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78,640 | <p>I have two godaddy accounts.</p>
<p>In one I have a domain registered and a hosting.</p>
<pre><code>www.mywebsite.com -> Hosted in the same account with Linux+Cpanel
</code></pre>
<p>I have another account, and with that account I bought three more domains</p>
<pre><code>www.mywebsite.us, www.mywebsiteusa.com... | [
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"text": "<p>When you change the DNS it can take upto 48 hours for the changes to propagate around the internet (ie. a lot l... | 2015/03/28 | [
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] | I have two godaddy accounts.
In one I have a domain registered and a hosting.
```
www.mywebsite.com -> Hosted in the same account with Linux+Cpanel
```
I have another account, and with that account I bought three more domains
```
www.mywebsite.us, www.mywebsiteusa.com, www.mywebsite.com.co
```
What I want is to ... | When you change the DNS it can take upto 48 hours for the changes to propagate around the internet (ie. a lot longer than 10 minutes!).
However, to speed things up (if you are changing from an existing service), you can reduce the TTL (Time To Live) for these DNS entries to something like 300 seconds (5 mins) a few da... |
78,645 | <p>I tested my website on <a href="http://ready.mobi/" rel="nofollow">ready.mobi</a> and it shows </p>
<blockquote>
<p>MAJOR FAIL </p>
<p>All page assets should use appropriate Etag headers to
enable client-side caching and speed up future page loads</p>
<pre><code>No Etag header found.
</code></pre>
</block... | [
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"text": "<p>In PHP, you can use the header function to specify a custom Etag as follows:</p>\n\n<pre><code>... | 2015/03/28 | [
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] | I tested my website on [ready.mobi](http://ready.mobi/) and it shows
>
> MAJOR FAIL
>
>
> All page assets should use appropriate Etag headers to
> enable client-side caching and speed up future page loads
>
>
>
> ```
> No Etag header found.
>
> ```
>
>
[FixIt page](http://mobiforge.com/design-development/... | In PHP, you can use the header function to specify a custom Etag as follows:
```
$et="11111"; // any custom etag value
header("ETag: \"".$et."\"",true);
```
Just make sure when you update the webpage in question that the etag value is updated. If you don't want to do a manual etag update, you can use this code ins... |
78,688 | <p>How to remove social-buttons.com / simple-share-buttons.com this type of lots of Referral Spam link they increase 100% bounce rate <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GYyUy.png" alt="Google Analytic Screenshot"></p>
<p>How to remove this type of referral spam link in via .htaccess or Google Analytic </p>
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"text": "<p>They use a <strong>vulnerability in Google Analytics</strong> to make <strong>fake visits</strong> so the only ... | 2015/03/30 | [
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How to remove this type of referral spam link in via .htaccess or Google Analytic | They use a **vulnerability in Google Analytics** to make **fake visits** so the only way to stop them for now, and until Google fix it, is to make a **filter in GA** since that is the source of the problem.
Blocking them in the `.htaccess` file **is pointless** since this kind of Spam never visits your site.
Check th... |
78,695 | <p>It is recommended to use city title in url.</p>
<p>For example</p>
<ul>
<li><code>example.com/london</code></li>
<li><code>example.com/los-angeles</code></li>
</ul>
<p>The problem is, that, for example, city with title "London" is presented in Canada, England, USA (2 times).
Using a lot of "/" in url is not good ... | [
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] | It is recommended to use city title in url.
For example
* `example.com/london`
* `example.com/los-angeles`
The problem is, that, for example, city with title "London" is presented in Canada, England, USA (2 times).
Using a lot of "/" in url is not good for SEO optimization.
What is better solution to solve this pro... | They use a **vulnerability in Google Analytics** to make **fake visits** so the only way to stop them for now, and until Google fix it, is to make a **filter in GA** since that is the source of the problem.
Blocking them in the `.htaccess` file **is pointless** since this kind of Spam never visits your site.
Check th... |
78,745 | <p>The following markup is rendered by WordPress’ <code>the_posts_pagination()</code>:</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><nav class="navigation pagination" role="navigation">
<h2 class="screen-reader-text">Posts navigation</h2>
<div class="nav-links">
<span class=... | [
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"text": "<p>host your content with companies that has server in China or near.\nI think AWS launched their service to China ... | 2015/03/29 | [
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```html
<nav class="navigation pagination" role="navigation">
<h2 class="screen-reader-text">Posts navigation</h2>
<div class="nav-links">
<span class="page-numbers current"><span class="meta-nav screen-reader-text">Page </span>1</span>
... | You could create a china-version of Your theme (if site has one, like Wordpress themes for example). And set this theme only for China users (by IP for example). And this theme must be without any blocked js like GA. Users from another countries will receive a main theme. This helps You customise this theme for China u... |
78,792 | <p>I've used tel: and mailto: to link to a phone number or email but how and why would I use fax: linking in a webpage?</p>
<p>We currently take orders via fax. What would be the flow for a customer who clicks the fax link on our webpage expecting to fax in an order? Is it even worth using? I would think that the user... | [
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"text": "<p>Computers, mobiles and tablets can send fax's with software, its just like sending an email, it was added... | 2015/04/01 | [
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We currently take orders via fax. What would be the flow for a customer who clicks the fax link on our webpage expecting to fax in an order? Is it even worth using? I would think that the user would nee... | Computers, mobiles and tablets can send fax's with software, its just like sending an email, it was added to rfc2086 15 years ago but it never took off and as far as I know no major browsers support `href="fax:"` they do however support `href="tel:"` that can be used just the same to send a fax using software.
>
> [*... |
78,823 | <p>Right now the website has search results like the following url.</p>
<pre><code>example.com/?s=ajax
</code></pre>
<p>I am planning to change this to </p>
<pre><code>example.com/search/ajax
</code></pre>
<p>How does Google or any other search engine treat the search results page for a website. My guess is they do... | [
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"text": "<p>I've supported HTTPS on my websites for about two years now, but I'm just starting to experiment ... | 2015/04/02 | [
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```
example.com/?s=ajax
```
I am planning to change this to
```
example.com/search/ajax
```
How does Google or any other search engine treat the search results page for a website. My guess is they don't index the first link but they may index the s... | I've supported HTTPS on my websites for about two years now, but I'm just starting to experiment with the HTTPS versions in search engines. For my sites, I have always had the HTTP version as the canonical (using link rel canonical tags) but allowed users to navigate to either HTTP or HTTPS.
On March 18th, I switched ... |
78,893 | <p>Here's the environment:</p>
<ul>
<li>Apache, mod_rewrite.c exists</li>
<li>WordPress</li>
<li>Two domains that point to the same webhost, we'll call them
<ul>
<li>www.olddomain.com</li>
<li>www.newdomain.com</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>We have an SSL Certificate for www.newdomain.com, but not www.olddomain.com, as pe... | [
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"text": "<p>While it isn't impossible to host multiple secure sites on a single IP address, thanks to <a href=\"https://wi... | 2015/04/05 | [
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* Apache, mod\_rewrite.c exists
* WordPress
* Two domains that point to the same webhost, we'll call them
+ www.olddomain.com
+ www.newdomain.com
We have an SSL Certificate for www.newdomain.com, but not www.olddomain.com, as per the rules about needing two separate IPs for separate SSL cert... | While it isn't impossible to host multiple secure sites on a single IP address, thanks to [SNI](https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHosts) and [SAN](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubjectAltName), the redirect you're trying to do *is* impossible without one of the aforementioned solutions. In order to receive a ... |
78,925 | <p>For some reason, I can't show special signs on my website.</p>
<p>This is my DOCTYPE line:</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
</code></pre>
<p>And this is the charset line:</p>
<pre><code><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text... | [
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This is my DOCTYPE line:
```
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
```
And this is the charset line:
```
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
```
Is this correct? What mi... | There are more ways to mess up characters and character sets than can be enumerated in an answer. The important thing is that the character set you declare matches the character set that was used when creating, storing, and reading the data. There are many character sets that can display international characters. UTF-8... |
78,926 | <p>I have an online store that is already around for 5 years – let's say the web address is <code>oldsite.com</code>. It has about 1,000-2,000 visitor/day, about 18,000 indexed page. But <code>oldsite.com</code> is using a very old script and I hardly upgrade it. </p>
<p>Then about 2 month ago I created a new website,... | [
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Then about 2 month ago I created a new website, for example `newsite.com`. It h... | We have gotten a few questions like this one. While I found one good answer for you, I thought I would take this opportunity answer the question better. There are actually two things to consider and not just one.
When you want to retain the links of an old site you have essentially two tasks: one, to redirect from one... |
78,941 | <p>I have basic domain, for example, domain1.com. Also I have domain2.com which is addon domain, and I want to redirect domain2.com to domain.com?parameter=value, which is basically domain1.com, but with another template, but that <strong>path in URL stays same</strong>, domain2.com, not domain1.com. .htaccess file is ... | [
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"text": "<p>Try this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\\.com$ [NC,OR]\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ww... | 2015/04/07 | [
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] | I have basic domain, for example, domain1.com. Also I have domain2.com which is addon domain, and I want to redirect domain2.com to domain.com?parameter=value, which is basically domain1.com, but with another template, but that **path in URL stays same**, domain2.com, not domain1.com. .htaccess file is created inside a... | Unless I'm mistaken, this **should** be along the lines what you're looking for:
```
RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSyminks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://my-new-domain.com/$1 [NC,L]
```
If you're wanting to keep the URL ... |
78,958 | <p>I'm thinking of doing something like this: </p>
<pre><code><a href="http://www.example.com" data-href="http://www.affiliatelink.com">Link</a>
</code></pre>
<p>When a user hovers the link they will see www.example.com in the address bar, but when they click it they will be taken to the www.affiliateli... | [
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```
<a href="http://www.example.com" data-href="http://www.affiliatelink.com">Link</a>
```
When a user hovers the link they will see www.example.com in the address bar, but when they click it they will be taken to the www.affiliatelink.com instead.
```
<script>
$("[data-h... | Google has far too many PhDs on their payroll to think that you have one over on them and they haven't thought of this already. They can read your javascript, too. Any attempt to cloak in any way will let you screw yourself and not by Google. |
78,978 | <p>We are coming to the end of a long project in which we are upgrading our client's site from a custom built CMS to the latest version of Umbraco CMS whilst also making their website responsive. As part of this upgrade process, the URL structure of the site has changed however, we are mainly handling this with 301 red... | [
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"text": "<p>This related thread, <a href=\"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74633/well-structured-urls-vs-urls... | 2015/04/08 | [
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78,986 | <p>I've recently installed WinSCP, I was using Filezilla but I've read somewhere that Filezilla it's not a good FTP Client, and also read that WinSCP is a better one.</p>
<p>But now that I logged in I realized that there's a problem, I can't see the <strong>.htaccess</strong> files</p>
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But now that I logged in I realized that there's a problem, I can't see the **.htaccess** files | Do you have `"Show Hidden Files"` option enabled?
By default WinSCP comes with the option `"Show Hidden Files"` set to true.
but sometimes it comes with this option disabled.
To activate this option in order to see hidden files, press: `Ctrl`+`Alt`+`H`
or you can also activate this option by going to:
```
prefere... |
79,074 | <p>I am testing Microdata + Schema.org for an Event but the <a href="https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/" rel="nofollow">Google Testing Tool</a> says the <code>location</code> is missing although it's been provided.</p>
<p>Any idea what I am messing up?</p>
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Any idea what I am messing up?
```html
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/SocialEvent">
<a itemprop="url" href... | You need to click on the gear in the upper right hand corner of the page, and then click on the Users and Property Owners link. Delete any person who should not have access and change your password.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JA... |
79,139 | <p>I have a VM in setup in Azure that I want to use to host multiple websites but can't figure out how to setup an A record when Azure doesn't give you a static IP.</p>
<p>I've created a CNAME, to map "www" - but how to map the root - "Http"?</p>
<p>It seems the virtual IP that is given won't work because if you have... | [
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I've created a CNAME, to map "www" - but how to map the root - "Http"?
It seems the virtual IP that is given won't work because if you have to shut it down ... | You need to get a [Reserved IP address](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ip-addresses/) and assign it to your virtual machine. As far as I can tell, at the moment, [setting this up](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dn690120.aspx) requires you to use the [Azure PowerShell cmdlets](https://azure.... |
79,170 | <p>I have the following rewrite rule to rewrite my old to new URLs:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/activity.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+)/$ /$1/S$2/ [R=301,L]
</code></pre>
<p>It must also ignore /members, not only /activity.</p>
<p>How can I achieve that?</p>
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```
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/activity.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]+)/$ /$1/S$2/ [R=301,L]
```
It must also ignore /members, not only /activity.
How can I achieve that? | To the best of my knowledge, it's actually **better** for SEO. The reason for this, is because you're telling search engines exactly what you're about, and that isn't changing (or drastically changing). You can have H1 and H2 tags that are extremely relevant to your niche, control your outbound links 100%, and link to ... |
79,199 | <p>I'm starting to think I'm making less with adsense now because of insufficient margins. I tried with CSS margins with using the margin and padding properties of applicable elements, but then I noticed something. When I disabled CSS, my page looks mostly like trash with words crammed together, almost no new lines, et... | [
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"text": "<p>Because a line break is used to break a line and not add margin. The effect may appear the same but the semantics a... | 2015/04/15 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/79199",
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... | >
> why is using multiple consecutive line breaks in HTML considered a bad practice
>
>
>
Because it breaks the fundamental principle of separation of concerns: by mixing the "content" and "presentation" layers. By using multiple `<br>`s to create "margins" you are embedding the presentation in the *content*. To c... |
79,272 | <p>I'm thinking about using <code>rel=canonical</code> for search filter URLs.
If I use this tag, my web pages with parameters never get ranked.
If I do not use this tag, it may cause duplicate content problems.</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com/cctv/companies
</code></pre>
<p>This page is about CCTV companies. .this p... | [
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If I use this tag, my web pages with parameters never get ranked.
If I do not use this tag, it may cause duplicate content problems.
```
www.example.com/cctv/companies
```
This page is about CCTV companies. .this page optimized for general keywords lik... | Having some duplicate content within your site is not a problem. If a page has too much duplicate content, Google may choose not to index it. If there is some duplicate content, Google may choose not to include the duplicated sections of the page in the index for that page. Google won't penalize your entire site for du... |
79,296 | <p>I have an "index.html" (or .php - it makes no difference) file in the root / of my hosting space. That "index.html" file has this line of code in it:</p>
<pre><code><link rel="icon" href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAyBpVFh... | [
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```
<link rel="icon" href="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAyBpVFh0WE1MOmNvbS5hZG9i... | This sounds like an issue that is specific to your hosting provider. The likely explanation is that they have a check in place to look for malware on the home page of your site. Base64 encoded JavaScript is often used to obfuscate JavaScript inserted by a hack. Their malware scanner triggers when it detects any Base64 ... |
79,337 | <p>On my wordpress site, my theme outputs the breadcrumbs inside the "main" content div
So it looks like this :</p>
<pre><code><main class="content" itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog ETC
<div class="breadcrumbs">
<div class="entry-title"> Post title here
And so on.
</code></pre>
<p>But, i would li... | [
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So it looks like this :
```
<main class="content" itemtype="http://schema.org/Blog ETC
<div class="breadcrumbs">
<div class="entry-title"> Post title here
And so on.
```
But, i would like to move breadcrumbs above the content ... | The relevant markup from the linked example is:
```html
<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">
<main itemprop="mainContentOfPage">
<div itemprop="breadcrumb">
<span prefix="v: http://rdf.data-vocabulary.org/#">
<span typeof="v:Breadcrumb"><a href="/" rel="v:url" property="v:title"... |
79,339 | <p>I have 4 types pages:</p>
<ol>
<li>Companies</li>
<li>Products</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Main landing pages that contains part of 3 other types with links to its.</li>
</ol>
<p>The top 3 types have pagination, but landing pages don't. They a each a single page. I want to rank with the landing pages, not other pa... | [
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] | I have 4 types pages:
1. Companies
2. Products
3. Services
4. Main landing pages that contains part of 3 other types with links to its.
The top 3 types have pagination, but landing pages don't. They a each a single page. I want to rank with the landing pages, not other pages.
**First Question:**
Right now many of my... | Google can understand that content is a series of pages with rel=prev and rel=next
On your site where you have the links pointing to the previous and next page, just inject the above keywords in the anchor tags.
Here's an example:
Make index.htm contain this:
```
<p>Page 1. The HOME PAGE</p>
<p>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... |
79,359 | <p>I have come across a very annoying problem.</p>
<p>I have several pages that shouldn't be indexed, as they are basically pop-up pages and "thanks for signing up" pages.</p>
<p>I have set them up with the robots meta tag noindex,nofollow - but for some reason Google list them anyway.</p>
<p>Try a google search for... | [
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I have several pages that shouldn't be indexed, as they are basically pop-up pages and "thanks for signing up" pages.
I have set them up with the robots meta tag noindex,nofollow - but for some reason Google list them anyway.
Try a google search for "en-til-en-mindfulness-... | As tillinberlin hints at, the reason this page is appearing in the search results is because of your "robots.txt" file, however, not for the reasons given. Basically, your robots.txt file is blocking that URL from being *crawled*, so Google is unable to see the robots meta tag that prevents the page from being *indexed... |
79,376 | <p>I am transferring a WP site to a HostGator shared server account. I have everything set up but want to test the site before I propagate the domain name. To do this I want to alter my Host File to point to the new server, eg:</p>
<pre><code>108.167.111.11 mysite.com
108.167.111.11 www.mysite.com
</code></pre>
<p>I'... | [
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```
108.167.111.11 mysite.com
108.167.111.11 www.mysite.com
```
I've done this dozens of tim... | I found that the IP address that came with my HostGator account information email was not the right one. I logged into CPanel via the temporary URL and found the actual IP address listed on the column to the right towards the bottom.
 |
79,380 | <p>i wish to add a rel=nofollow in all links from an rss feed, including links in item description</p>
<pre><code>$rss = new DOMDocument();
$rss->load($xml);
$feed = array();
foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
$item = array (
'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')... | [
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"text": "<p>RSS does not allow for nofollow. RSS is not HTML but a simple mark-up for <em>Really Simple Syndication</em... | 2015/04/20 | [
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] | i wish to add a rel=nofollow in all links from an rss feed, including links in item description
```
$rss = new DOMDocument();
$rss->load($xml);
$feed = array();
foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
$item = array (
'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
... | RSS does not allow for nofollow. RSS is not HTML but a simple mark-up for *Really Simple Syndication*.
The documentation for RSS 2.0 can be found here: <http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html> It will contain much of the latest information you need. |
79,420 | <p>We're looking at using <a href="http://www.pardot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pardot.com/</a> to track certain links/buttons on our website. We can give users extra "points" for clicking those elements. A way to grade potential leads. In order to do this with Pardot, they say that a redirect has to be placed on ... | [
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] | We're looking at using <http://www.pardot.com/> to track certain links/buttons on our website. We can give users extra "points" for clicking those elements. A way to grade potential leads. In order to do this with Pardot, they say that a redirect has to be placed on the element's link.
After the redirect is made in th... | Click tracking redirects are fine for SEO as long as they are the "301 permanent" variety. Other types of redirects are not great for SEO:
* 302 Temporary redirects
* Meta refresh
* JavaScript redirects
* Framed redirects
I was unable to find documentation about which type Pardot uses. You can test it using a tool li... |
79,440 | <p>Currently my company is planning to develop a huge, country-wide website that would mailny contain massive database of products (culinary), places (stores, restaurants), recipes... It will also have a load of functionality designed for registered users (lists, favs etc.) </p>
<p>After some problems with previous de... | [
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After some problems with previous developer co... | Click tracking redirects are fine for SEO as long as they are the "301 permanent" variety. Other types of redirects are not great for SEO:
* 302 Temporary redirects
* Meta refresh
* JavaScript redirects
* Framed redirects
I was unable to find documentation about which type Pardot uses. You can test it using a tool li... |
79,483 | <p>Google Pagespeed Insights still tells me that I have to enable browser caching, but I don't understand what I'm missing. I'm using cloudflare with optimizations enabled. I see this HTTP header in chrome developers tools:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>cache-control:public, max-age=86400</p>
</blockquote>
<p>so caching alre... | [
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"text": "<p>24 hours is too little to suffice as cache control :) In theory, images never change without their name also c... | 2015/04/22 | [
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] | Google Pagespeed Insights still tells me that I have to enable browser caching, but I don't understand what I'm missing. I'm using cloudflare with optimizations enabled. I see this HTTP header in chrome developers tools:
>
> cache-control:public, max-age=86400
>
>
>
so caching already seems enabled! I also added ... | 24 hours is too little to suffice as cache control :) In theory, images never change without their name also changing, so you can set that easily to a year (or a month if you feel more comfortable with that).
If you replace an image with a new image, it has a new name. `picture-of-cat-on-18th-birthday.jpg` will not s... |
79,575 | <p>I’m trying to work with Schema.org for the first time. </p>
<p>Is it OK if I have duplicate <code>itemprop</code> attributes? Meaning, If I have my company phone number in different places (header, footer, sometimes in sidebar) should I tag all of them or just once? Is it a problem if I tag them all?</p>
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Is it OK if I have duplicate `itemprop` attributes? Meaning, If I have my company phone number in different places (header, footer, sometimes in sidebar) should I tag all of them or just once? Is it a problem if I tag them all? | Note that syntaxes like Microdata and RDFa don’t *annotate* the HTML, they use the HTML just as a carrier. After parsing the Microdata/RDFa, it doesn’t matter anymore which markup was used.
If your two properties with the same content belong to the same item, it’s not useful to have the additional one, as it doesn’t a... |
79,595 | <p>From <a href="http://www.allthingsdemocrat.com/block-bad-bots-in-htaccess.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.allthingsdemocrat.com/block-bad-bots-in-htaccess.txt</a>:</p>
<pre><code><IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http\:\/\/www\.google\.com\/humans\.txt\? [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfMo... | [
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"text": "<p>It looks like that code was developed to stop bots probing <code>humans.txt</code> via query strings.</p... | 2015/04/25 | [
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com",
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users/14013/"
] | From <http://www.allthingsdemocrat.com/block-bad-bots-in-htaccess.txt>:
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http\:\/\/www\.google\.com\/humans\.txt\? [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>
```
I want to put the whole .htaccess on my site.
What does it actually do? | It looks like that code was developed to stop bots probing `humans.txt` via query strings.
* Not Blocked: `http://example.com/humans.txt`
* Blocked: `http://example.com/?some_path=http://www.google.com/humans.txt?`
There is plenty of online guides about blocking humans.txt additionally lots of websites explaining wha... |
79,614 | <p>Have built a website integrating three domains:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>http://example.edu.au/</code> (most of the pages)</li>
<li><code>http://example.camp/</code> (under 'Music Camp' menu item)</li>
<li><code>http://example.tv/</code> ( under 'Media' menu item)</li>
</ul>
<p>Just wondering if and how I could tell a s... | [
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* `http://example.edu.au/` (most of the pages)
* `http://example.camp/` (under 'Music Camp' menu item)
* `http://example.tv/` ( under 'Media' menu item)
Just wondering if and how I could tell a search engine, like Google, that these three domains are actually the same s... | If these domains are the same where two are, aliased to, or parked under the one main domain, then yes.
Aliased or Parked domains are domains that you own, but which do not contain any content. Instead, they point to the contents of another domain or subdomain on your account.
This means the index page is the sam... |
79,623 | <p>I'm looking to segment users on my website by those who are logged in and those who are not, and I'm a bit confused as to how it will work out implementation-wise.</p>
<p>So my plan is:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a user-level custom dimension called <strong><em>logged-in</em></strong> with two values <strong><em>yes</em>... | [
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So my plan is:
1. Create a user-level custom dimension called ***logged-in*** with two values ***yes*** and ***no***.
2. Create a custom DataLayer variabl... | If these domains are the same where two are, aliased to, or parked under the one main domain, then yes.
Aliased or Parked domains are domains that you own, but which do not contain any content. Instead, they point to the contents of another domain or subdomain on your account.
This means the index page is the sam... |
79,647 | <p>I have a website, hosted on a Shared Hosting plan at 1and1, and recently I've got a Virtual Server, because I aim to transfer the website to a bigger server.</p>
<p>So the process I will be doing is:</p>
<ol>
<li>Copy Files from one server to the other.</li>
<li>Transfer domains from one server to the other.</li>
... | [
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So the process I will be doing is:
1. Copy Files from one server to the other.
2. Transfer domains from one server to the other.
3. Recreate all emails address ... | If these domains are the same where two are, aliased to, or parked under the one main domain, then yes.
Aliased or Parked domains are domains that you own, but which do not contain any content. Instead, they point to the contents of another domain or subdomain on your account.
This means the index page is the sam... |
79,676 | <p>I need to redirect multiple subdomains to a single subdomain (www) and have found what seems to be a really good guide exactly on point: <a href="http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection" rel="nofollow">http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection</a></p>
<p>This is the rule Moz is recommending:</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{H... | [
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This is the rule Moz is recommending:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} *!^www*.seomoz\.org [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.seomoz.org/$1 [L,R=301... | Try:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
```
This should work.
Here is mine:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
``` |
79,769 | <p>I recently started serving all my pages over https instead of http.
I did so using this rewrite rule:</p>
<pre><code> <rule name="force https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions&g... | [
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"text": "<p>Yes, it will. The <code>http</code> and <code>https</code> version will be seen as individual pages and thus a... | 2015/04/30 | [
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] | I recently started serving all my pages over https instead of http.
I did so using this rewrite rule:
```
<rule name="force https" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType=... | Yes, it will. The `http` and `https` version will be seen as individual pages and thus also create duplicate content.
The solution is to use a `301-permanent redirect`, which your code does. This will transfer the juice to the destination of the redirection, **so you're good**. Also, adding a `canonical tag` to indica... |
79,774 | <p>I have a site that give users all kind of services </p>
<p>so let's say I put a span tag inside my H1 tag and with js I will replace it every 3 sec</p>
<p>for example my h1 tag contains :</p>
<pre><code><h1>Best italian food in NY order now <span id="dyn_txt">pizza </span> </h1>
</code></p... | [
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so let's say I put a span tag inside my H1 tag and with js I will replace it every 3 sec
for example my h1 tag contains :
```
<h1>Best italian food in NY order now <span id="dyn_txt">pizza </span> </h1>
```
With js i will replace the inner text of the span with: ... | It depends on how you are doing the JS. Google wont index dynamic content (usually) so if you are pulling these items from a db or remote server then you could have an issue. If you are just rotating through a finite array of items by alternating css classes and those are in the static html but hidden (a jquery approac... |
79,807 | <p>SO we are using click funnels, and it generates the HTML pages for you. When we looked at the HTML they provided, we realized that the HTML is generated from JavaScript.</p>
<p>SEO is a huge concern for us. We are wondering if Google indexes JavaScript generated HTML for their search results?</p>
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SEO is a huge concern for us. We are wondering if Google indexes JavaScript generated HTML for their search results? | >
> SO we are using clickfunnels, and it generates the HTML pages for you, but when we look at the HTML they provided, we realize that the HTML is generated from javascript through their site. ... SEO is a huge concern for us.
>
>
>
Google won't be happy with indexing your site. Google likes unique content.
Accor... |
79,819 | <p>We have a website that has around 15 content pages which is same for every page. It cannot be changed because it's about product information and services information etc. So, those pages' content we cannot change.</p>
<p>What should I do to get my site constantly updated? Should I start a blog for my website that w... | [
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What should I do to get my site constantly updated? Should I start a blog for my website that will be wit... | >
> SO we are using clickfunnels, and it generates the HTML pages for you, but when we look at the HTML they provided, we realize that the HTML is generated from javascript through their site. ... SEO is a huge concern for us.
>
>
>
Google won't be happy with indexing your site. Google likes unique content.
Accor... |
79,822 | <p>I run a site built on wordpress and my question kind of sums up what I am looking for. There has been <a href="http://searchengineland.com/google-the-mobile-friendly-algorithm-has-fully-rolled-out-220094" rel="nofollow">an update on google</a> according to which "mobile-friendliness" of a site is now considered as a... | [
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"text": "<p>I would pare that down to:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Disallow: /search/\nSitemap: http://example.com/site... | 2015/05/02 | [
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```
Disallow: /search/
Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap_index.xml
```
You should certainly remove `wp-content` from that list. That has your themes, plugins, and images. For mobile friendly you want all these crawled.
If you want more info on what each of the other pieces do, here is [... |
79,919 | <p>I have news portal that loads posts using ajax, to get better user experience. Web crawlers don't see links and texts generated by javascript, so I read about using <strong>noscript</strong> tags for crawlers. In <em>noscript</em> section I render title, subtitle, description and link to a post, by using headers tag... | [
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79,924 | <p>I recently set up a professional portfolio website on my own domain. After a few weeks of Google Analytics, I was surprised and even impressed to have such a high volume of traffic. However, it appears I am somehow recording traffic from a uni(dot)me domain that I want no association with (please see the image).</p>... | [
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![ent... | You generally don't want to use noscript as crawlers will ignore that. By looking at the clean cache of your page: <http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.balkanreporter.rs/&hl=en&strip=1> I can see text is visible on your page so you should be good to go. One thing to note is to update your an... |
80,930 | <p>This is my vhost conf and still permanent redirect isn't working.</p>
<pre><code>DocumentRoot /var/www/example
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory "/var/www/example">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Redire... | [
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```
DocumentRoot /var/www/example
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory "/var/www/example">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
RedirectPermanent http://www.exa... | The first parameter of `RedirectPermanent` should be a path, not a full URL (e.g. `RedirectPermanent /foo http://example.com/bar`), so you won't quite be able to get what you're trying to do to work.
You should be able to do it if you split the www part into a separate vhost:
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /... |
80,932 | <p>I have been trying for the last couple of weeks to get whitelisted in the Microsoft's email network.</p>
<p>I can send emails from my site to gmail and yahoo with no problem. They are delivered to the right folder. However, I have not been able to do the same with hotmail, outlook, and live.</p>
<p>At first, I was... | [
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I can send emails from my site to gmail and yahoo with no problem. They are delivered to the right folder. However, I have not been able to do the same with hotmail, outlook, and live.
At first, I was only able to del... | The first parameter of `RedirectPermanent` should be a path, not a full URL (e.g. `RedirectPermanent /foo http://example.com/bar`), so you won't quite be able to get what you're trying to do to work.
You should be able to do it if you split the www part into a separate vhost:
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /... |
80,938 | <p>Looking on the robot file of our ,soon to be, website. I want to know what prevent the site to be crawled. Is it this line ? If not, what will it disallow ?</p>
<pre><code>Disallow: *?s=
</code></pre>
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```
Disallow: *?s=
``` | ```
Disallow: *?s=
```
Bots following the [original robots.txt specification](http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html) would not be allowed to crawl URLs like these:
* `http://example.com/*?s=`
* `http://example.com/*?s=foo`
* `http://example.com/*?s=/`
So they interpret `*`, `?` and `=` literally (i.e., these character... |
80,945 | <p>I would like to change one of the labels on the mediawiki login page from "Keep me logged in" to "Keep me logged in (recommended)" with a link to <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in#Log_in_problems" rel="nofollow">http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Logging_in#Log_in_problems</a>. The label is for... | [
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I tried
```
grep -r 'Keep me logged in' *
```
but didn't get ... | ```
Disallow: *?s=
```
Bots following the [original robots.txt specification](http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html) would not be allowed to crawl URLs like these:
* `http://example.com/*?s=`
* `http://example.com/*?s=foo`
* `http://example.com/*?s=/`
So they interpret `*`, `?` and `=` literally (i.e., these character... |
80,950 | <p>Let's assume I have an image.</p>
<pre><code><img src="book_thumb.jpg">
</code></pre>
<p>And I want it to be indexed in Google and other search engines, but in its normal size, not as a thumbnail. So I just want Google to see <code>book.jpg</code> instead of <code>book_thumb.jpg</code>, but want to keep show... | [
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```
<img src="book_thumb.jpg">
```
And I want it to be indexed in Google and other search engines, but in its normal size, not as a thumbnail. So I just want Google to see `book.jpg` instead of `book_thumb.jpg`, but want to keep showing thumbnail to users.
And I don't want to create an... | There used to be the `lores`attribute – but that points to the opposite direction, I suppose. Afaik there is no corresponding `hires`attribute.
You could however digg into the html5 `<picture>` element / adaptive images, which could also be useful if you're working on a responsive layout:
```
<picture alt="screen-ima... |
80,960 | <p>I have a site that is using the background image feature extensively to replace text with a graphic which contains that text in a stylized form.</p>
<p>For accessibility and SEO purposes I have the actual text included in the HTML, but I do not want it to show for most users.</p>
<p>What is the best approach to go... | [
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"text": "<p>Redirecting pages to the homepage is the last resort as it can lower the SEO value of your homepage whic... | 2015/05/06 | [
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For accessibility and SEO purposes I have the actual text included in the HTML, but I do not want it to show for most users.
What is the best approach to go about this? Ther... | Google considers mass redirects to be "soft 404" and treats them the same as if the pages were 404 not found status when it can detect them.
Google automatically assumes that any redirect to the home page is a soft 404. Your mass redirects to landing pages probably won't be identified by Google as soft 404 errors and ... |
81,001 | <p>I own a website that will be updated daily with clients. When I upload new info/web pages/amendments, the old cached version of the 1st page keeps popping up. How do I stop this....</p>
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"text": "<p>You need to set some <code>META</code> tags in the pages you don't want cached.</p>\n\n<p>Have a look at the <co... | 2015/05/07 | [
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```
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
```
If you're referring to browser caching (which I think is the case), then configure your server to issue the following in the HTTP header for each page you don'... |
81,003 | <p>Say I have a website that lists items and presents them in clickable blocks with a few details, like this:</p>
<pre><code><a href="/product/1234">
<img src="/product-1234.jpg" />
<div class="price">$25</div>
<div class="reviews">10 reviews, 90% satisfied</div>
<... | [
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```
<a href="/product/1234">
<img src="/product-1234.jpg" />
<div class="price">$25</div>
<div class="reviews">10 reviews, 90% satisfied</div>
<div class="title">Vintage red pantaloon</div>
<d... | >
> Is it possible to have specific parts ignored from search engines in the anchor text, or tell them to give more weight to some text that should be considered as "primary"? (Or maybe there's no need to worry about that?)
>
>
>
There is no need worry about that. It is not because there is a price next to `Vintag... |
81,012 | <p>I have a shared webhotel that has three domains.
Only one of them can be verified through webmaster tools.</p>
<p>All domains are though live and working websites but can't be verified.</p>
<p>I've checked DNS with pingdom and all seem to be fine and there's no difference between domains.</p>
<p>What could be wro... | [
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Only one of them can be verified through webmaster tools.
All domains are though live and working websites but can't be verified.
I've checked DNS with pingdom and all seem to be fine and there's no difference between domains.
What could be wrong? I understand that it... | Always make sure your website has web pages that return the HTTP status 200 code (which means the result is an actual page).
What I do for site verification with google webmaster tools is follow it's recommended method:
>
> 1. Download this HTML verification file. [google2da9166c91fd3e7e.html]
> 2. Upload the file t... |
81,026 | <p>My site is a single page application built using AngularJS. My aim is to make it crawl-able (<a href="https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification</a>).</p>
<p>This is what I have been using:-</p>
... | [
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This is what I have been using:-
* Pages without hash fragments
* AngularJS configured to use HTML5 URLs
* `<meta name="fragment" content="!" />` i... | It's impossible to tell without looking at your site, but I think you're using the AJAX crawling scheme incorrectly.
If you have `http://example.com/about` and add the fragment meta tag to that page (so when you `curl http://example.com/about` it returns the meta tag in the response), then the URL that would be fetche... |
81,095 | <p>I'm trying to sort out a redirect for my site from <code>www</code> to the "naked" domain.</p>
<p>My redirect currently does this:</p>
<pre><code>www.example.com -> example.com
www.example.com/test.html -> example.com
</code></pre>
<p>Is this the correct behaviour? My only concern is, is it correct for it t... | [
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My redirect currently does this:
```
www.example.com -> example.com
www.example.com/test.html -> example.com
```
Is this the correct behaviour? My only concern is, is it correct for it to use a 301 redirect to bring it back to the front... | The [HTTP status code 301](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616#section-10.3.2) is named "Moved Permanently":
>
> The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs.
>
>
>
So the resource (i.e., your document) would stay th... |
81,124 | <p>I had installed ssl certificate on my wordpress website and I had also setup redirect from http to https (301 Redirects), My website pages showing with https in google search but posts are not showing with https, Please help me for solving this issue, Thanks.</p>
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] | I had installed ssl certificate on my wordpress website and I had also setup redirect from http to https (301 Redirects), My website pages showing with https in google search but posts are not showing with https, Please help me for solving this issue, Thanks. | The ultimate answer depends on a few factors that aren't clear yet from your post, but these are some specific questions and issues you will want to address:
1. Did you go to Settings > General in WP Admin and change the WordPress Address and Site Address to https? This is the first action you'll need to take step at ... |
81,151 | <p>My search returns results at the following URLs:</p>
<p>(for a single search term)</p>
<pre><code>search/keyword/
</code></pre>
<p>(for a filtered search using the same term)</p>
<pre><code>search/?sections=articles&keywords=keyword
</code></pre>
<p>In GA, I have:</p>
<ul>
<li>Query parameter = search/<... | [
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"text": "<p>I would highly recommend the <a href=\"http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scream... | 2015/05/12 | [
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] | My search returns results at the following URLs:
(for a single search term)
```
search/keyword/
```
(for a filtered search using the same term)
```
search/?sections=articles&keywords=keyword
```
In GA, I have:
* Query parameter = search/
* Category parameter = sections, keywords
However in the reports the s... | I would highly recommend the [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/). He gets you all URLs, Status Codes, Titles, Descriptions, Images on your Website, etc.
It's really a great SEO tool, as far as I know most SEOs use it.
You can export csv- and Excel-files, as you requested, and also yo... |
81,158 | <p>My page is based on <code>HTML</code> and I need to submit it to Google Webmaster Tools and To Bing. </p>
<p>I know how to give short description about my page. So that it easy to crawl my page, there is lots of HTML code and a description tag:</p>
<pre><code><meta name="description" content=""/>`
</code... | [
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"text": "<p>This tool will help you generate meta tags for your site\n<a href=\"http://tools.seobook.com/meta-medic/\" rel=\"... | 2015/04/09 | [
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] | My page is based on `HTML` and I need to submit it to Google Webmaster Tools and To Bing.
I know how to give short description about my page. So that it easy to crawl my page, there is lots of HTML code and a description tag:
```
<meta name="description" content=""/>`
```
Is that enough or do I need to add still ... | Google is looking for content on your page, predominantly words. If you don't have information (a paragraph or two, descriptions of images, a collection of links to specific subjects) on your webpage then the search engine robots don't know how to interpret what they are "seeing". Including a [robots.txt file](https://... |
81,207 | <p>I found this IP in my access log posting repeatedly thousands of times. Is this really GoogleBot, or is it a spammer? I hesitate to block it.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>185.62.188.98 - - [13/May/2015:18:54:33 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 370 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; <a href="http://www.goo... | [
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"text": "<p>No. It is not Google.</p>\n\n<p>Google would not <em>POST /xmlrpc.php</em>. This may be a vulnerability pro... | 2015/05/13 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/81207",
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] | I found this IP in my access log posting repeatedly thousands of times. Is this really GoogleBot, or is it a spammer? I hesitate to block it.
>
> 185.62.188.98 - - [13/May/2015:18:54:33 -0400] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 370 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; <http://www.google.com/bot.html>)"
>
>
>
... | Google actually has a page explaining [how to verify Googlebot](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en):
>
> **To verify Googlebot as the caller:**
>
>
> 1. Run a reverse DNS lookup on the accessing IP address from your logs, using the `host` command.
> 2. Verify that the domain name is in either ... |
81,217 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VwK2Y.jpg" alt="****">
I have website and have some issue with duplicate description and title. Can any body help me to solve this error in easy and simple words?</p>
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I have website and have some issue with duplicate description and title. Can any body help me to solve this error in easy and simple words? | I'm gonna attempt to go simple as the OP requests.
Each webpage with a title and meta description will contain source code with these lines in it near the beginning of the code:
```
<title>insert title here</title>
<meta name="description" content="insert description here">
```
...Except that "insert title here" i... |
81,222 | <p>I would like to know exactly on which page the click originated in my reports.
This is valuable when you want to know which creative worked better on each page.
Unfortunately creating different ad-unit for each page is not a real solution, since we have hundreds of pages.</p>
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"text": "<p>DFP has no reporting facility for site metrics such as URL or page on your site.</p>\n\n<p>Here i... | 2015/05/14 | [
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] | I would like to know exactly on which page the click originated in my reports.
This is valuable when you want to know which creative worked better on each page.
Unfortunately creating different ad-unit for each page is not a real solution, since we have hundreds of pages. | Attach slotRenderEnded to the pubads()
Ignore the event.isEmpty responses.
Capture the AD slot /Company/Position/AdSlot inside DFP.
Capture the DFP Creative ID.
Then I push this data into Google Analytics.
```
googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) {
if (!event.isEmpty)... |
81,252 | <p>I understand that </p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/product
</code></pre>
<p>and</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.com/product/
</code></pre>
<p>can actually be seen as 2 different URLs and is probably best avoided for SEO purposes, but how does this affect querystring parameters. Which is better (or even '... | [
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] | I understand that
```
http://www.example.com/product
```
and
```
http://www.example.com/product/
```
can actually be seen as 2 different URLs and is probably best avoided for SEO purposes, but how does this affect querystring parameters. Which is better (or even 'legal')?
```
http://www.example.com/product?sour... | All **four** of your URLs are different for SEO:
* `http://www.example.com/product`
* `http://www.example.com/product/`
* `http://www.example.com/product?source=googleps`
* `http://www.example.com/product/?source=googleps`
It doesn't matter which one of those four you use, but you have to pick **one** and use it cons... |
81,258 | <p>We have a funnel we want to track and there are 2 users that affect the flow of the funnel.</p>
<p>One does a few steps, and after this, the other user interacts with the data, the first user accepts, in the end the second user converts.</p>
<p>In order to better explain how this works.</p>
<pre><code>User 1 ... | [
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] | We have a funnel we want to track and there are 2 users that affect the flow of the funnel.
One does a few steps, and after this, the other user interacts with the data, the first user accepts, in the end the second user converts.
In order to better explain how this works.
```
User 1 || User 2 || Use... | That's an interesting one. My quick solution will use Google Analytics' event tracking. Conversion funnels are per user's session, while with events you can record actions taken on your site by different users.
What I would do is that for each process I would create a unique ID that will be shared by the users that a... |
81,300 | <p>I have a site that is generating this warning:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of redirecting to another URL".</... | [
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"text": "<p>I'm taking a guess that the question is \"How do I correct this error?\".</p>\n\n<p>What you n... | 2015/05/17 | [
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] | I have a site that is generating this warning:
>
> When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs redirect to other locations. We recommend that your Sitemap contain URLs that point to the final destination (the redirect target) instead of redirecting to another URL".
>
>
>
Why is this... | I'm taking a guess that the question is "How do I correct this error?".
What you need to do is review every sitemap file you have that applies to your running site and check every single URL. They are normally defined between these tags:
```
<loc> </loc>
```
Make sure no URL points to an automatic redirection page.... |
81,442 | <p>Google is executing the JavaScript on my password creator website and indexing the random passwords that get generated by the JavaScript.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/YwYjEy0.png" alt=""></p>
<p>The random text that is generated could look spammy to Google and I'm afraid that it will hurt rankings. It is... | [
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"text": "<p>I created a cloaking function in JavaScript:</p>\n<pre><code>function isBot(){\n return /bot|c... | 2015/05/20 | [
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] | Google is executing the JavaScript on my password creator website and indexing the random passwords that get generated by the JavaScript.
The random text that is generated could look spammy to Google and I'm afraid that it will hurt rankings. It is text that only Googlebot will se... | *robots.txt* can block JavaScript files from Googlebot. <http://www.robotstxt.org/> has more information about how to construct a *robots.txt* file.
You could put your JavaScript that shows the password into an external JavaScript file (called *showlists.js*):
```
$(document).ready(function(){
showLists();
});
`... |
81,460 | <p>I have to program an application where the users can connect to other websites. For example, the user clicks on the "Amazon" button and the application opens the Amazon website. It then needs to pre-populate the login and password information for the user. (The user added that info to my data base previously.)</p>
... | [
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"text": "<p>You're on the right track with CURL.</p>\n\n<p>What you need to do is add code that reads the ... | 2015/05/21 | [
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] | I have to program an application where the users can connect to other websites. For example, the user clicks on the "Amazon" button and the application opens the Amazon website. It then needs to pre-populate the login and password information for the user. (The user added that info to my data base previously.)
My appl... | You're on the right track with CURL.
What you need to do is add code that reads the website as if it's a basic HTML file then process the file replacing certain HTML code.
If some websites are basic with little to no javascript and contain a login box, then look for code containing something like:
```
<input type="t... |
81,505 | <p>I had a lot of client websites and recently I had to do SEO for about 3-4 websites simultaneously. It was all simple on page SEO, but I have a question is about XML map submission. </p>
<p>I realize that creating the XML sitemap and adding it to the root directory is critical. After that, you submit the XML sitem... | [
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] | I had a lot of client websites and recently I had to do SEO for about 3-4 websites simultaneously. It was all simple on page SEO, but I have a question is about XML map submission.
I realize that creating the XML sitemap and adding it to the root directory is critical. After that, you submit the XML sitemap to Google... | Sitemaps can be submitted for multiple sites to Google Webmaster Tools through a single Webmaster Tools account. You can do so by adding multiple websites to a single account. You would then need to complete the verification process for each website, or have somebody that is already verified add you as an authorized us... |
81,544 | <p>I have a platform which uses a responsive design. The structure of the website is like this: <code>Domain/#!/Product_type/Product_ID</code></p>
<p>Here, I am trying to create the alias URL (Using an earlier version of Drupal) where I replace <code><Product ID></code> with <code><Product Name></code>. Th... | [
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"text": "<p>No, you should be ok. It won't have a specific impact on your SEO.</p>\n"
},
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] | I have a platform which uses a responsive design. The structure of the website is like this: `Domain/#!/Product_type/Product_ID`
Here, I am trying to create the alias URL (Using an earlier version of Drupal) where I replace `<Product ID>` with `<Product Name>`. This is not possible, since the URL structure in the resp... | While in the end both "/" and "%2f" represent the same character, search engine robots will treat both URLs independently (they are technically not the same). For example you will get two hits on your server by Googlebot instead of one (I have lots of server logs which prove this).
In the end it's the same issue as w... |
81,561 | <p>First of all - I'm absolutely new to SEO.</p>
<p>We've lots of customers who mostly use few-pages-static-vcard websites. Lots of them have SEO problems. I'm going to suggest our customers to move their websites to our domain giving us permission to fix their SEO issues. Customers are small hotels in different count... | [
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"text": "<p>In terms of SEO, this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>http://www.example.com/egypt/seaview-hotel/\n</code><... | 2015/05/24 | [
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] | First of all - I'm absolutely new to SEO.
We've lots of customers who mostly use few-pages-static-vcard websites. Lots of them have SEO problems. I'm going to suggest our customers to move their websites to our domain giving us permission to fix their SEO issues. Customers are small hotels in different countries.
My ... | In terms of SEO, this:
```
http://www.example.com/egypt/seaview-hotel/
```
is better, and even well accepted by Google because as part of Google's Webmaster Guidelines, they appreciate a hierarchal type of URL layout which is what this URL has. Additionally, management of each section of the site is far easier to th... |
81,565 | <p>We have a staging version of our website to test changes on at trailheadpaddleshack.ca/staging1. This never appeared in search before. Recently the staging site has appeared on Google and is affecting our search results.</p>
<p>I'm trying to figure out how the pages got there and how to remove them. The pages have ... | [
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I'm trying to figure out how the pages got there and how to remove them. The pages have always had... | As I mentioned in my comment above, if the robots meta tag has been on these pages all the time AND the pages are not blocked by robots.txt (which prevents *crawling*, but not *indexing*) then these pages should not get indexed.
Digging a little deeper, these pages do appear to be fully "indexed", with a complete desc... |
81,616 | <p>I have a web based proxy and web filters eventually blacklist the domain. Because of this, I am thinking of creating alternate domains for the same website. Each domain would host 100% same content. I will prevent alternate domains from being indexed by Google to prevent duplicate content.</p>
<p>Is this approach ... | [
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Is this approach acceptable ... | You don't want to block duplicate content with *robots.txt*. [Google's guidelines](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359) say:
>
> Google does not recommend blocking crawler access to duplicate content on your website, whether with a robots.txt file or other methods. If search engines can't crawl pages w... |
81,625 | <p>We have setup Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking through Google Tag Manager.</p>
<p>Code:</p>
<pre><code>$tracking_script = "
dataLayer.push({
'transactionId': '$ref',
'transactionAffiliation': '$cartec_name',
'transactionTotal': '$amount',
'transactionTax': '',
'transactionShipping': '',
... | [
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"text": "<p>Your script is running before the GTM's dataLayer object is ready as it's retrieved asynchronously. This m... | 2015/05/26 | [
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] | We have setup Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking through Google Tag Manager.
Code:
```
$tracking_script = "
dataLayer.push({
'transactionId': '$ref',
'transactionAffiliation': '$cartec_name',
'transactionTotal': '$amount',
'transactionTax': '',
'transactionShipping': '',
'transactionProducts'... | Your script is running before the GTM's dataLayer object is ready as it's retrieved asynchronously. This means you need to wait the load event is fired/triggered.
Your server side php code is not good as is writing into the dataLayer and definitely is the root issue this code is not awaiting for the GTM's datalayer o... |
81,655 | <p>Is that bad for SEO?</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><h1 class="responsive-hidden">This is my title</h1>
<h1 class="hidden responsive-show">This is my title</h1>
</code></pre>
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"text": "<p>Yes, only one H1.<br>\nBut there's an easy solution, which has it's own flaws (you could get very weird titles... | 2015/05/27 | [
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] | Is that bad for SEO?
```html
<h1 class="responsive-hidden">This is my title</h1>
<h1 class="hidden responsive-show">This is my title</h1>
``` | Yes, only one H1.
But there's an easy solution, which has it's own flaws (you could get very weird titles in SEO results!):
```
<h1>
<span class="responsive-hidden">This is my title</span>
<span class="hidden responsive-show">This is my title</span>
</h1>
```
*This is not a perfect solution! This is perfe... |
81,699 | <p>In order to speed up my site <a href="http://www.telium.ca" rel="nofollow">Telium</a> I created the .htaccess below. I have a lot of large images on my site so I want browsers to cache as much as possible. However, when I browse to my web site with the developer tools open (in Chrome), I see that all of the image... | [
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"text": "<p>There are two options really:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><p>You can remove the <code>Last-Modified</code> and <code... | 2015/05/28 | [
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] | In order to speed up my site [Telium](http://www.telium.ca) I created the .htaccess below. I have a lot of large images on my site so I want browsers to cache as much as possible. However, when I browse to my web site with the developer tools open (in Chrome), I see that all of the images on my pages are being re-downl... | You should change...
```
Header set Cache-Control "public"
```
...to...
```
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=x"
```
...but replace x with the number of seconds you want any browser that supports HTTP 1.1 to cache the item. The reason why I removed "public" is because public is the default scope in which caching ... |
81,706 | <p>On our web site, we have numerous Acrobat PDF forms. When users click on those forms, if they are using Google Chrome, they get this message:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Please wait...</strong></p>
<p>If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of
the document, your PDF viewer may not... | [
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"text": "<p>Basically, you need to force the download of the PDF file. </p>\n\n<p>If you edit the <strong>.htaccess</stro... | 2015/05/28 | [
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] | On our web site, we have numerous Acrobat PDF forms. When users click on those forms, if they are using Google Chrome, they get this message:
>
> **Please wait...**
>
>
> If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of
> the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of
> ... | Basically, you need to force the download of the PDF file.
If you edit the **.htaccess** file and add this code, all PDF files should be downloaded instead of opened in your site.
```
<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
```
If th... |
81,735 | <p>I have a site I am creating for a non-profit organization. Their organization has a United States Mailing Address and a Canada Mailing Address. I want to add both addresses with Schema.org (using JSON-LD), but I cannot figure out how. I originally tried this: </p>
<pre><code>"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress... | [
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"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/81735",
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] | I have a site I am creating for a non-profit organization. Their organization has a United States Mailing Address and a Canada Mailing Address. I want to add both addresses with Schema.org (using JSON-LD), but I cannot figure out how. I originally tried this:
```
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"addres... | Similar to [adding multiple string/URL values](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/81081/17633): by [using an **array**](http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-json-ld-20140116/#sets-and-lists).
```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"address":
[
{... |
81,743 | <p>I'm about to deploy a website for testing and I want to let all the indexing bots to not index my site during this phase. </p>
<p>According to <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062596?hl=en&ref_topic=6061961" rel="nofollow">Google Webmasters Help section</a> apparently you only need the fol... | [
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] | I'm about to deploy a website for testing and I want to let all the indexing bots to not index my site during this phase.
According to [Google Webmasters Help section](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062596?hl=en&ref_topic=6061961) apparently you only need the following in your `robots.txt` file:
```
D... | The original robots.txt specification is <http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html>, where it says:
>
> The record starts with one or more User-agent lines […]
>
>
>
So yes, `User-agent` is required. |
81,756 | <p>I got a hit from a crawler with a user-agent called <code>DV CRAWLER</code> which is an abvious a spam-bot. I tried to block it in both .htacess and nginx configuration as I'm running nginx as a reverse proxy in front of apache.</p>
<p>Here is the code I used for .htaccess</p>
<pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AG... | [
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Here is the code I used for .htaccess
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^.*(Baiduspider|DV CRAWLER)... | Your regex code in general is wrong.
Try instead something like this:
```
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (.*Baiduspider.*|.*DV.*CRAWLER.*) [NC]
```
You are matching against a string in each iteration between the parenthesis `()` separated by the pipe character `|` whereas `.*` is a wild card that matches anything. ... |
81,768 | <p>I am not able to differentiate between canonical and 301 Redirects.</p>
<p>The canonical link and 301 redirects have been around for years, but they continuously generate the confusion and questions about which is the best solution to manage the redirection.</p>
<p>So, can you elaborate the general problems with ... | [
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The canonical link and 301 redirects have been around for years, but they continuously generate the confusion and questions about which is the best solution to manage the redirection.
So, can you elaborate the general problems with 301 redirects and ... | When you use 301 redirect, you show to Google that current page it's permanently moved to another url.
Cannonical is used to prevent penalties by Google for duplicate content. When you use it, the current page exists but shows to google that is "copy" of another "master page" For example I can give you OpenCart produ... |
81,780 | <p>I have recently created my website and hosted it through 000webhost. I have also begun researching on how to make my website 'searchable' from googles search engine.</p>
<p>And so i came across google webmasters and its tools. I created a sitemap and submitted it, and added the needed tags to my website head.</p>
... | [
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And so i came across google webmasters and its tools. I created a sitemap and submitted it, and added the needed tags to my website head.
I then asked g... | When you use 301 redirect, you show to Google that current page it's permanently moved to another url.
Cannonical is used to prevent penalties by Google for duplicate content. When you use it, the current page exists but shows to google that is "copy" of another "master page" For example I can give you OpenCart produ... |
81,787 | <p>I'd like my website to be SSL only but I'm faced with problem regarding the SSL certification not being supported on older browsers such as IE8, not that I care to much but wondering if there's away around the issue using the htaccess, virtual host, or maybe even php. </p>
<p>My current redirect looks like this (pl... | [
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My current redirect looks like this (please note ... | Well first of all SNI is a server setting not a cert setting.
A bit of background here might help:
When a browser connects to a https website, it converts the website name to an IP address and then initiates a SSL connection to that IP address (**without** the address name) and checks the cert returned by the server.... |
81,845 | <p>I have a website with some some content which changes frequently.</p>
<p>I would like to benefit from good caching when this doesn't change (so would ideally use a longer Cache-Control header), but would also like to ensure the latest information is used (so ideally would use a shorter Cache-Control header). These ... | [
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] | I have a website with some some content which changes frequently.
I would like to benefit from good caching when this doesn't change (so would ideally use a longer Cache-Control header), but would also like to ensure the latest information is used (so ideally would use a shorter Cache-Control header). These obviously ... | >
> When an HTML page or content (CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts... etc.)
> is expired past it's cache control header time, how long do browsers
> keep the content around to make use of 304 responses?
>
>
>
While browsers may keep the content stored on disk in a temporary or cache directory beyond the expiry date/... |
81,856 | <p>I'd like to limit access to a Drupal 7 registration page (/user/register) from certain IP addresses.</p>
<p>I've tried to set the apache directive, but it's still letting me access it from an IP that isn't specified.</p>
<p>Here's a snippet of my virtualhost directive</p>
<pre><code><VirtualHost *:80>
D... | [
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] | I'd like to limit access to a Drupal 7 registration page (/user/register) from certain IP addresses.
I've tried to set the apache directive, but it's still letting me access it from an IP that isn't specified.
Here's a snippet of my virtualhost directive
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
Serv... | >
> When an HTML page or content (CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts... etc.)
> is expired past it's cache control header time, how long do browsers
> keep the content around to make use of 304 responses?
>
>
>
While browsers may keep the content stored on disk in a temporary or cache directory beyond the expiry date/... |
81,857 | <p>I am about to wrap up a big project and at the moment I am preparing my Meta Descriptions (around 80 total). This website will focus on educating the general public about a particulate industry and its benefits. </p>
<p>A lot of content has been written with great visuals explaining how everything works. Since most... | [
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"text": "<p>I think that's more about marketing and CRO.</p>\n\n<p>After you divided and categorized your pages in topic... | 2015/06/03 | [
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] | I am about to wrap up a big project and at the moment I am preparing my Meta Descriptions (around 80 total). This website will focus on educating the general public about a particulate industry and its benefits.
A lot of content has been written with great visuals explaining how everything works. Since most content i... | I think that's more about marketing and CRO.
After you divided and categorized your pages in topic and subtopic, also think about the intention of the user when he would find one of this website's page.
You can divide for example by the known 3 intentions:
* Informational
* Navigational
* Commercial/Transactional
F... |
81,858 | <p>I'm looking for the proper way to track pdf downloads from both emails and our site links. </p>
<p>If I have many pdfs on a single page, how do I track the pdf downloaded? I found an article on Moz explaining to add "&PDF=name of pdf" to the link as a way. How does this affect bounce rate and other measures? If... | [
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If I have many pdfs on a single page, how do I track the pdf downloaded? I found an article on Moz explaining to add "&PDF=name of pdf" to the link as a way. How does this affect bounce rate and other measures? If a user lands ... | **If I have many pdfs on a single page, how do I track the pdf downloaded?**
If your goal is to track PDF's based on type or subject then you can add even tracking code to each one and it will show up under your Behavior -> Events report in GA. This could get very tedious and really depends on how many PDF's we are ta... |
81,880 | <h2>Objective:</h2>
<p>I want to create multilevel sub-domains. For example, I've a domain like "<strong><code>domain.com</code></strong>," and now I want to create some sub-domains for it.</p>
<p>It should be noted that what I'm working on it, belongs to a company and that <em>company has a <strong>Shared IP</strong... | [
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"text": "<p>The software 'WebsitePanel' does not allow you to make subdomains of a subdomain.</p>\n\n<block... | 2015/06/04 | [
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] | Objective:
----------
I want to create multilevel sub-domains. For example, I've a domain like "**`domain.com`**," and now I want to create some sub-domains for it.
It should be noted that what I'm working on it, belongs to a company and that *company has a **Shared IP** not a **Dedicated IP***.
---
Creating Sub-do... | The approach of using a wildcard DNS record is probably the correct one for your use case.
When you configure a wildcard DNS record, all requests to any subdomain will be resolved to the IP address of your webserver. You can then further process the request on your webserver.
This approach is known as [Virtual Hostin... |
81,906 | <p>The structure of my url is <code>http://www.somesomewebsite.com/ShowProduct.aspx?ID=12</code>. </p>
<p>I am doing a permanent redirect (301) to <code>http://www.somewebsite.com/product-category/12/this-is-my-product-name/</code>. However if the user types just <code>http://www.somewebsite.com/product-category/12/</... | [
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"text": "<p>The canonical URL should be the URL you want Google to show in their search results. So:</p>\n\n<pre><code>ht... | 2015/06/04 | [
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I am doing a permanent redirect (301) to `http://www.somewebsite.com/product-category/12/this-is-my-product-name/`. However if the user types just `http://www.somewebsite.com/product-category/12/` he/she is given a 404 error.
What sh... | The canonical URL should be the URL you want Google to show in their search results. So:
```
http://www.somewebsite.com/product-category/12/this-is-my-product-name/
``` |
81,911 | <p>I got two domain names</p>
<pre><code>company.com
company.jp
</code></pre>
<p>Each domain has its own website with different content hosted on same server but different accounts, the purpose is to display optimized website and content per country.</p>
<p>Is it possible to tell search engines to display different ... | [
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```
company.com
company.jp
```
Each domain has its own website with different content hosted on same server but different accounts, the purpose is to display optimized website and content per country.
Is it possible to tell search engines to display different domain names based on users count... | That is going to happen to at least some point without your having to do anything. Google uses a load-balancing mechanism to load different Google sites according to the audience. It would not make sense for a data center to serve sites and pages that a portion of the world is not looking for or in a language that is n... |
81,920 | <p>I have a website where people can browse photos from different party venues. I notice in my google webmaster tools that people make the following queries in google to at least view my site in the search results:</p>
<pre><code>[venue name] pictures
[venue name]
[venue name] photos
[venue name] toronto
</code></pre>... | [
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```
[venue name] pictures
[venue name]
[venue name] photos
[venue name] toronto
```
"venue name" shown ab... | That is going to happen to at least some point without your having to do anything. Google uses a load-balancing mechanism to load different Google sites according to the audience. It would not make sense for a data center to serve sites and pages that a portion of the world is not looking for or in a language that is n... |
81,927 | <p>I need to install Java and ANT on my 1and1 hosted web server but can't get it to work. I'm very unfamiliar with Linux terminal commands.</p>
<p>I've tried sudo and su commands but apparently they don't exists and commands like "sudo apt-get update" return that sudo does not exists.</p>
<p>I believe my host is Debi... | [
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I've tried sudo and su commands but apparently they don't exists and commands like "sudo apt-get update" return that sudo does not exists.
I believe my host is Debian so I've tried ... | You have a [shared hosting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_web_hosting_service) plan. That means you cannot install software. Your SSH access is primarily meant for managing files remotely.
You may be able to run Java or whatnot with your account, but not as a server/service.
Generally, the minimum required host... |
81,936 | <p>For example i have the domainname buyhouse.com The keywords "buy house new york"</p>
<pre><code>buyhouse.com/new-york/
buyhouse.com/buy-house-new-york/
</code></pre>
<p>Whats the best url option for SEO?</p>
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```
buyhouse.com/new-york/
buyhouse.com/buy-house-new-york/
```
Whats the best url option for SEO? | Neither is best...
The best would be a domain name that you love, can brand and your customers will remember.
The perfect formula for a good URL is something your visitors can read and understand just glancing, they trust Google enough that the page is relevant, and this is why its a fact that shorter domains and ur... |
81,943 | <p>I was doing some research on breadcrumbs an came across the following resources:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LH5eyufqH0" rel="nofollow">Matt Cutts on breadcrumbs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/breadcrumbs/15022/" rel="nofollow">Anna smarty on SEO and breadcrumbs<... | [
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* [Matt Cutts on breadcrumbs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LH5eyufqH0)
* [Anna smarty on SEO and breadcrumbs](http://www.searchenginejournal.com/breadcrumbs/15022/)
So Matt Cutts says that breadcumbs are new to SERPS in SEO, that was... | A delimiter is simply a character (or more than 1) that separates content parts of data. For example:
```
> , / »
```
So, the right angle bracket `>` you used in your examples are considered *delimiters*.
The second one you suggest is redundant. It repeats the same keyword. There's no need.
Nothing to add about imp... |
81,995 | <p>I hope I am not that wrong at webmasters.</p>
<p>Recently I'm seeing something like this in my logs:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>146.0.32.XXX - - [07/Jun/2015:18:38:32 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8330 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; savetheworldheritage.org/1.1; +crawl@savetheworldheritage.org)"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I th... | [
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"text": "<p>This site is hosted on GoDaddy and is parked for the moment. </p>\n\n<p>The IP address for savetheworldherit... | 2015/06/07 | [
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Recently I'm seeing something like this in my logs:
>
> 146.0.32.XXX - - [07/Jun/2015:18:38:32 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8330 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; savetheworldheritage.org/1.1; +crawl@savetheworldheritage.org)"
>
>
>
I think it's a crawler but what is it crawl... | This site is hosted on GoDaddy and is parked for the moment.
The IP address for savetheworldheritage.org is 50.63.202.37. There is no specific information about this host that can be relied upon at this point.
I have these similar IP address in my database:
```
AS Number AS47147 - VisNetwork Media SRL
146.0.32.13
1... |
81,998 | <p>Ive got domainA which has a 301 redirect setup to redirect traffic from domainA to domainB, Id like to track how much traffic is coming through as a redirect from domainA.</p>
<p>How could i track this in Google Analytics ?</p>
<p>Further info my 301 is set in the <code>.htaccess</code> file</p>
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"text": "<p>You wont actually be able to log this with Google analytics. This would require that the page is loaded b... | 2015/06/07 | [
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How could i track this in Google Analytics ?
Further info my 301 is set in the `.htaccess` file | Solution that matches your query exactly:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20161211202057/www.lanevance.com/web/web-development/tracking-301-redirects-with-google-analytics>
You can set up a campaign
Sample:
```
www.domaina.example -> http://www.domainb.example/?utm_source=domainaredirect&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=301_R... |
82,050 | <p>Is it possible that I set-up a redirect of my store which is located at www.xyz.com/store to store.xyz.com .</p>
<p>Do i have to buy a new domain name or is there any other way.</p>
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"text": "<p>You most certainly do not have to buy store.xyz.com as a new domain name. store.xyz.com is a part of xyz.com<... | 2015/06/09 | [
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Do i have to buy a new domain name or is there any other way. | You most certainly do not have to buy store.xyz.com as a new domain name. store.xyz.com is a part of xyz.com
A domain name is made up of multiple parts
**www.google.com**
```
www.google.com
| | | --- domain name extension
| | --- domain name
| --- subdomain
```
**mail.google.com**
```
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82,076 | <p>Are spam messages labeled by Gmail as "Fake Bounce Emails" really that fake in all cases? Is there a way they could actually be legit?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/87PPK.png" alt="Example of the notice found when Gmail labels an email as fake bounce."></p>
<p>We run a server with multiple domains whi... | [
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"text": "<p>I don't think it is possible to see exactly where your page has been shared on Facebook, only how many times. For... | 2015/06/09 | [
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We run a server with multiple domains which have all the classic email a... | The only direct answer is applicable facebook news feeds. If that's not a good enough answer, then contact Mark Zuckenburg. My apologies if I spelled his name wrong.
But really, the only way you'll know sharing info like this is to contact the people that run facebook.
As you know, anyone can choose to share a webpa... |
82,078 | <p>I'm going to use the <a href="http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/" rel="nofollow">fancyBox</a> jQuery plugin in the new responsive web design of my website to allow the user to open images in full size. As it is RWD, all images will be resized to fit the available page width automatically if required using the CSS rule <... | [
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"text": "<p>It's not considered bad coding style, in fact it's rather common to have the same link occurring at differe... | 2015/06/09 | [
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Unle... |
82,092 | <p>I added some meta open graph (Twitter, Facebook) to my page, but it breaks my breadcrumb structured data in Structured Data Testing Tool.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zx1bL.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I have no idea where <a href="http://ogp.me/" rel="noreferrer">http://ogp.me/</a... | [
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"text": "<p>When checking your document by entering its URL, it reports this error.<br>\nBut when checking your document by ... | 2015/06/09 | [
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I have no idea where <http://ogp.me/>\* coming from. Here is the [source code](http://pastebin.com/sxQfpiMN) of... | This looks like a mix-up on our (Google's) side -- I'll pass it on to the team to check out. Thanks! |
82,124 | <p>I found and fixed a problem where my utm code was drastically slowing down page loads. The problem was the leading character was a <code>?</code>. The solution was to change it to a <code>#</code>. Now, we have literally hundreds of campaigns with the leading <code>?</code> and manually changing them will take forev... | [
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"text": "<p>I think using <code>#</code> instead of <code>?</code> is worse. </p>\n\n<p>With a standard UR... | 2015/06/10 | [
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Is it possible to change that `... | This looks like a server-side caching issue with your site. (You perhaps need to remove the query string when generating a cache key?)
The problem is with *any* query string, not just UTM codes. Try appending `?hello=world` to any URL and you get an extended (20+ second) load time on the initial (non-cached) request. ... |
82,131 | <p>I have a client who has many domain names. Their main domain name is the brand of the company. The other domains are, more or less, domains that match various keywords. I <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/52311/9539">know</a> exact match domains are no longer a benefit for SEO.</p>
<p>What my client i... | [
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"text": "<p>I think using <code>#</code> instead of <code>?</code> is worse. </p>\n\n<p>With a standard UR... | 2015/06/11 | [
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What my client is look to do is have ... | This looks like a server-side caching issue with your site. (You perhaps need to remove the query string when generating a cache key?)
The problem is with *any* query string, not just UTM codes. Try appending `?hello=world` to any URL and you get an extended (20+ second) load time on the initial (non-cached) request. ... |
82,141 | <p>as I discovered recently a lot of domains of a certain organisation all have their A-Record set to the IP of a server that I own. The server currently does only host security auditing tools and does not contain a website. However I might want to host something with this IP in the future and do not want to be associa... | [
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The problem is with *any* query string, not just UTM codes. Try appending `?hello=world` to any URL and you get an extended (20+ second) load time on the initial (non-cached) request. ... |
82,201 | <p>Sometimes clients of mine request a specific font to be used in their website.
I try and embed it using CSS @font face, but It is not very cross browser friendly. Sometimes I use Google fonts but they are never exactly the same.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the best way to embed a font with the most cross browser capabi... | [
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"text": "<p>I'd wish there was a better answer than what I'm giving, but your best bet is to use server-si... | 2015/06/12 | [
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I try and embed it using CSS @font face, but It is not very cross browser friendly. Sometimes I use Google fonts but they are never exactly the same.
Does anyone know the best way to embed a font with the most cross browser capabilities pos... | Google option is good, but your best option is `@font-face`. It is supported in almost all browsers (except Opera Mini), which you can see on "[can i use](http://caniuse.com/#search=font-face)" and for the problem of some fonts being rendered differently on browsers, you just need to find the best settings for your fon... |
82,225 | <p>Missing Glue Record</p>
<p>there. I am trying to point my domain registered at <code>names.example</code> to my private name servers. However the process fails with a message from <code>names.example</code> telling me:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Required parameter missing. V024 Missing Glue record for server <code>ns1.mydo... | [
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there. I am trying to point my domain registered at `names.example` to my private name servers. However the process fails with a message from `names.example` telling me:
>
> Required parameter missing. V024 Missing Glue record for server `ns1.mydomain.example`.
>
>
>
Pretty sure I have the co... | As Patrick [says](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/106013/), you need your registrar to put a glue record in place with your nameserver subdomains and IP addresses. I've been running a split horizon network like this for many years with my own master and backup nameservers only exposed though IPv6 and external ba... |