How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?

I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named `/view.php?id=1234` and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a `301 Moved Permanently` redirection of each one of them to `/view/name-of-the-page-1234/` was created. This was about 5 years ago, and everything went fine. But recently thousands of pages have been reappering in Google with the old `view.php` URL! So I have about 20,000 results in common between the redirected and the unredirected URLs, which I am guessing will be sooner or later penalized for duplicated content. I have been told about disallowing `view.php` in `robots.txt`, but I think that wouldn't be a good idea since Google would stop crawling redirections completely. How could I stop this duplicate content from appearing in searches and avoid being penalized?


Are domain hacks advisable? and how do they affect SEO?

I'm interested in creating a domain hack, using the .es ccTLD. If the website does not target Spain, is this advisable? I've seen URL shortening services use ccTLDs to provide shorter URLs, however their main website (i.e. bit.ly as bitly.com), uses a standard .com TLD. If I do use an .es ccTLD to pluralize an English word for an English website (i.e. branch.es), would this hurt SEO? I don't want search engines (or people, for that matter) to think the website is in Spanish, and to only serve to those who speak Spanish instead of those who speak English. Any insight you may have would be helpful. Thanks for your time and help! ~Dustin Tigner


cheap paid mail forwarding service for 200-300 accounts

I am looking for a service which can easily forward up to 200-300 email accounts. I am ok with paying a nominal fee . I don't want to manage yet another mail server. I looked into mailroute, but its 500 US$ per month for my use case (way too expensive) Cheap would be 10$ per hundred users. Perhaps with unlimited forwarding of email.


How do I setup a subdomain in godaddy.com and point to another server?

When I create a subdomain in godaddy.com the only option is to forward that subdomain, and I don't want to forward it, I want it to point to another server. I don't want the main site or the email accounts to be disrupted either. Currently I have a main site: walkerseo.com and a subdomain: demo.walkerseo.com that is working fine. demo.walkerseo.com is hosted on a static site and walkerseo.com is a website that is hosted within a CMS. The static hosting people keep pointing to godaddy.com and godaddy.com tells me I have to setup the subdomain at the static hosting place. I am frustrated and confused and need to get some subdomains setup. Any help is appreciated.


How important is a unique number in URLs for inclusion in Google News?

Various SEO consultancies have recommended that to get a site included in Google News, the URLs have to conform to a rather strict, and non-obvious format namely that they have to: > Display a three-digit number. The URL for each article must contain a unique > number consisting of at least three digits. For example, we can't crawl an > article with this URL: `http://www.google.com/news/article23.html`. We can, > however, crawl an article with this URL: > `http://www.google.com/news/article234.html`. Keep in mind that if the only > number in the article consists of an isolated four-digit number that > resembles a year, such as `http://www.google.com/news/article2006.html`, we > won't be able to crawl it. However, there a number of news publishers who are listed in Google News, and don't have a unique, non-year number in them (i.e. The Guardian, which uses URLs of the form `http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/08/article- name`). Has anyone had any experience of getting sites listed with URLs such as this, and did they have to go through additional steps with Google to get them listed, or was a simple submission enough?


AdSense CPM and content topics

I run a few blogs on topics like programming, linux tips and network security. I noticed the following:   1. Till last year had only 1 blog that had posts on PHP, linux tips, network security etc. The AdSense RPM was around 1.00.   2. Then I split the content into 3 separate blogs, one focused on web development/PHP/MySQL. second one focused on Linux/Windows how-tos and tips and third one focused on network security and related network topics. The Adsense RPM rose significantly for 2 blogs, and was 1.38 (PHP blog), 0.87 (tech tips blog) and 1.90 (network security blog). In the month of april 2013 the site on network security had the highest traffic and the Adsense income of that site was twice that of all three sites combined previously. My question is simple, does focusing on one topic lead to higher CPC/CPM?


Featured Links/Blogroll (irrelevant links) in a blog is good or bad for SEO?

While I’m checking my websites’ back links using backlink watch tool I saw so many backlinks are from Blogspots where my links are placed under the category featured Links. The main problem is my web site is related to boxing but that blog is related to software and viruses. I don’t know whether this backlinks are good or bad in SEO point of view. If I remove those links my backlink will reduce. Will my web sites PR decreases if I remove those backlinks?


One-user databaseless CMS authentication

**Background:** My client needs a **_one-user_** bare-bones content management system, which should be capable to   * Edit text-content in plain-text or in WYSIWYG-style   * Possibly create new subpages   * Update image gallery, ie. upload files   * Delete previously uploaded files No need for commenting or such interaction. Requirements:   * PHP   * JavaScript   * _**No database_** Currently I'm planning to code it from scratch, since the functionalities are somewhat basic. What is the best available authentication method for this lone content admin? Options that came to my mind first:   1. .htaccess & .htpasswd based solution   2. hard-coded, salted, encrypted PHP password with sessions. While option 2 is definitely more elegant, I wish the option 1 would suffice. The username & password combo would be located outside the public_html / www -folder structure. * * * **Real question:** Is .htaccess & .htpasswd authentication sufficient? Is it adequate security-wise? What are the possible pitfalls? (Okay, logout is one rather major pitfall, since it's practically impossible to implement due to stateless HTTP/1.1 specification...) **Bonus question 1:** What are the other good options that I didn't think of? Out of the box ideas are always welcome. Email-editing? Why not :-) **Bonus question 2:** Are there similar databaseless CMSes readily available? Please bear in mind there is no need for more users nor user-management. I'm not asking programming tips but rather concepts how it could be done. * * * **The RFC 2617, which I found through Piers' link below, answers the most of my _real question_**


Switching from Squarespace to hosted WordPress site w/ domain at GoDaddy and email through Google Apps?

I have a website client that has their domain with GoDaddy, website with Squarespace, and is using Google Apps for their domain's email. We are building a new WordPress based website and will launch that soon on a recently purchased hosting plan (standard cPanel based service) while keeping Google Apps for email. I believe that in their GoDaddy DNS editing area, we just need to do the following steps, could someone with knowledge of this confirm?   1. change A record with the heading of Host and value of @ to the IP of the new hosting account?   2. also change the nameservers to the values of the new host?   3. all the MX records stay the same and the CName records stay the same? Thank you very much for the help. I'll attach a screenshot of the GoDaddy DNS editing area for reference, with some info crossed out. ![GoDaddy screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EEx2P.jpg)


Where does one find syntax descriptions for IIS URL Rewrite condition input variables?

The need to understand what the variable represents and also perhaps examples of what it contains would be helpful. I've seen such postings for URL Rewrite of Apache in the documentation, but nothing official for IIS that I can see. I'm trying to understand what all these mean: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wdgGZ.jpg)


Can opening hours schema markup be used with the markup for local businesses or libraries?

Can the OpeningHours mark-up visible in this question for `schema.org/Store` (example 2) with microdata be used in conjunction with `schema.org/LocalBusiness` or `schema.org/Library`?


CPanel Visitors filled with bandwidth thieves

Issue: Strange and seemingly random entries on the CPanel Latest Visitors console, showing IPs accessing image files without any referring URL and not identified as Bots. Background: I have never had any website or IT training or instruction. I created several websites about transportation hobby subjects, which should be very calm and uneventful. The kind of stuff that might be interesting to a dozen or so people in the USA, Canada, Japanese, UK, and Australia. These websites were hosted with a web hosting company run by an absentee manager. They shut down and I transferred the domains to a new company, which turned all the controls over to me. About a month into the new service, and the largest of the websites exceeded the 5gb basic setting and had to be bumped up into the 15gb service and increased charge. I started watching the bandwidth usage climb, and figured out how to use the IP Blocker console. I have not managed to figure out HTAccess or Robots.txt, but will leave those for another time. I have managed to block most of the worth of the SEO Profiler and Chinese/Russian bots which don't follow Robots.txt rules anyway. And I have managed to block the rotating bunch of Russian/Ukranian URLs that cluster requests for one specific file a dozen times a day. But the bandwidth draw is not decreasing. I started noticing IPs requesting image files without any Referring URL, and not identified as a Bot, but identified as a browser or a cel phone. I know this is not normal surfing, because there are no Html files being pulled to call up the image files, and the image files are in clusters that do not correlate to any group used on any of the web pages. I am running the IPs through the Whois Lookups, and coming up with a couple groupings: Soviet Block countries - Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Estonia... Latin Speaking Countries - Brazil, Spain, Costa Rica... China. South Africa. All places with nothing to do with the website content as the topic matter was not available in those countries. And there are some IPs coming up as Canada, Washington State, New Jersey, etc., but I am hesitant to block those. What am I looking at here? Is there some kind of money making deal of aiming remote and overseas IPs at my websites and hitting a couple pictures in rapid succession a dozen times a day from 100+ different addresses?


How should I format my HTML emails

I am just starting to send HTML emails. I read that I need to include `<head>` and `<body>` tags in my HTML emails. Are there other tags, meta tags, or other things that need to be included too? I'm considering using an HTML5 boilerplate, but I'm not sure that would contain all of the standard web tags required.


How to send email on behalf of a user?

I'm working on an "invite a friend" feature and would like to send emails in which the "from" field is the email address of the user sending the invites. I saw that evernote's emails are sent like that, and gmail shows some text saying "via evernote.com". I'm wondering what's the correct way to do something like that and not get hit by spam filters. We're currently using postmark as the service through which we send our emails.


PayPal - Selling a single app

I would like to sell a desktop application over my website through PayPal. The user will receive a download link and a license key. Are there any PHP scripts availabe from PayPal IPN to do that? Thanks.


Guestbook Dead or Alive?

today i remembered one of my sites from 1999. It was on of my first. In those days it was the state of the art to use a guestbook? I never used one since then again. Are there any webmaster/designer/devs who still use this relic from the old days?


Effect of removing home page content

I have a business website that I'm working on and I'm replacing the text I initially had on the home page with new columnized paragraphs of text. The text I'm removing though has a `h1` tag and probably a good few keywords but I have no place for it now. The page is ranking first on Google for it's top keyword, would removing this content and replacing it with new content affect it's ranking much? Currently I just have it commented out with HTML tags `<!--` `\-->`, but this is probably bad practice and only a temporary fix.


Is there a course I can learn that'll allow me to build sites that can handle heavy traffic?

A programmer friend is forever telling me that when I begin to use Drupal, Joomla or WordPress that I will only create sites that will crash as soon as the site begins to receive more attention / traffic. This is very discouraging as my concern is that I'll make sites based on great concepts that will crash as soon as many people begin visiting. Are you aware of a course that I could purchase to learn to make a site able to handle heavy traffic?


Should I include "www" in my canonical URLs? What are the pros and cons?

What are the pros and cons of having `http://www.example.com/` vs `http://example.com/`? For example a problem I'm aware of is that if I use a domain without `www` I can't set a cookie for the current subdomain only (since there is no subdomain), and the cookies I set will be sent to all subdomains.


.htaccess: allow from - using dynamic IP - defining the static portion of my IP?

I'm looking to secure my phpMyAdmin dir from being accessed from other IPs than my own, albeit dynamic IP, let's say it is 191.164.1.xxx (xxx = being dynamic numbers). Referring to the Apache directive `allow from` in .htaccess files, can I define only the first static numbers in order to allow anything starting with the defined IP numbers and let it accept any numbers in the same fashion a wildcard works in other contexts? E.g. would would something like this work? : `allow from 191.164.1.`


How can I cause a browser to download a new copy of a web page when it thinks that its cached copy is still valid?

Sometimes when I make small changes to a website, I notice that certain browsers are very stubborn about downloading the page again. Both F5 and CTRL-R are worthless and the only way to fix it is to go through the options and manually tell it to clear the cache. I've used PHP before to send a cache- flush header, but is there a simpler or better way?


Google 404 errors on webmaster page

I have a lot of 404 errors on my webmaster's page. I don't know how google ended up on those urls. I checked my site many times to see if any links to those pages appear, but found nowhere. Is google trying out new urls on its own depending on the url structure?. Will these 404 errors result in bad outcome to my seo.


why is having no redirect between domain.com and www.domain.com wrong?

After asking this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8042748/facebook-login-returns-error- message-if-domain-accessed-without-www-prefix I was told that using domain.com and www.domain.com at the same time is wrong and, to cite the answer "You will end up with all sorts of problems". What kind of problems are those? The thing is the new company I work for does the same mistake and I'd like to explain them it's wrong and why but for now facebook login (which they don't use) and google analytics statistics mess I had to fix (4k selfreferrals a day) are the only reasons I know.


How to get rid of spam that sends from clients own email address?

I've Googled everywhere for a solution for this, but though the same issue appears to be happening to a lot of people, I havent found anything that helped. Several of my clients are receiving loads of spam emails with the senders email being their own. The emails subject line is: > Environmental corporation searching for representatives worldwide. The emails are not being sent from any scripts in the sites and all the code appears clean. I have also updated the sites CMS. Would anyone know how to get round this issue? Any help is appreciated!


Does an entry in DMOZ significantly help the ranking of a web site?

I have read that getting your site listed in the open directory (DMOZ) can significantly help boost your site's ranking in major search engines. Is this an 'old webmaster's tale' or does it really help?


Generating RSS Feeds Automatically?

I am running a static PHP website for the past 3 months. It's not a CMS but just simple PHP files (no database) in to which I add content. I am struggling to manually create RSS feeds as it is very time consuming. Can someone suggest me ways to save time creating RSS feeds? I am also looking to automate the process of RSS feed creation, maybe using variables? Please suggest.


Republishing blog posts on a popular website

I started my blog about programming yesterday and in order to promote and increase traffic I submitted my rss to Codeproject which pulls my posts and publishes them at Codeproject. While it increases the number of people reading my posts (but they are reading it at codeproject) I am worried that Google will penalize my site for duplicate content (Especially considering that Codeproject has much more reputation compared to my new website). The post at Codeproject has a link back to my blog post but it does not have "rel=canonical". So my question which one is better: a link from a high reputation website and some traffic or should I remove it from codeproject so that my blog is not penalized? What if codeproject adds "rel=canonical" to the link?


I want to add www prefix in my sub domain

I have a domain name `www.example.com`. I have a sub domain like this `image.example.com`. When, I am trying to open `www.image.example.com`, it is not opening. My requirements is to open sub domain adding `www`. Domain and sub domain are in different servers.


I would like permanently redirect page within website

I have couple hundred dynamic pages within the website, that I think to eliminate. They are indexed by search engine. I'm thinking to make permanent redirect to the home page of the website.               Example:          Dynamic page          http://www.domainname.com/dynamic_name.html               Home page               http://www.domainname.com/default.aspx      The home page has Google page rank 5. the dynamic pages has rank 0. If I do a redirect will it effect home page rank? What will be the best way to eliminate dynamic pages?


Reponsive Web Design : Does it download the same amount of data on every device?

I want to redesign my blog and website on wordpress to accommodate ever increasing mobile users and tablet users. I am also hearing about responsive design. I want to know does a responsive web design download the same amount of data on a computer screen as well a mobile device? I have also seen many big marketing firms have not invested in responsive web design and are still going for a separate website optimized for mobile. So what should I go for, a responsive web design or a separate website optimized for mobile?


Should I include PDF files in my sitemap.xml

Should I add a direct link to PDF files in my (xml) sitemap?


Links in natural text VS plain list format

Our home page features links to our 4 main sub pages (it's really more, but I'll use 4 as an example). It's currently just a list of links in the content body: >   * Custom websites designed for desktop, tablets, and mobile phones >   * Domain Name Registration >   * Website Hosting >   * Ecommerce Solutions > Disregarding user experience for better or worse and focusing on SEO only, I considered working the links into a paragraph in a more organic way: > We create custom websites designed for desktop, tablets, and mobile phones. > We take care of everything from domain name registration, website hosting, > ecommerce solutions and more! My assumption is that the paragraph form is preferred because it is more natural and reads better. From an SEO perspective, is there much of a difference?


Which private PHP proxy?

I'm looking for a private PHP proxy to put it on my hosting. I see there is lots of them so I'm wondering if I could get a recommendation on which ones are the best? Or something like "this one is better then the rest because of: ..."?


Removing Memcache and Memcached from a Centos server

A while back I started looking into caching, (I think) I mistakenly installed both Memcache and Memcached. If I cd / then I have both:               memcache/memcache-3.0.6     memcached/memcached-1.4.10      ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/m4ri8.png) How should I go about removing these completely from the server? I'm using Centos if that helps?


Mod rewrite rule question/help

I have the following ruleset in my .htaccess file which basically rewrites my php pages and makes them appear as subfolders, so for example, `http://www.mysite.co.uk/about-me/` points to `http://www.mysite.co.uk/about.php`:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.co.uk$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1 [R=301,NC,L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$          RewriteRule ^index.php$ /welcome-to-my-website/ [L,R=301,NC]     ReWriteRule ^welcome-to-my-website/$ index.php [NC,L]     ReWriteRule ^about-me/$ about.php [NC,L]     ReWriteRule ^my-portfolio/$ portfolio.php [NC,L]     ReWriteRule ^contact-us/$ contact.php [NC,L]      What I want to do is to automatically forward/redirect the root - http://www.mysite.co.uk/ - and the index.php page straight to /welcome-to-my- website/ via htaccess so that there is no duplicate content. Any idea how one may achieve this?


Should I create topics in a forum I'm about to launch so that new users won't feel it is "empty"?

I'm about to launch a discussion forum about Taiwan. I'm really trying to figure out how to deal with the first visitors. I've thought about the following so far:   1. Invite few friends to start some discussions and give some replies.   2. Create discussions myself and reply them myself (with another account). I don't want the first visitors to feel like the site is empty. Maybe I'm missing something. Any suggestions?


Why do we have to pay for a domain name?

The question may sound stupid but I find it very difficult to understand that why do we have to pay for a domain name if the web is free? And who do I pay? Why do I have to pay for a domain name?


What Range of Source Ports do web Browsers Use to Connect

When my web browser connects to a website, the source port my end is a number like 27825, what range of ports can it use and how regularly does it change?


Automated image/css sprite generation from website DOM

I know there are plenty of online tools which let's you upload your images there and it generates the appropriate CSS/sprite(s) to be used with them on your page. Is there any such website/tool which would take a website URL and parse from its DOM the images/css and calculate the sprites/css to be used specifically with that DOM, so you could just copy & replace your own CSS with the one provided by the tool? I know the complexity of such calculations, but it certainly sounds like something that can be done, so my question is, is there something ready and available already?


google analytics numbers

My google analytic numbers change downward randomly. Where once a particular page/post or even day will show 4000 visits, when I go back later in the day, the same variable is reduced to 1500 or something. Even my total numbers change downward. I'll look at the total page views for the month in the morning and then in again in afternoon and the second time they will always show several thousand fewer - what's going on?


Where would a spam bot be located?

I have a hosted website using a free hosting service, I received an email this afternoon saying that I have been suspended because my account has been compromised. Basically, someone is using my email account to mass send spam. I've changed all the passwords and everything but when my Gmail pulls the emails from the host it's still downloading loads of spam messages that show like this:               This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.          A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its     recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:            fi.nadiamonti@gmail.com         SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:         host 198.91.80.251 [198.91.80.251]: 554 5.6.0 id=23634-03 - Rejected by MTA on relaying, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10030):         554 Error: This email address has lost rights to send email from the system          ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------          Return-path: <admin@TIMFORDSWEBSITE.COM>     Received: from keenesystems.com ([66.135.33.211]:2370 helo=server211)             by absolut.x10hosting.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128)             (Exim 4.77)             (envelope-from <admin@TIMFORDSWEBSITE.COM>)             id 1TGwSW-002hHe-Lc             for fi.nadiamonti@gmail.com; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:35:44 -0500     MIME-Version: 1.0     Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:35:43 -0500     X-Priority: 3 (Normal)     X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 3.9.9 (8.5.3-6)     Subject: New staff members wanted at Auction It Online     From: admin@TIMFORDSWEBSITE.com     Reply-To: Marie.Glorioso@rjauctiondropoff.com     To: "Nadia Monti" <fi.nadiamonti@gmail.com>     Content-Type: text/plain     Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable     Message-ID: <OUTLOOK-IDM-9aed7054-6a3e-e1a4-1d5c-3e73377652a6@server211>          Date : 26 September 2012=0ATime : 13:35=0ASender : Dennise Halcomb Head =     Office Manager of RJ Auction Drop-Off Int.=0A=0ANice to meet you Nadia M=     onti=0A=0ARJ ADO Ltd., a USA based company, offers a significant amount =     of goods worldwide for our  customers on eBay and other auction venues. =     Our company's main target is to provide a suitable and cost-effective se=     rvice for any person, company or fundraising company. The main purpose o=     f the administrative assistant / sales support representative is to cont=     ribute to the sales force and add convenience to our cost-effective serv=     ice dedicated to individuals, businesses, and organizations worldwide. O=     ur HR department obtained your resume from one of the various job-orient=     ed websites just to offer you this post.=0A=0AWorking Schedule: This is =     a part time and home-based offer. You won't need to spend more than 3 ho=     urs each day. Your =0Aschedule will be flexible.=0A=0ASalary: At the end=      of the trial period (it lasts for 1 month) you will be paid 1,800 EUR. =     With the average volume of clients your overall income will raise up to =     3,000 EUR per month. After the trial period is over your base salary wil=     l grow up to 2,500 EUR per month, so you will earn 5% commission from th=     e transactions completed.=0A=0AWhere?: Italy Wide. As it is a stay at ho=     me position all the communication will be carried out via email and via =     phone.=0A=0ARequirements: Access to the internet during the workday and =     basic microsoft office skills are needed. Basic knowledge of English is =     required (most of the contacts will be in English).=0A=0ACosts and Fees:=      There are NO costs at any time for our employees. All fees related to t=     his position are covered by the RJ ADO Co. Ltd..=0A=0AFurther Hiring Pro=     cess: If you are interested in position we offer, please reply to this e=     mail and send us the copy of your resume for verification.=0A=0AAfter re=     viewing all of the received applications we will reply to successful app=     licants only. Then we'll offer to these successful applicants a position=      within our firm on a trial period basis for one month beginning from th=     e date you sign a trial agreement. During this trial period you will rec=     eive full guidance and support. Employees on a one monthly trial period =     are evaluated at least one week prior to the end of their trial. During =     the trial, your supervisor can recommend termination. At the end of the =     trial period, the supervisor can offer continued employment, extension o=     f trial period, or termination. After the trial period you may ask for m=     ore hours or continue full-time.=0A=0AIf you are interested in this posi=     tion, just reply to this email and send any questions you have and the c=     opy of your resume for verification.=0A=0AThank You,=0AHR-Manager of RJ =     ADO Co. Ltd.=0A=0APermission Settings=0AYou have been referred to RJ Auc=     tion Drop-Off If you feel you received this email in error or do not wis=     h to receive future messages, please reply to this message with "remove"=      in the subject field. We will immediately update our database according=     ly. =0AWe apologize for any inconvenience caused.=0A=0ARJ Auction Drop-O=     ff Co. Ltd.      I'm not aware of how this has happened. I'm not sure how anyone could have got hold of my password. It's a simple wordpress install, at some point recently my host went down and there was a fresh install of wordpress with default admin accounts, I have a feeling it could be something to do with this. My question is, even though I've changed all my passwords it's all still happening, is there annywhere in paticular this script would be stored on my host. I really can't deal with having my hosting account suspended and my email account sending all this spam.


Virtualmin: https domain showing up for all other domains that have ssl disabled

My Virtualmin has a domain with an SSL cert enabled. All domains are on the same IP. The other domains have SSL disabled, and the problem is that if I request a https page for these domains they redirect to the domain with SSL. I just want a no response or a missing page response from the server. How can I configure this?


Are the page rank and backlinks just for a single page or for the whole website?

I was wondering if the `page rank` and the `backlinks` are just for one page? If this is so then should we optimize each and every page of the site and try to bring `backlinks` to each of them?


Is the Bootstrap CSS on a CDN yet?

Just checking to see if anyone knows of a CDN for the bootstrap css framework.


Google Webmaster Tools can cache sitemap files?

I'm struggling to submit my sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools. Previously I received report that I have an error in all my sitemaps (the error was at `<image:image>` tag as I did not specified necessary link in the sitemap header). After the error was fixed I tried to resubmit the sitemaps but Google Webmaster Tools abused for me again and for the same line number (in my case: line 8, containing `<priority>0.7</priority>`). If I click on the sitemap file name - it is downloading OK (previously it was with 'red' header with list of detected errors). So I really doubt that Google Webmaster Tools loading correct files. How can I make sure? The beginning of my sitemaps is the following:               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"      xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">       <url>         <loc>Valid and tested link</loc>         <lastmod>2014-02-03</lastmod>         <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>         <priority>0.7</priority>         <image:image>           <image:loc>Valid and tested link</image:loc>           <image:title>11-word description</image:title>         </image:image>       </url>


When reversing a Google Analytics e-commerce transaction is the per-unit price positive or negative?

Google's own instructions for reversing an e-commerce transaction seem to contradict themselves regarding the unit price. In the instructions it states > The item field has a positive per-unit price and a negative quantity. yet, the code sample has a negative per-unit price and negative quantity.               _gaq.push(['_addItem',            '1234',           // order ID - necessary to associate item with transaction            'DD44',           // SKU/code - required            'T-Shirt',        // product name            'Olive Medium',   // category or variation            '-11.99',          // unit price - required            '-1'               // quantity - required         ]);      Which is correct?


Is it safe to assume 99.9% of browsers in use now can display PNG files?

This is similar to this question, but that question and answers are 2 years old. Also, the answers aren't succinct. (That question was phrased as "what _will support_ png's). What reasonable popular (>.5% market share) do not support PNG files? (It's OK if 1% of our customers don't have the transparency work correctly, as long as they can at least see the photo).


Search Engine Indexing of a Database-Driven Website

Suppose I have a MySQL whose rows are dog breeds and whose columns are properties of the breeds (e.g. coat color). The purpose of the site is to allow users to query the database with questions like "Which breeds can have a brown coat?". The site would then use PHP to form a query and display the breeds from the database having brown coats. Since there is no information present on the page until the user requests it, how can a search engine index such a site? Ideally, I would like my site to pop up in Google searches like "dog breeds brown coat". My only idea is to have a separate page with the database permanently dumped out as text, then have that page redirect to the site's main page (where the user can make the query). Is this an effective strategy? Are there better ways?


What to do to notify search engines of of a cms switch Wordpress->Drupal?

I'm switching a website from wordpress to drupal. The structure and content of the new website will be slightly different so i'd like to know what are the things i need to do in order to notify the search engines of these changes so that they reindex everything? Any idea on how long it usually take for the results to reflect the new content?


Redirect to same site but add things into the URL

I have a PHP file, index.php, that is set as the index file for my site. If someone wants to pull up a value for `a`, as an example, then they would type `http://www.website.com/?value=a`. Is it possible to set up a redirect so that the user just has to type in `http://www.website.com/a`? I tried setting up a redirect from `/` to `/?value=`, but the `a` is being forgotten and the user is simply redirected to `www.website.com/?value=`. Is this possible to do? Also, what is the difference between a `Redirect` and a `RedirectMatch`? Thanks. I am using Apache on my Mac Snow Leopard Server. * * * Edit: I found this on Apple's website: you can use a RedirectMatch with a pattern of `(.*)\\.jpg` and a path of `www.website.com/$1.jpg` to forward all JPG requests to website.com. Any idea how I could get this to work with the PHP?


How to properly convert a UTF8 truetype font to use on web?

I'm trying to embed this UTF8 truetype font (the font contains Persian characters) in the web and I use this service to convert it to proper formats.   The only problem is, it's not working on Google Chrome. Firefox and IE display the font correctly.   Here is the converted package.   And this is the original font.


What's the best practice for linking to/from guest posts on other blogs?

When writing a guest blog for a site, I include a link back to my site - an inbound link. If I were to write a post on my blog publicising my guest post, that would mean there were reciprocal links, thus cancelling each other out, correct? If I made the link (on my blog) back to the guest post nofollow, would that cancel the effect, meaning I still get link juice from the guest post? Further down the line if the site I posted on as a guest wanted to write a post for my site, what is the best way for me to prevent re-introducing the reciprocal link problem?


Visual aspects of JAVASCRIPT and logical aspects of JAVASCRIPT? What is good for a web designer, aspiring to be and UI designer? I am learning Javascript, however, while learning I observed that Javascript has two aspects:   1. Visual - which gives visual effects like, SLIDESHOW.   2. Logical - which gives you some logical effects like, a prompt box. My question: **I see that there is lot hell to learn in Javascript. I came with a decision to learn only those who have visual effects (As I think, I am not a Javascript programmer, so want to skip some and choose some.)** **Are my thoughts to choose some (Visual) & skip some (Logical) Javascript aspects, while keeping in mind that I would choose user Interface designing in near future?**


Mirroring of Apps across servers

We wish to host multiple apps across multiple servers. What we are looking for (ideally) is an existing solution which will work. For example, normally to do it we'd follow a route (for failover) like:   * App is installed on one server along with mysql database   * App is also installed on a second server. Rsync is used to mirror the files over to the second server and ensure consistency   * MySQL is installed with a Master->Slave setup.    * We use a service such as DNS Made Easy which has a DNS failover. If one server goes down it automatically routes traffic to the backup server We have done the above a few times and generally its fine. The issue I have here is that the above is for one app. What I would like to look at is how we can manage for multiple apps and if there is a layer (such as VMWare) that has complete mirroring built in at the OS level? For example how do web hosts currently do it when they ensure that more than one machine is running a bunch of hosted websites. If you were running hosting and you had 200 clients on a server you would want the same clients across 2 or more servers and want everything mirrored. Any advice would be much appreciated.


Should I provide RSS or Atom feeds?

I'm leaning towards atom but I'm not sure.


Google Analytics dasboard widget to only show organic traffic coming from search enginges

I am now displaying organic traffic in a Google Analytics dashboard widget by filtering `Medium` and `Traffic Type`, and they both are set to `organic`. What do I set in filters to show just a specific search engines's traffic, like just Google or just Bing?


How does experts exchange get away with tricking google/users?

I know from reading Coding Horror one of the reasons stackoverflow set up was "Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea- inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming)" So, my question is about the quasi-legal gaming. Example: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages- Standards/CSS/Q_26543171.html No answers displayed, have to sign up and/or pay to see them. Then google search for CSS scroll range and select the first result http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=CSS+scroll+range If you scroll right to the bottom of the screen, there are the answers! So in essence, if you are coming from google you can see the answer, if you go directly to the experts exchange site and search for the answer you have to either be an active participant and earn the right to see the answer, or get it directly by paying. How/why aren't they penalised for this?


How to track site searches in Google Analytics?

I would like to set up search queries in Google Analytics to have stats of site searches, however it doesn't seem to show me any stats. This is what I have entered so far: ![GA](http://i.stack.imgur.com/g0knB.png) On my site, searching (or getting search results) can be done in a couple ways - simple and rewritten. Here are examples of that: `http://domain.com/?search=mobile+phone` `http://domain.com/search/mobile%20phone/date/1.html` What do I need to enter into the fields to have my searches tracked correctly in Google Analytics?


htaccess redirect for directory listing to virtual host on a local MAMP stack

For my local dev environment, I have just upgraded from MAMP to MAMP Pro so that I can easily create virtual hosts without getting too involved with configuration files. Server names will be formatted as: `foldername.localhost` For my site's directory I want to create an htaccess rule to redirect from `http://localhost/foldername` to `http://foldername.localhost`, where "foldername" is a wildcard. Is this possible?


Is using !# for AJAX URLs the standard when it comes to SEO?

Will URLs like this `site.com/!#users` only be crawled by Google's search engine bots, or is this a standard adopted by all search engines (e.g., Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc...)?


Installing osCommerce on CentOS

I want host my web site using osCommerce on CentOS, we have our own server at our office on that we have install CentOS 5.5 with LAMP. We want to host a web site using our live IP address using osCommerce. If any one has a step by step how to for osCommerce on CentOS please share with us. We have unzipped `oscommerce.zip -d /var/www/html/` and we can see the admin page. When people visit from outside, they also see the admin page.


410 permanent delete not working

I've deleted a web page permanently and also added this rule in the bottom of my .htaccess:               RewriteRule ^paysignet-payment-gateway-features-and-benefits.html$ - [G,L]      But this url of this page: http://www.creditcardpaymentgateways.in/paysignet- payment-gateway-features-and-benefits.html is returning 404 from the server rather than a 410. What could be the problem?


My Blog Needs some Upgrading !

I have been browsing all night for a way to improve my blog on blogger and actually nothing came up just that i could include some widgets that need java codes. Witch are the best widgets i could add without killing the SEO and where is a good place i could find ways to Tweak my blog and learn to sustain it better. It's my first blog and maybe it will not go viral but at least i want to try ! Thank you so very much !


Sitemap for WordPress extension

I'm using an extension to integrate a WordPress blog into my eCommerce site. WordPress is installed in its own directory with a link called blog on my home page. I used a free extension to do this. My question is, do I need to create a separate sitemap for Google for the blog? If so how do I submit it? If not will Google pick up all of the blog articles via my current Magento sitemap?


SEO when loading items through AJAX

Let's say I have standard scenario of commerce site that has categories on the left and items on the right. What I would like to do is that when user clicks on category it will pass it's ID to js, js will get all items from API by using that id and load them very prettily to my content. It looks all cool and pro but what is the situation from SEO point of view? AFAIK google bot enters my site, sees I have span with categories and that's all?


Open Source PHP based secure file download script?

I need a self hosted solution where I as the admin can create client areas (which can be simple folders) where I upload files and secure them with username / pass. A client page will then be automatically generated which the client can access the username / pass and download the files. It's relatively simple script but I'm having a hard time finding open source solutions which accomplish what I need. Any help would be appreciated.


Is it good or bad to have dynamic content in page titles and/or description

In a local listing website, I append number of search results found in the description(not in title currntly) meta tag of the page as I think this is valuable for users for e.g. "Find address, phone numbers, blah blah blah for `21` outlets in `locality`. some more stuff after this..." as more places are added to the database, the description for the `same page` will change frequently. is this good or bad for SEO how about doing the same for title tags?


One JS/CSS bundle Vs. One with default and one with custom

On a few of my sites, we use Javascript/CSS bundles to reduce load time. I've always used two bundles for each type (4 in total) so I have   * JS Bundle 1: Contains scripts that are standard on every page (jQuery, cross page functions etc.)   * JS Bundle 2: Contains scripts specific to that page   * CSS bundle 1: Contains general site CSS (Layout, colors etc.(   * CSS Bundle 2: Contains CSS specific to that page My theory behind that is, JS Bundle 1 and CSS Bundle 1 never change, so by having them in a separate bundle they can be cached and re-used on every page, whereas JS bundle 2 and CSS bundle 2 contain the code that changes per page. Sometimes these might only have one or two lines of code in them. I did some freelance work for a web development company using this method, and they told me it was bad/wrong and I should only use one bundle for each media type because using two bundles increases the number of requests and slows the page. I don't understand why this is slower than using two bundles? Just as an example with Javascript (Though almost identical for CSS) First page visited (Say page1.html): 100kb of standard scripts used on every page and 5kb of custom scripts   With my method a user would have to download 105kb of media in two requests   With their method a user would have to download 105kb of media on one request   So on the first visit, I accept their method is faster but Second page visited (page2.html): 100kb of standard scripts and 3kb of custom scripts   With my method, the standard scripts would already be cached so they would only have to download 3kb of scripts   With their method the user would have to downoad 103kb of scripts, just for the 3kb of custom scripts. Yet they insist their method is faster, how is this possible? I'm sure having to make one extra request can't decrease the page load so much it's more effective to re-download 100kb of data they already have, and that's just the JS, adding the CSS that becomes nearer to double


Is there a (free) reliable place to get statistics from sites, more reliable than Alexa, Quantcast, Compete?

I mean, seems there's no way. I am just asking in case someone knows of a recent new site being more accurate. I am aware of Alexa's, Compete and Quantcast inaccuracies and/or limited system/range of sites to get their stats. I also know about websitegrader perhaps being a little more accurate (although not sure if that's the data I am after). And read Seomoz tools are reliable. I am yet though looking for a free solution, a 'reliable' Alexa. And not a place depending on a toolbar installation, an easy to trick place, or one with stats way too off, or of a very limited range of sites. I am almost sure there's nothing new, but I wanted to be sure.


What folder should I apply SSL certificate to?

Is an SSL cert applied to a specific folder or also all subfolders of that folder? If the SSL is applied to the root, will it be applied to all sub-folders? If so why would I not always apply to root?


Which one is better? To have link on one page or on all pages?

I have a website: http://www.amenajari-gradini-mures.ro and I will put links on http://www.casesigradini.ro . I would like to know which one is better from the point of view of SEO: - to have one single link on the homepage OR - to have a link on every page (about 48000 pages) ? Right now I got my link up on every page. But if it's better to have it on one page only (or maybe on few main pages ) then i'll take it out the rest. Please give some arguments for your answers. Thanks


What to do on a bogus/scammer site?

We just found out that one of our client's website has a bogus site. The domain name is somewhat similar to our client's name, only matter of word is the difference. What alarms us is this bogus site use the real business address of our client, and the About page content is somewhat similar to the original. Doing a simple WHOIS also shows the Registrant, Administrative and Technical seems to be exactly the same too. Is there any way to deal with this?


How can I tell which pages of a site are indexed by Google or Bing?

Is there a tool that can list the specific pages of a site which are indexed by the search engines? I know the webmaster tools have this stuff, but it just tells how many pages out of the sitemap, which isn't that useful.


Company or website logo as the search result image / Google+ profile

I was considering having for this website I'm working on, the website's logo as the image that gets included in the search results for the articles it publishes. So do to this I want to use Google Authorship with the business's Google+, but is this recommended? I ask because I've never seen an example where it was something other than the author's profile picture.


Is having multiple websites a good idea or a bad one for SEO?

I am in charge of my companies website and one of my tasks is to improve SEO. Granted, I am new to this and have been researching for the past 6 months and had an idea. My plan is to build multiple websites and create a huge site using multiple domains. We offer different services and our main home page will have all of the services with links to the other websites which are the individual services so that I don't have to worry about duplicate page content. Example: `www.companyname.com` is the main site `www.service#1.com` is one of our services `www.service#2.com` is another one of our services etc. Will this have an affect on our SEO in a positive way like I think or would it impact us negatively? and why?


Protect streamed videos

I am for html5/flash video player to play videos (stream) on a website and we want to protect our material as much as we can. any suggestions ? **Edit** We want it to limit the download of the video and re-sharing it in other ways


Url's with same content , but different: trailing slash and .html

I have a website with the following url:               http://www.site.com/folder/      But I also have the following url:               http://www.site.com/folder.html      Is this really bad for Google SEO ?


How do webmasters control who edits code on their sites?

Sorry for the simple question, but I googled and lurked on this site and couldn't find anything (I don't believe I was asking the proper questions). I am aware of permissions in SharePoint; is it like that in a way? You set permissions for certain people to be able to submit/edit code (do they login?), and then you and the other people are the only ones who edit? Thank you.


Recommendations for Survey + Customer Engagement tool

We are currently trying out desk.com for a customer engagement tool. Now we want to create surveys for our customers but desk.com doesn't offer this ability nor do they integrate with any other survey apps. Can anyone recommend an integrated or semi-integrated solution for customer engagement with the ability to survey? We are open to leaving desk.com and trying something else. Thanks!


Proper way to create and work with a subdomain?

My site got effected by Panda, and I am trying to see if making a subdomain would work. The site is comehike.com, and I created a subdomain which is currently empty at hiking.comehike.com I have a directory `/outdoors` that has some high quality hand-written articles. I want to put those into the new subdomain to see what would happen. My questions are:   1. Should I just copy and paste the files for those pages into the new subdomain's folder, and just change all the links in all my pages from the original domain to the new subdomain?   2. Should I just do a 301 redirect to the new subdomain?   3. Since `test.site.com` and `www.site.com` are different domains, will the new page have to start from scratch in terms of Pagerank, and its rankings in the SERPs?


Configure a .tk domain on Zymic?

I created a site on Zymic but I can not put my `.tk` domain, someone could help me solve this problem?


If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10?

ICANN charges 18¢ per domain name registered regardless of its extension, but I pay $10 for a domain name per year with my registrar. What do domain name registrars do for its customers to justify this extra $9.82? Is there something that they do for our domain names other than registering it with ICANN? I just read about the 7 people who hold the ICANN database key and got a little bit curious to know what the domain name servers do for us to justify this extra amount (12 times the actual fee)?


How can I use Git to maintain my site while keeping it online, using only one server?

I would like to use Git to maintain my site while keeping it online, using only one server (i.e., make development changes and hosting it online using the same server, but in different folders). Editing: as people are saying that my question is not clear I'll reformulate it this way, more simple: I would like to have a live site at `/public_html/` and a development branch of the same site at `/public_html/devel/` (for example) but would like that the site use git because it is more easy to after implement the `/public_html/devel/` in `/public_html/` (live, public), ie., just merging the branches 'development' to 'master'. A branch for `/public_html/devel/` and a branch (master) in `/public_html/`. But I am using a framework, and the 'protected/' folder is not inside `/home/user/public_html/` (the same pub as before) but `/home/user/nanana/protected/` (example --- outside 'public_html'), so I need git to have different sections for both. So that when I access the 'public_html/devel/' (in browser, domain/devel), I have the landing page of the development version, acessing the 'protected' folder of the development version, and when I acess the root (`public_html/`in browser, domain/ root), I access the public landing page, of the public protected/ folder. (For "public protected/ folder" I mean the one that is not being developed) I would like ideas for this. Don't know if this is possible but I think git should be able. Thanks!! edit as people put this topic on hold: I need to mantain a site that have a live version, as well as a development version at the same time. The development version will be accessible only for the developer of course. The public will be public. The development will be at **domain.com/devel/**. The public will be at **domain.com** , root. I would like to use git to merge the development to public when it is ready to be published. Beside this, the protected folder is not inside the public folder.


How can I log a user's actual IP address instead of CloudFlare's?

My raw access log is now filled with CloudFlare IP addresses. Is there any way I can use a _.htacess_ file or configure the server to log the user's actual IP address? With PHP, CloudFlare creates these environment variables for our reference, but I can't find anything similar for **raw access logs**. Unfortunately, as suggested in this Stack Overflow question, using _mod_cloudflare.c_ for the following is not an option on a shared hosting server:               $_ENV["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"]
     $_ENV["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]
     $_ENV["HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY"]


How can I fix Google indexing URLs that are not part of my sitemap?

Using `site:example.com` in Google is returning many results with the following format: `https://www.w.example.com/services/edison/16mm-to-2k` Obviously this is not what I submitted and is not part of my sitemap. What are some solutions for dealing with this kind of problem? This is particularly a problem since they indexed the HTTPS protocol and all the links are showing a warning before visiting the site as a result. Getting wildcard SSL certificates for `*.w.example.com` and `*.ww.example.com` seems like a bad idea. The site's DNS runs through AWS Route 53 and the site is running on an Ubuntu 12.04 EC2 with Apache.


Is it important to add a mobile sitemap?

I've recently added a mobile version of a web-app. Most web-page URL's like `mydomain.com/folder/page` now have another version `mydomain.com/mobile/folder/page` In the web-page I've added:                 <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="/mobile/folder/page" />      And in the mobile version:                 <link rel="canonical" href="/folder/page"/>      This was done a couple of weeks ago, and still if I perform a `site:mydomain/mobile` I'm not seeing Google has indexed any of these mobile version pages. Will adding a mobile site-map resolve this issue?


How to embed Google maps locations in an iframe

I have a custom set of locations on Google maps, at https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zzX-BuFGi82s.kBQeXTGL4SqY . When I try to embed this in an iframe, I get the following console error: > Refused to display '[URL]' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to > 'SAMEORIGIN'. This StackOverflow question explains what's happening, and Q Studio's answer says adding &output=embed to a Google Maps link generally solves it. But it doesn't with the above URL, presumably because it's at mapsengine.google.com rather than maps.google.com. How can I make this work? I can get admin access to the original map's location dataset.


Does CSS 'em' sizing still matter?

As I know, em-sizing was used by websmasters to create well-scaling sites, when changing font size in browser. But in modern times, I see that scaling a page scales all elements, even px- sized, so page is zoomed correctly. So, does designing CSS in em-units is still the best design approach ? What is a difference now ? Sample code, that doesn't give ane difference with scaling in FF:

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Meta tags decoding by Google

My site's CMS has some problems with reflecting correct cyrillic letters. So, in source code of the page my meta description looks like the next:               <meta content="Здесь вы можете заказать пирожные macarons (макаруны) онлайн. Вы может." name="description">      The same situation is with all meta-tags, which include `<meta name="" content="">`. I think that this is because of Unicode escape sequence. My question is: Is Google able to decode these symbols into the correct characters to show a normal snippet in the SERP? Currently the snippets of the site look normal, but I need to be sure that Google can read and decode Unicode escape sequences. Is it normal from Google's point of view to get meta-tags in such a format?


Rewrite using .htaccess results in too many redirects

I'm currently creating a webpage which requires rewrites to look nice. The URL is: `u.{my_site}/get.php?fid={ID}`. The URL entered should be: `u.{my_site}/{ID}`. Because I'm bad (and new) at rewrite regexes, I generated the following code:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /get.php?fid=$1 [L]      Now when I try to open `u.{my_site}/{ID}`, it returns a 500 error and the logs state: > Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable > configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if > necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace. What is causing this error and how can it be fixed? EDIT: Found out that the generator doesn't generate `RewriteCond`, so now it redirects on every page (including `/get.php`).


Tell search engines about a mass htaccess rename

I used `htaccess` to redirect my `a.php?x=aaa&y=bbb` to `/subdir/aaa-bbb.htm`. However, after fixing some errors I needed to change that rule to redirect `a.php?x=aaa&y=bbb` to `/subdir/aaa-bbb.htm/100`. How can I tell search engines that all `htm` files in `/subdir/` have changed to `/subdir/*.htm/100`?


Joomla backloggedin users issue (probably hacked)

I made a Joomla! 3.1 site last month. Last 2 weeks I checked something weird, the backoffice panel shows me this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/i1WIp.jpg) The weird in this is that **I am the only person with access to administration panel.** Is that possible some extension inject files via FTP or take free access to MySQL database? How can I solve this issue?


301 directory redirect exclude subdirectory

I need to do a 301 directory redirect in my _httpd.conf_ file but exclude a subdirectory within the directory. Example: `RedirectPermanent /redirect/ http://www.mysite.com/`. But I want to exclude this subdirectory `/redirect/example/`. Any ideas? I tried this and it didn't work:               RewriteEngine On      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/redirect/example/?$ [NC]      RewriteRule ^/redirect/? mysite.com [R=301,L]


Site load problem with request headers referer HTTP

I have a problem with my site load time. I check load time with `gtmetrix.com` and I find hard problem (my site adress: `kelishe.com`). If you check it with `getmetrix.com` and go to timeline you see 2 request like: _get: www.kelishe.com_. This is mean that my site load twice in one time and increase my load time. ![a busy cat](http://img.ir/MHgc.png) I think the problem is about request headers referer HTTP buy I don't know how I can fix it.


Should I be using WAI-ARIA in my HTML website builds?

Should I be using WAI-ARIA in my website builds? Will it have any benefit? Is anyone adding 'role' to their code at the moment? Some info about WAI-ARIA - www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria. The tab, link, checkbox and slider roles, plus many more, aren't available yet for HTML5. From looking at the list of what is available (see below), and what will be coming in the future, it looks like we might be applying roles to a huge amount of tags on our pages. Its not an issue especially if it brings benefit to users using readers etc Also, a side question, will search engines give any benefits to sites using WAI-ARIA? List of safe roles to use (I think)               •   role="article"     •   role="banner"     •   role="complementary"     •   role="contentinfo"     •   role="form"     •   role="heading"     •   role="main"     •   role="navigation"     •   role="search"      Examples of usage in HTML5 code: `<header role="banner"></div>`for a main header, banner only allowed once per page `<header role="heading"></div>`- for all headers after the main one `<aside role="complementary"></aside>` `<form role="search"></form>`


Math behind multivariate testing for website optimization

I am looking for theoretical resources (books, tutorials, etc.) to learn about making sound statistical inferences given (plenty of) multivariate website conversion data. I'm after the math involved, and cannot find any good non-marketing stuff on the web. The sort of questions I want to answer: how much impact does a single variable (e.g. color of text) have? what is the correlation between variables? what type of distribution is used for modelling (Gaussian, Binomial, etc.)? When using statistics to analyze results - what should be considered as a random variable - the web-page element that gets different variations or the binary conversion-or-no-conversion outcome of an impression? There's plenty of information about different website optimization testing methods and their benefits\pitfalls, plenty of information about multivariate statistics in general, do you guys know of resources that discuss statistics in this specific context of website optimization?


What is a minimum valid robots.txt file?

I don't like that I see a lot of 404 errors in the _access.log_ of my web server. I'm getting those errors because crawlers try to open a _robots.txt_ file, but couldn't find any. So I want to place a simple _robots.txt_ file that will prevent the 404 errors from appearing in my log file. What is a minimum valid _robots.txt_ file that will allow everything on the site to be crawled?


When Googlebot sees a link, will it click it or navigate to it?

My site uses pushState and JSON data to display content. So, for example, this might appear on my page:               some page      The JavaScript then prevents the default action (following the link), and instead renders a view (using a different api, such as /getjson?some_page).               $('[href]').click(function(){         history.pushState(...);         handleURL(...);     });      Assume my server will respond to requests at /some/page with a pre-rendered version. My questions are:   1. will Googlebot receive the prerendered version, or allow JavaScript to instead invoke pushState, etc.   2. if it doesn't make the direct request, will it wait for AJAX content to be loaded?   3. does Googlebot implement pushState, so it will show the proper URL in search results?


Should I use an Affiliate Selling program at my website?

Currently I am almsot done with my website to publish it. I realise I may not have enough visitors at the very begin nor clicks on links which are things I will be working on over time. I have adsense in place and was looking for more options and suggestions and since it is a Gamming website I was thinking I could use some sort of Affiliate Programs like Amazon that will display Products related to my site content like CD Games, Strategy guides, etc. I would like to know from those who used it and are far more experienced then I am:   1. **What programs are worthed using and are available to pay you with paypal/gcheckout ?**   2. What should I be carefull with when using those ?   3. Any other advices or ideas of what could I be using/trying ? I am not entirely sure my Question belongs here so I kindly ask that if it does not move it and I will follow up, I am sorry for any misunderstood and my poor english.


Variation in Google Webmasters search queries and real ranking

Google webmasters `Search Query Tool` shows that my website is ranked for a particular keyword with an average position in Google, but when I type the same keyword in Google, I cant see my website ranked in that position. Why is that? Example: Webmasters says that my webpage is ranked for the kw `best hard drive brand` with an average position of 4. But my website is ranked in 7th page. Why is that? From this question, Google Webmasters tools search queries position it is said that Google images will also count as ranking. But I can't find my website in Google images also.


How to setup a reseller account on a subdomain?

I have bought the aluminium reseller package on hostgator and specified a subdomain of an existing domain I already had as the primary domain. How do I set this up in the hostgator whm panel and what records do I need to change on the dns records for the externally held top-level domain?


How can I make sure I don't get scammed when buying web hosting?

Whenever I have put research into 'affordable' web hosting (for me, something like $100/yr), it seems like everything out there feels or smells scammy. Too flashy, poor English, popups, 'last chance' offers--the whole nine yards. With my current provider (one of the above) I'm getting fairly good service, not quite excellent. But the tech support is unmotivated, to say the least. I'm thinking about switching. As I look again for hosting providers, I'm totally confused. Everything I see in a Google search looks like a scam. Even the sites set up to rate hosting providers look scammy. So am I in fact missing the good stuff, or am I just being too picky? Or should I be thinking about raising my price range? EDIT: I'm not sure how this works. Am I allowed to mention a particular host I might use?


Help with tracking sub domain

I currently have my app's marketing/external website on the root level, e.g. `http://example.com` My web app itself is hosted at: `http://app.example.com` What's the best strategy to set-up Google Analytics tracking for both of them? Should I create a separate web property? Also, what's the difference between creating a new web property and a new profile? UPDATE: I would want to be able to track conversion from a page on the root domain to a sign-up page on the app sub-domain.


My site indexed with my another domain in google

My site is indexed with my another domains, all of the domain are hosted in same hosting. When I search with `site:sample.com` it indexed the another domain like this `sample.com/www.example.com`. How do I handle this situation? Note: I have 5 websites in same hosting, when I search with `site:sample.com` it shows all the websites in suffix like the below example:   1. `sample.com/www.example.com`   2. `sample.com/www.site1.com`   3. `sample.com/www.site2.com`   4. `sample.com/www.site3.com`   5. `sample.com/www.site4.com`


How to cache on CloudFlare images that are served to client as JSON?

I am using a gallery on my website that gets list of images from a JSON sent by a php script. So, the javascript gallery calls PHP backend and it replies with complex JSON where images are specified as object fields. These fields not necessarily include full URLs, merely a path to needed images. I'd like to use Cloudflare and want these images to be cached there. How I could learn whether these are cached or not, and make sure that these would be cached and not considered some sort of dynamic content?


Is it free to use Yahoo! smilies in our forum? (caused by copyright issues)

Will there be any problems (I'm talking about copyright...) if we use the lovely smilies of Yahoo! in any of our web apps? eg. forums and so on? I couldn't find any site that says it is legal/illegal. Do you know any?


How can I set Webmaster Tools to "Fetch as Google Bot" using SSL?

I have page which requires SSL so the page is https://. I want to fetch this page as google bot inside of google webmasters' diagnostic tools however Google, from what I can tell, only allows http calls. So when I put in my page all I get is a redirect from the http to the https page. How can I fetch a page as google bot that is https?


Can I copy TOS & Privacy from other websites?

Can I go ahead and copy TOS & Privacy from any other website and change as per my requirement? Will it come under "copied" material and can it affect my Adsense approval application later? Also will it escape duplicate content penalty by all search engines? I think most of people must be generating from some templates.


Add js and css to html using squid eCAP module

Can i add js and css to html using Squi eCAP module? I read about the adaption methods. But i am unable to find the example to do it. Is there any example for this where i can read and learn.


ISP issue browsing "sonos.com" - need to diagnose and prove

I am unable to browse to a website "sonos.com" with my ISP (virgin). I have ruled out browsers, PCs, macs, routers, wifi, etc. Other ISPs (even other virgin connections in different areas!) supply this site no problem. I am 99% convinced there is a DNS issue lurking here. There is something fishy about the DNS for the site : What I notice is that online DNS sites tell me the right IP address for "sonos.com", but not for "www.sonos.com". Anyway when I type "sonos.com" (or "www.sonos.com") the browser (any/all of the 4 I tried) fails to display the page. Firefox gives a "connection was reset" error. If I browse to sonos.com using its correct IP address it works OK. Browsing to www.sonos.com or sonos.com works fine with other ISPs of course. Questions: 1 Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? 2 Any suggestions as to tools/monitors to help investigate/prove what is going on I can then take this up with virgin and/or sonos. Thanks


general questions about link spam

A CMS-based site I manage is suffering from a small but ominously growing number of almost certainly bot-emplaced, invisible spam links placed in registered-user-only shoutboxes and user forums. "Link Spam", yes? Until recently, I've kept my eyes on narrow tech issues, and I'm having trouble understanding what's going on. I understand that we need to tighten up our registration procedures, but more generally... Do I understand correctly that our primary interest in combatting link spam on our site is that major search engines reduce or zero the search visibility of sites that contain link spam? Although we're non-commercial, we don't want to be at the bottom of the rankings, or eliminated altogether. Are the linked-to sites the direct beneficiaries of the spam links, or is there some kind of indirection? What is the likely relationship between the link-spammers and the owners of the (directly or indirectly) linked-to sites? Are the owners of the linked-to sites paying the link-spammers for higher visibility? Are the owners aware that this method is being used? It is my impression that major search engines are capable these days of detecting that given sites are being promoted by link spam, and that these sites may consequently be reduced in search rank or dropped altogether. Do these sanctions occur frequently? Is there any potential value in sending notifications to the owners of the linked-to sites that their visibility is at risk? TIA, hen3ry


When updating root index.html how to show users that site is on maintenance now?

I'm working on a project. I can upload a site files to the web server. I have a site which is running. I want to update my site but I know visitors are coming 24 hours a day. So, how could I update my site without losing visitors? When I visit big websites under maintenance, in general, I see some another page. I just want to do the same for my website. **Question Improved:** I want to update a whole site not only `index.html`, should I rename the `index.html` file to another name to not users come in the website or there is another solution without renaming the file. I also dont have much idea about _.htaccess_ file all I know is that it is used to redirect domains but I dont know how and what can I do to _.htaccess_ so I dont have rename the `index.html` file.


Why is Stack Overflow's PR just 7?

I saw the PR of Stack Overflow and it is 7.   If PR is the rank given to the website for its quality, why is the PR of Stack Overflow just 7?


Employee had analytics under his personal gmail, no longer with company

A former employee had Google Analytics for multiple websites setup under his personal gmail account. We suspect that he (upon being let go) removed/disassociated those analytics websites from his personal Gmail account. We have searched through our Google Apps email addresses to verify that the website analytics we're looking for are indeed not housed under the Apps addresses, which leads us to where we are currently.   * What are our options for regaining access to our analytics history?   * If he, in fact, did remove them from his personal gmail account, does Google still have these on their server somewhere so we can re-link them to an appropriate Google Apps account within our organization? Some helpful information:   * We do have access to the UA-XXXXXXX-XX identifier for each website   * We do have access to FTP to upload any file Google may need in order to properly verify domain ownership/management authority   * We do have access to DNS to create any records Google may need in order to properly verify domain ownership/management authority Thank you for your comments. Also, if there's an official support channel or an option of paid support through Google where we can pay to have this resolved, I'm all ears. So far, I've been unable to locate anything along those lines. NOTE: I have posted on the analytics help forum over at Google, but no response yet and another employee has been attempting to get some level of support over there for nearly a month without luck. I'm not hopeful that my post will be responded to by Google themselves. Sounds to me like it's time for Google to offer a paid analytics solution for corporations and agencies (that doesn't cost $150,000), so that we can obtain some level of support from Google for our clients' accounts. Right now, we're not even sure if our clients' analytics data even exists anymore.


Most common Apache and PHP configuration for portable Web Applications

I always create web application using PHP but I always distribute and deploy my works to different kinds of server platforms and web server configurations. Thus I always encounter problems in deployment because some features are enabled and others are disabled. And my question, is there a standard web server configuration that is commonly used by most of web servers worldwide? covering the aspects of reliability, security and maintainability?


Javascript for draggable, zoomable map with Google-Maps-like features

I'm looking for a JavaScript-based tool for displaying draggable, zoomable maps. It has to have the following features:   * Can add markers, labels, balloons (a la Google maps)   * Must be scriptable after creation (so I can add or update content on the fly)   * must work offline   * must scale to the browser size (specifically, it must be mobile friendly) Ideally, pure JavaScript or based on the jQuery framework. I'd rather not have to have competing frameworks on a single page.


Google Apps Engine real time monitoring

I have a web app which are running on google apps engine, is there any way to have real time usage monitoring (like traffic, cpu, etc..), I know there is standard dashboard, but I want to have more details in one place. Like see whats IP are connected, how many requests each produces and etc. So maybe anyone have some input on this ?


Does a page with a phone number in the title rank less well in Google?

I am creating a website in asp.net and I am making the phone number visible in the title bar. Will this method have an effect on SEO? Will Google lower my rank? If so, why?


Ad networks that will serve via HTTPS?

I've built a website with 160K page views per month that serves _every page_ over HTTPS. The recent FireSheep news will probably increase the adoption of "HTTPS everywhere" but it's been very hard to find ad networks and affiliates that will serve their content via HTTPS. I don't want to use these because I don't want my visitors to get "broken security" notification from their browsers (and of course, relevant ads _would_ be a leak of private information). I'm tired of spending a ton of time signing up with ad networks and affiliates only to find out down the road that they don't support HTTPS (e.g. AdSense). Can anyone suggest any options or provide a pointer to a list of these somewhere?


Google Analytic's and Universal PHP Footers

If I have a universal Footer, `include('footer.php');` on my page - will the google analytic's script I just put there be able to track my page views?


SEO - low quality page of links for crawler only

I have a site structure of:               Country >     Counties >     Towns >     Shops      the county, counties and towns pages are all low quality pages full of links, these are there for the crawlers to navigate and occasionally a customer will not know there postalcode so will drill down this way. **How best to keep the structure but not get any low quality flags against the site?**


Using both .co.uk and .com domain

We presently have a .co.uk domain that has been live now for around 9-10 months, recently the .com version of this domain has become available and we've purchased based on reading that suggests you should try and go for .com where possible. My issue now is, what should I do with the .com? Should I use this in favour of the .co.uk or use both? I'm concerned that rankings might be affected if I completely replace the .co.uk with the .com. Any suggestions?


I want to redirect anyHOST.anyTLD to www.anyHOST.anyTLD

I'm trying to find a generic enough modrewrite rule that will acomplish following:   * Redirect anyHost.anyTld to www.anyHost.anyTld   * Not mess with any other subdomains, for examle other.anyHost.anyTLD should be left alone Can you help? Does this slow down server too much?


Make a custom Apache handler (for multiple PHP versions)

I've successfully installed PHP 5.2 and it runs as CGI. (5.3 is my default running on mod, or as the phpinfo says "Server API: Apache 2.0 Handler") Ultimately I want to put something like `AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52` in the .htaccess file of the directory I want to run it in. is that defined somewhere? (since in compiled php 5.2 myself) _However_ , this only really works in virtual hosts because I can't wrap my head around how to define a custom handler.               <FilesMatch "\.php">     SetHandler application/x-httpd-php5     </FilesMatch>     ScriptAlias /php52-cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php52-cgi     Action application/x-httpd-php5 /php52-cgi     AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php      How can I do something like `AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52` in the .htaccess?


Are my Google Analytics ( 2 domains 1 site) duplicated or unique?

We have recently built a new website with a new domain to replace an old website, and on the advice of our IT guys and web dev team have pointed both oldaddress.com's & newaddress.com's a records to the new website. Now, they both share the same google analytics code (UA-12345-1) and as such we have two entries in the Google Analytics dashboard. The problem is I'm still fairly novice with GA and as the reports seem VERY similar (~25k pageviews for each domain), are these figures exclusively for that domain? For example: oldaddress.com 25,400 pageviews newaddress.com 25,600 pageviews Does this mean that in total for this website I have 51,000 pageviews. Hope this is clear enough but let me know if anything needs clarifying. Thanks.


How to show different pages for www and non-www versions

A simple (probably stupid) question: is it possible to show different pages for `www` and `non-www` versions of a website? I mean for example, `www.example.com` will show the content in `/mainfolder` and `domain.com` will show the content in `/secondfolder`. I **don't want to redirect** , like if the user goes to `www.domain.com` he will be redirected to `domain.com/www` - I don't want that, I just wanna know how to show 2 different `index.html` files, one for the `www` version of the website and one for the version without `www`. Or if possible, how can I create the `www` subdomain in cPanel (as it won't let me) - any way to override this? ### UPDATE I tried this _.htaccess_ edit and it worked partially:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.site.com     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://site.com/folder/ [P]      It now shows the contents of `site.com/folder` when users access `www.site.com` however it doesn't load the CSS of the page - any way to fix this?


How to track events or e-commerce sales that occur later using Google Analytics?

Here's my problem:   * I have a static site with Google Analytics tracking code.   * To buy one of my services, users call me, and when their order is ready (many days later), I send them an e-mail link to a special page (download.php) where I have GA tracking code that is executed the first time they visit, so I track a "sale".   * The issue is, GA thinks that "sale" was a separate visit, and erroneously shows that only direct visits to my site result in sales. I don't understand how I can view stats (Pages / Visit, Avg. Time on Site, etc.) about users who eventually bought something. I've tried events and e-commerce tracking with no luck. Please help!


Robots.txt never downloaded but some blocked URLs in GWT

There is something I don't understand in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) for my WordPress site. In menu "Blocked URLs", it mention that my _robots.txt_ has never been downloaded but there are some blocked URLs. It's kind of weird and not logical. Am I missing something?               User-agent : *     Disallow: /*?     Disallow: /wp-login.php     Disallow: /wp-admin     Disallow: /wp-includes     Disallow: /wp-content     Allow: /wp-content/uploads     Disallow: */trackback     Disallow: /*/feed     Disallow: /*/comments     Disallow: /cgi-bin     Disallow: /*.php$     Disallow: /*.inc$     Disallow: /*.gz$     Disallow: /*.cgi$     Disallow: /author/*      I'm afraid my _robots.txt_ doesn't block several URLs I want to block. Edit (screenshot):   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cVYhL.png)


What happens to my pre-paid period if I change registrars?

I have a domain at registrar A and it is indicated that I have it payed until 2016. If I transfer it to registrar B today, will I have to pay again for the **from now to 2016** period?


SEO and links content

For usability purposes, entire article thumbnail is wrapped to a link.
Article title

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
           User needs to click on any place of a thumb and it will be redirected to article. Does this approach have some negative effect to SEO ? Another question: What is more valueable for Search Engine ? Just a link to article in articles list               Article 1     Article 2     Article 3          Or h2, wrapped to link:
Article 1

Article 2

Article 3


Alternative to OpenBiblio

Are there any good open source alternatives to OpenBiblio that can run on a hosting package without root access to the server? I have tried Koha and Evergreen, but they need root access and are not compatibility with my hosting package. Are there any good open source ones that can run with PHP and MySQL and are community maintained and updated?


what is standard approach to create a responsive website using javascript,php ajax and perhaps zend framework

I am working on a web system currently and plans to heavily use javascript with ajax to make the user interface more friendlier, not fancy as such. The javascript will be used for client side form validation, data loading from server and creating proper content with the result, also to for floating windows during add/edit or external references. Here is a scenerio that could clearify my question. A user wants to update card but instead of jumping to another page to verify the available colors,size and prizes of product, those information are shown in a floating window and changes in the floating window can affect the underlying one. My question is : 1. What are some of the approaches to encounter this situation? 2. Are there any helpful tips, tricks and links on this subject? I am comfortable with js,php and zend. I would appreciate any advice,tip and tricks, problem solving approach to handle a situation like this! Thanks in advance. Hope this make sense.


What happened to the test@domain.tld syntax?

I can remember that some years ago several providers advertised the possibility to use the @ syntax instead of general subdomains with their DNS service. Today, I can't find any documentation or hints about this anymore, besides Google Chrome asking me whether I wanted to open `http://test@domain.tld` when entering the possible email address (without the protocol) in the search bar. What happened to this domain syntax?


Google Advanced Image search - Appear in cc search

How do I mark that my images are public domain and can appear in google images - advanced search with option "usage rights:free to use, share, or modify even commercially". I want to mark my images so they appear in search results.


Is there any way to install applications onto a shared hosting account?

I've got a shared hosting account with arvixe.com. I wanted to move my Gemini install from a server in my spare bedroom to my hosting account so I can access it over the web. Unfortunately the Gemini application is only installable by means of an .exe file (www.geminiplatform.com/download) and as I don't have RDP access to the hosting machine I can't just click 'n run. Has anyone got a workaround for this problem? Thanks.


What programming language to use for sending mail from web?

I created advance mail sender desktop application but have some problem with it. There are some limitation, so for solving those limitation I have to send mail from web, but I didn't use much web programming before, so now my question is **what is best web programming language for sending mail from web?**


Looking for WAMP/LAMP/MAMP Benchmarking

I'm running ZWAMP WAMP stack on my local development machine. However I have found it to be very slow at serving pages from a Drupal site I have setup. By contrast, my live production site on shared hosting is reasonably quick. For me the goal with a local WAMP stack was to develop offline and send completed work to the live production site. I liked ZWAMP because it didn't require adjustments to User Access Control or other permissions. I've looked at Drupal Acquia Development Stack but found this too restrictive: only one site instance/doc root can be installed. I've looked at other DAMP stacks and heard reports of them being slow. My local development machine that I am running the WAMP stack on is a Dual Core 2.6Ghz hyperthreaded Intel i7, 4Gb RAM, 7200rpm hard disk, running Windows 64bit professional. Surely this is fast enough. So I'm looking for:   * Causes of the slowness of the WAMP and how to improve the speed   * Benchmark data of various WAMP stacks


Moving from a Content Site to a Blog

I currently have a good deal of content written on a site, HubPages. In comparison to my other sites/blogs, my CTR on HubPages is terrible. Not to mention I do an ad split with HubPages: 60% me, 40% them. Since the content I have written on HubPages is mixed-bag, some on tech topics, travel hubs, recipe hubs, pop culture, etc I worry how all this content would do on ONE blog. (Although it's all attached to ONE HubPages account.) However, if I were to separate the content and put it on different blogs by niche, each blog would seldom see updates. What would be the best move? Several tiny niche blogs or one site with all my content?


How to use Google Analytics Site Search when the search term is not a query parameter?

My site search works as follows:   * client types query into form and presses submit   * it GETs the search page /search?q=keyword   * that page redirecs the client to /products/keyword, which shows the search results How can I use Site Search for Google Analytics with my setup?


Using 301 Redirects on new site when access to old site denied?

I have a situation where I'm standing up a new website on a different web host. I've been denied access to the old site by the hosting company and the old site will most likely be turned off very soon. If my new site contains pages that are named slightly different how do I go about setting up 301 redirects on my new site? For example:               www.oldsite.com\aboutus\     www.newsite.com\aboutus.html          www.newsite.com\productx.html     www.oldsite.com\productx\      ### Edit: Clarification: The old domain name is different from the new domain name. On my newsite do I just duplicate every page that existed on the old site and place redirect code inside those pages? What does the redirect code look like?


What the Nginx Control panel?

What the Nginx Control panel? What the Nginx Control panel? and Free thanks


How to show multiple websites under single webpage

I want create one homepage for all my intranet websites, the page will have links on top border & opens different web applications in the area below. Any idea on how this can be achieved with static HTML or using asp/php technologies.


Finding Google's indexed pages

How do I find out how many pages Google has indexed on my website? I know I can just Google `site:http://foo.com`, but I would like to record the data and not have to do it by hand. Is there an API for pulling this data?   This is the number I want: ![Google search: site:apple.com](http://i.stack.imgur.com/B7Kkf.png) I don't want the number of links, I want the pages indexed.


Website copyright- Should I use my name or the website's name

If possible, I'd like to know whether to use my name or the website's name when making the copyright notice for my website. I read here that when I add a copyright notice to my website I should include > (3) the name of the owner of copyright in the work, or an abbreviation by > which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative > designation of the owner. Would the use of the website name instead of my name be considered a valid "alternative designation of the owner"? Thanks in advance.


Just discovered something I never knew about 404 - could someone explain this

I had always thought that placing anything spurious after the 404 which the server didn't understand would result in a 404; however I had a closer look at a WordPress site which I was building and noticed that if I appended something like /?page_iid=1 ( note the ? and also the typo ) to the domain that the redirect went to the site's home page rather than the 404 page. At first I thought this was just WordPress; but evidently it's unilateral across the web. Presumably this is a well known and easily explainable fact which has eluded me for years, but could someone kindly explain it to me. I am a little perturbed that the 404 system isn't able to handle a typo after a '?' so I presume it's unavoidable but if it isn't then I'd like to know a way of sorting it out.


Webmaster Tools not allowing change of address

I've moved your1.com to your2.com I want to move your2.com to your3.com but I'm not allowed - see this image: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hcyek.png)


Will there be any implications on the a website's optimization efforts when a domain is set up in two servers?

Will there be any implications on the site's optimization efforts when my domain is set up in two servers : default and backup server?


Moving Content That's Been Stolen

I have several articles on a website that I would like to move to my own domain. However, much of the content I have written has been stolen by other sites. I have filed a lot of paperwork with hosting companies, Google, etc, but it seems that the minute it gets removed from one place, it pops up in another. How do I move content to a new domain and let Google know, "Hey, this is mine."


Selling products through affiliate an program - how to do it right?

I have 2 kind of a strange websites that has to do with health. I originally made them just to practice SEO, and since now I am an SEO guru, they get lots of traffic. The problem is that those sites only get monetized through ads, so the nice traffic I get is monetized pretty poorly. Since the site has to do with health, I was thinking to sell some vitamins or something similar through an affiliate program. My questions are:   * How much money should I expect to earn per lets say 10k unique visitors? Are there any statistics for sites that are health related?   * What are some of the better affiliate programs for health products?


Host Change - What is a good method for testing SSL before pointing DNS at new host?

Version 1 of a web application is on an old Host. Version 2 is on a new host, operating on a test domain. At launch, we will point the official domain at the new host. However, I would like to verify that we have the SSL certificate installed correctly on the new host before pointing the domain at the new host. I exported the certificate, but it is my understanding that the SSL certificate only works for the single domain it was issued to, so I'm not sure how to test that we have SSL setup pre-launch. Any ideas?


How long after your domain expires do you have to re-register it before someone else can?

Can you register an expired domain immediately after it expires, or is there a waiting period? (I'm sure this can be found on google, but I don't know the proper name for it. :( )


Can I migrate from GNU Mailman to MailChimp?

I have ~20 lists, all of which are mostly announce-only (newsletters-- recipients do not reply back to the list) running in GNU Mailman. It's alright. Mailman has certainly prooven itself but we want some progressive features and a better peice of mind (delivery success, hosting, etc... we'd be happy paying a 3rd party to handle these things). can MailChimp give us what we need? I see tons of fun copy and graphics, showing off neat features but what I really want to do is; if MailChimp is doing the mailings, what does the address look like? is MailChimp good for sending out simple newsletters? What about automatic bounce processing / unsubscribing of users? I setup a free account but I don't see how any of it integrates into my own domain... no DNS overrides or cname suggestions. Also, I see MailChimp has a clean and nifty API client in Python that I want to integrate into our sites (Django powered) so that really really makes the service attractive to me--I just hope I understand it correctly.


How to get new site indexed and ranked by Alexa?

When I search my site on Alexa, it says "Alexa Traffic Rank: No Data". I've read that to get a site indexed, you have to click "crawl my site" on the webmasters page. However there is no longer a link that says "crawl my site". So as of now, how does one get a site indexed by Alexa so that my traffic rank will display in the Alexa index?


Exit pages made to link remote sites. Good or harmful for SEO?

I have some "prefetched result pages" on my website, that link to documents that are hosted on remote sites. The structure I want to implement is   * a result page that contains 20-30 links, a text of about 30-40 words (because of lack of space) for each link   * any link on this page points directly to the remote url But i'm also considering to implement this navigation:   * a result page that contains 20-30 links, a text of about 30-40 words (because of lack of space) for each link   * any link on this page points to a page hosted on my site that contains about 200 words of "poor" content (like press news, no actual content, but text that explain that "some content" is available)   * on any of these pages there will be a single link, a big button, that links to the remote url Some important notes:   * these "press pages" are related to the content of the site, there are not "link exchange"   * links to remote pages are "clean" (dofollow, no javascript, direct plain link)   * pages also contains links to related contents (related press news)   * pages titles are nearly identical to the remote site title   * any page may also contains `<blockquote>` that cites the remote site (totally or partially) Will this be good for SEO? Bad? No effect?


How to setup site for no www

The company I'm working at handles the hosting our self. We got `www.domain.com` up now and we want to make the `domain.com` to work as well. We use IIS7. I have seen some articles and found one with URL rewrite setting that can be added to IIS7. What's the best way to go? We don't want to cut any corners we want to do it properly. This is the article that I mentioned above: http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2009/11/27/iis-url-rewrite-rewriting- non-www-to-www.aspx


What is the minimum padding or margin between adsense content and navigation bar?

I am working on my website and I want to put adsense on the webpage. I am not sure how close is too close between adsense content and my navigation bar?