Does using OpenGraph meta tags help webpages to get indexed better?

I have actually been reading and thinking about adding OpenGraph meta tags to help people who are sharing my blog posts, and different information of my site on Facebook. From reading, that will help index the site even better. The _basic_ setup for my site would go something like this for each page:               <meta property="og:title" content="Page Title" />     <meta property="og:description" content="Piece of page information" />     <meta property="og:url" content="URL of Page" />     <meta property="og:image" content="Featured Image" />      I know this helps with sharing the page on Facebook, but I wonder if Google is going to also use any of it for SEO of the webpages? From what I have been researching, I am not sure how well Google handles the OpenGraph protocol for indexing. Does Google use the OpenGraph tags to help index web pages?


Google Search : Why does redirect kill performance

According to Ilya Grigorik who works on Google Search Engine , redirects kill performance especially on mobile , I dont understand why ??


Using Information from Log File to Combat Spam

I'm dealing with a site (not Wordpress, nor any other CMS) that was previously hacked and at that time I had found a php file in the images directory that was being used to generate spam from the site. Now I've watched the 404 errors climb back into the 2000+ range in webmaster tools. People have told me not to worry about this, but a large number of 404 errors preceded the previous issue, and I had to go through the whole resubmission/reconsideration ordeal with Google. At this point, running the site check on Sucuri's website shows this site is blacklisted, but only with them (Sucuri) at this point. I can't track down any funny looking code or files on the server, and I've changed the FTP login information. I do see viagra and cialis links in the log files, but don't know how to use this information to clean up the site or protect it better. At one point, I was blocking specific URLs within my htaccess, but this doesn't seem to have an effect anymore. The client is hesitant to switch hosts. Any suggestions about how I can use what I am seeing in the logs to disassociate my site from the spammers?


How to slim down Joomla for clients?

I am just wondering is there a way I can create a 'lite' version of the admin backend, removing all the things my client wont need and just including things like article creation, web store stuff etc....


Why the number of indexed pages decreased for a "site:" search

Recently I created a website with hundreds of thousands of unique pages. A week ago, Google had indexed about 250,000 pages. It has now decreased to 90k URLs (using a `site:domain.com` query). What should I do to have Google index all the pages again? Why did all these pages get de-indexed from Google?.


Huge drop in indexed pages

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why the # of indexed pages got dicreased? My site's indexed pages drop every now and then. It suddenly drops from ~800.000 to ~20.000 pages, along with a huge drop in daily crawled pages (according to Google's webmaster tools) Then it raises again during the next 1-2 months, just to drop again, and the cycle repeats. I happens in both site:www.example.com and example.com. I'm very worried and I can't figure out why is this happening without making any changes in the site's link structure. This is affecting our rankings too. I suspect there's something annoying Goggle in our site, but it's driving me nuts to find the clue.


How to evaluate a domain name for a UK site: top level domain, number of words, and hyphens

I have 12 domain names for a new business project and I'm looking for advice as to which one is best for SEO and online optimisation strategy:   * `seo-check.co.uk`   * `seo-check.com`   * `seocheckonline.co.uk`   * `seo-check-online.co.uk`   * `seocheckonline.com`   * `seo-check-online.com`   * `seo-checks.co.uk`   * `seo-checks.com`   * `seochecksonline.co.uk`   * `seo-checks-online.co.uk`   * `seochecksonline.com`   * `seo-checks-online.com` The word "SEO" is different in reality, I've just used it for example purposes here. The business is based in and specific to the UK market (hence `.co.uk`), but which domain name is best for SEO and online strategy?


SEO on multilanguage website URL

I'm setting up a multilanguage website and I would like to have your help to take the best decision as regard SEO. After reading this. I would like to change my URLs from this form `www.mywebsite.com/page?lang=es` to `www.mywebsite.com/es/page?lang=es`. I need to keep the `?lang=es` for other things. My _.htaccess_ file already contains these things (to remove `.php` extension of `page.php`).               RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\s.+\.php [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /$1 [NE,R=301,L,NC]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.php$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f     RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}.php [PT]


Free ASP.NET Ajax Image gallery

I am searching for a free script in ASP.NET(C# o VB.NET) and Ajax form image gallery, can you help me?


Google Analytics on an Intranet - What constituers a Fully Qualified Domain Name?

We want to use Google Analytics on our intranet. It currently lives at `http://intranet`, which obviously won't work because Google Analytics requires an FQDN. It's also available at `http://intranet.companyname.dom/` but I'm unable to add a property using that address, either. So what exactly are the requirements? Does it need to be a "proper" web address, e.g. `intranet.companyname.com` (albeit only visible internally)? (Just to cover it off, we're OK with the privacy/security/etc implications of using a 3rd party analytics system on our intranet)


SEO & Return false on click event

I have a dropdown menu and I'm a trying to make it function more logically on touch devices, it currently following the link. On desktops the dropdown menu is displayed onmousehover and when the menu item is clicked, you are taken to a page. I've added a piece of code to this so it doesnt follow the link on touch devicesc.               function(e) {         if (isTouch) return false;         showMenu();          }      I'm a little concerned with the SEO implications of this, will it have any impact?


Duplicate content - similar content in two cities but one country

I am a nutritionist and would like to open a new practice in a new area but the same country. I would like to launch a local website for this area (URL with area name and local prices and addresses) but use most of the content from my current site to avoid rewriting a whole new website. I understand this is not idea but the I have done this when I launched abroad. However, as the site had a different top level domain I was not concerned with duplicate content. As this site will be in the same country, it will have the same top level domain and I am worried that Google may see this as duplicate content. Would this be considered duplicate content? If so is there any way I can avoid this?


SEO: is it a good practice for 2000 pages to redirect to 20 pages?

My task is to redirect ("301 redirection") 20 groups of 100 pages (2000 pages) with duplicate content to 20 pages in inner blog at the same domain. I know how to do it but is it a good idea from SEO perspective, or it is a bad practice?


HTML sitemap link to root

I have a HTML sitemap composed by the following elements (the sitemap is linked to my footer)               logo (linking to / )     link for the first  block of 150 links     link for the second block of 150 links     ....      I have now a SEO MAGIC GURU, that cannot explain me why, but he stated, that the logo must link to the frontpage and every page with the 150 block of links should link to the /sitemap. He says simply "that is what google likes". I'm developer. I know how the crawlers work and, the well written crawlers (and we can assume that google crawlers are state of art crawlers), parse all links from a page and just visit/crawl links that it didn't visited before. So the link for the "/sitemap" on all pages, to the bots, won't bring nothing, right? Do I missed something or the SEO-VOODOO-GURU is right? p.s: i do have a sitemap.xml, but as analyzed by me before, the HTML sitemap is really appreciated by google.


Removing date from Google SERP

We are going through our site analysing the SEO. I find that sometimes on a google results page, some results show a date, others don't. Example (from same query): ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WFgMN.gif) I prefer the result not to have the date in it, as 20 Oct 2009 probably has an adverse effect on the clickability of the result. Is this Google putting it in? Or the page itself? Or a combination of both (IE, if over a certain age, it includes date). The two URLs are: http://www.scirra.com/forum/perlin-noise-plugin_topic38498.html http://www.scirra.com/forum/dungeon-maze-generator_topic40611.html Any way to remove the dates? I'm thinking, if the age of the thread is > 4 months don't display the date on the page, then Google might not find a date reference for it?


Google Apps for buisness to Google Apps

I have created my personal account in Google Apps for business instead of Google Apps. Is it possible for me to change this? I have 13 days of trial time left. today when i get this link i get to know that there is a free version still available.


Proper use of Content-Encoding

I've heard it suggested that using setting a page's Content-Encoding to zip or gzip will drive down load times and reduce bandwidth. Is this worth implementing for the average site or only sites with a high load? Also, how does one go about setting up pages to be served in this way in a LAMP environment? Is there a practical difference between zip and gzip?


Using & instead of &?

I'm noticing that browsers correctly parse "&" when they encounter them. So is there any reason i should be using & in HTML text on my site?


Is there serious reason why big company like Facebook or Google don't use front-end libraries such as jQuery?

I saw that Facebook like open-source software a lot. Is there some webmaster- specific reason why don't they use jQuery or another javascript library? Is that because jQuery/another js library has a "lot"[1] of kilobytes? Or another reason? [1] I know it's only about 50kb, but you have to consider that's Facebook, a lot of traffic


Google Analytics - SSI/SQL Injection Exploits in Hostname

Today, in Google Analytics I reviewed a list of all hostnames used to access my site. Among the hostnames I expected to see, I also noticed a number of items that are clearly hacking attempts, such as SSI and SQL injection. For example -- I have one hostname listed as `"><!--#EXEC cmd="dir \"--><` I am wondering how exactly Google determines these hostnames, and where exactly the attacker may have been attempting these exploits that resulted in them being registered as hostnames in my GA profile? More so, should I be concerned at all that they are there--i.e., does the fact that they are showing up as the hostname say anything about the potential success of the attack?


Google webmaster tools reporting entire nil subdomain linking to www domain, despite permanent redirect

Looking in webmaster tools it is reported that I have a thousand of so inbound links from my root domain, domain.com, to www.domain.com. This is despite the fact I have a permanent redirect setup in nginx's conf file to www. Obviously I don't want to be penalised for cross domain linking but how can I clear this mess up? To my knowledge the nil domain was never accessible so I don't know how google apparently indexed it. Are there some particular steps I should take to resolve this? Is it likely that I am being penalised for duplicate content.


How to implement hreflang on a single domain?

Large amounts of a company's (English) content are duplicated across the following ccTLDs:   * `example.co.uk`   * `example.com`   * `example.au`   * `example.ie`   * `example.co.nz` The issue is that, realistically, we can only make changes to the UK site. Furthermore, the URL structure of the pages on the foreign markets is not always the same, and could change in the future. For example, `/about-us/` could become `/about/` without us being notified.    Would there be any SEO benefit to our UK site from implementing the `hreflang` attribute on our domain alone? If yes, how can we do it without changing the other international sites? Perhaps in XML sitemap form? For example, inspired by Google's guide:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"       xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">       <url>         <loc>http://www.example.co.uk/</loc>         <xhtml:link                       rel="alternate"                      hreflang="en-gb"                      href="http://www.example.co.uk/"                      />     </urlset>      It seems like an odd thing to do, and not what `hreflang` is intended for; but I'd like to confirm.    Note that all other geo-targeting signals are being taken care of.


Is it okay to use apostrophe's in the URL? Are there any negative consequences?

In particular I'm interested in any SEO consequences.


What can cause RewriteRule to work only for certain pages?

Is there any extern factor (that is, not in the .htaccess file) that can cause the RewriteRule not to work for specific URLs (of existing pages)? I have the following code in the .htaccess (it performs redirection but not for all URLs):               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d          RewriteRule . /index.php          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?domain\.com$     RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]          </IfModule>      [Edit] I've already made some changes since I've first posted the question, changes that didn't bring any improvement in what regards the way redirections are made - so the problem still needs a solution. The whole .htaccess file content is:               Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews          RewriteEngine on                         AddHandler x-httpd-php .html .htm                    <ifModule mod_gzip.c>            mod_gzip_on Yes            mod_gzip_dechunk Yes            mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$            mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$            mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*            mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*            mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*            mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*          </ifModule>                    <ifModule mod_expires.c>            ExpiresActive On            ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"            ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"            ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"            ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"       ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"            ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 2592000 seconds"            ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"            ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"          </ifModule>                    <ifModule mod_headers.c>            <filesMatch "\\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">              Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"            </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(css)$">         Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"            </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(js)$">              Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, private"            </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(xml|txt)$">              Header set Cache-Control "max-age=216000, public, must-revalidate"            </filesMatch>            <filesMatch "\\.(html|htm|php)$">              Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1, private, must-revalidate"            </filesMatch>          </ifModule>                    <ifModule mod_headers.c>            Header unset ETag          </ifModule>               FileETag None                    <ifModule mod_headers.c>            Header unset Last-Modified          </ifModule>                         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?domain\.com$     RewriteRule .? http://domain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]                    #BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>                    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d          RewriteRule . /index.php               </IfModule>               # END WordPress


Selling domain names for a reasonable price

So I have this domain name "theverbproject.com" that I bought back in December. I recently got an offer for 150.00. I'm debating whether I should sell it or hold out for however longer it takes for another offer. Is 150 a reasonable offer, or should I hold onto it?


How to Remove wpmp_switcher strings from Blog URLs

I was using WordPress mobile pack plugin which i have already uninstalled but there are too many URLs are indexed in Google with ?wpmp_switcher=desktop parameter. How can i fixed and no index kind of URLs or is there any plugin to fixed this Example URL is `http://www.example.com/contact-us/?wpmp_switcher=desktop`


Exclude domain from Google Analytics account

Some fool has implemented their Google Analytics tracking snippet on their website with **my Tracking ID** meaning my GA account is receiving data that I am not interested in from a website I have no control over. Thankfully they _are_ sending their hostname with the requests:               <script>         ...standard google stuff here...         ga('create', 'MY-TRACKING-ID-HERE', 'their.hostname.here');         ga('send', 'pageview');     </script>      Because they are sending their `hostname` the data is filterable in custom reports but it still turns up in the _standard reporting_. Is there some global account setting to reject data from certain domains? I can't believe I'm the first GA user to have somebody accidentally spamming their dataset. I hope the answer is not to declare GA account bankruptcy and move on to a clean slate.


How should I set up and use a CDN for my web application?

I plan to create and run my own CDN. Currently, media and other static content is being served by the web-servers which are behind a load balancer which is a waste of resources. The network structure of my web application (with the CDN) will be as follows:   * 1 load balancer node for the web servers (nginx)   * 3 web server nodes (apache, php)   * 2 database nodes (mysql)   * 1 load balancer node for the CDN (nginx)   * 3 CDN storage nodes (apache, php) How could I transfer files to the CDN from the nodes which generate media? For example image processing after file uploads.


Need some help on tomcat URL mod_rewrite or mod_jk

I am trying to remove the context name from the URL of my server. Current URL - `http://www.domainname.com/MyApp/` What I need to make is to make it available at - `www.domainname.com/` So it is only going to host one main app and that needs to be displayed when we open `www.domainname.com/` on browser. I have already tried couple of things like below -               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(Context/.*)$     RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /Context/$1 [P,L]      OR               redirect permanent /MyApp/ abcd://domainname.com      OR Using JKMount -               JkMount /MyApp/* ajp13     JkMount /MyApp* ajp13      OR Deploy war file to ROOT of tomcat and make relevant chagnes in web and server.xml All of these aren't working and I keep getting a intenal error. I need a way to basically trim the tomcat URL to make short.


How to point subdomain of A to folder of domain B

I have a subdomain, say `sub.A.com` I would like this to be pointed to `B.com/folder` With `A.com` I am only able to change the DNS records since it's hosted on an eCommerce platform. With `B.com` I can change any parameter since I host it. A simple `301` redirect from `sub.A.com` won't do because I don't want people to see `B.com` when they go to `sub.A.com`.


Is it acceptable to use conditional comments to block ie rather than ua sniffing?

I just cant see a way to support IE8 and below.   Having said that, I don't want to sniff the user agent because its bad practice and feature detection is a better alternative. Would it be acceptable to wrap the entire content of my page in a conditional comment for IE9 and above therefore blocking IE legitimetelly? Or should I reconsider my plan?


How does Google Analytics know the sex, age, interests of visitors?

The demographics pane displays stats based on sex, age and interests. How did it learn this private information? ![screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/j8g7O.png)


Apache mod_rewrite for multiple domains to SSL

I'm running a web service that will allow people to create their own "instances" of my application, running under their own domain. These people will create an A record to forward a subdomain of their main domain to my server. The problem is that my server runs everything under SSL. So in my configuration for port 80, I have the following:               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName mydomain.com         ServerAlias www.mydomain.com         RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on         RewriteRule /(.*) https://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301]     </VirtualHost>      This has worked well to forward all requests from the http: to https: domain. But as I said, I now need to let any domain automatically forward to the secure version of itself. Is there a rewrite rule that will let me take the incoming domain and rewrite it to the https version of same? So that the following matches would occur:               http://some.otherdomain.com -> https://some.otherdomain.com     http://evenanotherdomain.com -> https://evenanotherdomain.com      Thanks for your help! Apache mod_rewrite makes my brain hurt. Aaron.


Virtual hosting

I want to use domains like xxx.abc.domain.tld.   The xxx is my folder to access. I tried it with the rewrite rules, but I can't get it working, because I don't know how to get the part xxx from the SERVER_NAME into my RewriteRule. This was my try:               UseCanonicalName Off          # include the IP address in the logs so they may be split     LogFormat "%A %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon     CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vaccess.log vcommon          RewriteEngine On          # a ServerName derived from a Host: header may be any case at all     RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower          ## deal with normal documents first:     # do the magic     RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}} ^.+\.abc\.domain\.tld$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /var/www/abc.domain.tld/[xxx-part]/$1 [L]      Perhaps there is a better solution.   In generally I want to create a dynamic login system with mod_auth_mysql and for each xxx is a seperate user database.   I would prefer the domain/address syntax abc.domain.tld/xxx, but I don't know how to realize it. Thanks for any advices.


RewriteRules targeting a directory result in a gratuitous redirect

I have a standard CMS-like RewriteRule set up in my .htaccess:               RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?slug=$1      Let's say I have a directory called "foo" in the root directory. For some reason, if you hit the page it causes a redirect: http://www.mysite.com/foo --> http://www.mysite.com/foo?slug=foo Removing the directory fixes the problem, but unfortunately, it's not an option. Does anyone know of a workaround?


Can I contact the owner of a domain name based on a WHOIS search?

I did a WHOIS search for a domain name that I want. I found some info about the registrant of the domain name, and while no useful direct contact info was given, there was enough there for me to do some searching on the web and find some other ways to contact the registrant. I would rather contact him on my own than pay $39 to make an offer, which is the option this website gives me, and I don't even know if it will be seen. But I also saw this on the page that shows the info about the registrant of the domain: > By submitting a WHOIS query, you agree that you will use this data only for > lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this data to: > (1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass > unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via direct mail, > electronic mail, or by telephone; or (2) enable high volume, automated, > electronic processes that apply to [name of website] (or its systems). It seems like it just means that I can't do mass marketing using info obtained from these searches, but it wouldn't disallow me from contacting the registrant on my own. However, the phrase: `mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via direct mail, electronic mail, or by telephone` makes me a bit uneasy...the "or" in there seems to imply that even solicitation that's not "mass solicitation" is disallowed.


Which pages from the sitemap are not indexed by Google?

I have a sitemap file that has been submitted to Google, and has been processed, according to Google Webmaster Tools. As per GWT for 2013-05-31, 8255 web-pages are submitted, but only 8209 are indexed. Which 46 of the 8255 pages are not indexed?


apache is not allowing me to use port number 443 in virtual tag for configuring apache for https service

I am trying to configure apache for https service in xampp , i am almost done i am jsut struggling with that virtual tag in which i have give information about my self-signed ssl-certificate and key file , apache is not allowing me to use port number 443 in virtual tag even though i have no other service is running on this port , instead its working very well with any other free port like 55000               <VirtualHost *:443>     # Server Certificate:     SSLCertificateFile "C:/xampp/apache/bin/mycert.crt"     # Server Private Key      SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/xampp/apache/bin/mykey1.key"     SSLEngine On     ServerName localhost     DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"     </VirtualHost>      error :               Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.     3:36:52 AM  [Apache]    This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,      3:36:52 AM  [Apache]    improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.     3:36:52 AM  [Apache]    Press the Logs button to view error logs and check     3:36:52 AM  [Apache]    the Windows Event Viewer for more clues     3:36:52 AM  [Apache]    If you need more help, copy and post this     3:36:52 AM  [Apache]    entire log window on the forums


How can you prevent someone destroying your app if they get into your account on heroku?

Heroku is wonderful but it's slightly concerning that if your Heroku login is compromised someone can simply destroy your entire app and business. Is there any way of preventing this using multi factor authentication or similar?


Visit without pageview in Google Analytics

Today I saw some metrics on one of my websites in Google Analytics and found something strange to me. How can I get visits without pageviews? I looked at Audience>Engagement>Page Depth I have page depth<1 and 710 visits Is there a problem in these numbers?


How to show the search box in Google Search results page?

I need to know the proper way to propagate the search-box in the **Google search result page**. I tried searching the Google for the procedure, but no luck. Any idea how to make appear the search-box ? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sVUdI.jpg)


.htaccess Directory Redirect Problem

I want to redirect a directory to another directory but I've hit a snag. I want to redirect /directory_name to /new_directory_name so I put this in my .htaccess:               RedirectMatch 301 /directory_name/(.*) /new_directory_name/$1      Which worked fine BUT I also have another directory called :               /images/directory_name/      And the redirect is redirecting links to files in that directory to /new_directory_name/ and resulting in broken image links. So I need a redirect that ONLY redirects /directory_name/ and not any other directories that happen to have the same name (but are in a different location).


Adding URL parameters to Google Webmaster Tools: URL encoded or not?

When adding parameters to Webmaster Tools for URLs that I don't want indexed, should I add the parameters with actual brackets, example:               technology[above_average]      or should add in the URL encoding characters which are showing in the SERPs URL like so:               technology%5Babove_average%5D      Thoughts?


Whereto should I migrate my dasBlog site?

For a couple of years I've been hosting my blog on my own server. However, I'm getting tired of maintaining it myself, and I also wish to move away from the dasBlog engine, since development of that engine has stopped. For those reasons, I'd like to move the blog to a service that I don't host myself. It doesn't have to be free. However, I'd like to **move all the content** of the old blog so that **permalinks will still work** (redirecting to a new URL is also perfectly acceptable). The same goes for the RSS feed and comments. I was looking at wordpress.com, which looks good, but before I jump into that wanted to ask whether there are other options I should consider?


Favicon, icon, shortcut icon, apple-touch-icon: Are there any others?

I know of 2 basic kinds of default web icons for websites:   * **Favicon**: place an `.ico` formatted file at the root of your site named `favicon.ico` and most desktop browsers will find it and display it in various contexts (bookmarks, tabs). Can also be added in code, which allows you to specify other names and other graphics types to the file, though there are type and size limitations for browsers:               <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />     <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />        * **Web Clip Icon**: place a `png` formatted file called either `apple-touch-icon.png` or `apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png` at the root of your site and iPhone OS/iOS versions of Safari will pick those up and store them when the site is added to the Home Screen. Can also be added with code like:               <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/custom_icon.png" />      **Question** : Are there any other default icon graphics for a website a webmaster can include?


Paypal PDT  and IPN , how does it work?

## PDT Payment Data Transfer is getting the transaction data of the purchase that was made on paypal site and you want to fetch that on your own site and display to the user. Also you may want to store it in your database for archive and tracking purposes. But I cannot exactly follow the documentation here What I am not getting is > Once you have activated PDT, every time a buyer makes a website payment and > is redirected to your return URL, a transaction token will be passed along > as a "GET" variable to this return URL. In order to properly use PDT and > display transaction details to your customer, you should fetch the > transaction token, variable name "tx", and retreive transaction details from > PayPal by constructing an HTTP POST to PayPal. > > Your POST should be sent to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr. You must > post the transaction token using the variable "tx" and the value of the > transaction token previously received (e.g. "tx=transaction_token"), and the > special identity token using the variable at and the value of your PDT > identity token (e.g. "at=identity_token"). You will also need to append a > variable named "cmd" with the value "_notify-synch", for example > "cmd=_notify-synch", to the POST string. ## IPN I have setup Instant Payment Notification through setting according to this documentation. This is basically logging into your paypal account and enable IPN while specifying a url where the notification will be sent. This is used to complete an order so that the product can be shipped. What I did is setup a PHP page. I have created a table and whenever that page is called (or hit), it registers an entry in the table so I know a notification came from Paypal. But it does not work either. What am I really doing wrong? The first thing I want to trouble shoot though is when the buyer pays the amount, he is automatically redirected to my site. I have enabled this but automatic redirection just does not work. Instead he is shown the url as an option after payment confirmation is shown. Can someone guide my how the PDT process goes? Where do I make the request for PDT, is it along the very first request (Buy Now button) or it is sent later? ## Addition I found some good sampling code of how everything should work but it still does not work. I use this code http://officetrio.com/modules/free-php-paypal- ipn-script.php for IPN. I am using this for PDT. This one uses SSL, I changed SSL to regular HTTP (copied paypal version), still does not work. http://ykyuen.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/paypal-payment-data-transfer-sample- code/


Is using .se, Sweden's top level domain name, a bad idea for a website hosted in the United States

I have a client with a website name that ends with se. I thought instead of dealing with .com domain names I would register something like gardenho.se. Is there anything wrong with this? Does this impact SEO? Can I simply have the one name and then redirect it to the .com domain name so that it can be used on business cards?


Are there discussions about developing a user contributed website?

I'm developing a website where users will be the ones who add new input, validate new suggestions and correct incorrect information. (Much like this site). To make sure that abuse of these rights by users is minimized, I need to develop a good reputation system which encourages good behaviour, much like this site's reputation, again. I would like to learn more about this subject, which is why I ask: are there any discussions about the development of user contributed websites? Any resources, studies or anything else that could help me out to develop a system that will work? Thanks in advance. - Tom


Visitors have old website cached in their browsers

My client's new website is example.com, the old website is example.co.uk. I've re-pointed the A Records to the new website (so as to leave the emails alone) and put in 301 redirects from old pages to new pages. But, my client is upset as he (and he thinks many of his clients) have the old website cached in their browsers and won't know how to clear their browser cache. Is there anything I can do to overcome this and if not, what sort of time will browsers finally stop using their cached pages so I can at least go back to my client and tell him that his clients will finally start to see the new website?


How to use Google Analytics as an affiliate to track sales data

As an affiliate, how can we get more information on sales? It looks like the goals feature in GA is for those who have control over the receipt page. But we are sending users away using an affiliate link. With event tracking, we've been able to count the clicks and see which links are being clicked the most, but not which ones actually convert. We want to find out the following on each sale:   1. Did the converted user come from search or internal traffic?   2. If it was search, which keyword brought the user to our site (and clicked away and converted)? Is it possible?


Link popularity check

Where do i search to check link popularity for my site? On a different site i get different counts. Besides, what is the difference if check for link popularity using `http://article-stack.com/` or `article-stack.com`? In 2nd case it shows higher counts.


Redirect Permanent and https

I just set up HTTPS on my server, and I have an issue with redirect permanent. Example `http://domain.com/index.html` it redirect me to `http://www.domain.comindex.html` The **/** (tail ending slash) is missing and I can't figure out how to fix it. It's work with `http://www.domain.com/index.html` Here is my httpd.conf               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName domain.com     Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.com/     </VirtualHost>     <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName www.domain.com       Redirect permanent / https://www.domain.com/     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:443>       DocumentRoot /var/www/domain/       ServerName www.domain.com       SSLEngine on       SSLCertificateFile ssl.crt       SSLCertificateKeyFile ssl.key     </VirtualHost>


Backlinking to a website with image source

I just want to ask can we increase backlinks to our site by putting 1x1 pixel image on our clients' sites or can anybody suggest a better solution?               <img src="http://www.mysite.com/" alt='http://www.mysite.com/' />


Where should I look for a windows based CMS?

Ideal features:   * windows   * allows for localization   * allows us to make it look exactly like the current http://fogcreek.com We're currently using ASP.NET, which means you have to check out the website to make any changes (and so our front page has stuff from a year ago on it). Lame. Can be free or paid. Any suggestions?


How to autopause Google Adwords if server is down?

Should I write my own monitoring script and use Adwords API to pause the campaigns if my server is down, or there is a simple way to do it? I don't want to use 3rd party software, because the task looks rather simple for that.


HTTP Headers caching

I am not totally sure bout HTTP headers, but from what I read its good to have some level of caching on static pages also I am not sure if `Transfer Encoding: chunked` is a good thing. I was not finding a definite answer as to how best to run this cache with my PHP files so that caching is enabled and when content changes it should update the cache. Hopefully I can get assisted with this, I was wondering which of the following would be best to use or any advice :               header('Cache-control: public');      OR               header('Cache-control: max-age=10');      Thanks for your time.


How do you get new sites into your Quantcast network?

Over a month ago, we added some of the new Stack Exchange sites to the "Stack Overflow Network" on Quantcast, but to date, they haven't showed up: http://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc#subdomain Is this because of traffic numbers, or because we did something wrong?


Why would Google's ranking algorithm move a search result due to quotes?

Yesterday at 10AM, the Google search: > "Submitting values of "jQuery Editable Invoice" into a MySQL DB using PHP" came up with `stackoverflow.com` as the 8th result on the page. The first was a spammy page which was just copying the info from `stackoverflow.com` without attribution [contacted and they fixed it]. Removing the quotes surrounding the question > Submitting values of jQuery Editable Invoice into a MySQL DB using PHP `stackoverflow.com` came up first. Removing just the inner quotes > "Submitting values of jQuery Editable Invoice into a MySQL DB using PHP" `stackoverflow.com` came up first again. At 3PM yesterday, all results for those 3 combinations showed `stackoverflow.com` in the first result. What could have caused that?


Is there a jQuery lightbox plugin that has thumbnails inside the box?

I'm trying to find a lightbox style plugin in jQuery that displays thumbnails at the bottom of the picture (or video, or whatever). I found plenty of lightbox plugins, but none that allows navigation by thumbnail _inside_ the box. The plugin must be able to open images, swf and inline content. I realize that jQuery will not be able to generate the thumbnails and that's ok. Do you have any good ones to suggest? Thanks


Do search engines lower your ranking for using private registration like WhoisGuard?

I am registering a new domain name from "namecheap.com" which offers free WhoisGuard for a year. There are numerous reasons not to list your contact information with your domain registrar, such as blocking contact information from telemarketers, and email spammers. Google can only see registration information on domains that they hold. Does blocking WhoIS users from accessing your contact information via privacy services (WhoisGuard) have a harmful effect on SEO and lead to search engines not trusting you? WhoisGuard References: http://www.whoisguard.com https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx


anonymous.google as a site name placement in Google AdWords?

We started a campaign on Google AdWord's content network. Using Value Track, they let you use `{placement}` in your ad URL so that the name of the site where your ad appears is passed as a URL parameter to your site. When we use this, we normally see the site name (like `example.com`) passed as a URL parameter. Some portion of the time, though, Google sends something like `123456.anonymous.google` as the placement. It appears that Google allows sites to be anonymous from those advertising on them some of the time.   * Under what circumstances does google anonymize the placement like this?   * Why does Google anonymize some placements?   * Does google use a different anonymous identifier for each site that sends traffic? I've found that I can block ads that would show up `anonymous.google` if you want to.


How can I secure an installation of MediaWiki?

I want to run an installation of MediaWiki as a Internet-accessible personal wiki, running on wiki.mysite.com. However, I want to ensure that I am the only one who can read and write to this wiki. In the future, I may explicitly give other people read and/or read/write access, so the method of securing the wiki should account for that as well. I see two options: I can use some MediaWiki plugin or I can secure the subdomain with HTTP authentication. However, I'm not sure what the advantages and disadvantages of either are in the long run. Suggestions or advice as to what plugins or authentication methods might be most reliable?


What will happen if I transfer the registration of the primary domain on my 1and1.com account?

I have a hosting account with 1and1.com, and several domain registered and hosted with them. I need to transfer the registration of the **primary domain** on my account to a new registrar, but I don't really want to move all of my domains with them. Will transferring only the primary domain have any adverse effect on the other domains hosted on that account?


Emails have disappeared from 1 account on mail server (WHM/LAMP VPS)

I just received a call from a client saying that all their emails have dissappeared from their inbox. I logged on to their webmail account via CPanel and RoundCube and this appears to be true - there are emails in sent, drafts, junk and deleted but nothing in the inbox. There is plenty of room on our VPS and the client has plenty of quota. I sent a test email and it did appear fine in the webmail server. What could have caused this and is there any way to retrieve it?


New site has PR9 as soon as it is made, why/how?

I was just messing around with Google Sites and noticed that as soon as I made my site the homepage had a PR of 9 (before it crosses your mind all the links it makes are `nofollow`). The homepage of the test site I was playing around with is https://sites.google.com/site/samsnewsite030413/ Why does this happen as PR is on a per-page basis, and as the page is brand new how does it have a PR? I've seen a similar thing happen with Github project pages; they seem to have a PR8 as soon as they are made, it's not like they are running off a standard URL with JavaScript bringing in the content - they seem to be static pages with their own URLs.


buttons (text or images)

I would like to know if I should create CSS buttons or image buttons for my site. What is better? Problem is that the text is formatted with Helvetica Neue ( I like that font very much) and I can't use it as a web font because of copyright issues. If I create the buttons in CSS they look beautiful in the browser but get resized when the user has chosen a different text-size for their browsers. Image buttons have the advantage I can embed my font but do not look that good as CSS buttons. Also in that case I had to make Retina-versions for the buttons (just for the future when any PC has a Retina-display). Can someone please help me in this tricky situation? Does anyone know a web- safe alternative to Helvetica Neue? Should I disable the resizing of my button div-containers? What's today's standard when it comes to website buttons? TIA!


To allow or disallow alphabetical content directory pages?

We have a content that publishes fresh content 2-3 times a day. The site has category pages for tags and each alphabet. They both list the title with links to all the content within that category or starting with that alphabet respectively. Should you allow the robots to index these pages specifically the ones that list titles of the page starting with each alphabet?


How to fix this 404 soft error?

I have a static HTML website. `www.example.com/?12345` (this page doesn't exist) redirects to `www.example.com` and `www.example.com/page.html?12345` redirects to `www.example.com/page.html`. I don't know why this happens. Google said this is a soft 404 error and `www.example.com/page.html?12345` should return a 404 response not a 200 OK response. How can I fix this ? Here's my _.htaccess_ :               RewriteEngine On      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]          # Cache     # 1 month     <filesMatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$">     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, private"     </filesMatch>     # 3 days     <filesMatch ".(txt|css|js)$">     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=259200, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"     </filesMatch>     # 10 min     <filesMatch ".(html|htm)$">     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=3600, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"     </filesMatch>          # Include php     <Files contact.htm>     AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 htm     </Files>


Is this a correct robots.txt file?

I would like to allow Googlebot and Mediapartners-Google (AdSense useragent) to crawl my website. So I have written below code inside my _robots.txt_ file.               User-agent: Googlebot     Disallow:            User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:            Sitemap: http://website.com/sitemap.xml      Is the above _robots.txt_ file is correctly written? Yes or no ?


Should I have og:description and meta description together on every page?

Or will Google not like it if I have two kinds of description tags? I just put up a new blog and it automatically adds the `og:description` and `og:title` and I am not sure if that is going to get me penalized or my pages somehow discounted if I have meta description and `og:description` on the same page. Would anyone know how to best handle this situation? Should I try to get rid of the `og:description`? The site I am working on is a WordPress site.


Backslash character %5c in URL makes relative links fail

Please can anyone help? Somehow Google has indexed the page: http://www.wiseowl.co.uk/courseware%5Cms-office.htm This looks fine, but the page should be: http://www.wiseowl.co.uk/courseware/ms-office.htm All works well until you click on relative links on the page. For the first (backslash) case, these fail, as the path takes you one folder too far up the directory tree. Our website is hosted by IIS, so no Apache style commands are possible. Has anyone any ideas? Thx in advance Andy


How can I view website requests in console in real time?

I want to display incomming requests to my web server in real time, in console. Each request should be represented by a single line with information about the request, i.e. client’s IP address, etc. Is it possible? If so, how?


Correct usage of schema.org for logo?

Google gives this example to markup your logo:
       Home
      http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2013/05/using-schemaorg-markup-for- organization.html But that example has the `img` outside the anchor, I want to put it inside...so I'm wondering can I do it this way instead:                                 Is this valid? _Note: I took out the URL`itemprop`_.


Does pinging the page on social bookmarking sites whre your site has been bookmarked help SEO?

If you bookmark your site on say, delicious, does it help to then ping the url on delicious that contains the bookmark to your site?


Web Notification Design

I am designing a website which my web user would interact on the site. Take FB poke function for example. There are two men A and B and they are both online. And A poked B. What I want to know is how to make B get an instant notification, knowing that A poked him just now ? The way I thought is that make a javascript code to ajax the database for new notification every minutes. How could I reduce the amount of the times of query the data ? Or is there any other way better?


Online Website Backup Solution?

i am managing Lil bit big online teaching website(1gb). it was bit pain when we talk about getting backup from the my Host. and my internet speed also dam slow. because of it i am currently use my hotfile premium account Remote upload facility to back up my site. but the problem is these hotfile backup files life time is too short(30 days). i need alternative for this. my requirements.   1. ability to upload 1gb file.   2. Remote upload facility smiler to hotfile.com   3. long life time for files(3-6 months).   4. good download speed smiler to hotfile.com   5. can pay nearly $10 per month please help me to solve this.


Multiple Wordpress installs on subdomains affecting SEO?

I am working on a website for a photography business in town and was asked to do something I'd never considered before. The company wants a basic webpage for it's "general" business -- myphotography.com, let's say -- and then a subdomain for each of their specialties: weddings.myphotography.com, portraits.myphotography.com, etc. They specifically requested that Wordpress be used and want a different theme on each subdomain. What makes most sense to me with this setup is using multiple Wordpress installations, one for each subdomain, and interlink between them with the menus and trackbacks/pings. The last thing I want is to negatively affect SEO with this. It seems like it should boost each individual subdomain/site. But at the same time, the root domain is the same, so it could actually drag the entire thing down. What are your thoughts on this??


Is there a simple way to query the top URLs in Google Analytics?

I'm looking for an easy way to query GA programmatically in order to display the most popular pages on my site. GA has a Data Export API, but it seems kind of complex to work with for what I want to do. Is there a simpler way or am I stuck with the Data Export API?


Internet data citation rules

I have a site and on some pages I want to add data that is available on other sites, also I will put proper reference to my data that is where I copied it from. I just need proper rule for it. Like http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9358675.htm I want to add an excerpt from this page and refer this page as reference reading. Can I do copy paste? Is this any violation of law?


How to use google adsense (or similar) for a web app with user specific content

I am working on a site that allows users to log in and enter their own information. Each user will have their own login, and enter their own content that can only be seen by them. It is conceptually similar to a to-do list site like Remember The Milk. I would like to use Google Adsense as a way of getting revenue from it, but from what I have read so far it has no way of handling this kind of site. What I would want from a service like Adsense is a way to submit a set of keywords that I can extract from the user's text, and get back a set of adverts to display to the user. There is Adsense's search facility but that has to be submitted by the user themselves - I expect if the server submitted search requests automatically it would be a fast track to getting banned from Adsense. Is there any way to do what I want using Adsense, or are there any competing ad services that will do what I want?


amung.us and "users online" time window

Greetings i would like to ask you what is the time window that amung.us calculates "online" users. 1 hour? 30 min? 15 min? other?????


Why would layout differ on first-load of a webpage?

Not entirely sure I understand what's going on, but would appreciate some pointers or things to try. (In Chrome/Mac...) In an incognito window, try loading http://ireland.media.info - and look at the search box on the right-hand side. It's falling off the bottom of the top menu bar, isn't it? Looks really ugly, doesn't it? Now, hit reload. Look at the search box on the right-hand side. Oh. It's displaying nicely in the middle of the top menu bar, isn't it? I've been writing HTML for twenty years, but never seen this. Is it, perhaps, a bug related to the images on the left, which are browser re- sized (so they look pretty on a retina screen)? Is it a bug at all? Are you seeing this issue on any other browser or any other build of Chrome for another OS? (Just so you know: the HTML should be identical for each load, and, indeed, should be cached at the server using Varnish anyway.) Any clues?


Is there any SEO benefit in making website image paths relative to the current page

Is there any benefit in making the paths of content images match that of the page? E.g. if the path of my page is               www.example.com/something/my-latest-article      is it better to have content images with the URL such as               www.example.com/something/my-latest-article/content-image-1.jpg      or               www.example.com/images/content-image-1.jpg


difference in using third party social buttons and directly integrating each social buttons ourselves

I wanted to add specific social buttons to my article. I used ShareThis. It gives a facebook like button, google plus button, etc... by default. were as in other articles of different modules i had integrated the facebook like by myself by following the documentation (including markup in the head section) What is the difference in adding manually with many markups and using third party code? Will that affect SEO or any other advantage over the respective social networking site (here for example facebook and google plus)?


Domain not accessing correct files in apache2 virtual hosts

I have 3 domains hosted on my Ubuntu server running apache2 as DNS I am using cloudflare.com abc.com and xyz.com are accessing correct files that are inside abc.com/public_html and xyz.com/public_html folder but the third domain is accessing files from the root folder. Following is the content of my domain.com file which is found under /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.com               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com         ServerName domain.com         ServerAlias www.domain.com              DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/public_html         <Directory />                 Options FollowSymLinks                 AllowOverride None         </Directory>         <Directory /var/www/>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                 AllowOverride None                 Order allow,deny                 allow from all         </Directory>              ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/         <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">                 AllowOverride None                 Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch                 Order allow,deny                 Allow from all         </Directory>


Blocked urls by Google

I have a website which is 2 years old now. I saw it after a long time now and was shocked to see that Google robot has blocked 104 pages of my website. I saw this through webmaster tools. IS there any way I can unblock them? EDIT: I have attached the image but can't provide the name of the website. Thanks ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hbnHO.png) Thanks in advance.


Should I use a file extension or not?

I've always wondered about this and never found a good solution. But this question reminded me of it. When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways:               http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.htm     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.html     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.php     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.asp     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/some-relevant-keywords     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/some-relevant-keywords.htm     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/index.php?page=some-relevant-keywords     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/?page=some-relevant-keywords     http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory/?page=some-relevant-keywords&even=more-keywords      etc... Now, I can understand the merits of adding keywords in the URL. Even the most basic SEO guide will mention to do just that. ... but for the sake of sanity, clarity, ease of reading, ease of use, and so on, **including web compliance** ... Is it **_preferred_** to have a file-extension or not? Really, deep down my logic tells me: yes, it should. The reason being is this stems back to the days of the past when the internet was mostly USENET, FIDONET, FTP and GOPHER. See, if a URL has no _filename_ , then it normally is considered a _directory_. This is where index.htm came about, because this by default lists the directory if no index file is found. However, soon enough, web programmers started overriding this and using index.htm to actually serve the content of that web directory _as a page_. The main difference, was markup language was added in, and this was parsed in the browser. With this markup language, the `Content-Type:text/html;` tag in the response header became the indicator to what filetype it was **for any file**. HTML seems to be the only "filetype" that just doesn't have consistently named extensions, except for when they are saved. Unfortunately, once web pages became the main thing, it became a security error to actually display the directory contents, so everything stayed hidden with only the actual URL content being displayed. Not to mention the cross-platform file-naming wars.. windows based require a 3 or less digit extension, and unix/mac can have more. So should it be `.HTM` or `.HTML` or `NONE` and let the platform decide? So in essence, I guess what I am trying to figure out is _beyond SEO_ and dealing more with aesthetics and web compliance.


.html extension or no for SEO purposes

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use a file extension or not? I know this question has been asked before on Stack Overflow, but what I have not been able to find in the posts I've read are concrete references as to WHY one is better than the other (something I can take to my boss). So I'm working on an MVC 3 application that is basically a rewrite of the existing production application (web forms) using MVC. The current site uses a URL rewriter to rewrite "friendly" urls with HTML extensions to their ASPX counterpart. i.e. http://www.site.com/products/18554-widget.html gets rewritten to http://www.site.com/products.aspx?id=18554 We're moving away from this with the MVC site, but the powers that be still want the HTML extension on the URLs. As a developer, that just feels wrong on an MVC site. I've written a quick and dirty HttpModule that will perform a 301 redirect from the .html URL to the same URL without the .html extension and it works fine, but I need to convince management that removing the .html extension is not going to hurt SEO. I'd prefer to have this sort of friendly URL: http://www.site.com/products/18554-widget Can anyone provide information to back up my position or am I actually trying to do something that WOULD hurt SEO, in which case can you provide references on that?


Does Google treat .html pages differently from .php pages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use a file extension or not? My current hosting provider does not let me put PHP code inside of a .html page. So part of my content is in a database and displayed with PHP, but most of it is in pre-rendered .html files. I'd like to put more of it in .php files however I am concerned that search engines will penalize my .php pages because they are PHP. Is there any evidence so that effect? Thanks.


SEO .html, .php or nothing

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use a file extension or not? Hi Guys, When I make a site, should I use the .php extension, rewrite it to .html or just remove it (.htaccess)? What's your opinion about this? I've always learnt that it was .html, but I don't know why. I doubt it that google doesn't care, but why should .html prefered to no extension?


Does .html extension in URL help for SEO?

I am working on `dotNET` and I have changed `URL` extension from `.aspx` to `.html`. Is it good to use .html extension ?      My actual URL is `www.example.com/Project.aspx?Id=2&Type=this-is-something`   I have replace this as `www.example.com/Projects/2/this-is-something`      Is it fine ? Else give me suggestion which `URL` should I use for `SEO`. I can make URL anyhow I want using URL Rewriting.      I want to make it best URL for SEO. Please help me regarding this.


403 Error Crawling Pages

I am receiving more than 6000 errors in Google Webmaster Tools. It is showing "access denied"; can anyone please help me out with resolving this?


What's the relation between securepaynet and GoDaddy?

I created an account in Google Apps, and during the registration I also created a GoDaddy account (within Google Apps page). And, the username and password Google provided me will only login on this securepaynet settings page, not on GoDaddy's official page. So, what's the relation between securepaynet and GoDaddy? Why can't I login to the GoDaddy page (that have more configurations options)?


Ways to set up a simple inventory form quickly

I needed a simple inventory form of sort on my website where visitors could enter their information, pick the item they wanted and then submit the form and dispatch an email. The information will be updated in a database and then I can just verify the records in the database from another form when I confirm their payments manually. Since it isn't a full scale inventory or online shop system and it is going to be just a temporary thing, I feel like I want to do something like that in the shortest time. If create this thing in PHP I thought it may take quite some time to set up the forms, put in the form validations, and then programme the form logic with the inputs and database, etc. Are there other quicker and smarter solutions to create such a simple form quickly?


Web.config WordPress rewrite rules next to Magento

I've installed Magento on IIS in folder: `E:\mydomain\wwwroot` (I already have it all running correctly). I have no deeper folder `magento`, I placed all files directly in the `wwwroot` folder, so:               wwwroot\app     wwwroot\downloader     wwwroot\errors     wwwroot\includes     etc...      **UPDATE** : since I'm on IIS my `.htaccess` is ignored completely and my `web.config` rules are used instead. Here's my web.config in folder `e:\mydomain\wwwroot`:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>           <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <rewrite>           <rules>             <rule name="Magento SEO: remove index.php from URL">               <match url="^(?!index.php)([^?#]*)(\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?" />                 <conditions>                   <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/(media|skin|js)/" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />                   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />                   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />                 </conditions>               <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:0}" />             </rule>           </rules>         </rewrite>       </system.webServer>     </configuration>      Next, I wanted to install WordPress. I unzipped all files in folder `e:\mydomain\wwwroot\wordpress` Browsed to www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php, where I configured everything for my database. Everything was installed correctly. I then navigate to http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php where I type my credentials. I seem to be logged in and am redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/ But there I receive an empty page. I enabled detailed error message in IIS following this article: http://www.iis.net/learn/troubleshoot/diagnosing-http-errors/how-to-use-http- detailed-errors-in-iis I also checkec with Fiddler and see that I receive a 500 error: GET /wordpress/wp-admin/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.mydomain.com Connection: keep- alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9, _/_ ;q=0.8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 Safari/537.36 Referer: http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,nl;q=0.6 Cookie: wordpress_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7C2d8edb4fc6618f290fadb49b035cad31; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7Cbf822163926b8b8df16d0f1fefb6e02e HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html Server: Microsoft- IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.14 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:56:03 GMT Content-Length: 0 My WordPress web.config in folder `e:\mydomain\wwwroot\wordpress` contains:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <configuration>       <system.webServer>         <rewrite>           <rules>                 <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard">                     <match url="*"/>                         <conditions>                             <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>                             <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>                         </conditions>                     <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php"/>                 </rule></rules>         </rewrite>       </system.webServer>     </configuration>      I also want my WordPress articles to be available on `www.mydomain.com/blog` instead of `www.mydomain.com/wordpress` Ofcourse my admin links for Magento and Wordpress should also work. How can I configure my web.config files to achieve the above?


Line spacing does not go to zero

I have reduced the font size to very small here but large interline gaps remained. Additionally, it does not seem to be monospace since length does not increase monotonously as it should in case of font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace. In edit mode, everything is fine.


.htaccess Redirect Old Threads

I have moved to mybb to vanilla and want to redirect old threads to the new format, so the indexed threads on google aren't lost. The old format is > showthread.php?tid=3003 Whereas the new format is > index.php?p=/discussion/3003 How would i redirect this via .htaccess?


Tackling thin content on an images gallery

We run an images gallery as part of our site, however we have over 8,000 images and every image has a separate HTML page of its own to display the image caption, related image and comments from users of the site. This seems to be a problem especially with the Google Panda update because these pages are technically "thin content". What would be the best way to tackle this? We'd love some feedback and advice regarding this scenario. We have a few options we thought of already but can't decide:   1. We could `noindex` the separate image pages and lose any image search listings we have for the image in favour of removing these thin pages from the index.   2. We could 301 all of the individual image pages back to the image category listing and anchor each image (e.g. `#img2122`) and include all of the comments and description on the category listing page itself. If we was to simply list all of the images and content on the category pages themself; what's the best method? We could add all of the content in the anchor tags and use jQuery to display them in a box when a user clicks on the image or we could use Ajax to retrieve the information. However, what's the best Ajax method for SEO? Any ideas, suggestions, tips or advice is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for any given.


Google+ and authorship of brand pages

Does Google+ support authorship for brand pages (e.g. not a personal Google+ profile). It is unclear on the context. E.g. here it says you need a recognizable profile photo of a face: https://plus.google.com/authorship But on the examples they have ZDNet logo: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1408986?expand=option2 What would be the authorship markup for Google+ pages as page urls differ from profile urls?


SEO for different content displayed via PHP

Do search engines index, crawl, and display content that is shown only to certain users via php? For example, I have a page which looks like this: some content1 _php if user is x user_ some content2 for user x _php if user is y user_ different content3. So, would the search engines consider the keywords/links/seo of all three types of content or just that displayed to all users? Thanks


Force google to just index rewrited urls

Let's think we have a website with a URL like `http://www.domain.com/webdesign/` that rewrites `http://www.domain.com/?article=1`. now when i search my keyword in Google, it will show up `http://www.domain.com/?article=1` in search results, while there is no link to that in any page and all menus are linked to `http://www.domain.com/webdesign/` and i want that to be index. _**Is there anyway to solve this?_**


Requirements for Google HTML snapshots

Are there any requirements for a HTML snapshot for Google other than: > .. must contain the same content as the dynamically created page .. found here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/html- snapshot?hl=nl There is also a question found here: Content of html snapshot for Search engines But is does not realy answers my question. So what about the structure and layout? Or can i just make a stripped down version with plain HTML.


What is the Google version of Yahoo's Data tables?

I find Yahoo! Data tables very useful. You can access them using YQL (Yahoo query language) to retrieve information such as stock markets, currency rates, etc. See http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ for more information. I was wondering, though, whether Google has anything similar?


What is best for SEO - 'RDFa Semantic Web' or 'Link Building'

Given that RDFa is fairly sensible and Google use it, should I plug in some sensible semantic web tags into my site or should I invest my energies into link building? I was also planning to use this to put my semantic markup together. I don't think the site is important to the question, however it is a relaunched hotel website.


Beginners resources for SEO

I'm totally new to the business of SEO - what are good resources to get started? When I try to Google such a question I end up quickly at black-hat and paid sites; I'm looking for the white-hat variety.


How to incorporate WordPress blog into a static website?

I'm a designer and front-end web designer and I have a client that wants me to put her wordpress into a static site. Is there a way that I can embed the blog into a new site? Or is there a way that I can create a back door so that even though she cannot read html she can add new updates to the site? I've been looking for the answer, but can't seem to figure it out. Please let me know what my options are.


Alexa ranking of a website?

If a user visits demo.domain.com, does that count as having visited the site domain.com? Does the Alexa ranking apply to the sub-domain or the primary domain?


Is an anchor link registered as duplicate content by Google?

I have a store where fairly important content is now viewed by all visitors (only 66% according to mouseflow) as users have to scroll a bit to see it, which not all do. I don't wish to move the content up at this time, but wanted to add an anchor to all source links that would skip the header of the eshop and go directly to the content. This would provide 100% views of what I want. But will Google register anchor links as duplicate content of non-anchor links? Would I lose PageRank from this? `/food.html` AND `/food.html#bread` - duplicate content or not?


Can I modify an existing certificate to run on multiple hostnames?

I've been investigating and I found instructions on how to create an SSL certificate with multiple hostnames, but I need to know whether I can modify an existing certificate (not create a new certificate) to allow multiple hostnames.


URL doesn't change on sub-pages or when leaving site

I'm new to the world of webmasters, so I haven't been able to appropriately search for an answer. I don't know the keywords that describe my situation. I registered hallienoelle.com and the `.net` version through GoDaddy and set up forwarding with masking to hallienoelle2.wpengine.com. When you go to the `.com` or `.net`, it takes you to the homepage with no slashes or anything after it. If you click on a different page, it takes you to that page, but doesn't change the url. It still says `hallienoelle.com` with no slashes or anything after it. The _most worrisome_ part is that if someone clicks an external link **my URL is still in the address bar.** For example, clicking the _Powered by Wordpress_ link at the bottom takes you to `wordpress.org`, but the address bar still shows `hallienoelle.com` with no slashes or anything after it . Did I do something wrong in setting up GoDaddy forwarding or is it a Wordpress/WPEngine configuration issue? **UPDATE:** Thanks to PatomaS I know how to fix the external link problem. I still am unsure of how to get the directory/folder/webpage to display after the `.com` like so:   1. Go to `hallienoelle.com` (and see the content from `hallienoelle2.wpengine.com`)   2. Click a link, like `About Us`   3. This should take you to `hallienoelle.com/?page_id=11` (and you see the content from `hallienoelle2.wpengine.com/?page_id=11`)    4. **But,** currently it still shows just `hallienoelle.com` even though you are looking at the `?page_id=11` page.  Do I have to go through all my internal links and hard-code something like `<a href="hallienoelle.com/?page_id=11" target="_top">About Us</a>`? This seems inefficient and error prone. I'm probably just misunderstanding something. **UPDATE 2:** WPEngine also gives me the option of forwarding to `http://198.58.98.52/` and I (think) it reads the requested URL from the header and serves my content. I add this because as I've been reading someone said redirects to `mysite.example.com` are generally used for free hosting providers and are looked down upon. I use `hallienoelle2.wpengine.com` because it is recommended on `http://wpengine.com/support/how-to-configure-your-dns/` under the heading `Setting up a subdomain`.


How can I browse the Web blind for a day?

"Close your eyes" isn't the answer I'm looking for, but +1 to you if it was your first thought. I'm putting together an awareness campaign called Browse Blind. The goals are to:   * Help sighted people experience the Web as a visually impaired user for one day or more.   * Show video footage of visually impaired users browsing popular sites such as Facebook.   * Encourage webmasters to take a more active interest in making their sites accessible.   * Demonstrate the features that make a site accessible, and those that impede accessibility.   * Make the Web a better place. The project came about after a health scare that resulted in three trips to a local eye hospital. My sight is OK now, but it struck me that, as much as web designers and developers wax lyrical about accessibility, very few seem to have used a screen reader for any length of time (myself included) or considered what their online experience would be like if they suddenly lost their sight. And _not a single one_ of the 100 or so webmasters I've spoken to about accessibility have watched partially sighted users browse the Web. (It's one of the topics I always bring up at Web conferences.) My questions are:   1. **What is the most common method of Web access** (and the name of any related software) for partially sighted users?   2. **How can I simulate this method** so that a non-technical sighted user on any desktop platform can browse the Web in the same way as a partially sighted person with minimal setup steps? For question 2, I'd like to avoid recommending that people download and install a screen reader for their OS if I can, because I think doing so will drastically reduce the number of participants. So I'm looking for Web based simulators (and browser plugins if they exist). If you know of a cross-platform screen reader that's easy to set up, then that might be an option too, as would step-by-step guides that turn a Mac or Windows OS and browser into 'accessible mode' without further software, _as long as you're sure that this is a method that partially sighted computer users employ_. The closest in-browser screen reader emulator I've found so far is WebAnywhere. (Warning: audio plays as soon as you click that link.) It's technically very impressive, but it's a beta, and it doesn't yet appear to work reliably as a functional web browser. If there's nothing out there like this, that's fine as an answer too. (I'm prepared to build something that emulates the most common access methods, but I need to understand what those are first.)


Hiding Menu Item with CSS - will Google penalise my site?

I want to hide some sub menu items, using the CSS class, and assign it to the specific menu item. For example the class is no display:               /* Hide menu items */     .nodisplay {     display:none !important;     }      This works great, but I wonder if this would be penalized by Google, as I read that Google don't like hidden texts? I read that Google marks this as spam, is it true not? I have a look at the Gavick Menus and Helix Menus, they are using `display: none;` or `left:-999em;` too for making the elements. So my dilemma is if I use `display: none;` for hiding all my sub level 3 menu items, will Google penalize my site or not? I am asking this, because I saw a lot of drop-down menus to use this technique.


How do I know my email open rate?

I saw some people saying their newsletter has X open-rate. How can I know this thing?


Most CSS Grid frameworks use pixel as css units, why?

I started to develop my own webdesign using an grid framework 960 CSS Framework and also noticed that most of other famous css grid frameworks use 940/960px as maximum page width? Some of them have an online generators where you can calculate and generate the same framework but for different width size. Can you tell me why they suggest 960 px as default? And more important: Why everything is measured in pixels rather than pt, cm, % or any other css units? **Edit:** Isn't it better to use 'in' as css unit and be sure that on every screen (computer, smartphone) it will have the same size? P.S. Some other grid css frameworks:   * Blueprint   * YUI 2: Grids CSS   * Bootstrap   * Skeleton


Tracking different types of users

I have an organizational web site that is used by both staff and clients. We've been looking at the analytics data to see how clients are using the site, but finding that some of the usage patterns are almost certainly driven by staff using the site. We would therefore like to somehow track the type of users. It would be fairly simple to have the server side code look at the current user's IP address to determine if it belongs to our staff network and inject this into the page, but I haven't seen any way to push this information into Google Analytics. To be clear, I do **not** want to eliminate the internal traffic from tracking. I'm still interested in it. I just want to be able to separate the two. Any ideas?


Webmaster Tools is throwing out 404 errors on link not on page

Webmaster Tools is showing thousands of 404 errors, where pages on the site are referring to another incorrect URL. For example, URL not found `www.example.com/shop/=`, linked from `www.example.com/shop/gift-voucher` and `www.example.com/shop/special-plant-offers`. I obviously have checked the source and cannot find any references to this link on any page. The only consistent issue is that it only seems to report this error on pages with two section i.e. `www.example.com/shop` does not report any error whilst all pages with `www.example.com/shop/xxx` (where `xxx` can be several different pages such as `gift-voucher`) all report this. I cannot seem to duplicate this error. I have run a link checker (we use Screaming Frog) and it does not report this error. I have fetched these pages as a bot, and these do not report this error. I am at a total loss. I cannot even duplicate the issue, but it is most definitely an issue, as Webmaster Tools is reporting new errors every day. Is this perhaps Google bot doing its own thing?


Proper name scrolling news/photo

I'm very new to webdesign and am wanting to install a scrolling news/picture banner in the site but don't even know the proper term to search for to find out how to do it. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://www.ed.gov/ and http://www.nysed.gov/ What is this called?


Do own brand organic searches improve your overall SEO?

I noticed something interesting at https://www.wisepricer.com/partner.php Every outgoing link is actually a Google Search, rather than a link to the partner's domain. So it got me wondering, can this behavior make the Google Algorithm give greater SEO juice than a direct link? And in general, if your domain is searched a greater number of times, does your overall SEO improve overall?


Should I set up an Ebay account besides my website

I'm trying to increase the conversion rate for my website. Should I open an Ebay account and try to redirect customers from Ebay to my website?


Import email addresses to mail group using Plesk

My web hosting service uses Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 as their Control Panel. I just created a mail group (like a distribution list, one email address to email multiple people). I can only add ONE email address at a time through the Control Panel, and I have hundreds of emails to upload. Is there a better way to do this?


Using article published dates effects SEO?

In my blog I publish articles with date below under it. My questions are:   1. Using dates will have positive impact or negative impact?   2. After few years of publishing the post, since my post age is old will it remain in same position of search results or it will go down?   3. Finally, should I use published dates or not?


What influences the loading of a web page? What does the web page load faster or slower?


what is user agent Whirlpool BD2; H010818

what is this user agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Whirlpool BD2; H010818) this came from a ip address tracing to the organisation Websense the question also here thanks


Is it legal to show RSS feeds on my website from another website

I want to display the feeds from multiple news website on my website and create a site which would be something like http://paper.li So is it legal to display those feeds directly on my website? The site is not a feed reader, but I want to pick specific news article from the feed and display them.


Migration from one domain to another - Transfering the social media stats

I am planning to move my site from one domain to another i.e from domain a.com to b.com . The site also has a lot of content and the migration of content is not an issue. The 301 redirect will take care of all the backlinks also. But my real worry is transfer the social media shares links and stats from domain a.com to b.com. I need some insight or any way in which the same can be migrated seamlessly from domain a.com to b.com


Re-indexing website with clean URL's

So I have a website with URL's like this: http://www.domain.com/profile.php?id=151 I've now cleaned them up with mod_rewrite into this: http://www.domain.com/profile/firstname-lastname/151 I've fetched and re-indexed my website after the change. What is the best way to make the old dirty ones disappear from search results and keep the clean ones? Is blocking profile.php with robots.txt enough?


How to access phpMyAdmin with Hosting Controller?

I am trying to update a site for a client. All the login info they have given me is for something called Hosting Controller. I've never seen it before but it seems like cPanel. I can create email accounts and databases etc. The only thing I cannot seem to do is access phpMyAdmin (or similar). Would anyone know how to do this?


How to avoid spammy links affecting us before SERP rankings going down

We have recently discovered a host of spammy links pointing to our website been put up in last 1 month through webmaster tool We have not engaged any seo agency/link building and have never created these links Worst, these are spammy forum sites and almost some-one seems making an attack to our site as the link and keyword is same in all these sites Till not Have not received any warning, however as it has come to our notice - before any SERP getting down - we want to action this out One thing we have observed is that - All these spammy links points to a single inner page of website Pl suggest as have a) Will Google disvow tool will work by stating to disvow these links or b) Is it a good way if we make this specific page 'nofollow' and even 'noindex' The reasoning behind this is like if the page is not followed and not indexed - the negative links pointing to the page of the site is already no follow and may be out from google serp or what's the best alternate way to tackle this. Pl suggest in urgent help and advise required


Can Google show some pages deleted six months back and blocked using Robot.txt?

If I have deleted some pages on my website six months back and blocked these pages using Robots.txt, can that non-existent page show up on Google?


Security: Hide mysql connection details file

Ok, so I know this must be a very basic question, but my problem is the following: I have developed my first PHP mini-app (so I'm fairly new to this) and I am pretty sure that there are two files of my web application that should be somehow protected from prying eyes   * the one with the details to connect to the db   * the one with the password hashing and the salt key How should I go about protecting them? I have read somewhere that they should be put somewhere above my public directory, but then how will the app be able to access them? Should I change something in my apache config so that the Document Root is different than something else? Any other things I should consider in terms of security? So far I am escaping every user field that goes into the db with mysql_real_escape_string(), but apart from that and hashing and salting the passwords, I'm not doing anything else.


http request terminating early

I noticed that on some of my sites, images were occasionally not getting downloaded fully. After a bit of investigation it appears that it is not restricted to images - .css, .js etc were also occasionally terminating early. The faults appear to be random. When I use the debug/proxy tool Fiddler2 reports that fewer bytes have been received than were requested. Firebug reports "Image corrupt or truncated". Obviously this is mainly a concern between me and my hosting company. However despite many emails they have not been able to get to the bottom of it. Transfer to another hosting company is obviously an option but is really a last resort. Has anyone seen this kind of thing before or can anyone suggest what might be causing it. Or any apache setting or something that I can ask them to check out. Will apache log this kind of error - they havent been able to provide me with any logs, but if I know exactly where things have been logged, maybe I can prompt them in to action. **EDIT: More data as requested by commenters..** I created a test page. It is pure HTML and embeds 9 images each of size between 4 and 6MB. This is a very large amount of data. I found having so much data speeded up the occurrence of faults which makes benchmarking easier. As a control, I run the same test on the server of another hosting company that I have access to - I never get faults when running on this other host. It is on shared hosting. I have tested it on FF, IE & Chrome. **EDIT - DETAILS OF HEADERS ETC ...** (In case your wondering, this version of the test is not pure HTML but has a small amount of PHP added to to prevent caching.) LiveHeaders o/p... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B93lksnTC7_cYVhQT2lMbms5Mm8/edit What you see in Firefox... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B93lksnTC7_ceHBSbmhXWHhXdlk/edit What Firebug logs... https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B93lksnTC7_cOEdmeU1lMkh4UE0/edit If you have difficulty getting into google docs - alternative... https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=9F8DE44BC9AC7FD6!107&authkey=!AAXurFZleJE5okQ As you can see the images that failed were: DSC_0046_0.JPG DSC_0232_0.JPG **EDIT - UPDATE** I've noticed that it gets worse if I simultaneously run several copies of the test. (And running several copies of the test on the control host still passes.) Further suggesting that if the server gets too many requests it might be terminating some requests early or something.


500 error on Joomla website

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function setQuery() on a non-object in /home/josh/public_html/administrator/components/com_jfusion/plugins/phpbb3/forum.php on line 226      Just moved over to a new server. Anyone have ideas as to what is wrong? Is this a database issue? line 226:                //get permissions for all forums in case more than one module/plugin is present with different settings             $db = & JFusionFactory::getDatabase($this->getJname());             $query = "SELECT forum_id FROM #__forums WHERE forum_type = 1 ORDER BY left_id";             $db->setQuery($query); //226             $forumids = $db->loadResultArray();


How should I fix the problem of duplicate content created by my CMS system's manual page alias feature?

My site’s CMS has a manual page alias feature which is in wide use. I recently noticed that the aliased pages and the original pages are showing up in GA with separate traffic. For example: www.example.com/subfolder/pagename.aspx www.example.com/pagename/ these two pages are serving the exact same content from the cms, so it is in effect duplicate content which is bad for SEO. From this extremely helpful page it seems the best option is to add a canonical link to the header. Can anyone verify that as the preferred solution? I would also like to know if this is a common problem among CMS platforms. The one we are using is called Ektron.


Footer not showing in website depending on which item is loaded

I designed a website which is having an issue, but I checked the html tagging very well and cannot fix it. If you go to this item: http://www.tahara.es/store/headbands/11/Ivory- Turquoise-headband You will see the FOOTER display normally. However if you go to this other item: http://www.tahara.es/store/headscarves/15/Grey-and-ivory-with-stoned-flower- Headscarf The footer does not show. Any clue of what I am missing or adding? The footer DIV is like this: `<div id="footer">`


seo htaccess 301 redirect

Have an SEO question. I have been checking the progress of my site indexing in Google, for some bizarre reason best known to itself, there is a very random URL indexed against my domain which doesnt exist. http://www.footballadvisor.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35:is- it-possible-to-change-the-types-of-menu-entries&catid=31:general&Itemid=46 Is there a way I can forward the url and querystring to www.footballadvisor.net as a 301 in my htacess file? Thanks :)


Google / SEO guideline about using a whole page overlay DIV and putting it in focus on Mouse Leave

Recently I stumbled into a startup news website yourstory.com who seem to be using a method to increase user engagement (increase page views) by capturing user's "Mouse leaving" event and on recognizing that event set focus to a NEW full page content DIV -- purpose seems to be able to draw user's attention back to "Most Read" kind of content-page and inviting them to click through to another page. Even though it seems like a fine way to me (from the User experience), what I am not sure is if such page design can be penalized by Google, as misleading (has hidden DIVs etc). I am hoping to get an opinion if the implementation is SEO-safe :: it seems jQuery is used to capture mouseleave event which when triggered sets focus to an overlay DIV that has "Most Read" kind of content- elements. Please advise.


What platform can I use to establish a users support forum?

I was asked to develop a users support community forum for a small and young hi-tech company. This kind of forums is very popular with companies these days and is a great alternative to the official product support lines. An example of what we look for is the Analog Devices' Engineer Zone forums. I am totally noob to this area so any advice will be appreciated - how to start developing such a site, what platforms are available (preferably open- source/free) and what are the advantages and disadvantages of these platforms. Is a _stackexchange_ style forum appropriate for such site? * If you think there is a better SE site to post this question, please let me know.


SEO in what element text should be placed?

I am making my web better for SEO and I came up with question:   in what element text should be placed?

      I know that I should use each of them in different situations but I dont know in which situations... **EDIT:**   Example of 2 situations/doubts I encountered


Does Google crawl and index sites hosted on an IP address only (with no domain name) and non-standard port?

I have website on `203.162.177.159:8071` (Actually, that isn't the real IP address, I changed it for this question.) Because of an internal rule, this site must not have a domain name, and running on **non-standard port**. In Google Webmaster Tools, I see   * no crawl errors found   * no verification errors found   * I tried "Fetch as Google" and they are all successful. I can then click the URL to get to the page myself.   * I don't have the sitemap yet So why the crawled page and indexed page is still **zero**? Does Google not accept non-domain-name URLs?


Why don't people embed style and scripts in the HTML?

I know this sounds like a silly question, but hear me out. These days, there are a lot of 'media aggregator' tools that will take your globs of javascript (laden with coffee and underscores and backbones and who knows what else) and string them together and rewrite them and munge them and uglify and minify them them and tape them together so that clients _only have to make one request_ to get all the javascript or style sheets for a site. This is pretty cool. I like keeping my java(coffee)script files small and separate, and I like my clients making only one request. But if we go through all that trouble to make our javascript really small and stuff, why not just send it WITH the first request? Why not just have tools that do the minification and aggregation and then write it directly to the html? Common sense tells me that this would be bad, but I'm not sure why. Can anyone explain?


mod_rewrite prevent repeating backreference

I am trying to match a single reference in a URL to pass to a script, while retaining the rest as the path to the script. For example:               #/scripts/paramater/foo/bar.php should call     #/scripts/foo/bar.php?id=parameter     RewriteRule ^scripts/([^/]+)/(.*)$ scripts/$2?id=$1 [L,QSA]      However my backreference is matching multiple times. $2 only contains "bar.php" and $1 is somehow repeating for "parameter" and "foo". How can I prevent the backreference from repeating itself? **Edit:** I've narrowed down the problem somewhat by fiddling with the second part of the rewrite rule.               #This doesn't work, as above     #Outputs: scripts/bar.php?id=foo?id=parameter     RewriteRule ^scripts/([^/]+)/(.*)$ scripts/$2?id=$1 [L,QSA]          #This works     #Outputs: foo/bar.php?id=parameter     RewriteRule ^scripts/([^/]+)/(.*)$ $2?project_slug=$1 [L,QSA]      Which confuses me even more! Any help appreciated


alternatives to google adsense for ajax reloads

What alternatives to google adsense are availalbe that support the reloading of ads through and AJAX application? I can't locate one.


Transfer a national domain to foreign registrar?

Can you transfer a national domain (like .pl) to a foreign registrar, one that does not actually offer buying that type of domain?


Redirect to subdomain port 8080

I have my domain registered and running. I have installed lifray which is running on tomcat 7, my site url is iloveliferay.com:8080 and I want this to be at `themes.iloveliferay.com`, which file I need to change to make this possible? I have VM cloude hosting and I have root access.


Is Google Analytics safe for websites that deal with sensitive information?

I work for a company that writes several webapps that deal with a lot of sensitive information, such as full name, date of birth, address, and SSNs. Currently we don't have anything to measure site usage, but I would like to use Google Analytics to track usage and statistics about our users. What data is sent to Google when you use Analytics? If I put this on a page that contains any of the above information, will that data be sent to Google? Or are they just getting the necessary information like user agent and IP address?


Subdomains as a part of the one site

Let's say that the site consists of some pages like:               some_product.example.com     some_service.example.com     another_product.example.com     ...so on      Can I work with such a site using Google Webmasters Tools, Sitemaps as with normal sites made within one domain?


Do short posts hurt SEO?

I'm interested in making a custom post type in which every post is a single image. My question is, WordPress creates a page for each post, and since it won't have any words, will it hurt the page rank of the website? If this question isn't related to here, I'd love to know where i can ask this question.