Looking for a good server side shopping cart solution

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm working on a website that will be selling tickets and they will go fast. I need a server side solutions, in php if possible, that will keep tickets from over selling. Any suggestions? Also, I'm looking for the system to be more plug and play, like an API maybe. I'm not really looking for a eCommerce solution to sell goods. I need something simple and can sell tickets. Like EventBright but for a server in php.


How to identify a scalable (and appropriate) eCommerce platform for a medium-sized company?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Maybe you can help me identify a scalable (and appropriate) eCommerce platform for a client of ours, looking to enhance their online sales. I've read the ecommerce guidelines here and am looking to further explore this, relative to my specific situation. ... **A little background information:** _The company's main focus has been selling to retailers, boutiques, etc., but is now looking to sell directly to the consumer--which is where I come in... to re-design their site (currently a quasi-eCommerce, quasi-informational page) into a full blown eCommerce site--quality wise (not necessarily feature wise) on par with Amazon. I'm doing my homework to isolate the best options for the entire team to evaluate._ ... I'm a CSS ninja and blossoming web developer, but still fairly new to eCommerce, so I'd love to get the StackExchange community's feedback.   * I'm curious to find out the pros and cons (with a particular interest in security, and scalability) of a hosted platform (eg. 3dcart), versus an open-source platform (eg. Prestashop). For example, is it worth paying $250/mo. for Magento's 'professional' edition? How do Opencart and Prestashop compare with 3dcart for a medium-sized company?   * What are the headaches associate with the best options; maintenance, versatility, community/customer support, etc.   * Uptime and server responsiveness. Do paid hosted solutions offer high grade servers, or is a dedicated server and do-it-yourself approach better? This are just some of the questions that are coming to mind, but hopefully you can see the overarching theme of where I'm coming from, offer some advice, and suggest some platforms to explore. **Here are some features/notes:**   * Inventory is currently done manually (due to sales currently being so modest,) but I imagine data feed / accounting integration will be need to be available.   * The site will need to be available in **multiple languages**   * Payment processing is currently handled internally, because inventory is **not automated** , which suggests inventory management is another key factor to take into consideration (my client was quoted $20,000 to integrate inventory management... I think we can do much better than that;) as I currently understand, the issue is that not all sales are done online.   * Promotion support, user-reviews, product ratings, and a fully customizable front-end are just about mandatory. Keep in mind our **target launch is Jan. 1st** , and I've never worked with any of these platforms (other than 3dcart briefly)--but if some help from a specialist needs to be factored into the budget, that isn't completely out of the question. This also suggests to me that having a paid solution could be helpful, having a 'customer/technical support' team available. We don't know how successful this endeavor will be, and currently my client receives 200 hits with a handful of sales daily; should our vision succeed, their daily traffic and sales should jump substantially... and we want to be prepared for this and not have pursued an eCommerce solution that cannot easily scale. I earnestly appreciate your time, and look forward to anyone's input! Julian


music ecommerce shop?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? i have a client that wants to make a music store, from which you can donwload a track for a price, or buy a new cd to be shipped, users should be able to have a preview of a track too!. Was considering prestashop, was wondering if someone had a suggestion on this. Thank you!


Best ecommerce that's easy to customize into a existing site? (WP?)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm looking for a ecommerce plugin (if it's through WP that works too) that I can integrate into an existing site. I'm looking for something like wordpress, where I can extend the config into the existing pages and run the libraries api through that. Needs to be free too!


Shopping cart PHP framework

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I am going to build a new shopping cart project for my client and I have a little confusion about shopping cart framework in php. I have read about more shopping cart framework, but I can't get the right way to use a perfect framework for my project. The requirement of the project is:               Inventory management     Authorization     UPS shipping integration      Please anyone help me out to choose the right frame work and start my project as soon as possible.


Shopping cart software for a site with a small number of products

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I have a client who requires shopping cart functionality for maybe 20 products. Is it worth installing dedicated shopping cart software, should I use Paypal buttons, or are there other options.


What shopping carts integrate well with MYOB?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm trying to select an eCommerce solution that will integrate with the accounting program, AccountEdge (from MYOB). I also need it to be SEO-friendly and be able to print shipping labels, directly. I will also consider any stable add-ons to any given shopping cart.


Photography eCommerce platform

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Anyone have a recommendation for a platform or plugin (free or commercial) to allow the sale of photographic downloads and prints? I'm not really interested in a hosted solution unless that solution is a stand-out.


A good shopping cart

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which shopping cart / ecommerce platform to choose? Sorry for being so vague but I've been confused a lot in choosing a good shopping cart for my new venture. I need something which is really easy to update (like wordpress), customizable, secure, SEO friendly, not too slow, a good plugin framework so I can develop plugins if I need it. In short, I need shopping cart as good as wordpress is for blogs. I could just download freely available ones and settle with the one I like but long-term issues aren't visible immediately. Could you guys help me out


eCommerce system for configurable products

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm looking for a eCommerce solution for configurable products. I know I could achieve this in Magento but this isn't an option at the moment as we currently have a hosting contract that we can't install it on and changing hosts isn't an option currently. I'm looking for the following functionality: Selection 1   * A   * B   * C Selection 2   * D   * E   * F   * G   * H   * I If a user selects an option in selection 1 the only some of the options in selection 2 will be available so if they chose A in S1 then maybe only options D,E, and F would be available; but if they chose B in S1 then options D,F,G and I would be available and so on... Once all sections are chosen it needs to output the relevant price/product SKU for that configured product. My main experience of ecommerce is via Magento so I'm not sure if this is standard functionality in other ecommerce solutions or something out of the ordinary as i was using the Simple Configurable Products script on Magento previously. I should also add that we are also using a wordpress set up alongside so if there is a module or solution that integrates with wordpress that would be great, not a major issue if it is a standalone solution though as I can modify templates to make a seamless experience for the user.


PHP/MySQL shopping cart recommendation

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I need a shopping cart for PHP/MySQL. What I need is very simple. I have a template already set up with the 15 items that we want to sell. We don't require a storefront, only a cart that uses a gateway. The user should be able to click on the item in my template and then go to checkout. Can someone recommend something that would meet these needs? I want to stay away from bloated apps.


Which shopping cart / ecommerce platform to choose?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I need to build **an ecommerce website** within a tight budget and schedule. Of course, I have never done that before, so I have googled out what my solutions are and I have concluded that the following were not valid candidates anymore :   1. **Magento** : Steep learning curve   2. **osCommerce** : old, bad design, buggy and not user-friendly   3. **Zencart, CRE Loaded, CubeCart** : based on osCommerce   4. **Virtuemart, uberCart, eCart** : based on CMS (Joomal, Drupal, WordPress) that is not necessary for my use-case So I finally narrowed down my choices to these solutions :   1. **PrestaShop** : easy-to-use, great templating engine (smarty) but many modules are not free buy yet indispensable   2. **OpenCart** : security issues and not a great support from the main developer. See here and here. So, as you can see, I am a little bit confused and if you can **help me choosing an easy-to-use, lightweight and cheap (not-necessarily free) ecommerce solution** , I would really appreciate. By the way, I am a Java/Grails programmer but I am also familiar with PHP and .NET. (not with Python or Ruby/Rails) **EDIT** : It seems that this question is more appropriate for the Webmaster StackExchange site. So please **move this question to where it belongs** (I cannot do that) instead of downvoting it. BTW, I have found out a question quite similar on SO (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3315638/php-ecommerce- system-which-one-is-easiest-to-modify) which is quite popular.


ecommerce options for 5-6 products

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? We're looking to develop a simple e-commerce solution to sell 5-6 products. We'd rather not have to use PayPal's buttons (buy it now!) if there's an existing alternative, but would also for budget/time constraints don't want to roll our own. Are there any small, basic ecommerce solutions available that would allow this? I did look at Foxy Cart but the monthly fee was a bit of a turn off. (I must sound extremely fussy I'm aware!) Something like Zen would just be overkill for our needs. Thanks for any suggestions.


Which ecommerce framework is fast and easy to customize?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? I'm working on a project where I have to put online an ecommerce system which will require some good amount of custom features. I'm therefore looking for a framework which makes customization easy enough (from an experienced developer's perspective, I mean). Language shoul be PHP and time is a constraint, I don't have months to learn. Additionally, the ecommerce will have to handle around 200.000 products from day one, which will increase over time, hence performance is also important. So far I examined the following:   * Magento - Complicated and, as far as I could read, slow when database contains many products. It's also resource intensive, and we can't afford a dedicated VPS from the beginning.   * OpenCart - Rough at best, documentation is extremely poor. Also, it's "free" to start, but each feature is implemented via 3rd party commercial modules.   * OSCommerce - Buggy, inefficient, outdated.   * ZenCart - Derived from OSCommerce, doesn't seem much better.   * Prestashop - It looks like it has many incompatibilities. Also, most of its modules are commercial, which increases the cost. In short, I'm still quite undecided, as none of the above seems to satisfy the requirements. I'm open to evaluate closed source frameworks too, if they are any better, but my knowledge about them is limited, therefore I'll welcome any suggestion. Thanks for all replies. **Update 1**   - Project is for one of my customers, therefore I don't "call the shots" on most things. - There is no time, nor budget to write a completely custom system, nor the resources to maintain it once it's up and running. - I managed to write off most of the required customisations, as they would not be mission-critical. Two of them are still required, though:   - **Import data from external systems**. Interfacing with an internal system to import products. I'd have to write an interface to import the data into the ecommerce on a regular basis. This functionality must be available on the ecommerce Admin Dashboard, as they may have to upload files manually from time to time, therefore I need to be able to plug it in the framework. I therefore need such framework to be easy to extend, as I don't want to start hacking it, or bypassing it and writing straight into the database.   - **"Publish basket" function for Sales Agents**. Agents will need a way to prepare and "publish" a shopping basket. Such "public basket" will then be picked by customers, who will get the products in their own basket. Commission will be awarded to the Agents if customer will buy **all** the products that were in the original "public" basket.  **Example**   - Agent prepares a basket with _Prod1_ , _Prod2_ and _Prod3_ (quantity 1 for all).   - Agent publishes a link to the basket.   - Customer clicks the link and sees the basket. He likes it, and "takes it" into its own basket. - Three things can happen now:   1- Customer buys the basket straight away. Agent gets the commission calculated on the basket he prepared.   2- Customer adds stuff to the basket, in addition to the original products. Agents get the commission as in case 1.   3- Customer removes one or more of the items that were in the original basket, then he may add something else. Agent does **not** get a commission. It's a fairly simple system from a logical perspective, but implementation can become difficult, depending on framework's structure and limitations. **Update 2**   I'm still looking around, and I found two more frameworks:   * CubeCart   * OXID Any opinions about them? Thanks.


Looking for PHP E-Commerce Script which allows USERS to create their own stores

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Are there ready made PHP scripts which would allow my USERS to create their own stores? I don't want an eBay clones. Just a script which is easy to configure and customize.


Webshop for digital goods with voucher / gift card system

I'm searching for a webshop which provides the following:   * The shop offers digital goods (like mp3)   * User can buy a voucher / gift card @Reseller (Or there is a code provided in the CD)   * User can enter his code @ webshop and gets the download (unregistered)   * User can enter his code @ webshop and download is added to his/her library (registered) optional: Resellers can buy codes from the Webshop I already tried prestashop as it looks quite nice. But it needs a lot of custom programming (and has a very strange voucher-system). Customer has to add the File into the basket and add the voucher at checkout. I want to skip that ;) Is there a Webshop (Or CMS + Plugin) which provides the things I need? (it could also be a CMS with a Storage/Folder Plugin (like joomla + K2) and a possibility to activate downloads via unique Codes.) Any ideas are highly appreciated :) Thanks in advance.


Color, size, stock Ecommerce CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? Is there any cms written in php have support for managing color, size & stock of item. and also if possible image of the product base on color?


Choosing an ecommerce solution to integrate into exsisting site

I have a website - a localised version of www.goapr.co.uk. It lists about 300 tangible products. I now need to integrate a shopping cart solution to the site. I would like as tight integration as possible, so here are some requirements:   * An 'add to basket' button next to each product already listed on the site.   * This will take you to a basket /checkout.   * I would like, if possible a link on all pages, a login/my account link, which changes depending if you are logged in, and also a basket link, ideally showing if you have any items in your basket. I think this requirement is the hardest to integrate into an existing site? The solution needs to have:   * User account capability - to view previous orders etc   * Sage pay payment gateway support   * UPS shipping quote support.   * Different tax options for different countries.   * The basket/checkout/user account pages need to look the same as the rest of the site (same header/footer) So I dont need a storefront, or product pages, just the basket, checkout, and account functions. I have researched about 25 solutions in the market, but not yet sure if any can fit the requirements - especially adding the basket info to the rest of the site. I am not yet sure if I want hosted on self hosted. The site is PHP/HTML/CSS based.


Shopping cart for service providers?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use? From my limited exposure, it seems to me that most shopping cart/eCommerce platforms are specifically for products-based retailers. On several occasions now, I've been asked about ecommerce solutions for service providers. That is, it's basically just a single product with payment but no shipping, and highly configurable "product". Any recommendations for a cost-efficient solution (high feature coverage) for such a web platform? Requirements:   * .NET   * No/suppressed product catalog   * A service customization selection form   * Payment (probably PayPal with accountless credit card processing)   * Guest purchases (no site account required)   * Email confirmation   * Customer service -facing control panel It's hard to search for such a product because I get "web service based ecommerce software" and so on clouding up the results.


Does Google serve different result according to responsive design?

Say a website implements responsive design in order to display a proper user interface according to the screen width of the device (smartphone, tablet, laptop...). Does Google display different search results according to the device's screen width? In other words, if a website displays a better user interface for smartphone than competition, will it rank better for queries made from smartphone?


Web.config -> Redirect old blog URL's to new pattern

I just changed my blogging software and I have now the problem that I want to redirect my old imported blog post to the new url pattern. My old pattern looks like:               www.domain.tld/blog/post/2011/03/02/my-blog-post.aspx      Now I want to redirect this url to:               www.domain.tld/blog/my-blog-post      How can I do this using the Web.config for a `HTTP 301 Moved Permanently` message? I just found solutions to redirect a single url, but not with dynamic placeholder. I need to remove the year, month and day part from the url and then cut off the file extension from the post name. I came from Blogengine.Net and switched to Funnelweb. I have shared web space on a Windows Server 2008, so I've only FTP access. Thank for any advice # Solution: Add this to the Application_BeginRequest block:               UriBuilder uri = new System.UriBuilder(Context.Request.Url);     Regex r = new Regex(@"^/blog/post/\d+/\d+/\d+/([A-Za-z0-9\-]+)");     Match m = r.Match(uri.Path);     if (m.Success)     {        String postName = m.Groups[1].ToString();        uri.Path = "blog/" + postName;        Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";        Response.AddHeader("Location", uri.ToString());        Context.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();     }      Pleas let me know if you have improvements for this.


Picking non-blocked music for a Youtube video: how do others do it?

I might have to start curating a Youtube channel for my company. As part of my job, I need to tell my editors which music tracks they can use or not to avoid being blocked by Youtube's ContentID. (we could limit ourselves to CC-licensed music, but that's... well, limiting). Now, I realize that my question is pretty similar to this one: How to find out if a soundtrack will be allowed by youtube or not? And the answer there was "you can't really know in advance", but then I see videos like the ones in GoPro's channel, which do use copyrighted music, eg.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhmzmOwkRuM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1RlihA8Xq0 And I think: surely they didn't randomly try music by different bands until they found ones that pass the filter. They (at GoPro or similar big companies) must "know" beforehand that the music they are using is allowed by the copyright holders to be used on Youtube. So my question is: how do they know it? (I realize that the answer could get into the realm of business agreements and dealmaking between say GoPro and such-and-such indie recording label, so I'd appreciate links and articles about that subject too. FWIW, I checked some of the bands used by GoPro in their videos, and _some_ of them are Youtube Content Partners, but not all of them.) **EDIT:** okay, buying licensed stock music seems to be a sensible solution... BUT, for the sake of curiosity, now I'm interested in knowing how that whole world of licensing deals with (for example) small indie bands works, because we _could_ do something like that in our market. (I realize that it will be much harder to negotiate with a big established recording label). So if anyone has information (articles, etc.) about that, I'd be grateful.


Will delay loading images hurt SEO?

Related - SEO for naming images In an effort to increase the perceived speed of a heavy homepage, I'm loading a number of the heavier images via javascript on `document.ready`. I'm using a blank gif as a placeholder `src` in my `img` tags with all of the appropriate `alt` and `title` tags. When the document is ready, then, I simply swap out the `src` for the `img` tags with the real image that I want displayed. All of the images are named SEO appropriate names and `alt` and `title` tags are filled with (non-keyword-stuffed) SEO appropriate content. Will this technique have any impact, positive or negative, on how Google perceives and scores the page?


Cookieless Fonts?

Why is it that that nobody ever mentions serving fonts over a cookieless (sub)domain? Is it because you have to white-list your primary domain with Access-Control- Allow-Origin for font files? I'm asking because I want to know if there's some reason not to do it.


302 & 503 for temporary site down page: what to use for 'retry-after'?

If I want to temporary take down a website but the timeframe could be from 1 day to 1-2 weeks, I know that a 302 redirect (to a down.html page for instance) is best in order to preserve the existing SEO value of the site. I've also read that one should return a 503 status code for these types of situations but they seems to require setting a 'retry-after' time period. What If I don't know how long it will be down for? can I leave out this part of the header http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-handle-downtime-during-site-maintenance


Best way to deliver HD video for a small userbase

I am developing a website with HD video sharing as one of its primary components. This is a bootstrapped startup and I was wondering what you would suggest for the best way to go about handling the video-related architecture/delivery. Here are the requirements: 1) HD video (comparable to www.vimeo.com HD video quality ~ 2200kbps) 2) Custom-designed flash video player 3) Video should be streamed instantly. Little to no waiting. This is one of the main selling points of the site, and the video should be immediately playable. The first (testing) stage will be quite small, with, I estimate, about 1,000 users. I've looked into Brightcove (seems a bit overkill), Zencoder, and Encoding.com for video transcoding. Are there any good CDNs that have a pay-as-you-go plan? What would you suggest for the best way to 'bootsrap' this along within the given requirements?


Can missing anchors be logged?

If I have a broken link it gets logged with a 404. If I have a link to an anchor and the anchor is missing, I don't get an entry in the log. How can I find those broken anchor links, especially if the traffic is coming from a referrer? Is there a way to configure the logging to capture this information? HTTP Server: Apache 2


Is there any reason for me not to use the "wav" format for html5 audio crossbrowser compatibility?

I'm targeting modern browsers (only those that support `<audio>`) and specifically the iPad. I've tested here and wav works on chromium, firefox 4.0 (both mac 10.6) and on the iPad. I have a couple dozen audio files so I'd like to avoid multiple versions if possible. I'll be starting and stopping the audio programmatically, no browser default controls (just buttons I attach), in case that's relevant. Someone gave me a vague warning against using .wav; to wit: > be careful with that unless you intend to have the .wav be a pcm stream So, any reason I shouldn't use wav for cross browser support and call it a day?


Upgrading Shopping Cart Software and SERPS

I operate a fairly large (45,000+ pages) ecommerce site that runs on an older ASP.NET 1.1 shopping cart that is a pain to administer and maintain but ranks really well. I'd like to upgrade to a .NET 3.5 cart (AbleCommerce) but I am really concerned about how that will effect my rankings. My main questions:   * Content will be the same, but HTML will change (much cleaner), but could this somehow affect rankings?   * URL structure will be changing from a /ProductPage.aspx&Id=1234 format to a /product-name-and-relevant-keywords.aspx format which would require many 301 redirects. How many are too many and does a 301 automatically incur a loss in rank?   * Do the potential benefits (better rankings, performance, ease of use) outweigh the potential losses (loss of rankings and/or my job)?  I'd also like to hear about any other things I should consider.


Need a service that provides "Most tweeted articles in the last 24 hours"

any recommendations for a service that would fill the following 4 requirements:   * Gather a list of the most tweeted articles   * within a 24hour time range   * for a given site domain   * Easily loaded client-site (javascript or an iframe) Mockup: ![mockup](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XJdCL.png)


Different result in Google indexed page statistics

My question is about Google indexed page statistics. I want to find out how many pages Google has indexed from my site. I use two ways:   1. type `site:mydomain.com` in Google search box.   2. View _Index Status_ link from _Google Index_ section in Google Webmaster Tools. But both give me different result. Result from the first one is 123,000 and from the second one is 40,000! Which one is correct?


How to Install OSQA Q and A application in Apache Server. I have mod_python installed but still I am not able to run OSQA. I could not find the easy instruction to install it.


How to implement a software trial request form?

On my company's website I want to have a form where a visitor can provide an email address and pass an anti-bot challenge. The server would then email a trial key to the visitor. Background: I am integrating a third-party software licensing solution into my PC software products. This enables users to use a key of the form "1234-56789-ABCDE-F0123" to activate a limited demo version of my software. Unfortunately, I could not find a licensing vendor offering a simple online service to deliver trial keys via email so I am planning to roll my own such service. When a user submits an email address it is checked against a list of stored addresses. If he has registered before, his previous key is resent. If the email address is new, a fresh trial key is sent out from a preloaded list of, say, 1000 keys. All data (contact info and keys) must be stored securely and there needs to be a basic maintenance portal allowing manipulation and of the database. Other functionality may follow (e.g. multiple demo versions, capturing more than email address from form). This is the only dynamic page on my website - everything else is pretty much static HTML. What is a good way to implement this behaviour on low cost / ubiquitous hosting (e.g. MySQL, cPanel, etc.)? What platform/language/CMS/services should I leverage? I may hire someone to write scripts, etc. but I first need direction on which platform I should look at. Many thanks.


Are there standard advertising banner sizes?

I'm designing a new site and for the first time I want to incorporate 3rd party advertising. I haven't chosen an advertising partner yet. Are there standard banner sizes I should be designing for?


Annoying IE6. Black screen with “loading” when youtube is added

I have had this problem for quite some time. It wasn't actually a big issue until lately when one of our conference site has a lot of IE6 users. The black loading screen appears right after I include a youtube clip into our site. The site is content managed with Joomla but I don't see any reason how Joomla has got any compatibility issues with youtube and IE6 ! Anyone knows how, why or has experienced this similar issue b4 ? Tried using but the youtube div wouldn't appear on firefox. Is the code right? url of website: http://schoolcontingency.com Use http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php to render IE6 images. Would love to upload the photo but I have 0 reputation :( or refer to here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5408808/annoying- ie6-black-screen-with-loading-when-youtube-is-added


Blogroll- Just for home page or is it more in it?

I am thinking to add some sister websites to my blogroll. One thing that I am unable to decide is that why do people only add the homepage to the blogroll? As all the pages of a website have their worth so why do people just focus on the home url as the most influential page? Thanks in advance.


Where to place the link to the password changing form?

Sorry for this pretty general question... but, where do you place the link for password changing in your websites?, where do you think is the best place? in the login form, in the personal data section, in the header?


Highlighting Search Results

A website I've recently worked on has a fairly extensive product search. The search returns results from the company's affiliates as well as products that the company produces and sponsors. A requirement of the search is that these "sponsored" items be highlighted, or shown in a manner that the users gets a sense of greater importance about them. Our attempted solution was to give the sponsored items a background color and the company's logo to highlight/draw attention to them. Unfortunately, after some usability testing users were prone to skipping over these items and not giving them a second glance. In fact, some users even commented that "Sponsored Products!! Those must be ads." and proceeded to skip them. What would be a good web design technique to draw attention to these products without giving them the feeling of an advertisement, or something "forced"? Does anyone have any resources/suggestions on this subject? Thanks for your help!


My title tag doesn't appear to be getting crawled by Google properly

My title is:               <title>School Management Software, College & University Management Software, Cloud ERP Software</title>      However it's showing up like this in Google: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LUIAm.jpg) Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Any insight would be really helpful.


Title in Google does not match <title> of document

One of my project's title tag doesn't appear to be getting crawled by Google properly. The title tag of the home page reads:               <title>Grande Prairie Jobs | Job Board for Grande Prairie, Alberta and Area</title>      Google, on the other hand, indexes the title as `gpjobs.ca`. ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lze8q.png) Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Any insight would be really helpful. One thing, the first of the document is `gpjobs`. Could this be causing the incorrect title? I guess I just don't understand why Google would index it with the `<h1>` rather than the `<title>`. **Edit:** To clarify for whoever marked this question as a duplicate of this one, my site actually had a landing page where Google indexed it correctly. After launching the site and submitting a sitemap, Google has indexed the title as above. What I'm trying to establish and correct, is why the site has an indexed title of the first `h1` on the page and not the `title`. I expected the `title` to be picked up.


Why isn't google updating my description of my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage I had created a website,hosted it on godaddy.com. I edited it recently .(fetched and uploaded files using FileZilla) I put a description on each page using meta tags. It has been more than 3 days since I did that. When I google for my website name , the first result that shows is my website name. But the description under it still hasn't been updated. Why not?


How can I get Google to update my sites description?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage Here is a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CXSwD.jpg) The site description shown is very old, from way back in January of this year. Yet the image shown is current. How can I ask Google to update my sites description?


Why google isn't updating my site title in search results?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage I had my domain for few days before I uploaded site to it, and it had one title, and then when I uploaded content it should get new title, but with my misunderstanding of WordPress it had blocked robots.txt and keyword with **no- index** and **no-follow**. But I removed that like 7 days ago, and I see in reports that Google bot is crawling over my site, but my site title isn't updating, it still has old domain title when site wasn't there... My robots.txt has now:               User-agent: *     Allow: /      I have clear title tag on every page. How long does it take to update? Do I need to check something else?


Breadcrumb trail resulting in duplicate URLs

In an eCommerce site, I have products that can be under more than 1 category, this causes multiple URLs for the same product. The reason being, is that if a user clicks on category A then on product A the breadcrumb trail shows a link back to category A. The only issue is, in order to ensure that the breadcrumb truly reflects the path the user has chosen I have included the category id in the link to the product, i.e:               /product?id=10&cat=5      ...and because products can have more than one category there might be:               /product?id=10&cat=6      However, the usual URL for a product would be:               /product?id=10      This obviously means I'm potentially having more than 1 URL for each product. Is there a better way to ensure the correct breadcrumb trail or is this really not that much of an issue?


Malicious & nonbeneficial IP address blocks (subnets) for AdWords blocking

I'm looking for a list or lists of address blocks / subnets of potentially malicious or unfruitful / known botnets or Google scrapers. The purpose of this is to help to eliminate bot clicks / scrapes and simply unfruitful clicks on AdWords campaigns via the "IP address exclusion" function. Where can I find lists of this nature?


Googlebot requesting invalid URL

I have a web app which emails me exceptions automatically. This morning there was an error relating to a url: /Catalog/LiveCatalog?id=ylwpfqzts id is invalid (should be a guid) and caused an error parsing. Everything was handled correctly, and an error page is returned. But what was odd is that the user-agent reported itself as Googlebot and the IP is registered to Google. The URL would never have been generated by my web app but doesn't look particularly malicious.


Which font do designers use?

Let me inform you that i am not a designer by trade and i don't have any design sense either. But by luck i have to design forms in my company. But i do not get the professional look that you see on websites. I want to know which fonts do designers use for :- 1) description 2) Title (say the Title of the blog post) Also tell me what should it's size be? Thanks in advance :)


Transferring local site to shared hosting

I'm looking to setup a simple online text processing tool similar to the Clang demo. The processing program itself is a C++ program which I can modify to provide the desired output I need. Since I use Linux+Perl daily and have used Apache in the past, I'd like to get this working locally first. My two questions are: Is it possible to do this with only Apache and Perl? I've looked into frameworks for doing this and quickly ran into The Paradox Of Choice. Will I be able to easily transfer a working local site to a shared hosting service? I want to administer as little as possible. My understanding is since this needs to run a C++ program that CGI is a requirement and thus I need to administer the httpd server. Hopefully this doesn't mean a VPS.


Redirecting a subdomain from wordpress.com to an external web address

I have a question about redirecting a subdomain of a blog hosted on `wordpress.com` to an external URL. Given the following: 1) I own a domain name `foobar.com` purchased from another registrar (not from `wordpress.com`). 2) I have purchased the custom domain option on `wordpress.com`, and have completed the configuration to make `foobar.com` resolve to `foobar.wordpress.com`. 3) I will establish an external site for a store, such as `store.yahoo.com/foobar`. 4) I want to redirect the subdomain `store.foobar.com` to `store.yahoo.com/foobar`. How do I set up the custom DNS records within `wordpress.com` to accomplish this subdomain redirection, while leaving `foobar.com` pointed to my Wordpress blog? I suspect that the CNAME directive is involved, but I cannot figure out the required syntax.


Multiple domain names with pages linking to one website

I work for a company who have been redesigning their company website. I have been asked to register loads of domain names that contain the keywords that they want to use on the original site. Each of these domain names will contain a one page website with a destription of what the company offers and a link saying something along the lines of 'click here for more infmormation' which then takes you to the main site. The idea being the main site will then be recieving a lot of inbound links and hopefully rise in the google rankings, not to mention bring in more customers who have come to the site from all the other domain names who wouldn't have normally got to the website because it wasn't ranked on the first page. Is this a good idea or will Google see this as spam and penalise the main site for having loads of links to it from one page websites hosted on the same nameserver? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark.


How can I test for a URLs existeance before redirecting to it?

I am using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect mobile users to my mobile site based on their http_user_agent. However not all pages have a mobile equivalent. Also mobile pages end in .html and "full" pages end in .shtml. Here is some pseudo code. Does the user have a certain HTTP_USER_AGENT? Is there a mobile page? If so take them there. If not, no redirection is needed. I want to do this with apache.


2 developers working on the same site, avoid overwriting each other

Recently my company took on another developer to work alongside me. We both use Coda 2 and there's times where we're both working on the same sites. It recently happened that we both wrote over each others changes. Is there a way to avoid us overwriting each others changes within Coda? Or is there more software that we would need for some kind of version control.


CSS Issue in WordPress site

I want to close the gap between the image and the excerpt text on the following page: Kindly advise how to achieve this. Thanks in advance. Sunil


crop some text from segment text

I have a div: `<div id="crop"><span> text - 123 views</span></div>` I want crop from "-" to "v" ,thanks


Is 301 redirect sufficient to solve WWW and HTTP/S duplication?

I was reading about this article - SEO preference for WWW or HTTP:// protocol redirection? Do www websites rank better than NON-www? I have same problem but I needed a help on this further. What about https:// How will this be treated? Is the redirect 301 sufficient to solve the problem? I have a SEO company that says if possible, i should not have redirect but I don't think this is visible? Does permanent redirect in any way have effect on SEO services if properly done?


Displaying thumbnails in google search results for flash games?

Some sites are somehow displaying video preview thumbnails for pages that contain flash games in google search results. For example search for:               site:www.thorgaming.com game      I see this only on small sites which makes me believe google is not very happy about it. How do they do it and is it ok with google? I assume they are submitting thumbnails through video sitemaps, but I can't find any information about using them with flash games. I also run a few such sites through rich snipped testing tool and it didn't detect any microdata tags on a page.


How can IIS 7.5 have the error pages for a site reset to the default configuration?

A mishap occurred with web.config to accommodate a subsite existing. I made use of `“<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">”`. Essentially it was a workaround put in place for nested web.config files which was causing a conflict. The result was that error pages were not being handled properly. Error 500 was being passed to the client for every type of error encountered. Removal of the offending inheritInChildApplications tag from the root web.config restored normal operations of most of the error handling, but for some reason error 503 is a correct response header, but the IIS server is performing the custom actions for error 403.4 which is a redirect to https. I'm looking to restore defaults for error pages so that the behavior once again is restored. I then can re-add customizations for the error pages.


Apache: Virtual Host and .htacess for URL Rewriting not working

I have configured a virtual host in my local machine and every thing is working fine. Now I want to use SEO friendly urls. To achieve this I have used the .htaccess file. My virtual host configuration is:               <VirtualHost *:80>              DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/ypp"         ServerName ypp.com         ServerAlias www.ypp.com         ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"         ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" combined     </VirtualHost>      and my .htaccess file has:               AllowOverride All     RewriteEngine On      RewriteBase /ypp/      RewriteRule ^/browse$ /browse.php      RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1      RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1&subcat=$2       The above .htaccess setting is not working. After that I modified my virtual host setting and it is working. The new virtual host setting is:               <VirtualHost *:80>              RewriteEngine On         RewriteRule ^/browse$ /browse.php         RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1         RewriteRule ^/browse/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1&subcat=$2         ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host2.localhost             DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/ypp"         ServerName ypp.com         ServerAlias www.ypp.com         ##ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-error.log"         ##CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.localhost-access.log" combined         <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/ypp">             AllowOverride All         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      Please let me know where I am going wrong in the .htacess file for url rewriting. I do not want to use the settings in virtual host, since for every change I have restart apache.


Do search engines index text contained in SVG elements?

Example:               <svg><text>Hello World</text></svg>?


Sortable Accordion Modified to Implement More On Click However New Levels Will Not Expand

JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/JF7PD/ I've been doing extensive work on this and I've just able almost got it fully working. The reason why I am asking for help now is that I don't have a clue why my newly added accordion(s) do not expand upon being clicked. I've got a feeling it may be due to the newly added code as I was having problems using my code in the file so instead I looked at the source and copied the accordion level to be used and all appears to look fine apart from them not expanding. Thank you for any help in advanced, Best Regards, Tim


Introduce security for web-service

This questions is with respect to including security in our architecture.Let me give a brief over-view. We have `REST` based web-service (Let's call it `A`) which is used by our `web` application and the iPhone app. `A` internally makes call to web-service `A1` and `A2`. We also have couple of web-services `B` and `C` which run along side with `A`. i.e. our web application also relies on `B`, `C`. `A`, `B`, `C` needs to know the user state so that web app works well but also can run independently in case any service is required by mobile app respectively. Currently as the application was in alpha phase, no security exists at any level. We are having a tough time introducing security now. This is what I have tried:   * Using spring-security introduced a login/logout page for `A` where the session is managed. A rest call is rejected if no session was found to exist. This works out well for web-app but doesn't go well if any other application needs to make `rest` calls to `A`.  This doesn't feel nice as having a session for a rest-ful service neither makes it completely rest based nor the conventional web app. Also the development is a pain for UI developers, as they to artificially add cookie while sending requests for development purpose. Another alternative would be: Making Rest service secured using OAuth or amazon S3 type security. But what about state-management then? Can someone share their experience on it?


Can goals in Google Analytics be backdated after the goal's URL changed?

We've redesigned our site, and the single goal URL that we used became out of date. We forgot to update it, but have done so now. We see that the goals for this month are still zero. Therefore, I assume that updating a goal URL does not backdate the goal total for hits to that URL? For example: Original goal URL: > /mysite.com/goal.html After redesign, _actual URL_ : > /mysite.com/cart/goal.html Time elapses and _actual URL_ is hit, then goal URL updated to: > /mysite.com/cart/goal.html We hoped that it would update the goal totals, as the URLs are still visible in other statistics.


Let apache run perlscripts that don't have an extension

I'd like to use perlscripts without their extension. f.e. "index" instead of "index.pl". Changing the DefaultType-directive from text/plain to application/x-perl didn't do the trick. Instead of running the script the server offered to download its source. I'm not exactly sure if changing this directive is the right approach. Telling apache to read the shebang-line when there is no extension sounds much better to me. I hope someone with more experience on this topic can help me out.


Why should I use a subdomain structure over a directory structure?

I want to do blog.mysite.com but i know it will negatively impact my PR with Google. When is it preferable to structure your site like that vs mysite.com/blog? Is it only for the benefit of PR?


What can I do about Hack Attempts

I have an ASP.net website hosted using the Ultidev Web Server Pro. Every day I get a steady stream of errors generated by my application where page requests were requested and denied. This is obviously someone/something trying to find any exploits on my website. Here is an example log:               28/08/2012 11:37:11 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpmyadmin/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:11 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:12 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:12 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/php-my-admin/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:13 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.2.3/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:13 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.2.6/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:14 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.1/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:14 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.4/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:15 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc1/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:15 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-rc2/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:15 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.5/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:16 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.5-pl1/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:16 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc1/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:17 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.6-rc2/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:18 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.6/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:18 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.7/index.php     28/08/2012 11:37:19 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/phpMyAdmin-2.5.7-pl1/index.php     28/08/2012 13:52:07 - File not Found:http://MyWebServer/admin/pma/translators.html      Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to protect myself against this?


How does facebook/google plus save posts?

On Facebook and Google Plus you can see the original post, who posted it, when and all of the comments that follow. How do they save the posts, then load that data with php? XML Files?


How to disallow robots from the first 185 pages?

I have a website that whereby the first 185 pages are sample profiles for demonstration purpose:               http://example.com/profile/1     ...     http://example.com/profile/185      I want to block these pages from Google as they are somewhat similar in content to avoid penalty for being labelled as duplicate content. Is there a better way to do it than listing them out in _robots.txt_ like so:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /profile/1     Disallow: /profile/2     Disallow: /profile/3     ...


Sitemap completeness

I have a couple of questions about sitemaps:   * Does every page need to exists in the sitemap?    * And what about (ir)relevant parameters on which the content could depend?   * What about pages which depend on coockies? (e.g. cart overview) I hope someone will see them answered! **Edit:** By (ir)relevance I mean for example `domain.com/some-product/reviews?page=x` where the content will be totally depending on the `page` parameter. While in `domain.com/some-product?affiliate_id=y` it isn't and one want probably want to tell the search engines that the page will be the same regardless the absence of `affiliate_id` or not.


Change host / keep emails

I haven't done this before so I gotta ask. I'm doing a site for a client. The current site is done in PHP, and I'll do it in ASP.NET. Now, the current hosting service does not support ASP.NET code, so I'll have to change the hosting provider, and that's fine, BUT, the client SPECIFICALLY asked that the email adresses stay the same. Is this doable and if yes, how? So only the hosting provider changes, the domain name stays the same. Tnx for your time! Andrej


Transfer Domain, Hosting, and Email from Network Solutions To Go Daddy while preserving email

My client would like to do something I would imagine is very common but a couple of days worth or Google search gives me partial answers - not the exact situation which is understandable. Here it is in a nutshell:   * Client wants to move domain registrar, hosting, and email archives FROM Network Solutions TO Go Daddy. mydomain.com as the example.    * Client's WhoIs admin contact email is johndoe@mydomain.com (so in other words, if we really moved everything I am guessing the confirmation and authorization notes would get lost along the way? If I change this to a gmail acct or 3rd party do you really have to wait 60 days to move the site?   * Is there an "order" in which to move everything? Do I download the entire site, and reupoad to a test / dev domain first, then point that towards the Network Solutions domain first, and then move the domain? Or do we do all of this at once?   * Lastly, I am not sure where MX records come in to place vs. just manually forwarding every single email out to a 3rd party email. I didn't see where Network Solutions can "export" an entire list of emails. Is this possible or do they lose all the email archives? I did as much research as I could but I'm not certain of the order in which to do this and the best practice for preserving email during a transfer. Part of this question is similar to the linked question but it is different because I am asking for the ORDER of the ENTIRE process (including domain transfer, hosting, AND email - the link is regarding email only)


After fixing problems with duplicate content, will my search engine rankings return?

**Background:** I have been making a new website design at `www.example.com/new` which has been uploaded for some time as I have been redesigning the site. This site shares most of the same content as my current site at `www.example.com`. Since I did not link to any of the pages on the new site, I thought Google would not index it, but it appears that it did. This would explain the fact that I have been experiencing a drop in SEO for my site. Now that I have realized the problem, I will be replacing all the files in the `/new` directory with the duplicate files (i.e., replacing `/new/gyms.html` with `/gyms.html`) which should eliminate the duplicate content. My question is, now that I will have fixed the problem of having duplicate content, will this SEO penalty go away? Will my rankings go back to the way they were? Will there always be some lingering effects?


Handling APACHE file caching

I have used .htaccess to cache images, css and javascript files on my server for up to a month. My problem is that some users get updates that I made recently and all works normally while some user files have not been upgraded to the latest version. For me after changing one of these files and refreshing the page causes the new changes to take effect on my computer but not for some other users. Is there a way to force updating if I made changes to any of these files? Thank you.


Country specific content vs global content

I have a global product presentation website _myproduct.com_ For certain countries I also own the country domain: _myproduct.co.uk_ , _myproduct.com.au_ , _myproduct.es_ , _myproduct.de_ , etc. The presentation website is translated in multiple languages and I set up redirects: _myproduct.es_ will redirect to _myproduct.com/es/_ , _myproduct.de_ will redirect to _myproduct.com/de/_ , etc. . The content so far is the same, just translated in different languages. The advantages are that it's easy to keep the content aligned - everything is managed from one centralized dashboard (I'm using Wordpress with qtranslate). Now I'm running into trouble as for different countries I want **localized content** - for UK I want to run different promotions and use a different reseller than for .com.au so I would like that users coming from myproduct.co.uk see something different than those coming from myproduct.com.au (and not be redirected to myproduct.com as they are right now). **How can I achieve this?**   1. I could duplicate the whole main website and modify only certain parts but then I would have a lot of duplicate content (e.g. info about how the product works) and I would have pages that are likely to change (FAQ page) that I would have to keep updated over all websites.    2. I can duplicate only partially the main website: on the localized website I would have only the pages that are different and then all other links would point to the .com site. This would solve the duplication problem but would cause confusion for the user as you would navigate from .co.uk to .com without noticing and then wonder how to get back.   3. Other, better option? **Conclusion** After reading the links recommended by the answers and this related question if decided on duplicating the TLD site on multiple country specific websites with canonical links as a matter of dealing with duplicated content. I still don't like the fact that a content update has to be propagated to multiple sites (time consuming and error prone) but I understand the SEO benefits.


Google not following "canonical" directive for a certain type of URLs

a few months ago we set up canonical URLs for many page types such as http://www.wowhead.com/item=50362/deathbringers-will. This worked very well and google picked them all up. A few days ago I implemented the same thing for blog posts but mysteriously it's not working.               <link rel="canonical" href="/blog=174055/cataclysm-beta-patch-build-13316" />      This blog post was written **after** my change but google shows `www.wowhead.com/blog=174055` as the URL; any reason why? I can't really figure it out, the content of the pages is the same, and it's not really any different than what we did with /item and that worked.


I want to run a URL shortener for my own usage, what do I need to do?

I am tired of using external URL shorteners, my favorite "tr.im" went out of business. I know there are some that will do reporting for me, but I want to run my own, so I can see the usage myself, for my own, not for public use. Are there software packages that serve this niche? I don't necessarily want to allow third parties to use it, but I would like it to integrate into other software, like some Twitter tools or WordPress, if that's a possibility rather than always having to go to the site to log in. What are my options for tools for running my own shortener? Assume I've done the easy part, buying a short domain. And any other comments or tips on what makes a good shortener are welcome, but optional.


How to link a domain to a subdomain with DNS / A record?

Ok, there are a lot of topics regarding this, but there is no detailed solution.. I bought a domain www.newsite.com but my webspace is at a different hoster and there in a subdomain (www.oldsite.com/subdomain or www.subdomain.oldsite.com) I can now change the DNS but I have to enter an IP. I have the IP of www.oldsite.com, but by doing that I just link to the root of www.oldsite.com. What I need is the IP of the subdomain, which is the same, I think. Something like [IP]/subdomain does not work, I just can enter number. So, I have to specify a IP for the subdomain, right? How do I do that?


Structured data

I used a web design software package online to build my website. My site is 'on' Google, but GWT is saying it can't detect any structured data. Where and how do I do this? I understand what it is but don't know how to go about doing it.


Share on Facebook does not show thumbnail images

I have a PHP application which has a "Share on Facebook" button that,   * On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them   * On the live server, it does NOT show the thumbnail images at all. The relevant portion of the .htaccess file is:               # Set up caching on media files for 2 days     <FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv)$">     ExpiresDefault A172800     Header append Cache-Control "public"     </FilesMatch>      I'm using the exact same set of php files and .htaccess, but the server configuration is different. What could be causing this? Note that the text appears fine. **Edit1** We are also doing some URL rewriting related to images in the .htaccess (on both servers):               ...     RewriteRule ^.*/content/image/(.*)$ content/image/$1 [L]     ...     RewriteRule ^.*/images/(.*)$ images/$1 [L]     ...      Would that be somehow making a difference? Images appear fine all throughout the site. (I posted this question earlier as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4142597/share-on-facebook-does-not-show- thumbnail-images) )


Adding a user specific website to a domain

I just got a domain (first time) and set it up with Google Apps. I was wondering if it was possible to set up personal websites for individual users on the domain using notation such as `abc@xyz.com` such that typing `abc@xyz.com` would take you to user `abc`'s personal page and `def@xyz.com` would take you to user `def`'s personal page. I'm a newbie so be gentle :-)


What are the advantages of adding a like button specifcally for your website if you already have a facebook page? What i mean is say you have a facebook page for your product, and you include a like button on your website for that facebook page. Is there much point adding a like button specifically for the website as well? The only advantage i can think of is if users like both the page and the website, it will generate an extra message in their friends news feeds, so help publicise your product a bit more. I guess another advantage might be if facebook shuts down your facebook page for whatever reason, at least you should still have the likes for the website. Anyone got any other good reasons for it?


Recommendations for Setup of Test Environment

We host several sites on a Cloud server. It constantly seems to be getting picked up by Google, but our clients need to be able to access there in progress builds to add content. This brings with it several problems because we can't assign ips to block as most clients would be on a dynamic ip. Is there any recommendations for any sort of portal system that would allow us to have quite alot of sites based off the portal domain and accessed seperately via a username and password. Even if with the one password you could still view someone elses site? Our setup is currently used for Magento / Wordpress sites and as such obviously needs to be php5.


Why does my favicon look terrible in Internet Explorer 7?

I have a 32x32 favicon (in .ico format) that shows up fine in Firefox 3.6.12 and Chrome 5.0.375.70. But in Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 it looks terrible. It also looks bad in Windows Explorer (XP). (Hmmm, I can't upload it - perhaps .ico format is blocked?) (It's not IE8 but there is no other tag)


Does Google treat AWS IP addresses as related?

We are hosting several websites on one of our servers, and wondering if because they are on the same subnet that they have been somehow penalized. We are not inter-linking between websites. However in an attempt to have everything hosted in AWS, we will have some sites that we do want to be interlinked. If the sites resided on the same subnet, this could be bad. However, with AWS, we can allocate multiple elastic IP addresses that do reside on different subnets. How does Google deal with this?


Best pay per click book advertising

I think my web site is good for advertising books. It contains programming tutorials in Turkish. However there no good ads program in Turkey and Turkish users can't buy books on amazon etc. So is there a nice book ads program that pays per click?


What to use for "localhost" that includes PHP/SQL functionality?

I really do not want to install Linux at the moment, I would have to borrow a USB key, move files, format it, flash it, format it again, move files back, give it back... What would you recommend that is lightweight, **_easily and cleanly uninstallable_** afterwards (will install Linux when I get a new DVD-ROM, which will be in ~2 weeks), that also supports PHP and SQL? To be precise, I want to install a Wordpress blog, a few plugins, etc, and develop a theme. If there is no such thing for Windows (7, x64 if that matters), let me know too, I will borrow the USB key then (even though it's a pain).


How to prevent duplicate content in Google when using state and city in friendlyurl?

I want to provide friendlyurls to my visitors on my venue site. Visitors should be able to easily type the name of a region to access the venues in that specific region. Like               www.mydomain.com/<cityname>       and               www.mydomain.com/<statename>/<cityname>      For example: www.mydomain.com/houston and www.mydomain.com/texas/houston Ofcourse this URL: www.mydomain.com/houston is showing the exact same venues as www.mydomain.com/texas/houston And Google considers this duplicate content. So now I'm thinking of creating a cannonical tag, saying this: www.mydomain.com/houston is my primary URL and point this URL www.mydomain.com/texas/houston to my primary URL. update: why would I want these 2 urlformats in the first place? Because some visitors would like to know: show me all venues in texas, while others want to see all venues in a specific city, houston in this case. By using this format, users can simply change the url to see venues in a specific area. Also, Google seems to prefer that searchwords occur in the URL and occur in the beginning of the URL, so this way I target users searching on statename AND on cityname. Is this the best practice?


How much of your content needs to be copied before you can file a DMCA complaint?

I run a blog with a number of articles, and I noticed that there are a few sites out there that have copied the articles, or parts of articles. Where they have copied an entire article, I understand that I can file a DMCA complaint and get it taken down. However, in some cases they have copied the first 1-2 paragraphs from the article, and then mentioned my site. (No link though.) I think this is still hurting my site's rankings, as when I search for a sentence contained in one of these paragraphs, it brings up the dupe website before mine! Can I still get these 1-2 paragraph copy+paste jobs taken down via DMCA complaints? Note: it's not a legit site that has quoted my article, the site in question is 90% spam & scraped content, plus 10% selling pills.


Opening forum for search engine bots and SEO

We develop and sell components for other software developers through our website. The main products are ActiveX and WinFroms.NET grid controls. Some years ago we established a forum dedicated to our products, and it resides on the same website in a subdirectory (maindomain.com/forum). We left it opened for search engine robots trying to increase the occurrence of the specific keywords we optimized our website for - and thus have a better SEO effect (examples are "activex grid", "winforms grid control"). At some point we discovered that Google Webmaster Tools suggest us to fix some problems on our website, and the most of them are forum topic pages. For instance, we have a lot of "repeated titles" errors on our forum pages because of the forum engine we use. So, the question is: should we hide our forum from search engine bots to avoid those errors (in their "eyes") and thus enhance our rank? And is it good at all to open forums like our one for indexing to have better SEO? * * * Some detailed info as an example. We use the YetAnotherForum ASP.NET forum engine. Google bot reports the "duplicate title tags" error for the following pages: /Forum/yaf_postsm567_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx /Forum/yaf_postsm567findlastpost_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx /Forum/yaf_postst244findlastpost_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx /Forum/yaf_postst244findunread_Display-Time-Difference-in-each-Group-Title-in-DataGridView.aspx


multiple IPs/webservers, single domain

Our main website is on a Windows server. We're migrating our Blogger blog to WordPress and I think I want to use a Linux-based webhost instead of our Windows server for this, just because I understand Wordpress is a pain in Windows environments. However, I want my blog permalinks to reflect that the blog is on the same domain as our main website (not a subdomain).               www.mymainsite.com/articles/article-number-one      Is this even possible if it’s on a completely different server? And if it is, are there any SEO penalties for this? Our blog is currently on a subdoman, but I'd like to move away from this.


IIS - HTTP Redirect all requests for one virtual directory to another

How do I set up an HTTP Redirect rule to redirect all requests for a virtual directory to another virtual directory, when I don't know the hostname or complete URL, and cannot use the URL Rewrite module? The following redirects should work:               http://host1/app/oldvdir -> http://host1/app/newvdir     http://host1/app/oldvdir/ -> http://host1/app/newvdir/     http://host1/app/oldvdir/login.aspx -> http://host1/app/newvdir/login.aspx     http://host2/app/oldvdir/login.aspx -> http://host2/app/newvdir/login.aspx      I would like to place the redirect rule in the app's root web.config. I have attempted the following rules, but the end result is simply that the redirected vdir gets duplicated on the end of the original vdir until reaching the max URL length, e.g., `http://host/oldvdir/login.aspx -> http://host/oldvdir/newvdir/newvdir/newvdir/...` Rules in root web.config (I also have tried all sorts of combinations of settings with and without leading and trailing slashes, etc):               <location path="oldvdir">         <system.webServer>           <httpRedirect enabled="true" exactDestination="false" httpResponseStatus="Permanent">             <add wildcard="*/oldvdir/*" destination="/newvdir/"/>           </httpRedirect>         </system.webServer>       </location>          <location path="oldvdir/">         <system.webServer>           <httpRedirect enabled="true" exactDestination="false" destination="/newvdir" httpResponseStatus="Permanent"/>         </system.webServer>       </location>


Best advertisement program from web application to display after user login, together with Google Adsense

I have developed a web application. It is a todo list manager. I am already displaying adversiment on users' accounts after they login with Google Adsense. To increase revenues I would like to display ads from another program, too. Obviously their spider will not be able to parse the content of the page before sending the ad because the area is password-protected. Are you in a similar setting? What would you suggest? Thanks,   Dan


Do I need disallow other websites directory in robots.txt?

I have a hosting which has several websites in `www` folder. I set up a WordPress website in root directory for main domain. Do I need disallow other websites directory in _robots.txt_? I think these directories are not relate to the main domain. But is this will totally disallow other website?


How to calculate unicode URLs length for SEO?

As you know, URL Length is important for SEO. There is a ambiguity in URL length calculation for Unicode URLs. How search engines view my Unicode URLs? For Example the following URLs are same, which of them are calculated by search engines?   1. `http://aroushaafzar.ir/خدمات/طراحی-وب-سایت.html` => Length: 47 characters   2. `http://aroushaafzar.ir/%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA/%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AD%DB%8C-%D9%88%D8%A8-%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA.html` => Length: 120 characters


Will we be penalized for having multiple external links to the same site?

There seem to be conflicting answers on this question. The most relevant ones seem to be at least a year or two old, so I thought it would be worth re- asking this question. My gut says it's ok, because there are plenty of sites out there that do this already. Every major retailer site usually has links to the manufacturer of whatever item they are selling. go to www.newegg.com and they have hundreds of links to the same site since they sell multiple items from the same brand. Our site allows people to list a specific genre of items for sale (not porn - i'm just keeping it generic since I'm not trying to advertise) and on each item listing page, we have a link back to their website if they want. Our SEO guy is saying this is really bad and google is going to treat us as a link farm. My gut says when we have to start limiting user useful features to our site to boost our ranking, then something is wrong. Or start jumping through hoops by trying to hide text using javascript etc Some clients are only selling 1 to a handful of items, while a couple of our bigger clients have hundreds of items listed so will have hundreds of pages that link back to their site. I should also mention, there will be a handful of pages with the bigger clients where it may appear they have duplicate pages, because they will be selling 2 or 3 of the same item, and the only difference in the content of the page might just be a stock #. The majority of the pages though will have unique content. So - will we be penalized in some way for having anywhere from a handful to a few hundred pages that all point to the same link? If we are penalized, what's the suggested way to handle this? We still want to give users the option to go to the clients site, and we would still like to give a link back to the clients site to help their own SE rankings.


How to implement Google Experiments on dynamic URL with no params?

How do I correctly implement an experiment with Google Experiments in this case? I've tried using relative paths for variations but all links are redirecting me to one of the variations of the original page (`first.html` or `first-v2.html`, `first-v3.html`). Is there a regex I should use? I have product pages in this format:               http://example.com/products/first.html     http://example.com/products/second.html     http://example.com/products/third.html      And variations are different pages for every product page like:               http://example.com/products/first-V1.html     http://example.com/products/first-V2.html          http://example.com/products/second-V1.html     http://example.com/products/second-V2.html          http://example.com/products/third-V1.html     http://example.com/products/third-V2.html      I've seen answers from Google Analytics Content Experiments: possible to setup variations for multiple pages at once? and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2664470?hl=en&ref_topic=1745208. Please don't give me links to other kind of results, I've seen all questions on Stack Overflow.


Why is there a difference between urls submitted to a sitemap and urls in the google index?

![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vZehp.png) The crawl report shows this: "HTTP (1) In Sitemaps (5) Not found (993) Restricted by robots.txt (487,544)" So the discrepancy between 50,000 and 44,592 isn't coming from that. Are there any obvious reasons?


Will JavaScript (document.write) content be indexed by search engines?

I have an external JS file embedding some content inline in a web page. Basically it just does a `document.write("my content")` via a script tag and loaded externally with the `src` attribute. Any chance for this content to be indexed? Answer seems obviously negative but I have a slight hope while crawlers have surprising abilities.


The URLs on my site changed, how can I get Google to change the URLs shown in Sitelinks?

I have created a **new** website to replace the old one. The old one had structure like this ( and its _URLs_ ):               Site name (www.site.com/index.php)     ---- Home page (www.site.com/home_page.php)     ---- Programmes (www.site.com/programmes.php)     ---- About us (www.site.com/about_us.php)      When I searched on Google for my site name it displayed the results like that. I removed the old site from the server and uploaded the new one. Now I'm using **CMS** for the new site ( _MODx_ ) so the structure is like this:               Site name (www.site.com/index.php?id=1)     ---- Home page (www.site.com/index.php?id=2)     ---- Programmes (www.site.com/index.php?id=3)     ---- About us (www.site.com/index.php?id=4)      Then when I searched Google for the site name it displayed the **last pages results**. I found that I could remove the old URLs in _webmaster tools ⇒ optimization ⇒ remove URLs_ and I removed the pages. Now when I google my site name it displays only the **index.php** ( without the sitelinks). How can I add the new Sitelinks to the Google search?


Web design portfolio

I'm pretty much a newb when it comes to freelancing, I'm looking to start a portfolio for my individual projects only I haven't done any and I'm kind of stuck on where to start. I have assisted in several CMS and forum implementations along with a few Wordpress sites, but haven't had a chance to build and launch a site entirely independently. I've found that clients on sites like elance.com and freelancer.com generally aren't interested in what you have assisted in, they want to see projects of your own. That being said, I have been trying to find people interested in a site built and launched by myself with no obligation or charge, just so I can have a few pieces for my portfolio. Any suggestions as to where to look for new projects that aren't tied to rates and previous work experience? Thanks


jwplayer: fire google adword or analytic conversion?

how would you track someone playing a flash video on your website using google adwords/analytics conversion? The purpose is to be notified when a visitor views the flash video, and when the visitor finishes viewing it.


Where can I find unfiltered search query statistics?

I would like to learn more about upcoming trends and I also need it for seo. I know Google Trends, but it displays only filtered statistics about what and how people search. Can you recommend me any alternatives? ( I know this question may not seem to fit perfectly into the pro webmasters section. But think of doing seo for adult and gaming sites. So I think it's a relevant question here. )


With www or without www? Which is better to use

I have just bought a new domain `www.reversehacking.com` .... Which is better for SEO: `http://reversehacking.com` or `http://www.reversehacking.com` I think people will make more links starting with www and will have more backlinks for the www one. Please give your suggestions and I need to launch the website as soon as possible.


What is the best practice for choosing default domain - www.example.com or example.com?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO preference for WWW or HTTP:// protocol redirection? Do www websites > rank better than NON-www? One domain would have to be redirected to another, but I have seen both cases - www.example.com being redirected to example.com and vice versa. What's the best practice and does either way have any impact on SEO?


How do file storage websites handle the uploads of large files?

Sites like Yousendit are offering payed uploads of up to 2GB. How is this done through a standard web form? or are they using something else? My thoughts were that a standard input file field couldn't handle 2GB files to save its life.


Updating Search Results for Dynamically Generated Web Pages

Having an issue with search results finding the proper site, but the wrong year. The page itself is dynamically generated based on get requests in the URL. There are three identifying properties. MemberID Year Part (1 or 2, first or second half of the year) Each part of the year, a new committee is formed. Even if a member remains from a previous committee, their ID does not necessarily remain the same in the database. Here is the issue. Let's say John Smith is the member, and has been a member for two years (4 parts). When I search John Smith, google shows results for his first year: `MemberInfo.asp?memberID=20&year=2012&part=1` However, I want that result to be the most recent year. `MemberInfo.asp?memberID=39&year=2014&part=2` The old information must still be accessible as people will need to view what issue John Smith dealt with during that particular year, so the data can't be made inaccessible. What is the best way to address this? I'm not even sure where to start. Thanks.


Why is my no-www redirect taking over 2 seconds?

My website livingalignment.com is very slow to load. The domain and hosting is all with GoDaddy. In Pingdom I found that it is redirecting from www.livingalignment.com to livingalignment.com and it takes about 2 seconds to do so, with a total load time of 10 seconds. If put in livingalignment.com then it takes about 4 seconds. What should I do to fix this?


Would using content from third-party websites while giving credit to them be considered "fair use"?

I want to create a international flight search engine website that links to multiple other flight searching websites and pulls the flight information into my site, by linking to the source website, giving full credit and showing the link and logo of the source site. Users would have to book any reservations through the external websites, so at the end the site would be driving more users to the source websites. Would this be considered 'fair use' from a legal perspective?


Google can not see my site

when I type my domain name http://www.mcqtoday.com in google it shows some other site. I have submitted the sitemap to google web master, it says 2 page is indexed, but does not show in search result. Please help me. Thanks in advance


Robots signing up on website

A couple of days ago, some robots started to sign up on the website (about 30 in a couple of days), they don't do anything on the website (as I'm guessing they don't find what they're looking for). I'd rather not have a CAPTCHA on my sign up form, is there any risk to letting those robots signing up with the website? Is there anything I can do besides a CAPTCHA (they have different IPs, passwords, emails...)?


Which method is better to add "www." before domain name

I have search through Google and found 2 methods to add `www` before domain name. First is by adding a CNAME and second is using rewrite mod in _.htaccess_ file. I just want to know which method is better to use or there is other method because I'm currently using standalone WordPress as my back end.


Looking for a step by step guide to URL re-writing with mod_rewrite and other methods

I'm looking for step by step resource about how to rewrite URLs and have a few specific questions. I've read the documentation on `mod_rewrite` in Apache, but I still find myself a little lost.   1. If I have `example.com/products.html`, can I change this to appear as `example.com/products`? For that to happen, do I make all of my links point to `/products` and then have a rewrite rule that directs `/products` to `/products.html`? Or is it the other way around?   2. Also, for PHP forms, I've noticed that I can't have a form action that points to a directory: for example, it requires `/mail/index.php` instead of just `/mail`.  Can `mod_rewrite` fix this too?


Links in my site have been hacked

In my site I prefix the images and links with the domain of the site for better SEO using the code below:               public static string GetHTTPHost()             {                 string host = "";                      if (HttpContext.Current.Request["HTTP_HOST"] != null)                     host = HttpContext.Current.Request["HTTP_HOST"];                      if (host == "site.co.uk" || host == "site.com")                 {                     return "http://www." + host;                 }                      return "http://"+ host;             }      This works great, but for some reason, lots of links have now changed to `http://www.baidu.com/...` There is no sign of this in any of the code or project, the files on the server also have a change date when i last did the publish at 11 yesterday, so all the files on there look fine. I am using ASP.net and Umbraco 4.7.2 Does anyone have any ideas? thanks


Can we use this service for WordPress theme development?

I need to know if I can use the `lorempixel.com` service for WordPress theme development for commercial use considering that this service is released under the creative commons license (CC BY-SA).


In User Agent strings, what does "AskTbTRL" denote?

Here are a bunch of examples: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/listings.asp?search=asktbtrl I would've guessed an Ask.com-related bot, but apparently not according to their FAQ.


What good Social Networking Site solutions there are?

What good and **free** Social Networking Site solutions there are? I tried many options but most of them are either too complicated, too simple, or just do not work... I tried: Dolphin, DZOIC-Handshakes, elgg, Oxwall, SocialEngine, and some plugins for wp and other CMS. I don't need much, just: groups, chats, forums, profiles, PM, photos, pages, comments, search, statistics. Most of which included in pretty much every CMS out there, but not all.. So, what good solutions there are? Also I don't mind paying some money _(I guess no more then $200)_ , but I'd prefer if it was a free open source engine. Of course it should be PHP+MySQL based.


No page views and unique visits required to get Google AdSense?

I wanted to know the average unique visits to get Google AdSense.


How to make background image black and white?

Are there any filters that would make background image black and white? I have an image set as the background image using CSS, but now I need to apply a filter so that an image is shown in black and white only. Ideally, I would also like to apply opacity to it. The effect I really trying to achieve is to have background image black/white and on hover over that span element the filter would be removed, revealing the color version. And of course it has to work in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.


Can I sell a .eu domain to a registrant outside the European Union?

I would like to sell my domain, which is a .eu domain. The Wikipedia page states that .eu domains may only be registered by residents of member states of the European Union. For that reason, I wonder if it would make sense to offer my domain for sale at websites directed at the US markets (sedo.com, ebay.com, etc), since the buyer would, at least technically speaking, not register the domain, only 'acquire' (read: buy secondhand) it.


How do I add a Facebook Subscribe button to my website?

So the Facebook Subscribe button is pretty great for those who want to maintain their social life and start building a public persona, and is a great alternative to pages for those people. But switching to this alternative loses the brilliant one-click Like button for websites. Do Facebook offer a solution which allows you to add a subscribe button for your website?


What does a decimal number mean in the Avg. position report in Google Webmaster Tools?

Do decimal numbers like 6.8 in the Avg. position report in Google Webmaster Tools mean that the URL appeared on page 6 in the 8th position? If that is true, I am surprised that a searcher would actually go that far into an organic search (e.g., a 6.7 actually got 11 clicks). What would an even number mean then (e.g., a 17 or 20)?


How to make a website from .pdf / .ai / .svg files?

I have designed an infographic for a client using Illustrator and now they asked me to make a website for them based on the infographic. I use Adobe Dreamweaver occasionally, but I'm not good with it, I might sound like a newbie but Notepad++ was usually enough for my needs, and I'm not sure how should I position all those different images and texts so they look just like the infographic. Now I am looking for an easy way to convert my PDF designs to a website, without having to learn how to position all those images and texts together.


Getting "cannot verify server identity" on iPhone and iPad for Go Daddy SSL

Whenever people navigate to a particular site of ours on an iPhone or iPad they are getting a "cannot verify server identity" message. Our certificate was issued by Go Daddy. I ran this checker as suggested in another question and everything appears OK.


International TLD's vs. duplicate content

I currently work at a pretty big website that has visitors from around the globe. My job is to help out on the SEO, and one thing we've been discussing lately is the use of international TLD's. The ones we use range between:   * (partly) translated websites like .es and .de that serve most of the content in the country's language   * non-translated (english) websites for non-english languages (due to a lack of translations) like .ro and .cz   * english websites for english speaking countries with localized TLD's (.co.nz, .co.uk) On one hand I really have the feeling this is causing a lot of duplicate content, especially for the last two categories of TLD's. On the other hand though it seems a lot like country-specific TLD's tend to score a lot better in that country's Google. Would it be advisable to keep on using these domains, or should we canonicalize them all to the .com version?


Use traffic from previous domain owner

I have a domain which previously belonged to someone hosting a forum on it. Can I use that traffic to give my domain a boost, by taking the 404 traffic and 301 redirecting it to an existing page of mine?


using J & K keys for navigation

In the recently released "Field Guide to Web Applications" (from the Google Chrome team), the authors mention the "emergent convention of the J and K keys to move forward and backward" in a web app. This is new to me. I tested it on the Field Guide web app itself, and was surprised to find that (contrary to my intuition) the J-key is _forward_ and the K-key is _back_. I suppose this comes from "K" being associated with the word BACK_ and "J" resembling the return arrow on the enter key (or a page turn indicator). But given their respective location on the keyboard, this navigational association seems backwards to me. Is this, as Google contends, an emerging trend? Have you seen other web-pages or web-apps that support this? Would you recommend it?


Blogging platform for shared hosting?

First of all, this is not for flame wars. So, please do not bash some blogging platform :P I have a shared hosting account. I want to setup a blog on it. Now, the thing is that as it is shared hosting, I do not have as much bandwidth as some expensive hosting. I have tried using Wordpress with the caching plugins configured. It still does not seem to speed it much. Also if I create a simple PHP website, the speed is fine. Can someone suggest me some lightweight platform?


What is the "client-side architecture model"?

I am reading the recently released "Field Guide to Web Applications" (from the Google Chrome team). The book encourages the use of the "client-side architecture model", but never really defines it, as far as I can tell. What's the gist of this model?


Sudden "organic" traffic growing after AdWords campaign starting

**The situation:**   My site had no organic traffic from Google. It has some referral traffic.   After I have launched adwords, my "organic" traffic increased, but not "paid" and no money has been spent in adwords. AdWords and Google Analytics accounts are connected. **The issue:**   What is the reason of sudden "organic" traffic growing? Is it due to AdWords launching? **UPDATE:**   Users visit my site by ordinary keywords and not by the site domain name. And they are all new visitiors. **UPDATE 2:**   Site URL is `www.sitefeedbacks.com`   The site is not bound to any event. Its just day-to-day basis site similar to forum. **UPDATE 3:**   I have used Adwords in the past for this site on another AdWords account. **UPDATE 4:**   I have just found an issue. It was another Google Adwords campaign on another account.   My stupid mistake. Only one question has no answer: Why did Google Analytics attribute that traffic to "organic", but not to "paid"? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nSfpz.jpg) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/S5ptk.jpg)


Putting (WordPress) tags in <footer> tag, good for SEO or not?

I am using tags for my posts on my WordPress site. The content of my post is set in `<article>` tags, which is fine and now, I want to put the author link and tags in a `<footer>` tag, but I don't know if this is good for SEO reasons. I know that Googlebots are putting less weight if they see links in a footer, but will this effect my tag pages? Is there any harm? I would love to read a good explanation on this.


Google Webmaster Tools, DNS Errors & HostPapa

I received this message from Google Webmaster Tools: > Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 2 errors while attempting to > retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS > queries for your site is 40.0%. You can see more details about these errors > in Webmaster Tools. Recommended action I've contacted HostPapa and they deny that there is any issue with the site / server. Support from them in terms of what I can do to actually resolve this issue is non-existent. The site is currently online. I don't know much about DNS, so any advice about what I can do to resolve this problem would be much appreciated. Basically, the message from Google says that it is my webhost's fault, the message from my webhost (HostPapa) is... "Just tell Google to crawl your site as there are no errors."


How to see a given hour traffic in Awstats?

I have installed and configure Awstats on my server to see its traffic. How can I see the traffic of a given hour of a given day in Awstats? I need to know who visited what pages in 23 PM of the 13/Dec .


Internal pages PR

My homepage has a PR of 5. However, 99% of my internal pages have PR of 0 for some reason. What can be the cause of it? I have a sitemap and Google Webmaster Tools shows that all my website pages are indexed. (The internal pages are built with SEO in mind, and have several sources linking to them). Thanks! Joel


Duplicate title error in Webmaster Tools

I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent Webmaster Tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization > Remove URLs" section of Webmaster Tools and still I get "Duplicate title error". I want to know is any problem in redirecting? For example, `http://www.example.com/index.php` is redirected to `http://www.example.com/index`. P.S.: I used Fiddler to check 301 redirect and think it should be okay.


Woocommerce variable subscription

I want to create a WooCommerce subscription, which is $5 /user /month. I can create a subscription for **1** user/month, but I can't work out how to let people choose **x** users/month.


Google Webmaster Tools reporting duplicate page titles despite recently adding a noindex

I have a problem with duplicate content on my blog, according to webmaster tools (GWT) I have 828 duplicate title tags and 835 duplicate meta descriptions. Looking through the duplicates I noticed most are paginated archive pages of the same tag, category, etc. (`page/2/`, `/3/`, etc..) My blog runs on WP so I installed the Yoast seo plugin and set it to noindex these archive pages. Checking the head of my archive pages they now have a meta `name="robots" content="noindex,follow". I also used the plugin to make some post titles unique (I had a few posts that had the same title) After three days, the posts that I had written unique titles for disappeared from the GWT dashboard, but the paginated archive pages are still there. GWT says "Last updated Dec 23" so Google should have crawled my page. My question is, is there a chance Google needs to do a "deep crawl?" before the paginated archive pages are unindexed? Or is it more likely I'm configuring the SEO plugin wrong?


Google Sitemap Limits?

I've read in multiple places that Google's sitemap limits sits at 50,000 URLs per sitemap - though it's my understanding that you can submit multiple sitemaps to overcome this problem. I've also found that Google follow the sitemap protocol found here. My question is - is there anywhere where Google directly comment on the specifications and limits of sitemaps they accept? All the information I've found isn't behind any Google domain.


What to do with random pages after a 301 redirect?

I did a standard 301 redirect for a domain, but the original domain has about 300 pages that have some strength. It doesn't make sense to make them all point back to the new home page because the individual pages are about some topics. Also, there aren't the same pages in the new domain, so where should the original random pages redirect to? I would like to have them rank for the same topics they used to, but without having the original domain giving them strength, they will just stop ranking and die off. What should I do? Thanks, Alex


Congifuring Red5 Server to run on localhost

I just installed the red5 rtmp server on my machine and tried to run the demo. The only thing that i see is "connecting to server" but it never gets connected. I have gone through most of the documentations available online, if anyone of you can help me to configure red5 along with the Apache and make it running, it would be great.


Is it possible to design website using tablets? And Which tablets support XAMPP?

I am trying to ditch my laptop for a tablet, and be able to practice PHP, HTML, CSS on the fly. But, I don't know which tablet to buy that can support even basic apps like Notepad++ and XAMPP.


website region lock | Localize SEO traffic

This may be a question that is completely out there but I'm about to publish a site that is very localize advertising - this can become big at some point but for right now I want to keep "out of state" traffic off it for branding and patent purposes. Is this even possible to keep traffic from inside the US entering my site? I am looking to optimize keywords but just don't need someone from Ohio if this website is only for California.