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2,825 | <p>I am not sure Google Adsense is the right ad network for me. I'd like to experiment with a few other options.</p>
<p>I would like to setup another ad network, say <a href="https://www.projectwonderful.com/" rel="nofollow">Project Wonderful</a>, and have my site display 50% of its ads through Adsense, and 50% throug... | [
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"text": "<p>The simplest way is to use your server-side scripting language to randomly display either ad network one or ... | 2010/09/06 | [
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] | I am not sure Google Adsense is the right ad network for me. I'd like to experiment with a few other options.
I would like to setup another ad network, say [Project Wonderful](https://www.projectwonderful.com/), and have my site display 50% of its ads through Adsense, and 50% through PW. What's the simplest way to ach... | The simplest way is to use your server-side scripting language to randomly display either ad network one or ad network 2.
With PHP, you could do something like:
```
$random = array_rand(array('Google', 'Wonderful'), 1);
if ($random[0] == 'Google'){
//Display the Google ad code here
} else {
//Display the Pro... |
2,854 | <p>For example, when I dump the response header for my server I get:</p>
<pre><code>Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
</code></pre>
<p>Is this used for anything? Is it a security risk (albeit small) broadcasting the server makeup?</p>
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"text": "<p><strong>No, it is not used for anything important.</strong> (<a href=\"http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/08/11... | 2010/09/07 | [
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] | For example, when I dump the response header for my server I get:
```
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
```
Is this used for anything? Is it a security risk (albeit small) broadcasting the server makeup? | **No, it is not used for anything important.** ([Netcraft's server market share surveys](http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/08/11/august-2010-web-server-survey-4.html) probably use it, as presumably do other 3rd party surveys.)
**Yes, it is a (very) small security issue.** Of course your server should be secured a... |
2,887 | <p>I'm stuck designing URIs for a many-to-many relationship between users and other resources. Specifically I'm having difficulty predicting the consequences of different approaches.</p>
<p>Given a resources types <code>user</code> and <code>widget</code> (<code>user</code> represents a registered user), authenticated... | [
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"text": "<p>If this is about authentication, I wouldn't pass it via the URL at all. What's to stop me from changing the user ID ... | 2010/09/08 | [
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] | I'm stuck designing URIs for a many-to-many relationship between users and other resources. Specifically I'm having difficulty predicting the consequences of different approaches.
Given a resources types `user` and `widget` (`user` represents a registered user), authenticated (logged-in) users have write access to all... | The URL for accessing the widget should be the same for everyone. The control of what to show or what capabilities the user has is dependent on the userid, which could be kept, for example, in a session variable.
So when widget/12 loads, your web page should check who the user id is in the session variable, see what t... |
2,895 | <p>At the company where I work, we're getting ready to design a new web site, and there's some disagreement about how to do clean URLs. Over the past year we've been making small improvements to our existing web site in anticipation of a large-scale redesign, which has involved the Poor Man's Clean URLs™.</p>
<p... | [
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"text": "<p>The 3 step process you outlined above seems redundant and useless as is stated above. If in step 3 index.php t... | 2010/09/08 | [
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] | At the company where I work, we're getting ready to design a new web site, and there's some disagreement about how to do clean URLs. Over the past year we've been making small improvements to our existing web site in anticipation of a large-scale redesign, which has involved the Poor Man's Clean URLs™.
Example:
`ht... | The 3 step process you outlined above seems redundant and useless as is stated above. If in step 3 index.php takes them to the "real" page then why even bother with mod\_rewrite at all? Doing that will negate the advantages mod\_rewrite is offering. Namely, a search engine friendly URL and easier site maintenance. If y... |
2,942 | <p>I am working on what would appear to be a basic contact form. I am using the ColorBox plugin for jQuery to build a form with an image link, which then opens a ColorBox containing the reCAPTCHA form and the submit button for the form.</p>
<p>This code works perfectly in IE7 upwards, and even works to an extent in IE... | [
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"text": "<p>Changing the submit button from type submit to type button will prevent the form from being submitted.</p>\n\n<... | 2010/09/10 | [
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] | I am working on what would appear to be a basic contact form. I am using the ColorBox plugin for jQuery to build a form with an image link, which then opens a ColorBox containing the reCAPTCHA form and the submit button for the form.
This code works perfectly in IE7 upwards, and even works to an extent in IE6, yet in ... | It turns out that it's a relatively common problem for those using the PHP plugin for reCAPTCHA. I decided to use the plugin code for the server-side part, but manually build the reCAPTCHA form with the given JavaScript and now it works perfectly fine. |
2,944 | <p>Given a (slightly theoretical) physical disk layout of:</p>
<pre>
\products\cameras\50d.jpg
\products\cameras\20d.jpg
\products\lenses\18-55.jpg
\products\lenses\28-135.jpg
\products.php
</pre>
<p>At the moment, I've URLs of the form:</p>
<pre>
/products.php/
/products.php/cameras/
/products.php/cameras/50d
</pre... | [
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"text": "<p>Firstly all those back-slashes must be forward-slashes. The <code>\\</code> is used to \"escape\" special ... | 2010/09/10 | [
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] | Given a (slightly theoretical) physical disk layout of:
```
\products\cameras\50d.jpg
\products\cameras\20d.jpg
\products\lenses\18-55.jpg
\products\lenses\28-135.jpg
\products.php
```
At the moment, I've URLs of the form:
```
/products.php/
/products.php/cameras/
/products.php/cameras/50d
```
With the products... | Turns out that this works, and still allows resources within to work.
```
RewriteRule ^products([^\.]+)$ products.php$1
``` |
2,956 | <p>When I type <code>site:example.com</code>(using my domain obviously), I get several link errors showing up in the listing. Typically, they are of the form: <code>/some/fixed/path/admin/unblockUser/11</code></p>
<p>I am thinking of adding the following line to my <code>robots.txt</code> file:</p>
<pre><code>Disallo... | [
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"text": "<p>There are <strong>2 main ways to prevent search engines from indexing specific pages</strong>:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>A R... | 2010/09/11 | [
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] | When I type `site:example.com`(using my domain obviously), I get several link errors showing up in the listing. Typically, they are of the form: `/some/fixed/path/admin/unblockUser/11`
I am thinking of adding the following line to my `robots.txt` file:
```
Disallow: /some/fixed/path/admin/*
``` | There are **2 main ways to prevent search engines from indexing specific pages**:
1. A Robots.txt file for your domain.
2. The Meta Robots tag on each page.
Robots.txt should be your first stop for URL patterns that match several files. You can see the [syntax here](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer... |
2,969 | <p>I have this project I'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using Facebook's places in an <code>iframe</code> feature from touch.facebook.com. I can easily just use <code>touch.facebook.com/#places.php</code> but then that loads the top bars. </p>
<p>Anyway, is there a way I could man... | [
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"text": "<p>You won't be able to manipulate the URL to get only a portion of the page. So what you'll want to do is grab ... | 2010/09/12 | [
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Anyway, is there a way I could manipulate the URL so that it will ... | You won't be able to manipulate the URL to get only a portion of the page. So what you'll want to do is grab the page contents via the server-side language of your choice and then parse the HTML. From there you can grab the specific DIV you are looking for and then print that out to your screen. You could also use to r... |
2,977 | <p>I have this in my <code>.htaccess</code> file:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^images/chart\.png$ /static/images/chart.png [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^images/artwork/(.+).png /static/artwork/$1.jpg [L,R=301]
# codeigniter
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|images|admin|user_guide|sitemap\.xml\.g... | [
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"text": "<p><a href=\"http://logout.sh/computers/ldap/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">This page</a> seems to show how to d... | 2010/09/12 | [
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] | I have this in my `.htaccess` file:
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^images/chart\.png$ /static/images/chart.png [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^images/artwork/(.+).png /static/artwork/$1.jpg [L,R=301]
# codeigniter
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|images|admin|user_guide|sitemap\.xml\.gz|robots\.txt)
RewriteRul... | Over on Serverfault, [Tim pointed me](https://serverfault.com/questions/180364/is-there-an-app-script-i-can-deploy-to-enable-my-users-to-change-their-own-ldap-p/180405#180405) towards a script called [phpLdapPassword](http://www.karylstein.com/phpLdapPasswd).
It took about 5 minutes to configure and also provides pass... |
3,079 | <p>I've always wondered about this and never found a good solution.</p>
<p>But <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/374/1160">this question</a> reminded me of it.</p>
<p>When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.somesite.com/subdi... | [
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"text": "<p>I would say <em>don't</em> include the file extension if the software you're using allows you to omit it. S... | 2010/09/17 | [
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But [this question](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/374/1160) reminded me of it.
When I have a URL on my website it can be displayed and accessed any of the following ways:
```
http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory
http://www.somesite.com/subdire... | Use a .extension where there is more than one representation or where the client software is absolutely stupid and refuses to accept the Content-Type alone (QuickTime, RealPlayer, Outlook, etc I am looking at you):
* `http://www.somesite.com/subdirectory` - this can be your auto-negotiation version that uses Canonical... |
3,131 | <p>We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout.</p>
<p>The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a non-existent URL is enetered it redirects to the homepage instead of a 404 error being generated.</p>
<p>This... | [
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"text": "<p>I'd vote for a separate error page if only to let the users of your site know that the link they clicked failed or ... | 2010/09/19 | [
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The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a non-existent URL is enetered it redirects to the homepage instead of a 404 error being generated.
This results in googl... | Strong vote for a dedicated 404 page.
* Less confusing for the user
* Allows you to see more easily if something is wrong (through web server error log, your own logging script and/or Google Analytics)
* You can tailor the page towards the situation (for example display a list of product categories)
* Allows search en... |
3,133 | <p>So far, I’ve seen rich snippets in Google search results only for large sites with a high number of elements (people, events, recipes, etc.). </p>
<p>Does anyone know of an example where rich snippets are displayed for a small site with only a handful/a few dozen elements? </p>
<p>Our own site has around 10 events... | [
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"text": "<p>Honestly, I have a feeling it is about as elusive as <a href=\"http://www.seopedia.org/internet-marketing-an... | 2010/09/19 | [
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Does anyone know of an example where rich snippets are displayed for a small site with only a handful/a few dozen elements?
Our own site has around 10 events (we are a specia... | Honestly, I have a feeling it is about as elusive as [getting Google Sitelinks](http://www.seopedia.org/internet-marketing-and-seo/google-sitelinks-the-ultimate-faq/). My recommendation is to follow the [Google guide for Rich Snippits](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170) and when ... |
3,188 | <p>So I have 2 URLs that basically link to the main url using a symlink </p>
<pre><code> maindomain.com
englishdomain.com -> symlink to maindomain.com
frenchdomain.com - > symlink to maindomain.com/fr
</code></pre>
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] | So I have 2 URLs that basically link to the main url using a symlink
```
maindomain.com
englishdomain.com -> symlink to maindomain.com
frenchdomain.com - > symlink to maindomain.com/fr
```
When someone actually lands on maindomain.com/index.php it will automatically redirect them to the appropriate symlink ... | According to <http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php> the `header('Location: http://www.example.com/')` command will send a 302 redirect to the client.
You should use a 301 redirect if you want to 'transfer' the SEO Gold on `example1.com` to `example2.com`. |
3,219 | <p>The typical design for a paging panels (of search engines and the like) looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>Previous 11 12 [13] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
</code></pre>
<p>But if you read that you would expect (if not educated by search engines) that "Next" will lead to the successor of page "20" and not of "13". If we... | [
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] | The typical design for a paging panels (of search engines and the like) looks like this:
```
Previous 11 12 [13] 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
```
But if you read that you would expect (if not educated by search engines) that "Next" will lead to the successor of page "20" and not of "13". If we need "Previous" and "Next... | I see where you're coming from but would argue that the existing design pattern still makes more sense:
* It's established; who has not seen it?
* Previous/Next are the most important elements; aside from some cases (e.g. results sorted alphabetically) it makes little sense to jump to some page number
* Being the most... |
3,285 | <p>I have a background that has a top and bottom gradient and I want it to show on a container layer. The problem is the bottom gradient since it has to appear at the very end of the container div. Any ideas? Here's some example code & imgur photo:</p>
<pre><code><style>
.container{background: #fff url(i... | [
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] | I have a background that has a top and bottom gradient and I want it to show on a container layer. The problem is the bottom gradient since it has to appear at the very end of the container div. Any ideas? Here's some example code & imgur photo:
```
<style>
.container{background: #fff url(images/bg.png) repeat-x;}... | You could try something like:
```
<style>
.container{background: #fff url(images/bg_bottom_gradient.png) repeat-x;}
.subcontainer{margin: 0 auto;background-image:url(images/bg_top_gradient.png);background-repeat: repeat-x;}
</style>
<div class="container">
<div class="subcontainer">
<div id="content"... |
3,331 | <p>Using a redirect statement in my htaccess file, people who type the following into the address bar...</p>
<pre><code>http://example.com/index.php
</code></pre>
<p>...are redirected to...</p>
<pre><code>http://example.com/
</code></pre>
<p>I also have a noindex, nofollow meta tag on all my website's pages.</p>
<... | [
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] | Using a redirect statement in my htaccess file, people who type the following into the address bar...
```
http://example.com/index.php
```
...are redirected to...
```
http://example.com/
```
I also have a noindex, nofollow meta tag on all my website's pages.
My question is, given that redirect behavior and meta ... | If you redirect to "/" but only allow "/index.php" to be indexed then nothing will be indexed. To you "/" and "/index.php" are the same page. But to the search engines they are two separate URLs. By blocking "/", which is the only page users will apparently see, you are blocking your whole website.
If you want to have... |
3,346 | <p>Considering the needs of screen readers, browser spell-checking, search engines, etc. how should non-human-language text be marked up in HTML?</p>
<p>Should it be wrapped in a particular tag?<br>
Is there a standard special <code>lang</code> attribute for the enclosing tag (eg. <code>""</code>)?</p>
<p>Note that w... | [
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] | Considering the needs of screen readers, browser spell-checking, search engines, etc. how should non-human-language text be marked up in HTML?
Should it be wrapped in a particular tag?
Is there a standard special `lang` attribute for the enclosing tag (eg. `""`)?
Note that we may wish to mark up a form input as ac... | This depends on the actual content (there is an important difference between, e.g., a hash and ASCII art) and the context (editable vs. presented content). So after choosing the appropriate element (and possibly WAI-ARIA), HTML5 offers the following options:
* The language tag `zxx` ([IETF BCP 47](http://tools.ietf.or... |
3,377 | <p>Where can i find really large databases .sql files with 100's MB or a few GB text, 10.000.000 plus rows of text so I can test my sphinx search engine indexing</p>
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] | Where can i find really large databases .sql files with 100's MB or a few GB text, 10.000.000 plus rows of text so I can test my sphinx search engine indexing | If you really want to spend that kind of time downloading, here's a link to the [Wikipedia dumps](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download) - "WARNING: 6.07 GB compressed, approximately 27 GB uncompressed as of 2010-09-20" (and you'll still have *only* 3,428,557 articles)
Here's a quick PHP script that... |
3,487 | <p>have a wordpress website on my main domain</p>
<p>For the wordpress website i have this in my .htaccess file</p>
<pre><code># BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule&... | [
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] | have a wordpress website on my main domain
For the wordpress website i have this in my .htaccess file
```
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
```
I just... | Replace `&` with just `&` (it works here). If there are still troubles you may want to add `[L]` to the end (it means that if it matches processing of rules should stop) just in case there is a conflict. Finally check your set-up allows trailing slashes. |
3,504 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20838/how-to-find-web-hosting-that-meets-my-requirements">How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm looking for new personal hosting after using Dreamhost for ... | [
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"text": "<h2>HostMonster</h2>\n\n<p>they have worked great for me over the last few years, great support and all the featur... | 2010/10/04 | [
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] | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20838/how-to-find-web-hosting-that-meets-my-requirements)
>
>
>
I'm looking for new personal hosting after using Dreamhost for a while. I'm looking for hosting which has the foll... | HostMonster
-----------
they have worked great for me over the last few years, great support and all the features you need.
Lunarpages is another host I use that works great and I believe they have all those features. |
3,524 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20838/how-to-find-web-hosting-that-meets-my-requirements">How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I am looking to find a web hosting provider that provides ASP.N... | [
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> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/20838/how-to-find-web-hosting-that-meets-my-requirements)
>
>
>
I am looking to find a web hosting provider that provides ASP.NET and PHP hosting. The purpose is pretty much just... | I think that <http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?ci=9009#details> is a good source for what Godaddy is currently hosting. However, I am fairly certain that they do not allow for URL Rewrite. I know they didn't 2 months ago.
Also, GoDaddy just turned on .NET 4.0 and MVC 2 support. It usually takes them 8+ ... |
3,569 | <p>I found preloader for flash|swf files, a preloader and a lazy loader for images. But nothing for the complete webpage.</p>
<p>Some sites, like mine, have big header and footer. I need some preloader for this. Please suggest.</p>
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] | I found preloader for flash|swf files, a preloader and a lazy loader for images. But nothing for the complete webpage.
Some sites, like mine, have big header and footer. I need some preloader for this. Please suggest. | Want to preload a complete web page? Boy, do I have the *perfect* solution for you!
Firefox supports [link prefetching](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching), and it's part of HTML 5, meaning more browsers will support it in the months ahead.
Just stick something like this in the `<head>` section of your HTM... |
3,675 | <p>I need to track number of visits of my publication, but site allows only to insert images, and no javascript.</p>
<p>I would like to insert white 1x1 pixel image.</p>
<p>Are the any internet services which provide such functionality and count number of visits via such approach?</p>
<p>P.S. I am not sure that this... | [
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] | I need to track number of visits of my publication, but site allows only to insert images, and no javascript.
I would like to insert white 1x1 pixel image.
Are the any internet services which provide such functionality and count number of visits via such approach?
P.S. I am not sure that this site is correct place t... | Ultimately, Google Analytics does exactly the same thing, however, the image URL is created using Javascript.
If you really, really wanted to use Google Analytics for your site, (albeit with limited functionality) you might take a look at [Troubleshooting The Tracking Code](http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/t... |
3,679 | <p>I have a unusual set up with a website. Unfortunately I cannot serve the website source from the root domain i.e.</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com
</code></pre>
<p>I've been forced to redirect to a subdirectory to display the website content when the root URL is requested e.g.</p>
<pre><code>http://www.examp... | [
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] | I have a unusual set up with a website. Unfortunately I cannot serve the website source from the root domain i.e.
```
http://www.example.com
```
I've been forced to redirect to a subdirectory to display the website content when the root URL is requested e.g.
```
http://www.example.com
```
Has a 301 redirect to:
... | Historically, I've maintained many MediaWiki implementations where this is the case (i.e. `^/wiki/`) and, after switching to a `^/` rewrite configuration, I have not noticed any ranking differences which I would attribute to the change in URI scheme - if it's applied uniformly I wouldn't worry about it. |
3,712 | <p>I noticed recently that Google is not caching all of the pages on my website. Upon using the Google webmaster diagnostic tool, I realized that some of my pages were being restricted by entries in my robots.txt file.</p>
<p>I know some people may frown on the use of wild cards etc, but my web framework generates dyn... | [
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"text": "<p>See you answered your own question, but as you point out, \"Disallow: /<em>*</em>?\" is the source of your prob... | 2010/10/11 | [
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] | I noticed recently that Google is not caching all of the pages on my website. Upon using the Google webmaster diagnostic tool, I realized that some of my pages were being restricted by entries in my robots.txt file.
I know some people may frown on the use of wild cards etc, but my web framework generates dynamic URLs ... | See you answered your own question, but as you point out, "Disallow: /*\**?" is the source of your problems. The "*\**" is a regex, or regular express pattern, which basically means any STRING of text of ANY length, "*\**?" means the same thing, but limits the pattern to the SHORTEST possible answer, and in the case of... |
3,724 | <p>I am trying to redirect old URLS to the new URLS, the old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs.</p>
<p>When I try to redirect the old URL, it is not redirecting correctly and I get 404 errors. I am unsure if the SEO rewrite is the cause of the other rewrite condition failing. </p>
... | [
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] | I am trying to redirect old URLS to the new URLS, the old site used variables in the URL but the new site uses SEO friendly URLs.
When I try to redirect the old URL, it is not redirecting correctly and I get 404 errors. I am unsure if the SEO rewrite is the cause of the other rewrite condition failing.
```
Options +... | The problem I found was that the URL is split between the file and the variables as would be expected.
So everything after the `?` is taken as a query string.
You need to add a condition to check the query string (you can include Regular Expressions)
```
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^viewtest&id=56&sat=9&mainsat=1&st... |
3,777 | <p>Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all.</p>
<p>The title of my "Website" says:</p>
<pre><code> <title>Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here</title>
</code></pre>
<p>Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when ... | [
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] | Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all.
The title of my "Website" says:
```
<title>Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here</title>
```
Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term **buy used cars... | This won't do what you hope it will do. The redirect will effectively tell Google that URL no longer exists and has moved to your new URL. Plus since the new domain also won't have any links pointing to it it won't transfer any link love over either. The only positive it will have is you can use it as a shorter and mor... |
3,887 | <p>Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently? </p>
<p>All lowercase or mixed case? Example:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/
</code></pre>
<p>OR</p>
<pre><code>http://www.mysite.com/what-is-my-site/
</code></pre>
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] | Does anybody know what the best SEO practice and most effective format for URLs is currently?
All lowercase or mixed case? Example:
```
http://www.mysite.com/What-is-My-Site/
```
OR
```
http://www.mysite.com/what-is-my-site/
``` | Search engines don't care about case.
Rather than navel gazing about whether you should use mixed case or all lower, work on real search engine optimization, which is creating content that give people a reason to visit your site. |
3,907 | <p>Let's say I have the below hyperlink:</p>
<pre><code><a href="http://www.example.com" title="title text">link link</a>
</code></pre>
<p>It is good SEO practice to ensure that the title text is <strong>exactly</strong> the same link text? I.e. I would change the above link to:</p>
<pre><code><a href... | [
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```
<a href="http://www.example.com" title="title text">link link</a>
```
It is good SEO practice to ensure that the title text is **exactly** the same link text? I.e. I would change the above link to:
```
<a href="http://www.example.com" title="title text">title text</a>
```
... | I use the title tag as a tool tip with additional information for the user than just the anchor text. I am not sure if title being identical to anchor text has any search engine benefits, I doubt it though.
If the tooltip is the same as the anchor text, it will be an minor annoyance for the user who is probably expect... |
3,910 | <p>Each time someone clicks on a page like</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/crazy.cgi?input=silly+banana
</code></pre>
<p>where the "silly banana" bit represents some arbitrary user input which changes each time, I get yet another hit from the Adsense bot, almost immediately afterwards. And yet the page's conten... | [
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"text": "<p>Google AdSense needs to know the content of your page to display the most relevant ads. In your case, it... | 2010/10/16 | [
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] | Each time someone clicks on a page like
```
http://www.example.com/crazy.cgi?input=silly+banana
```
where the "silly banana" bit represents some arbitrary user input which changes each time, I get yet another hit from the Adsense bot, almost immediately afterwards. And yet the page's contents don't vary much dependi... | Along with data on your website, AdSense also usually indexes/checks the cookie listing the topics of sites your visitors have been to, so even with the changing queries, Google still can fallback to the statistics from the network and your visitors to make an educated guess as to what should be shown.
The PSA ads typ... |
3,923 | <p>My HTML page :
<a href="http://www.faressoft.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.faressoft.com</a></p>
<pre><code><meta name="description" content="فارس سوفت الاسم الرائد في عالم البرمجيات العربية" />
</code></pre>
<p>When I search for my site name "فارس سوفت" using google, the description contains my description... | [
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<http://www.faressoft.com>
```
<meta name="description" content="فارس سوفت الاسم الرائد في عالم البرمجيات العربية" />
```
When I search for my site name "فارس سوفت" using google, the description contains my description and the error message of my contact form.
why ? | Your contact form is at the beginning of your page.
Try putting some optimized text before your contact form and you are done.
The "description" meta tag isn't always what google will put in the search result's description. |
3,987 | <p>is there any way to show an image for RSS feess in my wordpress page...
it os because currently defaul wordpress RSS feeds will only show a text of other feeds from other site..how can i make my site show a thumb image of rss feeds of th other sites..below are example of the rss feeds on my site. plizzz help me.i re... | [
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"text": "<p>Your feed is hacked. This is not programming related, go ask on server fault.\nSee <a href=\"http://wordpres... | 2010/10/17 | [
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it os because currently defaul wordpress RSS feeds will only show a text of other feeds from other site..how can i make my site show a thumb image of rss feeds of th other sites..below are example of the rss feeds on my site. plizzz help me.i reall... | Yes, you can "hook" into the RSS feed and call 1 attachment (thumbmail)
Add this line to your functions.php file...
This example will add 3 thumbs, but simply change the "numberposts" to your desired amount...
```
/* Adding 3 thumbs to the top of the post on RSS */
function rss_custom_format($content) {
//pr... |
4,105 | <p>Simple question</p>
<p>What is better:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456
</code></pre>
<p>As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the la... | [
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] | Simple question
What is better:
```
http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html
```
or
```
http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456
```
As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my SEO knowledge might be a little off. Also the last one seems to be easier and cleaner to implement on my... | The first one is preferred. This is because it is interpreted as document, whereas the second one is interpreted as document up to product, and as query arguments later on. So search-engine wise, there is no difference between
```
http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456
```
and
```
http://www.example.com/pr... |
4,175 | <p>Simple question, I'm asking just to make sure.</p>
<p>A Google sitemap generator generated a sitemap.txt fle with links written like this:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.domain.com/category.htm?name=some-name&amp;cat_id=8
</code></pre>
<p>is it correct to use the <code>&amp;</code> in these links in place of t... | [
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A Google sitemap generator generated a sitemap.txt fle with links written like this:
```
http://www.domain.com/category.htm?name=some-name&cat_id=8
```
is it correct to use the `&` in these links in place of the `&` or it's just an error made by the sitemap gen... | That is correct. It is the HTML entity for an ampersand (`&`) and is the proper character representation of it in a properly encoded URL. Ampersands (`&`) and well as `<` and `>` are special characters in XML and HTML and need to be displayed using their special character entities. |
4,185 | <p>We're seeing some pages that exist in our <code>sitemap.xml</code> but are inexplicably missing from Google's public search index. </p>
<p>You can't download <a href="https://superuser.com/sitemap.xml">https://superuser.com/sitemap.xml</a> -- we protect this file because there have been issues with it in the past -... | [
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"text": "<p>Google doesn't make any offer or guarantee that pages in a sitemap will be indexed.</p>\n\n<p>My experience h... | 2010/10/21 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4185",
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You can't download <https://superuser.com/sitemap.xml> -- we protect this file because there have been issues with it in the past -- but googlebot can. We have verified via Google Webmaster Tools th... | It looks like Google was having some technical crawl problems this week, that sound *remarkably* like what we were experiencing:
<http://searchengineland.com/is-google-broken-sites-big-small-seeing-indexing-problems-53701>
>
> No one seems to be immune from a Google indexing problem that has many site owners baffled... |
4,211 | <p>I would like to generate a single continuous tone (eg. a sine wave) from a web page with the ability to interactively control the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>start/stop sound</li>
<li>change pitch</li>
<li>change volume</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm after a solution that is reasonably likely to work on a wide variety of hardware,... | [
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"text": "<p>You could try using the <code><audio></code> tag and loop it using the <code>onended</code>attribute.... | 2010/10/21 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4211",
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] | I would like to generate a single continuous tone (eg. a sine wave) from a web page with the ability to interactively control the following:
* start/stop sound
* change pitch
* change volume
I'm after a solution that is reasonably likely to work on a wide variety of hardware, browsers and connections; something as si... | You could try using the `<audio>` tag and loop it using the `onended`attribute. I'm not sure about the cross-platform compatibility of this solution, but it has to be better than Flash, which won't work on the iPad, iPhone or many other mobile devices.
Then you just need a server-side script to generate small audio cl... |
4,234 | <p>Lets take this site, the path is</p>
<pre><code>/questions/Question-ID/title
</code></pre>
<p>If a user writes the below it still works. On my site I was wondering if i should redirect the to the new url or let it be? what error code should i use? 302? 303?</p>
<pre><code>/questions/Question-ID
</code></pre>
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] | Lets take this site, the path is
```
/questions/Question-ID/title
```
If a user writes the below it still works. On my site I was wondering if i should redirect the to the new url or let it be? what error code should i use? 302? 303?
```
/questions/Question-ID
``` | If you redirect use a 301 as you want the redirect to be permanent.
As far as should you redirect? I don't think it's necessary. Just [use canonical URLs](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html) so the search engines know which URL is the primary URL. I recommend having it be th... |
4,237 | <p>(Same issue as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987754/how-to-diagnose-htaccess-speed-issues-via-rewritelog">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987754/how-to-diagnose-htaccess-speed-issues-via-rewritelog</a> but more clearly explained below)</p>
<p>We have a site which has scripts like this:</p>
<pr... | [
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] | (Same issue as <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987754/how-to-diagnose-htaccess-speed-issues-via-rewritelog> but more clearly explained below)
We have a site which has scripts like this:
```
http://www.oursite.com/abcd/somescript.php
```
We also have URL rewritten pages like this:
```
http://www.oursite.com/a... | Whew, that's one hefty `.htaccess`! One thing you may not be aware of is that the `[L]` flag doesn't completely stop processing on htaccess rules. Instead, it stops there and makes a new request for the rewritten URL - which starts matching the rules from the beginning again. [See here](http://www.easymodrewrite.com/no... |
4,279 | <p>I'm looking for a way to convert this type of URL:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/dl/F5EGD6
</code></pre>
<p>Into <code>http://www.example.com/dl/files/my_file.zip</code> using a PHP page to request the URL from the DB with <code>F5EGD6</code>. I tried ith this htaccess file :</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine ... | [
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] | I'm looking for a way to convert this type of URL:
```
http://www.example.com/dl/F5EGD6
```
Into `http://www.example.com/dl/files/my_file.zip` using a PHP page to request the URL from the DB with `F5EGD6`. I tried ith this htaccess file :
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (*)$ /dl.php [QSA]
```
But it doesn't work... | It's the same concept except you need to use software capable of handling logins. Or, you can disable authentication for that user agent during testing. |
4,285 | <p>I was asked by a client to insert the Google Analytics code in his joomla page. No problem, I said, peace of cake.</p>
<p>Little did I know that it is going to be such a struggle.</p>
<p>First of all, I downloaded the active template and searched through code and couldn't find any HTML except about 20 <code>index.... | [
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"text": "<p>Have a look at the <a href=\"http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/site-analytics/4300\" rel=... | 2010/10/23 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4285",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/2276/"
] | I was asked by a client to insert the Google Analytics code in his joomla page. No problem, I said, peace of cake.
Little did I know that it is going to be such a struggle.
First of all, I downloaded the active template and searched through code and couldn't find any HTML except about 20 `index.html` pages with only:... | Have a look at the [J!Analytics](http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/site-analytics/4300) plug-in (to reverse-engineer it ... or simply install it) |
4,317 | <p>I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html/css/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear.</p>
<p>The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of my son (still not arrived :)). I intend to put some pictures on it, as well as some tips for a sustainable futu... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>First - congratulations on your son, I have my first 5-month-old myself and it's a wonderful (but busy and ... | 2010/10/24 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4317",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/2648/"
] | I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html/css/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear.
The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of my son (still not arrived :)). I intend to put some pictures on it, as well as some tips for a sustainable future. In add... | First - congratulations on your son, I have my first 5-month-old myself and it's a wonderful (but busy and tired) time of my life.
The issue with what you've got there is that you site is using `<frame>`, which is quite inflexible, and frankly outdated - even though you've actually done a very good job of getting them... |
4,369 | <p>I want a list of my site pages which has been viewed in any country.
I could not find such option in analytics.
How to do that.
So that i can know the people who view certain pages.
so that i can display content according to that.</p>
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"text": "<p>The best way is to go to Content > Top Content (or content drilldown of whatever metric is best for the pag... | 2010/10/25 | [
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] | I want a list of my site pages which has been viewed in any country.
I could not find such option in analytics.
How to do that.
So that i can know the people who view certain pages.
so that i can display content according to that. | The best way is to go to Content > Top Content (or content drilldown of whatever metric is best for the pages you wish to look at). Click the page you are interested in.
Then underneath "This page was viewed..." you will see a series of dropdown menus. Click the last one to see various metrics you can filter by. Click... |
4,404 | <p>I tried targeting the the alt attribute in css. My solution worked in Firefox/Mozilla, but fails in Safari-Chrome/Webkit. Is there anything wrong with styling an alt tag? If not, how do you suppose I troubleshoot for Webkit.</p>
<p><em>Here's an example:</em></p>
<p><strong>CSS</strong></p>
<pre><code>img#logo[al... | [
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] | I tried targeting the the alt attribute in css. My solution worked in Firefox/Mozilla, but fails in Safari-Chrome/Webkit. Is there anything wrong with styling an alt tag? If not, how do you suppose I troubleshoot for Webkit.
*Here's an example:*
**CSS**
```
img#logo[alt="Site Title"] { color: #999; font-size: 2em; }... | I tried it and it works perfectly for me. Note that the `color` and `font-size` properties won't have any effect in Chrome, since no text gets displayed. (Firefox displays the alt text if the image cannot be found.) Using the width property, for example, shows that it works fine. I'll post my code below for you to see.... |
4,504 | <p>In my htaccess file, i am using below lines </p>
<pre><code>Options All -Indexes
Errordocument 403 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 401 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 403 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 404 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 500 http://article-stack.com/
<files .hta... | [
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"text": "<p>If you're visiting the domain you want to buy, and it's hosting ads. IMMEDIATELY STOP VISITING IT. Domain squatters ... | 2010/10/28 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4504",
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/2026/"
] | In my htaccess file, i am using below lines
```
Options All -Indexes
Errordocument 403 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 401 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 403 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 404 http://article-stack.com/
ErrorDocument 500 http://article-stack.com/
<files .htaccess>
order allo... | If you're visiting the domain you want to buy, and it's hosting ads. IMMEDIATELY STOP VISITING IT. Domain squatters are able to determine value based on traffic. If the site is getting zero traffic and you come in and say you want to build a website about your pet cat on that domain, odds are good they'd be willing to ... |
4,506 | <p>I read somewhere about hot linking of images. Preventing image hot linking helps to stop bandwidth theft from your site. Would it work for a PHP file?</p>
<p>In my case, I am using a PHP file to generate thumbnails from an image. I don't want others to refer this PHP file from their site.</p>
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"text": "<p>One programmatic way is to check the referrer to make sure the request came from your site:</p>\n<pre class=\"lang-p... | 2010/10/28 | [
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] | I read somewhere about hot linking of images. Preventing image hot linking helps to stop bandwidth theft from your site. Would it work for a PHP file?
In my case, I am using a PHP file to generate thumbnails from an image. I don't want others to refer this PHP file from their site. | One programmatic way is to check the referrer to make sure the request came from your site:
```php
<?php
$yoursite = "yoursite.com"; //Your site url without http://
$yoursite2 = "www.yoursite.com"; //Type your domain with www. this time
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
//Check if browser sends re... |
4,541 | <p>I have four li's and I want to style the 4th li not to have the background image. How do I accomplish this without having to insert a spam tag? </p>
<pre><code>#get-help ul.help-menu li {
color: #656565;
background:url("/ContentTemplates/assets/images/backgrounds/nav-brdr.png")
no-repeat scroll 50% 100% tran... | [
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] | I have four li's and I want to style the 4th li not to have the background image. How do I accomplish this without having to insert a spam tag?
```
#get-help ul.help-menu li {
color: #656565;
background:url("/ContentTemplates/assets/images/backgrounds/nav-brdr.png")
no-repeat scroll 50% 100% transparent;
width:... | Get [Miro Video Converter](http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/) and use it to convert your videos to Theora, WebM or MP4s and they will work across all browsers. Furthermore, you may wish to read [this article](http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/html5-audio-and-video-what-you-must-know/) for a crash c... |
4,546 | <p>The keywords for our site comprises of words which are google stop words</p>
<p>namely:</p>
<pre><code>thank you
</code></pre>
<p>Is it better to write this as: </p>
<pre><code>thank-you
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre><code>thankyou
</code></pre>
<p>or does it make any difference?</p>
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"text": "<p>Google is smart enough to know that \"thank-you\" and \"thankyou\" both mean \"thank you\". So trying to obfus... | 2010/10/28 | [
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
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] | The keywords for our site comprises of words which are google stop words
namely:
```
thank you
```
Is it better to write this as:
```
thank-you
```
or
```
thankyou
```
or does it make any difference? | Google is smart enough to know that "thank-you" and "thankyou" both mean "thank you". So trying to obfuscate it would be pointless.
Stop words are basically so common that trying to rank pages for them are pretty pointless. I wouldn't be optimistic about attaining rankings for them directly. Instead I would focus on a... |
4,557 | <p>I am using following htaccess code to stop hot linking my image files</p>
<pre><code>Options +FollowSymlinks
Options +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?article-stack.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
ReWriteRule .*.(png|gif|jpg)$ - [N,F,L]
</code></pre>
<p>S... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I think you're missing an escape for the <code>.</code> in your domain name:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Options +Follo... | 2010/10/28 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4557",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/2026/"
] | I am using following htaccess code to stop hot linking my image files
```
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?article-stack.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
ReWriteRule .*.(png|gif|jpg)$ - [N,F,L]
```
Still the imge of my site a... | I think you're missing an escape for the `.` in your domain name:
```
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?article-stack\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
ReWriteRule .*.(png|gif|jpg)$ - [N,F,L]
``` |
4,644 | <ol>
<li><p>Can other websites on your shared host affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (same IP address as yours, potentially malicious/low-trust content)</p></li>
<li><p>Can other websites on your IP class affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (different actual IP, malicious/low-trust c... | [
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"text": "<p>No. Thousands of websites can be on one IP Address it naturally would not make sense to penalize thousands of... | 2010/10/29 | [
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] | 1. Can other websites on your shared host affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (same IP address as yours, potentially malicious/low-trust content)
2. Can other websites on your IP class affect the rank of your website in the Google index? (different actual IP, malicious/low-trust content)
Clarification... | >
> Is your IP address neighborhood
> important for SEO?
>
>
>
It's mentioned in [US Patent Application #20050071741 "Information retrieval based on historical data"](http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050071741%22.... |
4,665 | <p>When users come directly to <code>domain.com</code> or <code>www.domain.com</code>, I am redirecting them to <code>shop.domain.com</code> via this .htaccess rewrite:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://shop.d... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You can override the referrer that Google Analytics is using, read more in the documentation for <a href=\"http:/... | 2010/10/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4665",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/1012/"
] | When users come directly to `domain.com` or `www.domain.com`, I am redirecting them to `shop.domain.com` via this .htaccess rewrite:
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://shop.domain.com/ [R=301,L]
```
The content served b... | You can override the referrer that Google Analytics is using, read more in the documentation for [\_setReferrerOverride](http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiCampaignTracking.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._setReferrerOverride).
To somehow provide this correct referrer, you need to pass it via the 301 redirec... |
4,674 | <p>I use Google site search in a IFrame for my sites search engine. When I search for something in Chrome/FireFox "Flight" I get the results page. When I do the same search in IE8 I get 404 error. </p>
<p>Site: www.everydayfiction.com
Search box is on the right hand side in the sidebar. </p>
<p>The strange thing is t... | [
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"text": "<p>There is A LOT of information out there about SEO, and it can be a bit intimidating at first.</p>\n\n<p>So I sugg... | 2010/10/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4674",
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] | I use Google site search in a IFrame for my sites search engine. When I search for something in Chrome/FireFox "Flight" I get the results page. When I do the same search in IE8 I get 404 error.
Site: www.everydayfiction.com
Search box is on the right hand side in the sidebar.
The strange thing is that in IE8 when I... | There actually is very little to SEO contrary to what many will have you believe. SEO is mostly:
* quality content
* usability
* accessibility
* semantic markup
If your site is built with the four principles in mind your site will be optimized for the search engines. If you have to go back and "SEO your website" then... |
4,795 | <p>A discussion in the warrior-forum made me wonder if google might perceive link decoration as an attempt to deceive the visitors..</p>
<p>The issue being if you style your links to show like normal text.</p>
<p>for example </p>
<pre><code>body{color:black;}
a{text-decoration:none;color:black;}
</code></pre>
<p>In... | [
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"text": "<p>You can exclude your own IP. You can add it under <a href=\"https://www.google.com/analytics/settings/filter_... | 2010/11/01 | [
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] | A discussion in the warrior-forum made me wonder if google might perceive link decoration as an attempt to deceive the visitors..
The issue being if you style your links to show like normal text.
for example
```
body{color:black;}
a{text-decoration:none;color:black;}
```
In my eyes it would seem illogical for goo... | Google has an article about [How do I exclude my internal traffic from reports?](http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55481). |
4,817 | <p>I am getting lots of traffic from Facebook, but the referrer looks like</p>
<pre><code>http://www.facebook.com/l.php?url=http://www.example.com/mypage.html
</code></pre>
<p>I've also had this problem before with another page. Again with the referral links from Facebook not showing what post is linking to my site. ... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>The redirect behavior is FaceBook acting as <em>intended</em> - you could try searching within the FaceBook ap... | 2010/11/02 | [
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
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] | I am getting lots of traffic from Facebook, but the referrer looks like
```
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?url=http://www.example.com/mypage.html
```
I've also had this problem before with another page. Again with the referral links from Facebook not showing what post is linking to my site.
Is there any way to find... | The redirect behavior is FaceBook acting as *intended* - you could try searching within the FaceBook application for the link to your content ~~or you could run a search to the effect of [site:facebook.com link:example.com](http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afacebook.com+link%3Aexample.com)~~ but, as FaceBook privac... |
4,841 | <p>I need to change this so that one file in wp-admin is not forced through https:</p>
<pre><code># add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/ [R=301,L]
</code></pre>
<p>This forces all requests to /wp-admin through SSL but it is breaking a... | [
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```
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/ [R=301,L]
```
This forces all requests to /wp-admin through SSL but it is breaking a wordpress plugin which ne... | >
> This forces all requests to `/wp-admin` through SSL...
>
>
>
Actually, no it's not. As the code-comment states, it simply "adds a trailing slash to `/wp-admin`". It only targets URLs that *end in* `/wp-admin`, so it already excludes the URL `wp-admin/admin-ajax.php`. There is nothing more you need to do to the... |
4,930 | <p>I'm currently building a website, and the specifications, which I am asked to look at with a critical eye, say that I should use url like these for a store locator page:</p>
<p>www.mysite.com/store.html <--this page is a store listing
www.mysite.com/store/paris.html <-- this is a page for the store in Paris</... | [
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www.mysite.com/store.html <--this page is a store listing
www.mysite.com/store/paris.html <-- this is a page for the store in Paris
I think I should... | I understand you wanna make friendly URLs. This is good.
My preferred approach is face a website like a directories structure. This gives more semantic, and makes easier to power users to predict listing directories.
In your case:
```
www.mysite.com/ #root
www.mysite.com/stores/ #stores listing
ww... |
4,946 | <p>Which one is better for increasing PageRank:</p>
<ol>
<li>Hosting multiple websites of different languages and interlink them</li>
<li>Host single website and create multiple language pages and interlink them</li>
</ol>
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1. Hosting multiple websites of different languages and interlink them
2. Host single website and create multiple language pages and interlink them | Good question.
If it is a duplicated content, ie, same content, but in another language, I think you should build just one domain, and use a
```
www.domain.com/en/pageName.html
www.domain.com/fr/pageName.html
```
structure.
However, if the content changes substantially according to locale, I think it is better use... |
4,985 | <p>currently in order to access statistics on my site I access this link:</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=awstatsconffile.org
</code></pre>
<p>all is working fine, but what I want to achieve is simply this:</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com/stats/
</code></pre>
<p>I've created the "sites" dire... | [
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```
www.example.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=awstatsconffile.org
```
all is working fine, but what I want to achieve is simply this:
```
www.example.com/stats/
```
I've created the "sites" directory and inside I've created the .htaccess file ... | Add a link to your personal blog from your user profile - this link will be marked up with the "me" relationship and should contribute to an improved ranking for your personal site when people search for information about you.
It wouldn't hurt to develop other links to your personal site, as well - consider creating a... |
5,064 | <p>I have a footer which is set to 100% width, but if i size the window smaller so a horizontal scrollbar appears, using the scrollbar shows whitespace to the right of the footer ... its not spanned 100% of the page, just the viewport.</p>
<pre><code><!doctype html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head... | [
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```
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" class="no-js">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<... | it's because the body tag has always 100% width of the window as default. In your case it means, that your #container tag has also 100% width of the body tag (the window), and so does also your #footer. The DIV #body is broader than the body, which will not grow automatically if an element is broader than itself. You c... |
5,075 | <p>As per Yahoo's much-ballyhooed <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires">Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Site</a>, we serve up static content from a CDN using far-future cache expiration headers. Of course, we need to occasionally update these "static" files, so we currently add an infi... | [
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>
> Most proxies, most notably Squid up through version 3.0, do not cache resources with a "?" in their URL even if a `Cac... |
5,175 | <p>What are effective CAPTCHA solutions that can have localized description, and <strong>CAPTCHA text <em>itself</em></strong> is either language-neutral, or can be localized (for Polish language)? It is to be used to protect a kind of contact form.</p>
<p>reCAPTCHA (for example) <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/... | [
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reCAPTCHA (for example) [allows i18n of the widget](http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/do... | It is not too difficult to roll your own basic CAPTCHA, or there are numerous tutorials and scripts out of the web.
I've used a simple one in PHP based on random letters/numbers, feel free to take and modify for your purpose:
```
// first generate random $string
$pa_captcha_salt = 'random stuff';
$hash = md5( $strin... |
5,176 | <p>I've been told it is bad practice to have keywords in the meta tags that do not appear in the page content. In this context, does text in the title attribute count as content?</p>
<p>For example if I had:</p>
<pre><code><meta name="keywords" content="apples">
</code></pre>
<p>And the word "apples" does not ... | [
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For example if I had:
```
<meta name="keywords" content="apples">
```
And the word "apples" does not appear anywhere on the page, but I also... | Okay, well anything in Meta Keywords is essentially ignored by Google at this point. So, while making sure you're not keyword spamming there is a good thing - I wouldn't stress about it.
As for text in a link title, Google doesn't process that either.
<http://maileohye.com/title-name-attributes-html-anchors/>
In gen... |
5,177 | <p>Do you know a Firefox addon that adds position number to Google/Yahoo results?</p>
<p>When I do SEO report for <code>www.some-site.example</code> by keyphrase "some-site" I usually show results in blocks of 100 results per page. Then using browser find box I search for <code>some-site.example</code>, if found in pa... | [
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When I do SEO report for `www.some-site.example` by keyphrase "some-site" I usually show results in blocks of 100 results per page. Then using browser find box I search for `some-site.example`, if found in page I see its position, but **I h... | Try using this GreaseMonkey script and see if it works for you.
<http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10687> |
5,233 | <p>I came across a website today that uses Drupal. When looking at their <a href="http://eurocross.nl/en/contact" rel="nofollow">contact page</a> I noticed it's build up in a pretty complex way (columns, consistent styles, icons next to phone numbers). In theory it could be possible for a user (not the webdesigner) to ... | [
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However, taking a quick look at the [URI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier) supplied, I noticed the following [CSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets) references:
```
<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/sites/all/modules/cck... |
5,262 | <p>If I have a page which I want to allow Google to crawl to find links but not display in search results, is there any way to do that?</p>
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```
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />
```
This means for google what you've been searching for. |
5,265 | <p>I have recently analysed my website with pagespeed addon on firebug. It suggested me to set expiration on CSS, JS and image files.</p>
<p>I am wondering how do i do this?</p>
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I am wondering how do i do this? | Update your Apache configuration to include the directives below as part of your [core configuration](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/configuring.html):
```
#
# associate .js with "text/javascript" type (if not present in mime.conf)
#
AddType text/javascript .js
#
# configure mod_expires
#
# URL: http://httpd.ap... |
5,268 | <p>I've got a google webmasters tool account with a website I help look after, they've employed the services of an SEO/SEM company* who have asked to add google/microsoft/yahoo webmasters tools accounts</p>
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I don't want to give them access to my account (its tied in with other websites I have on webmasters tools) so my ques... | Update your Apache configuration to include the directives below as part of your [core configuration](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/configuring.html):
```
#
# associate .js with "text/javascript" type (if not present in mime.conf)
#
AddType text/javascript .js
#
# configure mod_expires
#
# URL: http://httpd.ap... |
5,301 | <p>Let me just say that doing this sort of thing with .htaccess files has never been a strong point for me. Let's say that I have a directory in my web root: /dir/data
Within that directory let's say that I have a file called data.txt
I need to completely restrict access to data.txt (or the whole data directory). The o... | [
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Within that directory let's say that I have a file called data.txt
I need to completely restrict access to data.txt (or the whole data directory). The only... | You could deny all text file access...
```
<Files *.txt>
Order deny,allow
Deny from All
</Files>
``` |
5,328 | <p>I'm currently working on a new landing page for this site. I want the landing page to replace the existing front page of the site. However I don't want to lose the Page Rank of the current front page - so I plan to insert a JavaScript that immediately redirects from the front page to the new landing page.</p>
<p>Is... | [
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Is this solu... | Do not use a JavaScript redirect. That's SEO suicide. Search engines don't handle JavaScript well if they handle it at all. JavaScript redirects also don't use HTTP headers that tell the search engines your page has permanently moved and no association is made between the old homepage and the new one. Not to mention an... |
5,349 | <p>I have a WordPress installation that is not redirecting URLs not starting with <code>www</code>.</p>
<p>Example: <code>http://example.com/dir/</code> doesn't send to <code>http://www.example.com/dir/</code> instead goes to <code>http://example.com/</code>.</p>
<p>How do I change the <em>.htaccess</em> below to alw... | [
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Example: `http://example.com/dir/` doesn't send to `http://www.example.com/dir/` instead goes to `http://example.com/`.
How do I change the *.htaccess* below to always redirect to the page either using `www` or not?
```
# BEGIN Wor... | This snippet will force the `www` to always be in thew URL. I don't know if that helps you or not:
```
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.|$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
``` |
5,351 | <p>I currently have a <em>.htaccess</em> file that looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=view&item=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?url=item/%1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</c... | [
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] | I currently have a *.htaccess* file that looks like this:
```
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=view&item=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?url=item/%1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
```
It is meant to 301 red... | Quoting from the [mod\_rewrite documentation](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_r):
>
> "You will almost always want to use `[R]` in conjunction with `[L]` (that is, use `[R,L]`) because on its own, the `[R]` flag prepends `http://thishost[:thisport]` to the URI, but then passes this on to ... |
5,376 | <p>Is there any sort of downside for a URL being changeable?</p>
<p>Take any stack exchange question for example. The URL looks something like this:</p>
<p><code>webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079/should-i-use-a-file-extension-or-not</code></p>
<p>Simply <code>webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079</co... | [
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Take any stack exchange question for example. The URL looks something like this:
`webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079/should-i-use-a-file-extension-or-not`
Simply `webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3079` is the "true" link, as in you can always a... | >
> Is there any sort of downside for a URL being changeable?
>
>
>
Depends. Let's look at your question's URL. Right now the URL is:
`webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/5376/seo-and-changeable-urls`
As you noted, if you change the question's title the URL will change, too, and become:
`webmasters.stackexch... |
5,471 | <p>in the typical DB driven cms/ecommerce site you will have items pages at urls in some form similar to:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.domain.com/item.php?id=36
</code></pre>
<hr>
<p><strong>1) Is it good for SEO purpose to add a sort of description (related to page contents) in url?</strong> i.e.</p>
<pre><code>http:... | [
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```
http://www.domain.com/item.php?id=36
```
---
**1) Is it good for SEO purpose to add a sort of description (related to page contents) in url?** i.e.
```
http://www.domain.com/item.php?id=36&descr=cheap-blue-je... | The unfortunate thing about the Google article you posted is that it's almost creating more myths than it quashes. It's true that search engines do not have any problems indexing dynamic URLs, but static-looking URLs still tend to rank better.
The main reason is that when you create static URLs they are less "watered ... |
5,479 | <p>In order to use the "og:" meta tag of Facebook Graph, I need to add the following to the tag:</p>
<pre><code>xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/"
xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"
</code></pre>
<p>Since I am using HTML5 and not XHTML, do I sti... | [
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```
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/"
xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"
```
Since I am using HTML5 and not XHTML, do I still need to use the `xmlns="... | You need `xmlns="http://www.w3.org` since `xmlns:og` and `xmlns:fb` are references to the `xmlns` - namespace. You need these because the og and fb tags are custom tags that are not part of the regular html.
That is why the Validator doesn't like it if you omit it. |
5,484 | <p>I am currently linking related and text (caption) in the following way:</p>
<pre><code><a href="/link"><img src="image.jpg" ... />This is caption</a>
</code></pre>
<p>Meaning I combine both and text inside the same tag. Is that the right way to do it, syntax and SEO wise?</p>
<p>Joel</p>
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```
<a href="/link"><img src="image.jpg" ... />This is caption</a>
```
Meaning I combine both and text inside the same tag. Is that the right way to do it, syntax and SEO wise?
Joel | That's perfectly fine. It's usable, accessible, and (not coincidentally) search engine friendly.
(You might consider using the alt attribute of the image tag to describe the image for users with screen readers or for when the image fails to load. But that doesn't directly affect your question as the caption essentiall... |
5,523 | <p>It is a common thing that if you have some login that creates the <code>title</code> element content to finish with several new lines in it. For example:</p>
<pre><code><title>
Title |
Category |
My Site Name
</title>
</code></pre>
<p>Does this has some semantic falls? Is it bad for SEO?</p>
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] | It is a common thing that if you have some login that creates the `title` element content to finish with several new lines in it. For example:
```
<title>
Title |
Category |
My Site Name
</title>
```
Does this has some semantic falls? Is it bad for SEO? | New lines do not affect SEO. That won't hurt you at all. |
5,534 | <p>If every single link to a given website www.example.com points to a page in a particular subdirectory (i.e. www.example.com/user/[something]), but that directory is off limits as per robots.txt, i.e.</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /user/
</code></pre>
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"text": "<p>Speaking to your question - \"Does the incoming 'link-juice' still count if the target page is forbidden to Goo... | 2010/11/17 | [
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```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /user/
```
because I don't want these pages appearing in google search results, am I shoo... | Speaking to your question - "Does the incoming 'link-juice' still count if the target page is forbidden to Google in my robots.txt?" - I would say that PageRank *is* calculated, even for `noindex`/`nofollow` URI's:
>
> While Google won't crawl or index the
> content of pages blocked by
> robots.txt, we may still in... |
5,536 | <p>Is there any way that too many HTML comments in a document can effect search engine rankings?</p>
<pre><code><!-- This is a comment -->
</code></pre>
<p>Do the spiders ignore all of them?</p>
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```
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```
Do the spiders ignore all of them? | They are completely ignored so no, it doesn't affect rankings. The only problem might be if you have such a massive amount of text in comments, that it increases the load time significantly. Users might go elsewhere. |
5,556 | <p>I have the following fields: </p>
<pre><code>First Name: <input type="text" id="tFName" name="tFName" maxlength="50" />
Last Name: <input type="text" id="tLName" name="tLName" maxlength="50" />
</code></pre>
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"text": "<p>Getting <strong>ALL</strong> is a hard full-time job usually only done by companies with more money than sense.</p... | 2010/11/17 | [
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```
First Name: <input type="text" id="tFName" name="tFName" maxlength="50" />
Last Name: <input type="text" id="tLName" name="tLName" maxlength="50" />
```
Is the following the proper way to receive the values of the above fields in hidden inputs?
```
<input type="hidden" name="tFNa... | Getting **ALL** is a hard full-time job usually only done by companies with more money than sense.
I'd suggest you get all the ones for countries you're currently active in or likely to work in in the next 2 years. If there are any that you just have a 'hunch' about then go for them too. If there are any industry spec... |
5,612 | <p>I have a PHP application which has a "Share on Facebook" button that,</p>
<ul>
<li><p>On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them</p></li>
<li><p>On the live server, it does NOT show the thumbnail images at all.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The relevant portion of... | [
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* On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them
* On the live server, it does NOT show the thumbnail images at all.
The relevant portion of the .htaccess file is:
```
# Set up caching on ... | Some people may find your webpage before finding you Facebook page.
Do you have a like button or like box on your webpage?
If you have a like box, visitors to your site could see images of their friends who have liked your site. |
5,616 | <p>I have a 32x32 favicon (in .ico format) that shows up fine in Firefox 3.6.12 and Chrome 5.0.375.70. But in Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 it looks terrible. It also looks bad in Windows Explorer (XP).</p>
<p>(Hmmm, I can't upload it - perhaps .ico format is blocked?)</p>
<p>(It's not IE8 but there is no other tag)<... | [
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(Hmmm, I can't upload it - perhaps .ico format is blocked?)
(It's not IE8 but there is no other tag) | It turns out that the solution, at least in my case, is to save in 32x32 .ico format but **with the transparency turned off**.
In addition - when I use this in MediaWiki it only goes wrong using the default name: **favicon.ico**. When I use a non default name, the problem goes away!
In Local Settings.php:
```
$wgFav... |
5,618 | <p>a few months ago we set up canonical URLs for many page types such as <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=50362/deathbringers-will" rel="nofollow">http://www.wowhead.com/item=50362/deathbringers-will</a>. This worked very well and google picked them all up.</p>
<p>A few days ago I implemented the same thing for bl... | [
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] | a few months ago we set up canonical URLs for many page types such as <http://www.wowhead.com/item=50362/deathbringers-will>. This worked very well and google picked them all up.
A few days ago I implemented the same thing for blog posts but mysteriously it's not working.
```
<link rel="canonical" href="/blog=174055/... | It turns out that the solution, at least in my case, is to save in 32x32 .ico format but **with the transparency turned off**.
In addition - when I use this in MediaWiki it only goes wrong using the default name: **favicon.ico**. When I use a non default name, the problem goes away!
In Local Settings.php:
```
$wgFav... |
5,628 | <p>If I have a bunch of existing podcast mp3's, with no intro and outro, can I do something simple to add a stock intro and outro (supplied as .mp3's) to each podcast?</p>
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Here's the syntax on Windows for a single file:
```
mp3wrap updated01.mp3 intro.mp3 podcast01.mp3 outro.mp3
```
The following *should* work for all files starting with `podcast` in the current directory ... |
5,650 | <p>I have used the CSS style sheet as <code>font-family:arial,helvicta,sans-serif</code>. When I checked it in browser, I don't know which font it is using from the font-family. I want to know the exact font used by the browser to display. In this case is the browser using Arial or Helvicta or sans-serif for the text... | [
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"text": "<p>There is no way to know. But it shouldn't matter. A properly designed will render properly and be usable rega... | 2010/11/19 | [
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```
<html>
<head>
<title>Font Guesser</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*
If you en... |
5,664 | <p>I've been experimenting with <code>Google Code</code> and <code>Sourceforge</code> and the like, and am happy with what I've found. The main problem with them, is that you have to have your project be open source to use them, so anybody can edit them.</p>
<p>So... is there some way I can have my own svn repositorie... | [
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So... is there some way I can have my own svn repositories on [my own server?](http://the... | Installing your own SVN server will be just a pain. At the end of the day **you are programmer who wants to develop code and NOT waste time playing with installations of SVN repository on some local/remote/shared server.**
You can find many online solutions that offers preinstalled and ready to use SVN repository. Som... |
5,683 | <p>so if I disallow tempPage, does it mean tempPage_1, temp_Page_2, tempPage_x are also disallowed? I tried to google this up, but I don't know... </p>
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2) If they are parallel directories then, **no**, they are not blocked.
3) If they are separate files then, **no**, they are not blocked.
Assuming #1 is not true, to block them all you would use:
```
disall... |
5,754 | <p>Although i asked about SEO for dynamic pages, and got right answer, I seriously forgot to mention the most important thing that i want to know.</p>
<p>Suppose i have following php line of code</p>
<pre><code><title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $... | [
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Suppose i have following php line of code
```
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>" />
<meta name="keywords" con... | Methinks you need to learn a little more about how the internet works. When you request a URL from a server, the server returns a string of plain HTML. The server does not return PHP code. Your browser does not know whether the page is dynamically generated or served from a static file. It doesn't matter to them, they ... |
5,786 | <p>My website currently has a Google Asynchronous tracking code at the top of every page and the home page has an A/B test running on it. This is causing GA to add 2 visits for every 1 to the home page. </p>
<p>I have used Google's Web Optimizer to A/B test the home page against 2 other versions (all 3 have footer co... | [
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I have used Google's Web Optimizer to A/B test the home page against 2 other versions (all 3 have footer code). There ... | I was able to solve this issue.
First you have to move the GA code in front of the Web Optimizer Code.
Then set your code like this:
```
<!-- Google Website Optimizer Conversion Script -->
<script type="text/javascript">
if(typeof(_gat)!='object')document.write('<sc'+'ript src="http'+
(document.location.protocol=='... |
5,848 | <p>I'm trying to figure out how to create a div that overlays the page, staying in one place when the page scrolls, such as used in this article: <a href="http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3166996" rel="nofollow">Top 5 Botched PC Game Launches</a>. (You will see a bar at the top that doesn't move, with the logo, <em>wh... | [
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I'm not... | ```
#status-bar {
width: 100%;
height: 36px;
position: fixed;
top: 19px;
left: 0;
z-index: 2147483646;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #8a8a8a;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #8a8a8a;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 3px #8a8a8a;
background: transparent url("/images/Elements/status-bar/status-bar-bg.png") repeat-x... |
5,892 | <p>I host a webservice, and provide my members with a Javascript bookmarklet, which loads a JS sript from my server. However, clients must be logged in, in order to receive the JS script. This works for almost everybody. However, some users on setups (i.e. browser/OS) that are <b>known to work</b> for other people have... | [
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] | I host a webservice, and provide my members with a Javascript bookmarklet, which loads a JS sript from my server. However, clients must be logged in, in order to receive the JS script. This works for almost everybody. However, some users on setups (i.e. browser/OS) that are **known to work** for other people have the f... | I think that a proxy or the ISP filters those cookies from scripts out. Mobile ISPs are known to do such nasty things, like Vodafone, which e.g. puts every script and CSS into the HTML page as inline <script ...> or <style ...>.
I would ask by the clients what kind of internet access they have, and to send you a saved ... |
5,923 | <p>I have thousands of users signed up in my site so I have a good amount of statistical data to analyze my problem for you.</p>
<p>In the sign up process of my website, the required fields are username, password etc. and there are TWO fields which are asking for email (email and confirmation of email, as usual.)</p>... | [
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In the sign up process of my website, the required fields are username, password etc. and there are TWO fields which are asking for email (email and confirmation of email, as usual.)
The problem i... | An easy way to detect bogus email addresses is to send an email to the address with a confirmation link inside. If the user doesn't click on the confirmation link their account is not activated and they can't use their website until they do. This will catch fake email addresses but not prevent someone from creating a t... |
5,953 | <p><strong>How to disallow access to site except me?</strong></p>
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"text": "<p>If you run an Apache server just make a <a href=\"http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/\" rel=... | 2010/11/26 | [
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] | **How to disallow access to site except me?** | For the sake of variety: if you have a static IP address you could block all IP addresses except yours:
```
order deny, allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
```
Just change xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to be your IP address. |
5,957 | <p>I'm working on SEO for my WordPress page, and I'm having second thoughts about having my tag archive indexed. I'm not using categories at all, so I've set robots to <code>noindex, follow</code> for category overviews, making tags the main taxonomy.</p>
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Part of me says that having tag archives indexed is useful because those pages ar... | For the sake of variety: if you have a static IP address you could block all IP addresses except yours:
```
order deny, allow
deny from all
allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
```
Just change xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to be your IP address. |
5,972 | <p>How do i properly use custom vars in google analytics? I used the code below and here is what i notice</p>
<ol>
<li>i only seen 'one' being in the get request</li>
<li>After 24 hours only 'one' showed up</li>
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"text": "<p>You can't, they've not stolen it from you. It expired and they bought it. You could try and use a service that wil... | 2010/11/26 | [
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1. i only seen 'one' being in the get request
2. After 24 hours only 'one' showed up
3. After commenting out one and changing the 2 vars to use slotIndex-1 i notice NO vars going through GA
What am i doing wrong?
-... | If the registrar is in the U.S. you may be able to reclaim the domain if it contains your company trademark. The [Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act) passed in 1999 was created specifically so companies can prevent other people from owning... |
6,031 | <p>My employer runs a writing contest every year. Every year we publish the top three results in each category to our website. No big deal. This year, a category has been added for a graphic novel.</p>
<p>What standards and best practises are out there for publishing this to our site? I'm assuming a PDF would be terri... | [
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"text": "<p>Oof, that's a tough one. It's really hard to present something like a graphic novel with good accessibili... | 2010/11/29 | [
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What standards and best practises are out there for publishing this to our site? I'm assuming a PDF would be terrible for ac... | I saw some really crazy graphic novel + `canvas` experiments from Google a while ago. All the text was plain text (great accessiblity) but all the images could be plainly seen. I can't seem to find it, but [20 Things I Learned](http://www.20thingsilearned.com/) shows kind of what I mean.
I'd say that's overkill for wh... |
6,073 | <p>I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this:</p>
<p><code>example.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name</code></p>
<p>I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked websites. They have the same structure, except for one thing. In one case, the URL format ... | [
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"text": "<p>URL, they matter a lot less in comparison to what the content it contains. </p>\n\n<p>No matter how much detailed ... | 2010/11/30 | [
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] | I'm working for a website to convert the website URL to an SEO friendly URL. I plan to use this:
`example.com/category-name/pageid-123-page-name`
I looked at some similarly categorized, highly ranked websites. They have the same structure, except for one thing. In one case, the URL format was
`example.com/category-n... | Including or not the extension is not the most important point for SEO. Content, clean and semantic markup, meta description, title.... these things weight more.
However, if you are intending to optimize your URLs (what isn't a bad thing at all), think on users first (as for everything).
Your plan is:
```
mysite.com... |
6,125 | <p>In several places I am using linked abbreviations for a set of words, and Google is picking these abbreviated terms as sitelinks. Problem is, the abbreviation only makes sense in context, not when viewing the Google site links.</p>
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"text": "<p>CSS directives:</p>\n\n<pre><code>a.abbrev span { display:none; }\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Links:</p>\n\n<pre><code... | 2010/12/01 | [
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Each link has a title with the full text. Is there a way to only show the first 3 letters b... | CSS directives:
```
a.abbrev span { display:none; }
```
Links:
```
<a href="..." title="Full Text" class="abbrev">FT<span> (Full Text)</span></a>
```
---
**Updates:** ... a less ugly solution and why other avenues of exploration will probably not yield the desired results.
CSS directives:
```
a.abbrev span {
... |
6,172 | <p>I run a fairly large-scale Web crawler. We try very hard to operate the crawler within accepted community standards, and that includes respecting robots.txt. We get very few complaints about the crawler, but when we do the majority are about our handling of robots.txt. Most often the Webmaster made a mistake in ... | [
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So in your third example - no, the bots won't crawl `/norobots/index.html`.
Generally, as a personal rule, I put allow statements first and then I list the disallowed pages an... |
6,184 | <p>For whatever reason I can’t seem to get this right. I’ve looked at many examples on here and on the Apache website. I’m trying to force <code>www.example.com</code> instead of example.com on <strong>both</strong> HTTP <strong>and</strong> HTTPS, but I am not trying to force use of HTTPS instead of HTTP.</p>
<p>The ... | [
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"text": "<p>Get backlinks (get your link placed on other websites).</p>\n\n<p>Bing and Yahoo are especially sensitive to b... | 2010/12/02 | [
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The following code seems to work for all HTTPS conn... | Get backlinks (get your link placed on other websites).
Bing and Yahoo are especially sensitive to backlinks and the anchor text of the backlink (what a link says).
I'll venture to say that your website doesn't have too many links pointing back to it which gives it low visibility to search engines, especially those ... |
6,185 | <p>I'm trying to make an up to date chart of meta tags, for all of us, with their purposes, their use and their good (or bad) effects on search engines and being found. Also any body knows new or promising meta tags? I will add yours into my list so this chart is a result of live discussion and up to date. Also, it wou... | [
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The rest of them hardly add any value.
Even the meta description tag is sometimes ignored by Google (unless a robots="noodp,noydir" is specified) and uses description and/or title from the DMOZ and Yahoo! directories. I can give [this](http://www.google.bg/sea... |
6,205 | <p>There is Ask bot, which sets this header:</p>
<pre><code>Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)
</code></pre>
<p>Considering this, I have the following questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>If I'm writing a web crawler named Goofy, what user agent should I use? </li>
<li>What is the difference if I put <code>Mozilla/2.0</... | [
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"text": "<p>I think the following links can help:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20150218042806/... | 2010/12/02 | [
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```
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)
```
Considering this, I have the following questions:
* If I'm writing a web crawler named Goofy, what user agent should I use?
* What is the difference if I put `Mozilla/2.0` or `Mozilla/5.0` ?
Any other suggestions about ho... | I'm the primary designer and author of a fairly large-scale web crawler (see [metadatalabs.com/mlbot (archived link)](http://web.archive.org/web/20100208224742/http://metadatalabs.com/mlbot)). What you're asking touches on a topic that's very important to us--perhaps the most important part of running a crawler: that o... |