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38,611 | <p>I have been attacked for weeks by the same spambot trying to brute force the login page. I have a login security module now installed on my Drupal 6 website and it bans on IP after x amount of attempts. It's been going on for ever and I have banned about 1000 IP addresses.</p>
<p>Is there any point in me banning on... | [
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"text": "<p>In your <code>robots.txt</code> file put </p>\n\n<pre><code>user-agent: AhrefsBot\ndisallow: /\n</code></pre>\n... | 2012/12/05 | [
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Is there any point in me banning on IP due to... | In your `robots.txt` file put
```
user-agent: AhrefsBot
disallow: /
```
from <http://ahrefs.com/robot/> |
38,618 | <p>Currently i'm migrating www. prefix from my urls and use htaccess to do the job.
Since we have new software and cleaned database some of the old urls doesnt exists anymore.</p>
<p>Therefore some requests redirect to 404 page.</p>
<pre><code>1. www.domain.com/old-page # htaccess redirect to non-www url, 301
2. doma... | [
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"text": "<p>Answering your question is a fairly complex matter. As a few 404's doesn't hurt your site in general (whether or... | 2012/12/05 | [
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Since we have new software and cleaned database some of the old urls doesnt exists anymore.
Therefore some requests redirect to 404 page.
```
1. www.domain.com/old-page # htaccess redirect to non-www url, 301
2. domain.com/old-page # pag... | Answering your question is a fairly complex matter. As a few 404's doesn't hurt your site in general (whether or not they come from 301 redirects), but pages with good and wellwrtitten content which no longer exists can.
I'll refer you to a [Google official Webmaster Central Blog post](http://googlewebmastercentral.bl... |
38,635 | <p>Hi all I'm in the process of finding out all about sprites and how they can speed up your pages.</p>
<p>So I've used spriteMe to create a overall sprite image which is 130kb, this is made up of 14 images with a combined total size of about 65kb</p>
<p>So is it better to have one http request and a file size of 130... | [
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"text": "<p>What file format is your sprite? Have you tried to re-create it in photoshop and compress it as much as possib... | 2012/12/05 | [
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So I've used spriteMe to create a overall sprite image which is 130kb, this is made up of 14 images with a combined total size of about 65kb
So is it better to have one http request and a file size of 130kb or 14 requests... | At this point, you'll have to make a choice based on some aspects having both good and bad effects.
1. **Sending multiple HTTP requests isn't necessary evil.** Having 1 for images is perfect and having 2 is very very good too. Remember
that what makes HTTP request slow is the time when the browser and
server communica... |
38,664 | <p>I have the domain <a href="http://dropbox.tombrito.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dropbox.tombrito.com/</a> (on GoDaddy) forwarding with masking to <a href="http://www.dropbox.com/sh/k6ypvx4y4kf0gu6/rdjxQ1b1OL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">www.dropbox.com/sh/k6ypvx4y4kf0gu6/rdjxQ1b1OL</a></p>
<p>It was working... | [
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"text": "<p>Masked forwarding uses frames to display the site being redirected to. For dropbox that does not appear t... | 2012/12/06 | [
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] | I have the domain <http://dropbox.tombrito.com/> (on GoDaddy) forwarding with masking to [www.dropbox.com/sh/k6ypvx4y4kf0gu6/rdjxQ1b1OL](http://www.dropbox.com/sh/k6ypvx4y4kf0gu6/rdjxQ1b1OL)
It was working fine some time ago, but now the result is a blank page (although the Dropbox's favicon appears correctly in the b... | Masked forwarding uses frames to display the site being redirected to. For dropbox that does not appear to work. You may want to use use a regular redirect instead.
```
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>dropbox.tombrito.com</title>
</... |
38,694 | <p>About three months ago we added an English version of our, previously Japanese only, site under the subfolder /en/ we've tried to follow the sometimes incomplete best practices laid out by Google by adding alternate tags to all pages that are currently translated. The top page for instance has the following meta ta... | [
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"text": "<p>Subdirectories aren't themselves an issue: I've worked with successfully geotargeted sites which are organised th... | 2012/12/07 | [
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One possible problem I can see with your code above is use of the canonical link element. Originally [Googl... |
38,704 | <p>I've just come across this protection code:</p>
<pre><code><!--hppage status="protected"-->
</code></pre>
<p>It hides the html and page code from anyone who wants to right click and view source. I can't see a work around to this - so its great...</p>
<p>However is this terrible for SEO?</p>
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"text": "<p>That's just a comment. You can use view source from your browser menus. However if the rest of the page cont... | 2012/12/07 | [
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```
<!--hppage status="protected"-->
```
It hides the html and page code from anyone who wants to right click and view source. I can't see a work around to this - so its great...
However is this terrible for SEO? | That's just a comment. You can use view source from your browser menus. However if the rest of the page contains javascript which obscures the page somehow then that won't run when search engines crawl it, so they won't see the content of the page. So yes, bad for SEO. |
38,710 | <p>Google Webmaster Tools shows problems with duplicate title tags under <em>Optimization -> HTML Improvements</em>, for example:</p>
<pre><code>ราคาแอร์ Mitsubishi Electric Mr. Slim PC Series PC-3KAKLT (220V) 30000 BTU
> /แอร์-ราคา/mitsubishi-mr-slim-pc3kaklt-30000-btu.html
> /แอร์-ราคา/mitsubishi-mr-slim-pc3... | [
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"text": "<p>You could try 301 redirecting the URL with the parameter to the main URL. </p>\n\n<p>Also, did you a... | 2012/12/07 | [
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```
ราคาแอร์ Mitsubishi Electric Mr. Slim PC Series PC-3KAKLT (220V) 30000 BTU
> /แอร์-ราคา/mitsubishi-mr-slim-pc3kaklt-30000-btu.html
> /แอร์-ราคา/mitsubishi-mr-slim-pc3kaklt-30000-btu.html?catego... | Google Webmaster Tools is still reporting the issue, but are both URLs *actually* still in the index? GWT is a great tool, but it's far from infallible. It could be that the canonical link element or the parameters tool worked, but the change wasn't immediately reflected in GWT.
**"… a rel-canonical tag is set…"**
It... |
38,729 | <p>I recently enabled CloudFlare on my domain, and when I make HTML statements like this:</p>
<pre><code><link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</code></pre>
<p>The CSS gets displayed in-line, like this:</p>
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] | I recently enabled CloudFlare on my domain, and when I make HTML statements like this:
```
<link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" />
```
The CSS gets displayed in-line, like this:
```
<style>body{padding-top:40px}span.light{font-weight:lighter!important}span.title{font-size:60px;line-height:1;letter-spacing:-1p... | You might struggle to find a unicode character to represent "view", but you'll find plenty of web font based icon sets with an eye or view concept.
For example, [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) – the icon web font used in Twitter Bootstrap – has an icon called 'icon-eye-open' that might do t... |
38,739 | <p>I recently got a malware on my website. I have made the backup of the website on my computer and trying to wipe off my FTP. I am trying to delete the root folder but getting this error message on all of the malicious files,</p>
<pre><code>Response: 550 Could not delete index.php: Permission denied
</code></pre>
... | [
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```
Response: 550 Could not delete index.php: Permission denied
```
I am the sole administr... | You might struggle to find a unicode character to represent "view", but you'll find plenty of web font based icon sets with an eye or view concept.
For example, [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) – the icon web font used in Twitter Bootstrap – has an icon called 'icon-eye-open' that might do t... |
38,754 | <p>I am making a HTML page that is unpublished and that I just started. The first thing I wanted to do was add a favicon to appear next to the title. I'm using google chrome and I noticed that other websites have favicons that appear next to the title in the browser, but mine wont show up. I'm new to favicons. The site... | [
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"text": "<pre><code><link href=\"favicon.ico\" rel=\"shortcut icon\" />\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Try this.</p>\n\n<... | 2012/12/08 | [
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The reason why is ... |
38,755 | <p>I am developing a website that should be multi languages.</p>
<p>I would like your opinions about what the best way to do it, considering get the most SEO possible.</p>
<p>I have these alternatives:</p>
<p><strong>Altarnative 1:</strong> Separate domains</p>
<pre><code>http://www.miweb.com -- English for default... | [
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I would like your opinions about what the best way to do it, considering get the most SEO possible.
I have these alternatives:
**Altarnative 1:** Separate domains
```
http://www.miweb.com -- English for default
http://www.miweb.com.fr
http://www.miweb.com.es... | Wherever feasible, ccTLDs should be first preference. Google [recognise them and try to target](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182192&ctx=cb&src=cb&cbid=1czj59e1j1nw5&cbrank=2#2) a site accordingly.
User preference should be considered too, as users in some countries exhibit strong pr... |
38,778 | <p>I'm renting server space from someone and, upon logging in my control panel after quite sometime, noticed an abnormal spike (~50MB) in the disk usage. Upon investigating, I found a lot of core.* files scattered around my public_html directory. Each one is more than 5MB in size but no more than 6MB. The * part is all... | [
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"text": "<p>Core files contain the image of the process' memory at the time of its termination (i.e. when it crashed). They ... | 2012/12/09 | [
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If you're seeing lots of them and they are recreated fast, I would invest some time in debugging which specific program crashed and why... |
38,823 | <p>I saw a technique used where there was a block with three parts:<br />
1. Image (wrapped in an anchor tag)<br />
2. Heading (anchor tag with heading text)<br />
3. Paragraph (regular p tag with synopsis content)<br /></p>
<pre><code>e.g.
<li class="block">
<a rel="nofollow" class="thumb" href="#"><i... | [
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"text": "<p>Matt Cutts suggested letting link juice flow and to not try and sculpt your PageRank</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:/... | 2012/12/11 | [
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1. Image (wrapped in an anchor tag)
2. Heading (anchor tag with heading text)
3. Paragraph (regular p tag with synopsis content)
```
e.g.
<li class="block">
<a rel="nofollow" class="thumb" href="#"><img src="images/placeholder_service_thumbna... | Matt Cutts suggested letting link juice flow and to not try and sculpt your PageRank
<http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/>
It's pointless to set `nofollow` on an internal link going to an image with a relative path. Googl's smart guys, they spend millions on their algorithm so do you think that is fooli... |
38,943 | <p>I've successfully installed PHP 5.2 and it runs as CGI. </p>
<p>(5.3 is my default running on mod, or as the phpinfo says "Server API: Apache 2.0 Handler")</p>
<p>Ultimately I want to put something like <code>AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52</code> in the .htaccess file of the directory I want to run it in. is... | [
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(5.3 is my default running on mod, or as the phpinfo says "Server API: Apache 2.0 Handler")
Ultimately I want to put something like `AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52` in the .htaccess file of the directory I want to run it in. is that defined somewhere? (si... | I've figured it out.
**in /etc/apache/apache2.conf (or httpd.conf)**
```
ScriptAlias /php52-cgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php52-cgi
Action application/x-httpd-php52 /php52-cgi
```
**in .htaccess (or virtualhost)**
```
<FilesMatch "\.php">
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php52
</FilesMatch>
#AddHandler application/x-httpd-ph... |
38,945 | <p>There is something I don't understand in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) for my WordPress site.</p>
<p>In menu "Blocked URLs", it mention that my <em>robots.txt</em> has never been downloaded but there are some blocked URLs. It's kind of weird and not logical. Am I missing something?</p>
<pre><code>User-agent : *
Dis... | [
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In menu "Blocked URLs", it mention that my *robots.txt* has never been downloaded but there are some blocked URLs. It's kind of weird and not logical. Am I missing something?
```
User-agent : *
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /wp-log... | Problem comes from encoding of the *robots.txt* file. `UTF-8` encoding is recommended by Google. |
38,959 | <p>This is sort of a goofy setup, but it's not in my power to reconfigure it at this time. I'm running in a shared hosting environment.</p>
<p>The domain is <code>example.com</code>. This is an add-on domain on the host side with <code>example.com</code> being redirected to the <code>www/example.com</code> sub-directo... | [
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"text": "<p>It's not exactly what you are looking for but... You could simply create an add-on domain for your \"tracker... | 2012/12/14 | [
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The domain is `example.com`. This is an add-on domain on the host side with `example.com` being redirected to the `www/example.com` sub-directory. That directory houses a standard WordPr... | You should be able to add a rewrite condition to prevent WordPress from taking over the URLs for tracker: `RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !tracker/`
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN... |
38,977 | <p>Google Webmaster Tools says that my sitemap is in a wrong format. I don't see my mistake, I think I followed every guideline provided by Google.</p>
<p>Can someone help me?</p>
<p>Inline sitemap below, but in case it comes from meta data (e.g. headers): orignial is <a href="http://www.vocalcontraste.fr/sitemap.xml... | [
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Can someone help me?
Inline sitemap below, but in case it comes from meta data (e.g. headers): orignial is <http://www.vocalcontraste.fr/sitemap.xml>
```
<?xml version="1.0... | OK, I found the problem.
My site uses [SPIP3](http://www.spip.net) which has a bug when the sitemap is GET by googlebot
see <http://forum.spip.net/fr_245670.html?tri_recherche=date>
Just fix config/ecran\_securite.php by adding an `@` before `array_shift()` somewhere near to the end of file.
(edit) I forgot: thanks... |
38,979 | <p>A forum I run has been the victim of spam user accounts recently - several accounts that have been registered and the profile fill with advertising/links. All of this is for the same company, or group of companies.</p>
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/38979",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
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] | A forum I run has been the victim of spam user accounts recently - several accounts that have been registered and the profile fill with advertising/links. All of this is for the same company, or group of companies.
I deleted several accounts weeks ago and blocked some IP addresses, but today they have come back with t... | 1.
--
They seem to be coming from a DSL connection so after they post the message, if they disconnect from the internet and reconnect again, they will get a different IP
2.
--
Yes, there's a limit so block only the class you're sure you have spam coming from in order to limit 'false positives'.
Using [APNIC's Whois... |
39,000 | <p>I am having a problem with my RewriteRule for the querystring portion. What I am able to debug is that the rule is being triggered at least because the page "tags.php" is being rendered but without the URL parameters. This .htaccess file with the rules is within the root folder for my sub-domain and has the followin... | [
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] | I am having a problem with my RewriteRule for the querystring portion. What I am able to debug is that the rule is being triggered at least because the page "tags.php" is being rendered but without the URL parameters. This .htaccess file with the rules is within the root folder for my sub-domain and has the following c... | Various causes are possible here. It would be helpful to know more about your setup (folder layout, virtual host configuration and especially any other contents of your .htaccess files). Some things that come to my mind:
As Eric Brandel points out, mod\_rewrite will apply *all* rules present in your .htaccess file (or... |
39,026 | <p>My site, www.example.com has a MyBB forum installation, and has many users constantly checking it out. I would like to make a major change to it - basically, I want to delete everything it has and start clean.</p>
<p>However, this rebuilding process may take me hours since I need to do a lot of things. Thus, whenev... | [
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"text": "<p>Try using .htaccess!</p>\n\n<pre><code># Turn on mod_rewrite \nRewriteEngine On\n\n# If not your IP addre... | 2012/12/15 | [
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] | My site, www.example.com has a MyBB forum installation, and has many users constantly checking it out. I would like to make a major change to it - basically, I want to delete everything it has and start clean.
However, this rebuilding process may take me hours since I need to do a lot of things. Thus, whenever an user... | Try using .htaccess!
```
# Turn on mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
# If not your IP address
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^**\.**\.**\.**
# and not the temporary page
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/maintenance\.
# redirect to temporary page
RewriteRule /*$ /maintenance.php [L]
```
I think the above might help you a... |
39,035 | <p>Here's the situation. I got a TLD for my blogger blog and set it up using the instructions from blogger. Blogger asks to:</p>
<pre><code>Add two CNAME records. For the first CNAME, where it says Name, Label or Host enter "www" and where it says Destination, Target orPoints To enter "ghs.google.com" . For the secon... | [
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```
Add two CNAME records. For the first CNAME, where it says Name, Label or Host enter "www" and where it says Destination, Target orPoints To enter "ghs.google.com" . For the second CNAME, enter ... | You may want to keep CloudFlare off on that record temporarily (gray cloud) so that Google can verify it correctly (we have seen similar issues with other services). You should then be able to re-enable (orange cloud) after it has been verified. |
39,051 | <p>A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:</p>
<pre><code>/i/img/
/images/
/img/
</code></pre>
<p>Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/36434/what-should-filenames-and-urls-of-images-contain-for-seo-benefi... | [
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] | A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:
```
/i/img/
/images/
/img/
```
Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page [SEO](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/36434/what-should-filenames-and-urls-of-images-contain-for-seo-benefit), code maintainability, fil... | I personally use a bit of both... I place all the images with a general purposes (things like : design, icons, site content, sprites, etc..) in a single directory.
Then for everything related to a single "thing" on my website, by example a .jpg avatar related to a single user, I put that in a specific directory but in... |
39,088 | <p>For years I've been using the following directory structure for my websites:</p>
<pre><code><root>
->js
->jquery.js
->tooltip.js
->someplugin.js
->css
->styles.css
->someplugin.css
->images
-> all website images...
</code></pre>
<p>it seemed perfectly ... | [
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] | For years I've been using the following directory structure for my websites:
```
<root>
->js
->jquery.js
->tooltip.js
->someplugin.js
->css
->styles.css
->someplugin.css
->images
-> all website images...
```
it seemed perfectly fine to me until I began to use different 3rd-party compone... | I always create a lib directory for third party components, you really don't want to be changing third party libraries unless it is strictly necessary.
Go with the 3rd option. |
39,101 | <p>Currently, my webpage images use the alt attribute only.<br>
Users complain that their IE8 cannot show the "tooltip" bubble when they mouse over the image. On Microsoft's <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288472.aspx" rel="nofollow">What's New in Internet Explorer 8</a> page, it says</p>
<blockquot... | [
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] | Currently, my webpage images use the alt attribute only.
Users complain that their IE8 cannot show the "tooltip" bubble when they mouse over the image. On Microsoft's [What's New in Internet Explorer 8](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288472.aspx) page, it says
>
> The alt attribute is no longer displaye... | Many CMSes place that content in both the `title` and the `alt` attributes, but those attributes do have different semantic meanings. Whereas `title` is explicitly meant to be used for tooltips, `alt` is (a) what's read to visually impaired users, and (b) what gets rendered if the image doesn't load for some reason. If... |
39,134 | <p>I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is <code>sitemap_index.xml</code> file in the root directory which contains the following code:</p>
<pre><code><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css... | [
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] | I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is `sitemap_index.xml` file in the root directory which contains the following code:
```
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/xml-sitemap-xsl.php"?>
<sit... | Just submit the master sitemap. It's purpose is to tell them about the other sitemaps so there is no need to submit them. |
39,162 | <p>I have seen many websites supporting multiple forms of the same URL. For example consider</p>
<ul>
<li><code>www.example.com/question1/</code> OR</li>
<li><code>www.example.com/Question1/</code> OR</li>
<li><code>www.example.com/QUESTION1/</code> etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>all lead to one page with say</p>
<pre><code><li... | [
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] | I have seen many websites supporting multiple forms of the same URL. For example consider
* `www.example.com/question1/` OR
* `www.example.com/Question1/` OR
* `www.example.com/QUESTION1/` etc.
all lead to one page with say
```
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/question1/" >
```
or a 301 redirect ... | If there are crawlers not following your robots.txt rules you will need to ban them by IP. Placing their user agent's into your robots.txt to ban does nothing if they aren't following it's rules. |
39,224 | <p>In my htaccess I have some rewrited urls like these:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^first-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^second-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^third-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=161 [QSA,L]
</code></pre>
<p>So the final result is: <code>www.mywebsite.com... | [
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] | In my htaccess I have some rewrited urls like these:
```
RewriteRule ^first-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^second-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^third-page$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=161 [QSA,L]
```
So the final result is: `www.mywebsite.com/subdir/first-page`
Now I woul... | Try either
```
RewriteRule ^first-page/$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^second-page/$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^third-page/$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=161 [QSA,L]
```
or
```
RewriteRule ^first-page /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^second-page /subdir/page.php?id_... |
39,226 | <p>I saw this in cpanel whm on Exhaustive Options List</p>
<blockquote>
<p>CurlSSL [More Info ↑] This option will make the following changes
to your profile prior to the build:</p>
<p>Disables: Curl</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Which option should I choose?</p>
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] | I saw this in cpanel whm on Exhaustive Options List
>
> CurlSSL [More Info ↑] This option will make the following changes
> to your profile prior to the build:
>
>
> Disables: Curl
>
>
>
Why?
Which option should I choose? | Try either
```
RewriteRule ^first-page/$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^second-page/$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^third-page/$ /subdir/page.php?id_page=161 [QSA,L]
```
or
```
RewriteRule ^first-page /subdir/page.php?id_page=1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^second-page /subdir/page.php?id_... |
39,337 | <p>My favicon will not show up. I have searched the site for similar questions and I do not see where I am going wrong. Here is my tag:</p>
<pre><code><head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
</code></pre>
<p>Do you see anything wrong here? I have my favicon.ico in the ... | [
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] | My favicon will not show up. I have searched the site for similar questions and I do not see where I am going wrong. Here is my tag:
```
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
```
Do you see anything wrong here? I have my favicon.ico in the correct directory. I am testing this l... | >
> I have read in many places that one should use Google Webmaster preferably to the site: command. [] I would like to know where the google site command takes its information from?
>
>
>
The information comes from the same place: their search index.
>
> The problem is that Google Webmaster's index status is up... |
39,398 | <p>My dns zone contains a loopback:</p>
<pre><code>localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
</code></pre>
<p>Do I need it, and if so why? I can't think of a reason to have it here, especially as - without a dot - it would be <code>localhost.example.com</code></p>
| [
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] | My dns zone contains a loopback:
```
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
```
Do I need it, and if so why? I can't think of a reason to have it here, especially as - without a dot - it would be `localhost.example.com` | This answer on ServerFault explains what this localhost entry is for <https://serverfault.com/questions/120769/localhost-in-a-dns-zone>
>
> `localhost.example.com` is sometimes included on internal DNS servers to prevent "localhost" requests leaking out to the internet (for the case where John Smith types `http://loc... |
39,402 | <p>I have a navigational links in a php page <code>nav.php</code>, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below</p>
<pre><code>+top_folder
-config.php
+includes_folder
-nav.php (conatins links to all pages in my website)
+courses_folder
-course1.ph... | [
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"text": "<blockquote>\n <p>Google has crawled top_folder/courses_folder/nav.php page also. The\n links are not proper bac... | 2012/12/27 | [
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] | I have a navigational links in a php page `nav.php`, Which is included in all pages of my website. I have got folder structure like below
```
+top_folder
-config.php
+includes_folder
-nav.php (conatins links to all pages in my website)
+courses_folder
-course1.php
-course2.php
... | >
> Google has crawled top\_folder/courses\_folder/nav.php page also. The
> links are not proper bacause $main\_url is null in this case.
>
>
>
If I understand correctly then the 404's have resulted from Google crawling a page that it shouldn't have. And you see the 404's in Google Webmaster Tools? People are not... |
39,494 | <p>I need to perform an equivalent rewrite to:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^/this%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
</code></pre>
<p>How do I handle the %20?</p>
<p>I have tried </p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^/this\%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
</code></pre>
<p>and </p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^/this(\s|%20)fi... | [
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] | I need to perform an equivalent rewrite to:
```
RewriteRule ^/this%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
```
How do I handle the %20?
I have tried
```
RewriteRule ^/this\%20file.pdf http://www.example.com/
```
and
```
RewriteRule ^/this(\s|%20)file.pdf http://www.example.com/
```
but these have not worked.
Th... | You shouldn't need to use percent encoding/hexcode in mod\_rewrite parameters since mod\_rewrite will encode special characters (`?`, `#`, , `&`, etc.) by default. To write a space in the rewrite pattern, use `\s` or just escape the space with a backslash (`\`). Whether space gets encoded as `%20` or `+` depends on whe... |
39,502 | <p>Though this topic : <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3588/how-do-spambots-work">How do spambots work?</a> is related and enlightening but it talks about general spam logic. Moreover it is really difficult to follow many anti-spam measures mentioned in it in case of CMS based sites like Joomla,... | [
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] | Though this topic : [How do spambots work?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3588/how-do-spambots-work) is related and enlightening but it talks about general spam logic. Moreover it is really difficult to follow many anti-spam measures mentioned in it in case of CMS based sites like Joomla, Drupal, Wordp... | An old trick was to use a hidden field in the registration form of your site. I would assume this still works, but I'm not 100%
Assuming that you require people to register before they can post, you want to make a form field that will catch only spambots. You do that by hiding it from normal users using CSS.
An examp... |
39,521 | <p>I want to provide friendlyurls to my visitors on my venue site.
Visitors should be able to easily type the name of a region to access the venues in that specific region.</p>
<p>Like </p>
<pre><code>www.mydomain.com/<cityname>
</code></pre>
<p>and </p>
<pre><code>www.mydomain.com/<statename>/<city... | [
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Visitors should be able to easily type the name of a region to access the venues in that specific region.
Like
```
www.mydomain.com/<cityname>
```
and
```
www.mydomain.com/<statename>/<cityname>
```
For example:
www.mydomain.com/houston and www... | Personally I would do the opposite canonical - ie set `/texas/houston` as canon instead of `/houston` - the main reason being to avoid name clashes with identical names in other states. A URL of `/springfield` could be a little confusing, even if you are showing a specific Springfield page. You also get an extra keywor... |
39,592 | <p>Currently we have the domain name <code>company.com</code> (I'm using 'company' rather than our name for anonymity).</p>
<p>I'm getting ready to purchase several more like <code>*.org</code>, <code>*.net</code>, etc to prevent others from registering them and to avoid confusion for our users.</p>
<p>Now I have hea... | [
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] | Currently we have the domain name `company.com` (I'm using 'company' rather than our name for anonymity).
I'm getting ready to purchase several more like `*.org`, `*.net`, etc to prevent others from registering them and to avoid confusion for our users.
Now I have heard that a China company is considering registering... | This is a classic domain registrar scam. Don't buy them. First off, unless you're operating in China/Taiwan/India, those domains are worthless to you. Secondly, you'll be be encouraging more such scams in the future.
What I'd do is try to trick the scammer that you are interested in registering those domains, and see ... |
39,606 | <p>At the moment, Google Site Search isn't really working for me. I checked Google Cache and it says that the site was last updated on Dec 16 back when there was very little content.</p>
<p>How do I get Google to re-index the website so that it can find the new content?</p>
<p>Is there anything I can do programatical... | [
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How do I get Google to re-index the website so that it can find the new content?
Is there anything I can do programatically for this to ha... | If your site is new then Google won't have established a suitable crawl rate. You can submit new or updated pages in Google Webmaster Tools:
1. Goto Health > Fetch as Google
2. Specify a URL or leave blank for the home page and click `Fetch`
3. Once the page has been fetched there will be another button `Submit to ind... |
39,664 | <p>I use bluhost web hosting.</p>
<p>I already have <code>mysite1.com</code>. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. <code>mysite2.com</code>, <code>mysite3.com</code>, and so on. All sites will have the same content as <code>mysite1.com</code>.</p>
<p>How can I do it in fastest... | [
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I already have `mysite1.com`. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. `mysite2.com`, `mysite3.com`, and so on. All sites will have the same content as `mysite1.com`.
How can I do it in fastest possible way ? | Steps are as follow:
1. Copy the root folder of mysite1.com, in your case folder is **mysite1**.
2. Paste it in the root of your hosting and rename it as **mysite2**.
3. Go to **MySql database** of mysite1.com and **export** the data.
4. Create another database, mysite2data and import the data to this database.
5. Now... |
39,765 | <p>I have just been peeking at the source code of a web page.</p>
<p>I notice that there is a CSS rule that defines what seems to be a rare font for some nice-looking subheadings.</p>
<p>Html (<a href="http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/go-agile-release-management-landing-page/more-about-go?&referrer=70150000000... | [
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I notice that there is a CSS rule that defines what seems to be a rare font for some nice-looking subheadings.
Html ([Source file](http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/go-agile-release-management-landing-page/more-about-go?&referrer=70150000000K580&gclid=CKa9h... | They're using [font embedding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_embedding_on_the_Web), through [TypeKit](https://typekit.com/). This can also be accomplished locally by using your own properly-formatted font files, either by converting them with desktop font creation software or services such as font Squirrel (cf. [pr... |
39,774 | <p>One month ago, I updated all the product URLs on my site which were separated by <code>_</code> sign to be separated by <code>-</code> sign.</p>
<p>Example: </p>
<pre><code>.com/Calipers/Insize_1108
</code></pre>
<p>now looks like</p>
<pre><code>.com/Calipers/Insize-1108
</code></pre>
<p>There were nearly 1200 ... | [
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Example:
```
.com/Calipers/Insize_1108
```
now looks like
```
.com/Calipers/Insize-1108
```
There were nearly 1200 links updated, and it is showing in webmaster tools as crawl errors. I marked ... | You should have set up 301 (Permanent) redirects from your old URLs to the new as soon as you changed them. Do this now to correct all the crawl errors and Google (and other search engines) will update their index to the new URLs. How quickly this happens will depend on Google's crawl rate of your site.
With a 301 red... |
39,777 | <p>Is there a way to make something like the image below using text-based HTML/mathML. My concern is with the arrows over the letter v. This is for iOS (webKit); I'd rather not use mathJAX or the like if I can help it.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/K0PvG.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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"text": "<p>I found this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>2v&#8407;+w&#8407;=0&#8407;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>2v͈... | 2013/01/05 | [
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 | I found this:
```
2v⃗+w⃗=0⃗
```
2v⃗+w⃗=0⃗
It would be nice if there were a more intuitive way to do it. But at least it works. |
39,830 | <p>My client reports that [this page][1] I designed is blocked by his antivirus (Norton) : . The rest of the website is not blocked. Do you have any idea why Norton would block this page ? The report says "web attack: mass injection website 5".</p>
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"text": "<p>probably someone injected malicious js code in the page.\nbut checking with google it doesn't seem that ther... | 2013/01/06 | [
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Excerpt reproduced below:
```
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"
>
try{window.document.body++}catch(gdsgsdg){dbshre=242;}if(dbshre){asd=0;
try{d=document.c... |
39,837 | <p>Would it theoretically be possible to detect (e.g. via JavaScript) if a user queries a webpage with the Windows shortcut <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd>, or the Mac-equivalent <kbd>Command</kbd> + <kbd>F</kbd> in their browser?</p>
<p>The first step would be to detect whether that function was called, but it'd be a ... | [
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The first step would be to detect whether that function was called, but it'd be a different ball game to track their keystrokes.... | If you want capture the event keyboard `Ctrl` + `F` and continue with the opening of the standard searchbox of the browser, you could do this:
```
var KEY_CTRL = 17;
var KEY_f = 70;
var isReserved = false;
var useExclusiveKeyEvent = false;
var isNewSearchEvent = false;
/*THIS VARIABLE IS RENDERED BY SERVER SIDE*/
va... |
39,859 | <p>I would like to know what is the delay between page indexing and ranking for new sites?</p>
<p>Assuming pages are visible with the <code>site</code> command, how much time before one sees them in search results? I have read there can be a significant delay for new websites. Did you observe this on your sites?</p>
... | [
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Assuming pages are visible with the `site` command, how much time before one sees them in search results? I have read there can be a significant delay for new websites. Did you observe this on your sites?
I would like to know when... | If you want capture the event keyboard `Ctrl` + `F` and continue with the opening of the standard searchbox of the browser, you could do this:
```
var KEY_CTRL = 17;
var KEY_f = 70;
var isReserved = false;
var useExclusiveKeyEvent = false;
var isNewSearchEvent = false;
/*THIS VARIABLE IS RENDERED BY SERVER SIDE*/
va... |
39,860 | <p>I have a website which caters to a specific district. It is of no use if the visitor is from outside this district. </p>
<p><strong>Question:</strong>
Can I tell/indicate to search engines (mainly google and Yahoo) that this website be included in their search results only if the search is generated from a specific... | [
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**Question:**
Can I tell/indicate to search engines (mainly google and Yahoo) that this website be included in their search results only if the search is generated from a specific district or a geograph... | If you want capture the event keyboard `Ctrl` + `F` and continue with the opening of the standard searchbox of the browser, you could do this:
```
var KEY_CTRL = 17;
var KEY_f = 70;
var isReserved = false;
var useExclusiveKeyEvent = false;
var isNewSearchEvent = false;
/*THIS VARIABLE IS RENDERED BY SERVER SIDE*/
va... |
39,950 | <p>I am not sure how to markup accepted payment methods for an offer.</p>
<p>Here are the Schema.org types:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="http://schema.org/Offer" rel="nofollow">Offer</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://schema.org/PaymentMethod" rel="nofollow">PaymentMethod</a></p></li>
</ul>
<p>Here is my basic example,... | [
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"text": "<p>CloudFlare works great. I use them for several sites.</p>\n\n<p>Here's a very basic summary of how it ... | 2013/01/09 | [
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Here are the Schema.org types:
* [Offer](http://schema.org/Offer)
* [PaymentMethod](http://schema.org/PaymentMethod)
Here is my basic example, is this correct?
```html
<div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<span itemprop="name"... | CloudFlare works great. I use them for several sites.
Here's a very basic summary of how it works:
* You update your DNS settings so that traffic to your site goes through CloudFlare first.
* Because they protect a large number of websites they are able to see things, like IP addresses, that are responsible for unusu... |
41,007 | <p>As the resident "IT Whiz" at work (ie: I know how to use a computer) I've been asked to develop a website for our small business. I've altered a wordpress theme for the time being and the company is very happy with the results. The only problem I am having with it at the moment is that for some reason the website do... | [
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"text": "<p>A good starting point would be a code editor with validation. One example would be Aptana Studio 3 ... | 2013/01/09 | [
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] | As the resident "IT Whiz" at work (ie: I know how to use a computer) I've been asked to develop a website for our small business. I've altered a wordpress theme for the time being and the company is very happy with the results. The only problem I am having with it at the moment is that for some reason the website does ... | Fixing your [HTML validation errors](http://tinyurl.com/awkwczn) will actually bring you a long way to solving your problem. There are probably only about 4 "critical" errors, and most of the others are as a result of these few.
To get you started...
**Line#10** - You have an erroneous double quote inside your `conte... |
41,013 | <p>I managed to do it with <a href="http://alfasin.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">my blog</a> like this:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cSXoi.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):</p>
<pre><code><link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.co... | [
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by using google+ (found it somewhere on the web):
```
<link rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/115170983146246266025/"/>
```
**UPDATE:**
This is the way to display the "aut... | [According](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170) to Google
>
> If Google understands the content on your pages, we can create rich snippets—detailed information intended to help users with specific queries. For example, the snippet for a restaurant might show the average review and p... |
41,021 | <p>I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>http://www.example.com</code></li>
<li><code>http://child.example.com</code></li>
</ul>
<p>How can I hide <strong>all</strong> URLs of <code>child.example.com</code> domain which are currently showing... | [
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] | I have a subomain which I do not want to be listed in any search engine result. Let say I have:
* `http://www.example.com`
* `http://child.example.com`
How can I hide **all** URLs of `child.example.com` domain which are currently showing in the search engine results? | In the root of the directory of the subdomain website, add a file called robots.txt containing:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
This will tell web crawlers not to index the site at all. They do not have to obey, but the main ones will. |
41,052 | <p>I updated my meta description tag for my comics website about two months back now, but the search engine is still picking up my footer "Acceptable User Policy" text for some reason.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ni7RV.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/... | [
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"text": "<p>How fast your site is automatically recrawled depends, among other things, on your Google karma. Which ... | 2013/01/10 | [
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 the meta description.
(Google updated its cache of your homepage less than two weeks ago on 28 Dec 2012.)
---
**EDIT (2013-01-15):** Interesting to note that I... |
41,082 | <p>I need to set up Google Webmaster Tools for several of my clients. Is it alright to add multiple sites under my own Google account and then add clients as other owners if they need access? If further down the line my clients decide they want control would setting it up like this cause problems?</p>
<p>Any advice ap... | [
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Any advice appreciated,... | I usually create free outlook.com or gmail.com adresses like this:
```
client.projectname@email.com
client.otherproject@email.com
```
Whenever they want to remove me completely, I simply hand over the account and they may change the passwords themselves. |
41,098 | <p>I recently received an email from GWT saying that one of my URL's traffic has suddenly dropped. As it turned out the traffic to the whole site has drastically dropped, from some 300+ unique visitors to less than 10 a day.</p>
<p>After doing some investigation, it turns out that sometimes when you load the website, ... | [
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After doing some investigation, it turns out that sometimes when you load the website, the source... | I can confirm that there is some malware or misconfiguration interfering with your site. I'm using the command line client called curl. When I make a request with curl, I get something like this:
```
$ curl -D - http://ps3theme.net/ -s
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Expires: Sat, 6 May 1995 12:00:00 GMT
P3P: CP=NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM ... |
41,122 | <p>I am running my website with CodeIgniter framework. I have setup cdn using cname cdn.domain.com which is being indexed by Google. And the content of the both domain.com and cdn.domain.com is having same content and is being considered as duplicated resulting ranking issue. I tried contacting the developer and he was... | [
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As DKOATED suggested you can add the CDN to the Webmaster Tools as remove these URLS but thi... |
41,124 | <p>Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed.</p>
<p>They all mention <code>joomla/</code> which is not the CMS used on this domain (it's WordPress fyi). </p>
<p>Example: <code>http://... | [
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] | Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed.
They all mention `joomla/` which is not the CMS used on this domain (it's WordPress fyi).
Example: `http://example.com/joomla/index.php/comp... | Most of these "mystery" 404s tend be a result of Googlebot trying to crawl forms, parse JavaScript, etc., or from any number of external sources ranging from auto-transaltion services to simple mis-typed links.
There's a [Google blog post which covers the subject](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/d... |
42,193 | <p>I maintain a few PHP-based websites for a small company on a LAMP server. The scripts include CMS such as Joomla or Wordpress, as well as SilverStripe and Drupal installations.</p>
<p>A week ago, I found the sites to have been compromised. The only actual causes of the problems were that all <code>.php</code> files... | [
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A week ago, I found the sites to have been compromised. The only actual causes of the problems were that all `.php` files had been deleted in ... | The fact that you made additional users for each of the site is great since if one gets hacked/exploited the rest is unlikely to be affected however you could go one step further.
**Vhosts in Home Folders**
You can move the hosts actually into their home folders so they are jailed so to speak which will add a little ... |
42,215 | <p>I am trying to make a homemade HTTP server. It occurs to me, though, I never fully understood what you might call "relativity" among web pages. I have come across that www. is a subdomain, and I understand its original purpose. IT sounds like, in general, you would redirect (is that 301 or 302?) it to a... non-subdo... | [
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Rather, each domain or sub-domain that is hosted gets its own section in the web server's configuration file and that ... |
42,227 | <p>I have a website (<a href="http://www.ayrshireminis.com" rel="nofollow">www.ayrshireminis.com</a>), which has three main sections under different directories, these are:</p>
<pre><code>/forum
/galleries
/contact
</code></pre>
<p>I would like to have an aggregated view of the data for the whole website, but also fo... | [
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```
/forum
/galleries
/contact
```
I would like to have an aggregated view of the data for the whole website, but also for each section.
What is the recommended approach fo... | `www` is almost never a sub-directory of the website document root. If it were, the web server would have trouble figuring out if it was supposed to be served as `example.com/www` or `www.example.com`
Rather, each domain or sub-domain that is hosted gets its own section in the web server's configuration file and that ... |
42,233 | <p>Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files?</p>
<p>I have a site currently at a .ca domain.</p>
<p>Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine friendly. I have been told I can do this with 301 redirects. </p>
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I have a site currently at a .ca domain.
Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine friendly. I have been told I can do this with 301 redirects.
Is it necessary for me to move my files over to another s... | `www` is almost never a sub-directory of the website document root. If it were, the web server would have trouble figuring out if it was supposed to be served as `example.com/www` or `www.example.com`
Rather, each domain or sub-domain that is hosted gets its own section in the web server's configuration file and that ... |
42,249 | <p>I am trying to tweak the SEO of my Website, I have read a 400 SEO Bible PDF document that I came across. An aspect of my website that was not included in my SEO optimisation.</p>
<p>The STRONG and EM HTML tags. They do what B and I (bold/italic) tags do but they are very much needed by Google's bot, apparently, in ... | [
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The STRONG and EM HTML tags. They do what B and I (bold/italic) tags do but they are very much needed by Google's bot, apparently, in order for ... | Only google has silver bullet.
Just use simple rules
* one `H1` per page
* one `H2` per page
* a little `H3`
* use `strong` `em` if you haven't another choice. Assume that for blind people this tag increase sound level in text-to-speach.
For SEO will be better if you create smart system crosslinking inside you site.... |
42,287 | <p>Is there any Firefox plugin that allows to change how Firefox perform name resolution? I want to override the system-wide hostname resolver to attach some IP to certain hostnames.</p>
<p>Let me explain. Let's say I'm developing a new website and I want to test using the actual hostname but my site is run by a local... | [
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Let me explain. Let's say I'm developing a new website and I want to test using the actual hostname but my site is run by a local webserver... | You don't even need a plugin to do that. You can do it with the proxy settings. Specifically, you can use the proxy auto-configuration option with a PAC file that you create. The PAC file is written in javascript. For you it might look something like this:
```
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
if (host=='www.d... |
42,381 | <p>I'm having some issues with <em>htaccess</em> rewrites i need to redirect different parts of my site to HTTPS rather than HTTP, for example login and news sections. I'm not sure how to go about doing this in the correct manner.</p>
<p>So at the moment I have</p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^login/?$ index.php?p=logi... | [
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So at the moment I have
```
RewriteRule ^login/?$ index.php?p=login [R,L]
```
I would like t... | First, redirect /login to https /login/code
```
RewriteRule ^login/?$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/login/code [R=301,L]
```
You can also force /login/code to redirect to https in case the type in http /login/code:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ^off$
RewriteRule ^login/code$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/login/code [R=301,L]
```
Then... |
42,385 | <p>I am trying to add a valid sitemap to Google Webmaster. Yet, it says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable. We were unable to crawl
your Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your
site but were unable to download it. Please ensure that it is
accessible or remove it comp... | [
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>
> Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable. We were unable to crawl
> your Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root of your
> site but were unable to download it. Please ensure that it is
> accessible or remove it completely.
>
... | First, redirect /login to https /login/code
```
RewriteRule ^login/?$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/login/code [R=301,L]
```
You can also force /login/code to redirect to https in case the type in http /login/code:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} ^off$
RewriteRule ^login/code$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/login/code [R=301,L]
```
Then... |
42,413 | <p>I have a bit of a problem. My client is running a Joomla 1.0 site and some content (text) was lost. There was no backup configured of the MySQL database. The content was lost approx. around the 16:th of December 2012.
I tried finding the old site by using the Web Archive, but no cigar. The site is not even indexed.<... | [
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I tried finding the old site by using the Web Archive, but no cigar. The site is not even indexed.
I ... | Since it is an .se site it is possible (although by no means certain) that the National Library of Sweden ([Kungliga biblioteket](http://www.kb.se/)) has archived the page. They have had a fairly robust web archiving program for many years but it will depend very heavily on how long your site was live whether or not th... |
42,480 | <p>Here is what we have:</p>
<pre><code> Alias /assets/ "/home/virtual/public_assets/"
AliasMatch ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/assets/(.*)$ /home/virtual/public_assets/$2
<Directory "/home/virtual/public_assets">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</code></pre>
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```
Alias /assets/ "/home/virtual/public_assets/"
AliasMatch ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/assets/(.*)$ /home/virtual/public_assets/$2
<Directory "/home/virtual/public_assets">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
```
Here is the URI we are trying to match to:
```
/~admin30/assets/js/tests.js
```
... | I have tested your configuration and it works fine on a clean Apache install. It is possible you have other conflicting configuration somewhere.
I would also test it with a single user in the `AliasMatch` directive rather than the generic pattern you currently have. Like this:
```
AliasMatch ^/~admin30/assets/(.*)$... |
42,577 | <p>Since a few days I have seen several of my clients websites, our business website and even my own personal website starting to show blank space where the Facebook Like Box iframe used to be.</p>
<p>Here's an example of the Facebook iframe code I'm using:</p>
<pre><code><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugi... | [
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Here's an example of the Facebook iframe code I'm using:
```
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?id=140736... | I experimented a little, and the reason for the 500 Internal Server Error seems to be that the ampersands (`&`) in the URL has to be URL escaped into `&`. This is new behaviour from Facebook, and honestly seems like a bug. |
42,582 | <p>I want to remove the contents from Google index. Google index include my websites huge number of pages indexed in Google index about 5,000,000 pages earlier but now left pages are 3,025,000.</p>
<p>I have made the following things but the removal of pages are very slow pace.</p>
<p>robots.txt:</p>
<pre class="lan... | [
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I have made the following things but the removal of pages are very slow pace.
robots.txt:
```none
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
`... | Would adding: `<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">` to the head section of your site's pages help speed things along? |
42,591 | <p>The site I'm currently building will feature a range of products for the organization it represents. Each product will have a main landing page and a series of sub-pages for "About", "Pricing", "Contact", etc.</p>
<p>I'm a bit confused on the best way to handle the <code>h1</code> tags for these pages. Each page wi... | [
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I'm a bit confused on the best way to handle the `h1` tags for these pages. Each page will have the organizat... | There really aren't any better ways... **1 h1 tag/page** that's all you need to keep in mind. Also maintaining a structure/page would be good
```
<h1> - main title
<h2> - section
<p> - some intro text
<h3> - section chapter
<p> - chapter contents
<h2> - section
<h3> - chapter
<p> - chapter co... |
42,597 | <p>In my .htaccess, I am forwarding all non secure traffic to https:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://site.com/$1 [R=permanent]
</code></pre>
<p>My website still hasn't been indexed yet and when I check link:mysite.com, nothing shows up. Why might that be? </p>
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```
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://site.com/$1 [R=permanent]
```
My website still hasn't been indexed yet and when I check link:mysite.com, nothing shows up. Why might that be? | >
> Does https affect me from being indexed?
>
>
>
NO
>
> My website still hasn't been indexed yet and when I check
> link:mysite.com, nothing shows up. Why might that be?
>
>
>
`link:mysite.com` it might take ages to show something (and it never shwows all links to your site), add your site to Google Webma... |
42,629 | <p>I am getting below error in server log, when re-writing the URLs.</p>
<pre><code>[Fri Jan 25 11:32:57 2013] [error] [client ***IP***] File does not exist: /home/testserver/public_html/testing/flats-in-delhi-for-sale, referer: http://domain.in/testing/flats-in-delhi-for-sale/
</code></pre>
<p>I searched very where,... | [
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```
[Fri Jan 25 11:32:57 2013] [error] [client ***IP***] File does not exist: /home/testserver/public_html/testing/flats-in-delhi-for-sale, referer: http://domain.in/testing/flats-in-delhi-for-sale/
```
I searched very where, but not found any solutio... | I ran into a similar situation yesterday. My website was working fin, but there were errors in Apache's error log. The problem was caused by a mistake in my PHP files, not in my `RewriteRule`.
My PHP files contained the following fragment:
```
<script src="javascript/package-min-1367246122.js"></script>
```
The mis... |
42,630 | <p>I'd like all subdomains that aren't being used for anything else to go straight to my domain.</p>
<pre><code>ns1.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55
ns2.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.66
*.mydomain.com. CNAME mydomain.com
webdisk.blog.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55
</code></pre>
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```
ns1.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55
ns2.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.66
*.mydomain.com. CNAME mydomain.com
webdisk.blog.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55
```
However, say I have subdomain blog.mydomain.com which I ... | If you are in a shared hosting with a single directory, you can use `mod_rewrite` in *.htaccess* to redirect all the subdomains to the root.
Adapted from: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5966827/redirecting-multiple-domains-urls-to-one-canonical-domain>.
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example\.c... |
42,643 | <p>I am working on a PHP laravel project. I am currently facing issues with <em>.htaccess</em> file. I have following <em>.htaccess</em>:</p>
<pre><code><IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
</... | [
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```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
```
When I reload my page the it gave me... | There is no way to simply view a cumalitive graph directly in Google Analytics from a certain hour.
What you can do is specify your date range and then view by hour, count how many visitors you had each hour starting with the time you'd like to gather data from. Then stick it into excel and create a graph that way.
... |
42,661 | <p>I have set the robot.txt of my website as follow after seeing lots of errors in google's webmaster tools. Mainly because of the Smarty template files. So I changed my robots file as follow:</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /templates_c
</code></pre>
<p>My question is, in the second line I allow ever... | [
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] | I have set the robot.txt of my website as follow after seeing lots of errors in google's webmaster tools. Mainly because of the Smarty template files. So I changed my robots file as follow:
```
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /templates_c
```
My question is, in the second line I allow every folder, and in the third... | You really only need the disallow. Search engine crawlers will automatically assume they are allowed everywhere that isn't disallowed.
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /templates_c
```
But to answer your question, according to Google:
>
> At a group-member level, in particular for allow and disallow
> directives, the ... |
42,690 | <p>My site is getting a lot of traffic from an image (a company logo image) because this image is ranked 1st in Google search results for a company's title. (I have no idea how that happened.)</p>
<p>This image is must for my website, but it is not relevant to the site content, so irrelevant people search for the imag... | [
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This image is must for my website, but it is not relevant to the site content, so irrelevant people search for the image and find... | To be honest, I feel like this question is kind of missing the point a little bit.
SEO can either be defined as the technical, all-encompassing field or strictly technical optimization. Either way, I think you're kind of looking at this in the wrong way.
The whole point of Google's algorithm updates, every update, is... |
42,720 | <p>Essentially I have a client who wants to change some links from something like:</p>
<pre><code><a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">Click me</a>
</code></pre>
<p>to something like:</p>
<pre><code><span style="color:blue;cursor:pointer;" id="faux-link">Click me</span>
<script ... | [
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```
<a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">Click me</a>
```
to something like:
```
<span style="color:blue;cursor:pointer;" id="faux-link">Click me</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#faux-link").click(function() {
... | What you are trying to do is essentially PageRank sculpting. However, PR sculpting with rel=nofollow [has not worked for years](http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/).
So it seems you're trying to get around that by using JavaScript, hiding those links from Google. Unfortunately for you, Google can parse J... |
42,734 | <p>By way of design the header of my document looks like this. The <code><h1></code> is buried in an <code><ol></code>. It's still the first heading tag of the page but will it lose any of it's SEO value compared to it just sitting on it's own as the first tag of the body?</p>
<pre><code><body>
... | [
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```
<body>
<header>
<nav>
<ol>
<li><h1><a href="">Compan... | That `<h1>` will be the heading for the `<nav>` section and not the page as a whole. [`<nav>` is its own sectioning element](http://developers.whatwg.org/sections.html#the-nav-element) and won't affect the page's SEO. |
42,838 | <p>The below are all my .htaccess entry: </p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.acethehimalaya\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L]
redirect 301 /brochure_request.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/request-brochures.html
redirect 301 /testimonials.php http... | [
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] | The below are all my .htaccess entry:
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.acethehimalaya\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L]
redirect 301 /brochure_request.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/request-brochures.html
redirect 301 /testimonials.php http://www.acethehima... | Why not use a simple Redirect 301?
```
Redirect 301 /tripdetails.php?trip_id=8 http://www.acethehimalaya.com/destinations/nepal/nepal-trekking/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html
``` |
42,843 | <p>I'm in the process of moving my sites from a shared hosting to a VPS (running CentOS with Plesk 10). When testing on my VPS I noticed that all of the sudden I couldn't upload files through a webform anymore.</p>
<p>I get a php error:
<code>Warning: move_uploaded_file(/uploads/logoklein.jpg): failed to open stream:... | [
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I get a php error:
`Warning: move_uploaded_file(/uploads/logoklein.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file o... | It looks like a permission or setting at fault which you clearly know already,
Check that /var/www/vhosts/denkproducties.nl/httpdocs/denkproductives/ does indeed.
Furthermore Apache looks like its running on the user account Apache so while doing a 777 a CHMOD on the folder you want writtable you might find that Apa... |
42,847 | <p>I've found plenty of questions between here and StackExchange of people asking for the 'best' data grid / data table, or one that has a particular feature, and plenty of lists out there (of various ages) listing the various data grid implementations ... but is anyone aware of any matrix of what features the various ... | [
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Check that /var/www/vhosts/denkproducties.nl/httpdocs/denkproductives/ does indeed.
Furthermore Apache looks like its running on the user account Apache so while doing a 777 a CHMOD on the folder you want writtable you might find that Apa... |
42,848 | <p>I run a large publishing platform where authors post articles and most of the time, add sources. I use my own PHP redirector for these <strong>external</strong> links, so if they add a source, it will be linked like:</p>
<p><code>http://mydomain.com/l.php?r=http://source.com</code></p>
<p>I have been reading at nu... | [
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] | I run a large publishing platform where authors post articles and most of the time, add sources. I use my own PHP redirector for these **external** links, so if they add a source, it will be linked like:
`http://mydomain.com/l.php?r=http://source.com`
I have been reading at numerous places that having redirects on th... | It looks like a permission or setting at fault which you clearly know already,
Check that /var/www/vhosts/denkproducties.nl/httpdocs/denkproductives/ does indeed.
Furthermore Apache looks like its running on the user account Apache so while doing a 777 a CHMOD on the folder you want writtable you might find that Apa... |
42,860 | <p>I started weeding through my site's search results from Google today, using a <code>site:</code> search, to determine if there are any links that cause 404s and thus need redirecting. To my amazement I noticed numerous <code>https://</code> results relating to various pages. My site doesn't have a SSL certificate, d... | [
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Check that /var/www/vhosts/denkproducties.nl/httpdocs/denkproductives/ does indeed.
Furthermore Apache looks like its running on the user account Apache so while doing a 777 a CHMOD on the folder you want writtable you might find that Apa... |
42,873 | <p>I have parked domain on my site that redirects to a sub-folder. When you navigate the the URL you get something that looks like;</p>
<pre><code>www.mainsite.com/parked_domain/whatever_page.html
</code></pre>
<p>The site was initially set up like this because the webhost at the time charge an additional fee for add... | [
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```
www.mainsite.com/parked_domain/whatever_page.html
```
The site was initially set up like this because the webhost at the time charge an additional fee for addon domains so the above wa... | First off, I've never heard of something called "addon domain". To someone like me who owns 30+ domains, the first I'm hearing of it shouldn't be on this site. I believe you made a good choice in leaving the old hosting company as they were trying to charge money for a non-service. That being said... To the question at... |
42,928 | <p>I've been looking into mod_rewrite for my simple PHP CMS for a couple of days now and I found a rule that was supposed to work for me:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ view_post.php?url=$1
</code></pre>
<p>This is supposed to take <code>www.example.com/example-post</code> to the <code>view_post.php</code> page... | [
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] | I've been looking into mod\_rewrite for my simple PHP CMS for a couple of days now and I found a rule that was supposed to work for me:
```
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ view_post.php?url=$1
```
This is supposed to take `www.example.com/example-post` to the `view_post.php` page and query the post from a DB. This doesn't wor... | You need to include the `-`(hyphen) in your rule match. Changing the line to:
```
RewriteRule ^([\w\-]+)/?$ view_post.php?url=$1
```
will work. |
42,936 | <p>I run 30+ sites out of my dedicated server (running CentOS). Some of these are subdomains. I currently use this pattern as a log file naming convention, in /etc/httpd/logs:</p>
<pre><code> site_com-error_log
site_com-access_log
sub_site_com-error_log
sub_site_com-access_log
</code></pre>
<p>Is this... | [
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```
site_com-error_log
site_com-access_log
sub_site_com-error_log
sub_site_com-access_log
```
Is this best practice? Is there a... | The naming of files is just to your personally taste however from what I can tell in your filenames your not using a rotate and therefor I'd imagine that your logs are rather large and hard to shift though.
You should look at using a rotate by X hours, or days which then changes the labeling of your filenames with the... |
42,958 | <p>Google clearly states that duplicate content within a single, or multiple, domains is not advised. This is understood, but I am not sure of any exceptions for sites with region-specific content that is often replicated across locales.</p>
<p>For example, a site's <code>/en-us/about</code> page could be identical to... | [
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For example, a site's `/en-us/about` page could be identical to `/en-uk/about`, wher... | Duplicate content is not a problem with multiple geo-targeting within the same language.
If you are using sub-folders for your different geo-targets, then you should add each subfolder in Google Webmaster Tools and let Google know about the targeting through this tool.
There are language tags that you can use in your... |
43,006 | <p>We have multiple WordPress installations on our IIS7 (Windows Server 2008) Server as follows:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/site_one
http://www.example.com/site_two
http://www.example.com/site_three
</code></pre>
<p>These all work properly. However we would like to configure it so that when users visit the... | [
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```
http://www.example.com/site_one
http://www.example.com/site_two
http://www.example.com/site_three
```
These all work properly. However we would like to configure it so that when users visit the root domain (`http://www.... | You can use the URL rewrite modile of IIS 7. More info [here](http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-rewrite-rules-for-the-url-rewrite-module). |
43,009 | <p>I'm new to SEO and I'm implementing SEO-friendly URLs in my site.</p>
<p>The code works perfectly, however I would like to know if using Japanese characters (Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana) in the URL affects my page rank negatively?</p>
<p>I'm making this question as most SEO-friendly URLs (say, StackExchange's) rem... | [
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The code works perfectly, however I would like to know if using Japanese characters (Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana) in the URL affects my page rank negatively?
I'm making this question as most SEO-friendly URLs (say, StackExchange's) remove all non-alpha... | Compare these URLs:
```
http://example.com/スター・ウォーズ×マンガ/
http://example.com/1234/
```
Which is going to bring in more relevant search traffic? It's possible that more people are searching for "1234" on Google than for the title of a Japanese Star Wars manga, but how likely are the "1234" searchers going to be inter... |
43,013 | <p>I have a website which sells Hotels in UK and USA to Clients in Germany. I am looking for a way to automatically convert US$ and UK£ automatically in EURO. </p>
<p>I managed to do this through <a href="http://dynamicconverter.com/" rel="nofollow">http://dynamicconverter.com/</a>.</p>
<p>However this only works whe... | [
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I managed to do this through <http://dynamicconverter.com/>.
However this only works when you have either UK hotels OR USA hotels on a single page. It does not w... | Compare these URLs:
```
http://example.com/スター・ウォーズ×マンガ/
http://example.com/1234/
```
Which is going to bring in more relevant search traffic? It's possible that more people are searching for "1234" on Google than for the title of a Japanese Star Wars manga, but how likely are the "1234" searchers going to be inter... |
43,043 | <p>I have a product page with say 10 products, that loads up all the content when the page loads. Then JavaScript hides content till a product is selected. Then JavaScript hides and unhides information. It is this way rather than separate html pages for each item for design and updating purposes.</p>
<p>Google indexe... | [
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Google indexes the conte... | AFAIK you can't. You can do some workarounds, as joesk answered, to fake it.
A solution would be if you load the products with AJAX, e.g. implement the [AJAX crawling guidelines](http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174992) and provide "snapshots" of the individuel products. |
43,061 | <p>Does anyone know how I could add some information to my page (whether in a meta tag or some other way) to indicate to Google Analytics that a page is targeted to a certain segment? </p>
<p>This is pretty straightforward on my main site where everything is set up in hierarchy by target user so I can just use the UR... | [
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This is pretty straightforward on my main site where everything is set up in hierarchy by target user so I can just use the URL to filter... | There are several ways you can choose from, but i think the simplest way in your case is to create a "fake" URL for each page. This URL will show in analytics instead of the actual URL.
Add this line to each page (inside the main analytics code)
```
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/my_segment/page']);
```
If you're u... |
43,066 | <p>I´m working on a new design for my website. It´s almost finished.
I would like some other people to look at the new design comparing it to the old one and just tell me if they like it more or less, or what opinions do they have about it.</p>
<p>Where could I do that? I have an account at <a href="http://dribbble.co... | [
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I would like some other people to look at the new design comparing it to the old one and just tell me if they like it more or less, or what opinions do they have about it.
Where could I do that? I have an account at [dribbble](http://dribbble.com/Rosamu... | There are several ways you can choose from, but i think the simplest way in your case is to create a "fake" URL for each page. This URL will show in analytics instead of the actual URL.
Add this line to each page (inside the main analytics code)
```
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/my_segment/page']);
```
If you're u... |
43,131 | <p>With regards to SEO and the title tag would there be a difference between using a / for related words or using a - ?</p>
<p>For example: </p>
<pre>
Air/Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter
</pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre>
Air-Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter
</pre>
<p>I've never been sure if it make... | [
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For example:
```
Air/Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter
```
or
```
Air-Gas Filter | Another Filter | Last Filter
```
I've never been sure if it makes a difference. Thanks in adva... | Your goal should be to put keywords in your title tag as though a human were naturally searching for those terms. I can't really imagine anyone typing a hyphen into a search engine in that situation, unless the product specifically has a hyphen in its name. Out of the two options you gave, the slash seems better; a cur... |
43,141 | <p>I just want to ask can we increase backlinks to our site by putting 1x1 pixel image on our clients' sites or can anybody suggest a better solution?</p>
<pre><code><img src="http://www.mysite.com/" alt='http://www.mysite.com/' />
</code></pre>
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```
<img src="http://www.mysite.com/" alt='http://www.mysite.com/' />
``` | Google usually check for this kind of stuff and will get you penalized pretty fast. Place a normal link or a decent-sized image or don't place it at all. |
43,162 | <p>I need to setup a Google Analytics code for one website with multiple domains, but they are in form of</p>
<pre><code>subdomain.**foo**.com
subdomain.**bar**.com
</code></pre>
<p>Subdomain is the same (it doesn't really matter that much), but main domains are differents. So now I use:</p>
<pre><code>_gaq.push(['_... | [
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```
subdomain.**foo**.com
subdomain.**bar**.com
```
Subdomain is the same (it doesn't really matter that much), but main domains are differents. So now I use:
```
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'subdomain.foo.com'])... | **For something to be identified as a nameserver it must be one.** This means that the server at superexample.com must be running both an HTTP server (HTTPD) and a DNS server (BIND) with a publicly reachable address and port..
You can see this with a lot of hosting sites, they run their own DNS servers and set themsel... |
43,167 | <p>Currently we run a few websites selling products in the travel industry using .com and .co.uk extensions.</p>
<p>Would our search rating improve if we were to buy one of the .travel domains ? So we would replace, or more likely supplment the following</p>
<pre><code>mycompany.com
myCompany.co.uk
</code></pre>
<p>... | [
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"text": "<p>Long story short: The .travel domain won't give you any edge in SEO. It might be quite contrary, .com will... | 2013/02/04 | [
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Would our search rating improve if we were to buy one of the .travel domains ? So we would replace, or more likely supplment the following
```
mycompany.com
myCompany.co.uk
```
with :
```
mycompany.travel
``... | Long story short: The .travel domain won't give you any edge in SEO. It might be quite contrary, .com will have an edge in world-wide search, .co.uk might have (underline might) an edge in British Google search.
[Something interesting to read](http://www.seomad.com/SEOBlog/do-different-tlds-affect-seo.html) and [anoth... |
43,173 | <p>I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please guide me </p>
<p><strong>Main Domain work correctly with these settings</strong></p>
<p><strong>DNS Setting</strong... | [
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**Main Domain work correctly with these settings**
**DNS Setting**
```
Point A(Address) "IP Address" to @
P... | In 000webhost you are only allowed to make two MySQL databases. Make sure you have one for your sub domain. I am not sure whether you are allowed to create a sub domain like `http://subdomain.sample.site.net`
only two My SQl databases are allowed in their free account...
provide further details of your problem mate... |
43,227 | <p>I m using Joomla Xmap component for creating sitemap. Here is the URL of my Xmap generated Sitemap:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.acethehimalaya.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml
</code></pre>
<p>I tried to submit my sitemap to Google but the problem I'm facing is that the URL doesn't get submit... | [
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```
http://www.acethehimalaya.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml
```
I tried to submit my sitemap to Google but the problem I'm facing is that the URL doesn't get submitted and I'm having the issue that ... | If I were you I'd forget the whole Xmap sitemap concept alltogether. And do it manually. A weekly submit is ideal, but submits are tantamount the updates you make in the site. So, if you didn't update anything that week, no point on resubmitting.
Go here <http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/> and build one there easy. Downlo... |
43,228 | <p>I have a blog with around 40 posts, and i want to change the URL structure these posts. this is my old URL something like: </p>
<pre><code>http://domain.com/blog/2013/02/04/string-here.html
</code></pre>
<p>i want to set the URL like: </p>
<pre><code>http://domain.com/blog/category/string-here/
</code></pre>
<p>... | [
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```
http://domain.com/blog/2013/02/04/string-here.html
```
i want to set the URL like:
```
http://domain.com/blog/category/string-here/
```
Now the concern is recently i have get the PR to ... | Yes, you should use a 301 Redirect if the pages are going to move to the new URL structure permanently. The new structure is an improvement in terms of readability also. |
43,234 | <p>We want to open a new domain for certain purposes (call them PR). The thing is we want the domain to point to the same website we currently have.</p>
<p>We do not want this new domain to appear on search engines (specifically Google) at all.</p>
<p>Options we've ruled out:</p>
<ul>
<li>Robots.txt can't be used - ... | [
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We do not want this new domain to appear on search engines (specifically Google) at all.
Options we've ruled out:
* Robots.txt can't be used - it will work the same on bot... | rel=canonical is just a suggestion, but it is a strong suggestion. Google would certainly honor it in a situation like this. Other search engines might not do so very well. I use rel=canonical to keep development servers from being indexed even when they are publicly accessible. Googlebot will still *crawl* the entire ... |
43,288 | <p>I have found out that one of my pages has weak SEO and shows in the later pages of google. So I modified my page a little and added some description etc. Now is there a way to tell google that I have updated this single page? I could not find it in webmaster tools? Did I miss it ?</p>
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1 - On Webmaster Tools, Go to "Health" / "Fetch as Google" where you can enter the address of the page that has changed, click on "Fetch" then click on "Submit to index". At which point a message will pop up and say: "Select if your page is new or has been recently updated. Google doesn't gua... |
43,301 | <p>I've created a simple video & photo sharing website. I want to arrange the preview (thumbnail view) of photos and videos in a tile-like format (like windows 8 start screen) in the home page.</p>
<p>I'm confused as to which tag I should use: table or div. I think it's quite easy to do it using tables, but I don'... | [
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I'm confused as to which tag I should use: table or div. I think it's quite easy to do it using tables, but I don't want to use ... | The nice thing about tables is that they are very easy to define a grid with a fixed number of rows and columns. If the content in one cell is over-sized, the table will expand to accommodate it.
On the other hand, divs can be more dynamic. You can have 10 of them across when the window is maximized and 4 across when ... |
43,342 | <p>A couple of days ago, I faced an issue with Google Webmaster's Fetch as Google functionality. The page was going into an infinite refresh loop. I started a <a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions/webmasters/Voqv-_Ts2AE" rel="nofollow">thread</a> on Google's forum. The issue disappeared by itse... | [
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] | A couple of days ago, I faced an issue with Google Webmaster's Fetch as Google functionality. The page was going into an infinite refresh loop. I started a [thread](http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions/webmasters/Voqv-_Ts2AE) on Google's forum. The issue disappeared by itself.
Unfortunately, this issu... | This is a known problem with Webmaster Tools as you have first hand experience when you noticed it before. You can test your own site using firebug and reading the response you get.
**Test Your Own Pages**
While Webmaster Tools is good it should be noted its not perfect and more than often out of date as it's not int... |