Using cracked software and tools

I am seeing people complaining about expensive tools such as Dreamweaver or Photoshop. I am just wondering about that, because everyone knows that they can get this software running for free (if it is done illegally). Why don't they just use a cracked version? Is it so likely to get caught? I feel that nowadays a lot of people are using cracked software but whenever the topic is mentioned, they ALL say PSSST!!! or start criticizing it, even though they are doing it themselves...


Is 2.5% (12.5k page views per day) good as compared to my total index pages which is 5,00,000 pages? If not, how much % should be a good one?


How to tell Google Analytics to ignore case in Site Search Terms?

I currently have Google Analytics on my site, and one of it's useful functions is that it gives me a nice breakdown of all the search terms people are using to search my site (my site has it's own custom search engine). However, I've recently noticed that it seems to treat two identical searches with different case as two different search terms. For example: I have both `banana` and `BANANA` listed as two separate search terms, each with their own counts. As I'm sure you can imagine this can get quite annoying when trying to track what users on my site are searching for... So is there some way to fix this, or is it a bug?


Google Webmasters tools crawl error caused by URL split into two lines

I am looking in to Google Webmaster Tools - Crawl Error section. How should I handle for those URL due their system / application showed invalid URL. e.g               http://www.example/images/products/s_=enlarge_16gb.jpg      but, I dunno what happen to yahoo groups, it break the link into               http://www.example/images/products/s_=     enlarge_16gb.jpg      and I only make the top part become hyperlink, which is               http://www.example/images/products/s_=      Because of the URL, Google show crawl error, I got few error because of this kind of result or because other people typo error. How do I prevent this. I am sure I don't have the right go and change other people post. What is the solution for this. Thanks!


How to map a blog to path

I would like to create a blog, and I want to have it in a custom URL. Moreover, I would like to host this blog in a subdirectory of my domain, i.e. `www.myurl.com/blog`, instead of a subdomain (e.g. `blog.myurl.com`). My searches have shown that this is possible in both WordPress and Blogger, yet when I try to enter the custom URL, it tells me that the URL cannot end in a path. I then get told something about FTP publishing no longer being around, etc. After chatting to some people in _Freenode #wordpress_ , they mentioned that a self hosting WordPress blog allows you to do this. Could someone please assist in explaining why a custom URL cannot end in a path for a blog in order to achieve this, and if I have understood something incorrectly, could one point me in the right direction?


Google Analytics tracking not installed

Google Analytics is saying that: > Status: Tracking Not Installed on my site, when (as far as I can tell) I have put the tracking code in the site. What do I need to do to get Google Analytics to detect the tracking script is there on my site.


MySQL Online Database

Can anyone suggest a good online free MySQL database. I've tried four till now: db4free FreeMySQL onPhP 000webhost Either of them gave me an timeout error on my connect file or actively restricted connection to it, meaning the host won't allow a remote connection to the database. If there isn't any good online database can I create my own server using my computer, since it gets rarely turned off and when my server is offline I could return an error message saying that the server is currently offline. My final objective is to have a simple comment box for a webpage. Witch I believe it won't need a massive data storage with 3 columns (id, name, comment) NOTE: Can't post more then two links yet.


Making a Site More "Up-to-Date" - Ideas?

We have a website and want it to be more up-to-date. So far, we've made the site compatible with mobile devices and created a FaceBook page for it. What are some other things we can do for our site to make it more up-to-date?


SEO Keyword Research Help

I'm new at SEO and keyword research. I am using Market Samurai as my research tool, and I was wondering if I could ask for your help to identify the best key word to target for my niche. I do plan on incorporating all of them into my site, but I wanted to start with one. If you could give me your input on these keywords, I would appreciate it. This is all new to me :) I'm too new to post pictures, but here are my keywords (Searches, SEO Traffic, and SEO Value / Day):               Searches | SEO Traffic  |  PBR  | SEO Value | Average PR/Backlinks of Current Top 10             1: 730   | 307          |  20%   | 2311.33   | 1.9 / 7k-60k     2: 325   | 137          |  24%   | 822.94    | 2.3 / 7k-60k     3: 398   | 167          |  82%   | 589.79    | 1.6 / 7k-60k      I'm wondering if the PBR (Phrase-to-broad) value of #1 is too low. It seems like the best value because the SEOV is crazy high. That is like $70k a month. #3 has the highest PBR, but also the lowest SEOV. #2 doesn't seem worth it because of the PR competetion. Might be a little too hard to get into the top page of Google. I'm wondering which keywords to target, and if I should be looking at any other metric to see if this is a profitable niche to jump into. Thanks.


One SSL certificate for a varying number of multiple web-servers (not directly)

First of all, I only used StackOverflow so far and was just guessing this is the right place for my question. This is a fairly straight forward but not very simple situation, so I'll do my best to keep the explanation short. * * * We are building a mobile application that obtains content from web-servers. Majority of the content is 'protected' meaning that only authorized users can access it on a subscription bases. We need all communications between device and server (and between CMS user and server) to be encrypted. There is one server for CMS and one for API. (Devices access content via API but CMS activity may become quite heavy sometimes so it's separated to not affect load on the API server + the API server is further load-balanced but this latter doesn't fall into the scope of my question.) Both the CMS and the API servers need an SSL certificate which is quite costly especially considering that we release new versions frequently but, because it's not possible or we don't want to force high number of users to upgrade their client, different versions need to run in paralell. Differences between versions may be so major that handling different versions from within one CMS/API is out of question. This means 2 certificates (and of course 2 servers) per version. Some version, however, may be quite short lived but SSL certificates are minimum for one year so it's not cost effective. * * * We outlined a "strategy" and I'd like to ask for expert advice/opinions about the viability, efficiency and any drawbacks you may think of. The idea is to have one server acting as a special "proxy", buy only one SSL certificate and install it on this server. Then, using Apache's mod_rewrite or possibly other techniques, implement a solution that allows all traffic (CMS and API) for all versions to hit this proxy and have (according to the above, not taking load-balancing into account for now) 2 nodes per application version behind it accessible only locally by the proxy. The proxy would access the right node based on some parameters of the incoming request. For example, say the domain name is myapp.com, then we would have requests like myapp.com/cms-1-2/...   myapp.com/api-1-2/...   myapp.com/cms-1-3/...   myapp.com/api-1-3/... and so forth. This way, there's no need to buy more expensive certificates that include mutiple cnames or that are for physically different servers or buy new ones for new versions' servers. Can you highlight any obvious drawbacks we didn't think of?


Mod Rewrite question

Is there a way to rewrite               http://localhost/embed/player.swf?file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yKDhm4_-90      to something smaller? or is there a way to change this into               http://localhost/embed/script.php?id=7yKDhm4_-90      What can i do? **UPDATE** i've tried with something like this:               header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash');     header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));     header('Connection: close');     $video_id = $_REQUEST['id'];     $content = readfile("http://localhost/embed/player.swf?file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$video_id");     echo $content;      but it is mot working. what i am doing wrong?


Changing uri-design SEO

I think I need to redesign my uri-collections of my site. Right now I am using the following structure by a mistake:               /fruits for the whole collection     /fruit/banana for an item in the collection      But I am changing this to:               /fruits     /fruits/banana      How will this affect my indexed pages of the search-engines? Should I create 303-redirects from the old collection structure to the new one? Or is it best to live with my mistake and not make the change? Thanks, James Ford


What happens if the secondary ns record contains a record not present in the primary ns record?

Will this record be used by internet services or not? I'm moving the ns records from one server to another while keeping the site on a third webhost. I do not have control on the primary nameserver so I added a second record in the domain zone file. Both name servers have the same a, cname and mx records. But I added a TXT record to the secondary name server. Do changes in the secondary record get used only as a backup?


Google Adwords campaign is not receiving any traffic at all, despite raising my bid

I have two sets of ads, one for search and one for display network only. The search ads have had 2 impressions, no clicks, the daily budget is £15 and there are 94 keywords targeted, 75 are those recommended by Google's Opportunities. The display network ads were getting clicks, 121 in total from 47,000 impressions. The daily spend was £7. No there are no impressions and no clicks, so I increased the daily budget to £25, still no new impressions. Both are active and approved. I have no idea what has happened. Why as the former never had any impressions and why the latter has simply stopped working over night. Bids are set to 'Focus on clicks, automatic bidding, no CPC bid limit'. But looking it says "auto £3.96". They are high competition. The keyword planner suggests bids of 70p - which is much lower than I think its set to?


wget - download external images

I'm using `wget -A` to download images from a page.   This works fine, when images are hosted on the same domain as the page.   But this won't download images hotlinked from other pages (e.g. imageshack) How can I download the external images as well using wget or similar tool?


URL Rewrite with spaces or with -?

Which URL is more SEO? `mydomain.com/category-name/article-name.html` OR `mydomain.com/category name/article name.html` I have read some articles about URL Rewriting but there I can't find any conclusion.


301 redirection removes UTM tags from URLs

A page redirects to another page using a `301` redirect in a _.htaccess_ file. If try to access the page from a URL with UTM tagging after redirection, it removes all UTM tagging. Is this normal behavior? How can we keep the UTM tagging so that we can see this in our analytics? Here are some examples: **_Example 1:_** `http://example.com/page.html?utm_source=nosource&utm_medium=nomedium&utm_campaign=nocam` redirects to: `http://example.com/another-page.html` **_Example 2:_** `http://example.com/page.html?utm_source=nosource&utm_medium=nomedium&utm_campgn=nocam&page=1` (Just misspelled `utm_camaign` to check if `utm_` is not just a culprit) redirects to: `http://example.com/another-page.html?utm_campgn=nocam&page=1` **_Example 3:_** `http://example.com/page.html?utm_source=nosource&utm_medium=nomedium&utm_campaign=nocam&page=1` redirects to: `http://example.com/another-page.html?page=1` **_Example 4:_** `http://example.com/page.html?page=1` redirects to: `http://example.com/another-page.html?page=1`


Unlimited Inodes?

I am currently trying to find a host for my website. The website allows people to host projects in a somewhat similarish way to this. I would rather not reveal more about what it is until I release it. The problem is, that with users uploading files for their `mods/projects/etc` I would quickly reach any inode limit, espically with my current folder structure. `http://www.example.com/files/HOrrZCINYUoTxPVzaRrRFYUQRDxPPRun/wiD4Pj38Tkq/SomeFileUploadedWithTheProperNameStillHere.jar`. As you can see from that, it is a quite long URL. The first set of jumble is the project id (every project has one), it stays the same for all files of the same project. The second set of jumble is the file id, randomly generated for each file. There is a file id so that files of the same name can be uploaded to each project (Example would if someone uploads 2 _MyProject.jar_ files, one for version 1 and another for version 2). So far I cannot find any hosts that allow for unlimited inodes, every host has a 25,000-500,000 limit (hence too small). Even if that was big enough, I would prefer not to have the imminent loom of inode limit bypassing over my head all the time (It would drive me insane). I would like either a link to a host with unlimited MySQL, disk space, and inodes. Or another way to do this. I was thinking about storing the files in a MySQL database, however it seems like most hosts limit those too (Including the database's files in the inode count).


Using Schema for Blogging Article VS BlogPosting

I have been remaking my website for some time now and I want to launch it as quickly as possible but I want to make it leading edge if possible. I am currently I'm using a modified template (I know! web designer using template tut tut... but long story short I had 1 week to get a live website as well as doing a business plan for a business grant and since operating I've been working flat out until the past 2months and its chillzor! which is nice!). Moving on! While the design is important I also want to take a keen interest in using markup, the problem I'm encountering is that schema is SOOOO VAGUE! and it's absolutely smashing my brain. The question is rather simple but rather complex at the same time, which one do you consider best:   1. itemtype="http://schema.org/Article"   2. itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" It's worth mentioning that I've done some research in this already and supposedly is the difference between a blog post and an article by definition outside of Schema is that Blog posting generally tends to be anywhere from 50 words to 400 words while generally articles are more detailed and contain 500 words upwards. But looking on schema they associate an article with Magazines and Newspapers, Surely this this is not right? Also is it a good or bad idea to use categories as 'keywords' schema? _This is my current markup and I welcome any additional criticism or advice on improving the current markup, perhaps even pointing out bad habits of`<p>`, additionally you can view the it online here and how Google views this here_.
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PHP Caching Too Long

I rolled out a pretty simple cache system on my site last week using a PHP class referenced in my sitewide template file. The cache system dramatically improved server response times (the template pulls data from a couple other servers in our datacenter, so it isn't all cached in memory by Apache). The problem is, it was over-caching files. I believe I have it set to cache for five minutes, or until the HTML is modified, but it was still serving cached versions of pages days after the cached versions were created. Can anyone spot any issues with my code, or do you know about any versions of PHP/Apache/Red Hat that might, say, report bad info on file modification times? (We're on PHP 5.3.3, Apache 2.2.15, and RHEL 6. I had been running mod_pagespeed, but the problem persisted even after I disabled it.)               <?php          class IWU_Cache {         protected $cache_prefix = '/tmp/webcache_';         protected $remote_delay = 300; // in seconds; 300 is five minutes         protected $path;              public function __construct($path = '') {             $this->path = $path;         }              public function isRecentlyCached() {             $cache_location = $this->path2Cache($this->path);                  if(is_file($cache_location)) {                 if(is_file($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $this->path) && (filemtime($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $this->path) < filemtime($cache_location))) {                     return TRUE;                 }                 elseif(filemtime($cache_location) > time() - $this->remote_delay) {                     return TRUE;                 }             }                  return FALSE;         }              public function getCachedVersion() {             return file_get_contents($this->path2Cache($this->path));         }              public function addToCache($html) {             return file_put_contents($this->path2Cache($this->path), $html);         }              protected function path2Cache($path) {             return $this->cache_prefix . str_replace('/', '____', $path);         }     }          ?>


Creating bilingual site, positioning new language version

I have a website that right now is only in Polish. I would like to make an English version that would work on the different domain, so that I can start positioning it for English keywords. I think I will find my way around translating it to English using library gettext or similar method - to make it easier for me to manage those two versions I would like to not duplicate every file, only change the language on setting a certain variable. I am not sure how to force the page to display in English once accessed from English domain. Is it possible to achieve it with hatccess? I also heard of a method that would point the English domain to other index.php that would set the language variable for English, would that be a correct approach?


How to block all hacking?

The title explains most of my question. The OS is linux (Lubuntu). The servers are Apache2 (PHP5), MySQL 5.6 and FTP (Samba).


Trouble connecting with FTP

I have a client site they host with GoDaddy. Recently, GoDaddy moved them to a different server due to a security issue with another one of the sites hosted on the same server. Since the move (2 weeks ago), I have had great difficulty connecting to their server via FTP. Initially, the problem was my hosts file, which had been updated in order to test the new server. Once that problem was corrected, I was able to connect and disconnect freely, for about a day. Since then, I've had intermittent success connecting. Couldn't connect at all yesterday. kept a connection for about an hour today. The client admins are having no problem with their FTP access. I have no cPanel access, they do. They can't recreate the problem on their end and I can't get it to work more than 3% of the time. I have checked my credentials dozens of times at this point. I'm using FTP, passive mode. But I have tried both. I've succeeded and failed with the IP and the domain addresses. I'm out of ideas. This isn't an issue I've had in decades. If anyone has any ideas of things to try or settings specific to GoDaddy that should be checked, please let me know.


Most important keyword search in Google without result

I have read some similar questions but could not find an appropriate answer. The first two keywords (finca, Barbosa) for my site in Google Webmaster Tools keywords list are exactly what I expected. So far so good. When I use these keywords to search, I get no result for my site at all. I am not expecting a specific rank position, but there is no result at all. I thought a combination of one keyword (finca, Barbosa) with another keyword in the list might give some results. The combination of these two words are more or less quiet specific searches so I am confused.


How do I handle duplicated content on related domains?

I am in charge of two unique domains - one on which my client sells activity packages, and the other where he sells resort information. One place shows the user what he can do and the other shows where he can stay. He wants both sites to have common inter related content. My questions are:   1. If I create similar content pages with the same url (the domain name will be different of course), will I be penalised?    2. Should I have canonical urls for each? How will that help?


Site cloned and running on .cc domain - who is the govening body of that TLD?

One of our sites has been cloned and is now running as a Chinese day care centers site running on a `.cc` domain. It's extremely irritating as we put a lot of time, effort and money into designing our site, and it's just been ripped off. I've looked online and found that a `.cc` domain is the TLD for the Cocos Islands, but couldn't find any information on the TLD's governing body who I was planning to contact in regards to this copyright infringement. The other thing is that they haven't even changed the Google Analytics tracking code so they are now skewing our data, I've posted a separate question as this is a separate issue.


Is it possible to link my blogger account to my GooglePlus Company Page

I updated my users Google login to a GooglePlus account, at the same I created a GooglePlus page for my (1 man) company. As I understand it I have just one google plus account, but that account lets me create multiple pages for companies, brands. At this point the company page had my youtube videos I'd created for the company Youtube page, my own google plus page didn't really have anything. Then I have a company blog created using blogger.com a number of years ago and I decided to link this to my Google Plus account. The problem is that I want to invite my customers to my Google Plus page, and it seems sensible to invite them to the company page rather than my own page. However when I post new entries on the blog they only get displayed on my own page not the company page, this doesn't make much sense because customers adding company page to their circle would want to see blog posts. Have I misunderstood this, here are links to make it clearer http://blog.jthink.net/ (blog) https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103554086121439078551/+JthinkNet2/posts (company page) https://plus.google.com/104151123173952852147/posts (my posts)


Test building a new version of a web site

I am working to build a new version of my website. During the time I'm building it I would like to view it live on the internet without having to delete the old one. What is the best way to do this?


How can I superscript a single character throughout my site?

Finishing up development work for a client and they have a late request to superscript every occurrence of the &reg character throughout the site. I merely get by with CSS, but not even sure CSS provides the best solution here. how can I make a global change to every occurrence of a single character in the site copy without going back and adding tags everywhere? if the best solution _does_ involve inserting a span or other tag I'm thinking it could be accomplished with a database query (all the copy is wired up to a CMS).


Does Google include the time to load images, for a single page, as part of the page speed?

we all know that Google's affects your page rank with the load time of a page. How? That's part of the secret sauce. But we know that page speed is a serious factor. So -> what is considered the speed of a page? Is it just the first (and main) html file which the GET receives? Or does it also include loading of images as part of that speed. so for example... `GET /index.htm <\- takes 0.45 seconds to retrieve (including DNS lookup before).` _robot parses page.. see's there's a single main image...._ `GET /img/main.png <\- takes 5 seconds to download.` is the page speed for that resource, 0.45 seconds OR 5.45 seconds? I understand Javascript is not fired .. but are any of these external resources all downloaded and part of the page speed?


Getting a second domain to help direct traffic to my main domain?

The business I work has a fairly long, 4 word name. The domain they've been using is the first letter of the first three words, and then the last word spelled out. For now we'll refer to it as "The Ant Farm Society" or "TAFSociety.com". I've been SEO'ing their site and doing a good job at it, and I'll probably feel the affects of what I've done in a few weeks. However as of now, they don't show up on the first page of google for "The Ant Farm Society". I recently found out that The-Ant-Farm-Society.com is available. Would it be beneficial or detrimental for me to use that domain? My thoughts were to use a nice design, put around 10 related articles on there, and have it ultimately link to their main site, "TAFSociety.com". Is it wise to do this? Or should I just focus on bringing up their abbreviated domain name? Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks!


Deleted page still in Google results

I've asked a website to remove content about me and they did it, removing the whole page (404). In their sitemap, they tell bots that page changes weekly. A week ago they removed the page, but the result still shows up in Google SERP. How is it possible?


Solution for payment gateway with multiple sellers

I'm looking for a payment gateway that can be used in a website with multiple sellers. Let's say that depending on the purchased item, a given seller/merchant should receive the money. Would that be possible using only one "master merchant" account that would act as a "distributor" of funds for several "sub-merchants"? Does any well established privider (paypal, worldpay, auth.net, etc) supports this?


Should add my naked AND www domain as separate sites in Webmaster Tools

Just a quick question: In Google Webmaster tools I have my site set to set to www. and the naked domain. Do I need to add and verify the site for each variant or do I just keep it as the www and use either reference? thank you!


Changes to site and homepage will not fetch as google and not indexed either

please help. redesigned website and ever since then, homepage will not index NOR will it fetch as google. I keep getting failed on fetching. any ideas? thanks! My site


Does sitemap.xml have to be in the root directory?

This may be a simple and absurd question, but is it completely necessary for sitemap.xml file to be in the root directory of the wordpress install directory of the site, or is it ok to create a subdirectory and place it there? i.e. /sitemap/sitemap.xml I've created a dynamically generated site map xml file, but would like to auto-generate it on the fly when changes are made, and need to be able to write to this file. I would like to keep the main wordpress folder permissions as they are and only have this subdirectory writable. Would love to hear any thoughts on the matter! Or alternate solutions... Merci!


Why isn't Twitter widget working?

I have Twitter's own widget set to load on a website, which works just fine. However, on my WP-powered blog the script is included but not rendered. I call it inside an empty `div` like this: > >     <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/twtr-widget.html' ?> >   But it appears in the page source as HTML (I'm putting '...' to save room): > >     <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script> >     <script> >     new TWTR.Widget({... >     ...</script> >   > > In other words, the script is not being executed. Why is this?


How Can I Centralize Content Usage and Approval in a WordPress Multi-Site installation

I am working with a non-profit client that runs several charities under one umbrella. A good metaphor would be to think of the United Way (but it's not the United Way). Can a WordPress multi-site installation do the following:   1. Share content between sites. E.g., if site A has a section called "Advocacy", can that same content also be shown in site B? This would need to include text, photos, etc.   2. How centralized can administration be made? For example, can draft posts from all websites be approved in one location? I'm sure there are other things I need to ask, but I'm still in the investigation phase.


Unable to make the facebook "like" button to work on this site, any ideas?

This is the site >> http://www.elsolitariomc.com I'm using a plugin and also trying to use the usual facebook like button that it's explained here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ Anyhow, the like button simply doesn't work or appears to have a # url. I looked in StackExchange for any similar question, but all the problems seems to be different, any idea or link to an answer will be highly appreciated.


Can you rewrite the root?

Not sure how to word this one but will explain most I can. I am trying to make the following happen.   1. Re-write this `http://domain.name`   2. To this `http://domain.name/home/` Is it possible ? **update** Simone Carletti - the method you posted did not work, have you had this work ? Also would it visually change in the browser URL bar to say /home/ John Conde ♦ - this did not work either i was getting a warning from Firefox saying it would never complete so it did not load the page.


What hosting solutions help with traffic spikes?

A web application is hypothetically featured on Digg or Reddit, and the server load immediately spikes up by a couple of orders of magnitude. What kind of hosting solution will allow the website to survive through a large flux like this? (and not cost a fortune) Hosting through AWS seems to be in fashion these days. However, many complain about the cost. Will a VPS hosting solution also be able to scale-up in a timely fashion, while costing less? Alternatives? Thanks.


Recommend any tool to place .docx files on website for viewing so that search engines crawl it?

Recommend any tool to place .docx files on website for viewing so that search engines crawl it without any problem. I use scribd viewer, set the document as private on scribd and embed the file on my website through iframe but Google isn't listing keywords for the content.


Does e-commerce platform matter for branding

The place I work is now looking into developing a new e-commerce site on the Magento platform. Magento will fill all of our needs. I was just wondering if it is in anyway unprofessional doing it this way (Impression is something we are really worried about), will people who visit the site look at our business different knowing we used Magento or any other e-commerce platform. There are ways to find out. I use Chrome Sniffer to find out what platforms are used to develop each site, there are other tools available for different browsers. Bottom-line: Will an e-commerce platform affect the trust in my brand?


Website image/link/url checker

Is there any sufficient software or tools to use to check website on below aspects   1. Images sizes     * Sometimes some images were uploaded very big without knowing, this causes bandwidth and speed    2. Broken links     * Bad for user experiences   3. Broken url     * Bad for user as well I know a software called "Link Validate" or something. Anything else?


SEO - Changing file extension

I am going to change the file extension from ".htm" to ".php", is there any disadvantage with this action?


How can I get plusone to display my images?

I just put an google plusone button on my site. If I `+1` the page and then go to my google+ account and look at my `+1`'s it shows up, but it has no picture. So my question, are there any tips to get `+1` do display the information I want it to display, especially my logo?


Understanding Google Webmasters Tools Sitemaps Information

So, I'm an 'avid' user of google webmaster tools and analytics. I'm building an e-commerce site, all with original product descriptions and a base of 'useful' industry-relevant content. I generated and submitted a new sitemap yesterday with some new content. Next to the sitemap in google webmaster tools, yesterday I had approx '600 urls in web index'. Today... 5. 5!? There is no canocial issue, the site is configured properly to go to the non- www version, there are no 'spammy' links (probably no links at all at this stage...) and no duplicate or spammy content. What has happened? To add further confusion, doing a site: search on google churns out 5.8k results, so it's still 'in the index', and monitoring certain keywords tells me that most of them still rank and rankings havent been changed... what is webmaster tools telling me by saying there are 5 urls in the web index?


Google instant previews and adsense

I have a site with a normal image header, a menu, then below that an adsense leaderboard, and then the content below that. The problem is that google instant previews, capture the adsense text and hightlights it (puts it in a box) at google instant previews of my pages. I really don't like the ad text be emphasized as the most important of my previews. Maybe google preview bot is doing that because adsense text is on the top. How I could either make instant preview ignore adsense text, or somehow reposition the adsense div with css, so that even if it's loaded after the content to be able to be positioned on the top of it? I use 960 grid


Not able to see databases in symlinked folder

I created a folder on my Dropbox and then symlinked it to both of my computers that I use for development. The folder is working correctly and I can see all the files in it from both computers. The problem arises when I try and access the databases from my MacBook Air. When I open up MAMP Pro and start the web service I can't connect to my development sites, at least from one of my computers. My questions are: Is this even a good idea to symlink the db folder for MAMP? If it is not then is the a smart way to develop locally on two machines? Can I prompt phpMyAdmin to reindex the db folder so it can start accessing the databases? I have tried shutting down both versions of the server software. I have restarted both machines. I am at a loss right now. -Josh


Reverse proxying only a specific URL

I have a web server at www.ourcompany.com running Apache2. Using the proxy modules, I am able to (for example) get 172.16.0.5, an internal IP device, to be accessed on www.ourcompany.com/device. The trouble is that anyone can play with or explore the device using strings sent to www.ourcompany.com/device/change/settings/here.html. I'd like the reverse proxy to only work for a specific URL; www.ourcompany.com/device/you/must/use/this while anything else will be rejected if requested. Is there a setting that can be used to do this, or is it a simple rewrite condition placed in the virtualhost for the site under sites-enabled? What is the simplest, most maintainable way to sanitize requests to the internal device through the reverse proxy? Running Apache2 on Ubuntu.


Best to load external resources from third parties or from your own server?

What is the best way to load external resources in order to speed up performance for your users? Should one load for example jQuery from Google CDN through:   * https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8/jquery.js Or is it better download the file, store and serve it on our own server?


I get huge bandwidth transfer from some unknown bot Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*').There are ways to block it via htaccess or other means. The question is whether to block it for website safety or it is the good that search engines are crawing the website. I am very new to website designing so don't know the basics. Please guide me if i have to block them or let it be like this


Install software in the cloud

Is there a way to have a windows xp running in the cloud and install software on it that more people in the organization can use? This in order to reduce the money spent on licenses for more developers


Apache - .httaccess RewriteRule from domainA to domainB

**Problem:** I have a website (mywebsite.com) that was, and partly is, indexed in google. Somebody pointed their own domain (theirsite.com) name to my server and DNS, so it resolves with my IP. Now, probably being an older domain, it outranks me in google, and the pages at my domain are starting to getting de-indexed (probably duplicate content or something). So, for example, my homepage got de-indexed, and their homepage (theirsite.com/) is indexed with my content/code/etc. The same is for other pages (theirsite.com/other/page.html is showing mysite.com/other/page.html) **Quick-fix:** To quickly fix it, I have added few lines to my PHP code, checking for $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], and if different than my domain, redirects to my domain. It does the job, but to me it looks like a dirty solution. **Question:** I could not find a way to have apache to do this job. I would prefer to find an apache/.htaccess solution to this problem (redirecting all traffic from domainA.com/(.*) to domainB.com/$1), is it possible in any way? Thanks


Redirection and the googlebot : a newbie question

Ok suppose I have some content > My site !! Usefull Info here about grazillas! in a htm-file, that can be reached with a url that can change at any time, like **url1 :** ` http://www.mysite.com/notfixed.htm?($!abcd)/bs/@id=12 ` but I have a fixed url that always will be pointing to url1, even if it changes like **url 2 :** ` http://www.mysite.com/redirection.htm?pageId=12 ` so when I google on 'grazillas' I would like to get * * * G O O G L E   * http://www.mysite.com/redirection.htm?pageId=12     * --> Site with usefulll info about grazilla's  * * * and NOT : * * * G O O G L E   * http://www.mysite.com/notfixed.htm?($!abcd)/bs/@id=12      * --> Site with usefulll info about grazilla's  * * * Is this the way google behaves, or is there any way to achieve this? Is this boiling down to indexing permalinks?


What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 3

this is a follow up question to this one What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 2 If I have my static files on Amazon cloudfront and have the file's URLs mentioned in my code. How will I be able to do versioning of my CSS files, so that the browser retrieves the latest version of the file when I update it on cloudfront. Couple of things **I do not want to** do when I am doing this are   * change the filename in cloudfront and change the urls everywhere in the code   * and then restarting the application server thanks


Can anyone list some real examples of 'HTML5' being used in the wild?

I am using HTML5 in the same way everyone seems to be using it these days, meaning: HTML5 tags, Canvas / 3D / javascript and CSS3. I am struggling to find examples of sites that are using these technologies practically and that are not just a demo of something cool someone has managed to do using Canvas or CSS3 transforms or shapes. I am looking for sites that have a nice visual look but also take advantage of things like animation, scrolling and offset à la Silverback or the Canvas to create an interactive and I guess 'Flash-looking' site. These are some examples that I have found: **Scrolling**   * http://nikebetterworld.com/index   * http://benthebodyguard.com/ **Animation**   * http://www.elladesign.com/contact.html **Other**   * http://www.pirateslovedaisies.com/ I am using HTML5 loosely and I hate to be using it. I would be happy if you listed a really visually appealing Javascript-based site but it didn't have the HTML5 doctype.


What are average advertising banner widths?

Many websites have advertising, do people know what the general/average/standard width of advertising areas and banner widths are? Thanks in advance


Working out costs to implement WCAG 2.0 (AA) site

I've run our client's site through a WCAG 2.0 validator which has returned 415 tasks that need to be worked through in order to get it WCAG 2.0 compliant. For the most part, I can get a rough estimation of how long a task will take but there are tasks I have never had to do before which I am not sure how to cost. I would like to know if someone has a rough guide on what to cost a client to convert their site to a compliant WCAG 2.0 (AA) site.


Evaluate someone's web design level skill

I am not sure if this belongs here and I apologise if it does not. What I would like to know is if there is a test of sorts that can check someone's web design skill level much like the W3C offers tests to check someone's development skills? Many thanks.


Do I need to periodically re-submit my sitemaps to yahoo/bing?

I know Google's webmasters downloads a new version of my sitemaps every day. I am not sure if the yahoo / bing systems do the same thing. Google's says "Downloaded" and for the sitemaps that add the daily content they are downloaded on a daily basis. But the Last Submitted date on Yahoo site explorer is just the date of when I originally linked them into yahoo. There is nothing I see to suggest Yahoo is rechecking my submitted sitemaps, particularly since my page index count seems to go down.


Jokes search engine / PHP based search engine on database

I'm looking for a script, functioning like the Google homepage that fetches data from a database rather than the internet. This is not intended to be a search engine, but a repository of jokes that can be pulled depending on the keywords typed. No sophisticated search techniques are required - keyword based is perfectly fine. If some mechanism of up/down-voting jokes can be incorporated, that would be fantastic, but I'm presuming that will be an entirely different game.


Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors due to Google decoding links that were urlencoded by Codeigniter

In our pages we have internal links that are _urlencoded_ because the URL may sometime contain special characters such as `()` or `!` So in our source code we have a link: `http://example.com/American_Dad%21-245<br>` In Google Webmaster Tools I have an error for this same link: `http://example.com/American_Dad!-245` So basically Google has decoded the link in my source code and was trying to access that decoded URL. However since this decoded URL has a special character `!`, my Codeigniter setup returns a `400` error status code. Is it possible to fix this issue without allowing special characters in Codeigniter setup, because I think those restrictions are important for the security of the site. Should I double _urlencode_ all my links as seems to be suggested by this post?


301 vs 302 redirect for ?url=URL

I have the following URL for affiliates:               http://www.mydomain.com/affiliates/partners/partnerName.do?url=http://www.mydomain.com/product/3      The value of url will change all the time. For this, I have used a 302 redirect. I chose to do this because `http://www.mydomain.com/affiliates/partners/partnerName.do` can be redirected to several pages (because the url parameter can equal anything) and not just one page. I believe this is the correct thing to do, but someone from our marketing department told me not to use 302 redirects and to use a 301 redirect, because several SEO articles say 302 redirects are bad. I just want to confirm that the 302 redirect is the proper redirect to use for this particular case.


Apache utf-8 characters in filename

I can't figure it why I can't open files (photos as a start) that contain utf-8 characters in their file name. For example, I have the following photo: `José-Antonio.jpg` , the browser outputs it as `Jos%C3%A9-Antonio.jpg` but trying to access it, will return an `404` error code. I tried and have these settings in my `/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf` but don't seem to fix it:               #AddDefaultCharset UTF-8     AddDefaultCharSet ISO-8859-1          IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable Charset=UTF-8      Any ideas what could go wrong? And btw, it seams the system supports utf-8 encoding...               [root@u16641744 01]# locale     LANG=en_US.UTF-8     LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"     LC_ALL=      `ls` result in a directory containing such files:               -rw-r--r-- 1 user group   6093 Dec 22 17:39 Adoración-de-los-Magos-Botticelli-110x90.jpg      But the curios thing is that the output of the following command, is wrong:               perl -Mcharnames=:full -CS -wle 'print "\N{EURO SIGN}"'       |-> outputs: â¬


Image Link with Nofollow tag. Good or Bad practice?

Which is the best practice, from an SEO point of view, if you have a list of products which have both image and text link? 1) one A tag with the image and product name inside? `<a href="product_link"><img src="..." /> <span>product name</span></a>` 2) an A tag for each html tag `<a href="product_link"><img src="..." /></a> <a href="product_link"><span>product name</span></a>` It's a good practice to put a rel="nofollow" for the image link like in the image bellow?![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LqoeD.png)


Top Level Domain (.com) and subdirectories for each country: Do they need their own content to rank in Google?

If I want to have a new site with a `.com` domain and have a `/uk/` and `/au/` folder for ranking in the Google results for each country, do I need to create a `/uk/blog/` and a `/au/blog/` to get content for the `/uk/` site and the `/au/` site? Or can I go with `mydomain.com/blog/` with `mydomain.com/uk/` and `mydomain.com/au/` for each country with the `mydomain.com/blog/` content counting towards the ranking and backlinks for both `/uk/` and `/au/`? I hope that makes sense.


How can # of unique visitors be more than # of visits?

I am confused as heck. When looking at a few individual pages, I am seeing weird results I hope someone can help explain. I am doing manual standard reports, and not creating or using a widget. For each of the two tests below, the metrics I am using are visits (not visitors) and unique visitors. I am using Page as my primary dimension and Page Title as secondary. I am filtering to include certain Pages. Example 1 - Looking at a single page... I see 731 unique visitors and 169 visits. How is this possible? Does google just flip them around for some reason? Example 2 - Looking at several pages combined... If you examine the timeline below , you can see that the numbers are all over the place. How is it possible to have more unique visitors than visits? What am I missing? I would suspect that if things were just flipped around, then I should still see one line that is always below the other line. Anyone clue me in to what may be happening here? I also notice that the visits column (just out of view) adds up to the total, but the unique visitors column clearly doesn't. ![graphic here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QPin7.jpg)


Adding a list of "recent articles" affects SEO

We have a site which has a sidebar with sections (or "widgets" if you like) showing stuff like "Recent Articles", "Other Articles by this User", "Similar Articles" etc. The issue is, Google seems to take these links very seriously. In fact, if I have only a single article which is closely related to a certain phrase (and several other pages link to it in their sidebars), when I do a Google search, it lists all those other pages highlighting that one link to the page that should actually be the most relevant one. And these pages don't even mention the phrase anywhere else. It there a common approach with adding these sidebar links? For example, I might add them through ajax after the page is loaded, but then crawlers will have harder time finding them?


How can I email a vCard to users who are unable to download it?

I have created vCards for the people in my business, and they are great for users on standard browsers; however, users browsing on a mobile device (notably iPhone) are unable to download and view my vCard. Is there a service that I can direct them to that will allow them to receive an email containing my vCard, or is there a simple way I can set this up myself? I am running my site on WordPress, and initial attempts have failed spectacularly. I'd like for them to be given the option to perform either action, but have the predominant action more prominently visible (probably via user agent detection). Something along the lines of: > It looks like you're on an iPhone! It's a bummer they can't download vCards, > but if you enter your email address, we'll wrap one up and send it your way! > > _Don't worry, we won't send you junk email. Heck, we don't even save your > email address!_ > > * * * > > `enter-your@email.com` > > * * * > > _Think you've got it all figured out? Fine,download the vCard instead!_ If you know of a service or simple-to-implement PHP library (or WordPress plug-in), please let me know! If not, let me know what the best solution to this problem is!


How can I create a subdomain to a Facebook page running on CloudFlare

I'd like to add a subdomain to my website for an Android community Facebook page, using CloudFlare on my domain and subdomain. Please tell me how I might do that.


Selling Facebook Likes - are these quality Likes?

People/companies selling Facebook Likes guarantee 100-1000 likes for your Facebook page. Some say "real looking likes", "permanent likes", "verified", etc. I figured I'd try one of these guys out, and got 95 likes on a page. In my initial investigation of these likes, this is what I found:   * All had 100+ friends, many of which are linked (all seem to have the same "friends")    * All started around October with various quotes like "If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.", all posted on their timelines, with no new posts since February. These statuses seem to come from db's like that at cutefacebookstatus dot c()m (not providing them with any type of link-back). I there some application that's auto-generating these pages for these people? Do these types of "Likes" end up hurting a FB page's ranking/ability to help the web page it points to?


Using Google Analytics to track events that happen in an iframe

I'm trying to track how many visitors click on a button in our site. The problem is the button is located within an iframe coming from an external service. Here is the page in question: http://www.anoisewithin.org/support- us/individual-giving/#tabs-7 I would like to be able to measure how many visitors click the Search button in the iframe, but I am unable to append any Google Analytics tracking code to the button. Is there any other way I can track that particular click event?


WordPress with .tel domains, is it possible?

Is it possible to host a WordPress site with `.tel` domain. When I checked for `.tel` extension website, all the site's are similar in design.


My webpage works using HTTP, but not using www

I'm sorry to repeat this question as I saw it was previously asked. I would just like the answer in something that a complete idiot and newbie web developer (me) can understand. I actually hired a web developer to make my page for me and it only works when using HTTP and not when using `www`. They told me that everything was correct on their end and to contact the help desk at my domain server (GoDaddy). Is there something in GoDaddy that I can go check and fix myself to correct the problem?


Recurring billing / profiles management system

As a company, we have various recurring fees which our clients pay. These can include:   * hosting plans   * maintenance agreements   * SLAs   * ... I would like to know if anyone knows of a good, web-based recurring billing / payments management system which we could use to help us get more organised regarding this aspect of our business. Basically, we would need to:   * Create recurring profiles, e.g. hosting, emails / domain services @ 200eur / year.   * Be able to give free / extend the subscription period, for any reason.  Also, we don't have specific products which we would like to choose and charge. All these recurring fees are discussed with the clients, and are created on a _per-client_ basis. I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, however since I think most 'webmasters' require such a system to keep track of payment, I thought this would be the place to go for.


SEO impact of using CNAME host both naked and www URL

I have been told I can have two A records on my domain, one with www and one without. However, I have been told can cause SEO issues because google will take it as duplicate content. However when I asked someone about it they said the following: Google has understood this common configuration for years now. That's ancient SEO advice. If you're really concerned about it, you can always put a canonical meta tag in place to be explicit about it My question is, assuming I cannot use a redirect (for the sake of this question), is there any SEO impact by having both the naked and the www url on the same CNAME record? Please provide some sort of written example, because there are so many conflicting views.


How to view custom Google Analytics dashboards month-by-month

By default, the custom Google analytics dashboard widget which shows data in a timeline, shows the data on a day-by-day timeline. I would like to see the timeline data in a month-by-month view within the dashboard. I've tried looking for the following solutions: (a) hacking the querystring to force a different timeline view (b) a browser extensions which does the same without much success. Any other ideas/suggestions/solutions?


I am looking for a tool, which can manage several Google + personal profiles (not pages!).

I need a tool, which can manage several google + personal profiles (not pages) on one dashboard! Has any of you created such a masterpiece and would like to sell it?


Using Mod_Rewrite To Block Referrer Based On Domain Extenstion?

I've been in web development for several years now (I'm a student web designer), and recently, I've begun to experiment with mod_rewrite for things like URL shortening. I was wondering, is it possible to block a referrer by domain extension, instead of just by full site, etc.? So, instead of               RewriteEngine on     # Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} examplesite\.com [NC]     RewriteRule .* - [F]      could you do               RewriteEngine on     # Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.com [NC]     RewriteRule .* - [F]      without the full domain name? Thanks. I'm fairly knowledgeable about other web dev / hosting topics, but mod_rewrite is new to me and Google wasn't helping.


number of free queries on google custom search

I am using google custom search for my site, I saw someday google custom search does not return anything while searching just advertisement. On googling I found that only 100 searches allowed per day as free searches. While reading the CSE documentation it does not say same for the free version. Can someone clarify on this in detail.


How do websites like trafficestimate.com and digsitesvalue estimate web traffic

I hope this is the right place to post this, sorry if it is not. I am just so curious as to how they work or where they get their data. trafficestimate.com basically estimates how much traffic a site gets. My initial thought was that they multiply an alexa value by some constant but I have no idea how accurate that would be. Does anyone have any idea how they do it? Thanks


SEO: Linking to a domain that redirects to a subdomain

I have: www.mywebsite.com which redirects to `en.mywebsite.com`, `es.mywebsite.com`, `fr.mywebsite.com` depending on the user language, so there's not an indexed website in `www.mywebsite.com` However, when I put links to my website in other websites, I do not do it directly to the subdomain: Instead of this:               http://fr.mywebsite.com/article/article123/      I do this:               http://www.mywebsite.com/article/article123/      So the user gets redirected to that article in his language, or english if the user's language is not avaiable:               http://en.mywebsite.com/article/article123/      My question is, how do this affect SEO? Will the subdomains benefit from the backlinks? or just the main domain? (which would be a problem as there's no real content indexed there).


Transferring domain from netfirms control panel to VPS server(netfirms)

HI All, I wanted to transfer a register domain from the control panel of the Netfirms to the VPS server of the Netfirms


Which kind of public sitemap should I build for a search based navigation site

I have a search based navigation web-site. Each query has filters as well as sort-by. The search results point to end-pages inside the site. Each of those pages has many outlinks to other end-pages. Currently I have a XML sitemap which directs crawlers to all the end pages. I'm trying to add a silo sitemap directory to improve SEO. Assuming this is the right direction I have a couple of options:   1. end pages sorted alphabetically.    2. Pages by major search filters, and then divide alphabetically.   3. Pages for every filter and cross option between them and the sort-by.  Which would you recommend and why? NOTE: I'm not referring to a XML sitemap.


does having a header image repeated on multiple pages effect seo?

I heard from someone that having a header banner image repeated on every single page makes google see it as redundant. Is this true?


SEO consequences for merging country sites in a .com

I am in the process of refactoring a number of rental portals I've built for a company with locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Instead of the current setting of each country site running under its own domain name:   * www.companyname.de   * www.companyname.ch   * www.companyname.at I would **love** to merge them all in this way:   * www.companyname.com/de   * www.companyname.com/ch   * www.companyname.com/at with the country TLDs doing a 301 redirect to the respective .com address. However, I have been repeatedly told not to do this due to likely problems with SEO - the business is very SEO dependent, and being a rental chain, needs to be strong in local results. So the question is:   * Is there an unavoidable hit in Search Engine Optimization when redirecting to a central .com domain?   * What measures can be taken to soften the blow? What comes to my mind is explicitly specifying a `lang` attribute in the `html` tag.    * Are there any other ways to specifically point out geographical location for sub-directories?


Multiple Host Effect on SEO?

I am running the primary portion of my website on Google App Engine and using that to generate about 30% of the actual pages on the website and then I am using WordPress to run the Updates section which is around 70% of the pages from the site. Is there any effect on SEO or how the website shows up in Google searches? I would imagine that there is no effect but I wanted to see if there is anything that I can do to make sure it is that way.


GZipped Images - Is It Worth?

Most image formats are already compressed. But in fact, if I take an image and compress it [gzipping it], and then I compare the compressed one to the uncompressed one, there is a difference in size, even though not such a dramatic difference. The question is: is it worth gzipping images? the content size flushed down to the client's browser will be smaller, but there will be some client overhead when de-gzipping it. Please advise.


Can I redirect the HTTP request towards an old folder to the homepage using .htaccess file?

I have to following situation: I had an old blog that was made using Joomla (this blog was indexed well enough by search engines). For some problems I delete it and I have create it again using WordPress. Now I have many visit (from Google) that leading to specific pages of the old site (pages that don't exist in the new version). For example I have visit to URL as: `/scorejava/index.php/corso-spring- mvc/1-test` that don't exist on my new site. I would know if using the _.htaccess_ file (or other sistem) I can redirect the HTTP request directed to some subfolder (that don't exist in the new version) to the homepage of my new site. For example I have the request towards the void URL: `/scorejava/index.php/corso-spring-mvc/1-test`. And I would create a regular expression that say something like: all the request toward the subfolder `corso-spring-mvc` (and all it's content file and subfolder) have to be redirected to `www.scorejava.com`. Is it possible?


Hiding page content from Google when it is duplicated across several sites

I would like to hide some content from Google. Because a client has multiple websites with the same content then he gets a warning about duplicate content on some of them (multiple countries, same products same description for the products). I tried loading the content of the page with Ajax after the page has loaded but Google still sees it (hence the warning about duplicate content). Is there a better way to do this with Ajax? Can I run somehow the AJAX that loads the result after the page has loaded in a way that is not executed by Google. I would like to avoid any Black Hat if possible (I fully understand that this can be considered black hat too). I have also tried converting the text to images, that works decently but the text is not crisp enough even with AA enabled. I understand the Iframe trick too, but I want to get to it only if AJAX is not possible. Did anybody try putting functionality in an external JS file, not allowing google bot from indexing it and putting a function that loads AJAX in there externally?


SEO/link-juice implications of 'www.' links versus links without 'www.'

I remember reading ages ago that it's a good idea to choose either `www.domain.com` or `domain.com` as your main URL and then set the other one as a 301 redirect to point to your domain? The reason provided was:   1. Some people may link to `www.domain.com`   2. Other links may point to `domain.com` In order to not lose 'SEO link juice', the individual recommended setting up a 301 redirect from one to the other. Has this changed? Is it true? I would have guessed that Google (and other search engines) would be smart enough to whack some code in their algorithm to understand that in most cases `www.domain.com` = `domain.com`?


Changing CSS styling for static HTML site with only FTP access

A client has an older static HTML site which I would like to port over to WordPress, but I have been informed that this can be very time consuming re 50 pages. I have FTP access for various reasons because the owner cannot get the login details for me, and have found that there is no _style.css_ files/folders even though I see CSS styling in the code on each page. How would I go about changing the CSS style for just the home page so I can give the page a more up to date look? Directly via the CSS styling code on the page?


How many keywords should be selected for SEO?

I am very new in this field and I wanted to do SEO for my blog .   1. How many keywords should I select?   2. After selecting the keywords,should I always focus on those keywords only?I mean whatever the post is I must add those keywords?or should it depend upon the posts?


How to reactivate AdSense account?

My website was not approved on AdSense because of lack of content. Yes my mistake, but now I have added content and still do. But I can't find a way to resubmit the request to AdSense to be accepted and show Ads. Please let me know what stepts should I take to activate Google AdSense?


Google Search API

Can someome tell me if there is an API to get search results form Google? I went through the Google Search APIs, but could not find anything that will let me get search results (the custom search api is limited to searching few sites only I think). I have heard some tools on the web use a generic search api. Is there any such API?


Conditional RedirectMatch based on IP

How do I use this `RedirectMatch` with limiting by IP address? This is what I have right now, and it works as is:               RewriteRule ^dir.*$ http://www.mysite.org/otherdir/ [R=302,L]      I want this to work only if _not_ accessed from two different IP addresses. A visit from any other IP address should execute this code in my _.htaccess_. **Edit:**   Exact code as it appears in my _.htaccess_ file:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\.0\.0\.1 [OR]     RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^xx\.xxx\.xxx\.x    #masked on purpose     RewriteRule ^dir.*$ http://www.mysite.org/otherdir/ [R=302,L]     </IfModule>      **Edit 2:** I am now using this in my .htaccess file `RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\\.0\\.0\\.1` `RewriteRule ^conference - [F]` This works on my local machine, but if I switch to my external IP address, it's completely ignored.


How do websites like Mangafox.com update its content so quick?

Was just curious as to how websites like mangafox update their content so quick. Do they have people watching different sites or do they usually have some automated program?


Windows - Apache HTTP server - access to other directories on local FS

I have a Windows 7 laptop with an installation of the Apache HTTP server (just for development purposes, not accessible from outside). My problem is that I have my web applications located in two different directories on two different HD partitions. How do I configure Apache to be able to launch applications from both locations? I tried configuring one of them as the document root and pointing to the other one with a hard-link (but hard-links cannot point to folders) or sym-link (but Apache does not seem to understand Windows sym-links).


How to stop analytics tracking GET variables?

Google tracks every GET variable as a single page.               1 visit - example.com/register.php?ref=6     1 visit - example.com/register.php?ref=12     1 visit - example.com/register.php?ref=2      Is it possible to disable the tracking of GET variables?               3 visits - example.com/register.php


How to register a single character SLD

Most of the major registrars have a 3 character minimum for second-level domains. However, I know that it's possible to register them. (a.cc, o.co) You can ever register single unicode domain names (௫.net, ✈.com, ಠ.com) How is that possible? I know that IANA has most of the .coms restricted, but other TLDs are available and I'm sure more are to come.


How do you value keywords across SEO and SEM?

For example the cost of a keyword in Google PPC system does not equal it's value, just how much people are willing to pay for it. Really not sure if the question makes sense, so please feel free to ask questions. Thanks!


how can i a centered and fixed div on html?

first of all sorry for my english. :) I need to do a html web with a table, td, div, any kind of this, fixed and centered (vertical and horizontal) of that size: 1010px of width and 565px of height. There's a way to do that without using frames or iframes and that the table, div or anything has a width and heigh no autosizable? Thanks a lot :) Laura


Can a web site charge for inbound links

On our company web site, we have a page which lists all the magazine articles and web articles that talk about our products. It makes sense that magazine articles are shown in PDF format because they are scans of a physical magazine, but our marketing department also uses PDF for web articles. I asked them why not just link to the URL of the article, and they told me that most of these web-zines charge a fee for linking directly to their content. Has anyone else heard of this? It doesn't make any sense to me for a multitude of reasons:   * How can you charge someone for linking to you?   * Why would you put up a barrier to getting an inbound link? Some people struggle to get inbound links.   * How is it free to re-publish in PDF format? I would expect that's where they would be charging money.


Can my website have an image and no date in its Google SERP?

The majority of the traffic to the website I am working on is organic. I was assigned to make updates so that our SERP shows an image to increase the click-through rate on our #1 result. Unfortunately, the image seems to be tied with a 2005 date. Whenever we get the image to show, it shows this 2005 date (which is when Google first crawled the page), and the date goes away when the image is gone. I've attempted to change the date picked up by Google, since the page was updated many times since 2005, but with no luck (the "new" date will only show when the image does not). I was wondering if there was some way of showing an image without showing a date. The content in this particular page is for a definition that does not change often (maybe once every few years), and so it would be better to have no date at all, although changing the date itself to a 2014 date would be nice as well (the page was recently updated). Edit: previous image vs image used vs logo: ![Company image logo example](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vS7KU.jpg) This was the first image that was used. It was made in NOV 2013, and was meant to be used to appear in social media (using the og:image tag). When this image appeared, the Google SERP showed a 2005 date. Refer to this as IMAGE_1. ![Company og:image example](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZovO8.jpg) This was the second image that was used. The first image appeared cropped on our SERP, and we had hoped that the 2005 date was associated with the first image. This image appeared just how we wanted it; however, the 2005 date still appeared on the SERP. This image was created in 2014. Refer to this as IMAGE_2. ![Company logo example](http://i.stack.imgur.com/G7iRg.jpg) This is our company logo. IMAGE_2 is basically this image with added white- space so that it would work for the 200x200 requirements for Facebook, and so that it would display properly in the SERP. I do not know when this image was created. Refer to this as IMAGE_3.


How would you establish user credibility for your web app?

One of the problems with general public facing apps is to deal with fake user accounts. Using an Open ID service doesn't solve this, as anyone can open multiple Google accounts and register as many different users with many different open ID accounts. Notice that this question is beyond authentication - I'm assuming that the user behind the fake user accounts takes the time to authenticate by email, and uses a legitimate username and password. In StackExchange apps this is done by giving a minimum of 15 rep before the user can do anything significant on the site. Not all webapps have this luxury, as some apps are built for short-lived user accounts, such as e-commerce apps or certain forums, which usually do not build a long term relationship with users. Is there a systematic way to establish user credibility?


Redirect HTTPS request to HTTP in Apache

Can an HTTPS request be redirected to an HTTP request in Apache? If so, how?


Other than Google, how do I decide which search engines to optimize for?

Google has extensive tools for webmasters, and good SEO seems to be directed at Google first and foremost. But what other search engines should I be worrying about? I could look at my logs, but then, if my site is poorly optimized for them, they may not be significant. How do I decide what search engines to cater to?


Include escrow account in my Market Place Website

I want to build a marketplace in my website, and I want to supervise all the transactions in this Market Place, thus I want the buyer to put his money in my escrow account before paying the seller. I thought to use PayPal, so what do I need to include in my User Interface? My website's PayPal User Name? Any serial # ?


Confirm that a dns zone is served by a nameserver

We currently have a domain which has custom nameservers. Our host has their own nameservers. I'd like to switch our domain to use our host's nameservers for a while. Our host tells me that their nameservers hold a replica of our dns zone, but I'd like to confirm this before I switch. Is there a command line tool I can use that I can use to answer the question _"does this nameserver know the dns zone of this domain?"_ Hope that makes sense! Thanks, Adam


Are Google affiliate ads automatically included if you use Google AdSense?

If you're running Google AdSense on your site will it automatically include Google Affiliate ads as a 3rd party network if it thinks that will optimize revenue? Or do you have to explicitly setup Google Affiliates and opt in and setup the relevant JavaScript etc?


SEO for a wallpaper site

I am administering a wallpaper website. It hasn't got much content. Pictures mainly and at the moment my sitemap has 1700 entries that includes all the pages ( download pages for single items also ). do you think having that many pages in your sitemap is a good practice and won't hurt my SEO? Or should I keep just the main pages in my sitemap? ( main category pages that list all the pages to the respective download page of an image) That brings down the number of of page in sitemap to 28 pages. Please suggest


problem on my site

Errors found while checking this document as XHTML How and from where repaired ,please help my hello, I have a problem on my site, was discovered by the program (A1 website analyzer) you can fix my site? Because I really do not know about the programming language, if it please email me and thank you please see this link it http://jigsaw.w3.org/css- validator/validator?uri=http://www.moneybillion.com/#errors **Validation Output: 19 Errors** Line 193, Column 261: there is no attribute "data-count" … **ass="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data- via="elibeto1199">Twee** …✉ You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead). This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information. How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash. Line 193, Column 283: there is no attribute "data-via" …ton" data- count="horizontal" data-via="elibeto1199">Tweet This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information. How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash. **Line 193, Column 393: required attribute "type"** not specified **…ript" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js">var facebook** = {✉ The attribute given above is required for an element that you've used, but you have omitted it. For instance, in most HTML and XHTML document types the "type" attribute is required on the "script" element and the "alt" attribute is required for the "img" element. Typical values for type are type="text/css" for and type="text/javascript" for . **Line 194, Column 23: element "data:post.url"** undefined **url : ""** ,✉ You have used the element named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not define an element of that name. This error is often caused by: incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Frameset" document type to get the "" element), by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "" or "" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead). by using upper-case tags in XHTML (in XHTML attributes and elements must be all lower-case). **Line 197, Column 62: required attribute "type" not specified** **src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/facebook.js">** ✉


looking for cotton paper texture

I would like to find a nice white cotton paper texture, which is very common in printwork, but seems really difficult to find online. this will be for commercial work.


zlib compression issues

I'm having some issues running zlib compression on my site .. Firstly if I enable zlib compression in .htaccess using: `php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler` then I receive thousands of lines of the following error: > PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in > Unknown on line 0 I have checked all files used for whitespace and any other characters that shouldn't be there with a hex editor but I could not get that error to subside with zlib turned on in .htaccess. Therefore I have tried to turn zlib compression on in the php.ini file using:               zlib.output_compression "1"     zlib.output_compression_level "1"      However I'm now told by compression checkers that I have no compression turned on so it doesn't appear to be in the correct format?


Bizarre image loading problem from apache2

Users have complained a few times about seeing a bizarre set of pink or green stripes on our webpage. At first I thought there were a rash of video card outages, but then someone sent me a screenshot from their browser (IE8). I later saw the same thing, but with slightly different colors on Chrome. Users have experienced this on their iPads and iPhones (iOS Safari). Because I've optimized the site to cache images, the bad image stays around until you clear your cache, so once you do, it resolves itself. My assumption is that the transmission of the image is being cut off mid-stream and then staying that way, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. Here's what I've checked: Header length is being sent, and transmission looks okay (wget sample below):               wget http://www.superiorlivestock.com/templates/sla2/images/wallbg2.jpg     --2012-04-05 08:46:00--  http://www.superiorlivestock.com/templates/sla2/images/wallbg2.jpg     Resolving www.superiorlivestock.com (www.superiorlivestock.com)... [ip redacted]     Connecting to www.superiorlivestock.com (www.superiorlivestock.com)|[ip redacted]|:80... connected.     HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK     Length: 45926 (45K) [image/jpeg]     Saving to: `wallbg2.jpg'      Images are not being served gzipped (apache conf below):               SetOutputFilter DEFLATE     SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary      The site is www.superiorlivestock.com, and here's a sample of the bad page load: ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OYTb3.jpg) Is there something obvious I'm missing? Am I saving my images in the wrong format somehow?


How many domains per each TLD are registered?

I hope this is the right place to ask: For a little research I need to know how many Domains per TLD are registered (approximately). I've only found some lists with the top 10 TLDs and their number of registered domains...


As a beginner, I would like to know which should be the markup language to startup with

I am a beginner in Web Designing. For sure a CMS like Joomla (Joomla 3.1, now) is very useful for one who doesn't care about coding. But... I know for sure that the ability of coding really helps a lot in the production of stunning websites. And I wish to produce magnificent Sites, only. I measured my forces by producing a first Site, namely A Site for the free tuition of Computer Matters, using Joomla 2.5 This Site is still under development. I learned, by attending Lynda movies, that XHTML.1 is preferable, when compared with HTML 4.1 Now, my questions are: Would it be preferable to start with HTML5? I don't think so. Is it true that HTML5 works badly with certain browser like Explorer?...and not so well in any case? I would do really appreciate a Master's advice. Tks Bruno


There is website Service for unavailable domains?

I have few domains, I don't want to use it on my website and I want to redirect different server, says site not available. I would be happy if I can set different message for every domain.


Domain name at GoDaddy in not being linked to site hosted at Webhostingpad?

I just purchased the domain name at GoDaddy and I wanted to link it to my WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM hosting account. This is what I set in my nameservers: Nameservers: (Last update 11/23/2011) NS1.WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM NS2.WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MPbaA.png) but formatron.net still not being linked to my site at WEBHOSTINGPAD.COM. Am I doing something wrong?


Short keyword-only HTML Title or Long Titles - to rank better

I would like to know if **long html titles should be used** for pages instead of _google adwords keyword tool based_ **short titles** - for SEO / Ranking purposes? I feel that it is a **mistake** to use short html titles made up of 2-3 words **strictly based on google adwords keyword tool**. I have tried using short ones based on what the adwords keyword tool suggested, but **that has served me no purpose** as I cannot see my website pages anywhere in the search results. Please correct me, if wrong.


Is there a tool or browser add-on which will overlay images with their filename?

Is there a tool or browser add-on which will overlay images with their filename and/or alt tag? Without needing to mouse over each one. Something like this made up example: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/D8RdO.jpg)


Pre-Launch Indexing - Is it good to posting on-topic content for indexing prior to launch?

Is it worthwhile to put up some content, sans design, just for the purpose of getting indexed on the topic/product of the site that will be launched. For example: Domain = www.YourCity-FooProduct.com Idea is to post a page or two about FooProduct, and even YourCity, perhaps the company name, phone, etc., just for the benefit of getting indexed on that topic for a longer period of time than would otherwise be achieved if there were nothing on the site until the site design and content were completed? After launch, the content would be replaced entirely. The topic(s) remain the same, but there would be no segue to the full site.


Google indexes my site as https as opposed to the correct http

Over the last month, the home page of my website hosted on Media Temple's grid server and has been appearing in google listings as an https website. I have never requested or needed the extra security of ssl and as such have not purchased a secure certificate. I have submitted a xml google site map for the site and added a .htaccess redirect to the correct http file. I am at a loss as to why this is happening.   Any advice would be much appreciated.


If my web application is under a server will it perform better than if it is under a shared hosting?

Assuming that I have build an application using PHP, let's say something like vBulletin or assume that I will install the vBulletin itself. Will it performs better if it is in a VPS rather than a shared hosting? To clarify my question, does the VPS or the dedicated servers make the language perofrms at its best? If no, why then when I visit a website which is running on top of server always has an amazing peroframnce while when I visit a website on top of shared hosting it perofrms well but not as good as the other?


Are send to a friend features in websites obselete?

Often I am asked to create send to a friend forms for websites where a user can enter a few of their friends email addresses to which a URL is forwarded via email. My question is now that we have so many like buttons for services such as Facebook and Twitter are these forms even necessary any more? Do people even still fill them in in your experience? I ask as I generally tend to avoid creating them due to their propensity to get hammered by spammers attempting to re-purpose them for nefarious ends. Also are there any tips to help mitigate the risk when using PHP? For example could tracking and rate limiting IP addresses be a good approach? Any other ideas in this direction? I am totally against any form of captcha and hate websites that use them. Currently I am using a combination of PHPMailer and SwiftMailer across various projects for the actual sending of the mail.


HTTP response for deleted or disabled items on ecommerce store

What HTTP response should you send when an item/category on your ecommerce site has been disabled or deleted? 410 looks correct for deleted products but not sure about something that has been disabled temporarily


How long can I purchase a expired domain name?

I am currently interested in a domain name. Its whois information are > Updated Date: 10-jan-2012 > > Creation Date: 1-dec-2010 > > Expiration Date: 1-dec-2011 How long I still need to wait to purchase this domain name freely as it is a unregistered domain name? What's the 'updated date'? What's the usual steps for an expired domain name?


Where can I find the most up-to-date information on my domain's name servers?

I just switched registrars for a bunch of domains and the new registrar didn't copy over my existing name servers. Now all my pages appear as "parked" domains when you visit them. I've gone in and updated all of the name servers with my new registrar, back to their old values, but I want to make sure those changes have taken affect. I know I need to wait for ISPs to update their caches once the name servers change back, but I was wondering if there was some central ICANN database I could check to make sure they were updated properly. Thanks!


open source php hotel booking system

Anyone recommend a good open source hotel booking system built for a LAMP stack?


How can I tell if someone is logged into a google account?

At this point I don't want to interface w/ google account, I just would like to know if they are logged in to a google account or not, and then serve slightly different links if they are|aren't. I'm using PHP and strict (where possible) HTML 4.


Speed up Heroku (small) app

I want to speed up my Heroku app, should I add an extra Dyno or the first Worker? Thanks.


How can I get an "Official site" banner/area on Bing?

If I search for a product name on Bing, for example "paint.net", the first result is something that looks like an advertising area, but it's called "Official Site".   How is it possible to get something like that for my own products?


I bought a WordPress theme from a person claiming to hold a developer license, but, later I found that he didn't have the developer license. He had purchased it as a basic license. Can this impact my theme in terms of licensing issues? What if the theme maker finds this? Is there a way to get caught? I know this is a common practice on the web, but wanted to make sure that i am using the right things on my site.


SEO consideration for duplicate sites

I am building a brochure-ware website for a company that sells products all across the world. They need the site to ask the user what region they are in before using the site; there are 5 regions. This is because there are different products offered to different regions and each region may or may not want to customize their own content. However, at launch and likely forever, most of the pages will be the exact same minus what is listed in the footer and in the product selection menu. _My question is how should I structure the sitemap for this site for best SEO?_ Should I be concerned with duplicate content penalties and/or cannibalizing the site's presence on the SERP? Some considerations:   * The client wants to be able to print links directly to regional specific content bypassing any prompt for the user to select a region (to ensure they land on the target page).    * The client cannot have a 'default' region so the user must have a region specified   * "Clean" urls are important, but there is wiggle room   * The client does not want each region to have its own domain   * There will be a link on the page to allow users to specify a different region   * The client is not concerned with localization ...at this time   * Some products are available in multiple regions A quick list of options I am considering:   1. **www.site.com/region/page**   2. **region.site.com/page**   3. **www.site.com/page?region** (no cookie, pages require the parameter. If visited without; the user must select a region)   4. **www.site.com/page** (using cookie and a splash screen if needed; could pass parameter in to set the region for direct linking) Thanks in advance for your advice.


Are mailto: links practically deprecated?

I was thinking...   1. Mailto: links are handled by standalone email clients only.   2. Most users nowadays use webmail (like GMail).   3. Webmail can't handle mailto: links.   4. When a webmail user clicks a mailto: link, he gets either a confusing message about no email client installed, or the link opening in an email client he doesn't use.   5. Anyone can copy and paste an email address, considering the addresses don't always come in a mailto:. Ergo, mailto: links are harmful and deprecated? Should I not use them when I need to display an email address?


How may I provide Google Analytics access to a 3rd party?

I have a marketing guy who is helping me with marketing my website. I want to give him access to my GA page so that he can see the numbers, for performance monitoring etc. Does anyone know how I can do this?


Change of domain - SEO backlink inheritance

I've just built a new site and switched to a new domain. The previous domain had good SEO performance and had hundreds of quality backlinks - I set up a 301 redirect for any requests to the old domain name, and I assumed that the new domain would inherit the previous domain's backlinks. It's still early days yet but am I right in thinking this? If i check yahoo site explorer or google's webmaster tools, i don't see any of the backlinks including those which pointed to the old domain.


Getting link to abstract indexed in Google Scholar

We have a large digital library with thousands of papers indexed in Google Scholar. We allow Google Scholar to index our PDFs but they're blocked unless you have a subscription. So Google has full-text indexing/searching of our PDFs (great!) but then the links point just to those PDFs (boo!) instead of the more helpful abstract pages. Does anyone know what could cause an issue like this? I am, to the best of my knowledge, following all of the guidelines laid out in their Inclusion Guidelines. Here's some example meta data:               <meta name="citation_title" content="Sample Title"/>     <meta name="citation_author" content="LastName, FirstName"/>     <meta name="citation_publication_date" content="2012/06/26"/>     <meta name="citation_volume" content="1"/>     <meta name="citation_issue" content="1"/>     <meta name="citation_firstpage" content="10"/>     <meta name="citation_lastpage" content="20"/>     <meta name="citation_conference_title" content="Name of the Conference"/>     <meta name="citation_isbn" content="1-234567-89-X"/>     <meta name="citation_pdf_url" content="http://www.example.org/p/1234/proceeding_1234.pdf"/>     <meta name="citation_fulltext_html_url" content="http://www.example.org/f/1234/"/>     <meta name="citation_abstract_html_url" content="http://www.example.org/p/1234/"/>     <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.org/p/1234/" />      `example.org/p/1234` is the abstract page for the article; `example.org/f/1234` is the fulltext link accessible to subscribers only (and to Google Scholar). `example.org/p/1234/proceeding_1234.pdf` is the fulltext PDF link.


How do I host .cur image cursor files?

I'm using a `.cur` file as an image cursor. I uploaded it to the only image host that I could find that accepts `.cur` files, but lately it doesn't properly load the cursor anymore. My webhost now doesn't accept `.cur` files. I converted it to `.png` but those won't show in IE Basically I'm looking for a way to host/upload a `.cur` file.


Page missing/dropped from Google

This is bizarre: One of my pages seems to have completely dropped from Google. It used to be ranking really well, then suddenly it's gone. The URL is not in Google at all. It doesn't have a `noindex` tag, or a _robots.txt_ to not index it either. It has simply vanished from Google. There is nothing spammy about it whatsoever, and the site has no penalties. Any idea what has caused this, and how to recover?


What does "Allow: /" mean in a robots.txt file?

Please help me to understand the following code in _robots.txt_ :               Allow: /


Two DNS providers for one Domain Name?

I have a domain name `www.example.com` hosted by Namecheap. Namecheap just got hit with a huge DDOS which meant the domain name stopped responding and in turn one of my customers websites wasn't accessible via the domain name (IP only). Is it possible to have a backup service whilst still having the domain externally hosted so if it's not responding via namecheap, it can lookup the address from another source? The TTL value on the domain name is very low, could this also have an impact? If I increase the time, would it help? I don't normally worry about this area but this DDOS has got me thinking so apologies if my terminology is wrong on a few points ...


Can we tell search engines (google, yahoo) that a particular website is geographical region specific?

I have a website which caters to a specific district. It is of no use if the visitor is from outside this district. **Question:** Can I tell/indicate to search engines (mainly google and Yahoo) that this website be included in their search results only if the search is generated from a specific district or a geographic region? Note: The current domain is country specific.


Replacing url parameters tool usage with canonical / robots.txt to avoid crawl time

For a long time I've been getting `Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs` warnings, which I know don't necessarily indicate there is a problem, but I am trying to reduce the amount of links that are crawlable by Google to help him focus on what's more important. I'm thinking of changing a URL Parameter settings with a canonical link. I have filter parameters which I've set as `Narrows` and `Specifies` in WMT URL Parameters: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3Zw0e.png)   These internal filter pages have value, but bringing the user to the main page without any filters is almost good enough, and I think this is a trade off I should make considering I have too many pages compared to my reputation, thus getting those warning messages. Two options I'm thinking of:   1. Adding a meta canonical tag for urls with a filter parameters selected, to the page without the narrowing / specification of these filters.   2. Adding robots.txt to avoid crawling of those pages. (this will not waste the crawler's time trying to find the canonical meta tag, but will throw away the current link power these pages have to the trash, instead of passing it on the the page without any filter selected). Would you recommend any of these?


Why use underscores in URLs with UTMs?

Back in the day (2005), Matt Cutts said "use dashes, not underscores" in URLs. But that was before search engines got smart, and now it seems it doesn't really matter what you use in canonical URLs. But what about URLs with UTMs? **How can dashes vs. underscores help us understand traffic in Google Analytics?** B2C published a blog post in September 2013 analyzing the different ways that different companies use UTMs in email marketing materials. At the end of the Gilt City email, the author says: > An underscore should be used in “san-francisco” part of utm_campaign. This > tells us it is one word and separates it from the other information. When the author gets to the Zillow email, he mentions: > Separating different pieces of information by a dash (“-”) helps to parse > them easily in analytics tools. I'm modestly savvy with Google Analytics, and I'm having trouble seeing the advantage of using an underscore to link compound phrases such as `promoted link`, `sponsored story`, `sidebar ad` or other multi-word phrases that I might choose to regularly use in my company's UTM schema. Is there an advantage in Google Analytics to linking these words one way or the other?


Building domain authority for rich snippets

I recently added breadcrumb and product rich snippets for my site but they are not being displayed in Google's returned search results. My other sites seem to be fine but my eCommerce site's rich snippets just aren't getting picked up. According to my research the site needs more authority. Does anyone have any experience with this, or any idea on how to build "rich snippet authority"?