Difficult Client wants me to deliver project before payment

I am currently working on a project for a construction company. The payment due for the final milestone is coming up and completes the entire transaction. The contract states that the entire project will be delivered after payment. **Note:** The client is essentially a middle man connecting me with the construction company and signed a contract with them, as well as with me. He wants me to deliver the entire completed project to their server (which is supposed to happen after the final payment is made) and he is willing to write me a check for 50% the amount of milestone 2 (which is the final milestone) prior to the delivery to the server. He is claiming that he will pay me the rest after the construction company pays him. However, this worries me. Because Once I deliver the work for the second and final milestone, I have no control over anything, and all my work is on their server and I cannot do anything about that. I should note that after paying the 50% of the final milestone cost, about 80% of the total project cost would have been paid in full. Should I trust him and allow this? Should I refuse as this is too risky? I am kind of uneasy because my rates are extremely reasonable and way below average (below $20/hr). He owns a company, the construction company he is working is pretty big and I am just graduated college a year ago. I shouldn't be the one compromising in my opinion. However, I would like to maintain a good relationship with the client and not sure how I should proceed in this case, as this is one of my first freelance projects. He is asking me to do this for him "as a friend". I appreciate any suggestions. Many thanks in advance!


Does Google search URLs in different languages

I am building a multilingual website (from Spanish origins) however there will be English, Chinese, Spanish, and French users. We are about to buy a domain however I am confused as to what language I should go with... How does Google go about indexing these things, mainly URLs. For example if my domain is www.blanco.com would a google search of white display my www.blanco.com? I have yet to decide what the default language will be. Perhaps I need to work on deciding that first and then choose the domain accordingly. Nevertheless my question still stands. I am not sure as to which type of user we will see more of. Thanks.


Does Bing support anything like Google's First Click Free program?

Google has a program for webmasters called First Click Free. > To implement First Click Free, you need to allow all users who find a > document on your site via Google search to see the full text of that > document, even if they have not registered or subscribed to see that > content. The user's first click to your content area is free. However, once > that user clicks a link on the original page, you can require them to sign > in or register to read further. The user must be able to see the full > content of a multi-page article. You can allow this by displaying all > content on a single page to both Googlebot and users. Alternatively, you can > use cookies to make sure that a user can visit each page of a multi-page > article before being asked for registration or payment. Does Bing support anything like this?


What does Avg Position from Google Webmaster really mean

I have a website I am tracking on Google's Webmaster tools. When I look at the Search queries page it shows me a graph of Impressions and clicks per day. Underneath that there is a table showing specific results. One of the columns is Avg Position. That columns seems to include paid ads. Is that correct, does the Avg Position also include the top result ads(the ads at the top of the search results)? I am asking because the company I work for has a not so common name and whenever I Google it our site is the #1 result 100% of the time. The only thing above it is 1 paid add. When I checkout Webmaster tools I notice that searching for our name returns with us at an Avg Position of 2.0. That seems like it would be only possible if paid top result ads were included in that position. Does anyone know?


Is the integration of social media useful to "used book trading" website?

I am at the moment building up a web application made for people to buy and sell used book. The personn for which I am doing the website keeps talking to me about integrating social media features. I am myself a bit hesitant to adding such feature and I am wondering if adding any kind of integration of social media (such as Facebook) will be a something useful for the website or it will be just noise.


Posting is 'None' for some members of Google Group

For some reason the "Posting" column is set to "None" for some members of my Google Group despite having been set to "Default group policy" as with all other members. I even selected "Override - Allow posting" for these members which made absolutely no difference. Is there a way to fix this?


Parsing all the links of the internet for a backlink checker

A backlink checker service for being accurate, it should parse all the sites of the internet, which it should be some zettabytes, let alone the processing time it needs for doing all the parsing (and let alone the spider traps and all the strange things it could find during the parsing). It also puzzles me where it would find all the sites of the internet before parsing them. So, my questions are how a backlink service work? Can something like that be achievable if you are not google or they are just not super accurate? Is there any other easier workflow or is it a really difficult task and can be done only as I described above? I was thinking of zmap.io which it can at least ping all the ips in less that one hour and after that it maybe possible to get the domains, but again it really seems a really difficult problem which needs many resources. Can you think any other easier way or they just do it like above?


What is the term used to describe multiple domains pointing to the same web service?

Where the same site is available via               account761.Mainsite.com/      OR               Mycustomdomain.com/      And of course has the exact same modules and sections and pages under these "roots" Back in the day, communitystarterkit supported this scenario and had a few site hosted/running this way and now trying to do something similar with asp.net mvc3 but can't locate it as I am not sure what this "thing" is called :) UPDATE - all the content on the site is accessible via both url's and looks the same unless chosen to look different via different templates


Paypal Subscriptions - Getting users to continue to success/failure URLs

I have a private, paid-user-only service and I'm using Paypal Subscriptions as my payment gateway. It has been properly set-up (or I believe it has) with custom URLs defined for successful payments or cancellations. The success URL is what "activates" the user's account. However I find that users who make the payment don't follow thru by continuing to the successful payment URL. For users who cancel, I don't have a problem. But for those who make the payment but will not follow thru, I end up having to manually activate their accounts. What I need is Paypal to "ping" my activation / success URL when the payment is complete. I'm sure I've seen websites do this properly with Paypal. I wonder how it is done. Thanks.


Difference between ":" and "=" in HTML and CSS?

I am very new to HTML and CSS but while learning I ran into something that I was curious about. How come when you want to style or change font size etc. you use `:`. Example: `style="color: red; font-size: 50px"`. But when you want to link to let's say your stylesheet you use `=`. Example: `link type="text/css"; rel="stylesheet"; href="stylesheet.css"`. What's the difference? Because basically when you say `color: red`, your saying you want the color to `= red`, so why not just use that? This is just a curiosity thing nothing serious but your answers are appreciated.


Organizing website files

I want to start creating my website but I have a few questions.   * `http://website.com/directory/webpage` - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to achieve this?    * if I have several pages like contact.html, aboutme.html etc Should I just create separate html files, or should I do something in one main index.php file and use PHP or JavaScript to handle the content according to the URL. Which is a more appropriate workflow?


When is progressive video preferable to streaming?

Streaming only transfers the portion of the video you are about to view so there is drastically less bandwidth used, however, YouTube has opted to use progressive video instead. Why does YouTube use progressive video instead of streaming? (Obviously conserving bandwidth is not their top priority)


backup of AWS s3

We had been backing up all of our databases and image files to S3. Around 2TBs of data. But now we are migrating our hosting to amazon and I think we need another backup now, not on amazon. Is this correct? If so any recommendations? preferably an affordable, easy solution.


Website SEO should i use - or |?

I was wondering if I should use (for SEO purposes), either:               product_name - product_category | website_name      Example:               UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer | HellGates      **OR**               product_name - product_category - website_name      Example:               UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer - HellGates


My website is Google shielding, help me thankyou

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Users often say my website is infected, but can't find any evidence of > this? This is my website is google shielding。In firefox to show in the web site has the virus, but in other browsers without this kind of situation。


Yahoo search engine not able to index Ajax content?

Does Yahoo support crawlable Ajax? I'm about solution provided by Google (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling). How to make my Ajax content crawlable by Yahoo search engine?


Schema Remote Review

I have set up an aggregate review on my footer, pulling review data from eKomi.co.uk. When I pass this through the Google Structured Data tester it complains about there being an aggregate review, but no reviews. The schema includes a 'sameAs' property which is a url. Can I use this and point it to my store's eKomi page to make Google aware that this is where I am pulling my reviews from, and that this page contains all said reviews? ### [Edit] I pulling the review via `file_get_contents` then using `DOMDocument` to get the value of the review and the total number of reviewers. This information I am putting into a `span` for the aggregate review. Instead of downloading, and creating mark-up for, hundreds of individual reviews, can I use the `sameAs` property for `AggregateReview`?


Cache HTTPS + SSL

A lot of resources claim that websites with HTTPS + SSL will not be cached.   * Is this true?   * If so, why?   * If so, can this be prevented? I heard that this depends on the browser, but that the most browsers won't cache HTTPS.


Google Analytics payment gateways are tracking referrals

Google Analytics is tracking my payment gateway conversion as a referral. This is because we take the user to the payment gateway, eg PayPal, but bring them back to the site for the order confirmation page. With all the sites we work on this hasn't happened before so very confused. So we get, as conversions, ipg-online.com / referral and paypal.com / referral within our analytics. Any ideas?


Why does PHP create these log entries on every page access?

My server's error log (in cPanel) has an entry for every single time a PHP page is loaded that looks like this (where 'username' has been substituted for my actual username): `[2012-06-09 09:02:07]: info: [usr/grp]: username/username cmd: /home/username/public_html/error.php php: /usr/local/php53/bin/php` I know it's only an 'info' message but it's filling up my error log. It can't be related to the content of my PHP files because it even happens when I load a page with this as its content: `<?php phpinfo(); ?>` Any ideas on what it means or if I can get rid of it?


Google Analytics - Referring Sites by Goal, is it accurate?

**Preface:** I'm taking a look at the Google Analytics we have for our product's website and we have a bunch of goals setup for each specific type of account we have on the website. **Question:** When looking at the Traffic Sources > Referring Sites page, and then looking at it by Goals, it gives me a set of percentages for each goal by referring site. However, it seems like the only things that have conversions are our internal pages, our blog, and Google. I guess my question is: if a user shows up from another website, and then clicks around before signing up, will they be counted?


robots.txt not updated

I have updated some url's and files in robots.txt file to block url's and files from google search results but, still files displaying in search results. As per a suggestion from a site I tried to update the robots.txt by below steps.   1. In Google Webmaster tools, Health -> Fetch as Google -> type the url and click the fetch button.  but, still files displaying in search results. Note: in Google Webmaster tools, Health -> Blocked URL's -> robots.txt file - downloaded date looks two dates back.


Domain, SSL Certificate and Webhost in from different providing companies

I am planning to migrate from godaddy to another webhosting company but not including my domain registrations. I have two domain names and I am planning to get one free domain name from the webhosting company that I will be relocated. **My Questions** 1) if the domain registration and the webhost is in a different hosting company how thus it affects the speed of my site, how long my domains will be resolved so that my customers will reach my web host? 2) I am planning to get a multi domain SSL certificate for my two domains, how will the two different providers will affect my ssl certificate installation?. Note: I will have a dedicated Ip to my new webhost


How to use IP address in the search content source?

I have configured the alternate access for my Sharepoint site using the server IP address. I need to use the server path as IP address in the search content source (`http://10.104.55.333:100`) instead (`http://server:100`). What configuration changes do I need to do? I tried to use the IP address in the content source but it gives the error.


How to set up a Goal Funnel with new Google Analytics. i.e. Universal Analytics?

I just signed up for Google Analytics after watching some YouTube videos but the Google Analytics site looks totally different. Nonetheless, I was able to set up Goals but how do you set up Funnels for them? That option just isn't there anymore....


duplicated text on site and seo

I have on my website hundreds of pages with a help text in it. This text is the same for all the pages and is long compared to the rest of the texts on the page. Because i want better user experience, i prefer to keep the text in the page and not in another where i could link to. I fear that SEs might consider my site too spammy because of that. What would you do in that situation ?


What are the most popular web statistic scripts?

What are the **popular** web statistic scripts/web log analyzers? I'm searching for popular web statistic scripts like wusage, WebStat or WebAlizer.


client website compromised, found a strange .php file. any ideas?

I do support work for a web development company and I found a suspicious file today on the website of one of our clients called "hope.php" which contained several eval(gzuncompress(base64_decode('....'))) commands (which on a site like this, usually indicates that they've been hacked). Searching for the compromised site on google, we got a bunch of results which link to hope.php with various query strings that seem to generate different groups of seo terms like so: ![search results](http://i.stack.imgur.com/trGrY.png) (the second result from the top is legitimate, all the rest are not) Here is the source of "hope.php": http://pastebin.com/7Ss4NjfA And here is the decoded version I got by replacing the eval()s with echo(): http://pastebin.com/m31Ys7q5 Any ideas where this came from or what it is doing? I've of course already removed the file from the server, but I've never seen code like this so I'm rather curious as to its origin. Where could I go to find more info about something like this?


Why does Bing not show my adcenter ads though there is enough space

I created several campaigns using the MS adcenter. I'm targeting the whole world at any time with 2-3 placement texts per keyword group. The bids I placed are sometimes quite high, so they should get displayed. When I try to search for my keywords in Bing nothing gets displayed, though there is plenty of space for it. Bing mostly displays 2-3 ads, but the ones at the right side rather seldom. I'd like to know, how I can improve the fact that my ads are not being displayed - without increasing the bids any further.


Weird entry for robots.txt on a Naked Domain in Google Webmaster Tools

We own a _.co.uk_ address and use an Internet hosting company that has made mistakes around _DNS_ in the past. Our main site is hosted on _www._ and their reluctance to allow editing of _AAAA_ records on-line means our naked domain does not resolve. Currently when we attempt to reach the naked version there is no entry for the browser to go to and it displays an unreachable page ( _nslookup_ just says Name: _name of domain_ with no further entries such as an _IP_ or _Canonical Name_ ). We recently added the relevant _TXT_ records to verify us to view both the _www._ version and the naked version of the domain in _Google Webmaster Tools_ (in anticipation of the requests to our Internet host coming to fruition). Imagine our shock when double checking the _Site configuration > Crawler access_ and finding a (admittedly failing) _robots.txt_ with a dynamically generated _HTML_ page (full of crude pop-up _JavaScript_ ) with references to 3 of our most prominent competitors. **What could cause this to happen?** As we are in the UK I am assuming some _DNS_ server is serving Google bad information. We are going to contact the Internet hosting company to fix our _A_ and _AAAA_ records once and for all, then check that they work in the _US_ (using something like _OpenDNS_ ). Should we be doing more though, for instance informing _Google_ (through _Webmaster Tools_ ) that we are now aware there is something currently wrong with our naked domain? **UPDATE:** We have fixed our _A_ records (not _AAAA_ ) and that has resolved the issue. But if there are further actions we should take for effectively having a parking page hosted on our active visitor-heavy, SEO-rich domain that advertised our competitors to US visitors, what would they be?


.htaccess URL rewrite

I used to have a rewrite rule to               RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.htm$ index.php?c=$1 [NC]     RewriteRule ^([^/]+)\.htm/([0-9.]+)$ index.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC]      Now, I have to change to               RewriteRule ^1/([^/]+)\.htm$ index.php?c=$1 [NC]     RewriteRule ^1/([^/]+)\.htm/([0-9.]+)$ index.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC]     RewriteRule ^2/([^/]+)\.htm$ index2.php?c=$1 [NC]     RewriteRule ^2/([^/]+)\.htm/([0-9.]+)$ index2.php?c=$1&amt=$2 [NC]      The difference is adding a sub-directory. My question is, how can I redirect my old links to the new `1/` sub-directory?


Should I map third party blog as a subdomain?

I am wondering if I should map my blog to my domain as a subdomain or just leave it completely separate on the third party site? I am primarily concerned with SEO and the ease of transitioning between content on my domain and on my blog. I know there will be a slight disconnect between my domain and a potential mapped subdomain but if it benefits my domain it shouldn't be an issue. Also do backlinks get credited to my domain or subdomain or are they considered one and the same once they are mapped together? And can I create backlinks from the third party site even though it is mapped as a subdomain on my cash for gold domain?


Multiple site pages not accesible via main site nav- SEO implications?

I run a site that has some of the site pages accessible through the site's main navigation. Then, there are 50+ "state" pages that are accessible to a user if they click on a specific state on a flash map on our home page. What are the SEO implications of having the site set up so that a significant portion of the pages are not accessible via the main navigation of the site? I know that Google has indexed these "state" pages previously, as they will pull up in organic rankings occasionally. But, would they rank significantly better if we organized the site differently?


Is ICANN planning any changes to domain registration soon?

The BBC is reporting that domain registration will be changing next year. > The .co landgrab could be one of the last before ICANN overhauls the way net > addresses are assigned. > > Next year the body is due to open up the system so that companies and > individuals can register any name they want. I haven't heard anything about a change—is the BBC correct, and if so, what are the details?


Question about setting up Google Analytics with Google Apps Marketplace

At the bottom of vendor profile, there is an text box for you to insert your GA code. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hIVHw.png) Question: what does this do? What kind of stats am I expected to see in Google Analytics? I don't have the luxury of trial and error at the moment.


Directory access control with Apache: do I need to use a specific .htaccess?

I have an Apache webserver, and in the Apache configuration, I have               Alias /backups "/backups"     <Directory "/backups">         AllowOverride None         Options Indexes         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>      I can access files via `http://127.0.0.1/backups`. The problem is everyone can access that. I have a web interface, e.g. `http://localhost/admin`m that is protected with htaccess and password. Now I don't want separate `.htaccess` and `.htpasswd` for `/backups`, and I don't want a second password prompt when a user clicks on `/backups` in the web interface. Is there any way to use same `.htaccess` and `.htpasswd` for the backups directory?


Facebook Registration Plugin and Name Field

I am trying to use FaceBook Registration Plugin (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/). It already has name field which I dont want to use instead i want to use my own First Name and Last Name fields Is there a way to do so ?


Mac font on website on PC

I like how fonts look on a Mac. Is it possible to render something similar in a website and have it work on all operating systems and browsers? I'm aware of font-face but I can't seem to find a clean font. Ideally I want Arial but more smooth.


Simultaneously host website on multiple platforms?

Is it possible to host my site `www.example.com` that sells T-Shirts on multiple services simultaneously e.g. AWS EC2 (or Heroku) & my personal box (let's call it MyBox)?   I would typically serve the user from my MyBox but if it goes down or it's overloaded, the additional traffic would be routed to AWS. How will the databases stay coherent in this case?


Naked domain to "www" redirect in Windows Server 2008

I have a Windows server. I have several websites hosted on my server. Currently, I can only visit these websites if I include "www" (e.g., `www.techtint.com`). I want the naked form of the URL to redirect to the `www` URL. I don't want a duplicate version of the website, but just want to permanently re-direct all the traffic to the naked URL to `www.mysite.com`. I know it has something to do with `A` records and `CNAME` record, but it is all very confusing. Can someone explain to me in details on how I can accomplish this?


Strange robots.txt - how and why did it get there?

I recently created a very simple, pure HTML website which I have hosted with "hostmonster". Hostmonster had very good reviews on some comparison website and in general so far they appear to be perfectly good in every way... At least I thought so until just now... I have been making lots of edits to my site on an almost daily basis. My site now appears on the first page (7th on the list) for my most important keyphrase when doing a google search. But I did notice some problem with the snippet chosen by google. I asked a question on this site about snippets and got some great answers. I then made some modifications to my meta data and within 48hrs the google snippet for my search was perfect. The odd thing though was that looking at the "cached" version google had, it appeared that the cache was still very old- like three weeks previous. This seemed very odd - how could it be that the google robots had read my new metadata without updating the cache? This puzzled me greatly. Just now it occurred to me that maybe I had some goofey setting in my robots.txt file. I didn't actually remember even making one - but I thought I'd have a look just in case. Much to my horror, I saw that there was a robots.txt and it contained the disturbing text below:               sitemap: http://cdn.attracta.com/sitemap/728687.xml.gz      Intuitively this looks like some kind of junk, spam trick, and I had indeed been getting some spam from "attracta". So my questions are: 1. Should I simply delete this robots.txt? 2. Was the file there all along - placed there because of some commercial tie-in between attracta and hostmonster. 3. Does the attracta robots file explain the lack of re-caching?


Google: What does a return to PR 'Unranked' mean?

One of my sites is very new (about 3 months). When first launched its pages had (unsurprisingly) a Google PR of 'Unranked' [From Google toolbar stats, via the firefox SearchStatus plugin]. After a few weeks these changed to PR0. Just recently I noticed that they are showing PR 'Unranked' once more in Google Toolbar. As far as I know I'm following the Google guidelines. Results for the site still seem to be showing for its keywords. **What could this mean?**


SEOs: mobile version using AJAX: how to be properly read by crawlers?

Before anything else, I'd like to emphasize that I've already read this and this. Here's what I can do: First choice:   * create classical web version with all products in that page - `http://www.myweb.com`.   * create mobile web version with all products in the page and use jQuery Mobile to format all nicely but this may be long to (load + format), and may provide bad user experience - `http://m.myweb.com`. Second choice:   * create classical web version with all products in that page   * create mobile web version with almost nothing but a Web page showing _wait_ , then download all products in the page using AJAX and use jQuery Mobile to format all nicely. Showing a _wait, loading_ message gives far more time to do whatever I want and may provide _better_ user experience - `http://m.myweb.com`. Question: if I choose the second solution, Google won't read anything on the mobile version (because all products will be downloaded in the page using AJAX), so it wont be properly read by crawlers. What / how shall I do?


Is there a way to return a response every x seconds or so to a single http request?

I'm wondering if it's possible to send a response every second or so to a single http request. Like for example the client makes an http request, then the server sends a space character every second. This could be never ending or with a limit, for example a minute. I think the word 'response' is misleading in this context, since I don't necessarily mean an http response. The whole http response could be composed of the space characters, which would mean a single http response to a single http request, except that it is a minute long. I tried chunked encoding but I don't think it works, or at least my implementation's wrong.


Pointing domain to VPS webserver

I am hosting a webserver using IIS on my VPS and I have a domain through godaddy, how would I go about forward my domain to the webserver without mirroring the site using A records.


What is a deploy script?

Conversation: > Me: How do we do the swap over though? Won't there be downtime no matter how > we do it? > > X: Well, we will need to do a complete **deploy script** of all the steps > that must be completed. then we can see where the downtime might happen Is it simply a complete test/dummy deployment or is it some form of planning/testing analysis? _Feel free to migrate this to a more appropriate SE site if there is one._


My old webhost has gone out of business. How can I recover the text of my website?

I found my website in the Wayback Machine a few months ago. My old webhost stopped paying for their servers back in August without any notice. I was going to do a backup the day it happened. **Is there a way just to find the text of my website?** I have the old IP, images, but nothing else. None of the big search engines have caches anymore, and I already looked in the cache of three of my Macs with nothing to be found. I tried looking for my website in the Wayback Machine again today, but I got a strange error: it tells me it can't find robots.txt.


Port forward based on external IP (for VPS hosting)

What I want to do is to host a VPS. First, I'd like to set up a static IP address that forwards to my home IP address (so I can have more than one IP coming into my house).   1. How can I do this without contacting my ISP (and is it even possible?; I don't care about paying for something that does this).   2. Once I have the extra external IP address, how can I forward it to my VPS? How is my router supposed to differentiate between two separate external IP addresses?


Moving a WordPress installation from a subdomain to its own domain without losing PageRank

I'd like to move a WP installation from a subdomain to its own without losing the PageRank achieved by that subdomain. What are the best steps in order to do this properly? Especially how do I set the redirects properly?


RewriteRule was matching before migration, but now browser gets a 404 error

I have this URL rewrite rule in my .htaccess               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^home$ home.php      but when I try to reach awatag.com/home I get a 404 error. This rule worked perfectly before moving the domain to GoDaddy.


Google Analytics: Track user usage and flow

Can someone help to query `Google analytics` to track a specific user behavior and usage pattern? Currently I pass user id’s to GA as               _setCustomVar(2, 'id', id, 1);      This is session based. But I am yet to master how I can utilize this to view usage pattern & behavior for the passed id. Say, I need to understand the visualization flow for one id or the page view count for that id etc Rephrasing, **can I filter all existing reports for a specific id that I can select**?


(Joomla 1.6) Template position descriptions don't refresh

I want to change a description of a template position, so when I go to Admin->Extensions->Module Manager I see a different description of a module position in the position list when I edit a module. However, when I change (for instance) the template 'beez_20' and want to rename the name of the position 'debug', I change the description (TPL_BEEZ_20_POSITION_DEBUG) in the language file 'languages\en-GB\en- GB.tpl_beez_20.sys.ini' to something different, say 'Abracadabra'. However, the changes don't appear in the position list and I can find no reference whatsoever of how or when the ini files are read or maybe cached. Does anyone has a clue?


mod_rewrite change . to -

I'm moving my site and the URL structure has changed because of the new CMS. The urls would be similar to `/my.products.htm` on the new site we are changing the URLs to this `/my-products` is their a way to redirect all of the products to this new URL scheme using Mod_rewrite 301 redirect? Or is their another method I could use? The old site ran PHP the new one runs on Netsuite if that helps.


A mechanism to include site title in every page, but not in <title> element

Each site can have a name. For example, site x. Each page also can have a name (or a title) that should appear in `<title>` tag in the header. However, many websites out there use the combination `site name - page name` to provide the value for `<title>` tag. I find it a little far from being **semantic**. On the other hand, if you only include page title in `<title>` tag, search engines won't find your site by its name. For example, if your site's name is **Example Site** and you don't include it in page titles, then if you search for **Example Site** , you won't find your site in SERPs. Thus I'm searching for a mechanism to both include **site title** (not page title) in every page, and also only include **page title** in `<title>` tag to get more semantic results. Is there any way to achieve this?


How to use apache mod-rewrite to remove trailing semi-colon on cookie?

We have the following cookie set by a product:               Set-Cookie: SSOCookie=T7ngsCmzC2FEq5p2a7o%3D; path=/; domain=.demo.com;      We would like to use Apache to remove the trailing `;` which doesn't match the Cookie specification. Can we use mod_rewrite? How? We are using Apache/2.0.47.


Is there a way I can test which one of my VPS's is better?

Is there any profile tool to tell which VPS I own is better? I have a VPS from rubyringtech & a VPS from burstNET. Both are CentOS 5.6 one is a intel i7 2600 & the other is a Xeon. Is there any unix software I can use to test to see which one performs better?


Mentioning celebrities as customers

My client owns a dry cleaning business. He serves people who stay at certain hotels in NYC. Some celebrities have been his customers while staying at those hotels. He would pick up and deliver their clothes for dry cleaning, sometimes hand-to-hand. Can he mention that fact and their names on his business website to advertise his services?


Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w/o the anchor?

Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor, e.g. /mypage.html#section1 Does Google give this link equal weight as a link to /mypage.html?


state of art paradigm? 1 website for browser and mobile or 2 different websites

I would like to know what the standard aproach for mediumsized websites is, if you want to have users with browser and mobile. Make 1 Website with a lot of if-else because of browser/mobile or make 2 seperated websites? When do u make 1 website for browser/mobile and when do u make 2 different websites?


Making profit from a social network

This follows similar questions but I'd like to see if anything particular comes out of it due to the nature of site. In short, I've taken up the role of webmaster for a small social network site and wish to make it profitable to at least cover the running costs. The site is linked to a commerce and presents are offered to members according to the number of points they've accumulated through various actions. The site is running on shared hosting so it's probably dirt cheap but the presents can be expensive as a whole and some money has already been invested into the project. One idea I have is to seek some sponsors that would be willing to offer presents or special offers in return for publicity. I don't know if this will be easy or not. I'm also looking into adapting hosting to perhaps move static files to a cheaper online storage medium (see Ideas for reducing storage needs and/or costs (lots of images)). Other suggestions are welcome.


Does the <h1> tag get more SEO value if there is no usable keyword in the URL?

I'm looking at a site for which the domain name and URL do not impart any meaningful data to a search engine. It does have:   * `<h1>` (eBook name)   * `<h2>` (author - cannot be changed)    * `<p>` (description) Do the `<h1>` and `<p>` elements provide SEO value? Those are the only elements in that page that really provide any relevant information to search engines. I see other sites that use keywords in their URL. In theory, can the `<h1>` element be compared to a domain name in terms of SEO value?


How to use Google Web Fonts "text" parameter on Blogger?

Google introduced the new parameter "text" to the Google Web Fonts API, where you can choose which letters will come from your request (for when you only need few letters for the logo) The introdution of the new parameter is explained here But if I insert this Blogger Template:               <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Over+the+Rainbow:regular&text=PulaAe' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>      I get this error:               The reference to entity "text" must end with the ';' delimiter.      Someone knows how is the right way to use this new parameter within Blogger?


Would phpBB break if I move it from one folder to another? Can I use mod_rewrite to redirect requests for that forum from old folder to new one?

Please note that I have installed dynamic web pages (PHP) in the directory *public_html/old/* in order to create the web site _www.example.com_. Actually I have created a PHPBB forum and thus the URL of a topic is: `http:// www.example.com/old/viewtopic.php` or the URL of the index file is: `http:// www.example.com/old/index.php` What I would like to do is to change the name of directory “old” to “new”. I have been consulted that it can be done by editing the file _.htaccess_ that exists in the directory *public_html* and write inside:               Redirect permanent /old http://example.com/new      Could you please let me know if is this correct or should I write www.example.com instead of example.com. Moreover could you please let me know whether this effects any aspect of my web site? In addition I have been informed that if I change the name of the directory then it may break my web site (since I will have changed the path or location of the script) unless I configure it to work correctly. Could you please let me know what should the configurations be?


How to debug this site in IE9?

Just finished this site: http://brodr-haukaas.no And to my horror it doesn't work properly in IE. Something is breaking my slider script, and I don't have much experience in debugging JS code using any of the browser debuggers. I need to use the IE9 debugging tool, but how would I do the break points? Where should I start? It would be great if someone could point me to some good resources with examples to go from. _Not sure if this belongs under Wordpress, programming or here. But I feel it's a fairly general web debug question._


Uses of LINK tag

The `<link>` tag appears to have many uses aside from stylesheets. For example the W3 suggest using it for previous/next/index pages. I know that Opera also has a Navigation toolbar that will show links when present, including Home, Index, Contents, Previous, Next, Copyright, Author and more. (I doubt it is actually used by more than a handful of people.) Are there any other attributes that are useful, or other uses for the ones above? What about SEO benefit?


Make browsers not to make HTTP requests for cached items

I know that http caching and sending 304 response is to save some bandwidth and of course some load time. However in my web site there are about 40 css stylesheet files and 20 javascript files (don't ask me why) I know that would be a great idea to combine most of them into one and reduce HTTP requests. However my question is. Is there actually a way of caching when browser wouldn't even make requests for certain resources for some time? Because making requests and even getting 304 response is still some work.


I developed a website on my pc using visual studio 2005 and sql server 2005. Now I want to make my website live on the internet. How to publish a website built using ASP.NET?


What file size should a flash banner be?

Obviously the smaller the file size the better but is there a maximum file size for flash banners? What are the most effective ways in which to reduce flash file sizes?


How to reuse font families in CSS for quicker CSS loading

Let's say I use different fonts on my page, let's say I use 3 different fonts in 10-20 different CSS rules and in each of them I must use the following and similar:               font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;      There must be some shortcut way to have these font families listed in CSS once and CSS rules could only have some way to "point" to which font family to use without the need of writing such long lines every time. How can this be done?


How to use Node.Js in place of MySQL

I want to know if it's possible to use Node.js in place of MySQL.


301 redirects in main navigation menu of WordPress website - is this okay for SEO?

I want to allow a client to have a flexible way to configure the navigation menu for his WordPress website. To that end, I have created a parent page called "Navigation", which has child pages for each page to be displayed in the navigation menu. Those pages then get 301 redirected to the actual page that should be served. This means the client can create pages freely, and then set up redirects for them as and when needed. This is a really easy way for him to manage his main menu and it works well. From an SEO point of view, is this okay? Will the pages be indexed fine?


Domain name expired and sold to New Venture Services

My domain name expired and although I was working with my Network Solutions to update my information somehow they let my name go and it was picked up by NVS Corp. At this point I can not get any information from anyone as to how I can purchase it back. My question is I spent thousands of dollars on the actual web site...so where is the web site now?


Can too many 301 redirects cause a DNS error?

For a site http://imageocd.com that I just set up I initially spelled the category "automobiles" as "autimobiles"... I know it's rediculous. I then set up over 10,000 pages behind that category e.g. http://imageocd.com/automobiles/hillman-minx-cabrio-pictures-and-wallpapers. So, I set up over 10,000 301 url redirects to change the spelling on automobiles. I just checked my Google Webmasters report and got an error saying:               http://www.imageocd.com/: Googlebot can't access your siteSep 7, 2012     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 66.7%.      Could the overabundance of 301 redirects be causing this? I host 13 sites on this dedicated server and all sites are running fine. I also contacted GoDaddy and they said the server is running fine. Any ideas on what might be going on? Also, I have "canonical" set up for every URL. Could this be part of the error? Thanks.


Protecting design ideas from being copied by other websites?

I'm planning a project at the moment, while building a completely different project at the same time. Both of these projects are quite innovative in the way they either work or the way they are presented. One of the projects hasn't been done before, and the other is being made has competition, but I feel the competitions websites are light years behind what I'm doing. Is there a way for me to prevent the way my sites work or presented from being stolen? I've thought of patenting parts of them, but it requires £10,000 and I don't have that amount of money. Also, would me putting a Copyright notice on the site or an All Rights Reserved tag give me any muscle when going to websites that I feel have stolen my ideas (if they have)? Cheers!


Appropriate response when client empowered with CMS destroys content to his own will

So, I just recently closed a website project that pretty much was The Oatmeals' Design Hell, but with content. The client loved the site at the beginning but started getting other people involved and mercilessly bombarding us with their opinions. We served a carefully thought content strategy (which the client approved) and extremely curated copywriting that took us four months after at least 5 requirement changes (new content, new objectives for the business, changed offerings, new mindfaps, etc.) that required us to rewrite the content about 3 times. The client never gave timely feedback even though we kept the process open for him and his people to see (content being developed transparently in Google Docs). Near the end of the project he still wanted to make changes but wanted us to finish already (there are not enough words in the world to even try to make sense of this). So I explained to him the obvious implications of the never-ending requirement changes and advised him to take the time to gather his thoughts with his own team and see the new content introduced as a new content maintenance project. He happily accepted, but on the day of training/delivery things went very wrong and we have no idea why. The client didn't even allow the site to be out for a week with the content we developed for him and quickly replaced us with a Joomla savvy intern so that he completely destroy the content with shallow, unstructured, tasteless and plain wordsmithing (and I'm not even being visceral). Worst insult of all, he revoked our access from his server and the deployed CMS not even having passed 10 minutes of being given his administrator account (we realized the day after that he did it in our own office, the nerve!). Everybody involved in the team is enraged and insulted. I never want to see this happen again. So, to try to make sense of this situation and avoid it in the future with new clients I have two concrete questions:   * Is there even an appropriate course of action with a client like this?, or is he just not worth the trouble of analyzing (blindly hoping this never repeats again).   * In the exercise to try and blame ourselves instead of the client and take this as a lesson of... something, how should we set expectations for new clients about the working terms, process and final product so that they are discouraged from mauling the content to their own contempt once they get the codes to the nukes (access to the CMS)?


urlrewrite and search engines

I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like               mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle       into               ...page/mytitle/123/      I'm trying to understand what are the pros / cons if any of having it like               ...page/mytitle/123/       instead of               ...page/123/mytitle/      Does it make any difference for search engines and is there anything i'm doing wrong with this?


Changing my domain name - need a checklist

I have a web site currently with say 'a.com', with a quite good Google rankings and a hit rate. Now due to some change in business needs I need to change my domain name to 'b.com'.   1. Can you provide me with a check list of all points I need to consider before going up with new name.   2. How can I minimize the effect on my SEO rankings? Can I carry forward existing rank to new domain.


Access site not working for the owner

I made a website, and it works for everyone except for the site owner, who cannot access the site. He gets a "server could not be found" error. I went to his house and the issue occurs for all of his devices (PC, laptop, iPhone using WiFi) when I turn WiFi off on the iPhone it works. So I thought it was a problem on his router, so I reset his router to default factory settings but it still does not work. I have flushed his DNS cache and his browser cache, but nothing seems to help. He cannot even PING the server using the domain name. However, when he uses the IP address, he can see the site fine. I looked in cPanel for an blocked IP addresses but cannot see anything. What could be stopping just him from accessing the site via domain name and not the IP address? Site details are: PHP, osCommerce, and it is hosted by site5 on my reseller account.


Why some AdChoices ads are showing AdRoll instead of Adsense

I know what AdRoll is, but I have visited one of the my favorite blog and click on the AdChoice overlay and it is showing AdRoll.   1. Is AdRoll operating a ads network? (I think it is no)   2. Is AdRoll buy the Adsense inventory on behalf of the user? Can they allowed to modify the AdChoice overlay?


Small client to launch product line with Walmart. What potential issues should I prepare for with the website?

I didn't know which of the SE sites was best for this question. It is not a code question, but more of a "tell me your experiences and give me advice" question. I recently landed a client who already has a website, an old static HTML site. The client is somewhat small, and work on the project has not begun. The contract is for a complete redesign using Wordpress as the platform. Today, the client emailed me with their "good news". They have landed a deal with Walmart for a few of their products. They have not yet revealed which products. What should I expect and prepare for, should the site begin getting a large volume of traffic all of the sudden.


Is it possible to code in such a way that Dreamweaver will display it same as the browser?

Some background: I work in an internet marketing firm. My manager and I were just talking, and he brought up that some of our clients have complained that my web pages don't display "correctly" in Dreamweaver when they go to edit them after we've delivered (adding SEO tags and such, I imagine). Apparently, this is a serious concern of theirs. He, also, wants me to code in a way that will display in Dreamweaver just as it will display in the browser, as on the rare occasion that I'm not here, he wants to be able to make changes as needed. (He can't code HTML or even read it well) Now, I put on my serious face really quickly because there have been times in the past when I thought he and I were on the same page with stuff like this, and I'd laugh at the joke, and he'd get mad because - ba dum dum tssh - it hadn't been a joke. So now he's seriously asking me to not only code in Dreamweaver, but to find a way to code in Dreamweaver where what you see in display view will be identical to what the browser shows. Here's my question: Am I just being a text editor snob about this? I haven't used DW in a long time - sure I cracked it open just now to look at my code in it; found all the things I hated about it five years ago to still be there: slow response times, unpredictable display behavior, a UI based on a visual metaphor that is just awkward to work with, lackluster text editor, etc etc - but I could just be suffering from some sort of pernicious bias. I'm open to that possibility. Just like I'm open to the possibility that my clients and manager are out of their minds. I just need an outside opinion so I can choose the best (in an objective sense) way to handle the situation. Personally, I was under the impression that Dreamweaver's design view was never meant to be an accurate display of content, just a kind of "just good enough" halfway point to enable non-coders to drag and drop instead of writing code. I should probably add that I don't design the web pages, the designers do, and the designers know less HTML than my manager does, so they will often obliviously put me in a position where I've got to pull off some fairly acrobatic coding to make their designs work, making it even LESS likely that I will be able to deliver pages that are simultaneously true to design, browser, AND Dreamweaver's ham-fisted rendering. Opinions? Am I being unreasonable here? Or am I correct in thinking that this is either not possible, not feasible, or simply a completely unnecessary condition that will in the end add very little value in return for the extra time, heartbreak, and head-to-desk injuries I will incur?


how does private sales ecommerce site work on their SEO?

In a private sales ecommerce site, users need to sign up/in before they can access the pages of website. So, even if a user tries to directly navigate to a product page, he is redirected to sign in. I am wondering then how does these sites manage their SEO, as it would imply google too can't crawl these pages, or do they completely ignore the SEO benefit of allowing google to crawl the product and catalogue pages?


How can I create (or do I even need to create) an alias of a DNS MX record?

I am in the process of moving my DNS records from Network Solutions to the Amazon Route 53 service. While I know and understand a little about the basic kinds of records, I am stumped on how to create the record that will point to the MX record on Network Solutions (if I'm even saying that right). On Network Solutions I have this:               Mail Servers (MX Records)            Note: Mail Servers are listed in rank order          myapp.net      Add Sub-Domain     MXMailServer(Preference)    TTL       inbound.myapp.net.netsolmail.net.(10)   7200    Network Solutions E-mail      I have read that the payload for an MX record state that it must point to an existing A record in the DNS. Yet in the example above, that `inbound.myapp...` record only has the words "Network Solutions E-mail" next to it. Our email is hosted at Network Solutions. I have already created the CNAME records that look like this:               mail.myapp.net  7200   mail.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net.     smtp.myapp.net  7100   smtp.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net.      Since I am only using Amazon as the DNS, do I even need to do anything with that MX record? I appreciate your help, I googled and researched this before I posted, this is my first post on webmasters although I've been on SO for a few years.


Disallow age gate/verification page in robots.txt?

Should I disallow the age gate page in robots.txt? I need to make sure the crawlers can get through the gate.


Block access to robots.txt file .htaccess

I read in this forum that this .htaccess code should block access to the robot.txt file:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(Slurp|surfsafely)     RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ /someotherfile [L]      But I just get a error 500: "Internal Server Error" What do I do wrong?


How to re-direct Wordpress posts with 301

All my WordPress post URLs generate sub directories with duplicate content and I do not know what regular expression to use to consistently 301 redirect `domain.com/category/post/random-number/` to `domain.com/category/post/` and `domain.com/category/post/random-number/another-random-number/` also to `domain.com/category/post/`. **Here is an example of my problem:**   * `http://www.example.com/features/harb-constitution-not-to-allow-kr-provinces-to-receive-foreign-officials/`   * `http://www.example.com/features/harb-constitution-not-to-allow-kr-provinces-to-receive-foreign-officials/1345257927000/`


Lightweight PHP-supporting webserver: Nginx, Cherokee, or Hiawatha?

I had asked this question on ServerFault, but nobody answered satisfactorily, so I re-ask here. I want a lightweight webserver. The requirements are:   * PHP support   * HTTPS support   * Virtual domains (we have some domains that will point to the same IP address)   * Actively developed (to patch security issue etc.)   * Runs on Linux (but no need for binary packages; if I have to compile it from source, so be it) We don't need URL rewriting ability; SEO has approximately _zero_ priority. Between Nginx, Cherokee, and Hiawatha, can you provide me with the pros/con's of each? Or can you recommend something better?


What is considered the optimal placement of a link to an RSS feed for SEO?

When do I want a search engine's spider to run across my RSS feed link?   * Before the heading (not saying header tag..)   * During the heading   * During the main content   * During the footer   * After the footer      * Completely irrelevant     * Other And why? As I understand it, it wont really matter much where the link/button _displays_ but where on the page it is written in the code.


Why did Google stop indexing pages from our sitemap.xml?

We're seeing some pages that exist in our `sitemap.xml` but are inexplicably missing from Google's public search index. You can't download http://superuser.com/sitemap.xml -- we protect this file because there have been issues with it in the past -- but googlebot can. We have verified via Google Webmaster Tools that the `sitemap.xml` file was pulled down today and is rated OK with no errors (green checkmark). ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sfas0.png) The `sitemap.xml` contains a list of the last 50,000 questions on our site that were asked. For example, this question ... http://superuser.com/questions/201610/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of- symbolic-links ... exists in the `sitemap.xml` as ...               <url>     <loc>http://superuser.com/questions/201610/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of-symbolic-links</loc>     <lastmod>2010-10-20</lastmod>     <changefreq>daily</changefreq>     <priority>0.2</priority>     </url>      Searching for "How to see the end of a long chain of symbolic links" gives only one result to questionhub.com which is scraping our data (a whole different problem). You can increment the question count number and do an exact search for the question title and you will see this pattern persist. These urls are _in_ sitemap.xml but they are not showing up in Google's index -- and yet they show up on sites that scrape our creative commons data. Why would that be?


. Rk domain registration

Anybody knows where I can get .rk domains? Looks like nowhere so far - any idea?


Paypal: Subscribe Buttons and Inventory

Paypal lets you create purchase buttons, and one option is to make the purchase actually trigger an autopay - they call it a Subscription/Subscribe button. They also let you enter inventory for a given item. If you enter 1 in Inventory for a Subscribe button, does Paypal: A) Treat that as 1 item in stock, and after 1 month the subscription will run out or B) Treat that as 1 Subscription in stock, and after one person purchases it, it will be out of stock (but the Subscription that 1 customer purchased goes on indefinitely) I assume B, but perhaps others have found otherwise.


How to change the zone file records for .io domain registered at nic.io?

I just registered a `.io` domain at `nic.io` and I want to make changes to the zone file to integrate it with Google Apps. I couldn't find an interface to change CNAME / MX records. Has anybody been able to figure out how to do this?


How to make image only website friendly to googlebot?

so I making this portfolio site for some artist. She draw all the menus and texts manually(on paper), then scanned, some "post processing" in photoshop and that's how the whole layout was created. Now the problem is all texts are actually images so bots can't read this. How to make this site more friendly to google bot so it can actually gather some data? Some ideas are:   * put text in alt, title tags (sometimes text is too long I guess)   * some additional texts in footer   * comments   * found this: How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines? good idea?   * also thought of normal text and than hiding it in javascript (googlebot doesn't execute js, does it?) Thanks for all answers P.S. I know it's bad idea, to create web page like this, I know about embed fonts but it's really specific case, so I hope you'll understand my problem:)


Hosting my own SVN repositories

I've been experimenting with `Google Code` and `Sourceforge` and the like, and am happy with what I've found. The main problem with them, is that you have to have your project be open source to use them, so anybody can edit them. So... is there some way I can have my own svn repositories on my own server? I have FTP access, cpanel, and all that. If it helps any:                   Operating system    Linux         cPanel Version      11.26.20         Architecture        x86_64         MySQL version       5.0.91-community-log         Apache version      2.2.13         PHP version         5.2.11         cPanel Pro          1.0 (RC1)


Can I combine subdomains in Google Analytics?

I have 2 separate domains in my Google Analytics: `abc.com` and `xyz.abc.com`. The second domain is 3rd party shopping cart. Right now the reporting for each is separate. I want to have them together so I can eventually set up goals and conversion tracking.


Geotarget global audience with .com.au

We were trying to buy our `.com.au` in `.com` form but it's taken already. Is there a way to set a `.com.au` to have a global geotarget? Does a `.com` have any geotargetting associated with it? If so is there a way to mimic these settings with the `.com.au` domain?


SEO impact of using <small> tag in <h1>

Twitter bootstrap uses `<small>` tag within `<h1>`. What is the SEO impact of this? Will the text content in the `<small>` tag get equal importance? Here is an example (see the _Lightweight defaults Same markup, different classes_ ):
Lightweight defaults Same markup, different classes


SEO effect of many articles having a similar title and content structure?

I'm building a diet directory on my weight loss site, and the _structure_ for those diet descriptions will be similar (the actual content will be unique though). Here are some examples of the similarities that the diet descriptions will have: _how does the diet work?_ will be in every diet description. Also the title for every diet will be something along the lines of _Diet X reviews and information_ , with the reviews and information part being the same across all diet descriptions. Can having many titles that are similar to each other in that way, and also having some `h2` headings that are identical across articles hurt the SEO rankings of those articles?


Images within noscript

> **Note:** My question is not about JavaScript > > **Note:** My question is how to make the HTML accessible to search engines. > > **Note:** My question is not about hiding texts, is on block loading of > images in order to use LazyLoad. **Note:** Library used in tests: > https://github.com/brcontainer/smooth-images-js I tested various techniques of blocking the loading of images to use `effect LazyLoad` (I'm developing in JavaScript), was the only efficient `<noscript>`: The `HTML structure` that would, with `LazyLoad loading` of images is achieved via the `viewport` (visible part of web page).
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.
      When `<noscript>` with the image is the `view-port` (visible part of web page).   * The jquery-plugin gets the DOM: `$("span.lazyload")`.   * The jquery-plugin checks if the `<noscript> <img>` is on view-port.   * The jquery-plugin to create a `new Image` with `Image.onload = function(){}`.   * When the image loaded `Image.onload` will insert `<img>` outside the `<noscript>`. For clarity. Suppose that only the first `<noscript>` is the view-port (`<noscript><img src="foto-m0101.jpg" alt="image description"></noscript>`). After the onload JavaScript will do the HTML:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                                                consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.
      * * * [edit] I believe that Google displays the DOM also modified by JavaScript. Look I used the tool _Fetch as Google_. **Look at the results:** > Without my jquery-plugin and `<noscript>` (i.e. pure HTML): > > > ![http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2632/webpagethumbnail1.jpg](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wcciP.jpg) * * * > With jquery-plugin and `<noscript>`: > > > ![http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3485/webpagethumbnail.jpg](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aN0Qz.jpg) > > **Note:** The JavaScript that showcased images and manipulated the DOM. **Question:**   * This is a bad practice for search engines (I refer to HTML)?   * If it is a bad practice, you could put an example of good practice?   * If there is another question talking about `<noscript>` with "IMAGES", forgive me.   * If the JavaScript displays images and _Fetch as Google_ displays the content normally (like the browser) so Google indexes the DOM manipulated by JavaScript? > **Note:** I did not find any doubts about `<noscript>` with images.


Upgrading Blog to WordPress, keep old one or redirect?

I have had a blog for around 4 years now that has gained some success and gets tons of residual and organic traffic. I am using an outdated version of BlogEngine.NET and we are going to switch to WordPress. Currently, our blog is at ourwebsite.com/blog, and I don't really want to mess with our web server. I setup a new server just for WordPress and instead of dealing with proxies and things that are above my head, the new blog will be at blog.oursite.com. I am trying to figure out the best way to go about doing this. We value our search engine rankings very much so, as that is where 90% of our traffic comes from. Would I be best off:   1. Importing all of the old blog posts from oursite.com/blog to blog.oursite.com and then redirecting all of the articles, categories, authors, pages and tags to the new blog and giving up the direct links to our current site.   2. Keeping all of our current articles as they are, and only add new content to the new blog.oursite.com and just kind of let the old blog float around our site.


Is it okay to showcase templates/layouts recreated in different codes in a portfolio?

I have several different templates/layouts, both simple and complex. I recreated these templates multiple times, just using different codes. (Say, a complex one was originally made in only HTML and CSS, I _recreated_ it using HTML, Javascript, CSS, then again with a HTML and PHP concoction, and etc.) I wanted to showcase my work and skills by doing this, but I don't know if it would be okay for that all to go into a resumé/portfolio. This is why:   * **Freelancing** Does potential business really care about how their site is made, as long as it looks and functions to their liking? (As in, should I just only show the one example of each template/layout and not the multiple recreations?)   * **Potential Hire** However, if a potential employer were to stumble across my resumé/portfolio, would having the multiple recreations do any good for a career outlook? (As in, this potential employer is a company where I could be working on a team to create/develop sites and not be freelancing; would a lack of skill-shining turn this employer away because I didn't set myself apart and show that I'm not just like every other budding web designer?) Those two issues have me wondering if it is okay to have a resumé/portfolio combined for this specific reason. Or does something like this not matter to potential business (as a freelancer) because they wouldn't care either way _as long as it looks and functions to their liking_ and therefore it is okay to showcase the recreations with the originals?


How to do SEO for eCommerce website?

What are the steps required to generate traffic for eCommerce sites like online shopping sites?


Spam link text when searching for company directors' name

It was brought to my attention that if you search for the name of one of our directors (with the intent to find there profile page on our site) They come up as the first link in most search engines as you would expect but the link text is just pure spam. the three search string I have tested on Google, Bing, Ask, and Yahoo have all returned similar results. Here is a list of the search strings: > Paolo rossi futex > > Mark rossi futex > > Marco rossi futex > > Dan Goldberg futex Any idea what might be causing this I have searched through as much of the sites code as I can and cant find anything wrong with it.


Can I make query strings produce separate pages?

I have a profile page with a URL like so:               localhost/profile.php/?username=Bob      I was wondering, if I had a separate `<title>` which changed according to the username, would they produce separate pages in the google search results? How do I tell Google to only use the username string or does it search within the `title?` On a similar note, how would I create a separate page with the username like so:               localhost/bob      instead of a query string like facebook does. Do that make a new file for each user?


Apache rewrite to 404 except for matched query

I'm trying to handle logically simple operation, but apache rewrite does not handle my website's query strings requests. I heard it's does not do it eventually. Still cannot understand it's regex syntax.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^\?category=([a-z])$ // WHY DO I NEED THIS?     RewriteRule ^!(?category=[a-z]+|?do=[a-z]+)$ [R=404,L,NC]      Goal is to send client to 404 for any query NOT matching /?category=[a-z]+ and /?do=[a-z]+. It would be much better if it's possible to load patterns from the text file. Apache documentation is poor and Google does not help too. Please help. Thanks.


changing URL format afftects SEO reputation and not considering 301 redirection

We had URL `http://www.example.com/category/subcategory.html` which changed to `http://www.example.com/category/filter/cat/subcategory.html` We did `301 redirection`, updated `canonical URL` to new one also updated `sitemap` and also resubmitted to Google Webmaster Tool. But still reputation of old URL not shifted to new one. Old URL used come to first or second position for certain keywords but now I can't find old or new URL in any where in Google search. Why changing `URL` format affects `SEO` reputation and not considering 301 redirection? PS: We also changed `http://www.example.com/category.html` to `http://www.example.com/category-extra.html` and updated same as above. This seems working totally fine. No affect in position at all.


Remote desktop connection domain name SEO

I have a website that has a domain name such like `www.example.com` which is of course the website. Then there is `example.com` which is used by my boss for remote desktop connection. I was wondering if this will be a problem for SEO?


Why are bots clicking on email links? And how to stop them?

I help run a fairly large email newsletter. Recently we have discovered that our click through rates have been artificially raised by some kind of bot activity. They are clicking on links in our emails a couple hundred times. I've looked up the email addresses that they use to sign up and they are using the same email addresses to join a couple of other sites. How could they benefit from clicking on links in our email, or is it just a side effect of some other activity they are doing? The newsletter contains celebrity and shopping information if that helps.


Where does Bingplaces information appear?

I've updated bingplaces.com with description, images, hours of operation, secondary phone, fax, email and website. All I see though in Bing Maps is still the address and one phone number. Where does all of the additional information they asked for even show up? **Edit:** I've now found some of this content on Bing if I type in EXACTLY the company name. It will show on the right side with company name, map, address, phone, website, and hours. I still have no idea where, if anywhere, the logo and photos are being used though?


SSL certificate error only in Internet Explorer 8

My SSL certificate works on all modern browsers (IE 9+), but does not work on IE 8. With modern browsers, the SSL certificate for my domain is used, but IE 8 wants to use the SSL certificate for my PaaS, resulting in a domain mismatch. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rmdce.jpg) How do I fix this? Is this an issue with my PaaS?


Best way to deal with non existant page

I had on my website category pages. they were http://my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ but with the structure change of my site (it's rather new), I have no need for this http://my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ anymore. Now, google sees it as a crawl error. Obviously... How should I deal with it. I know I have to do a redirect 301 but the big question is... To where!


IIS 7.5 Request Filtering

I keep getting 404.7 (FILE_EXTENSION_DENIED) on a sub directory I have under my Default Web Site. Request Filtering allows htm and html files on the server level and the site level. A few months ago I created a folder under Default Web Site to test some proof of concept stuff and have had no problems. A week or so ago I added a folder with Piwik php \ html code underneath 'Default Web Site' and request filtering has decided to block html extensions. My question is can anyone tell me any reason why my one folder would not have html files blocked and yet another added a few weeks later does have html files blocked? **EDIT:** I _believe_ I installed Request Filtering a much longer time ago before both of these websites were created when I was doing some Web Deploy stuff. Other than that I have not knowingly applied any request filters to any of the websites.


Does it make sense to mark up posts about online discounts with the event schema?

I have a news system that creates news posts, and I'm considering whether it makes sense to mark up the results with the "event" seo schema from schema.org: http://schema.org/Event The problem is, some of the news posts are about physical events, and some are about online, non-physical, discounts of certain brands/groups of shoes sold on the website. Does it make sense to mark up an online-only, limited-time (e.g a week) sale with the Event schema? Has anyone seen that in use and being utilized anywhere? Or perhaps there's another different schema that would be more appropriate for that?


serious 404 problem, suggestions for hunting them all down

I have a bit of a situation coming up. Due to a complete website structure redesign that is basically inevitable, I expect to have the following:   * Our sitemap of about 12,000 url's have about 90-95% of them change   * Out of those 12,000, I expect around 5000-6000 internal links to go dead in the process.   * No external links to this site yet, as it is still in development. Is there a tool out there that can do the following:   * I can feed the sitemap.xml after the restructuring   * have it parse each pages links for 404 errors on that page   * only report the pages/errors, preferably with just the url it is on, the url of the error, and the anchor text I have found a few tools, but all of them seem to be limited to 100 pages. Any advice for an intermediate webmaster to help this situation? 301 redirects are not viable in this situation.


URL good practice for category sub category?

I have developed a application and I need to work for SEO-friendly URL. I have following URL structure:               http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2      and               http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2-4-23      Is this a good practice? If not how can I rewrite it? Ok Ill explain about my applicaiton. My application is based on shopping. if a customer searched for mobiles. it will redirect to url like this               http://mydomain.com/cat/mobile-3      3 in the url indicates my database id it is used for further searching After the user reached the mobile page he may need to filter for some brand eg. nokia so my url look lik               http://mydomain.com/subcat/nokia-3-2      The integer at the end refers to 3 category id and 2 the brand id My doubt is whether the integer at the end of the url will affect seo ranking.


Deleted files still accessible without www in url

I have deleted all files and all hidden files off my server, there is nothing but log files which cannot be deleted. Ironically, files are accessible when nothing is there. Cache cleared, multiple browsers and computers/devices checked. Files show when I exclude "www" from the URL `http://sarastringfellow.com/assets/photo/c.jpg` `http://www.sarastringfellow.com/assets/photo/c.jpg` _**What does this mean?_**


Does Google Analytics exclude Campaign traffic from Facebook in the Social reports?

For a while we have used campaign tags when putting posts on Facebook so that we can run campaign reports in Google analytics on those links. However it appears that traffic from those links are being excluded in Google's Social reports. For example between 7/20 and 8/19 I'm seeing 123 Visits where Facebook is the source in my Campaigns report, but only 29 Visits where Facebook is the source in my Social > Sources report. Main questions:   1. Does Google exclude campaign traffic from it's social reports?   2. If it does, is there any way to reconcile that so that the traffic shows up in both reports?   3. If it doesn't, what could be causing the vast discrepancy? One observer noted that we are setting the Medium to "Post" when passing the campaign parameters, and that Google may only allow "Referral" traffic in it's social reports (Just speculation). In that case we could potentially change the Medium to "Referral", but that would undermine some of our strategy in being able to set different mediums. I have also considered that maybe the campaign traffic came to the site several times, and the social report may count the same user as less visits, however over 70% of the Facebook campaign traffic is new traffic, so at a minimum there would need to be over 85 Visits on the Social side for that argument to be valid. I've done several searches for any information on this topic, and haven't run across much of anything. I did post the same question on Google's Product Forum and have not gotten a response. The title of that question was 'Facebook Campaign Traffic Not Showing in Social Reports'. The inability to pass campaign data on Facebook posts would make evaluating the performance of those specific posts very difficult, so I'm hoping there is a solution to this.


Should Image Sitemaps be Supplied to Google?

I hear controversial things regarding image sitemaps. On Google Webmasters forum people say that submitting a sitemap for images doesn't make sense, because Google won't use it to index images anyway. On the other hand, Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide recommends supplying an image sitemap.


Not my Rich Snippets

My client had discussed in depth SEO. It was put off, however. Recently though, a Google search of the site revealed rich snippets. This is not from work that I have done for the site. I had began to work on this for his site, but it was put off and never made it into the deployments. How could the site possibly have rich snippets. If it is not from me, where could it be coming from?


I own a domain and recently got a Trademark Infringement for it can I offer to sell it to them?

I own a domain related to an iPhone Game and have been sent a Trademark Infringement on said domain by the company. It makes me a few dollars a month but nothing great, And I would like to offer to sell the domain to them. Does anyone have any advice or tips on this?


Where is name="lc" defined as a meta tag?

I've noticed that ea.com includes a `<meta name="lc" content="en_us"/>` tag on their website which changes for each language/country (`<meta name="lc" content="en_gb"/>`, `<meta name="lc" content="es_mx"/>`, &c). I can't find any reference to `name="lc"` being a valid meta tag. I've seen `<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">` and `<html lang="en">`, but where did `name="lc"` come from?


schema.org hierarchy as xml

I am intersted in using schema.org hierarchy to help uses define "things" that they add to my custom CMS. For example if they wanted to add a "person" to my CMS, they would have to add all the fields from "thing" and "person" http://schema.org/Person I am looking for a XML document or some other document that I can parse to generate the hierarchy of required fields. A tree of elements with their fields and data types would be perfect. Basically I am looking for this entire doc in XML format or some other computer readable format (JSON, ect..) . http://schema.org/docs/full.html


How many variations of a term can be used before Google punishes your site?

I have a new client with a huge inventory of antique items. My client has each item named properly on the website, however, each item has many common variations of each name. Often times the most popular search term is not the proper (official) name. I had the thought of creating a page for each variant of the name, which would create a page that looked like                         <title>Product One Name A</title>
Product One Name A

Product One Name A blah, blah, blah

Product One Name A is also known as

Product One Name B

Product One Name C

Product One Name D

Product One Name E

Product One Name F

           I would then create the ProductOneNameB page, which would have the names changed a bit, but it would have the same description, structure and images. My hope is that I can rank high for each of the keywords. At the moment, the client is ranking high for the proper names, but not the variations. My question is, will Google consider this gaming the system, and punish me in the rankings?


Need SEO Guidance on Huge dynamic website

First of all I am a programmer and have really basic knowledge like keywords, titles and content makes difference on SEO ranking. I have a website which is more like yellow pages. I have imported about 40,000 businesses and they have a SEO friendly urls as well they are divided by categories and subcategories. If I expose all those to google at the same time will they create any problems should I open them to Google in few hundered and with couple of days between them? As this is a large number of pages can Google end up thinking it is a spam website and hence punish it in ranking? Also my category and paging urls are with query strings ie. ?page=1&cat=12. Can Google crawl those kind of urls? Do I have to change them to /12/1 type urls with Url rewiting?


Why does my link to a Subdomain not work?

My hosting provider has problems. I put Drupal on a sub-domain of my site. When I try logging in or clicking a link it comes to a Internal server error. But if I navigate to the actual directory it works fine. What should I do? Examples: **Works:** sld.tld/subdomainroot/Y **Fails** subdomain.sld.tld/Y


Do people still use RSS feeds?

I've built a site where people can submit security vulnerabilities found on websites. I've got some requests (not many though) by people to implement an RSS feed of confirmed and published cases. I'm not going to implement it if nobody uses it anymore :-) So my question is: Do people still use RSS feeds to get their information? PS My targeted public is:   * the press   * security researchers


Importance of Preferred Domain

Google Webmaster Tools allows to set preferred domain for a web site (with or without www). How important is it to set it in terms of SEO? Is there any difference which one I choose? Also, if I set a preferred domain should I issue a 301 redirect when someone visits the other domain? Thanks.


Source on Wordpress contains mangled Twitter data (hurting SEO?)

I have a Twitter account linked to my WordPress site so that each tweet becomes a new post. I was wondering why my SEO was hurting and when I looked at the source I saw stuff like this at the top of the page: Los Conchita & # 8 2 1 7 ; s on Prince has V & # 8 2 3 0 ; Has anyone else had this problem and know why it is occurring? Thanks! The site is reviewathens.com


One domain, multiple IP addresses

I have a domain-name, and I want to host the website on two servers. One server is located in Europe and one in Asia. How can you route European people to the European server and Asian people to the Asian server? I want to do this, because if you access a European website in Asia it's very slow and visa versa. I know/think some big websites are doing this too (like Google, Facebook, etc.). Is it possible to do this? Or is there another way to manage this problem? And I'm not thinking of two domainnames.


Clean URL using index files or mod_rewrite

Is it better to make clean URL's using index files in directories or simply using `mod_rewrite` rules to remove the file extensions?


What is the best way to promote a programming blog?

(The guys from 'Programmers' referred me here...) How do you promote your programming blog? I recently started http://blackforestcoder.blogspot.com/ to record my progress working with new technologies and ideas. The main aim being to provide a list of pitfalls and solutions and also to get feedback from readers. Since I set it up 10 days ago I have only had about 2-3 hits even though Google is supposed to be indexing it. How might I boost the hit rate?


Google Analytics vs Zopim stats are different

On my website I run Google Analytics and I also run Zopim. Zopim is providing very different figures than Google (more hits). Which one should I believe? Why would there be a difference?


Do or don't submit the comment-feed of your blog?

A commentsfeed (of a blog) might serve perfectly as a commentssitemap. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to submit this feed to Google's webmaster tools. What are the pros & cons?


Downsides for adapting a site to HTML5/CSS3?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use HTML5 and/or CSS3 to build my website? I've been wondering if there are any serious downsides for switching a websites code to HTML5/CSS3 now (browser support, browser distribution in the user community) ? Would it be a better idea to hold on a little longer ? Thanks in advance for your replies


Is posting a document with a hand signature insecure?

Every once and a while, one of our departments would like to post a hand- signed document on the web site. Up until now I've scanned them in as a PDF and posted them without much thought, but recently I've become wary of doing so. Is there an inherent danger in posting a document with a scanned signature? Am I creating a fantastic opportunity for fraud and forgery, or am I overreacting?


personal blog format/layout/framework

I am thinking about dumping my daily stupidity on a blog kind of a thing. Its all technical stuff. No fancy graphics. Some pictures at most. Can you suggest any framework which is easy to use? I prefer PHP but that its negotiable. It would be great if I could borrow the couple of site layout and tweak them to my need. Thanks!


DNS configuration to force root domain to www

we have an app running on heroku. the dns setup is like this: A record for domain.com -> heroku front end ip addresses CNAME for www.domain.com -> specific host name for our app provided by heroku we also have an SSL cert for www.domain.com. the issue is that if someone goes to https://domain.com/secure_stuff, they will get heroku's SSL cert, instead of ours, causing lots of fear. We can do things on our end to make sure that all of our URLs point to https://www.domain.com, but it still won't solve this specific issue. is there a way to configure the DNS record to redirect all root domain traffic to the www subdomain?


How to backorder a .io domain name

There is a .io domain name I want to buy when it becomes available in 12 months time. What is the best tool to buy this automatically?


What is the purpose of the appserv_root requests?

I see a lot of requests for nonexistent php files on my website. They tend to have a querystring like `appserv_root=http://www.example.com`, using domains with evil-looking php code. I am pretty confident that this is trying to make use of some php vulnerability or other. So, I am curious:   1. What vulnerability is this trying to make use of?   2. How does one protect against this vulnerability?   3. What in the site configuration would be changed if this vulnerability was successfully exploited?


What to do with database in dev/production phases of a website?

For a while now I've been keeping a website I'm developing in the standard dev/production phases. Its been pretty simple: Mercurial repo for dev, repo for production. Do work in dev, get approved, push to production. But now I'm trying to apply this process to a new website that has a database and am struggling on how to figure out a development strategy. What I didn't mention above is that I do all my work on my own repo, push it to dev, then later push it to production, so its 3 different servers. So how do I manage my database? The obvious solution of mysqldump every commit isn't going to happen, and a dump at the end of the day isn't all that helpful when you want to undo later one change that happened in the middle of the day. What is the best way to accomplish this?


Will it hurt my website's SEO friendliness if I host a french targetted website at, let's say, godaddy.com?

I have read that the server location is important for a website to be SEO friendly. I am planning to build a website from scratch which is targetted mainly to french audience (in france), but I am planning to host the web site at godaddy.com. My concern is will it hurt the website SEO friendliness? Or do you recommend me to host the website in france itself? I have also read that I need to have a static IP Address. If it's true, can anyone explain me for what reason? Can anyone suggest me some good web hosting companies, prefereable in france? Thanks in advance!


Does Google compute keyword combinations for ranking?

Assuming the following keywords in a h1 header (for example): > Red Leash For Dog Does google compute all keyword combinations such as: > Red Dog For Leash, Dog Leash For Red, ... Or does it compute substrings such as: > Red Leash, Leash For Dog, Leash For, .... It seems hard to believe Google would compute all combinations since for a single page, it could easily reach millions. Anyone knows how multiple keywords are taken into account? Thanks!


How to track hot-linking of image types in IIS7

I don't want to block hot-linking on my site; it's not that big a deal. However, Google Analytics doesn't show me referrers to png/gif/jpg content; I don't have any statistics on the load generated from external sites due to hotlinking. Is there a way I can have Google Analytics track those files? If not, are there any alternative software that can make this task easier than manually parsing through IIS7 logs?


How can I set up private, per-user sections on Joomla?

For this weekend's GiveCamp project, my team has been tasked with adding some functionality to an existing Joomla-powered website for a non-profit. A certain type of user will login, and have access to a personal area where they can upload files, check for messages, see tasks that have been assigned, etc. Each user would have their own private homepage They would not be creating additional pages, and their information would only be visible to themselves (or a site-administrator, of course). None of us have worked with Joomla before, but we'd like to help this non- profit. We're not sure if we're searching using the wrong terms, or if we're just not finding it. Community Builder seems to have some of what we want -- but offers way more than the client wants. Is such a solution possible in Joomla without using community builder? Or can we turn off almost everything to get limited functionality? And/or are we better off building some standalone solution that interfaces with the same mySQL database as Joomla?


How do I remove a LOT of indexed pages from Google?

A few weeks ago we have figured out that Google has indexed some information we would rather keep in some confidentiality, in the format of individual PDF files. Our assumption was that this was a problem with our robots.txt we had overlooked. Even though we are not sure whether or not this is the case, we are certain that the robots.txt file is in a valid format and is, according to Google's webmaster tools, blocking the files. However, even after this adjustment that has been made weeks ago, Google still has the PDF files indexed, but does tell us further information cannot be provided due to the robots.txt file being present. As you can hopefully understand, this is unwanted behaviour due to the nature of the documents. I am aware that there is a request page being provided by Google for this purpose, but there are a **lot** of files. Is there an easier way to get Google to remove all of the files from its search engine? If not, is there anything else you could advise us to do besides manually requesting Google to remove every single page?


What search statistics are most reliable?

I'm doing some research into the SEO of one my websites and looking at different keywords and the search traffic they generate. **Let's say I have a search term I'm ranked number one for a keyword and looking at the following reports reveals different results:**   1. Google Analytics reports 6 users visited on a particular day from a search term.   2. Google Webmaster tools reports I am ranked number one for the same search term and that 22 people clicked it on that same day.   3. Google Adwords traffic tool estimator reports the daily impressions would be zero for that search term (even when max CPC is 99999 and avg. position is 1). Is the Adwords traffic estimator a valid tool for SEO research? And why is there such discrepancies between my Google Analytics and Google Webmaster?


Mixing self signed certs with traditional SSL

I have a traditional SSL cert going to a subdomain `secure.mydomain.com` on my domain. My host required me to have a dedicated IP in order to do this. I would also like to use HTTPS on my site for when I log into WordPress, etc. and since this is just for me, I don't mind self signing it and clicking through the scary messages. Is there a way to use a self signed cert for `mydomain.com/wp-admin` (just for me) when I already am on a dedicated IP that already has a traditional SSL cert for normal users on `secure.mydomain.com`? (FWIW, I'm on WHM without root access.)


Should I use subdomains or subfolders for my user groups?

I run a photography website where each user has its own subdomain (i.e. user.site.com). I'm thinking of adding user groups but I'm unable to decide if I should also associate a separate subdomain or simply a subfolder for each group: **Subfolders** (www.site.com/groups/my-group) _Pros:_   * Easier to maintain from a tehnical p.o.v. _Cons:_   * Harder to memorize.   * The URLs can get really long (www.site.com/groups/my-group/albums/my-album/) **Subdomains** (my-group.site.com) _Pros:_   * Easier to memorize.   * Shorter URLs.   * One might have the impression that such an URL is somewhat more "independent" from the main site. _Cons:_   * Group and user names belong to the same name space, so we need to check for collisions when creating a new user/group.   * One cannot determine the content of the page by only reading the URL: Is x.site.com a user page or a group page? What's your opinion on the matter? I should note that DeviantArt.com uses the 2nd option (that's where I got the idea). Thank you in advance!


Tool to monitor rankings

I'm searching for a tool that can give me the page number (Google) and position a given web page scores for a given keyword. E.g. Searching for the term "foo" the tool will show third page, second position if in that moment the said web page is second on the third page on Google. This has to be in real time since rankings change frequently. The webmasters tool doesn't give me an accurate information if the search result is not within the first three pages.


Should the title text of a hyperlink be the same as the link text for SEO?

Let's say I have the below hyperlink:               link link      It is good SEO practice to ensure that the title text is **exactly** the same link text? I.e. I would change the above link to:               title text      I know that the best practice is to have keywords in both, but does it do any harm if they are not identical?


How to upgrade Joomla 1.6 betas?

Greetings,   I'm starting a new site with joomla 1.6 b9, hoping that by early next year a stable release will be available. I want to upgrade the Joomla 1.6 b9 to 1.6 b11. however I can't find upgrade instructions. Cheers


Can using microdata from schema.org for local business hurt its exposure nationally?

Here's the dilemma: This website ranks in the first page for almost all of its products, but it is a local business. I should actually say, 90% of its business are still local, but we are trying to get more national exposure. One of the products sold has a CPC very high on google adwords and some very big companies advertise for it. The problem is that when searching locally for that particular product, this business does not appear in the "local results" section of google for example, nor does it appear in the first page. Having it appear locally is a must, while nationwide is a plus. Now, the question is: If i use microdata from schema.org to define this business as local (in every page, or only in the contact page, for example), will it help me get that local exposure on google? Furthermore, could that hurt the nationwide exposure? I'm afraid that defining it as local may mean to search engines that this company does not do business nationally. Resources: http://schema.org/LocalBusiness, http://microdatagenerator.org/


åäö in .com domain

Is ÅÄÖ allowed in .com domain? it is allowed in swedish .se top level domain. ie kåtbock.se which means hornygoat. According to to swedish internet magazine you can use ÅÄÖ in .com domain, but you cannot register ÅÄÖ in godaddy registar


What's the best workflow for creating websites fast & cheap, but that work as needed?

Have some ideas, but for now I'm going to leave it description as the question. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!! **UPDATES:** * * * **Guidelines:**   1. Workflow makes the most frequent tasks easy, and less frequent tasks achievable.   2. Workflow covers 80% of the tasks.   3. Solutions use smart default settings. **Focus of the Question:** The focus is the production of front interfaces; HTML, CSS, JS, generic content/graphic source, etc. Also, I figure that if the workflow required a CMS that the template would be based on existing one implementable on a given system. Again, thanks for any and all post!! -- **Any real answers will get an up vote by me, and I will select an answer.** Cheers!