title: Is this inline-block trick involving 'font-size: 0' dangerous for SEO?

text: A while back, I answered this question on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5078239/how-to-remove-the-space-between- inline-block-elements The problem is that elements with `display: inline-block` have "extra gaps", due to being affected by whitespace in the HTML, see: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/4z4v2/ As shown, the gaps can be removed by removing the whitespace in the HTML. However, removing that whitespace is sometimes an undesirable fix: for example, it makes the HTML more difficult to work with. So, I suggested this workaround: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/4z4v2/1/               ul {         font-size: 0;         letter-spacing: -1px;     }     li {         font-size: medium;         letter-spacing: normal;     }      _(`letter-spacing` is required to fully eradicate the gap in Safari)_ And that was that.. ..until a comment popped up when this technique was suggested in another answer: > Be careful with this code because it might be interpreted by web crawlers as > abuse since you are explicitly hiding text inside an element containing > links. Its true that the links itself are visible thanks to a higher > specificity rule but still web crawlers see a bunch of links inside a > container which tells all of its ancestors to hide their textual content. I've used this technique on only _one_ site (..I usually just remove the whitespace), and the site _has_ ranked properly on Google (no link, sorry). If it matters, the site has pages targeted very specifically in the format of "Phrase + Location": as a fictitious example "Zombie Chopper Ravenholm". I only _really_ care about Google, but answers concerning other search engines are also welcome. **So, my question is:** Is the mere presence of `font-size: 0` a risk for SEO, even though no text is ever actually hidden?


title: I don't have a Mac. Someone tested my website on a Mac and the Google Maps' Javascript is not working. How do I test it?

text: How do I test if a website works on an old Mac without owning a Mac? Are there emulates. Does Safari work the same on both XP and a Mac? On the PC the website works on ie 7-9, FireFox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. It works on a very old iPhone too but not a five year old Mac. Here is a screen shot of I just got from Browser Shots on Safari 4.0 which is exactly how it's supposed to look. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VpXp5.png)


title: The IP location of server where is the webpage is important for google results?

text: Recently I have moved my hosting in San Francisco, and I want to know if I can get more visitors from there.


title: using multiple sitemaps in a domain

text: I have a domain http://sub.example.com/. In it there is a wordpress blog at http://sub.example.com/blog and other more static content at http://sub.example.com/other, http://sub.example.com/stuff, etc, etc As the blog content is updated quite often I use a WP sitemap plugin to generate it for the blog dynamically for convenience. Is there any penalty/negatives in using this while also maintaining a separate one for the whole subdomain bar this blog at http://sub.example.com/sitemap.xml?


title: Website with sections in Drupal?

text: What is the best way to create a website with sections in Drupal? Users need to be able to add, remove, and nest pages fairly easily. Pages added to a section should have an appropriate URL, like "/[section name]/[page title]". This seems like a straightforward task, but I can't find the right combination of tools to do it. Subsite comes close, but for some odd reason, doesn't set up the correct content paths. The closest I got was creating a book for each subsection, but that feels like I'm using the wrong tool for the job. * * * Edited with my solution: I used organic groups with pathauto. I set pathauto so that pages in groups had URLs that were of the form [group path]/[page title].


title: Posting a news article on my website..can they complain at all?

text: Wasn't sure where to post this, but I'm sure it's more relevant to this section as a webmaster has likely dealt with it. referring to said article (or any for that matter): http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/3/laufman-the-snowden-effect/ Am I allowed to simply copy and paste the entire article itself and put it on a website with a link to the original article, or would that be directing traffic from their advertisements?


title: why does my domain always get mapped to the naked domain flavor?

text: I am trying to understand why does my website always get redirected to the naked domain version of it. For e.g.: `www.example.com` gets redirected to `example.com` I purchased my domain name from godaddy and am using github (scroll to `custom domains`) for hosting it. (sidenote: I don't quite understand the concept of CNAME and A-records)


title: htaccess cookie results in inf-loop, how should i do this?

text: I have a cookie on my site and would like to have this cookie in the url (*always), something like this: www.domain.com/?lang=en OR www.domain.com/subscribe/?lang=en *(i'm not sure if i would like it ALWAYS, maybe i can exclude some directories i guess i can do this with adding a extra RewriteCond) But the main problem is my code now results in a loop, below the code i use:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} lang=([^;]+) [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1?lang=%1 [R,QSA,L]      Now my url results in: www.domain.com/?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en?lang=en.... etc. How can i simply add a cookie information to the url only once? and not loop all the time...


title: HELP! When I fixed the redirect from my naked domain, the hosted links on my site no longer connect, how do i fix this?

text: I've been having so much trouble figuring this out. My site is hosted thru godaddy, and is a music blog. We upload music for streaming and download. The site wouldnt redirect from the naked domain, so i figured out how to fix it. But when i got it to redirect, all the links to the music we host no longer worked? I need help! how do i make this work??


title: Google AdSense setup for multiple websites with different subjects

text: I set up Google AdSense last year for a technology blog that I own. When registering, I had to say what the site was about, so I obviously choose _technology_ as my website's subject. Now I have set up another website about _music_ so need to set a different subject choice for this particular website. So can you setup another website and apply different settings to it from your other sites, or do you have to setup another AdSense account?


title: 404s, 410s, and site re-designs

text: I recently made took over a site that had basic html and converted it into a dynamic php site. One of the features is 'pretty URLs' `i.e., city-events.html is now simply events`, and I'm curious as to what to do with the old pages. Right now **Google** is reporting 19 " _soft 404_ " errors for the non- existing pages.   * **Should I make 301 (Permanant) redirects for each of the old pages?**   * **Would it be better to use a 410 response to eliminate the pages** ( _and would this hurt existing page rank?)_   * Or should I leave them as is (redirecting to a user friendly 404 page) and let Google figure it out? I'm worried about the site's rank because it dropped from 1st to 17th in Google.


title: Why does Google PageSpeed Insights show a lower score for my website when using a CDN?

text: I'm trying to improve my site's PageSpeed. So far so good, I received score of 91 points for mobile and 97 points for desktops using Google PageSpeed Insights. However, when I add a CDN service for CSS, JavaScript, and images, the mobile score drops to 79 while the desktop score remains at 97 points. My question is: Why am I receiving a lower core when using a CDN? There are no additional warnings in the Google PageSpeed Insights report page, just that the mobile score drops by 12 points. I'm using W3TC/MaxCDN pull zone with default settings.


title: How to optimize acronyms for search engines?

text: I am trying to optimize a pre-existing website using SEO tactics. I just have one question. What is the best way to optimize if a keyword can be a phrase or acronyms (ie Major League Baseball vs MLB)? Should I try to fit both versions on page / title or is there a preferred method of dealing with this?


title: Weird .ASP pages from my non-ASP site generating 404s

text: In Google Webmaster Tools, I have a huge list of "Not Found" crawl errors (404) with URLs that look like this: `http://www.exclusivevillas.co.za/villa_view.asp?vSeq=82&activitySeq=3&page=3`, seemingly originating from URLs very similar to that (eg `http://www.exclusivevillas.co.za/villa_view.asp?vSeq=82&activitySeq=3&page=4`. Thing is, the site is WordPress. Has been for almost a year now. Was plain html before that. I don't know where these ASP requests are coming from. And furthermore, the dates these supposed ASP pages requested these other ASP pages, resulting in 404s, are very recent. What's going on?


title: Is there a tool I can use to test if an email from china is being blocked?

text: I'm having problems receiving an email from china, and I think it might be because the email was blocked somehow. Since I am not based in China and do not have access to any computers in China, I can't test this myself. Is there a web service or tool (that's preferable free) I can use to send a test email to an email address to see if it is received or blocked by the Great Firewall of China?


title: Is Google indexing pages that has no connection with other pages?

text: I am working on a web project that has nearly 100 thousand instant users and there is a webpage that we are using for test cases. There are no links pointing to it from other pages. It shouldn't be indexed by Google or any other search engines. "noindex" can be used in this situation, I know but I wonder if Google (or any others) indexes this page, if I don't do anything to prevent it.


title: What are some ways to accept payments from African countries that isn't PayPal?

text: There are some countries where people cannot easily create paypal accounts. Is there another way to transfer money online?


title: What effect does a website defacing have on ranking?

text: A new client is asking me to improve his website's ranking. he says his former SEO expert is claiming that because his site was defaced a few times for long periods its almost impossible for him to improve the site's ranking. How much effect does multiple site defacing have on SEO. what can be done to see what the damage is in retrospect? Are there any tools that can quantify or indicate such damage? And is there anything I can do to undo such damage?


title: Can we make those who sign up to our page automatically follow our Facebook page?

text: Is it possible to make somebody that logs in with Facebook automatically like our Facebook page? I have the same question about Twitter. If anyone logs in via Twitter, can they automatically follow us?


title: Hosting Video's on Youtube or a service like youtube with HTML5 / FLASH switching

text: We have 1000's of small product videos currently being played through a Flash player. We want to make this product videos work on apple devices. It's my understanding that Youtube auto switches from flash to HTML5 depending on the device. I thought YouTube allows you to have a business account and use their "Chromeless" player to show your videos unbranded. But looking they don't seem to offer that service. Are there any other services that we can upload a file format to, have complete control over the player and have it select the correct file format for the device automagically? Preferably we would only like the videos accessible if called from the website, not just for general view like youtube.


title: Underage adsense account

text: I'm still 14, can I use my name as the payee? I do have a bank account using my name. Will adsense not pay me if it finds out about my age?


title: When using Google Apps, is it possible to have multiple email addresses without being charged as additional users?

text: Google Apps for Business, now charges $5/mo/user. I would like to create multiple email addresses info@, sales@, etc... but all go to the same mailbox (me). Is there a way to go about this without essentially paying $5.00/email address?


title: Moving to new domain

text: One my site has been hit by Penguin penalty. Without waiting for next Penguin release I want to move my site to another domain. Using 301 for pages could pass the penalty back to the new domain. I've done my best already by disavowing links. **So what is the best way to divert traffic to my site without letting Google know?** I could ask visitors to click on a nofollow link for the moved page. Or I could use Javascript to set the link target instead of using href in <a tag. But Google can figure this out. Or I can use use a form submit button to be clicked to go the "moved" page. So what is the best way in this situation?


title: Should Server or App. Handle API Versioning Logic

text: My server redirects requests to a single front-end controller. Should it contain enough logic for mapping requests to different controllers based on version, or should the controller handle this logic?


title: Why is AhrefsBot requesting a page that's been removed from my website?

text: I was reviewing the logs of my website (WordPress), and I saw a line like this :               myWebsite:80 5.10.83.28 - - [17/Jan/2014:09:05:53 +0000] "GET myUrl == HTTP/1.1" 404 5716 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/5.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)"      So a bot called `AhrefsBot` was visiting `myUrl`. The problem is that I removed the page `myUrl` weeks ago. So why I am seeing this bot still requesting it? How did it find the URL `myUrl`, especially when I'm sure that there are no pages that link to it? And how do I avoid these kind of 404 pages?


title: Run Google Analytics reports across multiple accounts / properties

text: So I have a single login for Google Analytics that tracks multiple accounts with multiple properties as so. Account 1   * Property A   * Property B   * Property C   * Property D Account 2   * Property E   * Property F   * Property G These sites are all separate and it's not a case that visitors will go to site A and then onto site B or anything like that. All sites are their own self- contained unit. I would like to create a report that was able to give me stats across all these sites such as _browser usage_ , _user locations_ and such like. Any ideas how I could go about this?


title: Does Heading tags like <h1> and <h2> make a big differences during SEO?

text: Does Heading tags like `<h1>` and `<h2>` make a big differences during SEO?


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is there any way to find out how often a certain query is sent to a search > engine? How can i find keywords or phrase which fetch less than 100 or even no results, without manually doing it? I know it will take time for any person to go manually research. Any tool paid or free. **"Time is money"**


title: Google Analytics - Goals setup regular expression match

text: I have urls like the following:   * `http://example.com/item/1`   * `http://example.com/item/1341`   * `http://example.com/item/33324` I want to set up a funnel in Google Analytics and I understand that I can use a regular expression. What would i enter to match all the above URLs i.e `/item/#{id}`?


title: Is PageRank passed just once?

text: I'd like to know if link juice is passed just once? For example if I place a link in a website that passes little to no juice today, but 6 months down the road the link is still there but the website now passes a lot of juice... do I get a share of that link juice, or do I get it just once?


title: Auto subscribe checkbox on registration

text: What are the laws on this? If I have a simple registration form, can I have underneath it:               [x] Subscribe to the blog     [x] Email me when a new release is issued      Auto checked? Or do they need to be Opt In by law (I remember reading this somewhere). If it makes a difference, we are registered in the UK, and our web server is also UK located. ## Edit I'm not sure if people quite understand this question, what I mean is, can I have these check boxes checked by default? I see a lot of sites doing this. It will be presented in a 100% clear and non deceptive way.


title: One .htaccess file with rewrite rules for all domains

text: Our server is configured with multiple domains which reside in subfolders of the `public_html` folder. So `domain1.com` is located in `/home/user/public_html/domain1.com` and `domain2.com` is located in `/home/user/public_html/domain2.com` and so on. I've placed a _.htaccess_ file in `/home/user/public_html` so I can put settings in it that apply to all domains. I've added two things to this _.htaccess_ file. One is a special environment variable which is getting recognized by PHP just fine. The other is a redirect for any folder called `.svn` to a file called non-existant. So my _.htaccess_ file looks like this:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule /\.svn /non-existant     SetEnv ENVIRONMENT PRODUCTION      The problem is that the rewrite rule isn't working at all. The environment variable is, so I know this file is being processed by Apache, but the rewrite rule doesn't work. I've tried several other rewrite rules and none of them seem to be working. Do rewrite rules only work if they are in the document_root?


title: My domain name changes to an IP address in the URL bar when visited. How can I fix this?

text: I have a domain name, that points to the address of my VPS. And when I visit the website the URL changes to the IP address of the VPS I own. I would like it to keep the URL as the domain name. How do I configure this?


title: Switching hosting provider. Preserve emails?

text: We're looking to switch our domain and hosting provider to a company that gives a little more freedom and is less of a financial burden. However, we cannot afford to have any disruption to email service - the emails are part of the current hosting package. Is there a way we can switch our hosting provider without email disruption? Or is it a matter of 'out of business hours' switching? Cheers,   Dan


title: DNS hijack - prevention tips

text: Over the weekend it looks like the **DNS was hijacked on two of my domains**. My set up is I have the sites registered on 1and1.co.uk, with dns nameservers pointing to Hostgator in the US where the sites are hosted. I also had cloudflare CDN running on the sites (via hostgator cpanel). **My question is any ideas as to how this happened, and how I could either monitor it so I know if it occurs again, or strengthen the set up/service to minimise the risk.** **History:**   * I received a ping from my site monitoring service that the sites were down.    * When I checked the sites were up so I assumed it was local to the monitoring service   * I received a ping last night the sites were up   * When I checked, one site was redirecting to download-manual.com (and checking that URL now, the home page is not the same as the one I saw, so they too may have been hijacked/hacked)   * The other site URL remained the same but had one of those standard site search pages which bounce you off to either phishing or paid for search sites I notified Hostgator who told me Cloudflare or 1and1 were the issue. I removed cloudflare, and contacted both them and hostgator, and am awaiting a response, but am not holding my breath. Is this common? I've never heard of this or come across this before. It's pretty scary that this can happen so easily. Appreciate any input. **Update: I've now spoken to support at 1and1, Hostgator, and Cloudflare, and each one claims it has nothing to do with them, and must be one of the others. Larry, curly, moe.


title: what is the primary domain in godaddy for?

text: I just bought the deluxe web-hosting service of godaddy and am very confused with the term "primary domain". What is this thing for and can I remove it so I can organize my websites in different directories.   /root/site1   /root/site2   /root/site3   .... PS I used to work with MediaTemple and remember that there was no primary domain.... please help.


title: Using an old penalized domain for a new website

text: I had a website with 2 domains like these: `firstdomain.com` and `first- domain.com`. The main domain was `first-domain.com` and the other one was 301 redirected to first one. The main domain got a Google Penguin penalty some months ago. I uploaded the site on an new domain and removed Google index of old domain by using the remove URL tool in Webmaster Tools. Now, I want to use `firstdomain.com` (which was redirected to the penalized domain) for a new and fresh website with new and perfect content. Is it probable that history of this domain affects the new website and harms its ranking?


title: ASP.Net SEO Architecture Pattern

text: I come across with a Business Team, for which their corporate site is on asp.net platform. Those folks are pretty much interested to improve their site by increasing SEO Performance. I am interested to know few sample links or articles about ASP.Net SEO Architectural Pattern which helps me to explain them about re-engineering the site !!!


I just went to http://www.virante.com/ and entered my website and I encountered this warning: > Google indicates that it has "omitted some entries very similar" to the top > 1000 pages on your site. This similarity may be a duplicate content penalty > preventing these pages from being considered uniquely valuable in Google's > index What exactly this message means? (instead of just simple line answer that my site has duplicate content)


title: What's the most popular programming language for creating websites?

text: I want to know the details of websites developed using the different languages like .Net, Java, PHP, Python. Which programming language is mostly used?


title: robots.txt file Question

text: User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:     User-agent: *     Disallow: /account.php     Disallow: /cart.php      Is the above actually blocking crawlers? i just saw the extra "disallow" after the Google


title: The Necessity of a Disclaimer

text: I am a blogger. I write science articles. I study science and write articles in my blog in simple words for the general public to understand. Does this require a disclaimer as I do not want to see something like the following in my inbox > I read your blog and damaged something. Pay me compensation.


title: Products details problem with PayPal Express Checkout

text: After I redirect from my shopping cart to Paypal using `SetExpressCheckout` I can't see my product details on the left. I have the following code:               METHOD=SetExpressCheckout&      VERSION=54.0&       PWD=xxxxxxx&       USER=xxxxxxx&       SIGNATURE=xxxxxx&       RETURNURL=xxxxxx&       CANCELURL=xxxxxxx&       PAYMENTACTION=Sale&       AMT=20&      SOLUTIONTYPE=Sole&       LANDINGPAGE=Billing&       L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME0=Product+1a&       L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NUMBER0=1&       L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT0=20.00&       L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_QTY0=2&       L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_DESC0=descriere&       ALLOWNOTE=1


title: Almost identical ip address, is this the same user…?

text: i 'm the administrador of a forum and on the admin control panel i can see the ip assign to the users i have 3 specific users with the following ip               user1:   95.169.240.54      user2:   95.169.240.177     user3:   95.169.240.220      As you can see, the ip is almost the same, and if i look at the site http://whatismyipaddress.com/ i see that they are from the same organization, etc... So, can i say that this is the same user? 90% the same, 50, 40... what percentage (if any) Thanks


title: My domain emails are marked as SPAM in Gmail? How to solve this issue?

text: At Pro Webmasters I searched for an issue which relates to spammed domain list for sending emails which end up in the Spam box in Gmail. I found the link something like below: how-could-i-prevent-my-mail-from-being-recognized-as-spam which says the reasons for the domain being listed as spam and I hardly found any solutions to come out that problem for the domain which was affected. In my scenario the mails from my domain from the last few days are landing in SPAM box in Google whereas the rest like Yahoo/MSN/Rediff are OK. Even the plain text emails are going to SPAM Which is something of a surprise to me. I tried to find out the solutions overcome this problem but nobody gives exact steps to follow to solve this issue. I request fellow members not to close this as duplicate, if you read my problem you can understand that this thread is all about steps to solve the issue of SPAM not the reasons. If you find similar questions please let me know or else try to answer my question.


title: What is the importance of Geographical Settings in Google Webmaster Tools?

text: In my website, I have set geographical settings in Google Webmaster Tools as India. I am targeting traffic from India, but my site has content for almost all Asian countries. So what can I do? Do I need to change geographical setting from India to Unlisted? According to setting which is India is it mean Google do not show my site if someone searches from Pakistan? Or Do Google list my site but at the bottom of page for the keywords which belongs to Pakistan?


title: Is this Sitemap code correct?

text: I'd like to check whether I have any of the code not as it should be in my Sitemap file. Not sure if this is too general a question for here... If it's an ok question, here's the sitemap URL: `http://wordfruit.com/sitemap.xml`


title: New site created in subdomain, how to move it as a production site and not a subdomain anymore

text: We have a site `www.site.com` using ip 123.456.789 and we have a newly design website running from a test run subdomain `testrun.site.com` using ip 987.654.321. Now the newly designed website is done. It has the same directory structure, we keep the URL intact, same location of images , but different design overall. **Question:** if I change the DNS "A" record of **`www.site.com`** website to use   the ip of **`testrun.site.com`** 987.654.321 will my **`www.site.com`** use the new design from the testrun subdomain **`testrun.site.com`**? Is this possible? NOTE:   * Site is hosted in apache    * The `testrun.site.com` and site.com is hosted from the same dedicated server.


title: Should menu titles (h1, h2, h3...) be inside or outside the <nav> tag?

text:
Let's say I want to write a simple menu in HTML5. Should I write like this:
My Menu

Submenu 1

Link 1

Link 2
             ...

Submenu 2

Link 1

Link 2
             ...
           Or like this:
My Menu

Submenu 1

Link 1

Link 2
             ...

Submenu 2

Link 1

Link 2
             ...
           In other words, should the titles be inside or outside the `<nav>` tag? Thanks.


title: Should I still use Flash or Silverlight?

text: There's been a lot of controversy over the future (and current) use of Flash and the adoption of Silverlight. Should I continue to use it if I am already or should I use something else, like HTML5?


title: Proper sitemap.xml setup

text: I have a dynamic site which has many (well, less than 50) users. Each user is allowed to create as many pages as they want. I know that there is a limit to how many pages you can be listed in sitemap.xml, and for now I am under that limit, but I would like to know what the best way to enable search engines to know (all?) about my user's pages while still being under that limit even if I have more than the limit.


title: How often does Dreamhost change IP Addresses

text: So I just migrated our site to dreamhost because they are free for non- profits. However, right after I switched the nameservers over to them they changed the IP address of the site. So first they propagated out IP address x.x.x.180, then they switched it to x.x.x.178 and had to propagate that out. Point being it meant a lot of downtime since a lot of big DNS servers (like google) thought the address was still x.x.x.180 for up to 5 hours after they switched it. This is compounded by the fact that most our visitors to the site live here in Unalaska and we have local DNS servers that take a LONG time to update (like a day or more) since we get all our internet over satellite. So every time Dreamhost changes our IP address it can mean > a day of downtime for us in our community. So my question is, how often do these changes take place? I asked Dreamhost support and they gave me a vague response: > I wish I could say, however those changes happen at random times. They're > not that frequent, maybe even months between updates, but there's no way to > know for sure. First, I hardly believe that they don't know their own system well enough to give me at least some estimate or average. Second, is it worth looking at other providers so that I can get a static IP address? We were hosting the site here originally and hadn't run into this problem since we have a static IP here. We don't get a ton of traffic but usually around 500 hits a day or so, sometimes more if our stories are featured on statewide or national news broadcasts. So hours of downtime every time Dreamhost "randomly" decides to move our server location can be bad for our readership.


title: Why doesn't visitor flow drop-off and bounce rate correlate in Google Analytics?

text: I've been looking at the Visitor Flow report in Google Analytics, but something doesn't add up. For the starting pages it says that there were 181K visits and 123K drop-offs. If the starting page is the first page visited on the site and the drop offs are people who leave the site, this suggests to me that you can calculate the bounce rate from these figures. I calculate the bounce rate to be (123K/181K) x 100 = 68%. However, the bounce rate for the site given in the overview report is actually 19.89%. Can anyone explain why the actual bounce rate is different from my calculated bounce rate (calculated using the drop off and starting page visits)? I must have made an incorrect assumption somewhere, but after a lot of head scratching I still can't see where!


title: Joomla 1.5.22 stripping html code from article html editor

text: If I create a new article in Joomla 1.5.22, and insert some Youtube video embed code (iframe etc) into the article, then press Apply in the HTML editor popup, I get a message like "article text cannot be empty:. If I include some paragraph text with the Youtube code, the paragraph is saved and the Youtube code is removed. Why does this occur? How do I prevent it?


title: How do I fix the paths of my website?

text: I have Joomla 2.5.7 in my client's server updated recently from 1.6 to 1.7. I did not make that site but I am responsible for it now. I prefer to make a site from zero. Now users area clicking on the menu options and when joomla send them to a meta-url like `http://iap.pa.gov.br/acervo` they get the message `404 The requested URL /acervo was not found on this server.` Would that be because they moved joomla folder from the root to root/iap (name of the site)? If it is, what is the configuration to adapt to that new folder?


title: How to know my free disk space on web hosting server?

text: I have got some work from my friend for updating his website. Earlier his website was made by some other person and he used to maintain all the stuff. Now that developer has given only the ftp username and password to my friend. He asks me to update his website. But the problem is I don't know how to access the things for this particular web hosting account like knowing the available free space, accesing email account, etc. I asked him about website control panel but he says that he doesn't know about. Is there any other site/client program/control panel that I can use to manage that website. So can any one help me out?


title: SEO: Joomla Category Page Optimization + Canonical Linking

text: I'm wondering how best to optimize my Joomla site's SEO. I have pages with multiple articles on each page. Either via category-type pages, or via modules. In each case, I'm not wanting users to access the articles separately from the forward facing, menu-linked pages. I understand however that Joomla still generates a url for those articles, and Google can still crawl and display these articles separate from the pages. My question is what is the best way to control this so that my users get directed only to the front-facing pages? By using the canonical element for each article to point to the front-facing page it's on? Or is there a better method? Thanks for your help!


title: Breadcrumb for multiple categories

text: I post in multiple categories, so is it better to have: > Consulting > Services > Implementation > Service A > > Consulting > Services > Optimization > Service A > > Consulting > Services > Upgrade > Service A or, > Consulting > Services > Implementation, Optimization, Upgrade > Service A I was doing second way, the problem is google doesn't show 3rd set of crumbs. ie it only displays: **Consulting > Services** on search result. But having multiple breadcrumbs on the page doesn't look good. any suugestions? **Update For @PatomaS 's question** I mean 3 lines of breadcrumbs, see above i have posted same article (Service A) in 3 categories (Implementation, Optimization, Upgrade). So you can reach same article through 3 categories. So whats the best breadcrumb to display on article 'Service A'?


title: Invalid Google markup rel=publisher

text: Why is Google publisher HTML tag invalid according to W3C specification? Is there any way to correct this example:               <a href="http://plus.google.com/109469573972649651137?prsrc=3" rel="publisher" class="c3">


title: How do you register a private name server?

text: I have moved my website http://technojourney.com recently from VPS to Dedicated Server. I have been given private name servers. I have added it as child name server and also have added A records. Yet, my website is not showing up at all now. Have I missed something? I am finding it difficult and after doing many things Regards, Nikhil


title: Newer constructs are recommended

text: The World Wide Web consortium now regards the tag as outdated. Newer constructs are recommended.What's new?


title: site home not at site root index

text: I have an SEO concern with a website that has just finished the development stage, basically the site has been in progress for a year. During this period the site has been accessible from the URL: `/home/index.php` along with a landing page (construction) at: `/` It is time to launch and I need to know what to do. Should I go through the site and change all links to the homepage to the site root index (where the construction page currently is), or can I do some form of redirecting that will not negatively effect SEO. Can I 301 redirect `/index.php` to go to `/home/` OR should I move the homepage content to `/index.php` and do a redirect on `/home/index.php` to point to the site root `index.php` What is the best solution that is SEO friendly?


title: Will small random dynamic snippets break caching

text: I am busy writing a WordPress plugin. Now most users have cache plugins installed, they cache the pages. I know also some webservers as nginx have php caching and whatnot. There are also things like memcached. Now I have to admit I do not know exactly how they work, if anyone have some good links on how they work I would be glad. Some links where it's explained simple, not to technical. Now the question. My plugin **displays different statistics** on posts, they are always different, will this break the caching of the page. To take is a step further, sometimes the statistics of the post needs updating, and there is a **small javascript snippet** added to the page. Now will these two action result in the page not caching, or am I ok.


title: parallels plesk 11 missing web presence builder

text: After a recent upgrade to parallels plesk 11, we decided to start using their web presence builder tool. However, every video, (documentation and instructional) I have viewied shows the link should just be under websites and domains, or even on the homepage. It is in neither location. I have verified it is both installed and up-to-date, under server -> updates and upgrades Any idea how I access the web presence builder?


title: I'm confused about encryption and SSL

text: while my friends and I planning to run our own website, we're confused about the encryption where hackers can TAPPING or in social engineering it's WIRE TAPPING, but I don't know how do they call it in Computers today... Well guys, I just want to know how encryption works with websites if we are using PHP+MYSQL? Is it ok to use   1. user login ----> (PHP) encrypt inputted value then (PHP) will decrypt and validate it going to (MySQL)   2. user login ----> (PHP) encrypt inputted value and decrypt the (MySQL) data if they are similar... Is it similar if we use $_SESSION without encryption inside PHP going to MySQL?or PHP encryption also helps the manipulation of binaries?..I'm so confused T_T... In regards to what I stated above, can a hacker hook the data if the server uses $_SESSION? Is $_SESSION safe?... IF THE HACKER CAN HOOK it? is it necessary to use SSL on our website? and why do some Merchandise websites use SSL and likewise facebook also uses SSL? what is the best suit for you if there is no SSL? encrypting the DATA using PHP going to MySQL or even without encryption while the PHP server uses $_SESSION?...


title: Process of DNS resolution using nslookup starting from root nameservers

text: I understand broadly the theory of how a DNS resolver goes through the domain hierarchy querying nameservers to resolve a domain name from the root namespace downwards however I would like to try doing a similar process by using nslookup to find google.com name servers (or any other domain name as an example). I understand that I can just do:               nslookup -type=ns google.com      which will return all of google.com's nameservers such as ns1.google.com, ns2.google.com etc. However, what I want to do instead is go from the root level domain and recursively get to Google's nameservers similar to what a DNS resolver would normally do (assuming no cache hit). Here's the process I've tried:   1. First get the root level nameservers: nslookup -type=ns . This returns all 13 root servers and I have chosen one of them: 192.36.148.17   2. Now I query the root nameserver for the gTLD .com as follows: nslookup -type=ns com 192.36.148.17 This returns a list of nameservers ie IP: 199.212.0.73   3. I now use the first nameserver's IP to query for the SLD's name servers: nslookup -type=ns google.com 199.212.0.73 Here I would have thought this would return google.com's nameservers but instead I'm getting nameservers such as v.arin.net, u.arin.net etc. What am I missing here?


title: Is there a good, centralized resource for helping users setup white-lists in their e-mail?

text: I'm sure there are plenty of webmasters who have sites that send e-mails to users. Many times they land in the user's spam/junk folders, unbeknownst to the user. I'm wondering, is there a good, centralized site showing users how to setup white-lists. Or how to "un-spam" emails from a given domain, across many different common e-mail systems (gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail, outlook, etc...) Thanks in advance!


title: How to recommend that Google indexes some keywords?

text: I've read many articles about SEO. I've tried to implement my knowledge on a site but I haven't gotten good results in 6 months. e.g.: I've used Google Webmaster Tools, sitemaps, title tags, keywords in paragraphs, etc. My Alexa rank is growing but Google detected some keywords that isn't my goal :-(. Is there a good way to focus on a keyword on search engines? How can I recommend Google to index some desired keywords? (They are available in my pages.)


title: Creating an iPhone compatible website with iWeb

text: I'm starting a simple, static site with iWeb (latest version) and was wondering if there are any built-in or available resources for making the site compatible with mobile devices?


title: Google Places review - owner or business name?

text: I currently manage a Google Places Business, where we have received several reviews. I am wanting to respond to these reviews but I want to respond as the company, not as myself. I am the 'owner' of the page, it is through my personal Gmail address. Like Facebook, when replying to comments and posts by other users on the business' wall, you reply as the actual business, not as your personal name. Is this the case with Google Places? If not, how can I get it so the reviews are posted as the company name, not my personal name?


title: How long does Google normally take to act on black hat SEO?

text: One of our competitors recently rocketed up the search rankings. A little investigation revealed it to be a clear-cut case of black hat SEO link farming. I submitted what I believe was a clear and comprehensive report to Google via Webmaster Tools a couple of weeks ago, but haven't seen any results yet. How long should I wait before starting to worry that the matter may have fallen through the cracks? Should I resubmit the report?


title: Google SEO - remove site map from search result

text: I am an amateur to SEO. I have a new site recently and submitted the site map to GWT. But after several weeks. I found when I search my domain in google. The site map also appears to be one of the links in the search result. How could I prevent if from showing up in the search result?


title: Costs of hosting static files on Google App Engine

text: I am considering using GAE as a kind of CDN, to host an entire static website. Soon they will start using new pricing. Does every site visitor start a frontend-instance? What will be the cost implications for a low-use website, that under the current pricing would be free. I would be using the Free version with a quota per app per day of 28 free instance hours. Not sure what that actualy means though.


title: Google indexing wrong domain that does not work

text: Can anyone tell me why Google indexes a site http://0.3c.7aae.static.theplanet.com instead of the actual domain name (my domain was registered with webmaster tools). The aforementioned link was linking to my site, but has now become a broken link. Initially I tried 301 directs, but nothing worked. The hosting company cannot explain why. Leaving me wondering what to do? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thks


title: URL rewrite procedure

text: I have site name like http://www.abcd.com and in the site i have propertydetails page. So now i want to display in url http://www.abcd.com/hy2345 instead of http://www.abcd.com?propertydetails.aspx?id=hy2345 Here another problem is if the user will enter directly http://www.abcd.com/hy2345 so automatically redirect to propertydetails page. Thanks in advance


title: Disable Wordpress tags to be indexed by Google

text: My client doesn't want the tag pages (www.example.com/tag/tagname) to be indexed by Google. How can I achieve this? Disallow in robots.txt doesn't work. Thanks! **Robots.txt:**               User-agent: *     Disallow: /tag/


title: An apache injection attack?

text: I encountered a novel (to me anyway) form of injection attack in one of my logs               login as <!--#exec cmd="ls .."-->      Which looks like someone it trying to trigger sever side includes on an apache server, if the input text was echoed into an error message. Can apache even be configured to process SSI on it's output stream? Or is there some more subtle vulnerability it's trying to exploit?


title: About I.P user identification

text: I own a site and I banned one of my users. His I.P was 68.111.xxx.xx Later, about 2 hours later, a new user registered. Looked suspicious, and I checked his I.P which was 68.191.xxx.xx My question is, how can I essentially know if this is the same person, putting aside intuition? So I used whatsmyip site and looked up both I.Ps. Both are from the US, but different places and providers. So he's not the same person? Or can there be other factors?


title: Apache: how to create subdomain on name-based virtualhost?

text: i have name-based hosting, lets name it `my.address.com` - my friend have 'white' ip -`address.com` and gave me virtual machine than i can access via ssh, also, he made some magic with ports and now after install apache i could access /var/www on the `my.address.com`. So, the question is how can i make subdomain like `test.my.address.com`? There are should be some magick with Apache's Listen Directive, but i cant figure it finally. Also, i know how to create local-available sites with apache, but it is not the same.


title: Looking for a FormBuilder that gives me all images and sourcecode to my form

text: Wow, I started my search this morning and didn't think it would be so difficult to find. I'm just tired of spending hours putting together simple html forms in dreamweaver. I'm an enthusiast web developer mostly focused on php and mysql. I hate CSS and HTML and I'm looking for a simple program that will put a form together for me where I can then completely embed the form into my site. I'll do all of the programming to attach it to my database I just need the form and images. I've looked into jotform, wufoo, 123forms etc but it seems like they all want to keep my form on their servers in one way or another. It looked like jotform had a developers version but $450 bucks is a little steep for a part timer like me. Is there no simple software out there that will throw a nice stylized form together for me?


title: Transfer domains without disrupting local email server

text: Perhaps I am thinking about this wrong, but maybe some of you guys can help me on this one. I have a client who currently has a domain from Network Solutions and is hosted via GoDaddy. Additionally, he has his email service with GoDaddy as well, but it seems to be forwarded to his local server at work. How can I transfer hosting accounts without disrupting email service (or at least temporarily)? Some MX info via Godaddy:               A          @ Points to GoDaddy Host     main Points to client's home server     sw Points to client's home server               MX     @ Points to main.example.com     @ Points to smtp.secureserver     @ Points to mailstore1.secureserver


title: Identify this user agent - claims to be IE7 on Windows 7

text: We have a tracking pixel in one of our emails and our the most frequent user agent is this strange one:               Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)      If you enter this into user-agent.info you will see that it claims to be Windows 7 (Windows NT 6.1) but at the same time IE 7, which isn't available for this OS version. Since this is an email I'm guessing that it could be some Microsoft email program (Windows Mail, Outlook Express?) that is embedding an IE7 engine. Does anyone know more? PS: I'm aware that user agents are easily spoofed but that would have to be a pretty determined troll.


title: Can I use UTM urls in Google Analytics to track the performance of different *sections* of my site?

text: If I start using the UTM links in Google Analytics to try and track the conversion rate on for instance, search results, or product recommendations, will I be getting an accurate representation of those section's performance or will it be skewed because it is tracking the user's behavior all the time after they click one of those links? In other words, if Page A links to Page B, with UTM info baked into the url, will Analytics give credit only for what they do on Page B, or if they continue to browse around will Analytics give credit for Page C, Page D, and so on? I want to find out how much we are making with product Recommendations, and I want to start tracking some other parts of the site too, like our Top 10 list in our sidebar, or stuff like that.


title: Dynamically rewrite URLs upon the user's selection - is it possible?

text: In my PHP based web application, there's a form that generates a URL according to the user's selection. The form has 7 different fields, each one of them affects the final URL, none of them is mandatory. The final URL can be: > > /field1/user_setting_of_field1/field3/user_setting_of_field3/field6/user_setting_of_field6/ or just: > /field4/user_setting_of_field4 these URLs should be rewritten to- > > /results.php?field1=user_setting_of_field1&field3=user_setting_of_field3&field6=user_setting_of_field6 and: > /results.php?field4=user_setting_of_field4 Is it possible to create a single rewrite rule that will cover these variations? I'd hate to create different rewrite rule for every possible scenario, it'll take forever... I'm currently developing the app on a Windows machine with IIS 7.5, but will eventually deploy it to an Apache server. Is it possible in both? I currently need to solve it for the IIS environment, and later on for Apache.


title: How do I disallow an entire directory with robots.txt?

text: I have two sites I am currently working on which is a shopping cart and another shopper...Both are under the same domain name so for example               http://someurl.com/first_url      http://someurl.com/second_url       Both these urls have tons of pages below them               http://someurl.com/first_url/product1     http://someurl.com/first_url/product2      http://someurl.com/first_url/product3          http://someurl.com/second_url/product1     http://someurl.com/second_url/product2      http://someurl.com/second_url/product3      How do I disallow the main url /first_url and /second_url to and all the subpages and sub directories ...I was thinking something like this but I don't know if this works or not and whether it was the correct syntax               Disallow: /first_url/*/     Disallow: /second_url/*/


title: Client asking for estimate to set up/ configure his server

text: I am building a web application for a client. I never set up a server using IIS. He needs me to configure the server to work with mySQL, php, and phpmyadmin. The server, is completely empty/unconfigured version of IIS 6. I need to set it up so the web application I built is completely accessible on the www. Not sure how long this will take me. It may take anywhere from 10-50 hours, I am not sure. I worked on set up servers using IIS, I never configured one from scratch. I am afraid that troubleshooting, and getting everything working as it should may take me days... What would be a reasonable charge for this service? I appreciate any advice, Many thanks in advance!


title: Searching for a Calendar Application That Meets the Following Criteria

text: My Step Father is starting his own company, and he gets the wonderful life of having to deal with multiple clients. He needs a calendar system that can do the following:   * Can be updated from iCal (I'm pretty sure this just means CalDAV support)   * Needs to be able to show different clients the details of whats on his calendar for them, while showing other client's arranged times as only busy   * Wants to show it in a professional way, preferably on his own website. I was looking at Google Calendar, but alas it doesn't seem to actually support it like I thought it would. He was looking at MobileMe, but its simply public. Is there a calendar app or PHP application that can be installed on his server that can do this?


title: The concept of virtual host and DNS

text: I have a dedicated server and a mydomain.com (bought from a hosting company). I want to host a website from my dedicated server with the domain mydomain.com i.e. when I enter mydomain.com from browser it should point to the IP(let's say X.X.X.X) of dedicated server(and a particular folder inside it). I have some following queries: **In Server**   1. I know I need to edit some of the files (like: host or hostname file) in the server but I do not know what exact file I need to edit.   2. How to add a Site enable or Site available in apache2 ? **In Hosting Company control Panel**   1. Which records to add (A or cname or anyother)?   2. Where Should I add DNS(in dedicated server section or domain name section)?   3. How it is going to affect the behaviour of the domain? in short the question is: **How the virtual host works & how to add DNS?**


title: What's the most efficient & economical way to do GeoIP redirects for a high traffic site?

text: So, I'm setting up a new potentially high traffic site that's made up of several simple static pages. We want to host it as efficiently as possible, as we're both on a non-existent budget and may have to deal with traffic spikes, so have been thinking CloudFlare, AWS S3/CloudFront, or some similar service. However, the catch is we need the root page `/` to redirect to `/ccTLD`, for example: redirect to `/us` for U.S. visitors or `/au` for Australian visitors. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can best approach this? So far I'm thinking either we have to resort to using JavaScript which looks dodgy, or simply pushing / requests through to a VPS or EC2 instance, which creates a bottleneck I'd rather avoid.


title: Putting Custom page summary in meta description

text: if putting "Custom" `meta description` for EVERY page of site, is harmful for SEO? (for example, summary of each article) And Google will show them on SERPs?


title: Section/Aside (HTML5)

text:
I read about `<section>` and `<aside>` on the WC3 site a whole ago, but I can't remember if an `<aside>` should be placed inside a `<section>` or directly beneath it. Does anybody know? E.g. Should it be like this?:
...
      Or like this:
.........
      Thank you


title: SAAS for user registration on web site

text: Can anyone recommend a service which we can use to handle user registration on a website. I know of services like Wufoo, but they just offer forms. What we are looking for is a service which we can embed which has all the features like user signup, password recovery, etc.


title: Google indexes 301 source, with the destination content

text: It seems like when you 301 a page A to page B, sometime google indexes page A, showing the url in the results, with the contents of page B? Google "site:http://tinyurl.com/" to see some examples Is this by design or a bug? How do I avoid it?


title: What user agent should I set?

text: There is Ask bot, which sets this header:               Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)       Considering this, I have the following questions:   * If I'm writing a web crawler named Goofy, what user agent should I use?    * What is the difference if I put `Mozilla/2.0` or `Mozilla/5.0` ?  Any other suggestions about how should I format my user agent to comply to the current standards are more than welcome.


title: Subdomain as home page

text: I'm looking at how best to launch a project using subdomains to create around 10 'minisites' of sufficiently differing content using the subdomain as branding. There will never really be much content whatsoever on the main domain, it will only act as landing page for the subdomains with some aggregate content. Are there any pitfalls I need to be aware of with this approach? I assume I should set canonical link tag to subject.domain.com and add said address in webmaster tools, repeating the action for further subdomain minisites as they're added? With this approach I will never really have much content on the main domain, it will only act as landing page for the minisites with some aggregate content. Thanks very much for advice. While this is my first question here I'm seasoned on SO so not liable to hit and run.


title: Where do I find the Google tool for polling users about which option they like better on my website?

text: I remember a while back seeing a service offered by Google where you could pay to have people see for example two different logos for your company and could ask people to vote for which they liked best. Anyone know what tools this was?


title: How to solve this problem with my subdomain?

text: I have my site hosted at http://blog.rgksugan.in. I have set a subdomain in it for my blog. But after landing on my blog whatever other links I click i get the link as http://rgksugan.in/blog/wordpress/stack-overflow/. I want it to be http://blog.rgksugan.in/stack-overflow What should I do...?


title: Hosted web site builder for non-techies

text: I'm looking for an easy-to-use, well-supported tool for building your own web site, that a non-technical person can understand. Preferably something web- based and hosted, so they have to do as little as possible to get started. Any recommendations? I want something I can recommend to friends and family, when they ask me how they can build a site for their business, wedding, etc..


title: Can search engines change language and read the cookie?

text: I am building a multi language website in PHP and prepared all my strings in English by default using `gettext()`   My locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo file is working correctly and now I need to sort out the language detection and switching. I was thinking about using the approach with the GET parameter:                 English | Italian      I also thought that writing the parameter in a cookie should be better than in PHP's `$_SESSION`               $locale = "it_IT"; // default in Italian     if (isset($_GET["locale"])) {         $locale = $_GET["locale"];         setcookie("locale", $locale, time()+60*60*24*365*10, "/"); // for 10 years     }     if (!$locale && isset($_COOKIE["locale"])) {         $locale = $_COOKIE["locale"];     }          // locales directory     $locales_root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/locale";      $domain = "default";     // activate the locale setting     putenv("LC_ALL=$locale");     setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);     // bind it, than activate     bindtextdomain($domain, $locales_root);     textdomain($domain);      OK so far, so good.   Now my actual question……   How can a search engine index the English content? It follows the "?locale=en_US" link, than what?   Does the cookie get written? The first page is translated fine, but I am not adding the GET parameter to all my links. I saw this on some websites before; when you change the language the URL changes to somewebsite.com/it/ (mode_rewrite?) and the next click it's not added anymore.


title: How to refresh Google Reader cache for a specific domain

text: Brief history   * _domain.com_ was associated with a blogspot.   * _domain.com_ changed to an institutional site and features a small code instructing which file should be retrieved by RSS readers.              <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://domain.tumblr.com/rss" />         * Google Reader didn't update the RSS to the new blog.   * _domain.com/blog_ retrieves the posts correctly because it was never used for that purpose in the older blog. **How is it possible to force Google Reader to update the cached information?** I tried using another RSS reader and it worked perfectly with the new domain. However, when I tried to follow _domain.com_ in another Google Reader account, it still showed the posts from the older blog. It's been almost a month that the aforementioned changes were made.


title: User generated articles, how to do meta description?

text: If users submit a lot of good quality articles on the site, what is the best way to approach the meta description tag? I see two options:   * Have a description box and rely on them to fill it sensibly and in a good quality way   * Just exclude the meta description Method 1 is bad initially, but I'm willing to put time in going through and editing/checking all of them on a permanent basis. Method 2 is employed by the stack exchange site, and lets the search bots extract the best part of the page in the SERP. Thoughts? Ideas? I'm thinking a badly formed description tag is more damaging than not having one at all at the end of the day. I don't expect content to ever become unwieldy and too much to manage.


title: Setting up domain name and email servers for VPS

text: These are very beginner questions. I just got an instance of VPS with no domain name yet. The only way I can access my VPS is through SSH to a static IP. (1) How do I register a domain name and host it on my VPS? I know I can register a domain at some 3rd party registrar like GoDaddy, but how do I "host" that on my VPS? (2) How do I set up an email server that send emails and receive emails through the domain I register? What software do I need and how should I config it? Thanks a lot in advance


title: How can I associate my main domain to a RSS?

text: This is an institutional site which uses Tumblr to keep the visitors updated. The Tumblr is linked via frames in the subdirectory /blog/ of the domain to track stats. My question is: How can I allow my visitors to retrieve the Tumblr updates by simply inputing _www.domain.com_ in their feed reader instead of domain.tumblr.com? OR How can I allow my visitors to retrieve the Tumblr updates by simply inputing _www.domain.com/blog_ in their feed reader instead of domain.tumblr.com? PS. For some reason the main domain is still associated with the old blogspot address.


title: Is Amazon the cheapest cloud provider?

text: On AWS, bandwidth costs as little as $0.08 per GB and storage costs as little as $0.055 per GB. Are there any providers that charge less? These numbers end up being very costly for a web site that hosts pictures and videos, so I'm looking for cheaper alternatives.


title: Google Keyword Relevancy

text: I hope this is the correct place to ask this question. I've got a few websites going, so i'm ok with the usual terminology and have looked in SEO and tried to implement it as best i can on my sites. One thing i read is that Keywords are no longer really looked at or paid much attention by Google. So i have left Google to crawl my sites and let it figure out the Keywords for me. But on my Webmaster Tools Google page i can see all the Keywords it has found and ranked (great) but my question is how can i up the relevancy of some of the Keywords it has crawled? And is this going to have a positive effect on my SERP? Any advice welcome thanks :)


title: How to handle duplicate content in a tabbed area?

text: On my home page I have a tabbed section that loads the content via JavaScript. I have 5 tabs that can be clicked. For example, there's an "about us" tab that has a couple of paragraphs in it and a read more button at the bottom. The problem is, when you click on the "read more" button, you're taken to the aboutus.html page which contains those same two paragraphs that are on the home page. What's a good way to go about handling this? Or do I not even need to worry about it since it's only a couple of paragraphs?


title: What are some advantages of using Analytics like Urchin?

text: I'm interested in utilizing urchin. What are some advantages of self hosted analytics software like urchin over Google analytics?


title: Disavow a subdomain?

text: Disavow the domain `example.com`. What can I do if I want do disavow a subdomain? i.e. `spam.site.com`. I'm also assuming that if I were to disavow the domain it would include all subdomains?


title: Uses of .htaccess files

text: I only have a basic understanding of .htaccess files. What are some tasks that can be accomplished using them? What are good resources that would aid in learning how to use them on a more advanced level? What are downsides/risks/etc to using them? What are benefits to using them?


title: Any thoughts on Squarespace as a blogging platform?

text: I'd like to start a blog and I'm leaning towards a hosted, paid platform. I don't want to maintain a Web server. I also don't want the hosting company to put their own ads or branding on my site. Squarespace looks interesting, though kind of pricey. About the same price as TypePad I guess. (I might consider TypePad, but I personally find their UI difficult to use.) WordPress is cheaper but I think they're more known for their software than their hosting. Has anyone tried Squarespace? Are there other options I should consider? Thanks.


title: Regex Needed to allow mod-rewrite rule to work either with or without trailing slash?

text: Given the following rewrite rule:               RewriteRule ^user/([^/]*)$ /userprofile.php?user=$1 [L]      How can I have it work either with or without a trailing slash? Bonus points, how can I verify `([^/]*)` contains only numerals?


title: Determine content length to have a dynamic hr tag

text:
Is there a way to determine the length of the content contained inside an h2 element, which changes. So an hr tag can be set to the same length plus some additional width? so it would look sort of like I tried some psuedocode to explain what I mean. I would move this to a css rule of course
SOME RANDOM TITLE LENGTH


title: Do search engines directly penalize bad grammar?

text: Let's say I have a web page with user-contributed content, which has good content but with bad grammar, slang terms, and an inappropriate tone. I know that bad grammar is also a problem, because it drives away visitors and scares people from linking to it, but let's put that aside.   Let's also put aside the fact that incorrectly spelt terms might be ignored by a crawler, potentially leading to fewer text-comparison hits. Do search engines like Google **directly** recognize and penalize bad grammar?   _For instance because they might consider bad-grammar as a sign of low-quality content._


title: Yahoo search: different results shown in two identical searches

text: searching on http://www.yahoo.it for `villa matrimonio bologna` I noticed Yahoo shows different results. You need to retry few times to get this done maybe exiting the browser and openeing it again, or maybe searching once and then clearing browser cookies and then search again (it's even easier to test if you use two different browsers at the same time to search for the same phrase). Anyway in order to reproduce this easily I write down here the query shown in the address bar after the search, so you can just click on these to see the results shown by entering these query:   * http://it.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AirvLYKvBMPP_6MpAmONN14brK5_?vc=&p=villa+matrimonio+bologna&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-709   * http://it.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AirvLYKvBMPP_6MpAmONN14brK5_?vc=&p=villa+matrimonio+bologna&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp Note the last parameter `fr` is different, but it's Yahoo that set it (not me), I don't even know what it means. You can see in the search box that **the searched phrase is IDENTICAL in both cases**. **So why Yahoo is giving out different results on same search phrase?** I used the same browser and performed the test in few minutes by simply trying more than once. You may also notice that the number of results returned (written on the left side of the page) is different, for the 1st search it returns 274K results, for the 2nd one 5.38M results. Actually you might think that this is just an error on Yahoo, but it's almost 1 year that while looking once in a while at some websites to see how they are ranking on Yahoo and also Google, I noticed that two searches on the same phrase show up different results even on the same day after few minutes/hours. **I couldn't reproduce this behaviour also on Google so I can not say for sure, but since it seems to me it happened sometimes I was wondering if anyone of you noticed it too.** **Do you know if this is the normal behaviour of search engines?** Because if it's normal (and it's just me that noticed it only now) **I wonder how do you understand how well a site is ranking on a search engine, you could even see one of your customer's website ranking differently compared to what your customer sees on his PC**.


title: can I forward "referrer" information to other address?

text: I have two addresses for two servers: www.urlA.com www.urlB.com I have all my websites installed in www.urlB.com, but visitors recognize www.urlA.com primarily. I have www.urlA.com/index.php as the following               <?php     header('Location: http://www.urlB.com/');     ?>      But, when I use this forwarding method, the tracking javascript in www.urlB.com cannot recognize where the visitors are from. I only obtain "NO REFERRING LINK" What should I do to do the following two jobs: 1. to forward urlA.com to urlB.com 2. to receive the referrer information


title: Shared IP vs. Dedicated IP

text: What are all the pros and cons of a dedicated IP rather than shared IP for my website? When would I need a dedicated IP?


title: Reasons for putting an application platform behind a web server

text: Application platforms like Node.js and Tomcat can bind to port 80 and serve external requests directly. Alternatively, these application platforms bind to a local port (like Tomcat's 8080) that is not exposed to external calls. A web server - like Apache or Lighttpd - proxy external requests from the web to the internal application platforms. What are the reasons for adding a web server between the application platform and the external web?


title: Help with Apache mod_rewrite rules

text: I want to change some legacy URL's like this:               /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=600      to this:               /news/story/600/      This is what I have tried:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=([a-z_]+)&sid=([0-9]+)     RewriteRule ^modules\.php /news/story/%2/ [R=301,L]      However I still get 404's on the old URLs. I do have some other rewrite rules working, so I am pretty sure mod_rewrite is enabled and functioning. These rules are in a httpd.conf file in a VirtualHost container. I should also mention this is for a Python application (using Django) running with mod_wsgi. Should the rewrites happen before the URLs are passed to the wsgi application? Any ideas? Thanks.


title: Static Google +1 button

text: Google+’ +1 button generator only shows options for generating dynamic buttons (i.e. via client-side scripting). For reasons related to German privacy & data protection law, this isn’t acceptable on our website: we need a _static link_ for users to click, without loading scripts or even iframes from third parties. Luckily, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ actually _allow_ providing sharing links via static URIs, as the related question “Google +1 something via a URL” shows. In particular, for Google+, the following link allows sharing a URI:               https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/confirm?url={url}&title={title}      Unfortunately, _this does not **+1** the page_, even though the dialog goes as far as saying “You publicly recommended this as {your name here}”. But the page neither shows up in my “+1’s” on Google+, nor in the “+1 Reports” on Google Webmaster Tools. **Is there a way of +1’ing a page via a static URI?**


title: Email forward to Exchange

text: We have a linux Webserver and one of our clients wants us to host their email only, not their site itself. NetworkSolutions manages the domain name. They want us to get their incoming mail and have it sent to their internal Exchange2010 server. Is this doable? I assume all it would need to be is just the A, CNAME, and MX entries at NS forward to my server IP address, but how would I get it to the exchange server? Cpanel/WHM based web server.


title: Google AdSense sometimes shows earning without click?

text: Google AdSense sometimes shows earning without any click. How is this possible? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xcfMM.jpg)


title: Google Analytics : visitors who visits once / more than once

text: I want to find out the following 2 metrics from Google Analytics:   * Unique visitors who visits once   * Unique visitors who visits more than once I have 2 sites' data in Google Analytics: Site A:   * Unique visitors : 520   * New visitors : 520   * Returning visitors : 320 Site B:   * Unique visitors : 6100   * New visitors : 5000   * Returning visitors : 8500 I try to calculate the above 2 metrics with the 3 numbers for each site, but seems failed. I tried: > Visitors who visits once = Unique visitors - Returning visitors Doesn't make sense, as Site B will give negative result. Also tried: > Visitors who visits once = New visitors But Site A tells us that 320 visitors are returning. What did I miss?


title: Which script for an audio sharing site?

text: I am going to build an audio sharing site. I am familiar with Drupal but I hope there are some more 'Specialized' CMS/Script for this purpose, whatever that is not ASP-based. So please suggest best candidates. It is OK if it is commercial, provided that it is proven to be robust.


title: How can a domain use its own nameservers?

text: I have to change the MX DNS records for our company domain name and I've come across this odd situation: A whois search shows up that the nameservers for ourcompany.com are ns1.ourcompany.com and ns2.ourcompany.com. In the DNS settings at the registrar there are no A/Cname records at all. However the nameservers are defined in the DNS settings for the domain on our dedicated server. (Registrar and host are two different companies). Using the DNS lookup on http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ shows that ns2.ourcompany.com is reporting the correct IP for our dedicated server. Its all very odd... the DNS on the dedicated server doesn't seem to have much effect, but its odd that the dns at the registrar's end doesn't have any records. thanks for your help.


title: Adsense Units of "Forbes" Magazine:: Frozen ADSENSE TERMS?

text: I was reading Youngest Billionaires of 2013 from Forbes Magazine, but surprised by seeing that they are using strange types of adsense unit in their posts. At first i thought that its done by adsense API, later i found that they did a iframe job to show **Search Result Ad**! Here is the screenshot: http://i.stack.imgur.com/xGMTe.png   Also, they show only adsense ads for few seconds for the first time you visit that website, this maybe sometime force the visitors to click those ads. Can any publisher do the same? isn't it breaking adsense terms?   May be i am wrong, what you are thinking? Is any publisher can do the same?


title: How can I get Google PR history of exact site?

text: As some pages of my site have gotten n/a of PR from Google, I need to see the history of PR's changing for those and other pages to estimate the situation and decide what to do. Where can I get the past PR's of exact site/page?


title: What's the best way to end a Web site?

text: I have a Web site, built on ASP.NET MVC 3, that will be closing down completely. The domain will still be required for a few months, so during that time I'd like to display a single message on at least the main page. I'm thinking that standards would dictate to either have all requests directed to a single page via 301 Moved Permanently, or serve a 410 Gone for all requests. This is the first time I've completely closed a Web site, and while I hope I don't have to do it again soon, I'd like to know the preferred way to do this. (I'm completely open to tag suggestions. Closing a Web site doesn't seem to be popular topic, which I suppose is sort of a good thing.)


title: Site is working with http:// not with http://www

text: My site is working if i type it as `domain.com`. But If I type it as `www.domain.com` I get an error 404 page. The domain is registered with Google Apps for Business and the hosting is done with another company. I have some A records that are pointing the site to this server. However, as it appears the A records are only working halfway. What do I have to do to make it working for both `http://` and `http://www` ?


title: Redirect subdomain (weblog) to new domain without access to .htaccess

text: I have a blog that has PR 1 on a subdomain `aaaa.domain.com` of a blog server `domain.com`. Now I want to buy a domain `newdomain.com` and I want to tell google webmaster to redirect the old subdomain to this new domain and send traffic to my new domain. I can't access .htaccess to use a 301 redirect. The only thing that I can do is put html code in the html. How can I do this? When I use "Change of Address" in google webmaster it say:"Restricted to root level domains only".


title: How to get detailed info about conversions with Google Analytics

text: I have a single target page on my site, the "Thank You for Signup" page. I would like to answere simple questions about people who visited this page:   * For each access where it came from? AdWords (from wich campaign?), Organic Saerch (with wich search, Referral (from where?) or direct? We have tried funels but it did not answere my questions. How can I do that?


title: Advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?

text: Is there much of an advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?


title: Google Analytics API data for goals (funnels) doesn't match - how do they reconcile?

text: I have a Google Analytics account with a well-functioning funnel made up of 4 goals. I can query the API and get the data out, but it does not match the funnel report in Analytics. Without getting into specific values, I can give you an example with faked data. Here's how the funnel might look:               Shopping Cart     100 > 100 > 20            80 (80%)          Address Page     5   >  85 > 25            60 (71%)          Payment Page     2   >  62 > 10            52 (84%)          Checkout     1   >  53           (49.07% funnel conversion rate)      Okay, so you would **expect** the API to output data something like this:               goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons     100         80               20          goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons     85          60               25          goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons     62          52               10          goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons     53          53               0      Instead, it's different. Firstly, the abandons are associated with the following goal (so goal1 always has 0 abandons and goal4 always has >0 abandons. Okay, I can work with that. What's confusing is that the numbers are always a little different. The goal1Completions always match the report, as do the goal4Completions, but everything else is off by a small amount. Sometimes it's only 2 visits, other times it's off by 50. For the report above here's the kind of results I would tend to get:               goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons     100         100              0          goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons     105         84               21          goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons     90          65               25          goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons     58          53               5      Here's what I know: Goal(n)Completions + Goal(n)Abandons = Goal(n)Starts Goal(n)Starts >= Goal(n-1)Completions Goal(n)Starts - Goal(n-1)Completions != reported number entering at that level That third one is particularly disappointing. So, here's my question: What data do I need to pull from the API in order to recreate the counts in the Funnel report in Google Analytics? I don't need the pages exited to entering from - just the counts at every level.


title: Need to find hitchhiking websites/apps

text: I would like to fnd some hitchhiking websites or iPhone apps where I can find somebody who is driving and I can go with him the same day before making reservations too far in advance. Is there some website that can do that for Europe?


title: One domain name - two servers?

text: I am launching a website now and my boss has bought a hosting service in one webservice company, but they don't support what I need, then we bought another one where we get the support that we need. Now my question is: If I go to `www.test.com` (e.g.), the website from the first webserver appears. But I also use this domain name in the last new server also. I want that if I go to the url, the website should appear which I run on the second server, not the one which is on the first server. What should I do?


title: two domain names, one hosting

text: my client has registered a domain name on godaddy. He already is hosting a site on smartyhost. Now he wants his godaddy site to point smartyhost site. He does not want a redirect, instead he wants that two different BASE URLs will represent one site. I have read about this but i m confused as there are many solutions and none has worked for me. For example: 1- Domain forwarding 2- DNS 3- Site mirroring 4- A records 5- Point a domain to another and many more. I can't understand difference among them all. Can you tell me what is best solution for me and how can i use that solution. Thanks.


title: Will multivariate (A/B) testing applied with 302 redirects to a subdomain affect my Google ranking?

text: I want to do an A B test of an entire site for a new design and UX with only slight changes in content (a big brand site that has good Google rankings for many generic keywords. My idea of implementation is doing a 302 redirect to the new version (placing it on www1 subdomain) and allowing only user agents of known browsers to pass. The test version will have disallow all in the robots text. Will Google treat this favorably or do I have to use Google Website Optimizer (which will give me tracking headaches)?


title: URL Removal - Incorrect URL

text: I have recently updated a website for a friend and found that the WordPress 'Hello World' page was showing in Google results. I used the URL removal tool and asked for this to be removed, however it removed the homepage so now it is not showing in Google, only the Hello World one is. I went back in and 'Cancelled' the request but it is still not showing, do I need to do anything else?


title: Allowing users to create an email address

text: I am creating a website and would like to allow users to create their own email forward. Basically, the site will allow groups to create pages on the site, each of which will be able to have its own domain name. I would like users to be able to automatically create an email address on the site that will forward any incoming emails to their own email account. Right now I have to manually set these up in my hosting account control panel but I'm hoping there is a way to do this automatically. Does anyone have experience with doing something similar?


title: Search engine recognition methods

text: I am facing some problems making my site visible to all search engines. Google is recognizing my website and all pages well. Pages appear in search in 1st or second page. But when i use others like yahoo or Bing it does not appear at all. Is there any specific thing that i should do for it.


title: Multidomain website SEO strategy

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do dedicated IP addresses improve SEO? There are occasionally cases in which a client owns multiple domains for his business. For example a client may own landscaping.com, and also own newyork- landscaping.com and etc... I have a question regarding the SEO strategy for a business in such cases, assuming that there are 50 domains for different cities, and assuming that there is unique content on every one of those 50 domains. Is it better to have different IP addresses for each domain?


title: problem showing my website correctly in search engines

text: I have a website which i have indexed on google for example (like 15 days ago). some of my pages pass arguments like: http://www.bla.com/products.php? **pro=bla** & **page=view** suddently i saw that passing arguments like this isn't good for SEO purposes and started using htaccess rewrite. and changed the arguments to like this: http://www.bla.com/products/ **bla** /* _view_ */ now my site on google still shows as i showed at link number 1 what should i do? i thought i should wait for the search engine to crawl my site again but nothing happened. thanks in advanced, Din


title: Forcing SSL and www in .htaccess

text: I'm looking for a way to force SSL and `www`. I've been able to force both separately but together I keep running into redirection issues. The following code works when handling a URL in this format: `http://example.com` and properly redirects to `https://www.example.com` but when the incoming URL is `https://example.com` it will not forward to `https://www.example.com` - Any suggestions? EDIT: it should also send `http://www.example.com` to `https://www.example.com`.               RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !127\.0\.0\.0     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]


title: Google Webmaster Tools shows wrong keywords taken from the source code

text: Google Webmaster Tools is shows wrong keywords for my site. For example, it shows > public_html   >  php   >  include_once and many more irrelevant keywords. I don't know why it's looking in the source code to find these keywords.


title: best/simplest way to inform search engine of sitemap location

text: AFAIK, there are 2 ways to make search engines aware of a sitemap's location:   1. Include an absolute link to it in `robots.txt`   2. Submit it to them directly. The relevant URLs are:                  http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL         http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL      Where `SITEMAP_URL` is the absolute URL of the sitemap. Currently, I do both. Regarding (2), I have a job that runs automatically every day which submits the sitemap to Bing and Google. I don't think there's any reason to do (1) and (2), but I'm paranoid, so I do. I imagine you can avoid both (1) and (2) if you just make your sitemap accessible at a conventional URL (like robots.txt). What's the simplest and most reliable way to ensure that search engines can find your sitemap?


title: How much text does the average person generate per day?

text: I'm figuring out how to do comment rate limiting, and have decided that I'll keep track of the number of bytes each user (defined as IP address + port) generates on my drive (so, each comment adds a constant metadata overhead of, say, 50 bytes in addition to the total number of bytes of comment) and limit the total number of bytes to some human daily maximum. Of course, I'll also limit the IP address to some sane multiple of that (so, not 65,536 * user_max, but more like 30 * user_max). The difficulty I'm having is in determining what user_max should be. If someone spends all day browsing my site and commenting on stuff, I don't want them to know there's a rate limit unless they're actually being intentionally abusive. So, to determine user_max, I need some research on how much typed text the average internet user generates daily. Or, better yet, I'd want the bell curve. I can limit at 3 sigmas from the mean, and safely cover the overwhelming majority. ## EDIT: I should clarify that the site hasn't gone live, yet, so I'm just looking for a sane baseline. Since I'll be moderating the comments manually (at least to begin with), what I want to know is primarily "could this be a human given the level of output?". Apart from that, I'm treating the users as gently as I can- like fawns venturing from the underbrush. They're majestic, beautiful, shy creatures, so I really don't want to spook them, but I also don't want to get kicked in the face. I'm working on the assumption that the first users matter disproportionately, but that's more a gut feeling than anything and I'm willing to be corrected about that. ## EDIT 2: A back-of-the-envelope calculation says 16 KiB is a good number. 16 KiB is about 8 typewritten pages (in practice they'll be able to write less, because I factor in metadata + indexing overhead. But unless they write a bunch of tiny comments, not much less). If someone's typing an 8 page manifesto into my site, chances are they need to take some time off, anyway. And at 16 KiB, assuming I limit each IP to 32 times (2 ** 5) that, the total data I can get per day from each IP would be 2 ^ 14 * 2 ^ 5, or 2 ^ 19 (half of 1 MiB). If a botnet 2 million strong tries to DoS my site via the comments (assuming each bot has its own IP address and is smart enough to use multiple ports) I have a worst-case influx of 2 ^ 21 * 2 ^ 19 bytes, which comes out to 2 ^ 40 bytes, or one TiB / day. Now, that certainly would crash my site. However, that also assumes I have no contingency for such a situation (e.g. disabling comments if the disk starts to get too full, or gradually bringing down the maximum limit per IP as the disk fills), and also assumes that I don't do any filtering based on content at all (not happening; I _will_ do some sanity checks), and that my database can't compress any of the information (it does try compression), and that my network bandwidth wouldn't suffer so much that my site actually being technically up would matter (unlikely). Of course, the other caveat to that would be that I've pissed off someone willing to rent a 2 million strong botnet. Which, although I can't say I'm friends with everyone, I'm still filing under "unlikely". Botnets are expensive, and realistically this site won't be that important.


title: SEO, better to start a new domain or it's also fine start over again on an existing one?

text: I have a site that I'm going to close or replace with new content. Basically the site's topic is the same, but contents can't coexist for a bunch of reasons (e.g., different CMS, lack of time, different audience) For example let's say the site was about car tuning parts, now will be about car selling adverts. Old pages (about 5000) will all be dropped and new URLS will be created. What should I do? Since it's a 7 year-old domain (possibly trusted by Google) I want to try to take advantage of this fact if possible.


title: A one-day loss statistics from Google

text: My stats dropped 50 times pls help me ! I did not see any problem with the site! Google also did not report any problems url: **Food.Sooran.com** 200 was my previous online But now one people! **The strange Tip!:** Every few months, a high statistics comes a time for no reason! ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ocRgm.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QxRSN.png)


title: URL Rewrite in IIS 7.5

text: I have a web site (hosted on IIS 7.5) that has bindings to four URLs. Something like:   1. www.example.com   2. example.com   3. www.example.net   4. example.net What I would like to accomplish using URL Rewrite is that:   1. Surfing to www.example.com will auto redirect to example.com (and return 301)   2. Surfing to example.net will auto redirect to www.example.net (and return 301) I tried using the URL Rewrite (I have no experience using this feature) using the IIS MANAGER > FEATURES > URL Rewrite > Add Rule > canonical domain name, but the problem is that then I can choose one address of those four, that will cause all the other three to be redirected to that, which is not what I need to do. Can you please help and advise? Is URL Rewrite is a good and possible way to do this?


title: Can you search for code in google?

text: can you search for code in google ? not just git hub ect but i mean live code so instead of searching by site content, search by sites source code ? (obviously only client side code)


title: Alternative to Google Adsense which has good international coverage

text: I have a technical blog (programming related) which has around 500 visit per days, 70% are international visitors and 30% are from US/CA. Google Adsense disabled my account due to invalid clicks so I can't use them (no need to explain here, they suck hard and never respect and listen to the publishers' appeal) I have tried adbrite and recently using chitika but they almost give me nothing, e.g. **chitika** 13,865 Page Views 4 clicks $0.01 The performance is so poor even I don't want to mention about it. I am already putting a full top banner and a 350x200 box in article body. I am researching if any alternative would provide more revenue for my internation visitors or technical visitors. Thanks.


title: Should I submit my RSS feed as Google Sitemap?

text: I currently have no sitemap for a website I'm creating. I do have an RSS feed which includes the N latest updated posts on the site. It doesn't include everything on the site though, just blog posts. Creating a full sitemap would be a bit of a hassle I think.   1. Should I submit the feed instead?   2. Is there a difference between using a regular sitemap and a feed?   3. Is it important to have a sitemap? What happens when you do/don't?


title: 2048 bit SSL overhead

text: Can you guys help me learn some ssl networking basics plz?   * What is a SSL transaction (a full handshake?)    * Why do people think 2k ssl will melt netscalers (ssl trans/sec exceed netscaler max ssl trans/sec?)   * Can't you install ssl on a cdn's edge nodes to save thecomputational overhead on netscalers? Thanks


title: Placing h2 and h3 tags around words in paragraphs

text:
If I have a page with an `<h1>` heading and a long paragraph, is it ok to write the paragraph (see below - with the h tags mixed with broken p tags to make up the whole block of text) and just style it so it looks all the same so that I get the benefit of using `<h2>` and `<h3>` tags? I'm aware this is not the 'proper' use of the H tags as they're meant to be headings but can I use them like this, as the site isn't built using multiple headings on the same page?
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title: SEO Implications of creating Niche Product Blogs vs Main Company Blog with Categories.

text: Our company has a dilemma that I am hoping the users of Pro WebMasters can help us with. Right now as it stands we create a seperate website for each product that we sell. We also have our corporate site which lists each of these brands. For Example: www.Apple.com < --- main company site www.Ipad.com <--- Product www.Iphone.com <--- Product www.Imac.com <-- Product We are looking to build a wordpress blog mainly for the purpose of increasing our SEO rank. Here are our two options:   * **SINGLE BLOG - On Our Corporate Domain**   * http://apple.com/blog   * Each post is categoried http://apple.com/category/ipad/ipad-5-realeasd.htm   * Easier to manage than multiple blogs   * More content since its listing about all our products.   * **ONE BLOG PER PRODUCT - on each site**   * http://ipad.com/blog   * Each product has its own blog with only its own articles   * Harder to manage, but does it benefit SEO? Can the team here tell me the SEO benefits of either approach? Similar to Apple all the products our company sells are loosely related. Although its not likely that a customer of product A would be interested in product B.


title: Facebook comment and other commenting system for SEO

text: Lately i see some of big websites begin using Facebook commenting system in their wordpress websites. There are also websites that stick to commenting system like Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre. My question is between Facebook Comment and Comment System (Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre) which one is better in terms of SEO?


title: Is my Document Type Definition Still Up to Date?

text: currently all my php generated rich html webpages start with this line, which I have been adding to my tempaltes YEARS ago...               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">      # UPDATE **Who Should Use Which Doctype? When Should One Change Doctype?** When I remove this line all still works fine. Is it still essentially needed to put all that at the top of my pages? What are my alternatives? Thanks very much for your suggestions.


title: Is there a problem if I don't setup google analytics in my website?

text: is there a problem if I don't setup google analytics in my website? I have read lot of articles describing use of google analytics but I have not added it in my site. In Cpanel I can check all things like stats, unique visitor etc and in google analytics its almost same but if I want sponsor for my site then is it necessary to have google analytics? or can cpanel stats be shown to sponsor? Thanks for reading! I hope I get an answer!


title: I am changing my file extensions in URLs, how to keep my good SEO results?

text: We have a website with good SEO results. For design reasons I have to update the design and I have to change file names from `.html` to `.php`. But I keep my domain name! What should I do in order to keep my good SEO results?


title: will main domains be more seo friendly than subdomains?

text: Web hosting providers offer services such as hosting multiple domains in one account. Then my concern is about seo friendliness. say the main domain of my account is maindomain.com on which I have added an addon domain say domain2.com. That means cpanel will generate domain2.maindomain.com and the contents of domain2.com will be practically stored into a subfolder in maindomain.com. Now, assume both maindomain.com and domain2.com have same structure both optimized for seo same way. My question is that would maindomain.com links be more seo friendly due to that fact that maindomain.com is the mani domain of my account?


title: Using Analytics and URL forwarding to count conversion rate in emails

text: Google analytics offers the nice feature of letting one know, where a user is coming from. We are currently sending out emails containing links to our website and I would like to know how many people click on that link. For that I was hoping that there exists some Web service which allows one to register a url www.myurl.com. The Web service would then generate a new url something like www.service.com/myurl which redirects to wherever myurl.com was pointing in the first place. By including the redirect url in the emails, it would easy to see how many people actually clicked on the link. If there is an alliterative solution for the above scenario I am more than interested in learning about it.