How to perform a 301 redirect with .htaccess and PHP

The website I am referencing in my question is http://www.bgmenus.com. I have successfully created clean urls like this for my listings: http://bgmenus.com/five-guys/341 I rewrote those using this: `RewriteRule /([^/.]+)/?$ /restaurants.php?id=$1 [L,NC,QSA]` The issue is the old URLs still exist and work: http://bgmenus.com/restaurants.php?id=341 My question is how can I **301** the `/restaurants.php?id=123` version of the URL back to the clean version so there aren't any duplicates. Thanks for your help.


How to promote external sites besides my own in search results?

I have a site which, after fixing a lot of SEO issues, is now doing fairly well in Google search result rankings; the problem is I would like some related pages on other people's websites to show along with my own pages. For example, if I were to search for my name and the first page is full of links to pages on my website, how can I get Google to rank other relevant links like my StackOverflow profile higher?


Google Webmaster Tools crawl error with 'function.session-start' URLs

I've got following error URLs from the Google Webmaster Tools _crawl errors_.               http://www.mydomain.com/mydomain/shirts/function.session-start      I've checked the those pages that links from but I didn't found any wrong URL with `function.session-start`. What is the issue there and how to avoid it?


Having an URL point to different locations for periods of time

I want to ensure that I get the proper SEO benefits in the following example: I was thinking of pointing `example.com/sixnations` (the Six Nations is a rugby tournament from feb-march) to refer to either `/sixnations2013` or `/sixnations2014` depending on the time of the year. If someone visits `/sixnations` between Jan-Jul, it's likely they're more interested in the current year, whereas if it's between Jul-Dec, they'll probably prefer next years. I can 301/canonical, but I don't know if rankings will take a hit when it switches over, or something. My current plan is that `/sixnations` will mirror the content of the "proper" place (eg `/sixnations` in the url still) but I can "hard" redirect and change the URL if necessary too. 301/canonical, or 302 with same URL, or redirect entirely?


Possible to add code tag button in MediaWiki editor?

In the MediaWiki editor are there buttons for bold, italic and other styling, but not one for adding the `<code> ... </code>` tags around the selected text. Can such a button be added to the editor?


360 degree panoramic view implementation

I would like to implement a panoramic view player on my website. I did some research and found the following options: buy Flash player, use Quicktime, or HTML5 I was wondering if someone has experience and can guide me towards a right solution. Are there free Flash plugins for this? This looks promising: http://flashpanoramas.com/player/ But 40 Euros is too much! I think...


How long does Bingbot typically take to process a sitemap submission?

I submitted a domain's _sitemap.xml_ to Bingbot (in Webmaster Tools). It's been a couple of days but the status is still pending. Does anyone know how much time does Bing Webmaster Tools takes to complete the process and show the success or error message?


How should I utilize the empty space around a static layout?

I have ran in to an issue with my design. It looks fine when viewing it on a monitor that isn't widescreen but once I go to a widescreen monitor the extra space is truly irritating. What should I do to take away from that feeling of unused space on the edges of the site. Oh, and please don't critique any other aspects of the site than layout. Yes, I know there are images that are .png that should be .jpg.


How to un+1 a 301d URL without removing the 301?

I found out I Google +1d this URL `http://domainA.com/this-url/` this URL has been 301 redirected to `http://domainB.com/this-url/` in the meanwhile, now I want to undo the +1 on the 301 without going through disabling the 301. Is there a quick way to do that?


How to get my website approved for AdSense?

I have new website and want to add AdSense.   1. What is the approval process?    2. What kind of programming language can be used?    3. How much content is needed at a minimum?    4. Is Adsense just for English websites? How about for people like me who don't speak English well?    5. How many visitors per day are needed?


I want to view whole site by disabling CSS

I want to view on site by disabling CSS, I don't want open each page and through Firebug to disable it. Any suggestions?


Setting Meta tags for a website

I have made an Asp.net MVC website and am not well versed about SEO techniques, so I want a little guidance in setting the appropriate meta tags for the website. My website is dynamic and has two types of Pages: **Category** and **Product** There are two tables in the database for Category and Product. Looking into the future, I added these fields beforehand to both the tables : > -- MetaTitle--MetaDescription--MetaKeywords On both the Category and Product pages, these values are retrieved and set as following               <meta name="description" content="@ViewBag.MetaDescription" />     <meta name="title" content="@ViewBag.MetaTitle" />     <meta name="keywords" content="@ViewBag.MetaKeywords" />      For better SEO how will you set up these meta tags. Will you include the site name in all three fields ? Right now, the Product page's MetaTitle, MetaDescription and MetaKeywords don't include the website name. If possible, can you provide me sample values that should be set for better SEO performance keeping the business name in mind.


How do you send a URL request with upper-case characters in the domain name?

I wanted to see how my site would respond to a request if the hostname is in capital letters instead of the usual lower-case. I tried doing that on FireFox and Chrome, but they automatically convert the hostname to lower-case letters. Then I tried using `wget` on terminal, but it too convert the request to lower-case. Is there any way I can test this?


How to fix Google 404 not found Crawl Errors?

I was checking on Google webmater tool for my blog site to see if there's any indication on why my blog traffic decreased to half in one day and i saw 43 Not Found crawl errors and 5 in Sitemap Not Found errors. The 5 Not Found errors in Sitemap were the links to categories. I guess I renamed categories that's why google can't find the links. As for the 43 other Not Found errors, I see blog post titles that contains (' .) EX: McDonald's, O.N.E. They weren't found by google crawler. Blog post with /CachedYou at the end and blog posts with /www.example.com attached at the end, they weren't found by Google crawlers either. My question is how do I correct those Not Found Errors? Thanks


Are my emails being sent to spam?

I'm working of a quite a large support organisation and we have a strong reason to believe that our outgoing emails are being delivered to spam folders. Are there any services I can use to check if this is actually the case?


Subdomain Masking, redirection already provided

I'm using a server which allows me to create and redirect subdomains. However, it is reflected on the address URL bar. What I want is to keep `subdomain.domain.com` as base URL for the subdirectories inside `domain.com/subdirectory/` Searching on the internet I always come up with these lines for .htaccess, which I think it does the redirection, but not the masking.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub\.domain\.com$ [NC]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sub     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sub/$1 [L]      **edit** Tried this, but didn't work               RewriteEngine  on     RewriteBase    /subdirectory/     RewriteRule    ^(.*)$  http://subdomain.domain.com/$1  [P]     ProxyPassReverse /subdirectory/ http://subdomain.domain.com/


Parked previous company's domain on top of existing one. SERPS showing old URL with existing info for some of the top keywods

Sorry for the duplicate question but I'm a newbie and see that I posted wrong the first time. Parked a domain from my previous company website on top of my existing company website. The URL from the other site is now showing for some of my top keywords in the SERPS but with my meta info and linking to my page. How do I fix this?


Google analytics tracking code for different profiles?

I have set up two different profiles in my Google analytics account for my website. The reason for having two different profiles is that my site is completely divided in two different user groups (not sharing anything (buyers and sellers)). When reading the documentation on profiles and accounts from google it says that each profile as subid UA-XXXX-1, UA-XXXX-2 etc... My tracking code just uses -1 and therefore both profiles show the same information. I can't figure out how my tracking code should differ between the two. In my mind it should be:               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXX-1']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mysite.com']);     _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', false]);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);     ... analytics javascript.     </script>      And on the second part of the site it should be:               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXX-2']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mysite.com']);     _gaq.push(['_setAllowHash', false]);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);     ... analytics javascript.     </script>      I can't see any examples and my profiles show the same tracking code in analytics. I'm lost in how to make the two different profiles gathering the information separatly. My question is simple: How do I alter my tracking code so that traffic gets logged either in my default profile or second profile? Is there something that I'm missing? Super thanks for any answer to this. Best regards, Niclas


URL redirection to same domain on different server

We have existing domain on non-IIS server and now we have moved it to IIS server. Client want us to redirect the URL from existing server to new server with same domain name. We will modify the .htaccess file to redirect but if we redirect current abc.org to our PROD environment, then the url should still be abc.org. I am not sure whether we can have same domain (abc.org) for two PROD environment? How to achieve this?


What are examples of services that track content-driven activity on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?

I'm trying to design the basics for a platform that enables users to access sets of statistics and information related to the way how their publications are handled and shared across social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Many services are based on the contents published from the social networks themselves (e.g. ThinkUp and Hootsuite), other are inspired on the traffic metrics (e.g. Google Analytics, Mint and Newsbeat). I'm looking for fairly known examples of web analytics services that track social network activity, at least on Facebook and Twitter. Not just the good old analytics (I'm talking about the last examples I gave above), but the ones that focus on the contents and how they're handled by the community. These are some of the features I'm looking for:   * List of most commented, shared or liked publications;   * List of most active _sharers_ ;   * Variation of average "sharing activity" across last day, week, month; Which services can do this? Are they web based applications or self-hosted apps? Do they have their own APIs? Can they track contents-driven activity instead of the plain old


Google search results shows HTTP Error 400 instead of my site title

my problem can be seen here http://www.google.com/search?q=site:michaele-harrington.com I am getting **_HTTP ERROR 400_** instead of title of my page.   Seems this is also happening with a few of my blog pages. When I use google webmaster rich snippets tool I'm also getting an error for the blog title. Seems there could be something up with my robots.txt... I found these errors by accident while using google webmasters rich snippets tool trying to verify google authorship markup. I'm getting errors for that as well, even though I have entered rel="author" and rel="me" in the correct places!   http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1229920


Silent redirection not working with mod_rewrite

I'm trying to grasp apache mod_rewrite When I add this to my .htaccess it silently (url doesnt change) shows page bob.htm               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule index.htm bob.htm      I.e. If I type this in the browser address: `http://mydomain/test/index.htm`, I get the content for page: `http://mydomain/test/bob.htm` However if I change the .htaccess to use the full path ...               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule index.htm http://mydomain/test/bob.htm      It redirects, but not silently. Can someone explain what's going on please.


Search results for my website show content that isn't mine including pharmacy (Viagra and Cialis)

I have a website and when I try a search like this: `site:dichthuatviettin.com` it gives me bunch of result like this : ![Example screenshot of result](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MJgEM.jpg)   Those pages do not exists on my website, how did they get there? I don't know what happening with my website anymore ! Any help or explaination why this happen ?


Migration of clients email accounts to my server (Inboxs)

I have recently set up a website design company. I already have a couple of clients in which I host their websites. Luckerly their email accounts are hosted elsewhere. I have a client who hosts their emails address and website with another provider. It's easy for me to upload the website and create email accounts (the same as their current email accounts) however I don't want my clients to loose all there old emails (in their inboxes). This could be a silly question, but how do I migrate their email inboxes to our email hosting provider without having to back up everyones email inboxes in outlook or the likes and re upload? Is it possible to migrate their inboxes automatically? Thanks


Google indexed page a day before also reflecting in search but today everything vanish

We had _robots.txt_ which disallow all robots as we were in development. We are live now. We change _robots.txt_ as per our requirement a day before. Submit indexes using Google Webmaster Tools index status. After this we can see proper result in search as well as Google images search was working as expected. Suddenly today all these things vanish from Google Search. Now again I can see old result i.e. under construction message. I checked _robots.txt_ in Google Webmaster Tools, it's ok - no crawling errors. Kindly let me know what exactly happened? How I can inform this issue to Google?


Plesk Migration failure

When using plesk migration manager all content domains and databases seem to be copied to their places but when I log in to plesk I cannot see them. when I try to add them manually it says "domain already exists". I assume that the domains were assigned to a user which is not visible and now i cannot access them through the control panel. Is there a file or something where i can edit this?


No databases showing in phpMyAdmin

My website is hosted in shared hosting service and is working fine with updated news stored in MySQL database. To manage the database of website, I install phpMyAdmin in a sub-folder with the same username and password used in website. When I login to phpMyAdmin, I don't see my database. phpMyAdmin is showing "No databases" in left pane. Is there any thing I need to configure in phpMyAdmin? Edited: This is the settings in config.inc.php. I can login to phpMyAdmin successfully.               $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'hostname';     $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';     $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';     $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';     $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';     $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';     $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'dbuser';     $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password';


Tableless layout table generator

I am looking for a table generator based on div tag that can generate html code.


Disadvantages of a fake phpMyAdmin honeypot that causes ip blacklisting and robots.txt disallow/exclusion of the honeypot?

I'm trying to figure out whether I should set up a honeypot system with a fake phpMyAdmin (site gets hits all the time with people spidering for insecurities with that app). My thought was to create a honeypot php script that would mimic a phpMyAdmin login, and then blacklist ips that hit that url (and aren't already whitelisted). I would then add the appropriate urls to the robots.txt so that spiders that actually respect my robots.txt wouldn't be caught by the blacklist. Are there disadvantages to this approach, do legit robots sometimes not respect robots.txt in certain circumstances, are there any problems with this that I should consider in advance?


What is the best way to deal with 404s that are all trying to point to the same page that are from an external site?

I started getting 404s showing up in my Google Webmaster's Tools from a site linking to a specific category but with odd characters at the end of the URL. So Something like this:               http://example.com/category/puppies%EF%BC%9A.textwidget%E8%A6%81%E7%B4%A0%E7%B7%A8%E9%9B%86      Google Webmaster says that there are about 120 of these links and I can imagine there will be more to come. What is the best way to handle these links from an SEO point-of-view? I have heard 301 redirecting too many links at one time can cause Google to ding the site but I don't want this site to continue posting broken links. Any help on this would be appreciated.


Are there specific advantages or disadvantages of an XML sitemap over a TXT based sitemap?

Are there any specific advantages or disadvantages in generating an XML based sitemap in place of a simple txt based sitemap (list of URLs)? I realize that in the XML format I can set priority and last-modified date, but it is not clear what benefit, if any, in terms of SEO, etc, this provides. (For instance, what benefit would there be to setting a low priority, other than possible reducing robot crawl load?) Explicitly stating this information also increases the probability of a mistake -- some modification date not getting updated correctly, etc.


Issue with security certificate name

I have inherited an old website whose security certificate causes this error when viewed with IE. "The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site" Is there any easy way to fix this without having to get a new certificate? **Edit** : Some more info. This an internal website, though a couple of other companies have secure access to out networks DMZ to access it.


Problem updating wordpress

A problems occurs when I am trying to update my WordPress 3.0 to WordPress 3.0.1 using "Update Automatically" button of update-core page. I am getting a message like below: > Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.1.zip… And everything is stopped after this message. What to do now?


What do I need to know about selling a website?

I have run a hobby website for about seven years and it has gained a lot of traffic. I was recently approached with a purchase inquiry a company which appears to be reputable with a price I am happy with. What things to I need to be aware of in order to not get screwed or scammed?


How to see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?

Using Google Analytics, how can we see how many new visitors from last week came back this week?


Tracking between blog and webshop on same domain

I have a webshop (Magento) on mysite.com. I have a blog (wordpress.org) setup on mysite.com/blog My goal is to setup tracking in such a way that I can see data for the blog and separate data for the webshop. I am doing this now by using separate profiles, and using exclude filters. However, I still want to be able to see if visitors to the blog end up buying anything in the webshop. How could I do that? I have a feeling the exclude filter prevents this. I have investigated advanced segments, but no luck. Also _setCookiePath, I have no idea what effect that will have... So, any GA experts out there? :)


How to find fonts that don't alias in Windows

I've been looking for roman fonts for my website, and I've found that all of them end up looking aliased and jaggy on windows (point your browser at http://tustincommercial.com to see what I mean). Is there a good way to find fonts what won't alias on the web? I'm not averse to paying for fonts, but obviously I don't want to pay for fonts which aren't going to look good. Any suggestions or ways of ameliorating this problem will be very much appreciated.


Stop Google crawling links completely

I would like to stop Google crawling certain links on a site. When I say this, I mean completely stop the crawling. I'm aware that I use `noindex/nofollow` and other methods in _robots.txt_ , but, I'm told that whilst these will be respected in terms of the content of the page, the URL itself is still crawled. The reason I'm so bothered about is due to the crawl budget that is allocated to the site. The site uses layered/faceted navigation, and the combination of filters creates hundreds of thousands of unique links. I want to make sure Google ignores these links completely, and concentrates on the important pages that I want to be crawled and indexed. I've been made aware of a couple of options -   1. Ajax Checkboxes - replace the HTML links with ajax checkboxes. The problem here is that these aren't any good for accessibility and browsers with JavaScript disabled. I'm also aware, that Google can see this as cloaking, and can penalise appropriately.   2. Hashbang #! Urls - From what I can find, if you add a hash bang to a URL, Google will not crawl it. For example `www.myshop.com/shoes#!colour-red`. I can't find any sites using it in this form though, so I'm not convinced.


Need some help with modal for login/register

I am new to web development and in the process of creating my first website. I am trying to make a login link in the header which opens a modal for login/register but the link isn't working. I think that I have to type in some code into the index.php page to get it to work but I don't know what to put in. Hope some of you can help, thanks. Here is my code: index.php               <?php     include "app/config.php";     include "app/detect.php";          if ($page_name=='') {     include $browser_t.'/index.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='index.html') {     include $browser_t.'/index.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='about.html') {     include $browser_t.'/about.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='store.html') {     include $browser_t.'/store.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='contact.html') {     include $browser_t.'/contact.html';     }     elseif ($page_name=='single.html') {     include $browser_t.'/single.html';     }     else     {         include $browser_t.'/404.html';     }     ?>      header.html               <link href="web/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  media="all">               <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-        awesome.min.css" />     <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="web/css/style.css" />

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Is it a problem for Google if robots.txt blocks URLs in the sitemap?

I had submitted my site's URL to Google Webmaster Tools. I am using OpenCart. I also have robots.txt file which is accessible to Googlebot. Now issue I am facing: Googlebot is blocked from accessing 450 URLs by robots.txt but these URLs are present in the sitemap which I submitted. Now I am seeing almost 150 warnings on the "Google Index" page of Google Webmasters Tools. Will this effect the website indexing? I do not know how to control the sitemap. am using the default sitemap for OpenCart.


Which online tournament software?

I am looking for a tournament management software that includes some non- standard things. So far, I haven't found anything usable for my purposes and I don't expect any to exist. Instead I want to find something close that I can extend and tweak according to my wishes. Here are the requirements, for which I am looking for in a web-based tournament management software:   * Customizable: open-source would be perfect, otherwise at least needs to support plug-ins to support different kinds of sports/games/results/etc.   * Authentication: support for authenticated users that can be related to different tournaments as well as teams   * Runs mostly non-supervised: as the tournaments are web-based I'd like to give contestants the possibility to sign-up themselves (based on authentication system to reduce the spamming problem) and report results themselves. Result reports vary dramatically based on the actual tournament, hence, may require some result determination plug-ins. The goal is to drastically reduce the required manual effort by administrators compared to typical tournament management software.   * Web interface: I am not interested in off-line tournament management software   * Active: If in any way possible I'd like to build upon software that is maintained and/or in active development Some optional nice-to-have features would be:   * automatic bracket generation with selectable algorithms (round-robin, KO system, etc)   * visualizations (mainly brackets)   * statistics I am asking this question after researching alternatives my google-fu could find. I will list the tools here that I found and what is wrong with them for my purposes. Please feel free to help me improve my google-fu, or point out if I have overlooked something in my evaluations.   * open tournament system: looks roughly like what I had in mind, but never seems to have taken off and is unmaintained for almost half a decade now   * KMleague: also sounds nice, but doesn't appear to be maintained anymore (I couldn't get access to their forums for more information either. Never received the activation e-mail.) Maybe someone here knows it and whether it's worthwhile to check out the code as a starting point.   * In this SO thread I found Tourney logic and TournamentAPI, which both require off-line management of the tournaments. Additionally, the first is commercial and the latter hasn't released anything yet.   * Konkuri.com - gives me not enough customization possibilities and requires heavy moderation by some administrator. Several commercial products I quickly dismissed for their lack of customizability (most are strictly limited to a certain sport/game) and because all I came across where again off-line managed. Does anyone know of something that could be used as a starting point, or will I have to develop such a system from scratch?


How to register an owned, unused domain?

I would like to buy www.caves.com but it seems that it's owned and there is a "search engine" there. How do I contact the site owners and buy this domain?


Configure PHP and Apache in Windows 7

I installed Apache successfully on a Windows 7, 32bit system. It showed "It works" in the webpage. I also configured `<?php phpinfo(); ?>`file as info.php. But when I tried to open http://localhost/info.php in the browser, all I get is `<?php phpinfo(); ?>`in plain text. I restarted Apache server every time I made changes. Anyone can help with this?


301 redirect, keyword being in bold

Regarding 301; If I redirect no-www to www domain with 301 redirect, do I still have to determinate inside Google webmaster tools which version (www or nonwww) is prefered? Or is setting up redirect enough so therefore I don't need to determinate that inside GWT? Regarding keyword being in bold: Usually keywords are supposed to be in bold font and it is irrelevant if they are links or not. But in heading (h1, h2); does there keyword also need to be in bold or is it enough if I care to put it to the beginning of heading? So else how asked; Does the keyword in heading need to be in bold font also?


Domain ownership issue with Google AdSense even I have added ownership page

I am facing domain ownership issue on my www.videoonfacebook.com site I have made ownership page and resubmitted! but same reply?


Multi language site - use of canonical link and link rel="alternate"

I keep reading everywhere that if you have a multilanguage site, where the same page appears in, say, French and English, then this is considered as duplicate content by google. It is written that using canonical link is the solution, but I do not understand how to use it in this case. Should I:   1. Choose either French URL or English URL to be the canonical (main) one, and where I will place the canonical link? If so, how do I decide which of the two URLs must be canonical? both languages are important to me and I want the content under both languages to be indexed by google and served to the user, depending on the language in which he searches.   2. OR should I place a canonical link on both French and English URLs? If so, then I do not understand the meaning of using the canonical link? In this case would both URLs be indexed, are both of them considered as "important" by google and not duplicates? Also I read that link rel="alternate" can be used to indicate to google that, for example the French URL is the French-language equivalent of the English page. This makes sense and I understand how to use such links, but how are they combined with canonical links? Should I define both the canonical URL AND specify rel="alternate" in both URLs? Could someone help me to clarify this, cause I'm stuck with this and can't seem to find a good-enough explanation in different sources.


Another website has lower pagerank (4) and lower backlinks, but they score higher than me in search results

My website has a pagerank of 6 but it ranks poorly (6th position), they have the 3rd position despite a lower pagerank. The sites are about the same subject. I have title text on links, content is not flash, etc. Why?


Global Analytics Filter for all accounts

I am trying to create a filter for all of my Analytics websites. I am wondering if it is currently possible to do this. Basically one filter to rule them all! thanks!


Why is page rank so high for a teacher's personal site

I have several sites with google page rank 0.   * These sites have unique content (in my native language).    * They have sites on google+ and facebook with at least 50 likes.    * They are registered in many search engines.    * There are quite many links (not fewer than hundred) pointing to them - site openlinkprofiler.org gave to the majority of these links low values (about 5%), but this is better than nothing.    * There aren't links from "bas seo" pages to my sites   * I am commenting in relevant sites using links to my pages.    * All these pages receive high or satisfactory rankings in automatic SEO analysis tools.   * There aren't many unique users who vist these pages per day, but also this number is not a zero But still pagerank zero for months. And another example, a teacher of calculus from our faculty (which has about 1500 students and he teaches about 150 unique students in a year) has a personal site with page rank 3 (called krbalek.cz)   * His site is not valid according to w3c   * He has not connections with social networks   * System openlinkprofiler.org tells that there are only a few links pointing to the page   * He probably does not do any seo and Seo analysers do not give the best results for him Is there any general advice for me, what am I doing wrong? The only thing that came to my mind is that his personal site has been in service for about 10 year and all my sites aren't older than a year.


Duplicate title and meta description

Recently I found out from Webmaster Tools, one of my blogs has 154 duplicate title and 156 duplicate meta description. On closer look, both URLs lead to the same blog post. One is with the date followed by the blog title and the other begins with the blog title. Example:               /2011/06/blog title.html      /blog title/      Is it something to do with the permalink settings? What should I do now?


Using rel=next and rel=prev with multiple sets of paginated content on the same page

We are running into issues with trying to figure out how to implement rel="next" and rel="prev" -- coupled with rel="canonical" -- with multiple sets of paginated content on the same page, with pages in multiple cultures. In other words, how do we implement these when we have a pager for both Product Reviews and Questions and Answers (aka "Q&A") on the same page, with duplicate content across culture-specific URLs (e.g. /us/en/my-product vs. /ca/en/my-product)? Our current implementation will actually do a full postback when you click Page 2, and will add something to the query string (e.g. website.com/ca/en/my- product?previewpage=2 or website.com/ca/en/my-product?questionpage=2). If we only had one set of paginated content then the implementation would certainly be more straightforward. Adding a second set of paginated content (i.e. Q&A) complicates things. Let's assume that we want the United States English page to be the canonical target (i.e. /us/en/my-product) based on culture. If you go to the /ca/en/my- product page you'll have a rel="canonical" href="/us/en/my-product". So far so good. Let's also assume that we are not implementing a page that lists ALL Product Reviews and Q&A. This would likely solve a number of our problems by using rel="canonical" to this page, but is not an option for reasons that are out of scope for this discussion. Now if you click on page 2 of Product Reviews, it will reload the page with /ca/en/my-product?reviewpage=2 as the URL. Given this scenario, here are my questions:   1. On page 2 of the my-product page on the Canadian site, should there be a rel="canonical" to /us/en/my-product?reviewpage=2 (assuming the content is identical in the United States and Canada)?   2. Should the rel="prev" go to /ca/en/my-product?reviewpage=1 or should it go to /ca/en/my-product ? The query-string version would really only be accessible if using the pager and shows the exact same content as the base page. The following two questions are closely related to this one.   3. Should the /ca/en/my-product?reviewpage=1 have a rel canonical directly to /us/en/my-product (United States page with nothing in query string) since the content is identical)?   4. Given that Q&A content is also paginated, should there be a rel="next" on the base page without query string? In other words, should the /ca/en/my-product page have a rel="next" to /ca/en/my-product?reviewpage=2 AND rel="next" to /ca/en/my-product?questionpage=2 . So far as I can tell it doesn't make sense to have multiple rel="next" implementations on the same page. I suspect that the pages with query string values should have rel="next" and rel="prev" that only point to other pages with query strings and not to the base page. The ?reviewpage=1 and ?questionpage=1 pages would then just have a rel="canonical" to /us/en/my-product . Thoughts? I know this is a tough one -- that's why I brought it to this community. Thanks so much for your help in advance!


How can I have more bounces than exits in Google Analytics?

According to Google Analytics, a particular page has 97710 page views. This page has an exit rate of 57.82% and a bounce rate of 64.4%. According to the Navigation Summary page, 91.76% of page visits were entrances, and 8.24% came from previous pages. From the page views and entrance rate, I calculate the number of direct entrances as: `.9176 * 97710 = 89659` and from that, I calculate the number of bounces as: `.644 * 89659 = 57740` This seems reasonable. Then, from the exit rate and the number of page views, I calculate the number of exits as: `.5782 * 97710 = 56496` This too seems like a reasonable number...but then I saw that the number of bounces (57740) > the number of total exits (56496)! I've read about what exactly bounce rate and exit rate are, and I've looked at a few examples online where people showed examples of how to calculate bounce and exit rates. Does anyone see anything wrong with my math? Or do I misunderstand how Analytics works?


How do I add a custom welcome tab to a Facebook fan page?

this is my first question on here so I do apologise in advance if I do something wrong. I'm a web designer, not a programmer (just for the record)! I have to add a custom welcome tab to a Facebook fan page, and...I don't know how to do it. I have googled and found several tutorials, but I can't seem to follow any of them because my experience always deviates from what the guides lead me to expect! The tutorial I've seen most recommended is this: http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/adding-iframe-application-to-facebook-fan-page/ However, I've tried it and I just don't get the same pages or forms as shown. After I create and name a new app, the tutorial says I need to go to the Facebook Integration tab and fill in the fields "Tab URL", "Secure Tab URL" etc. I can't find any of this. The forms I have found ask for a whole load more information such as "Canvas Page", "Canvas URL", "Bookmark URL" and more, but I simply don't know what I'm supposed to put in here. If anyone could advise me (in the most basic terms), or point me to a very simple tutorial then I would be most grateful. EDIT: Think I have this sorted - thank you.


Is this a legitimate tool to check for digital certificates?

I've been looking for a method to handle checking my domain for certificates that are in use, but my provider doesn't provide a tool to see how many are currently in use. I've stumbled upon the following but I'm unfamiliar with it and unsure of its legitimacy. http://prefetch.net/articles/checkcertificate.html If bad, can you make any other suggestions on what I should do/use? I'm proficient in Powershell scripting.


GitHub forum/helpdesk solution

Our open source software website is migrating from Redmine to GitHub (pages, wiki, issues) and the only missing thing is _Forum/Discussions_. GitHub does not have such feature yet and allows only static pages generation. We really would like to support our users using forum. I was thinking about disqus.com like engine that can be attached to website, but what I have found offers only comments support for specific page/topic on website, they don't have ability for user to create a thread/topic like on forums. Question: Is there any 3rd party solution which will support forum/helpdesk like mechanism without requiring and server side installation and can be embedded in pure html? Also would be great if such engine support social networking authorization (like disqus). P.S.: What alternatives would you recommend for user support?


Big stylish quotes using only HTML/CSS?

Is there a simple way to pull off this style of quotes in HTML/CSS without having to resort to images or things like absolute positioning? It seems every time I look away something new and awesome is added to HTML/CSS, so I just wondered if this type of thing might be possible? :) See image: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7Cy0Y.png)


How can I remove plus sign in jquery string

How can I remove `+` sign from string in Jquery `$('#sender_name'). val().` If I entered any space then it include a `+` sign So in my controller I cant get accurate value due to `+` sign (I am using Ajax call that goes every time when I enter a single word). For example if I entered in text field 'Hello World' then it will return 'hello+world' i want to remove + sign.               $(function()      {     $( "#sender_name" ).autocomplete({             'search':function(event,ui){`                 var newUrl="<?=base_url()?>login/city/"+$("#sender_name").val();                 $(this).autocomplete("option","source",newUrl)                 },                 source':[]         });     });


SEO implications of moving a section of site to a subdomain - Drupal to Jekyll/Wordpress migration

We are strongly considering moving significant, relatively static, portions of our existing Drupal site (`yinyanghouse.com`) out of Drupal and into a subdomain built up with a static site generator like Jekyll. This section would be something like 900 pages or so of largely static content with no need for comments, etc. (although keeping Adsense would be important) - something like `resources.yinyanghouse.com`. Then we are more than likely going to move the dynamic/community portions of our site into Wordpress for easier upgrade paths and better adherence to API's between versions (in our opinion) than Drupal. My question, then, is will there be any significant ramifications of moving a page such as: `http://www.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/lv3` to `resources.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/lv3`? Any things to watch out for or are just 301's and fixing all our internal links enough? Any experiences with Jekyll and larger sites? What about hosting that many pages on Github pages vs. locally with Nginx? These are crucial pages of our rankings overall and we really don't want to lose that but moving them to a static site generator will help us greatly with maintenance and hosting costs.


suggested ways of handling font-face and minification

I have a css file with a font-face section in it. Are there any known issues around using minification tools from google/yahoo when applying them on a css file with a font-face section. If so, what are some of the workarounds that could be explored. Not minifying is an option though I would prefer to minify the non font-face section, even if it means creating two separate files, one with non font-face css and one with font-face. However, I am wondering if anyone has a suggested way of dealing with this without resorting to two separate HTTP requests for the CSS files. Thanks in advance for your input/suggestions.


Duplicate domain names?

Let's say that there is already a niche website on the internet called:               http://fruitblenders.info      Then if I want to register...               http://fruitblenders.co      ...but have my own/original content on it, will it affect my ranking?


Website dropping 7 pages low in 1 week

I just encountered, that my webpage dropped 7 pages low on google in just 1 week. How is that even remotely possible? I didn't change anything regarding metatags, descriptions, site structure, whatsoever. And still it's displayed on page 7 when searching for the most used keyword (which I sorted out with google analytics) Does anyone have an idea how that can even happen in such short time? Interesting note; The viewer count didn't change too much during the whole time. Also the pagerank didn't change - still 5


Best position for Facebook Like button

What's the best position for a Facebook Like button, at the top of the page, or at the end of the text/content/module? Which position has more visibility and is more effective?


Best Way to Backup and Restore Linux System in VPS?

I might be opting to using the daily versions of some VPS services. I want to be able to continue from when I started after shutting down and removing the server. What is the best way to backup and restore a linux system in VPS? Can it be done as an image? (For example, compressing the installation of the system and uploading it to another file server, and when I start up the server again anew, I can just download the image and then restore from there to continue my VPS experiments.)


Subdomain configuration

1. Configure all subdomains to point to the same server IP as the main domain   2. Configure all subdomains in virtual host to point to the same location as the main domain What is the easiest way to do this?


Increasing the pagerank to my blogs index page, removing the links to posts

I want to increase page rank on my main index blog page and categories. If i remove the links to my posts from my index page and have only links to categories, will that help? Anyone tried it? Ty


Should I bother to design web sites that can be viewed in 800x600 resolution?

How many people still use the old 800x600 resolution? Designing a site that can fit on the screen for this resolution is easy enough but when looking at the site on a high resolution screen it makes the site look small and insignificant with yards for space all round. Is it worth designing sites for this lower resolution given that screen technology has advanced to such a degree that people no longer use the 800x600 resolution on their monitors?


Is your IP address neighborhood important for SEO?

1. Can other websites on your shared host affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (same IP address as yours, potentially malicious/low-trust content)   2. Can other websites on your IP class affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (different actual IP, malicious/low-trust content) Clarification: Domain class, is what you get when you run a whois query on an IP address. Example:               NetRange:       69.163.128.0 - 69.163.255.255     CIDR:           69.163.128.0/17      PS: Prefer answers with experience or links to trustworthy material, over speculations, assumptions and gut feelings.


Does Google Analytics allow custom variables to have a value of zero?

I was interested in tracking the versions of QuickTime my users have installed. As suggested in an earlier question, I have set up a custom variable and built a report around it. Here is my code for the check:               function qt_check(){         var p = navigator.plugins;         var name, ver = 0;         for(i = 0; i < p.length; i++){             name = p[i].name;             if(name.indexOf("QuickTime Plug-in") !== -1){ ver = p[i].version; }         }         return ver;     }     pageTracker._setCustomVar(1, "QuickTime Version", qt_check(), 1);      As you can see, I set up the `qt_check()` function so that it would return a value of zero if the user does not have any version of QuickTime installed. My idea was that in addition to getting a readout on the various versions of QuickTime, I would be able to see how many people don't have it at all by looking for version "0". But now that I have a few days of data, I find that although there have been 933 visits during that time, nobody registered as having QuickTime version 0. Should I be passing some other value to Google Analytics? Is the 0 causing it to discard the variable?


How to make sure that Google indexes your site in less than a day?

I am thinking of creating a website where the content will be only useful for a max of one week. I am also assuming that I will be getting most of the traffic thru search engines basically Google. For important sites like stackoverflow the crawling happens multiple times a day. But for a new site with time-dependent content, is it possible to get Google to index the site more frequently.


Delay in .at Domain Name Registration?

I noticed at http://101domain.com that there's a three (3) day delay in registering new .at TLD domains. Any idea why this is? Is it just back-end processing/approval? Has anyone had it go sooner?


web framework/CMS fingerprinting?

Is there a piece of software out there that can tell me what framework or CMS was used to build a particular site? I'm thinking there might be something that can look at the way a page is formatted and deduce what, if any, framework or CMS was used to generate it.


If someone takes a photo of my product and posts it on the web do I have the right to use it on my website?


GWT "Big traffic change for top URL"

I recently received an email from GWT saying that one of my URL's traffic has suddenly dropped. As it turned out the traffic to the whole site has drastically dropped, from some 300+ unique visitors to less than 10 a day. After doing some investigation, it turns out that sometimes when you load the website, the source shows only the following:                     The cookie is different, for example on one of my computers it said something along the lines of `zzzzzzz=something` (can't remember the value) and on a proxy it showed the above value. If the cookie isn't set, it just won't load the website. Now this obviously means that my website is somehow infected some sort of malware, however, Google doesn't return any search results. Does anyone recognise this malware or can offer some advise on how to find out what the problem is? Note: the website is a custom written website and although I tried to make it as secure as possible, it obviously seems I might have missed something. Technology used is PHP5 and MySQL. The URL is: http://ps3theme.net/ Thanks EDIT: This only seems to happen the first time round. I did a mass search on the website and nothing was found. If you view the source before you load the website, it comes up, but once that piece of code has been executed, it doesn't come up anymore for a while.


My Google image ad is consistently receiving 0 impressions

I set up my first Google image ad two days ago. It was approved almost immediately, but I have seen 0 impressions and 0 clicks since then. I tried setting my CPC to $4, which I figured should be high enough to win bids at lease _some_ of the time, but no luck. Anyone experienced this? My text ads continue to receive impressions but after two and a half days I still see nothing for the image ad.


Site hacked: redirecting to other site?

I have a site that appears and works fine. However if you search for it in Google a whole lot of other links come up, eg: `mysite.com/kamagra-viagra.html` Clicking this I get redirected to the Kamagra site. I have scanned my site for viruses and cant find anything. I am using the ModX Evo CMS. Can anyone suggest a particular file I should be looking for that causing this? EDIT: I have noticed some strange Javascript in my header:               <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mysite.com/home.html?getjs=metric.js"></script>     <script type="text/javascript">var j1s = document.createElement('script');j1s.type = 'text/javascript';j1s.src = 'http://www.mysite.com/home.html?getjs=metric.js?getjs=metric.js';var h1ead = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];h1ead.appendChild(j1s);</script>      This is not in my template file, but appears when the page is loaded. I suspect this is the issue.


Hijax == sneaky Javascript redirects? Will I get banned from Google?

### Question Will I get penalised as **"sneaky Javascript redirects"** by Google if I have the following Hijax setup (which requires a JavaScript redirect on the page index by google). ### Goal I want to implement Hijax to enable AJAX content to be accessibile to non- JavaScript users and search engine crawlers. ### Background   1. I'm working on a static file server (GitHub Pages). No server side tricks allowed (so Google's #! "hash bang" solution is not an option).   2. I'm trying to keep my files DRY. I don't want to repeat the common OUTER template in all my files i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc They will live in the main `index.html` ### Setup the Hijax   1. `index.html` page contains all OUTER html/css/js... the site's template.   2. `index.html` has a `<div id="content">` which defaults to containing the "homepage" html.   3. `index.html` has a navigation menu, with a Hijax link to an "about" page.   4. With JavaScript **disabled** (e.g. crawler) it follows link to `/about.html`.   5. With JavaScript **enabled** (e.g. most people) the link updates the url hash fragment to `/#about` and jQuery replaces the `<div id="content">` innerHTML with `$("#content").load("about.html #inner-container");`. ### AJAX content `about.html` _does not_ contain anything extra to try an cloak content for crawlers. `about.html` file contains enough HTML / CSS / JavaScript to display `/about.html` as a standalone page with it's own META data... e.g. `<html><head><title>About</title>...</head><body></body></html>`. `about.html` has NO OUTER HTML template (i.e. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). `about.html` `<body>` contains a `<div id="inner-container">` which holds the content that is injected into `index.html`. `about.html` has a `<noscript>` tag as the first child of `<body>` which explains to non-JavaScript users that they are viewing the about page "inner content" - with a link to navigate to the `index.html` page to get the full page layout with menu. ### The (Sneaky?) Redirect Google indexes the `/about.html` page. However when a person with JavaScript enabled visits that page there is no OUTER html template (e.g. header, navigation menu, footer, etc). So I need to do a JavaScript redirect to get the person over the `/#about` page (deeplinking to the "about" page "state" in `index.html`). I'm thinking of doing a "redirect on click or after 10 seconds". The end results is that user ends up on an "enhanced" page back on `index.html` with all it's OUTER template - but the **core** "page" content is practically identical. ### Known issue with inbound links e.g. Share / Bookmarking It seems that if a user shares the URL `/#about` on their blog, when allocating inbound links to my site Google ignores everything after the `#` ... it allocates value to the `/` page - See: hashbang vs hijax. I can only try an minimise this issue offering "share" buttons on the page with the appropriate urls i.e. `/about.html`.


Visitor statistics software per user account page

Hi I plan to have a web site that will have pages for local companies. The companies will have a backend to update their details. Essentially in the backend I want the company to be able to see their profile statistics e.g. monthly visitors, unique visitors, visitors per country. Is there a software package that can provide this for my site? LAMP setup.


How to exclude certain images on web page from spiders?

I have a page with a main image on it that I want to be indexed. I also have a list of other images (thumbnails) on the same web page that should not be indexed or associated with the current page/main image because this is the same list of thumbnails for every page on the website. How can I stop Google from indexing this content against the page? Can I use a `Noindex, Nofollow`?


Is there anyway for me to legally and ethically hit the whois on thousands of domains?

I have a project that is building comprehensive data on thousands of companies and domain information is an important part of it, but often the whois services will say that you can't use them for high-traffic queries. So how CAN you do high-traffic?


Google search results order for same site

When you Google my client's business, the first four results are all their site, but for some reason their homepage is the 4th result. The first three links are to specific pages on the site. Any way to get that homepage appearing above the other pages?


Is link relevancy or rank more important?

My competitors who PageRank higher than mine have backlinks that come from completely unrelated websites with a a high PageRank themselves. I was under the assumption that relevancy was more important than rank, but it seems this is not the case. As an example, my roofing company has links from roofing-related websites, but my competitors have links only from high PageRank sites which are unrelated in this industry. And they (my competitors) have a considerably higher ranking. Are links from high PageRank sites more valuable/effective than links from relevant, but lower sites?


Joomla Sub-Menu Won't Expand

The popular items menu on www.nfpn.org (displayed in right side bar) has sub- menu items defined. When someone navigates to a top-level page that's represented in that menu, I'd like for the child items to be displayed. I've played with various mod_mainmenu settings for that menu (in the modules section) without success. How would I get the appropriate sub-menu to expand? I'm using Joomla 1.5.21.


Multilingual website Google bot

**Introduction** I'm working on a project where a website exists out of 2 languages: **_nl_** and **_fr_**. The website itself is developed in ASP.NET where every page only exists once where the content of the page is dynamically loaded using localization. **Site structure:**               NameOfThePage.aspx     AnotherNameOfThePage.aspx     ...      All of these files are located under the root folder of the website, so their is no **_/nl/_** or **_/fr/_** subfolder. Using a url param `?lang=nl` the content of nl is loaded, if its `?lang=fr` then the content of the fr is loaded. Also meta tags, title, ... are beeing translated dynamically using the localization. **URL rewriting** For nice urls I use url rewriting like this:               http://www.example.be/nl/keyword-in-nl/     http://www.example.be/fr/keyword-in-fr/      _Rewrite rules:_               RewriteRule ^/nl/keyword-in-nl/ NameOfThePage.aspx?lang=nl     RewriteRule ^/fr/keyword-in-fr/ NameOfThePage.aspx?lang=fr      These nice urls are located in my website, sitemap and are indexed by Google. Also using the Webmaster tools > Fetch as Google, I get the correct content in the correct language. **Problem** The site is not scoring good in Google so I am searching for the problem. I read in blogs that using `?lang=` param is not done for getting the language content. But I use nice urls using the url rewriting.   * Is this still the same and must this be changed or...?   * Can this be the problem of my bad scooring results in Google? Also I read about `hreflang` to link alternative pages in different languages to each other.   * Should I use `hreflang` link elements in my case?


Is it OK to have a case insensitive URI?

If I have a URL like `/writes/about/star-wars`, and it is also accessible to users by `/wRitEs/ABOUT/star-WARS`, is that considered another page? Is a page allowed to have any combo of upper/lower-case letters? I know on Linux you can have `my.file` and `My.FILE` in the same folder so I was wondering if web pages work the same way. If so, I plan to stop supporting both paths and only allow the real one.


DNS - domain conflict?

I was given two domains: `domain.com` & `domain.info` (they are on GoDaddy). And I was also given two servers, `107.105.38.99` - Rails app and `107.107.90.17` - Wordpress platform, on Digital Ocean. At first, I was instructed to associate domain.com with the `107.107.38.99` (Rails app). Then I was instructed to de-associate this IP with `domain.com` and associated the `107.107.90.17` with the domain name `domain.com`. Then I was instructed to associated `domain.info` with the `107.107.38.99` (Rails app). Right now, when I go to `domain.com` the WordPress platform (`107.107.90.17`) loads fine and that is what is expected. But when I go to `domain.info` for the Rails app (`107.107.38.99`) I get redirected to `domain.com`. This is not expected and this is really weird for me. When I ping `domain.info` I get this:               PING domain.info (107.107.38.99): 56 data bytes     64 bytes from 107.107.38.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=74.601 ms      Which is the expected result showing the correct IP but I don't understand why I get redirected to `domain.com`...(which when I ping is:) > domain 64 bytes from 107.107.90.17: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=75.057 ms The PTR Records on Digital Ocean are as follows:               IP Address  PTR Record     107.107.38.99   domain.info.     107.107.90.17   domain.com.      and the DNS configurations on Digital Ocean are: > **domain.com** > > A: @ 107.107.90.17 > > CNAME: * @ > > **domain.info** > > A: @ 107.107.38.99 > > CNAME: * @ I am not sure what the issue is, if you have any clue please let me know, I will be really grateful. If you need any other info let me know.


How to view custom web fonts with "eot ttf woff " extensions?

I would like to view custom fonts that I have in the following file extensions: .eot .ttf and .woff How do I do that?


Sitemaps HTML and others

I am looking for the best resources on how to build sitemaps. I am currently aware of the obvious HTML sitemaps and the (google) sitemap.xml and (yahoo) urllist.txt Anyone know of resources for these and or other sitemaps I should be aware of - that would aid in the SEO of my site Thanks.


In Google Adwords the impressions and clicks are not detailed according to keyword

Exactly as it says in the title. Even though I have thousands of impressions and a few dozen clicks, it is not detailed according to keyword. Any ideas of why this may be? In other words, I would like to know which clicks and impressions came from which keywords. This way I can make better decisions as to which keywords I should use! ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bMGXP.png)


Warnings about my site in Webmaster Tools

In my Google Webmaster Tools account, there is warnings about my site. Some URLs listed in this sitemap have a high response time. This may indicate a problem with your server or with the content of the page. I have no idea, what is the solution?


Breadcrumbs with <div>, <span> or <li>?

Does it matter whether my microdata breadcrumb trail starts and ends with `<div>`, `<span>` or `<li>`? Consider `<div>` tag first:
                Dresses        »
       And now what if I replace it with `<li>` or `<span>` tags? What difference it would make? I saw this `<li>` in website's breadcrumbs and it displayed without showing bullet points. UPDATE: Look what I just found:                         Dresses           >>                Last Page**                Normally last page is not displayed in search results unless it has URL propery. However I was able to make it display in a non-hyperlinked way in green. How is that looked upon by Google?


The best way to snatch an expiring domain?

There's a domain that I've been looking to acquire that is expiring on the 30th of this month. I don't think it is very popular, and the guy hasn't seemed to update the website in two years now. So, I was doing some research and came across this site that seems to review some "snatching" services, but the article is quite outdated. So, I'm wondering if anyone can offer any newer information on the topic, or whether the recommend any services for helping me acquire the site in question?


Move vBulletin to subdomain or to a folder?

I've a quite big vBulletin forum, with 400'000 messages and 15'000 users. Now I want to disable the vBulletin CMS and install Wordpress in the root of my domain. So I'll move the forum in a folder (mysite.it/forum/) or in a subdomain (forum.mysite.it). Which is the best solution according to your experience? What do you suggest me to do? Thanks.


Maintaining legacy code

I have an old codebase that still "works" but is difficult/nearly impossible to maintain. It may be expensive (time and money wise) to update it. Do I just go for it, or should I continue to hate my world (but continue working on something that works and is relatively bug-free)?


Help Google to recognise forum threads

I have seen some cases where Google search results can actually tell you how many posts/replies there are in a topic, how many pages there are, and I think I even saw it tell me the specific author of the post where my search result was, but I could be mis-remembering that one. ![Forum SERPs display](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hRP0H.png) The point is, Google is apparently capable of recognising forum threads. However, it never seems to recognise my site's forum threads. Now, I am using an in-house, custom-built forum, so it may be that I'm simply missing flags or not formatting in a recognised manner. So I'd like to ask, what is it that Google looks for to identify forum threads? What kind of data is it looking for, and how can I provide it?


Are there any other login products similar to LoginRadius?

I'm thinking of using LoginRadius social site login/registration solution to integrate with traditional login/registration system. Has anyone ever used it and have any opinion about its performance and know of any other similar products/services?


Redirecting 2 or more domains to same hosting server

I have domains A.com, A.co.in and A.in Purchased from site X. I have a hosting space/account purchased from site Y, which has provided me with 2 DNS entries that is to be replaced in the account at the site from where I purchase the domains. I have successfully changed the DNS entries of A.com to these 2 DNS entries and I am able to see my index.html page when I hit A.com. ### Problem On similar lines, I have changed the DNS entries to the same entries for A.co.in and A.in, but on hitting those sites in browser gives me no response and browser specific page of 'Site not found' is been seen. Please let me know, how to set this, so that when I hit any of the domain, the web-site is rendered from the hosting server? What am I doing wrong here? ### Note   1. It has been more than 3 days after changing the DNS entries, so I don't think so this is a problem of DNS propagation, which I heard from some people.   2. Please provide some detail explanation, as I am very very new to this. This is my first hosting ;) -Thanks


Finding the 404 page template of a website

Is there a certain technique or make my life easier in finding the 404 page template of a website? What I do right now to find a 404 page on a specific website is to visit the website and edit their URL by adding a fake page. Then it will return the 404 page.


phpmyadmin: missing "export" link

If I use phpmyadmin's "SQL" function to input a query by hand, I usually have an option to export the query's result. There is a link named "Export" in the area titled "Query results operations". But if I use a very long query (for example with a long list of IDs), the export link is missing, the entire Query results operations area is empty. I have acertained that this issue relates to the actual length of the query. The number of rows returned is not the problem. In earlier versions of phpmyadmin, the link used to be replaced by a button when the query became too long for a link. I think there is a limit to character length of a GET request, I suspect that this is the reason for phpmyadmin not to display the link. How can I re-enable this? I know that I can use the command line to run and export queries, but many of my co-workers are not capable to do so, but are still required to run and export queries once in a while.


Use of list-unsubscribe to improve inbox delivery

To overcome email being classified as spam by Gmail, Google recommends a number of steps, which we have implemented (namely SPF, DKIM, and Precedence: bulk). One additional measure they recommend at https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=81126#authentication reads as follows: > Because Gmail can help users automatically unsubscribe from your email, we > strongly recommend the following: > > Provide a 'List-Unsubscribe' header which points to an email address where > the user can unsubscribe easily from future mailings (Note: This is not a > substitute method for unsubscribing). Documentation for List-Unsubscribe is found at http://www.list- unsubscribe.com/. From this documentation I expect a button to be provided by a supported mail client. I have tested the 'List-Unsubscribe' header and it does not appear to provide the button. I have tested in both Gmail and OS X Mail. I tested with an http address and with both an email address and an http address. The format of the header is as follows:               List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:unsubscribe-espc-tech-12345N@domain.com>,       <http://domain.com/member/unsubscribe/?listname=espc-tech@domain.com?id=12345N>      No button appears in any test. My questions:   1. How widely is List-Unsubscribe supported?   2. Should a button be appearing somewhere, or does something else have to be present?   3. I have seen a comment that even if the button is not present, services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail/Windows Live would give higher regard to email having the header. Thus it might be worthwhile for this aspect alone. Please note that our standard email footer already contacts instructions and a link to allow unsubscribing from our email. Finally, is it worth while to implement this header? (That is, any downsides?)


Powermapper alternatives and Google Analytics?

What is a good application to map the hierarchical structure of a website and maybe get some Google Analytics action going on? Powermapper is pretty expensive and the trial version didn't seem particularly good at importing Google Analytics CSV files as advertised. In fact, out of the 1000 pages mapped, exactly 0 were successfully imported. I don't really need all the features Powermapper offers anyway, so the price tag is a bit much. All I really need is like, a simple visual representation of my (automatically generated) site structure (like a hierarchical site structure) and the ability to integrate my Google Analytics stats (page views mostly) with it.


Hide folder names or such?

Okay, I have a cpanel account with unmetered everything (pay a bit per month), so I wanna host my forum on it etc I have the domains as lets say money.com wordpress.com forum.com As I'll have to put everything in different folders for instance money will be in /m/ wordpress /w/ and forum in /forum/ or something. What I'm saying is, how do I hide the file so it'll look like money.com/m/ is actually money.com ?? I need to hide the folder name the contents are in so I can host multiple sites, therefore the site will look like its the only site on the host so I don't have to add a redirect for it to direct it to the folder? Thanks guys, been trying for a while!


Alternative ways to post to Google+ Page?

Are there any alternative ways available to post to a **Google+ Page** such as email or text message?


detecting when you are going to reach your hit limit for Google Analytics free account

I am a user of a free Google Analytics account and i'm slightly concerned that I may be approaching the 10,000,000 hit (Pageviews, Events etc) per month. Google state in their documentation: > These limits apply to the Web Property / Property / Tracking ID. >   >   >     10 million hits per month per property >   > > If you go over this limit, the Google Analytics team might contact you and > ask you upgrade to Premium or implement client sampling to reduce the amount > of data being sent to Google Analytics. However, I note that there is nothing to say that you can review or check up on your current usage for the month. I have administrator access to the Google Analytics account, but I see no feature that lets me check up on my monthly usage. I don't know if Google offer this, either by means of the admin interface or via their support channels - but it would certainly be a useful feature. Is there anyway for a free GA user to obtain this information?


is google seeing my keyword as boiler plate text

My webmaster tools is telling me that the search term mini diggers is not a content keyword, Diggers is but mini diggers is not listed. Yet the search queries has this as the 10th most popular search query. This leads me to assume that google is viewing the word mini as boilerplate text, see answer http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35255 Does anyone know of a way to tell if this is the case? Site: www.contractorshire.co.uk


How can I inform search engines that the usefulness of some content on my site has a limited shelf life?

Let's say that I run a forum dedicated to computer hardware. Naturally, people are going to ask questions like: > What is the best laptop for running [os] Or > What is the best video card for under [amount] These may be perfectly fine discussions, but the content loses usefulness over time. An answer to either question asked in 2007 might still be relevant in 2008, but definitely not in 2012. Is there a way that I can tell search engines that certain pages might not give visitors what they're looking for after a certain date, and perhaps hint to a page on my site that _would_ provide good information? Perhaps something I could set in HTTP response headers, meta tags or even a site map?


Avoiding Google Sandbox affect

I do believe Google Sandbox affect is there as I've seen with a site of mine. That's why I'm booking many domains in advance and losing money ... As far as I know a 301 redirect from a domain to another domain almost keeps the PR, link juice, domain age etc. Can't we use this technique to mitigate Google sandbox affect? I mean I've several idle domains years old. Just today I've booked a new domain and launched a site. Can't I simply forward any old domain to this new one that'd make Google to pass domain age etc to my new domain to help it come out of Google sandbox?


Is it bad SEO practice to have two almost-identical URLs?

On my blog, after coding a function which trims stop words, I ended up with these two URLs which are identical if not for the post ID:               http://www.example.com/europe/france/597/june-weather-update          http://www.example.com/europe/france/997/june-weather-update      My platform - Wordpress - adds "-1", "-2", "-3" to the URLs when this happens but I removed it in my function. Now as I will have weather updates every year, it will be common for two or more links to be pretty much the same. Would this cause any SEO issues? Please note that the content of the two pages is completely different, not related to each other.


VPS Web Server and VPS MySQL; should I purchase one or both?

I want to purchase VPS at Dreamhost because I realized that shared hosting is too slow for my site. But I have one confusion:![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JHIlA.png) I have two options: VPS Web Server and VPS MySQL Which one is the one that will make my site load faster?


How much more or less value is placed in tailored meta tags?

I just built and released a site for someone. He has an SEO firm working for him. They made a really big stink about the meta tags not being completely customizable on a page by page basis. Yes, the meta tags are tailored to each page, but the tags are built on existing database data. Here's how our meta tags are created:               Home page     Title = "Set in a single field in the db.";     Description = "Set in a single field in the db."     Keywords = "Set in a single field in the db.";          Brand page     Title = "Specific Brand" + "Home page title";     Description = "Specific Brand" + "Home page description"     Keywords = "Specific Brand" + "Home page keywords";          Model page     Title = "Specific Brand" + "Specific model" + "Home page title";     Description = "Specific Brand" + "Specific model" + "Home page description"     Keywords = "Specific Brand" + "Specific model" + "Home page keywords";      Each site is about a specific product type. Pages are broken down by brand and then model. So, each page page is exceedingly similar content, plus brand and model specifics. Here are the working sites:               http://i-treadmillreviews.com/     http://i-ellipticalreviews.com/     http://i-exercisebikereviews.com/      My question is how much more or less value would a page have if it had more tailored meta tags for this specific set of sites?


Get ping between countries?

I need to get ping address between two countries, when I located in third place. Which service do you suggest to decide this task?


How should creative commons attribution for images be shown?

Clicking through from Flickr to the CreativeCommons.org definition for "Some Rights Reserved" you find that you can reuse an image as long as you provide attribution. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qM0dm.jpg) If we want to use the image in a website how should we provide attribution? And does it have to be visible to the casual observer? Should/can it be:   * as an HTML comment _(not immediately visible)_   * in the file name _(not immediately visible)_   * in the ALT tag _(more visible)_   * as a full blown caption inside or below or across the picture _(easily visible)_ **Edit**   An additional possibility has occurred to me:   * Put a small  Images by Joe Photos, Andy Archer etc credit in the footer (visible but not distracting) Or should it be something else? Have I misunderstood the attribution thing?


Is it permissible to copy content from social networking sites?

For a social page on Twitter or Google Plus that promotes tourism by renting a car in worldwide locations, will it count as a negative if we copy the content from an authoritative website? For example, copying the exact lines from some website to promote our service in a particular location via that social page (that sends various backlinks to our website).


Google site search: customizing with rich snippets

I am considering adding Google site search to my eCommerce site. However, I wanted to have the results displayed as nicely as possible, ideally with an image. Is it possible to have rich snippets displayed in your Google site search? If so, does it matter if your domain doesn't have a high enough authority to show rich snippets in the SERPs?


external CSS file or CSS added to head via code?

I am building a website that uses a custom CMS. I am seriously considering not using external style sheets and adding all of the required CSS to the head of the pages that as needed (using PHP and include files). I am having a really hard time coming up with reasons not to do this. Here is my benefit list:   * CSS rules are completely loaded with the original page, no additional requests.   * The same CSS injection code and be used for both HTML emails and pages (!!!)   * CSS can be effectively changed/managed via code (just like LESS).   * Classes and id's can be managed with variables/arrays.   * Better management of unused CSS rules.   * Possibly rendered faster?   * CSS would still be separated into individual pages on the server.   * ...Or stored in a database. Am I on the right track here or is this a serious mistake?


Stopping JavaScript savvy bots from getting into GA in the first place

I'm aware that bots can be filtered out at the profile level in GA, but I hadn't considered the effect of letting all that bogus data into the web property, and therefore ultimately counting against the data storage limits imposed by Google, possibly increasing our sampling rate, slowing down reporting... Looking for a hopefully lightweight method of stopping these JavaScript executing bots from executing the GA tracking code at all I haven't tried anything yet.


Is it safe to leave the Joomla setting "Preview Module Positions" enabled?

Using at least Joomla 2.5 and 3.1. Under the template manager options the setting "Preview Module Positions" must be set to "enabled" for previews to work. My question is, why isn't this feature always on? Is it a security risk to have it enabled on a live site? Does it slow the site down? Since the template manager is an administrator component, I wouldn't think it would be a problem, but I can't see any other reason to offer this option. Thanks!


Traffic fall after a server problem

I have a website from which I analyse the traffic with Google analytics. Day after day the traffic (mainly from Google SE) incresed until I get a problem with my server. For one day the server has been offline and after that I have no longer had as much users as I had before. Now it's like the site is no more referenced on Google index (but when I type "site:mysite.com", I still have all the results). Do you know if this is a normal behaviour and if the traffic will come back as before (the server has had problems two days ago) ?


Are there any guidelines for laying out screen "real estate?"

I'm wondering if there is any information about creating a decent page layout so that your website will appeal to users of all resolutions. For example, the optimal width for pages. It seems like on my resolution, most websites have their content centered and covers about 80% of the page, which is easy on the eyes. Or maybe the height of the website's logo/header -- some sites I stumble upon have a huge logo with links or navigation under it, making it so that I need to scroll down to see the actual content, like articles or images (these sites don't keep me for very long). I understand that every user is different and may have browser extensions, page zoom or may be running some ancient system that displays in 640x480. I'm not looking for a "best" solution, but rather, some guidelines about designing to accommodate different resolutions. Basically, how can I make sure that I don't design a page where a paragraph might display in several easy-to-read lines on my resolution, but it turns into a single line on a 1920x1080 resolution and makes it hard for the user to follow?


Multilingual Support on a PHP Website

I have a very basic PHP website that is currently setup for two languages like so:   * lang.en.php - English strings   * lang.es.php - Espanol strings   * en/ - folder with PHP pages (PHP first processes the URL and loads the appropriate strings - in this case, lang.en.php); files are EXACTLY the same as en/   * es/ - folder with PHP pages (PHP first processes the URL and loads the appropriate strings - in this case, lang.es.php); files are EXACTLY the same as es/   * index.php - redirects the user to the appropriate sub-directory based on the user's browser language This seems to work fine for both SEO and easy management, except for the file duplication in the en/ and es/ folders. If I ever want to update/add a page, I have to upload the same file to both en/ and es/. Is there a way to have the en/ and es/ folders pull the same files from say, a common/ folder? I would like to keep the en/ and es/ directories because it's user friendly and, from my understanding, good for SEO. Any help would be much appreciated! EDIT: I've considered using a GET variable for the language (ie. ?lang=en) which would solve my issue of duplication and allow me to replace the directories en/ and es/ with a common directory for all languages in which each page's language is determined by the lang variable. However, would this be bad for SEO?


When designing a website that is targetting large number of consummers, what design tips would you give any designer to make the website popular and memorable amongst its users?


Automatically generate and cut off the blog post preview texts from the full post text? Yes, no?

I run a blog with over 1000 posts that are only separated by tags, so each post can have multiple of those. As it is mostly short news, videos and galleries, the description consists of 3-5 lines of text. It's so short that I don't write a separate description for the preview text, meaning that the text on the post page is the same as the one on the listing pages. Not only is that creating a lot of text on the first page, but also some sort duplicate content. This is why I came up with an idea to simply cut off the text automatically when it's being displayed on the listing pages. For example:               Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.      Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the      1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it      to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries,      but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remainin      would become something like:               Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.      Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s ...      It would be cut at approximately 160 characters, similarly to the description meta tag. Do you think this is safe or even advisable to do or will it bother Google? I don't want to write separate descriptions for such short texts, because it will just look like keyword stuffing up and down the page.


Peaking keywords on Google AdWords

Suppose I'm buying ads for keyword x and suddenly x becomes the biggest thing in the world. Will my budget run down faster? _**Will the price stay at the same rate I purchased that keyword on or will change with the popularity_**?


Do you write HTML by hand or do you use a WYSIWYG editor?

...or maybe a combination of both?


jQuery: Looking for slideshow/slider plugin

I'm looking for a jquery's plugin that will constantly slide some elements from e.g right to left and when I move a mouse pointer over an element, the animation stops. When I move the mouse pointer out, the animation continues. Did You find that plugin ? I've seen that but I can't remember where.


How to target a particular image from multiple images on a page in google plus post

I have multiple images on my page. But I want only one image to be displayed in the google post. At present the post shows all the images on the page in the post in the form of slideshow. Could you please provide a solution for this?


Start an internal site blog or focus on Facebook and LinkedIn?

I am putting together a social media campaign for my company. We already have a site with 300,000 product pages and I am wonder how effective blogging within the site would be compared to to blogging outside of the site. We already spend time posting on Facebook and LinkedIn, so if we don't significantly increase our posting effort, would having an internal blog really help us? Here are my thoughts:   * It may be better to focus one or two SM sites that to dilute our effort.   * There is already a large audience associated with LinkedIn and Facebook.   * We would need to build an audience with our additional blog.   * We already have a lot of content on the site, would the blog help SEO?


Which forum software is this site using?

Can anybody tell me if it's vbulletin/phpbb etc used by this site: seoforums.org .   if it's vbulletin then why is this site: forums.seochat.com so different?


IIS MIME type for XML content

recently a third party plugin I'm using to display online magazines stopped working on mobile devices. According to their help page, this happens for people serving with IIS. Their solution is to set the MIME type .xml to "application/xml". It's by default set to "text/xml". Changing it does work, but would that have unintended side effects or is it actually the correct way and IIS just set it wrong?


Allow users to delete or answer Facebook comments on my website or from Facebook

I am creating a website, something like business directory. I want to allow my users to have Facebook comments on the pages. I read that I should connect their comments with their Facebook ID so they can be allowed to delete them. I wanted to know, can my users answer or delete those comments directly from Facebook, or must they be only on my website to answer?


web maliciousness via Twitter?

My Apache logs suddenly show huge numbers of downloads (downloading the same things over and over) from IPs that trace to Twitter -- 199.59 & 199.16. What does that mean? Can you actually download stuff via Twitter IPs? Is this a recognized malicious activity?


Why doesn't Webmaster Tools update crawl errors?

I submitted a sitemap with incorrect URLs. After a few days I looked at Webmaster Tools crawl errors and I saw 1000's of URLs with not found errors. So I went and fixed the problem with the URLs and resubmitted the sitemap. The problem is that Webmaster Tools is still showing me the same **old** not found errors. 1) I know that the URLs in the updated sitemap are ok 2) I can see that the date of the not found error URLs corresponds to when the problem was. Now I tried using the "mark as fixed button" - but that only lets me select the first 1000 URLs, and then it shows an empty list.... and I have about 40,000 not found URL errors. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oyjCM.png)


Why don't I have a loop error with these redirects?

I know this may seem a bit of a question in reverse, but I actually _don't_ seem to have a problem I just want to make sure before I proceed. I have 2 domains `domain1.com` and `domain2.com` and a directory `my_directory` at `domain2.com`. I have `domain2.com` setup as an "add on domain" in the cpanel account of domain1.com so that when I go to domain2.com I am taken to domain1.com/my_directory but the browser shows domain2.com in the addressbar so it looks and acts like and is a separate site. However when people browse to `domain1.com/directory` I want the address bar to show `domain2.com` _not_ `domain1.com/directory`. So I put a redirect in the htaccess file to redirect `domain1.com/directory` to `domain2.com` and it works perfectly, but I think it shouldnt and I'm worried I've done something wrong. My question is this: domain2.com was already redirected to domain1.com/directory in the first place (I see the redirect in my cpanel under addon domains) so by adding the second redirect in the htaccess file I should be creating a loop! Could somebody please set my mind at rest and show me why not?


Tricky mod_rewrite challenge

I list about 9,000 records on my little site. At the moment I'm showing them with a dynamic page, like               http://domain.com/records.php?id=019031      But I'd like to start using meaningful URLs like this one on Amazon               http://www.amazon.co.uk/Library-Mythology-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199536325      where the title string on the root level gets ignored and requests are redirected to the records.php page, which accepts the ID as usual. Does anybody know how I could achieve that with mod_rewrite? I'm wondering how I'd deal with requests to my other root-level pages, like `http://domain.com/contact.php`, that I don't want to redirect to the records page.


How secure is using .htpasswd to secure a directory?

I'm basically creating something off of my main domain `www.mywebsite.com/intranet`. I've created _.htpasswd_ protection for that `intranet` directory. I can't implement individual user passwords yet and I want to use _.htpasswd_ as an interim solution. How secure is this method? What steps should I take to make this more secure? What permissions for _.htaccess_ and _.htpasswd_?


Setting up a Google Analytics Campaign

I will be doing a bunch of things to give one of my projects (main app) a big initial push for which I will be building a few small Facebook apps which will help in promoting the main apps. Traffic from these apps need to be tracked individually. My main app will be posting on the walls when the user needs to be notified. Traffic from these posts need to be tracked. Traffic from emails sent by the main app need to be tracked, like different types of email. I need to track all of these & possibly a couple of more but I need to be sure that I build my campaign URLs correctly as I won't get another chance to fix it. Correct me where I am wrong:               Campaign Name: Launch     Campaign Medium: Email     Campaign Source: Type1 or Type2 (I can break it down for different types of email, right?)      For apps:               Campaign Name: Launch     Campaign Medium: Apps     Campaign Source: App1 or App2 (I can break it down here for different apps, right?)      What if I want to track two different links within a single email or a single app? Any way of tracking them individually too but still keeping to track them as one because tracking them as one makes more sense for me. Campaign Term & Campaign content is irrelevant in my case, or I can/should use them for something? And I will also be tracking traffic of different apps. Should I do more? Let me know if my scenario wasn't clear enough & I need to explain more.


How much traffic is needed to effectively conduct split testing?

A friend who's asking me for advice about getting more customers from his website (SEO, conversion rate, some other stuff), thinks he should finish getting a good conversion rate with split testing before spending money on Pay-Per-Click programs like AdWords. From what I've heard, you're supposed to use the traffic gained to test accurately. He wants to know why 100 visits/day isn't enough. Is it?


Legality of screenshot of another website

I wanted to write a blog post about a common feature of some popular websites. To illustrate, I'll need to take screenshot, crop and shows the specific features that's I'm referring to. I wonder if that's legal? Do I need to inform the webmaster for each of the site before I publish my post? A second question is that since my focus is that specific feature, so I guess I should blur out the content of the screenshot, or I shouldn't alter anything?


Site overthrown by Turkish hackers

Go ahead, laugh. I forgot to remove the default admin/admin account on my blog. SOmebody got in and has replaced my homepage with some internet graffiti. I've used .htaccess to replace the page with a 403 error, but no matter what I do, my wordpress homepage is this hacker thing. How can I setup my server so that ONLY MYSELF can view it while I'm fixing this via .htaccess? What steps should I take to eradicate them from my server? If I delete the ENTIRE website and change all the passwords, is he completely gone? Thanks.


Site cannot be found in Google

I've made a site for a friend, and here's the url: http://mensasana.it Issue: There is no trace of it in google. He used to have an html site, and at least it was indexed. I changed it to a Wordpress site, and after 20 days, all results are gone. I mean, if you look for site:mensasana.it you get no results at all. So, a few days ago I've submitted sitemap, checked that robots.txt is correct, checked with lynx browser... al is good. I tried to add a listing in Google places, and when I have to enter the sitename, I get: Website is incorrect http://mensasana.it/ What am I missing?


How to redirect IP to domain?

My IP _xxx.xxx.xxx.xx_ is pointing to `example.com` at GoDaddy but I just noticed that when I type the IP in browser, it doesn't redirect to the website, how can do this? I am sure this will happen through _httpd.conf_ but unsure about what I need to add.


Is it possible to mark an entire page as "obsolete", specifying an updated page for SEO?

Say I have a program for which I have written documentation. I then release a new version of that program, and want any documentation searches in bing/google/etc to favor the updated documentation pages. I have to keep the old documentation pages for previous users who do not update to the new program, but I want to favor the new documentation so that this is where people go first. On the old doc pages I want to mark it as "obsolete", with a link to the corresponding doc for the equivalent page for the new version. On the new version, I want to include a disclaimer that only links to the main documentation page for the old version (in other words, the one-to-one mapping is only from the old to the new; the new only links back to the main page of the old). Can this be done using any kind of meta tag or something that a search engine can understand so that it gives preference to the newer pages?


Short URL management software to host internal url shortening

Does anyone know of any management software for hosting our own short url service for internal use? Our marketing group wants this for Twitter and etc. so that we can push our brand. We have both windows and linux servers where we can host. ***Addtional info: Yes we want to do ourname.com/hkjl45 instead of going to bit.ly or tinyurl.


Is there any research into error rates on websites?

My organization runs a reasonably large web application, which occasionally has errors (although not as often as you would think from dealing with bug duty). I was wondering if there is any research into acceptable and/or best practices for error rates on large websites, from either a usability perspective, or whether there is information publicly available for any other large sites. And "no errors ever" is not the answer I am looking for. :-)


Schema.org and Person's logo instead of image/photo

I want to mark up someone's website with Microdata, so I was going to use her name and logo using schema.org's Person vocabulary. However, there is no such a thing I could use for her logo type. She doesn't have (or want) a picture on the website, so I will use her logo instead. Is the `itemprop="photo"` appropriate for this case? I found this "photo" thing here but it is not defined on `schema.org`.


Google Analytics: recording successful conversion from website ABC.com to XYZ.com

Our website `ABC.com` lists many events and each event listing has a registration button that links to an externally hosted form on `XYZ.com`. `XYZ.com` is controlled by a vendor. Each form (e.g. `xyz.com/event01.html`) does not have a separate thank you HTML, instead JavaScript is used to display a "Thank you" message within the same page. What is the best approach to record a successful conversion from our website `ABC.com` through to `xyz.com/event01.html`? I can not find any documentation on this.


What is the feature of a Google Page Snippet that this man is describing called now?

At 3:39s this rather old video from the Google Documentation the man describes a feature of enhanced data associated with the Starbuck website displayed in the search result. He also invites the audience to visit http://www.google.com/experimental to find out more. However this video is so old by now that the aforementioned website says nothing about it. I'm primed to think that nowdays what he would be referring to would be google maps and micro-formats, but I was wondering if there is maybe a name for what these are called as they appear in the Page Snippet / Single Search Result.