title: SocialEngine 4.5 redirect loop problem

text: I am installing SocialEngine 4.5. Here is the .htaccess file in the first level of the SocialEngine `/public_html/social_engine2/` directory:               # $Id: .htaccess 7539 2010-10-04 04:41:38Z john $          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     # For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.     #Options +FollowSymLinks     Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /               # Get rid of index.php     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /index\.php     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=2 [L,QSA]          # Rewrite all directory-looking urls     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          # Try to route missing files     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} public\/ [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(jpg|gif|png|ico|flv|htm|html|php|css|js)$     RewriteRule . - [L]          # If the file doesn't exist, rewrite to index     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          </IfModule>          # sends requests /index.php/path/to/module/ to "index.php"     # AcceptPathInfo On          # @todo This may not be effective in some cases     FileETag Size      This file is in the `/public_html/social_engine2/install/` directory:               # $Id: .htaccess 7554 2010-10-05 03:40:58Z john $          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     # For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.     #  Options +FollowSymLinks     Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /install/                    # Get rid of index.php     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /index\.php     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=2 [L,QSA]          # Rewrite all directory-looking urls     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          # Special cases     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} static     # RewriteRule (.*) Boostrap.php [L,QSA]     RewriteRule (.*) index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          # Try to route missing files     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} public\/ [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(jpg|gif|png|ico|flv|htm|html|php|css|js)$     RewriteRule . - [L]          # If the file doesn't exist, rewrite to index     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?rewrite=1 [L,QSA]          </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_php5.c>       php_value   post_max_size         100M       php_value   upload_max_filesize   100M       php_value   max_input_time        600       php_value   max_execution_time    600       php_value   memory_limit          128M     </IfModule>          # @todo This may not be effective in some cases     FileETag Size      Please let me know if there is something wrong with the code.


title: PHP not enabled by default on GoDaddy shared linux web hosting

text: I recently made the mistake of starting a web hosting account with GoDaddy. Let me start by saying that any comments or answers that I should walk away from the money I spent with GoDaddy and go with someone else will be flagged. I have heard this countless times and do not wish to hear it again. Perhaps I am naive but I thought that PHP was enabled by default on shared web hosting. Certainly PHP should be enabled, my account started with two webform mailer scripts, webformmailer.php and gdform.php. There also exists a php.ini file that cannot be modified or deleted. It seems to prevent certain things like registering globals and other security concerns on a shared hosting environment. PHP is not enabled though. A simple test script spits back text, telling me the PHP handler doesn't exist or it is just not installed.               <?php phpinfo(); ?>      The above just returns text. There was no .htaccess file so I decided to add one myself. It made no difference. > AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php > > Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks The php.ini file that they provided in my account is as follows:               register_globals = off     allow_url_fopen = off          expose_php = On     max_input_time = 60     variables_order = "EGPCS"     extension_dir = ./     upload_tmp_dir = /tmp     precision = 12     SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net     url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="               ; Only uncomment zend optimizer lines if your application requires Zend Optimizer support          ;[Zend]     ;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15     ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3     ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3     ;zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager.so     ;zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so               ; -- Be very careful to not to disable a function which might be needed!     ; -- Uncomment the following lines to increase the security of your PHP site.          ;disable_functions = "highlight_file,ini_alter,ini_restore,openlog,passthru,     ;             phpinfo, exec, system, dl, fsockopen, set_time_limit,     ;                     popen, proc_open, proc_nice,shell_exec,show_source,symlink"      After contacting customer support they insist that there is nothing wrong with my account. I must be doing something very stupid here because I can't find any instance on the web where somebody experienced a similar problem with GoDaddy.


title: Support same url in different forms

text: I have seen many websites supporting multiple forms of the same URL. For example consider www.example.com/question1/ OR www.example.com/Question1/ OR www.example.com/QUESTION1/ etc. all lead to one page with say               <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/question1/" >      or a 301 redirect to www.example.com/question1/. Does this affect the page rank anyhow or its just for seemless user experience or there is some other reason behind this? Infact even stackoverflow/stackexchange does this. No matter what the text after the id of the question in url they redirect you to the correct question!


title: Plesk 11 preview site with hosts file

text: I want to preview my website by manipulating the hosts file, linking to the server's URL but it's not working - My browser always tells me "the connection has been reset during page load". What am I doing wrong? I edited my hosts file like many tutorials out there suggest and I checked (wireshark) that the browser connects to the correct IP (that of my server). Yet, I can't see anything of my website...?


title: How do I build backlinks?

text: I've recently made a site and I want to know how to go about making backlinks?


title: What are new backlinking techniques

text: I am in search of new backlinks methods. I do know most of the traditional methods of acquiring back links but they are no more in the play. I there is something out of the box or not so common, please share your knowledge and wisdom.


title: How to increase backlinks of blog or websites

text: I know that this question is very easy and also Silly.But I don't know how to make **backlinks to my blog**.      I have tried **commenting in various blogs and websites** but in alexa there is **only 1 backlink** which is **my own blog**.      Do anyone know how to make a **quality backlinks for blog or website**....      I also want to know that by increasing **Backlinks** , **SEO** of my blog imporves???       _Thanks in advance......_


title: Use Addon domain within login name for FTP account in cPanel

text: Let's say I have a cPanel (version 11.30.6 (build 3), cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)) shared hosting account for `myDomain.com`. I also have several other "Addon" domain names on this account, each with their own document root. Under the cPanel FTP Accounts page, it only allows me to do this... **Server:** `ftp.myDomain.com`   **Login:** `name@myDomain.com` However, I want to setup an FTP location at one of my "Addon" domains so that it looks like this... **Server:** `ftp.myAddonDomain.net`   **Login:** `name@myAddonDomain.net` I'm not seeing if it's even possible, but hoping it is, and somebody here would be able to explain how. In other words, cPanel allows me to create an email account at literally **any** of my Addon domains or sub-domains. I'm wondering if I can create FTP accounts in the same fashion... but it's looks like I cannot.


title: backlinks: two domains with same IP

text: I run several different web pages on different servers (with different IP addresses). These pages are linking to each other in order to boost number of backlinks pointing to my pages. I would like to move all those projects to a single virtual host (with a single IP address). My question is, how Google handles links within different domain names but same IP address. Is there some penalization for it? Could this lead to lower PageRank?


title: Do premium domain names help us with other languages too?

text: It's commonly known that premium domains with one or two relevant keywords may help us improve our rankings in SERPS. But would it be possible that an english premium domain, for example gold.com (no, it's not mine) also helps to drive more non-english traffic (I'm talking about non-english pages ob)? ## Trying to make my question clear: Let's suppose that I have an english premium domain with a page like this: gold dot com/post/123/gold-is-yellow And decide to have a spanish, portuguese or french version of the site with pages like: gold dot com/es/post/123/el-oro-es-amarillo gold dot com/pt/post/123/o-ouro-e- amarelo gold dot com/fr/post/123/fsdfsdfsdf The fact that my english domain is a premium one and highly relevant for english terms, will also help me to achieve good rankings for non-english searched terms like: oro (spanish) or ouro (portuguese)?


title: Is my PageRank/linkjuice affected after 301 redirect and losing social likes?

text: I had to restructure my URL's and had to introduce some 301 redirects. However, then the Facebook likes and Google +1's of the old pages are also lost. Besides it's a shame those numbers don't show anymore, is my PageRank/linkjuice affected by the loss in likes/+1's? P.S.: I know a 301 redirect by itself results in a slight linkjuice loss, but that's not what I'm asking.


title: What's the best way way to download files from a live blog?

text: I'm having trouble figuring out a way to download files from a live blog. To be more specific, I'm trying to download the directory and php files that this blog consist of, and work on those files on my local environment while still keeping the original blog live on the net for the time being. I tried to use FTP(filezile) to download the files remotely, but it failed to open the files for writing and the file transfer failed. I then attempted to go into godaddy control panel and change the file permissions but, for some reason, it won't let me do that. Is there a better way to do this?


title: remove 'noindex' meta tag, under Tumblr

text: Is it possible to remove the meta tag for search engine 'noindex' in a tumblr blog ?   I have tried all options under the dashboard.   I think Tumblr add this option automatically when the HTML page is generated.   If I wrote another meta tag before, in a custom HTML style, is it used by googleBot or other ? > < meta name="robots" content="noindex"/ >< meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch- > control" content="off"/ >< /head >   >  < body > ... Also, these scripts are in the template :               <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/WsCkloo8h/fluid.js" type="text/javascript"></script>     <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/trzklb43b/jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>     <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/6JXkli7dk/cufon-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>          <script src="http://static.tumblr.com/xsp9wak/g6Wklb4aa/tg.js" type="text/javascript"></script>      >


title: pingback / trackback support for a photo sharing website?

text: Is there a photo sharing service, such as flickr or picasa, that will collect the urls of the locations where the photo has been posted on other blogs (or mentioned in tweets, etc?) This could be accomplished by posting each photo as a blog entry using **wordpress** , which would then automatically handle pingbacks, but of course a blog doesn't perform quite like a proper photo service. Perhaps this could be done with a private photo hosting server like **zenphoto** by editing the php, but that seems rather involved. Does such a service already exist?


title: YouTube fullscreen not displaying

text: For some reason YouTube videos in my website do not get the fullscreen button, even if I added the parameter `allowFullScreen` set to true both in the object and embed tag. Here's an example page: http://www.indievault.it/2011/11/09/indie-vault-alla- games-week-2011-online-la-video-gallery/ Just take a quick look at the source. The `allowFullScreen` param is there, but the button won't show. Here's an excerpt from the code in that page:               <object width="540" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dvYQhJwwkgA"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dvYQhJwwkgA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="540" height="325"></embed </object>


title: What could keep Chrome from downloading files?

text: I run a subscription-based site for poker training videos. In the recent past, some portion of our subscribers have developed problems downloading our videos. The affected users are exclusively seeing problems while using Chrome as their web browser, however there are other users who use Chrome with no problem. Here is the exact behavior they are seeing:   * Pasting the url of a video file directly to their browser produces about:blank and the file does not download   * Clicking the link normally produces no result (e.g. it behaves like a dead link)   * Right-clicking the link and opening in a new tab/window produces about:blank and the file does not download   * Right-clicking the link and choosing Save-As produces a 5 to 10 second delay, after which they get a Save As dialog. After they choose a location, the download proceeds at full speed. Again, this problem has only presented itself for a subset of users browsing with Chrome. All affected users have the latest version of Chrome, but so do some of the unaffected users. All affected users have Windows Vista or Windows XP. As far as we can tell (small sample size), none of the affected users have Windows 7 and none of our users on Windows 7 have been affected. What could be causing this problem? How could it be solved? Edit: Here is a copy of the headers from one of these downloads.               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:35:56 GMT     Server: Apache     Last-Modified: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:57:29 GMT     ETag: "180cc292-5229699-4b00a208b3c40"     Accept-Ranges: bytes     Content-Length: 86152857     Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=29     Connection: Keep-Alive     Content-Type: application/octet-stream      Edit: Some updates. Chrome extensions do not seem to affect this. One of the affected systems was upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, with no other changes made. That system now downloads properly. This issue doesn't only affect the WMV videos. It happens with FLV and M4V as well. A sample file is at http://www.grinderschool.com/videos/zbn9Y7TbeWcUbCPFNnLd/Carroters001.wmv


title: Number of keyword phrases

text: Does the number of keyword combinations used for SEO of a given website matter? Is it better to have five or thirty five?


title: Do dynamic URLs have their own PageRank?

text: Do URLs with parameters have their own PageRank for the given parameters values or is the PageRank aggregated at basic page URL level ignoring the parameters?


title: Microdata reuse within another item

text: I've been reading around and I feel I've hit a wall. My intention is marking up my site with micro-data in a way I won't need to re-declare items that already exist in the page. For example, my header will always contain info regarding the "Organization" that the website represents. Within the "Products" that I offer I can specify the "Brand" of that product. So the product's property "brand" will replicate the "Organization" info mentioned in the header. Now I don't think I'm supposed to repeat the organization's markup within the brand property of the product item, since I feel there should be a way to reference that organization item directly. I just haven't found a way to do this, are there any ideas? I've checked this answer and although useful it doesn't address my issue. I tried messing with it however to give you an idea of my intentions:               <span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemref="myCompany">         <meta itemprop="name" content="Company Name" />         <meta itemprop="url" content="http://example.com/" />         <meta itemprop="description" content="description" />     </span>          <span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">         <span itemprop="brand" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">             <meta itemprop="id" content="myCompany" id="myCompany" />         </span>         <meta itemprop="name" content="Foo product" />         <meta itemprop="description" content="You can do Bar with it" />     </span>      This doesn't work since it adds the the "id" property to both "Organization" and "Product". **##### EDIT1: #####** zigojacko's answer didn't really go towards what I was expecting, since he uses a single container with all the information needed to present all the markup for his product. However in my case the site layout isn't broken down into a container that would hold all the necessary information, as my company info is within the header and the products/offers are near the footer (as the main form to define those offers is above the fold) and other info is scattered between each of those containers. As such I would eventually like to link the company (that resides in the header) to the brand of each product (that reside near the footer), I just wouldn't like to repeat all the code necessary to describe the company and therefor would prefer linking to some sort of item identifier. There is also the possibility of nesting every bit of content within the page to the company, but as a comment to this question I mention that specific question in the webmasters-stack-exchange. So I know how to pull that type of solution off, I'm just wondering if there's the possibility of referring to an existent item elsewhere on the page. **##### EDIT2: #####** In the comments of this question I might have found a better way to explain what I mean. > By pointers I mean an html attribute that could reference an Item. In the > code example I gave, I have a loose (not nested) Organization that I would > like to be inserted into my second item Product within it's brand property, > but without having to copy+paste or echo again within the Product. I tried > to simulate that behavior with the itemref attribute.


title: MODx give user group access to the content of a resource container but not the parent resource

text: I have a Category "Articles" and in there is the Category "Travel". I want to allow a user group to add and edit articles as children of travel, but they should not be able to edit the page travel. How can I do that?


title: Google webmaster reconsideration requests without manual actions

text: my site ranking decreases in Google results suddenly about ten days ago. I read many articles about it at support.google.com, but I didn't find the problem. Also there is no manual action in webmaster tools. is there any way to ask Google reconsider my site ranking or to say what is the problem of site? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ypg6e.png) Background for my site: it is a pharmacy shopping websites. has ~700 product pages and almost all of the description of products is copied from producers website.


title: Will AJAX-fetched material be invisible to search engines?

text: With the new method of doing things that I've put together, my page content is not actually on index.html or any of the other pages. Instead, it is in index.txt and merely fetched by AJAX. Is my content, which is in index.txt, going to be invisible to the search engine spiders? Or will it load the AJAX-fetched material and then analyze the whole thing once the material is fetched?


title: Bots and scripts

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Will AJAX-fetched material be invisible to search engines? Can bots understand what's going on in javascript or vbscript? Most of the social networking modules and ad codes consist of just a js file which appends an iframe (google+ button, facebook like button, facebook likebox, google ads etc). Do bots understand that there are iframes involved in the site? Do bots run javascript and check the result? Or at least try to understand what's going in that js?


title: Does having a single image referenced from multiple pages affect SEO?

text: I would like to have a collection of images that are rendered into the browser. If for example I had **Images:**               [img1 ; img2 ; img3 ; img4 ; img 5;]      **Category:**               [cat1 ; cat2 ; cat3]      **Problem:** Assume image 1 belonged in both cat1 and cat2. Would it be better for SEO purposes to upload image1 with different alt tags? OR should I upload the same image twice using different URL's? **_Note** : I have folder pattern such as_   * `/dir/cat1/`   * `/dir/cat2/`   * `/dir/cat3/` The image goes in the folder in which category it belongs. So if the image is best not duplicated, I will use the first choice.


title: Why isn't my website in Google search results?

text: I've made a website one month ago and it still isn't indexed by Google. I haven't change any setting in the _robots.txt_ file. I've tried to search for `site:websitename.com` but I still can't see it, and I have a Google Analytics account. Why isn't my site in Google results?


title: Google not reading my website Content and Title, Meta tag and Description also?

text: I have a new website and my website Home page content, Meta tag also not reading google and not index, any one can help me my website: http://www.packerandmoversindelhi.in


title: How long does it take for Google Webmasters to index site after submitting sitemap?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why isn't my website in Google search results? I have submitted my website today into Google search using Google Webmasters using sitemaps. The status on the sitemap says OK and it shows that 12 urls have been recognized. I was wondering how long does it take for the link to get indexed, as the indexed url option says > "No data available. Please check back soon." I am not sure if it is showing this message due to some error, or everything is fine.


title: Google pulls keywords from only two pages

text: When I sign into Google Webmaster and view Google Index > Content Keywords, it only shows keywords off of a single page, and from my site map. It's a small site with five pages, but it's only getting keywords from the single page. Also when I go under Google Index > Index Status it shows only two pages have been indexed, and it's stayed that way for about a month. I assume that this is the site map and the page where all of the keywords are being pulled from. My robots.txt file allows all pages to be crawled, and if I search "site:mysite.com" it shows all of the pages. I can't seem to find a way to see what pages have been indexed in Webmaster. The site has been up for a couple of months. I have submitted a sitemap which has all of the pages. Why isn't Google gathering keywords from the other pages? How do I get the other pages indexed?


title: Pages are not searchable by Google

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google After migrating my website (based on Drupal CMS) to WebHosting (it's about two months there), I noticed that my pages aren't searchable by Google. It finds nothing, even though it should clearly find my website. Same thing happens when I want to know the ranking of my website. Do you know where the fault could be?


title: A relatively new blog seems to be getting very poor Google indexing

text: I have a new blog that is 2 months old. In the first few weeks, it was getting indexed nicely and my GoogleWebmaster reports were showing that it was getting crawled and began ranking for some terms. Then as I kept writing, the GoogleWebmaster report thinned out and showed less and less terms that this blog ranks for. Now there are only 4 terms with one of them being my name. Is there something I need to do to keep the old posts to remain indexed and crawled? Thanks, Alex


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google I have a strange problem with my website. I have a website, let's say Abcdefg.com. Website is live for 2 months and google still doesn't know it. While searching for my domain name 'abcdefg', google displays results for similar phrase (abcdef) but not fot mine. How to make google get to know my domain name? Website and sitemaps have been submitted via Google Webmaster Tools.


title: How to improve image indexing

text: I have a curious problem: In Google Webmaster Tools, it shows that from my sitemap 330 images submitted and only 6 are indexed. I try to put alt tags, descriptive names, everything by the book, but still no results. What can you suggest to improve image indexing by Google or any other search engine :).


title: How long did it take for your new website to be indexed by search engines

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Why isn't my website in Google search results? I have added my website to the webmaster tools of some major search engines already, and supplied the sitemap for the website. I have been waiting for exactly 3 weeks now and still no data in the webmaster tools. I have also did some link building, and the click-trough link to my website could be found in the search results from day one. How long did it take for your website to get indexed? And why does is take so long?


title: Google not showing the sitemap after submitting it

text: I am trying to submit the sitemap to the Google. I have already submitted the sitemap - xml path to Google 2-3 times. but when I put my website URL on Google search, it not showing the menus or it not showing indexes in search. What should I do ? Anything wrong ?


title: Multilingual subdmain on different hosting server: will this be indexed by search engines?

text: I have a Japanese language sub-domain: ja.example.com, which is hosted by server A. The root domain (example.com) is hosted by server B. They have completely different IP addresses: (e.g.) 205.56.78.15 vs. 56.45.03.12. Will the sub-domain be indexed by search engines? The sub-domain has been live for one month and there have been no visits by organic searches. Thanks


title: My Blog not not showing in Google Search Results

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google Hello Everyone,   yesterday, i created two blog entries and published them on blogger but it is not showing up in google search results. How long do i have to wait before i can see it in google search results (before google crawls the blog). i have already shared the address on couple of sites and there are almost 80 page views from three different referrals. Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated.   regards


title: How do services that make subsites (ie. new subdomains) get those sites indexed by Google and other search enginex?

text: Services like tumblr, github pages, quora blogs, etc. make new subdomains when a user signs up or makes a site. So the subdomains are like: blogname.tumblr.com , pagename.github.io, blogname.quora.com, etc. How do google and other search engines find out about these new sites? Is it as simple as having a sitemap.xml file being "resubmitted" to google? See https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669?hl=en. I know that you can resubmit sitemaps to google via an HTTP request, but what about for new sites without a previously submitted sitemap? Or do the owners of the subdomain (the user who set up the new site) have to submit their site manually via https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit- url ? Just getting started learning about SEO and how google crawls the web. Couldn't find anything that answer this (or I'm just bad at Google), hoping someone can answer. Thanks! Edit: I read through this: Why isn't my website in Google search results? But the question still holds for sites where subdomains are generated dynamically.


title: Website Not Showing for Keywords in Google Search

text: I have a Website `www.rushinformation.com` 4 Months old and I always update my Website almost Everyday...But the Problem is that When I type my keyword 'Rushinformation' only in Google Search Results it is Not Shown anywhere in search Results. However when I type `rushinformation.com` or `www.rushinformation.com` it displays my site... I have submitted website to Webmaster tools and Analytics with my sitemap...So please tell me how to fix this problem.


title: Site not updating on Google

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google I uploaded my site a week ago. Before, I only had "Very Soon" on the server. Google still shows "Very Soon" even though the content has been new for one week now! I pinged, resubmitted by site, but it still not showing up!


title: Site does not appear in Google organic search

text: My site is showing up in organic search of Yahoo and Bing. But no trace of it on Google. I am using wordpress and a plugin called Google XML Sitemap. Also signed the site in Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. Still not appear on the site. Even typing the name of the site itself. What can be happening? It is possible the website of a competitor be blocking my website on Google?


title: Website not showing up on Google after removal of blocking robots metatags

text: A friend asked me to take a look at their website, which had been online for several months, but did not show up on Google. I noticed that they had a subdomain which did show up, so the query               site:hisdomain.com      showed some results, but all of them were from the subdomain. The query               site:hisdomain.com -SubdomainTitle      resulted in zero results, since it blocked all results from the subdomain, and there were no results from their main domain. The following query yielded zero results, too:               site:www.hisdomain.com      Then I noticed that they had some SEO Wordpress plugin active which was configured to generate `noindex, nofollow` meta tags on their pages. I removed this and the meta tag was gone. I logged in to **Google Webmasters** , submitted some **Fetch as Google** queries and told Google to **Submit to Index** them (on both `domain.com` as well as `www.domain.com`). I told my friend his site would appear on Google the next few days or weeks. **This was several weeks ago, and his site still doesn't appear.** Then I checked their **Index Status** on both `domain.com` and `www.domain.com`. Here's how it looks for `www.domain.com`: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zWs8h.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EXEjM.png) It's strange that the `Blocked by robots` count has always been `0`. If the `robots` metatag was the reason for Google not indexing their site, there would have been some `Blocked by robots` results, I suppose. **So, there must be another reason why Google doesn't index their site. Any ideas? How can I analyze the situation further?** **EDIT:** Here's the URL: http://www.lab25.ch. The subdomain is not directly related to the main URL: http://addon-katakunst.lab25.ch. And no, **it's not duplicate content**.


title: Changing GoDaddy Webmaster tools options

text: A client of mine (for school) has a website hosted on GoDaddy which we wants my team to help him increase his marketability on Google, because currently, when his company name is Google searched no relevant results are displayed. So we were going to setup Google Webmaster Tools for him, so we can help him get there. Now we logged into his GoDaddy dashboard, and it turned out he already had one setup through GoDaddy, where they assigned him a gmail account. I cannot figure out why his site won't show up at all on Google. Does anyone know why it isn't, like what kind of settings can I change to help him out? Also, we were trying to change the gmail account his Webmaster Tools is associated with, is this possible? Ultimately, I'm trying to get his site seen on Google, through the Webmaster Tools, but i cannot figure out why it hasn't worked yet. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.


title: My website pages not getting indexed by Google

text: The website `www.itztechgadget.com` isn't getting indexed at all. When I check about it in Websmater Tools, it shows 0 pages indexed. I'm not getting why is this problem happening. Googlebot fetches and submits it to be indexed but none of website's pages are indexed.


title: Google not listing my web site

text: I have a site which is more than 2 months old and it's not showing up when you directly type the URL into Google. Here is the link of site: www.icarda.org However, the site is listed in Bing and Yahoo without any problem. Please help me to solve this issue.


title: Some website pages not indexed by Google although followed the recommended steps

text: I have built a website (www.shareall.nl) in wordpress and did some SEO (metadescriptions, headings, links, alt text, microdata, sitemap, robots.txt, etc) using Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin. I did not squeezed everything out of it but the site ranks pretty well in Google on important keywords regarding Prezi (top 5). The problem however is, that there is a set of pages that are not being indexed and these pages are relevant to my customer? One of the pages is http://www.shareall.nl/prezi-trainingen/prezi-vervolgtraining (I cannot post more links due to my reputation on stackoverflow, but they are all about training). I know (as the moderator told me) that there is another question about this topic but I have followed all recommendations given there without success. I would like to get more ideas of what to try and hope someone can help me with this. This is what I have done so far or are some facts about the site which might be relevant: * submitted sitemap and saw most of the pages being indexed * robot.txt is not preventing pages from being crawled * manually crawled pages using google's webmaster tools and submitted them afterwards * the website itself has multiple links from other pages towards the training pages * don't have noindex set for concerned pages * domain is not new and exists for numerous years now (since 2011) * the website **is** new and is launched this year (february 2014) * I have multiple links within the site pointing to the missing pages Again any help is greatly appreciated!


title: Major Indexing problem with my site

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I cannot see my website in google Hey guys I am having problem with indexing my site http://www.loosediamondschicago.com which is in wordpress hosted on godaddy. Its about two weeks but still no search engine indexing me. **Some Points Your Should Know:**   1. The site hosted in wordpress.   2. When the site was in development I turned off the search engine visibility from the wordpress dashboard. After turned it on I checked the meta tags and i have found no noindex. So, i guess that is not the issue.   3. To my previous experience with wordpress i know wordpress is smart enough to automatically remove the **www** in url but in this case its not.   4. I have sent sitemap via google webmaster tool about 4 days ago but still no indexing. However webmaster tool is showing error for using now **www** url in the sitemap while my urls are **www**. But I believe if i dont have sitemap still my site should be crawled right?   5. The domain client bought was use before by other people but expired couple of years ago then my client again registered it.   6. I have checked if the domain in blacklisted or not. I have found the result not blacklisted.   7. I have get couple of backlinks hoping that my site will get indexed but still no hope. I did not faced this kinds of problem before. So people please advice. I am now check godaddy to find out if any crawl errors. I will update the post when i have it. **Update** The site is up for one and half month but search engine allowed about 2-3 weeks. I blocked the search engine when the site was in development.


title: Creating iPad applications faster

text: I'm new to iPad application development, but I am an experienced Web application developer in ASP.net. I want to develop fine applications for the iPad, but I want to learn from scratch. Please suggest me some online tutorial links or guide me through the right path for starting and learning development faster. I have less time and have to learn and develop more.


title: Creating an encrypted, web-based proxy

text: I have moved to Asia where my internet connection is censored and I'd like to check my messages from social sites which happen to be blocked. As virtually all proxy servers are blocked in this country, I've decided to attempt to roll my own encrypted proxy server. Please note, the key word here is _encrypted_ —if the sniffer sees anything like `f@c3b00k` or `w:k:p3d:ia` travelling down the wire I'm had. I have a website hosted with GoDaddy (Windows with PHP 5.2 & IIS 7). Is there any way I can set up an encrypted proxy through this service? If so, how, and what open source tools are available to use?


title: Capitals in URL subdirectory not changed by htaccess

text: Within my WordPress website I am redirecting sub directories to internal and external links. Now, when you place a CAPITAL letter in the sub dir it does not work anymore and the website does not show the same page.   * `www.mydomain.com/login/` does work properly   * `www.mydomain.com/Login/` does not work properly I'am using the following in the `.htaccess` file:               # Rewrite DE Domain     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.de$ [NC]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/+subdir/ [NC]     RewriteRule ^ http://www.domain.com/%{REQUEST_URI}?lang=de [L,R=302,NC]          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [NC,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [NC,L]     </IfModule>     # END WordPress          # EXTERNAL Redirects     Redirect /login http://     Redirect /Login https://


title: How can I make fonts render the same way across different web browsers?

text: I am building a website for a client, and we had hoped to use plain text, not images in the navigation bar. The font we are using is Century Gothic (I believe that this font is available on the majority of PCs and Macs) The problem is, that on different browsers the font renders significantly differnt. In Chrome we got it looking the way we want, but in firefox the text is smaller and bolder. Aside from writing browser specific javascript to alter the font properties, are there any other options to standardize the way the fonts are rendered cross-browser. Perhaps some library or API? Maybe its a matter of being more specific in declaring font properties? Honestly I am stuck and need help.


title: Is it possible to use canonical tag in Blogger posts?

text: I found one of my blog post was cached by Google (`www.example.com/post.html`). I found that comment page of the post was also cached (`www.example.com/post.html?showComment=1372054729698`). These two pages are showing in Google SERP when I checked cached posts of my blog. Is it possible to use canonical tag on the post `www.example.com/post.html?showComment=1372054729698` so that Google won't penalize my original post? Is there any other ways to redirect a blog post?


title: .htaccess 301 Redirect

text: How do I make it so all traffic is directed for the entire site and all subdirectories from non-www to www Here is my .htaccess contents: RewriteEngine on               <IfModule mod_suphp.c>     suPHP_ConfigPath /home/vivalast     <Files php.ini>     order allow,deny     deny from all     </Files>     </IfModule>          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain-name.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain-name\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]


title: URL redirection in GoDaddy

text: I have two domains from GoDaddy. How do I redirect automatically from http://www.domain1.com/article.html to http://www.domain2.com/blog/article.html


title: Simple RewriteRule

text: I'm trying to write a RewriteRule to make a simple url. I want users to be able to type enter               www.example.com/somepage      and have it take them to               www.example.com/abc/somepage.php      How can this be done in .htaccess? I've tried these to no avail:               RewriteRule ^somepage$ abc/somepage.php [L]          RewriteRule ^/somepage$ /abc/somepage.php [L]      Your help is much appreciated.


title: Google Indexing PHP pages with and without backslash

text: How can we use the _.htaccess_ file to only have our pages indexed by Google without the trailing slash. Right now both pages are being indexed.


title: How to best redirect user to new site

text: I am planning the launch of a new site and trying to figure out the best way to redirect users from the old site. The old site (200+ pages) will be completely retired. I'm planning on moving the domain name to our new server, but the only page that will remain will be the index page. The site was built on a CMS that is not compatible with an Apache server. The new site has a completely different page hierarchy, page titles, and domain name. So, I'd like some guidance on the best techniques to do the following:   1. Anytime someone visits the old_domain_name.com, either from Google or other external links I'd like for them to be redirected to new_domain_name.com. i think this can be accompliched with a simple Javascript redirect from old_domain_name.com.   2. When someone tries to visit old_domain_name.com/about_us.htm I'd like for them to be redirected to new_domain_name.com/new_directory/about.htm. I'd need to do this for 200+ pages.  Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks!


title: 301 dynamic redirect

text: Please note that I would like to change the name of the server's folder (lets say "examplefolder") in which I have installed my phpbb site and thus I would like to do a 301 redirect in order to preserve page rank. Could you please let me know how to perform such an action in order for:   www.example.com/examplefolder/   will be done:   www.example.com/administrator/      Actually, I would like to redirect the URLs especially for   www.example.com/examplefolder/index.php   www.example.com/examplefolder/viewforum.php   www.example.com/examplefolder/viewtopic.php


title: Force url to use www

text: I'm confused about how to force my url to use www in the address. I have a .htaccess code like this:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>      I'm changing               RewriteRule . /index.php [L]      with               RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]      but I still get an error. The page isn't redirecting properly when I open `http://www.mysite.com/category`


title: How to add www domain to Google Webmaster Tools (from GoDaddy)

text: When I setup my domain on GoDaddy, I don't have the option to use `www` with the domain name. If want to change the settings on Google Webmaster Tools -> preferred domain to use `www`, I need to verify my domain with `www`. How do I setup the domain to use `www`? Is using `www` important?


title: .htaccess permanent redirect to www

text: I have a WordPress installation that is not redirecting URLs not starting with `www`. Example: `http://example.com/dir/` doesn't send to `http://www.example.com/dir/` instead goes to `http://example.com/`. How do I change the _.htaccess_ below to always redirect to the page either using `www` or not?               # BEGIN WordPress     RewriteEngine On          RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]          # uploaded files     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]          # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin     RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d     RewriteRule ^ - [L]     RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]     RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]     RewriteRule . index.php [L]          # END WordPress


title: Change of URL by changing folder's name in server

text: If I change the folder's name in which I have my web pages, from   examplefolder/   to: administrator/   so the file "viewtopic.php" that originally had URL:   www.example.com/examplefolder/viewtopic.php   it will have a new URL:   www.example.com/administrator/viewtopic.php/   Can I use the 301 redirect for such a case? or 301 redirect could be used only in the case that a new folder has been created (and not rename of the existing one)


title: Issue with Apache redirection

text: I want to redirect `mysite.com` or `http://mysite.com` or `www.mysite.com` or any other format given my user to `http://www.mysite.com`, I'm able to achieve this by rewriting following lines in my `.htaccess` file               Rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com     RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]      But I want do this from `Apache`,So I've added following line in `Virtual host conf file of the site` and removed above two lines from `.htaccess`               Redirect 301 / http://mysite.com/      But whenever I'm trying to access the site following error is displyaing,               Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.      where I'm doing the wrong ?


title: Add more than one host to user login privileges in phpMyAdmin

text: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SjAOi.png) As the title reads, I want to add more than one host into the _Host_ field in phpMyAdmin's user privileges, to allow a user to login from a number of different hostnames. How can I accomplish this?


title: Is there a way to hidden facebook advertisements on application iframe?

text: Probably it's not possible, but i need to confirm it. If someone knows it, tell me please :) thanks.


title: Tracking multiple domains under subdomain

text: I need to setup a Google Analytics code for one website with multiple domains, but they are in form of               subdomain.**foo**.com     subdomain.**bar**.com      Subdomain is the same (it doesn't really matter that much), but main domains are differents. So now I use:               _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'subdomain.foo.com']);      and               _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'subdomain.bar.com']);      is this correct?


title: Multiple PHP 5.x version for different directory

text: Is this thing even possible because I searched every where but all I could find was this one post ? Using .htaccess or using `AddHandler`/`Action` MIME module Directive ? I have compiled all Apache, PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 on CentOS at path `/usr/local/apache`, `/usr/local/php52` and `/usr/local/php53`. I have the `libphp5.so` modules in my respective php folder by using symlink at `/usr/local/php` and `LoadModule` directive. I am able to switch PHP versions too but now I want that different directories to run with different PHP 5.x version. Is it possible ? I don't mind recompiling PHP too.


title: Are there any useful tools to mirror a mailman mailing list as a forum?

text: We have a mailman mailing list however as we all know this is not very user friendly in terms of searching the archives. I am looking at a way to enable the continued functionality of mailman while having a forum linked to it for a more friendly user-interface approach. Is there a forum application that lets you mirror the mailman service so that posts to mailman are sync'd into the forum and posts to the forum are sync'd to mailman?


title: Buying a top level domain specific to my industry, will it improve my seo ratings?

text: Currently we run a few websites selling products in the travel industry using .com and .co.uk extensions. Would our search rating improve if we were to buy one of the .travel domains ? So we would replace, or more likely supplment the following               mycompany.com     myCompany.co.uk      with :               mycompany.travel       Bing and google rankings are, unsurprisingly, our main concerns.


title: Server comparisons - Comparing servers based on their specs

text: We are busy creating a server hierarchy manager (possibly not the greatest name). What this is intended to do is determine which of our servers is the best for doing work. We have identified the following points as the most important criteria which we would like to base our decisions on:   * RAM   * OS   * No of cores We had considered including architecture, however with the amount of RAM we will likely be using in our x64 servers the amount of RAM should be able to indicate the architecture too. Considering the example of having 3 servers available running on different operating systems, different amounts of RAM, different numbers of cores etc. how would we figure out which is the best server to designate as the "primary" server? What we have considered at the moment is creating a simple metric whereby each section (RAM, OS and cores) is represented by a value out of 1 (where 1 is our recommended requirements) and comparing the servers this way. Is this a good approach to the problem? Does anyone have any better ideas or know of any tools that can assist? EDIT: Let me explain further. These servers are basically just processing engines. They will all talk to the same DB. The scenario is this: We could remove or add servers at any time, say for example the primary, and the rest would have to figure out amongst themselves who the primary is. When the primary is readded the hierarchy should realise that there is a new primary again. We have the mechanism for this in place already. My question is with regard to the metric. In terms of determining what would be the best primary server, are there any other relevant factors to consider?


title: What is the correct DTD for Schema DATA placement in XHTML pages?

text: We get W3C validation error after placing Scheme Data in our website which was built in XHTML. > Line 198, Column 41: there is no attribute "`data-id`" >   >   >     <script type="IN/FollowCompany" data-id="322498" data- > counter="right"></script> >   (Link to the validator result) Will changing the DTD solve this? We use,               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


title: Is inline JavaScript good or bad?

text: I've currently switched from WordPress to Yii framework and an external developer is rebuilding my site. One thing I notice is that each time he invokes AJAX / jQuery the Yii way, it embeds ~~inserts JavaScript inline~~ in the web page. Although it seems the JavaScript code is placed below the footer, it's still inline. In general, it seems that JavaScript code is more frequently being put inside the webpage. I've always been thought that JavaScript scripts should, as much as possible, be placed in JavaScript files. Is this a coming "new" trend? Or should I still try to keep JavaScript code in separate files?


title: Is it possible to make all html links to share the same title?

text: The thing is I have a table containing ~2000 rows where each row contain a link that has the same title e.g.               My 1st link     [...]         My 2000th link      I'm wondering if it is possible not to have this very long title string 2000 times !?


title: How to restrict the download of all files in a folder?

text: I have several .pdb files, which should be viewed in my website by clicking a link on a page. But when a pdf file opens, in the address bar it is visible the directory where all .pdf files reside. SO if the user will write in address bar http://mySite.com/myDir he will see and be able to download all files at once. But I don't want! When I [chmod 644 myDir], the files become not visible even for my site - i.e. you can not open them by clicking the link I have mentioned. How to solve this problem?


title: How can I prevent people from looking at a listing of files in parent directory if I haven't uploaded index.html?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to restrict the download of all files in a folder? I haven't uploaded index.html or index.php to my root directory. How can I prevent people from looking at a listing of files in parent directory? ![](http://oi56.tinypic.com/sc739e.jpg) Also, is it possible for people to obtain a list of all the files in the root directory once I upload index.html? I'm currently using .htaccess and htusers to prompt someone to enter a username and password when they try to access any file in the root directory. This may sound like a weird request but would it be possible to have them come to the site (without an index.html) and just have them not see the files? All it would say on the page would be the following: **Index of/** _Apache Server at mysite.com Port 80_


title: How to make upload images harder to access from url?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to restrict the download of all files in a folder? I am wondering how Facebook, Google+, Twitter and so on prevent images users upload, from being navigated like: http://interactionhero.com/images/ .... I have an application where users upload there folder /profile (chmod 777), and if I go to www. ___ _.com/profile , all the images are accessible. Is there a way I can prevent this or improve it?


title: Implementaiton of rel="prev" and rel="next" inside a site code?

text: I searched a lot regarding my question, but I never found the exact piece of information explaning how to implement rel="prev" and rel="next" inside the code of a certain site? I'll be very greatful if some could give me good imformation on this matter.


title: Adsense value per click

text: On my website, I have seen a significantly decline in revenue from adsense in recent weeks. My amount of clicks is the same as prior months, but the payout is way less. Does anyone know or can direct me to how google determines the payout per click?


title: Finding different Windows XP Service Packs via User-Agent string

text: I am planning to get rid of the SHA1 certificate signing algorithm in our certificates and switch over to SHA-256. Problem is, that Windows XP (before SP3) is not supporting this. Therefore I need to know how many people are still using these versions. Is there a way to seperate Windows XP SP1 and SP2 from SP3? I know that SP2 brought the "SV1" (Security Version 1) token to it's version string, but what about SP1 and SP3? Is there a way to distinguish these versions?


title: Does a lead-to screen with AdSense ad conform to Google's rules?

text: Re: Google's ad placement policy I have noticed that when clicking on some Forbes links, I am taken to a screen with an ad in the middle - at the top there is a link to skip the ad. Upon clicking on the skip link I am taken to the article I want to view. I want to implement something similar on my sites, where, when clicking on a search result, a the results window first displays one AdSense add on the screen with a similar UI as what I saw on Forbes. Currently, when a user clicks on a result, a new tab/window opens with the result. What I am proposing is that before the result appears, the screen displays a "Continue to result" link at the top in large letters, and in the center of the page, "Advertisement" with the ad below. This is the only popup that is user initiated and there are no other popups on the site. Navigation elements are not modified in any way. Will I get penalized by Google for implementing this?


title: How to get the number of visits by page, for pages from a website?

text: How to get the number of visits by page, for _all_ pages from a website? (I use Google Analytics, and know how to create a report for that, but I only have the 10 first pages).


title: Submitting sitemaps with 2 different websites but the same content

text: I have two domains running on the same server with the same IP (same content). For example: the sitemap of `example1.com` represents one website and `method1.com`, `method2.com` represent many pages will come. So can I use only one sitemap for both or make different sitemaps?               <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">         <url>             <loc>http://xyz.com/</loc>             <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>             <priority>1.00</priority>         </url>         <url>             <loc>http://abc.com</loc>             <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>             <priority>0.80</priority>         </url>      If I'm working on the second URL it's affecting the homepage also. Whether I need to create 2nd URL for sitemap or homepage url?


title: My email based support form on my shared host is being blocked by Gmail

text: On my site (developed with `ASP.NET`, if that matters) I have a support form, which is nothing more than three fields (i.e., name, email, and message) plus a Send button. The form code generates emails from provided user input and sends them to: `support@mysite.com`. The form uses this address to send the messages: `sender@mysite.com`. All the email for `mysite.com` is handled by Google Apps for Business. The problem is: Google recently started marking emails sent from `sender@mysite.com` as spam:               Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:               support@mysite.com          Technical details of permanent failure:     Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain mysite.com by aspmx.l.google.com. [74.125.25.26].          The error that the other server returned was:     550-5.7.1 [ip-address-was-here       7] Our system has detected that this message is     550-5.7.1 likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail,     550-5.7.1 this message has been blocked. Please visit     550-5.7.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188131 for     550 5.7.1 more information. sz7si15854448pab.203 - gsmtp      Obviously, visitors on my site **can** put spam messages in my support form. Anyway, I would prefer that these messages to end up in my Spam folder (or better the Inbox!) of `support@mysite.com`. So, what can I do to prevent Google from blocking `sender@mysite.com`? Shall I use a 3rd-party service for the support form? Or shall I tweak my site / form code somehow? My site is on shared hosting if that matters.


title: Will Google index images from HTML select tag

text: If i have code like this: > >     <select> >       <option value="path/to/image1.jpg">Image 1</option> >         <option value="path/to/image2.jpg">Image 2</option> >         <option value="path/to/image3.jpg">Image 3</option> >         <option value="path/to/image4.jpg">Image 4</option> >     </select> >   Will Google index images from the select tag?


title: Will my domain get blacklisted by auto-replying to spam emails?

text: At the moment, I've just set up an auto-reply function for our career email address. One problem is that we cannot differentiate between an email applying for a job with an advertisement or a spam email. I wonder if eventually our domain may get blocked because we auto send out so many emails everyday. I have no idea how blacklisting mechanism works. If this situation can really happen, I'd be very grateful if you could suggest a solution for me :).


title: Buying Backlinks

text: I came across a website the other day that was selling backlinks. The site was well designed and promised some results for a nice low price but not too low. After a couple of minutes it started to sound similar to buying email marketing list which I know is not something you do. I assume that buying backlinks is considered a black-hat SEO trick and should be avoided. Am I wrong in my assumption?


title: ISAPI_Rewrite and asp.net events upon postback

text: I have a rewrite rule to rewrite `www.mysite.com/default.aspx` to `www.mysite.com`.               RewriteRule ^default.aspx$ / [NC,R=301,L]      On that site i have an asp.net server `Button`. When i click the button it tries to go to postback to `default.aspx`, but gets `301`'d to the root. This prevents the button's click event from triggering. How can i redirect `default.aspx`, without breaking my button's event?


title: How do I change pages registering as 404 to 200

text: I have this problem. After relaunching my site: http://www.kgstiles.com, traffic dropped immensely(about 60%). After troubleshooting for a week and a half - losing thousands of dollars off of lost traffic in the process, I found that Google was getting a 404 error at the end of many of my 301 redirects(so it wouldn't index the new pages). Most of of the pages, though, would register in my browser. They registered as a 404 error in Google's index as well as a 404checker. So my first question is: could this be what's causing my loss of traffic? and second: how do I fix it? I'm desperate! Any help is appreciated!               # BEGIN s2Member GZIP exclusions      <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (^|\?|&)s2member_file_download\=.+     RewriteRule .* - [E=no-gzip:1]     </IfModule>         # END s2Member GZIP exclusions          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^moreinfo/(.*)$ http://www.kgstiles.com/moreinfo$1 [R=301]     RewriteRule ^healthsolutions/(.*)$ http://www.kgstiles.com/healthsolutions$1     [R=301]     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1/ [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1/ [R=301,L]               </IfModule>          # END WordPress


title: Can drupal do this?

text: I am a php developer using mostly CakePHP, magento, and wordpress. I want to create a community driven website aimed at the volunteering community that will let users sign up, create profiles, add previous voluntary positions, let organisations sign up and post jobs, etc. Is this something that drupal can handle? Is this what drupal was built to do? I'm just wondering how drupal deals with custom methods. Say I wanted to have a user request a reference from someone, I'd have to write methods that did this. Would that be possible in drupal?


title: When designing a website, how do you usually start?

text: In the past I've done some HTML, CSS and PHP coding, but I've only ever worked on things that were already "finished" and I've never started a website from scratch. However, I recently purchased a domain and some hosting for cheap, and I'm hoping to improve my HTML, CSS, and Javascript skills so that I can become a bit more marketable as a web developer/webmaster. Typically, what process do you use to start a website? Do you draw the layout on paper and then do the code? Or do you just start coding and tweak the output to your liking?


title: Getting started with a website

text: So I know `HTML`, `CSS`, `Javascript`, `jQuery`, `PHP`. But I'm not sure how to put it all together to begin making an actual website. I'm not looking at something too big here since I'm just a beginner, but I need to start somewhere. More specific stuff:   1. In what ways do I carry on my layout for which page in my website, without having to do it again for each page? Not only layout, but also stuff like menus which have to be on every page.   2. Should I use software like `Drupal`, or should I start off alone and start worrying about that later?   3. Is there a place where I can read about all this stuff?


title: Facebook Promotion guidelines

text: Hi I want to build a Facebook `promotional/competition` page and just want to make 100% sure that I am within the laws governed by the Facebook Promotional Guidelines. Here is a link to the guidelines http://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php I want to build a video voting page on Facebook. Facebook users cannot enter the competition. They can however vote for their favourite video and on voting post a message to their wall. The video with the most votes will be declared the wining video. edited A random voter could also stand a chance on winning a prize. here is an extract from the guidelines that i am unclear about. ` 3\. You must not use Facebook features or functionality as a promotion’s registration or entry mechanism. For example, the act of liking a Page or checking in to a Place cannot automatically register or enter a promotion participant. This is pretty self explanatory. Thus we cannot ask someone to “like” or vote for their favourite video in order to enter or a stand a chance to win. We can ask them to do these things, but not as a condition to be part of the competition.`


title: linking several separated schema.org <div>s together?

text:
I'm adding schema.org semantic markups, and would like to link several of which are in quite different parts of webpage together. This works when I specify them as parent/child:
       11 km
           first event           2001-01-01

      However, I don't know how to link them when they're separated by mountain of HTML:
           some event           2002-02-02

           22 km
      I guess I should use "itemref" or something to link related scopes, but I can't get it to work. Looking at similar questions did't help in this case. UPDATE: note that I'm specifically looking for solution that works via some kind of referencing and DOES NOT not work via nesting of any type. Also, ordering of second (non-working) example must stay the same (Event first, ExerciseAction second). (There are several reasons for that outside of my control). Specifically, "it works" is defined as at least google rich snippets tool showing that the items ARE linked together (as it does for that first working example)


title: Is there a way I can redirect search engine traffic by U.S. State or Zip Code?

text: I work for an e-commerce company that operates solely within the United States. However, the price of goods and availability of our products depends on what State or even Zip Code you reside in (we sell alcohol). I know that there are techniques for localized SEO on a national scale, but I was wondering if there is anyway we can do it on a Provence/State scale. I have been searching for an answer but everything seems to be on the international scale. For example, we would prefer it if Google/Bing/Yahoo knew the location of their visitors and could point them to: `oursite.com/?state=CA`      Or      `oursite.com/?state=TX`      Or      `oursite.com/store/product1?state=MA` Is there anyway to convey this information to the search engines with either canonical tags or another approach?


title: Where can I get high quality vector graphics for web design?

text: I am looking for a place where I can buy web 2.0 (cartooney mac-like) vector graphics for use on my sites. Where's the best place to go?


title: Protect a URL from being used in an iFrame except on a single site

text: I need to pass URLs to a client and they would embed those URLs on their site within an Iframe. I was wondering what's stopping the user(who is visiting the client site) from copying the URL from the IFrame source to use it somewhere else? I want the URL to be used only to the client that I provide to. Update: I was thinking of adding an extra parameter in the URL, that I am passing to every client, to identify which client it is and if the request is coming from the same client, but I can't find any way to have an access to the information where the request is actually coming from? In short IFrame doesn't have access to it's parent.


title: Web user authentication methods

text: Is there any method besides using a DB with username and password for authenticating a user?


title: Getting statistics on traffic sources for website usage

text: Does anyone know a valid source where to get global statistics on how users access a webpage? E.g.,               Site Referrer - 48%     Search Engines - 41%     Direct Entry - 1%


title: In Drupal, how do auto-list headlines from a news section on the homepage?

text: **Requirements:**   * Headlines also go to an RSS feed on the home page   * Needs to be a link below the listing to "View More News" (meaning it goes to the news section)


title: What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs?

text: As per Yahoo's much-ballyhooed Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Site, we serve up static content from a CDN using far-future cache expiration headers. Of course, we need to occasionally update these "static" files, so we currently add an infix version as part of the filename (based on the SHA1 sum of the file contents). Thus:               styles.min.css      Becomes:               styles.min.abcd1234.css      However, managing the versioned files can become tedious, and I was wondering if a GET argument notation might be cleaner and better:               styles.min.css?v=abcd1234      Which do you use, and why? Are there browser- or proxy/cache-related considerations that I should consider?


title: Avoid duplicate link to same page with #

text: I have one link in main nav `example.com/photo` but i want to add more links on page, which go on same page as this nav. Will this `example.com/photo#` help me avoid duplicate link to same page?


title: Best practice for using 'www.domain' vs. naked domain?

text: DreamHost gives me the option to use `www` for my site's URL, to remove `www` from the site's URL (i.e., "naked domain"), or let the visitor decide. Is there a best practice for this? I notice Google treats the naked domain vs `www` as separate sites (they are both registered in Google Webmaster Tools). I would prefer they are treated as one unified site by allowing Dreamhost to do a moved permanently redirect on one or the other. What research is available that shows one style is more comfortable to users than the other?


title: Check to see if emails are getting automatically sent

text: I have a Drupal site that is supiosed to send emails every time new content is created. The emails are sent to admin users so that they can check the content. None of the emails are making it to the inbox. I would like to know if there is a way to log and view all of the emails that are being sent from my server. I am currently running:   * Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)   * PHP Version 5.4.4-14   * Postfix MTA (may not be working, how can I tell?) I would also like to do this to make sure that my site is not sending out junk.


title: Nginx Browser Caching using HTTP Headers outside server/location block

text: I am having difficulty setting the HTTP expires headers for Nginx outside of specific server (and then location) blocks. What I want is to something like the following:               location ~* \.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {         expires 1y;     }      But not have to repeat it in every single server block, because I am hosting a large number of sites. I can put it in every server block, but it's not very DRY. If I try to put that into an HTTP block or outside of all other blocks, I get "location directive is not allowed here." It seems I have to put it into a server block, and I have a different server block for every virtual host. Any help/clarification would be appreciated.


title: How to create a seperate blog page on my site with a different theme

text: My website is currently setup as a blog, where there are categories and post within them. However I want to create a separate page where I can discuss news, ideas, and thoughts, while having a different theme.


title: Shared Gmail account and privileges management

text: I'm working with a company from abroad and I get paid on commission upon customer creation. This means that till know I've been managing myself the company email, as I was afraid to get tricked (eg: If the company deals directly w the customer and deletes the emails, I wouldn't find out and wouldn't get paid). My question is, have somebody of you worked sharing a single Gmail account? And if so, is there a way to set privileges in the account? Eg. user A and create, read and destroy, but user B can only create and read. That way I could control the email flow and speed up the selling process, as right now when the customer ask a question that I can't answer, I have to contact the company, wait for the answer and answer back, which is a total mess. Anyway, any light shed upon this particular issue would be more than appreciated!


title: Are there any problems with pages from the same site using different doctypes?

text: After a re-design of some pages in our site, we have the new re-designed pages with doctype HTML5 and all the rest pages (that are not yet redesigned) with doctype XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Does that create any problem? (SEO or otherwise)? There is a similar question (Is it bad to have a mix of HTML 5 and XHTML pages within one website from SEO perspective?) but it only touches the SEO subject. I am wondering if any other kind of issue can arise from this situation.


title: Canonical URL for a home page and trailing slashes

text: My home page could be potentially linked as:               http://example.com     http://example.com/     http://example.com/?ref=1     http://example.com/index.html     http://example.com/index.html?ref=2          (the same page is served for all those URLs)      I am thinking about defining a canonical URL to make sure Google doesn't consider those urls to be different pages:               <link rel="canonical" href="/" /> (relative)     <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/" /> (trailing slash)     <link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com" /> (no trailing slash)      Which one should be used? I would just slap `/` but messing with canonical seems like a scary business so I wanted double check first. Is it a good idea at all for defining a canonical URL for a home page?


title: Example sites which use UCC certificates

text: Can anyone point me to a few sites that make use of a UCC (SAN) certificates? I tried to search for this but found a lot of information about UCC certficates without any examples. As a sanity check before buying/configuring a UCC certificate, I wish to do some basic testing to determine exactly how the certificate will look in different browsers. Yes, I realize I could just use makecert instead. I would rather just look at them in the wild.


local install of wp site brought down from host - home page is ok but other pages redirect to wamp config page. I got all local files from host to www dir under local wamp. I got database from host and loaded to new local db and used this tool to adjust `site_on_web.com` to "localhost/site_on_local" now the home page works great and can login to admin page but when click on reservations page and others of site then site just goes to the wamp server config page even though the url shows correctly as `localhost/site_on_local/reservations` my htaccess file is this               # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress      and rewrite-module is checked in the php-apache-apache modules setting. now when I uncheck the rewrite-module is checked in the php-apache-apache modules setting or I clear out the whole htaccess file then the pages just goto               Not Found     The requested URL /ritas041214/about-ritas/ was not found on this server.      Please help as I am unsure now about my process to move local site up and down and be able to make it work and without this I am lost...


title: How can I monitor a website for malicious changes to the files

text: I had an occasion recently where our website was compromised - a link farm was added to a couple of the pages on one occasion, and on another occasion, a large and nasty aspx file was put on the server. I won't mention the host's name (Hostway), but I was pretty annoyed that someone was able to do this. No, it wasn't a leaky password - around 10 sites hosted by HW with consecutive IP addresses got trashed. Anyway. What I need is a utility or service (preferably free) that takes a snapshot of my websites contents, and then regularly monitors the files (size and datestamp) for unauthorized changes or additions, and alerts me. I've used web services that monitor one file for changes, but I'm looking for something a bit more aggressive.


title: Domain Creation - Any Difference?

text: Is there any difference when creating domain hosting `.com` in Europe or America? Can it still be reached by both continents at the same weight?


title: Best SEO practices for mobile URLs: 301, rel=canonical, or something else?

text: I am developing a site with a mobile version and am trying to figure the appropriate way to manage the URLs for search engines. So far I've considered:   1. Having a separate mobile site (m.example.com) with rel="canonical" links to the regular site.   2. Putting both the mobile site and full site on one URL (example.com), and doing user agent sniffing.   3. Another opinion: > Spencer: "If you have a mobile site at a separate location or URL, you > should 301 redirect each and every mobile page to its corresponding page on > your main website. Employ user agent detection so that the mobile optimized > version is served up if someone's coming in from a hand-held. - > http://developer.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1722-Mobile-site- > Development-Best-Practices-for-SEO-Usability Both 2 and 3 make it hard for a user who wants to switch to the full site or mobile site manually, but I'm not sure 1 is the best alternative. What's the best way to write URLs for a mobile site?


title: Is it possible to mod_rewrite BASED on the existence of a file/directory and uniqueID?

text: My site currently forces all non www. pages to use www. Ultimately, I am able to handle all unique subdomains and parse correctly but I am trying to achieve the following: (ideally with mod_rewrite): when a consumer visits www.site.com/john4, the server processes that request as: www.site.com?Agent=john4 Our requirements are:   * The URL should continue to show www.site.com/john4 even though it was redirected to www.site.com?index.php?Agent=john4   * If a file (of any extension OR a directory) exists with the name, the entire process stops an it tries to pull that file instead:      * for example: www.site.com/file would pull up (www.site.com/file.php if file.php existed on the server. www.site.com/pages would go to www.site.com/pages/index.php if the pages directory exists). Thank you ahead of time. I am completely at a crapshot right now.


title: How to deal with multiple step forms where one of the forms are not submitted

text: Say you have a submission process that requires two forms. The submission of the 2nd form triggers an email. What do you do if the second form isn't submitted? Say the user forgets or closes the window by accident. My only solution was to update the DB with a flag from the submission of the 1st form that identifies an email has not been sent. Submission of the 2nd form will trigger an event to send an email and update the DB with a flag that identifies an email has been sent. A cron job will run periodically to check for any flags for unsent emails, gather the information, and send an email. Is this the best way of dealing with the issue? Thanks. **Edit: Clarity** Form 1 User submits general data Message 1 User presented with a choice. User needs to choose to "pass" or "accept". If the user submits the "accept" form (Form 2), an email is sent. If the user submits the "pass" form (Form 2), they are presented with another message with another choice (Form 3). If the user does nothing, the last choice provided is their default choice, but at this point an email still needs to sent. I hope that's more clear.


title: Allowing temporary access to cpanel for freelancer

text: I'm currently using a2hosting's cpanel on a shared hosting account. I'd like to temporarly give access to a freelance developper so he can upload some php files, csv files and create tables in my database. Does anyone know how I can do that? I'd like to be able to revoke their access after a few weeks. Thanks for your time.


title: Multi site wordpress setup

text: Currently my company has 3 blogs and what I did was to install three instances of wordpress over Apache/MySQL, in different directories. The problem is that I have a Slicehost VPS with 256Mb RAM with Ubuntu8.04 and MySQL is crashing Linux or making it very slow and unresponsive. Is there some kind of optimal setup for this scenario? I know that my server is too _cheap_ but I'm not sure either if an upgrade to 512 will fix things. I'm thinking about migrating to nginx, but what about MySQL? Is there any solution to this? Is this the right site to post this question or is it `serverfault`? Thanks


title: can anyone reccommend a Google SERP tracker?

text: I want to track my website's position in Google's search results for around 50 keywords/phrases and am looking to a nice webapp to automate this process? Ideally i want to see pretty line graphs for my keyword/position. I'm currently trying: Raven Tools and Sheer SEO but am not particularly impressed with either... I guess my budget is upto £25-30/$30-40 for a decent bit of software


title: How to protect PDF file from indexing?

text: I have a link to PDF document on a public web-page. How do I prevent search engines from indexing this link and PDF document? The only idea I thought of is to use CAPTCHA. However, I wonder if there are any magic words that tell a search engine to not index the link and PDF document? Options using PHP or JavaScript are also fine. Just to make it clear. I do not want to encrypt PDF and protect it with password. I just want to make it invisible for search engines, but not for users.


title: Mobile site link to youtube video, close app after video finished?

text: I'm linking to Youtube videos on my mobile site. On iPhone, when you click on a youtube link, it begins playing using the Youtube App When the video is finished, the Youtube App is still open--you have to close it and reopen the browser to get back to where you were. Is there a way to make it go back to the browser when it is finished playing?


title: .htaccess - delete characters from URL and redirect

text: I need help modify a file _.htaccess_ delete characters from URL and redirect. The file _.htaccess_ is currently empty.   1. I want to change the word `article` to the word `topic` in all the URLs. The current URL:               www.example.com/index.php?action=article&cat_id=011&id=37&lang=en        1. I want to delete the last characters of the URLs `&lang=en` and some URLs `&lang=` The current URLs:               www.example.com/index.php?action=article&cat_id=011&id=37&lang=en     www.example.com/?action=article&cat_id=011&id=37&lang=      So the final URL:               www.example.com/index.php?action=topic&cat_id=011&id=37     www.example.com/?action=topic&cat_id=011&id=37


title: User-agent identification and SEO crawler database

text: I am requested to analyze the traffic log of a site. In particular I have to identify the crawlers starting from the collected `user agent` values. I know there are 'trap' links that you can use to distinguish the crawlers from the human beings. Now I would only analyze the `user agent` values. Now the question. Is there a public catalogue or a library of web crawlers? **Edit** Here is the second question. There are also _a lot_ of empty user-agent in my traffic records. Is an empty user-agent header related to a crawler or to an authomatic process?


title: Google not crawling my website

text: I own a website http://citrusbug.com. We did not have proper content before so to prevent search engine from crawling our site we added a _robots.txt_ with code to prevent crawling. Now we had updated our sites content and want to get it crawled, but Google is not crawling it yet. We removed the code from _robots.txt_ to prevent Googlebot to crawl, but still it is not getting crawled. We almost did this change before 20-21 days but still Google is not crawling our site and if search I search on Google it displays: > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. Kindly guide me, what I need to do for this?


title: How to include Facebook's “Send To Mobile” button in my Facebook App?

text: I have developed a simple Facebook Game listed in the facebook App Center. It has a "Send to mobile" button which basically sends the download link to the phone after prompting the user to enter his/her mobile phone number. I want to include that button in my Application. But i can't find any API to include it. How should i include it in my game? Its HTML code is:               Send to Mobile


title: Google Search results not showing up

text:
I have added a custom Google Search to a site and while the search box functions the results page is pathetically empty. Here is the search box code:               <form action="http://www.nu-living.com/info/search_results" id="cse-search-box">
     <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="017425724926122041548:jqyv4auvnls" />     <input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:9" />     <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />     <input type="text" name="q" size="31" />     <input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
     </form>           Here is the display code:

                The site: http://www.nu-living.com The search results page: http://www.nu-living.com/info/search_results I have done this on several other sites with success, but this one is just not cooperating. I would appreciate any assistance in getting this to work correctly


title: How do i Seperate WebHosting Space and Email Hosting Space

text: I have a VPS account from knownhost. I have clients who have their website hosting on my server. Some have subscribed 50MB, 100MB, 500MB or 1 GB as per their requirement. They are also allowed to create email address in their accounts but the email address's capacity will be shared with web site's space. Now I would like to separate that web hosting space and email account's space. So What is it called and from where can i start?


title: How to configure Drupal email functionality on GoDaddy server

text: I have Drupal 6 installed on a GoDaddy server. The email functionality used to work fine, but about a month ago they moved my site to their newer generation of server, and I discovered today after setting up some triggers that Drupal is no longer sending emails, including contact form emails. Can anyone direct me to a concise guide to configuring Drupal email functionality in general, or specifically for GoDaddy? I tried looking on GoDaddy's support site but couldn't find anything useful (big surprise there).


title: How would I make something like jQuery plugins subsite?

text: I'm currently creating a website. Part of the website I want people to be able to have their own sub site that they can add content (text files with descriptions) to (think jQuery plugins page). Is there any package that does this? If not, what would be the process of learning how to do this? I'm using HostGator so I can do it in PHP, Perl, ROR, and CGI (not sure what that is, I think it's Perly). I would rather PHP as I think it has the lowest learning curve, and I've dabbled in it already. My goal is to have a site where I can post content on the main page and other people will have their own directories (example.com/user/johnDoe) where they can post file types of my choosing but I'm still the site master and they're just my minions.


title: Google Custom Search can't find anything other than the main page

text: I added a Google Custom Search to my website several weeks ago, and it has been unable to find anything other than the home page of my site. I have manually submitted a sitemap to the custom search, and to the webmaster tools (which for some the custom search can't find, but it says I should add one). I understand there are not a lot of details here, but I don't have much to go on. I've double checked my robots.txt, there's nothing there that's preventing the indexing of my pages. EDIT: Actually, does the google custom search work any differently than a regular google search? I assumed that it indexed separate from the regular google search, but I guess it's possible that both a google custom search and the normal google search draw from the same pool of pages. In that case the only way to get custom search to find my pages is to get Google to crawl them...which pretty much makes the custom search useless if it can't find the most recent things I've posted.


title: APC on 1and1 shared hosting?

text: Is anyone aware of a way to use APC on a 1and1 shared hosting account? They don't have the pecl extension installed by default.


title: How to setup up A record for GitHub pages for NearlyFreeSpeech.net

text: I own the domain **zenstealth.com** and I have decided that the easiest way for me to "do" a blog is via GitHub pages and Jekyll, which is already built- in in GitHub pages. I've done that already, and for now I've already setup a CNAME record so that my GitHub pages repo **zenstealth.github.com** redirects to **blog.zenstealth.com**. What I want to do is instead of using a sub-domain for the blog, I'd like to make it use the top level domain **zenstealth.com**. The GitHub Pages instructions say to the set an A record to the ip _207.97.227.245_. The problem in NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (let's call it NFSN for short) is that it already already sets A records to files which are hosted directly in NFSN, and I have absolutely no idea on how to override this.


title: SEO in image's path?

text: Does including keywords in the image's _folder_ path of any importance at all for SEO ? (Keywords for the image's _filename_ are important.) / **foobar** /images/keyword.jpg vs / **keyword** /images/keyword.jpg


title: How does Google find a domain with no links to it?

text: I recently registered a new domain, pointed it to my existing server, and set up a minimal page just saying "test" and nothing else. I just discovered tonight that the page is already indexed in Google! There are no links to the site (I haven't even told anyone about the domain since I haven't done anything with it yet). Is Google trawling WHOIS records or something?


title: Is it possible for Google to discover a website that is not linked to anywhere?

text: My colleague claims that he has seen cases where websites were "discovered" by Google without having a link to them anywhere on the web. For him, this means that the only way to not being indexed (for example when a website being developed is already online, but not ready to be used by customers yet) is to restrict the access to the files on the server with a password. How can Google find a website without following links? If for some reason the site is discovered, isn't robots.txt and a global `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` (on every page) enough?


title: Automatic HTML clean up

text: What are some of the most popular tools for automatically cleaning up HTML code to its cleanest and most _best practices_ rendition? The only one I know is the venerable HTMLtidy. Please see this for examples of best practices.


title: User uses "mark as spam" to delete email

text: I want to ask, what would be the recommended procedure for dealing with users who used "mark as spam" button to just delete emails. Recently I have a user, who requested "password reset" email 3 times. He/she successfully changed the password, and then marked all three emails as spam. This dragged down my Sendgrid reputation down from 98% to 85%. This is pretty bad, since any reputation lower than 80% is subject to be reviewed. I am thinking of writing an email to that user, to ask him/her to "unspam" the email. What do web masters usually do in this situation? Is there anything to watch out for? **Update** After one week, another user marked password emails as spam again. This led me into thinking someone is attacking our email reputation.


title: Does changing web hosting server affects SEO page ranking?

text: I have been hosting in a server from last 2 years. I am planning to change the hosting server. Before i change the hosting server i would like to know whether it affects my page ranking or not?


title: Transferred hosting and website not online during transition for 2 weeks - will this affect search results?

text: If a website's hosting is being transferred and is not online in between for approx. 14 days - would this affect the organic search positions when it's finally transferred? When they've since disappeared entirely from the search results? NOT A DUPLICATE.


title: Will changing server location affect SEO?

text: I have a .com website hosted in the US. Most of my traffic comes from there, but I found better prices and service in a webhost with a server in another country. Will it matter if I make the switch, given that I have an international audience but traffic mostly coming from the US?


title: Why do 410 pages show as errors in Google Webmaster Tools?

text: To remove links from our site, we return a 410 code on on the links we want removed, and shows `The page you requested was removed.`. In Webmaster Tools, I see all the 410 pages in Crawl Errors / Not Found. I'm worried that because they appear in Crawl Errors that they could be negatively affecting SEO rankings. Is that the case, and if so, should I change the return codes from 410 to something else?


title: How do I set a subdomain like mail.v2techlabs.com where I can directly access my email

text: I am using iPage shared hosting. I want to access my emails at URLs like `mail.xyz.com` where I can directly login to my email. Right now it is going to the iPage website and logs in from there. Can you please let me know how to set this up.


title: How to restore plesk files correctly?

text: Recently my server crashed. So I reinstalled Plesk and uploaded all databases to `var/lib/mysql` and site files to `backup/vhosts`. How do I get it all back to normal?


title: Forwarding non-www domain to other domain using DNS

text: Is it possible to forward `firstdomain.com` to `www.seconddomain.com` or `seconddomain.com` using purely DNS records? I know how to forward `www.firstdomain.com` to `seconddomain.com` (using a CNAME). What I am trying to do is move my site from one domain to another (new) one, and not break all the links that use the old domain name. I can't do a 301 redirect as it's hosted on GitHub Pages and I don't have access to the web server.


title: Is there an alternative to using an iframe so that my content would be visible to search engines?

text: I have a book-length document that is typeset with the LaTex typesetting system (It's a markup language popular for science and math typesetting.) A custom script runs a program called HyperLatex that transforms the source for the book into both a PDF e-book, and a set of linked HTML pages. This generated site formats only the content, so for each chapter, I have a hand- written HTML shell page that holds all my branding boilerplate, navigation code, Google ads, etc... The script simple injects the HTML content for each chapter inline into the corresponding shell page. Voila, book and website are automatically in perfect sync with one command. The problem is this: AFAIK I've never had a web search hit! Apparently the iframe makes the content invisible to search engines. I'm not a Web programmer (obviously!) Is there some other kind of HTML container that would let me do this, but not render all of my content invisible to the search engines?


title: How does 2 domains on dedicated IP's sharing the same backend affect the ranking?

text: I have two Domains, both with dedicated IP's, with a service acting location based. The two domain-names have simple to remember name-pattern going like `##servicedescription##france.com` and `##servicedescription##germany.com` with the main keyword at the first position in the domain-names. Now, I could easily copy the CMS and servicesoftware on each hosting plan but I want the system to stay maintainable. Thus, I want both domains share the same backend with slightly different content. Both websites are displayed in english as the default language. Does this in any way affect the ranking and how can I optimize this constellation?


title: Fetch as google - getting both 301 and 404

text: I am getting this from fetch as Google:               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved     Server: nginx     Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:07:58 GMT     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8     Content-Length: 20     Connection: keep-alive     Status: 404 Not Found     Location: http://www.peciatky.sk/page-not-found     Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding     Content-Encoding: gzip     Set-Cookie: 8812c36aa5ae336c2a77bf63211d899a=Bbvc3w0i7riSZmjnod4ylyvTAnxn7DCLHYhXe92zKrRSDQqNDueWOsutRqv%2FallRQe4HFrGbnpiOTy4Cy%2Beglw%3D%3D000060; expires=Tue, 11-Feb-2014 23:07:58 GMT; path=/; domain=peciatky.sk; httponly     Set-Cookie: 8812c36aa5ae336c2a77bf63211d899a=Bbvc3w0i7riSZmjnod4ylyvTAnxn7DCLHYhXe92zKrSIJvpKfQ%2BsH0cil9dtFLSB7mx6NcgFC89BWp3h8IqeSQhy%2Btt5JlIMFe0f%2BdCAhpI%3D000075; expires=Tue, 11-Feb-2014 23:07:58 GMT; path=/; domain=peciatky.sk; httponly      Which one is the main error that Google works with - the 301 or 404?


title: When entered into Google, what's the difference between "link:www.mysite.com" and "links:www.mysite.com"?

text: I've heard this is the way to measure inbound links to a website? What is the difference between the two and is there a better way besides these?