title: How does font-size work in CSS

text: Could you please explain me or send me a link where is explained how does CSS property font-size work?   When you're working with relatives sizes in %. It's the percent of what? What are best practices etc. thank you


title: Who liked my website?

text: Is it possible to know specifically who liked my website? I already know the numbers, I need to know the users who actually liked my website so I can contact them and enter them into a contest. Thank you!


title: Removing "Dirty URLs"

text: I have a site that apparently has "dirty URLs". For example a URL that I have goes something like this: `www.website.com/article?articleID=2` or something along the lines of that. This, to me, seems to be the only valid way of using these URL's for a dynamic site. Is there a way to change them to say, `www.website.com/article`?


title: Multilingual website without any index file in the root folder

text: My client has a very simple website with two different languages and I decided to make a separate folder for each language, for example: `domain.com/en/ domain.com/de/` But in the root folder there's no index file, only an _.htaccess_ file that `301` redirects based on `HTTP:Accept-Language`. It works just fine, but the thing is that the page is indexed in Google but without a snippet and no language specified in the URL. My questions are: Is this a good practice or should I add an index file in the root folder? Or is there any other way to tackle this problem?


title: PHP installation missing while opening website

text: All was working fine but then suddenly **Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress** came when I try to my site. Hosting:Godaddy PHP version:5.4.26 MySQL version:5.5.36-cll-lve Pleaes help as my site is down for more than a day andI am suffering earning loss


title: Website traffic suddenly dropped by 90%

text: Our yellowpages website `lokaterr.com` was getting good traffic,but suddenly traffic got reduced to 90% since may 3rd. There are no warnings or errors in Google Webmaster tools. Please help me out how to understand this issue. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n06GH.png)


title: Is the correct way for adding the author's name on Facebook Sharing to use: meta name="author"

text: In some Facebook posts I see the author of the page, beyond the title and description. For example, in the image below is the string "Di Redazione": ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iY0QX.jpg) Looking at the source code of the page:               http://www.tuttonotizie.info/notizie1/ultime-notizie-di/politica/25340-borghi-ai-sindaci-protagonisti-nel-processo-di-nascita-delle-unioni.html      I have seen that the author it is written with the string:               <meta name="author" content="Redazione" />      Is this the correct way to do this, or is there some other way? Searching Google didn't provide a thorough enough answer.


title: Codeigniter not working after moving direcories

text: I just starting trying to learn CodeIgniter. From the user guide it suggests to move the application and system folder for security reasons. I now have this structure:               ./public/index.php     ./app/     ./sys/      i've edited the index.php, adjusting the `$system_folder` with my complete path ending without slash and `$application_folder` with the compleate path without the final slash. I' ve also edited the database.php file inside application/config/ to let it connect to the database. Those data are right. Now, when i try to access `/public/index.php` i get a blank page Thanks for help


title: 301 Redirect exception vs. Script new connection to DB

text: I'll get right to it because this will be long. I've built a WordPress site for a client on a new domain name and 301 redirected his 3 other domains to point to it. Then, I learn that he has a database associated with his site that his clients need to access. I had not noticed this, but it is there. Logging into the database was accomplished by going to "olddomainname.com/login". Problem is, now with the redirect in place I can't get there. Solutions from GoDaddy support were:   1. .htaccess redirect exception for "olddomainname.com/login".   2. Script a new connection to the database (since DB isn't bound to domain). I am, of course, in over my head here! I've never worked with DB's and though I can follow instructions I fear messing with scripting a new connection because it seems complicated (multiple users etc). I'd love to add the redirect exception for "olddomainname.com/login" because it seems like the simplest option. I have googled plenty for answers and tried a few things but without success. Also, would the exception have to include whichever directory I'm taken to next after login? I'll post the .htaccess file below and hopefully you all can point me in the right direction. It is rather long,, also I have Ultimate Coming Soon Page plugin installed so I don't know if that's messing with the few exception attempts I've made, though I can see the site when I'm logged in just fine.               rewriteengine on     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomainname.info$ [OR]     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomainname.info$     rewriterule ^ "http\:\/\/newdomainname\.com\/" [R=301,L] #4f8bdeef8097b     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomainname.biz$ [OR]     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomainname.biz$     rewriterule ^ "http\:\/\/newdomainname\.com" [R=301,L] #4f8bded088493     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomainname.com$ [OR]     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomainname.com$     rewriterule ^ "http\:\/\/newdomainname\.com" [R=301,L] #4f8bde0b68ea5     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomainname.net$ [OR]     rewritecond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomainname.net$     rewriterule ^ "http\:\/\newdomainname\.com" [R=301,L] #4f8bdea67d365          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteBase /     #Removes access to the system folder by users.     #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,     #previously this would not have been possible.     #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.     #When your application folder isn't in the system folder     #This snippet prevents user access to the application folder     #Submitted by: Admin1     #Rename 'application' to your applications folder name.     #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,     #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the     #request to index.php     </IfModule>          <IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>     # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's     # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.     # Submitted by: Admin2     ErrorDocument 404 /index.php     </IfModule>          # 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          # 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          # 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          rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*     rewriterule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]     rewritecond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*     rewriterule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]     rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     rewriterule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]     rewriterule ^index\.php$ - [L]     rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     rewritecond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     rewriterule . /index.php [L]      That's it. Sorry there's so much but I wanted to make sure you had all the info in case something else in the file was interfering. Only other stuff in there is the gzip stuff and I left that out. Any help is much, much, MUCH appreciated as this is for a client and I'm feeling, well, down in the dumps about the spot I'm in. *Mods: I see my post is quite long compared to others I've seen. If I'm too long-winded or off in any way with this first post of mine please let me know!


title: Confused with how to set Cname records

text: Here is a screenshot of what cPanel is asking for in Cname records: http://i.imgur.com/CG7QC.png This is what i'm trying to do: point: secure.randomdomain.com => secure.mydomain.com What settings would I put to make that happen?


title: Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO?

text: The title attribute is an HTML standard element available across most tags. e.g. > `<li><a title="Widgets listed by household function" href="/widgets/by- > function.html">by Function</a></li>` I've used this attribute on some sites for usability; many browsers pop up a "tooltip" over the link with the more detailed description of what is on the other side. I've been wondering if doing so is having a negative effect on my rankings (hidden text?) or if it has any effect at all on onsite or offsite keyword relevance calculations. Does anyone know of any research done on this?


title: SEO Is it Good or Bad to add Company Name to Title Attribute?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Is the title attribute (not tag) important to SEO? So while I'm filling out title / alt attributes I noticed I was just automatically adding my company name to almost every links title tag (ex. title="Company Name Video Services", etc.) but is this a good thing or bad thing? Will the repetition kill benefit of the keyword? Should I fill it with better keywords since my company name should theoretically be everywhere in the content anyway?


title: Apr_sockaddr_info_get() Failed

text: Today while trying to start apache server I received an error:               Apr_sockaddr_info_get() Failed      I would like to get opinions / answers to resolve this issue. I would like to know what exactly is wrong with my current setup and what are correct steps I need to take to resolve it. Just to start apache server I referred to http://www.webune.com/forums/apr- sockaddr-info-get-failed.html and server started without error but I don't see website coming online yet. I'm not exactly sure what all information is required to resolve it, you guys can ask me and I'll reply with required information


title: Webserver timing out

text: I was working with my website yesterday when I was at home using my web address. Yesterday I installed Wordpress and it seemed to work. When I got to work today, I tried opening my website, and now the connection times out. I can still access my Virtualmin interface, just not the actual website. What could cause this, as I had made no changes to Virtualmin since it was working yesterday. Note: I have also restarted my server to try and resolve the issue.               Site: www.weekshouse.com     Server: Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)     CMS: Wordpress


title: Registering a .CA domain extension, when I'm not a Canadian citizen?

text: I want to register a domain name that has a .ca extension, but it's asking me if I am current Canadian citizen. What can happen to me if I lie about it and continue with registration?


title: Implementing OpenSearch, what is the benefits?

text: I have implemented opensearch in my website. But I don't know what is the benefits of it. Does it has any effects in search engines? For example, can I tell google about my implementation?


title: I am moving my site from a virtual directory to a dedicated server, can I save me SEO urls via a web.config change?

text: I have been hosting my site in a shared environment at `http://www.example.com/MYSITE/` for a while and I've built up a following there, I have decent ranking in Google and Bing, as well as I've been using the Facebook comment plug-in to allow users to comment on specific pages like `http://www.example.com/MYSITE/Items/Details/52434`. I am moving to a dedicated server and the new version of the URLS listed above are `http://www.example.com/` and `http://www.example.com/Items/Details/52434` The site is an ASP.NET MVC site, I'd love to slam everything over, but I want anyone who goes to the old URLS to get sent to the right place. Is this something I can do with a web.config modification? I'd like to avoid a coding change if at all possible.


title: Google Webmaster Tools reporting 404s for pages that are not in the sitemap (but were there previously)

text: Google Webmaster Tools is reporting 404 errors on URLs that are not present in the submitted sitemap anymore. These URLs were present but since then I have resubmitted my sitemap and GWT shows that it was, indeed, crawled again after the change. Is there anything I can do to stop Google from indexing these URLs without manually excluding them? There are quite a lot of them so I would love to be able to avoid doing it.


title: What MIME type are you meant to use for JavaScript files?

text: In the html we always use <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="???"></script> (the ECMA stuff confuses some browsers) but on the HTTP side what are you meant to use as the Content-Type? By instinct this would also be text/javascript, but Apache uses application/javascript and Amazon uses application/x-javascript. Some firewall admins block any MIME types matching application/*; but which MIME type are you meant to use from a webmaster perspective? What is the "right" thing to do.


title: Internet Explorer receives 403 Error when viewing dev environment SSL test certificate (using MAMP)

text: I've been developing a site with MAMP which has a handy way of generating (obviously) unverified SSL certificates for testing purposes. All was well when testing with Chrome, Firefox, Safari you simply have to acknowledge the suspicious certificate once per session and that's that. When I fire up (in Parallels since I'm on a Mac) to test Internet Explorer I get the same warning about the certificate but I hit "yeah ok, let's do this" and the server returns a 403 error?


title: How to tell robots that site is viewable on mobile phones?

text: Is there any markup or meta-tag which I can place in the pages of my website to tell crawlers which pages are either for web or for mobile?


title: Do all the seach engines rank the same way?

text: I know the algorithms that is used by search engines can't be exactly the same. But do I need to take bing and other search engines into consideration when building a site, or will my site be optimized for them if I just focus on optimizing my site for Google?


title: What are common Media Library tools used for Kentico/Generic PHP sites?

text: Through a course of mergers and acquisitions the particular group of companies who I work for have built up a vast array of websites running either Kentico (or ASP websites that _will_ be using Kentico) and Generically produced PHP websites. There is no DAM (Digital Asset Management) and our holding company wants to keep all the identities apart, so you can imagine the blood bath that ensues around marketing endeavours. **What Media Library solutions are there which will work on both the Kentico CMS and for Hand-written PHP?** We use approval/versioning and some sites will soon be large enough to need CDNs (so some form of link referencing is needed). There are three scenarios where other solutions have fallen down:   1. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated and page a/b instantly use the updated image z instead of going through the approval process.   2. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved and instantly page b has the updated image z instead of going through the approval process.   3. Page a uses image z, page b uses image z, image z is updated, page a's update is approved, page b's update is approved, suddenly we need to go back to the previous version of page a and the older version of image z is no longer there. The added pain is that we need a central image library to hold things like model sign offs and past marketing compaign usage to avoid clashes between the brands.


title: Which resolutions should I make a favicon in?

text: I understand that you can create a `favicon.ico` with multiple resolutions embedded. Which resolutions should your average website support? Why? Edit: Performance should be a consideration. I want to keep the favicon around 1K to stay inline with these recommendations: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html


title: 5 most important seo

text: would you list 5 most important seo jobs to do , that you have achieved on your personal experiences. thanks


title: In HTML5, different browsers support different formats of video

text: Does it mean that I need videos of multiple formats so that it can be played on different browsers by adding multiple sources to the tag?


title: Custom font not displaying properly

text: I am trying to install a custom font on my site. The browser will load the font, but the display is not quite right. The character vertical positions/sizes seem to be off a tiny amounts. See examples here and here. Here is my @font-face declaration:               @font-face {         font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLT45LightRegular';         src: url('helvetica-webfont.eot');         src: url('helvetica-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),              url('helvetica-webfont.woff') format('woff'),              url('helvetica-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),              url('helvetica-webfont.svg#HelveticaNeueLT45LightRegular') format('svg');         font-weight: normal;         font-style: normal;     }      I used the font squirrel generator to generate this (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator). Thanks


title: internet explorer can't open vcard

text: On my company's website, we have various professionals listed with links to download their vcard. We want to include a link to the vcard in email signatures, however when clicking a link to a vcard contained in an email doesn't work in IE (IE displays a "cannot download" error). I've inspected the response from the webserver using Fiddler, and the vcard response is exactly the same when viewing the link on our website vs clicking the link in an email. Also confirmed that copy/pasting the link to a vcard into IE's address bar yields the same error as clicking the link in an email - IE won't open it. It almost seems as though IE can't open a vcard unless you click a link (on a website) to the vcard. Going directly to the vcard doesn't work. **EDIT:** We're seeing this issue with IE7 and IE8 only. Vcards open consistently with Firefox or Chrome. The server response is shown below (edited to remove personal identifying info). I ran a diff between successful and failed responses in Fiddler and the only difference was the timestamp in the Date and REV fields.               HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store     Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:16:43 GMT     Pragma: no-cache     Content-Length: 495     Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8     Expires: -1     Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0     X-Powered-By: ASP.NET     X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727     Set-Cookie: website#lang=en; path=/          BEGIN:VCARD     VERSION:2.1     N;LANGUAGE=en:LastName;FirstName;E.;;     FN:FirstName E. LastName     ORG:Company Name, LLP     TITLE:Attorney     TEL;PREF;WORK;VOICE:+1 999.999.9999     TEL;PREF;WORK;FAX:+1 999.999.9999     ADR;WORK;PREF:;;Suite 9999, 5555 Somewhere Street;Atlanta;GA;30309-4528;USA     URL;WORK:http://www.website.com     EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:PERSON@Website.com     NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Bar Admission(s) - Georgia (1900); Kentucky (1900)=0D=0A     REV:20101220T211643Z     END:VCARD


title: What must be on my landing page?

text: What should I include on my landing page to invite users to "come on in"? I'm creating an website with these features:   1. Regularly (several times/month) updated content, always available to everyone   2. Newsletter with new info and links back to the website   3. Members can use a service available on the website   4. Premium service for subscribers   5. Product recommendations that link to buying sources (Amazon, etc)


title: Google structured data for watercrafts - which category?

text: I have a page www.mynautics.com and I am testing structured data now. All data is correctly downloaded by Google and shown in structured data testing tool, but is not showing in Google results. I believe that is due to a lack of category data. But looking trough Google's taxonomy (https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/160081) I can not find proper category - watercrafts or boats... Should I just put ads on my website in category Vehicles & Parts? Is there any better solution? Any ideas?


title: How to display Feedburner subscription count as plain text via a shortcode in post/page editor of my Wordpress blog?

text: I would like to create a shortcode like `[feedcount]` in my wordpress blog to display Feedburner subscription count as plain text on some of my posts/pages. Moreover, I'd prefer in the case that the Feedburner API is not unavailable, the shortcode shows "many other" instead of the count.   How can I do that?


title: Looking for non-paid heat map tools for website analytics

text: I'm looking for a heat map solution to track my users' behavior on my website, preferably free of charge. I've already googled a little bit and here is what I found so far. Still I would like to ask for some first hand experience, that'll help me make a better pick. Thanks for your help.


title: Live status dashboard for multiple websites

text: Anyone know of a good online service or local software package that will give me a real-time (or almost real-time) status of how my websites are doing: uptime, ping, latency, DNS, etc. Any recommendations would be great.


title: What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs - part 2

text: This is a follow up question on the following question What's the best way to version CSS and JS URLs Both of the solutions mentioned there would require modification to the files where the css and js file URLs are mentioned. So in effect it would require a restart of the application server after making the changes. Is there a better way, where versioning of static files can be handled without having to restart the Application server ? the following is ruled out in the solution   * changing the css and js filenames   * passing a query paremeter in the url   * the solution also should not affect setting cache-control or expires. thanks


title: Which Adult Ads Service is best / highest paying

text: I have a sex education & sexual health website. As evident, I can not place Google Adsense and Adbrite advertisements as they disallow mature content and even remotely anything related to it. Now, I want to know what are the other options I have for showing up ads. **I do NOT want to place very obscene and nude ads.** But, I would like to have some kind of ads on website to make it sustainable. So, what options do I have ? Which adult advertisement publisher gives highest payouts ?


title: How do I set a price for advertising on my website?

text: I have a website that I would like to advertise directly to advertisers (without using adsense, doubleclick, etc..). How do I find out a ballpark figure of what I should ask for in terms of CPC or CPM? Are there any published reports or averages I can refer to? Any advice in setting/negotiating a starting point for price?


title: Recommendations for managing DNS issues when hosting customer sites

text: I'm working at a company which primarily provides SaaS products but also will host some of our customers corporate websites. My question relates to recommendations for managing DNS for client's domain names. My objectives:   1. Not restrict my ability to change the server's IP address such as might happen when I move my servers to a new host.   2. Not have to contact the customer to change their domain's DNS if I need to change the server's IP address. Often times, customers lose this information or have to track down the one person with any knowledge of the domain settings.   3. Map both `.clientdomain.com` and `www.clientdomain.com` to the proper IIS site. However, I'm running into a couple of common problems:   1. Sometimes, the DNS console provided by the client's hosting company does not allow for CNAME records.   2. Sometimes, the DNS console provided by the client's hosting company will not let me create a CNAME entry for `.spiffydomain.com` because the given hosting company has created a SOA record for that entry or simply requires that `.spiffydomain.com` be an `A` record. I believe one solution to #2 is to use a wildcard for a CNAME entry (i.e. `*.spiffydomain.com`). Is that correct? How do other folks that are hosting many customer's site manage change of DNS entries on their servers?


title: Should I use HTTP or HTTPS to reference resources on the Google CDN?

text: All the examples of accessing google's CDN use https:// in the URL (including on Google itself) - but this has caused a problem when testing in Safari (certificate problem and also different domain).               <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>      I have switched to calling it over http instead, but just wondering if this is a mistake or security issue?


title: Why do big sites host their images/css on external domains?

text: Why do big sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr & so on) host their images/css on external domains? Facebook: http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/ Twitter: http://a0.twimg.com Google: http://ssl.gstatic.com Tumblr: https://secure.assets.tumblr.com Is is performance? Security? organization?


title: Add email attachments by URL in CodeIgniter

text: I tried this code to attach a file in CI. This is working:               $this->load->library('email');     $this->email->from('me@mymail.com', 'vignesh');     $this->email->subject('Email Test with attachment');     $this->email->message('Testing the email class IN CODEIGNITER');     $this->email->attach('/path/to/attachment1.jpg');     $this->email->send();      But I want to attach a file from an external URL:               $this->email->attach('http://mydomain.in/path/to/attachment1.jpg');


If I need HTTPS / SSL encryption on my web site, does it matter who I get my certificate from? Are some SSL certificate vendors better than others? If so, why?


title: how can I find out which websites are linking to mine?

text: How can I have a RSS of new sites that link to mine? I would like to know which sites are linking to us. Is there any way to do that?


title: How can I allow robots access to my sitemap, but prevent casual users from accessing it?

text: I am storing my sitemaps in my web folder. I want web crawlers (Googlebot etc) to be able to access the file, but I don't necessarily want all and sundry to have access to it. For example, this site (superuser.com), has a site index - as specified by its _robots.txt_ file (http://superuser.com/robots.txt). However, when you type http://superuser.com/sitemap.xml, you are directed to a 404 page. How can I implement the same thing on my website? I am running a LAMP website, also I am using a sitemap index file (so I have multiple site maps for the site). I would like to use the same mechanism to make them unavailable via a browser, as described above.


title: Can thousands of backlinks from the same site harm PageRank?

text: I just noticed that one particular site has almost 7000 backlinks linking back to our website. The site is something like a news aggregator and for each post they created around 20 (sometimes much more) backlinks back to our page and they basically linked over 400 pages. I am beginning to get concerned that this amount of links might harm our page. They seem to have more backlinks to our page than all the other pages combined and more backlinks that our website has pages. We have seen a massive negative effect going on for quite a while and the PageRank seems to have dropped to None (Not even 0). But I am not sure when and why exactly that happened seeing that PageRank updates take quite a while to appear. The site linking to us is otherwise pretty reputable and doesn't seem to be having any problems with their rank. (PR 6 actually) I was thinking of using the Google disavow tool for this site, but I don't want to make things even worse. Do you think these are harmful? If so, how do I fix this? Thanks :)


title: How to track conversion from “new visitor” to “returning visitor” in Google Analytics?

text: I own a site, and I want to know how many of my "new visitors" are being converted into "returning visitors" after visiting my site. Not how often users visit my site, recency or anything like that, but how many of new visitors come back, after stumbling upon my site. Do any of you out there know how to track this using Google Analytics?


title: How can I create my authorship markup on a page that I’m going to syndicate on other sites?

text: In an interview Google Web Spam Team Head Matt Cutts stated that **“Syndication can be a valid way to either increase your reputation or to drive traffic and potentially to get more links. The main caution that I would add is that there are some mechanical things that you should pay attention to and try to make sure that you get right.”** He also stated that **“Things like rel=canonical help. Embedding a link within the text of the article itself never hurts. Ideally, you’d want to insist on some sort of attribution on the syndicated page. You can use authorship markup. So if you are also publishing the article on your site, you want to try and do these mechanical things so you are still seen as the original author.”** I know how to use rel=canonical in a page and also to create an authorship markup for a website but I don’t know how to create authorship markup for a webpage that I want to syndicate to other sites? Does publishing content of our webpage into others sites by only indicating Authors name and website is enough for authorship markup? For more information related to that interview visit : http://www.stonetemple.com/link-building-is-not-illegal-or-bad/ See the below image ![Matt Cutts interview about Link Building](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hIJ48.png)


title: google webmaster showing 6 pages submitted 0 indexed, yet i can see them all there when i search in google?

text: I have a small 'brochure' type site with 6 pages, i can see them all the pages showing up in google when i search for my site. But in webmaster tools under the sitemaps section it says 6 submitted, (the blue bar of the graph), but the indexed pages - the red bar is showing 0 indexed pages, even though they seem to be indexed ? any idea why this is ? I dont really think its that important as the pages are still indexed, but it just seems odd. * * * UPDATE 9/3/12 having just looked in google webmaster its showing that there are 11 pages indexed, under the health > index status tab.. but under the optimization sitemap tab it shows 6 urls submitted but only 1 indexed ? please see images bellow index status: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/n9CSd.png) Sitemap status: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/TpnsF.png)


title: How to auto generate my website sitemap regurlarly (day)?

text: I have developed website in Zend framework, it's like a blog. I'm worried about posting URL links, as they are not being indexed in Google. However, if I generate _sitemap.xml_ externally, and upload it, then it is displayed on Google Search. Yet, I think this is not the proper way to submit my sitemap. So, I'm looking for an automated method to generate a _sitemap.xml_ file, i.e., reset a _sitemap.xml_ file every day. Is there anyway to do so?


title: Google Analytics - campaign and transactions tracking

text: I am using Google Analytics to track visits and transactions for my website. If someone is clicking on my campaign and don't buy at the same time but will visit my website the next day and then buy - will that be linked to my campaign or not? So what is the booking window (in days) in Analytics for campaigns. I am using Google URL builder to track campaigns I am running.


title: What are the future implications of blocking a search engine now?

text: At a question asked previously at this site regarding Baidu's overactive crawling tendencies, one user comments: > I'd only block a search engine spider if you _never_ want to receive any > search traffic from them, not just because you _currently_ don't receive > any. What's the logic behind this statement, and does it hold? In other words... Is it true that blocking a search engine now puts future page rank in jeopardy should I choose to unblock it later?


title: .htaccess redirection for my domain?

text: I have a site that has been hit hard with Penguin and Panda. So hard I have put up another domain and installed a CMS and rewritten the content the page has a good PageRank but was hit hard with alorigthmic penalties. My question is what do I do with the old domain?   301 redirect to the new domain? Another type of redirect? None at all and just leave the old domain drift into non existence?


title: Track actions of paying customers

text: I'm looking for software that can analyze my Apache log files (or some other source) and tell me, from the visitors that actually bought something from my site, some profiling information; like time of their first visit, how long they spend on my website, what the original referral was, etc? In principle a tool like Awstats provides a lot of information, but I'd like to have it filtered to individuals. Edit: Instead of Apache log files / using IP addresses, I'm also happy to add something like php code to my site to identify returning visitors.


title: Support of If-Modified-Since HTTP header

text: I'm not sure if this is better in this forum or in the Server Fault forum... On Google Webmaster Guidelines I see this: "Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since we last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead." (at this link: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#1 ) I contacted Godaddy and they told me: "I understand you would like to know if your server currently has the "If- Modified-Since HTTP header" installed. I used an external tool to test this and found that it is not currently being utilized by your server. Additionally I was unable to find a reliable source to get specific requirements on what this server needs to function. In order to determine if your server supports this you will need to provide us the exact specifications required to run it." How do I ensure the If-Modified-Since HTTP header is supported and that it is active? Thanks


title: Basic semantic rules of CSS (and HTML), right or wrong?

text: Here is the summary I've recently learnt from discussions on this site (and similar) of 4 basic rules, so please correct me if I'm wrong or misunderstood something: **a)** Don't use IDs in CSS (or use it as few as possible) **b)** Use as many descriptive elements as possible such as `article`, `section` … instead of `div` **c)** Name classes according to the content, not appearance **d)** Don't use too many classes: "Don't give elements a class just because you can. It adds noise." (I don't know how to achieve this one though, because almost every element needs a class. If it's a section, there is another `section` elsewhere with different looks. Same goes for the `article`, etc.) This is kind of "philosophical" question, but the goal is to set some things straight for all readers to benefit; having constantly in mind the **rule of separation of content and presentation.**


title: URL/Crawl Errors continue to increase after pharma hack

text: I'm working with a site that was hacked a couple of months ago and was sending out a ton of spam. The problem seemed to have started with a dormant WordPress blog that was part of the site (so the site is not WordPress itself, the blog was). Since that was no longer being used, I removed the blog, its database, and found infected files in the images folder and in a javascript file on the main site. That dramatically decreased 404 errors. Then they started to increase again. I tried using my _.htacess_ file to block referrers who were supposedly linking this site from theirs with the viagra links. Again, crawl errors decreased dramatically and have now started up again. I can't figure out what is happening here. I've removed any weird code (looked mainly for base decode64) and blocked referrals from spam sites, so shouldn't the crawl errors being going down and staying down, at least from those spam sites?


title: How to delete Analytics property from list in Webmaster Tools?

text: When I look at the _Google Analytics Property_ page in Webmaster Tools (where you associate a Google Analytics web property with a Webmaster Tools site), I see a list of a bunch of properties with weird names. They are test properties from when we were trying things out years ago. I can't view them or change their name in Analytics because they don't exist there. All their profiles were deleted years ago. Is there a way to remove these from the list in Webmaster Tools? Or, alternatively, a way to view them again in Analytics so I can give them a better name, at least. I know this doesn't matter in the big scheme of things, but I hate clutter.


title: Multiple IP addresses for one SSL certificate

text: Is it possible to register an SSL Certificate for Multiple IP addresses? This is needed for one of my sites; which runs on two different servers with different IP addresses. One server is live; while other stands backup server. If live server goes down; we go live with backup server temporarily. Is it possible to buy one SSL with multiple IPs? or in worst-case; is it possible to have separate SSLs for both IPs but single domain name?


title: Why alexa doesn't crawl my site?

text: I was waiting for already 1 week and alexa still not recognize my site. I already put a robot.txt in my site. Locating in www.mydomain.com/robots.txt               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      Please suggest why this happening, Thanks.


title: How does quantcast determine values in metrics like "percent of site visitors with a master's degree"?

text: I recently started using Quantcast on my site to determine my audience (which, really the site is so small now that I already know). When I look at some of the metrics on Quantcast, I see gender, education level, etc. How does quantcast determine these? Are they relatively accurate (I'm sure they are more accurate for a large site with more data to draw from). Does it determine this from tracking IPs across my site and others? What's going on that gives them enough data to even begin to give a metric on something like education level?


title: What effect does using itemprop="significantLinks" on anchors have for SEO and what is the ideal use?

text: I'm practicing application of microdata via http://schema.org. Anyone who's browsed the documentation there knows that there's a lot of need for improvement for more clear understandings on use for each property. My question on this post is more about the "significantLinks" property and how it effects SEO for on page, in content anchored text. Does anyone have any more information regarding whether its good to use for link optimization? I understand what schema.org means that it's to be used on "non-navigational links" and those links should be relevant to the current page's meaning. But will using this property hurt SEO or make SEO better for each page?


title: WCAG Questions about a web page issuing erorrs if cookies are disabled

text: I have a question regarding the web content accessibility guidelines. I have been asked to review whether a web application respects the WCAG 2.0 AA web standard. I have to indicate the criteria that are in error, with suggestions on how to correct them. In the application, there is a page that requires cookies to work properly. If the user has disabled cookies, there is a generic error message that appears. > # Error occurred > > Internal error occurred while processing your request. > > Please try again later. In my opinion, this would fail on the criterion 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions > The intent of this Success Criterion is to help users avoid making mistakes > when their input is required. To help avoid mistakes it is good user > interface design to provide **simple instructions and cues** for entering > information. Some users with disabilities may be more likely to make > mistakes than users without disabilities or recovery from mistakes may be > more difficult, making mistake avoidance an important strategy for users > with disabilities. **People with disabilities rely on well documented forms > and procedures to interact with a page**. Blind users need to know exactly > what information should be entered into form fields and what the available > choices are. Simple instructions visually connected to form controls can > assist users with cognitive disabilities or those accessing a page using a > screen magnifier. > > The intent of this Success Criterion is not to clutter the page with > unnecessary information but to provide important cues and instructions that > will benefit people with disabilities. Too much information or instruction > can be just as much of a hindrance as too little. The goal is to make > certain that enough information is provided for the user to accomplish the > task **without undue confusion or navigation**. However, some elements of the criterion seem to be focusing on user input. I think this would also fail the 3.3.3 Error Suggestion criterion since there is an error and possible solutions are known. However, 3.3.3 also seems to be focusing on user input. This could also be a user experience issue that falls beyond the scope of what I was asked, but should I mark those criteria as failed ?


title: How will search rankings get impacted if I move my mobile website to a single page application?

text: I have two different versions of my site: a desktop version, and a mobile optimised version. That is, for the same URL, the server renders different HTML for different user agents. I had been using vary header for this scheme as recommended by Google. However, now I want to move the mobile website to a single page application. I want to know if Google stops seeing anything on my mobile web version but the desktop version continues to work as it is, then how would the search rank be impacted given that mobile web gets more traffic than the desktop version. How would the vary header come into play


title: Can I use meta refresh instead of 301 redirect?

text: I have submitted my site with ugly URLs to Google, and now they are appearing as `mysite.com/show.php?id=42`. Now, I know that I can 301-redirect it to `mysite.com/article/42`. However, my site uses the URL form like stack exchange, so like this `mysite.com/article/42/title-of-my-article` which is in fact `index.php?what=content&id=42&title=title-of-my-article`. Therefore, I cannot use only _.htaccess_ for this, right? So will it work if I do this?   * Keep `show.php` as the redirect node   * if user comes to `show.php?id=42` , get the article of title with `id=42`, and `echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; url=http://mysite.com/article/42/$title'>` It will work for the visitors, but will it help Google to understand and change the URL to the new one?


title: Google Webmaster Tools Data Highlighter says "Failed to load data, please try again later"

text: I seem to be unable to access the data highlighter in Google Webmaster Tools since I attempted to start a new highlight on a page. Clicking the red Start Highlighting button to open the tagger did nothing, so I refreshed. Now, the page loads without the middle content section, then a few seconds later shows the following error: > ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vN40y.png) Failed to load data, please try > again later. I can't get any of the middle section to load, even the list of current pages/page sets that have been highlighted—this error shows. I thought it may be a Google service outage, but other sites' data highlighters work fine. It also seems coincidental that it stopped working after I attempted to start highlighting—I was able to list the existing pages and page sets fine before that, and still am able to access the service on other sites. I've tried clearing browser data and have tried Google Chrome as well—same problem. What's happened? ![](http://i.stack.imgur.com/zYk2b.png)


title: How much to charge for Wordpress installation?

text: I know this isn't properly a technical question but I hope this is ok here. The question is simple: **how much should I charge a customer for a Wordpress installation & configuration?** Configuration simply means I have to install him a theme (which is not provided by me), various plugins and maybe edit some lines of code here and there to make the whole thing work fine. **MORE INFO** I don't do this for a living, I'm just doing this for this single customer. He told me he wants to customize some features of the blog which I think will require a bit of code editing, but these will be small modifications, because I already told him that more substantial modifications will be billed separately. I don't know exactly how long will this take, but probably just 1 day for the setup and some more days to adapt the blog to the customer requests which will eventually come up later


title: Email provider - suggestions needed

text: We are looking for a good way to have email support. In theory, we need to allow end-users to send emails directly to support and careers. i.e. support@domain_name_here.com and careers@domain_name_here.com. Second, we need to provide emails to our staff. So each staff member has their own email address. i.e. joe@domain_name_here.com, meghan@domain_name_here.com, etc. Google Apps is one that we are considering. However, they are charging $50 per user, per year. Not so bad, considering the quality and the features they offer. However, there are also cheaper alternatives. i.e. my domain registrar offers an email plan for $20 / year / 10 emails. Go Daddy has a number of plans and still a lot more affordable than Google Apps. So far Namecheap and Go Daddy are the only ones I have looked at for email plans. Is it worth signing up with Google Apps? Or are there better alternatives? Your thoughts?


title: Problem with ipage server

text: I want to use PHP inside XML. I create some XML file and everything is OK on my local WAMP server. But online (on ipage server) just problem. I include               AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .xml      in .htaccess file. I saw server can't see something like               <src lang='en'><?php echo "files/en/strana1.jpg"; ?></src>      This is part of XML file. But this cod work perfekt in localhost WAMP server. How to echo/print some text with PHP inside XML??? Maybe problem is in server configuration or ...


title: 301 redirects.... www. > http ... the entire sitemap

text: I submitted a duplicate sitemap some time back to incorporate the www. addresses when I saw my site was not directing there when I typed it directly in the address bar. As I have edited my site and become better understanding of SEO I have done many 301 redirects for replaced pages, individually. No problem. Now I want to redirect the entire www. sitemap to my http sitemap. Must I redirect the entire mass of 4000+ urls individually or am I able to write a site level redirect... ie. site map directed to sitemap. The maps are identical except for the www. addition in the later one. The www. map has 105 listed urls while the http has 543. Any suggestions or knowledge concerning my best move???


title: Referring keywords for internal site search users?

text: For visitors that used my site's internal search function, where in Google Analytics can I see the Google searches (organic and paid) they landed on my site with?


title: Google follows disabled options on "get" forms

text: I have the following `get` form on my website for language switching.               <form method="get" action="?">         <label for="language">Language: </label>         <select id="language" name="lang">             <option disabled="disabled" value="es">Espanol</option>             <option disabled="disabled" value="da">Dansk</option>             <option value="de">Deutsch</option>             <option value="en">English</option>             <option disabled="disabled" value="fr">Francais</option>             <option disabled="disabled" value="it">Italiano</option>         </select>         <input type="submit" value="GO">     </form>      This constructs URLs of the form `/?lang=en` and note that currently my site only has the following URLs available:   * `/?lang=en`   * `/?lang=de` Visiting anything else (e.g. `/?lang=fr`) returns a `404` so Google does not index them. What is a problem though is that the Google Webmaster Tools shows all disabled languages as broken links even though I've marked them with `disabled="disabled"`. I want to stop Google from trying to visit those links but I cannot use `rel="nofollow"` on those disabled options because I don't think that `rel` is a valid attribute of `<option />`. What should I do? Note that I don't want to remove the disabled options from the form.


title: Is it possible to know impressions of other websites?

text: Google Webmasters's Dashboard gives you a big number which is called **impressions** , and that I've seen in Google Analytics. By definition, it means the total number of times your site has been become eligible for SERPs. I just don't have an idea how to interpret this number, and how much its increase or decrease mean to me, because I can't compare it with other websites. I mean, if the impressions of say site `a.com` are 150,000, and the impressions of my site are 50,000, then maybe it implies that I need to triple my efforts to reach the impression rate of `a.com`. Yet, by seeing 50,000 impressions alone, I have no clue at all of how to interpret it. Is there any service or other way to know about the impressions Google gives to other sites?


title: SEO Meta Tags: Is it better to have empty meta content or no tag at all?

text: Basically, for pages that may not have a description or tags set, is it better to have               <meta name="description" content="" />     <meta name="keywords" content="" />      or just skip the tags altogether for those pages that don't have the information set?


title: Lots of repeated code in website?

text: I'm a playing around with website building by following the tutorials of user "createthenet", a.k.a. Timothy, on YouTube. The steps to follow are simple enough, but I notice that what he often does is begin with a template, then build pages off of that template. Not to advertise on his behalf, but I'll use his site as an example. When I click on "Welcome", "About", "Tutorials", etc., most of the site, such as the header area, remains the same. This saves work when building the site, but suppose I had 50 pages all with the same header area. Then if I decide to change the header area. I'd have to modify 50 files. Is there a better way of achieving this so that I can modify the header in one file, and it'll be reflected in the other 49?


title: Domain Name Registration via Microsoft?

text: Is it possible to get Domain Name Registration services through Microsoft? I am currently using two well-known companies for two different domains and I am not happy with either of them. One of the companies is a Shared Hosting provider. The other company was at one time the leading Domain Name Registrar in the industry. The first company is cheap and inexpensive, but their security is light and I will be ending my service with that company in favor of a low cost Windows Azure plan. The second company has good security but it charges too much for something as trivial as Domain Name Registration. BTW: I don’t know if it matters, but my domain name is of the format   www.[someNotRealAndBogusDomainName].net


title: Why is BingBot causing so many 404 errors by removing letters from url's?

text: Since the ForceRecrawl problem went away Bing has come back with some new trends. I'm seeing many URLs missing the last letter, or missing a few letters, and some other wired guess URLs. It also looks like I'm not the only one. I'm not getting these URLs from any other bot, and I regularly run a link checker over my site to check for dead links, so they're not coming from my pages. I wish Bing (and maybe all bots) would at least include one referrer in the request header to let us know where they got the link from (I know they might have more than one reference, but having one is a nice start). I'm also having trouble understanding Bing's indexing strategy, they index about 25% the number of pages that Google indexes, then they suddenly throw half of them out and start building up again slowly. Is Bing is trying to alter the URL's and see if it can navigate to pages by "guessing" URL's instead of harvesting them from the normal navigation mechanism? Maybe they cannot master parsing Javascript menu's? I don't know, but they are doing something crazy! Slightly off topic, but a nice conspiracy theory: There's another bot called "Ezooms/1.0" that's doing something similar: it adds spaces behind dashes it finds in URLs. (I think it's always after the first dash in the URL). By comparing the patterns, I'd almost think these two bots have been written by the same developer (though the mysterious Ezooms has a gmail address added in the user agent string).


title: Recommendation on how to get Authors to start using Headings instead of Bold

text: I hope this question is in the correct SE website. I run a multi-author football website. The site has been up since 2009. Each year some authors come and some go. The site is built on WordPress, if that adds any clarity to the coming question. One point I always try to make to new authors is to use Headings instead of a line of text that is bolded. I include this in my welcome emails to new authors. I have also made a how-to video about submitting a post that covers this multiple times, yet 80%+ of my authors ALWAYS use a line of bold and/or colored text, rather than the built in Headings. I do web design, but focus on SEO, so this is becoming a huge annoyance for me. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make this stick with authors or a different recommendation to eliminate my frustrations over this issue? # Update I have decided to go with Dunhamzzz's suggestion. I have started a question about the specifics on wordpress.stackexchange.com


title: Opencart template $module code

text: I am using Opencart 1.5.1 but have a theme made for 1.4.9. The following template code won't work with 1.5.1:               <?php foreach ($modules as $module) { ?>           <?php echo $module; ?>     <?php } ?>      > Undefined variable: modules.   >  Invalid argument supplied for foreach(). What do I replace it with to work in 1.5.1? Thanks.


title: What is the safest way to search for domain names availability?

text: I am victim of Domain name front running. I searched for domain names on some sites & I lost those names soon. Now, what is the safest way to search for availability of domain names ? Using               nslookup -type=ns domain.com      is a way that I found, though I am not sure this is 100% safe or safest possible!?


title: Tracking a sign up form with Google Analytics that uses Ajax and multiple steps

text: I want to track user sign up using Google Analytics (not universal). Below is the step-by-step process: 1) User enters email 1a. if email record found they get redirected to repopulated form 1b. if email is not found they get redirected to a blank form 2) User gets redirected to a confirmation page and is prompted to check their email 3) User clicks the email link and lands on a page to fill in passwords 4) User is redirected to their profile page. I would like to put this into a goal funnel so I guess using Events is not going to work? Does that mean I have to use Virtual Pages views on each step? If so what would be the best way to set this up.


title: Self-hosted URL shorteners with built-in statistics?

text: I'm looking for self-hosted URL shortener scripts and projects (e.g. YOURLs) that track traffic sources, locations and other statistics. I need one with a solid API and JSON support. Any suggestions?


title: Merchant's affiliate marketing policy template

text: A client of mine is a merchant, and we're going to test the waters with an in- house affiliating program. We need to create a policy document that affiliate marketers must agree to before they're accepted as publishers. Do you know where I could find a policy template for affiliate programs?


title: Best way to handle ignored Rel=Canonical?

text: My Google Analytics is reporting organic traffic for URL's with a QueryString attached, even though there's a Canonical tag that points to the preferred (non-QueryStringed) version. Would the best way to handle this be the GWT URL Parameters Tool? I'm fairly unfamiliar with the tool, but after some research, it looks like this might be the best way to go. Does anyone have any good/bad advice for using the tool? Thanks!


title: simple database edit webpage recommendations

text: It's been a long time since I've made something like this, I'm just wondering if I'm not re-inventing the wheel. My client currently has a bunch of data in an excel file and wants this to be on the web for various reasons (needs to be able to edit it from pretty much anywhere, multiple users, etc...). Also needs to be able to generate reports and some custom functionality. I'm planning to build this from scratch in PHP, but are there any building blocks I can use? Something that already has a way of (nicely) listing table entries and editing them etc... would be a good start.


title: How do you test non-live sites before switching DNS?

text: I have a few websites that I need to move to a new server - how would I test that they work before switching DNS? What URL would I navigate to?


title: SEO consultant job description and compensation guidelines

text: I am totally new to the SEO world. I got a client though, for whom I am doing SEO. He has a laundry/dry clean/moving/shoe repair kind of business and a website for it. I have no idea how much I should charge him. Also I am not sure whether it has to be a one time thing or ongoing work with monthly payments. We agreed that he pays me $300 and gives one month to work on his site, and we'll see what happens after that. Could you please give me any guidelines? Thank you!


I set up a website, and below is my main page. As you see I have added the tracking code, but when I login to google analytics, I see Google Analytics Status: Tracking Not installed. If you think there are no mistakes in below codes, how can I debug to find the problem ?                <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">                           <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />             <title>                 mysite is coming soon        </title>                                                                  http://www.mysite.com
                              is coming soon


title: Are there any advantages from an SEO perspective to remove the "/category/" base from the permalink?

text: On an WordPress site, there are ways to remove the `/category/` base from permalinks. Is there an advantage or a disadvantage for SEO to doing this?


title: A static page vs a category page. Which is better in terms of SEO and ranking possibilities?

text: From an SEO perspective, consider the following website presenting mobile phones. The website will have a section for "Best phones" where you can find a list of phones with short descriptions and a link to a full description for the phone you wish to read about. Is it better to use 1. or 2.?   1. Using posts for phone descriptions and review, and put these posts in a certain category. That category will stand as the "best phones" list. > >     example.com/best-phones/  <-- this is a category >     example.com/best-phones/samsung-galaxy/ <-- this is a post >     2. Creating normal static pages for both the "best phones list" as well as for the phones themselves. > >     example.com/best-phones/ <-- this is a static page containing a list > of phones and a short description for each one >     example.com/best-phones/samsung-galaxy/  <-- this is a static page too > containing a full description of Samsung Galaxy >   The content and linking would be the same. I guess the main difference is [page vs post] and [category vs page]. I know that posts are time sensitive. So that is why I am not sure I should use posts instead of pages. I am strictly asking in regards to SEO. For example I know the first option would be much easier to update and maintain but I am not asking about that. Strictly regarding SEO and how these websites would rank in a search engines?


title: Facebook share in Hebrew messed up

text: I have a WordPress website in Hebrew. Using Yoast for SEO and AddThis for sharing. Recently a lot of problems with Facebook sharing: Some posts share in "Gibbrish" - no image, no title and messed up description, some posts don't. Tried to disable Yoast OG parameters, and tried to manually add descriptions for pages' social sections. I also check UTF settings and couple of Facebook plugins with no results.


title: Multiple SEO phrases in the Search Description of a Blogger blog post

text: This is the search description text box that is visible on the right side of a blog post in edit mode. * * * ![An image of Search Descriptions text box](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BcM0b.png) * * * Is it possible to include multiple SEO phrases in the Search Description text box? I tried to find information related to this, none of the results I found showed this with multiple search description phrases. I am trying to find out if doing something like this is possible: * * * ![An image of Search Descriptions text box with multiple values](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hbjOX.png) * * *


title: Can the blog subdomain take precedence over my own domain in search engines?

text: Suppose I create a blog with SomeName in blogger.com or tumblr.com. So the address is SomeName.blogger.com or SomeName.tumblr.com. I need some clarification as to the situation when I want to use MyOwnDomain.com for the blog:   1. If I simply go to the control panel of my domain registrar and setup MyOwnDomain.com to redirect to SomeName.blogger.com, then I shall expect that the blog will show up in search results as "SomeName.blogger.com"?   2. If I add MyOwnDomain.com in blogger control panel and edit the A and CNAME records of MyOwnDomain.com with the information provided in blogger, then the blog will show up in search results as MyOwnDomain.com? Is this guaranteed? Are there any other SEO dangers to using Blogger or Tumblr when you want to promote your own domain?


title: Google Optimizer code, validation and cdata

text: I ran my site through the W3C validator, and a bunch of errors were caused by the Google Website Optimizer javascript. It seems weird that would happen. If I put CDATA around it, the error go away. I _assume_ that the code will still work? So, I'm wondering if there's ever a time it's bad to put CDATA around javascript? and Why would Google's javascript snippets not validate in the first place?


title: Did Google Delete my index?

text: I have a website that I haven't had much time to take care of. I updated it 4 times since last October, the contents are all original and informative. I can see those cache from Way back Machine and the site was indexed in Yahoo, but not in google. Did I get my index on Google deleted because I did not update it often? Normally Google crawl often and index fast, I just got really worried if I did something wrong. Is it possible that I set something wrong in the hosting or something?


title: Why deny access to website for msnbot/bingbot?

text: I've seen quite a lot of tutorials that recommend you to ban user agents containing the strings libwww-perl and msnbot. I understand why one would ban libwww-perl, it's mainly if not only used for hacking and spamming. But why are there so many sites recommending to ban msnbot/bingbot?   Since it's a search engine, even if only with a marginal market share, I would except one would want this bot to crawl one's sites. What is it that msnbot does that makes people ban it?


title: Domain forwarding with a dot com

text: Ok, I can't find this exact situation here, so here it goes... We have a website at somedomain.US At the time this was put up, someone else owned the .COM and .NET versions of the domain. This .US has been running now for 6 months or so.. but, we have now purchased the .COM and .NET versions of this domain! So, my company wants now the .COM to be the domain everyone knows. What is the best way to do this? (in order of what I am guessing...) 1) Get hosting at the .COM and move the actual website (a CMS) to the .COM and then forward the .US to the .COM via 301? 2) Forward the .COM via 301 to the .US - but this would show the .US ultimately, which would seem confusing if we are advertising .com now 3) #2, but with masking - but my understanding is this is bad for bookmarking, and has other issues 4) Or... another way??? As you see, usually this question is about a main domain already active, and pointing others to it. In this case, the new domain is the perferred. Thanks for any thought


title: SEO: make the home page location specific or add a new page for location?

text: My homepage is coming up on the first page in Google search, main keyword is "balloon decorations". We provide local service in several cities, but homepage does not mention the location, visitor has to go to "contact us" page to see the list of cities we service. I was given an advice by SEO company to optimizing the homepage to (Boston balloon) and (Boston balloon decorations) to make it location specific to get listed in the searches with keyword (balloons) originated from Boston. Then make landing pages for the other cities, and put link from home page to them. There are a few things I need help with:   1. If I do that, will I sill keep the place on the first page in search for "balloon decorations"? Should I leave (balloon decorations) in meta tags?   2. What are my chances to get on the first page of search with new keyword phrase?   3. Is it better to leave the home page as is and add one more landing page for Boston? I was told, that it would not be very effective and will take a long time for the landing page to come up on first page of search.


title: Apache redircting when it shouldnt

text: I have inherited a LAMP server with a lot of customization. I want to enable mod_status in apache to get some monitoring of apache started. Problem is, with mod_status enabled in the httpd.conf, I am not allowed to travel to the http://"serverIP"/server-status URL because apache is redirecting me to a 'landing page'. If I type any invalid URL for the server, it redirects to this page, all error document pages have been hashed out from the httpd.conf. Any assistance to where this has may have been configured or if there is a way to override it so I can get to the url http://"serverIP"/server-status ?


title: General website publishing questions involving domain forwarding issue

text: Even though I have been having a certain level of knowledge and experience about web development I have never interested in obtaining a domain and publishing a website from my own server. Since today I have been struggling with getting my own domain and configuring it utilizing web sources. I started with learning the outline of web publishing process including web server installation, deploying a website for testing purpose,router port forwarding, getting a domain and forwarding domain to my router which will also forward http requests to my web server I am confused about some parts and so far could not get the web site accessed from outside of the network. All I try to do is just for learning purpose so I do not pay much attention to security issues for now. I have Server 2008 and IIS 7.5 installed. I use a laptop and have access to the modem over wireless and my modem is Zoom x6 5590. Well I will continue explaining what I have done so far and what I think will be after each action I did, I have successfully had access to my website on any local computer entering the internal ip address and port pair of the host machine in a browser. Next, I forwarded port 80 of my host machine creating a virtual server like 10.0.0.x(internal ip(static) of the host) - TCP - start port : 80 - end port : 80 in router options. Now I suppose every request that will come to the public IP on port 80 will be forwarded to my host machine(10.0.0.x) over port 80. So If everything went as desired, the website listening on port 80 will accept the request and process the issue and finally respond bla bla bla... I suppose to access my website from outside of the network by entering `http://MyPublicIp:80` in a browser but I couldn't accomplish this task by now despite using Godaddy's domain forwarding tool,I see a small view of my website when I click the "preview" button that checks whether the address(`http://publicip/Index.aspx`) I entered where my domain will be forwarded is available or not. I am sure that configuring domain does not play a role in solving such a problem since using public ip and port matching does not help. So here is the first question, What is the fact that I face this problem? After that, I have couple of question regarding domain forwarding using Godaddy tool. Can I forward my domain to a any port for example port 8080 other than default HTTP port 80? Additionally, can I use a sub-domain to forward to a different port of the host? What I want to design is if the client enters `www.mydomain.com`, website1 will respond over a specified port and after when a client enters `info.mydomain.com`, another website which listens on different port will respond. I tried to add a sub- domain and forward it to a address like `http://www.mydomain.com:8080/Index.aspx` with no success. Can I really do that? Finally, what if I have a ftp site listening on the default port 21 and I create a domain like `ftp.mydomain.com` that will forward to that ftp site address. Is it possible to use sub-domains for ftp site access? I know I am more than confused but no matter whatever and however you reply to me, you will help me have a more clear view on this subject. Thank you very much from now. * * * To be more clear, I have already had an application that is actively listening on port 8080 and furthermore I have configured my router to forward any incoming request on port 8080 to my server ip and port point. Unfortunately unlike doing the same for port 80, I resulted in no action. Perhaps you know when you forward your domain name to your host ip - port - uri location using Godaddy tool, you have the chance to see what page actually a domain will forward. So no preview was shown as a result. Again, a program listening on port 80 and incoming request for port 80 is being forwarded on router successfully and when I configure my domain to forward that location I see the small preview which will prove that it works. But applying same thing for port 8080 shows no preview which I think something causes fail for it to work. Questions 1 - When I want to forward domain to specific location, I get only HTTP/HTTPS protocols available. Does that mean that I cannot forward any sub-domain to a ftp application? If not so how? 2 - There are actually two things that confuse me. A - Even though I have configured everything as far as I know to access a web page,   still no access from outside of the network.I have neither virus program installed nor windows firewall open for testing purpose. The steps I have taken;   * On IIS 7.5, created a website listening on port 80 and a web page called Index.aspx located at the root of the web site.   * Router is configured to forward any incoming request through port 80 to my local computer(has static Ip) where the web server is running.   * have register a domain and forwarded that domain to `http://mypublicIp:80/Index.aspx`.   * The result is when I click the preview button on Godaddy tool for forwarding the domain, I truly see the page where the domain points in a small preview screen but when I try to access it from a computer on the internet, nothing happens. B - When I publish the same web site on port 8080 and have the other configurations done, on Godaddy tool, I write `http://mypublicIp:8080/Index.aspx`, I get no preview of the web page. I did actually the same but no luck.


title: Why does modx-based site start using different domains for some content?

text: ## situation I have a modx site on a VPS with multiple domain and subdomain names. The modx site should use what I call the 'primary' domain name's 'primary' subdomain, ie _`www`.`intendedname`.tld_ . The problem is that as time pass, the site mysteriously starts using another subdomain for links to content like videos, images, and even pages and (internal) links. The other subdomains doesn't serve this content of course. If I clear the modx cache, the original state is restored. However, the problem comes back again later. The VPS has a domain registered and multiple A records pointing to the VPS's IP, as subdomains. There is the 'primary' whan which is intended to be used as the public content server, the other ones are like `docs.` and `test.`, etc. On top of that, I have dynamic-dns service _client_ installed from no-ip on the machine and a dynamic domain-name bound. It gives a completely different domain name. I originally used it for ssh login and to serve a completely different site. An `nginx` server is put into good use to do rewrite the different subdomains to the right places. **edit** The modx templates use Templates use `<base href="[[++site_url]]" />`. ## current attempt to fix The current 'solution' to the problem is to also use the rewrite to rewrite _everything_ to the 'primary' domain and subdomain. In the nginx config file for the site, it utilizes (unsurprisingly) the `rewrite` directive to rewrite the unexpected `server_name` entries (ie. the other subdomains) in a `server` block dedicated to this task. So with this, the main site basically works (sort of) but this renders all the other functions (docs) useless. Before this rewrite was set, the 'solution' was to clear the modx cache on a regular basis. The original modx content is not getting corrupted, only the files in cache are. **What can I do to find out what actual the problem is and fix it?**


title: Easy user management on html site?

text: I hope I'm not asking a question for which the answer is obvious...If I am, apologies. Within my html site (i.e. not Wordpress, Joomla, etc.) I want to be able to have a level of user management. That means that some pages I want to be only accessible to certain people with the correct username and password. What's the best way to do this? Are there any available scripts out there? I guess I'm looking for a free/open source version of something like this: http://www.webassist.com/php-scripts- and-solutions/user-registration/


title: Where do you get data to populate a suggest-box with Country, State, City and Zip Information?

text: I'm trying to create some dialogs in my web-app that can auto-suggest possible Countries, States, Cities and Zips in a form. I was planning on storing this information in a database, and making calls to it from AJAX as the user types. I don't want anything overly complicated like the Geonames database that I was offered when I asked this question over at the GIS stackexchange. I installed the Geonames database on my mysql server, but I found that it was more like points on the map (things like schools, stores etc) than it was just individual Countries, States, Cities and Zipcodes. Please let me know if I am oversimplifying the problem, as it's entirely possible that I am.


title: How to determine why a page is banned by Google

text: There is a website which is correctly indexed by Google. And there is a page which was correctly indexed initially but after a couple of week was removed from the Google index. Most probably a page was banned. The content of this page had not changed during this time. We didn't use any forbidden methods for promotion of this page. I looked for possible reasons (e.g. www.bigoakinc.com/seo-articles/banned-by-google.php) and didn't found any explicit mistakes. Could you advise what we can do to return page to the index? The problem page is http://bitmiracle.com/pdf-library/


title: should you let search result page to be indexed

text: I have a pages of a catalogs, which contains a list of keywords of all products inside that catalogs, and I want to create a link from those keywords to a search page. For example, if the page contains a keyword of `television 24", electronic, sound system`, if user click on each of the keyword, it will open a page `/search/television 24"` for example. Should I let those pages indexed or should I block it with `robots.txt`?


Do search engines remove pages from the index for any 400 range status code return? We are using 400 range HTTP codes to differentiate messaging for different categories of pages when a particular type of content is not found. There are some concerns that this content will not be removed from the search engine indexes as they would be if a proper 404 response is returned. Has anyone used this method before to return customized error messages that can validate that these other codes are indeed removed from search engine indexes?


title: How to customize icons used by Facebook wall?

text: When you share a link from The Globe and Mail to your Facebook wall, you get a little custom icon (maple leaf) next to the "Like" button, instead of the usual general page icon. Looking at the Facebook page source, you can see that the icon is stored here. However, going back to the Globe and Mail page and looking at its page source, it's not clear where this icon is actually coming from. At first I thought Facebook was grabbing the site's favicon.ico or iPhone icon. But if you compare the icons, they are clearly different both in color and in shape, not to mention size. ![Icon from Facebook Wall](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Z2FPb.gif) ![Favicon of Globe and Mail website](http://i.stack.imgur.com/XENlP.jpg) ![iPhone icon of Globe and Mail website](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bGXaJ.png) Is this something Facebook has done on its own end? Or is this something any webmaster can control for his own website? ![Screenshot from Facebook wall](http://i.stack.imgur.com/g0vdI.png)


title: What would be a good web based open source or low cost learing collaboration tool for high school students?

text: Have about 60 kids that are working on a science projects in two groups. Each group would like a web portal where they can discuss topics relating to what they are building, post questions, pictures, videos, and keep their project going while not always in the same class room. Also, I would like to host it personally and not have it accessible to the entire web. What would you suggest for such a requirement?


title: Why should I use the "no follow" attribute?

text: I would like to know what are good reasons for me to use the "no follow" on my site? As far as I know, using the "no follow" attribute only effects the page rank of the link I'm linking to, and not mine. I understand why using it is important in user generated content in order to fight spammers, but I can't understand the other reasons that make so much sites use this. Are there ways it can effect a web-site's rank if he linked to a site without a "no follow" attribute although he couldn't vouch for it? Is it just that he doesn't want to make others have better ranks? Thanks


title: Email hosting for managing emails across many domains

text: I wanted to get peoples thoughts on integrated email hosting solutions. As a webmaster/web developer, I own many domains and would ideally like to incorporate all those emails into 1 interface, like I can with Outlook on my desktop. However, because I have a day job, I do not want to load all my email accounts into my work Outlook, yet want to check it periodically. I am also tired of having all these emails forwarded to my personal email, since my responses are then going to be from the personal email. This pushes me in the direction of Outlook's web access feature. Outlook is just fine for me, as I can create sub-folders within folders for my emails, and archive mail I dont readily need. However, when reviewing prices online, it looks like to have this ability, I'd have to pay $5/$10 per email account per month. If I want to make 15 accounts, that's $150/mo just to use the web access feature. I may as well buy my own email server for that much. Are there low-cost alternatives to what I'm looking for? Perhaps there is a company that does it for much less than those I've found so far? What do you guys do to effectively manage multiple-domain email accounts as a webmaster? Thanks!


title: Do search engines pass HTTP referrer through?

text: I'm modifying a site and it requires that, when a user comes from another site in the group, this site will be branded slightly differently. The best way of identifying the page they came from would the HTTP referrer (where available). However I don't want search engines to see it as a different site. So does anyone know whether search engine spiders, (mainly google), pass through a HTTP referrer parameter?


title: How to SEO a search only website?

text: I am in the progress of building a website for a client of mine and something worries me. Basicly, the client wants a google like site ( search - display results ) just for companies ( like a phonebook directory of companies ). I have built the website with only one page ( front page ) which also provides the search results. What worries me is how can that site rank on search engines? Would the content on the front page should be suffice for ranking? Can you think of any other problems I might have from using this type of system?


title: Is there evidence that linking to quality, reputable and popular website helps with ranking?

text: Is there any evidence that linking to external quality, reputable and popular websites helps with ranking (directly or indirectly)? Is there an established correlation? Some posts on the web do claim it, but without providing any evidence. It is known that if your website links to bad neighborhood, this will harm your reputation and authority, but does the reverse actually help? And, does it matter if the website is young or old in this case? **Update** I have found this Moz video revealing there is a 0.04 correlation with ranking.


title: Can too many shortened URLs trigger a ranking penalty?

text: There are many URL shortening services available on the net, any of which could shorten the URLs. Can too many shortened URL trigger a penalty? Has anyone observed this? P.S. I am analyzing a backlink profile for a website.


title: Which of this is search-engine friendly - google?

text: Which of this is search-engine friendly - Google?   1. www.example.com/keyword    2. www.keyword.example.com    3. www.example.com/keyword1-keyword2 Please explain the logic behind while answering and rate them. Give me some more tips about subdomain SEO, like www.keyword.example.com


title: adsense and proxy servers

text: If i surf a site using proxy server then can it increase adsense value or daily hits?


title: Home pc as server

text: My dns A-record point to my home PC IP that most of the time is down. Does this fact can cause any troubles with my registrar or there is nothing to be worried?


title: Will switching from home grown news page to a Facebook feed hurt SEO?

text: We are thinking of dumping our home curated news page and going to an embedded Facebook feed instead. One of the purposes of the news page is to boost SEO. The intention is that keywords will occur in our news in a natural manner and get indexed, plus Google will see it as a site that's regularly updated, plus it may generate backlinks (if the news is interesting enough). It would seem that if we simply embed a Facebook feed instead none of the above will apply. Is that the case? This discussion on the Moz website has some info about the SEO usefulness of a feed but says nothing about the potential damage done by removing a home grown news content.


title: Will Duplicate Websites Hurt Local SEO?

text: So, lets say I do marketing for Unicorn Vendors. There are unicorn vendors in every city in the US. I'm tasked with creating websites for my clients. Will it hurt my local SEO rankings if I make a generic website that applies to all unicorn vendors, but use different domains/logos/header and title text for each client?


title: Is AdWords ad blocked from top spots of SERPs until it is reviewed?

text: I have an AdWords ad and a keyword with a Quality Score of 10. Inferring from CPC from actual clicks, max CPC is set way beyond that of the third advertiser from the SERP for this keyword (there are three ads in the top). Still the ad is shown on the 4th spot which located either on the right or at the bottom of the SERP. The only catch is that the ad's status is "under review". Is it the reason why it's blocked from the top spots?


title: Is making AJAX site crawlable AND degrading gracefully with JS turned off possible?

text: According to this spec, making AJAX site crawlable by Googlebot means that you have to use hashbang (#!) links in it which means it won't degrade gracefully when JS is turned off. This might mean that crawlability and graceful degradation are mutually exclusive. Is it in fact so? Is there something that can be done about that?


title: Apache URL redirection not working with mod_rewrite

text: I want to redirect the URL:               http://example.com/site to http://example.com/~username/site      I have the following in my _httpd.conf_ file:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^/site/(.*) /~username/site/$1 [PT]      but this does not seem to be working. It tries to look for `/site` under `/var/www/site/` and fails. What am I doing wrong? FYI, I have also tried with:               RewriteRule ^/site/(.*)$ /~username/site/$1 [PT]


title: How important is it to 301 redirect forum posts

text: I am going through the process of porting all forum data from PHP to ASP.net, it's quite a long and difficult process. There are around 30,000 threads, it's been online for quite a few years. How important is it for me to do 301 redirects from those forum posts to the new forum posts address? It would be quite a painstaking, difficult and slow process matching them up. Does it matter that much? Should I just take the SEO hit and start fresh with the new one and just wait for Google to reindex it all? Or should I be spending time on this.


title: Recent statistics on HTML usage in the wild?

text: I have seen some fascinating statistics about what HTML markup is actually in use on the web. There is Web Authoring Statistics from Google in 2005, and MAMA from Opera in 2008. Have there been any similar studies more recently than this?


title: Prevent Googlebot from following JavaScript redirect

text: I run a website called isitsnowingoutside.com as kind of an experimental project. As I am still learning- it is far from perfect. The basic premise is the site uses your location to determine if it is snowing. Currently I have it setup to use the new javascript geolocation. If the user denies access to that or it simply doesn't work there is javascript redirect that will forward the user to a page where I attempt to find their location by IP address. Currently I have the javascript redirect wait 10 seconds. Unfortunately, when google indexes my site it follows that redirect and the search results display the url for Mountain View- not my homepage. I tried adding no-index to the subpages in my site but now it just doesn't show up in the results at all. Any ideas?


title: Someone registered a domain through google, how can I redirect that url to another site?

text: I need to be able to automatically redirect a URL that was registered with Google to another URL. No access to server or anything like that. Is there a way to do this with just messing with the DNS?


title: SQL Server and hosting

text: I'm looking for an ASP.net webhost, to run my site with an SQL Server database. I've found a good host, but like all of them, adding on SQL Server costs a fortune for some reason, or I can just use SQL Server 2008 R2 Express for free on them.   * Is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express good enough for a medium size website?   * What are the limitations with SQL Server 2008 R2 Express?


title: What is bingsandbox.com?

text: I toyed around a with "Bing Webmaster Tools": https://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster And then checked `access.log`. One `referrer` was `http://www.bingsandbox.com/` * * * Link: http://www.bingsandbox.com/ `whois` gives following result (web link: http://whois.domaintools.com/bingsandbox.com) `Domain Name: bingsandbox.com` _[..]_   `Tech Organization: Microsoft Corporation` _[..]_   `Tech City: Redmond` _[..]_   `Name Server: ns3.msft.net` _[..]_   * * * Information about: https://www.bingsandbox.com/ From: https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=www.bingsandbox.com `Common name: a248.e.akamai.net`   `SANs: *.akamaihd.net, *.akamaihd-staging.net, a248.e.akamai.net`   `Organization: Akamai Technologies, Inc.`   _(really don't know how to do this from command line)_


title: Google Sites: code block - how to disable wrapping

text: I'm using Google Sites to host the wiki-like website. I noticed that code blocks have text wrapped in them. Instead, I would like to have the code non-wrapped and with horizontal scrollbar when needed. Has anyone accomplished this? I would like to do this without Html-markup editing of each post that contains a code block.


title: How to prevent someone access the database without permit

text: my application ( C#+SQL server) is running on the shared hosting. However, someone is able to access the database without permit. The connection string in the Web.config file, it had also been encrupted. Based on the above the senario, I have the following questions:   1. Is the shared hosting not secure?   2. Is the coding not really secure? If the problem on the coding, what should I fixed? Many thanks! **------In Web.config, before encrypt------**               <connectionStrings>       <add name="MyLocalSQLServer" connectionString="Initial Catalog=aspnetdb;     Data Source =192.07.32.45; Initial Catalog =myDataBase; User Id =Username; Password =Password;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>     </connectionStrings>      _**------In Web.config, After encrypt------_ ***               <connectionStrings configProtectionProvider="MyUserDataProtectionConfigurationProvider">         <EncryptedData>           <CipherData>             <CipherValue>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</CipherValue>           </CipherData>         </EncryptedData>       </connectionStrings>


title: cost for hosting a largish online radio station

text: How much does a connection for an internet radio station that feeds maybe a 100K users cost to the company that provides it? Do you have to be in a special location to get such an upload capability or do you send it to broadcasting company, and if so how much would that cost?


title: Why are extensions often hidden on URLs?

text: Many times I see that URL extensions are hidden (e.g. `.html`, `.php`), but not all websites do this. Why do webmasters hide the extension? Is it for security, for the URL to look cleaner, or for some other purpose?


title: Is there a third party JavaScript that adds Facebook Chat style messaging to a site?

text: I'm looking for a service (happy to pay) that will provide Facebook style chat to users of my website. I'd expect it to work somewhat like Disqus but probably require a bit more work to implement user account integration.


title: PHP framework for this specific use case

text: I have to develop a site like `http://www.monster.com` with these standard set of features:   * Users should be able to register, login, create their profile, upload their resume and photo.   * Site Admin(s) should be able to post jobs. All the users whose profile matches the posted jobs should be notified of the new job. I have one year experience in PHP, but haven't used any frameworks (CMS) up till now. I looked at WordPress, Laravel, CakePHP, Drupal, Joomla, etc. but couldn't decide which one to choose.


title: No site accepts my comments. What's wrong?

text: I'm not sure if this question should be asked here or not. I'm the owner of a website, and wherever I put comments on other websites, they don't appear. When I comment with another fake email, it appears. What's wrong here? PS: Please don't close this question and migrate it to the appropriate site, if this site is not the true place.


title: What's a good way to select a dedicated server host?

text: When shopping for hosting, there is a lot of garbage on the web and hard to find reliable recommendations. For VPS, most people agree that Linode is the best choice. For dedicated, there does not seem to be any consensus. Is there a smart way to select a dedicated host? Maybe at least some list of top providers?


title: How to phrase the from field in system generated emails my site sends?

text: I have a community site that sends emails after certain actions like               1) When someone makes a comment     2) When someone does something called "suggest solution"     3) When someone makes a comment in the suggested solution which is different from a regular comment.      What I am wondering is what is the best way to make the from field of the email appear? Right now it is something like               1) comment@sitenmame.com     2) Suggestion.Solution@sitename.com     3) Suggestion.Comment@sitename.com      But 2 and 3 look so strange when receiving the email. What is the nice and professional way to send these? Thanks!


title: Who is Automattic and why are they visiting my non-Wordpress site so often?

text: Of the various people and organizations that have engaged in scraping activity, Automattic is one of the strangest. They have numerous independent IP ranges, as if they know they will be blocked so they want to make it hard. But who are they? Why are they scraping my site? **Update** By scraping I mean excessive unwarranted visits to my non-WordPress site. Like visiting the same page 10 times in under a minute. Or visiting every day. I've had to ban their many IP ranges, which are ranges located in many geographical regions.


title: Doing affiliate program with shops who don't have a program already set up

text: I am developing an online shop which has managed to agree with other shops to a comission per sale. Now, the problem, is these other shops don't have any kind of affiliate system. So my question is, is there any way we could arrange an easy way for this? They don't plan to develop anything as they are small shops, so... my only guess right now is to control on my site how many times the links to them have been clicked to have an estimate of potential clients, but don't know how they can know that user came through my site and purchased something. Thank you very much for your help!


title: How does the web server choose between unicode and utf-8 for accented characters?

text: I have a web server with my ISP which replaces accented characters in URLs with their unicode values: for instance é (eacute) is translated to %e9 (dec 233). For testing locally I use EasyPHP which translates those characters by their utf-8 equivalence: é is then replaced by the well known sequence %c3%a9 (Ã©)...   Browsers served by EasyPHP don't decode unicode values but they do if running locally (utf-8 and non converted accent also)... I have been unable to find where this behavior is configured in the server. This is a problem as some urls are built by my application using the php rawurlencode() which seems to always encode with unicode values on both servers.   Any idea?


title: Is a backlink with a duplicate description and title from a news site bad for SEO?

text: I have a blog with over a thousand posts. I have posted some of those to a news aggregator site and included the same preview photo and description that I used for it on my own site and the link to the post on my site. Since the site is mainly videos and images, the description was usually a complete match of 4-6 lines of text. It now looks that I have been affected by panda and since I am not doing any bad stuff, I suspect it might be due to duplicate content. For example, when I search the title of my posts, sometimes my site is not even returned, but the news aggregator site is. Could this be the problem with panda?


title: Getting de-penalized from Google Panda?

text: My site was hit by Google Panda on June 16th. After that I did everything I could to de-index and de-link the bad content. According to some reports, the google panda algorithm was run again on July 26th. My site was not affected in absolutely any way. Still penalized - no more no less. Is it possible to get de-penalized? This is really damaging/killing my business as I had spent over 1000 hours investing in SEO for this business.