Searching for Googlebot in server logs

I'm trying to use Heorku Logentries to track Googlebot's activity on my server. (Although, I think this could broadly apply to tracking Googlebot activity on any server.) I can see that I have results from Googlebot just by paging through my logs, but if I search for "googlebot" or "/googlebot" in Logentries I get 0 search results. Same if I grep for "googlebot" in my log file. The Logentries team informed me that the bot results I see are IPs resolving, which is visible in the front end but not part of the log itself. As a workaround, they suggested that I figure out all the IP addresses used by Googlebot then do a multiple search using the OR operator in the search bar. But there has to be a more efficient/remotely possible way to do this, right?


Trouble reading htaccess canonicalization

I just took over development of a site and am having trouble figuring out the canonicalization rewrite rules (not my forte). I've pasted the code below. The first bit seems straight-forward enough, stripping out index.html. The second part redirects non-www TO www and also appears to be redirecting to NO trailing slash: www.example.com (no "/"). I actually can't confirm the trailing slash part though (header sniffers don't show the / redirect). Is there a trailing slash redirect in place? (btw, this code is years old, so am open to better, more efficient options). * * *               RewriteEngine on      RewriteBase /           # Redirect INDEX.HTML      RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(([^/]+/)*)index\.html\ HTTP/      RewriteRule index\.html$ http://www.example.com/%1 [R=301,L]           # Redirect TO WWW with no trailing slash?      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com      RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]


Strange named anchor behavior - only working with the hash mark after a trailing slash

I have an odd problem. Links to named anchors on a site I'm working on are only working correctly if the pound/hash sign is placed after a trailing slash (e.g. example.com/about/#who), rather than directly after a page name (e.g. example.com/about#who). What could be causing this? I should note that this is on a site running WordPress, with the WPML translation plugin. I'm not sure if that's causing the problem, though (otherwise I'd ask on the WordPress Answers SE site). Any suggestions as to what could be causing this strange behavior?


Does using AdSense in slide-out div violate Google's TOS?

I want to encourage users to register on my website, so as a registered member perk, the ads would be removed, so I was thinking of implementing AdSense in a div that slides out from the bottom of the page and has a Close button (for non-registered users). Would either of this be against Google's TOS?


Do image backlinks count as backlinks?

If i have lots of images appearing tumblr blogs, the sort of tumblogs with very little text just reams and reams of images for people to browse through (example - http://whereisthecool.com/). If my image is embeded in their site like this :                                         so the image was a link back to my site. Although there is no anchor text to speak of does google take into account the alt text of the image ? Would this still count in googles eyes as a backlink ?


Publishing articles twice

If I am building a new site where I want to publish my articles that have previously been published on other sites (that I do not have control over them), what is the best thing to do?


How can I verify a Google+ local page for an organization with only a PO Box?

I'm setting up a Google+ Local Page for a local organization, which has a P.O. Box, but does not receive mail at all at their physical address. I see no place in Google+ to add the P.O. Box address, and I don't believe Google will allow a P.O. Box address as a primary address. Is there any way to get this site verified?


Setup basic proxypass in Apache

I have a web application that communicates to a web service deployed on the same server. The web app was written with Tibco General Interface and works well only when it is running locally on the development system. When I deploy the web app to the Apache server it fails with code 200 apparently due to cross domain data. I use Firefox as a browser. I have tried changing Internet Explorer to access cross domain data and it works however IE is not an option. Web application runs on `192.168.2.205` (port 80).   Web service runs on `192.168.2.205:8040` I have tried a number of things with proxypass inside Apache with no luck.


How can you set cookieless subdomain with Quantcast

I have correctly setup Google Analtycis so GA is not setting cookies for my subdomain. I mean for my static subdomain. But Quantcast is setting. What i wonder is can i prevent Quantcast to set cookie to my static subdomain which is static.example.com?


How can I set parameters in Google webmaster tools so that my dynamic content is indexed?

I have read questions about URL parameters in Google Webmaster Tools in this site and the Google Webmaster Help Center but I have a problem. My site searches in the database and show some information. These two URL display some data:               http://mydomain.com/index.aspx?category=business     http://mydomain.com/index.aspx?category=graphic&City=Paris        1. In URL parameter section, I can only define parameter category, how Google can detect proper values (business, graphics, real estate...)? Every word is not valid for search.   2. If My page name is `default.aspx` or anything else, where I should define it?   3. If I use URL rewriting like `http://mydomain.com/search/category/business`, my settings must change?


article url format for google news sitemap

I have 2 questions about url for google news sitemap.   1. Is it good that I use= url for sitemap witch like `http://www.mydomain.com/news?query=football&title=Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad`, the page is a search results include the article `Poland coach Smuda names Euro 2012 squad` and 10 search result with keyword `football`? Or I should do an independent page only one article and url like `http://www.mydomain.com/news-article/Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad`?   2. Could I do some url like `http://www.mydomain.com/news#!Poland-coach-Smuda-names-Euro-2012-squad` which url rule under AJAX hash crawling from google for the sitemap?


How do companies fake a domain registration date?

On a few separate occasions I have lost prominent domains to the scourge known as cyber-squatters. They've even snatched up a domain within 5 minutes of checking availability. One domain in particular is my business DBA name. I looked to register it a couple of years ago and it was available, and within a few days it was magically taken by an Arabian person claiming to live in Kansas. The site's an obvious parked domain, showing ads to try and rake in profit off of my company's name. Here's the kicker though... The domain 'claims' to have been registered in 2003. Bullhockey. It was available in 2011, and no record existed. **How are they able to lie about the date registered to ICANN?**


Can I use Google Analytics for multiple versions of an application on different domains

We have a commercial web application which customers buy and host on different domains. I want to add google analytics tracking to all the instances of the application that will give me aggregate data across all versions of the application. I am not interested in tracking the same users across the different domains (as a given user will only ever use one instance of the application). Can I just set up a new analytics account and add it to all the instances of the application and it will just work? One complication is that customers often want their own analytics tracking for their instance of the application. Therefore I am likely to need two trackers on each page (one for them and one aggregate one for me) which I am planning to tackle using this approach: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/advanced#multipletrackers


Tables and SEO - The big conspiracies

Now, I've heard many (if not too many) conspiracies/myths about tables and SEO. Now, I'm in a state of confusion, and I have no idea what to do. Below, I will write two SEO and table myths that I need clarification about. **Tables for page layout:** It's been said that you should not use tables for design, as it has a negative impact on SEO. However, in a video my Matt Cutts, he states that it doesn't matter, and that Google has to deal with both CSS and table layouts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL_GZwoC2uQ). Now even after this, people still have different opinions, and I never get a proper answer. I currently use the Atahualpa theme for Wordpress, and it has been a very popular theme. It even has some SEO features built in. However, I have a problem. This theme uses a table layout, and I was wondering if this theme would hurt my SEO. Should I still continue using this theme? **Tables are bad just in general:** Now, I've heard a lot of comments that say tables are bad for SEO just in general. Now personally, I feel as this is completely false. However, I need a professional's view on this matter to guide me in the right direction. Are tables good or bad for SEO?


Weird keywords in google webmaster tools

I just happened to check the keywords list on Google Webmaster Tools for my site, which is an educational content site about finance. To my big surprise, after the first keyword, which is 'finance', I found amongst the 20 highest ranked (!) entries words like: mysql, server, adobe, flash, player, homez. What (i'm tempted to add "the heck") does that mean ? Is that something I should worry about? If so, how did these get there and how can I eliminate these / avoid they get into that list ? Thanks very much in advance for your help


Google Webmaster Tools not showing links to my site: "data not available"

Three days ago I received a notice from Google Webmaster Tools about unnatural inbound links, but my GWT does not show any links to my site. How can I check which unnatural links GWT means?


How to double protect admin access in PyroCMS

I have read how to protect admin folder with _.htaccess_ and _.htpasswd_ file but in PyroCMS admin login (ex: `example.com/admin`) just only routing system (no admin folder yet). So, how can I double protect my admin access?


Google webmaster tools Site Performance says site is faster but shows it slow in the graph

Looking into Google webmaster tools it happened to me many times to see for some of my sites these type of inconsistency, **in the text they say my site is faster** than 63% of sites, **but when I look at the graph** the site is on the **SLOW background** (over the 1.5 seconds line). **So do you know if my site is considered fast or slow by Google?** ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/u0MKG.jpg) Is it me not able to read properly the graph?


Internet Explorer 10 aborting some stylesheets

Strange problem exhibited only with IE10 on Windows 8. No other IE version, no other OS version. Some stylesheets are aborted, apparently in transport, intermittently. This seems to happen when there are three `<link>` tags in sequence. The tags are correctly specified and are being served from Amazon S3 over HTTPS. The first two items abort when (or prior to) loading. Altering the order of the items appears to make the first two items abort in all cases. This problem is intermittent, and different people can reproduce with differing success. I have seen a lot of conjecture about this on the web but no solution.


how to keep a visitor 100% anonymous

Maybe a broad question, but how can you keep a visitor to your site 100% anonymous on your server. The site is written in PHP. No trace of what he or she has visited on your site. Any suggestions?


Can a spamhouse listing affect your IP long term?

Lately I am getting a lot of mail delivery fails like 20% of the time. It used to be less, then some domain on our shared hosting was blacklisted in spamhouse and all emails couldn't be delivered. The problem was sorted and our IP isn't blacklisted any more, but the delivery rate is strangely low lately. So I am asking if your IP is delisted from _spamhouse_ can you still be affected by the previous listing? Also what can be learned from a mail delivery fail? This is the error I'm getting:               A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its     recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:


Disabling frequent reloads of visitor

In my website i have some pages, that makes connections to 3-4 sites and checks the results with my database and gathers a full table. This table includes all the data that the visitor would need. You can think it as scores table of latest 100 basketball, football and valleyball matches. Users see who won, latest score, location of game, bets data etc. The sources of data changes every 15 minutes or so. So if the user reloads the page in this period, after many CPU consuming and database querying he will see nearly the same table. (There exist small differences) I don't save table data into my web storage, because the data is invalid after 1 hour. My concern is, if visitor reloads the page, this process will be done again again. How can i make solve this? First ideas that come to my mind:   * Saving page data in localStorage of browser. Storing last access date of page in cookie. And when the page is reloaded, checking the time difference. If smaller than 15 minutes than get data from local storage and show same page. But in this scenario. I will be limited to 5 mb storage limit and browser compatibilities.   * Saving page data in my database and show from there. The problem of this is, the data is nearly 200 entries per page. When i use this model in 50 pages, i will have too much tables and data, where the data will be invalid in an hour.   * Saving page data in my web storage. This is better option in beginning. But is not scalable. When visitor number becomes big, this won't be maintainable. I would be happy if you can share some ideas, or better practices. Thank you


Getting less impressions than my website's position in search results would suggest

I have a site that ranks 3rd for the term "e decorating". According to google's keyword tool that gets 12,000 monthly impressions. However, according to google's webmaster's tools, I'm only getting 35 impression for that term. Why is this?


Missing data for specific language in Google Analytics

We have a multilingual website, Swedish (default), English, Norwegian. Google Analytics tracking code (the same code for all languages) is present on all pages. Problem: We get data for the default language in Analytics, but can't find any data for the other languages pages. The english language is prefixed with /en, Norwegian with /nb. We know we have traffic, but it doesn't show in GA.


How to use different php.ini files for different VirtualHosts?

I have my site and it's staging subdomain running on the same CentOS machine running apache. The subdomain is created using a VirtualHost, and I use it to find any bugs before I push to production. I want the php.ini file for the staging VirtualHost to be a development one, and the production site will use a production php.ini. How can I configure apache to use different php.ini files? I don't want to use php_value/php_flag for everything, I'd rather just use the php.ini file I already have available. I've tried creating an .htaccess file that looks like this,               SetEnv PHPRC /path/to/php.ini/directory      This has no effect, as phpinfo() tells me it's still using /etc/php.ini. I've also tried setting PHPIniDir for both virtual hosts (www and staging) and it complains about seeing the directive twice.


Remove fb_action_ids of the URL with .htaccess

For some reason my host not let me have more than one htaccess so I have to make all the changes from the htaccess located in the root. My directory tree is as follows:               ..../     ....index.html     ....css     ....img     ....amixermusic     ........css     ........img     ........js     ........index.php     ........escuchar.php      This is the code for my htaccess:               RewriteEngine On +FollowSymlinks     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d          RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/$ /$1? [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^traductoramixer.es     RewriteRule (.*) http://www.traductoramixer.es/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteRule ^amixermusic/escuchar/(.+) /amixermusic/escuchar.php?id=$1     RewriteRule ^amixermusic/buscar/([^/]*)/?(.*) /amixermusic/index.php?q=$1&p=$2          RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} fb_action_ids=.*$     RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} fb_comment_id=.*$     RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]      Everything works fine except the lines are to remove `fb_action_ids`. I do not know what I should change. Hope you can help me. I forgot to mention that the like button is in "`escuchar.php`". This is generated automatically getting the URL of the window using PHP. So I think the statement should specify the directory, no?


Insert file from the current directory from within a central ssi include?

Our web pages use header and footer SSI includes and I'd like to insert some content specific to particular directories from within these. For example, say the header is located at `/includes/header.htm` and for the page `/docs/example.htm` I want to include the file `/docs/_info.htm`   Similarly for `/contact/example2.htm` I'd want to insert `/contact/_info.htm` If I use `<!--#include virtual="_info.htm" -->` the SSI looks in it's own location, i.e. for `/includes/_info.htm` Is there a way I can reference the current parent document directory from within the centrally located SSI?


Choosing a Domain for SEO

I am building a new website and I have a couple domains to choose from. For SEO what are tips for choosing a good domain? For instance which, in SEO terms, would be better: `websitesfor[subject-of-website].com` or `[subject-of-websites]-websites.com`


No GUI on embedded video

I'm trying to find video hosting provider to embed a video (html5 preferred, with flash fallback would be boss), with enough settings to suit my needs : autoplay / loop / _no gui_. Just the raw video, playing in loops, for it would be some kind of teaser. If something like this exists that would be great. So far I'm going with vimeo, which is close enough, but I would love no interface at all, which doesn't seem to be available in vimeo.


Google analytics data is contradictory

For this post http://mytabletguru.com/forgot-password-pattern-unlock-of- android-tablet/ I am two different report. 1) When I see the **Content -> Site Content -> Landing page** , then it has following data. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LjerZ.jpg) 2) When I see the **Content -> All Pages**. Then I select the above page, then goto **source-> Google** then it show the following ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/B8MST.jpg) In one it shows that Avg. Visit Duration is 01.10 and in other it shows the Avg. Time on Page is 04.32. Plz explain this.


Consolidate search results from site that gets accessed from multiple domains

I have a site hosted on Windows Azure, and I have a domain pointing to the site, so I can access the site using both `mysite.cloudapp.net` as well as `mysite.com`. Now for some reason Google indexed `mysite.cloudapp.net` even though I intended to use only `mysite.com`. I was wondering what do I have to do to make Google show only `mysite.com` results. This is taking into account that for some search terms `mysite.com` doesn't even show in the search results whereas `mysite.cloudapp.net` shows among the top 3 results, and I would obviously like to keep that, only that it would show the correct domain. I know that I could do a 301 redirect whenever the request comes to `mysite.cloudapp.net` but that wouldn't change the results of a Google search. Thanks a lot for your help.


Removing page levels/ keeping url clean

I have recently put my site live - http://www.soundplaza.co.uk I then bumped into a few articles mentioning about page length and depth and I was wondering if I should change the URL structure while the site is new. **Change From:**               http://www.soundplaza.co.uk/speakers/tannoy-revolution-signature-dc4t/10      **Change To:**               http://www.soundplaza.co.uk/speakers/tannoy-revolution-signature-dc4t-10      As you can probably see I am using the ID at the end to bring the page content through. Do you think its worth removing the extra level, or do you think it will confuse the product name?


Migrate facebook app from WAMP Server localhost to facebook

I have developed an app for Facebook and it is currently hosted via a localhost WAMP Server. My question is how can I put my app on Facebook? What would be the steps I must follow? Please note: My Facebook Application doesn't need any database to connect to, instead the app that I have made will return a JSON file containing on account information.


Design scrollable table structure

I'm currently looking for a way to design a table structure with HTML and JS which should be   1. Horizontally Scrollable (It has to be possible to dynamically add new columns)   2. Tolerant to changing sizes (e.g. when adding some text or controls) of cells. E.g. when doubling the size of the second cell in the second row every other cells should stay in the correct columns.   3. It should be possible to adjust to rendered columns to the width of the screen.   4. It should be possible to use the same layout with swiping on mobile devices.   5. >= IE8, FF, Chrome must be supported Currently I'm thinking about a DIV based solution where the correct table structures of the columns and rows are preserved by resizing column and cell DIVs if needed. That's how it should look: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XwE5w.png) Is the DIV based solution apropriate or is there a possibility of using the default HTML table?


Clean URLs - is it better to not have a colon or comma them?

I'm trying to create the following kind of URL: `www.example.com/state:ca/type:apartment,condo/price:0,20000/` or `www.example.com/state/ca/type/apartment/condo/price/0/20000` Is it better to not have `':'` or `','` in the URL for SEO?


I find manually editing MySQL databases tedious. If the whole database was optionally represented as text files (as per Unix "everything is a file") for quick manually edits, searching and replacing would be much simpler. Is it possible to represent MySQL database as text files? Background: A user asked to get something deleted from the forum database. Haven't found out how to search and delete it.


Good source for posting videos to embed on your website

I have a website where I want to embed video tutorial on my blog posts. Now the video's that I make are HD and have not past the 10 min mark yet, maybe in the future. Now I have the videos just on youtube, it has HD, and all of them are under the 10 MIN. The only **downside** I have until now is that I haven't found a way to have a HD version of the vid embedded correctly on the page. If I choose HD the video player is 1280X960 on the page. The normal switch is not there. Are there any good alternatives for this available online. I have checked vimeo, but for the HD version you have to pay. I make no money from the website so I am not willing to pay for that. Are there any alternatives that I can use where I can post my videos. There are certain criteria I would like to have if possible. _I want to be able to post HD .mp4's and the video's I embed on my website must have the function to play in HD._ _I want to be able to make vids longer than 10 MIN._ _It would be nice if the video site is popular, so it could attract some visitors to my website via the video's_ _This services have to be FREE_ I know that are a lot of requirements to ask for free, but this is just my ideal set-up, I could settle for less.


Services - separate sites or one site - impact on SEO?

I have a client who is a lawyer that specializes in Criminal Defense and DUI, however, he does not show up well in Google. In researching the sites that rank better have much more content for those specialties than his site does and my thought it that he needs to add more quality content to rank better for those searches. On his site he mentions his specialties, but also he has various personal things on his sites that reflect his interest. These are clearly separated from the business portion. My questions are:   1. should heseparate his personal information into a new domain?   2. should he have a separate URL for each of his specialties?   3. or would one URL work as long as everything is clearly separated?  I read once that for legal services to rank well you should make a separate site for each specialty and have that site focus solely on that service.


Google indexed my home page incorrectly: How can I fix it?

I finished my website and launched it, I think I had a problem with my `robots.txt` - so I changed it to look like this:               03/08/2012     # Allows all bots          Sitemap: http://www.mysite.co.za/sitemap.xml          User-agent: *     Disallow: /dashboard/      When I google my `domain.co.za` - I get this back: Home               A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.     You've visited this page 3 times. Last visit: 2012/08/15      Now since I fixed this and added a 301 redirect to redirect `mysite.co.za` to `www.mysite.co.za` I would love it if google bot would come do a visit. Is there anything I can do to get this fixed?


Duplicate content: two pages with just a little change in code are still considered duplicate content?

I have a website which talks about cars and motorcycles. Once in, the user can choose wether to browse the cars section or the motorcycles section. Once chosen his section, the url will have a `/section/` part in it. The page requests are always the same. The difference is just about the content. The structure of a common page is the following:               +++++++++++++++++++++++++++     +    SLIDER WITH PHOTOS   +     +  AND SMALL DESCRIPTION  +     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++                 PAGE CONTENT          +++++++++++++++++++++++++++      If i am browsing the car section, the slider will be populated with car photos and some text about car. Else, if i am browsing the motorcycles section, some bikes with some text will populate the slider. **EXAMPLE** Let's take as example the **news** page. If i am browsing the cars section, my URL will be `mywebsite.com/cars/news`. Else, if i am browsing the motorcycles section, the url will be `mywebsite.com/motorcycles/news`. Here is the trick! My website in both situations will run the script `news.php`. Different news will be displayed, because basing on URL, different posts will be fetched from db. This means, `mywebsite.com/cars/news` and `mywebsite.com/motorcycles/news` will not generate duplicate content, because the content delivered is totally different. **THE PROBLEM** Let's take as example the **about us** page. In this page i show information about the website. These information are the same wether i am browsing the car section or the motorcycles section. This means, if i visit `mywebsite.com/cars/about-us` or `mywebsite.com/motorcycles/about-us` the slider part (and some other little menus) will be slightly different, having different pictures and descriptions, but the page content will be exactly the same. **THE QUESTIONS**   1. Being (in the **about-us** page example) 90% of the page identical, will crawlers see it as duplicate content (and penalize me)? More in general, what crawlers consider as duplicated content are two identical pages or two ALMOST identical pages?   2. Should I decide which one is the best version and put `rel="canonical"` in it? **NOTE:** I would prefer not removing `/section/` from my URLS, for now.


Updating Pages after migration of website

My web site was coded in Coldfusion and over the years has obtained a good ranking. I recently migrated the front-end to a Wordpress site and wanted to know what is ideal way of updating Google and the various search engines of of the updates. For example, the home page of `index.cfm` is no longer valid since it's `index.php`. I've submitted an updated `sitemap.xml` file to Google. I'm sure my site will slip some while the search engines re-index my site but I'd like to try and minimize this as much as possible with the holidays coming up (my site is a service oriented site that caters to people who travel during the holidays). Right now, the old `.cfm` pages are still online but are re-routed to the appropriate Wordpress page (for example, `about.cfm` is now routed to `/about/` using a cflocation tag.). Not sure if I should pull down the `.cfm` pages all together or leave them in place until the new pages are picked up by the search engines. Any advice would be helpful.


Product catalog API

What is the common practice in creating (and updating) the product catalog (all products/models/tech specs) for online electronics store? Does any of the manufacturers/OEMs have an appropriate API to pull the data? Thanks, sbereli


Websites to detect who hosts a website?

What sites are there to detect what web host is hosting a website?


How can I get Google to not index archive pages in Blogger?

I'm using Blogger with a custom domain. When I use the Google search `site:example.com`, the top results are in the form `Example: 2010-01-10`. These are archive pages that Blogger generates. My relevant content pages only show up after all of these, on page 2 or 3. Ideally I don't even want these pages to appear in Google results. I believe that the reason they are indexed is because I have the "Blog Archive" panel enabled. Which I enabled so that there are links to all the content pages in my site. Some of my pages are only linked to through this Blog Archive panel, so they wouldn't be indexed.


How can I deal with advertisement revenues lost because of adblock?

Is there a way to force my users to not use AdBlock? If not, what can I do to discourage its use?


Is there a free, open-source question and answer (Q&A) application similar to StackExchange?

I'm launching a Q&A site similar to StackExchange. Does anyone have any recommendations for free self-hosted Q&A software that is easy to customize? I've seen this wordpress theme but it isn't free and, therefore, isn't what I'm looking for.


Q&A system for website in php

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there a free, open-source question and answer (Q&A) application similar > to StackExchange? I'm looking for a good, open source (if possible) q&a (questions & answers) module for websites in php, with a rich functional scope and highly configurable (interface, implementation languages ...). I'd like to know what you can recommend. Thanks in advance


Tracking PPC and website stats

What are some of best tracking software packages available for PPC and a website?


how should cache control be set in the requests

i know that cache control headers can be set on the pages coming out from the web-servers (that is responses). Does anyone know how cache control header should be set on the requests? Should it be done via client-side scripting? If yes, how?


How do I find out which Registrar a domain is registered through?

I'm hoping to backorder a domain that looks promissing. I've read that if it's through Network Solutions then you should use SnapNames b/c it automatically does the auctioning/rselling for NS.


Permissions & File Structure w/ nginx & multiple sites

I am using nginx for the first time as a long time Apache user. I setup a Linode to test everything and to eventually port over my websites. Previously I had /home/user/www (wwwroot) I am looking at doing something similar with /srv/www/domain/www (wwwroot) Rather than using /srv/domain (wwwroot), the reason is many of the sites are WordPress and one of the things I do for security is to move the config file one level above wwwroot and can't have multiple configuration files from multiple domains in the same top level folder. Since I own all the sites, I wasn't going to create a user for each domain. My user is a member of www-data and was going to use 2770 for www and have domain/www for each new domain. www would be owned by group www-data. Is this the best way to handle this?


Is there free windows ftp gui client that enable 2 remote locations side by side, instead of local+remote?

I need FTP client that allow me to move files in the server easily. I want to have side by side 2 server locations. In Filezilla for example I can see local & remote. I want remote & remote (in different folders).


Will many links to the same page without nofollow penalize the host site in the search engine rankings?

May be a silly question, but I'll give it a shot :). On my forum app I would like to allow users with sufficiently high reputation display links to their home pages under every post - without the nofollow attribute (while lower rep users will have the nofollow) I am happy to help the site contributors improve rankings of their own, but not sure if this can actually deteriorate the rank of the host (the site that hosts those links) - as potentially the same link to the user's home page may be peppered in the pages of the host. What do you think? Thanks.


wmode - What does it mean in browser's rendering behavior?

Whats the actual behaviour of wmode attribute in HTML. Any kind of technical details is accepted. Thank you.


2 the same page addresses in generated sitemap?

I tried different sitemap generators and they generate 2 data structures refering to the same webpage: On the beginning:               <url>         <loc>http://pundaquit.republika.pl/</loc>          <url>         <loc>http://pundaquit.republika.pl/index.html</loc>               <priority>0.6400</priority>      I think sitemap generator should recognize main webpage in a domain and produce only one `<url></url>` structure. Should I delete one of `<url> </url>` structure and which one? Does anyone know sites which explain this issue?


Searching a query with Asterisk as * on Google

When searching on Google the query `function* js`, Google regards '*' as a placeholder to a word instead of a normal character. How do you get it to treat Asterisks normally?


In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those only in web.config?

In IIS what is the difference between rewrite rules managed by URL Rewrite Module versus those which are only in the web.config file and do not appear in the URL Rewrite Module? **Using the URL Rewrite Module in IIS 7.5 to add a rule...** I notice that the rules, when looking at the web.config, are quite readable, and they are rooted in . **In contrast, using rewrite rules via web.config not managed by the URL Rewrite module...** do not seem to be as readable (perhaps this is not true for all), and these rules are rooted in instead of . **QUESTION:** What is the difference, and what are pros/cons of using each? Personally, I like the ability to use the IIS module because it gives you an interface to test rules. Example of a rule from the IIS 7.5 Rewrite Module:               <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="LowerCaseRule1" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>      Example of a rule not managed by the IIS 7.5 Rewrite Module:               <rewriter>         <rewrite url="^/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/.*.aspx$"          to="~/ContentDisplay.aspx?CID=$1&SID=$2" processing="stop" />     </rewriter>      note: I added a linebreak to the second example of code after ".aspx$"


What does a domain register do? (e.g namecheap)

I have a basic understanding of how domains work, and would like to fill in some gaps. Lets say you make a server request for `google.com` how do you get the `IP Address`? > Do you request your `ISP`, with a domain for an IP, that request the global > `DNS` that requests your domain register? Basically is this what happens?               client asks ISP what is IP for "google.com"?     ISP asks Global DNS what is IP for "google.com"?     Global DNS asks namecheap what is IP for "google.com"?     returns IP back up stack to client      **or** > Do you just send a http request packet with domain and your ISP just handles > it? If so how? **and** > What do domain registers like `godaddy` and `namecheap` really do? I would love some resources and knowledge to be pushed my way. Thanks in advance.


Does re-directing a penalized website fix the problem

A client has consulted us a case where they were not able to remove all the paid links from their website, they decided to redirect everything to a new domain, and have a fresh start. The question here is, if they redirect the old website to this new domain, will the penalty be transferred to the new one as well?


My site is not recognised by Google

My site http://www.mcqtoday.com is indexed by google, but even if type the full name of my site in google search it does not show my site. Bing, and Yahoo do it well. There is no crawling error I checked in google web master.


Need help choosing between broad match and exact match keyword for organic SEO campaign

I am getting a mixed response on targeting broad match vs exact match keywords in Google keywords tool for organic seo campaign.   * some say that its not possible to target a broad match keyword using on page seo optimisation.   * some say you can only receive that [exact match] search volume of the keyword and not the broad match search volume.   * others say that broad match can be targeted but you may likely to end up with non relevant traffic. How does it work exactly? Is it possible to target and rank for a broad match keyword? Or do I end up targeting traffic for the exact match version of it? Example:   * how to buy a phone - broad match - 50,000,000 search volume   * [how to buy a phone] - exact match - 500 search volume If I target broad match "how to buy a phone", will I get 50,000 visitors or do I end up with 500?


How to update an RSS Feed?

Let's say we have a similar RSS feed like here. Where should I be inserting the new content? And, should all the articles be listed in an RSS feed?


Why is "29030400" seconds used as a common value for cache expiration?

I noticed that 29030400 is used very often in the Expires directives for static files. Google recommends to cache this kind of files up to 1 year (1 month at least). I did the math: 29030400 seconds = 336 days That is about 1 year minus 1 month, so it perfectly falls in the recommended interval, but the question is why exactly 29030400? And not 31536000 seconds = 365 days for example? Just a blind copy/paste of a value that was set randomly in the old days? Or does it have another explanation?


Google sometimes hides my site, and sometimes shows it

I'm running a blog and it seems that Google isn't placing it in the search results properly. For example, one of my posts is called "changing Exposure in gimp". I searched that exact phrase in Google and my page was not listed in the results, even though I know it's indexed. I'll explain why later. Here's a screenshot of Google with the search. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/AbmZv.png) Now, if I search `"changing Exposure in gimp" digitally free` (the name of my blog) I get the following: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MISdy.png) My blog is now the first result on the page. The strange thing I'm wondering about is **why Google ommited my site** when I simply searched for `changing exposure in gimp`. Because of the second result, I know that my site is indexed (and Webmaster Tools says that it's indexed as well). Google sometimes decides to show my site and sometimes it doesn't. Why is that? In the Blogger settings, I have set it so that search engines can index and view my blog. If you're interested, my robots.txt says the following:               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:           User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://example.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED      Why would Google do this to me? Is there a hidden setting or something that I don't know about?


Why can I access a website through IP address but not by it's domain name?

I'm using CentOS, LAMP and Wordpress.org I have added and edited a virtual host on the apache server. For servername I put the hostname that is output when I typed the command hostname. Now I'm accessing my website by typing _ipaddress_ /wp-admin. But I want to access it through the domain name. Doing some research I found out that I have to update my domain’s DNS records. How do I do that or is there another way to do it? For iptables I only enabled port 80 or http access.


Redirecting IP address to domain address

Google has indexed the IP address of my site rather than the domain, so now I'm trying to set up a 301 redirect that will redirect the IP address and all subsequent pages to the domain. I currently have something like this in my .htaccess file (however don't think it's working correctly?):               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^12\.34\.567\.890     RewriteRule (.*) (domain address)/$1 [R=301,L]      I've used various redirect checker tools and keep getting the message: "... not redirecting to any URL or the redirect is NOT SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY" Am I doing something wrong or is there something else I should be trying?


How to move a domain name from another server to Plesk?

I'm having a domain which is hosted in dedicated server, and i brought another server with Plesk support, I created the same domain name on the Plesk and now I need transfer my domain name from older to Plesk, How is it possible?


Google Analytics campaign advice

I am buying traffic from a broker not one source and sending to various landing pages. I would like to know the best way to structure a campaign so I can find which referrering site/URL is performing the best (time on site, bounce etc.). Should the `utm_campaign` be the 'brokername' and the `utm_source` be the 'landingpagename' or should this be the other way around? Also what would be the best way to create a custom report to show all the referrers metrics by each landing page?


Archive of historic Firefox builds for Windows?

For testing web content in Firefox I'm searching for old versions of Firefox Windows installers. Evolt is not up to date with historic Firefox builds. I'm looking for just the main point releases. Sources can be downloaded from Mozilla Developer Network (MDN formerly MDC) but I don't want to build the browsers - I just want to install them.


How can I have more clicks than page views in AdSense

One of my AdSense ad units (in the new beta interface) occasionally says that I have more clicks than page views which gives a CTR of over 100%. Does anyone know how this happens? I'm assuming it has something to do with when a page view is recorded, versus when someone clicks, but it happens regularly enough (on a daily report) that it can't just be that a bunch of users click an ad before the page displays fully.


Buying a parked domain if the contact email bounces

I'm trying to buy a domain which is parked, but the contact email address listed on the page itself bounces. I looked up the WHOIS data and there are no email addresses or phone numbers listed. There are way too many hits on facebook / linkedin to try just searching for the name. What recourses do I have to try to get into contact with the owner? **UPDATE:**   Hosted on the same IP are 206 identical "parked" pages, whose sole difference is the domain and the email address (always "info@[domain].it"): http://www.bing.com/search?q=ip%3A151.1.48.220 Whois info shows contact information for none (that I sampled) but all with different names o_O


Permanent links format in wordpress: How to Choose?

In WordPress, I have the option to choose how the permanent URL looks like. The common format is Year/Month/Day or Year/Month for blogs. However, I’ve occasionally seen some successful blogs take the date out, such as: http://mixergy.com/dane-maxwell-zannee-interview/ What’s the impact of the above format on SEO? Obviously, it’s more pleasant on the eye but does it negatively impact search ranking? Thank you


Redirecting dynamic pages to static pages URL

I decided to convert all my dynamic pages to static pages URLs. I used to have "/contactUS.php" and now I want the page to be served as "/contact-us". I used to following rule n .htaccess:               RewriteRule ^contact-us contactUS.php [NC,L]      It all works fine, but the problem is that I want to prevent entrance to "/contactUS.php" to aviod duplicate content. Of course that adding the following rule:               RewriteRule ^contactUS.php contact-us [NC,L]      creates an infinite loop. What is the best way to achieve the goal, also taking SEO into account? * * * Edit: This causes an infinite loop:               RewriteRule ^contact-us contactUS.php [NC,L]     RewriteRule ^contactUS.php contact-us [NC,R=301]


Where to find PHP version usage stats?

My original question was: what percentage of sites are using php 5.4.x? (As it has some very interesting new features.) With secondary questions like how many of the cheap web hosting places have upgraded, which versions of the linux distros include it, etc. But I'm coming up blanks. http://php.net/usage.php stops at July 2007, and the nexen.net website seems to have stopped in 2008. At SecuritySpace they only list the web servers, not php versions. The TIOBE link isn't what I'm after (it doesn't -- and couldn't -- break down by version number). I thought php.net might show download numbers, but I cannot see them anywhere. I kind of answered the distro question, but it requires a lot of clicking around at distrowatch.com. E.g. I see here that Ubuntu offers php 5.4.6 in the latest snapshot, but the latest release (Ubuntu 12.04) has 5.3.10.


Modern design for developers: getting started

I've been working with web development since 2009 when I've learned HTML, CSS and PHP. By the time, I've also learned about the web standards and started working with them. Then some years ago I've started to work with a designer. He developed the website layout in Fireworks by the time and I was responsible for coding it. Today I've also learned ASP.NET and Javascript for the development of Single Page Apps, however the designer is not working with me anymore and I didn't find any other to deal with the layout of the websites and applications. Also, today it seems design has got more complex, because we have to think about responsive design, there are lots of devices and so on. So, my doubt is: what's a good away for a developer like me learn just the basics of design to be able to create layouts for web apps and websites that fits with the last trends? I really don't know where to start, because although I already know how to deal with Photoshop I know that this is very far from being enough to design well. I am looking for practiced procedures I can follow that will allow me to develop my design skills whilst making use of my current experience.


Apache mod_rewrite SSL vs Non-SSL

I have my site setup with two conf files (one for SSL and one for Non-SSL ) The two confs are at this gist -> https://gist.github.com/akinsgre/9645179 The Non-SSL configuration works fine. When the URL contains _autodiscover.xml_ , Apache returns a 404 However, the rule appears to be ignored when the request is via SSL. I'm not getting anything meaningful in my _error.log_ , or _rewrite.log_ either (In fact, I'm not getting anything in rewrite.log). Can anyone help me understand why this might not be working?


.htaccess language redirects with SEO-friendly URLs

How do I setup my _.htaccess_ file to detect several languages, and redirect them to specific SEO-friendly URLs? Basically every URL needs to go to `index.php?lang=(...)`. So, for **English** language detection `http://mysite.com` has to go to `http://mysite.com/en/` (`index.php?lang=en`). My _.htaccess_ as of now (not working):               RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP:HOST} http://mysite.com/          RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^en [NC]     RewriteRule ^$ http://mysite.com/en/ [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^de [NC]     RewriteRule ^$ http://mysite.com/de/ [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^nl [NC]     RewriteRule ^$ http://mysite.com/nl/ [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^fr [NC]     RewriteRule ^$ http://mysite.com/fr/ [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^es [NC]     RewriteRule ^$ http://mysite.com/es/ [L,R=301]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l          RewriteRule ^(en|de|nl|fr|es)$ index.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]


What is the difference between google tag manager and google analytics?

I am reading about web analytic and came across GTM and GA. It seems that GA is a service provided by google which generates reports and statistics on website traffic. As per my limited understanding in order to generate this reports we need to perform some type of tagging at our end. It also looks like that in GTM also we need to add some tags in our website. So, if both GA & GTM are related to tagging what is the difference between them and why do we have two different products by google.


How do I optimize SEO in a multiblog WordPress install?

We are about to launch two product pages plus a corporate website. The goal is to keep a blog in all of the sites, but here it comes the question about how to do it in a way we get everything unified but do not mess with Google's web crawlers. We considered the following options:   * Putting a blog from which we retrieve two categories with custom CSS, so we have a blog that sub splits two category-dependent blogs; this way we can get the feeds and will point to it   * Putting two product blogs of which we retrieve their posts into a bigger, corporate blog   * Putting three independent blogs Despite I was for the first option, so we only have to address our content from the product pages, I would sincerely like to hear your opinion. We are afraid duplicate content or strange link games may make us lose PageRank. How would you do it?


Will foreign content with rel="alternative" hreflang affect my SEO ranking?

I'm running an internationalized web service with user-created content (study notes). Most content is from Polish version, although we have younger Turkish and Russian versions too. Each version uses its own domain (let's say it's `polishversion.pl`, `turkishversion.com`, `russianversion.com`) and there is a language toggle available to switch the language of the interface (header, footer, menus), while of course content remains untranslated. This leads to repeated content - a given Polish study note exists on all 3 domains: * `polishversion.pl/note/123` - Polish interface + Polish content * `turkishversion.com/note/123` - Turkish interface + Polish content * `russianversion.com/note/123` - Russian interface + Polish content My first instinct was to add "noindex, nofollow" to the Turkish and Russian version of a Polish note, since in most cases it would be irrelevant for these audiences (but not always - probably study notes for a French as a foreign language course are relevant to all). Then I came accross `link rel="alternative" hreflang`. According to this article: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/unifying-content- under-multilingual.html I should be fine adding:               <link rel="alternative" hreflang="tr" href="turkishversion.com/note/123" />     <link rel="alternative" hreflang="ru" href="russianversion.com/note/123" />     <link rel="alternative" hreflang="pl" href="polishversion.pl/note/123" />      to the Polish version of this note and:               <link rel="canonical" href="polishversion.pl/note/123" />      to both Turkish and Russian. I'm still having doubts though, whether this won't harm my Turkish and Russian version which have very little of their own content content yet. So the whole issue reduces to: **Is it better for the Turkish version's seo ranking to have:**   * 100 000 pages indexed of which 99% are Polish content + Turkish interface (with a canonical link to Polish/Polish) and only 1% are Turkish content + Turkish interface?   * Only 1000 pages with Turkish content + Turkish interface indexed (and Polish notes never indexed with Turkish menu at all)?


Redirecting a .co domain to a .co.uk with masking

This is my first post here, so be gentle... A friend wanted a website and paid for one to be set up. For reasons unknown to me he ended up with `hissite.co` rather than `hissite.co.uk`, which is what he wanted. He's had lots of problems appearing on Google searches and I suspect that Google is assuming the site is Columbian and thus (sensibly) not showing it to users in the UK. It would be great if anyone could confirm this. So to help, I've bought the `.co.uk` version and put a 301 redirect in that looks like this:               Redirect 301 / http://www.hissite.co      The redirect is working, but I'd like the URL to be masked so that the original URL doesn't show up. This should be simple but my Google-fu is letting me down. Could someone offer a correction?


Sign up for Google Analytics without SMS verifcation

Is there any way to sign up for a Google Analytics account without having to verify the account via an SMS code? You used to be able to verify via an email code, but this no longer appears to be an option.


SEO? Client worried about negative news story about his business at the top of Google search

was hoping someone could answer a question about this, even though I'm sure the answer is bleak. I'm building a website for a client who has noticed that when you run a Google search for his name, the first result is an arguably negative story that was published by a local news outlet.He and I are wondering if there is any way to make that... disappear? Thanks all.


Google to index preferred sub-directory?

I have inherited a rather large site built with Magento. When visiting the site it redirects by default to website.com/usa using a Magento PHP function (not .htaccess). When searching for the site, however, Google has indexed website.com/eu instead. Is there any way I can tell Google to index the /usa version instead of the /eu? Geotargeting isn't really necessary right now as they are both showing the same content whilst the eu version is being built.


.Museum Domain Name Registrar

Anyone know of a reputable domain name company which deals in .museum domain names? Previously we had used DomainBank without much issue. DomainBank was bought by Dotster and am having nothing but trouble since the switch. Currently the website has been down for two days and it is a MAJOR issue. I know .museum is a seldom used domain name but I really need to switch to a reputable company. GoDaddy doesn't work with them unfortunately. Anyone know of a good company that does?


DNS name server error

I am getting DNS error on google webmaster tools. And even after testing with this http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=ansoftsys.com&timestamp=1372108107&view=1 Name Server details ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ndl93.jpg) Here is a screenshot my DNS management page ![http://i.stack.imgur.com/IJPDy.jpg](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2OH6h.jpg) How to solve this issue? And my DNS error image is below generated from this link http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=ansoftsys.com&timestamp=1372108107&view=1 ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3Z2yo.jpg)


Multilingual website URL & SEO

For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the `hl` query string, e.g.               http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW      and compare the above URL with               http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..      From the SEO and usability perspective, which one is better?


Google Analytics for sites with SSL protected sections

Google Analytics account creation interface asks whether the URL of the site starts with HTTP or HTTPS. However my site is SSL protected in its payment pages only. Is it possible to have GA cover everything, or do I have to choose between SSL sections and non SSL sections ?


How to tell the Browser the character encoding of a HTML website regardless of Server Content-Type Header?

I have a HTML page that correctly (the encoding of the physical on disk matches it) announces it's _Content-Type_ :               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">     <html>       <head>         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=         "text/html; charset=utf-8">         <title> ...      Opening the file from disk in browser (Google Chrome, Firefox) works fine. Requesting it via HTTP, the webserver sends a different Content-Type header:               $ curl -I http://example.com/file.html     HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:57:13 GMT     ...     Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1      (see last line). The browser then uses _ISO-8859-1_ to display which is an unwanted result. Is there a common way to override the server headers send to the browser from within the HTML document?


Why would I need extra IP addresses from my web host?

I am moving to a new and cheaper host. My old one raised the prices suddenly by a factor 10. Now what I did not like about the old one was that each time I set up a new website, I had to set up a new account. The result was that I have to pay for a lot of web space and a lot of bandwidth that I don't use. Now I am moving over to a new host, who cheaply offers virtual servers. Now I am a n00b when it comes to server tech. I have two questions about this:   1. Could I install all my websites on this virtual server, provided it is big enough?   2. They offer the possibility of getting more than one IP address, but it costs more. What would be the advantage of this? Would I be able to suffice with one IP address?


Spam problem through cPanel

On a new website, I publicly display an email address, `contact@domain.com`. Then I set up an email forwarder in my hostmonster cPanel, so that if the public email address ever became spam ridden then we can chop off the forwarding. However, the client received a spam message that looked like the following. > To: client's personal email address (not the public address)   >  Subject: `domain.com` opportunities   >  Body: marketing junk The problem is that the "to" should have said `contact@domain.com`. I am now worried that the real email address was retrieved on the backend of hostmonster.


Per-Thread Visibility PHPBB

I'm trying to implement a registration system for a board I'm running, and I want a forum where every thread is invisible to everyone but the person who started it and the moderator staff. I want the staff to be able to post and for the person registering to respond, but I haven't been able to find a per-post visibility solution. Are there any mods that perform this task, or is there a hidden setting in the software somewhere?


Is it possible to slow the Baiduspider crawl frequency?

Much has been made of the Baidu spider crawl frequency. It's true: "Baiduspider crawls like crazy." I've experienced this phenomenon at sites I work with. In at least one instance, I've found that Baiduspider crawls at about the same frequency as Googlebot, despite the fact that Baidu delivers about .1% as much traffic as Google. I'd like to keep those visits on my site, as few as they are (maybe one day they'll grow?), but I can't justify allowing such a heavy load on my server. The accepted answer to the question linked above suggests Baidu Webmaster Tools offers the opportunity to limit crawl rate, but I'm hesitate to open up that (Chinese-only) can of worms. Does anybody have any experience limiting Baiduspider crawl rate with BWT? Is there another way to limit this load?


.htaccess RedirectMatch 301 issue

I've moved my WordPress installation from one domain to another, and I want to use an .htaccess file on the original to redirect visitors to the new page on the new website. The old site is `http://www.steve.doig.com.au/wordpress/`. The new site is `http://www.superlogical.net` I tried using tried using the following .htaccess file in the /wordpress directory: `RedirectMatch 301 http://www.steve.doig.com.au/wordpress(.*) http://www.superlogical.net/$1` However, all this does is redirect visitors to the URL: `http://www.superlogical.net/wordpress/` I guess this is working properly, but I don't have Wordpress installed in a /wordpress folder on the new domain. How do I remove this from the URL redirected to? Thanks..


Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name

I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address. Is this worth doing and should it be done ?


Will having a new site affect my pageviews on websiteoutlook.com

I am planning on launching a new version of my current company website. I have a lot of pageviews (measured through websiteoutlook.com). Will having the new site (with new pages) affect the pageviews, and therefore my search engine ranking? If yes, what can I do to preserve my search engine ranking? Thanks!


Parts number and Google Site Search

I am using Google Site Search on our site and am looking for a way to get our parts number to show on the results page when searched. For example, if a user searches _E23-457-123_ or _E45-65-322_ or _E11-23-567_ I want the page specifically about our _E_ part. I was considering using CSS and hiding a `<div>` but I can't seem to get them to show up in the search results.               <div style="visibility: hidden">         E23-457-123 E45-65-322 E11-23-567     </div>      Is there a better way?


Site Structure - practices

I just started working for a company and they're asking me for ways to improve the overall site design. One of the things that keeps standing out to me is their extremely odd internal file structure for the site, as I've gone through I've noticed large sections of repeated content, and other semi-beginner style mistakes that just haven't seemed to be gotten to. As an example of current internal structure:               <Site>       ->default.html       ->about           ->default.html       ->pagewImages           ->ImagesSpecificToPage           ->DocumentsSpecificToPage               ->DocThatIsAlsoInpagewImages.doc           ->default.html       ->GeneralDocuments           ->DocThatIsAlsoInpagewImages.doc     ......      To me this feels really heavy and hard to navigate as a designer. My question is thus, what would be considered as best practice for site setup and sub- directory structure.


Script to change profile avatars to round avatar

I am trying to customize Vanilla Forum. I am trying to achieve a similar effect to what Google uses for their profile pictures. (Just like what is on the top-right of Google pages.) ![round profile picture](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vkdVr.png) I have seen this effect before in several discussion pages. I suspect it is a script that crops and adds effects (like shadow), then uploads the avatar into place.


how to deploy my jboss servlets to GoDaddy and make it available to my Android client?

I have my web application running in jboss on my pc, accessible only in localhost. I have seen in sites like godaddy, they talk about giving a domain name to your site. My application only serves resources (it only contains servlets). It will only used to process the incoming data and send responses to my Android clients. So any domain name is fine, because no one will be visiting the domain from the browser.   * Where is the mapping actually done?    * Will I be able to use my pc itself as the server or will I have to deploy the application on godaddy's server?   * So what are the steps I should take to make this web application be accessible on the internet?


Should webmasters "index" dashboard and edit account page

New here, I did my research and found nothing, but sorry if it has already been asked. As webmasters should be let google and other search engine INDEX our member's dashboard and edit account page. For example my member John has access to a page name "Edit your account" where he can fill some fields and updates his info. Or another pages where John can manage his posts (edit, delete) Such pages have no interest to the other people so should be let google and others INDEX it or should we NOINDEX it ? Thanks for your time ! Franck


A record DNS, nameserver help

I just installed kloxo on my vps and I want to link my domain to that server...which it sort of already is...I made it connect to it via an A record. That works, like the IP is pointing to my server but how do I make a website using it. I tried adding the domain but this doesn't work ...I feel i'm not explaining this well um, on my server it asked me to create DNS template so I did I created the nameservers ns1.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com Then I added the domain to the panel mydomain.com I go to the folder it creates to it, but no matter the file there it wont work...any ideas? Is there a way to possibly just not even add a domain to kloxo and just kind of treat the ip of the server as the domain? Since the A record points there anyway? I don't intend to host another website on the server anyway...


Help me make a cronjob/screen command please?

Hi guys I want to set up a cronjob on reboot to do this cd /home/admin/vivalaminecraft.com && screen -d -m -S mcscreen && mono McMyAdmin.exe The issue is when I execute this it seems to create the screen but doesn't do the mono McMyAdmin.exe in the screen... Is there like a then command ? so it does 1. then 2. then 3. ? Could someone please help out :) So I tried this: so I did this:               @reboot screen -dmS minecraft     @reboot cd /home/admin/vivalaminecraft.com     @reboot mono McMyAdmin.exe      It still doesn't work. The screen is created but it doesn't have the mono execution in it I put this in it               #!/bin/bash          screen -dmS minecraft;     cd /home/admin/vivalaminecraft.com;     mono McMyAdmin.exe;      is this correct?


Delay between indexing and ranking for new sites?

I would like to know what is the delay between page indexing and ranking for new sites? Assuming pages are visible with the `site` command, how much time before one sees them in search results? I have read there can be a significant delay for new websites. Did you observe this on your sites? I would like to know when should I start wondering whether there is an issue with one of my sites. Thanks!


Moving blog to another host - what is the impact to SEO to be expected?

I run a blog under `mywebsite.com/blog`. This is a self-hosted Movable-type installation. Now I want to get rid of the blog installation and use a hosted ( **`WordPress.com`** ) solution instead. The blog is only a minor part of my website, but before making this change I want to make sure that I don't lose SEO value. What is the best option to make this change? Bonus question: how big is the SEO-impact of a subdirectory (`mywebsite.com/news`) to the PageRank of the main domain (`mywebsite.com`)?


Resetting Google's data for the website

I own a domain which I was using for experimenting with different platforms and content management systems. I really did not care about seo while I was building the website so I guess my website has quite a 'bad reputation' for Google search. My website is almost finished and I am planning to launch it soon but would like to tell Google to forget everything it nows about it and start everything over. What's the correct way for doing it? I found Requesting reconsideration of site but I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it. Any advice?


NGINX URL Redirect - Configuration

What should be the correct configuration , if i want to redirect any request for www.mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com/page. I tried couple of options but always ended up in an redirect loop.


Google Webmaster Tool: “Severe health issues are found on your site”

I just saw the "Severe health issues are found on your site. Is robots.txt blocking important pages?" message on Google Webmaster Tools. This is what I have in robots.txt:               User-agent: *     Allow: /*?p=     Allow: /index.php/blog/     Allow: /catalog/seo_sitemap/category/     Allow: /catalogsearch/result/     Allow: /media/     Disallow: /404/     Disallow: /app/     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /downloader/     Disallow: /errors/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /js/     Disallow: /lib/     Disallow: /magento/     Disallow: /pkginfo/     Disallow: /report/     Disallow: /scripts/     Disallow: /shell/     Disallow: /skin/     Disallow: /stats/     Disallow: /var/     Disallow: /contents/     Disallow: /contents/fr/     Disallow: /index.php/     Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/     Disallow: /catalog/category/view/     Disallow: /catalog/product/view/     Disallow: /catalogsearch/     Disallow: /checkout/     Disallow: /control/     Disallow: /contacts/     Disallow: /customer/     Disallow: /customize/     Disallow: /newsletter/     Disallow: /poll/     Disallow: /review/     Disallow: /sendfriend/     Disallow: /tag/     Disallow: /wishlist/     Disallow: /admin/     Disallow: /cron.php     Disallow: /cron.sh     Disallow: /error_log     Disallow: /install.php     Disallow: /LICENSE.html     Disallow: /LICENSE.txt     Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt     Disallow: /STATUS.txt     Disallow: /*.js$     Disallow: /*.css$     Disallow: /*.php$     Disallow: /*?p=*&     Disallow: /*?SID=      Disallow: /*?limit=all      I copied this from Magento's default robots.txt and I added some folders that don't need to be indexed.


Which MIME type to compress? and what If I omit the `type` attribute from the HTML?

Per my request, my webhost had turned mod_deflate ON. In my Cpanel I now have an "Optimize Website" button. Inside that menu I could either choose: "Compress all content" or "Compress the specified MIME types" with the following default MIME types: "text/html text/plain text/xml"   1. Which option should I choose and why?   2. If I choose option 2, which types should I add (is there a recommended list with the exact way they should be written)?   3. According to Google recommendations, I have **omitted** the `type="text/css"` attributes from all CSS references, as well as the `type="text/javascript"` attributes from all script references. Would this hinder the "gzipping" process?


Google Analytics Search and Replace filter including request URI parts that have been exluded

I have a search and replace filter that should "roll up" pages underneath different apps. MY URLs have the structure `hostname/app-name/page.htm?query` App name could be one of several options. My intent is that if I have requests come in on both               example.com/dave/page.htm?query      and               example.com/susan/page.htm?query      That both those requests get counted as "hits" for `page.htm` I have the following `^/(dave|susan|adam)/([^\?]+)\?.*` and have set the replace field to be `/2` I can see hits being rolled up for page.htm but am also seeing `dave/page.htm` and `susan/page.htm` show up. What am I doing wrong?


Google Analytics - Do I track an info popup as pageview or event

I have some popups on my page that provide that can be opened by the user to get more information. Should I track them as page view or as events? Whats the right way to go here?


How to silently auto-load from a subdirectory, but allow internal paths to think the file is located at site root?

I have files in my site root, and also files in its "Iternet_IE" directory. I need to: **1.)** be able to call/include other files (e.g. headers or footers) from within files at either of those locations... using the _same_ path in the include/link, etc. ... e.g. with a prefixing `/` in the include path, where those include files are located in the site root. The catch is that I also need: **2.)** any incoming traffic using our `sharpedge.` subdomain to auto-load from the `Internet_IE` directory - which is one level deeper than the site root (without `Internet_IE` being specified in the URL). In an attempt to accomodate these 2 requirements, I have set the `DocumentRoot` for both the main domain and the subdomain to the site root: I have this in `httpd.conf`:               [snip]     NameVirtualHost 11.22.33.44          <VirtualHost 11.22.33.44>         Options All +ExecCGI         ServerAdmin hostmaster@ourhost.com         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ourdomain.com         ServerName ourdomain.com         ServerAlias www.ourdomain.com         DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.dna         #---------------------------------         <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine on         RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]         </IfModule>         #---------------------------------     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost 11.22.33.44>         Options All +ExecCGI         ServerAdmin hostmaster@ourhost.com         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ourdomain.com         ServerName  sharpedge.ourdomain.com         DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.dna         #---------------------------------         <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine on         RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]         </IfModule>         #---------------------------------     </VirtualHost>     [snip]      ...and I am trying to use a `RewriteRule` in `.htaccess` to effectively cause traffic using the `sharpedge.` subdomain to auto-load from the `Internet_IE` directory: this is in .htaccess (in the site root, here: /var/www/html/ourdomain.com/) :               Options -Indexes          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /              RewriteCond   %{HTTP_HOST} ^sharpedge\.ourdomain\.com$         # years ago this next line was used here, but in httpd.conf: (I don't know what it was supposed to do)         # RewriteRule   ^(.+)        %{HTTP_HOST}$1          [C]         RewriteRule   ^sharpedge\.ourdomain\.com(.*) /var/www/html/ourdomain.com/Internet_IE/$1  [L]     </IfModule>      ..but nothing happens from the RewriteRule; it is as if the RewriteRule was not there. Why? Or is there another/better way I can meet the 2 requirements I list at the top, above the code snips.?


Setting up Gmail subdomain on my domain

I just set up my domain with Google Apps. During the Gmail setup process the tutorial said we could also set up `mail.mydomain.com` and we'd look at it later. But it never came up. Now, I can't seem to find how to do it anywhere. Maybe I just don't know how exactly to search for it. Help ?


Pointing domain away from google

I've already asked this question on google apps support, didnt fet an answer yet, and I am in a bit of a hurry. Need to have that website up by monday. Question: We have a domain registered at 101domain, we used a domain just for google apps, for email, and some services, and domain was never used for website. Now we pointed domain to the local hosting service, set everything like it should be, and pointed back to google from hosting service for gmail and gmail works perfectly. Problem is that we tried to set up a website at hosting service but domain still points to google apps login. Everything looks like it should, we recently bought 2 more domains that are set up the same (we use google apps on them too), the only difference tha I can think of is that we didn't use for apps first. Could this be because CNAME lags behind DNS server change?


way for teachers to post homework assignments

What kind of product would work to provide a feature on a school website to allow teachers to post homework assignments and allow students / parents to quickly find the assignments by class and subject? I'm thinking wiki or cms but they don't seem to hit the mark completely. FYI I have VPS hosting so I can install whatever I want.


Why are there Google crawl errors for unknown urls?

I have been getting crawl errors in Google's WebMaster tools for urls like the following: http://madisonps.com/Media/eurl.axd/812e5d58643d804993276b6417a3c5ef These urls are not part of our site and I cannot figure out where they are coming from. I have researched several other posts here and from Google search, but I still cannot find a solution that will prevent search bots from creating these types of urls. Has anyone had experience with similar urls who can shed some light on this recurring problem and present solution?


What is the best way to scan for a keyword in the URL? Eg. I want to find the words "shirt" in the URL.


Same URL rendering different content

We have a CSS file hosted on cloudfront. Whenever the file is updated we add a version number to the file. We also have VPN in our office through which we connect to QA servers. Now a very peculiar thing is happening. When VPN tunnel is enabled and that CSS file link is hit from the browser I see updated file. But if I turn off VPN and hit the URL then I see previous version of the file. Though URLremains same for both times when I hit the URL. I'm not able to understand how VPN could affect loading the latest file version. I tried clearing cache from the browser but every time this is happening. Any ideas on this? What could be the problem.


show content on domain.com from a sub directory

I have a domain that looks like `domain.com` on the server files look like:               <www>      <mydirectory>      <otherstuff>      <asubdomain>      index.html      .htaccess      ok, so when you open the site, it will display `index.html`. my question is, how can I make it so it displays `mydirectory/index.php`, without affecting the scripts inside that directory (it's wordpress btw) ?


Is keyword density computed by keywords exact matches or approximations also count?

When compting the keyword density on your text, do you also count approximations or just exact matches? For example if I' targeting the keyword: "chocolate cheesecakes" but in my text I use "chocolate cheese cake" and "chocolate cheesecake" interchangeably, will the first variation also be considered for keyword density, or just the exact match? I've done about 5 inconclusive experiments regarding this topic, and I haven't been able to find the right answer on the internet. **NOTE** I'm not doing SEO for Google, but for specialized search engines (e-commerce) that do take in consideration keyword density to position results.


SEO: ABBR and My Full Phrase (MFP)

In my company websites, we often have the situation at the start of a page where we introduce a [usually technical] phrase, followed by the acronym that it is often know as: > My Special Widgets (MSW) are....blah blah From a human usability perspective, the mention of the acronym defines the acronym and allows you to use it in place of the full phrase elsewhere in the same page. I assume that Google may draw _some_ inference from this, that the acronym and the full phrase refer to the same thing? But if nothing else, it is a way of including both keyphrases in the page, which will hopefully catch searches from would-be visitors regardless of which form they use. I understand a more proper approach might be to us `<abbr>` - this explicitly tells search engines that we consider MSW to be an acronym (or more correctly, an abbreviation) for 'My Special Widgets': `<abbr title="My Special Widgets">abbr</abbr>` In our industry, there are numerous cases where acronyms are just as well known as the full terms, and we need to do what we can to address this, so that we rank as well as we can for both the longer and shorter term. _The question is how does Google see these alternatives? And can we use both without ruining the perceived quality of the page/site?_ I know that my colleagues will insist on `My Special Widgets (MSW)` - it follows a common convention in print media and both expected and welcomed by readers. My concern is whether we are sufficiently 'spelling it out' to Google - making it clear that the terms are interchangeable. Up til now we start of with `Long Phrase (Acronym)` and then we tend to use one term or the other elsewhere in the page - mixing it up enough to provide both variety and some keyword density for both terms. _Can I use both approaches combined...?_ `<p>My Special Widget (<abbr title="My Special Widget">MSW</abbr>)` _Or perhaps mix them up a bit...?_
My Special Widgets (MSW) are brilliant...

Our MSWs are the cheapest you will find....

The curious thing about My Special Widgets is....

If you want to find out more about our MSWs, visit our My Special Widgets section.
      The more I think about this the more I think I'm _over-thinking_ all this! Nevertheless, I'm curious as to what my peers think is good practice, and ideally what we know to have positive and negative effects on SEO, however little.


Website does not have post previews when viewing on mobile

For some reason when I view my site on mobile devices the homepage just displays the full article one after the other as opposed to thumbnail and text previews. Any idea what the reason behind this is? Or how I can possibly change how my site looks on mobile devices.


Need stats on the effectiveness of user verification systems on fraud, abuse and/or compliance?

Here's an example, although not a good one from Craigslist.


Why statcounter visitors stats is not same as Google Analytics?

On July 11, 2013 my website's visitors count according to Statcounter is 761 and according to Google Analytics it is 1010. Some days both sites would show the same count but some days it would vary. What is the reason for these variations? If these kind of variations are quite natural means which site should I follow? See these images for reference: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uHFUG.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QqtiK.png)


Sitemap indexed count and Google results difference

My sitemap claims they have indexed over 3 thousand pages from it but when i do a site command in Google               site:http://domain.com      It returns 200 pages. I have heard of the sitemap index count reporting less pages than what Google is showing but not more, why is that and will the results update? Since a few days ago only a few pages were reported indexed from Google Webmasters and the last few days there has been over a thousand a day getting indexed according to the index count


What is the default HTML document you use, and why?

Meaning: doc-type, header, body, etc.


Allowing access to an Apache virtual host from the local network only

I have a web page on a Linux server I administer, running Apache 2.2. This server is visible to the outside world for some other services. I would like to configure Apache so that a given virtual host is only visible from inside the local network, so I can deploy a web application to get feedback from other people in my organization. I reckon this has to do with the Allow directive, but my experiments are not going well. How can I alter my config file to achieve that? Should I change the firewall configuration as well?


Domain changes required for SSL integration

Currently my site supports regular payment options (User is taken to Payment Gateway/PG website). Now I'm trying to implement "seamless" PG integration. I need SSL for this. I'm having a dedicated server with 5 static IPs from Hostgator/HG. options:   1. I take SSL for `www.my_domain.com`. According to HG, I need to change IP of main site as current IP is not really dedicated as it is being shared by cpanel etc. So They need to bind another dedicated IP to main domain for SSL to work. This would required DNS change for main website and hence cause few hours downtime (which is ok).    2. I've noticed that most of the e-commerce websites are using subdomains like `secure.my_domain.com` for ssl/https. This sounds like a better approach. But I've got few doubts in this case: a) Would I need to re-register with existing PGs (Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net) if I switch to subdomain? Re-registering is not an option for me. b) Would DNS change be required for `www.my_domain.com` in this case. This confusion arose because of following reply from HG : "If the sub domain `secure.my_domain.com` is added to an existing cPanel it will use the IP for that cPanel so as long as it is a Dedicated IP that will be fine. If `secure.my_domain.com` gets setup as its own cPanel it will need to be assigned to a Dedicated IP which would have a DNS change involved.". Please suggest?


Should I differentiate parameters in my URLs?

I think I read somewhere that it was a good practice to have certain "totally dynamic and irrelevant" parameters excluded from the nice URL rewriting techniques. Like here on the StackOverflow galaxy, when you login the URL is `/users/login?returnurl=parameter`. The reason would also have been that it kind of "prevents" search engines to follow those links, and could be a good idea for "transition pages" that change often and should not be indexed as is, but still followed, like `/news?page=5` where this page would be an index of the latest news, and by nature changes over time as old news are pushed down. Is there any sense to that? Would you agree, and if so maybe point to some resources? If not, what do you think of it, and what should be done with those pages that keep changing? Thanks for any thought!


Openfire and Imagick alternative for a shared hosting

I've just finished a social network, and went for a shared hosting... (because that's what I can afford for now). I used Openfire(for XMPP private messages) and Imagick (for image resizing), but I found that I can't install them on a shared hosting. So I find myself with 2 options:   1. Go for a dedicated server (which I can't afford)   2. Use ajax for private messages (with less performance)... and re-size images using plain PHP...  I'm very confused not knowing what to do at this stage. Do you think there is any other option??


Is there any possibility somebody can down my search ranking?

If my rival site decides to go unfair way to outrank mine they can do it? For example, like by linking mine to bad(?) sites or something? Because people often talk about SEO but I just started being worried if somebody can do the things contrary to SEO to my site.


Why is the full URL in my Google result not showing?

When I do a Google search for my individual event pages, the page is usually found but the URL shown under the title seems to always link to my events index. (Title links to the individual page are OK) My site is the bottom example. How do I go about getting my slugged URL to show as per the example above it? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Xn2ea.png)


Offline lossless image shrinking

I'm looking for something like Smush.it or PunyPNG that works offline, preferably via command line interface that does gifs, jpegs and pngs. Any suggestions?


Why install a CMS for clients?

I am a beginner freelancer eagerly trying to get my first client but I am wondering is having a CMS for a website really that important? Before I thought about this question I thought that it goes without saying that the client would benefit from having a CMS for their website, that they would love to be able to edit their content on their own. But then I realized it's not that simple. One of my biggest concerns actually is a monetary one. If you install a CMS for a client then they depend on you less which means you will do less work for them which means you will make less money from that client. Sorry to sound greedy, but that really seems like the reality. Or am I missing something? At the same time, if you build sites without a CMS doesn't that make you seem less professional to future potential clients?


why does Google Analytics show different top content results for URL and Page Title?

in GA content>AllPages the default view shows the top pageviews by URL. Since my site does not have friendly URLs I prefer to view by page title, but when I click to change the view instead of showing the same pages by top pageviews it shows completely different pages. I want it to simply switch to the title of the same pages instead of the URL, why would the top pageviews be different based on URL and title?


Is it possible to view all previously issued SSL certificates for a particular domain?

If we wanted to know if a particular domain has had SSL certificates issued to it by CAs in the past, that are now revoked/expired, is there is a resource that has that information?


Do pop-up ads have a negative impact on SEO?

I was observing Google results for months to determine if pop-up ads have a negative impact on SEO. Regarding my observations, sites without pop-ups usually get ranked better. Actually, that doesn't really prove anything since most of sites without pop-ups have better content too! Anyways, does anyone know the effect of using pop-ups in regards to SEO? Can Google or other search engines find out if your site uses pop-up ads? Do they run java scripts for this purpose?


My domain is well indexed but only in my country

This is my domain: http://yon.ir and it mainly should be shown in search results with the keyword "کوتاه کننده لینک"   If you search from Iran it is shown in Google's search results with rank 13 (with that keyword) which is logical but with IPs of other countries, it's not shown even in the first 10 Google result pages. The domain is indexed and when I search the whole domain title, it shows up my site on the first page. It's been like this for about 10 days and the domain is not new. It was working with its previous owner before. So, what's the problem here?


Does I need to put meta tags in Search page of my E-commerce website?

In my E-commerce website I got a product page.where I want to implement Meta- keywords,Meta-Description,etc.. I am a little confused about the task now.Is it necessary to do these things in search page? If yes what would be the best strategy to be used for this task?


Will Google treat this JavaScript code as a bad practice?

I have a website that provides a custom UX experience implemented via JavaScript. When JavaScript is disabled in the browser the website falls back to CSS for the layout. To make this possible I've added a `noJS` class to the `<body>` and quickly remove it via JavaScript.                          This caused a problem when the page loads and JavaScript is enabled. The body immediately has it's `noJS` class removed, and this causes the layout to appear messed up until the JavaScript code for layout is executed (at bottom of the page). To solve this I hide each article via JavaScript by adding a CSS class `fix` which is `display:none` as each article is loaded.
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           After the page is ready I show all the articles in the correct layout. I've read many times in Google's documentation not to _hide_ content. So I'm worried that the Google will penalize my website for doing this.


Does a DMCA takedown require you to prevent the same file from being uploaded again?

If I allow users to upload media (images, videos, etc.) and I get a DMCA takedown notice for a specific file, do I have to prevent users from uploading that same file in the future?


Are paid salon listings worthwihile?

Are paid salon listings worthwhile (for seo)?


Serious Googlebot crawl spike using up a ton of bandwidth

One of the sites I maintain has seen Googlebot use 23gb of bandwidth this month. This seems utterly mental to me, what can I do about it? I have reduced the crawl rate on webmaster tools, and edited the _robots.txt_ , submitted a sitemap. A serious spike like this feels like a hack, could Googlebot be spoofed?


Search engines that index your site despite a disallow in robots.txt

Recently, WordPress changed their options from "Block search engines" to "Discourage search engines" ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QeU6t.jpg) So that leaves me wondering, that rewording must be that some search engines disregard your decision about indexing or not your website. Is there a list of those somewhere?


What happens if two people at the same host claim ownership of a domain?

I have all my domains registered through company A and they are hosted through company B. I set my nameservers at company A to point to dns.companyB.com and everything works great. But couldn't somebody else with an account through company B also try to claim ownership in their control panel? Is it first-come first-served?


How can I view localized versions of my site?

We are adding internationalization to our site. We are getting the client's IP address from the headers and looking it up against the IP2location database to get the client's country. Several of our clients reported seeing a blank page over the weekend. We'd like to be able to get screenshots or use a browser from many different countries on an ongoing basis for testing code changes. I need to know what the site looks like when accessed from various countries since there are several elements that vary by country. I've used Tor and Vidalia, along with the Tor customized Firefox browser however it appears the CSS is getting mangled. I have also used http://webpagetest.org to check the site, however the screenshot it gives is too small to be really useful. Is there a site or a service I can use to get screenshots or interact with my website from various countries?


Active Directory auto login to website for domain users

I am putting together an Intranet for a company - I have set up authentication to get into the Intranet from a login box linked to AD via LDAP/ However the client wants (if possible) to have users automatically authenticate into the intranet if they are logged into the domain. AD and IIS7.5 are on separate servers (in the same network). I believe that I need to use WindowsAuthentication to do this - but will that work? as the web server is not part of the domain: do I need to tell IIS where the AD server is? The next part could be more complex: once the user has authenticated, I need to drag user details from AD about the user, I guess with LDAP, however I will need to know the user's username in order to do this, won't I? as the user hast had to type this in, how do I get that? The intranet site is in asp.net 4 VB.


How to extract AdWords keywords from incoming traffic?

I have a landing page in which I need to understand what keywords are coming in from AdWords and then display some information based on this. I am not certain, but I don't believe that this information is in the request header the same as normal query keywords would be. How can you ascertain this information and properly strip out the inbound AdWords keywords so as to use meaningfully?


Can I host my website through gitlab like you can with github pages?

I would love to use git to host my website, and would love a platform I can log into online to go along with it (something like Github). You would think in which case, that Github pages would be the perfect route for me, though I don't want to use Github pages. I would like to host this all on my own servers like you do with Github enterprise (but for free). I have found Gitlab and was wondering if there is anyway I can use Gitlab like Github pages. Is it possible?


webmaster tools 500 crawl error for asp faceted navigation that does not exist

I am getting around 2,500 type 500 URL errors in Google webmaster tools. These pages are faceted navigation results that can not be reached by a site visitor. These pages do not exist. We are using faceted navigation with the Volusion platform (asp.net, I think). I have specified URL parameters in webmaster tools so that Google will not try to index anything faceted. This does not stop the errors from generating. I am concerned about how this might effect SEO (bleeding page rank). I can provide additional information if needed. I am not sure how to solve this. I have started down the path of creating 301's, but having some difficulty there as well.


Can we 301 redirect to a new page, but still publish the old content somewhere else?

We have a page on the site which ranks well for an SEO term (top 5) but contains old information. We have added a new page but Google doesn't rank it that well. Information on these pages is time sensitive.   * Old: `example.com/2013-related-information.html`   * New: `example.com/2014-related-information.html` Obvious solution is to delete old page and do a 301 redirect to the new page. Now, can we still keep the old page by giving it a new URL.   1. `example.com/2013-related-information.html` is redirected to `example.com/2014-related-information.html`   2. `example.com/2014-related-information.html` is recreated with a new address such as `example.com/new-2013-related-information.html` What we are trying to do is to send the user to the fresh page but still not destroying the record copy if someone wants to go and dig up the old information.


Is Azure compatible with JPEG XR?

I just put an F#/MVC app into a Windows Azure solution as a Web Role. Before migration, my JPEG XR (`*.WDP\`) files were getting displayed on the client in IE9 without issue via my local and hosted sites. Now, after migration into Windows Azure, my JPEG XR files neither get displayed in my local Windows Azure compute emulator nor do they get displayed when they are deployed to `http://*.cloudapp.net`. Is there some sort of conflict with Widows Azure and (JPEG XR) `*.wdp` files? If so, what is the accepted best practice for overcoming this conflict?