title: Should I create a Separate Image XML Sitemap?

text: My websites currently have a sitemap XML file that use the rel="alternate" to indicate there is an alternate location to my content in another country and language. I am wondering what the best practice is. Should I create a separate Image sitemap XML file or simply add the image information ( etc.) to the current Sitemap XML file that uses rel="alternate". I ask because there are 10 different websites so I already see the XML file with lots of information because of the rel="alternate". Is there a best practice or is either way perfectly fine? Thanks in advance.


title: Is it necessary to create a DNS record for "website.com" when create one for "www.website.com"

text: When I create a DNS record for website "www.website.com", is it necessary to create a record for "website.com" first?


title: How Do Search Engines Rank Combined Keywords?

text: Suppose:   * A site that ranks very well (1st result) for something like 'best blue widget'.   * It also ranks very well (1st page) for 'blue widget'.   * It ranks not so well (2nd page) for 'widget'. Obviously, the number of monthly searches are much higher for 'widget' than for 'blue widget', which is still higher than for 'best blue widget'. Now the actual question: **When creating new external links, how does each of the following anchor texts affect SEO for of these searches?**   * widget   * blue widget   * best blue widget [HINT: The answer should be a 3x3 table] [NOTE: Assume the site is relevant for all these keyword combination]


title: I develop a project on GAE: how do I download the last deploy my colleagues made

text: I'm getting started with Google App Engine, and just got my first invite to a project that has already been started by someone else. How do I download the code to start editing it? (I do see the project in the `launcher` in red) If it has any importance, my permission is `Developer`


title: How does Google show a web page's recipe photo inline with the search results? How'd they do that?

text: On Google, if you search for "chana dal recipe," in the middle of the search results page you'll see one search result with an image of the meal, taken from the underlying web page. It's the only one. My Questions:   1. Did Google someone magically isolate the one image on the web page which summarized the recipe? or   2. Did the Webmaster/Page author somehow designate and promote that particular image so that Google would inline it in the search results?


title: Javascript and PHP how should I en/decode my data

text: I would like to know in what encryption should I encode my data and why. First of all, I use GET method because it is search engine inside website. Second, I use RTL language (hebrew). And third which basically is why I ask this question - Firefox and Safari (as I understand it) encode and decode urls automatically. So if I encoded the url, in Firefox I will see it decoded which is good. But if I copy-paste the url to the address bar and than enter the site, Firefox encodes the uncoded url to UTF (I think). What en/decode should I use? And how can I overcome the Firefox auto en/decode?


title: Using YouTube as a CDN

text: Why isn't YouTube used as a CDN for video and audio files? Through YouTube's api and developer tools, it would be possible to post all media files to YouTube from a CMS and then make a call to them when needed. This seems like it's within YouTube's TOS, it's a cost-effective way to store, retrieve, and distribute media files, and it could also make for easy monetization. I ask because I'm working on a new project for a public radio station. I can't figure out the real downside to this sort of an implementation.


title: Can I redirect Google bot to another domain with escaped_fragments?

text: I'm trying to make my Webapp SEO friendly. I read that I can redirect Google's bot to another URL with `escaped_fragments`. I'd like to use _Phantom.js_ to serve Google my pages. Unfortunately, I can't run Node with my hosting solution. Can I redirect Google bot to another domain? Will it hurt?


title: PECL extension in Ubuntu 11.10

text: while setting up mediawiki on my local development machine, the installer told me that since i do not have PECL extension to php installed, i will have to do with slower page load speeds with traditional php page loading. Does PECL really increase page load speeds? How do i install it on my Ubuntu LAMP server?


title: How do I stop Soft 404 errors from piling up for "No Results" page?

text: Recently, I noticed that I have a growing list of Soft 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools. They are all for dynamically generated search result pages that report "No matches found". I _do_ understand what Google means by _Soft 404_ and why they are reporting it for these pages. So I added `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` to these pages. However, Google is still reporting new _Soft 404_ errors for pages that are using the _noindex_ meta tag. Why does Google report **_any_** error for a page I told them not to index? The problem is that with all these unwanted errors, I can't see if there are any real problems that need to be fixed. Some have said that these pages should return a 404 status code. But that just shifts the problem over to the 404 errors tab. Besides, Google returns status code 200 for their _no results_ page. I don't want to block access with robots.txt because I want the links on these pages followed and I want Google to see the _noindex_ meta tag. Besides, there is no pattern that I could use to block these. Google found these URLs in the first place because the content used to exist, but has since been deleted. I can't return a 410 status code, because my PHP code has no way of knowing the reason why no results were found. Is there anything I can do to make it easier to see the real problems?


title: Is Movable Type among the most secure PHP blogs? How secure are the various PHP blog applications?

text: Basically I'm trying to find a blog for a website, and security is the highest priority in our case. We don't need any features that I would imagine are special. Wordpress was our first idea, but its reputation precedes it, and though it may have cleaned up its act lately, I'm not seeing much solid evidence. I get the impression that Movable Type (at least the Perl version) has a much better reputation for security than Wordpress (historically at least). I'm not sure I want to take a chance with Wordpress at this point, but is there some objective source I can got to to back up (or counter) the notion that MT is at least among the best? Secunia doesn't recommend using their stats for comparisons, and securityfocus.com doesn't have stats at all that I can see. Searching here http://web.nvd.nist.gov makes MT look way better than WP (at least in 2007), but this site was referenced by MT's own page boasting about their security, so I don't know how relevant it is or how seriously people take it. Any suggestions on sites where I could/should make a somewhat objective comparison?


title: Does have a web address on your site affect SEO?

text: If I have               http://www.site.com      And               www.site.com      The second one is bad, but will the first one count as an out link?


title: The characters except English are not readable on DirectAdmin editor

text: When I try to edit my idex.html I see strange characters in my atributs and tags               <title>საატესტატო-გამოსაშვები გამოცდის პრეტესტი.ge,ტესტები,testebi</title>         <meta name="keywords" content="áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, áƒ¡áƒáƒáƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒáƒ¢áƒ, áƒžáƒ áƒ”áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ˜, áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒªáƒ“áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, áƒ¡áƒáƒáƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒáƒ¢áƒ áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒªáƒ“áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒ¡áƒáƒ¨áƒ•áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜ áƒ’áƒáƒ›áƒáƒªáƒ“áƒ˜áƒ¡ áƒžáƒ áƒ”áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ˜, áƒžáƒ áƒ”áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ¡áƒ¢áƒ”áƒ‘áƒ˜, pretesti, saatestato gamocda, testebi, gamosaSvebi, testi ">      instead of `<title>საატესტატო-გამოსაშვები გამოცდის პრეტესტი.ge,ტესტები,testebi</title>` what have I done wrong? By some "site checkers" my title thich has 59 characters looks like 220 char long, but I have no problem while opening the page on a browser, when everything is clear.


title: Cascading matches in robots.txt

text: I was wondering if it's possible to let bots match two groups of `User-Agent:` blocks. I have this block of robots.txt               User-Agent: AhrefsBot   # https://ahrefs.com/robot/     Crawl-Delay: 5          User-agent: *     Disallow: /error.php     Disallow: /cron.php     ... and many more rules ...      Now, I wonder if AhrefsBot will now respect the crawl-delay and also respect the rules in `user-agent:*`? If not, then I'd have to duplicate everything under `user-agent:*` which would be quite unhandy.


title: What different email addresses should I use to test email coming out of my website?

text: I have recently noted a few clients complaining that emails from one of my sites always go into their spam folder. I don't know enough about email to start trying to work out even what level in my stack this is happening at - so first I want to collect as much information as possible and write up a test plan for emails coming out of my system. I was thinking about setting up accounts at the following places:   * gmail   * hotmail   * ymail   * same domain as the website   * custom domain on same server as website   * custom domain on another server Do you think this is a complete enough list?


title: Send additional product data to Google Analytics with Ecommerce tracking

text: Every GA Ecommerce transaction allows me to send just two variables, name and category, to describe each product. I want to send additional data to create more useful reports. For example, I have t-shirts, jeans, shoes... and I want to send the brand and size too.               _gaq.push(['_addItem',       'N. 87987',         // transaction ID       'TSATR5',         // SKU       't-shirt',      // product name       'men',          // category       'Adidas',        // A custom category       '25.99',        // price       '1'             // quantity     ]);      I know that the example above doesn't work because the _addItem() method does not accept extra parameters. I tought that custom variables could help me to solve this riddle but actually they couldn't. Is there a way to send this extra data to Google Analytics?


title: Using one graph I want to see browser usage per browser over time in GA

text: When I view the Browser graph in Google Analytics I'm shown the total number of visits over time in the graph. Below I see the aggregate breakdown of browsers over the entire period. What I want to see is browser usage over time for all (or some) of the browsers. I can of course drill down into individual browsers (and further into versions) but this only shows me the usage of one browser at a time. How can I put all this information into one graph without exporting the data piece by piece and putting it in Excel? It seems like a really simple view of data that anyone would want so I'm surprised it's not available in GA (or obvious for that matter).


title: Create sprites automatically

text: I get the folder with the following structure from my designer*: > file.css > > images/ Is there any tool which can automatically create sprite from images folder and replace all images references from file.css to appropriate sprite section? *It is actually not a designer (the man who creates design in, for example, Photoshop) but the man who makes html+css from it. How is this profession correctly called in English?


title: Off page seo vs on page seo, market samurai competition check

text: I did a competition check with market samurai on keyword "really cheap widgets" The competition result is reflected in the attached image: ![market samurai competition search](http://i.stack.imgur.com/O2WLi.jpg) They are huge sites but they do not have on page seo for my keyword, no keyword in title, url, desc, heading. They are targeting the most general terms like widgets, and other keywords related to them. But most are really old domains, thousands of backlinks. Could this guys be beaten with fewer backlinks but targeted pages with good content, on page seo, etc?


title: CDN solutions pros and cons

text: As the sysadmin in our organization I've been asked to look into CDN solutions as we have plans to roll out a web platform that is targeted at developing countries. Here is my research so far on the subject. * * * **CDN as a service:**   With solutions from companies such as akamai (leader), limelight (good player), cloudfare (startup with a freemium model) PROS:   -easy to get going (just pay, setup some DNS entries and you're good to go)   -controlled cost CONS:   -have to rely on features/service provided by CDN which is unlikely to meet your special demands if your are a small organization like ours. * * * **Cloud providers:**   amazon and others which provide you with APIs and clouds in various locations which allow you to provide a CDN-like service. PROS:   -more flexible than aforementioned CDNs CONS:   -more work required to get going * * * **Your own CDN:**   With DNS and server load balancing products from companies such as F5 Networks, Juniper, Cisco hosted in datacenters. PROS:   -you have full control over the infrastructure and can implement a solution that really fits your needs CONS:   -requires massive investments          **If you have knowledge about CDNs, can you share your experience with a PROS/CONS approach? Do you happen do know CDN solutions that perform well in developing countries?**


title: Most acceptable way to show hyper link file type to the web page user?

text: I want to show the user that a **hyperlink links to a PDF file** (or Word/PowerPoint etc.). Here are some methods I've considered: > Farming Report (PDF) > > Farming Report (PDF, 52K) Alternatively, I've thought about using icons: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/irlR4.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ubgj5.gif) (Examples from these pages: Making hyperlink icons with CSS, Showing hyperlink cues with CSS) **What's the accepted, standard and accessible way of doing this?** Are there any guidelines available somewhere?


title: SEO impact when using php include

text: I always make a footer and a header and include them in my php pages but I am not sure the impact of doing this for SEO. The header has only a main banner and the navigation menu, all the metatags including page description are unique to each page. So if I made just one header file and one footer file to php include on all pages , does it affect SEO?


title: Where to place php libraries/extensions?

text: I am new to a lot of server configurations and options. I want to add extra php libraries/extensions to my server. Where do I add them? (I am on a CENTOS 6.5 VPS) For example, I want to add the phpseclib php extension: Their website instructions are minimum: > Usage This library is written using the same conventions that libraries in > the PHP Extension > and Application Repository (PEAR) used to be written in > (current requirements break PHP4 compatibility). In particular, this library > needs to be in your include_path: >   >   >         <?php >         set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . 'phpseclib'); >   >         include('Net/SSH2.php'); >         ?> >   It tells me how to use it, but it doesn't tell me where to add the actual extension files. Should I added it under?               usr/local/lib ?          usr/local/lib/php ?          usr/local/lib/php/pear ?      Or can I add it under public_html? Also, my VPS has several users under /home/.. is that away to make the library available for only one user?


title: Multisite permalinks for subfolder wordpress installation

text: I have WordPress installed in a subfolder of the main site: `http://www.example.com/blog/` Now I need to add second blog on `http://www.example.com/blog/second/` So 2 blogs should work on the following URLs:   1. `www.example.com/blog/`   2. `www.example.com/blog/second/` I configures WordPress and almost everything works fine, but I have a little issue with the main blog (`www.example.com/blog/`), the post URLs look like **/blog/blog/hello-world/** rather than **/blog/hello-world/**. Second blog URLs work properly. I tried to change permalink structure in site settings to /%postname%/, and all URLs look good after that, but all they cause 404 error. How can I get rid of double /blog mention in this case? Thanks in advance! wp-config settings:               /* Multisite */     define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );     define('MULTISITE', true);     define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);     define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'www.mysite.com');     define('PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/blog/');     define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);     define('BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);      htaccess:               RewriteEngine On          RewriteBase /blog/     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]          # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^ - [L]     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]     RewriteRule . index.php [L]


title: =~ (equal-sign tilde) and m" ... " in .htaccess directive

text: I saw this bit of code on an old forum post:               SSLRequire %{HTTP_HOST} =~ m"\.secure\.powweb\.com"      And I was just wondering what the `=~` and `m" ... "` meant. I've been searching online and in the Apache documentation for any mention of the _equal-sign tilde_ operator, but I've found no mention of it. I know that some directives can take a tilde to use a regular expression, but I've never seen the `m" ... "` form used before. What exactly is that `m" ... "` for? Where else would you see this form?


title: Best signature fonts

text: Are there any good realistic looking signature fonts you guys know of?


title: How to use wildcards to remove print pages from search engines?

text: Our site has pages that are print-friendly, which I would like to remove from search engines. Here's an example: http://rubinarealestate.com/en/property/apartments- charming-neighborhood/?pid=4940&print=1 is the print-version of http://rubinarealestate.com/en/property/apartments-charming-neighborhood/ I assume this can be done with _robots.txt_ and wildcards, as the `?pid=4940&print=1` is always at the end of the URL.


title: Terms and conditions for a simple website

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  When does a website require a privacy policy and/or terms of use? I finished building a website for an online chess club which I am a member of. This is my first website. The site has blogging feature so the members can log in and write blog posts and comment on other posts. The membership is limited to users of an online chess site (freechess.org) and any member of that site can join this site as well. I was wondering, is it needed to put up a terms and conditions for my new website? If so, can I have a model of that? I searched and found some models but they are all for big sites that have e-commerce etc.


title: Website Form to deposit funds to your bank account

text: Is there a way to receive payments to your bank account from your website. I know PayPal is one option, and I know using a merchant account and gateway are another, but are there any other options?


title: I Need a recommendation for a CMS application with ECommerce

text: Does anyone have any recommendation for an open source solution for a robust CMS application that has a fully featured ECommerce module? I have been looking into Drupal with Ubercart -- but it looks like Ubercart is not fully up to speed with Drupal 7, and the other modules for Ecommerce don't look as robust. The CMS system should support CMIS as both client and server, and be able to run in a cloud computing environment. The system could be written in any standard web programming language, although Java would be my preference. I'm posting this question here because it seems that all CMS systems provide ECommerce as an afterthought, rather than a core feature.


title: Google Analytics: Multiple domain, One tracking ID, one email report

text: I created a new Tracking ID for 10 Drupal sites. However, why all 10 sites reports are the same in my Google Analytics? * * * **_update: added additional information_** Here are 10 sites info I got ** ### Drupal site 1: siteA.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-1**   ** ### Drupal site 1: siteB.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-2**   ** ### Drupal site 1: siteC.com ** Code on Google Analytics Module: **UA-00000001-3**   . . . and so on         **PS: For each site, I added the** ## same 2nd tracking ID and code on Custom Javascript code in Google Analytics Module   code snippet(before):               _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);      Code snippet (after):               _gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-00000002-1”]);     _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);     _gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);         ### Also I added a Filter for each Google Analytics View on tracking ID UA-00000002-1. **on SiteA.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteA.com **on SiteB.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteB.com **on SiteC.com**   Filter Type: - Predfined Filter> Include only > Traffic to the hostname > that begin with   Hostname: SiteC.com ... and so on


title: Customising Google Maps breaks highway label blocks

text: I'm trying to customise a Google map to use shades of a particular colour. It's working nicely except the blocks that contain major road names / numbers is illegible. I've figured out how to target styles to those elements, but setting the 'color' value sets both text and background to that colour. And no adjusting of saturation, gamma, lightness etc seems to make the text legible.               function initialize() {         var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(50.766472,0.284732);         var styles = [             {                 stylers: [                     { "gamma": 0.75 },                     { "hue": "#607C75" },                     { "saturation": -75 },                     { "lightness": 0 }                 ]             },{                 featureType: "water",                 stylers: [                     {color: "#607C75"}                 ]             }         ];         var myOptions = {             zoom: 15,             center: latlng,             mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,         };         var marker = new google.maps.Marker({             position: latlng,             title:"Living, dining, bedrooms by David Salmon"         });         var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map"), myOptions);         map.setOptions({styles: styles});         marker.setMap(map);     }


title: Swapped 2 accounts domains on WHM, now both no longer work

text: I have 2 accounts with websites on my VPS - one had an old website, the other I was developing a new website on. When I had finished the new website I simply went to 'Modify Accounts' and swapped the Domain Names fields of both accounts, so that the new account had the old accounts domain name and vice versa. Now neither site works - I just get the standard CPanel `defaultwebpage.cgi` place holder. Have I missed something? Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?


title: Handle an HTTP error dynamically in Apache

text: For my personal website, I wanted to make a webpage for every error that could come up on an Apache web server - so that it could fit in better with the style of the website instead of the generic Apache messages. As far as I know, the only way to do that would be to create individual webpages for all 50-some error codes, and individual ErrorDocument entries for each one of those. Is there a way to handle them dynamically (I.e. redirect all errors to a webpage with the error code as a GET/POST value)?


title: Should we try to add backlinks using a blog or paid backlink services?

text: I'm new to SEO, I've just started my business last month and I want to get backlinks, but I don't know where I can start. Should I create a new blog (like Blogger or Tumblr), or use backlink services? If I shouldn't , can you tell me why?


title: 2nd Google Analytics account not working

text: I've created a site for a client and pasted Google Analytics script for both there account and mine. My account seems to track fine, but their account does not, even though both accounts have been verified by Web Master Tools. I've done this many times in the past but now notice GA's tracking code is slightly different. Is there a new way to add multiple GA accounts to one site? New Tracking code:               <script>       (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){       (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),       m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)       })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');            ga('create', 'UA-12345678-5', 'mysite.com');       ga('send', 'pageview');          </script>


title: Backlink from page with low pagerank but site has high pagerank - effect from Google?

text: My understanding is that if I have too many backlinks from low PR (pagerank) sites, Google considers them to be low quality links and if you have too many, your site may even be de-indexed from Google: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how- to-check-which-links-can-harm-your-sites-rankings I've read that some people say backlinks from high PR pages can be helpful to your site. But what about a backlink from a high PR site with a low PR page? A lot of sites out there have higher PR, like Best of the Web directory. That is, the home page of Best of the Web has a PR of 6. But if you drill down to the specific page where a site is listed in the Best of the Web directory, the PR can be low (ie. PR of 0). Does Google look at the PR of the overall site rather than the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? Or does Google **ONLY** consider the PR of the specific page when it determines how PR is passed to your site? If Google only considers the PR of the specific page, then it's not worth listing in a directory like Best of the Web because the actual page on Best of the Web that links to your site almost always has a low PR. In fact, listing on Best of the Web be harmful to your site because you're getting a backlink from a page with a low PR.


title: Make a domain point to another domain

text: I have never been able to figure out how to do this. I am working on a PHP script. With my script, each user will have access to their own site. For example, the URL for this would be `myscript.com/frontend/username` where this uses an htaccess file to generate their site based on the username in the URL. (hope this makes sense). Now I want to make it so that they can have their domain point to this. For example, lets say their domain name is `theirsite.com`. I want to make it so that, say if someone visits `theirsite.com/about` it really points to `myscript.com/frontend/username/about` More examples:   * `theirsite.com/about` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username/about`   * `theirsite.com/blog/post-12` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username/blog/post-12`   * `theirsite.com` should point to `myscript.com/frontend/username` How do I do this?


title: What are pros and cons of Amazon S3 vs Amazon EBS?

text: For websites/applications and eCommerce, which storage solution is more desirable and why? I'm very new to Amazon Cloud Services so I need some direction here.


title: Transferring maildir emails to another server

text: Is it safe to simply copy messages from one server and place them into the 'new' folder of an email account on another server without shutting down any of the mail servers? Both servers are Dovecot IMAP.


title: Using AJAX on homepage to handle feeds, bad for SEO?

text: I'm running multiple feeds of loops on my homepage much like youtube.com and I want to use AJAX to load them instead of tabbed content with jQuery. Since most of my traffic comes from posts I'd like to know how it impacts my site with Google with less crawlable links and excerpts. My question is this: How bad is it for my SEO to use AJAX to load the feeds on my homepage? Each feed contains links to new posts in different categories and I have 10 of them so loading them with jQuery Tabs adds load time but makes it all crawlable.


title: Removing Joomla from client's server

text: I've been designing a website for a client. It is since completed and I have the ftp details to upload the site. It appears they are using software called "Joomla!" How should I go about removing this and uploading the new site - I only have FTP details and do not have any DNS, domain details or anything else. Thanks in advance


title: Dynamic content and SEO

text: So, I am new on web development. I have already found a few questions from here that might help me in the future, but I would like to ask something more specific. I have a new website with 5 pages (5 unique urls as well). -Home page (static but minimal. Without a lot of content) -About page (3 text paragraphs about the project and me) -3 dynamic pages (all of them have only forms and search bar in which the user may search about the content. After they submit the form, the content are retrieved from my database and are presentened in the same page.) Well, with my little knowledge about SEO, I can divide it in two categories. What I can do inside the website and outside of it. My question is related with the "inside" part. What I have done until now:   * Include standard title, meta-keywords and meta-description in all of the 5 pages.   * Add Google Analytics.   * Connect it with Google Webmaster Tools. Since, I don't have a static content, what else do you suggest me to do? Do you think that it's time to concentrate on the outside of the website, writing a few blog posts and promote it in Social Media or have I more to do inside the website?


title: Cloudflare and phpBB forum: users keep getting logged out

text: Yesterday, I added the free CDN services CloudFlare offers to my forum. I used all of the recommended settings. The used bandwidth dropped drastically and the site loaded a lot faster so I was pretty happy. But then (a small) percentage of the users told me they keep getting logged out automatically. I lowered the caching settings and a few people stopped getting logged out, but not everybody, so I disabled CloudFlare. Is this a known issue? Google didn't tell me anything useful. And is there any way I can enable it again without getting this issue?


title: 403 error with a 301 redirect in .htaccess

text: I wrote a rewrite rule for one of my pages. This rule is supposed to be for a specific single URL only hence the "static-ness".               RewriteRule ^picks/categorizedPicks/126$ search/?catalogue=11&module=20 [NC,L,R=301]      This rule is a permanent redirect with the `R=301` flag. The redirect works fine without the R=301 flag but gives a 403 error with it. Anyone knows what the problem is?


title: Does Google hate capitalized words?

text: I've read around in the past that Google frowns on all caps like "THIS IS MY WEBSITE". But, I wanted to know if they also frown upon capitalized words in general, like in a case like where a name is supposed to be completely capitalized. Like if a brand had explicitly established itself as all caps because of general words that it may be composed of. Example: "THE SUN" rather than the typical saying in sentences: "...the sun..."               <title>THE SUN - Content, Word & More</title>      Does Google punish for specific capitalization like this, or is only for excessive usage and sentences?


title: What should I be responsible for as the first developer in a large scale web project?

text: I am the first developer in a large scale web project, in the real estate sector. I am not an expert in any field, I know the basic of all, programming, databases, something about design and a little bit about SEO, and website optimization / caching. And I have some knowledge about other technologies and stuff that could be required in the project. So I am a developer, my boss does some drawing on a paper to present me his ideas and then I start programming and I show him the result. Until now there was no problem, but now the web application is large enough, and it lacks a little bit of database optimization and intuitive user interface. Beside the website, the project also has an offline newspaper, and a desktop application that is a reduced version of the online one, both this things are not managed by me, but by other people or developers that are external to the company. We do not use a collaboration tool for sharing knowledge between the people working on this project, just emails, and we do not use a development methodology, as for the team, we are: the developer(me), a designer, a secretary and the boss. I have the possibility to ask the boss hire the people I want so I can increase the team and have the right person dealing with the right part of the project. This is the story, the real question is, what should be my attitude towards the project and the company? Should I stay a developer and participate in taking decisions and organizing tasks from time to time to help the boss? Or should I get more serious about this and try to learn project management and implement everything I consider it's required to ensure the quality of the work and final results? I am the one who best knows what has been developed until now, should I try to organize all the work and the team? Or should I ask my boss to hire some expert to do that? I hope someone before has been in my position before and can give me any good indications.. Thanks!


title: Best way to segment data in Google analytics?

text: I have a web site which has a number of distinct parts, there is a public marketing site, a members area and a admin section for staff, all three are part of the same website and currently the analytics are all merged. What I need to do is segment the data into three distinct sections, so I can see what is really going on. What is the best way to do this? three separate accounts? or would it be better to use a custom variable and tag the sections accordingly? or is there another way?


title: Cronjob doesn't seem to work in Parallels Plesk

text: I set up two cronjobs in Plesk using their interface, but they don't seem to work. What's wrong?               *   */1 *   *   *   curl --silent --compressed http://*****.com/assign_social_scores          */5 *   *   *   *   curl --silent --compressed http://*****.com/fetch_resources      They should be called the first every hour, the second every five minutes


title: How do I set up a cookie-less domain?

text: I've read that it's best to serve static content (css, javascript, etc.) from a cookie-less domain or subdomain for better performance. I assume a domain is not cookie-less by default. How do I specify that I don't want to use cookies?


title: HTTP for one part of the site, HTTPS for other

text: We have a site which is HTTP, but it has an admin part. How can we secure the admin part with HTTPS? For example, WordPress (which I know) is located at `http://foo.com`, but we want to have `https://foo.com/wp-admin/` How to do this?


title: How risky is putting sensitive files up on webroot?

text: I understand that having anything sensitive under webroot is not smart; someone may be able to access it via url. However, I do not have a choice with my web host (iPage) as they limit my server space to just the web root. So my question is: how risky is it to just have sensitive files in a directory in a webroot with just simple forbidden public access? Any insight on this topic would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: The 'sensitive files' are an installer for our startup's software and the php files that allow the download / control sql access.


title: Does a 3rd party spamming with links to a website get that website blacklisted?

text: Paul has a website he is a nice person he never wants to get banned or blacklisted. Jason is a bad and malicious person, he send 200K real emails in 1 hour, with the Paul's website link inside the email body. Does this affects Paul or Paul's website in anyway? If answer is yes, how can Paul prevent any of those situations?


title: How do I remove the 'Continue Reading' tag from pages on my blogspot blog?

text: My blog has pages at the navigation bar. The 'Home' and 'About Me' pages show the 'Continue Reading' tag which I want to get rid of. I have used some extensions to add 'Continue Reading' functionality to my blog posts, but I don't want the tag. Any solutions?


title: Recommended domain name for tablet version?

text: We are creating HTML5 web app for tablets ("tablet optimized" version of the web site). Mobile domain names have already standardized itself to m.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.mobi. But how about tablet devices? Tablet device in this context would be a touch screen device with min. 7" physical display, supporting features like HTML5 application cache and geolocation. The main thing is that the user can save the web app to the device main screen menu and have offline functionality. (Naturally there will be automatic browser redirect per device class, but this does not remove the need of tablet specific domains which makes things easier).


title: Magento: placing available blocks

text: I've installed a custom theme in Magendo. I browse pages and get shocked. Some pages have blocks, other - no, some have the left sidebar, some - the right. The complete mess. How can I know all the blocks that are available in my customized/not customized Magento store and theme? I don't know what my Magento has. I've found Shop By, Select Currency, Tags, Compare, Recent, Cart, Poll blocks visiting pages. How can I get the full list? Cause there could be other blocks that I haven't seen. How can I place those blocks on the left side on pages I want? How to enable/disable blocks? Thanks for helping.


title: Prevent HTML files downloaded from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified?

text: How to prevent my HTML files downloaded to a particular system from getting copied from that particular system to another system or getting the script modified? Is there any tool or method out? Well, I make custom projects using HTML and JavaScript for students and don't want someone to copy or modify the files once downloaded. If they start copying or modifying, that affects me as I get paid per project. The projects are meant to run in the user's browser only. May it be online or offline.


title: How to remove adware pop up?

text: I get an ad pop up that should not be on the site. It has only appeared once. The HTML code for the pop up window that appeared:   * http://pastie.org/5674909 Here is the full HTML pastie:   * http://pastie.org/5674931 It is a rather new adware/malware software. I found other people having the same problem:   * http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/p,990200/sid,4b16e92c535d6716d6eaf04d6b6c8d78/   * http://wetpixel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49133& And last I found this forum where the Admin says it was a vulnarbility in the code:   * http://forum.cs-cart.com/topic/29635-malware-on-this-forum/page_st_20_p_152290#entry152290 But he does not mention which vulnerability.


title: Cannot access my website

text: I am not very sure where is the problem, but it is following: I have webhost http://dtech.id.lv which I cannot access from both of my home PC's nor via browser nor via FTP. It opens normaly if I use proxy or try to open this page on other then my home PC's Is there any suggestions/methods I can try to detects where is problem and whats blocking connection? I think problem appeared when I was messing with wordpress and .htaccess file which I deleted... (is there a way to reset webhosting without contacting anyone?) Thank you!


title: Google indexed my escaped_fragment pages

text: My site is a single page web-app. I am following the suggestions based on making AJAX applications crawl-able. **My URL looks like this:**               http://domain.com/#!pages/contactUs      **My understanding is:** `http://domain.com/#!chair/12` goes to `http://domain.com/?_escaped_fragment=chair/12` As I am not using any server-side scripting on this project, I have created HTML pages with the application states and put them in a folder like so:                 http://domain.com/htmlFiles/1.html      In Apache I have forwarded requests that include `_escaped_fragment_=` to the right html page:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=chair\/([\w]*)     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ htmlFiles/%1.html? [R=302,L]      The forwarding works correctly and the appropriate page shows up if the `_escaped_fragment` URL is used. The sitemap I submitted to Google looks like this:               <url>     <loc>http://domain.com/#!pages/contactUs</loc>     <lastmod>2012-12-30</lastmod>     <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>     <priority>0.8</priority>     </url>      The problem now is this: my whole `htmlFiles` folder (`http://domain.com/htmlFiles/1.html`) with the HTML files is indexed in Google. These pages are there in the first place just to show Google what content my actual pages contain. My entire website works from               http://domain.com/      These pages should not be coming up in the search results. As they had said they will only index pretty URLs, but still, I am reluctant to have them remove these pages as I don't know if it's going to hamper something else. Could it be that 302 is not the right redirect and 301 should be used instead? Also is there something wrong with this redirect approach thing in the first place?


title: Title and path for periodic articles/analysis

text: Let say I have a weekly analysis of the market. This analysis only useful for that week. Although the content is different every week, the title and concept is the same. In order to have a better SEO which one is a better solution:   1. Add the time stamp to the title and URL of each file.   2. Choose a fix URL and title for this page and update the content every week. (Archive the older ones)   3. Or what? Also, I would be happy to know some SEO tips on this type of contents (periodically, with the same nature, but different content). Note, assume that the content is a bunch of charts, and we cannot select a unique title for each of them.


title: Is there a risk that custom URLs for Facebook and Google+ will compete with your own site?

text: Is there any downside to registering a Facebook page custom URL or Google Plus custom URL? My primary goal is to drive traffic to my site. Is there a risk of these social media custom URLs competing with my own domain's website and cannibalizing my own traffic? Specifically, I'm imagining the scenario where my Google Plus / Facebook page are ranked higher than my own domain in SERPs:               plus.google.com/+Example     facebook.com/Example     www.example.com      I mean Facebook and Google want traffic so they can sell ads and I want the same thing. I plan on having social media pages, but wondering if it's better to not get the custom URL. Or do the benefits outweigh the risks?


title: How can I get a free UK IP address?

text: I live in Germany, work for a real estate broker. I would like to list some of our properties on Gumtree.co.uk, however they don't allow submissions from outside of UK - they are automatically blocked because of non-UK IP address. Is there a way to do this without paying? If not, what paid service would you recommend?


title: Is my PageRank improved when someone else uses my images?

text: Let's say person A have a website named `www.asite.com`, and an image in `www.asite.com/images/example.jpg`. Now, someone else (person B) uses this image in his/her website with `<img src="www.asite.com/images/example.jpg"></img>` code. Question is, will A's PageRank improve?


title: Setting up Google Analytics filter to exclude any spam IP which hits wp-login.php

text: I'm launching a new website, not hosted on WordPress, but the majority of the (thin) traffic is junk like this:               46.165.211.194 "GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 404 8012 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /static/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 404 162 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /recycle/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 200 29695 "-" "-"     46.165.211.194 "GET /junkmail/wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 200 80409 "-" "-"     199.19.122.114 "GET /administrator/index.php HTTP/1.0" 404 8051 "-" "-"      I'd like to find an automatic way to exclude any IP address that has hit a honeypot (like `wp-login.php`) in the last week. What would a GA filter for this look like, is it possible? Is there a good tool at the Apache level for this kind of sudden death honeypot? The spam traffic is the majority of traffic to the site, which makes log analysis a pain.


title: Could breadcrumbs be considered as rich anchor text, and drop my ranking?

text: I have breadcrumbs on my site, and the anchor text for the links are an exact match for the keyword I want to rank for. So in other words, it's "rich" anchor text. An example of my breadcrumbs could look like: **Home > Apple Cheats > Apple Points Cheats > Apple Seeds Game Cheats** Well I've also used RDF markup to construct my breadcrumbs, following the Google article Rich snippets - Breadcrumbs which will allow Google to recognize it. So overall, do I need to worry about exact match anchor text that will get me penalized by something like Penguin? If so, I can remove the breadcrumbs easily.


title: Why a page that works returns a 500 error?

text: I have this url that seems to work fine but it returns a 500 error. http://comehike.com/outdoors/hike_widget.php?hike_id=164&height=700&width=500 Any idea why that is possibly happening? I have like 10k such errors in my google webmaster tools :(


title: Uploaded files to home web server only showing when accessed from server

text: I've not set up a home web server before so chances are I've made many mistakes. I've used XAMPP on the pc, set up the name servers, used freedns and so far so good. The site is visible, online and going well, or so I thought. My next step was to configure the IDE to upload files automatically when changed. FTP has been set up and is working perfectly, When I connect and upload a file, it shows on the web server. The problem I'm having is that these new files are only visible from the machine that is hosting the site. I've tried copying and pasting (on the server) and get the same result. Can anyone explain what the problem might be please? To summarise (apologies for rambling): Uploaded files to server are being uploaded fine but are not visible when accessed from any machine other than the web server. As a test I created a new file when using the web server and the same result is received. Any help is much appreciated ::Also:: I've read that XAMPP is not best for security. If anyone can point me to an idiots guide for how to do it 'properly' I'd be very grateful :)


title: Would silverlight or wcf be a good choice for what I want to acomplish

text: I want to make a personal webpage that will stream HD movies/Music from a personal computer on my network, and allow the creation of playlists,favorites, a rating system, and potentially allow different profiles. I have experience with creating asp websites, But no experience with Silverlight or wcf at all. What exactly would be the negatives and positives of choosing these types of projects. Thanks


title: Is this a proper way to deal with near duplicate content?

text: I have a website which used to have 22.000 pages with near duplicate content. Of course, this has become a Panda issue. These pages are now gone from my site and the Google index. I have decided to simplify the 22.000 pages into a unique page with a query parameter which can take 22.000 values. Due to some category pages and a proper link structure, Google can reach this page in 22.000 different ways. Of course, this still makes 22.000 different URLs. In order to solve this issue, I have set the page with a canonical URL. I don't want to spam Google index, but I need to server my customers too. My question is: can someone confirm that making my unique page - called 22.000 times with different parameter values - canonical is a proper solution to my near duplicate content issue? If not, how should I solve it? **Update** Here is what I mean by being called 22.000 times:               http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=0     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=1     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=2     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=3     http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html?pid=4     ...      In the `product_descr.html` page, I have:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.mysite.com/product_descr.html"/>      **Update II** I found some Google documentation confirming that canonical is a solution.


title: Retrieve static webpage on client cache from dynamic content

text: I was developing a website on a certain web host and they lost everything. They told me their disks crashed and even the backup are unretrievable. I am mad. As I was often accessing my website through my personal browser, is there any way I can get the static webpages from my cache? I managed to find the css, pictures and js files from my local cache, but I would really want to also get back all the texts (content) that I've written. The webpages were generated dynamically (php) from a database (mysql) so I found no html files containing the text for each of my pages. Is there a way I can get these texts or any trace of html source for my webpages..? Thanks in advance


title: Is logging personally identifiable information a bad practice or violation of law?

text: I know we all do semi-anonymous logging (server logs, Google Analytics, etc.). However, on one of our external web applications, we have some non- reproducible errors that the external users report occasionally. I chalk most of them up to a PEBKAC errors, but I always investigate the problem to see if I have the same problem. While talking to the internal user that manages it, she mentioned that it is too bad that we can't figure out what browser the person is using without having to call them. I told her that actually we can, but normally it is anonymous data that isn't directly linked to a user. I am curious, is this practice frowned upon? Actually tracking what browser an identified user is using to fill out our forms and log that information with their data. Nothing more than what is logged normally, just linked to a user. Thoughts? **Updated** : I thought I could get by without more details about the application and why. This is for a job application... application. I am trying to track down some "bugs". We hate to always call the user back and ask what browser they were using and how they got the error. If I link their browser information to their name as they fill out the form it removes one piece of the puzzle and I may be able to track down some of the browser-based errors. The real question is if this is against best practices and/or the law.


title: Google analytics new version has no summary?

text: I'm trying to understand this new version of Google analytics and I'm really puzzled. One of biggest assets (to me at least) was that I was able to see with a glance how my sites are doing. In the old version, this was easy as cake, but with new version, I'm stumped - how could they replace something so useful with ... NOTHING??? When I logged into old version I got this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zTgNR.png) And on new version I get this, which is nothing... ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jK57W.png) Is there any reasoning behind this or is it just a fluke? If this new version becomes only version, I'll be forced to find my analytics happiness somewhere else ...


title: Using scripts to visit site and leave immediately to lower Page Rank of competitors?

text: Using Google Analytics, in the past week we've noticed an extremely high percentage of people visiting our pages and leaving after less than one second. In some cases they are leaving after zero seconds... Anyone versed in today's SEO knows that Google track's the "time on site" statistic and uses that to help determine their rankings in search. What we think is happening is that a competitor might be doing this intentionally. Setting up CURL scripts or something to continuously visit a site and leave immediately, thus hopefully lowering our search rankings eventually. Perhaps they are doing it from multiple IP addresses, we can't tell using Google Analytics (or can we?). Has anyone heard of this type of behavior? Is there a specific name for it? How do you combat it? We've been considering tracking the time-on-site using `window.load` and `window.unload` and then recording the visited time along with the IP address in order to determine the IP addresses that are causing the problems. Any clues?


title: mod_rewrite to edit cookies conditionally

text: Is it possible to use mod_rewrite to modify values in cookies based upon a condition? I am completely new to HTTP, but I have tried a thing or two. The only regex I know is Perl-style, I hope it is okay.               RewriteRule s/.[0-9][0-9][0-9]/COOKIE=MSFNODE/g;        1. `MSFNODE` is a value in my cookie.    2. The thing I want to run my regex on is `SESSIONID` (also in my cookie). I'm not sure how to choose that as a target.    3. As the regex shows, I want to replace `.[0-9][0-9][0-9]` with my cookie value called `MSFNODE`, _but only if`MSFNODE` exists!_ Is `COOKIE=MSFNODE` the right way to do this? Also, I only want this to happen if `MSFNODE` exists — as it is now, will it just pass on through and not follow the rewrite rule if `MSFNODE` doesn't exist? I feel like even my most basic regex is flawed here.


title: LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?

text: Trying out LaunchRock, and ran across this: general-instructions-for-creating-your-cname-record Basically as far as I'm able to tell they only support using your sub-domain as the URL, not having the "launch page" at "subdomain-by-you.launchrock.com". Guessing the guide to changing the subdomain and CNAME means you create a subdomain and then while the user sees "signup.yoursite.com" the DNS call is really going to LaunchRocks servers and being routed to the custom page you set up with them, though that's just a guess on my part.


title: De-indexing pages and checking with Google's site: command

text: I am trying to de-index a certain url from google, but for some reason it just isn't working. I added this snippet:               <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"/>      To this page: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/parks/edit_park_topic.php?park_id=55621&topic_id=1&topic_name=General%20Information&park_name=Kings%20Canyon%20National%20Park And generally the page edit_park_topic.php which you can view source and see the no-index snippet. For some reason it isn't de-indexing those pages because if you search this in google: site:comehike.com/outdoors/parks/edit_park_topic.php - it will show almost 200,000 results. And it is actually adding pages since before it was less than that. Is the site: directive showing only the indexed pages or all of them? How can I get those pages de-indexed? Also, for the panda update, do you think having the 200k pages with that form will be damaging? I already got hit by panda for having other violations which I resolved, but my traffic had not come back, and I just discovered recently this form of which there are 200k urls. Thanks!


title: Where do you draw the line with the new html5 elements

text:
I have read this article http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#new-elements on the different new elements in html5. Now I want to create my new portfolio with the this new markup. It is quite important for me that the content is indexed as good as possible by the crawlers, and at the same time set an example on how html5 should be written. **Note: this is just an example, i'm not really doing this** Let's say I have a page for my skills. Normally I would have something like this:

the menu

My Skills

html

tell the people about the html skills

css

tell the people about the css skills

some footer text

      Pretty basic. So how far do you take this in html5. I can see the header, section, nav and footer are important, but that do you do inside. Do you go all the way?                      the menu
My Skills

css

tell the people about the css skills

css

tell the people about the css skills

some footer text
           Do you need the inside elements for such a small example? If not, when do you use the inside elements?


title: Does the "canonical name" in DNS make any difference to search engines?

text: Some of our sites are setup with an "a record" to an IP address and some are setup as a cname of a server that then has an "a name" to the same server IP. I want it to be consistent. Which is the best way?


title: How to avoid getting negative points from Google AdSense

text: I have a news based website in which the primary contents includes news, image albums and videos. Out of these I have copyrights for the images and the videos are embedded from YouTube. My site is kinda like a mashup site, it gathers data from various other sites and presents them in a more user friendly way and for quick digestion and access. The problem I have is since the news part of the site can be found from other sites, my site could suffer in search rankings. Is there any solution to this. One thing I thought of is to put disallow on all the news articles pages, so Google does not crawl them. Will this be helpful to me? When applying to Google AdSense does Google crawl these pages (disallow) also?


title: 404 working only with wrong extension

text: My 404 .htaccess works very well when I put a wrong extension at it in place of .php. Unfortunately the 404 does not work when I put a wrong name with .php. This is my .htaccess code:               <Files ~ "^.(htaccess|htpasswd)$">     deny from all     </Files>     Options -Indexes     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..* [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301]          ErrorDocument 404 /404/notfound.html     order deny,allow


title: Having trouble redirecting old product sites and categories to new pages

text: I recently upgraded a shopsystem to prestashop and imported the previous products (~1200), and I managed to keep the old `category_id` and `product_id`. I'm trying to set up those 2 rules to redirect all my old incoming links to the new page, however for some reason they always end up on the 404 page instead. So my old link was               detail.php?artikel_id=123      and now this product became               product.php?id_product=123      here is my .htaccess:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     # URL rewriting module activation     RewriteEngine on          # URL rewriting rules     RewriteRule ^api/?(.*)$ /prestashop/webservice/dispatcher.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]          RewriteRule ^/prestashop/index\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/category.php?id_category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/index\.php?artikeltyp=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/category.php?id_category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/prestashop/detail\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/product.php?id_product=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^/detail\.php?artikel_id=([0-9]+)$ /prestashop/product.php?id_product=$1 [L]          </IfModule>          # Catch 404 errors     ErrorDocument 404 /prestashop/404.php      Note that this is my test installation at my laptop, and the new shop is currently set up under `"http://localhost/prestashop/"`. I tried it with and without the `/prestashop/` in the rules, no effect. My .htaccess is in `http://localhost/prestashop/.htaccess`. Any idea of what I do wrong here? Did I escape it correct? How can I find out where it actually tries to redirect to me before i get the 404?


title: Combine websites without hurting SEO

text: I have a friend that I'm helping out with some web design. Basically, the guy owns a few businesses that are all complementary of each other and he wants to combine them all into a single site. There's service A and B, based on the west side of our state; and service A and B based on the east side. Each has their own website (eg, eastservicea.com, westservicea.com). The previous web designer maintained completely separate and unique content, and unique designs, for all four sites. He is now wanting to merge all that together into a single site (statewideservica.com) with a new design. Right now all four sites are at the top of the searches for his niche market. The last thing we want to do is hurt that SEO. So the debate how do we merge these sites without hurting the SEO.   1. Keep the existing URL's and just make the content of all the same.   2. Redirect all the sites to the new URL.   3. Set a static page on all the existing URLs with content, but all links point to the new URL. Any thoughts?


title: Is there any way to improve the speed of Google Adsense/Analytics?

text: Whenever I run Google Page Speed or YSlow, many of the optimisations suggested stem from my use of Google Adsense and Google Analytics. For example, YSlow says there are "9 external Javascript scripts" - I only have one on my site, so the rest are obviously from either adsense or analytics. Also under "Reduce DNS lookups", these domains are listed: > pagead2.googlesyndication.com   >  googleads.g.doubleclick.net   >  www.google-analytics.com   >  altfarm.mediaplex.com   >  img-cdn.mediaplex.com   >  eu.bid.invitemedia.com   >  ad.doubleclick.net s0.2mdn.net   >  pixel.invitemedia.com adadvisor.net Is there anything I can do to reduce these or make other improvements to the speed?


title: In Adwords is it possible show ads during particular times for multiple time zones

text: Is it possible to have a campaign covering lots of countries / lots of different time zones, and to have ads showing only during particular times of day as per those time zones -- for example between 9a and 5p for each time zone?


title: Only one image available when sharing links on Facebook

text: When I try to share links from this URL on Facebook, I can only choose one image as the preview: ![No thumbnail](http://skriblerier.net/test.png) But when I try to share links from this URL, I can choose between five thumbnail previews: ![Thumbnails](http://skriblerier.net/test2.png) Any ideas what the difference is?


title: Obtaining visitor stats without traffic monitoring software

text: A client would like me to obtain visitor stats for his website, but does not have any traffic monitoring software installed. So I'm wondering if it's even possible. The site is hosted on Heroku, so I might be able to trawl through the logfiles and pull out unique IP addresses, but I was just wondering if there's some other way.


title: robots "INDEX,FOLLOW" vs "ALL" is there any difference?

text: Hey folks, Is there _any_ if so, _what_ is the difference between these two? In order to allow everything a search engines wishes for `<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">` `<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="all"`


title: Mediawiki: Page is in category without linking in code

text: Normally pages are assigned to categories if they have a link like `[[Category:example]]` but recently I noticed that we have a new category which is not listed on any pages that are in this category. So:   * Category site `example` (contains multiple pages)   * looking at the code of one page -> no lik to this category How is it possible to remove the page from the category if no link to the category exists in the source code?


title: Do all search engines obey nofollow rel attribute on hyperlinks

text: I have been informed that search engine support is inconsistent for the rel attribute with the 'nofollow' value. Is this the case. From my research Google, Yahoo and Bing seem to obey this attribute and will NOT follow links with it present. I need to be sure before questioning the integrity of the SEO team :)


title: Effective combatting of 100's of spam links in Google Results

text: I have recently been the victim of this **hacking exploit** (blog post is for reference only and is _not_ my site. I'm in the process of following it and cleaning up after the attack). Note the exploit at the top of my `.htaccess` file;               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule myq-(.*).htm$ wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/img/style.css.php [L]     </IfModule>          Options +FollowSymLinks     IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>          <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          # BEGIN WordPress     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     # END WordPress     </IfModule>      So the exploit has had the effect of producing **hundreds of spam links** in Google, but under my domain name. Some examples;               ...          Printable coloring pages of a caterpillar mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-zjjcq.htm          Coloured lettering cut out mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-viki-60693.htm          Printable leopard coloring page mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-96.htm          Printable oedipus rex mysite.com     mysite.com/myq-ei9vd.htm          ...      What is the most effective way to combat these links by using Google Webmaster Tools and `.htaccess` to get rid of them from the Google results. Is it best to serve a 404? How can I achieve this using the `.htaccess` file? The site is hosted is on a shared server. I only have access to a limited cPanel and FTP for any form of site configuration. Any pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance.


title: Hash based commerce website

text: I'm planning for an e-commerce website based on ajax load and hash instead of query. I wonder how this effects search engins crawler and if it would, what is the best way to do it?


title: Letting search engines know that different links to identical pages stress different parts of the page

text: When you follow a permalink to a chat message in the Stack Exchange chat, you get a view of the transcript page for the day that contains the particular message. This message is highlighted in yellow, and the page is scrolled to its position. Sometimes - admittedly rarely, but it happens - a web search will result in such a transcript link. Here's a (constructed, obviously) example: A Google search for > strange behavior of the \bibliography command site:chat.stackexchange.com gives me a link to this chat message. This message is obiously unrelated to my query, but the transcript page does indeed contain my search terms - just in a totally different spot. Both the above links lead to the same content, and Google knows this, since both pages have               <link rel="canonical" href="/transcript/41/2012/4/9/0-24" />      in their `<head>`. The only difference between the two links is _Which message has the`highlight` css class?_. Is there a way to let Google know that while all three links have the same content, they put an emphasis on a different _part_ of the content? Note that the permalinks on the transcript page already have a `#12345` hash to "point" to the relavant chat message, but Google appears to drop it.


title: Is compatibility mode in IE enough for verification?

text: I wish to verify that my web site looks ok on different versions of Internet Explorer. Do you consider it to be enough to install latest version of IE and use it in compatibility mode when verifying it for older versions of IE? When is it not sufficient?


title: GoDaddy 4GH Hosting Experiences?

text: I've just come across GoDaddy's 4GH Hosting. It's incredibly cheap and the sales blurb makes it sound amazing. Anyone tried it out yet (particularly for ASP.NET / MS SQL Server sites)? I'd love to hear your experiences.


title: How to force browsers/ISPs to look for my new DNS?

text: I have changed the DNS for my domain. what code (or header) should I use in my old server to tell the visitor's browser or ISP that it should check for my new DNS and the current content is old? is the temp redirecting to a subdomain should help? or you know a better way?


title: What parts of JavaScript and jQuery are essential reading for Web Designers

text: As a web designer, how should I go about learning javascript and jquery? I would like to avoid duplicating my efforts and focus on whats important. I am very much confused and need a place to start.


title: Shorten URL with Regex

text: Here's an example URL to a user profile on my site: `http://127.0.0.1:8080/overview/showuserprofile/user` I want it to be: `http://127.0.0.1:8080/user` This is what I have for rewrite rules:                 Options -MultiViews       RewriteEngine On       RewriteBase /php-login/       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l            RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]      That gets rid of the `.php` at the end. I've also tried adding `RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=/overview/showuserprofile/$1 [QSA,L]` But the URL would change and not any of the pages. Any ideas?


title: Should a link validator report 302 redirects as broken links?

text: A while ago, sparkfun.com changed their URL structure from               /commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266      to               /products/9266      This is nice, right? We don't need to know that it is (or was) a PHP page, and `commerce`, `product_info`, and `products_id` all tell us that we're looking at some products. The latter form seems like a great improvement. However, the change _would have_ broken existing links. So, nicely, they stuck in 302 redirects. Visit http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266 and your browser will issue               GET /commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266 HTTP/1.1      to which Sparkfun's servers reply               HTTP/1.1 302 Found     Location: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9266      This 302 redirect is caught by Stack Exchange's link validator as a broken link. It's not broken it works just fine. Here, try it: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9266 I understand that a 302 redirect is intended to be a temporary redirect, while a 301 should be used for permanent changes per RFC 2616. That said, Wikipedia and common practice use it as a redirect. Who is in error in this situation? Is this an error in Sparkfun's redirect implementation or in Stack Exchange's URL validator?


title: Online service or software for fundraising site?

text: I've got a client who is looking to have a fundraising site built in a matter of days so there's very little time for custom building something. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any software or online service that might be customised. The fundraising site would operate in the following way (for example):   * Users register   * Registered users select a "challenge" to complete, ie. 5km run every day for 4 weeks   * Friends/family of the registered user sponsor the user $5 for every day they run $5km   * Friends/family of the registered user can also make a donation (ie. not requiring sponsorship)   * Donations & sponsorships would be made direct to the fundraising site (ie. not via registered user)   * Registered users can link their challenge progress to their facebook page If anyone has some ideas, I'd really appreciate. Just to be clear, I'm looking for an online service or software that can be customised.


I have built a new site(finished last week, but no SEO, no clients). I know apply for ads need a long time. So I send my request to google adsense, and then do the `SEO`, send my site to web search. but yesterday I received an e-mail: `Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense at this time.` what is the preparation of before apply for ads? Am I ignore something must do before apply for ads? And how to apply `Google doubleclicks`? Or other ads service? I am newer for apply for ads. can anyone recommend me some good ads service? Thanks.


title: URL Rewrite to subdomains?

text: say i have a website with `/article.php?id=1&category=Minecraft&Name=Lorem+Ipsum` and `/topic.php?category=Minecraft` how would i setup url rewrite to make the topic pages being               minecraft.domain.com      and articles being               minecraft.domain.com/1/Lorem+Ipsum      I couldn't find this how to do this anywhere on the web... well, at least on google


title: Does the Web Deployment Tool installation require a restart on Server 2003/IIS 6?

text: I find Microsoft's Web Deployment Tool (and the PowerShell features it enables) very helpful for site management. Today I'd like to install it on a production Windows Server 2003 / IIS 6.0 server, but I need to know if it might require a reboot or iisreset (in which case I'd have to schedule downtime with change control, you know the drill.) Anyone know?


title: Can I show a table of one custom variable against another?

text: We have a number of custom variables set up in google analytics. We'd like to show a table of event occurrences broken down by two custom variables, e.g. if variable one can be A, B, or C and variable two can be J, K or L:               Events |  A  |  B  |  C  |     -------+-----+-----+-----+        J   | 345 |  65 |  12 |        K   | 234 |  43 |   7 |        L   | 123 |  21 |   4 |     -------+-----+-----+-----+      How do I get the information in that format?


title: Do people really use social network sharing buttons?

text: I'm making a website that you can upload images to. Implementing social network sharing buttons for content is turning out to be a pain and not to my liking in that it requires extraneous Javascript to be introduced and negatively affects the aesthetic (obviously some agree with me, as the Ghostery browser extension has an option to remove them from any webpages visited), so I'm wondering if they are an absolute must if I want to get some good traffic. I noticed that they are on most every site (including sites that contain things that most people under no circumstances would want to share on any social network), and even then there is no real standardized button set - every site typically has a Facebook and Twitter button, but some offer Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, etc. variably. Do people really use these buttons or do most just copy paste the link into their sharing platform of choice? I'm not a social network user so I am unsure myself.


title: Use .htaccess to rewrite requests for a PNG as a PHP GET variable

text: I'm REALLY bad with .htaccess files, and reading through the existing questions on SO only confuse me more (mainly because they're all situation- specific and don't _exactly_ apply to my situation at hand). I'm making a script that generates dynamic images through PHP. The script takes 1 variable, which makes the URL look like this:               http://www.example.com/script/image.php?name=esqew      However, I'd like to utilize an .htaccess file to rewrite the file to something more elegant and something my users can use on forums, like so:               http://www.example.com/script/esqew.png      The question, in a nutshell, is how do I rewrite the first request above to something more elegant like the second example using .htaccess?


title: URL for website with multiple currencies

text: It seems that most of the websites which handle currencies keep track of the current currency throughout the user browser session and not through the URL itself. This way, when sharing the URL with friends, the content might not be the same since the browser session will be different. What do you think is the best practice to handle the URL of a website with multiple currencies? A different currency denotes different content hence my opinion is that it should be embedded within the URL itself, similarly to how one would embed the current language parameter within the URL or sub domain. What would you think is the best option?   * Querystring parameter appended to each page, e.g. `/en/my-page/?currency=USD`   * URL folder, e.g. `/en/USD/my-pages/` Anything else?


title: How can the Google Plus one Button aid in SEO

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will Google's New +1 Count For SEO I have setup the Google Plus One button on my website. I would like to know how it could affect the SEO of my pages. I heard that only on our friends' and contacts' computers, the results are improving. Or does it globally improve the rankings. I'm concerned about it because the JavaScript (yes the newest one) of the button slows down the site.If it is useful for global SEO only, I want to continue using it. Please advise.


title: Extension to add button "Report to Bugzilla"?

text: We have:   * internal MediaWiki installation for internal documents (we don't use it in completely wiki-like style--only maintainers should normally make changes)   * internal Bugzilla installation for internal issues including these internal documents on the MediaWiki site Now only the icing on the cake is missing: an automatic button that would appear on each page, being able to   * open a Bugzilla page   * pre-fill some fields with information about that page Basically, name What I imagine as a best solution would be a sibling to the ubiquitous "[edit]" button, probably sitting next to it, like in this mock-up: ![Mock-up of a Bugzilla "report" button](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XikaX.png)


title: Finding out what features of regular expressions are supported by mod_rewrite in Apache 1.3?

text: Is there a particular regular expression engine that is used by mod_rewrite on Apache 1.3? I want to know so I can get a list of supported and non-supported features.


title: Google Adsense threshold estimation

text: I've an electronic music blog with traffic mainly from the North American continent, Western Europe and Russia. Daily I get about 100 unique visitors with 150-200 pageviews. Should I start Adsense or I need to work to increase the traffic stats. Can you suggest another appropriate monetizing option for the given case? How much time It would take me to hit the 100$ Adsense barrier with the given traffic statistics?


How do I add the copyright symbol to my webpage?


title: Need to add 30K new pages to a 10K page website - troubles ahead? (SEO)

text: We have a situation with a website where we plan to add a huge amount of new pages. The domain is over 10 years old, approximately 10 thousand indexed pages, and the planned addition is approx. 30K new pages. Any idea how we should go about it? Must we schedule a gradual data release? Have you heard of any industry standards as to how many new pages per day / week / month should be added in order to appear natural and not get in trouble with Google? I.e. should we plan a bi-weekly addition of 5K?


title: Preventing high bandwidth usage from Yandex

text: Although I put a row for Yandex into my robots.txt file, sometimes Yandex indexes my website aggressively. So I hard coded a part and check for user agent, and serve cached file if user agent is like this: `"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)"` But when I check statcounter logs I recently saw that other Yandex related bots frequently crawl my site. They are similar to following. I took this info from my cPanel log:               Beeline (128.69.243.12)     Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.2)     Referer: http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213          Beeline (89.178.108.247)     Referer: http://yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=example.com&lr=213     Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2)      How can I block or serve cached pages these bots? When I check for `$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']` I can't see "`yandex.ru`" in referrer. Referrer comes empty. Is it possible to find out referrer in cPanel log, but can't take it from `HTTP_USER_AGENT` ?? And I also I don't want to ban IPs because there exist too many IPs related with this issue and they are changed periodically. So how can I find out this bot? Does anybody has similar issue? Thank you


title: List of websites/domain name that's registered daily

text: I want to know if there is a website that can provide me a list of domain names that is registered on a certain date. For example today or last week thursday? Does that website which can provide me such info exist? I really appreciate it if you can point out that web URL to me. Google is pointing me to different and irrelevant websites. I saw the whois but it don't display a list. Any help?


title: Should I use multiple subdomains for a website that supports multiple cities?

text: So the closest example I can give is craigslist, for example:   * Craigslist Winnipeg: http://winnipeg.craigslist.ca/   * Craigslist Toronto: http://toronto.craigslist.ca/ Is copying this style going to hurt me a lot SEO wise? Does it make more sense to have cities setup as www.newproject.com/winnipeg/ or winnipeg.newproject.com


title: How do I handle having too many links on a webpage because of my menu

text: I am developing a website that has a drop-down menu at the top of it. The Menu has around 100 links in it that are repeated on every page. Every page also has some number of links below the Menu that may or may not be in the menu itself. My issue is that Google says they generally don't like pages with more than 100 links on them. Is there any way to change the links on the menu so that they no longer "count" towards my max of 100 links? It seems like there should be an easy way to do this but their really doesn't seem to be. the rel=nofollow still counts towards the number of links on the page at least according to Google, so what other options do I have? I looked into where the 100 comes from and I found that it used to be here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#2 but that is no longer the case. I found a more definitive and frankly muddier answer here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam- guru from Matt Cutts from 2007. Long story short, in 2007 they still felt 100 links was a good number but they stated you could go far beyond that. In fact, they said that pages with high PageRank could have 2-300. It did sound like having many links could reduce the PageRank of the page with all of the links or possibly all of the items linked to. Also, I know IIS7's SEO 1.0 toolkit suggests that pages should have no more than 250 links.


title: Safe directory for cron job PHP scripts

text: I have a website which I run a PHP script for updating its Database. What is considered to be an acceptable location on the server to store such scripts? Obviously only the root (running a cronjob to start the script) should have access to it. Thanks, Joel


title: Why doesn't FireFox cache my JavaScript file?

text: I've been trying to figure out why Firefox does not cache my JavaScript file. I don't have this issue with Chrome or IE. Here is what my server's Response Header looks like:               http://localhost:5012/bundles/scripts/jquery?v=FVs3ACwOLIVInrAl5sdzR2jrCDmVOWFbZMY6g6Q0ulE1     Cache-Control   public, max-age=2592000     Content-Encoding    gzip     Content-Length  42173     Content-Type    text/javascript; charset=utf-8     Date    Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:28 GMT     Expires Sat, 23 May 2015 14:33:22 GMT     Last-Modified   Fri, 23 May 2014 14:33:22 GMT     Server  Microsoft-IIS/7.5     Vary    Accept-Encoding     X-AspNet-Version    4.0.30319     X-Powered-By    ASP.NET     fod_vary_store  User-Agent      Please note:   1. There is no file extension. I use MS ASP.NET Optimization Framework to Bundle and minify my scripts.    2. My Firefox is 29.0.1. I have "Remember History" enabled. My question is a semi-duplicate of another question I found here: Why doesn't Firefox cache my images and CSS (without an accepted answer). It hinted to older versions of FireFox not caching any resources with query strings. However some of the users answered that the issue had been fixed in newer versions.


title: Concerns regarding registering a domain name with a home address

text: If I purchase a domain, I'm usually required to enter an address. Usually, the address can be accessed publicly by any sort of WHOIS lookup. I'm uncomfortable publishing my real home address; what do people usually do? Lie? Purchase a P.O box?


title: Does having Abuse and Postmaster Emails help to stop being treated as SPAM?

text: I read on some blog (I don't remember the URL) that having abuse@mydomain.com and postmaster@mydomian.com in addition to main email help to prevent our mails from being categorized as spam. Is it true? Is it worthy to create two additional email accounts. On my hosting, only 5 are allowed. Please suggest.


title: How can I create links in javascript that are crawlable by search engines?

text: If I use JavaScript + jQuery, for example, does links inserted in $(document).ready() will be available for crawling? How can I insert crawlable links in JavaScript?


title: Should I have both example.com and www.example.com?

text: I used to have a website which could be addressed by both `example.com` and `www.example.com` leading to the same page. Now, I moved to another server and only the `example.com` works. I got an email from Googlebot complaining that it cannot access `www.example.com`. I know I can make `www.example.com` point to `example.com`, but do I really need it? Why not have only `example.com`?


title: How can I keep track of changes to my website over time?

text: Sometimes the boss wants to know who changed something on the website or changes their mind several times on where a button should go, what color something is, or whether or not a page should show up at all. Is there a simple way for a small 2-3 person web team to keep track of these constant changes?


title: How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?

text: I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this task? Would using their API help? If so, how would I go about collecting this data (Company Page Name, URL, location)? Thank you.


title: How do I validate IP Address ownership for authentication?

text: I have a website where digital content is behind a paywall. We verify users have access by IP address. Our customers are all large companies, with static IP addresses. So, if a user is within the network of their company, then they automatically have access to our site. The problem is, we have no way of validating that the companies actually own every address on the list of addresses they give us. Anyone have any ideas of how we verify that the companies actually own the IP addresses they are giving us.


title: Google Translate data tracked with gaTrack is not showing up in Google Analytics?

text: I have a google translate widget on my website with `gaTrack` set to true and the correct `gaId`, but no translate events show up in analytics under content > Events > Overview after a week of the widget being live. The code snippet below was auto generated by the translate website, and works fine on the site. Any ideas why I'm not getting any translate events data?


title: When acquiring a domain name for product xyz, is it still important to buy .net and .org versions too?

text: I am buying a domain name for service xyz and obviously I have bought `.com` in the first place. In the past it was automatic to also buy the `.net` and `.org` versions. However, I've been asking myself, **why would I do that**? To serve customers who mistakenly enter a different TLD? (Would someone accidentally do that these days?) To avoid a chance that competition will acquire those TLDs and play some dirty game on my customers? If there is a good reason, or a few, to buy the .net and .org versions these days I'd like to see those listed. Thanks.


title: How to get Google to show local site search engine results?

text: I'm looking for a white-hat method of getting Google to show a local site search result as a Google search result. For clarification: There is a page filled with names of certain people. Each of the names is linked to the local site search engine. So clicking on David jones would go to `mysite.com/?q=david+jones`. I want Google to show up the aforementioned link `mysite.com/?q=david+jones` as a search result if something like `mysite david jones` is queried. There is an obstacle I need to avoid:   * There are more than 450 people names (or links) on the aforementioned page. I've heard that having more than say 150 links on the page is bad for SEO. In addition to those names there are other links to various other pages. i.e main menu, footer links, latest article links etc. (it's a Joomla system.) What I want to try: My solution to this is use a `robots` tag to index only content and not links. But I'm still stumped how to show the site search result as a Google Search result. Will adding all these local site search engine links in sitemap help?


title: Do iframes have access to the cookies of the hosting domain?

text: We want to build an ad-frame which will run on external sites (e.g. YYY.com). The external site will place an iframe to our site (ZZZ.com/ourAdContent.html) and we will show some ads in this frame. The question is, will our iframe have access to the cookies belonging to our domain even when the _iframe_ is on a separate domain?


title: Redirect multiple files using .htaccess

text: I have a lot of files with a lot of sub directories which I moved one folder up, so, say, instead of `example.com/cdn/folder/folder/file.html`, it now looks like this `example.com/folder/folder/file.html`. My problem lies in SEO, I have a lot of back links which point to files which used to be in the old directory structure, and everyone who tries to access these files via those links will get a 404. Now, I know that I can resolve the problem by adding a simple line of code in _.htaccess_ , so I have read quite a number of tutorials on the Internet which explain how to redirect files from one place to another using wildcards and `RedirectMatch` techniques. I have found a site which explains how to do it, but I can't seem to get it working. I don't know what my problem is. This is what I have come up with so far: `RedirectMatch 301 /cdn/folder/folder/(.*)/(.*) http://example.com/folder/folder/$1/$2` This, however, does not do what I want it to do. Say, if someone accesses a file via `example.com/cdn/folder/folder/file.html`, they will get a 404. The code above does not resolve the problem. But, it does what I want it to do only for `example.com/cdn/folder`. Someone trying to access the subdirectory of `/cdn` will be redirected to `/folder`. Please point me in the right direction.


title: Using other's contents in your website

text: How can I use someone other's article/post on my own website? What is the legal way of doing this? Usually what I do is that I mention the **source** from where I got that post. Is there any other way? What ways do you follow to prevent yourself from copyright issues? Can I just use their content and not mention their name? Can I use a hidden HTML link of the source?


title: How can I redirect old WordPress URL (with a query string) to new URL using .htaccess?

text: I transferred my WordPress site to static HTML website, but some other website have a link to my old WordPress site `mysite.com/?page_id=1103`. I want to redirect all traffic to new URL which is `mysite.com/mypage.html`, but my redirect in _.htaccess_ file doesn't work. Maybe someone can help me with the line of code in _.htaccess_ file. I tried following but it didn't work:               Redirect 301 /?page_id=1103 http://mysite.com/mypage.html


title: Can I use <link> tags in the body of an HTML document?

text:
Can I use `<link>` tags in the body of an HTML page? I tried to find the answer to this question, but found contradictory information. When adding Schema.org microdata markup to an HTML page, I want to add canonical info in a link tag like this:
       The Catcher in the Rye—       <link itemprop="url" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye" />       by J.D. Salinger
      I got the example code above from Schema.org. According to them, this is the way to go for people that want to add a canonical reference to an itemprop, but don't want to place a hyperlink on their website. W3 however clearly states that `<link>` tags should only be placed within the head section, thus making the Schema.org example invalid. If I want to stick to correct markup, which advice should I follow?


title: News like pages get index, but not showing up in SERP

text: Well I have some crawlers to scrape news from different news agency websites and auto-publish it to my own website, the thing is my pages get index in Google, but even if I search the exact same words, it's not showing up. It only shows the source website, I'd like to know what can I do to make Google to show my pages on SERP too? should I link back to the source website? or is it basically not useful to crawl another website and publish it's content as your own?


title: How to register many accounts on social networks for each website you wish to rank?

text: Google changed the rule, now it's hard to get position on first page. Many people use a paid blog network (PBN); but if you have many websites such as 50, 100, or above; without link building they will not give you powerful links. If you build many links to every website, you need many social network accounts: Google+, Facebook, Twitter, etc. How do you do that?


title: Should I log the price when an item is added to a cart?

text: Imagine the scenario, someone adds an item to a cart and then proceeds to check out. On the very rare occasion that the price in the DB is updated before they have reached the end of their checkout process, what should happen? I see it happening one of two ways:   1. At some point (probably on the confirm order page) they will notice the price has changed. I would save the price around this stage because I would also save an order to the DB (status- Pending). This is slightly undesirable as it may cause confusion to the customer why their order is more than they expected.   2. When they add the item to the cart I actually save the price then so that if they continue without ever removing it from the cart they will get it at the price listed for. The problem I see here is if there was a sale or something similar then the item in the cart could be left at a cheaper price for a long time (I'm happy for items to sit in the cart for a while as it means they may one day be bought). Any suggestions/real world examples?


title: Dynamic remarketing AdWords

text: Dynamic remarketing have this note: > Dynamic remarketing requires a Google Merchant Center account. Google > Merchant Center is available in these countries: Australia, Austria, > Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, > India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, > Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. Is some way to use Dynamic remarketing for other country, like Lithuania?


title: Interpret data from Google Analytics (queries)

text: I have this data in my Google Analytics > acquisition > search engine optimization > queries: ![picture for my query](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KTJgP.jpg) I don't really understand how to interpret it.   1. What does it mean the writing under the big numbers? For example at Clicks it is written 251 and under it smaller it is written % of Total: 125% (200)    2. Average position it is shown 64 for keywords "erasmus plus" but when I search from a computer that I did not use before and without an account to see my position in Google for "erasmus plus" keywords I am on the first page. How is it possible?


title: How to get less visits to my website?

text: I've read that a huge percentage of traffic comes from bots - legit bots like search engine spiders and illegitimate bots like spammers and ones looking for vulnerabilities. I'm about to launch my website. The problem is that I am about to sign a copyright license for some of the content on the website, and the contract says that I have to pay a certain sum of money depending on how many visits the site gets (per month). The more visits, the more it will cost. So I have an incentive in limiting traffic to only legitimate hits by blocking the crap. I don't want the website to get popular, so maybe I don't want the search engines to do too much indexing either. What should I be looking into?


title: Should I use the same Google Analytics code for my website and native mobile app?

text: My website is a forum. The native mobile app's only function is to access the forum and provide a better experience than can be provided through the browser. Given that the same content is being accessed, should I use the same Google Analytics tracking code? Or should I create a new property and select "Not a website" when it asks for the website? ![Google Analytics selecting Not a Website](http://i.stack.imgur.com/NDBnI.png) I was not able to find anything that discussed this and what would be best practice, given that the same content is being accessed. Thanks!


title: 301 redirects. What's best way to get list of all my URL's to start the process of redirecting?

text: New Magento version of a site about to launch. What the best way to create a list of URLs on my site that ensures I haven't missed any - so I can do redirects on them? nd do I want to redirect all links that are indexed, or is there a reason not to do some? Thanks a lot for any guidance. For some reason the eComm/site admin guy here doesn't know the answer to this question.