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34,147 | <p>So all of a sudden, searches for our site "radiotuna" give out the result as an HTTPS link.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/?q=radiotuna#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=radiotuna&oq=radiotuna&gs_l=hp.12...0.0.0.3499.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.LnOvBvgDOBk&p... | [
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"text": "<p>A 301 redirect would be preferable. Just the same as if you required certain pages to be available under HTTPS o... | 2012/09/03 | [
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<https://www.google.com/?q=radiotuna#hl=en&safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=radiotuna&oq=radiotuna&gs_l=hp.12...0.0.0.3499.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.LnOvBvgDOBk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=177c7ff705... | A 301 redirect would be preferable. Just the same as if you required certain pages to be available under HTTPS only; you would redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. This would also have immediate effect. Although it might take a short while for Google to update its links.
However, why not serve all content over HTTPS?
<http... |
34,173 | <p>This <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3496/do-subdomains-help-hurt-seo/3503#3503">following question by Jeff was in 2010</a> and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.<br>
My problem: </p>
<p>I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are u... | [
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"text": "<p>The domain authority is only a constructed metric, giving a general idea of how powerful that domain is in Goo... | 2012/09/04 | [
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] | This [following question by Jeff was in 2010](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3496/do-subdomains-help-hurt-seo/3503#3503) and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.
My problem:
I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are user based. E.g:
```
Jo... | Google *does* use domain authority to rank sites, or at least they use the Panda update to demote pages on a site-wide basis. From [Google's original announcement in 2011](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html):
>
> This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality si... |
34,215 | <p>I recently looked over my server's logs and I found a bunch of garbled text.</p>
<p>Here is a <a href="http://pastebin.com/8875a4hU">link to the full log</a>, and here is a snapshot of what it looks like:</p>
<pre><code>¹^œÌÓûFF™ÃŒ-ôÚÏàÃÒNRs§cÝi ~F#J"|³Ôq0ã~QQbA ¼¹¦’š¶É3œßå<ú€Ç©XAwdL?R°ÝbÒt©ôÇ·Æ…÷q˜ÇѺ| Þ,ß... | [
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"text": "<p>I would be suspicious:</p>\n\n<p><code>208.115.113.90 - - [09/Aug/2012:00:58:17 -0400] \"GET /?p=unauthmanagem... | 2012/09/05 | [
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Here is a [link to the full log](http://pastebin.com/8875a4hU), and here is a snapshot of what it looks like:
```
¹^œÌÓûFF™ÃŒ-ôÚÏàÃÒNRs§cÝi ~F#J"|³Ôq0ã~QQbA ¼¹¦’š¶É3œßå<ú€Ç©XAwdL?R°ÝbÒt©ôÇ·Æ…÷q˜ÇѺ| Þ,߯¡Êr yR¤Q¹Jêlš‘AzP\ ¦ÂY„ÉÉ,æ™ U™»ì... | I would be suspicious:
`208.115.113.90 - - [09/Aug/2012:00:58:17 -0400] "GET /?p=unauthmanagement HTTP/1.0" 200 8998 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com)" ‹ùU#Pmoo.tigertutorialscom`
**First:** `GET /?p=unauthmanagement`
* What is this? Does this page exist? "unauthorized management" could... |
34,223 | <p>This is my <em>robots.txt</em>:</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://www.example.org/sitemap.xml.gz
</code></pre>
<p>But Google Webmaster Tools tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We encountered an error while trying t... | [
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"text": "<p>It would seem that Google has probably not yet updated it's cache of your robots.txt file. Your current robots.t... | 2012/09/05 | [
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] | This is my *robots.txt*:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Sitemap: http://www.example.org/sitemap.xml.gz
```
But Google Webmaster Tools tells me that robots is blocking access to the sitemap:
>
> We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please
> ensure your Sitem... | It would seem that Google has probably not yet updated it's cache of your robots.txt file. Your current robots.txt file (above) does not look as if it should be blocking your sitemap URL.
>
> I guess google just hasnt updated its cache.
>
>
>
There is no need to guess. In Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) under "Healt... |
34,260 | <p>I have rebuilt a website which was all created with static html pages, it has now been rebuilt using a CMS system.</p>
<p>I need to find a way of redirecting all the existing links to there new corresponding pages which utilise friendly URL rewrites on the CMS based website</p>
<p>I imagine there will be several h... | [
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"text": "<p>What an interesting problem - I think you have a few options.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Consider if you want this automat... | 2012/09/06 | [
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I need to find a way of redirecting all the existing links to there new corresponding pages which utilise friendly URL rewrites on the CMS based website
I imagine there will be several hundred if not 100... | I've been working on a similar problem this week, a website I've taken over has 4,000+ broken links because the site was migrated away from an old CMS, so all the URL's are different.
The only way I've managed to solve the problem is by adding a fair number of new Redirect rules to my .htaccess file. What you will fin... |
34,330 | <p>For a site <a href="http://imageocd.com" rel="nofollow">http://imageocd.com</a> that I just set up I initially spelled the category "automobiles" as "autimobiles"... I know it's rediculous. I then set up over 10,000 pages behind that category e.g. <a href="http://imageocd.com/automobiles/hillman-minx-cabrio-picture... | [
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"text": "<p>There wouldn't be a problem with any number of 301s technically, except for network noise and lag it creates, e... | 2012/09/08 | [
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So, I set up over 10,000 301 url redire... | DNS errors occur *before* the server is even hit, so redirects wouldn't affect this. I checked your site on a [DNS checker here](http://www.intodns.com/imageocd.com) and didn't see any problems. It was probably just a temporary issue.
There are no problems with the number of redirects, in terms of how many pages redir... |
34,341 | <p>We use the following code to add icons for favicon, tablets, smartphones, windows 8 tiles and the like:-</p>
<pre><code><link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x1... | [
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"text": "<p>Where is your ico file? I can see it's in root folder, then you don't need the slash behind it, remove the slash... | 2012/09/09 | [
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```
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="apple-touch-icon-14... | Where is your ico file? I can see it's in root folder, then you don't need the slash behind it, remove the slash from behind your file, also you don't need `type="image/x-icon"`
Your ICO file should be a normal icon library with different needed icon sizes.
```
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"/>
```
Jus... |
34,385 | <p>Currently I have a couple of websites. My problem is that if I login on 1 specific domain with any of my programs (using notepadd++, FileZilla and Netbeans) the program stops at the content listing.</p>
<p>I had it correctly running, (I'm working on a project on this domain for more than a year now) and suddenly I ... | [
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"text": "<p>Maybe you can look into this solution. Mostly it is because Filezilla and Notepad++ file version upgraded. Some... | 2012/09/11 | [
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I had it correctly running, (I'm working on a project on this domain for more than a year now) and suddenly I broke it s... | The FTP protocol requires one of the two computers involved in the transfer to open a data connection on a second port in order to complete the transfer. In 'Active' mode, the client opens a port and the server connects back to the client. In 'Passive' mode, the server opens a port and the client connects to the server... |
34,389 | <p>I've seen this more than often in many websites, that the webmaster avoids putting direct links on the page, instead they use a redirect such as following:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/?url=http://sample.com
</code></pre>
<ol>
<li>I just wonder what is the reason for doing so? </li>
<li>Is it for statisti... | [
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"text": "<p>One possibility is anonymizing/hiding the links. Not everybody cares to show up in referer listings.</p>\n\n<p>If t... | 2012/09/11 | [
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```
http://www.example.com/?url=http://sample.com
```
1. I just wonder what is the reason for doing so?
2. Is it for statistical purposes?
3. Or is it harmful fo... | It's done primarily for tracking purposes, and the format you describe is normally seen when the link is on a site like Faceebook or Twitter - i.e. the owner of `http://www.example.com`.
Without this redirection they'd have no way of tracking links so the owner of `http://www.example.com` uses this format to see where... |
34,429 | <p>I have pagination links like so:</p>
<pre><code><a href="?page=2" rel="next">2</a>
</code></pre>
<p>Now when searching google google link to this page is <code>2</code>, as you see <a href="https://www.google.ee/search?q=ehitusfirmad%20site%3akataloog.ee&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.m... | [
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"text": "<p>Google gets its info from the page itself, not from the link to it. So make sure the page has a proper title elem... | 2012/09/10 | [
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```
<a href="?page=2" rel="next">2</a>
```
Now when searching google google link to this page is `2`, as you see [here (google link)](https://www.google.ee/search?q=ehitusfirmad%20site%3akataloog.ee&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3aen-US%3aofficial&client=firefox-a "here").
... | I choose this format generally so that I have the page in it and the title attribute helps a little for SEO as it states the title:
```
<a href="..." title="My category title - page X">X</a>
``` |
34,439 | <p>In regards to URL structure when it comes to guests and authenticated users, am I able to track traffic associated with both paths, but at the same time track total conversions going through the shopping cart?</p>
<p>I have set up the following URL structure:</p>
<p><strong>Authenticated users follow this path:</s... | [
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I have set up the following URL structure:
**Authenticated users follow this path:**
```
/cart
/checkout
/c... | Setup custom goal paths. Since your URL's are static it's easy to create two goal sets one for authenticated users another for guests then create custom reports to get total conversions. Here are the instructions from Google. [How to Setup Goals in Google Analytics](http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-setup-go... |
34,449 | <p>I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries.</p>
<p>Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:</p>
<pre><code>http://awespot.org/country/105/iceland
</code></pre>
<p>I am wondering if it would be better, in terms of SEO, to have the... | [
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... | 2012/09/12 | [
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Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:
```
http://awespot.org/country/105/iceland
```
I am wondering if it would be better, in terms of SEO, to have the countries separated in subdomain... | ***I think creating sub folders***: `example.com/en/` or `example.com/us/` etc for different languages and different countries is the best option.
I use this method and it works very well for me and you can observe some top branded websites also using the very the same method.
**SEO point of view**
As an SEO point... |
34,450 | <p>I'm rather new to the whole .htaccess thing and I'm using the following right now to use 'pretty url's':</p>
<pre><code><IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L]
</IfModule>... | [
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```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [NS,L]
</IfModule>
```
Now i found my web... | I will go onto something like that.
First you define a new condition ([RewriteCond](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond)) then you apply this condition using a rule ([RewriteRule](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule)).
Thanks to the [flag `L`](http://h... |
34,528 | <p>I'm webmaster of a non-commercial site in English. A non-native-English speaker asked me why our site doesn't produce hits in Google searches she conducts for relevant keywords in her native language. </p>
<p>I asked her for a list of keywords in her native language, and I naively tried inserting those into ... | [
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I asked her for a list of keywords in her native language, and I naively tried inserting those into the META info in ... | In general, if a user searches with terms in language *X*, the user wants to get search results in language *X* or search results in other languages, but only if the pages are *about* those "foreign" terms (e.g. pages about translation or pages in language *X* that list multi-lingual links etc.)
A Russian user that s... |
34,544 | <p>I have a website that doesn't have/need a favicon.</p>
<p>Is there a way to instruct the browser not to waste a request looking for /favicon.ico ?</p>
<p>I don't mean filtering logs, but something client-side, like this:</p>
<pre><code><link rel="shortcut icon" href="about:blank" />
</code></pre>
<p>That a... | [
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Is there a way to instruct the browser not to waste a request looking for /favicon.ico ?
I don't mean filtering logs, but something client-side, like this:
```
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="about:blank" />
```
That appears to work, but I'm not in a position to d... | Well, I just went and did some testing with a bunch of random browsers I happened to have installed, [Wireshark](http://www.wireshark.org/) and [a simple web page](http://favicontest.vyznev.net/blank.html) containing the tag
```
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="about:blank">
```
Here are the results so far:
* **Chro... |
34,546 | <p>I have the following in robots.txt:</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /refer.php
User-agent: NinjaBot
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
</code></pre>
<p>The <code>refer.php</code> file does various things depending on what <code>GET</code> parameters are passed to it.</p>
<p>When I do a G... | [
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] | I have the following in robots.txt:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /refer.php
User-agent: NinjaBot
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
```
The `refer.php` file does various things depending on what `GET` parameters are passed to it.
When I do a Google search, I see tons of results for pages like this... | Your robots.txt is just fine. However, it might not be enough to totally prevent indexing: Disallow command in robots.txt will block crawling, but in some cases the URLs themselves will still be indexed because of links or other factors.
Robots.txt is not meant to prevent the *indexing* of URLs, its purpose is to prev... |
34,547 | <p>On one of our websites, Google has been indexing something it wasn't supposed to. We fixed the problem so it shouldn't happen anymore, but are interested in requesting that Google de-index these pages.</p>
<p>The problem is that there are about 10,000 pages. They all look similar to this:</p>
<pre><code>http://www... | [
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"text": "<p>You can't. The <a href=\"http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734\" rel=\"nofollow... | 2012/09/14 | [
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The problem is that there are about 10,000 pages. They all look similar to this:
```
http://www.mysite.com/file.php?... | You can't. The [removal request tool](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734) is intended for emergencies, [not clean-up](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1269119). What you should be doing is informing the crawler(when it comes back around) that those URLs... |
34,628 | <p>How would I go about compiling an accurate database of IP addresses and their related countries to make available as an open source download for any web developer who wants to perform a geographic IP lookup?</p>
<p>It seems that a company called <a href="http://maxmind.com" rel="nofollow">MaxMind</a> has a monopoly... | [
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It seems that a company called [MaxMind](http://maxmind.com) has a monopoly on [geographic IP data](http://www.... | After reading [Christofian's answer](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/34646/7198), I did some research and found out that the five [Regional Internet Registry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry) members ([APNIC](http://www.apnic.net/), [AFRINIC](http://www.afrinic.net/), [ARIN](https://www.... |
34,637 | <p>I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewriting and redirecting the URL. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only time I can get it to work is if I set the match URL to match this regex <code>.*</code>.</p>
<p>I'm trying to redire... | [
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I'm trying to redirect `webmail.example.c... | As mentioned the ratio of your content to the original one is important.
But, it's very important also what the people think, You may be "punished" for using much content from other site, but if your added content is really useful for your visitor, then you will be accessed more times, the people will link to you more... |
34,688 | <p>I can´t verify my site on Google.</p>
<p>I´ve done this several times for several sites, all inside the same host.</p>
<p>I´ve tried the HTML tag method, HTML upload, Domain Name provider (I canp´t find the options that Google tell me that I should activate...), and Google Analytics.</p>
<p>I always get this resp... | [
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I´ve done this several times for several sites, all inside the same host.
I´ve tried the HTML tag method, HTML upload, Domain Name provider (I canp´t find the options that Google tell me that I should activate...), and Google Analytics.
I always get this response:
>
> Verificatio... | Found the error: Some silly module (don´t know which one yet), added this code into my *.htaccess* file:
```
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
allow from 24.232.0.0/16
allow from 66.60.0.0/18
allow from 129.214.0.0/16
allow from 140.191.0.0/16
allow from 157.92.0.0/16
allow from 161.190.0.0/16
allow from 163.10.0.0/16... |
34,702 | <p>I have a website which I am using google analytics to track visitors and track our banner campaigns.</p>
<p>We're are promoting 'Purchase Ticket' buttons on our website which push visitors to a third party website who sell and distribute our tickets.</p>
<p>The url on all the 'Purchase Ticket' buttons are the same... | [
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We're are promoting 'Purchase Ticket' buttons on our website which push visitors to a third party website who sell and distribute our tickets.
The url on all the 'Purchase Ticket' buttons are the same through out the ... | Best solution is probably to add js to create a virtual pageview when the links are clicked, like so:
```
<a href="http://ticketmaestro.com/events/my-event-2012" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackPageview','/tracking/ticketmaestro/event2012']);">link</a>
```
/tracking/ticketmaestro/event2012 is an example - it can be anyth... |
34,807 | <p>I changed the structure of my URLs.</p>
<p>The pages are already indexed by Google and have the following structure:</p>
<pre><code>/myfolder/page.apsx
</code></pre>
<p>The new structure is:</p>
<pre><code>/page.aspx
</code></pre>
<p>Now all URLs that Google knows are wrong. How can I tell Google to re-index an... | [
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The pages are already indexed by Google and have the following structure:
```
/myfolder/page.apsx
```
The new structure is:
```
/page.aspx
```
Now all URLs that Google knows are wrong. How can I tell Google to re-index and that the structure has changed? Internally I redirect ... | I'll answer the question you're really asking: you can't.
It *is* possible to increase Google's crawl rate in Webmaster Tools, but no-one can tell you how quickly all the Google sites around the world would reflect those new changes.
Either way, you aren't going to get an instant update.
The best method is to take a... |
34,810 | <p>Check this:
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site:gunlawsbystate.com+kansas+gun+laws" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?q=site:gunlawsbystate.com+kansas+gun+laws</a></p>
<p>The title of the first result is "Kansas Gun Laws - Gun Laws By State". Although, <strong>on the page google has cached</stron... | [
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<http://www.google.com/search?q=site:gunlawsbystate.com+kansas+gun+laws>
The title of the first result is "Kansas Gun Laws - Gun Laws By State". Although, **on the page google has cached** the title is different:
```
<title>Kansas Gun Laws - Kansas Gun Law - Reciprocity Guide</title>
```
Google shows th... | I'm going to answer my own questions here:
1. The title that Google displays in the SERPs is not necessarily the same as the title of the page. Google alters the title based on what you search for. This happens only when Google thinks the title is over-optimized. Also, the title can come from DMOZ or similar if NOODP ... |
34,862 | <p>I need to make an audit for a website and I discovered a "new" meta called "SKYPE_TOOLBAR", it looks like that:</p>
<pre><code><meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
</code></pre>
<p>I've never seen that before and I don't manage to find relevant info about it, does someone ... | [
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```
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE" />
```
I've never seen that before and I don't manage to find relevant info about it, does someone know what is its use?
PS. Ther... | That's a vendor-specific tag to stop an addon Skype installs in Internet Explorer from highlighting phone numbers it detects in web documents. See a reference as [solution 3 in this blog post](http://bacsoftwareconsulting.com/blog/index.php/web-development/prevent-skype-from-highlighting-phone-numbers/). From other men... |
34,946 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/25745/which-content-management-system-cms-wiki-should-i-use">Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from... | [
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> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/25745/which-content-management-system-cms-wiki-should-i-use)
>
>
>
I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from scratch using HTML/PHP/CSS and simply enter code s... | You are not going to get penalised for structuring your URLs this way. Including the category ("apples" in this case) as a directory is a common, logical structure and enables the user to see the hierarchy in the URL.
I suspect your URL structure is as a consequence of your coding structure - is that right? And these ... |
34,951 | <p>I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example.
What would be the proper convention to name image files?</p>
<p>From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name it according to on which site it will be uploaded. It would be waste of resources IMO and unnecessary job to ... | [
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What would be the proper convention to name image files?
From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name it according to on which site it will be uploaded. It would be waste of resources IMO and unnecessary job to do.
What ... | If duplicating the image really is unnecessary then you could still perhaps have the best of both worlds... only store the image once, but have it referenced by different filenames, for the different languages - using mod\_rewrite (Apache) and an internal rewrite.
Based on unor's example:
* example.net/img/en/house.p... |
34,979 | <p>I am looking in to Google Webmaster Tools - Crawl Error section.</p>
<p>How should I handle for those URL due their system / application showed invalid URL.</p>
<p>e.g</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example/images/products/s_=enlarge_16gb.jpg
</code></pre>
<p>but, I dunno what happen to yahoo groups, it break the lin... | [
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How should I handle for those URL due their system / application showed invalid URL.
e.g
```
http://www.example/images/products/s_=enlarge_16gb.jpg
```
but, I dunno what happen to yahoo groups, it break the link into
```
http://www.example/images/pr... | The answer is yes, you can. Assuming you're building the website from scratch rather than using a content management system then basing your site around something like the Twitter Bootstrap framework <http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/> will likely give you the flexibility you're looking for.
If you want the website... |
35,019 | <p>I have a hosted website using a free hosting service, I received an email this afternoon saying that I have been suspended because my account has been compromised.</p>
<p>Basically, someone is using my email account to mass send spam. I've changed all the passwords and everything but when my Gmail pulls the emails ... | [
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Basically, someone is using my email account to mass send spam. I've changed all the passwords and everything but when my Gmail pulls the emails from the h... | Just to lock everything down, start by temporarily removing all areas for user input. In other words, if you have a blog, hide the comment fields as well as any other places that a user can input data. Even if all they type in is a phone number, hide it.
Furthermore, if you are using public wifi to access the admin ar... |
35,030 | <p>If I have registered multiple domain names but only intend to use one domain name for the website in question and put 301 redirects in place for all of the others, do I only need assign one domain name to an IP address?</p>
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Important note... |
35,076 | <p>I have a Joomla 2.5 website and I would like to remove the page/menu name from appearing in the title so it does not display in Google or the browser tab. Currently the homepage is appending 'HOME' to the page title i.e:</p>
<p><code><title>Example Sitename - Page/Menu Name</title></code></p>
<p>I know... | [
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`<title>Example Sitename - Page/Menu Name</title>`
I know that the "Browser Page Title" can be fo... | As George Okello said, you have to notice the First page's Id. Go to Menu Manager and find them out for each language. There must be a different configuration if you have a plugin for multilingual websites.
in my case both ids were 127 and 128. So the solution is to put the following code before the `<jdoc:include typ... |
35,126 | <p>Should the URL of a page match its title? For example:</p>
<pre><code>Http://example.com/about-cats.html
<title>About Cats</title>
</code></pre>
<p>Furthermore, if that title were to be changed by the page's author, should the URL change to match and the old URL be redirected (301) to the new URL?</p>... | [
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```
Http://example.com/about-cats.html
<title>About Cats</title>
```
Furthermore, if that title were to be changed by the page's author, should the URL change to match and the old URL be redirected (301) to the new URL?
**Edit**
Also, if the pages author were... | No, the content of the `title` element and the path of the URL don't have to match.
Think of all the sites that use only IDs in the URL path, e.g. YouTube:
* URL: `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4NMoJcFd4`
* Title: `Songify This - CAN'T HUG EVERY CAT (now on iTunes) -- a song about loving cats - YouTube`
Also,... |
35,165 | <p>I've noticed some odd 404s which appear to be broken URL rewriting code. Our image viewer requests tiles using URLs like this:</p>
<pre><code>/media/204/service/dzi/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg
</code></pre>
<p>I see some - well under <1% - requests for slightly altered URLs:</p>
<pre><code>/media/204/s/rvice/d/i/1/1_f... | [
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```
/media/204/service/dzi/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg
```
I see some - well under <1% - requests for slightly altered URLs:
```
/media/204/s/rvice/d/i/1/1_files/7/0_0.jpg
```
These requests come... | At least as far as Google is concerned, there's already a "freshness" element to the algorithm, whereby it will attempt to surface the most relevant, up-to-date result for a given query. [Their announcement](http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html) even gives a similar exampl... |
35,171 | <p>I am writing a script that will block any bot that requests page(s) for example <strong>X</strong> times in the past <strong>5 secs</strong>. I need to find the X here. Do you guys know some approx values I can use?</p>
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35,180 | <p>I have a friend with a small business with a website. He asked me if he should make a put a section on his landing page under the fold that with his most recent review (or something along those lines). Specifically, he wants to know if that's the most efficient use of his time. Is there a list or such of things goog... | [
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35,184 | <p>I was looking at some cloud hosting price. Consider an entry level self hosted server:</p>
<pre><code>PRICE: 40€
----------
CPU: i5 (4x 2.66 GHz)
RAM: 16GB
hard disk: 2TB
Bandwidth: 10TB/month with 100Mbps
</code></pre>
<p>Now consider an equivalent on a cloud structure... (for example phpfog)</p>
<pre><code> PRI... | [
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"text": "<p>you might be better off using your firewall instead of relying on a php script, since after all the php scr... | 2012/10/01 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/35184",
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] | I was looking at some cloud hosting price. Consider an entry level self hosted server:
```
PRICE: 40€
----------
CPU: i5 (4x 2.66 GHz)
RAM: 16GB
hard disk: 2TB
Bandwidth: 10TB/month with 100Mbps
```
Now consider an equivalent on a cloud structure... (for example phpfog)
```
PRICE: 29$
--------------
RAM: 613MB (... | you might be better off using your firewall instead of relying on a php script, since after all the php script will only affect php page loads and not static files like images. Plus, having php log all connections and check for >800 from the same ip for every request is going to add some serious overhead to your server... |
35,189 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9897/how-does-google-calculate-bounce-rate">How does google calculate bounce rate?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I hosted a new site and used google analytics in it. I noticed that they're giving a value... | [
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] | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [How does google calculate bounce rate?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9897/how-does-google-calculate-bounce-rate)
>
>
>
I hosted a new site and used google analytics in it. I noticed that they're giving a value called bounce off rate. Can anyone explain what it... | you might be better off using your firewall instead of relying on a php script, since after all the php script will only affect php page loads and not static files like images. Plus, having php log all connections and check for >800 from the same ip for every request is going to add some serious overhead to your server... |
35,331 | <p>We engaged the services of a 3rd party SEO consultant to assist us in managing our Meta data and to write regular blogs on our site <a href="http://cyberdesignworks.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://cyberdesignworks.com.au</a> </p>
<p>Without our authorisation, the SEO also ran a link building campaign which has seen u... | [
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"text": "<p>I recommend these three articles (two from May, one from September) on the\nSEOmoz blog where the authors giv... | 2012/10/05 | [
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] | We engaged the services of a 3rd party SEO consultant to assist us in managing our Meta data and to write regular blogs on our site <http://cyberdesignworks.com.au>
Without our authorisation, the SEO also ran a link building campaign which has seen us Penguin slapped and we no longer appear in Google for a number of ... | The Penguin update penalises sites that have a high proportion of "unnatural" inbound links. One thing that constitutes unnatural inbound links is identical anchor text used in a high proportion of those links.
In [this report from Open Site Explorer](http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors.html?page=1&site=www.cyberd... |
35,350 | <p>Using Similar Page Checker (http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php), you can check if a web page is similar to other one.</p>
<p>Is there any rule of thumb how high a percentage similarity is accepted by Google? That is, when Google consider that a page is too similar to another one and will not index it.... | [
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"text": "<p>Well there would be an end to content duplication and copyrights scandals if this becomes known, the very... | 2012/10/05 | [
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] | Using Similar Page Checker (http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php), you can check if a web page is similar to other one.
Is there any rule of thumb how high a percentage similarity is accepted by Google? That is, when Google consider that a page is too similar to another one and will not index it.
I have t... | Well there would be an end to content duplication and copyrights scandals if this becomes known, the very reaosn why Google or any other search engine would never ever disclose this information.
Suppose a page surpasses the threshold of the level Search Engine has set for content duplication and it decides to take act... |
35,355 | <p>I am trying to get Google to index an AJAX site (<a href="http://www.davidelifestyle.com/" rel="nofollow">davidelifestyle.com</a>). It's crawlable with JavaScript turned off and I have also recently implemented _escaped_content_ snapshot mechanism but all that's indexed is <a href="https://www.google.pl/search?q=sit... | [
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"text": "<p>One of the issues I see on your site is that on the homepage links look like <strong>href=\"/fashion\"</strong... | 2012/10/05 | [
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Also, on this page: www.davidelifestyle.com/?\_escaped... |
35,358 | <p>I am having an issue with sending HTML emails to Gmail. I can send them to Yahoo, Hotmail, RR, AOL, etc. with no problem at all, but when I send them to Gmail I get kicked to spam. </p>
<p>I have checked my IP with a lot of different list to make sure it is not listed anywhere, which it is not. </p>
<pre><code>s... | [
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I have checked my IP with a lot of different list to make sure it is not listed anywhere, which it is not.
```
spamhaus = is not liste... | Make sure your SMTP server is not configured as an open relay ([test](http://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx))
It's possible that Gmail will flag an email as SPAM if it matches an email previously flagged as SPAM. So it's possible that if you're sending to the same Gmail account, your changes haven't made a difference i... |
35,386 | <p>For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the <code>hl</code> query string, e.g.</p>
<pre><code>http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW
</code></pre>
<p>and compare the above URL with</p>
<pre><code>http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..
</code></pre>
<p>From the SEO and usability perspective, which one is b... | [
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"text": "<p>That depends on the country you live in. The country the server is in which hosts your site. If your country d... | 2012/10/06 | [
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] | For example, I see most of the Google's properties is using the `hl` query string, e.g.
```
http://www.youtube.com/?hl=zh-TW
```
and compare the above URL with
```
http://www.youtube.com/zh-TW/..
```
From the SEO and usability perspective, which one is better? | If you use Adsense ads on your site, you are required by Google to have a privacy policy per the Adsense terms of service. From <http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182>:
>
> AdSense publishers must have and abide by a privacy policy that discloses that third parties may be placing and read... |
35,413 | <p>If I want to user to go a particular section of my webpage, I will use</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/help_faq.html#contribution
</code></pre>
<p>However, sometimes, I need to track where user come from, if I use</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/help_faq.html#contribution?utm_source=jstock&utm_med... | [
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] | If I want to user to go a particular section of my webpage, I will use
```
http://www.example.com/help_faq.html#contribution
```
However, sometimes, I need to track where user come from, if I use
```
http://www.example.com/help_faq.html#contribution?utm_source=jstock&utm_medium=help_menu
```
It fails to go to the... | The anchor tag should be at the end of the URL, after the query string:
`http://example.com/page.html?query=term#anchor` |
35,470 | <p>As the title suggests, I am developing an e-commerce site and I intend of having two jQuery plug ins on the default page, one for scrolling images and the other for the navigation menu. </p>
<p>Should I be concerned about making the site work if the users disables JS? Cause if they have it disabled my site would be... | [
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"text": "<p>I wouldn't worry about users with Javascript turned off too much. They'll likely comprise less than ... | 2012/10/08 | [
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] | As the title suggests, I am developing an e-commerce site and I intend of having two jQuery plug ins on the default page, one for scrolling images and the other for the navigation menu.
Should I be concerned about making the site work if the users disables JS? Cause if they have it disabled my site would be almost im... | ```
<noscript>Javascript Required</noscript>
```
That is all you need. Just elaborate with a nicer and friendlier is you like. There are two other options:
1. Ignore those users. Check your stats, they might be insignificant to your bottom line.
2. Redirect those without Javascript to an alternate page. Probably som... |
35,513 | <p>What if I put same robots.txt file in multiple directories and folders?</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /otherdirname/dirname2/
</code></pre>
<p>Can it'll affect anyhow ??</p>
<p>And how much time it generally takes to refine the search engine results?</p>
<p>Regards</p>
| [
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] | What if I put same robots.txt file in multiple directories and folders?
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /otherdirname/dirname2/
```
Can it'll affect anyhow ??
And how much time it generally takes to refine the search engine results?
Regards | First: it's useless to put a robots.txt file anywhere else than the website roots. Web crawler ONLY check at this places: <http://www.yourwebsite.com/robots.txt>
Your example tell to EVERY web crawler (of course, only "legal" one, bad robots don't care) to not index /otherdirname/dirname2/. It's NOT disalowing to craw... |
35,561 | <p>I've a website which is on two servers - the one it's on now malfunctioned. I have the site hosted on a second server, but have no access to the DNS Records to point the A Record to the new server IP.</p>
<p>Can I redirect the URL to the new server without access to the DNS records?</p>
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] | I've a website which is on two servers - the one it's on now malfunctioned. I have the site hosted on a second server, but have no access to the DNS Records to point the A Record to the new server IP.
Can I redirect the URL to the new server without access to the DNS records? | A slightly elegant *stop-gap solution*, using [Apache rewrites](http://enarion.net/web/htaccess/migrate-domains/):
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=302]
```
Stick that into an `.htaccess` file in the web root of the site in question. This will take *all requests* to ... |
35,625 | <p>I have a site currently written with HTML5 tags. I'd like to be able to parse the site as XML, with support for namespaces, etc, to facilitate programmatic extraction of data. </p>
<p>Currently I have <code><!DOCTYPE html></code> and </p>
<pre><code><meta charset="utf-8">
</code></pre>
<p>Which I ga... | [
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Currently I have `<!DOCTYPE html>` and
```
<meta charset="utf-8">
```
Which I gather is equivalent in HTML5 to explicitly setting the cont... | It sounds like you're trying to create a Polyglot Document (and I sound like [Clippy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant)!) Essentially, that's an HTML5 document which is also valid XML.
Basically, you just need to carry on as normal, writing valid HTML5. You will need to close any self-closing elements (e... |
35,642 | <p>How should I interpret an empty User-agent? I have some custom analytics code and that code has to analyze only human traffic. I have got a working list of User-agents denoting human traffic and bot traffic, but the empty User-agent is proving to be problematic. And I am getting lots of traffic with the empty User-a... | [
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35,694 | <p>I am trying to update my code from the deprecated <code>_getTracker()</code> method to <code>_createTracker()</code>, but am experiencing inconsistent results.
I have tried both traditional and Asynch methods (using a JSP include), but they all have the same result. My pageviews, and others in the office all show up... | [
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"text": "<p>Are cookies enabled? Make sure, otherwise I don't think the tracking works very well (it still records page im... | 2012/10/15 | [
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I have tried both traditional and Asynch methods (using a JSP include), but they all have the same result. My pageviews, and others in the office all show up in analytics, using both... | I really try not to assume things, but in this case it turns out this boiled down to two different understandings of what to do when applying the advanced filter, and the fact that they had an extra field. Assuming you are looking in Content>All Pages and then under the graph, going across you see the primary dimension... |
35,695 | <p>I want students to publish their static websites to Amazon S3. But I can't have them all create AWS accounts because it requires their credit cards even for the free usage tier. I don't mind letting them use an account I setup (I'm happy to pay amazon's fees for usage too), but I need to give students their own dire... | [
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"text": "<p>If you're running linux, I wrote a script that does exactly this. It creates a web directory (chrooted) for a... | 2012/10/15 | [
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You can create one account for all students there, or create a group called "Students" and assign all your students to that group... |
35,795 | <p>I've recently found that <strong>"Google can't find your site's robots.txt"</strong> in crawl errors. When I tried <em>Fetching as Google</em>, I got result "SUCCESS", then I tried looking at crawl errors and it still shows "Google can't find your site's robots.txt".</p>
<p>What can I do to resolve this issue? Befo... | [
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What can I do to resolve this issue? Before this issue arose, my site w... | Make sure that in Settings → Privacy in the back-end you've checked *Allow search engines to index this site* and not the other one which is *Ask search engines not to index this site*.
Also, that was probably just a typo, but your `robots.txt` should look like this:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow:... |
35,804 | <p>I might buy an SSL certificate for my sie. I know that it will help me in many ways. But will there be dis-advantages also?</p>
<p>eg.
<br> If I load an image from another server (using plain http), will that alert the customer saying something is wrong?
<br> Will I be able to use all existing codes like phpbb,... | [
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eg.
If I load an image from another server (using plain http), will that alert the customer saying something is wrong?
Will I be able to use all existing codes like phpbb, awstats etc without... | Using relative links (which in ssl is therefore ssl) is one method. Omitting the protocol from links is another, so your links would be:
```
//other-website.com
```
I use protocol relative links in my (personal/business) site just for that reason. I hope to convert it to all ssl before too long and why worry about i... |
35,834 | <p>I've just installed Mediawiki on Apache and I want the URL should be:</p>
<pre><code>localhost/Main_Page/
localhost/Special:Recent_Changes
...
</code></pre>
<p>instead of:</p>
<pre><code>localhost/index.php/Main_Page/
localhost/index.php/Special:Recent_Changes
</code></pre>
<p>I've tried many times and in many w... | [
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```
localhost/Main_Page/
localhost/Special:Recent_Changes
...
```
instead of:
```
localhost/index.php/Main_Page/
localhost/index.php/Special:Recent_Changes
```
I've tried many times and in many ways but it still doesn't work. Any suggest for a ... | [This MediaWiki documentation](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual%3aShort_URL/Apache) *does* talk about *.htaccess*. |
35,836 | <p>I have a HTML page that correctly (the encoding of the physical on disk matches it) announces it's <em>Content-Type</em>:</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=
"text/html; charset=utf-8">... | [
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] | I have a HTML page that correctly (the encoding of the physical on disk matches it) announces it's *Content-Type*:
```
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=
"text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title> ...
```
Opening the file from... | **"Is there a common way to override the server headers send to the browser from within the HTML document?"**
AFAIK no, you do what you can do already. The defined charset via Header trumps your definition in the META tag.
If you have access to the server, e.g. Apache, it is configured by this statement (see the comm... |
35,839 | <p>I have the following dilemma with the links of a WordPress blog that I work with, I don't know if the way it creates the link to the images is ok or not so good.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<ul>
<li>Article URL: <code>http://test.com/prima-de-riesgo/</code></li>
<li>Image URL belonging to the article: <code>http://tes... | [
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For example:
* Article URL: `http://test.com/prima-de-riesgo/`
* Image URL belonging to the article: `http://test.com/prima-de-riesgo/europa/`
So what I'm ... | **"Is there a common way to override the server headers send to the browser from within the HTML document?"**
AFAIK no, you do what you can do already. The defined charset via Header trumps your definition in the META tag.
If you have access to the server, e.g. Apache, it is configured by this statement (see the comm... |
35,851 | <p>I have a Wordpress multisite subfolder instance that I would like to track via Google Analytics. </p>
<p>I guess optimally this would be a plugin which I could track each site in two places</p>
<ol>
<li>The Main Tracking Code which totals all traffic from the Multisite instance</li>
<li>The Individual Site trackin... | [
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I guess optimally this would be a plugin which I could track each site in two places
1. The Main Tracking Code which totals all traffic from the Multisite instance
2. The Individual Site tracking code to see how each sit... | If you do not have a vast number of websites on the multisite install, you can use a single Google Analytics tracking code, and create a profile for each that filters stats by subdirectory.
To add the code to your site, you could make a copy of the TwentyEleven theme, rename the copy (make sure you change the name in ... |
35,856 | <p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia page on .name</a> says the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Registration restrictions:</strong> No prior restriction on registration, but registrations can be challenged if not by or on behalf of individual with name similar to that ... | [
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>
> **Registration restrictions:** No prior restriction on registration, but registrations can be challenged if not by or on behalf of individual with name similar to that of domain, or fictional character in which registrant has r... | If you do not have a vast number of websites on the multisite install, you can use a single Google Analytics tracking code, and create a profile for each that filters stats by subdirectory.
To add the code to your site, you could make a copy of the TwentyEleven theme, rename the copy (make sure you change the name in ... |
35,858 | <p>There is a similar question <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/23382/how-to-remove-trailing-slashes-from-url-with-htaccess?rq=1">here</a>, but the solution does not work in Apache for our site.</p>
<p>I'm trying to remove multiple trailing slashes from URLs on our site. I found some <code>.htac... | [
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"text": "<p>If the slashes may only occur at the end of the URL, you may use this</p>\n\n<pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_... | 2012/10/19 | [
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I'm trying to remove multiple trailing slashes from URLs on our site. I found some `.htaccess` code that seems to w... | If the slashes may only occur at the end of the URL, you may use this
```
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*?)(?:/){2,}$
RewriteRule . $1/ [R=301,L]
``` |
35,872 | <p>How and where to place - css, html and images in email to make it a HTML email?</p>
<p>I have seen many advertising emails in my inbox and I am curious to know how does the email body display the HTML.</p>
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I have seen many advertising emails in my inbox and I am curious to know how does the email body display the HTML. | If the slashes may only occur at the end of the URL, you may use this
```
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*?)(?:/){2,}$
RewriteRule . $1/ [R=301,L]
``` |
35,890 | <p>I am trying to redirect www.domain.com or domain.com to www.domain.com/temp.html</p>
<p>I am using the following code:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/temp\.html" [R=301,L]
</code></pre>
<p>That works however I do not want to redirect IP. So if someone ty... | [
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] | I am trying to redirect www.domain.com or domain.com to www.domain.com/temp.html
I am using the following code:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/temp\.html" [R=301,L]
```
That works however I do not want to redirect IP. So if someone types in the static IP of the domai... | You can make that exclusion by changing your HTTP\_HOST condition:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/temp\.html" [R=301,L]
```
or the other way around:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?$ ... |
35,918 | <p>I have an ajax-driven search page that will allow users to search through a large collection of records. Each search result points to index.php?id=xyz (where xyz is the id of the record). The initial view does not have any records listed, and there is no interface that allows you to browse through all records. You c... | [
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"text": "<p>You may use <code>mod_rewrite</code> to haver better url's, that would masquerade what you want.</p>\n\n<p>Bu... | 2012/10/22 | [
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1. The initial view is a paged list of all items, starting with page 1.
2. The links to each page re-load the entire page, specifying a page number.
3. Using javascript, I tweak the page list so that clicking on a page triggers an ajax load instead of a full page refresh.
Items 1 and 2 will al... |
35,973 | <p>Does it matter where I register my domain geographically when I'm planning to change nameset (nameservers) to a server in my target area?</p>
<p><strong>Example</strong></p>
<pre><code>Target audience: USA
Server location: USA
Domain origin: bought from French registrator website
</code></pre>
<p>Question: When a... | [
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**Example**
```
Target audience: USA
Server location: USA
Domain origin: bought from French registrator website
```
Question: When a user in the U.S. tries to access my web, will... | No, it doesn't matter.
Registrars are only bureaucratic entities that "give" you the name you requested, record your information and associate it with the domain name. Once you have the domain name, you have to host it somewhere, and that physical location is the one that may affect. |
35,984 | <p>I run a website Cucumbertown with an <strong>initial pay load of nearly 9KB zipped</strong>. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WWS7Z.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>All my js is delayed loaded with requirejs and modernizer is the only exception.
Now all my webpages are Nginx cached and <... | [
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All my js is delayed loaded with requirejs and modernizer is the only exception.
Now all my webpages are Nginx cached and **only 10-15% hits go to the backend proxy**.... | First of all: you are basically doing a lot of things very good at the moment. This results in good grades in PageSpeed for example. Also keep in mind that the biggest part of the waiting time is spent on the frontend, so it makes sense to optimize this before going deep into server configuration.
These are some ideas... |
36,040 | <p>On some of our sites, we now have several thousand pages that dilute our website's keyword density. The website is an MVC site with SEO routing.</p>
<p>If I submit a new sitemap with say only the 2000 or so pages that we want indexed, even though navigating to the diluting pages still works, will Google re-index t... | [
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"text": "<p>Although not supported by older browsers, you could have a look at the transform property in CSS. <a href=\"ht... | 2012/10/24 | [
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If I submit a new sitemap with say only the 2000 or so pages that we want indexed, even though navigating to the diluting pages still works, will Google re-index the site wit... | If you don't want to play around with css transform.
Honestly the best thing is to use rectangles and ensuring the rollover states do not cross over the rectangles. Example: <http://imm.io/J4D8>
I also found this if it helps, <http://doctype.com/rollover-done-css>
, without notice. Of course that will affect my own content in the fram... | [
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My problem is that they may use selectors for elements like td (for instance), without notice. Of course that will affect my own content in the frame unless I... | Include `reset.css` after loading all your CSS files:
```
html {
color: #000;
background: #FFF;
}
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,button,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0... |
36,095 | <p>I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name).</p>
<p>The company want to develop a "micro website" for one of their campaigns, named "Inspired By BRAND".</p>
<p>I have two directions:</p>
<ul>
<li>inspired.by.BRAND.com - which I personally don't like too much. I don't know why ... | [
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] | I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name).
The company want to develop a "micro website" for one of their campaigns, named "Inspired By BRAND".
I have two directions:
* inspired.by.BRAND.com - which I personally don't like too much. I don't know why but I don't recall any web a... | Include `reset.css` after loading all your CSS files:
```
html {
color: #000;
background: #FFF;
}
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,code,form,fieldset,legend,input,button,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
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36,154 | <p>I just bought several Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) from GoDaddy. I have a VPN with hostgator and when I add an account with WHM and then I go to that site with a link that has the IDN, it displays in the browser as the puny-code. How can I make the browser display the correct encoding, instead of the puny-c... | [
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There are several Unicode glyphs who are virtually indistinguishable one from another.
which is the good one?
```
microsoft.com
microsft.com
``` |
36,160 | <p>So our Google Analytics are showing us that 200 % increase of "organic" search traffic. Analytics are saying that search keyword is "(not provided)". We are wondering how to find out which keyword is causing this?</p>
<p>We are monitoring all important keywords for our website. None of the keywords is in the first ... | [
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We are monitoring all important keywords for our website. None of the keywords is in the first 5, so our ... | The browser is showing the punny-code as a way to protect you from phishing sites.
There are several Unicode glyphs who are virtually indistinguishable one from another.
which is the good one?
```
microsoft.com
microsft.com
``` |
36,197 | <p>Let's say the page has an <code><h1></code> tag with the title:</p>
<pre><code><h1>Page title</h1>
</code></pre>
<p>and then in the post content there is an HTML tutorial which has an <code><h1></code> tag which is encoded: </p>
<pre><code>&lt;h1&gt;Example&lt;h1&gt;
</code... | [
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```
<h1>Page title</h1>
```
and then in the post content there is an HTML tutorial which has an `<h1>` tag which is encoded:
```
<h1>Example<h1>
```
Does this affect SEO?
Would Google consider the second one also as an `<h1>` tag and get confused ... | The `<h1>Page title</h1>` is parsed as HTML code and so is part of the hierarchy or outline of the document, the `<h1>Example<h1>` is parsed as text since there is no tag associated.
Google will see the content in both lines, but understands that one is something important and the other one is not; adds to... |
36,219 | <p>I have a website and for each post that I write (that is a particular page) in my blog, I would like to show the number of views that Google Analytics tracks.</p>
<p>How to do this using Analytics API?</p>
<p>Or is it something related to Webmaster tools?</p>
<p>Thankyou</p>
<h3>Please note...</h3>
<p>I have a Googl... | [
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How to do this using Analytics API?
Or is it something related to Webmaster tools?
Thankyou
### Please note...
I have a Google Analytics account correctly w... | To get the visitor count per page using the Google Analytics API you would use the following API call.. Where ga?id= is the profile ID or
>
> "The namespaced profile ID of the profile from which to request data.
> Use the profile selector above to find this value."
>
>
>
```
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics... |
36,299 | <p>I have a number of files in my site which are not intended for independent viewing, but rather to be AJAXed into content within the site. They obviously don't meet HTML standards (no body, head, etc.) as independent entities. I would like to prevent search engines from indexing these pages, but do not have access to... | [
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] | I have a number of files in my site which are not intended for independent viewing, but rather to be AJAXed into content within the site. They obviously don't meet HTML standards (no body, head, etc.) as independent entities. I would like to prevent search engines from indexing these pages, but do not have access to `/... | You can put the tag on the top of an HTML document. It will not cause rendering issues, since `meta` elements are not displayed, and this type of `meta` does not affect the way the page is rendered. Search engines will process it as in any other HTML document.
HTML specifications do not require `body` or `head` tags (... |
36,333 | <p>Why is Google publisher HTML tag invalid according to W3C specification? Is there any way to correct this example:</p>
<pre><code><a href="http://plus.google.com/109469573972649651137?prsrc=3" rel="publisher" class="c3">
</code></pre>
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] | Why is Google publisher HTML tag invalid according to W3C specification? Is there any way to correct this example:
```
<a href="http://plus.google.com/109469573972649651137?prsrc=3" rel="publisher" class="c3">
``` | I'm not quite sure with your question whether you mean that the Google `rel=publisher` doesn't work for your site, or that it works but w3 is saying its invalid.
If it's not working with Google you can use the rich snippets testing tool here:
<http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets>
If its working with G... |
36,388 | <p><strong>Webmaster Newbie Question</strong></p>
<p>I have a low end vps (128MB RAM)running on Debian.I used a <a href="https://github.com/ilevkov/lowendscript#readme" rel="nofollow">bash script</a> by ilevkov to setup the site. After some trial and error, I managed to set up a WordPress on it. Just now I found out t... | [
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] | **Webmaster Newbie Question**
I have a low end vps (128MB RAM)running on Debian.I used a [bash script](https://github.com/ilevkov/lowendscript#readme) by ilevkov to setup the site. After some trial and error, I managed to set up a WordPress on it. Just now I found out that my VPS can't send any email. I tested using t... | I’ve checked it again, should work out of the box.
In case it doesn’t:
* Try this thread: <http://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-not-receiving-activation-email>
* Try reinstalling Exim4 – “bash setup-debian.sh exim4”
* Try installing Postfix instead Exim.
There is also a new version of lowendscript made by Xeonc... |
36,395 | <p>In Google's WebmasterTools, I submitted my site's XML sitemap, which is accessible through www.mysite.com/sitemap. However, no where on the site do I have an actual link that points to this.</p>
<p>Is there a benefit to having this - say somewhere on the footer?</p>
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Is there a benefit to having this - say somewhere on the footer? | The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your **robots.txt** file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:
```
Sitemap: http... |
36,398 | <p>Is there anyone who has an idea why I find the mention "undetermined" in the statistics keywords of my Google Analytics account. This mention seems to be associated only with my display network campaign on AdWords.</p>
<p>Can someone help me?</p>
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Can someone help me? | The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your **robots.txt** file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:
```
Sitemap: http... |
36,423 | <p>I hear conflicting answers from people about this, and I'm a developer by trade, and my SEO knowledge is not what it should be. Here's my situation:</p>
<p>I run a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, etc for a small Asian beach town. Lots of establishments here are hotels with a restaurant and bar,... | [
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"text": "<p>Short Answer: it it not ok.</p>\n\n<p>Long answer: it is never ok to duplicate your content.</p>\n\n<p>the s... | 2012/11/03 | [
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] | I hear conflicting answers from people about this, and I'm a developer by trade, and my SEO knowledge is not what it should be. Here's my situation:
I run a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, etc for a small Asian beach town. Lots of establishments here are hotels with a restaurant and bar, as well a... | Short Answer: it it not ok.
Long answer: it is never ok to duplicate your content.
the solution here is to use the [canonical tag](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394) to tell google that all these pages are actually one.
And in url XML sitemap, there should be also just one unique ... |
36,434 | <p>We know that good site architecture usually looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>example-company.com/
example-company.com/about/
example-company.com/contact/
example-company.com/products/
example-company.com/products/category/
example-company.com/products/category/productname/
</code></pre>
<p>Now, when it comes to Goo... | [
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] | We know that good site architecture usually looks like this:
```
example-company.com/
example-company.com/about/
example-company.com/contact/
example-company.com/products/
example-company.com/products/category/
example-company.com/products/category/productname/
```
Now, when it comes to Google Image search, it is cl... | From our (Google's) point of view, **you can use whatever file names & URL structure that makes sense for your site** -- you definitely do not need to fine-tune it on this level for SEO purposes. For Image Search, we recommend using [descriptive file names](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... |
37,543 | <p>I'd like know if having the title tag positioned at the end of <code><head></code> tag or in any other position, always inside the <code><head></head></code>, can lead to some kind of problem, I'm not talking about SEO stuffs, I'm talking about standards, browser rules, web application rules, or so... | [
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I'd like to load a page... | As for SEO it doesn't matter where in between the `head` tag the `title` tag is located. It's only rendered in the browser title bar. Google will change it occasionally if they feel they can build a better title than your page has for someone running a related search. There's not affect though on your website rankings ... |
37,560 | <p>I own a domain and I need to point the domain to another domain which I don't own. I'm a contractor for the other company. The want me to do it, but I want to retain autonomy with regards to email for the domain.</p>
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"text": "<p>Lets clarify you own exampleA.com, and want to point it to exampleB.com. Ok so forward the domain you own exam... | 2012/11/06 | [
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] | I own a domain and I need to point the domain to another domain which I don't own. I'm a contractor for the other company. The want me to do it, but I want to retain autonomy with regards to email for the domain. | You should check if your registrar has a feature for a 301 Permanent Redirect. If not, use the following code in the .htaccess on the root of your site to accomplish the same effect.
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
``` |
37,572 | <p>I have a website hosted with Yahoo Small Business Hosting, and I don't have access to use a <em>.htaccess</em> file.</p>
<p>I have around 220 pages in a folder <code>mysubfolder</code> (<code>http://example.com/myfolder/mysubfolder</code>) and the age of website is around 3 years. </p>
<p>I am planning to move all... | [
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"text": "<p>If you are using some server side language(PHP, Python, ...) is not difficult get all the URLs fin... | 2012/11/07 | [
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I have around 220 pages in a folder `mysubfolder` (`http://example.com/myfolder/mysubfolder`) and the age of website is around 3 years.
I am planning to move all 220 pages in `mysubfolder` to `myfolder` (one... | Another potential option would be to follow the advice listed here - <http://www.craniumstorm.com/moving-wordpress-and-yahoo-small-business-hosting/> and create a redirect file in a index.php file. Now, this may or may not work depending on the site you have setup. If its a CMS based site that defaults to looking for t... |
37,698 | <p>I am building a social media site that is similar is structure to twitter and <code>facebook.com</code> where unauthenticated users who go to <code>https://example.com</code> will see a login + sign-up page, and authenticated users who go to <code>https://example.com</code> will see their timeline.</p>
<p>What is th... | [
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What is the best practice (using Google Analytics) f... | I finally found it in the [Google Analytics Docs](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingCustomVariables):
>
> Use session-level custom variables to distinguish different visitor experiences across sessions.
>
>
> For example, if your website offers users the ability to login, y... |
37,908 | <p>I'm working on a website (all in one single domain) so I'm wondering to create dynamic titles, descriptions, keywords and headings for each location.</p>
<p>What I'm doing is to get information from the IP address of the user and show for example a dynamic title:</p>
<pre><code>var userCity = codeToGetCityFromIP;
... | [
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What I'm doing is to get information from the IP address of the user and show for example a dynamic title:
```
var userCity = codeToGetCityFromIP;
<title>Welcome to us... | The first problem I see is that a search engine bot will "see", and therefore crawl and index, a page with a title optimised to the location of the bot. If it's in Chicago, it indexes a page with the title `<title>Welcome to Chicago</title>`, and that's what's shown to any user, regardless of where they are or what ter... |
37,953 | <p>How to do this with regular expression?</p>
<pre><code>Old -> New
http://www.example.com/1.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/1.html
http://www.example.com/2.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/2.html
http://www.example.com/3.asp -> http://www.example.com/dir/3.html
http://www.example.com/4.asp ... | [
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```
Old -> New
http://www.example.com/1.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/1.html
http://www.example.com/2.html -> http://www.example.com/dir/2.html
http://www.example.com/3.asp -> http://www.example.com/dir/3.html
http://www.example.com/4.asp -> http://www.example.com... | This is a rather more general solution, so in that respect it might not be what you are after, but it should redirect the URLs in your question.
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(\d)\.(html|asp)$ /dir/$1.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(\d)_([a-z])\.html$ /dir/sub/$1-$2.html [R=301,L]
```
The first `RewriteRule` will m... |
38,054 | <p>How do I set up an HTTP Redirect rule to redirect all requests for a virtual directory to another virtual directory, when I don't know the hostname or complete URL, and cannot use the URL Rewrite module?</p>
<p>The following redirects should work:</p>
<pre><code>http://host1/app/oldvdir -> http://host1/app/newv... | [
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The following redirects should work:
```
http://host1/app/oldvdir -> http://host1/app/newvdir
http://host1/app/old... | It takes a variable amount of time. Pages on this website are updated quickly while pages on "smaller" sites can take weeks or months. This is due to several factors including link popularity, frequency of new content, and more.
Basically the only thing you can do is continue to update your website and seek quality li... |
38,064 | <p>I have problem with uploading my files via cPanel but it works by FileZilla (FTP). It was said:</p>
<pre><code>upload canceled: VIRUS DETECTED (Access Denied, ERROR).
</code></pre>
<p>I have tried uploading files via cPanel using Windows, Macintosh and Linux but return the same result.</p>
<p>How can this happen ... | [
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```
upload canceled: VIRUS DETECTED (Access Denied, ERROR).
```
I have tried uploading files via cPanel using Windows, Macintosh and Linux but return the same result.
How can this happen by using cPanel, while not in Fil... | Please perform the following operation. You can try running a virus scan, seems to me cPanel is telling you the file is dirty, FileZilla doesn't check anything, it just does transfers, which is fairly unsafe. |
38,114 | <p>I am trying to understand the technology which many news websites use
please have a look at this website </p>
<p><a href="http://www.shritimes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.shritimes.com/</a></p>
<p>if you click any news item then the particular thing gets zoomed and viewer can read the news as far as I can und... | [
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please have a look at this website
<http://www.shritimes.com/>
if you click any news item then the particular thing gets zoomed and viewer can read the news as far as I can understand they have done some programming by which a gif image is opened... | Regarding the way this is done, as mentioned above, it is Jquery. Jquery is just a Javascript library that helps you add some frontend functionality that would be quit cumpersome to do by writting all the necessary Javascript. Visit [jquery.com](http://jquery.com/) or search for jquery tutorials and you will on your wa... |
38,132 | <p>I’m trying to work with <strong>hProduct</strong>.</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><div class="hproduct">
<span class="brand">ACME</span> <span class="fn">Executive Anvil</span>
<img class="photo" src="http://microformats.org/wiki/skins/Microformats/images/... | [
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```html
<div class="hproduct">
<span class="brand">ACME</span> <span class="fn">Executive Anvil</span>
<img class="photo" src="http://microformats.org/wiki/skins/Microformats/images/logo.gif" />
<span class="review hreview-aggregate">
Average rating: <span class="rating"... | [Here is your example HTML in the testing tool](http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=&html=%3Cdiv+class%3D%22hproduct%22%3E%0D%0A++%3Cspan+class%3D%22brand%22%3EACME%3C%2Fspan%3E+%3Cspan+class%3D%22fn%22%3EExecutive+Anvil%3C%2Fspan%3E%0D%0A++%3Cimg+class%3D%22photo%22+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fmicroforma... |
38,139 | <p>I am aware of the fact that there are tons of questions in this section and in server fault dealing with re-directions from <code>non-www</code> to <code>www</code> URLs. But I couldn't find one dealing with this issue while preserving protocol.</p>
<p>I am no mod-rewrite expert, and my code is just copy/pasted... ... | [
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I am no mod-rewrite expert, and my code is just copy/pasted... Here's what I have:
```
Rewrite... | Including a few keywords in a URL can help "a little bit" (Matt Cutts, Google). It can also help identify links to users.
But, as Matt Cutts suggests, it is only a very small factor. Great content, titles and link text all play a far greater role in SEO.
Changing your URL structure to include different, perhaps more ... |
38,142 | <p>If no <code>private</code> nor <code>public</code> were defined in the cache-control, e.g.</p>
<pre><code> Cache-Control: max-age=31461276
</code></pre>
<p>What is the expected behavior?</p>
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] | If no `private` nor `public` were defined in the cache-control, e.g.
```
Cache-Control: max-age=31461276
```
What is the expected behavior? | It seem it tells browser that the cache expires after 1 year, 31461276 seconds means 1 year.
More details in this post: [EXPIRES VS. MAX-AGE](http://www.mnot.net/blog/2007/05/15/expires_max-age) |
38,177 | <p>Ahoy all! I've been racking my brain with this one. </p>
<p>I basically just converted all of my pages from ASP code to PHP code. Kept the same filenames. </p>
<p>So, here is the htaccess code I have so far, but it keeps redirecting to my ROOT.... ie /home/accountname/publc_html...</p>
<p>What am I doing wrong?<... | [
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"text": "<p>Try</p>\n\n<pre><code>RewriteEngine on\nRewriteRule ^(.*)\\.php$ $1.asp [nc]\n</code></pre>\n"
},
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] | Ahoy all! I've been racking my brain with this one.
I basically just converted all of my pages from ASP code to PHP code. Kept the same filenames.
So, here is the htaccess code I have so far, but it keeps redirecting to my ROOT.... ie /home/accountname/publc\_html...
What am I doing wrong?
```
RewriteRule (.*)\.a... | try adding a slash before the target url ($1) like:
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.asp$ /$1.php [R=301,NC]
``` |
38,179 | <p>I want to be able to import a heading, short description, and an image into my website, just using a link. </p>
<p>I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an extension myself. The problem is, I don't know where to look for example code, or what to look for. </p>
<p>To me it doesn't seem like t... | [
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I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an extension myself. The problem is, I don't know where to look for example code, or what to look for.
To me it doesn't seem like too difficult a pr... | The feature you are looking for is called OPEN GRAPH. Its just a bunch of meta tags you place in the head of your site which tell Facebook information about it. That way when someone shares your site on Facebook, Facebook will use that information to populate the post. This includes the share image.
Here are the meta... |
38,212 | <p>I am a web developer. I have been developing web sites professionally for 15+ years using ColdFusion, SQL Server, and jQuery.</p>
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I am doing a project for a client that uses the above technologies. The site has a mobile facet too. For that, I am using jQuery Mobile. The site enables retail store personnel to gather a stor... | The feature you are looking for is called OPEN GRAPH. Its just a bunch of meta tags you place in the head of your site which tell Facebook information about it. That way when someone shares your site on Facebook, Facebook will use that information to populate the post. This includes the share image.
Here are the meta... |
38,242 | <p>How to make redirect /index.html -> <code>/</code> in Apache?</p>
<pre><code>Redirect /index.html http://domain-name.com/
</code></pre>
<p>Is causeing infinite loop when opening home page.</p>
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```
Redirect /index.html http://domain-name.com/
```
Is causeing infinite loop when opening home page. | It is most likely causing an infinite loop as they are the same. The default pages in Apache are `index.html` and `index.htm.`
If the browser does not request a file name the web server will return one of those files if it finds them.
So When you go to `http://domain-name.com` you are actually viewing `http://domain-... |
38,323 | <p><a href="http://www.resrc.it" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Re-SRC</a> is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers a new image file each time the browser window (viewport) is resized.</p>
<p>To use it in your HTML when linking to an image, yo... | [
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To use it in your HTML when linking to an image, you would do the following:
```
<img src="http:/... | Hi Guys I actually work on ReSRC.it so I hope I can contribute wisely.
Thanks bybe for your accurate and insightful response.
With regards to the link juice I guess any juice would actually go to our app servers (app.resrc.it) rather than our actual website that sits on a different domain so we stand to gain nothing ... |
38,360 | <p>I used Weebly to build my website. My site is 'on' Google, but GWT is saying it can't detect any structured data. </p>
<p>Where and how do I do this? I understand what it is but don't know how to go about doing it.</p>
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"text": "<p>This <a href=\"http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170\" rel=\"nofollow\"... | 2012/11/28 | [
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Where and how do I do this? I understand what it is but don't know how to go about doing it. | This [article](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170) from Google describes it well. In short:
1. Pick a markup format (microdata, microformtats, RDFa).
2. Mark up your content according, for example using the formats described on <http://www.schema.org/>.
3. Test your markup with the [... |
38,410 | <p>I have a website with a handful (currently 3; I anticipate about a dozen when it's complete) of static html pages. I'd like to include "created" and "last-modified" dates in the pages for the benefit of visitors who arrive a week or a month or a few years from now. I expect anyone who cares to be viewing the sourc... | [
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"text": "<p>Since they are all static HTML pages you should create a server side include. A single HTML file that is inclu... | 2012/11/29 | [
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Alternatively:
Created 2012-11-29. Last modified 2012-12-01.
Trying to do use automated processes for this in the case of three static pages, probably to be modified once a year or so, would really be overkill. It would also be error-prone. Most “last modifi... |
38,437 | <p>I own a website which is regarding startups and finance. I am looking forward to work on Wordpress programming in which I would be selling wordpress themes. I thought of buying a domain name for Wordpress website but it takes quite lot of time to setup a website and then do its SEO. </p>
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"text": "<p>Any SEO you have done on your original domain will not automatically transfer to the subdomain, as it will be... | 2012/11/29 | [
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Is it fine(in terms of SEO and pro... | First of all remember that sub-domains are considered by the search engines as completely new domains different from the main domain. So you do not get any of the SEO benefits including Page Rank, Link Juice, etc. It is better to have a separate domain if you want to build a new site unrelated to the main site. SEO ben... |
38,479 | <p>The website is hosted on a shared server that supports SSL. The web hosting provider secures our website using SSL:</p>
<pre><code>https://domain.com instead of http://domain.com
</code></pre>
<p>Ever since then all the client HTTP requests sent to the server are redirected to my website. Leading <code>https://oth... | [
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```
https://domain.com instead of http://domain.com
```
Ever since then all the client HTTP requests sent to the server are redirected to my website. Leading `https://otherdomain.com` and I'm presented... | You should just do a check in the head of your website (I'm assuming it runs on PHP or something) and check the http-host header. If its yours, process normally, else redirect to an error page or generate a 404 or something.
That way your site keeps its content (and ranking) and the other domains that are sharing your... |
38,486 | <p>I saw Google Images seems to index my images only if hotlink protection is off. [*]</p>
<p>I use anyway hotlink protection because I don't like the idea of people sucking my bandwidth, i simply use this code to protcet my images from being hotlinked:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
... | [
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I use anyway hotlink protection because I don't like the idea of people sucking my bandwidth, i simply use this code to protcet my images from being hotlinked:
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_R... | `google.com`, `google.co.uk`, etc. are different domains and, therefor, if you only allow one then the others will be blocked.
So you have two options. You could write out every Google variant (and Bing variant if you wanted images in their results too, and for other search engines) as conditionals - but that is quite... |
38,548 | <p>I have 2 domains that are registered at GoDaddy :</p>
<pre><code>domaina.com (not hosted, only domain name is registered to GD)
domainb.com (hosted at a different webhost, domain name registered to GD)
</code></pre>
<p><code>domainb.com</code> is an already working site, with a different webhost, but the domain na... | [
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```
domaina.com (not hosted, only domain name is registered to GD)
domainb.com (hosted at a different webhost, domain name registered to GD)
```
`domainb.com` is an already working site, with a different webhost, but the domain name is registered to GoDaddy (and I as... | If the links pass PageRank, Google would regard them as a breach of [Webmaster Guidelines](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356) and may apply [penalties](http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-link-penalties-in-2012). Bing feel [much the same](http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmast... |
38,607 | <p>Is it possible to forward <code>firstdomain.com</code> to <code>www.seconddomain.com</code> or <code>seconddomain.com</code> using purely DNS records? </p>
<p>I know how to forward <code>www.firstdomain.com</code> to <code>seconddomain.com</code> (using a CNAME).</p>
<p>What I am trying to do is move my site from ... | [
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I know how to forward `www.firstdomain.com` to `seconddomain.com` (using a CNAME).
What I am trying to do is move my site from one domain to another (new) one, and not break all the links that use th... | I eventually gave in and solved this with a Apache config redirect (although I wanted to do it with pure DNS it looks like this is not possible...)
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /www/html/firstdomain.com
ServerName firstdomain.com
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ http://seconddomain.com$1
ErrorLog logs/firstdomain.com-e... |