What is "?sfgdataq" that I see appended to some requests to my application?

I have noticed that a small number of requests come through my application with ?sfgdataq appended to them, I probably wouldn't have ever noticed it if it didn't cause an error on some requests. I have seen requests come through with a mix of user agents, (Firefox, IE 7, IE 8) so I don't think it is a bot. I looked around and I can't find any information on what is doing this, I found a couple people with similar questions on message boards (so I don't think it is isolated to my application) but no good answers. edit: I also noticed that the User Agents have some sort of large random value appended: +sfgRmluamFuX1R5cGU9amF2YV9zY3JpcHQmRmluamFuX0xhbmc9dGV4dC9qY is a sample - searching for that on google turns it up in other logs as well.


Putting duplicate phrases in the headings of pages

If I have a local business that repairs only HP computers for example, and I write lots of good informative pages about all the different things that can be repaired on HP computers such as motherboards, screens and keyboards, should I make the `h1` headings of my pages:   * Motherboard repair for HP computers   * Screen repair for HP computers   * Keyboard repair for HP computers or   * Motherboard repair   * Screen repair   * Keyboard repair ? What different does it make to search engines? If the first option is a bad idea, how should I make sure to communicate to search engines that my business specializes in HP computers?


What to set for AllowOverride & Options

What is normally used as settings for both production or development servers for settings `AllowOverride` & `Options`? I will be needing to use .htaccess for WordPress so things like mod_rewrite etc


DMCA service on Bing search engine

Does Bing offer a similar service to the one Google search engine offers below? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?hl=en Thanks.


More preview lines in Google search results

Is there a way to come to enjoy more than 2 lines of results query preview per item on a google results page?


Merge two existing forms together, Add PHPBB2.x posts in to an existing SMF1.1x

I have two community website each running their own forms and I would like to merge the content of both forum in to one forum. Specifically from (PHPBB 2.x) in to a SMF (1.1). Both forums have been running for years now and have built up 100k of posts each. I found a converter that converts PHPbb 2.x to SMF here http://download.simplemachines.org/?converters;software=phpbb But when I install and run this script I get the following warring _All or some of the data in your installation of SMF will be overwritten._ So what I am really looking for is a forum merge not a convert. Suggestions on how to do merge two forums databases together in to a single database.?


Whole site caching on MediaTemple's ProCDN - cname setup

Am unable to properly configure ProCDN to point to my website's root. I have a completely static website: http://thaifood-recipes.com no PHP, MySQL, etc. Just static HTML, images, CSS, etc. I have followed the Getting Started with ProCDN guide at MT, but instead of offloading some content from a subdomain, like cdn.thaifood-recipes.com, I am wanting the whole site to just be served, as its all static, cacheable content. MT Support dragging the heels getting back to me with a direct answer. Any ideas or alternative CDNs to do the same thing if ProCDN won't allow? Cheers, Leon Stafford leonstafford.com


How can I change the location of my ip address to specific citiies/places when browsing?

I am based in Europe and I would like to test my website as if I am located in New York. I have some specific features that will be visible based on cities.


which favicon gets loaded in the browser?

currently i am experimenting with 2 favicons and including them in 3 different ways in my markup, however i am not sure which one gets loaded in the browser. firebug's network tab doesn't tell me which one it downloaded.                 <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png">       <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">       <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="favicon.png">      where favicon.png is 144x144px and favicon.ico is 16x16px. idealy i want all browsers to use the png instead of ico whenever they support it, and just fallback to ico for ie. i am not sure how to verify if the code is already doing this or not.


What tools to use for efficient link building?

As most SEO experts keep saying, it is not just the content that you have - but also a hefty amount of _quality_ incoming links to your content that is important - these are the two ways to get to the top of the search results. The question is where do I find the incoming links? One way I know is Google blog search, it can be used to find blogs with related information to your content and some allow to leave comments. The comments usually consist of your name, e-mail and website. If you put your keyword instead of your name, then the keyword turns into a link to your website. Unfortunately most blogs put the `rel=nofollow` attribute on such links, but some blogs don't do that. What other ways are there to **find quality pages to put keywords links** back to your website? Quality link usually means:   * located on a page with relevant content   * does not have a `rel=nofollow` attribute in the `<a>` tag   * has a relevant keyword as in `<a href="website">keyword<</a>`   * the page with the link has high PageRank (3+) and TrustRank


Suggestions for Document Archive Site

I have been charged with documenting our organizations paper assets that roll back to the early 1600's and was wondering if there was a online platform already existing for this type of website. It would mainly consist of scanned versions of the documents, it's transcript (as some of the writing used - it my as well be written in double dutch!) and some method of tagging each document to a particular title. My initial thoughts were along the lines of a Joomla system, with relevant tagging and other plugins installed? Thanks!


What are natural growth rates for incoming and outgoing links?

Appears to be no more than 10-15% per month, is that correct? Also, along the same lines, what the max amount of outbound link a site can start out with and not be canned as spam.


Twitter Tweet or TwitterMeme button?

The Twitter Tweet button and the Tweetmeme Retweet button seem to pretty much do the exact same thing. Which should I use and why? -- It seems that Tweetmeme is now recommending the Twitter Tweet button. But I still see lots and lots of Tweetmeme buttons around the 'net.


Free Blog site that allows PHP?

I was wondering if anyone knows of a free blog site (ie wordpress, blogspot, livejournal) that allows people to include php into their posts? Any leads would be greatly appreciate. cheers!


Suitable ad service / Ad-revenue model for my one-time use high traffic website?

I'm about to launch a website to which I expect a high number of visitors and lots of traffic. However, this traffic will only last for a few days once the joke has been passed around enough (in the past, my sites like this have gotten up to five million hits). I've never advertised on them (they've been purely for fun or for some subliminal political message) but I was thinking perhaps there was money to be made. I checked out AdSense, but they have a long approval process, which the timing for my website release doesn't allow. Does anyone have any recommendations of an advertising service I can employ to make a few bucks on my site's surge of traffic, and that can be set up quickly?


Alternative to Google Adsense

I have a web dev blog which averages ~100 uniques per day, on which I have a few ads here and there via Google Adsense. These ads generate around £5 per month for me. While I'm not out to make money, it would be nice to be able to cover my hosting and domain costs. Can someone recommend a good alternative to Google Ads which could bring in a little more? If so, could you also detail your experience with as much info as possible, please? Again, I'm not looking to make money off my blog but if I have ads on there, I may as well get the most out of them and if I can turn that £5 a month into £10 a month, it's a good start. I'm very naive to the world of online ads and any search on the topic returns clearly promoted posts with impossibly high numbers.


My readers don't have Digg or StumbleUpon, how can I ask them for help raising my SERP?

I have a coupons-code web _page_ that receives 40,000 unique visitors a month, but its numbers are stagnant or dropping because it is #3 in Google's SERP. 75% of its visits are new and the page has been around since 2007. I sincerely think my resource is helping people and I sincerely think I am loads better than #1 and #2 because I have the freshest coupons and I have no ads -- so I am at my wit's end on how to raise my SERP. The rest of the sites in #4, #5, etc., are huge coupon broker sites so I really have no chance pursuing link exchanges. Meanwhile, the site in #1 and #2 is also a small guy who also have been around since 2007. None of them update their coupons page near as often as I do. (The #1 guy updates once a month. :( ) My readers do not use Digg, StumbleUpon or Twitter, or have blogs of their own. I tried Facebook's Like button and tweet reader comments via bit.ly but got no SERP improvement. How can a site ask readers help to raise its SERP? Or any suggestions?


Why don't my Google Analytics custom segmentation visit numbers match up?

I have three main areas of my site and want to track total usage as well as breakdowns of the three parts. I am trying to segment the "type" of use on each page using a custom variable as such:               ['_setCustomVar',1,'Visitor Type','Unknown',1]      Visitor type can be one of three values: "Unknown", "Reader" or "publisher". Every page has this value set. Now when I look at my analytics chart and chose all three segments, the individual values do not match the sum. I've double checked the pages to make sure the custom var is there. ![Google Analytics Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vTUXK.png)


What does "Other" mean for Traffic Source on Google Analytics?

I logged into Google Analytics today and under 'Traffic Sources' saw: "Referring sites", "Direct Traffic", "Search Engines" and "Other". I've never seen 'other' before, and it was small (only 0.5%), but what does "Other" mean?


Display Google Custom Search results on your own site

Is there a way for Google's Custom Search engine to show it's results on a page on your website? On a custom page which you put on your server, so you can still display ads and links to pages in your site together with the search results?


What is your favourite javascript lightbox implementation?

There are so many implementations of the lightbox, which is your favourite to use for your custom site? (javascript based) I generally use Lightbox2


Which method is the best to specify the language of a page?

There seems to be two ways to specify the language of a page:               <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">      and               <html lang="en-us">      Which one is the preferred way? I know I could just add both tags but I'd rather not have duplicate content. Also do both methods use the same locale format (i.e. "en-us" and not "en_US")?


Google Traffic Does Not Add Up

I have just done a search for two different keyword phrases. When I look at both of the results, they have the same number of "Local Monthly Searches" according to the Keyword Tool in Google Adwords which is 90,500. This is an "exact" match for the keyword phrases. I currently and have ranked in the #3 spot for both of these keyword phrases for almost a year now. TRAFFIC RESULTS - One site gets 2500 visitors a day and the other gets 100 visitors a day. WTF? Why such a disparity in the number of visitors per day when both sites are ranking #3? It doesn't make me trust the numbers from the Keyword Tool in Google Adwords when they are so ridiculously off like this.


How to create an overlay div using CSS only (no Javascript)?

I'm trying to figure out how to create a div that overlays the page, staying in one place when the page scrolls, such as used in this article: Top 5 Botched PC Game Launches. (You will see a bar at the top that doesn't move, with the logo, _where gamers call home_ ). I'm not even sure what the correct terminology is - it's probably not overlay :) But whatever it is, it appears to be done with CSS only, as it shows up when Javascript is disabled.


How do you track a website using multiple Google Analytics accounts?

Suppose you have two distinct Google Analytic accounts. How are you able to send request data to both accounts on a single page load? For example, on a normal account you'd include code such as:               var _gaq = _gaq || ["UA-12345678-1"];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '']);     _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);          (function() {       var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;       ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';       var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);     })();      Could I simply include another snippet with a different UA ID? Can I pass several UA IDs in one request? Is this even possible to accomplish? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Do I set a DNS A Record for the new GitHub Pages to use their CDN?

GitHub updated their Pages service for custom domains yesterday and I'm not clear on one small detail. They recommend a CNAME record for `www.example.com` but do not recommend using A records for the apex domain. I want to make sure both `example.com` and `www.example.com` resolve correctly to `www.example.com`, and **also get the benefit of GitHub's new CDN**. Do I use a CNAME for www only then, with no A record at all? This feels like a dumb question as I type but I'm just not getting it.


How do I get a page on my site to appear in the "video results" section

Direct Lyrics appears at the top of these search results as a "video result" (next to an inviting thumbnail). But the page in question is just a page of lyrics with an embedded YouTube video. My lyrics site has embedded YouTube videos on its lyrics pages as well; how can I get my site into the video results section? ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mcuJT.png)


The Sitemap Paradox

We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it. > Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from > other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support > Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using > the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that > web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web > crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. Based on our two years' experience with sitemaps, there's something **fundamentally paradoxical about the sitemap** :   1. Sitemaps are intended for sites that are hard to crawl properly.   2. If Google can't successfully crawl your site to find a link, but is able to find it in the sitemap _it gives the sitemap link no weight and will not index it!_ That's the sitemap paradox -- **if your site isn't being properly crawled (for whatever reason), using a sitemap will not help you!** Google goes out of their way to make no sitemap guarantees: > "We cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs > will be crawled or added to our index" citation > > "We don't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs. For example, > we won't crawl or index image URLs contained in your Sitemap." citation > > "submitting a Sitemap doesn't guarantee that all pages of your site will be > crawled or included in our search results" citation Given that links found in sitemaps are merely _recommendations_ , whereas links found on your own website proper are considered canonical ... it seems the only logical thing to do is _avoid_ having a sitemap and make damn sure that Google and any other search engine can properly spider your site using the plain old standard web pages everyone else sees. By the time you have done _that_ , and are getting spidered nice and thoroughly so Google can see that your _own site_ links to these pages, and would be willing to crawl the links -- uh, why do we need a sitemap, again? The sitemap can be actively harmful, because it distracts you from ensuring that search engine spiders are able to successfully crawl your whole site. "Oh, it doesn't matter if the crawler can see it, we'll just slap those links in the sitemap!" Reality is quite the opposite in our experience. That seems more than a little ironic considering sitemaps were _intended_ for sites that have a very deep collection of links or complex UI that may be hard to spider. In our experience, the sitemap does not help, because **if Google can't find the link on your site proper, it won't index it from the sitemap anyway.** We've seen this proven time and time again with Stack Overflow questions. Am I wrong? Do sitemaps make sense, and we're somehow just using them incorrectly?


Do I need to produce an xml sitemap for a social network?

I'm working on a social network that currently does not have an xml sitemap that has been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools. Will this add much benefit given that it is a social network with often updated content? If so will I have to update it daily (or use a tool to do so)? Thanks


Do you really need robots.txt and sitemap.xml if I want bot to follow every link?

I wonder if I really need _robots.txt_ /*sitemap.xml* files if I want bots to go through every link on my website without any restrictions? And if I do, what should I write in there?


How to make Google index all sitemap.xml records?

I have a _sitemap.xml_ index fine with 3 XML files in it with around 120 pages for indexing. A year passed and I still have 1/3 of it indexed. All the most important pages for indexing are in 1st sitemap file, however Google takes a similar amount from each of the sitemap files instead... How to make Google index all _sitemap.xml_ records? I have crawl rate set to MAX in GWT.


How to aggregate events across multiple sites in Google Analytics?

I have several sites that I'm tracking on my Google Analytics account. These sites all have the same events and event actions. I'd like to generate a report for the same event action across all of my sites. Can this be done right from the GA interface, and if so, how?


Is there a googlebot equivalent for RSS feeds?

I have a lot of feeds generated on my pages - and it seems to let them go to waste (Googlebot does not seem to see them). The RSS feeds display correctly in the pages when viewed through a browser, so I know they are working correctly. Is there a way where I can somehow make the RSS feeds 'discoverable' by the world? (so I can drive traffic to my site?)


How to charge for banner ads in a web application

I'm developing a web application which contains banner ads, and I don't know how to teach my clients how much to charge their customers for banner ads. Can someone help with a book or business strategy?


What % of a page needs to be unique in order to prevent duplicate content penalties?

I have a site with uses a some content generated by myself, some from users, and some from a source such as wikipedia. The wikipedia sourced content is unmodified but makes up no more than 30% of the page and is never the entire wiki article, just an extract of a few paragraphs. How much new content do I have to add to the wikipedia source to avoid being marked as duplicate content and penalised in my SEO?


Error while importing .sql file in phpMyAdmin

Getting error while importing `.sql` file in phpMyAdmin please help.               Error     SQL query:          CREATE TABLE  `sbbleads_admin` (      `sb_id` BIGINT( 20 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,      `sb_admin_name` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL ,      `sb_pwd` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL ,      PRIMARY KEY (  `sb_id` )     ) TYPE = MYISAM ;      > MySQL said: Documentation > > 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that > corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near > 'TYPE=MyISAM' at line 6


Confirm (enter twice) pw and email at registration - good idea?

Many sites seem to require that their users enter their email and password twice during the registration process. How useful is it really? It seems it could be a pain in the neck for many users, for limited gains, no? Thanks, JDelage


Google Analytics: View for Affiliates: How to include only one brand in E-commerce module?

I am trying to create a view for a partner that is selling their products on our site. I assumed that filtering their brand name with **_E-commerce Item Name_** would result in the same report as filtering their brand name by **_Product_** in **_E-commerce_** > **_Product Performance_** report, but it didn't. How should I approach creating a view, which would include only e-commerce data related to their products?


Looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?

Been having issues with stackexchange creating weird usernames for me and grouping them with my account, it appears to be a known issue, and emailed the stackexchange team... which leads me to my questions, I'm looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?


rel="nofollow" in img tags?

Does it make sense to have a `rel="nofollow"` attribute in `img` tag? Do search engines' crawlers use this attribute in some way for calculating PageRank score? What is the practical sense for using it (if any)?


Nameservers at freehostingcloud

How can I change the nameservers at freehostingcloud? I got a message: You need to change the nameservers for your domain exampledomain.net. The nameservers should be ns1.freehostingcloud.com and ns2.freehostingcloud.com.


Is Google Sitesearch better than internal search?

In terms of SEO is there any benefit about using Google SiteSearch over internal search (eg. Wordpress' own search engine)?


How to stop Google indexing both www. and no-www versions of my website

When I do a search of my site in Google it shows both:   * `mydomain.com`   * `www.mydomain.com` In my .htaccess file I added code to redirect the non-www version to the www version, but both versions are still showing in Google's search results. _**Is there anyway to have Google only show the www version?_**


Adding custom handlers

I have a number of D language programs (.d extension) and a compile-and-run tool (rdmd)--I'd like to configure Apache (version 2.2) to handle URLs such as "mysite.com/d/hello.d" by running rdmd with the requested resource. The programs do output valid HTTP headers. I've researched AddHandler and Action, but have been unsuccessful in getting them to do what I want, namely executing rdmd with the resource. I suspect that the problem is that rdmd needs to be in some special cgi directory. Can someone walk through the steps necessary to configure Apache on a Debian based system, such that it executes my files instead of offering them up for download? Directory specific ('/d') or site-wide execution are both fine.


Redesigning a page while not using old images but also not losing rank

I have redesigned one of the pages of a website I'm current working on, and some of the images on this website, 2 to be exact, rank on the very first page of public google search results. Those pictures are okay, but have a nasty looking background, look a bit blurried. I removed the background, did a bit of work on them and they are better now. All of the other pictures are also indexed by google but don't rank so well. I have found that **certain file naming techniques worked better for ranking** than the ones previously used for all those images for example, so since that page was redesigned, I have a couple of alternatives: > 1 - Leave the old files on the server, and don't use them. Name the new ones > the correct way and hope they rank better. (Old pictures would probably not > be listed on newer sitemaps, since are not linked to, which may cause rank > loss?!) > > 2 - Name the new files the exact same name as the old ones, discarding the > old files (They would be the same image in most cases, but cleaned up). > > 3 - Name the new files with new names, 301 redirect old files to new ones. **What's the best alternative to achieve best results?**


The best approach to ranking well when site is NOT content oriented?

I'm just about to launch a website and I'm concerned about ranking well on Google's SERPs. I've done a lot of searching for information regarding this new change to their algorithm and all I keep turning up is basically "write good content to rank well". The way I understand it Google is now ranking sites with _useful and unique content_ better than other types of sites and my question is this: what about business related sites that are not content based and whose content will rarely change over time? The site I'm about to launch is concerned only with offering a video creation service, it's purpose to provide an online portal to customers so that they can order a video from our company. We're not in the business of writing content and the content on our site will be updated only in line with how our business model changes. In short, the site is NOT there to entertain people - it's there to serve a practical, business related purpose. My question is twofold: First of all, are we doomed to suffer poor rankings because we refuse to change our site into something that google thinks is _better than_ or _more useful than_ other sites? And secondly, if not then what might be the best approach to ranking well with such a site?


Site on 2 hosts

is there a way yo add 2 hosts per domain so if i host dies it automatically switches to the other one? or if its slow you can easily switch to the second host? Thanks!


Why is video streaming so slow from my site?

I have some .flv files on my site and I've been using JWplayer to embed them into my webpages. The embedding looks like this:               <embed     flashvars="file=/tmp/<?php echo $row["location"]; ?>&autostart=true"     allowfullscreen="true"     allowscripaccess="always"     id="player1"     name="player1"     src="/jwplayer/player.swf"     width="500"     height="350"     />      The file is coming from directory tmp and is is saved in a format *.flv. Recently, I have been noticing really slow streaming. The video will stop almost every 5 seconds. This is happening on multiple computers on multiple networks and I'm not having the same problem on different sites (i.e. youtube). I'm hosting the site through Yahoo Small Business and I have a lot of video files in the tmp directory. Could anyone recommend me a way to allow my videos to be streamed faster?


How to translate facebook like button on my forum?

I have facecook like button plugin on my vanilla forum. Although I added               <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/tr_TR/all.js#xfbml=1">      into my button code, it does not show the button in Turkish. here is an example topic that you can see facebook button on my forum : http://www.herkesuzman.com/discussion/17/projeksiyona-baglaninca-ekran- coezuenuerlueguenuen-bozulmasis


Strange domains as a blog's traffic sources

Watching my Blogspot analytics i saw several strange-looking domains, like bd053ac3.any.gs and others. So trying to identify them i got the following:   bd053ac3.any.gs - shows "Link not found" page   any.gs, dyo.gs - goes to linkbucks.com Yes, my blog uses AdSense, but i don't advertise it. So i wanted to understand why this can happen? ![Blog traffic sources](http://i.stack.imgur.com/IlGYx.png)


Is offering Google Bot a lite version of site skin considered cloaking?

If you have multiple templates a user can choose from on a site (like a forum), and you offer Google Bot a "lite" skin, is this considered cloaking? Or is this considered okay? The actual content remains the same, though the exact definition of "content" by Google seems questionable.


Rollover change displays OK in Chrome and Ff but not IE

_I haven't found a question like mine. Not that I recognize as such._ I loaded my website and it came up fine on three browsers though Firefox had problems with the links. But it is IE that concerns me. My rollover nav bar was a table of 5 cells contained in a table. I changed the bar to different graphics within a one cell table. This has uploaded and displays fine on Chrome (haven't checked Firefox yet) but has not changed on IE. I don't use IE so there was no history to erase (in case that was the problem). Is there some way I can alter this, or do I need to take down the site and entirely reload it? Here is the url: http://www.clarehart.com.


Website not loading completely

I have a client on Fiverr and had ordered me a job to design a website and upload it. I completed the site using wordpress and uploaded to his godaddy server.   The problem is that, He says the website doesn't load in his PC ( and he is using Mac). The page displays only the black background. And he even tried on some of his friends' PC and got the same problem.   But the site is OK and I can access it and I tried it in different PCs. The screenshot he showed to me was from the Safari browser.   I am a windows user and haven't tried in safari.   What could be the problem? Why isn't the site loading on the Clients PC?   The site is: Above & Beyond Escorts The screenshot provided by the client is: ![Screenshot from Client](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hS0iQ.png)


Does 'blockquote' tag harm seo or help SEO?

Searched on net, but didn't find a legit suitable answers. Can anyone please clarify the actual relation of this tag with search engine optimization? Any suggestions/opinions are also appreciated. Thanks.


Can I use rel="canonical" on div?

I have a page which displays summary versions of content from other pages on the site. The page is essentially a category directory, it's links to other pages followed by a summary of that page. I've seen the `<link rel="canonical" ...` tag, but I think this applies only to a whole page and not only to part of it. What I'm looking for is something like this:               <div rel="canonical" href="http://original/content">         Summary Content     </div>      And then I can have many of these `<div>` on the same page. **Is the above valid?** **Is there even any point doing this?**


Is there any value in reposting someone else's article?

Say you get permission from the article's author to repost his article on your own site, and give a link back to the original author; is there any SEO value?


How do I ask google not to index certain parts of my page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page I was searching for an old review on my site today and I noticed that Google is indexing the headline text in my latest article list on every page that it appears, obviously I guess. The problem is if I search for my Dragon's Lair review specifically to my site like this http://www.google.co.za/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Alazygamer.net+dragons+lair+review Then it returns a ton of pages that aren't appropriate as they aren't related to the review at all. The reason why I care is that I have a second Dragon's Lair review that was posted years ago and now I can't find it. Is there a way to hint to google that certain text isn't relevant to the actual content on the page? is it a terrible idea?


Keep search engine from indexing specific content on your site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Preventing robots from crawling specific part of a page I've got a pretty weird scenario that I was wondering someone could help me out with. I recently created a blog site and noticed that search engines have been including the content of my footer in with the description. This presents a problem because my footer is basic a brief legal statement saying that the views are my own and don't represent the company I work for (and yada yada yada). So, basically, I need a way to prevent search engines from indexint that content in my footer or even my footer altogether. I've been looking back through some of my SEO books and searching through forums but this doesn't seem possible.   1. Is it possible to keep search engines from indexing only certain content on a page?   2. If it isn't possible, what alternatives are there to ensure this legal mumbo jumbo doesn't show up in the results?


my website redirected by someone else

First of all i cant find true forum to post ,but i need a very quick help. I have registered a domain name with godaddy couple of days ago , but today, after i post my domain name for appraisal, it was redirecting to another domain name with just diffrent tld. extension Am i hacked? How can i resolve this problem? (domain manager shows its already parked to godaddy there is no problem with name servers they are allright but still redirecting the domain) windsurf.ws redirecting to windsurf.lv


Rewriting isn't doing what's expected

I've got a simple web.py application, running at Dreamhost. The .htaccess file, per the DH documentation is in the example.com home directory, not `public`:               Options +ExecCGI     AddHandler cgi-script .py     DirectoryIndex index.py/     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>       RewriteEngine on       RewriteBase /public/       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/favicon.ico$       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/(.*)$       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(/.*)+index.py/       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.py/$1 [PT]     </IfModule>      When I try to access the page, however, I get               67.165.250.93 - - [12/Sep/2011:19:40:38 -0700] "GET /index.py/ HTTP/1.1" 200 678 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"      67.165.250.93 - - [12/Sep/2011:19:40:39 -0700] "GET /index.py/static/reset.css HTTP/1.1" 404 255 "http://www.microscopy.salveteomnis.com/index.py/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"      67.165.250.93 - - [12/Sep/2011:19:40:40 -0700] "GET /index.py/static/common.css HTTP/1.1" 404 256 "http://www.microscopy.salveteomnis.com/index.py/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"      67.165.250.93 - - [12/Sep/2011:19:40:40 -0700] "GET /index.py/static/microscope-large.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 256 "http://www.microscopy.salveteomnis.com/index.py/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2"       It's clear that this isn't being rewritten correctly -- the `static` contents should be `/static/foo` -- but I've been unsuccessful fixing the problem.


Add This - Shares vs Clicks

Using AddThis can someone please explain what the differences is if someone shares but does not click what does that mean? EX: I have 10 Shares and 7 clicks. What does that mean? Also what does it mean when something has "Viral Lift" Thanks for any info provided.


Hidden text and search engine rankings

I am using hidden texts in one of my websites for better search engine ranking. After browsing the web, I found it better not to use hidden text. Does using hidden text of keywords in webpage affect rankings? Does Google block such types of site that use hidden text like same color of font as background.


Does google crawl css scripts to check of hidden content

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  hidden texts and page rank Does googlebot crawl CSS scripts to determine if content is hidden or not? If so, is it advisable to hide or not to hide content to improve on the SEO of a page. My main reason for asking is that I would like to improve on my ranking for certain keywords.


"County" showing up as top keyword due to drop down menu. Should I take steps to fix?

We have a database of dealers by state and county. It gets put into a dropdown form using `<option>` Currently it shows : `Select County: First County Second County ` So on as a drop down. As a result Google Webmaster Tools is showing the top content keyword as County, by a long margin. All of the other keywords look fairly accurate. Will having County at the top have negative impact on search results or since the others are alright it won't make any difference?


New or same URL on reactivation of user generated content?

We run a classified ad website. Our users can temporarily deactivate their classified ads. From a SEO point of view, when they reactivate it, should the ad use the same URL or use a new one? Each choice has its issues: duplicate content, removed from Google index, etc. Few details:   * when inactive, we return an HTTP 404.   * reactivation can be done only during 30 days.   * if no reactivation during the 30 days, we serve an HTTP 410. PS: How is(was) eBay doing it? When expired, the page is not searchable within eBay, but can be accessed with direct link or from Google. Some details are removed and it is labeled as "closed auction". Pro: the main content can still be crawled by the bots. Con: the user does not like that his auction is still findable from Google.


Moving to a custom domain in blogger spoiled my pagerank. Need help?

I had www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com as my blog on Blogger. I then purchased a domain www.chankeypathak.com and then I followed the procedure of redirecting all old pages to new ones (301 redirect). Everything is working fine. But the only problem is that I have lost my pagerank. Before it was 2 for www.chankeypathak.blogspot.com and now it is showing unranked for www.chankeypathak.com How can I get my pagerank back?


adsense leaderboard 728x90 for mobile?

I use the same html for both desktop and mobile version of my site, with a different css. The problem is the 728x90 leaderboard that doesn't fit into my mobile version layout. Is there a suggested way (by Google) to replace the 728 with a smaller adsense banner?


How to arrange changefreq

In my Sitemap.xml file, I have the following line for every url: < changefreq > weekly < /changefreq > But the reality is that most pages don't change very often. Except there are new pages added to the url http://wordfruit.com/copywriters frequently (sometimes a few new pages a day; other days there might be no new pages or just one or two). And: Every day there's a new blog post. So there's a new url each day that begins with http://wordfruit.com/blog/ So, would the following be the correct way to have the sitemap: -- If I remove the line weekly right throughout the document and simply not have a changefreq reference. -- Except for the following 2 urls: http://wordfruit.com/blog/ and: http://wordfruit.com/copywriters ...at those 2 urls I would include the line: < changefreq > daily < /changefreq > ?


What kind of information can websites collect about a user/client?

This is a multi-part question: 1) What kind of information can websites collect about someone (someone's computer or device) when they visit your website? I know we log IP's, and can determine your zipcode, OS, browser type and native language but what else? 2) Is there any information collected and logged by the website that can be used to trace a connection back to a specific computer? Do computers, devices and phones, etc send some kind of unique ID to a website? I understand that law enforcement may be able to do this, but can this be done by a webmaster? 3) If someone attacks our website like a denial of service attack can we get the identity of or ban a specific computer/device? Or does someone like the FBI have to be enlisted to trace an attack to a specific device? I know we can ban IPs. I am sure this question has been asked somewhere before but I have had no luck finding an answer. I tried searching for this here and through google but I don't think I know the proper search terms. Please use laymen's terms as I am not particularly web-savvy.


Google search : pubdate issue

At some point this year, **Google Search** started to show the **publication date**. When I updated my website, I noticed that the publication date was actually my birthday, simply because it's the first date **googlebot** encounters. I can't delete it because it would defy the whole _"My website is my Resume"_ idea. I tried to solve the problem by wrapping it in **address** tag and putting the date in **time** tag with **datetime** attribute, but it didn't work out.               <address>

                 Porte à Camp 5
                 7971 Basècles
                 BELGIQUE

                  <time datetime="1984-01-29">29/01/1984</time>
                 Belge/Russe

                 +32 (0)493/.49.18.23
                 razine.ivan |                  Télécharger CV

     </address>      So far, the only way I could solve it is by deleting **q=show+the+publication+date** from the url. I have no clue how to fix that. Any ideas? This is my web page: ivanrazine.be And this is the search result (4th position): google search


Tracking Keyword user used to get to website

Is there a way we can add the ability to track what keywords the user has used to end up on our website? i.e. If they type in Software into google and our site pops up in the SEO list, when they click on it I want to log an entry into our db from logic in the home page to say the user used keyword 'Software' and also maybe offer some different features on the home page depending on the keyword used. Thanks


How do I use HTML compression in Jimdo WYSIWYG editor?

I have used Jimdo website to build my website. Using Google PageSpeed Insights tell me that I can achieve better page load speed using HTML compression. I wanted to use _deflate.js_ and _inflate.js_ , but the access to Jimdo _.htaccess_ file is not there, as Jimdo generates the HTML on the fly. Has anyone faced this problem before? and if they have solved it or achieved HTML compression in Jimdo, how they have done it?


How can i find the most popular searches in Google that contain my keyword?

How can I find a list of the most popular searches in Google that contain my keyword, E.g If I want the most popular containing "Paris" or "London"


SEO of A/B testing

Let's say I have a production site for my company, and I have a page on it called "ERP" about our company's ERP-related services, and at the bottom of the page, I have a "call to action" sentence, something like "Enter your email address here for a free ERP services consultation". But I want to present site visitors one of 10 different "call-to-action" sentences in that space, maybe randomly, in order to see statistically which sentence gets the best response. What are some ways I could keep this from hurting my SEO?


Setting UP IIS for www access

I have server that I connect to via Remote Access. On it I have IIS7 and a web application that works. The server itself has an static ip address that I can ping, also I set up filezilla server and I can connect normally with FTP. But I cant connect over internet (browser) to that address. address is 75.99.xxx.xxx. As I said I can ping that address remotely and it replies. What is strange is when I connect remotely to that machine and enter 75.99.xxx.xxx. in browser it shows the website, identical if I entered localhost. I have turned off Firewall completely. What can I do? THIS IS ADDITION TO QUESTION: The following command `C:\Users\Administrator>netstat -n -a -b` gives the following: Active Connections                Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State      TCP    0.0.0.0:21             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      ftpsvc     [svchost.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:80             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:111            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:135            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      RpcSs     [svchost.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:443            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:445            0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:1039           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:1047           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:1048           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:2049           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:2382           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [sqlbrowser.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:3389           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      TermService     [svchost.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:5631           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:47001          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    0.0.0.0:49152          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [wininit.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:49153          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      eventlog     [svchost.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:49154          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      Schedule     [svchost.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:49155          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [lsass.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:49172          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [services.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:49690          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [msmdsrv.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:49697          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [sqlservr.exe]      TCP    0.0.0.0:50093          0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING      PolicyAgent     [svchost.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:21        75.127.70.6:54091      ESTABLISHED      ftpsvc     [svchost.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:139       0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    75.99.69.147:3389      92.36.137.24:44307     ESTABLISHED      TermService     [svchost.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      24.228.231.27:39178    ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      24.238.35.39:54377     ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      69.121.160.27:50740    ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      69.121.160.27:53841    ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      69.121.160.27:59525    ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      69.122.150.107:3607    ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      69.127.61.178:1071     ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      69.127.61.178:50075    ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      74.102.7.206:49375     ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      108.27.213.204:3604    ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:5631      173.3.138.76:50825     ESTABLISHED     [AWAccess.exe]      TCP    75.99.69.147:49174     212.54.132.70:5721     ESTABLISHED     [AgentMon.exe]      TCP    127.0.0.1:49698        0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING     [sqlservr.exe]      TCP    [::]:21                [::]:0                 LISTENING      ftpsvc     [svchost.exe]      TCP    [::]:80                [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:111               [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:135               [::]:0                 LISTENING      RpcSs     [svchost.exe]      TCP    [::]:443               [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:445               [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:1039              [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:1047              [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:1048              [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:2049              [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:2382              [::]:0                 LISTENING     [sqlbrowser.exe]      TCP    [::]:3389              [::]:0                 LISTENING      TermService     [svchost.exe]      TCP    [::]:47001             [::]:0                 LISTENING     Can not obtain ownership information      TCP    [::]:49152             [::]:0                 LISTENING     [wininit.exe]      TCP    [::]:49153             [::]:0                 LISTENING      eventlog     [svchost.exe]      TCP    [::]:49154             [::]:0                 LISTENING      Schedule     [svchost.exe]      TCP    [::]:49155             [::]:0                 LISTENING     [lsass.exe]      TCP    [::]:49172             [::]:0                 LISTENING     [services.exe]      TCP    [::]:49697             [::]:0                 LISTENING     [sqlservr.exe]      TCP    [::]:50093             [::]:0                 LISTENING      PolicyAgent     [svchost.exe]      TCP    [::1]:49698            [::]:0                 LISTENING     [sqlservr.exe]      UDP    0.0.0.0:111            *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    0.0.0.0:123            *:*      W32Time     [svchost.exe]      UDP    0.0.0.0:500            *:*      IKEEXT     [svchost.exe]      UDP    0.0.0.0:928            *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    0.0.0.0:1039           *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    0.0.0.0:1047           *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    0.0.0.0:1048           *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    0.0.0.0:1434           *:*     [sqlbrowser.exe]      UDP    0.0.0.0:2049           *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    0.0.0.0:4500           *:*      IKEEXT     [svchost.exe]      UDP    0.0.0.0:5355           *:*      Dnscache     [svchost.exe]      UDP    0.0.0.0:5632           *:*     [AWAccess.exe]      UDP    75.99.69.147:137       *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    75.99.69.147:138       *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [::]:123               *:*      W32Time     [svchost.exe]      UDP    [::]:500               *:*      IKEEXT     [svchost.exe]      UDP    [::]:940               *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [::]:1039              *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [::]:1047              *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [::]:1048              *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [::]:1434              *:*     [sqlbrowser.exe]      UDP    [::]:2049              *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [::]:4500              *:*      IKEEXT     [svchost.exe]      UDP    [::]:5355              *:*      Dnscache     [svchost.exe]      UDP    [::1]:111              *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [2001:0:9d38:6ab8:309c:9ca:b49c:ba6c]:111  *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [2002:4b63:4593::4b63:4593]:111  *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [fe80::309c:9ca:b49c:ba6c%11]:111  *:*     Can not obtain ownership information      UDP    [fe80::fce6:58e5:c966:70aa%13]:111  *:*     Can not obtain ownership information


Move website from host a to host b without down time dns change

* I would like to move my website from host A to host B   * I have uploaded a copy of my site to the new host, while keeping the old copy in place with the old host   * I will need to update the nameservers to point to the new nameservers.   * I'll want to change the DNS settings of domain name to point to new host b To avoid down time for the DNS change to propagate through the net, can I add the old nameservers and new nameservers together without causing problems, or must I delete the old nameservers first? What happens to my website when it points to two different nameservers?


Google analytics referral path

I run a website at the domain http://www.turkishbasics.com . Google Analytics is however showing the referral path of some of my traffic to be the domain itself (turkishbasics.com). How is this even possible? I've just recently moved my site from a .tk domain and this never used to happen before. I've used php 301 redirects to get traffic to the new domain.


What is the best methods that I should configure WAMP on Windows Server 2008 to be secure and optimized

I have installed WAMP on Windows server 2008 and put it online and it is working normally but I don't know much about it please help me with regards to blow issues: 1-how to optimize WAMP and Windows Server 2008 to perform better? 2-how to secure it WAMP and Windows Server 2008? 3-how to make performance better? 4-how to make response time fast?


Pre-launch Disallow in robots.txt?

My team is launching a new site soon.   1. Is it worth blocking spiders from indexing the landing page right now?    2. What effects will this have on my long term SEO results. Is this question even relevant?  Edit: title changed to reflect real nature of the question. Edit2: great answers below, but in reality I am looking for an answer that directs me to whether the practice of blocking robots pre launch is good or bad for future SEO results.


RSS Feeds - Are they Cached?

How can I (or is it possible) to remove some blog posts out of a feed such as Google Feedburner? I have removed some from my blog but obviously looks like they are cached somehow. I just don't want some of the blog posts to be able to be read through anyone who subscribes...I don't want them to see those posts that I removed in the future in the feed itself. Am I asking the impossible here? I don't know how RSS works in terms of cache/history.


Setting up an email only domain

I want to set up an email address with a custom domain. What would be the best way to do this ? My only real requirement is the email address, the service may be hosted or just email forwarding. Is it possible to just buy the domain and use some other services to set up the email ? **P.S:** A cost estimate and references to any how-to's would be great


How do I compress my JavaScript and/or CSS?

I know that there are ways to dynamically load it into the page, but if I want to compress my code so it loads even faster, how do I do it?


5+ items in Google SERPs?

I'm tinkering with a website and the search results page for a certain page it is showing this unexpected _5+ items_ thing (see attached image). Where does this come from? And how to fix it? Or is there no need to fix it? ![Photo of SERP entry](http://i.stack.imgur.com/buFeR.png)


Firefox 31 not loading SSL site

Firefox 31 was released yesterday, and it seems like it has a problem with SSL:               Secure Connection Failed          An error occurred during a connection to api.joeyco.com. SSL peer selected a     cipher suite disallowed for the selected protocol version.     (Error code: ssl_error_cipher_disallowed_for_version)          The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of     the received data could not be verified.      What I tried to resolve the problem: Update to "OpenSSL 1.0.1h 5 Jun 2014", Reinstall nginx, Reinstall PHP, Regenerate certificates. I even went through this page. What am I missing here? How can I find out for certain if nginx is actually using the correct OpenSSL?


How to Preserve PageRank for Disappearing Pages?

Pretend that USA Today has a section of their site where the sell electronics, which they locate at http://electronics.usatoday.com. The subdomain is powered by an online electronics store called NewCo via a white label. Many of the pages on this subdomain have relatively high PageRank. But few, if any, external sites link to the subdomain--the PageRank of the subdomain is largely due to internal links from the usatoday.com root domain. USA Today's deal with NewCo expires and they decide to partner with my startup instead. But, unlike NewCo, we won't be providing a white-label solution; rather, USA Today will be redirecting all of the electronics-related links on their root domain to my site instead of the electronics.usatoday.com subdomain. They also agree to direct all of the pages on electronics.usatoday.com to me. Ideally USA Today would add 301's to all of their pages on electronics.usatoday.com that direct to the corresponding pages on my site, but they don't have the engineering wherewithal or resources to do this. Therefore, what is the best way to pass the PageRank from the electronics.usatoday.com pages to my site? Would it work to have USA Today change the CNAME for electronics.usatoday.com to my site and then create pages on my site that mimic the USA today URL structure? For example, let's say there was a page located at electronics.usatoday.com/ipods. Could we give electronics.usatoday.com a CNAME form my site and then create a page on my site located at mysite.com/ipods that 301'ed to the ipod page on my site? Would that preserve the PageRank?


How to find out which images are indexed by Google

I just tried to make request like `site:example.com` in `Images` section of Google search. There were about let's say 100 images found (no "Show more results" or any similar was available in the bottom). But I know that there are much more images on the site. Can I state that if an image is not shown by Google image search for my domain - this image in not indexed by Google?


Changing image upload directory

A couple of years ago I changed my websites upload directory to a subdomain (to images.mudfooted.com). I am now working on a major update on my website and wondering if the subdomain is actually the best option compared to a subdirectory (e.g. mudfooted.com/images). I get a lot of visitors via google images but am wondering if the hits to the images.mudfooted.com subdirectory only are not added to the mudfooted.com hits. I initially chose to use a subdirectory to increase the site loading speed. So my question: Is it better to change the upload directory to a subdirectory or subdomain, taking loading time and SEO into account. Thanks for you help.


Google Analytics - Unable to get GA Tracking

We've been using GA for a few years with no probs. About 2-3 weeks ago we tried to clean up some of our tracking and on one of our profiles, it's not working anymore (since oct 10.) First, some context then some GA Debugging code. ### 1. Context. We have the following setup: different root domains AND different sub-domains on one of the root domains. >   1. www.website.com >   2. www.website.com.au >   3. www.anotherWebsite.com >   4. foo.website.com >   5. baa.website.com > So what we're doing is the following:   1. each root domain and each sub-domain get their own tracking code. This way we can allow separate people (from outside our company) to access only their own data. Eg. a manager for foo.website.com can only see data related to that domain .. and see data on the other domains.   2. Have a last account which is the SUM of all the domains. this is for us. so we can see total numbers. So to do this, we have two trackers that fire off, on the page.   * the individual accounts all work fine - they seem to be tracking data ok.   * the 'global' account is not working and this gives us the => Tracking Not Installed error. This has been going on since oct 10. So the _wait 24/48/72 hours thing_ is waaaaay over. ### 2. GA Debug code. Installing `GA Debug chrome extension` gives the following output. I've tried to hide anything that could be considered secret.               UA-XXXXX34-1 == Global account (which isn't working any more).     UA-XXXXX34-11 == Specific account for www.website.com          _gaq.push processing "_setAccount" for args: "[UA-XXXXX34-1]":  ga_debug.js:18     _gaq.push processing "_setDomainName" for args: "[website.com]":  ga_debug.js:18     _gaq.push processing "_setAllowLinker" for args: "[true]":  ga_debug.js:18     _gaq.push processing "_trackPageview" for args: "[]":  ga_debug.js:18     Track Pageview ga_debug.js:18     Tracking beacon sent!     utmwv=--snipped--     Account ID               : UA-XXXX234-1     Page Title               : Some page title     Host Name                : www.website.com     Page                     : /     Referring URL            : -     Hit ID                   : 1923583969     Visitor ID               : 785310647     Session Count            : 51     Session Time - First     : Thu Aug 23 2012 15:20:17 GMT 1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)     Session Time - Last      : Mon Oct 29 2012 11:41:46 GMT 1100 (AUS Eastern Summer Time)     Session Time - Current   : Mon Oct 29 2012 12:19:23 GMT 1100 (AUS Eastern Summer Time)     Campaign Time            : Thu Aug 23 2012 15:20:17 GMT 1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)     Campaign Session         : 1     Campaign Count           : 1     Campaign Source          : (direct)     Campaign Medium          : (none);     Campaign Name            : (direct)     Language                 : en-gb     Encoding                 : UTF-8     Flash Version            : 11.4 r31     Java Enabled             : true     Screen Resolution        : 1050x1680     Browser Size             : 1033x861     Color Depth              : 32-bit     Ga.js Version            : 5.3.7d     Cachebuster              : 1846514973 ga_debug.js:18     _gaq.push processing "_setAccount" for args: "[UA-XXXX234-11]":  ga_debug.js:18     _gaq.push processing "_setDomainName" for args: "[website.com]":  ga_debug.js:18     _gaq.push processing "_setAllowLinker" for args: "[true]":  ga_debug.js:18     _gaq.push processing "_trackPageview" for args: "[]":  ga_debug.js:18     Track Pageview ga_debug.js:18     Tracking beacon sent!     utmwv=--snipped--     Account ID               : UA-XXXX234-11     Page Title               : SomePageTitle     Host Name                : www.website.com     Page                     : /     Referring URL            : -     Hit ID                   : 1923583969     Visitor ID               : 785310647     Session Count            : 51     Session Time - First     : Thu Aug 23 2012 15:20:17 GMT 1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)     Session Time - Last      : Mon Oct 29 2012 11:41:46 GMT 1100 (AUS Eastern Summer Time)     Session Time - Current   : Mon Oct 29 2012 12:19:23 GMT 1100 (AUS Eastern Summer Time)     Campaign Time            : Thu Aug 23 2012 15:20:17 GMT 1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)     Campaign Session         : 1     Campaign Count           : 1     Campaign Source          : (direct)     Campaign Medium          : (none);     Campaign Name            : (direct)     Language                 : en-gb     Encoding                 : UTF-8     Flash Version            : 11.4 r31     Java Enabled             : true     Screen Resolution        : 1050x1680     Browser Size             : 1033x861     Color Depth              : 32-bit     Ga.js Version            : 5.3.7d     Cachebuster              : 1580443754       and this is the js code he have. BTW, it is inside a `<head></head>`               <script type="text/javascript">         var _gaq = _gaq || [];         _gaq.push(             ['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXX234-1'],             ['_setDomainName', 'website.com'],             ['_setAllowLinker', true],             ['_trackPageview']                 ,['b._setAccount','UA-XXXX234-11'],                 ['b._setDomainName','website.com'],                 ['b._setAllowLinker',true],                 ['b._trackPageview']         );         (function () {             var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;             ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';             var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);         })();     </script>      Finally, I've triple checked that the UA is the correct text. and yes, the global account is `-1` and the specific domain is `-11`.


Google analytics not provided for 55% of total traffic

I've been here and here to learn what `(not provided)` means. Now the question is if what I am seeing in my Google Analytics stats for my website is considered normal (and whether I can/should do anything about it). Here are the statistics from one day, but other days are similar: 102 visits, 57 is from `(not provided)`, that's over 55% of unknown keywords. Is it normal to have it like that? Does google plan to do anything about it? In other words, what's the perspective? In my understanding, with this approach, as people switch to `https`, Analytics will stop being useful. Please correct me if I am wrong in my assumptions.


PHP W3 Validator API, Is this good?

I was trying to find a way to see if my site's code was valid or not but I continuously going over to W3 Validator so I decided to make an "API" however it really isn't! I just wanted to know if anybody can find a better solution to the one I have made. This is what I currently use, with the usage of ?uri=http://www.mydomain.com :               <?php     if(!$_GET['uri']) {     echo "No URI!";     }     else {      $CheckURI = "http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=".$_GET['uri'];      $URL = file_get_contents($CheckURI);      $Start = strpos($URL, "<title>") + 7;      $End = strpos($URL, "</title>");      $Title = substr($URL, $Start, $End-$Start);      if(preg_match('[Invalid]',$Title)) {          //Code is INVALID          echo "INVALID Source";      }      elseif(preg_match('[Valid]',$Title)) {          //Code is VALID          echo "Valid Source";      }      else {         //It Went WRONG         echo "";      }     }


Looking for a Domain Manager

I am looking for the best Domain "management" company. Have about 500+ domains at the moment and acquire more on a daily basis. Would prefer to have a full- service company take over the daily management and selling side of all domains and want to list them on afternic, godaddy, etc. and host them all through Moniker. Any suggestions?


Do hosting company and CMS matter?

Does it matter for SERP, where my site is hosted and whether it's created with the use of a CMS, and if yes, does it matter, what particular CMS was used?


SEO & Multilingual:  would be this a good practise?

I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course. **Here's my idea:** The internal links would be composed of the "www" subdomain so that people can share links regardless of their language. Anyway, their language is determined by the `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE` PHP variable. So, they would see http:// www.site.com/mydocument/123 in their adress bar and never see any links like "http:// fr.site.com/mydocument/123" or "http://en.site.com/mydocument/123" The user can always switch the page's language thanks to links in the footer.   The switching language link would be : http:// fr.site.com/mydocument/123 , and clicking on it would change his language session and redirects the user to http:// www.site.com/mydocument/123 **In case of a crawling bot:** I read that if the HTTP_USER_LANGUAGE variable was missing then it's a crawling bot. So, in that case, we set the defaut language as English. Each page, as I mentionned earlier, has a link for another language:   On the page: **http:// www.site.com/document/1323** , the link **http:// fr.site.com/document/1323** can be seen by the bot and be crawled.   * What do you think about this practise ?    * Would I get good SEO results for each language ?


Why is AliasMatch not working?

Here is what we have:                Alias /assets/ "/home/virtual/public_assets/"      AliasMatch ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/assets/(.*)$ /home/virtual/public_assets/$2           <Directory "/home/virtual/public_assets">           AllowOverride All      </Directory>      Here is the URI we are trying to match to:                /~admin30/assets/js/tests.js      The `Alias` directive works for our live sites, however, the `AliasMatch` which is supposed to match user directories does not.


mod rewrite doesn't work when i added multiple domains

i have redhat linux server and i was using /var/www/html to display my site. By using the following directive rewrite mod was working fine.               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>       # Enable mod_rewrite engine       RewriteEngine on            # WITH mandatory 'www.'       #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^$uri\.$tld$ [NC]       #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.$domain$1 [L,R=301]            # WITHOUT 'www.'       RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.$uri\.$tld$ [NC]       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://$domain/$1 [L,R=301]     </IfModule>      After the addition of               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName www.domainmaster.com     ServerAlias domainmaster.com *.domainmaster.com     DocumentRoot /var/www/domainmaster     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName www.domainother.com     ServerAlias domainother.com *.domainother.com     DocumentRoot /var/www/domainother     </VirtualHost>      url rewrite doesn't work. Website files wasn't modified. .htaccess file redirects all traffic to index.php and index.php decides which page to display. Any ideas?


Can AJAX in a CMS slow down your server

I am currently developing some plugins for WordPress, and I was wondering which route to take. Let's take an example, you want to display the last 3 tweets on your page. ## Option 1 You do things the normal way inside WordPress. Someone enters the website, while generating the page, you fetch the tweets in php via the twitter api, and just display them where you want. Now the small problem with this is, that you have to wait for the response from twitter. This takes a few ms. NO real problem, but this is question is just out of curiosity. ## Option 2 Here you don't do anything in WordPress on the initial load, but you do have the API inside. Now you just generate the page, and as soon as the page is done on the client side, you do a small AJAX call back to the server **via a WordPress plugin** , to fetch your latest tweets. Also called asynchronously. Now the problem with this IMO is that you have much more stress on your server. For starters you have two HTTP requests instead of one. Secondly the WordPress core has to load two times instead of one. ## Other options Now I know there are a lot of other options: **1)** Getting the tweets directly via javascript, no stress on the server at all. **2)** Cache the tweets so they are fetched from the DB instead of using the API every time. **3)** Getting the tweets from an ajax call that is not a WordPress plugin. **4)** Many more. # My Question Now my question is if you only compare 1 and 2, which would be a better choice. **NOTE:** I am only interested in comparing 1 and 2. No other options. The plugin I am creating has nothing to do with tweets, it's just an example to illustrate the problem.


What is g1sense.int.godaddy.com?

I recently looked at my list of referrers (ie, previous page the user was on), and one odd one is a link like `http://g1sense.int.godaddy.com:15871/cgi- bin/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=3372311093`. The domain name just redirects back to `godaddy.com` though and going to the link doesn't seem to actually do anything. The odd thing is, I'm not the only one seeing this mystery referrer according to Google. Because it seems so widespread, can anyone tell me what this is? Is my site being blocked by a user or in some other way?


How to maintain unique user per paid account in a website with given set of Email ID and password?

For a website, there is a free and a paid membership option. Once the user pays some amount he gets a membership for a month for additional products that are not in the free account on the website. Now once the user pays and gets a membership, how to make sure that only one user accesses the account ? I just want that only one user should use a paid account and even if he gives the set of Email ID and password to his friends, they shouldn't be able to login. So what do I need to do for this ? There are many sites that offer paid membership options. Do they do anything special to restict one user per paid account ?


What is the syntax for putting a nofollow attribute into a javascript file

Matt Cutts states in this video: > It turns out that as we are executing JavaScript, we do look at the > attributes. So you can actually use Javascript and put, like, a nofollow > attribute on individual URLs. I'm not clear to me what the syntax for that would be. How would I put a nofollow on a link in a variable like this?               var mylink = "http://example.com/";      or if it in AJAX like this?               $.ajax({         type: 'post',         url: '/path/ajax-handler/' + method,         success: function(data) ...


Find visitors to multiple subdomains on single visit with Google Analytics

I'm working on a site that has quite the backlog of Google Analytics data for their site network. One of our big questions is whether people enter on one site and move to another (and if so, of course, how do these visits differ from single site visits). The hostname report (Audience > Network > Hostname) shows all the host names and I've setup Advanced Segments to get site-specific data. That all works great, but I'm really having a hard time figuring out how to find visits to multiple sites as defined by visiting more than one subdomain or the root site and one or more subdomains. I do see that other hostnames somehow come through when I apply one of the segments to the host name report. Which I can't say I expected. Is that the best way to see if people are visiting 2+ sites?


Black background

Background of my site is black. Every reloads, browser's window **_blink_** , because default setting of browser binary is "white background". ( Chrome & Firefox ) Is there an exit, but rebuild whole browser from sources?


Web pages with mixed ownership photos

I have a photo website. 15% of the photos belong to approved registered users. They agree my terms about uploading their images in my web pages. I include a photographer credit on right bottom corner. About identifying the site with google, every page contains a google+ button to MY google+ page it also contains               <link href="https://plus.google.com/nnnnnnnnnn/" rel="publisher" />      I need some advice in order to respect google rules about my pages containing other photographers images not to be penalized because of possible duplicated or interpreted as stolen content. My concern is also about adding G+ links (to MY photo page) and Google publisher id would harm my site rank because of pages containing third-party photos.


How is web hosting CPU usage measured?

Among virtual hosting providers, there is usually an amount of storage and bandwidth specified in the service description (example: 50 GB storage, 1 TB bandwidth/month) but no such thing for CPU usage. However, usually a clause in the agreement says something about using resources excessively.   * How is this measured?   * What is the measurement units?   * What is being measured?   * Is this a CPU usage percentage?   * Does the peak count or the average (over a period)?   * Excessive relative to what?   * Since no measure is specified in the agreement, what can be done to avoid being squeezed into more expensive plans?


Are Dynamics CRM 2011 webservices accessible from outside?

I am working on a CRM 2011 implementation and we need to give access to CRM webservices (for instance, the Update Account) methods. This is because, our CRM needs to be feeded by _n_ third party websites. Can this be acomplished? Can the, original, native CRM webservices be opened to internet? Note: We think, as an alternative, to wrap the original web service within a custom one, so, we expose our webservice, lets say "CreateAccount" and, from it call the local CRM webservice. But. this is a thing that we **really love to avoid.**


What is the easiest reliable way to host a HTTPS enabled static page on a domain I own

I'm looking for a simple & reliable way to host a HTTPS enabled static page on a domain I own. The fist thing that came to mind was S3 static website hosting but there seems to be no way to enable HTTPS for that. What other alternatives are there?


How Mailchimp (and others) work out if email was opened, went to junk ect

I'm aware of read receipts in emails, but these mean that the reader has to agree to send back the read receipt. But with Mailchimp (and perhaps others) they have a dashboard to show you which people in your list opened your email, and also if that email landed in a persons junk box, how is this done, as it doesn't seem to rely on read receipts? I could image a system were you have a tracking pixel in the email, and you check whether the email tried to call the external tracking pixel from the server, but quite allot of email clients don't load images by default, so i wasn't sure how that could do it?


Should I store address in encrypted form?

What are the general rules relating to address fields and others. I only store password in encrypted form, the rest are not. Email is also used during login. Can someone give me a suggestion related to   * email   * address   * city   * zip codes and others you may thing of. I am the only admin at this point and no one else is viewing any record. What should be standard? As a side question, should I store address no matter what (or optional) since the website is about buying stuff?


Swift Mailer SMTP Mailer for PHP alternative

I'm trying to find a replacement for Swift Mailer as my website is on Dreamhost. They do not allow `fsockopen()` which apparently Swift Mailer uses. Does anyone know of a good alternative, or can point me in the direction of something to use or do?


Malware/Viruses on Server

I was contacted yesterday for a potential freelance job. The guy told me he has a WordPress site and that his host told him was hacked and there are code injected files in the install. The host has temporarily blocked all front end access to the site until these files are deleted or fixed. My question is in regards to the viruses/malware or corrupted files and opening an FTP or SSH connection to this hosting account. What risks are posed when opening a connection to this hosting account? Can these files potentially transfer any malware to my desktop and then again to other sites I open connections to? I am not familiar with this type of situation, and appreciate any insight into it.


Are web Applications with SSO a portal?

I'm a bit baffled regarding the use of the "portal" keyword. My understanding is that a portal is a general web page containing several portlets, each of which is a rendering of data fetched from a different source. Example: iGoogle **Reason for my bafflement (it's a word, Ichecked):** We built a set of web applications/services using IBM Websphere Portal for our client (a university). Each of the university services has its separate set of web pages (no portlets). The apps/services are accessed from the university's website using SSO (Single Sign-On). Our client uses the word "portal" to refer to them, although the concept of "portlets" doesn't exist. So, is it a portal?


SEO for pages that load from database

I have a very stupid question. I developed a website that has only one page at the public html directory(index.php). all content are dynamically loaded as different pages. How can i SEO my pages for google? i mean like the what we type in this site are .............i believe stored in database and search engine find these pages like any static pages... Just a little tip would be appreciable.......!


How to do SEO for database driven web? Asp.net

Hi to everyone and thanks in advance for your time reading this question. Im kinda new on this SEO stuff and there is something that I can't figure out how it works despite all the readings that I did. I've developed a new website which allows users to add recommendations for every kind of bussiness, places, professionals, etc, so other people can see if travel to X place is worth it for example. From what I've read so far (and from what I've understood, which are actually two different things haha) its important to make user and search engines friendly URLs and have proper keywords, title and h1 tags. (I've read this post SEO for pages that load from database and a few more) That's not a problem because I can do that on server-side code, but what I actually don't understand is how Google shows pages that collect info from databases on his search results. Lets put an example just to detail this a little bit more. If we go to Google and search for "abercruz paginas amarillas" google show us a link that send us to a page from "paginasamarillas.com" which has all the details about that store. Instead if we go to Google and type, "abercruz yousug" (which is my page) nothing shows up. I know that it could take a few days to Google to index my page but I don't understand HOW could Google "search" into my database (or page, or whatever) to end with the correct URL which shows the details of that Commerce If someone could explain me that or help me a little bit understanding how to rank content that is generated from a database I will very grateful. Thanks again!


What is Easiest Way to Change URL Structure of Dynamic PHP Website?

I am a SEO guy and always facing this problem, that PHP sites make dynamic URL with IDs. This is not SEO friendly structure—like this `/article.php?id=2987`—and need to be changed like this `/why-to-hire-a-seo- specialist`. Is their any easiest way to change this type of URL structure?


How can a Google crawlers see PHP dynamic content?

I'm reading the Google SEO starter guide and on page 11 it says you should prepare a site for users and one for search engines in XML. My site is about vehicles, and vehicle is not in a separate folder. It gets loaded dynamically with GET and PHP – so can Google crawl this if it's "not really there"? The pages are there under `?GET` variables like `home.com/seevehicles?2009-camar` so am I doing it wrong or can Google also crawl this?


SEO purpose: Does Google prefer html sites than wordpress sites?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO for pages that load from database Will html sites have any advantages over blog sites while getting analyzed by Google bot?


How should I create URLs for database generated content that can be indexed by search engines?

I have learned how to retrieve data from a database to a single page by using a form, so I would not need to create many pages to show the elements of a catalog. The concern that I have is how to make this database content available for search engines. I have read that I need my site to generate different URLs for each search result, but in my test, the webpage always has the same URL without any additional parameter. I know that sites like Facebook and similar generate particular URLs for each profile and they are indexed, but I don't know if "physical" files exist for them or how this is done. I have read similar questions to this, but still can't figure how to generate the URLs.


Do Parallels Plesk Panel 11 have free inbuilt firewall?

I am new to Linux Dedicated server hosting and plesk panel 11 , i am looking for **inbuilt firewall module** . Is it comes with free in plesk 11 or i need to pay or plesk 11 doesn't support firewall?. I looked at the demo http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/demos/, but i couldn't find any information about firewall in plesk 11.


Rebranding: how do I redirect my website to a new domain, and blog to a subdomain?

I have a website that I am rebranding and using a new domain name for. Right now it is primarily a blog hosted at the root. I am going to be redirecting from `www.old.com` to `www.new.com`, and I also want to move my blog to `blog.new.com`. Currently `www.old.com` doesn't serve any subdomains. Based on the research I've done, it would seem that I need to use 301 redirects because these should be permanent. I just don't really know what I need to do to setup these redirects. Should I use `mod_rewrite`? My sites are hosted on Dreamhost so any Apache configuration that I would need to do I believe I'd have to do in an `.htaccess` file.


Problem with DNS

I bought a new website, and the company gived me another free domain name, so when I asked for the socond they created it and they told me to change the DNS to look like the first one. It's been a week waiting for it to propagate, today when I type the url I got this error message :               If you are the web site owner, it is possible you have reached this page because:          * The IP address has changed.     * There has been a server misconfiguration.     * The site may have been moved to a different server.      If you are the owner of this website and were not expecting to see this page, please contact your hosting provider. When I try to add the second domain to my cpanel (Addon domain) I get also another error : `The addon domain “abcdef.com” has been created.` `An account with that login already exists.` Do you have any ideas about this problem. Thanks. `EDIT` I tried to flush the DNS with `ipconfig /flushdns`, but It's not changing anything.


How to effectively use an overseas SEO team?

My company is currently in contract with a 20+ person team in the Philippines, previously used for comment linking and guest blogging spun content articles. This is a practice that we're stopping, but we don't want to sever our team because they work hard, they're really cheap, and they produce excellent accounting and reporting of their actions. What are ways that we can best put them to use as a link generating or content generating resource? Their English is fair, but not of high enough quality to use them for any direct content creation. Thanks


What is hosting space and why is it increasing every day?

My hosting's disk space is increasing every day and I just wanted to know, why? I don't upload new files, but it still gets increased by every day. Anyone knows? Thank you.


Content keywords are unimportant in Google Webmaster Tools

When I check **_Google Index > Content Keywords_** in Google Webmaster Tools, it shows lots of unimportant keywords like: to, is, are, from, in, on, we, you and etc. That's very natural these words are found more than others because it's so hard to find a sentence without one of these popular words. I'm wondering why Google is doing this? Does it make a problem for SEO? How to deal with that?


Is it advantageous for SEO to include structured data on meta-tags

On my site's home page, I have various products for which I display an image linking to that item's main product page. For each of these products, I could include a schema.org/Product tag, but to include the `itemprop="brand"` and `itemprop="name"` tags for each product, they would not be visible to the customer apart from being part of the img alt tags and I would include them as `<meta itemprop="[name/brand]" content="itemName">` tags within the product div, next to the image. Therefore the meta information for the structured data markup would not be visible to the user. Is this disadvantageous for SEO, meaning I shouldn't markup the homepage with structured data, or is it preferable to include the structured data with the non-visible information in meta tags? The `itemprop="url"` property for each product on the home page refers to the product's main page, which is why I thought including these tags would be beneficial to Google to see how the site is structured - I just don't want to appear spammy.


Currently I have a couple of websites. My problem is that if I login on 1 specific domain with any of my programs (using notepadd++, FileZilla and Netbeans) the program stops at the content listing. I had it correctly running, (I'm working on a project on this domain for more than a year now) and suddenly I broke it somehow. This only happens on 1 specific domain, all other domains (from other hosts) are working. My colleague (next to me with same ip address) is able to login on this domain.   * Notepadd++ says: Failure retrieving contents of directory   * Filezilla says: Failed to retrieve directory listing   * Netbean popups: Upload files on save failed. (Because I have the setting upload on save enabled.) What I tried:   * First I thought it's my firewall, I disabled firewall but no result. Also notice that all other domain are working.   * Maby a blacklist with my ip address? No my colleague has the same ip address. Could anyone help me on this? ## Notepad++ Log               [NppFTP] Everything initialized     -> TYPE I            Connecting     -> Quit            220 ProFTPD 1.3.3e Server ready.     -> USER username          331 Password required for domain     -> PASS *HIDDEN*          230 User username logged in     -> TYPE A            200 Type set to A     -> MODE S            200 Mode set to S     -> STRU F            200 Structure set to F     -> CWD /domains/domain.nl/           250 CWD command successful     Connected     -> CWD /domains/domain.nl/            250 CWD command successful     -> PASV            227 Entering Passive Mode (194,247,31,xx,137,xx).     -> LIST -al            Failure retrieving contents of directory /domains/domain.nl/      ## Filezilla log               Status: Verbinden met 194.247.xx.xx:21...     Status: Verbinding aangemaakt, welkomstbericht afwachten...     Antwoord:   220 ProFTPD 1.3.3e Server ready.     Commando:   USER username     Antwoord:   331 Password required for username     Commando:   PASS ********     Antwoord:   230 User username logged in     Commando:   SYST     Antwoord:   215 UNIX Type: L8     Commando:   FEAT     Antwoord:   211-Features:     Antwoord:    MDTM     Antwoord:    MFMT     Antwoord:    LANG en-US;ja-JP;zh-TW;it-IT;fr-FR;zh-CN;ru-RU;bg-BG;ko-KR     Antwoord:    TVFS     Antwoord:    UTF8     Antwoord:    AUTH TLS     Antwoord:    MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;     Antwoord:    MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*;     Antwoord:    PBSZ     Antwoord:    PROT     Antwoord:    REST STREAM     Antwoord:    SIZE     Antwoord:   211 End     Commando:   OPTS UTF8 ON     Antwoord:   200 UTF8 set to on     Status: Verbonden     Status: Mappenlijst ophalen...     Commando:   PWD     Antwoord:   257 "/" is the current directory     Commando:   TYPE I     Antwoord:   200 Type set to I     Commando:   PASV     Antwoord:   227 Entering Passive Mode (194,247,31,xx,xxx,xx).     Commando:   MLSD     Fout:   Verbinding verloren     Fout:   Ontvangen van mappenlijst is mislukt      Sorry that it's dutch. ## Next edit I changed the transfer connection mode from passive to active and got it working. Does anyone know why my computer wants it to be active if I used passive for more then a year? So weird that only my computer needs this setting after this while of use the other setting...


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I am creating a forum for non-technical people, and I can't figure out if BBCode or a WYSIWYG editor is easier for them to use. The forum is for craftsmen, and I am therefor in doubt if a BBCode editor would be too difficult to figure out. Does any of you have any good suggestions on what to use?


Deploy repository to production server?

I have a hosted SVN repository with assembla. it has an address like: > https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/my-repository-name/ Using TortoiseSVN I can checkout from this repository and commit to it. But **how would I deploy to a production server?** (I have not created a production server yet, I want to understand how this is going to work first).


How to indicate a page is duplicate content when you control its body but not its head?

http://www.zcommunications.org/ready-or-not-can-bangladesh-cope-with-climate- change-by-hazel-healy is a copy of a page on our site created by the author, and links back to that page. Google's guidelines suggested to me that this would be enough for Google to recognise our page as the canonical one and that one as the duplicate, and thus to show our page in SERPs. However, the opposite has happened - if you search for the page's title you'll see the duplicate page shows up but ours doesn't. How can we prevent this? Since the author 'owns' the duplicate page on zcommunications.org she can edit the HTML body, but not the `<head>`.


What is a rough maximum amount of page views per month that an average shared hosting service should support in your opinion?

Sorry for asking such an in-exact question, but I would really love to know what professional webmasters consider to be the rough limits of standard shared hosting services (GoDaddy, MediaTemple, ThePlanet, et al). I realise mileage varies massively, but I spend a lot of time wondering when to move growing sites from shared hosting to some more robust like a services like a VPS. Would it be fair to say that once a site hits 50,000 page views per month, one should consider better hosting, or should a shared host be able to handle this?


Should i add rel nofollow to menu links?

Should i add rel nofollow to the links from my site menu ? (to the links like: home, about us, contact etc... that doesn't have no connection with the site niche) Does this helps? What other options i have?


Is it valid to have 2, 3, or more canonical tags?

I have seen a major website have more than 2 canonical tags on certain pages.    * * * Here's the page URL:               http://www.example.com/en_GB/shop/details.cfm?R=PRODUCT23:en_GB      Here's the first canonical tag, in the `<head>`:               <link href="http://www.example.com/category/en_GB/shop/details.cfm?R=PRODUCT23:en_GB" rel="canonical"/>      It adds the `/category/` directory and the pages design looks different (colors are branded toward that category) but has the same content. And lower down, still in the `<body>`, is the second canonical tag:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/en_US/shop/details.cfm" />       Instead of the product page, this points to the general parent category of the US shop (instead of the UK one). * * *    This only happens on a few of their hundreds of pages, which are typically product pages. Google reccomends putting the canonical in the `<head>`, because Matt Cutts explains that it can be abused and injected in the `<body>` maliciously. I assumed it was a mistake/bug of the CMS, since by the definition itself, there can be only one canon[ical]. But is there a valid reason for doing so?


Should initials of names be seperated by a dot or by a hyphen for seo purposes

I wanted to use names with initials in the URL. For example if j.k. Brothers is the initials and name then is it good to make my URL like so:               sitename.com/j.k.brothers/listing/      Or would it be better to use hyphens like so:               sitename.com/j-k-brothers/listing/


SEO effect of linking text out of context

I came across a curious situation recently. I was reading an article where some text was linked but such that the link text was completely out of context. Here is an example: > as I work my way through the `<a ...>`best insurance`</a>` fraud crimes > making the news The linked text, "best insurance" is linked completely out of context as the "best" describes the "insurance fraud crimes". Is there any SEO effect to this? Is there any indication that search engines attempt to analyse context of links as closely as required to detect this?


hidden_html - What is this for?

My host provides pre-made folders (`softaculous`, `public_html`, `public_ftp`) and one of them is `hidden_html`. I'm curious as to what this folder is for. I realize it's just a folder on the server and right now it's just housing the 2009 version of my site. Can this folder be used for anything special, or is it just there for looks?


Address bar showing long URL

I recently upgraded my hosting account to Deluxe where I can host multiple websites. I added a domain name and created a folder in the root directory giving it the same name as my domain name and uploaded my files. Now when I navigate the site the address bar shows: 'http://mywebsite.com/mywebsite/default.aspx' I want it to display: 'http://mywebsite.com/default.aspx' My thinking in creating folders that match the domain names is to keep them somewhat organized; never intended to have my domain names listed twice in the address bar.


Some browsers zoom in on website, removing whitespace on sides?

On some browsers, they show the website more expanded, removing the white space on the sides of the page. This has the effect of making everything seem more cluttered and bigger. Is there something in my code that means they do this?


are literary works published in my and various websites considered duplicate?

I have published an ancient literary work which is not copyrighted or owned by any party. i can see other websites, news magazines sites published the same long back. The literary work consists of 1330 verses which cannot be modified and we don't want to modify. _It is of 133 chapters with 10 verses in a chapter. so websites categorize as 133 pages normally. each verse is exactly 7 words. and all websites will have these verse with optional extra information. so if compared with different websites which had published this we can see an exact copy of 20 lines with optional additional information below each verse of in some other form. When talking about the original source it is from text books published long before internet appeared._ Will that be considered duplicate? if so then how to emphasize that it is a literary work common for all (i mean anybody can use it) ?


Does the url path have to be same with the actualy categories we have setup?

Say for example we got an eshop, with a category "car spare parts" that includes a category called "tires" which has our product in there. We have created a menu on the left where the visitor clicks on "car spare parts" then clicks on sub-category "tires" and then he visits the tires product listing. The actual path of each product on the "tire" page, does it have to be eshop.com/car_spare_parts/tires or is it ok if the path is "eshop.com/tires". Will the second solution cause any problems to the eshop's SEO?