title: Friendly URLs: is there a max length for search engines?

text: People from stackoverflow have been working closely with google team to help them make the panda algorithm more efficient, so I guess they've learned a lot from the google team. Thus they may have done very clever friendly URLs to maximize the page rank. I've seen from time to time very long URLs (can't find where) in stackoverflow, but after a certain "amount" of character there were only numbers, kind of "ok passed this length, SEOs will ignore this so let's put only numbers". I've done a huge work on my framework to make _very_ friendly URLs, and my website can come up with URLs like:               http://www.mysite.fr/recherche/region/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/departement/bouches-du-rhone/categorie-de-metiers/paramedical/      It's very long and I'm wondering if the previous URL won't be mixed with, say, this one:               http://www.mysite.fr/recherche/region/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/departement/bouches-du-rhone/categorie-de-metiers/art/


title: Fix PHP Timezone warning

text: After installing a php application my site loads the app with a warning overlayed on the page > Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the > system's timezone settings. You are _required_ to use the date.timezone > setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of > those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely > misspelled the timezone identifier. I believe the problem is that there is no timezone set in php.ini on this server. My server company doesn't think that this is something they should have configured when they set up the server, so how do I edit the php.ini file and what do I insert to get rid of this error.


title: Where does UBB store its settings?

text: We're moving a UBB forum from one host to another. (This is temporary; we're going to replace the forum eventually, but moving hosts has a higher priority.) We don't have a lot of experience with UBB, so we're feeling our way along in the dark. We got the UBB code installed on the new host, and we've done a dry-run database export from the original site to the new site. However, almost everything set in UBB's Control Panel section didn't come with the database export. If UBB doesn't store this data in the database, where is it stored? And if it is in the database, why would it not show up in a new forum when the database is imported? Did we somehow miss a table?


title: 302 Moved Temporarily or 301?

text: HTTP status code checker tool shows `HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily` for the home page URL `http://someurl.com` (just a _namesake_ URL). Also, this URL opens up `http://www.someurl.com/general/index`. As you can see, a `no-www` URL to a `www` URL redirect is happening. My questions are:   1. **Is a 302 redirect acceptable** for the home page?   2. Will this affect the site showing up in **search results** in anyway?   3. Isn't redirection to `/general/index` a bad practice?


title: Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?

text: I'd like to host a website on **Amazon S3**. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both `example.com` and `www.example.com`?


title: Does using LiteSpeed instead of Apache speed up WordPress?

text: I've read that Litespeed is a lot faster than Apache. I use mostly WordPress and Joomla sites and am looking for a new server. Will I see a significant increase in speed of WordPress being on a LiteSpeed server?


I want to improve my development environment and now I'm thinking about using a versioning system in the future. The problem is that I haven't much experience with versioning systems (a bit with Perforce). What Versioning Systems for Website Development are available for free?


title: Am I using the correct data type in schema.org for a job site?

text: I'm having a hard time chosing the best data type in `schema.org` for my local job site. We're offering premium job postings for employers. Currently, I'm using the data type `local business` with Google Structured Data Markup Helper. Am I doing this correctly?


title: joomla 2.5.6 menu related

text: On my website : www.openlx.com, in the submenu (below the main menu - "Home"), the URL currently looks like: http://openlx.com/home/aboutus.html Same way, in all the sub-menus to the main-manu "Home", the word "home" is part of the URL. I want to remove this word "home" from the URL, and same for all the sub-menus to all the menus.


title: Want to use the HTTP-REFERER of in an HTML page through Javascript

text: I Want to use the HTTP-REFERER of in an HTML page. Is it possible to do it with a JavaScript included in the page itself?


title: Website Name shown at the end of HTML Titles

text: A google search for > site:cnn.com cnn returns results like > Kenyans one dance away from semifinals - Sports **- CNN.com** > > Health News - Medical, Mental and Dental Treatment ... **- CNN.com**   1. Is it possible to **not show** the website name **in the search result titles**?   2. Where does google read the name of the site from?


title: Google Analytics Views - Why Use Them?

text: I've been reading about Google Analytics views but still not sure why I would use them. I'm the only person in the company who understands and uses Google Analytics. We have no subdomains. Is there any reason why I would want to use views? Google Analytics has been going for some years now and I just created a copy of the original view but this has zero data, so I can't see how it would benefit me.


title: Can the webpage title be changed after site has been loaded.

text: Can the web page title be set to be dynamic? I want to let some part to be updated in title, if any changes occur, an automatic update resulting in a bit of word addition to the title. Example : the original one : "what is the title name" Now after setting to automatic update when a event as an answer is posted - "what is the title name (1 answer)"


title: Google only indexing alias?

text: I run our research group website, but don't have direct access to the university DNS server. However, we have two addresses pointing at the same IP - one is the old website and the canonical name is the current one.               IP: 128.252.19.134     Old name: lima.wustl.edu     Name name: pappulab.wustl.edu      The issue is that any google search returns ONLY the old name (lima.wustl.edu) despite the fact that lima.wust.edu is an alias and pappulab.wustl.edu is the canonical name. Is there anything I can do to make the webcrawlers use the pappulab.wustl.edu address instead of the lima address? We could just kill lima, but this would break lots of links in various placed. **Some relevant lookups**               nslookup 128.252.19.134     Server:     127.0.0.1     Address:    127.0.0.1#53          134.19.252.128.in-addr.arpa name = pappulab.wustl.edu.      * * *               nslookup lima.wustl.edu     Server:     127.0.0.1     Address:    127.0.0.1#53          lima.wustl.edu  canonical name = pappulab.wustl.edu.     Name:   pappulab.wustl.edu     Address: 128.252.19.134


title: Is there an app or service that allows a customer to log in and submit design requests?

text: I have several clients with several requests coming into my email. Is there a website that would give me the ability to receive client design requests and then schedule them for me?


title: Using rel=canonical with syndication

text: I work at a site which allows syndication of content (via API's and data dumps). We are finding that a number of sites which republish our content are appearing higher in Google search results, even though we're the original publisher. This is frustrating. We are considering making rel=canonical part of our attribution requirements. Google says it's legitimate to use it across domains, and in syndication scenarios. Have you done this, and does Google consider the canonical URL in search rankings? Will it help us in reducing such SERP "spam"?


title: Is there an alternate resource similar to Mozscape by SEOmoz?

text: I was wondering if there is an alternate (free or paid) resource similar to SEOmoz's Linkscape (now Mozscape) where the entire web is indexed and a website's entire link profile is scraped and documented.


title: Should I leave old events in my sitemap?

text: Should I leave old events in my sitemap that have passed, or remove them? The sitemap is quite huge and I didn't know if that was OK.


title: Google insight question

text: I am checking the word mobile on google insight. http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=mobile&cmpt=q I see a bar with mobile ]]]]]]]]]]]]] 62 Then on google help page - I get this. However, I am unable to understand. **The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don't represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a scale from 0-100.** **My question is what does the number 62 determine? Any ideas?**


title: View the campaign terms for only a specific medium In Google Analytics

text: I'm using the `utm_term` parameter for links in my email campaigns. I'd like to filter out the parameter from my master profiles. That is, removing `utm_term=keyword` for visits with `utm_medium=email`, so the organic keyword results are not skewed, while having a view which includes the term for further analysis. What are the correct order and filters to accomplish this?


title: When to use and not to use ETags

text: I was just looking at our site on WebPageTest.org and one of their recommendations for speeding up a website is: > ETag headers should generally not be used unless you have an explicit reason > to need them I was wondering what this means. Does it mean that static content you know will not be changing should not have them, or does it mean content you know will be changing regularly shouldn't have them, or does it mean that you shouldn't use them _generally_ unless you have a specific need. If it's the latter, when is the right time to use them? Thanks for any help.


title: site hacked but positions not back

text: My site was hacked about 6 months ago. I managed to finally get around to removing the malicious code, and Google removed the warning from my site. However, my traffic has not yet returned to where it was pre-hack. How long does it usually take for traffic to return after malware is removed?


title: Does the .biz internet top-level domain deserve to be taken seriously?

text: .com is the most preferable TLD most of the time, so many people choosing domain names have to pick between `desiredname.something_else` or `totallydifferent.com`. From wikipedia: > The biz TLD was created to relieve some of the demand for domain names in > the com top-level domain, and to provide an alternative for businesses whose > preferred domain name in com had already been registered by another party. .org at least implies an organization, whereas .com is the most generic 'commercial'. But .biz seems like a total duplicate that doesn't seem in widespread use `<pun>`and deserves to be closed. `</pun>`. Does .biz have any advantages over .com? Are .biz domains worth registering if .com is already taken?


title: What are the most common rendering problems with Internet Explorer?

text: IE is commonly known as the most problematic browser in terms of consistent look and feel. What are the most important IE rendering 'bugs'? Version specific things are fine, just mention that its version specific. EDIT: partial duplicate


title: Automatically appearing contact form like Kiss Insight?

text: I have been using Kiss Insight which is great to collect customers' feedbacks. However, this is only an one-way communication because we can't answer some of customers concerns. Is there any hosted solution that works like Kiss Insight but allows customers to enter their email and you can reply back?


title: Web hosting services

text: What are the best hosting services?


title: Does setting default pages for sub directories improve seo?

text: I noticed 403 errors on sub directories of my site while looking over google webmaster tools. for example .com/reviews/ has a 403 error. I set the default pages for the sub directories (pointed to the primary page in the directory). I believe this will solve the 403 issue (if I am wrong please let me know). However I am wondering if this has any effect for SEO purposes ? Does google penalize for these 403 errors?


title: Simplest way to lock down a beta web site but allow paypal payments

text: Perhaps a strange question, but I have a website that's not ready for production use online in order to test paypal payments. I had locked down the site using a .htaccess file however this also prevented ipn notifications from hitting my ipnlistener which meant i was unable to keep track of payments successfully being made. so I temporarily remove the htaccess file to allow this. Is there a way to lock a site down with password protection but allow certain scripts to run? Bit of a noob at this thing


title: Poll component not showing Home link in breadcrumb

text: With the joomla's default Poll component, when I go to vote, and it takes me to the results page, the Home link disappears from the Breadcrumb navigation. Is there a way to make the breadcrumb navigation always show Home when in the poll results page? NOTE: We're still running an older version: Joomla! 1.0.15 UPDATE: Checked the CHANGELOG.php, and on June 23, 2006, this issue was supposedly fixed. However, it doesn't seem so.


title: Favicon Compatible Resolutions and File Size for various Devices

text: With the many uses for favicons nowadays (new tab page, bookmarks, url bar, IE pin to taskbar etc,) what sizes should I be including in my favicon.ico file? I'm using Converticon and thought the easy solution would be to include all the resolutions that it supports, however, as this creates a larger file size, does the browser only download the resolutions it needs (if that's even possible), or the whole file, using up my bandwidth, and meaning the browser takes a longer time to load it? As you might be able to tell, I'm not exactly a "pro" webmaster :)


title: Should ecommerce checkout pages be included in sitemap.xml?

text: My ecommerce site has a variety of pages specific to the checkout-out process. These include "Cart", "Billing", "Shipping", "Discount", "Finish", and "Complete Order". In general, should I be including these in my sitemap.xml?


title: Turning openbase_dir off using .htaccess

text: I'm trying to run a script on my shared hosting account, I keep getting an error relating to `open_basedir`, which I understand would normally be turned off in the _php.ini_ file, which I don't have access to. Speaking with the host they recommended that I put this line `php_flag open_basedir off` in my _.htaccess_ file, so it now looks like this:               <Files ~ "^\.(htaccess|htpasswd)$">     deny from all     </Files>     AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.co.uk/httpdocs/pri/.htpasswd     AuthGroupFile /dev/null     AuthName "Please enter your ID and password"     AuthType Basic     require valid-user      order deny,allow          php_flag open_basedir off      But I still cant get the script to run, have I implemented it correctly? Is there a line in the `phpinfo()` output that I can view to tell if its worked?


title: Track the modification time of files with a regeneratable website

text: I have a website that is automatically regenerated every day based on a fresh copy of an externally-supplied database, which has no concept of the modification time of the individual records (e.g., OpenBSD ports), and I'm thinking that perhaps there is some way to automatically keep track of the last modification time of all files based on a SHA-1 signature, or something similar? The primary need of this modification time is to ensure that an XML sitemap could include such data, and thus alert Google et al. of which pages may have changed, and which have not, in order to optimize crawling.


title: Registration vs Anonymous

text: As of late, I've been in quite a bind. I have this website which is a simple Q/A. Just for fun -- being built with all that good stuff (PHP/MySQL/jQuery/etc) Anyways, I found out I cannot do MANY THINGS without getting a positive ID. Without registration (them becoming anonymous), I can't keep track of who's who. Sure I can use IPs or cookies but those are not fool-proof. I can't do things like "favorite questions", "upvote questions", "email notices", spamming cut-down, etc ... among other things. If you DO register, you WOULD be able to do experience those feature thus making the website more fun to visit. However, at the expensive of not registering and giving up those features, I am at a bind. Should I give up those features and have no-registration anonymous posting Q/A or make them sign up with three forms... email, password, password check, SUBMIT! Then login-logoff... What do you think? (Sorry if I put this in the wrong place...)


title: What is the replacement for Google's "Search Within Results" feature?

text: On one of the sites that I maintain, I used a link to allow Google Search with the "Search Within Results" (`/swr`) feature as follows: `http://www.google.fr/swr?q=site:http://bio.m2osw.com&hl=fr&lr=&swrnum=404` That returns a 404 page now however. I tried it with HTTPS, but the same thing occurs. I also noticed that Google started to use `#q=...` instead of `?q=...`. In any event, is there a simple replacement for the `/swr` feature?


title: Penalized website using noindex,follow

text: This is an interesting question I was wondering if anyone had any experience with. If a website is penalized for a keyword because of excessive spam links pointing to the homepage with said keyword as the anchor text, could you solve this problem by using a [noindex,follow] tag on the homepage and optimizing a different page for the same keyword?


title: Does ranking depend on the number of pages in a website?

text: Assuming a website offers a great service on one unique page, will it be negatively impacted regarding ranking because this website URL only has one page? In other words, is there a ranking benefit in having many pages in a given website? Or does it not matter, ranking is always per page, not per website?


title: What are the pros/cons of using a CMS for my website tutorials vs. static files inside folders?

text: I'm building a website that will have tutorials on products from one manufacturer. The tutorial will be a step-by-step guide with screenshots. The content won't be updated once the tutorial is posted. If a new revision of a product comes out, a new set of tutorials will be written, sometimes duplicated. Is a CMS needed? Or can each "lesson" be a static file? What's the pros/cons of CMS vs having a folder structure with files for each subject/lesson? I'm planning on using PHP for the header and footer includes. So if the navigation changes, it's reflected across the site.


title: Subdomain 000Webhost

text: I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please guide me **Main Domain work correctly with these settings** **DNS Setting**               Point A(Address) "IP Address" to @     Point A(Address) "IP Address" to www      **Wordpress Setting**               WordPress Address (URL) = http://www.mydomain.com     Site Address (URL) = http://www.mydomain.com      **000Webhost Setting**               Parked Domains = http://mydomain.com     Created a database for maindomain      Copied Wordpress into /public_html/ * * * **Subdomain doesnt work with these settings** **DNS Setting**               Point A(Address) "IP Address" to subdomain      **Wordpress Setting**               WordPress Address (URL) = http://subdomain.mydomain.com     Site Address (URL) = http://subdomain.mydomain.com      **000Webhost Setting**               Added a Subdomain = http://subdomain.sample.site.net     Created a database for subdomain      Created a folder including copied wordpress in /public_html/subdomain


title: Google Analytics multiple domains under one account while excluding one domain?

text: **Cross-post fromStackoverflow** Here's the problem I am having: Currently, we need to track across www.chess.com and secure.chess.com. However, I cannot set the domain to .chess.com because the cookie causes some problems on another domain, live.chess.com. So, to work around this, in code - I do something like this:               <? if (HTTPS) { ?>         <script>         var _gaq = _gaq || [];         _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-01']);         _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'secure.chess.com']);         _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);         </script>     <? } else { ?>         <script>         var _gaq = _gaq || [];         _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-02']);         _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'www.chess.com']);         _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);         </script>     <? } ?>      However, this forces us to maintain 2 analytics accounts (UA-XXXXX-01 and UA- XXXXX-02) and creates a separation between HTTPS and HTTP traffic. How can I set this up so that ONE analytics account will track both secure.chess.com and www.chess.com without setting a top level cookie (.chess.com)?


title: Footer not stretching 100% when horizontally scrolled

text:
I have a footer which is set to 100% width, but if i size the window smaller so a horizontal scrollbar appears, using the scrollbar shows whitespace to the right of the footer ... its not spanned 100% of the page, just the viewport.               <!doctype html>                        <title>test</title>       <meta charset="utf-8">

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title: Building a New Website

text: Let me begin by stating that I'm not a professional web designer. I need to create a website for a small company, owned by a friend. I want to make sure that whatever I do can be extended in the future & built upon when required. I'm confused whether I should start from scratch or use a framework, such as Drupal or Joomla. Any pointers? By the way, the website has the usual suspects: products, contacts, about us, etc. **Edit:** In response to Joshak's & Dave's answers, there are no plans to sell directly from the website. Content changes will take place every 3 months or so.


title: How to redirect / to /#!

text: I'm using `_escaped_fragment_` to redirect Google to non-ajax pages. I have the following rewrite rule:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$     RewriteRule ^$ /seo.php [QSA,L]      Which works fine except for `/`, because my rules needs `#!` to redirect to `/seo.php` How do I redirect `/` to `/#!` so that Google bot will replace it with `_escaped_fragment_` and then be redirected to my `/seo.php` page ?


title: Apache HeaderName does not work in .htaccess

text: So I have a .htaccess file in a subdirectory that contains a list of folders. In the main directory I have a .htaccess file that contains:               Options +Indexes     IndexOptions FancyIndexing     AddType text/html .php     Addhandler application/x-httpd-php .php     HeaderName /header.php      As a test inside header.php I have:               <?php     TEST APACHE HEADER     ?>      I still see "Index of [Directory]" instead of my static title, What Am I doing wrong? EDIT: I've even tried `echo "TEST THIS DIRECTORY";` and still does not work.


title: Does setting document.domain via script interfere with Google Analytics?

text: I have a site, `www.example.com`, that displays some secure content from `forms.example.com` in iframes. To enable cross-frame navigation, pages on both sites use JavaScript to set the `document.domain` to just "example.com". I am using Google Analytics on www.example.com, but the GA site is not showing any data. It indicates that the tracking code is found (the status icon is a green checkmark), but no data is reported. The GA profile lists the website as "www.example.com". Is this a supported scenario? Is my script interfering with the GA code in some way?


title: Only domain showing up in Google search results

text: I have a website that is 6 months old and where all the pages are indexed by Google. The website has about 20 pages and each page targets other keywords. I'm teaching myself SEO so I can live with the fact that my website doesn't show high in Google search as long as it is showing up. Now the funny thing is that my domain is showing up for multiple keywords in the first 40-50 results on Google search but my other pages aren't showing up anywhere in the results. `www.example.com` shows up but `www.example.com/test` doesn't show up anywhere. I tried swapping the content from my homepage to the content from `www.example.com/test` . When I do this, my homepage `www.example.com` is showing up in the search results for the keywords that `www.example.com/test` is targeting. I tried entering in Google search: `site:www.example.com` . When I do this, all my pages are displayed including `www.example.com/test`. When I search in Google for the title of `my www.example.com/test` page, my page isn't showing up. But when I search for the title between quotes like this: **"title of`www.example.com/test`"** it does show up as the only search result. Any idea what the problem can be? **EDIT** Maybe useful to know. I have multiple AdWords Campaigns running. So `www.example.com/test` does receives views in this way. I have no external links pointing to my homepage nor to any other page on my website. I'm living in a small country where English isn't the native language. This makes it a little harder to find blogs and other websites to link to my website. Taking this into account, I think my webpages should at least show up somewhere in the search results.


title: Using iframes is still considered bad?

text: Back in the early 2000's using (i)frames was a big no no for developers. Although they made development easier, it was shunned in every circle and various reasons. My question is, is it still advised not to use (i)frames? Although there are plenty good reasons to use them? ( e.g. separating navigation from content etc.)


title: Pros and cons of creating a print friendly page to remove the use of pdfs?

text: the company I work for has a one page invoice that uses the library `tcpdf`. they wanted to do some design changes that I found are just incredibly difficult for setting up in `.pdf` format. Using html/css I could easily create the page and have it print very nicely, but I have a feeling that I am over looking something. What are the pros and cons of setting up a page just for printing? What are the pros and cons of putting out a `.pdf`? I could also use the `CSS` inline so that if they wanted to download it and open it they could.


title: Enabling SSL on Apache2 causes address already in use error

text: My server works just fine on a normal Apache2 install. Now, I'm trying to install subversion on this server using a guide I found on the net called: Installation of Subversion on Ubuntu, with Apache, SSL, and BasicAuth. However I get the following error:               (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443      When I do `grep -rH 443 /etc/apache2/` I get results in two files: `ports.conf` and `sites-enabled/default-ssl` I tried it both with and without that last `Listen 443` commented out, here's `ports.conf`:               NameVirtualHost *:80     Listen 80          <IfModule mod_ssl.c>         NameVirtualHost *:443         Listen 443     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_gnutls.c>         Listen 443     </IfModule>          #Listen 443      And the first few lines of `default-ssl`               <IfModule mod_ssl.c>     <VirtualHost *:443>             ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost             SSLEngine on             SSLCertificateFile /this/isnt/relevant/probably.pem             SSLProtocol all             SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM      And `netstat -an --inet | grep 443` returns nothing. Any ideas?


title: Should the urls in the sitemap contain the slug?

text: I'm coding the sitemap logic of my side-project blogging platform and I would like to know if omitting the slug in the `<loc>` nodes of the `sitemap` could be a problem for the crawlers. Having two urls that point to the same page: http://www.foo.com/post/213212/ http://www.foo.com/post/213212/this-talks-about-foo could I use just links without the slug to create the sitemap?   Does it hide any drawbacks?


title: Mod Rewrite not working

text: I am trying to get the URL www.mysitedomain.com/blogs/ _displaynamehere_ to show what is in the directory at www.mysitedomain.com/blogs/blog.php$display= _displaynamehere_ So thanks to the people who helped me here I know I need to use a Mod Rewrite How to make parameters look more attractive The contents of my HT access is at follows. The first is a re direct generated by my hosting, the second is my attempt at the mod re write which is not working.               # DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE AND THE LINES BELOW REDIRECTID:Hjz5g3     RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^joelhoskin.net76.net$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.joelhoskin.net76.net$     RewriteRule ^$ http://www.joelhoskin.net76.net/flexdevs [R=301,L]     # DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE AND THE LINES ABOVE Hjz5g3:REDIRECTID          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/(.*)$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/(.*)$     RewriteRule ^$ http://www.joelhoskin.net76.net/blogs/blog.php?display=$1 [L]      Thanks everyone


title: Who is trying to categorize my website?

text: Caught this in the logs the other day:               Started GET "/verify-UncategorisedWebsite?aHR0cHM6Ly93d3=" for 198.240.130.75 at 2012-12-03 14:51:50 +0000      I bumped around a bit and couldn't find anything that should be searching for that. Is this a webcrawler? If so, anyone know who?


title: Google+ share button

text: My client is asking for a Google+ share button alongside the Facebook, Twitter, etc. ones. I don't have a Google+ invitation yet, but it seems from screenshots that Google+ has the concept of sharing a page; however, I'm not getting very far with searches, which instead turn up information on the Google +1 button. > What's the situation? Is there a Google+ share button? Does it reuse the +1 > button? Or the Google Buzz share button? (As a subsidiary question, is there a sharer url? I'm not a fan of including dozens of external JavaScript files in nearly every page on the site).


title: Authoritative database for storing whois data for .com gTLD

text: Since VeriSign is the Registry operator for the .com, .net (and other gTLDs) shouldn't they be keeping a database of all the .com domains that are registered? If they are not responsible for this, then which authority is? I would like to do a whois lookup but I would like to query the most authoritative database.


title: Does Stack Overflow use a microformat for questions/answers?

text: Recently when I have seen Stack Overflow results in Google, I have seen something like this: ![Google SERP](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QlvQn.jpg) Note the text, "9 answers". Does Stack Overflow do anything special to get this shown? I have noticed a similar Rich Snippet on Yahoo Answers, which also said "Solved". I skimmed the source of both pages and couldn't see anything specific that looked like a microformat. There is nothing on schema.org specifically about Q&A. Is Google treating these sites specially?


title: Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server

text: I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these host names to my dns. I have a zone named domain1.com, when I want to add domain2.com as new host it will automatically set FQDN to domain2.com.domain1.com How should I config my DNS? Thanks for your help.


title: What are these cookies for: __switchTo5x, __unam, __qca?

text: I tested on my local Mac's (OS X 10.6.8) Apache. Just now, I did a `print_r($_SERVER)` from a PHP script, and it shows these three cookies. What is that all about? I didn't set them. Is this something Safari sets up? They are: `__unam=blah; __qca=POblah; __switchTo5x=25`


title: Are there huge differences between Safari versions on Windows and Mac OS?

text: I have recently engaged in a conversation where were people defending that you should test your websites on Safari for Windows and on Safari for Mac, because they're very different. As a webmaster, there is this constant concern on having my web applications or websites running on every browser, but I don't have a Mac available for me to try the performance and/or rendering engine. Long story short: are there huge differences between Safari for Windows and Mac? Does anyone use Safari for Windows as their main browser and can tell me if it's important for me to test on it too?


title: Run server side script on schedule for hosted asp.net application

text: I'm in the process of deploying my first website which is written is ASP.NET. I need to run a server side script at set intervals during the day which updates a database even if there is nobody using the site. I was led to believe that using Windows task scheduler would be the best option but now I've joined a hosting company the layout is not really how I was expecting. It's a shared hosting with basic FTP and no apparent built in task scheduler. The hosting company support is not very good and haven't been able to advise how I could do this so hoped to get help here on options before I consider changing company. [The hosting company starts with 1 and ends with 1 :)]


title: Is there anything wrong with targeting the alt attribute in css?

text: I tried targeting the the alt attribute in css. My solution worked in Firefox/Mozilla, but fails in Safari-Chrome/Webkit. Is there anything wrong with styling an alt tag? If not, how do you suppose I troubleshoot for Webkit. _Here's an example:_ **CSS**               img#logo[alt="Site Title"] { color: #999; font-size: 2em; }      **HTML**               <img id="logo" src="" alt="Site Title" width="" height="" />


title: 80% of Website Traffic coming from Just one Town in USA - Strange?

text: For the last month, 80% of my total traffic was coming from just one Town in the USA. Here are the attributes:   1. It is one of the richest towns in California in USA which defies logic since I run a website for coupons.   2. The bounce rate is not 100%. It is around 80%. I read on this forum and it talked about how the bounce rate should be very close to 100% if it is a bot.   3. Almost 98% of visitors from this town show up as new visitors.   4. Around 20% of this traffic shows up as coming from Stumble Upon with a Bounce Rate of 57%. The other 80% shows up as coming DIRECT to website. (Hardly unlikely since we just started the website).   5. 50% of Visitors are using Chrome, 30% Firefox and 20% Safari. Can anyone tell me how to check if all this traffic from one town is real or fake? I am concerned that DIRECT Traffic is highly unlikely since this is a very competitive market and we just got started.


title: Google is not indexing my Tumblr blog sufficiently

text: I have a 35-day-old blog on tumblr. I submitted it to Google using "Add your URL to Google" page about a month ago. However, when I search Google for the content of my blog using the following query, only 5 posts are fetched: > site:mehper.tumblr.com I have more than 200 posts on my blog. I'm also using Google Analytics. What else can I do to make Google fully index my blog?


title: How does Google Analytics calculate the number of visitors

text: If I visit a site 100 times a day (from one IP) does Google Analytics track that as 100 unique visitors?


title: What tools to use for automated link and spellchecking

text: I'm looking at two automated tools to scan our site and alert us of spellcheck and link error problems. Check Dog - http://checkdog.com/ Site Check - http://siteimprove.com/Solutions/SiteCheck/SiteCheck2.aspx Are there other tools we should consider for this? Or do you have any experiences you can share about these tools? Our goals are basically to have something consistently checking the entire site for spelling errors and link problems. We've been just using Xenu - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html which works pretty well for spot link checking, but it doesn't do any spellchecking and it isn't automated.


title: Why is the number of pages on my website indexed by Googlebot decreasing?

text: I am monitoring the number of pages indexed by Googlebot for one of my websites . I noticed that since last week, the number of pages has dropped by about 60 or so. Now to be fair, I have not added that much over the last week. (Actually I don't think I added any new content.) But at the very least, I would have thought that the number of indexed pages would be static (if I was not adding anything new.) I don't understand why the numbers have dropped. Does anyone have an official explanation for this?. I have checked the Google Webmaster Tools, and have not come across anything that addresses this issue directly.


title: What does "Impression Change" in Google webmaster->search mean?

text: I have been using Google Webmaster Tools. I checked out the search queries section. There I found a lot keywords and its report, but I could not understand what the data in those reports mean. Can anyone help me with a reference or meaning of "impression", "change", and "other"?


title: h1 title attribute

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why don't TITLE tags get indexed in google? Hello there, I have a h1 element on my page which is working great. I have also been using the title attribute on this element which I don't think has been causing much harm at all. My h1 title is "The Great Ocean Road" and the title attribute on that is "Great Ocean Road" - so it's a variation of the h1 text. These are both keywords for the site so i'm hoping it's a good thing for seo. Is that a bad idea do you think? I'm not sure what Search Engines think about using a title attribute or even if they would 'mark me down' for doing it in such a way. Do you think if the h1 text is "The Great Ocean Road", the title attribute should be "The Great Ocean Road" aswell? Thank you in advance


Do anchors in urls affect ranking in seo?               link 1      As oposed to:               link 2


title: Problem in Addon Domain name binding with existing directory in my webspace

text: I recently purchased a domain thinkzarahatke.com. At the time of purchasing i selected an option, say url redirect, to my existing site. Further I had entered Naming server detail. But I dint find any other option to change URL rewrite parameters under Domain Name Manager. From the cPanel of my hosting space, I had added new domain as addon and set a subdirectory for it. Now If I am trying to access my new domain directly, it is automatically redirecting to my old website. While if i access some inside directory, like thinkzarahatke.com/blog, then i am able to access to my new site. What wrong i done? Please tell me if i need to do some more settings with addon domain.


title: Keyword diversification/ site structure issues

text: I am wondering if you could help me out with some keyword/ site structure issues that I have. Firstly I will mention our background (to give context), and then I will mention the question at hand. **Background of our site structure:** We have our main site under greatlearning.com. Under this we have our main products greatlearning.com/ipc, greatlearning.com/imyc, greatlearning.com/lfl. These are separate products, however all to do with education. We outsource our web providers, and so far the current CMS system only allows us to have two levels below the products e.g. greatlearning.com/ipc/the- ipc/units-of-work. So the /the-ipc/ is fixed (main nav item), and the /units- of-work is editable. Sadly however we cannot create a level below this e.g. greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/units-of-work/page-or-section-goes-here. Enabling another level would require a great deal of work so this is off the cards. We have spoken to our developers and they have agreed to give us ftp access to one section on the website. This will allow us to create folders/ pages under the url of greatlearning.com/info/. This will allow us to create custom landing pages and any additional custom pages e.g. for events, questionnaires, freebees etc. An example of this would be greatlearning.com/info/questionair-2014/page.html. This is all great, however we really need to diversify our keywords on our websites e.g. on this page greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/what-is-ipc we ideally need to have links going off from this page onto other separate pages to talk about 'national curriculum updates', or 'ways it helps teachers', or 'ways it helps children learn' etc. So our problem at the moment is how to structure the site so that it makes sense for our keyword diversification. **Question:** Given that we have a new malleable section of our website (greatlearning.com/info/) could we then use this for our keyword diversification? For example on this page greatlearning.com/ipc/the-ipc/what-is-ipc, could this then link off to urls such as greatlearning.com/info/ipc/national-curriculum- updates/, or greatleanring.com/info/ipc/ways-the-ipc-helps-teachers/. As for user experience, we will make sure the pages have clear links forwards and backwards to the main pages. Our main concern is what Google will think of this structure. Also, will it be strong enough to drive traffic to this new /info/ section.


title: My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive

text: I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of the bandwidth for this month (300 GB). I've experimented with Amazon S3 but that was costing me $5 a day, Linode currently costs me $30 a month. I get a tiny bit of revenue from ads (Adsense and Black Label Ads) but it's not enough to break even. What should I do? Obviously I'd like to keep running the site but not if it starts costing me a lot of money.


title: Using wildcard certificates for multi-server deployment

text: Currently we are deploying a beta API for our services and we want that all request/responses from the API works over https. I'm confused about using wildcard certificates for both `api` and `www` urls. Is it a good idea to use a wildcard certificate for both `api.example.com` and `www.example.com`? Are there any inconveniences? What about those 1-server-only certificates? Because I'm deploying my API in **n** servers with a load balancer on front.


title: Does XAMPP Lite still exist? Are there any alternatives?

text: As in the title: Where can I find XAMPP Lite distributions for Windows? The Apache Friends website doesn't host it anymore. If not, are there any comparable alternatives? I would like to keep my development environment sync'ed from my NAS in order to work on it on every machine - Synchronization takes too much time when there are 5000+ files which require an update.


title: How to roughly translate site pageviews to its potential revenue from ads?

text: I know it depends greatly on each individual case, but lets say some site is doing 100k unique pageviews a day, how to estimate approximate potential monthly revenues from banners on such site (in average case scenario)? Thanks.


title: Link building campaign for externally hosted subdomain

text: I am launching a link building campaign for a subdomain. I plan to ensure that the subdomain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and increase authority, trust, PageRank, etc. Here is my question: this subdomain is hosted by a different web host than the parent domain. Does this affect SEO for the subdomain?


title: Rails hosting providers

text: What are some of the best hosting providers for a Ruby on Rails application? I have looked into Heroku and it looks like a good option, but would it be better to go with a VPS or Grid hosting provider.


title: Will my new HTML5 website decrease my Google ranking?

text: I have a traditional HTML website that loads pages/sections of the site when people click on menu items. Pretty standard. Currently, I'm working on relaunching my website with a brand new HTML5 code & jquery that loads the whole thing, and just slides from one section to the next, sort of like this website: http://www.mino.pl/ My concern is that this will affect my ranking with google and websiteoutlook.com because it may seem like the website only has one page now instead of 8, making it look like I have less pageviews and making my site less relevant for search engine rankings. Are my concerns legit? If so, do you have suggestions on how to avoid it? I really like the idea of working with a page that 'slides' to different sections better than having pages load all the time. Any suggestions/thoughts would be very much appreciated. Thanks.


title: Ensure we're found in Facebook search for both full & abbreviated company names?

text: We have a client with a facebook page, let's say his company is called **Bob Roberts Super Widgets**. And if you search in Facebook for Bob Roberts Super Widgets then up he pops. But the shorthand he's commonly known by is **BR Super Widgets** and indeed the website we've created for him is br-super-widgets.com. In Facebook, searching for BR Super Widgets doesn't show up our Mr Bob. We don't have a lot of Facebook expertise, so asking for help here. Does anyone know how to ensure you're found in Facebook search for both short and long company names? Have found this this similar question in the Facebook forum but the poor old questioner never got a response.


title: How can I point wildcard domains to a folder in Apache?

text: I am developing an app using PHP and deploying it on Apache on the Amazon AWS environment. This app requires to be made available to customers from their own chosen domain name? How can I achieve this? For example:               www.customer1.com => /var/www/myapp.mydomain.com      www.customer2.com => /var/www/myapp.mydomain.com      I would like to do this similar to how bitly enables shortened URL's for custom domains. `www.myshorturl.com` is DNS configured to a CNAME - `cname.bitly.com`. Appreciate if someone could help me achieve this functionality. If there are any other details required, please let me know, I shall update the same.


title: Private registration of “.co” domains, is it possible?

text: I've registered a lot of domains in the past and have always usually purchased the additional service to make them have private whois info (e.g. domains by proxy) Today I registered two new ".co" domains from GoDaddy. I'm now trying to make these private registrations but it doesn't look like its possible. Its it possible to make ".co" domains have private whois info?


title: Simple locking daemon with API for PHP (or just simple API)?

text: I am looking for a simple locking daemon which listens for clients over TCP and processes locking requests. I need to synchronize parallel PHP processes at MULTIPLE machines. E.g. one machine may say "I lock the 'abcd' identifier from now and until my death", and if the second machine says the same "lock 'abcd'", its request will be delayed until 'abcd' is released by the first machine. An identifier is also freed if obtaining process is accidently dies (when it dies, the disconnect happens, so locking daemon may process this disconnect as lock release). Note that memcached add() is not so good in this case, because it cannot handle unexpected disconnects (it is important: process may die in many cases unexpectedly and without a chance to free the lock; also the lock cannot be freed by timeout, because some of processes works for a long time). I need a daemon which keeps opened connections and cares about them.


title: Are twitter backlinks counted

text: We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls. From an seo point of view a link on their site would have been preferable, but i was wandering if even though the links are nofollowed, does google give weight to links from twitter accounts with high social clout, as i know they have fire hose access to the twitter api ?


title: What is bookmark blasting?

text: I've heard this term from a commentary about SEO but I don't believe they went into an explanation of what exactly it was. It sounds like an interesting concept - would anyone here be familiar with what it is?


title: What alternatives to Animated GIFs are natively supported on all popular modern browsers on tablets, etc. without pluggins?

text: I was looking for an alternative animated images to Animated GIFS. But per CanIUseit support for APNGs seems to being phased _out_. And MNG support isn't even listed there and pages about it don't even mention Chrome (suggesting those pages are very very old) _Clarification_ : This is for a **web app** , so it'll need to support: - Safari on iPad (so can't depend on extensions) - Chrome on Windows and Mac - Safari 6.0+ on Mac - Chrome on Android


title: .htaccess language detection, redirect and friendly URLs

text: I'm having problems with my _.htaccess_ file.               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} (fr) [NC]     RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/frans [R,L]     RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/nederlands [R,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f     RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.html [L,QSA]     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*\.html\ HTTP/     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]      Can anyone please help? I want it to detect the browser language of the client, then redirect French to `/frans`, and all other languages to `/nederlands`. Also I want to show the URLs without `.html` or `.php` at the end, so clean URLs.


title: How to map URL to IP?

text: I'm completely ignorant when it comes to hosting. Suppose I have a web application up and running on IIS 6.0 locally, and then I publish it (somehow?) I assume the site will be accessible from `http://XXX.XXX.XXX.X/`, but what if I want a domain name to point at it? Can I do it on my own, dedicated server, or have I absolutely must go to a third party? I believe I need a DNS, but can I set one up for free somehow?


title: Configuring `mod_vhost_alias` to server subdomain-based websites

text: I am currently in the process of setting up an Apache server that will be hosting projects built from SVN using a continuous integration server. The problem is, however, that while I've managed to configure the build server to output the revisions of a project to a directory, I'm stumped as to how to actually configure Apache using `mod_vhost_alias` to serve the different projects. The directory structure is generated using the following pattern: > /usr/share/Projects/r[revision] Inside, there are two directories which I'd like to configure access via a subdomain: > api.r[revision].testserver.local -> ./server > > r[revision].testserver.local -> ./web There is already a local DNS server that serves the wildcards on `*.testserver.local` and already resolves them to the correct IP, but Apache needs to resolve the correct `DocumentRoot` for the different subdomains. The end result I'm hoping for is that as long as the build server outputs and configures the projects inside `/usr/share/Projects/r*`, Apache will know how to resolve these subdomains without the need to write conf files and reloading configurations each time a new revision is fetched and built from SVN.


title: Number of visitor widget

text: I am developing my own blog site in ASP.NET and I would have several blogs in future. I want to have a widget on page which will show the number of user visited to my page based on the URL {Because for every every blog I will a unique URL}, so that the new user could know that the blog has been visited how many times! I can make the same via coding, very easily, but I have database size restriction from my hosting provider and I can't go beyond that !! Please assist !


title: How do I redirect a FQDN to an internal URL?

text: We have internal DNS servers where we've registered a FQDN that resolves internally to identityreg.domain.com. We also have an existing web page at https://iamserver.domain.com/product/default.asp?Workflow=process1. We need our users to be redirected to the existing web page URL whenever they type identityreg.domain.com. We're using IIS for the web server. I'm a newbie here so forgive any misuse of terms. How do I get the FQDN to redirect to the URL?


title: SEO Joomla URL to WordPress URL's

text: I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's.   1. The old links use this formatting: `/site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html`   2. I want to migrate it to `/wp/index.php?p=id` I have modified my .htaccess file but it doesn't seem to work.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^/(.*)/(.*)/[0-9]+-(.*)$ /index.php?p=$3 [L]      Does anyone have an idea how I can resolve this issue.


title: Shopping site catering to 2 countries where *most* content is same, except pricing. Duplicate content?

text: I'm working on redeveloping a small site for a boutique food producer. They are New Zealand based but are wanting to start selling in Australia. They have both domain names (.co.nz and .com.au). Essentially, most content on the site will be the same for both countries. There will be some minor differences (i.e. contact page, locations) but really it's just the product pricing that will differ. My first thought is to set it up so that .com.au and .co.nz point to the same site (codebase) and dynamically switch the content parts that change depending on the domain. This makes sense from a development point of view. However, will I be penalised for 'duplicate content'? and how could I avoid that. I could set canonical urls for all pages - perhaps to point to the NZ version but that would harm the AU SEO?


title: Two URL CDNs are better than one for SEO and Speed?

text: For example, my URL is: > www.site.com For SEO, PageSpeed and Server Tweaking for ultimate performance, and speed, my code places static files like JavaScript, CSS and Images on my CDN: > www.site-cdn.com (seperate server) Will it help if I have a script which randomly loads one of the these:               www.site-cdn1.com      www.site-cdn2.com (on the same origin as cd1 but different dedicated IP)      www.site-cdn3.com (on the same origin as cd1 but different dedicated IP)


title: Strange results of google's indexing of my site

text: I have a site named comehike.com which got hit by the panda update and I am trying to de-index some bad pages. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors then I see about a 1000 results. If I do this search in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors/ then I see about 6,000 results. How can that be? The only difference is the slash at the end. If anything there should be less results or the same number. No?


title: How to preventing massive hotlinking of images before Apache?

text: A very popular website has begun using my Flickrshow javascript slideshow, but failed to notify me beforehand, and so is using a version that downloads the images used from my server. This is resulting in my server being inundated with 100+ requests per second for these images, and crashing or slowing the server to the point that it times out. Its also eating a load of bandwidth. I am running a VPS using Ubuntu from Rackspace cloud, and have access to IPTables and/or Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW), but need to block by referrer since I can't tell what the IPs requesting the image will be. I don't want to let the request get as far as Apache as that is already affecting performance. Is it possible to block with a firewall or is there a better way? Something like ...               -A INPUT -m string --string "Referrer: http://www.rockinrio.com.br" --algo bm --to 65535 -j DROP      ... was recommended but I can't get it to work, but then normally I use UFW.


title: Create nameserver for a specific domain

text: My domain name and dedicated hosting are with different providers. I wanted to create a own nameserver for my domain name. I created 2 host object from domain registrar control panel.   1. ns.mydomain.com (IP of dedicated server)    2. ns2.mydomain.com (IP of dedicated server) The same domain name in which I have created host object need to be hosted in my hosting. So I have assigned ns.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com for the domain mydomain.com's name servers. I hope this is correct... If not please correct me. Then in my dedicated server (with PLESK control panel), I have enable the DNS service and created 2 A and other entries as follow records.                   *.webmail.mydomain.com. CNAME   mydomain.com.     192.168.100.219 / 24    PTR mydomain.com.     ftp.mydomain.com.   CNAME   mydomain.com.     mail.mydomain.com.  A   192.168.100.219     ns.mydomain.com.    A   83.138.xxx.xxx (PUBLIC IP OF THE SERVER)     ns2.mydomain.com.   A   83.138.xxx.xxx (PUBLIC IP OF THE SERVER)     mydomain.com.           NS  mydomain.com.     mydomain.com.           A   83.138.xxx.xxx (PUBLIC IP OF THE SERVER)     mydomain.com.           MX (10) mail.mydomain.com.     mydomain.com.           TXT v=spf1 +a +mx -all     webmail.mydomain.com.   A   192.168.100.219     www.mydomain.com.   NS  ns.mydomain.com.     www.mydomain.com.   NS  ns2.mydomain.com.      I followed these guide : http://help.godaddy.com/article/198 Is the above setting correct? Would I be able to use these name servers?


title: Why is email HTML stuck in the 90's?

text: _(disclaimer - I've already tried asking this onStackOverflow, but apparently it was off topic. If the same is true here please let me know and I'll close/delete this question.)_ I've spent about a day putting together a frustrating email newsletter, using tables, inline styles etc. It feels a lot harder than it should be. I was just wondering, is there any reason why email clients have such poor support of HTML and CSS (CSS in particular)? I would have imagined they'd be scrambling to outdo each other in this department ... Is is a security thing (I can't really imagine why)? Or are they just lazy?


title: How to find Google PageRank of a SSL/HTTPS Page

text: If a page is using HTTPS it will display its page rank as the page rank of its homepage, for instance this page is displaying a PR8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/publiser45/ But that's actually the PR of the root of the subdomain, any idea how i can get the PR of an actual page, on a site that uses HTTPS ?


title: What ecommerce is this?

text: Hi just out of curiosity, does anyone what cart does this store http://goo.gl/WqnyC uses? It's nothing like Magento, Opencart or Wordpress + cart? And it looks really nice. Thanks.


title: Adding Google Sitelinks to our website

text: When we search Google for _word1 word2_ , it lists our site at #1 with 4 or 5 sitelinks underneath which is what we wanted. Question - is there anything we can do to help achieve the same result/layout for the search _word1word2_ which also appears at #1 but without the sitelinks? Our brand name is word1word2(all one word) and we never split the words.


title: Google Webmasters showing 404's but header check showing 200 All Good

text: I have just been marking them as fixed, but they just keep coming back and I don't want to have to keep coming back to mark as fixed. Google is showing about 150 of my pages as 404's but they all register as 200 all good when I do a header check. Is there another reason these may show up as 404's?


title: I want to report as a spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines

text: I want to report a site as spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it?


title: Prevent file table from showing navigation links

text:
I am trying to display the files in my folder, "Amir", but my table keeps displaying all of the files, "." and "..". How can I prevent my table from displaying ".." or "."? I have placed the code and a picture below.               <?php          echo '

         Name
';          if ($handle = opendir("amir")) {         //echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";         //echo "Entries:\n";                   /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */         while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {         //    echo "$entry\n";                  echo'
         '. $entry. '
     ';         }              /* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. */         while ($entry = readdir($handle)) {             //echo "$entry\n";         }              closedir($handle);     }          echo'
     ';     ?>      ![Image of my table](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Sulv4.png)


title: PHP rounding issue

text: We have a problem on our Google Shopping feed which seems to be a rounding issue. THis has caused Google to suspend our feed and the combined might of myself and 2 development agencies we use can not seem to fix it. The script does the following; Get the price (or special price if on special) of the product;                 if ($product->getSpecialPrice() &&          ($product->getSpecialPrice() < $product->getPrice()))       {            $tempPrice = $product->getSpecialPrice();       }        else        {            $tempPrice = $product->getPrice();       }      Add the VAT by multiplying by 1.2                 $_priceIncludingTax = $tempPrice * 1.2;      Using the PHP round() function to round the price to the nearest 2 decimal places (this should do half up and less down by default, i.e 1.5 = 2 and 1.4 = 1 (according to the PHP documentation))                 $_priceIncludingTax = round($_priceIncludingTax, 2);      This should work for all our products for example the 3 examples below; SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DL229 | 589.86 | 707.832 | 707.83 | 707.84_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _CB020 | 9.06 | 10.872 | 10.87 | 10.88_ SKU | Price in website backend | X 1.2 | rounded | Whats actually in feed _DM056 | 16.93 | 20.316 | 20.32 | 20.31_


title: Website forwarding, keeping original URL

text: We have `example.org` (our main site) registered and hosted on an american server. We bought `example.gr` domain name in Greece, a local registrar. We made `.gr` point at `.org` DNS all right. A visitor types URL `.gr` and sees `.org` in his browser all right, but URL immediately changed to `.org`. Is there a way to keep URL `.gr` and still see `.org`? If a `.org` visitor then clicks on a link to `example.org/abcd.php`, could a `.gr` visitor clicking on the same link see the address bar show `example.gr/abcd.php`? Our American registrar told us to contact Greek registrar and ask for mapping. The Greek registrar basically set an iframe displaying `example.org` and called it `example.gr`. But that was wrong because obviously, each time a visitor would click on something, the address bar would always display one thing only, the same URL all the time, `example.gr`. So we cancelled that cheap mapping trick down, and I don't know what to do.


title: Can I allow access to a HTML page only if the user comes from a specific site with .htaccess?

text: A website with two HTML pages, A and B. Both can be accessed by typing the URL, of course. However, can I disallow any access to page B, and only allow it if the user is coming **from** page A? As in, a link in page A that redirects to page B. Is it possible with .htaccess, or are there other alternatives?


title: Unnatural Links Message from Google

text: We just recived (March 8 2013) a message from Google saying. > We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques that > are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly > artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended > to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying > links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. We encourage you to > make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once > you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in > Google's search results. Our site is AlternativeTo and it's a big well respected software site and we have never ever bought any links or anything like that. We recive natural links from places like BBC, Reddit, Lifehacker, cnet and so on. Anyway we do however have some sites that is using our API and are sending 100.000+ links back to us from their domains and i also see some other rather dodgy looking sites with low page rank linking to us. Nothing that i can clearly say are spam but well they look bad and have lots of ads on them. How the heck would i know what links to remove? I mean we have hundredthousands backlinks from all over the web to our site. Where to start? I found Matt Cutts suggestions about downloading recent links and so on but there are still hundreds of new links discovered by google each day .. Anyone have any suggestions about this? Should i ask the sites that are using our API to put no-follow on their links to us to avoid these 100.000+ links from single domain names?


If I don't want to set any special behavior, is it OK if I don't bother to have a robots.txt file? Or can the lack of one be harmful?


title: One larger site OR a medium and a one subsite?

text: I've build two webshops:   **A** - Sells watch straps only   **B** - Sells watches, tools for watches, more watches and more watch related objects. We've come at a point where a choice has to be made and we're having difficulty deciding which option is the better one: **Option 1:** Leave it as is (for the user). Make the appearance of two stops (A ánd B)   **Option 2:** Make the watchstraps a part of the site B, resulting in 1 larger shop I don't really know how to decide which is the better and/or why. Both sites are very similar (one is purple with orange, the other orange with purple), so merging them won't confuse too many people. **I'd like to know how to resolve this issue, how do I decide?** Offcourse is income the primary reason for these sites to exist, so SEO is muy importante. * * * For the replies: Thank you. I'm going to decide soon, maybe someone has something important to add. +1-ed for good info :)


title: SEO - Does Google properly handle hreflang tags with links that just change the language settings in a session cookie?

text: I am currently working on a website that is available in multiple languages. I put some effort in atomatically detecting the users preferred language. This itself is working great. I also offer language buttons to change the language of the site. The URL does not change. I save the language settings with a PHP session. This is working great! But Google just sees the default language (which is English). This is because the buttons for changing the language are inside a form wich sends a POST request. To summarize it my site does not change the URL when changing the language. My idea to tell Google that it has several different languages is using `hreflang` tags which will point to the current page but the domain gets a subsdomain with the current language. Example: (URL: `http://example.com/`)               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.example.com/">     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://de.example.com/">      When visiting `http://en.example.com/` or `http://de.example.com/` these sites redirect back to `http://example.com/` to make sure the URL stays the same. Will Google properly index my pages when I do this?


title: Hreflang UK and USA? subdomains

text: i read an article which says "If you have multiple language versions of a URL, each language page must identify all language versions, **including itself"**. Both the UK and USA urls contain the same content in english, would i still have to specify both versions on Hreflang on both urls. IE include both urls on both the UK and USA, i was unsure as it state for mutiple languages, whereas mine is both in english, ie UK and USA.               <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-us" my us url/"/>     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-uk" my uk url/"/>      or would i put just one alternative on each url, UK on USA and USA and UK hreflang?


title: Can't change HTTP Vary header from PHP

text: I have a test server running CentOS, and changing the `Vary` header there through PHP via:               header('Vary: Accept');      works as expected (it's added to the `Accept-Encoding` value that Apache already adds by itself). On the Ubuntu 10 LTS production server it does not. I tried to search the web for answers, but couldn't find any. Even setting:               header('Vary: Accept',true); // forces the header to be replaced      won't change the `Vary` header. Any help would be appreciated. The server is running Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) and PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26.


title: How can I host a website on a dynamically-assigned IP address?

text: I recently upgraded my internet to the point that it is much faster and more reliable than my current webhost. I would like to move my current domain to be hosted at home, but my IP address is dynamic. As far as I know, I only get a new IP when I restart my modem and or router (which is almost never) or when cable one (my ISP) pushes out a firmware update (rarely). There are a few ways I can see doing this:   1. Convince my ISP to give me a static IP   2. Assign my router my current IP to force a static IP (which might work?)   3. Set my DNS record to my current IP address and update it on the rare occasions that it changes. Obviously I'm hoping that the first one works, but I don't want to pay a lot of extra money (if that's what it takes) to get a static IP address. Which of these options will work most reliably?


title: Determine web page draw time via a program

text: Google Chrome has a nice tool to determine the time the page begins drawing, in the Network tab in Developer Tools. Similarly sites like webpagetest.org can tell you the draw time and give you the whole waterfall of page loads for a given web page. I was wondering if I could automate the process of finding the time it took to the first page draw, for all of the pages on my site, so I can share this data within my company. Obviously the page draw time will depend on the latency and throughput of your connection, but I'm more concerned with the relative data about pages on our site. Can I get this data from Selenium or another tool?


title: Oracle EZConnect in Mediawiki

text: Mediawiki supports Oracle and I'm trying to configure it in the installer. The installers says you can use EZConnect...something like:               user/pass@//server.example.com/dbname      or since the installer has fields elsewhere for user/pass               server.example.com/dbname      The installer includes a link to the EZConnect docs: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/network.112/e10836/naming.htm. All the examples in that doc include a forward slash. But every combination I've tried results in an error like this:               Invalid database TNS "sever.example.com/service_name". Use only ASCII letters (a-z,          A-Z), numbers (0-9), underscores (_) and dots (.).      I can't find any examples of EZConnect that don't include a forward slash. That error is from Mediawiki, not Oracle. I'm tailing the listener log and there is no connection made - Medaiwiki is returning an error without trying to connect. I'm using php OCI8 with the Oracle instant client. I don't have a tnsnames.ora setup for this client - which is kind of the point of EZConnect. I did write a test php script that connects via oci_connect just fine. Has anyone configured Mediawiki to use Oracle with EZConnect? If so, what did you use in the installer?


title: What's the name of this website component that shows images with right and left arrows?

text: I can't figure out what name is this supposed to have: ![We all know this little display-y things](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iTxhO.png) I am talking about those "featured articles" sections. I just don't know how to google them so I can find some tutorial or guide on how to do one of those. I won't ask that of you, I just want to know the "official name" for those.


title: Having mod_rewrite not rewrite requests for a particular directory

text: I have many forward rules written in my `.htaccess` file. However, for the requests to a certain directory and its subdirectory, say `wordpress`, I don't want to use the forward rules.               RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} wordpress     RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]          RewriteRule ...     RewriteRule ...     RewriteRule ...     RewriteRule ...      Of course, this does not work. How should I modify the second line?


title: How to add custom php code in Wordpress text widget

text:
I cant make my PHP code work when I add it in WordPress text widget (without plugin). The same code works on main (`index.php`) , but not in widget. I searched for this question and found the answer - which says me to add the code in the end of the `functions.php` file, so I did but afterwards on the top of the header I mentioned the text I've just pasted in function file. **EDIT: adding the code**               <?php      error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); // hide all basic notices from PHP       //If the form is submitted     if(isset($_POST['submitted'])) {              // require a name from user         if(trim($_POST['contactName']) === '') {             $ContactNameError =  'Forgot your name!';              $hasError = true;         } else {             $ContactName = trim($_POST['contactName']);         }              // need valid email         if(trim($_POST['email']) === '')  {             $emailError = 'Forgot to enter in your e-mail address.';             $hasError = true;         } else if (!preg_match("/^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_.-]*@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$/i", trim($_POST['email']))) {             $emailError = 'You entered an invalid email address.';             $hasError = true;         } else {             $email = trim($_POST['email']);         }     /*           //  we need at least some content         if(trim($_POST['comments']) === '') {             $commentError = 'You forgot to enter a message!';             $hasError = true;         } else {             if(function_exists('stripslashes')) {                 $comments = stripslashes(trim($_POST['comments']));             } else {                 $comments = trim($_POST['comments']);             }        }*/     if(trim($_POST['phone']) === '') {             $phoneError =  'Forgot your number!';              $hasError = true;         } else {             $phone = trim($_POST['phone']);             if(function_exists('stripslashes')) {                 $phone = stripslashes(trim($_POST['phone']));             } else {                 $phone = trim($_POST['phone']);             }         }                        // upon no failure errors let's email now!         if(!isset($hasError)) {                       $emailTo = 'litehacker@mail.ru,  georgiantours1@gmail.com, info@travel-georgia.co.il ' ;             $subject = $_POST['subject'];                     $comments= $_POST['comments'];                     $dge= $_POST['dge'];                     $tve= $_POST['tve'];                     $weli= $_POST['weli'];             $sendCopy = trim($_POST['sendCopy']);             $body = "Name: $ContactName \n\nEmail: $email \n\nComments: $comments \n\n Subject :$subject \n\n Number: $phone \n\n $dge / $tve /$weli";                                 mail($emailTo, ": הודעה" , $body, "Travel-Georgia" );             /////////////////              // set our boolean completion value to TRUE             $emailSent = true;         }     }          ?>

                      <?php if(isset($emailSent) && $emailSent == true) { ?>
פנייתכם התקבלה במערכת
                 <?php } else { ?>

לפרטים והזמנות

0722-50-40-44

                         <?php if(isset($hasError) || isset($captchaError) ) { ?>
Error submitting the form
                         <?php } ?>                              <form id="contact-us"  method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">
                              שם                                 <input type="text" name="contactName" id="contactName" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['contactName'])) echo $_POST['contactName'];?>" class="txt requiredField" placeholder="" />                                 <?php if($ContactNameError != '') { ?>
<?php echo $ContactNameError;?>                                  <?php } ?>

     דוא"ל                                 <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['email']))  echo $_POST['email'];?>" class="txt requiredField email" placeholder="" />                                 <?php if($emailError != '') { ?>
<?php echo $emailError;?>                                 <?php } ?>

      מספר טלפון     <input type="text" name="phone" value="<?php if(isset($_POST['phone']))  echo $_POST['phone'];?>"> <?php if($phoneError != '') { ?>
<?php echo $phoneError;?>                                 <?php } ?>

     בחרו טיול

     <select  name="subject" size="1" >     <option selected></option>     <option>מבצע 8 ימים (מאורגן ג'יפים 1449$)</option>     <option>מבצע 8 ימים (מאורגן מיניבוס 1259$)</option>     <option>מבצע 6 ימים (סטודנטים/צעירים 990$) </option>     <option>מאורגן 8 ימים (מיניבוס)</option>     <option>מאורגן 10 ימים (מיניבוס)</option>     <option>מאורגן 12 יום (מיניבוס)</option>     <option>טיולי ג'יפים 6 ימים (מאורגן)</option>     <option>טיולי ג'יפים 8 ימים (מאורגן)</option>     <option>טיולי ג'יפים 10 ימים (מאורגן)</option>     <option>טיול עצמאי 8 ימים</option>     <option>טיול עצמאי 10 ימים</option>     <option>טיול עצמאי 12 יום</option>     <option>טיולים פרטיים/משפחות</option>          </select>

     תאריך יציאה

     <select name="weli" size="1">     <option selected >שנה</option>     <option >2014</option>     <option >2015</option>     <option >2016</option>     <option >2017</option>     <option >2018</option>     </select>

                    <select name="tve" size="1">     <option >חודש</option>     <option >01</option>     <option >02</option>     <option >03</option>     <option >04</option>     <option >05</option>     <option >06</option>     <option >07</option>     <option >08</option>     <option >09</option>     <option >10</option>     <option >11</option>     <option >12</option>          </select>

     <select name="dge" size="1">     <option selected >יום</option>     <option >01</option>     <option >02</option>     <option >03</option>     <option >04</option>     <option >05</option>     <option >06</option>     <option >07</option>     <option >08</option>     <option >09</option>     <option >10</option>     <option >11</option>     <option >12</option>     <option >13</option>     <option >14</option>     <option >15</option>     <option >16</option>     <option >17</option>     <option >18</option>     <option >19</option>     <option >20</option>     <option >21</option>     <option >22</option>     <option >23</option>     <option >24</option>     <option >25</option>     <option >26</option>     <option >27</option>     <option >28</option>     <option >29</option>     <option >30</option>     <option >31</option>     </select>

                          מכתב                                  <textarea name="comments" id="commentsText" class="txtarea requiredField" row="6" ></textarea>
                                                        <button name="submit" type="submit" class="subbutton">שלח</button>                                 <input type="hidden" name="submitted" id="submitted" value="true" />                         </form>
                      <?php } ?>

           ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JFAQA.png)


title: How to fix some damages from site hack?

text: My site had been hacked. I found vulnerability,fixed it, and removed shell scripts. But hacker had uploaded thousands of web pages on my web server. after I removed those pages I got over 4 thousand "Not Found" Pages on my site(All linked from an external free domain and host which is removed now). Also hundreds of Keywords had been added to my site. after 3 weeks I can still see keywords from removed pages on my Google Webmaster Tools. I had 1st result on google search for certain keywords but now I am on 3rd page for the same keywords. 50% of my traffic was from google which is now reduced to 6%. **_How can I fix both those "Not Found" pages problem and new useless keywords?_** and _Will it be enough to get me back on first result on google?_ P.S: 1)Both vulnerability and uploaded files are certainly removed. 2)My site is not infected, checked on google webmaster and a few other security web scan tools. 3) all files had been uploaded on one directory so i got something like _site.com/hacked/page1.html_ and _site.com/hacked/webpage2.html_


title: Why my website ranking fall?

text: Hi please can any one check my website that why my website ranking fall down by the keyword "backlink service, backlinks service"


title: Subdomain still times out after being set up a month ago

text: I would like to use the subdomain `www.high-res.domain.com` to be accessed by external customers with specific permissions to access the site (like FTP). We use Network Solutions to house `domain.com`. We recently added a new IP address to point to `www.high-res.domain.com`. I gave the IP address to the company that hosts our website. I pinged `www.high-res.domain.com` and it points to the correct IP address but still times out. It’s been a few weeks now and when you ping it, it still times out.               C:\>ping XXX.XXX.X.XXX          Pinging XXX.XXX.X.XXX with 32 bytes of data:          Request timed out.     Request timed out.     Request timed out.     Request timed out.          Ping statistics for XXX.XXX.X.XXX:     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss).      `tracert` times out as well. I even went to DNS tools and a few other sites for checking this and it shows the same thing. I recently went into the DNSmgmt on our server (wink2k3sp1) and created an `A` record under the DomainDnsZones which translated to a `CNAME` when you look at it. Under the domain it has two entries, one to the subdomain and the other to the website host. Each has separate IP addresses. Is this correct?


title: What happens if a banned domain is redirected to another domain?

text: What would happen if a domain that was banned from google was redirected to an unbanned domain? Would the ban follow over to the new domain, or would the new domain be unaffected? Also, if the ban follows over, wouldn't that mean that someone could sabotage a sites rankings by redirecting a banned domain? If so, what can be done about it?


title: Handling URL Rewrite in IIS5

text: On an older server, using IIS5, I have an error handling page which for some missing pages uses `Server.Transfer` to load other pages based on a database. The pages all work for a browser but some systems e.g the W3validator gets an error when viewing the page (500 Internal Server Error). I have               Response.Clear()     Response.Status = "200 OK"      before the `Server.Transfer` but the error still seems to be there. Very frustrating! Any suggestions as to why some systems fail when viewing the page would be welcome.


title: Will a domain(Y) redirected to a maindomain.com/product/ be indexed by SE?

text: We have several domains with the names of products we sell. The idea is to create mini sites in the future that specialize just in those products, mainly for better placement on SE results pages. As of now, none of these websites have any content, and it doesn't look like we will be adding any for a while. > For example, website **productA1.com** > > If i redirect that website to **mainwebsite.com/productA1/** will, will > **productA1.com** be indexed by search engines? In other words, will it be > displayed on Search engines as a result (productA1.com)? If so, should i use > 301 or 302 redirect? > > Or is the best option to upload that one html page from my **mainwebsite.com > to productA1.com?** I don't want to point any of them to the main root of my main website, only to the appropriate product categories. I just found a competitor that ranks #1 for a product we also sell, and that page (I'm not sure if entirely, but i believe so) is redirected to their main website/category but the address is masked. Which is exactly what I'm looking for, ranking up there with the keyword based website. > Edit: I found out that the competitor uses an iframe that renders in 100% of > the page, and the iframe displays mainwebsite.com/productA1/ Is that the > best practice?


title: Wordpress - Going from categories to tags

text: I have some aging Wordpress blogs where I made the mistake of creating way too many categories (50+ in some instances). This was, in part, due to the fact that tagging was not yet available in Wordpress. I'd like now to condense the categories and implement tags. The problem is, I don't want to break indexed links. What strategy and perhaps plug-ins could I consider to do this? Ideally, the category listing pages would permanently re-direct to the appropriate tags, which I would set. I've also got to deal with the problem of people who pull feeds directly from categories. Should I just chalk these few sites up to a learning experience and leave them alone, or is there a way for me to make this correction so late in the game?


title: Google Site Search ReIndexing

text: At the moment, Google Site Search isn't really working for me. I checked Google Cache and it says that the site was last updated on Dec 16 back when there was very little content. How do I get Google to re-index the website so that it can find the new content? Is there anything I can do programatically for this to happen with html or javascript maybe?


title: How can WordPress be used, besides a blog?

text: WordPress has been primarily a blogging tool from the start. But recent releases have been very customizable and extensible, especially 3.0. What other purposes could WordPress be used for, besides just a blog?


title: Full size images from Google Image Search cache

text: Due to a crash I have lost some images from my website. These are all in Google Image search, but they are all scaled down. Does anybody know if there is a way to recover the full images? I have tried the Wayback Machine and Bing, but neither has the images I need unfortunately.


title: Can I download raw data from Google Analytics for another processing?

text: I had disabled Apache log on my web so I have only data for a few last days. On the other hand Google Analytics tracks my web for months. So I'm interested if it is possible to get raw data from Google Analytics. I'm particularly interested in: visitor IP + my web URL address.


title: Author data not coming up in Google search

text: I was trying to add author information for search. I followed this link and did everything in option 2. Added `?rel=author` and added my blog in my Google+ account. But even after re submitting for index from Google webmasters author info doesnt come up. I have tested this through the Rich snippet testing tool in Webmasters account and everything seems fine and I do see a dummy result showing full info. And it also says _rel=author markup has successfully established_ So what am I missing out here ? EDIT: Ok after long time it did come up in search results last week, but now its not coming up ? Is it related to traffic to site(which is not too bad) ?


title: Should I accept bounced emails when the emails are automatically generated from a "no-reply" user?

text: I have a website that generates emails based on user action such as registration on the site. These emails have a "no-reply" user name as I do not intend to receive a reply from them. Should I accept bounced emails in case some of these mails failed to deliver? (I understand that I can use a different envelope sender for such purpose.) Currently, my server drops all incoming packets from port 25. I wonder if there is any negative impact on my email domain if these mails couldn't bounce back to me.


title: How to upload a http file to Hostsite(DreamHost)

text: How do i upload a http file to any hosting sites? Preferably Dreamhost.


title: How can I add a custom domain to a Windows Azure application?

text: I'm experiencing some issues with a website I am working on, for a company called BlueSEQ. We recently switched to Windows Azure to get more scalability and performance, but we are having issues regarding the domains. We would like blueseq.com to be the main domain instead of the current blueseqservice.cloudapp.net. Is that possible? I tried making an "A" record pointing to the "VIP" of the Windows Azure service, but whenever I republish the project to Azure, I get a new IP. Any suggestions?


title: Show submitted form input without server-side scripts

text: Is there a way to accept form input and have the output dumped/printed back to the web page with HTML or JavaScript/AJAX and without PHP/Perl/server-side scripts?


title: Purposes and priorities of Apache conf files

text: I've installed an Apache2 server on a Linux Box (Ubuntu 10.04 TLS) and am trying to setup some virtual host and proxies. There is some stuff in the `apache2.conf`, an empty `httpd.conf` (which was used heavily in the Windows setup I had), and then there are the invidividual files for the websites in my `sites-available` directory, call them `a.com` and `b.com`. What information needs to be where?   What is the priority of processing for these?   Will repeated information cause a problem?


title: What is the meaning of repeating a site's address?

text: There is an address like this: > http://online-forex-calendar.com/sending-sms-alex2edu/Send-an-SMS- > http:/www.bnat-ok.com/vbhttp:/www.bnat-ok.com/vbhttp:/www.bnat- > ok.com/vbhttp:/www.bnat-ok.com/update-Facebook-with-your-cell-phone.html Why there is a repeating of second site address and what is the goal of this? Is it Just because someone has copied the address from second site or what?


title: How to implement rel=author on a page with multiple authors?

text: I have a forum, and I would like to add `rel=author` to my pages. However, each page has multiple authors, and I'm not sure how I should implement `rel=author` if I have multiple authors. Does anyone have any advice?


title: designing web UI

text: I'm pretty comfortable with the backend side of web development (say, using java spring mvc, or grails), but I really don't know where to start when it comes to client side UI (as in designing pages that look good). OK, I know that there's CSS and I can do just about anything with it, and I know about CSS frameworks like Blueprint. But how do front end designers actually design pages? Do they use a WYSIWYG editor of some sort? Do they code the whole thing in vim and rely on their magical CSS skills? Do they use something like Photoshop to visualize the page and then translate that to html+css? I'm hoping for some insight into the way professional developers actually do it, vs. "Go find a site you like, click view source, copy the things you like, repeat"; or "Go to www.freecsstemplates.com and download a template, copy into css directory". Unless that IS the way professional developers design pages, which would be sad. EDIT: Hopefully this doesn't get closed. What I'm asking is: Is it normal for people to simply code in notepad or vim or whatever, and just apply css knowledge. Is that the way frontend designers typically work, in industry. Its the way I imagine approaching it. Or do they do something else? I'd like to get better at it but I'd like to know vaguely the right approach.


title: Do twitter links adversely affect SEO?

text: I had planned on making a page according to a specific theme using content populated from the Twitter search API. With the new display requirements, I see I am obliged to include hash links, twitter username links and a lot of other garbage links. **QUESTION**   * Are these links likely to adversely affect my page's SEO?   * If yes, are there any ways I can minimise that (ie. add no follow or such).


title: Which editor creates file with extension html.add

text: My sister teaches HTML language on the university. Students have to build their own website during class but one of them gave the project with weird code which cannot be written by hand. Moreover each HTML file has something what looks like configuration file to visual HTML editor. Maybe one of you knows which HTML visual editor creates files with extension `*.html.add`. For example near file `index.html` we got file `index.html.add` with following content:               <LASTEDITED BY="Przemek"/>     <OPTION NAME="WORDWRAP" STATE="ON"/>     <OPTION NAME="LINENUMBERS" STATE="ON"/>     <OPTION NAME="SHOWALLCHARS" STATE="OFF"/>     <OPTION NAME="DIVIDEEDITOR" STATE="SINGLE"/>     <OPTION NAME="WYSIWYGMODE" STATE="OFF"/>     <LIVESPELL ENABLED="ON"/>     <AUTOCORRECT ENABLED="ON"/>     <PARSER NAME="HTML+PHP extended"/>     <POSITION LINE="58" CHAR="0"/>     <SELECTION START="1020" LENGTH="0"/>     <SELECTIONNEW LEFT="1" TOP="65" RIGHT="1" BOTTOM="65" ISBLOCK="False"/>


title: I am looking for a Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla plugin

text: I am looking for Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla plugin similar to this one, with product list and PDF attachments. Does anyone know if there is such a plugin?


title: Duplicate content appearing for multi lingual sites

text: I have a site which has a default url say "http://www.blahblah.com/" (which is default in english language). In my site there is support for multi languages. I am having few links at my home page say "English" "French" "Spanish" etc. and on clicking these links user is redirected to these links: http://www.blahblah.com/en-us/ (English) http://www.blahblah.com/fr-ca/ (French) http://www.blahblah.com/spanish-culture/ (Spanish) and based on culture in the url I am showing the content accordingly to end users in their desired language. Now, this was how my site is. The issue I am getting is with SEO. I noticed Google is considering (I checked via Google web masters) my site pages as duplicate like: 1. http://www.blahblah.com/documents/ and http://www.blahblah.com/en-us/documents/ 2. http://www.blahblah.com/news/ and http://www.blahblah.com/en-us/news and similarly all the pages are considered as a duplicate content in Google webmasters tools. I am worried of this, since I think my site is getting penalized in ranking because of this. Could you drop some idea how to overcome this situation?


title: Google structured data dashboard not seeing any data

text: When I plug my web page into Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool it grabs all of the schema.org info I've plugged in correctly, but it says it doesn't detect any structured data when I click on the structured data dashboard. Is the dashboard buggy still, being so new or is it possible I'm doing something wrong?


title: Silo structure on magazine site

text: I will have to code magazine theme using silo structure. Requirements of the design is to display most recent posts of each category on the home page, popular/last commented posts in the sidebar etc etc.. I cant think of anything else than setting nofollow attribute to each of mentioned links. But by doing so, on the home page for example i will have 50-80 nofollow links... Will that actually hurt SEO? What are your suggestions?


title: What HTTP header code does URL-Rewrite return?

text: If I used the native URL-Rewrite module to rewrite (not redirect) a URL, does it return 302, 301, or 200? Is this method OK to use for a permanent URL rewrite? Here is sample code for the redirect:                  <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Rewriter" patternSyntax="ExactMatch" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="foobar" />                     <action type="Rewrite" url="/actual/foobar.aspx" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>