title: Will lower casing all canonical url solve duplicate issue

text: The website I'm working on can have both upper and lower case URLs, even though they will produce the exact same content. eg: http://www.freeofficefinder.com/uk/office-space/london/soho and http://www.freeofficefinder.com/uk/office-space/london/SOHO Will both produce the same search results for the area "Soho". I have just placed a "Lower Case" canonical url in the all the pages now seeing as Google was obviously complaining about "duplicate" results. After almost 4 weeks these pages are still listed as being duplicate even though the Canonical URL is lower case (even for the uppercase links) Is there something else I should do, will this "canonical URL" work, or should I just wait a little longer for Google to update my index in Google Webmaster Tools?


title: best way to cleanly display 15-20 youtube videos in a webpage?

text: I am currently building a website for a client who has about 20 or so videos that he wants put on a video gallery page and I was wondering if you guys could help me out and give me some advice on how to go about this. I have found yoxview, possibly lightbox... but I don't know if that popup window is really good for video browsing. Also, should/could this be asked in the webmasters instead of stackoverflow?


title: What are the graphical and thematic trend cycles in web design?

text: I think web design is not different than any other technology aesthetic, and there are trends that form from successful standouts being copied, but through a slight overcompensation, which then builds upon the trend. For instance bell bottom jeans--first a designer had a slightly wide cut, which proved original, and then the next season 5 other designers did the same but wider. And so on, until after a couple years, bell bottoms were super wide and a designer came up with a peg leg and that "reset" the trend. You can see this in other forms of art/technology/culture --> ford explorer, brings the jeep cherokee, brings the cadillac and then the hummer to be reset by the mini or prius. OK. . . so the question I have, is how might these sort of trend cycles manifest in web design?


title: How to check if someone is using my website resources?

text: How can I check whether someone is using the resources hosted on my website? I have a website (coded in PHP) and I have uploaded a few images there. I want to know who is using those images on other sites. Normally, the people use image URL to access and display images from my website. I don't need the code, just need some guidelines. If you can give me some pseudo code, that's appreciated too :P **EDIT:**   Seeing the responses, I feel that my question was't well-versed, so to rephrase: > I need the PHP code to check who is using images hosted on my site Is this possible in PHP? If yes, what should be the algorithm for it? Any coding guidelines?


title: My Domain Name Appears Twice in Most of My URLs

text: I've recently been adding some backlinks to other articles within my site. I don't know if it's this that is now causing me a problem. I now notice that Google has indexed my sites pages again but this time all the URL's to content pages have the domain name twice in the URL of the page. For example I am seeing these type of URLs; `http://www.questbg.com/www.questbg.com/...-blog.html` The article will then display on the home page underneath the frontpage module etc. If I type in the correct URL; `http:www.questbg.com/lifestyle/957-blog.html` then the page displays correctly but Google (and Bing) have now changed all my URLs to the double domain type. My sitemap displays all the correct URLs with none of the wrong ones.


title: E-Commerce Website for Retail AND wholesale

text: I work for a clothing designer company (Kit + Lili) that has been in business for 5 years. We currently sell our product wholesale using a company called Groupe BDM and retail through Shopify. It is an incredibly inefficient system, and I'd like to find a platform for a website that allows both retail sales/pricing and wholesale login/pricing. Things to consider: -I do not having programming experience - in fact the ability to upload seasonal clothing, pricing, and sku's with minimal to no coding is essential. Shopify provides the templates for this. They just don't yet have an app in place to allow wholesale login/pricing. -For the wholesale part of the site, we need the ability to place orders and check out, but not require payment through a shopping cart app. At the same time, we need the shopping cart for retail. With the clothing industry, orders are usually made 6 months prior to shipping and receiving payment. - Does such a platform exist or do I need to find a web designer who can create a site to our specifications? Also, let me know if this question might be better posted in a different forum. Thanks.


title: How do i properly use CustomVars in google analytics?

text: How do i properly use custom vars in google analytics? I used the code below and here is what i notice   1. i only seen 'one' being in the get request   2. After 24 hours only 'one' showed up   3. After commenting out one and changing the 2 vars to use slotIndex-1 i notice NO vars going through GA What am i doing wrong? -edit again- Ok everything works. The problem is what i guessed in my answer. Then in firefox i accidentally used the profile which had cookies disabled so GA .gif wasnt being requested. In short the problem below was the string is too long or the value wasnt a string.               var _gaq = _gaq || [];     _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345678-1']);          if (cond) {         _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',1, 'one', d1,1]);          _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',2, 'name two', "sz",1]);          _gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',3, 'name3', boolVal,1]);      }     _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);          (function () {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);     })();


title: Can google “see” this custom javascript code which displays links from an external site to mine

text: I have a javascript code on my site who displays links from another site. This is what I have on my source before:                     This is what I have copied from my source after the page has loaded:               Bluetooth Devices      Can google see this link?


title: What naughty ways are there of driving traffic?

text: OK, so this is purely for my intellectual curiosity and I'm not interested in illegal methods (no botnets please). But say, for instance, that some organisation incentivised link sharing in a bid to drive publicity. How could I drive traffic to my link? Obviously I could spam all my friends on social networking sites, which is what they want me to do, but that doesn't sound as fun as trying to game the system. (Not that I necessarily dispute the merit of this particular campaign.) The ideas I've come up with so far (in order of increasing deviousness) include:   * **Link-dropping** - This is too close to what they want me to do to be devious, but I've done it here (sorry) and I've done it on Twitter. I'm subverting it slightly by focusing on the game aspects rather than their desired message.   * **AdWords** - Not very devious at all, but effectively free with the vouchers I've accrued. That said, I must be pretty poor at choosing keywords, because I've seen very few hits (~5) so far.   * **Browser testing websites** - The target has a robots txt which prevents browsershots from processing it, but I got around this by including it in an iframe on a page that I hosted. But my creative juices have run dry I'm afraid. Does anyone have any cheeky/devious/cunning/all-of-the-above idea for driving traffic to my page?


title: How to use Home PC as Internet Web Server?

text: I have a java web application which is installed on Home PC. ![java web application on Home PC](http://i.stack.imgur.com/s0w8w.jpg) I have installed no-ip client on Home PC. Domain is paesia.no-ip.org I have setup port forwarding to Home PC ![port forwarding to Home PC](http://i.stack.imgur.com/WCjbP.jpg) When I open http://paesia.no-ip.org:8080 , nothing is displayed. How can I use my home PC as internet web server?


title: How to properly use Google Webmaster Tools (for "non-www" instead of "www")

text: I'm trying to use Google Webmaster Tools correctly: I don't use the `www` in my website's URL, but just noticed that I must have entered the `www` when I originally added my site to Webmaster Tools a few months ago, because they have most of my site indexed with the `www` included. I guess what I'm trying to ask is if I should create another website profile without the `www` included in the URL. Is Google viewing both versions as two different websites? Am I hurting myself by not using the `www`? How do they handle adding the verification file when both versions are really the same site? The verification file will be in the same spot on the server for either version. If I was to use the same verification file when creating a new profile for the non `www` version, what would happen? Also what is weird is that I have a sitemap created for my site, but Webmaster Tools says that there isn't one available. I created it with Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin.


title: 404 errors still showing in Webmaster Tools

text: I've a website with Yola, I've been blogging twice a day for three to four years now and suddenly about a month ago, every blog post URL was being seen by Google as a 404 error. I started off by deleting each post, then having to delete the page entirely. Nothing. Google could still see it. I then requested that the main blog pages be deleted using Webmaster Tools, which was accepted, but no good. They still kept on coming back. I have since used URL link tools to make sure there is no sign of the old blog page on my site and I then resubmitted a new sitemap to Google. The problem still persists. I spoke with a technician at Yola yesterday who tells me there is nothing they can do their end and that it's a Google issue. Has anyone any idea on how I might want to go about getting rid of these errors and old pages that do not exist. I had over 2600 errors at one stage. I selected all of them as being problem solved after trying to fix them and each day the number rises. I'm now seeing around 600. WMT is telling me that it's coming from my sitemap - `a-class- driving.com/sitemap.xml` but I've checked and the page doesnt exist on there. `a-class-driving-school-blog.php` was the original blog page. Any help would be great.


title: Google keeps crawling pages that don't exist

text:
I made a simple new website which went live about a month and a half ago (replacing the last one). The site contains new pages, like for example the navigation markup:

Home page

Products

Reference

About us

Contact

      The problem is, that _google crawlers_ keep looking for the old pages, which I removed and aren't on the server. I keep removing the _crawl errors_ (marked as fixed) in the webmaster tools, but the crawlers keep attempting to crawl those pages. I believe that the last website version is cached somewhere, so is there a way to remove it? (I don't have a lot of experience with google webmaster tools.)


title: Inserting multiple links to one image in Confluence

text: I am setting up a Wiki in Confluence v3.5.1   I have added a visio diagram (JPG) to a page (this diagram will take up most of the page)   - This diagram depicts the workflow between developers and support and clients.  I envisage users being able to click on different parts of the diagram and it to open up child pages with more details about that particular process (with videos on 'how-to' do that specific task, like log issues in Jira) However, from what I can see, there is no way from the Confluence editor to add multiple links to the one image, right? I looked at Anchors, but this does not look like it will do the job. So, what is the best option? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dJyTi.jpg) I remember Dreamweaver having these sorts of tools built in, and there appears to be other utilities that can help put in image map HTML tags, but I cannot see a way of easily editing the HTML in Confluence editor. Also worried about the headache this could cause with managing future changes of the page.


title: if... or conditional comments?

text: So I'm working on this website for my dad (http://tendonaid.com/) and it works nice in modern browsers, but apparently he's getting comments on how the top navigation doesn't work on Internet Explorer (7 and lower, I think). It's shifts to the right instead of centering in the middle. My question is, how do I fix this? Or, is there some sort of if/or conditional comment thing I can do that says IF IE... use this class for the div / OR (any other browser) use this other class?


title: Is limiting the page views from users but allowing Googlebot unlimited access considered cloaking?

text: Domaintools when accessing Whois info like this: http://whois.domaintools.com/google.com gives error once free account reaches 20 or so lookups. It then does not return a HTTP 200. But Google it seems does not get this error and it can crawl all of their URLs. In this case, Google sees a version but visitors may see different version. I'm not sure how Domaintools allow special access for Google. Isn't that called cloaking? I need to understand this so that I can use this feature for my sites too.


title: How to make Subdomains identified as separate sites by Search Engines

text: I have a domain name and a live website. I want to create some subdomains so that they appear as separate websites in Search engines. For Example take Blogspot. **x.blogspot.com and y.blogspot.com are separate websites.**


title: Did the Google Webmaster +1 statistics move somewhere else or are they just gone?

text: Google Webmaster used to have very nice statistics for a while. Then it was taken off. Did it move elsewhere? Or did it merely vanish?


title: Leverage browser caching for Facebook and Google+ resource files

text: I tested my website with Google PageSpeed Insights. I did cache optimization in my _.htaccess_ , but it didn't affect resource files that are from Facebook and Google+               Leverage browser caching              http://connect.facebook.net/fr_FR/all.js (20 minutes)              https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js (30 minutes)              https://oauth.googleusercontent.com/…e:rpc:shindig.random:shindig.sha1.js?c=2 (60 minutes)      What can I do to solve this?


title: Is it OK to use translations obtained via crawling a translation service with advertising?

text: Google and Bing not only have their API-based translation, but also their websites which allow for one-off translation. While these are intended for use by humans, this also allows for a webcrawler to automatically crawl the site and obtain translations of short phrases. If a human were to manually browse to a given provider's translation site and input a phrase to be translated, then stick it up on their blog, it seems like this would be a reasonable use. However, what are the implications of crawling a translation service to obtain the results **by proxy** for the user? Sort of like TranslationParty but being ad-supported rather than ad-free? The terms and conditions for Google, for example, seem pretty straightforward about fair use of their translation API, but use of the site interface seems unclear.


title: Splitting a sitemap by content type

text: I currently am tasked with submitting our website sitemap to the search engines every week. We have a module which does offer sitemap generation but we find using it does not work very well as not all pages are included and it does not split the sitemap by content. I've used various (online and offline) tools to generate the sitemaps which is not the problem. The problem is that after every generation (which takes most of each Monday) I have to manually go through the sitemap and categorise the links in to products, pages, categories and sub categories. I've experimented successfully with XSL to split the sitemap but it is still a labour intensive process. Does anyone know of a good method to split the sitemap? Currently there are around 20,000 links (iirc) in total.


title: 301 Redirect to another website

text: I have a website that ranks highly on Google for a particular page. For example: `http://www.domain.com/products/product-name` We have built a new website at its own domain, for example: `http://www.product-name.co.uk` That makes the current website defunct. However the new website is doing poorly on SEO at the moment and we don't want to take down the old website as it still attracts business even though the content is out of date. We have thought about doing a 301 redirect from the old website to the new one so that any traffic picked up on Google will be taken to the new site. Questions I have are:   * Will this take the old website off Google high rankings if it now redirects?   * Regardless of the first question, will this improve the rating of the new website?   * Is it better to keep the current website URL up and show some content with the option for the user to click through to new website?


title: What to do if you are listed incorrectly as an administrative or technical contact for a domain?

text: I recently got a letter in the mail from one of those sketchy "website listing services" that offer to submit your website to search engines for a fee. Before throwing it away I noticed that the domain name was not any of the ones I own. I looked up the name on networksolutions.com, and sure enough, my contact information (name, address, and phone number) is listed as the administrative and technical contact for the domain, along with an email address that is not mine. Is there anything I can do to correct this? Is this associated with any known scams?


title: View source on smart phones?

text: Is this something that should be integrated in smart phone browsers for the future of web developers, programmers and designers? I know there's the Snoopy bookmarklet (and maybe other options I'm not aware of) but I think for the sake of trying to check broken links while not next to your home computer it would help me.


title: Notification for user/visitor/customer for incomplete webbased app?

text: I have been developing an in-house small web-based application for my customer and I. The front-end has been only 60% completed, only the main functions without any testing, and the back-end (my private part) hasn't yet been touched as I want to finish the front-end first. The problem is the website needs to be lived within a few day. I need to upload the unfinished not tested version. Should I put small prints/note on the website that this version is a beta or what else should I say to avoid customer's disappointment and notify them upfront. Is it quite unorthodox to do this, should I wait until the front-end is 100% completed?


title: How can I let the Open Source community know about a project that may help them?

text: I created a web app/service that I think can really help a lot of open source projects by giving them a free Q&A site. How can I let "them" (the projects creators) know that the service exists without been spam? I contacted a couple of open source communities in my country, but I want to have a bigger impact.


title: How can donations be accepted in international currency and be paid out in USD?

text: I have a client that is a non profit organization in the United States. They currently have a donation button (provided by a payment processor company) on their website that only accepts USD. They have more and more supporters in other countries but are not able to accept donations online in other currencies. How can I enable them to accept donations in other currencies that people will pay for with a local credit card? Will I need to make a relationship with multiple different payment processors for each currency that they want to accept? Will I need to have individual buttons on their site for each country? E.g. "If you're Canadian, click the donation button with a maple leaf on it!" Is there a way to accept the most-used currencies in the world in one fell swoop? The client is most interested in accepting donations in CAD, GBP and EUR. They also have interest in AUD, MXN and INR. I know that they also reach out to Turkey and Russia, so assume they would be interested in TRY and RUB.


title: How to redirect my brand new domain to Dlinkddns.com

text: Today I bought a domain from GoDaddy for my personal usage. I'm trying to forward requests from the domain to a DlinkDDNS account with no success so far. `https://account.dlinkddns.com:port` works great. I can access the server behind my router. The same request using the domain isn't working `https://www.domain.com:port`. On GoDaddy the domain is set to forwarding with masking. I'm wondering if the redirection is immediate or if it can take a few hours/days to be effective. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


title: Does GoDaddy.com offer an online HTML editor?

text: I logged in my GoDaddy account where to access my website but was unable to find any html editor. Although I found the domain manager, I could not get any further, do godaddy provide this service or should I look elsewhere for tools.


title: How to restart Apache without reseting users sessions?

text: User is logged-in a PHP website > I restart Apache > User needs to log-in again. How to prevent this? (I don't want user to need to log-in again)


title: Limited 301 Redirect performance in .htaccess?

text: I'm in a situation and haven't been able to find a proper solution after much research. I'm working with a client who just built a new website with a different URL structure. After the website was complete, I began to tackle any canonicalization issues for proper SEO and site organization. I was able to solve the www vs non-www version of the site being displayed using .htaccess, which made me feel I would be able to 301 all of the old URLs to their corresponding new URLs. I was wrong. I haven't been able to get a single 301 redirect to perform through .htaccess. Instead, I get a 404 page with little clues that reveal my client may be on an IIS server, which I think is a little strange because the .htaccess is working(somewhat). I'm hoping that it's just the syntax of my .htaccess file to solve www vs non- www that's stopping all other 301 redirects from being completed. Here is what the current .htaccess file looks like.                RewriteEngine On      RewriteBase /      Options +FollowSymLinks      RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php      RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]      Is there anything I've unintentionally added above that would interfere with doing a 301 redirect for other URLs? Such as:                Redirect 301 /old.htm http://www.example.com/products/side-by-side.htm      Within some of the new product directories exists .htaccess files that are rewriting PHP URLs into cleaner, user friendly URLs. Could this have an effect?


title: Exactly what is Google's PageSpeed Service recommending and how to optimize CSS?

text: Looking at my webmaster tools, Google kindly recommended that I could further increase the performance of some of my sites and to look at the recommendations provided by their PageSpeed service. So I did. Their optimization suggestions showed a negative improvement on top of what I already have: ![Visual Progress](http://i.stack.imgur.com/D15sn.png) ![Timings](http://i.stack.imgur.com/VEcQv.png) So over-all, I don't see a benefit to taking their suggestions. However the top of the report lists the following:                                                   Original    Optimized   Difference     Page Load Time                    4.094s    0.471s  -3.623s (88.5%)     Speed Index (lower is better)       1953    3518    +1565 (80.1%)      So I'm a bit confused. Webmaster tools, however did suggest that I optimize the CSS on the page - primarily all the jQuery theme-related CSS. I am already loading the CSS asynchronously:                   jQuery(function () {             $("head").append("<link href='/Content/themes/custom-theme-lightness/jquery.ui.all.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />");             $("head").append("<link href='/Content/StylesResults.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />");         });      So I'm looking for some suggestions. Thanks.


title: How to overcome duplicate content SEO impact when enforcing https (SSL) site wide on an existing site

text: We're about to move a large existing site to https (SSL). I was a little concerned after reading this thread. Has anyone else experienced a negative impact when transitioning from http to https? Would adding a 301 redirect and updating the sitemap cover all the bases?


title: Impact of migrating home page from HTTP to HTTPS on search results

text: I've had to change one of my site's home page to HTTPS from HTTP. I had plenty of links coming into the HTTP page and was performing well in Google against many of my targeted search phrases. I did a 301 redirect from the HTTP page to transfer the link juice to the HTTPS page (and to prevent duplicate content issues) but my search rankings have tanked which indicates no link juice has been transferred. My PageRank has vanished - which I'd expect - but I'm really surprised that the SERP rankings fell off the face of the earth. Anyone have any ideas how I can recover from this? I've waited a couple of months since the changes took effect just in case Google was taking time to check it out.


title: Rel=next & rel=prev in infinite scroll

text: Based on this article I have a SERP that does infinite scrolling to load results greater than 10. How do I go about implement `rel=next` & `rel=prev` for that?


title: How to show Google Review in Google Search Result?

text: Any one know how to do this? What I mean is Review box at the right hand side: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/l9hjN.png)


title: Google Schema.org alternate to PriceSpecification

text:
I'm back with another Schema.org / Google inconsistency. Our store sells many products that have different variants each with their own price. For example a heater may be sold in any of 8 BTU levels with a higher BTU heater costing more. We present all variants on the same product page and display a price range until the user selects their specific variant. The question is **how can I tell Google that the product has a price range?** Or if I can enumerate the variants as individual sub-products with their own prices that may suffice. What we've tried: We started by using Offer's priceSpecification property. We tried this with both an itemtype of PriceSpecification and of UnitPriceSpecification. These left us with the Error: _Incomplete microdata with schema.org._ in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool and even more importantly with error _Missing: price_ in our webmaster tool's Structured Data tab (Which nuked our rich snippet). This is supposedly because Google erroneously expects the Offer->price property to always be set even if priceSpecification is in use (see: This SO post on priceSpecification ). Example:

             $571.20 - $894.75             <meta content="571.2" itemprop="minPrice">             <meta content="894.75" itemprop="maxPrice">             <meta content="USD" itemprop="priceCurrency">

      We also tried just passing the human-readable string $571.20 - $897.75 as the Offer->price property. That obviously didn't work as Google didn't know how to parse it. According to point 8 of this SEOMoz article you can use AggregateOffer as a workaround to list a price range for a product/product-set. However Schema.org clearly states AggregateOffer is for > When a single product is associated with multiple offers (for example, the > same pair of shoes is offered by different merchants)" While it will likely work for now, using AggregateOffer in our case seems like a kludge that's liable to break. So again, how can I inform Google that a product price is in a range depending on user selections? Has anyone had any success using the PriceSpecification for a product, especially to list a product price range? Or is there another way to accomplish the same result?


title: How do I get a TB of data to a new web server?

text: I have a TB of compressed media files that I need to get to a remote web server with a bit of urgency. (from my office) Our upload rate is only 500KB/s, which would suggest ~23 days to upload. The new hosting company does not accept drives-by-mail. Is there a good place to go in major metro areas to borrow a fatter pipe?


title: htaccess setting resets upon uploading new updates

text: Hi I am trying to set up password protected web pages with htaccess on dreamhost.com. While the panel in dreamhost allows one to set up password protection rather quickly. Once I uploaded updates to the directory, the protection is gone. How should I deal with that?


title: multiple urls serving same content - how to handle better?

text: Urls go like               domain/approved/education/kids/female      but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this               domain/approved/education-entertainment-business/kids/female and so on      which means list all female kids articles no matter what Level1 category they fall in. But that also means that               domain/approved/      and               domain/approved/education-entertainment-business      list exactly the same content (assuming level2 only has 3 categories - kids, teenager and adult). How to handle duplicacy in this case for the sake of canonical url and so on. Also, my sitemaps should not worry about filtering URLs (the ones with dashes), right?


title: .htaccess mod_rewrite 500 internal server error

text: Whenever I place my .htaccess file in my web directory I receive a 500 internal server error and within the error.log file specifying:               [Sat Jan 21 13:46:07 2012] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] Request exceeded the limit     of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.      Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary.      Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.      My .htaccess file:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}  !(\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|\.jpeg|\.bmp|\.css|\.js)$     RewriteRule ^(.*)  index.php      I have tried enabling Options +FollowSymLinks but this has been fruitless. Everything works locally. Any pointers as to what I could be doing wrong?


title: Web server with or without Panel

text: I start a Web server for my company for hosting about 15 website and I didn't install a Control Panel, I do everything by command and i'm pretty comfortable with it but do you think i'm losing time by doing all the task by command ???


title: div collapsing over repositioned element

text: I want a list of rows that have the following look to them:               +------------------------#main-----------------------+     |                                                    |     |                                                    |     | +------+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur   |     | | pic  | adipiscing elit. Phasellus commodo urna   |     | |      | vel est porttitor et laoreet enim         |     | +------+ pellentesque. Proin tristique tortor sit  |     |          amet magna ornare eleifend. Aliquam       |     |          placerat sapien vitae tellus mattis       |     |          euismod.                                  |     |                                                    |     | +------+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur   |     | | pic  | adipiscing elit. Phasellus commodo urna   |     | |      | vel est porttitor et laoreet enim         |     | |      | pellentesque.                             |     | +------+                                           |     |                                                    |     | +------+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur   |     | | pic  | adipiscing elit. Phasellus commodo urna   |     | +------+ vel est porttitor et laoreet enim         |     |          pellentesque.                             |     |                                                    |     |                                                    |     +----------------------------------------------------+      I have all of the above in a _div id="main"_. Each picture and text pair is in a _div class="ProdList"_. As you can see above, the pictures will vary in height but not width. The text may or may not be higher than the picture. This is what's causing my problem. I want a 20px margin below each _.ProdList_ regardless of whether the picture or the paragraph is higher. The css below is giving perfect results as long as the text is higher than the picture. But, since I'm positioning the picture, the _.ProdList_ no longer worries about surrounding it. This causes the _.ProdList_ below to display over the picture if the picture above is higher than the text. I've tried re-positioning the text instead of the picture but I just get the opposite problem. How can I have the _.ProdList_ fully contain both the picture and the text? Here's the css I've tried:               #main {width: 600px; margin: 10px auto; border: 1px solid gray; padding: 20px;}     /*just a centered, fixed width area*/          .ProdList {margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative;}     /*contains an image and a paragraph*/          .ProdList p {margin-left: 110px;}     /*makes room for the picture*/          .ProdList img {position: absolute;top: 0;}     /*moves the picture to the upper left of .ProdList*/      Adding "Clear: both" doesn't seem to do any good either. Since this is technicaly tabular data I suppose I could use a table without angering the css gods too much but I'm sure this is possible. I'm just missing something.


title: SEO - Website comparison - Why is this site so good?

text: I always get asked questions by friends why my site doesn't search very well in Google, even though mine is better quality. How can I improve the searchability of my friend's site (drakesterling.com)? http:// www.sterlingcurrency.com.au/ http:// www.bluesheet.com.au/ http:// www.drakesterling.com/ Any help is appreciated.


title: Does a plain vanilla site benefit from a "canonical" directive?

text: So I thought I knew what "canonical" was for. As I understood it (and to be fair, most of the examples on the web) it avoids search engines seeing `foo.htm` and `foo.htm?parameter=1` as duplicate content, by specifying that only one of them is the canonical version. Therefore it seemed to me to be an issue exclusive to more complex sites (sites with server side processing). But take a "vanilla" brochure site of say just five pages (Home, AboutUs, ContactUs, OurProducts, Testimonials). That's just five htm files, no server side processing, nothing at all that's going to risk looking like duplicate content. But a colleague has said we need a rel='canonical' on at least the home page to avoid               http://www.example.com     http://example.com     http://www.example.com/home.htm      looking like duplicate content. Is he right?


title: Domain name only works with www. but not without the www

text: I have searched for this problem numerous times but I can't quite apply the solution to my problem. The usual solution I find is that I need to add an A-record to my dns, currently I only have a C-name record for host 'www' to my DNS. The problem is, I'm having trouble understanding what goes in the 'host' section of the record when trying to create an A-record. Here is a screenshot to my domain registrar where I am trying to create the record. http://i.imgur.com/M18zm.png I have tried creating an A-record with the 'host' field set to *, but that is not a valid entry, nor is leaving it blank. Anyone have any suggestions?


title: Google not indexing/updating rel="canonical" pages

text: I had same content with different links and I wanted to prioritize the indexing of different webpages. For example `/A/1232` and `/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay` represent same content but I wanted to give more priority to `/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay` link over `/A/1232`. So I put this canonical links in all pages from where I wanted to tell Google please give more preference to the link given in this page I used this in non- priority links and don't use any canonical in priority links. In the head section of URL `/A/1232` I put below line so that Google can give more priority to below page but even after 4 days none of such pages are indexed by Google                 <link rel="canonical"  href="http://example.com/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay" />      Can anyone suggest what should I do, I have submitted both links to Google webmaster and earlier links are already indexed so Google is not indexing `/A/1232/tum_bin_jiya_jay` link but Google Webmaster will give more priority to those links and will index but I don't know why its not indexing. If i remove earlier links from Google webmaster sitemap than what is the chances of including this type of links.which is advisable.


title: Clearing cache with CloudFlare?

text: Is it possible to clear or avoid CloudFlare cache while doing development? I'm developing a site that has caching on several levels - WordPress supercache, the caching done by the browser, and caching through the DNS provider, CloudFlare (free account version). I cannot seem to get my CSS to refresh, despite deleting the browser cache, deleting the WordPress supercache cache, & disabling caching (firefox web development toolbar), so I'm guessing the cached copy that remains is due to the DNS, but have no idea how to clear it. Any suggestions?


title: Is implementing rel="alternate" hreflang="x" mark up the right thing to do here?

text: We have a website for a restaurant that is in 5 different countries, all pages are in English at present:   * `http://www.example.com/bangkok/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/dubai/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/hong-kong/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/istanbul/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/london/en/`   * `http://www.example.com/miami/en/` I'm thinking of marking up the site with `hreflang=`, but then I had a thought. Could doing this actually impede the country specific page appearing in different country Google searches? As the multinational aims of this site are bit different, we still want the country specific page to appear in different countries results, not the alternative URL. e.g. Most pages rank rather well in what ever countries Google you are searching in. The Bangkok page appears on page 1 of most country Google searches for searches such as:   * '(keyword) restaurant in bangkok'   * 'best (keyword) restaurant in bangkok'    * etc But if I was to implement `hreflang=`, might this 'confuse' Google and try and rank the wrong page? For example, some one searching from the US types in 'restaurant in Bangkok' but due to the `rel="alternate"`, Google tries to return the Miami page, or it hampers the chance of the Bangkok page ranking. So I'm thinking that perhaps not bother with the markup, as the situation is a bit different. What are your thoughts.


title: Why is Yslow telling me Use cookie-free domains on only one of my sites?

text: I have Four websites all hosted under the same account (all under public_html of a main domain). All but one give me an A for "use cookie-free domains" but one of them gives me an F. What should I be doing to change this one domain? I don't even know what to look for... Wait a second...grr...I just ran the test again, and got an A-weird...


title: DNS query re website Status: inactive

text: There is a website that I am assisting with which, when you do a DNS look up on Who.is, returns a Website Status of "inactive". I also noticed the server type is incorrectly reported. This is not a website I generally use for DNS queries so am unsure if it is reliable. Using other DNS checking services reports what Iwould expect and the site is functioning correctly. Research I have done with regard to **Website Status: inactive** suggests an issue with the DNS configuration? I am looking for help understanding if this is something to be concerned with and if possible how to update this value or how it gets set in the first place.


title: Source highlight as CGI script

text: I would like to put syntax-highlighted source code (C) on a website using CGI. I have the GNU source-highlight package on the web-server. Can anyone tell me how to link the source-highlight-cgi script (shell script, not perl) into CGI. I guess I need a perl script in the cgi-bin to point somehow at the source- highlight-cgi shell script I but have no experience of doing this. Note: CGI is enabled and working on the server.


title: Is there a free PHP/AJAX file management script with directory synchronization?

text: I want a real easy file management script with a nice clean interface which I can run on my own hosting and password protect. I also want to be able to sync a folder in it to my computer.


title: How To Change Wordpress Pemalinks for Future Posts?

text: Had I known years ago, I would have chosen meaningful permalinks for my blog. There is an option in Wordpress to change them all but I would like to keep the old links as they are since they are referenced in thousands of pages. **How can I change the WordPress permalink structure only for future posts only?**


title: How can I safely analyze users' password quality?

text: Given a registration service website with rather lax password requirements for the users (6-12 characters with no special requirements), how can I safely analyze what _quality_ of passwords users pick without storing them in plain text? For background: This question came up when discussing whether or not users of the service pick sufficiently "good" passwords, and if they do not, if there is enough reason to enforce this by setting tighter password requirements. Assuming some sort of rating system for the password, what interests the team is the ratio of poor passwords (only letters, no special signs, no upper-/lower case variation, repeating signs, partial match with own name or email, etc) compared to good passwords. Supposedly, implementing a rating algorithm that stores the password quality rating at the time users set their passwords would be a good way, but is there any more considerations to take with this? What kind of assertions about password quality can I make and rate without actually storing the passwords? And do I just log password ratings without any other data, or how could I cross reference password quality with user demographics (age, gender, activity on the service) in a way that respects user privacy and data security?


title: One CDN with origin pull and two servers

text: I have two dedicated servers serving the same website. I am thinking of adding CDN to it... Since the CDN will pull the contents from server, my concern is won't it have any naming conflicts ??? To clarify more precisely:   * Server1 and Server2 has real time sync, every files syncs between them.   * If I add CDN with Origin Pull, CDN will pull all the defined files to it..    * The files that CDN is going to pull would be same from both Servers, same name, same extensions like a.css, b.js, c.png.    * Now, will it create conflict or it'll just remove the old content and keep the fresh pull ?  Even if it replaces the new content with old ones, my bandwidth seems to be going waste for puling from both servers.... ain't it ?


title: Monitor Godaddy Shared Hosting Server Downtime

text: Can I monitor how long my server remains down on Godaddy shared hosting service? I have noticed myself once that for several minutes it was down, then back again. It will be helpful if I could see actually how long its getting down per week/month. Any idea/suggestions/solution are appreciated.


title: FTP file access problem

text: I recently got a malware on my website. I have made the backup of the website on my computer and trying to wipe off my FTP. I am trying to delete the root folder but getting this error message on all of the malicious files,               Response:   550 Could not delete index.php: Permission denied      I am the sole administrator of the ftp so permission should not have been an issue. My host provider seems not to suffer from this problem as his websites are running well without any malware. I have also tried to change the root to 777 to see if the file permission change could help me delete the files but still I am getting the same error. Please help out. Thanks


title: STRONG and EM tags inside H1 and H2 and SEO on database-driven website

text:
I am trying to tweak the SEO of my Website, I have read a 400 SEO Bible PDF document that I came across. An aspect of my website that was not included in my SEO optimisation. The STRONG and EM HTML tags. They do what B and I (bold/italic) tags do but they are very much needed by Google's bot, apparently, in order for it to understand what the page is about, and to index it in its particular way. Now, I have around 28K products, each has among other fields a Title(varchar) and Desc(text) fields. Title and description. I am now updating the titles and descriptions with `<strong></strong>` and `<em></em>` tags around the words I think are important and mostly, good keywords for me. But since my website was already done with SEO in mind, the title and descriptions were inside `<H1>` and `<H2>` tags. I thought and thought and managed to leave the text with `<strong>` and `<em>` clean in 2 places (the breadcrumbs /home/here/submenu/submenu2/ and the description), and the text stripped from STRONG and EM tags in the `<h1>` which is the title of every page. There are more pages to think of optimising in this way and my question is : Is it wise to leave the titles something like this?
Parker pen model 38Ak1
      or just remove (with PHP) the `<strong>` and `<em>` tags and just have:
Parker pen, model 38Ak1
      It is essential for me to understand if it's SEO wise to do this, so I'll do the same in other kinds of displaying pages and other arrangements on my website.


title: Why Wikipedia doesn't appear as a referral in Google Analytics' Traffic sources?

text: One of my clients has a website and got not spammy backlinks in a Wikipedia article. When I test it for SEO purposes with Google Analytics (from different IPs), apparently there is no referral information. On the Real-Time view my test visit is visible but with _There is no data for this view_ in the referrals subview. And this visits appear as _(direct) / (none)_ on the Traffic sources view. Wikipedia is not hiding in any way its links origin, since it is shown in the server visits log. Is Google ignoring Wikipedia as a referral? Am I missing anything else? **Update** : Now it works, several days after the link was active. Maybe something is detecting for how long the link was there so that it doesn't work just from the beginning, as a security measure? Many visits are actually not recorded.


title: How can I create a content widget generator?

text: Sites like Buzzfeed offer widgets (Javascript, PHP, WordPress, etc.) for syndicating their content on other sites. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could go about creating/implementing some kind of interactive widget generator that gives users options for customizing their widget? I assume this would require RSS. Check out the Buzzfeed generator to see what I mean http://www.buzzfeed.com/network/widget


title: Google webmastertools soft 404 - How to update google search after updating it to 200

text: My site has many modules which are indexed by google. Recently there has been a database problem so the site was not appearing well like many links returned 404 i think. Now i have make it working and all the content what previously google indexed are as it were. How do we update google that i have corrected and the pages which sent 404 are not 200? That is now i wanted to tell google that the urls which sent 404 are now working fine so that google will update it soon before it removes from its database.


title: Google eCommerce tracking from PHP

text: Is some way to send eCommerce tracking to Google without JavaScript? I want to do that just with PHP.


title: Confusion for specifying rel="canonical" for pages

text: I read this link & even this also, but I am still confused. That's why I plan to ask here, Please confirm me with your answer. My doubt is I have two pages: `GridViewPage.php` & `ListViewPage.php` having same content. So according to this in which page I have insert this code `<link rel="canonical" href="which url I should put here"/>`. And for opening `GridViewPage.php` page URL looks like: `http://example.com/article/show/abdominal-exercises/abdominal- crunch/79/87/list/`. & for opening `GridViewPage.php` page my URL looks like: `http://example.com/article/show/abdominal-exercises/abdominal- crunch/79/87/grid/`. Note: 79/87 are the dynamic database table id's.


title: Redirect public traffic to a different subfolder, while local traffic remains unchanged

text: I would like to have local (intranet) HTTP traffic go to the `/var/www/html` folder while any public traffic goes to the subfolder, `/var/www/html/public` I've tried this configuration, with some variation, in httpd.conf               <VirtualHost PRIVATE-IP>         DocumentRoot /var/www/html         ServerName ecn         ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error/private         CustomLog /var/www/logs/access/private common     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost PUBLIC-IP>         DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public         ServerName PUBLIC-DOMAIN-NAME         ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error/public         CustomLog /var/www/logs/access/public common     </VirtualHost>      PUBLIC-IP, PRIVATE-IP, and PUBLIC-DOMAIN name are all replaced with the correct values in the actual document. The problem is, local traffic can browse fine but remote traffic is directed to the root folder and getting 403d (because I have that folder blocked off through my .htaccess file). If I append `/public` to the URL it works fine.


title: Strange script font appearing in Google search results and Firebug

text: The weirdest thing has just occurred. I did a google search and once the page had rendered I could see double f's had been replaced with a strange script font. Even weirder, once I chose to have a look using Firebug, the strange script font appeared there also. Why is this? I've attached a picture of what I saw.![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/huM03.jpg) P.S. The Search was for "wget facebook" and I'm using Firefox 3.6 on Mac OS X 10.5


title: Currency Conversion

text: I have a website which sells Hotels in UK and USA to Clients in Germany. I am looking for a way to automatically convert US$ and UK£ automatically in EURO. I managed to do this through http://dynamicconverter.com/. However this only works when you have either UK hotels OR USA hotels on a single page. It does not work when both $ and £ are present on a single page. It simply takes all currency as either $ or £. Does anyone know of a system which can detect different currencies on the same webpage and convert them?


title: Portal for matching volunteer webmasters and non-profits?

text: So, 1-2 years ago I recall hearing about a site that matches non-profits with volunteer webmasters. Does anyone know such a site? Questions, feedback, requests -- just comment, thanks!!


title: Setting up a domain name

text: I am trying to point a domain of `support.example.com` to a public IP address and am not sure how I can achieve this. I have tried a CNAME record but I understand that it's not possible to direct a CNAME to an IP address. Can anyone help?


title: Why my site is not ranking for particular keyword

text: My site is only 3 days to be 6 months old. This website is unique, that is there is no competitor to this type site in India, providing comparison of payment gateways in India, besides the payment gateways companies itself. I've optimized it for key word : "payment gateway" I've changed the url's twice, latest being 3 months back, in which case Google Webmaster gave plently of 404's. I corrected the useful 404's and left meaningless ones as it is. What is the reason it's not ranking well for payment gateways? Even site with single page about "Payment gateways" seem to be ranking better than this. Is it does to: 1) Lot of outbound links to in-context companies and information 2) 404's as reported in Google Webmaster My another site is successfully getting 1500 unique visitors daily and is up in Google ranking. I don't know why it is not!


title: Critique of SEO of this HTML

text:
I'm designing a new site which I want to be as SEO friendly as possible, fast and responsive, semantic and very accessible. A lot of these things, embarrassingly are quite new to me. Have I miss applied anything? I want the template to be perfect. Live demo: http://69.24.73.172/demos/newDemo/ HTML:               <!DOCTYPE html>                                         <meta charset="UTF-8" />             <title>Welcome to Scirra.com</title>             <meta name="description" content="Construct 2, the HTML5 games creator." />             <meta name="keywords" content="game maker, game builder, html5, create games, games creator" />             <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/default.css" type="text/css" />              <link rel="stylesheet" href="plugins/coin-slider/coin-slider-styles.css" type="text/css" />

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title: Can I copy the terms and conditions from a similar site?

text: I was wondering if it's legal to copy the terms and conditions page from a very similar site? I would replace the name, address, and other identifying information.


title: Google Analytics does not show AdSense if you have multiple sites

text: I have multiple sites in my Google Analytics, and under the content section, adsense revenue per page is only visible for one of the sites. The rest of the sites in my Google analytics do not display what page the AdSense revenue came from. Is this a known bug? Has anyone had this? Or do I need to configure something else? **Here is how I currently do this.** It is constructed as part of a php string, but the idea is the same. See the first 2 lines of this function. And the rest of the function displays traditional analytics snippet.                 $str = '';         if($production === true)         {             $str.= '<script type="text/javascript">'."\n";                  $str.= 'window.google_analytics_uacct = "UA-9425856-20";'."\n";                  $str.= 'var _gaq = _gaq || [];'."\n";             $str.= '_gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-9425856-20"]);'."\n";             $str.= '_gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);'."\n";                  $str.= '(function() {'."\n";             $str.= ' var ga = document.createElement("script"); ga.type = "text/javascript"; ga.async = true;'."\n";             $str.= ' ga.src = ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "https://ssl" : "http://www") + ".google-analytics.com/ga.js";'."\n";             $str.= ' var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);'."\n";             $str.= '})();'."\n";                  $str.= '</script>'."\n";         }         echo $str;


title: Will using tabs with JavaScript (jQuery) hurt my SEO because of crawlability?

text: I have a page with tabs like this: http://www.problemio.com/problems/problem.php?problem_id=180 See how there are 3 tabs? Only the content from one of them shows up when the user lands on the page, and the content from the other two shows up only when the user clicks on the tabs. And the change happens using jQuery and JavaScript. But all the text is loaded when the page loads. What I am wondering is whether this will hurt my SEO and make it harder for Google to index the complete pages?


title: What's the pro/cons of Adobe TypeKit API? Any best practices?

text: With all the Open Source fonts I have available, and I can download them via the CSS font directive, what's the benefit of the TypeKit API? Are there drawbacks of this? How does it work technically? Are there certain ways of constructing my website I should avoid?


title: Webmaster Tools show the "Total Indexed" number to be zero

text: I recently switched my domain from yannbane.blogspot.com to www.yannbane.com, and added my new domain to my Webmaster Tools account. After a few days, I went there and checked the data, and I was a bit worried when I saw this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rt1Gs.jpg) How can I interpret this? Is Google really not indexing my site at all? I'm afraid that's the case, because when I google for it, only my old blogspot domain shows up!


title: Link a domain to a Squarespace account

text: I have set up a Squarespace account and now need to link a domain I purchased elsewhere. What settings do I need to change on the domain hosted? This is what I've got so far, however the changes don't seem to have propagated and my website still has a default page: ![dns and nameserver settings](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4JQ63.png) Here are the settings that Squarespace say I need to use for GoDaddy, but I'm on A2Hosting and confused as to how to configure everything.


title: rewrite rule if iphone?

text: just need one url on my site to check if its a mobile device and then rerite the url accordingly. want to rewrite; /play-reel/miranda-bowen/playpeaches-and-cream to / **mobile** /play-reel/miranda-bowen/playpeaches-and-cream               RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*iPhone.*$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^play-reel(.*)\$ mobile/play-reel$1 [R=302,NC]            RewriteRule ^mobile/play-reel/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)$ play-reel-new-html5-02.php?director=$1&video=$2 [L]     # the 3rd line works but cant get the url to change for it to be picked up      can anyone see what's wrong? There's no erro best, Dan


title: Apache httpd Problem

text: I am getting intermittent issues with my site. Pages often hang with huge loading times and sometimes fail to load. The httpd error logs contain the following:               [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5871 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:17 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5871 for (*)     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5872 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized     [Wed Feb 23 06:54:24 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1967): proxy: initialized single connection worker 0 in child 5872 for (*)     [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1854): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 0 in child 5954 for worker proxy:reverse     [Wed Feb 23 06:59:15 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1873): proxy: worker proxy:reverse already initialized      The server is currently running with 800mb free memory, so it is not caused by lack of RAM. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Chris. **EDIT** The current number of httpd procceses is 11. This does increase as the error persists and can rise up to 25+. I am running Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS).


title: Joomla menu item will not work

text: I'm trying to setup a new joomla site (first one for me, it's very confusing). I have added a menu item, but the link that it is trying to go to is the "alias", and that isn't resolving correctly (or at all really) to the "link" that I have for the menu item. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?


title: How do I renew an expired domain with Google Apps?

text: I let my domain expire on Google Apps. It now says that I have to contact customer service in order to renew. Does anyone know how to renew a domain (still under the grace period) for Google Apps.


title: Which Document Requires A Single Uri For Web Resources?

text: I know that giving short, clear URI that do not change with time is considered good manners, but I need to create a system that is designed not to have them. But to do this I need to go back and find the document in which first it was explained that there should be a single URI per resource. And that it should not change with time. It is probably a document from T.B.L. or from the w3c. Anyone knows which document would that be? Thanks


title: Consolidating multiple domain names

text: I have a client that has three separately hosted copies of their website, each on a separate domain name. The websites are all essentially the same, bar a few discrepancies caused by badly managed updates in the past. I will soon be launching a completely new website for them, at which point, all three domain names are to resolve to the same web server. One domain name will become the default domain name that they refer to in all their literature, and the other two will simply be used as catch-alls for old links, bookmarks, and so on. I would like to know what people consider the best route to achieve this. My plan so far is:   1. Get the new site up and running on the new webserver.   2. Change the relevant A record of the default domain name to point to the new webserver.   3. a) Keep the existing hosting accounts in operation. Create a list of 301 redirects from old page names on the old site to new page names on the new site. or b) Configure CNAME records for the non-default domain names, each pointing to the new webserver. Create a list of 301 redirects on the new site that redirect from old page names to new page names. If my understanding is correct, 3a will _help_ to maintain whatever search engine rankings the sites already have (I know it's not going to be perfect), while at the same time informing search engines that the old domain names are no longer in use. What's a good approach to take here?


title: when optimising for a "location" based term, are links from the countries tld worth more?

text: When optimizing for a term such as "bike shop london", do links from .co.uk and .com.uk domains carry more weight? ie. Would a link from a identical in every aspect apart from TLD be worth less in Google's eyes? I know Google is putting a big emphasis on reliant thematic sites linking to you, but I wasn't sure whether this would have an effect? I'm referring to Google Search rather than Google Places.


title: Website caching site

text: Google and archive.org both cache/archive sites, however neither of them are fast enough and they don't cache everything. Is there some site where you can input a url and it will go grab it and store it? I find myself in need for proving what was on a site at a time. You can just save as the page, but that isn't very authoritative.


title: How to properly use Rich Snippets for Structured Data using itemscope, itemtype, and itemprop?

text:
I have a website which lists business information in coherence with member information. So I am needing to use the Nested Items method. **Each "Business" listing has this setup:**   1. Business Name   2. Business Address   3. Business Location (city, state)   4. Business Hours of Operation   5. Business Contact Person (member name)   6. Business Phone #   7. Business Cell Phone #   8. Business Website   9. Business Description   10. Other people (member names) who also work for this company (business name). **Each "Member" listing has this setup:**   1. Member Name   2. Business Name   3. Member Location (city, state)   4. Member Phone #   5. Member Cellphone #   6. Member E-mail Address   7. Member Website   8. Member Description   9. Other companies (business names) this person (member name) does business with. I have attempted to apply the itemscope, itemtype and itemprop attributes to my mark-up myself.

Member Name

Business:
	                         Business Name

Location:
	                         Minneapolis, MN

             <meta itemprop="name" content="Business Name" />

Phone:
	                         123-456-7890

Cell:
	                         012-345-6789

E-mail:
	                         business@email.com

Website:
	                         www.business-website.com

Description:

Description of the business would be placed in this area.

Members:

Member Name1, Member Name2

           I feel like it is incorrect, and I would like an explanation of what I'm doing wrong, and how to do it correctly. I have business information and member information mixed in with both types of listings. **Some of the warnings google is giving:**   * Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ.   * Warning: If this markup is about a person, at least 2 of the following fields are needed: organization, location, or role. See the people help page for more information.


title: Can you disavow a whole domain apart from the index page?

text: Many years ago I may have bought a few sitewide links for some of my sites, these have now come back to haunt me and I need to sort them out. I've tried to contact the owners but they're too lazy to bother changing the sites so I figure it's time to disavow the links. But is there a way to disavow all of the sitewide links on the domain apart from on the index page and would this be a benefit to leave the index or would it still be seen as spammy? Something like ...               # Contacted owner of shadyseo.com on 7/1/2012 to     # ask for link removal but got no response     domain:shadyseo.com     !shadyseo.com/index.php


title: web url forwarding to different port and subdirectory

text: I would like to forward anyone going to subdomain.old-domain.com:8014 to this new address subdomain.new-domain.com:8000/subdirectory (note a different domain AND different port PLUS a subdirectory) Is it possible in a web host (such as Bluehost) using cPanel DNS Editor or some form of URL redirection with port redirect included?


title: Protect js code from being stolen

text: I have developed an web app with jquery,html-css markup which would be an premium web app. So I have to ensure the security of the code from being stolen.But as all these are client side,so there is no 100% secure way to protect them.But I want to make them harder to steal.For this I did :   1. I have disabled the right click button of mouse   2. I have minified and obfuscated the code.   3. I have used js code to add external js file and obfuscated the code so that none can understand the name of the external js file   4. I have created a index.html file in the js folder so that none can get access the js folder Do you think all these are enough to make stealing harder? Or any suggestion/advice for me?


title: Usage of meta tag "generator"

text: Is the meta tag "generator" still relevant in today's web? Has it every had any use?               <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org)" />


title: Can't view the website on the LAN stored on XAMPP server

text: I'm trying to access website located on XAMPP server on my other computer located on the same LAN network. I am able to see welcome screen of XAMPP server, i.e., `192.168.0.22/xampp/` but when I am pointing to my website, i.e., `192.168.0.22/xampp/website/` it says: > OBJECT NOT FOUND! The requested URL was not found on this server. ERROR 404. However I am able to view the website on localhost. Any ideas what's wrong?


title: Web Host / Service to Fetch Batch of URLs

text: I have a list of about one million URLs that I would like fetched and would rather not run this process on my own web server. I am wondering if there are any commercial solutions to this - i.e. any services that will take my list of URLs and return the HTML for each (running it behind proxies, etc., if necessary).


title: For SEO, should the path portion of the URL be localized?

text: I have a site that have localized content. I would like to know if it's really important to also translate the URL paths to access the content. For example: Today, I'm handling the URLS like these:               www.example.com/de/airports     www.example.com/pt/airports      My question if is it really good and worthwhile to change my site to handle URLs like these:               www.example.com/de/airports     www.example.com/pt/aeroportos      This last way it's more work to do. I was looking for Google papers talking about this subject but I did not find, anyone knows if this is important or it's ignored by search engines?


title: Need HTTPS on web server with plesk. Without buying certificate?

text: I just want that communication with web server is encrypted. I don't want to by SSL certificate. The server has Plesk installed and as i see, there is some way to add SSL certificate but i don't know how to generate free one which will force domain.com/something to be connected via SSL?


title: Google Webmasters Tools: Denied by robots.txt

text: I have a website: http://46.105.30.3/ And I'm trying to get testing it using the Fetch as Googlebot option in the Google Webmasters Tools. When I try it it returns `Denied by robots.txt`. My robots.txt contains:               User-agent: *     Disallow: /js/     Disallow: /style/      Any ideas why the Googlebot is denied access?


title: Having embedded video from other sites in my video sitemap increases the ranking of the sites I am embedding from?

text: I have a website Mywebsite.com and I am embedding videos from site XYZ.com in my website and providing additional content like a review or anything else. By creating a video sitemap of my site for the videos I have in it (embedded from site XYZ.com). Will the videos get indexed in video.google.com as Mywebsite.com or the website I am embedding from (XYZ.com) ? Other than the potential thumbnail of the video displayed in the search results next to my posts in the search page will it give me any help in rankings? Or will it in fact favor and help the site I am taking the videos from making it look like an authority site/source?


title: About the semantically related words Google's algorithm uses in mixed language websites

text: Because I'm Latin, sometimes I use a word in English while talking in Spanish. In a website, for example, I could be interested in ranking for a word as “promoter” inside a page in Spanish, because that is how my public understands that concept. Does the latent semantic indexing (LSI) (or whatever Google uses for semantic relation) fail to relate “promoter” with the content (because there are not related words in English) and then could that prevent my site from ranking?


title: How would Spanish text at bottom of English content page change how our pages rank?

text: On our real estate site we are planning to put Spanish text (2-3 lines) at bottom of every page. Except for the bottom part, all the content is in English. I am new to Page Rank & Google search optimization. So i have few queries related to that:   * How this Spanish content will affect rankings?   * Will it help to search through Spanish words? I mean, if user searches using Spanish words will our pages come in search results?


title: Managed hosting for Java websites?

text: What is a good managed hosting service for server side Java code which uses Tomcat servers? I want something that is like Heroku (for Ruby), Gondor (for Python), no.de (for node.js). I know there is Google App Engine out there but I am not a fan of the GAE - I want my plain-old tomcat server side code hosted in a clean, cheap, managed way like the aforementioned websites.


title: SEO semi-mirrored sites that don't anger google

text: I'm working with a client who manages real-estate agents. All of these agents have their own individual sites, and they all want the same layout and functionality. So, I have a "master" site designed which is dynamically changed to fit the agent/area/whatever through a MySQL database. We have relatively static content in the DB about the agent and the area, then the rest is very dynamic content from a listing service, which is updated daily. My question is how to set this up so that we can keep on using all the different domains and identical programming (i.e. all the files are identical, except pictures) and have decent SEO as well. They had some trouble in the past with Google blacklisting their sites because they were considered "mirrored sites". Which...they pretty much are, but the difference between mirrored sites is that we're searching very different areas of the listings DB. Ideally, all the listings are relatively unique to each site, but sometimes there aren't any listings for the area, or the listings for two sites overlap...that's when they get busted for the mirrorring. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to both have decent SEO for the individual sites, and keep it easy to manage? There are currently over 100 sites (20 agents, about 5 sites each--one agent site, and a few "area" sites), so not mirroring things is just a ton of work.


title: How to increase the number of indexed images from submitted image sitemap?

text: I had added images in my sitemap a week ago, but the number of images indexed in the Google Webmaster Tools has not displayed any tendency to increase. The number of images submitted is about 200,000 but the number of images indexed keeps floating around 10,000. I hosted my images on AWS S3, and I used different URL `.s3.amazonaws.com` instead of my domain, but I provide a `robots.txt` file in the root directory of the bucket (per this instruction). In the sitemap XML the images are grouped in each content page `<loc>`, but the images filenames doesn't give any relevant information about the content of the page. They are just a bunch of random numbers. Is there any way I can do to increase the number of indexed images in the Google Webmaster Tools?


title: Duplicate content for geographic listings?

text: Our company provides listings (in the manner of a directory) for companies by geographic location (country, state, city, etc.). It's a great user experience to be able to click on each link below to see all companies registered in for example United States, Texas and Dallas:               www.example.com/United-States     www.example.com/United-States/Texas     www.example.com/United-States/Texas/Dallas      What do Google think about this? Will I get punished for duplicate content, since all companies in for example Dallas also will show for the state of Texas and for country United States? I know I could add canonical links, but I would prefer if all 3 examples above (and all my other countries, states, cities) were listed on Google. Maybe that's a risk? Maybe there is another solution? Maybe I also should mention that each list above shows company name and a short company description and when you click on the company you will find the full details.


title: Domain Transfer Protection - need advice

text: I am about to purchase a domain name for a bit of money. I do not personally know the person who I am purchasing the domain name from, we have only chatted via email. The proposed process for the transfer is:   1. The owner of the domain lowest the domain name security and emails me the domain password, I request the transfer   2. After the request, I transfer the money via PayPal   3. When the money has been cleared the current domain name owner confirms the transfer via the link that he receives in that email   4. I wait for it to be transferred. The domain is currently registered with DirectNIC - http://www.directnic.com/ Is this the best practice? Seeing I am paying a bit of money for this domain name, I am worried that after the money has been cleared that I won't see the domain name or hear from the current domain name owner again. Is there a 'domain governing body' which I can report to if this is the case? Is the proposed transfer process the best solution? Any advice would be awesome. Thanks! Jack


title: Using the HTML input "name" attribute and SEO

text: From an SEO point-of-view, which version is better: `<input type="text" name="q" value="search" />` or `<input type="text" name="query" value="search" />` Here's another example: `<input type="text" name="e" value="email" />` or `<input type="text" name="email" value="email" />` In other words: Does Google use the HTML input `name` attribute?


title: 301 redirect latency

text: I want my website to work either way for both `www.mysite.com` and `mysite.com`, so I setup an `A record` for the root domain `mysite.com` and then created a `CNAME` record which points `www.mysite.com` to the host record `mysite.com`. Now if I type `www.mysite.com`, it's actually resulting in a 301 redirect to `mysite.com`. But every time the redirection is causing about 3 seconds latency (see screenshot). ![screenshot of 301 redirect latency](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZUkST.png) Have I made any mistake in configuring my domain?


title: GitHub Pages doesn't show Octopress

text: I have a public GitHub repository for my new Octopress Blog. I just wanted to test some things, so i created a GitHub Page, and linked my Domain to it. So the domain is now linked to my GitHub Page. It works fine, and i'm getting the 404 GitHub Error page. After that, i installed Octopress and pushed it to the Repository. But then... after more than 30 Minutes of waiting... nothing happens. Still the 404 error. I followed this Tutorial and finished it without any errors. Is it normal to wait so long for GitHub the first time? Or did i miss something?


title: Text contents as links

text: **This page** on my website ( _Arabic_ ) contain Verses of Quran. Every word of the verse is linked to the search page to perform a search for this word in the Quran. (the first four words are highlighted by red circles in the attached screenshot). Does making the contents of the page, as described above, negatively affects the pagerank or the indexing of the page's contents in Google? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7qiT0.png)


title: Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0 but sitemap URL shows indexed

text: I've added my site to Google Webmaster Tools. The site was submitted a few weeks ago. The index status shows 0 but it shows 6 URLs have been indexed in the sitemaps section. If I search in Google I can see that the site is indexed and several pages appear: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Awww.medexpress.co.uk&oq=site%3Awww.medexpress.co.uk&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 My question is why is the index status 0 when the sitemap section shows several indexed pages and also the pages appear in the search engine.


title: How do I stop Google indexing my main page as https

text: Due to historic reasons, we have things set up so that `"www.mydomain.com"` redirects to `"store.mydomain.com".` This has worked perfectly fine until recently, when Google appears to be sending visitors to `"https:// www.mydomain.com"` which doesn't have an SSL- certificate (and never has). Strangely, its only the first link that goes to `"https:// www.mydomain.com"`, all other links point correctly to `"http:// store.mydomain.com".` Because there is no certificate on the **"www"** version, users are getting an error message. How do I make Google revert to pointing the main link at `"http:// store.mydomain.com"` (or even `"http:// www.mydomain.com."`) If I remove `"https:// www.mydomain.com"` from Google webmaster tools, will this also remove the redirected page (`"http:// store.mydomain.com`)? Thanks.


title: How to build a site that I can make regular updates with a user-friendly GUI

text: I need to build a site for my church with the following functionalities:   * The main page listing all the updates from other pages if some content is added   * Different content types on different pages that get updated very regularly - like podcasts, event schedules and stuff like that Now the real catch is that I'd like a nice GUI front-end that allows the user to add new content like new event schedules, videos, podcasts, pics and announcements and other such stuff. Is CMS the only way to go? If so can I customize my content that I want the CMS to manage? Like can I write my own webpages or does it have to be the CMS' themes? Also if this is the only way, which CMS should I choose that'll be easy to use - Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal or something else that you think is good? I have zero experience with CMS except that I use a free Wordpress account and use the Web UI to make posts.


title: search with mobile : does Google just look in the mobile-optimized websites?

text: When someone searches a keyword by mobile, does Google search in desktop version of all websites and find the proper result and **_then_** prioritize them according to the responsiveness or mobile-optimizing stuff etc **_OR_** it just search in the mobile version of the mobile-optimized websites ? I want to create a website with a responsive design, I was wondering that if I should care about SEO in mobile version of the website, or just try to optimize the desktop version for search engines and just care about the design of the mobile version ?


title: site:domain.com search doesn't show index page as 1st, how to fix that?

text: If I enter **site:domain.com** in Google search I see the index page of a site but it doesn't go as #1 result in SERP, but rather 3 or 5th... What does that mean, why other pages outrank the index page and how to fix that to have my index page ranked as #1 in there?


title: Weird 301 redirection by google crawler

text: I have some pages on my website www.acethem.com which are having 301 redirection but they are not actually 301 redirects. e.g. www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year/2007/ is seen as a 301 redirection to www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year by google (I am using "Fetch as google" in webmaster tools. Now more weird: My paginated pages with page >= 10 are all redirected to homepage: http://www.acethem.com/pastpapers/o-level/chemistry/page/10/ while http://www.acethem.com/pastpapers/o-level/chemistry/page/9/ is working properly in google crawler. Note that all these pages work fine with no redirect in browsers. Sidenote: on www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year/2007/, the facebook share button also points to www.acethem.com/pastpapers/by-year/.


title: How to use Python as a server language from a PHP perspective

text: I only know server side programming with PHP. To me, I write something into `index.php` and call `http://localhost/index.php` and see the results of the PHP script. I have been using CakePHP and understand that there is something you can do with URL rewriting, but in my mind, there is this one to one relation between URLs and PHP files on the server. Now I do a lot with Python, but just command line utilites. I'd like to use Python instead of PHP for my next project. So far, I was told about `mod_python`, that I have to use a framework like Pylons or Twisted or even Django to get any output at all. Others have said that I just have to `print()` a HTTP header and then the script would output like I am used with PHP. I would like to write something that basically only takes a directory listing and makes it pretty, so that I can access a bunch of PDF files from a mobile browser. I know how to do this with PHP, I know how to create a Python script that would generate the HTML. I just do not know how to execute that script when I open `http://localhost/pdfcentral/`. How would I have to configure my server? It runs on Ubuntu 10.04.


title: How to build a small personal-like community?

text: The target is to create a community where mostly people will have their own "vault". Like an enhanced diary system. Public areas will exist for some common operations, but mostly a user will get into this system because he wants to operate on its data and add/modify them. The "data" may be posts (blog? forum?) or it may be events that need to be tracked privately ... I want to start on this thought and see where i can get it? I have thought of the "obvious", that is to combine a CMS wit a forum (like Joomla with phpBB). Is there a product out there (preferably free) that does my job? Is it better to start building one of my own? _Update: Thank you all for the answers, i went with phpBB as a forum for a start and Joomla for the wrapping around the forum. RokBridge will serve as a user bridge between them in the future when i will need it. for now joomla has no users._


title: Should I set the title attribute for content DIV's to explain what they contain?

text: I have a number of DIV's that break up a page into logical elements for styles and positioning, etc. As part of optimizing my site for search engine spiders, should I include a title attribute within these DIV's? (Yes I have a title as part of the whole page, I'm curious on individual structual elements) Ex               ...     <div id="SearchOptions" title="Search filters and options - Type in a name or pick a business and Click 'Search' to get started" >       ....     </div>     ...


title: How to filter traffic coming to particular page from other page?

text: I've got page A linking to page B. There are also other pages linking to B. How can I see traffic that is coming to page B _only_ from page A? I can somehow do it via Behavior flow: > Behavior > Behavior flow > [Right click on anything] Explore traffic through > here > [Click edit icon] Define a page group > [Right click] Group details > > [Dropdown] Incoming traffic But how do I do it in normal reports? Is there any way to filter out only the traffic coming from a particular page?


title: HTML 5 drag and drop file attachment?

text: Looking for a tutorial re implementation of this functionality. I can only find blog posts saying that gmail added this, but not how it was done.


title: How to host a simple website using a domain name I own

text: I'm familiar with hosting webapps when I'm doing "the whole shebang" of installing / configuring / setting up Apache/Tomcat/PostreSQL / "coding" the website myself using HTML / JSP / CSS etc. on dedicated servers I'm renting. But in the above case, I'm "owning" the entire stack: from the Debian GNU/Linux dedicated servers to every single file that is served. Now I'd like to do something **much** simpler and I must admit I don't know what's involved at all. I'd like to host a simple website made of only a few static pages (no database, no nothing) and I'd like it to be accessible from "example.com". What needs to be technically done to have such a thing? How is the DNS supposed to be set up? Note that I do _not_ want to host this on one of my dedicated servers.


title: How important is the domain name for SEO

text: Most people advice to buy a domain name that exactly matches your main business field. For example if you sell computers the best one will probably be computers.com but with millions(maybe billions) of website all over the web the chance the perfect domain for you to be free is (lets be hones) less than zero. So you have to satisfy yourself with something else like company-name- computers.com or just company-name.com.   So the question is how much does this counts when the search engines calculate your website position in SERPs cause I have always thought that having high quality and related content, pretty URLs and back-links from valuable sources is more important then the domain name itself.


title: how to deal with URLs containing lot of spammy keywords?

text: I'm writing a big index of documents and I'm dealing with URLs as example I will use the car industry: somesite.com/manifacturer-mazda_model-miata_engine-1600cc_gas_color-red_hard- top-spider_[[A LOT MORE]].htm this url points to a generated content that can't be identified as a single resource (in practice, every keyword is a filter and the page result is generated by a database search) at Google's eyes an URL like this looks spammy or I can use this solution with freedom? using querystring instead of URL rewriting can fix risks? and, in this case, keywords will be considered as keyword for SERPs? thank you in advance, feel free to correct my English!


title: an Open Source graphic software like fireworks

text: Hi All and happy new year i'm wondering if there's any open source and free software to create designs, the way fireworks does, by allowing creation of slices (decoupes, HTML and images) thank you very much


title: .htaccess 301 redirect with regex?

text: How to do this with regular expression?               Old -> New     http://www.example.com/1.html   -> http://www.example.com/dir/1.html     http://www.example.com/2.html   -> http://www.example.com/dir/2.html     http://www.example.com/3.asp    -> http://www.example.com/dir/3.html     http://www.example.com/4.asp    -> http://www.example.com/dir/4.html     http://www.example.com/4_a.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-a.html     http://www.example.com/4_b.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-b.html      I've tried this:               Redirect 301 /1.html http://www.example.com/dir/1.html      Redirect 301 /2.html http://www.example.com/dir/2.html      Redirect 301 /3.asp http://www.example.com/dir/3.html      Redirect 301 /4.asp http://www.example.com/dir/4.html      Redirect 301 /4_a.html http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-a.html      Redirect 301 /4_b.html http://www.example.com/dir/sub/4-b.html


title: Is link building still a factor for getting rank in Google?

text: Is link building still a major factor for good ranking in SERP’s of Google?


title: Index page content identical to page 1 of a gallery-type website

text: I have a gallery type website, e.g. a site that lists blog posts or pictures in a paginated manner. However, I have 2 pages that have identical content:   1. example.com/index.html   2. example.com/page/1 Page 2, 3 and so on have different content naturally. However, for SEO purposes, what is the best way of telling Google that page 1 is identical to index.html? Should I 302 redirect `index.html` to `/page/1` so `index.html` is non- existent, so to say or should I put a `canonical` tag in `/page/1` (but not on `/page/2`) that points to `index.html`?


title: Problem with htaccess rewrite condition

text: I needed to redirect `site.com/var1/var2/var3/...` to               site.com/index.php?myvars=var1/var2/var3/...      This is the code I wrote myself:               RewriteEngine On         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/index.php         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?myvars=$1 [L,QSA]      I really want to understand why this does not work, and what solution would work. I need help from you guys, not to make my work, but to help me understanding how can I do it. When I try my code, it keeps running forever and the page does not loads. I don't know why, because I did not copy this code, I studied regex and htaccess to learn, but it did not work. Thank you so much!


title: Point domain to Amazon EC2 Server

text: I just got a domain from a rather suspicious registrar and I want to point that domain to an EC2 instance from Amazon AWS. I already have an elastic IP ready and just need to point the domain to it. However my registrar asks me for my nameservers, (ns1.somedomain.com, etc), which I don't have, since Amazon is not your typical webhost. I've read on the amazon forums that you only need to create an A record, which I did, but my registrar forces me to put some values in the ns1 and ns2 fields, so am I doing something wrong? I'm not very familiar with DNS.


title: Microdata vs. Microformats

text: Just like the title says: it seems to me that microdata has a few advantages over microformats, with the only drawback being a bit more verbose. Is this all the story? It seems that Google supports both equally; is there anything else which I should consider?


title: Dynamic Content Editor

text: I've asked this question around the net and still haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. Basically I have several sites that I run through a custom PHP framework. I'd like to add a way for users to content management but all I really want is a simple interface that lets users click and edit (similar to Concrete5). All they really need is.. well, pretty much what I'm writing this with. A way to format text. All of the links/framework, that sort of thing are taken care of by me or automated through scripting. Is there a good foundation to build on? It seems a little unnecessary to re- build everything into a CMS like Wordpress or Concrete. I know exactly what's in my programming, I'd rather use it. I just want an easy way for clients to edit content.


title: What do webmasters need most in a CMS?

text: I would like to draw on your experiences with different web content management systems and hear what kind features you feel are the most important from a webmaster point of view. _As a webmaster what features do you find are the most important in a CMS?_ Please:   * **specify only one feature per answer**   * up-vote features you also find important   * feel free to give multiple answers (propose multiple features)   * describe features in depth, rather than reference a specific CMS   * feel free to write "in contrast to ...", i.e. what this feature does better


title: Performance : Auto Complete Search for a large amount of data?

text: I have a table(mysql) containing around 20,000 records and I am trying to build a auto complete search box for my website. Someone told me that auto- complete search for such a large number of records would be very slow and hence is of no worth. I just want to consult some more people that is it a good idea to have a auto complete search for such data?


title: Is the hybrid solution the best one for developing a web app?

text: I need to build a web app that has to be "universal". By universal I mean that I need it to be available online and offline, and usable on mobile platform and pc's and mac. I need to store and retrieve the info and I want the app to be updated when its online. Since I need to port the info to a SQL database I thought about building an CMS that would build the app for each client using the SQL database. That app would run with a Nosql Db in the background that would return the data to the master (couchdb) and then I would take that info and parse it to store it in the SQL Database ... I thought using the couchdb engine would be the best solution because I need the data to be available online and offline. The question now ...   * First is it a good idea?    * Any other suggestions I could build on?(can be anything)   * Is the hybrid solution a good idea?   * What offline storage easily replicable I could use for a web app ( easy to install at the client facilities?)


title: What is the benefit of using Google Analytics' asynchronous tracking code compared to the non-asynchronous code?

text: What, specifically, does the asynchronous code accomplish or allow that the older code does not?


title: Using <strong> for introductory paragraph to a post - a bad idea?

text: I have a news website and on most posts the first paragraph is in bold. Currently the authors are just using `<strong>` to bold the paragraph, would it be better from an SEO point of view to rather use a paragraph class that is styled with `p.bold {font-weight:bold;}` `<p class="bold">`. Does `<strong>` on the first paragraph send the wrong message to search engines? The text is important but the main reason it is in bold is because it is the opening paragraph. I realise `<strong>` is used to emphasise certain words on a page


title: Apache rewrite rules for development workstation and server

text: I've got developers editing pages for several sites on a WAMP stack and then uploading to the public servers running LAMP stacks. We're pretty happy with it, but we have this minor annoyance: we can't quite use the same .htaccess files in the development and production environments. On the public sites, the source folder maps to `http://foo.com`, `http://bar.com`, and so on. On the developer workstation, the source folders map to `http://localhost/foo`, `http://localhost/bar`, and so on. That means that I need `RewriteBase /` for the public servers, while each site on the developer workstation uses `RewriteBase /foo/`, `RewriteBase /bar/`, or whatever. Is there any way to specify the RewriteBase relative to the `.htaccess` file? Any other ideas for how to make my rewrite rules more portable? If you're curious, I'm using rewrite rules to redirect to CakePHP routing code, so the rule looks like this:               RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cake_main.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]      If I don't use a RewriteBase of `/foo/` on the developer workstation, then it will rewrite to `/cake_main.php` instead of `/foo/cake_main.php`.