title: Breadcrumbs RDFA

text:
Have implemented Breadcrumb RDFA                http://www.mycarhelpline.com/index.php?option=com_forms&view=pages&layout=sellcar&Itemid=4      While checking the page , the RDFA Data shows property: title: Home               https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mycarhelpline.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_forms%26view%3Dpages%26layout%3Dsellcar%26Itemid%3D4      However, when i compare ours with others                http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Froyalenfield.com%2Fmotorcycles%2Fthunderbird-500%2F      The **Title and Description** of the current page is shown in every RDFA Data, which is not shown in ours If someone could suggest - how to get the page title and description show up in RDFA Data, below is our breadcrumb code
               Home »                                         Sell Car »                                                                  Sell Used Car


title: SEO - Delimiter character for page title

text: I have noticed a few oddities recently with the titles of web pages in SERPs. However, it seems there are several main conventions:               Contact Page - Joe Schmoe's Awesome Site   // -   Hyphen     Contact Page — Joe Schmoe's Awesome Site   // —  Em dash     Contact Page | Joe Schmoe's Awesome Site   // | Vertical bar     Contact Page « Joe Schmoe's Awesome Site   // «  Left double angle quotes      Is there any reason to use one over the other?


title: Ars Technica .ars URL suffix -- Vanity or SEO Benefit?

text: The Technology website Ars Technica has adjusted their URL rewrite rules to end with a `.ars`. Traditionally, sites have taken advantage of this URL rewriting capability to completely eliminate file suffixes like `.html`, `.php`, `.aspx` etc, under the theory that this made for better SEO (since the content of the URL was more relevant to the content) Ars Technica's, though, look like this: > http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/03/flow-from-the-poles-drive- > sunspot-levels.ars So, is Ars Technica adding the `.ars` file suffix purely a vanity play? Or is it an SEO trick to improve the site's SEO by cleverly inserting their site name into every URL slug? And, if this is indeed an effective SEO trick, should other sites follow suit? EDIT: Kurt from Ars Technica has (apparently) chimed in in the comments to add > "Just cuz" is correct! They're not exactly rewrite rules, though. We > actually have files named ".ars". The irony of my linked post is that > they're PHP...


title: To Fix HTTP 400-499 error codes with 301 redirects in .htaccess file

text: This issue is on Wordpress site. I am aware we can change the URL naming convention in WP but i have changed my url format from date format to simple postname followed by slug as shown below. old style (www.domain.com/2013/02/09/ringdroid) new style (www.domain.com/ringdroid) Google previously indexed my websites pages ( _sitemap.xml_ ) with below format:               www.domain.com/2013/04/18/hottest-gadgets-of-2013-to-include-in-your-list     www.domain.com/2013/02/09/ringdroid      I have resubmitted the sitemap but there are still 404 errors in Google/Bing engine. Could you please help me to write 301 redirects rule in _.htaccess_ file so when some clicks the URL for:               www.domain.com/2013/02/09/ringdroid      They should be redirected to:               www.domain.com/ringdroid      How we can write rule in _.htaccess_ file to remove date part `2013/02/09/`? I tried something like this (Googled it ), but didnt worked > RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond > %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d


title: Google webmasters 404 Error

text: We've been having some problems with Google Webmasters Tools lately. Google's returning 404 on some of our articles. Can you anyone please explain why Google Webmasters Tools returns this error and how to fix it?               [POSTURLHERE]/facebook.com/thetunistimes?PHPSESSID=te69ddda6ct3g1dfk898fiq9c3     Thanks


title: How do we customise FB share function without affecting SEO?

text: FB share currently pulls the page title tag and first body text by default. However our title tags are optimised for SEO and we want to customise what people see when the website is shared. I thought this might be a solution:               <meta name="title" content="title" />     <meta name="description" content="description " />     <link rel="image_src" href="thumbnail_image" / >      But have been told this will still conflict with the SEO? Can anyone help?


title: Indexing pages from own search engine

text: I would like to know what the best way is to have google index pages that visitors access through search on my website. These pages are accessible through a direct link like mywebsite.com/CompanyId. Should i create index pages and list all of my content there so there is a direct link from my website to every page? Or is putting them in a sitemap enough? It's a yellow pages kind of website with company information.


title: How do I consolidate the amount of times my website is shown on Google to just my homepage?

text: We have a website that is reasonably new. When you search for the three words that make up the URL of the website we come up as the first four or five hits on Google. We would like to consolidate these so that we only come up once, as our homepage. There are also specific product page of our website that some up before our homepage where we would like people to land on our homepage. Do you guys know of a way we can try to consolidate the returns for the other pages?


title: How to redirect a international domain to a subfolder on the English site without hurting Google rankings?

text: I have two sites:   * `www.example.de`   * `www.main.com` `www.main.com` is **English** version of `www.example.de` which is in **German**. I want to keep only `www.main.com`. For the English version I will keep `www.main.com`, but for German I want to move it to `www.main.com/de`. I am wondering what would be best solution for old www.example.de:   1. Redirect everything from `www.example.de` to `www.main.com/de` using 301 redirect?   2. Redirect everything from `www.example.de` to`www.main.com/de/page-url-of-old-size.html`? So each link actually get own address. Is that necessary or will Google realize where the page belongs on new site even if I redirect everything to home page?   3. Any other solution, maybe just set in Google webmaster tools the new domain or anything like that?


title: Changing the Default Dashboard in Google Analytics

text: I have lots of web sites on Google Analytics. Is it possible to create a default dashboard for all web sites inside an account? I usually have the same needs of data for all my web sites. Now, I am defining the dashboard for each and every web site.


title: Strange title appearing in Google search results for a video

text: Google is displaying a strange result for my video site: I do not have any idea where it got my video's duration and why it's displayed in this way - take a look at the screenshot below: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/K9B7e.png) I don't have the duration in the title tags in my site, and also the meta description on my site is clean...what's causing this? Also I don't have a video sitemap submitted to Google, I made a simple sitemap with URL only.


title: Mobile redirect strategy

text: Looking for help on deciding how to redirect users to a mobile optimized version of my site (m.mysite.com). Looking at two methods:   1. Server configuration (.htaccess or even varnish)   2. Webapp (php) The problem I see with #1 is with the "view full site" link on the mobile site. If a user clicks that link and they go to mysite.com won't the server just redirect them back to m.mysite.com? For #2 I could create a cookie that is checked in addition to the user agent. Any suggestions/comments? Is there a better way to "remember" if the user clicked "visit full site"?


title: How long before Google will update search terms matching my website?

text: I have a website which title I changed about a month ago. The website is a classifieds website which is dynamic, using php. The title changed from " **Free classifieds** " to " **buy and sell free classifieds** ". The strange part is that after about two weeks the title showed in google search results changed to the new title, BUT when I searched for " **buy and sell free classifieds** " my website didn't show up at all. I mean I have gone through over 30 pages of search results and my site isn't listed. However, searching for " **free classifieds** " still display my website at the same position it was before the title change. Any reason for this? How patient should I be? FYI the website has a sitemap submitted and updated, good meta tags and is W3 valid etc etc, so that is not the problem here. Thanks


title: I'm using a vanity ccTLD, can I persuade Google to geotarget a different region?

text: Because I'm still living like it's 2008, I run a website with a .in TLD. The website has nothing to do we India and does not target Indian users. Unfortunately, when I go to Google Webmaster Tools I see that Google have locked my geotargeting status to India: ![Screenshow showing that I cannot change the geotargeting settings.](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GkuEp.png) On the help pages, Google state that: > Sites with country-coded top-level domains (such as .ie) are already > associated with a geographic region, in this case Ireland. In this case, you > won't be able to specify a geographic location. This seems implausibly inflexible, so I want to know if there are any sneaky ways of removing auto-geotargeting, or changing it to a more appropriate region?


title: How do I link to the Chrome download page, from a https:// site?

text: Is there a way on an html page to have a link to the Chrome download page, from a https:// site? I tried using https:// to the Chrome download site, but it just bounces me to Google. I'm trying to avoid the security warning that IE can throw out. http://www.google.com/chrome/


title: sitemap - following mvcsitemapprovider but categorization is confusing me

text: I'm using mvcsitemapprovider for sitemap. http://mvcsitemap.codeplex.com/                public class StoreDetailsDynamicNodeProvider              : DynamicNodeProviderBase          {              MusicStoreEntities storeDB = new MusicStoreEntities();                  public override IEnumerable<DynamicNode> GetDynamicNodeCollection()              {                  // Build value                  var returnValue = new List<DynamicNode>();                      // Create a node for each album                  foreach (var album in storeDB.Albums.Include("Genre"))                  {                      DynamicNode node = new DynamicNode();                      node.Title = album.Title;                      node.ParentKey = "Genre_" + album.Genre.Name;                      node.RouteValues.Add("id", album.AlbumId);                          returnValue.Add(node);                  }                      // Return                  return returnValue;              }          }      this is the code on their website for registering dynamic website nodes. How do I modify this to adapt to my website's categorization is confusing me. Here is the layout of my website:               home->approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..          home->not approved->                     education             entertainment               business                         |                      |                        |                 kid, teenager, adult   kid, teenager, adult     kid, teenager, adult                         |                      |                        |                       and so on..            and so on..              and so on..      and only after going through so many levels, the entries come up. what's confusing me is as you can see entries in my sitemap do not have one unique parent key. Even in the database, the way things are stored as is that each row of an entry in the database would know that it belongs to approved, entertainment, kid, etc... like below:               Entry1 | approved | education | kid | levelx | levely | levelz ...        how would one organize sitemap of something like that for sitemap? **Edit: I posted a similar question on stackoverflow, but I felt this may be more appropriate place.**


title: Can Google Analytics track raw data?

text: I've never used Google Analytics (GA), so maybe this is possible. But, a friend of mine had someone create a site for him for quite a lot of money. Anyway, my friend wanted the guy to add another textbox & database field to track some data and the guy said, "We'll add the textbox, but we'll let Google Analytics track the data for you and give you a report." Anyway, adding another field seems trivial to me...but the developer said GA is "the way" to do it. Everything I see about GA seems to track how people get to your site and how they explore it...but doesn't seem to capture RAW DATA for you.   1. Does GA capture RAW DATA?    2. If so, how?   3. What widgets are used? The reporting aspects of GA are awesome, but relying on GA for RAW DATA seems hokey to me. Why let someone else capture data you should be anyway? ...thanks!


title: Perl script rendered in browser as code through symlink - fine when accessed directly

text: I have a Rails 4 app that has some views that post to Perl cgi scripts. The perl scripts are accessed via a symbolic link to a folder called "cgi-bin". When I navigate to a perl script through the symbolic link they are rendered as text instead of executed (ie: localhost:3000/cgi-bin/test.cgi), however when I access them directly they execute without issue (ie. localhost/path/to/cgi-bin/test.cgi). I am using apache2 on os x. In the directory localhost/path/to/ I have an .htaccess file that contains the following:               # General Apache options     AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi     Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI      I have the exact same lines in the .htaccess file that I have in localhost:3000/ I have also uncommented the AllowOverride all in httpd.conf. The are no errors in apache's error log. When I access the direct link to test.cgi a new line is appended to apache's access log, when I access the script through the symbolic link (and it is rendered as text), there is no line appended to the access log. Any idea why this error occurs? This setup worked fine in a previous version of rails of OS X, but recently I upgraded to Mavericks and figured I should update the Rails application to v4.0 as well. **Update -** I've debugged a bit more and found that the directives in the htaccess file are not being honored. When I added authentication to the htaccess file I was still able to access an html file in the directory and when I added a redirect rule, I was not redirected. It seems this is the problem I need to fix, although I'm not sure how to go about it.


title: Updating a web app without any downtime

text: It's a PHP app. How can I minimize the downtime while updating the entire codebase?


title: Temporarily share/deploy a python (flask) application

text: ## Goal Temporarily (1 month?) deploy/share a python (flask) web app without expensive/complex hosting. ### More info I've developed a basic mobile web app for the non-profit I work for. It's written in python and uses flask as its framework. I'd like to share this with other employees and beta testers (<25 people). Ideally, I could get some sort of simple hosting space/service and push regular updates to it while we test and iterate on this app. Think something along the lines of dropbox, which of course would not work for this purpose. We do have a website, and hosting services for it, but I'm concerned about using this resource as our website is mission critical and this app is very much pre-alpha at this point. ### Options I've researched / considered   * Self host from local machine/network (slow, unreliable)   * Purchase hosting space (with limited non-profit resources, I'm concerned this is overkill)   * Using our current web server / hosting (not appropriate for testing) Thanks very much for your time!


title: SEO and reversed (key)words

text: I am frequently finding sites that use reversed words in domain names and content. Just an example: www.elgoog.com or something like "Sincerely yours elgoog". Does these word have value in SEO and SERP?   Is there any bonuses from them?   Does the search engines recognize them? Where is the trick? Does their use really brings benefits or its just a placebo? **UPDATE** - here are some examples: http://lagug.typepad.com/ - this one is in Cyrillic   http://www.elgoog.org.uk/   http://www.oestsetnoc1.com/oes-tsetnoc-update/


title: Host a J2EE application on Tomcat externally

text: I'm planning to deploy a Web application which I want to expose to all people on internet. I can buy a domain name, and redirect it to a public host which hosts my J2EE application. Whom should I choose for hosting my web app? What are my hosting options? I want good performance for better user experience. And price is definitely a concern.


title: How to link .рф domain to blogspot?

text: I have a cyrillic domain `*.рф` and a blog `*.blogspot.com`.   Now I want to link my domain to blog. I followed this official manual, but when I tried to put my domain name into blog preferences (at _Settings > Publishing_ ), it sais, that I gave invalid domain name. Punycode also doesn't work.


title: Is Hosting My Web Apps at Amazon EC2/S3 an Adequate Defense Against DDOS?

text: Reading how an online news portal Sarawak Report was under massive, well- funded, sophisticated DDOS attack and unable to function as normal, I wonder what should normal webmasters do in the light of such an event. Do you think that if I host my web app at Amazon EC2/S3, then I am safe from DDOS? I thought that Amazon ( or Google App Engine) should have a better security measure, and better idea on how to stop this kind of abuse. What do you think?


title: How to disallow selection of text on website?

text: I have a question about preventing the selection of content and right-clicking with your mouse on a website. Some websites that I have encountered display a dialog which prohibits right-clicking but the website in question does not show any dialog. To visually make it clear, here is the website in question: http://www.amandakjones.com/homemade-creamy-garlic-dressing.php. Notice that you are not allowed to right-click, let alone select text. I would like to know how this is done.


title: How to explain visitors that we don't control Google's results?

text: I have a message boards. Once in a while, some people contact us to remove anything related to them. We comply and delete all the posts and all traces. Some of those visitors still complain that they still appear on Google. What can I tell them? Is there a link on Google explaining the whole cache thing, how often they update, etc ... I'm looking for a canned answer that would shift the responsibility away from me.


title: Subdomain and Googlebot can't access your site

text: I have a subdomain and Google Webmaster Tools, told me this: > Googlebot can't access your site This is not the first time that I receive this message from Google's Webmaster Tools. I need to should I contact my hosting company technical support? In other words, is it a problem related with the server?! Also I noticed a great decrease of traffic to my website after receiving this message from the first time. I have set many subdomains on my web host, and some of them is not exist, i.e. its directory is deleted. The following is a copy of the message from Google's Webmaster Tools: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0eiKf.png)


title: Unexplained long Time To First Byte

text: My wordpress blog is getting a grade F for TTFB on webpagetest.org: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140905_20_PRX/ with a TTFB of over 800ms. I cannot explain it. Indeed, I use a CloudFlare CDN, apc for PHP, Total Cache plugin, KeepAlive connection and I get a grade A on YSlow. Plus, CURL shows a much faster TTFB :               sam@ubuntu:~$ curl -o /dev/null -w "Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total} \n" http://mywebsite      results: Connect: 0,063 TTFB: 0,137 Total time: 0,220 So, can I trust webpagetest.org ? It is supposed to be pretty reliable but I have doubts. Anyone experienced slow TTFB without knowing why ?


title: Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM. However, ISnotSPAM marks it as not-spam

text: I'm sending an email through my application code. The email gets into my Gmail spam folder. However, a test of the same email in ISnotSPAM is marked as non- spam. My application is using Sendgrid to send emails. Will appreciate some advice to avoid reaching the spam folder. Below is an example of ISnotSPAM report, marking the email as non-spam. The same email has reached my gmail's spam folder.               ==========================================================     Summary of Results     ==========================================================          SPF Check : pass     Sender-ID Check : neutral     DomainKeys Check : pass     DKIM Check : pass     SpamAssassin Check : ham (non-spam)     ==========================================================     Details:     ==========================================================          HELO hostname: mail-bk0-f48.google.com     Source IP: 209.85.214.48     mail-from: olgaduboshin@gmail.com     ---------------------------------------------------------     SPF check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=myemail@gmail.com     DNS record(s):     gmail.com.   155    IN  TXT "v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com"               ----------------------------------------------------------     Sender-ID check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: neutral     ID(s) verified: smtp.mail=myemail@gmail.com     DNS record(s):     gmail.com.   155    IN  TXT "v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com"               ----------------------------------------------------------     DomainKeys check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=myemail@gmail.com     Selector=     domain=     DomainKeys DNS Record=._domainkey.          ----------------------------------------------------------     DKIM check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------          Result: pass     ID(s) verified: header.From=myemail@gmail.com     Selector=20120113     domain=gmail.com     DomainKeys DNS Record=20120113._domainkey.gmail.com          ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin check details:     ----------------------------------------------------------     SpamAssassin v3.3.1 (2010-03-19)          Result: ham (non-spam) (0-1.1points, 10.0 required)          pts rule name description     ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------               * 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is freemail (myemail[at]gmail.com)     * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record     * 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message     * 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60%     * [score: 0.5000]     * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's     * domain     * -0.0 DKIM_VERIFIED DKIM_VERIFIED     * 0.0 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily     * valid     * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature     * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low     * trust     * [209.85.214.48 listed in list.dnswl.org]     * 0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL     X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=-1.1 required=-20.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,     DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VERIFIED,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,     RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1     X-Spam-Score: -1.1          To learn more about the terms used in the SpamAssassin report, please search     here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/


title: Google is changing my urls in search results - Joomla3 bug

text: My urls is something like escene.ir/component/products/تلفن-های-تحت-شبکه-مدیریتی/Escene-ES620-PEN-IP- Phone?task=view.12 but when I try to search **site:escene.ir** to see the whole links of my site, the urls are like **escene.ir/component/products?task=view.12** There is no link like the second one in my site, And yes, I submitted a site map and there is no link like the second one in my site map, too .any idea ??   * I'm using Joomla! 3 * * * ## Update : this is a bug in Joomla! 3 and has not been fixed yet. look at the **@isNaN 's answer**, and this discussion : **Joomla 3 and canonical URL**


title: Google Analytics usage disclosure in privacy policy

text: This "Google Privacy Center" states that: > All website owners using Google Analytics are required to have a privacy > policy that fully discloses the use of Google Analytics. At the Google Analytics TOS, there doesn't seem to be this requirement. Am I missing something?


title: What's the threshold for creating data URI in css?

text: I'm interested in benchmarking, or best practices. I have 10 icons on my website. They are all background:url(..) no-repeat; Assuming sprites are not the answer (for any god given reason) **how big** or **how small** a file would you place directly in datauri, and which one would you allow to be downloaded? I want the page to be extremely fast!


title: Separate URLs for localised content

text: Should pages which are _almost_ identical, bar a few minor changes for particular locations, share the same URL? I am not talking of pages in different languages, but pages which have minor differences in spelling, grammar or nouns tailored to particular locations. For example (American- British differences):   * spellings such as 'flavour' vs 'flavor'.   * nouns such as 'zucchini' vs 'courgette'. Many British persons would not know what a Zucchini is. One concern is that these differences will be propagated to the search results page. The Zucchini examples seems particularly problematic, as many people would search for 'courgette' instead. Does using multiple URLs have any adverse impacts on SEO?


title: Are there any possible pitfalls/issues that can arise from URL rewrites?

text: I'm in the process of move a website for a client, utilizing a new theme. Usually this is straightforward enough but some of the base _category_ URLs they use are mess and they would also like to be able to change some of the names of those categories also. I know fixing/changing these URLs can be accomplished using a 301 rewrite but I am wondering if there is a possibility of any issues arising from doing so. The client is overly anxious about broken links and loss of ranking and I want to put my own mind at peace about the changes (granted I know that modifying URLs may affect ranking). Also part of the change will be setting the site with a prefix of `www` - I'm assuming the same concerns apply.


title: Google Adwords and MCC account issue

text: I have a Google account for ages and I used it for Adwords. But Now I have to logout and log back in with a different account for another Adwords campaign group so my personal account has a canceled Adwords account. I tried to link my personal Google account to the active Adwords account, but that is not allowed because my personal account is still linked to an (inactive) Adwords account. Now I have searched the newsgroups from Google for this and found a solution. Go to Google account settings, products and hit 'edit' but there is no option to permanently delete the inactive Adwords account. All other solutions include a new Google account, but I use the Google account for to much to give up. please forgive me if this is not the correct SE website to ask.


title: Google Cache CSS and HTML files are out-of-sync

text: I am monitoring the cached version of the main page of one of my sites. I have noticed something strange. Obviously, the cached pages is displayed with the latest CSS file. Yet, the page content is quite oudated. How come? Is there anything I can do about it or should I just wait?


title: input type="file" default language is system language?

text: I have a question, let's say I have `<input type="file" name="image" />`. Will the text of the button will change if user will have different language as his system default one? If so than how can I force this button to use English by default?


title: Tool to analyze page loads

text: I have this CI app that shows an interminable loading process. I want to know what chunk of the page is causing this. Now I am using Firebug with Google PageSpeed and YSlow. Is there something more appropriate?


title: How to access a website hosted on a shared server (and IP), when its domain is not working?

text: I'm trying to find out alternative ways to access a website (not mine), which has temporarily lost its domain name due to it expiring. The site owner didn't realise the domain would expire and it has expired. However, I DO know that the site is still running just fine - I just need a way to access it other than via its domain. But this website happens to NOT be the only site on its (hosting provider's) server IP address. Entering in its IP address will not point to the site I want to access. I do know, that if a given website happens to be the subdomain for ANOTHER domain, you can try and use online tools to find a 'naked' subdomain url that the owner has specified for the site in question. (e.g. `siteiwanttoaccess.someotherparentsite.com`) But the site I want to access, is not a subdomain, it's a parent domain. On shared IP address hosting. The only other way I know of accessing a site other than via its 'given' domain, any alternative domains pointing to the same site (which you just happen to know or discover via domain research), or a 'naked' subdomain if it turns out to be such, is via THIS type of URL, which the hosting provider gives the siteowner at the beginning for use use until their intended domain's DNS propagates: `http://ser.ver.ip4.addy/~hostingaccountusername/` Is this url type above the only other way to access a parent domain's site? And if you don't know what this is, (because you are not the siteowner) is there any way, apart from brute-force attack, to figure out what this 'raw' server IP site URL is? You can always figure out the server IP bit, just not the bit after that pertains to their cpanel/webhosting account username. Are we reduced to guessing or brute-forcing this, or are there tools that can shed some light on finding out this 'raw' URL address?


title: Sites & Tools for comparing domains

text: What are some good tools or websites for comparing websites traffic, SEO, and other factors site owners might want to know about their competition.


title: Domain name name repeated in the URL -- what is wrong with my Joomla/nginx setup?

text: I have a joomla site being served from an nginx server with the following config               server {              listen 80;         server_name heftpathology.com;         server_name_in_redirect off;              access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log ;         error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log info;              root /var/www/vhosts/heftpathology.com/httpdocs;         index index.php index.html index.htm default.html default.htm;         # Support Clean (aka Search Engine Friendly) URLs         location / {                 try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;         }              # deny running scripts inside writable directories         location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ {                 return 403;                error_page 403 /403_error.html;         }              location ~ \.php$ {             fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;             fastcgi_index index.php;             include fastcgi_params;             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;             #include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;         }              # caching of files          location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ {                 expires 1y;         }              location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ {                 expires 14d;     }          }      As per joomla docs. However URLs are being served as:               http://heftpathology.com/heftpathology.com/index.php      i.e. With the site name twice in them.


title: phpmyadmin and stored procedures

text: I'm not able to view subprocedures in Phpmyadmin. I have created a sub procedure via the execute query option. Is there an option to list the subprocedure and edit them.


title: Identifying loops in navigation with Google Analytics

text: Google Analytics has several tools allowing you to visualize users' navigation: **1 - Navigation summary**   `Content -> Site Content -> All Pages (Navigation summary tab)`   Table showing, for any given page, which pages where visited previously and next. **2 - Visitors Flow**   `Audience -> Visitors Flow`   Flow chart showing how traffic is flowing through the various sections of the website.   https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1709395?hl=en **3 - Goal Flow**   `Conversions -> Goals -> Goal Flow`   Flow chart showing the steps completed by your users leading up to the conversion.   https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1686005?hl=en&ref_topic=1649581 My understanding is that **2** does not represent flows from end-to-end: it's just the aggregation of previous/next pages data available in **1** put together in a chart. The reason for suspecting that is that when looking at the data available via the Google Analytics API you can only retrieve previous/next pages data, either via `ga:landingPagePath + ga:secondPagePath` or `ga:previousPagePath + ga:nextPagePath`. This makes sense because the number of possible flows grows exponentially with the number of steps and pages in the flow (and that's not something Google want to get into). Accordingly you cannot use **1** or **2** to identify loops (e.g. users visiting page A, then page B, then page A again), you can only compare pages with the previous/next one (e.g. X users visiting page A then went to page B, Y users visiting page B then went to page A). **Q1: Do you confirm that one cannot identify navigation loops neither with the Navigation summary nor the Visitors flow?** Now about **3**. The documentation states that it is possible to identify loops: > You can also see where visitors loop back from one node to another: A > loopback from search-results to the search page can indicate that visitors > are not finding what they’re looking for. When looking at **3** for one of our goals, here is what we see: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VSUG2.png) As you can see, there is a flow from `Account log... or create` **(step 2)** back to `Cart view` **(step 1)** as indicated by the backward arrow. My understanding is that the order of the steps doesn't matter in how Google reports the Goals which means we can have:               scenario A: step 1 -> step 2 -> step 1 -> conversion page     scenario B: step 2 -> step 1 -> conversion page      When clicking on the flow from **step 2** to **step 1** , we don't see any more details (it just highlights it). Accordingly, I'm wondering: **Q2: Within that flow from step 2 to step 1, how can you tell scenarios A and B apart?** **Q3: If it isn't possible to identify loops with either 1,2, or 3, are there any other built-in features of GA that allow it?**


title: PHP not working while selecting multiple columns from a table with MySQL

text:
I am using Apache 2.2. When I am trying to run it my browser is failing to run it, it's showing:                This webpage is not available      The connection to localhost was interrupted.      Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset.      My PHP code:               <?php     error_reporting(E_STRICT | E_ALL);     include_once $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/include/db.inc.php' ;     $sql="select post_id,post_title,post_desc,post_date,course,semester,firstname,lastname FROM wbut_forum_posts left join users on post_by = email ORDER BY post_id DESC LIMIT 25";     $result = mysqli_query($link,$sql );          if (!$result)     {         include_once "wall.html.php";         echo'
 OOOOPPPPPSSS!!!SORRY,UNABLE TO DISPLAY LATEST 25 TOPICS
';         exit();     }     $allposts = array();     while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))     {         $allposts[] = array( 'p_id' => $row['post_id'],'p_title' => $row['post_title'],'p_desc' => $row['post_desc'],'p_date' => $row['post_date'],'p_course' => $row['course'],'p_semester' => $row['semester'],'p_firstname' => $row['firstname'],'p_lastname' => $row['lastname']);     }     foreach ($allposts as $posts) :     ?>

      <?php echo $posts[p_firstname] . " " . $posts[p_laststname] ; ?>	     <?php      $id=urlencode($posts[p_id]);      $title=urlencode($posts[p_title]);      $date=urlencode($posts[p_date]);      $course=urlencode($posts[p_course]);      $semester=urlencode($posts[p_semester]);      $firstname=urlencode($posts[p_firstname]);      $lastname=urlencode($posts[p_lastname]);      ?>                   <a href="view.html.php?id=<?php echo "$id" ?>&title=<?php echo "$title" ?>&date=<?php echo "$date" ?>&course=<?php echo "$course" ?>&semester=<?php echo "$semester" ?>&firstname=<?php echo "$firstname" ?>&lastname=<?php echo "$lastname" ?>&" title="VIEW POST">                 VIEW THE FULL POST AND REPLY HERE

          	                      <?php echo $posts[p_title] ; ?>

         <?php echo $posts[p_date] ; ?>
RELATED COURSE  : <?php echo $posts[p_course] ; ?> AND RELATED SEMESTER :  <?php echo $posts[p_semester] ; ?>

          	         <?php echo $posts[p_desc] ; ?>

     <?php endforeach; ?>      The error:               This webpage is not available     The connection to localhost was interrupted.     Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset.      Is it an Apache problem? If so then how to fix it?


title: 2 domains SEO link building

text: I have 2 domains: `www.my-domain.co` and `www.mydomain.us`. Both are pointing for the same server, for example if you run `www.my- domain.co/file.html`, it's the same with `www.mydomain.us/file.html`. Now ... I began the SEO for `www.my-domain.co`, submitted in Webmaster Tools, sitemap, links etc. I supposed `www.my-domain.co` will rank good for _my domain_ keywords. After 1 year I change the domain from Webmaster Tools to `www.mydomain.us` which has no links pointed to him, and now the question come: If I begin the link building (dofollow blogs, formus, link directories etc.) once more on `www.mydomain.us` it will get double link juice?


title: robots.txt for a CodeIgniter based website?

text: I am working on a php site that uses Code Igniter framework and has the following folder structure on the server. > public_html > >   * application >   * public >   * sql >   * style >   * system >   * design >   * images >   * js >   * plugin > > > .htaccess > > robots.txt > > sitemap.xml > > index.php The bulleted list of items are subfolders under public_html. The **application** folder contains the code consisting of views and controllers. My question is, > should **googlebot** be able to crawl folders other than **application**? OR > should I **Disallow** all folders other than **application** so that no > search engine bot gets to crawl other folders?


title: Control Panel to host java based sites

text: i am new to web hosting and want to know something about it. I have 2 dedicated servers with full control over them 1 with Linux (CentOS5.5) other with Windows 2008 server Please suggest me some FREE web panel that helps in website hosting and support features like ftp, creating multiple users and should support JAVA based sites(war), PHP and Drupal. and should have e-commerce features included.


title: Page Titles - Including gender of a fashion product in page titles?

text: I need a bit of help to decide whether it is worth including gender in page titles. In the webmaster tools: I looked at our search queries that include "women", and they account for 9% of our total search queries for the site. I am wondering if it is the right way assess the benefit of including "woman" or "men" in page titles, looking at it with existing results pointing to us already? Is there another tool that I can check the actual queries that may not include us in search results? Like google insights maybe? http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=shoes%2Cshoes%20for%20women&cmpt=q So it looks like 1.1% of searches for "shoes" are also "shoes for women" is that correct? As a direct comparison, doing the same analysis on our own search queries, I get 1.8% when comparing "shoes for women" to "shoes" Implementing this automation would probably affect 99% of our site if not more, splitting it in 2 segments (one portion of page titles including "women" and the other including "men") Will doing so create a massively repetitive keyword throughout the site, hurting SEO? http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624 (see "Avoid repeated or boilerplate titles.")


title: Google Analytics - www version and non-www version

text: We have been using **Google Analytics** for a site `http://example.com` ( **non-www version** ). In a recent update, we have moved the site to `http://www.example.com` ( **www-version** ) with a 301 redirect from the non- www version. Does this mean a **New Analytics Code** should be obtained from Google for the www-version?


title: CNAME redirect domain to www

text: On my `domain.com` at godaddy's page, I set a cname `www` to point to `test.somedomain.com`. So if a user types in `www.domain.com`, it will takes him to `test.xyz.com`. My question i how can i configure `domain.com` to point to `www.domain.com`. That way if a user types in domain.com or www.domain.com, both will take him to `test.xyz.com`


title: Should we follow the schema.org paths?

text: schema.org seems to enable us to provide metadata for some search engines including Google and Bing so that our pages will display nicely on the web. My question is should we follow the schema.org and implement the stuff they are introducing? It looks very reliable and it will last longer than the individual stuff that every single SE is implementing. What do you think?


title: What are my options when I want to restructure mediawiki content

text: I have a bunch of articles written on the mediawiki. Some of the articles are too long and complex, and are good candidates for splitting up so some chapters will form a distinct articles. OTOH some articles are too small and too similar to be stored separately - I'd like to join them together into one meta-article, containing contents of the smaller ones as chapters. I can do it with manually by copying & pasting source for each article. It is doable, but I'll need to manually promote/demote heading levels on pasted articles. And also I will need to deal manually with links, that will inevitably get broken. Since mediawiki is so mature I guess there must be more a more efficient way of managing its content. But I can't google it up. Can anyone help, please?


title: customize no access error message

text: I am using joomla 3.x and have restricted access of some articles to certain user groups. When I am not logged in I get a really ugly message "You are not authorized to view this resource". I would like that the user sees instead a custom message and a login screen, you know the basic "Thank you for your interest in …………… please register or login" message. Is it possible to change this in the code of joomla or is there even a addon which can do that?


title: Is a 301 redirect on the root domain bad for SEO?

text: I have a unusual set up with a website. Unfortunately I cannot serve the website source from the root domain i.e.               http://www.example.com      I've been forced to redirect to a subdirectory to display the website content when the root URL is requested e.g.               http://www.example.com      Has a 301 redirect to:               http://www.example.com/subdirectory/index.html      Would it have an adverse affect on SEO to have this at the root domain? **Update:** After reading the below posts and studying the recommended links I used a 302 redirect. I chose this option since it appears that the Google recommendation is to use a 302 if it is a redirect from the root domain. To counter measure any possible duplication issues I made use of the rel="canonical" tag on the destination of the redirect.


title: When moving to a new domain should I ensure the old domain returns 410?

text: I recently moved from a .com domain to a .co.uk, this was a few months ago now, and essentially I still have my .com pointing to the same server as the .co.uk, and if accessed it performs a redirect to my .co.uk. Is it better to have the .com now returning a 410 and empty response? I should I retain the redirect setup I have in place?


title: How to track Campaigns in Google Analytics without using UTM parameters?

text: Showing UTMs when linking from one site you own to another is kind of like wearing open-toed shoes at work: it's unseemly and unprofessional. But it's effective. Traffic spills nicely into Google Analytics with each parameter (source, medium, campaign, content) easily sortable & filterable in a single view. I assume there is another way to do this: to somehow obfuscate the campaign parameters so that Google Analytics reads, ie: `http://foo.com/fudge?=xyz` as `http://foo.com/fudge?utm_source=sitex.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social- explosion` Can this be done in the GA admin panel? Is there another way?


title: Trying to improve the server response time

text: I have used the Google Developer PageSpeed Test and it suggests this:               Improve server response time     Suggestions for this page     Long web server response times delay page loading. Reduce your  response times to make your page load faster.          http://109.205.137.148/images/center_arrows.png (1.4 seconds)     http://109.205.137.148/images/ss00.jpg (2.4 seconds)     http://109.205.137.148/images/thumbup.png (0.40 seconds)     http://109.205.137.148/images/wait.gif (1.4 seconds)      Since those images are really small I'm wondering if my problem is the VPS I have contracted. Note: the VPS I have contracted is inside my country.


title: How spam comment affect my blog and website rank?

text: I have already read many articles on how I can detect spam comments and prevent spamming. But still I'm not satisfying with it, I just want to know how a spam comment can affect my blog and website rank.


title: Best books for web design & HCI

text: What are the best books you suggest me about:   * web design   * HCI for web applications / websites thanks


title: input content in FF & Opera

text: i got a "register user to website" form on my site. It looks fine in all browsers except Opera and FF.. i tryed to show pics through html so you can see what I mean, but i cant without 10 posts, and i can only post one link, so..   here is the one pic and the explanation ->   http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4903/45825110.jpg notice the vertical spacing between the input boxes... how do I make it look the same in all the browsers? thanks in advance for the anwsers.. Andrej btw: i did't use any css resets on my page..


title: Activist shared printing material gallery

text: What would you say would be the best way to do this: We would like to create a section on our activist community FB page and website in order to share with everyone images and files ready for printing panflets, brochures, t-shirts, stickers, etc. Let's say we have some cool slogans for t-shirts, so we would like to show them on a gallery, and offer for download the original design files needed for a print shop to create the t-shirts. And the same thing for all other kinds of media. We want to enable anyone to be able to just download the files for free, and easily create printed materials with them. But besides offering this hybrid between picture gallery and downloads manager, we would also like to make it very easy for anyone to upload and share their own files with the community, to make it a true collaboration initiative, be it that they get posted automatically, or that we first review and approve all uploads. Cafepress or Spreadshirt let you upload your design and sell your own merchandise. We need something similar, but where people can then download working files for making quality printings and materials. What apps, tools, services or methods are out there with which you think this could be best done?? We have some ideas, but we would like to hear some more!!


title: Free Invisible image counter in the html page

text: I need to track number of visits of my publication, but site allows only to insert images, and no javascript. I would like to insert white 1x1 pixel image. Are the any internet services which provide such functionality and count number of visits via such approach? P.S. I am not sure that this site is correct place to ask my question. In such case I will be very appreciate if you direct me to right location


title: Google Analytics tracking conversion & cross domain

text: We have 4 websites which send traffic to an e-commerce. Which is the best approach to optimize conversions? I'd like to understand the pattern people follow to buy products also. This is how I set up Google Analytics: - cross domain tracking on all websites - goal when people reach the order confirmation page Thanks for any hints! Andrea


title: Many Stack Overflow users' pages have no Google PageRank and they are not indexed, why?

text: If you go to my user page on Stack Overflow and you check it with the Google Toolbar, you can see it has no PageRank at all (this does happen for almost any user page, even people with much higher reputation, the only exceptions seem to be the users in page 1, and some other users they have PR). **My user page's Page Rank is not only zero, but not calculated at all.** When PR is 0 or less than 1, but calculated the Google bar shows white, but when the PR is not even calculated like in my user page the Google bar shows in grey. ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uAZiC.jpg) I further more discovered that **my user page is NOT EVEN INDEXED on Google** , simple test is searching on Google for the exact page url: "http://stackoverflow.com/users/260080/marco-demaio" and you will see no result. The question is **how can this be??? This is really weird to me because of the following reason:** If you search on Google for "Marco Demaio" on Stack Overflow only (you can do this by searching "site:stackoverflow.com Marco Demaio") the search result shows hundreds of 'asking/answering questions' pages where I was 'tagged'!!! Let's check one of these: the 1st one that appears now (shows one of the question I asked). We can be sure this page is indexed in Google because comes out in a search. Moreover, its PR is calculated. It's probably nearly zero. Still, **some PR flows there** , **the PR bar is not grey, but white** : ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NctIF.jpg) The page shown above has got links to my own user page. I checked the source code of the page shown above and the links are not **hidden or set with a rel="nofollow"** , moreover I can't see any meta character excluding the links on the page from being followed. **So what's happening? Why Google does not seemy user page at all.** **Did Stack Overflow do something to achieve this? If yes what did they do?** Any explanation really appreciates (as always). P.S. obviously I checked also the code of my user page, but I could not find meta tags excluding Google search for the page. P.S. 2 in a desperate adventure I also checked Stack Overflow's robots.txt but it does not seem to exclude user pages. * * * **UPDATE 1** following up on some answers, I did some more research. Excluding for a while the PR problem (since PR is not science), and looking only at the **user page on Stack Overflow NOT BEING INDEXED problem** : **pages do not seem to be indexed by Google because of the user reputation** , this user for instance has got NOW 200 points less reputation than me and his page is indexed (while mine not). **It does not seem even to be connected with months you have been on Stack Overflow** , this user (almost my same reputation) has been there for 3 months only and his page is indexed (while mine not and I have been a user for 7 months). It's bizarre! * * * **UPDATE February/2011** As of today, the page got indexed by Google at least when you search for "site:stackoverflow.com Marco Demaio" it's the 1st page. The amazing thing is that it has still got NO PageRank at all: Google toolbar states loud and clear "No PageRank information available". It's odd!


title: Can I split a $50 coupon from Google Adwords across multiple campaigns?

text: I'm receiving free coupons for Google Adwords Can I split the $50 into $10 for each website running campaigns? Is this possible?


title: Flash vs JS+css+html -- Website

text: So I'm working on a fairly large project, it's a website that will service about 7000 customers, the website gets about 2500 hits per day, and will be packed as a server and re-sold as a total solution to dozens of other organizations that are in similar situations as this. The website will have a _lot_ of user input areas. We will need tables of data, your standard registration fields, we will need full control over things like ajax, etc... What would be the best way to build a website? I'm generally concerned about things like compatibility, ease of use, load times, the bandwidth, etc... The client has also told us that they need a big spinning globe on the main page, and animated modal dialog boxes, lots of things that move around and animate while sliding, and basically the business website needs to be heavily animated. Is flash too old? Is javascript even worth-while using?


title: Are new gTLDs negatively effected in SEO?

text: I have done my research, mainly using this as a source, and I have come to understand that there are certain aspects that can cause newer gTLDs, just by the indication that many of the newer gTLDs, such as `.directory`, will increase the total length of the full domain, therefore having a negative impact. Are there other reasons why sites with newer gTLDs may rank lower? I understand that there is no set timeframe for search engines to add a new TLD to their search results (however it is assumed to be very short) from this post, but would certain factors such as time since a gTLD has been implemented (the older the TLD possibly the more reliable/stable it is assumed to be) have any effect on SEO?


title: Search for my web site returns HTTPS results

text: My home page is set to Google and Google adds `?gws_rd=ssl` to it. When I type search term form my site into search box Google returns bunch of indexes (different pages within my site) that starts with HTTPS. Obviously when user clicks on any of those it will get disturbing warning that site is not secure. Now when my home page is set to `https://google.com` and I type my search terms into search box Google returns proper results. My site has about 20 pages and all of them are simple HTML pages: All of them contain `a href` to each others using relative path. Now one my pages links to `https://othersite.example.com` and it is references trough the other 20 pages using absolute path. What should I do to solve this search results. Should I use canonical in the head of the document for each of the 20 pages? By using Google Search `https...` I learned that couple Facebook pages (posts) refer to my site wrongly by using HTTPS instead of HTTP. Could these couple links referencing HTTPS be the cause of this?


title: Strategy to prevent spammers from taking advantage of "Invite by email" feature?

text: We are developing a web application, and we would like to make it very easy and effective for our users to invite their friends, family and colleagues to view and interact with their content on the application. _**Invite your friends by email_** We are considering the standard form where the user inputs a series of comma- separated email addresses These addresses would receive an email from our service, containing customized links to the content, etc. Our concern is that spammers (bots and/or humans - i.e. captcha isn't sufficient) may create marketing content on our website, and take advantage of the email invite feature to distribute unsolicited content. This could result in users reporting these emails as spam, potentially compromising our ability to reach out to users. **Possible solutions we've considered:**   * Requiring users to enter their email address & password, then fetching their contacts, and delivering the emails from that user's account via SMTP.   * Emphasizing social media channels as a delivery method instead. The problem with the first of these is that users may be less than eager to offer their email credentials. We consistently find examples of websites which offer the same function outlined above: specify arbitrary email addresses, and we'll send them an email. Is there a way to do this safely & effectively? P.S. Moderating usage of the feature is not feasible (administrative approval of outgoing requests). There is no way to distinguish between legitimate & illegitimate usage.


title: Joomla sometimes messes up URLs, probably cache involved

text: Every once in while my Joomla site messes up link's URLs. For example, something like this: http://www.sism.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123 Become like this: http://www.sism.org/index.php/component/k2/administrator/components/com_dump/assets/css/images/stories/inrilievo/sism/htm/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=4&Itemid=123 The new page has the right content but there's no CSS or other linked resources. Usually I solve the problem by deleting all the cache and turning it off and on again, which is pretty annoying. Watching the URLs the components involved seem to be K2 and Jdump. Does any one have any clue on this?


title: Need a table that can sort, lock

text: I need table that will be able to:   1. sort   2. lock columns   3. lock the header row   4. resize columns   5. scroll    6. if possible can add/remove columns. Was hoping to able to do this with jquery / html5 and have all data client side - so no server requests. I have tried:   1. http://www.datatables.net/ has no locking, resizing of columns   2. http://tablesorter.com/docs/ similarly has no locking, resizing of columns.


title: Google PPC hugely different cost estimates

text: I am new to Adwords, and have set up my first campaign. With the keyword planning tool, it suggests that for a bidding price of ZAR 0.14 (about USD 0.01) I can get 70 clicks a day for the keywords "online yoga" and "online yoga classes" and crop up no 3 for paid ads for a total of R5 (about USD0.5). ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8Q77v.png) Yet on the Campaigns tab, it says that to appear on the first page I need to pay about R6.50 per click for the same set of keywords? What is the truth here, the price difference is huge. If I pay ZAR 0.14 can I expect to get around 70 clicks as claimed in the Keyword Planner, from what others tell me about Adword costs this seems very wrong.


title: SEO: Google is going to add "+1" button to search results, major threat for small businesses?

text: Read more about the subjet here: http://www.techspot.com/news/43064-google- adds-1-button-to-search-results.html Beside being something that will be definitely abused by spammers and SEOs, don't you think it's very unfair for small business? For a company with many employees it will be very easy to force them to add a +1 each, thus resulting in **company's website being upvoted a number of times that is directly proportional to the number of employees the company have**. I know you might say: _"well also in real life is like this, if you have many employees, they will spread the voice about your company"_ , but I think it's different, because I heard many times employees talking bad about the company where they work, but **they won't be able to do the same on Google cause the manager would immediately track who did not upvote the company website** , and as far as I know you can not downvote (I mean they can not even create a fake profile to just downvote, but let's not get into this right now). * * * **UPDATE:** After reading some answer I thought to make clear that I did not talk about ranking in this question, probably adding the word `SEO` at the beginning of the title was somehow misleading. **I do not think this new +1 feaure could influence ranking (at least for now), but still it will definitely influence clicks on results in SERPs** , we'll probably see also a new type of SEO.


title: How to safely saving users' data and NOT get responsibility of users' data?

text: I am programming a website which will save up users' inputs for their next visits. For example, I might save their phone numbers. The user will know that I save their phone numbers. However, do I need to get responsibility if some hackers get into my database to steal the users' information? Moreover, how to make sure the data are safe. Thanks


title: Redirecting WWW.website.com to website.com

text: I ranked my site at Nibble.com and i was going through everything, checking for ways to improve my website, and I noticed that www.website.com was classed as a duplicate of website.com. How do I redirect them? I'm using Godaddy services.


title: How to tell Google and Bing to come and re-crawl sitemap

text: I'm new in SEO, I have a web application can let user post their own page. I have use PHP to update _sitemap.xml_ (daily.) How often do Google and Bing come back to crawl my sitemap? Do I need to do any setting in webmaster tool? How can I tell Google and Bing to come back and crawl my sitemap?


title: Is it safe / okay to show Google Adsense only to visitors from Search Engines?

text: There are a lot of code example out there that helps users do this. Eg: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12693729/how-to-display-google-adsense-ads- to-search-engine-traffic-only But I was looking authoritative links or answers, since there is no answer in Adsense TOS.


title: Should I Disavow irrelevant links targeting my blog through Google Webmaster Tools?

text: I commented on a blog, and after some days I checked my Google Webmaster Tools and I found an issue which is similar to ReplytoCom ( Reply to comment ), that means I am not only getting one nofollow link to my blog but accompanied with 35 more irrelevant links. Should I Disvow those 35 links as it may be SPAM in the eyes of Google? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GzPXr.png)


title: What VPS spec would I require to run WordPress

text: I am looking to move an existing WordPress website to a virtual private server (VPS). It will be a Debian (minimal install) running ISPConfig3, Squirrel Mail, and Apache2. The WordPress site currently accepts 40-60 online payments per day and the VPS will need to handle at least 800 incoming emails a day.


title: Wordpress Ecommerce plugin for handling multiple option groups & prices

text: I've been searching for a couple of hours for a wordpress ecommerce plugin that will handle products with multiple option groups but am yet to find anything that fits the bill. Basically, a product should have a base price and you should be able to specify multiple different attributes with associated prices. ie:               Garden Shed - base price £100             Wood types           beech +0.00           pine  +40.00             Roof Type           Canvas + 0.00           Tile + 50.00             Front Porch           No + 0.00           Yes + 45.00      etc etc Does anyone know of a plugin which will fit this bill? I've looked at thecartpress's dynamic options plugin and this only seems to allow combinations of options. ie beech + canvas + front porch = +45 or pine + tile + no porch = 90 etc Thanks


title: webhosting php script

text: I have purchased a reseller account, next step is to set up a site for people to set up a hosting account, I have WHM from the hosting company. I also would like to have domain name registration facility in the site, how can i done this ? any ready made scripts or should I create one using WHM API ?? Thanks a lot


title: Is there a FOSS web app suitable for homeowners assocations?

text: I'm not quite sure where this question belongs, here or in SO, so please migrate this if appropriate. ## Overview The large homeowners association (HOA) that I live in could really benefit from entering the 21st century in terms of management and communication with residents. There are quite a few commercial desktop and web apps for this, but I have been unable to find anything in the open source world, especially something that's targeted at HOAs or condo associations. ## Functionality There's a lot that could go into this kind of software, but what I'm most interested in implementing is:   1. Allowing residents to submit:      * Maintenance requests (work orders) with form + OpenLayers map     * Architectural violations + map     * Architectural change applications   2. Allowing staff, board members, and other authorized users to:      * Review and track items from 1.   3. Provide calendar of events   4. Provide communications including:      * Notification of events     * Notification of work orders/violations/etc     * Assessment notice   5. Document repository for agenda, meeting minutes, newsletters, policy documents, etc. There could also be an accounting portion, but I think it's best to leave that out for now. Perhaps this system could be designed modularly to later allow either interfacing with existing accounting systems or to have a full blown online accounting system. I know this touches on a lot of areas, like Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Content Management Systems (CMS), and others. ## The Question Are there **existing FOSS web apps for HOAs**? Are there **other web apps** which can be suitably modified? If it's a no to both of these, what **framework** would be suitable to use? My guess is that Django, Ruby on Rails, etc would all be suitable. ## Related commercial software You can take a look at these to see what kinds of functionality is offered by the commercial apps:   * SenEarthCo   * TOPS Professional   * Buildium      * association-management.buildium.com   * List of other HOA software      * www.capterra.com/association-management-software   * Another list of HOA software      * www.softwareadvice.com/property-management/community-hoa-software-comparison


title: New site not appearing in index after change of address, no feedback from google webmaster tools

text: Our change of address seems to not be taking effect. Here's the story so far: We're a web company and our product is called The New Hive. Our site used to be at **thenewhive.com** , but we decided to switch to **newhive.com** (drop the "the", it's cleaner). So the timeline of what I've tried, starting on July 29th:   * used 301 redirects for all pages (e.g. thenewhive.com/tag/art => newhive.com/tag/art) At this point we noticed that we had disappeared from search results when searching "The New Hive", the front page used to be all links to our site plus a couple news articles about the company. So on August 5th I:   * verified new domain in webmaster tools (old domain was already verified)   * submitted a change of address request on August 5th with Webmaster Tools / Configuration / Change of Address Then after another week, on August 13th I did this:   * Went to Webmaster Tools / Health / Fetch as google   * fetched our homepage and a couple sub pages, all successfully   * clicked "Submit to Index" for homepage As of today (August 23rd) we're still not showing up in the index. We're getting no warnings or feedback of any kind from the dashboard so I'm inclined to think something's broken with the dashboard rather than that something's wrong with our site from an SEO perspective. From the dashboard: > No new messages or recent critical issues. > > Crawl Errors: No data available. From Health -> Index Status: > Total indexed 0 > > Ever crawled 42,490 > > Not selected 12 > > Blocked by robots 0 I'm really at a loss here, any help would be appreciated.


title: Serving WordPress menu links in only HTTPS or HTTP depending on how it's accessed

text: I have a WordPress site which uses WordPress HTTPS to enable SSL when users access it via that protocol. However, currently the menu links point back to the HTTP version. I want users to be linked to HTTPS pages while accessing the site over HTTPS, but not when accessing it over HTTP. Is this possible? Note: I have tried changing the menu options to use `//` and `/` for the links, but in both cases they are just rendered as HTTP links.


title: Our company's white label site was removed from Google's search index, would canonicalization help?

text: I recently started working for a new company and they have a lot of white label sites. Just last week I checked Google Webmaster Tools for one of our bigger in-house white label sites (one we personally run) and discovered that Google removed it from the index, though we never got a message in Webmaster Tools. I also performed a site:operator search just to be sure and it definitely isn't listed anymore. Finding out a little bit more about the site, I discovered it was changed to pretty much be an exact match of our main site and that it used to have canonical tags but they were removed. Not sure why. I don't have a lot of experience with white labels, so I guess this is more of a general help question, though I was specifically wondering if putting back the canonical tags that were previously removed would be enough.


title: Google is giving a "Malware Warning" on my site, but why?

text: I've inherited the development of a site that I designed but did not build - actually two sites. `http://kenbrook.org` and `http://kenbrookyouth.com` (same site also via `http://youth.kenbrook.org`). So recently kenbrook.org started displaying a red warning page when entering the site via Google's Chrome browser that said the site contained either malware or links to a site with known malware. After some research and help from other StackExchange users on this post, I discovered there was an added piece in one of my javascripts that was the issue. I don't even know how the script additions got there, or what they were really linking to, but I removed them and all was well (again, I didn't build that site so I'm not even familiar much with the scripts yet). But now the same Google warning is appearing for kenbrookyouth.com (youth.kenbrook.org) and I'm not sure where to start with looking for the problem. Any tips? And no, I don't think the same script that was vulnerable on the other site even exists on this site.


title: Optimized rate of frequency of changing title and description/keywords meta-tag?

text: OK we can change the content at any frequency. But what about `<title>`, description-meta tag, keywords meta tag. I think if we change title, description, keywords of any website daily, then that may affect page ranking. What is the real fact? What is the minimum and maximum rate of frequency to change these items? Legal practice may different from successful practice. Please explain me. NOTE: If this type of question answered before, then mention the link and please don't close or ban the question.


title: Drupal + LDAP + Automatic

text: I've got Drupal 6 setup within a XAMPP test area. I have LDAP authentication, groups and data working against Active Directory. What I want... is since I'm on an intranet where users are logged in via user- names... is for automatic authentication, without the need to login via the website. If it's more difficult than its worth, it's no major hassle, but I'd like to know if it's possible that when my users visit our intranet they auto- magically authenticate with their already logged in Windows session. Ultimately, I may switch to IIS, but I do like having a portable, easy to backup/copy/test setup so for now I'm going to see if I can get this working in XAMPP.


title: Is it possible to check the case on Apache redirects or aliases?

text: I have a big website (15,000 pages) with a log list of redirects (about 800) that have been used in marketing pieces for years. My Apache server has been running mod_rewrite for the past 10 years or so to force all requests to lower case. So a user could put in /CamelCase and Apache would read it as /camelcase and my corresponding redirect would work. I'm switching over my site to Drupal at the end of the month and the server needs to become case sensitive. I assumed that I could use mod_spelling on my list of redirects so people could continue to type in a URL however they choose and it would continue to work. Mod_spellin, however, does not scan through the list of redirects so it does not work. I have enough staff to have them go through the list of redirects and add in any case-sensitive variants but this would make my already large listing of redirects grow by 2 to 4 times. Hopefully I don't have to go down that route. I thought there might be a way to use mod_rewrite to test different cases on redirects but I can't get anything to work. So, does anyone have ideas?


title: Remove IP address from the URL of website using apache

text: I'm on an EC2 instance and have a domain `domain.com` linked to the EC2 nameservers and it happily is serving my pages if I type `domain.com` in the URL. However when the page is served it resolves the url to: `1.1.1.10/directory/page.php`. Using apache I've set up the following VirtualHost, following examples provided at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/dns-caveats.html               Listen 80     NameVirtualHost 1.1.1.10:80          <VirtualHost 1.1.1.10:80>          DocumentRoot /var/www/html/directory     ServerName domain.com          # Other directives here ...          <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"     </FilesMatch>     </VirtualHost>      However I'm not getting any changes to how the URL is displayed. This is the only VirtualHost configured on this site and I've confirmed its the one being used as I've managed to break it a number of times whilst experimenting with the configuration. The route53 entries I have are:               domain.com A 1.1.1.10     domain.com NS ns-11.awsdns-11.com               ns-111.awsdns-11.net               ns-1111.awsdns-11.org               ns-1111.awsdns-11.co.uk     domain.com SOA ns-11.awsdns-11.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 1100 100 1101100 11100


title: Should I Approve WP Commenta From Twitter's Tweets?

text: I have my self-hosted WordPress blog, and often I approve my own tweets appear as comment's moderated list. Not sure of the terms, I supposed that is a bounce-back (Correct me if I'm wrong) Now, another comment appears in my pending list, which is also my recent follower helping me to re-tweet. Now, I started to have concern on this tweets appearing as comment in my self- hosted blog. Should I approve. Does it affect my SEO, such as poor backlink?


title: Do browsers recognize the same files served by different subdomains?

text: I have my website assets stored on Amazon S3 and served by CloudFront, from a separate domain name, to act as a cookie-less domain (so `website.com` for the website and `websitestatic.com` for static assets). I set a far ahead _Expires_ header, so they can be cached by the browser. Google PageSpeed recommends: `Parallelize downloads across hostnames`. I can achieve this by adding subdomains pointing to the same CloudFront distribution and then randomize the URL to my assets, so I can have `media1.websitestatic.com`, `media2.websitestatic.com`, `media3.websitestatic.com`. My question is, will browsers recognize individual files as being the same as pre-cached ones, if they are served from different subdomains? As `media1`, `media2`, etc...all serve the same files, if over two page requests the same image was served from `media1` first, then `media2` next, will a browser recognize this or will it download it again? I can randomize the subdomain URL in the HTML files that serves the file (`media1`, `media4`, `media8`, etc...) but I can't store this random number for any particular file so that it is served from the same subdomain every time. I'm guessing the answer is no, they won't, so if I was to implement random subdomains, I'd negate the advantage of having a cached version, as theoretically every page request you could get a different subdomain for the same file.


title: How to Fix this specific Google "Fetch as Googlebot" error appearing on my Webmaster Tools?

text: Good day, I'm currently finding out why I have lost all of my website's rank in google. I don't even appear in google results by the domain. But other sites do link me and they appear in the google results. I think it's all about leaving my site two months alone and finding out I had 20k in comment spam, which I completely deleted and fixed with filters and adding a new Disqus comment service. Thing is, I added my site to Google Webmaster Tools and I'm finding out several awful things. For example, when I click in Google Fetch As GoogleBot. I receive this error message below in response to my request. And I don't even know what's the real problem and how to fix it. I simply don't get it. This is what appears: > Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:43:35 AM PDT > > Googlebot Type: Web > > Download Time (in milliseconds): 55 > > HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:43:36 GMT Server: Apache > Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 248 Keep-Alive: > timeout=2, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1 > > 403 Forbidden > > # Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access / on this server. > > Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an > ErrorDocument to handle the request. Do you guys know anything about this problem ? I need to have Google crawl my site again. I used to have a really nice google result in the past three years. Now, there's nothing. thanks,


title: Redirect directory URL to instead have .html suffix

text: htaccess redirect (301) all my old content from my WordPress to my new URL design. I want to redirect all the last trailing slashes to .html ... the permalinks are already working, but I don't want to lose all my collected backlinks for which I worked so hard. This is how my URLs look like:   * Pages (old): `/pages/redirection/` should redirect to `/pages/redirection.html`   * Posts (old): `/new-permalink/` should redirect to `/news/new-permalink.html`   * Custom Posts `/permalink/` should redirect to `/projects/permalink.html` The following rewrite rule does not work for me. It ignores my rewritebase, so it redirects `/projects/permalink/` to `/permalink.html` not to `/projects/permalink.html`.               RewriteEngine On      Options +FollowSymLinks      RewriteBase /project/      RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule . /project/index.php [L]      RewriteRule /project/([^/]*)/?$ /project/$1.html [L]


title: Google analytics giving data for pages that dont' exist

text: We switched from a PHP application to a Rails application last week. I ran daily reports and everything looked fine. When I ran a weekly content report it gave me data for index.php which doesnt exist anymore. The funny thing is that is looks spot on for page views. This also made me wonder how analytics would record "/" in a Rails app. I ran it through Fiddler, there is no redirect just a 404. I view source on the 404 and there is no tracking code. I am pretty baffled. Anyone know what could be going on ?


title: I can see traffic coming from google ads, even though I don't have any google ads running, how is that possible?

text: I can see "googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads...." as a referrer on my website. However I am not running any google ads. So how am I getting the traffic? Here's the complete URL http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?output=html&h=250&slotname=5275434421&w=300&lmt=1311690266&flash=10.1.102&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in%2Fsuperuser%2Fes%2Fpromiscuous- modo-con-intel-centrino-adelantado-n-6200-agn-tarjeta-inalambrica-- 214946.html&dt=1311690268347&bpp=3&shv=r20110713&jsv=r20110719&prev_slotnames=7553874535%2C5896307875%2C8590890981&correlator=1311690268052&frm=4&adk=3153418812&ga_vid=1396001617.1311690268&ga_sid=1311690268&ga_hid=558368546&ga_fc=1&u_tz=-180&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=1024&u_w=1280&u_ah=960&u_aw=1280&u_cd=24&u_nplug=6&u_nmime=22&biw=1263&bih=851&fu=0&ifi=4&dtd=441&xpc=T5MgG9EVV9&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humbug.in


title: Curious CSS: "font-family: restore-n8;"

text: Found some curious CSS in the source for http://contrastrebellion.com/:               font-family: restore-n8, restore-1, restore-2, sans-serif;      `Restore-n8` and the like don't seem to be font names. What does this CSS snippet do?


title: How exactly is Google Webmaster Tools measuring "Site Performance"?

text: I've been working for two months now on improving our response time (mainly server side) on a new forum (a brand new product on a technical point of view) we've launched in Germany a few month ago and I'm a lot surprised by the results I get. I monitor our response time using Apache logs and our own implementation of Boomerang beacon. Using my stats, I can see that our new product responds in about 680 ms where our old product was responding in about 1050 ms. On the other side, Google Webmaster Tool tells us that our pages have an average response time of about 1500 ms today where it was 700 three months ago with our old product. I've figured that GWT was taking client side metrics into account so I've added some measures on our Boomerang beacon and everything looks just fine. I've also ran some random pages on ySlow and Google's Page Speed and everything looks better than it was before. We event have a 82% on Google's Page Speed tool which is quite cool for a site with some ads in it :) Lately, we have signed a deal with Akamai to use two of their products : CDN for our static files (we were using another CDN before but it wasn't very effective) and RMA to improve Networks routes. We have also introduced a new aggressive cache mechanism to ensure that most of the pages served to crawlers are cached by our memcache grid. After checking my metrics, it seems that this changes have improved from 650ms to about 500ms, which is good (still not great but it is definitely an improvement). But webmaster tools continues to report an increasing average response time where we see it decreasing in the same time. Have you ever had the same kind of weird behavior on your sites while doing performance improvements ? Do you have any idea how to monitor the same thing Google does with Site Performance in Google Webmaster Tools so that we could improve our site and constantly check if it is what Google wants ? **Edit 2011/07/26** : Thanks for your answers guys ! Nevertheless, I was not precise enough. The main issue we have is not with the Site Performance page but with the Crawl Stats one for now. We probably found an issue on our side with some very slow pages (around 3000 ms !!) and we are trying to fix them. I'll keep you posted as soon I'll have some infos. Thanks again !


title: How do I enable XSLT extension for PHP 5?

text: How can I get PHP's LibXML module with the XSLT extension enabled (--with- xsl)? What are the steps involved in installing XSLT and from where I can download it?


title: Monitoring JSON requests sent/received from the browser?

text: Having a website that generates and receives JSON requests via AJAX, I failed to find a tool that shows me live the communication including the content of the JSON calls. I thought that the Google Chrome developer tools or the IE 9 developer tools do have such a feature, but again, I failed. Searching Google, I failed too. **So my question is:** Is there a client-side tool to monitor the content of JSON requests that a website sends to the server?


title: Does htpasswd authentication prevent Google from crawling my site?

text: I have a site that I want to continue testing before I make public, so I don't want Google to start crawling the site as there will be a large amount of garbage content during testing. I currently have authentication set up using htpasswd, will this prevent site crawlers or robots from crawling my site?


title: Canonical URLs for local versions of a webpage?

text: I'm currently looking to grow traffic on a consumer-facing reviews site (Like Yelp, but for the security industry). One strategy we are pursuing is to provide localized content based on the zip code or city that the user searches with on Google. In essence, we want to create separate versions of each company profile page for each area that the company serves to drive targeted, local traffic to the page. An example would be a company with a top-level profile URL of `example.com/security/company-a` and a local version of the profile at `example.com/security/chicago/60657/company-a`. My question is this: Does it make sense to use canonical URLs here? That is, point all local profile URLs back to the top-level profile URL? On one hand, these pages will be largely similar and I want to ensure we are not confusing Google with duplicate content. On the other hand, would using canonicals prevent the local profile webpages from being shown on local Google search queries? As our content grows on the site, I can definitely envision more unique content on each page (i.e. highlighting local reviews for that company) to improve the relevance of the local page. Do you have thoughts as to what to do here? I would be very appreciative for your advice.


title: Forward to other domain with CNAME

text: In my GoDaddy DNS manager, I made some A Record that points to *.mirror for my domain ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/36IVg.png) Now when I access URL `123.mirror.mydomain.com` from the browser I can see that my app is loaded, and its all OK. My problem now is when doing a CNAME `point to` the URL above on `another domain` like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TJCqx.png) Accessing 123.otherdomain.com which I expect to "forward to" 123.mirror.mydomain.com I only get this 404 error: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/i8WIa.png) The IP `173.194.71.121` is actually ghs.googlehosted.com What I am missing here? Why `123.otherdomain.com` which points to `123.mirror.mydomain.com` cannot open that page and I think google is handing the web page request?


title: Link to another website and track clicks on the link while also keeping the link "valuable" from a SEO point of view

text: I want to build a small directory for programming-related websites only and I'm a little bit confused at the moment. I want to be able to track how many times visitors clicked links to certain websites, but I still want Google to pick-up that link as being towards site X, without losing any SEO value (meaning, for Google, that link still has to look like a clean backlink, not a link to a PHP file that redirects the user to another website). Question is, if I use jQuery to post some data (simply "link x clicked") to a PHP script beforethe default behaviour (directing the user to the page), will Google penalize the link or will it still be as valuable as a normal back- link? Thanks all, Claudiu


title: addthis button default message

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  addthis button default message How to set default message, I am using addthis button for invite a friend Email on a website. that default message should also work if user choose gmail, yahoo etc from addthis box.


title: Total / Lifetime Sales on Magento Dashboard is incorrect

text: After updating from Magento 1.2 to 1.4 I noticed that the Lifetime Sales amount was incorrect (other sales reports are fine). Even after making a fake order the Lifetime Sales didn't change. I tried refreshing statistics but nothing happened. Searching the web for this problem turned up a lot of people with the same issue but no solutions. Any suggestions?


title: Can an indexed page never be returned to any search query?

text: Assuming Google finds a website with 100 pages and decides to index 80 pages. Does it perform further filtering on these pages or will start matching user queries with all the 80 indexed pages (on the long run)? In other words, is it possible for an indexed page to never be returned to user search queries? Let's assume there is no site wide penalty.


title: REST webservice full implementation: server + client

text: I've spent a week reading about RESTful webservice and searching for a fully example to build my project above. When I reach a fully understanding of the REST webservice, I couldn't find any full implementation for it! I was wondering why there's a lack in code samples of this great technique. I want to implement it with PHP and Apache web server and make it fully and has all verbs like this tutorial [part-1][1] , [part-2][2] (see comments for links) saying: > **The Basics of a RESTful Request** > > Every REST request consists of essentially the same basic parts: > >   * **The URL** – This is the URL we’ll be making a request against (often > referred to as a resource). >   * **The Verb** – GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE… there are some others out > there, but these are the 4 most common ones. >   * **The Params** – The parameters we’ll be supplying to the API, often > referred to as the request body. >   * **Credentials** – Username and password… we’ll cover HTTP Digest auth > credentials. > > > And, of course, we’ll have a few pieces for our response as well: > >   * **The Response Body** – The actual response body the API gave us. >   * **The Response Status Code** – The HTTP status code the API responded > with. >   * **Other Response Info** – We’ll also have some other interesting info in > the response. > At first I tried this sample , but I found later that it doesn't follow REST standard rules. After digging in the web I found this example but it doesn't give me the server code! Just the client code and processing response. Do you know any common lib for REST that support both server-side and client- side ? with examples and docs? please give me your suggestions , it's urgent .


title: AWStats linking URL

text: I have a site that AWSTATS is saying 5 people clicked to get to my site in my stat report. When I go to that link, I don't see anything referencing my site. Is there somebody hiding my link?


title: Add second site through iframe

text: I have two blogs on Tumblr. Let's call them Pets.Tumblr.com and Cats.Tumblr.com A while ago I decided to make Pets.tumblr.com my main blog, but since Cats.tumblr.com grew more popular, I decided to merge these sites together. What I have done is this: I've created a blank page on pets.tumblr.com/cats, put a full sized iframe with cats.tumblr.com as source, and a jquery redirect script in cats.tumblr.com that redirects to pets.tumblr.com/cats I'm wondering if this would impact my site negatively? Will search engines see pets.tumblr.com/cats as a blank site (iframes are ignored?) and cats.tumblr.com as a spam site because it redirects to a blank one?


title: How to make textarea look like notebook?

text: I want the user to feel like they are writing on notebook paper while inputting into a textarea. How may I do this?


title: Is it mandatory in the US to present the publisher's information on websites?

text: In Germany it is (under certain circumstances) legally necessary to link to a page displaying the publisher's information of a website. This includes name, address, telephone number and email address. Does such a legal necessity exist in the United States? If so, does it only apply for commercial websites?


title: What causes a profile picture to disappear from author information in Google SERPs?

text: Does anyone know what causes the exclusion of a profile picture in the authorship information in the Google SERPs? For some reason, my profile picture has disappeared from the author information in the Google SERPs. The 'by author name - in xxx Google+ Circles' is still showing, but without a head-shot. I'm having this issue for all websites I post content on. For some of these websites I claimed authorship using the `rel="author"` attribute, for some of them I did so through email verification. For others I verified authorship by adding `?rel=author` to the Google+ URL. Just to be clear, authorship information is set up correctly for all these sites. I tested the ones that were verified with author markup with the rich snippet testing tool. Also, as mentioned before, the author name is still showing up in the search results and the articles are showing up in the author statistics in Google Webmasters Tools. Everything was still working perfectly a while ago, and I didn't change anything before this issue started. I've searched for a fix, and did find others that have the same issue as of recent, although no solutions yet. Troubleshooting steps I've taken:   * Replaced profile picture with a more clear headshot on Google+   * Replaced `<a href="https://plus.google.com/9999999999/" rel="author">Google+</a>` with vanity link: `<a href="https://plus.google.com/+ExampleVanityLink" rel="author">Google+</a>` I have also read somewhere that disappearing author pics could be caused by a lack of activity on Google+. I've however seen profile pictures from other authors appear in SERPs that were way less active on the networking site than I am.


title: Don't count visitors who go to a certain link using Google Analytics?

text: I'm trying to make sense of the Google Analytics on my company site. Many of our employees will be visiting the site just to click on the timesheet link, and I want to remove these users from my stats. The issue is that the link is within the site's domain, but is a separate system (not part of the main site's CMS) and so doesn't have the analtyics tracking code in its pages. Visits to this page aren't picked up by Google Analytics as there is no tracking code, and the page isn't seen as an external link as its within the same domain.


title: How to create a Google OneBox module connected to my website?

text: this is related to my other question: How does Fedex and UPC code functionality in Google search work? Can my site get similar treatment from Google? Does anyone know how to at least apply to be included in the onebox list at the top of the search results?


title: Is changing HTML with JavaScript bad for SEO?

text: Building web apps I don't have to worry so much about SEO for back end things so dynamically changing the HTML isn't an issue. I am using _backbone.js_ with a front end site I'm building and the site is a tour based site, ex several sections within the scroll flow. So when the page loads, I store the original HTML in a variable `origHtml` then set the HTML to change into something like `this.$el.find('.section- one').html('<h1>Welcome</h1>');` This is a part of an animation I am working on and then after some animation happens, that block is out of view and I reset that HTML to the original one. It's not absolutely necessary to do it that way, but I like playing with _backbone.js/javascript_ and am curious if this is a problem. Because I could just create an extra section and `hide`/`display:none` when appropriate, but I am trying to avoid using `hide`/`display:none` http://css-tricks.com/places- its-tempting-to-use-display-none-but-dont/ (an article I read a while back). I mean this is just experimenting/learning for me what is the optimal way to manipulate HTML for front-end websites? P.S.: I understand some people may say you need to provide fallbacks for non JavaScript users, and I say no, anyone who does not have a browser that supports JavaScript or does not have JavaScript enabled should not be on my site, plus that demographic is like under 2% (might be wrong) but it's very low. **Additional:** If this is bad for SEO I think it would still be okay to use `position:absolute` and either set `opacity:0` on the element I want hidden, or use `margin-right: -9999` or even use `display:none` I don't care I just like the JavaScript way but Id like to understand whats best.


title: "Google couldn't access your site because of a server connectivity issue"

text: In Google Webmaster Tools on my dashboard I have a notice that appeared 2-3 days ago that says "Googlebot can't access your site". Under the Current Status it has:   * DNS - SUCCESS   * Server Connectivity - FAIL   * Robots.txt Fetch - SUCCESS However, if I "Fetch as Google" the fetch status returns successful. This is a Joomla site so my robots.txt is the default Joomla one which shouldn't cause any problems:               # If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at     # e.g. www.example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be     # moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com/robots.txt     # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed     # path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder     # MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/     #     # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:     # http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html     #     # For syntax checking, see:     # http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html          User-agent: *     Disallow: /administrator/     Disallow: /cache/     Disallow: /components/     Disallow: /images/     Disallow: /includes/     Disallow: /installation/     Disallow: /language/     Disallow: /libraries/     Disallow: /logs/     Disallow: /media/     Disallow: /modules/     Disallow: /plugins/     Disallow: /templates/     Disallow: /tmp/     Disallow: /dev/      Any help with how to diagnose the problem? I'm not sure why this has suddenly cropped up for no apparent reason.