title: How to use Google Web Fonts "text" parameter on Blogger?

text: Google introduced the new parameter "text" to the Google Web Fonts API, where you can choose which letters will come from your request (for when you only need few letters for the logo) The introdution of the new parameter is explained here But if I insert this Blogger Template:               <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Over+the+Rainbow:regular&text=PulaAe' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>      I get this error:               The reference to entity "text" must end with the ';' delimiter.      Someone knows how is the right way to use this new parameter within Blogger?


title: Would phpBB break if I move it from one folder to another? Can I use mod_rewrite to redirect requests for that forum from old folder to new one?

text: Please note that I have installed dynamic web pages (PHP) in the directory *public_html/old/* in order to create the web site _www.example.com_. Actually I have created a PHPBB forum and thus the URL of a topic is: `http:// www.example.com/old/viewtopic.php` or the URL of the index file is: `http:// www.example.com/old/index.php` What I would like to do is to change the name of directory “old” to “new”. I have been consulted that it can be done by editing the file _.htaccess_ that exists in the directory *public_html* and write inside:               Redirect permanent /old http://example.com/new      Could you please let me know if is this correct or should I write www.example.com instead of example.com. Moreover could you please let me know whether this effects any aspect of my web site? In addition I have been informed that if I change the name of the directory then it may break my web site (since I will have changed the path or location of the script) unless I configure it to work correctly. Could you please let me know what should the configurations be?


title: How to debug this site in IE9?

text: Just finished this site: http://brodr-haukaas.no And to my horror it doesn't work properly in IE. Something is breaking my slider script, and I don't have much experience in debugging JS code using any of the browser debuggers. I need to use the IE9 debugging tool, but how would I do the break points? Where should I start? It would be great if someone could point me to some good resources with examples to go from. _Not sure if this belongs under Wordpress, programming or here. But I feel it's a fairly general web debug question._


title: Uses of LINK tag

text: The `<link>` tag appears to have many uses aside from stylesheets. For example the W3 suggest using it for previous/next/index pages. I know that Opera also has a Navigation toolbar that will show links when present, including Home, Index, Contents, Previous, Next, Copyright, Author and more. (I doubt it is actually used by more than a handful of people.) Are there any other attributes that are useful, or other uses for the ones above? What about SEO benefit?


title: Make browsers not to make HTTP requests for cached items

text: I know that http caching and sending 304 response is to save some bandwidth and of course some load time. However in my web site there are about 40 css stylesheet files and 20 javascript files (don't ask me why) I know that would be a great idea to combine most of them into one and reduce HTTP requests. However my question is. Is there actually a way of caching when browser wouldn't even make requests for certain resources for some time? Because making requests and even getting 304 response is still some work.


I developed a website on my pc using visual studio 2005 and sql server 2005. Now I want to make my website live on the internet. How to publish a website built using ASP.NET?


title: What file size should a flash banner be?

text: Obviously the smaller the file size the better but is there a maximum file size for flash banners? What are the most effective ways in which to reduce flash file sizes?


title: How to reuse font families in CSS for quicker CSS loading

text: Let's say I use different fonts on my page, let's say I use 3 different fonts in 10-20 different CSS rules and in each of them I must use the following and similar:               font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;      There must be some shortcut way to have these font families listed in CSS once and CSS rules could only have some way to "point" to which font family to use without the need of writing such long lines every time. How can this be done?


title: How to use Node.Js in place of MySQL

text: I want to know if it's possible to use Node.js in place of MySQL.


title: 301 redirects in main navigation menu of WordPress website - is this okay for SEO?

text: I want to allow a client to have a flexible way to configure the navigation menu for his WordPress website. To that end, I have created a parent page called "Navigation", which has child pages for each page to be displayed in the navigation menu. Those pages then get 301 redirected to the actual page that should be served. This means the client can create pages freely, and then set up redirects for them as and when needed. This is a really easy way for him to manage his main menu and it works well. From an SEO point of view, is this okay? Will the pages be indexed fine?


title: Domain name expired and sold to New Venture Services

text: My domain name expired and although I was working with my Network Solutions to update my information somehow they let my name go and it was picked up by NVS Corp. At this point I can not get any information from anyone as to how I can purchase it back. My question is I spent thousands of dollars on the actual web site...so where is the web site now?


title: Can too many 301 redirects cause a DNS error?

text: For a site http://imageocd.com that I just set up I initially spelled the category "automobiles" as "autimobiles"... I know it's rediculous. I then set up over 10,000 pages behind that category e.g. http://imageocd.com/automobiles/hillman-minx-cabrio-pictures-and-wallpapers. So, I set up over 10,000 301 url redirects to change the spelling on automobiles. I just checked my Google Webmasters report and got an error saying:               http://www.imageocd.com/: Googlebot can't access your siteSep 7, 2012     Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 2 errors while attempting to retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS queries for your site is 66.7%.      Could the overabundance of 301 redirects be causing this? I host 13 sites on this dedicated server and all sites are running fine. I also contacted GoDaddy and they said the server is running fine. Any ideas on what might be going on? Also, I have "canonical" set up for every URL. Could this be part of the error? Thanks.


title: Protecting design ideas from being copied by other websites?

text: I'm planning a project at the moment, while building a completely different project at the same time. Both of these projects are quite innovative in the way they either work or the way they are presented. One of the projects hasn't been done before, and the other is being made has competition, but I feel the competitions websites are light years behind what I'm doing. Is there a way for me to prevent the way my sites work or presented from being stolen? I've thought of patenting parts of them, but it requires £10,000 and I don't have that amount of money. Also, would me putting a Copyright notice on the site or an All Rights Reserved tag give me any muscle when going to websites that I feel have stolen my ideas (if they have)? Cheers!


title: Appropriate response when client empowered with CMS destroys content to his own will

text: So, I just recently closed a website project that pretty much was The Oatmeals' Design Hell, but with content. The client loved the site at the beginning but started getting other people involved and mercilessly bombarding us with their opinions. We served a carefully thought content strategy (which the client approved) and extremely curated copywriting that took us four months after at least 5 requirement changes (new content, new objectives for the business, changed offerings, new mindfaps, etc.) that required us to rewrite the content about 3 times. The client never gave timely feedback even though we kept the process open for him and his people to see (content being developed transparently in Google Docs). Near the end of the project he still wanted to make changes but wanted us to finish already (there are not enough words in the world to even try to make sense of this). So I explained to him the obvious implications of the never-ending requirement changes and advised him to take the time to gather his thoughts with his own team and see the new content introduced as a new content maintenance project. He happily accepted, but on the day of training/delivery things went very wrong and we have no idea why. The client didn't even allow the site to be out for a week with the content we developed for him and quickly replaced us with a Joomla savvy intern so that he completely destroy the content with shallow, unstructured, tasteless and plain wordsmithing (and I'm not even being visceral). Worst insult of all, he revoked our access from his server and the deployed CMS not even having passed 10 minutes of being given his administrator account (we realized the day after that he did it in our own office, the nerve!). Everybody involved in the team is enraged and insulted. I never want to see this happen again. So, to try to make sense of this situation and avoid it in the future with new clients I have two concrete questions:   * Is there even an appropriate course of action with a client like this?, or is he just not worth the trouble of analyzing (blindly hoping this never repeats again).   * In the exercise to try and blame ourselves instead of the client and take this as a lesson of... something, how should we set expectations for new clients about the working terms, process and final product so that they are discouraged from mauling the content to their own contempt once they get the codes to the nukes (access to the CMS)?


title: urlrewrite and search engines

text: I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like               mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle       into               ...page/mytitle/123/      I'm trying to understand what are the pros / cons if any of having it like               ...page/mytitle/123/       instead of               ...page/123/mytitle/      Does it make any difference for search engines and is there anything i'm doing wrong with this?


title: Changing my domain name - need a checklist

text: I have a web site currently with say 'a.com', with a quite good Google rankings and a hit rate. Now due to some change in business needs I need to change my domain name to 'b.com'.   1. Can you provide me with a check list of all points I need to consider before going up with new name.   2. How can I minimize the effect on my SEO rankings? Can I carry forward existing rank to new domain.


title: Access site not working for the owner

text: I made a website, and it works for everyone except for the site owner, who cannot access the site. He gets a "server could not be found" error. I went to his house and the issue occurs for all of his devices (PC, laptop, iPhone using WiFi) when I turn WiFi off on the iPhone it works. So I thought it was a problem on his router, so I reset his router to default factory settings but it still does not work. I have flushed his DNS cache and his browser cache, but nothing seems to help. He cannot even PING the server using the domain name. However, when he uses the IP address, he can see the site fine. I looked in cPanel for an blocked IP addresses but cannot see anything. What could be stopping just him from accessing the site via domain name and not the IP address? Site details are: PHP, osCommerce, and it is hosted by site5 on my reseller account.


title: Why some AdChoices ads are showing AdRoll instead of Adsense

text: I know what AdRoll is, but I have visited one of the my favorite blog and click on the AdChoice overlay and it is showing AdRoll.   1. Is AdRoll operating a ads network? (I think it is no)   2. Is AdRoll buy the Adsense inventory on behalf of the user? Can they allowed to modify the AdChoice overlay?


title: Small client to launch product line with Walmart. What potential issues should I prepare for with the website?

text: I didn't know which of the SE sites was best for this question. It is not a code question, but more of a "tell me your experiences and give me advice" question. I recently landed a client who already has a website, an old static HTML site. The client is somewhat small, and work on the project has not begun. The contract is for a complete redesign using Wordpress as the platform. Today, the client emailed me with their "good news". They have landed a deal with Walmart for a few of their products. They have not yet revealed which products. What should I expect and prepare for, should the site begin getting a large volume of traffic all of the sudden.


title: Is it possible to code in such a way that Dreamweaver will display it same as the browser?

text: Some background: I work in an internet marketing firm. My manager and I were just talking, and he brought up that some of our clients have complained that my web pages don't display "correctly" in Dreamweaver when they go to edit them after we've delivered (adding SEO tags and such, I imagine). Apparently, this is a serious concern of theirs. He, also, wants me to code in a way that will display in Dreamweaver just as it will display in the browser, as on the rare occasion that I'm not here, he wants to be able to make changes as needed. (He can't code HTML or even read it well) Now, I put on my serious face really quickly because there have been times in the past when I thought he and I were on the same page with stuff like this, and I'd laugh at the joke, and he'd get mad because - ba dum dum tssh - it hadn't been a joke. So now he's seriously asking me to not only code in Dreamweaver, but to find a way to code in Dreamweaver where what you see in display view will be identical to what the browser shows. Here's my question: Am I just being a text editor snob about this? I haven't used DW in a long time - sure I cracked it open just now to look at my code in it; found all the things I hated about it five years ago to still be there: slow response times, unpredictable display behavior, a UI based on a visual metaphor that is just awkward to work with, lackluster text editor, etc etc - but I could just be suffering from some sort of pernicious bias. I'm open to that possibility. Just like I'm open to the possibility that my clients and manager are out of their minds. I just need an outside opinion so I can choose the best (in an objective sense) way to handle the situation. Personally, I was under the impression that Dreamweaver's design view was never meant to be an accurate display of content, just a kind of "just good enough" halfway point to enable non-coders to drag and drop instead of writing code. I should probably add that I don't design the web pages, the designers do, and the designers know less HTML than my manager does, so they will often obliviously put me in a position where I've got to pull off some fairly acrobatic coding to make their designs work, making it even LESS likely that I will be able to deliver pages that are simultaneously true to design, browser, AND Dreamweaver's ham-fisted rendering. Opinions? Am I being unreasonable here? Or am I correct in thinking that this is either not possible, not feasible, or simply a completely unnecessary condition that will in the end add very little value in return for the extra time, heartbreak, and head-to-desk injuries I will incur?


title: how does private sales ecommerce site work on their SEO?

text: In a private sales ecommerce site, users need to sign up/in before they can access the pages of website. So, even if a user tries to directly navigate to a product page, he is redirected to sign in. I am wondering then how does these sites manage their SEO, as it would imply google too can't crawl these pages, or do they completely ignore the SEO benefit of allowing google to crawl the product and catalogue pages?


title: How can I create (or do I even need to create) an alias of a DNS MX record?

text: I am in the process of moving my DNS records from Network Solutions to the Amazon Route 53 service. While I know and understand a little about the basic kinds of records, I am stumped on how to create the record that will point to the MX record on Network Solutions (if I'm even saying that right). On Network Solutions I have this:               Mail Servers (MX Records)            Note: Mail Servers are listed in rank order          myapp.net      Add Sub-Domain     MXMailServer(Preference)    TTL       inbound.myapp.net.netsolmail.net.(10)   7200    Network Solutions E-mail      I have read that the payload for an MX record state that it must point to an existing A record in the DNS. Yet in the example above, that `inbound.myapp...` record only has the words "Network Solutions E-mail" next to it. Our email is hosted at Network Solutions. I have already created the CNAME records that look like this:               mail.myapp.net  7200   mail.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net.     smtp.myapp.net  7100   smtp.mycarparts.net.netsolmail.net.      Since I am only using Amazon as the DNS, do I even need to do anything with that MX record? I appreciate your help, I googled and researched this before I posted, this is my first post on webmasters although I've been on SO for a few years.


title: Disallow age gate/verification page in robots.txt?

text: Should I disallow the age gate page in robots.txt? I need to make sure the crawlers can get through the gate.


title: Block access to robots.txt file .htaccess

text: I read in this forum that this .htaccess code should block access to the robot.txt file:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla     RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(Slurp|surfsafely)     RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ /someotherfile [L]      But I just get a error 500: "Internal Server Error" What do I do wrong?


title: How to re-direct Wordpress posts with 301

text: All my WordPress post URLs generate sub directories with duplicate content and I do not know what regular expression to use to consistently 301 redirect `domain.com/category/post/random-number/` to `domain.com/category/post/` and `domain.com/category/post/random-number/another-random-number/` also to `domain.com/category/post/`. **Here is an example of my problem:**   * `http://www.example.com/features/harb-constitution-not-to-allow-kr-provinces-to-receive-foreign-officials/`   * `http://www.example.com/features/harb-constitution-not-to-allow-kr-provinces-to-receive-foreign-officials/1345257927000/`


title: Lightweight PHP-supporting webserver: Nginx, Cherokee, or Hiawatha?

text: I had asked this question on ServerFault, but nobody answered satisfactorily, so I re-ask here. I want a lightweight webserver. The requirements are:   * PHP support   * HTTPS support   * Virtual domains (we have some domains that will point to the same IP address)   * Actively developed (to patch security issue etc.)   * Runs on Linux (but no need for binary packages; if I have to compile it from source, so be it) We don't need URL rewriting ability; SEO has approximately _zero_ priority. Between Nginx, Cherokee, and Hiawatha, can you provide me with the pros/con's of each? Or can you recommend something better?


title: What is considered the optimal placement of a link to an RSS feed for SEO?

text: When do I want a search engine's spider to run across my RSS feed link?   * Before the heading (not saying header tag..)   * During the heading   * During the main content   * During the footer   * After the footer      * Completely irrelevant     * Other And why? As I understand it, it wont really matter much where the link/button _displays_ but where on the page it is written in the code.


title: Why did Google stop indexing pages from our sitemap.xml?

text: We're seeing some pages that exist in our `sitemap.xml` but are inexplicably missing from Google's public search index. You can't download http://superuser.com/sitemap.xml -- we protect this file because there have been issues with it in the past -- but googlebot can. We have verified via Google Webmaster Tools that the `sitemap.xml` file was pulled down today and is rated OK with no errors (green checkmark). ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sfas0.png) The `sitemap.xml` contains a list of the last 50,000 questions on our site that were asked. For example, this question ... http://superuser.com/questions/201610/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of- symbolic-links ... exists in the `sitemap.xml` as ...               <url>     <loc>http://superuser.com/questions/201610/how-to-see-the-end-of-a-long-chain-of-symbolic-links</loc>     <lastmod>2010-10-20</lastmod>     <changefreq>daily</changefreq>     <priority>0.2</priority>     </url>      Searching for "How to see the end of a long chain of symbolic links" gives only one result to questionhub.com which is scraping our data (a whole different problem). You can increment the question count number and do an exact search for the question title and you will see this pattern persist. These urls are _in_ sitemap.xml but they are not showing up in Google's index -- and yet they show up on sites that scrape our creative commons data. Why would that be?


title: . Rk domain registration

text: Anybody knows where I can get .rk domains? Looks like nowhere so far - any idea?


title: Paypal: Subscribe Buttons and Inventory

text: Paypal lets you create purchase buttons, and one option is to make the purchase actually trigger an autopay - they call it a Subscription/Subscribe button. They also let you enter inventory for a given item. If you enter 1 in Inventory for a Subscribe button, does Paypal: A) Treat that as 1 item in stock, and after 1 month the subscription will run out or B) Treat that as 1 Subscription in stock, and after one person purchases it, it will be out of stock (but the Subscription that 1 customer purchased goes on indefinitely) I assume B, but perhaps others have found otherwise.


title: How to change the zone file records for .io domain registered at nic.io?

text: I just registered a `.io` domain at `nic.io` and I want to make changes to the zone file to integrate it with Google Apps. I couldn't find an interface to change CNAME / MX records. Has anybody been able to figure out how to do this?


title: How to make image only website friendly to googlebot?

text: so I making this portfolio site for some artist. She draw all the menus and texts manually(on paper), then scanned, some "post processing" in photoshop and that's how the whole layout was created. Now the problem is all texts are actually images so bots can't read this. How to make this site more friendly to google bot so it can actually gather some data? Some ideas are:   * put text in alt, title tags (sometimes text is too long I guess)   * some additional texts in footer   * comments   * found this: How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines? good idea?   * also thought of normal text and than hiding it in javascript (googlebot doesn't execute js, does it?) Thanks for all answers P.S. I know it's bad idea, to create web page like this, I know about embed fonts but it's really specific case, so I hope you'll understand my problem:)


title: Hosting my own SVN repositories

text: I've been experimenting with `Google Code` and `Sourceforge` and the like, and am happy with what I've found. The main problem with them, is that you have to have your project be open source to use them, so anybody can edit them. So... is there some way I can have my own svn repositories on my own server? I have FTP access, cpanel, and all that. If it helps any:                   Operating system    Linux         cPanel Version      11.26.20         Architecture        x86_64         MySQL version       5.0.91-community-log         Apache version      2.2.13         PHP version         5.2.11         cPanel Pro          1.0 (RC1)


title: Can I combine subdomains in Google Analytics?

text: I have 2 separate domains in my Google Analytics: `abc.com` and `xyz.abc.com`. The second domain is 3rd party shopping cart. Right now the reporting for each is separate. I want to have them together so I can eventually set up goals and conversion tracking.


title: Geotarget global audience with .com.au

text: We were trying to buy our `.com.au` in `.com` form but it's taken already. Is there a way to set a `.com.au` to have a global geotarget? Does a `.com` have any geotargetting associated with it? If so is there a way to mimic these settings with the `.com.au` domain?


title: SEO impact of using <small> tag in <h1>

text:
Twitter bootstrap uses `<small>` tag within `<h1>`. What is the SEO impact of this? Will the text content in the `<small>` tag get equal importance? Here is an example (see the _Lightweight defaults Same markup, different classes_ ):
Lightweight defaults Same markup, different classes


title: SEO effect of many articles having a similar title and content structure?

text: I'm building a diet directory on my weight loss site, and the _structure_ for those diet descriptions will be similar (the actual content will be unique though). Here are some examples of the similarities that the diet descriptions will have: _how does the diet work?_ will be in every diet description. Also the title for every diet will be something along the lines of _Diet X reviews and information_ , with the reviews and information part being the same across all diet descriptions. Can having many titles that are similar to each other in that way, and also having some `h2` headings that are identical across articles hurt the SEO rankings of those articles?


title: Images within noscript

text:
> **Note:** My question is not about JavaScript > > **Note:** My question is how to make the HTML accessible to search engines. > > **Note:** My question is not about hiding texts, is on block loading of > images in order to use LazyLoad. **Note:** Library used in tests: > https://github.com/brcontainer/smooth-images-js I tested various techniques of blocking the loading of images to use `effect LazyLoad` (I'm developing in JavaScript), was the only efficient `<noscript>`: The `HTML structure` that would, with `LazyLoad loading` of images is achieved via the `viewport` (visible part of web page).
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.
      When `<noscript>` with the image is the `view-port` (visible part of web page).   * The jquery-plugin gets the DOM: `$("span.lazyload")`.   * The jquery-plugin checks if the `<noscript> <img>` is on view-port.   * The jquery-plugin to create a `new Image` with `Image.onload = function(){}`.   * When the image loaded `Image.onload` will insert `<img>` outside the `<noscript>`. For clarity. Suppose that only the first `<noscript>` is the view-port (`<noscript><img src="foto-m0101.jpg" alt="image description"></noscript>`). After the onload JavaScript will do the HTML:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                                                consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,                                                            consectetur adipiscing elit.
      * * * [edit] I believe that Google displays the DOM also modified by JavaScript. Look I used the tool _Fetch as Google_. **Look at the results:** > Without my jquery-plugin and `<noscript>` (i.e. pure HTML): > > > ![http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2632/webpagethumbnail1.jpg](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wcciP.jpg) * * * > With jquery-plugin and `<noscript>`: > > > ![http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3485/webpagethumbnail.jpg](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aN0Qz.jpg) > > **Note:** The JavaScript that showcased images and manipulated the DOM. **Question:**   * This is a bad practice for search engines (I refer to HTML)?   * If it is a bad practice, you could put an example of good practice?   * If there is another question talking about `<noscript>` with "IMAGES", forgive me.   * If the JavaScript displays images and _Fetch as Google_ displays the content normally (like the browser) so Google indexes the DOM manipulated by JavaScript? > **Note:** I did not find any doubts about `<noscript>` with images.


title: Upgrading Blog to WordPress, keep old one or redirect?

text: I have had a blog for around 4 years now that has gained some success and gets tons of residual and organic traffic. I am using an outdated version of BlogEngine.NET and we are going to switch to WordPress. Currently, our blog is at ourwebsite.com/blog, and I don't really want to mess with our web server. I setup a new server just for WordPress and instead of dealing with proxies and things that are above my head, the new blog will be at blog.oursite.com. I am trying to figure out the best way to go about doing this. We value our search engine rankings very much so, as that is where 90% of our traffic comes from. Would I be best off:   1. Importing all of the old blog posts from oursite.com/blog to blog.oursite.com and then redirecting all of the articles, categories, authors, pages and tags to the new blog and giving up the direct links to our current site.   2. Keeping all of our current articles as they are, and only add new content to the new blog.oursite.com and just kind of let the old blog float around our site.


title: Is it okay to showcase templates/layouts recreated in different codes in a portfolio?

text: I have several different templates/layouts, both simple and complex. I recreated these templates multiple times, just using different codes. (Say, a complex one was originally made in only HTML and CSS, I _recreated_ it using HTML, Javascript, CSS, then again with a HTML and PHP concoction, and etc.) I wanted to showcase my work and skills by doing this, but I don't know if it would be okay for that all to go into a resumé/portfolio. This is why:   * **Freelancing** Does potential business really care about how their site is made, as long as it looks and functions to their liking? (As in, should I just only show the one example of each template/layout and not the multiple recreations?)   * **Potential Hire** However, if a potential employer were to stumble across my resumé/portfolio, would having the multiple recreations do any good for a career outlook? (As in, this potential employer is a company where I could be working on a team to create/develop sites and not be freelancing; would a lack of skill-shining turn this employer away because I didn't set myself apart and show that I'm not just like every other budding web designer?) Those two issues have me wondering if it is okay to have a resumé/portfolio combined for this specific reason. Or does something like this not matter to potential business (as a freelancer) because they wouldn't care either way _as long as it looks and functions to their liking_ and therefore it is okay to showcase the recreations with the originals?


title: How to do SEO for eCommerce website?

text: What are the steps required to generate traffic for eCommerce sites like online shopping sites?


title: Spam link text when searching for company directors' name

text: It was brought to my attention that if you search for the name of one of our directors (with the intent to find there profile page on our site) They come up as the first link in most search engines as you would expect but the link text is just pure spam. the three search string I have tested on Google, Bing, Ask, and Yahoo have all returned similar results. Here is a list of the search strings: > Paolo rossi futex > > Mark rossi futex > > Marco rossi futex > > Dan Goldberg futex Any idea what might be causing this I have searched through as much of the sites code as I can and cant find anything wrong with it.


title: Can I make query strings produce separate pages?

text: I have a profile page with a URL like so:               localhost/profile.php/?username=Bob      I was wondering, if I had a separate `<title>` which changed according to the username, would they produce separate pages in the google search results? How do I tell Google to only use the username string or does it search within the `title?` On a similar note, how would I create a separate page with the username like so:               localhost/bob      instead of a query string like facebook does. Do that make a new file for each user?


title: Apache rewrite to 404 except for matched query

text: I'm trying to handle logically simple operation, but apache rewrite does not handle my website's query strings requests. I heard it's does not do it eventually. Still cannot understand it's regex syntax.               RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^\?category=([a-z])$ // WHY DO I NEED THIS?     RewriteRule ^!(?category=[a-z]+|?do=[a-z]+)$ [R=404,L,NC]      Goal is to send client to 404 for any query NOT matching /?category=[a-z]+ and /?do=[a-z]+. It would be much better if it's possible to load patterns from the text file. Apache documentation is poor and Google does not help too. Please help. Thanks.


title: changing URL format afftects SEO reputation and not considering 301 redirection

text: We had URL `http://www.example.com/category/subcategory.html` which changed to `http://www.example.com/category/filter/cat/subcategory.html` We did `301 redirection`, updated `canonical URL` to new one also updated `sitemap` and also resubmitted to Google Webmaster Tool. But still reputation of old URL not shifted to new one. Old URL used come to first or second position for certain keywords but now I can't find old or new URL in any where in Google search. Why changing `URL` format affects `SEO` reputation and not considering 301 redirection? PS: We also changed `http://www.example.com/category.html` to `http://www.example.com/category-extra.html` and updated same as above. This seems working totally fine. No affect in position at all.


title: Remote desktop connection domain name SEO

text: I have a website that has a domain name such like `www.example.com` which is of course the website. Then there is `example.com` which is used by my boss for remote desktop connection. I was wondering if this will be a problem for SEO?


title: Why are bots clicking on email links? And how to stop them?

text: I help run a fairly large email newsletter. Recently we have discovered that our click through rates have been artificially raised by some kind of bot activity. They are clicking on links in our emails a couple hundred times. I've looked up the email addresses that they use to sign up and they are using the same email addresses to join a couple of other sites. How could they benefit from clicking on links in our email, or is it just a side effect of some other activity they are doing? The newsletter contains celebrity and shopping information if that helps.


title: Where does Bingplaces information appear?

text: I've updated bingplaces.com with description, images, hours of operation, secondary phone, fax, email and website. All I see though in Bing Maps is still the address and one phone number. Where does all of the additional information they asked for even show up? **Edit:** I've now found some of this content on Bing if I type in EXACTLY the company name. It will show on the right side with company name, map, address, phone, website, and hours. I still have no idea where, if anywhere, the logo and photos are being used though?


title: SSL certificate error only in Internet Explorer 8

text: My SSL certificate works on all modern browsers (IE 9+), but does not work on IE 8. With modern browsers, the SSL certificate for my domain is used, but IE 8 wants to use the SSL certificate for my PaaS, resulting in a domain mismatch. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rmdce.jpg) How do I fix this? Is this an issue with my PaaS?


title: Best way to deal with non existant page

text: I had on my website category pages. they were http://my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ but with the structure change of my site (it's rather new), I have no need for this http://my.site.com/en/somecountry/category/ anymore. Now, google sees it as a crawl error. Obviously... How should I deal with it. I know I have to do a redirect 301 but the big question is... To where!


title: IIS 7.5 Request Filtering

text: I keep getting 404.7 (FILE_EXTENSION_DENIED) on a sub directory I have under my Default Web Site. Request Filtering allows htm and html files on the server level and the site level. A few months ago I created a folder under Default Web Site to test some proof of concept stuff and have had no problems. A week or so ago I added a folder with Piwik php \ html code underneath 'Default Web Site' and request filtering has decided to block html extensions. My question is can anyone tell me any reason why my one folder would not have html files blocked and yet another added a few weeks later does have html files blocked? **EDIT:** I _believe_ I installed Request Filtering a much longer time ago before both of these websites were created when I was doing some Web Deploy stuff. Other than that I have not knowingly applied any request filters to any of the websites.


title: Does it make sense to mark up posts about online discounts with the event schema?

text: I have a news system that creates news posts, and I'm considering whether it makes sense to mark up the results with the "event" seo schema from schema.org: http://schema.org/Event The problem is, some of the news posts are about physical events, and some are about online, non-physical, discounts of certain brands/groups of shoes sold on the website. Does it make sense to mark up an online-only, limited-time (e.g a week) sale with the Event schema? Has anyone seen that in use and being utilized anywhere? Or perhaps there's another different schema that would be more appropriate for that?


title: serious 404 problem, suggestions for hunting them all down

text: I have a bit of a situation coming up. Due to a complete website structure redesign that is basically inevitable, I expect to have the following:   * Our sitemap of about 12,000 url's have about 90-95% of them change   * Out of those 12,000, I expect around 5000-6000 internal links to go dead in the process.   * No external links to this site yet, as it is still in development. Is there a tool out there that can do the following:   * I can feed the sitemap.xml after the restructuring   * have it parse each pages links for 404 errors on that page   * only report the pages/errors, preferably with just the url it is on, the url of the error, and the anchor text I have found a few tools, but all of them seem to be limited to 100 pages. Any advice for an intermediate webmaster to help this situation? 301 redirects are not viable in this situation.


title: URL good practice for category sub category?

text: I have developed a application and I need to work for SEO-friendly URL. I have following URL structure:               http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2      and               http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2-4-23      Is this a good practice? If not how can I rewrite it? Ok Ill explain about my applicaiton. My application is based on shopping. if a customer searched for mobiles. it will redirect to url like this               http://mydomain.com/cat/mobile-3      3 in the url indicates my database id it is used for further searching After the user reached the mobile page he may need to filter for some brand eg. nokia so my url look lik               http://mydomain.com/subcat/nokia-3-2      The integer at the end refers to 3 category id and 2 the brand id My doubt is whether the integer at the end of the url will affect seo ranking.


title: Deleted files still accessible without www in url

text: I have deleted all files and all hidden files off my server, there is nothing but log files which cannot be deleted. Ironically, files are accessible when nothing is there. Cache cleared, multiple browsers and computers/devices checked. Files show when I exclude "www" from the URL `http://sarastringfellow.com/assets/photo/c.jpg` `http://www.sarastringfellow.com/assets/photo/c.jpg` _**What does this mean?_**


title: Does Google Analytics exclude Campaign traffic from Facebook in the Social reports?

text: For a while we have used campaign tags when putting posts on Facebook so that we can run campaign reports in Google analytics on those links. However it appears that traffic from those links are being excluded in Google's Social reports. For example between 7/20 and 8/19 I'm seeing 123 Visits where Facebook is the source in my Campaigns report, but only 29 Visits where Facebook is the source in my Social > Sources report. Main questions:   1. Does Google exclude campaign traffic from it's social reports?   2. If it does, is there any way to reconcile that so that the traffic shows up in both reports?   3. If it doesn't, what could be causing the vast discrepancy? One observer noted that we are setting the Medium to "Post" when passing the campaign parameters, and that Google may only allow "Referral" traffic in it's social reports (Just speculation). In that case we could potentially change the Medium to "Referral", but that would undermine some of our strategy in being able to set different mediums. I have also considered that maybe the campaign traffic came to the site several times, and the social report may count the same user as less visits, however over 70% of the Facebook campaign traffic is new traffic, so at a minimum there would need to be over 85 Visits on the Social side for that argument to be valid. I've done several searches for any information on this topic, and haven't run across much of anything. I did post the same question on Google's Product Forum and have not gotten a response. The title of that question was 'Facebook Campaign Traffic Not Showing in Social Reports'. The inability to pass campaign data on Facebook posts would make evaluating the performance of those specific posts very difficult, so I'm hoping there is a solution to this.


title: Should Image Sitemaps be Supplied to Google?

text: I hear controversial things regarding image sitemaps. On Google Webmasters forum people say that submitting a sitemap for images doesn't make sense, because Google won't use it to index images anyway. On the other hand, Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide recommends supplying an image sitemap.


title: Not my Rich Snippets

text: My client had discussed in depth SEO. It was put off, however. Recently though, a Google search of the site revealed rich snippets. This is not from work that I have done for the site. I had began to work on this for his site, but it was put off and never made it into the deployments. How could the site possibly have rich snippets. If it is not from me, where could it be coming from?


title: I own a domain and recently got a Trademark Infringement for it can I offer to sell it to them?

text: I own a domain related to an iPhone Game and have been sent a Trademark Infringement on said domain by the company. It makes me a few dollars a month but nothing great, And I would like to offer to sell the domain to them. Does anyone have any advice or tips on this?


title: Where is name="lc" defined as a meta tag?

text: I've noticed that ea.com includes a `<meta name="lc" content="en_us"/>` tag on their website which changes for each language/country (`<meta name="lc" content="en_gb"/>`, `<meta name="lc" content="es_mx"/>`, &c). I can't find any reference to `name="lc"` being a valid meta tag. I've seen `<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en">` and `<html lang="en">`, but where did `name="lc"` come from?


title: schema.org hierarchy as xml

text: I am intersted in using schema.org hierarchy to help uses define "things" that they add to my custom CMS. For example if they wanted to add a "person" to my CMS, they would have to add all the fields from "thing" and "person" http://schema.org/Person I am looking for a XML document or some other document that I can parse to generate the hierarchy of required fields. A tree of elements with their fields and data types would be perfect. Basically I am looking for this entire doc in XML format or some other computer readable format (JSON, ect..) . http://schema.org/docs/full.html


title: How many variations of a term can be used before Google punishes your site?

text:
I have a new client with a huge inventory of antique items. My client has each item named properly on the website, however, each item has many common variations of each name. Often times the most popular search term is not the proper (official) name. I had the thought of creating a page for each variant of the name, which would create a page that looked like                         <title>Product One Name A</title>
Product One Name A

Product One Name A blah, blah, blah

Product One Name A is also known as

Product One Name B

Product One Name C

Product One Name D

Product One Name E

Product One Name F

           I would then create the ProductOneNameB page, which would have the names changed a bit, but it would have the same description, structure and images. My hope is that I can rank high for each of the keywords. At the moment, the client is ranking high for the proper names, but not the variations. My question is, will Google consider this gaming the system, and punish me in the rankings?


title: Need SEO Guidance on Huge dynamic website

text: First of all I am a programmer and have really basic knowledge like keywords, titles and content makes difference on SEO ranking. I have a website which is more like yellow pages. I have imported about 40,000 businesses and they have a SEO friendly urls as well they are divided by categories and subcategories. If I expose all those to google at the same time will they create any problems should I open them to Google in few hundered and with couple of days between them? As this is a large number of pages can Google end up thinking it is a spam website and hence punish it in ranking? Also my category and paging urls are with query strings ie. ?page=1&cat=12. Can Google crawl those kind of urls? Do I have to change them to /12/1 type urls with Url rewiting?


title: Why does my link to a Subdomain not work?

text: My hosting provider has problems. I put Drupal on a sub-domain of my site. When I try logging in or clicking a link it comes to a Internal server error. But if I navigate to the actual directory it works fine. What should I do? Examples: **Works:** sld.tld/subdomainroot/Y **Fails** subdomain.sld.tld/Y


title: Do people still use RSS feeds?

text: I've built a site where people can submit security vulnerabilities found on websites. I've got some requests (not many though) by people to implement an RSS feed of confirmed and published cases. I'm not going to implement it if nobody uses it anymore :-) So my question is: Do people still use RSS feeds to get their information? PS My targeted public is:   * the press   * security researchers


title: Importance of Preferred Domain

text: Google Webmaster Tools allows to set preferred domain for a web site (with or without www). How important is it to set it in terms of SEO? Is there any difference which one I choose? Also, if I set a preferred domain should I issue a 301 redirect when someone visits the other domain? Thanks.


title: Source on Wordpress contains mangled Twitter data (hurting SEO?)

text: I have a Twitter account linked to my WordPress site so that each tweet becomes a new post. I was wondering why my SEO was hurting and when I looked at the source I saw stuff like this at the top of the page: Los Conchita & # 8 2 1 7 ; s on Prince has V & # 8 2 3 0 ; Has anyone else had this problem and know why it is occurring? Thanks! The site is reviewathens.com


title: One domain, multiple IP addresses

text: I have a domain-name, and I want to host the website on two servers. One server is located in Europe and one in Asia. How can you route European people to the European server and Asian people to the Asian server? I want to do this, because if you access a European website in Asia it's very slow and visa versa. I know/think some big websites are doing this too (like Google, Facebook, etc.). Is it possible to do this? Or is there another way to manage this problem? And I'm not thinking of two domainnames.


title: Clean URL using index files or mod_rewrite

text: Is it better to make clean URL's using index files in directories or simply using `mod_rewrite` rules to remove the file extensions?


title: What is the best way to promote a programming blog?

text: (The guys from 'Programmers' referred me here...) How do you promote your programming blog? I recently started http://blackforestcoder.blogspot.com/ to record my progress working with new technologies and ideas. The main aim being to provide a list of pitfalls and solutions and also to get feedback from readers. Since I set it up 10 days ago I have only had about 2-3 hits even though Google is supposed to be indexing it. How might I boost the hit rate?


title: Google Analytics vs Zopim stats are different

text: On my website I run Google Analytics and I also run Zopim. Zopim is providing very different figures than Google (more hits). Which one should I believe? Why would there be a difference?


title: Do or don't submit the comment-feed of your blog?

text: A commentsfeed (of a blog) might serve perfectly as a commentssitemap. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to submit this feed to Google's webmaster tools. What are the pros & cons?


title: Downsides for adapting a site to HTML5/CSS3?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I use HTML5 and/or CSS3 to build my website? I've been wondering if there are any serious downsides for switching a websites code to HTML5/CSS3 now (browser support, browser distribution in the user community) ? Would it be a better idea to hold on a little longer ? Thanks in advance for your replies


title: Is posting a document with a hand signature insecure?

text: Every once and a while, one of our departments would like to post a hand- signed document on the web site. Up until now I've scanned them in as a PDF and posted them without much thought, but recently I've become wary of doing so. Is there an inherent danger in posting a document with a scanned signature? Am I creating a fantastic opportunity for fraud and forgery, or am I overreacting?


title: personal blog format/layout/framework

text: I am thinking about dumping my daily stupidity on a blog kind of a thing. Its all technical stuff. No fancy graphics. Some pictures at most. Can you suggest any framework which is easy to use? I prefer PHP but that its negotiable. It would be great if I could borrow the couple of site layout and tweak them to my need. Thanks!


title: DNS configuration to force root domain to www

text: we have an app running on heroku. the dns setup is like this: A record for domain.com -> heroku front end ip addresses CNAME for www.domain.com -> specific host name for our app provided by heroku we also have an SSL cert for www.domain.com. the issue is that if someone goes to https://domain.com/secure_stuff, they will get heroku's SSL cert, instead of ours, causing lots of fear. We can do things on our end to make sure that all of our URLs point to https://www.domain.com, but it still won't solve this specific issue. is there a way to configure the DNS record to redirect all root domain traffic to the www subdomain?


title: How to backorder a .io domain name

text: There is a .io domain name I want to buy when it becomes available in 12 months time. What is the best tool to buy this automatically?


title: What is the purpose of the appserv_root requests?

text: I see a lot of requests for nonexistent php files on my website. They tend to have a querystring like `appserv_root=http://www.example.com`, using domains with evil-looking php code. I am pretty confident that this is trying to make use of some php vulnerability or other. So, I am curious:   1. What vulnerability is this trying to make use of?   2. How does one protect against this vulnerability?   3. What in the site configuration would be changed if this vulnerability was successfully exploited?


title: What to do with database in dev/production phases of a website?

text: For a while now I've been keeping a website I'm developing in the standard dev/production phases. Its been pretty simple: Mercurial repo for dev, repo for production. Do work in dev, get approved, push to production. But now I'm trying to apply this process to a new website that has a database and am struggling on how to figure out a development strategy. What I didn't mention above is that I do all my work on my own repo, push it to dev, then later push it to production, so its 3 different servers. So how do I manage my database? The obvious solution of mysqldump every commit isn't going to happen, and a dump at the end of the day isn't all that helpful when you want to undo later one change that happened in the middle of the day. What is the best way to accomplish this?


title: Will it hurt my website's SEO friendliness if I host a french targetted website at, let's say, godaddy.com?

text: I have read that the server location is important for a website to be SEO friendly. I am planning to build a website from scratch which is targetted mainly to french audience (in france), but I am planning to host the web site at godaddy.com. My concern is will it hurt the website SEO friendliness? Or do you recommend me to host the website in france itself? I have also read that I need to have a static IP Address. If it's true, can anyone explain me for what reason? Can anyone suggest me some good web hosting companies, prefereable in france? Thanks in advance!


title: Does Google compute keyword combinations for ranking?

text: Assuming the following keywords in a h1 header (for example): > Red Leash For Dog Does google compute all keyword combinations such as: > Red Dog For Leash, Dog Leash For Red, ... Or does it compute substrings such as: > Red Leash, Leash For Dog, Leash For, .... It seems hard to believe Google would compute all combinations since for a single page, it could easily reach millions. Anyone knows how multiple keywords are taken into account? Thanks!


title: How to track hot-linking of image types in IIS7

text: I don't want to block hot-linking on my site; it's not that big a deal. However, Google Analytics doesn't show me referrers to png/gif/jpg content; I don't have any statistics on the load generated from external sites due to hotlinking. Is there a way I can have Google Analytics track those files? If not, are there any alternative software that can make this task easier than manually parsing through IIS7 logs?


title: How can I set up private, per-user sections on Joomla?

text: For this weekend's GiveCamp project, my team has been tasked with adding some functionality to an existing Joomla-powered website for a non-profit. A certain type of user will login, and have access to a personal area where they can upload files, check for messages, see tasks that have been assigned, etc. Each user would have their own private homepage They would not be creating additional pages, and their information would only be visible to themselves (or a site-administrator, of course). None of us have worked with Joomla before, but we'd like to help this non- profit. We're not sure if we're searching using the wrong terms, or if we're just not finding it. Community Builder seems to have some of what we want -- but offers way more than the client wants. Is such a solution possible in Joomla without using community builder? Or can we turn off almost everything to get limited functionality? And/or are we better off building some standalone solution that interfaces with the same mySQL database as Joomla?


title: How do I remove a LOT of indexed pages from Google?

text: A few weeks ago we have figured out that Google has indexed some information we would rather keep in some confidentiality, in the format of individual PDF files. Our assumption was that this was a problem with our robots.txt we had overlooked. Even though we are not sure whether or not this is the case, we are certain that the robots.txt file is in a valid format and is, according to Google's webmaster tools, blocking the files. However, even after this adjustment that has been made weeks ago, Google still has the PDF files indexed, but does tell us further information cannot be provided due to the robots.txt file being present. As you can hopefully understand, this is unwanted behaviour due to the nature of the documents. I am aware that there is a request page being provided by Google for this purpose, but there are a **lot** of files. Is there an easier way to get Google to remove all of the files from its search engine? If not, is there anything else you could advise us to do besides manually requesting Google to remove every single page?


title: What search statistics are most reliable?

text: I'm doing some research into the SEO of one my websites and looking at different keywords and the search traffic they generate. **Let's say I have a search term I'm ranked number one for a keyword and looking at the following reports reveals different results:**   1. Google Analytics reports 6 users visited on a particular day from a search term.   2. Google Webmaster tools reports I am ranked number one for the same search term and that 22 people clicked it on that same day.   3. Google Adwords traffic tool estimator reports the daily impressions would be zero for that search term (even when max CPC is 99999 and avg. position is 1). Is the Adwords traffic estimator a valid tool for SEO research? And why is there such discrepancies between my Google Analytics and Google Webmaster?


title: Mixing self signed certs with traditional SSL

text: I have a traditional SSL cert going to a subdomain `secure.mydomain.com` on my domain. My host required me to have a dedicated IP in order to do this. I would also like to use HTTPS on my site for when I log into WordPress, etc. and since this is just for me, I don't mind self signing it and clicking through the scary messages. Is there a way to use a self signed cert for `mydomain.com/wp-admin` (just for me) when I already am on a dedicated IP that already has a traditional SSL cert for normal users on `secure.mydomain.com`? (FWIW, I'm on WHM without root access.)


title: Should I use subdomains or subfolders for my user groups?

text: I run a photography website where each user has its own subdomain (i.e. user.site.com). I'm thinking of adding user groups but I'm unable to decide if I should also associate a separate subdomain or simply a subfolder for each group: **Subfolders** (www.site.com/groups/my-group) _Pros:_   * Easier to maintain from a tehnical p.o.v. _Cons:_   * Harder to memorize.   * The URLs can get really long (www.site.com/groups/my-group/albums/my-album/) **Subdomains** (my-group.site.com) _Pros:_   * Easier to memorize.   * Shorter URLs.   * One might have the impression that such an URL is somewhat more "independent" from the main site. _Cons:_   * Group and user names belong to the same name space, so we need to check for collisions when creating a new user/group.   * One cannot determine the content of the page by only reading the URL: Is x.site.com a user page or a group page? What's your opinion on the matter? I should note that DeviantArt.com uses the 2nd option (that's where I got the idea). Thank you in advance!


title: Tool to monitor rankings

text: I'm searching for a tool that can give me the page number (Google) and position a given web page scores for a given keyword. E.g. Searching for the term "foo" the tool will show third page, second position if in that moment the said web page is second on the third page on Google. This has to be in real time since rankings change frequently. The webmasters tool doesn't give me an accurate information if the search result is not within the first three pages.


title: Should the title text of a hyperlink be the same as the link text for SEO?

text: Let's say I have the below hyperlink:               link link      It is good SEO practice to ensure that the title text is **exactly** the same link text? I.e. I would change the above link to:               title text      I know that the best practice is to have keywords in both, but does it do any harm if they are not identical?


title: How to upgrade Joomla 1.6 betas?

text: Greetings,   I'm starting a new site with joomla 1.6 b9, hoping that by early next year a stable release will be available. I want to upgrade the Joomla 1.6 b9 to 1.6 b11. however I can't find upgrade instructions. Cheers


title: Can using microdata from schema.org for local business hurt its exposure nationally?

text: Here's the dilemma: This website ranks in the first page for almost all of its products, but it is a local business. I should actually say, 90% of its business are still local, but we are trying to get more national exposure. One of the products sold has a CPC very high on google adwords and some very big companies advertise for it. The problem is that when searching locally for that particular product, this business does not appear in the "local results" section of google for example, nor does it appear in the first page. Having it appear locally is a must, while nationwide is a plus. Now, the question is: If i use microdata from schema.org to define this business as local (in every page, or only in the contact page, for example), will it help me get that local exposure on google? Furthermore, could that hurt the nationwide exposure? I'm afraid that defining it as local may mean to search engines that this company does not do business nationally. Resources: http://schema.org/LocalBusiness, http://microdatagenerator.org/


title: åäö in .com domain

text: Is ÅÄÖ allowed in .com domain? it is allowed in swedish .se top level domain. ie kåtbock.se which means hornygoat. According to to swedish internet magazine you can use ÅÄÖ in .com domain, but you cannot register ÅÄÖ in godaddy registar


title: What's the best workflow for creating websites fast & cheap, but that work as needed?

text: Have some ideas, but for now I'm going to leave it description as the question. If you have any questions, just ask -- thanks!! **UPDATES:** * * * **Guidelines:**   1. Workflow makes the most frequent tasks easy, and less frequent tasks achievable.   2. Workflow covers 80% of the tasks.   3. Solutions use smart default settings. **Focus of the Question:** The focus is the production of front interfaces; HTML, CSS, JS, generic content/graphic source, etc. Also, I figure that if the workflow required a CMS that the template would be based on existing one implementable on a given system. Again, thanks for any and all post!! -- **Any real answers will get an up vote by me, and I will select an answer.** Cheers!


title: Indexing issues when the SAME page has meta noindex when accsessed from the sites front page and meta index when accessed from sites archives

text: People post different questions on my site. I have a php code which searches for duplicate questions before putting them inside my ARCHIVES. Due to the sites architecture and coding there is a time delay of about 5 minutes where the same question has meta noindex when accessed from the site's front page, and meta index when accessed from my archives. Could that cause indexing problems? confuse google? Ty


title: Can I use Google Analytics with commercials from other networks?

text: Does Google Analytics allow me to configure and evaluate statistics like CTR etc. for commercials from networks other than Google Adsense?


title: Bust some SEO myths for me?

text: While I'm not an expert at SEO, I know a little, and I have had someone tell me two things that I believe to be false, but just cannot convince him. Here are the statements he makes: 1) If more people visit your site, you'll get better SEO rankings. The context here is sending out an email campaign and people clicking from the email campaign through to the site. I don't think this has any factor in SEO rankings. I _do_ think that if people search for keywords where your site comes up, and click your site more often than those above you in the rankings, that you may progress, but I'm not even 100% sure on that. Am I right though that people clicking through an email to your site won't affect your SEO rankings? 2) Alexa rank is a measure of SEO importance / rankings. From what I know, Alexa rank is based purely off of people visiting your site who have the Alexa toolbar (or other software?) installed. This means that not only is it not counting all your visitors, but it's probably counting a specific segment, most likely more web savvy folks who have the Alexa toolbar installed. I consider myself OK at computers/web development, etc., and I've never had the Alexa toolbar installed. Anyway, is #2 a myth as well? Is there any evidence to support these two?


title: How can i style a link and a submit button the same way

text: I'm currently in css form hell on my website. I'd like to skin the **submit button** and the **cancel link** so they look the same. I tried to use two buttons to make it easier but since their behavior is very different, it makes sense to use two different tags, and i get some nice "no surprises" side-effects. So far, though, it has been a process fraught with disappointment and bitter failure; i tried to get both tags to play nicely one next to the other but all my css attempts are a waste of time. Either the link jumps up by a few pixels, or the submit button has its content slightly but noticeably lower, etc, etc... Is there a way to skin both tags with the same appearance?


title: Slow site because of WordPress Evolve theme

text: I've installed WordPress lastest version in my site. It is using Evolve theme. Demo of this theme is here. The original demo is also slow. Slowing is like that, site is waiting for 9-10 seconds for opening, server is not responding. Then it is opening. I tried at localhost, it is slow at my localhost. I changed to the default theme, my site gets fast. How can I find to problem of this theme? Here the results of `pingdom.com` speed test. ![Site speed](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Dse81.png)


title: How much weight does Google give to keyword placement?

text: I am wondering weather or not to put a a "Call Now" button with our number in the top left corner of our page. This would move keyword-rich text to the left, giving it less weight. How much weight does Google give to the top right corner compared to the top left corner?


title: Is it better for SEO if the URL has the same path as the breadcrumb?

text: My product URL is `example.com/categorykeyword2/product`. The actual path (breadcrumb) is `example.com/categorykeyword1/categorykeyword2/product`. Would it be better in terms of SEO if the URL was the same as the breadcrumb?


title: Products and shopping Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, RDFa) for Travel Services

text: Think a bout a travel site who provide their customers to book hotels, airport transfers, flights and excursions. As you know, we can use Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, and RDFa) to get special search results on Google for our products. For example like below Products and Shopping category : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3IIV7.png) Do you think Products and Shopping Rich snippets (microdata, microformats, and RDFa) would be appropriate for those kind of travel products?


title: Is it possible to use both align and size parameters for images in MoinMoin?

text: I'm getting a `500 Internal Server Error` if I try something like `{{attachment:image.png|alt text|width=100 align="left"}}`, both in the wiki I am actually trying to edit (https://live.gnome.org/) and in the MoinMoin wiki sandbox (http://moinmo.in/action/edit/WikiSandBox). The examples at moinmo.in/HelpOnLinking show how to use both parameters, but never combining them in the same image. It definitely seems to be possible to use more than one parameter (e.g. width and height), but the combination of width and align apparently brings the wiki engine down. Is there something I'm overlooking? How can I add a thumbnail of an image to a page in a MoinMoin wiki without using the default alignment (inline with text)?


title: Failing with Adsense / How to get $ PC

text: So, I am literally just starting out with google adsense. I have implemented google adsense ads from (1) account and from (2) different channels, per website they're on. (2 Wordpress Websites, activated with 'GoogleAdsense Plugin' for WordPress). They are implemented at the bottom of every post on my 2 Wordpress websites within the 'Blog' sections. My adsense dashboard is stating I've received a few clicks; but across it still states my account earnings and balance at $0.00. When / How will I start seeing money earned to my account?


title: Track Email with Google user contents img resource and redirecting to my website

text: I'm using Email tracking services of some Email sender company. It is achieved through requesting img resource when opening email. Here is the code inserted into HTML message: `<img src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/TObr7aARe70s=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.mywebsite.com/TrackEmail?j=eyJ1IjoiMQ4In0%3D&r=0.614693022798747.gif" width="2" height="1">` I'm interested in how eventually the request will come to my website. Can anyone please explain me? I think the magic is somewhere in this part `...d-e1-ft#htt...`.


title: Will i18next affect SEO? What about screen readers?

text: I'm considering using i18next for translating text. But then it suddenly struck me; If labels / text is retrieved through javascript, won't that affect SEO? And what about screen readers for visual impaired users?


title: Sitemaps for growing content and googlesitemapgenerator

text: The number of URLs on my website is constantly growing (by 10-50 per week or so). Should I:   1. Regularly submit an updated sitemap including all URLs.   2. Have a sitemap of only the static content of my website.   3. Have some tool which automatically creates sitemaps on any changes. As for 3. is googlesitemapgenerator useful in this respect? I am a bit anxious allowing a beta product mess with my Apache. Is anybody using it or has another recommendation of similar tools?


title: What does it mean when a User-Agent has another User-Agent inside it?

text: Basically, sometimes the user-agent will have its normal user-agent displayed, then at the end it will have the "User-Agent: " tag displayed, and right after it another user-agent is shown. Sometimes, the second user-agent is just appended to the first one without the "User-Agent: " tag. Here are some samples I've seen: The first few contain the "User-Agent: " tag in the middle somewhere, and I've changed its font to make it easier to to see. > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; GTB6; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); SLCC1; .NET > CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; MRA > 5.10 (build 5339); `User-agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows > NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; `User- > agent:` Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR > 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152) Here are some _without_ the "User-Agent: " tag in the middle, but just two user agents that seem stiched together. > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); .NET CLR 3.5.30729) > > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; > IPMS/6568080A-04A5AD839A9; TCO_20090713170733; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1); InfoPath.2) Now, just to add a few notes to this. I understand that the "User-Agent: " tag is normally a header, and what follows a typical "User-Agent: " string sequence is the actual user agent that is sent to servers etc, but normally the "User-Agent: " string should not be part of the actual user agent, that is more like the pre-fix or a tag indicating that what follows will be the actual user agent. Additionally, I may have thought, hey, these are just two user agents pasted together, but on closer inspection, you realize that they are not. On all of these dual user agent listings, if you look at the opening bracket "(" just before the "compatible" keyword, you realize the pair to that bracket ")" is actually at the very end, the end of the second user agent. So, the first user agents closing bracket ")" never occurs before the second user agent begins, it's always right at the end, and therefore, the second user agent is more like one of the features of the first user agent, like: "Trident/4.0" or "GTB6" etc etc... The other thing to note that the second user agent is always MSIE 6.0 (Internet Explorer 6.0), interesting. What I had initially thought was it's some sort of Virtual Machine displaying the browser in use & the browser that is installed, but then I thought, what'd be the point in that? Finally, right now, I am thinking, it's probably soem sort of "Compatibility View" type thing, where even if MSIE 7.0 or 8.0 is installed, when my hypothetical the "Display In Internet Explorer 6.0" mode is turned on, the user agent changes to something like this. That being, IE 8.0 is installed, but is rendering everything as IE 6.0 would. Is there or was there such a feature in Internet Explorer? Am I on to something here? What are your thoughts on this? If you have any other ideas, please feel free to let us know. At the moment, I'm just trying to understand if these are valid User Agents, or if they are invalid. In a list of about 44,000 User Agents, I've seen this type of Dual User Agent about 400 times. I've closely inspected 40 of them, and every single one had MSIE 6.0 as the "second" user agent (and the first user agent a higher version of MSIE, such as 7 or 8). This was true for all except one, where both user agents were MSIE 8.0, here it is: > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Win32; GMX); GTB0.0) This occured once in my 40 "close" inspections. I've estimated the 400 in 44,000 by taking a sample of the first 4,400 user agents, and finding 40 of these in the MSIE/Windows user agents, and extrapolated that to estimate 40. There were also similar things occuring for non MSIE user agents where there were two Mozilla's in one user agent, the non MSIE ones would probably add another 30% on top of the ones I've noted. I can show you samples of them if anyone would like. There we have it, this is where I'm at, what do you guys think?


title: Social media measurement with Google Analytics

text: I work for a non profit and we are currently trying to develop a system to measure and evaluate our social media channels (Facebook and Twitter). We would like to track a variety of social metrics, including, but not limited to:   * Twitter      * # of followers     * # of mentions     * # of retweets   * Facebook      * # of likes     * # people talking about     * # of page views We are currently using a paid platform for this. I wondered if there is a way to configure Google Analytics to do this?


title: Google AdSense's terms of service - Age below range

text: I'm would like to use on my website AdSense's ads features. The TOS require age above 18. I'm currently 17 and will reach this age after 9 months. Which of the following is the best option? ## Use a fake date of birth I could take risk of registering account with fake date of birth (to reach age >= 18). AdSense might find about this and penalize me. I'm not sure what I would lose if that happened. Maybe a time ban or some kind money charge. ## Use my parents I could use the account of an adult for example my parent, but I don't know if I could transfer the site to my own account when I turn 18. See: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/0zaDdnmE0KM ## Summary In both solutions I take some risk. I can't afford to start this service without AdSense, and the service would not very useful to start in 9 months. What is my better option?


title: Correctly indexing multiple domains with same content in Google and others

text: I have a client with a dozen territorial domains, like mydomain.co.uk, mydomain.fr, mydomain.de, etc Most of these domains hold a different language of the same dynamic content (shop), but some, like co.uk and .com, have the same language and content, except for some content customized to each country/domain in the front page, contact and other pages. I am aware that we should use the canonical meta tag to mark those duplicated contents, but, we want the co.uk to be present in UK ( indexed in google.co.uk ) and the .com to be present in US and other countries, for example, or least that is the goal. Is there anything we can do to "help" google determine the geographical meaning of each domain? If we mark with canonical tag the .com and co.uk sites, do you know how google will decide which one to show on a given search?


title: Is it possible to export comments from TypePad Connect?

text: Note that I'm not talking about TypePad, but TypePad Connect, their hosted commenting product. I see comments in their company blog from 2008 (!!!) saying they were working on an export feature, but I don't think it ever launched. So... is there any way to get old comments out of a TypePad Connect system? Or are they trapped in there forever?


title: How do I make a website totally untrackable back to me, Anonymous?

text: I need to create a website that is totally untraceable back to me, even from the police. The reason is that there is some shady behavior by the police and I am afraid of any reactions from them toward me or my family. How easy is it to do this? Is it even possible??


title: Should a Computer Scientist do the HML + CSS job when building a website?

text: I'm studying **Computer Science** , and I've always been more interested in programming than in designing and creating the layout of some websites. **Is this something I should know? Or should I focus on programming languages ( _C_ , _Python_ , _C#_ , _JavaScript_ , _PHP_ , _..._ )?**


title: What are some internet trends that you've noticed over the past ~10 years?

text: I'll give an example of one that I've noticed: the number of web sites that ask for your email address (GOOG ID, YAHOO! ID, etc.) has skyrocketed. I can come up with no legitimate reason for this other than (1) password reset [other ways to do this], or (2) to remind you that you have an account there, based upon the time of your last visit. Why does a web site need to know your email address (Google ID, etc.) if all you want to do is...   * download a file ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * play a game ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * take an IQ test or search a database ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * watch a video or view a picture ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * read a forum ( **no legit reason whatsoever** )   * post on a forum (mildly legit reason: password reset)   * newsletter (only difference between a newsletter and a blog is that you're more likely to forget about the web site than you are to forget about your email address -- the majority of web sites do not send out newsletters, however, so this can't be the justification)   * post twitter messages or other instant messaging (mildly legit reason: password reset)   * buy something (mildly legit reasons: password reset + giving you a copy of a receipt that they can't delete, as receipts stored on their server can be deleted) On the other hand, I can think of plenty of very shady reasons for asking for this information:   1. so the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. can very easily track what you do by reading your email or asking GOOG, etc. what sites you used your GOOG ID at   2. to use the password that you provide for your account in order to get into your email account (most people use the same password for all of their accounts), find all of your other accounts in your inbox, and then get into all of those accounts   3. sell your email address to spammers These reasons, I believe, are why you are constantly asked to provide your email address. I can come up with no other explanations whatsoever. Question 1: Can anyone think of any legitimate or illegitimate reasons for asking for someone's email address? Question 2: What are some other interesting internet trends of the past ~10 years?


title: Domain Name protection

text: I have purchased a domain name and I don't have plan to launch my website in the next few months. But one thing I am worrying about is that if in the mean time someone else uses my domain name for his/her website? Is it possible to do so? And if yes, how to protect my domain name?


title: Can I post other ads than Google with adnsense

text: Along with my google ads can I apply for other ad media and post their ads too with Google ads. I wanna post more ads. Is it allowed to use more than one adsense program and post both media's ads on same page?


title: What makes a SSL certificate "signed"?

text: When you buy a SSL certificate from Comodo, it is signed by Comodo and therefore trusted. How is it signed though? Why can't anyone sign the certificate pretending to be Comodo?


title: Abandoment to blame for the last JavaScript file not always being loaded?

text: I have a code snippet for an app that users are loading as a 3rd party script on their site. The general sequence is as follows:   1. Site loads `http://www.example.com/foo.js`   2. `foo.js` does stuff   3. 1 to 2 seconds later, `foo.js` loads `bar.js` Now in a perfect world, I'd want to see matching counts for the calls to `foo.js` and `bar.js`. However, `bar.js` loads only about 94% of the time. I'm wondering how much of this discrepancy might be attributable to site abandonment given the fact that `bar.js` is delayed by 1 or 2 seconds. I posted here instead of StackOverflow since I _think_ it's more a question about what would be typical time on page when users abandon the page.


title: What is the syntax for using 410 status for deleted pages?

text: I want to permanently delete some pages in my site using 410 status. I'm not sure of correct syntax of removing pages using 410. I've found one syntax and I've a page( duplicate product page content) to remove : http://www.creditcardpaymentgateways.in/indiapay-payment-gateway- frequently-asked-questionsfaq.html so will this syntax do?               RewriteRule ^indiapay-payment-gateway-frequently-asked-questionsfaq.html$ - [G,L]       In my site I have a couple of duplicate product pages which I want to remove as my site is getting penalized.


title: How can I obtain a domain that is abandoned?

text: There is a particular domain name that I'm interested in, but when you enter the domain in a browser the browser says "Domain has no index file", which doesn't appear to be a browser message, but a server page on the hosting software. So point is the site appears that it isn't being used, but it exists. The contact info (both email and phone number) in the WhoIs record are bad. The email I sent to the email address bounced back to me, and when I called the phone number a person answered (apparently residential line) who said there was nobody there by that name. It says it's been registered since 2003 and is registered until 2014. UPDATE: I did try filling a report with GoDaddy, which WhoIs says is the registrar of the domain, about two weeks ago. I just checked the WhoIs info again and it looks like they've removed the name, email address, phone number, and address of the domain registrant.


title: Is there an upper limit on the number of Adsense adverts placed on one page?

text: I would like to add 20 Google banner ads below my web page's content so I can increase my `Pay Per Impression earnings`, is there any upper limit on the number of adverts I can display?


title: Mod Rewrite change extention of a page

text: i want to mod rewrite change extension of any page to what i want. for ex. i want change `index.php` to `index.abc` is it possible with mod rewrite?


title: What is the diffrence between paypal Paypal Payments Standard and Paypal Express Checkout?

text: I need to implement PayPal on my web page, and I don't know which one to use, Paypal Payments Standard or Paypal Express Checkout or both. To me they seems pretty much the same.


title: Registering a domain name with a trademark in it

text: One of our competitors is lets say called **WidgetMaker**. They target Macs. We target Windows computers. **WidgetMaker** is a trademarked term. I'm assuming the answer to this question is no, but could we register " **www.WidgetMakerAlternative.com** "?


title: Google Analytics on Static Site Hosted by GAE

text: I finagled hosting a static site on Google App Engine at http://corbyhaas.com The HTML when visiting the URL shows some meta information and a frame to the site's actual address: http://cody-static-sites.appspot.com/corbyhaas which has the content. This is done automagically by Google App Engine. I've set up Google Analytics by including their script in my index.html, but the report shows 100% of visits coming from referring site "corbyhaas.com", which is useless information. **Has anyone set up Google Analytics for a static GAE site?** Is there a setting in my Analytics dashboard I can tweak, or is this a hazard of using Google App Engine for static content? Also, while it's not relevant here (but could be for future sites), **does GAE's method of showing only meta information with frames for static data affect SEO?**


title: h1 including breadcrumb links

text: Is there any precedent or testing of using a breadcrumb list of separate links (and current page text) within an h1 and search engine algorithms? I'm using nested navigation on a travel site. So imagine a breadcrumb might be:               Great BritainLondonLeicester SquarePhoto Gallery      In this instance this would be a descriptive, though perhaps dubious in density, header. In the end I went a different path but I would be interested to hear if this would be acceptable. Disregarding the content of my example, would such a header be acceptable to web crawlers. I guess it's safe to assume it's not valid xhtml.


title: How to make money with video site?

text: What I really mean is i don't get how these smaller but still popular video/tube sites make money. They host their own videos not embedded ones. How do they afford the bandwidth? if bandwidth is 0.18 cents per GB(don't know if that is expensive), 18$ per 100GB, each video an avarage size of 50mb, 2000 video views = 18$? how do you make more than 18 on 2000 views? How do you make money with a smaller video site?


title: AWStats: Visits from IP address vs Crawlers

text: I use AWStats in cPanel to see stats of my website. Under Hosts section I see one IP address that has visited 150 pages. I am not sure if one person would have visited 150 pages using a browser. But if these 150 pages have been visited using a software application, then should not it be listed under Robots/Spider section. So how do I determine if I should block a certain IP address that has visited several hundred pages of my website? Thanks


title: Tumblr custom domain not redirecting properly

text: I decided to host my blog at Tumblr, using their custom domain setup (`http://blog.smokingfishgames.com/` instead of `http://smokingfishgames.tumblr.com`). However, it's been 72 hours and I'm still getting spotty redirection. It works some of the time--I go and see the page and blog, and it's all fine. However, it occasionally just stops working and redirects back to my web host, which is a directory with nothing but a single file called `BUGGER.html` (which I stuck in to make sure that it was my web host and not some Tumblr empty directory). Clearing the Chrome DNS cache makes the problem go away--for a while. After a few minutes, or an hour, or however long, I'll start seeing `BUGGER.html` again. I clear the cache, and poof, the blog shows up. The thing that's curious to me is that when I clear the cache and get `BUGGER.html` again (which happens occasionally), I can look at my Chrome DNS cache and see               assets.tumblr.com   UNSPECIFIED      blog.smokingfishgames.com   UNSPECIFIED      www.tumblr.com  UNSPECIFIED       **IP addresses and expiration times omitted for brevity's sake** --if they're important I'm sure I can replicate the issue. This implies, to me anyway, that my browser is reaching Tumblr but getting bounced back to my web host. Any reason why this would be happening, or is this a normal symptom of DNS propagation? If it is a problem, should I be bothering Tumblr or my host with it, or is this something I can fix myself?


title: Need a suggestion for sharing revenue on a news paper website

text: Here's the scenario. A local news paper company approached me in creating a news portal for him. But instead of paying me for the development we would just be sharing on the website's earning. Now, we really don't have an idea on how much we can earn on the website because it would be our first time. So he just told me to create a proposal for him, so he could approve the idea. 1st Question: My question is what do you think is the proper percentage in splitting up the revenue? (60% for me - 40% for the company is I have in mind...) 2nd Question: Since we're planning to get the revenue from ads (Adsense and Clickbank), How can we make sure we do proper splitting? Are we gonna be creating a company's account for every Ad company? or we just need to trust each other? 3rd Question: Is there any suggestions? I hope my question is in the right section. I would also make this as a wiki, since i'm not looking for a definitive answer. Thanks! [added info] ---------------------------------------------------------- A small city in the philippines. Total Population is 150,000. We're not planning to get traffic locally since we will only be getting 20% of it (Most of them don't use computer). We are planning to get more traffic outside the country. Adsense and Clickbank are just what we have in mind. Another is paid post. Other than that we don't know other option to maximize our revenue. Suggestions would be great.


title: Google fetched a title from the body instead of keyword stuffed title tags - could that be a problem for SEO?

text: I have a website that contains keywords repeated in the `<title>` tag, so Google fetched the most relevant keywords from the body of the page. There is no problem so far and my website is ranking 4th or 5th in SERP for my main keywords. My question is: Will Google penalize my site or will it create a negative impact on Google since Google neglected my Meta title and fetched a title from the body instead? **Note:** I can modify my `<title>` tag, but my keyword ranking is good, and also my website has 10 years of domain age and I'm afraid that if I change its titles, the SERP position may get very impacted.


title: SEO - how to tell search engines what the preferred URL is for content of part of a page

text: Given a page which displays a list of posts in chronological order on one URL, let's say: www.mysite.com/listofposts Each of these posts also has it's own URL, which displays the list of posts but with the selected post at the top and highlighted: www.mysite.com/post/1234 The problem is that when search engines are indexing the content, because the URL for an individual post actually has content from other posts on it, I am finding that quite often content is indexed against the wrong URL. Is there a way of telling search engines that different parts of a page should be indexed against different URL's? I've seen Canonical URLs allow you to indicate the preferred URL for content on a page by page basis, but is there a way to do it for a situation like mine, where I have a page made up of several different bits of content each of which have their own canonical preferred URL?


title: Meta description not displaying in custom site search results page

text: We have Google Custom Site Search implemented on our company website. When I'm looking at the results page, I noticed that the meta description is not being displayed. It just seems to be reading the links titles from our drop down menu and using this as a description. When I search for the same page via `google.com`, the meta description is pulled in correctly. Any thoughts why this might be happening. I can't see anything in the Custom Site Search settings.


title: Will Google index a paragraph of text that is hidden by default?

text: I have a paragraph of text that I would like to count toward the content of a page, but users have to click to make the text appear. Can I and if so what is the best way to implement this without getting penalized by Google?


How can I tell which of my pages got adsense clicks?


title: Why has Google removed authorship images from its SERPs?

text: Recently I noted that authorship images from SERPs were removed by Google. You might think that it only happened to you, but type `rel="author"` in Google's search box and you will find that no one's image is displayed in search engine results anymore. It was displayed by Google just a few days ago when I checked. Does anyone know why that is, or did Google state a reason for it?


title: Fake Links Showing up in Google Webmaster Tools

text: Google Webmaster tools is reporting a large increase in 'not found errors' on my site, and I see approximately 1700 'Not Found Errors over the past 2 months. All of them are for a url that is formatted like:               http://mydomain.com/click.php?c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'dmjdlgsbve%3E2'lfzxpset%3EQfbs'sbol%3E2'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C54528243%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C2%3C6224'vsm%3Eiuuq%264B%263G%263Gxxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn%263G'gffe%3Eopqbz'qsjdf%3E'tbq%3E%3A84%3A9g54e662db639%3A28eeb2cc8bb8e9'zbsht%3Exxx%2Fopdmjdlz%2Fdpn      Google says these are linked from:               http://mydomain.com/index.php?Keywords=Pear&search_type=related2&cat2=Lemon+Cake&r=c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'f%3Evt%3Cvt%3C79%3C2%3C2%3C27748763%3Ctuzmf2%60dvtupn/dtt%3C3%3Cjoufsdptnpt%60bggjmjbuf%603%60e3s%60efsq%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3Cgmbnjohpspbe%3C656178%3C6224%3Cdmfbo%3Cmjtujoht%3Czbipp%3C'jqvb%60je%3E:84:9g54e662db639:28eeb2cc8bb8e9'enybsht%3Eg4dc139e6673d:812b:b::d8e34:9fe9&rd=1      When I browse to the url Google says these are linked from (both using my browser, and the fetch by Google tool), I don't see any links on the page to click.php. These links are supposedly coming from MY domain / server, but click.php does not even exist on my server. When I look through my server logs, I do not see any of the index.php? urls this says they are accessed from. What am I missing here? Is the link getting encoded in the url or something? How can I fix this? I would REALLY appreciate some help in figuring this out. **Update:** I had purchased a domain (that was previously parked), and moved my site to it a few months ago. Apparently these links existed on the parked domain, and Google has gone through and crawled all ~1700 of the links twice now. Once a few months ago, and once 2 days ago. Is this something that will affect my ranking in Google? Is there any way to notify Google that all of these links are gone / incorrect? Should I use the 'remove urls' tool in webmaster tools?


title: How to point Google Apps subdomain to external websites?

text: I have registered for a domain in Google Apps. It is automatically registered with GoDaddy. I was wondering how can I make a subdomain point to my blog: `blog.mydomain.com` => `myname.blogspot.com` `photo.mydomain.com` => `flickr.com/photos/mystream/` How can this be done? I can access the zone file editor (DNS Manager) in `godaddy.com` but I am not sure if I need to change the _Cname/A_ records for this.


title: Does Google search for keywords in meta descriptions?

text: We know that Google does not use meta keywords for ranking, but does it search for potential keywords in meta descriptions?


title: How to track in Google Analytics registrations coming from Google AdWords ads?

text: I created a campaign in `Google AdWords` and some ads in it and gave them URLs like               mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=x     mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=y     mydomain.tld/registration/?utm_campaign=mycampaing&ad=z      All ads lead to the registration page. A registration is a visit of the page               mydomain.tld/registration-completed/?user={ID}      So I can track the registrations in Google Analytics. I just go to `Behavior -> Site Content -> All Pages` and filter the pages to `registration- completed`. But how can I see, **how many** and **which users** have registered, after they came from an ad of a campaign, e.g. `utm_campaign`? And how can I also track this for a single ad of the campaign, e.g. `x`?


title: Google Tag Manager Uses iframe, is this problematic for IE?

text: Internet Explorer has a non-standard P3P privacy policy implementation (what a surprise). This prevents cookies from being loaded in `iframes`. Google Tag Manager uses an iframe. Does this cause problems with obtaining analytics from users of IE?


title: Direct-Linking file hosting?

text: Hello I'm developing a project, and I need to know is there a file hosting which support direct links to txt, zip? I have tried some free hosting sites, but all I do is get 403 forbidden when trying to access the direct link. Thank you


title: Swapping key phrases in URL, Title and H1 tag

text: I was wondering if swapping key phrases would still work in URL, Titlte and H1 tags For example:               Car Sales Melbourne     Sales Car Melbourne          carsalesmelbourne.com.au     salescarmelbourne.com.au      So the second key phrase would you be able to get similar effect with correct key phrase or if location is different, would this not work at all?