De-indexing pages and checking with Google's site: command

I am trying to de-index a certain url from google, but for some reason it just isn't working. I added this snippet:               <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"/>      To this page: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/parks/edit_park_topic.php?park_id=55621&topic_id=1&topic_name=General%20Information&park_name=Kings%20Canyon%20National%20Park And generally the page edit_park_topic.php which you can view source and see the no-index snippet. For some reason it isn't de-indexing those pages because if you search this in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors/parks/edit_park_topic.php - it will show almost 200,000 results. And it is actually adding pages since before it was less than that. Is the site: directive showing only the indexed pages or all of them? How can I get those pages de-indexed? Also, for the panda update, do you think having the 200k pages with that form will be damaging? I already got hit by panda for having other violations which I resolved, but my traffic had not come back, and I just discovered recently this form of which there are 200k urls. Thanks!


Where do you draw the line with the new html5 elements

I have read this article http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#new-elements on the different new elements in html5. Now I want to create my new portfolio with the this new markup. It is quite important for me that the content is indexed as good as possible by the crawlers, and at the same time set an example on how html5 should be written. **Note: this is just an example, i'm not really doing this** Let's say I have a page for my skills. Normally I would have something like this:

the menu

My Skills

html

tell the people about the html skills

css

tell the people about the css skills

some footer text

      Pretty basic. So how far do you take this in html5. I can see the header, section, nav and footer are important, but that do you do inside. Do you go all the way?                      the menu
My Skills

css

tell the people about the css skills

css

tell the people about the css skills

some footer text
           Do you need the inside elements for such a small example? If not, when do you use the inside elements?


Does the "canonical name" in DNS make any difference to search engines?

Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent. Which is the best way?


How to avoid getting negative points from Google AdSense

I have a news based website in which the primary contents includes news, image albums and videos. Out of these I have copyrights for the images and the videos are embedded from YouTube. My site is kinda like a mashup site, it gathers data from various other sites and presents them in a more user friendly way and for quick digestion and access. The problem I have is since the news part of the site can be found from other sites, my site could suffer in search rankings. Is there any solution to this. One thing I thought of is to put disallow on all the news articles pages, so Google does not crawl them. Will this be helpful to me? When applying to Google AdSense does Google crawl these pages (disallow) also?


404 working only with wrong extension

My 404 .htaccess works very well when I put a wrong extension at it in place of .php. Unfortunately the 404 does not work when I put a wrong name with .php. This is my .htaccess code:               <Files ~ "^.(htaccess|htpasswd)$">     deny from all     </Files>     Options -Indexes     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301]          ErrorDocument 404 /404/notfound.html     order deny,allow


Having trouble redirecting old product sites and categories to new pages

I recently upgraded a shopsystem to prestashop and imported the previous products (~1200), and I managed to keep the old `category_id` and `product_id`. I'm trying to set up those 2 rules to redirect all my old incoming links to the new page, however for some reason they always end up on the 404 page instead. So my old link was               detail.php?artikel_id=123      and now this product became               product.php?id_product=123      here is my .htaccess:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     # URL rewriting module activation     RewriteEngine on          # URL rewriting rules     RewriteRule ^api/?(.*)$ /prestashop/webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]          RewriteRule ^/prestashop/index\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/category.php?id_category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/index\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/category.php?id_category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/prestashop/detail\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/product.php?id_product=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/detail\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/product.php?id_product=$1 [L]          </IfModule>          # Catch 404 errors     ErrorDocument 404 /prestashop/404.php      Note that this is my test installation at my laptop, and the new shop is currently set up under `"http://localhost/prestashop/"`. I tried it with and without the `/prestashop/` in the rules, no effect. My .htaccess is in `http://localhost/prestashop/.htaccess`. Any idea of what I do wrong here? Did I escape it correct? How can I find out where it actually tries to redirect to me before i get the 404?


Combine websites without hurting SEO

I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. There's service A and B, based on the west side of our state; and service A and B based on the east side. Each has their own website (eg, eastservicea.com, westservicea.com). The previous web designer maintained completely separate and unique content, and unique designs, for all four sites. He is now wanting to merge all that together into a single site (statewideservica.com) with a new design. Right now all four sites are at the top of the searches for his niche market. The last thing we want to do is hurt that SEO. So the debate how do we merge these sites without hurting the SEO.   1. Keep the existing URL's and just make the content of all the same.   2. Redirect all the sites to the new URL.   3. Set a static page on all the existing URLs with content, but all links point to the new URL. Any thoughts?


Is there any way to improve the speed of Google Adsense/Analytics?

Whenever I run Google Page Speed or YSlow, many of the optimisations suggested stem from my use of Google Adsense and Google Analytics. For example, YSlow says there are "9 external Javascript scripts" - I only have one on my site, so the rest are obviously from either adsense or analytics. Also under "Reduce DNS lookups", these domains are listed: > pagead2.googlesyndication.com   >  googleads.g.doubleclick.net   >  www.google-analytics.com   >  altfarm.mediaplex.com   >  img-cdn.mediaplex.com   >  eu.bid.invitemedia.com   >  ad.doubleclick.net s0.2mdn.net   >  pixel.invitemedia.com adadvisor.net Is there anything I can do to reduce these or make other improvements to the speed?


In Adwords is it possible show ads during particular times for multiple time zones

Is it possible to have a campaign covering lots of countries / lots of different time zones, and to have ads showing only during particular times of day as per those time zones -- for example between 9a and 5p for each time zone?


Only one image available when sharing links on Facebook

When I try to share links from this URL on Facebook, I can only choose one image as the preview: ![No thumbnail](http://skriblerier.net/test.png) But when I try to share links from this URL, I can choose between five thumbnail previews: ![Thumbnails](http://skriblerier.net/test2.png) Any ideas what the difference is?


Obtaining visitor stats without traffic monitoring software

A client would like me to obtain visitor stats for his website, but does not have any traffic monitoring software installed. So I'm wondering if it's even possible. The site is hosted on Heroku, so I might be able to trawl through the logfiles and pull out unique IP addresses, but I was just wondering if there's some other way.


robots "INDEX,FOLLOW" vs "ALL" is there any difference?

Hey folks, Is there _any_ if so, _what_ is the difference between these two? In order to allow everything a search engines wishes for `<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">` `<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="all"`


Mediawiki: Page is in category without linking in code

Normally pages are assigned to categories if they have a link like `[[Category:example]]` but recently I noticed that we have a new category which is not listed on any pages that are in this category. So:   * Category site `example` (contains multiple pages)   * looking at the code of one page -> no lik to this category How is it possible to remove the page from the category if no link to the category exists in the source code?


Do all search engines obey nofollow rel attribute on hyperlinks

I have been informed that search engine support is inconsistent for the rel attribute with the 'nofollow' value. Is this the case. From my research Google, Yahoo and Bing seem to obey this attribute and will NOT follow links with it present. I need to be sure before questioning the integrity of the SEO team :)


Effective combatting of 100's of spam links in Google Results

I have recently been the victim of this **hacking exploit** (blog post is for reference only and is _not_ my site. I'm in the process of following it and cleaning up after the attack). Note the exploit at the top of my `.htaccess` file;               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule myq-(.*).htm$ wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/img/style.css.php [L]     </IfModule>          Options +FollowSymLinks     IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>          <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          # BEGIN WordPress     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     # END WordPress     </IfModule>      So the exploit has had the effect of producing **hundreds of spam links** in Google, but under my domain name. Some examples;               ...          Printable coloring pages of a caterpillar mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-zjjcq.htm          Coloured lettering cut out mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-viki-60693.htm          Printable leopard coloring page mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-96.htm          Printable oedipus rex mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-ei9vd.htm          ...      What is the most effective way to combat these links by using Google Webmaster Tools and `.htaccess` to get rid of them from the Google results. Is it best to serve a 404? How can I achieve this using the `.htaccess` file? The site is hosted is on a shared server. I only have access to a limited cPanel and FTP for any form of site configuration. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Hash based commerce website

I'm planning for an e-commerce website based on ajax load and hash instead of query. I wonder how this effects search engins crawler and if it would, what is the best way to do it?


Letting search engines know that different links to identical pages stress different parts of the page

When you follow a permalink to a chat message in the Stack Exchange chat, you get a view of the transcript page for the day that contains the particular message. This message is highlighted in yellow, and the page is scrolled to its position. Sometimes - admittedly rarely, but it happens - a web search will result in such a transcript link. Here's a (constructed, obviously) example: A Google search for > strange behavior of the \bibliography command site:chat.stackexchange.com gives me a link to this chat message. This message is obiously unrelated to my query, but the transcript page does indeed contain my search terms - just in a totally different spot. Both the above links lead to the same content, and Google knows this, since both pages have               <link rel="canonical" href="/transcript/41/2012/4/9/0-24" />      in their `<head>`. The only difference between the two links is _Which message has the`highlight` css class?_. Is there a way to let Google know that while all three links have the same content, they put an emphasis on a different _part_ of the content? Note that the permalinks on the transcript page already have a `#12345` hash to "point" to the relavant chat message, but Google appears to drop it.


Is compatibility mode in IE enough for verification?

I wish to verify that my web site looks ok on different versions of Internet Explorer. Do you consider it to be enough to install latest version of IE and use it in compatibility mode when verifying it for older versions of IE? When is it not sufficient?


GoDaddy 4GH Hosting Experiences?

I've just come across GoDaddy's 4GH Hosting. It's incredibly cheap and the sales blurb makes it sound amazing. Anyone tried it out yet (particularly for ASP.NET / MS SQL Server sites)? I'd love to hear your experiences.


How to force browsers/ISPs to look for my new DNS?

I have changed the DNS for my domain. what code (or header) should I use in my old server to tell the visitor's browser or ISP that it should check for my new DNS and the current content is old? is the temp redirecting to a subdomain should help? or you know a better way?


What parts of JavaScript and jQuery are essential reading for Web Designers

As a web designer, how should I go about learning javascript and jquery? I would like to avoid duplicating my efforts and focus on whats important. I am very much confused and need a place to start.


Shorten URL with Regex

Here's an example URL to a user profile on my site: `http://127.0.0.1:8080/overview/showuserprofile/user` I want it to be: `http://127.0.0.1:8080/user` This is what I have for rewrite rules:                 Options -MultiViews       RewriteEngine On       RewriteBase /php-login/       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l            RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]      That gets rid of the `.php` at the end. I've also tried adding `RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=/overview/showuserprofile/$1 [QSA,L]` But the URL would change and not any of the pages. Any ideas?


Should a link validator report 302 redirects as broken links?

A while ago, sparkfun.com changed their URL structure from               /commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266      to               /products/9266      This is nice, right? We don't need to know that it is (or was) a PHP page, and `commerce`, `product_info`, and `products_id` all tell us that we're looking at some products. The latter form seems like a great improvement. However, the change _would have_ broken existing links. So, nicely, they stuck in 302 redirects. Visit http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266 and your browser will issue               GET /commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266 HTTP/1.1      to which Sparkfun's servers reply               HTTP/1.1 302 Found     Location: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9266      This 302 redirect is caught by Stack Exchange's link validator as a broken link. It's not broken it works just fine. Here, try it: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266 I understand that a 302 redirect is intended to be a temporary redirect, while a 301 should be used for permanent changes per RFC 2616. That said, Wikipedia and common practice use it as a redirect. Who is in error in this situation? Is this an error in Sparkfun's redirect implementation or in Stack Exchange's URL validator?


Online service or software for fundraising site?

I've got a client who is looking to have a fundraising site built in a matter of days so there's very little time for custom building something. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any software or online service that might be customised. The fundraising site would operate in the following way (for example):   * Users register   * Registered users select a "challenge" to complete, ie. 5km run every day for 4 weeks   * Friends/family of the registered user sponsor the user $5 for every day they run $5km   * Friends/family of the registered user can also make a donation (ie. not requiring sponsorship)   * Donations & sponsorships would be made direct to the fundraising site (ie. not via registered user)   * Registered users can link their challenge progress to their facebook page If anyone has some ideas, I'd really appreciate. Just to be clear, I'm looking for an online service or software that can be customised.


I have built a new site(finished last week, but no SEO, no clients). I know apply for ads need a long time. So I send my request to google adsense, and then do the `SEO`, send my site to web search. but yesterday I received an e-mail: `Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense at this time.` what is the preparation of before apply for ads? Am I ignore something must do before apply for ads? And how to apply `Google doubleclicks`? Or other ads service? I am newer for apply for ads. can anyone recommend me some good ads service? Thanks.


URL Rewrite to subdomains?

say i have a website with `/article.php?id=1&category=Minecraft&Name=Lorem+Ipsum` and `/topic.php?category=Minecraft` how would i setup url rewrite to make the topic pages being               minecraft.domain.com      and articles being               minecraft.domain.com/1/Lorem+Ipsum      I couldn't find this how to do this anywhere on the web... well, at least on google


Does the Web Deployment Tool installation require a restart on Server 2003/IIS 6?

I find Microsoft's Web Deployment Tool (and the PowerShell features it enables) very helpful for site management. Today I'd like to install it on a production Windows Server 2003 / IIS 6.0 server, but I need to know if it might require a reboot or iisreset (in which case I'd have to schedule downtime with change control, you know the drill.) Anyone know?


Can I show a table of one custom variable against another?

We have a number of custom variables set up in google analytics. We'd like to show a table of event occurrences broken down by two custom variables, e.g. if variable one can be A, B, or C and variable two can be J, K or L:               Events |  A  |  B  |  C  |     -------+-----+-----+-----+        J   | 345 |  65 |  12 |        K   | 234 |  43 |   7 |        L   | 123 |  21 |   4 |     -------+-----+-----+-----+      How do I get the information in that format?


Do people really use social network sharing buttons?

I'm making a website that you can upload images to. Implementing social network sharing buttons for content is turning out to be a pain and not to my liking in that it requires extraneous Javascript to be introduced and negatively affects the aesthetic (obviously some agree with me, as the Ghostery browser extension has an option to remove them from any webpages visited), so I'm wondering if they are an absolute must if I want to get some good traffic. I noticed that they are on most every site (including sites that contain things that most people under no circumstances would want to share on any social network), and even then there is no real standardized button set - every site typically has a Facebook and Twitter button, but some offer Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, etc. variably. Do people really use these buttons or do most just copy paste the link into their sharing platform of choice? I'm not a social network user so I am unsure myself.


Use .htaccess to rewrite requests for a PNG as a PHP GET variable

I'm REALLY bad with .htaccess files, and reading through the existing questions on SO only confuse me more (mainly because they're all situation- specific and don't _exactly_ apply to my situation at hand). I'm making a script that generates dynamic images through PHP. The script takes 1 variable, which makes the URL look like this:               http://www.example.com/script/image.php?name=esqew      However, I'd like to utilize an .htaccess file to rewrite the file to something more elegant and something my users can use on forums, like so:               http://www.example.com/script/esqew.png      The question, in a nutshell, is how do I rewrite the first request above to something more elegant like the second example using .htaccess?


URL for website with multiple currencies

It seems that most of the websites which handle currencies keep track of the current currency throughout the user browser session and not through the URL itself. This way, when sharing the URL with friends, the content might not be the same since the browser session will be different. What do you think is the best practice to handle the URL of a website with multiple currencies? A different currency denotes different content hence my opinion is that it should be embedded within the URL itself, similarly to how one would embed the current language parameter within the URL or sub domain. What would you think is the best option?   * Querystring parameter appended to each page, e.g. `/en/my-page/?currency=USD`   * URL folder, e.g. `/en/USD/my-pages/` Anything else?


How can the Google Plus one Button aid in SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will Google's New +1 Count For SEO I have setup the Google Plus One button on my website. I would like to know how it could affect the SEO of my pages. I heard that only on our friends' and contacts' computers, the results are improving. Or does it globally improve the rankings. I'm concerned about it because the JavaScript (yes the newest one) of the button slows down the site.If it is useful for global SEO only, I want to continue using it. Please advise.


Extension to add button "Report to Bugzilla"?

We have:   * internal MediaWiki installation for internal documents (we don't use it in completely wiki-like style--only maintainers should normally make changes)   * internal Bugzilla installation for internal issues including these internal documents on the MediaWiki site Now only the icing on the cake is missing: an automatic button that would appear on each page, being able to   * open a Bugzilla page   * pre-fill some fields with information about that page Basically, name What I imagine as a best solution would be a sibling to the ubiquitous "[edit]" button, probably sitting next to it, like in this mock-up: ![Mock-up of a Bugzilla "report" button](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XikaX.png)


Finding out what features of regular expressions are supported by mod_rewrite in Apache 1.3?

Is there a particular regular expression engine that is used by mod_rewrite on Apache 1.3? I want to know so I can get a list of supported and non-supported features.


Google Adsense threshold estimation

I've an electronic music blog with traffic mainly from the North American continent, Western Europe and Russia. Daily I get about 100 unique visitors with 150-200 pageviews. Should I start Adsense or I need to work to increase the traffic stats. Can you suggest another appropriate monetizing option for the given case? How much time It would take me to hit the 100$ Adsense barrier with the given traffic statistics?


How do I add the copyright symbol to my webpage?


Need to add 30K new pages to a 10K page website - troubles ahead? (SEO)

We have a situation with a website where we plan to add a huge amount of new pages. The domain is over 10 years old, approximately 10 thousand indexed pages, and the planned addition is approx. 30K new pages. Any idea how we should go about it? Must we schedule a gradual data release? Have you heard of any industry standards as to how many new pages per day / week / month should be added in order to appear natural and not get in trouble with Google? I.e. should we plan a bi-weekly addition of 5K?


Preventing high bandwidth usage from Yandex

Although I put a row for Yandex into my robots.txt file, sometimes Yandex indexes my website aggressively. So I hard coded a part and check for user agent, and serve cached file if user agent is like this: `"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)"` But when I check statcounter logs I recently saw that other Yandex related bots frequently crawl my site. They are similar to following. I took this info from my cPanel log:               Beeline (128.69.243.12)     Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.2)     Referer: http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213          Beeline (89.178.108.247)     Referer: http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213     Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)      How can I block or serve cached pages these bots? When I check for `$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']` I can't see "`yandex.ru`" in referrer. Referrer comes empty. Is it possible to find out referrer in cPanel log, but can't take it from `HTTP_USER_AGENT` ?? And I also I don't want to ban IPs because there exist too many IPs related with this issue and they are changed periodically. So how can I find out this bot? Does anybody has similar issue? Thank you


List of websites/domain name that's registered daily

I want to know if there is a website that can provide me a list of domain names that is registered on a certain date. For example today or last week thursday? Does that website which can provide me such info exist? I really appreciate it if you can point out that web URL to me. Google is pointing me to different and irrelevant websites. I saw the whois but it don't display a list. Any help?


Should I use multiple subdomains for a website that supports multiple cities?

So the closest example I can give is craigslist, for example:   * Craigslist Winnipeg: http://winnipeg.craigslist.ca/   * Craigslist Toronto: http://toronto.craigslist.ca/ Is copying this style going to hurt me a lot SEO wise? Does it make more sense to have cities setup as www.newproject.com/winnipeg/ or winnipeg.newproject.com


How do I handle having too many links on a webpage because of my menu

I am developing a website that has a drop-down menu at the top of it. The Menu has around 100 links in it that are repeated on every page. Every page also has some number of links below the Menu that may or may not be in the menu itself. My issue is that Google says they generally don't like pages with more than 100 links on them. Is there any way to change the links on the menu so that they no longer "count" towards my max of 100 links? It seems like there should be an easy way to do this but their really doesn't seem to be. the rel=nofollow still counts towards the number of links on the page at least according to Google, so what other options do I have? I looked into where the 100 comes from and I found that it used to be here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#2 but that is no longer the case. I found a more definitive and frankly muddier answer here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam- guru from Matt Cutts from 2007. Long story short, in 2007 they still felt 100 links was a good number but they stated you could go far beyond that. In fact, they said that pages with high PageRank could have 2-300. It did sound like having many links could reduce the PageRank of the page with all of the links or possibly all of the items linked to. Also, I know IIS7's SEO 1.0 toolkit suggests that pages should have no more than 250 links.


Safe directory for cron job PHP scripts

I have a website which I run a PHP script for updating its Database. What is considered to be an acceptable location on the server to store such scripts? Obviously only the root (running a cronjob to start the script) should have access to it. Thanks, Joel


Why doesn't FireFox cache my JavaScript file?

I've been trying to figure out why Firefox does not cache my JavaScript file. I don't have this issue with Chrome or IE. Here is what my server's Response Header looks like:               http://localhost:5012/bundles/scripts/jquery?v=FVs3ACwOLIVInrAl5sdzR2jrCDmVOWFbZMY6g6Q0ulE1     Cache-Control   public, max-age=2592000     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Length  42173     Content-Type    text/javascript; charset=utf-8     Date    Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:28 GMT     Expires Sat, 23 May 2015 14:33:22 GMT     Last-Modified   Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:22 GMT     Server  Microsoft-IIS/7.5     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-AspNet-Version    4.0.30319     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET     fod_vary_store  User-Agent      Please note:   1. There is no file extension. I use MS ASP.NET Optimization Framework to Bundle and minify my scripts.    2. My Firefox is 29.0.1. I have "Remember History" enabled. My question is a semi-duplicate of another question I found here: Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS (without an accepted answer). It hinted to older versions of FireFox not caching any resources with query strings. However some of the users answered that the issue had been fixed in newer versions.


Concerns regarding registering a domain name with a home address

If I purchase a domain, I'm usually required to enter an address. Usually, the address can be accessed publicly by any sort of WHOIS lookup. I'm uncomfortable publishing my real home address; what do people usually do? Lie? Purchase a P.O box?


Does having Abuse and Postmaster Emails help to stop being treated as SPAM?

I read on some blog (I don't remember the URL) that having abuse@mydomain.com and postmaster@mydomian.com in addition to main email help to prevent our mails from being categorized as spam. Is it true? Is it worthy to create two additional email accounts. On my hosting, only 5 are allowed. Please suggest.


How can I create links in javascript that are crawlable by search engines?

If I use JavaScript + jQuery, for example, does links inserted in $(document).ready() will be available for crawling? How can I insert crawlable links in JavaScript?


Should I have both example.com and www.example.com?

I used to have a website which could be addressed by both `example.com` and `www.example.com` leading to the same page. Now, I moved to another server and only the `example.com` works. I got an email from Googlebot complaining that it cannot access `www.example.com`. I know I can make `www.example.com` point to `example.com`, but do I really need it? Why not have only `example.com`?


How can I keep track of changes to my website over time?

Sometimes the boss wants to know who changed something on the website or changes their mind several times on where a button should go, what color something is, or whether or not a page should show up at all. Is there a simple way for a small 2-3 person web team to keep track of these constant changes?


How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?

I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this task? Would using their API help? If so, how would I go about collecting this data (Company Page Name, URL, location)? Thank you.


How do I validate IP Address ownership for authentication?

I have a website where digital content is behind a paywall. We verify users have access by IP address. Our customers are all large companies, with static IP addresses. So, if a user is within the network of their company, then they automatically have access to our site. The problem is, we have no way of validating that the companies actually own every address on the list of addresses they give us. Anyone have any ideas of how we verify that the companies actually own the IP addresses they are giving us.


Google Translate data tracked with gaTrack is not showing up in Google Analytics?

I have a google translate widget on my website with `gaTrack` set to true and the correct `gaId`, but no translate events show up in analytics under content > Events > Overview after a week of the widget being live. The code snippet below was auto generated by the translate website, and works fine on the site. Any ideas why I'm not getting any translate events data?


When acquiring a domain name for product xyz, is it still important to buy .net and .org versions too?

I am buying a domain name for service xyz and obviously I have bought `.com` in the first place. In the past it was automatic to also buy the `.net` and `.org` versions. However, I've been asking myself, **why would I do that**? To serve customers who mistakenly enter a different TLD? (Would someone accidentally do that these days?) To avoid a chance that competition will acquire those TLDs and play some dirty game on my customers? If there is a good reason, or a few, to buy the .net and .org versions these days I'd like to see those listed. Thanks.


How to get Google to show local site search engine results?

I'm looking for a white-hat method of getting Google to show a local site search result as a Google search result. For clarification: There is a page filled with names of certain people. Each of the names is linked to the local site search engine. So clicking on David jones would go to `mysite.com/?q=david+jones`. I want Google to show up the aforementioned link `mysite.com/?q=david+jones` as a search result if something like `mysite david jones` is queried. There is an obstacle I need to avoid:   * There are more than 450 people names (or links) on the aforementioned page. I've heard that having more than say 150 links on the page is bad for SEO. In addition to those names there are other links to various other pages. i.e main menu, footer links, latest article links etc. (it's a Joomla system.) What I want to try: My solution to this is use a `robots` tag to index only content and not links. But I'm still stumped how to show the site search result as a Google Search result. Will adding all these local site search engine links in sitemap help?


Do iframes have access to the cookies of the hosting domain?

We want to build an ad-frame which will run on external sites (e.g. YYY.com). The external site will place an iframe to our site (ZZZ.com/ourAdContent.html) and we will show some ads in this frame. The question is, will our iframe have access to the cookies belonging to our domain even when the _iframe_ is on a separate domain?


Redirect multiple files using .htaccess

I have a lot of files with a lot of sub directories which I moved one folder up, so, say, instead of `example.com/cdn/folder/folder/file.html`, it now looks like this `example.com/folder/folder/file.html`. My problem lies in SEO, I have a lot of back links which point to files which used to be in the old directory structure, and everyone who tries to access these files via those links will get a 404. Now, I know that I can resolve the problem by adding a simple line of code in _.htaccess_ , so I have read quite a number of tutorials on the Internet which explain how to redirect files from one place to another using wildcards and `RedirectMatch` techniques. I have found a site which explains how to do it, but I can't seem to get it working. I don't know what my problem is. This is what I have come up with so far: `RedirectMatch 301 /cdn/folder/folder/(.*)/(.*) http://example.com/folder/folder/$1/$2` This, however, does not do what I want it to do. Say, if someone accesses a file via `example.com/cdn/folder/folder/file.html`, they will get a 404. The code above does not resolve the problem. But, it does what I want it to do only for `example.com/cdn/folder`. Someone trying to access the subdirectory of `/cdn` will be redirected to `/folder`. Please point me in the right direction.


Using other's contents in your website

How can I use someone other's article/post on my own website? What is the legal way of doing this? Usually what I do is that I mention the **source** from where I got that post. Is there any other way? What ways do you follow to prevent yourself from copyright issues? Can I just use their content and not mention their name? Can I use a hidden HTML link of the source?


How can I redirect old WordPress URL (with a query string) to new URL using .htaccess?

I transferred my WordPress site to static HTML website, but some other website have a link to my old WordPress site `mysite.com/?page_id=1103`. I want to redirect all traffic to new URL which is `mysite.com/mypage.html`, but my redirect in _.htaccess_ file doesn't work. Maybe someone can help me with the line of code in _.htaccess_ file. I tried following but it didn't work:               Redirect 301 /?page_id=1103 http://mysite.com/mypage.html


Can I use <link> tags in the body of an HTML document?

Can I use `<link>` tags in the body of an HTML page? I tried to find the answer to this question, but found contradictory information. When adding Schema.org microdata markup to an HTML page, I want to add canonical info in a link tag like this:
       The Catcher in the Rye—       <link itemprop="url" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye" />       by J.D. Salinger
      I got the example code above from Schema.org. According to them, this is the way to go for people that want to add a canonical reference to an itemprop, but don't want to place a hyperlink on their website. W3 however clearly states that `<link>` tags should only be placed within the head section, thus making the Schema.org example invalid. If I want to stick to correct markup, which advice should I follow?


News like pages get index, but not showing up in SERP

Well I have some crawlers to scrape news from different news agency websites and auto-publish it to my own website, the thing is my pages get index in Google, but even if I search the exact same words, it's not showing up. It only shows the source website, I'd like to know what can I do to make Google to show my pages on SERP too? should I link back to the source website? or is it basically not useful to crawl another website and publish it's content as your own?


How to register many accounts on social networks for each website you wish to rank?

Google changed the rule, now it's hard to get position on first page. Many people use a paid blog network (PBN); but if you have many websites such as 50, 100, or above; without link building they will not give you powerful links. If you build many links to every website, you need many social network accounts: Google+, Facebook, Twitter, etc. How do you do that?


Should I log the price when an item is added to a cart?

Imagine the scenario, someone adds an item to a cart and then proceeds to check out. On the very rare occasion that the price in the DB is updated before they have reached the end of their checkout process, what should happen? I see it happening one of two ways:   1. At some point (probably on the confirm order page) they will notice the price has changed. I would save the price around this stage because I would also save an order to the DB (status- Pending). This is slightly undesirable as it may cause confusion to the customer why their order is more than they expected.   2. When they add the item to the cart I actually save the price then so that if they continue without ever removing it from the cart they will get it at the price listed for. The problem I see here is if there was a sale or something similar then the item in the cart could be left at a cheaper price for a long time (I'm happy for items to sit in the cart for a while as it means they may one day be bought). Any suggestions/real world examples?


Dynamic remarketing AdWords

Dynamic remarketing have this note: > Dynamic remarketing requires a Google Merchant Center account. Google > Merchant Center is available in these countries: Australia, Austria, > Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, > India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, > Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. Is some way to use Dynamic remarketing for other country, like Lithuania?


Interpret data from Google Analytics (queries)

I have this data in my Google Analytics > acquisition > search engine optimization > queries: ![picture for my query](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KTJgP.jpg) I don't really understand how to interpret it.   1. What does it mean the writing under the big numbers? For example at Clicks it is written 251 and under it smaller it is written % of Total: 125% (200)    2. Average position it is shown 64 for keywords "erasmus plus" but when I search from a computer that I did not use before and without an account to see my position in Google for "erasmus plus" keywords I am on the first page. How is it possible?


How to get less visits to my website?

I've read that a huge percentage of traffic comes from bots - legit bots like search engine spiders and illegitimate bots like spammers and ones looking for vulnerabilities. I'm about to launch my website. The problem is that I am about to sign a copyright license for some of the content on the website, and the contract says that I have to pay a certain sum of money depending on how many visits the site gets (per month). The more visits, the more it will cost. So I have an incentive in limiting traffic to only legitimate hits by blocking the crap. I don't want the website to get popular, so maybe I don't want the search engines to do too much indexing either. What should I be looking into?


Should I use the same Google Analytics code for my website and native mobile app?

My website is a forum. The native mobile app's only function is to access the forum and provide a better experience than can be provided through the browser. Given that the same content is being accessed, should I use the same Google Analytics tracking code? Or should I create a new property and select "Not a website" when it asks for the website? ![Google Analytics selecting Not a Website](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NDBnI.png) I was not able to find anything that discussed this and what would be best practice, given that the same content is being accessed. Thanks!


301 redirects. What's best way to get list of all my URL's to start the process of redirecting?

New Magento version of a site about to launch. What the best way to create a list of URLs on my site that ensures I haven't missed any - so I can do redirects on them? nd do I want to redirect all links that are indexed, or is there a reason not to do some? Thanks a lot for any guidance. For some reason the eComm/site admin guy here doesn't know the answer to this question.


SSL issues on my website

I'm running a XenForo website and I am now getting SSL security issues. I'm not so experienced in SSL, so I'm hoping you guys can provide some clarity on them. I was thinking that they probably had something to do with CHMOD, but don't know enough about it to help. Here is a screenshot indicating the issues: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gKB2n.png)


Cannot access my own web page

I am developing, learning and experimenting with php,html,javascript,flash and so on. Having web hosting and all of the cpanel, phpmyadmin and other utilities. One day, while updating information, connection between my computer and website just went down. I found out that it is only from this computer, where I cannot access anything. I don't know what is the reason I cannot access website, however this is what I have checked so far:   * Everything else opens normally, having problem only with my page.   * Cannot access FTP,cpanel or any kind of information related to the domain and hosting   * ipconfigs detects IP, but shows request timed out (so its not browser related)   * Turned off Firewall,AV, Rebooted computer   * Cleared caches,temp,cookies,histry with CCleaner   * Checked connectivity with both (wired,wireless) networks   * ISP has dynamic IP that has been changed about 3 times since issue   * Checked host file I am out of ideas and understanding what could cause this kind of issue, however couple minutes ago, found out that everything works with proxy server (when adding IP and port to the browsers) Can someone point out what should I check or try to get rid of this problem? Also tried:   * ipconfig /flushdns   * removed all of the files from system32/drivers/etc Havent found solution yet, but I am very curious of what is causing this...


How to find domain registrar and DNS hosting with good DNSSEC support?

## Simplified problem **I want to buy a domain and make a website that is fully secured withDNSSEC.** I want to make sure that only the one right SSL certificate could be validated by the browsers and all of the rogue SSL certificates or certificates for unqualified names would be rejected. Where can I buy a domain? Whare should I buy a certificate? (Or should I use a self-signed certificate with DNSSEC _instead of_ CAs?) Where can I host DNS? Which providers make the whole process most convenient, most affordable, most complete, most professional, most robust, most secure? ## Background I've been hearing about the insecurity of DNS for years. I've watched all of the talks by Dan Kaminsky and others from DNS exploits to The future of DNS Security Panel. I knew that using DNS without security is a disaster waiting to happen. I followed the development of the DNSSEC standard. I celebrated the key signing ceremony. Meanwhile I read about Thousands of SSL Certs Issued To Unqualified Names and Rogue SSL Certs Issued For CIA, MI6, Mossad and many other stories like that showing problems with the current implementation of websites secured with SSL that could be solved by DNSSEC (see: A Major Internet Milestone: DNSSEC and SSL and DNSSEC to fix the SSL mess? and SSL certificate validation and DNSSEC). Everything was on the right track to finally have a secure DNS system in place. And now more than 2 years later I wanted to just do what everyone said I should do: use DNSSEC for a new domain. So I need a domain registrar and a DNS hosting service that supports DNSSEC. Surprisingly it is not that easy to even find out who does support DNSSEC and to what extent. It was actually much easier to find info on DNSSEC two years ago when everyone was **going to** support DNSSEC Real Soon Now but now years passed and I hardly see any progress done. I just hope that I was just looking in the wrong places and someone here will kindly explain all of the doubts. I hope that other people who want to have a secure website will also find this question useful. ## What is needed   * **registrar and DNS servers with full DNSSEC support for`.com` domains**   * integration of DNSSEC with SSL certificates ## What is not needed   * IPv6 support   * Web hosting   * anything more ## What I found out so far   * Go Daddy offers Premium DNS service for additional $36 per year that lets you "Secure up to 5 domains with DNSSEC".   * easyDNS has DNSSEC available in Beta across all service levels (you need to enable the "beta" flag in configuration) but it doesn't seem to be production ready and judging from the lack of updates it isn't a feature of highest priority (the last update from March 2011 on the easyDNS blog).   * Name.com - according to The Register (US domain registrar does IPv6, DNSSEC) it has DNSSEC support since 2010 but right now (October 2012) I couldn't find anything related to DNSSEC on their website.   * Dynadot that is very often recommended doesn't support DNSSEC   * Namecheap that is also often recommended doesn't support DNSSEC. The support answer from 2011 suggested that it was being added but in 2012 still no ETA is given to customers.   * DynDNS was supposed to support DNSSEC, I found a link explaining DNSSEC support but it gives 404 Not Found page and offers a search box - when searching for DNSSEC I get "No results were found for your query."   * GKG was recommended online for DNSSEC support but it's hard to find any information on the level of DNSSEC support - there is a brief explanation on what is DNSSEC and how to sign Delegation Signer records in their FAQ but no information about the level of actual support can be found.   * Ask Slashdot: Which Registrars Support DNSSEC? from July 2011 - Answers list Go Daddy, DynDNS, GKG, Name.com as registrars that support DNSSEC but: **see above**.   * Registrars that support end user DNSSEC management, including entry of DS records by ICANN (thanks to Rob for reminding me about it) - the problem with this list is that the level of support is unknown, the fact whether you have to pay for DNSSEC additional fees is not mentioned, let alone the convenience of buying, configuring and hosting domains fully secured with DNSSEC and SSL.   * List of .ORG Registrars who have passed OT&E for DNSSEC published by the Public Interest Registry - a lot of registrars but they are listed for `.org` TLD support and as they say: "This does not indicate whether the registrar has enabled a DNSSEC service for the registrants. Please contact the registrars directly for their DNSSEC service."   * How To Secure And Sign Your Domain With DNSSEC Using Domain Registrars by the Internet Society (thanks to Nick for pointing it out) currently lists **only two** that support `.com` TLD on the list of "Registrars Supporting DNSSEC For Registration and Hosting" ie. **Go Daddy (with an additional fee of $36/year)** and **Dyn (with an additional fee of $330/year)**. See How To Sign Your Domain With DNSSEC Using Dyn, Inc and How To Sign Your Domain With DNSSEC Using GoDaddy.com for details. ## Related questions   1. How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?   2. What is needed to add DNSSEC to my site?   3. DNS hosting better managed by Domain provider or Hosting provider?   4. Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers? In no. 1 no one is ever mentioning DNS at all. In no. 2 answers only mention the `.se` TLD, there are very few answers and they seem very outdated. In no. 3 one answer says "On projects that demand higher security, I might look for a web host that supports DNSSEC" but no more information is provided. The only relevant answers are in no. 4 where easyDNS is recommended by someone who has never used them personally. Meanwhile, as of October 2012, the support of DNSSEC is described as "in beta" on the easyDNS feature list. Another one recommends SiteGround but searching their site for DNSSEC returns no results. Other answers recommend web hosting providers that don't meet the requirement of DNSSEC support. Also the question mentioned above lists 9 very specific requirements other than only DNSSEC (like eg. HTTP-only login cookies, two- factor authentications, no DNS record limits, DNS statistics of queries/day, audit trails etc.) which might have excluded many possible recommendations if one is only interested in DNSSEC support. ## Conclusions **Is it possible that the pioneer of DNSSEC adoption would be Go Daddy and all of the "expert" DNS services are not ready yet?** I thought that by the end of 2012 the support of DNSSEC among domain registrars and DNS providers would be nearly universal. I am shocked that the support seems virtually nonexistent. Is this a result of some serious problems with the DNSSEC adoption? Or is it just not a hot topic and no one bothers anymore? According to the DNSSEC Scoreboard roughly about 0.1% of `.com` domains support DNSSEC. Could that be caused by the lack of DNSSEC support among registrars and DNS providers, is the information too hard to find or maybe no one cares? There is even no "dnssec" tag here. ## Summary The information is surprisingly hard to find. That is why I am asking for first-hand experience and personal recommendations. Has anyone here actually set up a website with DNSSEC, from the domain registration to the configuration of DNS servers, to actually having a working website that is fully secured with DNSSEC? Has anyone successfully integrated DNSSEC with SSL certificates to make sure that only the one right certificate could be validated by the browser and all of the rogue SSL certificates or certificates for unqualified names would be rejected? Can anyone recommend any of the registrars mentioned above? Can anyone recommend any registrar not mentioned above? Any good experience? Bad experience?


historical weather data APIs

I am building a web application where I need to display whole year's month wise weather conditions. So that users get an idea of what the weather conditions are like and plan their trips accordingly. I am using WunderGround's History feature but it does not give this data for smaller towns and destinations, even some very popular tourist destinations. Are there any alternatives which could provide me the same information.


Cannot log in to phpMyAdmin with users account: Get root override message

I am trying to access phpMyAdmin but I get: `"You are logged in with the root, or reseller's password"` message, even though I am logged in using the users account (not my root account). I have tried clearing the cache and using another browser to no affect. Does anyone know a way round this?


Why is this mod_rewrite redirecting my domain?

I'm trying to redirect all URLs past the "/" of my domain to an old.mysite.com version, but leave the mysite.com itself alone. For example, "mysite.com" -> "mysite.com", but "mysite.com/some-url" -> "old.mysite.com/some-url". Here's what I have now:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.+)$     RewriteRule /(.*) http://archived.example.com/$1      But it's redirecting "mysite.com" -> "old.mysite.com". How can I modify this so that the core domain doesn't get redirected, but only when there are URL bits past the ".com/" so to speak?


Showing index.htm and index.php both

I have a static HTML based site. Server automatically pulls the `index.htm` as the default page. Fine. I just installed WordPress in the root: But `.com/index.php` is redirecting automatically to `.com/index.htm`. I need to be able to see both `index.htm` (as main page for current site visitors) and `index.php` for my work on the theme and new WordPress pages. Also, when I do the _.htaccess_ : `DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm`. I am then able to see the WordPress `.com/index.php` but then can no longer see `index.htm` as the site then defaults to the `index.php`. How can I see both `index.htm` and `index.php` at the same time?


Slow DNS lookup on my site?

I'm testing the loading speeds of my website. I've just done a test using Pingdom but it returns some strange (at least to me) results: ![](http://responsible-disclosure.com/img/pingdom-results.png) By the looks of it getting the DNS info takes the most time. Is this normal? Is there something I can do to speed this up?


How come keyword ranking checkers are never accurate

I am currently using a keyword ranking checker called authority lab. When I was using its test version, the rankings seemed accurate. Now I am paying for the professional version, only to find out the results are always completely different from the ones I checked myself (while checking for the rankings I did log out, so that would not be the problem). I just wonder how these kind of tools works and why they are not accurate.


Logo Image in Image Sitemap

Here is my concern. I have the logo image along with the entire header section of the site in an 'included' file. How do I present that image in the image sitemap? Should I give the URL of the 'included' file that only contains part of each page and as such wouldn't make much sense to a user who would get it in a search result? Or is there another way of providing Google with the URL to that image?


Pointing a sub domain to another server using directi control panel while domain.com is not hosted

Do we of course need a host for `domain.com`? Unfortunately currently the host for `domain.com` is down, so `sub.domain.com` cannot be redirected to where it should. Is there a way to at least activate the `sub.domain.com` using `DirectI` control panel that I have?


How do I find where my website ranks in Google for a keyword or group of keywords?

I'd just like to know, if for a keyword, or a sentence, my website is in the search pages, and if so, where? Is there a way to do this?


How to fix price error for a product in Magento?

I am trying to fix this product listing: http://shop.crystalvine.com/salt/blueberrysalt-c.html You see in the dropdown there is an option for "refill" which is supposed to say $10.95 but says $45.95 When I log into Magento and click on Catalog --> Manage Products There are f different listings for this product, differentiated by size/price. I try to edit the price by clicking "edit" on the product and under the price option on the left I edit the price and save. But doing that to the products does not change the price on the live site when I edit the price for them. Am I doing something wrong there? How do I change the price? Thanks!!


WHY my domain points back to previous IP after 1 day

2 days ago, I applied a domain gtscomputers.com.au, and then changed the nameserver to the one from my hosting, and change all "A Record" to the IP 27.131.74.13. Yesterday, I applied another IP address 27.131.74.36 and changed all "A Records" to the new IP, this morning the domain has been pointed to the new IP. However, when I tried to access the website tonight, it has been point back to the previous IP address 27.131.74.13. I'm using 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) on my PC, and after I change to ISP's DNS, the website is pointed to the new IP which is correct, because this DNS has not been updated yet. Can anyone tell me what's going on? I have checked all DSN settings.


Why does the Bing bot request this URL?

While checking server logs, I have seen that often the Bing bot requests this URL. **URL:** /da-net/products/cadpac/cadpac_jis.shtml **Browser:** Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Can anyone explain this?


How does Google put the "shine" on the "block all foo.com results" link that appears?

To repro:   1. Go to google and do a search (for example, follow this link to search for Jeff Atwood)   2. Follow the first result.   3. Hit back in Chrome.   4. Observe that the text that appears that says "Block all codinghorror.com results" has a "shine" affect that occurs to draw your eye to it. This happens on all sites I follow a link from while logged in to Google using Chrome. How is this achieved? I've recorded it here. The HTML from the relevant section:               <img src="/images/experiments/shimmer_mask.png" style="position: absolute;       top: 64px; z-index: 500; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px;       border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: none;       border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none;       border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; left: 228px; ">


Is it possible to block an entire site to Google then list exceptions?

I usually disallow subdirectories in the robots.txt file and I was wondering if it's possible to do it the other way: block everything and list the main index file and the others pages I'd like search engines to index. Is that possible? My current robots.txt is as follows:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: /example/     Disallow: yea.html     Allow: /


what are benefits of URL rewriting?

URL rewriting has become quite popular, but I think it only adds more complexity to the Web. Old fashioned URL's are often called "dirty URLs", so I'll use that term. It is argued that with rewriting it makes the URL more "discoverable" but how is it more discoverable with this URL               www.magic.com/date/2010/02/02       than this URL?               www.magic.com/date=2010-02-02      I believe people would discover more with the old fashioned URL than the rewrite URL. With the good old fashioned URL, using ampersands and equal signs, you are actually telling the search engines how they relate to each other. With slashes you can't. They don't know that `/2010/02/02` is actually a date or how the numbers relate to the `/date/`. It merely assumes that it's a different directory with different data. With `date=2010-02-02` I believe it'll allow search engines to figure out how they relate to each other. Dirty URLs can easily be shortened with URL shortener services, but everyone copies a URL and pastes it; they don't write it. It's much simpler if they write down a dirty URL that's well laid out. A URL like `goo.gl/8aPtuI` seems more cognitively difficult than `generic.com/awesome`. I read an argument that search engines stop at URLs that look dynamically generated, but I am skeptical. Virtually all websites are dynamically created, so why would they stop there? I'd also think that dirty URL's can be meta-rich if you do it right.               www.generic.com/rate=5&name=Allen&sex=m       and it's much easier for engines to see how they are related than doing this,               www.generic/com/rate/5/name/Allen/sex/m.       What are the real advantages?


Can't set up or access email in new google apps?

I've set up google apps accounts many times before, and run into anything like this. Today I just set up a new google apps account, and have been going through the usual steps of setting up the domain settings. Usually, when you click on email, it has you set up mx records on your registrar. However, if I click on 'set up email', all it does is take me to the mobile setup tab. I can't figure out any way to access the actual inbox or instructions for setting up mx records. It's maddening. Anyone have a clue? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rddy6.png) **Takes me here ->** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Wq57B.png)


Tool to check resource load order

Is there a tool I can show clients that will take a page's HTML and show:   a) the order in which external resources will load,   b) which resources are blocked on other resources being downloaded? For example: JavaScript in the head blocks any images from loading further down the page and browsers can only load 6 resources at a time from a given domain/subdomain.


Possible to drop the original query parameters entirely in a rewritten URL?

Original URL looks something like `domain.com/filename.php?id1=333&id2=444`. Desired rewritten URL is something like `domain.com/my-rewritten-url`. I can imagine creating a lookup table with columns for the ids and a column for the rewrite string, but is this realistic/practical?


Google Analytics Campaigns Not Tracking E-Commerce

I am running email campaigns via MailChimp and tracking the success of my campaigns via Google Analytics. I can successfully see data being tracked for:               Reporting > Conversions > Ecommerce (Receiving Data)     Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns (Receiving Data)      However, I am not receiving any Ecommerce data for the individual campaigns: `Reporting > Traffic Sources > Campaigns > Ecommerce (No data)` So I see data like: `Visits: 18,501` `Revenue: $0.00` Everything I have read leads me to believe this should just `"work"` if Ecommerce is setup. Is there some additional action I need to take for this work? Any help would be appreciated!


If I have auto-generated pages, am I at risk of being seen as a content farm?

I have some pages which are auto-generated. For example, I run an outdoor site and I have a page like this for different trees: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/trees/trees.php This page links to each individual tree page, all of which are very similar in structure. Am I in danger of being seen as a content farm? I am not really doing anything black hat, but I seem to be breaching some punished practices. What is the right approach here? Am I in danger? :)


I registered a domain name — how can I point it to my DynDNS host?

How can I host a website from my home machine? I have a DynDNS address so that even if my external IP changes, the machine is accessible. Lets say, for example, the machine is accessible at `example.dyndns-home.com` (this is a free service from DynDNS). I've registered a domain name for my website from GoDaddy. Let's say that domain name is `example.com` Right now, I've forwarded port 80 so I can enter `example.dyndns-home.com` from anywhere and I can see whatever I've hosted at my homebox. How can I make it so that, when I enter `www.example.com`, I see the same thing? I want to see what I host on my home machine out on the internet via `example.com`.


Disadvantage of creating tracking source

Is there disadvantages of creating your own link tracking source (Example: ?src=publication ) instead of using Google's utm_source? Two things that I see that it's an advantage using my own tracking code are: A little bit cleaner in the URL I can easily filter the content by "?src="


How to properly use related search links on sites without taking a negative SEO hit?

On a search results page, I want to show related search links. These links are generated by user searches, that aren't already part of the site's regular links. This, in effect was to increase the number of links on the site. I had created a small widget that showed ten related search links. The site took a negative hit, and I'm guessing this was because on each page, ten new links would appear, and essentially creating thousands of new pages. I want to be able to dynamically add some user-generated searches to the site without taking an SEO hit. Obviously I can no-follow those links, but that then defeats the purpose. What's the best way to go about this?


How does duplicate file and directory names affects SEO

I have some 40 crawl errors in my website, those are pointing to files which are not existing. and I want to resolve all 404 errors **I dont have acccess to .htaccess file. Because i am on shared hosting** So, I thought to create those files under respective path by putting 301 redirect. Examples: Correct URL: `http://www.myapp.com/folder/oracle-sql-course.php` 404 error URL: `http://www.myapp.com/foder/sub_folder/oracle-sql-course.php` 404 error URL: `http://www.myapp.com/foder/oracle-sql-course.php` Like this I have around 40 crawl errors. So I have to create the folders of same name in different levels and same files as well. Does these changes affects SEO.


MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Postgree, CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra or SQLite?

Who database engine is better, in performance and usability?


How to transfer a website hosted online to my Virtual Host

I'm doing some work on a webpage, meaning I gotta modify a few things. As a result of this I installed apache and all the things that come associated with it, and also installed Joomla, and I got everything running well. My problem is, I need to make apache run this website locally, so I downloaded the public_html folder from the FTP server on my website, but I have absolutely no idea how to implement the website in order to make it run on apache. I've read a few guides, but they all tell me how to create a new website instead of helping me host a website already done.


How to test robots.txt in googlebot to find out what is being indexed

This question is a continuation for this answer How to check if googlebot will index a given url?   As was told I did go to the Webmaster Tools and tested contents of my robots.txt file. However this is just giving me the info if that content is good enough or not. However for my scenario I need to test whether disallowing some patterns is being indexed or not. For example I have something like this below in my robots.txt               disallow:/pattern*           My understanding is the URLs with word pattern should not crawled, but how do I test this pattern is enforced while indexing the website?


My DNS zone includes a loopback record - do I need it?

My dns zone contains a loopback:               localhost IN A 127.0.0.1      Do I need it, and if so why? I can't think of a reason to have it here, especially as - without a dot - it would be `localhost.example.com`


Should a mobile-only site use robots.txt?

I have a mobile site that is distinct from the corresponding desktop site. The sites share the same content, but the mobile site files are in a completely different directory. The main site had a robots.txt file, but I'm wondering if I need one for the mobile site too. Anyone have any thoughts?


Fake domain and hosted email addresses issue?

Many email addresses for domain `rustamtowel.com` have been compromised. My client forwarded me an old email which he sent me few days ago but I haven't received that email. That email was sent to `cs@rustamt0wel.com` instead of `cs@rustamtowel.com` (`0` zero instead of `O`). Then I came to know that another domain has been register just like my domain name. Someone also quote my client with wrong prices from wrong email address `ceo@rustamt0wel.com`. How can I check that who is involved and be safe for future. Who can be responsible?   1. My domain registration guy   2. My web hosting company   3. Someone from my own office


line monitoring of phonograms (songs) of radio

I need to create a monitoring system of phonograms (songs) of radio and television online through streaming so on, but my team and know the way to develop this monitoring system, I know there companies that already do this, someone knows feramenta, develop or know? A system of auditing by streaming, know what time, day by day the phonogram or music touched Alessandro Caliu


Creating a video upload form, what is a realistic file size limit?

My page is asking users to upload their photos and videos, but I want to limit the file size. What is a realistic size limit for short video (under 30 sec) shot on a iphone or android.


Creating a subdomain (sub.domain.com) for special posts on a blog: Good idea?

I have created a few plugins and themes that I want to have special pages for. Now I do not want to make a complete new website or page for all the different plugins. Instead I want to have normal blogposts for each of my plugins and themes. Now to make things more simple I want to create a special domain name for them, with CNAME records. like this: facyplugin.mydomain.com CNAME mydomain.com/2011/09/new-fancy-plugin Now instead of giving people the long version of the link, I can just give the small one, without having to use a url crusher. -- Now is this a good idea, or will this lead to problems in terms of SEO.


Should we allow HEAD requests?

Our web application is predominantly read-only. As such we only allow GET requests. However, we regularly get errors in our logs because of user agents making HEAD requests. I've seen these come from Squid proxy servers and bots from AddThis, Google and Bing. My understanding is that most search engines will make GET requests when crawling sites so is there a genuine reason for allowing HEAD requests?


Setting cookies only on the naked domain

As far as I know, one can set a cookie for `example.com` and not `.example.com` and then the cookie will only be visible on `example.com` and not `sub.example.com`. Is this true? I have set a cookie on a test domain I own, and it seems that cookies are not shared at static.mydomain.com This page suggests otherwise: > Omitting www leaves you no choice but to write cookies to *.example.org, so > for performance reasons it's best to use the www subdomain and write the > cookies to that subdomain.


Shared web hosting issue where Google is incorrectly indexing https content from another website

I am using shared hosting from a reasonably well known Australian web hosting company and have come across an unusual issue where Google is indexing pages on my website from another website on the same server that is using https. I do not have an SSL certificate associated with my website but Google is finding content like this: `https://mysite.example.com/content-from-another-website` I have logged a support request with the web hosting company and the only solution they suggest is to purchase an SSL certificate for my website (minimum cost is $50) or create a self signed certificate to prevent the issue from occurring. Apparently the web hosting company has escalated the issue to cPanel but there is no ETA on a resolution. Obviously this is not ideal as my page rankings could be affected with search engines indexing content that has nothing to do with my website. Has anyone else come across this problem and is there a better solution than what my web hosting company is suggesting? Note that I look after about 40 websites hosted with this company so unless I really have to, I'm not keen on:   * paying $2000 every year for SSL certificates I don't really need plus the installation and renewal hassles   * moving 40 x websites to a new hosting company


How do I troubleshoot rewrite and permalink issues for wordpress using IIS 7 W2008?

I know this question is kind of a WP and kind of a webmaster issue. I am really stuck troubleshooting how IIS is handling rewrites and permalinks. Anyone that can offer an explanation or demarcation of the topic would be helping out a ton. Background: Tons of WP (and non WP) sites on a subdomain (at big company). I must use subdomain and cannot be issued any other URLs. So all of my sites sit in sub directories. I know this is not optimal but have no choice. All of my WP sites sat at least one directory level up from root - they were all working fine given that I used a permalink structure that included index.php/%whatever. Everyone is happy. The root of the subdomain was a redirect to another site. They asked me to close the redirect and take our sandbox/mainsite and move it to root. I made backups of files and database tables and hastily moved site to root... Big problems... Basically any site that I installed WP on more than a few weeks ago refuses to work with any sort of permalink structure. Default works. Anything else is jacked up - sometimes they work in Chrome/FF but not IE (it is not a cache issue), sometimes if I change the permalink on WP backend I cannot reach anything but homepage, sometimes I see the permalink url when hovering but it takes me somewhere else, sometimes media paths were messed up (so site looks like it is missing css). Basically I have screwed up the entire rewrite process on the server - without making one change to IIS. What makes this more frustrating is that I do have a few WP sites that I just installed that the permalink stuff works perfectly on... Also all non-WP sites are working fine of course. I can give you all the info you need but site is intranet - but could do screenshots if needed. Where do I start troubleshooting this?


Is my whole site is blocked by this Disallow: /

This is a view of my _robots.txt_ file did this query blocked only Baiduspider Search Engine or all of the search engines to check my site.               User-agent: Baiduspider     Disallow: /          User-agent: *     Disallow: /templates_c/


Moving Blogspot to Wordpress, can I reuse the framed redirect domain without losing SEO?

I have a blogger site (let's call it `test.blogspot.com.au`) and a domain `test.com` which redirects to that site. We've installed Wordpress in a subdirectory on another site and migrated using blogger’s import tool. Let's call it `newsite.com.au/blog`. My question is: All the guides seem to relate to editing blogger’s template to redirect to the new site with JavaScript. This implies I need to keep `test.com` tied to `test.blogspot.com.au` because various links around the web will be using it. Is there a way to reuse `test.com` so it points directly to the subdirectory (and mask the fact that it's a subdirectory) without losing search rank/history, or do I need to get a new domain name to avoid this? I’m happy to accept the fact that we may be getting occasional broken inbound links and let the users deal with it as long as it doesn’t destroy our search rankings. The new location is shared hosting with cPanel so I can edit `.htaccess` etc… but there are some limits to what can be done. **Edit: I thought I would share what I did in case it helps anyone else.** At the moment, searches for 'blogname' are returning the new blog, and 'blogname blogspot' are not returning the old blogspot site. So it appears to be working, but I'm not sure whether or not we lost any ranking data in the process. I did it by editing the blogspot template with these 2 tags in the head:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.newsite.com.au/" />     <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.newsite.com.au/" />      This was done by reverting to the classic template (be careful to remove the mobile template too) and editing it. There are various guides on the web. For direct post links, you add something similar:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.newsite.com.au/blogger/?q=http://www.newsite.com.au/2014/04/mypost.html" />     <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.newsite.com.au/blogger/?q=http://www.newsite.com.au/2014/04/mypost.html">      Here /blogger/ is a Wordpress template PHP file that interprets the URL and redirects to the migrated page on the new site. With a bit of searching it should be possible to find a guide for this, I do not have the links handy but it was relatively simple to setup based on a guide after using the blogger migration tool.


Advertising / Premium Access sales strategies

Glad to be here. Been tooling around on S/O for a year or so now. Anyway, I run a very localized site that caters to the bar industry and its patrons. You can check it out at jcbarguide.com if you need a reference. Anyhow, I've written the whole thing from the ground up and culled a lot of original content. The binaries on the site require that I actually visit each location so I have formed real-world relationships with the owners of many of the establishments and many of them are appreciative and supportive of the site. In the last month, I have finally bested YELP in SERPs for key search phrases (jersey city bars, bars in jersey city, jersey city bar, etc) I celebrated this milestone by letting many of my contacts have up to 3 free ROS 728x90 leaderboards for a month. NO ONE took me up on the offer. It's been so hard to generate any sort of money on this property and I'm wondering why. I wrote an admin interface to update each bar profile that I was charging access to that no one wanted. I gave it away for free after 2 months and only 2 or 3 bar owners/managers utilize it. I've had friends tell me that I suck at selling the concept. others say that if I don't charge, no one will want it (perceived value) and others that just say the site has yet to reach a level of value that these owners and managers will finally notice. As far as I am concerned, I'd think these owners would jump at a site that's ranking as well and being visited as much as mine is. The municipality that the site serves isn't exactly the most affluent of stable hub for commerce out there. Any thoughts from you on establishing your online property's value are appreciated. Thanks, Rob


Amazon Web Services Free Trial: query about get and put requests

Amazon recently introduced a free tier for its cloud offering. I signed up for AWS and while signing up for the free tier of S3, i found this > As part of AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. > Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, **20,000 > Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests,** 15GB of bandwidth in and 15GB of > bandwidth out each month for one year. source:aws.amazon.com , emphasis mine. 20,000 GET requests & 2000 puts mean , 20,000 page views(max) and 2000 file uploads per month. Isn't that lower than what App Engine offers 43,200,000 requests per day.Am I missing some thing, please help.


Need help getting user friendly URL

I trying to get a user friendly URL. My current link is this:   http://www.norwegianfashion.no/designers/?designer=Batlak-og-Selvig&bid=9   What I want is this   http://www.norwegianfashion.no/designers/Batlak-og-Selvig/ What do I need to do in order to get this URL? Anything I can do in .htaccess file? **Update**   I'm using Wordpress which has it's own permalink structure. I'm not sure if it's possible to add URL-rewrite? I'm also looking at this link: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/guide- url-rewriting/2 , but I'm not very succesfull.


Advice on Advertisement Charges from WebMasters

I run a programming site and was contacted by a big product company. They want to publish 8 product posts about their product (they will write) in the next 6 months and purchase 5 million impressions of a 125x125 ad above fold. The product relates to the programming articles i write. I am not sure what to charge them per post and for the 125x125 ad. I do not run google ads. Something about my site:   Visitors: 320K p.m with majority from US, Canada, Europe and India.   Regular content.   11K Rss readers.   Google PR: 5   Alexa - 30K Can anyone help me how to go about this?


Discrepancy between Google cached meta description and description in search result

I have developed a 1 page website to deal with time zone world clocks. I have noticed that Google has the latest version of the page in its cache, so it has access to the latest meta description. However, it still displays the old meta description in search results. It has been like this for several days. I have resubmitted the page in Google Webmaster several days ago. Why doesn't Google update to the new meta description?


Do i need an ssl certificate for a site allowing users to make donations online?

Hii, The site is technically a foundation, a non profit organization website, which will allow people to make donations for the cause. Is purchasing an SSL certificate for this site a good idea? How much will it cost?


SEO: 301 for a page which has no mirrow path?

I just did a 301 and the domain and some pages which have a mirror file path are fine. But I have one directory which is not going to be part of the new site and I don't know how to redirect the old files that were there. I need something like this: oldDomain/oldDir/file.php and I need to make it redirect to newDomain/differentDir/file.php Is that possible? What is the 301 redirect rule for that? **update** I just added this rule as suggested by @Itai and it didn't work               redirectMatch permanent ^/outdoors/trees/tanoak.php$ http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/trees/129/Tanoak      any idea why?


Nginx or Apache for a VPS?

I consider myself to be an inexperienced user/administrator when it comes to running my VPS. I can get by with a few CLI commands, I can set up Webmin and I can set up Yum repos, but beyond the very basic stuff, I'm out of my depth. So far, I'm running Apache. I don't know it particularly well, but I can get by with editing httpd.conf if I'm told what to edit. I've heard good things about Nginx and that it's not as resource-hungry as Apache. I'd like to give it a go, but I can't find any information about its suitability for administrators like me, with little experience of sysadmin or web server config. Webmin now has support for Nginx, so getting it installed and running probably won't be too much of a problem. What I'm wondering is, from a site administrator perspective, is running Nginx as transparent as running Apache? IE, at the moment, I can just throw up Wordpress and Drupal sites without having much to worry about or having to make any config changes to Apache. Would Nginx be as transparent?


How do I point a new domain to start on a page that's not index.html on separate hosting?

I'm using a service (CMS/Host) called SquareSpace to host my site, and today I'm registering the domain for it. Basically, how do I make it so when somebody types www.tedxoxford.com it points at http://www.tedxoxford.com/landing (currently http://tedxoxford.squarespace.com/landing) instead of the default index? Is this possible? Squarespace is quite a restricted CMS and means that your logos etc all point to the index so I don't want people ending up on my landing/splash page every time they want the home page, only on the first time they type in the URL. A dirty hack would be to check the refferer and redirect anyone hitting the index to the landing page, but that's a lot of loading overhead I'd rather avoid...


Is fixed width website of 768px, the best option for supporting all tablets an desktops?

I'm building a website, not interested in fluid design as I want to keep the line breaks of the paragraphs in the same certain way, for all resolution. If the Ipad width is 768px on portrait, does it mean that If I want to create a website that would look good on all tablets and desktops pc's, my best bet would be to use a fixed width of 768px and not larger? Thanks


What's the purpose of unique webserver names?

Previously I would set the name servers of a domain to what the hosting company told me (e.g. ns1.hostingcompany.com). I've now started buying domains from a company that lets you make your own nameservers (e.g. ns1.mywebsite.com) and I just enter the IP for them (I presume of my webhost server). My question, what is the point of this? Is it purely cosmetic? (I do find this cool, that I'd have ns1.mysite.com, but I'm a geek, is there any other advantage or disadvantage to this?


Determining Social Referrals in Google Analytics

I have a question about social referrals in Google Analytics: Firstly, When I go here: Acquisition -> Channels -> Social a significant portion of my Social Networks is recorded as "not set". Why is this ? Secondly, which is more reliable for gauging social media referrals: Acquisition -> Channels -> Social or Acquisition -> Social -> Overview The figures in both sections are different.


How to structure my AdWords campaign for testing and different groups of keywords?

I am starting an AdWords campaigns and I will measure conversion rates using the AdWords conversion tracking pixel. Conversion might be account creation or a concrete sale. As it will be a test campaign to have some insights on CTR, CR, etc... on the future, I am likely to try several configurations:   * Two different ads with different landing URL and messages: one with a focus on the product / the other will contains a discount embedded in the URL.   * 4 different groups or themes of keywords. I guess I have to   * build 4 ads groups based on the keywords   * 2 ads with the different messages   * assign the two ads to each ads groups   * follow the campaign precisely in the ads tabs where I can see the effectiveness of each Ads per Ads Groups (for a total of 8 lines of reporting) Also, what are the key performance indicators that I can have from an AdWords campaign to measure global effectiveness?   * measure of return on investment from concrete sales (tracking pixel with e-commerce tag on confirmation page)   * measure o return on investment from leads acquisition (tracking pixel on account creation)   * measure of traffic increase with the campaign


Is it ok to 301 redirect deleted pages to the homepage in order to preserve link juice? -- Even if the homepage is unrelated content?

I'm about to delete 40+ pages that have quality link juice (I'm deleting them for copy write issues). I'd prefer not to do a 404 header on all of them, because I want to preserve inbound links to those pages for SEO. Can I do a 301 redirect to the homepage for all of the deleted pages? I'm concerned because the homepage isn't similar content (It states that a 301 redirect should only be done if the page being redirected to is similar content). If 301 redirects for the deleted pages is the wrong approach, then what should I do?


Why use flash to as content headings? Why not?

A large number of sites lately which use **Flash to replace what would be simple HTML headings (h1, h2, h3)**. Some of them do it consistently for every header. **Why would you do this? What are the pros and cons of this?** This seems strange to me and really inefficient, particularly since a page can have dozens of headers. I notice this because I use Flash Block (which temporarily disables Flash), so not everyone may have seen it. Just today I landed here with 4 flash headers. I've seen dozens of such use of Flash this week alone, and I am wondering if this has some benefits.


Mobile URL strategy

I am going to be using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile version of my site. My question is about the best practice on the location of the mobile site, specifically, the URL. I am looking into two options:   1. Just detect whether the user is mobile and serve them a mobile template, no need for a separate URL for the mobile site. For example, mysite.com/foo/bar would have a mobile and desktop version of the page. My site uses HTTP cache and this would complicate things...   2. Have a mobile URL (m.mysite.com). I prefer this method as I see this in a lot of places (ie m.facebook.com). My hesitation is with SEO, isn't duplicating content bad? Any insights, thoughts, comments on my dilemma? Is there a strategy I am missing?


Apple and Google Mobile Apps stores, does accepts duplicated app names?

Suppose my android and ios app is actually named **damnit** and it allows users to connect to their friends Now in google play store and apple apps store there is an app called "damnit" that is not mine and it is a urban dictionary. Now, what if i submit my app with same name into both google and apple stores? Will be rejected?


Can outbound links increase PageRank?

We all know that the backlinks increases the pagerank of a website. Do outbound links affect PageRank?


Is "Redirecting via DNS" a good practice for positioning a website?

In order to position a website project I'm planning on getting 3 domain names (`example.com`, `example.org` and `example.net`). Whenever a user goes to "`example.org`" or "`example.net`" he/she would be redirected to "`example.com`". All redirection methods I have used are via JavaScript or PHP and not long ago I found out it can be via DNS settings with the domain registrar company. **Now my question:** Is it a good SEO practice redirecting via DNS? (Would not it be better to have some content on these two websites ("`.org`" and "`.net`"), like a link pointing to "`example.com`", and then redirect using JavaScript or PHP?) In general (considering other topics like security, performance, etc), is it a good practice redirecting via DNS?


I want to write tutorials on web development

So I have been reading a lot of books on web development and have made more than a few dynamic websites. Now, I want to create tutorials for people just like all the many free tutorials on internet and youtube. Since I learned only from books and online tutorials, I am afraid I might use some of their code or at least their method of making something. So what are the rules in this? Any place you know where I can get some advice on this? Thank you.


How can this be considered as web spam?

One of our websites has suffered ongoing manual action by Google due to a high volume of unnatural links. This was somewhat justified as an SEO company we hired in 2005 submitted our site to numerous link farms and low quality sites. We're now trying to cleanup this mess and have so far submitted around 8 reconsideration requests after disavowing tons of domains. The problem is Google are still kicking back our reconsideration requests and the last URL they highlighted was this one. http://cutesoft.net/forums/post/8567.aspx I really can't see how this falls into the category of web spam? CuteSoft is a well known WYSIWYG HTML editor. Is it really a crime to put a link in a forum signature? If so most forums should be classed as spam. This was a genuine post I made years ago seeking help on a particular subject relating to the software. I just can't workout the logic behind what they determine as spam anymore!? **EDIT** I can only conclude that Google are far more advanced in detecting the subtleties of stuffing keywords in anchor text than I possibly imagined! I'd love to know how Google are generating their reconsideration responses, if they know all the pages that contain spammy links why can't they just ignore them in their algos? They've already pushed our position for various keywords off the first 10 pages. So cleaning up these keyword based links almost seems like a pointless exercises!? Also some reconsideration responses contained links with our company name in so really I am none the wiser?? Their criteria most go beyond simple keywords stuffing!


When selecting the language of a web page solely with content negotiation, will a search engine ever see different languages?

I've done a simple, small site which basically only consists of a single page. Simplicity and no clutter are very intentional here and (imho) work quite well for this from a UX standpoint. Now I'm thinking of translating what little content there is in different languages. To stick with the no clutter rule I thought about doing this only with content negotiation without even having different URIs for different languages. For the user that probably works best as they get their language without needing to configure anything but their browser, but I worry about search engines. I guess it's not likely that Google, Bing, etc. crawl a site with various different language preferences, meaning that the translated content won't get picked up by them and thus not appear in regional search results. So do I have to include links for different languages on the page or is there another way for this?


Is it ok to have an Adsense ad in each post, showing full view?

I have searched online, and can't find a concrete answer, would this be breaching the Adsense rules? I have a Wordpress site with a youtube video custom post type. When a query is run, it will display all posts in full view, which is basically a youtube video, a few lines of text and hopefully an Adsense text ad at the bottom. I was then planning on having a couple ads on the sidebar. The problem is i'm not sure if that is breaking the Adsense rules, because the query will show multiple posts (more than 3). However, there isn't a "page" that would have more than 3 on it. Would the query results be a "page" and subject to 3 total ads?


How to make client side and server side communicate?

I have apache installed, and I would like (using php/and or javascript, html) to do the following but I do not know how.   1. To send my client to the server a value x   2. The server to increase x by one and to send it to client   3. Client divides it by two and sends it to server   4. server send the h((x+1)/2) back to client How I can do that?... I am confused as I do not know how to make a server and a browser to communicate. |However, I do not thing that it is very difficult... Thanks in advance


Configure apache to make local website available for external people

I would like to make my local website (running on a virtual CentOs machine) accessible for my mate who is also working on the website. I have created a new line in my router config to forward all requests on port 8080 to my centos machine. I've setup apache to listen on port 8080 as my ISP blocks port 80. I've setup my VHosts to use port 8080. When my mate now tries to go to http://my_external_ip:8080, he can see my apache welcome page. I've asked him to enter this in his hosts file. my_external_ip www.my_local_domain_name.com When he types that url into his browser, the site doesn't load. What could this be?


Google AdWords claiming my site has an "existing compromise that prevents referrer URLs from successfully visiting the site through an ad"

Here's the email I just received from Google about why they won't turn on my AdWords account after my hosting provider had DNS issues which caused AdWords to believe the site was compromised by malware: > The destination URL: http://www.mysite.com/page is returning a 404 error > when our systems scan it via an ad click. This indicates that the site's > server likely has an existing compromise that prevents referer URLs from > successfully visiting the site through an ad. Please note that the URL may > still work when directly visited in a browser since the referer URL is a > completely different setting. Is this actually possible? There's no other way to reach the page other than using the URL to it. I thought a referrer URL is in the header of the HTTP request, and simply stored the URL of the page you were just at. Are they saying that there's some kind of malware on my site that's filtering requests based on the value of the referrer URL? Have any of your ever had this problem?


Are there any Google's Products / Services, where I can ask for refund, if a person is not satisfied? I want to use google services as I feel, google is required for running any business?


Amazon s3 webmaster privacy

If I am hosting a site on Amazon Web Services, how easy is it for someone to work out that I'm behind it, for example if it's a controversial campaign issue. WHOIS privacy with the domain registrar gives some degree of protection, but I wonder if a sleuth could trace the administrator of S3 buckets. And are there any measures I can take to avoid this, to achieve some level of anonymity?


Does loading images from a server that disallows robots affect SEO?

Lets say a page on `example.com` has all of its images coming from `img.example.com`:               <img src="http://img.example.com/keyword.jpg" alt="keyword"/>      while `robots.txt` on `img.example.com` disallows crawling:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Would this make such images contribute less to a keyword value comparing to images from allowed domains? I would guess so, because google probably would want to crawl an image url to see if anyone is using it on other sites, or if it even exists.


What are some good pages to redirect users to if they are using an old browser?

Such as this one: http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade except it's just awful and is way out of date (use Netscape 7? really?) I am going to require IE9+ and the latest versions of the rest of the browsers. Thanks.


Do I need a working DNS server to resolve another DNS server

I suspect this question might be more suitable to networking stack exchange but I didnt find any such site, so this seemed like the best place to ask it. I recently moved back to my native country and though the internet speeds here are tolerable, often the DNS server of the local ISP exchange goes down leaving me without internet for a couple of days or so. I was wondering if I could use the Google DNS or OpenDNS to connect to the internet when the ISP DNS was down , but I was not sure I needed a working DNS server in my local ISP to resolve the Google DNS Please migrate or close this question if you feel its in the wrong section.