title: Is it bad to develop against production data?

text: I've always heard that it is bad practice to develop against production data and am currently in the process of moving to a Dev>Stage>Production model, mainly because I have a new employee with minimal skills and I'd rather not have him work directly with production data yet. But for a long time I've worked directly with production data with minimal headaches, except for maybe a few errors creeping in here or there, things like spelling issues, bad alt text, links pointing to the wrong location. This seems to be due to a lack of peer review on my part, not because of working with live data. So why is developing on the live site such bad practice?


title: how can I track google plus views in my website?

text: I am trying to find how I can track google plus clicks in my website for tracking purposes? Solutions not related to google analytics plse?


title: Can web applications running on IIS7 Windows Server 2008 R2 be forced to immediately detect changes to hosts file?

text: We have several web applications running on several load-balanced servers. We want to have our web applications communicate with each other without first traversing outside the load balancer. For example:   * http://appA.example.com is running on 192.0.2.1 and 192.0.2.2   * http://appB.example.com is also running on 192.0.2.1 and 192.0.2.2   * The load balancer's public IP address is 198.51.100.3   * By default, when appA on 192.0.2.1 makes a call to a WCF service hosted in appB, the HTTP request is routed to 192.51.100.3; this establishes a new session and the load balancer will direct the call to either of the two servers   * We want the call to be routed to the instance of appB running on the same server so we add `192.0.2.1 appB.example.com` to the hosts file on 192.0.2.1. This eventually works, but we either have to wait for the app pool to naturally recycle or do a manual reset before appA sees the new address. Is there any way to have the change automatically detected without having to recycle the app pool?


title: Host my own picture web site and have links for people to order photos through other services

text: I have too many pictures and I don't want to pay for storage with Picasa or a similar site as I have my own hosting space that I pay for already. Is there any way I can keep my own hosted pictures and website but still allow people to click to order pictures through other services?


title: Canonical redirection meta tag

text: There are two pages in my website with the same content; only the URL's are different: `www.websitename.com` and `www.websitename.com/default.html`. Someone suggested that I should add canonical tags to avoid them being considered as duplicate content. Where should I add canonical tags and why?


title: Cart Abandonment Rate report

text: I've read web analytics 2.0 from Avinash Kaushik and wondered how to create report on Cart Abandonment rate in Google Analytics. I want to create what Avinash describes as: > Cart Abandonment Rate (in percent terms) = [1 – (the total number of people > who start checkout divided by the total number of add to cart clicks)].1 I thought of creating goal, but really? Goal is simple and this is not simple. Please someone point me in the right direction about how to do this. I can find the total number of add to cart clicks from All pages standard report. I can also find the total number of people who start the checkout process from All pages standard report, but I am unsure how to retrieve these 2 numbers and create a rate in one report. 1http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/excellent-analytics-tip-7-the-adorable-site- abandonment-rate-metric/


title: Apache virtual hosts configuration for MAMP results in new sites going to the same folder

text: I have MAMP installed in my mac. Why is it that every time I create a new site, they all go to the same folder? Here is my _/etc/hosts_ file:               127.0.0.1   localhost     255.255.255.255 broadcasthost     ::1             localhost      fe80::1%lo0 localhost     127.0.0.1   localhost.funstuff     127.0.0.1   localhost.mysite     127.0.0.1   localhost.oldmysite      This is my httpd-vhosts.conf               NameVirtualHost *:8888               ############ FUN STUFF PAGE##############     <VirtualHost localhost.funstuff:8888>       ServerName localhost.funstuff       DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/funstuff"      ServerAlias www.localhost.funstuff          </VirtualHost>                    <VirtualHost localhost.mysite:8888>       ServerName localhost.mysite       DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite"      ServerAlias www.localhost.mysite          </VirtualHost>          #### oldmysite ####     <VirtualHost localhost.oldmysite:8888>       ServerName localhost.oldmysite       DocumentRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/oldmysite/sites/oldmysite"      ServerAlias www.localhost.oldmysite          </VirtualHost>      I've restarted the MAMP server and when I type: `http://localhost.funstuff:8888/`, `http://localhost.oldmysite:8888` or `http://localhost.mysite:8888`, it all goes to the fun stuff folder.


title: Two way payment options for UK customer based website?

text: I want customers to be able to pay us through our website but I also want **us** to be able to pay customers using the same payment method. I also want the payment processes to be simple (as possible!) and for payments to incur minimal fees. I understand that implementing eWallet only payments with operators such as PayPal, Moneybookers, Click'nBuy (any others?) may be the way to go. What other options do I have?


title: Google: URLs in Index doubled, Impressions & clicks halved

text: I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on the trend I've seen in relation to one of my sites on Google over the last 4 or so days. According to Webmaster tools, over a period of 4 days:   * the number of my pages in the index has more than doubled.   * At the same time the number impressions being served (and as a result, clicks) has halved. I doubt this is a coincidence, as until now the number of pages in the index was fairly static, and the impressions were on a fairly predictable slope. However, I'm puzzled and intrigued as to why these two things are connected in this way. One might expect the number of impressions to increase with the number of pages in the index. But **how can the inverse relationship be explained?**


title: Google Analytics Funnel - How can I track any parameters in URLs

text: How can I track any parameters in URLs using funnels in Google Analytics? In all product URLs one common string is "-pd-" so I need to track this and create a funnel with goal URL `/thankyou.php` I am confused about step1. How can I evaluate the product page?


title: Problem with not found page for feed in Google Webmaster Tools

text: I have a Wordpress blog. In Google Webmaster Tools, I found mutiple "not found pages" like this from feed: `kart-postal/k-imam-zaman/feed/`. How can I add `noindex` to feed and why I get not found page?


title: Alternative to Instant Form Pro

text: I was looking for a PHP form generator this morning and ran across "Instant Form Pro" by Joel Comm (http://www.instantformpro.com). It looks like it offers what I'm looking for (easy to use quick form generator based on PHP and MySQL that's self-hosted with no other fees), but the site smacks of "scam." It's being pitched as a way to generate surveys to increase your business, make lots more money, etc. Is this thing worth the $97 or is there an open source alternative that might be... safer?


title: FTP: Cannot change permission or write to 1 directory via FTP client, but all others are OK

text: I have a site with loads of directories. They all work fine but one. I can read from this directory but I cannot delete files from within it or upload files to it. I cannot change its permissions either, though I can do this with literally every other directory on the server. Does anyone know how I can fix this or what could be causing it?


title: How to remove Google plus author profile picture from blog search results

text: I created a company blog and linked it to my Google plus account for the SEO weight, my problem is now the blog has gained popularity and my profile photo is appearing in the search results for the blog. I have removed the link from my blog to my profile, I have also deleted the blog from the "contributor to" section of my Google plus account. It has now been nearly a week and the results haven't changed, does anyone know if you are able to remove yourself at all as the feature is currently only a pilot?


title: Error while showing feeds in blogger

text: I am trying to show my feeds on a blogger blog. The feed url is this but blogger says invalid feed url. The url opens fine on my browser.Please help me out. Thanks.


title: How to Join Yahoo! Right Media Exchange as a Publisher?

text: I'm trying to get involved in Right Media as a publisher as an alterntive to adsense and other ad networks. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to signup. I've tried contacting them with no avail. Has anyone else got any idea how to get in as a publisher with Right Media to start serving ads from their network?


title: Airline Ticketing

text: How does airline ticketing works. Is there any software which we can integrate in client's existing CMS website to allow visitors to book airplane tickets through there existing system.


title: Best practice: Should I note Gravatar is used on the website?

text: I am going to implement a comment system on a website and I'm going to implement Gravatar as user's avatars. Since the form for posting comments doesn't have a field for uploading an image, nor does the website have an option to even register your account (you only post comments by providing your name and email), I am worried that some people might be confused as to how or why a custom image appears next to some comments and others are generic. I haven't been able to find any relevant answers to this question, but I also never saw any other Gravatar using websites explicitly noting they use Gravatar. So I guess my question is why I never saw that? I would like to put just a tiny note, like a disclaimer, below the comment form that would explain that the image next to your comment is your Gravatar, with a link to Gravatar's website.


title: change sitemap after 301 redirect

text: when i use of 301 redirect for all URLs ... should i change sitemap URLs ??? ...... if Sitemap contains following URLs               example.com/cat/1.html     example.com/cat/2.html     example.com/cat/3.html      should i change sitemap URLs to new Destination or Do you want Search Engines to know ???               example.com/cat/year/1.html     example.com/cat/year/2.html     example.com/cat/year/3.html


title: Is there any profiling tool to measure web application performance by identifying common interactions paths?

text: I would like to measure how long it takes to complete a single operation such as "UPDATING AGE ON A CUSTOMER FORM", "INSERT A NEW CUSTOMER" in my web application. Is there any tool with some web server log grouping feature that let me build my interaction group and then recognize the same pattern in future logs?


title: What Factors affect Google Auto Complete

text: What factors affect Google auto complete? It's not sheer volume of traffic, it seems it's a mixture of traffic volume and bounce rate? Anyone with insight of how to remove the scam term, please can you shine some light as well.


title: Restrict webserver access to specific set of URLS only

text: Is there any possible way to setup and restrict access web server to specific set of URLs only. I want my web server only respond to www.abc.com, www.abc.com/videos, www.abc.com/videos/vandor-1, www.abc.com/discussionfrom.


title: Maximum allowed adsense ads in a webpage

text: I know that we can display maximum three standard adsense ads in a web page. I'm already using the following ad sizes in my website.   1. 728 x 90 - Image ad   2. 250 x 250 - Image ad   3. 300 x 250 - Image ad But can I display an additional 728 x 15 `link unit`. If yes how many link units can I use?


title: Hosting a site on multiple servers and keeping content up to date

text: I want to get a second server for my site. The first one is currently at my office, and the second one will be at my home (so two different locations so that if the power/Internet goes out, the site is still up). How do I keep the site files up to date across both servers? Pointing the server at home to the files at my office defeats the whole purpose. If a user adds a file to the first server, how do I get it transferred to the second server?


title: Can a website become popular in a "category" (ie, not just a single page)

text: I have a few keywords where my website is high ranking(2nd and 3rd result). For instance, I have 3 blog posts covering a certain kind of modem. Is it common for search engines to consider a website popular in a "category"? For instance, if I was the first result for "foobar" with one page, and then added another separate page which mentioned "foobar"(and maybe a link from the original page), would a search engine prioritize this separate page when compared to a completely separate website with a page with the same content?


title: Same page looks great in Firefox & crome But Not in IE8

text: I have a site hosted at: http://41.223.52.100/ which i used jbar to display certain text on the page. The same page looks great in Firefox & google crome but not in IE8, Can't figure-out why! Please share your kind inputs, on this. Thanks.


title: Enforcing a specific order for cookie headers

text: We have an application that cares about the order of cookie headers. It shouldn't, since this isn't mandated by the standards and indeed we're getting the headers in various different orders So we would like to rewrite the headers in Apache so that the cookie headers always appear in a specific order. Is there any way of doing this? An ideal solution would be specifically about cookie headers, but something that lets us mess with the header order more generally would do too. EDIT: Turns out this may be a red herring and it's actually a problem with the format of the cookie: line produced by the embedded system (sometimes). But this is still useful stuff to know


title: Choosing which domain to secure

text: We've got a website that is served on both `www.example.com` and just `example.com` - we've never done any sort of forcing users from one domain to the other, so if they land on `example.com` then that's where they stay, and I'm guessing that of those who bookmark our pages they'd be about a 50/50 split (there was an issue earlier on where some of our material omitted the WWW and years later we're still noticing a traffic split). We're now adding SSL. We're not forcing SSL until the user hits the login or register page. Which domain should we run our SSL on?   * `www.example.com`   * `example.com`   * `secure.example.com`   * Something else? I've done plenty of SSL sites before, but they were always designed with SSL in mind, and we always forced the www subdomain. Are there pros and cons of doing it any of those ways? My primary concern is about the recognition of cookies, but seeing as we're forcing SSL on logon, the session cookie will be written on the SSL'd domain anyway. My primary concern is for people who might go to `https://example.com` when we're running the site on `https://www.example.com`, etc. Another question would be, "Should I rewrite those who land on the non-www site to the WWW site?


title: How to build this complex page?

text: I came across a website today that uses Drupal. When looking at their contact page I noticed it's build up in a pretty complex way (columns, consistent styles, icons next to phone numbers). In theory it could be possible for a user (not the webdesigner) to create all this html by hand but I doubt that. Since I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Drupal, I don't know all of the functionality it contains. Could anyone tell me how this page was likely created? Using a custom module or some other feature I don't know about?


title: Roughly, how strong is a soft vote versus a hard vote for keywords?

text: Say I'm going to link to another site using the phrase "banana split and chocolate sauce". Is my "vote" evenly split between "banana split" and "chocolate sauce" or is this much weaker than if I had just voted for "banana split" in the first place?


title: Redirect URL with query string to homepage

text: I can't figure out how to make users visiting my website using links like: `mysite.com/?ref=XXXXXXX` see the homepage instead of a completely blank page. I tried using htaccess but I can't figure out how to do it. This is how my _.htaccess_ file looks like:               Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews          RewriteEngine On          RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^ref=(.+)$ [NC]          RewriteRule ^index.php http://mysite.com/? [L,R=301]


title: Recaptcha statistics

text: Of late recaptcha images have become excessively difficult to decipher. Is there any way to get analytics on unsuccessful attempts before a successful one for your website? I'm pretty certain the numbers are going to be bad and something needs to be done about it.


title: How do sites like alexarank and w3spy.net work?

text: I am curious as to how companies are able to track the number of unique visitors to other people's sites. Seems like an impossible task to me. Any ideas?


title: Merging two sites into one, how to redirect from the domain that's going away?

text: I haven't been able to find any existing questions that cover my exact issue, so here goes: My client wants her two sites (domain1.com and domain2.com) rolled into a single, new site under domain1.com. Once the site is ready on domain1.com, DNS for domain2.com would be pointed at the same server as domain1.com. I know how to do an htaccess rewrite rule that would make all domain2.com traffic map to a specific single page or directory within domain1.com. But that's not what the client wants. What she wants is for a bunch of specific pages on domain2.com to map to specific new pages on domain1.com. For example: domain2.com/index.php?pageid=58 GOES TO domain1.com/2011/04/somearticle domain2.com/index.php?pageid=92 GOES TO domain1.com/2011/03/differentname etc. I could put a bunch of 301 redirects in the htaccess on domain1.com, which would work fine. The problem is, the client doesn't want/need specific redirects for ALL the domain2.com pages, and if I just do 301 redirects, anybody who comes looking for a domain2.com page that I haven't built a specific redirect for will get a 404 error. So I need to use 301 redirects for some traffic, and a rewrite rule for any traffic that's not covered in the 301 redirects. How do I do sort of a blending of a rewrite rule and 301 redirects, all in the htaccess file for domain1.com? Is this possible? Is it as simple as putting the 301 redirects in the htaccess file first, then doing the rewrite rule? I'm guessing not.


title: Finding the email/account associated with a Google Analytics "UA-XXXXXX-X" id?

text: I set up Google Analytics for a client some time ago, so the tracking code is installed. I can't for the life of me find which email account I used to set it up, so now I can't access the stats. We haven't actually wanted to track anything until now. Is it possible to somehow find out what email/Google account is associated with the `UA-XXXXXXX-X` id?


title: After URL rewriting Google still features many of the old and dirty URLs

text: I did a complete URL rewriting of my site some three months ago, however Google still features many of the old URLs. They're not dead links as they correctly redirect to the new URLs, but it sort of spoils part of the URL rewriting benefits. Is that something to worry/care about or will they eventually die out naturally anyway and it's best to let them disappear ?


title: A good resource to get the most out of Google Analytics

text: I was wondering if any one could offer me some advice as to the best resources out there (ideally books) on google analytics. I have a basic understanding but have a lot of room for improvement. The following book "Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics" by Brian Clifton, appears to be a good starting but but is already quite dated, even though published in march 2010. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


title: multiple languages same pages shall I change the page URL path as well?

text: We own multiple country code top-level domains for our website e.g DE, UK ,FR. When someone visits for one of those domains they redirect to .com and the language automatically changes for the first time to the one from the originating domain. Also users can change the language from the .com website using a dropdown, however the page URI stays exactly the same e.g `service.php`.   1. How will that be indexed in Google ? Will all the different language will be indexed or only the default lang (English) ?   2. Is it recommended for SEO purposes to do something with the page URL (even using the htaccess maybe) so that I can also append to the title or page name the language ? e.g `service.php?lang=fr`


title: Does noindex metatag have a negative effect on the canonical URLs PageRank?

text: A page has this URL: `http://example.com/pages/some-page/` There's a pagination on this page which uses a GET parameter page which would result in URLs like:   * `http://example.com/pages/some-page/?page=2`   * `http://example.com/pages/some-page/?page=3`   * `http://example.com/pages/some-page/?page=4`   * etc. All of these pages have the same canonical tag (without the page parameter): `<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/pages/some-page/">?` Still the URLs with parameter get indexed by search engines. Would it affect the PageRank of the non-parameter version of the page to add `noindex` to the URLs with the page parameter? `<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">` (as they all have the canonical URL of the page that should stay indexed)


title: Google Analytics Campaigns - cleanup URL after arriving to webpage?

text: After visitor lands to my webpage using campaign url:               http://www.mydomain.com?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=myname      Is it possible to do a rewrite to `http://www.mydomain.com` to cleanup the URL in the address bar? Will it still preserve the campaign data if I do a simple mod_rewrite redirect?               RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} utm_source     RewriteRule .* http://www.mydomain.com [R=301,L]      Or how else can I cleanup the URL?


title: Force google not to include my site's name in my pages' title

text: I know this kind of questions has been asked many times, and I know Google changes the title of the page according to the search query and page's content. I read many articles about this topic, like this : **Review your page titles and snippets** But my problem is that I think my on-page SEO is pretty good, and my title tag is the exact thing that I want to users see in the Google search result page. But Google adds my site's name in the beginning of the title of results and as I said, I don't want it at all. As I know, now (Aug 2014), there is no way to tell Google not to change the title of page in the results and show my exact title Of course I wish there was something like : `<meta name='areYouSureYourTitleOk' value="Yes,Dont change it,I beg you" />` , but there isn't. But there must be some way to do this, I mean maybe some changes in my title or meta tags, or even my contents can convince google that my title is the best title possible for the page. So please help me on this, is there a way or not ?


title: What is the proper SEO handling of pages appearing in popups using IFRAMEs?

text: I am working on a CMS which makes use of IFRAMEs to display some forms, for illustration, say a Search form. So the user clicks the Search button and the website reacts by opening a popup window which includes an IFRAME to the actual Search form. This means I have a "bare"¹ page with the search form. Page which, obviously, is directly accessible via its own URI. In terms of SEO, the forms have no content worthy of being indexed, so I was thinking to mark them as NOINDEX. Is that the correct way to handle such pages? From what I read on some other question, Google suggests to put links from IFRAMEs to other pages. However, I definitively do not want a user visible link to the Home page, or whatever page in link with the form, in the content of my forms because that could be misinterpreted by the user. However, if `<link>` tags would work too, which one should I use? (i.e. "top" would work, right? with the home page in there?) ¹ By bare I mean that the normal theme is not shown, it will be a plain white background with just and only the simplest form.


title: How do I remove these errors from my blog so as to get adsense approved?

text: This is the question I asked on SO site earlier, but didn't get satisfactory replies. hoping to find a solution here.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12136796/how-can-i-detect-and-correct- these-errors-on-my-blog/12136829#comment16235061_12136829 In web master tools, apart from the errors in the question link above, it is showing a site map error too as in the screenshot below:- ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/mjQRp.jpg) Need guidance please...thanks :) Edit -1 EDIT 2 I had 2 SEO plugins on my blog and I would put meta description for each of my article in both plugins that are All in One SEO and Yoast's "Wordpress SEO". Now I removed all article's meta descriptions from "All in one SEO" the other day but STILL web master tool is showing duplicate meta tags and descriptions. Why??


title: Show "results - of" of internal search in Google search result

text: I was doing some searches on Google Search and I stumbled on this ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/v5j3d.png) As you can see in the screenshot above, the search results show a summary of an internal search page (the one I highlighted by red underline) on the website (homes.com and findaproperty.com). I would like to show up this kind of result in the Google search for my website internal search. How do I do it? Do I have to put some metatag or something?


title: Google Analytics Funnel Step Regular Expression Not Working

text: The first step in a funnel is going to have a dynamic ending fragment. Examples:   * http://mysite.com/invite/tickle-party   * http://mysite.com/invite/pajama-party   * http://mysite.com/invite/puppy-party To allow for such dynamism, I provided this url for step one:               \invite(.*)      My goals work but the funnel visualization report shows 0 for everything. I know this problem is due to the regex in the funnel step because I copied this entire goal except I replaced               \invite(.*)      with               /invite/puppy-party      When I hardcoded `/invite/puppy-party` the funnel worked as expected. Why is my funnel report not working with my original funnel step url parameter?


title: Possible options for site meta discussion

text: Just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for software that I could use to provide meta discussion of a website that I am working on? My initial thought would be to use one of the many discussion boards available, but I hate them!, and would rather not go down the route of subjecting my users to using another forum! :) I don't need anything too complex, just a place where users can raise feature/bug requests or ask for general help from other users.


title: What can I do if someone is spoofing my site?

text: Someone registered a domain name that is close to mine used a different suffix (.info) and ripped off the UI. They took a screenshot of our homepage put it on their site and put up a modal window asking people to take some quiz. What can I do? Do I complain to the company that gave him that domain? They also using tweeter and posted a youtube video of our site with their name on it.


title: AdSense link units targeting better keywords?

text: I have one link unit above my navigation which targets exact keywords on what my site is about, on contrary my AdSense for content Leaderboard and Wide Skyscraper show ads that are totally opposite from my keyword, while my ctr increased for about 10 times with link unit I noticed CPC is lower also (but that was just based on one day, today is higher). Is it so bad to completely get rid of standard content ads and put link units, because this way I earn so little for that site but I think that is because smart pricing (accidental clicks on ads that my users are not interested)? I earn in whole day with about 25-35 clicks as much as keyword tool shows for only one click, my site is first for the topic? I really don't know what to do. Has anyone had similar situation or can give some advice?


title: Multiple stores for the same niche

text: I started developing a new niche of products in my country about 3 years ago. That's when I opened my first store. Everything went fine, until a year ago, when someone I thought was a friend secretly stole my idea and made his own competing store. I was pretty upset when I caught him and decided to make it as difficult as possible for him, so I made another 4 stores, trying to get him as low as possible in the search results. The new sites have similar products (although not 100% identical), slightly different titles, images and prices. They look different and are built on different e-commerce platforms. They are all hosted on the same server, have roughly the same backlinks, use the same Google account for Analytics, have the same support phone numbers etc etc. I wasn't thinking that I'm doing something fishy, so I didn't try to hide anything. Trouble is that those sites, after doing fine for a few months, dropped like bricks in search results, almost to the point that they can't be found at all. At the moment, the only site that ranks relatively well is the original one and a couple of secondary pages with no importance from one of the other sites. How did this happen? Does Google have something against this practice? Did they take action by themselves when they realized that I was trying to monopolize this niche, or did my competitor report me for some kind of webspam? And more importantly, what do I do now? Do I shutdown all but my original site and 301 redirect users to it from the others? Can I report my competitor for engaging in the same practice? (He fought back and now he has 3-4 sites, some of which still rank kind of OKish, also he has no idea about web development, SEO or marketing, he just crudely copies what I do and is slowly but surely starting to do better than me).


title: Getting list of all registered domains in particular geographical region

text: How can I get list of domains registered in a particular geographical region? For instance, I want list of .ke domains in Eastern Africa


title: hide some area (sidebar/footer) from googlebot. causing any SEO problem?

text: For example, I have a product page               http://www.myshop.com/product/iphone.html      in this page, normal users will see:   * content area (about the iPhone itself)   * sidebar links (links to other products: HTC, Samsung)   * footer area (about the seller) but _googlebot_ only see content area. I hide sidebar links and footer area from _googlebot_. I do this so that if someone _google_ '`htc site:myshop.com`', he/she will not see that iPhone page in search results. Will this cause any SEO problem? (I'm afraid google consider this as cheating their _googlebot_ and punish the website)


Does installing PHP using the Microsoft IIS Web Platform Installer require a restart? I don't want downtime. _But I don't want to manually install it either._


title: Setting Up a Subdomain with Godaddy and BigBlackBag

text: OK, so I am taking over the site for my dad's small business, and whoever helped him with it before used BigBlackBag.com to build the site. I basically want to get rid of it and start fresh, but I don't really understand how it works. He has a GoDaddy account connected to the BigBlackBag mess as well, but I don't see how, and both sites have terrible customer service and documentation. The thing that made me really want to get rid of it was that I was trying to set up a simple subdomain through godaddy for the site and no matter what I did it wouldn't work and I got a "Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)" error message. I have a separate account with godaddy and setting up a subdomain is super easy and works fine, so I'm thinking it could be a problem with BigBlackBag. Has anyone ever had this problem, or have any ideas how I can fix it? Could it be anything but a quirk with the service? I guess it might come down to just dropping BigBlackBag...? Thanks for any help or direction.


title: ASP.NET website deployment

text: I am getting my hands wet with ASP and I have been following the tutorials. I deployed the site and in Azure and it worked great. Today I started actually designing the site. And when I published, it looks as if it doesn't read any of the files I just updated, added, and modified. It works on my `localhost`, but not in the Azure. I thought when you publish, everything goes up, including the new files. I don't have enough reputation to add a picture so, you'll forgive me. SO, basically, how do I get my _entire_ site uploaded? In case anyone does stop by, I was able to pull this out just recently: > CA0058 Error Running Code Analysis CA0058 : The referenced assembly > 'DotNetOpenAuth.AspNet, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, > PublicKeyToken=2780ccd10d57b246' could not be found. This assembly is > required for analysis and was referenced by: C:\Users\lotusms\Desktop\LOTUS > MARKETING\ASP.NET\WebsiteManager\WebsiteManager\bin\WebsiteManager.dll, > C:\Users\lotusms\Desktop\LOTUS > MARKETING\ASP.NET\WebsiteManager\packages\Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.OAuth.2.0.20710.0\lib\net40\Microsoft.Web.WebPages.OAuth.dll. > [Errors and Warnings] (Global) > > CA0001 Error Running Code Analysis CA0001 : The following error was > encountered while reading module 'Microsoft.Web.WebPages.OAuth': Assembly > reference cannot be resolved: DotNetOpenAuth.AspNet, Version=4.0.0.0, > Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2780ccd10d57b246. [Errors and Warnings] > (Global) Could this have something to do with the problem?


title: Is it possible to 'trigger' indexing on a site?

text: We're launching a redeveloped site soon. Google has already indexed the site that we're going to replace, but the links that google indexed are no longer applicable, because the new site has a totally new routing scheme. We have new sitemaps for the new site. Is it possible to get google to re-index the new site, or do we have to wait until it gets around to it?


title: Pointing to Google that a specific website is for mobiles

text: I have 2 websites: let's call them A and B.   * A is a Desktop optimized website.   * B is a mobile version of A, but it's not on the same domain. It also has a smaller amount of content/pages than A **How do I tell Google** , and other search engines, that I would prefer to have only mobile users on B (no desktop users) and **that B is a mobile version of A**. I already have user agent detection and BIG BIG messages inviting users to switch platforms when convenient for them, but I want Google to send them directly to the appropriate site. I use Google Analytics and Webmaster tools on both.


title: Deciphering the Search Queries Report in GWMT

text: For one of the sites that I am monitoring, the Search Queries report that Google Webmaster Tools provides looks like this - ![Graph for two days for Search Queries](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ytA1T.png) Clearly, both the Impressions and Clicks have increased over the past two days. I am happy, but I am trying to find the reason for the increase, and the same table for this graph has me stumped. ![Table for two days for Search Queries compared to previous period](http://i.stack.imgur.com/lrk8w.png) What could be the reason for this?


title: protect website images with copyright

text: i have a website where firms can have a page dedicated to them ( like a directory ) and the sellers of my website are responsible for taking photos of what in the firm the administration of the firm wants to have on their page. now the problem is, i know the images aren't copyrighted and if someone wants to screw me and make my website take out thousands of images and make my sellers go to all firms to re-take photos causing a massive prejudice i think they would simply copyright them all and communicate with me to take out the images or sew me. how can i stop worrying over this, i don't want to be copyrighting images from my clients almost every day in order to be 'protected'. i think i'm maybe concerning more that i should or that this stuff i said has to have a flaw or some corner-case anywhere on it. any good suggestions?


title: Why is there nobody talking about an alternative to HTML & CSS?

text: HTML is such an old and cumbersome language, which was intended just to markup text. Today it's very rare to see a static HTML website, or a site with only text or a very simple layout. As a web developer I find it inconvenient to use HTML & CSS, very repetitive and cumbersome. I think that for a lot of website it could be simplified a lot. Tim Berners-Lee ( **W3** ) wrote a document named "The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future" in August **1996** > ... though HTML will be considered part of the established infrastructure > (rather than an exciting new toy), there will always be new formats coming > along, **and it may be that a more powerful and perhaps a more consistent > set of formats will eventually displace HTML**. So, more than 15 years later, HTML is still here and it's here to stay. **Why?** Why searching for xml alternatives brings so much relevant result, but searching for html alternatives brings almost none relevant results? Answers like "it's too hard to change a standard" aren't answering the question since a lot of new standards emerged since the initiation of the web. I'm also not searching for answers that suggest using tools to simplify the process or formats that anyhow depends on HTML or CSS, technologies that currently require a plugin and not even trying to become an open standards (like Flash) aren't an answer neither. BTW, here are 2 articles written more than two years ago as food for thought, it might help with writing a better answers. "HTML, CSS, and Web Development Practices: Past, Present, and Future" describing a very related problem, by Jens O. Meiert. "A Brief History of HTML" by Scott Reynen, Here is a quote from the end: > So now you can answer questions about HTML5 without even looking at the > draft, which is handy, because the draft is 400+ pages long. Why is there a > new tag in HTML5? Because some browser vendor (maybe the one that also owns > a large video site) wanted it. Why are there so many scriptable interface > elements in HTML5? Because some browser vendor (maybe the one selling phones > without Flash support) wants them. Why is there no support for RDFa in > HTML5? Apparently no browser vendor wanted it. Is that the future?


title: How can i monitor my VPS real bandwidth usage?

text: I have a VPS that suspended for use out of bandwidth limitation. In DirectAdmin report I have no change in the use of bandwidth and all things are normal (bandwidth usage is less than 4 GB and my limitation is 250 GB), but in my server company's report VPS use about 1.5 TB of bandwidth just in 4 days! How can I found problem when in direct admin bandwidth usage is normal and I dont install any other service in my VPS in 4-5 months ago. May I monitor my bandwidth and ports by other tools?! SERVER DETAILS: Open VZ - Cent OS - HDD: 10 GB - BW: 250 GB/Monthly - CP:DirectAdmin - i have a root access. 1 dedicated IP. Bandwidth Used in my Server Company Report : over 1.6 TB in 4 days. Bandwitdth Used in my DirectAdmin Report: Lessthan 5 GB.


title: Effect of domain on SEO?

text: I have a website for student submitted college ratings that focuses on the fun aspects of the colleges (how are the parties, social life, etc).   I currently own 4 different domains and debating which one to use:   funcampuses.com   fun-colleges.com   funcollegecampuses.com   funcollegeratings.com I like the first one because its catchy and has no spaces, but campuses isn't really a keyword for me - colleges definitely is. Second one is good, but is the dash going to hurt me? funcolleges.com is unavailable.. The 3rd and 4th ones are simply long.. What do you guys think? Thanks!


title: Sell Unused domains?

text: I am streamlining my domains under one domain so getting rid of some. I have some about 5 years old domains with stable traffic. What should I do with such domains? Where can I sell them? I found an article here but I am unsure of its quality. It suggested GreatDomains -website and Afternic -website. I would also appreciate it how you usually determine the valuation of a domain.


title: Any Risk To Share Zone -file of a Website in Internet?

text: I have problem with DNS settings and I cannot find any other way than share my settings. The Zone -file contains SOA record, A records, CNAME records, MX records and NS records. Is there any danger to share them unmodified?


title: need upload script for uploading files larger than 4GB

text: I have users that need to upload files larger than 4GB. What's the best way to do this? Most upload scripts fail with large objects. Also, when sending huge data sets, TCP/IP's 1-in-4billion promise of consistency will frequently result in file corruption. Is there a good flash or java uploader that will chunk and compute MD5 hashes on every chunk?


title: What's the magic behind the HTML5?

text: In the pre-HTML5 stage. We need a plugin or video container to play movie on the web. But what is the HTML5 doing, how can it play the video without any plugin? What is the magic behind the process?


title: Crawl errors appearing in Google Webmaster Tools with suspicious URLs cached

text: I am receiving Crawl Errors in my Google Webmaster Tools reports with some unique URLs that I am not understanding. For Example: `http://www.example.com/portfolio/?cat_url=custom-cms` This page opens my portfolio page, which the URL for is currently: `http://www.example.com/portfolio/` From where, and why are these URLs crawled by Google? I am also seeing a similar list of URLs that I have not created but am finding them in my crawl errors. Some pages that are listed here were old pages and they were totally removed from my database, but I don't know how Google found them. Last week I requested Google to remove these URLs from their cache and marked these errors as fixed. But various links have come back to the list of errors. Will this effect my SEO and Google ranking as well?


title: Google webmaster showing duplicate meta descriptions for search directory

text: What is the best way to get rid of this error in Google Webmasters? Do I really need to add "- Page 2" at the end of the descripton? **Page Description**               Kansas basketball tournaments posted by organizations and teams for youth, AAU, and NCAA certified e      **Pages**               /youth-basketball-tournaments/kansas     /youth-basketball-tournaments/kansas?page=2     /youth-basketball-tournaments/kansas?page=3     /youth-basketball-tournaments/kansas?page=9


title: Website typesetting. Font rendering consistency across browsers

text: I know that font rendering across browsers is not the same. For specific reasons I need the same view of text (pixel by pixel) in every browser. One option is make text as a image. I have an idea about **typesetter** that has table with images of letters. And put one image by other (one letter by other). Is there something like this?


title: Google shows "search instead for" when searching for our website

text: Our website is new and the name is similar (only one letter different than another website) completely different type and company though. searching for xxxxxA works OK in Google and we find relatively good results. However searching xxxxxA.com finds results for the other website and gives us the following options:               Showing results for xxxxxE.com     Search instead for xxxxxA.com (hyperlink when clicked then it is correctly searching for our site)      Questions:   1. Do we need to contact Google to correct this and if yes how ? if not will it be corrected automatically when the site becomes more popular and what is the process?    2. How do we make the process quicker?


title: Do VPS hosts typically offer an option to take snapshots of the virtual machine (VM)?

text: Is taking a snapshot of the virtual machine that a VPS runs on a standard feature provided by VPS hosts?


title: Get total for User Timings in Google Analytics

text: For an app in development, we need to track how much time our users (as a whole) spend watching content related to a specific entity. We're trying to do that with User Timings with category "Entity Name", variable "Entity ID" (for instance category "Band", ID "The Rolling Stones"). This makes it very easy to get the _average_ user timing (time spent) watching content per entity, but we also need to have a total computed. There seems to be no option to get this calculated, which seems weird since it's just the average multiplied by the number of samples collected. Is there a way to get a "total" column in the User Timings report? Are we using the right tool for the job, or should we use something else?


title: Large Spike in Organic Bing Traffic on a Phrase

text: A website i'm working on has be receiving large intermittent spikes in what looks like legitimate organic **Bing** traffic on a specific search phrase (the site is the first organic link for the phrase). I know from experience that this search phrase on its own, isn't popular enough to bring this type of traffic spike. That leads me to believe there are other factors at work. The referrer is formatted like this:               http://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bsearch+phrase&FORM=msn114      The beginning of the search phrase has a + sign in front of it on each one (+search phrase). Is anyone familiar with this type of referrer leading to large traffic spikes?


title: "All views associated with this account" option in Google Analytics Custom Report only shows main site

text: I have 10 sites in my Google Analytics account, and each site has their own Property Tracking ID. There's an option called "All views associated with this account" in the Views section in Custom Report (customization), which allows me to select all 10 of my sites. But the Line Chart and all info in this Overview only shows my main site. Is there something I missed, like a configuration?


title: How to handle URLs that differ in case-sensitivity and show same content

text: For to the following URLs:               http://mydomain.com/page      http://mydomain.com/Page      I'm showing the same content. Can this hurt SEO? I understand that theoretically it can, but does Google really penalize such cases and categorize it as duplicate content? If so, would you advise on doing a 301/302 redirect or adding a `rel="cannonical"` to the lower case?


title: Does servicing an API from a subdomain make your app slower?

text: I have a single-page application (SPA) application located in `application.com`, and I want to serve the API from `api.application.com`. Since this is a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) browser application, it will always make `OPTIONS` requests prior to the actual one. Would this make my SPA twice as slow?


title: Robots.txt and "Bad" Robots

text: I understand robots.txt and its purpose. I have read some people saying that using a Robots.txt gives "bad" robots or robots who do not obey a robots.txt a way to access pages on your site that you do not want accessed. While I am not looking to get into a debate about that I do have a question: If I have a structure like this:               /Folder/         /Sub-Folder 1/         /Sub-Folder 2/         (Note: There are no pages within /Folder/ only other folders.)      If I `Disallow: /Folder/`, it will prevent "good" robots from accessing the directory and any contents within the sub-folders. While we know that bad robots will see the /Folder/ will they be able to see and access the sub-folders and the pages within the subfolders if they are not listed in the robots.txt? (Note: I do not fully understand how good or bad robots crawl a site beyond using a robots.txt and the links within the site.)


title: How can I view page-views of specific URL's with question mark (?) tags using Google Analytics?

text: I have a specific issue regarding Google Analytics and its tracking of direct traffic that I'm hoping someone here will be able to help me with. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you :) The closest I found as an answer to my question is Granular per Visit Data? but this is not an answer to my question specifically. The short version of the question, if you want to take a stab at it, is this from below: "When I check for traffic in GA after using these links to test them, I get hits to xyz.com/a but it's hard to find hits to xyz.com/a?2" Where in GA should I go to see this detail? I'll explain it more below. Using Google Analytics I want to track direct traffic with a short link that I create myself... I get the sense that Analytics isn't set up for the specificity that I'm looking for in tracking (it is set up for tagging URL's using the GA system, but I don't want those long URLs that tagging creates), but can do this none the less. I'll give a fictional example below for illustrative purposes and perhaps you can help me understand how to get what I'm looking for. I have xyz.com/a which is my landing page. I have a thousand clients which I'm sending this link to in the physical mail via QR code. Each person gets a unique QR Code. The unique codes are, for the first client xyz.com/a?1 - for the second - xyz.com/a?2 and so on for all one thousand clients. When I check for traffic in GA after using these links to test them, I get hits to xyz.com/a but it's hard to find hits to xyz.com/a?2 , for example. But, I know that somewhere along the lines Google is tracking this. How can I drill down to find a list of all the links such as xyz.com/a?1 and xyz.com/a?2 that people have visited? It seems like GA takes all of the xyz.com/a?X type links and aggregates their statistics to one xyz.com/a link. I know that Google is capturing this at some point because I have found xyz.com/a2 listed in GA under Real-Time -> Overview when I'm viewing that real time page and I go to the particular link. However, I want to find out which of these unique links are visited without having to sit and watch the Real- Time feed 24/7. All help is appreciated, perhaps there is something I'm missing. The reason I'm not using the built-in tagging feature with GA is because that will make the URL much longer and I desire a shorter URL with no URL shortener being used. If what I'm looking for is not possible through GA, the site is built on Orchard CMS: is there a way to see these statistics through Orchard CMS somehow? Thanks again.


title: wordpress sites are slow on shared hosting but plain html/css sites are fast

text: I've got a shared hosting account, unlimited sites, unlimited GB, unlimited bandwidth etc etc. Of course because it's shared and a cheap one at that - there's too many sites on each server and it all runs slow due to lack of RAM. What I've found is that my plain HTML/CSS/JS sites run an awful lot faster than my WordPress sites on this hosting and I was trying to work out why. I'm not exactly sure how a browser sends a request for a page and the full process of request and delivery, but are my HTML sites running faster as they are just serving code to the browser, whereas the WordPress sites are having to make calculations from the database to build each page before it is delivered ... is that correct, or am I completely off course ?


title: Google Analytics: How do I report a custom event programatically?

text: I am just learning GA as part of a new program our company is rolling out. I'm sending the following custom event whenever a user clicks on a button on our test site:               <button onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'button1', 'clicked'])">Button 1</button>      I need to output data like this to a table, so how do I report this event programatically (preferably with PHP)? I can see the event on our GA page under 'Real-Time Events', but I only seem to be able to report things like `getPageViews()` and `getVisits()`.


title: ajax paging - duplicate content - seo

text: assume you have a blog post... **domain.com/blogid/title** and then you have 500 comments on that post. your blog page shows your post and 10 comments, and then you page comments using ajax. I was thinking about having a link on the blog page with something like "view all comments" and its url would like **domain.com/comments/blogid** so that users with javascript turned off and googlebot and read all comments by visiting that page. but obviously, first 10 comments would be duplicated, and how does googlebot link the comments back to the original blog post? Basically, how should I do ajax paging so that it's SEO (googlebot) friendly


title: Chrome refused to execute this JavaScript file

text: In the head of my HTML page, I have:               <script src="https://raw.github.com/cloudhead/less.js/master/dist/less-1.3.3.js"></script>      When I load the page in my browser (Google Chrome v 27.0.1453.116) and enable the developer tools, it says: > Refused to execute script from > 'https://raw.github.com/cloudhead/less.js/master/dist/less-1.3.3.js' because > its MIME type ('text/plain') is not executable, and strict MIME type > checking is enabled. Indeed, the script won't run. Why does Chrome think this is a plain text file? It clearly has a `.js` file extension. Since I'm using HTML5, I omitted the `type` attribute, so I thought that might be causing the problem. So I added `type="text/javascript"` to the `<script>` tag, and got the same result. I even tried `type="application/javascript"` and still got the same error. Then I tried changing it to `type="text/plain"` just out of curiosity. The browser did not return an error, but of course the JavaScript did not run either. Finally I thought the periods in the filename might be throwing the browser off. So in my HTML code, I changed all the periods to the URL escape character `%2E`:               <script src="https://raw.github.com/cloudhead/less%2Ejs/master/dist/less-1%2E3%2E3.js"></script>      This still did not work. The only thing that truly works (i.e. the browser does not give an error and the JS successfully runs) is if I download the file, upload it to a local directory, and then change the `src` value to the local file. I'd rather not do this since I'm trying to save space on my own website. How do I get Chrome to recognize that the linked file is actually a JavaScript type?


title: Google's Index status falling down without any site changes

text: I've a site but it wasn't touched since Sept 2013(not even comments). But in the curve I can see that Google's index has fallen down. **What could be the reason?** Though the site's traffic halted completely after Jan 2014. UPDATE: I've never purchased any links nor even built backlinks for this site. I simply left it partially unfinished. Absolutely no spam. It is about courses in colleges/universities. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SdLXi.jpg)


title: Image SEO with overlaid text?

text: I have a single image that I am using repeatedly with different text overlaid. If you hover over this image it will also give you a tooltip with more information. Of course, the text overlaid could also be put in the alt tag, and the longdesc tag could have all the information in the tooltip. Is this advisable, or will google penalize it for duplicate content or otherwise going overboard? For that matter, what about naming the file? Obviously if each of them has its own name they all have to be loaded as separate images, meaning load time will be increased; I assume that isn't worth it just for the benefit of a descriptive name?


title: Do subdomains need to be defined through domain registrar?

text: I have bought a new domain name from GoDaddy. Let's say it is abcd.com. On GoDaddy's DNS Managing page, I changed A(Host) part to               @ = 74.125.232.215      which is www.google.co.uk's IP address. Now if I type `www.abcd.com`, it directly goes to www.google.co.uk. But if I type `http://test.abcd.com`, it cannot be loaded. Do I need to define every subdomain through GoDaddy? Is this how it works? P.S. Amazon EC2 directly generates a subdomain for users to reach their virtual PCs. It cannot be domain registrar dependant. P.S.2. Same question for using "www2" at the start of url.


title: How can +2 websites benefit in a partnership aside from backlink exchange?

text: Website owners with the same target but different services can help each other grow. Are there methods other than linking to each other that could produce SEO benefits?


title: Wordpress Tag Cloud as link abuse

text: Do Wordpress Tag cloud considered as link farm or duplicate content? How about categories? After many recent algo updates by Google, did Google created an algo not to penalize sites CMS site like Wordpress with tags and categories? I am using Yoast's **NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW** , does it help? I have approximately 50+ of tags and currently displayed on each of my blog posts, including the blog homepage. I am looking for the modern answer for this question and modern resources from answers.


title: What is the difference between using dofollow and omitting rel?

text: My main concern is whether dofollow is interpreted as more important than links without any `rel` attribute. Does it make any difference for search engines?


title: Non www to www redirection A record problem

text: I have told my domain registrar to set my domain like this: www.domain.com -> IP1 domain.com -> A record IP2 www.domain.com works properly, but non www returns %20 before the real url www.domain.com so it look like %20www.domain.com in the address bar. What can I do to make this work? I do not have access to the DNS settings (have to tell registrar what I want) or the root folder where is my website so the solution must be with the DNS via registrar.


title: Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that don't exist

text: In Google webmaster tools > diagnostics > crawl errors I'm seeing a bunch of errors that link to sub-pages like /tour/overview/Scripts/ForceDownload.asp The /tour/overview does exist, but this subfolder doesn't (and shouldn't - it's not even an ASP server). More bafflingly, the "linked from" pages listed do exist but do not have these links. I suspect some malware may be the cause but I've yet to find any trace of it.


title: Most efficient arc for developing cross-browser support?

text: I'm curious to hear what approach people take to planning for cross-browser support when developing a website. There are generally two approaches I've seen developers take in their workflow: -optimize for webkit then apply hacks for IE7-9, or -optimize for IE7-8 then apply newer features for IE9/webkit Basically starting at the front of technology and working toward the back, or starting at the back of technology and working toward the front. How do you do things? What advantages or disadvantage do you perceive in the different way of doing things wrt to developing cross-browser support?


title: Is there any jquery plugin for facebook like button in a lightbox

text: I am trying to find a plug-in for showing like our web site on facebook message for new visitors of my web page. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/X3EXb.jpg) Is there any jquery based plugins for that ?


title: prototype.js or jQuery for new projects?

text: Should I use prototype.js or jQuery for a new project? Rails comes with prototype.js but jQuery seems the library of choice for the rest of the world. Is prototype.js still under active development? It seems a little bit dusty ...


title: Joomla or Wordpress for Classified Ads Website?

text: I am looking to build a classified ads website but confused whether to go with joomla or wordpress. I know only a little about joomla and nothing about wordpress. Also if in the future, I want to switch from one to another, how difficult it would be? Is it possible? Or I have to start from the scratch again?


title: Required field for Person snippet to preview in Google search results

text: Recently, I started using schema.org snippets. The first one was the Person snippet. I did everything according to Google recommendation except for the fact that I don't need for example affiliation field and many others. I used just description, image, name. So the next step is to test how my page will be showed in Google search result, Google Snippet Tools helps us in it. The example preview has a picture, looks great, but below the example it's written **Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results** and actually in google search results there is no any picture. FAQ wasn't very descriptive, I suspect there few required fields for every snippet, but I didn't find what they are. Do you know what are required field for Person snippet (I also interested in Product)?


title: Image libraries sites to download pro images with no credits expiration policy

text: I found professional image libraries sites like http://www.istockphoto.com or http://www.dreamstime.com are quite useful to add some cool images to a website either when filling its contents or when designing its graphic layout. Unfortunately both of the site I listed above use credits plans that expires after 12 months: you buy credits (using real bucks) and then you can download images, but if you don't use all the credits within 1 year, thay _suck_ them out from your virtual wallet (I think it's really unfair, but too bad for you, that's their policy). **Do you know about other good image libraries sites (from your real life experience) that use credits to download images, but thay don't expire after 12 months?** Obviously I won't ignore your suggestions about any other image libraries sites.


title: Google Webmaster Tools Errors 400 and 405

text: What action does Google's crawler take for errors 400 and 405? Looks like few months ago I had a bug, and a few pages available only for signed in users were indexed by Google. Right now all these page appear in **crawl errors** with errors 400 and 405. The bug is fixed, but Google keeps crawling them and updating the Detected column. How do I stop Google crawling them? Should I send 404 or 410 instead? What is the documented action for 400 and 405?


title: Backlinks within noscript tags

text: I know that search engines index the content between `noscript` tags, but I was wondering if it is an acceptable method (as far as Google etc are concerned) to include a backlink to your website inside a `noscript` tag on another website? For example, I design a website for the customer but I don't want to broadcast who designed it to the general public (sometimes it cheapens the design in my opinion). Could I include the link inside a `noscript` tag which had some nice, relevant anchor text linking back to my site. Win win? I found this link http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/15690/use-of-noscript-for- backlinks in Google but I just wanted some more opinions, please.


title: Do Facebook CPC ads charge per click, or per like, or both?

text: I'm about to create a Facebook campaign that points to our Facebook fan page, with the CPC option. I want to know what counts as a "click". I already read the docs (quickly to be honest), but i didn't get the answer. Do they charge for the click which redirects to the fan page, or when the user clicks the like at the bottom of the ad, or both ?


title: Embed Google Docs Public Folder into webpage

text: I have a user that wants to upload PDFs to a website whenever he wants. Of course adding it myself is too easy... he wants to have the ability to add and delete PDFs on demand. I thought about embedding a public google doc folder into the webpage but I am starting to find dead ends. Does anyone know much about this or have a solution for this particular problem? Thanks.


title: Where do you pay taxes when you sell digital services with paypal?

text: I know about a Paypal feature to charge taxes. But You must pay taxes where you receives the payments or where the services is paid (mainly USA)?


title: Can Google bots interpret hyphen separated words as a single keyword?

text: I have a french website which frequently includes the word _rendez-vous_. But, Google Webmaster Tools content keywords tells me the #1 keyword is _rendez_ which is not what I want. Even worse, the word _vous_ is not even listed as a keyword (probably ignored). I do have the required meta (keywords/description). I know the science of indexing is very complex, but is there something I can do so the content of my pages generate the proper keyword list? i.e. can a hyphen separated word become a single keyword. I believe (for now) I have 2 options:   1. Leave it like that :(   2. Modify my URL to include _rendez-vous_ to help the indexing


title: Unimportant words on page being seen as keywords, due to repetiveness

text: I have a list of products on my site, and each product has a number of descriptors such as features, price, etc. Next to each product, I list the 10 features, with a graphical icon which lets the user know whether the product has that particular feature or not. In all, I have about 230 products, and I have to add the same list of features to describe each product, so you can see the enormous redundancy here of these "feature names". These "feature names", ex., "water proof", are not important keywords at all, yet due to the sheer volume of these words, Google is seeing them as my most important keywords. Is there any way to get around this, or to tell the bots to place (less) emphasis on these repetitive words, and not view them as important keywords?


title: Ruby on Rails - Passenger Nginx - 403 Forbidden

text: I've been searching for an answer for a long time now so I'll just try here... I'm trying to get an Ruby on Rails application running with passenger and nginx but I'm getting 403 forbidden when I'm trying to enter my site. (Server is running Fedora 17 x64). and this is how I've done this far. I followed the instructions on this guide:   Generic installation, upgrade and downgrade method: via RubyGems      After running **passenger-install-nginx-module** I opend _nginx.conf_ and added, inside the HTTP block, my server block which looks like this:               server {          listen 80;          server_name www.mydomain.com;          root /home/username/rails-live/rails-app/public;          rails_env development;          passenger_enabled on;     }      _(I've also set user to www-data and chown'ed /rails-app recursivly to www- data)_   Then I created an init.d script for starting/stopping/restarting following this guide here:   Red Hat Nginx Init Script _(I changed the path for nginx to where passenger installed it)_      Now I can start/stop/restart nginx without any problems, and when I visit my domain (without _www._ in the url) I'm getting to the _"Welcome to nginx!"_ site, so nginx seems to be working. It dosen't look like Ruby is running while nginx is (I really don't know if it should, but it's just for info that might be usefull) When I run the following commands in the terminal it looks like this.               [root@server username]# ps aux | grep nginx          root     23497  0.0  0.1  53716  1036 ?        Ss   Apr23   0:00 nginx: master process /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx     www-data 23498  0.0  0.1  54120  2004 ?        S    Apr23   0:00 nginx: worker process     root     23601  0.0  0.0 109404   868 pts/1    S+   00:04   0:00 grep --color=auto nginx                       [root@server username]# ps aux | grep ruby          root     23612  0.0  0.0 109404   868 pts/1    S+   00:06   0:00 grep --color=auto ruby      I'm also using _gem 'thin'_ in my rails-app so I checked that too, just in case.               [root@server username]# ps aux | grep thin          root     23616  0.0  0.0 109404   868 pts/1    S+   00:06   0:00 grep --color=auto thin      I'm stuck here and I could really need some help!


title: One to many problem with implementing 301 redirect after changed urls

text: I have a problem. I had an old dynamic url which I have now split into multiple static urls. e.g.               www.mydomain.com/product.php?type=1&id=2     www.mydomain.com/product.php?type=2&id=3     www.mydomain.com/product.php?type=2&id=4, etc      which I have changed to something like               www.mydomain.com/electronics/radio     www.mydomain.com/electronics/television     www.mydomain.com/mobile/smartphone, etc.      Google has previously indexed the dynamic urls and search results show the old urls. I want search to point to the new urls. I have kept the old url active, so both urls work. How can I set up a 301 redirect in this case? I run IIS and it only allows a page to be redirected to 1 url. Should I deactivate the old dynamic url? In that case I lose all the previous seo rankings..


title: wamp installed can't find localhost

text: I installed a WAMP package on a Windows 7 machine and everything ( Apache, php, mySql, phpMyAdmin) appear to have installed correctly. However when I try to access localhost or phpMyAdmin via the browser, I get "Server Not Found". I've tried using localhost, 127.0.0.1 in the browser. I've checked the httpd file it says "Listen 80". C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts says "127.0.0.1 localhost" Apache log file doen't show any errors. Suggestions appreciated.


title: Difference between opencart and wordpress setup with wp e-commerce

text: I am creating a site that only showcases catalogs of products. But I want to keep open the option of adding a shopping cart experience later. My usecase would be to create a site and then let the user themselves add or remove content from the site. Which of the above (opencart or wordpress with wp e-commerce plugin) is a better choice? Will opencart also allow the creation of some standard pages like about us, contact us page (with forms), etc?


title: What is the best way to optimise a site with lots of images for a Retina display?

text: I am going to have a website which will deal with a lot of images. What is the best way to optimise them for Retina display without having much of an impact on website loading times? There seems to be a lot of mixed signals about how to optimise for Retina display too. Do you need 2 instances of the same image, then load one or the other depending on if the device the site is running on has a Retina display? Any help on this topic and specifics about optimisation would be appreciated. Jack


title: Do two similar domain names affect SEO negatively?

text: I have one domain: `sport-clothing.com` and I want to create another shop (different content) with name `sportclothing.com`. Will such similar domains affect SEO of both negatively?


title: Create A record from the terminal

text: I have contracted a linux VPS and a domain (www.myproject.com). After that, in the same site from my user area, I have registered a pair of DNS (ns1.myproject.com and ns2.myproject.com) associating them to the VPS's IP. Now I know I should add an A record, but.. could I do that from the terminal? or must I contract a control panel, for example Plesk? If I can do it from the terminal, **how can I do it?**


title: Using Ajax #! for Google but site is not being crawled any more

text: We used to have all links in a normal way (thus with parameters?), we changed to AJAX loading cause we installed a music player. Here's an example:   * Old link: `http://stereofox.com/post.php?idPost=5326`   * New link: `http://stereofox.com/post.php#!idPost=5326` The snapshot you can get it by `adding _escaped_fragment_=` after the `?`. All of these have the same content, and this image says what has happend to the site since we changed the linking system.


title: replace direct link to amazon s3

text: I moved my downloadable files to amazon s3 and used that link from my wordpress site. I realized that if I use amazon link, google analytics wont be able to track all the files. correct? whats the easiest way to make a redirection to use a url pointed to my domain and redirects to amazon link when user clicks on it?


title: Setting up VPS: How to configure name servers

text: So I got a VPS set up (LAMP) and have transfered a couple of sites over. Now I want to point my domain names from the old host to the new VPS host, which does not have any name servers yet. On my registrars console I have set the domain name 'www.mydomain.com' domain host settings to point to my VPS's ip address, eg: `ns1.mydomain.com = 111.222.3.4` and `ns2.mydomain.com = 111.222.3.4` I then lowered the TTL to one hour. I then switched the Nameservers on that domain to these new ones. (ns1/2.mydomain.com) In WHM I then set the servers name servers to `ns1.mydomain.com` and `ns2.mydomain.com`. I waited an hour to test...but nothing changed - the domain name still directed to the old host. Have I missed something? Is the some other record I need to change on the DNS? I find this very confusing, does anyone know a resource or can provide a step by step guide on how to configure a new servers nameservers? Thanks EDIT: added image (sorry bout the censoring. Client insists) On my regisrars console: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3Ge4k.gif) And on my VPS' WHM: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xltVR.gif)


title: Notify Google of new incoming links?

text: If I obtain a new incoming link to my website, can I inform Google of it using the Add URL tool?


title: Best ways to collect transaction fee for sales transaction

text: I'm having trouble finding a solution to what seems like a simple requirement. If I were to list items for sale on my website, is there any easy, seamless way to asses something like a 2.5% transaction fee from the user listing the item, while still allowing the seller to directly receive the money for the sale? (I don't want to receive the money and then have to pass it on to the seller) Do any services like Google or PayPal have any API where the referrer can make the commission fee in an automated manner? Say a user sets up a store on Google, I direct someone to that store and they make a purchase, can I get a commision? I see other sites (Etsy) will charge to seller according to whether someone clicked the Buy button on Etsy's site, after which the user is directed to PayPal, meaning Etsy "assumes" the user followed through with the purchase. I would want to avoid having to assume the user did the purchase, and make the commission based on actual sale. Actually, I personally feel advertising and marketing is a good revenue source, commission model isn't really the best, but I nevertheless need to look into the transaction fee model as an option.


title: Google Analytics for mobile site

text: My HTML pages redirect users with mobile devices to a `/mobile` folder with corresponding HTML pages. Should I paste the regular Google tracking code in the mobile pages too or will that mess up my results because of the redirect? If so, is it a new profile or property that I need to create for the mobile pages in Google Analytics?


title: What should I keep in mind when looking for a designer?

text: I know there's not a cut-and-dried answer to questions like these, but there might be some guidelines I should be thinking of and it may help others as well. The case is as following: I run a wiki community with a few thousand articles, and I may want to have it re-designed in the near future. Currently it looks pretty okay but there's a lot to improve especially when it comes to usability and a consistent style. Pre-fab designs are almost never what I'm looking for, especially because the website is so content-driven and focus must lie on good readability of the articles without losing the thematics of the subject (a rock band). Imagery and a certain dark style are very important with this band, so a good balance between readability and style will almost certainly have to be a custom job by someone who knows about these things. The current implementation counts two basic pages (main page and article pages) and some variants like article edit pages, user settings etc which are mainly article pages with some extra elements. Apart from this the article contents can have so many kinds of elements (infoboxes, templates for different kinds of related content, etc) these will have to be designed too. What should I look for when searching for a designer? What are good price indications, how can I tell if the designer knows about usability and can deliver what I want? Can I ask him to give me a first draft (for a small payment of course) to see if he fits the bill?


title: Huge difference in visits/hits between IIS logs and google analytics

text: I use google analytics to monitor visitors access, and I am very happy with it, easy to use blabla, you name it :) Few days ago I copied IIS logs from website and used free/evaluation commercial log parsers on the market to find out what RAW IIS logs tells me about the visitors. I was shocked that IIS tells me that I have 3x more visits/hits daily than in google analytics. Spiders are not included in IIS logs (filtered them via parse app). What I assume is one amount of the hits have javascript disabled and there can be a small difference around 20% (I have that stats from another site). What I don't understand is 3x difference between raw logs and GA. On the site we run product oriented site for the application that is used on windows servers, and windows servers by default have JS disabled, so I assume some of the users might be in that difference as well, just I don't understand 3x difference between numbers. Any good explanation?


title: Deploying web app with openshift?

text: I'm starting with Open Shift PaaS and I picked a node.js app as my first try. So far I'm getting a 503 when I try to access my app site. I've tried:   * Set my github repo,    * set the ssh key at github and made Open Shift have it,    * created a very simple app using express (I did install express by npm)   * did commit and pushed all changes,   * I did install rhc and ran `rhc app restart -a nodejs` But I can't get it to work. The `rhc tail -a nodejs` outputs: > >     DEBUG: Error: Cannot find module > '/var/lib/openshift/531be41fe0b8cd3d12000003/app- > root/runtime/repo/server.js' >         at Function._resolveFilename (module.js:337:11) >         at Function._load (module.js:279:25) >         at Array.0 (module.js:484:10) >         at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:190:38) >   >     DEBUG: Program node server.js exited with code 1 >   >     DEBUG: Starting child process with 'node server.js' >   This is my `app.js` file:               var express = require('express')     var server = new express()     server.use(express.static(__dirname+"/public"))               server.get('/', function (request, response) {         response.send(200)     })          server.listen(process.env.OPENSHIFT_NODEJS_PORT || 80)      > ** > > # EDIT > > ** I've renamed app.js to server.js, did git add, commit and push, restarted app with rhc. thought it's not working yet.


title: Does every hosting company provide a redirect to their site at mysql.xyz.com?

text: If `xyz` be the name of the website, does `mysql.xyz.com` always redirect to the webhost?


title: Point new domain to existing websites sub-directory?

text: I have a website (site1.com) that has another site being built within it (site1.com/newsite). My client wants to create a new domain name and have it point to the directory that houses the new site. As a front end dev I am very confused as to how to go about this. Is this something that can be in htaccess? What would I place on the registrars end? Would anyone know the best way to do this?


title: I need an open source php social script, minus the social features

text: I need a script that can support basically only the profile part of a social site.   * Gallery   * Avatar   * Custom fields for the profile   * User activation must be authorized by an admin Is there something that can do this?


title: what to do when your WordPress database is too large?

text: My WordPress site's database is nealy reaching 1GB which is the limitation of my host (GoDaddY), what should I do? I can't purchase a dedicated solution for it? There must be a way out to split this database into 2 or, another way , can we use 2 database into a single WP installation? What do you guys do on such case? Thanks.


title: Finding out the cause of traffic change

text: I'm familiar with Google Analytics quite well, but still can't figure out how to do something that seems pretty basic. Let's say I have a traffic increase of 20% on a certain month. Let's assume this represents about 10k increase in terms of visits. How can I understand what are the most significant contributors to the traffic increase - which pages, which acquisition sources, which search keywords, countries, etc'? Theoretically, I can go over each section and check which entries had the most change, but beyond the reports being very cumbersome, it doesn't really provide a full picture. Ideally, I would like a report that says - of the 10k increase in visits, 5k came from an increase in "abc" search keyword, 30% came from an increase in traffic from France, and 20% came from a "xyz" acquisition campaign. Would be happy to understand if there is a simple solution - whether inside GA or with an external tool - before I start hacking something like this for myself. Thank you.


title: Reverse pagination

text: Quick question to speed my life up considerable Can you reverse engineer pagination, in other words instead of having to click through 20 pages of 10 results on each Is there any application that would allow me to see all the results on one page. Thanks again .


title: Anyone heard of 'tank tracking'?

text: Someone I know told me about some seriously cutting edge blackhat SEO that he called 'tank tracking'. He said that it is some sort of code (he believes written in Python) that 'sits' around the outside perimeter of your visible webpage and listens for an incoming search spider. when a spider enters the page, it traps it in this weird wormhole, making it loop through, I don't know, certain keywords or something.... the result is that a SE like google would consequently give the page a full 100 rating (this person told me Google bestows some sort of scoring app once you've passed a certain number of their exams). A quick google search on 'tank tracking seo', 'tank tracking blackhat seo' and 'tank tracking google' yielded zero results.   Let me backtrack a bit and say that I am not interested in utilizing blackhat techniques. I'm just astonished that something like this might be out in the world. Anyone heard of this? **UPDATE** I have tried googling "seo honeypot" and "search engine honeypot" and "search engine wormhole" and I cannot find anything anywhere about this. Either the hacks who are doing this stuff aren't commenting about it at all online or it just doesn't exist in the way I was told it exists. I appreciate your helpful answers.


title: <body> and <div> issue

text: I have this meticulous problem,   1. I have a test html page whose body content is a single div tag.   2. I made the width and height of the div tag to 100% and colored the background red. And I get irritated by the white space border around the div tag. So my questions are:   1. What is the white space border around that div element?   2. How do I manipulate it OR get rid of it?


title: How to check if my site was penalized by Google?

text: I suspect that my site is penalized by Google. Is there a way to check if it's true? EDIT: Webmaster Tools don't show any messages. Sometimes there are warnings about inaccessible (404, Soft 404s) pages on the site that come and go, and couple of warnings about duplicate page titles (in online documentation for my software), though.


title: Domain reg transfer - will my site go down at all?

text: My website is hosted on my own server, however the domain is registered with fasthosts and I want to change to a different provider. Will i experience any downtime?


title: Why can't I connect to a local website remotely?

text: I set up a web server (for media wiki, specifically) on a computer with a few other functional web sites. I chose port `9191`. It works correctly from `localhost:9191`. When I attempt to view the site from another computer, it redirects me to localhost and cant find it, as if I'm trying to connect to a computer that doesn't exist. Any ideas? Any other error codes I can look for? I'm using Win-2008-R2/IIS.


title: Why was my site rejected for Google Adsense?

text: I have a 3 year old blog and its got around 16 articles/tutorials about some programming problems and solutions. It's getting pretty much a lot of view lately so I decided to apply for a google adsense account. When I first applied via blogger, google replied with the following statement:               Page Type: In order to participate in Google AdSense, publishers' websites     and application information must satisfy the following guidelines:          - Your website must be your own top-level domain (www.example.com and not     www.example.com/mysite).     - You must provide accurate personal information with your application     that matches the information on your domain registration.     - Your website must contain substantial, original content...      So, as I understood it, I decide to buy a domain and point my blogger blog to that new naked domain. and here is the newly bought domain where all the contents of my old blog resides. http:// _*_.com/ I reapplied, hoping that this time, I will make the cut. But then I got this reply               Further detail:          Unable to review your site: While reviewing http://www.***.com/, we     found that your site was down or unavailable.           We suggest you check whether there was a typo in the URL submitted. When     your site is operational, you can resubmit your application with the     correct site by following the directions below.       I'm a bit disappointed. Maybe I did something wrong with DNS configuration or something. But you can clearly see that my site is fully functional. I heard that google sends robots to crawl on to the site etc. It's just sad because I invested on a domain name, and now I can't even find ways to earn from it. Any tips?


title: Is there a limit of emails/pictures per Gravatar account?

text: I'm building a site to connect patients to doctors. Each doctor will have a profile picture. I'm quite happy to manually maintain the profile pictures as there won't be that many doctors nor will they have a need to change their picture very often, if at all. I thought of using Gravatar to host all these profile pictures. The idea is to create a single Gravatar account then keep adding email addresses to it in the form firstname.lastname@mysite.com and associating each one with a new image. Does anyone know, however, if I will run into any per-account limit? If so, it wouldn't be feasible because I would end up with a bunch of Gravatar accounts instead of just the one.


title: How to add a Google Map to search results?

text: How can I get a business map location displayed along with the Google search results page?


title: How do I pay customers online?

text: Payment portals such as Paypal and Stripe let web masters accept credit card payments from customers. Are there services that let web masters pay customers? Maybe a customer could input banking information (account number, routing) and some API lets the web master automatically transfer money?


title: How do I map some subdirectories to run alongside a Drupal site?

text: I have a Drupal site running on Apache using the following vhosts file:               <VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx:80>             ServerName              bananas.net             ServerAlias             www.bananas.net             DocumentRoot            /var/www/drupal/             RewriteEngine           On             RewriteCond             %{HTTP_HOST} !=bananas.net [NC]             RewriteRule             ^(.*)$ http://bananas.net$1 [L,R=301]                  <Directory              /var/www/bananas.net/>                     Options         -Indexes FollowSymlinks                     AllowOverride   All                     Order           allow,deny                     Allow           from all             </Directory>                  CustomLog               ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined             ErrorLog                ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log     </VirtualHost>      I set it up some time ago, so I am not sure what the `<Directory /var/www/bananas.net/>` directive was meant for. That directory is currently empty.   1. With the vhosts file the way it is, does the Directory directive have any effect at all?   2. I want to add some content which is separate from the Drupal site. How do I add sub-directories within `/var/www/bananas.net/` which can be accessed alongside the Drupal site running at the root? As they have nothing to do with the Drupal site, I want to keep the files separate, but still using the same domain.


title: Does nofollowing links prevent them from showing up in analytics?

text: If someone clicks on a link that has been blocked from the search engines, will the external website's analytics still show which domain (or page) the user was referred from?


title: Translate extension in Mediawiki not displaying languages menu

text: I've installed Translate extension and everything worked great but when I create a translation for a given page the language menu doesn't appear, so I can't link a page and its translated version. Example: for http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon I've created a French version (http://www.triathlonadvisor.com/index.php/Triathlon/fr) but the two are not linked automatically. I can, of course, add the language markup myself but it gets messy because when I'm in the French version I don't have the language menu. Versions:   * MediaWiki 1.21.1   * PHP 5.3.23 (litespeed)   * MySQL 5.1.70-cll


title: Is there any alternative to Ægir?

text: Is there any alternative to Ægir for multiple CMS sites? How about Drupal or even Joomla? I'm afraid WordPress just isn't enough when its not a blog.


title: Referrer Strings

text: I'm not exactly sure how to ask this, but here I go. I work for a company that provides IT services. Our main costumer has a website developed by WebCompany.com, and I act as a maintainer/middle-man for this website for our customer. What's happening is that on the front page there is a drop-down-menu with links. One link goes to a third party website - ThirdParty.com. This third party website automatically logs you in based on your IP or your referrer string. Homepage > ThirdParty.com > Logged in via IP or referrer string. What's happening... is Website.com is passing along inconsistent referrer strings. I've asked them to look into it and they say it's not their fault, referrer strings are handled at the browser. ThirdParty.com is actually nice enough to have IP and referrer string listed on the front page for users not logged in. So... how can I trace the referrer string so that I can figure out why http://Website.com's front page link to ThirdParty.com is showing a referrer as "None" or "Thirdparty.com" instead of "ThirdParty.com"? Their website is build in PHP. Can you force all links on a website to list "referrer" as "http://website.com/"? instead of "http://website.com/portal/1" or "http://website.com/page3"?


title: mp3 player extension for Joomla 1.0.x

text: I am after any mp3 player extension for Joomla 1.0.x I am not a Joomla guy so it would be great if there is also any nice piece of documentation how to make it work. My friend's site is in Joomla 1.0.x and I cannot update to the latest Joomla version. Tried to google it but it's hard to find anything for 1.0 these days...


title: Getting a .co.uk domain that is already registered

text: There is a .co.uk name that I want (I've had the .com version for nearly 7 years now). I would even be prepared to pay a small amount for it, but on http://whois.domaintools.com/ only a business name is shown (DOTCOMBIZ-AU) and an Australian address. There is no email address or telephone number. It is also interesting to note that "Registrant type: Non-UK Individual". I was under the impression that for a .co.uk you had to be UK based (which I and my business - if you could call it that - are). Also note that nothing is hosted on the domain, browsers simply return a page not found.    Is there anything I can do to try and obtain this domain? Or is there at least any way to contact the owner?       Thank you for your help. Jonathan


title: Checkout Process: 1 page or 3 pages?

text: What's better for a checkout process?   * One relatively long checkout page?   * Multiple short pages/steps ?


title: Google is not showing the publisher. Added rel=publisher two months back

text: I have added `rel=publisher` as:               <link href="https://plus.google.com/....." rel="publisher" />      Google plus page is working fine and showing it as validated. But after two months of time Google is not showing it in front of the brand name (when we search for the brand name).


title: What's the relation between website's traffic and Google Adsense revenue?

text: Are there some relations between the website's daily traffic and Google's Adsense revenue? In other word, Suppose the same Ad. will be published on two different websites, the first has average daily traffic 2000 visits while the other has only 100 visits. Does one click on that ad. on the first website will make revenue more than the second website? I've got misunderstand with Google documentation and I need to make a clear idea about this subject.


title: Amazon Affiliate search using a movie title

text: I am currently working on a movie trailer site. I have over 300 movies and I do not want to add an amazon affiliate link to each one individually. Does amazon offer any sort of api that will allow me to use a movie title to search for a dvd on amazon? Ex. For the movie skyfall, the amazon affiliate link would be `amazon.com/search/dvd/skyfall/affiliate`id ^ I just made the link up as i don't know how their system works, but I just want it to do a search on the movie title Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!


title: SEO Effects on sharing one nameserver for multiple websites on shared ips

text: We have a dedicated server and 5 shared IPs, and we are running around 20 websites on each shared IP. Our websites nature of business is same but each website belong to different country, For e.g., we have SEO services in Australia has different website, and web design services in Australia has different website and so on for other countries. All I want to know that we have only one nameserver on our dedicated server and whenever I search on Google SEO services in Australia, my ranking on this keyword shows on page 4 or page 3 or page 2, my other website(web design in Australia) is also ranking on that page somewhere near around my SEO website. And, that is happening with all of my websites. Can anybody help me out why this is happening with my websites? and what should I do to sort out this thing?


title: Website using different fonts across different browsers

text: The navigation board items on my website at www.amsa.mn uses the wrong font when displayed with Firefox. The correct font is loaded when I access the website with Safari or Chrome. Is there any way to force Firefox to load the correct font?


title: How to hide a piece of code from a wordpress web page?

text: I installed a plugin called Sociable on my Wordpress website. It displays social media share icons below each blog post, but on my website it's also showing up in the footer. Like here http://amsa.mn/%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3 I've been trying to figure out how to remove it from the footer for quite a while, but can't figure it out. Can anyone help? Thanks!


title: Receving an error when trying to access my site with Opera mini: "could not locate remote server"

text: I always receive an error when I try to access my site via Opera mini on Android (version: 7.5 build: 33361): `could not locate remote server` I've used another browser on the same device and it can be opened without this error. My site is built on WordPress using the Bootstrap theme. I've tried switching to another theme and disabling plugins, but it still doesn't work. Is there something I can try to fix this?


title: Should I add the CDN or the source URL of an image to the XML image sitemap?

text: I'm creating a WP plugin and I have the **source URL** for the image and the **CDN URL** to the image as well that is generated by replacing the host to the CDN host. Which is better, if I add the source URL and expose the image to the index without the CDN, or add the CDN URL and risk that it's on a different domain or the CDN subdomain is not allowed to be in the sitemap? Perhaps there is something I'm missing that is better practice.               <loc>http://mydomain.com/my-page/</loc>     <lastmod>2013-05-19T13:44:58+00:00</lastmod>     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     <priority>0.6</priority>     <image:image>         <image:loc>http://mydomain.com/myimage.jpg</image:loc>         <image:title>A title</image:title>         <image:caption>A caption</image:caption>     </image:image>      vs               <loc>http://mydomain.com/my-page/</loc>     <lastmod>2013-05-19T13:44:58+00:00</lastmod>     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     <priority>0.6</priority>     <image:image>         <image:loc>http://cdn.possiblyanotherdomain.com/myimage.jpg</image:loc>         <image:title>A title</image:title>         <image:caption>A caption</image:caption>     </image:image>