title: WP Network — Planning Long Term SEO (one large site versus microsites)

text: **The Main Question is This (details follow below):** _Is it better to go with individual domain names for the various niches of a company's focus, or is it better to put it all under one domain?_ I'm working on strategizing a new, rather large evolution of a site for one of my clients and am trying to figure out the best plan of attack from an SEO/SEM/Branding perspective. They are a rapidly growing personal wellness company that we are planning on implementing a new Wordpress Network for. The network is essentially to help them keep their site(s) and content well- organized as they prepare for growth over the next several years. **Niches:**   1. Physical Location — the main studio they do classes, events, and workshops out of   2. Training — they have a personalized training curriculum that students may get certified through   3. The Icon — the individual who created the system and has a specific personal following and products independent of the training/studio   4. Events — events for the physical location (which will be expanding into multiple locations soon) as well as retreats/events/workshops with The Icon **Url Choice:** The plan regardless of what we choose for the url structure is that each of the above 4 niches are going to be separate sites within the WP Network. As they expand, it will help them keep the various content niches organized and separate from each other. The debate however, is whether to go with individual domain names for each of the 4 niches or if we go with a sub-folder installation: _Sub-Folder:_               primarydomain.com     primarydomain.com/training/     primarydomain.com/the-icon/     primarydomain.com/events/      _Domain:_               primarydomain.com     primarydomaintraining.com     theicon.com     primarydomainevents.com      **The Problem: _Brand Protection_** One of the biggest factors in this decision is a matter of brand protection. Traditionally speaking, I would've went with one domain to have a tremendous amount of content under one domain and reap the search engine benefits. However, the name chosen for this brand has been independently chosen by another company (both around about the same length as each other and developed independent of one another) in a different part of the world and it is causing a rather bit of confusion right now in the digital space. My thinking was that extracting the sites into separate domains would allow us to grab up brand name targetted keywords. That being said, the "training" site is going to change very little in coming years as it's just a matter of adjusting dates to show the "new" start dates... the rest of the content will basically remain stagnant which doesn't bode well for the search engines. **Additional Factors:** _Design_ — Regardless of which way we go, the plan was to have the exact same design on all of the sites (primary navigation items change as you move into the sub-folders/sites). The only thing that might change if we go with individual domains, beyond the aforementioned nav items, would be a slight change in part of the text of the logo to reflect the change to the individual sites (and of course the domain url). _Cost_ — Having the same design eliminates however the "cost" factor that most articles put against microsites... everything is going to be looking the same. In addition, the "site" will be maintained the exact same regardless of what the "url" looks like. **Does anyone think the brand protection payoff (as far as Search Engine results are concerned) will be large enough to warrant having individual "domains" for the site?** I'm still learning towards sub-folders and massive loading the single domain within the search engines, but wanted to get some thoughts and feedback before we move into the deeper strategy aspects and finalizing a plan of action.


title: Redirect 'A' record of domain, except for some paths

text: I'm using cPanel and Mailman (mailing lists) on a shared server with a webhost. After changing the 'A' record for one of my add-on domains (let's say `abc.org`), so that its website traffic goes to another sort-of webhost (`123.com`) but email stays where it is (a few other changes were done to keep mail were it was), I now find that my Perl scripts which try to access the Mailman mailing lists for that domain, don't work. Note: I prefer to sometimes use Perl scripts to work with the mailing lists, instead of doing it from cPanel because:   * It allows people to make mailing list updates via my Perl web application.   * It allows me to make bulk queries and updates. The 1st reason the scripts are failing is because the URL they usually use to access all my mailing lists for several domains from Perl is: `domain- name/mailman/listinfo`   So, because the `abc.org's` 'A' record now points to `123.com`, the above URL tries to find `abc.org/mailman/listinfo` at `123.com`, but fails with a "404 - Not Found" error, of course, because the mailing lists are not there. My webhost has suggested I create a subdomain (e.g. `mailman.abc.org`), and then recreate all the mailing lists for `abc.org` in that, but I want to avoid that if possible because of the hassle and side-effects. Q1. Any suggestions on what URL I can now use to access the mailman/listinfo page of my `abc.org` mailing lists? Q2. Or, can you suggest a way to prevent my requests for `abc.org/mailman/listinfo` from being redirected to `123.com` with the rest of the traffic for `abc.org`?


title: Public/Private Key Generation

text: I'm just learning about public key cryptography and I want to make a public key certificate for my web server so that I can use https. My server is hosted on some random free webhost that is practically impossible for anything...and so my question is this: Is there any harm in making my private key, public key, and public key certificate on my computer using openssl and then transferring it to the server? Thanks in advance. Also if there's anything else I'm missing, any help would be appreciated.


title: Why does AdSense require sufficient content?

text: I get that to apply for an AdSense account, a website needs to already have "sufficient content". As you can guess my website, being brand-new, did not. I am not disputing that fact, so I do not think this is a duplicate with other questions that do. I do however wonder why this is a policy? I guess their reasoning MIGHT be because Google wants to uphold a sense of quality in the content they support. A practically blank website is not quality content (yet). But isn't this a Catch 22? Creating quality content takes time (and thus money). Without ad-revenue to back this up, it's not easy to justify the expense (to my wife mostly, but that is beside my point :) )? Compare with YouTube where you can apply for a partner account having uploaded 0 videos. Another reason might be that they won't know what ads to show on an "empty website", but seems to me they could just as well pick something "random, but safe" themselves... If anyone has an authoritative answer (based on information from Google or personal experience) I'd be happy to hear it.


title: Trendmicro clones authenticated requests - showing up in my error logs

text: I'm having various errors, from unauthenticated requests for using some AJAX requests (which need authentication). While I have clients from Belgium, the IP addresses match a IP in the form of `150.70.*.*`, all are using Windows XP and IE 6 or IE 8. When I do a lookup, I receive this: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php Which means that it originates from Japan and it's a static IP from trendsmicro.com, a security suite. Any idea if I can blacklist this? I'd like to keep my errors close to zero. But this is one I can't solve without blacklisting the IP range. What should I do and what does trendsmicro try to do when cloning the request?


title: SEO benefit of H1 tags on the homepage

text: I've been told by an SEO specialist that, although every other page on a website has `<h1>` tags highlighting the correct headings for that page, that there needs to be one on the homepage, too. I'm dubious about this as the homepage should only rank for people searching for the company name directly -- which it already does perfectly (not least because the company name is their domain name). Obviously I don't see the harm in putting an exception in for that one page, but I also don't see the point, especially when I have lots of other more important things to be getting on with. Are there any SEO benefits to adding a `<h1>` element to the homepage, given that Google is already finding the company name perfectly well?


title: Good practice for watermarking/trademarking a website

text: When developing a website for a client, is it considered normal/proper etiquette to include an inconspicuous link to the developer's own website at the bottom of the client's website? In case that wording is too weird, say I'm developing a website for a company. Would it be respectable if I included my own logo, unobtrusively, in the footer of their website?


title: Best choice of domain name? (SEO)

text: This question is specifically about domain name choice. My client wants to maximize his site SEO, and he has two domain names, one of which he has for two years and is in the second page of Google search and another one which is better as domain name but unranked. The question:   * Is it better to choose the new better domain name or leave the old one as it already has it's value?   * If I choose to take the new domain name how long would it take to be at the same level as the old one? If I will choose the new one I will redirect the old one to the new.   * Aged Domain: `ivories.ca`   * New Domain: `pianotuningtoronto.ca`


title: AdWords: unauthorised use of trademark in keywords

text: I recently identified 2 companies who are actively targeting ads through Google AdWords using our trademark (registered in the UK). I filed a complaint with Google, although they are not willing to remove these ads. > Please note that we will not be able to process this complaint for your > trademark **_*_** because you requested that we remove all ads that are > currently using your trademark as a keyword. > > We do not investigate keyword complaints for trademarks, as described at > http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=144298. As a > result, we won't be able to remove ads that are using your trademark as a > keyword. If Google allow other competitive firms to leverage traffic through AdWords off the back of an established brand where does that leave us? Must we also use AdWords to outbid our competitors on our own company name? I'd be interested to know of anyone who has experienced something similar. If Google won't do anything to police this then is litigation the only option available? **EDIT** It seems Google have recently changed their policy on this and are no longer arbitrating trademark disputes when used in keywords, only in ad copy. This can't be good for search quality!!? Google extends trademarks-in-ads policy to whole world


title: SEO for site with 301 redirect on root domain to subfolder

text: I've been asked to do SEO for a site. The site is made using Wordpress and prestashop. Because of this the root domain has a 301 redirect to a subfolder - domain/shop/ For my SEO submission work, I know it's not good practice to submit urls that have redirects on them and a lot of the time it's not allowed. After searching the net I think my best bet is to do all my site submissions using the url - domain/shop/ even though it will take a lot more listings to get them up in ranking compared to using their root domain. I'm not sure how it will work. The root domain has the greatest rank then passes rank to the rest of the site. If I'm targeting the subfolder will it work?


title: Could the rel="author" just be a username?

text: I want to use `rel="author"`, however the type of blog I run is about a game, and doesn't relate to my real identity. I'm more known for my screen name, so would this still be okay to use for the `rel="author"` tag? For example, if my Google+ account is for my user, and not for myself, could I still use it within the `rel="author"` tag? I don't want to get penalized in any sort of way. My main reason to do this, is to improve click through rate, and just make my blog post sections look better in the searches.


title: Google CDN or Akamai

text: We combine and minify our JS with Minify - the combined JS is then cached on Akamai. I'm suggesting to my supervisor that we put JQuery and JQueryUI on Google CDN and take it out of our combined JS. The benefits I see are parallel downloads, significantly smaller Akamai cache hit, and the high potential the user will have JQuery from Google CDN cached in his/her browser when he/she visits our site so no download will be required at all. I also pointed out how pointing to the major version CDN URL `//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js` will eliminate the need for us to micro-manage our JQuery version control, and that if a new release introduces a bug, we simply point the CDN URL to a stable minor version of our choice until the issue is resolved. My supervisor disagrees and thinks keeping it on Akamai is the way to go. Any insight as to which is going to be faster here? I looked for some benchmarks and references online but they are either out-dated or merely talk about Google wanting to acquire Akamai. **EDIT** : Some further research has pointed me to an article mentioning how 'latest version' CDN URL's use short expires headers so it might be more optimal to use `/jquery/1.7/`. I'm fine with this - the general question still remains.


title: How do I login to Sphider?

text: Has anyone else here used Sphider? I am able to install everything (exactly as instructed here)and change the password, but unable to login at the login screen. Whenever I login, it just refreshes the page, whether the credentials are correct or not. I have looked at the forum and others have the same problem too, but no one has provided a solution. So if any of you have tried Sphider and had the same problem your input would be much appreciated. Running version 1.3.6 Path to admin page is 'sphider-1.3.6/admin/admin.php' PHP Version 5.3.13 MySQL Version 5.0.91-log


title: CMS for appoitment-like site

text: i need to quickly create a web site for a hairdresser person. Main feature is to let his potential clients to reserve time for service. I've never had to deal with any CMS, because i'm developing sites from scratch. What the CMS do you recommend for my case, which has necessary extensions? Thanks in advance.


title: How to enable media queries on IE < 9

text: I am trying to add support for media queries in older versions of Internet Explorer, but I am not having any luck. I only need media queries, so I do not want to add a big package like Modernizr, I am looking for a small fix, if there is any. Anyone know a good method?


title: Porting some of the contents to new site. Should I delete the old sitemap.xml?

text: I had a site with multiple blogs for eg www.mysite.com/gre, www.mysite.com/gmat What I have done is that ported the blogs to new site mynessite.com and set up a 301 redirect. The old content becomes the part of sitemap.xml for new site. Should I delete the site map for www.mysite.com/gre, www.mysite.com/gmat from my old blog ?


title: Hybrid-Hosting, how can I host one subdomain of existing site on second server?

text: I have a domain like `www.example.com`, with a subdomain like `sub.example.com`. They are hosted by ex: Bluehost. Which steps should I follow to just host `sub.example.com` on a second Server (AWS S3)?


title: How to use rel=canonical with Sitecore aliases?

text: I have inherited a Sitecore architecture that is a mess from an SEO duplicate content POV. There are multiple aliases that have been created (and indexed by the search engines) for many of the 2nd tier pages of the site. Due to server issues, I am not able to 301 redirect these duped pages, so I would like to use the rel=canonical tag in an attempt to try and get Google/Bing to recognize the correct pages I would like to appear in the index. I have blocked the most extraneous duped pages with a robots.txt file, however, since Google/Bing have already spidered many of the duped pages, I need to keep them accessible to the spiders, BUT removed from the index. The catch is, since the duped pages are aliases (and don't really physically exist in Sitecore that I can find), I am not sure how to go about using rel=canonical - or if I even can in this situation..?


title: Is there any way to determine who placed an AdWords ad?

text: I was in the process of discussing with a client using adwords for their next step of promotion and no-one at the company was aware of the system, and certainly hadn't created any adwords campaigns, however in the midst of the discussion and trying a few relevant search queries out, one of the ads in the ad block on the right hand pane was for their website. Is there any way of determining if the ad was somehow generated of is it definitely the case that someone had to consciously take the ad out and if so who might have placed it? They have no referral system so someone outside of the company would get no benefit from running the ad


title: What are recommended password reset mecanisms?

text: All, I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:   1) User friendly;   2) Secure;   3) Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).


title: Can a 403 error ever be client side?

text: I've got a well-established web application. It's working for lots of people with a variety of browsers and platforms. But, there's this one guy... He's getting a "403 Forbidden" on his side, I've even seen screen shots. But, I'm not logging anything in Apache or Tomcat that seems to indicate that he's actually been denied. I know he's authenticating because I see it explicitly. This, combined with the fact that he's the only broken user makes me wonder. Can a browser (IE in this case) ever decide on its own to throw a 403 that's not actually generated by the server? P.S.: I don't have rep to create '403' tag, but it's probably appropriate.


title: Where can i get photo collection for website/template

text: I'm developing website templates and wonder how to get (free or buy) photos of product sample for my templates. For example, collection if furniture, shirts, lingerie? Maybe you have preferences with affordable price. Please note that these images is going to be use in web templates for sale.


title: Website subscription service

text: I have a friend who has asked me to build a site for her that allows people to sign up for a monthly subscription service for a few dollars a month. The service will send them text messages throughout the month. Does anyone have any suggestions on open source software for signing up for a service like this? I have already researched how to send the messages and need advice on setting up the subscription service. I've worked with asp.net c# and php.


title: remove "items 1-9 of X" from google result

text:
the results of my Magento based website's categories includes " **items 1 - 9 of X** " before the actual description of the category.   How can I get rid of this? In this snapshot, what I want to delete is the red rectangle ![snapshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Mjoiu.gif) **edits** :   @Su, these are the reason:   1. Having text like (Items 1 - 9 of 144 –) appear in a Google listing uses up the 25 word limit that Google allows us.   2. More importantly, the first few words of the description can persuade or dissuade someone from visiting my site. This text will not positively influence people to visit my site. @DisgruntledGoat this information shows up in the source code of that page, like this:

                         Items 1 to 9 of 144 total


title: How do I differentiate 404 messaging with no dynamic language ability on the web server?

text: Depending on the type of page visited (for example, “static” content vs. product page), we have a requirement to show different error messaging when the page requested is not found. Given that we are on a two tier architecture and have no dynamic language ability on the web servers, we are using HTTP status codes in the 400 range to display this messaging using the ErrorDocument setting in Apache configuration. These status codes, of course, show up in Google Webmaster tools as HTTP errors rather than not found errors and there is concern that these 400 range errors will not cause search engines to remove these pages from their indexes. Is there anyone else who has had this type of requirement with the limitation of no dynamic languages on the web server - and if so - have you solved this problem differently? Thanks


title: How to block domain access?

text: I'm studying AWStats in my server and I see no interesting domain access. How can I block it with htaccess or another solution


title: Google analytics - Find what time users entered the site from traffic source

text: The title says it all, I'm trying to find what time each visit came from a particular traffic source. EG if I wanted to find all the times that users visited from Google (Organic) - Can I do this i GA?


title: Google Analytics and Web Optimizer Code creating double site visits

text: My website currently has a Google Asynchronous tracking code at the top of every page and the home page has an A/B test running on it. This is causing GA to add 2 visits for every 1 to the home page. I have used Google's Web Optimizer to A/B test the home page against 2 other versions (all 3 have footer code). There is also a single goal page with footer code. All of the codes are below, with only identifying info removed. My issue is that every person that visits my home page (www.example.com) is getting counted as 2 visits. This is obviously incorrect but I am not sure how to fix it. I have already tried a few different options outlined below but none have fully succeeded. This is my GA tracking code:               <script type="text/javascript">                 var _gaq = _gaq || [];                 _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-1']);                 _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.example.com']);                 _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);                      (function() {                     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;                     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';                     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);                 })();             </script>      This is the Web Optimizer code below the GA Tracking code on www.example.com:               <script>     function utmx_section(){}function utmx(){}     (function(){var k='YYYYYYYYYY',d=document,l=d.location,c=d.cookie;function f(n){     if(c){var i=c.indexOf(n+'=');if(i>-1){var j=c.indexOf(';',i);return c.substring(i+n.     length+1,j<0?c.length:j)}}}var x=f('__utmx'),xx=f('__utmxx'),h=l.hash;     d.write('<sc'+'ript src="'+     'http'+(l.protocol=='https:'?'s://ssl':'://www')+'.google-analytics.com'     +'/siteopt.js?v=1&utmxkey='+k+'&utmx='+(x?x:'')+'&utmxx='+(xx?xx:'')+'&utmxtime='     +new Date().valueOf()+(h?'&utmxhash='+escape(h.substr(1)):'')+     '" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></sc'+'ript>')})();     </script><script>utmx("url",'A/B');</script>      My home page and the 2 variant pages have this in their footer:               <script type="text/javascript">     if(typeof(_gat)!='object')document.write('<sc'+'ript src="http'+     (document.location.protocol=='https:'?'s://ssl':'://www')+     '.google-analytics.com/ga.js"></sc'+'ript>')</script>     <script type="text/javascript">     try {     var gwoTracker=_gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXXXX-37");     gwoTracker._trackPageview("/YYYYYYYYYY/test");     }catch(err){}</script>      My goal page has this:               <script type="text/javascript">     if(typeof(_gat)!='object')document.write('<sc'+'ript src="http'+     (document.location.protocol=='https:'?'s://ssl':'://www')+     '.google-analytics.com/ga.js"></sc'+'ript>')</script>     <script type="text/javascript">     try {     var gwoTracker=_gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXXXX-37");     gwoTracker._trackPageview("/YYYYYYYYYY/goal");     }catch(err){}</script>      Here are my failed fixes so far:   * Change the UA-XXXXXXXXX-37 to UA-XXXXXXXXX-1. This just makes my bounce rate for those pages go to 100%   * Move the GA code in front of the Web Optimizer Code. This did not fix the issues but I left it because I believe it is correct.   * Added `gwoTracker=_gaq._setDomainName('.example.com');` between the ._getTracker and ._trackPageview of the 3 footers. This caused GA to work again and the Web Optimizer to quit working completely. What is the correct way to do this?


title: What product can you use to zoom and focus cursors when screencasting--what's the best screencast software?

text: I've tried iShowU to do screencasts, but the software does not allow you to zoom in and focus on where your cursor is point. What is the best software for MacOS that allows you to do simple effects like zooming when screencasting? Thanks.


title: How to make my own web comic site like xkcd?

text: If you all are nerds like me then you are aware of xkcd. If I wanted to go about creating my own web comic with a website layout similar to this one, then what would you recommend? Drupal (if so, also refer me to any non-default modules that I would need), WordPress, straight up html?


title: Question about server usage, big community platform

text: I’m working on a community platform writen in PHP, MySQL. I have some questions about the server usage maybe someone can help me out. The community is based on JQuery with many ajax requests to update content. It makes 5 - 10 AJAX(Json, GET, POST) requests every 5 seconds, the requests fetch user data like user notifications and messages by doing mySQL queries. I wonder how a server will handle this when there are for more than 5000 users online. Then it will be 50.000 requests every 5 seconds, what kind of server you need to handle this? Or maybe even more, when there are 15.000 users online, 150.000 requests every 5 seconds. My webserver have the following specs. Xeon Quad 2048MB 5000GB traffic Will it be good enough, and for how many users? Anyone can help me out or know where to find such information, like make a calculation?


title: Chat like chat.meta.stackoverflow.com in my website

text: How can I create a chat room like http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/ in my PHP website? I am looking for a free solution. Please help...


title: All shorten url redirecting to linkbucks

text: I have seen most of shorten url like `http://owl.li/w6tUx` redirecting to linkbucks site. I see even google is using this service in their posts in facebook or google plus something like `http://goo.gl/Z7bY5C`. I am not sure why google like company is using services like linkbucks. Is this some kind of virus of something have affected my computer. Can someone please explain or please advise me what is the correct place to ask question like this?


title: Should limitstart=0 should be 301 redirected or have canonical tag to it

text: i have multiple categories with pagination. wherein limitstart=0 are there and is similar like category home page Wondering, should a 301 redirect through htaccess is advisable **or** shall i apply canonical tag to it Second, below is the htaccess code for it. Need comments, is the regex ok                RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.+)&limitstart=0$ [NC]      RewriteRule (.*) /$1?%1&%2 [R=301,L]      Thanks


title: Counter on website (visitors)

text: I got a feeling a client is going to ask me to implement a counter to show how many visitors visited the site. To me it looks very unprofessional but the next question the client is going to ask will be 'why?'. So what's a good reason to not implement this besides "it's unprofessional".


title: Host multimedia content

text: On the occasion of a new website, I'm looking for a reliable and inexpensive company to host a big volume of movies and pictures. I need around 1To to start knowing that it will grow each day. Do you have any company to advise ? Thank you.


When changing a site domain name with Google Webmaster Tools, how can I verify both sites? Google seems to require that both sites are simultaneously validated (by the same method) but with different meta tag codes. This is obviously impossible to achieve. I can't seem to to use the "change of name" function as even if I put _both_ meta tags in the header at the same time (which allows me to validate both sites) the transfer fails as Google then seems to re-check the meta tags and finds the wrong one for one of the sites. Am I doing something wrong? All that's happened is that the domain name has changed, so it's not possible for me to use different meta tags on different sites. Is there a way I can tell Google about the domain name change?


title: Indexed webpages stopped rising, while Submited keep rising normally

text: Last months I have noticed a strange behaviour in Google's Webmaster Tools. Although I provide a valid Sitemap for my website, which is normally processed and without any issues from Google, while the number of Submitted Webpages keep rising (30.923 pages), the Indexed Pages don't rise anymore (26.819 pages since the end of January). Checking the Crawler Stats, everything seems normal and there are no Crawl Errors. There was no significant changes to the webpage these last months. Anyone noticed a similar issue and any possible suggestion?


title: Website hacked and suspended for spam, effect on SEO

text: I had my website on first 5 positions on google for 3 main keywords. Because of some poorly written forms my website was suspended by my host because of SPAM for 3 days. Now the position of my website is 40-50. Can I ever get back my lost positions? Or google "blacklisted" my domain for spam? Thanks!


title: How to tell Google to stop crawling my website via IP?

text: After a database server migration, I've noticed that GoogleBot started getting errors when trying to crawl my site. The reason seems to be that it is hitting my site via IP address (and due to my config setup, my PHP scripts try to hit the old database server, which has been shut down). When the site is accessed by correct hostname, it uses the new DB server. I can fix this by pointing the 'IP address' config to use the new DB server, but ideally I want to tell GoogleBot (and also Bing) to stop accessing via IP, and use hostname instead. Google Webmaster Tools also shows a lot of entries for 'sites linking in' to my website, which are actually listed as the IP address of my site, as if it were a different site. I do not want to lose SEO value by making the wrong move. Should I change my website to stop responding on IP address? Or set up HTTP redirects from `IP address/url` -> `hostname/url`? I already have "rel canonical" URLs which include the FQDN on a lot of my pages, but Google does not seem to respect them, or at least it continues to hit the IP address for those pages.


title: Google Pagespeed not recognizing minify, cache leveraging, etc

text: Recently, my sites score completely dropped in site optimization/speed in the Google Adsense rating system. When using **Google PageSpeed Insights** it tells me quite a few things. One being to leverage browser caching. I went into my .htaccess file and added this bit of 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 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 2 days"     </IfModule>     ## EXPIRES CACHING ##      After adding this code to my .htaccess file I retested my website and saw that it is now asking me to leverage a bunch of jquery plugins. Which I might add were not there prior to adding the code to the .htaccess. Google is also asking me to minify my CSS, HTML, and JS. Well, I downloaded a Wordpress plugin called **Better Wordpress Minify** , which is set to automatically minify HTML, CSS, and JS. After installing the plugin and retesting through Google Pagespeed I noticed that it is still asking me to minify a couple of things. Its asking me to minify the _customscript.js_ in my theme, and wants me to minify the HTML of my homepage. Google also asked me to compress my website so I downloaded **WP HTTP Compression** which seemed to compress almost everything except for two files: _modernizr.min.js, and customscript.js_. I know this is a lot of information to take in, and I am probably asking for a lot, but any help would be greatly appreciated.


title: htaccess URL rewriting

text: I want to redirect a request look like               mydomain.com/abc/def      to               mydomain.com/abc/index.php?q=def      where `abc` is a fixed directory name and `def` can be any string. How can I do this using `.htaccess`?


title: SEO: Should we split the business subjects into three seperate domains or stay with one?

text: I have a customer who has a place at the beach with restaurant, weddings area and the beach itself. He asked me from seo aspect if it will be better to have one domain with 3 minisites. Or 3 sites on 3 different domains? If it should.be under one domain could it be harder to rank higher with the ministes, each on its own keyword? Or should it be easier, since the overall site is larger? Are there any other aspects to consider?


title: When is meta description still relevant?

text: I received this bit of advice about the meta description tag recently: > Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the > snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should probably use them. You > could just auto generate them from the first part of the question. The description tag exists in the header, like so: `<meta name="Description" content="A brief summary of the content on the page.">` I'm not sure why we would _need_ this field, as Google seems perfectly capable of showing the relevant search terms in context in the search result pages, like so (I searched for **c# list performance** ): ![google keyword highlighting](http://i.stack.imgur.com/U6Ht7.png) In other words, **where would a meta description summary improve these results?** We want the page to show context around the actual search hits, not a random summary we inserted! Google Webmaster Central has this advice: > For some sites, like news media sources, generating an accurate and unique > description for each page is easy: since each article is hand-written, it > takes minimal effort to also add a one-sentence description. For larger > database-driven sites, like product aggregators, hand-written descriptions > are more difficult. In the latter case, though, programmatic generation of > the descriptions can be appropriate and is encouraged -- just make sure that > your descriptions are not "spammy." Good descriptions are human-readable and > diverse, as we talked about in the first point above. The page-specific data > we mentioned in the second point is a good candidate for programmatic > generation. I'm struggling to think of any scenario when I would want the Google-generated summary, that is, actual context from the page for the search terms, to be _replaced_ by a hard-coded meta description summary of the question itself.


title: How do I setup Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) to display correctly in the browser URL bar?

text: I just bought several Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) from GoDaddy. I have a VPN with hostgator and when I add an account with WHM and then I go to that site with a link that has the IDN, it displays in the browser as the puny-code. How can I make the browser display the correct encoding, instead of the puny-code?


title: Can PayPal charge different prices and currencies in different regions?

text: I want to set up a payment module on my website: US/Canada price is a certain price in USD, people other countries pay in EUR. The prices is not an exact conversion, but a "round" number which approximates exact conversion. Say, for example 140 USD and 100 EUR. Is there an easy way to set this up in PayPal? If not, which payment method is cheap and easy to implement?


title: Desktop ↔ mobile site redirection logic

text: I want the to know the correct desktop to mobile redirection logic. How should a visitor be sent to mobile version or the desktop version of site? I've a mobile site: `m.example.com` and desktop site at: `www.example.com` What I'm using now:   1. First visits will be detected and redirected to mobile or desktop version   2. Second time onward same session visit to any URL (mobile or desktop) will not be redirected. I mean if first time a `m.example.com` is served and then the user types `www.example.com` then desktop version will be served from his mobile device What is the correct way when to transfer a visitor to mobile or the desktop version?


title: .htaccess 301 rewrite rule not working

text: I had made the page the-book.html in wordpress site, later changed the name to about-the-book, now i have written the .htaccess file as               **RewriteRule ^the-book.html$ http://www.conversationissexy.com/about-the-book/ [R=301]**          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>           # END WordPress      but it doesn't works..


How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Short of actually having every different browser version installed, is there any tool or service that can provide a preview?


title: A tool for test webpages in older Browsers?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers? Hi, at the moment I develop a ASP.Net Page Community board. I have installed FF4, IE9 and Opera 10. A friend told me, my page looks bad in IE7 and maybe IE8. Is there a tool how I can look the page for IE7/8, FF2/3 and maybe Opera 9? You know, older versions of browsers without uninstalling my browsers.


title: I want the links in my HTML sitemap to be crawled but I do not want the sitemap in the SERPs

text: I have a website that has some pages and then it has a folder that has the majority of the pages. All the pages that exist in this folder could only be accessed by using my website search engine, then I created HTML and XML sitemaps so the search engines could find the pages that are inside this folder. This worked well as search engines got very happy and indexed pretty much the entire website. BUT the html sitemap is appearing in SERPs and besides wanting search engines to crawl it and follow the links I do not want it to be in the SERPs. What can I do so the links on my sitemap page are followed but it stops appearing in SERP's? I saw some link rel no index meta tags and robots no index meta tags that seemed to be "designed" for this but some websites say they do one thing and other websites say they do other things. I don't want to screw this up and have my pages not being indexed again because it will be a pretty bad setback. Besides this, when I made the sitemaps I made the XML and HTML and uploaded them to the server on the same day, it worked like a charm but if the xml sitemap is enough and i can remove the html sitemap with no negative impact to my number of indexed pages it would be a valid solution for me too because then i wouldn't have to bother with it appearing on SERP's so if anyone made this experience and has something to share it would be useful too.


title: Am I able to delete a domain name

text: I manage a number of domain names with Network Solutions. I've transferred out all the domains that are or will be used. However, there are some left which were bought speculatively and will never be used. Is it possible to have them deleted, that is, have the registrations deleted? Thanks for any help


title: How to make user-uploaded photos all a uniform size

text: I have a site where users upload photos taken from their digital cameras. I want the photos to appear as big as possible, almost take up the entire screen. I also want all the thumbnails, of various users, and blown up photos, to have a uniform size so the design works on my site and everything lays out properly. Is this possible, or am I going to be stuck with different sized pictures because some people turned the camera on it's side to take a picture and got a picture way taller than wider. Do the pictures need to be a certain file format, certain size, etc?


title: Does time of adding new content makes sense for SE

text: Does time, new content is added, makes sense for search engines ? For example - between 9:00 and 18:00, or at 23:00, or at 1:00 ? **Update 1:** I rephrase my question, to better reflect, what i mean: Does search engine makes an assumption about what the website is, based on time of day, new content is added. E.g. when new content is added between 9:00 and 18:00 - this is possible a corporation with fixed working time. When new content appears at random time of day, this is possible a person. Answering my own question, i think, such an differentiation is not useful. But, who knows ...


title: Does the number of visits matters for SEO?

text: Considering I have a website and I have millions of direct views (entering directly by URL, not by any other URL) and that there is no links to this site anywhere else (or that this views don't generate any external link to the site), will these visits increase my positioning in search engines such as Google? Are search engines capable of measuring direct visits rather than links from other pages?


title: Tracking AdWord ads with different text in Google Analytics

text: I'm trying to see how the text in my Google AdWords ads affects my metrics in Analytics. I have auto-linking enabled, so I figured I would be able to automatically see this in Analytics. Unfortunately, if I try to add a second dimension of Traffic Sources->Ad Content, the metrics are only split by the ad's Headline. Most of my tests are changing only the ads' descriptions... So I guess I need to add a tracking parameter like `?campaign=special_text` to my URLs? Or is there a way to see the ads split by ad descriptions? Should I add the full suite of utm_campaign/utm_medium/etc parameters? What's the proper way to track these ads which are mostly similar except the ad descriptions?


title: Apache Redirect to another folder, both within and outside document root

text: I've recently set up a home web/media server and having a few difficulties with a few of the settings. It's working fine for serving webpages etc but I've now reorganised the structure of the main document root and it's now playing hard to get. Current structure is:               -drive     --sites     ---live     ----siteA     ----siteB     ----siteC     ---dev     --media     ---films     ---series      What I'm trying to do is serve siteC when siteA/siteC is called. For example mydomain.com will present the files that are in siteA, this is fine. SiteB and SiteC do not have their own domains etc and I don't want them to be subfolders of SiteA so what I'd like is for mydomain.com/siteB to serve up the content that is in siteB and the same with siteC. I'd then like to use the same premise for the media server so myDomain.com/media will display a directory listing of the files within the media directory. the document root within apache is d:/sites/live, I'm then using virtual hosts to determine what happens. This is fine with the standard mydomanA.com or myDomainB.com but not when trying to achieve what I mentioned above. This is one of the attempts:               <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "D:/Sites/Live/siteA"         ServerName www.mydomain.com/siteA         <Directory "D:/Sites/Live/siteA">             Order allow,deny             Allow from all             AllowOverride All       </Directory>      Another failed attempt using aliases instead:               <VirtualHost *:80>         DocumentRoot "D:/Sites/Live/siteA"         ServerName www.mydomain/siteA         <Directory "D:/Sites/Live/siteA">             Order allow,deny             Allow from all             AllowOverride All       </Directory>            Alias /siteA D:/sites/live/siteA       <directory "D:/sites/live/siteA">         Order allow,deny         AllowOverride All         </directory>     </VirtualHost>      Thanks for any help, I've been pulling my hair put for the past few hours trying to find a solution. Edited to answer comment. The expected input and output would be along the following:               mydomain.com = d:/sites/live/siteA     mydomain.com/siteB = d:/sites/live/siteB     mydomain.com/siteC = d:/sites/live/siteC      and the media server would be:               mydomain.com/media = d:/media


title: Should the Home Menu Button Display a Submenu?

text: Is it best practices to display/not display a dropdown menu for the Home button in menu navigation?


title: Effect on Google rankings if my site is down?

text: What happens to my Google rankings when my site goes down for a short or long period of time?


title: IP of my site in the shared hosting got changed and did not reflect yet. what will be the SEO concequence?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? My hosting company changes IP in the range of 6 months... May be either the change the servers or the IP. So for the past 20 hours my site is not loading in my place (India) where as i checked with my friend by that time in Japan. He said that it is loading there. But here it is still not. The hosting company said that it will take max of 24-48 hours for propagation of DNS settings. So at this time when google webmasters and google search bots and google crawl bots access the site what will happen. Will this affect my SEO records in google? like not found or not reachable or network error? Each countries ISP would be updating the dns in their own order so when japan got updated india did not (my service provider is Barthi Broadband (Airtel India)) . I am unable to get into a conclusion. **Besides is this related to Up Stream and Down Stream?**


title: What is the tolerable Website Downtime and it's Impact on SEO?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect on Google rankings if my site is down? I'm using hostgator shared hosting for some of my sites and uptime reported by mo.ni.tor.us is in between 97% to 94%. Is it a tolerable range for downtime ? Also i would like to know how much downtime percentage is considered as okay in case of SEO ? I see that most updated blogs needs to have more uptime. But not sure how much downtime factor is considered in case of SEO ?


title: Can Paypal/Google/Amazon accept credit card payments like a merchant account?

text: Paypal Express Checkout API, Google Checkout API and Amazon Flexible Payment Services allow us to accept payment easily by simply redirecting users to their website and they'll handle everything. We don't even need to know their credit card numbers. However, what if I want my users to deal with me directly using their credit card numbers? This way I can change the payment processor without bothering my users. I think this is how traditional merchant accounts work. Does any of the payment services offered by Paypal/Google/Amazon work in this way?


title: Transferring a domain to another registrar and downtime

text: I have a domain A redirecting (301) to another domain B. If I take the domain A to another registrar, what will happen with the site content? How much time will it be without showing the content?


title: Does it make sense to throw a 404 error with PHP?

text: ## Problem Description Hi, The current setting of my **.htaccess** file does not allow any kind of 404 (as far as I know). I mean, it captures every kind of url like `mysite.com/asfasfasf` then sends it to `index.php?lang=asfasfasf` then index.php 301-redirects to `mysite.com/en`. Anyway, ## Question I have a gallery page which takes project name as an input, so if a nasty user comes and `types mysite.com/gallery/asfasfasf`, I should redirect them to my 404.php page, using php, but how? I think my options are :   1. 301-redirect to location `404.php`   2. 404-redirect to location '404.php'   3. Forget about 404.php, just print " _project "asfasfasf" does not exist._ " on the gallery page.   4. ?? Which one makes most sense? More importantly, which one is best for SEO ? Thanks for any help!


title: When is it worth it to make my URLs "pretty"?

text: We are in 2011, search engines are now using hundreds or thousands of parameters to weight a page. The URL is only one of them, is it still so much of an impact in the search results? People are sharing URLs through URL shortener: short, long, ugly or nice URLs end up in the same way! People also share email by clicking on 'I like this', they don't copy paste URLs anymore, and when I do it and see people doing it, they never comment if an URL is long or short or anything... Is there still a need of having nice URL both for the users and search engines? If my rank on the search engine will change by 0.5% I don't really care... If I will make 2% of my user happy by having nice URLs I don't really care either...


title: Clean URLs without PHP file extension

text: I want to make my URLs clean, for example: `http://sample.com/about-me` instead of: `http://sample.com/about-me.php` This is my code:                   RewriteEngine On          RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f         RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php      But I can still access `http://sample.com/about-me.php`. How can I have `http://sample.com/about-me`, so `http://sample.com/about- me.php` will be permanently redirected to that? I think this technique is good for SEO because canonicalization needs just one URL. If I use two URLs that both can be accessed, I think that's not good for SEO and can make search engines confused, right?


title: Seo Calculation Formula?

text: I am using SeoWebPart which has its own page score. I find many of the things which are useful in SEO calculation like   1. Count Word in h1 tag   2. Count Word in h2 tag   3. Count Word in Title tag   4. Count Word in p tag   5. Total Word in Page   6. Count Word in anchor tag Please suggest a formula which I can use to show you a score for a page. I use this formula now but it's not good:               score = ([key word count]) * 100 / (total word count)


title: Google and primary domains

text: I have a client's website that was previously on a domain, let's say craigaccounting.com, and now this will not be used as their primary domain. I want their primary domain to be cragaccountants.com, with the old domain just pointing to the new. At the moment, Google is listing craigaccounting.com as the domain, but I want this changed. I have submitted the new domain with webmasters - is this all I need to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


title: Does SSL really matter for most websites?

text: I've been pretty paranoid about learning to "do security right" for this site I'm building (first non-trivial site I've made), and I've noticed something that bothers me: SSL. I've read plenty of security threads here, on StackOverflow, and elsewhere that goes on at length about regenerating session ids after n uses, and how your passwords need to be salted, hashed, and never stored in plain text. I've read plenty about how to detect when a session has been hijacked, by tracking IP addresses, user agents, and by using tracking cookies. What I don't understand is what any of this matters when the website logs you in via a normal HTTP POST and sends your password over the wire in plain text? I understand that all the other methods I listed are needed to reduce your overall exposure, and maybe there are some sites that just don't need that much security anyway, but I guess what I'm asking is:   * **When is it ok to not bother with SSL?** Sites like Gmail, your bank, and LinkedIn, I can see having a reason to use SSL, but what makes it ok that sites like Facebook and reddit don't bother (hell, PlentyOfFish even stores your password in plain text and even emails it to you weekly as a reminder!?!)? How concerned should I be with making sure SSL is setup (especially since I'd be starting with a shared host, and I'm being pretty cheap to start)? My site won't hold any particularly personal information, if that helps. If the site becomes a success, I'd seriously look at paying the extra for the added security.


title: Starting Domain Registration Service

text: I have been working as a web developer for long time. I have regular request from clients for web hosting and domain registration whose site i make. I have been asking for other frens for it. And they have been doing it for $15/year per domain registration. I am thinking to start the registration by self. So what are the things to do for being able to register domain names in cheaper rates less than $15/year


title: What is the required syntax to use for HTML5

text:
I am wondering about the following questions for HTML5   1.
 OR
? Are all elements the same for the answer?   2. selected="selected" OR selected?   3. Are there any other syntax instances that were true for XHTML/HTML4 that are not for HTML5?


title: Blogger not redirecting

text: I bought a new domain staygeo.com and pointed my blogger blog to gis.staygeo.com. I have checked the box in blogger publishing settings saying _Redirect staygeo.com to gis.staygeo.com_. Still if I just type http://staygeo.com/, I see **Not Found** message. What can be done about it?


title: Is it ok in my YouTube video to ask people to "like/subscribe" my YouTube videos/channel?

text: My channel and videos have google adsense. Would it violate the Google Adsense terms of service?


title: Moving to a new server. What happens to my POP3 email linked with Outlook?

text: I am moving my web server to another host in a few days and I have a concern about the emails. Currently, I am an Outlook user and instead of visiting the webmail's web server to read my emails, I connected it there. I use POP3 so emails are downloaded form server to my computer and stored locally. When I move to a new host, having the same incoming / outgoing server ( mail.domain.com ) (I think this is standard on Cpanel) will I lose my old email from showing in Outlook? I know I can't see them through the "old" host, but this is ok. I need to keep them locally and continue with the new host. Is this what happens, or should I do anything to keep my old emails locally and continue with the new ones from the new server?


title: Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links

text: I'm writing a very simple page that is supposed to be viewed on mobile devices. While viewing it in the iphone simulator I noticed that the iphone browser automatically turns any number string into a link, supposedly for dialing it directly. Problem is - there are a ton of numbers on my page that LOOK like phone numbers but actually aren't. Is there a way to tell the iphone browser to leave these numbers alone?


title: SEO pagination for items sorted in reverse chronological order

text: Let's have items I90, I89, ..., I2, I1 where I1 is the oldest and I100 is the newest. They are paginated and there are 30 items per page. Which is better URL from SEO point of view? 1) /items?page=1 with items I90...I61; then /items?page=2 with items I60...I31 and /items?page=3 with I30...I1. So if the new item is created, items get shifted. 2) /items?page=3 with items I90..I61; ...; /items?page=1 for I30...I1. Will option 1) look more "alive" to a search engine, so it will rank higher? Or will stable data (option 2) rank higher?


title: How to drive traffic to your site by making the Facebook experience sticky and viral?

text: I know some ways:   1. Make them sign up to our app. Every time they do something they post on their wall   2. Make them like our Facebook page. Every time we post something on that Facebook page, it shows up on their wall. That's the 2 method I know. Plain share or plain like seems to have very little viral and sticky value. They share once, and that's it. Most people don't even share. Am I wrong?


title: Optimizing data downloaded via 'link' media queries and asynchronous loading

text: I have a website that tries to make sensible use of media queries and avoid 'expensive' CSS for users of mobile devices. My eventual goal is to make it 'mobile-first' but for now, since it is based on Twitter Bootstrap it isn't. I included some background images (Base64 encoded) and styles that would only apply to "full-size" browsers in a separate stylesheet loaded asynchronously via modernizr.load. In Firefox (but not webkit browsers) it makes it so that if you navigate away from the homepage and then return, the content (specifically, all those extras) 'blinks' when it finishes loading...or maybe I should say reloading. If, instead of using modernizr.load, I include that stylesheet via a **_link..._** in the head with a media query attribute will it prevent the data from being downloaded by non-matching browsers (mobile, based on screensize) that it is inapplicable to?


title: Use responsive AdsSense unit but only as a banner/rectangle ad?

text: I'm using Google AdSense's responsive unit and on load it fits my browser window. The problem is that AdSense decides to fill the relevant space with both Square and Banner/Rectangle size Ads. I only want Banner size ads. I've tried putting the Ad in a container that only has a height of 60px but it will still load the square size ads. How do I tell AdSense I only want Banner/Rectangle size Ads?


title: How to make Google recognize language for a multilingual website?

text: A few weeks ago I implemented a translation functionality for my company website. The website now offers content in french and English and I took the time to look on various guides on the internet on methods how this can be done in a friendly way so that my rankings would not be affected as a result. Here is what I did:   * I did set a response header: `Content-Language:en` and `Content-Language:fr`   * My URLs are formatted as: `www.website.com/en/...` and `www.website.com/fr/...`   * My HTML tag is set with a lang attribute: `<html lang="en">` and `<html lang="fr">`   * `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="EnglishPageUrl">` on French pages.    * `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="frenchPageUrl">` on English pages. But Google keeps referring to some English pages when I'm doing a search on Google.fr, knowing that the website was first only available in English. Is that normal? Do I have to wait still, it has been now almost one month, I thought it would be okay...? Thank you.


Are there any scripts to integrate social networking site's chat and posting features into a webpage using PHP or JS... for example a section with Facebook chat, a section to post to twitter and maybe even YouTube comments.


title: Google-bot sees “Sorry, we have no imagery here” on pages with Google Maps

text: I have a site with Google Maps on most of the pages. When inspecting content keywords in Google Webmaster tools, content keywords identified by Google-bot for the site include "imagery", "sorry" and "here". These turn out to be part of an error message returned by Google Maps: "Sorry, we have no imagery here". I cannot reproduce this error with normal clients, nor does "fetch as Google" show it. The problem is presumably that Google-bot tries to execute some of the Google Maps Javascript but then shoots itself on the foot and records the error message. A Google search for "Sorry, we have no imagery here" shows that this problem is endemic to sites across the internet, including Yelp and many others. I'd like to convince Google that my site is not about imagery and being sorry, but I'd also like to keep the maps in place. I guess one option would be to transition to static maps, but that's not a great alternative. There's some related discussion on Webmaster World, no resolution.


title: Register a .ca domain from the US -- proxy service

text: we ara a US-based business and interested in registering a .ca domain. I understand the Canadian Presence Requirements for Registrants - CIRA (www.cira.ca/assets/Documents/Legal/Registrants/CPR.pdf). This questions isn't about restrictions, it is about getting around restrictions. What practical options are available for us to make this happen?


title: a good licence for a CMS?

text: Going over quite a bit of Open Source licenses on opensource.org I am still not very clear which one I should aim for. What I want the license to do is the following.   1. Open Source license   2. Initial Developer(s)/Contributer(s) are to be credited and all copyright notices, credit notices as well as trademark and/or patten notices to remain in the "Source Code" and in no way may be altered.    3. Any software based of original "Source Code" are to be licensed under the same license as the original source and all source code "must" be available to end-user. Also any copy or re-distribution and/or fork must contain original copyright notices by Initial Developer(s)/Contributer(s)   4. The license is royalty-free for non-commercial use, non-profit organization use and /or any personal use.   5. The source code may be licensed under commercial license for commercial use, but must be done so with first acknowledge the Original Developer and for royalty. Even so any commercial license "may not" prevent the Initial Developer from continuing of licensing, development and distribution of "original Source Code" for personal, non-commercial and non-profit use under the original license and without any fee.   6. Commercial license can't and shall not effect or hold any of "original Source Code" that may prevent the re-use of the original "Source Code" by 3rd party developers, re-distributer and or forked projects.   7. The license applies internationally I wish to allow the use of the software for commercial/small-business use but for a small royalty. However I do not want to get screwed into having that commercial institution the "sole" holder of the "original Source Code". I still need to make sure I the Initial Developer and any Contributers retain the "source code" as there own and not any 3rd party. So what would be the best suggestions for a license close to the 7 points that I made.


title: What should I do to notify Google of a switch from ".php" to extension-free URL's?

text: I've implemented a simple mod-rewrite rule that internally rewrites urls without a file extension (that are not directories) to .php files and removed the .php extension from all our internal links. I've also updated the sitemap with the extensionless urls. However, the urls in Google's index obviously still have the extension.   1. Will Google crawl the site or download the sitemap and update its index automatically with the extensionless urls?   2. Should I be implementing a 301 redirect from .php to extensionless urls? At the moment, both url's will resolve to the same page which could be seen as duplicate content.   3. Should I get a list of all the urls in Google's index which have extensions and submit a request to have them deleted via Webmaster Tools?


title: Targeting different related keywords?

text: I have a Wordpress website on which I'm using Yoast SEO plugin. This plugin states that on a single post I have to target only one focus keyword for better SEO PageRank. Now suppose I have two related keywords like _baseball bat_ and _bats for baseball_ and I want to target both so I have to create two post. One targeting _baseball bat_ and another _bats for baseball_ and optimize of there respective keywords. This is easy. But how these post are going to show in my navigation? If I give link to both they are after all saying about same thing, with little difference. so its look to me like I'm spamming and what user is going to get benefit from this. But my competitors are doing this shamelessly and getting traffic. One other possible way is that in navigation show only one main post like show _baseball bat_ in main navigation. Other versions of post for different targeting keyword like _bats for baseball_ let it be there and indexed and optimized but not showing in main navigation. Guide me if you understand what I'm trying to say.


title: Should I change from reset.css to normalize.css

text: I have been using css reset for quite a while now in different project, and I am quite pleased with it, always get good results. One thing that always bothered me was that I needed to overwrite a lot of elements, for example clearing the margin of an H2, and later on adding the margin again. Another thing is that a lot of elements are cleared that I do not even use. Now I have been reading a lot about normalize.css, I also see that the HTML5 Boilerplate uses this as it's default stylesheet. It does not reset everything, it just compensates for browser differences. If I compare the reset with the normalize I see that in the normalize a lot is left out. One big difference are the headings and paragraphs, they are left untouched in normalize. For all the rest of the elements I see that they are set to specific margins and padding. So actually the way I see it is as follow: _Reset.css: You begin from 0 and then build your way up. Add your margin, add your styles. You add this above your project and you are ready to go. Minor browser inconsistencies you add along the way._ _Normalize.css: You begin somewhere is the middle which is a consistent state in all browsers, and work your way up or down (adding or removing margin/padding) by changing the sheet itself._ Now in the end of your project, you end up pretty much in the same place. Differences I can think of are:   * with normalize you have a stylesheet that is more optimized than the one with the reset as you only have what you need.   * You can't just copy and paste the normalize sheet from one project to another, it is most of the time custom made for a particular project. In the end, I think you are better of with the normalize script, as it has a smaller footprint. So is this correct or am I looking at this the wrong way and just stick with the normal reset.


title: Will a site URL with repeating keywords get penalized by search engines?

text: I have an URL structure like the following: > sitename.com/ **cellphone** / **nokia** /galaxy-5678- **nokia** - > **cellphone** -from-abc/ For more example: > sitename.com/ **cellphone** / **motorolla** /new- **motorolla** -gta800- > **cellphone** -from-zxy/ The directory structure is like the cellphone is the main directory of the module and the words like Motorolla and Nokia are subdirectories which are categories and then comes the title of the cellphone. Here the word cellphone and Nokia in the first link and cellphone and Motorolla in the second link are repeated. **Is it any kind of keyword stuffing? will it be penalized by Google?**


title: Will repositioning my code get my site penalised by google?

text:
We have a website that has nice rankings in the Google SERPs for keywords which aren't in the meta description. As a result, Google assembles a text to display on the SERPs from the website top-down. Since a form is the first thing displayed on the page, the text is completely scrambled. This would be the code for the page:
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title: SEO SERP Google Chrome App

text: Has anyone installed 'SEO SERP' from Omiod app in chrome? If so, how accurate would you rate it? So far I'm thinking its pretty good, but I have never tried any paid versions.


title: Measure highest number of simultaneous visitors via Google Analytics

text: Is it possible to find out via Google Analytics the highest number of simultaneous visitors at any given time?


title: Google SEO - Migrating website from a sub-directory of another website to its own domain name

text: At the present moment I have a website hosted on `example.com/myWebsite`, where `example.com` hosts in its root directory a different website. I have the domain `example.net`, which redirects to `example.com/myWebsite`. The point, however, that right now when somebody accesses example.net they are redirected to `example.com/myWebsite` and consequently to `example.com/myWebsite/dirA`, `example.com/myWebsite/dirB` etc.. I am now thinking about upgrading my account so that `example.net` no longer redirects to `example.com` - I was however wondering, however, since Google shows results searches in terms of `example.com/myWebsite`, how would this affect my rankings?


title: What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?

text: Google.com vs Google.ca vs Google.co.uk (etc) all rank their results differently. The intention is to return more locally-relevant content. **What factors, other than the ones below, are used to determine local relevancy?** I already know the TLD (.com, .ca, etc) and likely the server IP address is used but there has to be more as this would not explain some search results I noticed this week. Particularly, I see a US-based site ranking #3 for some keywords on Google.com, ranking #5 on Google.ca and not ranking within the first pages on Google.co.uk. On Google.com it outranks a Australian site which outranks it on Google.ca. The site itself is relevant for all English-speaking locations and it being outranked by sites from different regions on different Google TLDs (but not ones from the same region as the TLD).


title: Google Apps and Google Reader - Third level domain

text: I'd like to point a third level domain (eg. reader.mydomain.com) to google reader just like mail.mydomain.com points to gmail. Is it possibile, and if yes, how would I do it? Thanks in advance.


title: When is a URL encoded?

text: When there are spaces in a URL like               http://example.com/this is not url enocoded      it is obvious, that the URL will end up as               http://example.com/this%20is%20not%20url%20encoded      When and what will encode my URL?   * Should links that I create to my URL be encoded in my HTML documents?   * Does the browser do the encoding?   * Does the server do the encoding?


title: Hosting for international audience

text: Is it a better option to host a web portal in the US if my target audience is likely to be international or cross-continent? Likewise, if I were to target region specific audience, I should find hosting that is located in the region? BTW, how do I find out where the servers of the web hosting companies are located physically (given the question that I am raising here)? Thanks in advance


title: Why isn't a newly purchased domain showing up in Google searches?

text: The domain ... `http://trello.com` ... was purchased a few months ago and is now live as of a week or so ago -- and has been linked from several prominent places on the web -- but searching for the word `trello` produces absolutely no results from `http://trello.com` in Google whatsoever. We know that most of the pages are being indexed by google, for two reasons:   1. Google Webmaster Tools says the site is fine   2. If you do a search including site:trello.com in the search terms, plenty of pages come up Is it because most of the page content on the site is generated on the fly via JavaScript, or because there needs to be some kind of special support for the googlebot agent? We're at a loss to explain why this is happening.


title: Migrate a ASP.NET web service from http to https. How to create a SSL certificate that works in test environment on IIS 7.5?

text: I have a question regarding a web service, `http` and `https`. First of all, there is a quite similar question with an accepted answer on StackOverflow. Like the questioner on SO, I have a simple working `http://` web service. Now, my company wants to go to `https://` for security reasons. The accepted answer on SO states that > "You will need to change the config file in any client applications that > consume your service to the new URL. > > Your web service application should not require any changes. IIS will handle > the transport encryption with the SSL certificate." I am very new to SSL (and `https`) an want to verify this in my isolated test environment (Windows Server 2008 R2 + IIS 7.5 + WLAN) before I deploy anything to production. My server application is a **ASP.NET web service** , my consumers are both **Android** and **iOS** clients.I need to create a "valid" test certificate that works with both server and clients. I have tried to "Create Self-Signed Certificate" in IIS and bind it to the current site but I have not got it to work. How can I create a "valid" test certificate for my isolated experimental environment?


title: How to make "crawl-delay" works for all "user-agent" in robots.txt or in .htaccess?

text: I have this line: > Crawl-delay: 50 in the _robots.txt_ file at the root of my website. But it seems that it is not working at all. I get 400 visits from the Yandex user agent in a few minutes. I don't want to disable the user agent but to make it to respect the delay value (50 in my situation). How to make "crawl-delay" works for all "user-agent" in _robots.txt_? I also read somewhere that this can be done in _.htaccess_ , is this correct?


title: Where can I share my Online Project to get some feedback?

text: Currently I'am developing a free online seo check tool script. But I need some feedback, I have seen sourceforge, but sourceforge is more for software and the site looks a little bit old to me. I would like to have my own project page, where I can post the project url and all the information. (like a forum maybe?) I know SitePoint.


title: Benchmark for website speed optimization

text: I working on website speed optimization. I mostly used 3 tools for analyzing speed of optimization. Speed analyzing Tools:   * Google pagespeed tool   * Yslow Firefox extenstion   * Web Page Performance Test I am measuring performance using above tool and benchmark result as below like before and after. **Before optimization :**   * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 53/100   * Web Page Performance Test : 55/100 (First View : 10.710s, Repeat view : 6.387s )   * Yahoo Overall performance score : 68 **Stage 1 After optimization :**   * Google PageSpeed Insights score : 88/100   * Web Page Performance Test : 88/100 (First View : 6.733s, Repeat view : 1.908s )   * Yahoo Overall performance score : 80 **My question is ?**   * Am i doing correct way ?   * What is the best way of benchmark for speed optimization ?   * Is there any standard ?   * Is there any much better tool for analyzing speed ?


title: Analytics and AdSense Integration

text: I tried to link my Analytics and AdSense accounts. But there exist a problem. Analytics redirects me to AdSense account and AdSense is redirects me to Analytics. And this is unlimited loop. On this AdSense screen I couldn't find link account button. What is the problem? Do you have any idea? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/UE4cl.png)


title: How can I recover my site's search engine ranking after another site copied my content?

text: A few days ago I noticed that I lost half the traffic for my website overnight. Investigation showed that someone had made a perfect clone of my website (more info here), and that Google in its infinite wisdom had decided that my site is no longer relevant and replaced my site with the clone site on the first page of its search results! I filed a DCMA complaint, and the offending site was delisted from search results a few days later. However, I'm no longer on the front page of Google. In fact, for my main keywords, my main site is no longer in the search results at all. One of my "long tail" pages shows up on the 2nd or 3rd page, but the main homepage no longer shows up. Will this be resolved in time, or is there something else I need to do about it? EDIT: In response to the query of "maybe you just lost ranking for some other reason": I figured out that the clone is implemented as a a proxy so I can see its traffic as well. My site's traffic dropped the exact same day the clone started getting traffic, i.e. when it started showing up in Google's search results. The question of "Why was this site even listed by Google" is a very valid question, and it would seem that Google is not so clever as they say they are, but that seems off-topic. At the moment I'm just trying to get my old position back.


title: Using AdSense to show ads to logged-in users

text: I know that you can grant authorization permissions to Google AdSense so that it can 'log in' and see what other logged in users can see (e.g. in a private forum), so that the ads it displays are better targetted. Extending this principle further: I am making a site which will show completely different content for each individual user (i.e. _not_ 'common' content like a forum in which everybody sees essentially the same thing). You could think of this content as similar to the way each Facebook user has a different news feed, but it is the 'same' page. Complicating things further, the URLs for this site will be simple, e.g. '/home' and '/somepage', and will _not_ usually include unique identifiers to differentiate between users (e.g. '/home?user=32i42'). **My questions are:**   * Is creating an account purely for AdSense to log in to the site with worth it in this case, seeing as it will be seeing it's own 'personalized' version and not any other user's?   * More importantly: is that against the Google AdSense Terms of Service? (I can't seem to figure that one out)   * How would you go about this problem?


title: Azure Publishing

text: I have recently begun using Azure for hosting our site. I have the publish from Visual Studio 2010 setup and working. However, it seems to take down the instances and reinitialize. The problem is that it takes up to 20 minutes to publish even the smallest of changes and the server settings are reverted. Maybe I am misunderstanding how to do this efficiently. What I want is a way to publish just application updates via VS2010. Thanks


title: What emails should I create for a web services company?

text: I am building a software and web services company and want to create different email account to use them in contacting my team, customers "which i do for them websites for example", users of the company website, jobs, .... I want to know what are emails you recommend to create and the use of each. _note: I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, so if not, please help me where to ask such questions._


title: Facebook Like button warning, but prevents sharing

text: I added a FB Like button to my Wordpress template, and when I click Like, I receive an error, which pops up and says: There was an error liking the page. If you are the page owner, please try running your page through the linter on the Facebook devsite (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/) and fixing any errors. The Lint Checker (now) gives no Error or Warnings, after I removed a duplicate og:description tag. Why is it not working?


title: Is adsense banning websites that have chat?

text: Based on this discussion it seems that Chat sites are no longer allowed to host adsense adverts. I have a website that is predominantly content, but chat is still a very important part of my site. I'd love to be able to keep it and still earn money. **QUESTIONS**   * Can anyone confirm that adsense is not allowed on sites that have chat?    * If it is partly true, what is compliant with the adsense TOS and what is not? For instance, is having a chat page with no advertising on that chat page ok?   * What adsense alternatives are there that **allow a website to advertise and to have chat scripts**?


title: Back link not showing

text: For this website http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/, there is a link from here http://atva10.comp.nus.edu.sg/assocEvents.html but when searching in Google.               link:http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/      It does not show up that page, what's the problem? (The link has been there at least 2 years)


title: Why do porn websites link to my site?

text: I have a webiste about Bolivia and theirs destinations. This project is hosted on GoDaddy and have been modified by many differents teams... I do not understand why sometimes the most relevant querries are 'perfectgirls.net' and other words relative to porn ? Why some porn website have some links to my site ? I just present beautifull places, nothing about porn.. I think that this is automatic bot crawlink the web, isn t it ?


title: What options are there for integrating with payment gateways?

text: It seems that there are only two types of payment gateway service out there at the moment; Either that the entire cart logic is handled offsite (with something like Paypal's Standard option) or the other option being that you need to go through the certification for handling credit card numbers and doing pretty much everything yourself. Ideally, for the project I'm working on, I'm after a bit of middle ground such that I can handle the cart on-site, and only pass over to a payment gateway (with an order amount, billing & delivery details, and order ref) for them to handle the card details, before passing back. I'm sure that I've used e-commerce sites using this pattern before, but I cannot find any payment providers out there that offer this sort of option, so are there any? The only over requirement we have at present is that it must accept orders in Sterling.


title: Suggestions on Website Development

text: I am a novice programmer in Website development. Just to get some experience, I am interested to try the following things:   * Have my own personal website   * Build some Ruby on Rails project for Web Development   * Run some PHP scripts as well   * Would want to have Subversion installed on the Server   * Would like to install either a Continuous Integration Server (CruiseControl.Net or CruiseControl.rb)   * Create a blog in my website (I want to get some hands on experience on this, and thus would not want to go for WordPress, or any CMSLite ready made Blog installers)   * In order to create a blog, I would probably need database instances running (SQL Server or any other)   * In future, I may even want to create a forum type of thing for my website, where users can read and post stuff in it.   * If the above thing works good, I might want to try building a small Social-Networking site   * Would also want to have a email service (Heard that Gmail can be integrated to our Website, not sure how it works) I have never done any web development before, except for creating some trivial HTML/CSS pages. In order to achieve the above tasks, please advise me on the following:   * Does a .com domain name makes more sense? (I was trying for a name, but the .com version of it was already taken. I only have `myname.me` version of it). Is it okay to go for domain.me? Does it make any difference?   * Which Web Hosting do you want me to go for? I was amazed to see several types of services:     * Regular Web hosting     * Reseller Hosting     * VPS Hosting     * Hosting on the cloud (Such as Amazon EC2) Now, I am tempted to go for either VPS hosting or Amazon EC2. Who would not want to have a dedicated processor and memory? (But, I am not sure, if I really need it for my usage) But, this comes for some price! I am ready to pay 15-20$ per month for this. If there is any web hosting provider who can provide me with all the above mentioned support for less than 10$, I am ready to sacrifice having a VPS.   * I would be glad if I get SSH feature. I do not need more than 1-2 GB RAM and 5-10 GB Secondary Storage. Dual core processor is okay too. Please help me with this. Also, please let me know if there are any services that are cheap and reliable for me to do the above things. Thanks in advance.


title: How do I add a favicon to my website?

text: What markup is the modern standard for adding a favicon to my site? What is the standard image format and size?


title: Multi language switch links translated or in current language?

text: Should I do:   A: translate the language links in the current language: (if I am on the English version)               English |      Italian |      French      B: the links in the native languages:               English |      Italiano |      Français      From a user perspective option B is obvious, but what about SEO?


title: Can you host Magento on Heroku?

text: I have Magento running on Heroku but the DB is on Dreamhost (because Heroku doesn't host mySQL). I get a Database connection error from Magento whenever I try to connect. Anyone ever done this?


title: How to start using webserver for business

text: As a software developer I want to start my own business and I have a question for web services. Through years I was using a lot of shared hosting services, but now I need some detailed info as I haven't thought about the web server configuration so far because everything was set for me already. As a fresh starter what do I exactly need to host my custumers web sites? More then one website...   Do I need dedicated server? Can you give me some links?   How many domains can I have on my server?   Can I create emails from cpanels normally for each customer?   Can I install e-commerce services on my server? What do I need for that?   How can I buy domains as a company for my customers? Do you recommend my own server or the rented one for the start? Any information is appreciated Thank you


title: Server responding to request differnetly

text: ![Local Host](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WBLa6.png) I believe as above hosted locally , the long green delay is actually the home page of the website. May i know what causes those delay? Magento is a very CPU intense monster, is it due to the fact that its waiting for the server to respond due to lack of cpu power? I did load test on different website before to study how server works, as i'm new to server hosting and optimizing. I personally use amazon and i understand amazon has their limit, i tested my server stress test and it would react in 0.5 seconds with 30 concurrent users, Micro instance, apache, varnish , compressed js and img, images from S3(CDN) and the load time only shoots up from 0.5 seconds to 1min ! at 31st concurrent user. Why does the shoot happens? It feels like it cannot take users when its stressed. Where as the other site that i tested , the image above is one example , no matter how stress it is , from 20-50+ users, its load time is 1min(from overseas connection) locally i tested its 30 seconds. I did check on other website too, some are hosted on share hosting, and they are able to take stress and function when its overloaded. It just react in 1min, for my case, amazon, it can even hit 3-4 mins when its stressed. May i know how do i have this "Maxinum load time no matter how stress it is, not NO Matter but to a larger extend" What should i be looking at. *PS if i increase my Micro instance to Small instance, it can take only an additional 10 concurrent users, which isnt a big difference but when it come to cost, its a hell lots of a difference. Any other knowledge would be totally appreciative, i'm here to learn and to help in future. Thank you for this platform. Regards, Jonathan


title: Are MX records independent of A records?

text: I recently switched a domain's email service to Google. The only records I changed in the name server was the MX records, pointing to Google. To my surprise, emails sent to and from Google Apps work just fine. So is there a point in changing the A, CNAME, and other records in the name server for a domain if the only use of the domain is email?


title: What's the difference between Second Page and Next Page Path?

text: What's the difference between Second Page and Next Page Path for a Landing Page? **Edit1** I'm not able to upload attachments yet so I uploaded two screenshots here:   ![pic](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8Qhlg.png) ![pic](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rwtQB.png) I go to "Site Content->Landing Page" and select "Second Page" and "Next Page Path" as secondary dimension respectively.   I'm a little confused about the results... You can see that we get a lot of results with "Second Page" as secondary dimension, but only one result using "Next Page Path" as secondary dimension.   So what's the difference between the two? What I actually want to get is: I give a customized visit flow/path to GA (PageA->PageB->PageC), and GA tells me how many visitors follow this route.


title: Set of icons available to download freely

text: I need to use icons in my website. It has facility to add, edit, search, review etc. So I need to use Icons for the same. I tried googling but not getting it as expected. Can someone help me to get a set of Icon (free, not paid) for all basic functionality for dynamic website.


title: Is it ok to include sitemap URL in sitemap.xml

text: Does it have sense to include sitemap URL into sitemap? It is pointing to itself and in SEO perspective it's no use because if crawler is on our sitemap he already knows it, no need to inform it, right?               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>     <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">              <url>             <loc>http://example.com/sitemap.xml</loc>             <lastmod>2014-03-22</lastmod>         </url>     </urlset>


title: What are the chances a domain doesn't get renewed?

text: All registrars have the "backorder" thing, so they will register the domain for you if the owner doesn't renew. I was wondering how many of the total registered domains get renewed? Are there some statistics about this?


title: Is it a bad idea to register domains

text: ...with the same registrar? Should I register each domain with a different registrar? Like `domain.com` on godaddy, `domain.org` on name.com etc. So in case one registrar steals your domain, you still have the other domains


title: Can SSL Wildcards have multiple/nested levels of wildcard?

text: I know that an SSL wildcard certificate (`*.example.org`) can be used to support many names under the domain (`a.example.org`, `b.example.org`, `c.example.org`). I also know that the * is only good for matching a single level of name. That is, `*.example.org` will not work on `a.b.example.org`. What if I used a certificate with the name _._.example.org? I'd like to build a certificate with the following name configuration:               CN=example.org     subjectAltName=DNS:example.org, DNS:*.example.org, DNS:*.*.example.org, DNS:*.*.*.example.org      I've tried building a few like this as self-signed certificates, but I've not had good results. For example, chrome tells me "Server's certificate does not match the URL." Is it possible to have nested wildcards in a certificate, or do the popular browsers not support this? **edit** I believe it's possible to build a cert like this: I've done so with OpenSSL. It just looks like browsers understand it. I was hoping for confirmation of that, or if I'm lucky, a "here's how you do it."


title: How to display an image in google search result

text: I managed to do it with my blog like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/cSXoi.png) by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):               <link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>      **UPDATE:** This is the way to display the "author" image, but what I want to do is display something like "product image", for example, for a food-blog, I'd like each recipe (post) to display the dish-image next to the search result. I've got the feeling that there's a more generic way of doing it which doesn't rely on having a Google+ account. Any ideas ? **UPDATE 2:** I added an example to what I meant in the answers section.


title: Google does not find/ignore alternate hreflang content

text: I have a problem with Google indexing our site in different languages using the alternate hreflang. It's a forum and every thread is translated in the background and based on the language, the user choose in his options, the original text is replaced by the one in the right language. So every User can write in his own language and the other users can still read it (somehow - I know it's not the best solution, but it was not my idea :D ) So - now we have the forum in many languages and of course we want the users form every language to find us via google. So i created some php-files, which get the right language by php and not by javascript. So the head in the original file looks like this:               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=de"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=en"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=fr"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="myurl/printthread.php?t=2967&lang=es"/>      On this pages the language is shown in the right language based on the url not on the users choice so that google can index it. But you guess it - For some reason it does not work. Google only saves the content from the original file - not the alternate files for the different languages :( You have any idea?


title: use subdomain on different host

text: I want to accomplish something that I thought was simple. My wish is as follows: I have a domainname with hosting, a WordPress multisite (with subfolder setup) installed and running: gangleri.nl. I have another domain _at another host and without hosting_ : monas.nl I created a subdomain on gangleri.nl: monas.gangleri.nl and the domain redirects to that subdomain. Now what I want is to have monas.nl act like a website, not a website in a subdomain. I would like to have post urls as in monas.nl/posttitle. I first thought to do this with the DNS settings of Monas.nl. I now have an URL forward, CURL is not what I want and I did not manage to get A-records or CNAMEs to work. I tried using the htaccess file of the WP installation in monas.gangleri.nl. I tried 301, rewrite and whatnot, but also without success. Meanwhile, I have been reading so much that I no longer have a clue what to do. A-record doesn't sound probable, since I have no IP for the subdomain, so an A-record would point to gangleri.nl rather than using the subdomain. Also I have no idea if I should do something in the DNS settings of gangleri.nl or monas.nl, both, one of them and something somewhere else. I have the idea that I've tried everything, but the more I try and read about it, the less I can get my head around. People talking about A-records to subdomains while I can only use IPs, CNAME settings that my host doesn't support or something. Could somebody tell me if what I want is possible and if so, take me by the hand and guide me through it?


title: View traffic source on Google Analytics?

text: I noticed there was a sudden spike in traffic in my Google Analytics. Is there a way to possibly identify where the traffic was from? It only happened on a specific date though.


title: Maximum file size for iFrame in IE7

text: I've got a "super secure" javascript downloader* that I wrote, and it usually works alright. But I noticed, while trying to download a 90 meg file with it on a client's machine that on IE7, it's getting hung up about 1/3rd of the way through. I've never tried to send a file that large through the iFrame and it works fine in other browsers. Is there a size restriction on files that IE7 can read in an iFrame? * It's really just a PHP line that sets header("location: http://someplace/downloadbigthing.exe"); after it does some logging and verification.


title: CSS sprite, what html tag to use

text: I am thinking to switch to CSS Sprite for my images. The main problem is I need something compatible with alt attribute. (Seo-purpouse) What Can I use? The first think I thought was to use a standard `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite">` The problem is I can't use that because that would like suspicous by google because of this: `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite" alt="my keyword1">` `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite" alt="my keyword2">` `<img src="1x1.gif" class="mysprite" alt="my keyword3">` (the same image "1x1.gif" with different alt text) How we can solve this?


title: 301 redirect and page ranking

text: Say I have a site 123example.com, with roughly 100 backlinks, which has increased from a google page 27 to page 12 for my keywords over the last month and continues toward the top 10... I have another domain 123.com, which has roughly 30 backlinks, that just points to the 1st domain. I would like to use 123.com as the primary domain and use a 301 redirect on 123example.com. Would I have to start my link building back over again for 123.com or will the backlinks and PR with the 301 redirect of 123example.com transfer over to the new domain?


title: SEO impact of links without href

text: I have some links on my site that are used only with JavaScript, hence they don't need a `href` attribute. I'm doing so because there's no need to have the URL displayed in the browser. Is there any SEO impact of doing this? I can also use `href="#"`, but I'm not sure it's better. Or should I use another tag entirely? What are the best practices?