Force Facebook to use large images when sharing my page

When I share content from my site it posts an image to Facebook as it should. I have noticed that the image is small, roughly 100x100 at best. Yet on other people's posts of content from other sites the content is much larger. (320x320 roughly.) I do not know why the images from my site are reduced to such a small size. The images on my site are much larger than the thumbnails. I use AddThis to share my photos. Is this playing a part or am I missing some code on my site? Any help with this is greatly appreciated and any clarification I can offer I will. **Update** I have added OG Tags as Nick recommended in an answer below, the image is still small, here is the code I used:               <meta property="og:title" content="My Title" />     <meta property="og:type" content="article" />     <meta property="og:url" content="URL Path" />     <meta property="og:image" content="Image File Path" />     <meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpeg" />     <meta property="og:image:width" content="620" />     <meta property="og:image:height" content="541" />      Any ideas how to increase the size? It might would help to understand why Facebook shows some images at one size and others and another size.


Dokuwiki: Moving Just the data directory on other server

I have installed dokuwiki on IIS7. As per my teams requirement we have to move just the Data directory to other server location. e.g - IIS7 installed Dokuwiki location: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\dokuwiki\conf - data location on the other server we want: U:\Archive\LP_Archive\SH_Systems\DEV01\dokuwiki So for doing that I followed pointers on dokuwiki install iis7 As per the above link, I tried adding IUSR to data folder permissions but its failing due to my insufficient privileges. And without that IUSR permission set on data folder I am getting an error as "The datadir ('pages') at is not found, isn't accessible or writable". Is there any other way to make it work?   * Is there any other account than IUSR I can use?


Dynamic URLs are Restricted by Robots.txt; does it really matter for SEO?

Today, I was searching for Robots.txt on Google and I found this such a great thread regarding it. I checked Google webmaster tools and found that, there are 117 URLs are restricted by Robots.txt. That number will increase in near future because, it's all about dynamic URLs. You can know more by this excel sheet. If I will restrict dynamic URLs which are associated to my category pages so will it create any negative impact on organic SEO?


Does Google Analytics track links that use onclick="parent.location='Something.html' "?

I am using onclick="parent.location='#'" to make a table into a link, but will Google Analytics see this as a link or will it cause mayhem in the reports?


Google's image search… but for video

The company I work for is preparing a user-submitted video contest. One problem that we're concerned about is that someone might download another video from Youtube/Vimeo/whatever and pass it off as their own. Google's image search allows you to upload an image and search for similar ones; is there a similar online tool for video, which might allow us to find duplicate videos?


Tools for tracking clicks

Are there any tools availible for tracking users clicks on a website, both internal and external? Preferably one that is free and can track a series of clicks from a user (Example, user clicked 'blog' then 'archives' then a particular article)


Problem using mod_deflate with ProxyPass

Using Apache 2.0 (2.0.53) on a particular legacy system, enabling mod_deflate causes directly-served content to be gzip-encoded just fine. However, and this is my problem, content proxied from another server using ProxyPass is not getting gzip-encoded. Wireshark shows me there is no encoding header in the response and the body is in plain text. I have another similar system, also running Apache 2.0 (2.0.52), where the proxied content IS being gzipped, and I can't find any significant difference between the configuration of the two systems. Details: mod_deflate is being enabled using a file `/etc/httpd/conf.d/deflate.conf` containing:               <ifModule mod_deflate.c>     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css text/plain     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript application/json     </ifModule>      The proxying is being done within the `<VirtualHost>` section using these lines:               ProxyPass /mtserver http://localhost:8000     ProxyPassReverse /mtserver http://localhost:8000      Can anyone point me at a possible reason for one system not compressing the proxied content?


Form label position for best usability

I'm creating a form that will ask a visitor for their `firstname`, `middle initial`, and `lastname`. I want the those text fields to be all inline, but where should I place the labels? On the left, top, or under the fields. I'm looking for the best approach from a usability standpoint.


Webmin - Setting up multiple virtual hosts - Subdomains

Can someone please help me in using WEBMIN to setup virtual hosts.   1. My current domain www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com currently functions. Settings are as follows - Apache - Handles the name-based server www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com on all addresses Address Any Port 80 Server Name www.MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com Document Root /var/www/html BIND DNS Server - Master Zone MYDOMAINLOLFAKE.com ns1.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works ns2.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works www.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE -works mail.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works ftp.mydomainlolfake.com IPHERE - works What I need - something.mydomainlolfake.com -- CANT GET THIS TO WORK What I tried - Create new virtual host Handles the name-based server something.mydomainlolfake.com on something.mydomainlolfake.com Address Any Port 81 Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/something What happens - I create the new VHOST and then ALL address try to go to that new Document root. I need different addresses to go to their respective folders. Can someone please give me better instructions on how to set that up using webmin? TLDR# How do I make a something.mydomainlolfake.com subdomain work in webmin on my CENTOS 6 web server?


Google Adwords - Conversion lag time

In google adwords I notice that there is a delay of at least two days before conversions are reported, but the rest of the data (clicks, cost, ctr, etc) shows up almost real-time. Is there any documentation that specifies a standard for why or how long it takes for conversions to show up on the adwords interface?


I'm trying to make the decision whether to use OpenID or stay with a well- built custom login system. I think the appeal of OpenID is clear, in that the user doesn't have to create yet another account to log into your site. But can you help me answer the question: What do I lose if I use OpenID instead of the custom login system I built?


Which is better: Inbound links to a single site or spread over multiple sites?

If I have 1000 external links with 50 distinct keywords, is it better to direct them all at one site or 10 different sites? The numbers are just examples.


Online gift certificates: Systems to avoid fraud

What good methods are there out there for avoiding fraud with electronic gift certificates (ones which are created and the information distributed electronically via website)? I'm looking to audit/redesign an existing system, and want to get a good overview of the parts of the system that would be good to put in place to decrease fraud. A few parts that I can think of that I am interested in to start with:   * Rejection criteria   * Flagging criteria (e.g. if the date range between purchase and use is huge, different countries of origin, etc)    * Theft indications   * Prevention of oracle attacks on a gift card system (e.g. randomly trying gift cert authentications until one works)   * Data to include as part of the gift certificate for later authentication.   * Authentication systems for verifying that the gift certificates actually match.   * etc I don't think it matters too much for the topic (unless there are libraries to check into?), but I'm running a site with a php backend.


Facebook Connect with CodeIgniter login problems

I'm having a problem using Facebook Connect on my latest website. I'm running it using the CodeIgniter framework and Elliot Haughin's library (http://www.haughin.com/code/facebook/). Everything is setup okay, when the user goes to login, the request is sent to Facebook okay and returns with the code (which i presume identifies the session?). However, it doesnt seem to update the library, and after doing all this still thinks that the user is not logged in. It makes me think its a bug in the library itself, but I can't see anyone else with this problem. I have tried dumping the error log from the library but it doesnt find any problems.


Does blogging with popular cms like wordpress makes my website an authority website in SEO? **----OR ----** does blogging on popular cms platform like wordpress helps in SEO as compared to using a proprietary CMS?


How to disable the grey hover pane in Firebug?

I have been using Firebug for several years, and I don't know if it's an option I have activated by mistake, or it's a new feature. When I want to see the HTML structure of a web page and I click on an HTML tag to see the style options, a grey pop-up opens with a link to `http://www.w3.org/XXX`. The link may be useful, but this panel is quite annoying because it covers almost all of the styles panel and part of the web view. I have been trying to find how to disable it in Google and firebug wiki, but I can't find the option as I don't know how is it called. Does anybody know where to disable it? I'm using Firebug 1.11.2 with Firefox 19.0.2 in Linux (Debian) Thanks in advance


Am I allowed to use public Facebook pictures on my site?

On my website, I am currently grabbing multiple albums with pictures from multiple Facebook pages. This is only possible because the owner of the pages have set the privacy to public, and so you are not required to even login to Facebook to view the images. Am I allowed to show them on my site? I don't store them at all in anyway, I grab everything from Facebook with the Facebook FQL method. I basically just put the image links in a `img` and set it up so its nice to view through the images.


Server error log question

I keep getting this error log message below. How can I fix? > [:warn] [pid 29746] (104)Connection reset by peer: [client > 157.55.35.77:34179] mod_fcgid: ap_pass_brigade failed in handle_request_ipc > function Do I need to edit a file in WHM or cPanel? If so, what file?


Is all data about a domain name provided to a TLD registry by the registrar visible on Whois?

I am trying to understand more about how the domain registration process works between the registry and the registrar. My question is when a domain name is registered by a registrar such as GoDaddy, is all the information that the registrar forwards to the TLD registry about that domain name publicly available for view on Whois or is there some information that is hidden by the registry? When a domain name is purchased with the option of 'private registrations' so that the registrar hides confidential information like address details, is that information kept private by the registrar only or does it also get passed on to the registry but flagged as private information?


How can I remove the .html extension for static webpages that are indexed so they'll still work in a WordPress site?

I have a static HTML website with less than 100 pages and 99 of them are indexed in Google's search engine. I want to convert it into a WordPress website, but there are some problems I'm worried about. My HTML website pages have an `.html` extension at the end of them and they're indexed with that extension, so converting those pages (even with the same content) to a WordPress page without any extension causes my whole website to be removed from Google's search. I'm going to need to make sure that the `.html` extension is removed from URLs that already have just an `.html` extension. I want to do this using a _.htaccess_ file. I found the following code, but it doesn't work:               ^(([^/]+/)*[^/.]+)\.html?$


I would like to share how I configured my Web server for educational reasons. Should I worry that this is a security risk?

I just finished setting up a server to run a python pyramid application, and while I did not find any guidance on the Internet that helped me, I feel like I could contribute one myself. I'm considering posting all of the commands that I used, in order, on my blog (with passwords removed, of course). However, this will result in me sharing my directory structure, deployment script, user list, IP tables config, and other things which occur to me could be advantageous to a hacker. It's obvious that it's better for me not to share this information, but is the security risks so great that I should worry about sharing this stuff? If so, what parts of it should I be most worried about?


What is the process of dynamic sitemap creation?

I am working on a website which have 12Lack pages, so, I want build dynamic sitemap hence I want to know the process of dynamic sitemap creation. tell me if have another way to create sitemap for such of pages. Thanks Pawan


How would I tell if a prospective client website is under DDoS attack?

I have a person asking me whether the DDoS Mitigation Service they're using is worth it. This is out of my expertise, but clearly at some point someone sold this service to the client. Assuming I don't have anything but a domain name, what information can I gather about whether they are indeed under attack and/or how well the DDoS Mitigation Service is working? Assume I don't have any administrative access to the site/server(s) in question.


How does the new iPad's (aka iPad 3) resolution play with responsive design?

So "the new iPad" has been released with a new "retina display" resolution of 2048x1536 px, but the screen size is still 9.7 inches as the previous iPad... I am wondering how will CSS media queries respond to this device? How will we design a tablet version (i.e. for browser viewports <768px) if the browser reads 1536px width?


Adding Google star Rating to the search Result

I need to add _star rating_ to my site for showing the star image rating in search results. I did a search on the internet and read a few articles on it. It is basically Microformats and the related tags. I'm still confused about the review. What if I need to use the tripadvisor review and rating on the search results. How can I do that or can anybody tell me about the code that I need to put in to my pages. I'm sorry for not being sound to this question.


RSS aggregator with related headlines...like Google News

Does anybody know of a script that would allow me to aggregate RSS feeds (and possibly have users submit their own) while also identifying related/similar headlines much like Google News? I don't care if it's a standalone script or a plugin for something like WordPress or Drupal. Any suggestions?


How can I confirm the results of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) work?

Is there some recommended way of confirming that SEO is working and that your website actually climbs in Google searches? Should you just search yourself and see how it goes, should you in that case use different computers from different locations, or how do you go about it?


Redirect from the main page on multilanguage site

I've decided to start developing multilingual web site. Now I'm thinking about the structure. The idea is to use a simple algorithm to find out what language is most interesting to the visitor when he makes his first visit to the root page, and then forward him to the corresponding address, for example, `http://example.com/en/` for English-speaking audience and `http://example.com/ru/` for Russians. The question is, how search engines react on such redirect? If this approach does not take away site's reputation, which redirects should I choose: 301 or 302? I would be very grateful for the reasoned response.


duplicate links to subdomain hurting SEO

I have a main site, http://hollywoodnose.com and http://forum.hollywoodnose.com. What I was doing was showing the 8 most recent forum posts in the right column of http://hollywoodnose.com. In my Google Webmasters account for the forum subdomain it shows 300+ incoming links fromt the main domain. Obviously it sees every page as in incoming link. Since then my traffic is literally cut in half. I've removed the recent forum posts fromt the main domain and guess I can only wait now. This seems really odd to me that this would happen. I still have a link in the nav bar of the main domain to the forum and one in the footer. Will the same thing (duplicate links) happen or will I have to remove these two links or possibly set them to rel="nofollow"? Would that make it seem like spam? How do I handle this situation and has anyone ever dealt with something like this? Thank you.


PHP framework/CMS to use for website

My website will consist of three(for now) different web apps built using Javascript and HTML Canvas. For the most part, the main interaction will be the API/AJAX calls made to the website from the javascript web apps. Aside from the web apps and the php pages that will handle the ajax requests, there will be areas that cover new products, and some other static pages, and a blog section. I'm the PHP developer for this project and we haven't decided if we will separate the web apps, and the blogging/content portion of our website into two different websites or not. I will need to build things like a user management/authentication/authorization system, tabular data info display on the web app users statistics and various other things like that. What are some recommended PHP frameworks for a small project like this? We don't expect users to be massive. We aren't sure yet if we will use a CMS either. One thing that's important is that the front end developers are using Sproutcore to build their web apps, and I'm still not sure yet how that will affect the decision of which framework/cms to use. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


Is it better to have multiple domains for cities or one single TLD?

I make websites for small businesses, and for some reason business owners love to have several domains with the same website but the TLD containing the city name. For example:   1. smallbizname.com   2. clevelandsmallbizname.com   3. columbussmallbizname.com   4. cincinnatismallbizname.com I've seen questions about localization per country aspects, but this is a much smaller scale, so I don't think the same rules apply. The problem I have is the companies never want to write separate content per domain, just have the same website hosted several times at each domain. I feel this probably hurts SEO for two reasons:   1. Traffic gets scattered throughout domains, could be boosting just one domain.   2. Duplicate content penalty because the content is identical. My question boils down to this: should I redirect all the city domains to the main business name domain, or does having these separate sites help to rank better per city? If they are redirected, how does Google rank the redirects?


Are HTML sitemaps important from a SEO perspective?

Are HTML sitemaps (like this one http://www.google.com/sitemap.html) important from a SEO perspective, or is uploading an XML to Google enough? Beside from visualizing a data structure for the user, why do you create HTML sitemaps? Internal link power?


Using mod_speling with multi-level htaccess and rewriterules

We recently switched formats for managing our 301s. For the most part, everything went well, but it seems to have stopped mod_speling from working properly. Here's what we changed: old /var/www/html/.htaccess:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          # Change SHTML to HTML     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.shtml$ $1.html [R=permanent,L]          # Change PCF to HTML ('cause, you know, we probably have CMS users like that...)     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.pcf$ $1.html [R=permanent,L]          # Force WWW subdomain for all requests     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.edu$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.edu/$1 [R,L]          # User accounts are on sun.example.edu     RedirectMatch ^/~(.*)$ http://sun.example.edu/~$1          # Remove index.html at the end of URLs     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*/)index\.html$ [NC]     RewriteRule . %1 [R=301,NE,L]          Redirect 301 /academics/calendar2012-13.html http://www.example.edu/academics/calendar.html     Redirect 301 /academics/departments/   http://www.example.edu/majors/     Redirect 301 /academics/Pre-Medical.pdf http://www.example.edu/academics/Pre-Medicine.pdf     Redirect 301 ...      new /var/www/html/.htaccess:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          # Change SHTML to HTML     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.shtml$ $1.html [R=permanent,L]          # Change PCF to HTML ('cause, you know, we probably have CMS users like that...)     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.pcf$ $1.html [R=permanent,L]          # Force WWW subdomain for all requests     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.edu$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.edu/$1 [R,L]          # User accounts are on sun.example.edu     RedirectMatch ^/~(.*)$ http://sun.example.edu/~$1          # Remove index.html at the end of URLs     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*/)index\.html$ [NC]     RewriteRule . %1 [R=301,NE,L]               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*) 404/$1      And then we added a new file at /var/www/html/404/.htaccess:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /404          RewriteRule ^academics/calendar2012-13.html$    /academics/calendar.html    [R=302,L]     RewriteRule ^academics/departments/$    /majors/    [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^academics/Pre-Medical.pdf$ /academics/Pre-Medicine.pdf[R=301,L]     RewriteRule ...      I do have (Webmin-based) access to the httpd.conf (though we don't want to store all our 301s there, if possible). We're running Apache 2.2.15 on RHEL 6 on a server in our own data center. Like I said, the only problem we're seeing is that mod_speling isn't doing its magic anymore. The new format has so many advantages over the old that we really don't want to go back, but mod_speling is so nice to have that we'd also really like it to work if possible. Any ideas for how we might be able to fix mod_speling?


Does the period of hosting impact website rankings on search engines? If so, what should be the minimum period one should host?


Amazon S3 or Dedicated Storage Server for small business site Image Hosting

We have a small business website that needs to host lot of images and we are trying to decide if we need s3 to host all our images or should we just use a NAS for storing and hosting our images Our website allows user to customize their Products with any uploaded art/photo image. The design images and user uploaded artwork images need to be stored. In addition We have 1000's of assets files for Product images,Design ideas images. So,we will adding images of approx 10gb per month. The Products and design ideas pages will be accessed more frequently.When we ran our numbers we found that S3 costs comes to approx $$1500/month . (only for hosting images) (This is due to great number of put/list/get requests in accessing s3 for our site ). We are not quite sure if we need to use S3 or use a dedicated storage server for hosting all our images or use a hybrid option- use S3 to host all user designs and uploaded files and dedicated server for all assets images that has lot of requests. Currently we only have 1 web server that serves all images and assets on its local drive and it does work ok. We do have a System Administrator who can manage our dedicated servers well if we decide not to use s3 at all. (We are not considering about Ec2 here and are going to have our web server running on one of our dedicated server only) Can you please tell your thoughts and a solution to this?Will it be economical to maintain our own Storage and retrieving it than from S3.


Why should I use a Content Management System?

I've heard a lot about cms's like drupal, joomla, and wordpress. I've always hand-coded most of my PHP and HTML and done fine. What are the pros and cons of using a cms?


How do I properly point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com?

I'm trying to point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com. They are both hosted on _different_ servers. I've tried changing the CNAME, but that is giving me a "You don't have permission." error when I go to sub.domain1.com in my browser. Currently, I'm url masking sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com, but I don't want to do this for various reasons. I would like sub.domain1.com url to remain in the address bar. This is for my mobile site, just an fyi.


easy tool for creating XML sitemaps? (constantly expanding site)

Does anyone recommend either   * a php script that I can run as a CRON or   * somekind of thirdparty tool i can use to create sitemaps? * * * My website is events bases and so the pages are pretty temporal with 20+ new pages per day... Google suggests these: http://code.google.com/p/sitemap- generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators However they all look pretty old and i was wondering if there's some flashy new tool to do it with!


How to configure comment notification such that no emails are sent in case of spam?

I have a drupal 6 site running with blogs on it. I use the comment notify module to implement wordpress-like notification of new comments and the antispam module for keeping the spam off the site. The issue I have is that commenters get email notification for each comment, including the spam ones, eventhough the antispam module filters those out nicely. My question: how can I configure both modules such that only email notification go out in case of ham comments? Do I need additional modules to make this happen? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Nick.


Google Webmaster Tools shows backlinks which are not active anymore - how do I remove them?

In _Google Webmaster Tools -> Search Traffic-> Links to your site_ , I have a lot of backlinks which are not there anymore. For example, Google Webamaster Tools shows that there is a link coming from `http://example.com`. When I check that domain, there is nothing there linked back to my site anymore. Is there a way to remove these ghost backlinks?


How to serve static content without https in a secure site?

I want to serve static content from my site but my site is https-only. My static http server only serve http content (non https) but many IE users are complaining about being unable to log into. What do I need to do? Should I add https to my static-content http server?


Why Webmaster Tools shows different data to different users?

We have a problem between marketing and development department in our StartUp: Google Webmaster Tools is showing different data to different users which are logged in. Why is this happening and how we can prevent this in the future? For example, one of the team members sees 6 messages in Google Webmaster Tools while other sees only 2 of them.


SEO for an almost blank index page

I have this website where the `index.html` is basically empty, just having an empty container div and few navigation links. I use JavaScript to load other html content based on user's click on the navigation links. My question is that whether this is bad for SEO. When a bot crawls the page, the only thing it will find is the empty div and a few meta tags and navigation right? Should I try to add content to the index page? If the almost empty page is bad, are there other ways I can optimize the page for SEO?


Why is Joomla based website that was copied off of live server into localhost not showing pictures and throwing 404 error?

I have copied Joomla based website via FTP onto my machine and I am trying to make it run on my localhost which is provided by the latest version of XAMPP. I have exported and imported the DB with no problems. I have placed all the files and folders into HTDOCS folder but when I go to localhost example site all I get is the text that is on the front page but no pictures and it displays 404 Error. Do I need to make changes to .htaccess? If so, can some one point me to the right direction? Thanks


Main domain and subdomain are same contain

One website `example.com` and second website is subdomain of `example.com` like `example.example.com`. Both website are same in terms of both content and functionality but written in different programming languages. Main website `example.com` is in PHP and subdomain website `example.example.com` is in WordPress.   1. Which one will get good results? Does coding platform matter?   2. The subdomain is a keyword like `keyword.example.com`. It is getting ranked well, why?    3. Is it harmful to me like duplicate content like this?


As the title says; What is the difference between Visitor and Unique Visitor? A visitor is a user with a cookie for one browser, as long as that cookie is valid, isn't that unique enough? If not, how is unique visitor calculated?


How to detect search engines on Cloudfront?

Is there a way to "ask" google to add a query string paramater to the url when crawling my website? (maybe in robots.txt?) so that when it crawls example.com, it would add something like ?iam=google . Because we use Cloudfront to serve our website, we need a way to detect search engines on the cloudfront and forward them to origin server.


Should paginated sites be included in sitemap?

My website is ad listing for boats, boats' engines, boat rentals, etc (`www.mynautics.com`). There are ads listed on multiple pages. I have finished (not jet seen on link above) pagination:   * added `prev`   * added `next` On some pages (sorting, etc.) I also added canonical relation. Now I want to add pages to sitemap generator and I am not sure if I should add all URLs for example:   * `example.com/list/page/1`   * `example.com/list/page/2`   * `example.com/list/page/3`   * `example.com/list/page/4` Or should I just add `example.com/list`?


Website has “lagging” effect. Causes? Tips and tricks to fix?

So I have this site here which has major performance issues. Scrolling is _very_ slow, hover effects have a bit of lag and other similar issue. Unfortunately right now I am working off a cheap host so I don't have the option to gzip my files and I am not sure how big a contributing factor that is, though. For what it's worth, I am using Drupal as a CMS. I would like to know the various reasons for the lag and what I can do to fix it. Some about:memory stats for the homepage : Memory:   - Private:49664k   - Shared:13052k   - Total: 62716k  Virtual Memory:   - Private : 53400k   - Mapped : 10412; Let me know if you need any more information.


Is better for SEO to have text on the page versus in the title of the a tag?

We have a page on our site with a listing of product categories. All the links point to other pages on our site. Currently there's no text associated with the links other then the linked text itself which is just the name of each category or subcategory. We're thinking of adding some descriptive text for each link. From a usability standpoint, I'd prefer _not_ having this text appear on the page itself because all our users will pretty much already know what each category is without needing any descriptive text. From a usability perspective it would be better if it appeared in the title since then it doesn't clutter up the page and only shows up when they mouse over a particular link. But from an SEO perspective, would it matter if the text appears on the page, below each link, or if I place the text in the title attribute of the a tag? edit: I mean the title attribute of the tag, not the title of the page itself.


301 Redirect are these URLs equivalent?

I want to redirect an entire duplicate directory to the same files in the directory above the dup_folder. Redirect Code in .htaccess:               Redirect 301 /dup_folder/ http://www.example.biz/      It redirects to:               http://www.example.biz/inspection11.htm?q=dup_folder/inspection11.htm      But I want it to redirect to:               http://www.example.biz/inspection11.htm      Is there something I can add to .htaccess to Rewrite the URL to how I want, or are the two above URLs seen as the exact same URL to a search engine?


Creating Google sitemap.xml , is it okay for the images to be wrapped in URL tags?

I'm using a tool to generate the _sitemap.xml_ file for me, it started to crawl my website, got the pages and all images, but when exporting it, I review the XML (to make sure nothing is wrong) and I noticed that the images in my website are wrapped in URL tags (I think it should be in image tags).   See this: `<url><loc>http://mywebsite.com/images/12.jpg</loc><lastmod>2012-05-23T13:39:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq><priority>0.50</priority></url> `   Shouldn't it be wrapped in image tag? (just like videos wrapped in `video` tag)


Can I change the type of elements in the microdata format?

With regard to microdata I was wondering if the elements must be exactly like the examples (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035) or that Google/Bing look if the itemprop attributes occur on certain elements. e.g. could I replace this:
some text
      with this:               some text      Without affecting its functionality?


Move subdir to subdomain for separate SERP listings?

I market a conference and we have two very distinct customers. Attendees and Exhibitors/Sponsors. Each customer has a different sales funnel. I thought it'd be best to separate these into different web properties by dropping the exhibitor/sponsorship sales to a separate subdomain(sales.domain.com) to get two separate SERP listings (Attendee oriented, B2B oriented). I setup r301s and links from navi, but no SEO juice is being passed on. Did I completely messup in my thinking of being able to get two distinct search results?


How are Google search results ordered when prefixing a search with "site:"

If I use the "site:" prefix on a google search to see all the indexed pages for a particular domain, for example: `site:kickasscupcakes.com` Results: https://www.google.com/#q=site:kickasscupcakes.com Anyone by what criteria the results are ordered? It doesn't appear to be by date of last cache, nor alphabetical.


Safe way to send thousands of promotional emails

My new partner has an email list with over 1 Million email addresses for targeted traffic (no spam... only genuine subscribers from his last startup ) But now I have a problem.. how can I sent an email to all those email addresses ? I can't use my ISP SMTP mailer, they will block me immediately for bulk mailing. I thought of a way to send emails slowly . Like dividing them in sets of few thousands and sending to each set daily . Will it be fine solution ?


Why does 301 redirect work for http but not for https?

Through my domain registrar I have set up a domain, essayme.co.uk, to automatically forward to https://google.com. If I go to http://essayme.co.uk it works as expected and redirects me to https://google.com.               $curl -i http://essayme.co.uk     HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Cache-Control: max-age=900     Content-Type: text/html     Location: https://google.com     Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5     X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:14:16 GMT     Content-Length: 0     Age: 0     Connection: keep-alive      However, if I go to https://essayme.co.uk it just freezes and times out.               $curl -i https://essayme.co.uk     curl: (7) Failed connect to essayme.co.uk:443; Operation timed out      What is happening in the second case? (and, if possible, how can I get the redirect to work for https?) * * * Problem background/clarification: I don't have an SSL certificate for the essayme.co.uk domain above, but I do for my live domain (let's call it mywebsite.com), and I was seeing the exact same problem on this domain (hence why I'm trying to debug the problem). Unfortunately I can't experiment with the live domain (as it's live) and I would like to avoid having to buy a second certificate for essayme.co.uk just for debugging (unless absolutely necessary). The problem I was seeing:   * my live domain, mywebsite.com (not its real name), has a valid SSL certificate.   * Visiting https://www.mywebsite.com displayed the webpage as expected.   * I had set up forwarding (like in the question above) from the naked domain (mywebsite.com) to https://www.mywebsite.com)   * Visiting http://mywebsite.com redirected to https://www.mywebsite.com as expected.   * However, visiting https://mywebsite.com would freeze and time out (as in the question above). I also tried forwarding it to http://www.otherwebsite.com as an experiment (i.e. forwarding to another site that does not use SSL), but the result was the same:   * Visiting http://mywebsite.com redirected to http://www.otherwebsite.com as expected.   * Visiting https://mywebsite.com would freeze and time out again. So I set up essayme.co.uk as an experiment to try and understand why it doesn't work.


How do I make dotCMS pick up the preferred language from the browser's settings?

I have a bilingual dotCMS site. Switching between languages with the pulldown at the top of the page works great, but the default language is always English (or whatever else I configure). I'd much rather have the user be presented with the language specified by his browser (which of course he can then later change with the pulldown). It seems that dotCMS does not do this automatically. Can I enable this by some setting or plugin ?


Need suggestion for a bulletin board engine, Java based, JSP/JSF, and free

Could you please advise me of a bulletin board engine that is based in Java? And for its scripting language, either JSP or JSF. I'd also prefer it to use Spring, Hibernate and/or other frameworks. It would be better, still, if it's free.


How do I select last event value of the day in Google Analytic

I'm trying to select last event value of the day in Google Analytics. The problem is that Event Value column shows the sum of all events of the specific date, but I would like to see only the last one. How do I select last event value only of the day in Google Analytic?


Remove dynamic generated end of URL

I have a Joomla 2.5 website with joomshopping and AceSEF extension component. SEF URL generation works just fine except one issue. For some reason, there are dynamic parts generated in the end of the SEF URL, means i can not control this through AceSEF. The URL that is not working is:               /projects?category_id=&label_id=&manufacturer_id=&page=&price_from=&price_to=&vendor_id=      I need to change this to: `/projects`


Quiz software like The Guardian's?

I would like to know if there is any quiz software like The Guardian's, e.g.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/quiz/2010/aug/24/1 Features needed are   * the ability to feed in a variable list of questions   * the ability to show the answers to the questions on the question form itself   * the option to see the answers or try again (with the previous answers inserted)   * show the users their score


problem with google search in link:article-stack.com

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why google is not showing links to my site in result? If I google `link:article-stack.com`, it shows 4 interlinks in result.   1. If it shows interlinks it should show > 250 links. But it is showing 4 only.   2. Google webmaster is saying 8 external links. But google search is not showing it   3. Previously it was showing 6 links  a) 1 from stackoverflow b) 1 from wordpress c) 4 from my own site then it came to 5. Now it is 4 only. While there are               a) 3-4 links on stackoverflow     b) 3-4 links on stackexchange     c) 3 links on wordpress     d) 4-5 links on sulekha      I already had checked that all external pages, which are pointing to my site, are indexed and cached by google. Am i searching in wrong way?


Redirecting domain from one web host to another

First time I've ever had to redirect a domain from one web host to another. I'm not moving the domain registration as the domain is due to be renewed soon so don't want to risk any complications. I've followed a detailed guide (http://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/point- domain-name-website.shtml) but is it just the NS addresses I need to change with that of the new web host? Assuming the above is correct, would it be normal for this to take longer than 3 days to replicate globally? Thanks


What is the idea behind occupying domains?

I see that most domain names that contain some nice words like: www.pixelmania.com , www.musicbox.com and so on... are registered but look just auto-populated with some random data. Why they do this ? Is it for me to pay extra to get that domain? Is it for advertising purposes (all of them have insane amounts of ads on them)? Or what ... ?


Can calling mixpanel.track cause reattribution of conversions in Mixpanel funnels?

I am currently using MixPanel to A/B test which of two different landing page images converts better. At the beginning of each hit to the page, I do               mixpanel.track('Main', {illustration_ab : '{{illustration_ab}}'});      Here illustration_ab contains the name of the image that was shown to the user. Then after gathering data, later on I can go look at the funnels and split by this variable to see which has higher conversion rate. I just started wondering though, if someone converts but then comes back to the page later and gets assigned another illustration_ab, will that get the user's past conversion reattributed to fall under the different image? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/icw93.png)


Suddenly my server reject all POST requests

Just go to http://meet-romance.com/test.htm. The script there is simple, it's a form with a button:               <form action="test.htm" method="post">     <input name="Button1" type="submit" value="button" />     </form>      It doesn't work. Press the button in Firefox and I got connection reset thingy. I wonder why. It happens since yesterday. I have emigrated all domains that requires POST requests somewhere else. I suppose a reset of server would fix that only to happen again some other time. So I wonder if anyone has a clue of why. All domains that require post have been moved to another server. Update: I asked cpanel and the problem is fixed. According to cpanel technician the cause is this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_request.html I have no idea why it used to work and suddenly fail like that.


Fixed background images not displaying correctly on any web browser

http://i.stack.imgur.com/z8yEP.png <- screenshot for this question (not enough reputation) I am using fixed position images as seen at css- tricks.com/examples/BlurryBackgroundEffect/ to create a glassy effect to a web project I'm working on. As you can see on the screenshot above often the content block image fails to display until the browser is forced to make a redraw by scrolling etc. I've tried preloading them, using both onload and hidden img tags separately, but it still happens. This is not a massive issue but if anyone understands why this occurs it would be really helpful.


Can I make my home computer a server?

So I'm working on a website (Beauty Salon website for my aunt)but I want to know if I can make my home computer a server. Is this a good idea or not? What are the requirements and will my computer have to be on all the time.


SEO: adding an unecessary description key in dynamic url is it good or not?

in the typical DB driven cms/ecommerce site you will have items pages at urls in some form similar to:               http://www.domain.com/item.php?id=36      * * * **1) Is it good for SEO purpose to add a sort of description (related to page contents) in url?** i.e.               http://www.domain.com/item.php?id=36&descr=cheap-blue-jeans      even if descr key is not needed by the webapp to retrieve item from DB, thus making **the url to work with/without the`descr` key and to show the same identical page.** I'm asking because for instance my profile on Pro Webmasters seem exactly to do this: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/1429 http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/1429/marco-demaio They are the same url, the `marco-demaio` value is not needed, only the `1429` value is needed to get my profile from DB. _NOTE: in this last example I think also url rewrite is involved, but this question goes beyond urls rewrite, **I'm not interested in rewriting any url here** and to whoever is an url-rewrite-addict I would suggest to read this Google official article._ * * * **2) Supposing the answer to (1) is yes or _almost yes_ , do I need to do a redirect 301 (or use canonical)?** And if yes from `http://...?id=36&descr=cheap-blue-jeans` to `http://...?id=36` or viceversa? * * * 3) Supposing answer to (2) is _"yes you better do redirect"_ , why do I need a redirect (or canonical)? I mean **do I even need redirect/canonical when I'm absolutely sure that my webapp will never link to both pages** , so you will never find in the site the same page linked in two different ways (i.e. all link to id=36 will be in the form `http://...?id=36&descr=cheap-blue-jeans` so why does Google should care about `http://...?id=36`, I mean it should never get even indexed and therefor I should not ever have duplicated contents issues. If you arrived here, thanks for the patience in reading into all this, and more thanks for any replies. :)


What keyword should come first in a product page's meta tags?

Working with ~100,000 products. Currently the way I'm using has the following priorites (most to least)   * Model information such as name and model number of a given product    * Product line's associated keywords   * The site's global keywords Is this a good way to generate quality meta tags and content? Should globals be more prominent or is it best to prioritize what makes each page different?


SEO Tips for new Website

I am no expert in SEO but I do know how it works and stuff. What I would like to know is what steps do YOU guys take when starting a new SEO project. Like from beginning to end. Also I would like to rent/buy links. Can someone please point me to the right direction on doing this? Thanks in advance.


Links to facebook.com/company-page redirect to facebook.com

For the last 2 days I've been trying to find the reason why the link to my website's Facebook page doesn't work anymore. The link went to facebook.com/company-page, but now redirects to facebook.com. I assume that I mistakenly changed something in the Facebook developer area, but I can't remember what it was. I guess I saw some redirect in the tab, but I'm not sure since it's changing too fast to facebook.com. The original link in the footer is correct: `<a href="http://facebook.com/company-page " target="_blank" class="facebook_ico"></a>` Any ideas?


Transferring a domain difficulty

I registered a domain using Google apps. The process was simple and only cost $10 and the domain was registered automatically by Google through godaddy. Now I need to transfer the domain to its new owner and the new owner's tech support team are having difficulty getting it transferred over. They have asked me to do the following: Unlock the domain for transfer Remove the private registration Provide a transfer code The private registration is through domains by proxy. is there some way to do this easily? Any advice appreciated.


WebPermission problem with GoDaddy hosting

I purchased a Windows web host from `godaddy.com`. When I want to use an email verification component (that wants to connect to the Internet) on my host, I get an error related to Web Permission denied (ASP.NET 4). I searched for this error and found that GoDaddy has changed web permission in ASP.NET and restricts some features. When I want to use components that require these web permission on my site, I get error 500 (Internal Server Error). Can I give permission to an assembly only or solve my problem in another way? I asked this question to the Godaddy support team, but I didn't get any answers.


jQuery lightbox-like message box

Is there - as far as you know - a lighbox-like jQuery plugin that can display text in a lighbox fashion? I would need to display information and error messages in a message box which should behave just as a lightbox (i.e. shadowing background).


"Restricted by Robots.txt" in Google Webmaster Tools when no robots.txt exists

In Google Webmaster Tools, I have 832 errors in the sitemap with the error being "URL restricted by robots.txt". I don't have a robots.txt file, and the robots meta tag equals "index, follow". I _did_ have a robots.txt file, and the date it existed could well correspond with the date of the crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools. However, the dashboard shows these crawl errors remain, "updated Sept 23, 2011" (yesterday). All of the crawl errors are about 3 weeks old, which is probably before I deleted robots.txt. Is the fact the crawl errors remain as of yesterday indicating Google has not recrawled the site? Google has tried to download /robots.txt again, as recently as 4 hours ago, and has not found it, and will not of for weeks. Do I need to ping Google to crawl the site again?


Can I use nofollow for offsite links without it affecting my page rank?

What I have is a page with almost all offsite links. Each clicked link is forwarded on to the destination. What I would like the search engines to do is to index the text between the anchor tag and not follow the link itself. `<a href="somelink">Index This Text Only</a>` I've read several articles and they all seem to contradict themselves as to when to use `nofollow`. What's been happening over the past 2 months that the site has been live is that both Google and Bing are crawling the site as well as all the links on the site that it has been forwarded to. The search engines are now generating a lot of 404s for images and files that never existed on my site but rather seems to correlate to the site it was forwarded to. The search engines don't seem to honor the 302 header when forwarded. I would like to get a definitive answer on the `nofollow` tag as it relates to my situation. Can I use `nofollow` to stop the 404s and if so, will it affect my page ranking negatively?


pre-gzipping files and serving to clients possible?

I understand that we can do some settings in .htaccess to allow gzipping on the fly. However is there anyway we could do it "not-on-the-fly"? I have a static file that I wish to serve gzipped, but I do not wish to do the gzipping on the fly (in other words pre-gzipped). How would we go about doing it?


HTML favicon wont show on google chrome

I am making a HTML page that is unpublished and that I just started. The first thing I wanted to do was add a favicon to appear next to the title. I'm using google chrome and I noticed that other websites have favicons that appear next to the title in the browser, but mine wont show up. I'm new to favicons. The site is in a folder on my desktop named site. This is the code:               <!DOCTYPE html>     <html>          <head>             <title></title>             <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />         </head>         <body>         </body>     </html>


How to maximize SEO of an internationalized website?

I am developing a website that should be multi languages. I would like your opinions about what the best way to do it, considering get the most SEO possible. I have these alternatives: **Altarnative 1:** Separate domains               http://www.miweb.com -- English for default     http://www.miweb.com.fr     http://www.miweb.com.es     http://www.miweb.com.it      **Altarnative 2:** Sub domains               http://www.miweb.com -- English for default     http://fr.miweb.com     http://es.miweb.com     http://it.miweb.com      **Altarnative 3:** Sub folders               http://www.miweb.com -- English for default     http://www.miweb.com/fr     http://www.miweb.com/es     http://www.miweb.com/it      I would like to know about your experiences. I hope the question is okay. Any suggestions, comments, objections or idea is welcome. Thank you.


Which social sign-in (Google, twitter, fb, etc) is most often used (if I could only choose one, which would statistically retain the most users)?

I am working with a startup which is about to do its launch in maybe 2-3 weeks. In order to see the primary features of the site, the user has to register or sign in if they have already registered. We quickly decided we wanted to incorporate social plugins as alternatives to a conventional sign up, just like stackexchange does. But seeing that we are strapped for time and fairly amateur developers, I'm trying to justify just choosing one or two social sign-ins to start with for the launch and then maybe add more later. Based on my experience as a user, I'm guessing that twitter and google (in no particular order of importance) would probably be the most important social sign-ins in order to retain as many users as possible, but have absolutely no statistics to back that up other than my own anecdotal experience. This question hasn't been visibly asked on the internet, so I figured I'd hop on stackexchange and give it a punt.


SEO best practices - how to move to a new domain and new site keeping the old SEO 'power'?

I have a website (a photography blog). I just bought a new domain with a better name (my real name). And I have bought a new template and there is a completely new structure. I know Google says that it's better to have 1 good site instead than 2 average sites. Now I don't know what to do. There are similar things I can do but I am not sure which one is the best: 1) Redirect 301 the old domain to the new one.   2) Keep the old site and redirect 301 each page (eg. old homepage to new homepage, old article about XYZ to new article about XYZ, etc).   3) Keep both sites. Focus only on the new site. Add a backlink in every page of the old site pointing to the respective page on the new site.   4) [...if you know about other better ways, feel free to let me know...] What option do you think is the best for SEO and keep/give the good SERP for the new site? If you think 2 or 3 is the best way, then, just `.htaccess` 301 redirects/rewrites are a good option, or better if I do also some edit in GWT?


Put up an email signup on a website

I want to set up an email newsletter for my site and want to have a subscribe box on the website. What is the best free listserver host for someone sending weekly newsletter to a few hundred people?


Changing nameservers to a nameserver that doesent have records for the domain

Is it posible to change nameservers for a domain to nameservers that dont have records for that domain?


Effective methods of reducing bandwidth (and thus page load times)?

What are the most effective methods when it comes to reducing the amount of bandwidth a website needs to render a page? Aggressive caching? Minifying JS/CSS? Gzip? CMS? Sprites?


Should I block indexing of my mobile site?

I notice that Yahoo and Bing have started indexing the mobile version of my website, which is located at /mobile from the root. All of the mobile content is just a reduced layout version of the real site. Is it going to negatively affect my SEO if the crawlers are seeing two locations that essentially have the same content?


Download tracking by IP

Is it possible to track downloads from a website by IP address? Ideally, I would like to see a log file with possibly time stamps, occurrences, and who (IP address, and/or country of origin). If someone could help point me in the right direction...


Is Cloudflare unzipping gzipped dynamic content?

I'm using Cloudflare for a small website that is frequently accessed from mobile phones where bandwidth usage is crucial. I used to gzip every php response and this reduced my bandwidth usage, however, since I'm using Cloudflare, dynamic content going trough Cloudflare isn't gzipped anymore. Is this a feature or bug?


Can the blog width be dynamic on Blogger?

I see that Blogger will let you set the blog width under Overview-> Template Designer->Adjust Widths. However, this seems to be a fixe width - is there an easy way to set a max and a min width?


How do I disable username prefixes on mySQL databases?

I know of the potential risks. The only "useful" thing I've been able to find after Google-ing is this, on the cPanel website, which has no context whatsoever. Does anyone know how to do this? My version of cPanel is 11.32.2 (build 28).


one hosting space for two websites

I have a hosting + domain with a hosting company. My question is: can I have a second website just by purchasing a new domain? This is, I could develop a second website under mysecondwebsite.myfirstwebsite.com and my question is if I could access that website with a second domain. The thing is that the second domain should be one that let me access secondomain.com/whatever, not just redirecting to the first domain. Additionally, going directly to mysecondwebsite.myfirstwebsite.com shouldn't be accessible. Is that possible - one hosting space for two websites?


How does this stackexchange form saved the work, I mean keep an auto save function, to retrieve loss of work, in case the user's browser crashes.


Need database with some country specific data like schools, medical centers etc

Hi is there some database with official information about medical centers, schools, POI's and they'r geo coordinates for all countries in the world? It coul'd be not for free too, but I need the GEO coordinates as well, because I need to connect them to my products! Thanks Nik


Google Webmaster tools "Time spent downloading a page"

In Google Webmaster Tools -> Diagnostics -> Crawl Stats, there is a chart **Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)**. What is that chart measuring? Is it the time to fetch the HTML text only, or does it include the time to fetch other files included in the head section of the HTML text, or maybe it's the overall time to load the whole page including embedded widgets and ads? I can't find any clues in the Google Help.


Google Analytics: Block Your Dynamic IP Visits?

I have a dynamic IP, which doesn't work for Google Analytics IP filtering. I read this post How to excludes my visits from Google Analytics? but don't see any code for setting the variable mentioned there. Has anyone been able to block their website visits from Google Analytics using a cookie? EDIT:   This seems to work https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Although I don't think it was designed as I'm using it.


IIS website resolve to IP

IIS newb. In IIS How do I get my website to resolve to an IP address as well as it's associated domain name? It currently resolves through the domain but I also need to able to view it via the IP.


Know a good place to purchase seed data of storenames, addresses, and phone numbers?

I just build a new web app, and I am looking for data to seed it with. Anyone know any good seed data retailers? Or am I missing something and there is a way to do this for free. I am entirely open to scraping, and have built a couple scrapers I enjoyed.


GWT: Generate more complete crawl error report

I'm a developer in charge of managing Webmasters and related issues (including correcting crawl errors) for dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of active sites and as part of my duties I create a report of every discrepancy, including all pages generating a 404 and all pages that link to those pages. Currently within Webmaster Tools I'm able to download a csv file of all pages with a 404 response, but I'm then having to manually click on every single one of those links and copy the "linked from" field to paste into my spreadsheet. This is extremely tedious and seems unnecessary; I would expect the ability to download all that data at once. I'm ultimately looking for the end result of one csv file that has every url with a 404, but also has every url that links to each one of them. Am I overlooking this functionality somewhere or does anyone have a good solution? > _**Edit 1 (2/11/2013):_** **Example of what the csv output looks like now:**               URL,Response Code,News Error,Detected,Category     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,,11/12/13,Not found      Which is great, but let's say 123.php has 5 pages that link to it. Now I have to duplicate that row in my spreadsheet 4 more times, then go into Webmasters, get all the url's that link to the page, and add that data to my spreadsheet. **The output I would prefer:**               URL,Response Code,Linked From,News Error,Detected,Category     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage1.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage2.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/123.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage3.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage1.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage2.php,,11/12/13,Not found     http://www.abcdef.com/456.php,404,http://www.ghijkl.com/naughtypage3.php,,11/12/13,Not found      Note the (hypothetical) addition of a "Linked From" column, as well as the fact there are only 2 unique URL's now (like before) but all of the "Linked To" pages are shown in one report. > _**Edit 2 (2/12/2013):_** To clarify, my question is less about detecting and correcting 404's, but more about generating a report of what Google has listed as errors. Oftentimes, these errors aren't even valid anymore but I still need documentation to show that Google detected a problem and that problem is now fixed. Many of the "linked from" url's I find are actually outdated, cached resources. For example, I'll frequently see that the linked-from url is the sitemap, which is actually an old sitemap cached by Google that points to an old page. Neither the sitemap or old page exist, but they still appear in my crawl error reports because they are cached resources.


Do I need fail over for an lightly used internal web application?

I received an email from my web hosting provider where I have 2 dedicated servers saying that from now on I have to pay for my IP fail over addresses. The server we have hosts a tool used internally by our company. Traffic to it is quite low. No more than 3 people will use it at the same time. If something happens we can wait a day to have the tool up and running again. Is it worth having these fail-over addresses?


Where can I get list of websites features, which have made websites a great experience? Example : sliders to perform a search in a range

Where can I get list of websites features? Example : sliders to perform a search in a range. more... Examples: a feature like tagging a feature like add to shopping cart a feature like voting up a question or voting down. like i stack exchange sites


Can I steal someone else's idea?

I'm from Ireland and I want to set up an internet radio station. I thought of a good name but someone else from Ireland is planning on using this name. They own * _radioname_ *fm.eu and have Twitter and Facebook page site set up. All the site says is something like "coming soon, we're looking for presenters" etc. Its been like this for nearly 2 years. Say that I come along and buy * _radioname_ *fm.ie (my countries TLD) and set it up properly in a matter of weeks. Am I doing anything wrong?


Recommendations for affordable and reliable Drupal theme designer

Can anyone recommend an affordable and reliable Drupal theme designer, who can take a concept and produce a Drupal 6.19-compliant theme? The backend functionality and structure of the web site is complete, I'm purely looking for someone who can create a Drupal theme from scratch, based on a design concept. Thanks in advance, Mike.


Where can I host this?

I'm looking for a VPS or dedicated that can have a web crawler running all day long. It would gather data and then add it to some websites. These websites currently have around 1k unique visits/day, and use 35gb of diskspace. My budget for this is 20-60 dollars/month I found a good offer in 'myhosting', but it is too much better than the average (which makes me mistrust), and I couldn't find opinions about it. Also they didn't answer the email I sent to them asking about the Mbps (they offer 600gb transfer/month) Any thoughts?


Cheap Bulk Domain Registration

I have 6-7 domain names that I have thought of and I'm planning to buy it in bulk so that I can save. Or am I wrong on this? In my case, since its my first time to this hosting/domain registration, I only knew of GoDaddy with regards to domain registration. Questions:   1. Will I lose out if I chose a cheap domain registrar compared to one that's popular?   2. For a newbie like me, what companies can you recommend for me to register domain names in bulk for cheap or affordable price?   3. I notice that some prices are higher because they offer support and customer service? Aren't those servers not reliable at all?   4. I've heard of some domain registrars that they're increasing their prices every renewal? Is that just natural in a business sense for these domain registrars? Before posting this, I've been reading about NameCheap.com, and I'm considering registering for them unless you have other good choices to give me. I'll appreciate every suggestion or advice you can give.


Does having a multiple trackPageview properties affect the visit count in Google Analytics?

I'm trying to adjust for an error we had on our site when 2 of the same `trackPageview` properties was up on our site. Does having 2 `trackPageview` calls double the "visits" in Google Analytics? I know it doubles the `pageviews`, but based on what I'm reading in Google Analytics, it shouldn't double the visits.


Domain Name Expired, Will My Backorder Work?

I'm interested in a domain name that expired August 9, 2012 and backordered it a few months ago. When I check the status of the domain name, it is listed as "autoRenewPeriod". It has a new expiration date of August 9, 2013, but a Google search indicates that "autoRenewPeriod" means the registrar automatically renewed the domain but has not received payment yet. Does anyone have experience with this? How long will it stay in "autoRenewPeriod" before being released by the registrar? Do I have a good chance of grabbing the domain name?


Download images and other documents from external websites

We're running a website which enables users to download documents about our company, such as:   -wallpapers with the company logo.   -company logos in various flavours.   -media kits in pdf format. Since these files are quite big in size (some reach 1MB), we no longer want them to be downloaded from our website directly as it's consuming our bandwidth. Accordingly we've been looking into document sharing services. For instance we found Scribd which could allow us to share `pdf` files, but not our `wallpapers` and `logos` which are in `png` format. **Is there a free service we can use for our users to reliably download any type of files we want to host?** (ideally on a service which allows users to easily browse through our files).


HTTP-to-SMS gateway software

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? I want to send SMS via PHP or ASP API and want to process the incoming SMS; suggest me a good HTTP-to-SMS gateway.


How to send messages?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website? I am building a online SMS service that can send messages to mobile phones. I want to send messages like google. How is this done? Any programming language is welcomed. I am using Apache server and mysql as database management system.


How do I test the usability of my website?

How do I evaluate my website from a usability standpoint?


Installing python packages on shared hosting?

I will be hosting a Django application on hostgator.com and was wondering how can I install django apps and python packages without using pip, since I won't have access to the root account.


How can I neatly embed Flash in a page in a way that is cross-browser compatible?

When I receive Flash objects from my designer, it comes with an example HTML page which includes both `<object>` tags and `<embed>` tags as well as a whole heap of JavaScript. If I copy and paste this code in to my webpage, it works, but the code looks a mess (and there is so much of it!). If I remove the extra code and try either just `<embed>` or `<object>` on their own, it works in some browsers, but not others. Is there a neat, minimal method that works in all the major browsers?


How to make analytics refresh after certain event?

I have a form which submits using AJAX. My client requested analytics to be updated with a new URL when submit is successful, so they can get statistics on completion vs abandonment of that form. The analytics code they sent me looks like this               <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-00000000-1', 'auto');       ga('send', 'pageview');           </script>      I'm thinking I should use an iframe with this code inside the page to trigger the analytics under a new URL. The iframe page url would have the word success in it so it can be useful in their reporting. I like the iframe approach because it allows me to call the analytics without refreshing the entire page. I could refresh when the 'success' event occurs, but in a multi-step process, with go-forward and go-back + animation, I am not able to refresh conveniently. I like the iframe solution because it accommodates that flexibility should I need it. Is that a good solution, or should I be doing it differently?


Why was my site not aproved for AdSense?

Our new site http://www.sulabhloan.com has failed to get approval for AdSense. Even though site look reasonably better we cant figure out what is the real issue for disapproval can somebody help regarding this? EMAIL WE GOT : > We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. > > ## Issues: > > Site does not comply with Google policies Further detail: > Site does not comply with Google policies: We're unable to approve your > AdSense application at this time because we feel that your site does not > comply with Google AdSense policies or webmaster quality guidelines. It's > our goal to provide our advertisers sites that offer rich and meaningful > content, receive organic traffic, and allow us to serve well-targeted ads to > users. We believe that currently your site does not fulfill this criteria. Please help us find out the real factor which caused disapproval.


Should I use IIS or my DNS provider to redirect my naked domain to its www version?

How do I get the naked domain for my site that is typed into a browser (`example.com`) to automatically redirect to `www.mywebsite.com`. Would this be done on the internal IIS web server or through the registration service DNS settings? I use `Register.com` and I tried asking their technical support, but they did not answer my question with a usable solution.


What is absolute unique visitor in classical analytics?

I have been coming across this term "Absolute Unique user". I can not find this in Google (Classical) Analytics. The closest definition I could find is this. Is this a newly added metric in Universal Analytics? If so how can I find out "Absolute Unique user" via Google Analytics? How is different than "Unique Visitor"? Also I found this but for the life of me, I can not find this report. Is it a paid thing?


Google Analytics Request URI to Event advanced filter

I have a query string attached to a Request URI. Whilst I can see this data within the pages report and it works, I was thinking about setting up an advanced filter to convert the request URI to an Event, with the hope this would clean up my pages report and sit this query with related events in my data. I can see in advanced filters that this is possible, but seems limited to specifying a single event area, so Cat, action or Label, not all 3. Does any one know how I could set up an advanced filter to find any URIs that contain a specific query string, say example below.               www.example.com?querystring=123      and convert this into an event, where I can set the Cat, action and label.


How Do I Make A Dynamic PHP Link 'No-Follow'?

I want to make the Footer links on my website 'No Follow'. How would I do it on these dynamic PHP links?

<a href="<?=site_url('terms');?>">Terms|

<a href="<?=site_url('privacy');?>">Privacy|

<a href="<?=site_url('disclaimer');?>">Disclaimer|

<a href="<?=site_url('contact');?>">Contact


How to point search engines to another subpage?

I have a webpage concerning a subject, let's say buttons to keep it simple. It is the foremost web page on this topic for my language and region: searching for 'button' in my language will always display my webpage in the top stop (after the paid adds). However, since my language is grammatically more complex than English, the word can be written in different forms & cases. Searching via Google using one particular way of writing 'button' will display my forum in the top spot instead of the landing page. Then my competitors are listed as following hits, but not my landing page. This is not ideal for me because the landing page is designed to be friendly to new users and offers far more useful information than the forum. In fact, the forum is mostly there for the loyal and hardcore users who already know where to find it while for new users it is way too specialized. What would be a good course of action to correct this problem? I could block search bots from indexing the forum - attempting to guess Google's logic they are possibly trying to give several possible websites for a given query and then select the most appropriate subpage to 'represent' that web app, thus removing the forum could make Google pick the landing page instead (or a number of other subpages, really, anything but the forum). But of course I'm afraid of simply losing my search ranking without gaining anything. A link of type canonical isn't the tool to use, either, because the landing page and forum's content definitely isn't the same. A link with `rel='home'` is another option, though honestly it doesn't make sense that it would affect search results. Perhaps moving the forum to its own subdomain, e.g. `forum.buttons.com` instead of `buttons.com/forum` would help?


Facebook Edgerank, talking about, and Likes - what is better for my site?

I am trying to increase traffic to my site, which so far has done decently with organic SEO. I have a website where I have added the FB like button to the results pages. I also created a FB page `www.facebook.com/mysite` where there are some like on that page - but not so many on the actual site. Does having this fb page really help my site I can generate some discussions, but I'm curious about what is best for driving traffic and getting higher Google rankings for my site (not the FB page)? Should those discussions point to the website's root, or various discussions that have different results pages on the site - ie. `www.mysite.com/result1`, `www.mysite.com/result2`?


How can I host a large number of Wordpress sites that perform well and are easy to maintain?

My company a large number of small Wordpress sites. Currently we have about 10, but that number will eventually grow into the range of 50-70. We currently have a Linode for all of our sites, but it is starting to get unwieldy installing Wordpress and configuring it for every new site. Anyone have any recommendations for hosting lots and lots of Wordpress sites in as simple a way as possible? Preferably we'd like the performance of a Linode with the ease of a shared host with a one-click install.


What can cause ncftpget to create load on server?

When I'm transferring big files between two servers with ncftpget I'm experiencing very high load on the receiving server. What can cause this?


What determines SiteLinks with search bar vs SiteLinks with no search bar?

Hi all whenever I type w3schools in Google, this is what is displayed: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6aSwa.png) I believe that these things are called Google Sitelinks. I was wondering why is it that some sitelinks have a search bar while others don't have one? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6tXpx.png)


htaccess rewrite doesn't work

I'm trying to redirect url's in my /joomla/ folder containing "rsform" to the same url but except for /joomla/ /formulieren/. However my tried .htaccess rewrite doesn't work. I tried:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} rsform     RewriteRule  ^(.+)$ http://watervriendengeleen.nl/joomla/ [L,R=301]      And other URL related rewrites like `Redirect /joomla/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=12&Itemid=99999 http://sitename.com/formulieren/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=12&Itemid=99999` which didn't work either. Any thoughts?


Is is okay to use press kit images with attribution in my personal blog?

First up, not sure if this question is correct at WebMasters kindly redirect if it's not. I have a personal (non-commercial) blog where I write about technology and programming etc. I was wondering if I could use Official presskit images for example image of Surface tablet from MS Presskit when I am writing about the Surface Pro? Secondly, if it's okay to use the image, should the images be re-hosted on my blog or hotlinked to image provided by Microsoft? In this particular case Microsoft's Terms of Use seems very generic (http://www.microsoft.com/en- us/legal/intellectualproperty/copyright/default.aspx#EPC) I am not looking for a Legal opinion, more of best practices that webmasters/bloggers follow.


Pretending a file is in subdirectory with .htaccess

I have a web application, and it has a RESTful PHP backend that uses Zend framework (which does its own URL rewriting magic). The problem is, my backend's entry-page is `api.php` and the endpoints look like:               api.php/resource1     api.php/resource2/id      All I want to do is remove the `.php` file extension so my URLs look a little cleaner. Is there any way of doing this without removing the file extension from the PHP file?


joomla 2.5 : list links to articles in 2 columns

I have a Joomla! 2.5 website, and I have to add a lightbox popup that will contain links to all articles from a specific category(+subs). If anyone can suggest all-in-one solution, that will be great! But generally I'm asking, **how to list links to all articles from a specific category and its sub-categories in two/three columns?** I know I can set **Category blog View** to output only article links, without full/introtext, but in this case links will all be _in one column_. I need _at least two_. _A possibility of grouping article links by subcategory would be great as well (but this is the thing I can live without)._ How can this be done? I'm looking for:   * a standard way of configuring this    * Template override (I'm using T3 framework)    * Custom extension   * any other method ...


2 domains 1 host package

I have a windows web hosting package. I have 2 different domain names. Can i point my first domain to the the hosting package and then run BlogEngine.NET and then point the second domain to the hosting package running NopCommerce cart? www.domain1.co.uk (blog) www.domain2.co.uk (e-commerce cart) In IIS i would just create a new application within the site and create the bindings for domain2. But does this work for web hosting packages from 123-reg.co.uk


Why is Google indexing all these other websites?

I run a web hosting company and I have noticed something strange about the way my website and the other websites that I host are indexed in Google. For some reason, other websites that I am hosting are having my websites URLs being indexed with their domain name. For example, lets say I have a URL indexed in Google as xyz.com/page.html then my clients also have their website indexed in Google as client.com/page.html. The other thing is that the webpage exists on my website but not on my clients website and the info on Google is the same for both my website and my clients. I was wondering if this might have something to do with a shared IP (but I thought IP addresses don't affect the way websites are ranked)?


Tracking visits to my Tumblr from mobile devices (iPhone)

I've been using the instructions here to track visits to my Tumblr with Google Analytics for the last several months, but just realized today that the JavaScript doesn't run at all on mobile devices. Is there any way to make this work? The majority of traffic to our site probably comes from mobile devices, so we'd really like to track this.


How can I find out if my domain has been added to email blacklists?

We do a lot of mass emailing of our contacts to promote events, send out newsletters, etc. Some people read and react, some people unsubscribe, but I fear that some might actually mark the email as spam. Is there any way to figure out whether my domain has been added to email blacklists or spam registries? Also, if I use a service like MailChimp to send the emails, how would this work? If one unscrupulous customer was using MailChimp for evil, wouldn't it affect all of their customers?


Dating site review - Am I allowed to write site description with screenshot for each reviewed site?

I want to publish a review of 100 dating websites. I didn't contact all site managers, some of them didn't reply. Am I allowed to publish description for each dating site and publish also a screenshot of their site? I hope anybody have any clue if this is legally allowed.


How to optimize a one language website's SEO for foreign languages?

**DETAILS** I have a website that's content is in English. It is a niche website with a global market. However I would like users to be able to find the website using their own language. The scenario I envision is that the searcher is looking for the English content, but is searching in their own language. An example could be someone looking for "downloadable English crosswords." **MY IDEAS** Buy ccTLDs and have them permanently redirect to subdirectories on domain.com. The subdirectories would contain html sitemaps in the target language e.g.-Redirect domain.fr to domain.com/fr OR perhaps it would be better to maintain domain.fr as an independent site in the target language with the html sitemap linking to pages on domain.com ? **QUESTION** Are the above methods good/bad? What are some other ways I can optimize SEO for foreign languages?


Payment provider that works in South Africa

I am implimenting nopCommerce and need to accept credit cards, has anyone had any experience with a payment gateway that works in South Africa? I had a look at Paypal but they don't support ZAR as a currency yet. The other payment provider that I was looking at is Two Checkout.


Will search engines discover that our old pages have been 301 redirected if there are no more links to them in the old site?

We've moved our website to a new domain. Thousands of our pages come from one PHP file in the old site (e.g. `oldsite.com/news.php?id=<id>`). So we added some code in `news.php` file to do a 301 redirect to the specific corresponding news article in the new website (`newsite.com/news/<id>`). We have not yet done a 301 redirect for the root of the old site (so we could display a notice to our users that we've moved), but all links inside it are already 301 redirected. My concern is that, when Google crawls our old website, it will no longer be able to find the old news articles and discover that they have been 301 Redirected -- is this correct? If so, does that mean our PageRank won't be carried over to the new site? I've also read that we would need to create a sitemap for the new site. Is it possible to indicate in the sitemap the old and new locations of specific pages? Because if not, how will Google know? (I'm not sure change of address in Webmaster Tools would be specific enough).


domain extension is matter for seo

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does server location or TLD affects SEO I would like to buy domain for my blog, while registering the blog i saw the price variations between domain extensions. Is domain extension is matter for seo. for example:-               .com     .org     .in     etc..      Advice me.


Is there a significant hit to a non .com TLDs exact match domain (EMD) names after Google's Panda update?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does server location or TLD affects SEO In this article, there is a good overview of exact match domain names and how they affect SEO after Google's Panda update. The last graph shows the _Non-com EMD Influence_ , where it is suggested that a .com tld will perform better than a non-.com one. However, let's consider local search. In the US, .com's work great. However, let's say you're in Canada, and you have a .ca EMD, all with local, Canadian results. Would the expectation be that the .com equivalent still perform better? As a user I would expect the .ca results to be more relevant, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with this?


What server location?

I have four choices for my server location:   * Kent, UK   * Dallas, US   * Los Angeles, US   * Singapore, Asia I live in The Netherlands and I expect the most of my customers to probably do too. So what is the best server location? Thanks :)


Where can I find cheap domains for sale?

I have been settling on the `.biz` namespace for some time because I cannot find any available `.com`'s. However, I run a computer repair business and someone tried to sell me `motherboardrepair.com` for $100. This is a good deal for me, unfortunately I do not do motherboard repair. Is there a website where I can signup for emails of offers like these? **Clarification** : I do not have a specific name in mind. I want to join a mailing list to spectate what offers are out there. Does such a list exist and is not spammed so much that I wouldn't want to join?


Ok to target product names in adwords?

If I have widget company called "Widget Designer" and I have a direct competitor who has "Widgitator Version 5", am I allowed to target a campaign using the literal keywords "Widgitator"? Is this OK? Will they ever find out? Is it bad business? **Update** I can't really say what the words are, but this is a good example, if my product is called "Chair-o-matic" and it makes chairs, and a competitors is called "Chair Maker 5" can I target the keyword pair "Chair Maker"?


Twitter button not keeping the count

I created a twitter button using the code and instructions here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons Here is my code               Tweet           But the count is not updated when someone uses the button, why is that? The page url is not exactly the data-url value I have specified it's only a short url that will redirect to the actual url which is longer. What's the trick here? Should I use the full url or is there something else I'm missing?


Transferring blogspot blog to own domain blog hosted by blogger

I currently have a blogspot.com blog and I'm thinking of transferring everything to a custom domain blog, but one which is hosted by Blogger. Will my old posts and images be automatically transferred to the new blog? thanks in advance


Google Analytics - Identifying Bots

I've noticed over the last few days a massive increase in visitors, The thing is that it seems like a bot:   * Mozilla compatible user agent   * average 0 minutes   * 100% bounces Is there a way to find out who/where this bot is from?


Why doesn't autofocus="autofocus" work in Mozilla Firefox?

<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Gw" MAXLENGTH="225" size="42" autofocus="autofocus">      If I try this with Google Chrome it works. I just want to highlight a form without `<script>`. Why doesn't it work?


Reviewing a website

I'm looking for a tool (free/paid) like a program that help me in reviewing my website style and interface such as explain the content of the home page (footer, header ..... ) taking snapshots and write comment on them ... I know this can be done using (print screen) and the MS paint but I need a more professional tool to use.


Monitoring offline conversion of online advertisements

I'm working for a company that is beginning with online advertisement and the following challenge was set: **How can you monitor the effectivess of the advertisement in actual sales?** The real challenge here is measuring how many of the people who only got to know the company by the banner made a purchase in the physical store. There's no such thing as an online store but only an institutional site displaying the latest merchandise and basic informations. **Further details**   * The company doesn't sell anything online yet. The link would redirect to an institutional page.   * The banner ad we're working on would link to their online catalog - only pictures, no purchase button.


Hide content from search engines (legitimate, not SEO related)

I have a website which contains famous and original (made by users) quotes, poetries, and such. Recently many of our users start to complain because their name is searchable on Google since we have a very good indexing of the website (for every positive thing there is a negative side...) Now we want to offer to users a "privacy" mode in the website, while retaining indexing for most pages: their name won't be indexed but only visible to users, while their texts will be both visible and indexed. Follow me: this isn't a SEO related question, this is legitimate hiding. We don't want people to be searchable on search engines, but only their texts. Why we want texts to be searchable? Because many use our website as "central repository" of their texts, which are copied by others on Facebook without retaining the author name: people searching for "anonymous" content have to find their page on our website and see the author name there. Obviously the author profile would be completely blocked with meta tags, the only pages where this is relevant are those by topic, like this: http://www.pensieriparole.it/aforismi/politica/pag1 and other "general" pages like those containing latest insertions: http://www.pensieriparole.it/poesie/ **What do you think is the best way to hide these names?** I heard recently Google is actually rendering some js, and using a `document.write` directly on the page is some sort of cloaking as far as I can tell. So i thought about an `iframe` with the author name as document fragment (`#Author+Name`) and a little js that does `document.write` there. This way I can block that `iframe` from being crawled with `robots.txt`, while allowing browsers to cache it, no matter which name it has to print, and ask for it only the first time.


Working with Host file in Windows XP?

I just want to setup a local server on my pc. I have WAMP installed. Now, for test, I wrote www.google.com www.google.temp in **hosts** file, in location **C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc**. But, when I am loading www.google.temp, it's not loading anything. Actually, I want to make my folder C:/wamp/www/test to load like, www.test.loc


Duplicate content problem due to plugin

Actually I am running website on WordPress where I have installed Transposh plugin on my site 'example'. Unfortunately, despite having English as the default language and therefore available at `example.com/xxx`, Google is indexing `example.com/en/xxx` so I'm getting problem with duplicate content now I want to remove this plugin and links from Google so that my content will be refine without getting duplicate content pages. Do you have any solution to do this safely? I think myself to remove this plugin from website, though it will create 404 errors from Google links but I can add redirect code in _.htaccess_ till Google would remove that `example.com/en/xxx` not found links. If you know any other healthy way to handle this please help me.


Site has 300+ inbound do follow links, they once all showed up in webmaster but now dont

I under took a link building project on a site, in total around 300 do follow links where made, arictle submissions, directory listings, posts in dofollow forums ect ect built and indexed over a period of 2 months, i havnt been doing much link building on it since. They all showed up in google webmaster under the links to my site section ? But now **NONE** of them show up, all that is there are a couple of links from pinterest, and a couple from tumblr blogs (as it happens these links where not built as part of the backlinking campaign). I know google is undergoing quite allot of changes regarding quality at the moment and ill be the first to point out that the majority of the built links where not of super quality, but they all came from pr2-4 sites. Built much in the same way / quality most backlinking campaigns are done. Looking through backlink log i have the links are all there and still live. Is losing your links from google webmaster something any one else has experienced recently, and just because they are not visable in webmaster does that mean google has disregarded them ?


Redirecting requests for .html pages in subdirectories to the same page in root with .htaccess

I am porting a site from an old version of a CMS to a newer version which has different page addressing techniques. I'm unfortunately not very good with htaccess at all.               URL/blog/sublblog/article.html is now simply URL/article.html      Unfortunately, this will destroy any linking programs they have going, and break all the old links. I need a way to use `.htaccess` say:               if request = /(any subdirectory)/(string).html     then redirect to /(string).html      If that makes any sense.


Adding site credit in footer of site as a <a> tag - bad practice for google penguin?

When I'm making a clients site I always include a link `<p>site by <a href="example.com" target="blank" rel="no follow"><strong>example</strong></a></p>` Is this bad practice from a SEO point of view, especially after the Google penguin update? Could this damage my clients site (the one hosting the link) and / or my site (the one that the link is pointing to). Does making the link no follow get around the fact Google might deem the link to be a site wide spam link?


I'm going through shopping cart nightmares!

Help Please! My situation is that I need a stand alone cart that has robust DB functions which will not only collect all data relative to the purchase, but then either allow me to export all of that information to QuickBooks or convey all data relative to the purchase to Paypal so that I can integrate those records with QuickBooks. Either will do! But it has to be a robust database! My bookkeeper is QuickBooks proficient and finally my accounting is in a beautiful and highly functional format. But my cart stinks! Every single sales record must be hand entered into QBs! Cool Cart, my present cart, not only cannot convey the information it collects to Paypal, but it can't integrate to QuickBooks either and the owner has no interest in doing anything to help or for that matter offer any tech support! Paypal's cart, my first cart, kept the inventory and sales records in a format that QuickBooks loves, but it is so incomplete when it comes to a company needing a robust cart capable of offering coupons, wholesale pricing for retailers, many other customer option shortcomings. I'm going down the tubes trying to research 100+ cars on line only to find out that they may have a DB but the DB won't either integrate with Paypal or Quick Books or it won't collect all of the sales data, down to the little details, eg. what item exactly did the customer buy, how much did that customer pay for that item, was a record of sales tax collected or the shipping costs recorded in the DB? I don't want or need the actual Credit card information! I just need complete data to integrate to my bookkeeping systems. Otherwise, I am relegated to huge time consuming data entry by hand! I just need a highly functioning cart not the hosting. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.


Can i have a facebook fangate between pages of my website

I am not sure whether this is possible can i have a fan gate between two pages of a website, so that before a visitor can access a particular url it would be mandatory to like our fan page on facebook? Scenario I have a travel website puneritraveller.com, and for each destination featured in the website i have listed hotels, with a direct link to the website of the hotel. for example i have featured a destination 'Alibaug' with a hotels page - puneritraveller.com/alibaug-hotels.html , in this page i have given banner ads for a few hotels for example Yellow house which on clicking redirects to www.yellowhousealibag.com What i want to achieve is, when someone clicks on the banner ad for Yellow house they should be redirected to a page with a like button to facebook.com/puneritraveller and once he/she clicks on the like button should be redirected to www.yellowhousealibag.com Is this possible? Please help


How do I make a gradient overlay transparent?

The site I'm working on has three layers (from the bottom): a tiled background image, a simple top-to-bottom gradient, and the actual content window on top. I am trying to change the opacity of the gradient itself so that it will give the background a faded appearance as well as some color. However, whenever I try to add opacity to the gradient div (opacity: 0.4;), for some reason it yanks the tiled-image background layer to the front (covering everything) and makes the "background" only slightly transparent. How do I get the gradient to become transparent without this happening?


Buttons or text navigation in mobile website

When building a mobile site, will using _JPG_ buttons for navigation penalize the SEO for the site? (Assuming I use proper keyword `alt` text for the buttons) Stylistically the site obviously looks better with some simple buttons, but does this decrease the juice I may gain from simple text links?