qid int64 4 8.14M | question stringlengths 20 48.3k | answers list | date stringlengths 10 10 | metadata list | input stringlengths 12 45k | output stringlengths 2 31.8k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
69,674 | <p>I have been doing some competition research using <a href="http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/" rel="nofollow">Open Site Explorer</a> and I am a bit confused about Internal Links vs. External links reports. Ratios are all over the place when I compare them with my top 4 competitors.</p>
<p>What is a good ration betwe... | [
{
"answer_id": 69663,
"author": "Wexford",
"author_id": 40448,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/40448",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Try putting the following robots.txt in the root of your website:</p>\n\n<pre><code>User-agent: *\nDisallow: ... | 2014/10/03 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69674",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38954/"
] | I have been doing some competition research using [Open Site Explorer](http://moz.com/researchtools/ose/) and I am a bit confused about Internal Links vs. External links reports. Ratios are all over the place when I compare them with my top 4 competitors.
What is a good ration between Internal and external links? | Try putting the following robots.txt in the root of your website:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Allow: /$
```
Note that it will take time and that you can use Webmaster Tools to manually request their removal (this can speed up the process). |
69,705 | <p>My website's URLs are currently case-insensitive. For example, both of the following links show the exact same page:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>http://example.com/about</code></li>
<li><code>http://example.com/About</code></li>
</ul>
<p>However, taking a look at the wordpress.org website, I noticed that URLs are case-sens... | [
{
"answer_id": 69706,
"author": "Andreas Krischer",
"author_id": 45223,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45223",
"pm_score": -1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p><a href=\"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#page-40\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">RFC 3986 6.2... | 2014/10/04 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69705",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45224/"
] | My website's URLs are currently case-insensitive. For example, both of the following links show the exact same page:
* `http://example.com/about`
* `http://example.com/About`
However, taking a look at the wordpress.org website, I noticed that URLs are case-sensitive. For example, the second link below is a 404 error ... | Two of the most widely used operating system file systems for serving web content have have very different settings for case sensitivity of URLs by default. Whether or not your URLs are case sensitive is likely a function of which you are using:
* [Microsoft IIS](http://www.iis.net/) running on Windows - case insensit... |
69,716 | <p>In order to connect to a MySQL database, you typically use the following command:</p>
<pre><code>mysql -h host_address database_name -u db_user -p
</code></pre>
<p>where <code>db_user</code> is associated with the database in question. However, if you have a shared webhosting plan with a commerical webhost such as... | [
{
"answer_id": 69717,
"author": "Anagio",
"author_id": 10527,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/10527",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>If MySQL servers we open to the general public like your website it would open them up to brute force attacks,... | 2014/10/04 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69716",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45228/"
] | In order to connect to a MySQL database, you typically use the following command:
```
mysql -h host_address database_name -u db_user -p
```
where `db_user` is associated with the database in question. However, if you have a shared webhosting plan with a commerical webhost such as Justhost, Hostgator, and iPage, the ... | The reason database servers are not universally open to the world can be boiled down into two main items: Stability & Security
* **Stability:** Basically pretty much no database operations for websites should be happening via remote connections. And most database servers are tweaked & tuned to handle expected traffic;... |
69,756 | <p>I want to enable SSL for my main website and sub-domain websites. For SEO reasons, I need to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS requests. I think I should do that using a wild card redirect in my <code>.htaccess</code> file, but, I already <em>have</em> a wild card redirect in my htaccess file as follows:</p>
<pre><co... | [
{
"answer_id": 69767,
"author": "eyoung100",
"author_id": 38279,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38279",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>See the following image:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/1dhO2.png\" alt=\"Breakdown of Purpl... | 2014/10/06 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69756",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I want to enable SSL for my main website and sub-domain websites. For SEO reasons, I need to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS requests. I think I should do that using a wild card redirect in my `.htaccess` file, but, I already *have* a wild card redirect in my htaccess file as follows:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^msc... | See the following image:
 from [ColorHexa](http://www.colorhexa.com/)
The way this works:
Each of the three colors has 16 shades from 00 to FF(Hex) which translates to 0 to 255(Decimal). You'll also notice that 255 is the equivalent of all ones in a Byte. St... |
69,783 | <p>I have a website and have recently installed an SSL certificate. I want all links to the site to always redirect to the secure site without www, as I have made the SSL applicable to non-www.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I have WHMCS in the backend and want to redirect the <code>example.com/whmcs</code>
page to <code>exampl... | [
{
"answer_id": 69781,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>The amount of time that users spend on your site after clicking on a webinar link that has been s... | 2014/10/07 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69783",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45277/"
] | I have a website and have recently installed an SSL certificate. I want all links to the site to always redirect to the secure site without www, as I have made the SSL applicable to non-www.
Furthermore, I have WHMCS in the backend and want to redirect the `example.com/whmcs`
page to `example.com/client-portal` as I ... | The amount of time that users spend on your site after clicking on a webinar link that has been sent to them via email will in **no way** change your Google rankings. Here is [a video by Google's Matt Cutts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU) where he addresses whether or not Google uses Google Analytics data... |
69,815 | <p>I try to put microdata in a leisure club's planning, which propose various activities (drawing, yoga, english for kids...). My problem is with those weekly activities as microdata event does'nt propose a convenient way to tag them.</p>
<p>My question is simple do you think this :</p>
<pre><code><li itemscop ite... | [
{
"answer_id": 69781,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>The amount of time that users spend on your site after clicking on a webinar link that has been s... | 2014/10/08 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69815",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45302/"
] | I try to put microdata in a leisure club's planning, which propose various activities (drawing, yoga, english for kids...). My problem is with those weekly activities as microdata event does'nt propose a convenient way to tag them.
My question is simple do you think this :
```
<li itemscop itemtype="https://schema.or... | The amount of time that users spend on your site after clicking on a webinar link that has been sent to them via email will in **no way** change your Google rankings. Here is [a video by Google's Matt Cutts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU) where he addresses whether or not Google uses Google Analytics data... |
69,818 | <p>I have <a href="http://savvyroo.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a website</a> that focuses on charts and graphs. The graphs on the site are drawn using JavaScript, but contain keywords that I would like to have indexed. </p>
<p>For example, here is a screenshot of a graph from our site:</p>
<p><img src="https://... | [
{
"answer_id": 69896,
"author": "dasickle",
"author_id": 38954,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38954",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Here are a few options:</p>\n\n<p>1) Update your Meta Tags to include the graph info.</p>\n\n<p>2) Write som... | 2014/10/08 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69818",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543/"
] | I have [a website](http://savvyroo.com/) that focuses on charts and graphs. The graphs on the site are drawn using JavaScript, but contain keywords that I would like to have indexed.
For example, here is a screenshot of a graph from our site:
Keyw... | If Google isn't indexing words contained within scripts, then the words need to be added to the HTML where Googlebot does pick up on them. So that all the data isn't duplicated, it can be removed from the script. The JavaScript can pull the text out of the HTML document and use it.
The text in the page can be hidden ... |
69,829 | <p>I'm getting these errors with Google Structured Data Testing Tool:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Error: At least one field must be set for Hcard.</p>
<p>Error: Missing required field "name (fn)".</p>
</blockquote>
<p>but the <code>fn</code> field is set. Also <code>vcard</code>:</p>
<pre><code><span class="v... | [
{
"answer_id": 69895,
"author": "dasickle",
"author_id": 38954,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38954",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Try the following:</p>\n\n<pre><code><span class=\"vcard author\">\n<a rel=\"author\" title=\"author... | 2014/10/08 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/69829",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/31534/"
] | I'm getting these errors with Google Structured Data Testing Tool:
>
> Error: At least one field must be set for Hcard.
>
>
> Error: Missing required field "name (fn)".
>
>
>
but the `fn` field is set. Also `vcard`:
```
<span class="vcard author">
<a class="url fn n" href="http://www.nosabesnada.com/author... | Try the following:
```
<span class="vcard author">
<a rel="author" title="author profile" href="http://example.com/author/name/">
<span class="fn author">Author Name</span>
</a>
</span>
```
You need to add **class="fn author"** in the second span tag.
After you update the code go and [test it out.](https://www.goog... |
70,988 | <p>I can't upload more than 2 MB. I read that IIS' max. upload size is 4 (actually 4,2) GB and ASP.NET's is 2 GB.</p>
<p>I really can't think of an alternative. I could change the max. upload size in PHP but IIS isn't compatible with this causing the server not to accept uploads over 2 MB still.</p>
<p>But even if 4,... | [
{
"answer_id": 71316,
"author": "Acrklor",
"author_id": 45107,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45107",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Did you change/increase <code>post_max_size</code> and <code>memory_limit</code> in the <code>php.ini</code>?... | 2014/10/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/70988",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/43487/"
] | I can't upload more than 2 MB. I read that IIS' max. upload size is 4 (actually 4,2) GB and ASP.NET's is 2 GB.
I really can't think of an alternative. I could change the max. upload size in PHP but IIS isn't compatible with this causing the server not to accept uploads over 2 MB still.
But even if 4,2 GB can be uploa... | You need to set `maxAllowedContentLength`, not `maxRequestLength` to up the allowed upload size for IIS. the former is the IIS request length limit, the latter is the ASP.NET request length limit.
Also important to know is that `maxAllowedContentLength` is the length in bytes, whereas `maxRequestLength` is the length... |
71,002 | <p>We have launched HTTPS version of site at 6 Oct. After few days (8 Oct.) Google dropped 40% of normal search traffic, and more 20% within next 2 days. SSL certificate was bought from GoDaddy, and server configured correctly without any errors (all internal links/images/scripts also support HTTPS). All URLs are ident... | [
{
"answer_id": 71017,
"author": "Vinay Aggarwal",
"author_id": 44994,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/44994",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I am not having a deep knowledge of this implementation as i have not performed it yet on any of the c... | 2014/10/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71002",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45345/"
] | We have launched HTTPS version of site at 6 Oct. After few days (8 Oct.) Google dropped 40% of normal search traffic, and more 20% within next 2 days. SSL certificate was bought from GoDaddy, and server configured correctly without any errors (all internal links/images/scripts also support HTTPS). All URLs are identica... | The reason this happens might be because of (amongst things) duplicate content. *You* know that the http and https version are the same page, but Google treats them as two pages, thus duplicate.
What you need to do is send a redirect with 301 header. 301 means 'permanent redirect', or simply put: 'dont use this url an... |
71,037 | <p>Is having breadcrumb on a website enough to give result with bread crumb! on google's SERP?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/v8yKc.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I want to have this category : bread crumb in front of my url.</p>
<p>2 ways</p>
<ol>
<li>go for micro data or schemas</li>
... | [
{
"answer_id": 71017,
"author": "Vinay Aggarwal",
"author_id": 44994,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/44994",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I am not having a deep knowledge of this implementation as i have not performed it yet on any of the c... | 2014/10/14 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71037",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45481/"
] | Is having breadcrumb on a website enough to give result with bread crumb! on google's SERP?
I want to have this category : bread crumb in front of my url.
2 ways
1. go for micro data or schemas
2. leave it as it is, bcoz google will identify and c... | The reason this happens might be because of (amongst things) duplicate content. *You* know that the http and https version are the same page, but Google treats them as two pages, thus duplicate.
What you need to do is send a redirect with 301 header. 301 means 'permanent redirect', or simply put: 'dont use this url an... |
71,140 | <p>When viewing a topic on my blog it has a title like:</p>
<pre><code><title>Topic : CakePHP &bull; Blog &bull; driz - Cameron Drysdale</title>
</code></pre>
<p>Which produces:</p>
<pre><code>Topic : CakePHP • Blog • driz - Cameron Drysdale
</code></pre>
<p>I use a bullet point to separate the ... | [
{
"answer_id": 71143,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>As a programmer I can tell you this. Programmers parse text using word boundaries and checking that a word ... | 2014/10/17 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71140",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/31919/"
] | When viewing a topic on my blog it has a title like:
```
<title>Topic : CakePHP • Blog • driz - Cameron Drysdale</title>
```
Which produces:
```
Topic : CakePHP • Blog • driz - Cameron Drysdale
```
I use a bullet point to separate the sections of the site, so the topic, notebook, and the sitename, and t... | As a programmer I can tell you this. Programmers parse text using word boundaries and checking that a word is really a word. In other words, the non-word characters will be completely ignored from a search perspective but not from the SERP link. This is because Google, Bing, and all search engines are not concerned wit... |
71,267 | <blockquote>
<p>how to redirect to 404 in .htaccess file ? Example </p>
<p>www.domain.com/ja/any_post or www.domain.com/ja/all_posts<br>
www.domain.com/fr/any_post or www.domain.com/fr/all_posts</p>
</blockquote>
<p>A little bit more explaining can't hurt. Example:</p>
<p>My original post is on URL <code>ww... | [
{
"answer_id": 71271,
"author": "Martijn",
"author_id": 37448,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/37448",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Something along these lines might do what you want. This will redirect the user to the 'main' version of the ... | 2014/10/22 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71267",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45698/"
] | >
> how to redirect to 404 in .htaccess file ? Example
>
>
> www.domain.com/ja/any\_post or www.domain.com/ja/all\_posts
>
> www.domain.com/fr/any\_post or www.domain.com/fr/all\_posts
>
>
>
A little bit more explaining can't hurt. Example:
My original post is on URL `www.domain.com/post`.
I had japanese... | The simplest method would be:
```
# Redirect to HTTP 404 File/Page Not Found
Redirect 404 "/ja/any_posts"
Redirect 404 "/ja/all_posts"
Redirect 404 "/fr/any_posts"
Redirect 404 "/fr/all_posts"
```
Though you could also use:
```
# Redirect to HTTP 404 File/Page Not Found
RewriteRule ^ja/any_posts$ - [R=404,L]
Rewrit... |
71,283 | <p>Given the exact same page with some real data for example a page for Bangkok Dog Cafe, would search engines prefer one of the following because of the top level domain?</p>
<pre><code>singapore-dog-cafe.com
singapore-dog-cafe.info
</code></pre>
| [
{
"answer_id": 71286,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>The only case in which I know that Google prefers some top level domains over others is in the ca... | 2014/10/22 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71283",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/34694/"
] | Given the exact same page with some real data for example a page for Bangkok Dog Cafe, would search engines prefer one of the following because of the top level domain?
```
singapore-dog-cafe.com
singapore-dog-cafe.info
``` | The only case in which I know that Google prefers some top level domains over others is in the case of geo-targetable country domains. [Google has a list of generic top level domains](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en). As long as the top level domain is on this list, Google will show the site ... |
71,289 | <p>I need to create a report in GA, which shows the share of major iOS versions: 6, 7 and 8. It's quite easy to add the dimension for operating system version, but it has all the minor versions (21 different versions at the moment). I'd like a dimension which only includes major versions. </p>
<p>How can I do that? </... | [
{
"answer_id": 71290,
"author": "Community",
"author_id": -1,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>When you are on the operating system section of the report just tap on the specific operating systems you want to... | 2014/09/04 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71289",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I need to create a report in GA, which shows the share of major iOS versions: 6, 7 and 8. It's quite easy to add the dimension for operating system version, but it has all the minor versions (21 different versions at the moment). I'd like a dimension which only includes major versions.
How can I do that? | Google Analytics does not separate out major and minor versions of browsers or OS as dimensions. This means that You cannot produce your desired report from within Google Analytics.
If I click into the iOS operating system report, I can get it graphed like this:
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.c... |
71,374 | <p>We are moving to <code>https</code> soon. I understand that it is smart to use <code>//domain.com</code> links and images src references.</p>
<ul>
<li>Does the browser then first try <code>https</code>? and if not found <code>http</code>? </li>
<li>Is this supported by all browsers?</li>
</ul>
<p>In the end shoul... | [
{
"answer_id": 71375,
"author": "William",
"author_id": 43487,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/43487",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p><code>//</code> basically means that the a resource will be requested in the same protocol, thus if someone i... | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71374",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/13177/"
] | We are moving to `https` soon. I understand that it is smart to use `//domain.com` links and images src references.
* Does the browser then first try `https`? and if not found `http`?
* Is this supported by all browsers?
In the end should all the links on the site use `//domain.com` (with double slash)?
And does Goo... | Browsers do not try one protocol and then fall back to the other. The browser will use which ever protocol it is linked to. If that protocol isn't supported, the user will get an error.
If you want to force users to use one protocol, you can redirect from one to the other. For example, to force secure connection on yo... |
71,377 | <p>I have a website that I mostly don't want to be indexed by search engines, but I do want to preserve it for eternity on archive.org. So my <code>robots.txt</code> starts with this:</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: *
Disallow: /
</code></pre>
<p>Today, according to <a href="https://archive.org/about/exclude.php" rel="nor... | [
{
"answer_id": 71385,
"author": "unor",
"author_id": 17633,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/17633",
"pm_score": 5,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p><strong>Update</strong>: As @KevinFegan notes in the comments, their documentation changed. The below part descri... | 2014/10/25 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71377",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/24487/"
] | I have a website that I mostly don't want to be indexed by search engines, but I do want to preserve it for eternity on archive.org. So my `robots.txt` starts with this:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
```
Today, according to [archive.org](https://archive.org/about/exclude.php) I have to add the following in my `robot... | **Update**: As @KevinFegan notes in the comments, their documentation changed. The below part describes how the Internet Archive handled it in the past (at least in 2014).
---
Their FAQ [*How can I have my site's pages excluded from the Wayback Machine?*](https://web.archive.org/web/20141020144112/https://archive.org... |
71,516 | <p>Since i changed to another VPS server my mail is blocked when i sent it to a Gmail account</p>
<p>this is the error mail form Gmail :</p>
<pre><code>his message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent... | [
{
"answer_id": 71499,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>I have seen evidence that Google relies heavily on click through rate when determining the positio... | 2014/10/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71516",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47636/"
] | Since i changed to another VPS server my mail is blocked when i sent it to a Gmail account
this is the error mail form Gmail :
```
his message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following... | I have seen evidence that Google relies heavily on click through rate when determining the position of a page in the search results. If they put a site in position #1 but nobody clicks on it, it is certainly not going to stay there. Similarly if they try it out the whole way down at #10 but people find it there anyway,... |
71,521 | <p>Does Keyword specific brings better value in SEO compare to non-specific targeting?</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code><a href="www.companyA.com">Website Design</a>
<a href="www.companyB.com">Website Design - Company B</a>
<a href="www.companyC.com">Website Design & Mobile Apps Develo... | [
{
"answer_id": 71522,
"author": "Zistoloen",
"author_id": 20122,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20122",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>It depends on which words you want to optimize for SEO. If you target \"Website Design\" as keywords, the b... | 2014/10/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71521",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45913/"
] | Does Keyword specific brings better value in SEO compare to non-specific targeting?
Example:
```
<a href="www.companyA.com">Website Design</a>
<a href="www.companyB.com">Website Design - Company B</a>
<a href="www.companyC.com">Website Design & Mobile Apps Development</a>
```
Based on 3 example above, which one is ... | Commenter bybe has it right - the best anchor text for your company is your company name. This is **especially** true if you're using it as part of a pro-active campaign to build backlinks, or if it's going to be reused programmatically.
The common use case for web design companies is attributing their work. Lots of w... |
71,555 | <p>Please consider the following code marked up with attributes to provide microdata:</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Micro data test - Normal version</title>
</head>
<body>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"&... | [
{
"answer_id": 71629,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Your plan of using meta data for microdata is not viable. Here is <a href=\"https://support.goog... | 2014/10/24 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71555",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | Please consider the following code marked up with attributes to provide microdata:
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Micro data test - Normal version</title>
</head>
<body>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<h1 itemprop="name">Product name</h1>
... | Your plan of using meta data for microdata is not viable. Here is [Google's FAQ about why it isn't showing your data in the search results](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1093493?hl=en):
>
> **Is your marked-up content hidden from users?**
>
>
> In general, Google won't display any content in rich sni... |
71,569 | <p>I have a site which has a feature that causes Apache to route all requests for files in a particular directory through a PHP script via .htaccess. A problem has come up that I'm not sure how to troubleshoot.</p>
<p>There is an online course which has a video on each page, and the pages are loaded via ajax. With t... | [
{
"answer_id": 71645,
"author": "Tim Fountain",
"author_id": 1426,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/1426",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>The range header handling code is probably where the issue lies, although it's hard to say for sure. Servin... | 2014/10/31 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71569",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45950/"
] | I have a site which has a feature that causes Apache to route all requests for files in a particular directory through a PHP script via .htaccess. A problem has come up that I'm not sure how to troubleshoot.
There is an online course which has a video on each page, and the pages are loaded via ajax. With the above fea... | The range header handling code is probably where the issue lies, although it's hard to say for sure. Serving videos with PHP tends not to be very memory efficient, particularly if they are large. I'd suggest you use something like X-Sendfile instead. That way, you still do your authentication checks in PHP, but you get... |
71,572 | <p>Have come across an announcement from Google: <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html</a></p>
<p>It states:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>For optimal rendering and indexing, our... | [
{
"answer_id": 71578,
"author": "DisgruntledGoat",
"author_id": 233,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/233",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Honestly you are better off removing everything from your robots.txt. As far as I can see, all PHP files ... | 2014/11/01 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71572",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45956/"
] | Have come across an announcement from Google: <http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html>
It states:
>
> For optimal rendering and indexing, our new guideline specifies that you should allow Googlebot access to the JavaScript, CSS, and image files that your pages use. Th... | Honestly you are better off removing everything from your robots.txt. As far as I can see, all PHP files in Joomla contain the line
```
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
```
Which means if you load a PHP file directly in the browser all you get is a blank file, which search engines will ignore. (They shouldn't ever come acr... |
71,577 | <p>Since I'm a non-technical person willing to enter the mobile space, would like to ask for some advice and the specific code to add to my pages if possible.</p>
<p>My desktop site is bilingual English/Spanish with all pages human-translated (as opposed to machine-translation). Let's go for an example:</p>
<ul>
<li>... | [
{
"answer_id": 71580,
"author": "unor",
"author_id": 17633,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/17633",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>This is <em>not</em> the same URL approach. It would mean to have only one URL for each content (not two: one fo... | 2014/11/01 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71577",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45961/"
] | Since I'm a non-technical person willing to enter the mobile space, would like to ask for some advice and the specific code to add to my pages if possible.
My desktop site is bilingual English/Spanish with all pages human-translated (as opposed to machine-translation). Let's go for an example:
* `www.example.com/new-... | 1. Your set up is actually separate URLs and not "same URL approach", as the URLs are different, they are on a sub domain. "same URL approach" is when your mobile content is dynamically served on the exact same URLs as the desktop content.
2. On the desktop pages add an alternate tag pointing to the mobile URLs:
>
> ... |
71,598 | <p>I'm trying to reduce my server load by providing <code>304 Not Modified</code> responses for content where appropriate. CloudFlare is my middle man, so they should be sending <code>If-Modified-Since</code> headers whenever a cached page has expired, right?</p>
<p>I'm receiving these responses, client-side:</p>
<ul... | [
{
"answer_id": 71750,
"author": "Emil Rasmussen",
"author_id": 10198,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/10198",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You should keep in mind that a 304 Not Modified header still requires a request going through to your ... | 2014/11/02 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71598",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/17733/"
] | I'm trying to reduce my server load by providing `304 Not Modified` responses for content where appropriate. CloudFlare is my middle man, so they should be sending `If-Modified-Since` headers whenever a cached page has expired, right?
I'm receiving these responses, client-side:
* `CF-Cache-Status: MISS` on first page... | First, make sure you've configured Cloudflare with `Cache Level: Cache Everything` and `Origin Cache Control: On`, whether in the global settings or as a page rule.
Additionally, you must not set a cookie in the Origin response, `max-age=0`, or a past expires date. Doing so will prevent Cloudflare from caching the pag... |
71,601 | <p>I'm using Universal Analytics on my order confirmation page:</p>
<pre><code>// Create the tracker
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y');
// Fire off a pageview
ga('send', 'pageview');
// Include the ecommerce plugin
ga('require', 'ecommerce', 'ecommerce.js');
// Initialize the transaction
ga('ecommerce:addTransaction', {
... | [
{
"answer_id": 71683,
"author": "dasickle",
"author_id": 38954,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38954",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>There are two possible solutions to this problem:</p>\n\n<p>1) Use a server side script to prevent the track... | 2014/11/02 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71601",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/22882/"
] | I'm using Universal Analytics on my order confirmation page:
```
// Create the tracker
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y');
// Fire off a pageview
ga('send', 'pageview');
// Include the ecommerce plugin
ga('require', 'ecommerce', 'ecommerce.js');
// Initialize the transaction
ga('ecommerce:addTransaction', {
id... | Simple JQuery Cookie Solution.
```
if (!$.cookie('myOrderReference')){
//insert analytics code here
$.cookie('myOrderRefernce', true);
}
```
You should setup your script to dynamically insert the order reference instead of 'myOrderReference'.
However, if a user loads the order confirmation page into a... |
71,607 | <p>Can anyone tell me what does this mean in Blogger's "robots.txt" file? Do I need to edit anything in it? Should I remove <code>/search</code> from the <code>Disallow:</code> line?</p>
<pre><code>User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://css3wdesign.blogsp... | [
{
"answer_id": 71609,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Robots.txt is a way of telling bots (robot agents) where they can go and cannot go. It is placed in the roo... | 2014/11/02 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71607",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45975/"
] | Can anyone tell me what does this mean in Blogger's "robots.txt" file? Do I need to edit anything in it? Should I remove `/search` from the `Disallow:` line?
```
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://css3wdesign.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
``` | In addition to closetnoc's answer...
>
> Should I remove `/search` from the `Disallow:` line?
>
>
>
No. It is a good idea to block bots from crawling your search results (which I assume is what this is referring to).
You don't normally want your search result pages from appearing in Google's search results pages... |
71,630 | <p>we are experiencing this error in Google Chrome. We thought everything was set-up correct. But maybe not?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Font from origin <code>http://skin.cdn.com</code> has been blocked from
loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the reque... | [
{
"answer_id": 71632,
"author": "Prashant Tapase",
"author_id": 45995,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45995",
"pm_score": 5,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Change your htaccess file code on your website root directory (i.e. Your public_html \".htaccess\" fil... | 2014/11/03 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71630",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/13177/"
] | we are experiencing this error in Google Chrome. We thought everything was set-up correct. But maybe not?
>
> Font from origin `http://skin.cdn.com` has been blocked from
> loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No
> 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested
> resource. Origin `htt... | Change your htaccess file code on your website root directory (i.e. Your public\_html ".htaccess" file)
```
<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|woff|woff2)$">
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://skin.cdn.com"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
```
Now your CDN will be allowed to lo... |
71,651 | <p>I am looking into using Amazon S3 and I live in the UK and have a UK credit card.</p>
<p>It seems that Amazon bills in $s, my bank will change me for the exchange from £ to $ and this means it will likely cost me more in those charges than actually using S3.</p>
<p>Is there a way to pay in £?</p>
| [
{
"answer_id": 71669,
"author": "richhallstoke",
"author_id": 35875,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/35875",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>While I cannot find any documented page on AWS documentation to confirm this, from personal experience I... | 2014/11/03 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71651",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46006/"
] | I am looking into using Amazon S3 and I live in the UK and have a UK credit card.
It seems that Amazon bills in $s, my bank will change me for the exchange from £ to $ and this means it will likely cost me more in those charges than actually using S3.
Is there a way to pay in £? | While I cannot find any documented page on AWS documentation to confirm this, from personal experience I can verify that unfortunately it is not currently possible to pay Amazon Web Services in GBP (£), or any currency other than USD ($) for that matter.
I'm also a UK-based AWS customer and can confirm that in additio... |
71,690 | <p>Says I have a link, which contains the ID = 19963307</p>
<p>Type 1 : </p>
<pre><code>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19963307/how-to-install-asp-net-mvc-5-on-a-server
</code></pre>
<p>Type 2 : </p>
<pre><code>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-install-asp-net-mvc-5-on-a-server-19963307
</code></pre>
<... | [
{
"answer_id": 71691,
"author": "Zistoloen",
"author_id": 20122,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20122",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>For SEO, I would say an id doesn't permit to easy remember the URL for users. Therefore, no matter on which... | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71690",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38885/"
] | Says I have a link, which contains the ID = 19963307
Type 1 :
```
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19963307/how-to-install-asp-net-mvc-5-on-a-server
```
Type 2 :
```
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/how-to-install-asp-net-mvc-5-on-a-server-19963307
```
Which one of the above links is better for SEO, or are... | From the SEO prospective, i bet there might be a difference:
1. In you first example, the ID is separated from the title, making it clear to the crawler it is a different resource (as the `/` character does it naturally).
2. In your second example, the ID is mixed with the title. It requires more brains from the crawl... |
71,698 | <p>So I have the following HTML for an article (in this case a piece of portfolio work)</p>
<pre><code><article class="work">
<div class="col-row clearfix">
<div class="col-large">
<header>
<h1>OS X Yosemite</h1>
... | [
{
"answer_id": 71705,
"author": "unor",
"author_id": 17633,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/17633",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p><code>div</code> elements mean nothing.<br>\nConsumers interested in the meaning of your content simply ignore t... | 2014/11/05 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71698",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/31919/"
] | So I have the following HTML for an article (in this case a piece of portfolio work)
```
<article class="work">
<div class="col-row clearfix">
<div class="col-large">
<header>
<h1>OS X Yosemite</h1>
<p class="work-meta">The World's Most Advanc... | `div` elements mean nothing.
Consumers interested in the meaning of your content simply ignore them (that is, after extracting possible attribute values, like those used by RDFa, Microdata or Microformats). For these consumers, it wouldn’t matter if a `div` is a parent or a child of another element (so do whatever y... |
71,751 | <p>This is my first question on here so let me know if I have not followed any rules.</p>
<p>I run a website Audibase that has the usernames in the URLs for example:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>https://audibase.com/grungecake</code></li>
<li><code>https://audibase.com/audibase</code></li>
</ul>
<p>What is the best practise t... | [
{
"answer_id": 71821,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>First some Google Analytics terms:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Campaigns</strong> - The source of pa... | 2014/11/07 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71751",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46109/"
] | This is my first question on here so let me know if I have not followed any rules.
I run a website Audibase that has the usernames in the URLs for example:
* `https://audibase.com/grungecake`
* `https://audibase.com/audibase`
What is the best practise to apply SEO for these to show up in the search engine for their ... | First some Google Analytics terms:
* **Campaigns** - The source of paid traffic (such as PPC).
* **Goals** - Conversion events
To get Google Analytics to attribute conversions to your PPC traffic you need to configure Google Analytics for both campaigns and goals.
**Campaigns**
Use the [Google Analytics URL builder... |
71,759 | <p>I'm using WP Participants Database plugin in a site developed using WordPress and I'm trying to transform:</p>
<p><code>http://example.com/subfol1/subfol2/?listpage=3&search_field=none&value=&operator=LIKE&sortBy=denumire&ascdesc=asc&submit=&sortstring=denumire&orderstring=asc#partic... | [
{
"answer_id": 71840,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I think the problem is the order of your rewrite rules.</p>\n\n<pre><code>RewriteRule . index.php... | 2014/11/07 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71759",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46117/"
] | I'm using WP Participants Database plugin in a site developed using WordPress and I'm trying to transform:
`http://example.com/subfol1/subfol2/?listpage=3&search_field=none&value=&operator=LIKE&sortBy=denumire&ascdesc=asc&submit=&sortstring=denumire&orderstring=asc#participants-list`
into:
`http://example.com/subfol... | I think the problem is the order of your rewrite rules.
```
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
```
needs to be the *last* rewrite rule. It rewrites *all* URLs and is marked as last. No rewrite rule that comes after it is going to have a chance of working.
Try moving your `produse` up near the rewrite rule that adds a tra... |
71,760 | <p>So, as the new guy, I have been tasked with the monumental problem of improving my job's search rankings for a few specific pages. Looking at the design philosophy of the page, I've run into a big question. Index.html is a static page that lists all products. It's about 5 "screens" tall at 1366 x 768. I've considere... | [
{
"answer_id": 71840,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I think the problem is the order of your rewrite rules.</p>\n\n<pre><code>RewriteRule . index.php... | 2014/11/07 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71760",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46120/"
] | So, as the new guy, I have been tasked with the monumental problem of improving my job's search rankings for a few specific pages. Looking at the design philosophy of the page, I've run into a big question. Index.html is a static page that lists all products. It's about 5 "screens" tall at 1366 x 768. I've considered p... | I think the problem is the order of your rewrite rules.
```
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
```
needs to be the *last* rewrite rule. It rewrites *all* URLs and is marked as last. No rewrite rule that comes after it is going to have a chance of working.
Try moving your `produse` up near the rewrite rule that adds a tra... |
71,800 | <p>I have a site that uses span tags mid heading to put a different style on the words.</p>
<p>So for the sake of argument I have a keyword/phrase of knitting patterns:</p>
<pre><code><h1><span>Knitting </span>Patterns</h1>
</code></pre>
<p>From an SEO point of view would this still work or w... | [
{
"answer_id": 71801,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Stick with me. This all makes sense I promise. Google when it indexes your content pages, does not just loo... | 2014/11/08 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71800",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46146/"
] | I have a site that uses span tags mid heading to put a different style on the words.
So for the sake of argument I have a keyword/phrase of knitting patterns:
```
<h1><span>Knitting </span>Patterns</h1>
```
From an SEO point of view would this still work or would search engines split the two words? | Stick with me. This all makes sense I promise. Google when it indexes your content pages, does not just look at words, but proximity of words, phrases, language, style usage, and so forth. They do this for each page and each site and over time, certain patterns begin to emerge. You may, without realizing it, use a phra... |
71,825 | <p>I need to rewrite URL's of this form:</p>
<p><code>/change-email.htm?e=someone@somewhere.com&h=xxxxxx</code></p>
<p>to:</p>
<p><code>/change-email/?e=someone@somewhere.com&h=xxxxx</code></p>
<p>I've done this in my .htaccess:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/change-email\.htm$
RewriteCond %{... | [
{
"answer_id": 71828,
"author": "Chloe",
"author_id": 35087,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/35087",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Use a reverse proxy to horizontally scale. Once the connection comes out of the TOR network unencrypted, scale ... | 2014/11/09 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71825",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/6860/"
] | I need to rewrite URL's of this form:
`/change-email.htm?e=someone@somewhere.com&h=xxxxxx`
to:
`/change-email/?e=someone@somewhere.com&h=xxxxx`
I've done this in my .htaccess:
```
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/change-email\.htm$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^e=(.*)&h=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /change-email/?e=%1&h=%... | Use a reverse proxy to horizontally scale. Once the connection comes out of the TOR network unencrypted, scale it like any other site. Use Apache in reverse proxy mode, or maybe Squid? Varnish? Then have multiple instances serve the request. You say you can't run on multiple servers (but don't say why), so...
Create y... |
71,857 | <p>In the age of SSL everywhere there are still major sites that lack it. Schema.org for example allows HTTPS but resolves naturally to HTTP. Seems like it would make sense to call upon the HTTPS identifiers right? But then again, why would HTTP be available on Schema if Google owns it...maybe theres a legacy compatibl... | [
{
"answer_id": 71859,
"author": "richhallstoke",
"author_id": 35875,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/35875",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You could use either, but if you want to force HTTPS then just specify it as then you take any decision... | 2014/11/10 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71857",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38958/"
] | In the age of SSL everywhere there are still major sites that lack it. Schema.org for example allows HTTPS but resolves naturally to HTTP. Seems like it would make sense to call upon the HTTPS identifiers right? But then again, why would HTTP be available on Schema if Google owns it...maybe theres a legacy compatible r... | Don’t use protocol-relative Schema.org URIs:
* I wouldn’t expect *all* Microdata consumers to handle these URIs correctly (while it’s common for links or embedded resources, values of the `itemtype` attribute typically don’t get dereferenced).
* They fail when a different protocol than HTTP/HTTPS is used (for example,... |
71,938 | <p>I noticed that a competing website has split up their product information into multiple pages (URLs). I was wondering if this is a good approach to follow or if I should avoid it because it might be seen as being spammy.</p>
<pre><code>example.com/bikes/foo-bike/seat //content about foo-bike's seat
example.com... | [
{
"answer_id": 71939,
"author": "Zistoloen",
"author_id": 20122,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20122",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>For an user guide, the goal is to think about users. That's why, it may be interesting for a reader to know... | 2014/11/12 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71938",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/17406/"
] | I noticed that a competing website has split up their product information into multiple pages (URLs). I was wondering if this is a good approach to follow or if I should avoid it because it might be seen as being spammy.
```
example.com/bikes/foo-bike/seat //content about foo-bike's seat
example.com/bikes/foo-bik... | As Zistoloen covers, creating more pages for the content increases the "surface area" for potential searches but there is an additional reason to split up content over multiple pages: it can drastically reduce your site's bounce rate (BR) and increase pages per visit (PPV).
By providing articles in small chunks, the u... |
71,957 | <p>Index page</p>
<pre><code><html>
<head>
<title>Links</title>
<meta name="robots" CONTENT="index, follow" />
</head>
<body>
<div id=wrap>
<div id=head>
<div class=head-text>Links</div>
... | [
{
"answer_id": 71974,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Here is <a href=\"https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Goo... | 2014/11/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71957",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46256/"
] | Index page
```
<html>
<head>
<title>Links</title>
<meta name="robots" CONTENT="index, follow" />
</head>
<body>
<div id=wrap>
<div id=head>
<div class=head-text>Links</div>
</div>
<div id=context-bg>
<p /><a... | Here is [Google's help document about the links to your site report in Google Webmaster Tools](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en). It states:
>
> Not all links to your site may be listed. This is normal.
>
>
>
This tool is not meant to be a full report of all the links to your site that Go... |
71,961 | <p>I seem to be stuck here trying to figure out how to redirect the following scenarios:</p>
<pre><code>/foo/index.html -> /foo (remove trailing slash, index.html as 301)
/foo/ -> /foo (remove trailing slash as 301)
/foo -> No redirect, shows the file at /foo/index.html
/foo/noti... | [
{
"answer_id": 71974,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Here is <a href=\"https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Goo... | 2014/11/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71961",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/5259/"
] | I seem to be stuck here trying to figure out how to redirect the following scenarios:
```
/foo/index.html -> /foo (remove trailing slash, index.html as 301)
/foo/ -> /foo (remove trailing slash as 301)
/foo -> No redirect, shows the file at /foo/index.html
/foo/notindex.html -> No redirec... | Here is [Google's help document about the links to your site report in Google Webmaster Tools](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en). It states:
>
> Not all links to your site may be listed. This is normal.
>
>
>
This tool is not meant to be a full report of all the links to your site that Go... |
71,970 | <p>I have removed a forum system from my CMS and now I want to return an 410 status code whenever a search engine visits the former posts. I know that I have to use a number of Rewrite Rules to do the job, but I can't get them working.</p>
<p>The base URLs of the forum that I have removed are like these:</p>
<p>Posts... | [
{
"answer_id": 71974,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Here is <a href=\"https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Goo... | 2014/11/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/71970",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46271/"
] | I have removed a forum system from my CMS and now I want to return an 410 status code whenever a search engine visits the former posts. I know that I have to use a number of Rewrite Rules to do the job, but I can't get them working.
The base URLs of the forum that I have removed are like these:
Posts -> mywebsite.com... | Here is [Google's help document about the links to your site report in Google Webmaster Tools](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en). It states:
>
> Not all links to your site may be listed. This is normal.
>
>
>
This tool is not meant to be a full report of all the links to your site that Go... |
72,025 | <p>My old site used to write the URLs without <code>!</code>.</p>
<p>Eg: <code>www.example.com/#/products</code></p>
<p>But it has been more than 6 months since I changed it to include <code>!</code> in the URL like so:</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com/#!/products
</code></pre>
<p>But unfortunately Google search resu... | [
{
"answer_id": 72265,
"author": "Norman Julio Flecha Santiago",
"author_id": 46525,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46525",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>It's been a while since i have been in google webmaster's tools but I do remember that i... | 2014/11/15 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72025",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46348/"
] | My old site used to write the URLs without `!`.
Eg: `www.example.com/#/products`
But it has been more than 6 months since I changed it to include `!` in the URL like so:
```
www.example.com/#!/products
```
But unfortunately Google search results still show my old URL schema.
There is no way I could enter in the G... | It's been a while since i have been in google webmaster's tools but I do remember that in there is a tool for removing indexed pages for any website..
\*\*You will need to link the website with the particular webmaster's tool account to do so...
<https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard>
login or create ne... |
72,094 | <p>Does it have any sense to have a link to comments for each post in a list (e.g. category page)? If so, does it have any impact on SEO? </p>
<p>Here's an example of a posts list page snippet:</p>
<pre><code><span>
<a href="author_name.html">Author name</a>
<a href="2012-03-03.html">... | [
{
"answer_id": 72102,
"author": "BrainStone",
"author_id": 42010,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/42010",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>When you add <code>rel=\"nofollow\"</code> to these links Google will ignore them. This will also reduce t... | 2014/11/17 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72094",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/31534/"
] | Does it have any sense to have a link to comments for each post in a list (e.g. category page)? If so, does it have any impact on SEO?
Here's an example of a posts list page snippet:
```
<span>
<a href="author_name.html">Author name</a>
<a href="2012-03-03.html">Date published</a>
<a href="some_category.... | "Comments" is such a common word used on web sites that your website isn't even going to register on scale of top websites that use it.
As long as Googlebot can get to all the pages on your site by following links, your internal link structure is pretty much "good enough". The days of being able to tweak your internal... |
72,105 | <p>I am taking over a site for a client, and their SERP is very low for no obvious reason. I found that there is a 301 that looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>Redirect 301 / http://www.mydomain.org/
</code></pre>
<p>When I look at the DNS, the base domain (<code>mydomain.org</code>) is used for all of the settings and t... | [
{
"answer_id": 72108,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>The CNAME is <strong>not</strong> sufficient for a redirect. A DNS CNAME pointing to the same IP... | 2014/11/17 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72105",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46392/"
] | I am taking over a site for a client, and their SERP is very low for no obvious reason. I found that there is a 301 that looks like this:
```
Redirect 301 / http://www.mydomain.org/
```
When I look at the DNS, the base domain (`mydomain.org`) is used for all of the settings and there is the following record:
```
CN... | The CNAME is **not** sufficient for a redirect. A DNS CNAME pointing to the same IP address will create duplicate content if the webserver is not configured to do the redirect. In that situation, the same content on the website will be available under two different URLs:
* `http://mysite.example.com`
* `http://www.mys... |
72,135 | <p>Here is site <a href="http://www.glassnow.com.au/" rel="nofollow">http://www.glassnow.com.au/</a>
With 3 subdomains:</p>
<ul>
<li>brisbane.glassnow.com.au</li>
<li>goldcoast.glassnow.com.au</li>
<li>sunshinecoast.glassnow.com.au</li>
</ul>
<p>Here is htaccess</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Rewrite... | [
{
"answer_id": 72136,
"author": "richhallstoke",
"author_id": 35875,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/35875",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I think the problem here is not to do with your <em>.htaccess</em> redirections, but to do with your <e... | 2014/11/18 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72135",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/43856/"
] | Here is site <http://www.glassnow.com.au/>
With 3 subdomains:
* brisbane.glassnow.com.au
* goldcoast.glassnow.com.au
* sunshinecoast.glassnow.com.au
Here is htaccess
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.glassnow.com.au
RewriteRule ^brisbane/(.*)$ http://brisbane.glassnow.com.au/$1 [L,R=3... | I think the problem here is not to do with your *.htaccess* redirections, but to do with your *VirtualHost* configurations in Apache's *httpd.conf* configuration file - this is how Apache knows which folder to direct requests to for processing.
```
# Default Site - Blank
<VirtualHost *.80>
ServerName localhost
Docum... |
72,172 | <p>I've recently set up a build server that compiles Java source on Github webhooks. I created a public page for downloading latest .jars with a top level domain and I'm logging requests to it. What are common intentions for the automated requests sent to my server?</p>
<pre><code>[18.11.2014 02:06:23] 64.20.55.236... | [
{
"answer_id": 72175,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Okay. Most of these access (at least) are landscaping attempts to find potential vulnerabilities on your se... | 2014/11/19 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72172",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46447/"
] | I've recently set up a build server that compiles Java source on Github webhooks. I created a public page for downloading latest .jars with a top level domain and I'm logging requests to it. What are common intentions for the automated requests sent to my server?
```
[18.11.2014 02:06:23] 64.20.55.236 3ms /mys... | So there are already some answers given. For the second set, the one with the `http://url` in the request, these tries to find badly configured (not secured) [proxy servers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server) that could be wide open.
These can then be used to hide the real origin of attacks/scans directed onto... |
72,253 | <p>I have a VPS and some domains. I want to add one of my domains to the VPS.</p>
<p>My VPS provider has send me his Nameservers like <code>ns1.example.com</code> and <code>ns2.example.com</code> and I changed these DNS records in my domain panel.</p>
<p>Should I now install a DNS server on my VPS, add a record to Ap... | [
{
"answer_id": 72254,
"author": "Fabien",
"author_id": 46589,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46589",
"pm_score": -1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Look ubuntu documentation of Bind9 <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIND9ServerHowto\" rel=\"nofol... | 2014/11/21 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72253",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45968/"
] | I have a VPS and some domains. I want to add one of my domains to the VPS.
My VPS provider has send me his Nameservers like `ns1.example.com` and `ns2.example.com` and I changed these DNS records in my domain panel.
Should I now install a DNS server on my VPS, add a record to Apache configuration file, or edit `hosts... | To get a website up at a domain name you need to follow these steps:
1. Register the domain name.
2. At the registrar, point the NameServer (NS) records to the domain name server (DNS) that will be handling the domain.
3. On the name server, add records to resolve the host name to your server.
4. Configure your web se... |
72,267 | <p>What are the implications of having two tracking codes on 1 site? Both codes will be right under neath one another</p>
<p>e.g. </p>
<pre><code><script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-account-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain']);
_g... | [
{
"answer_id": 72268,
"author": "nunorbatista",
"author_id": 46482,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46482",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Google allows <a href=\"https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032400?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noref... | 2014/11/21 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72267",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/34043/"
] | What are the implications of having two tracking codes on 1 site? Both codes will be right under neath one another
e.g.
```
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-account-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'mydomain']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
... | Google allows [Multiple tracking codes on web pages](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032400?hl=en). However, some configs may not be supported.
>
> You can install multiple instances of the Google Analytics tracking
> code on your web pages to send data to multiple properties in your
> account.
>
>
> N... |
72,301 | <p>Consider this URL:</p>
<p><code>http://example.com/gallery/20141111-some-title</code></p>
<p>In this URL I want to hide <code>gallery/</code>:</p>
<p><code>http://example.com/20141111-some-title</code></p>
<p>How can I achieve this using <em>mod_rewrite</em>? </p>
<p>I used online generators for doing the rewri... | [
{
"answer_id": 72353,
"author": "Fabien",
"author_id": 46589,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46589",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Try</p>\n\n<pre><code><IfModule mod_rewrite.c>\n RewriteEngine On\n RewriteBase /\n\n ... | 2014/11/22 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72301",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46547/"
] | Consider this URL:
`http://example.com/gallery/20141111-some-title`
In this URL I want to hide `gallery/`:
`http://example.com/20141111-some-title`
How can I achieve this using *mod\_rewrite*?
I used online generators for doing the rewrite rules but none can remove a piece of text from the URL. | Try
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /gallery/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
``` |
72,308 | <p>I have added an entry to my hosts file which allows me to have localhost URLs like the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><code>http://mydomain.dev/~macuser/mydomain/index.php</code></p>
</blockquote>
<p>But I would like to somehow map this host entry to achieve the following instead:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><code>ht... | [
{
"answer_id": 72310,
"author": "Sobrique",
"author_id": 46497,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46497",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>It's possible, yes. Either you can:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>change your httpd to redirect your URL. In apache that'... | 2014/11/22 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72308",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/8022/"
] | I have added an entry to my hosts file which allows me to have localhost URLs like the following:
>
> `http://mydomain.dev/~macuser/mydomain/index.php`
>
>
>
But I would like to somehow map this host entry to achieve the following instead:
>
> `http://mydomain.dev/index.php`
>
>
>
Where 'index.php' lives at... | *Editing MAC's host file*
You will first need to edit your operating systems host file, on a mac this is a rather simple procedure that you should be able to follow with ease.
1. Open your terminal application (normally `/Applications/Utilities/Applications.app` or you can may even perfer to use your standard text ed... |
72,316 | <p>Google is not fetching this page <a href="http://www.ctdraincleaning.net/andover-drain-cleaning/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ctdraincleaning.net/andover-drain-cleaning/</a> (along with others) Not only that... it is coming up as a crawl error as
<a href="http://www.ctdraincleaning.net/andover-drain-cleanin... | [
{
"answer_id": 72318,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I have seen this before. It is likely a bad link on a scraper site somewhere and Google followed it. Often ... | 2014/11/23 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72316",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46559/"
] | Google is not fetching this page <http://www.ctdraincleaning.net/andover-drain-cleaning/> (along with others) Not only that... it is coming up as a crawl error as
<http://www.ctdraincleaning.net/andover-drain-cleaning/www.brightstartstudios.com>
brightstartstudios(dot)com is my other website... but I don't know why it... | The problem is in the source code of your website:
```
<a target="new" href="www.brightstartstudios.com">
```
That is missing the `http://`. It should be:
```
<a target="new" href="http://www.brightstartstudios.com">
```
Google is interpreting what you currently have as a *relative* link. You need to include the ... |
72,344 | <p>This question is related with: <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72317/duplicated-content-www-on-subdomain-and-ssl/7231">Duplicated content www on subdomain and SSL</a></p>
<p>My actual HTACCESS:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteBase /
# this redirects example.com and www.example.com to https - thanks ... | [
{
"answer_id": 72345,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>I found this link that points to some configuration changes: <a href=\"http://www.inmotionhosting.com/suppor... | 2014/11/24 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72344",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46544/"
] | This question is related with: [Duplicated content www on subdomain and SSL](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72317/duplicated-content-www-on-subdomain-and-ssl/7231)
My actual HTACCESS:
```
RewriteBase /
# this redirects example.com and www.example.com to https - thanks closetnoc @webmasters-stackexang... | I found this link that points to some configuration changes: <http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/opencart/setting-up-payment-gateways/how-to-enable-ssl-connection-in-opencart>
In it you will see some edits to config.php.
Original:
```
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://opencart.inmotiontesting.com/');
define('HT... |
72,354 | <p>I made a website for a client about tourist services he offers.</p>
<p>There is a blog, with unique content where each service is described. For example, there are 40 hotels, so there is 40 unique blog articles, giving basic info about hotels.</p>
<p>5 main pages are for each service, one of them is for booking ho... | [
{
"answer_id": 72345,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>I found this link that points to some configuration changes: <a href=\"http://www.inmotionhosting.com/suppor... | 2014/11/24 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72354",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/34106/"
] | I made a website for a client about tourist services he offers.
There is a blog, with unique content where each service is described. For example, there are 40 hotels, so there is 40 unique blog articles, giving basic info about hotels.
5 main pages are for each service, one of them is for booking hotel accommodation... | I found this link that points to some configuration changes: <http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/opencart/setting-up-payment-gateways/how-to-enable-ssl-connection-in-opencart>
In it you will see some edits to config.php.
Original:
```
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://opencart.inmotiontesting.com/');
define('HT... |
72,407 | <p>I am trying to include a php file from a parent domain in a subdomain.</p>
<p>In subdomain.parentdomain.com/test.php i have</p>
<pre><code>include ('/var/www/vhosts/parentdomain.com/website/wp-blog-header.php');
</code></pre>
<p>My subdomain structure looks like</p>
<pre><code>$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] gives /va... | [
{
"answer_id": 72412,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p><a href=\"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6585#page-3\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">429 errors<... | 2014/11/25 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72407",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/32204/"
] | I am trying to include a php file from a parent domain in a subdomain.
In subdomain.parentdomain.com/test.php i have
```
include ('/var/www/vhosts/parentdomain.com/website/wp-blog-header.php');
```
My subdomain structure looks like
```
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] gives /var/www/vhosts/parentdomain.com/subdomain.pare... | [Disclosure: I run Product Management for Hosting at GoDaddy and am the acting PM on our Managed WordPress product]
Based on your question and feedback we have made a few changes to our settings:
1. Bot rate-limiting has been raised from 3 requests / second to 15 requests / second.
2. Bot rate-limiting now excludes ... |
72,482 | <p>Let's say I have a site listing a bunch of different products, hovering over each product brings up a "view more" tab, but not as an image, a div with text link...</p>
<pre><code><div class="tabbed-content">
<section class="brand-profile">
<a href="http://www.company.com/en/cooldrinks/cok... | [
{
"answer_id": 72483,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Keyword density is a myth at least it is now. So stop chasing keywords and density. It does not apply. Sear... | 2014/11/27 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72482",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46694/"
] | Let's say I have a site listing a bunch of different products, hovering over each product brings up a "view more" tab, but not as an image, a div with text link...
```
<div class="tabbed-content">
<section class="brand-profile">
<a href="http://www.company.com/en/cooldrinks/coke" class="img-link"><img src=... | Keyword density is a myth at least it is now. So stop chasing keywords and density. It does not apply. Search engines want content.
You are concerned about being over optimized for the word *view*, but I would be concerned that you are over optimizing using links instead.
It appears that you are following some really... |
72,509 | <p>I have two sites <code>www.example.com</code> and <code>m.example.com</code>. As it is shown, the latter is the mobile version of the first site. Basically each URL in the <code>www.example.com</code> have a counterpart with same URL string with the mobile version, e.g. <code>m.example.com/book/1</code> is the count... | [
{
"answer_id": 72511,
"author": "nunorbatista",
"author_id": 46482,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46482",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Reply to question 1:</p>\n\n<p>As the domains are different, in this case, one domain and one subdomain ... | 2014/11/27 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72509",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46713/"
] | I have two sites `www.example.com` and `m.example.com`. As it is shown, the latter is the mobile version of the first site. Basically each URL in the `www.example.com` have a counterpart with same URL string with the mobile version, e.g. `m.example.com/book/1` is the counterpart of `www.example.com/book/1`.
The main s... | Not sure if you saw this. Here is a guide from Google describing tactics for your seperated mobile URL situation: [Method for mobile with 2 URL's](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls)
Basically you set the desktop site as canonical, and mobile as alternate, then use tags to p... |
72,515 | <p>In directories Dmoz has special preference for directory listing. </p>
<p>I had submitted 60 days back in dmoz still it not displaying my site, what is the problem with my site or still I have to wait?</p>
| [
{
"answer_id": 72511,
"author": "nunorbatista",
"author_id": 46482,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46482",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Reply to question 1:</p>\n\n<p>As the domains are different, in this case, one domain and one subdomain ... | 2014/11/28 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72515",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46718/"
] | In directories Dmoz has special preference for directory listing.
I had submitted 60 days back in dmoz still it not displaying my site, what is the problem with my site or still I have to wait? | Not sure if you saw this. Here is a guide from Google describing tactics for your seperated mobile URL situation: [Method for mobile with 2 URL's](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/separate-urls)
Basically you set the desktop site as canonical, and mobile as alternate, then use tags to p... |
72,550 | <p>I believe I got blocked for sending too many emails to one address by gmail. I have an application I made and I had email notifications on. It was sending a lot of notifications recently. I have since altered it so I don't send so many, however it seems I was too late. I got blocked for sending too many emails from ... | [
{
"answer_id": 72556,
"author": "nunorbatista",
"author_id": 46482,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46482",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>At <a href=\"https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22839?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gmail Support</a> area... | 2014/11/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72550",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/11803/"
] | I believe I got blocked for sending too many emails to one address by gmail. I have an application I made and I had email notifications on. It was sending a lot of notifications recently. I have since altered it so I don't send so many, however it seems I was too late. I got blocked for sending too many emails from my ... | At [Gmail Support](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22839?hl=en) area there's the reference to the daily sending limit, which is 500 messages per day or a huge number of undeliverable messages.
>
> In an effort to fight spam and prevent abuse, Google will temporarily
> disable your account if you send messages... |
72,595 | <p>I'm experiencing this issue with MediaWiki 1.23.6.</p>
<p>First I update the Main Page with a link to a new article:</p>
<pre><code>[[New Article]]
</code></pre>
<p>Then I click on that link (which is red because the article doesn't exist yet) and create the article.</p>
<p>Then I go back to the Main Page. </p>
... | [
{
"answer_id": 72599,
"author": "unbindall",
"author_id": 46732,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46732",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Most likely, it takes time for the server to apply the updates to the site. If you edit the main page, it m... | 2014/11/29 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72595",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/35876/"
] | I'm experiencing this issue with MediaWiki 1.23.6.
First I update the Main Page with a link to a new article:
```
[[New Article]]
```
Then I click on that link (which is red because the article doesn't exist yet) and create the article.
Then I go back to the Main Page.
The link to `[[New Article]]` still appears... | Configure [the wiki job queue](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Job_queue#Performance_issue). Link colour is not updated immediately across all of your wiki to save on resources. |
72,659 | <p>How do I find out when a particular URL was first indexed by Google? I'd prefer a solution that works even for competitors' URLs that are not owned by me.</p>
| [
{
"answer_id": 72661,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p><a href=\"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20122/zistoloen\">Zistoloen</a> found a way ... | 2014/12/03 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72659",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/12969/"
] | How do I find out when a particular URL was first indexed by Google? I'd prefer a solution that works even for competitors' URLs that are not owned by me. | To know the age of an URL you can follow this link by replacing `www.example.com` by the URL you want:
```
https://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2000&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com&safe=active&gws_rd=ssl
```
For example, here's [the result from Google for the Meta site of Stack Overflow... |
72,689 | <p>I have a random domain name which has it's A record going to my dedicated IP. Therefore duplicating content. Is there a way I can disable the domain at IP level maybe in iptables?</p>
<p>I have a <em>.htaccess</em> setup to redirect to the main domain as its always force HTTPS.</p>
| [
{
"answer_id": 72694,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I deal with this type of situation using my virtual host configuration. Under Apache, the first ... | 2014/12/04 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72689",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46859/"
] | I have a random domain name which has it's A record going to my dedicated IP. Therefore duplicating content. Is there a way I can disable the domain at IP level maybe in iptables?
I have a *.htaccess* setup to redirect to the main domain as its always force HTTPS. | I deal with this type of situation using my virtual host configuration. Under Apache, the first virtual host is the "default" virtual host. I configure it to serve a 404 error with the message
>
> ### 404 Not Found -- Hostname Not Recognized
>
>
> This server is not configured to serve documents for foo.example.com... |
72,722 | <p>I have a few dynamic generated URLs. </p>
<p>Can I use regex to block these URLs in a robots.txt file?</p>
| [
{
"answer_id": 72724,
"author": "Max",
"author_id": 23156,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/23156",
"pm_score": 6,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Regular Expressions are not valid in robots.txt, but Google, Bing and some other bots do recognise some pattern ma... | 2014/12/05 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72722",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38376/"
] | I have a few dynamic generated URLs.
Can I use regex to block these URLs in a robots.txt file? | Regular Expressions are not valid in robots.txt, but Google, Bing and some other bots do recognise some pattern matching.
Say if you wanted to block all URLs that have a `example` any where in the URL, you can use a wild card entry \*
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*example
```
You can also use the dollar sign $ to s... |
72,746 | <p>In the Google Scholar <a href="http://scholar.google.no/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#indexing" rel="noreferrer">Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters </a>, it is suggested that one use the tags defined by "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighWire_Press" rel="noreferrer">Highwire Press</a>". Example:</p>
<pre... | [
{
"answer_id": 83178,
"author": "matchew",
"author_id": 8094,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/8094",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": false,
"text": "<blockquote>\n<p>Note: the link to this question has come up often in searching. Thought it deserved an attempt at... | 2014/12/06 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72746",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/21207/"
] | In the Google Scholar [Inclusion Guidelines for Webmasters](http://scholar.google.no/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#indexing) , it is suggested that one use the tags defined by "[Highwire Press](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HighWire_Press)". Example:
```
<meta name="citation_title" content="Article Title">
```
The G... | >
> Note: the link to this question has come up often in searching. Thought it deserved an attempt at an answer.
>
>
>
I've found three resources thus far, but everything seems to be woefully incomplete. Especially after doing an informal sample of resources found on GS.
Here is a small list i've found currently.... |
72,747 | <p>I'm getting a lot of spambots from China (and elsewhere, likely botnets) accessing my blog which have a user agent string starting with <code>PHP/5.</code>. These include such nonsense values as <code>PHP/5.3.70</code> and <code>PHP/5.2.81</code>, versions which don't exist. However, most UA strings consist of this ... | [
{
"answer_id": 72748,
"author": "nunorbatista",
"author_id": 46482,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46482",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>PHP user agents are known as <a href=\"http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Librarielist/\" rel=\"nofoll... | 2014/12/06 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72747",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/23361/"
] | I'm getting a lot of spambots from China (and elsewhere, likely botnets) accessing my blog which have a user agent string starting with `PHP/5.`. These include such nonsense values as `PHP/5.3.70` and `PHP/5.2.81`, versions which don't exist. However, most UA strings consist of this raw glob pattern, which indicates wh... | Yes you can. In fact, I recommend it and others too.
I would not work so hard on my regular expression to include version numbers- just ^PHP.\*$
You will find that some agent names are consistently up to no good even though some will argue that they can be used for good and should not be blocked. That is a negative ... |
72,762 | <p>If you look at the Amazon home page you will find that all their links are using a pattern like this one from their navigation menu.</p>
<pre><code>http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=nav_shopall_digi_str/xxx
</code></pre>
<p>I would like to track my website like this. How do I do so?</p>
<p>Are ther... | [
{
"answer_id": 72758,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Yep! You were hacked. You have been hacked for a period of time too.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Not to panic! It hap... | 2014/12/07 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72762",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/15843/"
] | If you look at the Amazon home page you will find that all their links are using a pattern like this one from their navigation menu.
```
http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/b/ref=nav_shopall_digi_str/xxx
```
I would like to track my website like this. How do I do so?
Are there advantages to parameter tracking ... | Analyzing this remotely is almost impossible, but here’s my guess:
1. You did not patch/update your Drupal installation quickly after the security advisory [SA-CORE-2014-005](https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005) was published. This was a highly critical vulnerability, referred to as "Drupageddon".
2. An attacker e... |
72,763 | <p>I'm having a heck of a time getting our internal MediaWiki to allow CONF file uploads. A CONF file is just a plain text file with a <code>*.conf</code> extension.</p>
<p>In <code>...\LocalSettings.php</code>, I added <code>txt</code> and <code>conf</code> to the array of <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manua... | [
{
"answer_id": 72861,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p><a href=\"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MIME_type_detection#MIME_type_validation\" rel=\"... | 2014/12/05 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72763",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/-1/"
] | I'm having a heck of a time getting our internal MediaWiki to allow CONF file uploads. A CONF file is just a plain text file with a `*.conf` extension.
In `...\LocalSettings.php`, I added `txt` and `conf` to the array of [`$wgFileExtensions`](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgFileExtensions). The extensions are ... | As Stephen Ostermiller says, in this case you want to add "conf" to the line beginning with "text/plain" in:
```
includes/mime.types
```
In other cases though it may not be this simple. When you upload a file, mediawiki executes the PHP function
```
mime_content_type("my_uploaded.wth");
```
which takes the result... |
72,779 | <p>We have links to external URLs implemented with HTTP 301 redirects for the purpose of counting clicks.</p>
<p>Searching our site in Google using the site: modifier results in the redirecting URLs returned with title and snippet from the external content.</p>
<p>Why is this? How can this be prevented? Could the re... | [
{
"answer_id": 72862,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Googlebot is finding your redirect links but it probably can't crawl them because you have disall... | 2014/12/08 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72779",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46945/"
] | We have links to external URLs implemented with HTTP 301 redirects for the purpose of counting clicks.
Searching our site in Google using the site: modifier results in the redirecting URLs returned with title and snippet from the external content.
Why is this? How can this be prevented? Could the reason be the use of... | Googlebot is finding your redirect links but it probably can't crawl them because you have disallowed them in robots.txt. It then thinks that your site has additional content and it "indexes" it with the link text.
You could get around this by making your links point exteranally, but use JavaScript to write in the tra... |
72,799 | <p>I own a small video tube website, where users upload a specific kind of content. 1,000 videos have been uploaded so far. </p>
<p>This morning I received copyright claim asking me to remove or disable access to 5 videos uploaded on my site. I've disabled access to them, but the problem is still to deal with SEO. Wh... | [
{
"answer_id": 72796,
"author": "CaptainObviousDuh",
"author_id": 46966,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46966",
"pm_score": -1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>An easy fix is to put the actual home page on the home page and stop redirecting.</p>\n"
},
{
... | 2014/12/09 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72799",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46331/"
] | I own a small video tube website, where users upload a specific kind of content. 1,000 videos have been uploaded so far.
This morning I received copyright claim asking me to remove or disable access to 5 videos uploaded on my site. I've disabled access to them, but the problem is still to deal with SEO. What is the b... | >
> I am starting to think I did something incredibly wrong! Did I?
>
>
>
Probably not.
>
> Can this be fixed and how?
>
>
>
This may not be the answer you want to hear, but it should fix itself over time. Whenever you change the URL structure or content of your site in a significant way (and changing what ... |
72,819 | <p>For my webpage I generate the content via JavaScript, so I want to use <code>?_escaped_fragment_</code> to redirect Google to my HTML snapshot.</p>
<p>I have a RewriteRule for my Apache</p>
<pre><code> RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=/?(.*)$
Rewri... | [
{
"answer_id": 74267,
"author": "Toon",
"author_id": 47301,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47301",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>\"Fetch as Google\" does not fetch the same way as Google does. \"Fetch as Google\" doesn't check the page for th... | 2014/12/09 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72819",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46973/"
] | For my webpage I generate the content via JavaScript, so I want to use `?_escaped_fragment_` to redirect Google to my HTML snapshot.
I have a RewriteRule for my Apache
```
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=/?(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /snapshot/.snapsho... | "Fetch as Google" does not fetch the same way as Google does. "Fetch as Google" doesn't check the page for the meta tag. (The crawling algorithm does)
A workaround is adding it manually in the "fetch as Google" statement. ex:
`www.example.com/?_escaped_fragment_=` |
73,892 | <p>I'm using the popular <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="nofollow">Wordpress SEO by Yoast</a> plugin. I can use a wildcard (%%page%%) for the title of paginated posts, so that the title becomes: </p>
<pre><code>1st post page: The Title
2nd post page: The Title - Page 2 of 3
3rd post page: T... | [
{
"answer_id": 73898,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>For best SEO you shouldn't paginate your articles.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>A page can contain about a bo... | 2014/12/11 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73892",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/31534/"
] | I'm using the popular [Wordpress SEO by Yoast](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/) plugin. I can use a wildcard (%%page%%) for the title of paginated posts, so that the title becomes:
```
1st post page: The Title
2nd post page: The Title - Page 2 of 3
3rd post page: The Title - Page 3 of 3
```
I thought I... | I would leave everything as is and let [SEO by Yoast](https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/) do the work for you.
You should use rel="canonical" on your subsequent pages or rel="prev" and rel="next". Or you can use both.
Here is what Google recommends:
>
> In cases of paginated content, we recommend either a rel=can... |
73,922 | <p>I marked up a page for Recipe Rich Snippets with Microdata, however I'm getting an error in Google's Testing Tool:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Error: In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, at least 2 of the following fields are needed: prep time, cook time, total time, calories, rating, review count, ingredie... | [
{
"answer_id": 73923,
"author": "DMSJax",
"author_id": 43443,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/43443",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>1.) I stand corrected on the particular problem i stated before being an ISO time/format issue. I think its be... | 2014/12/11 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73922",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/28238/"
] | I marked up a page for Recipe Rich Snippets with Microdata, however I'm getting an error in Google's Testing Tool:
>
> Error: In order to generate a preview with rich snippets, at least 2 of the following fields are needed: prep time, cook time, total time, calories, rating, review count, ingredients, or image
>
>
... | Please change itemprop="image" to itemprop="photo" and Google Rich Snippet tool is satisfied with your (cleaned-up minimal) code. itemprop "image" is not valid Rich Snippet markup as "photo" is the property name it looks for.
Please note: As your code was cleaned up and minimized I am not certain adding in your full c... |
73,942 | <p>I know it's possible to turn any Amazon link into an affiliate link simply by appending your Associates tracking ID to the end of the Amazon URL, so this:</p>
<pre><code>amazon.com/gp/product/B002RPCOH8/
</code></pre>
<p>becomes this:</p>
<pre><code>amazon.com/gp/product/B002RPCOH8/?tag=stackexchangetest-20
</co... | [
{
"answer_id": 77500,
"author": "Shreya Gupta",
"author_id": 47532,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47532",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>This is because they try to authenticate the affiliate link and for link building. I suggest that you ma... | 2014/12/12 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73942",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/2096/"
] | I know it's possible to turn any Amazon link into an affiliate link simply by appending your Associates tracking ID to the end of the Amazon URL, so this:
```
amazon.com/gp/product/B002RPCOH8/
```
becomes this:
```
amazon.com/gp/product/B002RPCOH8/?tag=stackexchangetest-20
```
But when I use the linkbuilder tool... | They look to me like they are marketing tags which capture a bunch of things about presentation of the product, e.g. Which version of the web page they showed you that 'inspired' you to link the product, the "often bought with" suggestions, etc. Sort of like bucket testing: a company that big is never not bucketing. It... |
73,982 | <p>schema.org features a schema for a restaurant:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://schema.org/Restaurant" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Thing > Organization > LocalBusiness > FoodEstablishment > Restaurant</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>One of its fields is a <a href="http://schema.org/menu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">menu... | [
{
"answer_id": 73983,
"author": "dm-guy",
"author_id": 43547,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/43547",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Perhaps <a href=\"http://schema.org/ItemList\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://schema.org/ItemList</a> would be a bett... | 2014/12/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73982",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/6377/"
] | schema.org features a schema for a restaurant:
>
> [Thing > Organization > LocalBusiness > FoodEstablishment > Restaurant](http://schema.org/Restaurant)
>
>
>
One of its fields is a [menu](http://schema.org/menu):
>
> Property: menu
>
>
> Expected type: URL or Text
>
>
> Description: Either the actual menu ... | Schema.org has release a new Restaurant Menu Markup
---------------------------------------------------
That is really good news!
If you've been waiting for a proper method which allows the markup of multiple Restaurant Menus with along Menu Sections or even Offers differentiation, you'll be amazed with the refreshed... |
73,985 | <p>I am wondering why some websites have a <code>/</code> at the end of their URL, but others don't.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>www.google.com/</code></li>
<li>but then <code>www.khanacademy.org</code> (No <code>/</code>) </li>
</ul>
| [
{
"answer_id": 73986,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>All websites can be accessed with <em>or</em> without a slash on the domain name. All of the fol... | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73985",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47107/"
] | I am wondering why some websites have a `/` at the end of their URL, but others don't.
For example:
* `www.google.com/`
* but then `www.khanacademy.org` (No `/`) | A slash at the end of a domain tells the server that the request is for the directory and that it should look for the default file (*index.html*, *index.php*) first.
It allows for faster loading time by telling the browser to look for the default file.
>
> Traditionally, URLs that pointed to files did not include ... |
73,989 | <p>I read this question <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/73934">How can URLs have a dot . at the end, e.g. www.bla.de.?</a> and realise that FQDN should contain a trailing <code>.</code> for the root label of the DNS tree:</p>
<p><code>example.com.</code> instead of <code>example.com</code></p>
<p>Howe... | [
{
"answer_id": 74099,
"author": "dhaupin",
"author_id": 38958,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38958",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>To partially answer your question, you can add it to <code>.htaccess</code> canonical forwarder rules. In a b... | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73989",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47113/"
] | I read this question [How can URLs have a dot . at the end, e.g. www.bla.de.?](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/q/73934) and realise that FQDN should contain a trailing `.` for the root label of the DNS tree:
`example.com.` instead of `example.com`
However, there are issues as pointed out in [this blog article](h... | To partially answer your question, you can add it to `.htaccess` canonical forwarder rules. In a basic HTTP sense it looks for a period before the URI and works it into whatever anti-duplicate forwarding mechanism you use. Here is an example including a common "addon domain" sub util route:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST... |
74,000 | <p>I am trying to set up a list of redirects in my .htaccess to create a manually defined 'short url' list, whereby the short url domain ("short.com") is set up as an alias for the destination domain ("longdomain.com").</p>
<p>The problem I'm running into is that –as expected– this basic redirect from the root works f... | [
{
"answer_id": 73996,
"author": "Towhid",
"author_id": 11096,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/11096",
"pm_score": -1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>having 431 redirect is better than 410. because if there are links to your page on the web, they will be redi... | 2014/12/14 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74000",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47125/"
] | I am trying to set up a list of redirects in my .htaccess to create a manually defined 'short url' list, whereby the short url domain ("short.com") is set up as an alias for the destination domain ("longdomain.com").
The problem I'm running into is that –as expected– this basic redirect from the root works fine:
```
... | Google considers redirecting content that is no longer available to be "soft 404". They would like to be able to treat the page the same as a 404 page.
If you redirect the expired page to your home page, Google will identify it as a soft 404. It will appear in Google Webmaster Tools as an error. Google won't pass the... |
74,025 | <p>In Google's search results there are often publication dates of articles. Google finds this date on its own or takes it from <code>DC.date.issued</code> meta tag. Is this date only supposed to be displayed for articles or can be used for other pages? </p>
<p>Let's say I have a website which presents list of local c... | [
{
"answer_id": 74033,
"author": "dasickle",
"author_id": 38954,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38954",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>This can be accomplished by using <a href=\"http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/an-introduction-to-struct... | 2014/12/15 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74025",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46804/"
] | In Google's search results there are often publication dates of articles. Google finds this date on its own or takes it from `DC.date.issued` meta tag. Is this date only supposed to be displayed for articles or can be used for other pages?
Let's say I have a website which presents list of local companies. Such list i... | This can be accomplished by using [Structured Data](http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/an-introduction-to-structured-data-markup--webdesign-8577). You can use something like the following to set the update date:
```
<span class="entry-date updated"><?php echo get_the_date(); ?></span>
```
This is a WordPress exa... |
74,088 | <p>I've been twice in a situation where I had to create a blog alongside a website. We've decided to externalize the blogging platform to <code>wordpress.com</code> (no maintenance and security concerns, good features, cheap, etc.).</p>
<p>I wish I could use an <code>example.com/blog/</code> URL scheme, but it's not p... | [
{
"answer_id": 74094,
"author": "Elena",
"author_id": 47194,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47194",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You may consider reading <a href=\"http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/\" rel=\"nofollow\">... | 2014/12/16 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74088",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47150/"
] | I've been twice in a situation where I had to create a blog alongside a website. We've decided to externalize the blogging platform to `wordpress.com` (no maintenance and security concerns, good features, cheap, etc.).
I wish I could use an `example.com/blog/` URL scheme, but it's not possible, so I chose `blog.exampl... | You may consider reading [this](http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/) about registering your domiain so you could host your blog on your site.
Regarding search engine recognition, I suggest using [OG social snippets](http://ogp.me/) in you header, this will allow search engines and social networkin... |
74,118 | <p>The website is very, very large and I have created: </p>
<ul>
<li><em>sitemap_fr.xml</em></li>
<li><em>sitemap_en.xml</em> </li>
<li><em>sitemap_es.xml</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Is this solution OK? If so, do I have to insert a tag to inform Google about the different sitemaps? I no longer just have <em>sitemap.xml</em>... | [
{
"answer_id": 74119,
"author": "Andrew Lott",
"author_id": 23812,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/23812",
"pm_score": 5,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>You can have multiple sitemaps per website, and this is a great example of when that makes sense.</p>\n\n<... | 2014/12/17 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74118",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47215/"
] | The website is very, very large and I have created:
* *sitemap\_fr.xml*
* *sitemap\_en.xml*
* *sitemap\_es.xml*
Is this solution OK? If so, do I have to insert a tag to inform Google about the different sitemaps? I no longer just have *sitemap.xml* which it could find automatically.
I am using hreflang tags already... | You can have multiple sitemaps per website, and this is a great example of when that makes sense.
You should make sure you have a [Sitemap Index](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/75712) listing each of your sitemaps. It will probably look something like:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemap... |
74,128 | <p>I am currently hosting a simple multi-tenancy service on cPanel shared hosting, where customers who signed up will have a subdomain, directory and a database dynamically assigned to them (via XMLAPI):</p>
<p>Customer A subdomain directory7: /home/xxx/public_html/customers/custA/ (<code>http://custA.abc.com</code>),... | [
{
"answer_id": 74178,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>From <a href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19693574/will-setting-open-basedir-in-an-htacc... | 2014/12/17 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74128",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47259/"
] | I am currently hosting a simple multi-tenancy service on cPanel shared hosting, where customers who signed up will have a subdomain, directory and a database dynamically assigned to them (via XMLAPI):
Customer A subdomain directory7: /home/xxx/public\_html/customers/custA/ (`http://custA.abc.com`),
Customer B subdo... | This sounds like an issue with the hosting company in my opinion. Who are you using? You should be able to modify your php.ini file across the board or at least find someone with this option set so it won't throw an error every time. Just a thought. |
74,184 | <p>I have a simple form that submits a select box. When the submit button is pressed I run a python script that needs to create a new directory and add files from an repository. Currently I cannot get the python script to have the ability to create a directory. </p>
<p>Adding :</p>
<pre><code>import cgitb
cgitb.enabl... | [
{
"answer_id": 74236,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Your directory needs to be writable by the user that is running the webserver. That is going t... | 2014/12/18 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74184",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47252/"
] | I have a simple form that submits a select box. When the submit button is pressed I run a python script that needs to create a new directory and add files from an repository. Currently I cannot get the python script to have the ability to create a directory.
Adding :
```
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
```
to my scrip... | I agree with Stephen Ostermiller's answer but I'd like to add an easy way to fix your issue. I'm assuming you're using linux.
I bet there is a function you can call in python to get the current username of the running script. You need to know this (or at least the group the user is in), otherwise you'll be playing a g... |
74,187 | <p>I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of events that can be created on one property of Google Analytics. I'm aware that there's the 500 hits per session limitation for hits(including events) to be tracked and that there's the limitation of 10 million per month, but is there an actual limitation in the n... | [
{
"answer_id": 74236,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Your directory needs to be writable by the user that is running the webserver. That is going t... | 2014/12/18 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74187",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47253/"
] | I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of events that can be created on one property of Google Analytics. I'm aware that there's the 500 hits per session limitation for hits(including events) to be tracked and that there's the limitation of 10 million per month, but is there an actual limitation in the numb... | I agree with Stephen Ostermiller's answer but I'd like to add an easy way to fix your issue. I'm assuming you're using linux.
I bet there is a function you can call in python to get the current username of the running script. You need to know this (or at least the group the user is in), otherwise you'll be playing a g... |
74,239 | <p>Annoyed of YouTube's music deletion in Germany, I started my own "YouTube clone" just for private use. It automatically downloads my subscriptions and some videos with special keywords or from special YouTubers. All of that works fine. And all of that is not accessible from the outside (you'd need a username and a p... | [
{
"answer_id": 74247,
"author": "Mike",
"author_id": 47292,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47292",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You can use tags in your headers (<code><head></head></code>) to prevent crawling from most search e... | 2014/12/20 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74239",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47288/"
] | Annoyed of YouTube's music deletion in Germany, I started my own "YouTube clone" just for private use. It automatically downloads my subscriptions and some videos with special keywords or from special YouTubers. All of that works fine. And all of that is not accessible from the outside (you'd need a username and a pass... | Mediapartners-Google is the user agent that Google uses to crawl pages with AdSense ads on them. The crawling is likely related to Ads that are shown by the video.
Remove the ads and Google will stop trying to crawl like this. |
74,255 | <p>In the AdSense dashboard, Google is reporting crawl errors for unexpected URLs. It shows that Google crawler was unable to access some of my 87 pages. When I checked those pages I found that I haven't created those pages in my site. The pages have URLs like:</p>
<pre><code>http//www.example.com/mozekcdn-a.akamaihd.... | [
{
"answer_id": 74247,
"author": "Mike",
"author_id": 47292,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47292",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You can use tags in your headers (<code><head></head></code>) to prevent crawling from most search e... | 2014/12/21 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74255",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47295/"
] | In the AdSense dashboard, Google is reporting crawl errors for unexpected URLs. It shows that Google crawler was unable to access some of my 87 pages. When I checked those pages I found that I haven't created those pages in my site. The pages have URLs like:
```
http//www.example.com/mozekcdn-a.akamaihd.net/mozekcdn-a... | Mediapartners-Google is the user agent that Google uses to crawl pages with AdSense ads on them. The crawling is likely related to Ads that are shown by the video.
Remove the ads and Google will stop trying to crawl like this. |
74,283 | <p>I want to hide extensions on my webpage using the .htaccess file.</p>
<p>I have managed to do it by using this code;</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
</code></pre>
<p>So when I visit mysite.com/index it shows my index.php. That's fine but I w... | [
{
"answer_id": 74284,
"author": "Croises",
"author_id": 46107,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46107",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Use that in root <code>.htaccess</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>RewriteEngine On\nRewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \\s/+(... | 2014/12/22 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74283",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47310/"
] | I want to hide extensions on my webpage using the .htaccess file.
I have managed to do it by using this code;
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
```
So when I visit mysite.com/index it shows my index.php. That's fine but I want to block visitors from visiti... | Use that in root `.htaccess`:
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(.+)\.php[\s?] [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=302,L,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,QSA,L]
``` |
74,294 | <p>have a small website. When I perform a netstat is shows a lot of traffic from .p.mail.</p>
<p>I think this is some kind of mail bot, trying to harvest email addresses from my website. How can I prevent this?</p>
<pre><code>tcp 0 64 128.199.152.125:ssh 254.96.96.58.stat:49174 ESTABLISHED
tcp6 1... | [
{
"answer_id": 74296,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You are okay. Some may argue, but this is not a bad bot. I research these things as part of my research and... | 2014/12/22 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74294",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47324/"
] | have a small website. When I perform a netstat is shows a lot of traffic from .p.mail.
I think this is some kind of mail bot, trying to harvest email addresses from my website. How can I prevent this?
```
tcp 0 64 128.199.152.125:ssh 254.96.96.58.stat:49174 ESTABLISHED
tcp6 1 0 128.199.152.1... | You are okay. Some may argue, but this is not a bad bot. I research these things as part of my research and while I do have a lot of activity from mail.ru, I do not have any bad bot activity doing a quick search.
Mail.ru operates a search engine.
This is a web crawler for their search engine. The page referred to in ... |
74,342 | <p><em>I am not asking about URL upper/lower cases.</em></p>
<p>First lets look at these few examples.</p>
<p>Example 1:
<code><p>Hi, My Name Is Imran Bughio!</p></code></p>
<p>Example 2:
<code><p>HI, MY NAME IS IMRAN BUGHIO!</p></code></p>
<p>Example 3:
<code><p style="text-transform:upp... | [
{
"answer_id": 74343,
"author": "Zistoloen",
"author_id": 20122,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20122",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Contrary to the URLs, there is no difference for SEO to use lowercase or uppercase for the <code><p></... | 2014/12/24 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74342",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47358/"
] | *I am not asking about URL upper/lower cases.*
First lets look at these few examples.
Example 1:
`<p>Hi, My Name Is Imran Bughio!</p>`
Example 2:
`<p>HI, MY NAME IS IMRAN BUGHIO!</p>`
Example 3:
`<p style="text-transform:uppercase;">hi, my name is imran bughio!</p>`
**Question:** Does any of the above have any imp... | Contrary to the URLs, there is no difference for SEO to use lowercase or uppercase for the `<p>` tag. As far as I know, search engines don't pay attention to it. The only case where it may have an impact (not sure), is for the acronyms.
However, you should write a sentence in the correct way (in respect of language ru... |
74,358 | <p>My web-site automatically redirects everyone to Google when people try to search. This is done with the following nice and simple nginx code:</p>
<pre><code>set $goog http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ports.su+$arg_q;
location = /search {
return 307 $goog;
}
</code></pre>
<p>In Google Webmaster Tools, I... | [
{
"answer_id": 74517,
"author": "satish k",
"author_id": 46114,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46114",
"pm_score": -1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>yes, </p>\n\n<p>There is an option provided in the Google webmaster tools for knowing your websites organic... | 2014/12/24 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74358",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/23133/"
] | My web-site automatically redirects everyone to Google when people try to search. This is done with the following nice and simple nginx code:
```
set $goog http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ports.su+$arg_q;
location = /search {
return 307 $goog;
}
```
In Google Webmaster Tools, I see that I have a lot of h... | Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are going to have a hard time distinguishing between your initial set of visitors and visitors returning after doing a site search. If you are using Universal Analytics, visitors will start a new session *each time* they came in from Google, even from doing a site search.
Ra... |
74,400 | <p>When I check my site’s cache view on Google Search, I see Google does not use my custom font, it always replaces mine with Arial. Because of font widths, my whole design is changing. </p>
<p>I have these lines on my CSS file, and eveything is ok on desktop and mobile view:</p>
<pre><code>@font-face {
font-family: ... | [
{
"answer_id": 74658,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>It is normal for sites to look a little bit different in cache view. The cache usually tries to l... | 2014/12/26 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74400",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46992/"
] | When I check my site’s cache view on Google Search, I see Google does not use my custom font, it always replaces mine with Arial. Because of font widths, my whole design is changing.
I have these lines on my CSS file, and eveything is ok on desktop and mobile view:
```
@font-face {
font-family: 'helveticaneuelt_std_... | It is normal for sites to look a little bit different in cache view. The cache usually tries to load resources from your server. This is problematic when:
* Users are using the cache because your site is down or slow
* Resources are not permitted by the browser to be loaded cross domain
The latter may be the problem ... |
74,412 | <p>I have just uploaded a site on a sub-domain, In fact on the 3rd Sub-domain. All the 4 site ( 1 Main, and the 3 on SUB) are completely separate from each other. </p>
<p>Now, the site was developed Offline/Local and then uploaded, the site worked great on a local.</p>
<p>For some reason i keep getting "ERROR 500 - I... | [
{
"answer_id": 74413,
"author": "Helping Hands",
"author_id": 46533,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46533",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>First go to : <a href=\"http://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess\" rel=\"nofollow\">Default htaccess</a> and ... | 2014/12/27 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74412",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47413/"
] | I have just uploaded a site on a sub-domain, In fact on the 3rd Sub-domain. All the 4 site ( 1 Main, and the 3 on SUB) are completely separate from each other.
Now, the site was developed Offline/Local and then uploaded, the site worked great on a local.
For some reason i keep getting "ERROR 500 - INTERNAL SERVER ER... | First go to : [Default htaccess](http://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess) and use that default htaccess code for .htaccess file for your subdomain root.
Also please verify following things :
1 - In apache config , see this option : AllowOverride All [It should be ALL not none]
2 - do you have mod\_rewrite enabled
3 - ... |
74,451 | <p>This seems to be such a standard question, but I am not able to find the answer anywhere. I am trying to solve the famous <code>.htaccess</code> redirect.</p>
<p>I have tried / modified / tested a good number of the available solutions online but they either don't work or don't do what I need.</p>
<p>Here is the l... | [
{
"answer_id": 74481,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>For the <code>#!</code> style AJAX URLs you need to provide Googlebot with:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>A li... | 2014/12/28 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74451",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/45382/"
] | This seems to be such a standard question, but I am not able to find the answer anywhere. I am trying to solve the famous `.htaccess` redirect.
I have tried / modified / tested a good number of the available solutions online but they either don't work or don't do what I need.
Here is the latest one that I have:
```
... | There are two slightly different concerns here: Googlebot parsing hashbang links and Googlebot executing JavaScript.
Originally, Googlebot did not parse JavaScript at all so it would only work with the HTML returned by the server for each request it made to URLs. It would follow links given in the HTML but ignore the ... |
74,507 | <p>I was scanning my website for links that point to HTTP 301/302/303 redirects when I found a puzzling behavior of the curl utility. Consider the output from the following three commands:</p>
<pre><code>$ curl -I http://jekyllrb.com
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Connection: close
Pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
Locatio... | [
{
"answer_id": 74509,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Your first two requests are the same. All clients (including curl) have to send the slash after t... | 2014/12/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74507",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/38957/"
] | I was scanning my website for links that point to HTTP 301/302/303 redirects when I found a puzzling behavior of the curl utility. Consider the output from the following three commands:
```
$ curl -I http://jekyllrb.com
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Connection: close
Pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
Location: /
$ curl -... | Your first two requests are the same. All clients (including curl) have to send the slash after the domain name as part of the HTTP request whether or not it is on the URL. There is no way to formulate a valid HTTP request without it. A minimal HTTP request is:
```
GET / HTTP/1.0
host: jekyllrb.com
```
Omitting the ... |
74,524 | <p>It has been 2 months after we launched a website with original content. </p>
<p>During the first month after the launch, we have edited the content so many times and lastly fixed the required content with relevant titles, descriptions and much more. </p>
<p>And as a result my website was reachable through Google ... | [
{
"answer_id": 74509,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Your first two requests are the same. All clients (including curl) have to send the slash after t... | 2014/12/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74524",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46114/"
] | It has been 2 months after we launched a website with original content.
During the first month after the launch, we have edited the content so many times and lastly fixed the required content with relevant titles, descriptions and much more.
And as a result my website was reachable through Google and other search e... | Your first two requests are the same. All clients (including curl) have to send the slash after the domain name as part of the HTTP request whether or not it is on the URL. There is no way to formulate a valid HTTP request without it. A minimal HTTP request is:
```
GET / HTTP/1.0
host: jekyllrb.com
```
Omitting the ... |
74,535 | <p>How should I give URL to my social accounts on my web page, to make perfect SEO?</p>
<p>with <code>nofollow</code> attribute as like this?</p>
<pre><code><a href='http://www.facebook.com/example' rel='nofollow'>
We Are In Facebook!</a>
</code></pre>
<p>without <code>nofollow</code> attribute as like t... | [
{
"answer_id": 74685,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 1,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>A plain link is fine:</p>\n\n<pre><code><a href='http://www.facebook.com/example'>\nWe Are I... | 2014/12/30 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74535",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46992/"
] | How should I give URL to my social accounts on my web page, to make perfect SEO?
with `nofollow` attribute as like this?
```
<a href='http://www.facebook.com/example' rel='nofollow'>
We Are In Facebook!</a>
```
without `nofollow` attribute as like this?
```
<a href='http://www.facebook.com/example'>
We Are In Face... | A plain link is fine:
```
<a href='http://www.facebook.com/example'>
We Are In Facebook!</a>
```
None of the testing that I've done indicates that linking to other relevant, non-spammy sites effects rankings either positively or negatively.
`rel=me` links [need to be bi-directional](http://microformats.org/wiki/re... |
74,564 | <p>What is the syntax for showing an externally hosted image in a media wiki page? <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Syntax">The media wiki help page</a> doesn't seem to cover that scenario.</p>
<p>I've tried several things that don't work:</p>
<pre><code>[http://example.com/image.jpg]
[[File:http:... | [
{
"answer_id": 74576,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Your example <code>[http://example.com/image.jpg]</code> is correct.</p>\n\n<p>You will need to enable this ... | 2015/01/01 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74564",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543/"
] | What is the syntax for showing an externally hosted image in a media wiki page? [The media wiki help page](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Syntax) doesn't seem to cover that scenario.
I've tried several things that don't work:
```
[http://example.com/image.jpg]
[[File:http://example.com/image.jpg]]
<img sr... | Your example `[http://example.com/image.jpg]` is correct.
You will need to enable this by setting `$wgAllowExternalImages` to true in your configuration file. The default is false. Optionally, you can set `$wgAllowExternalImagesFrom` to allow exceptions while `$wgAllowExternalImages` remains set to false. You can also... |
74,565 | <p>What if I stripped all HTML tags from my content? Except maybe <code><br></code> tags for newlines. The site might not look too nice but from a search engine's perspective crawling the site would it matter?</p>
<pre><code><html>
<head><title>No Tags</title></head>
<body>
&... | [
{
"answer_id": 74566,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>They would deal with it. The problem you would have is that formatting almost wholly goes out the window an... | 2015/01/01 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74565",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47522/"
] | What if I stripped all HTML tags from my content? Except maybe `<br>` tags for newlines. The site might not look too nice but from a search engine's perspective crawling the site would it matter?
```
<html>
<head><title>No Tags</title></head>
<body>
<!-- Entire site content without HTML tags-->
</body>
</html>
``` | They would deal with it. The problem you would have is that formatting almost wholly goes out the window and any signaling with it. Search engines look to the tags for clues as to what the topic is, what the author thinks is important, and how to place the page in the SERPs. Header tags, paragraphs, and the like, are i... |
74,620 | <p>Let’s say I have this setup:</p>
<p>HTML:</p>
<pre><code><a href="#" class="menu_links"><span class="hidetext">Graphic </span>Design</a>
</code></pre>
<p>CSS:</p>
<pre><code>.hidetext {
height: 1px;
width: 1px;
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
top: -10px;
}
</code></pre>
<... | [
{
"answer_id": 74629,
"author": "Zistoloen",
"author_id": 20122,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20122",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I don't think your site can be penalized for this even if it's not a good practice.</p>\n\n<p>However, you ... | 2015/01/03 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74620",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47562/"
] | Let’s say I have this setup:
HTML:
```
<a href="#" class="menu_links"><span class="hidetext">Graphic </span>Design</a>
```
CSS:
```
.hidetext {
height: 1px;
width: 1px;
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
top: -10px;
}
```
It will only display "Design" for sighted people and when you toggle CSS off, ... | Your goal is excellent, and I think the approach you are looking for is already existent in CSS as `@media` and `display`.
One option
----------
HTML
```
<a href="#" class="menu_links"><span class="hidetext">Graphic </span>Design</a>
```
CSS
```
@media screen {
span.hidetext {
display: none;
}
}
@media aural... |
74,624 | <p>I am a webmaster for six websites. I have connected all 5 websites with Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Having integrated Google Analytics with Webmaster Tools, I am able to see all keywords and impressions on Google Analytics. </p>
<p>If a single impression is made on my website, am I getting the repo... | [
{
"answer_id": 74629,
"author": "Zistoloen",
"author_id": 20122,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/20122",
"pm_score": 0,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>I don't think your site can be penalized for this even if it's not a good practice.</p>\n\n<p>However, you ... | 2015/01/03 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74624",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/46114/"
] | I am a webmaster for six websites. I have connected all 5 websites with Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. Having integrated Google Analytics with Webmaster Tools, I am able to see all keywords and impressions on Google Analytics.
If a single impression is made on my website, am I getting the report as 5 im... | Your goal is excellent, and I think the approach you are looking for is already existent in CSS as `@media` and `display`.
One option
----------
HTML
```
<a href="#" class="menu_links"><span class="hidetext">Graphic </span>Design</a>
```
CSS
```
@media screen {
span.hidetext {
display: none;
}
}
@media aural... |
74,633 | <p>Let’s take an example of a movie site. So a well structured set of URLs for this site can be: </p>
<ul>
<li>Movie page - <code>example.com/movies/the-matrix</code></li>
<li>Review for movie - <code>example.com/movies/the-matrix/reviews</code></li>
<li>Trailers for movie - <code>example.com/movies/the-matrix/traile... | [
{
"answer_id": 74639,
"author": "closetnoc",
"author_id": 36029,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/36029",
"pm_score": 6,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>I disagree with the comment that SEO is extremely complex. Actually, it is common sense stuff. There is no m... | 2015/01/03 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74633",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47572/"
] | Let’s take an example of a movie site. So a well structured set of URLs for this site can be:
* Movie page - `example.com/movies/the-matrix`
* Review for movie - `example.com/movies/the-matrix/reviews`
* Trailers for movie - `example.com/movies/the-matrix/trailers`
* Specific trailer for movie - `example.com/movies/t... | I disagree with the comment that SEO is extremely complex. Actually, it is common sense stuff. There is no magic, voodoo, special formula, incarnations, specific sequence of buttons and switches, etc. You do not need the voodoo priestess Bloody Mary to come to your house or office. How search engines work is very simpl... |
74,643 | <p>I've spent much time searching about the situation I'm in, before I post this question.</p>
<p>I have a poetry page (working for it currently) and I want users to be able to download poem in PDF, DOC, and TXT, But I don't want to have duplicate content issue, in any means, but also don't want to use no-follow for t... | [
{
"answer_id": 74712,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 4,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Google allows you to <a href=\"https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en#6\" rel=\... | 2015/01/04 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74643",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/31173/"
] | I've spent much time searching about the situation I'm in, before I post this question.
I have a poetry page (working for it currently) and I want users to be able to download poem in PDF, DOC, and TXT, But I don't want to have duplicate content issue, in any means, but also don't want to use no-follow for these files... | Google allows you to [specify the canonical as an HTTP header](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en#6). They give an example for canonicalizing one PDF file to another:
```
Link: <http://www.example.com/downloads/white-paper.pdf>; rel="canonical"
```
[This page](http://moz.com/blog/htaccess-fil... |
74,668 | <p>I want to disable php in a specific directory on my server. I thought that setting Options -ExecCGI in httpd.conf would prevent php scripts from being executed, but obviously I am wrong.</p>
<p>So, this is what I have in my httpd.conf, which obviously does not work:</p>
<pre><code><Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/(p... | [
{
"answer_id": 74669,
"author": "Stephen Ostermiller",
"author_id": 14543,
"author_profile": "https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14543",
"pm_score": 3,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>PHP scripts are not typically handled by the CGI module. They are usually handled by a separate... | 2015/01/05 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74668",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/47601/"
] | I want to disable php in a specific directory on my server. I thought that setting Options -ExecCGI in httpd.conf would prevent php scripts from being executed, but obviously I am wrong.
So, this is what I have in my httpd.conf, which obviously does not work:
```
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/(path_to_directory)/dirnam... | PHP scripts are not typically handled by the CGI module. They are usually handled by a separate PHP module with its own configuration options. [This page](http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/securing-subdirectories-with-htaccess.html) has a few examples of syntax that should do the job for you. I expect that they would w... |