title: Hot to get website/product reviews reflected in Google's search results using review-aggregate format

text:
I am managing a website called Rent A Boat Amsterdam. We have a system that gathers reviews from people that have used our services and that publishes these customer reviews making them available for all website visitors. When these customer reviews are published we have placed them within the appropriate tags according to the guidelines set by Google, which you can find here. An example looks like this:

Boatname

10
9-Jun-2010

Great canal Cruise!

First name Last name

       We have implemented these tags a couple of months ago, but there are no visible results in the Google SERP's. This whilst I had expected to find the reviews / ratings displayed similar to: ![Google example of enhanced snippet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aUQuC.png) Is anyone familiar with this topic and able to help me find the answer to the question why the review-aggregate format doesn't seem to have the desired effect?


title: CSS Intelligent Merger

text: I am looking for a tool very similar to http://www.tothepc.com/archives/combine-merge-multiple-css-files/ However, given this example: test1.css:               #admin {         background: #c9d2dc;         border-color: #ccc     }      test2.css:               #admin {         background: #222;         border-bottom: 1px solid #444;         border-left: 1px solid #444;         padding: 2px;         position: fixed;         right: 0px;         top: 0px;         width: 120px;         z-index: 2     }      It will only allow you to select one or the other. I want to merge them, making it:               #admin {         background: #c9d2dc;         border-color: #ccc         border-bottom: 1px solid #444;         border-left: 1px solid #444;         padding: 2px;         position: fixed;         right: 0px;         top: 0px;         width: 120px;         z-index: 2     }


title: how long after a 301 redirect can i cancel my old site

text: I have .com website which I don't want to use anymore (for a variety of reasons). I want to redirect the entire site to a .net domain with a 301 redirect. After how long can I cancel my .com domain entirely? What will happen to the linkjuice added by 3rd party websites which point to the .com domain? Will this be transferred to the .net domain?


title: Hidden but useful features of Google Analytics

text: What are the most useful features of Google Analytics that are not known to common users? I know this is a typical question for many categories in stackexchange. I think Google Analytics deserves that question. There are so many things to learn about it. It would be very useful for many people if you can share your favorite hidden gems of Google Analytics.


title: Serving images from different domain

text: Google audit: > Serve static content from a cookieless domain (15) 2.65KB of cookies were > sent with the following static resources. Serve these static resources from > a domain that does not set cookies: If my domain is widgets.com, should I set up a img.widgets.com that servers these resources? How beneficial is this? **Edit** I setup img.widgets.com to serve images from, and changed all images to this URL. But I still get that message?


title: Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For?

text: In Today's market many shopping carts and ecommerce solutions are available on the web. What are the essential features someone looking to start an online store should look for before choosing software?


title: Small, fast shopping cart setup

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Online E-Commerce Solutions - What To Look For? I'm looking for an open source shopping cart solution that's simple and easy to setup. The requirements are:   * Quick setup for someone familiar with *nix webservers.   * Checkout via PayPal (other payment methods not needed).   * Customers should not have to create an account to make a purchase.   * At least a minimal level of inventory control.   * Ability to print/export a list of orders in compact form. Any recommendations for something I should try? Ability to get it up and working quickly is really my priority right now; if it's not ideal, it can be replaced (or, as I'm looking for open source, I can adapt it to fit the requirements better) at a later time. **Edit:** Really what I'm looking for is simplicity. This will be for a small local business, and the orders will consist of 1-10 items that are being delivered by a driver who needs a simple list of what each customer received when making delivery. Looking like a giant online computer/electronics/etc. store is definitely not a desirable quality. The simpler the interface presented to customers (who are used to purchasing through dumb web forms and paying COD), the better.


title: Firefox doesn't render one character with imported font (Chrome does it well)

text: I've run into an issue with Firefox. Check out the example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/BuLhF. Basically, with the font _Poiret One_ , embedded with Google fonts, the letter `ō` doesn't render properly in Firefox but in Chrome it is ok. Edit: Screenshot: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B58rXlxeBUsIMXo1MnJrRFczbFk/edit?usp=sharing. Moreover, on Virtual Machine Ubuntu, Firefox is displaying it ok. The host Windows 7 has this problem.


title: Google adwords API - credit card safety question

text: Google is asking me to fax credit card xerox in order to activate adwords API in MCC. 1) Are there alternatives to this - is there a 3rd party provider who will give me this service without me sending them the credit card info? 2) How secure is it to send my credit card fax via some online fax service? 3) Do you think they will reject the application if I hide my CVV number in the fax? Any other thoughts appreciated.


title: New Wordpress posts generate 404 error

text: I had a working installation of WordPress, and I recently encountered an issue where when I tried to login to the back-end, the browser would redirect to the login URL of the previous domain WordPress was installed on. I fixed this by reinstalling WordPress, and I can now login to the backend, but any new posts I make, or old posts I have generate 404 errors. Additionally, if I try to navigate to any category page, I again receive a 404 error. I have looked at the wp_posts table of my database, and the GUID field each contains the correct domain name and URL structure. What should I be checking here? Site in question.


title: Image appears differently in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome

text: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/X72nb.png) This is a screenshot of the same image file on my website (viewing the image itself), in Firefox on the left, Safari in the middle and Chrome on the right. It appears as if Chrome has a more blue color in the image. Why is this?   * (Chrome Mac 28.0.1500.95)   * (Firefox 23.0 Mac)   * (Safari Version 5.1.10 (6534.59.10) Mac)


title: How do I get a production website to load assets from local web server?

text: I usually set up a local environment with the website running on my machine when I'm going to develop new functionality with JavaScript. The same goes for updating stylesheets. When there's no easy way getting the production site to run locally, I would still prefer editing files locally and "preview" them against the live site. Something like this:   * A local web server that serves the assets (css and js)   * Some way to make the live website load assets from _my local_ web server. (Greasemonkey, proxy)   * Livereload that watches my local files and refreshes the live site on change. I need feedback on the seconds step. Greasemonkey is only for Firefox, that makes it hard to test cross browser functionality. A proxy is a lot of work... :) Have anyone tried something similar, maybe theres a smart tool for this?


title: Is there a penalty in link building?

text: If I have a satellite site with content constantly renewed, and within each new content, there is a link to a target URL, for passing link juice. Will I get a penalty from Google for that?


title: Wordpress easiest install?

text: What is the easiest way to download/install wordpress? I'm having problems getting it. Also does wordpress cost anything to use?


title: No description for any page on the website is available in Google despite robots.txt allowing crawling

text: I seem to have the weirdest issue with Search Engine Optimization, and I asked the IT folks at my university, I asked people on Joomla forums and I am trying to sort this issue out using Google Webmaster Tools for more than 2 months to little avail. I want to know if I have some blatantly wrong configuration somewhere that is causing search engines to be unable to index this site. I noticed a similar issue with another website I searched for online (ECEGSA - The University of British Columbia at gsa.ece.ubc.ca), making me believe this might be a concern that people might be looking an answer for. Here are the details: The website in question is: http://gsa.ece.umd.edu/. It runs using Joomla 2.5.x (latest). The site was up since around mid December of 2013, and I noticed right from the get go that the site was not being indexed correctly on Google. Specifically I see the following message when I search for the website on Google:               A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more.      The thing is in December till around March I used the default Joomla robots.txt file which is:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /cli/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/      Nothing there should stop Google from searching my website. And even more confusingly, when I go to Google Webmaster tools, under "Blocked URLs" tab, when I try many of the links on the site, they are all shown up as "Allowed". I then tried adding a sitemap, putting it in the robots.txt file. That did not help. Same exact search result, same behavior in the "Blocked URLs" tab on the webmaster tools. Now additionally, the "sitemaps" tab says for several links an error saying "URL is robotted out". I tried those exact links in the "Blocked URLs" and they are allowed! I then tried deleting the robots.txt file. No use. Same exact problem. Here is an example screenshot from Google's Webmaster Tools: ![Index Status for my website showing no crawl errors and no blocked URLs, in direct contradiction to what the sitemap tab says and what the search result says! FRUSTRATION!](http://i.stack.imgur.com/c9tn9.png) At this point I cannot give a rational explanation to why this is happening and neither can anyone in the IT department here. No one on Joomla forums can seem to understand what is going on. Based on what I explained, does it seem that I have somehow set a setting in the robots.txt or in .htaccess or somewhere else, incorrectly?


title: How to fix Google Apps for Business reverification failures?

text: We have one member of the company using Google Apps for Business so he can use the Google SMTP server with domain email. We verified him as an owner of the domain by uploading an HTML file to the root of the website. We clicked the provided link and were told that he was successfully verified. But now, on the verification page inside Webmaster tools. I see a long list of failed verification attempts. The method column says either "Google Analytics" or "Meta tag". When we log into Google Apps for Business, it says "Domain is verified. Mail set up is pending." We aren't going to set up the email because we aren't going to move all users to Google Apps. Is there somewhere in Google Apps to specify what verification method to use? Or is Google going to keep trying every single day to re-verify by the other methods?


title: Button to +1 both website and Google Plus page?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage People can +1 both our website (ie. +1ing the URL of its home page) and our Google Plus business page. It would be desirable to link these +1s, so that +1ing our website added to the number of +1s for our Google Plus page, and vice versa. Is this possible? Is there any way to add a button to our website (possibly using some hand-written javascript) which +1s both? # Related questions A similar question's been asked at Connecting +1s on a Google+ Business Page and a webpage and I see others - like Google Plus button versus page's pluses - are being closed as 'exact duplicates' of this. However please note that the accepted answer to the former question appears to be incorrect, as I point out in my comments on it. Hence why I'm creating this new question to give this issue a chance of achieving an appropriate answer.


title: Older post not indexed, new post indexed right away?

text: I have a post I created yesterday that was indexed rather quickly by Google. However, I have two other post that I created within the past 4 days that are not indexed and I cannot find a trace of them within the SERPs. Any idea what my cause this to happen?


title: mod_rewrite: rewriting http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING

text: I'm trying to make `http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/` transparently rewrite to `http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING`. The config below is giving me a 404 and I'm not sure why.               ServerName www.example.com     ServerAlias *.app.example.com          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*).app.example.com     RewriteRule ^/(.*) /app/%1/$1      I'm missing something obvious, what is it? Edit: let me make this a little clearer. If I browse to `http://www.example.com/app/abc`, I get a page. If I browse to `http://abc.app.example.com/` I expect to see the same page, but I'm getting a 404 instead. Edit2: The DNS record for `*.app.example.com` is already in place and I can see my request in the access log, with the 404 status. Edit3: After enabling the mod_rewrite log file, it appears that the post- rewrite path is "$DOCROOT/app/abc" which fails because it doesn't exist. This is a Python/WSGI application, I think that has something to do with my problem. For the moment it looks like we'll just use a regular redirect instead.


title: Canonical'd pages on subdomain showing up in Google search results

text: You might have heard that we launched Facebook Stack Overflow yesterday. As part of this, we modified our code to put `<meta rel="canonical" ...` tags on every question and user on the facebook.stackoverflow.com domain that points to "vanilla" Stack Overflow. For example: iAd error "Ad inventory unavailable" on facebook.stackoverflow.com   &   iAd error "Ad inventory unavailable" on stackoverflow.com On facebook.stackoverflow the html contains the meta tag               <link rel="canonical" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3720459/iad-error-ad-inventory-unavailable">      The intent there is to tell Google "these are exactly the same page, impart all page rank to Stack Overflow's copy and prefer it in search results". This seems like the point of rel="canonical". > A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly > similar content. > > It's common for a site to have several pages listing the same set of > products. For example, one page might display products sorted in > alphabetical order, while other pages display the same products listed by > price or by rating. For example: > > If Google knows that these pages have the same content, we may index only > one version for our search results. Our algorithms select the page we think > best answers the user's query. Now, however, users can specify a canonical > page to search engines by adding a element with the attribute > rel="canonical" to the section of the non-canonical version of the page. > Adding this link and attribute lets site owners identify sets of identical > content and suggest to Google: **"Of all these pages with identical content, > this page is the most useful. Please prioritize it in search results."** However, we're seeing Facebook Stack Overflow results and sometimes they even outrank vanilla Stack Overflow (an example). Maybe this is something to do with having an independent sitemap.xml for facebook.stackoverflow.com (sort of a shot in the dark)? ![example Google search result](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Alm3H.png) So, what are we doing wrong here? We're kind of hoping to keep searches of the form `site:facebook.stackoverflow.com` working, but giving those up is totally acceptable if a total `rel="noindex"` is required.


title: Google Webmaster Tools - crawl errors

text: I know that I can "clear" the crawl errors for Not Found pages, but I did completely remove the pages that I'm getting the errors for (no 301s, those pages do not exist anywhere anymore). Should I do anything about it, or will they be "fixed" automatically after some period of time?


title: SiteAdvisor advice?

text: At the time I submitted my site for testing with McAfee's Site Advisor as I noticed my site received a bad review as a spam/scam site. See here .   1. From a development perspective, how important are things like this? I know from a user perspective, I stay away from the sites that have a bad rap in Site Advisor.   2. The bad review was not even related to my site content, but was given due to my registrar(think it's Enom). Now I have to question if anyone knows if it's normal for sites to be rated according to the registrar and not content?   3. This question is not so important but it interests me that after a year, my reply to my review has been ignored. I have to ask if it's even worth worrying anymore about this?


title: Will loading meta tags dynamically from a database hurt the site?

text: I have a website (ASP.NET MVC) which has its contents mainly in Sinhala language. So the search engines will list my site only when someone searches for Sinhala words. But,I need to list my site's pages in search results when searched with appropriate English words too. So I'm planning to save HTML meta tags (in English) in database and load them dynamically with appropriate page contents. Will loading the meta tags dynamically affect the site adversely?


title: Domain name record with a /somethinghere.aspx

text: I'm not very savvy with domain names. Basically I have a dedicated Windows hosting server for a web application that is located at a location like this: 123.234.345.456/script.aspx I need to map a domain name to this location. Don't ask why I can't just map it straight to the ip address - I didn't create the application and the index page isn't in use. I just have to map it to the specific script. How would I do this using A records? (or MX records, or CNAME or SPF - those are the options I have). I don't have any nameservers. Thanks Tom


title: SEO Question - allintitle with or without quotes

text: I'm trying to learn more about implementing basic SEO strategies and have been spending a lot of time refining my keywords using Google Analytics combined with manually checking them using Google's allintitle operator. However, I'm unclear on whether I should be using quotes with my allintitles. Example: allintitle: seo tips and tricks for beginners 191 results allintitle: "seo tips and tricks for beginners" 70 results My thought is that it would be more accurate to use it without quotes because that way you get a more well rounded idea of all those you are competing with. So, my question is does Google give more weight to exact matches in the title tag or does that not really matter? If someone searched for: seo tips and tricks for beginners, would they be more likely to see the ones that have that exact phrase in their title tag or does that not have any impact?


title: webmaster tools - Network Unreachable

text: webmaster tools for my site displays that robots.txt unreachable and for all links in sitemap it says network unreachable. sitemap.xml unreachable. These appear in crawl stats page. I discussed with the support team of my hosting and they said... > Hi, > > I have verified apache logs, i cannot see any issues on your > website/webserver/ > > Possible issues. > >   1. There may the routing issue from the googles server to our server. > >   2. When a google bots hits goes high the IP will be automatically > blacklisted by our firewall to avoid server loads & downtimes. > > > > As we donot have access to their services, We cannot able to give details of > their details/logs etc. The sitemaps link shows an exclamation mark which means the file was not reachable. What could be the problem and how to solve it?


title: What should happen when content is deleted?

text: I am wondering about the standard handling of deleted data links from an application and an SEO perspective. I have an application where users can create content but they can also delete content. What is the best way to handle incoming traffic to links that have since been deleted? Should I redirect them somewhere with a 301 or should I throw a different error and just leave the page in tact with an error message?


title: What are good options for hosting video that give you privacy and control (not youtube or vimeo)?

text: I have used http://www.longtailvideo.com/bits-on-the- run,http://www.influxis.com/, wistia for video hosting. Wistia didn't allow the finer control that we wanted to have. Influxis doesn't have the features that Bits on the Run has but platform usage for BOTR gets expensive. I was thinking of moving the videos to Amazon CDN. What are your thoughts and experiences with video hosting and are there any recommendations? Videos will be privately streamed to 100's of doctors offices.


title: is it true that CloudFlare really doesn't affect dynamic content?

text: I've been reading the CloudFlare FAQ, I understand that is acts as a reverse proxy and **all** requests to your domain will go through CloudFlare. They say in the FAQ that it won't slow down dynamic content, is this even possible?   because all dynamic content requested will be requested from their server, than their server needs to request it from your server and than send it to the client.   That's at least they I understand it. It seems to me like this would slow down dynamic content. So is it true? CloudFlare doesn't affect dynamic content?


title: Implications of SEO for single page websites

text: I built a server application that handles bot requests for my website, which was built using AngularJS. It works great, but I'm not entirely sure if it's valid in terms of Google's policy for SEO. In short, the server hits the API that powers the site and generates a static html, which it then serves to any bots that access the site. The static html file or 'snapshot' displays the same information as it's sibling page which is rendered on the browser, but I'd like to just display a slightly modified version for the bots to read. Is this considered a violation of Google's SEO policy? EDIT: I've already seen this : "Single-page" JS websites and SEO but the top answerer indicates that he is not sure of the implications that may occur if you adopt this model.


title: Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO?

text: I thought frame and iframe are something bad for SEO. Today I was doing some search and **searching for "numismatica" in Google.it** and the 3rd site is **www.lemonete.com** (ranks high also in Google.com). **It's all made with frames.** A competitor site (www.nummus.com) that is all done with no frames ranks much lower when searching for the same word: "numismatica" So can we use frame, don't they hit SEO ranking anymore? Any explanation (possibly simple) would be appreciated also about the fact the 2nd site ranks much lower. :) * * * UPDATE: thanks for all the replies , I noticed now I wrote down the wrong url, it was not lemonete.it (which is just a spam site) but lemonete.com.


title: SEO for Backlinks Using JavaScript on a Third-Party site

text: We are currently implementing a widget that companies can put on their website. We give the publisher a script tag with the source pointing to a javascript file hosted on a CDN with the code they need to load our widget. However, we are not currently getting any backlinks from websites that have our widget on it. We understand that Google is having a hard time indexing the links because it is injected on the client side with JavaScript. We're looking for SEO friendly ways to get credit for our backlinks without injecting them server side. We've come across a few options, but there is little information on a clear answer:   * Including an html anchor link in the snippet of code we ask publishers to put on their website. However, we wouldn't want the link to be visible to the users, so we'd need to hide it in a SEO friendly way.   * Using a no script tag that includes identical information as the script tag (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en) will not work because the information inside the script tag is just pulling a file. Can we use a no script tag with different information (e.g. a link back to our site)? Are there any other possibilities? Will either of these options work?


title: What's the best way to create a widget for blogs?

text: I'd like to let bloggers to embed my widget, but there is a problem: If I create a JS widget, or an iframe, I will not get any benefits from SEO. So, there is a smart way to let easly embed a widget and leverage SEO? My widget should just retrieve my RSS FEED and shows thumbnail, title, and link to my website


title: I have many backlink from other sites too one page of my site with hidden iframe. Has a positive or negative impact?

text: am sorry for my bad english. i have a site for download free website templates. i create a simple html file in my site and put my histats & google analitic code on that. then put a hidden iframe to this page in the free templates like this :(To increase the number of visitors to my site)               <IFRAME style="display:none;" SRC="http://www.domain.com/df/sdff.html" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>      now after two years i have about 60000 daily visitors just to this one page from many of sites who using my free templates. please answer me step by step 1- is this backling The negative or positive effect for my site ranking & seo ? 2- who to i can delet this page from my site No further negative impact to my site ? 3- who to i can reject this backlink from my server ? because if this page will be delet all of the back link redirect to 404 page & this page in my site is large & The server puts a lot of pressure. please help me. thanks


title: Do iFrames hurt SEO - looking for clarification...

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO? I know this question if floating around the internet all over the place, and generally the answer is "yes" - but most of these posts are so outdated, and it is hard to get a realistic answer. So here's my question: It is generally considered that you should not use iFrames because google cannot read the content in the frame. But by the very nature of an iFrame you must link to the content being displayed, so wouldn't google just simply follow this link in your code to that page? Also if you are using navigation to change the page in an iframe, these nav buttons link to that page, why can't google follow that? And on top of that including a Sitemap, and footer links, should also provide adequate links to follow. I understand that using php includes is considered a better way to go, but I am not sure you could limit a large page to a small area (on a parent page) with a scroll bar like you can using a frame. Am I right? wrong? totally crazy? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.


title: web widget and SEO

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites? I'm designing a voting widget that other people can put on their websites, and the widget will have links to my site (partly for functionality and partly for SEO). I'd like to design the widget such that my main website, gets the SEO benefits, and I'm not sure which techniques for designing a widget would accomplish that. Here is what I am thinking:   * Creating a widget defined by `<div>` tags that people would embed in their web page -- This seems certain to give my site the SEO benefits, but it seems like it might be more work for the person using the widget to get it to work right and look nice.   * Using an iframe -- I think that the iframe link would get the SEO benefit and not my website, which would be linked to from the contents of the iframe.   * Google Gadget -- I don't know how this works yet. What would be the best way to design a web widget to maximize the SEO benefits for my website?


title: How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites?

text: I made a widget that would ideally live on other sites. Here is an example: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 I guess since the widget would link back to me, it would be an SEO boost for my site. Is that correct? Or would it be just an SEO boost for that particular URL? If it is just an SEO boost for the particular URL, it does me little good since that page does not link to any of my other pages. Am I thinking about this correctly? How are these things typically handled so that there is a benefit to my site's SEO?


title: SEO guidelines to allow users to embed the page in their websites like youtube..etc

text: In my web app, I want to allow user to embed the content in their websites (as in youtube, twitter, facebook...etc). I see two approaches for generating code:   1. using IFrame   2. load the content into a using jquery or other JavaScript  But both are not SEO friendly. Is there any guidelines/resources which should be followed for good SEO and performance in this case?


title: Can your embeded code on other sites increase seo rank?

text: I'm working on a video hosting website and I'm wondering how my embeded code would affect my seo rank youtube and almost all, major video hosting websites are useing iframe as their embedded code, some of them are using "player" sub domain so, I thought it will be a good practice using player subdomain as things may change in the future.               <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//player.mywebsite.com/embed/Bp222aodrVg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>      In my case player.mywebsite.com is actually an CNAME(alias) for mywebsite.com. will player.mywebsite.com effect the rank of mywebsite.com?


title: SEO linkbacks from iframe widget

text: We're building a story player for kids. Here a user can embed any of our stories in his website/ blog using our embeded widget tool. Essentially this is just an iframe that can be embedded anywhere. Now, some of our friends have posted about his and included this story in their blogs, bur I don't see any linkbacks. Does google crawl content inside iframes? Does the parent page get any SEO value from these widgets? I'm totally new to SEO. Can someone please help me with this?


title: backlinks from hidden iframe to one page of my site.Has a positive or negative effect on my site seo?

text: i have more than 60000 backlink too one page of my site because i put a hidden iframe in my free products. like this:               <IFRAME style="display:none;" SRC="http://www.domain.com/df/sdff.html" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>      this backlinks Has positive or negative impact on my site ranking & seo ?


title: Registering domain during Christmas holidays

text: One of the domain names I tried to register previously has been blocked by a domain grabber two days prior to my own attempt. That was about 1 year ago. The attempt to buy the domain from that person failed due to a totally exaggerated price. So I dropped the issue and watched the domain (offered at sedo.com). As expected there were no more offers, the domain was not sold. Now I learn from the whois database that the registration of that domain name ends on 25 Dec 2012 (Christmas holiday). This raises two questions for me, I fail to find reliable answers on the internet. So maybe someone experienced here can drop a statement or a hint:   1. Is it reasonable that the domain name in question really will be free again when that date mentioned in the whois database up to when the domain is registered has passed? I certainly know that the registration can be prolonged, that is not what I mean. I expect (hope) that that domain grabber does _not_ extend the registration, since it costs money and effort and he failed to sell the domain. Provided this is the case and the domain registration is not prolonged, is that date mentioned reliable? Or might it just be some 'default' date?   2. I would like to _try_ to register that domain name as soon as it is unregistered. Since that domain grabber registered that domain only two days before my own registration attempt I would like to prevent such annoying interference next time. So I ask myself: is it possible to register a domain name on a holiday? I mean not to send an email to my provider to do so on that day or before, but to actually have to process taking place as not to wait for 1-2 days after the unregistration? My own provider which I am very happy with does not offer such service on a holiday (which is perfectly understandable). They are 'still checking' if they can offer something automatic. I researched and did not find an answer to the question if that is possible _at all_. Is an automatic registration attempt on a holiday possible? Where can I do that? Is that reliable?


title: Wamp local host defaults to IIS 7

text: I have disabled IIS7 in my machine. installed WAMP server. Stopped skype, antivirus which used port 80. When i ran Wamp server, phpmyadmin is working great and when i click on localhost it is showing Default IIS7 page. Can anyone please help me out , how can i avoid this and get wamp localhost.


title: Best process for upgrading a live server

text: I just recently started at a new company, and their live server has PHP v5.2.6 (yes, circa 2008). A site I recently designed for them actually wouldn't work on it because PHP is so old, so I've now been tasked with upgrading the server. I'm thinking the best process is:   1. Copying over all of our live sites to my personal server   2. Testing our sites on my personal server with the newest versions of all of our software   3. Making the versions on my server live (so that there are no interruptions in web access)   4. Upgrading to the newest versions of all of our software on our live server   5. Moving all of our sites back to our live server   6. Making the sites on our live server live again Does anybody see any holes in this plan?


title: HTTPS connections for Revive (formely Openx)

text: I have installed Revive Adserver 3.0.2 (formely Openx Adserver) and everything works fine. But, only if my website its accessed using standard conexion (http). If my website its accessed usin https connection no banner are served by Revive. No error, no logs for Apache or Revive for any sort of error. I've tried everyting I know to find the problem, but with no luck.


title: Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down?

text: Are there any services that will monitor a web site and report if it goes down, or experiences unreasonable response time? Which are reputable and recommended? How does the service notify you when your site is having problems?


title: Desktop Software to monitor online status of web site and web-based application

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Services to monitor and report if a web site goes down? I'm basically looking for a desktop-based software which can monitor my company's website and the web application's online availability. I know there are few online applications like Uptime Robot which does the same work but I have been asked to find a desktop based software which can monitor running in system tray and notify any down-time. A free software would be great. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


title: Acquiring domain name but from Japanese registrar

text: How do I acquire a domain belongs to a Japanese registrar? Registrant detail is under privacy protection service.


title: How to test the speed of a page that is guarded behind login page?

text: For public page, I can use pingdom.com to calculate the response time/uptime of a page over a certain period of time. However, pingdom cannot time the response time of a webpage guarded behind a login page. For example, pingdom cannot check the response time for my Gmail inbox, as I would need to supply my gmail username and password to pingdom if I want that. Is there anyway I can get the webpage loading time for the webpage that requires a username/password pair?


title: Does Google Microdata have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in Google search results?

text:
Does Google Microdata for rich snippets have to be visible to the visitor to be displayed in search results? I want to add the rich snippet to my page, but I don't want it in the format that is required. So I thought I could add it as a hidden div, but I'm not sure if that will work.

<asp:Literal ID="ltTitle" runat="server" />

<asp:Literal ID="ltMetadescription" runat="server" />

         <asp:Literal ID="ltAddress" runat="server" />         <asp:Literal ID="ltZipcode" runat="server" />          <asp:Literal ID="ltCity" runat="server" />         <asp:Literal ID="ltProvince" runat="server" />          <asp:Literal ID="ltCountry" runat="server" />

      Thanks!


title: Adding custom fonts to Tumblr

text: I'd like my tumblr blog to display a custom font, and to do so, I have to add the font directory to my blog by adding the URI (e.g url('../font/fontawesome- webfont.svg#FontAwesomeRegular'). If Tumblr hosts my blog, and I don't own any other web properties to host the font directory, where can I place the font directory so that I can link to it from my Tumblr blog? Or, is this not possible?


title: Ajax mixed with Server Side results for SEO purposes

text: Here is the issue. We are using a third party service to index our products and return results based on query parameters that we pass to the third party services server. I'm using Magento's framework. Here is how it works: I place a curl request to the third parties server with the various query parameters taken from both the request and pre-defined variables(filter,sort,etc) passed through a particular pages layout update. The response is turned into an array and a collection is queried from our database based on the SKU's that the third party supplied through the curl request and they are displayed in their own div. Secondly we get results from their service through their javascript api. At the callback of the results being returned I hide the divs that display the results that are generated server side. As a result , if javascript is disabled .. and more importantly , if you are a search spider coming to the site, you will still see results. My question is: Are there any problems with this model? Could we have any seo penalties as a result? Any other suggestions?


title: Should meta descriptions be unique for each page?

text: Specifically, I'm wondering about pages that have a purpose that is sort of removed from the main site. For example, a privacy policy page - would you duplicate the description of the main page or is it best left alone?


title: Security considerations for my first eStore

text: I have a website through which I am going to sell few products. It is hosted on a simple shared-hosting and does not have SSL. On the products page, each product has a **Buy Now** button created from my _PayPal_ Merchant account. _PayPal_ recommends to use it's **Button Factory** to create secure buttons and save it inside _PayPal_ itself. I have followed the same advice and the code of any button is secure and does not disclose any information on either a product or it's price. When the user clicks on a **Buy Now** button, he/she is taken to _PayPal_ site where a page is opened in SSL for the user to fill in the credit card and shipping details. After a successful transaction, the control is passed back to my site. I want to know whether there is still any chance when security could be compromised.


title: Which is the best web usability book for a non experienced webmaster?

text: I need an easy to read web usability book for my web programming students. Which one do you consider is the best? I have heard good things about "Don't make me think" from Steve Krug, but I need some others to propose to them. Thanks a lot in advance.


title: Google Analytics and direct access

text: Does Google analytics regards remote access resources as direct access? For example: Suppose: mysite.com and anothersite.com mysite.com has an image found at http://mysite.com/img/vip.jpg anothersite.com at some page of it like http://anothersite.com/photos.html included vip.jpg in its source in image tag:               <img src="http://mysite.com/img/vip.jpg" />      So does Analytics regard loading this image when a visitor vists http://anothersite.com/photos.html to be a direct access for mysite.com?


title: Traffic vs. click-through rate?

text: In theory, shouldn't CTR and organic traffic be closely (if not almost exactly) correlated?


title: I want to be a freelance web designer. What other up to date technologies/skills would you add to this list?

text: Technologies I need to know: HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, jQuery, CSSLESS, ASP.NET, SQL, WordPress, PHP Skills needed: media querys/responsive design, browser compatability, graphic design, user interface design, typography, accessability


title: Advertising Query on Website

text: There is a site: www.freewebsitereport.org which reports services focused on estimating website approximate advertising revenue. But sometimes when I enter any website for its info, it shows ESTIMATED AD REVENUE: some value, even though when I open that site, I find no ads on it. Are there some other ways for advertisement? Eg. check out: www.thefancy.com


title: Amazon RDS And EC2 On Two Different Region. How Much performance Loss?

text: if for an application, amazon ec2 instance and amazon RDS instance be on two different Avalability Zone/Region, how much performance degradation are expected?


title: What does GA returning visitors calculation mean?

text: I'm a bit confused as to what 'returning visitors' mean in Google Analytics. If a user visited my site a year ago, and now returning, will he be considered a returning visitor? Is there any way to specify a time-frame, and calculate stuff like 'visitors that come at least twice a month'?


title: CreativeCommons licence

text: I want to use some pictures that are published unter the CC Attribution 2.0 Generic licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The licence says that I have to provide a link to this licence and that I must give appropriate credit. But where and how should I provide this things on my website? Do you have experience with this kind of "problem"?


title: Why shouldn't I use Amazon S3 for hosting a static webpage

text: I remember reading somewhere that there was a serious pitfall to using Amazon S3 for hosting a static website. I forgot what it was though. To me, S3 seems like a perfect option. Super fast, super scalable, and pay as you go. What are the negatives of using S3 to host a static website?


title: Blocking all search engines except the big ones

text: I would like to somehow be able to block all search engines except Google, Yahoo & Bing (and their related sites like Google Images) from crawling my site as they consume a lot of server and bandwidth but don't bring any traffic. Is this easily done or difficult? It would be good if someone maintained a list of small search engines that could be pasted into a robots.txt file to block them. Also, I realize I cannot block crawlers that ignore the robots.txt or sites from surreptitiously scraping and crawling, but that is not what I want. I just want to block all the Altavistas, Hotbots, Lycos (do these even still exist) and the university experiment crawlers from wasting my time.


title: Handling pagination, sorting and results per page with SEO-friendly URLs

text: We have an e-shop which has pagination, sorting, and a 'results per page' limit option. What is the most SEO-friendly approach to structure my URL's? My first thought was: `http://www.example.com/category/filter/page:1/sort:price-asc/limit:20` which is pretty ugly. And although I could force the robots to index the pages without sorting and limit options, my analytics won't be very clear. The other issue is that I used colons, which I read is not good to do. Is there a standard/better structure? Is it true that colons are bad to use? Should I try a more traditional structure like: `http://www.example.com/category/filter?page=1&sort=price-asc&limit=20`


title: Should I use 'robots.txt' or 'sitemap.xml' to get dynamically created files indexed in search engines?

text: I've structure my video site like this:               / (root)      index.html     -/videos        -/video-id1  (dynamically generated subdirectory when user uploads a video)             /index.html  (dynamically generated file when user uploads a video)      The subdirectories and files in them are created dynamically each time a user uploads a video. I thought using a `sitemap.xml` would be a good choice to get those files indexed in search engines because using PHP I can edit the sitemap dynamically after each page is created. But this is quite hard to do (since it's an XML document). So I thought of using a `robots.txt` instead of a sitemap to get them indexed, but would that be helpful at all for this? In other words, I'm trying figure out how I can submit dynamically created subdirectories and files to search engines? Using Stack Exchange as another example, how do questions like this one get listed in search engines every time a user asks a questions? I think they use `sitemap.xml` for every question, as can be seen here.


title: How to detect search engine bots reliably within asp.net website?

text: What is the best way to detect bot generated activity (clicks/page visits) etc on a asp.net website? We have a website where we track leads generated to external websites, we track the IP of the user that generates the lead however we are seeing a lot of leads generated by Google and other search bots. What is the best way to filter this activity. I have heard of testing user agent strings and filtering based on know IP addresses, both available as data dumps from various sources, I am not sure which is the best one to use. Thank you.


title: Any recommendation for hosting provider for hosting Wordpress CMS website (not just a blog)?

text: I want to host a Wordpress CMS based website. Any recommendations for a easy and reliable hosting provider. I have heard about lots of issues when hosting wordpress with my current host. This is based on Wordpress version 3.0. Thank you.


title: Custom short URLs

text: I'm creating a WordPress site for a client and he mentioned that he would like his own custom URL shortening when sharing to Twitter. How do I go about setting up one of these? If I had to guess, I would guess that it's a separate domain that redirects to the actual site. If that's the case, then how do I get the URL to redirect to the specific post and not just to the homepage of the site?


title: If a page takes too long to load, after how long will a user give up and re-load or go elsewhere?

text: If a page takes too long to load, after how long - generally - will a user give up and re-load or go elsewhere? What studies have been done that measured page load time and user satisfaction or abandonment?


title: Google, Amazon, PayPal, roll your own, Shopping Cart/Checkout option that doesn't put off potential customers?

text: Google, Amazon, PayPal, roll your own. We have a custom coded online store with custom shopping carts that is using Amazon for the checkout process. When the customer 'checks out' of our site, they are sent to Amazon where the items are added to an Amazon cart. We have seen abandoned shopping carts full of items and are concerned that it is partially caused by people seeing the Amazon name and going there directly. We are in the process of standing up another site with a custom shopping cart that will take payments directly. Has anyone already gone through this type of iterative testing that can share experiences?


title: Are Meta tags useful for SEO?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which meta tags are not worth the effort? Reading a Search Results with this or a similar phrased question can lead to reading a lot of conflicting answers. Are there any meta tags that matter in SEO? From what I have read I do know that meta keywords are no longer used (or so little it is not worth using them) and don't worry with using them. Meta Description tags are not used for page ranking but can effect click through rates so should be used but be less than 160 characters. I know the following meta tags exist:   * author - the author's name and possibly email address   * robots - to allow or disallow indexing by robots   * copyright - the copyright date of the page How much do these meta tags matter and are there others that are new (including ones that may not be used by all but might be used in the future or are used by only one of the big players like Google or Bing) meta tags that should be included? Note: Even if a meta tag doesn't matter in SEO _but_ helps with click through rates similar to the descript tag does then feel free to include it with your answer.


title: Social connection requests sent to company mails, how to accept/handle them?

text: We keep getting requests from customers who want to link to us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+. Even if we have fan/follow pages (they could just become fans/followers of them), most customers sends the connection requests using their accounts directly to our company mails, let's say for instance to _info@mycompany.com_ , _support@mycompany.com_ (which are NOT the same mails we have used to create our accounts/pages on social networks), some are even sending connection requests to our fax mail ( _fax800@mycompany.com_ ) Basically we go on receiving the typical messages from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ saying:   * _customer1@yahoo.com_ is still waiting that you subscribe to Twitter _info@mycompany.com_   * _customer2@gmail.com_ wants to remain in contact with you _support@mycompany.com_ on LinkedIn   * and so on... I would like not to waste all these connection requests coming from customers, **moreover not replying (or not accepting the connection) might even seem sort of rude to our customers**. How could we accept (or handle) these request? **Should i create a FB/LinkedIn/Twitter profile for each company mail _info@mycompany.com_ , _support@mycompany.com_ , _sales@mycomapny.com_? But it seems odd to me!**


title: Wordpress layout and font changes between www.example.com/blog and example.com/blog

text: A WordPress installation using `http://www.example.com/blog` shows a wrong font (and due to that a wrong layout) whereas using `http://example.com/blog` shows the correct font and layout. This happens on Firefox and IE9. Chrome and IE8 do not behave like this. I'm at a total loss about the possible causes for this, could you enlighten me?


title: How to align images left or right using semantically named classes?

text: I want to align images in a text. Some pictures should be on the right side and some other on the left side. I can achieve this by adding `class="right"` or `class="left"` to the `img` element. But these classnames are presentational, not semantic. Any ideas how to align images using semantically named classes?


title: Putting a website in a directory above the public_html,Can search engines find it?,Is this website crawled by search engines?,What is the solution?

text: I have a Linux web host and I have added some other domains beside the main domains,as add-ons domains. I have created a directory beyond the main public_html directory, for each of them,and all of thier contents are in those directories,you can open the websites,by typing their URL in browser,but nearly more than two month after the creation of the websites; after searching their URL in Google,nothing is showed up in the search results,for example if you search the "yahoo.com" phrase in google,the number one result would be the http://yahoo.com result,but I assume the search engines could not crawl a website in a directory beyond the public_html,is this true? what is the solution? Please note that I am not talking about Google specifically,I am asking about all of the Bots on the web. and about the directory,I meant for example in the website1,website2,website3 directories.                  /website1        /website2        /website3        /mail        /logs        /includes        /public_html            /images            /admin            /users


title: Any success with asp.net and Less/Sass

text: I wanted to dive into learning some asp.net with C# and I wanted to know if anyone has had **success** with using Less or Sass? All I can find search wise is little bits of info and some suggestions with a ton of issues. I'd really like to find something **solid** on a successful site that has implemented Sass or Less, documentation, or a site that has a list of full issues and suggestions. I have:   * Google searched "asp.net and Less   * Google searched "asp.net and Sass"   * "asp.net successful sites with Sass"   * "asp.net successful sites with Less"


title: 301 Redirects in a WordPress site: What will Google Analytics report?

text: Scenario: user goes to Google and performs a search - one of my old pages shows in the results (a page I have just created a 301 quick redirect for using an app within WordPress) - they click on my result and are redirected to the new page. Question: will this user show-up in Google Analytics as a direct visitor? If not, how would they show as far as their traffic source?


title: How do I prevent subdomain finders finding subdomains on my server?

text: How do I prevent the following website and similar tools finding subdomains of domains in my server? https://pentest-tools.com/reconnaissance/find-subdomains-of-domain


title: CNAME | A-Record | MX Record | Problems

text: I have a domain (e.g. domain1.com) and I only want to CNAME re-point the A-Record to domain2.com CNAME re-pointing will affect both A-Record and MX-Record. I do not want to affect the MX record, but I need CNAME re-pointing because I want all the viewed website pages to be domain1.com sub-pages, (not domain2.com sub-pages). How can I do this?


title: Requesting advice for accepting large file uploads

text: I asked this question over at StackExchange but was advised to try here... I'm looking at building a web app that includes a file upload element. I'd like users to be able to upload files of any type and of fairly large size (say, up to 100MB). This will be a publicly accessible site, so security is obviously very important. I've done a decent amount of googling in search of answers, but it's difficult when I don't really know exactly what I'm searching for. My experience is mainly with PHP, but I realise that PHP is not considered to be the best when it comes to file uploading, so I'm happy to look at other languages if necessary. Although, if a decent solution using PHP can be acheived, that would be preferable. As I have no experience with this kind of project, I'm also fairly in the dark on what kind of server setup is required for such an app. I have braistormed a few ideas, but am willing to budge on them if unreasonable:   * I'd like to use Amazon S3 to store the files if possible (to reduce the load on the server)   * I'd like to be able to rename the files after upload   * I'm considering Uploadify (uploadify.com) for the client side Basically, imagine I was looking to build a file-sending app like wetransfer.com or yousendit.com and you'll get the general idea. I'm familiar with all the usual PHP file upload issues (checking mime-types, upload_max_filesize, memory_limit, etc, etc) covered by 99% of posts on the internet on this topic, but obviously this project goes a fair bit beyond your average, run-of-the-mill avatar upload script. I know this is a massive topic and I'm obviously not expecting anyone to present me with a magic solution, but basically I'm looking for some pointers on where to start. Can anyone recommend any good books, articles or websites where I can gain a better understanding of the requirements of the task? Covering everything from the programming to the server requirements? Even if it's just a list of keywords or phrases that I should be googling.


title: What's a free web hosting service to show temporary beta versions of my Drupal websites online?

text: What's a free web hosting service to show temporary beta versions of my Drupal websites online ?


title: Is it possible to track an outsourced adwords campaign?

text: We have a site that is paying a 3rd party to run adwords campaigns on our behalf. They do this using their own Adwords account and so we are unable to link it to our Google Analytics account. We do have our own Adwords account for the site which is linked but the majority of campaigns are being run by this 3rd party. At the moment, in our Adwords reports (ie the Adwords section within Google Analytics) we are seeing that for the majority of visits the campaign and keyword data is not set. I am assuming that this is because even though the visit is being recognised as coming from an Adwords account, because it is not the Adwords account linked to our Analytics account, we don't get sent the campaign and keyword information. Is this correct and if so is there a way that we can start tracking this information so that we can see for ourselves how the campaigns are performing?


Wordpress SEO - should the Logo Banner also be a text link? I noticed that when all CSS is removed, my site doesn't display the Banner (obviously), so I put a text link back to the home with my keywords (which is also the site name) to display for search engines and for non-graphic readers. Now that this link is there, the first link on every page of my site is my keyword and return link to the home page. It's not an H1, but it's bold. Is this good for SEO or overdoing it? I'm not sure what the best practice is here, but I heard it was good to have your keyword first. I just don't want it to reduce the weight of other pages h1 tag or the more specific topic pages.


title: How can I show multiple ad networks on my site?

text: I am not sure Google Adsense is the right ad network for me. I'd like to experiment with a few other options. I would like to setup another ad network, say Project Wonderful, and have my site display 50% of its ads through Adsense, and 50% through PW. What's the simplest way to achieve this?


title: is godaddy SSL standard certificate compatible with *all* browsers?

text: Could you answer to at least one of these questions: 1) is godaddy SSL standard certificate compatible with _all_ browsers (chrome and safari on iphone, or android browsers included) ? http://www.godaddy.com/ssl/ssl-certificates.aspx?ci=8979 2) is it running on Apache servers ? thanks


title: How can i use the HTTP_REFERER to come from a specified domain name

text: I know the HTTP_REFERER method has a security loop, but it most cases it works fine. How can i use it, to limit how a user see other pages on my website, instead of just directly clicking on the link or pasting it on the browser. Specifically, i want the referer to only work if the referred url came from the same domain name? And not from another source.


title: Is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free?

text: I was looking at reseller hosting at host xxxxxx. They provide unlimited free SSL certificates which I can resell to my clients. This looks too good to be true. I sent them a mail if they're self-signed, but I haven't got a response yet (I sent the mail 15 minutes ago). So I am wondering: is it possible to get safe SSL certificates for free? I don't think so but it's worth checking. I have looked at Are there any usable free options for SSL certificates? by the way, but my situation is different I think... Thanks! **Edit** : maybe it's handy to know which SSL certificates I may resell...


title: Analytics not showing Adsense data

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Problem integrating Adsense with Google Analytics I already posted on the analytics help forum but nobody replied, so I thought I would ask here. Basically, I have an Adsense account that and use it to show adds on 2 websites, and an Analytics account for these two websites. Now I linked the account ages ago (when I only had one website in the analytics account), but now that I have added the second website no data shows for it. For the first website, I get the data normally, for the second website, I get the weird error saying I need to connect to my Adsense account first. Anyone know why this happens?


title: htaccess and htpasswd trouble

text: This is the first time that I have ever tried working with .htpasswd and .htaccess files, so please point out my childish works. I have my apache document root set to `/www/` on my debian server. Inside it, there's a folder named `Logs/` which I want to restrict access using a htpasswd. I created my htpasswd file using the shell's htpasswd command. And this is the result:               user:<encoded password here>     hjp:<encoded password here>     hjpotter92:<encoded password here>      I put this file named `.htaccess` inside `/www/`. The `Logs/` has following htaccess file in it:               AuthName "Restricted Area"     AuthType Basic     AuthUserFile /www/.htpasswd     AuthGroupFile /dev/null     require valid-user      This was again created using an online tool(I forgot its name/link, and can't search the browser-history now). The problem, as it might've already struck you is that I am experiencing no change on my Logs folder access. The folder is still accessible to everyone. I am running apache as root user(if that matters/helps). Please help/guide me. I've tried reading some htaccess guides and have followed some of older SO questions, but still haven't figured out a way to restrict access to Logs folder with a password.


title: .htaccess - lose the file .html extension

text: I'm having a bad .htaccess day! I want a user to be able to type the URL > mysite.com/about instead of > mysite.com/about.html On .htaccess file I have:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /$1.html [NC,L]      But this simply does not work? I will add though that if i try this further inside the site e.g.               mysite.com/pages/contact      Works perfectly whether I have the above code in the .htaccess or not What am I doing wrong?


title: Looking for a PHP Webmail that can be installed on a standard hosting plan?

text: I'm trying to find a Webmail that I can install on my Web Host (the host had PHP and MySQL, no access to apache config or php.ini except by .htaccess and some configs in local php.ini file). I'm currently redirecting my emails to gmail but I want to stay more in control of my things. So I'm looking for something like gmail, OpenSource with a good community behind it for security fixes and update, that can be installed on my Web Host. I found something interesting (http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html) but I need to install the app on the Linux server and it seems to be more than just a simple PHP application. I don't even know if what I'm looking for is technically possible and if it exists. Any suggestion is welcome!


title: Links shortener with advanced reporting?

text: I am searching for a script (preferably in PHP) or an external solution which lets me create an "URL shortener" with advanced reports. We have been using Google Short Links for a while: it works really well, but it lacks reporting (it only displays a counter with the total number of redirects). Our setup is as follows: "go.mydomain.com" points to the web service, and we can create links such as "go.mydomain.com/product1". What I'm looking for is a similar service (or self-hosted solution) but with advanced reports, so we can track redirects by day, month, etc, distinguish between mobile and desktop users (very important!) and so on.


title: Is it possible to track different countries in google analytics with the same domain?

text: Currently my site "site.com" is tracking sales from the UK Can i create another instance in analytics in order to track all the users from Europe without creating a subdomain (site.com/eu) Is this possible??


If I have a breaking news and assume that i am the first person to know. How can I get top place in google search? Please assume that I do not have a domain yet. Please give me some tips. Thanks. Hope you'all will appreciate my question.


title: Registered a .PRO domain, can't change DNS for 120 days?

text: I noticed the following in Gandi's terms and conditions for .PRO domains: > Once the domain has been registered, you cannot modify the contacts or DNS > for 120 days. What the heck? How am I supposed to point a .PRO domain at my host then?


title: Page caching Is not working

text: This is my htaccess file.I also embedded webcaching code inside it.               DirectoryIndex index.php     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     #RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.decodinghinduism.in     RewriteRule (.*) http://decodinghinduism.in/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]     </IfModule>      **`Webcaching code`**               ## EXPIRES CACHING ##     <IfModule mod_expires.c>     ExpiresActive On     ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"     ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"     ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"     ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##          <Files 403.shtml>     order allow,deny     allow from all     </Files>          deny from **.**.      But Webcaching is not working ,Analytical result is here.Please help me.


title: Is there something wrong with my .htaccess or is there something wrong server-side?

text: I'm using the following `.htaccess` file in one of my subdirectories on my server:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule (.*)\.png generate.php?userid=$1      My non-production environment handled the above just fine without a hitch. However, when implemented on my live production environment and accessed, the server load goes through the roof and no webpages are loaded until the process is killed (I don't actually know the process, the other administrator just does it for me.) So, is it my production environment that is set up incorrectly or is it that my code is sloppy/incorrect?


title: Max height to avoid vertical scrollbar on notebook resolutions

text: So, the most popular notebook resolution is 1366x768. The viewport height (the height that is available for the web-site in the browser) depends on the operating system and the browser. For instance, the task-bar of Windows 7 is larger then the one on Windows XP. Also, the "header" of IE6 is larger then the one of Chrome. What would be the available viewport height in the worst case scenario? (Maximized browser window on 1366x768)? (For Chrome @ Win7 it's 667px.) **Update:** I know I should have mentioned those toolbars `:)`. Let me clarify: In real life users have either no additional toolbars at all, or they have one or possibly two additional toolbars at max. I will calculate those toolbars in later. For this question I'd like to know the worst case scenario **with no additional toolbars** present inside the browser.


title: For hosting resellers, what's a good F/OSS ticketing system?

text: Been thinking about starting a hosting company through a reseller plan. What's a good F/OSS ticketing system that:   * securely separates my potential customers (can't have them seeing each other's tickets, even if they guess ticket numbers)   * provides interacting with POP/SMTP so that people can email in a request   * is fairly intuitive   * is PHP-based Anyone know from personal experience what they think is the best?


title: Does Google consider my blog page as duplicate page if that page URL and that page URL with ‘showcomment’ cached separately?

text: While I’m searching all the index page of my blog I found that Google cached one of my blog page http://example.com/page.html as well as http://example.com/page.html?showComment=1372054729698 These two pages are showing while I searched site:http://example.com. I’m so afraid about it because these two pages are same with same content. Does google consider these two pages as duplicate? If so what can I do now? Is it really a big problem to my blog?


title: Temporarily disable magento extensions from the back end

text: Is it possible to disable a Magento extension from the backend without uninstalling it or disabling it via the code?


title: Apache URL Rewrite

text: I'm trying and failing to get a URL rewrite working, firstly I'm doing it in the vhost declaration, is that right? What I'm trying to do is take any URL which has;               view.php?id=[a 1 or multidigit number]      and rewrite it to               view.php?id=[number]&section=1      Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks for looking. Okay, so I tried the suggestion below (thanks for that) and now have this in my vhost file but still no effect;               NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin ########         DocumentRoot "########"         ServerName ########         ErrorLog "logs\########.log             <Directory "########">                 DirectoryIndex index.php index.html                 AcceptPathInfo on                 Order allow,deny                 Allow from All             </Directory>             <Location />                 RewriteEngine on                 RewriteRule ^/view.php?id=([0-9]*)$ /view.php?id=$1&section=1 [R]             </Location>     </VirtualHost>


title: Role of a domain registrar

text: Few months back I bought a domain name and started using it through custom domain feature of Google Blogger. Since then my site was unavailable several times with different error forms:   1. A 'Not Found' text on the home page   2. No browser could not connect to the site Now since a week the site is totally inaccessible. It never loads. I tried using services like justping and Whydown. The former one reports 100% packet loss from all server locations while the latter reports a 503 error. I am unable to understand whether the problem is from the domain registrar's side or Blogger's side. Last time when I contacted domain registrar over 'Site not found' issue they affirmed that it would be Blogger's problem. I find it hard to believe that problem occurs from Google end. So this time before contacting Domain registrar's customer support I want to arm myself with technical details on what is causing the problem. If someone could guide me in debugging my issue it would greatly benefit me. For your information the website with the above problem - http://www.staygeo.com


title: SSL not valid for domain

text: I am in the process of setting up a webmail server and one of the requirements is to have a signed SSL which I obtained through StartCom. During the setup it asked me to define a sub-domain name (which I did). After the review was complete I received the key and created a new file to hold it. I configured apache2 correctly and all that is working, but I am getting the following error on connection. > The certificate is only valid for the following names: > host.siriusdesigner.com, siriusdesigner.com now the server hostname is host.siriusdesigner.com and the FQDN is siriusdesigner.com (registered). Am I missing something here? Or do I need to have some sort of wildcard in place (which means I would need to call them about upgrading my account to class 2)?


title: Adwords ad group quality score

text: I've heard some Pay Per Click consultants claim that having poor performing keywords in an ad group effects the quality score of other keywords and Google uses a form of quality score for the entire ad group. Are quality scores for keywords independent of other keywords?


title: Google SMTP relay sending limits

text: I'm considering using Google Apps for email with my company domain and for sending emails to customers from my website using SMTP. On Google's website it says the following: > **Limits for registered Google Apps users** > > A registered Google Apps user cannot relay messages to more than 2,000 > recipients per day. > > **Limits per domain** > > Per-domain sending limits are determined by the number of users in your > Google Apps account. There are two per-domain limits: > >   * **The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day is > approximately 130 times the number of users in your Google Apps account.** >   * The maximum number of recipients allowed per domain in a 10 minute > window is approximately 9 times the number of users in your Google Apps > account. > > > Additionally, the maximum number of recipients allowed per domain per day > for accounts not yet paid for during the first month of service is 100. If I'm a single user, with a single domain, then does that mean I can only email 130 people a day using SMTP? That limit seems low.


title: Spam links injected into GWT's Structured Data Testing Tool?

text: When I examine one of my self-hosted WordPress sites using the **Structured Data Testing Tool** of Google Webmaster Tools, I was shocked to see links to 2 spam sites inside the "HTML" tab! However, when I searched for these spammy links inside the actual site -- by examining both the output of my browser's "view source", as well a phpMyAdmin- created dump of the MySQL database -- I could not find any hint of this spam! BTW, I see from this "Spammers spamming the Google Structured Data Testing Tool" article, that this is a known issue. My main question is: have these links truly been injected into my site _itself_ , and -- if so (so that I can clean up the damage) -- _**where exactly**_? [Or, is it GWT or some other entity external to my site that has somehow been hacked? In such a case, is there anything that I can do to fix and prevent the problem?] [BTW and FYI: the website was originally hosted on WordPress.com, and now has a "Site Redirect" upgrade pointing to the new self-hosted site.]


title: Advantages/disadvantages of "separated" web applications

text: I'm in the process of designing a (soon-to-be) rather large PHP/MySQL web application. I've come to a fork in the road as far as internal architecture; I can build the website as a "traditional" web application where, when you make a request, the server builds you an HTML page, sends you the whole page, and the browser renders it, or, I can build it as a "separated" web application where the entire HTML structure and code of the application is provided to the browser upon initial load, and the application uses JavaScript callbacks to get specific data or issue commands via a unified API. Also, I intend for there to be multiple versions of the site (desktop, mobile, iPhone/Android mobile, search-engine friendly, etc..) and at some point, perhaps even standalone mobile or desktop apps as well. What advantages/disadvantages have you, as web developers, run into with each of these architectures? Is there a clear reason why I should go with one over the other? Is it more of a developers'-preference thing?


title: Hreflang and possible duplicate content SEO issue

text: imagine there is a page with video, it has `hreflang` tags setup, to lead let's say German visitors to `/de/` folder... So, on that German version of page, everything like menus, navigation and such are in German, but the video is the same, the title of the video (`H1` tag) is the same, `<title>` and `meta description` is the same as on the original English page. It means that general (English) page and German version of it has the same key content in English. To me it seems to be a SEO duplicate content issue. As I know, Google doesn't think that content is duplicate, if it is properly translated to other language. Does my explained case mean that the content will be detected by Google as duplicate?


title: Adsense account was disabled, whats the problem can you check it out?

text: I have been maintaining adsense account from past 4 years, I got violation alert for audult content. I was saying that only disabled ads for **www.idleindia.com**. Still account account is in active. After i have removed all related content and sent my appel to google. Later I got below mail. > It is important for a site displaying AdSense to offer significant value to > the user by providing unique and relevant content, and not to place ads on > auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content. > > Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear > navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through > your pages and find the information they are seeking. > > Please review Google's Webmaster Quality Guidelines ( > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66361 ) for > more information. > > Google ads may not be placed on pages with adult or mature content. This > includes, but is not limited to, pages with images or videos containing: • > Strategically covered nudity • Sheer or see-through clothing • Lewd or > provocative poses • Close-ups of breasts, buttocks, or crotches In thi mail it is stating that no original content, In my site i will post all the content related to Telugu Movie medial, I am purchasing all the photos from tollywood photographer, and coming to the content, I have written by my own. Can Any expert please review my site and please let me know what are the modifications I need to do for my site to regain the ads.


title: HTML coding style: attribute starts on a new line

text: sublvl's front end developer seems to have a strange coding style that I've never seen before. Every time they begin a new element, immediately after the element name they insert a line break. The first thing that appears on the next line is the first attribute of the element. For example:               id="player-container"><div     id="player-bar"><div     id="player-controls-wrapper"><div     id="player-controls"><div     id ="player-controls-buttons"> <a      The above code was found here. I've never seen this kind of coding style before. What's going on here? Is this just a quirky style or is there some reasoning behind it?


title: Does resubmitting a modified site map affect current ranking?

text: I have a old sitemap dated 2012 that I submitted in Google Webmaster Tools. I want to resubmit a modified sitemap, but I am worried that my current ranking might suffer. Does anyone have a way that I can resubmit and make sure my site's current rankings don't drop?


title: What does this Drupal LDAP error mean?

text: **PROBLEM:** Trouble shooting LDAP connection binding and request resolution **ERROR:** "LDAP Bind failure for user . Error -1: Can't contact LDAP server" * * * **SOLVED** "Authentication with the LDAP server succeeded."


title: Dreamhost script killed

text: I'm using Dreamhost. In one of my scripts I need to gather contents of url (using file_get_contents). There are 9 sites, 8 of them are ok but one is very slow. It tooks 10~30sec. to connect. As you would know scripts running more than ~5 seconds are killed by Dreamhost happy killer. So I cant gather this site. Any suggestions?


title: lead capture apps

text: I'd like to build a lead capture website, where a visitor is required to enter their name and email address in order to receive a free report for download. Do you know of an app which will let me store captured information in a database, and present the download link to them after registering? I guess this can all be accomplished using a contact form script with database integration and jquery confirmation message.


title: How to play a tone (eg. sine wave) at an arbitrary pitch/frequency?

text: I would like to generate a single continuous tone (eg. a sine wave) from a web page with the ability to interactively control the following:   * start/stop sound   * change pitch   * change volume I'm after a solution that is reasonably likely to work on a wide variety of hardware, browsers and connections; something as simple and low-bandwidth as possible. The only method that seems to work reliably across the hardware I have access to is Flash, but I'd really like to avoid a proprietary solution and create something with open-source software that conforms to open standards. Is this possible? If so, how?


title: In Google Analytics, how can I plot behavior over time (example: Session Duration)

text: Is it possible to plot or graph "Behavior" over time? In particular Audience->Behavior->Engagement->Session Duration. I'd like to know if we're getting better or worse. So far I've found a way to compare two periods, but not to plot the trend.


title: Using dash in folder names and linking for image

text: I have image folders where I use dashes in the name for example: "images/01-12-2011/example.jpg" When I insert this image into my html. Internet explorer(9) shows the image but Firefox and chrome doesn't show it. When I type it to the url: (blabla.com/images/01-12-2011/example.jpg) then i can see the image. What could be the reason and the solution? thanks in advance


title: PHP URL Rewrite engine for small project

text: I use PHP. I want to setup a micro site as a prototype, where I can work with the frontend only, separated from any CMS. **URL Rewrite** I also want the URL rewrite to be correct, like `http://www.test.com/products/tables/green/little-wood123/` **Question(s)**   1. Is there any free class for URL rewriting? I searched but found none.   2. If that is not the way to go, what framework is nice for this? It should be tiny, easy to use and support URL rewrite.


title: WHM local/external mail server confusion

text: We host several websites on the same server using WHM but this seems to confuse the mail routing when someone has their own external mail servers - it looks locally. We have our own email accounts hosted on the server. When creating an account for a client on the same server WHM adds the default entries to the DNS for that account. However this client has their own mail servers elsewhere. But when sending them an email it never reaches that external server - it just sees the local, incorrect one. I realise I can update my DNS to point to the external server, but this means I am copying their settings and if they are changed, then I will also need to update mine. Are there some settings I can use to force it to use the external servers without having to copy the settings.


title: How to verify that someone owns a website?

text: I'm trying to think of ways to, as securely as possible, verify that a user owns a website that they claim to own. Here are some ways I've seen:   * Upload an obscurely-named HTML file to the root directory with given contents   * Include a meta tag or other comment somewhere in the home page source   * Send an email to an address `@domainwearetryingtovalidate.tld` with a verification link   * Check a CNAME or TXT record   * Check WHOIS records   * Physically validate by calling or emailing the support line, manually updating records And here are the problems with those methods, in order:   * Some website configurations may not allow for simply uploading a file to the root   * Poor site design might allow a user of that site to add this meta tag themselves   * Websites which provide email services make this useless; take `gmail.com` for example   * That's too complex for most small website owners to figure out how to do   * Those are public; anyone can claim to be whoever. Not to mention most often inaccurate.   * Huuuuge waste of time Are there any other ways to verify that a user on your site owns a particular website? Of the methods I listed, which of these are best and worst? I ordered them from best to worst in my own opinion, but I'd like to see what others think as well. I plan on implementing one or more of these in PHP.


title: FF multiple instances on same host thinclients

text: Im ICT manager at a primary school. Last year our school switched to one host/server pc (Windows 2008 server) and thinclients. All thinclients are connected to the server/host pc. I found out that it is not possible to start multiple instances of Firefox on the host under the same Windows user account. For example: if a user connects as "group1" by a thinclient to the host, and an other user uses the same login credentials from another thinclient, FF responds with "Firefox is already active...". I read some posts on internet regarding this subject. All are referring to Multifox -add-on. However, that is not what I'm looking for. Has anybody dealt with this issue? Anybody knows a managable workaround? Kind regards, Kees Epema


title: How to embed my website videos in facebook via status

text: I have a Joomla website having a lot of videos, I want to embed my videos in facebook by sharing via status update like you do when sharing youtube video. When you paste a link there facebook automatically extract the video and embed there. On my website I have videos but when I paste the link there on facebook it just treats it as a page not as a video. I want my videos to be playable there on facebook without redirecting to my website. Is there a way i can achieve this?


title: Long lasting free web hosting

text: I am looking a free web hosting site which is long lasting. It is because one of the free web hosting which I have been using, have shutdowned their free service. I am looking for some web hosting which is big enough so that it won't die easily or charge money after a period of time. It should support wordpress. It would be best to have python and php supported. Do you have any suggestion?


title: Moved sitemaps to a different subdomain and losing search referrals around the same time. Red herring or correlation?

text: We started to lose search referral traffic around the same time that I moved some of our sitemaps to a subdomain. Could this have hurt us? I followed Google's steps to creating a sitemap under a different subdomain. The new sitemaps.foo.com subdomain is being crawled and indexed well. Both www.foo.com and sitemaps.foo.com have been verified in Google Webmaster Tools. They appear as distinct sites. Is this correct? I can't find a way in Webmaster Tools to say "Hey, sitemaps.foo.com is really owned by www.foo.com, so show them together and make sure to attribute sitemaps.foo urls to www.foo" Our www.foo.com/robots.txt               Sitemap: http://www.foo.com/sitemap.xml     Sitemap: http://sitemaps.foo.com/subdir/sitemap.xml.gz


title: CloudFlare DNS: Downtime failover host

text: My company uses CloudFlare for its DNS, but as our site is HTTPS-secured and we're on the free plan, we can't utilize CloudFlare's CDN services. Our host has fairly rare but not insignificant downtime. We can't migrate servers just yet, and I'd like to be able to either have the main domain redirect to the status domain, or simply resolve to the alternative status host in the event of downtime so users will stop bugging me asking if the site is down. Is this possible to do automatically using the free CloudFlare plan, or will I have to manually edit my DNS every time the site goes down?


title: What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing?

text: This is a silly question but i am bit confused. Can any explain What is the disadvantages of removing HTML tags before indexing the pages? Thanks in advance.


title: Legal standing for a copyright notice placed by prior web developer? (long backstory)

text: Let's say a prior web developer placed a copyright notice on a website in the web developer's and not the client's name. The prior web developer has been hostile and actually took the site down for some months last year. Site gets put back up just prior to a court date where client and prior web developer are in dispute because of tenant/landlord relationship. Site now placed on new host and DNS and email are now completely out of prior web developer's control. New web developer cleans up the messy Dreamweaver- and-no-alt-attributes and lots of needless iframes code. New web developer adds a bit of CSS, unifies JavaScript. Site basically still appears largely as it did, but now with copyright now (c)2010 The Client, removed `<u>` tags, improved readability, SEO, accessibility, update-abilty. There was (surprise!) no contract between prior web developer and client, just word of mouth. And until prior web developer was a bozo, was perfectly reasonable entity. Though apparently prior web developer refused to do any updates for several years. Practically though, the design is unremarkable, a header, nav, and middle scrolling content window with images, and an empty footer. _**So_** , now, the question **(at last!)** : Does that copyright that the prior web developer put on the site mean anything legally? Assume it's archived in The Wayback Machine so anyone could see it if they look. Are there any other pitfalls in this situation the web developer should worry about? Any pitfalls for the client (beyond the standing bad blood)? Is it all such a mess already the practical step of moving and slightly-improving the site make the prior copyright a moot point?


title: Overriding link action with ajax - SEO

text: If I override default link href with onclick and ajax, for example link `<a href="/mypage">`, so onclick I load mypage through ajax, if javascript is disabled, or its a text browser or bot, I let go to /mypage, is this good enough for SEO as having regulat /mypage link with no javascript and ajax? What I want is to have same content as without ajax, but to load it via ajax for better user expirience. Wonder if that can be achieved with same SEO effect? I assume for google bot it will be the same, but this page /mypage will not appear in analytics, no referers...maybe that is the weakness of this approach?


title: How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?

text: Give site 1 and site 2, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1? That is, if I were to remove site 1 would site 2 go down as well? The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked to do a major redesign for site 1 (the original developer's gone, left no documentations, the codes disorganised and everywhere, etc) and with the way things are, I figured it would be a lot easier and also better in the long run if I just delete everything and start again from scratch. Therefore I need to check for dependancies before pulling the plug.


title: How to avoid Hotmail/Live rejections for (legit) large volume eMailing?

text: While qualifying eMail for Spam, Hotmail/Live checks the historical records of numbers of eMails sent by a sender (FROM, eMail Server, IP, etc.). Some times, perfectly valid bulk eMails that are not Spam, (i.e. double opt-in list, from a server with proper SPF Record, signed with DKIM, unregister links and contact info, etc.) are rejected and not delivered to destinataries. Not even to their Junk folder. I guess we can avoid this situation by progressivelly "training" Hotmail/Live about the reputation of our sender and sending small quantyties of eMails innitially and increasing the quantity for some amount/percentaje during each delivery. Are there guidelines or do you have any experience on these quantities, strategy, solutions? Thank you in advance. EDIT: This question with a bounty is still unanswered. 8 hours to be automatically awarded! Do you have the answer?


title: What's the extent of the "damage" to having a broken URL found by the spiders (showing in Google Webmaster Tools)?

text: An error with our URL rewrite rules caused some pages to be not found (404 errors) when Google crawled our site. I regularly watch for errors and fix database or coding issues when they arise. We usually avoid them altogether, but sometimes we're surprised to find a 404 and we fix it. How bad is it? Supposing our goal is to establish "trust" and "authority" and keep the spider coming back for more pages, does anyone know how the spider acts programatically with crawl errors. Is there a point where the crawl frequency is reduced, or the SERPs affected?


title: Does YouTube videos embedded on my website consume my bandwidth?

text: I will like to know if embedding YouTube videos on my website consumes my bandwidth when the videos are being viewed.


title: How can I edit (in MS Expression Web ) FrontPage Site Parameters (Substitutions)?

text: Or, asked another way: Where are the values for MS Front Page Substitions (Site Parameters) stored? (so that I can edit in Web Expressions) Background I'm ashamed to admit that I've been maintaining our company's website in MS FrontPage for over 9 years. I'm moving it to Expression Web, which will display the Substitutions (stored as Site Parameters) but I can't figure out where to **edit** them. **I tried** searching the source folders for the website (on my development PC) for the name of the parameter (s-Variable= _hoursOfOperation_ ) but did not find it (other than in the files it was actually _used in_.


title: Do exists an 'external product code' in Prestashop?

text: I'm exporting products data from our enterprise Erp to a Prestashop installation. Our ERP products code are alphanumerics like `A001`, `A002`, etc. I would like to use this code into Prestashop, but, if I'm not wrong, Prestashop Id is numerical. So, does exists a field like " _External Product Code_ " that I can use in Products table in Prestashop ?


title: What is the the maximum time for a user to return to Google for the visit to be flagged up as a bounce in GA?

text: I know that Google measures bounce rates by how fast a user returns to the results page after clicking-through to a website. Roughly what is the maximum duration of the visit for the user to then return for it to be considered a bounce? i.e. <5 seconds, <30 seconds? I'm mainly interested as it appears a lot of users clicking through my PPC adverts (Adwords) are bouncing, despite my ads having a high quality score and the page's being entirely related to the adverts copy and at as best tied to what I think user's may be searching for from the key phrases I've selected so the high bounce rate (100% on some keywords) seems a bit strange. If a bounce isn't determined by time, but simply whether a user returns to the SERP after visiting my site or not after any amount of time that would make more sense but the average duration of visit for my keywords with a 100% bounce rate in GA is 00:00:00, which suggests a user immediately returned to the SERPs, which again, is odd. Is my GA data being skewed by https or anything like that? Scratching my head here.


title: Which tool to create a sitemap to plan a future site?

text: I'd like to create a sitemap to plan a future site, and I'm looking for a tool to do it. I'd like to create a list of all articles first. Then a hierachy. Then I'd like to put the articles on several places in the hierachy. I should be able to put one article at different places. I'd like to have the ability to mark the articles in different colors whether they should come into the first version of the website or later.


title: EU Cookie Law Clarification

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer?   >  Does the EU cookie law apply to an EU site that is hosted outside of the > EU? I have a legal entity registered in India. My sites are hosted in US. Bulk of my traffic is from Asia and US, though I get some traffic from EU countries. Do I have to worry about the new EU Cookie law? Is it applicable only to companies / webmasters from EU?


title: How to offer a cookie opt in/out to users?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? I intend to use google analyticts, and as I understand it I will need to offer users the option to opt out of cookies. The question is this: I HATE these constant cookie option boxes, everyone I ask it getting annoyed by them too. Its nice to have the option, but we all know they have been in use for well over a decade. So - how big of a deal do I have to make about the fact that I'm using GoogleAn? can I pop a small link at the bottom of the page, maybe integrate it into "Privacy policies" page, and give people the option to opt out there? This would be very much the "Assume the majority of users don't mind, but at least make the option available" stance. Ironically setting a cookie seems to be the only way I can see to enforce the opt-out! as IP's change.


title: EU Cookiee Law - Should I be worried?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Google Analytics and the EU cookie directive. Who will fall foul of the > law? Google or the developer? Given that the year-long "grace period" is up in a day or two, I'm trying to figure out if this law is... serious? It just seems -completely- ridiculous to me, but I'm not posting here to debate that. Given that 99% (probably more than 99%...) of UK websites I visit _are_ using cookies for tracking and other purposes, is this law really enforceable on such a large scale? I run 3-4 low traffic sites and only use cookie's set for/by Google Analytics. I really dislike the idea of having to implement a plug-in or form of consent since it would degrade the user experience. Ironically, I would have usually stored whether or not the user wants to allow my site(s) to use cookie's by storing their option **in** a cookie. Should I be worried about complying with this new [outlandish] EU cookie law? Or am I 'small-fry' enough (low traffic sites, only using GA) to not be targeted by the authorities?