title: How to get rankings for an abbreviated product name without having it on the site?

text: My company has recently renamed & rebranded its two software products and has come across a snag with the naming. One of the products is fairly routinely abbreviated by our customers to a name that our marketing department doesn't want used in any collateral. If it helps, here's the type of product name and abbreviation I'm talking about: _Franklin DP for Cats_ becomes _Franklin DPC_ (I've not used the real name, as, frankly, it's a bit embarrassing that we can't use the abbreviated form that our customers seem to prefer.) Thing is, we still want to make sure that our site shows high in search results for that abbreviated form. I really don't want to do anything that might be viewed as "gaming" by the search engines, but equally, I need to avoid putting the term into the site. So... **what's the best way to make sure that we still get the rankings?**


title: Root directory and on page word count

text: I have a page featuring previews of weekly sporting events **Example:** week-1 round-1 will have 7 fixtures I will write about a 1000 word previews about each fixture. Week-2 round-2 has 7 fixtures I will again write previews for all of the fixtures: **The Problem** At the moment the page word count is reaching something close to 15'000 words, because I am keeping all of my previews on one page i.e domain.com/previews.php Also keep in mind I'm using the same 2 or 3 keywords throughout the page, but I'm not keyword stuffing since it is descent high quality content. It is easy for the user to find the selected fixture they want to read because of some javascript I am using so user experience is not a problem **My Question** Should I rather change my root directory structure to example: **previews** -> round1 -> round2 rather than just domain.com/preview.php as it is at the moment. The only reason I am keeping it on one page at the moment is because of the 15'000+ word count of the page, and if I understand correctly Google loves high quality content (which I believe mine is) add to that a high word count of 15'000 plus words I believe it can only do the pages'ranking good? _Also can word count and keyword usage on a page be seen as excessive?_ **Or am I thinking wrong here and should I rather change my root directory to the above example?**


title: Is it possible to A/B test javascript-generated element variation using GA Experiments and GA Events?

text: I'm trying to do A/B testing using Google Experiments on a javascript- generated variation elements. In simpler example, I'm trying to create a button using javascript that has different colors The HTML is simple               <form id="foo"></form>      The button is generated like this               var color = Math.floor((Math.random() * 10) + 1) % 2 == 1 ? 'red' : 'green';     $("#foo").append("<input type='submit' value='submit' style='background-color:" + color + "'/>")     $("#foo input[type='submit']").on('click', function(e){         _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Cart', 'Submit']);     });      Here's the fiddle. In my Google Analytics, I use the event `'Cart'->'Submit'` as a conversion goal. I basically want to test which color has the highest conversion. I can actually put the color in the event tracker, say `_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Cart', 'Submit', 'green']);` and do some filtering in the GA console. I just knew about GA Experiments and I'm trying to learn about it. From what I understand in GA Experiments here, I have to create several pages to test. Is it possible to do this in one page but using different variation on javascript-generated element like above?


title: How to set site specific Error Log files in PHP under IIS

text: On Apache, vhosts can be configured with their own error log file, like so:               ErrorLog "my-site-log-dir/error_log.log"      How would this be done when hosting PHP under IIS?


title: Can't have CNAME for domains root, using noip to point to static host

text: I'm aware that I'm unable to have a CNAME as the domains root under the ruling 3.6.2 of RFC 1034, however I'm using noip to point to a static hostname. Currently I have www pointed to my noip static hostname, and i've got an A record pointing to my IP address, the only problem is that i need that A record to point to my static hostname, otherwise what's the point in using noip? I may as well set all my records to point to my IP. Is there a way for me to perhaps 301 redirect mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com? My domain registrar is Heart Internet and as far as i've seen, they only offer me the choice to redirect my www.mydomain.com to something else. Thanks!


title: Can I include title for an HTML5 a element?

text: Can I add title attribute for "a" element in HTML5? The spec does not mention title attribute for "a" element here http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/a.html, so for example, would it be valid to use               <a title="mylink" href="...


title: mod_pagespeed not compressing images

text: `mod_pagespeed` is not compressing images on my homepage. My current config has:               AddOutputFilterByType MOD_PAGESPEED_OUTPUT_FILTER text/html       What is the usual setting people use for `mod_pagespeed` to get all the CSS, images, JS, etc. benefit?


title: Do navigation menu links negatively impact SEO for pages' content?

text: I've always had my doubts about navigation menus effect on SEO. You know, the vertical menus on the top that show in every page in the site linking to main sections and subsections. My issue is that if not done dynamically (i.e. after page is loaded or something), from a search engine's point of view it probably looks like a whole bunch of links in the beginning of the page, and links that probably have nothing to do with the page being analyzed, so it's probably not only confusing it, but also giving link 'juice' to the wrong pages or reducing its value. When I've asked SEO people about this, I usually get a "Google is smart, they'll recognize it as a menu and ignore it" response, but I'm not convinced (and the 'Google is smart' argument sounds almost like religion discussion to me). So does it affect SEO negatively or not? Are there any official posts on this topic?


title: Can I legally get hold of a domain name for which I hold a trademark?

text: I currently have a classified ads domain in the `.co.uk` extension (say `piggybank.co.uk`). I am about to register the website and its name as a trademark. There's also a website with the same name in the `.com` extension (say `piggybank.com`) which is currently on sale for several thousands USD. Once I register the trademark, will I be able to legally get hold of the `.com` domain on the basis of trademark ownership (through ICANN or smth)?


title: What should I do when the maximum sitemap size limit is reached according to Google Webmaster Tools?

text: We have an existing sitemap with the URL: `http://example.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml` It was submitted to Google Webmaster Tools a long time ago and almost all the pages were indexed, but recently we crossed the 50,000 URL size limit and Google Webmaster Tools suggested to add an extra sitemap. After a little research, I found an article on Google's official blog which says to create a "sitemap index file" and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools. So my question is, should we create a "sitemap index file" with three child sitemaps entries, or just split the existing `http://example.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml` into `sitemap.xml` with 50,000 entries and `sitemap1.xml` with less than 50,000 entries? If the first approach seems good, then some questions arise for the existing sitemap `http://example.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml`, which is with almost 50,000 entries and indexed properly. What should I do with that? Should we remove this entry from Google Webmaster Tools as well as _robots.txt_ and add a new sitemap with `http://example.com/sitemap/sitemap_index.xml`? What would be the impact of this? The real concern is that we don't want to mess up the SEO and indexing of pages from the start due to this change.


title: SEO company really need to know the language of the site they work on?

text: I'm thinking to outsource SEO for my non-English site to the company listed on like elance.com or odesk.com But I'm wondering if they really can work on the none-English site when they don't speak the language of the site. Does the language ability of SEO company really matters for SEO itself? I'm not talking about click conversion rate or something bu purely SEO.


title: How can I determine the trending pages on my site?

text: I'm looking to see what the "hot" pages are on one of my sites. I want to see for various timeframes, what the top-50 pages are. I'm only concerned with the current month's data. I'm going to create a data feed with this info which will be input to another app. I have Apache logs, and complete control of the machine to install what I want. I'm mostly wondering if there's something out there already that I can use, or if I have to implement it myself, what good algorithms or strategies might be.


title: cURL works but PHP cURL fails to internet

text: Trying to diagnose an issue using PHP to cURL to an Internet location on a RedHat Linux server. cURL is installed and working, and:               <?php var_dump(curl_version()); ?>      shows all the correct information in the output. The issue is I can use PHP to cURL to localhost on the box itself, but not the Internet (see below). Normally I'd suspect the firewall, but I can cURL from the command line to the Internet without a problem. The box can also update it's own software packages, etc. What am I missing? My test is:               <?php          function http_head_curl($url,$timeout=30)         {             $ch = curl_init();             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);             curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);             $res = curl_exec($ch);             if ($res === false) {                 throw new RuntimeException("cURL exception: ".curl_errno($ch).": ".curl_error($ch));             }             return trim($res);         }              // Succeeds, displaying headers         echo(http_head_curl('localhost'));              // Fails:         echo(http_head_curl('www.google.com'));     ?>


title: PhpMyAdmin keeps redirecting to login screen

text: I'm having troubles logging in to PhpMyAdmin. When I press "login" after typing in my credentials, it just keeps going back to the login screen. I could login perfectly a few days ago. I don't know what I've done that's causing this. I can login to mysql perfectly in the shell (`mysql -D database -u user -ppassword`). My sites are running as expected. What could this be? Logging in works fine in Firefox, but not in Chrome or IE See reply #4 in this topic: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums/forum/72909/topic/4479151


title: Does Yahoo Slurp crawl hammer a site?

text: A lot of robots.txt examples seem to feature `Crawl-Delay` for Yahoo Slurp for up to 2 hours, is this because Yahoo Slurp tends to hammer a website and increase server load?


title: How do I hide the port in my URL?

text: What am I missing? If I go to `mysite.com:9999` I get my site, but not `mysite.com` Obviously the users shouldn't need to type in the port, so what do I need to do? I'm not really trying to hide the port so much as not require the user to type it in the URL. Is this an Apache configuration setting somewhere? Should I be looking at httpd.config, container config or elsewhere? It is a Virtual Host on Apache server. Any suggestions are appreciated. **Edit** - the working virtual host blocks in virtualhosts.conf looks like this: Near the start the virtual host entries are named something like this:               NameVirtualHost *:700      NameVirtualHost *:710     ...     NameVirtualHost *:760      Below the working block for the http version looks like this:               <VirtualHost *:710>          ServerName webdev.url.com          ServerAdmin admin@url.com               # Comment out when OC4J instance is down for maintenance:          <IfModule mod_oc4j.c>              Oc4jMount           </IfModule>               # Uncomment when OC4J instance is down for maintenance:          # DocumentRoot "/org/dev"               # - Restrict 'Cross-Site-Tracking' or XST          RewriteEngine on          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)          RewriteRule .* - [F]               <IfModule mod_dir.c>              DirectoryIndex index.jsp          </IfModule>              ErrorLog "|/opt/app/oracle/product/AS10.1.2/Apache/Apache/bin/rotatelogs/logs/dev_error_log 440"                  CustomLog "|/opt/app/oracle/product/AS10.1.2/Apache/Apache/bin/rotatelogs/logs/dev_access_log 440" common                    <Location "/pls/dev">              Order deny,allow              Deny from all              Allow from ####internal ip addresses####          </Location>           </VirtualHost>      The new one that requires the port to be specified looks like this:               ## - for Mobile       <VirtualHost *:770>          ServerName mdev.url.com          ServerAdmin admin@url.com               # Comment out when OC4J instance is down for maintenance:          <IfModule mod_oc4j.c>              Oc4jMount / msitedev          </IfModule>               # - Restrict 'Cross-Site-Tracking' or XST          RewriteEngine on          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)          RewriteRule .* - [F]               <IfModule mod_dir.c>              DirectoryIndex m.jsp          </IfModule>               ErrorLog "|/opt/app/oracle/product/AS10.1.2/Apache/Apache/bin/rotatelogs/logs/mdev_error_log 440"          CustomLog "|/opt/app/oracle/product/AS10.1.2/Apache/Apache/bin/rotatelogs/logs/mdev_access_log 440" common                   # <Location "/org/dev">         #     Order deny,allow         #     Deny from all         #     Allow from ####         # </Location>                </VirtualHost>      Again, I am just trying to figure out if something here is suppressing the need to enter the port # (eg. 710) in the URL. Upon examination, there don't appear to be any htaccess files anywhere.


title: Is it ethical to use Google Analytics on a site crime victims use to make 'anonymous' reports?

text: Our local police force have a website for rape victims to use to report attacks anonymously. At the top of the page is a 'Report anonymously' link, which takes you to a page using Google Analytics as well as several Google CDN links (for jquery, etc). I was a bit surprised by this, so I checked the Crimestoppers site (similar service, but for the entire UK population). They also use Google Analytics on every page, including anonymous report forms. They even go so far as to state: " _your call or online form will not be traced_ ". While the data entered into the forms may be anonymised, it is my opinion that visitors to the site aren't anonymous. Individuals with Google accounts can most definitely be identified by Google. **Is this ethical?** Are these sites being honest when they tell crime victims they 'will not be traced' and that they are 'reporting anonymously'?


title: How much can a particular domain be tainted from bad prior practices?

text: If a site found at a particular domain has previously used very bad SEO practices and has thus been ranked poorly for most search queries on google, will using very good SEO practices from now on immediately improve its ranking as much as a fresh start? Or will there be a delay before it climbs the rankings? Or will the ranking be almost permanently capped so its a good idea to get a new domain name?


title: I have added my site to google webmasters and bing webmasers but 0 backlinks

text: I added my site to webmasters since 3 weeks, I did some SEO, posted anchored links in directories, some forums, local directories, and most of them are do follow. Then I wanted to check if Google can see the backlinks to my Google page rank rises I used MajesticSEO, SEOMOZ openExplorer, SEO Spy Glass But I don't see the backlinks, is this normal, maybe it takes time like after two months I can see the backlinks?


title: How to know what people search?

text: I have a web hosting and design company. I know that if I want a website, i search for web hosting. But not everyone is like that. How do I figure out what good keywords are? And more importantly, how do I do that without google insights, because the country I am targeting has low search volumes for most keywords?


title: How can I migrate from phpBB 3.x to SMF?

text: I have a phpBB 3.x-based site which I would like to migrate to SMF - basically, all threads, posts, user accounts and possibly PMs. This seems to be possible, but I haven't been able to find a solid tutorial/ guide that can help me through this. Does anybody have any experience doing this or know of a good guide that can help me out?


title: HTTP/HTTPS duplicate content 301 vs canonical

text: I thought I would ask a question as the amount of different sources that say this is right or that isn't right is unbelievable. Let me tell you my situation, at the moment, my boss wanted me to add SSL to the website, to get the green padlock more or less. I've done this, while also using _.htaccess_ file to force HTTPS. The main problem is that Google is seeing `http://site.co.uk` and `https://site.co.uk` and is indexing them. Will the page rank carry over from `http://site.co.uk` to `https://site.co.uk` using a permemant 301 redirection or would a canonical set to `https://site.co.uk` work just as well?


title: Ahrefs is checking my site for backlinks all the time

text: I have a Magento site and I realize that the ahrefs.com crawler visits my site all the time everyday. I visit ahrefs.com and I check my backlinks (they are good).   1. Is it good or bad, something like that? (To check all the time). Googlebot doesn't crawl my site all the time.   2. Maybe it slow down my site? (many requests)   3. Can I reduce the times it checks?


title: Google not detecting new page addresses after redesign

text: I recently moved our company's site to WordPress. It was necessary since the old site's structure was poor at best. It's now been three weeks and the addresses listed in Google have not changed. They're simply 301 redirects that I set to the new pages. When I look at Google Analytics I'm finding that it is also referring to old page addresses as well. I've requested a re-index from Google once but it doesn't seem to have helped. I've also made adjustments in Google Webmasters. I'm forcing http://openeye.net and google lists www.openeye.net   The product pages were www.openeye.net/products.asp and are now http://openeye.net/products Is there a way to force Google to resolve this or do they eventually take care of it themselves? It's pretty terrible.


title: What should <h1> and <h2> be used for?

text:
If my company is called `foo.com` and I am on the homepage/index page of the site, what should the `<h1>` and `<h2>` tabs be?
foo

home
      If I am on the settings page for example, should I use the following?
foo

settings
      Or should I be using the `<h1>` and `<h2>` tags for something else?


title: How to setup a fully functional "mirror" of a website?

text: PREMISES:   * I have a wordpress website hosted in a shared-hosting   * Since it's a shared hosting, I share the same ip with other GoDaddy customers   * A couple of times, some other customer got malware on their space ..getting OUR ip blacklisted   * I had to contact those guys helping'em to clean their webspace in order to unblock also my websites (on the same ip)   * In general, I'd like to provide a mirror if the main ip isn't reachable   * I can't afford a dedicated ip for this specific project   * I can afford other shared-hosting, and I have accounts with other providers too Now.. **I'd like to provide an additional way to reach one of my website, keeping all the functions.** The most important thing is the different IP. What I need is some sort of proxy running on _mirrorwebsite.com_ (hosted on a different hosting provider) that can mirror _originalwebsite.com_ keeping all the features (ex. publishing from the wordpress dashboard) and being reachable with a different ip. This is my specific need. Please help me with that! Thank you very much in advance,


title: Google Analytics: average time it take users to trigger an event

text: I implemented Google Analytics event tracking on my currency conversion website. The typical user flow is:   1. User lands on a page about two currencies.   2. User enters an amount to be converted.   3. The site shows the user the value in the other currency. The JavaScript sends Google Analytics an "converted" event when the currency conversion is done. Because most of the sessions on my site are single page, the event tracking is very important to me to be able to know if users find my page useful. I'm looking for a way to be able to figure out how long it typically takes users to enter a value in the form. I expect that this data would form a bell curve with around a specific amount of time after page load. If I can't get a graph, I could make do with a median value. I would like to be able to use this as a core metric around usability testing. Is there a way to get this information out of Google Analytics?


title: Why is Google not ranking my page?

text: After I re-designed my website, Google stoped ranking my page. I have no idea why. I'm not banned from Google, because my website is position #1 on the search. And my META tags for robots look like this:               <meta content="index,follow" name="robots">      So why is Google Page Rank Checker not able to rate my site?


title: CSS use class and style on the same element, good or not?

text: I would like to know if its ok to use class and style attributes on the same element? I also want to know if my page will be faster when I use class and style attributes on the same element instead two different classes, for example: I got two divs, one with `style="width:680px;display:table;"` and the second with `style="width:680px;display:table;margin-top:20px;"`, I can make one class called "tst" > `.tst{width:680px;display:table;}` and I will use the class in both divs, but in the second one I will also add `style="margin- top:20px;"`. EDIT: I got another suggestion, to have two classes but one will hold `width:680px;display:table;` and the second one will hold `margin-top:20px;` and then I will use in the second div in both classes > `class="class1 class2"`. Which way will cause my page to load faster and why?


title: How to allow a Subdirectory to work and stop redirecting?

text: I run Drupal on a webserver in the root www directory. I have added another application in a www subdirectory (Piwik). When I try to navigate to the subdirectory app, I get this error message "The page isn't redirecting properly. Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." Now, if I use Internet Explorer, I still get an error, but it is my Drupal 404 error page, so the behavior is a little different. Now, back in Firefox, if I try to navigate to a subdirectory that doesn't exist, I get the Drupal 404 page which is what should happen. So basically I'd like to know how to allow a subdirectory to pass through and to disallow Drupal to handle it. I did some research and tried adding this at the end of my .htaccess file in the www root, but no luck               #Override directory handling for PIWIK     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine on     #     # stuff to let through (ignore)     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/piwik/" [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/subdirectory2/"     RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L]     #      Please help! Thanks.


title: Hosting a public dedicated game server with user authentication

text: I am basically looking for a cheap hosting provider to host a Call of Duty game server in India. But this is not a localized question actually as you will see when you go through the complete question. **Essential Features**   * The server _must_ be physically located in India otherwise gaming experience is very poor due to the large delay/ping. Your enemy does not get killed even if it looks like your bullet hit him. For more details check my question http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/15803/good-public-dedicated-call-of-duty-servers-list-for-players-in-india-please   * The game needs a windows platform.    * The game should be running all the time.    * Not a big issue if the hosting cost is not low. But it should allow me to set up user authentication later so that I can allow only paid users to play and recover the expenses or offer paid gaming services.  **Further details**   This is basically an effort to solve the problem of absence of dedicated- public multiplayer game servers in India. This is not a problem specific to India but to many geographies of the world where gaming culture is not mature yet. For more details check this question and see if you can help there - http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/20233/ideas-or-solutions-to-resolve- the-issue-of-absence-of-local-dedicated-public-mult Even http://www.gametracker.com does not have any listed dedicated servers in India, nor does it offer hosting for one. **Questions**   * What is my best option here. I have no idea what kind of interface I will get if I purchase a windows hosting. I have only worked on Linux hostings, interacted using cpanel etc.    * Is it possible to just purchase a windows hosting and then install games myself, do any authentication I want?    * Additionally, I am also looking some web space to host my personal projects. The projects may go live in near future and I may need to scale up resources. But right now I am just a beginner with no live websites. I basically work on LAMP projects (Linux Apache Mysql PHP). It would be nice if one hosting solves all my requirements. I am very new to hosting fundamentals and it sounds as difficult to me as investments. I checked a lot of questions here like -  How to choose between web hosting and cloud hosting? What should I consider when choosing a hosting provider? But I am still clueless. Is Amazon EC2 hosting a possible solution? As per http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#What_operating_system_environments_are_supported Windows server as well many linux OS are supported. Thanks


title: What points should I include in my forum's community guidelines?

text: I'm running a forum that's open to the public, which has predominantly been civil and on-task for the last 3.5 years. Recently, however, there's been an ongoing, unproductive dispute between a handful of users. We currently don't have explicit community guidelines, but, in light of this dispute, I'm thinking we should adopt some sort of code of conduct. How would you go about writing such a document? What points should I make sure to include?


title: Why is Internet Explorer seemingly work different then other browsers?

text: For the past two weeks I have been painfully revising and changing my webpage to run in IE. **I was happy to see my page working properly on Safari 4 & 5, Chrome 10-13, and FF 3.6-4.0** **BUT** **I opened my webpage in IE 8.0 and everything went wrong.** I guess I just have two questions:   1. What are w3schools.com's browser statistics accurate to?   2. Why does IE interpret scripting languages different than Safari, Chrome, and FF?


title: What are low activity, medium activity and high activity

text: I received stats for a website (page views, bounce rate, etc), I can't understand what some of the columns mean. Low activity Medium activity High activity The numbers are biggest in the "Low activity" column The numbers are lowest in the "High activity" column Any idea? Here's a sample : http://jsfiddle.net/Flipke/cJMe3/


title: Keep Google Analytics in a backup site or not?

text: I backed up my website and uploaded it to another server for testing and backup purposes. Should I remove or edit the Google Analytics snippet from the index.php (which is for the real site), or does it not matter as it's not the same server and url address as the one declared at Google Analytics account? The reason I don't want to remove it is in case someone forgets about it if they upload the backup to the real site in case the real one breaks. Also I know that if I turn off the website there is no GA snippet, but I need it open so I can easily access and test it so I don't have to write pass all the time.


title: Is there a single video compression settings set that will allow the same file be used for Flash .flv and iPhone H.264 playback?

text: Since flv supports H.264 playback and iPhone/iPad also supports h.264 playback are there any compression settings that can be used to support playback on both platforms without needing to store/serve 2 files for each video?


title: Are there any sites that measure the page response speed of various hosting companies?

text: I'm looking for the equivalent of consumer reports for hosting companies. But I would be happy with any neutral data comparing one site to another. Does anyone have any links to data the speed of various popular hosting sites versus one another? I've seen this question about measuring your own website, I want to see measurements for other hosts against each other.


title: How do I do URL re-writes on Plesk?

text: I am very new to URL re-writing and I am using Plesk which is **window-based** web server, hence I can't use Apache's mod_Rewrite. Can anyone tell me what is the proper procedure for this?


title: look and feel of html5 applications?

text: Where can I find a theme kit to use for my websites, to skin them as html5 applications... Sorry, I dunno how to explain myself.. I see this style in new web applications: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nojUy.png) ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n7IJE.png)


title: jQuery Vertical Tabbed Content

text: I need some kind of vertical tabs for switching content. You can find such tabs at microsoft.com (under main large banner). The main problem that I saw such tutorial recently but I forgot to bookmark it. Does anybody knows about any tutorial, template, article, or example code they can share here?


title: Validation Meta tags for search engines

text: Should validation meta tags for search engines be left on the site following validation? For example, should I leave my msvalidate meta tag after I've validated the site.


title: Can I delete google verification txt file from server?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Validation Meta tags for search engines I verified ownership of a domain for Google Apps with the text/html file option. Now I need to permanently redirect the domain to another server with .htaccess. Obviously google won't see file anymore. So I have two options:   1. Do nothing (same as deleting verification code).   2. Move file to new server where htaccess is redirecting to. Do i really need to drag around that file so my account stays verified? Or is it a one-time process?


title: How to add RSS to a community page on Facebook?

text: I have a website with a RSS (fixed, I had written "CSS" instead) that I would like to post regularly to a Facebook community. Whereas there are lots of tutorials for doing that in a personal Facebook page, I cannot find a solution for adding RSS to a community page (poorer in terms of admin options and settings). I would like to have the Facebook community constantly and automatically updated with RSS from my website. Is it possible to do? In case so, do you know the steps to achieve that?


title: Summary of usage policies for website integration of various social media networks?

text: To cut to the chase...   * I look at Twitter's usage policy and see limitations on what can and can't be done with their logo.   * I also see examples of websites that use icons that have been integrated with the look and feel of their own site. Given Twitter's policy, for example, it would appear that legal conversations/agreements would need to take place to do this, especially on a commercial site.    * I believe it is perfectly acceptable to have a plain text button that simply has the word "Tweet" on it, that has the same functionality. **My question is if anyone can provide online (or other) references that attempt to summarize what can and can't be done when integrating various social networks into your own work?** The answer I will mark as the correct one will be the one which provides the best resource(s) giving the best summaries of what can and can't be done with specific logos/icons, with a secondary factor being that a variety of social networking sites are addressed in your answer. Before people point to specific questions, I am looking for a well-rounded approach that considers a breadth of networks and considerations. _Background:_ I would like to incorporate social media icons and functionality, but would like to consider what type of modifications can be done without needing to involve lawyers. For example, can I bring in a standard Facebook logo, but incorporate my site color into the logo? Would the answer differ if I maintained their color, but add in a few pixels of another color to transition? I am not saying I want to do this, but rather using it as an example.


title: Google Structured Data Testing Tool scrapes different schema type than on webpage

text: I'm currently working on a website for my student group, a performing team. The website will have upcoming performance information, so I thought I would use microdata to setup upcoming performances as structured data Events. On each performance page, the performance is given an itemtype of "Event". The pages are correctly given this type, as can be seen by using Inspect Element on the webpage. But when I try looking at the page through Google's Structured Data Testing Tool, the type detected is "event", and so the custom Event itemprop's are seen as errors. Is there something I am doing wrong in my implementation of microdata? example page Testing tool


title: MediaWiki Problem

text: I can't implement MediaWiki on my website. I made a database called soulz_wikipedia. When I configure my wiki, to install it, it asks me what languages etc to choose from, when I press Continue I can't do anything else. All it comes up with is:               MediaWiki 1.17.0 installation          Language     Existing wiki     Welcome to MediaWiki!     Connect to database     Upgrade existing installation     Database settings     Name     Options     Install     Complete!          Restart installation     Welcome to MediaWiki!          Environmental checks     Basic checks are performed to see if this environment is suitable for     MediaWiki installation. You should provide the results of these checks     if you need help during installation.     PHP 5.3.6 is installed.     Unable to determine IP     Backtrace:     0 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/User.php(1537): wfGetIP()     1 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/db/Database.php(683): User->getName()     2 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/db/DatabaseSqlite.php(147): DatabaseBase->query('CREATE VIRTUAL ...', 'DatabaseSqlite:...', true)     3 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(636): DatabaseSqlite::getFulltextSearchModule()     4 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(387): Installer->envCheckDB()     5 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/WebInstallerPage.php(369): Installer->doEnvironmentChecks()     6 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(250): WebInstaller_Welcome->execute()     7 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/mw-config/index.php(46): WebInstaller->execute(Array)     8 /home/soulz/public_html/Wiki/mw-config/index.php(14): wfInstallerMain()     9 {main}      That's all, I can't install it.. Help?


title: With Drupal, what's the best way to do backups and version control?

text: Looking to create a rollback and recovery system that allows me to create monthly backups that are easy to use to do a restore with, but would also like to be able to log and rollback changes. It would be nice if the rollback system is not 100% linear, but able to clusters and type system dependences. Also, like it if the rollback system was a module, but that's not 100% required. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!!


title: How will a website update - from HTML 4.01 to HTML5 - affect page ranking?

text: My concern is, my client is already number 2 on the search engine ranking for the main keyword of his particular field and I don't want to see him lose any more ground. He wants to not only future proof his website with html5, but also add new content. With that being said, he was number one on the search results for a long time and is now number two. Furthermore, I fell like he's quickly losing ground to other websites. Providing that all the keywords and links are taking care of, will a complete update hurt or help his rankings.


title: Loading 300dpi images for download

text: How can I add 4x5 300 dpi images to my website for download from clients without the images being enlarged on the website?


title: Does the adsense bot ever get bored?

text: Each time someone clicks on a page like               http://www.example.com/crazy.cgi?input=silly+banana      where the "silly banana" bit represents some arbitrary user input which changes each time, I get yet another hit from the Adsense bot, almost immediately afterwards. And yet the page's contents don't vary much depending on the input. Is there a point at which the Adsense bot (user agent "Mediapartners-Google") gets bored, in other words begins to notice that the query parameters don't make much difference to the output page, or does it just keep on and on coming to my page indefinitely? And if there is a point where its enthusiasm begins to wane, can it be predicted?


title: Disable __cfduid cookie from Cloudflare

text: Is there a Cloudflare setting that corresponds to the creation of the `__cfduid` session cookie? I'm currently trying out CF; mostly for the neat DNS management and the implicit CDN. But the basic WAF is possibly just as nice an addition atop Apaches mod_security/CRS. However I'm not sure what said cookies purpose is, and would prefer to get rid of that. The most obvious setting ![Security profile: Essentially off](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KRL6y.png) Seems to also have essentially no effect on the creation of `__cfduid` with every HTTP response. The cookies purpose is presumably for opting out single users from firewall rules, repeated cloudflare captchas, etc. Their support documentation alludes to that. Where the first revision from 09/2012 (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169536-What-does- the-cfduid-cookie-do-) says this behaviour can't ever be turned off. An entry two months later 11/2012 (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en- us/articles/200170156-What-does-the-CloudFlare-cfduid-cookie-do-) however omits that note. While Cloudflares TOS itself check out as plausible, this cookie has all the properties of a tracking session, `dc41f5a78bc3e27d44b70fca4606e4262283407700773`. The excessive cookie lifetime of 6 years is very odd for the exemplary internet cafe visitor use case. And since I'm personally avoiding needless sessions, and don't want to plaster a privacy note (in light of the infamous EU cookie law) like everyone else, I'd prefer to have it gone per default. A workaround like:                 Header add Set-Cookie "__cfduid= ; path=/; domain=.example.org; HttpOnly"      Does eschew its storage, but retains two needless headers, and doesn't seem overly reliable. So, is there another CF setting for this?


title: Getting spam from non-existent form?

text: A client was getting a lot of spam from a form on their site. I added Captcha and changed the form fields and form recipient email address, but the client is still receiving spam from the server, with the original form fields to the original email address. Does anyone know what this is and how I can stop it? Thanks!


title: Why classifieds pages use subdomains?

text: Can somebody tells me in terms of SEO if the use of subdomains is better than the use of folders? I'm developing a classifieds page, and I already know that many classifieds like Craigslist use subdomains to have presence in certain city, is this really to help the rankings in search engines? Is better to use folders for this case to increase my rankings in search engines? Many SEOs have told me that I have to use folders but I'm not quite sure.


title: SEO url for multi-language site

text: Are the following urls threated the same in SEO rank or is someone better than another? If, why?   * language.domain.com/page   * domain.com/language/page


title: Web Directories Monitor Script

text: I have some troubles with injections on my shared hosting account where I run a lot of sites with a lot of different technologies: wordpress, drupal, joomla, osticket etc... I installed wordpress file monitor for wordpress and that seems to report nicely if something is injected though it misses sometimes changes to themes. I wonder if someone knows of a preferably perl script that I could cron to report me changed and added files each day so that I can walk through them each day and see if something weird is happening with them. It would be even cooler if this script would check for base 64 injections and then place a checkmark before it. I prefer something not that I have to place in the web directories since these seem to be the most vulnerable.


title: GoDaddy Perl modules

text: Is there any way to find out the list of Perl modules provided by GoDaddy hosting without actually getting a hosting account?


title: I found the IP Addresses via Logs & Google AP. I have a question about the the GPI?

text: I found out how to get all the IP addresses via Server Logs. I'm using the IP addresses to get the Latitude and Longitude. The address appear to be approx 1 3 miles away from the actual address of the vistor. Can someone explain why the GPI coordinates via IP address are not exactly matching the location of the user? Is there a more dependable way to get the address? Erik


title: How can I block site visitors using legacy browsers

text: I want my site to block access to visitors that are using outdated browsers such as _IE6_ and _IE7_ etc. I am looking for a script that I can use to block certain browsers accessing my site


title: is there anything wrong with my sitemap.xml

text: I had written an article over Highly searched keywords some days ago. When i search it in google using `top searched keywords article-stack`, it returns many results from my site. But none of them was really pointing to actual article. Is there anything wrong with sitemap.xml of my site or with google search?


title: How to Conditionally Load @Font-Faces via CSS3?

text: Curerntly, when you use a beautiful font, like for example the multiligual `Calibri` fotn (a win7 font), then it even downloads eventhough a user has the font already installed, when i use the following css:               @charset "utf-8";       @font-face {         font-family: Calibri;         src: url('http://blabla.com/calibri.eot')         }      **However:** this font is 400 kb gzipped, and i would like it to _ONLY_ download, if the font is NOT present or installed by that name / family name, right? **Question:** Is this possible to setup a neat conditional rule for this, for modern browsers (say IE8+, Firefox 3+ etc). How to implement it? Thanks for any and all clues!


title: Yahoo sitemap validation

text: I am trying to submit _sitemap.xml_ (Index) to Yahoo Site Explorer but with no luck. I tried using **website feed** option in the site explorer to submit the sitemap, but I got validation errors. However, when submitting the same sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, the sitemap was validated successfully. Could it be for the fact that I am using sitemap with image tag:               <image:image>         <image:loc>http://www.domain.com/pic.jpg</image:loc>         <image:title>picture</image:title>      </image:image>        When I tried validating the sitemap with inline tools such as http://www.xml- sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html and http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv the error I received was: > Attempt to load a schema document from > http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1 (source: new namespace) for > http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1, failed: Not recognised as > W3C XML Schema or RDDL: html However, the declaration of the sitemap I use in the top of the document is the same as suggested by Google on their official page at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178636 :               <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>      <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"       xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">      <url>      Any ideas how to resolve this issue?


title: sorry, I deleted my question

text: Sorry, I deleted this question


title: RewriteRule with Query_String

text: I have               http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1      and I would like to rewrite it to this:               https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1      How can I do this? I tried this:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cybersource/fp/clear.png/     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}^(.*)org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1(&.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule^(.*)$ https://media.north.com/fp/clear.pngorg_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1 [R=301,L]      ...but it's not working. * * * But here is the problem, I have multiple URLs for one host for example I have this: ## If the request is `http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1`   **rewrite it to**   `https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=1` ## If the request is `http//royatlon.north.com/cybersource/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2`   **rewrite it to**   `https://media.north.com/fp/clear.png?org_id=1snn5n9w&session_id=sterling40272003&m=2`


title: Is it a good idea to strip common words from url's

text: I've got an MVC app that generates url "slugs" on the fly. I'm wondering (with regards to SEO) if it's good practice to stip common words from the slug. IE: Page Title: **This is a cool title with lots of content** Page Slug: **/this-is-a-cool-title-with-lots-of-content**   Option B: **/this-cool-title-with-lots-content**


title: Remove .php and id from URL and replace with slash

text: I have tried lots of URL rewrite rules in _.htaccess_ but I am stuck now. I have to change this URL:                   products.php?id=31      to                   products/31      I have used:                   Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews         # Turn mod_rewrite on         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /              ## don't touch /forum URIs         RewriteRule ^forums/ - [L,NC]              RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+products(?:\.php)?\?id=([0-9]+) [NC]         RewriteRule ^ products/%1? [R,L]              RewriteRule ^products/([0-9]+)/?$ products.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]              ## hide .php extension snippet         # To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo         RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s([^.]+)\.php [NC]         RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L]              # To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f         RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ $1.php [L]      Using this I get the following result:                 products/31      But all images and CSS not displaying. Any ideas?


title: What are the HTTP header identifiers for different OVH CDN cache locations?

text: When having a web hosting solution from **OVH** that includes their Content Delivery Network ( **CDN** ), and the OVH web hosting + OVH CDN are correctly configured, the **HTTP headers** of the served web site are changed. An example:               X-Cacheable: Not cacheable: no-cache     X-CDN-Geo: lag     X-CDN-Geo-IP: 46.105.194.197     X-CDN-Any-IP: 46.105.199.116      One of the headers is the " **X-CDN-Geo** " that tells the geographical location of the server that actually serves the file. Is there a list available of all OVH CDN-Geo locations?


title: Why Google displays search results all the cracks when appended by "94FBR" keyword in search query?

text: I found on the internet that if you mention the software name and just add `94FBR` keyword to your search query Google displays the results of all the cracks etc. for that software . Refer to the image for better understanding. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hmTPg.png) So I was just curious to know what does this happen and does `94FBR` has a special meaning?


title: Filtering your offices IPs from Google Analytics when each has a dynamic IP?

text: I found the documentation for filtering IPs from Google Analytics, but the address of the several locations of our company all have dynamic IP addresses that change every 30 days from what I'm told. I know from working with Dynamic DNS that the provider usually gives you a script that you configure your router to run when it's IP address changes or when it is restarted, which passes the new IP address to the DDNS server. I'm wondering if there might be a way to write or use a preexisting script to do the same thing with the Google Analytics API.


title: Avg Page Load Time on Google Analytics

text: For a particular day, Site Speed Page Timings in Google Analytic is 23.77 Secs. I selected that particular day and used Day mode to see timing hourly. There when I Added City as 2nd filter then I saw most of them are accessed from India or nearby locations which are very slow. Others are 0 secs. In India, visitors connection speed can be slow. **Should I worry about page load timing in this case?** As seen on snap, 1133 pages has been accessed by Google and only around 35 pages got bad Avg Page Load timing. When I used to see bad Page Load Timing then I used to think of my Hosting provider but from the data, I think it is not of Hosting Provider! ![Page Timing - Avg page load time](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ng5Eh.png)


title: Choosing a domain name with joined words is good for SEO?

text: I am going to choose a domain name for my business. For that I am going to use joined words in my domain name. For example, let's say my keywords are "painting" and "goa" and also that `paintinggoa.com` is not available to register. In this case if I choose `paintingoa.com` is it good? Is it good for SEO purposes? How will Google treat this domain name?


title: SEO domain advice: sol-spl.com vs sol-spanish.com

text: I'm taking Spanish lessons from a school that uses a domain name `sol-spl.com` (not the actual domain), where `sol` is the name of the company, and `spl` stands for "Spanish private lessons". I was thinking that it might be much better for their search rankings if they used the domain `sol-spanish.com`, since every search for spanish lessons is going to use the keyword `spanish`, and `spl` isn't likely to be used. Will switching domains like this likely have a positive impact on their search rankings, and is it a reasonable thing for me to advise them to do?


title: Analytics - how to tell where converted traffic came from?

text: I must be missing something obvious. I have Analytics set up with conversion tracking (goals), and I had 4 customers complete the goals yesterday. I'm trying to find out where those 4 customers came from (organic search? if organic, what keywords? etc) but I can't figure out how to do that in Adwords. When I click into the goal tracking overview, I see my 4 customers and it breaks it down so I see that 3 of them came from adwords (cpc) and 1 of them came from organic. I'd like to know exactly what ads brought the traffic and what keywords on the organic search led them to me. How can I do this? It seems like a simple request... but I can't figure it out... thanks for your help!


title: How to decrease the frequency of Google/Search-engine bots crawling my site?

text: My server handles my visitors ok, but recently I found there are many search engine bots crawling my site and my server gets quite busy serving these bots. My site generates over 1000 posts each day, so it might be normal for the bots crawling my site often. However, is it possible to decrease the frequency for the bots crawling my site? Or just tell the bots to craw my new posts? It seems they are crawling my site more and more often and my server becomes slow when they visit my site.


title: Does using data from another website increase their SEO?

text: To clarify, if I wear to use xml data from another website to make charts on my site, would that affect their SEO?


title: Handling the holding of money on a platform

text: We are building a platform for a client, developed in Yii, where users can top up their account on the platform with money from PayPal. Users can upload files and buy access to each other's files. Users can also gift other users with money. I was thinking that when users top up their account, the money goes from their PayPal to the merchant account of the website. So all users' money goes to one merchant account. Then, any transactions on the platform are simply recorded on the platform and each user's balance is the maximum amount they can withdraw from the merchant account. Is this the right approach? Legally, are there any problems?


title: Is it possible to add a company logo to the recept email PayPal sends out?

text: As far as I've been able to gather you can only co-brand the checkout process, but the PayPal documentation is fairly convoluted. Has anyone managed to put a logo on the actual emails paypal sends out?


title: nofollow on local images improving SERP?

text: I have links to images on my website (fined with lightbox), when I extend the links with `rel="lightbox nofollow"` would this increase the link juice value of the other links? I don't need all of the images indexed, a few of em.


title: Disqus thread migration. Gotchas?

text: I've been migrating a site to a new domain. The site itself is pretty straightforward (it uses Jekyll), and everything has gone fine -- except migration of Disqus threads. I've had _partial_ success -- some of the threads have migrated successfully, but not all. I've tried the domain migration wizard (which caught a few), the URL mapper (which caught a few), and the 301 redirect crawler (which caught a few). But the remaining threads just won't move, no matter which method I use. So, I suppose I suppose I'm asking if there are any "gotchas" I should know about with this. When you execute any of these migration tools, it says it will "take awhile." Does that mean hours? Days? I can't tell if it's working, and there's no logging or error reporting that I can see.


title: How to include content from remote server while keeping that content secure

text: I am hosting collection of videos, for which I retain the copyright, on a file server that I'd like to share with family and friends. When a user visits my file server via a web browser they are asked to authenticate using HTTP auth and then they are presented with a basic list of the files. I'd like to build web application that provides a clean interface with simply library functionality. However, this app will be hosted on a different server. I'm trying to figure out a security model for my file server that doesn't require the user to login to both the file server and the hosting server. I want to make this as easy as possible for my non-tech savvy family while still maintaining security for my files.


title: How to make google analytics report on two domains as though they are one site?

text: We have a main site that Google analytics is currently running fine on (www.ourcompany.com). We have a page that is technically part of the site (same design, etc.) but is hosted on another server/domain for various business reasons (www.ourparentcompany.com/ourcompanyapp/). Do we just add the normal google analytics code to the bottom of that page? Or is there something more we have to do? If there isn't anything more then couldn't anyone just take your GA code and start reporting analytics to your profile from their site?


title: Convenient practice for where to place images?

text: A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:               /i/img/     /images/     /img/      Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page SEO, code maintainability, filename maintainability, etc.) to place them inside the relevant directories in which they are used? For example:               example.com/logo.jpg     example.com/about/photo-of-me.jpg     example.com/contact/map.png     example.com/products/category1-square.png     example.com/products/category2-square.png     example.com/products/category1/product1-thumb.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product2-thumb.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product1/product1-large.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product1/product2-large.jpg     example.com/products/category1/product1/product3-large.jpg      What is the best practice here regarding all possible considerations (for static non-CMS websites)?    N.B. The names `product1-large` and `product1-thumb` are just examples in this context to illustrate what kind of images they are. It is advised to use descriptive filenames for SEO benefit.


title: How are the sitemaps of big sites generated?

text: _The question is related to my questions about thingsthe filesystem of Wikipedia and generating sitemap for Wikipedia. It is more general._ **Problem:** Suppose a site on MediaWiki with about 10,000 pages is partly indexed by search engines. It has similar spects as the spects. **Question:** How can you generate sitemaps for any big site to quarantee its visibility in search engines?


title: Google crawl speed -- how fast can it go?

text: I have a huge website with 5 million pages. Currently Google indexes about 10,000 pages per day. This is very slow, I still have lots of pages that I can't get indexed. Does anyone know what is the upper threshold for crawl speed?


title: Who do I turn to for the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?

text: Are the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for a web site something I can write up on my own, or do I need to turn to a lawyer or some other professional to do these? Who are the guys who do the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for web sites? How does one go about doing this, and how much does it cost (in the US)?


title: Under what circumstances is a website subject to United States laws?

text: I'm a Canadian student currently hosting a website using a German VPS service, which I want to put a forum on in the near future where users can submit content. However, all of my domains are .com, which is an American registry under an American registrar, and the website is made accessible to American users although the target audience is worldwide. I'd like to avoid subjecting myself unnecessarily to United States laws, in order not to be required to comply fully with things like the DMCA safe harbour provision and COPPA (although I might implement similar measures to the extent I find reasonable and to maintain compliance with the local laws of both Canada and Germany). I don't plan on doing anything illegal with the site itself, however, unlike a similar question posted here. In this situation, does the United States have any power or jurisdiction over my website? Do I need to comply with US laws just because I make my site accessible to them or because my domain name is under American control?


title: What are you using for getting stats about your web app? G. Analytics or other solution?

text: if you are building your own web application, what are you using for monitoring of visitors. Are you getting this information from Google Analytics? Or do you prefer your own solution?


title: Deploying Complex Changes

text: Occasionally we need to deploy fairly complex changes to a website which require changes to databases (new or changed tables) and dynamic source code (such as PHP or ColdFusion). What is the best way to package and deploy these changes quickly without breaking everything on the live website?


title: How do multiple subdirectories affect SEO?

text: I am building a URL strategy for a new website. Which is a better URL format, and why?   * /top-level-category/second-level-category/page-title or   * /page-title-top-level-category-second-level-category or some hybrid approach, maybe   * /page-title-top-level-category   * /top-level-category/page-title-second-level-category   * /top-level-category/page-title I've Googled around a fair bit and found some conflicting answers. SEOMoz suggests that the style I mentioned first seems to be best, but other sources indicate that keeping URLs short and pages in the top level directory can help keep SEO ranking high.


title: Why My Adsense Account is not accepted

text: I have created a blog on blogger few days ago and created two blog entries on it. when i try creating AdSense account with blog's address it does not accept the application due to PageType. i have searched around on the net and found that its probably due to duplicate or insufficient content on the blog but either of my blog entry is more than 2,000 words and i have literally typed 80 percent of its content with only few code blocks copied from other sites. Below is content of email i received as response to my application. Hello, Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into AdSense at this time. We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues: - Page Type * * * Further detail: Page Type: In order to participate in Google AdSense, publishers' websites and application information must satisfy the following guidelines:   * Your website must be your own top-level domain (www.example.com and not www.example.com/mysite).   * You must provide accurate personal information with your application that matches the information on your domain registration.   * Your website must contain substantial, original content.   * Your site must comply with Google AdSense program policies: https://www.google.com/adsense/policies" which include Google's webmaster quality guidelines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality . If your site satisfies the above criteria in the future, please resubmit your application and we'll review it as soon as possible My Personal credentials are also same as they appear in my google account. i can't figure out the problem. Any Help/Suggestion is highly appreciated.   regards


title: How do I get the root index page to redirect to a subdirectory without affecting SEO?

text: I am reviving/reorganising my personal WordPress blog. It's using a URL that looks like this: `http://mydomain.com/blog` The webserver 301 redirects `www.mydomain.com` to `mydomain.com`. I want to use the `blog` subdirectory because I plan to add other parts to the site, with the blog only being one part of the site. However, at the moment there is nothing there but the blog, so I want to have the root index page redirect to the blog for the time being. I have been using this on the root `index.html` page to do the redirect... `<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=./blog">` ...but this seemed to have stopped the site being indexed by Google and Bing. How do I do this without affecting SEO? Also, what URL should I put in the `sitemap.xml`?


title: Subdomain redirects to subdirectory

text: Supposing I have folder called "support" inside root folder "/public_html". I've added a subdomain in my server's panel so that when going to "support.mydomain.com" it redirects to "mydomain.com/support" The problem is that redirection is reflected on the browser's address bar, and I want to make that subdomain work like "base domain". i.e "support.mydomain.com/folder-inside-support" Is it something to be with .htaccess file?


title: Can I do a non-hostile cross-domain POST now?

text: One requirement for a site I'm working on calls for visitors to be able to sign up for an email list. Rather than add server-side handling for this otherwise static site, I would like to POST from the email signup form to another server (owned by the same client) that already has an email signup handler on it. But that server is on a different domain, so I expect some resistance from UA CSRF protections, but I don't know exactly what to expect. (There is practically no JS involved with this, just cross-site POSTing.)   1. Is what I want to do possible at all, or do I need to iframe the email signup form from server #2?   2. If it is possible, what kind of problems can I expect to face, and how should I overcome them?


title: Good places to submit a business profile?

text: We have a new graphic/web design site that we've created and we'd like to give it a boost in terms of back links. What are the obvious places to submit a website to achieve some good back links? And what would be the recurring work load (if any) that those back links would need? Are there any good industry specific websites we could submit a profile to? E.g Twitter, would need constant interaction and new content with back links to the website. **UPDATE:** I've always felt it's worth it but after several years trying to submit different websites, I've never successfully managed to get a site into DMOZ!!


title: How do I get mod_rewrite working with typo and wordpress?

text: I've some trouble with typo3 (mydomain.net) and wordpress (mydomain.net/blog/) using mod_rewrite. First I was running a typo3 installation which uses mod_rewirte without trouble. Now I'm trying to run a wordpress too, but if wordpress uses mod_rewrite, every click of a link bing me back to the index of my typo3. The filestructure of my ftp-folder:   * /html/ (contains the typo3 files and folders and the .htaccess-file)    * /html/blog/ (contains the wordpress files and folders) This is the content of the .htaccess:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteRule ^(typo3|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|typo3conf|typo3temp|uploads|showpic\.php|favicon\.ico)/ - [L]          RewriteRule ^typo3$ typo3/index_re.php [L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l          RewriteRule .* index.php [L]      Any ideas as to what I should do? Or is it possible that only one cms uses mod_rewrite?


title: Cloudflare in cpanel is it a no brainer?

text: I recently noticed Cloudflare cdn service add on in my cpanel. I understand what CDN is, but though it was a more complicated process than the one-click solution that seems to be offered in cpanel now. Can anyone vouch for this service through the cpanel and if it is indeed easy to set up as it looks. Do I risk breaking anything on a dynamic site?


title: Host multiple domains with Apache

text: Is there a way to host multiple domains with Apache web server without making any changes to the DNS server? I have full control over the Apache server and no control over the DNS server.


title: Discontinued ads exchange of 125px square?

text: From more than 4 years ago AdBrite was recommending its users to use a free banners exchange service characterized by its square 125px banners. That service was discontinued from about three years. My question is: Is there anyone remember the name of this service. I just remember that its name was ended with three identical letters and its logo has a small dog drawing. Someone may wonder why I ask about it! I just asking to easily search for an equivalent service like it.


title: How to get a new Adsense account?

text: I have a websites related to cricket and advertising. How can I apply for google adsense?


title: How to configure mod_bwlimited through htaccess

text: The mod_bwlimited module in htaccess apparently displays an error if bandwidth is exceeded. Anyone know what options are available for configuring it through htaccess?


title: Single IP multiple servers

text: I have seen that some IPs are tied to multiple servers (physical machines). Example: check the ping times of one of GoDaddy's nameservers: http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=NS39.DOMAINCONTROL.COM&c=&s=ping! It has a ping time of around 3.2 ms from Singapore AND a ping time of 2.3 ms from Ashburn, U.S.A, etc. So pretty sure it pings the nearest server. My question is, how does one set this up? Is it possible for an average webmaster to set things like this (buy servers in multiple countries and tie them to single IP address)?


title: Links from pages with poor/no ranking, is there anything I can do about this?

text: A site I help with sells a particular set of items, they have a strong reputation locally, and sell parts nationally online. From an observational point of view I enjoy working with them as they do everything right - always willing to go the extra mile for customers, even at times when it seems counter productive (for example spending large amounts of time helping a customer who has spent relatively little money) I would definitely put them in the "good guys" bracket. Checking server logs I notice they get quite a few links from phpbb style forums, talking about how great the service was/how good the prices were etc. These forums appear to be quite popular - large user list, lots of discussion and questions per day etc. But (and here is the problem) I'm almost certain these discussion groups aren't being picked up by google. The customers just don't seem to be the kind of customer who have a blog/twitter feed/website - the sort of content which is more likely to be picked up by google and have page ranking. I understand partly this is why the stackoverflow/exchange sites exist - to make the web a better place, make answers easier to find, more search engine friendly etc. Does anyone have any advice as to how to deal with this "problem" of old style discussion groups?


title: Would changing IP addresses affect my SEO

text: We're about to change our website from a shared hosting account to run on a VPS, mainly so we have our own resources and control over server settings. An IP address is included with the VPS. What I was wonder is if the IP address change will have a similar affect to changing the domain name? Obviously the links will still come from the same domain, so that's fine, but I was thinking more along the lines of the way a search engine sees the site - would it downgrade you for switching IP's?


title: Is my Hostgator dedicated IP used any more if I use CloudFlare DNS?

text: I'm hosting my website with Hostgator and I have a paid dedicated IP address for my host.   Today I have made an account on CloudFlare and replaced my old hostgator DNS with ClodFlare's DNS. My question is: If I've changed my Hostgator DNS with CloudFlare DNS that dedicated IP from Hostgator will be used like before or I'm paying for it for nothing and my website uses CloudFlare IP from now on?


title: What are the most commonly used web picture/image/icon sizes?

text: Similar to what already exists regarding web banner sizes, is it possible to find the list of most commonly used picture/image/icon sizes on the web (e.g. 16x16 for small icons, 24x24 for medium icons, 50x50 to 70x50 for small profile pictures...)?


title: / and index.php. How to eliminate this duplicate page issue?

text: In my website root, I have an index.php and of course the rest of the pages. The problem is when I crawl my site either with a crawler or a sitemap crawler, etc, it reports 2 duplicated links www.domain.com/   www.domain.com/index.php How do I force tell my crawler that there are no two instances of the same page? Do I use a 301 to merge them? A canonical? an .htaccess redirection? etc. How do I fix this?


title: SEO for niche web directory - using canonical for pagination?

text: I am creating a niche web directory. Each category has a quality text and then about 1000 sites listed. My primary goal is to get Google traffic for each category intro. Only on 1st page of each category is text with first 30 sites populated, on the next pages there are only list of sites as pagination goes. I am not sure what would be a proper way for pagination. Each first page category is unique, but next pages could be very similar because the same sites belong to different categories. Do you think using canonical tag would be acceptable in this case?


title: google changing crawl speed: doesn't seem to work. Why?

text: I've changed 3 days ago the google crawling speed of mywebsite. Here it is: ![2 demands by seconds](http://i.stack.imgur.com/m7W1O.jpg) This means: **`2 demands by second`**. I've got the message on the google webmasters tools that the change speed has been taken in account: ![message on the google webmasters tools that the change speed has been taken in account](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bKUa6.png) But after more than **three** days, nothing happens: still _one request every **ten** seconds_ See here: ![apache webserver logs showing one request every ten seconds](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VJt83.png) My webserver is very fast and can handle up to _twenty simultaneous connexions_. And my website is brand new, this means google is almost the only one here crawling my website. After more than 30000 successful requests (= no 404), I think there's something going on... or maybe this is just a bug? Has anyone ever had this problem?


title: Analytics and AdWords setup for agency

text: How would you recommend to setup Google Analytics and (or) AdWords for an marketing agency managing multiple websites, assuming that:   * I need access to all of the sites   * I'd like to manage all of the domains in one place   * I'd like to avoid to repeat all the stuff (e.g. creating filters excluding my IP)   * I need Google Analytics for all of the client sites   * Some of the clients are using AdWords, some not   * Each of the clients need an access to their data, and only their How to set up My Client Center and Analytics together?   Do I need to create separate gmail account for each of my clients (assuming they don't have one yet)?


title: why is my site slower with amazons cdn?

text: so I have move most of the static objects to amazons Cloudfront CDN example: http://images.storyfollower.com/images/cycleOfStories.jpg which through cname point to the cdn Now I just ran a speed test and the site is much slower????? With cdn: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/BmxPlstTp/storyfollower.com 1.7 sec Without cdn http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/nFmp4l3Ez/storyfollower.com 0.8 sec. I basically moved all the css / js / and images over to the cdn Did I do something wrong? Have a look for your self at http://storyfollower.com WHY is this happening? Thanks


title: Subfolder non-www redirect

text: Is there a way to redirect a sub folder to `no-www`? What I use is:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]      but this only redirects the `www.example.com` to `example.com`. I would like to redirect: `www.example.com/home/` to `example.com/home/` `www.example.com/home/whatever` URL to `example.com/home/whatever` URL. I have tried this:               RewriteEngine on     Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^$ http://example.com [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/home/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      This does not work, either. I can't really figure it out. Any help appreciated! # ANSWER I figured it out and I will post it for others to see, if having the same issue. In the sub folder directory's _.htaccess_ used the following:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.example\.com)?$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/subfoldername/$1 [R=301,L]


title: A JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload?

text: Is there a good JS-based WYSIWYG HTML editor with flexible image upload out there? Ideally, I'd like an editor that allows me to handle image upload in a custom callback.


title: Does DFP Small Business allow geotargeting?

text: I'm working with a blog that has an advertiser who can only show ads for US/UK... so I'd like to set up an ad server that will show those advertiser's ads for US/UK customers, and then show Google Adsense ads for all other countries. It seems like DFP Small Business (Google's free ad server product) will do the job for all of this, but I'm not 100% certain it allows geotargeting as I've described. Is that possible?


title: When should a webmaster call it a day POST Penguin & Panda?

text: A friend of mine, an ex-client whose site I designed, has a problem with his ranking and I want your personal spin on his situation. It'll help if I recall some of his site history. Basically for 10 years or so his website has been in the top 10 rankings averaging 5-10. Well that wasn't good enough for his niche because of the low search volume so he took it upon himself and bought dirty back-links... You know the kind 10 bucks per 10,000 and of course this worked for a couple of years and then came the likes of panda and penguin and now his business is on the edge of closing. Now let's put the personal thoughts of "serves him right" aside because I too dislike sites that are beating me in rankings when they clearly shouldn't. Fact of the matter it's happened and people/businesses are on the edge of closing. His recovery steps have been:   * Messaged site owners to remove his links (even paid some people to remove them)   * Removed all naughty links via the disavowed tool   * Paid for his site to be rewritten by a Professional Copywriter (expensive)   * Paid for Bloggers to Post Weekly (Unique Content not Spun)   * Paid for Advice from SEO Consultancy's regarding Issues    * Has very few links listed in Google Webmaster Tools and more quality than his competitors.   * Had SEO people rework some of his site (Reduced Keyword Spam etc) Now my friend has pumped £10,000s into recovering his website and almost one year on his site is still on Page 4 (Against sites that are just not good in terms of content and also debatable links) - The search terms are not very competitive at all. **Now as a webmaster and putting yourself in this position when do you call it a day or is there any steps additionally he can do?** I know this question may seem a bit subjective or based on person opinion but none the less maybe there is additional steps that can be taken or confirming that he should just re-brand and go with another website would be convincing advice to my friend. **Additional Information** He was hit on the first release of Penguin updates around April 2012, He waited a couple of months and believed he had been slapped. From there it was a little unsure if it was a panda, or penguin or a bit of both. So around July onwards he started to have his site rewritten and with regular updates to counter Panda if that was the problem. Then in September with no improvements he employed someone to message webmasters to remove the links, a lot got removed. Then in October they released disavowed he then removed all the ones that wanted stupid amounts of payments or didn't response to take down messages. So I'm guessing all changes after NOV in total, thou panda changes was back in July.


title: Redirect to another site using a registered domain. Godaddy

text: I have a domain registered on godaddy (daniloaraujosilva.com). I would like when I type daniloaraujosilva.com/blog, for example, it redirects to my blog (sapiensgarou.blogspot.com). How can I perform this? Obs.: I think this is has a relation with CNAME or A, but I don't know exactly. I am a little new at this.


title: Tell Google to Refresh Search Screenshot

text: I recently remodeled a website for a client of mine. When doing a search on Google for their website the old website is still showing as the image for the website. Is there a way in the Google Webmaster Tools to tell Google to refresh this screenshot?


title: Schema.org Microdata for links to Member Organizations

text: I'm finishing up a site for a client who is a member of multiple organizations and wants to display links to those organizations on their website as in: Client Company is a Proud Member of: Organization 1 Organization 2, etc.. I've never really dealt with this situation before and maybe I'm just not phrasing my question properly, but I'm not finding anything. It leaves me with a couple of questions:   1. Is there an appropriate schema in existence for this scenario?   2. Is there an appropriate rel attribute that I should be using?   3. Will these links help or hurt SEO in any way?


title: What percentage of internet users reject cookies?

text: What percentage of internet users don't accept cookies by default? (persistent and session cookies). Couldn't find _any_ current data, only estimates.


title: GA and /outbound/javascript:void(0) bounce rate

text: My Google Analytics reports a bounce rate very high for `outbound/javascript:void(0)` but I don't understand what this URL is. I use Drupal, and in the HTML code there isn't this URL.


title: Copyright my website name. Is this possible?

text: I am wondering if besides owning my domain name, should I copyright the actual name of the site? If my site is called **mysite.com**. Could I go to http://www.copyright.gov/ and copyright **mysite**? Or do I need to do nothing? What would be best if someone was to try and steal my website name?


title: Suggestions required to build an ECommerce Platform

text: For a prospective client we have to offer a solution to provide following system:   * CMS    * Order Management   * Shopping Cart   * CRM   * Helpdesk   * Accounting & Finance   * Custom Functions In order to save time and to avoid reinvent the wheel our idea is to integrate different off-the-shelf solutions. Their first requirement is that the system has to be hosted in their country which I think will exclude application like Aplicor, Netsuite & Salesforce. Basically the nucleaus would be the CMS which would integrate all the other apps. PHP or .Net based solutions would be our preferences as have inhouse expertise. So far following are few combinations I have come up with:   * Joomla (CMS) + Virtuemart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + OTRS   * Magento (CMS+Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Helpdesk Ultimate   * Drupal (CMS) + Ubercart (Cart+Ordering) + Sugar CRM + Open ERP (finance) + Support Ticketing System   * Sharepoint (CMS) + OptimusBt (Cart+Ordering) + Dynamics CRM + Great Plains + SharepointHQ   * Dotnetnuke (CMS) + DNNSpot (Cart+Ordering) + Sigma Pro (CRM+Helpdesk) + Open ERP For Helpdesk I liked Zendesk but the server location was the stopping factor, similar for finance and CRM I liked Aplicor. I would not like to go into detailed requirements as it would make things very complex. Could you please suggest me which options are worth enough to start looking into? What other options we have?


title: Google maps premier license

text: I would like to buy Google maps premier license. I tried to contact Google maps through their web site (online inquiry form). No one got back to me. I would appreciate if someone can help me with this.


title: Is it necessary to buy a WAP domain or just creating subdomain like wap.xxxx.com

text: We planning to launch mobile WAP site to our exiting customer lead tracking website is it necessary to buy WAP domain or else creating subdomain for existing domain like `wap.xxx.com`.


title: What type of server is using Django/Python? .htaccess is compatible?

text: I was wondering what type of server is using python & django because i don't know if can i use an _.htaccess_ file and if there is something similar. Thanks.


title: schema.org 'reviewRating' tag not recognized by google snippet testing tool

text: I'm trying to add more structural information to my webpages by using the microdata format suggested in www.schema.org. The procedure seems straight forward but I'm having issues validating my results in the Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Check out this review page, here I'm using the 'reviewRating' property item to specify rating values for that particular review. I followed the same format as defined in schema.org/Rating but this markup fails validation in Google's rich snippet testing tool with the following error info.               Item      Type: http://schema.org/rating     reviewrating = 5      ratingvalue = 5      Warning: Property "reviewrating" was not found.


title: URL for a blogger blog issue

text: I am hosting the URL (`www.getyourpansoff.com`) of a friend as an add-on in a bluehost account. I want to use this URL for her blog (`get-your-pans- off.blogspot.com`). I have configured the URL in the blog itself, and Google seems happy with it. However, when I try to open the blog using `www.getyourpansoff.com`, I do not see the blog. In BlueHost, I have the following: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xfthC.jpg) I also have a redirection: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0UqTu.jpg) What am I doing wrong and how to solve it? **Update** What I have now:               A     record www -> 69.195.124.93     CNAME record www.getyourpansoff -> getyourpansoff.com      and not redirection. Still does not work.


title: Shared IP address

text: My website share the same IP address with a lot of other internet sites (500) that are not mine. How is this possible? is this affecting my SEO? Thanks


title: Ajax load more for search engine bots

text: On my website I am only displaying 20 posts for visitors, when they scroll down it loads more. I want to know if will affect the ranking of my website in a negative way if I load, for example, 100 posts for search engines. I am not worried much about the loading time as I am loading only text (really small posts). I would really appreciate any advice.


title: URL query variables and rel=canonical

text: I have 14 pages of products on my site. Each page has 10 products. The product pages are powered by Ajax, and I have a _filter results_ feature which lets them only show products with higher ratings, particular features, etc. These results in an unimaginable number of different URLs (thanks to the query variables), and I believe it may be causing duplicate content issues since these unique URLs are being indexed. This is what I have made the paginated pages URL look like:               www.site.com?page=2     www.site.com?page=3      And so on until page 14. Some of the URLs being indexed with query variables look like this:               site.com?price[1500-1999]=on&technology[good]=on      I'm wondering what I should do about these dynamically generated pages. I did not believe Google would index them, but since they are, should I apply the canonical page to any page which deviates from the URL structure I have above (`www.site.com?page=2`) for example.


title: CMS for social photo album

text: I am going to make a multi-user photo album. I am looking for a robust and free CMS which can easily handle batch image uploads and some social networking capabilities, like rating, relationship, etc. I know that it can be done using Wordpress but I appreciate it if you suggest me to other viable alternatives (not necessarily php-based).


title: How to search for backlinks on google

text: What is the difference between following google search statements `link:article-stack.com` and `link:article-stack.com site:stackexchange.com` Can i consider 2nd search result as a subset of 1st search result?


title: Tonga domains for commercial websites

text: Does anyone knows disadvantatges on installing a commercial website on Tonga domains? I mean, maybe it is not advisable to link a website for .TO domains (these domains tends to be for torrents, for instance).


title: Cloning a site and avoiding SEO problems

text: I have an idea to use a (cc-by-sa) data dump from another site, where I will experiment with new ideas. This would still be a site with almost 99% of the data similar. I can see two "rules" that search engines may apply   * Don't duplicate content   * Dont send different data to the bot and the ordinary visitors Links to the original site will be present as required by the data dump. If only the titles and other new data is shown to the bot it would solve the first rule but would that violate the second? Or should I simply put these pages in a robots.txt banned area? Would this be going to far. I don't care about ranking, only not to be banned. It should be found if people were specifically looking for alternate voting schemes, from new content that I generate.


title: Homepage disappeared from Google results

text: Even that my traffic through Google raised approximately 40%, the homepage (`/`) of my page is gone from Google results even though I have no broken links. How can I investigate the cause?


title: Update Google Adwords/Analytics goal path and conversion values outside of client's browser

text: I guess my question is sort of a two parter...   1. **Is it possible to capture a Google Analytics visitors id? (not their traditional Google account id)** I'm assuming the Google Analytics script gives users a cookie with an id (specific to the Analytics/Adwords application) to track their page navigation.   2. **Is there a Google API/web service that allows to pass the given Analytics visitor ID to mark a goal conversion (and value for the conversion) outside of the original visitor's web browser?** I have a conversion/goal setup on our Analytics profile (that is shared with our Adwords account) to record a success when the visitor fills out a form on our website. Problem is, we don't know if that form submission really generated any value for us until maybe even months down the road. What would be really awesome is, if upon that form submit, we could pass their Google Analytics visitor ID to our database, and then later update that visitors conversion and value once we've actually realized that value. I'm fairly skeptical this is actually possible.


title: How to improve onsite SEO if the site contain mainly picture?

text: And design requires that we don't add texts. The site contains only pictures. I think it needs some text. However, I do not want the text to be shown. Should I put it on img title? Should I hide it on description? Should I use meta keywords? What should I do?


title: Page authorship using rel=me link for non-article, non-textual sites?

text: Google's recent addition of authorship with the combination of google plus and the rel=me link and verification of the google plus profile makes for some very compelling links for a site in the google search index: Here's an example just by google searching for rel=me Such a great way of displaying article results, that I'm wondering if it can be effective on product page searches as well. Has anyone implemented that with non-article-based pages with good results?


title: What should I do with these old domain names?

text: I purchased some domain names a few years ago intending to build something on them. I haven't had the time to develop any of the websites, but I still think they have potential. What would you do? _Let them expire, sell them, create a sign-up page to gauge user interest, something else?_ Are there any resources/methods/tools you can recommend to accomplish this?


title: Moving a site that was already moved - how should I deal with rewrites and redirects?

text: I have a site that used to have all of its pages hosted on a single domain (e.g. `mydomain.com`). At some point, a portion of the site's content was moved to another domain and the folks who did the move handled it by creating URL rewrites and 301 redirects. Here's an example from my `.htaccess` file: `RewriteRule ^go/start/page.html http://otherdomain.com/page.html` `Redirect 301 /go/resource/guide.pdf http://otherdomain/resources/guide.pdf` I don't know why some URLs were re-written while others were redirected. **My problem now** is that I have to move these same pages to yet another location. For instance, what is currently hosted at `http://otherdomain.com` will be moved to `http://foo.mydomain.com`. What is the best way to handle this?


title: What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?

text: I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from `www.example.com` to `example.com`. As far as i know these are methods,   1. 301 HTML redirect from www to `example.com`   2. Add CNAME alias for www to @   3. Add A record for www to webserver IP What is the best way to do it without affecting my search engine ranking?


title: SEO Heading Tags

text: i have h2 and h5 headings with generic names here NSFW: http://wp.me/1dfs6 such as 'editor picks' 'tags' 'all articles' would it be better for seo to give them unique and almost playful names with keywords?


title: Being at Google's Mercy: A Tool for Webmasters

text: you know what i would love? a tool by Google that tells you what they think of your site. if you're doing anything wrong that they are punishing you for or something. does such a tool exist?


title: Alt tag suitable replacement for critical text?

text: I have a slogan on my home page that will not appear in text anywhere else. The problem is part of the slogan needs to be an image, for design requirements. Normally I would want to put this slogan in an `H1` header and the title. Question is whether or not this image will hurt my content indexing by search engines, and if an `alt` tag is an adequate alternative. Thanks


title: Referrer traffic

text: I noticed repeat visits to my site from various websites, all located in the Ukraine. I looked at the source of the pages and see no links to neither my domain nor IP. I am wondering of the origin of this traffic. Hopefully there's no malicious intent. Is there a way to research it deeper?


title: Google Webmaster Tools keeps reporting not finding pages from the old website

text: About 3 months ago we've completely replaced the content of our domain, practically building up a new website. The sitemap for the new website has been submited to Google Webmaster Tools, the website earned very good rankings for a large set of keywords we were looking for. However, Google Webmaster Tools keeps on returning some "not found" messages, every 2-3 days, but regarding exclusively pages from the old sitemap, the one of the old website, which does not exist anymore. Why is Google looking to crawl for those old pages, that are not included anymore in the new sitemap and reports not to find them?


title: Which pages should be present in the sitemap

text: So if I have a WordPress blog for example, then out of the following which should be present in the sitemap and which should not be?   1. posts - these will be obviously.   2. pages - should be.   3. categories - ?   4. date archives - ?   5. tags - ? What kind of SEO impact does it have to list all tags, categories and archives pages in the sitemap or not list them at all and give them a meta robot `noindex`.


title: Page title for real estate website

text: When user creates a real-estate content page, the `title` will be created by the rules I will create. Lets say there will be 10,000 flats on sale in London. So to make this as good as I can - how do I make good rules for page `title` for all content created? I would make tokens that will handle this something like:               "City" - "Type of real-estate + ft" - "price" - "Website name"      E.g.:               (London - Apartment 50ft - $120,000 - WEBSITE NAME)      I could probably think of something better if I had 5 - 10 flats, but when I know there will huge amount of them I have no idea which will work best. The content has many fields which could be used for page title (address, postal, price, number of floors, parking lots etc.)


title: What Google will do while switching from 301/404 to 200?

text: Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages:               articles.php?page=18      What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page?               articles.php?page=21      (page 21 is out of bounds)     articles.php?page=-10     (as is this)     articles.php?page=blabla  (or this)      problem is... (I have 20 total pages)   * some 3rd party site links `articles.php?page=21` that doesn't exist (last page is the 20th)   * and I send 404/301 as a response   * Google crawls that link   * some time after, the total number of articles increases and will make the 21st page appear   * the 404/301 will be removed in favor of the status 200 Is that correct? Is 404 or 301 better? Do I need some more expedients? (with a 301 redirect I mean redirecting to the closest valid page) * * * more answers are welcome!!


title: How do I know dead links in Google ad-words?

text: I am spending a lot of money on Google ad-words in my website. Sometimes customers get dead links from ad-words and unable to get to intended page. I know this is an issue from my part. I need to know which are those dead links that ad-words lists? Is there any way to find this?


title: How to increase Google page rank of your website/blog?

text: OK so as far as I know to have good PR your website must have   1. Good content/articles   2. Many back-links   3. Good HTML code. What else? What should one do to increase his/her website's Google Page-Rank?


title: What does link:http://www.sunshinetrekking.com means in google?

text: In terms of learning seo i found something link:http://www.sunshinetrekking.com i.e link:websitename. I couldnot what it is searching google. What does it means? Dis it important for pagerank?