Lynx shows nothing but "loading" when opening a site

The site I help to administer appears very poorly in Google search results. While trying to tackle the issue from several angles I've tried to open the site in Lynx browser (the intention was to see what Google robots see): > $> lynx lizavoronina.com Whoa! All I've managed to see is "Loading" that never ended. When opening the site in normal web browser the site looks as it should.   1. Is that nearly true that Lynx sees what Google bots see?   2. How can I start looking for a reason that only "Loading" is displayed?


Is cloaking of sitemap.xml permitted?

I have a scenario where my sitemaps are generated when visiting `/sitemap.xml` due to the contents being dynamic in nature. For that reason I'd like to not call the services that are used to create my sitemap when a user visits but it should generate contents when Google or Bingbot visits the link. I have code to detect the bots. I'm concerned if this is considered as _bad_ according to Google or Bing.


Is 301 Redirect safe for pages that search engines give a high search ranking?

We will soon be launching a complete overhaul of our entire website. The only major concern is that we have a large archive of content that search engines find very rich, through which we get great search ranking. So we obviously need to maintain the URLs for these content rich pages, and maintain the content on those pages. But my question is if the URL needs to stay the same, or if we can simply 301 permanent redirect to a new more appropriate URL? So if Google has indexed `http://mysite.com/ugly/long/url/1234`, which currently returns a `200 OK` response. If this suddenly returns a `301 Permanent Redirect` to `http://mysite.com/articles/1234` when we launch our overhaul, will that hurt our search ranking? Or do we need to keep returning a `200 OK` for search engine crawlers to be happy. As I understand it, this is exactly the intended use for `HTTP 301`. I just don't know that search engines respect it, and screwing this up could have a gigantic negative impact on us, so i really want to be sure.


Track additional e-commerce data - Impact of x on conversion rate

A client of the company I work for is moving to Google Analytics from Coremetrics and want to track the effect of certain items on the product details page on the conversion rate. In coremetrics, this type of data can be passed in the Explore attributes (part of the tag where you can add custom data) but I can't find a way to do this is Google Analytics. Here's an example of what they want to track: Some of the products pages will have a video on them and they want to know if this helps the conversion rate of the product. So, in Coremetrics we would have passed this info in the Explore attrribute through the product view tag, the Shop 5 tag (basket/cart tag) and then to the Shop 9 tag (order confirmation tag). How can I do this is Google Analytics? Is it possible to pass any additional data in the eCommerce tags?


Lasting discrepancy between the site command and indexed pages in Google Webmaster

I have recently uploaded a blog on blogger. The pages of my blog are accessible for crawling and indexing and I can see that some crawling has started two weeks ago. I have noticed that the information available on Google Webmaster's Indexed Pages is updated only once a week. I have used the site command to get information faster. Here is my issue:   * For more than a week, the site command returns about 181 results.   * The Indexed Status said 0 URL indexed, 126 ever crawled, 404 not selected, 2559 blocked by robots   * I am receiving diverse small traffic for about 6 pages only   * Today the Index Status information was updated, but it remained the same as last week Why doesn't google mention that at least some of my pages have been indexed? Should I wait longer? Thanks. **P.S.** : Even stranger, when I go in Search Queries > Top Pages, I see 98 pages... How come? What should I believe?


ASP 3.0 Folder/File Permissions Settings (ASP Classic)

I have built a form input page in HTML that has an action to post to an ASP handler/processor .asp file. The form handler/processor .asp file contains only <% Insert VBScript Here %> and no HTML output whatsoever. The .asp file was never intended to be a "web viewable" .asp file like an .asp home page file or html file would. It's supposed to be for my eyes only- not the public's however it does need to take info posted by the public and do something with it on it's end. I have used VBScript/ASP3.0 to build the form handler/processor file and would like to know how to keep someone from viewing the actual VBScript in the handler/processor .asp file. I am aware of obfuscation but I would like to know how to keep prying eyes from even being able to take a look at the obfuscated code in the handler/processor file. I realize that the server executes the .asp file first before outputting anything to the browser so I guess that my main concern is mostly that someone may could "download" the form handler/processor .asp file, then view it's contents on their machine. Assuming the form handler .asp file is where it is, behind the root, and is on a windows server (no htaccess approach) how could one protect it so that it could never be viewed or simply pulled down via anonymous ftp or something like that? Is there something like "script only" permissions that the system administrator could set up for a particular folder? Remember, with shared hosting I can't go above the root. If so, would the form still be able to post? How would any of you guys go about protecting the asp file in addition to obfuscation? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


How to set default CNAME subdomain for an URL

I created a free website in Google Sites and bought a new URL, www.example.com, from Go Daddy and configured CNAME subdomain `www` to my Google Site. If I enter www.example.com in any browser it opens. But if I enter example.com (no www) it does not open my site. I am sure that this problem is in the CNAME configuration. As per my knowledge CNAME subdomains are mail, www, ftp, etc. How can I configure it so that if you enter the example.com URL it goes directly to the www subdomain?


Aliasing resellers domain to primary domain

I have designed a website that accepts re-sellers and actually the concept of this website is having local re-sellers for each province (or should we say branches). I have designed this website in a way that anybody who has a domain, can point to our website (a record or cname). well most of the website content are the same, the only difference is that re-sellers website doesn't have some items on the main menu and may have some small descriptions of their own branch in some pages. I read that Google may ban websites with duplicate content (or which are significantly similar). I want to know will this be a problem for me? If yes, what else can I do? we have had considered asking our reseller to use iframe that loads our website but wanted that each reseller can have its own SEO and try harder but what I read about this duplicate thing worries me.


Slower site with the *same* configuration than a mirror copy…?

I've got this Drupal site (ligadelconsorcista.org) that I have to move it from one server to another. The reason was that my older host even when it was pretty decent, it started a couple of months now to have many short downtime's, which drove me crazy. The thing is that I've made a sort of mirror copy of the site: I've copied all the files exactly the same, and after that I've imported the database. The problem is that the new site connects much slower than my old hosting! (the new one is Mediatemple) I've contacted their support and they tell me that there are several factors that can contribute to that... but that has nothing to do with their hosting service. **The thing is that I don´t even know where to start looking for the problem.** Notes: The new configuration is the same that the one I had with the older hosting account. Today I've set an account with Cloudflare's CDN to try to solve the problem. Even if the CDN is configured OK (I've asked their help desk) it won´t add any performance improvement. Any clues of what may I do about this? Thanks!!


Advice On Price Comparison Affiliate Programs

I want a price comparison feature on my site similar to Consumer Reports' "Price & Shop" section. They use PriceGrabber.com, but as far as I can tell they have a special deal with CR, so I can't get a similar service for my site. I've gathered that I need to use an affiliate network, but the whole thing seems so shady, I don't really know what sites are legit, and I don't know what sites offer the price comparison feature. Datafeedfile.com comes up a lot during my searches, but the ugly site makes me wary. Does anyone have any experience with this? What affiliate networks do you recommend? Or should I be looking at something else altogether?


SEO URL structure for tag search on site

I am looking to add tags to each product on my site e.g. brown, x products under £x, second hand x, refurbished x etc. Once you click these tags it will then search for other tags that are similar. I was thinking of using a url structure of www.site.com/tags/this%is%the%tag%name and then simply have a page that shows the results of all the products with that tag. I heard a while back that google generally ignores or downgrades anything with ‘search’ in the url and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this? Also, would you say /tags/ is a pretty valid destination or is it best to break it down and add more levels e.g. /product-type/product%variation Thanks in advance!


Embedding video in email - possible?

Is it possible to embed video into an email that will allow the viewer to watch the video within the email itself in a consistent and cross platform compatible manner?


A particular url on a website suddenly disappeared from google search results - why?

I have a website which had a particular page url that was indexed in google search results - in the first 10 results. Suddenly it disappeared. Now that page is not even in the first 100 results. What would be the reason? I am feeling that the page has be spammed by our competitors. Is it possible to avoid that, or can I find if that page has been spammed or not? Is it possible to find the particular page in a website is spam or malicious?


robots.txt, how effective is it and how long does it take?

We recently updated the site to a single page site using jQuery to slide between "pages". So we now have only index.php. When you search the company on engines such as Google, you get the site and a listing of its sub pages which now lead to outdated pages. Our plan doesn't allow us to edit the .htaccess and the old pages are .html docs so I cannot use PHP redirects either. So if I put in place a robots.txt telling the engines to not crawl beyond index.php, how effective will this be in preventing/removing crawled sub pages. And rough guess, how long before the search engines would update?


Are there any UK domain registrars that support .at domain names? I've registered a .at domain and would like to move it to a UK registrar. If not, which registrar would you recommend?


Visit counts in Google Analytics advanced segments not consistent

My organization has recently noticed an issue when applying advanced segments to visit counts during different time ranges. With no advanced segments turned on, here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th during the time range Sept 8th - Oct 8th: Oct 1 - 7   Oct 2 - 7   Oct 3 - 8   Oct 4 - 5 Again, with no advanced segments turned on, here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th but I've changed the time range to Oct 1st - Oct 4th. As expected, the numbers are the exact same as above: Oct 1 - 7   Oct 2 - 7   Oct 3 - 8   Oct 4 - 5 Now, I turn on the "Non paid search traffic" advanced segment. Here are the visit counts for Oct 1st - Oct 4th during the time range Sept 8th - Oct 8th: Oct 1 - 0   Oct 2 - 0   Oct 3 - 0   Oct 4 - 2 Here is where it gets weird. I keep the advanced segment on, and change the time range to Oct 1st - Oct 4th. This is what I get for the exact same dates as above: Oct 1 - 4   Oct 2 - 2   Oct 3 - 6   Oct 4 - 5 We've found the same inconsistency in our other GA profiles that get much more traffic (the above numbers come from one of our specialized topic blogs), but the inconsistency is less pronounced where there are more visits. My question is: why are the visit counts different for different time ranges when advanced segments are turned on, but exactly the same when no advanced segments are applied? Is this a GA bug or am I missing something about how the advanced segments work?


Editing hosts and hostname files for multiple servers

I have a cloud server running Debian 7. My domain (`www.domain.com` and `domain.com`) both have an `A` record pointing to the static IP address of my cloud server. On the cloud server itself, what should my `/etc/hosts` and `/etc/hostname` be set as? I plan to have multiple servers, so I started labeling the servers as:               web01-east      web01-west      sql01-east      sql01-west       so that I know the location of each server. Should the `/etc/hosts` look like:               web01-east       or               web01-east.domain.com      And should the `/etc/hostnames` look like:               1.1.1.1 web01-east      or               1.1.1.1 web01-east.domain.com


Configuring directory access on a server. .htaccess and alternatives?

I have written a small PHP package/site-template (should I say). It contains a directory **data/** that contains some important files that the users should not be able to see. These file should however be accessible by my PHP scripts. Now ,the question is how can I prevent users from accessing a particular directory on the web. Can I do this using .htaccess file? If yes, how? If in case the user is not using Apache, but some other server like **nginx** or **IIS** or any other server for that matter. Is there a portable way to do this?


Facebook social plugin comments disappear from my Drupal site after using Facebook application ID

**Background to problem** I was using the Facebook comments social plugin without a Facebook application ID (on Drupal with Facebook social plugin module); it was working just fine like this. I later decided to get and use a Facebook application ID from http://developers.facebook.com/setup/ to enable comment moderation. Since I did this, however, _all the Facebook comments that were entered onto my site before I used the application ID have disappeared_. I tried removing the ID from Drupal module (as it was before) but that made the Facebook comment box no longer load on my website (even though it worked before I got the ID) so the comments box now no longer works without the app ID. The Facebook reference says that the default ID for the comments box is the URL-encoded page URL so I assume that the comments that were lost are associated with this ID and will no longer show if I am using a Facebook application ID. This _may_ be an issue with the Drupal module, I am not 100% sure, but I think it is more to do with Facebook's poorly designed implementation of the comments integration system. **Questions:**   1. Can somebody please confirm the reason for the disappearance of the old comments, or say what otherwise is the reason?   2. Is there any way to now get the old comments (pre-application Id) back onto my website (preferably while still using the newly obtained app ID)? Many thanks.


Image editor Applet

I'm using codeigniter + jquery on a linux server and i want to integrate in my website a photo/image editor (after that an user have uploaded an image, he must be able to edit it), i need just some simple tools, zoom in and zoom out, brightness and contrast. A good solution may be a java, flash, silverlight applet or something like that. Any idea? Tnx Claudio


Location based self serve ad servers?

I'm looking for recommendations for a location based ad server for my website, like Adsense, but geo-targeted. Ideally, I'd like it to be self serve, so I can choose what ads are displayed where, with advertisers coming directly to me rather than the server... Any recommendations? Ta


how to set crawl rate like the old option of webmastertools like 7days or a month

My server people are blocking ip's which do a lot of requests including google bot. I found this by checking my webmastertools account. there it said network unreachable for all the urls which are indexed in google. Then i thought of reducing the rate of crawl. And i found that google will not alter the crawl rate and it is google who will determine and the users are allowed to alter the no of requests per time. Before some months/years i have seen the crawl rate had options like days, week and months but not it is different. How to set crawl rate for the above different criteria?


How do minor changes affect a page?

If an image file size were to change from 80kb to 100kb every couple of weeks, would the search bots notice this change and how would a minor change be interpreted? The page consists largley of text which is static.


OpenSearchDescriptions good or bad signal in Google's eyes?

I noticed a site using this tag:               <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="XXXXXXXXX" href="http://www.XXXXXXXXXX.com/api/opensearch" />      As I understand it (based on http://www.opensearch.org/Home), this tag is a way of describing search results (so you use it on pages which contain search results) to make it easier for other search engines to understand and use your results. Given that Matt Cutts has said Google generally frowns on "search results within search results" is using this tag a bad idea on a page that you hope to achieve a good ranking in Google?


What is the proper time zone to display times for events online?

My website (http://wethepixels.com) has regularly user-scheduled events. Right now we are using our timezone EDT (or EST) as the base timezone for all events on the site. I feel like this is either 1) wrong, or 2) very confusing. Currently, we have users all over the US and Europe. Is the proper method to localize times based on the clients timezone? use UTC/GMT? Thanks


How to resolve paypal pending balance for subscription type?

Pending balance rule seems to be only for ebay sellers and to get away from it is to make buyers drop a feedback about the seller. How about for subscription type only? I cannot let users view my posts if their payment has not cleared yet. Technically, the IPN should have payment_status var sent after the buyer has paid for subscription but in my case, I only get it on the first IPN message which has a "Pending" value and nothing on the second. This causes my handler to throw out an "Unknown payment status" error.


Installing mpm_worker for Apache and configuring pre_main_global.conf doesn't seem to work

I just installed _mpm_worker_ for Apache and added this to _pre_main_global.conf_ :               <IfModule worker.c>     ServerLimit          40     StartServers          2     MaxClients          1000     MinSpareThreads      20     MaxSpareThreads      50     ThreadsPerChild      25     MaxRequestsPerChild   0     </IfModule>      To test to see if this actually works, I changed the variable and restarted Apache.               <IfModule worker.c>     ServerLimit           1     StartServers          1     MaxClients            1     MinSpareThreads       1     MaxSpareThreads       1     ThreadsPerChild       1     MaxRequestsPerChild   1     </IfModule>      To my surprise my busy site still responds as normal. I tested this on multiple browsers and deleted all the cache. What did I do wrong?


SEO regarding non-US characters (ñ vs n vs ñ)

Are there any recommendations for handling special non-English characters like the `ñ` on a web page and keep it searchable under any permutation from Google and Bing? For example, I have three options: just replace it with an ASCII char like `n`, use the actual character `ñ` or use the entity code `ñ`. Will Google make the correlation between "el baño" on my website, if the user searches for "el bano" with a regular `n`? Just for the context of this, it's a primarily English website but there's a section for Spanish speaking folks (not really an entire translation of the site, which is maybe the right way to handle it, but changing that isn't an option right now). Is there a best practices regarding this? Which of the three options is the best way to go? Thanks


SEO value of external root domains that use CNAME to point back to original domain

I have DOMAIN A. A partner on DOMAIN B creates `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`. The subdomain is a `CNAME` record that masks `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`. So when a user visits `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`, they see content from `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`, but the browser and content all appear to be served from `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com`. The question is: If I create a backlink from `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.COM` to `beer.DOMAIN-A.com`, is it recognized as a valid linking root domain, or does Google see this as some type of internal link, since behind the scenes it can see the DNS record resolves to the same IP? (`beer.DOMAIN-A.com` and `subdomain.DOMAIN-B.com` are pointing at the same IP) Any ideas?


Hiding whois information on GoDaddy registered domains

I have a few domains hosted at GoDaddy, and it's posting my address, phone number, and email address on my whois results. It looks like they charge an exorbitant $10/year for "private registration" to hide this. Is that correct? Every other company I've used does this for free. This means that my domains at GoDaddy will effectively cost me twice as much per year. Is there any way around this? e.g. I believe I can go into my GoDaddy and just change the details, but someone told me that doing so would hamper my ability to defend my ownership of the domain if it was contested. Any truth to that?


robots.txt blocking specific files also block unnecessary URLs

I am using Magento for one of my site. In Magento there is a file `mage` (no extension file name is `mage` only) to block this file I write _robots.txt_ as               # Files     User-agent: *      Disallow: /mage      But this also block URLs start with `mage` like `magenta-color-item.html`. How I write in robot to block `mage` not URL start with `mage`?


HTTPS security issue

I want to learn if my ISP or any Firewall or anybody else can see the links I browse which has ssl support ? for exemple: when I browse google using secure search (https://google.com) https://www.google.com.tr/webhp?sourceid=chrome- instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=active&sclient=psy- ab&q=any+search+term&oq=any+search+term&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=13935l17752l3l18016l16l15l0l1l1l0l306l1791l9.5.0.1l17l0&gs_l=hp.3..0i15.13935l17752l3l18016l16l15l0l1l1l0l306l1791l9j5j0j1l17l0.llsin&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=43e7b3983c4556bc&ion=1&biw=1366&bih=653 can anyone see the url I visited ? Thanks. I know that SSL is there for security but I want to be sure if it's secure as we know it or is there any way some one can see what I am browsing .


How to keep and reference bilingual glossary in Mediawiki?

In a MediaWiki instance of mine, I found myself using many English terms' Chinese translation repeatedly. Is there a way to centralize a glossary of such English terms and their Chinese translation such that, in an arbitrary MediaWiki article, primarily written in Chinese, one could display a term's Chinese translation by using some reference that only involves the English term? That way, i can avoid having to remember the exact Chinese translation, and just specially tag the terms for them to show up translated in the result formatted page.


What kind of schema.org classification should be used for user generated content?

I have a site where users can add their bicycles that they own, and I'm not quite sure how to structure the schema.org data. The bikes are not for sale, only displayed, and there are multiple versions of the same type of bicycle on the site. This is what I'm thinking so far: **Member details page:**               Person     -- name     -- image     -- owns:        -- ownershipinfo (1 per bicycle)           -- name           -- image           -- url      **Bicycle details page:**               Thing     -- name     -- image      I thought about using _Product_ on the member page under owns, and also for the bicycle itself instead of _Thing_ , but I'm under the impression that _Product_ is intended for products for sale on an e-commerce site. So should I use Thing, Product, or something else entirely?


Google doesn't show "www" in results

After searching my site on Google I have found that the URL that is shown doesn't contain `www` at the beginning, why? This is my virtualhost:               <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName estebancortijo.com            Redirect / http://www.estebancortijo.com/     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>       ServerName www.estebancortijo.com            SetEnv MYAPP_ENV prod            DocumentRoot /var/www/jesusesteban/web       <Directory /var/www/jesusesteban/web/>           # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews           AllowOverride None           Order allow,deny           allow from all           <IfModule mod_mime.c>               Addtype font/truetype .ttf               AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css font/opentype font/truetype           </IfModule>           <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>               Options -MultiViews                    RewriteEngine On               #RewriteBase /path/to/app               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f               RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]           </IfModule>           <IfModule mod_expires.c>               ExpiresActive On           ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"           ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"           ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"           ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"           ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"           </IfModule>         </Directory>     </VirtualHost>      I have the same configuration for another site, but in that case the `www` is shown in Google results. Any idea?


Understanding Ajax crawling of search site

I have a couple of questions about Ajax crawling of a website, which is kind of search engine itself. The base article explains the mechanism of making AJAX applications crawlable. All this stuff with HTML-snapshots is clear and easy to implement, but I can't understand where the Google Bot "finds pretty AJAX URLs"( ie `www.example.com/ajax.html#key=value`) to index them. First thing, that came to mind are breadcrumbs. In a sitemap we are able to specify pages with breadcrumbs/links on them, so the search engine bots may crawl these pages and get HTML-snapshots from there. But I'm sure, there are other ways to give bots these "pretty AJAX URLs". In our case, we have a simple search site, where users enter keywords, press on "Find", js executes the Ajax request, receives a JSON responce and fill page with results (without any refresh of course). In this case - how can we make sure that the Google bot crawls all the search results in addition to adding a sitemap with links to all search results? Is there some example of solution, described in article above?


Pointing a domain to a specific URL

Is it possible to point a URL to a specific page in cPanel? Say I have `foobar.com` and there's a page `foobar.com/art`. Now I also or `artbar.com` and I want to point it at `foobar.com/art` how would I do that? I'm not seeing an option in cPanel to redirect a domain to a specific URL.


Do Dynamic Subdomains Harm SEO or not?

I am establishing a new website for just resumes, and I structured my htaccess as to provide dynamic subdomains as:               marketing.resumedomain.org/index.html     sales.resumedomain.org/index.html     california.resumedomain.org/index.html      etc. etc. I did that because I think visitors can easily find related resumes, because it is easier to type. But I have some concerns on SEO perspective because I will have probably thousands of dynamic subdomains (resume fields, regions etc. etc.) and I really wonder if google may think these as spam or not. Any suggestions or thoughts about this?


Asking permission to use client's name/products on a website?

Are there legal agreements that clients need to use in order to mention their clients on the website? For example, "We've done work for HBO, Amazon, Dell, etc" Also, if your clients wanted to use products that they've created for their clients in their case studies, would they need permission for this as well? Or, is there some sort of legal agreement they have their client sign for CYA reasons?


Domain registrar that offers CNAME settings

I have looked and couldn't find one. Please recommend a domain registrar on which you can change CNAME settings without having a hosting account. I have to change CNAME setting for my domain to make it point to a cloud hosting service http://www.openshift.com. Openshift doesn't yet offer domain registering so I have to use another registrar bit most seem to have CNAME settings only for hosting...


Too much delay for indexing Sitemap in Webmaster Tools?

I know that Google don’t guarantee for indexing every single web page, but I need some clarification about that, because most of the SEO masters are saying “ _Submitting Sitemap in GWT is the most important task for indexing a page_ ”. I had submitted my website’s site map before several months (may be years). My sitemap contains 2253 web pages, out of that only 64 pages has been indexed so for. These 64 pages were indexed few months before itself which means, after those 64 pages Google hasn’t indexed even a single page. What would be the reason? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DQUli.png)


Image data URI and SEO

Do you think the use of image data URI is SEO friendly? On the one hand saves you a HTTP request. On the other hand it really messes up your code. Especially for image files larger than 20KB or moving GIF image files of up to 200KB, the quantity of code inserted is enormous. As Googlebot reads usually from top to bottom, all data after the image data URI encoding will be harder to rank well in Google. Consider that image data URI is not in the CSS files as they should normally be and for the time being I can use only TinyMCE editor which provides me with just two options, either insert image with the image data URI method or the traditional image link. I would like to know which is more search engine friendly.


How do I redirect domain.com to sub.domain.com?

I know about using CNAME records to redirect `domain.com` to `www.domain.com`, but how would I go about redirecting `domain.com` to `sub.domain.com` and also `www.domain.com` to `sub.domain.com`? Do I do so via editing my DNS zone files or a HTTP redirect with my webserver? Also, what would be the correct terminology to refer to `SUB.domain.com`? Is it hostname, leaf domain? **Update** : I'm only interested in hosting a simple static site on a dedicated server using Octopress and Nginx. I don't particularly care about SEO and Google PR etc.


Two Google Analytics profiles for two sections of the same site

I've got a website which for the most part is a portfolio, there is another section of the site `mysite.com/micro-site` which ranks extremely well for the chosen term / topic, and brings in lots of traffic, but actually has little to do with the core business. It was really made as a piece of content - in the same way sites like this are: http://chrome.com/campaigns/rollit For the main site, I use 1 Google Analytics profile and set of tags, and for the micro-site I have a completely different Google Analytics profile and set of tags. The main reason I've done this is because the traffic stats and insights for the micro-site are essentially just noise. It's nice to have the traffic but they don't help when reading Google Analytics reports, so if they were combined my reports they would be a mess. Is there any disadvantage / negatives of doing this?


how to access mysql table from wamp database using this php code?

how to access tables from database by using php in wamp server.i have done the following code but its not working for some reason.is there anything to put in 'action=""'.it is not giving any error but displaying the same page.i want to display table from database on any different entry in dropdown menu and pressing search button..
Quick Search

     <form method="post" action="" >
Enter your source and destination.

         From:
     <select name="from">     <option value="Islamabad">Islamabad</option>     <option value="Lahore">Lahore</option>     <option value="murree">Murree</option>     <option value="Muzaffarabad">Muzaffarabad</option>     </select>
         To:
        <select name="To">     <option value="Islamabad">Islamabad</option>     <option value="Lahore">Lahore</option>     <option value="murree">Murree</option>     <option value="Muzaffarabad">Muzaffarabad</option>     </select>     <input type="submit" value="search" />      </form>     </form>
          <?php               if(isset($_POST['from']) and isset($_POST['To'])) {     $from = $_POST['from'] ;     $to = $_POST['To'] ;     $table = array($from, $to);     $con=mysqli_connect("localhost");     $mydb=mysql_select_db("homedb");      if (mysqli_connect_errno())      {      echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();      }               switch ($table) {       case array ("Islamabad", "Lahore") :     $result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM flights");     echo "</flights>";                                    //table name is flights                break;       case array ("Islamabad", "Murree") :          $result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM `isb to murree`");     echo "</`isb to murree`>";                                     //table name isb to murree       ;      break;       case array ("Islamabad", "Muzaffarabad") :          $result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM `isb to muzz`");     echo "</`isb to muzz`>";      break;     //.....     //......     default:     echo "Your choice is nor valid !!";     }          }     mysqli_close($con);     ?>


Regarding improving site performance

I have an e-commerce website and have close to 9000 products in it with each product having 3 pictures at least. Now my site is loading at an average speed but I want to improve it, as I will be adding lot more products in coming months. I was think if I upload all my images to sites like `imgur.com` or `flickr.com` will it improve the performance and page speed of my website?


Can I retrieve historical Route53 (DNS) records?

Our DNS records on Amazon's Route 53 were inadvertently changed. Is there a way to see what all the records were yesterday? Or in general, is there a way to see historical DNS records?


Google AdSense crawler unable to crawl my image-based website

I have recently set up a website and applied for Google AdSense. However my website is being not crawled properly. It is basically a image- based website with text under each image. It contains a lot of text but all of it is contained in the `<title>` tag and not the description. Is this the problem?


What is a typical finders fee to give to a client that gets a client?

I currently am a part owner of a website design company and we are trying to figure out what a good finders fee to give is? And is percentage better, or flat fee?


Linking a Google Analytics event with a not easily linked event occurring later

We have people filing in a Wufoo contact us form on our site. After communication, some people become customers by checking out using a custom URL we email to them. We would like to link these two events (form completion and sale) so that our e-commerce tracking on Google Analytics connects the first entry to the conversion. How do we go about doing this? We can have the Wufoo ID showing as a custom variable on the thank you page and put the same id in the conversion page but not sure how to technically link them.


Site migration questions-- PHP, link structure & SEO

I'm working on a massive site overhaul and the main structural change will be a move from static HTML to PHP. I work for an art gallery, and having the artist names in URLs is critical. We already have substantial link authority for a variety of artist names, and the URL structure has been domain.com/artist-last-name/artist-full-name.html (eg. domain.com/picasso/pablo-picasso.html). I'm considering multiple approaches and was hoping to get some advice on what might be the best one. My first consideration was using an htaccess directive to process PHP files as HTML, so that I could keep the exact same URL structure (or at least the appearance of which); but I'm not sure if there are any drawbacks to this approach other than the additional server load. I'm also considering keeping the PHP extension and just converting everything with the assumption/hope that search rankings won't be affected, eg. domain.com/picasso/pablo-picasso.php. I suppose I could also change the link structure entirely, and change the directory names to the full artist names with an index.php in each, eg. domain.com/pablo-picasso/ which would be cleaner, but perhaps disturb the existing rankings. If anybody has any advice regarding the above approaches, or something entirely different, I'd be most appreciative.


How to deal with .ch domains? I need a DNS

I need to register a .ch domain, but SWITCH does not seem to offer free (or paid) DNS as other registrars do. So I need to know at least one of these:   * Is there a registrar where I can buy a .ch domain, that also offers free DNS? Preferably not US-based   * Is there a really cheap and reliable DNS service? So the total cost for using a .ch does not go too high for me.


300+ likes on brand new FB like button

I just added a Facebook like button to a website, and somehow it already has more than 300 likes, it's really strange because this website never had a like button on it in the past. Is there some sort of explanation as to why it wouldn't start at 0?


How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email? I have seen many advertising emails in my inbox and I am curious to know how does the email body display the HTML.


Is this content duplicated? or or weak content?

firstly, my google webmaster tool said that i have 313 index. but if i search with site:, i only get 72 content. from this url, it said may because data not yet transfered from other server. ok its fine so i need to wait. but i also suspect content is duplicating in google perspective or may be weak content. http://ratnadewi.net/indonesia/gallery/bali.makeup/balinese-makeup-and- wedding-i http://ratnadewi.net/english/gallery/bali.makeup/balinese-makeup-and-wedding-i (its will be canonical to http://ratnadewi.net/gallery/bali.makeup/balinese- makeup-and-wedding-i) what do you think? is it duplicated content? or its a weak content? its an image gallery. and i need translation for any content.


Bing flagging pages as Malware

Bing has flagged some pages on a site I manage as malware, these have been looked at and looks like there was some malware at some point but it's now since been removed. It's also pointing to some pages which no longer exist saying there is malware on those. Is there anything specific I need to do to get Bing to stop trying to access the removed pages and also deflag the pages that have been fixed.


getting started as a web developer

I have over 10 years of programming experience building (Windows-based) _desktop_ applications and utilities (VC++, C#, Python). My goal over the next year is to start transitioning to _web_ application development. I want to teach myself the fundamental tools and technologies that would be considered essential for building professional, online, interactive, visually-stunning, data-driven web apps -- the kind described in Google's recently released "Field Guide: Building Great Web Applications". So my question is, what are the primary, most commonly-used technologies that seasoned professionals will need in their tool belt in the coming years? My plan was to start coming up to speed in Javascript, HTML5, & CSS, and then to do a deep dive into ASP.NET and Ajax, along with SQL DBs. (I was surprised to not be able to find a single book at Amazon with a broad, general scope like this, which caused me to start second-guessing this approach.) So, seasoned professionals: am I on the right track? Are there some glaring omissions in my list? Or some unnecessary inclusions? I would welcome any book suggestions along these lines as well.


Files uploaded to hosting account but DNS is not finding the new files

I got a new domain `http://alfer-ks.com`. I have upload files to the server using cPanel, but when I try to load the website, it just shows the cPanel default page, which shows that Apache is running and stuff like that. **What am I doing wrong?**


Is datetime-local removed from HTML 5.1?

HTML5 seemingly introduces these two input types:   * datetime (with a timezone)   * datetime-local (without a timezone) Even though both are present on the W3C wiki, the HTML 5.1 nightly draft recommendation only mentions the datetime type, I can't seem to find any mention of `datetime-local`. Has this type been removed (or renamed) from the recommendation, or can we still expect future support for it?


Setting up a VM testing server [MySQL, HTML, & PHP webstore] Testing for SQL correctness?

**Question:** Is there a way to test for correctness once the SQL DB copy has been installed on the local machine so I can confidently move to step number 3? Is there any information on the web that would help with the below goals? Are the below goals even possible or a good idea? **Info:** I would like to set up a VM server on my local computer which will serve pages in the **exact** same way as my current hosting(but only to me on my local computer). I currently pay a big web hosting company to host my website & web store and they are doing a great job, but I would like to be able to work on my Web store and its corresponding MySQL database without being at risk of messing something completely up on the live servers. My current plan of action:   1. Set up a VM with debian server, MySQL, PHP, Apache(or something else)   2. Copy my current MySQL databases from my hosting provider and install on VM server.   3. Copy web store (PHP/HTML) code to VM server.   4. Modify and test new features on VM server.   5. upload MySQL DB and HTML/PHP code back to web host's server where it should work as before but with new modifications. Now I'm pretty sure I have step one down correctly but I can't for the life of me figure out where to began for steps 2 and 3. I've looked online for resources about how to make a 1 to 1 copy and install the database on a different machine but none of the information seems to be working or correct for my SQL DB (MySQL).


What's the best body text font for Windows XP?

For my Windows testing, I am using XP, since that is what I have, and I am testing with Firefox and IE. I noticed that the Times, Georgia and Utopia fonts all look pretty bad in Firefox. I've noticed that on Digg (yes it still exists) they load a nice-looking font after the page loads, so there is an ugly font that switches to a nice font. On FB and Reddit the font remains ugly.


Should I just ban everyone who has no language setting?

I am constantly seeing in my logs the same type of visitor: They have no language setting, i.e.               $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] == ''      so it's empty, and their referrer is some scam server in Russia or Ukraine. I get many of these every day. I've been banning them selectively based on their referrer but it seems I am getting similar non-browser based visitors from China as well who have no referrer. So should I just ban these people or bots? Examples of referrers:               http://www.odeialo.ru/     http://www.moregirls.org/     http://segway911.ru/


Correct microdata and/or microformats for real estate listings?

Given I am running a real estate rentals listing website, what would be the correct microdata or microformats for the listing pages? There is the usual data: address, photos, price, start date, possible end date, person who is renting it out, list of amenities, description etc. Are there also microformats/microdata that can be used in the listing summary page (e.g., page that displays all listings in a particular city)?


Best practise for meta tags in various languages

We have a global site, all hosted on one .com domain (www.example.com/en www.example.com/es www.example.com/pt www.example.com/ru etc.) Each language sub directory is identical to one another, apart from being in different languages.Should I translate each meta keyword for each page or just use the english versions? e.g.   English page about private jets : keyword "private jet"   French version of exactly the same page : keyword "private jet" or "jet privé" If anyone knows whether language specific keywords carry any weight in search engines when the actual website is a .com and not a country specific domain, that would be really helpful!


Declaring variables using single or multiple var statements. Performance wise

Someone once told me that it's better for Javascript performance to use one var statement rather then multiple. I.e.               // Version A. Allegedly Faster     var a = 1,         b = 2,         c = 3;          // Version B. Allegedly Slower     var a = 1;     var b = 2;     var c = 3;      The reasoning behind this was along the lines of: For every var statement, Javascript will start allocating memory and then stop at the semicolon. Whereas, if you have only one var statement, many JS implementations will optimize it and allocate space for all variables in the same call. Thus making things go faster. However, when googling to confirm this I only find rants about how some consider the second example to be simpler from a maintenance point of view. And some disagree. This JSPerf test sais there is no difference. **So my question** : From a performance perspective, is there any reason version A or B would be better?


Scrape LIKE user of competition pages

Is it possible to make something a little touchy.. I will explain My friend have a little baby accessory like hair clip and so.... She manage to get 100 like in there Facebook page (great!) NOW, on Facebook, in the same city, in the same market, a person with the same shop have 475 like in the Facebook page :-( AND THE QUESTION, the competition in closing there shop soon.... So is it possible to get the name of ALL THE like in the competition page and send a personal message to ALL of them to tell the we still offer the same product, and ask people to switch and like there page.... It’s like stealing the consumer database of the competition.... But seem a good idea to me... NOW, is it possible to make it automatic scraping user ?


Password protect directory with .htaccess and .htpasswd on direct-admin

In my last cpanel hosting I protect directories by this .htaccess code:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine on               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]                    AuthType Basic     AuthName "administrator"     AuthUserFile "/home/.htpasswds/public_html/administrator/passwd"     require valid-user      But in my new hosting on direct admin I have 2 address for public_html 1- /puplic_html 2- /domains/example.com/public_html and location of .htpasswd folder is: /domains/example.com/.htpasswds/ So I changed above code to this:               AuthType Basic     AuthName "administrator"     AuthUserFile "/domains/example.com/.htpasswd/public_html/administrator/passwd"     require valid-user      ButI got an 404 error What is wrong?


protecting css selectors on large website

I have content that appears within a corporate website inside an iframe. Several departments contribute their own CSS files to manage the overall UI and design. My problem is that they may use selectors for elements like td (for instance), without notice. Of course that will affect my own content in the frame unless I add a class to every td. I'm just using td as an example: the generic style for any element could change without notice. Is there any method/convention/practice I can use to protect my own styling?


Need a really simple client manage script to deliver graphics and revisions, please help?

I am looking for a very simple client management script. The process flow of the script should be: Client orders (paypal etc) while giving specs on what they need > given login details and thanked for their order > backend for them consists of a 2 way communication. They ask questions we answer. We also upload the graphics here where they either accept them or as for revision. > process complete. Now I cannot for the life of me find something as simple as this. It seems all the scripts out there are way too complicated. Does anyone know of one I can use to do this?


AJAX website doesn't get indexed properly

Why http://anuary.com doesn't get indexed properly? I've submitted the sitemap ( http://anuary.com/?sitemap=true ) almost a month ago. However, 0 pages appear in Google index. I've also prepared the webpage infrastructure following Google AJAX-friendly pages guide ( http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting- started.html ), therefore               http://anuary.com/#!/portfolio/28      becomes               http://anuary.com/?_escaped_fragment_=!/portfolio/28      However, I am not sure what to do with the landing page, http://anuary.com/ ?


Advertising on personalized pages behind a login

I am currently building a web app which requires a user to log in. After they log in, they can see the content they've added to the web app, and things that the web app has done with the content they added. The URL structure won't differentiate different users (e.g. all user's 'homepage' would be example.com/home, _not_ something like example.com/`username`/home). This is much the same way that Facebook works (all FB user's messages are at facebook.com/messages, for example). This presents a problem with advertising. I know that you can use AdSense behind a login, but as far as I'm aware, that's for things like forums, where everyone sees the same things (which wouldn't be the case in this site). I also know that I could put AdSense on the pages without allowing it to log in, which would produce inferior ads. I'm fairly certain it would be against the Terms of Service to give AdSense a login to a 'dummy' account with typical content, as it would not be seeing the same thing as every other user (which is impossible, as they all see different things). So, my question is: **Is there an ad network, or other method, that can serve ads behind a login, maybe based on keywords rather than content?**


What's the best HTTP code for dynamically deleted pages?

I've built my own CMS and I'm looking for the best way to handle pages / items deletion. Actually, pages and items were deleted and cannot be restored. But since I have implemented a _bin_ , I don't know how to do : 410 code is for deleted permanently. But, if the items may be restored later, is there a way to indicate this to robots? I've heard that with 410/404 codes, we lose juice. Is there any way to avoid that?


Transferring exotic domain names to major registrars

I am new to buying domain names and know they can be transferred from one registrar to another. Are there any limitations? Some registrars describe how to transfer domains from specific registrars, does this mean all others are not supported? Also, is there a standard as to how much the transfer costs and what the annual fees will be? I am interested in how this works in general, but specifically I am looking into buying a .vu domain name and would like to transfer it to one of the main registrars.


Cloudflare displaying cached CSS in-line?

I recently enabled CloudFlare on my domain, and when I make HTML statements like this:               <link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" />      The CSS gets displayed in-line, like this:               <style>body{padding-top:40px}span.light{font-weight:lighter!important}span.title{font-size:60px;line-height:1;letter-spacing:-1px;color:inherit}</style>      When I update the file via FTP, the changes are not reflected, which leads me to believe that this is a caching issue. Is this due to CloudFlare? If so, how do I disable the behavior? **EDIT** I also came to the conclusion that caching is behind the behavior after being able to see changes in the page after re-naming the CSS file.


Sudden drop of keyword ranking after changing the content

I had a site whose keywords were in top 10 but suddenly they have reached to 250 and above. This happened on 21st January 2013. And from past 3- 4 days the ranking is continuously dropping. The strange thing is I haven't done anything different to the back linking efforts. Only the thing is that I have changed is the content of site keeping in mind not to do the stuffing of the keywords. And content was changed a month ago. Is this due to Content? Will the position be gained again? In WBT I have lost around 100000 backlinks. Please Suggest Thanks


Problem with Expires/Cache-Control Headers

I'm using Apache 2.2.16. I've got the following HTML file in my htdocs folder:               <html>      <link media="screen" type="text/css" href="/css/test.css" rel="stylesheet" />      <body>XXXX</body>     </html>      I'm trying to make the CSS file cache in my browser so that it does not make another request for it, apart from on the first ever page load. However, every time I press refresh, I can see that the CSS file is loaded again from the server. I see 200 response codes for the file in my server logs. I've got the following in my httpd.conf file:               <LocationMatch "\.(css)$">      Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000"      Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT"      Header unset Last-Modified      Header set Content-Type text/css      Header unset ETag     </LocationMatch>      Here are my response headers, as reported by Firebug:               Date Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:48:49 GMT     Server Apache/2.2.16 (Win32)     Accept-Ranges bytes     Content-Length 18107     Cache-Control max-age=2592000     Expires Thu, 15 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT     Content-Type text/css     Keep-Alive timeout=5, max=97     Connection Keep-Alive      I've read a few articles about setting the caching headers, but I just can't see to get it working. Any advice greatly appreciated.


In my search query report from AdWords I have seen certain queries where the KW is showing twice

Suppose I have a keyword "running shoes". In my search query report I am seeing queries like "running shoes running shoes for man". Is this because of the user searching with this query or there are some other reasons?


how/when to use meta reply-to tag?

I was exploring meta tag and came across reply-to attribute. Can someone please give me an example of how to use it ? Also, is it recommended to use that attribute ?


How would I know the hostname of my hosting?

I have a website and I am trying to make a database connection. I am in MySQL but I don't see any information related to the hostname. `localhost` worked for me but I don't know the logic behind it. Please guide.


Software or webapp for creating fluid mockups

Designers in a company I work for use InDesign and Visio for creating web- designs. All our websites have fluid layouts, and sometimes there are things like widgets or complex blocks on a page, and you can't say for sure how it should behave when the browser is resized. All I get is a 'picture'. Static, fixed picture. Is there a software or webapp for creating _fluid_ designs?


Advice on how to best utilize shopping cart start-up?

A friend of mine has a product which we plan to sell online. It's a product for a niche of specialized users (like doctors, engineers, etc.) which they can use in they everyday work. Being a programmer myself, I thought of coding the shopping cart. But after a few days of searching the Internet, I realized that I may be reinventing the wheel. Does anyone have experience with the shopping carts in the cloud offered by large companies like Yahoo or GoDaddy (as well as dozens of others)? How robust they are in terms of customization or we are limited by the scope determined by such companies? For example, I see that you get a domain. Will a user ever know that you are using 3rd party cart? Is there a place where users reviewed popular carts so I can see which one suits us the best? I am reluctant to rely on online reports as you never know who paid whom to appear on the first place.


How to get a super domain?

I want to buy a domain that contains some popular words, and which is occupied by some squatters. The domain is due to expire soon. How should I proceed ? Should I wait until the expiration day, and then buy that domain from a reliable registrar ? Should I somehow pre-order that domain name to the current domain registrar ? Or what ?


Google Webmaster Tools: Why do I have so many links from my top domain to my subdomain?

I have a subdomain under my top domain as follows: `2index.net`   `quran.2index.net` In Google Webmaster Tools, for the subdomain `quran.2index.net`, I find that the number of links recorded from the top domain to the subdomain is very large - more than 26k links! While what I really have is just one link to the subdomain from the index page of the top domain. The following screenshot displays this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pr3XL.png) I'd like to know two things:   1. Why is there so many links from the top domain to the subdomain?   2. Does this negatively affect SEO and my subdomain's indexing in Google?


Is my robots.txt working as it should?

I want crawlers to have access to `http://www.example.com` but not `http://www.example.com/` My robots.txt is as follows:               User-agent: *     Allow: /$     Disallow: /      My site is in Google search results, but I am not coming up in Bing, Yahoo, etc. I have had the same robots.txt since last year, and I initially requested inclusion ~1 year ago, having also resubmitted the URL to those latter search engines several times since as well. _**Is my robots.txt blocking those other crawlers? And if so, why not Google as well?_**


Ruby on Rails 3 hosting

Please can you suggest me a hosting service with these properties:   1. It costs less than 150$ a year (best would be free!)   2. It is "Ruby on Rails 3 ready" (I mean it requires a minimum amount of terminal operations) Thanks!!


A good user forum extension for Joomla?

Does anybody knows a good Joomla user forum extension?


How do I define an HTML anchor to jump to specific location within a page?

I see thousands of tutorials teaching you a very simple thing, how to use `#section` to jump to a specific section within your page. However, nobody unveils the secret of coding the target anchor. Can you do that?


Specifying a website to appear in certain search engines and not others?

If you want a website to appear in DuckDuckGo for example and not Google, is this possible? Can you specify which search engines for a website appear in?


Creative Commons License style

i generated a creative commons license for my website, they gave me a code to put into my website html. The code is somenthing like:               creative bla bla       I was wondering, is it possible to style it cause it's just a link targeting to the license page or should i leave it as it is for legal reasons?


Using Dynamic URLs with more than one Variable in a Sitemap?

I have a site map with generated dynamic urls that I need included in the sitemap. However, the sitemap seems to be generating an error on the `&` character, so that pages with more than one variable in the query string break the sitemap. How can I fix this? Here's an example:               http://example.com/index.php?action=view&id=10


Why is the outer div border not dependent on the element's rendered content?

I have a problem I can't figure out. When I nest a div inside another div and I want to give the outer div a border, the border doesn't wrap around the rendered content. Even though the content of the inside divs might be several lines high the outside border only adds whatever padding there might be. The CSS:               .wrapper {      width:550px;      border: 1px solid #ccc;      clear:both;      padding: 5px;       }     .content {      float:left;      width:250px;      background-color:#e1e1e1;     }      The HTML:

         text
         text
         text

      pic


Which hosts support Unicode in International Domain Names?

I recently registered some Chinese character domain names at the .hk registrar. I was hoping to host them at 1and1 but am getting nowhere fast. Their system appears to struggle with the unicode characters and ignores punycode. I was wondering if anyone has experience of good hosts who support unicode domain names?


Fixed width vs dynamic width

I've noticed more and more sites have gone to a fixed-width layout, where resizing the browser window just causes scrollbars to appear, as opposed to a flexible layout, where resizing the browser causes the components of the page to "scrunch" together.   The StackExchange sites like this one are an example of the fixed layout. GMail and iGoogle are examples of the flexible layout. What are the reasons for choosing one over the other?


How can I make Twitter, Facebook and Reddit share buttons load last?

I have a website with a number of pages that sport Twitter, Facebook and Reddit share buttons. They take forever to load and until they do the rest of the page doesn't load. So how I can make them load last? Currently, they are loaded something like this:
Tweet

<fb:like layout="box_count" width="40"></fb:like>

      They are in a `<div>` called "shareWrapper" and are loading to one side of the page. The buttons load where ever the script code is placed. As far as I know, I can't place the script code at the bottom of the page and move the resulting buttons after the fact. I want them to appear near the top, which right now means they are stopping everything below them from loading for several seconds. I tried loading them using JavaScript, but using jQuery's `$(document).ready()`, but that failed. It seems to leave the page in some sort of loading loop from which it never emerges. Are there other ways to get these to load last?


How do you set the width of the browser using Google Chrome

In IE you can set the browser width to be 1024x768, for example, to test your site. How can you do this in Chrome? I can't find an equivalent setting anywhere? I'm using 'Tools -> Developer tools'. I can't do the fallback trick of running               javascript:window.resizeTo(1024,768)      in the location bar, because Chrome tries to search for it!


How do I change Transmit Mode from Auto to ASCII?

I am using Panic's Transmit for my FTP client. I am need to be able upload a .csv file using ASCII but when I go to:               Transfer > Mode > ASCII (TEXT)       all the Modes are grayed out and I am stuck with Auto.   I checked the Panic site but didn't see anything there. Any clues how to force that change? Thanks!


Stop Apache serving filetypes

Preferably using `.htaccess` files, though `.conf` files are an option, is there any way to stop Apache serving certain filetypes? For example, `.db` shouldn't be served for obvious reason (privacy and whatnot, etc.), so could I make them show as a `404` but still have them available for my CGI scripts? Putting these sensitive files in a directory other than `/public_HTML/` is also an option, though I like having them in the same directory as the scripts for ease of use. Cheers


web hosting question

I am wondering why godaddy offers Unlimited Space+ and Bandwidth, but google app engine/ AWS charges on usages. is it REAL unlimited? if godaddy offers lower rate, why ppl still use google app engine and AWS(other than they can use more customized virtual instance). can any explain it to me?


Log File Analyser for PC

The standard log analysis tool provided by my hoster shows very limited information (trying to force me to buy a full fledged analysis package). I have downloaded the log files and would like to evaluate them locally on my PC (Windows or Linux). Any tips? I could only find web-based analysis programs that run on the server.


desktop software for web analytics

I am not a webmaster nor a programmer. I am asking this in order to aid in my research for my Master's dissertation where I have to analyze a website's traffic from a file containing activity on the site for the past 10 years. What is a great, easy-to-use, and (hopefully) free tool/software that I can install and use on my laptop? I am looking for desktop software, not something to install on a server. Does anyone know of anything? * * * Added on 21/04/2011 Thanks for the answers. At the moment I still don't have the file so that I cannot give more information.


Duplicate domain names - .net and .com Create separate pages, or redirect?

In a SEO point of view: This website has a good amount of traffic for a local business, but also ships some merchandise. While the **.net domain (registered first)** is associated with the **local busines (google places, maps, etc...) the .com domain only redirects** to the .net domain. Is it good, bad or okay to create a different page for the domain .com for example, that would be pretty simple, but would link to the 10 different categories of products that this company sells? I know links are good, so there's that, but what else is good, or bad? Thanks in advance!


HREF link for Excel Files Generated using PHP

I would like to get your inputs on the "preferred" way of linking to dynamically generated excel files using PHP. Using PHPExcel (or any other Excel writer for that matter) I have to generate a downloadable Excel file with PHP. The obvious method would be to create a link to that PHP file with a parameter such as               Download GDP figures      However, for SEO purposes, the preferred method **I think** would be:               Download GDP figures      especially if advanced users (such as researchers) use the Google Search parameter **filetype:xls** in their searches. Note that I am NOT an SEO expert and I don't have any evidence the latter is better. However I would assume the 2nd method would be more searchable than the first even by a small degree. The problem of course is that I don't know how to generate the Excel file dynamically using this 2nd method. So is the 1st method acceptable and I'm just trying to complicate things? Or would you go for the 2nd method and have a workaround to call a PHP script to generate the excel file dynamically?


Is some version of IE9 lowercasing URLs?

I have some pages that require a case sensitive input in the URL. Like `/page/MT` with 'MT' being the param. I've noticed lots of error reports lately where 'MT' is converted to 'mt', which is unexpected and currently unsupported. All of these requests seem to be from a version of IE9 that reports its user- agent as 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 9.0; en-US)'. Lots of different IPs, so it's not unique to just one user. My first guess was maybe just bad external links, which seems to happen a lot. However, all the requests show internal pages as the referrer. I tried testing with the IE9(9.0.8112.16521) I had available with no luck. It behaved as I would expect. This is a proxied wsgi webapp, but the only common thread between all the problems is IE9. Has anyone else seen this before?


Is there any research or statistics that show adding share links to your site content areas increases sharing?

Just wondering if there is any documentation out there that having share links to your content actually encourages and increases sharing of the content?


How are 301 redirected URL backlinks reported in GWT?

Say `www.SiteA.com` acquires `www.SiteB.com` and 301 redirects `www.SiteB.com` to `www.SiteA.com` properly. How does Google Webmaster Tools handle the backlinks to `www.SiteB.com`? Are these progressively displayed as backlinks of `www.SiteA.com`? How to keep track of these?


Do I need a subdomain or CNAME?

I have a domain with Godaddy (`mysite.com`) which is pointing to my AWS EC2 box. Now I need a launchpad link on my website so that if the user clicks on it it would point to `launch.mysite.com` This link should also point to the same AWS EC2 box and in there I would then capture the incoming host through Apache's VirtualHosts and redirect it accordingly. What confuses me most is now how to create the `launch.mysite.com` ? Do I create a 'forward Subdomain' and forward it to my ip? Or Do I create a CNAME pointing to the same ip? Many Thanks,


Tidy URLs in Google Analytics

My Google Analytics is catching a number of URLs where there is a unique GET parameter. It also catches URLs like `/pay` and `/pay/`. Is there any way I can get it to clean up the data and just see tidy page views?


"Cancel" is a relevant word in my page because of bootstrap popups

I am using bootstrap's modals. Each modal contains a button (register, login, etc) and a " **Cancel** " button. When I first released the website, all popups were in the header (they are hidden, but you know bots will read them). A few weeks later, I placed them in the footer because I saw on my `Google webmaster tools > Optimization > Content Keywords` that " **Cancel** " was the 2nd most relevant word with a 100% relevancy. And the first word was the name of the website of course with 100% relevancy as well. A few weeks later, the word " **Cancel** " dropped to the 3rd position with around 75% relevancy. Is there a way to fix this? Remove or lower the relevancy of the word " **Cancel** "?


Apache create index for directories without one specified.

Currently, I use a PHP script to list the contents of a directory that does not have an index file, but I don't want to have to copy it to _every_ directory without an index. Can Apache do it automatically?


How to do a page with only rotating banner in Joomla?

i'm using Joomla as CMS. I need a component who allow me to do a page with a lot of banner, who rotates. Can you give me some advice ? Thanks


Google Analytics Avg. Page Load Time for Safari

Has anyone had the same problem that page load time of Safari (and Safari only of the major browsers) results in 0.00 all the time? Looks like data for Safari is not registered, both desktop and in-app. This while Safari is the most used browser for the website. Any solutions? I'm using the Google Analytics script you can find on the Google Analytics site.


Looking for recommendations for a server-side newsletter program

I'm currently using a server-side SQL based mailing list program called Php- List on multiple sites and it works fairly well. But installation and setup is quite cumbersome, quirky and the interface is not well organized... neither is the code... with pieces all over the place in random fashion. Customizing the "look & feel" and full site integration are both tedious and painful. Upgrading the version is made more complex since multiple edits need to be manually transferred each time. Also, probably due to a poor English translation, descriptions and instructions within certain areas of the user interface are contradictory and unclear. You just have to play with it and remember what you did last time it worked. It's supposed to be so my customers can send out their own newsletters... after supplying a written tutorial, about half of them seem to stumble through it okay and the other half just hire me to do it for them. So not quite easy enough for most average people to use. I'm looking for something that's as easy for them as using a blog or discussion forum. It also must be easier to set up and integrate into a site than Php-List. I have no problem getting dirty and writing CSS or HTML by hand. Nor do I have any problem editing the program code. Perhaps what I'm looking for is a solution that is more organized, a better GUI, and template or "skin" based. Therefore, if I spend many hours customizing a skin, I can simply update the program and re-use my custom skin without having to reproduce the tedious setup over and over. (I currently maintain a list of about 25 things I must manually edit or add to multiple files in multiple directories each time I install or upgrade Php-List) A great example of what I'm looking for is very much like WordPress or phpBB. They're both easy to install and customize yet powerful and packed full of features. They're also VERY well organized making customization less painful. So enough yammering for now... anyone know of something, besides Php-List, with many of the same features as Php-List; maintaining a mailing list with a server-side database, custom sign-up pages, automatic opt-in opt-out, allowing custom HTML newsletter templates, etc? Thank-you!


Easy-to-use, hosted web-shop with the ability to accept credit card payments

I'm looking for an easy-to-use web-shop, with the ability to pay by credit- card. Can you recommend any providers? I've not yet researched this myself, and I've never dealt with credit card payments, so any and all advice on that subject is welcome. P.S.: I am a full-time web-developer, so don't be afraid to get technical.


Simple mod_rewrite Question

I want to have everything that looks like this: /1/2/3/4/5/[...] to redirect to this: /index.php?u=/1/2/3/4/5/[...] **unless** the requested string is a specific file. So anything that doesn't have a ".", I want to redirect to "index.php?u=[...]". I'll then parse the URI segments in PHP to determine what the user is requesting. I've been looking around for how to do this, but have only a very rough understanding of regular expressions and have been unable to find an example of how to do it. Thanks!


Good tools to measure a  page’s usefulness?

I'd like to add a "Was this page useful?" part at the end of multiple pages for visitors to rate the page and leave feedback. I could program this myself, store the data and make the reports that my client wants, but there must be an existing tool that I can incorporate that already does this. Is there anybody who has had experience in using a tool for the same purpose? And what tool did you use?


DMCA in Europe - EUCD?

There is a site to where I need to send a takedown notice. However, this site is hosted in Europe with an offshore hosting company that says clear in its TOS that they will not do anything if they get a DMCA complain, giving freedom to clients to host whatever copyrighted material they want. Is EUCD the correct way to deal with this? Where can I find an example of a EUCD complain or even a form? DMCA has all types of examples and places to get a sample form, but EUCD has none.


Structured data extracted but still getting an error 'Either price or review or availability needs to be present'

Google always gives the error 'Either price or review or availability needs to be present' even though price & availability are present. Have a look at the code.               while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results))             {                 print                 "
" .                 "
".                 "
".$row["product_name"]."
".                 "
(" .$row["name_gujarati"]. ")
";                      if($login==1)                 {                 print                 "

";                 }                 else                 {                 print                 "

";                 }                 print                 "".                 "
<meta itemprop='currency' content='INR'/>₹ ".$row["price"]."
".                 "
".$row["priceper"]."
".                 "
".                 "<form name='addtocart' id='form' method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data' action='updatecart.php'>".                 "Qty:  <input type='text' id='quantity' name='quantity' required='required' autocomplete='off'>".                 " <select name='type' style='height: 25px; border-radius: 8px; border-color:#A5ACB2; border-style:solid;   border-width: thin;'>";                 if($row["priceper"]=='Price per Unit'){                 print                 "<option value='KiloGrams' disabled='disabled'>KiloGrams</option>".                 "<option value='Grams' disabled='disabled'>Grams</option>".                 "<option value='Unit'>Unit</option>";                 }                 else{                 print                 "<option value='KiloGrams'>KiloGrams</option>".                 "<option value='Grams'>Grams</option>".                 "<option value='Unit' disabled='disabled'>Unit</option>";                 }                 print                 "</select>".                 "
".                 "
".                 "<input type='hidden' name='id' value='{$row["productid"]}'>".                 "<input type='hidden' name='name' value='{$row["product_name"]}'>".                 "".                 "<input type='submit' style='padding:10px 10px;' class='button' value='Buy Now'>".                 "".                 "".                 "</form>".                 "
".                 "
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";             }      Can anyone help what's wrong with it?


Should category pages be noindex regarding panda?

I have seen this question, but I believe the situation has changed a lot with the recent Panda updates. I have created a set of category pages to facilitate navigation on my site. It is a proper hierarchy with no duplicates. However, these pages contain mostly navigation links. Could these be considered thin content by Google? Or, is there a good reason I should mark them as noindex? Or should let Google index them? **Update:** After running some tests, I can confirm for sure that letting Google index my category pages triggered a silent penalty where all my indexed pages where not matched to user queries anymore. I had a high rate of those pages on my site. First, I marked them a 'noindex,follow', but it had no impact, since these pages where still in the index. I decided to use the 'remove URL' feature of GWT aggressively to blast those pages away from the index. It worked. Within a day, Google was starting to match remaining pages with user queries again.


When does Google consider linking as bad-neighborhood / link scheme/ spamming etc.?

I cannot understand this concept, please give me some clarity on this. If I link to a site, and it links to me, then is it a link scheme ? I see many seo companies link to their other sites, from their sites, and they rank well. Is it ok to exchange links between the sites I have built ? and moreover, is it ok to give a link to my w3c html validation page, since it gives back a 'follow' link to me ? the anchor text is my domain name.


Is it considered blackhat SEO to have hidden text within links?

My aim is to simply be informative about where a link is pointing to search engines. I have some content that is listed by name and then I have a "Permalink" button. Would it be blackhat SEO to add some hidden text within the anchor that describes where the permalink is pointing? My content is like so:               News Item 1     Permalink      (<hidden>News Item 1</hidden> Permalink)     Teaser text..      The news title of the block already links to the article, but I think it would be of benefit to users to provide and explicit permalink button.


What's the best micropayment solution for a web app?

If I want users to pay $0.10 every time they access a piece of content on my site, is there a broadly accepted solution for this?


Async load of secondary content; Google says "slow", users see what they want faster

We have a performance problem on our site, and we're digging in to correct some rather basic issues -- we know we have many opportunities to improve performance -- this question is about one, in particular. Our special case is that we intentionally defer loading of one part of our page that is inherently slow until after the stuff users really wants is up and rendered. But tools like NewRelic, and Google PageSpeed all see this as a slow-loading page -- 5+ seconds. You can see the case at at pubget.com where we display search results for research papers. We allow users get full article and display either "View" or "Buy" buttons depending on some fairly complicated rules (e.g. if their company/university has a subscription to the journal, but there's a lot more) -- these rules take time to calculate. So we load the search results, and then _after_ the page is displayed, we do an AJAX request to get the View/Buy buttons. The actual work of figuring out what buttons to display (and where they should link) takes about a second, more or less. It seems like the right thing to do from a user experience standpoint, but I wonder if it affects how users and Google sees our site. (If you do look at the page, you'll see any number of other equally important things we're doing wrong. I know about these and we're going to fix them.)


Turning off Webalizer and/or AW Stats

On our dedicated server, we have AW Stats and Webalizer both running. I see I can turn them off in WHM. We use Google Analytics, but also AW Stats sometimes. We never use Webzlier. My question is: Does disabling Webalizer and/or AW Stats reduce any load on the server, apache or mysql? Is there a benefit to turning it off? Thanks.


How to handle URL parameter for mobile site

I have a phpBB forum with a skin for mobile users. Some javascript detects your device/resolution and sends you to the mobile skin or not. The URL's remain the same, it's based on a cookie. People that are on a larger screen, can still choose to use the mobile skin, by pressing a button that will send you to site.com/current_page?mobile=mobile. I have 2 problems with this:   1. Duplicate pages on Google. I don't see any doubles popping up yet, but it's bound to happen right?   2. Sometimes Google indexes the mobile link. This causes desktop users to go to the mobile skin automatically and is certainly not intended functionality. Will disallow *?mobile=mobile in robots.txt solve my problem? Can disallowing the parameter in GWT help? The parameter doesn't change the content, only the layout, so I can put it on ignore, but will (could) it help with my problem?


Google Analytics reporting 5% of users using IE on one site. Most other sites I track are still around 40%. What gives?

I have Google Analytics (GA) tracking set up for a number of websites, many I help friends with, did as consulting in the past, etc, and the one for the company I am working with now. In this case, GA is reporting only about 5% of users using IE for my current site, where others are seeing around 40%. The site works OK in IE, but it hasn't been our focus, since it's new and we're trying to do HTML 5 except where it really breaks things badly. I could understand why a visitor might leave the site -- some fancier navigation and forms are kind of lame with IE8 or less (fine with IE9). But I am looking at pure visits. I looked only at new visits -- people who have never seen the site before, and still a very small percentage of IE. I segmented out for just desktop users. I removed one large source of ad traffic. But all the numbers show the same thing -- low (5%) and falling IE usage over time. The site is public and useful for normal people, not geeks. We get a significant volume -- more than several thousand visits a day. And we have confirmed generally that GA is tracking usage approximately correctly by comparing to other tracking tools. I am mystified. Any theories welcomed! Tom


Are there any SEO implications to switching a parked domain to an addon domain

I have parked domain on my site that redirects to a sub-folder. When you navigate the the URL you get something that looks like;               www.mainsite.com/parked_domain/whatever_page.html      The site was initially set up like this because the webhost at the time charge an additional fee for addon domains so the above was seen as an acceptable compromise. Now the site is on a new host and addon domains are free. I wanted to switch the set up using an addon domain so navigating to the URL looks like;               www.parked_domain.com/whatever_page.html      Would this impact anything?


How is crawler seeing unlinked directories / files?

I'm running a crawler on my website to test for broken links and such. It starts by using a URL like www.domain.com One curious thing is that it is showing directories with no internal links. For example, directory /example_dir/ is showing up in the crawl tree, but I can't find any internal link to that directory within the pages. How could this be happening and is there a way to prevent it?


getting mod_rewrite to work on Mac OS X

I'm trying to get mod rewrite to work on my Mac. This is the content of the .htaccess file:               <Files *\.ini>       order allow,deny       deny from all     </Files>          RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule .* index.php      I know this is active, because it's blocking .ini files properly, and it seems to rewrite the fictional request `/foo` to `index.php`, as this is the error I'm seeing in the browser: > The requested URL /Users/rwel/Sites/dev/quaestio/index.php was not found on > this server. The index.php file currently just contains an exit statement for testing purposes, and it does work when calling it directly. So, the question is, what's going wrong? I went into the apache error log, and this is what I saw: > [Thu Nov 03 14:36:02 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: > /Library/WebServer/Documents/Users So the problem might be that it's not searching in the root, but relative to the `/Library/WebServer/Documents` directory. Am I right? How can I fix this?


How to edit thousands of html pages at once?

I need to edit thousands of pages for a website with dynamic content added manually by the owner throughout 3 years, it has thousands of pages and I'm sure there is a better way to edit them without spending hours opening each one of them. I know it would be easy to just edit the styles.css but page dynamics like the positions of the google ad-boxes are individually edited inside the html of each page, so there is no way to solve this through css. Is there some sort of code, script and macro that can edit the pages at once?


What is best practice for search engines when a website is under maintenance?

I need around a week to transition a heavily data-driven website from one back end to another. During that time I do plan to attempt to keep some pages live, but they won't all work well or look brilliant. Some pages won't work at all. What is the best way to ensure I don't scare Google? Should I hide everything from robots.txt, or mark everything that doesn't work as "503", or are there other things that I should be considering?


Protecting a webpage with an authentication form

I have created an employee webpage with a lot of company info, links, etc., but I want to protect the page because it contains some confidential company information. I am running IIS7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2, and I already have the site setup as a normal, non-protected site. I want all active directory users to have access to the site. This is not an intranet site, it is exposed to the internet. I tried setting it up using Windows Authentication, but I had problems with multiple login prompts, etc. I just want a simple form for users to enter their credentials and have access to the site, and I need it to query the AD for login. I've searched the web for a guide on this, but I can't seem to find one that fits my situation. This is not a Web App. It is just a simple html site. Does anyone have any suggestions or a link to a guide on this? Thanks so much! -LB


Value of shorter domain names

I asked this on serverfault and was recommended to try here, so I'm reposting this. Is it still valuable to have a shorter domain name? My company site is currently located at nexustechnologiesllc.com and I have the opportunity to buy nexusllc.com, but I'm really torn on the value of said domain. Shorter names obviously used to be much more valuable because people were more likely to type in a domain name, but now, with everyone pretty much searching, that value seems to be reduced. The other aspect that I'm considering with this is typing in an email address, because people might still be typing that in semi-regularly. But again, I'm not sure how important that aspect is either.


URL slugs: ideal length, and the real SEO effects of these slugs

this question is addressed widely on SO and outside it, but for some reason, instead of taking it as a good load of great advice, all this information is confusing me. ** **Problem** ** I already had, on one of my sites, "prettified" urls. I had taken out the query strings, rewritten the URLS, and the link was short enough for me, but had a problem: the ID of the item or post in the URL isn't good for users. One of the users asked is there's a way to get rid of numbers, and I thought it was better for users to just see a clue of the page content in the URL. ** **Solution** ** With this in mind, I am trying with a section of the site.Armed with 301 redirects, some parsing work, and a lot of patience, I have added the URL slugs to some blog entries, and the slug of the URL reports the title of the article (something close to `http://example.com/my- news/terribly-boring-and-long-url-that-replaces-the-number-I-liked-so-much/` ** **Problems after Solution** ** The problem, as I see it, is that now the URL of those blog articles is very descriptive for sure, but it is also impossible to remember. So, this brings me to the same issue I had with my previous problem: if numbers say nothing and can't be remembered, what's the use of these slugs? I prefer to see `http://example.com/my-news/1/` than `http://example.com/my-news/terribly-boring-and-long-url-that-replaces-the- number-I-liked-so-much/` To avoid forcing my user to memorize my URLS, I have added a script that finds the closest match to the URL you type, and redirects there. This is something I like, because the page now acts as a sort of little search engine, and users can play with the URLS to find articles. ** **Open questions** ** I still have some open questions, and don't seem to be able to find an answer, because answers tend to contradict one another. 1) **_How many characters should an URL ideally be long?_** I've read the magic number **115** and am sticking to that, but am not sure. 2) **_Is this really good for SEO?_** One of those blog articles I have redirected, with ID number in the URL and all, ranked second on Google. I've just found this question, and the answer seems to be consistent with what I think URL slug and SEO - structure (but see this other question with the opposite opinion) 3) **_To make a question with a specific example, wouldthis URL risk to be penalized?_** Is it acceptable? Is it too long? StackOverflow seems to have comparably long URLs, but I'm not sure it's a winning strategy in my case. I just wanted to facilitate my users without running into Google's algorithms.


How do you make a favicon appear on a redirected site?

I have a Wordpress blog hosted on my domain. I have redirected a URL to a subfolder of my domain where the blog is installed. How can I get a specific favicon to appear for that blog but NOT for my primary website? The favicon appears if I use: www.kleymeyer.com/laketravisparents but not if navigating using the redirected site: www.laketravisparents.com And very annoyingly, only with the Chrome browser, the Time Warner RoadRunner icon will appear as a favicon when using www.laketravisparents.com !


Pointing subdomain to my server

My bro is using a service of a third party(say, `X`), with DNS addresses:               ns1.x.com     ns2.x.com      So, bro bought a domain name, say `abc.com`. And pointed the DNS addresses with the above ones. Now, bro wants to create a subdomain, say `mysite.abc.com` with custom content. But this service provider `X`, doesn't offer hosting of files that we give to them for the subdomain. Instead, they said they have created a subdomain and is pointing to my server(say, with an IP: `123.99.2.123`) So, how do I add a subdomain for `mysite.abc.com` in my server? BTW, I'm having a VPS server, with root access. So far, I can see that adding a subdomain is possible only if the main domain is added. What changes do I have to make in my server so that, when accessing `mysite.abc.com`, files from my server would be delivered? Sorry, I am not sure whether I confused you. Let me know if you need me to rephrase the issue or explain it with visual examples or something. Thank you


Does Google Analytics automatically handle URLs containing a jsessionid?

When a user visits my web site, the first page they load has a _jsessionid_ appended to the URL like this: `http://foo.com/Welcome.do;jsessionid=1234567890abcdef` Note that the jsessionid parameter is separated using a `;` and not a `?` like typical query parameters. Given that this is a fairly common pattern for sites with a Java backend, does Google Analytics automatically account for this somehow and ignore the `;` and everything after it? If not, what must I do to tell Google Analytics to ignore the `;jsessionid` portion of a URL?


Point me to some modern blog service

I want to start my own blog. What are the modern blog services? wordpress.com? blogger.com? What would you propose?


How to introduce large number of pages (that are only accessible through an ajax driven search mechanism) to search engines

We've got a web application with the main purpose of searching through a set of records search mechanism itself is completely AJAX based. A typical search URL would be something like this:   * `/search#arg0=v0&arg1=v1` (it can go up to 20 args) Currently there are about 1000 records added to the database daily. Each 30 to 50 records out of those 1000 may have similar page titles (but not exactly the same). I would like to get those results indexed. My solution is to add links of some specified search queries to the sitemap. We don't know how frequently crawling happens, or how many records should be display as search results (which makes some records to be missed). We can check the user agent string to get rid of AJAX driven stuff. and send the snapshot of the response to search engines. To solve the missed records issue I thought maybe store the time of last crawl somewhere and show the results according to that value. but that imposes a security issue. if someone changes the user agent value and send a request, that crawl time value can be easily changed. Any ideas? is there a better, more straight-forward way than this?


Over 200 links in yahoo, none on google webmaster tools?

I have over 200 links on yahoo site explorer, but only 2 on webmaster tools. Does anyone know why this is? My site is in the sandbox by the way, but i dont think that that effects the backlinks.


Google Analytics - Consolidating Visitors Flow between same page with and without "/"

As shown on the picture below , analytics displays `sheet-metal` and `sheet- metal/` differently. On my website all the links point to the page with `/` and a quick search for links using `link:` found no links to the page without the `/`. When accessing the website, `sheet-metal` automatically redirects to `sheet- metal/` ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SXMHr.png) Is this an analytic problem, normal behavior or is it something on my end? What can i do to fix this? Thanks.


Best way to take down site for a long period while I develop it

Rather foolishly, I have been developing my site on a live server (with VCS don't worry), kind of using it as a portfolio / show off piece. It is far from finished. Recently, I noticed that Google started to spider it, including some of the debug data accessible across the site as it's in 'debug' mode. I'm not sure of the future effects this will have on my site when it is finally released - especially as some pages are just erroring out while I develop and there is some gobbledygook/dummy/blank data on a few pages. SEO wise, what are the best steps to take to not incur any present or future Google penalty? One thing I thought of was to possible disallow spidering in robots.txt, put up a splash page and then setup a decent sitemap when the site is live again. Regardless I am going to setup a development domain somewhere but would like to know the safest way of migrating it down.


Google penalty resulting from duplicate content and backlinks on dealer websites

We have a dealer network that sells our products, as a bonus we give them an extra 25% off our products from the normal wholesale price if they put our products on their site. We recently got hit with a Google manual penalty so we enlisted the help of "LinkDelete" to help us get rid of all the backlinks. Some of our dealer websites are in the list of bad backlinks they gave us. They told us this is because of duplicate content. What we do is give our dealers HTML snippets so they can just copy and paste it on their site. The HTML contains absolute URLs to pictures of our products, short descriptions, and links back to our website. We want our SEO rankings restored, so do we just tell our dealers to remove our links?


How to avoid DotNetNuke with another ASP.NET application conflicts

Web have the following scenario:   * A generic web developed using DotNetNuke   * A b2b web application developed using ASP.NET + Silverlight What we want to do is the following:   * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com the web that the client access is the Dotnetnuke Web.   * When a client goes to www.myCompanyDomain.com/b2b the web loaded is the B2B web. The problem is that when we install the DotNetNuke application into the main directory of our web server the Web.Config configuration file is inherited by any application installed in a subdirectory, causing the B2B application to fail. In order to have a working installation we have to install the DotNetNuke web in a subdirectory and the B2B web in another, but this make impossible to access the DotNetNuke web directly from www.MyCompanyDomain.com How can we install the applications and configure the IIS to have the wanted behavior?


Is co.cc actually free?

i have a co.cc domain before. it is stated that renewal is free for personal use. but i have a doamin i used previously that requires $3 for renewal. is this correct?