Is it bad to hide content for SEO?

I'm designing a mobile CSS file for my website. It normally has a top navigation bar, like in here, Stack Exchange's sites. In my mobile version, I plan to hide the topbar, and put a button, which toggles the topbar on/off, but default it is off. Will Google ever find about my site's mobile version? The URL is the same. And if it does, will it consider this as a "black-hatting"?


The YouTube of Sound

My current website includes some embedded YouTube (and Facebook) videos and I know there are numerous other video hosting websites. Is there a free hosting service specifically for audio files, for easy embedded playback through a flash/html5 interface? (I'm not worried about social features, e.g. commenting)


what is optimum length for html title tag in Unicode format?

I have a website that generates its title tag dynamically. the title tag is in unicode format. the title tag is limited to 65 character but sometimes Google doesn't show title tag completely in SERP. I'd like to know what is the optimum length of title tag in terms of seo for unicode titles, and is there any difference between Unicode title and non-Unicode title tag? And what about other search engines Bing, Yahoo and so on.


Online Code Editor + File Hosting

I've been searching all over the Internet and am having trouble finding the following:   * An online code editor (with syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc.) that allows you to save the file in the "cloud" and access the raw file via a link. I'm trying to use LESS from http://lesscss.org on my SquareSpace website, but it requires you to use a `<link href="..." />` tag instead of dropping the less directly in `<style>` tags in my site. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!


How does Google feel about overflow: auto?

I am planning to add some keyword rich text to my homepage at the very top. I have written almost a mini essay and putting all this text at the very top left of my page wouldn't look too nice. I was wondering if putting it inside a 500 X 200 div and using overflow: auto on it would help or get me penalized? e.g. http://jsfiddle.net/svaXY/


What do large review sites do when duplicate content is unavoidable?

Most review sites, for example sites that review games with different platforms, will often have three URL's with identical content, only differing in color schemes, and of course comments. This is true of some large sites like `ign.com`. How do these sites deal with duplicate content? Do they use a `rel=canonical` link to point to only one URL?


Is mysite.com and blog.mysite.com treated as one?

I have a site, say **trusty.com** and it's blog is **blog.trusty.com**. Please note trusty.com and blog.trusty.com are both hosted with different hosting companies and **have different IP Addresses**. If I have the **same content in both** trusty.com and blog.trusty.com **will search engines flag this as duplicate content** , or will they assume it is the part of the same domain? If you are wondering why I have the same content on both locations, it is because it appears in different "packaging" in both places.


Where to find ads of a certain size to place on my web site?

Where can I find ads to place on my site that are `125px x 125px` to place one my site? The sites content is mixed.


Joomla redirect manager doesn't redirect when there are params in url

We've recently transfered a huge site to joomla. It has two languages; english and german. There is a twitter account which has links to the previous site. These links look like this: > [site]/de/news/nc/article/[article-alias] On the new site we have set up redirects from these urls (manually) to the new urls, for example: > [newsite]/de/[menuitem]/news/[article-alias] (the new article-alias differs from the old one, as the titles changed) Now, for some reason, when a user clicks on the (german) twitter link he gets redirected to the frontpage and two new lines show up in the redirect manager: > [newsite]/de/news/nc/article/[article- > alias]?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter > [newsite]/en/news/nc/article/[article- > alias]?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter I have no idea why the system does this. Setting up redirects automatically is no option. Any ideas as to why params at the end of the url don't get redirected, and why there is also an english line in there? (the twitter link is to the german version


SSPI Apache2.2 Windows Authentication

I am trying to set up seamless authentication on windows for my intranet site, using SSPI on Apache 2.2 and windows 2008 server. I have installed mod_auth_sspi.so in apache/bin. I have also added the webpage url to the intranet zone in IE and Firefox. I am using Perl and CGI.pm for my site and retrieving the username using the CGI Env variable Remote_User and Auth_User. Neither of these are set and nor does the authentication seem to be happening as I do not get a pop-up window in both IE or Firefox or any local html file i tested with. My config on httpd.conf is as follows.               <IfModule !mod_auth_sspi.c>         LoadModule sspi_auth_module modules/mod_auth_sspi.so     </IfModule>          <Location "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/TestWeb/">         Options FollowSymLinks         Order allow,deny         Allow from all         AuthName "TestWeb"         AuthType SSPI          SSPIAuth On          SSPIAuthoritative On          SSPIOfferBasic on         Require valid-user          SSPIDomain domain     </Location>      I am not sure if my domain name is the issue here. My corporate domain is in the format corp.company.com I used that and he ip associated with it with no luck. I retrieved my domain name by issuing the NET VIEW /DOMAIN on my windows server and it listed my corp domain, which is what i would like to authenticate the users with.


How can I track conversions on third party websites?

We run a number of affiliate schemes, and I would like to track which links from our website produce sales, and which do not. I can persuade our affiliates to include tracking code in their pages for us; what product or method is best suited for this purpose? Thanks, Chris.


is it possible to do a cpanel to cpanel folder copy on the same server without downloading on home pc?

Is it possible to copy a folder from a cpanel account to another cpanel account without first downloading to home pc ? I have some issues with the upload speed of my internet connection so i prefer not to download it to home pc first. Both cpanel accounts are on the same hosting server and I have access to whm under which both cpanel accounts have been created.


Google Rich Snippets: automatically detected author name on webpage: not found

I am having trouble with Google Rich Snippets, on the verification authorship, I am getting this error: > Email verification has not established authorship for this webpage. > > Email address on the mrnepal.com domain has been verified on this profile: > Yes Public contributor-to link from Google+ profile to mrnepal.com: Yes > > **Automatically detected author name on webpage: Not Found.** How to fix this error?


Specializing RSS content

May I please have some help in using an RSS feed. Here is a link to an RSS feed: http://weather.uk.msn.com/RSS.aspx?wealocations=wc:NZXX0049&weadegreetype=C&culture=en- GB This is the feed that I am looking for. The problem is, how can I get information on other locations rather than just Wellington New Zealand. I am having trouble finding the page that lets me specify the region for the RSS feed. If anyone has some time to quickly point me in the correct direction, I would appreciate it greatly. Thank you.


SEO Service - Refresh SEO

I've been approached to possible take over SEO/marketting work for a site. The guy is currently using a paid service at http://refreshseo.com/ and paying around $80p/m. From what I can make out all refreshseo does is automatically generate keyword rich content pages and attach them to the site. These pages aren't actually linked to from within the site. So I'm wondering two things   1. has anyone had any experience with this particular company or similar types - has it been worth it?   2. How do you think the recent Google Panda updates impacts on this kind of strategy? Thanks in advance


Country selection, when country is not listed

While this might not 100% match the intent of this site, it was the closest match from Stackexchange sites. So, if a web site (the "entrance" page) offers a choice (a list) of countries, with the text "Chose your country", but the users country is not listed, what should he do? One example is http://www.samsung.com/countryselection.do Addition: I ask this standing in the users position. I encounter a web site and it gives me the above page. What to do? Another issue: What is "my" country? My current location? My permanent residence? The country of my citizenship? Something else?


Ideas to tackle unwanted bad press/review on Google's SERP?

After Googling our company name to our horror we've found someone on Yelp.co.uk has reviewed our company. On the SERP your eye is immediately drawn to the 2 star review some complete stranger has written, which to be honest is pure slander! The most infuriating thing is the person who reviewed our company has never even been a client/customer. It's a bit like me reviewing a restaurant having never eaten or even been in there! We've sent her a private message on Yelp to remove the review and also sent a complaint to Yelp themselves but have yet to get a reply. We've resisted going mad at the reviewer and also requested that she re-review us having just relaunched our new website (it still riles us that she's not even a client though!). We've had genuine customers/clients review us on Yelp yet this 2 star review remains on Google's SERP. Roughly how long would it take to for our new reviews to over take this review? Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can push the review off the 1st page of Google's SERP or any creative ways in which we can tackle this issue?


Googlebot visit but no cache update - why?

I have made a new plain vanilla HTML website. I have been making regular modifications to it on an almost daily basis. The site is hosted by hostmonster and as part of their service they offer "awstats" to let you know assorted details of visitors to the site. One thing is puzzling me. According to awstats, a "robot/spider" calling itself "Googlebot" visited my site as recently as today (28th June 2011), but when I find my site on google (e.g. by searching for "full reserve banking") the cache is dated only the 5th June. I always thought that a visit from the google robot was synonymous with a cache update. Am I wrong? Or have I accidentally put something in the site telling google that nothing has been updated? **EDIT:** It seems a moderator has removed the name of my website, so there is now no chance that anyone could check out if I had made some error on my site :-( ... but anyway, in answer to paulmorriss' question, here is what aw stats was telling me: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/g25Z1.jpg)


How to get users to sign up for a ugc site?

How do you get users to register for a user generated content site? The problem is that if the whole site relies on user generated content then it will take longer for people to participate if the first ones only see blank pages. The only logical option is to start with some kind of beta phase like the stackexchange network does, less I want to create dozens of fake user accounts and get content on the site. So, besides those are there any other ways to get the ball rolling? If I open the site with a beta phase how do I go about inviting users to partake in the Beta, stackexchange has the luxury of area 51 and I think all the users on a beta stackexchange site already has an account on one or more of their other sites. What are the best options to get users to sign up, make a beta phase, leave it to SEO, fake accounts, any other advice, suggestions?


Book recommend: Start learning web design with css with basic HTML knowledge

I've already known some HTML, tables, link, image,...etc but just at a basic level. Now I want to learn how to build a layout for a website and design also. I want to start building a layout right a way and just learning from it, not really like reading so much theories, explanations. Many books are so verbose, they teach from the beginning of HTML or explain things too much. I don't want to waste my time. So are there any good books for me?


What does the 'c' language represent in Google Analytics?

Checking out my Google Analytics I see I am getting a good amount of hits from a language just called 'c'. This normally wouldn't bug me, but all these 'c' hits have a 100% bounce rate. As these account for about 1/3 of my unique visits this has distorted my overall bounce rate overview. Does anyone know what these 'c' visits are? Are these bots?


How To use Hosted account with custom domain of my blog

i have hosted account , but i can't use in my custom support domain blog. when i get code from adsense and try to put in my site then ads will not shown.and when again i get code and implement to blogspot support domain then ads will shown....so now what's the solution to show my ads in my site i don't want to remove my .com domain and i can't upgrade my account .if any have any idea then tell me.


Hosting Dynamic Content on GitHub?

Is it possible to host dynamic content through GitHub:Pages? More specifically, we are using GitHub Enterprise, so we have a little more control, but I'm not aware of what dynamic content languages (Ruby, Python, ???) we might be able to use.


Redirecting single URL with Nginx - not working

I have been trying to redirect several single URLs to their new locations using Nginx. The URLs are from Blogger and are in the format: `http://domain.com/yyyy/mm/slug`. For example, I have this: `http://example.com/2013/04/chartjs-javascript- library-for-easy.html` I am using this Nginx rewrite to redirect it, but for some reason it doesn't work:               server {          location ~ /([2012-2013]+)/.*/chartjs-javascript-library-for-easy.html {                     return 301 http://$server_name/resource/chart-js;          }     }      I place this in `/etc/nginx/conf.d/example.conf` which is loaded inside `/etc/nginx/nginx.conf` Can anybody tell me why it doesn't work? It was working sometime back. Am I messing up my regex? **EDIT:** For some reason, location `/test` redirects ok, but location `/test/html` doesn't. Any idea why?


Google analytics web data vastly different than the core reporting API data

I am trying to pull the exact same data i am seeing in my dashboard via the core reporting API for Google Analytics. However I just dont seem to understand why the data can be so different even for the same time period and metrics! From my web UI this is my table structure in the dashboard.               **Display the following columns:**     Dimension: Month of Year     Metric: Pageviews     **Filter this data:**     Only show **Page** containing "/blog/"      And this is what i see in my web UI fore period 09/26/2013 to 12/26/2013:               Month of Year   Pageviews        201312           151,502     201311           136,856         201310           183,555         201309            22,689      In my script, I use the exact same metrics (except for naming convention differences between the web and API metrics):               dimensions = ga:yearMonth     start-date = 2013-09-26     start-index = 1     metrics = [u'ga:pageviews']     filters = ga:pagepath=@/blog/     end-date = 2013-12-26      And this is what i see:               Rows:     201312  148626     201311  160769     201310  154770     201309  16099      **Report Infos:**               Contains Sampled Data = False     Kind                  = analytics#gaData     ID                    = https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:xxxxxx&dimensions=ga:yearMonth&metrics=ga:pageviews&sort=-ga:yearMonth&filters=ga:pagepath%3D@/blog/&start-date=2013-09-26&end-date=2013-12-26     Self Link             = https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:xxxxxx&dimensions=ga:yearMonth&metrics=ga:pageviews&sort=-ga:yearMonth&filters=ga:pagepath%3D@/blog/&start-date=2013-09-26&end-date=2013-12-26          Pagination Infos:     Items per page = 1000     Total Results  = 4      So as we can see, the data format is correct but the data inside is wrong. Whats worse is that the data trend is different.


Google AdWords Tool showing 0 visitors for a keyword but Google Instant Results showing it. How?

I tried to Google ‘How to choose best moving company’ but the Google Instant Results showed it automatically in the search box which means that the particular question has been asked by many users (see this) and when I tried to see the visitors count for that question in Google AdWords Tool, it showed 0 that means no visitors searched that question. My doubt is how Google Instant Search Showing that question and why Google AdWords Tool showing 0 visitors for that? If you don’t understand my question please see the below screenshots. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Bqsmj.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sgLtX.png)


Detect IE-10-*metro* with Google Analytics?

Is there any way to discern IE-10 _metro_ users from IE-10 _desktop_ users in Google Analytics? The browser version info only lists version number. Any kind of work-around will be acceptable. I don't have a Win8 machine (yet), but I've had a report that there are some minor design issues with one of my sites in the metro version of IE-10, and I'm trying to assign a level of urgency to this issue by determining the portion of my audience that is affected.


php guestbook script with ability to reply to users comments

I'm looking for a PHP guestbook script with the ability to reply to comments left by users (reply by admin or mod).


Last click or direct conversions vs transactions

I'm trying to compare "Last click or direct conversions" (assisted conversions) with transactions (overview) per source/medium. The numbers (except for the sums) differ widely, but in no specific way (I though conversions should be less than transactions since there can only be one per user, but often transactions are greater). BTW: There are also more source/medium combinations in "assisted conversions" (400) than in the transactions tab (300). Any idea what the reason is?


How do I get google to see keywords on a one page web application site?

I'm going to have to link to the web site to explain this, http://www.diagram.ly, it's a free service, so I hope this doesn't break advertising rules. Basically, it's a one page web application, I don't want to create a web site for it. Some background text loads and if JavaScript is enabled, the web application itself then loads. The problem is that Google only seems to be picking up the title of the page and the text on the footer, so the site only appear on Google search for very limited text (based on the title and meta description mostly). I was hoping that search engines would pick up on the background text and index that. The text is factual, not keyword stuffed. Yahoo seems to pick up the text, just not Google. Does anyone have any experience of how Google would view such a site and where I could put the text for a better result? **Edit** I should mention that Google Webmaster Tools lists the site keywords as "Component, diagramly, feed, mxgraph, share and twitter". Basically the footer and little else.


How can I test my web site in IE6, IE7, IE8, and IE9?

Is there any Windows 7 application for that?


Nameserver Update Update and Gmail Account

I have a domain name with GoDaddy and I have my domain name setup with Google to receive email using that domain name (name@mydomain.com). Yesterday I bought a WinHost account and had to update the nameserver information. Will changing the nameserver information to Winhost's nameserver information interrupt my google apps (specifically blogger and gmail)?


Anyone use Spiders apart from search engines and spammers?

Are spiders ever used by anyone other than search engines and spammers? If someone wanted to collect information from the web, would they ever use them? Thanks


Google and 301/302

we have to solve a problem with Google not correctly indexing our multilanguage sites. We'll redesign our urls in the future but until then we need some way to help google find the different language versions while preserving convenience for the users, especially those that use already existing links. First I'll explain our site/url structure a bit: Assume we use the domain `foo.com`. Our application will then detect the language of the browser and display either the english or the german version of the page. The user can then change the language by clicking a link which results in the query parameter `language=xx` being appended. The currently selected language is stored in the session, thus if the user doesn't change the language every page will be displayed in the language that was selected last. Here's a short example for a user with browser language DE:               foo.com -> foo.com/bar -> foo.com/bar?language=en -> foo.com     (German)   (German)       (English)                  (English now)      If the browser language is not supported or not provided, we assume English as a default. So now, GoogleBot will have problems with this, since `foo.com` could either return english or german content. Initially, GoogleBot should get the english version but if the language change link is followed (or the german TLD is used, since `foo.de` redirects to `foo.com?language=de`) the german version would be delivered). Another problem is that our page internal links don't carry the language parameter. Although we could change that (with some effort in some cases) those links (without the parameter) are already present on external german sites and thus must be supported somehow. To overcome this, we thought of the following redirection strategy:               foo.com -> no session yet: detect browser language                                -> if DE, then 302 to foo.com?language=de                                -> if EN, then deliver the english content             -> we have session, so get the language from the session                                -> if DE, then 302 to foo.com?language=de                                -> if EN, then deliver the english content          foo.com/bar -> the same as foo.com          foo.de -> 301 to foo.com?language=de      Each page would then additionally have the `alternate` relation set, e.g.               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://foo.com" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://foo.com?language=de" />      So, from our point of view, the following should happen:   * The user opens `foo.com` and either gets the english version or is redirected to the version matching the browser language (if supported)   * The user clicks `foo.com/bar` and depending on the language in the session (or the browser language if the url is directly opened) either the english version is delivered or he's redirected to `foo.com/bar?language=xx`.   * GoogleBot crawls `foo.com` and since no language is provided it sees the english version, even when following the internal links The real question here is: As far as we know, there's no guarantee that GoogleBot either uses a session id or doesn't use it, thus we don't know whether there is a session being reused during crawling. Thus there are two possibilities:   * If GoogleBot uses a session, it might either get english content or a 302 redirect for any url that lacks the language parameter (e.g. `foo.com/bar`). How would Google handle that?   * If GoogleBot does not use a session it would get the german version for `foo.de`, due to the redirect. If it then follows an internal link to `foo.com/bar` it should get the english content, since no language is provided and a new session is created. In that case, would GoogleBot store the alternate link `foo.com/bar?language=de` for the german version? Thanks so far to all who endured reading all that and even more so to all who have an answer to share. Please note that we're working on redesigning our urls to always have the language in the path (e.g. `foo.com/en/bar`) but that'll take a while and we also need to handle already existing links without the language. So please don't just suggest to restructure the urls. **Edit** : As of request, here's the original problem that we're trying to tackle. Our customer generally uses their .com domain and they want the result pages to display a German description when using google.de and an English description in any other case. However, the results are always displayed in English. Our current (seemingly insufficient) approach is this:               foo.com -> page in english or german, depending on the request language (and currently on the session as well)                  -> alternate link with hreflang=en : foo.com?language=en                  -> alternate link with hreflang=de : foo.com?language=de          We assumed that Google would be able to use the alternate language versions and display the best fitting version in a localized result page. This, however, didn't work out so well yet and we assume one reason is that `foo.com` itself isn't an alternate link to anything. Thus we thought about leaving the language parameter out for the english version (see the question above) and use `foo.com` as the alternate link for hreflang=en. We're no SEO experts though, so this could be wrong. If so please correct me with some hints or explanations. :) With this trail of though we arrived at the point where `foo.com` should represent the english version of the page only. However, if we change that, all german users (which are about 50% of the visitors) would first see the english page, because of the many links in the wild that don't contain any language parameter. And this is something our customer clearly doesn't want. This again led us to the approach using redirects to `foo.com?language=xx` and calculating `xx` from the browser language (and the session as well, if it contains language information).


438 web pages, 7,675 page view per day from organic searches, just wondering how?

I am just wondering how this site - indiahowto(dot)com **with just 438 pages** is managing to **achieve 7,675 pageviews per day** with just organic searches. Note : I believe it is not listed in dmoz or have any backlinks. It is purely based on organic searches. Please share your knowledge, thoughts and observations on this. Thanks :)


Cross promoting sites you own

With time the amount of sites I have under my wing has grown and diversified such that visitors to site `A` wouldn't care one bit about site `B` that I control. (There are 7 different sites in my example but I couldn't be bothered typing letters all day!) I was wondering what people did (if anything) to promote sites you have a vest interest in that don't fit well with each other? Is it wise to have a central hub, almost like a portfolio site, which would have all the links out and each site would link to it? Taking that idea further, should this be like a network? (similar maybe to the Cheezburger one). Should none of the sites really talk to each other unless there is some relationship between them? I should point out from the offset - I understand the implications of sites on the same server linking to each other, I am not looking to do anything for any sort of SEO benefit, almost more of a 'well you like this one site I look after, maybe you would like these ones too'


Redirect requests to another folder

I want to redirect all the requests that come to the folder 'test' to 'test1' using apache configurations. How do i do it?


Temporary redirect to another website

I'm thinking during maintenance time at my website instead of showing "Maintenance Page" redirect to the same idea site. It takes some time up to 1 hour And I'm thinking to use temporary redirect. What is the negative side of doing that?


Category redirect in breadcrumbs - bad SEO?

If I have breadcrumbs like this: home > products > categoryA > subcategory > product But the only pages I have is the first products page and the end product page the two categories in the middle are the categories for the product. If I redirect both the categories to the first products page is this bad for SEO? Or should I redirect the categories to equivalent pages, i.e. categoryA will go to a page with the same name. By the way I am using wordpress.


Does Yext provide any value for web only based businesses?

I've been researching Yext and trying to understand if it provides value to web-only based business. It seems that if you don't have a physical presence then Yext is not any use. Is this accurate?


SEO for single-page content-less Web App

as written in the title the website on which I try to do Search Engine Optimization has following two properties:   * doesn't have any content in the SEO sense: it doesn't hold any information and only offers functionality   * consists of only one page/URL since most of the SEO tips/tricks I read are based on content, how do I perform SEO optimization on such a website? for more info: the website is basically just a timer/alarm/stopwatch (http://www.timer-tab.com)


Testing new changes to website while retaining ability to revert back to original - to protect SEO

If I'm making changes to site code, content, adding/removing pages, changing links, changing database structure, etc.. How do I safely test all these changes, while still maintaining ability to revert back to the original and retain original search engine ranking and position (in case something screwy happens)? I want to make changes, see what happens, if it happens to be bad for SEO - do the common sense thing and go back to original. Thanks for the help!


Apache - Reverse proxy

I am using Apache 2 and using the below virtual host definition in httpd.conf file               <VirtualHost *>         ServerName localhost            ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/stackoverflow/          ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/stackoverflow/          RewriteEngine On         RewriteRule  ^(market|stock|mutual)$ stackoverflow/$1 [L]     </VirtualHost>       Here, when I type               localhost/market      then Apache internally rewrite the URL and show me the contents of               localhost:8080/stackoverflow/market      Now my problem is: When I click on any of the link of that site having following URL               localhost:8080/stackoverflow/market/abc      Then, My address bar will show the above URL I want my Apache server to redirect me to               localhost/market/abc      means User will be shown the above URL, but the contents will come from               localhost:8080/stackoverflow/market/abc      I was thinking if I need to set reverse proxy for this. Please help me on this.


When should I apply for Google AdSense?

My site is not yet up and was wondering if I can apply for Google AdSense when my site is not yet up or when my is up and just a template? Any suggestions when I should apply for Google AdSense and what conditions my site should be in?


Cannot do a change of address in Google Webmaster Tools

I just changed my domain (with GoDaddy's help) from `example.com` to `example2.com`, and when I try to do the change of address in Google Webmaster Tools, I get this error: > We couldn't verify `example.com`. To submit a change of address, > `example.com` must be verified using the same method as `www.example.com`. > Add `example.com` to your account and verify ownership, then try again. I own both domains and they are both verified! I tried several times to no avail. I don't know what to do and can't find any help about this anywhere... Hope you can help me understand what is going on.


Problems ranking in different countries for .com site

I've got something confused with Google.com My website is hosted in United states, and its language is English. However, when i search a keyword in India, actually my website naming keyword.com, my site ranks #34. On the other hand, mysite ranks #20 in United States's Google search results. Same as above my some keyword is #12 in United Stated and that same keyowrd when i'm in india and find in Google.com that keyword is #48. Why does that happen? already know that different locations may lead different search results, but my site is hosted in United States, why India result better than United States result for the same keyword? i already geographic target has been set United State in Google Webmaster tool and also i set language is English Anyone could help?Thank you!


Is possible to disable a link after some time in a newsletter?

I work in a company where we sent many offer newsletters a week. When the offer time has passed we replace some of the images of the newsletter so that it is clear the offer has ended. Lets say that we have an image of the product and of course it has a link to our website. Apart from changing the image with the word "Ended" , **is it possible to disable the link as well**? I know it might not sound possible, but wondering if there is way.


Modifying Article - Effect On SEO

lets assume, I have a article that is ranked well (but not top) in search engine. Now, If I want to modify it a little more optimized, will the modification hurt on existing ranking in any ways? Thanks.


SEO of gallery deeplinks

if I have a gallery, say `2013/01/01/new-feature` and each image is indexable and can be shared:               2013/01/01/new-feature/slide1     2013/01/01/new-feature/slide2      Each slide will have an individual title+description, but this also means that the "Body text" of the each deeplink will always be the same. Do I have to set `<h1>` for each deeplink to the title of each picture and will the duplicate body text on each slide deeplink hurt SEO?


How can I prevent HTTPS on another domain from wrongly showing on my HTTP-only domain?

So, I have a blog at `domain.com`. This blog is HTTP-only because I would gain almost nothing from adding SSL support. I have a web service now that I want to enable SSL support on that runs on the same server and IP address as my blog. I got it all working pretty easily, but not if I go to `https://domain.com` I will see a huge warning about an SSL certificate error and then if I click "ok" through the warning, I'll see the web service with SSL support, not my blog. My biggest fear with this scheme is Google indexing an HTTPS version of it and penalizing my blog because the content between the two doesn't match. How can I somehow for my blog's domain to either not serve anything on HTTPS, or to redirect back to my HTTP blog, or to serve my blog, but with an invalid SSL certificate? What can I do, preferably without buying another dedicated IP for my website?


Can my competition force my clients not to list with me?

I have a listings site that lists cars. The cars are those of several auto dealers in my area. Many of them signed up with me, to list their cars and then I direct traffic to their business. However, the day after listing with me, my competition sent them an e-mail saying that if they list with me, their content will be removed from the competition's website. They followed by emailing me, telling me to remove all their listings off my site.   1. Isn't this illegal? I mean, he's basically forcing a monopoly and killing anyone that enters the market?   2. Can he legally deny people being listed on their site on these grounds?   3. Do people not have the right to advertise everywhere?   4. How do I proceed to deal with such a matter, or is it a lost cause?


Any ideas why my Google search traffic dropped considerably after 29th Oct 2013?

I've noticed a sizable dip in traffic with www.topomap.co.nz so headed over to Google Webmaster Tools to see if Google had encountered any issues with the site. Was quite surprised to discover that the "Search Queries" stats dropped considerably after Oct 29th. Any ideas why Google might suddenly have decided not to like the website so much? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Is3pU.png)


How to check SERP position correctly?

I wonder how do you check your website's SERP position for a certain query. I cannot directly go to Google and search, because it knows i'm looking for my site, and it shows it in the first position, but from another browser, it cannot be even in the first page. So how do you check for "average user" ? I use Tor browser for that, since it gives me a completely different IP, do you think is it safe? I mean, does it give useful information ?


Loss of page rank by Google after 301 Redirect?

I have developed a stock discussion forum whereby I separate each forum by the ticker symbol. The issue is, recently, the makers of the Blackberry phone, Research in Motion (formerly ticker symbol RIMM), decided to change their company name to Blackberry (new ticker symbol is BBRY). Because the ticker symbol changed from RIMM to BBRY, I subsequently had to change the structure of my forum from: http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/rimm to: http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/bbry However, the page http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/rimm used to rank really well in Google. Specifically, if you searched for the term "rimm forum," that page would come up as high as #4 on the first page in the search results (the average ranking for this page was also very high based on the data in Google webmaster). In fact, this page was my best ranking page for my entire website and drew the most visitors. To preserve my page rank (am I confusing this with keyword rank?) as best as possible, I did a 301 redirect from http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/rimm to http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/bbry. Unfortunately, http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/bbry has very poor ranking in Google. If I search for the term "bbry forum", it does not show up in the search results in Google at all. Is there a reason why http://www.alphabanter.com/forum/bbry has such a low ranking in Google? I thought the 301 redirect was supposed to preserve my ranking? What should I do next time if a similar situation happens for one of my other forums? **Update:** My bbry forum now ranks high in Google now. I changed the title to "Blackberry (BBRY) Stock Discussion Forum" from "Blackberry Forum" (I also changed the Meta description to accompany the title change). I can now find my forum if I search for "bbry forum". Searching for "Blackberry forum" though does not find my forum but that is expected since "Blackberry forum" is a very competitive search term.


Authenticate phpBB using custom MS-SQL database

How can I let my users to log into a phpBB forum by entering their user credentials while these credentials are stored in a separate MS SQL database? I mean I need to customize the authentication routine so it looks into MS SQL database for user credentials


Help! How to deal with Mirror Sites

Someone sneakily copied part of the contents on our website and made a mirror website that looks almost like ours! This will be real confusing for many people and I am worrying this will lead to many other illegal acts and our visitors might be conned. Any ideas?


Can iDeal process international credit cards, for international payments?

Can iDeal process international credit cards, for international payments ? I'm not talking about trasferring money from bank accounts, but to use it as safe payment gateway for international credit cards all over world. I need a good solution for my website. Thanks


How to redirect user into mobile website?

Hi how to redirect the user into mobile site when the user accessing from mobile. Say example i have site called www.mysite.com. Now, a person accessing a website from mobile it should redirect to www.mysite.com/mobile or www.m.mysite.com. I put some research in google that we can redirect using javascript to get the user agent(browser)               if(mobile browser) {       //redirect to www.mysite.com/mobile     } else if(normal browser) {       //redirect to www.mysite.com     }          or using screen resolution          if(screen resolution < 800 ) {       //redirect to www.mysite.com/mobile     } else if(screen resolution > 800) {       //redirect to www.mysite.com     }      I think It will not work If it is the case of javascript disable. Can we do this using .htaccess or php stuff? Is there any standard mechanism to do this?


Joomla component upload error 500

When I try to upload a Joomla component via the the Joomla extension upload manager I receive a error 500 message. What can be the cause of the problem? How do i fix it? Note: I have tried changing the folder permissions to 777 but the error persists.


Wildcard DNS record point to multiple servers

I would like to give my users their own subdomain like `jack.xxx.com`, `james.xxx.com`, and is using wildcard DNS record to do that. But now I would like to separate users into multiple servers, like users A~J is on server A, and users K~S is on server B... Is there a way to do this?


Does just-ping determine a website's accessibility and/or speed?

While looking for a webhost I wanted one that had good connectivity around the world, and ran their (shared hosting) test IPs on `just-ping.com`. This is a part of a sample result:                MÃ¼nchen, Germany:     Packets lost (10%)  24.8    24.9    25.1    178.xx.xx.xxx           Cologne, Germany:  Okay    5.6     5.7     5.8     178.xx.xx.xxx           New York, U.S.A.:  Packets lost (30%)  80.3    80.4    80.7    178.xx.xx.xxx           Stockholm, Sweden:     Packets lost (100%)                 178.xx.xx.xxx           Santa Clara, U.S.A.:   Packets lost (30%)  158.1   158.4   158.7   178.xx.xx.xxx           Vancouver, Canada:     Packets lost (70%)  189.4   189.5   189.5   178.xx.xx.xxx           London, United Kingdom:    Packets lost (100%)               Am I correct in thinking that hosts with several "Packets lost" messages from different locations have less stable or slower connections than hosts with all "Okays"?


Simple MediaWiki question

I'm thinking about making a mediawiki website. At first I'd like to try it at `localhost`. I'm running Kubuntu 11.10, so I did:               sudo aptitude install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql php5-cli      And I also fetched the latest mediawiki to:               /home/boris/Its/sites/mediawiki-1.17.0      Now I'm supposed to open               http://localhost/home/boris/Its/sites/mediawiki-1.17.0/index.php      But firefox says the page is not found. While `http://localhost` works. If I get it right - I have to open `index.php` to install mediawiki. So my question is - what do I do wrong? I'm really sorry for this is might be a very simple question. By the way do I have to make a db beforehand? Is it possible to use mongoDB as a db with mediawiki?


Site.xml with #!, still ok to have bare URL as home page?

I'm trying to get some ajax content on my main page indexed by google. I've implemented the #! url structure for that content and the corresponding piece on the server which renders what users see when passed the _escaped_fragment_ version of the urls. Ie, I followed the instructions here http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html I submitted the new site.xml to google 2 days ago through their webmaster tools. It's showing up as submitted URLs: 10, 1 URLs in index. So I'm assuming that something is wrong with my set up as the #! urls don't seem to be indexed. This is a snippet of my site.xml               <url>       <loc>http://www.mysite.com/</loc>     </url>     <url>       <loc>http://www.mysite.com/#!/Bristol</loc>     </url>     <url>       <loc>http://www.mysite.com/#!/Manchester</loc>     </url>      I don't want to just ask "What's wrong with this!?" so my best guess is I shouldn't be using the same url with and without the #! perhaps? or I need to put               <meta name="fragment" content="!">       in the page returned for those URLs? I didn't really follow what was being said on that bit of the instructions.


How urls of an ecommerce website should be made to be SEO friendly

Presently I am working on a website which has url like this   * For category page mydomain.com/c/10/t-shirts   * For product page mydomain.com/p/1023/printed-black-stripped-t-shirt I thought that this is not SEO friendly and thinking to move to a different structure, but confused in how exactly it should be named. Find few samples below that I am thinking of, please tell me is this correct or something else should be done   * Category Page: site.com/category-name/   * Sub-Category Page: site.com/category-name/sub-category-name/   * Sub-Category Page: site.com/sub-category-name/   * Product Page: site.com/category-name/sub-category-name/product-name   * Product Page: site.com/product-name


Credit card payments on mobile websites

I am quite confused regarding PCI requirements. Say if I want to develop a mobile web browser based shopping portal, am I allowed to? Under the PCI requirements?


Sudden increase in traffic from Google search domains

I'm suddenly getting a 50% increase in traffic. The cause of this, according to my google analytics, is referral traffic from sites such as:               google.co.uk     google.com.my     google.co.jp     google.com.sg      etc etc, none of which gave me traffic before. Why am I suddenly getting traffic from these places?


Digital "Post It" notes for organizing content of sites/pages

We're restructuring our old intranet into a new one and are going through each site to find content and use our new standard structure/look-and-feel. Do you recommend a tool where you can do "digital Post-It" notes? It would provide a way to type some items on a "card" and be able to move it around and organize it quickly. Also, if you know of tools in general for this kind of task, please advise. Thank you.


parked domain on plesk have error 500

I parked the `raf-sales.net` domain on `raf.ir` but i have this error: `Server Error in '/' Application.` :| _I hate Plesk and have not any idea to fix this problem! :|_ ~~`http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=httphead&host=raf-sales.net`~~   **Server returned error: 500 Server returned error information for request**


Should JavaScript referenced in the head section be served from the same hostname as the main document?

I was under the impression that for the best performance, Javascript should be treated as static content and served from a cookieless domain along with CSS files, images, etc. But Google says here: Don't serve early loaded external JS files from the cookieless domain > For JavaScript referenced in the head of the document and needed for page > startup, it should be served from the same hostname as the main document. > Because most browsers block other downloads and rendering until all > JavaScript files have been downloaded, parsed and executed, it's better to > avoid the risk of an additional DNS lookup at this point of processing. So now I am conflicted. I am not clear on what "needed for page startup" means. I typically have two JavaScript references, JQuery served from ajax.googleapis.com and a master.js file that mostly contains event handlers in the $(document).ready() function. Is this needed for page startup? Given the options available, (ajax.googleapis.com, static cookieless domain, original hostname) where should my JavaScript be served?


Showing non www on Google but redirecting it to www

In Google Webmaster Central, I have decided that my search results will be shown as non-www but I also decided that my site redirects to www. Will this be a problem for my seo.


Is it possible to purchase a non-recurring credit on Google App Engine?

My birthday is coming up and my parents asked me what I would like for a present. I said "App Engine CPU hours". But after looking at the billing options, I can't find a way for them to make a one-time credit to my account. The only option seems to be an authorization of a maximum billing amount for a particular time frame. Is it not possible to give someone App Engine resources as a one-time gift?


How can I rewrite an old URL using variables to a static html page?

I am an htaccess newbee I am trying to redirect the old URLS for my site to the new URLS for my site. The old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs. When I try to redirect the old URL, it is not w=redirecting and I get the 404 page instead. I am unsure if the SEO rewrite is the cause of the other rewrite condition failing. How can I write the RewriteRule so that it redirects the old URL?               Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^WEBADDRESS.co.uk         RewriteRule (.*) http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.+).html index.php?seo_title=$1 [nc]         redirect 301 /WEBPAGE http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/WEBPAGE.html          RewriteRule ^http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/test/test.php?c=viewtest&id=56&sat=9&mainsat=1&start=0$ http://www.WEBADDRESS.co.uk/NEW_URL.html          ErrorDocument 404 /PAGE_NOT_FOUND.html


Determining Source Quality with Google Analytics

What I am trying to do is set up a report (either on the new or the old analytics setup) that tells me the average "Pages per Visit" of all traffic "Sources". I can get that through Traffic Sources->All Traffic Sources, and then sorting by pages per visit, but that puts a lot of junk (one or two visits) sources on top, if I sort it by number of visits, I get a fair amount of junk (stumbleupon.com with only around 2 pages per visit). What I would like is that same chart, sorted by pages per visit, with visits above a threshold of 10. Any advice?


How do you handle the "Cancel" button?

I am currently creating yet another form, and as usual, I am not sure which way to implement the "Cancel" (or "Back") button next to the "Submit" one, that allows the user to forget this form and go back to the listing page. There are obviously many ways : you can either use a simple button or a link (or any tag with proper `onclick` and styling, for that matter), and all can use `JavaScript` to go back in history or simply go to a given url. Each method has its advantage : the `back()` button allows to go directly where the user was (on the 3rd page of the list sorted by name, for example), but may pop the "confirm resend" window. On the other hand, going to some url is "cleaner", but means either going to a generic one (1st page of list, default sorting), or keeping the previous url as a hidden parameter, if one wants to go exactly to the same page (3rd page sorted by name). How do you guys handle this ? I usually use the `history.back()` solution, because in my case it usually does the trick, but there may be some disadvantages to this method.


Should I use plural or singular parts for my url when on a listing page

I'm currently building a website, and the specifications, which I am asked to look at with a critical eye, say that I should use url like these for a store locator page: www.mysite.com/store.html <--this page is a store listing www.mysite.com/store/paris.html <-- this is a page for the store in Paris I think I should drop the ".html" part, but I am less sure about whether I should use plural for the first url (I mean www.mysite.com/stores instead of www.mysite.com/store ). Could you please advise?


Need a Facebook Strategy

I run a website / webapp. It's a mix of regularly updated content, and some subscribers only features. Here's what I have done so far for social distribution:   * **Google Groups** - Set up private and semi private Google Groups of email based distribution.   * **Twitter Updates** - I have successfully synced Twitter with my RSS feed to distribute updates real-time to followers. Included "Follow on Twitter" links on the website.   * **"Tweet"** - Included the Tweet button on content pages.   * **"Recommend on Facebook"** - Included the Recommend on Facebook button on content pages. I'm not satisfied with my Facebook strategy tho. Is there more I can do? How do I get "followers" and real-time sync content on FB? I don't want to mix them up with my personal friends. With Twitter, this was so easy. Looking for ideas. Thanks.


Is there a Drupal module that allows content edits to be "rolled back" like Stack Exchange does?

Looking for a way to roll back edits to text edits in the body of nodes/pages in Drupal.


Is there a way to view and/or undo system edits made via the Drupal admin interface?

EDITED: Looking for a way to view ALL modifications to a Drupal site's system made via the admin. If possible, I'd like to be able to "roll them" any system changes made, and have the module sorted out any dependencies related to the roll-back, or at least get a clear warning message stating what is going to happen -- or simple state why it's not possible to undo.


Is it possible to find all the keywords for a site that rank it in the top 10 results? If so, how?

One thing I know for sure is that even if a site only had one keyword on it, it would be possible to rank for more than one keyword; in theory, based on the fact that a keyword being in the text of a site is not a requirement for the site to rank on that keyword. Which means that you can't even use the site's own text as a 100% based line for mapping a site's rankings across all possible keywords.


Is there any downside to using <embed> with Flash content?

I've recently learned that HTML5 now officially supports the `<embed>` tag. With that in mind, is there any reason not to just use it to embed Flash content into HTML5? Would there be any browser issues or concerns if I did this? I'm aware of SWFObject, but I'm trying to find a really simple and neat solution that doesn't rely on JavaScript. Thanks. Edit: My only concerns are: FF3, FF4, IE7, IE8, IE9, Chrome and Safari. Mobile users are not a consideration and I'm not streaming any video.


Google Analytics shows 0 Visits?

I checked Analytics yesterday for pageviews, and had several hundred of them (for yesterday). Not today when I check "Yesterdays" stats (which yesterday showed several hundreds), it shows 0...? How come it is 0 all of a sudden? Anybody been through this? No messages in GA, WebmasterTools etc. Nothing has been changed on the site... Just hoping somebody has experience of this before? Thanks


URL is generating a /#!/splash-page

My site for some reason is generating a shebang - `/#!/splash-page` on the URL. For example when I type `www.modernvintage1005.com`, the browser returns `www.modernvintage1005.com/#!/splash-page` and every subsequent page is `/#!/about`, `/#!/contact`, and so forth. There's absolutely nothing on the Google about this. There is a lot of rewrite help to eliminate `.index.php` from the home page, but that's it. How do I rewrite it to just say `domain.com` and `domain.com/about.html`, etc.? Here is my _.htaccess_ file if you need to see it.               # Rewrite Rule     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]               </IfModule>          # compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:     <IfModule mod_deflate.c>     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript     AddType x-font/otf .otf     AddType x-font/ttf .ttf     AddType x-font/eot .eot     AddType x-font/woff .woff     AddType image/x-icon .ico     AddType image/png .png     </IfModule>          ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##


Does Google adsense affect page ranking?

does placing google ads in out web page help in SEO page rank?


What is good URI design?

How should a good URI be designed? What are the factors to consider? What are the pros and cons of the variants? **Factors that makes up a good URI**   * Stability over time   * Short   * Give the user an idea what is linked   * Easy to type   * Easy to guess (relevant only for a few links like "/jobs")   * Search engine friendly   * URI schema should be consistent over the whole site   * URI schema should allow future extensions Any more? **Examples**   * `example.com/articles/3252`   * `example.com/articles/how+to+design+good+uri`   * `example.com/articles/3252/how+to+design+good+uri`   * `example.com/good-uri-design`   * `example.com/articles/good-uri-design`   * `example.com/a/good-uri-design`


Return all links from a google search

We just relaunched our website and I need to remove all of old links from googles index. I did a `site:ourdomain.com` search but I don't really feel like copying and pasting all of the links that way. Is there an easier way?


What does the site "engine" do and why can't I just create a set of pages?

This question is very newbie level - I want to understand a fundamental thing that bothers me big time. Many years ago when I needed a simplest website I just used Netscape Composer to create a set of .htm files, then uploaded those file to the website root via FTP - and I've got a site. That was my only experience of building a website. Now every here and there I hear about "website engines" - even when simplest sites consisting of say five pages are discussed. I guess a "website engine" is some complex system that facilitates storing and managing numerous pieces of content and serving some aggregations of them to the users. I don't get why I need anything like that for a very simple website with five pages and ten pictures. What's the "website engine", why do I need it and why can't I get without it?


What should be done with URLs that no longer exist on a site?

The situation: A site with an inventory page, which lists items for sale. Each item description includes a link to a spec sheet which can be downloaded in .pdf form. However, those items are eventually removed from the page, and the corresponding spec sheets become not available. This triggers a crawl error in Google webmaster tools, because it knows about the links, but gets a 404 error when it tries to visit them. Should I instead return a 410 Gone error code? Should those links (to the downloadable .pdf file) be nofollowed from the very beginning, since Google can't index the documents?


how to avoid monthly fees for payment methods on my website

I've spent last days to compare different payments gateways solutions. And I've seen that if I want to integrate a payment service (such as paypal, or authorize.net) into my website I need to pay a monthly fee (and not only transaction costs). Is this correct ? For these reasons, I saw it is much more convenient for me to use Paypal Standard Payment Method and to only pay transaction fees. Could you tell me if I'm missing something, or something is wrong ?


Dynamic and Fixed Layout

When should I use a dynamic layout? And when the fixed one? Thank you!


Thawte/GeoTrust/VeriSign 2048 Bit Root migration and Intermediate SSL Certificates

Thawte, GeoTrust, VeriSign and other Certificate Authorities are currently in the process of changing from a 1024 bit MD5 based root certificate to a 2048 bit SHA-1 based root to "keep in line with industry best practices". In addition all certificates will now require Intermediate Certificate Authorities, creating a Chained Root certificate instead of the single root certificates that were previously issued by preferred providers. Having recently gone through this upgrade with one of our sites I now realize that I do not fully understand how SSL works and that I am in need of some clarifications. **Question 1: How does a 1024 bit root differ from a 2048 bit root?** I understand the switch from MD5 to SHA1, as MD5 has been proven vulnerable to collisions, but my question is what benefit does a 2048 bit root give over a 1024 bit root? Does it increase the SSL encryption strength between client and server or does it simply make it more difficult to compromise the root certificate? **Question 2: How do Intermediate Certificates work and what benefits/detriments do they have?** After updating our site everything worked fine except when the site was accessed by an older browser (Windows Mobile specifically). I was a bit confused since the Thawte SSL123 2048-bit Test Site worked fine on the device where as our site prompted a warning message regarding an "Untrusted Root Certificate". Both sites had the exact same certificate chain, of which neither the root or intermediate certificates were trusted by the device. Stranger still was that after visiting the testing site, our site would magically start working without any warnings. I contact Thawte regarding the issue, and they said that our SSL certificate was not installed correctly. They said that we needed to download and install the intermediate certificate into the trusted intermediate certificate store of the server, and that we could use their installation checker to verify the results. The certificate had been installed by our hosting provider (probably using an automated script configure for single root certificates), but once we followed their instructions our site started working on the older browsers without needing to install or approve the new root or intermediate certificate on the device. How is it that installing the intermediate certificate on the server causes older browsers to accept the certificate as being valid?


Reliable method for google analytics tracking for print advertising campaign?

A client is looking to track advertising clicks through a newspaper ad to measure success. They have rigid business requirements that it will be a unique domain... e.g. `foowidgetsnews.net` instead of `foodwidgets.com/contact-form-page.php` What is the most reliable method of building redirected url to a landing page so it will be tracked in google analytics as a direct hit from the newspaper? Finally, we would like to track the `foowidgetsnews.net` as the main url in google analytics because 301 redirect isn't tracked in google analytics like the way we would like it to.


www & no-www issue after server migration

I've just changed my web hosting and edited my nameservers, etc. and uploaded the website onto the new hosting servers. This all went fine and without any problems. However, when testing the live site I found that `www.example.co.uk` is working but just typing `mydomain.co.uk` redirects back to the old server/website (which is closing down later on today). I was just wondering what the issue is here and if/when the new site will show up when typing in the address without the `www`? I'll be the first to admit that I know very little about this `www`. vs `no- www`. so any help with this would be greatly appreciated and I'd like to know the best way of setting my domains up so that all of my sites are consistent.


Which way to forward alternate domains?

I have a few alternate domains that I want to point to my main domain: Main: `awesomewebsite.com` Alternates: `awesomewebsite.net`, `awesomewebsite.co`, `awesomewebsite.me` Which is the best way to forward any hits on the alternates to the main? I can set up Web Forwarding with my registrar (iwantmyname.com) with Zerply but I find their interface very confusing. However this does mean I only have the main domain on my hosting account (MediaTemple). Or I can set DNS of all domains to MediaTemple and then set the forwarding there with .htaccess. Is either of these a particularly good/bad idea?


Hidden form and SEO

I'm using hidden forms, to collects some statistics. Will it have any penalty from search engines ? **Update 1:** I'm collecting some statistics, based on user interaction with my website. For example, POST requests will be sent to server, when:   * user stops a playing video   * user has watched a video till it's end   * etc. Using form_remote_for in Rails, i'm just rendering the form and keep it invisible. The reason on doing that - is to utilize authencity tokens, and just have less to code. Via JavaScript i'm only filling some hidden fields up and initiating form submission.


do I need to login the second time I use "paypal standard payment"?

Paypal Payment Standard doesn't require to be registered to paypal to perform payment. However I've read on a blog that the second time you proceed, it recognize your credit card and ask you to register to paypal. Could you give me a 100% sure answer about this ? I really cannot ask customers to create paypal accounts. thanks **Update** : I've found the following extract on a website: > Are PayPal accounts required in order to make a purchase or donation? Not > any more. It was this way before but PayPal.com changed the policy. You may > make ONE non-recurring transaction without opening a PayPal account however, > PayPal creates a temporary PayPal account with credit card number used. If > you use the same credit card again with so many months, PayPal will ask to > open and verify an account. I was wondering **how often** it should be a payment done to see paypal asking to make an account. For example, let's say that I'm performing the second payment after 2 weeks. Is it going to ask me for a paypal account ? thanks


Google Analytics and tracking BING or YAHOO search keywords

This is a very specific problem and I have two questions to ask regarding it. Recently, it came to my attention that an outside affiliate was buying PPC search words for a term on Yahoo and Bing. However, when we checked that specific term in our Google Analytics it only shows up as an organic keyword and not as a paid keyword which it is. To help better understand the whole situation, we do use URL tags with our affiliates but they aren't Google utm tags, they are custom in-house tags. I have two questions in regards to this: First, I'm worried if other Bing and Yahoo paid traffic is being counted as organic traffic in GA. Does GA require extra tagging to distinguish non-Google paid and organic search traffic? Second, to filter these results out from GA would I use a referral filter or a campaign target URL filter? Specifically, I'm trying to filter out just the visits based on the specific tag we have on the ad but I'm not sure which filter I need for that.


What's the original image address from a adobe scene 7 site?

Initially i would like to find out an image from nike store, then i found this: http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/404128_010_A?wid=890&hei=550 here Nike uses adobe scene7 for its dynamic imaging. How could I grab the original file from it? some useful links http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/404128_010_A?req=imageprops http://crc.scene7.com/is-docs/examples/properties.htm


Do UTM-tags in a backlink affect SEO

Do UTM-tags (Urchin Traffic Monitor) in a backlink affect SEO? E.g.               1) http://www.domain.tld/     2) http://www.domain.tld/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss      Both links are pointing from website A to the same webpage on website B (the one mentioned above), but look different. #2 isn't exactly a pretty URL. I don't think it will be affecting SEO, but am not sure. Can somebody confirm this?


Google Webmaster Tools robots test not working

Within Webmaster Tools I have supplied my test content:               User-agent: *     Disallow:/admin/     Disallow: /tag/      When I specify the URL to test against, for example:               http://www.site.com/tag/      It gives me this result: "Allowed: Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions" As far as I know I have set this up correctly, shouldn't Google be saying that the `/tag/` directory is "disallowed"?


Should I add a trailing slash to my canonical link or not?

I'm just working through some PHP to set up a canonical link for each page on one of my websites and I'm wondering what's the correct link for the home page: Is it:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.sitename.com/"/>      Or?               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.sitename.com"/>      I've always tried to link to the home page without the trailing slash.


HTML5 vs HTML4 regarding Search Engine Optimization

We currently have great SEO utilizing HTML4 entities, we are considering utilizing an HTML5 document type but are concerned about the SEO implications. We do not want to risk losing our SEO by simply updating our front-end implementation. Questions   1. Does Google value HTML5 more than HTML4 or visa versa.   2. Is there a top resource for strict standards when building an HTML5 document?


Consolidating google results for 2 domains with the same content

I have 2 domains `http://foo.com` and a `http://bar.com`. `http://bar.com` is just a domain alias for `http://foo.com` so they have the same content. Results for both domains show up on google, I'd rather all google results point to `http://foo.com`. I've tried looking for this option in google webmaster tools but can't find it. How do I do this?


Displaying metrics for a list of specific pages from a website

Can I get a table for a metric (ex: visitors, pageviews) for a specific list (imported as .xls, .csv or .xml) of pages from a Google Analytics tracked website?


How to go about implementing "Branch Locator" functionality?

I'm in a situation where I need to implement a 'branch locator' feature that allows users to enter their postcode (and possibly a radius in which they're willing to travel), for which results will then be returned from my database on a map with driving directions, distances etc. Does any such product exist? I'm in the UK, so it has to have UK postcode data but I can't find anything and don't really want to have to try and get hacky with the google maps API. I found Postcode Anywhere which would provide me with the distances and postcode data I need, it's just going to be awkward putting it all together. **EDIT:** I didn't actuall notice that Postcode Anywhere offer a branch locator product. Trouble is, it's a bit pricey. Does anyone know of any better or cheaper solutions?


htaccess performance issues vs restarting the server

I usually use the server config file for settings that I would like to apply to my applications (at least in the development environment), and constantly have to re-start the server.     I know that I cannot keep re-starting the server every time during production; my choice would have to be .htaccess files.    My question is this: how much performance issue does using htaccess files cause? I understand that it depends on how many folders the request has to traverse to obtain the required file; so here's an example:    If the request path is host/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file_requested, and the htaccess is placed in the root folder, are we talking about a significantly, measurable performance issue, or something that can be ignored? I wouldn't want to restart the server every time I need changes to an application's configuration.   Thanks.


Subscriber stats tool in google webmaster tools has no data

In Google webmaster tools under Subscriber stats, it is always in the state: No data available. (Why not?) I want to ask it to do? google and how to display data for that tool


Issues with Apache and loading PHP files [ubuntu]

I just installed PHP and Apache2 on my laptop (ubuntu 12.04), but I can't get my PHP files to load. I have followed this tutorial: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/installing-php5-and-apache-on-ubuntu/ , and the index.html file works, but when I try any php, I get a server error. I looked online for a few hours, and I added "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" to my httpd.conf (but I don't think I'm supposed to be editing that file for the ubuntu version??) in /etc/apache2/, which somehow let ONE php file load (which just contains phpinfo()). I then tried making a new php file with the same code, but that one won't load (server error). I have no idea why it only loads that specific file. I have tried restarting apache and opening the other one first, but for some reason, it only loads the first file. I also tried to move the file to another directory in /var/www/, but not dice. I hope this makes sense, because I'm a beginner here. any help would be appreciated!!


Can parking a domain on my primary domain have an effect on primary domain's SEO?

My Question is this: I have a primary domain (assume it's domain.com). Now I parked domain-static.com on domain.com. The idea is that static content (images, JS, CSS) is served from domain- static.com,   and domain-static.com passes through a CDN which is where the difference is between the domains. The reason is that browsers limit simultaneous downloads from the same domain so I think it should speed up the site more than routing all requests through a CDN. The static domain is actually parked on top of domain.com, but all static content on the website is served through static-domain.com There shouldn't be a case where HTML pages are served from domain-static.com or really for anything Google downloads (except for images which it will download for Google Images) But I'm asking about the regular Google search, can domain.com get penalized for some reason for parking domain-static.com on domain.com? If this is so, one possibility I thought of is adding an .htaccess rule that doesn't let any dynamic content be served from the static domain, so there isn't a possibility of Google downloading dynamic content from the domain- static.com, which can eliminate dynamic content. What do you think I should do?


Google Chrome displays the wrong favicon that I've linked to in my html

I have an HTML file with the following markup in the head tag:               <link rel="shortcut icon" href="myFavicon.ico" />      With that, I expect to see my "myFavicon.ico" icon display in Chrome's tab and bookmark bar, but instead it's showing Youtube's favicon (i have a link to youtube in my markup). This make's no sense to me. It works okay in Firefox. Any ideas?


What can I do about my domains history?

I have just got my first domain from `godaddy.com` but looking at web of trust my domain was once owned by a spammer and has a low rating. On web of trust I can ask the community to reevaluate the site, but what about other sites that give domain ratings? What sites give ratings of domain names and what can I do about them? Also how can I check if Google has blacklisted my domain?


Most immediate CDN

I'm interested in the user experience effects of a near-instantly loading home page. Are there CDNs specifically designed to serve tiny data, like a 500-byte HTML page, to the browser **as fast as possible** after it requests my URL? Clarity edit: I'm looking for something that can reliably (consistent across time and geographic region) get 500 bytes to the browser in about 0.1 seconds or less after the URI has been requested. Google seems able to achieve things like this.


Language for a Belgium website

In Belgium, citizens speak different languages. Most people speak Dutch, some French and the minority speaks German. Also combinations of those language occur. I want to expand a web shop to Belgium. My question: Which language can I use to reach most 'modern' Belgiums? By 'modern' people I mean people well familiar with (shopping on) the internet.


Google search SEO with double domain

When hosting a site from two separate domains, are there any steps to take to not get penalized by search engines for duplicating content across domains? I'm envisioning a scenario where two domains have largely the same text content, but use separate domains to enable different branding and some different features.


Will using a traffic exchange service affect SEO?

I use Google AdSense and I'm worried that I might be punished using traffic exchange services like MGID, Scribol, Crowd Ignite, etc...and if this will affect my site's SEO. Does Google frown upon these services?


input type="email" allows test@test, why?

I've always been under the assumption that the browser email-validation-regex is more robust than some regex pattern in JS/PHP. My employer just showed me that both strings are considered correct (at last in FF28):               test@test.com // Expected to be true, is true     test@test     // Expected to be false, is true      Why is the latter true? Is this a bug, or something for the future? Because as far as I can tell, it's not correct to not use a extention (apart from maybe localhosts). Anyone who can shed some light on this?


Could somebody hijack my Google Analytics for a site?

I track many websites in Google Analytics. Recently I accidentally added tracking code for site A to site B, which I noticed a couple of weeks later. By then, one website had two weeks of no visitors, and the other website had tons of traffic, relative to the other. It completely messed up my analytics data for the site, adding data for the other site. This made me think, since it's easy to view the source of a site and its Google Analytics code, could somebody take that code and add it to their own site(s) and completely mess up my site's analytics data? A lot of very big name websites use Google Analytics, I wonder why this hasn't been thought of or mitigated; wouldn't be too hard for Google to check if the source domain matches the site that it's meant to be tracking. How can I mitigate against this?


Information about links disappeared from Webmaster Tools

I discovered that all information about links to my site disappeared from Google Webmaster Tools. Last time I checked the "Links to your site" page in GWT there was nice list of linking domains and all. But now there is only "No data available." There were no changes to the site contents. Why could it be? And what can I do to fix this? About a month earlier I found that PR of **all** my pages dropped by 2 points. May these changes be related?


How to set up a single IP blocklist for multiple sites hosted on the same account

When running multiple sites on the same hosting account, one might find that an attacker has attempted to breach one site. A webmaster may want to block the IP address from all sites hosted in the same account. Is there a way to keep the list of banned IP addresses/ranges in a single location that can be referenced by all the websites in the same account? (Example: a file that contains a list of IP addresses/ranges located at the root of the file system and simply referenced in the .htaccess file of each website.)


Techniques to prevent apps hijacking my search engine?

I'm working on a site with a large music content database, and recently some app developer looking for a bit of a reputation boost has launched an app that completely piggybacks on our database: a user will search for a track in the app, the app will send the request to our search page and scrape the results, returning the top result to the user. Here are some things I've tried:   * Returning 444 for the app's user agent (but they changed it to a legit browser string).   * Detecting a referrer on the search page, and returning 404 if no referrer is found (but it would be easy enough for them to spoof a referrer). One idea I thought of is some sort of token sent along with the search query any page with the search box, and the search result validates this token and, if invalid, returns 404. Are there any tried-and-true techniques that do this kind of thing? Or anything else I can do to prevent this data thief? He's completely unapologetically stealing our data and crippling our site! By the way I'm using Django, in case there's anything built in to there that could help me.


Should I remove a Tumblr blog that I moved to my own server?

This is relate to How to move a Tumblr blog without hurting PageRank? question. I used custom domain for Tumblr for about a week, some of Tumblr domain disappeared and most of the posts appeared in new domain in search results. After that, I moved my files to my new host, and pointed my domain name there, hoping that Tumblr won't notice the change and keep redirecting users to my domain. Unfortunately, Tumblr realized (after 2 days) that I don't point to their servers anymore, and stopped redirecting to my domain. Does having old blog running hurt my search results rankings because of duplicate content? If so, I want to close my Tumblr blog. On the other hand, I am considering that some people might lose track of my blog. So I am confused. What is the optimal thing to do here, close old blog or not? Edit: I am also considering changing all posts to mere links to new content in old blog. Is it a good idea?


Where is benchmarking in Google Analytics?

I remember seeing benchmarking in Google Analytics in the past - in fact I opted in to it on several sites. However, I can't find any more. The Analytics blog shows it should be under the Visitors section but it's not there. Is it still available? If it has been removed, does anyone know why? I can't find any info on it.


Google Analytics multi-domain iframe counted as new visitor

I work for a company that has a large number of marketing sites, each of which pull in some info to an iFrame from another domain. I'm trying to track visitors through a given marketing site, to the page with the frame, and then through various pages in the frame. I have done quite a bit of reading on multi-domain tracking in GA, but can't seem to get it to recognize a visitor to a marketing site and the framed page as a single visitor. On the marketing sites as well as on the pages within the frame, I use this GA code:                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-14']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);      I load my iFrame with the following code:               _gaq.push(function() {           var pageTracker = _gat._getTrackerByName();           var iframe = document.getElementById('my_frame');           iframe.src = pageTracker._getLinkerUrl('www.myurl.com');         });      Using GA Debug in Chrome, it appears that the GA parameters are being appended to the URL of the iframe correctly. Despite this, while viewing the "real-time overview", it shows a single visitor while I browse the marketing site until I get to the page with the frame, at which point it shows 2 unique visitors. This also breaks the "visitors flow" report, which shows a drop off at the page with the frame, instead of continuing to the new domain in the frame. Any suggestions or obvious problems?


Cannot load local resource

In spring project, I am generating some pdf file automatically in my application and storing it in $CATALINA_BASE in tomcat server. The path is :               D:\Project_Local\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\happyweb\images\User.pdf        I have given one hyperlink on webpage to access this file. But when I click on that link it is giving error in Chrome console as below:                Not allowed to load local resource:D:\Project_Local\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\happyweb\images\User.pdf      What is the problem and how so resolve that?


What percentage of users opt out of Google Analytics?

You can block Google Analytics through Adblock or your hosts file, and I know a small amount of visitors do. What's the percentage? Does Google compensate somehow, or should I just add a fudge factor to my customer's stats. I understand this number is possibly tiny, but I can't seem to dodge this request.


Permission denied when using desktop apps on Own Cloud

I'm running OwnCloud on an unmanaged VPS & I get a `permission denied` error every time I try to log in on Linux & OS X. The web interface works fine. Anybody ever come across this before?


Multiple TOC with MediaWiki using section headings in single page

I'm running my own installation of MediaWiki, which has been great! I haven't been able to find the answer to this small problem in any post, how to, etc. Here's the setup: Article TOC (limited to showing only H1 and H2)   ==H1==   ===H2===   ====H3====   ====H3==== I don't want the H3 to show up on the main table of contents, because it would make the list very long. Instead, under the H2, I would like to display another TOC with all the H3's under that listing. From my understanding, you cannot have multiple table of contents on a single page. I've thought about making a template for each H2 that has the H3 links, but that seems like it duplicates a lot of work and creates loads of pages. I'd love a template that sucks all subsection names and spits them out, but I don't see how to do that. Alternatively, is there a way to enable multiple TOCs in a custom install of MediaWiki that I'm missing? Even that would get closer to what I'm trying to do.


When is it ethical/legal to use a service like luckyorange.com?

http://www.luckyorange.com/index.php While I know that tools like this might be tremendously useful for me as a site owner, as a user I would find it **really creepy** if a site recorded all my mouse movements, clicks and key presses.   * Is it legal to use such a service?   * Do you think it is ethical at least in certain situations (usability testing while the site is still in development and all subjects are informed about the recording, beta testing, etc)?


Best Automatic Backup Solution Options?

I have a VPS with WiredTree.com in which I have access to WHM. I'm looking for a good backup solution where I can do the following things   * Backups both the Database and Files   * Allow me access to the backups so that I can restore them on another server to ensure that backups are actually successful. Any good options out there I should look at? Thanks for any tips.


How can I reduce the costs of loading large JS libraries?

If I am using a large Javascript library for my page, how can I make sure that this does not impair the user's use of the site?


Easiest way to automatically update Twitter & Facebook when I update a wordpress blog

I'm running a self-hosted version of wordpress, so plugins are an option that is available. I'm wondering what the best way to have my Twitter and Facebook accounts automatically update whenever I add a new post to my blog.


Magento: When paying with Paypal, shipping cost is charged twice

I'm using Magento 1.4.2. When I'm paying for an order with Paypal, the total is calculated alright but then Paypal charges twice for the shipment. I'm not using any custom modules. Any idea why this might be or where I should look?


Is there a minimal, pre-built solution for hosting a large collection of files?

My Google-fu has failed me on this one. Every time I search for something like this all I get is a bunch of vulnerability reports. I feel like this should be pretty straightforward, but I'm not having any luck. I have an internal web/fileserver whose functionality I'd like to integrate. Currently, there is a large data partition with a bunch of files (git repo) only accessible via SSH, and a separate web server (Apache2 on Debian). ~~Note that the majority of files have whitespace in their path.~~ (Bulk-renamed this away.) Is there a minimal (no database or frills) CGI script or something that will dynamically load a directory listing and make links to the files, and maybe some basic search, too? A tie-in to find/locate via bash would be about the right amount of functionality. Thanks!


How do I remove accounts from my analytics dashboard?

How do I remove accounts from my analytics dashboard where other admins have deleted me from the profile? The account appears on the list with no data and now discernible way to remove it.


Best way to use static HTML + AJAX with Django

I'm working on a web app and decided that for the max amount of speed I'm going to make it a single page. Then load all the content via AJAX pulling the data from a Django app. My options as I see them are: Host the index.html(and JS, IMG, CSS) on Cloud files/S3/etc and the Django app on a server on api.example.com Host the index.html(and such) on a dedicated server and put the app under as sub folder ie example.com/app Host the index.html(and such) on a dedicated server and somehow host Django on the root. Letting Apache decide which one to send the user to. (similar to this question) If you have another way that could be better please let me know. Thanks,   Kerry


What am I doing wrong with my SEO

I have this site (online library): www.gramma.ro Am I making any huge mistakes in regards to SEO? Basically, for each product I put its title to be my title page (for instance): http://gramma.ro/Site/DetaliiProdus.aspx?c=m1&p=1073&s1=61&s2=157 I do not understand why, for any of my products, I do not appear on 1st page of Google SERPS for that specific title product (I only see my competitors who also have the same title page for that product), but if I append "gramma" I do appear (so I am indexed). Did I make a mistake somewhere?


Possible to send one payment to multiple Paypal accounts?

I have a client who wants to setup a Paypal Buy it Now button on his small e-commerce store. The customer is able to say: "I want to make a payment of $20 and I want this percentage to go toward this purpose, and this percentage to go toward this other purpose." Is it possible to have one payment split up and go into two separate Paypal accounts?


DNS: forward part of a managed domain to one host, but sub domain services to another (Google Apps)

I was going to post this as a comment against DNS: Forward domain to another host, but I don't seem able to do that. I'm in a similar situation. I have a DNS registered/managed by enom, except with the slight twist that the domain was originally registered with enom through a Google Apps account creation. The domain currently supports a Google Apps site/account. I now want to direct the bare primary domain and `www` entries to a hosting provider for the website component, but leave the Google Apps setup intact for its services such as calendar, mail etc. For now, I'm leaving the domain managed by enom. Also note that when I registered my account with the hosting provider, I gave the same domain name as the existing domain (e.g. `example.com`), so at their end I'm working with the same domain name in cpanel, etc. In my case, the existing enom DNS entries don't have an A record for the `www.example.com`, or the bare `example.com` domain. Instead, there are 4 x @ records with the Google Apps IP Address, 2 x TXT records with what I assume are Google Apps site verification strings/tokens, and a bunch of CNAME records for the various features of Google Apps (mail, calendar, docs, sites, etc). So, my questions:   * How do I point the `www.example.com` and `example.com` DNS entries at enom to my web site hosting provider, while leaving the domain managed by enom, and the Google Apps services working as they are now (with the obvious exception of Google Sites)?   * How do I setup the `example.com` mail-related DNS records (MX, etc) at the web site hosting provider, so that outbound email to `any_name@example.com` gets correctly sent to the google apps mail account, and doesn't get trapped inside the _pseudo domain_ within the hosting providers servers?


Add Protocol for MediaWiki Links Besides HTTP

Is there a way to add protocols to linking for MediaWiki? For example:   * Works: [http://www.google.com Google]   * Doesn't work: [ftp://www.someplace.com Some FTP place]   * Doesn't work: [conisio://something?something=awesome Something Awesome] In the above example, I want to add **ftp** and **conisio** protocols


What is best way to manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images?

How do you manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images? Do you follow any naming convention? Do you create sub-folders to manage images? In a big project how to make it easy to find for new people in the development team if any images which they want to use (because it's in new PSD they received from designer) is already available in images folder of project and how they can find it easily.


Monitoring GWT website

We currently monitor our webapps using cURL. More and more of our webapps use the GWT framework, which uses tons of JavaScript, and we can't rely on our cURL system to monitor anymore. Therefore, we search the right tool to monitor, but it seems difficult to find a crawler which is light (no Selenium please) but handles JavaScript correctly. P.S. : we host our webapps as well as the probes, we don't want any Internet monitoring service.


Is this a link scheme? If so, what to do? what problems can i face?

I was asked to remodel a website, and decided to check its rank on alexa. Surprisingly, there are **many, many** different websites linking to it, **none relevant**. One particular thing about it is that **none of these urls work, and they all display the exact same error when accessed** , which to me is a very good indication that this is some sort of linking scheme. (besides the somewhat obvious names, it even says scheme in one of the urls !?) **If so, how should i proceed about this website? What can i do if this is in fact a scheme, how can this hurt the website, what types of problems can i face, and what can i do about it?**               addurlnow . info     dirlist15.addurlnow . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-12.html           linkdirectory101 . info     dirlist16.linkdirectory101 . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-15.html           seonetblog . info     dirlist52.seonetblog . info/Business___Economy/Affiliate_Schemes           addurls . us     dirlist21.addurls . us/Business___Economy/Services/page-10.html           webdirectoriessite . info     dirlist20.webdirectoriessite . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-6.html           addurlstore . info     dirlist10.addurlstore . info/business___economy/services/page-14.html           ukwebdirectorys . info     dirlist21.ukwebdirectorys . info/Business___Economy/Services/page-13.html


Are there any HTML Editing Services?

I tried to Google this and didn't know where to start. I have thousands of html templates that need to be hand edited because they are malformed so scripting my changes is darn near impossible or at least each file would need to be opened and reviewed by a human anyway. **Are there any services or companies where you can pay for HTML editing on a per file basis?** For some reason this sounds unscrupulous to me on the surface (like I picture sweatshop children clacking away at keyboards), but I would intend to pay a fair price. This is simply a matter of having neither the time or manpower on staff.


What is a good replacement for MS Frontpage?

I've been using MS Frontpage 2003 to maintain our company website for _years_. Looking for a replacement that can:   * Import/convert a MS FrontPage website and "modernize it" (clean up the HTML to make it standards compliant, etc.)   * Supports (or converts) the substitutions (Include Page and Text substitutions that are done when the page is published (so they become static HTML).   * Leverages my knowledge of FrontPage Looks like the likely contender is Web Expressions but I'm open to objective suggestions.


Full width web design (with Twitter bootstrap)

I have not done much web design previously and wanted to get an understanding of full-width layouts and responsive design. Specifically, my question is this - is it considered bad practice to use full- width layouts? I have google'd, and a lot of the feedback is to avoid full width (sticking to the standard 960px width) - however, a lot of the articles I have read were a few years old. I was thinking about a design for a site that uses full width, using Twitter bootstrap (obviously TB provides the mechanism to go full width, which makes me think it may not be all bad?) - With the TB layout system and responsive design settings, are the drawbacks of using full-width layout as significant? I have also read about the optimal number of characters per-line issue, that would obviously effect a single column (or even two-column) full width layout - but I was planning to have a full-width three column design. Have people got around this issue?


Show/Hide Div - Cross browser compatibility and jquery concerns

I'm working on displaying a hidden div when clicked on for a website. This would be a contact for to request more information about a product, so, **its a very important form.** So, i came across the following **(demo)** http://papermashup.com/demos/jquery-show-hide-plugin/ **(Code)** - http://papermashup.com/jquery-show-hide-plugin/ Which works great, and uses jquery. With a couple of modifications would be a perfect fit for the application I'm working at. There's only one problem: On Safari (argh!), the animation looks choppy. So I have 2 questions: > 1 - For the more experienced webmasters, is it a good practice to use java > script to display such and important part of this website? Could I run into > problems? I know that java script could be disabled, but is that even > realistic? Should I perhaps find a different solution? > > 2 - Is there a way to improve the animation so it works better on Safari, or > should I just go a different route?


Tracking visitors: is it possible to know what site you visited next?

Let's say you visit my website `johndoe.com` you read one or two articles and then you type directly in your browser's address bar "`www.google.fr`" thus exiting my website. Conversely you were on `stackexhange.com` and then you typed `johndoe.com`, thus arriving on my website. Is it possible for me to know this? Using Google Analytics or other tracking software?


Does Google Analytics only count a Unique Visitor if he/she lands on the index (home) page? What if the UV makes his way to a side-page of your site but never visits the home page (index page)? Would he still count as a unique visitor under Google analytics?


Suggestions of a good book (or online instruction) for MS Web Expressions 4?

I'm looking for a good book on MS Web Expressions 4. I'm fairly experienced with web design (can code simple HTML in notepad (but prefer not to!) and have created CSS's. Have been using FrontPage for years. Now finally ready to move up to a replacement. (And for those tempted to suggest "...just use XYZ instead", please my question asking for "replacement for FrontPage".