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90,503 | <p>I have just added a new property to the Google search console. I've added it as <a href="http://example.com" rel="nofollow">http://example.com</a> and <a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com</a>. </p>
<p>I receive the following error message: Severe health issues are found in your pro... | [
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"text": "<p><strong>API</strong> is doing stuff when you ask it to, while <strong>Webhook</strong> does stuff on it's own whe... | 2016/02/25 | [
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I receive the following error message: Severe health issues are found in your property. Is robots.txt blocking important pages? Some important page is blocked by robots.txt.
The "some i... | The first and main difference between them is that with most APIs there’s a request followed by a response. No request is required for a webhook, it just sends the data when it’s available.
Simple view:
============
>
> The API is an interface to your data on example.com. The API is used
> from your server to the ex... |
90,520 | <p>I'm trying to be a good boy and implement the relevant markup and tags that make people happy and clappy. In doing so I have assimilated multiple sources of information, and implemented multiple types of mark-up.</p>
<p>What I'm wondering is: should I?</p>
<p>At first it seems sensible to use as many formats as yo... | [
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"text": "<p>A sane ranking would reject redundancy as pointless <em>or penalize it</em>, so I'd stick to a single format... | 2016/02/26 | [
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What I'm wondering is: should I?
At first it seems sensible to use as many formats as you can be bothered... | It makes sense that Google’s SDTT shows multiple entries¹, because it can’t know if these entities are supposed to represent the same thing or not.
All three syntaxes supported by Google Search provide a way to denote a URI for the entity (`@id` in JSON-LD, `itemid` in Microdata, `about` in RDFa). It’s always a good ... |
90,561 | <p>I want all my subdomains to not be indexed under my domain, that means when I search in Google for example.com to not appear in index test.example.com, but when I search test.example.com to be indexed.</p>
<p>Is it possible to add a Code in domain.com <code>robots.txt</code> to not index the subdomains when search ... | [
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"text": "<p>In Google, to do a <code>site:</code> search on the main domain (eg. <code>example.com</code>), but exclude the... | 2016/02/26 | [
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Is it possible to add a Code in domain.com `robots.txt` to not index the subdomains when search on google site:exampl... | In Google, to do a `site:` search on the main domain (eg. `example.com`), but exclude the subdomain `test` from the search results you would use the search:
```
site:example.com -site:test.example.com
```
You would need to do this for each subdomain you wish to exclude from the results.
>
> Is it possible to add a... |
90,682 | <p>We have the following structure of our website:</p>
<p><strong>Main site - mainsite.example</strong></p>
<p>Contains blog, few products and pricing table etc...</p>
<p><strong>Single product sites - myproduct1.example, myproduct2.example</strong></p>
<p>Product specific website which sits on its own domain and c... | [
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"text": "<p>My understanding is: You want to track all your e-commerce info from multiple domains under one tracking cod... | 2016/03/01 | [
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**Main site - mainsite.example**
Contains blog, few products and pricing table etc...
**Single product sites - myproduct1.example, myproduct2.example**
Product specific website which sits on its own domain and contains pricing table
**Storefront provider - Fastspring... | Using a number of subdomains for individual product pages is not very scalable but if you want to track all the domains under one main property (and have the eCommerce data roll up into one view) there is a way to do this in Google Analytics. I will broadstroake it here but the detailed documentation can be found [here... |
90,720 | <p>I've been asked to create a 307 redirect for a domain, ensuring it is "masked". i.e. keep the original URL in the address bar.</p>
<p>There isn't a lot of info available about 307 (as opposed to 301/302) redirects, but from my investigations it seems that 307 redirects are similar to 302 redirects.</p>
<p>I have ... | [
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"text": "<p>Is your system date/time ok (Both server and phone)? The error code states \"DATE INVALID\"</p>\n\n<p>It could al... | 2016/03/02 | [
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] | I've been asked to create a 307 redirect for a domain, ensuring it is "masked". i.e. keep the original URL in the address bar.
There isn't a lot of info available about 307 (as opposed to 301/302) redirects, but from my investigations it seems that 307 redirects are similar to 302 redirects.
I have a feeling what I'v... | Ok problem is in certificate. I used [ssl checker](https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.htm) and got error so now I know what to do
The certificate is not trusted in all web browsers. You may need to install an Intermediate/chain certificate to link it to a trusted root certificate. Learn more about this error. You ... |
90,811 | <p>I followed this setup in my sitemap that Google outlines on this page: <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en</a> .</p>
<pre><code><url>
<loc>http://example.com/en</loc>
<xhtml:link rel="altern... | [
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"text": "<p>The <code>canonical</code> and <code>alternate</code> tags IMHO should be used in the HTML of a page. </p>\n\n<... | 2016/03/03 | [
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```
<url>
<loc>http://example.com/en</loc>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/fr" hreflang="fr" />
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="http://example.com/de" hreflang="de... | It is always best to have a "rel=canonical" in the `<head>` of the HTML code in each page that you want the site crawled as. This means that if you are using a a separate site for desktop and mobile, and both pages point to the same content, always have the canonical link point to the address that you want the search e... |
90,817 | <p>We have just put up a post, less than 2 hours ago. We usually rank pretty well, including in this case. Regardless, when I search on google.com for the post by name, it comes up as the first result.</p>
<p>However, it says the post is 2 days old, when it's no more than 2 hours old:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.... | [
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"text": "<p>This is completely normal. HTTPS is technically a completely separate site, though traditionally, it mirror... | 2016/03/03 | [
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However, it says the post is 2 days old, when it's no more than 2 hours old:
[.</p>
<p>So I tried the following in HTML:</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><a href='ä.html'>ä.html</a>
<a href='&auml;.html'>&... | [
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"text": "<p>Well there isn't much information to answer exactly. But here are the possible things which can ... | 2016/03/05 | [
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So I tried the following in HTML:
```html
<a href='ä.html'>ä.html</a>
<a href='ä.html'>&auml;.html</a>
<a href='%C3%A4.html'>%C3%A4.html</a>
```
and
```html
<a href='%E4.ht... | Well there isn't much information to answer exactly. But here are the possible things which can cause.
* You might have mis-configured dynamic pages in the webmasters
* There might have been some pages with query string which may cause 404 and 500 errors
* Someone might be trying to hack your site with random URL's
T... |
90,886 | <p>I need to prevent robots from indexing specific word on my webpage.</p>
<p>Here is what I did:</p>
<p>Let's say I need to prevent <code>JOHN GALLOW</code> from being indexed. For that purpose, I wrote this pararaph: <code>Over the course of its first five years, JJJ was successful enough in providing shoes for chi... | [
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"text": "<p>Whilst I question your reason for this, one solution would be to use an image with the text. Something li... | 2016/03/05 | [
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Here is what I did:
Let's say I need to prevent `JOHN GALLOW` from being indexed. For that purpose, I wrote this pararaph: `Over the course of its first five years, JJJ was successful enough in providing shoes for children in need`
Then I added this... | If the user-agent is Googlebot, then you can serve a different content, by hiding whatever you want.
```
if(strstr(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']), "googlebot"))
{
// remove the words
}
else
{
//normal text
}
```
But Google will not like serving different content, but if the difference is minor, ther... |
90,964 | <p>I'd like to start using schema.org markup. At the moment I'm trying to mark up voucher codes but I'm a bit lost. I have seen one website that is showing voucher codes as offers:</p>
<pre><code><div itemprop="offers" itemtype="https://schema.org/Offer">
<meta itemprop="price" content="40.0%" />
&... | [
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"text": "<p><a href=\"https://schema.org/discount\" rel=\"nofollow\">discount</a> only applies to <a href=\"https://schema.org... | 2016/03/08 | [
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```
<div itemprop="offers" itemtype="https://schema.org/Offer">
<meta itemprop="price" content="40.0%" />
<link itemprop="availabilit... | [discount](https://schema.org/discount) only applies to [Order](https://schema.org/Order), which is for completed transactions. Thus there's no real schema designed specifically for separate discount codes.
[Offer](https://schema.org/Offer) seems to be the closest and most appropriate schema for this as you *are* offe... |
90,967 | <p>Someone here might have experience with this problem (it's not my personal problem and never has been):</p>
<p>Say you have a customer who is an observant Jew and he wants his site to be offline somehow (or at least online but unavailable for surfing) during Saturday - Shabat in Hebrew, Sabbath in English.</p>
<p>... | [
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"text": "<p>I haven't thought about this before. But I believe it will probably hurt your SEO but might not if you do ... | 2016/03/08 | [
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Say you have a customer who is an observant Jew and he wants his site to be offline somehow (or at least online but unavailable for surfing) during Saturday - Shabat in Hebrew, Sabbath in English.
Is there a way to... | Placing a website on a temporary hold should it be downtime for maintenance or for religious reasons will not harm your on-going SEO. It may however lower search results temporary until the website is backup, but obviously this should be expected, but long-term, no problem.
The tip to placing a website on hold tempor... |
90,984 | <p>I am trying to link my domain registerd from <code>exabytes.com.my</code> and I want to link it with my server in GoDaddy.</p>
<p><code>exabytes.com.my</code> allowed me to modify nameservers only , I set name servers as : </p>
<pre><code>ns1.secureserver.net
ns2.secureserver.net
</code></pre>
<p>I added my doma... | [
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"text": "<p>From Google Analytics Help : How a session is defined in Analytics\n<a href=\"https://support.google.com/a... | 2016/03/08 | [
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`exabytes.com.my` allowed me to modify nameservers only , I set name servers as :
```
ns1.secureserver.net
ns2.secureserver.net
```
I added my domain and put the same nameservers in GoDaddy server and i... | Midnight is the logic time to end a session - if there has to be a specific time at which each and every session, no matter how long it is open has to be ended.
Even if it might seem stupid to count two sessions for a user visiting from 11:55pm - and leaving after 10 minutes. You might want to count visits per day/wee... |
91,048 | <p>I am responsible for security of lots of shared hosting server. We have at least 500 wordpress website in each server. </p>
<p>Some of the website owners keep a weak password for WP admin or use vulnerable plugin/themes, this results in injecting a WP sites with malware. </p>
<p>Once website is injected with malwa... | [
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"text": "<p>I asked this question and I think, I have found the answer. </p>\n\n<p>The following code to be appended in .hta... | 2016/02/26 | [
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Some of the website owners keep a weak password for WP admin or use vulnerable plugin/themes, this results in injecting a WP sites with malware.
Once website is injected with malware, It is used fo... | I asked this question and I think, I have found the answer.
The following code to be appended in .htaccess of public\_html
```
<Files *.php>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</Files>
<Files index.php>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Files>
<Files wp-login.php>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from a... |
91,051 | <p>What is the difference between a <code>Brand</code> and an <code>Organization</code>?</p>
<p>If you have a clothing website, and you sell clothes and shoes from popular names like Adidas, Reebok, Puma, etc. When displaying these names in a list would you mark them up as a <code>Brand</code> or an <code>Organization... | [
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If you have a clothing website, and you sell clothes and shoes from popular names like Adidas, Reebok, Puma, etc. When displaying these names in a list would you mark them up as a `Brand` or an `Organization`?
Would `Brand` be the name that you are selli... | The difference might become clearer for cases where the organization name is not identical to the brand name.
For example, consider the company *Lenovo* (`Organization`) which owns the brand *ThinkPad* (`Brand`). A specific *ThinkPad* product (`Product`) manufactured by *Lenovo* could be marked up like this:
```html... |
91,057 | <p>I want to direct all of the pages (around 700) from my old website, to the homepage of my new website. </p>
<p>I found this method to be used in .htaccess:</p>
<pre><code>redirectMatch 301 ^/ http://www.newwebsite.co.uk
</code></pre>
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I found this method to be used in .htaccess:
```
redirectMatch 301 ^/ http://www.newwebsite.co.uk
```
Is this an effective method for redirecting all traffic to the new websites' homepage? I found this solution o... | The difference might become clearer for cases where the organization name is not identical to the brand name.
For example, consider the company *Lenovo* (`Organization`) which owns the brand *ThinkPad* (`Brand`). A specific *ThinkPad* product (`Product`) manufactured by *Lenovo* could be marked up like this:
```html... |
91,109 | <p>I have already remapped URL's from for example /sub/test/ to test.html but I also want to redirect /sub/test.html to /sub/test/ but here seems to be a clash between the rules.</p>
<p>.htaccess files is in the /sub directory and should only apply to /sub directory and any sub-directories under it.</p>
<p>Here's the... | [
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.htaccess files is in the /sub directory and should only apply to /sub directory and any sub-directories under it.
Here's the .htaccess file:
... | >
> What is causing the redirect loop?
>
>
>
When the "last directive" executes, the rewriting process doesn't suddenly stop completely, only the current *pass* stops. The whole rewriting process starts again from the top! The process only stops completely when the URL passes through unchanged (or when it hits the... |
91,175 | <p>After putting my site into one domain instead of multiple subdomains, I checked my logs and noticed that search engines (particularly google) are scanning robots.txt several times a day for each subdomain. I only left the subdomains active so that people who accessed the old URLs can be automatically redirected to t... | [
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"text": "<p>You should keep the subdomains setup with redirects to your top level domain - that way old traffic will land o... | 2016/03/11 | [
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But, If your robots.txt did not blocked anything like any directory, then don't use robots.txt at all. For blocking other bots, you can use httacess. I ... |
91,203 | <p>I have a website built on Joomla/PHP and it was going well until I found a <code>RewriteCond</code> directive in my <code>.htaccess</code> file to a website with porn content.</p>
<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} "text/vnd.wap.wml|application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_... | [
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"text": "<p>No hacking method has been described, rather the result of an unknown method of access that has allowed the... | 2016/03/13 | [
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```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} "text/vnd.wap.wml|application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml" [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|BlackBerry|htc|iPad|... | No hacking method has been described, rather the result of an unknown method of access that has allowed the ability to change or add files to the server filesystem.
First step is to find out how they got in to change such a low level file. You need to determine whether:
1. They were able to gain access to either your... |
91,215 | <p>I need to use content from a testimonials page of another site, but I don't want to be caught for duplicate content.</p>
<p>Is there something I can do to tell google that the div where the content is is using content from another external page?</p>
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Is there something I can do to tell google that the div where the content is is using content from another external page? | When using content from other sites you can use [`<blockquote>` and `<cite>`](http://html5doctor.com/blockquote-q-cite/), one of my customers had a similar case to yours, they wanted to use external reviews on [TrustPilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.rusticstone.net), by using blockquote, cite and [Schema](htt... |
91,286 | <p>I looked through my website access log files and I saw lots of requests for icon files (with counts):</p>
<pre><code>49146 /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
45836 /apple-touch-icon.png
40287 /favicon.ico
6752 /apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png
6669 /apple-touch-icon-120x120.png
886 /apple-touch-icon-152x... | [
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```
49146 /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
45836 /apple-touch-icon.png
40287 /favicon.ico
6752 /apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png
6669 /apple-touch-icon-120x120.png
886 /apple-touch-icon-152x152-precompose... | * Your icon should be square. It needs to be resized in a variety of ways to support every browser and application that will use it.
* It is fine to use PNG files, but you should create an ICO file with multiple sizes in it. This cuts down on the number of meta tags you have to use.
* You can name your files however yo... |
91,303 | <p>I am not concerned about the fact that Google+ will use the person's name instead of the page title. However, the person's name is not the main keyword the webpage is optimized for.</p>
<p>The page is optimized for $name photos and $name movies. Will the use of schema.org/Person markup (which is implemented correct... | [
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The page is optimized for $name photos and $name movies. Will the use of schema.org/Person markup (which is implemented correctly and doe... | When sharing on Google Plus, Google will only use Schema if no [The Open Graph protocol (OGP)](http://ogp.me/) is detected. In the event that no Schema or OGP is found then Google Plus will revert to the normal meta data that is used for ranking on Google Search. Obviously if none of these are found then Google will sc... |
91,346 | <p>I have a website www.example.com which is currently not an ecommerce site. Now I want to sell some stuff. </p>
<p>What are the pros/cons of setting up the store on a separate subdomain integrated with the main site? SEO? Site maintenance? Changing ecommerce platforms in the future?</p>
<pre><code>shop.example.co... | [
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What are the pros/cons of setting up the store on a separate subdomain integrated with the main site? SEO? Site maintenance? Changing ecommerce platforms in the future?
```
shop.example.com/product/gizmo
shop.ex... | When you are using two different pieces of software, it is far easier to host the two parts of your site on different subdomains. It is very common to have:
* `blog.example.com/` running WordPress
* `store.example.com/` running Magento or WooCommerce
* `jobs.example.com/` powered by a company that handles HR
* `www.e... |
91,354 | <p>I'm studying schemas for a future project and I find this <a href="https://schema.org/encoding" rel="nofollow">encoding</a> property. The information about it leads to a cycle of repeated information and I still don't know the purpose of this one.</p>
<p>Anybody can help me?</p>
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Anybody can help me? | Let’s say you write about a song on your blog, and you offer it for download as MP3 and OGG.
A [`MusicRecording`](http://schema.org/MusicRecording) item describes the song, with properties like [`byArtist`](http://schema.org/byArtist) (for the song’s artist) and [`about`](http://schema.org/about) (for the song’s topic... |
91,486 | <p>I am looking Search Console and found Crawl errors for following URLs on my site:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>example.com/mobile</code></li>
<li><code>example.com/m</code></li>
</ul>
<p>I never mentioned these pages anywhere but why Google is accessing it and what should I do?</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong></p>
<p>I just... | [
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* `example.com/mobile`
* `example.com/m`
I never mentioned these pages anywhere but why Google is accessing it and what should I do?
**Update**
I just checked this on *robot.txt*, could this be a reason? sounds lame though, it seems M... | Google is going to check absolutely everything in relation to the site and try to index it all.
It will scan the home page, discover the links there and scan every one of them and so on and so forth.
It will also check every single URL you have included in all sitemaps that you have submitted to webmaster tools.
Wh... |
91,549 | <p>I am setting up AMP for my news site. Does anyone know if there is Google Tag Manager Support? I know you can use Google Analytics. I wonder if I use GA tracking code on all /amp/ pages it will track double.</p>
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hjPI5.jpg)
The... |
91,684 | <p>I am making a comic web site. Each comic is a single png and has a html page. For each comic I have a transcript, like this:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A and B are sitting on a bench in the park.</p>
<p>A: Nice weather today.</p>
<p>B gives him a weird look: Too rainy!</p>
<p>A: ...</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Where I should put ... | [
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>
> A and B are sitting on a bench in the park.
>
>
> A: Nice weather today.
>
>
> B gives him a weird look: Too rainy!
>
>
> A: ...
>
>
>
Where I should put that transcript in the ht... | Using the `alt` attribute in such cases is not ideal, because often some markup/structure is needed to describe the image’s content, which `alt` does not allow (it can only contain plain text).
Other options:
* The [`longdesc` attribute](https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-html-longdesc-20150226/) allows you to link to a ... |
91,779 | <p>I am interested in hearing the community's thoughts about "in-line linking". That is, the act of embedding photo/video/written content into a particular website via code, such that a website can provide a frame to a host website's server content. See the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking" rel="no... | [
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"text": "<p>Linking to resources on another site such as images is generally frowned upon unless the site that hosts th... | 2016/03/29 | [
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Eventually you may start to see scary things that can terminate your hosting plan,... |
91,804 | <p>I am developing a hit-and-run blog style posting mechanism for my already otherwise mind-bending HTML short-hand CMS schema that runs several of my sites. I am getting ready to start over on some sites and add a few small sites but want something to make my life simpler.</p>
<p>Since these are sites and not necessa... | [
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"text": "<p>Value is already opinion-based term:) The value of comments you can benefit from is directly depending of the... | 2016/03/29 | [
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Since these are sites and not necessarily blogs... | Regarding Comment Sections:
---------------------------
>
> Search terms used: comments section seo
>
>
>
There are several considerations that need to be made before comment sections and ratings are to be implemented.
>
> General:
>
>
>
* Time it takes to moderate the comments
* Moderation must happen quic... |
91,833 | <p>I have a website running and have added an extra link on the website that links to a WordPress site.</p>
<p>Both sites are hosted on the same domain. Here's my problem;</p>
<p>The domain:<br>
<code>www.example.com</code></p>
<p>The Wordpress blog:<br>
<code>www.blog.example.com</code></p>
<p>Mmy gut is telling m... | [
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Both sites are hosted on the same domain. Here's my problem;
The domain:
`www.example.com`
The Wordpress blog:
`www.blog.example.com`
Mmy gut is telling my that for best SEO practices I need the domain to be: ... | Regarding Comment Sections:
---------------------------
>
> Search terms used: comments section seo
>
>
>
There are several considerations that need to be made before comment sections and ratings are to be implemented.
>
> General:
>
>
>
* Time it takes to moderate the comments
* Moderation must happen quic... |
91,863 | <p>I am not sure what numbers are above the bars:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yojh4.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yojh4.png" alt="Google Analytics Checkout Process"></a></p>
<p>I setup check out steps in ecommerce setup like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.img... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yojh4.png)
I setup check out steps in ecommerce setup like this:
[](https://i.stack... | Regarding Comment Sections:
---------------------------
>
> Search terms used: comments section seo
>
>
>
There are several considerations that need to be made before comment sections and ratings are to be implemented.
>
> General:
>
>
>
* Time it takes to moderate the comments
* Moderation must happen quic... |
91,883 | <p>I have a site that has a call now button for mobile device to directly dial from the site. This works fine, but I am getting errors on my SEO reporting tool. It is throwing errors for every page that has this code on it. Basically it looks like the crawlers are crawling the link with the <code>href="tel:18005559000"... | [
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"text": "<p>Not sure if this is the best method but you could obscure the link using javascript. I've mainly used this met... | 2016/03/25 | [
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"I fear this is dragging down my SEO" -- no. SEO is defined by what Google *actually* does, not what some *broken SEO reporting tool made by a third party* says.
The tool is broken. It's claiming Google has problems with Tel: links, when that is not true. I'm pret... |
91,958 | <p><strong>Update 3:</strong></p>
<p>I've experimented a bit with setting ContentType for all css files to different types like text/plain, text/html and text/css in the .htaccess file of the webserver hosting Owncloud and when running <code>curl --head http://www.<myDomain>.com/core/css/styles.css?v=abbcfa86066... | [
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"text": "<p>Just on the subject of domain extensions, I worry that Russian and Spanish visitors may be confused by be... | 2016/04/03 | [
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I've experimented a bit with setting ContentType for all css files to different types like text/plain, text/html and text/css in the .htaccess file of the webserver hosting Owncloud and when running `curl --head http://www.<myDomain>.com/core/css/styles.css?v=abbcfa8606670b201527db15c9717a61`
from the re... | Just on the subject of domain extensions, I worry that Russian and Spanish visitors may be confused by being required to use the `.ie` domain. Is there a particular reason to keep the `.ie` but not the `.es` or `.ru` domains?
Moving all three to a `.com` (or other generic TLD) may be more sensible. This serves a few b... |
91,966 | <p>When I try to resolve <code>113.181.205.189</code> and <code>203.148.85.74</code>, I get <code>localhost.</code> and <code>HM-DC-BS-BIG.</code> results:</p>
<pre><code>nslookup 113.181.205.189
Non-authoritative answer:
189.205.181.113.in-addr.arpa name = localhost.
nslookup 203.148.85.74
Non-authoritative ... | [
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```
nslookup 113.181.205.189
Non-authoritative answer:
189.205.181.113.in-addr.arpa name = localhost.
nslookup 203.148.85.74
Non-authoritative answer:
74.85.148.203.in-addr.arpa name = HM-DC-BS-BIG.
```... | Those are the results of doing a reverse DNS (RDNS) lookup using the IP PTR records.
You can think of the PTR record as an opposite of the A record. While the A record points a domain name to an IP address, the PTR record resolves the IP address to a domain/hostname. PTR records are used for reverse DNS lookups.
>
>... |
92,042 | <p><em>(Bounty question at the bottom)</em></p>
<p>I'm having an issue with a client accessing our site, and the root cause is that the WAF (Web Application Firewall) doesn't like their User-Agent string:</p>
<pre><code>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:34.0; C7QcSBPWTsrpX5YLvVZMqiujEZLWPtOYk3tDZ9WhW18=) Gec... | [
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I'm having an issue with a client accessing our site, and the root cause is that the WAF (Web Application Firewall) doesn't like their User-Agent string:
```
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:34.0; C7QcSBPWTsrpX5YLvVZMqiujEZLWPtOYk3tDZ9WhW18=) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
... | If all other traffic from this IP address is legitimate, then I wouldn't worry about the WAF rule being triggered. It doesn't decode into a human readable string. So it was likely inserted by a proxy device for tracking purposes.
Regarding your concern about the RFC, they're written as a recommendation for how the fie... |
92,078 | <p>I've setup a static website on S3 under a <code>www.mydomain.com</code> bucket. I also created a CNAME record for it in Namecheap looking like this:</p>
<ul>
<li>Type: CNAME Record</li>
<li>Host: <code>www</code></li>
<li>Value: <code>www.mydomain.com.s3-website-ap-southeast1.amazonaws.com</code></li>
</ul>
<p>It ... | [
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* Type: CNAME Record
* Host: `www`
* Value: `www.mydomain.com.s3-website-ap-southeast1.amazonaws.com`
It redirects correctly when I go to `www.mydomain.com` but the URL being displ... | It is an odd set-up, and I'd agree with your proposal to move to a single brand/model page with options therein to select product size.
If adopting that approach, be sure to 301 redirect all of the current "size" pages to their replacement, i.e.:
* `/yasaka-thinning-scissors-5-inch -- 301 --> /yasaka-thinning-scisso... |
92,120 | <p>I am developing an AngualrJS application and since it is not easy to optimize it for search engines, I put it public and let Google index the page by registering a "Property" in their "Search Console" to see the results and to improve the page. The page has been successfully indexed and Google does display search re... | [
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"text": "<p>Google indexes many sites that don't have a search console account. Deleting the property from se... | 2016/04/07 | [
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] | I am developing an AngualrJS application and since it is not easy to optimize it for search engines, I put it public and let Google index the page by registering a "Property" in their "Search Console" to see the results and to improve the page. The page has been successfully indexed and Google does display search resul... | Google indexes many sites that don't have a search console account. Deleting the property from search console does not effect whether Googlebot will crawl your site and include it in the search index.
If you disallow crawling via *robots.txt* Googlebot will never be able to see that those pages are 404. Google needs t... |
92,127 | <p>I've build a sitemap_index pointing to different sitemaps "sitemap<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cUqWp.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1</a>.xml"
If they are uncompressed, they are successfully validated and accepted (Google Webmaster).</p>
<p>However, when compressed, they are not accepted.</p>
<p><a href="htt... | [
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] | I've build a sitemap\_index pointing to different sitemaps "sitemap[1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cUqWp.png).xml"
If they are uncompressed, they are successfully validated and accepted (Google Webmaster).
However, when compressed, they are not accepted.
[![sitemap - unsopported format](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cUqWp.... | >
> I simply compressed them using gzip:
> gzip sitemap1.xml
>
>
> My server nginx is enabled to send compressed files.
>
>
>
It looks like you're trying to send a double-compressed file and a compressed file.
When you gzip a file and host it on a server that is set up to compress and send files, then you basic... |
92,162 | <p>I am getting lots of click bombs from <code>xlhost.com</code>.</p>
<p>Here is a list of IP addresses that I collected from access_log.</p>
<pre><code>209.51.205.58
209.51.197.114
173.45.90.90
207.182.146.34
209.51.199.34
209.51.197.58
209.51.197.42
209.51.197.242
209.51.197.234
209.51.197.218
209.51.197.210
209.19... | [
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Here is a list of IP addresses that I collected from access\_log.
```
209.51.205.58
209.51.197.114
173.45.90.90
207.182.146.34
209.51.199.34
209.51.197.58
209.51.197.42
209.51.197.242
209.51.197.234
209.51.197.218
209.51.197.210
209.190.96.90
209.190.96.130
209.190.... | Since XLHOST owns their own IP space you can look up the IP blocks they own using the ARIN whois lookup. There could be other IP blocks that are not listed here in which they are using (such as if they were utilizing IP space in which they do not directly own and are just leasing from other providers) but it looks like... |
92,179 | <p>I am new to SEO. I have created a WordPress Website and I have used a SEO checker online and get this issue:</p>
<pre><code>Title: No Title. Important: Remember to set a title, never forget this
</code></pre>
<p>However I have set the title... how can this issue be resolved?</p>
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```
Title: No Title. Important: Remember to set a title, never forget this
```
However I have set the title... how can this issue be resolved? | Yes you are absolutely correct. You need to throw 410 to indicate that you have permanently disabled the page from your site.
404 page does not indicate that to crawler. Assume that there is some temporary issue on your site due to which 404 is shown, you don't want crawler to remove ur pages from index in that case.... |
92,237 | <p>I want to make sure visitors to my website have the best experience possible so I want them to be able to use LastPass and other Password Managers.</p>
<p>Is there any way of identifying whether or not my visitors are using one of these plugins?</p>
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Is there any way of identifying whether or not my visitors are using one of these plugins? | Yes.
Users can install LastPass as a browser plugin. Thus you can rely on client side scripting languages to check if LastPass is installed.
For instance, using [`NavigatorPlugins.plugins`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPlugins/plugins) allows you to get the a [`PluginArray`](https://deve... |
92,248 | <p>My htaccess file is giving my webpage a 500 error and I do not understand why ...
this is the code: </p>
<pre><code> AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /gallery-page.php?galerie=$1
</code></pre>
<... | [
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this is the code:
```
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /gallery-page.php?galerie=$1
```
* If I take the `.htacce... | I haven't scoped for `AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php` but I stake the following on all of my websites:
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUE... |
92,267 | <p>I migrated my wordpress site from godaddy to AWS and converted to a php site with wordpress into a sub directory, <strong>blog</strong>.
My main site has few pages. When I look at content keywords after few weeks in google webmaster , to my surprise instead of keywords which my site was ranking, I see these below</... | [
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"text": "<p>From <a href=\"http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-optimize-your-wordpress-robots-txt-for-seo/\" rel=... | 2016/04/11 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/92267",
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] | I migrated my wordpress site from godaddy to AWS and converted to a php site with wordpress into a sub directory, **blog**.
My main site has few pages. When I look at content keywords after few weeks in google webmaster , to my surprise instead of keywords which my site was ranking, I see these below
[![google webmas... | Most posts about WordPress *robots.txt* are totally wrong.
You should not block this in *robots.txt*
I suggest to use only this *robots.txt* for WordPress blog:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/?s=*
```
If you block WordPress directories like `admin` and `includes` and content, then you're going to block CSS, Jav... |
92,279 | <p>Obviously, I know they require git, but that's where my knowledge ends.</p>
<p>Say I have a .scss file I have edited and I want to compile it and place it on my remote server to see how it looks. What now? </p>
<p>There is very little information on how to actually do this. Same with Gulp.</p>
<p>I feel I am miss... | [
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"text": "<p>Saas is a flexible build system for CSS files. It allows you to add a little bit of logic to your CS... | 2016/04/11 | [
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Say I have a .scss file I have edited and I want to compile it and place it on my remote server to see how it looks. What now?
There is very little information on how to actually do this. Same with Gulp.
I feel I am missing some kind of middlem... | 1. Install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
2. Install [Gulp](http://gulpjs.com/) globally with `npm install gulp-cli --global`
3. Make a new directory for your Gulp tasks and Sass files
4. Inside that folder initialize [npm](http://npmjs.com/) with `npm init`
5. Install Gulp and Sass with `npm install gulp gulp-sass ... |
92,331 | <p>I'm using Google CSE on my site. As soon as new entity is published, it's immediately added to sitemap.xml rendering script too. How soon after Googlebot fetches new sitemap new entities should be searchable with CSE? </p>
<p>I added a few entities last week. I checked web server logs and Googlebot last downloaded ... | [
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I added a few entities last week. I checked web server logs and Googlebot last downloaded my sitemap... | There is no fixed time from when Google crawls a site to when it is available on the index. A few years ago it would have taken anywhere up to 6 weeks for content to be added due to Google rebuilding the main index in batches, now with the live updating it is meant to take longer but it could be added to the index any ... |
92,355 | <p>I have a website powered by WordPress and I am using MailChimp with the official WP plugin. I know this plugin works as its very popular and it works on my other hosting account but not on this site. I suspect my host is blocking. </p>
<p>How can I check if my hosting provider blocked outbound traffic to some IP ad... | [
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"text": "<p><em>The best method would be to ask your hosting provider, but if you have SSH access you could do a simp... | 2016/04/12 | [
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How can I check if my hosting provider blocked outbound traffic to some IP addresses? | *The best method would be to ask your hosting provider, but if you have SSH access you could do a simple ping, curl or even traceroute. If you do not have SSH access then you may be able to run this PHP script:*
>
> [SOURCE](https://tournasdimitrios1.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/check-your-server-status-a-basic-ping-with... |
92,428 | <p>I have a filter set up on a view in Google Analytics to show the full hostname for pageviews. This enables us to analyse traffic on our various microsites. </p>
<p>However I'm also seeing pageviews recorded against external URLs e.g. </p>
<pre><code>www.youtube.com
m.youtube.com
inst.webinstantservice.com
</code><... | [
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"text": "<p>It's just spam :) Scripts can send Pageview and Event data to random GA tracking codes without visiting ... | 2016/04/14 | [
"https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/92428",
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] | I have a filter set up on a view in Google Analytics to show the full hostname for pageviews. This enables us to analyse traffic on our various microsites.
However I'm also seeing pageviews recorded against external URLs e.g.
```
www.youtube.com
m.youtube.com
inst.webinstantservice.com
```
I could filter these ou... | Check to see if you are tracking your YouTube channel visits in Google Analytics. This would have required you to configure your YouTube channel with the tracking code. That would explain the www.youtube.com and m.youtube.com hostnames. You would also see these visits landing on pages like /channel/.....
The inst.webi... |
92,451 | <p>I'm creating a robots.txt file for my website which now has a lot of pages. </p>
<p>I'm disallowing all the pages that I do not require to crawl by so:</p>
<pre><code>Disallow: /folder/file.aspx
</code></pre>
<p>I've quite a lot of pages in my website. And there are some that uses query strings with them. </p>
<... | [
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I'm disallowing all the pages that I do not require to crawl by so:
```
Disallow: /folder/file.aspx
```
I've quite a lot of pages in my website. And there are some that uses query strings with them.
How can I specify optional existence o... | As long as some of the query strings don't need to be crawled you can simply disallow access to the entire file using
`Disallow: /folder/file.aspx*`
This will disallow crawling both on the file on its own as well as all query strings appended to the end of the file. |
92,489 | <p>I host different Websites in 1 web space. But I don't want to give the <code>ErrorDocument</code> an absolute SubFolder name.</p>
<p>Is it possible to make <code>website</code> a variable?</p>
<pre><code>ErrorDocument 404 /website/error?error=404
</code></pre>
<p>Can <code>.htaccess</code> auto detect the SubFold... | [
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"text": "<p>People often forget about using symlinks. You can create a symlink for each site that points to a single di... | 2016/04/16 | [
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Is it possible to make `website` a variable?
```
ErrorDocument 404 /website/error?error=404
```
Can `.htaccess` auto detect the SubFolder (including SubFolder depth)?
For example, a website written by... | >
> Server version: Apache/2.4.12 (Win32)
>
>
>
---
>
> Is it possible to make `website` a variable?
>
>
>
Not before Apache 2.4.13 unfortunately.
>
> Can `.htaccess` auto detect the SubFolder (including SubFolder depth)?
>
>
>
This depends on the module you are using in `.htaccess`, rather than `.htac... |
92,492 | <p>I'm targeting queries are in the form:
"<code>X Y for Z</code>"</p>
<p>Website is very established (1M+ traffic), but the competitor with URLs <code>/X-Y/for/Z</code> got to the 1st place (we were a first place for years). </p>
<p>Our URLs are in the form <code>/X-Y/something?A=Q&B=Z</code></p>
<p>Is it a g... | [
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"text": "<p>Depends. Do external sites link to your URLs? Do people bookmark/favorite your URLs? Are y... | 2016/04/16 | [
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"`X Y for Z`"
Website is very established (1M+ traffic), but the competitor with URLs `/X-Y/for/Z` got to the 1st place (we were a first place for years).
Our URLs are in the form `/X-Y/something?A=Q&B=Z`
Is it a good idea to rewrite our URLs to match a target query (to be sa... | Depends. Do external sites link to your URLs? Do people bookmark/favorite your URLs? Are you prepared to permanently set up 301 Redirects to the corresponding new URL? Do you get any kind of traffic from that? How does it convert?
Becuase the ruling factor in your "change URLs" decision should be that organic traffic... |
92,520 | <p>I don't want "www" in my domain. How do I set dns record so that when someone types www.mydomain.com it will just show up as mydomain.com?</p>
<p>I just want www to foward to root domain? Tried searching but google only tells me how to make my domain "www" which I do not want.</p>
<p>Is DNS even what I should be l... | [
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"text": "<p>There is no DNS record under the RFC which will forward your connection to the non-www version of yo... | 2016/04/17 | [
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I just want www to foward to root domain? Tried searching but google only tells me how to make my domain "www" which I do not want.
Is DNS even what I should be looking at?
Tool ... | While people expect not having to type the www., most web servers will add it once you connect to them because that is its canonical name. Try it with google; typing google.com into your browser takes you to www.google.com.
But try this: configure your web server to accept www.example.com and example.com as acceptable... |
92,525 | <p>I am using javascript to toggle a dropdown nav menu. I was thinking for users who have js disabled, then the nav won't appear. So I was going to use a noscript tag with the nav contents. Would Google look at this as duplicate content? Simple example of code:</p>
<p>HTML</p>
<pre><code><img id="menuicon" onclick... | [
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HTML
```
<img id="menuicon" onclick="toggle_visibility('nav... | To avoid the chance of content duplication, what I would recommend is to have the menu items load up then after, use javascript to arrange it as you please. For example:
```
<div ID="menu">
<!-- Insert menu items here -->
</div>
<script>
document.getElementById("menu").style.visibility="hidden";
//code to arrange and ... |
92,564 | <ol>
<li>I want to use itemscope Website. Can I start it just after <code><head></code> and end it just before <code></body></code>?</li>
<li>For Website itemscope, which itemprop should I use to define the logo for the Website?</li>
</ol>
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"text": "<p>No need for manual coding for it.</p>\n\n<p>Just log in to Webmaster Tools, </p>\n\n<p>Navigate through S... | 2016/04/19 | [
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] | 1. I want to use itemscope Website. Can I start it just after `<head>` and end it just before `</body>`?
2. For Website itemscope, which itemprop should I use to define the logo for the Website? | For the `WebSite` itemscope, a perfectly viable alternative would be to use JSON-LD format as opposed to Microdata, namely because the scope of a `Website` would include the `<head>` element as well.
To put that into context, the `name` item property of the `WebPage` element is best represented with the `<title>` ele... |
92,581 | <p>I have an apache server with access to a directory, eg <code>/downloads/pdf/</code></p>
<p>How can I tell the sever when a user requests <code>http://example.com/downloads/pdf/example.pdf</code> not to open it directly, but downloading it?</p>
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] | I have an apache server with access to a directory, eg `/downloads/pdf/`
How can I tell the sever when a user requests `http://example.com/downloads/pdf/example.pdf` not to open it directly, but downloading it? | >
> How can I tell the sever...
>
>
>
You are "telling" the browser (user-agent), not the server.
You basically need to send the appropriate HTTP response headers. Specifically the `Content-Disposition` and possibly the `Content-Length` headers.
For example:
```
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=example... |
92,615 | <p>We have a e-commerce Magento site and we have 1000's of products and images.</p>
<p>But a lot of images are not indexed by Google. Only few images are indexed by Google.</p>
<p>When we searched in google as this: <code>site:www.example.com images</code></p>
<p>We found only 500 images. We want to know why other i... | [
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But a lot of images are not indexed by Google. Only few images are indexed by Google.
When we searched in google as this: `site:www.example.com images`
We found only 500 images. We want to know why other images are not indexed?
Is there an... | **tl;dr** I think your images are indexed OK, but you are simply not able to see all the images that Google has indexed.
>
> i did search in google image search and counted the number of images. **it was around only 500**.
>
>
>
Curious, I see considerably more when performing a `site:` search for your *real site... |
92,624 | <h2>Current situation</h2>
<p>Our previous website was built to be embedded in Joomla, stuff like "About" were Joomla content, but the main page was custom PHP. </p>
<p>Now that we moved to a complete custom implementation I need to update the SEO stuff which was previously done by Joomla. I added the basic meta tags... | [
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-----------------
Our previous website was built to be embedded in Joomla, stuff like "About" were Joomla content, but the main page was custom PHP.
Now that we moved to a complete custom implementation I need to update the SEO stuff which was previously done by Joomla. I added the basic meta tags ... | One, two or even a few months sometimes isn't enough time for Google to update its index with changes in a website and start displaying results in the way the website owner is desiring. And it's not only time what is needed, but thorough SEO work in all aspects.
Now, regarding Google showing main links pages for a cer... |
92,821 | <p>I have a client which disavowed a few thousand dirty links from his site profile back in February 2015. Recently the site was switch from <code>HTTP</code> to <code>HTTPS</code> (SSL enforced). </p>
<p>Google recommends that you add all variations to the Google Console (Webmaster Tools).</p>
<p><em>The site has a ... | [
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Google recommends that you add all variations to the Google Console (Webmaster Tools).
*The site has a total of 4 variations, eg:*
* `http://ww... | This is a difficult question to answer simply because there is no direct answer to this question. So let's see if we can work through the process.
Let's assume a few things. The first of which is a blanket 301 redirect from one site, HTTP, to another, HTTPS. The second is that there are links to the HTTP site and not ... |
92,823 | <p>I'm replacing the interface of an old Visual FoxPro system my company has been using for the past 15 years. If there's one thing that users have been complaining about is that it is tedious.</p>
<p>So ease of use is what's driving my philosophy in the rebuild. As you can see from my mock-up I'm thinking of a left c... | [
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So ease of use is what's driving my philosophy in the rebuild. As you can see from my mock-up I'm thinking of a left column cont... | This is a difficult question to answer simply because there is no direct answer to this question. So let's see if we can work through the process.
Let's assume a few things. The first of which is a blanket 301 redirect from one site, HTTP, to another, HTTPS. The second is that there are links to the HTTP site and not ... |
92,948 | <p>I have an ecommerce site with paginated product categories.</p>
<p>I would like to add a description for each category to improve the "thin content" problem ecommerce pages generally have.</p>
<p>I would like this paragraph description to show on each page of its respective category, but how do I avoid the... | [
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I would like to add a description for each category to improve the "thin content" problem ecommerce pages generally have.
I would like this paragraph description to show on each page of its respective category, but how do I avoid the duplicate content issue.... | *Pagination is not duplicate content...*
Google will and does index pagination pages regardless of the uniqueness of the page. Also, it is massively common for webmasters to not understand exactly what duplicate content is.
*Understanding what duplicate content is...*
Duplicate content is where the exact page appea... |
93,021 | <p>I need to input my IP on cPanel's MySQLRemote list of authorized addresses, and it says is invalid. </p>
<p>When I go to <a href="http://whatismyipaddress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://whatismyipaddress.com/</a> or run <code>ipconfig</code>, it shows my IP address is as below:</p>
<pre><code>2804:7f2:2280:940d:c5c:4... | [
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When I go to <http://whatismyipaddress.com/> or run `ipconfig`, it shows my IP address is as below:
```
2804:7f2:2280:940d:c5c:41e2:ca42:c2fb
```
When I try to input this value on cPanel (version 11.52.5), it says t... | The address you have mentioned is an [IPv6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6) address. It was introduced as a solution to the rapidly [dwindling supply](http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/) of IPv4 address. It has the potential to allow for 3.4×10^38 (that is 34 followed by 38 zeros!) unique device addresses.
You may... |
93,128 | <p>I have a small company designing, programing, and maintaining websites. I host my websites on a shared hosting plan (cpanel). I received an email 2 days ago that there was a DOS attack and the provider <em>changed the IP address</em> as a result. I then had to change the nameserver IP and wait for the DNS propagatio... | [
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"text": "<p>If it is a small/middle sized company with limited bandwidth (<1-10 Gbps) changing IP address pool is ... | 2016/05/07 | [
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Only carriers, CDN providers or big companies can mitigate DoS attacks with other solutions (and the bandwidth is not a problem for them).
About DNS propagation, whois registers ... |
93,304 | <p>I want to know if Google Analytics is tracking my localhost activity.</p>
<p>We have the below GA tracking script on each page and are developing new features on our local machines. Is Google tracking our visits, sessions, and goal conversions?</p>
<p>Tracking Script</p>
<pre><code><script>
(function(i,s,... | [
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We have the below GA tracking script on each page and are developing new features on our local machines. Is Google tracking our visits, sessions, and goal conversions?
Tracking Script
```
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObjec... | Go to Admin in Google Analytics, in the third column click on Filters.
Add a filter that only includes the hostname you do want to track, that way anything else, include localhost, will be excluded from your data going forward.
It's not possible to correct data that has already been gathered. |
93,315 | <p>We use a custom CMS on a site and we're having various parameters on inbound links for own tracking and inbound marketing purposes.</p>
<p>Usually these URL parameters are added to the links so the system could collect stats about where exactly which links were clicked, how often, and so on.</p>
<p>If the same lin... | [
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"text": "<p>This is my 2 cents, but to preserve crawl budget and page authority I would utilize Json breadcrumbs... | 2016/05/13 | [
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Usually these URL parameters are added to the links so the system could collect stats about where exactly which links were clicked, how often, and so on.
If the same link appears on diff... | This is my 2 cents, but to preserve crawl budget and page authority I would utilize Json breadcrumbs. Another way to add differentiating clicks is to add a google analytics tracking event. From the code below, you're sending an even when your link is clicked and the label is 'page1.html'. You don't need to use javascri... |
93,377 | <p>I'm doing some consulting work for a web development company's client, and this problem has me completely stumped.</p>
<p>The client has their Outlook setup to look at the url <code>https://example.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml</code> when setting up an account. In the past, the site had no autodiscover.xml, th... | [
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The client has their Outlook setup to look at the url `https://example.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml` when setting up an account. In the past, the site had no autodiscover.xml, this would return a 404... | Your question is a little confusing, maybe you can structure it better. Anyways:
1. @Rob is right, `HTTP` and `HTTPS` work on different ports (80 and
443) and actually <http://www.example.com> and <https://www.example.com>
are two completely different addresses. They can have different
content as well if you want to.
... |
93,402 | <p>I am trying to edit .htaccess to do 301 redirect from old domain to new. I was wondering if there's a way to do a 301 redirect that matches a certain keywords. So instead of writing 301 for each line, is there a way to redirect if apple or oranges or bananas show up after /blog/ with a couple lines of code and have ... | [
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```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog/(apple|oranges|bananas)/ /blog/fruit/ [R=301,L]
```
This literally redirects just the 3 URLs listed in the question. If you wanted to redirect from `/blog/apple/<something>` to `/blog/fruit/<something>` then you can modify the abo... |
93,470 | <p>I have performed a load test on on my website but don't understand if the result are good or bad.</p>
<p><em>Here is the server spec:</em></p>
<pre><code>Server Linux/Ubuntu hardware (AMI on Amazon AWS)
*-cpu:0
product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
size: 2500MHz
width: 64 bits
slot: CPU1... | [
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*Here is the server spec:*
```
Server Linux/Ubuntu hardware (AMI on Amazon AWS)
*-cpu:0
product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz
size: 2500MHz
width: 64 bits
slot: CPU1
*-cpu:1
size: 2500MHz
... | 50 VUs, offered as free trial, by most load testing services is quite useless. Unless you have very heavy queries on your page, most servers (even shared hosting) will pass with flying colors. Wordpress is very scalable with caching on (as you have w3tc), so load test will definitely pass with 50 VUs or even at much hi... |
93,474 | <p>I have a video (background) for my website and (I'm sure there's a much more technical word for this) it's choppy, to say the least. I'm wondering if a) I can render it into a better format (file details below) for playback, or b) if it's just my server (details below):</p>
<pre><code>Video file:
[Video][1]
Size: 5... | [
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```
Video file:
[Video][1]
Size: 52.0MB
resoluti... | I dont think your webserver has much to do with it. I'm guessing it's the bandwith at the users end. It plays at 16,962kbps, which stand for 16,962kb/sec, which is roughly about 16mb per sec.
Your actual video is compressed, it gets decompressed when playing, (That's why the file is smaller), but even the compressed... |
93,492 | <p>Can I use:</p>
<pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="?l=en" />
</code></pre>
<p>to link pages with different languages for SEO (recommended for <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en" rel="nofollow">example by Google</a>)? Can ... | [
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```html
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="?l=en" />
```
to link pages with different languages for SEO (recommended for [example by Google](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en))? Can that URL be relative as in the example above, or does it have to be full (start with `http://... | Looks like it. This example [comes from the HTML5 specs](https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#rel-alternate):
>
> For example, the following link is a French translation that uses the
> PDF format:
>
>
> `<link rel=alternate type=application/pdf hreflang=fr href=manual-fr>`
>
>
> |
93,540 | <p>Is <code><a href=" #id "></code> (note spaces) correct (X)HTML?</p>
<p>Does it mean the same as <code><a href="#id"></code>?</p>
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>
> […] must have a value that is a [valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces](https://www.w3.org/T... |
93,550 | <p>I have a website that runs on Apache 2 and has code in PHP and JS + HTML.</p>
<p>This is the code of my ad unit:</p>
<p>I have an approved AdSense account that already was showing (and getting revenue) from AdMob ads since months.</p>
<p>I created an AdSense ad unit and placed it on that website but it is not app... | [
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This is the code of my ad unit:
I have an approved AdSense account that already was showing (and getting revenue) from AdMob ads since months.
I created an AdSense ad unit and placed it on that website but it is not appearing.
```
<script asy... | First off, please stop thinking in terms of keywords. I assure you that Google does not match keywords. The process is far more sophisticated than simply seeing if a term exists. In fact, term matches are not done. Semantic topic matches are however. So stop thinking in terms of keywords. It is a waste. Think topic.
T... |
93,555 | <p>I'm very disappointed that Googlebot is apparently ignoring my robots.txt.</p>
<p>I have the following sole entry for my <code>/robots.txt</code>:</p>
<pre><code> location = /robots.txt {
return 200
"## $host ##
\n
#Dear Google, we do not appreciate fake User-Agent strings
#that span 3 lines, and quad... | [
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I have the following sole entry for my `/robots.txt`:
```
location = /robots.txt {
return 200
"## $host ##
\n
#Dear Google, we do not appreciate fake User-Agent strings
#that span 3 lines, and quadruplicate requests per page.
Use... | *Robots.txt*
Google on occasions has been known to ignore robots.txt, it should never be treated as a guarantee. Sensitive pages should always some of form of authentication, or you could opt to [block those user agents](https://moz.com/ugc/blocking-bots-based-on-useragent) by returning a [403 forbidden status](https:... |
93,561 | <p>It would be valuable to know what file a browser has found to read to render the home page of domain. </p>
<p>I know the browser goes to something like <code>google.com</code> and then starts to look for default file names/types such as <code>index.html</code> then perhaps <code>index.htm</code> and so on through a... | [
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I know the browser goes to something like `google.com` and then starts to look for default file names/types such as `index.html` then perhaps `index.htm` and so on through a list of about a dozen other files.
I'm c... | Your browsers doesn't load *any* file, it *requests* a *resource* which the server then provides *at his discretion* (lengthy elaboration below).
If you type `google.com` into your browsers toolbar, the browser wil first append a protocol, either `http://` or `https`.
Then browser will look up the IP address belongin... |
93,594 | <p>I have a web application that runs on an Apache server on the intranet of an organisation. In this web application there is a JavaScript function that loads a specific text file via JavaScript</p>
<pre><code>xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
var data = xhttp.open("GET", "data.txt", false);
</code></pre>
<p>During the ... | [
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```
xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
var data = xhttp.open("GET", "data.txt", false);
```
During the use of the webapp this tex... | You have two approaches to this problem.
**The clean way** is to set the headers returned for GET data.txt preventing the browser (or proxy) from storing the response in cache.
Using apache, this can usually be done by adding a few lines in a .htaccess file.
If this data.txt is a static file, this is the only way you ... |
93,623 | <p>The design of my website looks good, but trying to put a main big heading at the top doesn't look as nice. But I know how important a H1 tag is for SEO , after all it is the main heading describing the page the visitor is on. </p>
<p>That being said, I have a breadcrumb as the top of my page which looks similar to:... | [
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That being said, I have a breadcrumb as the top of my page which looks similar to:
```
Home... | If you end up splitting up the breadcrumb from the H1 tag like closetnoc suggested in the comments (which is a good idea I think), I think you're still left with the problem where you stated, "My site looks good. But putting a big heading at the top doesn't look as nice."
In that case, I would still use the H1 tag (a... |
93,672 | <p>I am all for allowing any legitimate search engines to visit my site, but I've noticed that on my business-card-style website about every other request comes from MJ12Bot, yet for well-known reasons of them being a niche SEO bot, they don't even actually send any human visitors back, so, I'm quite disappointed about... | [
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```
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
``` |
93,758 | <p>We are an open source project and we have an Apache web server with a MediaWiki 1.25. Its a stand alone installation, so we don't have the complications of <a href="https://serverfault.com/q/357108/145545">shared hosting a varying userids</a>. After 20 years or so and a few migrations we had a fair amount files owne... | [
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```
setenforce 0
```
First get the Mediawiki version you want from <https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/> , at time of writing lates... |
93,826 | <p>I've been reading many articles lately about SEO on load times. Trying to get the perfect load time can be quite time-consuming but also a good feeling when you see your site loading twice as quick.</p>
<p>Now a lot of these tutorials and blogs are saying to put chunks of CSS/JS in you head tag to help above-the-fo... | [
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Now a lot of these tutorials and blogs are saying to put chunks of CSS/JS in you head tag to help above-the-fold content... | This question might belong in Stackoverflow and not here but you are including the complete stylesheets and scripts in each of your pages. That increases the download and computation time for each page significantly while the recommendation you speak of is only talking about less significant amounts of styling and code... |
93,897 | <p>Suppose I have <code>example.com</code> and the nameserver I'm using is the one from the hosting server where I'm hosting the main site, say <code>mainhosting.com</code>.</p>
<p>Now suppose I add a new subdomain e.g. <code>bla.example.com</code> which I'm hosting somewhere else, say at <code>subhosting.org</code>.<... | [
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Now suppose I add a new subdomain e.g. `bla.example.com` which I'm hosting somewhere else, say at `subhosting.org`.
This typically requires editting the DNS settings at ... | Yes, You can.
you will have to add the NS records for the subdomain in the DNS Manager for your TLD (Top Level Domain).
For Example:
In DNS Manager for TLD add NS records Like.
```
bla.example.com. 1799 IN NS ns1.subhosting.org.
bla.example.com. 1799 IN NS ns3.subhosting.org.
bla.example.com. 1799 IN NS ... |
93,904 | <h2>Concise Question</h2>
<p>How should I, from an SEO standpoint, handle categories on an e-commerce site that may, at any given point, become very thin, containing very few products, then later grow to be a full robust category? In fact it very probably will fluctuate over time from being nearly empty of products to ... | [
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----------------
How should I, from an SEO standpoint, handle categories on an e-commerce site that may, at any given point, become very thin, containing very few products, then later grow to be a full robust category? In fact it very probably will fluctuate over time from being nearly empty of produc... | It appears you've got a good grasp on how to lay out the breadcrumbs and get pages rated. So I'll skip commentary in those areas.
On-page SEO is something that doesn't just rely on experience or best practice - but testing. Set up two different structures and test them extensively. Create backlink profiles of roughly ... |
93,926 | <p>Does <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot" rel="noreferrer">googlebot</a> - Google's webcrawler - follow browser-side HTML imports such as the following?</p>
<pre><code><link rel="import" href="header.html">
</code></pre>
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"text": "<p>You could always check what your site looks like to googlebot: <a href=\"https://support.google.com/webmaster... | 2016/06/02 | [
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```
<link rel="import" href="header.html">
```
I'm thinking of hosting web content on my web server that makes use of this directive which is in [W3C draft](https://www.w3.org/TR/... | I've tested with "Fetch as Google" in the webmaster Search Console.
The screenshots show that the imports are being loaded and shown exactly as a normal user would see them.
The question still remains though: is the imported HTML indexed?
I've requested google to index the page. And will report back when it has been ... |
93,944 | <p>I have a simple template for my website and two versions. One is <code>.co</code> (GoDaddy) and the other is <code>.co.nz</code>(Another Company). I'm using a basic PHP form that sends email successful to Google Gmail, however when I try changing the destination email address to non-gmail, it fails, strangely the ot... | [
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95,026 | <p>What do you think about having the same content for H1 and H2 tag in the article? It seems like keyword stuffing, right? Example: </p>
<pre><code><h1>Bananas <span>Musa × paradisiaca</span></h1>
<h2>Bananas <span>Musa × paradisiaca</span></h2>
<h2>Description... | [
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```
<h1>Bananas <span>Musa × paradisiaca</span></h1>
<h2>Bananas <span>Musa × paradisiaca</span></h2>
<h2>Description</h2>
<p>Bananas are long and yellow. Bananas are long and yellow.<... | **Don’t use another heading element for the duplicated content.** Headings (`h1`-`h6`) serve various purposes (generating the document outline, navigation for screen reader users, etc.). A duplicated heading is useless and can be bothersome or lead to confusion.
Using a different element and styling it according to yo... |
95,059 | <p>Let's say I have a website <code>example.com</code> and it points to <code>12.23.42.31</code>. Now I want that nobody can access my website by the IP address (<code>12.23.42.31</code>). What is the procedure to achieve this?</p>
<p>LAMP server with WordPress. Not shared hosting.</p>
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"text": "<p>Easy. Just make a redirect from the IP address to the domain name.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Method 1<... | 2016/06/07 | [
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LAMP server with WordPress. Not shared hosting. | Because you mentioned this is for a LAMP server and you have SSH access, you can do this quite simply with a 000-default VirtualHost like this, (changing example.com to your domain):
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>
```
Rewrite methods are unnecessary, and redi... |
95,075 | <p>Our website has multiple domains and each domain is used for a different language (example.com for english, example.de for german). But for some reason all events appear tracked with the .com domain. What could be the issue?</p>
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Please note I have no personal experience with this issue yet. I have a project coming up that will be multi-lingual...
A quick [google search](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=google%20analytics%20per%20language) brought me to [this discussion](https://wpml.org/f... |
95,080 | <p>My friend has 3 domains:</p>
<ul>
<li>example.com</li>
<li>example.com.cc</li>
<li>example.com.co</li>
</ul>
<p>The website is hosted at OpenShift and it's already redirecting example.com to it (using the guide in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/23178367">this answer</a>). So far, so good. We are using CloudF... | [
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* example.com
* example.com.cc
* example.com.co
The website is hosted at OpenShift and it's already redirecting example.com to it (using the guide in [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/23178367)). So far, so good. We are using CloudFlare in this setup.
**We would like to know how to c... | @TC Dani,
Please note I have no personal experience with this issue yet. I have a project coming up that will be multi-lingual...
A quick [google search](https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=google%20analytics%20per%20language) brought me to [this discussion](https://wpml.org/f... |
95,109 | <p>We have a football website, in the website each football match has a separate page (for match details), and we decided to make unique title for each match page.</p>
<p>Now I find many of these matches indexed on google with more than 5000 pages, but I am worried after reading about possible Panda Penalty (which I k... | [
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Now I find many of these matches indexed on google with more than 5000 pages, but I am worried after reading about possible Panda Penalty (which I know nothin... | Google would be happy to index billions of very unique web pages, but it hates indexing multiple URLs that point to exactly the same content.
For your match pages, you need to make sure the information is unique enough.
If one page has this content:
```
This football event just happened between (insert team name he... |
95,117 | <p>I work in retail. For promo sales we're given a spreadsheet with data containing the information about the product and its prices. With this data we're supposed to create sale tags. More specifically, the data to be displayed includes the product name, short description, sale price, normal price, amount saved, etc.<... | [
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Is... | Google would be happy to index billions of very unique web pages, but it hates indexing multiple URLs that point to exactly the same content.
For your match pages, you need to make sure the information is unique enough.
If one page has this content:
```
This football event just happened between (insert team name he... |
95,138 | <p>I have several virtual host configurations which are stored in files on their own and differ mostly in properties like DocumentRoot, logfile names, ports (for a RewriteRule) and the like.</p>
<p>Sometimes those configurations need to be changed; and I'd consider it extremely convenient if I could apply the changes ... | [
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Sometimes those configurations need to be changed; and I'd consider it extremely convenient if I could apply the changes simply in ... | Take a look at mod\_macro, sounds like it may be exactly what you need for your use case. |
95,186 | <p>I have a web design where <code>a</code> elements looks exactly like <code>p</code> elements. Pages may have many links so I want the links to look similar to normal text for readability reasons. Does this affect SEO in any manner?</p>
<pre class="lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>p {
color: #000;
font-size: 14... | [
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```css
p {
color: #000;
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Arial;
font-weight: normal;
}
a {
text-decoration: non... | Google state that if you fail to distinguish your links then "your content becomes less useful". So, if your aim in SEO is to provide useful content, then yes - it can affect SEO.
Google's SEO best practices specifically state that you should :
>
> Format links so they're easy to spot Make it easy for users to
> d... |
95,231 | <p>This question has been asked a few times but I came across something that I feel changes the answer.</p>
<p>Whenever I use breadcrumbs on my site, I always include a link to the home page. Since I usually use an icon, I do something like this:</p>
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Whenever I use breadcrumbs on my site, I always include a link to the home page. Since I usually use an icon, I do something like this:
```
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem... | Good question! I'd never thought of attempting to redefine/rename the root.
The root directory is assumed to be the domain itself. By defining it with a link, you've caused it to create a new directory 'Home' that is assuming the same position as the root. This has created both the assumed root and the 'Home' director... |
95,235 | <p>After adding a new page in WordPress i have this URL structure: domain.com/page. I would like to point a top level domain to this page using a PHP redirect:</p>
<pre><code>header( 'HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently' );
header( 'Location: http://www.new-domain.com' );
exit();
</code></pre>
<p>I know that such method ... | [
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"text": "<p>Good question! I'd never thought of attempting to redefine/rename the root.</p>\n\n<p>The root directory is a... | 2016/06/14 | [
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] | After adding a new page in WordPress i have this URL structure: domain.com/page. I would like to point a top level domain to this page using a PHP redirect:
```
header( 'HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently' );
header( 'Location: http://www.new-domain.com' );
exit();
```
I know that such method is fine if i'm redirecting... | Good question! I'd never thought of attempting to redefine/rename the root.
The root directory is assumed to be the domain itself. By defining it with a link, you've caused it to create a new directory 'Home' that is assuming the same position as the root. This has created both the assumed root and the 'Home' director... |
95,269 | <p>This is really messing with my Analytics. I've previously blocked Semalt with the following code in my .htaccess</p>
<pre><code>SetEnvIfNoCase Via evil-spam-proxy spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer evil-spam-domain.com spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer evil-spam-keyword spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Via pinappleproxy... | [
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] | This is really messing with my Analytics. I've previously blocked Semalt with the following code in my .htaccess
```
SetEnvIfNoCase Via evil-spam-proxy spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer evil-spam-domain.com spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer evil-spam-keyword spammer=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase Via pinappleproxy spammer=yes
S... | This isn't a direct answer to your question but to your problem:
Try a hostname filter on your Analytics account instead. Filter only for your domain. The only situation in which you'll get views without your domain being the hostname is if you're serving content on other domains - such as via an iFrame.
When it come... |
95,281 | <p>So, I have a menu with this structure:</p>
<pre><code><ul>
<li>
<a>First Level Menu item</a>
<ul>
<li><a>Second Level Menu Item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</code></pre>
<p>And for design Purposes, I consider moving the se... | [
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] | So, I have a menu with this structure:
```
<ul>
<li>
<a>First Level Menu item</a>
<ul>
<li><a>Second Level Menu Item</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
```
And for design Purposes, I consider moving the second level menu out of the original menu and create a new one:
```
<ul>
<li>
<a>First Level... | Okay. This gets a bit complicated. While no-one short of a search engineer can tell you what any search engine will do specifically, we know a few things based upon what Google tells us in a whole host of places. I will explain.
Google will parse the HTML DOM objects from top to bottom assigning each HTML element with... |
95,349 | <p>I'm trying to markup a page. I marked up:</p>
<pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>WebPage
WPHeader
SiteNavigationElement
Bredcrumbs
MainContentOfPage
Article
Product1
Product2
WPFooter
</code></pre>
<p>The question is: Should I aspire to declare all internal en... | [
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```none
WebPage
WPHeader
SiteNavigationElement
Bredcrumbs
MainContentOfPage
Article
Product1
Product2
WPFooter
```
The question is: Should I aspire to declare all internal entities of `WebPage` as "childs" of each other, or it's not ne... | You should of course use properties to relate items wherever it is possible.
If you have the two top-level items `Person` and `Book`, it’s not clear if or how they are related. The person could have read or written or bought or reviewed or … the book. But when you use a property (like `author`), you make the relation ... |
95,370 | <p>I want to 301 redirect several URLs from an old WordPress installation within one subdirectory to a new WP installation within a different directory of the same domain. I.E.:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.de/abc/?page_id=123
</code></pre>
<p>needs to go to:</p>
<pre><code>http://www.example.de/xyz/newindividu... | [
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] | I want to 301 redirect several URLs from an old WordPress installation within one subdirectory to a new WP installation within a different directory of the same domain. I.E.:
```
http://www.example.de/abc/?page_id=123
```
needs to go to:
```
http://www.example.de/xyz/newindividualpage/
```
I have tried several op... | In order to match the query string (ie. `page_id=123` part) you need a `RewriteCond` directive and the `QUERY_STRING` server variable (from mod\_rewrite). Try something like the following in the `/abc/.htaccess` file (ie. in the subdirectory you want to redirect from):
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ... |
95,408 | <p>This is source code from the adsense home page (code here is formatted to fit screen):</p>
<pre><code><title>
Make Money Online Through Website Monetization |
Google AdSense – Google
</title>
<meta content=
"Learn how to make money online by pursuing your passion.
We help you with website and conte... | [
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"text": "<p>The concept of keyword density is obsolete in 2016. Putting a keyword twice or thrice is no better than having... | 2016/06/19 | [
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] | This is source code from the adsense home page (code here is formatted to fit screen):
```
<title>
Make Money Online Through Website Monetization |
Google AdSense – Google
</title>
<meta content=
"Learn how to make money online by pursuing your passion.
We help you with website and content monetization so you can
m... | The weightage of keyword density in meta description for your SEO is now a very miniscule part of a super intelligent Google crawling and indexing algorithm.
According to my experience the description should be as relevant as possible and it has huge importance as :
This appears in the Google search result snippet wh... |
95,414 | <p>I am migrating a website from one platform to another, and in that process, I'm getting rid of the old domain name.
There is no direct relation between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator#Syntax" rel="nofollow">path</a>s on the old and new website, and therefore, I want to redirect al... | [
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"text": "<p>I think this should do the trick for you. On the old domain, put this code in the <code>.htaccess</code>... | 2016/06/19 | [
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] | I am migrating a website from one platform to another, and in that process, I'm getting rid of the old domain name.
There is no direct relation between the [path](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator#Syntax)s on the old and new website, and therefore, I want to redirect all old paths to the new websit... | I think this should do the trick for you. On the old domain, put this code in the `.htaccess` file (this assumes a 301 redirect is used).
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) https://newdomain.example [R=301,L]
``` |
95,430 | <p><strike>I'm working with Mediawiki 1.25.1 on CentOS 7.2 running Apache 2.4.3.</strike> I'm working with Mediawiki 1.26.4 on CentOS 7.2 running Apache 2.4.6. I am experiencing an <em>Internal Server Error</em> after editing a page and submitting it:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wI9ED.png" rel="nofollow ... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.c... | I think we figured out how to diagnose the issue. All this time we were focusing on error logs because we consider a 500 server crash an error, and we specified errors should be logged to `error_log` in the configuration files.
Out of desperation, we grep'ed the entire file system for \*"Internal Server Error". Lo and... |
95,468 | <p>I have a site with the keyword in the name as the first word, currently seperated by a space. Most posts contain the singular version of the keyword at the end of the title, so current titles in Google show as:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Title goes here + keyword | keyword (plural form) + suffix </p>
</blockquote>
<p>(... | [
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] | I have a site with the keyword in the name as the first word, currently seperated by a space. Most posts contain the singular version of the keyword at the end of the title, so current titles in Google show as:
>
> Title goes here + keyword | keyword (plural form) + suffix
>
>
>
(both together = site name.)
My ... | An example of an actual `<TITLE>` element would have helped.
Anyway, the `<TITLE>` element is the most important on-page factor for SEO as well as CTR, so it should be optimized properly. Do note that title elements beyond 65 chars would be truncated by Google in the SERPs, so you've gotta be a bit creative within th... |
95,472 | <p>I have been looking for an answer to this question for quite some time now. I am confused about backlinks coming from some of these domains. Some of them come from Whois/IP checker sites, and some of them come from social aggregator or hashtags parser sites.</p>
<pre><code> Domain/IP Check
-----------------
webst... | [
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```
Domain/IP Check
-----------------
webstatsdomain.org
... | All links have some value even minute amounts including nofollow links. However, if the links come from a site/page that is fully egregious, then you may want to consider disavowing them.
Google considers whois sites as a whole as low quality, however, not all whois sites are considered junk. This is also true for the... |
95,486 | <p>Let's say, I am adapting a URL structure like:</p>
<pre><code>[domain]/neuschwanstein-castle-schloss-neuschwanstein
</code></pre>
<p><em>Neuschwanstein Castle</em> is a castle in Germany and its original name is <em>Schloss Neuschwanstein</em> in German.</p>
<p>Is putting both the English name and the original na... | [
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] | Let's say, I am adapting a URL structure like:
```
[domain]/neuschwanstein-castle-schloss-neuschwanstein
```
*Neuschwanstein Castle* is a castle in Germany and its original name is *Schloss Neuschwanstein* in German.
Is putting both the English name and the original name in a URL considered keyword stuffing? | I won't consider it keyword stuffing for one reason:
According to Google [Irrelevant keywords](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66358?hl=en):
>
> "Keyword stuffing" refers to the practice of loading a webpage with
> keywords or numbers in an attempt to manipulate a site's ranking in
> Google search res... |