title: Directing Multiple ccTLD's to 1 gTLD with a country specific subdirectory?

text: We have multiple ccTLDomains and are thinking about how to best combine these into one. We want to do this to focus our link building efforts. We are running a website through which we offer a software-as-a-service. Therefore we could potentially sell to any country in the world. However, Germany is our most important market. We currently have a .com, .de, .nl. and .pl domain. All these domains have a high amount of unique content pages. What we are planning is to change everything to .com with language-based subdirectories, so .com/en/, .com/de/, etc. I have two questions concerning this issue:   1. How much of an advantage does a ccTLD have over a gTLD with country specific subdirectories in search rankings? So let’s say .de versus .com/de/?   2. How could we best redirect the visitors of our old ccTLD’s to our gTLD’s subdirectories? We would like to looe as few search engine rankings as possible.


title: Link to different locations depending on location of visitor

text: I have very simple HTML website with a button which takes you a specific book link on amazon.com. But I would now like to make the link a bit more sophisticated - if the visitor is from the UK, I would like the button to take them to the same book on amazon.co.uk. Is there a simple way to do this?


title: Does having an old copyright date on a website have any negative SEO impact?

text: In that a client feels having an old copyright date displayed in the footer across a site will have a negative SEO impact? My opinion is that it should make very little difference SEO wise and should only change if a substantial change has taken place with regard to the design of the site. I have done some Googling but have not come across anything "concrete" any pointers or if you have had experience changing from a static to a dynamically change year and the effect it had that would be great.


title: Suggestions on managing social media accounts

text: As a company we now have Facebook, LinkedIN, Twitter and now Google+, is there a way to easily manage all these accounts without having to log into them individually? Things like posting content to each one is becoming a full time job in itself, is there a way to post once that in turn posts to all other accounts? I used to use http://ping.fm/ a long time ago, has there been any advancements in something similar to this? With friend lists, news feeds etc etc for each one, I wish there was a way to manage them all in one place with a service/tool!


title: Embedding Google Transliterator (input tools) in my site. Help please?

text: I want a transliterator (google's) to be embedded in my site. I tried embedding it, I succeeded mostly. It is giving result but it is not showing all available translations for a word typed on typing each letter like it shows in google input tools online like this, ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3LP8a.png) Even I need such a feature in my site after embedding it. It is giving me at the end of the word when I hit space only not after every key I press. I tried looking at the web-conole(firefox), and understood that in the code that I have , is sending a request whenever we hit a space. But google input tools online sending request to POST a request after every key press but getting and printing data only after space. Could any body help me out in this regard. Thanks in advance


title: Do CSS class names have any effect on SEO?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice? I have seen some of our competitors using keyword rich CSS class names. As an example, if I were in the pet grooming business, I would name my #menu as:               #menu.pet.grooming.moreKeywords.etc { ... }      Does this have any effect on SEO? If so, what is the best practice?


title: Subdomains regarding name servers/domains

text: I know how to configure subdomains like `sub.example.com` on Apache etc. My question is, do I need to make any changes to the name servers/domain that is provided to me? Would it work the same as `domain.com/sub`? Worth noting that I use `http://za.net/` as my domain provider (free domain) and zone edit as the name server provider which is also free. I think `.za.net` provides third-level domains, because when you register it, it becomes `example.za.net`. I'm not 100% sure that it provides third-level domains, but would I need to make any changes with that? Or would the setup in my Apache config as a subdomain for `sub.example.za.net` work without need to do anything with the domain DNS or name servers? `http://co.za/` is the same, but you pay for it. It's the premium domain provider in South Africa, but I've seen many sites with `sub.example.co.za` for example. Anyway... ultimately my question is: Would creating virtual hosts and stuff for a subdomain like `sub.domain.com` be sufficient? and would I need to change anything in the name servers or domain DNS management tools? The `sub.domain.com` would read the "sub" folder in the htdocs.


title: What is your experience with Amazon EC2 hosting?

text: What is your experience with Amazon EC2 cloud hosting service? a) setting up and configuring the service b) maintenance c) speed / latency d) reliability? Amazon did experience some major outages lately, but from what I read, it is still the most advanced hosting service available. Do you agree? How does it compare to Rackspace?


title: Free/cheap Whois Api

text: Is there a free API where I can pull whois data and server location data? (similar to who.is)


title: Advice on trying to determine the rankings of my keywords via PHP

text: I've written a piece of code, which crawls the search engines, first 40 50 results   and check's for the specified keywords and tries to gather some statistics for them. I've heard that this may be called content scraping but i really don't think that   this is the issue here since i would only call it maybe twice a day, on a set of   keywords that i think will be relevant to my service. For using SEOmoz and other players in the game, i really think it's unfair because   it's really much they want for some simple keyword tracking. Please give me some advice on what can go wrong and what would be a good way. Thank you very much


title: Effects of moving website to another server on SEO

text: If i shift my domain from One server to another does it effect SEO of website? I am just changing server not domain name.So only Ip address of domain gets changed. So please give information on this


title: Which JavaScript carousel zooms blocks from the playlist?

text: I saw a carousel/slider for displaying featured content a while ago that does something that most don't. It started fairly simply, with the top feature large, and a playlist to the side of other featured stories: ![Initial state](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4uX21.png) Feature 1 then began to slide towards the bottom right, while feature 2 moved to occupy the main slot, and the previews of features 3 and 4 moved up: ![Start of slide](http://i.stack.imgur.com/OBc56.png) ![End of slide](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Qd3IT.png) ![Final state](http://i.stack.imgur.com/T6GWa.png) The slider had now completed a whole swap, and was ready to do the same thing with feature 3. My Google-fu seems to be lacking in finding this again; does anyone know of this slider? I think it was based on one of the frameworks, but I'm not sure whether it was jQuery or one of the others.


title: Files not refreshing after uploaded and overwritten via ftp

text: I have been having some trouble with updating my website this morning. After editing some files, in special, a css file, and uploading it to the server, i would notice that the changes wouldn't happen, as if the file had not been overwritten. File size on my local machine would be 3.244 kb and on the server 3.080 kb. Even after deleting the whole folder itself, and uploading everything again, same error. Answer: Cloudfare.


title: Serving Images out of SQL server vs. File system vs. S3 etc

text: My application (classic asp yay!) has about 2.1 million images @ 25GB and that only represents 90 days of data and I'd like to go 365 at a minimum. I need to get these under control and am considering all options. What are your thoughts on the pros and cons of the following practices:   * SQL Server Pros: Easy to back up Cons: Performance ?   * File System Pros: Speed Cons: Redundancy, Back up is slow (currently researching doing Synthetic full back ups instead which might make that better)   * S3 and the like Pros: Bandwidth is shifted from my datacenter to Amazon, virtually unlimited storage. Cons: Cost, Cost Analysis is tricky (estimating 80% of my bandwidth is images for ROI purposes), Difficult/Costly to swtich service providers should that become necessary Does anyone else deal with the multi-million image challenge and how did you address it?


title: Pins on Pinterest link to 404 - yet link is valid

text: this is a really strange one. I've set up a bunch of pins on Pinterest linking through to our services which all work fine. Then I decided to do the same on our blog articles (we use Wordpress), yet everytime I click the link (and I've done this on different computers) the link goes to a 404 page on our site. However the link is valid and if you right click the pin and open in new window it opens fine. I have contacted Pinterest who are next to useless. I have also tried different browsers, different computers and different Pinterest accounts. I can't see any weirdness in my htaccess files causing this so I'm a little stumped. Any suggestions?


title: Any chance to redirect homepage to a changing permalink without irritating search engines?

text: We have a php 5.3/Apache 2.2 based cartoon website that always shows the most current cartoon on the homepage (index.php). Now, a lot of people want to link directly to that cartoon (by copying the URL), so we added a little permanent link below the image (changing with the image id, like cartoon_1234.htm, cartoon_1235.htm and so on). However, quite a few still link to index.php without realizing that that will show a different cartoon every day. We considered using a simple header redirect - header('location: cartoon_xxxx.htm') - in our php code) that redirects whenever index.php is called, thus showing the desired URL in the browser. But we are afraid the for instance the Google algorithm will not like the constantly changing temporary redirect (or will it?). And we don't want to risk our good ranking by showing different content to people and to SE-bots. **Question: is there any recommended practice to implement this kind of homepage with permalinked URL?**


title: .sc domain "reserved in red". What does this mean?

text: I am interested in buying a two letter domain from the Seychelles (e.g. `ab.sc`). On reading the qualifications document there is a line that states: > All one and two letter domains name registrations are reserved in red under > `.sc` (e.g. `ab.sc` , `12.sc`) I don't understand what "reserved in red" means. Does anyone know?


title: How to go about unused CSS issues

text: I am running some speedtests on a blog, and I always get complaints about unused CSS. But this is not CSS that I never use, it is just not used on that particular page. Now I work in a structured way, but there still has to be some CSS in the file that will not be used, because you need it on another page. I do not think that using different CSS files on different pages is the way to go, I think you are much better off just creating one big file that can be cached. Now is there an elegant way of dealing with this, or do you just stick with it.


title: How to track my site position in SERP based on keyword

text: In Google Analytics i can see that people have reach my website after search on a specific keyword. How can i check the results page number where my website appears.


title: Convert secured website to PDF

text: I need to convert my MediaWiki site to PDF. The whole website, not just a page. Its a wiki with lots of articles. Adobe Acrobat has function for this, but the problem is that the site is secured and requiers login. Does anyone know a solution to this?


title: Page Speed Online vs Chrome Extension

text: In optimizing a content blog of mine with the goal of achieving the highest page speed score possible for obvious reasons (user experience, SEO, etc..), the results I'm obtaining are throwing me for a loop. For the sake of completeness, here is **my stack:**   * _CloudFlare DNS + CDN_   * _nginx 1.0.11 stable_   * _PHP-FPM 5.3.6_   * _WordPress latest stable (3.3.1)_   * _WP-Super Cache_ Moving on... I _originally_ was using Page Speed Online to have Google scrape the root URL and see what it turned up, as I assumed that'd be the most accurate representation of the speed it realized when evaluating the website for SEO purposes. However, the results are... _intriguing_ to say the least. I've **looked at the headers** _extensively_ ( **sessions, anonymous users, cached vs not-cached, etc..** ), yet Page Speed Online seems to report back incorrect results. After purging every cache that I had and still getting the same funny recommendations by Page Speed Online, I tried out the Chrome extension. **Here are my findings** :   * **Page Speed Online** reports that I should " _leverage browser caching_ " for the majority of my static assets, citing that the _expires_ duration on the majority of them is 24h or less, _despite the fact_ that I can repeatedly replicate viewing the headers and **seeing that the expires date is correctly set for 1 week** as I have in my nginx configuration. This applies to .js, .css. png, .jpg, etc....     * Also, CloudFlare states that it respects any expires headers you have greater than its default 4h, which doesn't seem to be a problem.   * **With** CloudFlare Enabled, **Page Speed Online** reports a score of a **75** , with only 2 medium-priority critiques (one of which is the above caching " _issue_ " which isn't actually valid) and one low-priority. **Without** CloudFlare enabled, I get a score of **88** with _the same_ 2 medium-priority reccomendations, but instead 9 low-priority (ex: I was having CloudFlare handle minification of static assets, asynchronously load some of the JavaScript, etc...).     * Keep in mind this is on a **613MB 32-bit EC2 Micro-Instance** with poor I/O performance and short CPU bursts. Granted, I'm caching a lot of trips to the disk, but an **88** _without_ CloudFlare and **75** _with_?    Fast-forward to **Page Speed Chrome Extension**...   * **No cached content, no CloudFlare** : _94_     * (1 medium-priority, 9 low-priority)   * **Server-side cached page, no CloudFlare** : _95_     * (0 medium-priority, 9 low-priority)   * **No server-side cached page, _with_ CloudFlare)**: _92_     * (2 medium-priority, 7 low-priority)   * **Server-side cached page, _with_ CloudFlare)**: _96_     * (0 medium-priority, 7 low-priority) Just to be clear, the **local** cache (cached by Chrome) was cleared before any of the above were run. In the case of the **first** and **third** , I ran the test as an administrative user with a session and _was not_ served the Super Cache page. For the **second** and **fourth** , I verified that the server-side cache was populated and requested the page as an anonymous user (and _was_ subsequently served the cached page). In the case of the requests **not** using CloudFlare, _no minification_ was present for the **first** , and _only HTML minification_ for the **second**. For the tests **using** CloudFlare, _HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification_ were performed/served automatically, and additionally, resources were combined and required asynchronously when applicable. Also, all static assets were **cached and served** _by the CloudFlare CDN rather than from my EC2 instance_. The only " _cache distinction_ " I make in these two tests was the case of a Super Cache _static version of the dynamic page_ being present in- memory or not (present && hit).    _Phew._   (It took about as long to cite this verbosely as it did to test).    **I say all of that to ask the following questions:**   1. **Why does Page Speed Online give such funky results?** Not accurate, but moreover, the major disparity between using CloudFlare versus not, _completely_ counter-intuitive.   2. **You can see above the night-and-day difference between Page Speed Online and the Page Speed Chrome Extension. Which is a more accurate representation of how Google's algorithm would rank your page in regards to speed?** I'm really hopping it's the latter :)   3. **What gives with CloudFlare scoring lower in the both Online and Extension cases without a server-side static cached page?** Intuitively, I'd expect that the several performance advantages that CloudFlare offers to at the _very least_ be superior to _any_ variation of a non-CloudFlare test (minification of JS, CSS, HTML, CDN for _all_ static assets _including_ images (a hefty portion of the payload), asynchronous loading, etc... **What gives?**    **I applaud you** if you've managed to read and stay attentive this far. Thanks so much for the time and consideration, and I appreciate any insights anyone can provide in advance! Just for the sake of transparency, I also posted this to Quora.


title: Robots.txt disallowing URLs

text: I need to disallow some URLs on my site but I am not sure how to do that. I have a site that has products and reviews. When someone makes a review, the site generates a URL automatically like this:               mysite.com/addreview_1.htm     mysite.com/addreview_2.htm     ....     mysite.com/addreview_9999.htm      I need some way to disallow all the URLs which will appear in the future.


title: iFrame ads from site to site

text: How I can make the iFrame ads from site A to site B   not like this: `<iframe src="http://www.site.com"></iframe>`   Example:               site A     <script type="text/javascript"><!--     google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3434343507";     /* site */     google_ad_slot = "343435270";     google_ad_width = 728;     google_ad_height = 90;     //-->     </script>     <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">     </script>          site B     --iFrame--     <script type="text/javascript"><!--     google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3434343507";     /* site */     google_ad_slot = "343435270";     google_ad_width = 728;     google_ad_height = 90;     //-->     </script>     <script type="text/javascript"     src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">     </script>     --iFrame--


title: Google Bot creating invalid GET Request

text: I have checked multiple times in page, and there are no recursive sort of links anywhere nor are there any links without base href but still I can see lot of links with 10+ level deep. like `GET http://www.example.com/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/a/foo_bar_page` which is invalid for me, but `example.com/a/foo_bar_page` is a valid page. I can temporarily block it in robots.txt but what if it starts requesting for `b/b/b/b/` sort of links ? How can I stop this ?


title: Would this be considered keyword stuffing?

text: we have a website with a lot of galleries filled under a couple of different categories. A while ago we migrated all the URLs from for example:               http://domain.com/blog/post/1225/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki/      to something like this               http://domain.com/cosplay/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki-1225/      Funny thing was that 2 days after this, we were hit by almost a total drop of traffic from what seems to be Google panda. In the past 6 months I fixed every imaginable thing I could think of. This made me think that google might consider this as keyword stuffing and therefore dropped the site from the results because of the URLs? I am now thinking of changing the URL schema to simply:               http://domain.com/bakemonogatari-cosplay-hanekawa-black-by-aki-1225/      Do you think that's better? Or is there a better solution such as /blog/ subfolder or somehting? Thanks


title: Why Google stopped caching my site?

text: Today I noticed that Google has stopped caching my site. I don't know why? `cache:www.technostall.com` (that's how I check cached pages in Chrome) gives a 404 page. Can anyone let me know why is this happening? My site's meta robots tag is as follows: `<meta name="robots" content="noodp,noydir"/>` which is perfectly fine I think, I didn't use `noarchive`.


title: Script injection on different hosting servers = FTP hacking?

text: I've been facing the exact same injected script on several of my websites for the last few weeks. Today I realize these websites don't share the same hosting servers, yet the attacks (1) started at the same time (2) are identical. Does this prove that my FTP passwords have been stolen (they're all stored in Filezilla XML file on my hard drive) ? What else could be the security hole?


title: How to utilise a newly acquired keyword domain to contribute to an already existing healthy website?

text: My client's website has just reached spot 1 for the most valuable keyword. We acquired the domain that was at #1 spot. It's a keyword domain (`targetkeyword.tld`). Just wondering what would be the best way to make use of it. A permanent redirect or a single page that hyperlinks to the brand website? Should I be concerned about anything negative associated to this keyword domain (poor backlinks and the fact that this website was down for about one month)?


title: What information can a competitor acquire from my Google Analytics account?

text: An ex-employee has gone over to a competitor, and it's been 3 weeks. I've realized not too long ago that this person still had shared access to the Master account... Being that this person was the most proficient person in the office with GA, I'm sure information from the account has been shared. What should I be expecting? Any preventions to take so I don't get hacked?


title: Google Analytics - Bounced User Landing Page

text: In Google Analytics, is it possible to see the top landing pages for bounced users? That is, I want to see the pages users are landing on, not interacting with, and then leaving.


title: SetEnv directive not working for localhost VirtualHost but works for other VirtualHost

text: ## I have two virtual hosts declared: localhost and test. Both use the `SetEnv` directive and point to the same DocumentRoot:               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost _default_:80>         DocumentRoot "/Users/mf/Sites/test"         SetEnv FROM_ROOT 'i like tacos'             ## <- SetEnv     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName localhost             DocumentRoot "/Users/mf/Sites/test"         <Directory "/Users/mf/Sites/test">             Options Includes FollowSymLinks               AllowOverride All             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Directory>         SetEnv FROM_VHOST 'set in localhost vhost'  ## <- SetEnv     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName test         DocumentRoot "/Users/mf/Sites/test"         <Directory "/Users/mf/Sites/test">             Options Includes FollowSymLinks               AllowOverride All             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Directory>         SetEnv FROM_VHOST 'set in test vhost'        ## <- SetEnv     </VirtualHost>      I have a test file **/Users/mf/Sites/test/dump.php** :               var_dump( $_SERVER );      For `http://test/` everything works as I'd expect, `$_SERVER['FROM_VHOST']` is available. dump.php outputs:               array (size=33)       'UNIQUE_ID' => string 'UY7bHMCoAXIAABkbAkMAAAAC' (length=24)       'FROM_VHOST' => string 'set in test vhost' (length=17)       'HTTP_HOST' => string 'test' (length=4)     …      For `http://localhost/` things break down:               array (size=34)       'UNIQUE_ID' => string 'UY7bA8CoAXIAABkZAhQAAAAA' (length=24)       'FROM_ROOT' => string 'i like tacos' (length=5)       'HTTP_HOST' => string 'localhost' (length=9)     …      ## ?   1. Why does localhost not have a `FROM_VHOST` environment variable?   2. Why does only localhost see the `FROM_ROOT` environment variable?


title: using gzip to compress assets

text: I'd like to check if i understand gzip compression correctly, i learned about it only recently. I'm working on an asset manager for an HTML5 game currently. On my end as a front-end developer, i can do all my logic as normal? When i need an .mp3 file, i can request a .mp3 using the audio tag, when i need a text file, i can request a text file from the server using XHR, it's the server that will read the request, compress the response, send it compressed, then the browser will unpack it and i'll get the file. Correct? Also, is there a way to store already-compressed assets on the server and make Apache/etc. figure out which compressed file to send back to the browser without me making any changes to my code? This is probably a very lazy approach to the issue, but right now i'd just like to make sure that i'm not going to have to rewrite my asset manager when switching from development to deployment.


title: Root directory -- verifying ownership -- did I put the file in the right place?

text: down vote favorite share [fb] share [tw] share [in] My site is built in PHP. I need to upload a file to the root directory, to verify ownership of the domain. I put the file in the first window I see when I log in over ftp, but the file doesn't show up at the relevant url. Where do I place a file so that it's in the root directory?


title: linking Google AdWords account to Google Analytics account

text: I have a Google Analytics account that has two profiles, one for www.ayrshireminis.com and one for www.crmpicco.co.uk. I have a Google AdWords account that I would like to link to my Google Analytics account, but for some reason the Google AdWords admin is telling me I cannot do that. Within the AdWords admin and the My Account > Linked Accounts > Google Analytics section both profiles show as `Not Available` ... it also has this message... > None of your profiles are available for linking due to your account > settings. How can I link these two accounts?


title: Why is my page ranked *very* low in Google?

text: I have created a web site mianatura.net that doesn't even rank in the top 100 results in Google for the query "Mia Natura". I have the text Mia Natura in the domain, `<title>`, `<h1>`, I have the site in Google Webmaster Tools, the site _is_ crawled (finding 172 results for `site:mianatura.net`). I have checked my standing manually (going through the SERPs), using What Page of Search Am I on and diyseo. The site is not involved in any dubious link building campaigns (as far as I know). So what's going on?


I had about a million pages of a catalog indexed under a subdirectory, and now that's moved to a subdomain. GoogleBot is crawling each one of them and getting a 301 redirect to the new location. Even though I have set up the redirect rule in the apache sites-enabled configuration file, (i.e. it's early on when apache does the redirect - PHP is not even getting loaded), even though I have done that, the server isn't handling the load well. GoogleBot is making around 5 requests per second, and on top of my normal traffic that is hiking up the CPU for a few hours at a time. I checked in Webmaster Tools and the corresponding documentation for a way to let Google know that the content had been moved from a subdirectory to a subdomain, but with little luck. Basically the most helpful thing I saw said to just **send 301 headers for the new location**. How can I tell GoogleBot that a subdirectory is now a subdomain? If that is not an option, how can I more efficiently send 301 redirects out for a particular subdomain? I was thinking perhaps the Nginx server but I'm not sure that I can run both Apache and Nginx side by side on port 80 for different subdomains.


title: Is text in Javascript HMTL scripts taken into account in Google (or other) indexes?

text: I have a HTML page where I update the content of a div to display some introduction text when displaying the page. It is hard for me to create copies of this page for all possibilities and move the text as static content correspondingly. When I have a Javascript, something like this:                   <script type="text/javascript">             setIntroduction("This is my introduction text etc... etc...");         </script>               Does Google (or other index tool) take into account the `This is my introduction text etc... etc...` text, since it appears in the page? Or is it ignored?


title: Penalty issue for a duplicate page in site but original page doesn't exist anymore

text: I've a product page ranking well for a keyword which I duplicated from the company itself which contained faq about it's product. Now the website has removed that page so mine is the only one existing now. Does anyone have any idea if still duplicate content penalty will be applied to my page? Should I go ahead and remove it?


title: Copied page but why it is ranking first in Google SERP?

text: I'd published an article with the permission of the author. But when I search in Google from India for title: "How to Test Payment Gateway Functionality" my site is ranking first eventhough it is a copy. Isn't there any penalty for this?


title: Deleted duplicate pages will search engine ratings improve?

text: I've just now deleted many pages from my website (with 410 status) which were product pages and copied from respective companies. Will now search engine rankings improve for my site? I hope it should take 4-6 weeks for this.


title: Does text in tooltips (or hide/show divs) count for positive SEO?

text: We want to increase our rankings. We have relevant quality text content ... However we need the page to visually appear less texty. We are therefore considering a design with very little text immediately visible. "Learn more" icons will offer this additional content as popovers or tooltips. The content will be in divs on the page. **Will this content be considered as content for an improved page rank?**


title: How to setup multiple Google+ pages with different languages/websites which share +1s?

text: How can I setup multiple Google+ pages for our product for users who speak different languages and share the +1 between those pages? We have a web domain for every language our product supports. I saw that this should be possible by looking at some companies which have different domains and Google+ pages but the same amount of + on every page.


title: Sitemap contains a lot of products and web index contains a few according to Google webmaster tools

text: Our sitemap has something like 10 million pages: This is the data in the webmaster tools: Submitted URLs 10,873,781 2 URLs in web index. This is a big difference and an incorrect statement, since millions of our pages are in Google's index. The sitemap files are valid and the google status flag shows that the sitemaps are fine. When we asked Google about it they said that all our URLs ending in index.html caused the sitemap configuration to report wrongly. Is the statement about the urls ending in index.html true? Does anybody have the same experience that ending in index.html causes the webmaster tools to report incorrectly?


title: domain name purchasing

text: I am about to make a site regarding programming and technology.Being very new to the webmasters field I don't know much about what features does the .com,.info,.org etc offer.If I built a site on any of these (.com,.net,.org etc etc) and add a feature that every member can make his own profile on the site,will I have to give some extra money for that ?Moreover does all of them allow such features?Please help me out.Thanks!


title: Where can I find template for Social networking site (paid or free doesn't matter) for my java website?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Where could I buy a "social networking" html template or psd/ai file? Hi can you tell me any website where I can find a template for my Social networking site (paid or free doesn't matter) in java ? I browsed joomla and drupal but they are in PHP. Please tell me if there is any place where i can find java site templates


title: Most important linux commands for web development

text: What are the most important linux commands to know for development? I currently have the following down ok: cp, rm, mkdir, pwd, ls, scp, ssh, cat, mv, tar, and gzip. What else are commonly used? I'm not looking to memorize all the commands, but just be comfortable with the most-used commands, and look up the ones I don't know when it comes to that. Also, from Python what is the (pipe) command to copy, move, rm or mkdir?


title: Is there an easier way to implement 301 redirects when converting a site to WordPress

text: I have just converted a website to WordPress. The old site has hundreds of hard-coded html files, and the new site does not match the old site's directory structure or file naming system (bad SEO in the original site), so I can't place any "blanket" 301 redirects. Its been at least 2 months, and the old links are still appearing in Google searches, despite a google-friendly sitemap.xml. Do I need to hardcode a 301 for every individual page in my htaccess file, or am I just misunderstanding 301s and apache? Is there some other way I can update Google about the fact that my entire site structure has changed?


title: StumbleUpon Social Interaction Tracking using Google Tag Manager

text: I have a StumbleUpon button at the bottom of each page but I can't figure out how to trigger and send a Social Interaction to Google Analytics (Universal). This button is wrapped inside an iframe. Below is the outer code for this block:               <iframe id="iframe-stmblpn-widget-1" src="http://badge.stumbleupon.com/badge/embed/1/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcompositesmanufacturingmagazine.com%2F2014%2F08%2Fworlds-largest-carbon-composites-superyacht-launched%2F" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none;" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" height="18" width="74"></iframe>      I was able to setup Social Interaction Tracking for Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest but this one is driving me nuts. Any help would be much appreciated.


title: Google Webmaster Tools - Crawl errors with 500 status code

text: I will try to explain the situation: In December 2012 I deployed a website with a sitemap.xml, etc... there were circa 2000 URLs. After a while I changed something on my website, upgrading my pages to circa 30,000 and I deployed again updating the sitemap.xml. I also updated the routing of my urls: ie: from `mysite/id=myName` to `mysite/id/my-name`. Now for some reason I'm receiving from Google Webmaster Tools 8 crawl errors with a 500 status code on some pages with an old URL... how can it be possible? And how can I fix it?


title: Tools for managing eCommerce backend

text: I am working with an eCommerce company that has outgrown their hacked together backend for managing inventory, pricing and feeds to various shopping engines (Yahoo, 3d cart, Amazon, etc.). They currently manage about 12,000 skus and are doing $40M in revenue. Their internal people are working on a new Magento solution, but that is six months away and they need to replace/improve their current solution in order to hold them over. Their current solution was developed by two people who have left the company. What tools/architecture do other eCommerce sites use to manage their inventory, pricing, product descriptions and feed generation for the shopping engines? The current solution looks like this:   1. Inventory, pricing and product descriptions are maintained in a database and in NetSuite by employees   2. New products are added to the database via import   3. Twice a week data is extracted into a giant Excel spreadsheet   4. The Excel file adjusts pricing based on some simple algorithms   5. The Excel file exports about six different csv feeds which are manually uploaded to Amazon, 3d cart, Yahoo, Google and Merchant Advantage     1. Each feed is a variant of the product which different field names and formatting     2. Pricing levels differ between feeds     3. Some products are not sent to all feeds   6. Orders are manually parsed and the inventory is adjusted as needed once product is sold The new solution should:   1. Import data from ODBC, CSV and NetSuite (CSV via ftp)   2. Apply pricing changes via simple algorithms (< $80 add $10, > $200 add $25)   3. Ensure margins are being met   4. Format and generate a bunch of CSV and XML feeds   5. Perhaps upload feeds to shopping engines automatically What I need to do is replace the Excel file with something that is maintainable and automated. Something in the .Net stack is preferable but not mandatory. I’ve been looking at BizTalk but it may take too long to develop and deploy. Any suggestions?


title: Should my site be AJAX crawable?

text: I'm developing a website that uses a lot of AJAX. Now this is the first time I use AJAX and read something about making an AJAX website crawable I don't have any experience of SEO, but I read about it. I've got multiple questions.   1. Do Google crawlers follow links that are styled like this: `<a href="producten/mica.html" class="ajax-popup-link-mica" style="display:none"></a>` So with no text, and display set to none. The reason I use this is because of a plugin I'm using, `magnific popup`. Magnific popup requires you to give links a certain class, and if you click it, a modal/popup will appear with ajax content, retrieved from the above link. (with out refreshing the page) But the problem for me is that it won't change the browsers URL, so using this would make it impossible to send the link to someone else or to add it favourites. So what I did is use two links. The first one `<a href="#!/producten/mica" class="product_link">` with a div inside it with product image and product text. When this is pressed the browser URL does get updated (without refreshing the page), then using JQuery/JavaScript it triggers the `class="ajax-popup-link-productname"` so the modal/popup is triggered. So the main question is, is it necessary, using this technique, to also make the page AJAX crawlable. Or do I not have to, because the crawler can follow the link as seen in question 1?


title: Why web hosting providers use Apache for their plans?

text: As the title says, I see most web hosting companies provide plans that running Apache instead of Nginx. So, what is the reason that makes them stick with Apache? Although, Nginx is much more lighter and not heavy resources eater as Apache!


title: Who's viewing website source code?

text: Is there a way (either client side or server side) to see who is viewing your website's source code that is generated in the their browser?


title: SEO : Understanding Duplicate Content & Low Quality Content

text: We know that content of each page should be unique and useful for users. Google will penalize thin websites with low quality content and duplicate content. What I want to know is what is the exact meaning of " **Duplicate Content** " & " **Low Quality Content** ". Assume that we have a website with 10,000 pages and some parts of each page is repetitive in the **layout** in **all of the pages**. Look at this example : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hIMOJ.png) Does Google count repetitive content of the layout of pages as " **Duplicate Content** " ? Is this page a " **Low Quality** " page because the unique part is lower than 300 words ? When somebody searches a keyword including some of words that are in the layout words, does Google show them to the user ? Is " **Ratio** " of unique/repetitive content important ? if yes, how much it should be ?


title: How can I force Yahoo to recrawl a site

text: I have a site that was hacked (someone hid a bunch of Viagra links and text on my pages). I cleaned it up a few weeks ago, but the Yahoo results are still displaying the Viagra text in their descriptions, which is obviously bad for my sites reputation / etc... I've dealt with Google already through their tool in webmaster tools, but cannot find a similar feature in Yahoo to make it re-index the site. How can I tell Yahoo that the sites been updated?


title: Personal domain names?

text: As a CompSci student, I felt it was appropriate to create a personal website. It appears I'm a tad late to this domain name game. My Surname.com/co.uk/me.uk/net/org/name/info/me are all taken. My full name is also taken in these domains. What options do I have? I don't like the idea of mis-spellings or adding numbers as this leads people to confusion. Would rather not use a ccTLD unless it's for the UK. first-lastname.co.uk is available? It's 16 characters long including the dash. This seems long for email. Do dashes matter in a domain?


title: Should I ask for additional CPU cores?

text: I have a website that has approximately 300 users and I get about 1000 hits per day. Due to an upcoming event next week, there is a possibility of all of a sudden getting between 20 and 25 thousand users per day, with between 60 and 70 thousand hits. I currently have 2 CPU on a semi-dedicated hosting. My host is aware that there could be a bump in users and said that he could quickly up the CPU as needed. However, there's also an option of prepaying for additional CPU. As the 20-25K users would be purchasing access to my site, I definitely want that aspect to go smoothly. Is there anyway to tell whether I should purchase access to the additional CPU? Additional information: 1) A screen shot of my usage of the last week (the spikes are nightly database/file backups and won't increase with the new users) 2) I use a CDN for images, javascript, css 3) My "purchase access to the site" script takes about 2 seconds to run as it's interacting with my payment processor. 4) Each page that the user accesses requires a check via php to see if they're logged in, and 1-2 trips to the database: typically page loads are under 5 milliseconds. If I'm being neurotic and shouldn't purchase more CPU, then that's fine for someone to tell me so. However, if this seems like a case where I should make the purchase, it would be great to know what number of additional CPU cores would be appropriate.


title: Website only displays correctly in IE using compatibility mode?

text: As the resident "IT Whiz" at work (ie: I know how to use a computer) I've been asked to develop a website for our small business. I've altered a wordpress theme for the time being and the company is very happy with the results. The only problem I am having with it at the moment is that for some reason the website does not display correctly and Internet Explorer unless I run it in Compatibility Mode. The main problem that I have is that my menu "slider" (it rotates pictures with links to articles etc) does not display at all, neither does the top menu they are just blink text based links. Even with Compatibility Mode enabled the slider and menus come back but the page is not centered unlike on both Firefox and Chrome. My googling has suggested the most common cause of this is old code but I'm not sure where to be looking. Is it likely in the css file or the actual php? Also any ideas on how to trouble shoot the cause of this? As in is there some dev tools or debugger I can use that would highlight "broken" code for me?


title: Does Google reprocesses submitted sitemaps from time to time?

text: Assuming one submits a sitemap for a website in Google Webmaster, does Google reprocess it from time to time? If yes, at which rate?


title: Google Webmaster Tools show only common words in the keywords list

text: I have a greek site with greek domain (gr) and even so, the keyword list of google shows in the first places the greek equivalent words of the common words like "in", "a", "and",etc. All them would be greek's Stop Words Thanks for any help


title: How to pay for servers without ads?

text: I have a website whose goal is to provide a free educational service (like wikipedia does, not on the same scale obviously). I wonder how I will continue to pay for the servers when I reach high traffic. I don't want to use any ads or sponsor things, because this is not the goal of the website (just like wikipedia once again). Does "please donate" works ? If no, is there any alternative to a "private/premium not free" part in the website ? Thanks


title: URLs in Google Web Index Has Dropped to 0!! Why?

text: Does anyone know why my website's URLs in Google web index has dropped to "0" ? It shows I have +350 link on my xml file and last week I had +150 URLs in web index. I didn't do any changes to my XML file.


title: CRM + Invoicing/Billing + Ticketing for a small web design company

text: I am currently using ActiveCollab but it lacks the typical CRM features. I can't even keep notes about a customer saved in one place. What I am looking for is a simple but efficient CRM application that allows me to store all the (potential) customers along with their phone calls noted down, contracts, agreements. On the billing end, I should be able to keep track of invoices and payments, along with a bit of sales reports. A great extra would be a ticket support feature but not really necessary I looked at VTiger and SugarCRM at first. Though, they look too complex on the sales/campaigns end but completely lack the billing side. Do you have some good apps/services to suggest? :) Any programming language or OS would do. Both paid and free. Thanks Mike


title: Online job application

text: I am trying to add an application to my site where I can post job openings with my company and allow people to apply online. Can someone recommend a service or app already in existence for this purpose? I tried googling it, but could not find a set of search terms that did not return endless sites for job seekers. This is a (very) small business and I do not expect to have more than a few openings at any time, but what I am actually interested in is having a repository of interested job seekers to have on file. Then when people ask me about openings, I could just refer them to the page and they could apply. Then, if we have an opening, we could look through the list of candidates and if we can't fill the position(s) from that list, we could post the job and advertise to fill the position.


title: Cannot access personal website from home IP. More details inside

text: This is a recent problem I've been having. My site can be accessed from almost everywhere else except from my home IP, where I do most of my editing/updating, etc. I've tested my connection from my school's network, a friend's connection from out of state (multiple states), and through a tethered connection with my friend's Android. It works in all those cases, both viewing, accessing the cPanel, and using FTP. Here's the problem that happens to me when I try to view it from my home IP:   * The page times out in Firefox, IE, and Chrome.   * Using the cmd, I ran tracert and ping, both as failed attempts. Log here.   * downforeveryoneorjustme.com says my site is up. So do the other site checkers.   * I can't access my cPanel or FTP accounts.   * I can't access the host site. (I use perfectz.info for hosting, and I can't access their site either.) System settings:   * No firewall enabled.   * Ports are seemingly properly forwarded. (e.g. The ports are open in the router settings, and are open everywhere else.)   * I have an email forwarder set up from the cPanel that **works just fine.** (i.e. I can receive emails sent to that address. If any other information is needed, I'll do my best to provide it. **UPDATE** @ilhan: I use two things: 1) The site cPanel from in-browser. 2) Dreamweaver CS5 FTP. @Matthias: I tested both, and it passes the dual stack with a 10/10. What should I do then?


title: Website I control is only unavailable on company internet connection (403 error) - workaround?

text: a website I control is showing 403 errors only on company machines on their own network. It's throwing an Access forbidden! error > Error 403 > > www.example.com Tue Oct 1 Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.7 mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3 The company uses another IT firm for their servers. I'm almost certain this is a problem with their internal network. My guess is some kind of DNS / routing conflict. Their company server uses the same URL (www.example.com). I realize this puts me in a bind. I can't solve this issue for them, or ask specific enough questions here to get the answer to the actual problem. My question is - is there any kind of workaround I can provide them in the mean time to access their site?


title: Displaying the same page, no matter what URI

text: We have moved a webapplication and would like to display a message in the old IIS. Let's say that the application was in `http://oldserver/appname/`. How do I make sure that our `moved.html` is displayed to the user no matter which uri the user browsed in to (in that virtual folder)?   * http://oldserver/appname/some/path.aspx ---> should display `http://oldserver/appname/moved.html`   * http://oldserver/appname --> should display `http://oldserver/appname/moved.html`


title: Convert Adsense earnings into Adwords

text: Does anybody know how to convert Adsense earnings into Adwords? Basically, with placing Adsense banners on website, webmaster collects some "potential", or lets say - "active", but its automatically means = money + taxes + other routine work So, I'm wondering if it can be somehow converted into Adwords "potential" and spend again for website need. Theoretically, its just Ads Exchange. But, beauty of Adsense and Adwords is that both platforms have pretty solid clients databases. Any guess how it can be solved? please ...


title: How to deindex image?

text: I have gallery of thousands of images. All of them at some point needs to be indexed. However after some period of time, some of them should be removed from search engine index while they should remain on my site. My question: is there HTML tag, something as `rel="nofollow"` which ll tell search engines, to no longer keep in index image in question? I know for disavow tool, or use URL removal option from Google webmaster tools etc, but that's really not an option in my case. **Edit:** Just found that i can add The `X-Robots-Tag` to the header of the image (generated by the PHP). But will Google remove that image from image search (because image in question will be already indexed)?


title: Is it possible to keep google from using certain text as keywords?

text: For example, on my site I have a lot of flash content. But, I made sure to put plenty of keywords each meta description for each page, a descriptive title for each page, all the alt tags for images should be filled, i used the h1 and h2 tags with some sentences using key words that describe the site... But my problem is that I have a large TOS and Privacy policy page, and according to google webmasters it looks like its getting most of my key words from that single page. So my top keywords look like, "privacy" "policy" "liability" and stuff like that which is in no way relating to my site. I'd really appreciate any input that might help me get the privacy policy and tos keywords off the radar so I can get relavant searches coming to the site. Thanks!


title: what domain should I use for my web-dev website? different than portfolio?

text: I am pro webmaster, ha, and I am building a portfolio site. I also was wanting to make a website where I can sell my website package telling people that I build websites. I have a pretty cool web related domain and I have my personal name, so I already have the domains. From a professional standpoint, should I separate the two? Having a link to my resume next a sales pitch saying I build websites might turn people off. Any opinions?


title: Does combining queries affect SEO?

text: In my website instead of using individual queries for each request, I combined them like the following in one query: www.mysite.com/search/?q=c1|~|c3|~ I just divide it after page loads and if you look at the link I use "~" instead of empty queries.   My question is, "Does this kind of work affect SEO?"


title: What wireframing tools can produce something that looks like a finished website?

text: I've long done this using photoshop, but lacking photoshop skills this takes me ages and is little more than a poor sketch. I'd like a program that has all the common interface elements, theme styling stuff and so on, so I can make a really comprehensive vision of what a finished site should look like (including look & feel). Any ideas?


title: Google Analytics: What to feed back to clients?

text: We have several successful websites all of which have Google Analytics. A few clients like to see some of the stats on the website and kind of like to have a "feedback" session. I usually go through the usual stuff like unique visits, most popular content, keywords etc. Although I feel these are important I'm not really sure how much the client is getting from this. I've recently come across the click overview where for each individual page it shows the percentage of clicks on the different links. I was just wondering what kind of things other people like to show? Are there some hidden little areas in analytics that could be of great use to the clients? How can I clearly show the success of the website?


title: Is there any good tutorial site to develop Drupal 7?

text: I would like to learn Drupal 7, is there any good sites to introduce Drupal 7?


title: Temporary website redirect: 3xx or php/meta?

text: I run a (small) news website which has also a forum in a subfolder of the root. I'm planning to give the site a facelift and a code restructuration, so I wanted to put some redirect on the home page that will point directly to forum's index (www.mysite.com --> www.mysite.com/forum) while I tinker with it. And that, given the little free time I have, will take no less than a couple of month. Being a news site I'm pretty sure that would affect it's overall ranking, but I need to do it, so: which is the best way to redirect? I pondered and read here and there about the different means, but I couldn't figure out which is worst for SEO. Do I use a 302 redirect or use "Location:newurl" in page headers using php? Or I just put a meta tag in the html page (or a javascript, what's better). Sorry but I'm not really into these things, I may have said something silly, I know... Thanks


title: Where to store users consent (EU cookie law)

text: We are legally obliged in a few months to obtain consent from users to allow us to store **any** cookies on the users PC. My query is, what would be the most effective way of storing this consent to ensure that users don't get repeat requests to give consent in the future, obviously for authenticated users I can store this against their profile. But what about for non-authenticated users. My initial thought, ironically, was to store given consent in a cookie..?


title: How to find 3 level of 2 level .name domain?

text: I want buy .name domain, WHOIS said that it's free, but registrator canceled registration and said that there maybe 3-rd level domain and i cant buy eg. aaaaaa.name if there already registred bbbbbb.aaaaaa.name   But how can i find ths domain? Maybe it will be free soon? I tried find it with google and other search machines


title: Will adding top level directories with similar structure to existing directories change the SEO of my site?

text: I've been pointed this way for SEO related questions and this one has had me pondering for a little while now. I'm recreating a site's structure. The website's content is generated through several feeds and unless I want to place each and every - of the 10,000 odd - venues into their own category manually, I can't avoid categorising each item by using its address. The current the structure looks like this               Homepage > region > county > city/town > venue page      and the URL looks like `domain/region/county/city/venue/` I'm relatively happy to use this structure as it's not too convoluted. However we also promote deals and we also group the venues into their respective franchise, so that leads to URLs such as: `domain/groups` AND `domain/deals` My question is: how would the directory structure look with these new additions? Would I have a URL that looks like `domain/deals/region/county/city/venue` or `domain/group/region/county/city/venue` and just put a 301 or a canonical link tag on the page to prevent the duplicate pages competing with each other? Am I just worrying about it needlessly and perhaps link straight from `domain/deals` to the venue page URL `domain/region/county/city/venue`, this bothers me a bit though as the deals and groups will not be in the breadcrumbs.


title: Simple e-commerce setup

text: I am looking for the most simple e-commerce solution. I want to sell single files such as eBooks etc. It is just fine to use PayPal as the payment gateway. My question is: do you know a simple platform that enables selling a low amount of single items. I have no prior experience with any e-commerce platform.


title: What HTML and CSS markup is best for SEO for a list of questions (like on Stack Exchange sites)

text:
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      It uses `float` positioning. _My questions is:_   * Would use of `css styled tables` be a better choice? (It's a table, isn't it?) Or it just depends on what are you prefer to use and doesn't affect the technical side (search engines or something)?   * The background information (such as number of views, votes etc.) comes first in the code. And I know that search engines have a limit at viewing each page. So would it better to place `div`'s depending on their importance and then markup them on the page using css methods (like `negative margins` and `absolute positioning`)? Or it isn't so important in this instance?


title: Monitoring/protecting GoogleAds

text: How do you monitor who has clicked an advert and what is possible in terms of protecting against abusive clicks?


title: Redirect rule to new site still requires old site to be active

text: I have two websites being served on IIS 7.5 Windows Server 2008, with one site (`projects.com`) recently moved so that it now sits under the 2nd site (`mainsite.org`). This sub-site has numerous resources such as docs, PDFs, MP3s, PPts, etc..., which many sites have links to and people have bookmarks for. I have been asked to write a rewrite/redirect rule so that when a resource link is pointed to the sub-site's old URLs the user is redirected to where it now sits on the new site (without receiving a 404). The structure looks something like this: **Old URLs for projects.com** :   projects.com/~abc/assets/pdfs   projects.com/~abc/assets/docs **New URLs for mainsite.org** :   mainsite.org/abc/assets/pdfs   mainsite.org/abc/assets/docs The inbound rule, which was written under `projects.com`, looks like this, and is for all practical purposes working:               [rule name="ABC resources redirect" stopProcessing="true"]         [match url="^~abc/assets/(\w+)/(\w+)\.(\w+)" /]         [action type="Redirect" url="http://mainsite.org/abc/assets/{R:1}/{R:2}.{R:3}" appendQueryString="false" /]     [/rule]      *where {R:1}/{R:2}.{R:3} = {subfolder}/{filename}.{ext} Now my problem is that if the link to the resource is pointed to the old URL, the resource requested must continue to exist under the old `projects.com` site AND an identical copy be present under the new site as well. If not, a 404 error is displayed rather than a redirect occurring. This means having to keep the same resource in two places, and this kind of redundancy is not good. Additional issue: when I go directly to the PDF file at: _projects.com/~abc/assets/pdfs/anchors.pdf_ , I am properly redirected to: _mainsite.org/abc/assets/pdfs/anchors.pdf_ and the PDF file opens in the browser However, when I go to other mime types: `projects.com/~abc/assets/docs/questions.doc` OR `projects.com/~abc/assets/ppt/grand_opening.ppt`, the documents automatically download (or a prompt to 'save' is displayed, depending on which browser I use). But after the download has occurred, the URL in the address bar does not reflect the redirect, it remains the old URL (a little confusing), though the documents are being downloaded from the `mainsite.org` site. I feel like perhaps my approach is conceptually flawed. Any suggestions for resolving this redundancy issue?


title: Trouble with my website and IE7

text: Sorry I'm new here but I have a serious problem: I changed the CSS style sheet for IE7 for my site, but now when using IE7 it has no graphics and all of the scripts code is printed. I have tried replacing the original stylesheet but it made no difference, so please suggest ways that I can fix this? If not, would it be possible to have an "Incompatible browser" message that only appears for IE7 users?


title: Tracking 502 bad gateway error

text: I moved my Wordpress site to WP Engine and now I constantly get 502 errors. I spoke with support and they said that its because I have a lot of DB queries. I ran some tests and my frontpage only has 95 queries and page size is about 500kb. Most inner pages are around 60 queries. All queries are very short. Some people tell me its common with WP Engine because they run nginx. Why do I keep getting these errors and is there a way to track how many of them happen on daily basis? P.S. WP Engine log is empty so cant see the 502's there.


title: Symbol fonts using in page design

text: I wonder if it's safe to use font-face with special dingbats fonts. What are good dingbats that you can recommend to use this way? What are the tips and tricks? Thanks.


title: Text limit on analytics event code

text: I am just about to add the event code a button that downloads the PDF. Event code fields:               _trackEvent(category, action, opt_label, opt_value, opt_noninteraction)      Example of event code:               onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Videos', 'Play', 'Baby\'s First Birthday']);"      I was just wondering if anyone knows if there is a text limit on the `opt_value`? Do you think the following would be too long 'Elmhurst School says IPC has made all the difference'?


title: Are CSS sprites bad for SEO?

text: Nowadays often what was accomplished with an `<img>` tag is now done with something like a `<div>` with a CSS background image set using a CSS 'sprite' and an offset. I was wondering what kind of an effect his has on SEO, as effectively we lose the `alt` attribute (which is indexed by Google), and are stuck with the 'title' attribute (which as far as I understand is not indexed). Is this a significant disadvantage?


title: My website accepts anything infront of www.domain.com

text: I'm experiencing something very strange. Whatever I type in the browser like for instance: `qqqqq.mydomain.com` the homepage loads. There is even a URL indexed in google which goes something like this: `www.somesite.comwww.mydomain.com/somearticle` The page loads, and the browser keeps displaying the url above. Should I be worried? What could cause this?


title: CS Cart Length/Volume price variables

text: I've just started using CS Cart and I'm wondering if it is possible to change a price on a variable such as length? For example we have a cable which is 1-9999m, this is priced per unit, is it possible to set up a variable to times the number of units by the cost? I realise this could be set up under a configurable product but I don't want to set up 10,000 individual products to reflect the length of cable


title: Some Adsense domain's ads are causing document.write() statements that remove the html from the page

text: All that is output on the page is the domain name of the advertiser, for example 'www.solar-aid.org'. The rest of the content is stripped, I believe because of a document.write() statement. I'd like to know if this is a common issue or something wrong with our setup. There are three domains causing the issue, which we've blocked from Adsense as a result.   * solar-aid.org   * kiva.org   * grameenfoundation.org Given the type of organizations I think they may be within the default group of 'public service ads' within the Backup Ads setting. If the issue doesn't completely resolve itself soon (one customer of ours complained today, even though I blocked them 5+ days ago), I'll disable public service ads and select the 'fill space with a solid color' option.


title: Directing Domain to Hosting Directory

text: I just purchased a domain on Dreamhost, let's say `foo.com`. I already have hosting, let's say at `123.4.56.789`, and have setup a directory `foo.com` which is accessible at `123.4.56.789/foo.com/`. I can set the DNS to point `foo.com` to that IP, but how do I route it to that folder once it's there? My hosting has a really bad cPanel that gives me almost no help. Can I use `.htaccess`, or something else? What's the best way to accomplish this? Edit in response to comment(s): It's VPS hosting, so I have access to `http.conf` and other system files. Also, yes it's Apache.


title: Duplicated titles - SEO

text: I have a site with product listings and I am not sure what would be better solution to avoid duplicated titles error. Example: http://www.mynautics.com/en/buy/powerBoat/ One solution could be to append page number to title. Result would be > Buy - Motorised boats/Power boats | Page 1 > > Buy - Motorised boats/Power boats | Page 2 > > Buy - Motorised boats/Power boats | Page 3 The other solution I found on the internet is to add canonical tag to links.               <a rel='http://www.mynautics.com/en/buy/powerBoat' href='http://www.mynautics.com/en/buy/powerBoat/curPage@2'/> ABC </a>      I would like to ask which method would be better for SEO and why is it better? The other thing that bothers me is if there is any way to add canonical data in meta tag? If I just add this data to links and if I put all pages in Sitemap result will stay the same since bot won't know that this is actually child site...


title: How to handle possible duplicate content across multiple sites?

text: Let's say I have two sites that cover the same vertical/topic. one in the USA and one in Canada. Both sites have local-related content, which is obviously unique by location. However they will share common news or blog pages. How do I avoid getting hit with duplicate content on both sites for those news/blog pages? If the content is exactly the same, I'm guessing I would have to pick which site's content I want to noindex,nofollow, is that correct, and if so, is that all I have to add on the URL links to those pages, and the pages' meta tags?


title: Can I use a photo in which we can see a known logo on my website?

text: I took a cityscape picture that I intend to use on my website. In the picture, we can see a recognizable logo (let's say a famous hotel chain) and I was wondering if it could cause any legal issue? It's a commercial website, but my business has nothing to do with the logo that can be seen in the picture.


title: Toggle CNAME entries using PHP?

text: Is it possible with PHP to dynamically toggle CNAME entries? For example I have two mirrors with media to be served on my website. Mirror 1 has a monthly bandwidth cap so upon reaching it I want to automatically toggle to mirror 2. I want to use CNAME because the resulting urls appear to be identical to search engines, an SEO friendly approach. If there are SEO friendly alternatives I'd like to hear them as well.


title: Purchase existing domain and transfer to new registrar

text: I am purchasing an existing domain from the owner who has it registered with GoDaddy. I want to transfer the domain to another registrar and of course have it under my name. If they update the registrant info to my name then it will lock down for 60 days. That's no good. If they simply transfer it to my registrar, how will they update the registrant info? I know about escrow services, but I don't feel I need one because I trust the seller and the amount is (relatively) small. Advice? Thanks!


title: Need to remove www for only one sub directory from a domain

text: I have a domain like `www.example.com`. I need to remove `www.` from specified sub folder by using a `.htaccess` file. Example :   1. `www.example.com/blog` should redirect to `example.com`   2. All other sub folders will not redirect in url like `www.example.com/forum` will remain untouched.   3. `www.example.com` will remain untouched.


title: In nano 000-default.conf (as root user) in Apache2 on EC2 Ubuntu Instance on AWS page is blank?

text: When I SSH into my ubuntu server on EC2 in Amazon Web Services, and I change to the root user using sudo su, I navigte to /etc/apache2/sites-available to make changes to the 000-default.conf file there. This was working just fine, but when I nano in (using nano 000-default.conf), I am seeing just a blank page in the terminal. When I do the same thing as just the ubuntu default user (not root), I see the file fine. This just changed after I made a change to the file as the root user. I can't make any more changes as the default user (it needs to be root for the permissions). Any idea why this is happening? Thank you.


title: Using GA to track popular tags/categories in WordPress

text: I coordinate a few editorial content-driven websites that are built in WordPress. Most make heavy use of tags, categories and custom taxonomies. I'd love to track which tags/categories are most popular, retain visitors, etc. Not just the navigation pages, but also the posts themselves. For example, I'd like to know if posts in the category 'sweepstake' are more popular than others. Currently, the only way for me to do that is to generalize based on the category overview or to manually tally all the individual post data. We've experimented with using keywords in post titles and using custom post types, but that's too limiting. By default, this kind of WP-specific tracking is hard to do in GA. A post has a url that does not feature categories or tags in it. Given the fact that a post can belong to several taxonomy terms, this makes sense. It would also be bad SEO if a post's url would change by simply changing/renaming its tags. So, I was wondering if it would be feasible to use GA events for this. Would it be possible/sensible to trigger an event for each taxonomy term assigned to a post? Or is that a sick and twisted way to use GA events? I've already tried Wordpress's own Jetpack statistics, but they are way too crude and unreliable. Other stats tools/plugins also don't seem to cut it. GA has the huge advantage of being generally very flexible and most of our (new) editors have used it before, know what it is and don't need a lot of training to get basic intel out of it.


title: Adding a filter increases visit count

text: I've created a dashboard for one of my clients, where their pages are all `mysite.com/[clientname]/page`. I've added filters into each widget for `Path contains 'clientname'` however this is now showing a greater numebr of visits than my core dashboard. Using Custom Advanced Segments elsewhere achieves what I want, but I can't see how to do this in the dashboard?


title: 301 redirect doersnt work in SERP

text: I setup a 301 redirect on my root that points to a new domain. When I type the old domain URL into browser 301 works just fine. When I do a keyword search for my site and click on the link it still takes me to my old site. Below is the code:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?exampleA\.com [NC]     Rewriterule ^(.*) http://exampleB.com/ [L,R=301]     </IfModule>      I am redirecting from `http://www.exampleA.com` to `http://exampleB.com`.


title: Google Adwords for Unicode Site

text: We are running an eLearning site. The site is on unicode font (Sinhala language). We are planning to put Google Adwords image/banner ad to promote our site. One of my friends said that we cannot put Google ad because our site is using unicode. He suggested we create an English version of our home page to put a Google ad. Is this true? Is there another way to put Google ad?


title: Is it necessary to specify content-type in http response header?

text: Except for the html document, currently all the files (css, javascript and images) served from my web server do not specify the `content-type` in the http response header. I happen to notice this as I intend to remove the `type` attribute in both my `script` tag and `link` tag, but came across this answer which says the following: > The MIME type is also sent via the HTTP Content-Type header, so using > type="text/css" would only be extra bytes.


title: Ad revenues via Google cache

text: Do ad revenues from page-views (as opposed to ad-clicks) accrue from webpages viewed via Google cache?


title: Can I use Google Search to determine if my website contains original or copied content?

text: I have a few websites from customers that have (partially) the same content as other websites. I plan on rewriting all content that is not original, but how do I know if my websites have original content, or content that's been copied from another website? My customers say all the content is original, but I have my doubts to be honest. They often let other people who don't work there anymore write content for the sites. What I did so far is copy a line from my website that can be found in other websites as well and pasted it into Google Search. If my website is the first link, would it be considered the original source?


title: Redirecting to the file with the correct extension in nginx

text: I configured my nginx server to correct the file extensions on a domain that only serves static images. Example: A user request `/image` or `/image.png` although the file is actually called `/image.jpg`. The server answers with a 301 redirect to the correct file. I want to ask if it's possible to accomplish this without using `if` directives - or if the `if`s are safe in this context. This is what I came up with:               server {             listen 443 spdy ssl;             server_name example.com;             root /var/www/example.com;             location / {                     try_files $uri @alt;             }             location @alt {                     rewrite ^(\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+)\.(?:jpg|png|gif)$ $1;                          if (-f $request_filename.jpg) {                             return 301 $scheme://example.com$uri.jpg;                     }                     if (-f $request_filename.png) {                             return 301 $scheme://example.com$uri.png;                     }                     if (-f $request_filename.gif) {                             return 301 $scheme://example.com$uri.gif;                     }                     return 404;             }     }


title: Is Yahoo Search the same as Bing Search now?

text: We had some serious issues with Yahoo's (incredibly) badly written spider in the past, and as a result we blocked them. Marco Arment of Tumblr also shared his frustrations with us on 8/31/2009, which was a factor in us blocking them. > [Yahoo's Spider has] been flooding us with 70-200 requests/second since > about 5:30 AM EST. I've never seen anything like this, even from their rogue > "experimental" crawlers that have abused us in the past. Robots.txt ban > isn't enough: I'm having to block them by IP at the load-balancer level. > Since they've abused Stack Overflow in the past, I figured you might want to > know. It looks like Yahoo's web search is "Powered by Bing!" now. This is good, because we've never had a problem with Bing's spider (aka MSNBOT). So, is Yahoo's search the same as Bing search now, or should we be looking at potentially unblocking them if they've somehow, against all odds, stopped sucking so hard?


title: Add site to search engines, even though not ready yet

text: I'm building a website, and until it's done, visitors will see a _"This site will launch on new year's day 2015"_ , and a description of what the site is all about The domain is new, and nobody knows about it yet, and I want to spread the word/buzz as soon as possible My questions is: Should I add the site to search engines now, or wait until the content is done? Will it effect later rank (or SE treatment) negatively to add it now?


title: Cross domain analytics and CloudFlare

text: What we need: We need to implement funnel and conversion tracking across multiple domains. Currently, we have funnels that start in one domain but end in another domain. We have full control and access across all domains. We want to track the funnel from start to finish and identify the weak points in the funnel to improve sales conversions. What we have planned: Using a mixture of Google Analytics and getClicky with CloudFlare. We want to use CloudFlare to force the pixels and tracking codes for both getClicky and CloudFlare onto every page across every domain. Concerns: How will this affect Google Analytics reports? Will this likely make it difficult to track and see how each funnel operated independently? Is CloudFlare capable of handling this? The last thing we want to do is have to micro-manage UA tracking code across 6 different sites trying to make sure the conversion tracking doesn't break. If anyone has experience tracking conversions across multiple platforms, your input on this would be great. Are we headed in a good direction here? Are we way out in left field or have we missed the ballpark completely?


title: Duplicate content issue after URL-change with 301-redirects

text: We got the following problem:   * We changed all URLs on our page from oldURL.html to newURL.html and set up 301-redirects (ca. 600 URLs)   * Google re-crawled our page, indexed all the new URLs (newURL.html), but didn't crawl the old URLs (oldURL.html) again, as there were no internal links pointing at those domains anymore after the URL-change.   * This resulted in massive ranking-drops, etc. because (i) Google thought oldURL.html has exactly the same content as newURL, causing duplicate content issues, and (ii) Google did not transfer the juice from oldURL to newURL, because the 301-redirect was never noticed.   * Now we reset all internal Links to the old URLs again, which then redirect to the newURLs, in the hope that Google would re-crawl the pages, once there are internal links pointing at them.    * This is partially happening, but at a really low speed, so it would take multiple months to notice all-redirects. I guess, because Google thinks: "Aah, I already know oldURL.html, so no need to re-crawl it.  Possible solutions we thought of are ...   * Submitting as many of the old URLs to the index as possible via Webmaster Tools, to manually trigger a crawl. Doing that already   * Submitting a sitemap with all old URLs - but not sure if good idea, because Google does not seem to like 301-redirects in a sitemap    * ...  Both solutions are not perfect - and we cannot wait for three months, just to regain our old rankings. What are your ideas? Best, David


title: Am I allowed to display a small image on top of a Google Maps Static Api map?

text: I am the webmaster to my company's website. I was asked to make the Google Map on this page smaller, but the interactive map doesn't work well at all at 300x200. I was asked to place a screenshot there but since that seems to be a violation of Google's terms I decided to use the Static Maps API. As you can see, on the page, I have a custom pointer icon. I don't want to lose it, so I intend to use HTML and CSS to place the pointer over the map, thus replacing the original pointer on the client side. Am I allowed to do that?


title: What is the best browser market share data source?

text: Browser market share is important to a webmaster, or at least it will be until IE6, 7 and 8 disappear (my guess is the year 2532, more or less). What is the most trustable, versatile and ultimately useful source of browser market share data? Bonus points if:   * It's updated more than once a year   * Data is segmented geographically   * Data is segmented by site category / area of interest   * Data is segmented in other ways (age? that'd be awesome!) I don't think that the site with the “most” data is necessary the best - but feel free to prove me wrong!


title: Google Webmaster Tools -> URL-Parameter after Migration from Magento

text: After migrating from magento to a different e-commerce system I can find lots of URL-Parameters with millions of monitored sites: http://i.stack.imgur.com/8CDVm.png Is it safe to reset those? Or better leave them? We already had a recent drop in our SERP-Ranking due to a lower amount of indexed pages. I really wanna avoid any further deranking but also wanna avoid crawling errors


title: Should rel=canonical point to page one of a set and still have rel=prev/next on the page as well?

text: I've got a page which displays search results and I've added rel=prev and rel=next meta tags to the page to cover the paging. However, someone is saying I should also add a rel=canonical tag to the page that points to the start page of the search results. So for example, say we're on mysite.com/search/xyz/page5 the canonical tag would point to mysite.com/search/xyz/ Is this wise? isn't the purpose of the prev and next tags to tell the SE that all these pages are of a set? But then putting the canonical tag in there is sort of telling the SE that the first page is unique and not part of this set? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=njn8uXTWiGg#!&t=7m6s According to that video from google, it sounds like we should not use the canonical link. But i just looked at ebay and they are using the canonical link instead of prev and next. Then again maybe they are showing a different page if you are bot instead of a user. The problem we are having is that if we go into google webmaster tools it's showing all the paged results on our site as having duplicate content (duplicate title and description). Is that really a problem? Do i need to do something kind of stupid and just put the page # in each title and description?


title: Analytics, multiple domains, one site

text: What would be the best way to set up Google Analytics to track multiple domains which actually are all one site? Example: mysite.com mysite.es gets routed to mysite.com/es, URL is mysite.es mysite.es/contenidos/stuff gets routed to mysite.es/contents/stuff, URL is mysite.es/contenidos/stuff I've already taken care of the technical side of this, but I'm just not sure about what's the best way to proceed with analytics. Any help would be much appreciated.


title: google analytics for wordpress

text: I have a problem in Google Analytics and I don't know what is missing in it. I added the script file to my WordPress website header like this one:               <script type="text/javascript">           var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-Y']);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);           (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async =   true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);      })();          </script>      When I opened the Google Analytics I saw _Tracking Installed_ but when I open the dashboard to see the reports and my information everything shows 0 people visited this site, 0 visits, everything is zero and I don't know why ?


title: Is lazy loading a clever way of keeping internal links to a minimum?

text: I am working on the development of a news website where the front page has a very basic design which shows the latest 3 news and latest 3 featured posts of the website's main categories(six in all) in a format similar to the below:               Category #1 Name                                 Category #1 Name     Category #1 Latest Post #1                       Category #1 Featured Post #1     Category #1 Latest Post #2                       Category #1 Featured Post #2     Category #1 Latest Post #3                       Category #1 Featured Post #3      My concern is that the client wants the above information to also be available in the header via a mega menu(same, exact logic as http://www.ebay.com when you hover on Motors at the top). Now to keep the number of internal links to a minimum and knowing that all links in the mega menu **are already available elsewhere in the website** , I was thinking of opting for a lazy loading approach for the mega menu's links, a total of 60 links. Meaning that that the links are not available inside the HTML when the page loads but are requested via an Ajax call with the html injected in a DIV element after the mega menu html is retrieved. As I of course don't want Google to crawl the mega menu links, is this a clever approach to solve my problem?


title: Google can no longer fetch pages after successful URL rewrites using an .htaccess file

text: I tried to rewrite my URLs so they no longer have the `.html` extension. But when I did this (successfully) Google can no longer crawl my pages when I use "Fetch as Google". Instead, it returns `404` errors and says they're unreachable. This is what I have in my _.htacess_ file:               Options +Includes     AddHandler server-parsed .html     RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_fileNAME} !-f     RewriteRule (.*) /$1.html [L]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^.]+)\.html\ HTTP     RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      This works great, and if I type the URL in a browser's address bar it takes me there. However, Google is still returning `404` errors. I think it has something to do with the above code rewriting it to `www.example.com` while Google is requesting `http://www.example.com`. I'm not sure how to fix this though.


title: Microdata: How to set itemprop="duration"?

text: I'm trying to set a song's duration in microdata format. What is the best way to describe a duration in microdata? Is it by using itemprop="duration" in span?               4:05      Or using the time tag?               <time itemprop="duration" datetime="PT4M5S">4:05</time>      Or using the meta description?               <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT4M5S"/>4:05      Or a combination of all of them?                        <time itemprop="duration" datetime="PT4M5S">             <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT4M5S"/>4:05         </time>           I tried and they all worked in google's Structured Data Testing Tool except for the last one where the result was a three durations!


title: Image Hot-links & Google's Instant Previews

text: I'm trying to adjust my site:   1. stop Image Hot-links   2. block Googlebot-Image (because I do not want my images to be searchable)   3. allow Google's Instant Previews   I've tried this but the _Instant Previews_ still do not show my images. (I really do not want to start blocking/allowing by user-agent.) Has anybody achieved it ? .htaccess > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(favicon.ico)   >  RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(mydomain.com|google.)   >  RewriteRule .(jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [F] robots.txt > User-agent: Googlebot-Image   >  Disallow: / > > User-agent: *   >  Disallow: /phpcart/


title: Google Site SEO after domain mapping change

text: I have a google site https://sites.google.com/a/fractalsystems.org/buuf- decisions/ which used to be mapped http://buuf.fractalsystems.org Since stripping away that mapping SEO has not changed and it still points to the mapped domain name instead of the site.google page. Any idea if I can push this along or any ways of speeding it up? Am I SOL in any way?


title: What's the best (fairest) way to select a web designer?

text: I've been a freelance developer for nearly a decade, but have no desire to do web design. Most of the projects I get are maintenance-type projects that require only minor tweaks to existing graphics, or someone coming in with a new design already on hand. However, on rare occasions I get a request to do both programming and design. I've no problem farming out the work to capable designers, but I don't do enough design work to maintain any working relationships with any one particular designer. So what is the best way to shop around for a good designer? I'm willing to pay more to get good quality work (i.e. you won't find me asking on craigslist for free design work "to boost your portfolio"). For designers, what do you expect when a new client contacts you? (what do you expect in terms of information for the project, and what do you expect to be paid for conceptual work? For final design work?) For developers, what has worked for you in the past? I once tried this approach: > I'd like to commission some low-res, high-level design ideas from you. > Something the represents what you have in mind for the project, but it > doesn't have to be a production-ready design (watermarks, copyright, etc. > are OK as long as they aren't distracting) . I will pay you US$200 for your > time regardless of whether your idea is selected. Feel free to submit more > than one idea if you would like. Again, I'm only asking for ideas, not > complete designs. > > Once I have all of the ideas, I will run all of them by my client and he > will choose the one he likes the most. If your idea is selected, I will hire > you at a rate of US$1000 for the project (50% up front and the remainder on > sign-off). For that price I will expect you to work with me over the next 4 > weeks to tweak and finalize the over-all design for the site as well as help > me organize information for each of the pages (about 13 pages total) and > create a nice visual presentation. The client will be providing most of the > copy text; you will be provide the conversion of the final design to HTML > (including CSS; I can help with any JavaScript). It worked fine for the project at hand (the client was willing to pay quite a bit for design services), but I wonder in hind sight if it was too much (or too little). Thoughts?


title: Screen resolutions and browser canvas sizes

text: I've yet to find the ultimate resource that lists 'all' browsers and the actual visible canvas size (excludes browser chrome) for content. The closest was a table in the O'reilly book Web Design in a Nutshell: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RBsOh.png) The one thing is that this doesn't have the latest browsers. I figured that this community would be a good place to gather this info. I'll start by adding some: **Mac:** 1024 x 768   * Safari 5.0 - 1012 x 656 (w/ tabs)    * Chrome 6.0 - 1010 x 672   * Firefox 3.5 - 1009 x 654 (w/ tabs)


title: Why doesn't httrack follow robots.txt?

text: I'm trying to use httrack to mirror my blog, which is currently hosted on blogger. Problem: in spite of the robots.txt file, httrack tries to download everything in the /search subdirectory. This leads to an infinite regress of searches on searches. Here's the robots.txt file (I've replaced my blog name with "myblog"):               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:           User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated      I can limit the crawl to depth 3 or 4, but I still get tons of search*.html and search/label/*.html files in the mirrored directory. httrack claims to follow robots.txt. Why doesn't it work here? What can I do to fix it?


title: MediaWiki plugin for dynamic content via forms

text: Are there any plugins for MediaWiki that would allow me to create a page that has a form at the top that when filled in populates tags further down in the document? Say someone would put a form with "Source Server:" and "Destination Server:" fields at the top. Once those were typed in it would automatically populate those names into the content lower so that when following the instructions you could just read the docs and not have to mentally replace things, and possibly mess it all up. I'm not looking to make pages that are permanent, just ones that can have values entered before they are followed. Any suggestions?


title: Google apps for buisness redirect to Amazon S3

text: I want to make a domain on Google Apps For Business with a single page on Amazon S3 on the same domain Is there a way to do this?


title: What features in a website make you want to revisit?

text: I'm looking for features in websites that I may not have seen before that are unique, and are _excellent features_ that not only improve the user- experience, but help the surfers come back for more. Such as:   * StackOverflow's status update banner (seriously now this is awesome.)   * RSS feeds (when they were new)   * Hotlinks to social networks (facebook, twitter, etc..)   * Auto-posting to social networks (popup and auto-post link/content)   * Mobile phone integration   * OpenID login passthrough   * AJAX push/pull technology for content updates   * tinyUrl and others that concatenate URLS shorter. I can think of many more, but if there is something you've seen that is unique to a site or isn't very well known, I'd love to know.


title: What is the best way to launch a website to make it go viral?

text: Say for example I have a website that has finished BETA and is ready for full launch. I'm at the stage now I want it to be _very_ visible to start getting traffic. Right now, I am just getting some random search engine hits, word of mouth and a few referrals. How do I break out of this and really get some serious traffic to my site? Do I need to launch a huge ad-campaign? If so, what is the best/most cost effective way to do this? I have tried google adwords but at $0.45+ a click this jsut isn't practical for what I have.


title: CMS fails at finishing setup with PHP-FPM and Apache, but why?

text: I have installed Apache and PHP-FPM by following this tutorial. Unfortunately when I try to set up Drupal or PHP-Fusion it simply fails at the end of the setup. I mean it accepts everything and at the last step it does not load anything but a blank page. I suppose I have not installed a required PHP package, but I do not know which one it is. Thanks for your help in advance.


title: Show a single DIV from remote site to new site. Only http access to remote host

text: we have cisco CWS working which has a web administration site. On that site it has DIV with 'overall summary'. We would like to show that DIV on a centralized monitoring system web that we are doing for ourselves. Is it possible to do a proxypass from apache to only that DIV? How I should manage the autentication process before reaching that DIV?


title: Question regarding domain names and web servers

text: Say there is a website, www.website1.com, that is hosted on a web server, web server A. Is it possible to have another website, www.something.website1.com on a different web server, web server B? Or is the www.something.website1.com still considered a sub domain of www.website1.com, and must be hosted on the same web server, A? For clarification: www.website1.com is hosted on a third party web server, but a client wants us to host www.something.website1.com on one of our own web servers, NOT the third party. Is this possible?


title: Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such?

text: here is my htaccess file......               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/billing/FAQ_billing\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/billing/getintouch\.html$        RewriteRule ^patients/billing/(.*)\.html$  $1.php [L,NC]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/a\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/b\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/c\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/d\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/e\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/f\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/g\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/h\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/i\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/j\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/k\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/l\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/m\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/n\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/o\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/p\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/q\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/r\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/s\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/t\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/u\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/v\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/w\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/x\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/y\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/z\.html$       RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$  findadoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC]      like that there is lots of rules around 250 line please help me...


How many keywords can I put in my page for google spiders ?


title: Ways for client to include page ID in query?

text: I'm no expert on web development, and need to find a way to let the browser call a PHP routine on the server with the current document ID as parameter, eg. http://www.acme.com/index.php?id=1 I then need to call eg. /change.php with id=1 to do something about that document. Unless I'm mistaken, there are three ways for the client to return this information:   * if passed as argument in the URL (as above), it will be available as HTTP referrer   * by including it as hidden field in    * by sending it as cookie I suppose using a hidden field is the most obvious choice. Are there other ways? Which solution would you recommend? Any security issues to be aware? Thank you. * * * Edit: I needed a way for the client to learn some of the information returned by the server, such as the document ID. Apparently, the right way to solve my problem is by changing the server-side code so that this information is included in hyperlinks/forms included in the HTML page.