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52,772 | <p>Using Google's <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets" rel="nofollow">Rich Snippet Test Tool</a> I couldn't get it to successfully recognize my event data (we have many <a href="http://www.vrijezending.nl/VZH" rel="nofollow">sermons</a> on our website dating back to 1947). </p>
<p>Finally, I g... | [
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"text": "<p><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time\">Unix time</a> starts on January 1st, 1970. Th... | 2013/09/07 | [
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] | Using Google's [Rich Snippet Test Tool](http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets) I couldn't get it to successfully recognize my event data (we have many [sermons](http://www.vrijezending.nl/VZH) on our website dating back to 1947).
Finally, I got it to recognize it when using a more recent date, here is s... | [Unix time](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) starts on January 1st, 1970. That time is called the "unix time epoch".
It seems likely that Google is storing the dates as unix time stamps internally and is therefore unable to handle dates before 1970. |
52,822 | <p>So I recently changed where my site is hosted, and my <code>yp.com</code> API requests are being thrown off, perhaps by a new version of PHP.</p>
<pre><code>http://api2.yp.com/listings/v1/search?searchLoc=oklahoma%20ok&term=Plumbing&format=xml&key=xxxx&sort=name&listingcount=50&pagenum=1
</c... | [
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"text": "<p>Look into using <a href=\"http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"><c... | 2013/09/09 | [
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] | So I recently changed where my site is hosted, and my `yp.com` API requests are being thrown off, perhaps by a new version of PHP.
```
http://api2.yp.com/listings/v1/search?searchLoc=oklahoma%20ok&term=Plumbing&format=xml&key=xxxx&sort=name&listingcount=50&pagenum=1
```
works great, even just by typing it into the U... | *Solution posted by the question-asker in the question*
I ended up just using curl, which doesn't seem to encode
```
$apiURL = "http://api2.yp.com/listings/v1/search?searchloc=".$searchLoc."&term=".$category."&format=xml&key=".$key."&sort=name&pagenum=".$pageNumber;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURN... |
52,875 | <p>I've got following error URLs from the Google Webmaster Tools <em>crawl errors</em>.</p>
<pre><code>http://www.mydomain.com/mydomain/shirts/function.session-start
</code></pre>
<p>I've checked the those pages that links from but I didn't found any wrong URL with <code>function.session-start</code>.</p>
<p>What is... | [
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"text": "<p>I'm not quite sure what you mean by read-only in this case, because it does depend on the web application usin... | 2013/09/10 | [
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] | I've got following error URLs from the Google Webmaster Tools *crawl errors*.
```
http://www.mydomain.com/mydomain/shirts/function.session-start
```
I've checked the those pages that links from but I didn't found any wrong URL with `function.session-start`.
What is the issue there and how to avoid it? | The answer to this is no, there is no way to make resources on a page read-only to JavaScript loaded from another domain. |
52,886 | <p>I have a website that is not on ASP anymore, it's a Drupal 7 website now.</p>
<p><em><strong>I need to use an .htaccess file to redirect with code 301 all pages with .asp extension to the 404 page or a specific URL.</em></strong></p>
<p>(Background story: Drupal will catch non-existing pages such as <code>domain.c... | [
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"text": "<pre><code>RewriteEngine On\nRewriteRule ^.+\\.asp$ domain.com/404 [R=404,L]\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Aug... | 2013/09/10 | [
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] | I have a website that is not on ASP anymore, it's a Drupal 7 website now.
***I need to use an .htaccess file to redirect with code 301 all pages with .asp extension to the 404 page or a specific URL.***
(Background story: Drupal will catch non-existing pages such as `domain.com/test` and redirect to 404 page. But Dru... | ```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.+\.asp$ domain.com/404 [R=404,L]
```
Aughta do the trick :) It's pretty self-explanatory, it just rewrites every page that ends in .asp to your 404 page.
You should use 404 instead of 301 since you want to tell Google the page doesn't exist anymore. You can use 301, but then you'd ... |
52,903 | <p>Google Webmaster tools is reporting a large increase in 'not found errors' on my site, and I see approximately 1700 'Not Found Errors over the past 2 months. All of them are for a url that is formatted like:</p>
<pre><code>http://mydomain.com/click.php?c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'dmjdlgsbve%3E2'lfzxpset%3EQfbs'sbol%... | [
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] | Google Webmaster tools is reporting a large increase in 'not found errors' on my site, and I see approximately 1700 'Not Found Errors over the past 2 months. All of them are for a url that is formatted like:
```
http://mydomain.com/click.php?c%3EdHm7fnGkc3Smdz6kc31%3E'dmjdlgsbve%3E2'lfzxpset%3EQfbs'sbol%3E2'f%3Evt%3Cv... | ```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.+\.asp$ domain.com/404 [R=404,L]
```
Aughta do the trick :) It's pretty self-explanatory, it just rewrites every page that ends in .asp to your 404 page.
You should use 404 instead of 301 since you want to tell Google the page doesn't exist anymore. You can use 301, but then you'd ... |
52,936 | <p>I have my web application named like <code>www.example.com</code>. I used this website over 3 years. Now I have moved my website <code>www.example.com</code> in a virtual directory as its new path is <code>www.example.com/myweb</code>.</p>
<p>When I search my content on Google it displays my old website path which i... | [
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"text": "<p>Since Google has indexed the URL of your old website, you have to do URL re-writing to catch the old URL and redi... | 2013/09/05 | [
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] | I have my web application named like `www.example.com`. I used this website over 3 years. Now I have moved my website `www.example.com` in a virtual directory as its new path is `www.example.com/myweb`.
When I search my content on Google it displays my old website path which is now moved.
* old path was: `www.example... | Since Google has indexed the URL of your old website, you have to do URL re-writing to catch the old URL and redirect it to your new URL.
Since I have hosted an application `example.com` then all pages inside the `example.com` like `example.com/index.html` had been index by Google. When I configured our web site to op... |
52,944 | <p>I'm building poetry web site and I wanted some HTML structure tips for entries. </p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code><h1>This is poetry title</h1>
<p>
Poem's line 1. <br />
Poem's line 2. <br />
Poem's line 3. <br />
Poem's line 4. <br />
</p>
<p>
... | [
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"text": "<p>Your basic HTML structure is fine. You could use microdata for additional semantic markup.<a href=\"http://sc... | 2013/09/11 | [
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Example:
```
<h1>This is poetry title</h1>
<p>
Poem's line 1. <br />
Poem's line 2. <br />
Poem's line 3. <br />
Poem's line 4. <br />
</p>
<p>
Poem's line 5. <br />
Poem's line 6. <br />
Poem's line 7. <br />... | Your basic HTML structure is fine. You could use microdata for additional semantic markup.[Creative Work](http://schema.org/CreativeWork) is probably the best fit. You can use `name`, `author`, and `genre`.
```
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">
<h1 itemprop="name">This is poetry title</h1>
... |
53,015 | <p>I am trying to track down the owner and/or domain host with a view to buying a specific domain. Fairly standard BUT, the registrant name is a person and they are also the registrar. No email details on WHOIS or DNS or Web Info records, website is not active. Any thoughts on how to proceed.</p>
<p>WHOIS also says th... | [
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"text": "<p>Simple answer, you can't reveal that data - it's protected and hidden by the registrar of the domain bec... | 2013/09/13 | [
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WHOIS also says this:
```
N... | Simple answer, you can't reveal that data - it's protected and hidden by the registrar of the domain because the person has opt or paid for privacy.
You can only obtain those details by issuing a complaint letter on grounds of copyright i.e DCMA or a legal complaint of another nature. Or [you believe the data may be ... |
53,036 | <p>My robots.txt:</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /
</code></pre>
<p>A page two directories below the root is being hit by a Yahoo bot and getting a 404:</p>
<pre><code>HTTP_REFERER: [empty string]
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp/3.0; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) NOT Fir... | [
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```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
A page two directories below the root is being hit by a Yahoo bot and getting a 404:
```
HTTP_REFERER: [empty string]
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp/3.0; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) NOT Firefox/3.5
QUERY_STRING: [empty string]... | A robots.txt file offers instructions to crawlers about how you would like them to behave, and most reputable crawlers try to follow them, but it has no effect on your server to actually force crawlers to follow them.
Typically if a crawler is not following your robots file, it either indicates that it is a rude crawl... |
53,189 | <p>I have a webpage where a user can search for items based on around 6 filters. Currently I have the page implemented with one filter as the base filter (part of the url that would get indexed) and other filters in the form of hash urls (which won't get indexed). This way the duplication is less.</p>
<p>Something lik... | [
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"text": "<p>There aren't any real problems adding the httpOnly flag when setting a cookie. It only works if a browser supp... | 2013/09/18 | [
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Something like this
``... | It really depends on the data you are storing. If your site doesn't use an SSL cert this is easy. Everything would go in httpOnly cookies or session variables. You would decide that based on whether the data you were storing is sensitive. If it's storing the user background color choice then httpOnly is really always f... |
53,241 | <p>Basically, for pages that may not have a description or tags set, is it better to have</p>
<pre><code><meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
</code></pre>
<p>or just skip the tags altogether for those pages that don't have the information set? </p>
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```
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
```
or just skip the tags altogether for those pages that don't have the information set? | FYI, meta tags have no effects on rankings so no meta tags is the same as empty meta tags is the same as full meta tags.
Having said that, empty meta tags are the same as no meta tags. Either way you are not providing search engines or any other crawler any information normally provided in those tags. If I had to choo... |
53,282 | <p><strong>Back in 2007 I purchased a <code>.net</code> domain for a certain company because the <code>.com</code> was taken.</strong></p>
<p>The website grew, and I consider it to have a good amount of visits, keeping in mind its a business page, and not eCommerce.
It also attracts a lot of customers, and the owners ... | [
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"text": "<p>If you want to the date then go webmaster and use data highlighter to tell search engines about the where yo... | 2013/09/20 | [
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The website grew, and I consider it to have a good amount of visits, keeping in mind its a business page, and not eCommerce.
It also attracts a lot of customers, and the owners are very happy with it.
A couple of years ag... | This data that you have highlighted in your screenshot of search results in known as [rich snippet data](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en). By using [Schema markup](http://schema.org/), you can provide search engines with more information about the type of content your website contains.
You can... |
53,298 | <p>I have a website, about web design and programming, which uses WordPress. I also list some applications that I have made, in pages like:</p>
<pre><code>mysite.com/myapp1
mysite.com/myapp2
</code></pre>
<p>(<strong>note</strong>: these pages are not WordPress pages just simple HTML (PHP) pages that I have created)<... | [
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```
mysite.com/myapp1
mysite.com/myapp2
```
(**note**: these pages are not WordPress pages just simple HTML (PHP) pages that I have created)
Currently, I am displaying these aplic... | For better SEO, I would use WordPress as the overall site (not a subdirectory or a subdomain) and continue to upload your sample applications as separate PHP pages and link to them from within WordPress.
WordPress with a good SEO plugin will automatically generate your sitemap for Google as well as handle multiple pa... |
53,323 | <p>I have a site with Google Maps on most of the pages. When inspecting content keywords in Google Webmaster tools, content keywords identified by Google-bot for the site include "imagery", "sorry" and "here". These turn out to be part of an error message returned by Google Maps: "Sorry, we have no imagery here". I can... | [
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"text": "<p>I think that this is against the rules of google but till they fix their own bug i am going to use the f... | 2013/09/21 | [
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```
var isGoogleBot = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('googlebot') > -1;
if (isGoogleBot)
... |
53,333 | <p>I am using Google Analytics and I am trying to set cross domain tracking for my website. I've read Google's <a href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034342?hl=en&utm_id=ad" rel="nofollow">cross domain tracking guide</a>, but I am confused as to how to implement it properly.</p>
<p>The issue I am ha... | [
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The issue I am having is that the example code they give ... | The example tacking code you're referring to is for `ga.js` which is used with standard (non-universal) Google Analytics, as indicated in the [link](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034342?hl=en&utm_id=ad) you provided:
>
> This information applies to the ga.js tracking method only.
>
>
>
[Universal A... |
53,355 | <p>I'm trying to customise a Google map to use shades of a particular colour. It's working nicely except the blocks that contain major road names / numbers is illegible. I've figured out how to target styles to those elements, but setting the 'color' value sets both text and background to that colour. And no adjusting ... | [
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"text": "<p>You need to individually style the labels.text.fill and the labels.text.stroke.</p>\n\n<pre><code>var st... | 2013/09/23 | [
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```
var styles = [
{
"featureType": "road",
"elementType": "labels.icon",
"stylers": [
{ "Hue": "#0a9ad7" },
{ "saturation":... |
53,359 | <p>I heard that Google bot places weight on links, according to their order in the page. So the first link is higher in importance, relevance etc. Is it true?</p>
<p>And if so, I wonder how the "order" is determined by Google. I mean, say my source code is like:</p>
<pre><code><a id='a1' href='x'>link1</a>... | [
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And if so, I wonder how the "order" is determined by Google. I mean, say my source code is like:
```
<a id='a1' href='x'>link1</a>
<a id='a2' href='y'>link2</a>
... | Placement of links on the page is more important than order in source code. Links that are not prominent are often discounted by Google:
* Left hand column below the fold
* Right hand column below the fold
* Footer links
Links that are positioned where there are likely to be used by users carry the most weight:
* Ma... |
53,371 | <p>Although I have many years worth of coding experience, I'm a complete n00b at managing sites. So I need help.</p>
<p>Basically I have this new site on a shared hosting provider, and sometimes I get these errors:</p>
<pre><code>Warning: fopen(/home/baysescp/public_html/system/logs/error.txt) [function.fopen]: faile... | [
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/53371",
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Basically I have this new site on a shared hosting provider, and sometimes I get these errors:
```
Warning: fopen(/home/baysescp/public_html/system/logs/error.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No ... | It will be difficult to debug the slowness. Shared hosting environments are awful. They are over sold servers with a bunch of hobbyists looking to run inefficient or even malicious code for dirt cheap. Your slowness is likely due to extreme load on the server caused by yourself or others.
It looks like your files are ... |
53,383 | <p>i generated a creative commons license for my website, they gave me a code to put into my website html.</p>
<p>The code is somenthing like:</p>
<pre><code><a href="tolicense">creative bla bla <img src="creative.icon bla bla"/></a>
</code></pre>
<p>I was wondering, is it possible to style it caus... | [
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The code is somenthing like:
```
<a href="tolicense">creative bla bla <img src="creative.icon bla bla"/></a>
```
I was wondering, is it possible to style it cause it's just a link targeting to the license page or... | It will be difficult to debug the slowness. Shared hosting environments are awful. They are over sold servers with a bunch of hobbyists looking to run inefficient or even malicious code for dirt cheap. Your slowness is likely due to extreme load on the server caused by yourself or others.
It looks like your files are ... |
53,397 | <p>Several sites that I have come across, including Stackoverflow, perform a 301 redirect when given an "incorrect" slug. For example:</p>
<pre><code>http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9/incorrect-slug
</code></pre>
<p>will be redirected permanently to:</p>
<pre><code>http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q... | [
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```
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9/incorrect-slug
```
will be redirected permanently to:
```
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/9/who-is-a-great-domain-regi... | As you know, in Stack Exchange, edits can be made to the title. By this reason, for a single question, there can be generated as many URLs as titles had the question. Those older edited titles generate obsolete URLs that shouldn't exist and should 301 redirect to the fresh updated one.
`301 redirect` is [better than r... |
53,445 | <p>I have a problem my test server loads html files fine but when I try to open a file like index.php it says <code>The website encountered an error while retrieving http://localhost/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.</code> I have PHP5 installed but I don't see why this isn't working, is it a... | [
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"text": "<p>It is a permissions issue. Just change the permissions:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo chmod 0644 /home/callum/public_... | 2013/09/25 | [
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```
sudo chmod 0644 /home/callum/public_html/Includes/Connection.php
```
and try again. |
53,452 | <p>My desired result is change a file to root <code>/</code> from a N number of paths.</p>
<p>For example: <code>www.host.com/a/b/c/e/f/g/images/1.jpg</code>, where <code>A~G</code> is not always given. Result: <code>www.host.com/images/1.jpg</code>.</p>
<p>This is what I have so far: <code>www.host.com/a/images</cod... | [
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For example: `www.host.com/a/b/c/e/f/g/images/1.jpg`, where `A~G` is not always given. Result: `www.host.com/images/1.jpg`.
This is what I have so far: `www.host.com/a/images` --> `www.host.com/images` using: `RewriteRule ^a\/images/$ images/$1 ... | >
>
> ```
> RewriteRule ^a\/images/$ images/$1 [L]
>
> ```
>
>
There is no capturing group in the `RewriteRule` *pattern*, so the `$1` backreference is always empty and will only rewrite the request from `/a/images/` to `/images/` (note the trailing slash).
To rewrite a request to *any* path depth then you simpl... |
53,486 | <p>I am using the <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets" rel="nofollow">Google structured data testing tool</a> to validate a site. All seems to work fine however I have not been able to solve the following warning (although availability is clearly present)</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Warning: In orde... | [
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>
> Warning: In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, ei... | Under [Product](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146750?hl=en#product_properties), you were missing `offerDetails` in the following line, which nests [Offer](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146750?hl=en#offer_properties):
```
<div class="row-fluid" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary... |
53,498 | <p>I just migrated (with <code>mod rewrite</code>) from non-friendly URLs to a bit-more-friendly URLs: from <code>site.com/post.php?id=5</code> to <code>site.com/post/the-title-of-the-post/5</code>.</p>
<p>This is my PHP redirect from old to new URL:</p>
<pre><code>if(empty($_GET['friendly']) && empty($_POST)... | [
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This is my PHP redirect from old to new URL:
```
if(empty($_GET['friendly']) && empty($_POST)){
include('includes/basedatos.php');
include(... | If your requests to the old URLs are actually redirected with status 301 to the new URLs (check with Firebug or similar), Google will notice sooner or later and drop the old ones from the index.
The bot has probably indexed the new pages and not (yet) checked the old URLs that are already indexed.
Your headers look fin... |
53,551 | <p>I'd like to use <a href="http://schema.org" rel="nofollow">Schema.org</a> for a series of product specs pages.</p>
<p>The products are cosmetics (shampoos, creams, etc.) and ideally an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nomenclature_of_Cosmetic_Ingredients" rel="nofollow">INCI</a> declaration will ... | [
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"text": "<p>GoogleWebmasterTools has a tool about that, please see the image and ask another question if you need h... | 2013/09/27 | [
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The products are cosmetics (shampoos, creams, etc.) and ideally an [INCI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nomenclature_of_Cosmetic_Ingredients) declaration will be included for every product.
I'd like to use Schema.org in ... | You could use the `product` schema class for each product, and then specify the INCI's using an additional (custom) property for each one, for example if your shampoo had Shea Butter and Water as ingredients (clearly I'm no expert on cosmetics!):
```
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<img itemprop... |
53,572 | <p>Similar to question posted here (but not related to sub directories):
<a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/51916/31605">.htaccess redirect of domain name alias to main domain but must show up as the alias domain</a></p>
<p>I am trying to direct traffic from an alias domain I have to my site that is on th... | [
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"text": "<p>Any time you <em>redirect</em> you are telling the browser to change the URL as it appears to the... | 2013/09/28 | [
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[.htaccess redirect of domain name alias to main domain but must show up as the alias domain](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/51916/31605)
I am trying to direct traffic from an alias domain I have to my site that is on the same server, while ... | I'm gonna assume each domain you're inquiring about are assigned separate document root folders on the same server.
I'll assume the document root for abc.com is in the /abc/public\_html folder, and document root for xyz.com is in the /xyz/public\_html folder.
Because you don't want xyz.com to show up and you want dat... |
53,584 | <p>I want to move my current Tumblr blog to static HTML blog. Currently I am using a custom domain, I am planning on doing the move when Google sees domain name change. I am considering two options:</p>
<ol>
<li>Buying a hosting service</li>
<li>Using GitHub pages</li>
</ol>
<p>Buying a hosting service would probably... | [
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1. Buying a hosting service
2. Using GitHub pages
Buying a hosting service would probably mean I am going to pay for lots ... | I'm gonna assume each domain you're inquiring about are assigned separate document root folders on the same server.
I'll assume the document root for abc.com is in the /abc/public\_html folder, and document root for xyz.com is in the /xyz/public\_html folder.
Because you don't want xyz.com to show up and you want dat... |
53,699 | <p>When running multiple sites on the same hosting account, one might find that an attacker has attempted to breach one site. A webmaster may want to block the IP address from all sites hosted in the same account.</p>
<p>Is there a way to keep the list of banned IP addresses/ranges in a single location that can be ref... | [
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"text": "<p>The more efficient way to blacklist IP addresses is to use your operating system's firewall, or by using a module ... | 2013/10/02 | [
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Is there a way to keep the list of banned IP addresses/ranges in a single location that can be referenced by... | The more efficient way to blacklist IP addresses is to use your operating system's firewall, or by using a module coded specifically for this purpose, like [ModSecurity](http://www.modsecurity.org/).
If you don't have access to your OS and cannot add modules, then you could edit your Apache configuration file with th... |
53,713 | <p>Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for my hosted blog website:</p>
<pre><code>www.financewalk.com
</code></pre>
<p>Yes, I know I should have done complete offsite backups. Unfortunately, all my backups were on the server itself. </p>
<p>Can you please mention ... | [
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```
www.financewalk.com
```
Yes, I know I should have done complete offsite backups. Unfortunately, all my backups were on the server itself.
Can you please mention any solution/ tools that will hel... | The website is still [cached and indexed in Google](https://www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&q=site%3awww.financewalk.com&oq=site%3awww.financewalk.com&gs_l=hp.3...329.1590.0.1740.6.6.0.0.0.0.145.557.4j2.6.0....0...1c.1.27.hp..1.5.496.3bs2ToUMAKo) so in terms of front end content, if you're quick, you can still ... |
53,747 | <p>I have a WordPress multisite with two sites. One at the main domain, and one at a sub-domain. I have Google Analytics running on both sites, and it is turned on to track sub-domains. See screenshot:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OhZqF.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I have this piec... | [
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"text": "<blockquote>\n <p><strong>So somehow to distinguish the content, we planned to put vehicle description (Around 1 pa... | 2013/10/03 | [
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I have this piece of javascript on each site in he... | >
> **So somehow to distinguish the content, we planned to put vehicle description (Around 1 paragraph of 3-4 lines) in French on every page.**
>
>
>
If your website and third-party content are in English, adding a few lines of French will only create a bad user experience and confuse Google as covered [here](http... |
53,830 | <p>I have seen some cases where Google search results can actually tell you how many posts/replies there are in a topic, how many pages there are, and I think I even saw it tell me the specific author of the post where my search result was, but I could be mis-remembering that one.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgu... | [
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"text": "<p>Google uses indicators to establish what the page is about, Numerous times <a href=\"https://twitter.co... | 2013/10/07 | [
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![Forum SERPs display](https://i.stack.i... | Google automatically detects when sites are using common forum software and formats the display of the SERPs for all sites that use that forum software.
I would expect that Google would support a schema.org microdata markup for forum sites. However, there there is no microdata markup available that I could find. [Here... |
53,848 | <p>I have a client who currently runs a venue and has ticket purchases made available through a third party. The way the site currently works is that there is a standard href in the nav menu to the ticket purchasing site. </p>
<pre><code><a href'http://example.com/events'>Events</a>
<a href'http://examp... | [
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```
<a href'http://example.com/events'>Events</a>
<a href'http://example.com/about'>About</a>
<a hr... | When you are dealing with cross-site URLs, rewrite rules can only offer redirects. Rewrite rules that make the content of one URL appear on another URL only work when the content resides on the same server.
The biggest SEO advantage to having ticket functonality on-site would be to attact " tickets" queries that are l... |
53,870 | <p>In spring project, I am generating some pdf file automatically in my application and storing it in $CATALINA_BASE in tomcat server. The path is :</p>
<pre><code>D:\Project_Local\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\happyweb\images\User.pdf
</code></pre>
<p>I have given one hyp... | [
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```
D:\Project_Local\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\happyweb\images\User.pdf
```
I have given one hyperlink on webpage to acce... | >
> **I have given one hyperlink on webpage to access this file.**
>
>
>
When you provide the local path to a file in your webpages, as covered [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme#Web_pages), you're making the assumption that the file exists on the client's computer or device, not on your server. ... |
53,875 | <p>This is relate to <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/53326/how-to-move-a-tumblr-blog-without-hurting-pagerank">How to move a Tumblr blog without hurting PageRank?</a> question.</p>
<p>I used custom domain for Tumblr for about a week, some of Tumblr domain disappeared and most of the posts appea... | [
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"text": "<p>Go back to Tumblr and keep the redirects for now. When I changed the URL structure for my site, it... | 2013/10/08 | [
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I used custom domain for Tumblr for about a week, some of Tumblr domain disappeared and most of the posts appeared in new domain in ... | I don't know this is a good idea, but this is what I have done right now:
First of all, I edited all my posts in tumblr and replaced contents with a link that points to corresponding post on my new address.
Then, I changed RSS, archive and page url's on my tumblr theme to point to my new domain.
Then, I have put thi... |
53,908 | <p>If I change a folder name in server ant thus the URL will be changed, could I perform 301 redirection or this is only for the case that the web page has been transferred to another folder?</p>
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```
Redirect permanent /OLD http://example.com/NEW
```
Which will cause every file in the directory to be 301 redirected:
* `http://example.com/OLD/page_one.html` -> `http://example.com/NEW/page_one.html`
* `http://e... |
53,962 | <p>On a search results page, the <code><h1></code> contains the searched keyword. However, should wherever the keyword appears in the results be <code><h2></code> or <code><h3></code> tags?</p>
<p>I have had these as <code><h3></code> tags and there is no <code><h2></code> on the page.</p... | [
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"text": "<p>Using your keywords on the <code><h1></code> is a good and acceptable SEO optimization. You can also u... | 2013/10/10 | [
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I have had these as `<h3>` tags and there is no `<h2>` on the page.
**-- UPDATE --**
For example: `keyword = cat breeds`
```
<h1>Cat Breeds</h1>
```
`There are ... | Using your keywords on the `<h1>` is a good and acceptable SEO optimization. You can also use these keywords on `<h2>` to optimize even more your page.
After, if you use your keywords in your all `<h1>`, `<h2>` and `<h3>` on your page, it's kind of dangerous because it may be considered as [keyword stuffing](https://s... |
53,974 | <p>I have a website and, when testing with a SEO tool called <a href="http://www.woorank.com/" rel="nofollow">woorank</a>, I have the following result:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Be careful. Your website without www doesn't redirect to www (or the
opposite). It is duplicate content!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I have launched ... | [
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] | I have a website and, when testing with a SEO tool called [woorank](http://www.woorank.com/), I have the following result:
>
> Be careful. Your website without www doesn't redirect to www (or the
> opposite). It is duplicate content!
>
>
>
I have launched the website about 7 days ago, and it hasn't yet been inde... | All that error means is that users can pull up your pages both with and without the www. This *might* mean you have duplicate content issues if you haven't implemented canonical URLs to take care of this for you.
To solve this just set up a 301 redirect either to or from the www and this error will go away.
```
Optio... |
53,986 | <p>I have built a website and the masthead uses an SVG that contains the site title, logo and support graphics.</p>
<p>The masthead still contains the logo as an inline image, and <code><h1></code>, <code><h2></code> tags. However the logo and header tags are all hidden using CSS in favour of the masthead ... | [
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] | I have built a website and the masthead uses an SVG that contains the site title, logo and support graphics.
The masthead still contains the logo as an inline image, and `<h1>`, `<h2>` tags. However the logo and header tags are all hidden using CSS in favour of the masthead graphic.
The HTML shown below may not have ... | Hiding text as an accessibility measure is absolutely fine. As long as you're doing it ethically - i.e. your plain text faithfully represents what's in the image, isn't being used to "stuff" keywords, etc. - you should have no problem.
From Google:
>
> [...] not all hidden text is considered deceptive. For example, ... |
53,994 | <p>I am attempting to obtain the registry records of a <code>.name</code> domain - I have tried using <a href="http://who.is" rel="nofollow">who.is</a> to obtain details of whom has registered this practical domain and when was it created and when will it expire however when using this whois checker I do not get any re... | [
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How can you get the whois inform... | You're find the problem is with the whois checker your using, no all online whois checkers work with all domain types so its a matter of finding one that does.
I can confirm that both [*GoDaddy's Whois Checker*](http://who.godaddy.com/) and [Verisign's Checker](https://whois.nic.name/DotNameWhois/pages/Query.jspx) wo... |
53,997 | <p>I have to change the urls of my site, from something like:</p>
<p>www.site.com/page.html</p>
<p>to</p>
<p>www.site.com/page.html?value=randomvalue </p>
<p>This will cause problems with SEO?</p>
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www.site.com/page.html
to
www.site.com/page.html?value=randomvalue
This will cause problems with SEO? | You're find the problem is with the whois checker your using, no all online whois checkers work with all domain types so its a matter of finding one that does.
I can confirm that both [*GoDaddy's Whois Checker*](http://who.godaddy.com/) and [Verisign's Checker](https://whois.nic.name/DotNameWhois/pages/Query.jspx) wo... |
54,021 | <p>I created my own template (template refers to design + static content). Thus, the design and some content is static in all the pages. I created 5 landing pages, all landing pages has same design and 40% static content is common to all the pages. Titles, Meta Desc, Meta Keywords, 60% Body text is unique.</p>
<p>I sp... | [
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] | I created my own template (template refers to design + static content). Thus, the design and some content is static in all the pages. I created 5 landing pages, all landing pages has same design and 40% static content is common to all the pages. Titles, Meta Desc, Meta Keywords, 60% Body text is unique.
I splitted bod... | You must not specify `canonical` on `div` elements, as the `rel` attribute is not allowed there and `canonical` is only defined for `link` elements (and the HTTP header).
So `canonical` only works on the URI level, therefore it applies to the *whole* page (or any other resource on that URI).
You must not use `canonic... |
54,053 | <p>I have developed a application and I need to work for SEO-friendly URL.</p>
<p>I have following URL structure:</p>
<pre><code>http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2
</code></pre>
<p>and</p>
<pre><code>http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2-4-23
</code></pre>
<p>Is this ... | [
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I have following URL structure:
```
http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2
```
and
```
http://localhost:3000/posts/product/testing-with-slug-url-2-4-23
```
Is this a good practice? If not how can I rewrite it?
Ok Ill ex... | I doubt the integers will have an actual effect on your rankings.
If possible, I'd suggest to make the URLs have the same hierarchy as the logical hierarchy of your content, that is in your case:
```
http://mydomain.com/cat/mobile-3
http://mydomain.com/cat/mobile-3/nokia-2
```
A structure like that is transparent f... |
54,081 | <p>When I enter my homepage URL on Google, it shows "Index of ~/user" instead of my page title, i.e, "User|Home".</p>
<p>Is there a way to change the way my website appears on Google search? If yes, how?</p>
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Is there a way to change the way my website appears on Google search? If yes, how? | Your website page should have following tags for better SEO ranks and Search Engine Crawl.
Search engine will read the following data's from your web pages.
```
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> // You can specify the page need to inde... |
54,107 | <p>I'm trying to avoid duplicate content on a website by blocking pagination via <em>robots.txt</em>, but it turns out the URL doesn't have a parameter passed into the URL I can simply block, it's just a number. Example:</p>
<pre><code>/category/sub-category/product/
/category/sub-category/product/1
/category/sub-ca... | [
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```
/category/sub-category/product/
/category/sub-category/product/1
/category/sub-category/product/2
/ca... | If you have possible duplicate content with your pagination, the idea is not to block pagination URLs with *robots.txt* but just defining the `rel="canonical"` tag for your different URLs.
For your four URLs, define this tag in your `<head>` section:
```
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/category/sub... |
54,118 | <p>My client's website has just reached spot 1 for the most valuable keyword. We acquired the domain that was at #1 spot. It's a keyword domain (<code>targetkeyword.tld</code>). Just wondering what would be the best way to make use of it. </p>
<p>A permanent redirect or a single page that hyperlinks to the brand websi... | [
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A permanent redirect or a single page that hyperlinks to the brand website?
Should I be conc... | If you have possible duplicate content with your pagination, the idea is not to block pagination URLs with *robots.txt* but just defining the `rel="canonical"` tag for your different URLs.
For your four URLs, define this tag in your `<head>` section:
```
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/category/sub... |
54,150 | <p>I recently received a web mockup that included a sidebar with a short paragraph of narrow text; a quote from a person. At the end of the quote, the mockup had a circular portrait of the person floated to the right, hanging off the edge of the block, with the text flowing around the edge of it.</p>
<p>It looked like... | [
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It looked like this, whe... | It should be no problem for **search engines**. Most probably wouldn’t even recognize that the image actually isn’t part of the surrounding sentence.
But it’s bad for **semantics** (which you may or may not be interested in). As you have a quote in your sidebar, you should use the `blockquote` element. But the person’... |
54,195 | <p>If we want to move a website from one TLD to another, e.g <code>example.com</code> to <code>example.org</code>, while preserving SEO. </p>
<p>We intend to do the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Point both <code>example.com</code> and <code>example.org</code> to same IP where my site is working.</li>
<li>Use canonical URL ... | [
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We intend to do the following:
1. Point both `example.com` and `example.org` to same IP where my site is working.
2. Use canonical URL to have `example.org/*` instead of `example.com/*`
3. Use 301 redirect... | You should redirect all requests to `example.com` to `example.org`. This works best with Apache web server:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.org/$1 [R=301,L]
```
I haven't tested it now, but it should work. Maybe you should do a rewrite from `www.example.org`... |
54,211 | <p>I want to authenticate for POST requests for <code>http://path/to/logical/abc.xml</code> (but not GET requests to that URL). </p>
<p>How do I put constraints like this in place? The paths are logical and location directive is not supported in <code>.htaccess</code>.</p>
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How do I put constraints like this in place? The paths are logical and location directive is not supported in `.htaccess`. | I guess something like this should work. I haven't tested it though.
```
<Limit POST>
Require valid-user
</Limit>
``` |
54,281 | <p><em>Upon reading over this question is lengthy so allow me to provide a one sentence summary: I need to get Google to de-index URLs that have parameters with certain values appended</em></p>
<p>I have a website <code>example.com</code> with language translations.</p>
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I have a website `example.com` with language translations.
There used to be many translations but I deleted them all so that only English ... | **All permalink will be index by SE, exclude permalink have a symbol `?`, `=`, and `&`.**
```
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*=*
Disallow: /*=
Disallow: /*&*
Disallow: /*&
Allow: /
```
**Will blocking all permalink format like `/main?l=de_DE` or `/main?l=Any_Valu... |
54,291 | <p>I am trying to create a backup of my website for free. I just want to have a backup of my website, including not only all files and the configuration but also the <strong>databases</strong>. I mean, a full backup. If it can be done automatically, it would be better.</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu on my computer.</p>
<p>I fee... | [
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"text": "<p>Login to Google Analytics and select the view in question.</p>\n\n<p>Top right click admin > filters > new fi... | 2013/10/21 | [
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I use Ubuntu on my computer.
I feel there are better ways than u... | Login to Google Analytics and select the view in question.
Top right click admin > filters > new filter > custom filter
You could use page title if it's a unique title - just enter the title in the filter text box.
Or you could filter the URL by typing in all or part of the URL.
Screen shot attached.
![enter image... |
54,303 | <p>Has anyone come across a crawler called <a href="http://www.grapeshot.co.uk/crawler.php" rel="noreferrer">Grapeshot</a>? They are hammering the same page repeatedly on our website. I believe they are looking for ad related keywords, based on previous content ad campaigns. The odd thing is we never ran any such campa... | [
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"text": "<p>Several bots don't follow <em>robots.txt</em> declarations. You need to block the user-agent with your serve... | 2013/10/21 | [
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On IIS, you can block a user-agent with your server. You can follow this procedure on `moz.com`:
<http://moz.com/ugc/blocking-bots-based-on-useragent>
I didn't explain th... |
54,320 | <p>How do I setup my <em>.htaccess</em> file to detect several languages, and redirect them to specific SEO-friendly URLs?</p>
<p>Basically every URL needs to go to <code>index.php?lang=(...)</code>.</p>
<p>So, for <strong>English</strong> language detection <code>http://mysite.com</code> has to go to <code>http://my... | [
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Basically every URL needs to go to `index.php?lang=(...)`.
So, for **English** language detection `http://mysite.com` has to go to `http://mysite.com/en/` (`index.php?lang=en`).
My *.htaccess* as of now (... | You're almost there. Drop the very first `RewriteCond` (as it's not required and won't match ever) and add a trailing `/` to your last `RewriteRule` since you're redirecting with them.
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ^en [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://mysite.com/en/ [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:... |
54,326 | <p>How to enable compression in WAMP running on Windows Server 2008?</p>
<p>I searched the net and I followed these steps given here: <a href="http://www.zigpress.com/2009/04/09/enabling-gzip-on-wamp/">http://www.zigpress.com/2009/04/09/enabling-gzip-on-wamp/</a>.</p>
<p>But after restarting my WAMP the icon got yell... | [
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I searched the net and I followed these steps given here: <http://www.zigpress.com/2009/04/09/enabling-gzip-on-wamp/>.
But after restarting my WAMP the icon got yellow not green.
Than followed this post: <http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,93406>.... | To enable Deflate compression for resources with WAMP (thus Apache), you can use this following code in your *.htaccess* file:
```
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(html|php|txt|xml|js|css)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
```
It works well for several websites I own. |
54,344 | <p>I am unable to find official wording and I'm hoping that some Rich Snippets/Schema Guru can give me some insight into proper usage of repeated content when it comes to using markup.</p>
<p>I'm building a site that wants to use Schema.org as the markup type and the owner would like as much usage as possible. The bus... | [
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] | I am unable to find official wording and I'm hoping that some Rich Snippets/Schema Guru can give me some insight into proper usage of repeated content when it comes to using markup.
I'm building a site that wants to use Schema.org as the markup type and the owner would like as much usage as possible. The business name... | Microdata doesn’t have a concept of "site"; each page is separate. So you should include all relevant metadata on *every* page where the corresponding content is visible (but only one time per page).
* Think of a browser-add on that displays all Microdata name-value pairs in a sidebar: why should the user have to visi... |
54,352 | <p>I purchased a Windows web host from <code>godaddy.com</code>.</p>
<p>When I want to use an email verification component (that wants to connect to the Internet) on my host, I get an error related to Web Permission denied (ASP.NET 4).</p>
<p>I searched for this error and found that GoDaddy has changed web permission... | [
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
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] | I purchased a Windows web host from `godaddy.com`.
When I want to use an email verification component (that wants to connect to the Internet) on my host, I get an error related to Web Permission denied (ASP.NET 4).
I searched for this error and found that GoDaddy has changed web permission in ASP.NET and restricts so... | ```
<configuration>
<system.web>
<trust level="Full" />
```
I tried this way, but did not affect.
I moved my site to another web hosting. The support team said me that their servers are in medium trust for hosting. if anyone wants full trust level, he should purchase VPS or Dedicated Server. |
54,374 | <p>I have a site www.example.com for which i purchased SSL cert and installed.</p>
<p>And it was working fine, I also have a subdomain with app.example.com which was not on SSL.</p>
<p>Both www.example.com and app.example.com are on same IP address.</p>
<p>At later we decided to put SSL only on app.exapmle.com and t... | [
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"text": "<p>You need to get a wildcard SSL certificate: </p>\n\n<pre><code>*.example.com\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>The <code... | 2013/10/23 | [
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] | I have a site www.example.com for which i purchased SSL cert and installed.
And it was working fine, I also have a subdomain with app.example.com which was not on SSL.
Both www.example.com and app.example.com are on same IP address.
At later we decided to put SSL only on app.exapmle.com and then i configured SSL wit... | Since app.example.com and www.example.com are on the same IP adress, using https on either of the 2 will use the defined VirtualHost in your ssl.conf, since you did not specify a servername:
>
> Line 84: #ServerName example.com:443
>
>
>
What you need is VirtualHost on port 443 redirects to http for a given serve... |
54,387 | <p>I have been speed optimizing a Wordpress site to little effect. There are three files CSS-related php files from the Wordpress theme that are delaying page loads on the site. One of the three files is basically one line of custom CSS from the custom CSS feature in the theme. </p>
<h2>The Problematic Files</h2>
<p... | [
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The Problematic Files
--------------------... | Below is my personal view of what I see/think and found out in 10 minits taking time and yes I am maybe totally wrong but...it could/should be *much* faster for a page with just 425KB.
I checked your site [gtmetrix](http://gtmetrix.com/reports/jenniferthompson.net/HgEtkpp6) (4.87sec) which is not that bad at all imh... |
54,444 | <p>Let me explain my situation, I have an azure website (with azurewebsites.net sub domain), and a custom domain.com, built with asp.net MVC</p>
<p>Both are being indexed by Google, but I've noticed the custom domain is being penalized and it doesn't show up in results, it only shows when I search for "site:domain.com... | [
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Both are being indexed by Google, but I've noticed the custom domain is being penalized and it doesn't show up in results, it only shows when I search for "site:domain.com"
I want t... | If you don't want to separate robots.txt or you don't want to add metatags noindex then your options are very limited; one could be to password protect your azure site, but that will lead to restricted visitors access.
Some about this [here](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93708?hl=en).
On the other hand... |
54,448 | <p>I am creating a web site for a friend's business. He already has a site, but it is a wizard-created site hosted free by Yahoo. I am creating am ASP.NET site from scratch. He wants to retain his URL - is that possible? Can he "release" the current URL (shut down that site) and then "reuse" it in the guise of the new ... | [
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"text": "<p>If he purchased the domain name through a registrar, like Register.com, then yes. He can retain his URL If ... | 2013/10/24 | [
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When you move the site to a new domain, implement redirects so that visitors that know about the old site can get to the new site. Yahoo... |
54,492 | <p>I have a site <a href="http://aroundnails.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">aroundnails.com</a>. It has English version on subdomain <code>en.aroundnails.com</code>.</p>
<p>Reading about language related meta-tags for Google, I have placed such a meta tag on the main page of main site:</p>
<pre><code><link rel="a... | [
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Reading about language related meta-tags for Google, I have placed such a meta tag on the main page of main site:
```
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://en.aroundnails.com/" />
```
By th... | Marian, did you add the other corresponding hreflang= tags to point to the other language pages?
The hreflang= tags are bi directional so each language page in the set must use hreflang= to identify all language versions including itself.
Proper implementation would have looked like this:
<http://aroundnails.com/>
... |
54,523 | <pre><code>C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /flushdns
Windows IP Configuration
Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.
C:\Windows\system32>ping beautyadmired.com
Pinging beautyadmired.com [xxx.45.62.2] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=253ms TTL=49
Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 ... | [
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] | ```
C:\Windows\system32>ipconfig /flushdns
Windows IP Configuration
Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.
C:\Windows\system32>ping beautyadmired.com
Pinging beautyadmired.com [xxx.45.62.2] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=253ms TTL=49
Reply from xxx.45.62.2: bytes=32 time=249ms TT... | Technically, you can get sued (at least in the United States).
* The logo images are owned by social networks. They have copyright on them. You have to have a licence for to use them at all. (Generally, the sites give a licence to use them for social sharing buttons when unaltered.)
* They generally have policies agai... |
54,532 | <p>I'm getting this warning message in Google Webmaster Tools:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation In particular, there
seems to be a problem with missing or incorrect bi-directional linking
(when page A links with hreflang to page B, there must be a link back
from B to A as we... | [
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] | I'm getting this warning message in Google Webmaster Tools:
>
> Incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation In particular, there
> seems to be a problem with missing or incorrect bi-directional linking
> (when page A links with hreflang to page B, there must be a link back
> from B to A as well).
>
>
>
Thi... | Google Webmaster gave me the same warning message again, this time with an *example*:
```
Value JP found on
```
So my problem was that I used `hreflang=jp` (like seen in my question) instead of using `hreflang=ja`. I verified this is actaully a language code mistake here <http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_language_... |
54,590 | <p>For each URL on my site, I'm auto-redirecting according to header accept language. The site arch is</p>
<pre><code>English version: http://mydomain.com/page
Spanish version http://es.mydomaina.com/page
etc..
</code></pre>
<p>The english version is displayed unless I'm seeing a specific language other than en and t... | [
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```
English version: http://mydomain.com/page
Spanish version http://es.mydomaina.com/page
etc..
```
The english version is displayed unless I'm seeing a specific language other than en and that I support in the heade... | **You should never ever auto redirect users based on their IP addresses or browser language settings!** On this way you let Google think all of your site's language versions are much less important, as the english version, because 99,99% of all googlebot's visits your redirect it to the english version. Just because th... |
54,591 | <p>Our webmaster tools account is showing 250.000 errors related with weird links from other sites. </p>
<p>These URLs are comming mostly from non existent sites or are being generated directly by our website. </p>
<p>Here some examples of these URLs:</p>
<pre><code>oursite.com/&q=videos+caseros+sexo+pornos+grat... | [
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These URLs are comming mostly from non existent sites or are being generated directly by our website.
Here some examples of these URLs:
```
oursite.com/&q=videos+caseros+sexo+pornos+gratis&sa=X&ei=R638T8eTO8WphAfF2vG8B... | [Google Webmaster tools warns](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2409439) against using 301's to deal with non existent URL's. They recommend letting these 404, and drop off naturally from Google's index.
As frustrating as it can be, I know because I've had the same issue. If you 301 a bad incoming backlin... |
54,633 | <p>I used the Bing webmaster tool's SEO analyzer on my website, and it reported:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>There are multiple tags on the page.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It recommends that there should only be one <code><h1></code> tag on the page.</p>
<p>The page is a listing of blog posts for a category. So each blo... | [
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] | I used the Bing webmaster tool's SEO analyzer on my website, and it reported:
>
> There are multiple tags on the page.
>
>
>
It recommends that there should only be one `<h1>` tag on the page.
The page is a listing of blog posts for a category. So each blog entry is structured like this.
```
<article>
<head... | Don't change your code which is valid, it's just because SEO analyzer from Bing is late and doesn't take into account HTML5 semantic. |
54,645 | <p>So we wish to host some pages on a new server with apache2, and embed some of our old content & functionality from another server with lighttpd in an iframe. I'm looking at this configuration from the apache docs (<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html#page-header" rel="nofollow">http://h... | [
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] | So we wish to host some pages on a new server with apache2, and embed some of our old content & functionality from another server with lighttpd in an iframe. I'm looking at this configuration from the apache docs (<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html#page-header>) under "Using Virtual\_host and mod\_p... | You're probably best doing this using a setup of 3 *VirtualHost* declarations.
The first, becomes a default catch-all for any name that has not been specified, and you could have an index.php in the */var/www/default/* that either returns a blank page or an HTTP 404 response etc:
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin ... |
54,675 | <p>I have an increase in soft 404 errors.</p>
<p>Using Apache in my <code>.htaccess</code> file I have:</p>
<pre><code>Redirect 301 /test.html /page/pop/test
Redirect 301 /about.html /about
</code></pre>
<p>I have also tried:</p>
<pre><code>Redirect 301 http://www.example.co.za/test.html http://www.example.co.z... | [
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] | I have an increase in soft 404 errors.
Using Apache in my `.htaccess` file I have:
```
Redirect 301 /test.html /page/pop/test
Redirect 301 /about.html /about
```
I have also tried:
```
Redirect 301 http://www.example.co.za/test.html http://www.example.co.za/services/test
```
however whenever I go to:
```
h... | Neither of your attempts to get the syntax for your "Redirect 301" rules is correct. The format should be:
```
Redirect 301 /relative-uri http://fully.qualified/url
```
So:
```
Redirect 301 /test.html http://www.example.co.za/page/pop/test
Redirect 301 /about.html http://www.example.co.za/about
```
As nathangi... |
54,715 | <p>I have a website that allows users to display their email address and contact number on their public profile page. These would be in link format, example:</p>
<pre><code><a href="mailto:user%40email.com" title="email user">user@email.com</a>
<a href="tel:+123456789" title="call user">+123456789<... | [
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] | I have a website that allows users to display their email address and contact number on their public profile page. These would be in link format, example:
```
<a href="mailto:user%40email.com" title="email user">user@email.com</a>
<a href="tel:+123456789" title="call user">+123456789</a>
```
I was wondering if it is... | Most commonly mistaken thing about the 'nofollow' tag is that has nothing to do with not indexing content. I recommend you read the [true meaning of nofollow](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en).
Also technically email addresses and tel links are internal links so there should be no reason to use... |
54,735 | <p>I've seen code like for preventing Google from indexing part of a page:</p>
<pre><code><p>This is a paragraph that will be indexed by Google.</p>
<!--googleoff: index-->
<p>This is a paragraph that will NOT be indexed by Google.</p>
<!--googleon: index>
</code></pre>
<p>Does thi... | [
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"text": "<p>A similar question was asked on Stack Overflow back in January.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://webmasters.st... | 2013/11/02 | [
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] | I've seen code like for preventing Google from indexing part of a page:
```
<p>This is a paragraph that will be indexed by Google.</p>
<!--googleoff: index-->
<p>This is a paragraph that will NOT be indexed by Google.</p>
<!--googleon: index>
```
Does this work? | A similar question was asked on Stack Overflow back in January.
[John Mueller](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/711/john-mueller) was kind enough to respond with [the following](https://stackoverflow.com/a/19489890/1892635):
>
> "googleon" and "googleoff" are only supported by the Google Search
> Applianc... |
54,749 | <p>I'm attempting to setup a git repository on my Dreamhost web server by following the "Setup: For the Impatient" instructions <a href="http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Git" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I'm having difficulty setting up public key access to the server.</p>
<p>After successfully creating my public key, I ran the ... | [
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"text": "<p>Some things to check:</p>\n<h3>On the server:</h3>\n<ol>\n<li><p>Change the <code>~/.ssh/authorized_keys</code> fi... | 2013/11/03 | [
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] | I'm attempting to setup a git repository on my Dreamhost web server by following the "Setup: For the Impatient" instructions [here](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Git). I'm having difficulty setting up public key access to the server.
After successfully creating my public key, I ran the following command:
```
cat ~/.ssh/[... | Turns out the solution was very simple: rename my two public key files to `id_rsa` and `id_rsa.pub`. I have no idea why this is what they have to be called. Please feel free to edit this answer to make it more informative. |
54,778 | <p>Since years I use in a site both Google Analytics and Whos.amung.us, both Google analytics and whos.amung.us javascripts are inserted in the same pages in the tracked part of the site.</p>
<p>In real-time visitors, why such an enormous discrepancy ? for example at the moment, Google analytics gives me <strong>9</st... | [
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"text": "<p>The difference is likely to be in the amount of time a visitor is assumed to be on the site after... | 2013/11/04 | [
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] | Since years I use in a site both Google Analytics and Whos.amung.us, both Google analytics and whos.amung.us javascripts are inserted in the same pages in the tracked part of the site.
In real-time visitors, why such an enormous discrepancy ? for example at the moment, Google analytics gives me **9** visitors, whos.am... | The difference is likely to be in the amount of time a visitor is assumed to be on the site after they view a page. For Google Analytics, the default is 30 minutes. I can't find documentation on on the WAU site about he assumptions they are making, but they may be measuring the number of visitors in the past hour or fe... |
54,790 | <p>For to the following URLs:</p>
<pre><code>http://mydomain.com/page
http://mydomain.com/Page
</code></pre>
<p>I'm showing the same content. Can this hurt SEO? I understand that theoretically it can, but does Google really penalize such cases and categorize it as duplicate content?</p>
<p>If so, would you advise o... | [
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] | For to the following URLs:
```
http://mydomain.com/page
http://mydomain.com/Page
```
I'm showing the same content. Can this hurt SEO? I understand that theoretically it can, but does Google really penalize such cases and categorize it as duplicate content?
If so, would you advise on doing a 301/302 redirect or add... | Same URLs with lower case and upper case are two different URLs for search engines (thus Google). Therefore, it can be cause duplicate content issues which is very bad for SEO.
A good practice is to use the `rel="canonical"` tag to tell to search engines which version of your page (=which URL) is the one to follow ([h... |
54,799 | <p>On a section of my site, I am currently using .htaccess rewrites to put the ID as part of the URL instead of in the query, like so:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)?/?tours/([0-9]+)/(.*) /tours/tour_text.php?lang=$1&id=$2&urlstr=$3 [L]
</code></pre>
<p>For example, if someone goes to <code>/en/tours/1... | [
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] | On a section of my site, I am currently using .htaccess rewrites to put the ID as part of the URL instead of in the query, like so:
```
RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)?/?tours/([0-9]+)/(.*) /tours/tour_text.php?lang=$1&id=$2&urlstr=$3 [L]
```
For example, if someone goes to `/en/tours/12/some-text-here` it will rewrite it to... | >
> Does purposely and permanently having invalid URLs on your site that
> get 301'ed to the correct ones have any effect on SEO? I could make it
> just show the correct URL to begin with, but this is a significant
> amount of work due to how I am handling the translations, so I would
> prefer just to 301 them.
> ... |
54,811 | <p>In the last month, I've got an increased number of "soft 404" errors reported by Google webmaster tools which actually work well for users.</p>
<p>Configuration (maybe useless):</p>
<ul>
<li>I have a website built with rails 3.1</li>
<li>Authentication is handled by the gem Devise</li>
</ul>
<p>Problem:</p>
<ul>... | [
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] | In the last month, I've got an increased number of "soft 404" errors reported by Google webmaster tools which actually work well for users.
Configuration (maybe useless):
* I have a website built with rails 3.1
* Authentication is handled by the gem Devise
Problem:
* On this page <http://en.bemyboat.com/yacht-chart... | Soft 404s are not a "penalty". Google reports them to you so that can evaluate whether or not they are actually problems. Google's John Mueller has [this to say about 404 errors](https://web.archive.org/web/20170228143402/https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/RMjFPCSs5fm):
>
> 404 errors on invalid URLs do not ... |
54,849 | <p>My site uses pushState and JSON data to display content. So, for example, this might appear on my page:</p>
<pre><code><a href="/some/page">some page</a>
</code></pre>
<p>The JavaScript then prevents the default action (following the link), and instead renders a view (using a different api, such as /g... | [
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] | My site uses pushState and JSON data to display content. So, for example, this might appear on my page:
```
<a href="/some/page">some page</a>
```
The JavaScript then prevents the default action (following the link), and instead renders a view (using a different api, such as /getjson?some\_page).
```
$('[href]').cl... | This [article from 2006](http://www.seo-blog.com/rel-nofollow.php) explains an experiment where a new page was created an linked to only with nofollow.
It finds that Google:
* Follows the link (crawls the URL with Googlebot)
* Does not index the content of the page
The article also publishes results for MSN and Yaho... |
54,856 | <p>Does it make a difference for SEO if I make my URLs like this:</p>
<pre><code>mydomain.com/companies (main category exploration section)
mydomain.com/company/nike
</code></pre>
<p>As opposed to</p>
<pre><code>mydomain.com/company (main category exploration section)
mydomain.com/company/nike
</code></pre>
<p>Does... | [
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] | Does it make a difference for SEO if I make my URLs like this:
```
mydomain.com/companies (main category exploration section)
mydomain.com/company/nike
```
As opposed to
```
mydomain.com/company (main category exploration section)
mydomain.com/company/nike
```
Does this matter for SEO? | There will be no difference for SEO to choose one or the other approach for your URLs.
However, I think it will be better to choose this schema because it seems logical to me:
```
mydomain.com/companies (main category explore section)
mydomain.com/companies/nike
```
Indeed, the category page refers to a list of com... |
54,859 | <p>Our website is new and the name is similar (only one letter different than another website) completely different type and company though.</p>
<p>searching for xxxxxA works OK in Google and we find relatively good results.</p>
<p>However searching xxxxxA.com finds results for the other website and gives us the foll... | [
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"text": "<p><a href=\"https://plus.google.com/+MichaelMahemoff/posts/ZZVAS65mmw4\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google's ... | 2013/11/06 | [
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] | Our website is new and the name is similar (only one letter different than another website) completely different type and company though.
searching for xxxxxA works OK in Google and we find relatively good results.
However searching xxxxxA.com finds results for the other website and gives us the following options:
`... | [Google's John Mueller says](https://plus.google.com/+MichaelMahemoff/posts/ZZVAS65mmw4):
>
> HTTPS-only sites are fine, there's absolutely no need to shy away from that if you implement it properly. There's certainly no penalty involved with running your site on HTTPS-only when done right. A few of the things that c... |
54,883 | <p>I am working with a site which we'll call <code>www.newdomain.com</code>, which was hit by Penguin this month despite no unusual practices.</p>
<p>I found lots of really spammy links to their old site, <code>www.olddomain.com</code>, which 301s to the new domain.</p>
<p>So I've gone through the process of identify... | [
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] | I am working with a site which we'll call `www.newdomain.com`, which was hit by Penguin this month despite no unusual practices.
I found lots of really spammy links to their old site, `www.olddomain.com`, which 301s to the new domain.
So I've gone through the process of identifying which links are really bad, made co... | ```
None of the bad links point to newdomain.com, and I worry that a disavow
request via this domain in Webmaster Tools will damage something.
Do the old band links affect the new site?
If so, where do I disavow those old bad links?
On Webmaster Tools for the new domain?
```
Yes, old bad links affect the new site vi... |
54,889 | <p>I am running business in different nations and I got domains for example</p>
<pre><code>www.mydomain.com
www.mydomain.us
www.mydomain.ca
www.mydomain.uk
www.mydomain.com.au
</code></pre>
<p>So, if I run same website with same content (of course there will be little changes like address, etc.) as all these domains ... | [
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"text": "<p>In my experience, Google does not consider those as spam.</p>\n\n<p>However, it is likely that one of the ... | 2013/11/06 | [
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] | I am running business in different nations and I got domains for example
```
www.mydomain.com
www.mydomain.us
www.mydomain.ca
www.mydomain.uk
www.mydomain.com.au
```
So, if I run same website with same content (of course there will be little changes like address, etc.) as all these domains has same content will it b... | In my experience, Google does not consider those as spam.
However, it is likely that one of the domains will have a much higher ranking than the others (i.e. one may have a PR of 6, when the others have a PR of 2).
It may be difficult to get the PR 2 pages higher. But I did not have that goal on my end in that situat... |
54,918 | <p>I had my website on <code>rohbits.com</code> but for some reasons I had to delete it and recreate it with this URL <code>wwww.rohbits.com/blog</code>. My problem is that the old links are still visible on google search and when people click on those links, they land on a 404 Error page of the hosting company. I want... | [
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"text": "<p><em><strong>To completely remove an entire page</em></strong></p>\n\n<p>On the Webmaster Tools home... | 2013/11/07 | [
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I don't know what you already did to redirect your pages, but in most cases you... |
54,928 | <p>The Google Analytics terms of service does do not allow to track "data that personally identifies an individual (such as a name, email address or billing information), or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by Google".</p>
<p>Does anybody have first-hand knowledge if this includes user ids... | [
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Does anybody have first-hand knowledge if this includes user ids which can... | Well, from what I've gathered from Google's [documentation on client IDs](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/domains#getClientId) and from [dimension widening](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3191417?hl=en#DataSetSchema), as long as you're not passing in PII data, you'r... |
54,935 | <p>If I have 2 keyword meta tags on my page how are they read? Both together? Only the 1st? Only the 2nd? Neither?</p>
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If only one `meta` element with the `keywords` name would be allowed, the spec would restrict it, like it does with the [`description` name](http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-html5-20130806/document-metadata.html#meta-description):
>
> There must not be more than one `meta` element with its `name` attribute set to t... |
54,973 | <p>Does somebody know, how this is supposed to be implemented correctly? In my local business full page, I have a carousel with several images, so what I did is that on the container of this carousel i have written the following: "itemprop='photos' itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"", i.e. </p>
<p><cod... | [
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"text": "<p>Sadly unlike WordPress and other content managements Joomla as far as I know have opted not to use <code>... | 2013/11/08 | [
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`<div class="t... | Sadly unlike WordPress and other content managements Joomla as far as I know have opted not to use `latest.zip` but rather use a version with the file name.
Your best bet would be to subscribe to Joomla's RSS feed at <http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaSecurityNews> and look out for new updates then login to your administ... |
54,982 | <p>I have many pages with lots of text in it. But I will always have two sections of text and I want to prevent one section from appearing in search results, the other section must be indexed.</p>
<pre><code><p class="please-index-me">text</p>
<p class="get-out">never index me please</p>
</cod... | [
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"text": "<p><a href=\"http://moz.com/blog/12-ways-to-keep-your-content-hidden-from-the-search-engines\" rel=\"nofollow nore... | 2013/11/09 | [
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] | I have many pages with lots of text in it. But I will always have two sections of text and I want to prevent one section from appearing in search results, the other section must be indexed.
```
<p class="please-index-me">text</p>
<p class="get-out">never index me please</p>
```
I thought that maybe if I load the "p... | [One way I found here](http://moz.com/blog/12-ways-to-keep-your-content-hidden-from-the-search-engines), is using an `<iframe>` and blocking the URL in *robots.txt*.
 |
54,988 | <p>We have a website, users sign up and receive links to confirm they signed up BUT:</p>
<ol>
<li>Microsoft blocked our IP (no one with Microsoft email account can receive our emails.)</li>
<li>We tried contacting microsoft submitting the detailed form about our problem.</li>
<li>We posted 3 times in their community a... | [
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"text": "<p>I have had server IP's blacklisted by Microsoft a few times and I have had them removed reasonably quickly. ... | 2013/11/09 | [
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] | We have a website, users sign up and receive links to confirm they signed up BUT:
1. Microsoft blocked our IP (no one with Microsoft email account can receive our emails.)
2. We tried contacting microsoft submitting the detailed form about our problem.
3. We posted 3 times in their community about our problem.
4. We t... | I have had server IP's blacklisted by Microsoft a few times and I have had them removed reasonably quickly. I noticed that after entering and joining anti spam related services that they recommend it was faster and easier.
I recommend that you ensure that you can reply Yes to the below questions (except the last one) ... |
55,090 | <p>I'm hoping somebody might be able to provide a bit of advice on an issue I am having.</p>
<p>I have one site where we implemented a 301 redirect on the homepage from HTTP to HTTPS. We have links on the homepage to other parts of the site that are not under SSL (in fact there is only one other page under SSL). </p>
... | [
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"text": "<p>Most probably Google is getting the correct information, what you are seeing regarding search quer... | 2013/11/12 | [
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I have one site where we implemented a 301 redirect on the homepage from HTTP to HTTPS. We have links on the homepage to other parts of the site that are not under SSL (in fact there is only one other page under SSL).
When I go to ... | Most probably Google is getting the correct information, what you are seeing regarding search queries are partly a result of Google no longer always supplying this information to you.
The issue with the backlinks can probably be attributed to the fact, if I remember correctly, that Google Webmaster Tools has both your... |
55,093 | <p>I want to track scrolling on my website since it's a long page (rather than multiple pages). I saw several different methods, with and without an underscore for trackEvent, with and without spaces between commas</p>
<pre><code> <script> ...
... ...
ga('create', 'UA-45440410-1', 'example.com'); ga('send... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p><a href=\"http://www.optimisationbeacon.com/analytics/track-how-far-your-users-scroll-in-google-a... | 2013/11/12 | [
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```
<script> ...
... ...
ga('create', 'UA-45440410-1', 'example.com'); ga('send',
'pageview');
_... | The easiest way to track scroll depth in Google Analytics is [with this plugin](http://robflaherty.github.io/jquery-scrolldepth/). It tracks 25, 50, 75, and 100% scroll points out of the box. Disclosure: I'm the author of it :) |
55,130 | <p>Can I use <code><link></code> tags in the body of an HTML page? I tried to find the answer to this question, but found contradictory information.</p>
<p>When adding Schema.org microdata markup to an HTML page, I want to add canonical info in a link tag like this: </p>
<pre><code><div itemscope itemtype="h... | [
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] | Can I use `<link>` tags in the body of an HTML page? I tried to find the answer to this question, but found contradictory information.
When adding Schema.org microdata markup to an HTML page, I want to add canonical info in a link tag like this:
```
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Book">
<span itemprop=... | **Microdata** [extends](http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-microdata-20131029/#content-models) HTML5 in a way that `link` and `meta` elements can be used in the `body`, **if** they contain an `itemprop` attribute.
>
> If the `itemprop` attribute is present on `link` or `meta`, they are flow content and phrasing content. ... |
55,148 | <p>I'm would like to use on my website AdSense's ads features. The TOS require age above 18. I'm currently 17 and will reach this age after 9 months. Which of the following is the best option?</p>
<h2>Use a fake date of birth</h2>
<p>I could take risk of registering account with fake date of birth (to reach age >= 1... | [
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Use a fake date of birth
------------------------
I could take risk of registering account with fake date of birth (to reach age... | **Microdata** [extends](http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-microdata-20131029/#content-models) HTML5 in a way that `link` and `meta` elements can be used in the `body`, **if** they contain an `itemprop` attribute.
>
> If the `itemprop` attribute is present on `link` or `meta`, they are flow content and phrasing content. ... |
55,169 | <p>Our clients site got infected and was blacklisted. We spent weeks fixing and clearing up the site and got it completely removed from all lists. The site is now squeaky clean as of a few weeks ago but the clients emails are still bouncing due to them being marked as spam. Could the fact they manage their emails on a ... | [
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>
> If the `itemprop` attribute is present on `link` or `meta`, they are flow content and phrasing content. ... |
55,215 | <p>I'm currently creating a webpage which requires rewrites to look nice.</p>
<p>The URL is: <code>u.{my_site}/get.php?fid={ID}</code>.</p>
<p>The URL entered should be: <code>u.{my_site}/{ID}</code>.</p>
<p>Because I'm bad (and new) at rewrite regexes, I generated the following code:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine O... | [
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The URL is: `u.{my_site}/get.php?fid={ID}`.
The URL entered should be: `u.{my_site}/{ID}`.
Because I'm bad (and new) at rewrite regexes, I generated the following code:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /get.php?fid=$1 [L]
```
Now whe... | As mentioned in comments above, you'll need a `RewriteCond` directive in order to prevent an internal rewrite loop. Whilst the `L` flag terminates the current rule set, the entire process is started again with the rewritten URL, so we need a get-out clause.
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
Rewr... |
55,234 | <p>I have a website with thousands of dynamic pages. I want to use the robots.txt file in order to dissalow certain url patterns corresponding to pages with duplicate content.</p>
<p>For example i have a page for article itemA belonging to category catA/subcatA, with URL:</p>
<p>/catA/subcatA/itemA</p>
<p>this is th... | [
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"text": "<p>Hi you can use 2 methods to do this </p>\n\n<p>Method one , use this meta tag \"<code><meta name=\"robots\" co... | 2013/11/11 | [
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For example i have a page for article itemA belonging to category catA/subcatA, with URL:
/catA/subcatA/itemA
this is the URL that i want to be ... | I would take advantage of Google's regular expression support. You want to allow `/tagA1` and `/tagA1/`, but not `/tagA11/XXX`. So:
```
User-agent: *
Allow: /tagA1$
Allow: /tagA1/$
Disallow: /tagA1
```
The `$` denotes end of string. So `/tagA1` will be allowed, but `tagA1/foo` will be blocked.
Note that Google and ... |
55,243 | <p>I have a <code>robots.txt</code> file in the root to prevent search engines indexing any of my sites. I have a social media management application embedded on my site that includes all major social media channels including G+. </p>
<p>I heard that once the G+ symbol is on a site Google will index sites despite havi... | [
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I heard that once the G+ symbol is on a site Google will index sites despite having a `robots.txt` in ... | I would take advantage of Google's regular expression support. You want to allow `/tagA1` and `/tagA1/`, but not `/tagA11/XXX`. So:
```
User-agent: *
Allow: /tagA1$
Allow: /tagA1/$
Disallow: /tagA1
```
The `$` denotes end of string. So `/tagA1` will be allowed, but `tagA1/foo` will be blocked.
Note that Google and ... |
55,264 | <p>I run our research group website, but don't have direct access to the university DNS server. However, we have two addresses pointing at the same IP - one is the old website and the canonical name is the current one.</p>
<pre><code>IP: 128.252.19.134
Old name: lima.wustl.edu
Name name: pappulab.wustl.edu
</code></pr... | [
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] | I run our research group website, but don't have direct access to the university DNS server. However, we have two addresses pointing at the same IP - one is the old website and the canonical name is the current one.
```
IP: 128.252.19.134
Old name: lima.wustl.edu
Name name: pappulab.wustl.edu
```
The issue is that a... | Well, I am not too sure adjusting DNS entries is the best way to handle this. Or would even solve the issue. You do not have an IP address issue, but rather a content indexing & hostname change issue.
I would instead recommend using Apache rewrite rules—via `mod_rewrite`—to do this on `lima.wustl.edu` instead. This is... |
55,391 | <p>So, I have found domains that link to my site, and they seem to be banned as searching for <code>site:domain.com</code> on them doesn't produce any results at all. </p>
<p>I now need to use the Google disavow links tool to remove the bad links, but it asks to import a <code>.txt</code> file with links only and I do... | [
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I now need to use the Google disavow links tool to remove the bad links, but it asks to import a `.txt` file with links only and I don't have the links.
Is there an... | the best idea is to login to your Google Webmaster Tools, where you will see all the sites that are linking to your domain.
You'll have to check them one by one and try to remove the links from the bad ones. If you cannot (for whatever reason) remove the backlink to your domain, then you can add those sites or the who... |
55,400 | <p>I have a website like <code>http://example.com</code> but the problem with it is that people are able to get access to my JavaScript by pointing a browser to <code>http://example.com/js/</code>. </p>
<p>I have little knowledge of using <em>.htaccess</em> files.</p>
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"text": "<p>Simply add an <code>index.html</code> (with no content) in your <code>js</code> folder.</p>\n\n<p>that will pre... | 2013/11/21 | [
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I have little knowledge of using *.htaccess* files. | To prevent directory listings when a directory is requested (that doesn't contain a `DirectoryIndex`) you can add the following to your .htaccess file in the root of your site:
```
Options -Indexes
```
This will result in a 403 Forbidden being served for `http://example.com/js/`, rather than the server generating a ... |
55,410 | <p>I have modified my website <code>www.vidyaniketan.in</code>. It is a Joomla 2.5 site. When I search for it in Google by URL, there are several sub-links displayed (e.g., "ABOUT US"). this links to the old webpage. How do I link it to new webpage? I tried following code in my <em>.htaccess</em> file:</p>
<pre><code>... | [
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```
Redirect 301 /about_us.html http... | As mentioned you will need to wait for Google to re-index your website.
In Joomla 2.5 though you don't need to hack the `.htaccess` file everytime you restructure your site or move an article. Simply add the desired redirect to the Redirect component (you may also need to enable the `Redirect` plugin).
To use it navi... |
55,428 | <p>I'm planning to release an open source cms and I wonder if there is a way to know if people use it. I added this line to CMS templates:</p>
<pre><code><meta name="generator" content="My CMS - Open Source Content Management by me" />
</code></pre>
<p>I know that generator meta tag can be easily faked or remo... | [
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```
<meta name="generator" content="My CMS - Open Source Content Management by me" />
```
I know that generator meta tag can be easily faked or removed, but it'd still be great if ... | The site <http://builtwith.com/> offers statistics about how many websites use various technologies. They gather this information by downloading pages from websites and looking at items such as:
* powered by HTTP header
* JavaScript libraries used in the page
* links in the page footer to a CMS
For example they have ... |
55,495 | <p>I noticed that 29030400 is used very often in the Expires directives for static files.</p>
<p>Google recommends to cache this kind of files up to 1 year (1 month at least).</p>
<p>I did the math: 29030400 seconds = 336 days</p>
<p>That is about 1 year minus 1 month, so it perfectly falls in the recommended interv... | [
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"text": "<p>It might come from</p>\n\n<pre><code>60 * 60 * 24 * 7 * 4 * 12 = 29030400\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>where each month c... | 2013/11/24 | [
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Google recommends to cache this kind of files up to 1 year (1 month at least).
I did the math: 29030400 seconds = 336 days
That is about 1 year minus 1 month, so it perfectly falls in the recommended interval, but the question is ... | It might come from
```
60 * 60 * 24 * 7 * 4 * 12 = 29030400
```
where each month consists of exactly 4 weeks. |
55,499 | <p>I have found a webpage that can check for errors in my webpage's code. Here are the errors I couldn't solve:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>End of file seen and there were open elements.<p></p> Unclosed element div.<br><br>
<code><div id="wrapper"></code><br></p>
<p>The language attribute on the script element ... | [
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>
> End of file seen and there were open elements. Unclosed element div.
>
>
> `<div id="wrapper">`
>
>
>
> The language attribute on the script element is obsolete. You can safely omit it.
>
>
> ... | From the error and the code posted, the unclosed element is obvious:
```
<body <?php body_class() ?>>
<div id="wrapper">
<header id="header">
<<?php pinboard_title_tag( 'site' ); ?> id="site-title">
<?php if ( ( '' != get_header_image() ) && ( false != get_header_image() ) ) : ?>
... |