Site migration and SEO impact

I'd greatly appreciate a response on the following question relating to site migration and SEO impact. Here's some background on how my domain name and site is currently configured: My domain name provider has the following settings:   * host name `@` is an A NAME record and points to IP address `x.x.x.x`   * host name `www` is an A NAME record and points to IP address `x.x.x.x`   * sub-domain host name `new.example.com` is an A NAME record and points to IP address `x.x.x.x` My hosting provider has the following settings:   * host record `@` is an A NAME record and points to IP address `x.x.x.x`, folder `home/public_html/old`   * host record `www` is a C NAME record and points to `example.com`   * sub-domain host record `new.example.com` points to `home/public_html/new` I want to:   * point the domain (`example.com` AND `www.example.com`) to the content hosted under folder `home/public_html/new`, which is currently the content directory for `new.example.com`   * retire the content hosted under folder `home/public_html/old`   * retire the sub-domain host record `new.example.com` I believe the easiest method of doing this, is: removing the sub-domain host record `new.example.com`; and changing the following line in the _.htaccess_ file in `home/public_html` from               # Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain.     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/old/      to               # Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain.     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new/      But I don't understand how this will impact my SERP - ideally, I'd like it to remain the same. Research on this topic resulted in the following Google page, which was no help, and this related StackExchange question, which suggests that this should not affect my SERP (at least, not permanently). But I wanted to make certain with a more specific example, and hopefully contribute to the community at the same time. I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Is there a better/recommended method to migrate sites this way? Is there an SEO impact?


How can I describe villages with schema.org?

I know there is city but I was unable to find any village. How can I describe villages?


WordPress refusing FTP connection when using correct details

I am trying to update some plugins on a WordPress site. To do this directly through WordPress you need to provide:   * Hostname   * Username   * Password   * Connection yype I am definitely using the correct details however they are being refused. An error is displayed: > ERROR: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the > settings are correct. There is a thread on the WordPress forum asking similar question but there is no answer. I have tried using my regular hostname in addition to `localhost`, `localhost:21` and `localhost:22`. Does anyone have any suggestions how to make this work correctly?


Creating a unique meta description for each page on a WordPress website

I have one website which is created with WordPress. When I try to enter the websites's homepage meta description, then it attaches to all the posts that are created by me on the website. But I want different meta tags for every different pages on my website including homepage. How can i do that?


Blog Layout, duplicate content and SEO

I am wondering wether my blog content can be considered as duplicated by search engines. Here is my situatuion, each article can be fully displayed on **4 different urls** :   1. **Blog layout** : 2 full articles on the "news" page `http://example.com/news`   2. **Article page** : `http://example.com/news/article`   3. **Archives** (1 page/month with 2-3 full articles) : `http://example.com/archives`   4. **Archive article page** : `http://example.com/archives/article` For the 4th point, I am planning to use the `rel="canonical"` link to tell search engines witch page I want to index. But I am pretty puzzled about the 3 first points. Would it be better (for SEO purpose) to change the structure of my blog and not display the full article in the blog layout? For the archives, should I set meta tag to `noindex` to avoid duplicating the articles?


Meta keywords single words or phrase?

It is acceptable or recommended to only use 1 keyword per delimiter? Or can we use a phrase? For example:               car, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborgini      **vs**               Audi Car, Ferrari Car, Lamborgini Car      What is considered best practice?


CMS text encoding and common browser decoding; recent change?

I'm managing a CMS-based website. The primary language of the CMS is English. Our content is mostly in English, but user postings are sometimes in other languages. The supporting mySQL database of my site is set to UTF-8 encoding. Until recently, "other language" (e.g. Russian) postings displayed correctly. This in spite of the fact that the CMS declares in the header of each generated page:               <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' />      My best guess is that in the past, browsers commonly took this header declaration as advice, and also looked at content to determine the actual encoding. If, for example, UTF-8 encoding was detected, the heading declaration was overridden. That's how "other language" text was correctly displayed. It helps that iso-8859-encoded text will be correctly interpreted by a UTF-8 decoder, that is, iso-8859-1 is effectively a subset of UTF-8. Question 1: iso-8859-1 is effectively a subset of UTF-8, right? As far as I know, nothing about the site, the CMS installation, or the server has changed recently. But, of course, browser tech is constantly evolving and new browser releases arrive all the time. In the past few weeks, "other language" content is showing up as garbage (mojibake) in the latest versions of Safari (5.1) Chrome (15.0.874.81), and Firefox (7.0.1), at least. All indications are that the "auto" text encoding mode of each is now determining the site pages are iso-8859-1 encoded, end-of- story. When I manually set the browser to use UTF-8, the garbage disappears, and all text is correctly rendered, as before. Question 2: Has the standard/practice changed, so that recent browser releases obey the header declaration of text encoding and won't override it no matter what encoding is actually present? Question 3: If not, what other factors could account for the sudden appearance of garbage where there was none before? (For example, could a subtle change to Apache made by the hosting provider have this effect?) I have no idea why the CMS primary distribution is iso-8859-1 encoded. I've looked at the CMS docs and submitted several queries to support channels, but … no answer. The CMS is definitely capable of supporting other languages; many "official" alternates are available, and so far as I've checked, they all declare "utf-8" in the headers of generated pages There may be some 8859-1 encoding-dependent code deep in the CMS, I suppose. (No, I'm not going to try to find it!) But the existence of a large number of alternative language packs would seem to argue against that. Question 4: (bonus!) If there is no encoding-dependent code in the CMS, what kind of technical reasons might make the CMS developers reluctant to move their primary distribution to UTF-8? Question 5: Am I totally missing some point? Am I totally or partially confused about how text encoding works?


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I'm reading websites like websitepublisher and seen sites like environmentalchemistry. They all have those adsense in them, but the ads seem like perfectly blended. I want to earn money from a content website, which i want to describe things about human relationships. I prefer to buy templates from ThemeForest and build a website around it. Would i make a better profit, if the ads are blended like in the first 2 websites or would i be better off with a banner that is placed like in this modern design?   * What are the benefits of these blended ads?   * Would users "leave" the webpage because it looks outdated/oldshool? Thank you


Why does Google Analytics log a user logging in as an exit?

I have custom event tracking set up in Google Analytics that tracks when a visitor registers on the site. The tracking is working fine. However, GA is showing that 100% of users "exit" the site after registering. They aren't exiting however, they are just getting logged in. Is there some reason why a user creating a session by logging in would cause GA to lose track of the visitor and think a new user had arrived? Is there any way to prevent this?


Full password not required to access password protected directory?

I password protected a directory in cPanel. When I went to access the page in my browser, I accidentally hit backspace on the password before I hit enter. Surprisingly, the page still loaded. I played around with it and realized that I could remove the last 4 or 5 characters and the password would still work. Any more than that and it would fail. I'm just curious why this behavior is happening and whether or not it's anything to worry about?


Domain forwarding to a IE "trusted site" opens a blank page

My employer, a University, regularly hosts conferences and other events. While websites for these sites are hosted on our domain, they frequently request customized .com urls. We then forward these domains to the specific site. Recently, we discovered a problem, where a page will not load if the following conditions are met(using a current example):   * website is created on our CMS for a conference `http://continue.weber.edu/nulc`   * a domain is created http://www.nulc2012.com and forwarded to http://continue.weber.edu/nulc   * The user enters www.nulc2012.com into their address bar using IE7 or IE8   * The user has `*.weber.edu` listed as a "trusted site" in IE security settings (the case for nearly all on-campus computers) When this happens, their browser will correctly transfer to the page `http://continue.weber.edu/nulc/index.php`, however the page is blank, returning only:               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">          <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type>           Is there any know solution to this problem? Or am I missing something completely? _Note: Tested websites do load correctly in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari_


When I enter a password while adding an addon domain, where is it used? Can I delete ftp user that is created when I add a domain?

Cpanel Question I get prompted to add a password everytime I have to add a domain. If this is the password for ftp username, is it safe to delete all 'extra' ftp usernames that were created when my domains were added. FYI, I use wordpress on most of my websites. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/euXe9.png)


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I know that nofollow prevents link juice from being passed across a link. But if search engine robots discover a link with a nofollow on it, will they add that link to their crawl queue? In other words, if I create a link to a brand new page and put a `rel=nofollow` attribute on that link, will it prevent search engine bots (particularly Googlebot) from crawling the page. (Assuming that this link remains the _only_ link into that page.) I've read conflicting reports about this over the years and I'm looking for authoritative references about the current state of affairs. Official statements from Google or published results of independent testing would be ideal.


Difference between Alexa, Google Analytics, Quantcast and Compete website statistics

I am getting confused by the following traffic metric systems: Google Analytics, Alexa, Quantcast and Compete metrics because they each show different values. ie. unique traffic, visits, pageviews, etc. Which among them would be the most reliable and why does each show different values.


Track google search keyword in asp classic

I want to track google search keyword for site in asp classic. Any user which use any word in google search to reach on my site, I want to track this word.


Google Free Views and Crawling

We plan on giving our users 5 free article views before prompting them to buy a subscription. (for logged in or anonymous users). This will be a cookie-based security (we are all aware of the drawbacks!). Now, considering Google crawling our site. Can we tell in code "always show the full article if the agent is the "Google Crawler" or that would be cloaking? Since we give "5" free views, would that be OK?


Change Region For An Amazon RDS Instance

I am using AWS free tier. While launching EC2 instance and RDS instance, I didn't choose any specific region. So, randomly I was assigned two different region for ec2 and rds. Later, after launching the application, I came to realize that, being these two instance in two different region, causing a performance loss on the application. So, I want to relaunch my RDS on the same region my EC2 resides. However, I went to management console, took a snapshot of the rds instance and went to launch a new instance, but **it didn't give me other region options to launch** . Can you please help me how can I do this and have my RDS instance on the region I want? Thanks.


Will duplicate international (i18n) content hinder SEO rankings?

Google clearly states that duplicate content within a single, or multiple, domains is not advised. This is understood, but I am not sure of any exceptions for sites with region-specific content that is often replicated across locales. For example, a site's `/en-us/about` page could be identical to `/en- uk/about`, whereas most likely `/en-ja/about` is unique. Are GYM smart enough to understand that the initial URL depth is a locale specifier? Is there any _robots.txt_ or header, etc, trickery that I should include to outline the site's international structure?


Empty Cookie based on IP address

Is there a way to empty a previous cookie based on source ip? I need this to be done because of loadbalancing issues. regards Geert


I need to migrate my site to

I'm at a crossroad right now, because I need to migrate my bloated and buggy site to a platform that is both secure and flexible. I have a community site built by web developers from scratch. The database design, and everything was built from ground up. Because all these different programmers did the project their own way, the whole site has become buggy. Right now it's not sustainable. I figured that the way to fix this problem is to migrate my community site to Drupal or rebuild it using a framework such as Code Igniter or what have you. I'm in a dilemma as to which system to migrate to, Drupal or some framework? My website is very customized under the hood because it was designed for wholesale industry. Wholesalers become members and sell their products. They get verified, they get different access levels depending on what they paid for. On top of this messy site, WordPress was included to pump news articles, and other little third party scripts. What do you think, should I go with a CMS, or Framework?


Case-specific mod rewrite on WordPress subdomain multisite

I have split a WordPress blog into multiple category-specific blogs using subdomains, as the topics in the original blog were too broad to be lumped together effectively. Posts were exported from the parent `www` blog and imported into the subject- specific subdomain blogs. I believe _.htaccess_ provides mod rewrite for all subdomains (including the original `www`) in a single _.htaccess_ file. I use _.htaccess_ to perform 301 redirect on post categories to the relevant post on the subdomain's blog e.g.:               RedirectMatch 301 ^/auto/(.*)$ http://auto.example.com/$1      The problem I have is that the category has been retained in the permalink structure in the subdomain blog, so that `www.example.com/auto/mercedes` is now `auto.example.com/auto/mercedes`. The 1st URL is redirect to the 2nd, but unfortunately, the 2nd URL is redirected to `auto.example.com/mercedes` using the same rewrite rule, which is not found, as the permalink on the subdomain's blog retains the parent category of auto. The solution would be to adjust the permalink structure in the subdomain's WP settings, so that the top level category does not duplicate the subdomain. My question would be: how do I then strip a section of the original (`www`) blog's post URL from the subdomain's URL when redirecting? e.g.: how do I redirect `www.example.com/auto/mercedes` to `auto.example.com/mercedes`? I'm assuming this would be a regular expression trick, which I am not great at. **Update** : I might have to use:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !auto.example.com$      In the default WordPress if loop in _.htaccess_ , and seperate my custom subdomain redirections into a second if loop section.


What is correct syntax for .htaccess 301 redirect of query based URL to new URL?

I wish to set up some 301 redirects to new URLs and I am trying to do this with the redirect facility in cPanel. For some reason the requests are not being processed correctly and I am guessing that this is because the old URLs are query based. It looks like I will have to modify my _.htaccess_ file manually and my question is: what is the correct syntax to use, based on the examples given below. `http://www.mydomain.com/products.asp?category=42` needs redirecting to `http://www.mydomain.com/products/new-category`.


Why google doesn't index youtube videos in sitemap?

I've created a sitemap for youtube hosted videos in my website. you can find it here. http://www.informaincasa.it/wp-content/uploads/sitemap-video.xml I've also created a sitemap for videos hosted on blip.tv The first sitemap while webmasters tool says it has no error isn't indexed. The second one is. Do you know why this happens and what should I do?


Magento 1.5.1.0 Multi-Store

I am currently running version 1.5.1.0 of Magento and I would like to set up another store with the following:   1. Both stores using different domains   2. Shared shopping cart/checkout   3. Shared codebase I don't have ssh access. I have looked around and found a number of tutorials but they are for older versions or else require shell access. Could someone point me in the direction of a tutorial specifically for 1.5.1.0 or provide instructions for completing this?


How to customise a MediaWiki Book sources page?

If an article includes an ISBN number, the Mediawiki software creates a link to page _Book sources_ , giving a small list of sites that sell new and used books. Without editing the PHP, it should be possible to do this in the wiki itself on some page. How to alter this list to include other book sellers and book finding sites?


Cache a resource across HTTP and HTTPS

Is there a way to specify that a resource should be cached when accessed over both HTTP and HTTPS? We have lots of static content that is initially served over HTTP and then re-served over SSL when the user tries to sign up or login, and it would be nice to cache that.


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I'm getting several invalid requests from a "BingPreview" user agent. The complete user agent header is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b` The invalid requests seem to come from a bug in the HTML parser in the crawler, which ends up generating invalid URLs. Is this user agent legit, really related to Bing? Or is it yet another fraud?


Which meta "robots" tag gets preference?

My wife works at a high school in Germany. I recently noticed that it's extremely hard to find that school's homepage using Google. I looked at the source code of the page and I believe I've found the reason: There are two `<meta name="robots">` tags; one is               <meta name="robots" content="all">      and the second one, further down in the page, is               <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">      My guess is that the second one trumps the first and keeps Google from indexing the site. Am I right? I wouldn't want to tell the webmaster that I've found the problem and make an idiot of myself (because I don't really know anything about how to build a proper webpage, let alone do SEO). By the way, if you happen to find any other goofs on the site, I would be glad if you could report them. My next candidate would be the utter lack of relevant `meta` tags that convey information about the page's content.


Why does Google think that pages load slow?

Looking into Google Webmaster Tools in the Site Performance section I see that > On average, pages in your site take 5.0 seconds to load. Specifically it takes about 5 second to load during last month. However when I personally look pages on my site it rarery takes longer than 1 second to load a page. How can I discover the reason why Google thinks that pages load slow? Does Google provide any useful info for that? Should I look into web-server logs, etc.? Should I tweak something in robots.txt to prevent indexing some pages or to change crawl speed?


How to make password protection with .htaccess file more user-friendly?

I have this in my .htaccess file:                   <FilesMatch "(contracts|concepts)$">         AuthName "Contracts"         AuthType Basic         AuthUserFile /is/htdocs/wp54963193_ZBG2Q9J2R8/www/.htpasswd         Require valid-user     </FilesMatch>      This is fairly basic and works fine for me. However, when a user enters a wrong password he is being taken to a 401 error page. The same if he refuses to enter a password and simply clicks "Cancel". Clearly this is not very user- friendly at all. Is there any way to specify a forwarding or error page or something? Thanks for any help in this matter.


.htaccess rewrite wildcard folder paths from host

My desired result is change a file to root `/` from a N number of paths. For example: `www.host.com/a/b/c/e/f/g/images/1.jpg`, where `A~G` is not always given. Result: `www.host.com/images/1.jpg`. This is what I have so far: `www.host.com/a/images` --> `www.host.com/images` using: `RewriteRule ^a\/images/$ images/$1 [L]`. What I need is a wildcard in front of `/images/` like this: `RewriteRule ^*\/images/$ images/$1 [L]`. How can I do this correctly in _.htaccess_?


Why don't we see websites hashing passwords before sending them?

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Which is more supported by web clients (browsers): SAN (Subject Alternative Name) or Wildcard SSL Certificates?

Which are more widely supported by browser clients, wildcard or SAN certificates? I need to decide between using a SAN cert or a wildcard cert. Client/browser compatibility is my biggest concern.


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How can I block/redirect people that go to my website that are located in Los Angeles county? Maybe with JavaScript? I have found out how to block individual ips with .htaccess but that's not quite what I want. Edit: I found a JavaScript script that is for getting location but how can I make it redirect ? http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/191892/How-to-find-current- location-based-on-the-IP-addre


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I have a blog being served by a machine I have at home. Since the ip can change i set up a dyndns domain to always point to that machine. However, I purchased a more friendly domain (at godaddy.com) and I would like to forward it to that blog. The problem is that if I simply forward it the users will see the dyndns domain in the address bar and could potentially bookmark those urls and that's a problem. I noticed that godaddy.com has domain masking and although it does hide the dyndns domain in the address bar, it also keeps the same root address in the address bar even if I navigate to another page. I also have the feeling that search engines will not like this domain masking thing. Does anyone know how can I accomplish what I want?


phpbb and filesystem storage

Can I save the images file on filesystem (no db) in phpbb?


Is this a good WordPress robots.txt configuration?

I am about to launch a new WordPress site and below is what I came up with for my _robots.txt_ file. Should I combine some of these directives with a wildcard or should I include them both ways? I know that some search engines don't read wildcards.               sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml          User-agent:  *     Disallow: */comments/     Disallow: */feed/     Disallow: */trackback/     Disallow: *?replytocom     Disallow: /*.css$     Disallow: /*.inc$     Disallow: /*.js$     Disallow: /*.php$     Disallow: /*/*.inc$     Disallow: /*/*.js$     Disallow: /*/*?s=*     Disallow: /*/cgi-bin/*     Disallow: /*/feed/     Disallow: /*/feed/*     Disallow: /*/trackback/     Disallow: /*/trackback/*     Disallow: /*/wp-*     Disallow: /*/xmlrpc.php     Disallow: /*?     disallow: /*?*     Disallow: /archives/     Disallow: /author     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /comments/     Disallow: /comments/feed/     Disallow: /feed/     Disallow: /index.php     Disallow: /login/     Disallow: /wp-*     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-content/     Disallow: /wp-content/cache/     Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/     Disallow: /wp-content/themes/     Disallow: /wp-includes/     Disallow: /wp-rss.php     Disallow: /wp-rss2.php     Disallow: /xmlrpc.php     Disallow: ?wptheme=     Disallow: /readme.html     Disallow: /license.txt     Allow: /wp-content/uploads          User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*     Disallow:     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot-Image     Disallow:     Allow: /wp-content/uploads/          User-agent: Adsbot-Google     Disallow:     Allow: /          User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile     Disallow:     Allow: /          User-agent: duggmirror     Disallow: /          User-agent: ia_archiver     Disallow: /


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So the client wants a multi-colored background (think 4 colors of paint splats randomly all over the page. Because of this the headers are a bit hard to read. I've currently got them set up as black text with some white drop shadow, but it's still pretty hard to read in IE. How can I make the headers legible regardless of what is behind them (it's a CMS so position on the page is liable to change regularly)?


How to show a preview thumbnail on Facebook of a imageless website?

I have recently designed a website with no img tags, only one big fat CSS sprite with everything in it. Though, when I try to publish that website on Facebook, it won't show a preview thumbnail — probably because it doesn't find any images on the markup. Any suggestions? I'd still like to keep it a super fast img-less website, nevertheless.


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Which is better from an SEO perspective: a static well-optimized homepage for the primary keyword (say, primary-keyword.com) of a website, or a homepage featuring the latest posts?


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Does anyone know of a site that lists various open source data feeds or data stores? By this I do not mean OS database applications like MySQL or Postgre, but royalty free sources of DATA. For example, IMDB.com allows you to download their data for free, but it is proprietary and cannot be used for commercial purposes for less than $10k. It would be nice if there was a royalty free version of that somewhere. However I'm looking for any source of data in any industry--entertainment, auto, tech, etc.


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I'm creating an AJAX live search on a website I'm working on. Users will select values from a few dropdowns and a list of products will be returned based on what they select. Some possible fields would be: color, model, make, etc. What type of organization of search results do users tend to find most useful? Is it better to lump them all together (alphabatized) or is it more useful to lump them together by make? In the past I've tended to group them by "make" but I'm not concerned that this will continually force some items with a make toward the end of the alphabet always to the bottom of the list. Any tips are greatly appreciated.


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Double vs Single Quotes in Chrome

So when you want to embed google docs on a site you are given this chunk of code:                     This works fine on my site. If you edit the page, we run the new content through some filters to escape out stuff and make sure it is valid html. After the process, the link above gets converted to this:                     This will work on every browser except for chrome. Chrome thinks I am running JS in the src. I narrowed it down to a combination of double quotes and escaped '&' symbols. If i revert one of those back to the original state, the iframe works. I work in ruby where ' and " have different behaviors. Is Chrome doing the same thing? Is there a way to turn that off?


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I've come into a bit of an issue lately regarding shopping cart software, and I would like some recommendations. I have been an OsCommerce developer for years now, and I'm finding a lot of my clients are wanting updated looking backends ... OSC is fantastic, but the fact that its not being updated anymore and that it's clunky and table-based is taking up quite a bit of my time. I have built a few sites on Magento, and although it has quite a good backend, it is the slowest shopping cart I have ever come across in my time, that and the fact that modifying it takes years, has convinced me not to use that again. So, I like any input as to what people are finding good in today's open source shopping cart software.


Please suggest Alternative to Microsoft HMC, an Automated Hosting Managment Solution for all Microsoft Products?

I am not really sure whether this is the right forum to put up this. But here it goes. I am a Hosting Controller and Automated Hosting Management solution provider for Microsoft Products and Services (Exchange, SharePoint, CRM, Unified Messaging etc). Currently I am using Microsoft HMC 4.0 as my main Hosting Solution along with some other solutions for Automated hosting management of Websites, 3rd Party Mail Service Providers, DNS Service Providers and Scripted Solution (Perl, Python, Cold-fusion support). Microsoft will end support for HMC soon enough and i am not really ready to upgrade to MCCS due to various issues discussed in the very same article. I need an All-In-One Hosting Automation and Management solution for Microsoft Services that must essentially support the following services:   1. **Long term business Support** (HMC 4.5 is the last version of this solution. Microsoft will support HMC 3.5 through July 12, 2011, and will support HMC 4.x through December 12, 2011.)   2. **Product Support for Latest Features** (Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010, CRM 2011, OCS 2010 (Lync 2010), Blackberry 4 and 5)   3. **All-IN-One Support for all Products and Services** (Spending on individual solutions is wastage of money for me)   4. **Legacy Microsoft Support** (Exchange 2007, CRM 4.0, Sharepoint WSS 3.0)   5. **Self Service sort of Control Panel** (For Clients and Resellers)   6. **Automatic Billing System** (Must be part of the complete solution)   7. **Migration of Exchange 2007 Existing Customers to Exchange 2010**. The bullets from 1 to 7 are my business's stringent requirements. Paying for multiple solutions is costly both in terms of management and support as well as licensing. I have been using a separate billing system solution that is not tightly integrated with HMC and i have to face issues from time to time due to it. I need to have a tightly integrated billing system with my hosting management solution. I need to provide my clients with a proper central control panel/dashboard/portal from where clients, resellers and myself can manage each product's provisioning and associated services, manage subscriptions and billing. I need long term support for the solution. I also have a strong requirement of upgrading (migrating) some of my existing users/organizations/mailboxes etc of Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. Please suggest an All-In-One Automated Hosting management solution that meets the above requirements at the moment. I have been looking a couple of hosting panels that support Microsoft products and meet most of the above requirements. But i cant just go for any one of any without seeking help from the community.


Adding description for words on your website

I am creating a website with a lot of programming language, and words that are related to programming and application development. Now I like the idea to have a tooltip on certain words, let's say a word like php. When someone rolls over the word a small popup appears with a small text explaining what it is. Stackoverflow uses the same when you roll over a tag. Is here an API that I can use to get the info on certain words, or should I create it myself.


Revenue through YouTube

Is there anyway I can generate revenue using YouTube `embed` tag on my site? Maybe some kind of AdSense integration to ads showing up in the videos?


SEO: Similar, but not duplicate, content across several subdomains

I have a website that allows users to find/submit tips for doing specific fitness activities. The site is structured as "[activity].example.com"   * example.com   * swimming.example.com   * lifting.example.com Each subdomain is meant to be a (partially) closed-off community specific to that activity. For example, the swimming subdomain is where all swimming tips are created and shared. However, some tips appear on all of the subdomains (for example, a "stretching" tip would most likely appear on all activity pages). The top tips may also be aggregated to the root domain. This has been happening quite a bit, and I'm wondering what the SEO implications are. One example of a site that has a similar setup is reddit. They have their site set up to 301-redirect "[subreddit].reddit.com" to "reddit.com/r/[subreddit]". Presumably this is for SEO purposes. Am I being hurt SEO-wise by having these subdomains? I.e. is Google seeing them as separate sites with duplicate content? Should I structure the site more like reddit with the sub-directory structure instead? I know questions related to this one have been answered, but those are more towards exact duplicate content. Thank you in advance for your help.


"Unable to review your site" - AdSense

Please reply to my question and then close it. Now My life is fully depend upon ad sense. Yesterday i have submitted my website for final review of my ad sense account. But today i received a message saying: * * * As mentioned in our welcome email, we conduct a second review of your AdSense application once AdSense code is placed on your site(s). As a result of this review, we have disapproved your account for the following violation(s): Issues: - **Unable to review your site** * * * Please help me to solve this problem. I am very worrying and tense about it. What is the reason for this message?


How to tell which URLs have fallen out of search engine index

I've had a few pages trimmed from google's indexed number on my sitemap in webmaster tools. How can I tell which pages have been dropped?


Reporting Copied (Stolen) Product Descriptions to Google

If a competitor copies your unique product descriptions on an eCommerce site, what is the proper way to report the copied content to google? Do you have to take different action for Web Organic search and Shopping search?


Move site to new domain divided by language across subdomains

I managed to find a nice domain for a fairly fledgling site of mine that actually hasn't been parked by scumbag squatters. Given the upcoming move I'm thinking I'd take the opportunity to split the content across subdomains according to language, much like wikipedia for example:               current:     www.old-domain.com/en/subject  # English        www.old-domain.com/subjecto    # Spanish (default so not locale in url)          proposed     en.new-domain.com/subject     es.new-domain.com/subjecto      The advantage of doing this is a fairly competitive keyword such that I may wish to put a copy of my application on a Spanish slice in order to gain a few serp's. Also pure vanity. Google's webmaster tools allows me to move to the new domain and I can add the root domain and the subdomains but forward to only one. I'll 301 from the old domain appropriately but is there anything I should know about webmaster tools in this respect where effectively I'm moving to two addresses? (Feel free to dissuade me from doing this if it's a bad idea in comments.) * * * I've now asked this same question on google's forums.


How do I transfter files to this SunOS server?

According to the admin of the webserver, I should be able to use Filezilla to transfer files to the server but I am getting an error. First: I'm able to connect to the remote server using X-Win32 ssh, from my Windows 7 machine:               SunOS server.edu 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5220     System type is SUN4V with 65408 MB of memory.          server.edu(1):       Next, I set up Filezilla for transfering files sftp - using these directions I found on the web. However, this is what I get:               Status:    Connecting to server.edu:12345...     Response:    fzSftp started     Command:    open "gmcnulty@server.edu" 12345     Error:    Connection timed out     Error:    Could not connect to server     Status:    Waiting to retry...     Status:    Connecting to server.edu:12345...     Response:    fzSftp started     Command:    open "gmcnulty@server.edu" 12345     Error:    Connection timed out     Error:    Could not connect to server      Any point in the right direction would be very helpful.


Migrating to Prestashop to optimize SEO

We are redesigning the frontend of an ecommerce site coded by hand. The client hasn't expressed interest in changing the backend administration but requested us to implement SEO on the site. We consulted with a freelance consultant and strongly suggested for us to migrate to Prestashop to optimze the seo of the site. I'm reluctant since I think that through front-end coding the site can be optimzed for search engines. Another guy told us that if we migrate platform we would lose all the current positioning on search engines. What would be the best approach in this case?


Using env variables with RewriteRule and ErrorDocument

I'm having problems with the following while config. my Apache server to Rewrite some urls.               SetEnv PATH_TO_DIR /directory          RewriteRule ^%{PATH_TO_DIR}/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)/?$ /index.php?dir=$1&file=$2          ErrorDocument 404 %{PATH_TO_DIR}/index.php?dir=null&file=error      This conf. used to work perfectly fine until I used SetEnv PATH... etc. I need to use this because there are lots of rules, not just those. Can anyone point out my mistake? Apache returns               %{PATH_TO_DIR}/index.php?dir=null&file=error      when I try anything (www.site.com/foo/bar for instance). Apache returns the ErrorDocument if i just try to fetch the index. I know it's not a problem with the rewrite rules because they work when I remove the PATH_TO_DIR variable and just hard code it. Thanks! A.


How can I search DNS records by registrant or admin contact info, email address for example?

I'd like to search for all domain names administered by jon.doe@domain.com for example. Are there any search tools out there that allow such a search?


Most invariant URI to refer to a HTML5 element from w3.org?

If one is in a situation where you are required to use a URI (simple strings would not do)...how would you refer to the concept of an HTML5 element ("div", "li", etc.)? As a starting point for what an answer to this question _might_ look sort of like, here is a URL for div under w3.org: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/div.html XHTML had namespaces, so you might have built on that: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/ But even then, how would you have referred to div, specifically? `http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/div`? _(I don't know any precedent for how to combine them, only to invoke as`<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/">...</div>`. Did any such precedent ever arise to produce a combined URI from a namespace and an element?)_ Properties of a good solution:   * All HTML5 elements covered, each with a separate unique URL (or URN... `urn:html5:div`?)   * Defined invariantly by w3c.org or similar, in a place where they promise to obey the Cool URIs don't change principle   * Though not as important as the other requirements, it would be ideal if there were some machine-processable information returned when the URI was fetched (list of legal attributes, etc.)


Unreachable robots.txt error

I am getting _Unreachable robots.txt error_ whenever I use fetch as Google. I know, on this site there is other queations related my issue. But I also use Google Page Speed test, site is working correctly than getting 91/100 score. how can I fix it?


Facebook Comments and page SEO

Facebook's recently launched commenting system for blogs loads comments in an iframe, instead of loading them inline. Since blog comments can often contribute significantly to the page's SEO, is it a good idea to use Facebook's system on my blog? Or, does Google recognize iframe content as a part of the page and treats it as such? (It's noteworthy that Disqus.com does not use iframes and loads all comments inline)


Subdomain redirection to directory on another domain

I was wondering what is going to be the easiest way to do the following; Point wibble.site1.com to site2.com/directory/ So that wibble.site1.com/index.php will read from site2.com/directory/index.php Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, pretty much everything I have found online helps you jump around within your own domain or gets you to the root of another domain.


Google webmaster Verification failed

I have a site created by Ruby on Rails. I had successfully verified the site with Google Webmaster Tools some months ago. However, recently Webmaster Tools has been asking me to verify my site. I tried again to verify my site using Meta tags and HTML files, but now I cannot get it to successfully verify. The error message I get is: "Verification failed. The connection to your server timed out." Since then, Google hasn't been crawling my site's content - though Google still crawls my PDF contents on my site.


Does rotating text get picked up for SEO?

Does rotating text like on apple.com's homepage get picked up in spiders for search engines? Is rotating text relavent in SEO?


Google Places good rank on wrong keyword/category

I have noticed that several people find my website by searching for a completely unrelated term. This has to do with the fact that I have registered the company on Google Places with the keyword/category "webb-hotell", which in Swedish means web-hosting. If you are Swedish you may suggest using "webbhotell" instead. But the thing is that Google doesn't consider that a category, thus I get no rank at all for that keyword. It seems like I'm getting hits from people searching hotels in my area. If I type "hotel [my location]" I get a really high rank. It's not like I want people to end up on my site if they want a hotel, but it's Google's fault. My question is: What can I do about it? P.S: Can someone create the tag "google-places" for me?


Can a Google Penalty affect other sites with same owner, and how not to be recognized as the owner

i have a website with some pretty good ranking and SEO that I don't want to hurt, I have an SEO consultant that is working on it and I know he doesn't do any black-hat stuff. Now I'm launching a new website and I want to try and do the off-page SEO for myself, or hire someone new that I didn't work with yet. I'm afraid that the new guy I hire will use black-hat techniques, spam or things like that, and get the new site penalized. It might even happen if I do the off-page SEO for myself. I might make a mistake , since it'll be my first time doing off-page SEO by myself. I read that if one website is penalized by Google, other sites may also be penalized if they belong to the same owner. As for how Google can recognize that they have the same owner I'm not sure, one idea is according to the Google Webmaster Tools account. Anyway, there might be also other factors that don't occur to me that might cause Google to decide the two websites are connected somehow. Does anyone know if this is true or has any experience with this? How can I make sure the two websites aren't considered connected by Google? And how do I make sure the new website doesn't hurt the old one in case the new SEO consultant uses blackhat techniques and the new site to be penalized?


Website with over 1 million posts with not much textual content

I've made a website which crawls files from all over the Internet and I feel like Google will ban me if I sent it sitemaps which contain all of these pages (1m+), because they contain only the file name/size/no of downloads and the download link(s). I'm considering this thought because I've made another website like this in the past and Google banned me after one week with the reason: "spam", even it was not (maybe somebody falsely reported me?!). Does someone have an idea about how to keep Google form banning my website? I've seen several other sites like mine and they don't get banned or... anything. And also, should I sent the sitemap or wait until Google indexes every page as it finds them? Thanks in advance :)


When clientTransferProhibited is off to transfer a domain name, couldn't the name be stolen?

I'd like to transfer a domain from one registrar (Key-systems) to another registrar (OVH). I don't really understand the procedure and I'm a bit confused... I read everywhere that `clientTransferProhibited` prevents people from stealing your domain name. Now apparently during the course of transferring my domain from Key-systems to OVH, I'll need to change `clientTransferProhibited` so that the transfer is allowed. Wouldn't my domain then become "stealable" during some amount of time? (a few hours / days / week)


How can I spellcheck entire website?

I need to spellcheck an entire website(950 pages). I'd like to find a FREE tool like xenu (which checks broken links) but checks spelling instead. does anyone know of a tool like this? Thank you note: i've seen a few free services online that ask for the web address and the email the results to you but they limit you to checking only a few pages....I have 950.


Laravel Detailed Error Page Lost

I want to see all problems when a file can't loaded e.g. I used to do it but now I can't. The only thing I get when a problem occurs is > Whoops, looks like something went wrong. How can I change this to detailed error? How can I see which line has to be fixed?


Crawl Errors (404) Showing Up in WMT

I see from WMT that my site has 4 (404) crawl errors, each Linked from 2 separate pages. As this is a small directory listings site it would be difficult to delete the missing URLs from the db each time it happens. Does Google penalise me for this in any way?


Site got taken out of the search engines almost entirely

I have a new site (just over 3 months old) and after a month or so, it started ranking for some searches in Google. Then suddenly after 2 months, boom, no traffic coming from search other than when people search for the name of the site. My question is whether this is something common? I was doing some link- building, but nothing too out of whack. I did 2 guest posts on some blogs.


where can I find the 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics

I believe there is a 'Clicks' metric group in Google Analytics, however I cannot find it and there is little to no documentation on this. Does this still exist in GA and, if so, what report shall I find it in?


How much percentage of total internet users are online at any given moment?

Also, how does this percentage change during the day? Is it different in developed countries than in developing countries?


Putting Together HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Hopefully this question isn't too broad… I am a competent iOS programmer and have some experience with Java (command- line tools). Over the last year or two I've dabbled into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Learning iOS and Java, I started with a book ( _Programming in Objective-C_ (Kochan)—it was my first language besides a tiny bit of C) and once I got the syntax down, I would just go to _the_ source of documentation and figure things out. I know the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript syntax, but I don't know how to put it all together into a "modern"/well-designed web page. I can do some some simple formatting, run some scripts, but the layout still looks like it was designed by a 90-year-old bank executive in a cheap suit. I don't see how to put the languages together into a webpage…Given static images, I would not be able to pull together a mockup of the SO site, for example. I know about `<img>` tags and basic CSS position, but it's just not coming together for me. I also find that what little "official" documentation (W3Schools) exists is rather shallow and does not do a good job of joining everything together…but that might just be because I'm not familiar with everything. Can anyone recommend any really good resources (web or print, preferably not video, as I'd like to go at my own pace) that can help me? * * * **Addendum:** Coming from a desktop platform, I'm used to things being where they are and having much more control over aspects, primarily UI layout but also data input methods and processing—iOS and Java have much richer libraries than JavaScript. How should I get around this mentality? Does anyone have any personal experience? **Update 1:** Thanks for the replies (This is more for the comments; Daveo's answer is rather helpful). However, I do want to say that it's not the actual design I need help with—it's converting the design into code, not only in mockup/layout form but also in actual usability.


What meta tag do you use to provide Google with a publication date?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How does Google recognize publish date of a post I read about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and some spotty documentation from Google, but I can't find an official resource. Thanks in advance.


I have found a fancy looking cubic jquery image slider for jquery mobile website here: http://m.jeep.com/en/mobile/vehicles/selector.html?app=bmo#&ui- state=dialog Now I want to use this slider in one of my project.But I didn't found any resource of this kind of slider for mobile website in online.Now I need to know if there are this kind of slider on the internet ? Or do you know any useful resource of image slider for mobile site (I didn't find any effective resource).


How to take off .html from domain.com/page.html

I am using cPanel to build a website and I am not sure how to take the .html or .php file extension off my webpages. Usually I will use a python framework and I do the routing manually but I am not sure how to do it with cPanel. I saw something about using .htaccess but I am not sure what I would need to put in there. Any help appreciated!


Domain blocked in spamhaus

I registered a domain with bigrock.in a week ago. During my website's development phase, I sent several mails using PHPMailer to test Gmail accounts. The HTML message body contained a link to my domain name. Other than that, I cannot remember of any other place where I have used my domain. Now today my website development was finished (kinda) . So I wanted to test it. I ordered a VPS, set up everything properly, only to see the following message : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sOdWa.png) After searching for hours on google, I figured that the url in my mails may have been the problem. (Were they?). So I went to Spamhause Blacklist Removal Center, here. When I submitted my domain for removal, I got the following message : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VyOWB.png) Now this is getting irritating. I am not a spammer, I send mails only for register verification and similar purposes. Why can I not remove it from their blacklist? What do I have to do to remove it? Again, after searching google for hours, I couldn't even find their contact email adrress. When (if) my domain gets delisted , what should I do in order to prevent this from happening again? UPDATE : Mxtoolbox says that DBL listed my domain to blacklist because of `No IP queries`


DNS NAmeserver Aname and cname records

I am inexperienced in the configuration of DNS and have an issue with dominan hosting set up. I have two domains 'www.mydomain1.com' and 'www.mydomain2.com', with mydomain2 pointed at the same place as mydomain1. The domains were passed to me recently by the person who previoulsy controlled them. I have an account with Fasthosts in the UK. When I accepted the domains I could not access the DNS settings and inquired with fasthosts as to why. The reply was: > The delegate hosting option for both domains were enabled and this is the > reason why you were unable to find the option to edit the advanced DNS > records. > > I have now disabled the delegate hosting option so you can now edit the > advanced DNS records for both domains in your account. When I log into the Fasthost control panel now I can access the DNS controls but both domains have no A record or Cname record set up. I am concerned that Fasthosts have blatted the previous Nameserver entries and set me up on theirs but not added any record. 'www.mydomain1.com' currently still works but 'www.mydomain2.com' does not find the site anymore. I am worried I will lose mydomain1 to as the DNS changes filter through the system. my webhosting is at 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mydomain1.com/' and this is where I want both domains to point. Any advice would be much appreciated. One thing which is confusing me is that because I am on a shared server I have to put 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/mydomain1.com/' to get to my site rather than just 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'. The form on Fasthosts for the A name record only allows an IP to be entered - does it add the mydomain1.com/ onto the end itself? Thanks for any help given - I'm quite worried about this David


How to estimate what kind of server resources you will require at launch?

How can I go about/what is the best way of estimating what kind of server resources I will require at the launch of a new project. Let's say for instance I'd gathered 10k users email addresses that opted-in to be informed when we launch. I didn't really want to go for a cloud solution at the moment. Should I just get a reasonably-specced dedicated server and go from there, or should I be looking at services like Amazon EC2? Or should I start out with EC2 for the fully-flexible resources, then once things stabilize I'll be able to sort a fixed hosting deal that is adequate elsewhere? Sub-question: What's a good way of estimating what load a particular application will place on the server per user?


Mod_rewrite on Amazon S3

Is it possible to use mod_rewrite on Amazon S3?               www.example.com/about.html -> mybucket.s3.amazon.com/index.html     www.example.com/welcome.html -> mybucket.s3.amazon.com/index.html     www.example.com/contact.html -> mybucket.s3.amazon.com/index.html      Thanks!


Google is not ranking Magento based website

I cannot seem to receive a google page rank for encryptstick.com the site has been live for about 5 months now, we have very good linking from sources such as pcworld.com, cnet.com, pcmag.com etc. The website is magento based, could there be an issue with magento that is blocking google from reading & ranking the site correctly? I've run the site through google webmaster tools as how google bot sees the site. the code is posted below. Does anyone have any comments as to why this site will not rank?               HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:19:03 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: frontend=635d30c52325df09c93409cb35461f76; expires=Wed, 22-Dec-2010 03:19:03 GMT; path=/; domain=encryptstick.com; HttpOnly Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">   <title>Encrypt Stick™ - 3 in 1 Digital Privacy Software - USB Encryption, Private Web Browser & Password Manager</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="description" content="Insure your digital privacy with Encrypt Stick digital privacy software. Everyone has private digital files that need extra security -  Keep your sensitive files hidden and secure at all times." /> <meta name="keywords" content="protect files flash drive usb Encryptstick protection identity private" /> <meta name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" /> <meta name="author" content="ENC Security Systems Inc.">          <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://encryptstick.com/skin/frontend/default/default/css/reset.css" media="all" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://encryptstick.com/skin/frontend/default/default/css/960_24_col.css" media="all" />          <link rel="icon" href="http://encryptstick.com/skin/frontend/default/default/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://encryptstick.com/skin/frontend/default/default/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://encryptstick.com/skin/frontend/base/default/css/widgets.css" media="all" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://encryptstick.com/skin/frontend/default/default/css/styles.css" media="all" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://encryptstick.com/skin/frontend/default/default/css/print.css" media="print" />                         <meta name="google-site-verification" content="2JhNAp-g4AbP67EhpBsV1gSpf-SUSbjdGa4ATzasr2Y" />

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where to store images?

i am making a website that will have a big ammount of photos and images, where should i store these is a database an efficient option? thanks


Tracking key words on Google Analytics

How can I find the key words that people are using to enter my site when they use Google's HTTPS search engine? I am getting "not provided" on my Google Analytics when they use HTTPS!


CSS only rounded corners in IE8?

Is it possible to get rounded corners in IE8 using only CSS? If so, how?


Notification for too many Apache connection errors on shared hosting?

My hosting provider specifies how many simultaneous connections the hosting account can handle. The question is how do I know if my site reached this limit and drops connnections? I have a PHP site which have proper error reporting and sends me a message if an error occurs, but in this case it does not apply, because if there are too many concurrent connections then Apache does not even call my PHP scripts. How can I be notified if this error occurs, so that I know it's time to upgrade my account to a bigger hosting package which can handle more simultaneous connections?


Google Analytics setting cookies on static content despite being on entirely separate domain

I recently decided to comply with the YSlow recommendation that static content is hosted on a cookieless domain. As I already use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my website—on which Google Analytics sets a few cookies—that meant I had to move the CNAME URL for the CDN serving the static files from cdn.donaldjenkins.com to an entirely separate, dedicated domain. I purchased `cdn.dj` (yes, it's a real Djibouti domain name), hosted the files on the root (which contains nothing else, other than a robots.txt file) and set a CNAME of `e.cdn.dj` for the CDN. This setup works, but I was rather surprised to find that YSlow was still flagging the static files for not being cookie-free: here's a screenshot: ![Static files still not cookie-free](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WHHY6.png) The `cdn.dj`domain was new, and was never used for anything other than hosting these static files. Running httpfox on the site shows the `_utma` and `_utmz` Google Analytics cookies are being set on the static files listed above—despite their being hosted on an entirely separate, dedicated domain. Here's my Google Analytics code:               //Google Analytics tracking code     var _gaq=[['_setAccount','UA-5245947-5'],['_trackPageview']];     (function(d,t){var g=d.createElement(t),s=d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];     g.src=('https:'==location.protocol?'//ssl':'//www')+'.google-analytics.com/ga.js';     s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s)}(document,'script'));     // [END] Google Analytics tracking code      I'm not obsessing about this issue—I _know_ it's not really affecting server performance—but I'd like to just _understand_ what is causing it not to go away...


Is URL without HTTP a hyperlink for SEO?

In my spam check I don't accept comments which contain a `http://` or `https://`. But many spam I'm getting are specifying this in HTML:               <a href="www.example.com" .....      Can this link be considered as valid by Google for SEO rankings? Since some links like this are able to sneak into my sites.


What is Parked Domain and how can we generate a revenue from a parked domain

I have registered a domain name abc.com from xyz company. i have the secret code too. I have heard about the revenue from parked domains. I would like to know how can we generate revenue from it and what do we need to park domain


Hosted website building solution for a multilingual website

I am looking for a hosted website builder / toolkit (like **Jimdo** and **Weebly** ), which supports multilingual websites. I would like to create different language versions of my website. The detection of the user's language should be automatic (depending on its browser settings or IP address location). The only website builders which offer a multilingual feature and automatic language detection I have found so far, are **Edicy** and **Webnode**. **Jimdo** offers the creation of multilingual sites but no language detection. Are there any solutions which offer automatic language detection you would recommend?


Why is my website cached so aggressively?

Whenever I update my website by uploading a new index.html or index.php, it always takes a long time (e.g. hours or days) for that change to propagate to my browser. Even when I hit F5, I still get the old page loaded (quite fast too), so I'm guessing that it's being cached somewhere. The problem happens in Firefox and Chrome. Currently I get around this by using a different access URL every time (e.g. every time I make a change, I enter my URL as http://www.example.com/?a=43784 with a different random number every time.) What's the correct solution to this problem? (For example, I can't imagine a news website would be very useful if people's computers/browsers cached the results for hours/days)


Why Google Webmaster Tools list HTTP status 303 as crawl error?

There is another interesting question about status 303 and seo here but it does not answer me why status 303 appears now in **GWT in the crawl errors section** since end of January. In my understanding 303 status is NOT an error and there are situations where 303 is from the technical point of view the right thing to do. See explanation of the status 303 (See other location) here: > The server returns this code when the requestor should make a separate GET > request to a different location to retrieve the response. For all requests > other than a HEAD request, the server automatically forwards to the other > location. So is the final conclusion that 303 is evil for SEO? Should only 301 redirect be used?


Cufon text replacement and IE8 standards mode

I have a perculiar issue. In IE8 standards mode text replaced by `Cufon.Replace` ~~works roughly 50% of the time, the rest of the time~~ the DOM modifications are there (viewed through IE developer toolbar in IE8) but no text actually appears. Sometimes have to refresh the page a number of times to be able to recreate it; others it works first page load - this is the case for a site you have never visited. The Cufon.Replace isn't throwing an exception or producing any other issue. Googling hasn't helped - others mention issues in IE8, but this lack of text is permanent and not just a slow loading issue. **EDIT** : Interestingly wrapping the `Cufon.replace` in the `$(document).ready(function(){});` stopped it from ever working! Something in the DOM is to blame... I presume **EDIT 2** : Applying the Cufon.replace manually once the page has fully loaded works. This is strange. Is there a later event than ready?


Is it possible to find on which pages Adsense units are active?

In Google Adsense there is an ad unit that is showing as Active, even though I am sure it's not on any of my pages. I checked the ID against my entire website folder with `grep` and nothing came up. Under "Performance Reports" the ad unit appears to get an average of 4 impressions each day. Where might these ads be showing up? From a (really) old cache, perhaps? Is there any way to find out exactly what pages gave those ad impressions?


Data on male/female online buying patterns

Looking for data on the buying pattern for males vs females online:   * Percent of transactions (with estimated count of total transactions)   * Percent of total dollar value (with estimated total in US-Dollars)   * Any additional information. If possible, within the US only; but additional information is a bonus.


Do search engines care about case sensitivity of HTML tags and JavaScript functions?

Which is better for SEO ? **HTML**   1. `<p id="hello"></p>`   2. `<p id="HELLO"></p>`   3. `<p id="Hello"></p>`   4. `<p id="hELLO"></p>` **JAVASCRIPT**   1. `function hello(){}`   2. `function HELLO(){}`   3. `function Hello(){}`   4. `function hELLO(){}`


DNS records: make mydomain.com work without www

I am trying to configure DNS on my domain, however, I can only get it to work with the `www` prefix. Right now I have the following DNS `A` records:               @             A   123.456.789     www           A   123.456.789      `http://www.mydomain.com` works perfectly. But `http://mydomain.com` fails. I've tried all of the following:               mydomain.com  A   123.456.789     mydomain      A   123.456.789     *             A   123.456.789      But it always goes to port `:80 requires a username and password`. Except now it's somehow being redirected to a spammers website.


Is there an easy way to do referrer based advertising?

This a bit of a weird question so please let me know if you need more information. For a side project I am working on I need to ability to generate advertising on a specific page based on a specified domain. I have looked a bit and haven't found anything that really fits this so I'm hoping someone here has a service like this or can push me in the correct direction. I'm not super interested in finding my own advertiser/rolling my own solution currently (not to say it wont happen in the future), looking for more of an out of the box solution. Clarification: The advertising on this page will be generated based upon the referral URL. So in other words instead of the advertising content being contextual to the page it is delivered on.. it is contextual to a domain/URL. TYIA


Website where I can browse domain names

I was wondering if there is a website where I can browse trough available domain names. I often create new websites and getting a good name is always a pain. Because when I settle for a good name the domain is almost always taken. While browsing trough them you can get some inspiration, and see if they are free also.


Best semantic structure & SEO optimised approach for image replacement for badges?

In the past, I extensively used CSS image replacement techniques for SEO purposes and to separate presentation from content. But from my reading of the Google Webmaster guidelines and other comments recently, I'm starting to question whether it is better to use `<img>` with alt attributes in _most_ cases, reserving CSS image replacement for cases where there isn't an alternative. For example, I'm trying to display a 'badge' image showing the ISO9001 certification of a client. Am I right in concluding that the best approach would be to mark up something like... **HTML:**

ISO9001 Accreditation

Quality ISO 9001 Certified System

FM 999999

      **CSS:**               div.accreditationItem h4, div.accreditationItem p {         display: none;     }


Which web standard definitions could be clearer and how?

Discussions of web standards frequently describe their official definitions as "impenetrable", "confusing" and "messy", almost as if this is self-evident. I can't remember having seen a web specification praised for it's clarity. I'm interested whether the community thinks this is justified. Which web standard specs have you had cause to refer to and have found inaccessibly defined or written? How would you improve them? Or, which have you found to be clear and helpful? * * * Fitting with the theme: Answers SHOULD cover one specification only. Constructive criticism, linking to the spec in question and quoting examples are RECOMMENDED.


HTML heading and html special characters

I'm trying to edit a index.html file but in my heading my html special character code is not showing on the screen. Example:
Souscrire à infolettre
      This should display as "`Souscrire à infolettre`" but the `à` isn't showing.


404 code/header for search engines, on removed user content?

I just got an email, from a former user on my website He was complaining that Google still shows the contact page he created on my site, even though he deleted it a month ago This is the first time in many years anyone requests this I told him, that it's almost entirely up to Google what content it wants to keep/show and for how long. If it's deleted on the site, I can't do much, other than request a re-visit from the googlebot The user-page already now says something like "Not found. The user has removed the content" TL;DR: But the question is: Should I generally add a 404 header (or other) for dynamic user content that has been removed from the site? Or could this hurt the site (SEO)?


Display Call To Action bar on page load

I am using the following code to load the bar on click but I can't figure our how to load it on page load automatically.                     Basically I am trying to load a the message when user enters my website and I will be inserting it via Google Tag Manager. Below is a page where I found the code: Creative Tag Manager – Ads, Promotions, and Visitor Messaging -Lunametrics


Can HTML sitemaps easily be created from XML sitemaps?

I would like to create an HTML sitemap from a .xml file and was wondering if this could be done?


How to use Schema.org for Adverts on a website - WPAdBlock

I'm trying to use schema.org to indicate advertisements on my website. I'm concerned that putting adverts within the content of a blog page will hurt my SEO and I'm hoping using schema might help make things clear to search engines. This is what I have so far, an image with a link.

         * is the above schema I'm using correct?   * should I rather be inserting these adverts with javascript or jquery rather than just html? I am not using an ad network these are custom ads.


Facebook thinks my site may be unsafe!

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Website falsely blocked because of spam. Does anyone know how we should > proceed? Whenever anybody clicks on a link that I've posted on any Facebook Page (including my page http://www.facebook.com/GalaxyS4.info) to my website (http://www.galaxy-s4.info/) they get directed to an warning message which reads: > Facebook thinks this site may be unsafe. If you're not familiar with it, > please provide feedback by marking it as spam (you'll be brought back to > Facebook) Any idea why this is happening? Μy site is safe and not a spam site! I've checked with Google Webmaster tools - no issues or malware. I tried to contact facebook to resolve this issue but no lack until now. **Can anyone suggest what to do?**


IP blocked because: (smtpauth) Failed SMTP AUTH login from - can someone explain?

Today I had a few users blocked in our server firewall because of: (smtpauth) Failed SMTP AUTH login from Can someone explain the reason? What does it exactly mean? Could someone be using the our website to access SMTP for spamming purpose? UPDATE: Server info: Centos OS with CPanel and WHM. However no one has access to either. Taking a look at the logs it looks like someone repetitively attempted to login with a known existent user/pass.


Google Analytics Dashboard: week-by-week view

Setting up Google Analytics Dashboard allows webmasters to get a weekly progress report of marketing achievements & keep a finger on what's going on at web properties. However, by default, the dashboard always displays a day-by-day report, which isn't actionable in markets, where meaningful improvements happen on a week- by-week, or month-over-month basis. Is there any way the default view (and reports sent out via email) can be set to display week-level resolution, as opposed to day-level resolution? (ie, repro: analytics -> site -> Standard reports -> audience -> overview -> right side of the window, click "weeK") Many thanks!


Ajax crawling : snapshot page dissimilar with user page

For ajax-crawling purpose I make snapshots pages. My problem is user view pages and snapshot pages are dissimilar (tags `h1`, `h2`...). Example:   * user view page: `http://www.meomap.net/#!/place/1`   * snapshots page: `http://www.meomap.net/?_escaped_fragment_=/place/1` My question is that it is bad or no problem for SEO?


Any free/affordable alternatives to Polldaddy?

I'm looking for a free/cheap embeddable poll that I can just stuff in an iframe - the page I've been tasked to maintain has been created in iWeb, which does not generate anything but the final markup of the page. Polldaddy seems nice, but if you get over 100 responses in a month you're instantly in the $200/year bracket. Are there any services that are free/cheaper that will do the same basic thing? What about software I can host myself? I'm willing to toss up a PHP script so long as I can embed it in iWeb's iframe.


Storing credit card details

I need to store credit card numbers for recurring billing through our 3rd party merchant. Are there any standards I need to adhere to regarding the storage of the details? We've been accepting credit cards for years but we used to discard their details as soon as we were done with them. Our customers have requested that we store their details so they don't have to manually pay their subscription fee each month. Moving to PayPal to utilise their subscriptions is not an option. We have to store them, and I need to make sure the storage is safe! We utlise MSSQL 2005 for our data, and everything is already SSL'd.


Will my SEO be hurt by using a "/" to seperate two different ways of reffering to the same thing?

I am building a site that lets people Trade, Buy and Sell Magic the Gathering cards ( a collectable card game) and I'm struggling to fit my main Index pages Title in a manner that will not get concatenated in the results view. So generally the Magic the Gathering name is shortened to "MTG" and I want to use both of those keywords in my title. If I go with a title of: **Trade, Buy & Sell Magic The Gathering/MTG Cards |MTG PeerTrader** will I be hurting myself in the conjoining of the "Gathering/MTG" keywords? I started out with: **Trade, Buy & Sell Magic The Gathering / MTG Cards | MTG PeerTrader** but it is just too long :( Thank you in advance!


How to deal with short-urls that get indexed too in Google?

One of my projects got a major pagerank hit. We debugged to the depths. And there are so many variables, I'm not gonna get into that. While trying to desperately restore our pagerank, I have debugged everything that I possible could. And today I found out, that **Google has indexed our short-urls**. (Under **short-urls** I mean like: **example.com/post-12-foo-foo-foo-foo-foo- very-lenghty-url** and short it to **exl.to/p12** ) I have tried to put the short-url in the webmasters tools to deal with it, but I couldn't then. Because it was URL without any hosting behind it, just there for making URLS short to copy. It redirects only. But now, I see there is a way to do with CNAME, straight from the domain keeper. **Google has indexed everything, under that URL with the content.** While I just recently added canonical-tag to show, how these pages should look like. So that means duplicated content? Which is bad right? **So, what is the method for this short-urls against double contenting?** There is no robots.txt, so I cannot even block it. But how else to tell google, its the same site, don't index under these URL's and please, return my pagerank?


How to redirect a subdomain to the main domain so I can use an SSL certificate?

I have an apache server hosting with one IP address hosting a www and a 'sub' domain using `<virtualhost>`. That worked fine until I needed an EV certificate which works on only 1 domain. It can't be used until I merge these two domains. The subdomain is a directory of the www domain. I can remove the subdomain by removing the appropriate `<virtualhost>` section. How do I redirect traffic from sub.domain.com to `www.domain.com/subdir`?


Site indexed on temporary domain before site went live

I made a careless mistake with one of my sites. While developing it I put it on some temporary domain of mine and thought I would remove it after couple of days. That is why I did not included any robots.txt. Then due to some problems I completely forgot about it and did not do anything for 3 weeks. Now the site is completed and when I checked, google indexed all of its pages on my old domain. Now I need to launch the site with the same content and I fear Google might think of the actual website as spam. What should I do to rectify it? I cannot wait for it to de-index. I know it was stupid and will take care of it in future. But for such situations in future, what things I should keep in mind?


Is there any way to get keywords about a website

Is there any tool or service where I can put a website url and it will give me the keywords this site is known for or associated with. For example, if I enter http://stackexchange.com then it will give me keywords like "questions answers, software programming, mathematics" etc.


Meta description or title for post contents

I have a site that has posts without titles. You can think of them as being a lot like Twitter tweets. Should I put the post contents in the `<title>` tag or the meta description tag? If I put the post contents in one of the tags what should I put in the other? My challenge is that we have very short amounts of content with no titles. I want to avoid having too many duplicate titles or descriptions. We have things like user name, full name, date, etc.


Is osTicket secure/private enough

I was going to use osTicket as my 'help desk' for my website, however I just got a little bit concerned when I realised that the clients' login details to see their support tickets are only their email address and a ticket ID. I am probably going over the top with security though, which is why I wanted to get some second opinions on how secure osTicket actually is and whether I should use it with my website. I run a software company, so chances are licence keys may be included in support tickets which are obviously sensitive information and valuable - so I want to ensure that the likelihood of a support ticket being hacked is very low. If there is any plugins/additions to make osTicket more 'secure', I would appreciate it if you could point me to them. Otherwise if there are any more free, more suited, help desk softwares out there please let me know. Thanks in advance


How to promote a new social network?

I'm developing social network scripts for clients and this question is often asked by them after the script is released. Beside existing big social networks like `www.facebook.com` (USA), `www.nerofix.com` (Europe) and `www.vkontakte.com` (Russia), how would you promote a new network and where (+ how) to advertise?


To <p> or not to <p>?

I recently had a debate with a colleague who claimed that a `<div>` tag should be used over a `<p>` tag when formatting paragraphs. The case against the use of `<p>` is that it produces irregular spacing across browsers and it is likely to become obsolete like the `<b>` tag. Is this opinion of the `<p>` tag shared by the community?


How to determine if site has been punished by Google

I had a site that ranked top 3 for one keyword term and top 6 for another. At the beginning of October both terms dropped radically from the search results. I had recently changed the .htaccess file to stop redirecting 404 back to the home page. This resulted in the following:   1. Some old links to non SEO optimised pages being reported as crawl errors in google webmaster toolkit.    2. Old pages which have been renamed over the last year being crawled by googlebot because of the redirect back to the homepage  Also I noticed that the pages containing the keywords were not included in the internal links in google webmaster toolkit anymore. I have added 301 redirects for the crawl errors and the 301 redirects for the updated file names and I am awaiting for google webmaster toolkit to clear the crawl errors and for googlebot to start crawling the correct pages, but I am worried that there is more of a problem for the keywords ranking than the pages errors. Is there any way of determining if the site has been punished for certain the keywords?


How to explain XSS to common web owner/user?

How would you explain cross-site scripting vulnerability to a non-programmer (common web user)?


Which hosted chat solutions offer the following?

I am looking for a chat room solution similar to the one on StackExchange to facilitate more responsive communication between the contributors on Open- Org.com. My criteria are the following:   * No Flash (this rules out more than half)   * Full history (meaning that it is possible to access all previous conversation for future reference.   * Very customizable   * No ugly IRC stuff filling up the chat view (I do not want to see who joined an who left etc.)   * No private conversations possible (this is just not in the spirit of Open-org.com)   * A hosted solution with a reasonable price. These criteria are so different from this question, so this is not a duplicate question. The service which matches this the closest is Chatroll.com. However, at 199$ per month their prices are outrageous.


How does moving a site to a host in an other country affect my google ranking?

If I move my website, which is hosted in Europe, to a host based in Asia, could it hurt my ranking in Google search? I will keep my domain registrar in Europe, so my guess is that the ranking will not be affected. What do you think?


Enable users to create own homepage

Can anyone tell me based on experience what to use or what to do? I want to enable users(my family) to create their own simple homepage including a background image, some text and hyperlinks based on templates on my website hosted on my server. What is the best way to approach this? I don’t have any website created yet so I’m open to all suggestions. I want to present them with a webbased GUI, so there is no HTML or programming knowlegde needed. It needs to have a low learing curve. I searched the web and came across Wordpress, Movabletype and some other CMS like tools. (Joomla and such) Are these any good? Please advice, Darrell.


Run Wordpress locally on Windows and sync with a server

Is there any way to develop a Wordpress site offline on a Windows machine, and then sync this wordpress site with the server?


Pinterest like website invite system

I'm looking for an invite system for a website. Something similiar to pinterest.com's where user put their email in and get after some days automatically an email send with the invitation link.


Length of Page Title, URL, Meta Description and total number of links on a page

We've been examining a number of different SEO tools recently. Several of these tell us that some of our page title's, urls and meta descriptions are too long. We've also been told that some of our pages have too many links on them. I guess our first question is - is any of that feedback true! Can URL's etc actually be too long and if so how much does this affect ranking? Secondly can you have too many links on a page and if so, how many is too many?


What is the 'most common' width and height that websites are being designed for these days?

I'm working on a group project and trying to get my colleagues to submit a drawing regarding their vision for an online application; this application will be viewed through a PC. Although I suspect there is not an industry standard, I am certatin that there must be common approaches for sites with fixed-width layouts. I need to know the most common sense of proportions in the industry. We are going to keep this prototype simple, and therefore will not be detecting browsers, screen widths etc. So, I figured I would ask this in a simple way with the hope of getting a simple answer: **What is the 'most common' width and height that webpages are being designed for most recently.** It would be very helpful if I could site a source when I tell my coleagues why I chose a specific sense of proportions for them to base their drawings on. Please note how I asked this question:   * I am not asking for the most common screen resolutions.    * I am not asking for the most common browsers. I want to know what dimensions most websites are opting for in regard to fixed-size layouts. I know that people normally scroll and therefore height might not be part of a ~'standard'; in that case, I will settle for the most common width.


Would a 403 page, a blank page and a page redirect be indexed by search robots?

I am wondering if a `disallow` directive needs to be issued to robots on pages that will generate:   1. a 403 forbidden error;   2. a blank page, or;   3. a page redirect (to log in page for example). Would not doing so have any impact on SEO of the site?


RSS Filter and Compile

Does anyone know of a good way to compile say 20 RSS feeds and generate top news stories out of it? The idea is that we want to have a section on our wordpress site that pulls in feeds from many sources, but I want the best and most relevant articles showing up. I guess it would kind of be a similar concept to Google News.


What is the default behavior of Cache-Control

If no `private` nor `public` were defined in the cache-control, e.g.                Cache-Control: max-age=31461276      What is the expected behavior?


Get reports in Google Analytics for smart phones only (not tablets)?

I'm trying to use Google Analytics to see how mobile phone browsers are performing on my site compared to users with larger displays. If I click the 'mobile' tab I can see goal and ecommerce performance but this includes tablets. How can I exclude tablets from my mobile reporting?


Using Extension:Maintenance to generate sitemap MediaWiki

I'm using MediaWiki 1.19.2. I want to generate a _sitemap.xml_. Here's the documentation. We have to use a maintenance script to generate the _sitemap.xml_. So I use the extension Maintenance but I don't know the details, how to do? Any one know?


How to setup Google Analytics goal for 2 pages without duplicate results?

I have 2 pages for contact in a website. Without getting into details, there's a reason for this and these are not duplicate pages. I would like to combine the results from both without duplicates, meaning, if somebody goes to both pages, it only counts as 1 goal, so does if they visit either one. Is this possible in Google Analytics for goals?


Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if i have hidden iframes?

As a praxis, all external content on our site is put in iframes to lower the risks of any external parties injecting stuff to our users. We also do it to make sure our content shows up before banners, to make the site feel quicker. We now have an external script running which we want to put in an iframe, but it does not have any visible content to go with it so I want to put css "visibility: hidden;" on the iframe. I read in a forum somewhere that search engines will lower the rank of a page, or even drop the page, if a iframe has "the minimal size of 1x1px". Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if I have a hidden (or 1px big) iframe?


What is the ideal self hosted search engine?

I have an internal (intranet) site that is comprised of several blogs and forums, hundreds of static pages, lots of PDF files and several other document types. Its been glued together loosely over the last couple of years and now its my job to maintain it. I'm looking for a search engine that I can host myself that ideally:   1. Allows for searching the Blog / Forum databases directly if given the database information and tables to search.   2. Handles most text documents (PDF/DOC/ODF)   3. Is open source, or allows access to the source code once purchased It doesn't matter to me what language or platform it is written in. Normally, I'd just use Google site search, but that's not an option for an intranet.


Designing for mobile site?

I need to design a mobile site for phones and tablet, should I design for retina and scale down or the opposite? Or should I even design for retina? Thanks


How can I obtain past webmaster tools warnings/manual actions on a site with a previous site owner?

I have purchased a legacy domain which was hit by Panda/Penguin in 2011/2012 for paid link networks. When I redirected my old site to the new domain I purchased, organic traffic and rankings immediately and significantly declined. I have gone through the link profile of the legacy domain and disavowed all sketchy/spam paid links. I suspect that a Panda/Penguin penalty from 2011/2012 has been recently reactivated or reinstated because of the site move. Is there a way for me to view past webmaster tools manual actions / penalties from a previous site owner? With the new way google handles reconsideration requests...if you do not have a current manual action, you CANNOT file a reconsideration request.


Formatting HTML lists using CSS

I'm trying to recreate list in HTML which has clauses and subclauses like this:               1. Main Clause       (a) Sub clause       (b) Sub clause     2. Another main clause       (a) Sub clause      The problems I'm running into are:   1. If I use the existing HTML elements (ol and li) there doesn't seem to be a list style for (a) - I can have a. b. c. or A. B. C. but not (a) (b) (c).   2. If I don't use the existing HTML elements and start using span tags, then if a subclause runs beyond the end of the line it appears underneath the clause number, rather than being indented. Like so:               (a) Very long subclause     which goes over one line      when what I really want is the behaviour from lists, which is:               (a) Very long subclause         which goes over one line      Is there any way to get round these two problems at the same time? I'd prefer to use semantic HTML and CSS for styling, but having the clauses spaced correctly is more important than doing things 'the right way'. I may need subsubclauses at some point (i.e. (i), (ii) etc.), so I can't assume that (a) will be the maximum clause depth.


Handling duplicate content caused by 'new' smart-url structure

I used to have an URL structure like this:               mydomain.com/search.php?key=value       which I've since changed to:               mydomain.com/key/value.      I've changed all the internal links in my site, but Google still holds results which point to the old URL structure, which makes me concerned that when crawling the new links, they'll be considered duplicate content. Current thought is to add a wildcard `Disallow` in _robots.txt_ to the old URL structure.               Disallow:/search.php?key=*      Will that resolve the duplicate content issue I might be having?


Block Google (and other) from indexing a domain

We want to open a new domain for certain purposes (call them PR). The thing is we want the domain to point to the same website we currently have. We do not want this new domain to appear on search engines (specifically Google) at all. Options we've ruled out:   * Robots.txt can't be used - it will work the same on both domains, which isn't what we want.   * The `rel=canonical` doesn't block - only suggests to index a similar page instead. The original page might end up being indexed. Is there a way to handle this?