can canonical links be used to make 'duplicate' pages unique?

We have a website that allows users to list items for sale. Think ebay - except we don't actually deal with selling the item, we just list it for sale and provide a way to contact the seller. Anyhow, in several cases sellers maybe have multiple units of an item for sale. We don't have a quantity field, so they upload each item as a separate listing (and using a quantity field is not an option). So we have a lot of pages which basically have the exact same info and only the item # might be different. The SEO guy we've started using has said we should put a canonical link on each page, and have the canonical link point to itself. So for example, www.mysite.com/something/ would have a canonical link of href="www.mysite.com/something/" This doesn't really seem kosher to me. I thought canonical links we're suppose to point to other pages. The SEO guy claims doing it this way will tell google all these pages are indeed unique, even if they do basically have the same content. This seems a little off to me since what's to stop a spammer from putting up a million pages and doing this as well? Can anyone tell me if the SEO guy's suggestion is valid or not? If it's not valid, then do i need to figure out some way to check for duplicated items and automatically pick one of the duplicates to serve as an original and generate canonical links based off that? Thanks in advance for any help


Setting up a LAMP VM server for Development and Testing?

**Info:** I would like to set up a VM server on my local computer which will serve pages in the exact same way as my current hosting (but only to me on my local computer). I currently pay a big web hosting company to host my website & web store and they are doing a great job, but I would like to be able to work on my Web site and its corresponding MySQL DB, HTML, and PHP code without being at risk of messing something completely up on the live servers. My current plan of action:   1. Set up a VM webserver with Debian, MySQL, PHP, Apache.   2. Copy web store (PHP/HTML) code to VM server.   3. Copy my current MySQL databases from my hosting provider and install on VM server.   4. Modify and test new features on VM server.   5. Upload MySQL DB and HTML/PHP code back to web host's server where it should work as before but with new modifications. **Questions:** Now I'm pretty sure I have steps one and two down correctly but I can't for the life of me figure out how to proceed next, so here are my questions. I have my /etc/host file set up so www.MySite.test redirects to the IP address of the local VM webserver. Once I import my PHP/HTML files and MySQL file whats the best way to navigate around the fact that all of my files and DBs will reference www.MySite.com. I can export my MySQL dbs but do I also have to export my MySQL users and passwords to access those db or are those coded into my html/php code?


Retrieving Monthly Hits From Google Analytics

What I want to do is grab the last 5 months including the current months hits for that month. I have only just copied the tracking code and plugged it into my site but after that I'm not sure what to do.


Why do www site and naked site have much of the same data in Webmaster Tools?

My naked domain has always had a 301 redirect to the www domain. SERPs always display the www version. I added the www domain to Webmasters tools a while back. I recently added the naked domain as a site and set the preferred domain to www. I expected there to be practically no data for the naked domain site. However, I see the exact same information for   * Top queries   * Top pages   * Number of pages indexed Why am I seeing this data for the naked domain?


Unable to track a subdomain with google analytics

I have a download page on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) and I'm tracking the "virtual page view" to the download following these instructions . That part works fine. However, I also want to track the index page at downloads.easyjob.net and that's where I got into trouble: it gives me the same number of pageviews ass the entire site on www.easyjob.net, which is clearly not possible. Anybody knows what's going on?


How useful is Alexa's ranking?

I know of Alexa and some people find the information useful for ranking a website... as for me, no matter how big or small my sites are, none of them are registered with stats on them, and a few clients are _disappointed_ with me over it.   * How much influence does Alexa have on website's worth?   * Why do people hold it's stats so highly over content of the actual site in question?   * Should I actually worry about Alexa Ranking? All of the stats which I do worry about is what Google Analytics, Webmasters Tools, and Piwiki on my server tells me. Usually I can gauge how good or bad I am doing with those alone for what sections of the site is active and which is not receiving traffic for the purpose of my content.


My site isn't ranking of Alexa

My site is online for more than 3 months now but I don't have Alexa rank. I don't understand why. Could anyone explain this to me?


Softonic displaying Google Ads for my software in Google search

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but not sure where else to ask.. I was doing a Google search to check the results of my Software's name which I sell on my website. I found, Google displayed an Ad from Softonic.com for that keyword. And worse, Softonic was linking to a page where they asked users to download their software-installer to download my software and NOT my software! We have neither asked Softonic nor Softonic had informed us regarding that Ad and their installer. Can someone please tell me if such Ads are allowed by Google Adwords? And does it violate Adwords TOS? Thanks in advance!


How should we handle a website migration to a CMS?

I am asked to migrate an existing website to a CMS (Joomla / Drupal). The current website is on a shared hosting and there are already lots of files inside the public_html folder. I am thinking of doing the migration in the following way. 1) Install the CMS on my machine. 2) Create a CMS theme from the old website. 3) Copy all contents from the old website to the CMS. 4) Backup everything in the old website. 5) Remove the old website by cleaning up everything in the hosting account, which includes the files inside the public_html folder and the all tables in the mysql database. 6) Transfer all files in the public_html folder on my machine to the public_html folder in the shared hosting by FTP. 7) Backup the mysql database (the CMS must have created lots of tables and data rows) on my machine. 8) Restore the database in the shared hosting using PHPMyAdmin. 9) Test if everything still works after the migration. I think there are just too many steps. Is this the way you would handle a website migration to a CMS? Many thanks to you all.


Hide your website links from search engne

My Website Link is posted in someone else website, i asked for removal but can't get reply, google crawl his website and my website link is posted on that how to control that is that is possible? i ask to him , he said he will remove when he will got time, they are using application version 1 (which not allowed to edit content app 2 allow to edit i ask him to upgrade they said don't have time)


Can I safely include "self-defined" HTML Tags in a HTML Website?

I have seen a website that has a doctype of               <!DOCTYPE html>      This website uses HTML Tags that I have never seen before like `<section>`. My Question: 1.) Is this kind of "generic Doctype" recommended for a normal website? (I've never seen this this before, what are the pro and cons?) 2.) When is it valid to use such "self defined" HTML Tags? Is this valid with this doctype Declaration?


How to promote the quality/security of your a website to your its customers?

Our organization is building a Drupal web platform that we aim at reselling as a cloud service. In order to provide our customers with maximum confidence in our solution, we're looking at ways of publicly conveying trust regarding the quality and security of our platform. Here is what we came up with some far: - **Drupal** : are there any Drupal certifications available out there? - **PHP** : have your PHP developers certified (e.g. Zend PHP certification) and display the certification image (ideally, create links from the About/Team/Dev page to a page on the zend website where this could be verified). - **SSL** : buy certificates from sizable CAs (e.g. Verisign) instead of cheaper and not as known ones (e.g. prontossl.com) and display the CA seal on your website accordingly. - **System** : have your system penetration tested by a known security company, have a case study written about it. - **Infrastructure** : get your infrastructure ISO QMS 9001 certified. - **HTML/CSS** : show that your company is doing everything it can to remain standard-compliant by making your code W3 compliant and showing the W3 valid icons on your website. - **Misc** : get your engineers to pass some security certifications, like one of these.          **Are there anything else you can think of that could help promote the quality/security of your platform?** PS: if you're planning on answering with a _"what really matters is the actual quality/security of your solution more than how good/secure it appears to be"_ type of answer please refrain. We all know it's true, but we also know that from a sales standpoint, it is very important to be able to rely on certifications to efficiently promote quality/security.


HTML 5 - Backward Compatibility with new Tags and CSS?

In case I will use any of the new HTML5 Tags like:               <article> or <section> ...      with a doctype of               <!DOCTYPE html>      1.) Can I directly assign a style to this element like:               <article style="margin:100px;"> ?      http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-article-element The W3C link does not explain this really well for HTML5 very dummy friendly. 2.) In case this is allowed, what is a browser expected to render, if the browser does not support the tag (=does not support html5) . Will it render it as div (and apply the CSS) or will the tag be completly omitted and therefore also the applied CSS formatting is lost? Thanks very much! Jens


Where to get ads for my website?

My website is getting around 100 visitors per day so I was thinking that I should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. Is Google adsense a good choice? Will google adsense allow me to open an account there with such little traffic on my website? Please help from last two months I have done a very hard work to bring such traffic. I know it is not very much but I am still working on it.


Mediawiki much slower in Firefox

I've a couple of Mediawiki (1.19.1 with Vector Skin) sites on Dreamhost shared hosting and I've found that access trough Firefox is much slower than trough Chrome. For example at this moment, after cleaning the cache in both browsers: **Firefox**   * 11.1 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges)   * 7.7 seconds for the second page (Home) **Chrome**   * 9.2 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges)   * 3.2 seconds for the second page (Home) This numbers confirm previous tests, made in 2 different days a few weeks ago. Please note the huge difference for the second page. An older version of Mediawiki on a different server does not seem to have this problem. Firefox and Chrome have similar results. I need to know how to make access trough Firefox as fast as trough Chrome, without changing the hosting company/plan, Mediawiki or asking users to change Firefox's defaults. _**_* HTTP RESPONSE HEADERS _*_**               HTML FILE HEADERS     Cache-Control   private, must-revalidate, max-age=0, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Language    es     Content-Type    text/html; charset=UTF-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:11 GMT     Expires Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding,Cookie     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff     X-Frame-Options DENY          CSS FILE HEADERS     Cache-Control   public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Type    text/css; charset=utf-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:17 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Last-Modified   Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:59:38 GMT     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff          JAVASCRIPT FILE HEADERS:     Cache-Control   public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Type    text/javascript; charset=utf-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:14 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Last-Modified   Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:55:25 GMT     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff          IMAGE FILE (PNG) HEADERS:     Accept-Ranges   bytes     Cache-Control   max-age=2592000, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Length  206     Content-Type    image/png     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Etag    "ce-4c25eaaf8f780"     Expires Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=99     Last-Modified   Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:22:38 GMT     Server  Apache


Is it a problem (e.g. for Google) when my site has no root page?

I have a multi-lingual site, which contains languages in this manner:               http://www.example.com/en/     http://www.example.com/de/     http://www.example.com/fr/      To avoid duplicate links, is it ok **not to** have the root (`/`) page? I.e., the root 301 redirects to `/en/`:               $ curl -I http://www.example.com/     HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Location: /en/      Does Google mind, or should I mind? Does anyone?


Retroactively applying a Piwik goal to visitors

I started receiving a large (for me) amount of traffic on one of my pages yesterday. Today, I thought that it would be useful to track goals from that page -- there's a link to my blog from it. I added the 'visited external link' goal to Piwik, and new visits are being recorded. However, it seems to me that there must be enough data in the database to retroactively apply the goal to past users -- is there a way to achieve that?.


Is there any problem with using two slashes in the middle of a URL?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What does the double slash mean in URLs? I'm working on a mod_rewrite URL structure as follows:               http://example.com/search/filter1/filter2/filter3/filter4      There are some conditions where it is OK for the first attribute to be blank, but i want to keep the other attributes in the same position. (Otherwise I can't assume that the attribute in the second position represents what I want it to represent.) However this results in some URLs like this:               http://example.com/search//filter2/filter3/filter4      This seems to work in all browsers I've tested (Chrome,Firefox,IE9,IE compatible) and I'm not seeing any errors on the server side, so I can't think of any problems in using it. But it just looks wrong and weird to me and I'm not used to seeing it. Are there any potential downsides to using a structure that encourages URLs like this, or any major reasons no one seems to use it? (Everything I search in Google assumes I'm talking about the two slashes after `http:`)


Sharing one static ip for both ftp and www service

Trying to figure out how to update the Zone record and configure webserver so that one application on the webserver is accessible by public. I'm completely not good at NS/DNS/NAT/firewall/routing/port forwarding/networking etc. "faraday" is the intranet name. Everyone within local network can access all applications hosted on "faraday". Hostname for webserver is "www", FTP server is "ftpserver". Both servers running RHEL4 OS. The goal is to allow anyone outside the company network (public) to access only one of the many applications on "faraday". Hope somebody can help me with some of the questions below, if not all.   * From zoneedit record, the static IP is used by FTP now.   * Can I use the same existing static IP - 219.95.10.100, for web service?   * Currently anyone who enter "http://www.abc.com.my" will be directed to "http://www.abc.com". I don't want this to change.   * Currently, no one else, except employee on local network, can access "faraday" web pages.   * How to configure so that when anyone type "http://thisapp.abc.com.my" on their web browser, the url will lead them to "http://faraday/thisapp" (application folder is /var/www/html/thisapp on RHEL4 web server).   * If possible, how to set the URL will continue to show "http://thisapp.abc.com.my" instead of "http://faraday/thisapp"   * How to limit/restrict user (those who are not from local network) so they only have access to "http://thisapp.abc.com.my", but not "http://faraday" or "http://faraday/anotherapp", etc.   * What's the configuration changes needed in /etc/httpd.conf on web server? Company domain name is "abc.com.my". Following is the zone records on www.zoneedit.com.               Subdomain   Type    IP     sdsl        A       219.95.10.100     ftp         CNAME   sdsl.abc.com.my     @           NS      ns3.zoneedit.com     @           NS      ns7.zoneedit.com      WebForward record:               New Domain        Destination           Cloaked     www.abc.com.my    http://www.abc.com    N      On my local DNS server, there are 2 zone files: abc.com.my and pnmy.abc.com.               > cat abc.com.my.zone     ftp     CNAME   ftp.pnmy.abc.com.     sdsl    A       219.95.10.100          > cat pnmy.abc.com.zone     ftp         CNAME   ftpserver     ftpserver   A       172.16.5.1     faraday     CNAME   www     www         A       172.16.5.2


What is this thing called?!?! (bottom of screen popup)

I am looking for the name and some possible jquery libraries etc for the standard bottom of screen popup bar. Its like a little bar that pops out on the bottom of the screen after X seconds or however really - generally slides up, about 50px or so high, and usually the length of the main container. used for some form of coupon advertisement or various promotion text etc. What is the proper term for this item, and would there be any good references to best-use guidelines?


Google Analytics Not Detecting Tracking Code

I installed google analytics tracking code on my website. It is not being detected on the google analytics app. I did notice though that the default url in the google analytics app is set to `http://jobrangers.com` and my site redirects to `http://jobrangers.com/en`. Can someone please assist me in getting the tracking software on Google to pick up the installed tracking code. Thanks


Benefits of sharing one IP, or prefarably assigning a new IP?

I think I am lost but not found yet, please as regards this very topic; my issue was that I bought a new VPS using WHM optimised and it's just one domain meaning one IP. All I want to know is the benefit with sharing one IP to many domains I created for the users (remembering the IP is for the root) or is it of a disadvantage? Probably help me too with knowing if it's prefarable to create/assign a new IP to each new domain created for users?


Does Wordpress have any SEO benifits on sites coded from scratch?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website? I have heard SEO experts suggest moving sites to Wordpress for SEO optimization. Googling offers some perspectives that confirm this (like this or somewhat more dubiously, this). Is this accurate? Some other places say that it doesn't matter, except that Wordpress configures all the meta correctly. In that case, what exactly must be configured?


CSS framework that support Internet Explorer 6, 8 out of the box

I am developing a new web application that _must_ support Internet Explorer 6 and 8 (it's a strict requirements). I planned to use a CSS framework (like Twitter Bootstrap). However, it did not support IE6 8 out of the box; YAML supports IE6 (natively, as written on their website). Do you have experience in any other CSS frameworks that supports IE6, 8?


Should I return a http 401 status code on an html based login form? The page is a dedicated login form, and does not have any other meaningful content, just site framework. The URL however, can be for a page that does have meaningful content, but requires login. Note that this setup only returns the status code 401, and doesn't prompt the user for basic authentication. Looking at the standards it seems that 401 is an inappropriate status code for html based login forms. However, I have never experienced or heard of any ill consequences of doing so. When sending 401, "The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field (section 14.47) containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource." requirement mentioned here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4.2 detailed here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-3.2.1 I know there are ways that I can work around search engines in convincing them to index, or not, pages based on the presence of a login form, but I'd prefer to use http status codes, specifically 401 since it's definition seems like a perfect match if not for the WWW-Authenticate header requirement. Is there any reason why I shouldn't use 401 in this case? Semantically is there any difference between not being Authorised at the http level versus being Authorised at the application level? Obviously you can have both, but isn't authentication at the http level just for ease of not implementing it at the application level?


CSS style is gone on the homepage in IE8

I wondered if it's because the homepage's size is big? I only see my stylesheet working on pages other than the homepage. Any ideas?


Slugs: are human-friendly or SEO-friendly URLs better?

Well, I have a co-worker (actually my superior) who often sets his articles' slugs to expected / relevant search terms such as:               keywordA-keywordB-keywordC-keywordD-keywordE      I usually make mine closer to the article's title, e.g.:               robber-robs-XYZ-bank-10-million      He claims placing only the expected search terms as the slug led to better SEO and that SEO is more important than a human-friendly URL. What do you think of the balance between human-friendly and SEO-friendly URLs and does littering your slugs with a few expected keywords actually lead to better SEO? Lastly, what is the recommended practice?


Best way to display a long list of items, SEO-wise?

I have a list of ~1000 items I'd like to display to the user. The items has a rank - from 0.5 to 5 stars. My goal is to come with a solution that will be easy to navigate, and smart SEO wise. First option is to divide one long page into 'stars' section - starting from "items with 5 stars" and descending. I could add internal section links for the different sections at the top of the list. I guess that's the best for the user, but then I'd be losing navigation stats I would otherwise gain, having the list divided into different pages. Especially, I hate to lose pages with the titles / urls "Top x items" or "Bottom x items".. The best solution might be having the internal links listed in google as seperate urls, but is this even possible? Otherwise I might have this one long list, and then duplicates of at least the top and bottom of the list in different pages. But then I have duplicate content which is, as I understand, not very wise SEO wise. **Concrete questions:** **1. Is it possible to have internal section links in one page listed in Google as seperate URLs?** **2. Will having duplicate pages which display a portion of what's already being displayed in a one long page be an advantage or disadvantage SEO-wise?** (Given that the possible titles/urls for these duplicate pages has a good SEO potential).


How to change Google results

I've made a website for a client. I've used WordPress. The problem is, that when you type the page's name in Google, you get two results:   1. Comments for [pagename]   2. Sample page (the one that WordPress makes by itself) How do I make Google get the new sites and change those results? I'm new to SEO.


How can I check Page Authority & Domain Authority for multiple sites at the same time?

I am looking for a web tool that can check more than one site at a time for both Page Authority & Domain Authority. Please let me know if there is such a tool.


Adsense: You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue

Got an alert on my adsense account which says > You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue. The > following ad units have made ad requests with incorrect site information. > This occurs when the URL of the server from which the ad unit has been > served differs from the URL of the actual page where the ad will be > displayed. Learn how to fix these errors. So the solution is that I'll have to use "google_page_url = "http://myurl.com/fullpath";" I'm using wordpress, what should be the URL for google_page_url? For example my website is www.technostall.com. Should I put www.technostall.com there or should I give the path of each post? That is not good because I'm using a sidebar widget for sidebar ad unit. I can't change google_page_url for each page. What should I do? This error is appearing only on my sidebar/navigation ad units. Is using google_page_url = document.location; fine?


Facebook referral traffic spike - who shared our post?

My organization's blog got a MAJOR spike in traffic to one blog post yesterday. We can see in our Google Analytics that `facebook.com` and `m.facebook.com` were the by far the top referrers. I can't seem to be able to drill down deeper in Google Analtyics to see who shared the blog post URL on Facebook. We suspect a large media/publishing agency must have posted it to their Facebook fans. We are just curious to see who may have done this for us. Given we know the blog post URL, is there any way to see if it has been shared recently on Facebook? **EDIT:** I've gotten this far with FQL: `SELECT user_id FROM like WHERE object_id="ID"` which gives me ID's of people that have liked the blog post. It gives me only 100 ID's. How can I ask for ID's that are fan/business pages and not regular ole' people?


LocalBusiness Rich Snippet vs Organization Rich Snippet

I need a clear explanation on the difference between the **LocalBusiness** Rich Snippet and the **Organization** Rich Snippet. Is it ok to put both snippets in one site? When is it best to use each of these snippets?


WP Network — Planning Long Term SEO (one large site versus microsites)

**The Main Question is This (details follow below):** _Is it better to go with individual domain names for the various niches of a company's focus, or is it better to put it all under one domain?_ I'm working on strategizing a new, rather large evolution of a site for one of my clients and am trying to figure out the best plan of attack from an SEO/SEM/Branding perspective. They are a rapidly growing personal wellness company that we are planning on implementing a new Wordpress Network for. The network is essentially to help them keep their site(s) and content well- organized as they prepare for growth over the next several years. **Niches:**   1. Physical Location — the main studio they do classes, events, and workshops out of   2. Training — they have a personalized training curriculum that students may get certified through   3. The Icon — the individual who created the system and has a specific personal following and products independent of the training/studio   4. Events — events for the physical location (which will be expanding into multiple locations soon) as well as retreats/events/workshops with The Icon **Url Choice:** The plan regardless of what we choose for the url structure is that each of the above 4 niches are going to be separate sites within the WP Network. As they expand, it will help them keep the various content niches organized and separate from each other. The debate however, is whether to go with individual domain names for each of the 4 niches or if we go with a sub-folder installation: _Sub-Folder:_               primarydomain.com     primarydomain.com/training/     primarydomain.com/the-icon/     primarydomain.com/events/      _Domain:_               primarydomain.com     primarydomaintraining.com     theicon.com     primarydomainevents.com      **The Problem: _Brand Protection_** One of the biggest factors in this decision is a matter of brand protection. Traditionally speaking, I would've went with one domain to have a tremendous amount of content under one domain and reap the search engine benefits. However, the name chosen for this brand has been independently chosen by another company (both around about the same length as each other and developed independent of one another) in a different part of the world and it is causing a rather bit of confusion right now in the digital space. My thinking was that extracting the sites into separate domains would allow us to grab up brand name targetted keywords. That being said, the "training" site is going to change very little in coming years as it's just a matter of adjusting dates to show the "new" start dates... the rest of the content will basically remain stagnant which doesn't bode well for the search engines. **Additional Factors:** _Design_ — Regardless of which way we go, the plan was to have the exact same design on all of the sites (primary navigation items change as you move into the sub-folders/sites). The only thing that might change if we go with individual domains, beyond the aforementioned nav items, would be a slight change in part of the text of the logo to reflect the change to the individual sites (and of course the domain url). _Cost_ — Having the same design eliminates however the "cost" factor that most articles put against microsites... everything is going to be looking the same. In addition, the "site" will be maintained the exact same regardless of what the "url" looks like. **Does anyone think the brand protection payoff (as far as Search Engine results are concerned) will be large enough to warrant having individual "domains" for the site?** I'm still learning towards sub-folders and massive loading the single domain within the search engines, but wanted to get some thoughts and feedback before we move into the deeper strategy aspects and finalizing a plan of action.


Redirect 'A' record of domain, except for some paths

I'm using cPanel and Mailman (mailing lists) on a shared server with a webhost. After changing the 'A' record for one of my add-on domains (let's say `abc.org`), so that its website traffic goes to another sort-of webhost (`123.com`) but email stays where it is (a few other changes were done to keep mail were it was), I now find that my Perl scripts which try to access the Mailman mailing lists for that domain, don't work. Note: I prefer to sometimes use Perl scripts to work with the mailing lists, instead of doing it from cPanel because:   * It allows people to make mailing list updates via my Perl web application.   * It allows me to make bulk queries and updates. The 1st reason the scripts are failing is because the URL they usually use to access all my mailing lists for several domains from Perl is: `domain- name/mailman/listinfo`   So, because the `abc.org's` 'A' record now points to `123.com`, the above URL tries to find `abc.org/mailman/listinfo` at `123.com`, but fails with a "404 - Not Found" error, of course, because the mailing lists are not there. My webhost has suggested I create a subdomain (e.g. `mailman.abc.org`), and then recreate all the mailing lists for `abc.org` in that, but I want to avoid that if possible because of the hassle and side-effects. Q1. Any suggestions on what URL I can now use to access the mailman/listinfo page of my `abc.org` mailing lists? Q2. Or, can you suggest a way to prevent my requests for `abc.org/mailman/listinfo` from being redirected to `123.com` with the rest of the traffic for `abc.org`?


Public/Private Key Generation

I'm just learning about public key cryptography and I want to make a public key certificate for my web server so that I can use https. My server is hosted on some random free webhost that is practically impossible for anything...and so my question is this: Is there any harm in making my private key, public key, and public key certificate on my computer using openssl and then transferring it to the server? Thanks in advance. Also if there's anything else I'm missing, any help would be appreciated.


Why does AdSense require sufficient content?

I get that to apply for an AdSense account, a website needs to already have "sufficient content". As you can guess my website, being brand-new, did not. I am not disputing that fact, so I do not think this is a duplicate with other questions that do. I do however wonder why this is a policy? I guess their reasoning MIGHT be because Google wants to uphold a sense of quality in the content they support. A practically blank website is not quality content (yet). But isn't this a Catch 22? Creating quality content takes time (and thus money). Without ad-revenue to back this up, it's not easy to justify the expense (to my wife mostly, but that is beside my point :) )? Compare with YouTube where you can apply for a partner account having uploaded 0 videos. Another reason might be that they won't know what ads to show on an "empty website", but seems to me they could just as well pick something "random, but safe" themselves... If anyone has an authoritative answer (based on information from Google or personal experience) I'd be happy to hear it.


Trendmicro clones authenticated requests - showing up in my error logs

I'm having various errors, from unauthenticated requests for using some AJAX requests (which need authentication). While I have clients from Belgium, the IP addresses match a IP in the form of `150.70.*.*`, all are using Windows XP and IE 6 or IE 8. When I do a lookup, I receive this: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php Which means that it originates from Japan and it's a static IP from trendsmicro.com, a security suite. Any idea if I can blacklist this? I'd like to keep my errors close to zero. But this is one I can't solve without blacklisting the IP range. What should I do and what does trendsmicro try to do when cloning the request?


SEO benefit of H1 tags on the homepage

I've been told by an SEO specialist that, although every other page on a website has `<h1>` tags highlighting the correct headings for that page, that there needs to be one on the homepage, too. I'm dubious about this as the homepage should only rank for people searching for the company name directly -- which it already does perfectly (not least because the company name is their domain name). Obviously I don't see the harm in putting an exception in for that one page, but I also don't see the point, especially when I have lots of other more important things to be getting on with. Are there any SEO benefits to adding a `<h1>` element to the homepage, given that Google is already finding the company name perfectly well?


Good practice for watermarking/trademarking a website

When developing a website for a client, is it considered normal/proper etiquette to include an inconspicuous link to the developer's own website at the bottom of the client's website? In case that wording is too weird, say I'm developing a website for a company. Would it be respectable if I included my own logo, unobtrusively, in the footer of their website?


Best choice of domain name? (SEO)

This question is specifically about domain name choice. My client wants to maximize his site SEO, and he has two domain names, one of which he has for two years and is in the second page of Google search and another one which is better as domain name but unranked. The question:   * Is it better to choose the new better domain name or leave the old one as it already has it's value?   * If I choose to take the new domain name how long would it take to be at the same level as the old one? If I will choose the new one I will redirect the old one to the new.   * Aged Domain: `ivories.ca`   * New Domain: `pianotuningtoronto.ca`


AdWords: unauthorised use of trademark in keywords

I recently identified 2 companies who are actively targeting ads through Google AdWords using our trademark (registered in the UK). I filed a complaint with Google, although they are not willing to remove these ads. > Please note that we will not be able to process this complaint for your > trademark **_*_** because you requested that we remove all ads that are > currently using your trademark as a keyword. > > We do not investigate keyword complaints for trademarks, as described at > http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=144298. As a > result, we won't be able to remove ads that are using your trademark as a > keyword. If Google allow other competitive firms to leverage traffic through AdWords off the back of an established brand where does that leave us? Must we also use AdWords to outbid our competitors on our own company name? I'd be interested to know of anyone who has experienced something similar. If Google won't do anything to police this then is litigation the only option available? **EDIT** It seems Google have recently changed their policy on this and are no longer arbitrating trademark disputes when used in keywords, only in ad copy. This can't be good for search quality!!? Google extends trademarks-in-ads policy to whole world


SEO for site with 301 redirect on root domain to subfolder

I've been asked to do SEO for a site. The site is made using Wordpress and prestashop. Because of this the root domain has a 301 redirect to a subfolder - domain/shop/ For my SEO submission work, I know it's not good practice to submit urls that have redirects on them and a lot of the time it's not allowed. After searching the net I think my best bet is to do all my site submissions using the url - domain/shop/ even though it will take a lot more listings to get them up in ranking compared to using their root domain. I'm not sure how it will work. The root domain has the greatest rank then passes rank to the rest of the site. If I'm targeting the subfolder will it work?


Could the rel="author" just be a username?

I want to use `rel="author"`, however the type of blog I run is about a game, and doesn't relate to my real identity. I'm more known for my screen name, so would this still be okay to use for the `rel="author"` tag? For example, if my Google+ account is for my user, and not for myself, could I still use it within the `rel="author"` tag? I don't want to get penalized in any sort of way. My main reason to do this, is to improve click through rate, and just make my blog post sections look better in the searches.


Google CDN or Akamai

We combine and minify our JS with Minify - the combined JS is then cached on Akamai. I'm suggesting to my supervisor that we put JQuery and JQueryUI on Google CDN and take it out of our combined JS. The benefits I see are parallel downloads, significantly smaller Akamai cache hit, and the high potential the user will have JQuery from Google CDN cached in his/her browser when he/she visits our site so no download will be required at all. I also pointed out how pointing to the major version CDN URL `//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js` will eliminate the need for us to micro-manage our JQuery version control, and that if a new release introduces a bug, we simply point the CDN URL to a stable minor version of our choice until the issue is resolved. My supervisor disagrees and thinks keeping it on Akamai is the way to go. Any insight as to which is going to be faster here? I looked for some benchmarks and references online but they are either out-dated or merely talk about Google wanting to acquire Akamai. **EDIT** : Some further research has pointed me to an article mentioning how 'latest version' CDN URL's use short expires headers so it might be more optimal to use `/jquery/1.7/`. I'm fine with this - the general question still remains.


How do I login to Sphider?

Has anyone else here used Sphider? I am able to install everything (exactly as instructed here)and change the password, but unable to login at the login screen. Whenever I login, it just refreshes the page, whether the credentials are correct or not. I have looked at the forum and others have the same problem too, but no one has provided a solution. So if any of you have tried Sphider and had the same problem your input would be much appreciated. Running version 1.3.6 Path to admin page is 'sphider-1.3.6/admin/admin.php' PHP Version 5.3.13 MySQL Version 5.0.91-log


CMS for appoitment-like site

i need to quickly create a web site for a hairdresser person. Main feature is to let his potential clients to reserve time for service. I've never had to deal with any CMS, because i'm developing sites from scratch. What the CMS do you recommend for my case, which has necessary extensions? Thanks in advance.


How to enable media queries on IE < 9

I am trying to add support for media queries in older versions of Internet Explorer, but I am not having any luck. I only need media queries, so I do not want to add a big package like Modernizr, I am looking for a small fix, if there is any. Anyone know a good method?


Porting some of the contents to new site. Should I delete the old sitemap.xml?

I had a site with multiple blogs for eg www.mysite.com/gre, www.mysite.com/gmat What I have done is that ported the blogs to new site mynessite.com and set up a 301 redirect. The old content becomes the part of sitemap.xml for new site. Should I delete the site map for www.mysite.com/gre, www.mysite.com/gmat from my old blog ?


Hybrid-Hosting, how can I host one subdomain of existing site on second server?

I have a domain like `www.example.com`, with a subdomain like `sub.example.com`. They are hosted by ex: Bluehost. Which steps should I follow to just host `sub.example.com` on a second Server (AWS S3)?


How to use rel=canonical with Sitecore aliases?

I have inherited a Sitecore architecture that is a mess from an SEO duplicate content POV. There are multiple aliases that have been created (and indexed by the search engines) for many of the 2nd tier pages of the site. Due to server issues, I am not able to 301 redirect these duped pages, so I would like to use the rel=canonical tag in an attempt to try and get Google/Bing to recognize the correct pages I would like to appear in the index. I have blocked the most extraneous duped pages with a robots.txt file, however, since Google/Bing have already spidered many of the duped pages, I need to keep them accessible to the spiders, BUT removed from the index. The catch is, since the duped pages are aliases (and don't really physically exist in Sitecore that I can find), I am not sure how to go about using rel=canonical - or if I even can in this situation..?


Is there any way to determine who placed an AdWords ad?

I was in the process of discussing with a client using adwords for their next step of promotion and no-one at the company was aware of the system, and certainly hadn't created any adwords campaigns, however in the midst of the discussion and trying a few relevant search queries out, one of the ads in the ad block on the right hand pane was for their website. Is there any way of determining if the ad was somehow generated of is it definitely the case that someone had to consciously take the ad out and if so who might have placed it? They have no referral system so someone outside of the company would get no benefit from running the ad


What are recommended password reset mecanisms?

All, I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:   1) User friendly;   2) Secure;   3) Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).


Can a 403 error ever be client side?

I've got a well-established web application. It's working for lots of people with a variety of browsers and platforms. But, there's this one guy... He's getting a "403 Forbidden" on his side, I've even seen screen shots. But, I'm not logging anything in Apache or Tomcat that seems to indicate that he's actually been denied. I know he's authenticating because I see it explicitly. This, combined with the fact that he's the only broken user makes me wonder. Can a browser (IE in this case) ever decide on its own to throw a 403 that's not actually generated by the server? P.S.: I don't have rep to create '403' tag, but it's probably appropriate.


Where can i get photo collection for website/template

I'm developing website templates and wonder how to get (free or buy) photos of product sample for my templates. For example, collection if furniture, shirts, lingerie? Maybe you have preferences with affordable price. Please note that these images is going to be use in web templates for sale.


Website subscription service

I have a friend who has asked me to build a site for her that allows people to sign up for a monthly subscription service for a few dollars a month. The service will send them text messages throughout the month. Does anyone have any suggestions on open source software for signing up for a service like this? I have already researched how to send the messages and need advice on setting up the subscription service. I've worked with asp.net c# and php.


remove "items 1-9 of X" from google result

the results of my Magento based website's categories includes " **items 1 - 9 of X** " before the actual description of the category.   How can I get rid of this? In this snapshot, what I want to delete is the red rectangle ![snapshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Mjoiu.gif) **edits** :   @Su, these are the reason:   1. Having text like (Items 1 - 9 of 144 –) appear in a Google listing uses up the 25 word limit that Google allows us.   2. More importantly, the first few words of the description can persuade or dissuade someone from visiting my site. This text will not positively influence people to visit my site. @DisgruntledGoat this information shows up in the source code of that page, like this:

                         Items 1 to 9 of 144 total


How do I differentiate 404 messaging with no dynamic language ability on the web server?

Depending on the type of page visited (for example, “static” content vs. product page), we have a requirement to show different error messaging when the page requested is not found. Given that we are on a two tier architecture and have no dynamic language ability on the web servers, we are using HTTP status codes in the 400 range to display this messaging using the ErrorDocument setting in Apache configuration. These status codes, of course, show up in Google Webmaster tools as HTTP errors rather than not found errors and there is concern that these 400 range errors will not cause search engines to remove these pages from their indexes. Is there anyone else who has had this type of requirement with the limitation of no dynamic languages on the web server - and if so - have you solved this problem differently? Thanks


How to block domain access?

I'm studying AWStats in my server and I see no interesting domain access. How can I block it with htaccess or another solution


Google analytics - Find what time users entered the site from traffic source

The title says it all, I'm trying to find what time each visit came from a particular traffic source. EG if I wanted to find all the times that users visited from Google (Organic) - Can I do this i GA?


Google Analytics and Web Optimizer Code creating double site visits

My website currently has a Google Asynchronous tracking code at the top of every page and the home page has an A/B test running on it. This is causing GA to add 2 visits for every 1 to the home page. I have used Google's Web Optimizer to A/B test the home page against 2 other versions (all 3 have footer code). There is also a single goal page with footer code. All of the codes are below, with only identifying info removed. My issue is that every person that visits my home page (www.example.com) is getting counted as 2 visits. This is obviously incorrect but I am not sure how to fix it. I have already tried a few different options outlined below but none have fully succeeded. This is my GA tracking code:               <script type="text/javascript">                 var _gaq = _gaq || [];                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-1']);                 _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.example.com']);                 _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);                      (function() {                     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;                     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';                     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);                 })();             </script>      This is the Web Optimizer code below the GA Tracking code on www.example.com:               <script>     function utmx_section(){}function utmx(){}     (function(){var k='YYYYYYYYYY',d=document,l=d.location,c=d.cookie;function f(n){     if(c){var i=c.indexOf(n+'=');if(i>-1){var j=c.indexOf(';',i);return c.substring(i+n.     length+1,j<0?c.length:j)}}}var x=f('__utmx'),xx=f('__utmxx'),h=l.hash;     d.write('<sc'+'ript src="'+     'http'+(l.protocol=='https:'?'s://ssl':'://www')+'.google-analytics.com'     +'/siteopt.js?v=1&utmxkey='+k+'&utmx='+(x?x:'')+'&utmxx='+(xx?xx:'')+'&utmxtime='     +new Date().valueOf()+(h?'&utmxhash='+escape(h.substr(1)):'')+     '" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></sc'+'ript>')})();     </script><script>utmx("url",'A/B');</script>      My home page and the 2 variant pages have this in their footer:               <script type="text/javascript">     if(typeof(_gat)!='object')document.write('<sc'+'ript src="http'+     (document.location.protocol=='https:'?'s://ssl':'://www')+     '.google-analytics.com/ga.js"></sc'+'ript>')</script>     <script type="text/javascript">     try {     var gwoTracker=_gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXXXX-37");     gwoTracker._trackPageview("/YYYYYYYYYY/test");     }catch(err){}</script>      My goal page has this:               <script type="text/javascript">     if(typeof(_gat)!='object')document.write('<sc'+'ript src="http'+     (document.location.protocol=='https:'?'s://ssl':'://www')+     '.google-analytics.com/ga.js"></sc'+'ript>')</script>     <script type="text/javascript">     try {     var gwoTracker=_gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXXXX-37");     gwoTracker._trackPageview("/YYYYYYYYYY/goal");     }catch(err){}</script>      Here are my failed fixes so far:   * Change the UA-XXXXXXXXX-37 to UA-XXXXXXXXX-1. This just makes my bounce rate for those pages go to 100%   * Move the GA code in front of the Web Optimizer Code. This did not fix the issues but I left it because I believe it is correct.   * Added `gwoTracker=_gaq._setDomainName('.example.com');` between the ._getTracker and ._trackPageview of the 3 footers. This caused GA to work again and the Web Optimizer to quit working completely. What is the correct way to do this?


What product can you use to zoom and focus cursors when screencasting--what's the best screencast software?

I've tried iShowU to do screencasts, but the software does not allow you to zoom in and focus on where your cursor is point. What is the best software for MacOS that allows you to do simple effects like zooming when screencasting? Thanks.


How to make my own web comic site like xkcd?

If you all are nerds like me then you are aware of xkcd. If I wanted to go about creating my own web comic with a website layout similar to this one, then what would you recommend? Drupal (if so, also refer me to any non-default modules that I would need), WordPress, straight up html?


Question about server usage, big community platform

I’m working on a community platform writen in PHP, MySQL. I have some questions about the server usage maybe someone can help me out. The community is based on JQuery with many ajax requests to update content. It makes 5 - 10 AJAX(Json, GET, POST) requests every 5 seconds, the requests fetch user data like user notifications and messages by doing mySQL queries. I wonder how a server will handle this when there are for more than 5000 users online. Then it will be 50.000 requests every 5 seconds, what kind of server you need to handle this? Or maybe even more, when there are 15.000 users online, 150.000 requests every 5 seconds. My webserver have the following specs. Xeon Quad 2048MB 5000GB traffic Will it be good enough, and for how many users? Anyone can help me out or know where to find such information, like make a calculation?


Chat like chat.meta.stackoverflow.com in my website

How can I create a chat room like http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/ in my PHP website? I am looking for a free solution. Please help...


All shorten url redirecting to linkbucks

I have seen most of shorten url like `http://owl.li/w6tUx` redirecting to linkbucks site. I see even google is using this service in their posts in facebook or google plus something like `http://goo.gl/Z7bY5C`. I am not sure why google like company is using services like linkbucks. Is this some kind of virus of something have affected my computer. Can someone please explain or please advise me what is the correct place to ask question like this?


Should limitstart=0 should be 301 redirected or have canonical tag to it

i have multiple categories with pagination. wherein limitstart=0 are there and is similar like category home page Wondering, should a 301 redirect through htaccess is advisable **or** shall i apply canonical tag to it Second, below is the htaccess code for it. Need comments, is the regex ok                RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)&limitstart=0$ [NC]      RewriteRule (.*) /$1?%1&%2 [R=301,L]      Thanks


Counter on website (visitors)

I got a feeling a client is going to ask me to implement a counter to show how many visitors visited the site. To me it looks very unprofessional but the next question the client is going to ask will be 'why?'. So what's a good reason to not implement this besides "it's unprofessional".


Host multimedia content

On the occasion of a new website, I'm looking for a reliable and inexpensive company to host a big volume of movies and pictures. I need around 1To to start knowing that it will grow each day. Do you have any company to advise ? Thank you.


When changing a site domain name with Google Webmaster Tools, how can I verify both sites? Google seems to require that both sites are simultaneously validated (by the same method) but with different meta tag codes. This is obviously impossible to achieve. I can't seem to to use the "change of name" function as even if I put _both_ meta tags in the header at the same time (which allows me to validate both sites) the transfer fails as Google then seems to re-check the meta tags and finds the wrong one for one of the sites. Am I doing something wrong? All that's happened is that the domain name has changed, so it's not possible for me to use different meta tags on different sites. Is there a way I can tell Google about the domain name change?


Indexed webpages stopped rising, while Submited keep rising normally

Last months I have noticed a strange behaviour in Google's Webmaster Tools. Although I provide a valid Sitemap for my website, which is normally processed and without any issues from Google, while the number of Submitted Webpages keep rising (30.923 pages), the Indexed Pages don't rise anymore (26.819 pages since the end of January). Checking the Crawler Stats, everything seems normal and there are no Crawl Errors. There was no significant changes to the webpage these last months. Anyone noticed a similar issue and any possible suggestion?


Website hacked and suspended for spam, effect on SEO

I had my website on first 5 positions on google for 3 main keywords. Because of some poorly written forms my website was suspended by my host because of SPAM for 3 days. Now the position of my website is 40-50. Can I ever get back my lost positions? Or google "blacklisted" my domain for spam? Thanks!


How to tell Google to stop crawling my website via IP?

After a database server migration, I've noticed that GoogleBot started getting errors when trying to crawl my site. The reason seems to be that it is hitting my site via IP address (and due to my config setup, my PHP scripts try to hit the old database server, which has been shut down). When the site is accessed by correct hostname, it uses the new DB server. I can fix this by pointing the 'IP address' config to use the new DB server, but ideally I want to tell GoogleBot (and also Bing) to stop accessing via IP, and use hostname instead. Google Webmaster Tools also shows a lot of entries for 'sites linking in' to my website, which are actually listed as the IP address of my site, as if it were a different site. I do not want to lose SEO value by making the wrong move. Should I change my website to stop responding on IP address? Or set up HTTP redirects from `IP address/url` -> `hostname/url`? I already have "rel canonical" URLs which include the FQDN on a lot of my pages, but Google does not seem to respect them, or at least it continues to hit the IP address for those pages.


Google Pagespeed not recognizing minify, cache leveraging, etc

Recently, my sites score completely dropped in site optimization/speed in the Google Adsense rating system. When using **Google PageSpeed Insights** it tells me quite a few things. One being to leverage browser caching. I went into my .htaccess file and added this bit of code.               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##      After adding this code to my .htaccess file I retested my website and saw that it is now asking me to leverage a bunch of jquery plugins. Which I might add were not there prior to adding the code to the .htaccess. Google is also asking me to minify my CSS, HTML, and JS. Well, I downloaded a Wordpress plugin called **Better Wordpress Minify** , which is set to automatically minify HTML, CSS, and JS. After installing the plugin and retesting through Google Pagespeed I noticed that it is still asking me to minify a couple of things. Its asking me to minify the _customscript.js_ in my theme, and wants me to minify the HTML of my homepage. Google also asked me to compress my website so I downloaded **WP HTTP Compression** which seemed to compress almost everything except for two files: _modernizr.min.js, and customscript.js_. I know this is a lot of information to take in, and I am probably asking for a lot, but any help would be greatly appreciated.


htaccess URL rewriting

I want to redirect a request look like               mydomain.com/abc/def      to               mydomain.com/abc/index.php?q=def      where `abc` is a fixed directory name and `def` can be any string. How can I do this using `.htaccess`?


SEO: Should we split the business subjects into three seperate domains or stay with one?

I have a customer who has a place at the beach with restaurant, weddings area and the beach itself. He asked me from seo aspect if it will be better to have one domain with 3 minisites. Or 3 sites on 3 different domains? If it should.be under one domain could it be harder to rank higher with the ministes, each on its own keyword? Or should it be easier, since the overall site is larger? Are there any other aspects to consider?


When is meta description still relevant?

I received this bit of advice about the meta description tag recently: > Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the > snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should probably use them. You > could just auto generate them from the first part of the question. The description tag exists in the header, like so: `<meta name="Description" content="A brief summary of the content on the page.">` I'm not sure why we would _need_ this field, as Google seems perfectly capable of showing the relevant search terms in context in the search result pages, like so (I searched for **c# list performance** ): ![google keyword highlighting](http://i.stack.imgur.com/U6Ht7.png) In other words, **where would a meta description summary improve these results?** We want the page to show context around the actual search hits, not a random summary we inserted! Google Webmaster Central has this advice: > For some sites, like news media sources, generating an accurate and unique > description for each page is easy: since each article is hand-written, it > takes minimal effort to also add a one-sentence description. For larger > database-driven sites, like product aggregators, hand-written descriptions > are more difficult. In the latter case, though, programmatic generation of > the descriptions can be appropriate and is encouraged -- just make sure that > your descriptions are not "spammy." Good descriptions are human-readable and > diverse, as we talked about in the first point above. The page-specific data > we mentioned in the second point is a good candidate for programmatic > generation. I'm struggling to think of any scenario when I would want the Google-generated summary, that is, actual context from the page for the search terms, to be _replaced_ by a hard-coded meta description summary of the question itself.


How do I setup Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) to display correctly in the browser URL bar?

I just bought several Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) from GoDaddy. I have a VPN with hostgator and when I add an account with WHM and then I go to that site with a link that has the IDN, it displays in the browser as the puny-code. How can I make the browser display the correct encoding, instead of the puny-code?


Can PayPal charge different prices and currencies in different regions?

I want to set up a payment module on my website: US/Canada price is a certain price in USD, people other countries pay in EUR. The prices is not an exact conversion, but a "round" number which approximates exact conversion. Say, for example 140 USD and 100 EUR. Is there an easy way to set this up in PayPal? If not, which payment method is cheap and easy to implement?


Desktop ↔ mobile site redirection logic

I want the to know the correct desktop to mobile redirection logic. How should a visitor be sent to mobile version or the desktop version of site? I've a mobile site: `m.example.com` and desktop site at: `www.example.com` What I'm using now:   1. First visits will be detected and redirected to mobile or desktop version   2. Second time onward same session visit to any URL (mobile or desktop) will not be redirected. I mean if first time a `m.example.com` is served and then the user types `www.example.com` then desktop version will be served from his mobile device What is the correct way when to transfer a visitor to mobile or the desktop version?


.htaccess 301 rewrite rule not working

I had made the page the-book.html in wordpress site, later changed the name to about-the-book, now i have written the .htaccess file as               **RewriteRule ^the-book.html$ http://www.conversationissexy.com/about-the-book/ [R=301]**          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>           # END WordPress      but it doesn't works..


How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Short of actually having every different browser version installed, is there any tool or service that can provide a preview?


A tool for test webpages in older Browsers?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Hi, at the moment I develop a ASP.Net Page Community board. I have installed FF4, IE9 and Opera 10. A friend told me, my page looks bad in IE7 and maybe IE8. Is there a tool how I can look the page for IE7/8, FF2/3 and maybe Opera 9? You know, older versions of browsers without uninstalling my browsers.


I want the links in my HTML sitemap to be crawled but I do not want the sitemap in the SERPs

I have a website that has some pages and then it has a folder that has the majority of the pages. All the pages that exist in this folder could only be accessed by using my website search engine, then I created HTML and XML sitemaps so the search engines could find the pages that are inside this folder. This worked well as search engines got very happy and indexed pretty much the entire website. BUT the html sitemap is appearing in SERPs and besides wanting search engines to crawl it and follow the links I do not want it to be in the SERPs. What can I do so the links on my sitemap page are followed but it stops appearing in SERP's? I saw some link rel no index meta tags and robots no index meta tags that seemed to be "designed" for this but some websites say they do one thing and other websites say they do other things. I don't want to screw this up and have my pages not being indexed again because it will be a pretty bad setback. Besides this, when I made the sitemaps I made the XML and HTML and uploaded them to the server on the same day, it worked like a charm but if the xml sitemap is enough and i can remove the html sitemap with no negative impact to my number of indexed pages it would be a valid solution for me too because then i wouldn't have to bother with it appearing on SERP's so if anyone made this experience and has something to share it would be useful too.


Am I able to delete a domain name

I manage a number of domain names with Network Solutions. I've transferred out all the domains that are or will be used. However, there are some left which were bought speculatively and will never be used. Is it possible to have them deleted, that is, have the registrations deleted? Thanks for any help


How to make user-uploaded photos all a uniform size

I have a site where users upload photos taken from their digital cameras. I want the photos to appear as big as possible, almost take up the entire screen. I also want all the thumbnails, of various users, and blown up photos, to have a uniform size so the design works on my site and everything lays out properly. Is this possible, or am I going to be stuck with different sized pictures because some people turned the camera on it's side to take a picture and got a picture way taller than wider. Do the pictures need to be a certain file format, certain size, etc?


Does time of adding new content makes sense for SE

Does time, new content is added, makes sense for search engines ? For example - between 9:00 and 18:00, or at 23:00, or at 1:00 ? **Update 1:** I rephrase my question, to better reflect, what i mean: Does search engine makes an assumption about what the website is, based on time of day, new content is added. E.g. when new content is added between 9:00 and 18:00 - this is possible a corporation with fixed working time. When new content appears at random time of day, this is possible a person. Answering my own question, i think, such an differentiation is not useful. But, who knows ...


Does the number of visits matters for SEO?

Considering I have a website and I have millions of direct views (entering directly by URL, not by any other URL) and that there is no links to this site anywhere else (or that this views don't generate any external link to the site), will these visits increase my positioning in search engines such as Google? Are search engines capable of measuring direct visits rather than links from other pages?


Tracking AdWord ads with different text in Google Analytics

I'm trying to see how the text in my Google AdWords ads affects my metrics in Analytics. I have auto-linking enabled, so I figured I would be able to automatically see this in Analytics. Unfortunately, if I try to add a second dimension of Traffic Sources->Ad Content, the metrics are only split by the ad's Headline. Most of my tests are changing only the ads' descriptions... So I guess I need to add a tracking parameter like `?campaign=special_text` to my URLs? Or is there a way to see the ads split by ad descriptions? Should I add the full suite of utm_campaign/utm_medium/etc parameters? What's the proper way to track these ads which are mostly similar except the ad descriptions?


Apache Redirect to another folder, both within and outside document root

I've recently set up a home web/media server and having a few difficulties with a few of the settings. It's working fine for serving webpages etc but I've now reorganised the structure of the main document root and it's now playing hard to get. Current structure is:               -drive     --sites     ---live     ----siteA     ----siteB     ----siteC     ---dev     --media     ---films     ---series      What I'm trying to do is serve siteC when siteA/siteC is called. For example mydomain.com will present the files that are in siteA, this is fine. SiteB and SiteC do not have their own domains etc and I don't want them to be subfolders of SiteA so what I'd like is for mydomain.com/siteB to serve up the content that is in siteB and the same with siteC. I'd then like to use the same premise for the media server so myDomain.com/media will display a directory listing of the files within the media directory. the document root within apache is d:/sites/live, I'm then using virtual hosts to determine what happens. This is fine with the standard mydomanA.com or myDomainB.com but not when trying to achieve what I mentioned above. This is one of the attempts:               <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "D:/Sites/Live/siteA"         ServerName www.mydomain.com/siteA         <Directory "D:/Sites/Live/siteA">             Order allow,deny             Allow from all             AllowOverride All       </Directory>      Another failed attempt using aliases instead:               <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "D:/Sites/Live/siteA"         ServerName www.mydomain/siteA         <Directory "D:/Sites/Live/siteA">             Order allow,deny             Allow from all             AllowOverride All       </Directory>            Alias /siteA D:/sites/live/siteA       <directory "D:/sites/live/siteA">         Order allow,deny         AllowOverride All         </directory>     </VirtualHost>      Thanks for any help, I've been pulling my hair put for the past few hours trying to find a solution. Edited to answer comment. The expected input and output would be along the following:               mydomain.com = d:/sites/live/siteA     mydomain.com/siteB = d:/sites/live/siteB     mydomain.com/siteC = d:/sites/live/siteC      and the media server would be:               mydomain.com/media = d:/media


Should the Home Menu Button Display a Submenu?

Is it best practices to display/not display a dropdown menu for the Home button in menu navigation?


Effect on Google rankings if my site is down?

What happens to my Google rankings when my site goes down for a short or long period of time?


IP of my site in the shared hosting got changed and did not reflect yet. what will be the SEO concequence?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? My hosting company changes IP in the range of 6 months... May be either the change the servers or the IP. So for the past 20 hours my site is not loading in my place (India) where as i checked with my friend by that time in Japan. He said that it is loading there. But here it is still not. The hosting company said that it will take max of 24-48 hours for propagation of DNS settings. So at this time when google webmasters and google search bots and google crawl bots access the site what will happen. Will this affect my SEO records in google? like not found or not reachable or network error? Each countries ISP would be updating the dns in their own order so when japan got updated india did not (my service provider is Barthi Broadband (Airtel India)) . I am unable to get into a conclusion. **Besides is this related to Up Stream and Down Stream?**


What is the tolerable Website Downtime and it's Impact on SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? I'm using hostgator shared hosting for some of my sites and uptime reported by mo.ni.tor.us is in between 97% to 94%. Is it a tolerable range for downtime ? Also i would like to know how much downtime percentage is considered as okay in case of SEO ? I see that most updated blogs needs to have more uptime. But not sure how much downtime factor is considered in case of SEO ?


Can Paypal/Google/Amazon accept credit card payments like a merchant account?

Paypal Express Checkout API, Google Checkout API and Amazon Flexible Payment Services allow us to accept payment easily by simply redirecting users to their website and they'll handle everything. We don't even need to know their credit card numbers. However, what if I want my users to deal with me directly using their credit card numbers? This way I can change the payment processor without bothering my users. I think this is how traditional merchant accounts work. Does any of the payment services offered by Paypal/Google/Amazon work in this way?


Transferring a domain to another registrar and downtime

I have a domain A redirecting (301) to another domain B. If I take the domain A to another registrar, what will happen with the site content? How much time will it be without showing the content?


Does it make sense to throw a 404 error with PHP?

## Problem Description Hi, The current setting of my **.htaccess** file does not allow any kind of 404 (as far as I know). I mean, it captures every kind of url like `mysite.com/asfasfasf` then sends it to `index.php?lang=asfasfasf` then index.php 301-redirects to `mysite.com/en`. Anyway, ## Question I have a gallery page which takes project name as an input, so if a nasty user comes and `types mysite.com/gallery/asfasfasf`, I should redirect them to my 404.php page, using php, but how? I think my options are :   1. 301-redirect to location `404.php`   2. 404-redirect to location '404.php'   3. Forget about 404.php, just print " _project "asfasfasf" does not exist._ " on the gallery page.   4. ?? Which one makes most sense? More importantly, which one is best for SEO ? Thanks for any help!


When is it worth it to make my URLs "pretty"?

We are in 2011, search engines are now using hundreds or thousands of parameters to weight a page. The URL is only one of them, is it still so much of an impact in the search results? People are sharing URLs through URL shortener: short, long, ugly or nice URLs end up in the same way! People also share email by clicking on 'I like this', they don't copy paste URLs anymore, and when I do it and see people doing it, they never comment if an URL is long or short or anything... Is there still a need of having nice URL both for the users and search engines? If my rank on the search engine will change by 0.5% I don't really care... If I will make 2% of my user happy by having nice URLs I don't really care either...


Clean URLs without PHP file extension

I want to make my URLs clean, for example: `http://sample.com/about-me` instead of: `http://sample.com/about-me.php` This is my code:                   RewriteEngine On          RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f         RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php      But I can still access `http://sample.com/about-me.php`. How can I have `http://sample.com/about-me`, so `http://sample.com/about- me.php` will be permanently redirected to that? I think this technique is good for SEO because canonicalization needs just one URL. If I use two URLs that both can be accessed, I think that's not good for SEO and can make search engines confused, right?


Seo Calculation Formula?

I am using SeoWebPart which has its own page score. I find many of the things which are useful in SEO calculation like   1. Count Word in h1 tag   2. Count Word in h2 tag   3. Count Word in Title tag   4. Count Word in p tag   5. Total Word in Page   6. Count Word in anchor tag Please suggest a formula which I can use to show you a score for a page. I use this formula now but it's not good:               score = ([key word count]) * 100 / (total word count)


Google and primary domains

I have a client's website that was previously on a domain, let's say craigaccounting.com, and now this will not be used as their primary domain. I want their primary domain to be cragaccountants.com, with the old domain just pointing to the new. At the moment, Google is listing craigaccounting.com as the domain, but I want this changed. I have submitted the new domain with webmasters - is this all I need to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Does SSL really matter for most websites?

I've been pretty paranoid about learning to "do security right" for this site I'm building (first non-trivial site I've made), and I've noticed something that bothers me: SSL. I've read plenty of security threads here, on StackOverflow, and elsewhere that goes on at length about regenerating session ids after n uses, and how your passwords need to be salted, hashed, and never stored in plain text. I've read plenty about how to detect when a session has been hijacked, by tracking IP addresses, user agents, and by using tracking cookies. What I don't understand is what any of this matters when the website logs you in via a normal HTTP POST and sends your password over the wire in plain text? I understand that all the other methods I listed are needed to reduce your overall exposure, and maybe there are some sites that just don't need that much security anyway, but I guess what I'm asking is:   * **When is it ok to not bother with SSL?** Sites like Gmail, your bank, and LinkedIn, I can see having a reason to use SSL, but what makes it ok that sites like Facebook and reddit don't bother (hell, PlentyOfFish even stores your password in plain text and even emails it to you weekly as a reminder!?!)? How concerned should I be with making sure SSL is setup (especially since I'd be starting with a shared host, and I'm being pretty cheap to start)? My site won't hold any particularly personal information, if that helps. If the site becomes a success, I'd seriously look at paying the extra for the added security.


Starting Domain Registration Service

I have been working as a web developer for long time. I have regular request from clients for web hosting and domain registration whose site i make. I have been asking for other frens for it. And they have been doing it for $15/year per domain registration. I am thinking to start the registration by self. So what are the things to do for being able to register domain names in cheaper rates less than $15/year


What is the required syntax to use for HTML5

I am wondering about the following questions for HTML5   1.
 OR
? Are all elements the same for the answer?   2. selected="selected" OR selected?   3. Are there any other syntax instances that were true for XHTML/HTML4 that are not for HTML5?


Blogger not redirecting

I bought a new domain staygeo.com and pointed my blogger blog to gis.staygeo.com. I have checked the box in blogger publishing settings saying _Redirect staygeo.com to gis.staygeo.com_. Still if I just type http://staygeo.com/, I see **Not Found** message. What can be done about it?


Is it ok in my YouTube video to ask people to "like/subscribe" my YouTube videos/channel?

My channel and videos have google adsense. Would it violate the Google Adsense terms of service?


Moving to a new server. What happens to my POP3 email linked with Outlook?

I am moving my web server to another host in a few days and I have a concern about the emails. Currently, I am an Outlook user and instead of visiting the webmail's web server to read my emails, I connected it there. I use POP3 so emails are downloaded form server to my computer and stored locally. When I move to a new host, having the same incoming / outgoing server ( mail.domain.com ) (I think this is standard on Cpanel) will I lose my old email from showing in Outlook? I know I can't see them through the "old" host, but this is ok. I need to keep them locally and continue with the new host. Is this what happens, or should I do anything to keep my old emails locally and continue with the new ones from the new server?


Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links

I'm writing a very simple page that is supposed to be viewed on mobile devices. While viewing it in the iphone simulator I noticed that the iphone browser automatically turns any number string into a link, supposedly for dialing it directly. Problem is - there are a ton of numbers on my page that LOOK like phone numbers but actually aren't. Is there a way to tell the iphone browser to leave these numbers alone?


SEO pagination for items sorted in reverse chronological order

Let's have items I90, I89, ..., I2, I1 where I1 is the oldest and I100 is the newest. They are paginated and there are 30 items per page. Which is better URL from SEO point of view? 1) /items?page=1 with items I90...I61; then /items?page=2 with items I60...I31 and /items?page=3 with I30...I1. So if the new item is created, items get shifted. 2) /items?page=3 with items I90..I61; ...; /items?page=1 for I30...I1. Will option 1) look more "alive" to a search engine, so it will rank higher? Or will stable data (option 2) rank higher?


How to drive traffic to your site by making the Facebook experience sticky and viral?

I know some ways:   1. Make them sign up to our app. Every time they do something they post on their wall   2. Make them like our Facebook page. Every time we post something on that Facebook page, it shows up on their wall. That's the 2 method I know. Plain share or plain like seems to have very little viral and sticky value. They share once, and that's it. Most people don't even share. Am I wrong?


Optimizing data downloaded via 'link' media queries and asynchronous loading

I have a website that tries to make sensible use of media queries and avoid 'expensive' CSS for users of mobile devices. My eventual goal is to make it 'mobile-first' but for now, since it is based on Twitter Bootstrap it isn't. I included some background images (Base64 encoded) and styles that would only apply to "full-size" browsers in a separate stylesheet loaded asynchronously via modernizr.load. In Firefox (but not webkit browsers) it makes it so that if you navigate away from the homepage and then return, the content (specifically, all those extras) 'blinks' when it finishes loading...or maybe I should say reloading. If, instead of using modernizr.load, I include that stylesheet via a **_link..._** in the head with a media query attribute will it prevent the data from being downloaded by non-matching browsers (mobile, based on screensize) that it is inapplicable to?


Use responsive AdsSense unit but only as a banner/rectangle ad?

I'm using Google AdSense's responsive unit and on load it fits my browser window. The problem is that AdSense decides to fill the relevant space with both Square and Banner/Rectangle size Ads. I only want Banner size ads. I've tried putting the Ad in a container that only has a height of 60px but it will still load the square size ads. How do I tell AdSense I only want Banner/Rectangle size Ads?


How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?

A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on methods how this can be done in a friendly way so that my rankings would not be affected as a result. Here is what I did:   * I did set a response header: `Content-Language:en` and `Content-Language:fr`   * My URLs are formatted as: `www.website.com/en/...` and `www.website.com/fr/...`   * My HTML tag is set with a lang attribute: `<html lang="en">` and `<html lang="fr">`   * `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="EnglishPageUrl">` on French pages.    * `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="frenchPageUrl">` on English pages. But Google keeps referring to some English pages when I'm doing a search on Google.fr, knowing that the website was first only available in English. Is that normal? Do I have to wait still, it has been now almost one month, I thought it would be okay...? Thank you.


Are there any scripts to integrate social networking site's chat and posting features into a webpage using PHP or JS... for example a section with Facebook chat, a section to post to twitter and maybe even YouTube comments.


Google-bot sees “Sorry, we have no imagery here” on pages with Google Maps

I have a site with Google Maps on most of the pages. When inspecting content keywords in Google Webmaster tools, content keywords identified by Google-bot for the site include "imagery", "sorry" and "here". These turn out to be part of an error message returned by Google Maps: "Sorry, we have no imagery here". I cannot reproduce this error with normal clients, nor does "fetch as Google" show it. The problem is presumably that Google-bot tries to execute some of the Google Maps Javascript but then shoots itself on the foot and records the error message. A Google search for "Sorry, we have no imagery here" shows that this problem is endemic to sites across the internet, including Yelp and many others. I'd like to convince Google that my site is not about imagery and being sorry, but I'd also like to keep the maps in place. I guess one option would be to transition to static maps, but that's not a great alternative. There's some related discussion on Webmaster World, no resolution.


Register a .ca domain from the US -- proxy service

we ara a US-based business and interested in registering a .ca domain. I understand the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants - CIRA (www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf). This questions isn't about restrictions, it is about getting around restrictions. What practical options are available for us to make this happen?


a good licence for a CMS?

Going over quite a bit of Open Source licenses on opensource.org I am still not very clear which one I should aim for. What I want the license to do is the following.   1. Open Source license   2. Initial Developer(s)/Contributer(s) are to be credited and all copyright notices, credit notices as well as trademark and/or patten notices to remain in the "Source Code" and in no way may be altered.    3. Any software based of original "Source Code" are to be licensed under the same license as the original source and all source code "must" be available to end-user. Also any copy or re-distribution and/or fork must contain original copyright notices by Initial Developer(s)/Contributer(s)   4. The license is royalty-free for non-commercial use, non-profit organization use and /or any personal use.   5. The source code may be licensed under commercial license for commercial use, but must be done so with first acknowledge the Original Developer and for royalty. Even so any commercial license "may not" prevent the Initial Developer from continuing of licensing, development and distribution of "original Source Code" for personal, non-commercial and non-profit use under the original license and without any fee.   6. Commercial license can't and shall not effect or hold any of "original Source Code" that may prevent the re-use of the original "Source Code" by 3rd party developers, re-distributer and or forked projects.   7. The license applies internationally I wish to allow the use of the software for commercial/small-business use but for a small royalty. However I do not want to get screwed into having that commercial institution the "sole" holder of the "original Source Code". I still need to make sure I the Initial Developer and any Contributers retain the "source code" as there own and not any 3rd party. So what would be the best suggestions for a license close to the 7 points that I made.


What should I do to notify Google of a switch from ".php" to extension-free URL's?

I've implemented a simple mod-rewrite rule that internally rewrites urls without a file extension (that are not directories) to .php files and removed the .php extension from all our internal links. I've also updated the sitemap with the extensionless urls. However, the urls in Google's index obviously still have the extension.   1. Will Google crawl the site or download the sitemap and update its index automatically with the extensionless urls?   2. Should I be implementing a 301 redirect from .php to extensionless urls? At the moment, both url's will resolve to the same page which could be seen as duplicate content.   3. Should I get a list of all the urls in Google's index which have extensions and submit a request to have them deleted via Webmaster Tools?


Targeting different related keywords?

I have a Wordpress website on which I'm using Yoast SEO plugin. This plugin states that on a single post I have to target only one focus keyword for better SEO PageRank. Now suppose I have two related keywords like _baseball bat_ and _bats for baseball_ and I want to target both so I have to create two post. One targeting _baseball bat_ and another _bats for baseball_ and optimize of there respective keywords. This is easy. But how these post are going to show in my navigation? If I give link to both they are after all saying about same thing, with little difference. so its look to me like I'm spamming and what user is going to get benefit from this. But my competitors are doing this shamelessly and getting traffic. One other possible way is that in navigation show only one main post like show _baseball bat_ in main navigation. Other versions of post for different targeting keyword like _bats for baseball_ let it be there and indexed and optimized but not showing in main navigation. Guide me if you understand what I'm trying to say.


Should I change from reset.css to normalize.css

I have been using css reset for quite a while now in different project, and I am quite pleased with it, always get good results. One thing that always bothered me was that I needed to overwrite a lot of elements, for example clearing the margin of an H2, and later on adding the margin again. Another thing is that a lot of elements are cleared that I do not even use. Now I have been reading a lot about normalize.css, I also see that the HTML5 Boilerplate uses this as it's default stylesheet. It does not reset everything, it just compensates for browser differences. If I compare the reset with the normalize I see that in the normalize a lot is left out. One big difference are the headings and paragraphs, they are left untouched in normalize. For all the rest of the elements I see that they are set to specific margins and padding. So actually the way I see it is as follow: _Reset.css: You begin from 0 and then build your way up. Add your margin, add your styles. You add this above your project and you are ready to go. Minor browser inconsistencies you add along the way._ _Normalize.css: You begin somewhere is the middle which is a consistent state in all browsers, and work your way up or down (adding or removing margin/padding) by changing the sheet itself._ Now in the end of your project, you end up pretty much in the same place. Differences I can think of are:   * with normalize you have a stylesheet that is more optimized than the one with the reset as you only have what you need.   * You can't just copy and paste the normalize sheet from one project to another, it is most of the time custom made for a particular project. In the end, I think you are better of with the normalize script, as it has a smaller footprint. So is this correct or am I looking at this the wrong way and just stick with the normal reset.


Will a site URL with repeating keywords get penalized by search engines?

I have an URL structure like the following: > sitename.com/ **cellphone** / **nokia** /galaxy-5678- **nokia** - > **cellphone** -from-abc/ For more example: > sitename.com/ **cellphone** / **motorolla** /new- **motorolla** -gta800- > **cellphone** -from-zxy/ The directory structure is like the cellphone is the main directory of the module and the words like Motorolla and Nokia are subdirectories which are categories and then comes the title of the cellphone. Here the word cellphone and Nokia in the first link and cellphone and Motorolla in the second link are repeated. **Is it any kind of keyword stuffing? will it be penalized by Google?**


Will repositioning my code get my site penalised by google?

We have a website that has nice rankings in the Google SERPs for keywords which aren't in the meta description. As a result, Google assembles a text to display on the SERPs from the website top-down. Since a form is the first thing displayed on the page, the text is completely scrambled. This would be the code for the page:
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      What we want to do is to change the order of the divs so Google can assemble a text from #content instead of #form, but still show the same order using css:
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SEO SERP Google Chrome App

Has anyone installed 'SEO SERP' from Omiod app in chrome? If so, how accurate would you rate it? So far I'm thinking its pretty good, but I have never tried any paid versions.


Measure highest number of simultaneous visitors via Google Analytics

Is it possible to find out via Google Analytics the highest number of simultaneous visitors at any given time?


Google SEO - Migrating website from a sub-directory of another website to its own domain name

At the present moment I have a website hosted on `example.com/myWebsite`, where `example.com` hosts in its root directory a different website. I have the domain `example.net`, which redirects to `example.com/myWebsite`. The point, however, that right now when somebody accesses example.net they are redirected to `example.com/myWebsite` and consequently to `example.com/myWebsite/dirA`, `example.com/myWebsite/dirB` etc.. I am now thinking about upgrading my account so that `example.net` no longer redirects to `example.com` - I was however wondering, however, since Google shows results searches in terms of `example.com/myWebsite`, how would this affect my rankings?


What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?

Google.com vs Google.ca vs Google.co.uk (etc) all rank their results differently. The intention is to return more locally-relevant content. **What factors, other than the ones below, are used to determine local relevancy?** I already know the TLD (.com, .ca, etc) and likely the server IP address is used but there has to be more as this would not explain some search results I noticed this week. Particularly, I see a US-based site ranking #3 for some keywords on Google.com, ranking #5 on Google.ca and not ranking within the first pages on Google.co.uk. On Google.com it outranks a Australian site which outranks it on Google.ca. The site itself is relevant for all English-speaking locations and it being outranked by sites from different regions on different Google TLDs (but not ones from the same region as the TLD).


Google Apps and Google Reader - Third level domain

I'd like to point a third level domain (eg. reader.mydomain.com) to google reader just like mail.mydomain.com points to gmail. Is it possibile, and if yes, how would I do it? Thanks in advance.


When is a URL encoded?

When there are spaces in a URL like               http://example.com/this is not url enocoded      it is obvious, that the URL will end up as               http://example.com/this%20is%20not%20url%20encoded      When and what will encode my URL?   * Should links that I create to my URL be encoded in my HTML documents?   * Does the browser do the encoding?   * Does the server do the encoding?


Hosting for international audience

Is it a better option to host a web portal in the US if my target audience is likely to be international or cross-continent? Likewise, if I were to target region specific audience, I should find hosting that is located in the region? BTW, how do I find out where the servers of the web hosting companies are located physically (given the question that I am raising here)? Thanks in advance


Why isn't a newly purchased domain showing up in Google searches?

The domain ... `http://trello.com` ... was purchased a few months ago and is now live as of a week or so ago -- and has been linked from several prominent places on the web -- but searching for the word `trello` produces absolutely no results from `http://trello.com` in Google whatsoever. We know that most of the pages are being indexed by google, for two reasons:   1. Google Webmaster Tools says the site is fine   2. If you do a search including site:trello.com in the search terms, plenty of pages come up Is it because most of the page content on the site is generated on the fly via JavaScript, or because there needs to be some kind of special support for the googlebot agent? We're at a loss to explain why this is happening.