title: Is 'link building' a white-hat SEO activity?

text: Link-building is the process of manually building links in any way possible to show the site in question as having more of a value to search engines than it did previously. Therefore it's surely a black-hat SEO activity? * * * I'm at the stage where I'm trying to promote an online store I'm in the process of launching at the company I work for. I've done most of the initial legwork - domain, server, software, products, on-page seo, etc. All that's left now is to promote, promote, promote. I (like many others) would like most of our traffic to come from organic searches because it's both free and passive in many respects (yes, my time isn't free and so on, but lets assume it is for now) so it's a question of ranking well for what I think (based on my keyword research) the terms are that people search for where our site would be the most appropriate. As I said before, all on-page SEO is taken care of, meaning broadly speaking, how well we rank for said terms is down to how many links (or rather, 'how many links of a good quality') I can get pointing to my site and products with appropriate anchor text over our competitors (competitiors being not necessarily other online stores, but sites that rank well for those terms regardless of their purpose). I'm not new to the concepts of SEO, I understand the majority of concepts (it's actually quite simple, though most 'SEO' firms insist it isn't and will throw ridiculous terminology into the mix to boost their 'professional image') and whilst I understand everything, I just can't phathom why anyone would seek to try and build links manually. Link building entales essentially pestering webmasters to link to your site in question, when it's probably the last thing they care about doing for that particular day. Sure there are rare occassions when the site your building links for is genuinely relevant and interesting to the webmaster you're approaching for a link, but in some industries - especially the more 'niche' industries, these kinds of sites are far and few between. Rather than simply requesting links, many articles now go into the psychology of essentially manipulating people (webmasters, yes, they're people) into linking to their site under the pretences of a false relationship/friendship (sure, you can say it's genuine all you like but you would never have contacted them if you weren't after a link) and spending time on said relationship to the stage where they might link to you... once. Manual link building seems (well, IS) a very long-winded process with what is essentially very little reward when you consider that you won't continue to gain links if you stop. Major search engines use link counts as an organic method of determining which sites are relevant to what search terms and how they should rank and by building links, you are technically devaluing their efforts to evaluate your site. Surely by this measure, link-building isn't a white-hat process? I believe the smarter approach (if you were going to approach the webmaster of a site whose audience may find your site interesting and request they link to it) would be simply to send an email with a link asking them to take a look... then if they genuinely found it interesting they might link to it.... and I fear I may have just contradicted myself with my earlier psychology approach. Should 'link-building' as an activity consist of creating link-worthy exceptional content that is likely to accrue links naturally with age as opposed to the headless-chicken/goose-chase approach many SEO firms seem to undertake?


title: .htaccess mobile redirect issues

text: I'm trying to set up a mobile redirect for a site with 2 subfolders, and I cannot get both to work at the same time.   This is the structure of the site www.mysite.com/EN/ www.mysite.com/ES/ This is a bilingual site so each subfolder contains the files corresponding to each language version. Then I was using a 301 redirect, and setting up the index in /EN/ as the main index. Everything was getting redirected to it. I was using               DirectoryIndex index.html     Redirect /index.html http://www.mysite.com/EN/index.html      and several Rewritecond to redirect mysite.com and old urls to the new URL. It worked fine before I decided to add a mobile version -> m.mysite.com. I used the solution provided in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3680463/mobile-redirect-using-htaccess, and it redirects my mobile version properly, but now the desktop is both working. Besides, my mobile version must be bilingual as well. * * * i'll do my best to clarify. My site is bilingual. I've created two subfolders (EN and ES) to hold the contents for each language. My desktop site requires some kind of redirect to find the right index (one of them at least, i decided to set the english language version as the main index) The script I've used was DirectoryIndex index.html Redirect /index.html http://www.mysite.com/EN/index.html Now, when i added mobile detection redirect (and it does take me to the mobile version on a mobile device), it seems to go to the usual default index on the desktop (www.mysite.com/index.html) which is _not_ **my** desktop index. Any suggestions?


title: Google Analitycs says source is Search Engine (100%)

text: I have a problem with my google analytics code, 'cause it says since 2 months that all traffic of my websites is directly from search engine, i'm really sure that must be a mistake 'cause i have made some email marketing and landing page campaing that could help to create referal traffic, maybe somethink goes wrong with the new version of the analytics or i forgot some settings. please any help is aceptable


title: International domains - best practices

text: I need to create a Russian website with a .ru domain extension. How would I go about this? What are some best practices for doing this?


title: Looking for a desktop application similar to jsFiddle

text: Is there a desktop application or IDE for Windows or GNU/Linux similar to _jsFiddle_ where I can insert my JavaScript code, HTML and CSS and see how it executes? I don't mind writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the places they are supposed to be, but what I don't want is the process of _Save changes   Open browser   Refresh   Edit   Save   Open Browser_   ...


title: Remove incorrect date from Google snippet

text: I saw another question regarding this, but it is dated two years back, and so I am hoping an answer is available now. I am a web developer at a website in which we are (and have been for years) the #1 search result. We have recently started using social meta tags for Twitter, Facebook, etc, causing Google to pick up and add an image to the snippet. We are still #1, but unfortunately, Google has also added the date June 22, 2005. Our click through rate has plummeted from 40%, to less than 2%. Removing the image removes the date as well, but we want the image to stay without keeping the date. We have no idea where Google is pulling the date from. The page in question was created well after 2005, and the video in the page was created in 2011. The page is also updated regularly to keep up with tax information. The date June 22, 2005 does not appear on the page. I have created a script that ran through all the numbers on the page to see if Google was mashing numbers together to pull out a Unix timestamp, but this was not the case either. I have also looked into other sites linking to us, and have still not found this date. Is there any way to keep the image in our Google snippet, while removing the date? Would it be better to just provide Google with a date, given that the information itself does not get updated often? Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: here is a screenshot ![serp screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/daUWw.jpg)


title: Does using onclick on div's effect SEO?

text:
I have a few elements on my page that uses onclick as the link, e.g:               <div class="service" onclick="location.href='<?php echo $fields->service_1_link; ?>'" style="cursor:pointer;">        <img class="service" src="<?php echo $fields->service_1_image; ?>" alt="<?php echo $fields->service_1_name; ?>" height="111" width="299" border="0" />

<?php echo $fields->service_1_name; ?>

      Does this have an impact on crawlers and SEO over say a normal link?


title: Hide new Blogger posts from appearing on homepage and make them visible only under a specific label?

text: I am using Blogger. I want to write some posts under a label, say "Puzzles". I don't want the posts to appear on home page of my blog (as they show up normally). I just want them to appear when some visitor clicks on the label "Puzzles," otherwise not. How can I do this without back-dating content?


title: Other ways to avoid Google PR to flow to some pages of your website?

text: I was looking at this website other day: www.matieventi.com Using Google toolbar I saw its HOME PAGE has a Google PR of 3, and its SERVIZI page (www.matieventi.com/exclusive-mati/) PR is 2. Nothing interesting about this. Then I looked at the other **main** pages (Contatti, Hotels, etc) and surprisingly their PR was all 0 (Google toolbar shows grey bar 'No PageRank info' at all).   * I thought: "well, they probably used nofollow/noindex to sculpt PR for those pages", but nothing, there is **no nofollow/noindex in the source code of all pages**.   * I thought: "well probably links to those pages are not visible in source code, coz' created with some tricky Javascript", but nothing, **links to those pages are visible with a clear written link in source code**.   * I thought: "well they probably removed those pages using robots.txt", but nothing **www.matieventi.com/robots.txt allows everything**. Moreover those **pages are indexed in Google** (for instance searching in Google for page 'Preventivi' shows that page is indexed).     1. Do you think they did some PR scuplting in order to obtain this?     2. Do you have an idea of what they did to obtain this? * * * P.S. plz avoid answers in the form: _"you should not scuplt PR because this and that, blah, blah, ..."_ , I know what Matt Cutts says on his blog, but I still see many people sculpting it at least for some pages, and Matt Cutts himself suggests to sculpt it for instance to avoid PR flow to a CART page in any ecommerce site, so it's not that clear. **Anyway I'm not interested in these type of discussion/suggestions.** Thanks,


title: Multilanguage site meta content-language tag

text: I have a website which is in 3 languages: English (primary), German and French. When a language is selected all of page's content is translated to the selected language (the page content is always in one language). My site structure looks like this:               www.mydomain.com (primary: english)     www.mydomain.com/de/ (german)     www.mydomain.com/fr/ f(rench)      Every page also contains links to other languages. Do I need to add the language attribute to the link? Like so:               Deutsch     Français     English      I've add all the appropriate meta tags, but don't know how to properly add the meta tags for content-language. Do I add all languages in the meta tag, like so:               <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en, de, fr" />      Or do I add only the selected language: example: if German selected               <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="de" />      What's the proper way (SEO wise) to do this?


title: JavaScript based Audio player.

text: I am trying to find an Audio-Player, javascript based. I have tried a bunch of them, but was unable to find one with "Analytic", "Caption", "Control-Bar" etc other features. Can I have some suggestions, where I can find such an audio player. Preferably free. ;) Best Zeeshan


title: How to extend syndication of my site

text: Currently I am using feedburner, technorati, webmaster tools from google, and updating my RSS to twitter & facebook (via twitterfeed). However, I would like to lay out all of the syndication tools that are generally made use of. As googling this is more than a garbled mess of garbage links, it seems a vetted list would be in order here. What other syndication tools are out there that provide a 'set it and forget it' value?


title: How to set the icon and channels for IE9's “Pinned Sites”

text: IE9 beta appeared today, and one of the most prominent features is Pinned Sites: drag an url/favorite/whatever to the taskbar, and you create a “Pinned Site”, which follows some custom rules (favicon presented in application chrome, back/fwd button turn the color of the favicon!). What is interesting is that:   1) Some sites are pinned to the taskbar not with their favicon, but rather with a bigger icon, à la iOS home screen favorite. How can I set this? 2) Developers can set “channels” or “jump lists” for even quicker access that are presented when (right-?)clicking the icon. How do I do this?


title: Videos being accessible via web and mobile users

text: I have to make videos accessible to Blackberry, iPhone and web users. After some initial research I figured that .MP4 seems to be the best format to do this in. However, my question is: What is the best way to go about resizing videos for each platform? Is it best to provide one standard size for all three platforms? Or should I detect user agents and resize? Any ideas would be fantastic.


title: quick wiki solution with inline editing [and AJAX]?

text: I am trying to set up a site which will implement a fast, lightweight wiki engine:   * double click anywhere to append or change text   * press a green button to add a resource   * drag a link to reorder/add to another category   * expand or contract nodes/categories   * Ajax usage means no site refreshes I figure someone has already done such a wiki engine.


title: Is there a media player that works on HTTPS sites?

text: I'm currently using Yahoo! Media Player for a site that needs to play MP3 files that are stored on our server. In total, there's quite a bit more than the free limits at Soundcloud, but each file is only a few minutes long. YMP is pretty good, but causes security warnings on HTTPS pages, because it can only be served via HTTP. Is there an equivalent free player I can embed for the HTTPS pages? **EDIT:** Just to clarify, I'm initially looking for something that will scan the page and turn media links playable.


title: In Google Analytics, how can I determine the value of a page if no goals or revenue have been determined?

text: I have 4 years of data in Analytics with over 20 million pageviews for the entire site. No goals have ever been set up, and while the site is an ecommerce site, no ecommerce features in Google Analytics have ever been taken advantage of. So I have no way to determine what the actual value of a page is. I've been tasked with determining if a particular page on the site is worth keeping around. How might I use all standard data (pageviews, bounce rate, time on page, time on site, etc.) to help determine the value of this page? I really appreciate any help I can get!


title: Shared group calendar for ASP.NET

text: Can anyone point me towards a free group calendar solution in ASP.NET VB? Basically anyone in the company should be able to access it from their computer and make changes to it. I would assume its MSSQL sever based. ETA: It doesn't HAVE to be VB, C# or Silverlight would be OK, however I'm not too hot on either of those languages myself.


title: What is the difference between a homepage link with or without a trailing slash?

text: What is the difference between these two URLs:   * `http://example.com/`   * `http://example.com` Should we always add the final `/` or avoid it? Does it make a difference?


title: Why am I getting cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi coming up when I browse my webpage?

text: I've recently set up a website with a smaller hosting company. The plan has a dedicated IP. They sent me emails to say it's all set up, but now their support channels are all unresponsive even though they say it's open 24 hours. In the File Manager in the cpanel I've put an `index.html` file in the `public_html` directory. But when I point my browser to the IP address given to me, it comes up with the `cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi` page. What is the problem? I haven't set the name-servers for my domain yet, but that shouldn't be a problem because I am using the IP address in the browser. Note: I don't think I have access to `ssh`.


title: Redirect primary domain to parked domain

text: The problem is as follows: We already have registered domain name (example.com.hr) via a Croatian domain name provider. During the web hosting registration process, the registrar doesn't offer a field where I can input my own domain name, and basically forces me to register a .com domain name. Is there a way to redirect from the primary domain to a parked domain, or somehow register with Google and instruct them to absolutely ignore my primary domain to avoid any bad ranking issues? I guess I can do a redirect with PHP headers since I'll have WordPress installed, but I'm not sure how this affects SEO.


title: Is it worth spending money on SEO consulting and services?

text: Assuming one wants to launch a website with good reviews from beta-testers- users, is it worth spending money on Search Engine Optimization consulting/specialists or does a hacker with good IT skills and time to read articles/posts on the net can produce the same value by himself? Has anyone experience to share? Is the return worth the investment?


title: How to track Jwplayer video events with Universal Analytics?

text: What code do I add to Jwplayer javascript to get events like what video is playing, when it was watched to the end, watched in full display window and such?


title: How can I host videos on one server while using the bandwidth of others?

text: I have videos hosted on one of my servers, they simple stream from that server direct to users on my webpage using the DivX Web Player. NOTE I can use another player if needs must. Now I'm reaching the limit on my current connection and need to spread the bandwidth out across my other servers. How do I go about this only hosting the videos on one server and using the bandwidth of others?


title: Bingbot request for trafficbasedsspsitemap.xml which does not exist

text: The logs for a website I manage show a request for a non-existent file by Bingbot. The details of the request are   * Path: **/trafficbasedsspsitemap.xml**   * Useragent: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"   * IP address: 65.55.213.244 (reverse lookup resolves to **msnbot-65-55-213-244.search.msn.com** )  What reason is Bingbot looking for this file? What does "Traffic Based SSP Site Map" mean?


title: Google lists this gif several thousand times as not having a license, is it safe to post on my company's Twitter account?

text: I found a GIF of a guy skeet shooting listed on several sites and I've posted it in my Twitter account below: https://twitter.com/leeand00/status/488894537599680515 I looked up the image on Google Images and it's listed several thousand times as having no license associated with it. When I check the other license types it isn't listed there at all. Would I be posting this to my non-profits' account at our own risk? Or does the fact that there is no license listed on Google make the image free game?


title: How to keep track of backlinks?

text: I am operating an internal website to which other internal websites are linking through deep-links. Currently, when I alter my website, I go out and search for corresponding links other sites, and try to update them or inform the webmaster. I'm searching for an efficient workflow to help me keep track of the inbound links, so that I can change the links. I cannot run link-checkers on the other websites, but in terms of attracting visitors it is in my own interest to keep the inbound links up to date. My website is sitting in Sharepoint. I was thinking of keeping a spreadsheet with all the links and pages they are on. Another option just occurred to me: check in the Sharepoint logs for calls to dead links together with the originating (referrer URL) and the go and fix it (basically "on demand")... but I don't know how to do it in Sharepoint 2013. Any suggestion/idea is most welcome. Maybe there is even a software for this task.


title: Improve site with SEO microdata

text: I need to do SEO Microdata for one site. What is my biggest problem is to choose which type would be on this list http://schema.org/docs/full.html . So let's say that I should choose the type of portfolio, and link the portfolio is as follows: Code: `<a href = "#" data-remote = "images/portfolio/image1.jpg" class = "portfolio- box" data-toggle = "lightbox" data-gallery = "I" data-title = "Image1"> </ a>` because the problem of slip-propery is in this link, img, logo, ... Do you like this could be used itemtype "http://schema.org/Product" and how strictly it should all be, if there is more than one type of a section of the site or there is only one appropriate? Thank you in advance ..


title: Are Amazon affiliate links bad for SEO?

text: Example:   For a PC game review website would it be bad for SEO to have one Amazon affiliate link in addition to the game review? Since these links would be coded in the form of `<iframe>` would adding a `rel="nofollow"` be of much benefit? Lets say they were not `iframe` links and regular `<a href="">link</a>`. A respected SEO equated affiliate links to "poison" for rankings and recommended they be pulled to a separate domain or buried deeper in the site away from root. So is it better to just remove all affiliate links and not risk any penalty from Google? I have looked around and not really been able to find a direct answer to this from Google. Here is some information I did find:   * http://moz.com/blog/getting-seo-value-from-your-affiliate-links   * http://www.nichepursuits.com/how-to-get-a-google-penalty-using-affiliate-links-and-how-to-recover


title: Determine domain name registered in a name server

text: Suppose I have a new nameserver that is set up to associate my domain name with the IP address of my new web server (but isn't a nameserver for my domain name yet). My domain name is still using with my old nameserver which provides the IP of my old web server. How can I test that my new name server will redirect to the correct IP address before I switch my domain to using the new name server?


title: Pages Crawled Per Day in Google Webmaster Tools

text: What determines the pages crawled per day graph in Google webmaster tools? It shows that It has a maximum of 2701 pages. However, the maximum number of pages on my website is not more than 300. How can this be possible? How to explain the spike on the graph (from 100 to 2700) without any actual change in site structure or increase in the number of pages? ![webmaster Tools Pages Crawled Per Day](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mVZtN.png)


title: Is it necessary to submit sitemap to www and non www?

text: I have submitted my website to Google Webmaster Tools with both `www` and with `no-www`. I had made the domain without `www` to my preffered domain and have submitted a sitemap. My question is should I also submit a sitemap to the one whit `www`?


title: How to ignore certain coding standard errors in PHP CodeSniffer

text: We have a PHP 5 web application and we're currently evaluating PHP CodeSniffer in order to decide whether forcing code standards improves code quality without causing too much of a headache. If it seems good we will add a SVN pre-commit hook to ensure all new files committed on the dev branch are free from coding standard smells. Is there a way to configure PHP codeSniffer to ignore a particular type of error? or get it to treat a certain error as a warning instead? Here an example to demonstrate the issue:               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html>     <head>         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />     </head>     <body>     <div>         <?php         echo getTabContent('Programming', 1, $numX, $numY);              if (isset($msg)) {             echo $msg;         }         ?>     </div>     </body>     </html>      And this is the output of PHP_CodeSniffer:               > phpcs test.php           --------------------------------------------------------------------------------     FOUND 2 ERROR(S) AND 1 WARNING(S) AFFECTING 3 LINE(S)     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------       1 | WARNING | Line exceeds 85 characters; contains 121 characters       9 | ERROR   | Missing file doc comment      11 | ERROR   | Line indented incorrectly; expected 0 spaces, found 4     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------      I have a issue with the " _Line indented incorrectly_ " error. I guess it happens because I am mixing the PHP indentation with the HTML indentation. But this makes it more readable doesn't it? ( _taking into account that I don't have the resouces to move to a MVC framework right now_ ). So I'd like to ignore it please.


title: Is it safe to have no TOS or PP?

text: I have coded my own forums from the ground up. I have tried my best to make my code as secure as possible and encrypting everything I can. I want to use this forum for a Minecraft server. I have one concern however.... I would like to setup this forum now but having no TOS or Privacy Policy has put me off. Will having none of either cause me any legal trouble in the unlikely event of a data leakage? Thanks


title: What's the correct terminology when referring to the “home” page when logged in and logged out?

text: Struggling with some terminology here. Let's use Twitter as an example. If you are logged in, you have a completely different "home" page from when you are not logged in. How would you refer to each of those pages, so you can distinguish between them? The usual words index, home, landing could apply to both of them.


title: Stop Google Analytics from appending hostname?

text: I've come across an Analytics profile that is appending the rest of a URL to the end of a page's path. For example when looking at the page that exists at `http://example.com/page` I would expect to see `/page` but instead it shows me `/page/http://example.com/`. The profile has no filters applied to it, and until July was reporting as expected (`/page`), in July the site in question switched hosts _(and absolutely nothing else, so I'm not sure that's the problem)_. The analytics code on the site is the standard Google Async code with a domain set. All other profiles for the site show `/page` as expected. Any ideas as to how I can get the profile to function as expected?


title: Money exchange field

text: It was on hold for over 1.5 hour even after I made changes, so here again. I am making a money exchange website. On my homepage there will be 2 fields, The first field is a Bitcoin field and the other is a $ field. I want to do the following: If a visitor enters an amount in the "Bitcoin" field then the value of that bitcoin should be appeared in the $ field in dollars, by taking the data from mtgox.com + my compensation. A good example of this is the following site: https://bitonic.nl/ Someone goes to the website and enters an amount on one of the fields and the other field is calculated automatically. Does someone have a code ready to do this


title: How should I set up the a second website in relationship to my first website for maximum SEO benefits?

text: I'll try to make this simple and also explain why I"m doing this. I own **website A** , which stocks candles mostly for retail and church use. I now have the opportunity to become a reseller for church products under a different name. For simplicity's sake I **was** going to add those products to **site A**. Now I realize that my demographics are not very compatible, and need to set up a second website for church products - **site B**. I hate to start from SEO scratch! My question. Is there a way to set up the second site side by side on the same hosting service so that Google sees it as ONE site but the end user of each site would not see the other one. To clarify. **Wordpress site A** -- original domain sharing link juice and reputation with **Wordpress site B** -- residing on same hosting service but with new domain pointing at it? The websites will not share keywords, design, content or customers, they will be different from each other in almost every way. I'm open to ANY suggestions on how to do this.


title: Alter the appearance of form elements for Paypal buttons without having to edit the CSS from my theme

text: I have template from ThemeForest and I don't want to edit CSS from this template, because I don't have time for it. I want integrate Paypal buttons to my web page. The problem is Paypal buttons use a `<FORM>` tag for payment selection option. I have overloaded style for the `<FORM>`tag, but it does not look like it should. How can I do this without using CSS for this element? I don't want use `<IFRAME>` and I don't want to edit the CSS if I can avoid it. This CSS look weird, must I edit it to solve this problem?               /*////   - Forms -   ////*/     form {             margin-bottom:20px;     }     body.ie7 form, body.ie8 {             margin-bottom:40px;     }     form p {             margin-bottom:15px;     }     form label {             float:left;             width:140px;             margin-top:5px;     }     form input, form textarea, form select {             padding:10px 5px;             background:#fff url(../img/bg-input.gif) repeat-x top;             border:1px solid #D9D9D9;             width:448px;             border-radius:3px;             -moz-border-radius:3px;             -webkit-border-radius:3px;     }     form input.small {             width:35px;     }          html, body, div, span, object, iframe,     h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,     abbr, address, cite, code,     del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, samp,     small, strong, sub, sup, var,     b, i,     dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,     fieldset, form, label, legend,     table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,     article, aside, figure, footer, header,     hgroup, menu, nav, section, menu,     time, mark, audio, video {       margin:0;       padding:0;       border:0;       outline:0;       font-size:100%;       vertical-align:baseline;       background:transparent;     }


title: Page Rank / Github

text: I'm curious if anyone has any insight into something: Google seems to have recently changed their algorithm, and now Github repos have basically disappeared from the search results. If I want to try and get a repo to show up on Google again, does anyone have any suggestions for how I might optimize my repo's home page?


title: Need help getting 'www' working for domains and subdomains using Apache & DNS

text: I've searched through a lot of different posts asking this question and I haven't really seen a straight forward answer on how to get this working. At the moment, with the following settings, adding a `www` to the front of my domain or subdomain does not load the webpage, I get a redirection saying my domain can't be found. Could someone explain how I can get `www.domain.com` and `www.subdomain.domain.com` to work? Currently, I have the following DNS records: **EDIT: This is the DNS Records that worked AFTER closetnoc's answer** _I did not have the CNAME's before_               A         @                1.2.3.4     A         subdomain        1.2.3.4     CNAME     www              domain.com.     CNAME     www.subdomain    subdomain.domain.com.      I also have a virtual host file as follows below, (and another one for the subdomain, but you get the gist). This is to force redirect to HTTPS:               <VirtualHost *:80>          RewriteEngine on          ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$          RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R,L]     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost *:443>         ServerName domain.com         ServerAlias www.domain.com         ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost         DocumentRoot /path/to/public_html              SSLEngine on         SSLCertificateFile /path/to/domain.crt         SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/domain.key         SSLCertificateChainFile /path/to/domain-bundle              <Directory "/path/to/public_html">            AllowOverride All         </Directory>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain-error.log         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain-access.log combined     </VirtualHost>


title: input type="email"

text: I have a form where I ask for email addresses. Usually I'd use               <input type="email" ...>      but I want to allow a user to type `foo` rather than `foo@mycompany.com` in the (likely) case that they are using an `@mycompany.com` email address. Is there a way to get around the validation (if format matches this regex, accept; otherwise, validate normally), or should I just use               <input type="text" ...>      and ignore the semantics and so forth?


title: Using scaled images or using same image everywhere?

text: I have an image lets say 300px*300px I am using 3 different sizes of it on my site 100px*100px, 200px*200px, 300px*300px. What will be the best for SEO. Using same images everywhere or using 3 images with different sizes.


title: How can I redirect any kind of access to my site to somewhere else, except for me?

text: My site, www.example.com has a MyBB forum installation, and has many users constantly checking it out. I would like to make a major change to it - basically, I want to delete everything it has and start clean. However, this rebuilding process may take me hours since I need to do a lot of things. Thus, whenever an user tries to enter _any part of my site_ (www.example.com, www.example.com/blog etc), the user will always be redirected to www.example.com/underconstruction so they can see a nice HTML site explaining the current situation. But not only that - while _I_ am configuring my site, I need to visit it myself to make sure things do work live. So basically, **it has to redirect everyone who isn't me**. Is that possible in any way? I am using GoDaddy hosting.


title: Advice for using Google AdSense

text: The banners on my website are generated by `$.ajax()` call to the server after the page load is complete (`$(window).load()` event). I want to to integrate ads from google to fill in empty banners when there is no active campaign associated to them. I know that using ajax to place the AdSense code after the page load is complete is a violation of the AdSense Program Policies. Is it legal (in terms of that program politics) to place the AsSence code as a default in all the banners on my website, and after the ajax request, remove unnecessary banners and replace them with banners from my own advertising management system? I couldn't find a straight answer to this issue, and I don't want to change the logic of my CMS to be able to use google adsense in my website.


title: Redirecting a subdomain to an HTTPS website

text: I need to redirect a subdomain on my website to a third party HTTPS website. We have our website hosted on GoDaddy and I tried their subdomain forwarding mechanism but that didn't work. That's when I created a seperate subdomain (which created a folder with that subdomain name) on my hosting. I then placed an HTML file with this code:               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     <head>     <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://third-party-domain.com">     <title>Untitled Document</title>     </head>          <body>     </body>     </html>      But this didn't work. I then tried a .htaccess redirect using this:               Redirect 301 / https://third-party-domain.com      But this didn't work either. What am I doing wrong?


title: Heroku dyno vs vps performance

text: I'm trying to get a sense of how a Heroku web dyno compares to a standard vps. For example, how many web dynos would be equivalent to a Linode 512? or a Linode 1024?


title: Make DotNetNuke Multilingual

text: I have a site with DotNetNuke and I want to create content available in different languages. I was checking the DNN options and I can choose a language, but it doesn't change my content. Not even the "login" button has changed. Is there a way to make a multilingual site with DotNetNuke?


title: Nesting micro-data vs Independent Items

text: I've been reading about micro-data and it's implementation, however the examples are quite simple and I'm yet to find a website that thoroughly implements structured data throughout the entire site. So as I was implementing the markup I started to dig up questions on how would be the best way to do this. One of the main dilemmas I'm facing is whether it's best to create independent items (schema.org items) or rather create an item that represents the page with all it's content as nested items that belong to that parent item. So I could have markup that would reflect the following:               - Company     - Product     - Offers     - Article      Or it could be something like this:               -Company         - Product             - Article         - Offers      Where the indentation reflects it's nesting (for this question I didn't bother to figure out if this is actually doable for these item types, it's just a generic pseudo-example). So basically I'm just not sure how a search engine would use this information, because if I nest it, the page would contain a single item with various properties (that would be items themselves) but I'm unaware as to how these examples would be treated and which would be the pros and cons of each solution. Any pointers, documentation or experience on the subject are welcome and much appreciated.


title: What database engine should I use?

text: I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question but I want to become a web programmer for my occupation very soon. I actually went to a store known a PC WORLD in the UK where my laptop wasn't working. Anyway the person on the counter was talking to me about certain thing and then he found out that I am currently doing web and database programming in my master studies. Now he has a mobile repair website but he hasn't got a database. He is thinking of calling me in the future as he really wants a database created for his website. I always like a challenge so I think I will probably agree to do this job for him. But what my question is that first of all, if a person already has it's own website and he wants me to create a database for him, then which server do I use, do I use the server he currently has or is it up to me to find a server to link to. Second what is the best database software to use, he said he is thinking of using Access which I said to him don't do it on Access. I was thinking of using either Oracle or MYSQL but I think Oracle is expensive, I don't know about MySQL. I am thinking of using PHP to link between his website and the database. Third of all if somebody asked you to create a database for a small business website, how much would you charge that person. What is a reasonable price? Thank You (If this is not right place to ask this question, can you please tell me which stack exchange site I should go on to ask this question. Also which correct tags can I use for this question)


title: Sitemap tool fails to find all URLs in my site

text: * I added my url to Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html   * I added a meta tag with description and keywords   * I added it in Google web master tools and submit the site map   * There is no any robots in my site But when I create the sitemap.xml automatically with http://www.xml- sitemaps.com/ or other tools they don't find all the pages! Are there any better tools, how can I fix the problem?


title: Any negative consequences of linking from a wordpress site to another site that uses ASP pages

text: A client of mine had a blog that utilized ASP pages for some content. Recently they moved their site to a Linux-based server and installed Wordpress. They did not want to have all the ASP pages rewritten in PHP, so instead they are linking to a separate website for some pages. My question is this, does this have any negative impacts on the main Wordpress website? My primary concern is SEO but if any other concerns come to mind I'm all ears.


title: Allowing customers to edit static website via WYSIWYG

text:
I've set a few clients up with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Contribute to edit static html content. Add the comments to prevent them from causing too much damage and it works okay:
stuff the user can edit
           So my questions:   1. Are there any Contribute competitors that are worthwhile?   2. Are there any Contribute competitors that don't require a piece of desktop software?   3. Are there any Contribute competitors that work on mobile (iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry?)


title: Tracking in-page, in-site links with Google Analytics

text: My client's site is already fitted with Google Analytics. We are recording virtual pageviews (with _trackPageview), and we are recording events (with _trackEvent) for certain elements of the site. I have read Nick's answer to Find out where the user has come from — previous page URL within the same site, so I have a rough understanding of how to analyze page-to-page clicks within the site. I have also experimented with the In-Page Analytics tool. I have a somewhat open-ended request from my client to assist with adding tracking codes for **all** internal links of the site. In other words, to add codes to distinguish between, say, a click in the left navigation rail, a click in the header navigation, and a click in the body text--all of which go to the same page of the site. So this request goes beyond analyzing a special banner link, something like that. We have not discussed specific goals and funnels. Apologies for the two-part nature of my question: It seems to me that the only way to accomplish this is to attach distinct events to every hyperlink on the site. Is there another way to do this? More to the point, is there a good business case for treating every link as distinct?


title: Change the domain name pointing in Google Apps

text: I need advice about my website which is hosted in Google Apps (free plan). Currently I use a domain name called "A" and have already added another domain name called "A+" as a secondary domain in my Google Apps account. I set my email accounts with this "A" and "A+" domain name. How do I set the domain name "A" so when my web visitor accesses it, it will automatically forward to the "A+" website? Will my emails still work properly without any problem?


title: Website images stop loading

text: I have a website at `www.bdgregg.com`. The website was once hosted on a different server. I have moved the site to a new server. Everything remains the same as far as site content, images etc. However the images have stop loading for the different products. I have reloaded the database dump, re-uploaded images folder... but still the images will not load. It even appear as it the images are corrupt in some form. I am not sure why this would happen when the same files worked on another server without problems.


title: Changing default browser font-size affecting 3 divs floated inside a header div

text: Changing a web browsers default font size from 16px adversely affects the layout of the 3 divs that I have floated within my header div. Considering that the 3 header divs are fixed elements and not part of the site content or navigation as such, would it be better for me to fix the font size of the text in each div? The affected site is here, if you change your browsers default font size to 15 or 17, for example, then you will notice that the positioning of the 3 divs becomes badly affected. I presume that this is due to me implementing the div floating incorrectly, the content div is configured the same as the header div but resizes elegantly if the font size is decreased or increased. The other alternative would be for me to just implement an image rather than divs containing heading text but I would then lose the SEO benefits that the non-graphical text provides. Many thanks in advance, Andy


title: Magento Order Invoices - Text TINY, how do I enlarge it?

text: When printing invoices (PDF) from Magento, the font is 7px... it's absolutely tiny, half my customers probably won't be able to read it, is there a way to make it 12+? Thanks.


title: htaccess file isn't working, but did work before

text: I just moved from a dedicated server to a shared server to save money, but now my htaccess file doesn't work. I think its 1and1, but I'm not 100% sure. What the heck is wrong? Any ideas? The single pages work:               RewriteRule ^internships/?$ internships.php [L]      but pages underneath them don't:               RewriteRule ^internships/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ internships.php?p=$1 [L]      So if you go to `mysite.com/internships` it will bring you to the correct page, but if you go to `internships/photography` it won't. ### htaccess file               AddType x-mapp-php5 .php          RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mySite\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mySite.com/$1 [R=301,L]          #temporary#######     RewriteRule ^casting-calls/?$ soon.php [L]     RewriteRule ^upgrade/?$ soon.php [L]     #################          RewriteRule ^internships/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ internships.php?p=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^internships/?$ internships.php [L]          RewriteRule ^profile/mail/to-([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ mail.php?to=$1     RewriteRule ^profile/mail/(read|unread|sent)/?$ mail.php?view=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/mail/?$ mail.php [L]          RewriteRule ^privacy/?$ privacy.php [L]     RewriteRule ^terms/?$ terms.php [L]     RewriteRule ^contact/?$ contact.php [L]     RewriteRule ^advertising/?$ advertising.php [L]     RewriteRule ^membership/?$ membership.php [L]     RewriteRule ^forgot/?$ forgot.php [L]          RewriteRule ^admin/([a-z_]+)/?$ admin.php?m=$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteRule ^admin/?$ admin.php [L]          RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/photos/([0-9]+)/?$ portfolio.php?username=$1&photo=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/photos/?$ portfolio.php?username=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ user.php?username=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/common-friends/([0-9]+)/?$ friends.php?username=$1&page=$2&common=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/common-friends/?$ friends.php?username=$1&common=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/friends/([0-9]+)/?$ friends.php?username=$1&page=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/friends/?$ friends.php?username=$1 [L]          RewriteRule ^issues-([0-9]+)/?$ issues.php?issue=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^issues/?$ issues.php [L]          RewriteRule ^join/(model|industry|agency|subscriber)/process-([0-9]+)/?$ join.php?type=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^join/(model|industry|agency|subscriber)/?$ join.php?type=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^join/?$ join.php [L]          RewriteRule ^profile/friends/(banned|requests)/([0-9]+)/?$ friends.php?mode=$1&page=$2     RewriteRule ^profile/friends/(banned|requests)/?$ friends.php?mode=$1     RewriteRule ^profile/friends/([0-9]+)/?$ friends.php?page=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/friends/?$ friends.php [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/photos/edit-profilepic/?$ portfolio.php?edit=profilepic [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/photos/?$ portfolio.php [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/experience/?$ profile-edit.php?m=experience [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/personal/?$ profile-edit.php?m=personal [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/resume/?$ profile-edit.php?m=resume [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/settings/?$ profile-edit.php [L]     RewriteRule ^profile/?$ profile.php [L]          RewriteRule ^profile/(.*) http://modelingintl.com/user/$1 [R=301,L]          RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/browse/(new|hot|results)/([0-9]+)/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&photo=$4&sort=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/browse/(new|hot|results)/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&photo=1&sort=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/browse/([0-9]+)/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&photo=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/browse/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&photo=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/add/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&add=1     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/(new|hot|results)/([0-9]+)/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&page=$4&sort=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/(new|hot|results)/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&sort=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ voting.php?contest=$2&page=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ voting.php?contest=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/vol([0-9]+)-iss([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ voting.php?vol=$1&iss=$2&network=$3 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/vol([0-9]+)-iss([0-9]+)/?$ voting.php?vol=$1&iss=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^voting/?$ voting.php [L]          RewriteRule ^search/([0-9]+)/?$ search.php?page=$1&view=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^search/([0-9]+)/(details|photos)/?$ search.php?page=$1&view=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^search/(details|photos)/([0-9]+)/?$ search.php?page=$2view=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^search/(details|photos)/?$ search.php?view=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^search/?$ search.php?view=1 [L]          RewriteRule ^articles/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ article.php?article=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^articles/?$ contribute.php [L]     RewriteRule ^contribute/submit/?$ contribute.php?submit=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^contribute/([A-Za-z0-9\s_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ contribute.php?sfor=$1&page=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^contribute/([0-9]+)/?$ contribute.php?page=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^contribute/?$ contribute.php [L]          RewriteRule ^qna/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ question.php?qna=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^qna/([A-Za-z0-9\s_-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ qna.php?sfor=$1&page=$2 [L]     RewriteRule ^qna/submit/?$ qna.php?submit=1 [L]     RewriteRule ^qna/([0-9]+)/?$ qna.php?page=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^qna/?$ qna.php [L]          RewriteRule ^api/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)$ api.php?m=$1 [QSA,L]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} wget [NC]     RewriteRule .* - [F]


title: I have a mobile app that produces lots of data and I wish to make it available to everyone

text: My app produces geo-spatial data which I can host on my servers, but I also wish to give this data away to the open data community, does any one know of a hosting organization where I can create a website, and offer the data and incur no expenses on my part?


title: WHMCS for subscription based server or alternative

text: I have been recently looking for a PHP billing system similar to the one used by a lot of webhosts - WHMCS. What we provide is an online profile for companies to market themselves to their potential audience. To do so there is a fee of £20/m or £200/y. What I really like about WHMCS is that it manages your entire billing side for you.. the issue you I do have with it is that it's strongly related to web hosting, which we aren't. Also it doesn't seem that flexible to fit into our current system. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions on any similar PHP systems, or whether WHMCS can be edited enough to do what I need it to do? Thanks :)


title: Client-side background noise generation script

text: my question is quite similar to this one: background noise generator but without having to store and transmit an image, in png, jpg, gif or even css/base64 (i.e. not server-side but client-side): Is it possible to dynamically (client-side) generate a web page's (noisy) background image, from scripting from the same page? Thanks.


title: how will google treat http://yoursite.com/page?a=1 and http://yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different?

text: how will google treat yoursite.com/page?a=1 and yoursite.com/page?a=2 will it treat them different or same url. Or is there any solution i want google to treat same page but with different content. All though the meta tag will be same.


title: Present my all videos from a certain YouTube channel

text: I would like to make a page **on my site** that shows an embedded video player for **each** video in a certain YouTube channel. (I don't want to just link to YouTube's page for that channel) Preferably I would like some control over presentation. What's the best way to do this? If server programming is necessary, I would be most comfortable with a Perl solution but would be open to PHP, etc.


title: DNS Configuration when registrar and host are two different companies

text: I'm a total noob when it comes to DNS configuration. My client bought a domain through one company and is hosting their site with another (a virtual dedicated server). I can't find anything on the web that explains one's way through this setup. Where do I start? Which nameservers do I use? Which company's zone files do I edit? Basically it boils down, for me that I don't understand which company takes the lead, and which piggybacks off their configuration. Thanks in advance for the help.


title: subdomains apache rewrite rules

text: Let's say I have my web folder as public_html. In there I have a sub folder. I can view the folder at: `www.mydomain.com/sub` & `mydomain.com/sub` What I want is:               sub.mydomain.com      This will show the content of `public_html/sub`. How would I set up my rewrite rules to do this.


title: Does Google Search exclude contents of <nav> from summary?

text: HTML5 has a new tag, `<nav>`. Do popular search-engines ignore contents within such tag when they generate page summaries?


title: Buying a domain in other country: larger response times?

text: I bought a domain in a very well know provider of domains in USA (Godaddy). Now I want to use that domain for a site (local bussines) hosted in a server in Spain, and I'm wondering if I will get shorter response times if I have bought the domain in the same firm where I contract the hosting, or if search engines punish my site because of that.


title: Are there any free webhosts who offer SMTP to an email on a separate domain?

text: I have written up a PHP script that sends form inputs to an email. However, the free webhost that I've tried could only send SMTP to a domain that you owned. I don't have one yet, and can only use subdomains, and can't send to emails like gmail.com Do you know of any free webhosts that let you send to gmail? It's just to test the script and see whether it works, and therefore it doesn't matter if there are ads or other stuff.


title: Changing website Url - Am I making an SEO mistake

text: **I have a webiste with a .com domain that is a year old. The business is a shop based in Ireland and I have purchased a .ie domain. I plan to move the website over to the new domain, SEO Good or Bad idea?** Old Url - SmythsOfTerenure.com | New Url - SmythsComputerRepair.ie (I am using Fake names and fictional business in the example Url's) The new domain has my main keyword in it. The old domain has my family name and business location (city district) It currently ranks high for lots of relevant keywords in Google with low traffic and low competition. Current website traffic is about 80 session per week. 80% of that traffic is Organic from Google. I am changing domain in an attempt to help SEO long term by having a CC TLD (.ie rather than .com) and having my main Keyword in the domain. I plan to do 301 re-directs from old to new and update GW Tools and G Analytics but am I making a mistake changing it at all as I know rankings may fall in the sort term. Homepage PR=0 and very few inbound links. Should I just leave it on the old domain?   Or after a few months should I be back up ranking as well as I am now?


title: Where can I find a list of these colored graphics (hearts, diamonds, etc) that show up in Google SERPs?

text: I've been noticing colored gif icons showing up in the description tag in Google SERPs. Such as: , , ✅ Where can I find a list of all these icons that Google can cache and display? I really like that these show up because these colored icons definitely entice the eye for attention, just like the Author image with an indented listing.


title: Forward subdomain to a new URL but retain the URL entered by the user - Bigrock

text: I have my static website hosted on bigrock.com.. (xyz.com). I recently created a webapp which I am hosting on Amazon AWS. I wanted my subdomain sub.xyz.com to be redirected to the app deployed on AWS. I created a subdomain in bigrock and redirected the same to the URL of the EC2 instance in AWS. When I did that when I access sub.xyz.com the URL in the browser changes and I get redirected to the amazon app. How do I hide the EC2 URL and have the user operate out of sub.xyz.com. Also, when I do this, any other URLs like sub.xyz.com/something or sub.xyz.com?something=somethingelse should also work. Could you please tell me what I need to do on the CPanel of bigrock to make this happen?


title: What's an acceptable "Avg. Page Load Time"?

text: Is there any industry rule of thumb for what's considered an _unacceptable_ load time v. an _OK_ one v. a _blistering fast_ one? We're just reviewing some Google Analytics data and getting **0.74 Avg. Page Load Time** reported. I guess that's OK. However it would be good if some meatier comparison data were available, or a blog post, or somewhere where there's some analysis of what speeds are generally being achieved by various kinds of sites. Any useful links to help someone interpret these speeds? If you Google it you just get a lot of results dealing with how to improve your speed. We're not at that stage yet.


title: Is it OK to block my javascript files in robots.txt?

text: Is it OK to block my javascript files in robots.txt, or can it hurt my website SEO-wise?


title: How to forward emails to my custom domain to my Gmail account?

text: I bought a domain without webspace and want to forward emails to that domain to my Gmail account. But I don't receive any emails which are send there, not even a return-to-sender-email. I also tried with another email provider and my company's email address. My hoster supports email forwarding, thus I activated it with the "catch all" option and added my 3 email addresses as target. The domain is configured with `www IN CNAME example.rhcloud.com`. There is no other configuration yet. Do I need to add MX entries? Or what else do I need to do? P.S.: Don't migrate this question to serverfault. They said I'm not allowed to ask questions, because I'm not a sysadmin...


title: Sitemap for multiple language site

text: I have a multiple site. For example: English language page: `mysite.com` And `mysite.com/en` Farsi language page: `mysite.com/fa` Japanese lanuage page: `mysite.com/jp` The content posts in English site (`mysite.com/en`) is different by posts in Japanese site (`mysite.com/jp`) and Farsi site (`mysite.com/fa`). Do I need to a saparate sitemap address for each language?


title: Contextual Advertising API like Gmail Ads

text: Which advertising network has an API I can use to show my users targeted ads based on certain dictionary words present in their user-generated content, similar to Gmail's targeted ads? **Edit:** The user-generated content is not public and is therefore not indexed by Google, so AdSense is not an option.


title: rich snippets ignored by google

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why would Google Rich Snippets work for one site author but not another? I'm facing one problem here. I made rich snippets - microdata for the website but google ignores all of them. Here is how it looks like in testing tool . It doesn't detect any errors. I've read that google ignores the microdata in hidden fields. Unfortunately this is partially the case since I use jquery to interact with the contect, but nevertheless it is not hidden everywhere and I believe that google should recognize at least the microdata visible to the user permanently. Am I missing something here? It is now about 3 weeks since I updated website with rich snippets.


title: Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com?

text: # Background From my understanding, `http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg`, can help the ranking of `http://mywebsite.com` in a search engine, such as Google (obviously the search engine of primary concern). So, SEO-wise, moving an image to `http://whatever-cdn.com/my- account/image.jpg` is bad. A popular solution is to use a CNAME record, such as `http://cdn.mywebsite.com`, so that image.jpg can be accessed at `http://cdn.mywebsite.com/image.jpg`. # The question Does `http://cdn.mywebsite.com/image.jpg` rank as effectively as `http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg` ? Does it help boost the main `http://mywebsite.com` ? Or, does it rank independently because it is a subdomain? Is there another option (a way to use a CDN without sacrificing ranking)?


title: Mitigating the duplicate content issue with SquareSpace

text: I have worked a considerable amount with a customer on a SquareSpace domain recently, and have noticed that Google is indexing content at `[sitename].com` and `[sitename].squarespace.com`. After considerable discussion with the SS support channel, I am advised that it is impossible to disable the default SquareSpace domain, and difficult to mask it - so I ask anyone with any experience in the matter, how best do I redirect all visitors (particularly Google!) to the new URI?


title: Tables in Google Analytics: calculating % of total in Google Analytics

text: I am analyzing two segments (based on an existing dimension) in a table in a Google Analytics dashboard and I want to know how to add a column and insert a calculation that calculates the % of Total each segment comprises of the total visits? Furthermore, is it possible to have a table with more than 3 columns? I can't seem to find a way to add more columns without adding additional widgets.


title: Assigning domains to IP addresses

text: If I have registered multiple domain names but only intend to use one domain name for the website in question and put 301 redirects in place for all of the others, do I only need assign one domain name to an IP address?


title: Are there any good reasons to intentionally serve a new web site in Quirks mode?

text: I was a little surprised that Amazon's site doesn't specify a doctype, and is rendered in quirks mode. What could possibly be the reason for this? I understand what quirks mode is and why doctypes were introduced, but I can't understand why this would be intentionally left off. I guess it might simplify markup if they're trying to support ancient browsers, but isn't that like shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to modern browsers, especially when their site is so Javascript rich? Does this level the playing field when it comes to supporting really old browsers? Is there something else I'm missing?


title: Moving large amounts of data between shared hosts

text: I recently acquired a client who is a photographer and was interested in moving web hosts since his current host had threatened to throw him off due to CPU spiking. The migration went fairly easily, with about 350MBs of website and media files. Then I discovered about 60GBs of client galleries he had failed to mention. I am unable to move this much data myself, since I'm capping out at about 20kb/s on the FTP connection. Has anyone encountered a situation where they needed to migrate this much data between cheap hosting? Should we contact the hosting companies about this (he is moving from Westhost to MediaTemple)?


title: jQuery/AJAX on old Computers/Browsers

text: I am working on a plattform that will have a lot of users in the so called "developing countries". So many of them will be using old computers and old browsers in tiny internet cafes. We want to make sure to give them a good user Experience and make sure the website loads as fast as possible. Problem is, that while you can save a lot of requeasts and time, using jQuery/AJAX, it also brings along a lot of Problems: - Will the Computers be powerfull enough to deal with the client side scripts? - Will the old Browsers handle jQuery? Does anyone have any experience with these sort of problems or might know of some sort of article on the topic?


title: Detecting Browser Types?

text:
My client has asked me to implement a browser detection system for the admin login with the following criteria, allow these:   * Internet Explorer 8 or newer   * Firefox 3.6 or newer   * Safari 5 or newer for Mac only And everything else should be blocked. They want me to implement a page telling the user what browser they need to upgrade/switch to in order to access the CMS. **Basically I need to know the best way to detect these browsers with PHP, distinct from any other browsers, and I've read thatbrowser sniffing per se is not a good idea.** The CMS is WordPress but this is _**not**_ a WordPress question _(FYI I am a moderator on theWordPress Answers site.)_ Once I figure out the right technique to detect the browser I'm fully capable to make WordPress react as my client wants, I just need to know what the best ways are with PHP _(or worse case jQuery, but I much prefer to do on the server)_ to figure how what works and what doesn't. Please understand that _"Don't do it"_ is not an acceptable answer for this question. I know this client too well and when they ask me to implement something I need to do it _(they are a really good client so I'm happy to do what they ask.)_ Thanks in advance for your expertise. ### UPDATE This requirement is **for the admin console, not the public site** ; we'll support everything on the public site but we've heavily modified the WordPress admin console and we only want to have to test on the main three (3) browsers. So feature detection is not really relevant here; this is a testing and support requirement, not a requirement for supporting specific features. And the project does not have the funding to support all browsers; it's just not realistic when there are probably only going to be 25 or 50 users of the admin console in total. ### UPDATE #2 For the benefit of anyone with the same requirements here's the solution I came up with:               $min_versions = array(       'safari'  => 5,       'firefox' => 3.6,       'msie'    => 8,     );     $good_browser = false;     $user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);     if (preg_match("#applewebkit/.*?version/([0-9]+)\..*?safari/#", $user_agent, $match)) {       $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions['safari'];     } else {       foreach(array('firefox','msie') as $browser) {         if (preg_match("#{$browser}/([0-9]+)\.#", $user_agent, $match)) {           $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions[$browser];           break;         }       }     }     if (!$good_browser) {       // Do redirect to an upgrade page     }      And this is the solution packaged as a standalone file designed to be included in a WordPress plugin or by the `functions.php` file of a WordPress theme:               <?php     /* my-clients-browser-detect.php */          if (!class_exists('MyClients_BrowserDetector')) {       class MyClients_BrowserDetector {         static $min_versions = array(           'safari'  => 5,           'firefox' => 3.6,           'msie'    => 8,         );         static function admin_init() {           $good_browser = false;           $user_agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);           if (preg_match("#applewebkit/.*?version/([0-9]+)\..*?safari/#", $user_agent, $match)) {             $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions['safari'];           } else {             foreach(array('firefox','msie') as $browser) {               if (preg_match("#{$browser}/([0-9]+)\.#", $user_agent, $match)) {                 $good_browser = intval($match[1])>=self::$min_versions[$browser];                 break;               }             }           }           if (!$good_browser) {             $pages = self::get_pages('page-upgrade-browser.php');             if (count($pages)==0) {               echo "
Please upgrade your browser to one of the following:

";               foreach(self::$min_versions as $browser => $version) {                 echo "
{$browser}: {$version}
";               }               echo "
";               exit;             }             $permalink = get_page_link(get_post($pages[0])->ID);             wp_safe_redirect($permalink,302);           }         }         static function get_pages($template) {           global $wpdb;           $sql = $wpdb->prepare("SELECT post_id FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE meta_key='_wp_page_template' AND meta_value='%s'",$template);           $pages = $wpdb->get_col($sql);           foreach($pages as $index => $page_id)             $pages[$index] = get_post($page_id);           return $pages;         }         static function on_load() {           add_action('admin_init', array(__CLASS__,'admin_init'));         }       }       MyClients_BrowserDetector::on_load();     }      As several people have mentioned feature detection is usually considered a better approach but for this use-case we really didn't have specific features we cared about, we had specific named browsers we cared about so feature detection wasn't a viable option. FYI, the client knows that we may have to revise this script in the future if we can false negatives or false positives. -Mike


title: Which Drupal Modules do I need for a news site?

text: What are some important modules I should install in Drupal if I am going to use it for a news website.


title: Google webmaster for Adult site

text: I am developing an adult wallpaper website. My question is can I use Google Webmaster Tools? Please tell me the benefit or disadvantage.


title: How important is responsive web design?

text: I've heard a variety of opinions regarding the pros and cons of using responsive web design recently and was wondering whether it was necessary for small businesses that target small geographical areas to implement responsive web design? Some sub-questions I have regarding this include:   1. Is it better to use responsive web design as opposed to having separate code utilized for different dimensions/devices?   2. Can it potentially affect SEO (positively or negatively)?   3. What are the main problems I could run into when optimizing a website for a business using this design method?


title: can canonical links be used to make 'duplicate' pages unique?

text: We have a website that allows users to list items for sale. Think ebay - except we don't actually deal with selling the item, we just list it for sale and provide a way to contact the seller. Anyhow, in several cases sellers maybe have multiple units of an item for sale. We don't have a quantity field, so they upload each item as a separate listing (and using a quantity field is not an option). So we have a lot of pages which basically have the exact same info and only the item # might be different. The SEO guy we've started using has said we should put a canonical link on each page, and have the canonical link point to itself. So for example, www.mysite.com/something/ would have a canonical link of href="www.mysite.com/something/" This doesn't really seem kosher to me. I thought canonical links we're suppose to point to other pages. The SEO guy claims doing it this way will tell google all these pages are indeed unique, even if they do basically have the same content. This seems a little off to me since what's to stop a spammer from putting up a million pages and doing this as well? Can anyone tell me if the SEO guy's suggestion is valid or not? If it's not valid, then do i need to figure out some way to check for duplicated items and automatically pick one of the duplicates to serve as an original and generate canonical links based off that? Thanks in advance for any help


title: Setting up a LAMP VM server for Development and Testing?

text: **Info:** I would like to set up a VM server on my local computer which will serve pages in the exact same way as my current hosting (but only to me on my local computer). I currently pay a big web hosting company to host my website & web store and they are doing a great job, but I would like to be able to work on my Web site and its corresponding MySQL DB, HTML, and PHP code without being at risk of messing something completely up on the live servers. My current plan of action:   1. Set up a VM webserver with Debian, MySQL, PHP, Apache.   2. Copy web store (PHP/HTML) code to VM server.   3. Copy my current MySQL databases from my hosting provider and install on VM server.   4. Modify and test new features on VM server.   5. Upload MySQL DB and HTML/PHP code back to web host's server where it should work as before but with new modifications. **Questions:** Now I'm pretty sure I have steps one and two down correctly but I can't for the life of me figure out how to proceed next, so here are my questions. I have my /etc/host file set up so www.MySite.test redirects to the IP address of the local VM webserver. Once I import my PHP/HTML files and MySQL file whats the best way to navigate around the fact that all of my files and DBs will reference www.MySite.com. I can export my MySQL dbs but do I also have to export my MySQL users and passwords to access those db or are those coded into my html/php code?


title: Retrieving Monthly Hits From Google Analytics

text: What I want to do is grab the last 5 months including the current months hits for that month. I have only just copied the tracking code and plugged it into my site but after that I'm not sure what to do.


title: Why do www site and naked site have much of the same data in Webmaster Tools?

text: My naked domain has always had a 301 redirect to the www domain. SERPs always display the www version. I added the www domain to Webmasters tools a while back. I recently added the naked domain as a site and set the preferred domain to www. I expected there to be practically no data for the naked domain site. However, I see the exact same information for   * Top queries   * Top pages   * Number of pages indexed Why am I seeing this data for the naked domain?


title: Unable to track a subdomain with google analytics

text: I have a download page on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) and I'm tracking the "virtual page view" to the download following these instructions . That part works fine. However, I also want to track the index page at downloads.easyjob.net and that's where I got into trouble: it gives me the same number of pageviews ass the entire site on www.easyjob.net, which is clearly not possible. Anybody knows what's going on?


title: How useful is Alexa's ranking?

text: I know of Alexa and some people find the information useful for ranking a website... as for me, no matter how big or small my sites are, none of them are registered with stats on them, and a few clients are _disappointed_ with me over it.   * How much influence does Alexa have on website's worth?   * Why do people hold it's stats so highly over content of the actual site in question?   * Should I actually worry about Alexa Ranking? All of the stats which I do worry about is what Google Analytics, Webmasters Tools, and Piwiki on my server tells me. Usually I can gauge how good or bad I am doing with those alone for what sections of the site is active and which is not receiving traffic for the purpose of my content.


title: My site isn't ranking of Alexa

text: My site is online for more than 3 months now but I don't have Alexa rank. I don't understand why. Could anyone explain this to me?


title: Softonic displaying Google Ads for my software in Google search

text: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but not sure where else to ask.. I was doing a Google search to check the results of my Software's name which I sell on my website. I found, Google displayed an Ad from Softonic.com for that keyword. And worse, Softonic was linking to a page where they asked users to download their software-installer to download my software and NOT my software! We have neither asked Softonic nor Softonic had informed us regarding that Ad and their installer. Can someone please tell me if such Ads are allowed by Google Adwords? And does it violate Adwords TOS? Thanks in advance!


title: How should we handle a website migration to a CMS?

text: I am asked to migrate an existing website to a CMS (Joomla / Drupal). The current website is on a shared hosting and there are already lots of files inside the public_html folder. I am thinking of doing the migration in the following way. 1) Install the CMS on my machine. 2) Create a CMS theme from the old website. 3) Copy all contents from the old website to the CMS. 4) Backup everything in the old website. 5) Remove the old website by cleaning up everything in the hosting account, which includes the files inside the public_html folder and the all tables in the mysql database. 6) Transfer all files in the public_html folder on my machine to the public_html folder in the shared hosting by FTP. 7) Backup the mysql database (the CMS must have created lots of tables and data rows) on my machine. 8) Restore the database in the shared hosting using PHPMyAdmin. 9) Test if everything still works after the migration. I think there are just too many steps. Is this the way you would handle a website migration to a CMS? Many thanks to you all.


title: Hide your website links from search engne

text: My Website Link is posted in someone else website, i asked for removal but can't get reply, google crawl his website and my website link is posted on that how to control that is that is possible? i ask to him , he said he will remove when he will got time, they are using application version 1 (which not allowed to edit content app 2 allow to edit i ask him to upgrade they said don't have time)


title: Can I safely include "self-defined" HTML Tags in a HTML Website?

text: I have seen a website that has a doctype of               <!DOCTYPE html>      This website uses HTML Tags that I have never seen before like `<section>`. My Question: 1.) Is this kind of "generic Doctype" recommended for a normal website? (I've never seen this this before, what are the pro and cons?) 2.) When is it valid to use such "self defined" HTML Tags? Is this valid with this doctype Declaration?


title: How to promote the quality/security of your a website to your its customers?

text: Our organization is building a Drupal web platform that we aim at reselling as a cloud service. In order to provide our customers with maximum confidence in our solution, we're looking at ways of publicly conveying trust regarding the quality and security of our platform. Here is what we came up with some far: - **Drupal** : are there any Drupal certifications available out there? - **PHP** : have your PHP developers certified (e.g. Zend PHP certification) and display the certification image (ideally, create links from the About/Team/Dev page to a page on the zend website where this could be verified). - **SSL** : buy certificates from sizable CAs (e.g. Verisign) instead of cheaper and not as known ones (e.g. prontossl.com) and display the CA seal on your website accordingly. - **System** : have your system penetration tested by a known security company, have a case study written about it. - **Infrastructure** : get your infrastructure ISO QMS 9001 certified. - **HTML/CSS** : show that your company is doing everything it can to remain standard-compliant by making your code W3 compliant and showing the W3 valid icons on your website. - **Misc** : get your engineers to pass some security certifications, like one of these.          **Are there anything else you can think of that could help promote the quality/security of your platform?** PS: if you're planning on answering with a _"what really matters is the actual quality/security of your solution more than how good/secure it appears to be"_ type of answer please refrain. We all know it's true, but we also know that from a sales standpoint, it is very important to be able to rely on certifications to efficiently promote quality/security.


title: HTML 5 - Backward Compatibility with new Tags and CSS?

text: In case I will use any of the new HTML5 Tags like:               <article> or <section> ...      with a doctype of               <!DOCTYPE html>      1.) Can I directly assign a style to this element like:               <article style="margin:100px;"> ?      http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-article-element The W3C link does not explain this really well for HTML5 very dummy friendly. 2.) In case this is allowed, what is a browser expected to render, if the browser does not support the tag (=does not support html5) . Will it render it as div (and apply the CSS) or will the tag be completly omitted and therefore also the applied CSS formatting is lost? Thanks very much! Jens


title: Where to get ads for my website?

text: My website is getting around 100 visitors per day so I was thinking that I should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. Is Google adsense a good choice? Will google adsense allow me to open an account there with such little traffic on my website? Please help from last two months I have done a very hard work to bring such traffic. I know it is not very much but I am still working on it.


title: Mediawiki much slower in Firefox

text: I've a couple of Mediawiki (1.19.1 with Vector Skin) sites on Dreamhost shared hosting and I've found that access trough Firefox is much slower than trough Chrome. For example at this moment, after cleaning the cache in both browsers: **Firefox**   * 11.1 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges)   * 7.7 seconds for the second page (Home) **Chrome**   * 9.2 seconds for the first page (RecentChanges)   * 3.2 seconds for the second page (Home) This numbers confirm previous tests, made in 2 different days a few weeks ago. Please note the huge difference for the second page. An older version of Mediawiki on a different server does not seem to have this problem. Firefox and Chrome have similar results. I need to know how to make access trough Firefox as fast as trough Chrome, without changing the hosting company/plan, Mediawiki or asking users to change Firefox's defaults. _**_* HTTP RESPONSE HEADERS _*_**               HTML FILE HEADERS     Cache-Control   private, must-revalidate, max-age=0, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Language    es     Content-Type    text/html; charset=UTF-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:11 GMT     Expires Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding,Cookie     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff     X-Frame-Options DENY          CSS FILE HEADERS     Cache-Control   public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Type    text/css; charset=utf-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:17 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Last-Modified   Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:59:38 GMT     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff          JAVASCRIPT FILE HEADERS:     Cache-Control   public, max-age=300, s-maxage=300, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Type    text/javascript; charset=utf-8     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Expires Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:40:14 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=100     Last-Modified   Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:55:25 GMT     Server  Apache     Transfer-Encoding   chunked     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-Content-Type-Options  nosniff          IMAGE FILE (PNG) HEADERS:     Accept-Ranges   bytes     Cache-Control   max-age=2592000, public     Connection  Keep-Alive     Content-Length  206     Content-Type    image/png     Date    Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Etag    "ce-4c25eaaf8f780"     Expires Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:35:13 GMT     Keep-Alive  timeout=2, max=99     Last-Modified   Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:22:38 GMT     Server  Apache


title: Is it a problem (e.g. for Google) when my site has no root page?

text: I have a multi-lingual site, which contains languages in this manner:               http://www.example.com/en/     http://www.example.com/de/     http://www.example.com/fr/      To avoid duplicate links, is it ok **not to** have the root (`/`) page? I.e., the root 301 redirects to `/en/`:               $ curl -I http://www.example.com/     HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     Location: /en/      Does Google mind, or should I mind? Does anyone?


title: Retroactively applying a Piwik goal to visitors

text: I started receiving a large (for me) amount of traffic on one of my pages yesterday. Today, I thought that it would be useful to track goals from that page -- there's a link to my blog from it. I added the 'visited external link' goal to Piwik, and new visits are being recorded. However, it seems to me that there must be enough data in the database to retroactively apply the goal to past users -- is there a way to achieve that?.


title: Is there any problem with using two slashes in the middle of a URL?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What does the double slash mean in URLs? I'm working on a mod_rewrite URL structure as follows:               http://example.com/search/filter1/filter2/filter3/filter4      There are some conditions where it is OK for the first attribute to be blank, but i want to keep the other attributes in the same position. (Otherwise I can't assume that the attribute in the second position represents what I want it to represent.) However this results in some URLs like this:               http://example.com/search//filter2/filter3/filter4      This seems to work in all browsers I've tested (Chrome,Firefox,IE9,IE compatible) and I'm not seeing any errors on the server side, so I can't think of any problems in using it. But it just looks wrong and weird to me and I'm not used to seeing it. Are there any potential downsides to using a structure that encourages URLs like this, or any major reasons no one seems to use it? (Everything I search in Google assumes I'm talking about the two slashes after `http:`)


title: Sharing one static ip for both ftp and www service

text: Trying to figure out how to update the Zone record and configure webserver so that one application on the webserver is accessible by public. I'm completely not good at NS/DNS/NAT/firewall/routing/port forwarding/networking etc. "faraday" is the intranet name. Everyone within local network can access all applications hosted on "faraday". Hostname for webserver is "www", FTP server is "ftpserver". Both servers running RHEL4 OS. The goal is to allow anyone outside the company network (public) to access only one of the many applications on "faraday". Hope somebody can help me with some of the questions below, if not all.   * From zoneedit record, the static IP is used by FTP now.   * Can I use the same existing static IP - 219.95.10.100, for web service?   * Currently anyone who enter "http://www.abc.com.my" will be directed to "http://www.abc.com". I don't want this to change.   * Currently, no one else, except employee on local network, can access "faraday" web pages.   * How to configure so that when anyone type "http://thisapp.abc.com.my" on their web browser, the url will lead them to "http://faraday/thisapp" (application folder is /var/www/html/thisapp on RHEL4 web server).   * If possible, how to set the URL will continue to show "http://thisapp.abc.com.my" instead of "http://faraday/thisapp"   * How to limit/restrict user (those who are not from local network) so they only have access to "http://thisapp.abc.com.my", but not "http://faraday" or "http://faraday/anotherapp", etc.   * What's the configuration changes needed in /etc/httpd.conf on web server? Company domain name is "abc.com.my". Following is the zone records on www.zoneedit.com.               Subdomain   Type    IP     sdsl        A       219.95.10.100     ftp         CNAME   sdsl.abc.com.my     @           NS      ns3.zoneedit.com     @           NS      ns7.zoneedit.com      WebForward record:               New Domain        Destination           Cloaked     www.abc.com.my    http://www.abc.com    N      On my local DNS server, there are 2 zone files: abc.com.my and pnmy.abc.com.               > cat abc.com.my.zone     ftp     CNAME   ftp.pnmy.abc.com.     sdsl    A       219.95.10.100          > cat pnmy.abc.com.zone     ftp         CNAME   ftpserver     ftpserver   A       172.16.5.1     faraday     CNAME   www     www         A       172.16.5.2


title: What is this thing called?!?! (bottom of screen popup)

text: I am looking for the name and some possible jquery libraries etc for the standard bottom of screen popup bar. Its like a little bar that pops out on the bottom of the screen after X seconds or however really - generally slides up, about 50px or so high, and usually the length of the main container. used for some form of coupon advertisement or various promotion text etc. What is the proper term for this item, and would there be any good references to best-use guidelines?


title: Google Analytics Not Detecting Tracking Code

text: I installed google analytics tracking code on my website. It is not being detected on the google analytics app. I did notice though that the default url in the google analytics app is set to `http://jobrangers.com` and my site redirects to `http://jobrangers.com/en`. Can someone please assist me in getting the tracking software on Google to pick up the installed tracking code. Thanks


title: Benefits of sharing one IP, or prefarably assigning a new IP?

text: I think I am lost but not found yet, please as regards this very topic; my issue was that I bought a new VPS using WHM optimised and it's just one domain meaning one IP. All I want to know is the benefit with sharing one IP to many domains I created for the users (remembering the IP is for the root) or is it of a disadvantage? Probably help me too with knowing if it's prefarable to create/assign a new IP to each new domain created for users?


title: Does Wordpress have any SEO benifits on sites coded from scratch?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website? I have heard SEO experts suggest moving sites to Wordpress for SEO optimization. Googling offers some perspectives that confirm this (like this or somewhat more dubiously, this). Is this accurate? Some other places say that it doesn't matter, except that Wordpress configures all the meta correctly. In that case, what exactly must be configured?


title: CSS framework that support Internet Explorer 6, 8 out of the box

text: I am developing a new web application that _must_ support Internet Explorer 6 and 8 (it's a strict requirements). I planned to use a CSS framework (like Twitter Bootstrap). However, it did not support IE6 8 out of the box; YAML supports IE6 (natively, as written on their website). Do you have experience in any other CSS frameworks that supports IE6, 8?


Should I return a http 401 status code on an html based login form? The page is a dedicated login form, and does not have any other meaningful content, just site framework. The URL however, can be for a page that does have meaningful content, but requires login. Note that this setup only returns the status code 401, and doesn't prompt the user for basic authentication. Looking at the standards it seems that 401 is an inappropriate status code for html based login forms. However, I have never experienced or heard of any ill consequences of doing so. When sending 401, "The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field (section 14.47) containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource." requirement mentioned here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4.2 detailed here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-3.2.1 I know there are ways that I can work around search engines in convincing them to index, or not, pages based on the presence of a login form, but I'd prefer to use http status codes, specifically 401 since it's definition seems like a perfect match if not for the WWW-Authenticate header requirement. Is there any reason why I shouldn't use 401 in this case? Semantically is there any difference between not being Authorised at the http level versus being Authorised at the application level? Obviously you can have both, but isn't authentication at the http level just for ease of not implementing it at the application level?


title: CSS style is gone on the homepage in IE8

text: I wondered if it's because the homepage's size is big? I only see my stylesheet working on pages other than the homepage. Any ideas?


title: Slugs: are human-friendly or SEO-friendly URLs better?

text: Well, I have a co-worker (actually my superior) who often sets his articles' slugs to expected / relevant search terms such as:               keywordA-keywordB-keywordC-keywordD-keywordE      I usually make mine closer to the article's title, e.g.:               robber-robs-XYZ-bank-10-million      He claims placing only the expected search terms as the slug led to better SEO and that SEO is more important than a human-friendly URL. What do you think of the balance between human-friendly and SEO-friendly URLs and does littering your slugs with a few expected keywords actually lead to better SEO? Lastly, what is the recommended practice?


title: Best way to display a long list of items, SEO-wise?

text: I have a list of ~1000 items I'd like to display to the user. The items has a rank - from 0.5 to 5 stars. My goal is to come with a solution that will be easy to navigate, and smart SEO wise. First option is to divide one long page into 'stars' section - starting from "items with 5 stars" and descending. I could add internal section links for the different sections at the top of the list. I guess that's the best for the user, but then I'd be losing navigation stats I would otherwise gain, having the list divided into different pages. Especially, I hate to lose pages with the titles / urls "Top x items" or "Bottom x items".. The best solution might be having the internal links listed in google as seperate urls, but is this even possible? Otherwise I might have this one long list, and then duplicates of at least the top and bottom of the list in different pages. But then I have duplicate content which is, as I understand, not very wise SEO wise. **Concrete questions:** **1. Is it possible to have internal section links in one page listed in Google as seperate URLs?** **2. Will having duplicate pages which display a portion of what's already being displayed in a one long page be an advantage or disadvantage SEO-wise?** (Given that the possible titles/urls for these duplicate pages has a good SEO potential).


title: How to change Google results

text: I've made a website for a client. I've used WordPress. The problem is, that when you type the page's name in Google, you get two results:   1. Comments for [pagename]   2. Sample page (the one that WordPress makes by itself) How do I make Google get the new sites and change those results? I'm new to SEO.


title: How can I check Page Authority & Domain Authority for multiple sites at the same time?

text: I am looking for a web tool that can check more than one site at a time for both Page Authority & Domain Authority. Please let me know if there is such a tool.


title: Adsense: You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue

text: Got an alert on my adsense account which says > You have rejected ad requests, which will result in lost revenue. The > following ad units have made ad requests with incorrect site information. > This occurs when the URL of the server from which the ad unit has been > served differs from the URL of the actual page where the ad will be > displayed. Learn how to fix these errors. So the solution is that I'll have to use "google_page_url = "http://myurl.com/fullpath";" I'm using wordpress, what should be the URL for google_page_url? For example my website is www.technostall.com. Should I put www.technostall.com there or should I give the path of each post? That is not good because I'm using a sidebar widget for sidebar ad unit. I can't change google_page_url for each page. What should I do? This error is appearing only on my sidebar/navigation ad units. Is using google_page_url = document.location; fine?


title: Facebook referral traffic spike - who shared our post?

text: My organization's blog got a MAJOR spike in traffic to one blog post yesterday. We can see in our Google Analytics that `facebook.com` and `m.facebook.com` were the by far the top referrers. I can't seem to be able to drill down deeper in Google Analtyics to see who shared the blog post URL on Facebook. We suspect a large media/publishing agency must have posted it to their Facebook fans. We are just curious to see who may have done this for us. Given we know the blog post URL, is there any way to see if it has been shared recently on Facebook? **EDIT:** I've gotten this far with FQL: `SELECT user_id FROM like WHERE object_id="ID"` which gives me ID's of people that have liked the blog post. It gives me only 100 ID's. How can I ask for ID's that are fan/business pages and not regular ole' people?


title: LocalBusiness Rich Snippet vs Organization Rich Snippet

text: I need a clear explanation on the difference between the **LocalBusiness** Rich Snippet and the **Organization** Rich Snippet. Is it ok to put both snippets in one site? When is it best to use each of these snippets?