title: Rebranding: how do I redirect my website to a new domain, and blog to a subdomain?

text: I have a website that I am rebranding and using a new domain name for. Right now it is primarily a blog hosted at the root. I am going to be redirecting from `www.old.com` to `www.new.com`, and I also want to move my blog to `blog.new.com`. Currently `www.old.com` doesn't serve any subdomains. Based on the research I've done, it would seem that I need to use 301 redirects because these should be permanent. I just don't really know what I need to do to setup these redirects. Should I use `mod_rewrite`? My sites are hosted on Dreamhost so any Apache configuration that I would need to do I believe I'd have to do in an `.htaccess` file.


title: Problem with DNS

text: I bought a new website, and the company gived me another free domain name, so when I asked for the socond they created it and they told me to change the DNS to look like the first one. It's been a week waiting for it to propagate, today when I type the url I got this error message :               If you are the web site owner, it is possible you have reached this page because:          * The IP address has changed.     * There has been a server misconfiguration.     * The site may have been moved to a different server.      If you are the owner of this website and were not expecting to see this page, please contact your hosting provider. When I try to add the second domain to my cpanel (Addon domain) I get also another error : `The addon domain “abcdef.com” has been created.` `An account with that login already exists.` Do you have any ideas about this problem. Thanks. `EDIT` I tried to flush the DNS with `ipconfig /flushdns`, but It's not changing anything.


title: How to effectively use an overseas SEO team?

text: My company is currently in contract with a 20+ person team in the Philippines, previously used for comment linking and guest blogging spun content articles. This is a practice that we're stopping, but we don't want to sever our team because they work hard, they're really cheap, and they produce excellent accounting and reporting of their actions. What are ways that we can best put them to use as a link generating or content generating resource? Their English is fair, but not of high enough quality to use them for any direct content creation. Thanks


title: What is hosting space and why is it increasing every day?

text: My hosting's disk space is increasing every day and I just wanted to know, why? I don't upload new files, but it still gets increased by every day. Anyone knows? Thank you.


title: Content keywords are unimportant in Google Webmaster Tools

text: When I check **_Google Index > Content Keywords_** in Google Webmaster Tools, it shows lots of unimportant keywords like: to, is, are, from, in, on, we, you and etc. That's very natural these words are found more than others because it's so hard to find a sentence without one of these popular words. I'm wondering why Google is doing this? Does it make a problem for SEO? How to deal with that?


title: Is it advantageous for SEO to include structured data on meta-tags

text: On my site's home page, I have various products for which I display an image linking to that item's main product page. For each of these products, I could include a schema.org/Product tag, but to include the `itemprop="brand"` and `itemprop="name"` tags for each product, they would not be visible to the customer apart from being part of the img alt tags and I would include them as `<meta itemprop="[name/brand]" content="itemName">` tags within the product div, next to the image. Therefore the meta information for the structured data markup would not be visible to the user. Is this disadvantageous for SEO, meaning I shouldn't markup the homepage with structured data, or is it preferable to include the structured data with the non-visible information in meta tags? The `itemprop="url"` property for each product on the home page refers to the product's main page, which is why I thought including these tags would be beneficial to Google to see how the site is structured - I just don't want to appear spammy.


Currently I have a couple of websites. My problem is that if I login on 1 specific domain with any of my programs (using notepadd++, FileZilla and Netbeans) the program stops at the content listing. I had it correctly running, (I'm working on a project on this domain for more than a year now) and suddenly I broke it somehow. This only happens on 1 specific domain, all other domains (from other hosts) are working. My colleague (next to me with same ip address) is able to login on this domain.   * Notepadd++ says: Failure retrieving contents of directory   * Filezilla says: Failed to retrieve directory listing   * Netbean popups: Upload files on save failed. (Because I have the setting upload on save enabled.) What I tried:   * First I thought it's my firewall, I disabled firewall but no result. Also notice that all other domain are working.   * Maby a blacklist with my ip address? No my colleague has the same ip address. Could anyone help me on this? ## Notepad++ Log               [NppFTP] Everything initialized     -> TYPE I            Connecting     -> Quit            220 ProFTPD 1.3.3e Server ready.     -> USER username          331 Password required for domain     -> PASS *HIDDEN*          230 User username logged in     -> TYPE A            200 Type set to A     -> MODE S            200 Mode set to S     -> STRU F            200 Structure set to F     -> CWD /domains/domain.nl/           250 CWD command successful     Connected     -> CWD /domains/domain.nl/            250 CWD command successful     -> PASV            227 Entering Passive Mode (194,247,31,xx,137,xx).     -> LIST -al            Failure retrieving contents of directory /domains/domain.nl/      ## Filezilla log               Status: Verbinden met 194.247.xx.xx:21...     Status: Verbinding aangemaakt, welkomstbericht afwachten...     Antwoord:   220 ProFTPD 1.3.3e Server ready.     Commando:   USER username     Antwoord:   331 Password required for username     Commando:   PASS ********     Antwoord:   230 User username logged in     Commando:   SYST     Antwoord:   215 UNIX Type: L8     Commando:   FEAT     Antwoord:   211-Features:     Antwoord:    MDTM     Antwoord:    MFMT     Antwoord:    LANG en-US;ja-JP;zh-TW;it-IT;fr-FR;zh-CN;ru-RU;bg-BG;ko-KR     Antwoord:    TVFS     Antwoord:    UTF8     Antwoord:    AUTH TLS     Antwoord:    MFF modify;UNIX.group;UNIX.mode;     Antwoord:    MLST modify*;perm*;size*;type*;unique*;UNIX.group*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.owner*;     Antwoord:    PBSZ     Antwoord:    PROT     Antwoord:    REST STREAM     Antwoord:    SIZE     Antwoord:   211 End     Commando:   OPTS UTF8 ON     Antwoord:   200 UTF8 set to on     Status: Verbonden     Status: Mappenlijst ophalen...     Commando:   PWD     Antwoord:   257 "/" is the current directory     Commando:   TYPE I     Antwoord:   200 Type set to I     Commando:   PASV     Antwoord:   227 Entering Passive Mode (194,247,31,xx,xxx,xx).     Commando:   MLSD     Fout:   Verbinding verloren     Fout:   Ontvangen van mappenlijst is mislukt      Sorry that it's dutch. ## Next edit I changed the transfer connection mode from passive to active and got it working. Does anyone know why my computer wants it to be active if I used passive for more then a year? So weird that only my computer needs this setting after this while of use the other setting...


title: BBCode or WYSIWYG editor for non-technical people

text: I am creating a forum for non-technical people, and I can't figure out if BBCode or a WYSIWYG editor is easier for them to use. The forum is for craftsmen, and I am therefor in doubt if a BBCode editor would be too difficult to figure out. Does any of you have any good suggestions on what to use?


title: Deploy repository to production server?

text: I have a hosted SVN repository with assembla. it has an address like: > https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/my-repository-name/ Using TortoiseSVN I can checkout from this repository and commit to it. But **how would I deploy to a production server?** (I have not created a production server yet, I want to understand how this is going to work first).


title: How to indicate a page is duplicate content when you control its body but not its head?

text: http://www.zcommunications.org/ready-or-not-can-bangladesh-cope-with-climate- change-by-hazel-healy is a copy of a page on our site created by the author, and links back to that page. Google's guidelines suggested to me that this would be enough for Google to recognise our page as the canonical one and that one as the duplicate, and thus to show our page in SERPs. However, the opposite has happened - if you search for the page's title you'll see the duplicate page shows up but ours doesn't. How can we prevent this? Since the author 'owns' the duplicate page on zcommunications.org she can edit the HTML body, but not the `<head>`.


title: What is a rough maximum amount of page views per month that an average shared hosting service should support in your opinion?

text: Sorry for asking such an in-exact question, but I would really love to know what professional webmasters consider to be the rough limits of standard shared hosting services (GoDaddy, MediaTemple, ThePlanet, et al). I realise mileage varies massively, but I spend a lot of time wondering when to move growing sites from shared hosting to some more robust like a services like a VPS. Would it be fair to say that once a site hits 50,000 page views per month, one should consider better hosting, or should a shared host be able to handle this?


title: Should i add rel nofollow to menu links?

text: Should i add rel nofollow to the links from my site menu ? (to the links like: home, about us, contact etc... that doesn't have no connection with the site niche) Does this helps? What other options i have?


title: Is it valid to have 2, 3, or more canonical tags?

text: I have seen a major website have more than 2 canonical tags on certain pages.    * * * Here's the page URL:               http://www.example.com/en_GB/shop/details.cfm?R=PRODUCT23:en_GB      Here's the first canonical tag, in the `<head>`:               <link href="http://www.example.com/category/en_GB/shop/details.cfm?R=PRODUCT23:en_GB" rel="canonical"/>      It adds the `/category/` directory and the pages design looks different (colors are branded toward that category) but has the same content. And lower down, still in the `<body>`, is the second canonical tag:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/en_US/shop/details.cfm" />       Instead of the product page, this points to the general parent category of the US shop (instead of the UK one). * * *    This only happens on a few of their hundreds of pages, which are typically product pages. Google reccomends putting the canonical in the `<head>`, because Matt Cutts explains that it can be abused and injected in the `<body>` maliciously. I assumed it was a mistake/bug of the CMS, since by the definition itself, there can be only one canon[ical]. But is there a valid reason for doing so?


title: Should initials of names be seperated by a dot or by a hyphen for seo purposes

text: I wanted to use names with initials in the URL. For example if j.k. Brothers is the initials and name then is it good to make my URL like so:               sitename.com/j.k.brothers/listing/      Or would it be better to use hyphens like so:               sitename.com/j-k-brothers/listing/


title: SEO effect of linking text out of context

text: I came across a curious situation recently. I was reading an article where some text was linked but such that the link text was completely out of context. Here is an example: > as I work my way through the `<a ...>`best insurance`</a>` fraud crimes > making the news The linked text, "best insurance" is linked completely out of context as the "best" describes the "insurance fraud crimes". Is there any SEO effect to this? Is there any indication that search engines attempt to analyse context of links as closely as required to detect this?


title: hidden_html - What is this for?

text: My host provides pre-made folders (`softaculous`, `public_html`, `public_ftp`) and one of them is `hidden_html`. I'm curious as to what this folder is for. I realize it's just a folder on the server and right now it's just housing the 2009 version of my site. Can this folder be used for anything special, or is it just there for looks?


title: Address bar showing long URL

text: I recently upgraded my hosting account to Deluxe where I can host multiple websites. I added a domain name and created a folder in the root directory giving it the same name as my domain name and uploaded my files. Now when I navigate the site the address bar shows: 'http://mywebsite.com/mywebsite/default.aspx' I want it to display: 'http://mywebsite.com/default.aspx' My thinking in creating folders that match the domain names is to keep them somewhat organized; never intended to have my domain names listed twice in the address bar.


title: Some browsers zoom in on website, removing whitespace on sides?

text: On some browsers, they show the website more expanded, removing the white space on the sides of the page. This has the effect of making everything seem more cluttered and bigger. Is there something in my code that means they do this?


title: are literary works published in my and various websites considered duplicate?

text: I have published an ancient literary work which is not copyrighted or owned by any party. i can see other websites, news magazines sites published the same long back. The literary work consists of 1330 verses which cannot be modified and we don't want to modify. _It is of 133 chapters with 10 verses in a chapter. so websites categorize as 133 pages normally. each verse is exactly 7 words. and all websites will have these verse with optional extra information. so if compared with different websites which had published this we can see an exact copy of 20 lines with optional additional information below each verse of in some other form. When talking about the original source it is from text books published long before internet appeared._ Will that be considered duplicate? if so then how to emphasize that it is a literary work common for all (i mean anybody can use it) ?


title: Does the url path have to be same with the actualy categories we have setup?

text: Say for example we got an eshop, with a category "car spare parts" that includes a category called "tires" which has our product in there. We have created a menu on the left where the visitor clicks on "car spare parts" then clicks on sub-category "tires" and then he visits the tires product listing. The actual path of each product on the "tire" page, does it have to be eshop.com/car_spare_parts/tires or is it ok if the path is "eshop.com/tires". Will the second solution cause any problems to the eshop's SEO?


title: Launch of new website deleted google rank?

text: I think i might have slipped up here and would love some advice on this before i start making changes We have the domains www.mysite.com and www.mysite.co.uk Currently we have the main site on www.mysite.com , this runs a host of subdomains uand redirects for other sites, in asp.net I develop in php and as such thought it would be easiest to launch a new server and host the new site on www.mysite.co.uk and put a frame forward on the www.mysite.com domain. This would means no other changes needed, as i wasnt too sure about the DNS settings and certainly wouldnt want to play with the source code and server. This frame forward provided by 123-reg seems to have destroyed all page rankings though, cant find www.mysite.com in any searches Is there away to get the www.mysite.com ranking back up to the top again? Thanks for your advice


title: How to handle URL encoded parameter separators when responding to AJAX crawled _escaped_fragment?

text: I've been reading about how to handle Google requested URL here There is an example from Google :   * Pretty URL: `www.example.com?myquery#!key1=value1&key2=value2`   * Ugly URL: `www.example.com?myquery&_escaped_fragment_=key1=value1%26key2=value2` As you can see, in the ugly URL there is "%26" characters, as explained by Google that they need to be unescaped by the web server to obtain the original URL:               %00..20     %23     %25..26     %2B     %7F..FF       As in the example, the "%26" (ugly URL) represents the "&" (pretty URL), so in this case, we need to replace "%26" with "&" to get the original URL. How do we know which character is represented by the special characters that Google replaced?


title: Google Analytics Not tracking data correctly IP-address issue?

text: I have developed a small site for a client and the site has been placed inside a `<iframe>` at the clients site. The GA-script I'm using looks like this:               <script type="text/javascript">                  var _gaq = _gaq || [];             _gaq.push(       ['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-2'], //My company's GA-account       ['_trackPageview'],       ['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-1'],  // Test GA-account       ['b._trackPageview'],       ['th._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-3'],       ['th._setDomainName', '.clientdomain.se'], // Client GA-account       ['th._trackPageview']     );                  (function () {                 var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;                 ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';                 var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);             })();              </script>     </head>      As you can see I report the GA pageviews to the client as well. The GA script is tracking visitors and pageviews at both ends. But the problem is that on my clients side the visitor-count is more than double what they are on my end (20 000 vs 5 000). At first I thought that it was being duplicated at some point but when I checked my Crazy-Egg account I saw that it had tracked over 10 000 visits and then stopped tracking because that was my limit on the account. The page my site is on is on a IP-address (http://XXX.XXX.XX.X/campaign/) and not on a "valid url". Could that be an issue why some of the visitors isn't beeing tracked? Thanks in advance


title: Measuring percentage of visitors connecting over https

text: Does Google Analytics expose information about the connection protocol used by site visitors? I don't see any option in the customization section... is this something I'd have to use a custom variable to capture?


title: Facebook like button in plain HTML, is it possible?

text: just a quick question, **is it possible to create an _FB Like_ button in plain HTML?** I checked out the Like button code dircetly cerated by developers.FB but it's an                     I also checked out the addthis.com and it's a bunch of **Javascript**. I mean: **is there a way to just use something simple?** Example:               FB like, click here      I know in this way it won't show anymore "how many people like", but I don't mind this, I just want something simple, so I can use my own icon or text, etc. In my understanding for the Share button is possible by just adding:               To share on FB click here.      So i suppose it could be possible also for the Like button.


title: is there a way to write .htaccess shorter?

text: RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)$ /userviewproducts.php?category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)/$ /userviewproducts.php?category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)$ /userviewproducts.php?category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)/$ /userviewproducts.php?category=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)$ /viewbuyproduct.php?1=$1 [L]     RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_\-]+/[A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)/$ /viewbuyproduct.php?1=$1 [L]      I have next rules. They work in that way:               if url = /a or /a/ or /a/a or /a/a/ go to file userviewproducts.php     and if url = /a/a/a or /a/a/a/ go to file viewbuyproduct.php      It works as i need, but i see the CODE-SMELLS term here and want to write it shorter. Will plus every answer =)


title: Strange characters appearing on websites - ASCII? - UNICODE?

text: I have created many very simple pure HTML websites over the years. Most of them appear to work fine most of the time. But there is one recurring problem which I have never quite sorted out involving strange characters. The scenario goes like this: I create the site. I look at it in my browser, everything appears fine. I may look at it a great many times over the coming weeks or months as I make additions here and there. Perhaps on a variety of browsers on a variety of PC's. Then one day I look at the page and see a random sprinkling of white question marks against dark diamond shapes. These might appear where I had expected to see hyphens or quotes or apostrophes. My immediate thought is that my browser got into some strange state because I was looking at some foreign website with strange characters, but I'm never quite sure. I'm left with that nagging feeling that perhaps half the planet is seeing my website with funny question marks all over it. So my question is what's going on? What should I do to ensure that as many people as possible around the world can view my text as I originally intended? Should I be using those special html sequences like               £      for all non alphanumeric characters? Should I worry at all? **Edit:** Right now I have the problem occurring on this page: http://www.fullreservebanking.com/papers.htm ... part of it looks like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/felr7.jpg) I am using FireFox 5 and the character encoding currently appears to be "UNICODE (UTF-8)". I do not remember manually setting the character encoding to anything since installation. I do occasionally look at Japanese websites for work related reasons - though when I do so, I do not manually make any changes to firefox settings. **Edit:** Now fixed. Web page altered accordingly.


title: How to find data usage of a user on my website?

text: I have a website (project) where users get logged in, do their work and then they log out. I need to build a report that displays how much each person has used of data. (bandwidth, how much was downloaded in Kb, etc) So the process may be like counting start of usage from user login to user logout. I have seen a little about Webalizer and AWStats for something like this, But I am not sure how they work. I have tried Content-Length but some pages don't send content-length.I have also seen mod_bandwidth but still I am little confused. This process is needed for my site because now, our company is thinking of charging per usage and also bandwidth allocation for each users (according to their membership). I haven't worked with this type of tools, I am newbie in this matter. I have done only simple websites not any setting like this in Apache or Linux. My project is in Codeigniter.


title: Best way use a keyword rich domain to increase ranking of another website on that keyword

text: Consider the following scenario - we have an e-commerce enabled website selling (say) routers in Britain. Now, one of my keyword (of great importance) is "British Routers". My website is already on second page but not moving ahead for this keyword. A little bit of research revealed that the domain britishrouters.com was available which I bought. Now I want to make know what is the best possible way by which I can get my original website to move ahead on this keyword using this domain. Though I am no SEO person but I guess 301 redirects would already be covered by Google. My best possible bet is to probably do a wordpress install and write a few blogs having links to my original domain.


title: What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?

text: _This is a general, community wiki question regarding duplicate content._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * *   1. What does Google consider to be duplicate content?   2. Will the way I am presenting my content result in a duplicate content penalty?   3. How can I avoid having my site's content treated as duplicate content?


title: product in multiple categories - duplicate content problem

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Content appearing under multiple categories; anything I can do to prevent > duplicate penalty? What is the best practice to display a product that may be in several categories without producing duplicate content as far as search engines are concerned? In the past I have used a default category for each product so only one url is ever displayed for each product, but this is not a nice user experience if for example a product is listed in: maincategory A, subcategory B and also maincategory B, subcategory D and the user navigates through B > D to the product and the page url is displayed as website/A/B/product - the user may have lost the subcategory they came from initially. Is it really necessary to remove the duplicate url for SER purposes? Or will the SE pick the most appropriate one to list?


title: Categories as duplicated

text: Would Google treat different categories as duplicated? On my website, one content can have up-to 10 different categories. That makes every content appears in all those categories plus the main page.


title: Can mass different log-in pages result in SEO duplicate and/or low quality punishments?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have internal pages that rely on an external API which I would like to build upon user request. Two options I thought about:   1. Make lots of 'thin' pages that specifies that if you want content about X, you need to log-in, and then the page will be built. Pros: user understands what he'll get when logging in. Cons: SEO implications of such a solution due to the mass 'low quality' and 'cross-sites duplicate content'   2. Make them all redirect to ONE same generic log-in page. Pros: No duplicate low quality content. Cons: Lots of internal links to the same log-in page.  Which would you recommend?


title: Could this be considered duplicate content?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm building a dating site at the moment. On the homepage I have a paginated list of all members on the site. Each page displays 10 members from newest to oldest. The pagination is simply "<< Prev" and "Next >>" links, so Googlebot should be able to crawl each and every member profile on the site. Now the thing is, these profile listings also appear on other pages. A listing block such as:               -------------------------------------     <IMAGE>          Jill / 28 / Straight     New York, NY          Likes: long walks on the beach, vodka     -------------------------------------      Will appear on the `Homepage ---> www.mysite.com/page/2` as well as on this category page `"Women seeking Men" ---> www.mysite.com/women-seeking-men/page/3` So that's two places where the same listing block appears. Is this considered duplicate content?


title: SEO with duplicate content

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have a nature photography site with multiple types of photo galleries. Each photo and associated caption on my site appears in several galleries. For instance, a photo of a goldfinch that was taken on a trip to New Mexico in 2008 will appear in the "goldfinch.php" gallery, in the "finches.php" gallery, and in the "New_Mexico_2008.php" gallery. This duplication is useful for my site visitors - User A may want to see goldfinch photos, whereas User B wants to see photos from New Mexico - but I am concerned about the SEO implications. The typical suggestions to deal with duplicate content, such as 301 redirects and canonical tags, probably won't work in this case, because the page content is substantially different (ranging from ~1% to ~90% duplication, depending on the specific example chosen). The obvious solution to me would be to edit robots.txt to only allow search engines to crawl one type of gallery - for instance, if they crawled only the galleries organized by species(e.g. goldfinch.php), all the photos on my site would be found exactly once. However, the Google content guidelines recommend against blocking crawler access to duplicate information. Should I go ahead and use robots.txt anyway? Or is there a better solution?


title: SEO - Listing Sidebar Code Before Content Code

text: On my website, I have always ordered my code with the code for the sidebar coming first, then the navigation bar, then the content section (with the individual paragraphs, images, etc... specific to each page), and lastly the footer. By order, I simply mean the code for my sidebar is first in the HTML document. The sidebar, navigation bar, and footer are all pretty much the same on all pages of the website. Is it bad that I am listing the duplicate content first? Should I be putting my content code first, because that is the part that is unique to each individual page? Does it matter what order code is listed in (especially for example if the navigation is absolute positioned and not within the flow of the document)? **Edit** This is specific not only about the order of HTML code but also the influence of duplicate content within the order of HTML. It may be that text that comes first in an HTML document is more heavily weighted, but does duplicate content apply to that as well.


title: I have domain.com and domain.org to the same site, should I use redirects to avoid duplicate content

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have both the .com and the .org for a domain name, and using Apache I point them to the same site content. I think this might be causing problems with the Search Engines because of duplicate content. I want the .org to be the essential website. How do others handle this situation? Should I be using 301 redirects to point all the .com requests to the .org? Should I just use the link rel="canonical" on each page to point to the .org?


title: What is duplicate content and what does it affect negatively?

text: I am fascinated by **SEO** and it's merits, so that's why I am going to optimalize my website. There are still a couple of questions that do pop up... Well, I am aware that duplicate content is not done, but I don't know what **duplicate content** is for `Google`... For example, I have a page which links to the top rated posts at the front page... If I click on another page, I do see the same link, but in a different context; not top rated, but just, a regular post... Question: is this duplicate? I have two links that are going to the same post, but is this seen as duplicate? On the other hand, I have a list of posts that I have ordered in a particular order. Now, I have three links that link to the same post. Besides, I have made an excerpt of the concept with a " **read more** " to the same post; I have 4 links to the same post... Is this duplicate content? If yes, what should I do? A `no-follow` on those links? On the other hand, I have **author pages** + **tag pages** in which the same posts pop out. Where do I put a no-follow and why? I would appreciate feedback and help.


title: Does Google penalize pseudo-duplicate pages for different locations?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My compony's site's home page was not specificly optimized to any location. Now, I am planning to optimize it to Boston, and create ten or so other landing pages for other locations we serve. If we made these new pages by copying the original Boston one and changing the location's name (s/Boston/Montreal/), would Google consider them as duplicate pages and penalize us? What is the best practice for this?


title: How to tackle this duplicate content issue?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I've a new website coming up with 1000's of page which will contain some city codes. I'd also like to place city info copied from Wikipedia(as per Creative Commons License).   Now the focus of the pages will be city codes. Wikipedia content will be there only to improve page appearance.   However it can be slapped duplicate content penalty so I should use rel=canonical.   But the main content/focus of site is some city codes and not Wikipedia info per se. Rel=canonical will give impression that whole part of page is duplicated lowering the page seo worth.      **What should I do to tackle this duplicate content issue?**


title: SEO penalty for "duplicate" content when a site's also accessible via another domain name?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? While testing searches for keywords on my site, I notice that a mirror of it at http://a8.8d.344a.static.theplanet.com/ sometimes appears at the top result rather than my primary domain. It looks like this is an alternative address for my server. Will the presence of identical content at this domain and at my primary domain result in a Google penalty? If so, what can I do about it? Thanks for any help...


title: Avoiding Duplicate Content Penalties on a Corporate/Franchise website

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My question is really an extension of a previous question that was ported from stackoverflow and closed so I cannot edit it. The basic gist is a regional franchise company has decided to force all independent stores into one website look; they currently all have their own domains and completely different websites. After reading the helpful answers and looking over some links provided, I think my solution is to put a 301 on each franchise store site (acme-store1.com, acme-store2.com, etc) back to the main corporate site (acme.com). All of the company history, product info, etc (about 90% of the entire site) applies to all stores. However, each store should have some exclusive content such as staff, location pictures, exclusive events and promotions, etc. I originally thought that I would simply do something like acme.com/store1/staff, acme.com/store2/staff, etc for the store exclusive content and then acme.com/our-company, for example, would cover all stores. However, I now see two issues that I don't know how to solve.   1. They want to see site stats based on what store site they came from. If a user comes from acme-store1.com, is redirected to acme.com and hits several pages, don't I need to somehow keep that original site in the new url to track each page in that user's session and show they originally came from acme-store1.com?   2. Each store is still independently owned and is essentially still in competition with the other stores, albeit, in less competition than they are with other brands. This is important because each store would like THEIR contact info, links to their social media pages, their mailing list sign-up and customer requests on EVERY page. So if a user originally goes to acme-store1.com and is redirected to acme.com, it still should look to the user that it's all about store 1, even though 90% of the content will be exactly the same as it is in the store 2, store 3 and corporate site. For example, acme.com/our-company would have the same company history, same header/footer/navigation, BUT depending on the original site the user came from, it would display contact and links to THAT store. If someone came directly to the corporate site, it would display their contact and links (they have their own as well). I was considering that all redirects would be to store1.acme.com, store2.acme.com, etc (or acme.com/store1) and then I can dynamically add the contact info and appropriate links based on the subdomain or subfolder. But, then I have to worry about duplicate content penalties because, again, about 90% of the text in these "subdomains" are all the same. For reference, this is a PHP5 site. I've already written a compact framework utilizing templates and mod-rewrite that I've used for other sites. Is this an easy fix that I'm just not grasping? Any suggestions?


title: Duplicate content, point to original?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I am building a website for a client and would like to have some tabs on each product page with the instructions, postage info, ordering info in, the problem is that most of these tabs are universal and will be the same across more than one product. Will the site get penalised for duplicate content and is there a way to point to the original content in some way?


title: SEO problem for site with 2 domains

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have two domains pointing to the same site. I want both domains to co-exist, they share most of the same content, but they differ in design and they are aimed at different markets / rivaling communities. Is there a way to let google know that these two domains are the same site and don't cause me to get hit with a duplicate content penalty? Any other general SEO tips for this situation would also be welcomed. Thanks. Come on man, why was this closed. The linked page is completely irrelevant for me.


title: Two URLs pointing to almost the same content

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? What I would like to do is the following: I have a website at `http://dev.upcoming-djs.com` which display a music chart. And displays a music player at the right side. I would like to make an URL like: `http://dev.upcoming-djs.com/track` Which points to the same page only with the track loaded in the player at the right side. If I understand correctly it isn't good (SEO-wise) to point different URLs to the same page (with same content). Is this true? And if so is the penalty severe?


title: Does duplicate content inside your own website matter for SEO?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm not referring to the duplicate content where you copy content from another site and publish it on your own. I am talking about original content that you produced. If on 10 pages on your site you have more or less the same content, would this affect your ranking with Google?


title: Duplicate content - linking to other versions of same page

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Two URLs pointing to almost the same content If I have a page, that has this url:   * domain.com/category/something/ but can also be accessed through these urls:   * domain.com/category/something/1   * domain.com/category/something/2   * domain.com/category/something/3 where the last number is used as an image-index to display a certain image on the page. So the content of the pages are the same, just with one image changed. How do I avoid google indexing the versions with /number at the end, so it only shows up once in searches - and is not considered duplicate content? Is it enough to put a rel="nofollow" on links to the /number links?


title: Mobile website causing duplicate content issue on Google - how do we fix it?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My website exists at `www.<site>.com` for desktop browsers and `m.<site>.com` for mobile browsers. We are now seeing that for some Google searches, our mobile site outranks our main website; it doesn't seem to matter if the search is done from a desktop PC or a mobile phone. Aside from that not being the desired behavior, we're concerned that Google is seeing our mobile site as duplicate content of our main site. At this point we're considering an outright block of Google's crawler on the mobile site (via robots.txt). Is that the best approach? Is there a way to make our mobile site show up for mobile search, our main site to show up on desktop search, and avoid the present confusion? Thanks! -James


title: Duplicate content for sub domains i.e. example.com/subdomain/index.php seen the same as example.com/subdomain/

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have a website with some sub domain folders and seomoz is picking them up as both duplicate content and duplicate page titles. In actual fact, its the same page i.e. www.example.com/subdomain/index.php is seen the same as www.example.com/subdomain/ I want to point everything to the later. I'm sure this will be done in the htaccess file. I sorted it for the main site (home page) and everything works fine but when I tried copying the code and re jigging it for the subdomains, either nothing happened or the page went down.


title: Same page in different "locations" on same site - duplicate content?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? The same page, or rather the same content on a page is accessible from two very similar URLs, namely:   * http://www.example.com/path/to/page.php   * http://www.example.com/path/to/page.php?catIndex=1 The URL param in this case affects all the navigation links on the page. Basically, the same page is accessible via two separate navigation routes. To the end user, who doesn't look at the URL, they could be perceived as two separate pages in different parts of the site, although the content is identical. I have a `rel="canonical"` link element linking to the first URL (without the URL param). Could a search engine perceive this as duplicate content? I think my eyes have gone square, but I was considering adding a robots "noindex" meta tag to the page when the `catIndex` URL param exists. But it is really the same URL and I do want the content indexed once, so I'm now thinking this would be foolish?!


title: Duplicated content in Google. Same subpage different link

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? At my website I can access published posts by two different types of links. For example http://mysite.com/posts/333 points at the same content as http://mysite.com/check/this-is-news,333 is . How Google search engine will deal with it? Is it example of duplicated content or not?


title: How much duplicate content percentage is considered as bad for SEO?

text: If a site contains 94% of unique content and remaining 6% of the content coming under duplicate, then can it be considered as bad for SEO?


title: Adding same text in each Wordpress blog post - SEO relevant?

text: I am adding a text below each blog post from my Wordpress PHP code. Since its always the same, I am wondering if thats counted as duplicate content by for example Google? What do you think? Thanks for letting me know :).


title: What happen If I post articles from other websites?

text: In my website I'm posting 5 articles everyday from different websites(sources), Will Google penalize for this behavior, if so how should I handle this ? I'm doing this for more than 2 years. Please suggest me a solution.


title: Redirecting domains to prevent duplicate content

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have 2 domains:               www.company.com      and               www.product.com      I like both domains, they both point to the same site. I have all my canonical links set up properly, but do I have to pick one of the domains to be the master? Some of my visitors really like going to               product.com/page.html      And others like               company.com/page.html      But should they ALL 301 and redirect to               company.com/page.html?


title: Duplicate subdomains and SEO

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I have two subdomains for the same website. One has quite a high page rank, the other does not register. Is there anything that I need to think about in regards of SEO in this scenario? EDIT: Example: `blog.example.com` and `drupal.example.com` are two aliases for the same content. The first has a very high page rank, the second has none.


title: Can duplicate content on a .com and a .co.uk site impact google ranking?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? Can you please tell me if launching a .co.uk version of an English .com site can cause problems with ranking in Google SERPs? We have a .com eCommerce site with 100,000+ indexed pages. The site is many years old and has a page rank of 5 so it has a long history and lots of links. We launched a .co.uk version which used the same content for about 50,000 products, but uses pounds sterling and UK pricing. Within two weeks, we went from getting 2,000 visitors a day to our .com site down to about 60 visitors per day. We have been struggling with this issue for the past 30 days and it's costing us a lot of money. We had not considered the possibility that a .co.uk site could cause this big a problem. The main .com website is still well indexed and crawled, but seems to have been filtered out of search results. The .co.uk site shows up in the US searchers on Google.com and the .com site seems to be in the more results section. Could this be the problem we are dealing with? Could the .com site be suffering from a filter that shows the co.uk site instead. If so, do you have any suggestions on what we can do to remedy the situation.


title: SEO: Duplicate content caused by pagination/tag/index pages

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I read that I should use a `NoIndex` tag for transitional pages like index, pagination, or tag pages. Is this true? I have a Tumblr blog that I am considering putting `NoIndex` on the index, search, tag, pagination, and date pages. Is `NoIndex` enough or are there other methods? Should the index page of a site be marked as `NoFollow`? That doesn't really sound too good. What are the pages you would put `NoIndex` on?


title: Universal navigation menu across domains - would it be considered duplicate content?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? Across different sites on different second-level domains exists a universal navigation bar with a collection of roughly 30 links. This universal bar is exactly the same for every page on each domain. The bar's HTML, CSS and JavaScript are all stored in a subfolder for each domain and the HTML is embedded upon serving the page and is not being injected on the client side. None of the links use any rel directives and are as vanilla as can be. My question is about Google's duplicate content rule. Would something like this be considered duplicate content? Matt Cutt's blog post about duplicate content mentions boilerplate repetition, but then he mentions lengthy legalese. Since the text in this universal bar is brief and uses common terms, I wonder if this same rule applies. If this is considered duplicate content, what would be a good way to correct the problem?


title: How to Keep SEO Score from Dropping with Duplicate Content

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I'm hoping that someone has a solution for what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm working on a travel agency web site and there's a "Overview" section for each cruise line. These overviews are located on the index page for each cruise line. Here's my issue: The company is creating a search engine that includes details on each cruise line. Their write-ups on each cruise line are great, so I'd like to include the overview they created for each cruise line, rather than having to create all new ones. However, I don't want duplicating their content to negatively affect the SEO scores of the pages they originally put this content on. It's gong to duplicate, since each page that's dynamically generated by their search engine is going to include a section about the cruise line (where I'd want to place the overview). Question: Is there any way that I can include these overviews (ideally, copying the exact HTML that they've already implemented) without the search engines indexing those particular code sections? I'd want the rest of the search result pages to be indexed...just not the section of each page that contains this duplicate code. I saw something about using a span class named robots-nocontent in Yahoo (not sure if this also applies to Bing) and googleon / googleoff tags in Google. Is this the best solution? I'm open to any suggestions, thanks!


title: Are multiple results from a website search considered duplicate content?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? The website is a Magento store , but I believe this applies to any product search. We have a search form which takes several parameters. Each combination of parameters results in a different set of products being returned. Obviously sometimes the same product will appear in a different set of products. Very little changes outside the products list when we filter the search: the title tag and the filters lists, the one major change is the product list, where some products will disappear, but most of the time they will repeat through different filters. Also since we have different urls the search engine is treating them as different pages. Is this considered duplicated content? Also what is the best way to make my search seo friendly? Listing all my products and using the canonical tag to point every search there is an option, but is this the right choice? Aren't I losing the possible keyword combinations from my filtres (category, price range, brand)?


title: How to avoid duplicate content penalties for "multi-homed" content?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? My website is for U.S. military members, helping them enjoy their base more by providing places to go on/off base, and information to learn about the base. It is capable of supporting every military base world-wide. Each base has it's own landing page. From here users can see content like: place pages, "blog" posts, etc... Here's where my question comes in. Places can be viewed by bases within a given distance of that place, so some places will appear on multiple base pages. Blog posts are tiered. They can be global (appear on all bases), regional (appear in all U.S. bases, or overseas), sub-regional (appear in Japan, or Germany, etc...), or specifically for one base. **How do I avoid duplicate content penalties for places/posts that span more than one base?** For example: here is the same post on one base, and on another. The url is different, but the content is the same, but it's "legitimately duplicated".


title: Statics Banner Content Consider as Duplicate?

text: One Quarry!! Suppose if I have site having 10 pages (with 3 different categories) and all pages have one static banner which is running in all pages. Now let say it 3 categories be A, B , C defining 3 services and having few content on the banner representing the service then condition of duplicate content will arise or not??


title: Part of content is available in another page. Does that qualify as duplicate?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my > site? I know that duplicate content needs to be addressed in some ways, but this problem is bugging me for some time I have no clue how to solve it. I have a page say a product page with URL **/product/1234/name-of-product** that part of it is displaying a stream of news related to this product with a "more" button at the end, like Facebook stream.   This more button when clicked is intercepted by javascript code which will fetch the rest of stream through an AJAX request to URL **/stream/product?keyword=name-of-product**. However if the JS is disabled or for some reason the AJAX cannot be made the link works the normal way which will go to the URL above which will show only the stream. Now I don't know how to tell search engines that this PART of the page is the same as the stream URL. The thing is I don't want the stream URL to rank higher than main product page. Is it right to put a _rel=canonical_ on the stream page that point to product page? If true the product page is only showing a portion of stream and for more it links back to stream page again.   I'm confused a little here. Thanks in advance and I'll provide further information if required to clear this up.


title: Why Wikipedia does not have duplicate content issues with search engines?

text: I discovered that the following 2 URLs are serving exactly same content. Why is this not impacting Wikipedia's SEO? I've heard having same content across 2 URLs has negative impact on SEO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Data_mining Disclaimer: I'm a developer, not in SEO or marketing so don't know much about SEO.


title: How to send hundreds of emails an hour with content personalized to each user?

text: There are more than 10 categories in my site, users can register more than one category. My PHP script prepares content for each category, according to user preferences. My script merges those contents for each user, so every user can get personalized content from the categories they want. The problem is, I want to send 340+ mails per hour and DreamHost doesn't allow it. I think to a service like MailChimp but I couldn't find that scenario. Do they support personalized category & content? Can I use SMTP in DreamHost?


title: CMS for single user-editable pages?

text: Does anybody know of a CMS where users can edit their own page, and their page _only_ (something similar to about.me, except with more customization/options)? I'm not talking about profiles, but more like an individual web page for people's businesses. I want to be able to give local businesses the opportunity to make a single web page for their businesses with ease. I have looked at many CMS's, but I can't find anything that offers this type of functionality. I've check out the following:   * Unify   * Concrete 5   * Drupal   * Simple CMS   * CMS Made Simple (and more) If anybody knows a CMS with the functionality that I'm looking for, or even a regular CMS with modules/plugins that I would be able to use, that would be awesome. Also: the cheaper, the better :D Thanks, Gerard


title: Domain Mapping with Wordpress.com

text: My girlfriend has set up a blog/website for herself on wordpress.com but also has a domain name she'd like to use when giving out her website URL, instead of a wordpress.com subdomain. Wordpress has some info about that here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/ I'm interesting in knowing more about the pros and cons of handing over a domain to Wordpress like this. Has anyone done it?


title: Good to optimize for broad but less-competitive keyword?

text: I have a Super Mario Bros website and business, Mario Planet, and I am looking for a target keyword for generating traffic - and therefore revenue - to the site. Using the Google Keyword Suggestion Tool (quite a mouthful!), I found that the keyword `mario` generates: > Global Monthly Searches: 68,000,000   >  Local Monthly Searches: 7,480,000 That's quite amazing. Now, to my intense surprise, the competition - as indicated by Google's little bar graphic - is very _low!_ I'm surprised about this, unsettled even. Now, I think I have to optimize for this keyword, just because, I would assume - out of that many people - that a percentage will be willing to purchase toys. And since the competition is so low, I doubt it would take a while to optimize for it. Any suggestions? Thanks!


title: Do you need to crawl the whole internet to find backlinks of a URL?

text: Say I want to retrieve all the sites on the web that have a specific link on them. For example I want to know all the backlinks made to my blog, on other websites. There are services out there that do this: http://www.backlinkwatch.com/index.php - was wondering how they achieve this functionality. Is crawling the entire internet the only option or are there _third-party_ ways of doing this, say using Google.


title: Product application - is it a product or product variation

text: I'm dealing with a lot of vehicle specific products, and I've been trying to determine whether to convert the variants/fit option into individual products. I currently put the vehicle specific items under a product: Product: Widget Hood Deflectors Option1: 07-11 Silverado/Sierra, SKU1 Option2: 09-11 Ram, SKU2 etc. Take a hood/bug deflector for example. They all share the same description, and specifications for the most part. They look very similar, but the shape/appearance could vary significantly depending on the vehicle it is going on. Another example could be a suspension lift kit. Each one is engineered for a specific vehicle application. What would be the product "Widget Super Duper 4 inch lift kit", or "Widget Jeep 07-11 Super Duper 4 inch lift kit"? If I converted the variants to a product, then I have _a lot_ more products (some so called products or product lines have hundreds of applications), when no vehicle is selected, but if I require a vehicle to be selected, then the product results would be basically the same, and specific for that vehicle. The description would also be longer: Product: Widget Silverado/Sierra 07-11 Hood Deflector With the fit as a variants/option, then I have fewer products, but I could have a huge list of options. Product: Widget Hood Deflectors Options: Fit/Vehicle Am I doing things right by having product applications as variants, or am I treating a product line as a product?


title: Howto use .htaccess with exclusions

text: I want all requests on a domain to be redirected to https, with the exception of just one particular file. I'm not sure how to accomplish that with .htaccess               -bash-3.2# cat .htaccess     ErrorDocument 404 http:// www.domain.com     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:// www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]     -bash-3.2#      The above code redirects everything perfectly, however I need the robots.txt file to be accessible via http:// vs the https:// only


title: .htaccess rules to rewrite URLs to front end page?

text: I am adding a new application to my site at example.com/app. I want views at that URL to always open myapp.php. E.g.               example.com/app -> example.com/app/myapp.php and     example.com/app/ -> example.com/app/myapp.php      **What's the correct form of rewrite rules in the .htaccess file?** I've got:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /app/     RewriteRule ^myapp\.php$ - [L]     RewriteRule ^myapp.php$ - [L]     RewriteRule . - [L]     </IfModule>      ...based on what the Wordpress front-end does. But all I see at example.com/app is a directory of files. :( (I put those rewrites at the top of my .htaccess file). Any ideas? **Update** What actually worked:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/app(/.*)?$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule . /app/myapp.php [L]      This is good because:   1. Explicit or implicit calls to app/myapp.php work.   2. example.com/app redirects to app/myapp.php   3. example.com/app/ redirects to app/myapp.php   4. example.com/app/subfunction redirects to app/myapp.php   5. All other calls to example.com/otherstuff are untouched. Item 4 is Wordpress-like Front Controller pattern behaviour. I think that rule               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/app.*$ [NC]      needs refining as it allows /app-oh-my-goodness etc. through too. Thanks for the answers.


title: Allowing minors to play online browser game

text: What are some possible legal issues with allowing minors to play in a text- based browser game. The issues I know of are laws against tracking minors (logging IPs at sign in) and laws against providing pornography (players uploading their own avatars). I'm making a text-based browser MMO. Players can message each other and see each others' avatars. I'll be logging IPs of players. I see some MMOs ban minors from playing, per TOS. I don't want to do that. And I don't want a TOS provision I don't plan on enforcing. I'm in the US. I'll take any advice or useful links you guys got.


title: Math to create web design grids?

text: I have my own grid layout, and I am creating multiple column designs for a website. Is there any formula I can follow to create different column designs with identical gutter space, ie. margins? Most are the alike, (through trial and error), however some are a pixel off and I am looking to make it pixel perfect.


title: Google search does not show sub-pages from my website

text: My website appears in Google search, but only the first page. Of course I have sub-pages linked from the first page, but the sub-pages do not show in Google search. Not in Yahoo, not in Bing. What should I do? It has been three years that sub-pages do not show. (I tried searching site:mydomain.com and pressed 'repeat the search with the omitted results included' link) What would you suspect the reason? My website addresses were like xxx.php?yy=zzz etc, etc, so I changed it to /yy/zzz using mod_rewrite. I thought it might be (X)HTML standard violations, so now I changed it. I hope Google will soon have my entire website, but I am a little bit pessimistic. Do you have any thought?


title: Google Adsense and Private Networks

text: As the title suggests, I'm trying to figure out if I can use Google Adsense on a private network. The network is accessible only by registered users, which made me think if it would work or not. Thanks in advance!


title: Using another domain with Google App Engine

text: I'm trying to change my google app engine domain (domain.appspot.com) to the domain I bought from 1&1.com (mydomain.com). I went into the google app engine settings and added the domain. After making a Google Apps account, I was asked to verify my domain. The directions say that 1&1 doesn't allow me to create TXT records, so I can't use that method for verification. Their alternative is to upload an HTML file to my server, but I didn't buy hosting with my domain, I just bought the domain. My files are on domain.appspot.com. How can I make mydomain.com point to domain.appspot.com? I've added the ns1.googleghs.com as my nameservers in my 1&1 DNS settings, but I still can't verify my domain with Google Apps.


title: What is the single most influential book about website promotion and internet marketing?

text: What is the single most influential, useful, famous book about website promotion and internet marketing?


title: I want to test major changes on my website without hurting SEO

text: I want to replace all my website files for new ones on the server and to test if they work alright but I don't want to be crawled while this is happening or if I am, I don't want the crawler to be able to see what's in the new page. I just want to change it for like 15min but i tested other stuff once for 5min and google for webmasters told me they had a lot of 404's during that period and I don't want that to happen again. Besides that I don't want to have to write my whole .htaccess file. I considered redirecting all the urls to my main page and apply the changes but I think this isn't probably a good practice, any good ideas?


I was trying to connect to my database through PHP but I keep getting the error: > Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource I do not know what the problem is? This is the code I have:               <?php       //Connect to the server       $connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");            //Connect to the database       mysql_select_db("firstdatab");            $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE FavNumber = '44' ");       //Get Results            $rows = mysql_fetch_array($query);       $first_name = $rows['Name'];       echo "$first_name";     ?>      Can someone tell me what is wrong?


title: Hide email adress with JavaScript

text: I read somewhere that hiding email address behind JavaScript code, could reduce spam bots harvesting the email address.               <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">       var a = "Red";       var t = "no";       var doc = document;       var b = "ITpro";       var ad = a; ad += "@"; ad += b; ad += "."; ad += t;       var mt = "ma"; mt += "il"; mt += "to";       var text = "";       if (text == null || text.length == 0)         text = ad;       doc.write("<"+"a hr"+"ef=\""+mt+":"+ad+"\">"+text+"</"+"a>");     </script>      This will not display the actual email-address in the sourcecode of the page, but it will display and work like a normal link for human users. Is it any point of doing this? Will it reduce spam bots, or is it just nonsense that might slow down performance of the page because of the JavaScript?


title: Are browsers supposed to automatically retrieve intermediate SSL certificates and do they?

text: I have recently encountered the following issue: a user couldn't access a website that was using an intermediate VeriSign certificate because it is no longer included in Firefox. Some sources claim that Firefox will import the certificate from websites that send it, others say that it won't. Will it? If not, is it supposed to?


title: Tools to check for common vulnerabilities?

text: Are there any good tools (desktop or online) which allow you to check whether your website has common vulnerabilities (e.g. SQL Injection, XSS)?


title: Webiste Testing for SQL and CSS injection

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Tools to check for common vulnerabilities? I would like to ask some tools or code for testing my new created website from **_SQL or CSS_** injection. The website in created in PHP and has login module which is use for ticketing system for support module. Url convention is **www.domainname.com/index.php** Thanks in advance.


title: Encouraging recurrent users to +1 (or Facebook Like)

text: I want to display a message to users who have visited my site 5 times, but have not yet +1'ed or Like'd to please do so. I guess javascript and a cookie are likely required. But have no idea how to go about doing this. Any ideas?


How to create a redirect page in Google Sites? Example: Home → Page → _redirect_


title: Image hotlinking providers?

text: I use a lot of images in my wordpress and due to hosting restrictions I need to host the images somewhere else and hotlink them in my blog posts. So I am looking for some reliable image host which provides free hotlinking service. The Google Picasa would be best, but I think they do not allow hotlinking. PS. I'm not looking for hosts like tinypic or imgshack, I'm looking for some websites which provides powerful features to oranize images (eg. albums etc).


title: Ideas to improve website loading speed?

text: Are there any ways in which I can improve the loading speed of a website? I know that Google is really pushing loading speeds and with the popularity of mobile websites it's now imperative that sites load quickly.


title: What is optimum time spent downloading a page?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Ideas to improve website loading speed? I saw on wpengine.com, > Google says they lose 20% of their traffic for each additional 100 > milliseconds it takes a page to load. Speed matters. Google also > incorporates your page-load time into your site’s search rankings. Faster > sites win, literally. That’s why WP Engine custom-built our EverCache > technology to deliver WordPress fast enough for Google, and at scale. The average download time of my site is 1216 ms. I think this value is too much. How can I reduce this time? Currently I am using shared hosting. If I switch to vps server, will this value reduce?


title: cloudflare for joomla website and how to make it more optimized

text: In our office somebody told to use cloudflare for better website browsing at client end.!! I've put our company's website on cloudflare, now.. what other changes should i make to make my website faster accessible by client end. The developer before me made our company's website in Joomla.. I'm not a good developer in Joomla either. Is joomla itself a faster kind of stuff producer??? And what other stuff should i follow to make my joomla website faster?


title: Really slow wordpress website admin panel with a total query time 1664ms for the home page

text: I have a problem with my WordPress website being too slow, I installed a debug bar to check queries in the home page, it reports 202 queries, and a total query time equal to 1665ms. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/47o3S.png) The cpu and the ram are in critical use. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SAev3.png) Here is what i tried to do:   * Optimize pluginDB to defrag the DB.   * ThemeCheck plugin to analyse and clean my template.   * W3C Total cache Plugin with object cachr enabled. Necessary plugins are:   * WordPress SEO by YOAST   * Jetpack service by WordPress.com   * Contact form 7 Thank you


title: 403 error on index file

text: When I try to access index.py in my server root through http://domain/, I get a 403 Forbidden error, but when I can access it through http://domain/index.py. In my server logs it says "Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /var/www/index.py". However, my httpd.conf entry for that directory is the same as the ones for other directories, and getting to index.py works fine. My permissions are set to 755 for index.py. I also tried making a php file and naming it index.php, and it works from both domain/ and domain/index.php. Here is my httpd.conf entry:               <Directory /var/www>     Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews     AllowOverride All     Order allow,deny     Allow from all     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi     AddHandler cgi-script .pl     AddHandler cgi-script .py     Options +ExecCGI     DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.py     </Directory>


title: Why is there a form which allows us to redirect our naked domain, yet it does nothing?

text: In Google Apps Domain Management, There is a page for me to change how my naked domain `http://example.com` is redirected. However, in that page, it tells me **You must change the A-record at your domain host for this change to take effect**. Now if I have to change the A-records in my domain host manually, why do I still need to access this page for? If I change the A-records in my domain host manually, everything will work fine just as a _usual non-Google domain setup process_ isn't it? So what's the purpose of that form at all? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/MzlXQ.gif)


title: How to copy or replicate a complex website to local file and modify then

text: I am not good at designing the visual side of a website. I found a website which I gave 10 over 10 because its functionality suits my aims and also it seems very esthetical. I know HTML, PHP, mySQL and some degree of CSS. I don't know JS, Ajax, Jquery. So I want to replicate this web site (save completely) on my local and then modify it. (content, colors, icons etc.) I saved this web site in Chrome and IE. After clicking the site from my local folder, a saw an ugly & non-working site. My aim is to understand the functions of the parts that I don't know. For example when I delete a js in its page what will happen as the result of the deletion operation. Since the page is too complex it has lots of css, js files to download inside. I don't want to deal it manually. Is there any alternative and easy way to get the web page completely to my local which also works like a charm from local? regards


title: What is the effective number of keywords in a domain name for SEO?

text: I want to create domain names that target two keywords but I have to add an extra word (or random string?) to get to domains that are still free. Will adding more keywords to a domain name reduce the SEO value of the other two? How does Google divide value for keywords in the domain name?


title: Redirecting a Preview DNS subdomain to a domain with htaccess

text: I want to redirect all the WordPress urls of the form `http://example.com.previewdns.com/my-favorite-post/` to `http://example.com/my-favorite-post/` I am trying to do this with the below .htaccess code.. But its not working               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com.previewdns.com$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]      Please help


title: Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one?

text: I want to know, is there a huge difference in terms of SEO between these URLs: > mysite.com/ontario/toronto/listings > > or > > mysite.com/listings.php?p=ontario&c=toronto Will one URL rank higher than another? Is there a huge difference here?


title: How important are SEO Friendly URLs

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? Currently, my URLs look something like `http://mydomain.ext/question/5` where `question` is the Controller and `5` is the ID of the object or article retrieved. In theory I could spend some development time and some server resources to have URLs that would contain more information about the page loaded. However, seeing how websites like Youtube or many others just keep simple URLs with just an ID, I am asking, does it matter? It is worth it??


title: Are urls with ?page=something bad for SEO?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? I have a listing of members on my homepage. My dynamic urls are quite simple:               http://mysite.com/members?page=8      I just use the query parameter to go from page to page. Is this bad for SEO? Should I be doing something like this instead?:               http://mysite.com/members/page/8


title: parameters in a seo url

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is a URL with a query string better or worse for SEO then one without one? This should be a very simple question for seo experts. Let's say we have the following URLs:   * http://www.test.com/some-sort-of-page   * http://www.test.com/some-sort-of-page?pgid1189   * http://www.test.com/some-sort-of-page/page/1189   * http://www.test.com/page/1189/some-sort-of-page The first one is an ideal solution. What i need to do is to somehow pass a resource identifier in the url to know exactly what this url is pointing to, since it can be pointing to a lot of different things. In the second URL, "pgid" specifies that the resource is a "page". URLs 3 and 4 specify the same thing differently. I do not care if the URL is friendly to people, because, let's face it - 99.9% of people will never ever ever bother to remember such url no matter how "friendly" it is. So the question is: which of the last 3 URLs would be the best solution for search engines? My guess is it would be the 2nd with query string, but i might be wrong. Thanks for your thoughts P.S. please don't offer using the first url. There's no problem using it, but the question is not about that.


title: Is using URL parameters bad for SEO?

text: I recently noticed that my web page have problems with Google and good search results. Many of the existing SEO tools suggests that my website uses bad URLs for SEO. I'm using a single PHP file that handles all the sections via parameters. By example:   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php (Main Page)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=servicios (Services)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=blog (Recent news)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=blog&cat=2 (News category)   * www.alanmarth.com/index.php?seccion=blog&id=3 (A single entry) Is this ok? If it isn't, how can I solve it without having to rewrite my entire site?


title: What are the pro and cons of using friendly URLs compared to query parameters (and vice versa)?

text: I am noticing that more and more sites prefer using "friendly URLs" over adding information as query parameters. For example:               domain.com/product/3343/      compared to               domain.com?page=product&id=3343      Disregarding personal flavor, what are the core differences between the two approaches?


title: Best practice URL structure for pagination

text: Is one of these formats for pagination better for SEO?   * www.example.com/list/1    * www.example.com/list?page=1 What considerations or factors should go into selecting one format or the other? I'm relatively new to this and don't want to make the wrong call.


title: Apache mod_pagespeed ignores redirected pages

text: Using mod_pagespeed (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module) with an Apache Server, I noticed that some pages were not being processed. The pages in question all had one similar attribute - they were "redirected" pages - for example an ErrorDocument response or an "index.html" file serving as the response when a directory is requested. Is there any way to remedy this? I've checked the FAQ and had a good trawl through the PageSpeed Documentation but to no avail.


title: Share links with <script src=""> SEO

text: I would like to create a share link to my website using javascript: ` script src="[url-to-my-script]" ` Basically the main idea behind this is to render HTML block with an image and link to the website. By using JavaScript approach I can control the look and feel of that link + potentially I could change the link html in the future without touching partner websites. The only potential problem I see with this approach is SEO. I'm not sure if google will be able to index that link to my website, since it's generated by javascript.


title: MySQL vs. SQL Server GoDaddy, What is the difference between hosted DB and App_Data Db

text: I'm using GoDdady for site hosting, and I'm currently using MySQL, because there are less limits on size,etc. My question is what is the difference between using a hosted GoDaddy Db such as MySQL vs. creating a SQL Server database in the the App_Data folder? My guess is security? Would it be a bad idea to use a SQL ServerDB that's located in the App_Data folder? **Additional** Well I am able to create a .mdf (SQL Server DB file) in the App_Data folder, but I'm really unsure if should use that or not, If I did use it it would simplify using some of the Microsoft tools. Like I said my guess is that it would be less secure, but I don't really know. I know I have a 10gb, file system limit, so I'm assuming my db would have to share that space.


title: What is a light-weight "slideshow" script that could integrate w/ CMS?

text: I'm looking to reduce the footprint of my Strict html 4.01 front page. One possible way is to combine much of the "upcoming events" into a single small box, and have them automagically switch which one is displayed every few seconds. I'm sure there are a bunch of this kind of thing written already, and surely an open source one exists, but I haven't had much luck find one. I'd prefer javascript to jQuery as installing jQuery might not be an option, but if the best-fit script requires jQuery I'd certainly be willing to investigate that route. If it can display content from Wordpress that would be ideal.


title: Is 301 redirecting of *.example.com to example.com dangerous?

text: I bought a domain which has several subdomains that don`t exist anymore but are indexed in Google. Is it dangerous from the SEO perspective to do 301 redirect to my homepage from all kind of subdomains that I don't use/not exist? And does it help with the Google's index?


title: How can I change the order of the DNS records in the `dot.tk` DNS server?

text: I have a DNS record with three `A` records: the main site, and two backups. However, when clients perform a DNS lookup, they reach a backup site. How can I change the order of the DNS records in `dot.tk's` DNS server?


title: When multiple developers use cPanel, can they get individual passwords that prevent them from uploading into each other's directories?

text: I have multiple developers working on my cPanel account simultaneously. I want to assign them individual directories to work. I would need to be able to secure other directories from the developers not working on it. I want the website user to be able to access the pages via their web browsers and not be asked credentials.


title: Sudden drop of pageviews/visit and increase of bounce rate in Analytics

text: Google analytics stats: 04 june 2012   * Visits: 4.423   * Unique visitors: 3.558   * Pageviews: 77.352   * Pageviews / visit: 17,49   * Visit length: 00:06:26   * Bounce rate: 1,09% 05 june 2012   * Visits: 4.652   * Unique visitors: 3.825   * Pageviews: 45.087   * Pageviews / visit: 9,69   * Visit length: 00:06:45   * Bounce rate: 19,60% From one day to another the bounce rate went from 1% to 19%, the pageviews dropped by half so did the pageviews/visit. The only thing I changed (If I remember correctly) on the site, was an advertisment that used a javascript. Could this be the reason? and, if it is, how can I know which one is the real stats?


title: Find out where a viewer comes from with Google Analytics

text: Does anyone know if it is possible to determine which company a visitor to your site comes from? For example, if a person is sitting in the offices at Coca-cola or IBM or whatever and visits your site, can Google Analytics (or some other service akin to that) tell that you are coming from those locations?


title: How do search engines handle hyphenated words?

text: I am not sure my title fully explains what I mean. I thought this might be an interesting question. If I had a set of keywords, broken with a dash or 2, will search engines consider the dashed split keyword as maybe a full keyword? Say I have a site that sort of breaks words down, like the dictionary sites do. So a keyword for that page, might end up in the page, and / or the URL, as broken by dashes.               Key-word = keyword     Co-op-er-at-ive = cooperative     Pho-to-gra-phy = Photography          www.example.com/key-word/     www.example.com/co-op-er-at-ive/     www.example.com/pho-to-gra-phy/      I know search engines will consider a dash (at least Google) as a space, and understand it as multiple words. But in the English language, a dash can also break a word down (at least I think it can, can't it?), so will search engines also take this into consideration? I did a 'little' research, I Googled some words and placed random dashes, and it returned the words I searched for, but this could be considered a typo from the user on Google's search end, so really I am wondering if I can purposely put a dash in a keyword, and have the search engine spiders still catch that keyword as the real word without dashes? I've done a little Googling and looking here on Stackoverflow, but everything comes down to dashes for multiple words, not really the specific thing I'm trying to figure out. Hopefully that makes sense, I am not an expert in SEO, yet, but get the basics and have been playing, and this is just really a random question to satisfy my knowledge of playing :P


title: Why does my 9 months old site with more than 400 pages has PR0?

text: I have a paid applicants' testing site with average traffic of 40 visitors per day. The site is very legitimate and allows people to take technical tests based on a unique content our private community creates. The site runs in production for 9 months now, and I get some traffic from Google. The thing that I fail to understand is that my PageRank is 0 (all this time). All the site's pages have special URLs generated according to their content and we gave special SEO attention to the pages using SEOmoz. What am I doing wrong? How can I tell what is the problem? The site name is `codelect.net`.


title: SEO on an existing platform

text: I'm given the task to increase user visits and conversions on for a recruitment website. Conversions would be interested job seekers submitting their CV. The manager would first like to increase the organic search results and optimize the website before starting with targeted campaigns. The problem is, they are using a proprietary recruitment software platform which I can barely add changes to. For example, the url's all look like dynamic url's without any semantic meaning and the markup is almost completely build automatically by that platform. I'm also confident that the lack of submitted CV's is due to a bad user experience of the website (no incentives or clear CTA to register) Besides optimizing the static texts and page titles, is there anything I can do?


title: The $1000-Dollar Bill

text: So I know that this question will vary heavily for the type of website, but here it is. Imagine you have a $1000 to spend on your new website. You can handle development and hosting yourself. In what way would you spend it to push it into a legitimate business? I would imagine most of it going towards advertising, yet I find it is very hard to assign a number to the about of users $1000 can buy. So to you veterans out there, how do you invest on your website? Withstanding the common overhead of development and maintenance, what would you spend it on? How many and how quickly can money buy users?


title: over reporting in google analytics - social media stats

text: I have a client and their traffic from social media reads thus: 80% from facebook 1% from Twitter This suggestsd they are not exploiting twitter at all and this was in my presentation but my boss took it out claiming twitter stats are under reported in google analytics. I can't substantiate this claim and wonder where she got this idea from. Can anyone shed light on this? Are my stats wrong and should I disregard these figures? but 80-1 seems like one hell of an under report! thanks c


title: Does Google bot crawl unused tags?

text: If a website a called foo.com has the following css,               #LinkBuilder{     background:url("www.LoremEpsum.com");     }      and the css id `LinkBuilder` is actually **not** getting used anywhere in the `html` of foo.com, would Google bot crawl it as a **backlink** from `foo.com` to **LoremEpsum.com** and **LoremEpsum.com** gets the link juice from **foo.com** without getting displayed on the website? Please help out. Thanks


title: OS X Server DNS management

text: I have an OS X 10.6 Server running, which has PHP, Apache, MySQL, and DNS running on it. I want to take the DNS management out of the Server Admin App. I know that the DNS configuration files (the ones BIND uses) are plain text files (which have to obey some rules, obviously). The main reason for this is because I wanted to setup DKIM for one of my domains, and I had to add a TXT record to the subdomain pm._domainkey.example.com. Server Admin did not let me add that subdomain, because of the "invalid" underscore character. I searched for web based DNS management tools (the ones that I would install on my server and would allow me to manage my DNS records), but I couldn't find any good ones. (There were a couple that I managed to install, but they didn't see the configuration that I already had setup in Server Admin). Now I'm looking into editing the config files directly, but I don't know where they're located. This is a test / development server, so messing it up wouldn't be such a disaster. I know "I shouldn't do this", but I want to :). Thanks for your help.


title: Migrated website: PageRank and 404's

text: We have recently migrated our website and a lot of pages that existed on the old website no longer exist on the new website. We did create redirect rules to match the URLs from the old and the new website with a `301` but only for `50%` of our content. We have around `195K` pages which give a `404`, and `180K` pages properly redirected. We know serving a `404` to search engine bots is bad for PageRank, but are wondering whether it's bad for the overall ranking of the website. Here are our questions: **Q1: Is a`404` on a particular page affecting the PageRank of other pages and/or overall ranking of a website?** We know we can remove the `404` pages from the Google index via the `webmaster tools` but given the number of URLs that were and were not properly rewritten, we don't think we will be able to remove only the `404`. We also know that eventually Google will remove those `404` pages of its index. **Q2: Is it better to remove everything and let Google re-index the website from scratch (and only non-`404` will remain), or leave everything and have the `404` pages removed over time by themselves?**


title: outsourcing email - google apps alternative

text: I have an application that needs to send email for a couple of different @mydomain.com addresses. I'd also like to be able to read any replies sent to those addresses though a web client. I don't want to install and configure my own mail server, because I don't know anything about this, and don't think learning how to administer a mail server is a good use of my time, so instead I'd like to outsource it. Google apps is pretty much exactly what I'm after, the cost is too high considering that the volume of email I'll be sending/receiving will be relatively low and I won't be using any of the other Google apps services. Is there an alternative service to Google apps that my app could use to send email from my domain?


title: Is customer conversion higher with fixed or selective currency payment options?

text: I want to offer a monthly paid-subscription plan so that users on my website can access more features. Most sites I visit only accept payment in USD. Would customer conversion by higher if the payment was only in USD, or if people were allowed to pay in their preferred currency (Euro, GBP, etc.)?


title: How to find the hidden download link of a file?

text: I want to write a flexget config file to download some subtitle files form http://subs.sab.bz/ The site provides rss feeds for its new releases. Unfortunately, the link provided will open a download page, but will not get the file. I browsed through the code of the download page and the download link in the code will open the download page again when pasted in the browser will re-open the download page again... Clicking on the download button, though, will start the download of a rar file. I want to get to the link for downloading this rar file(containing the subtitle files) Is there a way to bypass this behavior. I read that usually a script on the server will provide the direct link of the download, I want to get that direct link. Alternative solution will be a linux (Ubuntu 11.10 preferred) download manager, which is able to read RSS, trigger download based on filter( specific shows) download the file to specific location, and unpack it


title: How to create a dynamic grid that makes the current selection larger?

text: You see website http://stackexchange.com/sites containing lots of images. By clicking each image it expands and clicking another images it expands and collapse previous clicked image. I have attached images below.. ### Before clicking image webmasters: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rxhpv.png) ### After clicking image webmasters: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bRHBi.png)


title: Can I get source URL from Google search if I switch to HTTPS myself?

text: HTTPS cloaks the keywords, but I've read that by enabling HTTPS on my site I may at least get the source URL's - if the browser goes from HTTPS -> HTTPS it does not drop the source url in the packet header, but going HTTPS -> HTTP does end up dropping it. Is it true? Should I invest into a SSL certificate so that I may get at least some valid data for my eshop?


title: Will a 301 redirect help in maintaining proper page rank?

text: I have `http://www.example.com/article` Due to rampant content development by authors in my site, `http://example.com/article` has also been widely indexed by Google. Now, both are there roughly in equal numbers in Google search result. So, the total page rank for the corresponding keywords is shared between the two URLs. I want only `http://www.example.com/article` to be indexed and have all the page rank value that it deserves. Will doing a 301 redirect from `http://example.com/article` to `http://www.example.com`/article achieve it? If not, what else should I do?


title: Can Google index pages that use framesets generated by javascript (document.write)?

text: I was tasked to check on why Google can't seem to index a client site properly. The site uses a framework given by client's parent company (so we can't use other framework). The framework use frameset for almost every page; the main page is a frameset, and many pages inside the individual frame also use frameset. And those framesets are written to the page using javascript (particulary document.write function). I know Google bots can index content in framesets, and able to execute some of javascript in a page to get data. But can it properly index the combination of both?


title: Separate urls for a set of pages sharing 80% duplicate content

text: Issue: Currently my site has one particular page which has country specific data. So I've URLs like :               mysite.com/sale-united-states     mysite.com/sale-united-kingdom     mysite.com/sale-sweden          etc.      All these pages have 80-90% common content and 10-20% country specific content. currently all these pages canonically point to `mysite.com/sale- united-states`. The problem is when someone searches for "sale Sweden", Google correctly shows `mysite.com/sale-united-states` page, which does not feel correct as it shows US page instead of Sweden. Now I'm thinking of not using canonical url so that country specific urls are produced in Google saerch. But I'm not sure how 80% duplicate content is going to affect SEO? What should be the recommended approach for this situation? A friend of mine suggested a "separate subdomain per country" based approach but it seems overkill for one page.


title: What exactly are backlinks to inner pages?

text: I've been trying to get better SEO for a while. One of the tools I've been trying has suggested, > You must also build backlinks to your site's internal pages to help Google™ > bots crawl and index your web pages. There are links on the front page to other pages in the site. None of the information I can find really explains what those links actually are, what they look like in a page. If it helps to answer the question, I do have an updated sitemap thats updated about once a week, it gets resubmitted at least twice a month. The urls in the site are friendly urls.


title: Coming Soon Pages & SEO

text: I am setting up my personal website, and I have designed a simple "Coming Soon / Under Construction" page which basically has nothing but a small notice for the users. What kind of SEO can I make on this page such that it won't harm the full website's ranking later on?


title: What does it mean when Google Analytics says that a bug causes doubled visit counts that are automatically corrected?

text: When I logged into Google Analytic's account, I have set out this warning Google Analytic's says: Universal properties created prior to December 2013 may temporarily report doubled Visits counts between the hours of 0500-0800 in the View timezone. This issue corrects itself automatically. We are working on a fix to address this issue as soon as possible. What do you think about this issue??


title: Strange series of page visits to my web site

text: In my web log I see 5 hits (to the same web page) all about the same time but from different parts of the world:               180.247.114.192         /RelFinder?personId=17586 - From: null  2014-01-10 00:26:40.0   Opera/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.1.1     202.118.236.130         /RelFinder?personId=7985 - From: null   2014-01-10 00:26:31.0   Opera/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.1.1     200.161.80.111      /RelFinder?personId=17679 - From: null  2014-01-10 00:26:31.0   Opera/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.1.1     186.222.83.170      /RelFinder?personId=17454 - From: null  2014-01-10 00:26:31.0   Opera/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.1.1     119.110.81.210      /RelFinder?personId=16801 - From: null  2014-01-10 00:26:30.0   Opera/9.64(Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.1.1      Any idea why someone would do this? I've seen a couple other visits like this in the past but usually just 2 visits from two different sites at the same time.


title: Make Apache encode or replace quotes instead of escaping them?

text: In the dcoumentation I read > **Format Notes** For security reasons, starting with version 2.0.46, non- > printable and other special characters in %r, %i and %o are escaped using > \xhh sequences, where hh stands for the hexadecimal representation of the > raw byte. Exceptions from this rule are " and \, which are escaped by > prepending a backslash, and all whitespace characters, which are written in > their C-style notation (\n, \t, etc). In versions prior to 2.0.46, no > escaping was performed on these strings so you had to be quite careful when > dealing with raw log files. This is a problem for Analog which is still the handiest analyser I use. I get > .... "GET /somerequest?q= **\"quoted string\"** &someparm=bla" in the logfile and it is of course flagged as corrupt since Analog expects > .... "GET /somerequest? **q=%22quoted string%22** &someparm=bla" or similar. I realise I can pre-process using something like               perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\\"/%22/g' logfile      But I'd rather not have to add this step to these files which are 50-90MB zipped per day Thanks for any pointers