SEO - All navigation links or just relevant navigation links

I'm trying to decide what the best approach is for rendering the static HTML for the websites navigation links. I have two possible options 1) render all links for every page, and hide non- relevant links via Javascript 2) render only relevant links on each page. ## Why do I have these options? My navigation menu is very dynamic and changes depending upon where you are in the website. Having all the links pre-rendered in the HTML makes the Javascript code easier to implement. Rendering just the relevant links means I don't need the Javascript code, but now my web server has to implement the business logic of what navigation to show. # Rendering All Links This will create a lot of extra HTML and make reading the HTML during development a little messy. It will also tell Google's web crawler that _ALL_ navigational links are on all pages, when that is not true. The links _loose_ their relevant meaning. # Rendering Only Relevant Links This is more work for me, but creates cleaner HTML. It also makes the navigation links appear correctly to Google's web crawler. # What to do? I'm stuck trying to make a decision of which approach to follow. Can anyone clarify if Google would care or not-care if links where on all pages or not.


Same MediaWiki database/files on multiple subdomains

so I am currently setting up a MediaWiki server (I am still not sure whether I should go for MediaWiki or DokuWiki though), but if I go for MediaWiki - is it possible to setup some kind of multi MediaWiki?   Same installation on multiple subdomains. I would like a main domain which could be wiki.com. For every product/category I would like it's own subdomain. Is it possible to use the same MediaWiki installation and then have iphone.wiki.com, android.wiki.com, windows.wiki.com etc. Kind of like how wikia works now, I just want my domain/server.


I just checked my site with WooRank and it says there is no blog on your website. How does Google search for blog on my website? Is it enough if I create a blogspot page, or I should make something more advanced?


What might be the benefits in regards to pay-per-click (PPC) for sub-folders vs. microsites

I have a client that has a single main site and multiple franchise micro- sites. The micro-sites have most of the functionality that the parent site does but the content is restricted to a specific geographic area:               http://mainsite.com     http://mainsite-franchise-a.com     http://mainsite-franchise-b.com     ...      I want to combine all the micro-sites under the parent domain:               http://mainsite.com     http://mainsite.com/franchise-a     http://mainsite.com/franchise-b     ...      One of the franchises has a very large monthly budget to spend on pay-per- click (PPC) and definitely gets more conversions compared to the referral traffic of the parent site. What might be the benefits if franchise-a were to let go of his micro-site?


SEO similar website names

I'm working on a pharmacy website, which name matches several ones in Google. I've read meta keywords are no longer usable, so I tried to be specific on the title name, and meta description. I've also uploaded my sitemap.xml to the Google Webmasters web, after veryfing the website with my account, but it keeps appearing on **page 6**. I'm using Wordpress SEO by the way. Say it is called "Pharmacy City", and Google outputs blogs and a lot more which hasn't got very specific metatags, and I'm almost sure they didn't uploaded any sitemap to google. I only guess they are first because they are older pages.


Where do hits on "/ga/abpages/...-original.html" come from?

I am currently developing a website as a side-project. There's really nothing on it, and for the past few months the site has been online I've been getting no traffic except for that which I generate myself. However, a week ago I got exactly 200 unique hits on the following url:               /ga/abpages/2013-08-30T02:52:53.776Z-original.html      Looking around, I came across this discussion (and only that discussion). The given answer, that "someone may have borrowed some of your site code" seems highly unlikely, given that all three reports match the `/ga/abpages/...-original.html` pattern, and two of them confirmed that they saw exactly 200 hits. Additionally, the `/ga/` path makes me think the path is directly related to Googles' own `ga.js`. Here is all the meta-data I can associate with the hits; all other demographics are not set.   * Page Title: `original page`   * Traffic: `Direct`   * Language: `en-us`   * Browser: `Chrome`   * Resolution: `1280x1024`   * OS: `Linux` None of the hits have any navigation data associate with them—they land, then bounce. **What are these phantom hits and where are they coming from?**


access-control-allow-origin not working?

I've seen similar questions asked here but I am still unable to solve this issue. I'm running Typekit and FontAwesome (from CDN) and I get the following error               XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://resource.com/example/example. Origin http://mydomain.com is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.       Now, the typekit font and fontawesome css stylesheet are loading perfectly fine, so I'm not sure why the error :\ I have already tried to setup CORS through .htaccess but even then I still get the error. Does anyone have a recommendation for this problem? This is happening in both, my local and production server.


Where can I get reliable information on website popularity?

I know there is a site out there that provides data and stats on websites' relative popularity, unique hits etc, but I can't remember what it's called. This isn't for my own site, I want to look up more general stats.. thanks


Red5: Live Cam Streaming

We're looking to add public/private "cam rooms" to our site. Similar to about a thousand other sites on the web (Chat Roulette, Stickam, etc). We've been using Red5 for the past year with various ready-to-go Flash chat apps, and we've been using JW Player for years. So we think we have the basic infrastructure in place to make this happen. But I'm a bit fuzzy on some details, and Red5 docs are hard to find. My questions are: 1) What kind of software is needed to capture a person's cam, and send it back to the Red5 server? 2) Once step 1 is complete, how would I view the cam using JW Player (or any player actually)? Additionally (and probably obviously) we would need a way to have different "rooms". Meaning sending the cam stream to room 1234, and pointing the player at that room to view the cam stream. Can Red5 do this out of the box with the included demo software? Any tips/tutorials on setting this up would be greatly appreciated.


What are the PCI compliance and security implications for processing payments through my embeddable widget?

I've built a little embeddable Javascript widget that list items for sale for publishers to embed on their site. The current use case is that when the user clicks on an item, they are redirected to my site where they can get more information and hopefully purchase the item. Typical workflow here. What I would like to do is move that entire workflow inside the widget. Specifically, I'd like for the user to purchase the item directly through the widget without ever having to go to my site. The widget would communicate with my back-end over SSL which would delegate the payment processing to Braintree or some other 3rd party gateway. Technically, this is very feasible for me to implement. But are there any regulatory or compliance issues that would make this infeasible? What sort of issues do you expect I would encounter if I were to take this approach? What are the security implications?


How to track site visitors across several browser sessions or computers using Google Analytics?

If a site visitor clears cookies, uses various browsers or computers then Google Analytics will have a hard time detecting them as being by the same user. However since 95% of the site content is only available when logged in, so I should be able to identify multiple visits as the same user so long as they log in. How can I help Google to identify that the visits are by the same user? (without breaking the Terms and Conditions)


Does the main URL of the website matter most in Google?

Say I have a website/blog about 'tech news' at my URL `mattynews.com`, and my website is dedicated for 'tech news' with friendly SEO, and someone else has a site with the URL `technews.com` - will they get better results in Google? My point is - if my site is dedicated to my work, and someone else has my subject in their URL, it gets better results, even though my site is 10x better as in related results in the inner site. Is that normal? Or is it something I have to deal with/overcome?


Single site web proxy

I want to create a dynamic mirror or a single site web proxy for my blog on a different domain. I have access to a php based web hosting, I own the content on the original site and due to low traffic I think bandwidth is not a issue at all. What would be the best way to proceed? To provide some context, my real problem is: - I have a blog hosted on blogger with a custom domain. (e.g. www.abc.com) - Blogger as a whole is blocked in some countries which effectively makes my blog blocked effectively. - I own another domain www.def.com and a hosting and all I want is www.def.com to be a dynamic mirror of www.abc.com. Redirecting will not work because, it will not really bypass the blocking filters. I am happy with the service of blogger and I do not really want to move or duplicate things. Before I did not have this problem because blogger allowed me to use ftp and upload stuff on a different hosting server but is not a n option any more.


Domain Transfer not carrying over paid time

I recently renewed my domain for a year on BlueHost. A few days later, I decided to transfer it to GoDaddy. After transferring, GoDaddy did not show the new year that I recently paid for. After contacting their support, they blamed it on BlueHost. After contacting BlueHost support, I was given the following reply. Does anybody know if this is actually an ICANN policy, or if they're just trying to short me out of the 10 bucks. > Your domain was in the 45 day auto renew grace period. This is an ICANN > policy. In short, it means that the renewal is considered tentative for 45 > days and not permanent. If you transfer the domain within that 45 day period > you don't get the year you paid for.


Website .htaccess file for Wordpress sub folder

I developed a Flash website for a client and added the following .htaccess file in the root directory and the non-www to www redirect works perfectly.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.com [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/$1 [L,R=301]      I was also asked to add a Wordpress blog so I put it in a new directory folder (as opposed to a sub domain) with so the URL is www.website.com/blog Does Google now see the main site and blog as two different websites? Do I need to link them together using another .htaccess file in the Wordpress Root so Google automatically crawls the whole domain? Any help appreciated....


Which tool can change file permissions recursively

I need to change file and folder permission on remote linux web server recursively. For fast uploading i zipped my files and uploaded that zip file. Later on i extracted zip file using file manager of hosting server. It unzipped files but ther file permissions we set to 600 for files and 700 for folders. Now i need to change them 644 and 755 to all files and folders recursively. I do not want to check in folder by folder and change the permission. Is there any tool that can do that recursively?


Program to send beacons each 15 seconds

I am looking for the tray-minimizable program, which sends an HTTP request to my server each 15 seconds immitating user activity.


someone was able to upload php files without ftp access to my server

I have website in PHP/MYSQL developing using CakePHP framework. Recently it was hacked and someone was able to upload some PHP and JS files and the site was down. The website FTP, control panel etc were all secured. So I am wondering if someone can help that how that person would have been able to do this so that I can have it fixed. It is very critical for me to plugh this asap. Please help.


Gracefully terminate a request based service on server

In our web application, for each http-request there is a lot of computation that happens on back end. Output can vary from 10 sec - 1 Hour. In the mean time when it is computed, "Waiting.." is shown on the website for the respective user. But it so happens, that a user might cut down the service in between. So what all can be done on the back end so that the computation can be stopped in between to save resources? What different tactics can be applied here? And if better (instead of killing the thread directly), then a graceful termination policy should make wonders. This is using Java - spring jdbc and portlets. Though if it can be shown even for a servlet, I can replicate that to others.


(Blogger) Map GoDaddy Domain For Blogger Custom Domain

I just bought a new domain from GoDaddy (nurayka.net) and I want to use it for my .blogspot.com blog now. Here is my Blogger settings. And here is my GoDaddy DNS settings. After more than 24 hours, I still can't view my blog with that custom domain. It seems that it might be something wrong with my DNS settings.   1. Does my DNS settings correct?   2. Does GoDaddy Domain Forwarding should be enabled from 'nurayka.net' to 'www.nurayka.net'? Note: Before this, I have go through the GoDaddy Blogger DNS Setup and CNAME Tutorial. In the GoDaddy Blogger DNS Setup, I entered 'www.nurayka.net' and in the CNAME record (www), I entered 'ghs.google.com'. Thank You!


Mobile web design: ebay mobile

when I looked at the eBay mobile web site, I realized, they have two versions: mobileweb.ebay.com > this seems to be the newer one   m.ebay.com > looks older Is there a reason for it? Is the web site at m.ebay.com maybe more compatible with older devices?


Image not updating for some users

I don't know if this is the best practice, but we added an image with a snow delay for our school. For some users the image wouldn't come up. Is this a matter of the browser or something else? I had to use Ctrl + F5 to clear the cache to see the updated image.


Choose from client best server to download from

My web site has a download of a file of about 10Mb. I can have it stored in more than one server and was thinking of a way to offer the download to the best performing server (performance measured from the client's side, testing from the own server could lead to unreliable results as the download could go though different paths) Do you think this is realistic? I have no experience with Ajax but by what I've seen a path could be creating an XMLHttpRequest object and do some request to the server asynchronously, on receipt of a response I could update the actual download address (having a default one for the case there's no response when the user starts the download). Do you tink it's that a good idea? (and for the case I am inventing the wheel please let me know where is one ready :-) Thanks!


Using js and cookies to show different content on homepage? Good or Bad Practice?

I just wanted to get everyone's opinion on this, so I've been thinking about using a cookie I set on our ecommerce site to show customers different content when they return to the website. It is pretty simple to setup and I can set the expiration date far into the future to ensure that the cookie will present. What is everyone's thoughts? **EDIT:** Just wanted to add - no personal information is stored in the cookie, only information about the source offer. So say the customer signed up through a Walmart promotion, they would be cookied and once they come back to the site - we read the cookie and show a welcome message for walmart customers


Should I use nofollow on internal links that don't need to be crawled?

We have a product navigation engine that allow our customers to filter products based on attributes (size, color, etc.). We are implementing an upgrade that allows them to use "multi-select" refinements. Basically they can say "show me all the red, blue, and green products". We want the search engines to crawl just the first page without any refinements. We've set the canonical of the page with refinments on it to the one without any refinements. From a system resource standpoint I'm not sure I want google crawling all of those refinements links. The links that those refinements generate can be exponentially different based on the the order of the refinements, how many have been selected, etc. It just seems like a waste for google to try and index those pages. Should I put a no-follow tag on those refinement URL's so that google doesn't even crawl them?


How to deploy ASP.NET application with MS SQL server database

I want to deploy my website with MS SQL server database. It's my first time and I have never done it before. What I have come to know from my googling is that I must have a domain(.com/.net/.co) and a host(for my web pages `.aspx` & `.cs`( **confusion here if I can also deploy my database** )). Now, I am not getting to where I have to deploy my database. If I also have to buy a seperate SQL Server database or a host consisting of every thing (means I can deploy both my ASP.NET application & database as well).


Metrics on "market share" for server-side scripting languages

Does anyone know of any market share information for server-side scripting languages (# of web servers, % of web servers, etc.)? I'm learning how to do server-side scripting with Python (via the examples in Programming Python). I just can't ever remember having seen a web address with ".py?" in it ... they're almost all ".php?" or ".asp?". Thanks, Mike


Loading main javascript on every page? Or breaking it up to relevant pages?

I have a `700kb` decompressed JS file which is loaded on every page. Before I had `12` javascript files on each page but to reduce http requests I compressed them all into `1 file`. This file is `~130kb gzipped` and is served over `gzip`. However on the local computer it is still unpacked and loaded on every page. Is this a performance issue? I've profiled the javascript with firebug profiler but did not see any issues. The problem/illusion I am facing is there are jquery libraries compressed in that file that are sometimes not used on the current page. For example jquery `datatables` is 200kb compressed and that is only loaded on 2 of my website pages. Another is `jqplot` and that is another `200kb`. I now have `400kb` of excess code that isn't executed on `80%` of the pages. Should I leave everything in 1 file? Should I take out the jquery libraries and load only relevant JS on the current page?


How can I get my site's existing flash videos to work on the iPad?

My website has a number of instructional videos that would be very helpful to be viewable on an iPad. The video player is SWF, and the video itself is FLV. Questions:   1. Can I replace the flash player swf app with a different container that will play the FLV video content? Or...   2. Do I have to also re-encode the video to a different format?   3. ... and what would that format be?


Do you have stats/trends for use of different HyperText Markup Languages?

For example: html-XYZ, xhtml, html5


Better to learn with LAMP/Django or more basic building blocks?

I'm looking to pick up basic web development by working through Programming Python's internet scripting chapters (especially the server-side scripting). Question: when I'm attempting to learn the basics of being a webmaster, should I jump into a full LAMP (with Python instead of PHP)/Django implementation? Or do you recommend I learn the basics with simpler pieces (e.g. Python web- server pieces like CGIHTTPServer/ BaseHTTPServer, sqlite3, etc.)?


Use email via Google Apps to avoid shared hosting issues with blacklisted IP

I currently use a hosting package that is used both for the website and emails. Since it is a shared hosting the IP is sometimes blacklisted so our emails are considered SPAM and are bounced back. I want to setup Google Apps account, only for the email addresses, to avoid the situation of emails considered SPAM because of blacklisted IP. I plan to setup the DNS (provided by the domain registrar) with a domain mx records that points to google mail servers, and keep the A records (for the website) to point to the shared hosting server. I wonder how will the destination email server react in a case when we send email via google mail servers, but still use our own domain name? Will the destination mail server still check whether our shared hosting IP (resolved with our domain name) is blacklisted, or it will only consider the google mail server IP? Thanks!


How can I port all my images to imgur to prevent bad images across the network?

I thought my image host was always up and did have enough bandwidth to support my images, most of my images are screenshots I took with a tool. Now apparently I've got a mail that I'm reaching the bandwidth limit for free users, which means that if I continue to use the tool like this I will simply get out of bandwidth and a lot of my answers will then just show broken images. Other than that, I eventually have infrequently used a link that points to an external source. It would be handy if I could port my images to imgur in order to prevent this problem. How do I go about and do this in an automatized manner? Perhaps this can be interesting as a solution? If there is no automation possible or if it is prohibited, how do I form a Data Exchange query to find images?


Pages are indexed but disappear after few days

My pages get indexed after 1 day, but some days later disappear from search results. Any idea why this happens? I've been trying to find any of the usual problems like hidden links or other issues, but can't find anything wrong. Here is an example. It was on first page until yesterday, today is gone. This is happening with all my pages lately, so I think it must be something common to all, but can't figure out what.


Cufon for Microsoft's fonts

Anyone know where I can find info about which Microsoft fonts I can use with Cufon for my websites? (for free, of course). Ideally, I would like to use one of the following: Calibri Corbel Segoi UI Tahoma Verdana


Google's 200 ranking factors

When doing research on SEO you most probably stumbled upon Google's statement there are approximately 200 ranking factors. I think it would be nice to have a list of all these 200 factors. Does anybody know if Google ever published all ranking factors? And if so, where these can be found?


How to accomplish a rich snippet with Twitter?

I would like to enhance my CTR for my pages and/or posts. When I publish these I tend to Tweet them so they become known. When doing some research on 'Grails' I just noticed the following snippet in Google: ![Twitter Google rich snippet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XV9WP.png) Unfortunately my Google snippets never include the Tweet. My question is, how do I make sure that my tweet is included in the 'rich' snippet as shown above? In other words, which steps do I need to follow?


What determines domain value?

I want to buy a domain but everywhere I go they tell me that domain costs `$ 4000` who or what determines the value of this domain and why is it so high?


What meta tag or microdata should I use for a dictionary web application?

I have a web application that serves as a dictionary, and it ranks well in Google when searching for a rare word in my language (the dictionary's target language). I want the result to appear in the define: some-word, as well as in the search results when someone uses the filter tool Dictionary. Should I add some special meta-tag in the head of the HTML? How about microdata? Does google have a special webmaster tool for registering dictionaries like: wordnetweb.princeton.edu or en.wiktionary.org?


Domains, hosting and the law

Currently I live in the Netherlands. So, what if..   * I register a .CN domainname and upload my website to it. Under which law is my website? The Chinese or the Dutch?   * and I host my website at the Isle of Man, under which law is my website? The Chinese, the Dutch or Isle of man?


Google Custom Search gives different result number for same query

We are using Google Custom Search and we have found that often the total results iterates between two values, even for the same query. The different values can be slightly different or more than double. The parameters I am using look like this:               https://www.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1?     q=something     cx=XXXXXXXXXX     lr=lang_en     siteSearch=www.mydomain.com     start=1     fields=context%2Citems%28fileFormat%2CformattedUrl%2Clink%2Cpagemap%2Csnippet%2Ctitle%29%2Cqueries%2CsearchInformation%28searchTime%2CtotalResults%29%2Cspelling%2FcorrectedQuery     key=YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY     filter=0      This is problem because of calculating the number of result pages. How can I get the same results for the same query?


Adsense and blocking robots from web pages

If I use a meta tag to make a page 'noindex' does this mean that my adsense ads will not be targeted?


Shared hosting banwidth limits

I have a shared hosting account with a 20GB monthly bandwidth limit. I have exceeded my monthly limit and according to my host my counter is never reset, they say they use a continuous 30 day counter. So for example, I make payment on the 1st of each month, say I use 20GB in the last week of the month. My bandwidth counter is not reset on the 1st of the new month and my bandwidth will only become available in the last week of the new month. Is this common practice by shared hosting companies? Sounds a bit shady to me. Surely my counters should be reset on the 1st of every month when I make payment and 20GB of bandwidth should be available from the day payment is made?


Knowing your online Competition how to reveal 301’s directing domains

I truly believe that any webmaster entering any niche should investigate their online competition beforehand to know what they're up against and to see if their goals are realistic and affordable in both time and money. As you may know, there are a few ways of investigating your competition online. Rankings, local rankings, citations, social mentions and of course backlinks. This question is not related to any of the above but is related somewhat because it has the same end goal which you'll see momentarily. So hopefully my question and the answers to follow may aid some other webmaster encountering the same problem. I'll illustrate the problem as a scenario that'll hopefully give you an idea of what I believe and what I'm asking. _**The Scenario_** Your website has been ranking top for almost 2 years within a fairly competitive niche. Then, out of nowhere, you drop in ranking and a site that has never been on page 10, never mind position 10, is all of a sudden in top. An immediate reaction might be foul play and you investigate their content and backlinks, only to find that their content is extremely thin and they have zero backlinks. So the possibility here is that the backlinks have not indexed for that site with whatever tool you use to check for these yet. Or, Google for whatever reason has made an error that will resolve itself. 4 months on and the same thin site with 0 backlinks (Only those from expected bot/scrapers - webstats etc) is still top in rankings. So it looks like this site is here to stay and you start thinking about other reasons to why your site is being outranked. One possible reason could be that your own rankings has slipped, along with many other sites but having all those sites drop in ranking is unrealistic so the only way forward would be to believe that they have earned their rankings through either reputation with Google or foul play. The conclusion here would be - or least mine - that the site in question has recently moved from one domain to another. They may just have a simple 301 re-direct from one domain to another, or they may have told Google within Google Webmaster Tools they have moved site. **_Scenario over._** _**The Question_** My question is fairly simple and I apologise for the long paragraphs of text but I want a good idea of what is trying to be achieved here. Enough typing, here's the question! Is it possible to find out if one domain has moved from one domain to another, either using 301 re-directs or moving in Google Webmaster Tools?


Is there a Magento extension for combining/compressing javascript and css?

I thought Magento came with this feature out of the box but it doesn't appear to be working at all. I'm not sure if I haven't set it up properly, but right now I'm resorting to using `cat` and altering the `page.xml` layout file to use the combined javascript and css files. Can I make Magento do this instead or is there an extension that adds this feature? (duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4236381/is-there-a-magento- extension-for-combining-compressing-javascript-and-css)


How to recover my inclusion in google results after being penalized for receiving comment spam?

My website had very high search engine results, especially in Google. But I left the website for a couple of months and didn't notice the comments were full of SPAM, about 20k comments of SPAM. Then i checked my google results and I'm out of google ! After years of having good results, no spam, how can I now recover from that? The spam problem has been solved completely. No more spam, and the website is very legit and very nice. Well, at least I think I was penalized, I don't see any other reason.


Should I add a "nofollow" attribute to download links, or disallow the URLs in robots.txt?

I have a download link very similar to Opera's one - it's just a script that sends the file. It doesn't have an extension and there's no obvious way to tell that it's actually a download link. So since I don't want robots to crawl this link, do I need to add it to robots.txt or maybe add a "nofollow" attribute to it? I see that on Opera's website they didn't do either of this, so perhaps it's not necessary?


SItemap for site with translations

I have a `domain.com` which I translated all of the pages in my domain to several languages, all on their own subdomain (e.g. `es.domain.com, cn.domain.com, ru.domain.com` ...). The top level domain "domain.com" is redirected to "`www.domain.com`" where the English version is hosted. I have several questions: 1) How should I list the translated pages in the sitemap (or maybe I shouldn't even list them?)? Can I list them on the sitemap that is served on www.domain.com/sitemap.xml or should I prepare a unique sitemap for each subdomain (es.domain.com/sitemap.xml etc.)? 2) According to the answer for the previous question, is there any damage using sitemap for multiple versions of the site? Should I just use a sitemap for the English version? Thanks, Joel


The top reseller hosts with unlimited web space and bandwidth

Hi I'm looking at finding myself a reseller hosting plan (preferably based in the UK) and I wondering if anyone knows of any good reseller hosts that provide **UNLIMITED** disk space and bandwidth. The only UK host I seem able to find that matches this description is heartinternet.co.uk. Are there any others you would recommend? P.S. Hosts with cPanel get a +1 !!


Should I use multiple goals to track conversions of multiple versions of home page?

I have a WordPress site. I have created 4 different versions of the home page, and created a Google experiment to equally distribute traffic between the 5 pages (including the original home page). I want to track that users entered their email, and clicked signup. After signup, they are redirected to a thank you page. Now, the flow from 3 pages is - signup and redirect. On the other 2 pages, user is given an option of "Find More", taken to a page where the user can signup and redirected to the same thank you page. I have created a goal, with destination URL being the thank you page, and original home page the first required step. Is this sufficient? How should I track the signups? Eventually, I want a report which can show me number of visits on each variation and number of signups from each variation.


Structuring URLs of an online shop for SEO

I have an online store with categories that have a tree structure (meaning they can be nested inside other categories) and products inside these categories. What is the best way to structure the URLs of the product pages? Some ideas I have thought are:               example.com/<root-category-name>/<child-category-name>/<product-name>     example.com/<root-category-name>/<product-name>     example.com/<child-category-name>/<product-name>     example.com/p/<product-name>      Now a little info about each of these names.   * The names of the root categories are the most important keywords. These I want to target. Eg. "bath-furniture". I suppose I want to have much URLs with this segment since it contains the most important keyword.   * The names of the nested categories could be important but not in all the cases. In some cases they are some random-given names like "Aphrodite Series" which is not something a user would search for.   * The names of products could repeat the root categories keywords (which would be redundant) or could be random names (which is more correct imho). eg. "bath-furniture-nova-350XL" vs "nova-350XL". I want the most correct and good for SEO design.


Amazon S3, Require Credit Card?

I am registering to Amazon S3, but it says that a credit card is required upon registration. My purpose is to create a dummy account where I can test the amazon S3 for development. Is there anyway to register without using a credit card? Or Is there any place where I can test for development?


Hosting several HTTP servers on single domain name

Several people have got a single domain name `server.company.com` server, where they are now supposed to host their infrastructure or temporal projects, written in different ways even in different programming languages. How do they divide the domain?   1. Split into subdomains: `john.server.company.com`, `kate.server.company.com`, etc.   This would need a lot of admins' assistance, time, etc. **-- there would be no way for John and Kate to do it themselves.**   2. Split into url namespaces: `server.company.com/john/`, `server.company.com/kate/`, etc.   **Pro:** They now can make a single welcome page at root with any additional info (if they need?)   **Con:** Each server would need to know their namespace string constant, and `href`s like `/` whould need patching.   3. Split into ports: `server.company.com:8080`, `server.company.com:8081`, etc. and make a single `:80` welcome page.   **Pro:** They still can make a single welcome page at `:80`   **Con:** ??? I would like to know more pros and cons for 2 and 3 solution.


Get cipher used for HTTPS with nginx

## Background I would like to run several Tornado instances with nginx as a load balancer and static file server. Since both are to be running on the same machine (or atleast the same, private network) I would like nginx to handle HTTPS connections and have it communicate with the tornado instances without encryption. I found how to configure nginx to do that and how to set an X-Scheme header, allowing me to check if the connection was via HTTP or HTTPS. ## Question What I would like is to also get information about the cipher used, so that I can display a notification to the user if their browser does not support PFS yet. Is there a way to do this?


Google sitemap priorities, am I doing the right thing?

I've built a website which has maritime weather and tide data for UK locations, and each location has 7 day forecast (where data is available). My URL structures are like this:               http://www.example.com/location/llandudno/ <-- Today     http://www.example.com/location/llandudno/1 <-- Tomorrow     http://www.example.com/location/llandudno/2 <-- The following day after that     etc      In my sitemap (dynamically generated), the priorities are set like this:               http://www.example.com/location/llandudno/ Priority: 0.7 LastMod: (today) ChangeFreq: Daily     http://www.example.com/location/llandudno/ Priority: 0.6 LastMod: (today) ChangeFreq: Daily     http://www.example.com/location/llandudno/ Priority: 0.5 LastMod: (today) ChangeFreq: Daily      etc with the priority changin by 0.1 each day. My thoughts are further into the future, the less priority the page has? The lastmod are always set to the current date (but 1am) as the data on that page changes beyond midnight. _Questions:_   1. Am I structuring my URLs in an affective manner, our would I be better passing the date instead of /1, /2 etc? What implications would this have when they disappear off the sitemap?   2. Should I be including subsequent days in the sitemap at all, or just today's data? The pages are identical apart from the figures and the date on each.


Google+ vs Google+ Local

My client has both a Google+ and a Google+ Local account. Although I can find no definitive answer, it seems that each serve a different purpose and it is not the case as I first thought that they should only use a single Google+ account. This means I need to link both accounts to their website. The process for linking a Google+ account to a website is outlined here, complete with a glaring typo in the example code (it should be a link, not an anchor tag). However I am concerned that adding links to both accounts might be a bad idea. Can anyone confirm this is OK?


What research methods could I use to determine the keyword(s) I should use for my site?

In England, some primary students sit for an exam called the 11-plus. I need to figure out what keyword(s) to use for my related site, but I'm not sure how to go about this. What keyword research methods can be used for determining this? Should I use whatever Google Trends says? Should I go with one, two, or several keywords?


What drives the multi-screen rating in AdSense scoreboard?

On my AdSense scoreboard, I am getting a one star rating for my multi-screen. however, I am getting five stars for the other categories. My site is validated and compatible for all platforms. What drives the multi-screen rating?


How do I check my website on this iPhone web browser when I don't have an iPhone?

Someone has sent me a screenshot of a website I'm coding. I'm not a fan of iPhone so I have no idea which browser it is. Here is the screenshot, so please let me know which browser is this and how to check my website on it. Is there a simulator on Ubuntu? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7Oh0J.jpg)


Recover Domain from Failed Company

I have an old client who wanted to transfer hosting companies. However, the company he has managing his domain has gone under and won't respond to phone calls or emails, and their account manager is down. Never have come across a situation like this, what can I do to get his domain to a different company?


Podcast site - Serve audio files with CDN

I am managing a small podcast website hosted on a shared server. Currently there are only eight or nine episodes, each of which are about 50 MB, so bandwidth is not really an issue at the moment. However, looking forward, would it be feasible to use a "free" CDN like Cloudflare to serve the audio files? If so, how would I set this up? I took a quick look at it before, and it seems you have to have your whole site routed (is that the right term?) through the CDN rather than just specific files or filetypes. I'd like some clarification on this.


SEO results in updating periodically a 301 redirect

I'm in the unfortunate situation of managing a _very_ old website, that has been passed by the hands of at least 5 webmasters. Each has implemented new sections and other pages without regarding structure logic and SEO along with the rest of the site, creating multiple duplicated content pages. I have several cases of something like the following:   * specific page of an article within a section (like `site.com/section/article-title`)   * a generic link in the navigation linking to a "latest section article" wich is basically a duplicate of the previous page (the url is like `site.com/section/latest-article`) Previous practice was to update periodically the "latest article" page copy/pasting what is the new content for the section, along with creating a proper article page in the section archive. This behaviour is replicated in several sections, updated with various ranges, usually few months or weeks. Unfortunately this site is built in flat HTML, and rebuild a controller logic on it could be quite time taking and my client is not willing to pay for it. As a quick and dirty fix to the duplicated content on search engines, I've placed some 301 simple redirect in the .htaccess file like this               Redirect 301 /section/last-article.html http://site.com/section/article-title.html      and so on for all the unnecessary navigation links in the menu. What I'm in doubt now is if it's considerated a bad practice to keep updating the redirects periodically according to the new published content, or if it's irrelevant for SEO. I guess it's a trivial question, but I haven't found anything like my situation in my researches.


Can microdata be used within META and custom tags?

META tags that sit within **HEAD** of a webpage. What difference it makes when using microdata in them and outside of **HEAD** of webpage? Let's take for example " **datePublished** " property. Instead of hunting every time for text in content, why not just implement it within **HEAD** with **META**? According to Google's structured data testing tool if certain microdata is presented for search engines, then it also must be present on webpage's content, otherwise such misleading practice will result in penalty. Even if that's the case, implementing within META will save us time and eye strain when wanting to wrap microdata around piece of content. I will now explain about custom tag. I don't know about it being custom but I have seen tags like "time" where microdata code looked like this:               <time itemprop="datePublished">YYYY-MM-DD</time>     <text itemprop="datePublished">YYYY-MM-DD</text>      Are TIME and TEXT custom made up tags or they are elements that belong somewhere? Can I customize these for my needs? Thanks


Why is MediaWiki auto-linking the word “files”

Our MediaWiki installation is auto-linking the word "files". So               Here are some files: a, b, c      would result in the word "files" being linked to `http://ourhost/mediawiki/files`. Why is that happening and how do I make it stop? I can use the nowiki tag, but perhaps it does not surprise you that the word "files" appears often, and it is aggravating to use that tag all the time. Here is some info on our MediaWiki installation from Special:Version. Yes, it's old. > Installed software > > Product Version > > MediaWiki 1.16.5 > > PHP 5.2.14-pl0-gentoo (apache2handler) > > MySQL 5.0.84 > > Installed extensions > > Parser hooks GoogleDocs4MW (Version 1.1) Adds tag for Google Docs' > spreadsheets display Jack Phoenix SyntaxHighlight (Version 1.0.8.6) Provides > syntax highlighting using GeSHi Highlighter Brion Vibber, Tim Starling, Rob > Church and Niklas Laxström > > WebServiceSequenceDiagram(Version 1.0) Render inline sequence diagrams using > websequencediagrams.com Eddie Olsson Other MWSearch MWSearch plugin Kate > Turner and Brion Vibber > > Extension functions efLucenePrefixSetup > > Parser extension tags gallery, googlespreadsheet, html, nowiki, pre, > sequencediagram, source and syntaxhighlight > > Parser function hooks anchorencode, basepagename, basepagenamee, > defaultsort, displaytitle, filepath, formatdate, formatnum, fullpagename, > fullpagenamee, fullurl, fullurle, gender, grammar, int, language, lc, > lcfirst, localurl, localurle, namespace, namespacee, ns, nse, numberingroup, > numberofactiveusers, numberofadmins, numberofarticles, numberofedits, > numberoffiles, numberofpages, numberofusers, numberofviews, padleft, > padright, pagename, pagenamee, pagesincategory, pagesize, plural, > protectionlevel, special, subjectpagename, subjectpagenamee, subjectspace, > subjectspacee, subpagename, subpagenamee, tag, talkpagename, talkpagenamee, > talkspace, talkspacee, uc, ucfirst and urlencode


Remove all issues from Google Webmaster Tools

I have a lot of issues in the google webmaster tools (like 25 000) that are in the past and have been solved. I would like to remove all the issues to concentrate on the new ones, but I can only delete 1 000 of them per day. How can I remove all the issue in one time?


Ranking in Google for New Sites

I have a 3-months old site. I have been doing decent SEO for it. I have just 1 or 0 people visiting the site from Google and its concerning me. Is there some wait period before sites start to rank? In case anyone wants to check the backlink profile, the site problemio dot com (didn't want to seem spammy by posting the actual url)


How do I send copies of e-mails to a handler script if my e-mail is hosted with Google Apps?

I'm trying to figure out if there is a way that an email can be sent to two mail servers. One being a local server configured in CPanel and the other is Google Apps. I've already configured the server to allow for email to be sent to Gmail's servers with the MX record. But now I want it to also keep a copy of the email on the actual Cpanel server. That way any mail that is sent to an email address is viewed in Google Apps AND left on the server for Cpanel Horde/etc to receive. I'm attempting this because of the fact that my webhost doesn't allow connections for some reason to Google Apps via a PHP script (like setting it up would cause errors). Can anyone help?


Publishing an asp.net mvc3 website database and all to a website?

Just wondering is this possible : I have some local databases which run fine. If I could move them all up to a server online it would be great (with their data and all that). Currently, what I'm doing is creating the datbaases remotely and creating the tables to match the ones on my project along with the tables then uploading using webmatrix and setting the appropriate connection string to the databases on the server (not even sure if this will work, haven't been able to test it yet). Just wondering, since I'd potentially save a lot of time and effort, could I just move the local database online as part of the publish process?


Cleaning up the mess with SEO and conversions in mind

I'm having some kind of a unique situation here, but at the same time it's the typical mess web-beginners create. I took over a project for an event-company and at the moment they're having several sites and domains online for the similar (but not the same) thing. So they're offering 4 different main events and they basically are in the same branch (sports) and the same location, but other than that they've got nothing to do with each other. Problem is that they set up several (more than 1 each) domains and with that also different designs, which is just a big big mess to maintain. They're also sometimes fighting with duplicate content. At the same time though more than 1 of those pages appear in the google results for the same keyword (sometimes covering more than 50% of the search results on the first page) - meaning the users conversion rate is much higher than it would be with only one page. I'm wondering now what advise would be best, as I have a hard time deciding between cleaning it all up to not more than 1 page each sport and leaving the structure as it is, - as it has a good conversion rate. Do you think 4 different designs are distracting the user although they're of the same company ?


Why isn't Google Analytics Goal Tracking working?

I want to use Google Analytics to track registrations on my site. I don't see anything in my Google Analytics reports. Here is my markup:               <input type="submit" value="Register"  onSubmit="pageTracker._trackEvent('Goals','Registration');"/>      I'd like to know how to make this work, or how to troubleshot what is wrong.


Whats the best approach for headings 2013?

We are creating some informative articles on our website. Typically an article will have a natural title such as "Now it’s Even Easier to Arrange Loans Online". The keyword that we're targetting here is "loans online". The anchor text will also be "loans online". The question is would it be better for SEO to add a new H1 containing the exact anchor text, and relegate the title to an H2 something like this?
Loans Online

Now it’s Even Easier to Arrange Loans Online


How long does it take to delete a Google Apps for Domain account and allow recreation?

Basically, I set up a Google Apps for domain account for one of my clients but upon trying to upload a CSV of users, only half were created and then I kept getting time outs, 404's and other errors which I never saw when setting up another client. I was not sure how, but thought I may have caused an error or there was an error Google Side when the account was created so I thought it may be best to delete the domain and start from scratch. Little did I know, you had to wait to recreate the domain! As far as I can tell from what I have read, there is five days to delete and allow recreation of similar user names, however, I can't see anything that shows how long you have to wait for the domain account. It has now been 5/6 days and I can't recreate it. The cancellation email I got shows "...If at any time you would like to sign- up for Google Apps for this or another domain, you can do so by visiting..." But it does not mention how long!!! I tried emailing Google directly but got no response. Does anyone know?


Checking if email addresses are valid

The host of the site I'm working on tends to shut off email if a certain number of fails take place. Needless to say this is a bit of a pain even if it's justified to fight spam. Is there a way to test if an email address has failed once so it can be flagged?


How Can I Host My Website On My Own Computer?

I currently developed a new website. The website is plain html. How can I host this website on my own computer. My computer is always connected to the Internet. How can I host my website on my computer and give it a domain name which will be known to everyone outside using the Internet?


Link count on high PR website, which is better?

i have search this question for quite long but i cannot find the answer. may be because i don't know what keyword should i enter. i wonder, which is better to have let say 100 link only one one website that have PR 9 than 1 link on every 100 website PR 9 ?


All the pages from search keyword is gone!

Yesterday when i have checked me website's page ranking is search engine as per keywords, at that time it was perfect. But today when i was checking i found that mojority of keywords are not in top 100. I have attached one image. check it and answer me the reason...      ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LufZ1.png) I have only one question why it is happening? please help me...


How do I create a High Assurance Root Certificate Authority

I understand the basic nature of High Assurance Certificates. You pay more money for a certificate and the Certificate Authority investigates your company to a greater degree. After that occurs and they sign your certificate, then the Organization name appears in the URL for various modern browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari). But let's say I want to create my own High Assurance Certificate Authority. (Let's say for a company intranet). Does anyone know any details on how this occurs? Do I simply have the text "High Assurance" in the Common Name for my CA? What part of the certificate on the Root CA indicates that it is "High Assurance" or rather that the company has been investigated? Or is it part of the Root CA at all?


Determining VPS requirements for a website

I am on the lookout for another webhosting provider but I'm unsure what to really look for. My current hosting package is as follows:   * VMware vCloud Premier VM   * 10GB storage   * 3GB vRAM   * 2 vCPU's   * Snapshotbackups with GFS principle   * Currently debian, so I will prefer debian in new package as well I am unsure what I need to look for in a new hosting package, since I have no idea what equals "2 virtual cpu's". I know I need at least 200GB of traffic and preferrably 2 IP addresses. What kind of packages would be suitable for these requirements? Or what do I need to find out more at my current hosting?


When is the leading slash (/) needed in mod_rewrite patterns?

Here is an example from the Apache documentation for enforcing canonical hostnames:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$     RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R,NE]      What I would like to know is why the /? is needed. I've tried removing it and everything appears to work the same. I was under the impression that the pattern part of the rewrite rule was compared against what comes after the slash.


Having good domain name and using domain aliases (I use notlong)?

I use only free servers and after creating my website I decided to make access to that domain by **simple domain name** . I decided to use domain alias notlong service The second advantage of using alias here was to be **independant from my file host** which I will have to change.   I haven't found a better alias service like _notlong_ , because _notlong_ is **easy to remember**. After that I encounter many problems:   * most of forums or social services treat _notlong_ address as a **spam** ,   * Bing so far haven't accepted the notlong domain and others.   * * * Is it another way **to have good free domain name**? How about the situation **when your hosting server will inform you to expire**? Only a lasting layer of domain aliases make you independent from the real file hosts.


Yahoo sitemap ping URL?

We recently used the URL:               http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=....      To ping Yahoo about sitemap changes. This URL turned out to time out and is not reachable. Then I googled and on the Yahoo site I found a different URL which also times out:               http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=....      What is the correct address to ping Yahoo about sitemap changes?


Why is Google ignoring my pages after a sitemap submit?

I've submitted a Google sitemap with 12 links in, and Google has accepted the links (2 weeks ago) but it insists on only showing 4 out of the 12 pages in the search results. Even when doing a site: in Google only shows these 4! Any ideas how this can be corrected?


Internal WordPress pages all 404 when using WAMP

I have a problem when using WAMP while designing and coding my site. Well, I have a local version of Wordpress installed in WAMP and use it as a tool to see my changes when coding. I also have the same files uploaded to some free hosting. The problem is when I want to access for example `http://localhost/contact`. Browser gives me a **404** error. As I said, the same files (exact copy from my PC) are on the web here and when I go to `http://thefalljourneyindia.iblogger.org/contact` it opens the page fine (without the style of course because I haven't made one yet). Why is that and how do I get to see all of my pages locally like I can when the WP installation is online?


Can a soft link be used to fix URL problems?

I'm developing a new website to replace our old website. The URL the dev site is `11.22.33.44/~abc/` (not that IP exactly) because that's what HostGator gave me to use. Once complete, I'll change DNS servers so our domian name points to that server and not our old one. I'm using Drupal and am taking great care to keep all links relative. However, because of the `/~abc/` in the dev URL, it's not always possible to keep it relative and many links will break. Within the Drupal system or anywhere Drupal PHP is used, like for menus, it can figure out the URL on it's own. But for any images and links entered into the WYSIWYG, those will break. Can a soft link fix this problem? Should I use the command `ln -s /~abc /`? Will the URL `example.org/~abc/node/1` then show the page `example.org/node/1` ? I know this is not ideal for SEO, maintenance, and other reasons. But it would make the migration much smoother and quicker.


Google AdSense - providing access (via an additional account?) to a third party

I am working with a partner who will be handling the marketing side of things for one of my websites. He has informed me that he will require access to my AdSense account. I need to create an additional account for him, so that he can access and manage Google AdWords/units etc, using his own login credentials. However, despite searching Google for a while now, I can't seem to locate any information that pertains to creating additional user accounts. Does anyone know how I may do this?


Geolocation Blocking and SEO

I'm in process to block a particular geolocation from accessing my site. But i am not sure if this is going to raise any flags on my website. Basically i'm getting lots of spam from particular state and there are some webmaster copying my content without any attribution or backlink. I feel that is enough and i wish to save my bandwidth on that state or geolocation. So my question is how to block particular geolocation ? Do you have any suggestions for php scripts that help block particular geolocation ? and another question: if there are any SEO disadvantages ?


Site not showing in google search, and webmaster tools showing irrelevant keywords

In Google Webmaster Tools, for my relatively new website: `www.caterboxgroup.co.uk`, it says there are 3 keywords: _domain_ , _registered_ and _caterboxgroup_. The two first ones do not exist in the pages anywhere so I don't really understand what it's happening. Also, I have typed `caterboxgroup.co.uk` into google search and it returns any result. Please help...


Responsive Design that Uses Different Images Sizes (big, medium & small) for Phones, Tablets, and PCs

Our CMS creates 3 type of images size every time the content created: big, medium and small. We don't want to change our admin page that creates that 3 images types. Can anybody find a solution for our problem of creating a responsive front page using responsive design, which can load the different image for different browser sizes?   * Mobile phone: small size images   * Tablet : medium size images   * PC: big size images I have heard many thing about responsive design, but it doesn't seem to account for the image size, it still loads the big image even in the small device. I found another website that loads different images, but it creates the small images on the fly as the website is loaded, so, I would like to find a different technique.


Crawling retail websites to use as templates

I'm setting up a commerce website. I really like the Overstock website, and I was wondering if could simply crawl the website for the webpages, remove Overstock's logos, and use their website as a template. Is this legal, or can it get my website shutdown? How much code is a developer allowed to use before it's considered stealing?


Republish / Change Publish Date Of An Article - Any SEO Help/Harm?

My sites has some old tutorials, which I am planning to update according to the latest version and change the publish date so that visitors can see it as a fresh tutorial. I am just concerned whether it will do any harm to the tutorial SEO or otherwise have any benefit or not. Any suggestions/feedback is appreciated.


Analyze high load due to Joomla?

I have a Joomla site causing very high (php) load on the server. I have already ran the MySQL slow log feature and it doesn't appear to be MySQL. What are some ways to analyze a Joomla site to determine what causes the high php load? Example of highest processes for the day:               testing1    testing1.com    27.32   0.53    0.3     Top Process %CPU 179    /usr/bin/php /home/testing1/public_html/index.php     Top Process %CPU 138    /usr/bin/php /home/testing1/public_html/index.php     Top Process %CPU 137    /usr/bin/php /home/testing1/public_html/index.php      Using latest 1.5 Joomla on a CentOS server running Apache/MySQL. I have full/root access to this server, so whatever tools are needed I can install. I know the general idea is that a number of 3rd-party components are probably causing this, but how can I determine which ones (without removing/disabling them)?


Is there a way to customize the date range in Google Analytics and save that as my preference?

Whenever I open my Google Analytics account, it shows me a default date range (last one month). But I am not interested in this range and I always change it to display the last 3 days. Just to highlight what date range I am referring to, here's a screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NBfJb.png) Is there a way to do this only once and save this to my preferences?


Moving article (Deleting the original) to another blog - SEO MISTAKE?

I'm trying to move an article to another blog, I already deleted the one from my blog and gave it to the other blogger, however, it is still indexed in Google, but if someone click it, he'll see a 404 error. Now the other blogger is worried about his web site being penalyzed if he publish the article. Thx in advance Ps: There is no way of making a 301 permanent redirect, because the original page no longer exists.


Low pagerank backlinks - does Google penalize?

I have a new stock discussion forum and I would like to promote it. Specifically, I have two ideas in mind to help promote it: 1) Become a member at other stock discussion forums. Make high quality posts, build a good reputation, and leave a link to my own forum in a non intrusive way (ie. in signature or at the end of my posts). This approach makes sense because you can find other members in other forums that are interested in stock discussion and a backlink to your forum, as long as it is not done in an intrusive/spammy way, should come across as acceptable. 2) Promote my site by writing articles at Squidoo, Hubpages, etc. This approach also makes sense because that's what Squidoo and Hubpages is for. The problem with both these approaches is that when I leave a backlink to my site, the page that I am leaving a backlink from may have a low PR - most likely, a PR of 0. Now, I have read that after the Penguin update by Google, your site can be penalized if you have too many backlinks from low PR pages: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/224339 So, I am caught in a dilemma: a) If I start promoting my site via other stock forums, Squidoo, Hubpages, etc, but the backlink to my site comes from a page with low PR, Google may penalize my site. b) However, if I don't promote my site, nobody will ever discover it (aside from other promotion techniques like social media promotion, directories, etc).


I registered my domain, but it doesn't appear to exist

I wanted to register a domain with No-Ip and clicked the Sign Up button on their homepage. I entered my desired domain name (I won't publish it until I get this resolved, to prevent "domain theft"), then clicked Add my domain. I completed the order form, and waited 72 hours like it said, but my domain is still not active. Any help? Did I register my domain correctly?


What does this % number in Google Analytics reflect?

In an In-Page Analytics report in Google Analytics, I see `6.7%` and `159 clicks` as displayed in this screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fGXHS.png) What does the percent number reflect? Is that the number of clicks vs. clicks to the whole site?


URL path structure for a website with several directories

I am making a website with several directories that will have a high amount of content. For now I have separated the URLs into categories so that they’re like this: > www.example.com/student/   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/biography   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/image-gallery/   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-1   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-2   >  www.example.com/student/student-name/contact   >  www.example.com/teacher/   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/biography   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/image-gallery/   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-1   >  www.example.com/teacher/teacher-name/image-gallery/gallery-name-2 There are many teachers, students, galleries, videos, etc. There are several more categories that are made in the same way, but before going online I would like to check whether this is the best way.


How to motivate visitors to comment

At first I must apologize, because I am not sure if this question is valid for webmasters topic. I deal with the problem as being webmaster, however, i think this question is more related with marketing. Nevertheless, I was searching for marketing stack-overflow at meta stack-overflow and did not find such page. ## Background Four days ago, I launched a portal with database of barber salons at which people can find a salon through various criterions, see its photos, details, and also put a comment with their own opinion. The development took me half a year and it took me other 2 months to fill the database with information about barbers (I've also hired another three people to this job). I have not a big problem with getting people to my portal, I pay for PPC, comment on barber discussions etc.. In past four days I've reached a satisfactory number of visitors. ## Problem I deal with fact that everyone wants to search and read comments, but no one is willing to put her/his own opinion to barber. **So I've tried following (2 days ago):**   * Made comment anonymous, no one has to be afraid of compromise her/his identity with a salon owner   * I prepared a competition for users in which they can win a cosmetic package if they comment on at least three different salons   * I payed for PPC campaign on facebook which is telling people about the competition   * I registered competition on 20 portals for competitions **And the result:**   * People are commenting on facebook that the competition is a good idea   * They are giving likes on facebook   * But no one put a single comment to a barber salon I am getting little confused about what am I doing wrong. I will be thankful for any advice.


Does adding live chat script to a website affect its SEO?

I have a client who has added a live chat script just before his /body tag. The live chat script uses WebSockets for communication with servers. However, it appears his SEO traffic decreased by a good margin after the addition. Can live chat script be the reason it happened? I understand that the question finally drills down to 'Does script tag affect SEO?' but was trying to give as much context as possible. This appears to have happened in first week of January. If the above is not the reason, have there been any changes to Google ranking algorithms recently?


Arguments against background music on a website

A client (who is not in the music business - dentist) wants me to put background music on his website. Even this is kind of a duplicate of Music on a web page? i would like to assemble a list of actual arguments to use with these kind of clients:   1. **Discretion** : While surfing in a quite enviroment (office) you dont want attention drawn to you by making noise   2. **Taste** : Someone might dislike the style of the music played   3. **Accessibility** : A deaf person is discriminated   4. **Accessibility** : Someone might not have a speaker connected   5. **Resources** : Additional Data must be downloaded and slows down the site   6. **Distraction** : The music might distract from the content   7. **Cost** : You have to license the music   8. **Unexpected** : Someone might have turned their speaker to maximum.   9. **Incoherence** : There is no connection to music on the site.   10. **Force** : You might force something on a user that was not expected or maybe wanted. Are there more reasons?


What should I do with a ton of alternate domains? Redirect or use landing pages?

We have a ton of alternate domain names. What is the best strategy as far as SEO strategy is concerned? Do we want to 301 redirect them all to our primary domain or set up simple landing pages that link to the main site?


PHP Development Environment (Host: Windows 7, Guest: Ubuntu)

Since editing files live from a remote server slows down development. I use XAMPP on windows to develop then run the web app's on a Linux server. However to avoid environment dependencies I'd like to mirror the live environment and the development environments. What I'm asking is running development server on Ubuntu inside VirtualBox whilst editing the source files via ftp/Dreamweaver is a good idea? If so, and I wanted to view the local website on the host OS (windows) how would I do this? does the guest OS have a LAN/Local IP address? I notice on windows "ipconfig /all" there are "tunneling" adapters which I assume is for VirtualBox, so I guess the guest OS has the same LAN/Local IP address? if so how would I view the websites hosted on the guest OS on the host OS? I'd also need to host FTP server on guest OS. Note: **I need windows!** I would love to use Linux all the way -.-


How to set/show nameservers as the domain name is

Assume, www.superexample.com is my domain name and ns1.somehosting.com is my nameserver. What I want is to show/set my **nameservers** as **superexample.com** or **ns1.superexample.com**. How? Please,don't say it's not possible, I've seen it on whois of several websites.


Content licence vs SEO

Which will boost a search engine optimization campaign: setting your content to creative common licence or copy-write protection of your content? and to what extent to they influence the SEO campaign?


Jumping from Drupal 5 to 7

I still have a few sites running on Drupal 5, and I'd rather upgrade directly to 7 when it comes out. I figure it's probably not going to be a supported upgrade path, but still, has anyone tried this (with the betas or RCs), and what should I look out for?


Google PageRank calculation

I know this might be a stupid question, but I have recently heard, that Google PageRank takes into account links from my sites to big pages, i.e. when I link to big sites, my site get more PageRank. Is that true? (I am not talking about big sites linking to me)


CMS for Blog site

I would like to create a blog site with features like Engadget. The editor can upload blog and albums while users can comment. I know it's even easier to use blogspot but it's blocked in China. I have tried Joomla before. It seems a bit slow even after removing most of the modules and the memcache plugin doesn't help much either. Is there any other option? Do I need other plugins to run WordPress as blog?


Standards for long format dialogue when published to web

I'm posting some extremely long audio transcripts from 50 minute long radio recordings. I'm afraid that any search engine crawler will read these really long documents and treat it negatively because of keyword frequency or length. I've researched and found that for a dialogue a `<dl> <dt></dt> <dd></dd> </dl>` is recommended from http://www.sitepoint.com/markup-musings.., but it doesn't provide me the right formatting so I've used a `<table>` instead. I'm wondering if there are any attributes or specific mark up I can use to help inform a browser that what it is looking at is a transcript of a recording? My code basically looks like this, with no attributes describing the information. Any suggestions are welcome!
             <colgroup>             <col width="17%">             <col width="83%">         </colgroup>

                 Speaker name:	                 What they said.


Confusing caching issue-DNS

Yesterday I changed my DNS servers to point to a different server. This change has still not been displayed on my own computer, but it does from other computers around the world (checked using browsershots.org) I'm using OpenDNS for my DNS and there cache is pointing to the correct server. What could be meaning my computer still isn't going to the right place? Thank you!


Does your company name in an article title damage Search Engine relevance

I've been wondering about this for a while but never come across a solid answer. Many websites include their name in all the title tags of their articles. This is often apparent in word-press blogs etc. eg: Tsunami hits Japan and leaves thousands homeless | My Website Name The issue I have is that Search engines strip the stop words out of this sentence to leave the words in which it compares to the body text. So if I want my article to rank well and be relevant, in this case about the terrible Tsunami that has recently struck Japan what is to STOP the MY WEBSITE NAME section of the title de-valuing the relevance of the article. Am I over-worrying? Or should I take this in to consideration? Thanks for advice in advance.


problem connecting to magento connect

I'm using magento 1.4.0 and when I try to get to magento connect and download a plugin the page will say > > Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions > > Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this > web based downloader requires. > > If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all > Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user > (example: apache) and press the "Refresh" button to try again. does anyone know how I can fix this problem, thanks Update: the plugin I'm trying to use is MagentoPycho light box so I unpacked the folder into the app/code/local but it still doesn't show in the admin area


When advertising on Yandex, why does my ad get shown for broad queries and why do so many users click?

I'm using Yandex Direct - it is Russian contextual advertising system. We are creating and promoting sites, and started contextual advertising campaign. There were a lot of keywords like "create site", "buy site", something with "seo" and so on. But there was also keyword "site", without anything. We saw that a lot of users were searching for something not about site development, but their queries still contained the word "site", so they saw the advertisement. There were queries like: "russian railway site", "online dating" (in russian it contains word "site"), "site kinder-surprise" and MANY similar queries. Okay, it's understandable, that they saw our advertisement, because keyword for it was just "site". BUT our advertisement has title "site of any level of complexity to order", text was "unique design, seo, open price policy, at least 1200$". I undestand, that it sounds bad in English, it doesn't matter, the essence is clear. SO, main problem was, that A LOT of people clicked on ad. CTR was 5%! We lost decent amount of money, because 5% of people, those were searching for something like "railway site" clicked on that ad. So, I'm interested - is here any sense to suppose, that something is bugged in yandex? Or this situation is normal? I supposed, that many users open first links in new tab blindfold, when they are searching something. Of course, without separation of ads and search results. But no any other explanation yet.


cPanel bandwidth stat update frequency

The bandwidth stat in cPanel updates two or three times a day. Is it my host's settings or where can I see real time bandwidth usage stat?


Workaround for Chrome not handling backward date change in Windows

I'm heavily making use of cookies for a website. Their expiry period is set to 1 day. My preferred test browser is Chrome 28, Windows 7. For a test, I need to change the date of my OS back to eg the previous month ( eg. July 28th). Obviously, doing so expiries the cookies (created on August 28th). But the problem is that all newly created cookies (as of July 28th) immediately expire. The feelong, and the Chomium bug database make me think that Chrome caches in some way the system date : I must close Chrome and restart it again to be able to store cookies again. Is there a workaround to this ?


Searching on Google for mydomain, my domain name is shown as the page title instead of the actual page title

When I search for my domain on Google, eg: `mydomain.com`, my site shows up with a title like "MyDomain" instead of that page's actual title. Any clues on why this happens and how to fix it? Edit: This is the code from head:                <head>         <meta charset="utf-8" />         <title>Συγκριση τιμών - Τιμές προϊόντων,Αναζήτηση και προσφορές</title>                 <link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105294720755057253319"/>         <link href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105294720755057253319?rel=author"/>         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/960.css" media="all" />         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/screen.css" media="screen" />         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/color.css" media="screen" />         <!--[if lt IE 9]>         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/stylesheet/ie.css" media="screen" />         <![endif]-->         <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.seekit.gr/template_new/js/basket.js"></script>         <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js"></script>         <script async type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.11/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>                    <script>      var current_url = 'http://www.seekit.gr/';      var module_title= 'index';             </script>         <link title="Seekit.gr - προσφορές" rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.seekit.gr/favicon.png" />                 </head>


WHMCS Bulk Pricing Updater

Their is a Bulk Pricing Updater addon in WHMCS which works well to update hosting accounts pricing but I am unable to update the domain pricing through that every time it gives this message > Updated Domains with TLD 0 - 0 Affected I have Google searched the problem and it seems a known issue which has yet to be addressed by WHMCS. In the meantime is there a workaround for this problem?


Structured data in Webmaster Tools

I have an eCommerce site. In Webmaster Tools its showing: > We do not detect any structured data on your site. Structured data helps > Google understand the content on your site, which can be used to display > rich snippets in search results. I don't know much about this message in Webmaster Tools. My site contains products, categories and manufacturers. What do I need to do to provide structured data? How does it help? I already read about schema.org for products (our site contains 200 products). How can I get rich snippets?


Does redirect popup window affect SEO?

We have multiple websites, each site servers number of countries, and we used to have Geo-Ip Auto redirect system (no one likes auto-redirect), so we implemented another redirect system also uses Geo-IP database, but showing a pop-up window (HTML layer pop-up, so it can't be rejected), this window asks the visitor if he would like to continue with this page or go to the correct website of his country. We also added a test line before showing the pop-up, so if the visitor is Googlebot, the popup will not show up :). I was wondering if this effects our websites SEO?


How many users should a site have before using advertising?

I have a small hobby web site that acts as a friend finder for folks with similar hobby interests. So far I have avoided advertising of any kind to keep from having a negative impact. But recently my user list has started growing nicely. My goal is to pay for the site's hosting costs and other small costs that went into site development: domain registration, html template and some graphics. None of it was very expensive. Hosting is the main cost. How many registered users or regular user traffic should the site have before some simple advertising. I'm thinking no more than a single ad in any page.


Wordpress Blog Is Very Slow

A few days, my website (http://www.teknoblogo.com) isn't scrolling easily (You can try scrolling) . Website very very slow. I'm using W3 Total Cache. Disabled all unnecessary plugins. But still website is very slow. What can i do ?


How to forward a [sub]domain to another address? (not just HTTP!)

I have bought domain1.me from GoDaddy... (yeah, I know... but ME domain registrars seemed quite hard to find...) I'm mainly hosted at 1and1. I have registered subdomain sub1.domain1.me and redirected it to my 1and1 account. That should eventually work fine. Then I have registered sub2.domain1.me and tried to redirect it to a box at home. It works #1 when for HTTP. I can access SSH server without any problem when I use the IP directly, but not when using sub2.domain1.me:22. The way I see this, they (GoDaddy) are redirecting only on port 80 (why would they?). I have looked at 1and1 forwarding too and they ask for an URI starting with http so I guess that's the same behavior. What are you guys doing to be able to host stuff from home (HTTP, SSH, SVN, Git, etc. etc.) using a domain name to prevent everyone to have to remember your IP??? Heeeelp! Thanks!


CDN - Content Delivery Networks. How do they work and why would I want to use one?

What exactly is a Content Delivery Network (CDN), how does it work, and why would I want to use one for my web site? Which are the well-known CDNs out there?


How to see all "Not selected" urls in Index Status of Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools have the menu _Health > Index Status_ in which it shows:   1. Total indexed url's   2. Total not selected url's   3. Blocked url's For the second one that is _**Not selected**_ url's the reason for not selected is > URLs from your site that redirect to other pages or URLs whose contents are > substantially similar to other pages Where can we see all the not selected url's which are not indexed?


How can a company get the most out of their domain name?

Our company has a domain name (say example.com). What are the best practices we should undertake? What can we do to avoid well known risks? How can we be as client-friendly as possible? Some examples:   * Have both `http://example.com` and `http://www.example.com` serve our webpage (client-friendly)   * Have both `http://example.com` and `https://example.com` work (client-friendly)   * Implement a nice 404 page, including all menus, a link to the main site, and suggestions from a search engine based on the contents of the URL (client-friendly)   * Buy variations (examples.com, exemple.com, example.org, ...) too so we avoid other companies impersonating us, stealing clients What else can/should we do to get the most out of a domain name?


What is the requirements for Google adsense?

i have a blog i-World-Tech (http://i-world-tech.blogspot.in/) . my blog age is only 35 days . i Want to know what is the requirement for Google adsense ? how many page views and age of blog is required for Google adsense ?


Localhost vs 127.0.0.1 - Error when referring to own IP address for an application running on IIS

I have an ASP.net application which I've been playing around with on my Windows 2008 server. I have WordPress installed so that when I visit the server by it's IP address I can visit my hosted website. The WordPress website works fine when I request the site by it's IP, but when I try to debug the ASP.net application in visual studio it opens `http://localhost:49219/`, where I can see my asp.net website, but even after opening this port and trying to access my application over the net by my server's IP I get the following error: ![Bad Request - Invalid Hostname](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OM8gj.png) What is strange is that even on my server, I cannot visit the site by typing in `http://127.0.0.1:49219/`. I'd like to try to get this application on the net but I really have no clue why I can refer to it using localhost but not by IP. Any suggestions?


Is making my PHP files read-only a useful security measure?

Up until now I've been "protecting" my website's PHP files by making them read-only with `chmod`. Is this a useful security tactic? Or is it some "old wive's tale" and I'm wasting my time? I'm inclined to think that anyone who is in a position to modify my PHP files could also `chmod` them (thus barely slowing down any would-be attacker). Or they could just create a new file somewhere (like a cache or upload directory). Thoughts? The downside of implementing this technique is that I have to shell in and make the files writable every time I want to automatically update WordPress (or, really, make any changes to my site). So I update less often than I probably should. So, even if it's marginally useful, **is it worth it?**


Which one of the Google Analytics stats should be my top priority to improve SEO: visits, pageviews, bounce rate, new visitors, or visit duration

My site is getting a lot of traffic from an image (a company logo image) because this image is ranked 1st in Google search results for a company's title. (I have no idea how that happened.) This image is must for my website, but it is not relevant to the site content, so irrelevant people search for the image and find out about my site. I get interesting statistics: ![site statistics](http://s2.postimg.org/gt4g48h15/Search_Overview_Google_Analytics_Google_Chro.jpg)               Pros: Total Visits & Avg. New Visits     Cons: Avg. Page/Visit, Avg. Visit Duration, Bounce Rate      I am confused if this image is helpful to my website. I don't know what the balance between those 5 statistics should be. My website is 2 months old, and we are working on SEO at the moment. Edit: here are the details about the image:   * **Search Keyword:** arcelik logo   * **Search Site:** google.com.tr   * **Search URL**


Google analytics tracking code

MY google analytics tracking info shows               <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-107xxx48-13', 'auto');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>      but the code im the site html shows                   <script type="text/javascript">         var _gaq = _gaq || [];                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-107xxx48-29'],['_trackPageview']);                 _gaq.push(         ['panel._setAccount', 'UA-107xxx48-13'],         ['panel._trackPageview']     );      Does difference between the 'ga send' in the code and the 'gaq.push' on the site matter?


Hosting torrent tracker in legal countries

In what countries it is legal to host torrent traacker? I mean without future issues with laws like illegal movie, software downloading.


Facebook activity feed does not show up on website, help needed

I set up a Joomla website for a client of mine with a box on the frontpage that should show the recent feeds of their facebook page. When I test it with a different page, it works. So obviously has something to do with their facebook settings. Could anyone help me or tell me what might be wrong? Any constructive answer I would highly appreciate.


Personalized content (authenticated with a cookie) and impact on SEO

We have a big website with a lot of content, that is doing pretty well in terms of SEO. Google likes the site, visitors like it as well. Our problem is that there is a lot of content that would only be suitable for our USA visitors, while other parts of content would only be suitable for certain European countries. At the moment all content is visible to Google (search engine) and all visitors naturally (as a big site) with many interlinked pages. **We are looking for a way to be able to personalize our content** to (for example) our American auditory, **without impacting the current SEO rankings**. We use ASP.NET and IIS 7.5 and I was thinking to implement authentication for our visitors and enable them with an option to personalize the content according to their choice - **so they will only see content that is relevant to them** (say only content relevant for USA) The site is dynamic and using IIS Url rewrite module for it's URLs. **I can add a simple "Condition" to a URL rewrite rule (in web.config) that would check for a presence of authentication cookie** and rewrite to a more suitable internal page to handle content, _while preserving the original URL_ that everybody sees without authentication. That means I can basically personalize content to a visitor that has "logged- in" and made his preference clear... Sounds like a completely legitimate thing to me... It isn't cloaking or something right? We actually need to do this in order to improve conversions of our site, without affecting current rankings. What do you think ? Would you agree with me that it is a completely legitimate solution that should not (if implemented carefully and correctly) have the negative consequences of being triggered (by Google) as some black-hat tricks practitioner.. ? (I am asking this because tomorrow I will have to convince my partners in that it might be a good option for us to implement)


What is the general practice for country TLD subdomains

I'm trying to launch a website application that will focus on cities around the world, whereby TLD for each countries will be used. For example:               www.website.de - Germany     www.website.cn - China      sub-domains will be                www.berlin.website.de      www.beijing.website.cn      Does the approach used above have any significant advantage over this:               www.berlin.website.com     www.beijing.website.cn      The aim of each website/sub-domain is the same, but with specific contents tailored to the cities. My question is slightly different from: How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?


Move websites without losing search engine rankings

I have one company with 5 business areas. Each business area has a website. Recently we decided to have all these websites merged into one website, the group website. What is the best way to move these websites without losing the SEO and page ranks? What do you think about our decision? We believe that if we have just one website covering five business areas, it will circulate and have more traffic than we have at this moment.


AOL and E-Mail Marketing

I offer a paid subscription newsletter service that sends e-mails daily. I have had trouble in the past and currently with AOL E-Mail Address users and did not know if there is anything specific that I can do so that AOL will allow these e-mails through to the user. I would like to note that the messages are _not_ getting marked as SPAM. They simply do not show and I do not receive any bounces from the e-mails. They seem to just disappear. Now with that said here is what steps I have taken:   * Contacted the company I send the e-mails through to see if they can tweak their settings   * Asked the end user to add my e-mail to their Address Book (my email is a valid e-mail)   * Setup Domainkeys and SPF for my site   * Checked for "spammy" words and phrases etc    * Checked for the blacklisting of the mail server IPs (they are not) I only have this issue with AOL users; Gmail, MSN, Yahoo, etc do not give me these issues. Anything I can do to improve the rates would be very beneficial to my company and the users who pay to receive these messages. I have attempted to contact AOL and all I get back is a very general canned response that tells me nothing or says there is no issue. Is there anything I can do to "help" my e-mails out with AOL?


Create a filter to consider http://example.com/foo/bar as http://example.com/index.php/foo/bar

I'm using URL rewriting to make my url `http://example.com/foo/bar/` to `http://example.com/index.php/foo/bar`. I'm not linking the `index.php/..` url anywhere, but for some reasons, some users arrives to the `index.php` url. In Google analytics, I have a lot of duplicates that are quite annoying to follow up the traffic. I've watched the Advanced filters but I'm struggling to make it works fine. Any regex and google analytics pro to help me out ?


Huge company wants my domain name

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'll give it a go. I simply require a little advice; A very large hosted e-commerce platform emailed me a while back and basically asked me to transfer my domain name to them. They made no offer but simply said 'why not change your domain to xx - xx instaead of xxxx' Not they own all the equivalent names in .com, .org all of them apart from my .co.uk I am a registered partner of theirs and my website is a portfolio of all my themes but I also get a lot of enquires through it. I had heard rumors this company is opening an office in the UK! I'm right in thinking I shouldn't just roll over right? I've put some much effort in to SEO and building my reputation... I can't just give it up surly?


Need help in removing and forbidding some kind of malware in my website

I have a website based on Joomla 2.5. Recently people with **AVG anti-virus** started to complain that some strange windows appear when they open the site. An unknown line of code with comments **"Google search bot"** appears in index.php files and the permissions set changes. AVG detected **Blackhole and Sweet orange exploit kits**. I removed manually all the code but a day later it appeared again. I installed OSE anti-virus plugin and RS Firewall plugin for Joomla and scanned and it said it was OK.Is it necessary to reinstall Joomla? Please, help me. Thank you in advance. Oh, I forgot to say that I can not change the FTP password.


What's better for SEO folders or filenames?

I was wondering which of this two possibilities may be better for SEO. Let's take The Sitemap Paradox as an example. What would you reccommend:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox      which actually is:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox/index.asp      or would you recommend (SOMETHING LIKE):               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox.asp      I know the stack exchange sites have an excellent SEO, but could you point to some documentation about this topic in particular? Thanks in advance.


How does AdWords' Pay-Per-Click (PPC) get determined exactly?

Google updates PPC with CTR and past statistics it collects, but it is not clear how exactly and precisely Google determines the PPC for AdWords and AdSense. Could anyone explain it in detail, preferably with an example?


Security - DiscoverCard.com

I have a security, SSL question about http://discovercard.com/ When you first go to Discover Card's Home Page you are able to type in your user name and password without the website being protected by SSL. When you hit login the information is passed over SSL but the home page does not use SSL itself. Why do you think Discover does this? Is this fine to do? Are there any security risks by doing this? Any other bank or credit card website I have gone to has SSL anywhere you type the username and password. Thanks for the comments!


Facebook company pages, why some are simple urls and some are strange long urls?

I'm trying to set up this _damn FB_ page for the company where I'm working for. I think it's probably useless stuff, but I want to give a try. I came up with this page:               www.facebook.com/pages/Poste-Certificateit-PEC-per-societa/168391856527591      Then I saw company pages with simple URLs, like this:               www.facebook.com/serverplan.it      I thought my 1st url could be re-written also as `www.facebook.com/Poste- Certificateit-PEC-per-societa`, but it does not work. So why some **company pages** have simple URLs and some others need that long URLs? Or what am I doing wrong?! Thanks! * * * And BTW, if I'm on the wrong FB approach attempting to create _company page_ , I mean if you think a _group page_ or something else might be better from a Internet Marketing POV, plz let me know and exaplain. Thanks again.


How to effectively close a page?

Before asking my question, I'll use an example to clarify the idea. Say that a company used to sell horses and then they turn into a sheeps business. While some of the old pages can be mapped to the new pages using a 301 redirect, because they're really related in the content and the company don't want to lose users and link juice, there are a lot of pages strictly related to horses that they want to shutdown. What's the best practice? Is there a way to say to users and Search Engines the content you were looking for won't be available any more? Basically a 301 redirect of the closed pages to new ones seems not so good, because you'll show a content totally unrelated to the searched one. P.S: I'm aware that probably the best fallback is to simply map those pages to the homepage but I hope in a smarter solution.


Redirecting 301 deleted files to a file or a web page?

I want to redirect using 301 status some selected "purged" files which could be jpg/pdf/zip etc files to keep backlink juice when linked from external sites. For a web page I redirect them using 301 to another "page-deleted.htm" page. But what about the files? Should I redirect using 301 to another image/file or the same "page-deleted.htm" page?


Why use HTML entities instead of just putting Unicode characters in HTML?

Let's say I want to put a non-bland character in an HTML file; for instance, '→'. Is there any reason why I should enter it as '→' instead of just putting '→' in the HTML file? Assume my HTML file is encoded & transmitted in some Unicode format.


Is su.pr no longer supported?

I'm looking to shorten permalinks in Wordpress automatically within the loop but it seems there is no information on the su.pr api. Is su.pr dead?