Spam links injected into GWT's Structured Data Testing Tool?

When I examine one of my self-hosted WordPress sites using the **Structured Data Testing Tool** of Google Webmaster Tools, I was shocked to see links to 2 spam sites inside the "HTML" tab! However, when I searched for these spammy links inside the actual site -- by examining both the output of my browser's "view source", as well a phpMyAdmin- created dump of the MySQL database -- I could not find any hint of this spam! BTW, I see from this "Spammers spamming the Google Structured Data Testing Tool" article, that this is a known issue. My main question is: have these links truly been injected into my site _itself_ , and -- if so (so that I can clean up the damage) -- _**where exactly**_? [Or, is it GWT or some other entity external to my site that has somehow been hacked? In such a case, is there anything that I can do to fix and prevent the problem?] [BTW and FYI: the website was originally hosted on WordPress.com, and now has a "Site Redirect" upgrade pointing to the new self-hosted site.]


Advantages/disadvantages of "separated" web applications

I'm in the process of designing a (soon-to-be) rather large PHP/MySQL web application. I've come to a fork in the road as far as internal architecture; I can build the website as a "traditional" web application where, when you make a request, the server builds you an HTML page, sends you the whole page, and the browser renders it, or, I can build it as a "separated" web application where the entire HTML structure and code of the application is provided to the browser upon initial load, and the application uses JavaScript callbacks to get specific data or issue commands via a unified API. Also, I intend for there to be multiple versions of the site (desktop, mobile, iPhone/Android mobile, search-engine friendly, etc..) and at some point, perhaps even standalone mobile or desktop apps as well. What advantages/disadvantages have you, as web developers, run into with each of these architectures? Is there a clear reason why I should go with one over the other? Is it more of a developers'-preference thing?


Hreflang and possible duplicate content SEO issue

imagine there is a page with video, it has `hreflang` tags setup, to lead let's say German visitors to `/de/` folder... So, on that German version of page, everything like menus, navigation and such are in German, but the video is the same, the title of the video (`H1` tag) is the same, `<title>` and `meta description` is the same as on the original English page. It means that general (English) page and German version of it has the same key content in English. To me it seems to be a SEO duplicate content issue. As I know, Google doesn't think that content is duplicate, if it is properly translated to other language. Does my explained case mean that the content will be detected by Google as duplicate?


Adsense account was disabled, whats the problem can you check it out?

I have been maintaining adsense account from past 4 years, I got violation alert for audult content. I was saying that only disabled ads for **www.idleindia.com**. Still account account is in active. After i have removed all related content and sent my appel to google. Later I got below mail. > It is important for a site displaying AdSense to offer significant value to > the user by providing unique and relevant content, and not to place ads on > auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content. > > Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear > navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through > your pages and find the information they are seeking. > > Please review Google's Webmaster Quality Guidelines ( > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66361 ) for > more information. > > Google ads may not be placed on pages with adult or mature content. This > includes, but is not limited to, pages with images or videos containing: • > Strategically covered nudity • Sheer or see-through clothing • Lewd or > provocative poses • Close-ups of breasts, buttocks, or crotches In thi mail it is stating that no original content, In my site i will post all the content related to Telugu Movie medial, I am purchasing all the photos from tollywood photographer, and coming to the content, I have written by my own. Can Any expert please review my site and please let me know what are the modifications I need to do for my site to regain the ads.


HTML coding style: attribute starts on a new line

sublvl's front end developer seems to have a strange coding style that I've never seen before. Every time they begin a new element, immediately after the element name they insert a line break. The first thing that appears on the next line is the first attribute of the element. For example:               id="player-container"><div     id="player-bar"><div     id="player-controls-wrapper"><div     id="player-controls"><div     id ="player-controls-buttons"> <a      The above code was found here. I've never seen this kind of coding style before. What's going on here? Is this just a quirky style or is there some reasoning behind it?


Does resubmitting a modified site map affect current ranking?

I have a old sitemap dated 2012 that I submitted in Google Webmaster Tools. I want to resubmit a modified sitemap, but I am worried that my current ranking might suffer. Does anyone have a way that I can resubmit and make sure my site's current rankings don't drop?


What does this Drupal LDAP error mean?

**PROBLEM:** Trouble shooting LDAP connection binding and request resolution **ERROR:** "LDAP Bind failure for user . Error -1: Can't contact LDAP server" * * * **SOLVED** "Authentication with the LDAP server succeeded."


Dreamhost script killed

I'm using Dreamhost. In one of my scripts I need to gather contents of url (using file_get_contents). There are 9 sites, 8 of them are ok but one is very slow. It tooks 10~30sec. to connect. As you would know scripts running more than ~5 seconds are killed by Dreamhost happy killer. So I cant gather this site. Any suggestions?


lead capture apps

I'd like to build a lead capture website, where a visitor is required to enter their name and email address in order to receive a free report for download. Do you know of an app which will let me store captured information in a database, and present the download link to them after registering? I guess this can all be accomplished using a contact form script with database integration and jquery confirmation message.


How to play a tone (eg. sine wave) at an arbitrary pitch/frequency?

I would like to generate a single continuous tone (eg. a sine wave) from a web page with the ability to interactively control the following:   * start/stop sound   * change pitch   * change volume I'm after a solution that is reasonably likely to work on a wide variety of hardware, browsers and connections; something as simple and low-bandwidth as possible. The only method that seems to work reliably across the hardware I have access to is Flash, but I'd really like to avoid a proprietary solution and create something with open-source software that conforms to open standards. Is this possible? If so, how?


In Google Analytics, how can I plot behavior over time (example: Session Duration)

Is it possible to plot or graph "Behavior" over time? In particular Audience->Behavior->Engagement->Session Duration. I'd like to know if we're getting better or worse. So far I've found a way to compare two periods, but not to plot the trend.


Using dash in folder names and linking for image

I have image folders where I use dashes in the name for example: "images/01-12-2011/example.jpg" When I insert this image into my html. Internet explorer(9) shows the image but Firefox and chrome doesn't show it. When I type it to the url: (blabla.com/images/01-12-2011/example.jpg) then i can see the image. What could be the reason and the solution? thanks in advance


PHP URL Rewrite engine for small project

I use PHP. I want to setup a micro site as a prototype, where I can work with the frontend only, separated from any CMS. **URL Rewrite** I also want the URL rewrite to be correct, like `http://www.test.com/products/tables/green/little-wood123/` **Question(s)**   1. Is there any free class for URL rewriting? I searched but found none.   2. If that is not the way to go, what framework is nice for this? It should be tiny, easy to use and support URL rewrite.


WHM local/external mail server confusion

We host several websites on the same server using WHM but this seems to confuse the mail routing when someone has their own external mail servers - it looks locally. We have our own email accounts hosted on the server. When creating an account for a client on the same server WHM adds the default entries to the DNS for that account. However this client has their own mail servers elsewhere. But when sending them an email it never reaches that external server - it just sees the local, incorrect one. I realise I can update my DNS to point to the external server, but this means I am copying their settings and if they are changed, then I will also need to update mine. Are there some settings I can use to force it to use the external servers without having to copy the settings.


How to verify that someone owns a website?

I'm trying to think of ways to, as securely as possible, verify that a user owns a website that they claim to own. Here are some ways I've seen:   * Upload an obscurely-named HTML file to the root directory with given contents   * Include a meta tag or other comment somewhere in the home page source   * Send an email to an address `@domainwearetryingtovalidate.tld` with a verification link   * Check a CNAME or TXT record   * Check WHOIS records   * Physically validate by calling or emailing the support line, manually updating records And here are the problems with those methods, in order:   * Some website configurations may not allow for simply uploading a file to the root   * Poor site design might allow a user of that site to add this meta tag themselves   * Websites which provide email services make this useless; take `gmail.com` for example   * That's too complex for most small website owners to figure out how to do   * Those are public; anyone can claim to be whoever. Not to mention most often inaccurate.   * Huuuuge waste of time Are there any other ways to verify that a user on your site owns a particular website? Of the methods I listed, which of these are best and worst? I ordered them from best to worst in my own opinion, but I'd like to see what others think as well. I plan on implementing one or more of these in PHP.


FF multiple instances on same host thinclients

Im ICT manager at a primary school. Last year our school switched to one host/server pc (Windows 2008 server) and thinclients. All thinclients are connected to the server/host pc. I found out that it is not possible to start multiple instances of Firefox on the host under the same Windows user account. For example: if a user connects as "group1" by a thinclient to the host, and an other user uses the same login credentials from another thinclient, FF responds with "Firefox is already active...". I read some posts on internet regarding this subject. All are referring to Multifox -add-on. However, that is not what I'm looking for. Has anybody dealt with this issue? Anybody knows a managable workaround? Kind regards, Kees Epema


How to embed my website videos in facebook via status

I have a Joomla website having a lot of videos, I want to embed my videos in facebook by sharing via status update like you do when sharing youtube video. When you paste a link there facebook automatically extract the video and embed there. On my website I have videos but when I paste the link there on facebook it just treats it as a page not as a video. I want my videos to be playable there on facebook without redirecting to my website. Is there a way i can achieve this?


Long lasting free web hosting

I am looking a free web hosting site which is long lasting. It is because one of the free web hosting which I have been using, have shutdowned their free service. I am looking for some web hosting which is big enough so that it won't die easily or charge money after a period of time. It should support wordpress. It would be best to have python and php supported. Do you have any suggestion?


Moved sitemaps to a different subdomain and losing search referrals around the same time. Red herring or correlation?

We started to lose search referral traffic around the same time that I moved some of our sitemaps to a subdomain. Could this have hurt us? I followed Google's steps to creating a sitemap under a different subdomain. The new sitemaps.foo.com subdomain is being crawled and indexed well. Both www.foo.com and sitemaps.foo.com have been verified in Google Webmaster Tools. They appear as distinct sites. Is this correct? I can't find a way in Webmaster Tools to say "Hey, sitemaps.foo.com is really owned by www.foo.com, so show them together and make sure to attribute sitemaps.foo urls to www.foo" Our www.foo.com/robots.txt               Sitemap: http://www.foo.com/sitemap.xml     Sitemap: http://sitemaps.foo.com/subdir/sitemap.xml.gz


CloudFlare DNS: Downtime failover host

My company uses CloudFlare for its DNS, but as our site is HTTPS-secured and we're on the free plan, we can't utilize CloudFlare's CDN services. Our host has fairly rare but not insignificant downtime. We can't migrate servers just yet, and I'd like to be able to either have the main domain redirect to the status domain, or simply resolve to the alternative status host in the event of downtime so users will stop bugging me asking if the site is down. Is this possible to do automatically using the free CloudFlare plan, or will I have to manually edit my DNS every time the site goes down?


What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing?

This is a silly question but i am bit confused. Can any explain What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing the pages? Thanks in advance.


Legal standing for a copyright notice placed by prior web developer? (long backstory)

Let's say a prior web developer placed a copyright notice on a website in the web developer's and not the client's name. The prior web developer has been hostile and actually took the site down for some months last year. Site gets put back up just prior to a court date where client and prior web developer are in dispute because of tenant/landlord relationship. Site now placed on new host and DNS and email are now completely out of prior web developer's control. New web developer cleans up the messy Dreamweaver- and-no-alt-attributes and lots of needless iframes code. New web developer adds a bit of CSS, unifies JavaScript. Site basically still appears largely as it did, but now with copyright now (c)2010 The Client, removed `<u>` tags, improved readability, SEO, accessibility, update-abilty. There was (surprise!) no contract between prior web developer and client, just word of mouth. And until prior web developer was a bozo, was perfectly reasonable entity. Though apparently prior web developer refused to do any updates for several years. Practically though, the design is unremarkable, a header, nav, and middle scrolling content window with images, and an empty footer. _**So_** , now, the question **(at last!)** : Does that copyright that the prior web developer put on the site mean anything legally? Assume it's archived in The Wayback Machine so anyone could see it if they look. Are there any other pitfalls in this situation the web developer should worry about? Any pitfalls for the client (beyond the standing bad blood)? Is it all such a mess already the practical step of moving and slightly-improving the site make the prior copyright a moot point?


Overriding link action with ajax - SEO

If I override default link href with onclick and ajax, for example link `<a href="/mypage">`, so onclick I load mypage through ajax, if javascript is disabled, or its a text browser or bot, I let go to /mypage, is this good enough for SEO as having regulat /mypage link with no javascript and ajax? What I want is to have same content as without ajax, but to load it via ajax for better user expirience. Wonder if that can be achieved with same SEO effect? I assume for google bot it will be the same, but this page /mypage will not appear in analytics, no referers...maybe that is the weakness of this approach?


How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?

Give site 1 and site 2, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1? That is, if I were to remove site 1 would site 2 go down as well? The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked to do a major redesign for site 1 (the original developer's gone, left no documentations, the codes disorganised and everywhere, etc) and with the way things are, I figured it would be a lot easier and also better in the long run if I just delete everything and start again from scratch. Therefore I need to check for dependancies before pulling the plug.


How to avoid Hotmail/Live rejections for (legit) large volume eMailing?

While qualifying eMail for Spam, Hotmail/Live checks the historical records of numbers of eMails sent by a sender (FROM, eMail Server, IP, etc.). Some times, perfectly valid bulk eMails that are not Spam, (i.e. double opt-in list, from a server with proper SPF Record, signed with DKIM, unregister links and contact info, etc.) are rejected and not delivered to destinataries. Not even to their Junk folder. I guess we can avoid this situation by progressivelly "training" Hotmail/Live about the reputation of our sender and sending small quantyties of eMails innitially and increasing the quantity for some amount/percentaje during each delivery. Are there guidelines or do you have any experience on these quantities, strategy, solutions? Thank you in advance. EDIT: This question with a bounty is still unanswered. 8 hours to be automatically awarded! Do you have the answer?


What's the extent of the "damage" to having a broken URL found by the spiders (showing in Google Webmaster Tools)?

An error with our URL rewrite rules caused some pages to be not found (404 errors) when Google crawled our site. I regularly watch for errors and fix database or coding issues when they arise. We usually avoid them altogether, but sometimes we're surprised to find a 404 and we fix it. How bad is it? Supposing our goal is to establish "trust" and "authority" and keep the spider coming back for more pages, does anyone know how the spider acts programatically with crawl errors. Is there a point where the crawl frequency is reduced, or the SERPs affected?


Does YouTube videos embedded on my website consume my bandwidth?

I will like to know if embedding YouTube videos on my website consumes my bandwidth when the videos are being viewed.


How can I edit (in MS Expression Web ) FrontPage Site Parameters (Substitutions)?

Or, asked another way: Where are the values for MS Front Page Substitions (Site Parameters) stored? (so that I can edit in Web Expressions) Background I'm ashamed to admit that I've been maintaining our company's website in MS FrontPage for over 9 years. I'm moving it to Expression Web, which will display the Substitutions (stored as Site Parameters) but I can't figure out where to **edit** them. **I tried** searching the source folders for the website (on my development PC) for the name of the parameter (s-Variable= _hoursOfOperation_ ) but did not find it (other than in the files it was actually _used in_.


Do exists an 'external product code' in Prestashop?

I'm exporting products data from our enterprise Erp to a Prestashop installation. Our ERP products code are alphanumerics like `A001`, `A002`, etc. I would like to use this code into Prestashop, but, if I'm not wrong, Prestashop Id is numerical. So, does exists a field like " _External Product Code_ " that I can use in Products table in Prestashop ?


What is the the maximum time for a user to return to Google for the visit to be flagged up as a bounce in GA?

I know that Google measures bounce rates by how fast a user returns to the results page after clicking-through to a website. Roughly what is the maximum duration of the visit for the user to then return for it to be considered a bounce? i.e. <5 seconds, <30 seconds? I'm mainly interested as it appears a lot of users clicking through my PPC adverts (Adwords) are bouncing, despite my ads having a high quality score and the page's being entirely related to the adverts copy and at as best tied to what I think user's may be searching for from the key phrases I've selected so the high bounce rate (100% on some keywords) seems a bit strange. If a bounce isn't determined by time, but simply whether a user returns to the SERP after visiting my site or not after any amount of time that would make more sense but the average duration of visit for my keywords with a 100% bounce rate in GA is 00:00:00, which suggests a user immediately returned to the SERPs, which again, is odd. Is my GA data being skewed by https or anything like that? Scratching my head here.


Which tool to create a sitemap to plan a future site?

I'd like to create a sitemap to plan a future site, and I'm looking for a tool to do it. I'd like to create a list of all articles first. Then a hierachy. Then I'd like to put the articles on several places in the hierachy. I should be able to put one article at different places. I'd like to have the ability to mark the articles in different colors whether they should come into the first version of the website or later.


EU Cookie Law Clarification

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer?   >  Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the > EU? I have a legal entity registered in India. My sites are hosted in US. Bulk of my traffic is from Asia and US, though I get some traffic from EU countries. Do I have to worry about the new EU Cookie law? Is it applicable only to companies / webmasters from EU?


How to offer a cookie opt in/out to users?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? I intend to use google analyticts, and as I understand it I will need to offer users the option to opt out of cookies. The question is this: I HATE these constant cookie option boxes, everyone I ask it getting annoyed by them too. Its nice to have the option, but we all know they have been in use for well over a decade. So - how big of a deal do I have to make about the fact that I'm using GoogleAn? can I pop a small link at the bottom of the page, maybe integrate it into "Privacy policies" page, and give people the option to opt out there? This would be very much the "Assume the majority of users don't mind, but at least make the option available" stance. Ironically setting a cookie seems to be the only way I can see to enforce the opt-out! as IP's change.


EU Cookiee Law - Should I be worried?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? Given that the year-long "grace period" is up in a day or two, I'm trying to figure out if this law is... serious? It just seems -completely- ridiculous to me, but I'm not posting here to debate that. Given that 99% (probably more than 99%...) of UK websites I visit _are_ using cookies for tracking and other purposes, is this law really enforceable on such a large scale? I run 3-4 low traffic sites and only use cookie's set for/by Google Analytics. I really dislike the idea of having to implement a plug-in or form of consent since it would degrade the user experience. Ironically, I would have usually stored whether or not the user wants to allow my site(s) to use cookie's by storing their option **in** a cookie. Should I be worried about complying with this new [outlandish] EU cookie law? Or am I 'small-fry' enough (low traffic sites, only using GA) to not be targeted by the authorities?


Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the EU?

I have been reading up about this EU cookie law, and have also had in depth conversations with my girlfriend who is a solicitor/lawyer and with colleagues while building websites. While we are now working towards implementing a way to abide by the EU law, I have thought of something which no one really knows the answer to and has caused a few arguments. It's my understanding that any website in the EU must abide by these cookie laws, which is understandable. However, say if I were to have a .co.uk or .eu domain name pointing to a website which is hosted in America for example, do I still need to abide by the EU laws even though the website is hosted outside of the EU? One person I have asked has said that because the domain name is .co.uk or .eu (a European TLD) then the website is still accountable under EU law. Another person I have asked has said because the actual website is held outside of the EU, it doesn't actually have to bother with this law.


What is the maximum number of characters in the utm_content param in GA?

For example, we want to differentiate people who followed our daily product email blast. I could use the product ID for utm_content, but it would be easier to read to use the SEO friendly URL path, such as: http://www.oursite.com/products/ **really-great-new-product** https://www.frugg.com/? utm_source=a&utm_medium=b& utm_term=c& utm_content=Can-I-use-a-really-long-content-tag-like-this-one-or-is-this- going-to-break-something& utm_campaign=d


How do you manage extensions and upgrading the code?

If you use something like wordpress, and you need to upgrade because of some new security threats, some of your addons and extensions will not work. So if you don't upgrade, you'll face security issues, and if you do half of your plugins will not work. I know some people who have abandoned products like wordpress, or magento, and joomla. What's the right way of dealing with this issue? Is there a solution?


AdWords test with two different agencies - can I track their results without them being aware of each other

I am currently going through a process of testing two AdWords PPC providers at the same time from two separate AdWords accounts. However they will require access to my GA account for linking and eCommerce tracking. Which means that they will be able to see each others results. I don't want this; Is it possible to set up GA so that;   * Company A only sees Adwords results associated to their AdWords management via GA    * Company B only sees Adwords results associated to their AdWords management via GA And each company never sees the other company's Adwords results?


Joomla 1.5.26 won't let me insert html

I am using the following code to try to embed chat in to an article in Joomla 1.5.26: `<iframe src="http://xxxxxxx.com/welcome/visichat/" width="100%" height="550px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>` Whenever I hit save, the code disappears. Actually, it seems that any html code I try to save disappears. I am trying with the toggle editor tab and the insert html button. Does anyone know why Joomla won't let me embed html? I am trying to get the chat to load with the site navigation still in place. I'd also be interested in hearing other ways to accomplish this.


Why is the EU cookie directive causing so much excitement?

I am confused by all the excitement surrounding the EU cookie directive; why is it such a painful thing? As far as I can see cookies that are required for your site to function are allowed such as shopping carts and site logins. Am I missing something here? The original HTTP specification was designed to work in a stateless way so to my mind this is a stepping stone in the right direction towards stateless RESTful websites. Why should state be added to the process when it is not needed. There is plenty of mileage left in Digest Auth etc so why is everyone worried? An obvious answer might be that Google Analytics needs to set cookies to be able to track traffic. There is a somewhat unsatisfactory answer to this point: http://cookies.dev.wolf-software.com So have I missed something that I should be panicking about? What has you worried about it?


How to protect Google Ads from yontoo layers runtime?

Since sometime I have observed that Google Ads on any website including my blog (http://blogs.digitss.com) gets replaced with something similar to uploaded image below. I am sure it's happening with many people and that could reduce Google Adsense income. After some research I found that it is because "yontoo layers runtime" from yontoo (tagline says: Platform that allows you to control the websites you visit everyday.) but actually they are taking over. I am not sure with which software they are making a way into users computer but that seems very bad in terms of freedom of Internet and advt/marketing industry. I don't remember I have ever said "yes" to install yontoo on my computer. This piece of software is successful to install itself on my laptop/desktop and workstation at office. I am going to disable it now but the question is how do I make my websites aware of Yontoo Runtime and stop them from replacing Google Ads? Basically they are not able to replace all adsense ads but so far they are successfully replaced 1st instance of adsense advt and I am sure in future they will hit more. There could be 2 approaches 1) Fool yontoo runtime by putting some misleading divs in html document to save actual ads, 2) Completely disable yontoo by working out some client side script (javascript) which can fail/crash yontoo runtime and so will fail it's purpose of replacing ads. You can visit my blog (http://blogs.digitss.com) and see on top-right corner, if you find that Google ad replaced with something similar to image attached with question - it means your computer/browser is infected too. **Looking forward to reply from webmasters, if someone has already wrote some code/plugin to make website (and Google ads) safe from yontoo or similar runtime.** FYI: it was able to push this runtime in all browsers installed on machine. So a dangerous threat. And yes, I am just using Google ads - not sure if yontoo runtime is doing trick against other ad networks or not? I am sure they must be doing it with some handful of ad networks. ![http://www.contenko.com search](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hCrjf.png)


Is there such a thing as a Google Result Set simulator?

I am always making tweaks to my site, be it in the .htaccess file, some new SEO plugin, different types of content or whatever. For all these changes, I would really like to be able test it immediately and see if the change had any positive or negative effect. I am just wondering if there was some way of doing immediate testing using some simulator instead of having to wait for Google to discover and index it - which could take a long time.


Want Google to index redirect urls

I'm having issues with users who think that Google Search is the address bar. Some of the sites that link to my site use user friendly addresses with 301 redirects to pages that have less friendly URLs. So, for example if I enter www.foo.com/bar it goes to www.bar.com/page.php?some-parameters-and-utm-codes- etc usually this is done by a 301 redirect in order to keep the SEO from foo.com on bar.com and so on, which I believe is standard practice. However, lately there have been more and more people searching www.foo.com/bar instead of going to www.foo.com/bar directly and because the page /bar is nothing more than a redirect it has no SEO that I know of. Things I've thought of but haven't been able to test, because Google takes forever to update :) ( _and I'm lazy like that_ ), include using Google sitemaps and having them enter their redirects as entries there. (I could see this working if they were the top search entry all the time, and it might appear as a sitelink, but I don't know if that'll make the url itself show up in searches) Using Canonical tags on my pages to the redirects they set up. Which is a nightmare in itself because of the nature of my pages. One week the www.foo.com/bar might go to www.bar.com/pageA.php the next it might goto www.bar.com/pageB.php and having to remember to take the canonical tag off of pageA, so that it doesn't get confused with pageB would be a pain. Using 302 redirects -.- So I guess the question here is, does anyone have any experience or knowledge about this? What should I do to make www.foo.com/bar show up when someone 'searches' for this redirect url?


Keyword research tool

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are some great tools to use for keyword research? In the past I've always chosen which keywords / phrases to go after by checking the traffic in the keyword tool, checking the competition for those keywords, their backlinks and PR and then by reading though all that and going on gut instinct. I know SEOMoz has some functionality for this but are there any alternatives you could recommend ?


How can we determine how much to spend on advertising our site?

We're considering pay-per-click advertising to bring traffic to our website. How should we go about determining how much to budget? Any other considerations we should be aware of?


Do keyword-based filenames and URLs really matter?

We've developed a dynamic web application which uses URLs such as `product.cfm?id=42` but our marketing team says we should use search friendly URLs and put our keywords into the URLs (so it would be `product-name.cfm` instead). Our developers tell us this will cost more money and take additional time. Is it worth the effort? How important is this to the search engines and will it impact our rankings?


Can anyone recommend a good HTML 5 book?

Specifically about canvas. I have been looking around for a few good one.


Pointing one domain to the other using CNAME and keeping localization

Would I be able to have domain **b.com** point to **a.com/xyz** but for the user it should still appear as b.com? I won't be having any content on domain b.com it'll all be hosted on a.com and a.com/xyz respectively. I've setup a CNAME before and it's straight forward, however I'm not sure if my request with keeping the URL while pointing to another domains content is possible. Appreciate your help


www.*.us.com not being indexed, but *.us.com is on Google Webmasters

I've read the FAQ and searched the help center. My URL is `http://www.etechsupport.us.com`. I have also done 301 redirect of `no-www` to `www`. But `www` is not being indexed by Google and `no-www` is. My SEO guy wants with `www`. I researched and found my URL is subdomain to `us.com` domain but my site is unique. I want all pages to be indexed as `www` and not as `no-www`. What is the best option to do this?


Analytics reports multiple different screen resolutions for (apparently) a single visitor

I have a site with only a small number of visitors. Using the "days since last visit" dimension in Google Analytics I thought I could work out a flow of individual visitors from day to day:               Date     OS   Browser  Days Since  Res       Visitor Type      20120413 Win7 IE8      0           1140x641  New Visitor     20120815 Win7 IE8      123         1366x768  Returning Visitor     20120827 Win7 IE8      12          1366x768  Returning Visitor     20121019 Win7 IE8      51          1366x768  Returning Visitor     20121024 Win7 IE8      4           1249x702  Returning Visitor     20121026 Win7 IE8      1           1366x768  Returning Visitor      Based on the dates / days since info these visits are all from the same visitor (there are no other IE8 / Win 7 visitors within the relevant 24 hour buckets) but the screen resolution is different and so I question the data. Is the resolution value in analytics based on some system value, or is it possible for analytics to report different resolutions depending on something as arbitrary as e.g. the browser window size? EDIT: From GA docs it appears that this IS intended to be screen resolution; unless the DOM value from IE8 is different to what GA thinks it should be?


Decoding an encrypted HTML file using Javascript

I am trying to decrypt the encrypted page source of an HTML file. I am searching for a decoding trick to decrypt a page containing Facebook interface UI. It is in the following post decrypted facebook UI page. The demo page of that post is encrypted. Is there any possible way to decrypt it?


Duplicate content after author leaves my site to self-host his blog

I understand this question is asked frequently but my case is slightly different. I work for a website allowing users to have their own blogs and it might happen that one of the authors might decide to leave my website to self-host his blog. I want to take a friendly approach when this happens, that is, I will help the blogger in the export/import of data. But what about duplicate content issues? If the blogger published 100 articles on my website, 100 links will be duplicated on two domains, mine and his:               http://www.mydomain.com/blogger/blog-name/article      and               http://www.bloggersdomain.com/article      How shall I tackle this problem? I mean both URLs will have the same, exact content and that is because I will not remove the articles from my website. Will I be penalized by Google because of duplicate content?


Errors when creating thumbnails for large images in MediaWiki

I'm getting the following error in the log when MediaWiki tries to make a thumbnail of a large image in MediaWiki. I've tried increasing the limits of various things like upload size but that doesn't seem to work. What limit do I need to increase to get this to work?               /var/www/genwiki/bin/ulimit4.sh: line 4: 12338 File size limit exceeded'/usr/bin/convert' -quality 80 -background white -size 318 '/var/www/genwiki/images/b/b0/JamesGibsonSr_001.jpg' -thumbnail '318x599!' -depth 8 -sharpen '0x0.4' '/var/www/genwiki/images/thumb/b/b0/JamesGibsonSr_001.jpg/318px-JamesGibsonSr_001.jpg' 2>&1


What are the different ways of making a Joomla! website mobile friendly?

I am involved in the development of a number of Joomla! websites and we would like to make these websites mobile friendly. I have done a bit of searching online and I can't seem to find any standard way of doing this. I have have come across a few Joomla! extensions that claim to make themselves mobile friendly for this device or that device. However, I am weary to just start trying these out. Do any of you know of standard ways to make a Joomla! site mobile friendly?


DNS provider for unlimited subdomains with api access?

I have a project in mind that will offer users their own domain, like tumblr does for example. I want to find a provider that can provide:   * One top domain. eg: myproject.com   * Unlimited subdomains. eg: a.myproject.com, b.myproject.com, ...   * An API to create subdomains automatically   * At a reasonable price (if possible).


How Silverlight set Image Brightness and contrast

I am working on silverlight application and I am trying to set brightness and contrast, but I am not able to set this. I had tried different different approach, but I am not goes to success I am really really wory about what to do and how to do... Thanks...!!


Custom Sitemap or sitemap generator tool

I have recently launched a website which is using a free sitemap generator. It's a large travel agency site with predominantly dynamically generated content - users can add their products as and when and be listed automatically. The guy doing the programming for the site says the sitemap generator is not up to the job and that I should be ranking far better for certain search terms than the site is now. He reckons it doesn't provide lastmod info and the sitemap should be submitted every time a new directory is added or change made. He seems to think that I need to spend £400-£500 for him to custom build a site map. Surely there's a cheaper option out there for a sitemap that can be generated daily or 'ping' Google every-time an addition to the site is made or product added? Sorry for the non tech speak - I've got my web designer telling one thing and the programmer another so I'm just left trawling through Q&As.


A lot of "(direct) / (none)" traffic in Google Analytics

my web site has a lot of **"(direct) / (none)"** traffic (over 50%) in Google Analytics, but under the " **Audience** ", **100% are new visitors** , why is that? I am quite sure most of the Audience should be new visitor, but why so many **"(direct) / (none)"** traffic? **Update** : Actually we have launch a new site which this number drop significantly, so I am interested in knowing why the number was so high in the past.


Google Analytics is not tracking all of our pages

Our website is insynchq.com. In the All Pages report under Content -> Site Content we can only see data for some our pages, like /, /getstarted, and /download. Others, like /gmail, /about, and /mobile are not shown, even if we are sure that there have been visits to them. We use a template for our pages so the scripts that are loaded for / (for example) should also be loaded for /gmail, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with the installation of the tracking code. Can anyone help? Thanks.


If I must turn off passive ports to be PCI compliant, how do I upload my website?

Our company is undergoing procedures to ensure we are PCI compliant. My site host tells me that they have disabled passive ports in order to pass the PCI scans. This has the effect of disabling uploads over ftp. Obviously I still need to be able to upload changes to the site. The site is on a windows server. So currently I can move the files over Remote Desktop Connection, but this is somewhat inconvenient and platform dependant. Are there any other ways I can upload the site and remain PCI compliant? Do the passive ports really need to be closed to pass the scans?


Using one IP for Nameserver like NS1 and NS2

Please I like to know why I can't use my one IP on my nameserver like:               ns1.mydomain.com = 67.111.78.12     ns2.mydomain.com = (but the IP could be assigned here)


Why does PageSpeed differ in developer tools, website and Analytics

I just tried Google PageSpeed Analysis in the developer tools, Google Analytics and the website itself (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights). Now, in each of them I get differing results (sometimes with a difference of 30 points!), which makes it seem unreliable. The FAQs discuss the difference to Webmaster Tools, but in particular the developer tools and website should give me the same results it says. Why the difference?


Description Stuffing

Does multiple same keywords in meta description cause keyword stuffing? ie.               <meta name="description" content="I love milk, milk makes me laugh all the time, laugh milk seems to be the most lovable milk, milk laughs at me and makes me love milk" />


Is email forwarder able to keep a copy of my emails?

I have a personal website and a linux host. I have defined an email like me@host.ir which forwards all my emails to my gmail account. I have a security concern about using this email. Because I am not sure whether the host or domain registrar(.ir) could access my emails, even though I have set zero quota. Are my personal emails safe in this scenario?


Does Google respect a redirect header for robots.txt to a different file name?

With respect to robots.txt requests, Google states "Redirects will generally be followed until a valid result can be found". Does this mean that, if I create a 301 redirect for `http://www.example.com/robots.txt` to `http://www.example.com/myrobots.txt`, Google would parse the content served from `http://www.example.com/myrobots.txt` as being valid `robots.txt` content? Or does the fact that the result URL is not named `robots.txt` make this an invalid result, and therefore will be ignored?


Displaying adult content to bots but not logged out users

This question is similar to Adult website crawlability issue but not quite. The eCommerce site I work for has some adult content but it's not our primary focus (hundreds of thousands of adult only "pages" vs millions of regular.) For logged out users we prevent users from reaching the page altogether. When the user is logged in they have to manually set a preference that they wish to allow adult content to be accessible. For SEO purposes we want the adult content to be crawlabe without inadvertently allowing access to logged out users. What is the best way to go about doing this? We're not only concern about google but any bot that might be crawling the site. We've had discussions about allowing logged out users to visit the page but give an opaque overlay, however, if the image still downloads users can potentially get in trouble with their employer or government. If the image doesn't download but is fetch in an ajax request the image may not show up in the search engine's results. Google does provide a secure access but that doesn't satisfy the need to allow other bots through as well.


Adding names to slug of URL

On webpages generated from user generated content, I create slugs for the URLs based on the title (just like stackoverflow does): http://www.example.com/photo/day_at_park If there's more than one slug "day_at_park", I'll append a count: http://www.example.com/photo/day_at_park,2 Does it make sense to include, in this example, names of people involved in the content. So if it was a photo of Susan and Bob, the URL might be: http://www.example.com/photo/day_at_park,susan_surandan,bob_smith One benefit is far fewer chances of needing to append a count like the second example above. The URLs also are more descriptive about the core parts of the content. On the downside, the URLs are clearly longer. And I have to introduce more ugly commas (though better than - or _). If, in the above example, there are many people in a photo... I would have to cut down the slug size by removing people... that seems inappropriate, basically attributing more SEO importance to arbitrary people.


Why is honest cloaking for Ajax considered bad practice?

Ajax-only websites are laden with many problems. Search engine invisibility is merely a small problem. They are also unbookmarkable and unlinkable and they break the functionality of back- and forward-buttons without hacks. Fundamentally, they are not how the web is supposed to work. Even so, Ajax is indispensable to the user experience and Ajax-only applications are cleaner than hybrids in both code and logical structure, more powerful, and more extensible. I can think of three solutions:   * **Cloaking.** While cloaking typically bears the connotation of spamdexing a page with irrelevant keywords served only to a crawler, I mean serving a no-script user agent a stripped-down HTML file with exactly the same content that an Ajax client would load asynchronously (including the same hyperlinks), but without the fancy UI. It's intended for obsolete browsers as an alternative to progressive enhancement, not just for crawlability. _Rationale:_ it doesn't waste no-script users' bandwidth with script tags or script-enabled users' bandwidth with noscript content that will be loaded anyways in JSON format. _Drawback_ : it raises a false flag of search engine ranking manipulation, of which search engines are apparently hypervigilant. It is also difficult (at best) to recognize all potential user agents and differentiate correctly between those that execute scripts and those that don't.   * **Hash-bang fragment identifiers.** _Rationale_ : It doesn't appear deceitful to Google. _Drawback_ : it is an absolutely backwards hack that violates the W3C's standard (by using illegal URLs) in favor of a trick invented by a third party. URLs are no longer Uniform **Resource** Locators; they are pointers to application entry points plus macros that Google and modern browsers luckily follow. This technique does nothing for true no-script browsers and it breaks any technology that follows the W3C more strictly.   * **Progressive enhancement.** _Rationale_ : this is championed as the way to use Ajax while adhering to the original vision of the web. It lets user agents with different capabilities act differently toward the same resource, and a hypervigilant client doesn't think it's being deceived. _Drawback_ : it wastes bandwidth with script tags at best and redundant content in noscript tags at worst, defeating part of the purpose of Ajax. If not for search engine hypervigilance, I would consider cloaking to be the best solution, although it would be much easier if clients would merely send an HTTP header (or lack thereof) indicating if they will execute scripts. Is it really that bad of a practice? Is there a way to prevent false flags of search engine manipulation? Or am I too paranoid of false flags in the first place?


CSS Sprites: Are they worth the trouble?

I can't help but wonder whether CSS sprites are very much over-used. First of all, if I stick all my images in a single file it makes an aweful lot of empty space. I know, that shouldn't make an image file too much bigger, but _sprite.png_ by itself is generally going to be bigger than ( _small1.png_ + _small2.png_ ... + _[http headers for all those individual connections]_ ). Second, any individual image attributes that might make an image file inherently small or compressible are lost on _sprite.png_. For example, a grayscale image stuck in a not-grayscale _sprite.png_ is no longer grayscale. Third, all those CSS blocks add up. If the following is all you have to add to your old fashioned `<img src=small1.png>` to turn it into a sprite...               #small1 { background:url(sprite.png) n n; height:n; width:n; } id=small1 height=n width=n      ...then 12 sprites equals 1KB (and change) in extra payload - above and beyond the images themselves. Before you say "big deal!", remember we are talking about small sprite-able images here, and 1KB _is_ significant, relatively speaking. Also, CSS can sneak up on you. Actually that's my post in a nut-shell: Isn't this "optimization" kind of silly? I'm not saying sprites should not be used. I just think there has got to be more to it than "one request is always better than many". Especially when you've got HTTP Keepalive and a well-optimized web server and file system. And all things considered, what is the point in focusing on such mundane detail, while there are surely much bigger in-efficiencies to nit-pick about in any web application?


Display flickr widget in website

I'd like to display some photos with flickr on my website which could change dynamically               <iframe align=center src=http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=my_id&tags=Grenoble frameBorder=0 width=500 scrolling=no height=500></iframe>      In this example my tag is Grenoble (a city). What I'd like is to be able do change that tag (to New York or Chicago for example) even if I don't have pictures with this tag. (The aim of this is to display photos according to a city variable).


Run server-side script as authenticated user in apache--is it possible?

I'm developing a web app that takes a bunch of parameters (dropdown boxes, etc) from an authenticated user, creates a file, then delivers that file via stdin to a program on my web server. Due to some limitations of the server-side program, I'd like to have Apache run that server-side program as the previously authenticated user rather than as the generic apache user. So for example, if user foo logs in (using mod_authz_ldap on the backend), and fills out the form, the form should then execute the command on the server as user foo rather than user apache. Is this possible?


How does Google's Traffic Estimator calculates the "Estimated Avg. CPC"?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How does Google's Traffic Estimator calculate the "Estimated Avg. CPC"? I use Google's Traffic Estimator to calculate the Estimated Average Cost Per Click. I use the following filters:               Locations: Australia     Languages: English      and the following phrase `air conditioner melbourne`. When I use `Max CPC = $100`, the result is: `AU$6.08`. But, when I use `Max CPC = $10`, the result is: `AU$3.87`. Why is this difference?


Are there any legal implications to reading a user's privates messages on a forum?

I'm the webmaster of a forum and we are having trouble with a user and we suspect he uses privates messages to do illegal business (not illicit, but illegal according to the forum rules). Are their any legal implications to reading the privates messages of that user in order for us to get proof that he is indeed doing business against our rules? The server is located in Quebec, Canada.


Is there a way to find if the site is using shared hosting hosting or not?


transfer a "caught" domain to another registrar

I managed to catch a backordered domain with dropcatcher.co.uk and I'm now looking to transfer it to my preferred registrar which is dynadot.com. Having read various guides on transferring domains, some mention I need the Nominet IPS tag as it's a .co.uk domain, but dynadots own literature says I require an EPP code. Dropcatchers own UI/faq doesn't offer any further information, with just a form saying "release". ![img](http://i.imgur.com/4wQ6bOT.png) Can anybody confirm what is expected to go into the release form pictured above?


URL rewrite - Cross domain javascript

I have a site `site.domain1.com` that needs to launch content from another domain - `content.domain2.com` but I encounter cross-domain JS issues when doing this directly. I basically need to make `site.domain1.com` think that the content from `domain2` is actually from `domain1.com`. I have read that URL rewrite in IIS7 may be the answer, can this be done?


Satellite website or redirect

We're running a campaign for specific industries within our target market. Our main web site has a page for each industry. We also own domains for each industry i.e: FoodWidgets.com, ElectricalWidgets.com, ChemicalWidgets.com. Of the following methods, which is likely to make the best SEO improvements:   1. Just link each domain to the main web site   2. Forward each domain to the relevant page on the main site e.g. FoodWidgets.com (302) redirects to http://www.MainSite.com/industries/food   3. Create a single page "satellite" web site for each domain with the same content as the industry page on the main site.


google apps website ownership verification problem

I own the website www.vargbloom.com I have uploaded the verification page in my website http://vargbloom.com/googleba3ecd16361333b2.html but still it shows an error like We weren't able to verify your site: http://vargbloom.com/ can anyone help


Implications of syndicating content to a company blog from a personal blog

Several co-workers and I are authors on our company's blog, and we each also have our own personal website blogs. In an effort to promote our company blog, we are considering syndicating the posts from our personal blogs to the company blog. For example, when I post on my blog `mysite.com/blog/post-xyz` it'll syndicate to and appear on `thecompany.com/blog/post-xyz` as well. **What are the SEO implications of doing this?** _This must be a win-win scenario_. We want to see the company blog improve because it'll have more content, but we don't want to hurt the individual personal blogs either. > If you syndicate your content on other sites, Google will always show the > version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which > may or may not be the version you'd prefer. However, it is helpful to ensure > that each site on which your content is syndicated includes a link back to > your original article. - Google This is basically what we are going for. I would expect that the search result version may end up being the company blog in many cases, which would be the drawback to the individual, but I'm hoping the increased back links would simultaneously help support the individuals own website SEO value. This is syndication in its purest, most honest form, so I'd like to think it would be a beneficial thing to do, but I really don't know. Could it hurt?


Simplest way to create a theme

I am about to create my first ever WordPress theme, based on the excellent tips provided in this answer. Initially, all I want to do is to _modify the CSS only_ , changing nothing in the `.php` or other files. A straightforward approach is to simply ZIP the entire directory structure of `wp-content/themes/twentyeleven`, rename it, modify the CSS files only, then upload the entire thing as a new theme. It should work, but it looks to me as very wasteful, since I am essentially duplicating all theme files for a handful of `.css` files. Is there a better way to create a theme that is based on an existing theme (e.g. `twentyeleven`)?


Can a video uploader block ads if he/she does not own all content?

If my video contains a musical recording and the owner of the recording master rights authorizes YouTube to place ads on the video, do I have the right / capability to prevent ads from being displayed?


Internet Explorer blocking

How do I add a custom page that is displayed only to Internet Explorer users so that they are not able to access my blog. I'm using Wordpress 3.3 and thought there would be a plugin for that or something but no luck (there's a plugin that only adds a pop up window). Is that achieved by using some kind of redirect or what?


Why is nat required when proxy is enough?

My machine is connected in a local lan. to connect to the internet the traffic goes through proxy server. my understanding of **proxy** server is that it sends the request on **behalf** of the original request sender. So when the server replies, it sends the reply to the proxy thinking that it is the client. The proxy then forwards the reply to my machine.   Take the case of **Network Address translation**. Your request goes through the nat router. The nat router then provides you a public ip address and stores this mapping in its table. The reply(from the server) is sent to this assigned public address. Which the nat router resolves to your local ip address from the table and forwards the reply to your machine.   My question why is nat required when proxy itself is able to mediate the traffic and provide you with access to the internet?


How to host a single website on multiple servers?

I'm planning on releasing an iOS app that downloads video from my server. If hundreds of people on the launch day try to do this, then my website and the services that my server provides will clearly go down. How do you host a website on multiple servers? When someone tries to access my site, how is their request passed to an available server? How do Apple and Google do it? Thanks for your help.


apache rewriting url doesn't work(using godaddy hosting)

I'm using a framework to create my website(codeigniter) by default the urls are like this:`mysite.com/index.php?/etc/etc/etc`.   And I'm trying to remove the `index.php?`, I tried to remove it by doing this(didn't work):               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?$1 [L]        Note:   it's working on my localhost(when putting my website's files in the root directiory). So, Is this issue associated with me or the hosting company(Go Daddy)?


Export emails from Open-Xchange webmail and import them to Horde webmail

I'm moving hosting and need to move the emails stored with the old domain and hosting. The hosting I want to transfer from uses Open-Xchange for its webmail and the hosting I want to move to uses Horde for their webmail. Is their an automated way from inside of the Open-Xchange webmail? Is there a way I can do it from inside of Outlook or Mac Mail?


Google won't display site

My website (http://markasoftware.getenjoyment.net) doesn't seem to be indexed properly by Google (I haven't tried other search engines). When I type in the URL of my site it appears right at the top of the list like it should. When I type in the entire contents of the title, however, the site doesn't appear! The title is quite long > Thermonuclear War Game Online: Thermonuclear War By Mark and it has little (if any) competition. Have I been punished by Google for some reason, or is it something else? I have received zero hits from search engines. Can someone tell me why my site doesn't appear?


How to collect data to start a business directory website

I am working on creating a business directory (like yelp.com). The problem I faced is how to collect data about businesses to start. The information we need are (business name, categories, phone number, address, photos, products/services, reviews ....) Do I have to : - Buy data from a governmental sources. - Recruit employees that go to business owners. - Start with an empty database.


How do you customize a Facebook like box?

I've found a few articles that allow you to customize the Facebook like box, but it's mostly just background and border color. Is there a way to customize the text color on a facebook like box? and possibly get rid of the border?


Can I force Google Feedfetcher to delete my feed and start over?

I royally screwed up my Atom feed yesterday by messing around with the `id` tags and now Google Reader is showing many duplicates of the posts. Is there any way I can tell it to start from scratch, now that I have fixed the `id` tag-structure? The feed is at http://eseidel.org/atom.xml in case that helps..


Meta Refresh for change of page name and content

Hopefully just a quick one. I've got a client that is changing the name of a workshop that they run. This means a change of url, page title for keywords that they have first page ranking on. The keywords are still relevant so what I want to avoid is a 301 redirect to a page that has different keywords to the previous page. Is the best option to keep the old page live with url and title and use a meta refresh to redirect after a period of time (not instant)? That way the SEO ranking is retained for the previous workshop name while they work on the ranking for the name change? Would a 301 redirect have an inverse effect? Thanks!


Affiliate backlinks with 301 redirect not displaying in Webmaster Tools

I have an affiliate program that is hosted on a different site and server. It is an eCommerce site that accepts payments for my products. So all my affiliate links are pointing to this eCommerce site and then subsequently 301 redirected to my site. The route is "link->eCommerce->301->my site". I read that it's okay for ranking and Google considers this as a backlink to my site (correct me if I am wrong). However I don't see these links in my Google Webmaster Tools account and that's what I am concerned about. I can see other (direct) links, but not these with redirect. Maybe it is because I added my site to WMT only about 20 days ago? When I test affiliate links with HttpFox I see that eCommerce site also does some POSTs to `ocsp.verisign.com` while redirecting to my site. Not sure if this can be a problem?


See individual Google Shopping products performances in Analytics

I'm running a Google Shopping for search campaign in Adwords. So the products are pulled in from my merchant center and displayed with a picture in the SERPs. In Google Analytics or Adwords I can not distinguish the performance of individual products. Both Adwords and Analytics shows only cpc and conversion numbers for the whole campaign. I would like to see which products perform well and which don't.


Is there any way to determine how often content gets one-boxed by Google?

Google is increasingly including one-boxed content in search results. See this one-boxed result from Quora, for instance: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6gsgp.png) This feature is part of an effort first rolled out in 2009 to deliver more detailed results from Google's Knowledge Graph. Although it may provide value to searchers, its value to webmasters is debatable, and some think one-boxing makes Google a "scraper." My question: How to know if my content is being one-boxed? Will Google notify me if my content is indexed as part of the "Knowledge Graph"? And will I be able to directly detect one-boxing in Webmaster Tools, or will I have to infer it from impression, SERP and CTR stats?


Accuracy of Google AdWords Keyword Tool, compared to Google Trends

Does anyone have any insight into how accurate Google Keyword Tool is? The reason why I ask is because I have found a keywords phrase using Google Keyword Tool that has 83,100,000 local monthly searches yet when I enter the same phrase into Google Trends the phrase isn't even recognized.


.org pendingDelete release at what time of day

Is there a particular time of day **.org** domains release? I've read on multiple forums/articles claiming different times, and even worse, all of the conversions of **GMT to ET/PT** were all incorrect as well. So now, I'm a bit baffled at what the correct time is in GMT/PDT for time of day the .org is officially deleted from the registry. Can anyone comment?


Googlebot fetches my pages very frequent, rel-nofollow, meta-noindex or robots.txt-disallow

Googlebot fetches pages in my site very frequently. And this slowens my website. I don't want Googlebot to crawl too frequent. I decreased crawl rate from Google webmaster tools. But I'm supposing to use these three tools:   * Adding rel="nofollow" to my inner pages. So Googlebot won't crawl and index them.   * Adding meta tag "noindex" so Google will remove this page from index and won't get it again.   * Adding Disallow: /mySomeFolder/ to robots.txt and Googlebot won't crawl that pages. I'm planning to use these methods for my 56.000 pages, except the most important 6-7 pages. Which method would you prefer and what would be disadvantages or advantages ? Or won't it change my website speed etc..


Sitemaps - do I need to submit each sitemap in sitemap_index.xml to Google Webmaster tools?

I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is `sitemap_index.xml` file in the root directory which contains the following code:               <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/xml-sitemap-xsl.php"?>     <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">         <sitemap>             <loc>                 http://mywebsite.com/post-sitemap.xml             </loc>             <lastmod>                 2012-12-18T19:47:47+00:00             </lastmod>         </sitemap>              <sitemap>             <loc>                 http://mywebsite.com/page-sitemap.xml             </loc>             <lastmod>                 2012-12-18T17:32:49+00:00             </lastmod>         </sitemap>     </sitemapindex>      **My question:** Which sitemap should I submit to Google Webmasters Tools? Options are:   1. Only `sitemap_index.xml`   2. Only `post-sitemap.xml` and `page-sitemap.xml`   3. All 3 (sitemap_index.xml, post-sitemap.xml and page-sitemap.xml)   4. Any other, please let me know.


HTACCESS Wildcard Subdomain forward to Domain

I know this may seem like a duplicate, but I am unable to find a solution. Is it possible to setup wildcard subdomains with htaccess? I have an example of http://test.domain.ca I need to forward to http://www.domain.ca I don't have specific 'sub-domains'. so I would need a form of a wildcard. Is this possible to do through HTACCESS? Any help is appreciated.


Custom per domain CSS in Internet Explorer

We have an old web app, which would be much more usable if it could be visually tweaked a bit. Being in a corporate environment - IE (always using the latest version) is all I can use. Also app in question being 3rd-party - there's no way to change it's own CSS files. Is there a way to use per domain injected custom CSS in internet Explorer. Let's say I want to change the background-color of domain http://oldapp.localintranet/ - is there any way to make this happen?   * Place to put a custom.css-file?   * With an add-on/extension?


HTTPS and HTTP URLs point to different places?

I own and use a domain for a project. When I type in my domain preceeded by HTTPS instead of HTTP, I am re-directed to a compromising website. How is this possible? Did somebody buy the HTTPS version of my website? Do I need to own both the HTTPS and HTTP domains to prevent this from happening?


With Google Analytics, is it possible to check a specific page in Multi-Channel conversion attribution?

I'm somewhat new to Google Analytics, and I'm trying to track all conversions that are assisted by a particular landing page, because I don't expect an instant purchase. I have e-commerce tracking set up. Due to the constraints of the associated ad campaign, I can't include the source/medium code in the url when people go to the landing page, and all of my traffic to the landing page is likely to be direct, so I'm not sure how to tell Multi-Channel marketing that it's a significant page. I know how to add events to a page, but I'm still figuring out what they can and cannot do. Would creating a redirect from the landing url to an identical url+source/medium code work? Any advice on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Tracking the final sale conversion is not the issue. Ecommerce reporting is functioning just fine on the site. I just want to report the landing page as an assist, whenever it shows up in the funnel, and I need to be able to do that across multiple visits.


A/B testing problem Optimizely and Google Analytics with Screen Resolution=(not set)

We've setup an A/B in Optimizely to test a completely new design: http://offerta.se that we're testing against our legacy design: http://offerta.se/?classic=1 Optimizely is setup to redirect 50% of our CPC traffic to the legacy design. The old design is beating the new with about 10% better convertion rate and in trying to fiqure out why we started looking at if there was anything standing out in Google Analytics. Optimizely creates the events with labels "New design" and "Legacy design" for us in GA. And filtering on these and looking at "Screen Resolution=(not set)" we see some weird numbers: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UUTWA.png) If we remove all traffic with "Screen Resolution=(not set)" the new design instead performs 10% better than the old. Anyone that can enlighten me?


Using Google analytics to show online users?

I am wondering whether it is possible to use Google Analytics stats to extract number of online users, something like whos.amung.us? If not, what alternative outsourced solutions are available?


using blank image to improve post value

I have seen people (including popular digital agencies) using 1 x 1px transparent image, so that they can add page title as alt value. Does that really increases the value of a web page or that's a spam in search engine's eyes?


.XML Sitemaps and HTML Sitemaps Clarification

I've got a website with about 170 pages and I want to create an effective Sitemap for it as it is long due. The website is internally linked very well but I still want to take advantage of creating a sitemap to allow SE's to crawl my site easier and to hopefully increase my websites PR. Though I am slightly confused to what I must do: Is it necessary to create a .xml sitemap AND a HTML Sitemap (both)? ... Because I've never worked with .xml ... where do I put this file once it's created? In the Root folder? So I assume that this sitemap.xml is ONLY to be read by spiders and NOT by website visitors. IE: No visitor on my website is going to visit the page sitemap.xml, am I correct? ... Hence why I should also create an HTML sitemap (sitemap.htm)?


Any reason not to buy SSL certificates from a reseller?

Is there any reason to buy an SSL certificate directly from the host (for $49, for example), instead of through a well-known reseller, for only $10.95? Specifically in my case, I just need to encrypt user data as they fill out forms. Nothing too critical, only usernames and passwords. I don't think my users actually care about the brand name or "trust" level behind the certificate, I'm just looking out for them.


How do I configure Drupal so that is not in a subdirectory?

I loaded Drupal folder into **public_html**. All works fine. The site opens correctly, but only when I give full address including folder as `IP:80/drupal`. How do I use only `IP:80` to access the website. I am using cPanel.


Will Google's decision to encrypt all searches from Chrome mean that we lose all keyword data in Google Analytics?

### Context. At the end of 2011 Google announced that they would start encrypting searches for logged in users. > What does this mean for sites that receive clicks from Google search > results? When you search from Google, websites you visit from our organic > search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't receive > information about each individual query. _Reference :Making search more secure, October 18, 2011._ This had the effect of blocking Google Analytics from capturing any keyword data from queries resulting from an encrypted organic search on Google. This resulted in the '(not provided)' keyword being shown in place of the actual query. Fast forward to the present day - Google have just announced that all search queries from Google Chrome will be sent over SSL. > Today, when users are signed in to Google, Chrome sends their searches from > the Chrome address bar (“omnibox”) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Starting > with Chrome 25 (currently in the Dev and Beta channels), we’re doing the > same thing for Chrome omnibox searches performed by users who aren’t signed > in to Google. _Reference :Google Search in Chrome gets more secure, January 18, 2013._ ### Question. Assuming these change progress out of development -- Would this mean that we will not be able to see any organic keyword data resulting from searches from Google in the Chrome browser in Google Analytics?


How can I bypass modules in apache?

I have an apache server running on an embedded device that serves webpages to clients using a bunch of custom modules. I'm now trying to load some webpages from the device using htttp://127.0.0.1/blah.html These pages don't need any of the custom modules since they don't use any of their processing. The problem is apache still runs through all the modules when loading the page and this causes the page to load very slowly even though it's coming from the local filesystem. I've tried using file: to retrieve the pages but then some pages don't display correctly because we are using jquery. All the pages that don't need the modules are in a specific directory but not in the 'ServerRoot' or 'DocumentRoot' I've tried putting checks in all the modules to disable the processing but it's still isn't good enough because it still runs through the modules. Is there a way for me to add another module that makes a check and then stops all the rest from running? Other ideas?


How to cross-link multiple sites with duplicate content that is search engine friendly?

I am in the scenario where I have my content duplicated over multiple cross domains. I don't want to get penalized for my original site by Google for it. So what is the best option to avoid this. I came to know about the cross linking i.e giving link of my original article at the last of republished articles, is this okay? Is there any standard format of linking like.. Cross posted from: http://myoriginalsite.com/myarticle Referenced: http://myoriginalsite.com/myarticle Original article: http://myoriginalsite.com/myarticle Which of above will be good?


wget not respecting my robots.txt. Is there an interceptor?

I have a website where I post csv files as a free service. Recently I have noticed that wget and libwww have been scraping pretty hard and I was wondering how to circumvent that even if only a little. I have implemented a robots.txt policy. I posted it below..               User-agent: wget     Disallow: /          User-agent: libwww     Disallow: /          User-agent: *     Disallow: /        Issuing a wget from my totally independent ubuntu box shows that wget against my server just doesn't seem to work like so....               http://myserver.com/file.csv      Anyway I don't mind people just grabbing the info, I just want to implement some sort of flood control, like a wrapper or an interceptor. Does anyone have a thought about this or could point me in the direction of a resource. I realize that it might not even be possible. Just after some ideas. Janie


Joomla 1.6 site cannot add a new extension through admin interface

I'm having a very frustrating problem with my Joomla 1.6 site. I cannot add any new extensions through the admin interface. I have tried to upload the extension, or to use the search folder option or even the direct link. Neither of these options work, and all that happens is that the page tries to load forever until it finally timesout with a blank white page (no further error messages). I have tried this with multiple browsers (Chrome,FF,IE) and I have tried it with different extensions (modules, components, templates - all the same result). So I don't think it has anything to do with what I am uploading, but more likely the problem is something with the post action. I have also seen the exact same error occur when I try to update menu items or even create new menu items. I am not getting this error with a duplicate of the site in the dev environment, but only get this on my shared web hosting live server. This is on a Windows IIS / PHP / mySQL environment.


Ad software to rotate text links?

I am currently using OpenX to rotate text links but I don't think search engines can spider these links. What software can I use to do this?


rewrite url (redirection)

How to rewrite url:               www.domain.com     domain.com      to               www.domain.com/sell.html      Were sell.html is already rewritten I need some kind of redirection.


Backlink question - google viewer

I have documents (.pdfs) that I'm planning to post on a site using the google docs viewer. I think others may wish to embed the same documents on their sites since the documents will be updated, timely, and newsworthy. I'm providing an easy embed code for people to copy and paste (like Scribd does). The embed code looks something like this:               <iframe src = "http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.mysite.com/downloads/theDocument.pdf&embedded=true" style="width:100%; height:850px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>      How would Google 'crawl' this code if its posted on another site? Would google credit me a backlink from another site even though my site url is sort of buried in the code above? Anybody have experience with this? I could always just use an iframe or embed code directly to the document and skip the google docs viewer, but I figure people will find it more trustworthy and it's certain to fit all browsers and devices. Let me know if you have a better alternative.


Do I need to have separate Twitter account for my website?

Is it good to have separate twitter account for my website? or Should I use the personal account? Which one will be more effective? My website is still have small user base (1000+).


Is there a service to find resellers of a particular registrar?

Is there a service to find resellers of a particular registar in case the registrar doesn't provide such a list?


Free whois history service?

I'd like to access whois history starting with year 2007 or earlier for free. Domaintools is kind of expensive for my purposes. who.is seems to provide history starting with year 2009 unfortunately.


Remove Google Analytics for Development Environment

I have a development environment for a website. The environment is an exact clone of the production side, so it's going to have google analytics on it. What's a good way to exclude traffic? I tried google analytics filters but I think i'm missing something. **Here's what I tried:**               Filters > Predefined      - Exclude | traffic from the domains | that are equal to, that contain      - sub.mydomain.com          Filters > Custom      - Exclude | Hostname      - Filter Pattern: ^sub\.mydomain\.com      Anyone have any suggestions?


Has Apple patented the toggle button found in the iOS

I'll be releasing a commercial CMS at some point this year and the configuration areas make heavy use of the jquery plugin iButton which mimiks the iOS toggle button. So I want to know if I will be liable to pay patent fees to Apple for the use of that button style.


Alternative for Subdomains

I have a company and website like www.example.com We have 1 industry with product 1 ,product 2 and another industry with product 3 and product 4 . All these products are different to each other my questions is like should have subdomains like www.industry1.example.com or www.example.com/industry1 If it is industry1.example.com it might sense different domain , if it is example.com/industry1 the number of folders might increase Please suggest a best solution for this thanks, Raj


WWW.yoursite.com or HTTP://yoursite.com which one is futureproof?

1. `http://yoursite.com`   2. `www.yoursite.com`   3. `http://www.yoursite.com`   4. `yoursite.com` Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with, if you were to make a site for 2011 and beyond, which domainname would you provide to clients, websites linking to you, your letterhead, contact cards. Why one OR other? Which to avoid? Thinking of the following aspects:   * validity, correctly loading URL   * audience, most geeks know `http://`, most seniors/clients don't   * easiest to remember `/` URL as a brand   * misspellings by user input (in mobile phone or desktop browser)   * browsers not understanding protocol-less links   * total length of chars for easy user input   * method of peferance by major search engines/social media sites   * consistency sothat links dont fragment but all point to the same


CVV Code For Authorize.com using osCommerce

Hi I need to add a CVV code for verifying credit cards upon check out on my osCommerece shopping cart. I think this will involve a code for the authorize.net php and the checkout processing php but not sure. Found this great write up, but it is only for the authorize.net php and it doesn't create a filed for the CVV to be keyed. Also it throws an error with the 'echo validate.' Can't seem to find anything in any forums for osCommerce or any place out. Hoping someone here will have some knowledge. Thanks.


Is this valid Google Review Microformat?

I've applied some HTML around my aggregate review, I just wondered if anyone could tell me if it is valid (even though the Google test tool says it is) and that non of the extra HTML or style affects it being able to be read by Google:

Chinese Takeaway

Eat & Drink - Chinese Takeaway

                                       4                                    based on                 1 rating.


Cross domain tracking - Wordpress and Google Analytics

Which is the best approach to automatically add the **_link GA action** to every outbound link that points to a certain domain? e.g.               See my blog


One Gmail INBOX: E-mail forwarding OR fetching via POP3 from other accounts?

I maintain a few small web projects (2-3 people) where the scenario is usually the same:   1. The project has its own domain ( **example.com** )   2. There is a need to setup one or two personal e-mail addreses ( **peter@example.com** )   3. One common group e-mail address is also needed ( **support@example.com** )   4. Every person with a personal e-mail address from bullet 2 needs to be able to receive e-mails from **support@example.com**.   5. Also needs to be able to **reply** to those messages as peter@example.com and also as support@example.com   6. Every person has their **OWN** personal **e-mail address** at **Gmail** /other domain running on Google Apps which he regularly checks and he would like to be able to easily read e-mails related to the **@example.com** at their own e-mail address, because it won't be effective to check more e-mail accounts separately = ONE INBOX, but the e-mails needs to be categorized (Gmail labels or so)   7. The project are on a shared hosting and are not as big to invest any money into running Google Apps on each of those. I came with two possible solutions to this: ### 1. POP3 fetching * * *   * Setup each e-mail address separately on a mail server related to domain hosting   * Instruct every person to use their Gmail POP3 fetching ability to fetch those e-mails to their personal account and to automatically label fetched messages with the project name.   * Setup SMTP send as Gmail feature at every person OWN e-mail address so they will be able to send e-mails from @example.com domain **+** if a person no longer works on the project, I can just set up fetching on someone elses account and all PAST messages from domain-hosting-mail-server will be fetched to his account **-** Every e-mail takes double space - at domain hosting and also at the persons OWN e-mail address **-** Person's OWN mail provider has to be able to fetch e-mails (but the major one like Gmail is) **-** I need to check for mail storage quotas every once in a while, so the e-mail accounts at domain-hosting are not full and the e-mail are not coming anymore **-** Google POP3 fetcher checks the other e-mail accounts just once an hour which can mean a difference dealing with some crisis. EDIT: I just found that when sending e-mails from OWN gmail address even through **@example.com** SMTP server the e-mails are not saved at the corresponding domain outbox (they are just in the gmail outbox). Is it possible to set this one somehow? It would be a big advantage for this method. ### 2. Mail forwarding * * *   * There won't be any real e-mail account on the domain, just set of rules where to redirect incoming messages (to person's OWN mail addresses)   * Create one real e-mail account on each domain for SMTP authentication **+** Easy to setup **+** Won't take any space on domain-hosting **-** The e-mails are only at person's OWN e-mail accounts so if they walk away from the project, it can be hard to get important e-mails back - also hard to transfer to someone else * * * Is there any other drawback on of each of those? Which one is a more common way to do? What am I missing there in the long run?


Google Webmaster Tools: Robots disallow does not seem to be working for staging site

I've added robots.txt on my staging site at `staging.mydomain.com` as:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      I then added and verified the staging site in Google Webmasters Tools. In Crawl > Blocked URLs, I can see robots.txt listed with the status as 200(Success). Further down that page, when I clicked on Test button to test `http://staging.mydomain.com/`, it gives me the result as: > Allowed   >  Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions Looks like this is the wrong result. What have I done wrong? Do I have to wait for some time to have google read robots.txt? Within the staging site, I have other folders such as:               http://staging.mydomain.com/test1/     http://staging.mydomain.com/test2/      Obviously I want to disallow indexing all of these. When I do a test for these folders, the result shows up as **Allowed**. Do I need to add robots.txt within each of the sub-directories?


Store a formula in a table and use the formula in a javascript/PHP function

I have a MySql database where part of it handles instrument's depth of water. Each instrument has its own formula of calculation how depth the water when the operator collect the reading I stored the formula for each instrument in database/MySql. **Example formula** : `[55-57]` this is the simple minus operation, where the number is actually represent the id of a row. How do I represent those number with id of a row and later convert it to javascript readable code. I simply want to do keyup event where everytime user key in something into text field then the other part of HTML would reflect changes based on formula that I fetched from database FYI, I'm using BackboneJS together with RequireJS


Alternative to CPanel

I want to develop software and host it on a website. I am considering purchasing a VPS from Linode to store the source code; however it does not provide CPanel (what I used to configure my webspace on shared hosts when building websites). Is there an alternative to CPanel or would it be worth hosting the website for the product on a shared host that provides CPanel?


Google Sites page never shows up in Google Search organic results?

I use Google Sites (i.e.: https://sites.google.com/site/EXAMPLE/ ) as a convenient way to maintain up-to-date info on several residential properties, info that's often requested by my property agents, its been around for about 1 year, but I still can never get it to appear in organic Google search results or Bing, even if I search the specific keywords such as the street names. I submitted the URL manually to search engines, knowing that my Sites page probably has very few incoming links. Is this expected behavior? The content of my page has simple formatted text, and outgoing links to Picasa/G+/imgur photo albums. Am I doing something wrong or do all GoogleSites pages have poor organic search rank? Thank you very much.


How do I block a user-agent from Apache

How do I realize a UA string block by regular expression in the config files of my Apache webserver? For example: if I would like to block out all bots from Apache on my debian server, that have the regular expression `/\b\w+[Bb]ot\b/` or `/Spider/` in their user-agent. Those bots should not be able to see any page on my server and they should not appear neither in the accesslogs nor in the errorlogs. `http://global-security.blogspot.de/2009/06/how-to-block-robots-before-they- hit.html` supposes to uses `mod_security` for that, but isn't there a simple directive for _http.conf_?


How to redirect mail to another IP address

I want to redirect my site's mail server to another IP address. I setup an `MX` record for my mail server like this:               domain.org. IN  MX  1 mail.domain.org      But I do not know how redirect mail to another IP address like shown in this example DNS report: http://www.intodns.com/xilisoft.com


Plus/Minus animated comment icon

![the animated plus/minus icon](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oB2fd.gif)   So I've seen this animated gif icon on many, many websites. It seems to always be related to comments or feedback. My questions are:   1. What is the common name for it?    2. Who created it? I would like to use this image on my own website, but I need to figure out if I can get permission to do so.


My site has crashed .. anyone have some info?

I booked a domain name for my website from a hosting provider .I gave the domain name , along with ftp details to a freelancer to develop the site in wordpress . the freelancer developped and he got full payment , and the site and site was working fine ,etc .. From that time , I did not change the admin logging as well as ftp details , this means that such info is still known to the freelancer .. A week ago , I found that some links in my site was not working .. I sent him a mail about this , and he said that he will fix it if i give him ftp details . and I did so , next I found that the entire site is gone . then he sent me a mail , without I asked him , and he he said that there have been someone who got access to my server , and he removed all files of my site and he installed drupal instead .and that he can rebuild the site in one day , by charging a full fee of 250 usd again .. Can anyone know what I can do in this situation , to find who did such act , could it be the host provider or that freelancer ,, and if there is a possibility to have my site back top the server .. I will appreciate any info on this.. Regards , Thanks


Posting a link to our page on facebook doesn't resolve correctly within FB

We have a product page, there is a javascript popup that requires users to enter an email address to gain access. But the page behind the popup is fully rendered (for SEO value and such). https://www.frugg.com/bags/deal/32/coach-hot-lime-summer-bag But when I try to share this page in facebook (paste it into a status update) facebook tries to reference our FB fan page: http://www.facebook.com/frugg. I'm trying to figure out why it doesn't handle the link like normal (e.g. a picture to the product and linking to our website). Here's what facebook shows as the link when I paste that above URL into a FB status update.                Frugg - Las Vegas, NV - Website | Facebook      https://www.facebook.com/frugg      Frugg, Las Vegas, NV. 39,522 likes · 4 talking about this · 19 were here      Any ideas where to look? The only guess I have is that the javascript popup is interfering, but I wouldn't imagine that the FB crawler cares about javascript.


Can WordPress sites be updated with a CVS from local to live?

I regularly use the theme editor or FTP live files onto my local server (and load them into Visual Studio), but this can be time consuming when I need to **debug** many files. Is there a more efficient way to update a WordPress system other than these methods? Can a CVS be integrated easily to upload changed files?


How can I resolve google wrong synonom understanding in queries

When someone specificies my site name (which isn't a dictionary word) in a search query, I would expect it to be very easy to be ranked at the top of the search results, and up until recently that was the case. Suddenly, google has started to do some sort of query expansions, which aren't even correct. For example ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0FBnT.png) As you can see he highlights the word "Instagram" although it wasn't stated in the query and it isn't even that relevant, and very far from being a synonym to my sitename. I've read that > Historically, we have bolded synonyms such as stemming variants — like the > word "picture" for a search with the word "pictures." Now, we've extended > this to words that our algorithms very confidently think mean the same > thing, even if they are spelled nothing like the original term. But this just seems wrong. What can I do to resolve this or help Google learn better next time?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should page contents same all time for SEO? Hi, I have a frequently updated website. That's why page contents change frequently. I mean the items that are on 1'st page become on 2'nd page a day after. Similarly 192'nd page which is my last page becomes 193'rd page a day after. So Google finds different content on a specific page than its previous visit. Is it bad for SEO? What you think about it?


Maximum domain name length

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what's the **maximum length (in characters) for a domain name?** Let's exclude the `http://www`. I know the maximum length of an url is about 2000 chars. But here I'm more ineterested in just the domain part or the url. On Wikipedia they say: "The full domain name may not exceed a total length of 253 characters in its external dotted-label specification." But what does that mean?


How to prevent negative SEO?

Negative SEO can harm your website rankings, that's why a rival might decide to use negative SEO techniques against you to try to penalize your website rankings, and thus obtain higher positions on Google Search results than you. How can you prevent negative SEO prior to being attacked by a rival? Are there some special things you can do?


Looking for a mailing list system with click tracking capability

we are looking for a mail system with the ability to know it a client has visited the link. Our idea is to prepare a mail for a certain group of customers, on that mail we will include a url to our proposal/video/whatsoever . We would like to acknowledge if the customer has clicked the link. Is that possible? thanks.


Google Analytics: Tracking mobile visits on a different top level domain

I have set up tracking for my website with the async snippet, the website is running on `example.com`. Now I want to add Analytics tracking to my (perl- based) mobile website `example.mobi`. I have added the perl-based code and I see the requests to ga.pl coming in:                 <img width="1" height="1" src="/cgi-bin/mobile/ga.pl?utmac=MO-12345671F&utmp=%2Fcontact.htm&guid=ON" alt="" />      I wanted to track the calls for my mobile website in a specific profile in Analytics. So I have set up a profile with a filter that should include requests from `example.mobi`. However there are no requests coming in on this profile. What am I doing wrong?


is it ok to have 2 sitemaps on 1 website?

Do I have to have a sitemap page on my index page for bots to read it or can I just have it anywhere on my server? I have a phpbb/wordpress integration and I need 2 sitemaps mods for each one (or I need to have them somehow integrated together into one xml sitemap). Is this possible? Whats my best option? I would have the phpbb one something like this: http://www.example.com/phpbb/sitemap.html and the wordpress one something like this: http://www.example.com/wordpress/sitemap.html and then I would submit both off..but not have the links on my footer to confuse anyone.., the sitemaps would strictly be for search engines. Is this a good idea? what are you thoughts?


Planet feed aggregator for django

We are looking for a way to integrate a feed aggregator (like a planet, which takes a set of rss/atom feeds and posts the latest _N_ feed items) into a Django site. Ideally, the planet should integrate as part of a page of the site as a whole, rather than a standalone page like all other plants I've seen. We could use an iframe, but then style won't match. The best way might be something that just returns a raw list of last _N_ feed items, which we then insert into a template. Does anyone have any suggestions of how we can achieve this?


Do search engines rank URLs in sitemaps lower if there are no internal links pointing to them?

I have a site with thousands of pages. The pages are dedicated to be found by the search engines as they are very specific. It is very unlikely that the users will find necessary pages using any navigation on the site. So for me, I'd leave the link to page only in the sitemap as it is easier. But how would Google, Bing and others consider pages with no internal links pointing to them? Will they be ranked lower due to the lack of those links?


where is trac.ini?

I have setup trac with dreamhost one-click install, I read doc it says config is in trac.ini but can't see any under trac dir so where is it ? I have no conf dir ONLY admin, db, htdocs, prefs, etc... Is this the right forum or should I ask on server maybe ?