Is it time to drop Courier from your monospace font stacks?

I've been fine-tuning my font stacks lately and was wondering if it's safe to drop Courier from my monospace font stack yet? Would _you_ feel comfortable dropping it? Of course, `monospace` is my final fallback. **Note 1:** OS Testbed: WinXP, WinVista, Win7, iPhone, iPad Based on my research, these browsers now substitute Courier New for Courier by default:   * IE9+   * Chrome 2+   * Firefox 10+   * Safari 3.1+   * iDevices **Note 2:** The default `"font-family: monospace;"` renders as Courier New in every browser I've tested, from IE6 through the latest iPhone/iPad devices. EDIT: One exception is Opera 12, which renders Consolas on Win. Opera 10 renders Courier New. **Note 3:** I've noticed that Courier refuses to render with any font smoothing (anti- aliasing) in any browser I've tested, regardless of system and/or browser display settings. Probably because it's an old bitmap font. This could be because of my system setup, however.


Can DNS point to specific port?

I got virtual machine on some server and my URL is something like this. > 111.11.11.111:8002 Can I get DNS who will point to specific port ? One more thing. If I cant do that, can my virtual machine on server be sub- domain of that server DNS ?


Is it possible to restore a deleted Google Analytics site?

We had an "accident" where someone deleted a Google Analytics site from the dashboard. Is there a way to restore it?


Duplicate content in Top Level Domain and country specific website

I have _myproduct.com_ which is my master product page. For UK I also own _myproduct.co.uk_ which is a copy of _myproduct.com_ with some localized content: landing page, promotions, prices, and specific tags. But there is also duplicate content: **myproduct.com/FAQs/** is the same as **myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/** I don't want to do a redirect from _myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/_ to _myproduct.com/FAQs/_ as I don't want people to leave the localized website. The _myproduct.com/FAQs/_ is my "go-to" FAQ page and it's the most likely to be up to date - so I want this page to be indexed my search engines, where as I don't care about _myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/_ being indexed (unless indexing this page would increase my page rank :) ). What to do now to be SEO friendly & SEO optimal?   1. Stop indexing of _myproduct.co.uk/FAQs/_ via **robots.txt**?   2. Do some **rel="alternate" hreflang="x"** configuring on both /FAQs/ page?   3. **Something else?**


How to specify expiration of cacheable resources?

I'm trying to speed up a wordpress site -- this site: http://richardclunan.net I'm following the observations here: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/richardclunan.net/9ps7Zc0j The first item says: "The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources:" How do I specify expirations for those things? (I'm not very technically-minded, and likely won't know relevant terminology -- really appreciate baby-steps explanation if possible :)


How to share post to G+ Twitter and Facebook

I have fb profile connected to twitter and when I write to twitter it will be shared to fb profile I have G+Twitter plugin which will post to twitter since I post to G+ but it doesn't share the post to fb. is there some way to merge those 3 services somehow? I heard about some weird way of making it using sms and phone number but I'm looking for method without sms.


Newsletter for my website

I have been recently looking at some websites and they have a mailing list newsletter. If I click unsubscribe it goes straight to their server and you can unsubscribe from their server.   * What tools do they use to manage this? I was thinking of something like Constant Contact, but with Constant Contact you have to go to their page to unsubscribe from their mailing list.    * If big websites use their own servers to send out these mailing list newsletters, wouldn't they need some 3rd party software to handle so many emails?   * What is the best way for creating something like this that's on my own website? (aka they can go into their account and disable newsletters and it will automatically not send them emails, but it takes place ON their website)


Google Nofollow, Disavow and Link Removal Requests

I am the owner of a reviews website and I am constantly getting requests from people asking me to remove links to their sites or they will disavow the links and they threaten me with Google penalties. All of this is a bit frustrating because I already use `nofollow` on any link outside my site's domain. Second, I've never heard of Google penalizing a site for linking to other websites. My question is twofold:   1. Do disavowed links penalize the site that was disavowed?   2. Does the `nofollow` attribute on tags absolutely guarantee that the link is not followed and not counted for search engine ranking? Why don't more people know about `nofollow`?


How to syndicate partial-page content and maintain SEO?

How do we share our partial HTML content without losing our SEO? Since we're not sharing full HTML, we can't place "rel:canonical" in the header. I've thought it'd be interesting to enclose our content in an article tag with a cite attribute to the original source. Would Google respect that for SEO purposes?
     This is syndicated content...


Subdomain "redirect" to IP address of external local server

I've set up a local server running XAMPP. Localhost is working for the server, and I've forwarded port `80` on our router to allow for incoming connections. This also works. So I can now access my hosted webpage through the IP adress of our external IP. We already have a domain hosted, and cPanel installed on another server that the domain is managed by (this is not our server, it's a paid hosting solution). How do I set up cPanel so that I can "redirect" subdomain `folio.site.com` to the locally hosted website? Simply creating a subdomain and a forwarder will forward the user to the correct place, but then the URL changes to the IP adress, which does not look pretty. I simply want the URL to stay at `folio.site.com` while in the root there, and if you navigate to another page there (for example `/projects.php`) then the URL would read this: `folio.site.com/projects.php` I guess this is what `A` records or `CNAME` records do? But I cant get it to work. Or I don't really understand it =) Thanks for any help! =D


How does home web server work?

I'm trying to understand how home web servers work? Don't you need an IP to access it over the internet? Do you need to buy an IP before you can access your web server from anywhere? Or could someone please give a resource that explains why you don't need an IP?


How to register a domain for someone else?

I want to buy a domain name as a present for a non-technical friend. I therefore want to pay the initial setup cost, but have the account management, and repeat billing under their control. What is the easiest way to do this?


Does CSS formatting of <h1>, <h2> tags have effect on search ranking?

I have a web page where I made some style into `<h1>`, `<h2>` tags, will it make some effect on my SEO ranking?


How to use Google Analytics to track a development and production versions of the same site on different servers?

I have a website with two versions, one for production and one for development (testing new features). All of the code is under version control and the websites are on separate servers. Currently, I have the same Google Analytics Tracking code used on both sites. Since the code is under version control, it would be ideal to either have an `if I am on production, use this code; else if on development server use that code` clause. But I suspect that Google makes it easier to do something like this. I see that there are many ways to configure a GA tracking code, e.g. "a single domain" vs. "multiple top level domains". But it is not clear to me how to set this up. Also, if tracking code configured for a single domain has been on the development server, have I been picking up traffic to both sites, or does GA just ignore the second domain that I haven't registered?


Does Lucida Sans Unicode font in Windows 7 have a bold style?

I am trying to set an alternative to Mac Lucida Grande font with Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows users and found out that I see no bold style of it in my Windows 7. Is that common for all Windows 7? How about Windows XP?


Three word domain name

I need to buy a new 3 word domain name. Which domain name is more worth or more preferred by users? > my-example-domain.com or > myexampledomain.com Thanks Tom


Email Forwarding Server

We have a ton of websites on multiple different webhosts. The way we have our email setup is we forward all of our email to gmail accounts (e.g. name@domain.com > whatever@gmail.com) The problem is most of our webhosts now send a lot of legitimate email to Gmail's spam. We're looking for a service that will only manage the emails (we don't want to switch webhosts as the actual hosting of the website is fine). So we only want the emails to be managed, and all legitimate emails to be sent our way forwarded to our gmail accounts. Any recommendations out there?


Apache rewrite rule for all pages after domain name

I asked this question on stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8466321/apache-rewrite-rule-for-all-pages- after-domain-name Sorry for redirecting, but I wasn't aware of webmasters.stackoverflow and wasn't sure if I should repost it here or just link to it to prevent duplication. **UPDATE** Here's what I have so far:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.+)$     RewriteRule /(.*) http://archived.example.com/$1      This is redirecting _everything_ , including example.com alone. I only want the redirect to happen if there is _something_ (anything) after the ".com" (i.e. "/whatever"). I have a static HTML page that is now at example.com, but I want my old DB-backed site to go to archived.example.com. Anymore ideas?


Google Webmaster Tools - Why site performance graph goes up and down, even if the site has never changed?

This is my site **7 months graph** from Google Webmaster Tools site performance util. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WVTIu.png) As you can see the graph goes up and down, with **big differences: less than 1 second up to 5 sec**. Since I never changed anything (not an image, nor a script, nothing of nothing) during all those months do you think this could be caused by poor hosting, basically an overloaded server? **Are you experiencing the same up/down graph for some/all of your sites on Google Webmaster Tools?** BTW : ths site was also optimized with YSLOW, but optimized or not, shouldn't the graph be still more stright? EDIT: in Google Official Blog they show a pretty stright graph, but maybe it's just for graphic purpose.


DNS question and Google PageRank from domains

I'm not so good at DNS at all but I do know some basics. A while ago i have noticed, that my blog have different Page Ranks, PR 3 for domain `www.example.com` and PR 1 for domain `example.com`. In dns records i have this setup:               A - IP - `www.example.com`     A - same IP - `example.com`      Should i replace this record "A - same IP - `example.com`" with row with CNAME instead of A? Like that:               CNAME - same IP - `example.com` - alias `www.example.com`      Will this combine Page Rank value of both domains? Or i can just create 302 redirection inside .htaccess file, verify example.com(without www) inside Google Webmaster Tools as my domain and inside `www.example.com` options set as main domain? Thanks ;)


Do tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML markup affect search engine optimization?

I am looking for information regarding tabs, spaces, and line-breaks in HTML/XHTML markup and whether it affects SEO. I have found sources which state that extra white space hurts search engine optimization. Example:

             Text for a paragraph

             More text for another paragraph

      Should be written like this for SEO:

Text for a paragraph

More text for another paragraph

      The second version of the code is much harder to maintain so I would far prefer to write code like the first example, but SEO concerns are the top priority. Does white space negatively affect a site's search engine rankings? Also, if you have any sources for your answer, please post them or explain your reasoning if you are the source.


Providing a SERVICE versus a PRODUCT ?? client wants to know from designer

A client recently asked me this, looking at our portfolios:   `Does your company provide a service or a product?` Me, as a designer who does not like to put things in boxes, then close them, and them label them either one of two words, i put my eyebrows as high as ai can and said:   `that depends on the project!` Some tiny clients are happy-pappy with a predefined-package product and do not want to jump into an expensive, feedback-cloudy long term service contract. They just want a quick simple product about which the price and specs are known. While our biggers clients prefer, of course, the slower project pepperd with weekly brainstorms and meetings. So i think, please correct/add(your comment will be added here) that the difference are with respect tot design:                                        'PRODUCT'               'SERVICE'     properties beforehand?    predefined packages     unknown, needs custom quote     properties afterwards?    according to specs      according to custom inquiry     pricing?                  known beforehand        has to be calculated     bottomlone price?         cheap                   expensive     quality of product?       can be very good!       can be very good!     collaboration?            minimal                 according to need     feedbacks                 email/phone             email/phone/face-to-face      Now i would like the professional design community / design company owners to speak freely here in this regard: **1.** _Do we (involved experienced driven designers) provide a SERVICE or a PRODUCT?_   **2.** _What are the differences according to YOUR client? (i will append them above)_   **3.** _Do we HAVE to choose one or other? this client said, he wanted transparency._


web service url for file uploading

does any one know any sample web service URL for file upload?some thing like this http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL except that the method should be a file upload method. thanx:)


Analytics data from google.com?

While browsing around for browser statistics today I figured that it would be nice to see a dataset from www.google.com, it ought to be somewhat well balanced and should provide a pretty decent "general" cut of the netizen population. However, googling (oh, the irony) for a while I couldn't find any such public datasets available. Is any data like this (from Google specifically) available, either for free or subscription?


How do I block a Google AdSense advertiser's ads from appearing on my site?

I'm trying to block particular ads in Google Adsense that don't fit my site. There are some really annoying ads from www.plus500.com but I can't seem to get rid of all ads from them. How can I find out what the exact url of the ad is so that I can block it? I installed firebug but am unable to easily find urls with it.


Unable to download microsoft excel files from a IIS SSL site

The web master at my corporation added SSL to the web site and now none of my users can download Microsoft word and xcel files the sites generates. According to Microsoft the following must be down. Web sites that want to allow this type of operation should remove the no-cache header or headers. Typical of MS they don't tell you what to do, how to do it, or what the best practice is. The web master says its a web config setting. But all i can finds is               <configuration>         <appSettings/>         <connectionStrings/>         <system.web>         <httpRuntime sendCacheControlHeader="false"/>      and I don't know if this is the best way to achieve the result. I would greatly appreciate some advice on this subject.


Configuring an Apache server to run Python

I currently have a website set up on an Apache server running on Redhat Linux, and am trying to configure it to be able to run Python scripts. Essentially, I want to allow Python to be executable, so that doing something like `www.mysite.com/pyscript.py` will run the script rather than display its contents. I really don't have any Apache experiance, and haven't been able to find any good tutorials on how to figure this out, how do I do this?


Specifying image dimensions to improve browser performance

I recently ran an audit on my web site using Google Developer Tools. My images are all the same size (500 horizontal by 300 vertical pixels) so I thought it would be better if I left out the image size attributes as there would be no need to calculate an image size when it already is the correct size. Under Networking Utilization, Specify Image Dimensions I see the following               A width and height should be specified for all images in order to speed up      page display. The following image(s) are missing a width and/or height:      Now, I'm confused. Should I really add width and height attributes to my images, even though they are already the right size? It seems redundant.


Does it matter where a server's physical location is?

I am located in the UK, and most of my clients are also in the UK. However. I find some of the products available in the US to be easier to use. I won’t name specific companies, but the price and features attract me the most. Does it matter if the websites are located in the USA? I understand that when pinging my existing sites, there are around 7-8 more hops involved. All my sites use CMS’s, so they aren’t as fast as static sites (even with caching turned on). Would hosting the site abroad and using a CDN make any difference?


Found Odd File on Site: Should I Be Concerned?

I found a php file that was uploaded to our web server that had sneaked past our form validation. I did some searching and there was very little information regarding this file, however the small amount I found definitely made it seem malicious. Here is the content of the file: http://pastebin.com/zfbHMe9M What was this file trying to accomplish? Is there anything I should check or be concerned about? I have removed the file from my site.


How search engines interpret domains in different countries?

I have a domain .com but the site is in portuguese. How this can affect my reputation with search engines?


Why can't I download an image from this website?

I tried downloading the blue image in myheritage.com by right clicking. But somehow I always get the picture with parachute no matter where I right click in the blue area. I downloaded the complete page in firefox and then opened images the blue background was missing. How did they manage to do that? Would like to know the method. PS: I went through FAQ of webmasters.SE, nothing was said regarding the explicit mentioning of a third party domain name in the question so I am going ahead and posting it. Edit: How is the image above 955M profiles is also not available to download when we right click?


How can set a local host ip address to forward to local host virtual host domain name

I want to forward different domain names to single IP Address (local for testing), but how can i recognize in pc that which domain name should be linked to which folder? For example in my windows host file I have added the following entries:               127.0.0.1       abc.com     127.0.0.1       test.abc.com     127.0.0.1       test1.abc.com


AddThis Counts vs Facebook Counts

Recently I changed Facebook Like buttons on several of my sites for AddThis counting buttons which include the Facebook count (or so I assume that is what the number in the box next to 'f like' is). From a code point-of-view this is simpler and gives also counts and sharing buttons for other services. **However, the counts were mostly reset to 0 or at least to a much lower number than before.** **Why the discrepancy? What could the two things be counting differently?**


What happens if I turn off registrar lock for my domain?

Does that mean anyone can steal it and I will have to kiss my domain name goodbye?


Will search engines still see the meta description of my site if I use a php variable for it?

I am following the procedure described on this page for including a common header on every page of a website, which uses PHP. After describing how to include one page in another using PHP, the author then describes how to deal with information that might vary from page to page. I have included an image of the relevant section below: > ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0Un0k.png) My question is, if I set up my website this way, will Google (or other search engines) see the meta description of the page `index.php` as `<?php echo $page_description: ?>`, as `Description of this page`, or just not see it at all?


Does google use chrome to check if a link is used by humans or just there for the bots?

Does clicking a link in chrome tell google the link is used by humans and therefore not just automated backlink spam? It sounds weird but I read it today on a slightly obscure seo blog, they mentioned clicking the backlinks they make in a version of chrome where they have the "send data anonymously to google" feature turned on. It sounded a bit far-fetched but then I thought it could have a truth to it as with google now looking harder at "spammy" links it would mean at least some humans are using them. Has any one else heard anything else about this?


Multi-Domain SSL and redirections

I have one server with the main domain being: `WebSiteA.com`. I've got 2 others domains on the same server: `WebSiteB.com` and `WebsiteC.com`. I want to have one website architecture with 3 different sections, with 3 differents domains. So, when someone visits `WebsiteA.com/mycategory` I want them to see `WebSiteB.com` on this page and all the others in this category. **So this :** >   * WebsiteA.com/mycategory/page1 >   * WebsiteA.com/mycategory/page2 >   * WebsiteA.com/mycategory/section/page3 > **Becomes this :** >   * WebsiteB.com/page1 >   * WebsiteB.com/page2 >   * WebsiteB.com/section/page3 > **Problem 1:** I first tried to change the DNS in the `WebsiteB.com` domain to point to `WebsiteA.com`. It works, but for the entire site. (I suppose I should use alias instead to limit to one section?) **Problem 2** : I have an SSL setup on `WebsiteA.com`, but when I'm trying to reach the page with `WebsiteB.com`, I receive an error. So I suppose I should use a Multi-Domain (UCC) SSL certificate?


Ecommerce product information missing with Google Universal Analytics

I recently upgraded to (Google) Universal Analytics but since the upgrade no product information is appearing in my Conversions reports. But, transactions do appear as do all of the other usual Analytics data. It appears that the 'ecommerce:addTransaction' is working fine but the 'ecommerce:addItem' is having problems. Here is the js that gets written out on the page:               <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXX-X', 'XXXXXXXXXXX.com');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>     <!-- Analytics Conversions Tracking -->     <script>     ga('require', 'ecommerce', 'ecommerce.js');          ga('ecommerce:addTransaction', {       'id': 'WEB7014997',                     // Transaction ID. Required       'affiliation': 'NA',   // Affiliation or store name       'revenue': '0.120000',               // Grand Total       'shipping': '0.000000',                  // Shipping       'tax': '0.020000'                     // Tax     });          ga('ecommerce:addItem', {       'id': 'WEB7014997',                     // Transaction ID. Required       'name': 'Test Product | Fresh Air',                // Product name. Required       'sku': '9999999-99',                    // SKU/code       'category': 'RT',       // Category or variation       'price': '0.050000',                 // Unit price       'quantity': '2.000000'                   // Quantity     });          ga('ecommerce:send');      // Send transaction and item data to Google Analytics.          </script>      In the above I have split the script tags so that the top part can appear on every page and then the bottom part just appears on the order confirmation page. I have tried combining into a single script tag but this didn't solve the problem. Could the hyphen in the SKU or the number of decimal places in PRICE or QUANTITY be causing a problem? Or is there just a typo that I can't see? Any help appreciated! John


Is it good to have a separate search results page for a website?

In terms of SEO and maintainability. My website is based on WordPress, it's currently using WordPress search and it's using the same URL as the home page to return search results i.e. say my website is at `domain.com` then the search results are at `domain.com/?<parameters>`


Structured data: Is it okay to have more than one image, description and SKU per page?

In a few pages in a website, similar products are displayed in the same page. Each item has its own description (almost identical) and its own SKU (also almost identical). How can I use microdata correctly here? I have tried, for testing purposes, to add the code for image, description and SKU for all 3 items in one page, and I have tested the page in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool. Google read the data and displayed the URL for all 3 images, all 3 descriptions, and all 3 SKUs. Is this the correct approach, or is this wrong? Not sure if it makes a difference, but at the moment, this is not an e-commerce site.
     Test name 1          Description test 1     #001

     Test name 2          Description test 2     #002

     Test name 3          Description test 3     #003


I am trying to add a valid sitemap to Google Webmaster. Yet, it says: > Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl your > Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were > unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it > completely. and > Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachableWe were unable to crawl your > Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your site but were > unable to download it. Please ensure that it is accessible or remove it > completely. Yet, I can access both my robots.txt and sitemap.xml. I have reading other posts here and there, but could not solve/understand what is causing this issue. Anyone knows?


Tomcat WebDAV root directory

Is it possible to configure WebDAV in such a way that it serves content outside the root directory? I basically want to serve content via WebDAV from an absolute path `C:\Content`. (A third party application will drop files in that directory.) I'm running Tomcat 7.0.


What does Analytics '% of Total' mean?

I feel this may be a stupid question but I don't understand this: Under total visits I have around 6,000 which is "% of total 75.58% (8,000)". What does this mean and why doesn't it just list 100%?


Question about paginated based URLs and category URLs with XML sitemaps

I have a blog site that has this URL structure:               http://website.com/category/     http://website.com/category/page1/     http://website.com/category/subcat/     http://website.com/category/article_title      ### A flow could be like this: Visit the website > Get to a category > Filter by sub category > Click on article The category URL's show 12 of the newest posts, then there are paginated until they display the rest. The sub categories do the same thing. **My question is:** Should I include the category, paginated, and sub category links? Or is the article title good enough for the sitemap? *EDIT: Since /category/ and /category/subcat/ are the same content, I use a canonical URL on the subcat URL to point to its parent.


In WordPress, should I "Allow search engines to index this site" during development?

I am going to create a web page, and I will do it online. Should I choose the option: "Allow search engines to index this site." during development, or should this be opened after development ends?


eCommerce checkout security

I'm developing an eCommerce site and using SagePay as a card processor. Customers will enter their delivery/invoice details into a form which is then submitted to a checkout page. This page encrypts the data and sends it over to SagePay to process the payment. No credit card details are entered or stored on my site, this is all handled by SagePay. The address details only are stored in my database. My question is what sort of security do I need to implement ? As I see it, my options are:   * Use an SSL to provide a secure site   * Encrypt the address details before insertion into the database (I'm intending to do this anyway)   * Do nothing For reference, the site is written in Coldfusion.


If my page titles are dynamically created with PHP will Google be able to read them?

My page titles are dynamically created with PHP: I set my page title in my PHP functions, and when the function is triggered the title is set. Is Google able to read the page titles?


How to reliably determine server stack of a site (eg .Net vs Open Source)

I've been trying to figure out how to determine the use of the .Net stack compared to Open Source OS's. I have read that Netcraft.com is one place to find out. But when I put in one of my own sites (which is .Net), it comes up as unknown, and when I put in StackOverflow.com, it comes up as a Linux OS and "unknown" server. I thought SO was .Net MVC (has that changed)? Given that Netcraft came up with wrong/incomplete answers in these instances, do you think their statistics overall are still reliable? http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://stackoverflow.com


How can I remove the security/malicious user warning from my website?

I have a domain name tradespring.net, and www.tradespring.net that redirect to my Heroku app with a CNAME record. However when I first try to access these sites it gives me a malicious warning. > This is probably not the site you are looking for! blah blah blah then > "proceed anyways" or "back to safety" Its because my browser realizes that it is redirecting. How can I make sure anyone's browser (not just my browser) trusts this site and my Heroku app? I don't think i need an SSL certificate because this site is not sending sensitive info (credit card info, etc.).


Do we need to block repeated pages content for SEO relevance

I have multiple purchase pages with the same content like:               product1red.php     product2green.php      Should I block them with robots.txt ?


I suspect our agency artificially increased traffic

I had a first suspicion when I compared our previous CPC campaign, managed in house with the one who was done by agency. In previous campaign there was no traffic increase from organic traffic, while in the campaign managed by agency there was a large and correlated increase of traffic from both - CPC and organic traffic. Look at the image. I have looked into various things in Analytics, but the strangest thing was appearance of CPC searches with plus sign, like +very +best +product. Now I doubt that there are lots of people doing search like that. Also, here was significant increase of average duration and pages per visit. We did some other marketing activities at that moment, but it looks like a very unlikely coincidence. Please advice how can we bust them, because my boss is about to sign up a contract to do SEO with them...


What analytics software to use for small Apache served website with banners not from Google

I'm planning to run a small website using Apache (and other) server(s). The website supports configuring different banners for different pages dynamically. The banners are not from Google but "manually chosen". I don't expect too much traffic but still some, say 1.000 page views a day. I'd like to have statistics for the different banners (which one was klicked how often per page view etc.) and general stastics about users and sessions. So far I only know about Google Analytics and AWStats. I already asked another question if Google Analytics supports statistics for other ad networks and obviously it does but only when using some workarounds. Which analytics software (inlcuding but not limited to Google Analytics and AWStats) would you recommend for my purpose? Ideally, it should be free and easy to use.


When using email as login name, what precautions should I take for registration?

When your registration form is using a user ID that is the same as their email address, I'm somewhat concerned over spammers using the "User name is in use" as a means to validate the existence of an email, or if there are other concerns I need to know of for validation sake (for instance, converting CaMeLcAsE to lowercase seems to be the status-quo despite the RFC spec). This question is not about OpenID.


Track sales and commission with third-party tool

I have a clothing website where I link to various clothing retailers. I have reached an agreement with one of the retailers whereby they will pay a commission to us for every sale they make from traffic that was referred by our site. I need a mechanism for tracking how much commission should be paid to us, that involves as little work as possible to implement from their side. We both have Google Analytics. **Option 1:** They record a goal in their GA account whenever someone makes a purchase on their site. They see how many completed goals are marked as referral traffic from our site and calculate commission accordingly. The problem with this is that the whole process of calculating and paying commission will be manual. They will need to frequently check how many sales were generated by referral traffic from our site, and probably we will have to chase them for commission payments. Also - since we won't have access to their GA data - we will need to trust that they report all sales accurately. **Option 2:** Sign them up to an affiliate network like Commission Junction or Google's Affiliate Network, and connect to them through this network. The problem with this solution is that it seems too heavyweight; ideally we don't want to ask a retailer to go through the whole sign up process just to deal with us and pay us commission. I am assuming that there must be some lightweight service that tracks the number of sales by one site and pays commission accordingly to the other site, where the sign up and installation procedure is simple and fast.


Need a good, free, light help desk package

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Helpdesk software I'm launching a new web site that needs a basic help-desk system-- something that will track ticket emails, keep a log, have some basic statistics and possibly power a knowledgebase/FAQ section on my site. My ideal solution would be hosted (I'd rather not lose a day having to fuss around with installing software on the server), MODERN and CLEAN (read: not feel like it was designed or developed in 1997, which is what I keep coming across) and easy. Simple. Clean. Current. (You know, like the stuff 37signals puts out, or Fog Creek's CoPilot.) Because we're talking about no more than 10 tickets a week right now, it seems reasonable that I should be able to have the features for free now, to determine if it's right for me. Of course, I'm totally fine with a package that I will pay to grow into, as my needs expand. If I have to install on my server, it should be Linux based (CentOS). Zen Desk seems to nail it in the features department but feels like overkill for my (currently, very small) needs.


Which mobile device is appropriate as a utility tool for a web master?

Basically, I'm looking for a device to use on the road and I would prefer to not have to sit down for the majority of the tasks (which rules out netbooks, in my mind). I'm also hoping to spend less than $500. This is what I'd like to "capably" be able to do on the device:   * Browse the web in non-mobile format, flash is a plus   * Email, chat, etc   * Have access to a decent text editor and ftp OR a browser that supports BESPIN/ACE   * Some sort of SSH support I'm looking at rooted Android phones and iPhone/iPads... though the phone aspect is only icing (it would be cool to consolidate the two devices and have net access through cell networks, but I'm not married to the idea). Are there cheap linux tablets that are ready for prime-time yet? I suppose that would be ideal. All suggestions welcome!


Google Fetch issue

When I do a Google fetch on any of my webpages the results are all the same (below). I'm not a programmer but I'm pretty sure this is not correct. Out of all the fetches I have done only one was different and the content length was 6x below and showed meta tags etc. Maybe this explains other issues I've been having with the site: a drop in indexed pages. Meta tag analyzer says I have no title tag, meta tags or description even though I do it on all pages. I had an SEO team working on the site and they were stumped by why pages were not getting indexed. So they figure it was some type of code error. Are they right?               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Cache-Control: private     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8     Content-Encoding: gzip     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5     X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:45:41 GMT     Content-Length: 1054          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     <head>         <title></title>         <script type="text/javascript">                  function getCookie(cookieName) {                 if (document.cookie.length > 0) {                     cookieStart = document.cookie.indexOf(cookieName + "=");                     if (cookieStart != -1) {                         cookieStart = cookieStart + cookieName.length + 1;                         cookieEnd = document.cookie.indexOf(";", cookieStart);                         if (cookieEnd == -1)                             cookieEnd = document.cookie.length;                         return unescape(document.cookie.substring(cookieStart, cookieEnd));                     }                 }                 return "";             }                  function setTimezone() {                 var rightNow = new Date();                 var jan1 = new Date(rightNow.getFullYear(), 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);  // jan 1st                 var june1 = new Date(rightNow.getFullYear(), 6, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); // june 1st                 var temp = jan1.toGMTString();                 var jan2 = new Date(temp.substring(0, temp.lastIndexOf(" ") - 1));                 temp = june1.toGMTString();                 var june2 = new Date(temp.substring(0, temp.lastIndexOf(" ") - 1));                 var std_time_offset = (jan1 - jan2) / (1000 * 60 * 60);                 var daylight_time_offset = (june1 - june2) / (1000 * 60 * 60);                 var dst;                 if (std_time_offset == daylight_time_offset) {                     dst = "0"; // daylight savings time is NOT observed                 } else {                     // positive is southern, negative is northern hemisphere                     var hemisphere = std_time_offset - daylight_time_offset;                     if (hemisphere >= 0)                         std_time_offset = daylight_time_offset;                     dst = "1"; // daylight savings time is observed                 }                      var exdate = new Date();                 var expiredays = 1;                 exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + expiredays);                 document.cookie = "TimeZoneOffset=" + std_time_offset + ";";                 document.cookie = "Dst=" + dst + ";expires=" + exdate.toUTCString();             }                  function checkCookie() {                 var timeOffset = getCookie("TimeZoneOffset");                 var dst = getCookie("Dst");                      if (!timeOffset || !dst) {                     setTimezone();                     window.location.reload();                 }             }              </script>     </head>     <body onload="checkCookie()">     </body>     </html>


How do I buy this domain name?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I buy a domain that has already been registered? How can I buy the domain name `www.autospell.com`. It seems to have a weird status with no website, but also it is not available to buy.


Getting a domain name owned by someone else?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Buy a registered domain? I'm in the process of creating this website, but the name I wanted for the hosting seems to be taken. Namejet seems to be auctioning it, but it seems a bit too fishy for my taste. I go to the link and there's nothing there, just ads. Can anyone recommend what the best way to get a domain owned by someone else is? My only alternative seems to be making an extremely long one nobody will remember! Sorry for the extremely noob question, but hey, need to start somewhere.


How to I register a domain name that has been registered?

I am writing to ask about a domain name I wish to own. I have contacted the domain owner (by performing a WhoIS search) by email and have not received a reply. I have tried contacting him for over a year. I have also contacted the domain registrar (`namecheap.com`) where the domain is registered, and they have told me that they cannot contact him on my behalf, and told me to contact him using the email address. Are there any ways of securing this domain name for myself? I have waited for it to expire but unfortunately, it automatically renewed!


FTP client says directory permissions are 0000

I encountered a problem that appears to be related to permissions (same as this one). When I looked at the permissions of various directories in FireFTP, they all were 0000, which is obviously nonsense, since all the other pages are served without any problems. I only have ftp access, and I think it’s a Windows server (The header says "Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5"). I’ve tried a different ftp client, with the same result. Changing the permissions results in a "'SITE CHMOD 764 [directory]': command not understood" error. A search on Google and SO for "permissions windows 0000" and similar queries didn’t turn up anything. How can I view and change the actual permissions?


Problems Using CloudFlare On Blogger

Here's the situation. I got a TLD for my blogger blog and set it up using the instructions from blogger. Blogger asks to:               Add two CNAME records. For the first CNAME, where it says Name, Label or Host enter "www" and where it says Destination, Target orPoints To enter "ghs.google.com" . For the second CNAME, enter "NHRILA4K2RJG" as the Name and      "gv-GQMUMYGHAMJWECXFLJXVXABIV23C55JIPNIAVD5IGFSXT653O5GA.domainverify.googlehosted.com."      I did that on my domain host, and everything was working smoothly. Here's the things that happened:   * Typing myblog.blogspot.com in the address bar brought me to my new address www.mynewaddress.tld    * Typing my newaddress.tld brings me to www.mynewaddress.tld Now, I went through the instruction to setup CloudFlare and did everything as required. I saw that CloudFlare is active and working on my TLD www.mynewaddress.tld, however, when I am typing the blogspot address, i.e. myblog.blogspot.com, it's showing a notice that the blog is not hosted on blogger and that I should click "yes" to get redirected to the new website. However, the blog is still on blogger. I think the problem might be with this particular CNAME record Google asks to create, which I did not find imported to the CloudFlare nameservers:               For the second CNAME, enter "NHRILA4K2RJG" as the Name and      "gv-GQMUMYGHAMJWECXFLJXVXABIV23C55JIPNIAVD5IGFSXT653O5GA.domainverify.googlehosted.com."      So I create that CNAME and added it to the CloudFlare panel. My question is - is that what will help Google determine that my blog is still hosted on Blogger? If so, should I turn off CloudFlare for that particular CNAME record or turn it on? Any help is very much appreciated :)


CloudFlare - Difference between Basic, Simplified, and Aggressive caching

CloudFlare has this page to explain the difference between their caching settings: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168256. However, I'm still confused. It says:               Basic:          example.com/pic.jpg      Simplified:     example.com/pic.jpg?ignore=this-query-string      Aggressive:     example.com/pic.jpg?with=query       So I'm assuming that Basic means it doesn't pay any attention to the query string (it's treated as a single file no matter what query string is included). Simplified seems to say any query string will be ignored. And Aggressive seems to say the query string basically means it's a different file. So, my question is, what's the difference between Basic and Simplified? If Basic ignores any query string, and Simplified also ignores any query string, aren't these the same?


Do you know a good html mailing list management software with admin levels?

I'm basically looking for a program/app/script (can be commercial) which I can ideally install on a windows server (we can run asp, asp.net php mssql) we have different groups of people who send newsletters to web members, I want to bring it all into one app which I can monitor and control. Ideally it would be able to create html newsletters, (with some templates) track emails and click throughs. Manage email lists subscribe/unsubscribes. And importantly have different levels of admin, so a newsletter creator could log in and create and send off an email, it goes into a queue where a communications editor can have an overview of all newsletters and approve the sending of the emails or edit them before they are sent off. before I start coding something up myself I thought I'd ask if anyone has any advice! Cheers!


Looking for full web based booking system

I've searched around here but could not find any booking system that would suit my need. I hope maybe you can help me out. I've already seen question #11379. Solutions provided there are not helping and scripts not interesting. I'm looking for a booking system that support infinite number of hotels/rooms/pricingschemes. There should be unlimited number of hotel owner/users, who can access control panel and set availability for their hotel. Or create seasonal prices and adjust them. I should be able to have 15% booking fee paid through credit cart. I can work on integration with my system, it just needs to have correct APi/functionality to support this. I love wordpress so if there are some nice plugins for that, I'm open for suggestions. But this is not a must. It should be php/mysql based as I'm not good at anything else :)


Responsibility in case of copyright infringing user-submitted content

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but it seemed like one of the better options. Example here. Say, I have an online library where users can submit e-books and PDFs they created. All fine and dandy, until someone comes around and starts uploading books that are not their own. Sure, we have a moderation team in place that regularly checks new additions, but some may slip past the radar, especially when dealing with fairly unknown authors. The author of the (illegally) uploaded books finds the site, browses it for a bit, and to his shock finds that his books are available there for free. Copyright infringement! They sue me for hosting the library website, and I get in deep trouble because some user did something he wasn't allowed to. How can I avoid getting in trouble over this? Will I be safe is I state in the Terms of Use that it is not allowed to upload copyright infringing material, and that all users are responsible for what they upload? Or does the "web admin is responsible for his sites and their content" clause negate all others? Thanks! UPDATE: Also asked a lawyer online. They gave an answer pretty close to what the people on here said. See this link.


How can I create a individual "Projects" page in Jekyll?

On my Jekyll powered website, I have a page where I list every project (inventions, experiments, etc) that I have ever worked on. Currently, each project listed exists only as a link to a relevant blog post. My question is, how do I create individual pages for each project so that it each resides in its own subdirectory like so: example.com/projects/project1 example.com/projects/project2


Will running an Azure website on a subdomain of azurewebsites.net hurt SEO compared to buying a domain?

When hosting a website on azure websites I have two options:   1. Be a cheapskate and go for the free option without a domain. I would then setup web forwarding with my domain registrar from my domain to the `domain.azurewebsites.net` address   2. Go for the paid option the and setup a CNAME and A record so that traffic to my domain (with or without the `www` prefix) is routed directly to the site Could anyone please advise what impact going for option 1 will have on Google/Bing ranking performance compared with option 2?


Customized 404 page on yahoo webhosting

I want to add my customized 404 error page. On Apache server an entry made in .htaccess file does this task.I have my website on yahoo web hosting. Yahoo does not support .htaccess file. Can anyone please guide how this can be achieved on yahoo web hosting.


How can I identify unknown query string fragments that are coming to my site?

In the Google Analytics content overview for a site that I work on, the home page is getting many pageviews with some unfamiliar query string fragments, example:               /?jkId=1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef&jt=1&jadid=1234567890&js=1&jk=key words&jsid=12345&jmt=1      (potentially identifiable IDs have been changed) It clearly looks like some kind of ad tracking info, but noone who works on the site knows where it comes from, and I haven't been able to find any useful information from searching. Is there some listing of common query string keys available anywhere? Alternatively, does anyone happen to know where these keys (`jkId`, `jt`, `jadid`, `js`, `jk`, `jsid` and `jmt`) might come from?


What dodgy scams are there to get to the top of Google searches?

I was speaking to a relative and they mentioned that the designer/developer who produced their site had a way of getting them to the first page of google, I did advise him that this could be potentially dodgy and if he's not using legit SEO techniques then you could get thrown out. So what dodgy packages are there at the moment that he could be using, because from the look of the site and the number of orders it's taking, I really can't see how it could've organically risen to the top. Any ideas?


Should you add version information to images on your website?

If you have images on your website that are likely to change (e.g. have a different watermark), but the same image name, should you add version information to the end of the image name, or would this be bad for SEO purposes? I have an issue where we have changed the watermark on a number of images 5 months ago, but Google Image search still shows the old watermark on the images. So I am assuming that Google hasn't downloaded the new images as the filenames are the same as the old ones.


How to avoid leeching files?

I use Kleeja script to host files and noticed that certain files are downloaded many more times than the site's visit counter indicates. So I assume that the files are being leeched. The web server is Nginx. Just wondering how to block leeching. Thanks


Embedding *.swf objects: javascript vs xhtml

I am a newbie in webdesign and I´ve been wondering which is the _modern_ way to embed swf objects. I've been using the following html code:               <object id="flash1" data="presentacion/prototipe.swf" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500">     <param name="movie" value="presentacion/prototipe.swf" />     </object>      However, I've noticed that some designers use a javascript to embed swf files. Like this one               <script type="text/javascript">     var flashvars = {     };          var params = {         menu: "false",         scale: "noScale",         allowFullscreen: "true",         allowScriptAccess: "always",         allowNetworking: "all",         bgcolor: "#ffffff",         base: "swf/"     };     var attributes = {         id:"flashMovie"     };     swfobject.embedSWF("swf/flash_movie.swf", "flashMovie", "550", "400", "9.0.0", "swf/expressinstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);     </script>      It seems that both ways produce the same results but: **what are the shorfalls of these methods?** **which method is the newest ?** **Are there any compatibility issues regarding the web-browsers?** Thanks in advance. I've posted this question in stack-overflow too. I don't know exactly where this question should be posted.


How do I grant 777 (rw) permission in shared windows hosting

I have a windows shared hosting on which I have deployed my wordpress blog. Now to icrese my page speed I am trying to cached few resources using W3C Total Cache While trying to activate the plugin I am getting the following error: > E:\inetpub\vhosts\subhendu.info\httpdocs\blog/wp-content/dbcache could not > be created, please run following command: chmod 777 > E:\inetpub\vhosts\subhendu.info\httpdocs\blog/wp-content then Retry I tried creating few directories using FTP but realized it wont be of any use as caching files also can not be placed dynamically. I tried changing the chmod to 777 using FileZilla but getting the error:   **_500 'SITE CHMOD 777 wp-content': command not understood_** mostly because this is a windows hosting. Again I do not have to shell access to my server , I have to everything using FTP. If there is no other way and I have to ask my hosting provider for support what shall I ask him? Does he need to grant RW permisiion to any specific users?


Planning for catastrophe

I work for a small marketing company that also does web design and development. We host all of our web design and development customers on a dedicated server at Hostgator. We have a dedicated server with RAID 1 configured hard drives. We also do weekly backups which is automated through cPanel and downloaded by automated FTP software locally. Today we were discussing what would we do if Hostgator had a catastrophic failure of some kind. It could be the server exploded, Hostgator had serious network issues, the FBI did one of their famous "take every server we see" raids, etc. Basically any scenario where an extended outage is expected. We then took it to the next level and wondered what would we do if Hostgator had an extended outage and we were unable to access our local backups. This could be due to fire, flood, etc. I know the odds of our server being down for an extended peiod of time _and_ our local files simultaneously being inaccessible are remote but all it takes is just _two_ bad things to happen and that's where we would stand. (If you have ever gotten a flat tire and found out your spare was flat or missing you know how easy it is for two bad things to happen simultaneously really is). Needless to say we want to be prepared for "worst case scenario" type events as this would almost certainly put us out of business. So my two questions are:   1. What could we do to be prepared for an extended outage by Hostgator? An ideal scenario will have our clients' websites, and hopefully emails, up and running again quickly.    2. What would a robust back up plan include so important data is never lost? An ideal solution will be automated. You can assume cost is not an issue in your answers but the more affordable a solutions is, the better.


Does the Duplicate Content penalty apply to mobile apps?

Our website content and mobile app content are the same. Will Google assess a duplicate content penalty against our web site as a result of this?


Should Schema.org be used on embedded YouTube videos or only self-hosted videos?

Google supports and recommends using the schema.org on-page markup for videos. However it is not clear if this should also be done when embeddeding a YouTube video. Or really even a Vimeo video. Or is the schema.org only necessary when hosting the videos yourself?


Which folders need to be backed up for migration in Joomla?

I'm helping someone update & migrate their old website, built on the Joomla framework.   Currently it is running on Joomla 1.5.8 which is an ancient version. I've convinced them to upgrade Joomla to at least 2.5 I have already made a backup of the database. Most links I have seen talk of backing up the entire `public_html` folder (The website runs on a shared host). But in my fresh Joomla installation there are several folders that are in the `public_html` folder. So which of the folders in the `public_html` folder are from the content of the website, and which are of the old Joomla framework? I'm afraid that I might overwrite files of the new Joomla framework with the old framework, if copy all the files and folders into the new installation.


How can I get my dynamic site search results content indexed by Google?

I have a site that is simply a search box to search a cloud-hosted database of .tiff images, and then all of my content can only be accessed by entering a search term. So for example, you're on the home page www.example.com and you type in "search" to the box and hit submit. Then it takes you to www.example.com/?q=search, which is a page of all my .tiff images with "search" in the description. How can I get a page like www.example.com/?q=search indexed, WITHOUT making a humungous list of search terms that people might type in?? I know about mod_rewrite, but it seems like for that you need to know ahead of time which URLs you'll need to convert, which I don't. All of these pages will be dynamically user-generated by typing into the search field. Please help!


How to add Default Document in a Windows Shared Hosting

I have a shared hosting plan where I have hosted my WordPress blog Now each time I want to access the page I have to type index.php after the domain name. If I try to access it without using index.php I get 404 error. Is this because index.php is not added to Default Documents list? Is there anyway I can add the default document list using plex control Panel?


URL rewrite to fix broken links into a subdirectory -- subdirectory was moved to the root directory

I had an e-commerce website hosted on `http://mydomain.com/beta` for more than a year, eventually I decided to move the website to root `http://mydomain.com` I had done quite a lot of link postings to forums etc, when my site used to be hosted in the sub-dir /beta. Is there a way to do a mod_rewrite by which all the old links that I have posted do not return as broken links, since now longer the site is hosted in /beta and is now hosted on the site root. I did read that mod_rewrite can help resolve this issue, but also read about that this has to be done with care. Just a tip that this site is using friendly URL.


Google Analytics - include filter not working

I just added an include filter this morning in my domain (`test.org`). I have: _Custom Filter > Include > Request URI >_ `^/test-a/46212$|^/test-a/46212|^/test-a/46315` Now after I go to _Content > Site Content > All Pages_ , I see stats for other pages that I didn't include in my filter. For example I see `/somethingelse`. I only want to see stats for `/test-a/46212` and whatever else in my filter. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.


Using Freelance Services

Can anyone share any advice or experiences using any of the many freelance gun for hire sites out there like guru.com? I may be leading a small development team soon to run a project that will from time to time need outside help and I'd rather farm out some components that can be well defined up front in the event that the team and myself get overwhelmed or behind. I'm thinking everything from local developers on craigslist to some outsourced services, but haven't had much experience with either. Thanks


How to find out which sub-domain has been indexed more in Google?

I have some sub-domains. I use "site:mydomain.com" in Google search input to find out the number of pages Google has indexed from my domain overall. How can I find out which sub-domain has been indexed more? Can I do it for others domain?


Do the "Contact us" and "Privacy policy" pages affect SEO?

Just like the title says, what are the effects of having a "Contact us" and a "Privacy policy" on your site? I've read that it could build up your trust with Google, is this true? I've also read that some people said that you should add a `noindex` tag to your "Privacy policy" page, would this be a good idea? I say this because many websites have similar privacy policies, and I don't want any duplicate content issues. (For example, many people could be using the same WordPress privacy policy generator). I'm wondering the same things for the "Contact us" page as well.


How to create sharing icons with the share count number showing?

See a sample article on theonion.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GVCoW.png) I know how to create icons for these sites without using their standard widget, but how did they get the number of share, bellow each icon ? Is there an API to ask for it ?


Original domain (which is 301 redirected) meta description doesn't update

I have a domain name `example.com` which I 301 redirected to `www.example.com`. Problem is when I search for the website on Google, it shows the `.com` rather than the `www`. So the `.com` meta description shows, and since there is nothing on it, it has GoDaddy stuff written all over it. I've re-crawled both sites using Google Webmaster Tools but still no luck. Anyone have any idea on how this can be updated? Or will I just have to be patient?


Will using same colour H1 as background hurt SEO if I use background image?

Can it hurt SEO if H1 headings are the same colour as the standard body background colour, even if all H1 headings are placed in divs that have a contrasting background image? (So to be clear: the heading will be clearly visible) To illustrate: CSS:               body {     color:#4e4e4e;     background-color: #ffffff;       }          #section1 {     background: url('example.jpg');     }          h1 {     font-weight: bold;     color:#ffffff;     }      (example.jpg in this case would be an image with very dark colours) HTML:

Lorem ipsum dolor

      While at first glance it may seem that H1 headings are hidden, in reality they are not because the white letters will contrast with the dark background image. Will Google (wrongly) see this as hiding text, as a result hurting SEO? And if so, would it then be better to define H1 colours per div like in the CSS example underneath?               body {     color:#4e4e4e;     background-color: #ffffff;       }          #section1 {     background: url('example.jpg');     color: #fff;     }      I ask this because, while the second example seems to make more sense if you want to make it clear you're not hiding text, I also have the feeling that this defeats the purpose of a separate CSS file. If I'm going to have to change the font colour for each div I use an H1 in, I might as well switch to inlining.


I understand that ICANN does make the rules requiring this, but I don't understand why we have to? Each time we do transfer the domain, we have to pay to do so. That partially stops fraud. I also do know that it can take from a few hours to a month for the transfer process to be completed on both ends. **Why do we have to wait 60 days between each domain transfer?** Also, allow me to quote the ICANN FAQ > **If I bought a name through one registrar, am I allowed to switch to a > different registrar?** > > Yes. The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy, applicable to all ICANN-accredited > registrars, provides that registered name holders must be able to transfer > their domain name registrations between registrars. You must wait 60 days > after the initial registration or any previous transfers to initiate a > transfer. It states that it is a _requirement_ without an understanding of the reason why it is.


How do I track automatic translation of web page?

My web site is posted in English. I do not have the Google Translate plugin installed, nor do I have any plans to install it. However, I'm inferring from some of my analytics data that people visiting my web site are using Google Translate to translate my pages. I presume they're visiting my site and seeing Google's "This page is in English. Would you like to translate it to [their language]?" and clicking "Translate". Is there any hook in Google's automatic translation, e.g. some event fired, that I can use to detect these automatic translations and fire a Google Analytics event tracking the translation and hopefully capturing the language they're translating to? Note: I've seen this post, but the answer refers to the plugin, which I'm not using. I want to track when Google volunteers to translate automatically.


Changing subdomain url to new root url issue (404)

I have a blog on a subdomain `technotes.tostaky.biz` and I want to move it to a new URL: `www.mytechnotes.biz`. Of course, I want to redirect `technotes.tostaky.biz` to `www.mytechnotes.biz`. `www.mytechnotes.biz` has been set-up properly, but I am trying to figure what I should do for the redirect. Right now, I have two A records (`www.technotes` and `technotes`) pointing to the IP address of the root `tostaky.biz` URL server.I also have a permanent redirect (both www and non-www) from `technotes.tostaky.biz` to `http://www.mytechnotes.biz/`. When I open `technotes.tostaky.biz` in Chrome, I get a 404 "The requested URL / was not found on this server. That’s all we know." I don't know what is causing this issue. Should I wait for propagation or do I need to modify my configuration? Should I use CNAMEs instead of A records? **P.S:** I forgot to mention that `www.technotes.tostaky.biz` redirects properly.


Site failing randomly - could it be Cloudflare or something weird in the JS?

I've been working on a simple site that uses javascript to fade through some fullscreen background images as well as some other simple animations. I've tested the site on Chrome, Safari, FF and Opera on OSX, IE8+ on Win7 and Chrome & FF on Ubuntu and everything looks as I'd expect it to. However, I've had reports of the site failing to load (stops at the stage where the background fades up) on Safari and Chrome on OSX and Win. I can't replicate this on any setup so I'm finding it impossible to troubleshoot. Google's instant preview shows the site fine as does most of the options at browsershots.org so I'm really scratching my head. I'm running the site's traffic through Cloudflare and I'm wondering whether anyone can see (or knows from other sites) why Cloudflare might be mangling the JS or causing a problem somehow (I don't get any errors in the JS error console).   Of course, if you can replicate the problem on your machine and can suggest an area to look at that would be amazing but I'm hoping that, like me, you don't see any problem with the site! Here's the site: http://www.bighornrevelstoke.com Thanks,   James UPDATE: I am very grateful to those of you who have taken the time to made suggestions below but because of my poor _'n00b'_ reputation I'm unable to upvote any of the suggestions to show it. Sorry about that.


How can I prove to google that a godaddy based site with instapage in my site?

I have registered a domain with godaddy and do not have their hosting services just the free instapage. I want my domain to be actually hosted at google apps. I have got to the point in google setup where google has asked me to verify that this my domain by adding some metadata in the header of mypage (there are couple of other options as well). The problem is that because I am not using godaddy's hosting I can not add any thing to the head as instapage only give me edit access to body and some templates. Is there a way I can verify that this my domain with having to pay for godaddy's hosting ?


Which Filing System Is Better?

I realise that this is a bit stupid, but I'm a bit lost here - I've recently decided to re-arrange my webserver's content filing system so that it is more efficient and flexible in regards to the addition of content in the future. Could someone advise on which way will be more beneficial in the long-term? 1.) My current, original filing system: I currently have a folder for each web page: index, contact, about, etc. Inside each webpage folder I have a folder for each type of content that is on that webpage: css, js, images, flash, pages, etc. Examples: `http://example.com/contact/images/email.png` or `http://example.com/about/flash/copyToClipboard.swf` 2.) My proposed, planned filing system: I plan to have a folder for each type of content. Inside each content folder I plan to have a folder for each webpage. Examples: `http://example.com/images/index/welcome.png` or `http://example.com/js/index/animate.js` General summary: is it better to keep each page's content isolated (filing system #1) or to keep all kinds of content together (filing system #2)? Thanks :)


Will I preserve link equity if I use two redirects?

I'm switching a social media site over to a Drupal platform. I'm planning to implement permanent directs (301) from each old url to the new url. I'm using page titles in the url string on the new site:               http://www.newsite.com/this-is-my-page-title      From a technical standpoint it would be easier for me to redirect to the page id:               http://www.newsite.com/node/123      which automatically redirects (with a 301) to the above title url. Is there a problem using two redirects or is it better to just use one?


Accessing website from within the LAN via web address

I run a small website at my house; just started it up the other day running Wordpress. The problem I'm facing is fairly obvious: I need to access my website, but I can't use the URL due my hosting on the same network I'm trying to access from. I use Chrome, and when I try to load the page it says that it simply could not connect. My question is simple: how can I access my site, Wordpress running through Apache on Ubuntu 12.10 LAMP stack, on the same network that I'm hosting it from without the use of proxy or VPN?


SocialEngine 4.5 redirect loop problem

I am installing SocialEngine 4.5. Here is the .htaccess file in the first level of the SocialEngine `/public_html/social_engine2/` directory:               # $Id: .htaccess 7539 2010-10-04 04:41:38Z john $          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     # For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.     #Options +FollowSymLinks     Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /               # Get rid of index.php     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /index\.php     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=2 [L,QSA]          # Rewrite all directory-looking urls     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          # Try to route missing files     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} public\/ [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(jpg|gif|png|ico|flv|htm|html|php|css|js)$     RewriteRule . - [L]          # If the file doesn't exist, rewrite to index     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          </IfModule>          # sends requests /index.php/path/to/module/ to "index.php"     # AcceptPathInfo On          # @todo This may not be effective in some cases     FileETag Size      This file is in the `/public_html/social_engine2/install/` directory:               # $Id: .htaccess 7554 2010-10-05 03:40:58Z john $          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     # For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.     #  Options +FollowSymLinks     Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /install/                    # Get rid of index.php     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /index\.php     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=2 [L,QSA]          # Rewrite all directory-looking urls     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          # Special cases     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} static     # RewriteRule (.*) Boostrap.php [L,QSA]     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          # Try to route missing files     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} public\/ [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(jpg|gif|png|ico|flv|htm|html|php|css|js)$     RewriteRule . - [L]          # If the file doesn't exist, rewrite to index     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_php5.c>       php_value   post_max_size         100M       php_value   upload_max_filesize   100M       php_value   max_input_time        600       php_value   max_execution_time    600       php_value   memory_limit          128M     </IfModule>          # @todo This may not be effective in some cases     FileETag Size      Please let me know if there is something wrong with the code.


PHP not enabled by default on GoDaddy shared linux web hosting

I recently made the mistake of starting a web hosting account with GoDaddy. Let me start by saying that any comments or answers that I should walk away from the money I spent with GoDaddy and go with someone else will be flagged. I have heard this countless times and do not wish to hear it again. Perhaps I am naive but I thought that PHP was enabled by default on shared web hosting. Certainly PHP should be enabled, my account started with two webform mailer scripts, webformmailer.php and gdform.php. There also exists a php.ini file that cannot be modified or deleted. It seems to prevent certain things like registering globals and other security concerns on a shared hosting environment. PHP is not enabled though. A simple test script spits back text, telling me the PHP handler doesn't exist or it is just not installed.               <?php phpinfo(); ?>      The above just returns text. There was no .htaccess file so I decided to add one myself. It made no difference. > AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php > > Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks The php.ini file that they provided in my account is as follows:               register_globals = off     allow_url_fopen = off          expose_php = On     max_input_time = 60     variables_order = "EGPCS"     extension_dir = ./     upload_tmp_dir = /tmp     precision = 12     SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net     url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="               ; Only uncomment zend optimizer lines if your application requires Zend Optimizer support          ;[Zend]     ;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15     ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3     ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3     ;zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager.so     ;zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so               ; -- Be very careful to not to disable a function which might be needed!     ; -- Uncomment the following lines to increase the security of your PHP site.          ;disable_functions = "highlight_file,ini_alter,ini_restore,openlog,passthru,     ;             phpinfo, exec, system, dl, fsockopen, set_time_limit,     ;                     popen, proc_open, proc_nice,shell_exec,show_source,symlink"      After contacting customer support they insist that there is nothing wrong with my account. I must be doing something very stupid here because I can't find any instance on the web where somebody experienced a similar problem with GoDaddy.


Support same url in different forms

I have seen many websites supporting multiple forms of the same URL. For example consider www.example.com/question1/ OR www.example.com/Question1/ OR www.example.com/QUESTION1/ etc. all lead to one page with say               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/question1/" >      or a 301 redirect to www.example.com/question1/. Does this affect the page rank anyhow or its just for seemless user experience or there is some other reason behind this? Infact even stackoverflow/stackexchange does this. No matter what the text after the id of the question in url they redirect you to the correct question!


Plesk 11 preview site with hosts file

I want to preview my website by manipulating the hosts file, linking to the server's URL but it's not working - My browser always tells me "the connection has been reset during page load". What am I doing wrong? I edited my hosts file like many tutorials out there suggest and I checked (wireshark) that the browser connects to the correct IP (that of my server). Yet, I can't see anything of my website...?


How do I build backlinks?

I've recently made a site and I want to know how to go about making backlinks?


What are new backlinking techniques

I am in search of new backlinks methods. I do know most of the traditional methods of acquiring back links but they are no more in the play. I there is something out of the box or not so common, please share your knowledge and wisdom.


How to increase backlinks of blog or websites

I know that this question is very easy and also Silly.But I don't know how to make **backlinks to my blog**.      I have tried **commenting in various blogs and websites** but in alexa there is **only 1 backlink** which is **my own blog**.      Do anyone know how to make a **quality backlinks for blog or website**....      I also want to know that by increasing **Backlinks** , **SEO** of my blog imporves???       _Thanks in advance......_


Use Addon domain within login name for FTP account in cPanel

Let's say I have a cPanel (version 11.30.6 (build 3), cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)) shared hosting account for `myDomain.com`. I also have several other "Addon" domain names on this account, each with their own document root. Under the cPanel FTP Accounts page, it only allows me to do this... **Server:** `ftp.myDomain.com`   **Login:** `name@myDomain.com` However, I want to setup an FTP location at one of my "Addon" domains so that it looks like this... **Server:** `ftp.myAddonDomain.net`   **Login:** `name@myAddonDomain.net` I'm not seeing if it's even possible, but hoping it is, and somebody here would be able to explain how. In other words, cPanel allows me to create an email account at literally **any** of my Addon domains or sub-domains. I'm wondering if I can create FTP accounts in the same fashion... but it's looks like I cannot.


backlinks: two domains with same IP

I run several different web pages on different servers (with different IP addresses). These pages are linking to each other in order to boost number of backlinks pointing to my pages. I would like to move all those projects to a single virtual host (with a single IP address). My question is, how Google handles links within different domain names but same IP address. Is there some penalization for it? Could this lead to lower PageRank?


Do premium domain names help us with other languages too?

It's commonly known that premium domains with one or two relevant keywords may help us improve our rankings in SERPS. But would it be possible that an english premium domain, for example gold.com (no, it's not mine) also helps to drive more non-english traffic (I'm talking about non-english pages ob)? ## Trying to make my question clear: Let's suppose that I have an english premium domain with a page like this: gold dot com/post/123/gold-is-yellow And decide to have a spanish, portuguese or french version of the site with pages like: gold dot com/es/post/123/el-oro-es-amarillo gold dot com/pt/post/123/o-ouro-e- amarelo gold dot com/fr/post/123/fsdfsdfsdf The fact that my english domain is a premium one and highly relevant for english terms, will also help me to achieve good rankings for non-english searched terms like: oro (spanish) or ouro (portuguese)?


Is my PageRank/linkjuice affected after 301 redirect and losing social likes?

I had to restructure my URL's and had to introduce some 301 redirects. However, then the Facebook likes and Google +1's of the old pages are also lost. Besides it's a shame those numbers don't show anymore, is my PageRank/linkjuice affected by the loss in likes/+1's? P.S.: I know a 301 redirect by itself results in a slight linkjuice loss, but that's not what I'm asking.


What's the best way way to download files from a live blog?

I'm having trouble figuring out a way to download files from a live blog. To be more specific, I'm trying to download the directory and php files that this blog consist of, and work on those files on my local environment while still keeping the original blog live on the net for the time being. I tried to use FTP(filezile) to download the files remotely, but it failed to open the files for writing and the file transfer failed. I then attempted to go into godaddy control panel and change the file permissions but, for some reason, it won't let me do that. Is there a better way to do this?


remove 'noindex' meta tag, under Tumblr

Is it possible to remove the meta tag for search engine 'noindex' in a tumblr blog ?   I have tried all options under the dashboard.   I think Tumblr add this option automatically when the HTML page is generated.   If I wrote another meta tag before, in a custom HTML style, is it used by googleBot or other ? > < meta name="robots" content="noindex"/ >< meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch- > control" content="off"/ >< /head >   >  < body > ... Also, these scripts are in the template :               <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/WsCkloo8h/fluid.js" type="text/javascript"></script>     <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/trzklb43b/jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>     <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/6JXkli7dk/cufon-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>          <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/g6Wklb4aa/tg.js" type="text/javascript"></script>      >


pingback / trackback support for a photo sharing website?

Is there a photo sharing service, such as flickr or picasa, that will collect the urls of the locations where the photo has been posted on other blogs (or mentioned in tweets, etc?) This could be accomplished by posting each photo as a blog entry using **wordpress** , which would then automatically handle pingbacks, but of course a blog doesn't perform quite like a proper photo service. Perhaps this could be done with a private photo hosting server like **zenphoto** by editing the php, but that seems rather involved. Does such a service already exist?


YouTube fullscreen not displaying

For some reason YouTube videos in my website do not get the fullscreen button, even if I added the parameter `allowFullScreen` set to true both in the object and embed tag. Here's an example page: http://www.indievault.it/2011/11/09/indie-vault-alla- games-week-2011-online-la-video-gallery/ Just take a quick look at the source. The `allowFullScreen` param is there, but the button won't show. Here's an excerpt from the code in that page:               <object width="540" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dvYQhJwwkgA"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dvYQhJwwkgA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="540" height="325"></embed </object>


What could keep Chrome from downloading files?

I run a subscription-based site for poker training videos. In the recent past, some portion of our subscribers have developed problems downloading our videos. The affected users are exclusively seeing problems while using Chrome as their web browser, however there are other users who use Chrome with no problem. Here is the exact behavior they are seeing:   * Pasting the url of a video file directly to their browser produces about:blank and the file does not download   * Clicking the link normally produces no result (e.g. it behaves like a dead link)   * Right-clicking the link and opening in a new tab/window produces about:blank and the file does not download   * Right-clicking the link and choosing Save-As produces a 5 to 10 second delay, after which they get a Save As dialog. After they choose a location, the download proceeds at full speed. Again, this problem has only presented itself for a subset of users browsing with Chrome. All affected users have the latest version of Chrome, but so do some of the unaffected users. All affected users have Windows Vista or Windows XP. As far as we can tell (small sample size), none of the affected users have Windows 7 and none of our users on Windows 7 have been affected. What could be causing this problem? How could it be solved? Edit: Here is a copy of the headers from one of these downloads.               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:35:56 GMT     Server: Apache     Last-Modified: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:57:29 GMT     ETag: "180cc292-5229699-4b00a208b3c40"     Accept-Ranges: bytes     Content-Length: 86152857     Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=29     Connection: Keep-Alive     Content-Type: application/octet-stream      Edit: Some updates. Chrome extensions do not seem to affect this. One of the affected systems was upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, with no other changes made. That system now downloads properly. This issue doesn't only affect the WMV videos. It happens with FLV and M4V as well. A sample file is at http://www.grinderschool.com/videos/zbn9Y7TbeWcUbCPFNnLd/Carroters001.wmv


Number of keyword phrases

Does the number of keyword combinations used for SEO of a given website matter? Is it better to have five or thirty five?


Do dynamic URLs have their own PageRank?

Do URLs with parameters have their own PageRank for the given parameters values or is the PageRank aggregated at basic page URL level ignoring the parameters?


Microdata reuse within another item

I've been reading around and I feel I've hit a wall. My intention is marking up my site with micro-data in a way I won't need to re-declare items that already exist in the page. For example, my header will always contain info regarding the "Organization" that the website represents. Within the "Products" that I offer I can specify the "Brand" of that product. So the product's property "brand" will replicate the "Organization" info mentioned in the header. Now I don't think I'm supposed to repeat the organization's markup within the brand property of the product item, since I feel there should be a way to reference that organization item directly. I just haven't found a way to do this, are there any ideas? I've checked this answer and although useful it doesn't address my issue. I tried messing with it however to give you an idea of my intentions:               <span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemref="myCompany">         <meta itemprop="name" content="Company Name" />         <meta itemprop="url" content="http://example.com/" />         <meta itemprop="description" content="description" />     </span>          <span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">         <span itemprop="brand" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">             <meta itemprop="id" content="myCompany" id="myCompany" />         </span>         <meta itemprop="name" content="Foo product" />         <meta itemprop="description" content="You can do Bar with it" />     </span>      This doesn't work since it adds the the "id" property to both "Organization" and "Product". **##### EDIT1: #####** zigojacko's answer didn't really go towards what I was expecting, since he uses a single container with all the information needed to present all the markup for his product. However in my case the site layout isn't broken down into a container that would hold all the necessary information, as my company info is within the header and the products/offers are near the footer (as the main form to define those offers is above the fold) and other info is scattered between each of those containers. As such I would eventually like to link the company (that resides in the header) to the brand of each product (that reside near the footer), I just wouldn't like to repeat all the code necessary to describe the company and therefor would prefer linking to some sort of item identifier. There is also the possibility of nesting every bit of content within the page to the company, but as a comment to this question I mention that specific question in the webmasters-stack-exchange. So I know how to pull that type of solution off, I'm just wondering if there's the possibility of referring to an existent item elsewhere on the page. **##### EDIT2: #####** In the comments of this question I might have found a better way to explain what I mean. > By pointers I mean an html attribute that could reference an Item. In the > code example I gave, I have a loose (not nested) Organization that I would > like to be inserted into my second item Product within it's brand property, > but without having to copy+paste or echo again within the Product. I tried > to simulate that behavior with the itemref attribute.


MODx give user group access to the content of a resource container but not the parent resource

I have a Category "Articles" and in there is the Category "Travel". I want to allow a user group to add and edit articles as children of travel, but they should not be able to edit the page travel. How can I do that?


Google webmaster reconsideration requests without manual actions

my site ranking decreases in Google results suddenly about ten days ago. I read many articles about it at support.google.com, but I didn't find the problem. Also there is no manual action in webmaster tools. is there any way to ask Google reconsider my site ranking or to say what is the problem of site? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ypg6e.png) Background for my site: it is a pharmacy shopping websites. has ~700 product pages and almost all of the description of products is copied from producers website.


Will AJAX-fetched material be invisible to search engines?

With the new method of doing things that I've put together, my page content is not actually on index.html or any of the other pages. Instead, it is in index.txt and merely fetched by AJAX. Is my content, which is in index.txt, going to be invisible to the search engine spiders? Or will it load the AJAX-fetched material and then analyze the whole thing once the material is fetched?


Bots and scripts

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will AJAX-fetched material be invisible to search engines? Can bots understand what's going on in javascript or vbscript? Most of the social networking modules and ad codes consist of just a js file which appends an iframe (google+ button, facebook like button, facebook likebox, google ads etc). Do bots understand that there are iframes involved in the site? Do bots run javascript and check the result? Or at least try to understand what's going in that js?


Does having a single image referenced from multiple pages affect SEO?

I would like to have a collection of images that are rendered into the browser. If for example I had **Images:**               [img1 ; img2 ; img3 ; img4 ; img 5;]      **Category:**               [cat1 ; cat2 ; cat3]      **Problem:** Assume image 1 belonged in both cat1 and cat2. Would it be better for SEO purposes to upload image1 with different alt tags? OR should I upload the same image twice using different URL's? **_Note** : I have folder pattern such as_   * `/dir/cat1/`   * `/dir/cat2/`   * `/dir/cat3/` The image goes in the folder in which category it belongs. So if the image is best not duplicated, I will use the first choice.


Why isn't my website in Google search results?

I've made a website one month ago and it still isn't indexed by Google. I haven't change any setting in the _robots.txt_ file. I've tried to search for `site:websitename.com` but I still can't see it, and I have a Google Analytics account. Why isn't my site in Google results?


Google not reading my website Content and Title, Meta tag and Description also?

I have a new website and my website Home page content, Meta tag also not reading google and not index, any one can help me my website: http://www.packerandmoversindelhi.in


How long does it take for Google Webmasters to index site after submitting sitemap?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why isn't my website in Google search results? I have submitted my website today into Google search using Google Webmasters using sitemaps. The status on the sitemap says OK and it shows that 12 urls have been recognized. I was wondering how long does it take for the link to get indexed, as the indexed url option says > "No data available. Please check back soon." I am not sure if it is showing this message due to some error, or everything is fine.


Google pulls keywords from only two pages

When I sign into Google Webmaster and view Google Index > Content Keywords, it only shows keywords off of a single page, and from my site map. It's a small site with five pages, but it's only getting keywords from the single page. Also when I go under Google Index > Index Status it shows only two pages have been indexed, and it's stayed that way for about a month. I assume that this is the site map and the page where all of the keywords are being pulled from. My robots.txt file allows all pages to be crawled, and if I search "site:mysite.com" it shows all of the pages. I can't seem to find a way to see what pages have been indexed in Webmaster. The site has been up for a couple of months. I have submitted a sitemap which has all of the pages. Why isn't Google gathering keywords from the other pages? How do I get the other pages indexed?


Pages are not searchable by Google

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google After migrating my website (based on Drupal CMS) to WebHosting (it's about two months there), I noticed that my pages aren't searchable by Google. It finds nothing, even though it should clearly find my website. Same thing happens when I want to know the ranking of my website. Do you know where the fault could be?


A relatively new blog seems to be getting very poor Google indexing

I have a new blog that is 2 months old. In the first few weeks, it was getting indexed nicely and my GoogleWebmaster reports were showing that it was getting crawled and began ranking for some terms. Then as I kept writing, the GoogleWebmaster report thinned out and showed less and less terms that this blog ranks for. Now there are only 4 terms with one of them being my name. Is there something I need to do to keep the old posts to remain indexed and crawled? Thanks, Alex


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google I have a strange problem with my website. I have a website, let's say Abcdefg.com. Website is live for 2 months and google still doesn't know it. While searching for my domain name 'abcdefg', google displays results for similar phrase (abcdef) but not fot mine. How to make google get to know my domain name? Website and sitemaps have been submitted via Google Webmaster Tools.


How to improve image indexing

I have a curious problem: In Google Webmaster Tools, it shows that from my sitemap 330 images submitted and only 6 are indexed. I try to put alt tags, descriptive names, everything by the book, but still no results. What can you suggest to improve image indexing by Google or any other search engine :).


How long did it take for your new website to be indexed by search engines

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why isn't my website in Google search results? I have added my website to the webmaster tools of some major search engines already, and supplied the sitemap for the website. I have been waiting for exactly 3 weeks now and still no data in the webmaster tools. I have also did some link building, and the click-trough link to my website could be found in the search results from day one. How long did it take for your website to get indexed? And why does is take so long?


Google not showing the sitemap after submitting it

I am trying to submit the sitemap to the Google. I have already submitted the sitemap - xml path to Google 2-3 times. but when I put my website URL on Google search, it not showing the menus or it not showing indexes in search. What should I do ? Anything wrong ?


Multilingual subdmain on different hosting server: will this be indexed by search engines?

I have a Japanese language sub-domain: ja.example.com, which is hosted by server A. The root domain (example.com) is hosted by server B. They have completely different IP addresses: (e.g.) 205.56.78.15 vs. 56.45.03.12. Will the sub-domain be indexed by search engines? The sub-domain has been live for one month and there have been no visits by organic searches. Thanks


My Blog not not showing in Google Search Results

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google Hello Everyone,   yesterday, i created two blog entries and published them on blogger but it is not showing up in google search results. How long do i have to wait before i can see it in google search results (before google crawls the blog). i have already shared the address on couple of sites and there are almost 80 page views from three different referrals. Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated.   regards