List of all URI elements for a website

Does anyone know a good way of getting a list of all the URI elements for a website? I plan on moving a website to a new CMS and would like to setup some 301 redirects for articles, images, css, and js files that will be moved to a new location. I'm looking for somewhat of a "site sucker" application that creates a list of URI elements for a website, instead of downloading them.


Poor backlink profile - search rankings not updated for 2+ months

I am carrying out some work on a website that is a PR2 with a few good quality, relevant backlinks (PR4-6). It has a presence on Twitter that is updated regularly, a Google Places listing, and listings on some decent directories (Qype etc). The site was rebuilt into Drupal 7 two months ago, with all the basics done - URL rewriting, XML Sitemap submitted to Google, and most importantly, good quality, structured content. I've noticed that Google is still showing "old" URL's from the previous version of the site that was ditched 8 weeks ago. I think the site may be penalised under the Penguin update, as a previous SEO company created many low quality links from link farms/directories. My question is what the correct way to deal with this is. Bing Webmaster Tools can "disavow" links, and I guess I can attempt to contact the link farms to have them removed. I've already submitted a request to Google to request that we have the penalty removed as we're trying to tidy up a bad history. We submit updated sitemaps to Google and Bing daily, and have built some further decent quality, relevant links. Is there anything further I can do?


which status to put for temporarily inactive page

I was wondering if someone could help me how to manage temporarily inactive website in regards of SEO and search engine. the case is i managed a big ecommerce site, and sometime i need to put down page(s). could be days, could be weeks, could be months, and it depends on our vendor. if my visitors land on the page that been temporarily inactive then i can give them a message that the vendor they looking for is not available at this time and he can check back later OR check another vendor with similar products, but how do i send my message to search engine robots? if i use 301 status and forward URL page to another similar products, then the chance that the current URL being deindex is huge while i still want to use that URL for the future if my vendor want to re-join. any advise will highly appriciated


Multiple top level domains - should I redirect/rewrite or leave them?

I have a website which has many top level domains e.g.   * mywebsite.com   * mywebsite.org   * mywebsite.co.uk   * mywebsite.org.uk The website is advertised as `mywebsite.org.uk`. But I expect lots of people will type `mywebsite.com` or `mywebsite.org` because its more familiar/easier. I could just leave the url alone or I could redirect visitors to the "correct" `mywebsite.org.uk` domain. Is there any guidance on what I should do?


SEO to avoid possible duplicate content

My website is about bands and musicians, but I have two problems with it: 1.) A musician can create a profile and add his bio. Bands can also create a profile and add band members and their bio. Many musicians are members of several bands, so I will have the bios of them repeated on several pages of my website. Any idea how to control this since the site will be populated and controlled more or less by its users? Here's an example: A band has 10 members and will create a "band" profile. Lets say half of the band members will create their own profiles, while half don't care and will never do this, or they have it on some other website and won't bother doing it again on my website. 2.) If musicians will have bios on my website, there is also a (huge) possibility that they also have their own website with the same bio that will just be copy-pasted, or have the same bio on MySpace and similar websites, which will again result in duplicate content. If I disable the option for users to add their bios, then the whole concept of the website doesn't make sense.


convert pdf to jpeg on linux?

Sometimes clients email me a poster which they received from a graphic designer in pdf format that they want added to the site. I have generally told them to ask the designer to export it in jpeg format. This has been working out OK, but is there any easier option? The only other way I have figured out is to do a screen shot of the pdf and then crop it using gimp, but that's kind of time consuming.


chmod 700 and htaccess deny from all enough?

I would like to protect a public directory from public view. None of the files will ever be viewed online. I chmoded the directory to 700 and created an htaccess file that has "deny from all" inside it. Is this enough security or can a hacker still gain access to the files? I know some people will say that hackers can get into anything, but I just want to make sure that there isn't anything else I can do to make it harder to hack. Reply: I am asking if chmod 700 and deny from all is enough security alone to prevent hackers from getting my files. Thanks.


Image Composition Services for Ecommerce

I'm researching the market for image composition services for ecommerce software. Systems that will manage high resolution images for product variations (multiple colors, different text/logo on the same image of a lady, etc.) Specific questions.   * Scene7 seems to be the leader in this space. Are there lower cost alternatives to Scene7?   * What sort of costs **can** I expect for this kind of hosted service? Scene7 doesn't list prices, which leads me to believe they have metrics to size up each client and maximize profits.    * Outside of the software as a service market, are their open-source and/or commercial self hosted solutions?   * Not necessary, but any services with out of the box Magento integration jump to the front of the line.


Visitors with at least 1 event click? (Visits with Events)

I might be getting a bit too lost in the metrics to realize that I already have the numbers I'm looking for, but I'm trying to figure out how to report the number of unique visitors who visited a page that interacted with a specific element and caused an 'event click' on a page (So # of visitors who caused an event). I currently have a dashboard set up with a widget that reports, in a table, the number of Unique Visitors by Event Category. However if there are multiple labels ('Next', 'Back', 'More Info') are the multiple labels messing with the visitor number that Analytics is reporting? So say we have a slideshow on our page (along with some other content); I just want to see the number of 'Unique Visitors' that clicked ANYTHING on that slideshow. So Person A clicks 'Next' - that registers are 1 unique visit. Person B clicks 'Next', 'Back', and 'More' - so now we're up to two Unique visits. Person C visits the page but doesn't click anything, so we're still at 2 unique visits. I...might already have this down with my widget...but the metrics are seriously scrambling my brains. Any advice?


Is trailing slash automagically added on click of home page URL in browser?

I am asking this because whenever I mouseover a link to a home page (e.g. http://www.example.com), I notice that a trailing slash is always added (as observed on the status bar of the browser) whether the home page link contains a href attribute that ends with a slash or not. But whenever I am on the home page, the URL on display will not have a trailing slash. I tried entering a slash to the URL in the URL bar. And with Firebug enabled, I notice that the site always return a 200 OK status. An article here discussing this states that having a slash at the end will avoid a 301 redirection. But I am not seeing any redirection, even on this page. Could this be a browser feature that is appending the slash?


What is the screen size used by Google's PageSpeed Insights for mobile previews?

Google's PageSpeed Insights allows one to check a website's speed issues for both desktop and smartphone devices. I have some media query CSS for smartphones on my website, but I am unsure about PageSpeed's smartphone screen size. Does anyone know the screen width?


Which is better jplayer or jwplayer?

I need to make a video slideshow( slides to contain embedded video players and must play mp4 files), and I am kind of confused what would be the best free solution I can use? jplayer and jwplayer both seem good, but I can't find any comparisons between them, so I want some expert opinions and user experiences on these two. Also if there are any other free and open source solutions you can recommend, i am all ears ;) My requirements are: The player must be html5 with fallback to flash. Should support mp4 files as well as flv. Should also have the ability to double as an audio player(mp3) along with video capabilities. Should be lightweight and customizable easily in terms of looks.


Publishing a web application with Linode

I just purchased and set up a Linode VPS. Normally I purchase a new domain name and set it up with my hosting but on Linode didn't ask for that. What I have to do to publish my web application to Linode?


Why does internet explorer want to preload these 2 linked html pages?

After running a WebPagetest.org for one of the pages of our website, I noticed - because of the red marked http file not found errors - that Internet Explorer (IE) wants to preload two html pages after the last javascript has been loaded. Not all linked html pages are being preloaded by IE. The undesired page preloading happens with both IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10. The links are encapsulated within a `li` tag, to be precise the path is: `html > body > ul > li > a` . I can't prevent this unwanted IE page pre-loading by adding a `rel="nofollow"` to the link: http://crashplan.probackup.nl/bugs/ie-link-will-preload- page/a-rel-nofollow2.en.html and an IE8 test result. Why does Internet Explorer want to preload these specific linked html pages in the first place, and how to prevent this undesired preload?


Remote desktop to Ubuntu

I have a VPS server running Ubuntu OS and also have shell access to my server. I wonder is there any way to connect to Ubuntu desktop and see its UI from windows using remote desktop tools such as TeamViewer or what ever apps? Is that possible or I have to deal with my server using just command line?


What is wrong with this Apache httpd.conf file for vhosts?

**What is wrong here?**               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName www.apples.co.uk     DocumentRoot /var/www/apples.co.uk     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.apples\.co\.uk$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.apples.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName www.bananas.co.uk     DocumentRoot /var/www/bananas.co.uk     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.bananas\.co\.uk$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.bananas.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]     </VirtualHost>      **Problems:**   * `apples.co.uk` does correctly redirect to `www.apples.co.uk`, but `bananas.co.uk` redirects to `www.apples.co.uk`.   * When either `apples.co.uk`or `bananas.co.uk` redirects, the address bar results with `http://www.apples.co.uk//`. What is causing that extra slash at the end? Here the output of `apachectl -S` :               [Sun Jul 31 08:41:52 2011] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts     VirtualHost configuration:     wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:     *:80                   is a NameVirtualHost              default server www.apples.co.uk (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:3)              port 80 namevhost www.apples.co.uk (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:3)              port 80 namevhost www.bananas.co.uk (/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:11)              port 80 namevhost servername.apples.co.uk (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:1)     Syntax OK      I guess the first problem is caused by the `default server` setting. How do I remove that? Does there need to be a default? I know I also need to add to `sites-enabled` to get rid of the warning, but I'll leave that for another question.


JavaScript control of <audio> not working in Firefox, works in Chrome

<audio id="audioMusic" loop="loop">       <source src="/Music/behind_you.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />       <source src="/Music/behind_you.mp3" type="audio/mp3" />      </audio>     <script type="text/javascript">        var a = document.getElementById("audioMusic");        a.play();     </script>      **Problem / Question:** This, along with countless other ways of controlling audio via JavaScript, works fine in Chrome, it does not work in Firefox or IE. Why? How can it be changed? By the way: Yes, I know I can use the `autoplay` attribute, that's not what I am looking for because I need to be able to turn it on and off and adjust volume via JavaScript. Yes, I know that background music is annoying.


Web site analysis

I am looking for an opensource API for my existing website. The functionality that I am looking for is:   1. How many users visited the site in a particular interval of time?   2. What is the IP address the machine from where the request has come?   3. Which region/country/City the user belong to?   4. Which operating system that he is using?   5. Which browser has he used for sending the request? What are my options?


What would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted

I am thinking to transfer all my domains to one registerer so that the control will be easy. But I am a little bit worried about the following question: what would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted?


Why can't Internet Explorer render this page correctly?

I've been pulling my hair out but can't figure out why my page looks like a huge mess in IE9, but Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari works great. My website is here: http://173.244.195.179/test-o.html Could anyone tell me what I'm doing that isn't compatible with IE9?


Can a registrar ransom a domain name which has become popular?

I am slightly paranoid about my domain name I have. I think the site I am building could have potential and take off in the future. I am worried though if the people I registered the domain name with might try and extort more money off me or take away my domain name for themselves. I am guessing when Google first started out they must have bought their domain name through a registrar, so how did they get to keep a hold of it and make sure no one stole it from them or prevent the company they registered it with extorting more money from them? How much do you think Google pay to keep their domain name? Do you think its still the original price they paid back all those years ago? Do registrars do this? If so, what is the likelihood it could happen with my domain name? How can I protect my domain name? Who actually owns a domain name? Maybe I am just being paranoid but I would hate to see that when my domain needs renewal the cost jumps from $10 to like $1 million dollars etc.


How to manage and organize 'requests' for website updates from a variety of departments: To Do List

I am taking on the responsibility of managing two websites (Wordpress) for nonprofit societies. I receive multiple requests for mini-content changes from a variety of committees and departments. As a volunteer, I'm hoping to park these requests into a chart or to do list that I can then use to work through a slew of easy, one minute content changes all in one go. I considered creating an excel sheet for this, but then thought that the professionals on PW.SE might be able to point to a template or to-do-tracking system that is already done up and better thought out than what I could cob together. When it's time to work, I need to direct myself to the page that needs updating, input/upload the desired changes, and then check it off the list.


Is there an easy way to see amount of gzip compression in Chrome

I am busy checking how my webserver is doing gzip. I'm confident now that gzip is on as chrome shows the content-encoding: gzip header. Is there a easy way to see how much a file was compressed in the Chrome developer tools?


Google spam report, have they ever punished a bad site you reported?

You have reported a bad site on Google Webmaster Tools SPAM report. Assuming you are sure it was a bad site, **did you see Google punishing it or doing something after your report?** Thanks


Google Webmasters Verification Method

The Google-Bot seems to be hitting my site with the incorrect verification method. I have Google Webmasters set up to use a meta-tag for verification, but I am still receiving requests for the html file method (which result in 404s). Google Webmasters still shows my site as verified. Should I be worried about this? Could this be coming from another Google service? Should I switch to the html file method? Should I just use both? Here are the requests from the log just in case that's helpful.               66.249.85.2 - - [12/Aug/2010:08:56:04 -0700] "GET /googlea6bf195e901587d1.html HTTP/1.1" 404 124 - "Google-Site-Verification/1.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)"          66.249.71.118 - - [11/Aug/2010:05:40:57 -0700] "GET /googlea6bf195e901587d1.html HTTP/1.1" 404 124 - "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)"


What do you look at when viewing competitors websites?

BradB's post has me thinking about competitors websites, what do you look at, and how long do you spend doing it? I thinking along the lines of content (how much, how well written), site structure, SEO techniques.


Why is App Pool Identity not created until first request is received?

I work for a software company and regularly deploy our web applications on our customers IIS boxes via an install wizard which was developed in-house. The install process by default creates a new App Pool for the application to run under, which is itself creates/is run under a default IIS App Pool Identity. The final step of the installer is to grant permissions on certain folders to the IIS App Pool Identity. Recently I've been working in a new customers environment and every time I do a new install this final step fails, as the App Pool Identity doesn't exist. I've found that browsing to the web app and rerunning the installer works as the Identity is created when the first web request is received. Why is this? This is unusual behaviour in my experience. I'm guessing this is something related to domain policy but haven't been able to find anything on the subject. As mentioned I can work around it but it would save time if I could get this changed and more importantly, I assume this is deliberate and want to know why! This is Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. (I hope I've got my terminology right).


Creating a facebook page with your domain name

I want to create a facebook page that has my domain name like this : http://www.facebook.com/TrimHold But I can't find the way. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks.


Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name?

Both in terms of `SEO` and user friendliness, is it better to put hyphens in a multi-words domain name or not ? For example, is `www.stackoverflow.com` better than `www.stack-overflow.com` ?


Should I include dash in domain name?

Willing to buy a new domain name, I wonder if it worths in SEO terms by including a keyword with a dash or it would be better avoid dashes? Without a dash, it can be unreadable. See below:               www.psychologist-smith.com     or     www.psycologistsmith.com     or     www.smith.com


Best SEO URL name for two word searches

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name? QUESTION: What would work better for a two word search string as "green shoes"? Acquiring the domain greenshoes.com OR domain green-shoes.com? Or another? Any other tips on how to score high with two word searches Help appreciated!


which domain is better for SEO purpose?

i'm building a website to convert PSD files to PNG and i have two options to choose a domain:   1. convert-psdtopng.com   2. convertpsdpng.com I need the word convert to be there too. Which one do you think is better to rank on "convert psd to png" keyword? Thanks!


Do you think that adding a dash (-) in domain names would impact in SEO?

For example, do you think that google and other search engines make a difference when one domain name is like www.siteaboutsoccer.com and other named www.site-about-soccer.com ? Is it better to separate the keywords ?


Using a hyphen in the domain name

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I am looking to buy a domain where the obvious choices have already been purchased. Example: `domaintest.com` or `domaintest.co.uk` So, I am looking to mix things up a little with a hyphen. Example: `domain-test.com` or `domain-test.co.uk` I have been looking around the web & stack to get a solid picture of why or why not to use hyphens in the domain and am a little confused. The key factors for me are usability (can users remember the domain, can they type it easily on a phone etc..) and seo. Ian


SEO domain keyword adventage - alltogether.com or all-different-words.com?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ? I have heard that if someone searches for a term, and your domain name matches that term (e.g. stackexchange.com ranks well for "stack exchange"). If there are 2 (or more) words that you are targeting (e.g. "stack exchange"), do you get a better google keyword bonus if you make it alloneword or if you use hypens? e.g. If you want to target the search term "stack exchange", should you register stackexchange.com or stack-exchange.com ?


Domain Name has hyphens and exact match, should I change it?

The blog is currently a blogspot blog. Used part of the name of the real website that I got the idea to start a blog for. Time to get a registered domain for it, instead of the( name.blogspot.com )it is now I got itchy and bought a domain name that has 4 words and hyphens. Also, I believe it is an exact match domain. I see now that hyphens are possibly bad and so maybe are exact match domains. I am not sure if it is wise to use this new domain name or get a different one. Or, if I use this domain name should i just get it with no hyphens, just a run on of 4 words. A different alternative is to use the name of the site i originally started the blog for and add a couple words which I think would be exact matched domain. If I do that should I use hyphens or no hyphens. Summary, Use hyphens or not in domain with 4 words but the 3 word is actually the letter n such as cookies-n-creme for example. Or, use the real websites name plus the two word exact match meaning NAMEwordword.com If I go this route do i use hyphens or not. I hope you can understand this question. Hard for me to put it into typing. The reason it is exact match name is that it is actually descriptive of the blog and I haven't been able to come up with anything descriptive that isn't.


404 errors How to deal with a large number of broken internal links for SEO

I have recently updated my website. In fact I have completely rewritten it using wordpress. It was originally constructed using ASP. In the process, I have recycled a a large amount of my original website. This resulted in a large amount of broken links. Google webmaster tools report more than 30000 broken links and most of them are internal. These mainly result from there being reported links to urls not used anymore. That is links to scrapped, obsolete url from the previous version that does not exist any more. From SEO perspective I have read that if 404 errors are from internal links, it is best to delete the links. When I click on a broken link from the list displayed at health-> crawl errors, google shows me where this broken link appears at 'linked from' tab. When I click on links from 'linked from' , the purported broken link is not displayed on the 'linked from' page. That is the users of my website has no chance of trying to load this broken link. The broken link still shows up in page source. i.e. when i try view page source from chrome. The broken link is usually used in some javascript To clafiry, let www.myhomepage/broken_link be the broken link reported by google webmaster tools. The google 'linked from' tab shows that this url was linked from www.myhomepage/some_other_page. When I view the page source, the broken link is usually in [script type="text/javascript"]var _bpfbRootUrl="www.myhomepage/broken_link";[/script] Again, i read that it is advisable to just delete internal broken links, but there are just so many of them and it would be very time consuming to manually delete each and every of them. What would be the best way to deal with this situation? I would like to avoid using custom 404 page. 302 does not seem like an option either, parsing url using regular expression to not redirect valid pages seem very complicated too Google webmaster tools report that index on my page had been sharply declining since it was rewritten with wordpress and dropped to 10% of original. Thank You.


What is the reason for this site's sudden drop in traffic?

My one site's traffic has dropped in single day from around 4000 to 800 visitors. My other sites are getting normal visitor count. I'm not using any blackhat techniques nor trading links or having a bad neighbourhood or any copied materies. But yes it's a pdf documents download site with bounce rate of 32% and 3.5 pageviews per person. No issues reported in Google webmastertools. I find that for the relevant keywords my site has been pushed far way in Google. What could be the reason? **EDIT** I've uploaded two updated reports( webmaster top keywords and analytics 1 month graph). ![google analytics 1 month graph till yesterday\)28th\)](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fwmLw.jpg) * * * * * * ![Today's updated webmaster's top queries report from 22nd-26th\(Monday\)](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tg1Qs.jpg)


How do I "bind" social networks account to my blog?

My girlfriend has a WordPress blog for a while now, but when we check tools like websiteworth or woorank, it tells us that she has no twitter or G+ account, which is false. Is there a way to "bind" her social network accounts with her blog ?


Migrating a national website to an international version

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this.   I have a Persian web service (online diaries): 31shab.com and it's been operating successfully for a year, and we've decided to create an international version of this and rebrand it to 31nights (meaning of 31shab in English). So I registered the domain 31nights.com and I want it to be multilingual. So I need to know whats the best way to do this migration successfully.   * I want to move 31shab.com to 31nights.com/fa/ permanently (fa means Persian) in a way that doesn't ruin my SEO and Google ranking, etc.   * What's the best way to structure languages? folders or subdomains or ... ? Thanks in advance and sorry for my English.


How can i replicated this functionality?

http://www.astorandblack.com/ab/bespokevisualizer/ (click on "continue as guest") A client wants this "bespoke visualizer" on their site. Is there a third party plugin I can buy for this? It can be in Flash and/or JavaScript, it doesn't matter. Also, if there's no third-party plugin that's similar to this web app, then how could I code this from scratch? Thanks, Steven


Does editing a Wordpress Theme from scratch affect SEO?

I'm a web designer and I'd like to make a custom wordpress theme for my upcoming blog. The template is already made in photoshop but I need a good starting point. I don't have too much experience with Wordpress but I want something that is SEO friendly which I can edit without risking getting poor search results. I Know about Starkers and that there are other blank themes out there, but are they good for SEO?


Unique Visitor count increases when pages are excluded

For a date range greater than one day the total number of Unique Visitors is greater when I exclude pages ending in "foo" than when I look at all pages. The difference is ~4%. Why would this be happening? For daily totals of Unique Visitors the difference disappears and there are slightly fewer Unique Visitors when I exclude pages ending in "foo". Related to this, What is the difference in applying this through Advanced Segments vs. Filters? They both show subtly different answers. Cheers!


Can I view my PC localhost test site on my android tablet without uploading it?

I am working on a web site which is running on my PC via XAMPP. I want to test the site on my android tablet (galaxy tab) to make sure that the responsive design behaves that way it is designed to. I am wondering if there is a way to connect my tablet to my PC in a way that will allow me to view my localhost site on my tablet. This would allow me to fix bugs without having to upload every change.


Web assets and SEO - albums on WordPress

I'm told that it is considered good SEO practice to have multiple digital properties "around" a website. For example, Youtube, Flikr, Social Media pages etc. Fine. I have linked my website to my G+ page, for example. I'm about to upload an album to WordPress. The pictures exist on my G+ album. I was just going to download the pictures from G+ and them re-upload them to my WordPress Gallery. Is there any SEO value in displaying the album directly from G+, rather than downloading and uploading to WordPress? This is a specific example, but what about other digital assets like Youtube videos? What's best practice here? Does this "branch" of SEO, if it exists, have a name?


Local SEO Strategies

What are your strategies for local SEO? For example, if you had a web design company in Lincoln, Nebraska, what would you do for your website from an SEO perspective?


How should I improve my position in map listing?

I don't understand on how the map listing are displaying the results in Google SERP. Please see the below screenshot, I just want to improve my SEO on map listings, but I have no idea to work on this. Anyone have experience on this ? and also why it is not showing for all the keywords and also I noticed it displaying on some browsers and sometimes not on other browser. why this is happening ? > ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fJ39P.png)


Google SEO local ranking

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Local SEO Strategies The new feature on google search which uses local search (like users City), how do we make sure our website is hosted in other countries but content/location is specific city.


Client's website is not showing up as expected in Google local searches or maps

I'm working for a client who runs a wellness center. He has a website as well as a Google Places account for the business. The Google Places account has a lot of tags associated with it that are relevant to the offerings from the center, and yet it doesn't show up on Google maps or in the local search results for really obvious searches like "massage [name of city]". I don't have access to the Google Places account yet, but I'm wondering if there's any way to check to see if there's some obvious problem with how things are set up. I can include the link to the website/Google Places pages. I didn't want to do that right away in case it wasn't allowed. Thanks in advance for any help! It doesn't seem to me like this question is a duplicate of the one indicated. In this case there **is** a Google Places account, but it's not showing up in the local search results or anywhere on the map for anything other than the name of the wellness center itself. If this Google Place account isn't working properly, would it be advisable to create a new one for the same location, re- verify with google, mark the old one for deletion and then hope the new one works better? Are there any obvious configuration issues I should look for that might explain why this center doesn't even show up on the map for a search of "[name of first listed category] [name of city]"? I have worked with Google Places before and never encountered this type of problem.


SEO for multiple counties and cities

I wanted to know the best practices for improving our SEO for service areas. We have a central office but cover all of Northern Virginia for our Web Design services and are currently only ranking in the areas surrounding our office address. How can I improve our SEO for multiple cities and counties? I appreciate the advice! Thank you


I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer. I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway:   1. The average website intends to reach the higher audience possible.   2. User generated content by comments is an efficient way of increasing the relevance and the valuable information of the average website.   3. Indexing comments will make any site attractive to spammers.   4. Indexing comments is more convenient for new/low-traffic websites than it is for old/high-traffic websites.   5. The web in general is currently choosing not to index comments in the average website because of fear to the SPAMMERS.   6. The average author of a content-valuable comment would like his comment to be indexed   7. Not indexing comments discourages the creation of content-valuable comments. So, what do you think finally? Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments? Why?


Hidden page, but still crawlable?

Is it possible to hide a page from users, but still have search engines crawl the content? I have RSS feeds which are really messy and don't fit my theme, but they have content that I would benefit from having crawled.


How to prevent copying of the image folder of your website

How to Prevent copying of the original image folder when the entire website is being copied. Also,what are the measures that should be taken to prevent guessing of the original images.


Change color of link on hover within Google Sites

How can you change the color of a link within Google Sites when the mouse hovers over the link?


Is there a way or tool to search or know, how many results does google fetch and display with lots of keywords? I intend to know, how many relevant searches does google display but with thousand of keyword. Actually, I am researching on the competition on various keywords. If there is a tool or a quick way, other than going to google and typing and then entering the keywords.


Users narrowing window on desktop to see mobile version?

I know this is going to seem like a strange question, but are their any stats on users narrowing their browser window so that media queries kick in and display the mobile optimised version of the site? We're about to mobile optimise our website. As we haven't done this we cant use our analytics to answer this question.


Will having a section that aggregates news from another site's RSS feeds get me penalized for SEO?

SEO newbie here, I have a news section on my front page that essentially reads off another sites feed (`example.com/feed/`) and posts direct links to each article back to that site. Pretty much a mini RSS reader with one subscription. Will I get penalizing for duplicate content even if I link back? My question is similar to this: Will content from my site's RSS feed that is published on other sites be considered duplicate content by search engines? only that it is the other way around.


Track page size of web app for performance

I'm about to start trialling optimisations on my web application (apache & tomcat). My main interest right now is:   * The total page size (including external js files such as jquery)   * The number of GETs per page I'd like to setup a systematic way of measuring the consequences of the various changes I make over time. Are there any tools that are useful for recording a sequence of page hits, playing this back (as I change the config) and record the size of each page ? Ideally I'd like something that can make work with a continuous integration server such as Continuum. Rgds, Kevin.


What should I consider when choosing a hosting provider?

I finished my website. It's awesome! How should I go about selecting a hosting provider? What features should I look for? What "got-chas" should I be aware of?


Adding direct advertisements to a mediawiki installation

I want to add sidebar ads to my mediawiki installation. I am planning on making direct advertisement deals, as opposed to using the built-in adsense/bidvertiser functionality. How do I put the ads in my sidebar?


How to block baidu spiders

Most of my visits are from baidu spiders. I don't think it helps search engines at all so I'm thinking of how to block them. Could this be done via iptables? I'm using nginx as my webserver.


What is a good WYSIWYG HTML Editor?

I've used Dreamweaver (albeit CS3 so I am a few versions back), but I am disappointed with the amount of invalid markup it produces. Are there other WYSIWYG editors out there that produce valid markup?


How should I structure a site with content dependent on visitor type (not user)?

I have a website that displays different content depending on two selections made by a visitor: Whether they are a teacher or student, and their learning level (from 4 options). Everything is public and they don't need to authenticate to access the content. Depending on their selection, different content is displayed across the whole site, other than a contact and about page. The tone of the language changes depending on whether the visitor is a student or teacher and the materials available on each page also change depending on the learning level, however in all cases, the structure of the site is identical. Currently I'm using a cookie to store the visitor's selections and render different content appropriately, so I have a single set of URLs which display different content depending on the cookie, with one of the permutations as default. I appreciate this is far from ideal, but what is the better option? Would I be better using a distinguishing segment for each selection, for example:               http://example.com/teacher/lv3/resources/activities     http://example.com/teacher/lv4/resources/activities     http://example.com/student/lv4/resources/activities     etc.      What is the most sensible way to handle this situation?


Cannot send email to Google Apps alias from PHP

I'm using Wordpress and sending email via Gmail SMTP:   * server: `smtp.gmail.com`   * port: `465` I created Google Apps main domain called `domain.com` and email `info@domain.com`. Then I registered domain aliases for `domain.com`. I have more different domains/sites: `domain1.com`, `domain2.com`. When I try to send email to `info@domain.com` from Wordpress site (e.g. `www.domain1.com`), it works. If I try to send email to any alias (e.g. `info@domain1.com` or `info@domain2.com`), it doesn't. I don't know why. For your information, if I try to send email from my Hotmail account it works, I can send to all aliases.


I have a joomla website installed and working good. i installed Qlue404 component which redirects 404 page to a custom page., sometimes when i try the symbols ' and some others the 404 page appears with the message "Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." also it shows the server information *Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.6 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at mywebsite.com Port 80* how can i disable this message? i swear this leads to get all information for a hacker to do an Sql Injection.


Sudden decrease in pages crawled per day

During the last few days, Googlebot has crawled much less page in my site than it normally does. I'm not seeing any new errors, and haven't identified a reason for this. Is such a hugh and sudden decrease a sign there is a problem? Can this be just a temporary thing? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xU3G2.png) **Update:** The `Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)` graph remained steady.


My cPanel login is being redirected. How can I resolve this?

I'm trying to get to cPanel to manage my website. When I type `www.mydomain.com:2082` into the browser window, the request seems to be redirected. I made a screen-cast so I could slow down the changes in the address bar. First it seems to go to               http://www.mydomain.com:2082/login      then               http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-sys/login.cgi      At this point, a screen briefly appears which says 'Login attempt failed' and then the address is redirected to `https://this22.thishost.com:2083/`, which is no relation to my site at all. This looks to me like there has been an attack on the system and the login.cgi file is compromised. Any suggestions on how to analyze this further? or fix it? Of course my 'free hosting' isn't any help at all.


Cannot logon to POP server on my VPS or recieve emails

I recently purchased an unmanaged VPS to host my business websites, however I am struggling to get the email accounts working as I have only ever had experience with shared hosting. The VPS is running CentOS and I have Webmin/Virtualmin installed. I have added my domain, which is lyke.org.uk, and that is working OK. However, when I've added a user and tried to access their email account using Apple Mail, I've been able to establish a SMTP connection but I've not been able to login using POP. Furthermore, I've set up squirrelmail and I can send an email to any email address from there but I haven't recieved any that I have sent to that email address from other accounts. I would very much appreciate any help or suggestions as I am completely new to VPS and web hosting without Plesk or cPanel.


A standard glyph map for using symbol / dingbat / icon fonts

I was wondering if there exists or should exist a standard glyph map for icon/symbol fonts. That way if you have a system/theme with thousands of sites running you could easily change styles of the glyphs by changing the font face. For example if I wanted to switch from www.fontspring.com/fonts/drew- wilson/pictos to somerandomdude.com/work/iconic/ a '4' would still represent a right hand arrow. I know there are various reasons for and against using symbol fonts. For my purposes this is a great solution and I have my own methods for dealing with screen readers etc. There is a great article and follow up discussion about this using this method here: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/dingbat_webfonts_accessibility_issues/ and there is a possible standards compliant method here: http://www.codestyle.org/css/at-font-face/StandardUnicodeIconsWebFonts.shtml


SEO Score and Ranking

Does a good SEO Score (over 90% for example) guaranties a better ranking on Google (or yahoo or others)?


How to remove 500 error?

I am getting 500 error "Internal Server Error" when I type in my domain. I called customer service and they said that my site has reached it maximum use of memory and therefore the cloud system generates this error. I have never heard of this before. What they said is I can get this error because of either higher:   1. Memory Usage   2. CPU Usage   3. MySQL usage They recommended to tweak the website and remove plugins etc to get rid of this error or upgrade. Things have not changed much here and we didn't do any major upgrade either. What should I tweak if any? Has anyone come across such error. We are hosting with lunarpages and using PHP 4.7 (it is an older site). Would upgrading to PHP 5.3 fix things? Interestingly if I go to `mydomain.com/index.php` it works.


multiple domains for one site

I'm maintaining a website of a lodge which has a golf course, a spa and a restaurant and they all have seperate urls. Now, the main Lodge page contains all the content and for now, the other URLs just forward to the specific pages e.g. spa.com forwards to www.lodge.com/spa. Now I assume that this is not the optimal way to make use of these additional domains... now, how do I best go about this? I thought about linking from within my lodge.com page to spa.com as soon as people click on the spa link but then again if someone looks for a lodge with spa e.g. it would rank lower as the spa would appear to be seperate from the lodge... how do i best go about this?


Tabbed-Menu where tabs Change Color?

I need a tabbed-menu template where the tabbed menu for the present page **changes color**. If possible, it should play nicely with browser that don't have JavaScript enabled. Other then the tabs, I prefer a simple blank page without complicated CSS.


How can I add my website to DMOZ?

I have a new website that I tried to list in DMOZ, but as of now it's still not listed. Please tell me what I have to do so that my website will get listed in DMOZ.


Does the google crawler really guess URL patterns and index pages that were never linked against?

I'm experiencing problems with indexed pages which were (probably) never linked to. Here's the setup:   1. **Data-Server** : Application with RESTful interface which provides the data   2. **Website A** : Provides the data of (1) at http://website-a.example.com/?id=RESOURCE_ID   3. **Website B** : Provides the data of (1) at http://website-b.example.com/?id=OTHER_RESOURCE_ID So the whole, non-private data is stored on (1) and the websites (2) and (3) can fetch and display this data, which is a representation of the data with additional cross-linking between those. In fact, the URL /?id=1 of website-a points to the same resource as /?id=1 of website-b. However, the resource id:1 is useless at website-b. **Unfortunately, the google index for website-b now contains several links of resources belonging to website-a and vice versa.** I "heard" that the google crawler tries to determine the URL-pattern (which makes sense for deciding which page should go into the index and which not) and furthermore guesses other URLs by trying different values (like "I know that id 1 exists, let's try 2, 3, 4, ..."). Is there any evidence that the google crawler really behaves that way (which I doubt). My guess is that the google crawler submitted a HTML-Form and somehow got links to those unwanted resources. I found some similar posted questions about that, including "Google webmaster central: indexing and posting false pages" [link removed] however, none of those pages give an evidence.


Do private collaboration platform really need private file access?

I need to make private collaboration platform, where the website is not open to public registration, and all the posts is only accessible by the members. The members is management team of a company. Along with many features, it has Announcement. When posting Announcement, it has option to upload images. I personally like it public, because the file transfer faster and can be easily integrated with CDN. I just wonder whether I need to make the image public, or only accessible by the members.


Can I improve my AdWords quality scores with better landing pages?

I noticed that I have some keywords in my AdWords that are totally applicable to my site but the quality score of the keyword is 4 or 5. I'd like to get it up higher by creating custom versions of my site's home page (landing page) targeted specifically for people searching on those keywords. So for example, if we pretend my site sells pet food, my current home page has the phrase "dog food." I have a specific AdWords campaign for people searching on cat food (with cat food-specific ads). I'm thinking about changing the URL on those ads to something like http://mysite.com/cat.html, so a different home page comes up with the phrase "cat food." My thinking is that will help Google see that this new landing page is appropriate for the keywords and will raise my quality score for the "cat food" keywords. (Note that none of what I'm doing is shady or misleading; nobody would disagree that all of the keywords and ads I've created are perfect and appropriate for what my site offers.) Question: is what I describe the correct way to raise poor quality scores on keywords, and will it help?


Cache website via CDN for visitors, not for users

I'm not sure what this is called. For example, if you're logged out of Reddit, you see a cached, static version of the site from the CDN. When you're logged in, you don't hit the CDN and instead directly to Reddit's servers. What is this called? Which CDNs provide this service?


Problem with displaying images on Facebook from my wordpress

When posting link to my wordpress geekgirlscarrots.pl on Facebook, thumbnail images don't display at all. I've put at header the following code:               <meta name="title" content="Geek Girls Carrots" />     <meta name="description" content="Visit our site! Come to our meetings!" />     <link rel="image_src" type="image/jpeg" href="http://geekgirlscarrots.pl/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1GGC_for_web_logo.jpg"/>      but it doesn't work. If anyone could help me?


How do you use 'site:' to search Google for just the domain without all the other subdomains appearing?

When I use the `site:` operator to search for domains, it returns all the other matched subdomains as well. However, I only want to see what's indexed for the main site. For example: `site:google.com` returns result of `abc.google.com` as well, but I only want to see what's on `google.com` I don't want to use `site:google.com -site:abc.google.com` since I don't want to enumerate through all the other subdomains. Is there a way to do "exact" match with the `site:` operator?


I have verified my domain through a TXT record by google, however, my site hasn't indexed yet and I face with sitemap errors in google webmaster tool. I run dns health check from http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/ ,and everything seems ok. But as you can see from the snapshot below webmaster gives `General HTTP error: Domain name not found` error. I will appreciate for any help and thanks anwyway. EDIT: My site is buraktas.com ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lU8nw.png)


Google wont apply adsense policies for session based websites and Ajax loaded sites?

I have seen so many websites (Mostly User generated content - Getting contents from Third party API's) still displaying Adult like contents (with images) but still they are running well with Google Adsense without any issues. Below is url that displays the Adult contents (you can view only if you logged into the Instagram.) http://www.gramfeed.com/instagram/635186136754514912_477290089 I wont say this is a bad or Adult site. Because of user generated content, the page contains Adult content (Even you can see the F..k word too). But they are displaying Google ads. My Questions here is, If a website main content loaded via Ajax (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer). So Google adsense or Google can not able to find violation in the page. Is this correct? If a website displays main content only by visitor login (but not the Advertisement, Header and Footer), So Google crawler can not able to find violation in the page. Am i right in the above points?


Best Single-Sign-On practices for large organization

I'm currently working on several IT projects for a large organization (100k+ members). I'm thinking on providing some kind of unification and integration of all websites that I'm designing. So my question is, what are the best practices for such integration? I'm using mainly two `php`-based engines: WordPress and Q2A What I would like to achieve:   * Provide Single-Sign-On (SSO) for all websites managed by me.   * Exchange information between pages, something like user's top-bar on StackExchange   * Provide a SSO plugin for WordPress (there is a lot of sub-organizations in this organization, most of them have simple WordPress based webpages; I would like to provide them with a plugin that allows loging by the users via unified SSO). So what are the best practices? Is the SSO mechanism itself powerfull enough to achieve that or should I look for some modification of it?


How does Google treat multiple page title matches from same site?

I have several non-duplicate page titles that match a search query, say for the query 'stackexchange':               <title>John Smith Popular Content</title>     <title>John Smith Audience</title>     <title>John Smith Friends</title>     <title>John Smith Analysis</title>      I assume Google probably displays the most page-ranked page that matches the query, but does Google also take into account that this `page1` links to `page2`and `page3` which also have the search query in the title and therefore gives `page1` a better rank because my site also containts `page2` and `page3` about `searchterm`? The reasons I'm asking is because I'm trying to improve my rankings for SE queries such as `stackexchange`, and considering loading `page1` / `page2` / ... through JS while keeping the same URL. I assume this would mean Google won't even know what content `page2` has, so trying to understand his handling of multiple matches from same site better.


How to redirect a website from a folder to the root folder?

I was running a website on a folder (www.example.com/folder). The new version of the website is live and runs on the root folder. How should I redirect users who visit the website using the old URLs (either because they bookmarked it or through search engines)? And in the long term, can I 'clean' the search engines results by removing the old links that show up?


Do web hosting companies allow server-side scripts to make external data requests?

I'm currently ready to deploy an asp.net website and looking at web hosting companies. The C# code behind periodically uses `HttpWebRequest` to pull data from an external website to insert into a SQL database. This is only a server script and clients won't have any affect on when or how it runs. This my first time deploying a site, so my question is.... do web hosting companies allow external http requests? Is there anything specific I should be looking for to ensure this will work when deployed?


What meta/link html tags important for seo?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond What are meta tags important for seo? Especially for blogs. I often find something new, maybe you will correct me and add something else?               meta name = description - description of page     http-equiv = Content-Language content = "ru" - language of page     http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text / html; charset = utf-8"     rel = "alternate" type = "application / rss + xml" - Link for RSS-chanel      Another thing I remembered but had forgotten indication nofollow / follow, index / noindex on the page. Somebody remind me? I also saw a Wordpress rel = next / previous page is important for SEO? Something else that I do not have?


How do I force a www subdomain on both HTTPS and HTTP?

For whatever reason I can’t seem to get this right. I’ve looked at many examples on here and on the Apache website. I’m trying to force `www.example.com` instead of example.com on **both** HTTP **and** HTTPS, but I am not trying to force use of HTTPS instead of HTTP. The following code seems to work for all HTTPS connections, but will not cause a redirect for HTTP connections.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ https://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]


What happens to my website when domain name expires

I am new to this. Someone just created my website for me for free, and all I did was to pay for the domain and hosting. My website is new with just around 4 posts. I cannot complete it because I am not knowledgeable enough and I don't have much time. Also the person who I paid to complete it didn't show up. I decided to let my domain name expire, but now I found out that anyone can sell their domain name or website. Can I sell my domain name, and what will happen to my website or the contents therein? If I sell my domain, does that mean the ownership of my website and its contents there are also transferred to the person?


What's the difference between nofollow and canonical?

I'm confused about the difference between `rel="nofollow"` and `rel="canonical"`. I currently use nofollow for any links that I do not want followed (for example rubbish content but small importance) and I use canonical for duplicate content (for example: `http://example.com/price.php- sortby=price` vs `http://example.com/price.php-sortby=alphabetic`). Maybe I'm using these wrong. I need good advice on what's the best way to use **nofollow** and **canonical** correctly.


Upgrading phpBB2 to phpBB3: easy or difficult?

I recently took over a site which is mostly a phpBB version 2 forum for a niche audience, surrounded by a few fairly static pages written in PHP. Our forum user base is about 3000 users, with a hundred or so forum posts per month. We have modified a few of phpBB2's source code files from the standard issue. Now phpBB version 2 is no longer supported as of mid-2009, though alternate phpBB2 support communities exist. The current version is phpBB version 3. The outgoing webmaster said that they had decided against upgrading to to phpBB3 software because the expected it to be a difficult task with little feature benefit. What is the general experience with upgrading a phpBB2 site to phpBB3? Is the experience generally difficult, or generally easy? phpBB3 provides a conversion path for phpBB2 sites; how well does this work? Let's leave the question about the _benefits_ of upgrading to a separate discussion. Let's just talk about difficulty.


404 Not Found Errors -> Redirect

Hi i have recently moved my forum from Mybb to Vanilla, so the index pages such as showthread.php now do not exist. This is a big problem for SEO, what do I do to redirect this to the home page?


cPanel Distorted w/ 401 Error on CSS/Images

This is very strange behavior. My cPanel is looking very distorted when I log in from mydomain.com/cpanel but is fine if logged in through <server ip>/cpanel. When I use Chrome to check for errors I see some CSS and images are getting the 401 error. Below is a screenshot of my cPanel. I called tech support and they weren't able to answer my question and help me fix the situation! Not sure if CloudFlare has anything to do with it, but I did install it three days before this post was up. I went into CloudFlare and make sure cPanel is bypass. Distorted CPanel Bump! Will put out bounty soon!


SEO considerations for multilingual websites

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I'm developing a website that will be translated into two languages: English and French. I'm just wondering what the best practices for such a site would be when it comes to SEO? So far, the website has two root sub-directories, which means URLs look as follows:   * `http://www.example.com/en/home`   * `http://www.example.com/fr/accueil` And in my `<html>` tag I specify the page language using the `lang` attribute (depending on which sub-directory we're in, i.e. `<html lang="fr">`). Will this be enough for the site to rank and be indexed correctly in local versions of Google, i.e. English pages to achive the best ranking they can on google.co.uk and the French content to achieve the best rankings it can in google.fr?


Do GET variables have bad effects on a page?

I am developing my own site, and I want to add multilanguage to my site. My approach is to have a GET variable `lang=LANG` to handle different languages. So, my URLs will be as such:               mysite.com/index.php?lang=EN     mysite.com/index.php?lang=AR     ...      Do Google consider these as a single page? Do they have one PageRank? As I know "canonical" is a solution to such issue, but I read on this site that Google will still consider them as different pages. Here is what I found: seo and php get variables


Multiple Language Website and SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? Sorry, this post became a bit loquacious - but I haven't found any satisfactory answers on the web thus far. I've been developing a website for a while now, into which I've built support for multiple languages. All the terms, words and phrases are stored in a file in JSON format which is decoded and converted into an array. With this, it's easy to create the entire site in a different language. The website consists of 100% home-cooked code... no Wordpress, Drupal or any other framework, so none of the multi-language plugins for the aforementioned will work. To switch language, the user clicks a link at the top of the page (positioned at the top, in reality, it's at the bottom of the HTML structure). Each page of the site has this menu, whereby a query string parameter is added. `/hotels/index.html` becomes `/hotels/index.html?lang=fr`. The script sees the `lang` parameter, changes the user's cookie and loads the appropriate JSON file, and they are returned back to the same page they were on without the `lang` parameter. This has been a very convenient way to switch languages, as the user remains on the same page, and the links are exactly the same. I built it this way after another site that required multiple language support where SEO was not a priority (an internal company-only program). If a visitor comes to the site for the first time, the script looks at the `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANG` constant and loads the appropriate language and sets the cookie (instead of geo-locating, which takes longer, and I personally dislike - I live in Thailand, and even Google serves the Thai version even though I have my OS and browser in English). My question is - I'd eventually like Google and other SE's to index the site in these other languages, but without the `lang` attribute in the URL. If the user uses Google in French or Russian, they get served the site in French or Russian, respectively. Since the URL `/hotels/index.html` would have a version in English (default), French and Russian, but still having the same URL, I assume this is a problem for Google and other SE's. Can someone explain how Google indexes multiple-language sites setup in this manner? Would using a sub-domain work best to separate them? I do not wish to alter the way URL's are handled on the site, as I like to keep as few query strings as possible from being indexed. On another note, I accidentally opened the site for indexing with the language links, and somehow, the redirects did not work properly, and I have links such as `/something/index.html?lang=ru?lang=ru` indexed in Google. I've detected these in the script and placed a 301 redirect to remove these `lang` parameters... will these bad links be replaced with the redirected URL's in Google over time?


SEO problems with multilanguage site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I have recently started a CMS project in PHP, the site will be multilingual. Assumptions are as follows:   * 2 languages in the beginning (pl-pl, en-gb)   * language auto detection based on browser language   * for all other languages than the above, fallback is en-gb   * site will have links to change language, but they will be shown as AJAX / JS widget! I know from my experience that sometimes there are problems with correct Googlebot indexing for home page. My question is whether Googlebot is able to index both language versions of the website, and whether I should use subdomain (`en.webpage.com`) or PHP get (`webpage.com/index.php?lang=EN`) to see the best results.


URL strategy for multilingual website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I get search engines to crawl my site and see a localised view of > my data? I was wondering what would be the best URL strategy for a multilingual website (for an Italy based company). I was thinking about site.com/it and site.com/en, not showing any content at site.com and redirecting the visitors to the localized site when they try to access site.com. What about buying an additional domain, site.it, and then redirecting to site.com/it? Are these good ideas? If so, **regarding of SEO** , which are the best redirect methods for both site.com (to site.com/en or site.com/it) and the additional (if available) site.it (to site.com/it)?


Options for adjusting paragraphs?

On my company's website, we have a page (here) that I have been asked to adjust. What is desired is to take the first paragraph and adjust it to trim down the amount of space between words. My first thought was to make the paragraph (and then the rest of the page, to match) left aligned instead of justify. To me, however, this doesn't look very good. Are there any other options available for me to make this look good (or at least acceptable), or am I stuck with a left justify? Thanks. (P.S. I don't think these tags are the most appropriate, but I can't add ones I think work better. Oh, well.)


Keep a Servlet/JSP web site always on SSL?

How to I keep a site always on SSL with padlock symbol always exists. Is there any way to optimize the page for SSL in JSP and Servlets ? Just tell about jsp and servlet optimization so answer do not make long discussion


Will echoing content from a simple XML loaded with PHP cause the page to show up in search results (SEO)?

I want to know if I'm using PHP right to create search friendly content. I'd like my images to start showing up in Google for my website, so I'm passing an RSS feed to PHP file using the `simplexml_load_file` command and writing content to the page with `echo`s.               $rss = simplexml_load_file('~~RSSfeed~~');          foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {         echo  '<li>'. $item->description .'</li>';     }      Will displaying a list of images and text (there's other formatting and divs that I didn't include) make this content show up in search results?


Small AdWords campaigns with low budget

Having a Google AdWords campaign of a daily budget less than 10€ ($13, £8.5), I had these: **Setup 1**   * (1 campaign with 100% budget) x (3 ad groups) x (2 to 3 ads) = 40-60 clicks/day   * long list of keywords per ad group   * budget ends up being spent on the ad group with the highest traffic/competition **Setup 2**   * (3 campaigns with 1/3 of budget) x (3 ad groups) x (3 to 4 ads) = 20 clicks/day   * less keywords per ad group but more closely related to the ads' purpose and phrasing, which summed up match and extend the keyword lists of Setup1   * all around performance dropped and in some cases a lot (i.e. clicks) * * * **Questions** In specific to small campaigns, which I feel are not addressed as much by most guides I found around the web:   1. My assumption for the above is that the **main** reason for the drop in performance of Setup2 is the extremely low budget. Even though generic and simplistic, is this correct?   2. How can I best manage the budget, so that it is spent more universally or up to a specific limit for each ad group?   3. Finally, does anyone have any suggestions specific for campaigns of this level?


Server requirements for thousands of concurrent connections?

I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight into the approximate server requirements (CPU, RAM, etc) for thousands of concurrent connections to a small text file. The actual number of concurrent connections will vary, but it could be as high as 100,000 or more per second at times. The file that will be accessed is a very small text file (a few KB).


Content blocks on dedicated pages rather than listed on one page

I am doing a web site for a client. The descriptions for all his services are rather short and precise so I decided to put them all (about 10 of them) on one page and have a sticky menu in the sidebar for quick access to each of the services. I find that a very usable experience. And for mobile (through the responsive approach), swiping through the services is more convenient than navigating to each service on a dedicated page. But now an SEO guy comes in and tells me to put all services on dedicated pages, and the client then also has to transform all the about 60 words descriptions into 400 word descriptions, because Google demands 400 words to be on a page to be a page. I my opinion this is a major step back in regard of accessibility/usability. And stuffing the descriptions with 'nonsense' just for the sake of the presumed SEO advantages? I really don't think so. I am about to tell the client, that the SEO guy might not be right about that situation, but I am not sure, so who is right?


How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?

_This is a general, community wiki question to address all non-specific spam prevention questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * For purposes of this question, spam will include:   * Any automated post   * Manually-posted content which includes links to spammers' sites   * Manually-posted content which includes _instructions_ to visit a spammer's site


Stopping comment spam with links(need suggestion)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control? After bearing 1 year spammy comments with links in those in my 10 sites, finally I've disallowed comment posting with prefix of "http" or "https" ( with message that I'll add prefix http if needed). I'm happy with the results. But could it be hurting site or site visitors in any way? Any ideas?


Moderator with no power to fix spam bot issue

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I think this is the correct site to post this. So I'm a **moderator** (not administrator) on anddev.org and it's completely infested with spam bots, just as fast as I ban them, more post. I'm sure they can sign up faster than I can ban them. There is a two stage first post sign up validation that they have clearly got around. I'd also like to delete all posts by that user when they are banned. (which I can't see an option for) Is there anything I can do? _EDIT_ This was closed for the wrong reasons: **I'm just a moderator not an administrator** I can't do any of the things in that wikipost. I wanted to know what I can do as a Mod, or how I can find more options, or even what the software is I am moderating!


Major spam issue... CAPTCHAs and email verification aren't working

We have a user who claims to have a vendetta against our community. We run a fairly large social networking website, and for the past four or five weeks, this particular person (or maybe people?) has been spamming our largest discussion groups and personally attacking other members by leaving hateful comments and death threats on their pictures. We employ CAPTCHA and email verification on signup. We also have cross post analysis that catches users mass-posting a single thing to a lot of groups. It seems as if he has hundreds of legit emails (they're all gmail, hotmail, yahoo) and looking at our logs, it seems as though he's sitting there and legitimately solving these CAPTCHAs. For hours. Every single day. When he caught on to our cross post analysis, he started generating random titles and bodies to post. He'll hit a dozen of our top groups with those over and over again until we delete his user account or he gets banned by a moderator. His IPs change constantly. Many are Tor nodes, some are vanilla HTTP proxies. His user agents change for every new user he signups. Sometimes they're even "GoogleBot", which I thought was amusing. So my question is, are there best practices we could be following besides employing CAPTCHA and email verification? Ones geared towards an extremely motivated human generating spam?


PHP software to detect spam?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I'm looking for something like spam-assassin or similar, except it only focuses on the message rather than inspecting an entire email header. It doesn't even need to be really fancy, just do the classification of messages. In theory we could provide meta-data such as IP. I'm doing this because I want an feedback forum without authentication or recaptcha or having to put every email in the "pending" bin before it's published.


Tons of spam on phpBB even with recapcha enabled

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I am running a phpBB forum where the requirements were that users shouldn't have to sign up in order to post. They could just give a name and post as long as they used recapcha before posting. Problem is that there are like 30 pages of spam in some threads. The software is up to date. The forum gets very little legitimate traffic. If I can't fix this I will either have to require registration or remove the forum all together.


How to prevent common spam on a WordPress blog

Right from the day I installed WordPress on my site, I started getting spam comments/trackbacks. I have also prevented anonymous comments. I get the following email whenever a new spam is posted:                New trackback on the post `"<post name>"` is waiting for your approval     `<url>`          Website : jackettl36 (IP: 112.111.173.89 , 112.111.173.89)     URL    : <redact>     Trackback excerpt:     fake OAKLEY sunglasses...          ...      How to prevent such automated spam?


Recommended Spam Best Practices

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Are there any recommended admin tools or interfaces for reviewing and moderating spam on a community-driven UGC site?


Does anyone run a site with Pligg? What is the most effective way to stop spam sign ups?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Specifically trying to combat things like this! http://www.autopliggdotcom (didnt want to give them a link!)


Is there a way to control spam on a site where user contribution is allowed without accounts?

I am in the process of designing a database and accompanying website where users can submit local dance events. Part of the site will be the posting of new events but also the vetting of current events. Users will be able to flag event info as correct or incorrect, flag info for review, and mark an event as interested/attending. Is there a way I can mitigate the amount of noise and spam since the site will be public and not have accounts?


Free spam blocker service

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? Is it possible to get a free and good spam blocker for your website? I would really like to avoid having to serve CAPTCHAs to my site's users, but I don't want spam bots to be able to post links etc.


Spammers in my Magento blog comment section!

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? I have a blog extension installed on my Magento website. But I regularly receive spam comments on the blog. To help fight against automated and manual spam comments on the blog I have enabled a Captcha service. But even with the Captcha service running the site still receives spam, is there a more effective method to avoid spam?


Effective captcha solutions

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I prevent spam on sites which I control? ReCaptcha is all the rage at the moment, Based on customer/user feedback, what other captcha or general human verification tools have you used for your website? Links to the API/Site appriciated, Thanks guys!


Can I create test accounts in Google for testing Oauth in my application?

My app contains Sign in from Google function that uses Oauth. To test it I'd want to create test accounts at Google. But Google doesn't allow me to create ordinary accounts without entering captcha so I can't create ordinary accounts for testing. Can I create test accounts in Google to test Oauth in my application?


How much should a newbie charge a client for web design work?

I was asked to design a website for a client. Personally, I'd work for free since I'm just in it for the experience of working with a client but they insist on paying me so I will get an idea as to how freelancing works and for them to know how much they should pay for future services. I have very little experience when it comes to real work since I'm still a student but I've had internships as a web designer/developer in some software companies here in my area. I can build decent web pages using HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Java/JSP/J2EE and SQL. I am also familiar with some CMS like WordPress and Joomla. How much do you think should I charge my client if I were to design a simple static but somehow functional website for them and how should I charge them for my services? I forgot to mention that I am located in the Philippines. Since it's a 3rd world country, I'm pretty sure the rates here are lower than most areas.


How to handle URLs with diacritic characters

I am wondering how to handle `URLs` which correspond to strings containing diacritic (`á`, `ǚ`, `´`...). I believe what we're seeing mostly are `URLs` where diacritic characters where converted to their closest `ASCII` equivalent, for instance `Rånades på Skyttis i Ö-vik` converted to `ranades- pa-skyttis-i-o-vik`. However depending on the corresponding language, such conversion might be incorrect. For instance in `German`, `ü` should be converted to `ue` and not just `u`, as seen with the below `URL` representing the `Bayern München` string as `bayern-muenchen`: http://www.bundesliga.de/en/liga/clubs/fc-bayern-muenchen/index.php However what I've also noticed, is that browsers can render non-`ASCII` characters when they are percent-encoded in the `URL`, which is the approach `Wikipedia` has chosen, for instance `http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bayern_M%C3%BCnchen` which is rendered as: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gvRTK.png) Therefore I'm considering the following approach for creating `URL` slugs: -(1) convert strings while replacing non-`ASCII` characters to their recommended `ASCII` representation: `Bayern München` -> `bayern-muenchen`   -(2) also convert strings to `percent encoding`: `Bayern München` -> `bayern_m%C3%BCnchen`   -create a `301` redirect from version (1) to version (2) Version (1) `URLs` could be used for marketing purposes (e.g. `mywebsite.com/bayern-muenchen`) but the `URLs` that would end being displayed in the browser bar would be version (2) `URLs` (e.g. `mywebsite.com/bayern- münchen`). **Can you foresee particular problems with this approach? (Wikipedia is not doing it and I wonder why, apart from the fact that they don't need to market their`URLs`)**


What are some good Apache settings to use with wordpress?

My server has 756m of RAM. Every few days I get [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting


Better Image Hosting for MediaWiki

We're using MediaWiki and writing a lot of articles / tutorials that require images / screenshots. Image management in MediaWiki is painful. I was hoping I could use something like Dropbox to store all the images we need and then share them via external links. However, public folders aren't sharable and I can't make shared folders public. Is there something like Dropbox where I can easily just drop the files in a folder, they sync with all my colleagues, and I can get static URL's to the files to put on MediaWiki?


What terms/conditions should I have in place for a site popular with children/teenagers?

I'm working on a site with a forum, for which the current user base is fairly young. For the forum, where do I stand legally with children/teenagers signing up? For example, I believe Facebook restricts membership to 13+. Should I have this restriction too? (We don't really have the means for any kind of age policing.) Are there any standard terms/conditions I can add to the site?


Set goal in funnel not to be neccessary

I have a start page which can link to a discounts page and then three possible extras pages (one of which will definitely be reached) and all three of these lead to a confirmation page. I have set up goals on each page and on the confirmation page I have the following funnel:               Step 1: /G1/StartPage     Step 2: /G1/(Extra1|Extra2|Extra3)Page      However I want to include the discounts page, but not all customers can see that page. e.g.               Step 1: /G1/StartPage     Step 2: /G1/DiscountsPage (may not be read)     Step 3: /G1/(Extra1|Extra2|Extra3)Page      Can I do this in the same funnel, or do I keep my current funnel above, and a create a separate funnel (of which the goal is the confirmation page again) and only include the discounts page?


Why should we use tags like p, span, hx tags when we can use CSS instead? Is it important from an SEO point of view?


Is there a way to save MS Word document as HTML w/o the ms proprietary stuff?

So normally I wouldn't use this feature ("Save as Web Page") but I have large documents from clients they just want put on their site as HTML, and formatting it all by hand seems like a waste of time. I have tried "save as webpage" in Word 2007, but it produces all sorts of bad stuff. To wit:               <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>     <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">      as well as a large block of XML formatting info:               <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>      <o:DocumentProperties>      <o:Subject> </o:Subject>      <o:Author> </o:Author>      <o:Keywords> </o:Keywords>      ...      As I said, formatting it all by hand seems like a waste of time, but the way MS exports currently just has _too much_ cruft. Is there a way to export MS Word doc as html without all this? EDIT: This document is a charter/bylaws type document and therefor has many levels of nested list. One of my criteria for "success" in this conversion endeavor is that the list hierarchy is retained, not discarded.


Phantom activity on MySQL

This is probably just my total lack of MySQL expertise, but is it typical to see lots of phantom activity on a MySQL instance via phpMyAdmin? I have a shared hosting plan through Lithium, and when I log in through the phpMyAdmin console and click on the 'Status' tab, it's showing crazy high numbers for queries. Within an hour of activating my account I had > 1 million queries. At first I thought this was them setting things up, but the number is climbing constantly, averaging > 170/second. I've got a support ticket in with Lithium, but I thought I'd ask here if this were a MySQL/shared host thing, because I had the same thing happen with a shared hosting plan through Joyent.


When I purchase a premium domain name through a registrar (ie: Godaddy), do I own that domain?

That is, if I'm paying $500 for a particular domain, will I have ownership over it and be able to sell it in the future if I choose to do so? Or, for example, if the domain name expires and goes to auction, would I receive the sale amount from the auction? EDIT: What are some recommended registrars?


How to unlink Adwords account created WITHIN an MCC?

I have an Adwords MCC that I log into. I am the only one that can log into the MCC. Within the MCC, I have 3 linked Adwords Accounts. These are each, separate, standalone Adwords accounts that were created by clients. During some testing I was doing, within my MCC, I clicked **+Create Account** and chose **Adwords** in order to add a new account to my MCC. _Note: I am not linking an existing standalone account to my MCC. I am creating a new account within my MCC._ I name this account **Test Client 1**. Now that I have created my new account, I want to delete it because I only made it as a test. If I goto Arrange **Accounts > Unlink Account(s)** I get the following error:               This account must have at least one active user before you can unlink it.     Please invite a user to the account with "Administrative Access" or link     the account to another MCC before unlinking.      So how exactly do I add an active user to this account, **Test Client 1**? When I click the account and go into the details of that account, I do not see anywhere in the interface where you can add a user to the account. If I go into my MCC preferences, here there is an Account Access page, which allows me to add a new user to the ENTIRE MCC account. But this gives the user access to the ENTIRE MCC. I don't want that. I just want to add a user to this one **Test Client 1** account I made. There doesn't appear to be a way to give a user access only to a specific account within the MCC. Just for the heck of it, I went ahead and invited a new user to the MCC with full Administrative Access. Now I have my login and this other login (a dummy @gmail address I made) that can access my MCC. There still does not appear to be a way to add a user to the **Test Client 1** account I made so I can unlink it. What am I missing here? How do I add a new active user to the **Test Client 1** account?


How do you track client sites' software?

I've got a bunch of clients, each using various applications, scripts, etc. and not all of those clients are necessarily "active" at any given moment. Some may be in current development, some may only get occasional updates, others dormant because the project is essentially done though they may come back for something later, and so on. I haven't really come up with a good way to keep track of everybody's setup so that when a new WordPress security update comes around, for example, I don't have to do a mental trawl through everyone we work with to see if I need to get in touch. I was curious how others handle this. I know there are license management applications around, but they seem geared toward managing the software of _your own_ organization.


Tracking pages without analytics code

Do you have an idea how Google can track pages on the server without analytics code? The folder is prohibited by `robots.txt` too! I can see the URL of those pages on the real time counter.


How do I track where a conversion 'came from'?

I want to advertise on Google Adwords AND Linked-In. However I want to know which is more successful at getting a conversion. I'm not really sure how to set things up so that I can do this? I have installed Google Analytics. And I have a campaign running but yeah no idea really. Do I just set up a goal and then GA will tell me where the referral came from?


What are impressions in Google Webmasters?

I see that Google Webmasters give me some numbers as **impressions** , and of course, I know impression literal meaning. But can anyone please explain what impressions are in the context of Search Engine? How they are measured and why some advertisement agents like buysellads.com use them for ads prices?


Detecting whether banner ads pass link juice

I wanted to determine the relative SEO value of the advertising links passed by this website: http://www.garden.org/. On the right side you'll notice several advertising banners that, when clicked, redirect you to the appropriate website. If you inspect any of these banners you'll notice that while the `a href` has a bunch of the usual ad garbage in the URL, there's nothing in there that's `nofollow`. Why is it that when I check out any of these site's backlink profiles (via OpenSiteExplorer) that I can't find any trace of backlinks from `garden.org`?


Google Analytics - comparing metrics for different cities approach

I receive traffic from a number of different cities across the world, these being: Washington, Bratislava and Belfast. In Google Analytics, I would like to be able to compare a variety of metrics (side by side), however i'm not sure how to go about this in the best way. Am I looking at creating 3 advanced segments, 3 profiles or should I be doing it in one custom report? Or is this even possible in Google Analytics version 5?


change the subdomain and keep the rest of the url

I'm working on a multilingual website, and I want to generate the links in this way: The site is domain.tld and defaults to English, It has some subdomains like fr.domain.tld which will be in French, de.domain.tld which will be in German, it.domain.tld which will be in Italian... when the current page is the index, the links to other languages will be like this: domain.tld, fr.domain.tld, de.domain.tld, it.domain.tld.... But when we are in another page like domain.tld/my-page, how do we generate the URLs to match the current page but with another subdomain/language using PHP


Orchard CMS Internet shop

Does anyone know where to find tutorial how to make an Internet shop by using Orchard CMS? I'm new at web programming, but I have experience with .Net technologies.


How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?

**EDIT** : Reworded & Cleaned Up to Ease Understanding There has been a significant drop (90%) in traffic from Google to one of my well-established sites (6+ years) in the last week. Searches show that the top 3 wide keywords all dropped 4 spots. Searches for other keywords do not show ANY results in the first 10 to 25 pages of results, while previously one 1st or 2nd page at most. Since there are 200 factors for ranking, the question really is: **What steps are necessary to figure out what caused such a drop?** There have been no major changes during this period or the last month on the site and certainly not in the homepage which has dropped in rank. Over all the years of running this site and plenty of others, I have never experienced this. There are is duplicate content on my site and I have rigorously used canonical links for the last few years to ensure it is not misinterpreted as such.


Keywords ranking dropped on Google?why?

My website keywords ranking dropped on Google result as suddenly. What to do get ranking for those keywords. Even there is no spam content and spam linking for those keywords. Thank you for your response


Can site's SERP ranks be lowered by Google because of bad/toxic backlinks?

The site is not under Google's manual penalty it has no other warnings in GWT about something wrong going on, it is not out of the Google index. But the ranking positions on SERPs are lower than before. Do I need to invest in backlink analysis to detect the bad ones and then disavow them? UPDATE: (to why my question is different than the other topic) I don't need to diagnose other things, as I already took the course of making changes, I clearly asked a specific question about bad backlinks and would like to get an answer to it.


Why is this site's rank dropping?

I built a site for a company a couple of months ago to bring it up to date: Proper coding, SEO, the works. _Their old site was poorly compiled HTML_ * Apparently, they used a service through a company that I'm assuming added back-links all over the place and likely some black hat SEO practices. The site has been #1 for their target search term but now it's at the bottom of page 1. Any ideas why the sudden drop? I'm even doing SEM through google, and that's where it's dropped.


My blog which gets 300+ daily impressions has stopped appearing on the 1st page of Google

I have a blog regarding Placement papers from December 2010. My monthly impressions are around 4000. For the last 2 days, my blog has disappeared from Google search engine result pages. Impressions have reduced drastically. Please check Stat reports: ![Stats Reports](http://i.stack.imgur.com/enaUW.jpg) My blog is still on the search engine because when I search `site: mydomain.com` on Google, I can see my all pages indexed over there… But my pages which used to appear on the first or second pages of Google do not appear any more. Example: If I search with query `GE round 2 code writing test` on bing.com or Yahoo search, the first link on the result page is my blog. But if you do same on Google, my URLs do not appear even on the 1st 3 result pages. I used to get lots of visitors by these search query earlier.


Search ranking for important keywords has gone down drastically

Firstly, we are a small entrepreneurial team of 3 persons and I am more like an amateur webmaster of the company's website as we cannot really afford a technical guy/department right now. A few weeks earlier, our website traffic and rankings for most keywords decreased overnight. I did a lot of reading henceforth and learned about Penguin 2.1 which people said is the reason for the drop. Something like this had never happened before. Now, I have gone through the entire Google webmaster help section. It says there that if a manual penalty is taken against us, we would notice a message in Manual Actions page. So far, we haven't received any notice from Google for web spam. Some SEO guys I contacted said they found spam links in our backlink profile. I do believe I had mistakenly purchased a cheap link/SEO scheme when I was yet very new to SEO. This was more than a year back but since then we have been legitimate. Moreover, how do I find out which is a spam link and which is not? Our content is all original, refreshing and the best you will find in our niche. We also have a blog but on a different domain (wordpress.com) from where we send out anchored links to our business website. Is this a good thing to do? Now, how should we proceed and recover our traffic/rankings. I tried searching in webmasters for a way to reach google and ask them why the traffic has decreased suddenly, but I couldn't find a contact form or something. Can someone please go through our website and help in making things more clear regarding the reason for the drop, along with a solution. Will really appreciate this as I can't get to figure this out and its taking a lot of time. Vaivhav


Page lost from Google Search

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I wrote this guide on how to root HTC Desire, http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2011/10/perm-root-htc-desire- gingerbread-233.html . I had been getting decent visit from Google Search and also the page use to rank in top 3 for queries relating to "perm root htc desire gingerbread". But from last few days the comments on the post nearly stopped. Upon investigating I found that Google doesn't show my page any more for such queries. What could have gone wrong? Can anyone please shed some light onto this.


Sudden drop in google position

Our website used to show up on top 10 positions for a competitive keyword till 1 month back but now has drastically dropped down more than 100 positions. What could be the reason?


Google ranking - Modal views - google analytics events

I modified a site recently : - I added many google analytics events, to better understand user behaviour. - I added also two buttons on almost all the pages of the site. Those buttons show modal-views (I am using bootstrap) with questions about user opinion. This modals views are on almost all pages of the site. After this modification the ranking of the site decreased on google search from the second place to the seconde page :( Is it the events-collected or the model-views added ? If the model-views are the reason, then how to better do similar surveys ? Did you have please similar experience, or explanation to this ? Perhaps it is the effect of panda4 update. In this cas, what can I look for to improve the site. How to debug the problem/reasons ?


The sharp decline Statistics of website

My website has had 10 months ago, the statistics are very high. Very high ... But after 10 days of server failure, Marm was 20 times less. I got lost for a long time without making a mistake, do ... I am the source of links that they've hired a writer to pen the final results are seen. But a strange thing: Approximately every two months and was hit again 20 more times and then low again after 10 days! my website url : www.sooran.com (food.sooran.com) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ocRgm.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/tDlGJ.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QxRSN.png)


Aug 3rd 2014 HUGE DRop in visits

i am not a pro at this but i have built my website using freeway pro and for the past year i have managed to get between 100-130 visits a day to my website but on Aug 3, it dropped to 40… then now 15 a day… I do not know what happened and clearly freaking out on the situation as this is my shop window. There are no warnings or errors in Google Webmaster tools. Please help me out how to understand this issue. Has anything been happening with google around this time??


Google impressions going up and down, where do I start looking for the problem?

So, my website, had been stable on the number of impressions & clicks for quite a long time, suddenly (8/14) it dropped about 50%, then it started recovering after two weeks, but then it dropped even more (9/7), after three days it recovered, but now again it's going down again, with more than 90% loss from the original stable period. ![Stable, down, more down, a bit up, down again...](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pI2w2.png) My question is: where do I start? link disavow? how do I diagnose the real problem?


High Google page ranking lost overnight

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? I had achieved a high ranking for a page on my site of the form: http://domain.com/mypage.htm Overnight the page is not even in the first 10 pages of Google, my company has effectively disappeared. I think it is related to a limitation with my domain name hosting company, they no longer support forwarding of pages of the form: http://domain.com/mypage.htm which previously redirected to http://www.domain.com/mypage.htm However, now it will only redirect to the root page, i.e. http://www.domain.com I am guessing that this explains why my page http://domain.com/mypage.htm is no longer visible to Google. The solution would seem to be to set www.domain.com as my preferred domain in Google with Web Master Tools. However, two weeks after doing this my site is not appearing anywhere in Google. I have also resubmitted my crawl maps (which orignially explicity used the www subdomain) and sent for site reconsideration but no luck. Any suggestion for tools to diagnose or a solution? Or is it just a question of waiting and hoping?


My site link dissappeared from search results after the link building started

I have a site named keralatourmate.com. While searching One of the important keyword "kerala honeymoon packages from bangalore", it dissappeared. Actually it was on the 4th page till yesterday.We started directory submission for this particular keyword 3 days before only. Please tell whther this is a negative effect of directory submission or some other factors.


Why are the rankings of my webpage down on single phrase?

One webpage used to rank better in search. It had more visibility and had site links. But in the last few days, it is down three position on one phase, and it no longer has site links. What caused this to happen?