title: How to create a site with these features without programming?

text: My girlfriend & I are creating a site as a side business. I'm a programmer but for this site I don't want to do any programming because a) I want to make the site quickly, b) it's a fun side project and I just want a point-and-click interface with no frustration, c) I want her to be able to update any part. I also don't want to hire programmers for budget and time reasons. Editing HTML/CSS/JavaScript/templates is fine though and expected. The site will have these features:   * User registration. Two distinct types of users with different landing pages, functionality, etc. (not just different subscription levels).   * User profiles with many custom fields. The profiles would be different for each user type.   * Create/Edit/Browse/RSVP for Events - an Event would have many custom fields, so many that using an existing calendar system might not be possible.   * Create/Edit/Browse Activities - an Activity would be a custom object with many fields (title, description, address, etc.)   * Be able to Rate and Review each Event, Activity, or user.   * Easily retrieve and display Events/Activities/Reviews that a user has attended or created in the system.   * One-time purchases and recurring monthly subscriptions. This should be automated and apply the appropriate "credits" to their account each month after their card is charged. This would require supporting an offsite credit card info storage system since we don't want to store that info ourselves.   * Fully and easily translatable. Many of the users will not understand English well so we need to be able to provide translations for each string on the backend (no need for enduser-supplied translations). We should also be able to present entirely different content depending on their preferred language - e.g. users preferring Japanese will see content about Japan. What ways are there of creating such a site without programming? Using CMS software is one way, but are there others? And if using a CMS, which would be flexible enough to support creating a site like this without custom programming? I'm quite sure existing modules or addons wouldn't completely fill my needs, so being able to create and manipulate custom objects is crucial. Thanks in advance for any advice. FYI: Related questions I found. These deal with simpler types of sites though:   * creating a tag-based website and not using programming?   * Is there a way to create a website without learning to web-program?   * Which CMS can I use to build a website without programming knowledge?


title: How does Google interpret negative statements, like "this site is *not* for X"?

text: Suppose I setup a games website, and put a disclaimer on it, such as "This site is **not** for gold-sales or RMT (real-money-transfers)". How will Google (or other engines) interpret that? Will searches for RMT find it regardless of how I phrase it? Or is there a _better_ way to phrase a negative statement?


title: Why my site automatically scroll down?

text: Every time when I open the site it to scroll down. About 1500 pixels down. The most interesting - I have not changed anything and before this problem was not. MODx Evo 1.0.5 http://virtual-fortune-teller.com/


title: Byline for Google Authorship in a foreign language

text: I setup Google Authorship for my blog today. When testing it on the structured data testing tool, Everything is great, except the "Automatically detected author name on webpage", which was expected, because I don't have a "by Άγγελος Κυρίτσης" line. The reason is that the blog and the posts are in Greek, as is my name, and it would be stupid to have a "Written by" in English just for Google. Is there a way for Google to recognize the established authorship in Greek (or any other language, for that matter)?


title: What are CNAME and A DNS Records?

text: What are CNAME and A DNS records? What are they used for? What is the difference between the two? **Edit:** Where does the CNAME record exist? On the server or with the domain registrar?


title: Are there sources of email marketing data available?

text: Are sources of email marketing data available to the public? I would like to see email marketing data to see what kind of content a business sends out, the frequency of sending, the number of people emailed, especially the resulting open rates and click through rates. Are businesses willing to share data on their previous email marketing campaigns without divulging their contact list? I would like to use this data to create an application to help businesses create better newsletters by using this data as a benchmark, basically sharing what works and what doesn't for each industry.


title: Stopping duplicate H1 and title from dynamic content

text: I have a web site where there are lots of dynamically (database driven) created pages. These pages are basically used to show uploaded images The pages look a bit like this URL: http://www.mywebsite.com/page-id/page-title/ H1: View from the sea This is a big issue because I might have 10 other pages with the title: 'View from the sea'. I know the simple solution would be to make sure the pages are named differently but I have lots of users on the web site so it's not that simple. What do you guys think to putting the page-id with the page-title in the H1 tag? So it might read 437 - View from the sea. I need to differentiate the h1 titles. I think using the page-id would help but if anyone has a better solution that would be great! Thanks in advance


title: How to redirect if directory does not exist or should not be seen?

text: I am using Apache and want to modify my _.conf_ file for a website such that:   * If the request comes from my IP `1.2.3.4`, just display the URL/page as requested   * If the request is not from my IP and the directory does not exist, redirect to root   * If the request is not from my IP and the directory is one I don't want to display to anyone (`example.com/secret/`, `example.com/secret2/hidden.html`, etc.), redirect to root What is the best way to do this?


title: Changing AdWords campaign structure

text: I've been running a campaign for about a year and a half now and the campaign has been setup by location. I'd have one campaign targeted for a specific region. And then I would duplicate the ad groups for each campaign. I have 5 ad groups targeting different areas of my business). This has worked reasonably well. It just occurred to me that it might easier if the campaign structure were reversed: 5 campaigns: each campaign focused on a different area of business and divided into 20+ adgroups (based on location). Will this screw up my campaign if I switch the structure? I have 10's for QS and I don't want to lose that!


title: Indexing classified content scheduled to expire

text: Our website site has a "classifieds" section, where user can post a message. I would love those pages to be indexed. However those classifieds are scheduled to expire after 30 days. What is the recommended way to handle this? Avoiding dead links, penalties, etc... I also generate XML sitemaps, not sure how to deal with those.


title: How to tell Google my content will expire after a certain period?

text: Right now I'm facing issues with 404 (Not Found) errors, because my content will deleted automatically after two months. I cannot change this behavior, because it is a real estate web site and once it is rented or sold it needs to be deleted and also so many factors behind this. So I want to tell search engines about the availability of my contents and don't return a 404 error.


title: How to get a list of all page names (with namespaces) of a MediaWiki installation?

text: I want to export _all_ pages (in _all_ namespaces, and with _all_ revisions!) of a public MediaWiki installation. I’m just a visitor, so I have no admin access. The export is possible with the `Special:Export` page. It takes a list of page names and exports all given pages in a single XML file. Great! However, **how could I get a list of all pages?** There is `Special:AllPages`. Problems:   * The results are paginated.    * It doesn’t include the namespace in the page name (anchor text). Is there a better way? (I know that there may be various special extensions that allow visitors to export pages or download a backup, however, assume that the MediaWiki installation in question doesn’t use any extensions, it’s just a default installation.)


title: Where to store large amounts of images for my site?

text: If i would want to deploy a site, like ebay, where people will be able to sell something, i would need to store large amounts of images, like many thausends of them and i would need to display about 30 images on some pages. **Normaly i would make a separate server and store them in there, but what else can i do ?** I was trying to store my images on some image hosts like ImageShack, but i have noticed that if i try to request 30 images at same time, some of the images are not showing, looks like imageshack dosnt like to be used this way. Still there must be some other ways to do it, maybe cloud servers, or other services like imageshack. Does anyone have experience with this ? what would be the best practice beside having a second server ? **Update** Thanks everyone for your input. I have considered your suggestions and have decided to look deeper info CDN, while i am looking for an independ starter solution, i dont want to start by using an non-free service, therefore i am going to look for free CND systems or for means to create one on my server. For the time being i have decided to store images on my main server and do a backup on free image sharing sites for each file, so that i can switch image sources for better performance.


title: What should I concern when I want to ask Third party to build my website?

text: From last year, I sell my products using facebook. I found that my business is finding its maximum profit, because the average profit every month is around one static point. Right now, I'm trying to expand my business by selling my products using our own website. For this idea, I would like to ask a third party to build my own business website. What I want to ask is what should I concern when I want to ask third party to build my business website? For this question, I would prefer the your answers are related to technical issues, such as security, response latency, and etc..


title: Does amount of URL parameters affect SEO?

text: I've recently just finished building a small website and created friendly URLS using IIS7.5' rewrite module. The site has now been passed to the client's SEO guy and he says the friendly URL format i've used is extremely "catastrophically" bad for Google. Currently the URLS look like this :               www.mysite.com/products/123/1234/category_name/page_name       SEO guy says that Google sees this as being a page deep inside the folder structure and thus gives it a low ranking. Now, I should be able to remove the category details from the URL and get it down to               www.mysite.com/products/123/page_name or www.mysite.com/products/page_name/123      and I can re-arrange the order of the URL parameters if that helps, but SEO guy says this is still very bad and he wants it reduced to only 2 elements. So, my question is, how much does the length or number of parameters in a URL affect a page's ranking? should I restructure the site in an effort to reduce the number of parameters? Or is SEO guy overstating the problem?


title: Will moving some ecommerce products from one domain to another with redirects cause SEO penalties?

text: I'm the developer for a small online webstore. We've just moved a subsection of products (the bodyboarding products), off surfhq.co.uk on to bodyboardhq.co.uk to sell them there instead. We didn't want to sell on both stores as search engines don't like duplicate pages - and domain2.co.uk has much better seo for bodyboarding - the site has been run as an active blog for sometime - we've only just added the cart. My question is, should I be using a 301 redirect on the old product pages (sending users to the new pages on domain2.co.uk), or should I just serve up a 404 not found? Google search currently lists a lot of broken links (I've gone down the 404 route for fear that permanent redirects will result in one of our sites being penalised). EDIT My question is not answered here where the 301 is to the home page and the products have been deleted. My products have been moved to another domain (the 301 would be to the product on the new domain). Also I'm concerned with the SEO effect on both domains.


title: Moving commerce products from one domain to another

text: I'm the developer for a small online webstore - surfhq.co.uk. We've just moved a subsection of products (the bodyboarding products), off surfhq.co.uk on to bodyboardhq.co.uk to sell them there instead. We didn't want to sell on both stores as search engines don't like duplicate pages - and bodyboardhq.co.uk has much better seo for bodyboarding - the site has been run as an active blog for sometime - we've only just added the cart. My question is, should I be using a 301 redirect on the old product pages (sending users to the new pages on bodyboardhq.co.uk), or should I just serve up a 404 not found? Google search currently lists a lot of broken links (I've gone down the 404 route for fear that permanent redirects will result in one of our sites being penalised). My question is not answered here where the 301 is to the home page and the products have been deleted. My products have been moved to another domain (the 301 would be to the product on the new domain). Also I'm concerned with the SEO effect on both domains.


title: What are the pros and cons of using Dublin Core meta tags?

text: This is an open question on why, how, or when to use or not use Dublin Core meta tags. For example, `<meta name="DC.title" content="Title of my Webpage" />`. Should this be used in addition to or instead of the `<title>` meta tag? Does a certain approach help or hinder SEO? Does adding a lot of "description" to a page outweigh the added code bloat to the page?


title: Are there any standards for marking the age suitability for website content?

text: As a responsible webmaster I want to mark some of my content as unsuitable for certain age groups, there's nothing illegal or pornographic but it does feature bad language and violence that might be unsuitable for children, mostly in images so a text parser won't pick it up. Is there a standard that internet filtering software will recognise? Obviously, I appreciate that nothing is going to stop children viewing the content if they are just using a vanilla browser on an open connection but if there is a content rating standard then I'd like to use it to help those able to honour it.


title: How do I remove my "page not found" pages from Google's index?

text: I have a wordpress site that has had a large number of blog posts removed. How can i ask google to remove all these 404 page not founds, but leave the active blog posts. I see the removal tool in google webmasters but it doesnt say if it will just remove the 404s. I understand 404s naturally are removed from the index, but i want to expedite this.


title: creating a tag-based website and not using programming?

text: I want to create a tag-based website, and I need a tool that I could use (preferably without programming). It's a site where a user could pick tags on a certain item. All tags will be placed under a group that they are logically linked to (I will do that by hand). On the other end - a visitor could choose a tag, and then be redirected to a few items on which that tag was selected the most. Besides this, I need to set up a registration form (for the visitors who want to select tags on a desired item). stackoverflow.com may serve as an example of what I want to achieve. Functionally it is a quite similar approach. I am not sure if further detailing will bring me closer to getting a development advice, but nevertheless - following this template what I would be missing on is:   * ability to categorize the tags; and so they would fit in one page (overall i assume <200 tags)   * box where a user could enter a tag and it would be pending until a certain number of users enter such tag   * ability to limit the number of 'questions' that appear when a visitor chooses a tag - 'question' stands for an item to which users are selecting tags (displayed items would depend on the frequency the tag was assigned - say the top two items) Which software should I try / How should I go about it? P.S. I have bought hosting account through GoDaddy.com. This is a first website that I am trying to build.


title: How do I block ads from Google?

text: OK I have blocked "Evony Online" and other such annoying stuff using the competitive ad filter. But I am now getting these exasperating flash adverts from Google themselves for "Google Translate". How do I block adsense ads from Google? I tried putting google.com and google.co.* into the competitive ad filter but it doesn't seem to work. _(Please note: If you don't know what the words **competitive ad filter** mean, you won't know the answer to this question.)_


title: Is there a non-Safari Apple Web browser for the Ipad / iPhone / iPod?

text: I know Safari is the default Web browser on the current iPad / iPhone / iPod. But was there a non-Safari **official Apple made** Web browser for these platforms in the past? If so what are they and when they were used (so I can test my site with these browsers)?


title: AdSense not displaying on my blog

text: Recently I started to work again with AdSense program, but when I placed code in my WordPress blog it didn't display even after 30min.   So maybe I'm doing something wrong?   I did setup the account.   Created ad for content.   Got the code.   Placed it in my themes sidebar. Maybe I have to add my webpage address somewhere or it takes more time to start displaying adds?   Thank you all for help.


title: For an internal page, which title and h1 I must use for SEO?

text:
I have a basic question about SEO and HTML design. Most homepage of websites use the code below:                                   <title>Website name</title>
Website name
              ...some Slidebar That shows items list and artciles list...                    But for an internal page (like for an article), the code must be the following?                                           <title>Website name or Article page?</title>
Article page?

text of article
                            Which `<title>` and `<h1>` I must use? _Article title_ or _Website Name_?


title: Google Ads Blocking Other Site Elements From Loading

text: I'm using Google DFP to serve Adsense ads. In Google Chrome (this doesn't seem to happen in other browsers), the page will get stuck loading pagead2.googlesyndication.com. It will just load for hours if I let it. In the meantime, only about half or slightly more of the dynamic images on my page will have completed loading. It appears this is blocking other elements on my site from loading. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?


title: How do I run a subdirectory on a separate server?

text: I have a site, www.domain.com. I want to set up a blog which runs on a separate server than the main site, and have it available a the domain www.domain.com/blog. How would I go about doing this? If it were blog.domain.com, then it would be easy, but with www.domain.com/blog I'm not so sure. I'm using Windows Server 2008 / IIS 7.


title: How to install OSQA using Xampp on Windows 7 32bit?

text: I want to install OSQA using Xampp on Windows 7 32bit. I've followed the instructions on this tutorial until the "Install the database server" section. In this section, to create a database, I've used phpMyAdmin and created a database (name: osqa; password: 1234). Now my problem is the next step, "Edit settings". In this step I don't know how to fill in the settings_local.py's fields. I know that Apache needs `mod_wsgi.so` so, I've placed `mod_wsgi.so` into my apache modules directory and then added `LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so` to the file `httpd.conf`. Then I restarted the apache with no errors. Then I followed the next steps, but after entering `http://127.0.0.1:8000/` in my browser, I just see a blank page! **Can someone please provide me with an instruction in full details?** Please note that I don't like to use Bitnami osqa for some reasons. Unfortunately, the official support for OSQA is not very active in these days. P.s.: I'm using Python 2.7.5 and Django 1.6.2. Also my OSQA source files are in `C:\xampp\htdocs\osqa`.


title: Problematic using Captcha on billing page

text: I have simple captcha on user page. I want make it refresh if user input incorrect captcha, I just wanna ask Should I do it or I just add a simple button to refresh it.


title: From .psd to working HTML and CSS

text: I am not much of a designer. My strength lies in coding. That said, I'm often forced into the role of "The Man," responsible for all aspects of site creation. So, that said I'm wondering if the pros can give me tips/solutions/links to tutorials to my main questions.   1. Resolution. What should I aim for? What are the lower and upper edges I should be aware of? I know that systems like 960 Grid were popular recently. Is that the number I should still aim for?   2. Slicing up a .psd - are there any tricks I should know? I've always found it difficult to get my slices pixel perfect. I'm also _really_ slow at it. I must be looking at it wrong, or missing something fundamental. The same goes for text. Layouts are always filled with the classic "Lorem...", but I can never seem to get real content to fit quite as well on the screen.   3. The advanced (to me, anyway) looking things, like a part of a logo/image overlaying what looks like a content area. How does one do that?   4. How do layouts change/are informed by the decision to go fixed or liquid? Again, any tips/tricks/suggestions/tutorials you can share would be greatly appreciated.


title: What are the factors that affect search engine rankings?

text: OK, a big question, and one that I assumed had already been answered here, but it hasn't. I'm looking for a comprehensive hierarchy of all the factors that go into determining how a search result will be positioned given a certain Google query or keyword. I understand that the algorithm is proprietary, and we'll never know the whole truth. But what can we know for certain? What has Matt Cutts & team told us, and what have others confirmed?


title: HTTPS To http redirect issue. How to overcome?

text: Have already seen suggests on how to rewrite https to http. currently using this technique :               RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http ://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]       Problem : I am currently on Hostgator VPS and have found Google indexing my HTTPS pages. Weird for me as never bought an SSL. My site is a blog only. When spoke to Google forums, ( https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/2Hz46t44nwk/7voZWudFtAQJ ), they say I should redirect https to http. Now when I have redirected this using the above method, I am still getting SSL warning in browsers. And found that Google is still indexing my new pages with https. I feel as I do not have an SSL, adding a redirect in https doesn't work. So if Google indexes my https page, then I should go and buy SSL, and tell there to redirect https to http. Why would I do that? Please help me, reduced the traffic by nearly 30% because of this. **Have even told search engines to go to this file (disallows everything) if they are on https**.               Options +FollowSymlinks      RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$      RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt


title: I need a little help with .htaccess rewrite

text: I need a little help with `.htaccess` file I have songs, singers and albums links I want to rewrite. I all ready rewrote the links and they are like this: the links for the songs is like this: `/song/song_name` for singers: `/singer_name` for albums: `/album_name` From my `.htaccess` file:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^singer/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?singer=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^song/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?song=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^album/([^/\.]+)/?$ /core/controller.php?album=$1 [L]      I need the links for the songs, singers and albums to be like this: for songs `/singer_name/song_name` for singers `/singer_name` for albums `/singer_name/album_name` can anyone help me with this please.


title: SSL certificate provider

text: I need a SSL certificate for a new site I'm building and I have to choose a SSL provider. What to look for when choosing and what's your experience dealing with them? Thanks!


title: Advice on buying SSL certificate

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SSL certificate provider What are the main things to consider when choosing between SSL certificates from different providers? I find they vary in price incredibly.


title: What is the simplest way to turn a .psd into usable web images via gimp?

text: I've got a .psd design for a website, nicely separated into all the layers by the designer.   I'm using Gimp. Is there a way to automatically turn all the layers into web- usable images, as the starting attempt (if there's a few that aren't usable and I have to edit the layer manually, that's fine, I'd just like to cut down a majority of the work)? Ideally I'd like to just transform everything into .png images, preserving transparency. If not, is there some way to do it in photoshop instead, if I got access to that?


title: SEO links and ajax

text: Only my main page shows up on a Google search on site:domain.com and I start to wonder why this happens. I also use Google Webmaster Tools which confirms this. On my main page, I have these types of links               <a href="1234/some-nice-seo-text" onclick="loadPageWithAjax(1234); return false;">      The 1234 is the id of the page to load and the '/some-nice-seo-text'-appended is just a good description of the content of the page, which I hope the Google-bot will catch. The intended user will click the link and the same content will dynamically be loaded and shown. It seems like the Google-bot never follows these links - am I doing something wrong?


title: What is User-Agent "AF_ID=<xxxxxx>"

text: We periodically (more frequently recently) have _very agressive_ crawling activity coming from EC2 instances that give us a user agent that looks like "AF_ID=". I've looked around for common User-Agent formats and I cannot seem to find any references to these User Agents. Do any of you know what these would be, or is it just a generic user-agent used by EC2 instances?


title: Some questions about social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+)

text: I have some questions regarding social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+). By asking the following questions I would like you to take into considaration the following parameters: I want my website to be fast, Search Engine Optimzation..   1. Which of the social plugins above really affects SEO - Why and How?   2. Is it enough to put an anchor link to the page in the social network (facebook.com/page, twitter.com/page ...) or do I really need the +1 and Like button? - I know that lazy people like to click as little as possible, but do they really click without to see the page itself before?   3. What do you think is the ratio between clicking on the Like button to clicking on the like button inside the company page on facebook? Thanks in advanced, Din.


title: What does "do following" blog mean?

text: I read a SEO book, it talks about do following blog. Does it mean I can put anything on the blog which includes my link and talk about anything?


title: Adding Video To Website - Embed or Vimeo?

text: I have been asked to add 3 short informational videos to a new page on the company website. I am trying to figure out if it would be better to embed them directly onto the page (html5) or use Vimeo or YouTube. Which would be better from a Google ranking point of view after the recent Panda updates? Naturally we would want to the whole site to benefit not just that 1 video page.


title: When is the best time to list a domain name / website in Google Analytics account?

text: I have just booked a domain name and it has only one page showing my Office Address (only text...no links) which I have already listed in Google Analytics after opeing my Google Analytics Account. Was this a correct action or mistimed to list a domain name / web site which has only one page? When is the best time to list a domain name /website in Google Analytics account? (Please note that I have completed Goolge Analytics Verification process also>)


title: Which browser contains "com.google.GooglePlus" in the agent string?

text: I noticed the following agent user strings hitting my website and wondered which browser is this user string for?               Mozilla/5.0 (iPad2; iPad; U; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X; en_GB) com.google.GooglePlus/10352 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/K93AP (gzip)      and               Mozilla/5.0 (iPhoneUnknown; iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_GB) com.google.GooglePlus/8654 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/N42AP (gzip)      Could it be the Google Plus app on the iPad/iPhone?


title: Seo and domain change

text: I had my website on mydomain.com for a few years and was number 1 on Google for my market. Due to a bad registrar and my own lazynes i lost my .com a year ago and it has taken me nearly a year to get it back. In that time i have put my site on a local domain mydomain.ie and changed a lot of the back links to the .ie domain so it is showing up in the results but not as well as my .com did. My question is which one do i use now and which one do i 301? Would i be better to switch back to the old domain and would it still carry the same value with Google?


title: Green Website Design

text: This is kindove a strange question, but... There was a site called Blackle ( http://www.blackle.com/) which "claimed" to save energy by using a black background (it doesn't: see here: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4373/how-much-energy-does- displaying-a-webpage-with-a-black-background-actually-save). However, blackle and it's idea of "green website design" interested me, and I was wondering if there are any ways to design an energy saving website that actually save energy. If anyone knows of any, please post them here. If nobody has any, then I guess there isn't a way to save energy through website design...


title: How to set up a SPF record?

text: The clients on my VPS are all getting spammed. The spam seemingly comes from their own email addresses - it is clear that somehow something got into my VPS and was able to capture all the email addresses that existed and is now using them to send spam. I was advised to set up a SPF record, but I am unsure what this is or how to go about it. After reading, I have figured out how to create one in CPanel, but I cannot find what to do with it now. Do I copy it into somewhere in my DNS records in Zone Management? Can anyone point me in the right direction?


title: How can we redirect visitors outside our country to an international site without harming SEO?

text: We are looking for a way to redirect the visitors not in our country to our international website. Firstly, we have to detect their location with a Geo-location service, and then redirect them if they are not a native visitor. But we do not want to harm our existing SEO while we are doing this. Do we have to use 302 server-side redirection or a client-side redirection with JavaScript?


title: How can I make a webmail URL available from any hosted domain?

text: I run Roundcube webmail on my VPS. At the moment, it is only accessible from one virtual server hosted on the server, unless a separate Roundcube installation is created for other virtual servers. I would like to be able to make webmail available from any domain/ virtual server that I host, just by adding /webmail to the end. I'm sure Apache must allow me to do this - only problem is, I don't know how!


title: How does missing links influence the Google ranking?

text: I changed a lot on my website and I want to know if this affects the Google ranking negatively.


title: Searching for a page with a Very Unique title, doesnt find that intended page... Why?

text: a question about appearing in search results in google: A page of mine has this extremely unique page title: _**Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände_** Now, when I search the phrase: `Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände` Then all kinds of other irrelevant pages show up having only 1 or at best two words from my unqie title appearing, although I have searched for the entire phrase! And when I search the phrase in between quotes: `"Ein gutes Logo passt wie ein Handschuh auf Ihre Marke in die Hände"` Then it finds 1 result, which is my page. What is going on? Why doesn't show the unique result without the quotes? Thanks: your ideas and suggestions are welcome and much appreciated


title: How does the Keyword Order in the domain name effects SEO?

text: From the Google keyword research tool, I see "chuck norris jokes" has global 246,000 searches. And again searching "jokes chuck norris" has the same search result. But as see, order of keyword in search terms has, "hello how are you" and "how are you hello" has clearly different results. Now instead of search term (assuming "chuck norris jokes"), I was wondering, if I had to register chucknorrisjokes.com and jokeschucknorris.com, would it effect the ranking on the search result? Or would it be the same? As we see here, both the domains has the same keywords, just in different order. How would that effect? I hope what I am trying to say is clear.


title: MCrypt Module, Rijndael-256

text: An outside company is redoing our company Intranet. During some basic usage I disovered that the "User Edit" screens, with the "Password: ***** " boxes have the password in plain text, with the text box "type=password" to "hide" the password. > The passwords are not store in the database as plain text, they are stored > encrypted using "rijndael-256" cypher using the mcrypt module. I know that if I encrypt a password with SHA*, the password is "Unrecoverable" via one-way encryption. Is the same of MCrypt Rijndael-256 encryption? Shouldn't an encrypted password be un-recoverable? Are they blowing smoke up my rear or just using the wrong technology?


title: advertising servers / advert delivery solutions for C#/Asp.Net

text: We have a website which we want to show adverts in - However, these are custom adverts uploaded by the webmaster, not the Google adverts, or any adverts the network chooses. Ideally, there would be both options. We were considering developing our own advert-management system, but looking at the big picture, it might be better to consider other alternatives. Website is currently developed in C# / ASP.Net (Web Forms) Are there any recommendations to some open-source delivery networks and/or external hosted advert delivery networks? Personally I've used Google's DFP, however sometimes it is not so easy to get a Google AdSense account approved, especially while developing a new website and it not yet being launched. Not sure if this is the best place to ask this kind of question!


title: Site Search Settings and Query Parameter

text: I'm setting up Google Analytics Site Search in my profile, and wondering if I need to add all the query parameters of the search (up to 5 of them) or just the parameter that contains the user's search; I can't really imagine what Google would do with the other search parameters, but they're Google so who knows what use they might have for them.


title: Can I register a domain name with a suffix from another country?

text: I saw a lot of .be from belgium, for example. Can I just make up a domain and with the .be and use it?


title: I have a DoFollow backlink but I can't go directly to my site without a confirmation to leave it

text: I have a DoFollow backlink to a forum and I checked it. My concern is before I can reach my site using that link, there is a message: > You're leaving the site, are you sure you wanted to continue? How about if Googlebot will try to crawl the site and see that it is pointing to my site? Does Googlebot also click the confirmation that it will be leaving the site? Please enlighten me on this.


title: How to Redirect Multiple Domain Names to a Main site in GAE

text: I am using google app engine to run a website and I have a website that I would like to be my main page and I have a few other domains that I want to redirect to the main page. The purpose of this is for common misspellings. I am not sure how to do this because it doesn't give you the option to set up a redirect only to choose which websites will host the actual site.


title: How many connection can my website have?

text: As the traffic increased my website hangs quite regularly. The page visit is now averaging 50k per day. The static page loads fine, but when the page has mysql request it takes too much time to respond. If I restarts the mysql, it will work normal for some time, say 1 hr and the response time starts to get worst. What could be the issue? I am not good at server side. Any help is appreciated. My server configuration are given below.               RHEL 5.8 x64     CPU 2 cores     RAM 4GB     HDD 2GB     Apache 2.2     PHP 5.1     MySQL 5.0      Do I need to upgrade my system. How many max connection can this configuration support. I user php with codignator, with db configuration               $db['default']['dbdriver'] = 'mysql';     $db['default']['dbprefix'] = '';     $db['default']['pconnect'] = FALSE;     $db['default']['db_debug'] = TRUE;     $db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;     $db['default']['cachedir'] = '';     $db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8';     $db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';     $db['default']['swap_pre'] = '';     $db['default']['autoinit'] = TRUE;     $db['default']['stricton'] = FALSE;


title: Link to the website creator in the head tag

text: Probably this is an obvious thing, but I am not sure about it. I created websites for my clients, and I am allowed to place back-links to my portfolio site. I placed a link in the footer, but I am interested to also place it into the html head. Is there any way to achieve this? I have seen code lines like this:               <link rel="author" href="https://myportfolio.com">       I am sure that the author relation is not the proper value for that.


title: Tracking visits for the next page visited after a landing page using Google Analytics

text: We have a landing page which we would like to analyse in Google Analytics. I have created a custom report which has a filter for the landing page. How can I analyse the next page visitors visited after landing on the landing page?


title: Indexed URLs in Google Webmaster Tools are missing after migrating to another framework

text: I migrated my site last week from an old `.aspx` framework to a new site hosted via WordPress. The domain name is the same and I am seeing no errors when I test and submit the sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools. However, Google Webmaster Tools is showing that my indexed URLs dropped to ZERO the day after the switch, and it has not yet picked back up (the blue bar graph is listed at 448 URLs, there is no longer a red bar graph). I still see my URLs in the SERPs, but much lower than before the move, and so a lot less Google traffic. How can I know for sure if something is going wrong? I can't seem to find anything to support this matter.


title: Closed Captions vs Transcripts of the video: Which one is better for SEO?

text: I have a few videos I have transcribed. I'd like to know how I'd better include them in my blog posts. Should I caption them (e.g. in Youtube) or just include the transcript at the end of the post. Which one is better SEO-wise?


title: Sort by Goal Conversions in Search Engine Optimization view in Google Analytics?

text: Goals are my favorite functionality in Google Analytics. They let you know which traffic sources, ads, or keywords are driving signups and buying stuff and downloading your Ebook. You can select for goals (after you set goals up) at most views in Google Analytics, but I can't figure out how to hook goals up to Search Engine Optimization > Queries. Is that possible? Is there another way to correlate search keyword with conversions in Google Analytics?


title: Easier way to generate automated reports in DoubleClick for Publishers DFP?

text: We have recently changed our advertising setup from OpenX over to Google DFP. One of the biggest headaches is setting up the automated reports with CSV attachments for our clients. There are **TOO MANY** steps involved in DFP to do such a simple task. In DFP, you have to invite an email address, wait for them to allow DFP to access (they have to sign up for a Google Account if they don't have one), manually setup the views for the CSV with the date range, save and export adding the client's email address **_again_** , set the date range **_again_** for the delivery. It's frustrating to do this each time going through repeated steps and DFP doesn't seem to have any templates/preset rules for automated stats delivery. While in OpenX, all you had to do was tick a checkbox for " **Email campaign delivery reports** " on the client's setup page, put in a number for the delivery reports and the software does the rest: ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hu0Bc.png) **Did somebody at Google drop the ball on the ease of use of DFP or am I missing something?**


title: Will previous 301 redirect still be cached if site switches to using SSL?

text: For reasons only my past self knows I put a 301 redirect in place to force all traffic to `example.org` from `www.example.org`. Put simply it dropped the `www.` subdomain. Now I would like to change it so that all traffic goes to the `www.` subdomain, which would be problematic as any cached 301s in user's browsers would send the user into a redirect loop. So I am planning on buying an SSL certificate and encrypting all traffic on the site - for other reasons too. If I redirect the users to `https://www.example.org/` will it still cause the browser to look at it's cache and go into a redirect loop again? To my mind `https://www.example.org` is a different URL to `http://www.example.org`, but do all the browsers see it this way for caching purposes?


title: YAHOO and BING support for Index, Image and Mobile sitemaps

text: I know Google webmaster supports submitting Image, mobile, video and other types of sitemaps. YAHOO also mentions about mobile site map here. But does it support Image and video sitemaps. I could not find if BING supports any of these types other than XML sitemaps. Can someone please point me to any documentation on submitting Index, Image and Mobile sitemaps. Also does YAHOO and Bing support index sitemap files?


title: Price comparison sites and its effect on Google ranking

text: I am the webmaster of a website that contains roughly 10,000 products. I would be possibly interested to index those products in a price comparison site like PriceGrabber, Nextag, Shopbot, etc. The principle of price comparison sites is great for an actual user that want to compare prices but my main concern is the effect it could have on my actual ranking on Google... Since a site like Shopbot uses a CPC model (Cost-per-click), all the links on the website are built to track clicks (IE: http://www.shopbot.ca/r.html?i=3&catc=2&refshop=5706&refshopcodeid=42587349), it uses redirection, no direct links (So no direct backlinking). Is this a smart move SEO-wise?


title: Is adding "all rights reserved" or copyright in the bottom of my webapp necessary? And why?

text: Some background:   * Based on Django   * User submitted content   * I'm in the USA (NYC to be exact) Any other relevant information you need to make a suggestion, just ask in comments.


title: What does "Disallow: /search" mean in robots.txt?

text: In my blog's Google Webmaster Tools panel, I found the following code in my _robots.txt_ of blocked URLs section.               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow: /search     Allow: /      I know that `Disallow` will prevent Googlebot from indexing a webpage, but I don't understand the usage of `Disallow: /search`. What is the exact meaning of `Disallow: /search`?


title: Semantic web and structured data - Will search engines increase the limit of the first number of indexed bytes on a page?

text: A web page's payload will increase with the added code that is necessary to create structured data. This means that you won't be be able to fit as much actual content in the first 120k or so of the page. Has there been any discussion about this in the past, and if so, what are the chances that this limit will be increased to allow for more data?


title: Blank lines between sourcecode

text: I'm so confused with a strange behaviour. Actually I have edited some php files remotely with my PhpDesigner8 (a php editor). Everything goes right, but when my teammates reopen the files that I have edited the source code have blank lines like below:               class AdminController extends Controller          {              function __construct()              {                  parent::__construct();                            if (!$this->session->can_admin())                  {                      show_error('Solo para administradores.');                  }                  $this->load->library('backend');              }          }      Instead of               class AdminController extends Controller     {         function __construct()         {             parent::__construct();             if (!$this->session->can_admin())             {                 show_error('Solo para administradores.');             }             $this->load->library('backend');         }     }      Did you have experience these kinds of problems?


title: Does having over 80% dynamic and rapidly changing content affect SEO?

text: I have a website that pulls promotions of products from other website. My index page has a structure similar to this:   1. My Brand - Best Promotions   2. # Looking for great deals? Check out our top promotions   3. A menu - listing the promotions categories   4. 20 of the latest promotions (the best ones): I list an image; Promotion description (200 chars); Link to the promotion page. **Question:** More then 80% of my index page (maybe even 90%) is composed of the 20 promotions I list; these promotions change on a daily bases -> which dramatically changes the content of my index page. **Does the dynamic changing of the index page affect SEO?** Should I try to add more static text where I can? (which won't change) Ty


title: Registering my domain with a different service provider

text: Almost before one year I registered my domain with Godaddy for one year , and it expired 2 weeks ago, but it still seems Godaddy has the domain, and I can't register with another service provider. How can register this domain from another service provider? Thanks.


title: How to report abuse to website hosting company (GoDaddy)

text: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... Let's say that a website posted a picture of me, without my consent, and I want to be removed (it's something private, could compromise my career if it's seen by someone that shouldn't). I sent them an email asking nicely that they should remove it, but they didn't respond and the picture is still there. Using 'Whois' I found that the website is hosted by GoDaddy. Is there a way (an email address, for ex.) to report to GoDaddy that one of the sites they're hosting does something illegal and to force them to remove the photo? I searched the site and found nothing about such a thing. Thnaks in advance!


title: SEO: Twitter outranks personal site?

text: For some reasons, even though I websites has pretty great onsite SEO I thinks, my Twitter profile "outrank" personal site consistently in Google/Bing SERPs on different computer around country and different search engine accounts..… I can not overcome this. Advice?


title: How do thousands of backlinks to my subdomains affect SEO?

text: I have 90k backlinks from 3 websites. On a subdomain, I have catalogs and my clients have a link on their site in the header to these catalogs. This means that they have in all their pages a link to the catalogs from my subdomain. Should I reserve a new domain to host these catalogs? Or I do not have to worry because they are on a subdomain? If I have more than 90000 backlinks to a subdomain, will this affect the main website? Can Google penalize my website because of the backlinks to a subdomain?


title: Google Analytics: Find external sites which referred most visitors to a Goal

text: I have a goal setup in Google Analytics, I would like to track the number of visits that come from external sources. e.g. I would like to see how many visits come from google.co.uk vs google.ie


title: Why do all of the various design grids neglect horizontal spacing?

text: Whether its 960grid or Fluid or 9/12/16/20 column grid systems...they all factor in vertical spacing but never horizontal spacing. Granted we view sites top-to-bottom so we don't necessarily design for limited height, but I'd still like to know how to reliably apply proper horizontal spacing as well to compliment a vertically-sound design. What resources are available for horizontal grids?


title: Dynamically change page content based on URL parameter?

text: The title of my question seems simple but here is an example of what I want to do:               http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infant-jaundice/DS00107      What happens on that page is whenever you click on a link to go a section (e.g. "Symptoms") in the article on "Infant Jaundice", it provides a URL parameter like this:               http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/infant-jaundice/DS00107/DSECTION=symptoms      As the `DESCTION` parameter changes, you get different content on the same page `DS00107`. The content changes as well as `<meta keywords>`. Can someone please tell me how this is achieved? I was thinking it was an if/else situation programmed into the page itself to display different properties depending on the URL parameter. Any help or suggestions are very much appreciated and my thanks to you for reading my question.


title: How do I get rid of Google penguin?

text: My site is affected by google penguin, traffic on my site down, missing keywords on search engines. Please help me get rid of this algorithm


title: Trying to collect input values using hidden input fields

text: I have the following fields:               First Name: <input type="text" id="tFName" name="tFName" maxlength="50" />     Last Name:  <input type="text" id="tLName" name="tLName" maxlength="50" />      Is the following the proper way to receive the values of the above fields in hidden inputs?               <input type="hidden" name="tFName" value="tFName"/>     <input type="hidden" name="tLName" value="tLName"/>


title: Are different resolutions of the same video stored as different files?

text: In websites like YouTube one is able to choose between this or that resolution for the same video. Is each resolution of that video stored as a separate file? I mean, is there a file stored in the website's server for the 720p version of the video, another for the 480p, another for the 360p...? If not, how is one able to offer different resolutions for the same video? Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.


title: How do you feed reviews to Google places page for businesses?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to provide Google reviews information? Check out this google places page as an example: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&sugexp=erf1&pq=virginia+honda+&cp=17&gs_id=50&xhr=t&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&ix=sea&biw=1600&bih=1109&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=los+angeles+honda+dealers&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=honda+dealers&hnear=0x80c2c75ddc27da13:0xe22fdf6f254608f4,Los+Angeles,+CA,+USA&cid=17542835494479136794&ei=rnuxT_xqw4SDB4ynhakJ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=placepage- link&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CL0BEOIJMAI At the bottom you will see Reviews from around the web: citysearch.com (49) - insiderpages.com (18) - dealerrater.com (37) I'm working on a website that is a similar to these directories, people can come and review dealers. We've marked the reviews with rich snippets, the problem is sometimes they do show up on some google places pages and sometimes they do not. It seems completely random, google links to wrong pages, and also the count is not accurate. I was wondering if there is an official guide on how to do this properly or if this is less about technical aspects of doing this and more about business relationships with directories and google. Any help is appreciated.


title: What is a "SiteCon" user agent?

text: I've found some unusual activity in my site's Apache logs and every hit has this UserAgent string:               "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-gb; SiteCon/8.8.14)"      What is SiteCon?


title: Should I use a dash instead of double vowels in a domain name?

text: Let's say I am trying to register a domain name - dangerous to talk about before the fact, I know. First off my purpose: I am creating a website to petition for changes to a state-controlled road inside of a city (yes, this is safe in my country.) However, I want the website to be `[verb][cityname].org`. Sadly, the _verb_ and _city name_ I am using seem to start and end with the same character (an "e" for example). Should I use `[verb][cityname].org` or `[verb]-[cityname].org`? It looks kind of awkward having two e's appear next to each other. What might be the benefits of one over the other? Are there any statistics available on this matter?


title: Many external links affecting SEO?

text: I run a website that is for a non-profit organization and the site is mainly information for the consumer. A page on this site list stores that are a certain type of business. I am planning on adding websites to the information provided to the end user. My question is this: Should I `nofollow` the links to the external website? We are talking about 100+ links (and growing) on this one page. I do not want to negativity affect the SEO on my site nor on the other sites.


title: Importance of grabbing a domain tld

text: How important is it to grab all available domain TLDs for somewhat popular site? (Alexa Rank: ~20k)


title: PDF's showing up before relevant pages

text: When I perform a `site:example.com keyword` on my site I tend to get a lot of PDF's first and not the relevant pages with the keywords. We are trying to optimize our site for best SEO with Google and am wondering how this is effecting us? From my understanding these are going to be the pages with the strongest keyword relevance so when our site does appear in search results it will be in the same order (PDF's first). We really don't want the PDF's to be indexed since they don't contain the information we are trying to give the customers, they are mainly installation manuals, specifications, etc. Does any one have recommendations to resolve this issue or maybe I have completely understood this wrong?


title: How to see pixel density (Retina) in Google Analytics?

text: In Google Analytics, "Screen Resolution" is a default dimension under Audience > Technology > Browser & OS reports, but pixel density is nowhere to be found. How can I use Google Analytics to determine how many of my visitors are using Retina or other high-def displays?


title: How do I pick a host with the fastest access to a third party API?

text: I'm developing an application that relies on an API that is very time- sensitive. Every millisecond advantage I have over my competitors the better. Is there a good way to determine the optimal webhost/data centre choice for my application short of getting accounts at various hosts and testing? To complicate this particular situation further the API I am targeting is behind a CDN/DDos protection service with various endpoint locations. So, as far as I can tell pings only measure the time to the endpoint not the roundtrip to the machine hosting the API itself. I have some guesses but do not know where the API is hosted. And if I did, would the right choice of host be located at the CDN endpoint closest to the API machine?


title: How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?

text: Given `http://www.ocfaustralia.org/` and site 2 `http://griffith.ocfaustralia.org/`, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1? **That is, if I were to remove site 1 would site 2 go down as well?** The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked to do a major redesign for site 1 (the original developer's gone, left no documentations, the codes disorganized and everywhere, etc) and with the way things are, I figured it would be a lot easier and also better in the long run if I just delete everything and start again from scratch. Therefore I need to check for dependencies before pulling the plug.


title: How to deal with non-relevant keywords in Google Webmaster Tools

text: Google webmaster tools is showing keywords such as "cookies" in my keyword list. This is probably because we have links to our long legal disclaimer on cookies. We're a B2B service, so clearly I don't want my site to rank for "cookies". What's the best practice to deal with this? Should I remove the domain.com/cookies subdir from google webmaster tools?


title: Instant WordPress setups on Unix

text: Does anyone know of a way to instantly setup WordPress on a unix box? I know there is an 'Instant Wordpress' for a Windows environment but any for unix? I guess the idea would be to instantly setup a wordpress site and configure the themes and plugins so that the site is ready to for a user to use after signing up.


title: Registering single letter domain, selling subdomains?

text: I am about to purchase x.yz or a.bc (not those, but same lengths). I want to sell subdomains like rst.x.yz to the public, and would be able to run my own DNS servers for it. Is there a system (iPanel or something, preferably free) that I can do this automatically, where the user purchases a domain and enters the IP to point it to (I am not hosting files) and have it create instantly? I am really trying to avoid the PayPal API as not to spend time re-inventing what could possibly exist already. Do you think I should just stick with cPanel and let users make their own accounts and be touted a "reseller" ? Other questions: 1) Should I run my own DNS servers as a backend to this? 2) How much to charge, and for one-time fee, monthly, or yearly? 3) Should I stick with redirects, or actually handle the DNS?


title: Is Someone Hijacking My Site?

text: I'm quite baffled by this issue and I have absolutely no idea what could be causing it. I have a Wordpress website that has been working fine, until for some reason, the admin panel started to screw up and wouldn't display all of the CSS correctly. Upon further investigation I found that the load- scripts.php and load-styles.php are loading with odd characters, as you can see: http://www.obhsfbla.org/wp-admin/load- scripts.php?c=1&load=jquery,utils,thickbox,media- upload&ver=96728cab06e0531b9307c89031a13e9c This is basically a default Wordpress install, and I have reuploaded that file, yet the problem persists. It doesn't seem to be a character encoding issue, as the headers say it is UTF-8. Here is the kind of scary part, if you remove all of the get attributes from that URL, the page displays: `<script src="http://sweepstakesandcontestsdo.com/nl.php?p=d"></script>` I won't navigate to that site because Safari says it is malicious. But how exactly could this be happening? Why would that URL come up? The code in that page has never been edited.


title: What is the recommended way to handle opening attachments from a webpage?

text: When creating a website, depending on how a browsers Mime-Types are setup, downloading attachments can have different behaviors. Is there a website that talks about this and suggests a rule-of-the-thumb that should be taught to all web developers? For example, among these methods shown below (which doesn't account for all the possibilities), which is preferred and why?   1. Click the download, prompt with "Save or Open" dialogue and if they choose "open" then open with the Windows default program.   2. Click the download, prompt with "Save or Open" dialogue, show a "remember this" checkbox, and then open using the web browser in a new window.   3. Click the download, auto detect the browser mime type and immediately open. Don't save unless they right-click the link and choose "Save As".


title: Is it acceptable SEO to have rel="nofollow" on internal links that are not part of my keyword strategy?

text: After reviewing my content keywords in Webmaster Tools, it seems that Google is identifying the text in non-relevant links as keywords. Is it acceptable practice to implement `rel="nofollow"` within the script of these links?


title: How to mark up a poem in HTML for SEO

text:
I'm building poetry web site and I wanted some HTML structure tips for entries. Example:
This is poetry title

         Poem's line 1.
         Poem's line 2.
         Poem's line 3.
         Poem's line 4.

         Poem's line 5.
         Poem's line 6.
         Poem's line 7.
         Poem's line 8.

      Would this be considered well-designed SEO structure for poem?


title: How to split apache logfile per Month

text: I have a quite large apache logfile (2,5 G). Its that big because i havent used logrotate until now. Now the logs get rotated corretly but i want the rotation (one logfile per month) for the time until now so i have to "rotate" the old logfile. Does anyone know how i could do that ? (some script that splits my logfile per month ?) Thanks in advance, Nicolas


title: Submitting multiple websites to search engines

text: There are many services that submit your website to multiple search engines. Are there any that allow you to easily submit _multiple_ websites to multiple search engines?


title: Does google alerts include results from other google feed services like news and blog search?

text: We are using google alerts in our study to catch and categorize new contents as they happen on the web. We want to be as comprehensive as possible and catch the more new results for a query is possible. But we know there are other services at google apart from alerts, like google news. So, our question is: Is google alert the most complete system so that we can expect that the results from news, blog search, youtube feed will always be a subset of the ones from alert? Since it's a research study, I'll be grateful if you could also post the source/ref. you base your answers on! Many Thanks!


title: Has Microsoft introduced a bug in Bingbot such that it crawls non-existent images?

text: I've started receiving requests for paths such as `/scale/jackets/00000086/80x80_P2_G1715325W.JPG` several times a day from the Bingbot. This started a couple of days ago. Anybody know why this is?


title: Putting adverts on my website

text: I'd like to start putting ads on my site but _I'm quite fussy about the way things look_ so I'd like to have attractive adverts that work as a feature of the website as opposed to the nasty garish ones you occasionally see out there. BuySellAds.com do what I'm looking for. They don't accept your site unless it gets more than 100,000 hits per month so I can't use them. The ads on http://net.tutsplus.com/ are the sort of thing I'm looking to include in my site. What are my options here? Which companies offer this kind of service? I would use AdSense but I don't like the look of the text ads, in-fact I know that I don't even read them if I see them. I do however spend a lot of my time looking at, and clicking on, the attractive image based ads you see on sites like smashing mag and freelance switch


title: Tracking for URL domain forwarding

text: I have a landing page (provided to me and I have no access o control over it). I want to track how many clicks I get, so I want a new domain name (from GoDaddy) to forward to my landing page, but I a way to track how many times this domain gets used. Any ideas?


title: Choosing seo long tail google adwords

text: Can anyone suggest a good tool for helping us decide on some long tail terms for using as google adwords? All the best


title: Referrals from googleads.g.doubleclick.net . I don't have adwords running

text: I am seeing referrals from **googleads.g.doubleclick.net** in Google Analytics reports off late. They are very sparse but it's there. I am confused as I understand this may be referral from AdWords but I don't have any campaign running (and never have for this domain). Neither do I have any affiliate program, so an affiliate running an ad campaign is also out of the question. So, what does that imply? Should I be worried or can I just ignore it?


title: How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?

text: As part of graduating from Area51 and becoming a full fledged site we sometimes change domain names from `http://topic.stackexchange.com` to `http://example.com`. Aside from the obvious 301 redirect rules to support existing urls transparently, are there other techniques that would aid in the preservation of PageRank?


title: moving blogs content to new website

text: I have a blog and I wanna move its contents to a new website that i have made recently ! my question is that my blogs pagerank is 2 in google and i wanna know if i move my blog's contents to the new website and then delete my blog, will my new website get the blog's pagerank in google after afew months? or not? considering the blog had got the pagerank 2 in google with these contents? thanks a bunch ;)


title: Changing domain name - what are the practical steps involved

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? I launched a website a couple of years ago, bright eyed and bushy tailed, with dreams of conquering the world. Unfortunately it wasn't to be. Now, that I am a bit older and wiser, I have spent some money on branding and creating more quality content etc, I am rebranding and relaunching the site with a new domain name. Although the traffic on the old site is laughable (i.e. non-existent), there are a few pages of good information on there and I don't want to lose any "juice" those pages may have gained because web crawlers have been seeing it for a few years now. Ok, the upshot of all that is this: I want to change my domain name from xyz.com to abc.com. I am maintaining the same friendly urls I had before, only the domanin name part of the url will change, so that any traffic coming to the old page will be forwarded/redirected? to the new page seamlessly. How do I go about achieving this (i.e. what are the steps I need to carry out, and to minimize any "disruption" to any credibility the existing site has with Googlebot etc? I am running Apache 2.x on a headless Linux (Ubuntu) server.


title: Why does my main domain sill show up as addon domain?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? I made my addon domain as a main domain, but Google search still show my new main domain as addon domain. What do i need to do to repair that? Do I need to use Webmasters tool to delete my old main domain or what? I really need help.


title: SEO implications of domain name change

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank? Will changing a domain name of a popular web-site result in any SEO implications or will 301 redirects make the site stay exactly the same?


title: Will domain change affect my pagerank?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Renaming a domain and preserving PageRank I have two blogger's blog. (http://chankeypathak.blogspot.com and http://javaenthusiastic.blogspot.com) One blog has PR 3 and the other blog has PR 2. I want to buy the domain for both blogs so that they will become http://chankeypathak.com/ and http://javaenthusiastic.com/ I will follow all the procedures that Blogger suggests so that all the visitors to http://chankeypathak.blogspot.com will be redirected to http://chankeypathak.com/ and same for the java's blog. I just want to know that whether this will affect my pagerank or not? I want my PR to remain same and not to be change because of domain change. Let me know. Thank you. PS: I don't know whether one person is allowed to post his site's URL in questions or not. If it is not allowed then you may edit the question.


title: After a domain change, what can I do to recover lost traffic, rankings, impressions etc?

text: I moved my site to a legacy exact-match domain I purchased about a couple of months ago. I have seen significant reduction in traffic, impressions, and rankings. I did all the right steps/best practices: change of address in GWT, map old site hierarchy and match to new site for 301 redirects etc. Indexation has gone through the Google process: old site has all but dissappeared from he index and new site is indexed, albeit with some 404 errors which I am addressing. Does anyone else who has gone through eh domain change process have any thoughts/advice? Thanks!


title: Google Analytics doesn't show the correct landing page for my Facebook ads

text: Most of the visitors to my site are supposed to come from an external link with URL `example.com/en/var` from Facebook ads but Google Analytics shows that most of the landing page is `example.com/var` without `en` which is the prefix for English version of my site. Am I missing something to configure Google Analytics? Or is Facebook sending the visitors to the wrong URL (by the preview page of the Facebook ads the URL is set correct with the prefix en)?


title: How to find out which hosting company someone is hosting at?

text: You can whois a domain to see who the domain is registered with. Is there anyway you can find out which _company_ a individual is hosting with? (i.e. Rackspace, Godaddy, etc.)


title: SSL and green address bar

text: I am new to SSL so can someone explain why my address bar turns green when I'm on certain sites beginning with `https://` and sometimes it doesn't even though I know the site has SSL? Maybe these two nuances are not even related, but if I go to GoDaddy and order a new domain I notice their address bar is green the entire time I'm using the `https://` protocol, but then I go to Victoria's Secret to place an order and even though it says `https://` the address bar doesn't turn green.


title: How to support tableless columns with WYSIWYG editor?

text: On the front page of a site I'm working on there's a small slideshow. It's not for pictures in particular, any content can go in, and I'm currently setting up the editing interface for the client. I'd like to be able to have one/two/more columns in the editable area, and ideally that would be via CSS - does anyone know of a WYSIWYG editor that supports this? I'm using Drupal (would prefer not to involve Panels as it would require a bit of work to make it a streamlined workflow for content entry) in case that matters to anyone. To start the ball rolling, one way would be to use templates. I know CKEditor supports templates, and it looks like TinyMCE might have something similar. I don't know how well these work with tableless columns (the CKEditor homepage demo uses tables to achieve its two column effect). Holding out for a cool solution!


title: How to find what keywords to target in large scale?

text: Currently we have a website with more than 300000 indexed pages and everyday there are 600 new pages added, the website is a news website. The strategy is that we start finding what keywords we should target and then start creating content and building links, etc. We know Google Trends, but we don't know about how to find 5000 keyword we should target (as an example 5000). Any ideas?


title: What documentation exists for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?

text: PHP users have the PHP.net docs   Ruby users have Ruby-Doc.org   Python users have docs.python.org   jQuery users have docs.jquery.com All are considered go-to references when working within those environments. But where's 'The Manual' for web designers and developers working with HTML, CSS, and (vanilla) JavaScript? What online, free, up-to-date, reliable, searchable, user-editable documentation should webmasters be using and referencing in their day-to-day work? * * * **Update:** I should have said that I'm aware of the W3C's Specifications and of the ECMAScript spec, but feel that they are better suited to browser vendors than they are to webmasters. From the HTML5 specification intro: > "...in places it sacrifices clarity for precision, and brevity for > completeness..." So, to rephrase my original question: **what clear, quick online references are available for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?**


title: How do I best communicate that my website is shutting down?

text: I am at a crossroads. I have received an offer for my domain name that I am likely going to accept. It's something that has not been under active development for a long while, but still has some active users. The website also has a mobile app with some active users. I considered buying an alternate domain but I don't think it's going to be possible for me to continue with the project once I do this. The project has 0 revenue. How can I best communicate that the site is shutting down, both from a messaging and also PR standpoint? Any insight would be very valuable to me.


title: Does google app engine support ASP.NET

text: Can I migrate my ASP.NET application to Google App Engine and it will run? Here is link, what is google app engine. As far documentation it supports either   1. Go Environment   2. Java Runtime   3. Python Runtime But people have probably run other application on this.


title: Where can I register .tw domain extensions?

text: I'm currently looking to register the Taiwanese version of my company's domain. Dynadot, doesn't register domains with that extension. I found a few places on the web: Godaddy has them, and a fewer smaller, shadier places claim to have them, but they start at $39.99/year which seems a bit outrageous. Has anyone found a more affordable, reliable registration company for .tw domains?


title: RSS vs Sitemap for SEO

text: What are the differences of the two and how can they help in SEO? I'm creating a custom-scripted CMS and I'm thinking if should I either add RSS/Sitemap/Both?


title: Analysing Bounce Rate and Time on Page

text: I'm working on an eCommerce site and there's a perceived problem with the bounce rates on product pages. The best performing page (in terms of views), tends to have a very high bounce rate, at about 80%. This page is also targeted with Ads, but in both non-paid and paid traffic, the bounce rate stays high. What's weird about it is that the time on this page is about 2 and a half minutes. The others pages have a slightly lower bounce rate (between 50% and 75%) with visit times between 1 minute and 2 minutes. I'm not entirely sure about how to analyse this data. I've checked all the possible technical problems (faulty GA code, JS race conditions, breaks in the chain), and whilst there were some things that need improving, no technical fix budged the bounce rate at all. The other thing we noticed was that the product pages were getting lots of traffic for very generic and brand based search terms. In these cases the pages come up as sitelinks, could this explain a high bounce rate too? So in short : If the page view time is so high, should I be worrying about the bounce rate at all? What's the chances of someone visiting the page and then leaving to compare prices? And how do sitelinks affect bounce rate on eCommerce sites?


title: Googlebot keeps returning to crawl my page then the rankings fluctuate

text: I know that in order to get ranked the page has to be crawled by Google bots, I have had a page example of which I will get a better understanding of how the system works with Google. I have made a page on my website last month, it got indexed pretty quickly, then I found that it's in Google's page 15 on my keyword as a start, next day it made it to page 13, then after a week it was jumping back and forth in page 17/18 up to 20. Now a month passed by, when and it isn't listed in any position of that 'keyword' sometimes I will find it in page 30, but later I won't find it anywhere, keep happening this way these days. Even if it isn't listed in any page for my keyword if I do a search for `site:thepageadress` it will be listed which means I'm not penalized and my page is there for google to see, but it isn't in the search result for my keyword. But when I write `site:thepage_adress` and I hit "search tools" option and click on "Past day" or "past week" it isn't listed, it is only listed when I click on "Past month" which I think means that Google indexed the page, looked at it once when I published it, and never looked at it again, is this a fair statement? So two questions that comes to mind here.   1. Should Google keep looking at a page even if I haven't changed any info for it? and is this an indication for me that my page is doing fine? or is it normal that Google see's it once and thats it?   2. Why and how to fix the fact that my page keeps jumping back and forth in the ranking result for keyword, and sometimes it isn't even listed, what does that mean?


title: Copyright of pictures upload to a website?

text: I want to run a website like stock photos. How can I be sure that the uploader is real copyright holder of the picture? Is it possible to leave the responsibility of this copyright claim to the uploader or at least the webmaster is responsible for the website content? It generally confuses me, as for example, stock photo websites need a form signed by the model for photos showing a person's face. How they can be sure that the signature actually belongs to the model? How they stay safe from possible lawsuit in this case (e.g. if selling photos of a model with a fake signature?)


title: Enable mod_rewrite on OpenSuSE 11.04

text: I have a problem on OpenSuSE 11.04. I configured apache and enabled mod_rewrite but it doesn't working. on every php file I get 403 forbidden error.


title: How to incoporate Taiwan into ISO 3166-1?

text: I received a rather heartfelt e-mail from a user on our site explaining that Taiwan wasn't a province of China and that they wouldn't register until this was changed. Our site is made from a dozen or so valued contributors so we are going to change it. See issue here: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166-faqs/iso_3166_faqs_specific.htm. I found the lines to edit in my CMS, but we have valued users from both China and Taiwan. I was wondering the most politically neutral way to amend my country codes. What should the entries for China and Taiwan say?


title: Is it possible to stream music/video from an Apache server?

text: I'm just starting to get into setting up a server. I've set up a basic Apache server to access some songs and movies. When I click one of the songs though, nothing happens. When I click one of the movies, sometimes it will open a new web page and act as though it is going to start playing, but never does. I know Apache is HTTP, not FTP and read somewhere that that could be a problem, but I'm uncertain of the differences. Anyway, is it possible to click on one of the songs and have it start streaming using, for example, Windows Media Player? If so, might someone either explain how to do so or direct me to where I can find it? Any information on retrieving media from an Apache server at this point would be most appreciated. -Edit- I don't know if it matters, but I'm using Windows 7 and Google Chrome


title: How do yelp and google business collect information about businesses?

text: * Do they work with some governmental sources ?    * Do they only use the information sent by business owners themselves ?   * Do they scrap the web to collect these information ?    * Do they have employees that go by themselves to locals and collect information from them ? I need the answer for a similar website I am working on, I am wondering how can I start with an empty database ?


title: Different authentication for HTTP POST and GET requests in Apache

text: I want to authenticate for POST requests for `http://path/to/logical/abc.xml` (but not GET requests to that URL). How do I put constraints like this in place? The paths are logical and location directive is not supported in `.htaccess`.


title: SEO for filename of images that are uploaded using Ruby on Rails

text: I'm use RoR 3.2 and carrierwave gem for upload images. I want will do SEO optimization for uploaded images filenames. For example I have model `Car(attributes: :id, :name, :avatar(carrierwave image uploader for this))` and model `Brand(attributes: :id, :name)`. After upload avatar for car, it creates an image with name _test1.jpg_. I want display this filename as _brand_name-car_name-filename.jpg_. And if the brand (or car) name changed - consider and display the correct brand name and car name. Is this important for SEO?


title: How to get rid of Heroku App domain in the search resutls

text: I am using Heroku to host my rails app and I have created a custom domain for the app at www.luminoto.com. I just did a search for "luminoto" and I see that the herokuapp domain (horschgallery.herokuapp.com) is popping up. Should I just create another domain in webmaster tools and use robots.txt to remove the Heroku domain from search results? Or will this in turn remove the Luminoto domain as well? Also does Google think that Luminoto is duplicate content or a cloned site?


title: WordPress .htaccess preventing subfolder access

text: This is sort of a goofy setup, but it's not in my power to reconfigure it at this time. I'm running in a shared hosting environment. The domain is `example.com`. This is an add-on domain on the host side with `example.com` being redirected to the `www/example.com` sub-directory. That directory houses a standard WordPress site which acts as the main site when you visit `example.com`. The _.htaccess_ file within that directory is:               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^wp-admin/profile\.php$  /ssm/welcome [R]      </IfModule>      I have a subdirectory, at the root level with the `/example.com` subdirectory that houses a CakePHP application. That subdirectory is `/tracker`. My problem is that when I attempt to browse to `example.com/tracker`, I get a 404 from WordPress because permalinks are on. What I think I need is a rewrite rule in the WordPress _.htaccess_ file that short circuits the existing rewrite rules and permits `example.com/tracker` to work independently of the WordPress install. Or a rewrite rule at the root level that short circuits the redirect to the `/example.com` directory in the first place. Not sure how well I explained that so here's a summary. The `www/` directory structure:   * `example.com/`   * `tracker/` Add on domain of `www.example.com` redirecting to the `/example.com` directory with WordPress and a `tracker/` directory running CakePHP which I would like to access via `www.example.com/tracker`. If you need further info or clarification let me know!


title: Can I use a link rel publisher tag in the head of both of my business websites to connect them to my Google business page?

text: To connect my website to my Google business page, I should add   `<link href="https://plus.google.com/xxx" rel="publisher">`. But I have 2 pages because I have 2 different addresses. Should I add both of them? Which one will show up on the search results? My final goal here is to show my business info on the right side of the search results.


title: How to determine if someone is accessing our database remotely?

text: I own a content publishing website developed using CakePHP(tm) v 2.1.2 and 5.1.63 MySQL. It was developed by a freelance developer who kept remote access to the database which I wasn’t aware of. One day he accessed to the site and overwrote all the data. After the attack, my hosting provider disabled the remote access to our database and changed the password. But somehow he accessed the site database again and overwrote some information. We’ve managed to stop the attack second time by taking the site down immediately. But now we’re suspecting that he’ll attack again. What we could identified that he’s running a query and changing every information from the database in matter of a sec. Is there any possible way to detect the way he’s accessing our database without remote access or knowing our Cpanel password? Or to identify whether he has left something inside the site that granting him access to our database?


title: Is image metadata valuable for SEO?

text: Do search engines read image metadata like copyright and author? Is adding metadata to site's images valuable for SEO?


title: Configure Apache HTTP 2.2 for PUT method

text: I've written code for file upload and download using `HttpWebRequest`/`HttpWebResponse` class in C# with Apache 2.2 as a web server. In code I'm using `request.method = "PUT"`. I want to config my HTTP config file to support `PUT` method. I write PUT method script as:               <Location "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/output">     <Dav On     <LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS PUT>     Allow from all     </LimitExcept>     </Location>      That's not working. It shows error at program output: _(405) The method not allowed_.


title: Point sub directory to another IP?

text: We have a website that we want to keep on it's hosting - www.domain.com. We then want to point a sub directory to hosting that is somewhere else www.domain.com/new-website. Is it possible to have the root level of the domain to point to one hosting and a sub directory to point to another set of hosting using A records?


title: Tumblr Custom URL Not Working

text: I have bought a domain that I want to use as a unique Tumblr website but I can't get the url to pick up on Tumblr settings. The domain is a .com registered with 123-reg. I've set the CNAME to the correct tumblr url and also set the A record too. When I visit the url I get the Tumblr error page so I know that the domain is pointing, however when I go to settings in Tumblr and "Test" the url it says that it's not pointing and I can't save it. What could be the problem?


title: Is it legal for webmaster to read private forum email? (UK law)

text: On a website forum, I sent a private email to two users. The webmaster and owner of the website read the email and then used that content to ban me from his website. The content of the email was perfectly legal, it was merely criticising some issues that were taking place on the forums. I am incensed at the fact that he read it and then took action upon its content, so much so that I am considering legal action. Any help or advice would be appreciated, please note this is UK/EU law. Best Regards G.G.


title: How to correctly handle redirect after site facelift

text: I recently updated our site taking it from a multi-page site to a single page site. The problem now is that when the site is searched in say Google, it displays the site as well as the indexed pages. So if a user clicks say our "About" page, it takes them to our now outdated material. I am hoping to get some guidance on how to properly handle this. I figure the first step is to now setup a robots.txt on our new index page to tell the engines not to crawl beyond index.php. But in the meantime, how do I handle the fact that when searching our site on Google we may still have users who try to click on sub-page links? Should I simply setup redirects while waiting for the engines to update? And if so, do I need to setup redirects on each page using PHP or is this something I would take care of on our sites control panel? I am not very familiar with redirects... Any help is appreciated!


title: MVC4 App opens with directory listing and gives a 404 for any direct URL's entered in the browser

text: I've just deployed a previously (on my local IIS) working MVC4 app to IIS 7.5 on the dev server. After tweaking this and that - one knows how these things get forgotten - the app finally launches, but shows a directory listing of the app root. Clicking on most links there works, opening the directory listing of the sub-directory. Elmah logs no errors and /elmah.asd also gives a 404. The site has an appropriate localhost binding in the hosts file. I can find nothing wrong. MVC is installed on the server, as another MCV app works fine.


title: Will Google penalize my website if I hide the H1 tag?

text: I've read an article today where the author stated that if you put keywords on to your page but then hide them with CSS, Google will penalize your site. This make sense. This got me thinking though about my own technique when I build a website. If for example when I build a website and the logo contains the name of the website, I tend to put the name of the website in a H1 tag and then hide this tag. I don't know why I do it, I've always done it. I also include any text held in an image in the `alt` attribute of the `img` tag. But because I am hiding the H1 tag, does this leave me open to Google penalizing the website because I've hidden this one tag?


title: Google Analytics Content Experiments for non-simultaneous tests

text: I really like how Google Analytics displays the results of content experiments. However, it seems the tool only works for simultaneous tests. I'd like to use the tool without implementing the page variation code into my site. For example, I want to test copy on an ecommerece category page. The original page variation would be the current page for the past 2500 visits. After making the copy changes, the new variation would be for the next 2500 visits. I realize I can simply record the metrics before and after each variation, but I'd like to take advantage of Google's presentation of the experiment. Is it possible to use the Content Experiments in this way?


title: Getting problem in removing end slash from directory

text: this is my code but i tried many ways but it is not working and i am not able to remove the end slash from the directory               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /          # remove enter code here.php; use THE_REQUEST to prevent infinite loops     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.*)\.php\ HTTP     RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301]          # remove index     RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]          # remove slash if not directory     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$     RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]          # add .php to access file, but don't redirect     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$     RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]          # Remove trailing slashes     RewriteRule ^(.*)\/(\?.*)?$ $1$2 [R=301,L]      Thanks


title: How to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com with DNS and IIS?

text: How can I redirect `example.com` to `www.example.com` using DNS / IIS? I wish to do this for an asp.net web site to prevent duplicate contents (Bad for SEO). I had 2 a record in dns (Windows Server 2008) for `example.com` and `www.example.com`. Also in IIS I added `example.com` and `www.example.com` in edit bindings. Which changes should I do in my IIS and DNS to redirect `domain.com` to `www.example.com`? Should I change the `web.config` file in my project?


title: Are there benefits of receiving external links from PR 0 or 1 sites for SEO?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Effect of adding link from PR1 site to PR0 site? I'm thinking to do some link exchanges with PR0 or PR1 sites which have the related contents as my site. And my link will be in their link page and theirs will be in my link page. I have read somewhere that 1000 links from PR1 is equivalent to just 1 from PR4. Are there sill some SEO concerned benefits for doing this? Or if not above what PR will be worth exchanging links? Anyway I'm thinking to do it only with related pages.


title: changing CNAME record, will it affect existing email addresses

text: I need to forward a domainA to redirect to domainB. I've been doing this via CNAME records but for this situation I need to leave email addresses for domainA intact and unaffected while redirecting web traffic. Would this be safe if using a CNAME change? Thanks


title: Rackspace Cloud Servers in Europe?

text: We have setup a cloud virtual server at rackspace in the US, but we use it from Europe. I found out I am not quite happy with the response time. Of course I knew that there would be some latency. But I am not sure if it is the overseas latency (ping is 120ms) or also the minimal resources. It is the smallest machine, 256 MB, 10 GB, running a Mediawiki on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit. The Instance lives in the rackspace ORD1 datacenter. As soon as they have opened their new facilities in the UK we plan moving the incstance there. But we are planing more machines already. The pricing is quite attractive. I don't really want to do some measuring and benchmarking and this stuff, so I am asking just for your opinions and it would be nice to hear what you can tell from your experience. Maybe someone who uses such small instances in the US. And what can we really expect if we upgrade to more resources.


title: Structured data: Google Data Highlighter?

text: We're working on adding structured data for a richer snippet on search engine result pages. There are two type of structured data that I can't figure out how they're done. They seem to show up only on Google, so I'm suspecting Google Data Highlighter, but does anyone have any insights? Here are some examples.   1. Greyed out text list of products shown on that page. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/yMQGM.jpg)   1. Clickable links of products shown on that page. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TtxlL.jpg)


title: Syndicated blog content and search engines: helpful or harmful?

text: Against my advice, we've started buying blog content from a syndicator. The content is not unique, and searching for quoted phrases shows this content in use on a few dozen other blogs. My initial hope was that I'd be able to edit this material enough to make it unique before posting it, but there's too much of it and I just don't have the time. Realistically, the choice is between running the posts as they are, with very few edits, or not using the material at all. So, two questions:   1. Will using this content help us? It's unquestionably high-quality material that's informative, useful, and relevant to our line of business and prospective clients. We already have very good SEO, so it's hard for me to judge how helpful the syndicated posts are in bringing people to the site through a wider range of search queries. Obviously I wouldn't want to see our site show up in a list of results showing identical content (not to mention the dreaded "we have omitted some entries very similar..."), but that's hard to gauge too.   2. Will using this content _hurt_ us? The last thing I want is for Google's algorithm to perceive us as a content farm or a low-quality site. We run original posts as well as the syndicated ones, and I do still try to do _some_ editing on the syndicated posts when I have time. I've put a lot of work into ethical, white-hat SEO over the past couple of years, and as a result we're consistently among the most highly-ranked sites in our local area for our (very competitive) line of business. I'd do anything to avoid incurring a Panda penalty that undoes all that hard work.


title: Transfer Domain settings from hosting to own server

text: At my workplace, we have a pretty messed up setup for our website, say `domain.com`, that was earlier hosted with another company, say `hostingCompany1` At `hostingCompany1`, there are 2 control panels:   1. Domain ( _has the`domain.com`, points to some IP_)   2. Hosting ( _points`domain.com` and subdomains to our server, has Gmail MX records_) We are using our own server with the settings still at the second control panel. Which means, when someone visits our site, it resolves to: `domain.com` > `hostingCompany1 DNS` > `hostingCompany1 Hosting` > `Our Server` This is a pretty messed up scenario and I would like to clean it up to be more like: `domain.com` > `hostingCompany2 DNS` > `Our Server`   1. When I finally transfer `domain.com` from `hostingCompany1` to `hostingCompany2`, how do I achieve the above scenario (i.e., remove the middle man)?        2. Do the domain settings (MX) have to be on `hostingCompany2` or our custom server?


title: Using RVsitebuilder

text: Does anybody have knowledge of using Rvsitebuilder to build a site? Would love some advice!


title: Google attempting crawl of URLs with parameter randomly placed in URL

text: We have a weird SEO issue; In Google Webmaster Tools we are seeing a huge spike in Not Found Server Errors. There are a set of several hundred dynamic pages which we need to maintain (though not have indexed) that look like this;               www.site.com/en-GB/Pages/job-details.aspx?job-id=123       But weirdly Google is generating thousands of 404 crawl errors trying to index URLs with this structure;               www.site.com/en-GB/Pages/job-id?/en-GB/Pages/job-details.aspx?job-id=172649       There are no;   * Internal links pointing to this or similar    * External links that we can find pointing to this or similar   * Errors in the sitemap.xml In a possibly related development; the URL Parameters section of Webmaster Tools, it’s listing some really weird parameters like; /en-GB/pages/job- details.aspx Which clearly is actually a chunk of the URL. We have tried excluding this and the ‘job-id’ parameter from Google by choosing Edit > Yes > No URLs Thought to no avail! My questions are:   1. Why would Google add a parameter mid-way through the URL and how do we stop it?   2. Why would Google think that a chunk of the URL was a parameter and how do we stop it? I’m pretty stuck on this, so your help is much appreciated!


title: Unwanted redirect from a domain to my site

text: An external person from my client company registered a domain and redirected to my client URL. For instance, if you type `unwanteddomain.com` it redirects to `myclientdomain.com`. Is there any way to block or redirect (for second time) to nowhere the `unwanteddomain.com` via cPanel or any rewrite rules on _.htaccess_?