title: Did anyone experience negative SERP movement after implementing rel=author?

text: I am not intrested in why I don't see the picture in SERPs. So I know this is borderline off-limits but I turned every stone in the web (including DDgo) trying to find anybody experiencing a worse position in SERPs after implementing `rel=author` tags. In Google Webmaster Tools: ![google webmaster tools snippet](http://i.stack.imgur.com/c2xG1.gif) Everything seems fine but the first results dropped 14 places in SERPs in the past two days. The original landing page went down from first page to 5th page in a few days. It is a useful site with original content concerning marriage laws. This specific page is no where to be found and now the first result leads to the home page. Assuming everything else is the same with no changes made to the site at all is there a reason the `rel=author` tag will cause such a plummet? Additional info that might be useful:   * The google+ account is as dead as a palm pilot.


title: I need to change hosting for multiple domains, what should I consider?

text: I work at a small web developer company which primarily works with Joomla!. We need to switch from one hosting to another. What should I think about? Copy all sites via FTP Copy all Databases (export, create new, import) Mail... We use smartmail at the moment and are gonna use ubuntu with Plesk-panel. This is the part I'm most worried about. How should i migrate all mailaccounts?


title: Creating temp/fake URLs for user generated content

text: I'm working on a site that hosts classified listings. I'm currently using hash/query params and Ajax to display content. Example: `www.site.com/viewpost?id=34089` We are now interested in making unique URLs with more info for SEO. Example: `www.site.com/title/category/stuff/info-0037843.htm` How do I go about getting from example 1 to example 2? Are these URLs actual pages on the server? Or is there some rewrite trick to pull this off? I've seen this done on several other sites, but I'm not aware of how it's done. The site is on a shared hosting environment with a LAMP setup.


title: Looking for new placement on poor performing ads

text: I don't know if this is an acceptable question in this forum. But, I'm seeking advice on better ad placement for a site. I have a site that's averaging 2000 unique visitors a day right now. It's not getting a good CTR at all. You can see the add placement here Hollywoodnose.com. I'd put a screenshot but you need higher rep. points. As you can see I have the 3 main ads. I've tried a bunch of layouts. The right rectangle seems a little shoved in the users face. But, I've put it at the bottom too with a comparable CTR. Any suggestions on how to improve the ad placement? Thank you.


title: 2 Google Tag Manager containers = double triggers?

text: I have a Joomla website with existing analytics done by a GTM tag and I need to add another image tag (1x1 pixel) from a separate GTM container. I set the event name for the additional GTM container to a different name from from the existing GTM container (default 'gtm.js') so that the new tag only fires under the specified event. The new container tested out fine in a blank HTML page, but when it is put in the website, it ends up firing twice. I know that because Firebug showed 2 1x1 pixels being loaded and I mark each request with a randomly-generated UID to distinguish them on the server side. I suspect this being caused by having multiple GTM container tags but want to check whether anyone has run into this problem before? As of now, I could not verify nor fix the double counting problem.


title: How to add a holding page in front of a domain

text: I have set up a holding page to announce a new version of a website coming soon. I wanted people to still be able to access the original site, so my approach was to place the holding page in the root folder on the server, and move the original site to a subfolder and link to it from the holding page. However, on testing this setup it appears to have hurt the SEO placing of the website. Is there a better approach to this? I'm a bit stumped as I want both to share the same URL.


title: how to fix bad seo after being hacked

text: About a year ago my wordpress website was hacked & some company decided to go nuts and actually do some "SEO" on the various links it created. Some of the pages would show up on google as "payday cash advance" instead of "portfolio". The issue has been resolved, but now as I've been doing GOOD seo, I've noticed (when checking backlinks) that there are TONS of links still on the internet (mostly broken sites now) that have links to my website with titles like: "get a loan today" and so on. Is there a way to remove these links ? Can I tell google to ignore them ? Help !


title: Displaying pages that rely on iframes in crawler friendly way

text: **THE PREAMBLE** I've created a site which re-displays the text of new legislation screen scraped from multiple pages on the UK Parliament website, which are then joined together and tweaked to make them more readable and to allow people to comment and vote on each Bill. It displays information about each Bill before Parliament on it's own page: http://public-scrutiny-office.org/bills/2013-2014/offender-rehabilitation The actual content of the each Bill page is an iframe, with a URL like this: http://public-scrutiny-office.org/bills/2013-2014/offender- rehabilitation/content Note: The latter URL will redirect to the former URL with JS if it detects it's not in an iframe - this is an attempt to deal with bill pages being index by search engines (I intentionally don't want crawlers to ignore them, at least not for now, because it's the only way they can get indexed right now). I had to start using an iframe like this because of the way the original content is formatted (using html tidy routines doesn't help, see notes below). Raw Bill HTML is just sometimes just so mangled that it otherwise breaks the page it's in. **THE PROBLEM** The problem with having the main content in an iframe like this is it's lousy for SEO, which means people searching for a bill aren't going to be as likely to find it (except in their raw form on the official Parliament site, where they are almost unreadable). **THE QUESTION** How I can play nicely with search engines- particularly Google - and get them to index the contents of Bills, while having that content in an iframe, in way that search engines approve of? I'm thinking of stuff like canonicalization, how I should structure a Sitemap file, what meta data is actually useful, etc. Displaying different content to search engines seems to be a no-no, even with honest motives - they don't really allow for corner cases like this. Note the Bill Name and Description and not visible in the iframe URL, which is another hurdle to good indexing (though not indexing the description isn't a huge loss, but the title is pretty important). Ultimately, I just want search engines to index the text of the page as users will see it, but I can't see a way to do that when I have to deal with broken HTML I need to contain in an iframe and if I'm not allowed to show different content to crawlers. I'm really not up on canonicalization in this context. Should I have just one URL for both version of the page and reply on using a query parameter and some JavaScript hackery to re-render the page, for example (blergh!)? PS: You may wish to read the notes before venturing to point out why this is a bad idea and how I'm doing it all wrong. This is a project for the public good, is open source and on GitHub - so if you think there is a better way to do this, please feel free to fork it. To address some inevitable questions:   * Yes, re-displaying content this way is explicitly permitted by Parliament.   * No there are no API's to get it in a better format. There are PDFs but for complicated reasons I don't want to go into, even amazing PDF parsers fail at parsing them well. tl;dr version: It's to do with how bills are marked up - at least in the HTML metadata added to them is marked up with classes so it's easy to find and hide/remove. Doing that with the PDFs would mean creating a custom PDF parser, which isn't going to happen.   * The HTML is sometimes very broken and I've tried using several different parsing engines to fix it but it's too broken for them to be able to work out how to "correct it" (webkit, gecko & trident all fail that too), which is why it's in an iframe.   * Yes, I could convert it to plain text and back into HTML again, but then I'd lose tabular info and which some bills don't make sense without.   * Yes, it's possible for Parliament to punk me and commit an XSS attack, but no that's not really a concern here (not even if the Parliament site itself was to be hacked; you can't even log into public-scrutiny-office.org).


title: Changing title (H1) of page- is it necessary to change URL?

text: I am planning to update content on an already performing page and expand the content on page. In order to accommodate the extra content, updating the title of the page is necessary and I think could help the SERP of the page. The question is around updating the URL as well, which would require a 301. The URL is constructed: http://www.domain.com/title How important is it to update the URL to reflect the new title of the page?


title: Setting Up CDN...beginner questions

text: I am using MediaTemple web hosting and they are using Edgecast's CDN network. I am planning to join CDN service, so I read through the guide, but I am confused about the 'Update your code' section: Does the CDN apply to my website automatically (without editing HTML) after I updated the DNS zone file? How can I control which files going through the CDN or not? Also, I need to make sure it won't affect the Google Analytics results.


title: The Joomla 'create a template' tutorial

text: I've recently downloaded Joomla using an instant download option, and now I'm looking to create my own templates. I went to http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla15/joomla_create_template.htm and am trying to follow the tutorial but I've failed at the first hurdle... where it says: > First, open the "templates" directory in your Joomla installation. Then > create a subfolder in it named "tutorial_template". All the files of your > template will reside in it. The problem is I have no clue how to do this, where is the directory to start with? The only thing I know how to get up is the administrator's screen, in which I have to choose one of the stock templates, which would be great if I didn't care about my own designs...but obviously I'm looking to have my own HTML and CSS coding used instead. How do I find where the folders are and how do I open them?


title: SEO ranking when copying content from other website with permissions

text: I have a website which I started recently, with this website I have partnered with many other websites who have agreed to let me copy and use thier content on my site for link exchange. So in this manner in a very short time I have some really good content of various topics on my site. Now my concern is, since I have copied the content from other sites (but by properly asking their permissions) Will this affect my Google page ranking? Can some one please explain me how this works?


title: Save web page results in blank page

text: I tried to save my webpage "save as Webpage, HTML only" generated by php file. But when I save it and open it, it is blank. When I save it as "complete" then it is fine. Page is pure html/css after generating with php. Everything from css to javascript is included into that page, none of it is called outside


title: HTML (4.01) "lang" attribute: Best practice / Browser compat for where to place: HTML or BODY?

text: I'm just creating a new site from scratch. Each page in that site will have a default language and I'd like the markup to reflect it because there will be multiple languages. I'm using HTML 4.01 and I'm targetting older browsers as well (e.g. IE 6, Opera 8, Lynx etc.). Regarding Cross-Browser compatibility as well as of "best practices" where to place the lang attribute: To the HTML tag or to the BODY tag or does this make no difference at all? I'm going towards the BODY tag as it contains all the default languages text, while the HEAD might not always. But I have no clue if any browser is taking care of the lang attribute anyway. Any hints? (or is this a question for http://doctype.com/ ?)


title: How to handle different images size and URL with SEO

text: I'm creating my own CMS, and I have to handle images with differentes sizes. I store all my image's information in a database. For every image, I have:   * a filename (with extension)   * a title   * an alt attribute   * dimensions Images can be used in different ways:   * cropped   * tiled   * exact dimensions   * only one dimension (for example: 200px height and auto width) Right now, my URL to this images looks like this:               http://example.com/uploads/{id}/{mode}/{size_x}-{size_y}/{filename}.{ext}      A real example:               http://example.com/uploads/tile/24/200-200/my-picture.png     http://example.com/uploads/crop/24/200-200/my-picture.png      The URL is quite long. But I need all the informations provided in it. Is it a problem for SEO? What are the solutions to optimize SEO for multiple- sized images? **Edit:** removed canonical link informations


title: Does a semicolon DNS record serve any purpose?

text: I'm helping my boss clean up our DNS records on Verizon and neither one of us is sure what to make of these. There are a couple records that consist solely of a semicolon. No record type, no address, no anything--it's just a semicolon. Do these serve any purpose, or can we just remove those records?


title: Are there any disadvantages to Cloudflare’s “Flexible SSL”?

text: Cloudflare let you serve your site over SSL without having to purchase and install a security certificate, a product they call “Flexible SSL”. (They act as a proxy and serve your site over SSL from their servers, while the connection from your server to their’s remains unencrypted.) They currently offer Flexible SSL for paid accounts that start at $20/month, but they plan to make it free for everyone by mid-October 2014. With Google's recent announcement that HTTPS is now a ranking signal, I'm considering switching several sites to Cloudflare, buying a Pro account, and turning on their “Flexible SSL” option, because it seems like the easiest way to serve several sites over HTTPS without having to purchase and manage multiple certificates. **Is there any downside to Cloudflare's Flexible SSL?** I'm comfortable using Cloudflare as a proxy – I'm more interested in two factors:   1. The experience for end-users. (e.g. Will visitors see security warnings?)   2. The level of security offered. (Presumably enough for a simple blog, but not for an online shop because they'd pass credit card data from their server to yours unencrypted? Or am I misinterpreting?)


title: How to analyze exits in Google Analytics

text: I am trying to track what a visitor does immediately prior to exiting our website. Specifically I have a number of events that are being logged and I would like to know which one, if any, happened immediately prior to leaving the site. I can see that segments now have a 'sequence' option so I was wondering if there was a way to use this. I had a go at creating a segment that includes events of this type immediately followed by 'exits > 0' but this just seems to return every session that triggers one of these events. I assume it's looking for a values of exits > 0 rather than a change in the number of exits which is what I was hoping for. Is there any way of analyzing events preceding exits like this?


title: How to make an apDiv show up in same spot on all browsers

text: I'm pretty new to the whole webmaster stuff and am just trying to format a slideshow on my homepage to be in a certain area with an apDiv, but as soon as I use another browser it's in a different location. Is there a way to make them appear in the same spot for all browsers? Here's a screen shot: http://i.stack.imgur.com/sFNUS.jpg


title: PayPal buy now button to charge different amount depending on the country the user is from

text: Customers to my website who are from the USA need to pay more P&P then UK customers. How do I make a PayPal button which charges a different amount depending on the country the user is from?


title: Splitting blog and main site into two different webmaster and anlytics profiles - best practice?

text: We have a site running on a main domain http://lightandspace.co.uk (60 indexed pages), and a blog running under the subdomain http://blog.lightandspace.co.uk (250 indexed pages) I currently have them running under two Analytics profiles and two Webmaster profiles. Just so traffic figures don't get muddled, is this bad practice from an SEO point of view?


title: Does anyone know about some Flash or JS image gallery that allows multiple image selection simultaneously?

text: I need to show a list of image thumbnails, and the user should be able to select one or more images from this list and then the selected images should be "best fit" displayed. For example, with 3 selections a triangular presentation should be used, with 4 selections a square, and so on.


title: Is it possible to request Google and Bing/Yahoo to drop the cache of links they have indexed?

text: I radically changed the design of my site to not include embedded session keys which were part of the url itself i.e. /sessionkey/blahblah/blah to just /blahblah/blah. Now that I have relaunched my site. I am getting hammered with request for URLs which do not exist anymore. I am return 404 Not Found and 410 Gone to the crawlers, but is there anything easier than have them pounding on my server to get a bad response? I would use their remove feature but all of the session keys indexed were random strings. I would have no idea which session keys to specify. One thing I do know is all of the keys start with a number, I do not know if bots do regex on robots.txt? Thanks


title: Can Amazon Cloudfront files be served GZIP'd?

text: If i'm running a WordPress website with the W3TC plugin installed, and have my static CSS/JS minified files hosted on Amazon's CDN, is there a way to serve them GZIP'd? I have the basic understanding that you can't control the comrpession/header responses on files not hosted on your own server, but I'm using a CNAME and `.htaccess` should be ensuring the files are served compressed. Has anyone got experience with this or know how to ensure the files are served compressed? [Question has been asked on the WordPress support forum with the W3TC tag]


title: How to reverse engineer the SEO on a website?

text: I have read this question. My question is a bit different from it. I want to know how can I reverse engineer another website that is ranking the best for some keywords. For example some website called `www.bla.com` is there and it ranks high for many keywords and I want to learn from it how can my website be of the same authority and get the same ranking (or probably better ranking if I found something that they are missing). Can anyone enlist it as a procedure, how to **reverse engineer** a website?


title: Find Email from URL link

text: I have a url link of a company. I need to find all email address of this company. Which is the easy way to find their email address by using url.


title: changing the subdomain and SEO issue

text: because of "government filtering" in Iran, once in a while we have to move the whole site into a new subdomain. For example i create a new sub domain on my public_html : `http://01.mydomain.com` I know Google webmaster has a feature to change domain, but it doesn't work with sub domains. as you can guess, the site is still accessible with www sub domain, now what's the best way to make Google to show the search results with new sub domain ? because the WWW sub domain is blocked now! any opinion would be helpful.


title: I have a lot of images for my website. However, they all need to be cropped. Is there a way using graphics magick?

text: I have about 4000 images that need to be cropped. The task is rather simple really. They all have a white border that **_varies_** but is always between say 20 and 50 pixels. I want to use graphics magick to remove that white border from all the images. How?


title: Which keywords to choose for SEO?

text: I have recently started a site. it's not even 5 months old. The site's major content is images. When naming the images, I am using google's adword tool. I am able to see keywords with most and least searches, highest and lowest competition etc etc. But what I'm not sure of is how to choose amontg these keywords, the   * one's with most searches or the one's with least,   * one's with least competition or most   * one's with most approximate cpc or the opposite.  Do these criteria of choosing has to be changed when the site gets popular. Please explain in detail.


title: Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when making them

text: The website I am working on has a few hundred PDFs in it. I don't think I have ever seen any of them come back in a search but there are linked to directly from out site. They are also full of keywords because they are product documents. Is there anything special we need to do to get Google or other search engines to crawl them? Is there any hard and fast rules for making PDFs to help Google like them more? For instance should I run them through ghostscript to clean up broken PDF tags that Adobe creates during generation?


title: Should I post my PDF library for SEO?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do search engines crawl PDFs and if so are there any rules to follow when > making them When a Sales call comes in, the caller often says something like: 'I searched for 3 days before finding your product and it's exactly what I need!' That's telling me that I need some SEO work. We redid our website and streamlined it which removed many of our 'How-To' documents. Since those PDF documents contain words that people might search for, I was wondering if I could add a 'Complete library' link to the bottom of a page that will load up the entire PDF library. Would that help my ranking?


title: How do you hide file extension in URL?

text: I would like to drop the .aspx extension from my webpages. One reason is that I'm not sure I will stick to ASP.NET WebForms technology. How do you do it?


title: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www on Ubuntu 11.04

text: I am getting a 403 when i access `http://mayfieldafc.local/` upon looking in the Apache logs I am getting:               [Wed Nov 16 12:32:59 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www      I have what i believe to be the correct permissions set on /var/www. hutber can create and delete files, hutber being my user. I can also execute as program on this folder. In mayfields vhost its:               <Directory /var/www/mayfieldafc/docroot>          Options +FollowSymLinks              AllowOverride None              Order allow,deny              Allow from all          </Directory>      I am pulling my hair out not being able to work on my sites with my work Ubuntu install. I know of nothing else that could be effecting this. So any ideas?


title: Determine Websites IP Address

text: Do you know how we can find out the IP address of our website? Our web host is Dreamhost and our Domain is with PlanetDomain, we need PlanetDomain to create a `Record` with that IP address so people can access our website. Some important information:   * We use shared hosting on Dreamhost. I am aware this means we share both a server with other clients and maybe also IP addresses or have a dynamic IP address? Maybe we can still obtain our IP address or send some other information to PlanetDomain? **_Why dont we give PlanetDomain Dreamhost's name servers instead of the IP Address?_**   Because we have a unique setup for our emails that aren't stored/controled by the web host. They are separate, so if we change the name servers it will break our emails. **_Why dont we just move our emails over to Dreamhost?_**   Honestly the boss doesn't want to do it. He thinks its too much work. He's not a technical person and I am not educated in domain, email setups so I dont know if it is really so much work to change. PS: Does anyone know what the name is for the setup we have? The setup being that the emails are not stored/controlled through the web host but are separate?


title: How to prevent my site getting caught in Google's child porn filter?

text: After Google and Microsoft take steps to block Internet search results linked to child porn, one of my sites which was about kid's photography got blocked in many search results. Actually my site is 100% clean of any pornography and it's been blocked by mistake. The filtering takes into effect when there are keywords like `kid` or `boy` in the user's query. I've lost almost 100% of my Google traffic recently. A query like `site:mysite.com kid` would return no results but `site:mysite.com somethingelse` works fine. I've received no message in my Webmaster's tools account about it either. How can I get back my site up the search results again? My site is clean and it's Google mistake.


title: In Linux, which tools are free to use to make Web site mockups?

text: I am using Ubuntu/Fedora. Which available mock-up builders i can use before making a website? **Follow up:** > Adobe AIR for Linux is no longer supported. To access older, unsupported > versions, please read the AIR archive. Different operating system?


title: How do I create a subdomain for a site hosted by someone who does not allow it?

text: I want to create a subdomain for a site hosted by Jimdo (a DIY website builder). Jimdo does not allow subdomains however. I am trying to find a workaround where a subdomain is hosted elsewhere but everything else remains as it is. E.g. I use their email service and I want to keep it. The domain is not hosted by Jimdo, but by a host that allows me to edit my zones. It points to the Jimdo NS. I have independent hosting where I have NS information. This is where I want to host my subdomain. My thinking was that I could use ZoneEdit as a "fork" that allows me to keep using my Jimdo page like before and, at the same time, directs a subdomain to another host. Provided this is possible: **Question:** How do I configure ZoneEdit CNAME or NS records to forward visitors to my website and my email to my Jimdo mail account while pointing a subdomain to another host?


title: Does Google consider W3C validation errors of a website? If so why www.google.com has 23 Errors, 4 warning(s)

text: Some SEO analysts says that fixing W3C validation errors of a website is an important _On Page Optimization_ if so why `www.google.com` has 23 W3C validation errors, 4 warning(s)? Does Google consider those errors? ![Google W3C Validation Errors](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SzCNy.png)


title: Store files only on CloudFlare's server

text: Does CloudFlare act as a standalone cloud server, or does it only cache files that already exist on your server? Is MaxCDN the same?


title: How can I manage multiple AdWords accounts using the same login?

text: This is the situation. I have an AdWords account which I use with my own email address. My girlfriend has another which she uses with her email address. However I am managing her ads for her so I want to be able to log into her AdWords and manage her account using my email address. Annoyingly though when I gave myself admin access I was told I would need to use a new email address. Buutt... I used to work with an agency that managed my AdWords; and all I did was give them access and as far as I know they were just able to log in using their own email address. Has something changed with security recently for AdWords to allow (agents) to manage multiple clients AdWords from a single email?


title: vBulletin API - can I pull thread, users, etc from third-party forums?

text: I'm trying to setup a site where I can pull hot threads from different forums, similar to an RSS feed. I've looked at the vBulletin API (http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/content.php/367-API-Overview) but its not too helpful. I know services like Tapatalk are using a similar infrastructure but I'm not sure if its a closed system. Do forum owners configure their site to work with Tapatalk directly or is there an API Tapatalk is using for this?


title: Is it just me, or does Google's definition of "next" and "prev" contradict the W3's?

text: This is mostly an academic question. Suppose you have a book. Maybe something like the emacs manual. The book is divided into sections and subsections. Those sections have "next" and "previous" relationships with their adjacent sections, and I suppose that's what the W3 was talking about when they wrote about link types: > **Next**. Refers to the next document in a linear sequence of documents. > User agents may choose to preload the "next" document, to reduce the > perceived load time. So far so good. But nobody uses it that way. On the contrary, it seems that Google has redefined "next" and "prev" so that they mean essentially, "treat all these as one page." > Now, if you choose to include rel=”next” and rel=”prev” markup on the > component pages within a series, you’re giving Google a strong hint that > you’d like us to Consolidate indexing properties, such as links, from the > component pages/URLs to the series as a whole That's wonderful news for the good people whom expediency has driven to serve in pieces what is properly a single unit. But the W3 definition is so buried under this excitement about consolidated rankings, that as recently as September 16 of an unspecified year, some practitioners of SEO embraced it as a "new HTML element": > Now we can use a new HTML element known as rel=”next and rel=”prev”. So my takeaway is that one should _not_ use rel="next" and "prev" as the W3 describes, if your pages are pages for a reason. Is this correct?


title: How do Search Engines handle Singular vs. Plural?

text: In a site's main menu, one link points to the page containing a list of links to several software packages. By following this link in the main menu, the user's action can be seen from two different perspectives, either:   * find a list of **downloads** , or   * **download** the package she's looking for. My research so far helped understanding that the _singular_ and _plural_ version of the same keyword are two different entities in the eyes of a search engine. Yet after many SEO articles, I didn't find a clear choice among singular vs. plural. Some schools of thought recommend optimizing for both as the best solution, but I only need one as the hook for the link. What is the best decision in this case -- **download** vs. **downloads** -- and why?


title: Using hidden elements for rich snippets for products

text: I wanted to add rich snippets for my products pages. However, the information required in the elements are not particularly compatible with my current HTML. Is it ok to make the rich snippets all hidden display, so it doesn't effect my HTML?


title: Why do people drop off site after clicking “connect to facebook”?

text: After doing some analysis on my website, I learned that 29% of web users, and 33% of mobile users drop off AFTER they click "connect to facebook." So they click on connect and then go to FB, and dont login and we never see them again. I am trying to figure out why, and my guess is that we ask for too many permissions, or our mobile site is not displaying using the m.facebook, but using the regular FB site. Are there any other suggestions you guys may think why?


title: Where can I find some CMS usage statistics?

text: Does anyone know a place where I can find some usage statistics on different CMSs? Also, do folks actually believe the massive massive Drupal share given here? (Netcraft claimed that Drupal was the sixth largest PHP-based CMS about a year ago; wish I could find the top five.)


title: How to link messenger-usernames on a website?

text: I want to link usernames of instant-messengers (for example ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN, Skype,...) on my website. For Skype i might use `<a href="callto:username">Skype: username</a>` But what can/should I use for the other messengers?


title: Searching for acronym keywords in Google brings up full domain as first result

text: For years, I've had two domains (this is a ficticious example): `allbenchescatchdirt.com` and `abcd.com` They both do okay in terms of ranking for their keywords. However, I noticed something weird: If I search for " **abcd** ", the domain, `allbenchescatchdirt.com`, shows up as the first result and `abcd.com` shows up as second. I have a 301 redirect on `allbenchescatchdirt.com` and the _title_ tag of `abcd.com` is " **abcd** " and I've made sure that the keywords are placed accordingly in the content. I know it's difficult to provide information without knowing what the real domain is, but from a first glance, any idea why this is the case?


title: How can I tell when a custom name server is active?

text: I recently moved my website to a VPS solution and in doing so was instructed to set up two custom nameservers with my domain registrar: ns1.mydomainname.com and ns2.mydomainname.com I followed the instructions but I am not sure how to tell if they are actually active. I tried checking on http://www.whatsmydns.net/ and it resolves to the current IP for my active site. My point is to make sure the nameservers are 'live' before I make the switch. What is the recommended way to confirm a custom nameserver is valid? Thanks.


title: Things to consider before changing hosting server

text: I would like to know what things we should consider before changing our hosting server. i.e Suppose my source website is being hosted in specific IP of other people/provider. I do have username and password to access its cpanel. I would like to transfer it to my own hosting server with a different IP. I have a username and password to access that cpanel too. **Now what are the things to be consider before changing the hosting server?**


title: Can a CMS be installed in a central location to be used by multiple sites?

text: These days I have to develop a lot of websites where each is based on a certain CMS, ie. Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. Instead of always copying the files of each CMS to my project folder, is it possible to have a kind of lib for each CMS and only link to one of them from within my project folder? So the following setup:               ~/lib/         |---wordpress         |---drupal         +---joomla          ~/projects/         |---project1         |---project2         .         .         .         +---projectN      What I would like to do is create a structure of symbolic links (or something similar) in each `project` folder, so that `http://localhost/projectN` uses all the files of one of the cms located in the `~lib/<nameofcms>/` folder. I have already created something like this with the following command:               ln -Ab ~/lib/wordpress | xargs -n 1 -I {} ln -s ~/lib/wordpress/{} {}      from within one of the projects folders. That actually worked, but when I tried to »override« the configuration file (in case of wordpress it is the wp- config.php), by replacing the link with a »real« file, it did not work anymore because this very file could not be found any more. That happened because PHP resolved the symbolic links and so it was looking for:               ~/lib/wordpress/wp-config.php      instead of:               ~/projects/projectN/wp-config.php      Is it possible to create such a linked project structure that works on my local machine? If so, what do I have to do?


title: Starting from scratch xxx.yyy.com or www.xxxyyy.com (any SEO difference?)

text: I know there are lots of answers both here (e.g. this and this) and elsewhere which deal with subdomains and their impact on SEO. However, often the questioners are either asking about subdomain versus subdirectories, or they have an existing well trafficked main domain and are asking how introducing a subdomain will impact their existing site. Our question is simpler than that. If we are starting a website from scratch today, and we're worried about ranking well in SERPs for two keywords **xxx** and **yyy** , is there any disadvantage to using a subdomain as in:               xxx.yyy.com      versus               xxxyyy.com


title: How much traffic isn't reported by Google Analytics?

text: We keep finding inconsistencies between data in Analytics and the reports we get from other sources. In general, we notice about 40% less pageviews in Analytics than elsewhere:   * Correlating number of new accounts and number of views of the registration page.   * Comparing the pageviews on a subset of static page with the AWstats reports.   * Goals in our Analytics and reports from a partner tracking incoming links. The differences are not negligible. More than 40% difference can't be just due to users with disabled JS or to JS errors. Or can it? How to find out our rate of “lost” visits, visitors or hits? What is the industry accepted rate of lost traffic?


title: Is it a bad idea to seed a UGC site with duplicate content?

text: In order to get the ball rolling, make it look like it isn't a ghost town etc. I've been offered a license to some pretty good content for my Q&A site, but it would be duplicate. Where is the line drawn between high quality but duplicate content that makes the site look active, and dropping in the search engine rankings as a result? I'm presuming it's not wholly inadvisable to do this.


title: How to tell the world that I'm not an spammer?

text: In this question, I just found out that my website address has been reported as spam, by services like Akismet. However, I'm not really an spammer. I'm a web developer, and I'm not selling any product to advertise for. I tended to post "thank you" messages, but I'm not gonna send them even more. How should I inform the world that I'm not an spammer? How to return my name back to white list, instead of being on black list? Honestly, no site accepts my comments (which are truly relevant and link-free and ad-free). This bothers me a lot. I'm just so lost here. Please help.


title: RSS feeds and robots.txt

text: I have RSS feeds on my site. I've decided to follow Stack Exchange and disallow my RSS feeds in the _robots.txt_. I don't want search engine to display the RSS feed page to people, that's not really a good page to see for new visitors. Are there any advantage to allow search engine to crawl the RSS? Or is it a general good idea to disallow it?


title: AdSense blocking by category: the numbers don't add up?

text: At the top level, the Finance category is shown as performing badly:   * Finance: impressions 8.1%, income 4.9% I go in, and I see the following sub-categories:   * Credit & Lending: impressions 0.9%, income 4.9%   * Insurance: impressions 0.2%, income 0.0%   * Investing: impressions 0.4%, income 0.0% This makes no sense. Where is the category that produces the missing 6.6% of impressions that result in zero income, and how do I block them? Are these ads that are in Finance but not Credit & Lending, making them unblockable?


title: Why does Internet Explorer's Developer Tools only emulate back to IE7?

text: Starting with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft provided built-in developer tools for Internet Explorer. IE8 provides IE8 Standards, IE8 Compatibility View, IE7, and Quirks Mode. IE9 provides IE9 Standards, IE9 Compatibility View, IE8, IE7, and Quirks Mode. I have often wondered why Microsoft choose to provide IE6 testing VMs instead of offering it as a convenient browser mode, while still providing Quirks Mode. Nobody wants to fire up a VM (now or three years ago) just to test a random IE6 report, so why did Microsoft choose to make IE6 testing so difficult for IE7 and every version following? Has Microsoft ever commented on that decision? **EDIT:** I know IE6 should be avoided and Microsoft wants to wipe it out for good as a browser. My question is looking for historical significance. I am wondering if Microsoft ever publicly announced that IE6 would never be supported by developer tools from IE8 on, which was released at a time that IE6's market share was still significant to developers. Even X-UA-Compatible Document Compatibility Modes lists everything, including IE5, but IE6 is missing from the list. Perhaps Microsoft began phasing out IE6 through developers long before they made a campaign targeting users, but I'm not sure why they provided VMs at all if that is the case.


title: Find line items that use free-form custom criteria in DFP

text: I have a lot of line items and a lot of custom targeting parameters in DFP. Is there a way to search line items and find all matches that use a given targeting parameter?


title: Keyword Densities - do they still matter?

text: Let's say I have a standard issue web page with 500 - 600 words and I'm priming my page for two specific keywords (for the purposes of this example). We know that these words need to feature within the context of the page but how many times should they be used in the body text? How many times is too many? How few is too little? Does it even make any difference any more? Conventionally I have learned and used 2 to 7 % density and typically I've seen SEO organisations use roughly 4 % density for two word phrases. If I want this page to perform well in the search engines what are the best practises in relation to densities? What strategies have worked for you on real world projects?


title: How long should a Schema.org Itemprop='description' be?

text: Is there any character limit or even suggested character limit when using Schema.org `itemprop='description'`? The Schema.org website reads, _A short description of the item._ But doesn't specify what it considers short.


title: Is aggregating images using Twitter's API legal according to the terms & conditions?

text: Is one able to legally use the Twitter API to search for a given tag, pull down images associated with that tag and then re-post them within a gallery of their own on their own domain? Assume that original links to the person who made the Tweet exist. For example > Image created by @bobby So it's not stealing the image and making it your own. You're just _aggregating_ them together?


title: PageRank & SEO results of using a different domain for each company product

text: Using Apple as an example:                www.apple.com < --- Main company site           www.iphone.com <--- Product           www.imac.com <-- Product       If each company product had its own domain name and a unique webpage or website containing an anchor link back to the main company site, would that increase the PageRank for the main company site? If the main company site had a navigation bar with links to the different product domain sites, would that positively or negatively effect PageRank for either the company site or the product sites? (I believe this is referred to as cross-linking). Lastly, would a 301 redirect from the product domain to a directory on the main company site (e.g., `www.iphone.com` -> `www.apple.com/iphone`) negate the benefit of the backlink?


title: Is it possible to create a role in Drupal which only has permission to edit pages in a certain language?

text: Our Drupal site supports multiple languages and I would like to allow our language experts the ability to customize the individual pages, but I would like to avoid giving them access to the English language originals. Is such a thing possible?


title: Amazon Cloud Front - Changing the origin domain

text: Currently have a Cloudfront CDN with an **Origin** pointed to `http://mysite.com`. The CDN URL is something like _jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net_. Currently there are a lot of external consumers of a file hosted on my site and access it via Cloudfront ( e.g. `http://jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net/files/library.js`) so it's important that CDN URL remains the same. I would like to change the origin (`external.mysite.com` - which will include the same files and file structure) and I was wondering if this type of change would effect the **Domain Name** used by amazon (`jr27a8vopf32a.cloudfront.net`)? I am assuming this will work, but given the number of people relying on the file I thought it would be a good idea to check before proceeding. Thanks in advance,


title: Migrate email account from cPanel to a non control panel server

text: How to migrate my email account without losing any data, in cPanel you have a `/etc` folder with all the config file, but how I can migrate that from my cPanel to my dedicated server in my case with Ubuntu 12.04LTS with no control panel?


title: Do i need to have a separate page for each article on my website?

text: I am using a database to store data such as articles, titles, meta and so on. Do I need to Have a separate page for each article so that my articles show up in the list when searched on Google? Is is that Google can not crawl through the list of articles in the database and then give corresponding results? I am confused because i can see pages that are not connected to a database up in the list rather than pages that are retrieved from the database. Anyone got any idea regarding this? My scenario is this that , i have a tab on my navigation bar which leads to page that has a list of articles. `/home.php` (home page) has a link on navigation tab to `/articles.php` - this is the page where there's a list of all articles and this is PHP generated (fetched from MySQL). In this list again has href's to my articles but that is also just a single page with multiple id. **Example:** Article 1: `www.example.com/articlenew/display.php?id=1` Article 2: `www.example.com/articlenew/display.php?id=2` And so on... Will Google recognize my articles?


title: How does Google Analytics consider traffic?

text: Q1)If any automated bot visits my domain will Google Analytics consider it as traffic?   What all factors does the Google Analytics consider to be legit traffic?   Q2)If a user visits xyz.domain.com ,Does Google Analytics consider that it visited domain.com?


title: Content theft - Where can I go from here?

text: I am the webmaster of a very successful blog in a fairly small niche. Recently our success has started to bite us with people copying posts on the site without consent and trying to pass them off as their own work. Most sites stop as soon as you contact them but there is one in particular that is a blogger site which persists in passing off our content as their own. Every post we find we report to Google and they have been fairly good at taking the posts offline within a day or two but this isn't good enough or a long term solution. Given the nature of what is being blogged about after 24 hours the post is pretty much useless so I need some way to just stop them from taking our content? Any ideas? I don't want to go down the route of using a third party for people to get our RSS feed but I guess that is one option?


title: “http://localhost:1935” works but not “http://192.168.1.3:1935” in WAMP

text: Running a Wowza streaming engine and WAMP server               http://localhost:1935 works but not http://192.168.1.3:1935      Using windows 7 as my server Did the following. Added a line towards end of this section               <Directory "c:/wamp/www/">      Require ip 192.168.1     </Directory      ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SAkEU.png)Included 192.168.1.3:1935 in Listen directive as well Did port forwarding as well as shown in attached image What do I need to do to get               http://192.168.1.3:1935      working. This will help me run wowza streaming engine Thanks


title: What expectation should I have of South African web development rates / duration?

text: I am a developer but only intend on doing the front-end work for getting Reddit-like upvote / downvote functionality going on an upcoming site I'm building. I have never had to contract a developer for back-end work to implement code for me so I am quite in the dark on how much I should expect to pay and how long it could take to get the site going. I could be taken for a ride as the developer could distort the time it would take at a seemingly regular rate (hourly/day) or could otherwise distort their rate. Please could you give me help on this. I know you need some guidance on the nature of the site so here it is. I have a Reddit type template with CSS and PHP included. I then downloaded Pligg code that's intended to do the job of the Reddit upvote downvote functionality. How long would a developer roughly need to unite the theme and front end with the back-end functionality? I do understand it's not a lot of info but I'm sure you're experienced enough to have an instinct for the size of the project. Also, should I work on an hourly/day rate/ project payment agreement?


title: Mobile Browser Usage Statistics

text: I'm looking for global mobile browsers usage statistics from time to time compared to desktop browsers. Any better ideas than http://gs.statcounter.com/ ? I need it as a reference for my college paper. Thanks


title: Can we use both Google Analytics (Asynchronous) and Google Analytics with Display Advertising code in same page

text: I have Google Analytics (Asynchronous) script                   <script type=”text/javascript”>             _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);         _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>      and Google Analytics with Display Advertising Script               <script type="text/javascript">     var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X-yz']);     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);         (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://' : 'http://') + 'stats.g.doubleclick.net/dc.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);     })();     </script>      The UA - codes are different can i use both the codes ? I've read some where that Universal Analytics will not interfere with previous versions of Google Analytics. If i have upgraded to Universal Analytics, If the UA - codes are different should i use only the Universal Analytics script or should i use both Universal Analytics script and Universal Analytics script. please advise.....


title: Hosting multiple client website on single hosting account

text: I'm WebDesigner and I have currently only a few clients for making website. I've unlimited hosting account and I want to host their websites in my account without reseller account (actually it is not needed for constness). Only my client's need is ftp access to their personal directory. So is it possible to give them saperate phpMyAdmin access in this strategy ? As per my knowledge it is done with "addon" domain pointing on my hosting account's directory with cPanel, am I right ? or there is another solution for it except reseller account ?


title: Unable to use anchor hash tag if using Google Analytics utm

text: If I want to user to go a particular section of my webpage, I will use               http://www.mywebsite.com/help_faq.html#contribution      However, sometimes, I need to track where user come from, if I use               http://www.mywebsite.com/help_faq.html#contribution?utm_source=jstock&utm_medium=help_menu      It fails to go to the particular section. Anything I can fix?


title: Web designers back link on client sites

text: We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this:   1. Should the keywords be in the title, alt and link text? E.g `<a href="domain.com" title="keyword">Keyword</a>`?   2. Should we make the keyword the same on all the client web sites?   3. Should we incorporate our company name as the link text? Are there any other general things I should follow? UPDATE: Currently we have "designed & built by Company". Are we better off having something like "graphic design & web design by Company"?


title: Is there any weight for a retweet by a bot?

text: There are many bots in Twitter that keep retweeting certain hash tags. Retweets carry weight in terms of SEO. Is it the same with a Twitter bot ? A bot could be written for the sake of tweet collection. If someone wants to track everything regarding `#MalaysianPlaneMystery`, the bot could help. But does those re tweets carry enough weight ?


title: Google has indexed our archives

text: Upon first submitting our sitemap, we didn't take into account the index of archive pages. With 50,000 articles, we're seeing lots of archive pages results (i.e. `News (Page 40 of 876)`) Since then we've placed `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` in the head of our archives template and resubmitted the sitemap. Now, Google is indexing the sitemap slowly but surely and we still see the archives showing up in results. It's been around a week. Is there something else we should be doing, or is it just a waiting game?


title: Crawling an ajax based page with both a hash fragment and a meta tag

text: According to google's documentation on crawling ajax based web pages, if a url contains a hash fragment, or something at the end of an url that looks like `#helloworld`, and if there is an `!` after the `#`, as in `#!helloworld`, google will then request the url `url?_escaped_fragment_=helloworld`. I currently have an ajax based webpage that I want google to be able to crawl. Sometimes, the page uses hash fragments, and for those situations I set up the server so it will return an html snapshot for that page using `_escaped_fragment_`. However, that webpage often does not load a hash fragment, and when that happens the webpage still loads content using ajax. I couldn't find a good solution to enable ajax crawling for pages that sometimes have a hash fragment and sometimes don't. **How can I tell google to use`_escaped_fragment_` when there is a hash fragment, and to use something else to get an html snapshot of a page when there isn't a hash fragment?**


title: Locate sitemap at HTTP or HTTPS?

text: Our homepage has a 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS but all other pages on the site are on HTTP. (1) Should the sitemap be located at HTTPS and is there any problem if we:   * (2) include the HTTPS version of homepage (not including the HTTP homepage)   * (3) include the HTTP of all other pages within the HTTPS sitemap I have read conflicting information about including both HTTPS and HTTP in the same sitemap so any info is appreciated here.


title: SEO - 2 websites in the same domain

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO - 2 websites in the same domain I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it (http://www.foobar.com/loremipsum). I can find http://www.foobar.com in Google Search, but http://www.foobar.com/loremipsum no ... What should I do to index this website? Thank you.


title: Will Google follow link if anchor tag content is blocked?

text: This is a followup on a question I was asking here: Cropping images & SEO Basically, if I have something like this:                   <a href="<Full_Res_Image>"><img src="<Cropped_Image>">      and `Cropped_Image` is blocked by _robots.txt_ ,   1. Will Google still crawl to `Full_Res_Image` and index that in its web search as well as Google Images?   2. If it does crawl to the full res image, how do I then set `alt` tags on the full res image? If these are not feasible, then do you have any pointers on how to show cropped images for user/page-load friendliness, while still having Google Images index the full res image and not the cropped image? P.S. The reason I want to set alt tags in (2) is for SEO for the images.


title: SEO effect of “You are leaving this site” page for outbound links?

text: ## The problem I am working on an aggregation website that collects reviews about specific products from various websites. The site has many thousands of outbound links (with "nofollow" attributes) to the content source websites where the reviews were collected from. The site has far more outbound links than inbound links and I have read that this is bad for SEO. ## The question Would adding an intermediate «You are leaving this site» disclaimer/warning page like this hurt search engine rankings? And can you provide any links about this topic? p.s. The exit page would be a POST form instead of a script, that notifies the user that he/she is leaving this site and provides a button to continue to the other website. p.p.s This kind of idea is implemented on many forums, aggregation websites with the purpose of warning the user that he/she is leaving this site and to block search engine bots from following those links because search bots do not submit forms.


title: What sort of shared hosting can I run a JIRA installation on?

text: I purchased JIRA a few weeks ago to manage some projects and such and intended to put it on my shared web host. However, it requires a Tomcat server instead of Apache. It comes with a packaged Tomcat server, but when I use this, I get errors about exceeding my accounts memory and CPU limits. Are there any shared hosting providers that can host JIRA successfully? How can I tell which ones will work?


title: Few small blogposts vs one big blogpost

text: I have a blog about different Internet and programming topics, and a few posts which have rather good ranking and some traffic. One blog post is about a tool I developed. I make updates to the tool, so now comes the question: Is it better to make a new small blog post containing information about the updates, OR is it better to edit the first bigger post? Which way would rank better or produce more traffic?


title: Will uploading our .docx files on scribd and embedding the files on our website affect search engine rankings?

text: We have prepared notes for university students which are on .docx format. And we want it to put on our website for viewing. We tried one option. Uploading the files on scribd and embedding it on our website for viewing on scribd viewer. Will making documents available on srcibd viewer on our website affect search engine rankings ? Will search engines treat it as duplicate content as those are already uploaded on scribd and we are embedding it on our website ? On scribd we have set the uploaded documents as 'private' though. And if it affects, can you suggest any suitable way to make .docx files to be viewed on our website that doesn't affect search engine rankings ?


title: Is there any significant ranking penalty for using 302 redirects to force HTTPS?

text: We have a site with:   * Decent ranking on certain targeted keywords.   * An HTTPS-only policy, which uses 302 redirects to force clients onto the secure version of any URL.   * Internal links using HTTPS, so there is no redirection.   * Some, but not all, external links from other domains use HTTPS. The rest do not and will of course be subject to the 302.   * Google is only indexing the HTTPS version of each URL. Even if you search specifically for the HTTP URL, only the HTTPS URL is shown in the results. Will there be any _significant, immediate_ ranking benefit to changing our site to use 301 redirects to enforce HTTPS? Are there any statements from Google, Matt Cutts or other authorities on this specific situation? Based on my research the difference should be minimal since we are already well indexed, and our internal links are fine, so Google is not going to apply a sitewide penalty for the 302s, which are, in effect, only the first link in the chain.


title: Does a filename's location (relative to the root) effect it's SEO?

text: I apologize if this answer is already somewhere else, I've searched for a while and come up empty. My company has hired a 3rd party SEO company to help with our rankings. Most of the suggestions they make seem reasonable and I have implemented them. However, one suggestion was made today and I just can't see it helping. In addition, it requires that I rearrange some stuff on the site and add 301 redirects and the like. I'd honestly rather not. What they've suggested is that I take our reviews page and change the url on it, like so: For this example, say our company is named _Maple Velcro_. **From:** `www.maplevelcro.com/why-choose-us/customer-reviews` **To:** `www.maplevelcro.com/maple-velcro-reviews` Now, I can see why changing the file name may make sense, since it will target a different set of search terms, but wouldn't the following do the same thing? `www.maplevelcro.com/why-choose-us/maple-velcro-reviews` I'm aware that a redirect is trivial, especially since I'm using CodeIgniter, but I guess I can't just blindly do something like this without some sort of confirmation that it is actually a legitimate technique.


title: Can I use Google+ authorship tags on pages containing content I didn't create?

text: I was using a `rel="publisher"` tag on my site, but more and more I'm thinking that I could use `rel="author"` as well. Imagine that I am making a collection of things: photos, web sites, YouTube videos, etc... meaning that I am hand picking some of the most interesting items from the Internet that match a category/theme, like "25 best website designs of 2013", and then list them on a page. So basically it's a collection of things that might be useful for visitors. While I am not the creator of that content (e.g., web sites, videos, and photos...), I am the creator of the list/collection. Can I use Google+ authorship tags on such pages?


title: Does Google Analytics have any problem tracking app_offline.htm?

text: I use `app_offline.htm` for ASP.net v4.0 to temporarily shuts the site down with a check back soon message on that page. I still want to track this page for the number of visitors. Just curious, does Google Analytics have any problem tracking `app_offline` page particularly? In other words, could this page be tracked as a normal page?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there a maximum size that web pages should be kept under? What is the ideal file size for a web page? Specifically when it comes to image sizes, what's the total file size for a webpage which includes several images. I tend to compress images down as much as possible before it starts to visually lose quality. We run several CMS website's and the clients tend to ask this question a lot! I'd love to hear another view on it.


title: Which comes first DNS or name servers?

text: Which comes first? DNS or nameservers? Its just I'm editing a domain and want to point it to different hosting servers. Now, normally I'd just set the nameservers to the new hosting nameservers, but this doesn't seem to be working (the control panels not brilliant - doesn't say "accepted" or "success" - and whois searches are turning up nothing - although I should leave it a while longer). Anyway - the point is, in the DNS records there are two A records (one for " " and one for "www") which have an ip address associated with them. So this is what I don't understand. If I change the nameservers, do I have to remove the DNS records? Will name servers "overwrite" a DNS record? Or vice versa? Thank you.


title: Duplicated Title Tag Problem in Webmaster Tools

text: I built my website four months ago and was using WordPress. I have my url set up as www.xxx.com/date/title of the post at first hand. After about three months, I change the url to be only www.xxx.com/title of the post. And I get the the duplicated title tags in Google webmaster tools. I just know that it is the worst idea ever to change the post urls after seeing no more traffic from Google. Please suggest me the best way to solve this problem. Here is the screenshot of some duplicated urls. I have hundred of them. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rlWl4.png)


title: suspicious crawler activity

text: I'm noticing that I get accesses               66.249.66.198 - - [01/Jul/2011:17:13:46 +0200] "GET /img/clip.incubus.torrent.phtml HTTP/1.1" 404 143 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"     66.249.66.198 - - [01/Jul/2011:17:13:48 +0200] "GET /img/clip.global.deejays.download.phtml HTTP/1.1" 404 143 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"      that files don't exist and there is no file on my site that has this content (I hope). Why is googlebot trying out these links? reverse dns and whois state that 66.249.66.198 is really googlebot.


title: Google re-started caching my website

text: I have a website which was recently penalized by Google and all of a sudden it stopped caching my pages. After some research, I found out that issue was due to too many duplicate titles as depicted in webmasters. I used noindex to those duplicate urls and after 3-4 days of my putting noindex, Google restarted caching my website. Does it indicate that Google Penalty has been removed or will it be removed in future or it has no relation at all? Also, I have not seen any improvement in the traffic though.


title: Best way to implement user-powered data validation

text: I run a product recommendation engine and I'm hitting a few snags. I'm looking to see if anyone has any recommendations on what I should do to minimize these issues. Here's how the site works: Users come to the site and are presented with product recommendations based on some criteria. If a user knows of a product that is not in our system, they can add it by providing the product name and manufacturer. We take that information, and:   1. Hit one API to gather all the product meta-data (and to validate the product spelling, etc). If the product is not in this first API, we do not allow it in our system.    2. Use the information from step 1 to hit another API for pricing information (gathered from many places online). For the sake of discussion, assume that I am searching both APIs in the most efficient/successful manner possible. For the most part, this works very well. I'd say ~80% of our data is perfectly accurate, but there are a few issues:   1. Sometimes the pricing API (Step 2) doesn't have any information for the product. The way the pricing API is built, it will always return _something_ (theoretically, the closest possible match), and there's no guarantee that the product name is spelled exactly the same way in both APIs, so there's no automated way of knowing if it's the right product.   2. When the pricing API finds the right product, occasionally it has outdated, or even invalid pricing data (e.g. if it screen-scraped the wrong price from a website). Since the site was fairly small at first, I was able to manually verify every product that was added to the website. However, the site has grown to the point where this is taking several hours per day, and is just not efficient use of my time. So, my question is: Aside from hiring someone (or getting an intern) to validate all the data manually, what would be the best system of letting my userbase self-manage the data. Specifically, how can I allow users to edit the data while minimizing the risk of someone ambushing my website, or accidentally setting the data incorrectly.


title: Looking up IP address of an area, town or State

text: How can I find the IP of a location? I know I can lookup an IP's physical location anywhere but what about looking up the IP's of a specific area.


title: Google Analytics: Do unique events report as unique visits when triggered on pages other than your own domain?

text: We just recently attached a SWF to our Brightcove video player to report various events back to Google Analytics. We're also tracking page views with a standard GA snippet on the page where the player is embedded. As I understand it, because a unique has already been recorded for the page, any event being triggered by the player is getting associated with that unique. However, we allow people to embed the video player on other websites. All of the event data started pouring into the Events section as expected, but we noticed a dramatic uptick in unique visitors on the site (nearly double) while the pageview count stayed relatively unchanged. Disabling event tracking brought the traffic back down to average levels. I should also add that in the Pages section of Event tracking we're seeing URLs for other sites where the player has been embedded; but this data isn't showing up in the Content section. It seems counterintuitive, but does GA count an event fired as a unique visit even if it's triggered from some place other than your website? Is so, there any way to trigger an event in the events section without it reporting to the unique visitor count?


title: Why my web pages positioned 1st in Google Webmaster Tools recieve zero CTR?

text: Recently I have noticed decrease in traffic on my website. I checked with Google Webmaster Tools and noticed that many of my pages that are ranked #1 on Webmaster Tools receive 1 or even 0% CTR. When page is ranked lower, 2nd or 3-6 place, they receive normal CTR for that keyword. Here's example screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fwnVu.png) Can someone tell me what's happening here?


title: Dedicated Hosting 101

text: I've been running small websites for years, but recently developed a site that is attracting more traffic than expected. My shared web hosting provider has warned me that this is causing a high load on the server and that I might need to look into getting a dedicated/vps hosting server (which they do not provide). I've never used dedicated or vps hosting, so I don't really know what to look for. Will it be significantly more expensive? Are cloud services like Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure something I should be looking at? Can you recommend a particular service? My site is built using PHP, and I am in Canada, if that helps. Thanks!


title: Find hosting through Bizspark program

text: I am a Bizspark owner and I am all set to launch my website but I am really confused about where to start the process for finding a hosting partner with my Bizspark membership. Since I have downloaded MicroSoft SQL Server from Bizspark website, I know I don't need a license for SQL Server. So do I need to email some hosting companies and ask them if I can get their VPS and I can install my own copy of SQL Server? That means, I will end up paying only for the VPS?


title: How to implement an email this link button

text: I'm adding Facebook like, Tweet, Google +1, LinkedIn Share buttons to some webpages. I'm also adding an email this link button as well. Currently I'm doing it like so.. I have nice button made up, and am using this link:               <a href="mailto:?subject=Title to send&body=Hi%0D%0DI thought you may be interested in this link.%0D%0Dhttp://www.example.com/">     Email this     </a>      Someone has suggested that I instead bring up a box and give users option to send straight from that. I.e. I would have pre-decided on the message, and the user would enter their email address, and the recipients. The end message would come from our email, and say something like bob@smith.com shared this link with you. I have two questions:   * Is that a better of doing it?   * How reliable is `mailto`? Will I have to do extensive testing? Basically I would like some advice on best practices, and what you may have done in the past, thank you :-)


title: Will google crawl a page with a 302 redirect?

text: I am trying to lock content on my Wordpress site, but obviously I want Google to crawl it. When I lock the content, the header comes back as a 302 redirect(redirecting to a page where someone can login or sign up). Will google still index it as if it were 200?


title: Is there any way to debug redirection rules in.htaccess?

text: I have an .htaccess file with over 200 redirection rules. It seems some of them are conflicting each other. Is there any way to find out which one is responsible of redirect on a particular request? Please note, I'm using ISAPI_Rewrite from HeliconTech (similar syntax to Apache mod_rewrite) over IIS 6.


title: Are we being attacked?

text: We serve a 13mb download which is reasonably popular, around 150-300 downloads a day. Today we have had 1,200 downloads and as I browse the logs I find they all originate from the same IP address. GeoIP says it originates from Russia, Moscow although that may be inaccurate. A new download is being requested currently every 6 seconds. Google analytics is not showing any signs of heavy traffic. Are we being attacked? The server is coping fine, but it's going to soak all our bandwidth up. Is that the purpose of it? On http://www.projecthoneypot.org the IP is showing as "detected behavior from the IP address consistent with that of a mail server and dictionary attacker". ## Edit I've blocked the IP via IIS, this single IP was responsible for ~500 downloads. I suspect a couple more IP's but will allow them for now and keep a close eye on it. Edit2: 3 IP's from same city responsible >1000 downloads over the last few days.


title: Using a trademark as a subdomain?

text: Let's **imagine** a website that deals with cars: _www.cars.com_ In order to categorize his website, the webmaster decides to create subdomains for the most famous brands:   * ford.cars.com   * chrysler.cars.com   * ferrari.cars.com Would it be legit?


title: Firefox Addon to override system name resolution for certain host names?

text: Is there any Firefox plugin that allows to change how Firefox perform name resolution? I want to override the system-wide hostname resolver to attach some IP to certain hostnames. Let me explain. Let's say I'm developing a new website and I want to test using the actual hostname but my site is run by a local webserver, I'd like to do this:               System-wide resolver: www.domain.com ---> 10.20.30.40     Ovveride by addon:    www.domain.com ---> 127.0.0.1      Is there anything like this? Thank you.


title: SEO and alias domain names

text: What is the best SEO strategy when aliasing several domains to a primary domain,   * is it "enough" to just set them up as aliases   * is it better to alias them and setup some kind of rewrite rules to make the content look like separate domains    * is it better to set them up as landing pages with slightly different content & then redirect to the main site?  or are there better ways I haven't considered? -thanks -sean


title: MediaWiki sitemap generator

text: I'm using mediawiki for my site. I'm trying several ways to generate sitemap but it doesn't work. Anyone knows how to generate sitemap for MediaWiki and alert to Google automatically?


title: Site launch do(s) and don't(s)

text: The major do(s) and don't(s) to ensure a smooth launch. Any tips ranging from A to Z would be very helpful. I hope this question isn't too broad, but I'm pretty sure that this community has had its fair share of experiences.


title: How to hide the admin login form?

text: In my website there are no accounts except for those of moderators and administrators. That's why I don't want to show the login form to everyone but to these people. I thought of using a weird URL for the login form like `www.example.com/1a79a4d60de6718e8e5b326e338ae533` that only admins and mods would know. But it's a quite impractical solution, besides if someone would want to login in another computer and forgets this URL, then is unable to. Is there any more effective way?


title: Copying content from other(news) website?

text: I copied the news article from different sources for more than 2 years and now I'm copying the content & specifying the canonical URL of source websites(hope this is the correct way to do it [ **correct me if I'm wrong** ]). but my question is what should I do to the previous posts, I have no idea on where I copied those articles and obviously it have more than 2000 pages, So I'm unable to do canonical tag for the previous posts, how should I fix this ? (or) will I leave those articles as it is ? please suggest me a solution! Please don't mark duplicate with What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site? I already read that post, here my situation is different.


title: DIY Social media buttons Vs. Ready built (e.g. AddThis)

text: Is there any benefit from rolling-your-own set of social media 'like' buttons rather than using a pre-packaged widget, such as that provided by AddThis? Are there any downsides from using out of the box services?


title: backlinks's effect on SEO

text: All websites and blogs with more backlinks have their posts on 1-2 pages in SERPs. I have one question that if will increase backlinks of my website then my website can also get higher position in search engine results?


title: CSS3 Background Gradient Fixed

text: I'd like to make my CSS3 background gradient fixed. Any suggestions?


title: FB login and privacy policy

text: I'm bulding up a site, where the ONLY ONE method for log in, is the fb login button. Now i'm wondering if i need to make users check and read the my own site's privacy and policy before and accept that is some way, is this needed? The site is for text/pourpouse sharing, and you can only interact with the site after you are logged/registered, althought you can only navigate lists of users and pourpouses. thanks


title: Stopping Google index some web pages I have

text: I have some web pages that google has indexed. Now I added a robots.txt file to exclude them but should I also add a “noindex” tag and if so then how can I best add this?


title: This address should never have been indexed, how can I properly remove it?

text: I have a couple of subdomains on my website that I use for various purposes and I don't want/need them to be indexed by search engines. From the very beginning, since I created them, I added a `robots.txt` file to disallow search engines from crawling those pages. Now, I know that this does not enforce anything, it's just a "guideline" for search engines. But in respect to Google, they have lots of help documents suggesting the use of robots.txt, so I believe they respect that file. Anyway, one of those sub domains is still indexed and I can't understand why. Like I said, this has been created with the disallow rules in robots.txt since the very beginning that sub domain went life and it's been running like this for 2 years or so. Still, I just noticed this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DAFKt.png) **How can I permanently get rid of this indexed result on Google?** For the record, Bing and Yahoo! don't have a result for the same query...


title: Good Book for Managing a Linux Web Server?

text: I'm being thrust into the role of managing my own web server. I will have access to some managed support, but I need a comprehensive resource I can turn to that covers: command line basics, apache and mysql db administration. I don't need to be an expert in any of these, but I need to know how to work my way around and make changes when needed. I have some experience with mamp and wamp, but I'd like to have a good handbook for more serious work in this area. Any recommendations?


title: Allowing users to purchase multiple products at a time using Google checkout

text: Customers currently can't purchase more than 1 product at a time with Google Checkout. For example, a customer wants to purchase 5 of the same product; the quantity will pass to Google Checkout page, but after placing the order using Google Checkout it will count it as one product. Right now when you put in 2 items in the shopping cart and Google Checkout only calculates the shipping for the ORDER not for EACH ITEM. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot!


title: 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS - how to be sure Google is fetching the correct information?

text:
I'm hoping somebody might be able to provide a bit of advice on an issue I am having. I have one site where we implemented a 301 redirect on the homepage from HTTP to HTTPS. We have links on the homepage to other parts of the site that are not under SSL (in fact there is only one other page under SSL). When I go to our Webmaster Tools account I notice that we are not being provided with any webmaster information (e.g., search queries, backlinks, etc...) related to our homepage under SSL. I performed a Fetch as Google on the homepage and the information it returned is:               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:26:24 GMT     Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)     Location: https://mysite.com/     Vary: Accept-Encoding     Content-Encoding: gzip     Content-Length: 242     Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100     Connection: Keep-Alive     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1          <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">          <title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.

     <address>Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at mysite.com</address>           I am worried by the fact that Google fetch is not getting the correct Title tags and Meta information from our homepage and that this is hurting our search results. Additionally, I am worried that we need to do something specific with the sitemap to ensure that Google is correctly indexing all our pages and being able to flow from the HTTPS to the HTTP without issues. Does anybody have any advice on how we can correctly set this up or be sure that Google is fetching the correct information? * * * When I do the google fetch on the https, the correct results are shown. Some additional information here: We switched to the SSL in July but have not seen any change in our search rankings despite efforts increasing backlinks and out put of content. 1) When we view a list of external backlinks to our homepage, it appears that the backlinks that have been built after we switched to the SSL homepage have been separated from the backlinks built before the SSL. Even on Open Site, we are only seeing the backlinks that were achieved before we switched to the SSL on the homepage. This leads up to believe that the new links are not adding any value to our search rankings. 2) When viewing Google Webmaster for http, we are receiving no information about our homepage, only all the non-https pages. I added a https account to Google Webmaster and in that version we ONLY receive the information about our homepage (and the other ssl page on the site) My concern is that we need to do something specific with our sitemap or with the 301 redirect itself in order for Google to read the whole site as one entity and receive the reporting/backlinks as one site. Any thoughts?


title: Nofollow on links to Google pages

text: I have a site that includes a fair amount of location (street address) data, and I generate a lot of links to Google Maps using that data. What's the usual practice for `nofollow` in this situation? Apply or no? This page and others I've found seem to say that `nofollow` should be used for links to content I'm not sure I can vouch for. I'm fine with endorsing Google Maps, and this page suggests that nofollowing Google isn't wise (partly in jest).


title: Google Analytics of Blogger site (with Content Warning)

text: I have applied the following Google services to my Blogger site (with Content Warning enabled):   * Google Analytics   * Google AdSense However, I cannot obtain 2 sets of web statistics data from Blogger's Statistics tab, Analytics, and AdSense. Google Analytics receive "Access Denied" warning in In-Page Analysis too. Example:   * Blogger's Statistics tab shows 88 visits per day   * Google Analytics show 0 visit per day (Note 1)   * Google AdSense show 0 visit per day (Note 1) All are Google's service, but why am I receiving different data? Also, AdSense is not gaining money but the ads are showing up in my blog. **Note 1:** I have set up URL Channel in AdSense & Analytics, but no data is shown. p.s. Google Analytics status is "Receiving Data", and it does record visits on the first day when the blog is using traditional layout. Blogger site is now using "Dynamic layout".


title: Why am I getting this message "Some important page is blocked by robots.txt"?

text: My site's URL is: www.hackinguniverse.org From some day in Google Webmaster tool a message is showing that says "Some important page is blocked by robots.txt". My robots.txt is:               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:          User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://www.hackinguniverse.org/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated      Now for other information - I hosted this website on blogger. I have some other sitemaps too where I had only included "/Search" in Disallow like in this robots.txt file. But those sites are ok. I mean no message is showing on those. So why am I getting that message telling that I have blocked some important page via robot.txt?


title: How UTF-8 represents more than 256 characters and when to use UTF-16?

text: We all know what character encoding is. Like the simple ASCII 7 bit used for normal 128 characters representing and `UTF-8` for representing 256 characters. I have 2 questions:   1. Some people saying `UTF-8` can represent more than 256 characters. How this is possible?   2. When to use `UTF-16`? Like which condition e.g. if we have to use japanese or some other language?


title: Proper usage of <title>, <header>, <h1> and <h2> in a HTML5 website?

text:
I have been studying this subject for several days and have found many conflicting suggestions with regards to search indexing. I am working on a project which has a lot of different pages ranging from simple product descriptions to in-depth user documentation. I have broken this question down into sections since I feel that this will make it more useful for future readers of this question. ## Some of my findings Several websites seem to have assumed document outlines like the following:               1. Programmer's Guide  (https://www.dartlang.org/docs/)         1. Getting Started         2. Concepts             1. Libraries             2. Fundamental classes             etc.      I find it interesting that the above example does not utilise the `<nav>` element with a suitable heading. I like the simplicity of the outline and being Google I am fairly certain that they know what they are doing when it comes to this. But I am confused since the above outline makes no mention of "Dart". The only mention of "Dart" in the semantic sense seems to be within the main document `<title>` element "Programmer's Guide | Dart: Structured web apps". The MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) is another brilliant example of a website which follows this principal. Many of the `<h1>` titles provide full context (Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document):               1. Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 Document         1. Untitled Section (nav)         2. Untitled Section (nav)         3. Structure of a Document in HTML 4         4. Problems Solved by HTML5      Whilst others do not make much sense out of context (Obsolete practices to avoid). For example, does the following HTML5 outline relate to CSS, HTML5 or C#... with just the document outline to go by, who knows!               1. Obsolete practices to avoid         1. Untitled Section (nav)         2. Untitled Section (nav)         3. Doctype         4. <meta> element and charset attribute      To make matters worst, what if the MDN contained 2 topics with the same (or very similar) title "Obsolete practices to avoid" where one is part of their CSS guide and the other is part of their HTML guide... On the other end of the spectrum websites seem to use the main `<body>`-level heading for the product name (Foo) or the topic container (User Guide for Foo). Where all subsequent pages then use `<h2>` for the actual page title. ## The question How do search engines infer the context of a webpage like those found on the MDN website using the DOM and the HTML5 outline? What is the right way to markup the following HTML5 page so that Google can index the page in the suitable context? This includes usage of `<title>`, `<header>` and `<h1>` elements.   * Company Name   * Product Name   * User Guide   * Getting Started The most significant heading in the HTML which gets viewed in a web browser, should this represent the context of the entire website (Company Name or Product Name), the collection of topics (User Guide) or the actual topic in hand (Getting Started)? ## My best guess               <!DOCTYPE html>                   <title>Getting Started | User Guide | Product Name - Company Name</title>                                 Company Name
Site Navigation

 ...

Product Name

User Guide

Getting Started

blah
                         Leading to the outline:               1. Getting Started


title: Earn through personal blog site

text: I have launched my blog site and I am able to attract 40-60 user per day, it is almost 2 months my blog is on internet. Is there any way I can start earning from my blog, as I went for some advertising company[via googling] and they said that I should have min 1000 user per day to visit my website. I am searching for a way to get earn everytime user visit to my site, or via pop up commercial or anything else, in which I can simply start earning. Thanks in advance. P.S.: I have constructed my own site in asp.net.


title: How Can I Secure A VPS Installation?

text: What are the basic steps to securing a VPS installation that I plan to install Webmin on to host my blogs and personal projects?


title: Google Indexing Pages with noindex meta tag

text: I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs. For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to prevent them being indexed. However, for some of the URLs, I have `"noindex, nofollow"` meta tags as follows:               <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="bingbot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="msnbot" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="slurp" content="noindex, follow" />     <meta name="teoma" content="noindex, follow" />      I have read that Google will sometimes index pages that you block in robots.txt if they find another link that points to the page, but supposedly they respect meta tags?


title: Why is Google putting new content straight into its Supplemental Index?

text: We have had problems with our web pages being put into Google's Supplemental Index. We have recently corrected what we believe were all the problems that might have caused this. However, Google still seems to be taking new content and putting it straight into its Supplemental Pages index. Have we incurred some sort of Supplemental Penalty and everything we now generate will more likely go into the Supplemental Index or is it likely something is still wrong with our website? We only put the new content up 2 days ago and it is already in the Supplemental Index! Any help is much appreciated!


title: How do people create website where they have a screen shot inside a phone image?

text: I am trying to work on my website, which is for a mobile application. While I can put an image of my app screenshot on my website, what I am not sure how to do is to create a shiny device image like most websites which promote apps. For example, `path.com` is a popular app. On their website, on the right side, is an image of a device and inside the device is a screen shot. How could I make that?


title: Facebook likes: fan page vs URL

text: So I've recently added a jQuery popup that asks my regular visitors to like me on Facebook. At first I added the ability to like the URL **and** the fan page. I got 2 fan page likes and about 10 URL likes in an hour. I understand that fan pages likes are the most important, and so I removed the possibility to like the URL. However it is not the first time that I notice my visitors not being interested in being fans but still liking content. What should I do about it? Prevent people from liking the URL hoping that more will like the page? Or let people like the URL as well hoping that it will generate more activity on Facebook and potentially bring new visitors?


title: Webmaster tools showing 404 for non existent folder pages

text: Google webmaster tools is reporting some/many 404 urls that don't exist on my site. The links are things such as domain.com/xyz/ However that doesn't exist, but domain.com/xyz/index.html does exist. The "linked from" pages all show proper links to the "/xyz/index.html". The page without index.html DOES 404, but why is google even trying these urls if they are not linked to? My real question, is there a way to have google stop attempting to load these pages, and ultimately remove these from the crawl errors report. Thanks.


title: Over 400 old 404 errors, safe to remove?

text: I have over 400 old 404 errors showing up in Google web-masters tools, the date on them is from before I uploaded the new sitemap and I wondered 2 things:   1. Why are they still showing up   2. Can i remove them using the mark as fixed option? TIA. Stephen


title: Buy internet country domain name: .fr .co.uk .de .com.au .sg etc

text: I already bought a domain name .com on godaddy for my company. I would like to reserve the same name with country specific domain extention, but not sure where to buy them and how to do it. Here are the ones that I would like to buy: Europe: fr, co.uk, de, ch, es, it, nl, se, no, ru australia: com.au asia: sg Godaddy has all except 1 in europe, australia and singapore. Should I find a website that sell all of them or should I buy some of them in godaddy and others elsewhere? Any suggestions where to buy them? Until now i've always buy .com domain names only so not sure how to do it. Thanks


title: Etags are not appearing on PHP pages

text: My hosting provider (goDaddy) seems to be adding eTags to my files. However I've noticed that they are not appearing on .PHP file (they are on .HTM, .CSS, .JS and images). Is this normal? From my reading up on etags there doesnt seem to be much you can do to configure them. Or is there something I can add to .htaccess to get etags on all files?


title: fake returning visitor

text: I have a Live Support app installed on my website and I see a visitor every day, all day long for the last 3 months. This visitor has 3 or more IP addresses, but doesn't change them too often. It seems his (or her) browser supports Flash, and definietly supports JavaScript, because that's required for the Live Support app to collect data. Any idea what it might be, why would someone do such thing? I tried to invite the visitor for chat, but my request was ignored. I also blocked two of his addresses, but he reappeared with a third one. He never visits any other page, just the one he landed on, usually our homepage.


title: Is it normal to have some huge anomolies in Google Analytics site speed tracking?

text: I've recently started using the new `_trackPageLoadTime` function in Google Analytics to measure page load times. However, I have noticed a few pages appear with a huge "Average Load Time". One page is showing a time of 556.22 seconds! Several other pages show average times of 30+ seconds. Clicking through to the page detail shows that the highest average times are the result of 1 really long load time of 100+ seconds (and most of the top ones only have a "Page Load Sample" of 1 or 2 people). Are these just anomalies where the user lost connection or something? Is there any way to view the data without those anomalies?


title: What kind of SSL do I have?

text: I am maintaining a site for someone. He needs to know what type of SSL the site has because that data has to submitted to his bank. I've never been asked such a question. I have cpanel access. But I don't know how to figure out what "type" of ssl is installed. Is there a way to print a report and give that to the bank? I thank you in advance for your assistance.


title: Keep visitors out of server directories and redirect

text: The web application I use (Zenphoto) stores images in /albums and subfolders. It's backend needs r/w-access to those folders and I need r/w-access to the folders via ftp, but the frontend never looks into /albums. Now I want to keep visitors from directly accessing /albums and all subalbums I did a lot of research and found that a .htaccess in /albums with `deny from all` would accomplish that. However, I would prefer a redirection to my 404 page. What I made from a similar use case is I could do that in my root's htaccess. I added `RewriteRule ^albums/.* /404 [R,NC]` Because the similar usecase was very different in terms of motivation, my questions are:   1. Is it an appropriate solution?   2. Does it really accomplish what I want or can it be circumvented?


title: How can I create a dynamic site that is still search-bot friendly?

text: If I want to have a slide effect between pages. You click a link, it is loaded off to the side and then slides in (pushing the old page off the other side). I can imagine using jQuery to do the PHP and the effects... but **how do I do something like this that gracefully degrades for users without Javascript, including bots?** Possibly more problematic: what if I wanted to have a sort of mural background across the site, perhaps with a parallax scrolling effect, and sliding to other pages reveals more of the, possibly giant image? Again, I can imagine how to do this with lots of fancy jQuery and PHP but it would heavily rely on those. How can I gracefully degrade in a situation like that? Any pointers, articles or books would be greatly appreciated. I keep trying to search for answers but I just get a lot of "theory"-based, unhelpful blogs.


title: Can I include structured data type to display tax due dates?

text: I tried to add structured data in my site in order to display due dates of tax deadline in search engine results page. But I don't know which data type to select. Can I include structured data to display tax due dates?


title: Does HTML encoded content affect SEO of a page?

text:
Let's say the page has an `<h1>` tag with the title:
Page title
      and then in the post content there is an HTML tutorial which has an `<h1>` tag which is encoded:               <h1>Example<h1>      Does this affect SEO? Would Google consider the second one also as an `<h1>` tag and get confused about which is the real or correct `<h1>` heading?