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43,354 | <p>I have a problem with googlebot and bingbot accessing our web service. We have a search application created in aspx that is integrated into a drupal website. Users perform searches based on postal code or city through drupal and search query is outputted through aspx. The problem is that google/bing keeps indexing t... | [
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"text": "<p>Your <code>robots.txt</code> file does not appear to conform to the <a href=\"http://www.robotstxt.org/robots... | 2013/02/07 | [
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Consider the following updates:
```
User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: /Office/Loc... |
43,372 | <p>I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:</p>
<pre><code>/menswear-fashion-autumn-winter-2013-2014/www.domain.com
/fashion-history/1960s-1970s/www.domain.com
/fashion-latest-news/www.domain.com
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"text": "<p>It could happen if you have link like this in your template that is missing the http://</p>\n\n<p... | 2013/02/08 | [
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] | I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:
```
/menswear-fashion-autumn-winter-2013-2014/www.domain.com
/fashion-history/1960s-1970s/www.domain.com
/fashion-latest-news/www.domain.com
/it/fashion-history/1920s-1930... | **You can do this by doing the following steps:**
* Login to Google Analytics
* Click admin (upper right corner)
* Click on the profile associated with the domain that you're having an issue with.
* Click profile settings
* Check the "Default Page" field, if it has your domain name in there, delete it and press apply.... |
43,378 | <p>Nine days ago, I got a message Google Webmaster Tools:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 1 errors while attempting to access your robots.txt.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Well, but I don't have a robots.txt on that site, because robots.txt is optional and I want the whole site to be crawl... | [
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"text": "<p>I'm not sure why webmaster tools does this but I've had a similar problem with my site. When it was in developmen... | 2013/02/08 | [
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>
> Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 1 errors while attempting to access your robots.txt.
>
>
>
Well, but I don't have a robots.txt on that site, because robots.txt is optional and I want the whole site to be crawled. So why do I get this error m... | I'm not sure why webmaster tools does this but I've had a similar problem with my site. When it was in development, I blocked it using the robots.txt file, then removed the block when it went live, but webmaster tools took a while to update itself.
What I'd recommend is to do a fetch as Googlebot and submit all pages,... |
43,380 | <p>I want to report a site as spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it?</p>
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] | I want to report a site as spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it? | I'm not sure why webmaster tools does this but I've had a similar problem with my site. When it was in development, I blocked it using the robots.txt file, then removed the block when it went live, but webmaster tools took a while to update itself.
What I'd recommend is to do a fetch as Googlebot and submit all pages,... |
43,404 | <p>When verifying a site in Google Webmaster Tools, with the recommended method of using a special HTML file, was it made so needlessly difficult?</p>
<p>Google explicitly gives you the name of the file on the verification page, but doesn't easily reveal its content — if you follow the link to the file as served... | [
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"text": "<p>It turns out, the file is simply formed as follows:</p>\n\n<p>For a file named <code>/googleXYZ.html</code>, the ... | 2013/02/09 | [
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Google explicitly gives you the name of the file on the verification page, but doesn't easily reveal its content — if you follow the link to the file as served by google.com, ... | It turns out, the file is simply formed as follows:
For a file named `/googleXYZ.html`, the contents would be `google-site-verification: googleXYZ.html`.
So, instead of downloading the file from Google to the desktop, and then uploading from the desktop to the server, repeat for every domain, the following script cou... |
43,428 | <p>My 404 page (<code>/404.php</code>) works, it's sending the proper headers (404 - Not found).</p>
<p>But the thing is, it's not giving the link that caused it (e.g. <code>example.com/thisisnon-existant.htm</code>) but instead it's giving my 404 page (<code>example.com/404.php</code>).</p>
<p>How would I get it fix... | [
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"text": "<p>Stephen answered your question spot on, but another observation regarding your example code that you linke... | 2013/02/10 | [
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] | My 404 page (`/404.php`) works, it's sending the proper headers (404 - Not found).
But the thing is, it's not giving the link that caused it (e.g. `example.com/thisisnon-existant.htm`) but instead it's giving my 404 page (`example.com/404.php`).
How would I get it fixed?
All I did was add the following to *.htaccess... | When you use the full url for ErrorDocument, Apache will **always** issue a redirect to that location. You want to change your ErrorDocument directive to a relative path instead.
```
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
``` |
43,437 | <p>I have created a website for a client (my first freelance job!) and my client is generally happy, however they want the address bar to always show the <strong>www.</strong> portion, even if it isn't typed.</p>
<p>Is this possible? I have purchased the domain through 123-reg and am hosting the website on Azure (as a... | [
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"text": "<p>Yes, you can redirect urls without the www to then include them. How to do so depends on your... | 2013/02/10 | [
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Is this possible? I have purchased the domain through 123-reg and am hosting the website on Azure (as an Azure Website). I am ... | Redirect non-www to www in MCV4
===============================
***Edit global.asax and add:***
```
protected void Application_BeginRequest (object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!Request.Url.Host.StartsWith ("www") && !Request.Url.IsLoopback)
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43,469 | <p>currently i am experimenting with 2 favicons and including them in 3 different ways in my markup, however i am not sure which one gets loaded in the browser. firebug's network tab doesn't tell me which one it downloaded.</p>
<pre><code> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png">
<link rel="sh... | [
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"text": "<p>You can change the favicon manually for IE:</p>\n\n<pre><code>/*!\n * Dynamically changing favicons with Java... | 2013/02/11 | [
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```
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favi... | You should also change the order from lowest resolution, to highest. Since the browsers will use the last instance that they can use.
Your:
```
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="favicon.png">
```
Should be:
```
<li... |
43,480 | <p>I was curious how a competitor's Web site was ranking so high for many of my keywords, especially since the company is located in another city. Looking through their source code I noticed at the top of every page the following coding was being used:</p>
<pre><code><div class="content"><h1 class="SEOnly">... | [
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"text": "<p>Yes, google penalizes for hidden content. You have found an example of this where the text is sm... | 2013/02/11 | [
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```
<div class="content"><h1 class="SEOnly">keyword, keyword, keyword... | Yes, google penalizes for hidden content. You have found an example of this where the text is small to be legible, however the following techniques are also a problem
* text the same color as the background
* text positioned off the screen
* text that hidden using css display:none
You could report this site to Google... |
43,493 | <p>I'm a developer in charge of managing Webmasters and related issues (including correcting crawl errors) for dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of active sites and as part of my duties I create a report of every discrepancy, including all pages generating a 404 and all pages that link to those pages.</p>
<p>Currently within ... | [
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"text": "<p>Your question seems a little vague and hard to understand exactly what the problem is so If my answer is... | 2013/02/11 | [
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Currently within Webmaster ... | Instead of relying on webmaster tools, you can get your own list of 404 errors from your servers log files.
I find that the most important 404 errors are the ones that users actually encounter when clicking on a link. Those errors typically have a referrer associated them. I generate separate reports of errors with r... |
43,500 | <p>I added Schema.org’s <code>Person</code> - suddenly Google Plus is using the <code>name</code> property as site title! Is this a bug? I was wondering if anyone else ran into the same problem.</p>
<p>This is the code I used</p>
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This is the code I used
```html
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<li>Written by: <a rel="author" href="url"> <span itemprop="name... | I suspect it's because that [Person](http://schema.org/Person) schema is the *only* schema used on the page, so Google is assuming that the whole page is supposed to be *about* the person, and that all the other stuff around it is just irrelevant fluff, at least as far as microdata is concerned.
You may want to try ma... |
43,656 | <p>When I see page source of a website, I can know that a website is running Magento, but how do I know the extensions installed on that store? Is it possible to know from the page source?</p>
<p>EDIT: more information</p>
<p>The site I'm Interested is: <a href="http://www.jiayumobileshop.com/" rel="nofollow">http://... | [
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EDIT: more information
The site I'm Interested is: <http://www.jiayumobileshop.com/>
I wanted to know what extensions and themes th... | A great way I can think of is to check for their XML files in `app/etc/modules`
```
app/etc/modules$ ls
Aschroder_SetStartOrderNumber.xml GoMage_Checkout.xml Minerva_Shipping.xml
Aschroder_SitemapSubmit.xml GoMage_DeliveryDate.xml Phoenix_Moneybookers.xml
Aschroder_SMTPPro.xml In... |
43,678 | <p>I know very little, but I do know that I have some server space given by my University with a file called public_html which anyone can load html and other files from. So is there a simple way to add some file and edit it with vim or give it a special name and have it collect the number of times a web browser loads a... | [
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1) Place into the `public_html` folder a file called `idious-counter.php` with this code into it:
```
<?php
define("COUNTER_START_VALUE", 0);
define("COUNTER_LOG", "idious-counter.log"); //name of file you want to use to save the counter value
/********************... |
43,680 | <p>Can anyone please clarify the actual relation of the <code>blockquote</code> element with search engine optimization?</p>
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Many T... |
43,686 | <p>If you have multiple templates a user can choose from on a site (like a forum), and you offer Google Bot a "lite" skin, is this considered cloaking? Or is this considered okay?</p>
<p>The actual content remains the same, though the exact definition of "content" by Google seems questionable.</p>
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The actual content remains the same, though the exact definition of "content" by Google seems questionable. | I don't think your find a 100% answer on this question and much speculation but I believe if your pages are THIN with block quote then your most likely be hit by Google panda for duplicate content however if your writing good content which is unique around the block quote element then I believe its a positive.
Many T... |
43,703 | <p>These days I have to develop a lot of websites where each is based on a certain CMS, ie. Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. Instead of always copying the files of each CMS to my project folder, is it possible to have a kind of lib for each CMS and only link to one of them from within my project folder?</p>
<p>So the foll... | [
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So the following setu... | At least in WordPress you have the [multisite feature](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)... |
43,725 | <p>I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. <code>example.com</code> then going to manage my websites in <strong>folders</strong>. Look below for example:</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
www.example.com/personalblog
www.example.com/shop
</code></pre>
<p>Consider that all fou... | [
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```
www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
www.example.com/personalblog
www.example.com/shop
```
Consider that all four websites have different design and codes. From S... | It will definitely be better to use subdomains in this case.
Subdomains are represented as `abc.example.com`, `def.example.com`, `xyz.example.com` and can be accessed using the following URLs: `http://abc.example.com` or `http://example.com/abc`.
You don't need buying individual domain names to achieve the same. |
43,743 | <p>I have a facebook like button on my website, but the <code>data-href</code> attribute needs a link to like:</p>
<pre><code><div class="fb-like share-button fbbutton" data-href="htp://www.example.com/article/1.html" data-send="false" data-layout="button_count" data-width="450" data-show-faces="true"></div&g... | [
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"text": "<p>In PHP:</p>\n\n<pre><code><php\n//pull this using whatever method you like like a DB or URL-parser\n//$url... | 2013/02/15 | [
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```
<div class="fb-like share-button fbbutton" data-href="htp://www.example.com/article/1.html" data-send="false" data-layout="button_count" data-width="450" data-show-faces="true"></div>
```
I have a lot of pages, and w... | According to the [Facebook developers guide](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/), the Like button **defaults to the current URL**. So all you should need to do is remove the `data-href` attribute and it the same code will always use whatever page the user is on.
On the above page, just leave ... |
43,862 | <p>I am setting up a new server for our users to use have have personal webspace on. I have in my httpd.conf of apache the directives for UserDir as follows</p>
<pre><code>UserDir disabled root
UserDir public_html
</code></pre>
<p>This has allowed <code>http://myserver/~user/</code> requests to work but I am also loo... | [
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```
UserDir disabled root
UserDir public_html
```
This has allowed `http://myserver/~user/` requests to work but I am also looking to set it up so the pages can be... | **Past, Current and Future**
Google and many other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing are already factoring in social media interactions. Such as Tweets, Likes, Shares, Pintrest, Google +1, Reddits and so on. This have been using social media in their algorithms for some years now and they are constantly updating i... |
43,884 | <p>The title might be a little bit confusing. Well, I noticed that someone had used a page's URL for backlinking or indexing his keywords.</p>
<p>This is what he did:</p>
<p>The normal url:</p>
<pre><code>http:// .....Default.aspx
</code></pre>
<p>He edited the normal url to:</p>
<pre><code> http:// ..... Default.... | [
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This is what he did:
The normal url:
```
http:// .....Default.aspx
```
He edited the normal url to:
```
http:// ..... Default.aspx?places-to-buy-wedding-dresses
```
So Now (wh... | This is a good reason to put a canonical tag in each of your pages. If `http://example.com/Default.aspx` has a canonical tag like `<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/Default.aspx"/>`then when somebody links to `http://example.com/Default.aspx?places-to-buy-wedding-dresses` it will also have that canonical u... |
43,931 | <p>I have the following cron</p>
<pre><code>echo "*** Get the new ZIP file ***"
/usr/bin/wget -t inf -nH -N -c --progress=dot --reject=zip --mirror --timestamping --timeout=60 --waitretry=60 --no-passive-ftp --directory-prefix=/var/www/vhosts/mydir --ftp-user=xxx --ftp-password=xxx ftp://xxx.xxx.be/xxx.zip
echo ... | [
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```
echo "*** Get the new ZIP file ***"
/usr/bin/wget -t inf -nH -N -c --progress=dot --reject=zip --mirror --timestamping --timeout=60 --waitretry=60 --no-passive-ftp --directory-prefix=/var/www/vhosts/mydir --ftp-user=xxx --ftp-password=xxx ftp://xxx.xxx.be/xxx.zip
echo "*** Cool now ... | If you are getting permission problems, then you need to run the cron job as a user that has permissions to read and write in that directory. For example you could run the cron job as `root`.
There are at least two ways to run a cron job as root. In the first you can log in as root on the command line and then edit th... |
44,123 | <p>Recently I released <a href="http://bit.ly/WcOXEJ" rel="nofollow">this site</a> live, which is a small brochure site for a local catering company. </p>
<p>I took the time to add a canonical <code><link></code> tag and also verify the site with Google, so the <code>googleXXXXXXX.html</code> file is sitting in ... | [
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I took the time to add a canonical `<link>` tag and also verify the site with Google, so the `googleXXXXXXX.html` file is sitting in the root of the site alongside the index.php file. The site has ... | **New sites often do drop in rank**
Sadly, the chances are that Google is repositioning to where it believes you should be. Most often, new sites and pages get temporary boosts to allow them to catch on, so to speak. I've seen what you're experiencing hundreds of times and can assure you what you're seeing is most lik... |
44,207 | <p>I am building a website powered by twitter's bootstrap. I have created a landing page with menus and text. The next thing I want to do is create a About page, but what is the easiest way to create a new page with the same layout. I don't think copy and pasting the layout would be a great idea. </p>
<p>I have used P... | [
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I have used PHP include... | There are several ways to do what you want, here is one method that I used to use.
You have your landing page complete, so I assume you have a header with the navigation menus and other information on that page, you have some content in the middle of the page, and you have a footer at the bottom.
What you want to do ... |
44,219 | <p>I have just been marking them as fixed, but they just keep coming back and I don't want to have to keep coming back to mark as fixed. Google is showing about 150 of my pages as 404's but they all register as 200 all good when I do a header check.</p>
<p>Is there another reason these may show up as 404's?</p>
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Is there another reason these may show up as 404's? | There are several ways to do what you want, here is one method that I used to use.
You have your landing page complete, so I assume you have a header with the navigation menus and other information on that page, you have some content in the middle of the page, and you have a footer at the bottom.
What you want to do ... |
44,234 | <p>We're running a Magento shop and we experienced a significant raise in 404 hits lately, almost 40,000 in one day. Most of the pages are old ones that once existed but don't anymore, and there are some really strange occurrences where as much as 200 pages are linked from one to another, for example</p>
<pre><code>/k... | [
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```
/kleidung-access... | Add a `rel="nofollow"` attribute to all links except the ones that really exist (such as back to homepage and "perhaps you were looking for some other article" links) on your 404 pages.
Have you also checked your `sitemap.xml` (or whatever you named the file) in Google Webmaster Tools? Perhaps the links are all there ... |
44,312 | <p>I have a website that sells music artists posters.
Each artists has a page containing a small bio, and a list of posters we are selling representing the artist.</p>
<p>Currently our HTML looks like that</p>
<pre><code><h1>{Artist name}</h1>
bio
<h2>Posters</h2>
<ul>
<li class="po... | [
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Each artists has a page containing a small bio, and a list of posters we are selling representing the artist.
Currently our HTML looks like that
```
<h1>{Artist name}</h1>
bio
<h2>Posters</h2>
<ul>
<li class="poster">...</li>
...
</ul>
```
We are redesigning th... | >
> Give google a slightly altered page that contains the H2 tags. But I think this falls into the "Black Hat SEO" category. And I don't want that.
>
>
>
You are correct, that is considered black hat by Google. They call it "cloaking".
>
> Put the heading. Hide it with CSS. Everyone wins, including accessibility... |
44,332 | <p>Recently I noticed some mentions of my Website, or a whole story but without a link.</p>
<p>I was wondering is there a way to search for my brand name and filter for pages which do not link to my website?</p>
<p>I am aware of Google alerts and Yahoo Pipes, but it seems those will only work for the future, but not ... | [
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I was wondering is there a way to search for my brand name and filter for pages which do not link to my website?
I am aware of Google alerts and Yahoo Pipes, but it seems those will only work for the future, but not for old mentions. | This search works pretty well on Google for my site
```
example.com -link:example.com -inurl:example.com
``` |
44,333 | <p>I am a new user of webmin and I have two domains <code>site1.com</code> and <code>site2.net</code>.</p>
<p>I have one dedicated IP for the server and I have set site1.com to use following name servers <code>ns1.site1.com</code> and <code>ns2.site1.com</code> with bind.</p>
<p>Now when I add site2.net on the same I... | [
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I have one dedicated IP for the server and I have set site1.com to use following name servers `ns1.site1.com` and `ns2.site1.com` with bind.
Now when I add site2.net on the same IP using the same method both sites open with the same content... | The problem is that both domains are being pointed at the same hosting folder location.
If you have 2 sites labeled ***siteA*** and ***siteB*** you should have a folder structor something like this:
`/home/siteA` and `/home/siteB` or `/var/www/siteA` and `/var/www/siteB` these folders and the way domains point to th... |
44,359 | <p>With regard to Microdata I was wondering if the elements must be exactly like the examples (<a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035" rel="nofollow">http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035</a>) or that Google/Bing look if the <code>itempro... | [
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For example, could I replace this:
```html
<div itemprop="name">some te... | The type of tag can be either div or span without changing how micro-data is extracted. Here is a site giving examples with itemprop on a span tag: <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html>
The best way to know for sure that Google will accept your markup, is to test it with the [Goo... |
44,402 | <p>According to Google’s documentation about the <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146750#product_page" rel="nofollow">Product Rich Snippet</a>, when I want to mark product’s availability in my shop, I should do the following (using Microdata):</p>
<pre class="lang-html prett... | [
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```html
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(In HTML5+RDFa, every element may have the `content` attribute.)
So if you want to add the string value "in\_stock", and it should not be visible on the page, using the `meta` element is the c... |
44,403 | <p>My internet shop displays thumbnails of products' images, and I see that these thumbnail are (slowly) being indexed by Google. I want also full images to be indexed.</p>
<p>Can I use Microdata for this? Something like this:</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><meta itemprop="image" content="... | [
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Can I use Microdata for this? Something like this:
```html
<meta itemprop="image" content="/uploads/images/medium/product_img.jpg" />
```
Or:
```html... | You should use
```
<meta itemprop="image" content="/uploads/images/medium/product_img.jpg">
```
Since `src=""` is associated with embedding content on the page and content="" is associated with embedding items off the page so to speak. This is the same method as used with the Facebook Open Graph meta as well, take a... |
44,414 | <p>Lets say I have a website with a few pages. The purpose of each of those pages is to display live statistics for a real world event (for example, sports scores). Every 60 seconds, an <code>Ajax</code> call is made to the server to fetch the latest sports scores and the update the page with those scores. A user would... | [
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You could make GA to think there've been changes in the page, but that would mess all the other stats.
You provide AJAX for best user experience. You better redefine your key stats, the key one being not the traditional pageviews but time-on-site.
(see Avinash Kaushik for a bett... |
44,480 | <p>I have a problem in Google Analytics and I don't know what is missing in it. I added the script file to my WordPress website header like this one:</p>
<pre><code><script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-Y']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
va... | [
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```
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-Y']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.crea... | Default Google Analytics reports show historical data compiled over the course of the last 24-48 hours (generally, you will not see anything reported with standard reports until at least 24 hours have passed; the greater and the more geographically-dispersed your traffic is, the longer it can take to compile all traffi... |
44,486 | <p>I have server that I connect to via Remote Access. On it I have IIS7 and a web application that works. The server itself has an static ip address that I can ping, also I set up filezilla server and I can connect normally with FTP.</p>
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But I cant connect over internet (browser) to that address. address is 75.99.xxx.xxx.
A... | Since you didn't mask your IP address in your netstat output, I assume you are trying to access your site by navigating to `http://75.99.69.147`? If the site works fine when you are on the server itself, but not when trying to access from outside, there could be one (or more) items causing the site not to work correctl... |
44,526 | <p>I recently started with blogger. I was tweaking the homepage a bit to display thumbnail and post excerpts with read more link.</p>
<p>A lot of websites say to use this kind of code:</p>
<pre><code> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;index&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:post.snippet'>
... | [
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A lot of websites say to use this kind of code:
```
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "index"'>
<b:if cond='data:post.snippet'>
<b:if cond='data:post.thumbnailUrl'>
... | You can't control this, Blogger decides for itself which image to use.
I did some reasearch a while back (documented [here](http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/postsnippet-and-postthumbnail-tools-for.html)), and concluded that it's most probably the first picture in the post which is both
1. over a ... |
44,570 | <p>I want to start creating my website but I have a few questions.</p>
<ul>
<li><p><code>http://website.com/directory/webpage</code> - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to achieve this? </p></li>
<li><p>if I have several pages like contact.html, aboutme.html etc Sho... | [
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* `http://website.com/directory/webpage` - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to achieve this?
* if I have several pages like contact.html, aboutme.html etc Should I just create separate html files, or s... | There are several ways to serve files without an extension.
---
One of the easiest is to use the Multiviews option in your .htaccess. That option allows the `/webpage.html` document to be accessed through the `/webpage` URI. Then you can use a rewrite rule to make sure that the version with .html gets redirected to ... |
44,612 | <p>Our website mainly consists of galleries, while usually smaller, they sometimes reach over 100 images per post.
As each image is bound to the same topic, they are automatically named after the post title and an added incremental number at the end, for example:</p>
<p>Title: </p>
<p><code>League of Legends Sona Co... | [
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As each image is bound to the same topic, they are automatically named after the post title and an added incremental number at the end, for example:
Title:
`League of Legends Sona Cosplay By Eki`
Image n... | If you really suffer from hundreds of images per post title and need to add alt attributes, you are left with a couple of scenarios on how to deal with it:
* Add alt attributes to first page images and no alt-tags for all subsequent pages for each topic (if you have hundreds of images on a single page, you got other p... |
44,677 | <p>I run a blog with over 1000 posts that are only separated by tags, so each post can have multiple of those.</p>
<p>As it is mostly short news, videos and galleries, the description consists of 3-5 lines of text. It's so short that I don't write a separate description for the preview text, meaning that the text on t... | [
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As it is mostly short news, videos and galleries, the description consists of 3-5 lines of text. It's so short that I don't write a separate description for the preview text, meaning that the text on the post pa... | Google will never penalize blogs that have duplicated content on permalinks, tag pages, and home pages because full posts are show in each place. Google will choose one one of those places to index, and that will generally be the permalink page.
Google can't penalize blogs for duplicate content here because there are ... |
44,684 | <p>I am a little bit confused regarding the usage of canonical tags and base tags.</p>
<p>I have placed canonical tag (<code>rel="canonical"</code>) on my website because of my website opening with no-www. I have reviewed my website through SEO doctor add-ons which is showing that my website is not indexable in searc... | [
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I have placed canonical tag (`rel="canonical"`) on my website because of my website opening with no-www. I have reviewed my website through SEO doctor add-ons which is showing that my website is not indexable in search engine. Can anyone c... | Canonical Tag
-------------
The canonical tag tells search engines what the URL of the *current* page should be.
```
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/mypage.html" />
```
tells search engines that the current page should be indexed at `http://www.example.com/mypage.html` even if they crawl it at `h... |
44,698 | <p>In June 2012 I added my website (a blog that I host on my own server) to Google-Analytics. In January 2013 I decided to use Piwik instead of Google-Analytics.</p>
<p>So I removed my website from the Google Webmaster Tools page.
I also removed the Google's script from the footer of my webpages.
I checked several tim... | [
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So I removed my website from the Google Webmaster Tools page.
I also removed the Google's script from the footer of my webpages.
I checked several times that th... | There is no Google analytics on your own site anymore, however your site iFrames content from vimeo.com, which contains google analytics tracking.
```
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/" webkitallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe>
```
This site has GA trac... |
44,730 | <p>For this website <a href="http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/" rel="nofollow">http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/</a>, there is a link from here <a href="http://atva10.comp.nus.edu.sg/assocEvents.html" rel="nofollow">http://atva10.comp.nus.edu.sg/assocEvents.html</a> but when searching in Google.</p>
... | [
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```
link:http://www.it.uu.se/workshop/infinity2010/
```
It does not show up that page, what's the problem? (The link has been there at least 2 years) | Google only shows a very small sample of back links, it doesn't matter how long the links has existed, they will only show a few links. You may find more links from Bing Webmaster Center |
44,746 | <p>We have <code>example.org</code> (our main site) registered and hosted on an american server.
We bought <code>example.gr</code> domain name in Greece, a local registrar.
We made <code>.gr</code> point at <code>.org</code> DNS all right.
A visitor types URL <code>.gr</code> and sees <code>.org</code> in his browser a... | [
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We bought `example.gr` domain name in Greece, a local registrar.
We made `.gr` point at `.org` DNS all right.
A visitor types URL `.gr` and sees `.org` in his browser all right, but URL immediately changed to `.org`.
Is there a way to ke... | You could make an `<iframe>`,
```
<style type=text/css>
body{margin: 0;overflow:hidden;}
</style>
<iframe src="http://example.org/" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%" frameBorder="0">
Browser not compatible.
</iframe>
```
So you'd call this `index.html` and put it on the `example.gr` server. |
44,830 | <p>I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address. </p>
<p>Is this worth doing and should it be done ?</p>
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Is this worth doing and should it be done ? | While its not bad advice from the SEO company I do feel its a little incomplete, there's a tag that you can use on your pages to avoid duplicates finding their way into the index of search engines such as Google.
**Better Advice**
The better advice from the SEO company would be to ensure that your using Rel Canonical... |
44,849 | <p>I have a Cpanel web hosting account and have created a subdomain which redirects to an IP address of a different server (Windows IIS) by creating an A record. I don't have control of the Windows server.</p>
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I would like that those people who type `www.` before the subdomain get redirected to the same page.
I tried creati... | Your cPanel *may* have an interface to do that for you. What needs to be done, which is what such interface would do anyway, is modifying the .htaccess file in your public\_html directory. It will add the following lines:
```
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.foo.example.com$
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://... |
44,850 | <p>I changed our companies domain name a year ago from radfan.co.uk to radfan.com. When typing radfan into Google the number one result is still radfan.co.uk rather than the .com. This is not the case for Bing and Yahoo.</p>
<p>This is the .htaccess rule I have used</p>
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_... | [
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This is the .htaccess rule I have used
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^radfan\.co\.uk... | Your cPanel *may* have an interface to do that for you. What needs to be done, which is what such interface would do anyway, is modifying the .htaccess file in your public\_html directory. It will add the following lines:
```
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.foo.example.com$
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://... |
44,853 | <p>I have a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, etc for a small resort town in Asia. I employ breadcrumbs to aid in user navigation, but I ran into an issue regarding categorization.</p>
<p>Many places easily fall into two categories, such as restaurants that are also bars. They can be reached by following l... | [
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Many places easily fall into two categories, such as restaurants that are also bars. They can be reached by following links from ... | You should use only one breadcrumb and for SEO make sure it uses rich snippets
<http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185417>
For all other categories which the listing fall into display them elsewhere on the page |
44,866 | <p>I need to move the DokuWiki data directory away from its default location (because I keep the installation and configuration in version control, but data needs to kept elsewhere, in order to be properly backed up and not be clobbered when upgrading the software version).</p>
<p>How do I this? Is there a simple conf... | [
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How do I this? Is there a simple configuration ... | You can change the default location of the data directory by editing `/conf/dokuwiki.php`
Find line 22 and look for 'savedir' below is the snippet of this entry.
```
$conf['savedir'] = './data'; //where to store all the files
``` |
44,879 | <p>Over the last two years the number of "keyword not provided" referrals from Google Search has grown to close to 30% for my websites. Google does not send the keyword in the referer URL when the user is logged into Google or searching Google via https.</p>
<p>I've heard rumors that if your entire site is https, Goo... | [
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I've heard rumors that if your entire site is https, Google does no... | Based on conflicting reports in other answers, I decided to test it myself. I started up Firefox with the [Live HTTP Headers](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/).
Then I went to Google (logged in, over https) and did a search for: **[https only website example](https://www.google.com/sea... |
44,881 | <p>I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com.</p>
<p>Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading through (the quite expensive) wordpress.com upgrade.</p>
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Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading through (the quite expensive) wordpress.com upgrade.
My question is: what is the best way/procedure not to lose SEO? The ... | Your need to keep active the sub domain on WordPress otherwise you will lose any backlinks you have gained. I've made a few steps that you can follow but its important to note when you 301 redirect there is always a lose in some juice as Google makes it this way to dis-en-coverage people to use 301's as well as ruling ... |
44,894 | <p>I need to create a domain alias <code>alias.domain.com</code> to forward http to <code>www.domain.com</code>.</p>
<p>It has to be a forward and not a redirect (I was told it can be done by creating CNAME).</p>
<p>Note I am using Plesk and creating a domain alias in plesk creates an A record not a CNAME.</p>
<p>An... | [
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It has to be a forward and not a redirect (I was told it can be done by creating CNAME).
Note I am using Plesk and creating a domain alias in plesk creates an A record not a CNAME.
Any thoughts please? | Consider...
```
bar.example.com. CNAME foo.example.com.
foo.example.com. A 192.0.2.23
```
Here,
1. when a `DNS resolver` encounters a `CNAME record` while looking for a regular resource record, it will restart the query using the canonical name instead of the original name.
2. That is when an `... |
44,901 | <pre><code>Remove: Disallow: /search
</code></pre>
<p>From where can I remove this line? I am using Blogger and in webmaster it shows many of my pages are blocked. From the following Q&A, I know that I need to remove this text but don't know from where.</p>
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Remove: Disallow: /search
```
From where can I remove this line? I am using Blogger and in webmaster it shows many of my pages are blocked. From the following Q&A, I know that I need to remove this text but don't know from where.
[Blocked urls by Google](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/28544/bloc... | From <https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/how-to-edit-robots-txt-in-blogspot-blog.422059/>
>
> You cant change the `robots.txt` file in Blogger unless you host your own blog in your server.
>
>
>
As a general rule, "search" pages **should** be disallowed in `robots.txt`. Google does not want to include pages... |
44,920 | <p>I have only one version of my web-site, and it is optimised for both the desktop and the smartphone.</p>
<p>I've noticed that Google crawls each page exactly twice: once with <code>Googlebot/2.1</code>, and again with <code>Googlebot-Mobile/2.1</code>:</p>
<pre><code>% fgrep "/www/drupal6/filefield " /var/www/logs... | [
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I've noticed that Google crawls each page exactly twice: once with `Googlebot/2.1`, and again with `Googlebot-Mobile/2.1`:
```
% fgrep "/www/drupal6/filefield " /var/www/logs/ports.su/ports.su.access.log
66.249.76.223... | **You are already telling them because you have one site using a single set of URLs.**
They visit twice because each bot evaluates differently. In the end it goes in the same index but the metadata is different which lets them serve different results to standard and mobile queries. |
44,933 | <p>I have around 150 dynamic URL's as below</p>
<pre><code>http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=01ue3be299a-6bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=02ue3be299a-9bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
.
.
.
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```
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=01ue3be299a-6bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
http://mydomain.com/training/register.php?key=02ue3be299a-9bc1-1030-a2db-e4115bd593d8
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.
.
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```
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But you might not want all the versions indexed. It sounds like they are registration pages for different groups of people or ... |
44,938 | <p>We are at the beginning of the process to get multilingual versions of a website.
We will be using subfolders working off the core domain (eg <code>mydomain.com/fr/</code>), set the geotargeting at Webmaster Tools and set <code>hreflang</code> attribute.</p>
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We will be using subfolders working off the core domain (eg `mydomain.com/fr/`), set the geotargeting at Webmaster Tools and set `hreflang` attribute.
I would really appreciate your help with a couple of questions.
1. Portuguese: we wil... | Just create folder for each language..
```
pt-br - Portuguese (Brazil)
pt - Portuguese (Portugal)
fr-ch - French (Switzerland)
de-ch - German (Switzerland)
```
more language code is here <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052%28v=vs.85%29.aspx> |
44,946 | <p>I have a search function in my app that works like so:</p>
<pre><code>example.com/united-states
example.com/united-states/california
example.com/united-states/california/san-diego
</code></pre>
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"text": "<p>The canonical tag is only for two pages that has significant amounts of similar content. Your US... | 2013/03/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/44946",
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] | I have a search function in my app that works like so:
```
example.com/united-states
example.com/united-states/california
example.com/united-states/california/san-diego
```
These three different searches will throw up different results but the San Diego results will feature in both USA and California and the Califor... | The canonical tag is only for two pages that has significant amounts of similar content. Your USA page presumably has content on it from more than California. Therefore, it would be inappropriate to make it canonical to your California page.
If these pages look like search results, then Google doesn't want to index th... |
44,956 | <p>I'm trying to optimize my <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en" rel="nofollow">website</a> for better search results, I currently have a meta tag created for keywords like so:</p>
<pre><code><meta name="keywords" content="key1, key2, key3" />
</code></pre>
<p>I have waited 30 days and ... | [
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```
<meta name="keywords" content="key1, key2, key3" />
```
I have waited 30 days and still when I search my keywords, my site does not come up.... | Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking, [read this](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html) - it's official, straight from Google. |
44,970 | <p>We're looking at how our website is performing in Google and noticing that our "contact us" page is outperforming our "homepage" for a typical search which is product+geography.</p>
<pre><code>widgets dallas
widget makers dallas
widget shop texas
</code></pre>
<p>The reason being that the "contact us" page has the... | [
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```
widgets dallas
widget makers dallas
widget shop texas
```
The reason being that the "contact us" page has the "dallas" & "texas" in our... | As you said, it makes sense to rank that way. You do not have to do anything dirty though and all you can do is to provide additional information on your homepage.
This happens often on sites where the homepage has lots of product images but not much text. You do not have to turn it into a contact page but provide mor... |
44,990 | <p>I've developed a PHP framework that operates with the directory structure of</p>
<pre><code>/
/classes/
/templates/
/.../
/www/ (public_html)
</code></pre>
<p>But I've come across a host that only allows ftp to the DocumentRoot, so this imposes a security risk to my scripts. I don't want the root of the si... | [
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```
/
/classes/
/templates/
/.../
/www/ (public_html)
```
But I've come across a host that only allows ftp to the DocumentRoot, so this imposes a security risk to my scripts. I don't want the root of the site to point to the root wh... | Presumably you just need to block HTTP access (return an HTTP status code of 403 - Forbidden) to these folders, if stored in the document root? In your document root .htaccess file:
```
# Block HTTP access to certain folders
RewriteRule ^classes/.* - [F]
RewriteRule ^templates/.* - [F]
```
(...and build flexibility ... |
45,016 | <p>I'm sending an email through my application code.
The email gets into my Gmail spam folder.
However, a test of the same email in ISnotSPAM is marked as non-spam.
My application is using Sendgrid to send emails.
Will appreciate some advice to avoid reaching the spam folder.</p>
<p>Below is an example of ISnotSPAM re... | [
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The email gets into my Gmail spam folder.
However, a test of the same email in ISnotSPAM is marked as non-spam.
My application is using Sendgrid to send emails.
Will appreciate some advice to avoid reaching the spam folder.
Below is an example of ISnotSPAM report, mark... | What do you mean by 'sending an email through my application'. If you have a server other than a google server touching it and forwarding it, and it says the originator is supposed to be somebody@gmail.com, then that alone could trigger Google to mark it as 'spam'.
Basically, any server that touches an email will add ... |
45,041 | <p>Google is indexing some pages which require login on our site, but just the title of each page.</p>
<p>I am quite baffled as to how this can happen, Has anyone experienced something similar? </p>
<p>One thing that comes to my mind is Google Analytics js sending the title of the page to Google, but that doesn't mak... | [
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I am quite baffled as to how this can happen, Has anyone experienced something similar?
One thing that comes to my mind is Google Analytics js sending the title of the page to Google, but that doesn't make sense.
We are ... | This is purely down to the way your site is operating, the titles are being processed without requiring authentication. As long as the rest of the page is not rendering then its not a serious problem and since Google isn't indexing the contents of the page then its a good sign that this isn't the case.
The mistake her... |
45,091 | <p>What is the easiest way to receive data from different web services (Shopify, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, CRM applications, social media platforms, etc.) for an Internet retailer who wants to be able to see everything in one place? They basically want a dashboard that collects and displays sales and customer dat... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Sadly there is no CMS that will do this for you out of the box and will require a lot of coding using th... | 2013/03/15 | [
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Having said so, i recommend that you invest time into any one of available php frameworks, some are incredibly easy to work with, and... |
45,127 | <p>Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like <code>www.mysite.com/mypage.html</code>. I want to redirect this pages to the new page <code>www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage</code>.
I tried to do that by using <em>.htaccess</em> but instead of fixing the problem, the crawl pages increased and a new... | [
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] | Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like `www.mysite.com/mypage.html`. I want to redirect this pages to the new page `www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage`.
I tried to do that by using *.htaccess* but instead of fixing the problem, the crawl pages increased and a new crawl came `www.mysite.com/www.... | Your problem may be to do with that rewritebase command.
Have you checked you redirects to see if they work properly?
I would place my custom redirects above the rewrite block of code. It makes more sense and avoids that rewritebase causing trouble. Just make sure you have a rewriteengine on before it all. |
45,150 | <p>I was wondering if I should use (for SEO purposes), either:</p>
<pre><code>product_name - product_category | website_name
</code></pre>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer | HellGates
</code></pre>
<p><strong>OR</strong></p>
<pre><code>product_name - product_category - website_name
</... | [
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```
product_name - product_category | website_name
```
Example:
```
UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer | HellGates
```
**OR**
```
product_name - product_category - website_name
```
Example:
```
UCleaner - Delete Cache of Computer - HellGates
``` | For Google
----------
Regarding SEO, you can choose first one or second one because Google will rewrite it.
Few weeks ago, Google decided to put [brand name as first keyword](http://www.seroundtable.com/google-brand-title-appending-16432.html) in the title. In your two cases, the title will be like this:
>
> HellGa... |
45,163 | <p>We have a landing page which is used only for running an ad campaign. There is a website that has found this link somehow and is linking to it. I've been told by marketing they don't want that website linking to the landing page. How can I prevent a specific website from linking to our domain? I don't want to block ... | [
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>
> In the webmaster community, "hot linking" is a curse phrase. Also
> known as "bandwidth stealing" by the angry site owner, it refers to
> linking directly to non-html objects not on one own's server, such as
> images, .js files etc. The victim's server in t... |
45,167 | <p>I'm new to content management systems and I have very little experience in web development.
Which CMS do you recommend for the following tasks?</p>
<ul>
<li>Users can login and create list items</li>
<li>Users can upload files to list items</li>
<li>Users can comment and rate uploads (thumbs up down)</li>
<li>Users... | [
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Which CMS do you recommend for the following tasks?
* Users can login and create list items
* Users can upload files to list items
* Users can comment and rate uploads (thumbs up down)
* Users are able to change the font size o... | <http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml>
>
> In the webmaster community, "hot linking" is a curse phrase. Also
> known as "bandwidth stealing" by the angry site owner, it refers to
> linking directly to non-html objects not on one own's server, such as
> images, .js files etc. The victim's server in t... |
45,203 | <p>Can I combine robots.txt rules on one line, separated by whitespace? </p>
<p>Will this work? </p>
<pre><code>User-agent: * Disallow: /
</code></pre>
| [
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"text": "<p>No. See the <a href=\"https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt\" rel=\"nore... | 2013/03/18 | [
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Will this work?
```
User-agent: * Disallow: /
``` | No. See the [Google Robots.txt specifications](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt), specifically the File Formats section.
>
> The expected file format is plain text encoded in UTF-8. The file consists of records (lines) separated by CR, CR/LF or LF.
>
>
> Only valid record... |
45,233 | <p>I'd like to check if i understand gzip compression correctly, i learned about it only recently. I'm working on an asset manager for an HTML5 game currently. On my end as a front-end developer, i can do all my logic as normal? When i need an .mp3 file, i can request a .mp3 using the audio tag, when i need a text file... | [
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"text": "<p>You don't have to worry about gzip. It's the browser's job to uncompress them and there isn't anything you... | 2013/03/18 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/45233",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
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] | I'd like to check if i understand gzip compression correctly, i learned about it only recently. I'm working on an asset manager for an HTML5 game currently. On my end as a front-end developer, i can do all my logic as normal? When i need an .mp3 file, i can request a .mp3 using the audio tag, when i need a text file, i... | Apache uses deflate which is responsible for compressing the data into gzip formatting and sending it to the client, its important to note that the compress happens as the data is requested and not before. You should [familiarize yourself with mod\_deflate](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html) as well... |
45,242 | <p>I have a <code>www.example.com</code> site where I serve all static content (e.g. <code>http.//www.example.com/image.jpg</code>) off a CDN with URLs like <code>http://static.example.com/image.jpg</code></p>
<p>An Apache 2 .htaccess rule prohibits non-empty, <code>non-example.com</code> referrals:</p>
<pre><code>&l... | [
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An Apache 2 .htaccess rule prohibits non-empty, `non-example.com` referrals:
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERE... | There is no way to forward the www > cdn without reaching the request on the main server since well they are linking to you.
My advice is not to 301 redirect but rather than just flat out 404, hopefully by doing so they will stop hot linking you.
While this has some traffic on your server it shouldn't be too much a... |
45,267 | <p>I have a site with multiple different sites in sub-directories. I want to view the sub directory in two formats. For example:</p>
<ol>
<li><code>www.example.com/blog</code></li>
<li><code>www.example.com/blog/</code></li>
</ol>
<p>Both should show the index page under blog folder.</p>
<p>After turning DirectoryS... | [
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1. `www.example.com/blog`
2. `www.example.com/blog/`
Both should show the index page under blog folder.
After turning DirectorySlash off, redirection is off from `www.example.com/blog` to `ww... | I think I understand what you want better now. Let me recap:
* `/test` should show the contents of `/test/index.html`
* `/test/` should redirect to `/test`
* `/test/index.html` should redirect to `/test`
* `/test/something.html` should show its own contents
You can do this with the knowledge that I gained by asking a... |
45,296 | <p>I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>The old links use this formatting: <code>/site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html</code></p></li>
<li><p>I want to migrate it to <code>/wp/index.php?p=id</code></p></li>
</ol>
<p>I have modified my .htaccess file but i... | [
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1. The old links use this formatting: `/site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html`
2. I want to migrate it to `/wp/index.php?p=id`
I have modified my .htaccess file but it doesn't seem to work.
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/(.*... | Your regular expression has the following problems:
1. It only has `.*` for the "site" and "sectionname", but is missing one for the "categoryname". Based on your example, there should be a third directory level in your regex.
2. You have parenthesis around items which you don't need to reference, but no parenthesis a... |
45,304 | <p>I have a domain like <code>www.example.com</code>. I need to remove <code>www.</code> from specified sub folder by using a <code>.htaccess</code> file. </p>
<p>Example : </p>
<ol>
<li><p><code>www.example.com/blog</code> should redirect to <code>example.com</code></p></li>
<li><p>All other sub folders will not red... | [
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Example :
1. `www.example.com/blog` should redirect to `example.com`
2. All other sub folders will not redirect in url like `www.example.com/forum` will remain untouched.
3. `www.example.com` will ... | You can put a rewrite rule like this in place in the `.htaccess` file. In this example "example.com" is the domain name and "subdirectory" is the name of the folder for which you want to remove the "www".
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^subdirectory(\/.*)?$ http://example.com/subdirectory... |
45,310 | <p>Browsers only allow you to download <a href="http://css-tricks.com/images-on-a-subdomain/" rel="nofollow">a limited number of concurrent files</a> from the same domain.</p>
<p>Would a subdomain for images (basically <a href="http://www.riyaz.net/blogging/setup-own-cdn/890/" rel="nofollow">as a content delivery netw... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Short answer yes using a sub domain will enable parallel downloading that can will improve the amount of... | 2013/03/20 | [
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] | Browsers only allow you to download [a limited number of concurrent files](http://css-tricks.com/images-on-a-subdomain/) from the same domain.
Would a subdomain for images (basically [as a content delivery network](http://www.riyaz.net/blogging/setup-own-cdn/890/)) **on the same web hosting server** increase the numbe... | Yes or no. Your assumption is correct and that more resources can be loaded in parallel by the browser if they are served from multiple domains. There are two cases to consider though:
1. Your server is not presently serving at maximum capacity: In this case more requests being served simultaneously is better. Visitor... |
45,375 | <p>I want to create a form on my page to get information this is easily done and the problem.</p>
<p>I want to 'POST' information to my own php-page, creating a new id and saving the information to my database. And then this page should redirect to the external page via 'POST' with id, price and so on.</p>
<p>The ext... | [
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I want to 'POST' information to my own php-page, creating a new id and saving the information to my database. And then this page should redirect to the external page via 'POST' with id, price and so on.
The external page is a p... | You can actually submit any form via POST to any page (even if it resides on a remote server). So as long as you specify the URL to the CGI page (PHP, PERL, Python), it should work.
In PHP, you can send header information (and therefore redirects) to any page on the local or a remote server, and have that happen after... |
45,435 | <p>With the many uses for favicons nowadays (new tab page, bookmarks, url bar, IE pin to taskbar etc,) what sizes should I be including in my favicon.ico file? </p>
<p>I'm using <a href="http://www.converticon.com/" rel="nofollow">Converticon</a> and thought the easy solution would be to include all the resolutions th... | [
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I'm using [Converticon](http://www.converticon.com/) and thought the easy solution would be to include all the resolutions that it supports, however, as this cre... | * **16px** is compatible with all browsers and often found in the following locations, the address bar, tabs, bookmarks.
* **24px** Internet Explorer 9 (Pinned Sites).
* **32px** Internet Explorer 9, Taskbar in Windows 7 and 8, Safari’s side bar.
* **57px** Standard iOS size iPhone first generation to 3G+, iPod Touch
*... |
45,443 | <p>I am thinking to use the Input Type tags in my web application like </p>
<pre><code><input type="email">
<input type="number" required="required">
</code></pre>
<p>I'm just curious how safe is to use them , Is there any options so the user will disable them from browser. </p>
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```
<input type="email">
<input type="number" required="required">
```
I'm just curious how safe is to use them , Is there any options so the user will disable them from browser. | They are **not** safe.
You can **never** count on them being executed.
You **can't** skip server-side input-checking. |
45,461 | <p>we are building a site with dozens of very complex forms and we decided that the best solution for us is to make them using <code><table></code></p>
<p>but we are worried about accessibility and standards.</p>
<p>what i think is that a form <strong>may</strong> be totally accessible and standards valid if it... | [
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but we are worried about accessibility and standards.
what i think is that a form **may** be totally accessible and standards valid if it is made in a proper way
for example:
```
<ta... | Accessibility in general can vary depending on which HTML Doc Type i.e:
* XHTML 1.0 Transitional
* HTML 4.01 Transitional
* HTML5
This is because W3C has many accessibility attributes obsolete in HTML5, so your first decision should be which DOC type your going to support. Accessibility isn't my strongest field and n... |
45,487 | <p>Given I am running a real estate rentals listing website, what would be the correct vocabulary (for use in Microdata) or Microformats for the listing pages? There is the usual data: address, photos, price, start date, possible end date, person who is renting it out, list of amenities, description etc.</p>
<p>Are th... | [
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Are there also M... | Use this format: Replace Organization with Place use `<span itemprop="thing"> Home For Sale`
```
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Beyond Window Cleaning</span>
Located at: div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
span item... |
45,490 | <p>So I thought I knew what "canonical" was for. </p>
<p>As I understood it (and to be fair, most of the examples on the web) it avoids search engines seeing <code>foo.htm</code> and <code>foo.htm?parameter=1</code> as duplicate content, by specifying that only one of them is the canonical version.</p>
<p>Therefore i... | [
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As I understood it (and to be fair, most of the examples on the web) it avoids search engines seeing `foo.htm` and `foo.htm?parameter=1` as duplicate content, by specifying that only one of them is the canonical version.
Therefore it seemed to me to be an issue exclusive... | Yes and No. The `rel="canonical"` will avoid the duplicate content issue. However, this particular situation is best resolved with a 301 redirect.
`foo.htm` and `foo.htm?parameter=1` are both legitimate URLs that are used on the site, but `foo.htm` is probably the preferred (canonical) URL.
Whereas only 1 of `www.exa... |
45,513 | <p>We have an existing web site with HTTP on port 80 and HTTPS on port 443. I'm adding a second site to that now, and from what I understand, I cannot host two sites on the same SSL port. </p>
<p>So my question is: which port number range is appropriate for me to use as my SSL port on the second site?</p>
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] | We have an existing web site with HTTP on port 80 and HTTPS on port 443. I'm adding a second site to that now, and from what I understand, I cannot host two sites on the same SSL port.
So my question is: which port number range is appropriate for me to use as my SSL port on the second site? | Actually you CAN host multiple SSL sites on port 443. The following code in your apache config file will do the trick.
Otherwise, you can use whatever ports you want. The disadvantage will be that users will have to include the port number in the URL (eg. <https://yourdomain.com:445/>)
```
## SSL (HTTPS) PORT 443
Lis... |
45,517 | <p>I want to redirect <code>mysite.example</code> or <code>http://mysite.example</code> or <code>www.mysite.example</code> or any other format given my user to <code>http://www.mysite.example</code>, I am able to achieve this by rewriting following lines in my <code>.htaccess</code> file</p>
<pre><code>Rewritecond %{h... | [
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```
Rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.example
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.mysite.example... | You are asking yourself the wrong question. What you should as is:
>
> Does the article fit the topic of my site and help my readers?
>
>
>
It does not even matter if the article is a superb piece of literature if it is completely off-topic. If it does fit and you judge it appropriate content, then you can consid... |
45,527 | <p>So I work for a company that recently decided to jump on the SEO bandwagon. We asked the different departments (each has its own site) what they wanted their keywords to be and I got a lot of examples of things like this:</p>
<pre><code>foobar
foo bar
foo-bar
foobar baz
foo-bar baz
foo bar baz
foobars baz
foo-bars ... | [
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```
foobar
foo bar
foo-bar
foobar baz
foo-bar baz
foo bar baz
foobars baz
foo-bars baz
foo bars b... | **Search Engine Advancements**
Google, Bing, and Yahoo have come a long way since they first launched, a lot of the keyword signals is actually done off the page. Things like meta tags are not used by Google but may be used by Bing and Yahoo to get an initial feeling for the page, some of the top SEO plugins don't ev... |
45,592 | <p>It takes a while for Google Webmaster Tools to update the amount of links sent by sitemap. I was wondering if updating it on a daily basis could delay it even longer or actually help. The slow indexing may be caused by the low pagerank, which is 1.</p>
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If you add your sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools, it will process and update within 5 minutes. It doesn't mean that all the URL's included in your sitemap will be indexed nor does a sitemap instruct a search engine to index the URL's in a sitemap. A sitemap is only req... |
45,598 | <p>I got a message in Google Webmaster Tools about "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site" with a long list of example URLs.</p>
<p>For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to prevent them being indexed. However, for some of the URLs, I have <code>"noindex, nofollow"</code> meta tags as ... | [
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For some of the pages listed, there was nothing to prevent them being indexed. However, for some of the URLs, I have `"noindex, nofollow"` meta tags as follows:
```
<meta n... | It's important to note that nofollow, noindex and even blocking via robots doesn't necessary mean that the content won't be crawled, in fact these pages can still be indexed but rather hidden from public search results (Yes Google is naughty, but it true). You see when using noindex on the page Google needs to crawl th... |
46,635 | <p>I am a user of a free Google Analytics account and i'm slightly concerned that I may be approaching the 10,000,000 hit (Pageviews, Events etc) per month.</p>
<p>Google state in <a href="https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/limits-quotas">their documentation</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>T... | [
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Google state in [their documentation](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/limits-quotas):
>
> These limits apply to the Web Property ... | What you might want to do is use the [GA Core Reporting API](http://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/) to extract these numbers automatically. It's not very easy to build the queries manually, so I use the [Google Analytics Query Explorer 2](http://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/).
I thin... |
46,659 | <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3pjQeCqqk" rel="nofollow">Matt Cutts states in this video</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It turns out that as we are executing JavaScript, we do look at the attributes. So you can actually use Javascript and put, like, a nofollow attribute on individual URLs.</p>
</blockquote>... | [
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>
> It turns out that as we are executing JavaScript, we do look at the attributes. So you can actually use Javascript and put, like, a nofollow attribute on individual URLs.
>
>
>
I'm not clear to me what the syntax for that would be.... | What he is referring to is the HTML markup of the page. The nofollow keyword goes into a *rel* attribute on a tag, usually an `<a>` tag with an *href* like so: `<a href="/link" rel="nofollow">link</a>`. So he is suggesting that if you don't want search engines parsing through your javascript and looking for links you c... |
46,680 | <p>I have been remaking my website for some time now and I want to launch it as quickly as possible but I want to make it leading edge if possible. I am currently using a modified template (I know! web designer using template tut tut … but long story short I had 1 week to get a live website as well as doing a business ... | [
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"text": "<p>In my view and experience, blog post schema should be used for posts on a blog. It contains all the <a href... | 2013/03/28 | [
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If something is a schema:BlogPosting, it is an schema:Article, too, isn't it? As schema:BlogPosting is a more specific [schema:Article](http://schema.org/Article):
>
> **More specific types**
>
>
> * BlogPosting
> * NewsArticle
> * ScholarlyArticle
>
>
>
So you have an sche... |
46,726 | <p>Okay, this is very weird, Google indexed my pages and some are duplicates (one w/ the trailing slash, and one without). Is this bad for SEO?</p>
<p>The URL's are like:</p>
<pre><code>site.com/posts/indexed-post/
site.com/posts/indexed-post
</code></pre>
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"text": "<p>Here is my guess about why Google is offering to display your name as \"Ali Rana\" instead of \"Md... | 2013/03/30 | [
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The URL's are like:
```
site.com/posts/indexed-post/
site.com/posts/indexed-post
``` | Here is my guess about why Google is offering to display your name as "Ali Rana" instead of "Md Ali Ahsan Rana". "MD" is a common suffix used by doctors. They assume that it isn't part of your legal name, but rather your professional title. That leaves them with "Ali Ahsan Rana" and they take out the "middle" name leav... |
46,776 | <p>I am hosting the URL (<code>www.getyourpansoff.com</code>) of a friend as an add-on in a bluehost account. I want to use this URL for her blog (<code>get-your-pans-off.blogspot.com</code>).</p>
<p>I have configured the URL in the blog itself, and Google seems happy with it.</p>
<p>However, when I try to open the b... | [
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I have configured the URL in the blog itself, and Google seems happy with it.
However, when I try to open the blog using `www.getyourpansoff.com`, I d... | There are services that will allow you to use their address and forward your mail to you at your usual address. This will make it appear as if you have a Canadian address, and you should be able to register the domain just fine.
Alternatively, you could just find a Canadian citizen to register it for you. That way you... |
46,779 | <p>I have an URL structure like the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>example.com/<b>cellphone</b>/<b>nokia</b>/galaxy-5678-<b>nokia</b>-<b>cellphone</b>-from-abc/</p>
</blockquote>
<p>For more example:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>example.com/<b>cellphone</b>/<b>motorolla</b>/new-<b>motorolla</b>-gta800-<b>cellphone</b>-from-zxy/... | [
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>
> example.com/**cellphone**/**nokia**/galaxy-5678-**nokia**-**cellphone**-from-abc/
>
>
>
For more example:
>
> example.com/**cellphone**/**motorolla**/new-**motorolla**-gta800-**cellphone**-from-zxy/
>
>
>
The directory structure is like the cellphone is the ma... | It's important to note that there is no official number that is classed as keyword stuffing and every page/site is different. But in your example it's not a matter if its keyword stuffing or not. You should be making your URLs for your visitors and not the search engines.
Your unnecessary repeating the words, words su... |
46,813 | <p>We are developing a WinForms grid control, and selling it thru our website worldwide. At the current stage of SEO works, we found that there are many popular search phrases with the "c#" word we can use ("c# grid control", etc).</p>
<p>But the sharp char (#) can't be encoded in URLs "as is" to have the maximal SEO ... | [
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But the sharp char (#) can't be encoded in URLs "as is" to have the maximal SEO effect for... | The maximum indicator would be `c%23` but please note I used the word indicator, Google uses many factors to rank a page and in no way is this only the sole factor. You can rank pages without keywords in the URL, take these as an example:
* msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/hh341490.aspx
* www.csharp-station.com/tutori... |
46,852 | <p>For example, originally my name is Denny Müller but I have used Denny Mueller for many years. This is common practice in Germany and it has the same meaning but with a different way of writing it.</p>
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"text": "<p>Google usually maps <em>ü</em> and <em>ue</em> and searching for Danny Müller just a second ago, I see your w... | 2013/04/03 | [
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] | For example, originally my name is Denny Müller but I have used Denny Mueller for many years. This is common practice in Germany and it has the same meaning but with a different way of writing it.
I like to write it my name with *ue* but in Germany it is usually *ü*. Also my domain is with *ue* and it's easy to find a... | Google usually maps *ü* and *ue* and searching for Danny Müller just a second ago, I see your website on 5th place just behind some Facebook profiles and some image search results:
[Google Search](https://www.google.de/search?q=denny%20m%C3%BCller&aq=f&oq=denny%20m%C3%BCller&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
That's true for ... |
46,978 | <p>Can I create 301 redirect from "index.html" to root directory if file "index.html" not exist?</p>
<p>For example: link "<code>http://example.com/index.html</code>" show "404 Error" page. </p>
<p>I need 301 redirect to root directory: "<code>http://example.com/</code>"</p>
<p>in .htaccess I add rule:</p>
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For example: link "`http://example.com/index.html`" show "404 Error" page.
I need 301 redirect to root directory: "`http://example.com/`"
in .htaccess I add rule:
```
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*... | Use it like this:
```
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*?/|)index\.html$ / [L,R=301,NC]
``` |
46,982 | <p>I've been trying to figure this out off and on for a few days now, and I think I just have a fundamental lack of understanding :)</p>
<p>I have Apache2 running in a windows environment serving up our company intranet. I'd like to be able to pass through the windows authenticated user so that I'm able to use it on ... | [
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I have Apache2 running in a windows environment serving up our company intranet. I'd like to be able to pass through the windows authenticated user so that I'm able to use it on the PHP sid... | You didn't mention it anywhere, but you are using IE, along with NTLM SSO. IE only engages in automatic NTLM handshakes with sites that it deems to be in the `Intranet Zone`. Otherwise it will throw the popup prompt to explicitly ask for credentials. (Even in the `Trusted Zone`)
So the question is, how does it know a ... |
47,012 | <p>For the last few days, I've been suffering from what appears to be a (presumably inadvertent) DDOS attack. I've been getting so many requests from an agent identifying as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ICS)" that apache eats through all the available memory.</p>
<p>Consequently, I'd like to block all requests accompanie... | [
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] | For the last few days, I've been suffering from what appears to be a (presumably inadvertent) DDOS attack. I've been getting so many requests from an agent identifying as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ICS)" that apache eats through all the available memory.
Consequently, I'd like to block all requests accompanied by this ... | This normally simply works out of the box by *not* having a `RewriteRule` or `DirectoryIndex` for the root of either site. If it does not for you, you will have to provide the contents of your *.htaccess*. |
47,048 | <p>I'm looking at a corner case with robots.txt, and am curious if you have any guidance. </p>
<p>Basically, I'm in a situation where multiple people will be making edits to the same robots.txt file. </p>
<p>I've pointed to the <a href="https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt" rel... | [
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"text": "<p>No. The only way to know this is to have access to their site stats (Google Analytics, Awstats, etc). You ob... | 2013/04/08 | [
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Basically, I'm in a situation where multiple people will be making edits to the same robots.txt file.
I've pointed to the [Google Resource](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_txt) as our stan... | As John writes you will not be able to see the traffic your competitors get. But you can get some estimations by using the tools Google provides.
With Google'S AdWords [keyword tool](https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool&ei=xkB... |
47,113 | <p>Recently I discover that some variants of a google proxy visits my sites. I doubt these are legal Google crawlers because these crawlers are NOT always behind a proxy (like the hostname describes) and identify itself as a browser. The hostname is formatted similar/like Googlebot but with the string 'proxy' added to ... | [
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"text": "<p>These are not fake and are used, these are private proxies used by staff members for various manual task... | 2013/04/09 | [
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I have tried this, to show one of my websites in the preview and yes, there it is, received a blockedIP message.
If you want users to be able to view a preview of your website, you have to accept t... |
47,142 | <p>I have the following situation: I had a blog (made using Joomla) that in some month was pretty indexed by Google.</p>
<p>For some technical problem I have delete it and I have newly created using WordPress (so it is a different site, only the URL it is the same) and I have reinserted manually all the articles.</p>
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] | I have the following situation: I had a blog (made using Joomla) that in some month was pretty indexed by Google.
For some technical problem I have delete it and I have newly created using WordPress (so it is a different site, only the URL it is the same) and I have reinserted manually all the articles.
Looking at my... | I use the following Wordpress plugins which might help you:
* [True Google 404](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/true-google404/) - Keeps track of 404 errors and tries to resolve the ones that it can through site search
* [Custom Permalinks](http://atastypixel.com/blog/wordpress/plugins/custom-permalinks/) - Lets y... |
47,149 | <p>I will need to migrate a wordpress site to Amazon EC2.
I've never done this before and it's not my area of expertise, so I'm following <a href="http://askdba.org/weblog/2013/01/moving-wordpress-blog-to-amazon-web-services/" rel="nofollow">this guide</a>.</p>
<p>I am getting close to making the actual move (EC2 inst... | [
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I've never done this before and it's not my area of expertise, so I'm following [this guide](http://askdba.org/weblog/2013/01/moving-wordpress-blog-to-amazon-web-services/).
I am getting close to making the actual move (EC2 instance is setup, LAMP are ready, wordp... | You could use the hosts file on your local machine (were you are browsing from) to temporarily set an ip on the domain in question. On a windows machine this file is: `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts`
So make an entry like so in that file:
```
101.102.103.104 mywpdomain.com
```
Now when you go to `mywpdom... |
47,153 | <p>I've got some content wrapped into <code><noscript></code> tag which I don't want google and any other search engines to see, is there a way to hide it?</p>
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For example:
```
<script>
\\ I am a awesome javascript
</script>
<noscript>
<p>You do not have JavaScript enabled so you can't use our ... |
47,237 | <p>Here's what I mean by that. If I use internal CSS, the page will load a bit quicker on the first time it is visited, but with external CSS a user can cache the document and load the rest of the site faster. Does Google take it on a page-by-page basis, ignoring caching, or will speeding up overall speeds throughout... | [
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"text": "<p><strong>Google Cache Resources for 2nd Page Views Unlikely</strong></p>\n\n<p>It is extremely unlikely t... | 2013/04/12 | [
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My priority is SEO rather than user experience in this case
```
For what its worth the offical google line (as much as there is such a thing) seems to be that good user experience is good seo. I presume you have seen their vids? <http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp> Matt Cutts and the gang often try t... |