected. Can this have SEO penalties? I am not interrupting the user-flow every-time and hence should I bother much? Should I scrap this all together or alternatively I could redirect the user to the page they came to when they click "view web version" instead of the homepage?


URLs: Should I use hyphens, underscores or plus symbols?

**Which is better for search engines?**   1. `example.com/my_cool_page.html`   2. `example.com/my-cool-page.html`   3. `example.com/my+cool+page.html`


URL encoding - what difference to SEO? + or _ or -

I have a URL e.g.:               http://mysite.com/tracks/backing-track/101153/ABBA/Super+Trouper      **QUESTION** does it make a difference to SEO when using `+` or `-` or `_` in the URL between words? Is one more readable and indexable than the others?


SEO - File naming

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use hyphens or underscores? Hi   For the file name "mission-and-vision.htm" or "mission_and_vision.htm", which one is good for SEO(separator "-" or "_")? Thanks


How To Track Down and Stop Rogue Bots?

**Most of the bandwidth of one site is being consumed by an unidentified bot**. According to AWSTATS it says: Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*') consumed 164 GB this month. By comparison, Googlebot consumed 10 GB and visitors (viewed traffic) consumed 25 GB. This means rogue bots are consumming over 6X the bandwidth of visitors. For other sites which I run (about a dozen) the **normal ratio is 25%** , so for 25GB of viewed traffic, bots take about 6GB in TOTAL. The question therefore is: **How to identify which bot(s) are causing this huge amount of request and how to stop them or slow them down if they are useful?** Obviously, most bots that visit the site are important including the Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, MSNBot, etc, including the AdSense/DoubleClick bots, so I cannot simply block all bots. _The reason I am investigating this is that I am reaching the limit of bandwidth and exceeded CPU usage for my host, so I was sent a notice._


Moving a Domain Away from Google Sites but Not Apps

First, I looked for a question like this but couldn't find one. There's a lot of people who want to move a domain to point at google sites - I actually want to move it away from google sites and point it at a hosted server. I was able to figure out how to do this but then it broke my client's calendar and email. I created matching email accounts on the new server but it doesn't fix his contact list and calendar stuff which use to be synced with google. So my question is: can I move a domain away from google sites and point it at a hosted website without breaking the email and calendar? If the answer is no then we could always use two separate domains: one for email/calendar and one for website, but that doesn't seem like the perfect solution since really his email should be at the same domain as his website. Will he just need to use a different address to sync his calendar and contacts? I appreciate any help. Thanks!


Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details on my commercial website?

Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details and other relavent information on my commercial website? We are a magazine site and this would be placed for an additional resource for readers. We have no legal connection with the corporations we would be listing.


Is it possible to block access to a DB based on IP?

We're looking to beef up the security on a site, among other things we thought of trying to block access to the DB based on IP (in a similar way you can do a FTP lock dependent on IP), so that only the static IP of our VPS can access it as well as our local office IP (also static). Is this a standard approach, I tried searching for it to see any notes on implementation / best practices, but I could see anything written about it?


Open source Rails/Sinatra/Ruby web mail client?

Is anyone aware of any? I'm specifically looking for any that are well maintained (in the Ruby community that generally means the source is availble on GitHub). Here's what I've found in my research: ### MailCatcher MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface.   * official site   * source code ### Sup Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact- list management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more. If you're the type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.   * official site   * source code ### ActionMailer   * source code


One page website - Effect on SEO

I'm considering re-designing my personal website to promote my web services in my local area. My issue is whether to do a one page website with a scroll-to navigation system. What effect does this have on SEO. As i understand it, you set stuff like h1's and meta description on specific page content. How does this work when all of your different content is on one page?


What about SEO in one page website with ajax loaded content?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  One page portfolio - Effect on SEO As my title I'd like to build a website with just one input text for searching restaurants and I would like to load via ajax in the same page the resultst in a list. After the list is loaded if you click on one row for Restaurant details it load via ajax all the Restaurant details. what about SEO in a website structure like this? There is a way to index every single restaurant? I'm pretty new in SEO and every comment will be for sure important to me in order to understand and learn more about it. Cheers


SEO best practices for one page websites?

I build many one page websites that dynamically load content through AJAX/jQuery. I keep reading how bad one pagers are for SEO. Regardless, how can you get the most SEO results out of a one page website, without splitting it up into multiple pages?


Restrictions on transfer of .US domain to non-US citizen?

Four years ago an American friend of mine purchased a `.us` domain for me as a wedding present. A year later, when the domain renewal came up, she simply transferred the domain to me, and it has been registered, with my valid UK details, ever since. On Wikipedia it lists the following under ' **Restrictions on use of .us domains** ':               Under .US nexus requirements .US domains may be registered only by the following qualified entities:          - Any United States citizen or resident,     - Any United States entity, such as organizations or corporations,     - Any foreign entity or organization with a bona fide presence in the United States      The _heading_ implies that there restrictions on the _use_ of the domain, yet the section itself only refers to the _registration_ of the domain, and says nothing about its use. Since it was originally registered by a U.S. citizen and then transferred to me (a UK citizen) later, is this still an issue? Am I breaking ICANN rules? The main reason I ask is because the domain is set to become the basis of a new business venture, and I don't want to have the rug pulled out from under me.


How can I show embedded images in HTML e-mails sent from my website in Hotmail?

When I send HTML e-mails from my website with my logo as an embedded image, Hotmail hides it by default with the message `Attachments, pictures and links in this message have been blocked for your safety.` Since this is my logo, it makes the e-mail look very funny. Is there some certification/verification process to allow embedded images from my domain to be shown by default in Hotmail and other major e-mail service providers?


How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine

I have used so many things like url removal request and deleted the pages etc., but still the errors are shown in my webmaster tools. How can I remove the urls completely from Google?


Remove internal sub domain duplicate content on Google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine _Our hosting provider has a internal sub domain like so:_ `n265-269-265-265.cnet.hosting.iiii`. The internal sub domain is redirected to our registered domain and is publicly available. Google indexed the internal domain content and now it is appearing on search pages. We'd like it if Google removed the internal sub domain content and we would like to setup a redirect to the main domain. Our hosting provider is actually a sub-provider and as far as we know it does not fully control the main hosting domain and I am stuck in a discussion with them about what can be done. I would like a solution to this issue.


how to remove the old urls from google search and replace new urls?

I know this question has been asked here, and here before , But I have problem with answers, so here is mine : I have changed my urls structure ( not my domain ), and I want google to **remove** the old urls and replace the new ones, and I can't make redirection because I dont know what is it exactly ( its very dynamic ), How can I do this ?


How to set suhosin.post.max_vars in a htaccess file

I need to add this values to my htaccess:               suhosin.request.max_vars = 8000     suhosin.post.max_vars = 8000      If I just add them like that I get an **Internal Server Error** Which is the right way to include them? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zkXL9.png)


How many visitors block adverts?

On average, what percentage of visitors block adverts, for example by running AdBlock? (The average obviously depends on the population, which is worth specifying, but any answer's better than none...)


How to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same outlinks

I am developing a back link tool for Chinese SEO (our web site URL is: > `http://link.aizhan.com` just like ahrefs.com. I encountered a problem which is how to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same out links. For example: Most pages of `bbs.chinaz.com` have the same out links such as:                bbs.chinaz.com/Tea/thread-6293993-1-1.html      bbs.chinaz.com/Tea/list-1.html      bbs.chinaz.com/alimama/thread-6265032-1-1.html      bbs.chinaz.com/alimama/thread-6265032-2-1.html?userid=-1&extParms=      bbs.chinaz.com/Shuiba/list-1.html      bbs.chinaz.com/FeedBack/thread-4456753-1-1.html      etc.. All of the pages have the same out links in the top of the page:               www.cnzz.com(anchor text:免费统计)      www.313.com(建站大师)      www.idc123.com（主机之家）       Suppose I store these outlinks into database. The SEO will find there are six backlinks from `bbs.chinaz.com` of `www.cnzz.com`. This is obviously no sense for the SEO. Can you tell me how do you deal with this problem?


SEO and URL Shorteners

When you have a link from lets say twitter that is `t.co/foo` that links back to your website how does that effect SEO and how do the major search engines handle Shortened URLs?


Do URL sortneres make an impact on search engine rankings?

Can anyone explain me what does the following mean (from thesearchenginepros):               The best URL shorteners will use a 301 redirect to pass along their Google page rank     to the destination web address. This helps the redirected web address advance in      search rankings.       I was going through the advantages of shortened url, when I came across this.


Do short URLs like goo.gl, bitly etc. affect your website ranking?

I need to know whether using short URLs to back-link to pages affects your website ranking in the Google search results.


Adding a new site to a Google Custom Search Engine gives fewer hits

I have a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) with one "site". Adding a second site gives me fewer hits. Removing the second site gives me back the hits I had with only one site. What is going on there? I add the sites with XML to be sure of what I am doing, like below:               <Annotations>       <Annotation about="site1url" score="1">         <Label name="_cse_MYID" />       </Annotation>       <Annotation about="site2url" score="1">         <Label name="_cse_MYID" />       </Annotation>     </Annotations>      **UPDATE: Here are instructions for anyone who wants to test:**   1. Add these two sites to a new custom search engine (https://www.google.com/cse/): www.zotero.org/groups/from_some_psychologists/items/itemKey/* www.zotero.org/groups/minding_my_mitochondria_terry_wahls/items/itemKey/*   2. Search for `food` (you will get 2 hits)   3. Now delete the first site from the custom search engine.   4. Search for `food` again (you will now get 19 hits) **UPDATE 2:** I posted the question also to Google Product Forums > Google Custom Search: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/customsearch/indexing- and-results/8Qs60jdiFZQ **UPDATE 3:** I previously thought that the hits when having both sites were always only from the second site. That was wrong (so I removed the part saying so).


What type of websites shouldn't use a cache?

Is there ever a time when you should use caching? Like for frequently updated pages? Or, should you always cache? Please give examples and reason?


How do you enhance your websites speed without compromising the design and access?

How do you enhance your websites load speed without killing the design and accessibility? File compression, CDN, Gzip? What are the best tools for doing so? For example, Google has optimized their site without compromising the design. Also, many website can kill the purity of their images with compression. Is there a way, more or lest best practice, to increase speed without compromising the design and accessibility? **Note** : sorry for being so vague but I don't know how else to phrase this question.


Transferring site from one server to another - good tools?

I'm not a webmaster - I'm a generalist with a strong bias towards development of applications and databases, but currently I'm helping a client I've consulted with before, and they want to move some files from one hosting provider to another. They are moving more and more stuff to cloud hosting to be able to handle scalability - they get a lot of hits when big events happen and people want their data. Their regular web guy has kind of flaked out on them. All static content (data files, reports, etc), might need to translate some links, add some Google analytics, etc. But what is a good tool for performing the transfer initially - to sync up the new site to the old site. before fixing up the broken links etc? I'm pretty sure they'll get me FTP access to the old and new sites. Either Mac or PC, whatever's best.


short and friendly URL for affiliate links

This is my first question here on Pro Webmaster... I'm really glad to be here! I believe this question will have a simple answer but I'm starting with htaccess and I want to learn something about this file and its rules. I have a long and ugly affiliate link but I want to create a 301 redirect to this URL, without typing it. My website is http://www.matthewlabs.com/ and I want to use a link like http://www.matthewlabs.com/wishonlist/appstore which automatically redirects to my affiliate link. I tried to write this in my htaccess file:               Redirect 301 /wishonlist/appstore http://myAffiliateLinkHere      but it doesn't work. Must the directory /wishonlist/appstore exist to redirect? Because now I receive a 404 error...   And to use this link, can I create a simple link with html a tag?               Click      Thank you so much for your time and I hope you can help me!


Can I change title and meta description with 301 redirect?

I would like to make 301 redirect from one page to another. Do I need to use the same titles and meta tags or I can change it to new one without losing the rank of the page?


What could be preventing Google Chrome developer tools' audit from completing?

I'm trying to run Chrome developer tools' audit on http://www.zmxmusic.com, and it never completes... just gets up to about "Loading (61 of 61)" with the spinner but never shows the results. If I check the Network tab, there are no requests pending; all requests are complete and without errors. Audit works fine on other sites. **EDIT** Added actual site URL.


Server won't respond to customer - Wordpress site / Hostgator - high volume

I've got a customer using WordPress. They have been using it for years. It's a school where the kids get on each day and hit the site A LOT. Suddenly, in the last 3 days they get NOTHING back from the server (this ONLY occurs from within the school). If we do a `tracert`, we get out and seemingly get to the server. But if I look at network traffic on Chrome -- I never receive a response. This same thing happens on IE and FF. A look at CPanel shows that no IPs are being blocked. I've never done IP blocking so am not sure if this is what one who is blocked would even expect to see. We are a reseller for Hostgator... I wonder if something higher up the chain (maybe on their end) is causing this. I've got a ticket in with them. THIS JUST IN: I found out that the customer can reach the site when they skip their firewall... this leads me to believe that it HAS to be their firewall (even if their firewall provider says it's not).


Multiple webpages with the same page titles/meta-tags

I have created several duplicate pages because my website is in 3 languages (yes I know this is bad way to achieve this). Will Google flag my site as spam if I use duplicate page titles/meta keywords? Or would other problems develop?


GEO Tool - commercial use

what i want to do: offer my clients the possibility to display their store as a small graphic (like google maps). just a small png with the location of the store. only the specific client is able to see this images and he pays for this area (not only for that :) ). So i'm looking for a api or whatever else to geocode(?) the adress and render a small (280*160px) image. google offers a premium licence (not cheap) ms bing openstreetmap - i'm not able to understand the 10^10 licences ;( any ideas?


How do websites with no content rank so high?

I was just searching for, how to close a sim and I got the website (shown below) on the first page of Google. The website does not have the solution to the problem. there is just a line written about it but the SEO or a trick is played so well that it has got so many real comments. The comments are users asking him to help me close their sims. Now I don't get this. There is no content then how does the site rank so high? URL: `boltaconsumer.com/complaints/zong-sim-block` ![serps](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iyHit.png)


Set secondary receiver in PayPal Chained Payment after the initial transaction

I'm running a service whereby customers seek the services of 'freelancers' through our web platform. The customer will make a 'bid' which is immediately taken from their accounts as security. Once the job is completed, the customer marks it as accepted and the bid gets distributed to the freelancer(s) as a reward. After initially storing these rewards in the accounts of the freelancers and relying on MassPay to sort out paying them later, I realised that your business needs to be turning over at least £5000/month before MassPay is switched on. Instead, I was referred to Delayed Chained Payments in PayPal's Adaptive Payments API. This allows the customer to pay the primary receiver (my business) before the payment is later triggered to be sent to the secondary receivers (the freelancers). However, at the time that the customer initiates this transaction, you must understand that nobody yet knows who will receive the reward. So, before I program this whole Adaptive Payments system, is it even _possible_ to change or add the secondary receivers after the customer has paid? If not, what can I do?


Why has Apache begun running a single process as root, and another as root and the wwwdata user?

I am running Apache Worker-MPM, PHP 5.3.2, and FCGID. Apache runs better than before, but I noticed that there is an apache process running as root and a second process that runs as both root and as wwwdata. The rest of the processes are running as wwwdata. Has anyone run into this yet and is it safe?