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"} {"_id": "67816", "title": "how to show my site Homepage with page link", "text": "How to show my site like below in Google search result. please help me. even my Site Homepage is not showing properly in Google search result. **1st Pic:** I want to show my site in Google like this. **2nd Pic:** Currently My site showing like this way. **Pic 1:**   **Pic 2:**"} {"_id": "11545", "title": "Video for an ad-driven website", "text": "I have a website, which i will fill with a bunch of useful videos. I've implemented an ads rotation engine for articles and will do so for videos. The next milestone is to decide how video will be integrated. They are two ways: 1. To host videos myself. Pros: complete freedom. Cons: need tens of gigabytes of storage; support for multiple formats to be cross-browser and cross-device. 2. Use YouTube. Pros: Very simple to use; nothing to do. What are pros and cons for each way? Some questions for YouTube: 1. Will I be able to control playback of YouTube-embedded video to make post-rolls ? 2. What is ranking impact on my web-site, when most of pages will refer to YouTube ? 3. Will, say, iPad play video, embedded via YouTube's iFrame ? 4. Does relying entirely on YouTube have a long-term perspective for a web-site, that should bring money ?"} {"_id": "11548", "title": "issue with wordpress theme background on widescreen computers", "text": "I am using the theme \"irresistible\" and I wanted to a add a picture of the person for whom I am building the site. Normally the background CSS uses repeat, but I don't want their picture to repeat i just want it all the way on the left side body.woothemes { background: #18191b url(images/bg.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:left top; color: #e9e9e9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; } http://romesmooth1.jerseygetonline.com/ It doesn't repeat in Internet Explorer, but repeats in Firefox. In both it looks fine in a normal on a 17in LCD but not on a wide screen."} {"_id": "28998", "title": "SEO best practices for sites with few pages but lots of lookup information?", "text": "I have a site that allows people to look up words that \"Start with\" or \"End with\" a certain set of characters. I am trying to figure out how to get off on the right foot with search engines and I was wondering: Is it better to have URLs that appear to be unique pages? For example: mySite.com/StartsWith/pred instead of mySite.com/Words.aspx?StartsWith=pred Both of these would return the same data, but I am wondering if the first is better because it appears to be a unique page to a crawler? At the end of the day the source code will only contain about 6 pages in it, but with all of the StartsWith/EndsWith letter sets, there are probably millions of possible combinations that people could get to. How would I (and should I) create a site map for pages that do not physically exist, but have unique URLs with unique content? Are there any other steps I should take to make sure that crawlers can find all of these different combinations? **Update** There will be no duplicate content on the site"} {"_id": "55293", "title": "SEOquake is not recogonizng microformats", "text": "I generated Rich snippets (for organization) microcode for one of my websites, using instructions like https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146897?hl=en http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat Problem I have is that Microformat is not recognized by tools like SEOquake. Can you help me how to generate microdata in proper format?"} {"_id": "5988", "title": "How to serve custom ads for clients on my site?", "text": "Are there any ad serving systems, that allow webmasters to serve ads from their clients on their sites? The client provides an image/text and a link and the website displays the ad in designated spaces. The website would display only ads from their own customers (nothing from a public ad network like adsense). Can you please provide examples of such ad serving solutions? Preferrably free/opensource."} {"_id": "5989", "title": "Plugin to back up a Wordpress (version 2.2.1) site?", "text": "Which Wordpress plugin would you recommend to someone with only basic PHP and MySQL skills to back up a quite large WP (engine version 2.2.1) site as safely as possible? The backup should allow redeploying the site with/to an updated, clean install of the WP engine."} {"_id": "5982", "title": "Wordpress vs Clean html/css", "text": "When it comes to designing/coding presentational websites, with static content and few pages.. let's say, between 5 and 20. Would you go with wp, design a custom theme and update with content, or would you code from scratch a clean html/css eventually + some js ? For now, since I'm just stepping into web development, I see wordpress as a complex cms that loads slow in my browser.. **EDIT:** I suppose a page generated with wordpress would load slower than a page that looks the same coded from scratch. Please help me find the pros/cons of both. How about seo/indexing? Is it worth learning wp for designing presentational websites ? P.S. I'm asking this because a lot of my friends, who are a bit more experienced than me, tend to recommend using wp because clients like it and it's easy, but I'm not sure yet. When It comes to you, what would you prefer and why ?"} {"_id": "51266", "title": "How to monitor traffic on a single page that I control when I don't control the domain?", "text": "I have a webpage like www.site.com/myaccount/foo/index.htm I have complete control over the HTML on this page (e.g., I can insert a script). However, I have no control over the rest of the site. **update:** Note that I only want to have information on traffic to the page under my control. I have no interest in the traffic for the rest of the site. I'd particularly like to get an idea of referring URLs to the page under my control. * **Will Google Analytics work on a single page under my control?** * **If not, are there other tools suited to monitoring traffic to a single page?** Note I saw this question but it did not seem to answer my question. Also, I'm not tied to using Google Analytics if another online system would work. Specifically, I have added the google analytics tracking code to the page, but am still getting the error > Status: Tracking Not Installed The Google Analytics tracking code has not > been detected on your website's home page. For Analytics to function, you or > your web administrator must add the code to each page of your website. This made me think that I might need to have access to `www.site.com/index.htm` **Update:** After waiting another day, Google Analytics appears to have registered the tracking code. I presumably just had to wait a little longer."} {"_id": "5980", "title": "SEO HTML for plain html css website", "text": "This isn't really a programming question, but I couldn't think of a place where people can better answer my question then here. I allways had a joomla website, for me it's good, but it's not very flexible. My question is: In joomla you have some great SEO tools, like labeling or tagging your articles. I'm planning to make my own css/html based website without a cms behind it. Does anyone knows a labeling/tagging script whichcan be used for \"normal\" html/css based websites without for example joomla?"} {"_id": "19394", "title": "New visits count disparity on a month old site in Google Analytics", "text": "I launched a new website less than a month ago but the stats on \"new visits\" doesn't appear to match with \"absolute unique visitors\". If I look at the dashboard, it shows 2040 visits, 956 unique visitors and 33.68% new visits. A \"new visit\" is someone who's never been to the site before. So in this case, shouldn't the \"new visits\" match the \"absolute unique visitors\"? "} {"_id": "5986", "title": "Thoughts on this approach for a news post caching system?", "text": "I'm working on a website which uses /news/title-of-news-article--111.html (111 = unique ID of the news article). I was thinking it might be a good idea to have some form of a caching system for the news articles. Essentially, my idea would be to have a .html version of the news article (i.e. just the news part that's dynamically generated) be created when it was marked live (making it so visitors and search engines can see it). The .php script that displays the content would check to see if a .html file with the news id exists, and would use that instead of querying the database. Of course, if the .html file didn't exists for some reason, it would fall back to querying the database like the site currently does now. Any issues you guys see with that approach? This is meant more for when a ton of visitors view a news article, since ideally I'd assume grabbing a \"static\" .html file is better on the server and the database than querying."} {"_id": "30925", "title": "Google Webmaster Tools proportional to Google exams?", "text": "I've taken no Google exams, I'm curious about apps becoming available in your Google webmasters tools and google apps the more exams you pass. Someone I know told me that the more exams you pass, the more tools become available to you but I cannot find any information about it anywhere online. Is this some sort of secret or am I just misinformed?"} {"_id": "5984", "title": "How important is the logo for a freelancer?", "text": "How important is a logo for a freelancer ? If I'm going to design a small static website to represent myself with 'about', 'skills', 'portfolio' ... etc. pages and I want to keep the design as simple as I can... Is it crucial to take lots of time and try to design an abstract logo that would represent me as a freelancer, or what I do ? Work I do: web design and development, custom solutions.. etc. Target audience: small business owners, and potential recruiters ?"} {"_id": "22261", "title": "How can I exclude content in my notifications bar from being indexed?", "text": "Of course I want my content to be indexed pretty fast by search engines, however not my notifications bar. My notifications bar contains the last 30 changes to content on the site, and I don't want this to show in my SEO meta. As all the notifications are generic, it often doesn't provide any relevant information. As I said the notifications are generic. If an article named \"123\" was created, it would create a notification that says \"Article \"123\" was created by xxx at 12:00AM\". I'm now wondering if this is a content design problem. As only 1/3 of this information is actually relevant to users (the title, what happened). By SEO meta, and irrelevant notification data being shown, I mean this -  Basically what I was wondering, is how I could optimise this, so search engines wouldn't show this generic nonsense."} {"_id": "61179", "title": "Google Anlytics - User Type Tracking", "text": "just a question about a custom dashboard in GA. I'd like to to monitor only help/faq pages in my site. I've created a dashboard that filter only the pages I need vs Unique Page views, but I want a deeper analysis. For example, does it makes sense to track User Type (new/returning visitors), to know if the user that is viewing my help pages is someone who visit often these pages (like a reference resource to check everytime you need) or if they are mainly new visitors. In this case, it's better to track Sessions vs User type OR Unique Page Views vs User Type? Inside an help section, can we talk of sessions? Or session is something wider, meaningful only in the whole site perspective?"} {"_id": "22268", "title": "When redirecting from http to https in a shop site, which status code should I use?", "text": "On a shop website, when \"Pay now\" is clicked we perform a header redirection to the same URL, just an SSL secured https version. In such a common scenario, should we use a permanent (301), a temporary (302) or any other status code? Somehow, neither permanent nor temporary feels right (though I guess the latter will be more appropriate)."} {"_id": "48890", "title": "Extensive GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1 requests", "text": "We are having extensive (thousands per minute) `GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1` requests at our Linux server, causing traffic problems and slowing down access to the websites we host. What does it stand for and how to prevent it?"} {"_id": "39327", "title": "Apache Virtual Host does not work", "text": "I've problems setting up a virtual host on windows7, so that I can develop multiple pages on my localhost. To set up the virtual Host, I've edited 3 Files: * **httpd-vhosts.conf** in apache\\conf\\extra * **httpd.conf** in apache\\conf * **hosts** in system32\\drivers\\etc This is what I've done in order to make the page run on Port 81: added this block in **httpd-vhosts.conf** NameVirtualHost *:81 My pathway goes here
This is making the content_area go below the menu_bar how do i bring it to the right of the menu bar."}
{"_id": "27372", "title": "Web hosting company basically forces me to use their domain name", "text": "I've recently stumbled upon an unusual problem with one of hosting companies called giga-international.com. Anyway, I've ordered com.hr domain from Croatian domain name registration company, and my client insisted on using this host provider as couple of his friends already are hosted with them. I thought something was fishy when the first result on Google for Giga International was this little forum rant instead of their webpage. When I was checking their services they listed many features etc... space available, bandwidth etc. I just wanted to check how much ram do I get for my PHP scripts so I emailed them, and they told me that was company secret. Seriously? Anyway, since my client still insisted on hosting with them I've bought their Webspace package. During registration I **had** to choose free domain name because I couldn't advance registration without it. Nowhere was said, not even in general terms and conditions that I wouldn't be able to change that domain name. At least not for double the price of domain name per year. They said I can either move my domain name over to them (and pay them domain registration), or pay them 1 Euro per month for managing a DNS entry. On any previous hosting solution I was able to manage my domain names just by pointing my domain to their name servers, and this is something completely new and absurd for me. They also said that usual approach is not possible because of security and hardware limitations. I'd like to know what you guys think about this case, and should I report, and where should I report this case. **In short. They forced me to register free domain name which doesn't suit my needs in order to register for their webspace package, and refuse to change domain name for my account until I either transfer domain to them or pay them DNS management which costs double the price of the domain name per year.**"}
{"_id": "27373", "title": "Forum Spam Question. Why are Chinese hackers posting tiny images on my forum", "text": "My forum is getting attacked by spammers with Chinese IP's. Replies are created to discussion topics, always short responses and along with the response an image is inserted using forum code which is then modified by the forum to an HTML image tag (no anchor tag). > So beautiful picture [img]http://www.coupon-domain-goes- > here.com/avatar2.jpg[/img] The replies are created by humans not bots because they are slightly relevant to the discussion. The images do not display so regular forum members have no idea that this is spam. the reason they don't display is because the images return a 302 response code and redirects to a URl like this > http:// www.coupon-domain-goes-here .com/avatar.php?u=2 which then redirects with a 302 to another image on the same domain which is also called avatar.gif. > http:// www.coupon-domain-goes-here .com/images/avatar.gif My question is why are they doing this. Is there an SEO benefit. There is no link created. It's only an image so the URl in the middle which is a PHP file should not be getting any link juice from search engines. Or maybe I am wrong? What do you think?"}
{"_id": "61245", "title": "Will using two different tracking codes affect my SERP", "text": "Hello everyone and thanks for your time! I am now facing a problem after a site migration. New site is basically an improved version of old site, with the same content and some extras. After pointing the domain name to the new site, the old site was still online for a while but didn't get any traffic. The new site has its own tracking code. So, old tracking code has age (something like 7 years) but no visitors for a month, but new tracking code is a month old with an acceptable traffic. How to you think google will react if I add old tracking code to new site? Thanks by advance!"}
{"_id": "25745", "title": "Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use?", "text": "_This is a general, community wikicatch-all question to address non-specific \"I need a CMS or Wiki that does x, y, and z...\" questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ * * * I have a list of features that I want for my website's Content Management System (CMS) - where can I find a [free] script that includes all of them?"}
{"_id": "16930", "title": "Blogging platform that supports guest-posting", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a blogging engine (hosted or downloadable) that will allow: * guest posting (anyone can register an account and post) * file-attachments (you can attach files to posts)"}
{"_id": "8438", "title": "Which Bliki (Blog+Wiki) solution can you recommend?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm searching for a good Bliki solution, meaning a combination of blog and wiki that I can install on my own web space. I would like to be able to write articles in the wiki style much like with media wiki. So I want to use a wiki markup language, have a revision history, comments, internal links to other pages (maybe in other languages) and be able to collaboratively edit the articles. On the other side I would like to have a blog-like view on my articles, showing new articles (and changes to existing articles) in a time ordered fashion. It would be nice if it would be possible to search through the articles and also tag the articles, so one could generate a tag cloud for the articles. A nice feature would also be to be able to order the articles according to views or even a voting system for the articles. Good would also be a permission system to keep certain articles private, showing them only to people logged in to the platform. Apart from these nice to have features an absolute must have feature for the Bliki platform I'm searching is the possibility to handle math equations (written in LaTeX syntax) and display them either as pictures like media wiki or even better using Mathjax. At the moment I'm using a web service called wikiDot which offers some of the mentioned features, however the free version shows to much advertisements, the blog feature is not mature, the design is quite ugly and loading of the page is often slow. So I want to install a Bliki solution on my own webspace. Can you recommend any solution for that?"}
{"_id": "21144", "title": "Are there other .NET based Content Management Systems (CMS) beside DotNetNuke that support multiple sites with one install?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I know that there are a LOT of questions on SO about CMSs based on .NET but I have just one specific question. I know that DotNetNuke supports multiple site creation on one installation. Of the other wellknown .Net CMSs... N2CMS Composite C1 Umbraco Orchard AxCMS ...do any of them support this feature out of the box (or with relative ease)? BTW, if you know of some low-cost non-free CMSs that would support this feature don't hesitate to give them a mention (as long as they are built on the Microsoft stack.) **EDIT** Just learned that this feature is called multi-tenancy...thanks David. Thanks for your answers. Can anyone give clarity on whether N2CMS, Composite, or AxCMS support multi-tenancy. Seth"}
{"_id": "8412", "title": "Which CMS for photo-blog website?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need to add photo-blog to a site that I'm recently working on. It is very simple site so the blog doesn't have to be very sophisticated. What I need is: * a CMS that allows me to create simple blog-like news with one (or more) images at the beginning and some description/comment below. Preferably, I would like to create something that works like sites like these two: http://www.photoblog.com/dreamie or http://www.photoblog.pl/mending/ * it must be customizable. I want to integrate it's look as much as possible with current page: http://saviorforest.tk * preferably, it should provide some mechanizm for uploading and storing images at the server. I thought about wordpress, but it seems to be a little bit too complicated for such simple task. Do you know any simple and easy in use CMS that would work here?"}
{"_id": "61090", "title": "Best CMS (Content Management System) for Technical & Creative Guildelines", "text": "Wondering if anyone here has any idea of a good content management system to act as as Technical & Creative Guidelines documentation site, preferably one with easy customization and strong indexing and search. Not web-facing, meaning it will be running within a Virtual Private Network (VPN) as well as Intranet. Any suggestions or ideas would be more than helpful!"}
{"_id": "12389", "title": "Website Review CMS (similar in nature to Forexpeacearmy.com)", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I was wondering if anyone know of any CMSs that are similar to Forexpeacearmy.com ie Different categories with lists of websites in them. The ability for users to review websites. Thanks"}
{"_id": "7549", "title": "What platform do I need? Wiki, Tiki, or something else", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I need to set up a collaborative website, like a wiki but where the items have a predefined structure. For example, a collaborative recipe website where a submission would consist of a photo, ingredients, instructions, cooking time, etc... Is there any any open source platforms out there that allow collaborative editing with structured entities? Many thanks!"}
{"_id": "3398", "title": "Best CMS for review-type sites", "text": "Is there an ideal CMS for making a review site? By review site, I mean like a restaurant review site where you have each entry belonging to different major categories like Cuisine and City. Then users can browse and filter by each or by combination (Chinese Food in Los Angeles, with suggestions of other Chinese restaurants in LA, etc). Furthermore, I'd want it to support other fields like price, parking, kid-friendliness, etc. And to have users be able to filter by those criteria. I've been told that with a combination of custom taxonomies, plug-ins and many clever little queries, that Wordpress 3.x can handle this. But I'm having a heck of a time with it getting into the nitty gritty, and that's where I find the community support is lacking. The sort of stuff you'd think would work in WP, like making one parent category for Cuisine and one for City, don't really work once you get further in and start trying to pull it all together. Then you find these blog posts where people say, \"This example shows that one could create a huge movie review site using custom taxonomies...\" but when you go and try it you hit all sorts of challenges and oddities that point a big long finger at Wordpress being in fact a blogging platform. The best I came up with was one category for the cuisine and one tag for the city, then I created a couple of custom tag-like taxonomies for the other features. It's quite a mess to try to figure out how to assemble all of that into a natural, intuitive site. I expect a few versions down the road WP will be able to do these sorts of sites out of the box. So I thought I'd take a step back before I run back into the Wordpress fray and find out if maybe there is another platform better suited to this sort of relational content site. Directory scripts in some ways offer many of the features I'm looking for, but I need something more flexible and, hopefully, interactive (comments, reviews). I'm especially looking for feedback from people who've crafted sites like this. Thanks!"}
{"_id": "16949", "title": "PHP / Database Advertising Directory", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What would it cost or is there already a system with a CMS like Joomla that would create the back-end of a website like this one: http://www.appliance- appointment.com/"}
{"_id": "42802", "title": "Looking for a \"database/dashboard\" CMS. Any tips?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I'm looking for a CMS that can handle: * User types at 3 authorization levels (client, partner, admin) * a dashboard for each one of them with relevant info about the other 2 user levels Concretely I am building a website where gardeners can set up a work schedule for their clients where the client can see when the next meeting is and its cost; the gardener its next meetings and monthly income etc. The admin obviously has an overview. I don't believe any CMS exists that covers such a use case but might there be any that can help me get started quickly? Thanks for your tips guys and don't hesitate If I haven't been clear!"}
{"_id": "16837", "title": "What are some alternatives to ASI iMIS Content Management Systems?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am working with a team to select a new content management system for a large membership organization (around 25,000 members). The organization has revenue so I'm not looking for a dirt cheap solution. The site currently uses ASI iMIS which is based on ColdFusion. It's difficult to work with and not flexible for our needs. What other possible alternatives to ASI iMIS are there? Ideally the solution would have some sort of support from the vendor. So far I've come up with: * Drupal/Acquia * SDL Tridion * Plone * Ellington (probably too news like) * Pinax (probably not developed enough)"}
{"_id": "67783", "title": "Online Marketing Website", "text": "Which CMS site would be the best to use for building my new website. I am currently using Wix, would this be suitable? There will be loads of blogs, constant picture uploads and press releases added on a weekly basis."}
{"_id": "12929", "title": "Web-based CMS for mobile app", "text": "I'm just about to start developing a mobile app which needs to be fed from a CMS. I started designing the tables when I thought there must be something out there which could save me a load of time and let me concentrate on the mobile side of things. So, I'm looking for a CMS that will let me create hierarchical \"pages\" which will just be 4-5 database fields with a simple front-end to allow to edit and update them. I don't mind having to write some code to layout the database and forms etc, any saving on starting from scratch would be good. The only requirement is that I be able to access the data via some sort of web service, REST, JSON, XML, anything really... Can anyone suggest anything that might help? Thanks, J"}
{"_id": "15553", "title": "Do you know a good web CMS to manage a sports team?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a web based CMS that enables me to manage a sport team, I need the following features: * Calendar** * Schedule events (sync with the calendar, RSS feed), it would be great if I could schedule a weekly event too, so that I don't have to schedule it by hand each week** * Announcements (same RSS feed as events)** * A place where I can put some documentation, rules** * Keep track of the matches and scores * Photo and video gallery ** means feature is required; otherwise optional Any technology for the CMS is probably fine, though I would prefer an SQLite- based CMS."}
{"_id": "28499", "title": "PHP photo/album gallery script with an admin backend and easy to integrate", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for an open source photo and album gallery software that should be is easy to integrate in a webpage and have an easy-to use back , admin panel for adding/deleting/modifying photo/albums and thumb resizer . I've found myGallery which basically does what I want but it doesn't cache photos and is **really** slow."}
{"_id": "26150", "title": "Which eCommerce has a good module with product configurator?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? i'm looking for a eCommerce software which have also a good \"product configurator\". My company sells product highly configurable. Which ecommerce has a good configurator ? Thanks"}
{"_id": "24115", "title": "Looking for quick and simple blogging solution", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a really quick \"plug in and play\" style blogging software for php. It's to be used on a website that has already been design and deployed and it's really going to be used to add that extra bit of functionality. The things I really need it to do are: * Manage blog posts (including some form of editor). * Display blog posts on arbitrary webpages. * Unobtrusive to implement. * Nothing more. This basically rules out wordpress/drupal. They are far to overburdened and I don't want to have to port the website to a word press theme. The blog is supposed to fit around the website not the other way round. Yes Django would be perfect for this job however, the environment in which the website is hosted does not allow me to use it. If anyone knows of anything similar for php that would be helpful. Does anyone know of anything like this? If not I will just write something basic but functional but it would at least save me a little time and effort."}
{"_id": "38849", "title": "Which eCommerce cms provide freedom of using my own eCommerce HTML template?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Which eCommerce CMS provide freedom of using my own eCommerce HTML template? We work on asp.net, however, we are okay with other languages as far as zero coding skill is required."}
{"_id": "26632", "title": "Could any current, well supported CMS support a live action role playing game?", "text": "A group of friends and I are looking to create a system which will support and allow interactions between a group of up to 70 people using mobile devices (phones and tablets) as part of a science fiction themed freeform game. In order to minimize development effort and support as wide a range of devices as possible, it's become clear that a web server based infrastructure is the only practical solution. The server would be connected to a wireless network, and the players would use their web browsers to access the server wirelessly. I think the only thing that will do the job is some sort of CMS, but I have no detailed experience with any CMS and as such could do with some advice as to suitable platforms. **Required functionality** is: 1. Some sort of wiki containing game information. 2. The ability for both players and referees to be able to identify themselves to the system by log in. 3. Access control to a per user and per page granularity (not all users will have access to the same pieces of information) 4. (Text based) messaging (essentially email) from within the web interface 5. A notebook page for each player to make their own notes. **Required user interface features** are: 1. A UI optimised for mobile and touch devices 2. The ability to increase the text size of the interface for each device 3. Not too complex to use - some of our end users will not be technically minded The **required infrastructure** is: 1. Extensibility without a huge learning curve - we have several people with a programming and/or systems administration background, but this is a hobby project for all of us, and none of us are CMS or web app gurus. In particular we are likely to need to develop a script to change users access permissions if they scan a QR code at some point in the game (giving them access to new information). 2. Longevity - this system is likely to be in use for at least 5 years (in short bursts, but not being able to maintain or set up a new server in 3 years time would be a real problem). Things which are **desirable** , but are not essential 1. Some sort of off-line operation (don't think we're going to get this one, but it doesn't hurt to ask) 2. Built in voice/video conferencing/messaging 3. Ability to tie a log-in to a device so the user only has to log-in once (mobile web browsers often being killed by the OS task manager the moment the user switches to something else) 4. Something that looks good on a tablet as well as a phone screen What sort of solutions would people suggest if they needed to develop a system with these requirements?"}
{"_id": "1540", "title": "I need an alternative to Pligg.com", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I was working with Pligg - The Social Networking CMS and it seems like a great software. But there are few things that are not so working well for me. The content scrapper module is not perfect and has lots of bugs. If anyone knows any other alternatives? All i am trying to do is create DIGG like website. Thanks"}
{"_id": "22362", "title": "Multi language CMS", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? need very simple multi lingual CMS. Currently site is in pure html. So all pages are written in pure html. No dynamics, block, etc. What I need is: I can create 3 versions of site and add content to it. That's all. Currently I think of Wordpress+qtranslate or TribiqCMS. But I am not sure right now."}
{"_id": "43941", "title": "Help with a CMS for content only not display", "text": "Hello I'm trying to make some kind of tool for an school website, what I need to do is to make students take a test and according to what are the results (27 posibilities) they get a set of activities (questions) according to their level which they can solve in around 3 months logging periodically to the website, plus I need teachers to log and look at the reports. Now, I'm a graphic designer myself so my skills are mostly html5 and css3 and I know some php (edit existing ones only) and javascript (jquery) as well, most people tell me that I need a CMS to do the tool but all I find is CMS for display like blogs or news websites which I think aren't useful for me because the website is already made in html and css3 only (I need to add an extra page for the tool) I understand I need to create users and give them special rights according to what type of user they are and I also understand that I need a database where I can store all my questions. What is the best way to do this? what do you suggest me? Thanks"}
{"_id": "53026", "title": "CMS for sharing media files?", "text": "I was looking for a CMS to host my uploaded files, share the download link and view a report of how many times a file was downloaded. Is there any CMS that I could instal in my Host? Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla just not working for what I want, I am looking for similar as megaupload, mediafire (who has a backoffice view, front-end, etc). Thanks!"}
{"_id": "54836", "title": "booking and reservation content managment system", "text": "I'm looking a cms with a can: Make booking and reservation for a event or restaurant. payment system and open source if is possible.. Thank you all"}
{"_id": "21371", "title": "Custom Upload Advanced Scripting CMS", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a specific content management platform that would display themes for my application. Requirements are as folllows: * Any user can upload content, but has to be approved by an administrator * When the user uploads the content, an external application is called to generate a thumbnail I could create this using codeigniter or something, but I would much prefer to use an existing system. I have experience with Drupal (seems a little bloated for my needs), and Wordpress (I'm using it as main website right now). Maybe I need a plugin for WordPress instead of another CMS. WordPress currently blocks uploads of my file type. I can modify it, but it's a pain to update it every time WordPress has a new release."}
{"_id": "39731", "title": "Which CMS or framework for a website with classified ads?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? A non-technical friend has asked me to provide some guidance for his new website idea. To avoid losing a friend - I intend to send him to another professional to setup and maintain his website. The idea is not revolutionary - a basic website with user submitted ads, but given it is for a niche he might get some traction and I wish him good luck with that. Given that functionality is really very standard, should I suggest to him that he goes with something fairly mainstream such as Joomla or Wordpress that can be easily hosted on shared hosting? The only data that we want secure is the emails and phone numbers of the ad submitters. Any particular steps to take there? The other major req is that the site works well on mobile devices. Which particular product would you suggest and why? I also welcome any general suggestions on products or approaches that he can take."}
{"_id": "18141", "title": "Best content management system for a web hosting provider website?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Which is the best CMS for a hosting provider website? 1. Wordress (Is this Not fit for websites?) 2. Joomla (low security) 3. PHP Coded pages 4. Drupal"}
{"_id": "16265", "title": "Best CMS for a membership site?", "text": "I have been told Joomla but I am partial to WordPress. Can anyone let me know the best membership CMS, its plus points and any big sites running it? This is for a non-profit members only site mainly dealing with tutorials, stock galleries, templates, blog posts and support forums."}
{"_id": "30444", "title": "I want something ready to start with", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for something quick like a weblog in wordpress or blogspot maybe, that when I write a blog post I can put it there, for example if I write something about .NET or Java or Database,..some quick tutorial with some small code samples that visitors can use ... And I don't know anything about webdesign and I just want a ready-made thing to use for this purpose. What do you suggest? any samples of that that I can take a look?"}
{"_id": "36409", "title": "php cms withouth database", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? A friend of mine asked me for a easy website for him. As it was just 3 subpages, no database need or anything, I've done it quite fast with plain PHP, HTML, JS and CSS. But then another and another friend showed up. They only wanted arrange differently they navigation, some different picutures etc. So I though, is there any kind of CMS, that allows build small business website (barbershop, local groceries shop), with small list of subpages, yet allowing us to arrange look'n'feel. There's no need for the databas as content won't change, or can be stored in simple textfiles for example. Things like WordPress might be simple overkill Does anyone know such cms?"}
{"_id": "23494", "title": "CMS for code snippets?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need the most simple way to publish code snippets in PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS. What is the best free CMS to use with PHP / MySQL with these requirements? * Made for code snippets, or very good at it. * Syntax highlighting for the code snippest, when published but even when writing if possible. * Possible to write some documentation around the code snippet. * Nice urls, like /html/input-search/ * Tags or categories for code snippets. I'm using Wordpress for other things but I don't think it's simple enough for code snippets."}
{"_id": "13522", "title": "Script for a community blog", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to start a community blog: a blog where anyone can post. Basically: I need a CMS that has the following features: * People can post from the front end: they don't have to go to an administrative interface. * Anyone can post * The popular posts (the ones with the most views, links, comments, etc.) are moved up to the home page, while the less popular posts are not as visable. * Categories and Tags * Comments * Some sort of internal trackback system: if user1 creates a post with a link to user2's post, then user1's post should show up in the comments of user2's post. * a simple profile (name, avatar, bio, etc.) * The ability to rate post's and comments. * Some sort of anti-spam system. Technology: php Any suggestions?"}
{"_id": "1622", "title": "Pligg like CMS to create digg like sites", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > I need an alternative to Pligg.com I am trying to find Pligg like CMS that I can use to create Digg like sites. With Pligg, I am not able to import the links automatically. They even have the plug in. I read about that plugin and it looks it can fetch only from selected sites. I'm not sure how good the plugin is. I checked out Drigg from Drupal but I don't understand the installation steps properly and I am not able to find documentation on doing this. Can anyone please suggest a CMS like Pligg that can pull bookmarks from other places?"}
{"_id": "56443", "title": "New to CMS - Media Uploads & Profiles?", "text": "I am a designer / developer. My experience is in `HTML/CSS/JS`, some knowledge in `PHP`, `MySQL`, and Wordpress one-click-install. It'd be helpful if you could share some experience in choosing and setting up a CMS. Ideally, I have two places/needs for content management: 1. A media gallery in `HTML/CSS/JS` that can populate with images from a CMS image upload. 2. A series of 'profile cards' with fields I can customize in the CMS. A name, a title, a bio, an image etc. And then be able to display that content in customized `HTML/CSS`. These two features, along with a well-designed intuitive admin panel are the requirements. I'm still very new to backend installing and hooking into a CMS. Drupal is my first choice since it has a large community and I like that it has extendable modules. So, can this be accomplished with Drupal -- or is there an alternative I can look into?"}
{"_id": "10187", "title": "CMS for a site with blog, login, shopping cart, etc", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am in the planning process of a website that will have a blog (as well as other pages which will be static), a login area (so that registered users can access private content), a shopping cart, and possibly later on a forum. What would be the best CMS to use for all of this?"}
{"_id": "53760", "title": "Some sites with wiki-engine in the web for hosting", "text": "Are there any sites in the web like Wikipedia and this site, which have wiki- engine and may be used for hosting? Wikipedia has some troubles nowadays with formulas tags converting, so I want to use the other site."}
{"_id": "50410", "title": "Is there any Open Source alternative to e-paper CMS?", "text": "I'm looking for an open source CMS such as * Express News * Dawn E-Paper Similar question has already been asked but its still without a proper answer."}
{"_id": "25652", "title": "Need a CMS for a church - sermons, galleries, front-end/simple editing", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm creating a site for a church (news, events, sermons(audio & video), group pages, etc.) For many clients, I use Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress - however, none of these will work in this scenario. I need the church administrators to be able to create layouts easily, etc, and not be bogged down in the number of features. Often for these types of clients, I use Joomla, but editing content in multiple areas can be confusing for clients (is it content, a component, or a module, etc.). Drupal is great for form based content submission, but the rest would be overkill for this client. I was leaning towards concrete5 for it's simplicity of use for the end-user, but many of the concrete5 add-ons feel like the alpha/betas of other CMS's extensions/add-ons. I was also tempted by Fork CMS, but it's fairly new and doesn't offer a lot in the way of customization abilities. So what would be a good CMS that allows either front end editing, or the backend is intuitive - offers good solid extensions/add-ons, and is mature and sees regular updates."}
{"_id": "23577", "title": "Light CMS that does not require a database", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a light CMS that I can use for creating a simple personal website for a friend. The server that he will host his website only supports PHP and no databases. So, I need a CMS that may not be very scalable but the important thing is that it must be easy to use with a simple user interface that a layman can use to add content (and as I said no databases)."}
{"_id": "42228", "title": "Choosing a CMS for Non-Technical Users", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am currently looking for a free CMS geared towards non-technical users. I'm hoping to find something where they can easily create tables, move blocks around, with a WYSIWYG editor, etc. Does such a thing exist? Myself, I can put up with any CMS I come across. I can use HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL/etc., so I can install whatever I need to and add edits wherever I need to for the web design/template/theme. I know the popular ones: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. They're apparently not simple enough for what I need."}
{"_id": "47794", "title": "We require a blog plugin to our asp.net website?", "text": "We require a blog plugin to our existing ASP.net website. I've used Wordpress before, however as our site is ASP / IIS Wordpress is out (I understand there may be workarounds but would prefer something that works out of the box). We need blog functionality to add in to our existing website template (header, columns etc) so only require a subset of full blog software functionality, as most blog software out there is aimed at creating a whole blog website, whereas we only want it to be a page on our website, in line with the current formatting of the website. What software would you suggest I use?"}
{"_id": "30142", "title": "Blogging platform that supports group , private , public blogs and advanced tagging", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? After some bad questions here, i finally have my main question in mind :) I need to design a platform that provides: -Personal blogging (blogs that are view able only by them) -Group blogging (blogs that only people part of a small group (3-4 people) can see the posts and comment) -Public blogs Also about the content itself, i would need -Advanced tagging (common tags amongst all blogs AND tags specific to a blog in addition to the common) -Search capability -Rich text content with photos media e.tc. on the blog entry -A database that i could access and create custom applications (most read-only) on the data. Also an API would be helpfull. an example of a custom application would be to select your blog posts and create an offline file (.zip html e.t.c) and have it stored locally on your machine. After some research: -Forum platforms are NOT suitable for this as i would have to create hundreds of sub forums with selective security for each of them. It would make administration almost if not impossible. -Joomla and joomla-alike cms also give me bad signs as i couldn't have specialized tags per category of articles and i suspect heavy coding in order to do it. Also i don't know if it could satisfy my other above-mentioned needs. -I have found a combo that may work. Invision Board and IP.Blog. IP.blog supports almost all of the features that i want ,but it seems maybe too good to be true (any input of someone that already uses it would be helpful). Many solutions follow the logic that a blog is public and allow for some level of security on them, which is not suitable for what i want."}
{"_id": "24058", "title": "Turnkey software for a community website", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. Ideally, what I want is: * A wiki * Static pages of some kind, perhaps cms controlled. * Some sort of blogging or news functionality I've been playing with django, but it's difficult to get the results you want when on cheap shared hosting (limited control of httpd.conf) Perhaps some sort of wiki package would provide most of this?"}
{"_id": "33706", "title": "What is a good solution for web based course management portal?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to host a web based course portal in my college. The portal would be used for the following tasks: * Instructors will upload lecture notes, assignments, embed videos(youtube etc.) * Students will consume the content, and in addition upload their assignment submissions. * Instructors and TAs will monitor students progress and give feedback. * Students, instructors and TA's will use a forum on the portal for discussions. Could you please recommend a good web based solution(preferably free) which would satisfy the aforementioned requirements to the most."}
{"_id": "19948", "title": "Which is the blog engine for my needs?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am hosting two websites, which basically contain two filtered views to one blog-like data base. Both sites have their own domains and the files are hosted on the same machine (currently in two directory, but could be changed to one directory easily). Now, as a matter of fact, I am sick of maintaining my own php code just for such a blog, so I thought, there must be a blog engine out there which I can use instead. So I googled a bit and I simply don't know with which engine to start trying out. Can you help me an tell me which engine is able to fullfil my requirements. I don't need a setup/configuration tutorial so something. I will figure that out myself as soon as I know which software to look at. My Requirements: * I want to continue to host the sites by myself. * I want to use different design templates on both blogs. * I want to feed both blogs from one data base and filter the entries, e.g. through tags, so I can have entries showing on only one site or on both sites. * I want to write entries in two languages, so the user can see the whole site in the language he/she selects. However, I want these still to be one blog entries, i.e. if a user comments on an entry I want that comment to show in all versions (both languages and both sites if the entrie is visible on both sites). * I want RSS-Feeds (or similar) of the pages (filtered, similar to the webpages themself). Does anyone know a simple/small CMS which can do that for me without being too huge?"}
{"_id": "16046", "title": "Intranet Content Management System", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to find a free CMS that would be suitable for an intranet environment with around 50 users. What suggestions do you guys have? All that is required really is a few pages listing links to different documents on the network and possibly an event calender."}
{"_id": "31658", "title": "Any CMS or Framework that support MongoDB as the only database?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'd like to exercise mongodb in a real world context so I'm wondering what are CMS', or better, Frameworks that support MongoDB as the main database out of the box?"}
{"_id": "24420", "title": "Userfriendly CMS for a large organisation", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a CMS for a large organization. There are many sites managed by many webmasters. The size of the sites range from pretty small to pretty large (60,000+ pages). The choice of technology does not matter, as long as the product meets the following requirements: * Allows complex workflows to accomodate the multiple needs of a lot of clients. (Many levels of revision, translation, approval, etc.) * Very easy for the users (Very easy for developpers too is great but could live without) * Has content history (It is possible to view what the content on a page was at a specific date) * Must be multilingual (At least French and English) * Has a flexible security model * Has good performance * The layout of the pages must be highly configurable (not sure if I should write as all CMS probably meet this criteria) * It must be possible to publish content that respects the WCAG 2.0 AA standard Can you point me in the direction of a CMS that meets all those criterias ?"}
{"_id": "45167", "title": "What's the best CMS for my project?", "text": "I'm new to content management systems and I have very little experience in web development. Which CMS do you recommend for the following tasks? * Users can login and create list items * Users can upload files to list items * Users can comment and rate uploads (thumbs up down) * Users are able to change the font size of the page via mouse click * Users are able to export sites to pdf via mouse click * Breadcrumbs * Small and easy to use forum * Users can change the language of the site So far I experimented with Wordpress, but I think it's not the optimal choice! I've to use MySql as database."}
{"_id": "18645", "title": "What is the best open source e-commerce application for services?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Normally e-commerce applications are designed for selling products. But I want to setup a website with an open source e-commerce application to sell services, instead products. Which is the most suitable open source e-commerce application to sell services instead of products?"}
{"_id": "68867", "title": "Which CMS supports private key authenticated sftp uploads?", "text": "I use EC2 to host a website, & would like to implement a CMS which can logon with a private key file rather than a username/password. In order to keep high security on the server so no one can brute force their way in. When I Google Drupal & Joomla private key authentication, I get nothing. Is anyone aware of a web dev app that supports this? Preferably open source. Thanks."}
{"_id": "8769", "title": "Choosing open source vs. proprietary CMS", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been tasked with redesigning a website for a small academic library. While only in charge of the site for 6 months, we've been maintaining static html pages edited in Dreamweaver for years. Last count of our total pages is around 400. Our university is going with an enterprise level solution called Sitefinity, although we maintain our own domain and are responsible to maintain our own presense. Some background-my library has a couple Microsoft IIS servers on which this static html site has been running. I'm advocating for the implementation of a CMS while doing this redesign. The problem is I'm basically the lone webmaster so I have no one to agree or disagree with my choice. There are also only 1-2 content editors right know for the site but a CMS could change that factor. I would like to use the functionality of having servers that run .NET and MS SQL but am more experience setting up and maintaining open source software like Wordpress or Drupal on web hosts. My main concern is choosing a CMS that will be easy to update / maintain / deal with upgrades (i.e., support) in case I'm not there in the future. So I'm wondering how to factor in the open source CMS vs. a relatively inexpensive commercial CMS decision and whether choosing PHP/MySQL vs. ASP.net framework for development environment will play into my decision. Thanks for any input that can be offered based on the details I've given. Thanks, Jason"}
{"_id": "13456", "title": "What is the best CMS for .net?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need advice on the best CMS for an online shopping website in ASP.NET 4.0. Any advice?"}
{"_id": "23173", "title": "Looking for a CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a specific CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page. The CMS should have a user system that allows to rate users on the quality of their comments. Ideally, the System should allow for different user roles/permissions based on their experience. I looked at the site rapgenius.com and would like to use it for a similar project in which people can contribute texts, work on developing these texts and comment on text passages. Sorry, I am not a software engineer or webmaster but I thought this might be a good forum for my query."}
{"_id": "61642", "title": "ASP.NET CMS for link or content sharing with vote system", "text": "I'm Looking for an asp.net cms which gets liks from users and shares them based on tag and stuffs. and I want users to be able to rate and vote each shared content or link. I know what I'm looking for is a special web application but I'm going to build it and I dont' want to start from zero. Do you know an open source asp.net cms for such thing?"}
{"_id": "11442", "title": "PHP Image gallery that integrates well into custom CMS", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been trying to find an image gallery that plays nice with our custom CMS. I've evaluated a number of them, but none of them seems to have the feature list that I would like: * Run on LAMP environment * Free software or low license costs (the website belongs to a non-profit organisation) * Multi-user support * Multiple albums. We're posting concert pictures, and would like an album per event. * Pluggable authentication system. I want to reuse the accounts we have for our CMS. Permissions can be done inside the gallery itself, but I want to have a single sign on solution in a maintainable manner, by writing my own plugin/add-on for the software. * Upload support (multiple images at the same time) And preferrably also: * Can be integrated into a PHP page layout without IFRAMEs * Automatic resizing of uploaded images to a maximum size * Ability for visitors to place comments This combination is proving hard to find, especially the authentication requirement. I don't want to mess around all over the place in the source code to make it use the existing authentication. A plugin would be ideal, but alternatively a well thought out software design that allows for maintainable surgical changes would be acceptable. Any suggestions on which software I should take a closer look into?"}
{"_id": "9584", "title": "Which CMS can I use for my project?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I have to build a new website for my client.. and he needs this stuff: A user generated content website.. where users can upload their own videos.. (i will use a video hosting platform with api like fliqz.com) I must manage a big user system.. where users can create their own \"sub- users\"... the site must manage paid subscriptions and payments through paypal.. and other payment gateways... So the question is.. i have to use a pre-built CMS and extend it.. or just a good framework? I've been thinking about joomla, drupal and expressionengine... It's not neccesary to use a open source cms... I've looking at drupal.. but is not as easy to understand and extend... Can anyone help me to make a good decision?"}
{"_id": "7322", "title": "How to find a good photo gallery for my website?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? For my website I'm searching for a really simple gallery module that looks like the one use by Dropbox. But I'd like to have 2 additional features: allow visitors to make comments and display the number of hits of a photo. I was googling a lot for such gallerys, but could find anyone that really matched my requirements. Could someone reocommend a simple good-looking gallery that fullfills these requirements."}
{"_id": "46793", "title": "Updating Old Site To New. Which Content Management System Lets Me Retain My Old URL?", "text": "My old site is done in HTML with .html as file extension. To allow all those users who visit sites by typing a specific page url, and URL structure being good, I do not retain every single old url as possible including index.html as the main entry page even the content management system might start with index.php or anything like that. Could you tell me which content management system lets me pick my own url for each page or entry ? Example : given url 1 by Content Management System as travel/whereonearth.php my old url : travel/whereonearthe.html given url 2 : travel/mars.php my old url 2 : travel/mar.html i will type all old url for each entry page, once the site up, i will delete the old .html pages. This is for users and not for seo or anything like. I don't like .htaccess or anything like that so please list the CMS that allows me to do this."}
{"_id": "11316", "title": "fusion news or cutenews", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking at using cutenews or fusionnews, neither have the specific option i want which is when a new article is posted to email all my subscribers the last article. I would like to know which one is most customizable to do this or of another application that can do this? i didnt want to use wordpress because i want to custime the layout and page, but if thats the only option then i may stick to wordpress."}
{"_id": "24140", "title": "Lightweight CMS for simple website", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a very lightweight CMS that allows me to design my pages in the exact way I want. All those I found give you standard templates to work with that are quite limiting. For example, I should be able to have generate a page with one full-screen image with a dynamic text area in its middle, or a toll image on the side with a few text areas scattered around. nothing too fancy... I just need freedom to place the objects wherever I want."}
{"_id": "36349", "title": "News Portal CMS", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a specific news portal CMS. I know all the major \"general\" CMS (like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla) and even the less known ones (like TYPO3, Expression Engine, Text Pattern or Concrete5). I'm already working with a Drupal distribution called OpenPublish and another WordPress installation to determine which would be better, but these are more of a Plan B. I would like to work directly with a CMS that was build exactly for this kind of tasks specific to a news / media portal. It doesn't matter if the CMS is commercial (however, I don't want to pay a monthly fee) or free, but I need to be able to use it on my own server / hosting and I need to be able to access it's source code (not to modify it, but to integrate it with future plugins / modules). If you know any CMS that qualifies for this job, please let me know. In the last few days I was all over Google but I couldn't anything worth mentioning."}
{"_id": "48850", "title": "A Java based modifyable web shop platform?", "text": "I have a project which requires a web shop. It should be a Java based web shop, since I know Java well. The functional requirements are: * modifiable layout for main/goods pages * modifiable processes like checking out etc. Is there a solution, which would meet my requirenments, which I should prefer? (e.g. something as popular as Magento)"}
{"_id": "56419", "title": "Which CMS would Google recommend?", "text": "Which CMS would Google recommend for web design. I tested various CMS systems with PageSpeed and I did not found a CMS that performed close to 100/100"}
{"_id": "19627", "title": "Simple blogging software (WP replacement)", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question, but I think it's certainly better than at stackoverflow.com. I'm planning to redesign my website and looking for a WordPress replacement for my blog. My requirements are: * simple (I won't do a large, complicated website) and lucid * well coded (OOP), extensions, templates, active development (not 3 years old) * nice but temperate text editor (+images, links), tags and categories, page break * easy integration with Flickr, Picasa and social networks * technology: PHP and MySQL, not cloud service (like Posterous or Tumblr) Could you recommend me some blogging software which would meet these criteria?"}
{"_id": "13791", "title": "Picture Gallery & Message Forum", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Any suggestions for both an Open Source Picture Gallery and also for a relatively simple Message Forum (only low number of users), PHP/Python/Ruby/MySQL or anything else which is available. What I am primarily looking for are applications which can easily be incorporated into our existing website (same header, menu, floatin footer, quick linkd panel etc.) rather than as a full separate webpage. Thanks,"}
{"_id": "5540", "title": "Alternative of Wordpress for site with review", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? can anyone help with alternative of Wordpress for site with review. Need more seriously CMS. Thanks."}
{"_id": "22282", "title": "Looking for a specific CMS", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for an application (web application, like WordPress) that you put your code into (CSS, HTML, etc.) and do something like \"define variables\" in the custom code that your clients can come back later and change without having to see any code. Is there anything like this out there? Even close?"}
{"_id": "46994", "title": "Private forum /guestbook to coordinate rides for PHP password protected wedding website", "text": "I created a simple private PHP website for my wedding guests. The website is a single PHP page that prompts the user for a password that was snail-mailed to them with our invitations. If the correct password is entered, the PHP page serves up the HTML content which is otherwise inaccessible to the web. It works great! Now, though, I would like to add a forum, guestbook or some other method for guests to post their travel plans or requests rides from the airport and such. Any solution ideally would be: * **Private** so that people feel comfortable posting cell phones or travel information * **Simple** for less tech savy guests to use (e.g. no captchas, no email confirmations, no registration) * **Easy for me to setup** I would like to avoid setting up MySQL on the server if possible. Things I looked into but gave up on: * **Using a Google Docs spreadsheet** is too difficult because it would require me to solicit email addresses from every guest and then manually invite them to the doc. Any solution should be accessible via a link from my password protected wedding website. * **NoNonesense Forum** This php forum looked promising but it would be very hard to make private from the broader web. * **phpBB** and other more powerful fourms. These are too complicated, and not obviously private either. * **Rideshare.us** This service is close, but its a little complicated and kludgy and it really takes people away to a complicated website. I'm wondering if I can do better, especially for less savvy users."}
{"_id": "29869", "title": "Whether to use Joomla or NOT for a site with following specifications?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want **Joomla developers** perspective for: \" **Whether its advisable or not to use Joomla** \" if I wish to develop a site with following features: 1. Mainly focused in e-learning. (quite similar to http://grockit.com) 2. Registered **students** can: watch/download videos/slides present on the site, -give quiz (either solo or multi-player) on various predefined topics on the portal, -when chosen multi-player, they can chat with the other currently on the same quiz, -get a complete explanation of all questions after attempting the quiz, -see his/her profile/status on the portal. 3. **Teachers** can: can upload questions/slides/videos on the site(through a UI), review questions uploaded by some other teacher, can join a chat-room(quiz) and help students solve the quiz. 4. **Admin** (not necessarily a website developer) can: -approve new teachers requests. -manage contents of the website(through a UI). The key points are: The site won't ultimately be handled by the developers. The future admin may not know any programming at all! Is the compatibility issue on various versions of Joomla a big problem? Is it really easy for person with no programming skills to handle the site afterwards? Is Joomla efficient enough and easy to learn for developers? Are there sufficient number of Joomla extensions/plugins available for developing such a portal. And whether its easy to edit/modify those plugins? What we are capable of developing: 1. All the basic features including personal/group chat,video streaming,and the required coding for development of the UI for students and teachers. 2. Also we presently do not have any time constraints for the development of this portal."}
{"_id": "33298", "title": "Which wikis have MarkDown support?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? There exist a MarkDown extension for MediaWiki, but it is very buggy. Does anyone know of wikis that support MarkDown?"}
{"_id": "24705", "title": "Recommend an open source CMS for single page web site", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Hi I want to create a single page web site like http://kiskolabs.com/ or http://www.carat.se to display my portfolio. I want to add new products after launching the site without having to edit the entire site. I've looked at opencart (too much for single page site), Magneto (more for ecommerce), Wordpress (couldn't find open source / free templates which i can start from). Can you suggest a CMS which will support the creation of a single page site and allow insertion of new products without having to edit the entire page? I would prefer a CMS which also has open source / free templates which I can tweak for my use. I can do php and mysql, xml. If it is an easier option I can do PSD to site (but don't know much about this at all)."}
{"_id": "38668", "title": "Non-dynamic CMS", "text": "Some of the web sites I visit every day (news, sports, etc..), although the content changes very often (several times per day), the URLs always have .html extension, what makes me thing that the content has been generated once, and then published as a static page, rather than generated in every call, or even cached in memory. For example, the fictitious site \"mysports.com\" have a \"futbol.html\" page, and then yesterday Messi gets injured and they have another thing to put in that page, then I presume they post the new item in their CMS system, and automatically a publishing action is triggered aftewards that recreates \"futbol.html\" in a CDN with the new item and probably discard the oldest one. Then the ETag changes and clients will get the new page if they try to access it. (the site is fictitious but this is what I believe happened yesterday in the sports site I read) This would fit in the CQRS approach, and I presume they have a huge performance. I know lots of CMS (WP, Drupal, BlogEngine.net, DNN, etc...), but I have never seen any able of doing this, or at least, I was not aware this feautre. How are called those distributed CMS? Which are the most well known? Cheers."}
{"_id": "32530", "title": "File Management CMS?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some kind of a CMS -- or similar software -- for hosting non- web files (PDFs, Docs, xls, other proprietary formats, etc) for download, in a protected area. Specifically, I'm looking for a few features: 1) User login required 2) Logging of downloads (who downloads what, when, and how many times) 3) Fairly easy for administrators to upload new content Basically, users would login to the site, search for files (or see what they've downloaded in the past) and be able to download these files. Non- authenticated users can access none of the content. I've been thinking almost something like Dokuwiki would do the trick, though it lacks some features I need. Anybody know of anything that might fit the bill?"}
{"_id": "56279", "title": "I want a multilanguage community membership CMS", "text": "I have built a website on my own which does the following: * Strangers can apply and there is an interface such that the admin can accept or dismiss applications * Each accepted member has his own profile where he can advitse himselft for the world wide web * Members can be sorted in different categories, they can post advertises that will be available at different places on the side, and members can also buy certain things in the memberarea. I also create my own bills with fpdf. The reason why I want to switch to a CMS is the following: * I want to have the website in many languages and I want for instance that some german members are able to change the german content of the website(not only there profile) and, therefore, I need a CMS. What would you advise me to do? Should I get some CMS (like Moode or Wordpress) and should I try to integrate my own code in this CMS or is there already some CMS that I can buy that has these features that I have listed above?"}
{"_id": "12277", "title": "Looking for a CMS to publish online tutorials", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to create a site with tutorials on a specific topic. The tutorials would include code samples (so I need code highlighting), pictures, screencasts, and files to download. I would like to edit the pages easily, like on wikis, but also allow for comments like on blogs. I don't want wiki-like community editing, and I want to update a given tutorial page continuously, like on wiki, but not like in the blog. So which CMS should use?"}
{"_id": "10600", "title": "Subscription Site CMS", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I was wondering if there are any subscription cms's out there which provide good functionality? I am looking to have a site which has different levels of users such as bronze,silver,gold. They will then be able to access specific content on the site. So articles and videos which are only accessible to certain members. Thanks"}
{"_id": "44222", "title": "what is the best CMS for member login and job posting", "text": "Hi I have worked in wordpress and joomla but i am confusing to choose CMS.. which one is suitable for my requirements. Please read requirements and suggest me some CMS. Thanks in advance Directory which will list all of our members, with the option to sort by company name and category (eg manufacturer, supplier, developer, EPC, legal, accountant, education, government etc). Some members will fall into one or more of these categories. The directory should contain the following: Name of company Contact person Phone number Mobile number Address Category Membership Type Members should be able to add/edit their details so each member will need to be given a log-in and password. Admin should approve/manage the memberships. B) Job Posting Job posting section \u2013 members can post job opening"}
{"_id": "53707", "title": "Does anyone know a good (video game) matchmaking CMS?", "text": "I'm looking for a good CMS that can work as a matchmaking CMS. Particularly for video game ladders and tournaments. Currently I work on Magneto and Pinnacle cart, and obviously I'm not trying to sell anything with my new site, but rather fill a niche that isn't being offered for this video game. That being said, does anyone know of a CMS that is pre-made for this type application? Or am I stuck modifying a Joomla, or dating site CMS?"}
{"_id": "16862", "title": "Looking for a very lightweight PHP CMS for single page websites", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need a very simple, secure CMS for single-page websites, with a single page backend, multilanguage, and preferably XML based, although that is not so important... I know there are other similar questions, but most of them are quite old. Please don't suggest Wordpress, it is definitely overkill for something like this."}
{"_id": "53325", "title": ".NET open source free CMS for millions of pages", "text": "I have done extensive research on the umbraco cms system. I have concluded that it is not suitable for web sites that will contain millions of web pages. When loggin into the back office the software must load all the pages which takes a long time and may even time out with millions of pages. is there a good cms built on the .NET platform that can handle this?"}
{"_id": "22438", "title": "Blog/CMS software with editing style like Stack Exchange", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any pieces of content creation software for making a blog that support an editing style like Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow? Or magic combinations of Wordpress plugins that offer the same? I have been updating a Wordpress blog lately and found the turnaround time for content creation and editing is much worse than for Stack Overflow posts. Part of this has to do with being original compositions rather than riffing off a question. But part of it is the software. I am looking for CMS/blog software that has an overall editing experience similar to Stack Overflow. The most important features I'm looking for: * Inline editing * (mostly) Real-time preview on the same page are all important features for speeding up data entry. * Markdown support (with inline and block-level code support) * Syntax hilighting The features I must maintain from my self-hosted Wordpress: * Somewhat popular/supported software, with extensibility support * Self hostable * Will work with MySql Wordpress has plugins for all these, but they don't necessarily work together. For example I've found a few markdown-on-save plugins, but I doubt those have a chance of ever supporting inline editing or real time previews. Also the most popular syntax hilighting plugins don't support inline code blocks, and I doubt previews would work with other syntax hilighting methods. If I get a wiki/web page content creation system along with it, or somehow integrate this into GitHub (with all the features I requested) I'll accept those as side benefits."}
{"_id": "24351", "title": "simple cms for one page portfolio", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to use a simple cms for a one page photography portfolio. Here are some screenshots of the website: homepage and interior page Basically I have just to insert a thumbnail image for index and a specific page for each thumbnail that contains a title a description and some images. I don't want to use Wordpress, I think is too much. Could you recommend me some other cms for this type of portfolio?"}
{"_id": "48329", "title": "Which FLOSS Python CMS for video sharing in a school?", "text": "I have an university project in which we develop a **video sharing system for schools**. Our central use cases are as follows: * The system has to **manage videos** (and associated arbitrary metadata) Where management includes uploading, transcoding, browsing (by metadata) and playing * The system has to implement a **3-tier release process** : * pupils may add videos to the system * teachers may approve added videos, publishing them to other pupils * administrators may revoke the approval of published videos The system needs to be developed in an agile fashion, oriented on Extreme Programming. As a result, the system needs to be implemented in a programming language, the developers are familiar with. The biggest overlap in competences of the developers is Python, so with additional functional requirements to be expected: * The system needs to be implemented and extensible in **Python**. The system needs to be released to the general public, so * The system and all components need to be licensed as **open source**. Which extensible open source Python CMS, supports video content and a role- based workflow?"}
{"_id": "44861", "title": "Looking for a Social Bookmarking Content Management System", "text": "I want to make a website like Reddit, I already tried Pligg, Drigg, Elgg but the codes were too messy and impossible to customize. I really like WordPress and Joomla but they are not designed for that, I am wondering any suggestion or plugin to make them like Reddit or other cms?"}
{"_id": "2006", "title": "Strengths of various open-source PHP Content Management Systems?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What are the strengths / weaknesses of the various PHP-based open source CMSes?"}
{"_id": "11066", "title": "Blogging platform for private/family blog?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am trying to setup a blog to be used for our family. This blog will not be open to the public and family members will require a username and password to enter the site. I had originally settled on Wordpress with some content restriction plugins but I am beginning to question that decision. So many Wordpress features are not relevant to a family blog. Items like Trackbacks are confusing to users and still show up even when trackbacks are disabled for a specific post. To that end I am looking for recommendations on open source blog engines that might fit the bill. I run IIS and Apache so either platform is fine. Thanks."}
{"_id": "11687", "title": "i need a cms for book online reading and sharing like slideshare.net site", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? i need a cms for book online reading and sharing like slideshare.net site"}
{"_id": "26144", "title": "What free website system do you recommend to promote intepretation/translation services", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am a business interpreter based in Hangzhou,China. I am considering to mount an independent website to promote my service. I will register a domain name for it. My question is, what free website system do you recommend? The website system needs to include a content management system so I can add information."}
{"_id": "10681", "title": "Best wiki engine to use?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking to set up a wiki as a simple CMS for a resource page. Mostly just pdfs and word documents will be hosted, but the two main features I'm looking for is the ability to restrict pages based upon user privileges and for blog- style comments between the users. From what I've researched, mediawiki can easily do the first part with restricting users, but I haven't had much luck finding any plugins for comments. I'm trying to avoid the discussion style pages from wikipedia, and have more of a comments just under the article. So far I'm leaning towards trying Tiki out, any other recommendations?"}
{"_id": "8513", "title": "I need a multi-language site with webshop functionality. Which CMS to choose?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need to develop a multi-language site which includes simple webshop functionality. I have extended experience with WordPress. There are numerous shopping cart plugins available for WordPress however none of them is compatible with multi-language plugins such as WMPL. Drupal is an option I looked into (using i18n and Ubercart) and I am not sure this is the solution I am looking for. Another solution I considered is to develop a custom WordPress cart plugin that is compatible with WPML. Anyone familiar with this situation? Any recommendation regarding CMSes that fit my needs? Thanks!"}
{"_id": "24987", "title": "Photo contest plugin", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Consider this template I would like to build a similar site looking site which allows users to register and upload their images. Each image should have title and short description, provided by the uploader, and be immeaditely available on the site once upload is complete. Any suggestions?"}
{"_id": "14878", "title": "Django plugable news story application", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any plugable django blog apps that can be embeded into existing pages or templates. It doesn't have to be a full fledged blogging engine. The features I am looking for are: * Displaying multiple stories with 'read more' button. Display should be like news items on a news-agregator, without the regular features of blogs like commenting or social networking buttons. * Url for each story * Support for pagination to limit the number of stories that can apper on the home page. * Loadable on to the existing pages or templates. If there are no such apps, suggestions for how the modules (views, models, urls) can be written are welcome."}
{"_id": "34946", "title": "CMS without templates", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from scratch using HTML/PHP/CSS and simply enter code such as:- FOR EACH (listOfArticles) SORT mostRecent CATEGORY news LIMIT 5 {title}
{body}
END to get a list of the five most recent articles of a certain category in the relevant place. Does such a thing exist anymore? Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, the CMSs of five or ten years ago had this approach. I am thinking of MovableType and the now defunct CityDesk. It seems to me that CMSs these days have a 'templates first' approach. I.E. you must always choose a template before doing anything - which I find really painful. Learning how to design these structured templates also seems overly painful. So can anyone help me in my quest? Thank you, Mark"}
{"_id": "17959", "title": "Secure enterprise wiki technology?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a secure wiki technology that will allow shared note taking and documentation. Security, organization, and revision control are critical. Any advice will be appreciated!"}
{"_id": "57119", "title": "non-invasive database content management?", "text": "I work for a group that has an already existing, built-from-scratch LAMP (plus javascript) website. There are currently no content management systems in place, and up to now the method for updating content has been for one of us more database savvy employees to simply manually update the database through mysql workbench, etc. I'm looking for a solution that would allow us to customize an interface for non-developers to update certain content that lives in our mysql database. The problem is, I don't want it to also have control over our page templates and front end styling, as that is already all in place and incorporates many complex web apps that could be difficult to incorporate into a site managed by a full CMS such as Drupal. cushyCMS has functionality very close to the scope I am looking for, but it deals in direct editing of specific html files, whereas I am searching for something that would allow users to edit specific parts of a database. Ideally, I imagine a drupal-like interface for user editing/input (ie drop- down menus, limited functionality so people can't break things, etc.) but applied to a pre-existing database. Anyone caught any wind of something such as this?"}
{"_id": "6912", "title": "background css help", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > image behind adsense i have a google ad, where i want to place an image, i tired the css, but the image is not coming properly, my google ad size is height=280, width=336 the image url is http://www.clker.com/cliparts/e/p/V/F/o/0/notepad-hi.png i want this image behind my ad, i tried this following code:- { background:url(\"http://www.clker.com/cliparts/e/p/V/F/o/0/notepad-hi.png\")transparent; height: 300px; padding: 50px 30px 0; width: 350px; }"}
{"_id": "27378", "title": "How to ensure mysql starts automatically if server restarts on Ubuntu Server", "text": "Occasionally for various reasons my webhost 'reboots' my VPS after doing some routine maintenance or upgrades. However when they do, or if I reboot the server for any reason myself, mysql doesn't restart. To restart it I need to ssh in and run... service mysql start How can I make it start automatically like the other programs my website depends on to work properly. Otherwise users of my site see the site down until I can get in and fix it. Is this an issue with Ubuntu Server or is it my vps host?"}
{"_id": "48307", "title": "Adding an RSS feed to a Facebook page", "text": "I want to add a client's blog feed to a Facebook page. Is there a way to do that without using a third party app?"}
{"_id": "54248", "title": "Changing to PHP 5-5.5", "text": "I've been using **`PHP-5.4.3`** for about a month now, and today, I decided to make a switch to **PHP-5.5.5** , I downloaded the source code, and placed it in `C:/php` ( _also renaming the folder`php-5.5.5` to `php`_) and I added server variables, as usual `C:/php/` _< -- but here I got stuck_. Because, usually I appended the `php.exe` at the end, which was found inside the PHP folder so, I could be able to access PHP from the command line, or start the built-in server, but now, I can't find this file, and I can't find a way to start the server from the command line either. Anyone help."}
{"_id": "53908", "title": "Change folder name in server", "text": "If I change a folder name in server ant thus the URL will be changed, could I perform 301 redirection or this is only for the case that the web page has been transferred to another folder?"}
{"_id": "56123", "title": "Structured data and visible content revisited", "text": "Structured data (like schema.org markup) should traditionally be used on visible content (a search on here will confirm that) and Google and others have said as much. However, schema.org is now supporting JSON which would never be visible on- page. Additionally, and for quite some time, the Good Relations Snippet Generator has created snippets that are empty divs with instructions to post it before the closing `` tag of your webpages. Does anyone have practical experience (even better, A/B testing) of the results (or problems) from using Semantic Web markup on visible vs. non- visible content or any insight/guidelines?"}
{"_id": "68489", "title": "in meta-description, ok or not?", "text": "I have a dynamically constructed page that automatically pulls specific page content and applies it to the meta description. There are `
` tags that end up in the meta description. Should I write the extra code that will remove and store this cleaned-up version, or is it ok/safe/bad-for-SEO to leave the tags there?"} {"_id": "49740", "title": "Suddenly website stopped to appear at Google Search", "text": "We have a working website for more than a year. Everything was ok, site worked, appeared in the relevant Google searches etc. Now, one day we discover that the site **totally** removed from Google Search results. (I don't complain that it's low, not that). It just never appears, even if I search Google for the site name itself, it does not shows. The site subscribed to Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and AdWords (currently no Ad campaigns are running). All these tools show no single warning. We received no complain email or anything. I don't quite understand what could be the reason or is it a bug in a Google (?!) Bing does not show the website either, but we never checked bing before. Site does appear on Yahoo Search. On `ask.com` it does not appear. Any clue would be helpful. _One thing that I can think of - we are a dynamic DNS provider and we give to our users, domains like`user.website.com`. It is possible that some user may use that domain for some malicious activity, like sending spam or running a malware website or anything else. I know that some antivirus (I think avira), probably because of the aforementioned reason, marks our website as a malware site._ The site in question is `https://www.net-me.net`."} {"_id": "56129", "title": "Google Analytics regards direct access as referral for subdomain", "text": "When I directly access `subdomain.mydomain.com` by entering it in the browser's address bar, Google Analytics Realtime Overview indicates that top referral is `mydomain.com`. I'm sure that I'm the only visitor of my website at that moment (It is just one visitor from my location). I expect that it should indicate for Top Referral: `There is no data for this view.` What is the cause of this behavior?"} {"_id": "56128", "title": "Prevent Google Indexing SubDomains", "text": "I have cPanel Hosting with only 1 IP. I'm in the process of pointing all my TLDS over to this server. I have created 'Addon Domains' and all the folders from which it creates are located in sub directories 'domain1.com' , 'domain2.com' in my root website '/home/user/public_html/client/' but they can be accessed from 'domain1.maindomain.com'. The thing that is worrying me is if google indexes these subdomains. What can I do to prevent this, would a rewrite rule like this be sufficient? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.domainpointtosubfolder\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainpointtosubfolder.com/$1 [L,R=301] Or is there a better way?"} {"_id": "57290", "title": "How to manage a site trying out different technologies?", "text": "I'm a complete newbie to web hosting. I only have programming skills, but I'd like to acquire a domain. Then I'd even like to have the chance to manage different technologies for hosting web sites and applications. I mean, I don't only want to try the Apache, PHP and MySQL stack but try out with node.js and Ruby on Rails. These might be subdomains and each correspond to different technologies. What is the suggested setup for using so many technologies?"} {"_id": "54219", "title": "In Google webmaster tools, can a \"soft 404\" be triggered by the text on the page?", "text": "I just ran across an error in Google Webmaster Tools that I have never seen before. I manage the website for my local community band (I play trombone). One of the pages on the site is a list of our upcoming performances. It is powered by a WordPress events plugin that uses a database of upcoming events that are entered through the administration interface. We just finished up our summer and fall concerts and our next performance will be our Christmas concert. I hadn't gotten around to adding that into the website yet, so there are no upcoming events shown on the page. In fact the text on the page says: > No upcoming events listed under Performance. Check out past events for this > category or view the full calendar. Then in Google Webmaster Tools, this page is showing up as a \"soft 404\":  The page is returning a 200 status and Google is indicating that he 404 is \"soft\". I wouldn't have expected Googlebot to be as sophisticated to parse that particular sentence. Is Googlebot able to detect that the text on the page indicates that there is currently not content and then treat it as a 404 page because of that? If Google is treating this page as a soft 404 because of the text on the page, does that mean that like regular 404 pages, the page won't show up in search results?"} {"_id": "57292", "title": "Returning visitor stats reliably over longer periods of time in Google Analytics", "text": "I'm looking into how useful returning visitors stats in Google Analytics are over longer periods of time, such as two or three years. It seems that the `__utma` cookie is set to expire 2 years from set/update, so this suggests that this cookie should be updated each time the user visits the site, and the 2 year expiration reset. Would I be right in thinking then that it's reasonable to expect the returning visitors data to be no less accurate over longer periods than it is in the last year, for example?"} {"_id": "42466", "title": "Weird 404 crawl errors in Google webmaster tools", "text": "If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful! We're getting strange domains coming up in Google webmaster tools - they seem to be breeding. When I look where the links are coming from, it's either: * non-existent pages on our website (usually) or * some other site URL I'll give some examples: * hechenghai/article/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx * sql-server-reporting-services-training/~/ms-project/~/stored-procedures/~/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx * blogs/BradSchacht/ssis/blog/blog/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx I'm sure Brad Schacht is a great guy, and hechenghai a great place, but I'd never heard of either of them till they turned up in Google tools, and they're certainly not on our website. Some things to help: * I have a simple site map which Google knows about, and have checked this. * We don't use an htaccess file (it's all in Windows) * we don't use any illicit or black-hat techniques * we generate the site from a .NET system which writes out the HTML pages You can see the site at http://www.wiseowl.co.uk"} {"_id": "25289", "title": "Is there a way to compile LESS files to CSS (so that every browser doesn't have to)?", "text": "I'm considering using LESS but I cringe at the thought of a browser having JavaScript disabled and my CSS not being readable (and the site looking awful). Also, it offends the engineer in me to force every browser to \"compile\" that Less file to .css when we could just \"compile\" it once every-time we modify it."} {"_id": "57298", "title": "How many users use geotargeting in while searching in Google", "text": "Are there any stats about how many Google/Bing users may be selecting country (as in the pic) in the SERP? As Susan says in here that geotargeting in GWT only works when users select a country as in the pic above. If it's small percentage then there won't be much use geotargeting wesite/pages by Webmasters."} {"_id": "25287", "title": "Is LESS ready for use in a production site?", "text": "I'm considering using the Twitter Bootstrap HTML/CSS templates which use Less (a sort of scripting language for CSS) I've never used it so I was wondering if it's ready for \"prime time\"."} {"_id": "52863", "title": "image map does not work on Opera and Mozilla browsers (only Google Chrome)", "text": "I have created a WordPress blog and inserted an image with map and some links inside, but I can't open any link by pressing on the page using any browser except Google Chrome. This is the code:
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box1 div has a lot of css applied, so in order to make the text look like/where i want i will wrap it in that div . this div in particular only has text . But for SEO purposes is it better to use the p tag inside the div or just use the text directly in the div ? The result is the same ( visually ). PS: i understand that the general idea is that p is more relevant for seo than div ( or at least this is what i heard. please correct me if i am wrong here) . But in this case my text on this page will be shown in different containers on the screen for a better look. should i use the text inside the div or should i use the text inside the p tag and the p tag inside the div for better SEO ?"}
{"_id": "45118", "title": "Where to leave feedback about a bad webhost. Way to combat data loss", "text": "I've been with a certain company (50webs) for a while now. I didn't mind the downtime so much, but a couple of day ago they did the unthinkable: They went down for a while and I'm guessing restored from a week-old backup without telling any of their customers. I'm a paid customer and my sites run by storing data in *.dat files in the /www/ directory. As you can imagine I lost a week of data and worst of all an update I finished right before the crash. I couldn't get in touch with their support staff (form throws errors and phone # disconnected). That's the background. Now only the question: I want to leave feedback for the place but have no idea what's a reputable review source these days. And the less-off-topic question: What's the recommended way of backing up sites like mine that rely on .dat files for data storage? I can think of a bunch of manual ways, but is there something automatic that would for example sync across a couple ftps regularly, or say do a daily dump to google drive? Thank you guys."}
{"_id": "19397", "title": "Where to place privacy, legal, etc info on a website?", "text": "Every website I've ever been to has links to legal, privacy, tos, etc on the bottom of every page. Is this required? Can I have all that info on a specific about page rather than on every page?"}
{"_id": "26027", "title": "Hosting terminology explained", "text": "I am learning the Play framework, and while looking for a place to host (never hosted a site before) I find myself lost in this world. I do not understand the terminology used for pricing. I have visited several sites: * http://www.cloudbees.com/pricing-standard-services.cb * http://www.heroku.com/pricing#1-1 * http://aws.amazon.com/en/ec2/#pricing * http://www.playapps.net/pricing All have various tables with hard to understand pricing elements (some of which you need to set) such as * Build Usage (Builds per day, Average build duration, Working days per month..) * Dynos? worker dynos, web dynos? I am just looking to host a small website I developed (currently for learning purposes with an option to maybe grow). I don't know if the listed hosting options above are actually good for me, can any one explain the basics, or at least point me at the right direction? (also can I use any site that supports Java hosting such as `http://javaprovider.net/` for running a Play app?)"}
{"_id": "26026", "title": "How do I access PHPMyAdmin after install in Ubuntu?", "text": "I installed Apache and then PHPMyAdmin on my Ubuntu server, but I have not been able to access PHPMyAdmin at `http://localhost/phpmyadmin/`. `http://localhost` is working however."}
{"_id": "64900", "title": "Having an iframe of which inside the page has a noindex nofollow tag would it affect the rankings of the page having the iframe? Is it cloaking?", "text": "We have a website with video content delivered from a video studio and hosted on their site since we don't want to load our server with it. The content we are embedding is payed for and we don't to rank the videos (since they are hosted elsewhere and we embed them) but to rank our posts with the videos in them. The pages in the website aren't just with the embedded videos, it has a brief review of the video inside it also. Explanation of the concept and construction: Site **_example.com_** has an iframe: Inside the file **_steve.html_** which is under the same domain example.com there are the meta tags: And in the body there is another iframe video embed code from the external website. Now my questions are: _Is this considered cloaking?_ _Would we be better off without the nofollow/noindex as now Google cant see the iframed content and where the video iframe is in Google eyes appears a big nothing?_ Any suggestions? Edit to clarify it a bit here: We have a post Example.com/review Inside it there is an iframe (example.com/iframespace with no follow/noindex) inside this iframe (example.com/iframespace) there is another iframe of the video embed code. Would the iframe with the nofollow/noindex affect the post example.com/review which contains the iframe?"}
{"_id": "24579", "title": "What database use for huge servers?", "text": "Suppose I had a HUGE website (which I don't, but let's suppose), the common MySQL on a single server wouldn't work, because the MySQL server wouldn't be able to handle thousands of requests per second fast enough. How can you have several database servers that link to the same data but work independently of each other? **What are the softwares available?**"}
{"_id": "45113", "title": "Hosting multiple low traffic websites on ec2", "text": "We have like 30 websites with almost no traffic (<~10 visits / day) which are currently hosted on a dedicated server. We are evaluating hosting on Amazon EC2 however I'm not sure how to do that properly. * One (micro) instance per website is too expensive * ~10 websites on one instance (using apache virtual hosts) make auto scaling impossible (or at least difficult) Or is cloud computing not suitable for such a usecase?"}
{"_id": "45114", "title": "Do other search engines support Google's \"hash bang\" syntax for crawling AJAX applications?", "text": "Google has a really nice document explaining how web developers can get Google to crawl non-AJAX versions of their web applications to make it possible for Google to index AJAX-heavy websites. Do any other search engines support this standard? I'm specifically interested in the fragment `meta` tag method, not just the `#!` URL method."}
{"_id": "45443", "title": "How safe are the new HTML5 input tags", "text": "I am thinking to use the Input Type tags in my web application like I'm just curious how safe is to use them , Is there any options so the user will disable them from browser."}
{"_id": "64908", "title": "Does the name server reported by whois get automatically updated when moving hosts?", "text": "This is regarding the nameserver info shown on who.is, example: name server: ns1.NS-example.net When a domain is transferred to another host provider, is it possible for whois to show a nameserver from a previous host? Does this info automatically get updated via the new server settings?"}
{"_id": "403", "title": "How should I structure my URLs for both SEO and localization?", "text": "When I set up a site in multiple languages, how should I set up my URLs for search engines and usability? Let's say my site is `www.example.com`, and I'm translating into French and Spanish. What is best for usability and SEO? **Directory option:** http://www.example.com/sample.html http://www.example.com/fr/sample.html http://www.example.com/es/sample.html **Subdomain option:** http://www.example.com/sample.html http://fr.example.com/sample.html http://es.example.com/sample.html **Filename option:** http://www.example.com/sample.html http://www.example.com/sample.fr.html http://www.example.com/sample.es.html **Accept-Language header:** Or should I simply parse the `Accept-Language` header and generate content server-side to suit that header? Is there another way to do this? If the different language versions don't have different urls, what do I do about the search engines? * * * _**UPDATE 2011-12-06_** _Google has new recommendations for`meta` tags for explicitly pointing to other language content: New markup for multilingual content._ _**UPDATE 2012-05-25_** Related but not precisely: Multilingual and multinational site annotations in Sitemaps _**UPDATE 2013-06-12_** Targeting site content to a specific country includes discussion of several URL schemes directly relevant to the question."}
{"_id": "34185", "title": "multilingual mobile site and google seo", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? What's the preferred SEO compliance for a mobile website that is multilingual ? I have - web: en: http://mysite.com fr: http://fr.mysite.com es: http://es.mysite.com mobi: http://m.mysite.com Should I use http://m.fr.mysite.com for my mobile french version ? Nothing is specified on google blog for mobile : http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/new-markup-for- multilingual-content.html"}
{"_id": "53771", "title": "Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about?", "text": "We built a website targeting different regions but with the same English language (Ireland, England and America). The content for the most part is the same set up on 3 different subfolders. `http://www.example.com/` - targeting the United States in WMT `http://www.example.com/ie` - targeting Ireland in WMT `http://www.example.com/uk` - targeting UK in WMT Do I have duplicate content issues to be worried about? If so, how do I get around this issue? Also is there anyway of finding out if Google have in some way penalised these pages for having the same content on other pages trageting different countries? I have not received any messages from Google in WMT saying there is duplicate so I'm not sure if this is an issue."}
{"_id": "27723", "title": "Are there advantages of using hard coded URLs for localization?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? On the Synergy website, localization is detected (and can be overridden) but uses the same URL for all languages. Some websites however, like Wikipedia have language specific subdomains. What are the advantages of having either subdomains or subdirectories (i.e. a specific URL) for each language localization? Also, should it automatically redirect the user to the specific subdomain/subdir based on the language that the browser requests? I suspect that there are advantages, which I'm guessing are: 1. When the website appears in search results for non-English languages, the translated page description will be shown (assuming there is a translation provided by the website). 2. When a user shares a page (e.g. through twitter), it will show in a specific language. Perhaps this is a disadvantage though? Am I correct, if so, are there more advantages?"}
{"_id": "58797", "title": "SEO & PageRank optimization when using translated content across three different TLDs", "text": "We have a website **example.gr** translated in three languages (Greek, English & German). We have also registered two more TLDs **example.com** & **example.de** So far, based on what the user types in his(her) browser we have... example.gr - shows the Greek content example.com - shows the English content example.de - shows the German content The content in languages English & German is a translation of the Greek content. The company is starting to expand world wide, so I am thinking of redirecting (301 Permanent Redirect) all domains... example.gr, example.de (with or without www) and example.com to **www.example.com** Is that a good practice (SEO and PageRank)? Or it would be better to redirect example.gr (with or without www) to www.example.com/?lang=gr example.de (with or without www) to www.example.com/?lang=de example.com to www.example.com (the English content) Please advise."}
{"_id": "56702", "title": "Country specific website URL for SEO", "text": "I am developing a new site and have two domains. One is the `.com` domain and the other is the country specific `.in` domain . The market for my products is both in India and and globally and outside of India. Is it in any way beneficial from an SEO perspective to have a country specific URL or does it not matter?"}
{"_id": "55629", "title": "What is the best strategy for multilingual websites", "text": "I've been asked to create a site which targets multiple languages. The client is multilingual themselves so coming up with the content in different languages is no problem. My aim is to get the best SEO in all languages but at the same time not split the SEO equity across multiple domains (.co.uk, .de etc...). Is there a viable way I can create a multilanguage site under one (domain) roof, and if not, what other strategies are there?"}
{"_id": "63111", "title": "different content, same url, bad for SEO?", "text": "I want to translate the page based on the accept-language headers, do I need to redirect to /$lang or having different content(actually same content but translated) in the same url is ok?"}
{"_id": "55352", "title": "How do avoid dupe content with different countries+locales?", "text": "I'm considering hosting different translations of my web site via a subdirectory for each; for example: http://www.mydomain.com/en-US/ http://www.mydomain.com/en-CA/ http://www.mydomain.com/fr-CA/ http://www.mydomain.com/fr-FR/ (or I will use subdomains instead of subdirectories). The en-US and en-CA pages may have very similar content, and I am worried Google will see this as dupe content. There may be multiple paragraphs with exactly the same text, and maybe a heading will have one different word in it...so both pages may be 90% - 95% the same. Will this be a problem? How can I avoid my site ranking from being affected for dupe content?"}
{"_id": "33068", "title": "What is better with 3 languages: domain-lang.org x 3, domain.org/lang or lang.domain.org?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have three domains for similar content in three languages. One in each. I have now been told that the languages are better off as subdomains or even as sections. My question is, thus, what is best from a SEO point of view: * domain- **lang**. com/ * **lang**. domain. com/ * domain. com/ **lang** /"}
{"_id": "1833", "title": "What's the best way to split up the multilingual parts of my site?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I want to have my site available in several different languages. I've seen some sites that use country code top level domains (jp.blah.com), some include the language in the URL ( blah.com/jp/questions ), and some don't even include the language in the URL and just use the browsers locality setting or cookies to determine the language to be displayed. What are the pros and cons of each approach? Are there any techniques that I missed?"}
{"_id": "28895", "title": "Should I have a separate URL for each language and each page?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? Please be specific, I already plan to change the language based on the Accept Language header, and then any user-specific overrides (in a cookie) Basically: Should I have example.com/es and example.com/cn or just example.com with different content? Situations to consider: I link you to an english language version of example.com but you are a native Chinese reader. Should you go to example.com and see Chinese? English? or be redirected to example.com/cn? Do google and bing (and Baidu) crawl multiple times with different Accept- Language headers? I'd guess not but I'd like references. Even if they did, having separate URIs would probably get you crawled quicker, because you could put each one in your sitemap. What would I do in either case if I don't have some given content translated? Like a blog post that is english only on the day it is published. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks"}
{"_id": "30339", "title": "Moving one site in Webmaster Tools to more than one site", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? I have a Question and Answer site about immigration. now I divided it into 2 sites: **mysite.co.uk** about immigration to UK **mysite.com** with sub domains for every country, Like: _australia.mysite.com_ , _sweden.mysite.com_ , ... now I had moved All the content from my first site into .co.uk and .com site and it's sub domains to fill theme. I now that Google will detect my new 2 sites as duplicate of first on and it is very bad for SEO. and I don't think Google webmaster tools has a tool for it. so Please Guide me how to fix this problem."}
{"_id": "55821", "title": "SEO - Language on Static site", "text": "We have been tasked with re-building a Wordpress site for a spanish hotel - Its currently a Wordpress site - but they want it re-designed as an attractive static HTML site - all pretty straightforward - other than the fact that it currently has a language switcher (English to Spanish and visa versa). Being a static site I felt the easiest way to approach the change of language was to duplicate the site and add text to a spanish version of the site in a /spane folder - and simply add links to the folder and to the root depending on language pref. My questionsis - would this approach have any negative SEO implications (having dual content)? Can anyone recommend a better solution if so?"}
{"_id": "28399", "title": "Multiple country-specific domains or one global domain", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization? My company currently has its main (English) site on a .com domain with a .co.uk alias. In addition, we have separate sites for certain other countries - these are also hosted in the UK but are distinct sites with a country- specific domain names (.de, .fr, .se, .es), and the sites have differing amounts of distinct but overlapping content, For example, the .es site is entirely in Spanish and has a page for every section of the UK site but little else. Whereas the .de site has much more content (but still less than the UK site), in German, and geared towards our business focus in that country. The main point is that the content in the additional sites is a subset of the UK, is translated into the local language, and although sometimes is simply only a translated version of UK content, it is usually 'tweaked' for the local market, and in certain areas, contains unique content. The other sites get a fraction of the traffic of the UK site. This is perfectly understandable since the biggest chunk of work comes from the UK, and we've been established here for over 30 years. However, we are wanting to build up our overseas business and part of that is building up our websites to support this. **The Question:** I posed a suggestion to the business that we might consider consolidating all our websites onto the .com domain but with /en/de/fr/se/etc sections, as plenty of other companies seem to do. The theory was that the non-english sites would benefit from the greater reputation of the parent .com domain, and that all the content would be mutually supporting - my fear is that the child domains on their own are too small to compete on their own compared to competitors who are established in these countries. Speaking to an SEO consultant from my hosting company, he feels that this move _would_ have some benefit (for the reasons mentioned), but they would likely be significantly outweighed by the loss of the benefits of localised domains. Specifically, he said that since the Panda update, and particularly the two sets of changes this year, that we would lose more than we would gain. Having done some Panda research since, I've had my eyes opened on many issues, but curiously I haven't come across much that mentions localised domain names, though I do question whether Google would see it as duplicated content. It's not that I disagree with the consultant, I just want to know more before I make recommendations to my company. _What is the prevailing opinion in this case? Would I gain anything from consolidating country-specific content onto one domain? Would Google see this as duplicate content? Would there be an even greater penalty from the loss of country-specific domains? And is there anything else I can do to help support the smaller, country-specific domains?_"}
{"_id": "28322", "title": "Delay before getting URLs into Google's in web index?", "text": "4 days ago, I have submitted a `sitemap.xml` into Google's WebMaster Tool for a new website. It contains 3 entries. I have tested the site map and Google found not errors. In about how much time can I expect URL entries to be added in Google's web index? It is still 0 for now."}
{"_id": "68801", "title": "How come a site is indexed but not indexed?", "text": "An example URL: islamqa.info/ar The site is indexed in Google Webmaster Tools as per this image  But When I use google site: operator, I get Your search - site:islamqa.info/ar - did not match any documents. Hence, the site is indexed but not indexed! Note1: All other languages, e.g. islamqa.info/en, everything is OK! Just the Arabic language has this problem. Note2: Other search engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo shows correct results!"}
{"_id": "51263", "title": "Would this type of rich anchor text hurt my SEO?", "text": "I have a site structure and it kind of looks like this: Home Fruit Flavors Apple Flavors Banana Flavors Pear Flavors Plum Flavors Grape Flavors Vegetable Flavors Cucumber Flavors Lettuce Flavors Olive Flavors Carrot Flavors Cabbage Flavors On the pages **Fruit Flavors** and **Vegetable Flavors** , I have a list of links leading to all of the flavor pages in that category. For example: The page **Fruit Flavors** has links in a list to the following pages: Apple, Banana, Pear, Plum, and Grape Flavors pages. The page **Vegetable Flavors** has links in a list to the following pages: Cucumber, Lettuce, Olive, Carrot, and Cabbage Flavors pages. However, the anchor text in all of the links are what you could consider rich anchor text. For example, if I want to rank for the phrase \"Apple Flavors,\" I link to the page **Apple Flavors** with the anchor text \"Apple Flavors\" from the **Fruit Flavors** page. This pattern repeats for all of the pages under the **Fruit Flavors** and **Vegetable Flavors** category. Would this be bad for SEO? From what I've read it seems like it is, so what alternatives should I take?"}
{"_id": "44793", "title": "seo optimization", "text": "I have submitted several pages to Google through Google Webmaster Tools by using a sitemap in XML format. Several pages are indexed by Google as well but the rank of those pages are in 400-500 as my link is like this: http://xyz.com/test/music/view/1333 I have noticed Google is giving more importance to pages whose link consists of those title something like this: http://xyz.com/test/music/view/1333/summer_of_69_music So if Google finds the title or search query in the link it gives more importance to those links so i have again generated my sitemap with title in all links and submitted to Google but as all links are already indexed and revised sitemap consists of same title Google is not considering new sitemap for indexing.please tell shall i delete my old sitemap as in that title is not there and my rank is coming very poor but if Google index my new sitemap i hope to get more search traffic. I think Google will not index duplicate pages from same website so i don't have other option than deleting old site. Please advise."}
{"_id": "44155", "title": "How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?", "text": "I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is. I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com On that domain I have 3 subdomains: **london.az-studios.com** **newyork.az-studios.com** **paris.az-studios.com** Each of them have 301 header redirections as follows: **london.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/london** **newyork.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/newyork** **paris.az-studios.com** -> **www.az-studios.com/paris** So I can maintain only one unique HTML document (that appears to be three different paths) I have setup .htaccess to use MOD_REWRITE as follows: **www.az-studios.com/london** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.az-studios.com/newyork** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.az-studios.com/paris** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** This is so far the existing structure. I have recently purchased three (hypothetical) keyword rich domains: **movie-studio-london.com** **movie-studio-newyork.com** **movie-studio-paris.com** What I would like to achieve is to have these three domains pointing as following: **www.movie-studio-london.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=london** **www.movie-studio-newyork.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=newyork** **www.movie-studio-paris.com** -> **www.az-studios.com?city=paris** The only tricky thing I can't figure out is how I do that so that from a Google SEO point of view, it does not use 301 redirects, no frame. I would like **www.movie-studio-london.com** to show to visitors (and especially Google bots) as a standard website (with no funny JavaScript, links, 301 redirect, frames etc). Some of you might scream \"duplicate content\" but the websites, although using the same index.php are _very_ different. I am also aware that this could be seen as doorway but these new purchased domains really define (with keywords) my products and what the different websites are about. Any idea? Any more details, please ask... Thanks Vincent"}
{"_id": "63545", "title": "Should a targeted landing page redirect use 301 or 302 status code", "text": "I have a landing page that redirects if the http referer is from a known site using a simple nginx rule: location = /index.html { if ($http_referer ~* (www.)?amazon.com) { return 302 https://mydomain.com/amazon.html; } } Should the redirect use a 301 (permanent) or 302 (temporary)? I'm thinking 302, since this is a marketing tactic. What is the best for SEO? Thanks."}
{"_id": "55924", "title": "Can Wikipedia content be used on a custom wiki on a site?", "text": "I am using Wikipedia content (100+ pages) on a site just as 'articles' and changing certain links within articles from linking to wiki to linking to that source article within that article in 'my' site - would there be any benefit in putting that content into a custom wiki on the site (using same software as used by Wikipedia) - what difference, if any, would it make to how the search engines view the site overall and specifically that content in the context of a wiki as compared to just a collection of articles? (I add some of my own content as well, it is not all wikipedia albeit it is the majority)."}
{"_id": "22874", "title": "Does naming my website like this cause a copyright infrigment?", "text": "I want to create a website for a particular industry. There is a term that is used quite widely in the industry - for the sake of argument, lets say the expression is \" **great scott** \". The term is used by a lot of people - and as far as I know, the expression (\"great scott\" in this example), is in the \"public domain\", in that it is used freely by all and sundry, and the term is generally understood without having to explicitly state what the words mean. Having said all that, there is an industry 500lb equivalent gorilla, which has a domain with the domain name **www.greatscott.com**. However, the domain **www.egreatscott.com** is available. What is the risk (or indeed legal basis of) a legal suit from the 500lb gorrila company if I start my website (which is in the same industry), using the domain name **www.egreatscott.com** ? Are there any legal precedents for such a law suit?"}
{"_id": "22875", "title": "Looking for dedicated volunteer matching website software", "text": "I am building a medical volunteering website for a NFP using Wordpress and the Nine to Five theme. It is working (in a test environment) okay, but wondering if anyone has come across dedicated volunteer matching website software."}
{"_id": "42838", "title": "My .htaccess entry is not working", "text": "The below are all my .htaccess entry: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\\.acethehimalaya\\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L] redirect 301 /brochure_request.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/request-brochures.html redirect 301 /testimonials.php http://www.acethehimalaya.com/testimonials.html RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.acethehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L] But the last entry for redirecting: http://www.acethehimalaya.com/tripdetails.php?trip_id=8 to http://www.acethehimalaya.com/destinations/nepal/nepal-trekking/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html is not working. The code i have used is below: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/tripdetails.php$ RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^trip_id=8$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.acethehimalaya.com/destinations/nepal/nepal-trekking/everest-base-camp-budget-trek.html [R=301,L] Its been like days and i m struck so can anybody figure this out."}
{"_id": "2", "title": "What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?", "text": "What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?"}
{"_id": "237", "title": "Basic SEO Optimization", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What are the basic things a webmaster can do to make it's site SEO optimized? I know of adding page relevant keyword and description in the meta tag... What are the others? Thanks."}
{"_id": "28884", "title": "Google is not indexing my pages", "text": "I just typed a post title from a few days ago into Google with \"quotes\" around it and nothing is showing up. Does Google hate me? I am doing nothing but white hat marketing and even took down the pictures that I ripped from other sites. Does any one have any suggestions?"}
{"_id": "43973", "title": "How to give SEO support for our website?", "text": "I wanna to asking, how to give SEO support for our website? How to get high page rank in search engine for our website. Please give/share about the trick or knowledge. Thank you. Regards, Lena"}
{"_id": "56674", "title": "Most of my pages weren't indexed", "text": "I've submitted a sitemap (XML) of my Drupal (7) site to Google Webmaster Tools and it says that my sitemap contains 285 pages and that only 87 pages were indexed. There are no errors and no additional info or problems. There are no duplicates. Any idea why most of my pages weren't indexed? When I Google my site ( i.e.: search the following in Google : `site:www.mysite.com/`), I get ~200 pages (results) which is better, but not perfect."}
{"_id": "49377", "title": "Webmaster tools shows zero page indexed", "text": "I have a website with over 60 articles (dynamic pages), a couple of profile pages, about sections, terms of use, contacts, pretty much everything. I've added my site to webmaster tools and it seems that it is being crawled but not indexed. I don't have a site map but I have other pages which are designed in the same way, yet they seem to be indexed fine. What could be the problem?  On a second thought it seems that very few pages are crawled. _**Could it be that all my pages are on sub domains?_**"}
{"_id": "29653", "title": "Promoting certain keywords", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am not a person from SEO background so its quite possible that my question might either is off topic or is not a valid one. i have developed a web-site (TheColorsofMySoul) using WordPress and its basically for writers, portal in itself contains a variety of topics. Though i am taking care of providing good titles, descriptions as well keywords of each posts which is being published but i want to promote some specific words in general. e.g Site is for writers and bloggers so i want to promote some specific keywords like \"online writing community\" so that if some one search for such words on Google, search engine can place my site on some top results. i know that its quite a big tasks but i am not sure how to use those words in my site so that i can able to boost the search result ranking for these words any help/resources will really be helpful for me"}
{"_id": "23798", "title": "Google is not indexing the entirety of my site", "text": "I require google to index the entirety of my site: 10 or so basic sections with 80,000+ individual job offer pages. However, to date, only 2,900 pages have been indexed by google. I'd like to know why... only 2,900 but not 80,000+. I figure, if there were something wrong with my job offer pages, then there wouldn't be those 2,900 values indexed but rather 0... I have a 'page' sitemap which, link by link, leads to each and every ad (paginated) My XML sitemap is lacking though. So does this mean you absolutely need an XML sitemap when you're dealing with tens of thousands of unique pages? http://haytrabajo.mx is the URL http://haytrabajo.mx/mapa is the 'page' sitemap"}
{"_id": "67140", "title": "Add my dynamic page URL to Google results", "text": "Now I am working on Google SEO. My website URL is like `http://example.com` and When I Google it I can get my website results on top of the page. But my domain has a dynamic link like: http://example.com/about/alax http://example.com/about/john http://example.com/about/max http://example.com/about/selva and so... So when I Google it with query like `alax sit:example.com` in Google text box, it shows empty result. 1. How can I add all my links to Google? 2. What I need to do for getting the result from Google?"}
{"_id": "24206", "title": "Can anyone recommened some up to date documentation on SEO", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I havnt done this for a while and know that search engines are more clever now. Does anyone know of some good tips or websites to tell me how to do SEO properly, preferably using modern standards (not the old- add 300 tags to the page)."}
{"_id": "30320", "title": "Homepage not showing on Google", "text": "About six weeks ago my homepage (mayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) disappeared from the google organic search for \"kayaking pembrokeshire\" despite it having been number 2 within a few weeks of it's launch last summer. My previous site (www.mikemayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) had been 2nd for about six years and has 301 redirects for all pages to the new site. Google toolbar still rates the homepage as 3/10 and the domain is still showing in search results, just not the homepage. A little research suggests that this is most likely to be due to an issue with google treating two pages as identical content (one with www. and one with not) since the changes in their algorithms around that time and that the way to fix this is to add some code somewhere. This makes sense to me as my print advertising doesn't have the www part of the address. I have cpanel access but a limited knowledge on web coding, having picked things up as I've gone along and paid for designers etc., when needed. Would someone be able to let me know where I have to go to add the code and what code I need to add to redirect the crawlers to one page? Or is there another issue that is causing this?"}
{"_id": "6351", "title": "Why isn't Google crawling on my blog?", "text": "I have a blog. I made it in August, 2010. It has been awhile, but I am unable to make Google crawl on my site. I have requested Google to crawl but there is still no response. Are there any reasons of note why it is happening?"}
{"_id": "64784", "title": "Why my website doesn't appear in Google search results?", "text": "I've made a simple website for a friend's bakery and it doesn't appear in Google's search results **even if I search for the whole domain name** of the site. What can be the problem? How to make it appear? (The site)"}
{"_id": "26485", "title": "How I can optimize my websites into the search engines?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? How I can optimize my thesewebsites into the search engines? http://capablerealestate.com http://ajnaralondonsquare.co.in"}
{"_id": "47854", "title": "What is the best ways to generate organic traffic?", "text": "After introducing the Google Panda, bloggers and webmaster have been facing the great challenges. Duplicate content is the key issue and spam boat traffic is second issues for Google Panda in this great critical situation, how to beat Google Panda and what are the best sources to drive organic traffic? Is there any pragmatic solution over this probolem?"}
{"_id": "10281", "title": "SEO Tips and Tricks for web developers", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I know most of the Users of Stackoverflow would have knowledge about **Search Engine Optimization(SEO)**.. Any tips and tricks about SEO for your fellow web developers ... **EDIT:** * Good book about SEO? * Good blogs/websites about SEO?"}
{"_id": "49394", "title": "Debugging reason for specific site sections with significantly low appearance in SERP", "text": "I'm experiencing very little exposure for specific sections in my site compared to different sections. Most of my traffic is long-tail queries, in the popular SERP, and non-popular SERP sections. I know this is a pretty broad question, but, how would you suggest debugging possible reasons for this issue? Specific Info: * 'Problematic' pages are linked to from 'popular' pages and sitemap * Most of Titles of 'Problematic' pages are similar to title of 'popular' pages, but not exactly the same. * Most of these pages don't have many internal or external links * These pages contain many photos and not a lot of text * Google has indexed about 175k pages (from 1M), but only displays in SERP about 10. * Pages don't include 'noindex' Any insights appreciated."}
{"_id": "7587", "title": "What is Google search engine interested in on HTML pages?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I know there are meta keywords, HTML structure, and site map but what else is Google interested in?"}
{"_id": "30725", "title": "How do I make the home page of the website to come up in the rankings than the internal pages?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Suppose I have a website, e.g. **`www.example.com`** that comes at **number 6** on the Google search rankings. But the internal pages of the website i.e. **`www.example.com/index.php?a=1&b=2`** or **`www.example.com/index.php`** comes at **number 2** of the rankings. How would I make my prime domain name **www.example.com** to come at the top of the list ? Any guidance would be appreciated."}
{"_id": "59515", "title": "What more to use for SEO?", "text": "I was wondering how I could optimise the Google results? when I type the name of my company it wil show up, but I would like it to also show up if I type (design langezwaag) or (webdesign langezwaag) because i'm the only people in the village i'm living in that is doing this kind of stuff. My company isn't registered because i'm only a student. What i'm already using: Google site search (I think this helps some) Google Analytics Share this plugin News page Meta and alt : i'm not using (I read Google doesn't indexes those anymore) No links page : heard that system of links and backlinks isn't usefull anymore. Is it possible to make it an bigger range of search terms to be found at? or any other ways to optimise the possibility to be found any more? --- edit --- Also using most and falid as possible HTML5 and CSS3 think I read Google also checks this. ---edit--- Most of the page are .php files son't know if that makes any difference."}
{"_id": "59733", "title": "On-Page optimization of Home Page", "text": "How to do on-page optimization of a home page (for a industrial company/ product developement co, service provider etc) ? Home page of a site as compared to a blog is a mother page a base page where it provide snapshot of all the services the company, professional has to offer and other important info like internal page links and contact info ?"}
{"_id": "20407", "title": "Some queries about Blogger SEO", "text": "I have been using Blogger from past 2 years and happy with it. Recently I read many articles saying WordPress is far more better than Google Blogger in terms of SEO. That can be true to some extent. But what I think is if you have good content and SEO optimization, your blog and site will get higher rank irrespective of your using WordPress or Blogger. **What can I do to improve my Blogger's rank?** I have been reading SEO articles from last 2 weeks and thinking of implementing some of the things in my next post. I am implementing following things for better SEO. I would love if someone would correct me if I am making any mistakes. 1.Titles are important and the URL too. Blogger allows 40 characters in URL that's why I post the title with keywords in it and then I re-post it with the actual title I want users to see. For example: if my post is about \"Best outfits\" I will post with title \"worlds best women men outfits clothing\" which has keywords and Blogger will create url like `www.xyz.blogspot.com/06/11/worlds-latest -best-women-men-outfits` Then I can re-post it with new user readable title \"World's Best Outfits For Men & Women, Latest Trends in Outfits\" 1. The first 200 words of the post are important, so I try to use the relevant important keywords at the beginning of post. But keyword stuffing can get my blog de-indexed from Google, so I try to make sentences from the keywords. For example I am writing about iPhone. I would use following line to start my post _\"Article about iPhone, iPhone's release date, its features functions & price. Is Galaxy s2 better than iPhone 4\"_ I am not sure if it is right or wrong ethically. 2. I try to give links of my another post at the starting of my current post or ending of my post. I have read somewhere that links containing keywords are weighted higher in search engines and search engines give more importance to starting and ending of the post. 3. I try using keywords in the whole post whenever it is possible, Around 7-8 times. I take care that I'm not stuffing keywords unnecessarily. 4. I use 4-5 labels(tags) for every post containing keywords and I show labels just before the post and after the post. 5. I keep at least 10 posts on my home page and label cloud and blog archive too. 6. SEO experts say Use `H2` tags for important keywords & titles. I am not sure, but does it really help? I try to put titles in `H2` or `H3` tags and if I am using titles inside the post I try to use `H2` tags for it."}
{"_id": "53591", "title": "Bing crawls my sitemap, but pages don't show in results", "text": "Before voting my question down, I must note that I have searched the forum. That being said: I have a sitemap, which is pretty large (25k pages). These are products for sale. The products are used auto parts. Helping the web site \"ahparts dot kom\" So .com/sitemap.xml (the big one) is submitted to bing's webmaster tools, and says it has crawled just fine, but I can never find any of the pages in the search results - over a year of trying! I thought the big sitemap might be the issue, so I made a second sitemap \"sitemap2.xml\" whcih only contains 2.5k pages. Same story with that one. I might mention that google has crawled and indexed all of the pages on sitemap just fine! Anyone have any ideas as to what I can try? I might mention that the URLs are all without variables such as ?id=58499 or something like that. They are rewritten, cleaned up URLs. Thanks, Dav"}
{"_id": "25950", "title": "How to increase visitors of my Website per day", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? My website is fully implemented with `SEO` and registered in all webmaster tool like of _Google,Bing,Yahoo_ etc.. As result, **500 pages** of my website are listed in Google and lots of images as well. There is **google site-links** are available of my Website. Thought my website does not have more than 100 visitors per day(By Google Analytic) So what to do to increase visitors of my website."}
{"_id": "55804", "title": "Seo tips for blog", "text": "I've got a Blogger blog, how can I grow traffic from search engines? And what optimizations can I do for the blog?"}
{"_id": "13081", "title": "How to increase site ranking? for a keyword: Sushil Handa", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have a website located at: http://www.fifthvedaentrepreneurs.com I am trying to get this website ranking as high as possible on Google with the Keyword \"Sushil Handa\" (promoter of the company). How do I do that? I am using various link building strategies but not very successfull so far. Please share your ideas. Thanks in adavance for your kind co-operation. Sincere Regards, Sushil Handa CEO - The Fifthveda Entrepreneurs"}
{"_id": "58603", "title": "Why Google Webmaster tools showing index status 0?", "text": "I've added my site to Google Webmaster tools kanosa.com. The site was submitted a few months ago. The index status shows 0 but it shows multiple URLs have been indexed in the sitemaps section. If I search in google I can see that the site is indexed and several pages appear:"}
{"_id": "61792", "title": "What replaces meta keywords if Google doesn't use them anymore?", "text": "As a majority of webmasters already know that Google does not use Keywords anymore to help index a website properly. Which is understandable by people exploiting the system to try to gain a better ranking for keywords that they don't use with their sites. My current thoughts of this questions are: * Writing _good_ content. * Meta description should still work * Allowing for the site to be easily indexed thanks to HTML markup * Google Webmaster Tools gives insight * Google Analytics tells me where my users are going and why... ? * HTML Breadcrumbs What do we replace with the keywords to help Google index out sites accordingly and more accurately?"}
{"_id": "47309", "title": "index pages that only can find with search", "text": "I have a website that have 5 static pages and more than 700 dynamic contents that only can access them by search. I create `sitemap.xml` that include 5 static pages and whole of dynamic contents. But Google webmaster tools shows that Google only index static pages what do I must to do to index all pages. In Google webmaster tools is wrote that 7xx page are submitted and 5 pages are indexed"}
{"_id": "53102", "title": "A new WP website and Google-indexed 0 pages?", "text": "I haven't seen this before, but google has indexed 0 pages of a WP based website i am working on. It's a simple website and the content is handled by the client, all technical stuff is up to me. It's been a week+ but i can't get the website indexed and i don't see any error/warning messages in google webmaster tools. Things i have done: - sitemap - connected the analytics Any tips suggestions?"}
{"_id": "33544", "title": "SEO Team in a fix", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I am getting a educational website developed by dedicated developers. I have a SEO team as well. We are working on the SEO and SEM for past six months and were able to get our keywords ranked in top pages. But since the latest panda update by google all our keywords went down. We researched a lot to get around but couldn't get the right direction. None of blogs gave any emphatic suggestion. Our SEO team is in a complete fix. Can anyone please shed some light on this?"}
{"_id": "58594", "title": "SEO doubts regarding keyphrase and autosuggestion", "text": "I know on page optimization techniques. What is the best and proven way for offpage optimization for ranking a key phrase? Is it: 1. to build as much backlinks to your site ? 2. or build as much backlinks with the \"key phrase\" as anchor text in that link? 3. or any other teachnique? One more doubt I have. How to make your key phrase appear in Google autosuggest? For example: my companys name is \"amazing bamboo shop limited\". When I search in Google it shows upto \"amazning bamboo shop\". So how can I add this \"limited\" to that autosuggestion."}
{"_id": "47142", "title": "Googlebot ignore my new site", "text": "I have the following situation: I had a blog (made using Joomla) that in some month was pretty indexed by Google. For some technical problem I have delete it and I have newly created using WordPress (so it is a different site, only the URL it is the same) and I have reinserted manually all the articles. Looking at my statistics I can see that there are many visitors that try to visit the old page (that now don't exist in the new site that have a different structure) The problems are the following one: it seems to me that Google Bot try to visit only the old pages (that don't exist) but it is ignoring the new pages of the new site (consequently not the indexes) Some day ago, I find that I have enabled the settings to deter search engines to index your site so I have change it and now, in theory, Google have to visit these pages and index it... Why this is not happening? How can I solve it? **REQUIRED INFORMATIONS:** The URL of my site is: http://www.scorejava.com/ and this is my **robots.txt** content: # If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at # e.g. www.example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be # moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com/robots.txt # AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed # path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder # MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/ # # For more information about the robots.txt standard, see: # http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html # # For syntax checking, see: # http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html User-agent: * Disallow: /administrator/ Disallow: /cache/ Disallow: /cli/ Disallow: /components/ Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /installation/ Disallow: /language/ Disallow: /libraries/ Disallow: /logs/ Disallow: /media/ Disallow: /modules/ Disallow: /plugins/ Disallow: /templates/ Disallow: /tmp/ The strange think is that in the robots.txt comment makes reference to Joomla and WordPress...maybe is still use the old robots.txt file of the previous website (that was in the same space)?"}
{"_id": "33344", "title": "Companies that provide SEO solutions?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I've seen a lot of those companies around, saying that they could improve my website's ranking in search engine results, The thing is, that they say you'll be on the first / second page, guaranteed. I tried to contact a few of them, and they are charging a nice amount of money for it, The cheapest I found was about 5,000$, Now I didn't believe that they could make a huge change, but I did see that a few of their customers did get to the first pages fast, while leaving bigger and more experienced companies behind, I'm quite sure that I could hear about their way of doing that, and maybe even do it myself. So do you have any idea what those companies do to improve the ranking?"}
{"_id": "54522", "title": "Wordpress Website issue", "text": "I have my website in WordPress. Now the problem is if I search any keywords in Google related to website webpages then it doesn't show any webpage result in web results. But if I search in Google blog result then It is showing my webpages in Google blog results. I want to know what is problem with my webpages. Why they are coming in Google blog search instead of Google web search?"}
{"_id": "55612", "title": "Getting key phrase into google index", "text": "Few weeks ago I generated some content on my site. Now I am getting many visits from google, but those visits are from phrases that were in the content I added. But the most important key phrase was not in this content - but I added this key phrase in every title of every page possible. But still this phrase is not appearing on google. So my question is: how do I get google to index my site with a specific key phrase so that my site will appear on the first page? That phrase has not many competitors, there are about 2-3 sites that are kindof big, but the rest are just as small and unpopular as my page is."}
{"_id": "53354", "title": "Increase Website Traffic", "text": "I make one website for online shopping deals and offer code but last 5 to 6 months i updated every day but traffic not increased i request to all SEO Expert please suggest us. how to increase my website traffic."}
{"_id": "29530", "title": "Google not indexing home page", "text": "I have two sites that I'm trying to generate traffic with, and for whatever reason, Google does not seem to want to index the home pages. Other pages on the site are indexing just fine. I need to get these home pages indexed obviously, or perhaps reassess strategy if it's not going to happen. Has anyone seen this before, or can see something wrong with my home pages from Google's perspective?"}
{"_id": "30798", "title": "Google Index problem", "text": "I forwarded my site to Google, because Google is not indexing my site. I do not understand why. My website has many backlinks from other sites. What can I do?"}
{"_id": "30892", "title": "Increasing traffic for music blog", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I own a music blog with some articles and of course youtube iframes and mp3 listening plugins. I get traffic from google and some not very popular site (I don't mention it because you can think it's a SPAM) where I post links with pictures to my posts. Any ideas to get more traffic for this kind of blog? I know about Myspace, blog directories, video sharing sites, same niche blogs and relevant forums. Anything I'm missing? Thanks in advance"}
{"_id": "52102", "title": "show my blog content in google search", "text": "Recently, I created a blog in Blogger.com(or blogspot.com). My problem is that I can't see my content when I search on google for it. Similarly, I created the same page using Wordpress.com which shows the content on search on google. What should I do to show my content on google search using blogger? **EDIT** : ( _Edited after this **post**_ ) More specific question - what part of a blogger blog does google search. I get the impression that it searches the header and the posts, but not the widgets, so if you are using the blog more as a website, your widget content won't get searched. I may be wrong though. Does anyone know exactly what is searched, heading, subheading, widgets and posts? Please help I am new to blogspot.com or blogger.com"}
{"_id": "53206", "title": "Is it normal to not be indexed in Google after a month?", "text": "I started 2 new sites at pretty much the same time. They are both small blogs, running the exact same blogging software (even the same template). The content is different, of course. One of them was indexed in Google 3 days after launch. The other one has not been indexed at all. It gets visited by Googlebot 1-2 times a week, but it won't show up in search results, even if I do a \"site:www.example.com\" search. Is this normal?"}
{"_id": "16885", "title": "Factors for websites enjoying solely on organic searches", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What factors should we consider, when building an Q'n'A website which is solely based on organic searches? Note: I am gathering all information about starting a website driven solely on organic searches. **Even a minute detail here will help me a lot.** Please enlighten me. Thanks :)"}
{"_id": "3486", "title": "My site does not appear in the first 30 or more Google pages. What could be the reasons?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I did this site about 2 months ago: www.pbg-bulgaria.com The problem is that I cannot find the site, for keywords such as \u201cbulgarian properties\u201d and related in the first 30 or even more Google pages. The tool I'm using for Google position says that the site cannot be found in the first 100 pages, which is quite alarming. Google Analytics shows no traffic from generic keywords (only keywords associated with the name of the company) I know that a lot of improvements can be made: there is no h1 and h2 titles, I don\u2019t have many backlinks yet, I can put some more keywords here and there, but overall I think the site is ok. In the Google Webmaster account everything looks fine as well. Do you have any suggestions?"}
{"_id": "10546", "title": "Indexing and Page Ranking Issues", "text": "Hi all I am on the first page of google for keywords concerned with MOVING, however i cant seem to break the carpet cleaning rankings. I have made changes and additions which havent been indexed yet. Should i wait for the run or please please can someone give me pointers on the carpet cleaning indexing. Also i have 53pages submitted and only 38 indexed, where could the problem be. Is there software to check indexing hiccups . Thanks."}
{"_id": "25210", "title": "What major SEO steps have I forgotten?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm a Java developer-turned-impromptu-web-developer trying to help my father get his woodworking website off the ground. A week ago I knew (next to) nothing about SEO, and have spent a great deal of time revamping his site to meet Google's \" _white hat_ \" best practices. Here is a list of steps I've taken, and this question is nothing more than a formal request for commentary to see if I've made any grave errors (omission or commission!) that will hurt his site's rankings: * I've designed every page to have unique, brief/terse, meaningful content * I've set him up with Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn profiles and linked them to his website (both directions) * Each page is uniquely/briefly/meaningfully titled * I use 1-and-only-1 `` element per page * I have a single sentence _description_ `` tag * I have a list of about 20 common search phrases listed in the _keywords_ `` tag * I have populated every `![]()
` tag with an `alt` attribute that contains a list of a few short, meaningful phrases (that are similar to the ones in the `` element * I have set him up with an HTML sitemap * I have placed a valid `sitemap.xml` in his webroot * I have placed a valid `ror.xml` in his webroot * I have placed a valid `robots.txt` in his webroot (contents are below) `robots.txt`: User-agent: * Disallow: (I want Google to crawl everything!) Several years ago I was under the impression that proper SEO involved actually submitting something to Google (like a sitemaps, etc.). But I couldn't find any reference to that while reading up on contemporary SEO best practices. Please, if anyone has any concise, effective recommendations for anything I've overlooked or done poorly, please let me know! As always, any hints, tricks or tips are enormously appreciated! Thanks in advance! **Edit:** I know its foolish to disregard other search engines, but Google is the biggest player and quite frankly, I only have the time & energy to make him rank highly in 1 of them, so Google is my choice."}
{"_id": "63362", "title": "What does SEO comprise of aside from meta tags?", "text": "I have seen people add meta-tags to HTML pages containing keywords and then claim that the SEO was complete. Is this all that SEO is? And doing that, will your site automatically rank highly on a Google search page providing that there isn't too much competition for the search terms?"}
{"_id": "53145", "title": "SEO: why this site won't index?", "text": "I recently built a one-page-site, All main pages are loaded via ajax, so they exist as standalone too versions as well in HTML format through jQuery, only pages' content is loaded in the one-page-site. I have created a sitemap and submitted all these things to Google Webmaster Tools, which tells me that everything is fine and pages are indexed and not blocked I also posted the site URL in some specific forums where people talk about main product (Chirofol); a Facebook page is also to be released soon Despite all these things, when I type \"chirofol\" on Google, the site is not even in the first three or four pages, and this is simply driving me mad."}
{"_id": "30451", "title": "How would i rank my keywords in Yahoo search engine?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I am working as search engine optimizer team lead in a company and facing problem in a project which name is http://www.Prooftech.com.sg... Problem :- The Website has 10 keywords for which my client wanted the top 10 Ranking in Yahoo Singapore search engine. I have got top 10 ranking for the following 7 keywords Waterproofing, RC Roof ,Wall Leakages ,Ceiling Leakages , Water Leakages ,Roof Tile Coating ,Roof Tiles Repair in my 3 months work but still i am not getting the listing positions for Roof ,Concrete Repair ,Grouting .... I have Done lot of Bookmarking ,Blog Commenting ,Blog Creations ,Press Release,Classified Ads to get these 3 keywords in listing but there is no changes in the results.... Can any help me out from this problem so i can get Good rankings for Roof ,Concrete Repair ,Grouting"}
{"_id": "54559", "title": "Adding tags for SEO in clothing website", "text": "I am building a site for a women's accessories brand. The site has a Homepage, a Store page (where all accessories are displayed), a page for each of the accessories description, an about page and a contact page. There is also a whole set up for shopping cart and checkout (irrelevant to this question). My issue is the SEO. Where can I put the keywords? The home page has only the menu and some photos. The store page displays the items and its titles. Then the specific item's page has a description of the item (pulled from the database), category and price. However, I feel like this is not enough for SEO for google ranking. Where could I add tags in this type of site?"}
{"_id": "38471", "title": "What factors help in getting a site indexed by Google fast?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site\u2019s position in Google? What should I do to get a site indexed on Google, fast? Taking example of Super User I just did a quick Google for a question that was 20 minutes old, to look for an answer, and it was already on Google Search - how is this possible? I glanced over this article which seems to suggest that SU has added RSS feeds (which SU has, but when I opened the feed the article says last posted 6 minutes ago, but when Googled it is 11 hours old) - which leads me to think (Based on that article, I don't know much about search indexing but I am reading at the moment) that most of this indexing is done thanks to the sitemap. is there anything else I am unaware of that helps SU questions get on Google so fast?"}
{"_id": "30919", "title": "What tags should be used for SEO in simple blog posts?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? > Order of HTML meta tags I'm new to websites in general (which is why I'm starting on blogger) and am just curious as to which tags I should be using in my posts? My posts generally include a title relevant to the keyword of my blog, an image, a video, my content, and a link to my twitter. I don't really use any tags and someone mentioned that they may help for SEO. So I figured I would ask for some advice from people who know what they are doing. **EDIT** I apologize for not clarifying, I meant tags such as: Header tag: This is my title
Image tags with attributes: ![\"this_shows_examples\"](\"keyword_image.jpg\")
What other tags and attributes are ones I should use for a well put together website and SEO?"}
{"_id": "65402", "title": "Designing a SEO friendly Website, should i follow any standard HTML format", "text": "I am a web developer, developing a web site. I am considering how search engines index my pages. I observed a couple of sites which are ranking well in Google that make me doubt that I am doing it well. This is in the HTML structure of my page: ![\"Web](\"MyLogo.png\")
I am going to use \"web design practice\" as the keyword for which I wish to rank in Google. Is this good practice code in this way? Are there any SEO tactics to be considered? I read few articles which talk about white hat and black hat techniques, and I'm not sure which the above might be."}
{"_id": "58939", "title": "Increasing frequency of least searched keywords", "text": "I am working in an organization,I have been given an work of SEO(its not my job actually is job related task). * A complete scenario about what the problem is given below: * I live and work in India,where there is very little awareness about products that are used by disabled people like screen magnifiers,specially designed keyboards for partially blind people. * The problem is that we are not getting enough hits from specific keywords List of keyword searched collected from `Google trends`(`Location`:India `Year`:2013) * **disabled** Max search:100(Google Trends URL:https://www.google.co.in/trends/explore#q=disabled&geo=IN&date=1%2F2013%2012m&cmpt=q) * **low vision product** Max Search:0((Google Trends URL: https://www.google.co.in/trends/explore#q=low%20vision%20product) * My boss wants the hits to the website from the keyword such as `disabled,low vision product,blind,deaf,dumb` etc. through **organic searches**. * The data collected from google trends show very less numbers for the above searches. My boss wants some ideas to increase the hits from these keywords. * In other word people should search the web using this keyword.Once these keywords search increases our website may increase hits(as the people would be aware after they start searching for this keywords). * My boss wants some ideas from me.I am completely blank about how to make the user search those terms in search engines(surely i cannot force them),but i can make them aware somewhat. Can anybody provide me with some suggestions..."}
{"_id": "32823", "title": "Control the ranking of my sites on Google", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have two sites that I both control and have hooked up to Google Webmaster Tools as different sites. My problem is that one of the sites (Site A) was created as a preparation for the other site (Site B). Although I want Site A to still exist (even on Google), I would like to have Site B score better in search engines. Is there anything I can do implicit or explicit to make Google (and preferable also other search engine) prefer Site B's content over Site A's?"}
{"_id": "52140", "title": "How to enhance website product pages for SEO (Opencart, Google)", "text": "I launched a UK wide furniture business, which I can appreciate is a very difficult industry to break into but none the less I have implemented the basics by ensuring I have: 1. Good meta data (titles, description, and keywords - eventhough it is ignored by Google) 2. Adequate H1 and H2 tags 3. Sitemap submission 4. Good quality content trying to keep the keywords within a certain percentage of all the text (~4%?). This has resulted in being within the top 10 SERP on Google for about 30 different keyword combinations as shown by GWT (Not the best of keywords but still giving me an online presence) My question is what can I do to further improve my position? Any general advice which I and others can implement to take it to the next level? Home page: http://www.imbued.co.uk/ sample product page: http://www.imbued.co.uk/sonya-three-sleeper-inc-storage-drawers-white"}
{"_id": "16873", "title": "Is using keywords in a domain enough to ensure a top position in Google?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? If I want to be listed top for the query \"where is obama from\", what more do I have to do beyond registering a keyword phrase domain such as whereisobamafrom.com?"}
{"_id": "36109", "title": "Site is not indexed on Bing", "text": "My site is having a good ranking on google, but the site is not even indexed in yahoo and bing. I have submitted my site to both yahoo and bing search engines 3 months ago. I also submitted the sitemap of my site to bing webmaster tools. Even so, I don't find the site to be indexed. I want the site to be indexed on both yahoo and bing."}
{"_id": "22017", "title": "SEO tutorials and other learning materials", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Please recommend one or two trustworthy SEO tutorials or any other reliable source of SEO wisdom. :) I watched the video tutorial from lynda.com and I liked it a lot, but I don't know how up to date it is. I am also reading SEObook by Aaron Wall. Do you think this is a good source? Thank you!"}
{"_id": "59876", "title": "Need help optimizing meta tags for a specific keyword", "text": "I need to make my website appear when I google \"achar estacionamento\" (find parking lot in portuguese). Can you point some tips that could help me achieve this?"}
{"_id": "48303", "title": "Missing from Google", "text": "Recently I noticed our site no longer appeared in Google search results. Our site has be in Google for the last 3 years without any issues. So far I've check: * In the Web Master tools it says there are no crawl errors and that we have pages indexed. * In the Web Master tools I've checked that the robot.txt file is reachable by google and works as expected. * In the Web Master tools I've test that google can reach our site and then submitted the site to be indexed. * In a page rank checking tool it says our page rank is N/A. * I've submitted a check to see if Google banned us, which came back fine. * I've added a sitemap.xml file. (Although our site content is pretty static) Our site is: www.hiveintelligence.com"}
{"_id": "30485", "title": "Competing against existing well ranked Websites", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What can I do to compete against existing established websites with Google page rank 3? I will try to add more keyword to my site by populating my website with similar articles (not copies) present on the other websites, but will my page get a good ranking since they have good SEO with lots of good articles and Facebook followers? How can I get customers?"}
{"_id": "57425", "title": "How can I make my website appear in the top position of Google?", "text": "I have added some of the keywords in a meta tag, but my site is still not in the top position when Googled. How can I achieve this?"}
{"_id": "22086", "title": "Best S.E.O. practice for backlinking etc", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm currently working on a website that I am really looking to optimise in terms of search engines, i've been submitting between 5-20 directory submissions daily, i've validated and optimised my code and i've joined a lot of forums etc to speak of the website in question, however, I don't seem to be making much of an impact in terms of Google. I know that S.E.O. takes a while to start making an impact, and that Google prefers sites that a regularly updated and aged, but are there any more practices that can really help with organic results in Search engines. I have looked on Google itself, and a few other SE's but nobody is willing to talk about extensive S.E.O. practices as they normally don't want people knowing their formula's for S.E.O., also does anyone know of a decent piece of software that really looks into the in's and out's of your page and provides feedback, I usually use http://www.woorank.com, but only using one program doesn't show if it's exactly correct in what it's saying. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated, thank you very much."}
{"_id": "10548", "title": "Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question", "text": "I have read this article: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and- subdirectories/ But I'm not 100% clear if moving my subdomain website into a subdirectory on the main domain would change anything related to SEO. I inherited this structure: > 1. Informational site related to our specific industry lives at: > http://website.com > 2. StoreFront where we sell product related to our industry lives at: > http://store.website.com > The informational site gives a lot of good information on how to use the products we sell. The storefront is primarily used for the ecommerce function of selling the products, but there is a lot of info specific to the products on that site. **Question:** Is our main domain http://website.com getting page rank credit for the product info contained at http://store.website.com? Would there be a benefit to changing the structure?"}
{"_id": "17791", "title": "django websites and google", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have recently finished one of my side projects. Now many sites have things like robot.txts (probably not the best file to describe what i need but you get what I mean) and things of that nature not totally sure what else there is but things behind the scenes that sites use to identify themselves to things like google, yahoo, and bing(but I could have just said google! zing!) I was wondering, what I needed to add to my site for it to be fully web compliant and searchable and proper. I am basically looking for best practices. Thanks."}
{"_id": "48919", "title": "What do first for SEO activity?", "text": "I'm newbie in SEO tasking but I motivate to be SEO master. I have done create any website. So, whats do the best first for SEO activity for good SEO in the future? How long any website can be high PageRank?"}
{"_id": "67687", "title": "SEO of your website", "text": "Hello I am now learning new things to apply SEO of my website. What are the concepts and tools which I need to follow or use to make my site optimize and how to check about my website is it optimize or not. Thanks in advance."}
{"_id": "22837", "title": "Is there any good authoritative source of information on SEO practices that is backed up by data?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Any google search for anything about SEO yields more articles than you can shake a stick at, but lot of the articles are out of date, many have conflicting advice and I just about none of them ever give any reasons/proof/data to back up their claims about what works and what doesn't. Has anyone done any at least somewhat scientific tests to see what works and what doesn't (and ideally why?) or has anyone from Google released any non- basic information about best practices? Really what I would love to do is A/B test different SEO techniques, but the time lag and sheer number of variables makes it very difficult. Has anyone ever tried this type of thing? (And published their results?)"}
{"_id": "54052", "title": "If Googlebot is crawling 25 pages per day, why isn't my website indexed by Google?", "text": "I have created a word press site which is 2 months old and has 15 posts. The average crawl rate is 25 pages per day. Is that sufficient for my site to get some organic traffic from Google search? If it is not sufficient, what should I must do to increase crawl rate as well as site traffic organically? My site was http://how2impress.com/"}
{"_id": "52634", "title": "Generating Back lInks", "text": "I am new to this field of SEO. My site is intended to target local customers only. I want to generate quality backlinks for my site. Is there any tools to generate quality backlinks. Or blog sites to improve count of backlinks. I am trying to improve my page ranking . Any Other SEO tips also would be highly appreciated! Thanks in Advance"}
{"_id": "43356", "title": "SEO not indexing my site: \"A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt \u2013 learn more.\"", "text": "When googling my site I get following text under the result for my domain: > \"A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt \u2013 learn more.\" My robots.txt, which resides in the root of my V-host, looks like this: User-agent: * Disallow: I did have a problem with this file before since I forgot to change it from the test environment and then I had User-agent: * Disallow: / However, I did change it yesterday or the day before. I have been googling and this seems to be a correct way of handling it as it is now. Checking the access log of httpd for today, I can see that google has tried to it. But the access_log also shows that Googlebot has been accessing the most of my links as well, feels like ok indexing... Nothing in the error_log from today about robots.txt. What I cannot find is if google has been indexing /index.php. But I guess folling entry is the same, isn't it?: > 66.249.75.179 - - [07/Feb/2013:15:23:01 +0100] \"POST / HTTP/1.1\" 200 1 > \"http://www.mydomain.ext/\" \"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; > +http://www.google.com/bot.html) What is my problem and how to I resolve it? **UPDATE** When testing in Googles Webmaster Tool I get (this is for my .com domain, all above as well): > Blocked by line 2: Disallow: / Detected as a directory; specific files may > have different restrictions And when doing the exact same thing with my .se domain, which points to the exact same content, I get: Allowed by line 2: Disallow: Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions"}
{"_id": "65336", "title": "Links removed from google search results", "text": "For my website www.trickwarehouse.com i have created one post on keyloggers. When i search in google that `what are keyloggers?` then my website's post position was 16 but after 1 hour, when i checked once again then **BOOOM!!!!** nothing found for my website within top 100 results. and also other keywords which was in top 100 results was shifted behind by 2-3 results...... Why it is happening? Any answers?"}
{"_id": "56520", "title": "OpenCart search engine optimization!", "text": "What kind of procedures would be important to optimize opencart webshop for car parts? Thanks in advance"}
{"_id": "53822", "title": "Google crawling pages but not adding them to index", "text": "I have a website for which Google has \u2014 according to Webmaster Tools \u2014 been crawling 1000-5000 pages per day. However, the number of pages _indexed_ (as judged by both the Webmaster Tools count and the result count for a `site:` search on Google) has remained fairly static for weeks now. What's going on, and why is this happening?"}
{"_id": "10533", "title": "What are the best SEO techniques for a professional blog?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Beginner to SEO here, starting with a personal site, looking for some insight and feedback. Question: what's more important, domain name or site title? Question: how important are the meta tags (description and keywords) on your site? Description should be under 60 chars right? How many keywords is ideal? Question: #1 most important SEO principle = ?? (my guess is getting others to link to your site) -thanks."}
{"_id": "25656", "title": "How to be the first site in google search?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the title of my website in google search, and although it is a very specific tile, I didn't find my site. My question is that how can be the first sites in google search? I heard that google doesn't look up ``s anymore and using another method.Is it true?"}
{"_id": "21976", "title": "Question about SEO and Domains", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? > Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question This is my first post on here as I am mainly on Stackoverflow and Serverfault. I have been programming for at least 10 years now, have made hundreds of websites but I have just recently started getting into Design and the SEO side of sites, sad that I have been overlooking these for so many years. I have pretty good knowledge from all my years of SEO but I have never really looked into it until now. My question, I would like to build a site that targets many different key words for the search engines, for an example. Let's say I built a site about Outdoor activities called `outdoorreview.com` and I planned on having many sections `hunting` `fishing` `Hiking` `camping` `cycling` `climbing` `etc...` For best Search Engine results, how could I get the most search engine traffic to all these ares? Also how should I structure the way to get to them, `outdoorreview.com/Hiking/` or `hiking.outdoorreview.com` ?"}
{"_id": "37599", "title": "How can I increase traffic to my website?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? I developed a site with CMS wordpress, I am currently in the phase referencing, I would like to know how I can have to increase traffic for site visits."}
{"_id": "52834", "title": "Facebook and Website SEO", "text": "I am the webmaster of a website, and one issue that I'm having is getting our home website to appear above our Facebook page. Are there any Google Webmaster Tools or meta data tricks I can employ to make our main website rank higher than our Facebook page?"}
{"_id": "19356", "title": "How do I get the word out about my site?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? This has plagued me for a long time now. I just can't seem to grasp internet marketing very well. I recently started a website to help people with anxiety, now I just have no idea how to make people aware of it. The website is free and doesn't even have ads. I don't have the money to put into Adwords right now...I've asked people to link my site but nobody wants to because they think it will take away from their own visits. How can I bring more hits to my site?"}
{"_id": "43350", "title": "Why aren't search engines indexing my content?", "text": "> _This is a general, community wikicatch-all question and answer pair > intended to address any questions concerning the reasons a site or specific > site contents do not appear in search engine results._ > > _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel > that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, > please open a discussion onPro Webmasters Meta._ My site (or specific pages on my site) is not appearing in search engine results. Why isn't my content indexed and what can I do about it?"}
{"_id": "68513", "title": "Must-do regarding on site SEO", "text": "I read a lot of articles regarding on site SEO. I focused mostly on Yoast SEO recommendations (since i'm using Wordpress) and Google guidelines. * Structured headings * Optimized site speed * Breadcrumbs * Updated sitemap * No-follow all external links * No index pages with content that is not unique What else should i do, to make my site more SEO optimized? Any recommended reading is welcome :) After making those changes, how soon should i notice some positive changes in page rankings?"}
{"_id": "11623", "title": "Order of HTML meta tags", "text": "A SEO company suggested we change the order of our HTML meta tags so that `` and `<meta name=\"description\">` are the first two. They say this is to ensure search engines can utilize these two tags. I've been under the impression that the order of tags inside the document's head is not significant. Have I been wrong? Are there really search engines that assume that the first two tags are always `title` and `description` and give up looking for them if they aren't?"}
{"_id": "18730", "title": "SEO optimizing Blogger blogspots", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? What are some way to optimize a Blogger blogspot for SEO? I have looked at several other articles, but they were old, so the tactics used won't work with the newer Blogger."}
{"_id": "47231", "title": "site appears in Google Webmaster Tools but no site: search results", "text": "My site is geocology.ca. About a year ago I attempted to add geocology.ca to Google's search index by following the steps for 'Moving Your Site' in Google's Webmaster Tools, transferring from my old site at hughstimson.com. Everything seemed to go fine. * I submitted a sitemap for the new site, and it was read successfully. * I added a robots.txt file with a single entry ALLOWing all user agents, and it quickly showed up in Webmaster Tools, properly registered. * When I go to Google Webmaster tools there are no errors and no complaints. **BUT** : my site never appeared in Google's search results. At all. Searching for site:geocology.ca produced no results. After a couple of months I added a small wordpress blog in a sub-domain, as a sandbox for a client. That blog quickly showed up in Google's index, and now if you search for site:geocology.ca the content of that (fake) blog is all that will appear. Does anyone know how I can address this? Is there perhaps a way to completely reset Google's knowledge about my site and start again?"}
{"_id": "47766", "title": "Why do all pages bar the home page turn up in Google?", "text": "Our website is made with WordPress. The menu pages all turn up in Google searches, but the index page doesn't. The index page is absent; the others are there. Why would this be?"}
{"_id": "23501", "title": "Landing page not appearing on google", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I a have a website which describes every product made by the company and it appears on google, which is fine. Now i also made a nice landing page, in its own domain, for one product. The page shows a demo video and has a link to the full website that the visitor is supposed to click if he wants to learn more about the product. The problem is that the page does not have text content, just the video and the link. So Google doesn't know what it is about. I added meta keywords and alt attributes but this didn't help, the page is not listed on the results. What should i do to make it appear on Google?"}
{"_id": "3472", "title": "Site not indexed by Google", "text": "I typed the following on Google: (1) site: uniquevolve.com (2) site: uniquevolve.com.au Only (2) gets indexed. Is this normal? The strange thing is, my Website is actually hosted on the server with domain (1) and domain (2) only redirects to (1). How do I get (1) indexed by Google? Thank you in advance."}
{"_id": "33343", "title": "Did what I can to keep my website SEO friendly, yet newer websites are ranked better?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I have a website that gives information about weddings, My site has been up for almost two years now, I designed it and programmed it entirely, While developing my website I tried to keep it SEO-friendly, I read about SEO at random websites, read articles about it and such. Nowadays my website is still quite bad with the \"big\" words such as \"Wedding\" (Not in english) My budget for advertising is not the biggest, I am thinking of advertising with AdWords but I don't think that it really affects SEO, does it? The thing is that about two months ago, I found a new website that does pretty much what my site does, it was after me in google's results, but suddenly started climbing up, now it's on the first page. How does one do such a thing? I looked into the domain history, and is newer than mine as well. I never thought that it's possible to go up so fast , I saw some companies that go around and say that you will be on the first / second page for sure if you pay them a nice amount of money, but I thought that I could skip this because as far as I heard SEO is not really controlled by these people, what they could do is just change a few things in my design to make it even more SEO-friendly, and maybe link to my site from random forums and websites. Am I wrong though? can they really guarantee such a thing? Is there any \"SEO Magic\" that I dont know of? I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about this and know more about how to improve my website's ranking Thanks"}
{"_id": "68954", "title": "Problem indexing my site", "text": "I developed a site but I've got some problems to index it. I've got 10 pages but when I search my site on google the first result is the page \"contact\" and not \"index\". I have included title and meta tag description and keywords in the index page but the result is the always the same."}
{"_id": "39529", "title": "Blog is not indexing in google search", "text": "I have a blog with url http://webzpedia.blogspot.in which is about 2 years old. In early days there is 200+ pageviews coming from the google search itself. But from last 4-5 months, google stopped indexing my blog in its search results. Can anyone answer why this happening?"}
{"_id": "30915", "title": "How to promote travel blog?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? > How can I increase the traffic to my site? I know this question might seem a little off topic, but blogging may become important part of travel. Nowadays, in time of Facebook, Twitter and similar services, keeping a travel blog may seem a little _archaic_. It's not 2005 anymore. But a lot of my travel colleagues update their blogs and have significant number of readers. I also tried to keep my blog when I travel. However it seems that the only reader is my mum ;) **What is your advice on promoting a _travel_ blog?**"}
{"_id": "10265", "title": "How to start learning SEO", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm a web developer (.NET) and a newbie to the SEO world! Where and how to start ? What are the steps to go from a newbie to be a more experienced SEO ? Thanks in advance =)"}
{"_id": "34151", "title": "My website not getting any traffic, How to get traffic?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How can I increase the traffic to my site? I have done pretty nice SEO of my website , the website is made in php , anyone can submit article and the submitted articles are moderated by the moderators , the site is online from more then a month but still the user count is 10-20 only total impressions are 700 according to webmaster google , how much time does google webmaster takes to refresh the data , cause from 3 -4 days the impressions shown in the dashboard are 700 only , I am posting 2 article each day , please help me , I am very disappointed with all my effort and i really need a good motivation to carry on my work. Please help my website url is http://www.viewloud.com"}
{"_id": "55223", "title": "Is Anyone Facing Ranking Problem with their Website and indexing is quietly fine?", "text": "My Website gosarkarinaukri and sarkarinaukricareer both are Indian Educational Portal, if i update my pages on these websites, it get indexed by Google but they are not ranked properly as they used to do. Problem is, when i copy entire title and paste in Google, Google doesn;t show any Result from my website? Is anyone facing same problem, suggest me any good."}
{"_id": "35284", "title": "Only 10% of my site are indexed", "text": "I'm newbie in Google Webmaster Tools and I use sitemap.xml to submit urls. The problem is that I've submitted 150 urls and only 17 are indexed! Is that a problem or they will be indexed later?"}
{"_id": "15568", "title": "Hoping to boost traffic to NFP site. SEO info? HELP!", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I'm doing work for a not-for-profit looking to boost traffic to the site. I need to learn a tremendous amount about SEO and backlinking in a short length of time. Any tips you can give me, or sites you can refer me to, I'll be most grateful. A million thanks, Chaz"}
{"_id": "217", "title": "How can I increase the traffic to my site?", "text": "I don't want to do link exchanges or anything shady. I just want some legitimate ways that I can direct a little bit more traffic to my site. How do I do that?"}
{"_id": "47193", "title": "Google Webmaster Tools Index Status is 0", "text": "Statistics show all entries of my wordpress blog have been tracked, but none have been indexed. I thought it would be just a matter of indexing delay, but it has been 3 weeks already, and I can find the entries on google when I query the entry name, (e.g \"relaxacion.com musica para dormir bebes\" shows at the bottom of search results first page) Is there any problem with my wordpress setup?"}
{"_id": "16288", "title": "How can I bring my website up in the google search result?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I have developed my website few months ago and I added meta tags and described everything as much as I could but my site is still not on the top when I search kashif ejaz on google. Please help !"}
{"_id": "50023", "title": "After replacing all tables in an old website with divs, what other steps should I take?", "text": "I have designed a website a few years back, and it ranks pretty well, customer is happy, no problems there. I took one of the pages and replaced manually all the tables with `<div>`, used structured data and got the website to look exactly the same. I would like to know what other steps should I take to improve or at least not hurt this page's rank, or if perhaps I should just not bother altogether. What are best practices here? By the way, the page is not live yet."}
{"_id": "35517", "title": "Google crawls my website too slowly", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? I think Google crawls it too slowly (every three days). I updated it daily and it's kind of frustrating. Should I build more backlinks? The robots.txt looks ok."}
{"_id": "54482", "title": "Why isn't my website ranking highly and what can I do to improve it?", "text": "What I can improve to make my website rank better on search engines for my target keyword - \"address labels\". I've tried a lot of things to make it better but I'd love to hear some more suggestions! the address is www.thelabelroom.co.uk"}
{"_id": "55014", "title": "Increase traffic to site", "text": "I have made a social networking site and it's been on the web for over 6 months and it has over 8,000 members but I want it to grow bigger. What tools/methods can I use to grow its popularity? e.g CEO, PPC advertising Tools/methods requiring money and without and comparisons? Thanks in advance, Jack."}
{"_id": "21845", "title": "How to be on google first page results?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I searched the web and find a lot of \"techniques\" to be on the first page results of google or yahoo. Is it possible to pay for that?"}
{"_id": "25417", "title": "Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo", "text": "When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas? Here's my `site:mytgp.ph` query on Google: "}
{"_id": "57786", "title": "Our indexed website appearing and disappearing from Google SERP", "text": "Our website www.skadate.com used to appear on Google search when searching for a keyword \"dating software\", now it doesn't. It doesn't come by any other keyword (it used to come up with) as well. Sometimes our index page appears on SERP, sometimes doesn't', usually a PHP page appears. Why is it happening, any ideas?"}
{"_id": "61673", "title": "cannot find my site in Google/Bing - live 4 months", "text": "I have a site, led-lights.ie, which went live in January and it is still getting just a handful of visitors a day. I cannot find it searching Google using various terms even after going through over 20 pages of results. However, site:led-lights.ie shows over 100 pages in google also its images are indexed. Google WMT tools shows no errors and that the XML sitemap has been processed. An Alexa site audit got a score of A/91%, (SEO / Performance / Security / HTML scored A, Reputation C ) only issues being Duplicate or long title tags and duplicate meta descriptions. As far as I can tell, the domain is \u201cnew\u201d i.e. no previous usage or penalties. Can anyone see if I\u2019m missing something obvious with this site SEO wise? Thank you."}
{"_id": "47923", "title": "How to get the content right for better showing in google results", "text": "I am looking for basic help or guidelines for making my site earn better visibility in google and other search engine results. My site is a price- comparison engine for products so I want to know what shall feature in my meta keywords, meta description, images and content. For example, you can think of Nokia Lumia 920 as one of the products."}
{"_id": "25585", "title": "SEO/performance - building blog article page", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? I've been using WP up and until now, but want to spread my wings and build a bespoke blog for my website. The reason I want my own blog is that I cannot get my WP site to match the branding/design of my main website, and because my blog is very basic, there is a ton of stuff on WP that I really don't need. I'm using ASP/Windows IIS7 and the URL rewrite module, which is all working fine (tested), plus I've built my database and administration pages. I'm now about to tackle the article page itself. Before I get started with it, I would like to hear some suggestions/ideas/tips on building the page correctly, mainly for enhancing SEO rankings, but for general performance too. I know using heading tags (h1-h6), paragraph tags (p), and alt/title attributes will enhance rankings if used correctly. I'm also familiar with meta keywords and description tags, especially being dynamically produced. What other building requirements are there that will help with successful SE ranking and general performance? Is there anything else I should be aware of when building this article page? And also, I'm not bothered that my user cannot remember the URL of the page, but will using a URL like www.mydomain.com/articles/12334435544 be a problem to SE's, using only numbers (representing article ID) and no text?"}
{"_id": "8507", "title": "What is the best way to get robots to crawl your site from google?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Why isnt google crawling on my blog? What is the best way to get robots to crawl your site from google? With reference to our site [site elided]"}
{"_id": "22870", "title": "New webserver offering HTML for download, not for browsing", "text": "I recently purchased a hosting plan from a provider. They gave me temporary url of accessing the hosting space, controlpanel, ftp details. Now when I deleted all the files from public_html and put up a index.html, then on clicking on the temporary url,everytime a files gets downloaded (with download name). What can be the issue?"}
{"_id": "19391", "title": "Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other", "text": "There is a website and the layout looks something like below: home->approved-> education entertainment business | | | kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult | | | and so on.. and so on.. and so on.. home->not approved-> education entertainment business | | | kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult kid, teenager, adult | | | and so on.. and so on.. and so on.. **On homepage, one would see two links - approved and not-approved.** Once you click on any of the links, relevant entries will come up and then both pages also have filters on top for further drilling, see above. Urls are organized like below: Home/Approved will pull up all entries. Home/Approved/Education will pull up education only (and so on). Home/Approved/Education/Kid will pull up educational kid only (and so on). **I am planning to organize my sitemap to have two static parent nodes - approved and not approved, and then add all entries dynamically to the sitemap to these two parent nodes and not include sublevels in sitemap at all.** Do you see any problem/pitfall with this approach - in terms of seo or anything else?"}
{"_id": "27808", "title": "What should a page's minimum word count be in order to be effectively indexed?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Ideal word count per web page? I'm seeding a new site with hundreds of (high quality) posts, but since I am paying per word written, I'm wondering if anybody in the community has any anecdotal evidence as to how many words of content there should now be for a page to be counted just the same as a 700 word+ post, for example? I know there are always examples of pages ranking well with, for instance, 50 words or less of content, but does anyone have any strong evidence on what the minimum count should be, or has anyone read anything very informative in regards to this issue?"}
{"_id": "24082", "title": "SEO - Is it right that only 20% of visitors come on the homepage?", "text": "few days ago I was discussing with a xoogler about percentage of people incoming on a website, and how many of them really come on the homepage. He said that in a website that has been studied well only the 20% of traffic comes from the homepage. I didn't know much about this percentage so I ran to my computer to find out more, but I couldn't find nothing about this percentage. Of course make a xoogler speak is pretty hard, so I'd prefer to make a search by myself, do you have any link of knowledge about this? I understand that the homepage does not have the \"really\" content an user may be searching for, but I'd read more about who and where did take this percentages."}
{"_id": "26572", "title": "command-line zip not working", "text": "I have a Wordpress site on a Debian/Linux dedicated server, with a Backupbuddy plugin for making automatic backups. The plugin, however, gives an error 'Your server does not support command line ZIP'. My knowledge of Linux commands is very limited, but I managed installing zip with the command `sudo apt-get install zip` However, I still get the same error message. Plugin documentation mentions the problem could also be caused by disabled exec() or safe_mode - but exec isn't disabled, and safe_mode is off. Any ideas what might be causing this, or how to fix it? The only thing I could think of, is it might be caused by wrong permissions?"}
{"_id": "58071", "title": "Can inbound links through template-based layouts result in penalties?", "text": "So obviously link building is encouraged as long as it is natural, organic and has meaningful links with content relevant to your site. Obviously with the constant release of new updates to algorithms, Google is flagging sites for unnatural links to their sites. My Question is: * Can this be caused by templating systems? With WordPress for example, where you can add a link on the footer and it is repeated throughout the entire website generating thousands of links? * If we don't add any links, Good Content will be re-posted and linked to, surely if your content is constantly linked to this will flag your site for \"unnatural\" content as it's difficult to see if someone has been paid to write an article on your content. * Or does Google just simply want us to audit some of the links to show we are making an effort? As you can tell we have had a Manual action for: `Unnatural links to your site\u2014impacts links`. However, this seems to impact our website as well. Edit: To clarify the question: Can you get penalised for paying for advertising on a site that uses a templated sidebar. So when they create a new blog/page ect your link is also added onto the page hence resulting in 1000's of links to one page on our site. I know that one effect maybe a 0 pagerank web page linking to your page dilutes the PR of our page. However the links are only inbound not reciprocal"}
{"_id": "37792", "title": "Remove SSL from Google Search results", "text": "I am working on a WordPress site that serves up HTTP pages statically. The problem is that some of the pages are shown as HTTPS in Google Search results. For instance, if the search term \" _Example Press Kit_ \" is entered the search result site link comes up as: https://example.com/presskit/ We don't have a site SSL certificate, so surfers are being bounced. I have tried everything. Most recently I created a new website in Google WebAdmin for the HTTPS version of our home page. Then, I added site links that should have redirected site links intended for `https://example.com/*` to `http://example.com/*`, but it doesn't work! Google still shows a dead link to `http://example.com/presskit`. I didn't think dead links lasted very long on Google results, but there they are, two weeks later. Any ideas? A `301 redirect` won't work because the site doesn't even allow redirection from HTTPS. It is served by CloudFlare."}
{"_id": "58073", "title": "Does shortened URL carry less weight in terms of SEO?", "text": "Which backlink would carry more weight in terms of SEO between the original URL to a webpage (like `http://www.example.com/Zqe9`) or a URL shortened from Google (like `goo.gl/Zqe9`)?"}
{"_id": "46866", "title": "How do Expires headers and cache manifest rules work together?", "text": "I find the W3C's official Offline Web Applications specification to be rather vague about how the cache manifest interacts with headers such as ETag, Expires, or Pragma on cached assets. I know that the manifest should be checked with each request so that the browser knows when to check the other assets for updates. But because the specification doesn't define how the cache manifest interacts with normal cache instructions, I can't predict precisely how the browser will react. Will assets with a future expiration date be refreshed (no matter the cache headers) when the cache manifest is updated? Or, will those assets obey the normal caching rules? Which caching mechanism, HTTP cache versus cache manifest, will take precedence, and when?"}
{"_id": "54543", "title": "Is Google showing ads from other companies or WordPress plugin is injecting ads which are not mine?", "text": "I am using WordPress for managing my blog website. I am using an Ad Injection plugin to place my ads where I want in a post. The plugin seems very good, but I saw some ads which were not from ad networks which I was using. Now I have injected a Google ads leaderboard at some place but I saw advertisement from this advertiser: http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy?utm_source=evidon&utm_medium=AdChoices&utm_campaign=privacy%2Bpolicy So I want to know whether ad injecting plugin is doing some trick or Google is using ads from other networks too?"}
{"_id": "38502", "title": "Redirection based on user's location", "text": "I'm about to redirect my French users from mysite.com to mysite.fr. Is it possible using **DNS CNAME records** or should I write some **GEOLocation** codes to do that? I will appreciate any other ideas. Regards, Shakib"}
{"_id": "54169", "title": "Does iframe affect SEO of its parent page?", "text": "I would like to know that, does _iframe_ affect the SEO of its parent page (the page contains _iframe_ )? I've done some searching, such as Do we still need to avoid using frame/iframe for good SEO? and Using iFrame: SEO and Accessibility Points, which tell me that: * **The content in an iframe** is not considered part of the parent page. * **The page within an iframe** may be spidered and indexed (or it may be not) but no PR is definitely passed. But these are the content **in the iframe** , what about the parent page? Does the PageRank of the parent page will decrease because the _iframe_? Or maybe Googlebot wouldn't crawl the parent page? Or is the parent page not affected at all?"}
{"_id": "38506", "title": "Does browser understand PHP?", "text": "I know that PHP is server side scripting language, but I got confused when asked in an interview if the browser understands PHP? I have Apache installed in my system. If in a PHP file I write `<?php echo 'HELLO' ?>` and I open it in a browser it shows HELLO. Now how does it happen if the browser does not understand PHP?"}
{"_id": "3513", "title": "Using CSS sprites and hidden text - effect on SEO?", "text": "I am using CSS sprites for buttons on my website, They are used for stop/play/download etc. If I'm using for example an `<i class=\"preview\">preview \"track name\"</i>` play button with the text then I hide the text using `text-indent:-9999px`. Would this be enough to get penalised? (keep in mind there can be 60 products per page and each will have 3 sprites with hidden text!)"}
{"_id": "68170", "title": "practical reasons for using separate domains instead of subdomains?", "text": "Quite often, I see web sites that draw resources from multiple domains. Made up example: Foo Bar Ltd has a main web site at foobar.com, which references files at fbltdcdn.com and foobar-rewards.net. They send emails directing people to foobarlatestmarketingslogan.com, which immediately makes me think \"phishing scam\". Why is this a common practice, rather than using cdn.foobar.com, rewards.foobar.com, slogan.foobar.com, etc?"}
{"_id": "56573", "title": "Relative link to a subfolder", "text": "Let's assume that I have a website with three files: `/home/blog.html` `/home/picture1.jpg` `/home/files/picture2.jpg` Now let's edit that _blog.html_ file. When I want to make a link to the current folder, I'll do it this way: `<a href=\"./\">Current folder</a>` But what's the right way to make a link to a file in the current folder, to a subfolder or to a file in a subfolder? It can be either: `<a href=\"picture1.jpg\">Picture 1</a>` `<a href=\"files/\">Files</a>` `<a href=\"files/picture2.jpg\">Picture 2</a>` or `<a href=\"./picture1.jpg\">Picture 1</a>` `<a href=\"./files/\">Files</a>` `<a href=\"./files/picture2.jpg\">Picture 2</a>` As I checked, both ways work fine in my browser. But I would like to know which of them is the preferred way? Is any of them in some detail slightly better?"}
{"_id": "2689", "title": "How to Distribute File and get Download Statistics?", "text": "One of my Clients wan't to distribute there monthly print-magazine also as free PDF download. Similar to HackerMonthly. We are currently not using any CMS so we are open to every solution. I could be done with Google Analytics if I specify a separate Goal for every file that will be available but I hope I do not have to go there. Important statistic would be: * # of Downloads per File * Geographic region of the downloader moderator: add tag \"file-distribution\" if you consider it appropriated"}
{"_id": "48628", "title": "How much Google takes to deindex pages after disallowed from robots?", "text": "By accident I have let Google index lots of junk pages. Now I have added them to disallow in _robots.txt_. Will Google completely remove the pages after seeing the are disallowed from robots? Please note that I have far to many pages to manually remove these pages in Google's Webmaster Tools."}
{"_id": "2685", "title": "Set the base url of any menu item in Joomla", "text": "I'm not sure if this belongs here, superuser or stackoverflow I'm using virtual domains, which means that www.company.com has one template www.community.com has another template user accounts are shared the site is also in 2 languages now there is a common global Menu navigation and some links should be on the company.com url and some on the community.com url. however menu links stay on the current domain I'm on for example: 1. i'm on company.com/de/about 2. click on forum link 3. want to land on community.com/de/forum however I land on company.com/de/forum but i don't want to use \"external links\" because if I am on community.com/en/forum and click on about link i need the url to be company.com/en/about so the urls still need to be dynamic for language support. In other words I want to be able to set the base url of any menu item no matter what component, where should I start? Thanks!"}
{"_id": "1198", "title": "Subdomain versus subdirectory", "text": "I recently moved from having a main site like `www.example.com` with a subdomain associated site `yyy.example.com`, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like `www.example.com/yyy/`, with the same hierarchy underneath the subdirectory, and now `yyy.example.com` is just a redirect page to the subdirectory, so `yyy.example.com/abc/page-x` is redirected to `www.example.com/yyy/abc/page-x` and so on. The effect has been that the traffic increased by several times (the total page views are more than ten times at the present rate) what it was to the `yyy` subdomain. Previously almost all of the traffic to the `yyy` subdomain was from the `www` site. This is from monitoring the old `yyy` site for a year or more. I'm curious to know if there's any research or results which would indicate whether this is universal (subdirectories beat subdomains) or \"just me\"."}
{"_id": "68593", "title": "Do I get penalized for hosting a blog in a subfolder?", "text": "First of all, I know this is an ongoing debate, I\u2019ve read forums and seen different opinions but I\u2019m still confused. Here\u2019s my problem. I\u2019ve started my website from scratch (design and code) and now after a couple of months I realized that it\u2019s not very SEO friendly and my search traffic is close to none. As a result I decided to add a Wordpress blog to it as it\u2019s SEO friendly out of the box and has some good plugins like Yoast. My problem here is that I don\u2019t want my current website to affect the blog section (get lower search results on the blog because my website is poorly optimized). On the other hand, I already have a couple of backlinks to my current website because I keep releasing design freebies and people share those (would those links benefit my blog?). As I understood, if you make a blog on a subdomain, then google will treat it as a new website in which case the backlinks won\u2019t help me. If I choose to go with a subfolder then I may benefit from the backlinks but wouldn\u2019t I get penalized because of the existing website which is poorly optimized and maybe has a couple SEO issues that Google doesn\u2019t like?"}
{"_id": "50269", "title": "Optimize SEO: 2 websites or 1 main website and subdomain?", "text": "I'm working on a WordPress website of a little company, let say: `www.xxx.com`. Now they want a different website for their workshops. What is the most optimal construction thinking of SEO? 1) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx-workshops.com` 2) `www.xxx.com` + `www.xxx.com/workshops` 3) `www.xxx.com` + `workshops.xxx.com`"}
{"_id": "65539", "title": "SEO and multiple simple websites", "text": "From a **SEO point of view** , which one is \"better\" for a not so little company: **Having one huge site** containing everything regarding the company **or having multiple one?** I think one site is better, because it is easier to optimize and advertise, but I just started working in a company, where we have multiple simple websites (almost single page) to handle offer requests. My boss don't want this site structure changed. (These sites have no connection at all, but the first thing I would do is link them and by linking I mean adding a page where there are links to the other pages). It is easier to explain through an example. We have domains structured like this (not the real ones): * forkliftparts.com : for forklift parts * forkliftseat.com : for ordering seats * forklifttire.com : handling orders regarding tires * forkliftbattery.com : and for batteries * ... The sites are basically the same, with a little color difference. Should I start advertising the pages separately? What could I do to improve the standing in search engines? The sites are built with WordPress and with the use of SEO plugins, so I am more interested in **off-site seo**."}
{"_id": "16468", "title": "Wordpress installation - Subdomain or as folder?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory I got a client portfolio website and he opens a Wordpress blog with articles related to his profession. What the best for SEO - install it as subdomain or as folder? www.myclientsite.com/blog/ or blog.myclientsite.com This is fresh domain without any previous content."}
{"_id": "41003", "title": "SEO and location targeting , sub-domain or sub-directory?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory With regards to say a national service that has locations based in 10 cities. Each city needs to have individual content, such as blogs, info pages, etc. Is it better to have (or does it matter): `chicago.example.com` or `example.com/chicago` Furthermore if I go with a subdirectory and each city has a blog, how do I enable it so the blog only effects its parent. For example `example.com/chicago/blog` should not affect `example.com/washington`"}
{"_id": "23733", "title": "example.com/blog vs blog.example.com", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm about to start my own blog (adding it to a domain already owned by me) and I'm wondering what is the best way to set it up. There are two common alternatives for blogs: `domain.com/blog` and `blog.domain.com`. My question is: what are the advantages and disadvantages and of each alternative and which one do you think is the best? (in terms of SEO, etc)"}
{"_id": "56492", "title": "SEO: Is it ever good to use subdomains?", "text": "I just built a site that I split up as follows: www.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a landing page the redirects you to one of the following pages blog.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a blog restaurants.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a page that lists restaurants shops.MAINDOMAIN.com --> a page that lists shops Problem is, won't google see his as 4 seperate domains? i.e Would I not have been better off with something like this: www.MAINDOMAIN.com www.MAINDOMAIN.com/blog www.MAINDOMAIN.com/restaurants www.MAINDOMAIN.com/shop"}
{"_id": "61729", "title": "Benefits of placing keywords in domain name", "text": "I'm now considering the site structure and I need to choose between productname.mysite.com and mysite.com/productname URL format. Question is the following: is there any ranking reasons to use first type of URL or the difference is behavior factor? If the difference is minor I'd choose the second URL type as it is simpler to handle (Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are not really friendly to multi-domain sites)."}
{"_id": "13586", "title": "Better SEO from sub-directory or sub-domain?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory I'm working on a site that will act as a sort of companion site or sub-site to my main site. Is there a difference in SEO of setting it up on a sub-domain or sub- directory?"}
{"_id": "56182", "title": "For SEO purposes, should I put my blog on a webpage or a subdomain?", "text": "For example if I want to post under a webpage called \u201cblog\u201d, should I make that `example.com/blog/category/article` or `blog.example.com/category/article`, assuming that example.com has an about page, a music page, a merchandise page? What is best for SEO, or does it even make difference?"}
{"_id": "22756", "title": "Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Subdomain versus subdirectory Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder keyword.abc.com or abc.com/keyword/ Which of this two is good to manage?"}
{"_id": "2687", "title": "Priority of tags vs posts in a sitemap.xml file", "text": "I have a content based website and I'm in the process of creating a sitemap.xml file. I was wondering if it would be best to give high priority to tag urls or to post urls. Has anyone experimented with it ? What will give you better rankings in google and eventually bring in more visitors ? Edit: @John Conde I know that. However I assume that when someone searches for a term for which I have two pages of equal relevance priority may make a difference (at least in some search engines). What I want to find out is how important that suggestion is considered by search engines. To give you an example. I'm publishing a small CSS framework. Once every few months I give away a new release 0.1, 0.2 etc etc. All these posts have the keywords \"mainframe css\" in the title, url and post body. The same keywords are also found in the relevant tag page (site.com/tag/mainframe-css). I also have a \"static\" page that serves as a welcome page for the project, with links to all available downloads and stuff. So the way I see it, there are maybe 10 pages of equal relevance. However I want visitors to be taken to the project page. One solution I can think of is linking from every post page to the project page. Anyway thanks for the answers people. You got me covered :)"}
{"_id": "54542", "title": "What do you call the effect when you gray out the background behind a dialog?", "text": "What do you call that effect? Looks like this "}
{"_id": "2683", "title": "Hosting speed tests?", "text": "Are there any sites to test the speed of your hosting? I know there are sites that will tell you why your site is slow, e.g. - YSlow, etc., but how about the speed of bandwidth you get from your hosting provider?"}
{"_id": "24651", "title": "Best Practise for Micro-Sites that Google will not consider to be doorways", "text": "On behalf of my client, I have purchased a few really good URLs, to assist with their SEO. I want to understand whether my proposed use of these domains, as micro-sites to _encouraged_ visitors to visit the main site, will result in blacklisting. Here's my invented example: 'Farmaceuticals' Ltd. They sell big, purple Tractors. I would like to know whether is acceptable practise thesedays. If not, can something be done with micro-sites that is acceptable? Apart from the desired action of users clicking through to the main site, I want to ensure all other features are above-board, such as not using hidden keywords and focusing each site on one specific feature. Examples: * www.bigtractors.com: _\"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the biggest tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com\"_ * www.purpletractors.com: _\"Farmaceuticals Ltd sell some of the most purple tractors anywhere. Here's a link to the website: www.farmaceuticals.com\"_ What makes a micro-site a destination worth ranking, and not to be seen as a direct doorway to redirect visitors? One _extreme_ step could be to provide content that its completely unique to each micro-site, and does not appear on the main site. But, I wonder whether despite all efforts, having a link to take people elsewhere will make each micro-site appear as a 'doorway' whatever I do?"}
{"_id": "14627", "title": "Understanding the EU Cookie Directive Rules?", "text": "I work on a service that has multiple EU clients. The service is hosted and maintained in the US. Before I even worry about compliance, I'm trying to figure out whether my service needs to comply at all. Is there an anything out there that explains the new EU cookie directive rules in plain English?"}
{"_id": "14620", "title": "Will using social submitting/seo marketing tools harm my site in the long run?", "text": "I'm looking to drive more traffic to some blogs I maintain. We've had good success with submitting to sites like Reddit and Digg but the process is long and tedious with the amount of content we have. I saw products like Social Submitter and xgenseo that automatically create accounts (scarily xgen also creates dummy yahoo mail accounts and even solves the captcha) and submits articles for you. The tools seem like an extremely easy way of building up back links on relevant and important social sites without the tediousness of doing it manually. The only thing I'm worried about is that using tools like this will eventually harm my blogs traffic. Does anyone have any experience with such tools or opinions on the subject?"}
{"_id": "31947", "title": "fsockopen() error : Network is unreachable port 43 in php", "text": "i've writed some Php code that lookup for domain (whois) but it fails !! this is some of my code : function checkdomain($server,$domain){ global $response; $connection = fsockopen($server,43); fputs($connection, \"domain \" . $domain . \"\\r\\n\"); while(!feof($connection)){ $response .= fgets($connection, 4096); } fclose($connection); } checkdomain(\"whois.crsnic.net\",\"www.example.com\"); the code work on my localhost ( apache,php,mysql, OS -> Win XP ) but when i uploaded it to my host (Linux) it failed. and i always see the Below Error/message : Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to whois.crsnic.net:43 (Network is unreachable) in /home/hamid0011/public_html/whois/whois.php on line 37 what should i do ? is this my host's problem or whois server ( but it work in localhost ) or my code ? TNX"}
{"_id": "63113", "title": "Why won't webmail receive emails from outside my domain?", "text": "I'm new to GoDaddy Linux cPanel web hosting. I've created multiple email accounts @my-domain using cPanel. These addresses can send mail successfully to each other and also to any other email account outside my domain (like Gmail). But all emails @my-domain can only receive email from each other not from outside my domain. That is, if I send an email from my Gmail to my @my-domain account it doesn't appear in my @my-domain account web mail inbox. Why is this happening and what's the solution?"}
{"_id": "65225", "title": "What is the meaning of this sitemap error in Google Webmaster Tools?", "text": "In my Google Webmaster Tools, I received an error which I am not understanding: > When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some of > the URLs were unreachable. Please check your webserver for possible > misconfiguration, as these errors may be caused by a server error (such as a > 5xx error) or a network error between Googlebot and your server. All > reachable URLs will still be submitted. I received this warning for a URL that is currently working perfectly. Can you please tell me if this a serious warning, or what it means?"}
{"_id": "58567", "title": "Get IP range of \"Microsoft Corp\" network provider", "text": "I'd like to find the IP range of the \"Microsoft Corp\" network provider. How can I find this out? So far I've only been able to find this site which has a list of ip addresses, not necessarily an explicit range. There is a related Stack Overflow question, but doing a \"whois `157.56.237.102`\" on any whois site I've yet found doesn't give a range (have left a comment hoping for clarification)"}
{"_id": "38644", "title": "Google Blogger Website CName and/or Text File Issues", "text": "I have a blogger Blog website and I would like to have it show up on my company website. I have read a couple articles out there on how to do it. A hand full of them talk about using FTP which is old and no longer available. However, I am trying to following along with this one: http://www.infinite42.com/small-business/integrate-blogger-blog-website Which seems pretty easy but I am having a problem getting Google to Verify the DNS CName or Text Record that I created on my Windows 2007 Server. Do I need to create this record at the registrar level. Right now the domain is setup at the registrar to point the www record to my server where on my server I tried the Txt Record and the CName Record with no luck in DNS. Here are the Google instructions for creating a CName file record in DNS: Follow the steps below to create a DNS (Domain Name System) record that proves to Google that you own the domain. Add the CNAME record below to the DNS configuration for abc.com. CNAME Label / Host: CNAME Destination / Target: Click Verify below. When Google finds this DNS record, we'll make you a verified owner of the domain. (Note: DNS changes may take some time. If we don't find the record immediately, we'll check for it periodically.) To stay verified, don't remove the DNS record, even after verification succeeds. Here is the link to do it with a CName: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/08/domain-verification-using- cname-records.html When I go to add my CName record on my server's DNS the only two fields available are Alias Name and Fully Qualified Domain Name. How am I suppose to create this record can someone please tell me? Thanks, Frank"}
{"_id": "58218", "title": "AdSense: Will Google ban me if I list \"No ads\" as a reason to sign up at my site?", "text": "Can't find anything about this in Google AdSense's TOS. Basically I want to remove ads for logged in users on my site -- but will Google allow me to use this as a value proposition on my front page? > Sign up today for extra benefits: > > * No ads > * Personalized profile page > * Bla bla >"}
{"_id": "62886", "title": "Homepage redirect and impact on SEO?", "text": "My website is basically a gallery of pictures that I display one at the time (as seperate posts). I have no need for a landing page and so I redirect all users who visit the homepage to a random post: <?php if (have_posts()) { query_posts('orderby=rand'); while (have_posts()) { the_post(); wp_redirect(get_permalink(), 302); } } ?> My homepage is still/and should be the most visited page and so I am wondering if the redirection will have any negative impact on SEO."}
{"_id": "44642", "title": "Top commentators widget compatible with Facebook comments", "text": "I created a project on `freelancer.com` but then I was wondering if this thing is possible knowing Facebook comments has its own restrictions and limitations. \"Hi, I want a widget on the sidebar that displays the top commentators of the website. I am currently using Facebook comments. The widget should show something like the name of the top 3 commentator and the number of comments they left on the site...\" So I just want to know if something like this is doable with Facebook comments."}
{"_id": "68286", "title": "Duplicate page content and the Google index", "text": "I have a static pages with dynamically expanding content that google is indexing. I also have deep links into virtually duplicate pages which will pre-expand the relevant section of content into the relevant section. It seems like Google is ignoring all my specialized pages and not putting them in the index. Even after going through web-masters tools, crawling and submitting them to the index manually. I also use the google API for integrating search on the site, and the deep linked pages won't show up. Is there a good solution for this?"}
{"_id": "68289", "title": "How to stop browser from rejecting my downloads?", "text": "I have a portfolio site where I am trying to host some of my work, so people can download my work. Some of these files include exe executables, and some are `.jar` executables, which are run through batch. When a user tries to download my apps, it says that the file is not commonly downloaded and may be harmful, and therefore blocks the download. If I zip the folders, it still does the same thing. Any format I choose, still blocks the downloads. How can I stop chrome from doing this. Is there a way I can verify my files so they will be considered as trusted?"}
{"_id": "58210", "title": "Do many users turn off cookies?", "text": "Just how generally prevalent is it that users have cookies disabled in their browsers? I want to set a cookie during a user's session so that all the pages know that the presence of a particular software program (required for certain functions on my site) has been detected. I can't really require cookies in this website, but cookies would be the easiest way to do what I need to do. So, do many users turn cookies off?"}
{"_id": "58213", "title": "Why is my DKIM invalid?", "text": "When I use http://dkimcore.org/c/keycheck to test my DKIM it says This is not a good DKIM key record. You should fix the errors shown in red. DNS query failed for 'key1._domainkey.board67.com':NXDOMAIN A public-key (p=) is required But I do have a public key  Now I am getting this error: p= MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCvjT4cF+/SV69t38ihp7TOMZ2m ruxwtcicE/DmuZJdMcHuEmN9iN03Q8wMdU4TFeirkF79nJMh4wDma1N2LGUiOZrv j1YtCpKZZRlV0IAr7MtA7jjaBEGNU5EsWYcZXriGhkyzl39TXdVIaBuuuqWBN9lk pD+jlA6zCM3nPL6b1wIDAQAB The p= field must be base64 encoded"}
{"_id": "57390", "title": "Google doesn't show my site's results even for a direct search", "text": "> In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries > very similar to the 21 already displayed. > > If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included. When I do a direct search for my blog. This is very disturbing because I've created more than a dozen articles and none are shown in the SERPs for a direct search. The only way to view my pages seems to be on the third page when all the results are exhausted there's the text I've paste above and it's linked. Now clicking that link is the only way to view my pages. You can check this phenomenon out here: http://google.com/search?q=moviesreva.blogspot.com/"}
{"_id": "95", "title": "How do I copyright my website?", "text": "My website has been in development for a long time and cost a lot of money. How do I go about securing an enforceable copyright on my website design and what is the proper way to post a copyright notice on the site so others know the work is copyrighted?"}
{"_id": "38649", "title": "Feedburner is Displaying an Inactive Email Address When Logged In", "text": "I have set up a Feedburner subscription through my Google account login. For some reason Feedburner displays an old inactive email address in the top right when logged into Feedburner. I'm concerned since I don't have access to this email account. If for any reason I need to move my Feedburner Feed I'm concerned I'll need to access this email account which is impossible. My email address is correct in every other Google account, profile etc. and has been updated to a working and correct email address. How can I change this? Do I need to be concerned?"}
{"_id": "58760", "title": "What images to use when using a post to a link", "text": "I want to be able to use some kind of images for when I put up a post to a link (story, article somewhere else on the web), but what's the rules for what images I can use? can I use an image from the source that I'm linking to? or do I have to completely use stock images?"}
{"_id": "57366", "title": "Schema.org: Having a Product as \"about\" property", "text": "I want to define a Product as the main content of a webpage using Schema.org markup. My idea with the following HTML is to use the structure: - Webpage -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage) --- Product (about of WebPageElement which is mainContentOfPage of Webpage) However, using this markup, Google does not seem to recognize the Product properties such as the aggregateRating. The \"structured markup tool\" is only satisfied if I remove the \"about\" property on Product. But then the structure breaks into: - Webpage -- WebPageElement (mainContentOfPage of Webpage) -- Product Product is no longer a part of WebPageElement. Even if I use the property \"mainContentOfPage\" directly on the Product node, I get the same result: The Product is not recognized properly. It seems like the Product node cannot have any itemprops. **So how should I proceed?** <body itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/WebPage\"> <div itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/WebPageElement\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"> <div itemprop=\"about\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Product\"> <h1 itemprop=\"name\">Acme Toaster Oven</h1> <div itemprop=\"description\">It toasts AND bakes.</div> <div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/AggregateRating\">Rated <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">3</span>/5 based on <span itemprop=\"reviewCount\">2</span> reviews</div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A great toaster</span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">John</span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">5</span>/5</div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">First I had bread. Then I had toast. Magic!</span> </div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A small oven</span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">Mary</span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">1</span>/5</div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.</span> </div> </div> </div> </body> The HTML can be tested here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets ## Update After experimenting with \"itemref\", I got pretty good results with this code in Google's tool and Yandex and the Structured Data Linter. <body itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/WebPage\"> <div itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/WebPageElement\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"> <meta itemprop=\"about\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Product\" itemref=\"theProduct\" /> </div> <div id=\"theProduct\"> <h1 itemprop=\"name\">Acme Toaster Oven</h1> <div itemprop=\"description\">It toasts AND bakes.</div> <div itemprop=\"aggregateRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/AggregateRating\">Rated <span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">3</span>/5 based on <span itemprop=\"reviewCount\">2</span> reviews</div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A great toaster</span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">John</span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">5</span>/5</div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">First I had bread. Then I had toast. Magic!</span> </div> <div itemprop=\"review\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Review\"><span itemprop=\"name\">A small oven</span> - by <span itemprop=\"author\">Mary</span>, <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2013-10-16\">October 26, 2013 <div itemprop=\"reviewRating\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Rating\"><span itemprop=\"ratingValue\">1</span>/5</div> <span itemprop=\"reviewBody\">My 18-pound turkey wouldn't fit in this thing.</span> </div> </div> </div> </body> The only side effect is that the reviews and aggregateRating seem to connect to both the WebPage and the Product. I don't know if that's bad."}
{"_id": "29386", "title": "Is there a domain search tool on the web that works well?", "text": "I would like to search for all available domains ending with a particular word. The best tool I've found for this so far is domainsbot, but it doesn't seem to work as it should (it will only give you the first 10 or so results for your criteria) Does anyone know of a good tool on the web for this type of search?"}
{"_id": "57940", "title": "What is occurring in this .htaccess file in regards to rewriting to clean URLs?", "text": "I have the following code in my _.htaccess_ file, which is working fine and using \"pretty\" permalinks to reroute everything back to `/index.php`, and using `$_GET` values to serve customized content based which URL was requested. RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^([-\\w.]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [R=302,L,QSA] I'm just trying to get an understanding of how this code is working: I get that the two _RewriteCond's_ are there to avoid this behavior in the case that someone is requesting an actual file or directory. But my question involves how removing those two _RewriteCond's_ causes a different error. If they are removed, and I request `example.com/register`, is the browser is redirected to: `example.com/index.php?page=index.php`. I can't see how these two things are related, so I was just wondering if anyone could explain why this happens? (I have `R=302` set just for now so I can see where it's redirecting me to)."}
{"_id": "61174", "title": "What schema.org should be used for User Profiles?", "text": "I might be taking this a little too far outside of the box but I'm curious about what Microdata from schema.org to use for a user-profile on my site. On the front page for instance (`http://www.findgamers.us`), a random gamer profile loads every time the page is loaded. Would I use the Person schema.org hierachy to make that structured data?"}
{"_id": "52741", "title": "Can minification in Google PageSped service break Adsense?", "text": "A few days ago I applied for Adsense account. But it was rejected due website being down. Here is the full message: We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. Issues: * Difficult site navigation * * * Further detail: Difficult site navigation: While reviewing your site, we found that it was down. Google ads may not be published on a site that is not fully launched, functioning, or easily navigable. Once your site is functioning and has enough content for our specialists to review, we will be happy to reconsider your application. If there is a typo in the URL submitted, you can resubmit your application with the correct site by following the directions below. I monitor uptime using Pingdom. The site was not down for a single minute during this period. In fact during last month it was down for only 2 minutes. I may have may have singled out the problem: I'm using Google **PageSpeed** service. This service has a **JavaScript minification** option. What it did was was strip the comment and `<!-- / -->` tags from Adsense code. So the Adsense code for my site which was originally like this: <script type=\"text/javascript\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\"; /* Top Of Post */ google_ad_slot = \"4962340904\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\"> </script> looked like this: <script type=\"text/javascript\">google_ad_client=\"ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\";google_ad_slot=\"4962340904\";google_ad_width=728;google_ad_height=90;</script> <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js\"></script> I have disabled minification. Can someone confirm this was the problem ? And how should I proceed with reapplication ?"}
{"_id": "13059", "title": "Back link report", "text": "Is there an application or site that can generate a back link report for a give web page? The sort of information I'd like to see in this report, for each back link, would be: 1. Page's Title 2. Page's PageRank 3. Page's URL"}
{"_id": "36150", "title": "Jquery lie about size of download", "text": "When you go to jquery.com you see on top right \"Grab the latest version! Choose your compression level:\" its saying 32Kb for Production (compressed) version in reality when you download it its 91Kb. Go figure if they forgot to update it or want to mislead people who new to it into that its compact thing."}
{"_id": "28569", "title": "Why would an IE8 in a desktop has a 'Tablet PC 2.0' in its user-agent string?", "text": "I am just curious, why would a windows 7 desktop, installed with ie8, have Tablet PC 2.0 in its user agent string. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet PC 2.0) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; Tablet PC 2.0) Is this a feature in Windows 7, how can I turn this off in IE8? Other browsers on the same computer don't have such string in the user-agent string they send. As a result, one of our web application confuses this particular **desktop** client as a mobile (because of the tablet), hence returns the mobile version of our website to it. Thank you!"}
{"_id": "13053", "title": "ClickThrough on Google Webmaster Tool and Traffic Source in Google Analytics", "text": "I'm new to SEO and website management, but eager to learn. I manage a newly revamped site and I'm tracking it on Google Analytics and in Google Webmaster tools. The Webmaster tools show that I get about 3200 impressions and 180 click through's a week. Google Analytics show that no traffic comes from search engins, all of the traffic is direct. On average, I get about 60-80 visitors a day, shouldn't Google Analytics show at least a few of those visitors as having come from the search engines?. What does that discrepancy mean? I can't seem to wrap my mind around it... Thank you in advance, Svetlana"}
{"_id": "13050", "title": "free tool to analyze competitors website", "text": "I am competing to get the highest rank search in Google for a particular keyword search. My site is now ranked at the third page. I would like to know what back links does the site that rank 1st is coming from, if possible what are the different strategy they have done. Is there a free tool that would allow me to do this? Any tips on what I need to do to proceed? I have done all the basic stuff, ranging from meta tags, title, h1, update your site regularly, keep it clean, relevant, useful, no errors on the page, submit sitemaps, social bookmarking... what else am I missing here?"}
{"_id": "9", "title": "Who is a great domain registrar company?", "text": "I have used numerous domain registrars in the past, including Godaddy, 1&1, Host Monster, IX web Hosting, the list goes on. (not talking about hosting) I currently use GoDaddy, however, I'm not to happy with them. I need a great registrar! One who: * makes transferring easy * registration pain free, no up-selling * has great domain management * has amazing customer service Maybe such a company does not exist. I don't know. Do you know of one?"}
{"_id": "10746", "title": "Domain Registration", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Who is a great domain registrar company? Hi, I'm about to make my first domain purchase, actually I'm going to buy in bulk ... Any idea about a good host and registrar? I`m looking for a good host with lots of features and not expensive."}
{"_id": "46962", "title": "Suggestion for cheap but good domain-registrar for com, org or net?", "text": "Does anybody have recommendations for good - but cheap - domain-registrars for the com, org or net domain? I'm not after hosting, just registering a few domain-names (unless there's a _really_ good package-deal). Lower prices when registering multiple domains would be a plus. I'm after good personal experiences here... PS: I am going to use the domain, either host them myself or get a web-hotel later... it's not just to register and park indefinitely."}
{"_id": "33851", "title": "PHP Image Gallery without javascript", "text": "I am looking for a simple PHP gallery with the following characteristics: * Pure PHP * HTML * CSS * SQL * Excludes JavaScript * Handle Subcategories * Easily customizable I have tried to search, but I find only with JavaScript or Ajax."}
{"_id": "18701", "title": "Soft links over the Web?", "text": "Take this scenario. There is a server(say, A) at www.mysite.com .Now, there's a dynamic number of servers A knows about (knows the IP-adresses to). The problem is, if a user arrives at http://www.mysite.com/B, we need to redirect him to the server that the URI B will map to( assume that there exists a mapping from such URLs to the list of known servers, and that 'B' is valid here). Is there a way of doing this without redirection? (First deployment will be n GAE, so this redirection is not possible). What I want is the browser showing http://www.mysite.com/B, but rendering content as delivered by the server running on B. I think that this _may_ be possible, as, multiple webservers are indeed used within the same domain today."}
{"_id": "54173", "title": "What is 'lack of original content'?", "text": "It is written everywhere that lack of original content is has a negative impact on ranking. But what is lack of original content? (I am not talking about duplicate content) I guess if you copy other site's content, this makes sense. But, assuming one develops its own functionalities, but similar functionalities are already available on other sites, is this considered lack of original content? Can Google decide to not index such pages (i.e., not give them a chance at all)? Are there other definition of 'lack of original content'?"}
{"_id": "18707", "title": "Google Analytics \"Goals\" .. numbers seem inflated?", "text": "When I look at the Google Analytics goal report for yesterday, it shows that I had 3,000 conversions for a given goal - 74% completed, and 6% abandoned. * Where is the missing 20%? * My numbers show more like 500 conversions for this goal. Why are Google's numbers so different?"}
{"_id": "33855", "title": "sitemap for non-CMS based website", "text": "I've just finished a new version of my website but now I don't know how to generate a correct sitemap. Now the website is based on `PHP` files and folder and in blog folder there is Wordpress. This is ho my tree structure looks like: index.php about.php contact.php support/index.php support/faq.php blog/ and so on... On Wordpress I can generate the sitemap automatically but how can I include the others link like `about.php` etc.? Thank you so much for your help!"}
{"_id": "33500", "title": "How to optimize website for SEO when content is accessed via one search field", "text": "We are developing a website (sort of information index for companies) where almost all content is accessed via one search field (similar to Google): you type a search phrase, get results and then can click on the link that leads to actual information page of the company. These are the most important pages to be indexed. In company page, there are keywords (tags) that you can click on and get resuts for that keyword. Obviously, search engines won't enter all possible search variants to that search field to get links to the companies and I guess that keyword linking in the company info page is not enough. I think that submitting sitemaps to search engines should help a lot. But are there any other solutions to get content indexed on the website of this sort?"}
{"_id": "18704", "title": "Return first image source from google images", "text": "Is there a way to fetch the first image source from google search if I have a search term? For example if input is `tomato`, ouput would be `http://www.cksinfo.com/clipart/food/fruits/tomatoes/tomato.png` Thanks!"}
{"_id": "33859", "title": "Three-month freeze on domain transfers?", "text": "I am planning on hosting a web app on Google App Engine. I am planning on buying the domain from GoDaddy. Will I have to wait 3 months before I can transfer the domain from GoDaddy to GAE (or at least change the DNS settings to point to the GAE severs)?"}
{"_id": "21730", "title": "Webmin install not successful on Rackspace CentOS VPS", "text": "I exactly followed Rackspace document here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/index.php/CentOS_-_Webmin_1.470 to install webmin on CentOS. Every step is successful, except, in the end, I can't access webmin using the following link: https://50.57.109.50:10000 It's a fresh activated image. Have you tried to install Webmin on Rackspace CentOS VPS? * * * I followed the instruction here: http://www.webmin.com/firewall.html As you can see the port 10000 is open. I can't even deploy webmin on CentOS. Can you help? Thank you! * * * I use the http instead https, then it works~ I don't know why. really confusing~"}
{"_id": "24360", "title": "Stop searches showing tld domain sites appearing as subdirectory of main holding site domain?", "text": "I'm not sure if this is a problem specific to how my hosting is structured or not. Let's say the main domain for my account is maindomain.com (for purpose of discussion) I am building other sites, e.g. anothersite.com and website.com The folder/directory structure on my hosting would therefore be: maindomain.com (root) + +---> anothersite.com (subfolder) + +---> website.com (subfolder) The domains are mapped such that they map to their respective folders. So for example, anothersite.com takes the visitor to the index.php in the folder anothersite.com However, in Google, as well as just search results for these sites and their content - anothersite.com and website.com (what I want), I also see results that include: maindomain.com/anothersite.com maindomain.com/website.com Obviously this is not the way I want search data for these sites to occur. I would like them to be omitted from the search results. How can the hosting be configured so that the results for each of these respective domains are separate, i.e. not concatenated, so if I search for items relating to these respective sites, I only get results for anothersite.com relevant to it, same for website.com and same for maindomain.com - also used itself. Such a solution to this problem should not damage the results that I do want to see. I'm aware of robots.txt but I'm not sure what I need to put in these to stop the mixed-up/concatenated searches without damaging the real results. Or even if all search engines obey them. Is there something I can also do with .htaccess ? As it is shared-hosting, I don't have complete control over how the folder/directories are structured for this hosting so I would have to stick with the structure but ideas as to how to get desirable search results are welcome."}
{"_id": "49717", "title": "The effect in Google of the word \"the\" in a URL?", "text": "Keywords in your URL are extremely weighted, and I am aware of most bad practices, but the question as to whether the word \"the\" in a URL, as in `www.thewebdesigner.com`, is a bad idea or not is very hard to find information on. Searching has yielded next to nothing because the definite article is a special case in search algorithms. That is, you end up searching for the word \"the\" which is a bit too random. I'm wondering if this is a good idea, because as in the example case, \"web\" and \"designer\" together in a URL would theoretically be a fantastic step in solid SEO. However, if Google somehow reads it as a stop word or treats it differently, it might not be so smart. Can anyone tell me the effect of \"the\" at the start of a URL like `thewebdesigner.com`, and if this is good or bad practice, and a good or bad idea for a quality URL?"}
{"_id": "17827", "title": "Would reducing the quality and/or size of images fall under fair use?", "text": "I was looking on flickchart tonight and was wondering how they legitimized the usage of movie posters on their site, as I figure that those posters would be copyrighted. However it's been online for a few years now, the posters are still there, so I figure they're considered fair use. What my question is would this line in their TOS under copyright complaints they have the following line explain it? > It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution forms of said > media to provide criticism or comment qualifies as fair use under United > States copyright law. So I guess my question is if that is actually valid, and if so, would the legislation be affected by the physical location of the servers that provide said content? I'm looking into projects that would utilize multiple images but the whole \"what is fair use\" issue has been both putting the projects on hold, and being a stubborn issue to resolve. Thanks for anyone that can help to shed some light on this issue."}
{"_id": "17826", "title": "How Many Google +1's Does a Website need in order for Google WebMaster's Tools to Show Characteristics?", "text": "I have added the Google +1 Button to my website and discovered the new Social Activity section in Google WebMaster's Tools. Apparently, one of the interesting things you can learn about your audience is demographic data. But in GWT, the _Social Activity > Audience_ section for my site (currently 127 +1's), says the following: > Your site doesn\u2019t have enough +1\u2032s yet to show characteristics But I'm not sure how many +1's is enough. Google's official help page for the Audience section offers little insight: > The Audience page displays information about people who have +1'd your > pages, including the total number of unique users, their location, and their > age and gender. > > All information is anonymized; Google doesn't share personal information > about people who have +1\u2019d your pages. To protect privacy, Google won't > display age, gender, or location data unless a certain minimum number of > people have +1'd your content. But what is that \"certain minimum number\"? I've tried Googling this but all I could find to date was this page which doesn't answer the question. So how many +1's does a site need before GWT will show me audience demographic characteristics?"}
{"_id": "49714", "title": "How to maintain and optimize SEO for multiple store locations with individual websites as subdirectories from a main landing page?", "text": "My question is how to maintain and optimize SEO when moving a site from the domain root to a subfolder, creating a second parallel subfolder, and having the domain root be a landing page that allows users to choose between the two subfolders. Hopefully a (fake) example will illustrate my question best. Imagine the website for a small local business that serves its surrounding neighborhood -- let's call it ACME Cleaners of Crown Heights. Crown Heights is the neighborhood. The URL is `www.acmecleaners.com`. This site has good SEO and does well for searches looking the cleaning services in the Crown Heights area. Now the business has expanded to a second location in a different neighborhood in the same city, let's call it East End. The new location is called ACME Cleaners of East End. As for the website, the homepage, `www.acmecleaners.com`, which used to be the homepage for the Crown Heights location, has been changed to a landing page that simply shows the ACME Cleaners logo and gives the user a choice between the two locations. The user is then taken to either `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights` or `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`, which are individual WordPress sites for each location. The location is saved in a cookie and users are redirected to the individual location site next time they visit `www.acmecleaners.com` (with a 302 status code thanks to PHP's `header` function with the \"location:\" parameter). Specific questions: 1. What should I keep in mind to maintain the strong SEO that the Crown Heights location had now that its site is moving from `www.acmecleaners.com` to `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights`? 2. Specifically, how do I \"tell\" Google that the right URL for searches for \"cleaning in Crown Heights\" is now `www.acmecleaners.com/crown-heights`, not the domain root? 3. Likewise, what do I do to get searches for \"cleaning services in East End\" to show `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`? Interestingly, without me doing anything, this search is already generating first-page results for pages within the subfolder, e.g. `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end/about-us`, but not for the location \"homepage\" which is simply `www.acmecleaners.com/east-end`. 4. What SEO should I do for the new landing page at `www.acmecleaners.com` to support good SEO for both store locations/website subfolders? 5. Any other do's and don't do's in this situation?"}
{"_id": "17821", "title": "Linkpushing for SEO, real or fake?", "text": "While I was googling today, I noticed this site: http://linkpushing.net/ this ensure you to be pushed at the top of the google research's stack, by creating random reference to your sites on random blogs and/or articles. I can't believe that Google doesn't do anything against techniques like this, and I would like to know from someone more able than me on SEO subject if it's really possible to tease the google service in this way. And if you suggest to use this tecnique to my site."}
{"_id": "54468", "title": "How to set preferred URL in Bing Webmaster Tools", "text": "My site is `www.example.com` and Bing Webmaster Tools keeping telling me to submit a sitemap for `example.com`, so it is possible to stop Bing stop bothering me the `example.com`?"}
{"_id": "48264", "title": "Database for student Portal(A school website)", "text": "I am presently working on a school website, it is going to have student portal in it. Please, i need idea on how you think the database structure will look like. Its a university web, students are in different departments under different faculties. The students will also be offering different courses based on their department."}
{"_id": "37842", "title": "excluding URL query parameters and setting the site search query param in Google Analytics", "text": "I have a Google Analytics free account and would like to know if I strip \"searchparam\" out of your URLs as the `site search query parameter`, do I then need to specify \"searchparam\" in the `Exclude URL Query Parameters` field under Profiles > Profile Settings? Or is this unnecessary?"}
{"_id": "8243", "title": "Is it important to show the current year alongside my (c) Copyright symbol?", "text": "Should I update the copyright notice every January? as in > (C) ACME Corp 2011 I'm not asking about how or whether to claim copyright at all (that is dealt with here), but whether the **year** has any importance."}
{"_id": "3777", "title": "Will having multiple domains improve my seo?", "text": "Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all. The title of my \"Website\" says: <title>Used cars - buy and sell your used cars here Also, lets say I have fully SEO the website so when people searching for the term **buy used cars** , I end up on the second or first page. Now, I want to end up higher, so I go to the google adwords page where you can check how many searches are made on specific terms. Lets say the term \"used cars\" has 20 million searches each month. Here comes the question, could I just go and buy that domain with the search terms adress, in this case **www.usedcars.com** and make a redirect to my original page, and this way when people search for \"used cars\", my newly bought domain name comes up redirecting people to my original website (www.automobile4u.com)? The reason I believe this benefits me is because it seems search engines first of all check website adresses matching the search, so the query \"used cars\" would automatically bring www.usedcars.com to the first result right? What are the downsides for this? I already know about google spiders not liking redirects, but there are many methods of redirecting... Is this a good idea generally?"}
{"_id": "12592", "title": "How does SEO work when redirecting to a different site/domain", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? I have a site (e.g. www.foo.bar). When someone attempts to browse this site, they are redirected to a different site (e.g. www.test.com). I only reason of having foo.bar is because of the domain name. test.com is a 3rd party. I want people to come to foo.bar, so I can market on the domain name. If I am selling parts (e.g. Ford car parts). I want to configure SEO so that my domain name and \"Ford car parts\" are associated. The intention is when someone googles \"foo.bar\" and \"Ford car parts\" search engines start ranking my site/domain. foo.bar isnt the site housing the sale of the parts....the 3rd party is, but I would like to SEO woo.foo.bar if possible to accomplish my intention. Is what I am looking to do possible?"}
{"_id": "57052", "title": "Domain Extensions - redirect from .com or .org to country side domain like .am", "text": "i was wondering one thing. Actually `.com` and all generic domain extensions specifies that the site is available for all countries while country side domain extensions like `.fm .mx or .sh` specifies to search engines that your site is developed for that specific country, What if i buy 2 domains like `thisismysite.org` and `site.am` and then i redirect `thisismysite.org` to `site.am` , will `site.am` be treated like a a general domain extension then? OR i'll need anyway a generic domain to say to search engines that my site is generic all country sides available?"}
{"_id": "60166", "title": "2 domain pointing to single website with different meta description and title in SERP", "text": "Let's say I have one website `abc.com.my`, and now I want to create a new domain `xyz.my` but with its own meta description and meta title which points to `abc.com.my`. So I need to create one `index.html` inside the `xyz.my` domain then redirect to `abc.com.my`. So in SERP I hope to see `xyz.my` with its own meta description and meta title and `abc.com.my` with a different meta description and title but both point to `abc.com.my`. So will this affect my ranking or is it bad for SEO? "}
{"_id": "30929", "title": "Is a good technique to buy abandoned domains to get link juice?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Yesterday I was discussing with a friend an idea he had. To promote your site about, for example, fashion (i.e. example.com), the idea is: 1. Find an expired domain (i.e. fashionsite.com) with a good amount of links from fashion websites (it is, a site that has been abandoned, but still keep a lot of inbound links). 2. Recreate the site structure (i.e. if you have inbound link that points to fashionsite.com/files/boots.html, you have to add a page that responds to this structure). 3. Add links from your new site (fashionsite.com) to the old one you want to promote (example.com) in order to give the link juice to your site. 4. Goto 1 until you cannot find more expired domains related to your site topic. This is a non-trivial process that could take a lot of time, so the question is: worth it? has anybody tried something like this? In fact, maybe that's a well known technique my friend and I didn't hear about it... Definitely I believe we haven't discovered a new technique :) NOTE: I've forget to explain that this idea is specifically to improve a site link building for Google, we are not interested in other search engines by the moment."}
{"_id": "19386", "title": "Keywords in domain name", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? Let's assume we have a generic website \" **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** \". We discover that a lot of people are searching for \" **Make games** \". We find that the domain name **MakeGames.com** is free so we register it with the assumption that a keyword specific domain such as this will rank favorably for the search term we have discovered. We now have two options with the domain name: * We can 301 redirect **MakeGames.com** to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** * Or we can make a simple webpage on it that intends to feed visitors to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com**. The reason for registering **MakeGames.com** was to target that specific search, however I have a feeling that you lose the benefit of the keywords in the domain by 301ing it. Is it better to make a sort of landing website for **MakeGames.com**? If you 301 the domain to **MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com** will it now rank better for the search **Make games**? Which is a better method?"}
{"_id": "25367", "title": "Add-on domain for better SEO", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? So here's the thing. Suppose I have my domain called BUSINESS.COM that sells shoes. Now, I want people to find me through Google by searching \"best shoes\". So on my BUSINESS.COM site I will set all meta descriptions and titles to have a relationship with the keyword \"best shoes\". I was wondering, is there any way I can buy also the domain BEST-SHOES.COM and make it an add-on domain to my hosting and redirect it to NIKE.COM to improve SEO? I mean so when someone searches in Google for best shoes, my site will appear first because it has those keywords on the url. Or the only way to improve SEO is to make another website with no duplicate content in BEST-SHOES.COM that links very lightly to my site NIKE.COM? Like a site that reviews shoes."}
{"_id": "39412", "title": "What is the best way to use multiple similar domains for a single business with SEO aspects?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Will having multiple domains improve my seo? **Scenario:** There are around 15 freshly registered domains. All the domains are intended to support a single business activity. **Example:** * something-useful.com * something-extraordinary-useful.com * extraordinary-useful-something.com * useful-something.com * etc... What will be the best approach to use these domains to get benefit of SEO? Or to promote the business online? What are the possible approaches to use these domains?"}
{"_id": "47709", "title": "Multiple domains", "text": "I got 6 domains : `company.ca` and `company.com` (because both where free, but we are a canadian company but can do business with the rest of the world). Then, we sell sportwear because of the company name is totally unknown to the world. Our product is we have bought product specific domain : `chandails.ca` and `t-shirt.ca` as well as `shorts.ca` and `shorts.com`. So those 6 domains are mine. Now what is the best way to do? Now all are 301 redirect to the main company name (`.com`) or make micro-site, super simple one page optimized for just shirt and one for shorts, then tell people to know more, go to the _main_ site. Because now, I cannot really find the benefit of the _search word in domain name_ edge if never somebody see something in that domain... I got confused and don't find strait answer to this question."}
{"_id": "59005", "title": "Does SEO ranking based on domain apply to domains with forwarding?", "text": "Lets say I have a site at \"myrandomdomain.com\". I want to target a keyword \"my keyword\" and so I buy \"mykeyword.com\". Can I still have the keyword benefits of having mykeyword.com when it just forwards to myrandomdomain.com? The domain would not be masked. My guess would have been no but SEO Moz seems a bit unclear about it: > A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link > juice (ranking power) to the redirected page. I'd just like to make sure before I switch my site over. If it would have the same effect to forward it I'll just do that."}
{"_id": "24026", "title": "Will having multiple domains with redirects to my main domain have an impact on search rankings?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this? If I register 10 or so related domain names and 301-redirect them all to appropriate pages within my website will this hurt or help google ratings? Or will it be a neutral event? For example if I operated a daycare center would it be wise to purchase bostonchildcare.com, bostondaycare.com and bostonpreschool.com and then 301 redirect them to all to appropriate pages on my site? Thanks for your help with this!"}
{"_id": "50680", "title": "Is it bad for SEO to forward multiple top level domains to just one domain?", "text": "For example, I registered `myName.com` and I also registered the `.net`, `.info`, and `.org` extensions for `myName`. I'm wondering if it will hurt my SEO to forward these other TLDs to `myName.com`?"}
{"_id": "49712", "title": "Is it okay to redirect all mobile users to a mobile coming soon page?", "text": "I recently read this article on google webmasters blog which said that we should avoid redirection of users on mobile to one single page as it interrupts their flow. Now I have a site on which I have a mobile coming soon page to which a user is redirected the first time he/she visits the site. Once a user clicks \"view web version\" on this page a cookie is set and he/she is taken to the homepage. Now if the user comes again on my site he/she would be taken to that respective page and wouldn't be redirected. Can this have SEO penalties? I am not interrupting the user-flow every-time and hence should I bother much? Should I scrap this all together or alternatively I could redirect the user to the page they came to when they click \"view web version\" instead of the homepage?"}
{"_id": "374", "title": "URLs: Should I use hyphens, underscores or plus symbols?", "text": "**Which is better for search engines?** 1. `example.com/my_cool_page.html` 2. `example.com/my-cool-page.html` 3. `example.com/my+cool+page.html`"}
{"_id": "49958", "title": "URL encoding - what difference to SEO? + or _ or -", "text": "I have a URL e.g.: http://mysite.com/tracks/backing-track/101153/ABBA/Super+Trouper **QUESTION** does it make a difference to SEO when using `+` or `-` or `_` in the URL between words? Is one more readable and indexable than the others?"}
{"_id": "11773", "title": "SEO - File naming", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I use hyphens or underscores? Hi For the file name \"mission-and-vision.htm\" or \"mission_and_vision.htm\", which one is good for SEO(separator \"-\" or \"_\")? Thanks"}
{"_id": "20206", "title": "How To Track Down and Stop Rogue Bots?", "text": "**Most of the bandwidth of one site is being consumed by an unidentified bot**. According to AWSTATS it says: Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*') consumed 164 GB this month. By comparison, Googlebot consumed 10 GB and visitors (viewed traffic) consumed 25 GB. This means rogue bots are consumming over 6X the bandwidth of visitors. For other sites which I run (about a dozen) the **normal ratio is 25%** , so for 25GB of viewed traffic, bots take about 6GB in TOTAL. The question therefore is: **How to identify which bot(s) are causing this huge amount of request and how to stop them or slow them down if they are useful?** Obviously, most bots that visit the site are important including the Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, MSNBot, etc, including the AdSense/DoubleClick bots, so I cannot simply block all bots. _The reason I am investigating this is that I am reaching the limit of bandwidth and exceeded CPU usage for my host, so I was sent a notice._"}
{"_id": "20255", "title": "Moving a Domain Away from Google Sites but Not Apps", "text": "First, I looked for a question like this but couldn't find one. There's a lot of people who want to move a domain to point at google sites - I actually want to move it away from google sites and point it at a hosted server. I was able to figure out how to do this but then it broke my client's calendar and email. I created matching email accounts on the new server but it doesn't fix his contact list and calendar stuff which use to be synced with google. So my question is: can I move a domain away from google sites and point it at a hosted website without breaking the email and calendar? If the answer is no then we could always use two separate domains: one for email/calendar and one for website, but that doesn't seem like the perfect solution since really his email should be at the same domain as his website. Will he just need to use a different address to sync his calendar and contacts? I appreciate any help. Thanks!"}
{"_id": "34604", "title": "Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details on my commercial website?", "text": "Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details and other relavent information on my commercial website? We are a magazine site and this would be placed for an additional resource for readers. We have no legal connection with the corporations we would be listing."}
{"_id": "52575", "title": "Is it possible to block access to a DB based on IP?", "text": "We're looking to beef up the security on a site, among other things we thought of trying to block access to the DB based on IP (in a similar way you can do a FTP lock dependent on IP), so that only the static IP of our VPS can access it as well as our local office IP (also static). Is this a standard approach, I tried searching for it to see any notes on implementation / best practices, but I could see anything written about it?"}
{"_id": "29768", "title": "Open source Rails/Sinatra/Ruby web mail client?", "text": "Is anyone aware of any? I'm specifically looking for any that are well maintained (in the Ruby community that generally means the source is availble on GitHub). Here's what I've found in my research: ### MailCatcher MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. * official site * source code ### Sup Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact- list management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more. If you're the type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you. * official site * source code ### ActionMailer * source code"}
{"_id": "14031", "title": "One page website - Effect on SEO", "text": "I'm considering re-designing my personal website to promote my web services in my local area. My issue is whether to do a one page website with a scroll-to navigation system. What effect does this have on SEO. As i understand it, you set stuff like h1's and meta description on specific page content. How does this work when all of your different content is on one page?"}
{"_id": "34774", "title": "What about SEO in one page website with ajax loaded content?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > One page portfolio - Effect on SEO As my title I'd like to build a website with just one input text for searching restaurants and I would like to load via ajax in the same page the resultst in a list. After the list is loaded if you click on one row for Restaurant details it load via ajax all the Restaurant details. what about SEO in a website structure like this? There is a way to index every single restaurant? I'm pretty new in SEO and every comment will be for sure important to me in order to understand and learn more about it. Cheers"}
{"_id": "56953", "title": "SEO best practices for one page websites?", "text": "I build many one page websites that dynamically load content through AJAX/jQuery. I keep reading how bad one pagers are for SEO. Regardless, how can you get the most SEO results out of a one page website, without splitting it up into multiple pages?"}
{"_id": "67103", "title": "Restrictions on transfer of .US domain to non-US citizen?", "text": "Four years ago an American friend of mine purchased a `.us` domain for me as a wedding present. A year later, when the domain renewal came up, she simply transferred the domain to me, and it has been registered, with my valid UK details, ever since. On Wikipedia it lists the following under ' **Restrictions on use of .us domains** ': Under .US nexus requirements .US domains may be registered only by the following qualified entities: - Any United States citizen or resident, - Any United States entity, such as organizations or corporations, - Any foreign entity or organization with a bona fide presence in the United States The _heading_ implies that there restrictions on the _use_ of the domain, yet the section itself only refers to the _registration_ of the domain, and says nothing about its use. Since it was originally registered by a U.S. citizen and then transferred to me (a UK citizen) later, is this still an issue? Am I breaking ICANN rules? The main reason I ask is because the domain is set to become the basis of a new business venture, and I don't want to have the rug pulled out from under me."}
{"_id": "29816", "title": "How can I show embedded images in HTML e-mails sent from my website in Hotmail?", "text": "When I send HTML e-mails from my website with my logo as an embedded image, Hotmail hides it by default with the message `Attachments, pictures and links in this message have been blocked for your safety.` Since this is my logo, it makes the e-mail look very funny. Is there some certification/verification process to allow embedded images from my domain to be shown by default in Hotmail and other major e-mail service providers?"}
{"_id": "8487", "title": "How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine", "text": "I have used so many things like url removal request and deleted the pages etc., but still the errors are shown in my webmaster tools. How can I remove the urls completely from Google?"}
{"_id": "32289", "title": "Remove internal sub domain duplicate content on Google", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to Remove URLs from Google Search Engine _Our hosting provider has a internal sub domain like so:_ `n265-269-265-265.cnet.hosting.iiii`. The internal sub domain is redirected to our registered domain and is publicly available. Google indexed the internal domain content and now it is appearing on search pages. We'd like it if Google removed the internal sub domain content and we would like to setup a redirect to the main domain. Our hosting provider is actually a sub-provider and as far as we know it does not fully control the main hosting domain and I am stuck in a discussion with them about what can be done. I would like a solution to this issue."}
{"_id": "60612", "title": "how to remove the old urls from google search and replace new urls?", "text": "I know this question has been asked here, and here before , But I have problem with answers, so here is mine : I have changed my urls structure ( not my domain ), and I want google to **remove** the old urls and replace the new ones, and I can't make redirection because I dont know what is it exactly ( its very dynamic ), How can I do this ?"}
{"_id": "29813", "title": "How to set suhosin.post.max_vars in a htaccess file", "text": "I need to add this values to my htaccess: suhosin.request.max_vars = 8000 suhosin.post.max_vars = 8000 If I just add them like that I get an **Internal Server Error** Which is the right way to include them? "}
{"_id": "29760", "title": "How many visitors block adverts?", "text": "On average, what percentage of visitors block adverts, for example by running AdBlock? (The average obviously depends on the population, which is worth specifying, but any answer's better than none...)"}
{"_id": "44429", "title": "How to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same outlinks", "text": "I am developing a back link tool for Chinese SEO (our web site URL is: > `http://link.aizhan.com` just like ahrefs.com. I encountered a problem which is how to handle multiple pages of the same site with the same out links. For example: Most pages of `bbs.chinaz.com` have the same out links such as: bbs.chinaz.com/Tea/thread-6293993-1-1.html bbs.chinaz.com/Tea/list-1.html bbs.chinaz.com/alimama/thread-6265032-1-1.html bbs.chinaz.com/alimama/thread-6265032-2-1.html?userid=-1&extParms= bbs.chinaz.com/Shuiba/list-1.html bbs.chinaz.com/FeedBack/thread-4456753-1-1.html etc.. All of the pages have the same out links in the top of the page: www.cnzz.com(anchor text:\u514d\u8d39\u7edf\u8ba1) www.313.com(\u5efa\u7ad9\u5927\u5e08) www.idc123.com\uff08\u4e3b\u673a\u4e4b\u5bb6\uff09 Suppose I store these outlinks into database. The SEO will find there are six backlinks from `bbs.chinaz.com` of `www.cnzz.com`. This is obviously no sense for the SEO. Can you tell me how do you deal with this problem?"}
{"_id": "22540", "title": "SEO and URL Shorteners", "text": "When you have a link from lets say twitter that is `t.co/foo` that links back to your website how does that effect SEO and how do the major search engines handle Shortened URLs?"}
{"_id": "59417", "title": "Do URL sortneres make an impact on search engine rankings?", "text": "Can anyone explain me what does the following mean (from thesearchenginepros): The best URL shorteners will use a 301 redirect to pass along their Google page rank to the destination web address. This helps the redirected web address advance in search rankings. I was going through the advantages of shortened url, when I came across this."}
{"_id": "66914", "title": "Do short URLs like goo.gl, bitly etc. affect your website ranking?", "text": "I need to know whether using short URLs to back-link to pages affects your website ranking in the Google search results."}
{"_id": "65031", "title": "Adding a new site to a Google Custom Search Engine gives fewer hits", "text": "I have a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) with one \"site\". Adding a second site gives me fewer hits. Removing the second site gives me back the hits I had with only one site. What is going on there? I add the sites with XML to be sure of what I am doing, like below: **UPDATE: Here are instructions for anyone who wants to test:** 1. Add these two sites to a new custom search engine (https://www.google.com/cse/): www.zotero.org/groups/from_some_psychologists/items/itemKey/* www.zotero.org/groups/minding_my_mitochondria_terry_wahls/items/itemKey/* 2. Search for `food` (you will get 2 hits) 3. Now delete the first site from the custom search engine. 4. Search for `food` again (you will now get 19 hits) **UPDATE 2:** I posted the question also to Google Product Forums > Google Custom Search: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/customsearch/indexing- and-results/8Qs60jdiFZQ **UPDATE 3:** I previously thought that the hits when having both sites were always only from the second site. That was wrong (so I removed the part saying so)."}
{"_id": "1173", "title": "What type of websites shouldn't use a cache?", "text": "Is there ever a time when you should use caching? Like for frequently updated pages? Or, should you always cache? Please give examples and reason?"}
{"_id": "1172", "title": "How do you enhance your websites speed without compromising the design and access?", "text": "How do you enhance your websites load speed without killing the design and accessibility? File compression, CDN, Gzip? What are the best tools for doing so? For example, Google has optimized their site without compromising the design. Also, many website can kill the purity of their images with compression. Is there a way, more or lest best practice, to increase speed without compromising the design and accessibility? **Note** : sorry for being so vague but I don't know how else to phrase this question."}
{"_id": "1171", "title": "Transferring site from one server to another - good tools?", "text": "I'm not a webmaster - I'm a generalist with a strong bias towards development of applications and databases, but currently I'm helping a client I've consulted with before, and they want to move some files from one hosting provider to another. They are moving more and more stuff to cloud hosting to be able to handle scalability - they get a lot of hits when big events happen and people want their data. Their regular web guy has kind of flaked out on them. All static content (data files, reports, etc), might need to translate some links, add some Google analytics, etc. But what is a good tool for performing the transfer initially - to sync up the new site to the old site. before fixing up the broken links etc? I'm pretty sure they'll get me FTP access to the old and new sites. Either Mac or PC, whatever's best."}
{"_id": "23507", "title": "short and friendly URL for affiliate links", "text": "This is my first question here on Pro Webmaster... I'm really glad to be here! I believe this question will have a simple answer but I'm starting with htaccess and I want to learn something about this file and its rules. I have a long and ugly affiliate link but I want to create a 301 redirect to this URL, without typing it. My website is http://www.matthewlabs.com/ and I want to use a link like http://www.matthewlabs.com/wishonlist/appstore which automatically redirects to my affiliate link. I tried to write this in my htaccess file: Redirect 301 /wishonlist/appstore http://myAffiliateLinkHere but it doesn't work. Must the directory /wishonlist/appstore exist to redirect? Because now I receive a 404 error... And to use this link, can I create a simple link with html a tag? Click Thank you so much for your time and I hope you can help me!"}
{"_id": "23051", "title": "Can I change title and meta description with 301 redirect?", "text": "I would like to make 301 redirect from one page to another. Do I need to use the same titles and meta tags or I can change it to new one without losing the rank of the page?"}
{"_id": "22959", "title": "What could be preventing Google Chrome developer tools' audit from completing?", "text": "I'm trying to run Chrome developer tools' audit on http://www.zmxmusic.com, and it never completes... just gets up to about \"Loading (61 of 61)\" with the spinner but never shows the results. If I check the Network tab, there are no requests pending; all requests are complete and without errors. Audit works fine on other sites. **EDIT** Added actual site URL."}
{"_id": "47212", "title": "Server won't respond to customer - Wordpress site / Hostgator - high volume", "text": "I've got a customer using WordPress. They have been using it for years. It's a school where the kids get on each day and hit the site A LOT. Suddenly, in the last 3 days they get NOTHING back from the server (this ONLY occurs from within the school). If we do a `tracert`, we get out and seemingly get to the server. But if I look at network traffic on Chrome -- I never receive a response. This same thing happens on IE and FF. A look at CPanel shows that no IPs are being blocked. I've never done IP blocking so am not sure if this is what one who is blocked would even expect to see. We are a reseller for Hostgator... I wonder if something higher up the chain (maybe on their end) is causing this. I've got a ticket in with them. THIS JUST IN: I found out that the customer can reach the site when they skip their firewall... this leads me to believe that it HAS to be their firewall (even if their firewall provider says it's not)."}
{"_id": "48028", "title": "Multiple webpages with the same page titles/meta-tags", "text": "I have created several duplicate pages because my website is in 3 languages (yes I know this is bad way to achieve this). Will Google flag my site as spam if I use duplicate page titles/meta keywords? Or would other problems develop?"}
{"_id": "27619", "title": "GEO Tool - commercial use", "text": "what i want to do: offer my clients the possibility to display their store as a small graphic (like google maps). just a small png with the location of the store. only the specific client is able to see this images and he pays for this area (not only for that :) ). So i'm looking for a api or whatever else to geocode(?) the adress and render a small (280*160px) image. google offers a premium licence (not cheap) ms bing openstreetmap - i'm not able to understand the 10^10 licences ;( any ideas?"}
{"_id": "27617", "title": "How do websites with no content rank so high?", "text": "I was just searching for, how to close a sim and I got the website (shown below) on the first page of Google. The website does not have the solution to the problem. there is just a line written about it but the SEO or a trick is played so well that it has got so many real comments. The comments are users asking him to help me close their sims. Now I don't get this. There is no content then how does the site rank so high? URL: `boltaconsumer.com/complaints/zong-sim-block` "}
{"_id": "38442", "title": "Set secondary receiver in PayPal Chained Payment after the initial transaction", "text": "I'm running a service whereby customers seek the services of 'freelancers' through our web platform. The customer will make a 'bid' which is immediately taken from their accounts as security. Once the job is completed, the customer marks it as accepted and the bid gets distributed to the freelancer(s) as a reward. After initially storing these rewards in the accounts of the freelancers and relying on MassPay to sort out paying them later, I realised that your business needs to be turning over at least \u00a35000/month before MassPay is switched on. Instead, I was referred to Delayed Chained Payments in PayPal's Adaptive Payments API. This allows the customer to pay the primary receiver (my business) before the payment is later triggered to be sent to the secondary receivers (the freelancers). However, at the time that the customer initiates this transaction, you must understand that nobody yet knows who will receive the reward. So, before I program this whole Adaptive Payments system, is it even _possible_ to change or add the secondary receivers after the customer has paid? If not, what can I do?"}
{"_id": "27615", "title": "Why has Apache begun running a single process as root, and another as root and the wwwdata user?", "text": "I am running Apache Worker-MPM, PHP 5.3.2, and FCGID. Apache runs better than before, but I noticed that there is an apache process running as root and a second process that runs as both root and as wwwdata. The rest of the processes are running as wwwdata. Has anyone run into this yet and is it safe?"}
{"_id": "64889", "title": "How to make google index press releases or new items as they are released", "text": "I have noticed that several website news items are indexed immediately by Google. Even questions posted on stackexchange.com are indexed by Google within minutes. Can someone tell me how i can do that with the website which has frequent news items on website. How can i achieve this with otherwise with has frequent news or press releases posted."}
{"_id": "27611", "title": "Google Analytics site search", "text": "I am trying to enable the internal site seach tracking with Google Analytics. So at analytics page, account `mysite.com`: Profile Settings => Site Search Settings, do track enabled. At my site when someone make a search for test, URL looks like: `mysite.com/search?keyword=test`. At the query parameter I added `search?keyword=` but I haven't seen any results so far, any idea how to fix this?"}
{"_id": "59039", "title": "Chrome fails to view a html file", "text": "I have set up a website which is visible from FF but not from Safari nor Chrome. I thought it is because of faulty WordPress install but obviously it is not because I have added a test.html in the root, FF views it but Chrome gives an error. Never happened before, tried Google but found generally app or html problems causing the issue."}
{"_id": "39592", "title": "Possible Fraudulent Registration of Company Domains", "text": "Currently we have the domain name `company.com` (I'm using 'company' rather than our name for anonymity). I'm getting ready to purchase several more like `*.org`, `*.net`, etc to prevent others from registering them and to avoid confusion for our users. Now I have heard that a China company is considering registering several domains like: company.asia company.cn company.com.cn company.com.tw company.hk company.in company.net.cn company.org.cn company.tw A domain registration broker contacted me with this information, so I'm a bit concerned it is a scam. My thought is that this broker contacted me to try to sell these domains to me, and there isn't a \"company\" out there wanting to buy them. So based on the fact that I have no trade marked name and nor do I have any patents protecting this name and I have been using it since 2004, what is the best course of action? I should note that I have resellers of our products in China, Taiwan and Japan, so I could imagine having those domains and that being a good idea. But this is new to me so I'm not sure what to do about it. Any thoughts?"}
{"_id": "39591", "title": "Pull Google Analytics source info into email", "text": "I am trying to find out whether it is possible to pull Google Analytics source info (direct/organic/referrer etc) and include that in the email that is sent to us when someone enquires on our website. We have a large account management team for an incredibly high average order value product, currently when someone makes an enquiry on our website, an email is sent to all our account managers with the contact details of that person for them to follow up accordingly - there is no automatic integration into our CRM system. To minimize the margin for human error (and having to ask each prospective client where they heard of us) I'd like to include as much of the source information as possible in the email that is sent to our account managers. Is this possible? If you have experience and are willing to take this on as a project please send me a private message."}
{"_id": "59032", "title": "Does image mime-type affect SEO?", "text": "I have uploaded images as mime-type application/octet-stream, they are served well if sourced from an image tag but Chrome for example cannot open them directly, always asks for download. The question is, does the wrong mime-type affect findability and SEO?"}
{"_id": "59033", "title": "Async Adsense Ads works with Ajax, But is it against TOS", "text": "Google's Async adsense code loads fine even the page is loaded via ajax. I made no changes to load the ads differently. Just added https://github.com/browserstate/ajaxify on my site to make the content loading ajaxified. My adsense loads fine also. Does it violate any TOS."}
{"_id": "59030", "title": "Is there anything I can do if I found someone copying my content and spreading on FB/Twitter?", "text": "I made a website and it somehow became very popular last year. Then later today I found someone just stole my content and spread it in Twitter and Facebook. And many users are sharing that fake website. I am very upset but I don't know what to do. I reported to Google but even if Google removes it, it's still spreading on Facebook & Twitter. Is it possible to contact Twitter & Facebook to stop this? Thanks!"}
{"_id": "65175", "title": "Hiding duplicate content - should I use meta tags or robots.txt?", "text": "Last week my site was utterly pummeled in Google's rankings - losing 95% of impressions overnight according to Google Webmaster Tools. It now only shows up if you search for the URL/site name itself. I've not engaged in any shady link-building (or indeed any link-building at all!) and the site is technically fine (fast pages, no malware, fully responsive). So my first guess is that I'm being penalized for duplicate content. Although there's a huge amount of rich content on the site, there's also a lot of algorithmically-generated pages - for example, one for each town in the UK. (This isn't done for SEO, but I guess maybe Google thinks it is.) So I need to stop Googlebot finding, and objecting to, this content. I would rather do it via a meta tag (``) on the relevant pages than with using _robots.txt_. So my question are: * Is a meta tag a workable alternative to using _robots.txt_ for hiding \"problematic\" content? * Is there anything else I should be doing?"}
{"_id": "59034", "title": "How to have Gitlab display a Markdown document as source?", "text": "For our current project, we have Markdown source files which aren't acting as project documentation (such as a `README.md`) but rather as the source of the project itself. It would be very helpful if I could instruct Gitlab that these files are not to be rendered into HTML but displayed as raw source files. The source files are intended to be processed by pandoc, so a lot of the formatting gets clumsily misinterpreted by Gitlab. Is there a setting to turn rendering off for specific files?"}
{"_id": "39598", "title": "Is it safe to use multiple h2 tags for a list of products?", "text": "I am using html5. I have a list of products in my store (132 products), and they are currently being displayed using pagination, with 10 results on each page. All my product names are very keyword rich and I want to get all that long tail traffic, but how do I assign them importance (using header tags) without getting penalized? For example, if I use `` for my product names (they are not links, just plain text), then the bots will see 132 `` tags, and I think this may be a problem. Any ideas?"}
{"_id": "32621", "title": "How can I tell whether a given file is being used on my site?", "text": "I'm administering a site that uses a CMS, and the only access I have to the filesystem is through ajaxplorer. I'd like to remove pictures, documents, etc. that aren't being used or linked to. Is there a way to tell what files on the site are being used, other than scraping the site and manually comparing file lists?"}
{"_id": "46753", "title": "How to change a URL using .htaccess", "text": "I don't know anything about coding, but I really want to change the URL of my pages: * `site/data/9/Symbian-3rd-Apps.html` to `site/symbian_applications.html` * `site/data/file/352/Core-Video-Player-Symbian-3rd--sisx.html` to `site/Core-Video-Player-Symbian-3rd--sisx.html`"}
{"_id": "31234", "title": "How google handle site traffic in google analytics", "text": "I have a site with address www.exam.com and I have put Google analytics javascript scripts in it. I have made an app for my site, I want that everytime a user uses app, he visit the site in the application with built in browser which is inside the application ( I am using C# for application and .NET web browser ). User will address www.example.com/appvisit in the app and I just have put google analytics scripts in that page and nothing else. And I want to disallow this address /appvisit in my robots.txt file . I want to know that Is there any problem with doing this? will google crawl in the /appvisit directory ? Does google hate this work? and will google think this traffic is true and normal? thanks"}
{"_id": "7180", "title": "Adsense alternative for a \"Sex Education\" website?", "text": "I am creating a nice and niche \"Sex Education\" website. No porn, nothing offensive and no scams. I would love to place Google Adsense but they do not allow ads on adult sites. I would like to know what advertising and link-exchange like should I place on my site. My sole objective is to cover the server costs and salary of one or two persons. _(In this way, it is different fromBest alternative to Adsense for a small website?)._"}
{"_id": "31238", "title": "Web hosting does not matter?", "text": "I have read this question. I agree that webhosting does matter in load time and how much uptime it is giving but it seems that some companies have given it a huge hype. Please have a look at this example,  They claim that in SEO, 23.8% is which hosting you use. Please clear out is it a gimmick or it carries some weight. Thanks"}
{"_id": "47814", "title": "How can I delete all Wiki pages created by spammers except mine in MediaWiki?", "text": "I Implemented a MediaWiki site but unfortunately somebody created thousands of pages through thousand of users. Which query could I run for deleting all pages created by these users except mine? MediaWiki pages are in `wiki_page` and `wiki_text` inside MediaWiki database but there is no field about who created those pages. Largest table: * `wiki_text`: 682MB * `wiki_externallinks`: 162.5 MB * `wiki_recentchange`: 95 MB * `wiki_page`: 43 MB Here, I find a possible answer to my problem but I'm blocked at the first step: \"Export articles created by you (presumably logged in as the WikiSysop user or similar)\" How can I export article made by me if in the table there is no field about user who created pages?"}
{"_id": "29105", "title": "Using style.less from lesscss.org doesn't properly show changes I make to the style.less file?", "text": "I inherited a wordpress project that was initially developed by another developer and for the CSS they utilize the script from: http://lesscss.org (which so far seems to not only be overkill but horrible if the user doesn't have javascript enabled on their browser) My guess is that it is caching but even in safari if I disable Cache, it doesn't update with my changes. Safari loaded with some changes, but when I made more changes it only shows the same time from the first page view. Same thing in firefox except firefox doesn't show any of the new changes. This only applies to css changes made in the style.less file. If I make any changing to the html code then every loads correctly. I even tried appending #!watch\u2019 to the url like the web page said, but still no luck. Any idea on what I can do to make the changes load correctly?"}
{"_id": "7186", "title": "Nice wordpress to wordpress redirect?", "text": "I have a WordPress blog in http://suportrecerca.barcelonamedia.org/blog/ , and since I can no longer use our company servers for my blog I've had to move it to blog.joanmarcriera.es Google had my old blog well indexed and many people is landing to my old blog. I want to redirect this people to my new blog in a nice way, like a 5 seconds delay with some information or something. Any suggestions? I also would like to let Google index the old blog like usual if it's possible. Thanks."}
{"_id": "22950", "title": "Customer Report Google Analytics", "text": "Is it possible to have a custom report per minute for Google Analytics? So far I have found that it is possible to have a report per hour."}
{"_id": "622", "title": "Is there a way to get browser info on one specific page with Google Analytics?", "text": "I have an Ajax-based page which has had a history of problems with Internet Explorer (IE). I spent some time working on the JavaScript to try to get it to work in IE. After this I was interested to see how the traffic to this one specific page with IE had changed. However, using Google Analytics, I can't see a way to track \"single-page usage versus specific browser\". Is it possible?"}
{"_id": "49445", "title": "Will enclosing an element inside a
` tags, and I think this may be a problem. Any ideas?"}
{"_id": "32621", "title": "How can I tell whether a given file is being used on my site?", "text": "I'm administering a site that uses a CMS, and the only access I have to the filesystem is through ajaxplorer. I'd like to remove pictures, documents, etc. that aren't being used or linked to. Is there a way to tell what files on the site are being used, other than scraping the site and manually comparing file lists?"}
{"_id": "46753", "title": "How to change a URL using .htaccess", "text": "I don't know anything about coding, but I really want to change the URL of my pages: * `site/data/9/Symbian-3rd-Apps.html` to `site/symbian_applications.html` * `site/data/file/352/Core-Video-Player-Symbian-3rd--sisx.html` to `site/Core-Video-Player-Symbian-3rd--sisx.html`"}
{"_id": "31234", "title": "How google handle site traffic in google analytics", "text": "I have a site with address www.exam.com and I have put Google analytics javascript scripts in it. I have made an app for my site, I want that everytime a user uses app, he visit the site in the application with built in browser which is inside the application ( I am using C# for application and .NET web browser ). User will address www.example.com/appvisit in the app and I just have put google analytics scripts in that page and nothing else. And I want to disallow this address /appvisit in my robots.txt file . I want to know that Is there any problem with doing this? will google crawl in the /appvisit directory ? Does google hate this work? and will google think this traffic is true and normal? thanks"}
{"_id": "7180", "title": "Adsense alternative for a \"Sex Education\" website?", "text": "I am creating a nice and niche \"Sex Education\" website. No porn, nothing offensive and no scams. I would love to place Google Adsense but they do not allow ads on adult sites. I would like to know what advertising and link-exchange like should I place on my site. My sole objective is to cover the server costs and salary of one or two persons. _(In this way, it is different fromBest alternative to Adsense for a small website?)._"}
{"_id": "31238", "title": "Web hosting does not matter?", "text": "I have read this question. I agree that webhosting does matter in load time and how much uptime it is giving but it seems that some companies have given it a huge hype. Please have a look at this example,  They claim that in SEO, 23.8% is which hosting you use. Please clear out is it a gimmick or it carries some weight. Thanks"}
{"_id": "47814", "title": "How can I delete all Wiki pages created by spammers except mine in MediaWiki?", "text": "I Implemented a MediaWiki site but unfortunately somebody created thousands of pages through thousand of users. Which query could I run for deleting all pages created by these users except mine? MediaWiki pages are in `wiki_page` and `wiki_text` inside MediaWiki database but there is no field about who created those pages. Largest table: * `wiki_text`: 682MB * `wiki_externallinks`: 162.5 MB * `wiki_recentchange`: 95 MB * `wiki_page`: 43 MB Here, I find a possible answer to my problem but I'm blocked at the first step: \"Export articles created by you (presumably logged in as the WikiSysop user or similar)\" How can I export article made by me if in the table there is no field about user who created pages?"}
{"_id": "29105", "title": "Using style.less from lesscss.org doesn't properly show changes I make to the style.less file?", "text": "I inherited a wordpress project that was initially developed by another developer and for the CSS they utilize the script from: http://lesscss.org (which so far seems to not only be overkill but horrible if the user doesn't have javascript enabled on their browser) My guess is that it is caching but even in safari if I disable Cache, it doesn't update with my changes. Safari loaded with some changes, but when I made more changes it only shows the same time from the first page view. Same thing in firefox except firefox doesn't show any of the new changes. This only applies to css changes made in the style.less file. If I make any changing to the html code then every loads correctly. I even tried appending #!watch\u2019 to the url like the web page said, but still no luck. Any idea on what I can do to make the changes load correctly?"}
{"_id": "7186", "title": "Nice wordpress to wordpress redirect?", "text": "I have a WordPress blog in http://suportrecerca.barcelonamedia.org/blog/ , and since I can no longer use our company servers for my blog I've had to move it to blog.joanmarcriera.es Google had my old blog well indexed and many people is landing to my old blog. I want to redirect this people to my new blog in a nice way, like a 5 seconds delay with some information or something. Any suggestions? I also would like to let Google index the old blog like usual if it's possible. Thanks."}
{"_id": "22950", "title": "Customer Report Google Analytics", "text": "Is it possible to have a custom report per minute for Google Analytics? So far I have found that it is possible to have a report per hour."}
{"_id": "622", "title": "Is there a way to get browser info on one specific page with Google Analytics?", "text": "I have an Ajax-based page which has had a history of problems with Internet Explorer (IE). I spent some time working on the JavaScript to try to get it to work in IE. After this I was interested to see how the traffic to this one specific page with IE had changed. However, using Google Analytics, I can't see a way to track \"single-page usage versus specific browser\". Is it possible?"}
{"_id": "49445", "title": "Will enclosing an element inside a
element affect SEO?", "text": "Is it okay (SEO-wise) to construct the following line as such:
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ever. Wondering if this looks too unnatural for search engines?"} {"_id": "12833", "title": "End date on google analytics", "text": "Everytime I open google analytics account I get some default date range which is one month from yesterday to yesterday. Is there a way to set default to be start: some day I define end: last possible day there is"} {"_id": "12831", "title": "How does Amazon.com renew or buy its domain names?", "text": "It's hard to believe that Amazon goes to a site like Godaddy.com to buy or renew domain names. Do they use registrars? If not, how do they buy & renew domains?"} {"_id": "12830", "title": "Infinite redirect loop in cPanel-purchased script", "text": "I am installing a script (that I bought on cPanel) in the root directory of my web site. When I try to install it, it gives me an error. I found that it starts an infinite URL redirect loop containing the name of my web site. Something like: `install//mywebsite.com/install=mywebsite.com/install=mywebsite.com/install=mywebsite.com` etc. until the browser refuses to continue when URL gets too long. The vendor told me I need to have *mod_rewrite* installed on my cPanel and something about _.htaccess_. How do I do fix this?"} {"_id": "12837", "title": "what redirect do i use?", "text": "I have a hosted rails application that gives every account a sub domain eg company.hosted_site.com I have pointed our customers own domain to their subdomain via a A record and a cname so it looks like their own site. But now i have 2 versions of the same site running so i need to now redirect the subdomain to the customers own domain. My question is what redirect is best for this for SEO ? thank you Rick"} {"_id": "15288", "title": "Accepting Payments Online", "text": "What's the most cost-efficient way to accept payments on my website? American Express will be the card of choice. Average sales order ~ $100-250. I am only in Alpha stage so I don't want to pay Braintree (or others) $80-100 / month, right off the bat (bootstrapping! ) Is PayPal my best bet? Again, I will be receiving payments from corporate credit card holders via my website. Does anyone know of any alternatives?"} {"_id": "8019", "title": "Optimizing perceived load time for social sharing widgets on a page?", "text": "I have placed the facebook \"like\" and some other social bookmarking websites link on my blog, such as Google Buzz, Digg, Twitter, etc. I just noticed that it takes a while to load my blog page as it need to load the data from the social networking sites (such as number of likes etc). How can I place the links efficiently so that first my blog content loads, and meanwhile it loads data from these websites -- in other words, these sharing widgets should not hang my blog page while waiting for data from external sites?"} {"_id": "8018", "title": "Whois status \"pending delete\" with expiration date in November 2011?", "text": "A friend of mine is in the process of being scammed by a domain registrar and I am trying to sort out the mess. However I could use a hand understanding some of the details. He paid for 2 years of domain name registration on 6 november 2009. The whois record reads: Domain ID:XXXXXXXXXX Domain Name:XXXXXXXXX.ORG Created On:06-Nov-2009 09:23:12 UTC Last Updated On:17-Dec-2010 00:15:10 UTC Expiration Date:06-Nov-2011 09:23:12 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:OnlineNIC Inc. (R64-LROR) Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:HOLD Status:PENDING DELETE SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE Registrant ID:ONLC-XXXXXXX-X Registrant Name:My friend's name ... Registrant Email:Old email The registrar charged a renewal fee a week ago and is now asking an extra $150 to \"reclaim\" the domain name, even though the domain name is apparently still in my friend's name and it looks like there is still another 10 months before the expiry date. The expiration date on the WhoIs record looks right (Nov 2011), so I don't understand why the domain status says \"PENDING DELETE SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE\". Can someone explain me better what the deal is and explain what I need to do get the domain name transfered to a more honest registrar? I already have a registrar for my own domain names, been using them for 10 years without problems, so I know where to transfer the domain names to, I just don't know how to proceed."} {"_id": "8017", "title": "web designers icon avatars?", "text": "Anybody know how these are made. I see them a lot, mostly web designers have them. Are they hand made in psd or illustrator or is there a web service that converts real photos? "} {"_id": "8016", "title": "Why Google not ranking my websites..?", "text": "Please observe http://www.panbeli.in and http://www.softwaregenius.net Why is this site does not get ranked by Google Spider? It has been grayed in Google Tool Bar for a while. Google has the knowledge of it. You can search for http://www.panbeli.in and http://www.softwaregenius.net and you will see the both websites in google search,yahoo search,bing search, you found that we have lots of backlinks also ,http://www.panbeli.in alexa rank is 695,295 and http://www.softwaregenius.net alexa rank is 994,219. we have also created Blogs/News/Classified/google ADsence/press relese etc to increase the rang for http://www.panbeli.in and http://www.softwaregenius.net websites. When i check my SEO statistics using different SEO tools, it shows Google backlink is zero. however, Google just does not want to rank it. Can you tell me why? Why is it penalized? I have tried to do my best to clean it. Your kind reply is appreciated. Thanks and Regards Irfan"} {"_id": "34556", "title": "E-commerce + CMS: 2 sites or one?", "text": "Ok, let's say that a customer already has a CMS managed web site but now wants to sell goods online using an E-commerce platform (Magento in this case). My question is, does it make any difference between choosing to have just one site running both CMS and E-commerce (`www.mycompany.com`), or to have one site for the CMS (`www.mycompany.com`) and another (`www.mycompany-shop.com`) for E-commerce? I'd like to know the pros and cons of these approaches, so that I can advise the customer for the best. --EDIT I forgot to say that I'd prefer to have 2 separate web sites. This way I wouldn't have to learn how to integrate them together (one in Python, the other in PHP)."} {"_id": "8014", "title": "Google map in MediaWiki not showing", "text": "I have upgraded MediaWiki from 1.9.3 to 1.16.1 in a new server. However, the google map is not showing in the link. It's a blank in that page but in the old server with old version it is working fine. I am not a developer so I have no clue on this. Please let me know anybody have any idea on this. you can have a look on the below links http://new.realchicago.org/wiki/index.php/Archer_Heights The first link in which the google map is missing."} {"_id": "8011", "title": "Payment Gateway options other than Paypal, for sending out mass payments", "text": "We were using Paypal Payment pro earlier for the same thing, but for some reason Paypal has been given some new guideline which kinda hinder with the way we need to send out payments at the moment. We receive payments from clients and then send out payments back to vendors on a weekly basis ( deducting our cut ). Can you let me know what options are available to for such transactions other than paypal ? which is the best in terms cost of setup etc. Thanks"} {"_id": "47676", "title": "SEO and traffic flow for multi-domain web app", "text": "I'm working with a small team on a web app. **Background** For many years we have run a informational website. It gets lots of traffic (1M+ per month) and is near the top on the first page of the search engines for our keywords. This website is basically an informational database with text and illustrations. It has been curated by our \"principal\" for this time. He is an expert in our field, but has absolutely no technical expertise. Seriously... he built the whole site using static HTML pages and now has over 1000 .html files to maintain. I didn't get involved with this project until it was too late. Anyways, let's call this site info.com. **Issue** We are now creating an interactive web application that utilizes the information from the other site. We'll call this \"app.com\". Our \"principal\" has created the specifications for the app, and myself and one other developer are doing the work. In his specifications, he does not want to pull info from info.com in a script, rather, he wants users of app.com to click links to info.com as he believes it will boost the hits on info.com which ultimately lead to sales. However, as a team we are discussing ideas for how to mitigate the \"jumping around\" between sites. I suggested that when a user \"links\" back to info.com, we display content from info.com within an iframe on app.com. I liked this idea because in essence the user will see our \"app.com\" toolbar (top-page fixed, facebook style) overlayed on \"info.com\", which users of \"app.com\" will be very familiar with. The \"principal\" didn't like this idea because he believed doing this would NOT increase the pagerank of \"info.com\" and would in fact hurt it if more people access the \"info.com\" content via the iframe on \"app.com\". I seriously know nothing about SEO but my gut tells me this is not factual. TL;DR: * How does traffic volume affect SEO? * Will putting content from \"info.com\" in an iframe on \"app.com\" hurt the ranking of \"info.com\" if users of \"info.com\" start accessing the info via \"app.com\"?"} {"_id": "7456", "title": "Service and/or tool to monitor performance?", "text": "I am seeing wildly different performance from a clients web site, and would like to set up some sort of monitoring. What I'm looking for is a service that will issue requests to a couple of URLs, and report on the time it took to process the page - TTFB and time to download the entire page - that means I need something that will process javascript & css. Are there services like this? I've seen a few that monitor uptime, but they don't seem to report on the overall page performance."} {"_id": "7457", "title": "Is it necessary to use Timthumb in Wordpress 2.9+?", "text": "as Wordpress 2.9 comes with built in post thumbnail features, is it necessary to use Timthumb ?"} {"_id": "52434", "title": "How do I point my domain to my website/ip adress", "text": "I havve recently set up a website, I've forwarded it to my Ip and I'm able to access it. However I have also bought a domain which I would like to use for my website which I host through my own pc using xampp. From what I understand I would need to create a dns server, but do still not understand how to do it. So my question is, How do I point my newly bought domain to my website which is being hosted using xampp? Thanks"} {"_id": "44930", "title": "Don't $_GET value on link rewrite with .htaccess", "text": "I config enable htaccess on my server (i enable mod_rewrite and do like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11064005/enable-htacess-error-on- ubuntu-12-04-with-apache2) But on localhost is run echo $_GET value php : http://oseeyou.com/test/on- localhost.png and on server don't run: http://oseeyou.com/test/on-server.png I don't understand this, may help me. Thank."} {"_id": "7450", "title": "Domains with similar names and issues", "text": "I recently purchased one of those domain names like del.icio.us. While registering I found that delicious.com was being used. **Argument:** I found that delicious.com belonged to the same category as my to-be website. It served premium delicious dishes. **Counter Argument:** My to-be domain though belonging to the same category, specialized in serving free but delicious dishes or in giving out links(affiliate) to other sites serving premium delicious dishes. **Additional Counter Arguments:** 1.delicious.com was not in English. 2.the del.icio.us in my domain name though having the same spelling, is not going to be used in the same fashion. For eg.(this may not make sense, because the names have been changed)the d in delicious on my website actually stands for the greek letter Delta(\u0394/\u03b4) and since internationalized domains are still not easily typable, I am going for the english equivalent.The prefix holds importance for the theme of the service which my website intends to offer. **My Question:** Can I use the domain name del.icio.us for my website? How are these kinds of matters dealt? (The domain names used are fictitious. And I have already registered the domain but have not started using it.I chanced upon this domain name because it was short, easy to remember and suited the theme of my website) Update: Can I use the domain name for an unrelated service. I have no wish to trample their rights. Update: Are there any real life examples of similar name use in different fields without the companies fighting it out? The domain name is pretty generic."} {"_id": "18881", "title": "How to recover a website from google cache?", "text": "My host provider told me last night their server crashed and they had restored the website from from an image they had from months ago, They told me this is the only backup they have. I also have no backup, as my backup server crashed few days ago. Through google cache I can see all the website as it was few days ago. Is it possible to recover my website using google cache or is there any tool which help me to recover? Thanks,"} {"_id": "30218", "title": "Retrieving website", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How to recover a website from google cache? Does anyone know of reliable websites (Warrick is currently closed for new requests) or programs (Mac-compatible) where I can retrieve a website that was deleted? I wasn't informed by my blog's host that my website was deleted because hosting services was terminated by the company. Since I have 2 years worth of posts at the website, I was wondering if it would be possible to retrieve them. I was using Wordpress.org for my website."} {"_id": "26629", "title": "Use - or misuse - of ETags", "text": "I'm using an application that sets ETags by md5()ing the URL. As I understand it, that's quite insane. In effect, it means that content for a specific URL won't be fetched anew ... ever. Unless a hard-refresh is sent or, maybe, the browser is restarted (yet to test the latter). Is this abuse of the ETag header?"} {"_id": "2035", "title": "CA For A Large Intranet", "text": "I'm managing what has become a very large intranet (over 100 different hosts / services) and will be stepping down from my role in the near future. I want to make things easy for the next ~~victim~~ person who takes my place. All hosts are secured via SSL. This includes various portals, wikis, data entry systems, HR systems and other sensitive things. We're using self signed certificates which worked o.k. in the past, but are now problematic because: * Browsers make it harder for users to understand exactly what is going on when a self signed certificate is encountered, much less accept them. * Putting up a new host means 100 phone calls asking what \"Add an exception\" means What we were doing is just importing the self signed certs when we set up a new workstation. This was fine when we only had a dozen to deal with, but now its just overwhelming. Our I.T. Department has classified this as `ya all's problem`, all we get from them is support for switch and router configurations. Beyond the user having connectivity, everything else is up to the intranet administrators. We have a mix of Ubuntu and Windows workstations. We'd like to set up our own self signed CA root, which can sign certificates for each host that we deploy on the intranet. Client browsers would of course be told to trust our CA. My question is, would this be dangerous and would we be better off going with intermediate certificates from someone like Verisign? Either way, I still have to import the root for the intermediate CA, so I really don't see what the difference is? Other than charging us money, what would Verisign be doing that we could not, beyond protecting the root CA cert so it can't be used to make forgeries?"} {"_id": "1377", "title": "How bad is it to use display: none in CSS?", "text": "I've heard many times that it's bad to use `display: none` for SEO reasons, as it could be an attempt to push in irrelevant popular keywords. A few questions: 1. Is that still received wisdom? 2. Does it make a difference if you're only hiding a single word, or perhaps a single character? 3. If you should avoid any use of it, what are the preferred techniques for hiding (in situations where you need it to become visible again on certain conditions)? Some references I've found so far: Matt Cutts from 2005 in a comment > If you're straight-out using CSS to hide text, don't be surprised if that is > called spam. I'm not saying that mouseovers or DHTML text or have-a-logo- > but-also-have-text is spam; I answered that last one at a conference when I > said \"imagine how it would look to a visitor, a competitor, or someone > checking out a spam report. If you show your company's name and it's Expo > Markers instead of an Expo Markers logo, you should be fine. If the text you > decide to show is 'Expo Markers cheap online discount buy online Expo > Markers sale ...' then I would be more cautious, because that can look bad.\" And in another comment on the same article > We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. **To date** > we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to > avoid throwing babies out with bathwater. (My emphasis) Eric Enge said in 2008 > The legitimate use of this technique is so prevalent that I would rarely > expect search engines to penalize a site for using the `display: none` > attribute. It\u2019s just very difficult to implement an algorithm that could > truly ferret out whether the particular use of `display: none` is meant to > deceive the search engines or not."} {"_id": "65065", "title": "Does Visibility:Hiden and Display:None Affect SEO", "text": "If I had some text that initially had the CSS property visiblity:hidden or display:none Would that effect how much the content is weighted by search engines? Could using one of those properties on key content on my website have an adverse effect on SEO?"} {"_id": "43926", "title": "Will Google Crawl Display:None Dropdown?", "text": "I have a navigation set up like so:- Dropdown Link
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{"_id": "53616", "title": "Bootstrap hidden text and page rank", "text": "I am using Twitter bootstap to show different text when on mobile mode, tablet mode and desktop mode. I was worried that since the (some) text is hidden on certain modes, would it effect my website page rank."}
{"_id": "13408", "title": "DIsplay none and SEO", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? So i have a nav with tons of stuff and we want to scale back a few of the a tags in the nav but still have them on the page. So for example I was thinking of using jQuery or css display none to hide the text...but we still want the text on the page for the google crawler. Does this technique hurt our current SEO rankings or is it frowned on by google. Here is my site and the nav is on the left....If this will hurt the SEO status is there anything else we can do to keep the text on the page without effecting SEO"}
{"_id": "33577", "title": "Official Google 10 minutes SEO video and page related terms", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? According to this link, one should add some terms related to the page content. I am adding the text like: `` **My questions:** Does it affect the SEO for my website if I am not displaying the terms on page? (I am using `display:none`). In other words, the page related terms are in source code but not being displayed."}
{"_id": "68241", "title": "Make Offscreen Sliding Content Without Hurting SEO", "text": "On my website I have content which is positioned off the screen, and then slides in when you click a button. For example, when you click the news button, content slides in with news. It didn't occur to me that this might be labeled as a black hat SEO technique, because I have content positioned off the screen with CSS that links elsewhere on my site, and a search engine could very easily interpret that as me hiding content for SEO purposes by positioning it off screen. Obviously, my intention was not to hide content, but was to make a sort of UI/UX content slider where content slides into view when a button is clicked. How can I make something to this effect (where content slides in and out), that would not comprise SEO?"}
{"_id": "49139", "title": "One Page Website, with jump links, but hide, display:none all other content except jump link clicked", "text": "I'm wondering how this website design/structure will work for SEO. I have example.com that I'm building. The only actual URL for the website is example.com. However, it will appear to the user that their is 8 different pages. For example. There will be example.com, example.com/#about, example.com/#contact, example.com/#services, etc. I'm using jquery to hide all the other 7 \"pages\" and only show the link that is clicked. So if a user goes to example.com, it will hide all the 7 other \"pages\" and only show the example.com. If the user then clicks on the link example.com/#about, it will hide example.com content, and keep all the other pages content hidden, but then only show example.com/#about content. So everything on the website stays the same, the only thing that changes is the \"content\" div when they click on a menu link. I notice that this is VERY good for user experience in that it loads the whole website code when they first come to the website, so when they click between \"pages\" it is instant. I'm interested in getting answers to why this is a bad idea for like SEO? or any other reasons? Anyone else ever use this kind of setup? Thanks."}
{"_id": "68245", "title": "Does CSS Positioning Affect SEO", "text": "If I positioned the very first content that appears in my code below the fold, would that content be given less weight and therefore be less effective with SEO? In addition, if I had a large image that took up most of the top of the screen and resulting in my content being below the fold or toward the bottom of the screen, would that content be given less weight? **Note** This is content that occurs early on in my code. I'm not talking about having a ton of content and if the content that occurs later would be given less weight, but if content that occurs early on put ends up below the fold would be given less weight."}
{"_id": "18385", "title": "Can search engines see HTML elements hidden by CSS?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? I was wondering if search engines can read `` elements with `display:none`. Is it true? Can search engines see elements hidden by CSS rules?"}
{"_id": "56920", "title": "Showing other name than website name after searching on google", "text": "When I search the same URL on Google, its showing, 'Total Visits' as a header. It not showing my website name. Please check the image. What should I do ? "}
{"_id": "53960", "title": "Why is my website's title not showing in search results?", "text": "When I search for my website, the title of my website appears as \"New York web design\".  But my website's actual title is different: \"Web Development New York | New York web design | SEO New York\" How can I rectify this issue?"}
{"_id": "57280", "title": "Google search mismatch title", "text": "The title of my website is \"OTN | Ontario Telemedicine Network\" but Goggling for \"OTN\" displays it as \"Ontario Telemedicine Network: OTN\" in the search results, other search engines display it properly. How can I direct google to display the title as it is? PS. the title was updated many months ago and I have checked Google webmaster tools for this option but couldn't find anything."}
{"_id": "56524", "title": "Google Adds Unwanted Name to Site Title!", "text": "I've set a different \"Site title\" that its not in site Domain, for example: Site domain: \"setcars.com\" Site title: \"Hello world - new cars!\" Internal links name to index page (by menus, footer, etc): \"SetCars\" \"SetCars\" is not used as TITLE tag anywhere, but google adds it to titles on SERPS: \"Hello world - new cars! - SetCars\" WHY? and how to remove it?"}
{"_id": "53065", "title": "Google shows wrong title", "text": "Few weeks ago I redirected my site using 301 redirect. I went to G Webmaster and set it up. I was using fetch as google, but it still shows wrong title. I really don't know why. Everything is fine on my website. Last cache was 2 days ago. My previous site had similar title to current one. But google indexed my new website few times already and still shows old title"}
{"_id": "42660", "title": "Implementing inline editing for a web order form without using Javascript", "text": "As the title states, I'm trying to find a good solution to implement inline editing for a web order form with just HTML/CSS. The only mediocre solution I have right now is this -> http://jsfiddle.net/jmggp/1/ But I think it looks unprofessional. Are there any other solutions that I can try to learn about?"}
{"_id": "35931", "title": "how google ads refer to dynamic content?", "text": "I have mobile app / site and I want to use google ads with method PPM (pay per impression) I am changing the page content programmatically with java script . so if the user navigate to new page I actually just change the content in the same page. 1.Is there any problem with this by google? 2. do i get paid for this content change like if page really navigate? Thanks."}
{"_id": "16723", "title": "Is it feasible to run a public-facing website from my home network?", "text": "I have to a get a very simple data entry website up and running. This website will be accessed by only a few people at a time (at most), but usually only one person, and not very frequently - maybe a coupel hours at a time, not every day. I really don't want to pay for hosting if I don't have to. I have AT&T U-Verse Internet Service. How feasible is it for me to setup a simple Windows/IIS website on my home network that can be accessed publicly? What's the minimum Internet speed I would need? How can make sure that the IP Address for the public website is static, so I can setup my DNS and forget about it? Any additional thoughts or suggestions on this type of setup would be greatly appreciated. If this is not feasible, or easy, I will likely just go with a hosting service, and I already have one picked out, so I don't need any suggestions for this."}
{"_id": "35935", "title": "How to specify importance of html elements?", "text": "Is it possible to specify what elements of the page are important, or, more specifically, what elements of the page **are not important**? I'm using HTML5 new elements (nav, header, footer, section, article, aside...), but there is sometimes my login form (in the header of my page though) in the Google description of my website pages... Is there a solution to resolve this problem?"}
{"_id": "28386", "title": "Is it better in terms of SEO if I develop my Website meant for marketing my service on a regular .com domain compared to a wordpress site?", "text": "Basically I am asking is whether Google et al are going to _treat_ my webpages developed through wordpress in the same way as they would treat other websites with a *.com? Also, as far as SEO goes do I have to jump through some additional hoops if I am working with a wordpress site ? Would I have any advantages instead ?"}
{"_id": "3131", "title": "Is it better to have an ErrorDocument 404 redirect back to the homepage or a standard 404 error page?", "text": "We run an ecommerce site that was setup by a third party ecommerce software provider, basic shop with product pages, basket and checkout. The third party vendor set up the htaccess file so that if a non-existent URL is enetered it redirects to the homepage instead of a 404 error being generated. This results in google webmaster reporting duplicate titles and descriptions for pages that no longer exist. I think that it would be better for a dedicated 404 error page to be displayed rather than redirecting back to the homepage So is it better to have a website redirect a 404 to the homepage than have a dedicated 404 page instead?"}
{"_id": "50414", "title": "What to use for rapid PageSpeed analysis \u2014 Google Insights or Chrome extension?", "text": "Which score is most reliable (and complete) to use when comparing different sites and pages to get a quick idea (e.g. between competitor websites without detailed analysis)? I am asking because for the same page on the same site, the score is over 30 marks higher via Google Insights online, which leads me to believe that the official Chrome extension is more accurate (e.g. worse score). Some of this has been addressed in detail before, but for the purposes of doing quick analysis \u2014 what accounts for the different PageSpeed scores?"}
{"_id": "65080", "title": "Should you let Googlebot crawl and index your entire site before updating it again?", "text": "I have heard from various people that \"Google has scanned x% of the site\". Some have told me at times not to upload anything, nor do any changes on the site \"since Google hasn't finished scanning the site\". I asked one of them what they mean by that and he told me that if you go to Webmaster Tools and at the crawl statistics there is a graph that shows pages crawled per day. Also, by the the third or fourth time a page is scanned then google's index is updated. He even told me that it is better to create a backlink from an site (that will interview me) in about a month, not now, since Google hasn't finished scanning the site after some big changes in the url structure, so the backlink will go unnoticed. Is there any logic in the above? In which ways can you use this graph and what assumptions can you derive? Should someone ever stop doing anything \"because Google is scanning\"?"}
{"_id": "27370", "title": "Does including Google Analytics on a page makes you run the risk of failing a PCI audit?", "text": "My webshop is currently in the process of becoming PCI compliant. For business intelligence reasons we would like to include Google analytics code (or a code from a similar package) on the checkout page of our payment funnel. As this involves including 3rd party JavaScript code on a page which handles customers credit card details I am wondering if this type of integration runs the risk of not passing a PCI audit."}
{"_id": "65083", "title": "Google Adwords - how to specify AND and OR in Keyword", "text": "There are many ways to define keywords for a campaign. However is there a way to make ORs? While searching in google it would like '\"keyword (ketwordOr1|keywordOr2)\"'. That would return results such as \"keyword keywordOr1\" OR \"keyword keywordOr2\" but not keyword alone."}
{"_id": "13602", "title": "Can we trademark the name of our group of which the founder and president is no longer associated?", "text": "I am looking for advice. We have a social group. Our president chose to leave our group, (do not wish to name the name). This president founded the group and choose the name. The group pays dues and has annual parties of which the proceeds go back to the group for other functions. The president stole the money. When we confronted the president, they quit the group. I have checked and the name is not trademarked. We want to trademark the name to prevent the former president from having a claim to the money under the group name. Can we do this legally?"}
{"_id": "55331", "title": "Tell Google the list of URLs to crawl", "text": "Consider the case of Quora, which is really SEO-friendly. The problem is that there are **no** links to questions from Quora homepage. Essentially nothing (even via an indirect URL). So I could never find any link to Quora questions from its homepage; I could only do so via Google (or other search engines), or have a Quora account. So my question is how to tell Google the list of pages to crawl without listing them all in the homepage (or via an indirect links)?"}
{"_id": "55330", "title": "Will SEO work on semi-one-page website?", "text": "I am setting up a cafe. I read a lot about SEO not working well with one page websites. As such I am thinking of creating an in between with the content structure listed below. Will this be effective for SEO? * Home Page (one page) - keywords : Cat Caf\u00e9 Singapore, Singapore Cat Caf\u00e9, Cat Caf\u00e9, * About Us (one page) * Meet the Cats (one page) * Price(one page) * Contact Us (one page) * Menu (stand alone) \u2013 keywords : Coffee Singapore, Tea Singapore, Caf\u00e9 Singapore * Research (stand alone) , keywords : Cats Singapore, Cats * Blog (stand alone) \u2013 keywords : Cat Caf\u00e9 Singapore, Singapore Cat Caf\u00e9, Cat Caf\u00e9, * Shop (Stand alone ) \u2013 keywords : Cat Toys, Cat Food * Adopt a cat (stand alone) \u2013 keywords : Cat Adpotion, Singapore Cats,"}
{"_id": "2746", "title": "Variable IPs: How variable are they? Best practices for tracking", "text": "There are a lot of questions on StackOverflow relating to session security / session hijacking, but there doesn't seem to be a really good solution to the problem. The three most common suggestions are as follows: 1. Track the users IP address as part of their $_SESSION data, and possibly invalidate a session if it changes. The downside is that lots of users have dynamic IP addresses, so you risk invalidating a user seemingly at random (their perspective). 2. Same as 1., but using a User Agent. Two issues here: there may not be a UA to track, and they can change during browser upgrades, etc. 3. Second cookie, with a unique token. The problem here is that if an attacker gets a hold on the normal session cookie, they're very likely to be able to get a hold on your secondary token as well. So, with these three options it seems that IP address is the best option, since you're guaranteed to be passed one and its independent of physical security (and if the user is physically compromised, you lose regardless). With that in mind, I have a couple questions relating to IP address changes: 1. How often would a users IP address really change under normal conditions. I have DSL at home, with the usual dynamic IP concerns, and according to gmail my IP hasn't changed in days. AFAIK, this only really happens when the modem cycles anyway, right? That seems like a rare enough event that it _might_ be ok to invalidate the session. 2. I think I remember Jeff saying in one of the SO podcasts that they did something similar, though it was possibly for something else. The idea was that using the first two (I believe) octets of an IP address could be considered \"close enough\" in some circumstances. This allows a user to move around on the same ISP, but the system would notice if the user was suddenly in another ISPs range. Is this a viable tactic?"}
{"_id": "63493", "title": "Google not recognizing microdata?", "text": "I put in microdata to one page of a site I help manage using schema.org. Using the Google webmaster tool test, the page checks out and displays what it sees as the microdata properly. But when I go to the Structured Data page in webmaster tools, it keeps saying the site does not have any. I put it in 2 weeks ago. Us it just something that take a while for it to recognize? Or does microdata have to be on every page for it to be recognized or something?"}
{"_id": "55624", "title": "How to interpret Google policy on crawling and indexing search results pages?", "text": "I just learned that we can be penalized for letting Google crawl and index our database search results. http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/55599/33777 **Question:** If they don't want to list Yellow Page type results, then why do they? These sites have been around forever, and the domains haven't changed. I just did a search for specific keywords on a friend's website. He ranks #7. The first six are all search results pages for well known Yellow Page type sites. I'm a back-end developer so this all new to me. I reviewed the Webmaster Guidelines and saw this (emphasis mine): > Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto- > generated pages **that don't add much value for users coming from search > engines**. That is very subjective. * My client has a page listing the names of all companies in our database. * Each company name is a link to the search result page for that exact phrase. * That result page in turn links to their company profiles in the different publications. * The same company might have a profile in more than one publication. * The profiles may be similar, but would list different product categories depending on the publication. This was originally set up because the client was trying to compete with Yellow Pages and the like. And we are ranking pretty well when people search for particular companies. But I don't want to get penalized. We were linking to the search results rather than directly to the profile because one company might have multiple profiles. However, the client now wants to segregate the different publications more. So, I can save a click for users if the company list links directly to the profile and skips the search results page. **Question:** Is the list of company names and the profile for each company acceptable content for Google? Do you think we will be penalized for letting them crawl and index that? We were just about to add a similar list of all categories in the database where each category would link to a list of the companies in that category. I think this has _value for users coming from search engines_. But it's subjective. **Question:** Since it is dynamically generated, Google could randomly request words like Viagra and we would present a \"No matches found.\" page. That page would have a _noindex_ meta tag. But is this enough to get us penalized? **Note:** The actual search form uses POST which I believe Google avoids. We would only generate links for exact category names that exist in the database. So we wouldn't be inviting them to crawl a search results page, but more a directory landing page. However, nothing is there to stop Google from hunting for content by manipulating the URLs. **Vent:** I know some basic SEO, and I've always gone with the idea of thinking about our users first - provide them with the content they are looking for - and let Googlebot figure things out on its own. It seems counter-intuitive to me to have to tell Google to stop crawling my site. The same thing goes for nofollow on partnership links (which I also just learned about). IMO, Google should just figure out what is relevant/valuable and display that. They shouldn't penalize sites for having content that doesn't interest them. **Aside:** If they don't want to crawl useless pages, why are they still requesting pages that have been sending 301, 404, or 410 for more than a year? And no, there are no inbound links to these pages."}
{"_id": "25771", "title": "What forum software should I use?", "text": "_This is a general, community wikicatch-all question to address \"I need a forum script that does x, y, and z...\" questions._ _If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion on thePro Webmasters Meta._ * * * I have a list of features that I want for my website's forum script: where can I find a (free or paid) script that includes all of them?"}
{"_id": "26804", "title": "Forums/CMS/BBS that actually has a bulletin board look", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? Hi I'm wanting to build a bulletin board system for my community which can create a view that actually looks like a \"real-world\" bulletin board or cork- board. So in addition to the traditional forum view which has a hierarchy of topics in a full-width screen, a page custom to the user could be presented where selected posts could be laid out. The posts might look like sticky notes or boxes, laid out around the page potentially with images and text, rather than being full-screen width text entries. I'd also like the system to be able to mail a version or screenshot of the custom user page to the user on a weekly basis. Does anybody know of any, highly preferably open-source, solutions that come with a feature like this?"}
{"_id": "9612", "title": "Good message board for a website (e.g. phpBB)", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? What are the best (and most widely used) Linux-based **message board** softwares, and the **_pros_** and **_cons_** of each. e.g. Security Vulnerabilities, Performance on a cheap server, comes pre-packaged [RPM or DEB]. I am looking for _the best_ message board software for my website. A VPS can run almost any software, so the sky is the limit! 1. _Free, doesn't require unreasonable number of hyperlinks to their website_ 2. Security focused / Widely Used, vulnerabilities are found and fixed quick 3. Easy to keep up-to-date, i.e. prepackaged / auto-update in some way 4. Moderator features [like pinning / message preamble], account management 5. Themeable, customize appearance a bit * * * The contenders appear to be * **phpBB** - Undeniably popular, modular. * **MyBB** - Used to be commercial, great features. LGPL"}
{"_id": "2097", "title": "Online forum software or services", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? What forum software is out there? I've used PhpBB in the past, but that was a long time ago and I'm guessing there might be better stuff out there. My requirements are: * registration required to post (name, email, password) * public viewing * some ability to customize * needs to look reasonably good (it's not for geeks) * hosted or self hosted * if self hosted it needs to be PHP & MySQL * free or paid (I can't add tags, but I wanted to tag this \"forums\".)"}
{"_id": "4891", "title": "What's the best free forum software out there right now?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? Either php/mysql or aspx/sql I checked out a similar thread but there weren't any real answers... Thanks"}
{"_id": "14425", "title": "Bulletin Board System with tagging, email notification", "text": "I am looking for nice BBS system, Bulletin Board System, Discussion Board, or nice in-company communication platform. There are lots of people, about 30 people, joining in our project. We would like to share idea among us on that platform. We can post questions and concerns related with the project, and we would like to respond each other. Here is my list of functionality I want: * Tagging Thread e.g) Announcement, Finance, Legal, Idea. One thread can have multiple Tags. * members can set on/off to receive email when new comments are posted. They can set on/off on each Tag. e.g) one member on to receive email related with \"Announcement\", but off to receive \"Finance\". * Thread owner can change threads' tag any time. * Thread can have several type of post. * Thread can be \"vote\" thread. Everyone can vote their opinion. * Thread can be \"action plan\" thread. In this thread, \"who\" will \"what\" remains in the thread. By viewing all \"action plan\" thread, all action plans needed in the company is visualized."}
{"_id": "5321", "title": "Looking for a simple forum script", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I have a working website and I need to integrate a forum into it. The problem is, I need the forum script to use usernames and passwords from a mysql table that is already created. This is why I need a forum that supports translations and has a simple code I can adjust to my databse. Any ideas on such forum scripts?"}
{"_id": "6983", "title": "Suggestions of internet forum software", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I'm going to be setting up a few internet forums to test out the software. I was going to be doing this with vBulletin, but they don't let you download a trial version. Could anyone make any suggestions of any good forum packages and their advantages and disadvantages? (And maybe forum software in general pros and cons.) The forums will be hosted on a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine using Apache. **EDIT:** I should also point out that one with better security would be desirable - although if I'm honest my expectations on that front are low :P"}
{"_id": "53610", "title": "Forum software with good threaded-view support?", "text": "I'm looking for good forum software that allow a threaded view (similar to reddit or Disqus), at least up to two or three \"levels\" of replies. The phpBB people seem to be vehemently against threading at all, I believe MyBB supports only _one_ level or replies, is there any other good forum that supports threading? Phorum is mentioned as having support for threaded views, but there were vague hints in some discussion I came across that you had to go through the replies one by one like in the ancient days rather than having a single expanded look. Is this true of Phorum? Other candidates I came across were FUDForum, mwForum and Drupal's forum, your views on these and other possible options would be greatly appreciated."}
{"_id": "8650", "title": "What is a CMS with good user forums support?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? If I'm starting from scratch with any CMS I want, which one has good support (or a plugin) for discussion forums?"}
{"_id": "24036", "title": "Which forum applications can integrate with Facebook?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? What is the best/most compatible forum software which features almost complete integration with Facebook? The main feature I ask is the Facebook Connect feature (user could use Facebook account to register). **But** it would be more perfect if other Facebook features could be integrated to. Something like, subscribe thread which appears to Facebook notifications, easy sharing to Facebook, etc. I have vBulletin, Invision Power Board, and SMF in my mind, but I'm open to more suggestions.."}
{"_id": "1965", "title": "Bulletin board software with voting capability for each post", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I run my system on a linux machine. Let's say I use apache or cherokee webserver, for simplicity. I want to run a bulletin board software for discussion purposes. However I do not want traditional systems like vBulletin or vanilla, as systems based on these tend towards too much bickering and clique-formation. I was inspired by the system in meta.stackoverflow in which each post can be voted up or down. This would instantly be a medicine for all the jerks, since their posts will get downvoted quickly. Moreover honest criticisms will get upvoted. So I feel this will be a great improvement. However the meta.stackoverflow system is not suitable for a discussion environment. I would want a traditional bulletin board system itself; but with the added capability that votes can be given up/down for each post, and for each post the number of votes is displayed. For example let me mention that in some wordpress blogs, comments can be voted up/down. That capability is exactly what I want; it is just that I need it in a bulletin board software rather than in a wordpress blog. Question: > Does there exist a bulletin board software with voting capability for each > post? Here I must stress that I do not care about the total reputation of a user. That is something I do not want to encourage. I have asked this question both here and at serverfault, since it was not clear where should this be asked. Feel free to close it at the appropriate site and I need answers only from one place."}
{"_id": "25160", "title": "Best lightweight PHP/MySQL forum with spam-protection", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I have already searched and checked out posts like this and this but it isn't what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a lightweight PHP/MySQL forum with decent (good) anti spam functionalities. I have been using punBB which is light and fast but doesn't stop billions of spammers to post boring links, I have tested PHPBB which I found really heavy (and it doesn't stop spammers either). I'd like the possibility to receive a mail to 'accept' new inscriptions, auto- shut down inscriptions that have never posted (after some time) and so on and a captcha at inscription time (if it is easily modifyable that would be a plus), (public) blacklists and/or adaptive filters to stop spam would be nice too. Does this exist in any free/cheap forum?"}
{"_id": "9997", "title": "Group \"Discussion\" software?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? My client wants a \"lite\" forum... not unlike these stack exchange sites, but even a little lighter. There's a screenshot of the discussion group she likes most, below. You can also go here to see it for yourself it you like. I don't think traditional forum apps will display, functionally, in this manner. **Is there any software I can use to get a similar result? A web service would be acceptable as well.** "}
{"_id": "8973", "title": "Free forum engine with good anti-attack mechanisms", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I am looking for forum engine (for discussions) with good attack countermeasures built in. Windows (preferrably) or Linux. Free (as beer). I think about registration flooding and blocking user accounts attacks. For registration, such engine should have at least: * captcha * blocking mulitple registrations from the same IP * providing login (for logging in) and user name (for displaying the author of the posts) For logging in: * no blocking on multiple tries -- instead after X try sending via mail a token, the third piece needed for next login -- without it logging in will be impossible (it would be similar to activation process) The engine should be designed with two ideas in mind: * protecting engine against attacks * 0 penalty for decent users Thank you in advance for your help and recommendations."}
{"_id": "10863", "title": "Forum that integrates into CMS and has curated category pages with tagged threads", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I'm looking for a forum that meets these requirements: * Login using Facebook/Twitter/OpenID etc. * User profiles with reward system * Voting/thumbs up function * Categories and tags for sorting threads * Custom category pages with moderated static header * Embeddable threads and categories (For example, a whole category or single thread can be integrated into wordpress) * API to users, discussions etc. I've looked at forums like Vanilla, Disqus, OSQA etc, but none seem to match the above \"hybrid criteria\". Hosted or self-hosted doesn't matter but I'm really looking for something that can be integrated into an existing CMS to replace comments while at the same time have curated category pages and user profiles. Thanks."}
{"_id": "6059", "title": "Forum software advice needed", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? we want to migrate our sites current forum (proprietary built) to a newer, more modern (feature rich) platform. I've been looking around at the available options and have narrowed it down to vBulletin, Vanilla or Phorum (unless you have another suggestion ?). I hope someone here can give me some feedback on their experiences either migrating to a new forum or working deeply with one. The current forum we have has approx 2.2 million threads in it and is contained in a MySQL database. Data Migration is obviously the first issue, is one of the major Forum vendors better or worse in this regard ? The software needs to be able to be clustered and cached to ensure availability and performance. We want it to be PHP based and store it's data in MySQL. The code needs to be open to allow us to highly customise the software both to strip out a lot of stuff and be able to integrate our sites features. A lot of the forums I've looked at have a lot of duplicate features to our main site, in particular member management, profiles etc. I realise we'll have to do a good bit of development in removing these and tieing it all back to the main site so we want to find a platform that makes this kind of integration as easy as possible. Finally I guess if 'future proofing' the forum (as best as possible) given the above. Which platform will allow us to customise it but also allow us to keep instep with upgrades. Which forum software has the best track record for bringing online new features in a timely manner ? etc. etc. I know it's a big question but if anyone here has any experience in some or all of the above I'd be very grateful."}
{"_id": "23004", "title": "Which forum software has a \"like/don't like button\" in the post (and other features)?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I want to build a new blog (on Wordpress) and I want to insert a forum in the website. I don't want to use PhpBB for the forum section (too complex to configure and manage) and I'm searching a simple solution. The feature I absolutly need: * like/don't like button in every post * polls * attachment and image upload * tag system for the post Other appreciate features: * import post from another PhpBB forum * FB connect (for the user login) * integration with wordpress * reserved section (for only a group of user) At the moment I have found these solutions: * bbpress: all feature above but it doesn't have the \"like/don't like\" button * OSQA: I don't know if have the pools and attachment function Anyone can help me and suggest other solution?"}
{"_id": "14570", "title": "Alternative to vBulletin", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I'm currently using vBulletin along with a bunch of plugins like vBSEO, shoutbox and others for a sports discussion site. I just don't have the time to keep up with the upgrading of the vBulletin software (and then all the plugins). And I'm not crazy about vBulletin in general. Last I checked there was no good single sign on mechanism to integrate it with other systems and the social aspects of the site, of which discussions are really all about, seem lacking. Are there good alternatives which are easier to manage (ideally hosted systems), easier to integrate and more social? I'm more than happy to pay, but this community is only about 4,000 strong... so anything above a couple hundred $$ per month will have to be pretty spectacular."}
{"_id": "11467", "title": "Whats the best CMS for Sports Club?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I have to renew a website for a sport club. There is some self programmed CMS in use at this time. But I need a new solution. A popular CMS that could be up to date over the next 3 or 4 years. I took a look at Drupal 7. Not sure about whether it's easy possible to create member profiles (they should be able to edit them self), a board and team overviews. Would be cool you'll share the link of a tutorial for this needs if you have one. _Or..._ **Any suggestions for a good CMS with my needs?**"}
{"_id": "9082", "title": "Which forum software has the most advanced community/GetSatisfaction type features?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I need to assemble a **GetSatisfaction/Lithium/Jive type support forum/community**. The first is not available in the desired language and the last two are priced for the enterprise market. I did research some other options (open source or SaaS) but they all seem to be either: * kind of dead (open source options) * too focused in gathering ideas/feedback (uservoice) * strictly support without the community/voting features (zendesk) **I need an open forum (people powered support/UGC with community/voting features) & Facebook/Google/Yahoo/MSN account sign-in.** Therefore I will have to do some of the work on my own. I want to **piece things (plugins/mods/etc) on top of a standard forum platform to give it the features I need**. For this purpose, I want to use a **mature** product with widespread userbase, active community and lots of plugin options. I believe most will agree that my options therefore are: * vBulletin * phpBB * SMF Here are the questions: 1. **Which one of the three above offers the easier path towards the desired goal**? 2. **Which one of the three above has the most advanced features related to the desired goal?** Of course I dont expect anyone to **know** these answers _cut and dry_. I am hoping to hear some experiences and see some examples. Also, it would be great if both those questions had the same answer, but I am not going to get my hopes up... PS: I wish I could add the tags \"phpbb\" and \"smf\" ;)"}
{"_id": "28104", "title": "Which free PHP based forum is the easiest to extend or customize?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I am looking to start a new forum, with a traditional forum layout (like webhostingtalk, for example). In this space, I know phpBB and SMF are strong contenders. I do not know for sure the names of other great forum software that might exist... My most important need is that it should be easy to modify the display area, at the least, without having to dig too much into the core. Drupal excels in this area with its templating system, but the forum module doesn't look like the forum interface most people are used to... It would be a great plus if the software has alternative Captchas like question based or invisible Captcha. If it doesn't, I would like to be able to code it in without much trouble (that is, the software exposes a good API)"}
{"_id": "21132", "title": "PHP-based forum software for maximizing SEO?", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I ask because I am skeptical of phpBB. I know that vBulletin frequently comes up in web searches."}
{"_id": "56571", "title": "What integrated blog comments/forums solutions exist beyond Vanilla Forums?", "text": "For the past year and a half, I've been running Vanilla Forums on my WordPress-based site My favourite feature of Vanilla is that it integrates comments from the blog's front page into the forums, giving users the continuity of a single sign-on. The downsides are that Vanilla loads slowly, performs rather poorly on iPads (a source of irony given my site's subject matter), randomly logs users out with some frequency, and generally annoys the forum regulars. I would like to replace Vanilla with different forums software. Ideally, this new solution would: * Integrate with blog comments and * Import our 1.5 years' worth of data from Vanilla. Is there anything out there that would fit my needs?"}
{"_id": "7668", "title": "Forum software alternative to phpBB3", "text": "> **Possible Duplicate:** > What Forum Software should I use? I've been using phpBB3 for quite some time now. It seems to me this forum software hasn't evolved at all in all these years. Installing mods is a hassle, updating it to a newer version a real pain in the arse and moderating is not intuitive at all. Besides, I find there's just no way to stop spam on it. Lots of web software have made a great job controlling spam, but phpBB3 still doesn't, at least not without too much complex and tedious work. Since my last attempt to update to the latest version broke it, I'm finally fed up with it, and decide I'm not wasting a minute more in mantaining such a beast. I'm looking for a free software (free as in free beer and free as in free speech) alternative. So SMF is not an alternative at the moment. The most important feature I'm looking for is there must be a script to migrate all of the current phpBB users and posts into the new system. Out of all the alternatives out there, does any of them support these features? Which one do you recommend?"}
{"_id": "68979", "title": "Wrong sign-up tracking when people use Facebook connect", "text": "I have an issue tracking sign-ups for people signing-up using Facebook, Google and Twitter connect. For example, each time a user signs-up using Facebook connect, the referral to this sign-up will be Facebook and not the real source of traffic. We can see that via the referral path /dialogu/oauth that is specific to Facebook connect. In addition, the landing page is directly the signup thank you page, like if the user would arrive directly from FB connect and sign-up. (see screenshot below)  We were thinking about excluding the referral path of the social media connect (like dialogu/oauth for Facebook) but I wanted to have a confirmation that it will solve the issue and not create a new one."}
{"_id": "28382", "title": "How do I migrate a MyBB forum to Vanilla?", "text": "I am running MyBB 1.6 and want to convert to vanilla forum. There are no converters that I know of. Is there a way to do it using a middleman forum that is supported by both ? eg `mybb -> phpbb -> vanilla`? I am also willing to do this manually if someone can point me in the direction and start me off, is it a matter of just changing SQL column names and such?"}
{"_id": "42886", "title": "How to let Google know that content on the page has just changed?", "text": "I'd never thought of such a problem in the whole SEO spectrum before I considered launching my own website. Imagine that I have a website which is updated once per month and Google spider knows about that. So what happens if I've updated one of my pages with new content just after it was crawled? Do I need to wait for a month before Google spider will come back? And is it possible that someone can find my website by queries which are not already relevant to it? Has anybody encountered such problem or has a solution?"}
{"_id": "53994", "title": "How to find out when a \"example.NAME\" domain was registered on?", "text": "I am attempting to obtain the registry records of a `.name` domain - I have tried using who.is to obtain details of whom has registered this practical domain and when was it created and when will it expire however when using this whois checker I do not get any results. How can you get the whois information from `.name` domains."}
{"_id": "13607", "title": "iPod / iPhone CSS Website Template w/ Height Width Dimensions", "text": "You can see here a (very) simplified version of my website: http://ple100.free.fr/foo And on iPhone, it looks like this: http://ple100.free.fr/foo/iphone.png As you can see, we don't see the right border of the page. And we have a black border on the left... I'd like it to be like this: http://ple100.free.fr/foo/iphone2.png Do you know how to solve this problem? Here is the CSS: http://ple100.free.fr/foo/style.css"}
{"_id": "22674", "title": "Looking for PHP/MySQL-based ad manager", "text": "Could you recommend based on your experience a PHP/MySQL-based admin interface for managing your website ads? In order to be really useful, such application should have: - **basic CRM functionality** to track who is providing the ads - **multilingual multi country support** : have the ability to specify for the same ad, different versions for multiple languages/countries - **predefined ad formats** (google Ads, flash ads...) **andsizes** with corresponding PHP helpers so as to insert in the HTML code the necessary markup to properly integrate the ad. Ideally if that application could be desgined for Zend Framework that would be awesome (but I think I'm dreaming at this point)."}
{"_id": "10888", "title": "Godaddy multiple domain problem", "text": "I have godaddy deluxe plan and here is my problem: I have two domains for example: e1.com and e2.com. Both are hosted in same hosting plan. First I created a folder for each domain in the root folder and uploaded two web site but when I'm trying to run my sites, the URL for e1 always shows `http://e1.com/e1/` and for e2 it shows `http://e2.com/e2`. Can I avoid showing e1 and e2 folder and only show `http://e1.com` and `http://e2.com`? Thank you."}
{"_id": "22670", "title": "where can I get list of google excluded words, like, to, is, am, in, of, the, ?", "text": "where can I get list of google excluded words, like, to, is, am, in, of, the, ? When a search is performed in google? I hope you have understood what I want .. about the list of google excluded words when a user search in google?"}
{"_id": "33305", "title": "link rel=\"alternate\", multiple languages and canonical urls", "text": "Context: We've got a website which is available in multiple language versions. However, the content is the same. Each translated version of the site is available on a distinct subdomain. On some pages, we use `` to point to canonical version in the same language of the same page if necessary. This is just basic normalization stuff, in this case ordering of tags. The problem is, we could have a page where a `` is present for normalization and additionally a bunch of `` tags to point to different translations. What does Google do in such a case? We do not want to be punished for duplicate content, but do not want to lose the different language versions of the page in the Google index. We've searched a lot and couldn't find anything which addresses our case and some resources were confusing about this topic."}
{"_id": "30385", "title": "How can I get Google to remove links to my site from their index and then recrawl my site?", "text": "I have put my web site up on the internet and google has pretty much completely indexed it. I have changed my url structure so now all the pages google has indexed are 404. Is there a way I can get google to delete all these pages and then"}
{"_id": "60900", "title": "Iframe display old file", "text": "I am using MVC 3. I am opening new tab on button click and in new tab i open one view in which have on iFrame and iFrame load pdf file. This is work fine but When i open again then it display old file instead of new file. File name is same but file content is changed. **Updated** If pdf file name generate random then its work fine but i don't want to do this."}
{"_id": "65793", "title": "What is the best pratice to pagination to avoid duplicated content?", "text": "The SEO department for the company I work for requested that the user comments on all pages should be paginated, and by this, generate a new URL, for example: **Original page:** foo.com/bar.html (load first 10 comments) **Paginated page:** foo.com/bar.html?page=1 (offset the 10 previous comments, and show more 10 comments - and so on) And when the user be in a paged URL, the canonical tag must point to the child URL, and not to the main URL. I honestly think this is not good, because of these reasons: 1. Comments made by users in most of times are useless content. And although I can't prove it, I'm pretty sure Google can detect what is your article and what is the comments on the page. So I think comments needs to be loaded via JS, and not printed on the HTML. (It would also reduce the page weight); 2. I think the canonical should be pointed to the main URL - and not the child URL. Since it's the very same content on every child page, and the only difference is that it will load new comments, but the main content is the same. 3. I would also add a NOINDEX, FOLLOW tag to every child page in order to make sure Google do not index any of my child pages and always prioritize the main URL. What are you thoughts about it?"}
{"_id": "60906", "title": "When does Google show images in search results", "text": "When making a search on Google for something rather generic, Google might show image results above the list of organic search results websites, or in a top position. There would also be a link like \"More images for [search terms]. Are there any generally accepted rules regarding when Google shows images? What kind of searches does Google consider relevant for image results?"}
{"_id": "50672", "title": "Is it beneficial to use more than one website analytics application for a single website?", "text": "For example, mixing: Woopra, Google Analytics, and Clicky. They all offer free services, and this way I could have more information. Are there any problems with this (e.g., slowing down the website, conflicts between the tools, etc...)?"}
{"_id": "26568", "title": "Personal Web Page", "text": "I recently got a domain and am considering hosting a personal web page. I did some research and narrowed my options down to either `Google AppEngine` or `GitHub` pages to host my website. The website is just a simple personal data website with `About`, `Contact`, `Interests`, etc. Don't really have any plans for dynamic content but who knows... Anyways, recently I have seems a lot of one/two page websites that follow a similar template / design (particularly in mobile software and geeky personal pages, a rather simple example). I was wondering if there is a trend that I am not aware of. I assume there must be some popular frameworks that are being used or is it all just HTML5/CSS templates ? Also, in terms of web page design, the selected answer on this question: Beginning a Personal Web Site recommended a CMS. In contrast, this question Recommendations for a good personal/resume website recommends going for boilerplate HTML5 templates. Although I'm leaning towards HTML5 for their simplicity (and ease of use with the two hosting options mentioned above), I was wondering how each option compares in development time because I would imaging executing a CMS site would be as easy as writing blogs. Any suggestions would help ?"}
{"_id": "15006", "title": "baffling comment spam", "text": "I've been seeing some odd comment spam on one of my sites. Odd because there are no links posted. Just, \"Wow, that's a really celevr way of thinking about it!\" or similar. Note the typo. The messages change but they almost always seem to have a typo. I'm wondering if that may be on purpose, perhaps as a way of tracking successful comments or some such (like subtly and uniquely altering several copies of a classified document to pinpoint who a leaker was). I've noticed that often one of the fields will be left empty, inluding the comment body. This suggests to me that this is a bot that's testing for honeypot fields. Anyway, the baffling thing about these is that there are never any links posted. I can't figure out what the point of this would be. Any ideas?"}
{"_id": "27377", "title": "Prepare website for heavy traffic", "text": "A site of mine is going to be featured on a very popular tech blog. I already upgraded my server to handle the traffic. What other things should I be prepared for?"}
{"_id": "26561", "title": "What can cause a connection reset when site is visited with Firefox?", "text": "I have a site on Godaddy and in the last few days whenever I visit a page on the site with Firefox I get a connection reset error first and I have to reload the page manually to load it. I haven't changed anything on the site recently and the problem occurs only with Firefox, not with Opera/IE/Chrome. Apparently, my visitors also experience this, because I have a huge drop in visits on the site. Is it a Godaddy problem? Something they did? But then why no other browser is affected, only Firefox? Or can it be an issue with the newest version of Firefox, so it's not Godaddy's fault? Anyone else experience such errors with Godaddy and/or Firefox?"}
{"_id": "47159", "title": "Wordpress Category/Tag Pages As Indexed Actually Help In Traffic?", "text": "I several days ago somewhere read that category and tag pages should be noindexed. But later on somewhere else, I read that, they only increase rank for search term, but overall traffic decreases- said one from his experience. So, if I just concern about traffic, not about individual search term that much, should I make those category and tag pages as indexed to google? I am confused which is the best to do. Thanks in advance. Regards Rana"}
{"_id": "65067", "title": "Dynamic news showcase on homepage and impact on SEO and indexing", "text": "I want to highlight the latest news of the week or month on the homepage of my website. On another page of my site, I have a complete and comprehensive list of the news that would duplicate what is on the homepage. So the news on homepage would be variable. In fact, I would have to remove each item after one month. Even if I have the same news URL links in another page, removing the URL links from homepage would affect heavily for Google indexing? Is there a possibility that I could lose position in the SERPs? This would practically make my site into a daily newspaper site!"}
{"_id": "24709", "title": "How can I get stats for what 3rd-party sites have embedded our iframe widget?", "text": "Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so: The client would like to be able to see within GA who has embedded the thing. Is there some referer information automatically passed that I can look for, or do I need to add something? `whatever.php` is already loading the analytics Javascript(we're also tracking clicks on an outbound link). **[EDIT]** Looking around a bit more, I found what seems to be a similar question on SO with an answer saying this can be found, automatically, but I still can't seem to find the information. The question's also old enough the respondent is probably referring to the old interface, though. Maybe someone could explain getting to it in the new look. (I won't likely be able to train this client to switch, deal with the old look, etc.)"}
{"_id": "24704", "title": "Confirm that someone has Google +1 'd a link", "text": "I'm considering a campaign for my existing customers that would offer them a discount on products when they +1 our site. Is there a way to prove that someone has +1'd our site?"}
{"_id": "59302", "title": "Sitemap.xml / Update Frequency + Priority 0", "text": "I'm working on building sitemaps and am not sure what should and should not be added. For example: `https://www.website.com ` `https://www.website.com/en/ ` `http://www.website.com/index.php ` `http://www.website.com/en/index.php` All of these URLs lead to the same page. _https://www.website.com/ is the preferred address._ **Should I write all of these variations in the sitemap and assign the nonpreferred ones an update frequency of never, priority 0. Or simply not include them in the sitemap at all?** Nearly every link on the site could be reached with a similar combination. Similarly, I have many links that contain parameters https://www.website.com/en/catalog?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=CTA&utm_campaign=Test **Should these be in the sitemap with the same update frequency never, priority 0 or simply not included?** The documentation I've read, says that the sitemap is used to teach the search engine about your site and give priority to pages, so it makes sense to me that I would want to add all of these links so I can explicitly educate the search engine NOT to bother checking these links. ## Additionally The site contains a catalog of products which can be filtered through in multiple ways (by color, and size for example). Each filter changes the url like such: `The main catalog: ` https://www.website.com/catalog/ `filtered for blue: ` https://www.website.com/catalog/color-blue/ `filtered for large: ` https://www.website.com/catalog/large/ `filtered for blue & large:` https://www.website.com/catalog/large/color-blue/ With three types of filters and 5 to 15 options for each filter, this potentially creates 75 different links which essentially display the same content. Should all of these potential links be listed in the sitemap, only the main catalog link, or only the first level of filter links, or every potential URL?"}
{"_id": "24702", "title": "Service for accepting short video clips as part of official documents?", "text": "I am looking for a service that can accept short video clips flexibly and convert to an archival format. So the process would be: * Person in the field uploads a video by: 1. Smartphone upload 2. Upload from camera via laptop 3. Upload from browser via Flash * Service normalizes the video to some standard format (AVI? with standard quality) * Service generates a thumbnail and embeds in a larger report * Thumbnail is clickable to get the larger video These are private, assessment videos, so they need to be confidential. Most of the online services out there (YouTube, Vimeo, etc) do parts of these, but don't have a commercial or archival component. Ideally the service would have an API, but if it satisfies the bullet points above a \"self-serve\" YouTube quality would be great. I did searching and mostly I've found components limited by browser (ActiveX controls and such) or not allowed to be private. I'd prefer to buy a service rather than reinvent this wheel. Thanks in advance!"}
{"_id": "63104", "title": "Is there any way to simulate a slow connection between my server and an iPad (without installing anything on the server)?", "text": "Some of our webapp users have difficulty on slower connections. I\"m trying to get a better idea of what that \"speed barrier is\" so I'd like to be able to test a variety of connection speeds. I've found ways to do this on Windows but no on the iPad, so I'm looking more for some sort of proxy service that'll work with any device (not running ON that device) I did find an article about using the CharlesProxy and providing a connection to another device, but I was hoping for something simpler (need not be free) _Constraints_ * We are on a shared server so we can't install anything and we are limited in our control over that server. * I'd like to test an iPad, Android Tablet, Windows PC."}
{"_id": "65268", "title": "Using an external mail sending provider for my websites?", "text": "Let's say I have made 20-30 websites, that send emails such as contact form responses, welcome emails, forgotten password reminders, and similar transactional emails. What is the benefit of using a third party email service provider to send these emails? I don't quite understand it _exactly_ yet, or whether or not it suits my needs, but I require reliable email delivery and want to assure that all emails are delivered correctly, setup in the right format, get delivery response, and minimize emails ending up in a spam folder. Would an external email service provider be able to do this better than sending email directly from the server itself? And could I the third party email service on my local server while building/testing sites?"}
{"_id": "30383", "title": "Configuring osTicket to fetch mail from an email account", "text": "I'm trying to use osTicket to implement a ticketing system but I'm not able to fetch the mails from an email account even after configuring the host, port, user name and password."}
{"_id": "65264", "title": "Communication between Amazon EC2 & S3", "text": "So here is the use case: Our company has customer data files stored in S3. Their website is hosted with a third party hosting company (Lets call it Hosting X). They are planning to provide a new offering where the customer can select a cloud space he has account with like dropbox, skydrive etc.Then the company will transfer the customer data to that cloud space account using the cloud space's API calls. We have done cloud uploads in the past, but the data servers were ours, so we just had a bunch of scripts running in the data servers. The scripts would fetch the data files locally and upload them to the desired cloud space. In the current scenario I am thinking the following are two possible options: Option 1. Download data files from S3 to Hosting X. Then run script in Hosting X which will upload the local files to desired cloud space. Option 2. Host the upload script in EC2. When customer requests a data transfer, a script from Hosting X will hit the upload script in EC2. The upload script in EC2 will fetch the files from S3 and upload to the cloud space. I believe Option 1. will have a recurring cost associated since every data transfer from S3 to outside AMZ infrastructure costs money. In any case I am not sure if these solutions are possible. Can EC2 and S3 communicate so? Will EC2 need to download the data files from S3 or can it access them as if they are \"virtually local\"? Anyone has any experience with such a scenario? Any suggestions, tips are GREATLY appreciated!!"}
{"_id": "65265", "title": "Transfer domain fails due to Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)", "text": "So I'm trying to transfer the hosting for a domain from Biz.nf to Bluehost. The domain was originally registered with Biz.nf. The domain is unlocked, and so is ready to transfer. However, I need the EPP, and that is where the problem comes in. For whatever reason, the current domain registrar is Wild West Domains (GoDaddy), despite the fact that I have never dealt with them. How exactly did this happen, and what can I do to get the EPP."}
{"_id": "8296", "title": "Menu icons in Drupal?", "text": "How do I get menu icons in drupal? I have the menu icons module....but are there menu icon themes or packs or something? I am using the deco theme, and want menu icons like thus:  What is the easiest way to do this?"}
{"_id": "65263", "title": "Thousands of backlinks from Meetup.com", "text": "I have been wondering something for a while now. We have a manual penalty from Google on unnatural linking. When I check out \"Links to your site\" in Webmaster Tools we have 11,387 links from Meetup.com. Is this harming us? After clicking through some of the links randomly I have discovered it is from one of our dealers that sells our products. He is sponsoring different groups and so the ad appears, the problem is he is linking back to our site and not his own. The anchor text is all the same it never changes."}
{"_id": "49142", "title": "Attaching an Google AdWords conversion to a campaign", "text": "In Google AdWords, I've created a conversion and put the script onto my webpage but now I don't know how to connect this conversion to a campaign, so that it shows up on the table for the campaign data. How do I do that?"}
{"_id": "27727", "title": "How can I set the default page for an https request?", "text": "We have a website which has a Virtual Directory containing the secure portion of the website. If users come to `http://www.mydomain.com`, they should get directed to `default.aspx` of the main site, but if they go to `https://www.mydomain.com`, they should go to `default.aspx` of the virtual directory. The default page for the main site works fine, as does the secure page if I navigate to it using the full name, however I can't figure out how to set the default page for https traffic that doesn't specify a specific page. 1. `http://www.mydomain.com` - Works 2. `https://www.mydomain.com` - Page Not Found 3. `https://www.mydomain.com/myvirtualdirectory` - Page Not Found 4. `https://www.mydomain.com/myvirtualdirectory/default.aspx` - Works What do I need to do to make links 2 and 3 load the default page show in 4? My website is running on IIS 6.0 in Windows Server 2003"}
{"_id": "22012", "title": "Rel = translation", "text": "I can't find much online about rel=\"translation\" We have tutorials and manual entries which we are going to get users to translate. If the original page in English is: http://www.scirra.com/tutorial/start And there are two translations: http://www.scirra.com/tutorial/es/start (spanish) http://www.scirra.com/tutorial/de/start (german) How would I correctly link all these up? I'm aware at the top of the page I would need to specify the correct IS639-1 code: But I'm more interested in letting Google know they are not duplicates but are translated."}
{"_id": "22016", "title": "Strange issue with Wordpress sites, is it PHP Memory?", "text": "This has happened to me twice with the same host and I want to know the real cause. I have multiple wordpress sites hosted on a shared server. One day when I attempt to visit any of the sites, the webpage simply downloads the index.php file. It happens on all wordpress sites but not on static sites hosted there. I understand this is a php issue on the server, but what could be happening specifically? the only thing I could find when searching is something to do with memory limits. Is this common? Should I be worried about this host?"}
{"_id": "27898", "title": "Abnormal Alexa score: the more popular site has a worse rank", "text": "I have 2 websites of ecommerce in France and for these websites I have a strange behaviour of the alexa results. Here are some statistics about the websites : **Unique Visits January 2012** * Website A : 158,828 * Website B : 58,867 **Number of Search Results google** * Website A : 5,100 * Website B : 56,000 **Links to my site** * Website A : 3,120 * Website B : 2,180 **ALEXA Score** * Website A : 405,804 * Website B : 278,944 How does it come that website B with 1/3 of the visitors of website A have a much better Alexa Score ( x2 ) then website A?"}
{"_id": "43975", "title": "Google Authorship not displaying", "text": "A few months back I set to the task of verifying my blog content for Google Authorship. I'm fairly confident I've ticked all the boxes and when I test my posts with the Google Structured Data tool it informs me that Authorship is working for this webpage. It has been like this for around 2 months but I am still not seeing my authorship profile in the search results. Do a search for \" **jQuery Parallax Scrolling Tutorial** \" and you will see my blog post near the top of the results but no authorship data. _**Can anyone suggest why this is not appearing when Google itself tells me that everything is in order?_** Thanks"}
{"_id": "53954", "title": "Why has my authorship image been removed from Google SERPs", "text": "I recently added the relevant tags to my site and validated my email for Google Authorship. After around a week my image started showing up with results. Today the image is no longer present and I haven't changed anything. The Structured Data Testing Tool results show that it should all be working. Have I missed something or does anyone know why it would stop displaying? Other questions ask about situations where the image has never appeared. My image has appeared but has since stopped appearing so is a different situation."}
{"_id": "55972", "title": "Google Authorship - mugshot not showing", "text": "I've set up Google+ authorship for my photography blog, and used the Google Structured Data Testing Tool to verify the following: * Authorship is working * Authorship email verification is working * rel=author markup has successfully established authorship for this webpage. * Publisher markup is verified for this page Unfortunately my authorship information is not showing in Google search results. Could it be that the latter on my list above (Publisher markup verification, which is set to use my _business_ page as opposed to my personal page) could be causing some form of interference? It's my understanding that blog posts may only be linked to a Google+ personal profile, not a business page, but that you can set up Publisher markup for a business page."}
{"_id": "44002", "title": "Microformatting accepted, then ignored", "text": "I have implemented microformatting in one of our websites for our address, breadcrumbs and reviews that we collect from our customers. After we launched the new website using the microformatting Google accepted all and produced perfect formatted rich snippets. After about a month all got ignored and queries returned 'normal' snippets again. The Rich Snippet Testing tools indicates all is marked up correctly. Is there anything else I can do? What is the best practice in this matter?"}
{"_id": "2308", "title": "What is \"?sfgdataq\" that I see appended to some requests to my application?", "text": "I have noticed that a small number of requests come through my application with ?sfgdataq appended to them, I probably wouldn't have ever noticed it if it didn't cause an error on some requests. I have seen requests come through with a mix of user agents, (Firefox, IE 7, IE 8) so I don't think it is a bot. I looked around and I can't find any information on what is doing this, I found a couple people with similar questions on message boards (so I don't think it is isolated to my application) but no good answers. edit: I also noticed that the User Agents have some sort of large random value appended: +sfgRmluamFuX1R5cGU9amF2YV9zY3JpcHQmRmluamFuX0xhbmc9dGV4dC9qY is a sample - searching for that on google turns it up in other logs as well."}
{"_id": "49063", "title": "Putting duplicate phrases in the headings of pages", "text": "If I have a local business that repairs only HP computers for example, and I write lots of good informative pages about all the different things that can be repaired on HP computers such as motherboards, screens and keyboards, should I make the `h1` headings of my pages: * Motherboard repair for HP computers * Screen repair for HP computers * Keyboard repair for HP computers or * Motherboard repair * Screen repair * Keyboard repair ? What different does it make to search engines? If the first option is a bad idea, how should I make sure to communicate to search engines that my business specializes in HP computers?"}
{"_id": "13619", "title": "What to set for AllowOverride & Options", "text": "What is normally used as settings for both production or development servers for settings `AllowOverride` & `Options`? I will be needing to use .htaccess for WordPress so things like mod_rewrite etc"}
{"_id": "43464", "title": "DMCA service on Bing search engine", "text": "Does Bing offer a similar service to the one Google search engine offers below? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?hl=en Thanks."}
{"_id": "43465", "title": "More preview lines in Google search results", "text": "Is there a way to come to enjoy more than 2 lines of results query preview per item on a google results page?"}
{"_id": "4725", "title": "Merge two existing forms together, Add PHPBB2.x posts in to an existing SMF1.1x", "text": "I have two community website each running their own forms and I would like to merge the content of both forum in to one forum. Specifically from (PHPBB 2.x) in to a SMF (1.1). Both forums have been running for years now and have built up 100k of posts each. I found a converter that converts PHPbb 2.x to SMF here http://download.simplemachines.org/?converters;software=phpbb But when I install and run this script I get the following warring _All or some of the data in your installation of SMF will be overwritten._ So what I am really looking for is a forum merge not a convert. Suggestions on how to do merge two forums databases together in to a single database.?"}
{"_id": "13615", "title": "Whole site caching on MediaTemple's ProCDN - cname setup", "text": "Am unable to properly configure ProCDN to point to my website's root. I have a completely static website: http://thaifood-recipes.com no PHP, MySQL, etc. Just static HTML, images, CSS, etc. I have followed the Getting Started with ProCDN guide at MT, but instead of offloading some content from a subdomain, like cdn.thaifood-recipes.com, I am wanting the whole site to just be served, as its all static, cacheable content. MT Support dragging the heels getting back to me with a direct answer. Any ideas or alternative CDNs to do the same thing if ProCDN won't allow? Cheers, Leon Stafford leonstafford.com"}
{"_id": "43077", "title": "How can I change the location of my ip address to specific citiies/places when browsing?", "text": "I am based in Europe and I would like to test my website as if I am located in New York. I have some specific features that will be visible based on cities."}
{"_id": "43469", "title": "which favicon gets loaded in the browser?", "text": "currently i am experimenting with 2 favicons and including them in 3 different ways in my markup, however i am not sure which one gets loaded in the browser. firebug's network tab doesn't tell me which one it downloaded. where favicon.png is 144x144px and favicon.ico is 16x16px. idealy i want all browsers to use the png instead of ico whenever they support it, and just fallback to ico for ie. i am not sure how to verify if the code is already doing this or not."}
{"_id": "4721", "title": "What tools to use for efficient link building?", "text": "As most SEO experts keep saying, it is not just the content that you have - but also a hefty amount of _quality_ incoming links to your content that is important - these are the two ways to get to the top of the search results. The question is where do I find the incoming links? One way I know is Google blog search, it can be used to find blogs with related information to your content and some allow to leave comments. The comments usually consist of your name, e-mail and website. If you put your keyword instead of your name, then the keyword turns into a link to your website. Unfortunately most blogs put the `rel=nofollow` attribute on such links, but some blogs don't do that. What other ways are there to **find quality pages to put keywords links** back to your website? Quality link usually means: * located on a page with relevant content * does not have a `rel=nofollow` attribute in the `` tag * has a relevant keyword as in `keyword<` * the page with the link has high PageRank (3+) and TrustRank"}
{"_id": "4720", "title": "Suggestions for Document Archive Site", "text": "I have been charged with documenting our organizations paper assets that roll back to the early 1600's and was wondering if there was a online platform already existing for this type of website. It would mainly consist of scanned versions of the documents, it's transcript (as some of the writing used - it my as well be written in double dutch!) and some method of tagging each document to a particular title. My initial thoughts were along the lines of a Joomla system, with relevant tagging and other plugins installed? Thanks!"}
{"_id": "4723", "title": "What are natural growth rates for incoming and outgoing links?", "text": "Appears to be no more than 10-15% per month, is that correct? Also, along the same lines, what the max amount of outbound link a site can start out with and not be canned as spam."}
{"_id": "13613", "title": "Twitter Tweet or TwitterMeme button?", "text": "The Twitter Tweet button and the Tweetmeme Retweet button seem to pretty much do the exact same thing. Which should I use and why? -- It seems that Tweetmeme is now recommending the Twitter Tweet button. But I still see lots and lots of Tweetmeme buttons around the 'net."}
{"_id": "16065", "title": "Free Blog site that allows PHP?", "text": "I was wondering if anyone knows of a free blog site (ie wordpress, blogspot, livejournal) that allows people to include php into their posts? Any leads would be greatly appreciate. cheers!"}
{"_id": "57023", "title": "Suitable ad service / Ad-revenue model for my one-time use high traffic website?", "text": "I'm about to launch a website to which I expect a high number of visitors and lots of traffic. However, this traffic will only last for a few days once the joke has been passed around enough (in the past, my sites like this have gotten up to five million hits). I've never advertised on them (they've been purely for fun or for some subliminal political message) but I was thinking perhaps there was money to be made. I checked out AdSense, but they have a long approval process, which the timing for my website release doesn't allow. Does anyone have any recommendations of an advertising service I can employ to make a few bucks on my site's surge of traffic, and that can be set up quickly?"}
{"_id": "47921", "title": "Alternative to Google Adsense", "text": "I have a web dev blog which averages ~100 uniques per day, on which I have a few ads here and there via Google Adsense. These ads generate around \u00a35 per month for me. While I'm not out to make money, it would be nice to be able to cover my hosting and domain costs. Can someone recommend a good alternative to Google Ads which could bring in a little more? If so, could you also detail your experience with as much info as possible, please? Again, I'm not looking to make money off my blog but if I have ads on there, I may as well get the most out of them and if I can turn that \u00a35 a month into \u00a310 a month, it's a good start. I'm very naive to the world of online ads and any search on the topic returns clearly promoted posts with impossibly high numbers."}
{"_id": "5844", "title": "My readers don't have Digg or StumbleUpon, how can I ask them for help raising my SERP?", "text": "I have a coupons-code web _page_ that receives 40,000 unique visitors a month, but its numbers are stagnant or dropping because it is #3 in Google's SERP. 75% of its visits are new and the page has been around since 2007. I sincerely think my resource is helping people and I sincerely think I am loads better than #1 and #2 because I have the freshest coupons and I have no ads -- so I am at my wit's end on how to raise my SERP. The rest of the sites in #4, #5, etc., are huge coupon broker sites so I really have no chance pursuing link exchanges. Meanwhile, the site in #1 and #2 is also a small guy who also have been around since 2007. None of them update their coupons page near as often as I do. (The #1 guy updates once a month. :( ) My readers do not use Digg, StumbleUpon or Twitter, or have blogs of their own. I tried Facebook's Like button and tweet reader comments via bit.ly but got no SERP improvement. How can a site ask readers help to raise its SERP? Or any suggestions?"}
{"_id": "5843", "title": "Why don't my Google Analytics custom segmentation visit numbers match up?", "text": "I have three main areas of my site and want to track total usage as well as breakdowns of the three parts. I am trying to segment the \"type\" of use on each page using a custom variable as such: ['_setCustomVar',1,'Visitor Type','Unknown',1] Visitor type can be one of three values: \"Unknown\", \"Reader\" or \"publisher\". Every page has this value set. Now when I look at my analytics chart and chose all three segments, the individual values do not match the sum. I've double checked the pages to make sure the custom var is there. "}
{"_id": "16062", "title": "What does \"Other\" mean for Traffic Source on Google Analytics?", "text": "I logged into Google Analytics today and under 'Traffic Sources' saw: \"Referring sites\", \"Direct Traffic\", \"Search Engines\" and \"Other\". I've never seen 'other' before, and it was small (only 0.5%), but what does \"Other\" mean?"}
{"_id": "11281", "title": "Display Google Custom Search results on your own site", "text": "Is there a way for Google's Custom Search engine to show it's results on a page on your website? On a custom page which you put on your server, so you can still display ads and links to pages in your site together with the search results?"}
{"_id": "2335", "title": "What is your favourite javascript lightbox implementation?", "text": "There are so many implementations of the lightbox, which is your favourite to use for your custom site? (javascript based) I generally use Lightbox2"}
{"_id": "19708", "title": "Which method is the best to specify the language of a page?", "text": "There seems to be two ways to specify the language of a page: and Which one is the preferred way? I know I could just add both tags but I'd rather not have duplicate content. Also do both methods use the same locale format (i.e. \"en-us\" and not \"en_US\")?"}
{"_id": "5849", "title": "Google Traffic Does Not Add Up", "text": "I have just done a search for two different keyword phrases. When I look at both of the results, they have the same number of \"Local Monthly Searches\" according to the Keyword Tool in Google Adwords which is 90,500. This is an \"exact\" match for the keyword phrases. I currently and have ranked in the #3 spot for both of these keyword phrases for almost a year now. TRAFFIC RESULTS - One site gets 2500 visitors a day and the other gets 100 visitors a day. WTF? Why such a disparity in the number of visitors per day when both sites are ranking #3? It doesn't make me trust the numbers from the Keyword Tool in Google Adwords when they are so ridiculously off like this."}
{"_id": "5848", "title": "How to create an overlay div using CSS only (no Javascript)?", "text": "I'm trying to figure out how to create a div that overlays the page, staying in one place when the page scrolls, such as used in this article: Top 5 Botched PC Game Launches. (You will see a bar at the top that doesn't move, with the logo, _where gamers call home_ ). I'm not even sure what the correct terminology is - it's probably not overlay :) But whatever it is, it appears to be done with CSS only, as it shows up when Javascript is disabled."}
{"_id": "17620", "title": "How do you track a website using multiple Google Analytics accounts?", "text": "Suppose you have two distinct Google Analytic accounts. How are you able to send request data to both accounts on a single page load? For example, on a normal account you'd include code such as: var _gaq = _gaq || [\"UA-12345678-1\"]; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Could I simply include another snippet with a different UA ID? Can I pass several UA IDs in one request? Is this even possible to accomplish? Any help would be greatly appreciated!"}
{"_id": "56826", "title": "Do I set a DNS A Record for the new GitHub Pages to use their CDN?", "text": "GitHub updated their Pages service for custom domains yesterday and I'm not clear on one small detail. They recommend a CNAME record for `www.example.com` but do not recommend using A records for the apex domain. I want to make sure both `example.com` and `www.example.com` resolve correctly to `www.example.com`, and **also get the benefit of GitHub's new CDN**. Do I use a CNAME for www only then, with no A record at all? This feels like a dumb question as I type but I'm just not getting it."}
{"_id": "17622", "title": "How do I get a page on my site to appear in the \"video results\" section", "text": "Direct Lyrics appears at the top of these search results as a \"video result\" (next to an inviting thumbnail). But the page in question is just a page of lyrics with an embedded YouTube video. My lyrics site has embedded YouTube videos on its lyrics pages as well; how can I get my site into the video results section? "}
{"_id": "4803", "title": "The Sitemap Paradox", "text": "We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it. > Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from > other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support > Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using > the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that > web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web > crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. Based on our two years' experience with sitemaps, there's something **fundamentally paradoxical about the sitemap** : 1. Sitemaps are intended for sites that are hard to crawl properly. 2. If Google can't successfully crawl your site to find a link, but is able to find it in the sitemap _it gives the sitemap link no weight and will not index it!_ That's the sitemap paradox -- **if your site isn't being properly crawled (for whatever reason), using a sitemap will not help you!** Google goes out of their way to make no sitemap guarantees: > \"We cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs > will be crawled or added to our index\" citation > > \"We don't guarantee that we'll crawl or index all of your URLs. For example, > we won't crawl or index image URLs contained in your Sitemap.\" citation > > \"submitting a Sitemap doesn't guarantee that all pages of your site will be > crawled or included in our search results\" citation Given that links found in sitemaps are merely _recommendations_ , whereas links found on your own website proper are considered canonical ... it seems the only logical thing to do is _avoid_ having a sitemap and make damn sure that Google and any other search engine can properly spider your site using the plain old standard web pages everyone else sees. By the time you have done _that_ , and are getting spidered nice and thoroughly so Google can see that your _own site_ links to these pages, and would be willing to crawl the links -- uh, why do we need a sitemap, again? The sitemap can be actively harmful, because it distracts you from ensuring that search engine spiders are able to successfully crawl your whole site. \"Oh, it doesn't matter if the crawler can see it, we'll just slap those links in the sitemap!\" Reality is quite the opposite in our experience. That seems more than a little ironic considering sitemaps were _intended_ for sites that have a very deep collection of links or complex UI that may be hard to spider. In our experience, the sitemap does not help, because **if Google can't find the link on your site proper, it won't index it from the sitemap anyway.** We've seen this proven time and time again with Stack Overflow questions. Am I wrong? Do sitemaps make sense, and we're somehow just using them incorrectly?"}
{"_id": "56778", "title": "Do I need to produce an xml sitemap for a social network?", "text": "I'm working on a social network that currently does not have an xml sitemap that has been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools. Will this add much benefit given that it is a social network with often updated content? If so will I have to update it daily (or use a tool to do so)? Thanks"}
{"_id": "49549", "title": "Do you really need robots.txt and sitemap.xml if I want bot to follow every link?", "text": "I wonder if I really need _robots.txt_ /*sitemap.xml* files if I want bots to go through every link on my website without any restrictions? And if I do, what should I write in there?"}
{"_id": "58636", "title": "How to make Google index all sitemap.xml records?", "text": "I have a _sitemap.xml_ index fine with 3 XML files in it with around 120 pages for indexing. A year passed and I still have 1/3 of it indexed. All the most important pages for indexing are in 1st sitemap file, however Google takes a similar amount from each of the sitemap files instead... How to make Google index all _sitemap.xml_ records? I have crawl rate set to MAX in GWT."}
{"_id": "52052", "title": "How to aggregate events across multiple sites in Google Analytics?", "text": "I have several sites that I'm tracking on my Google Analytics account. These sites all have the same events and event actions. I'd like to generate a report for the same event action across all of my sites. Can this be done right from the GA interface, and if so, how?"}
{"_id": "3749", "title": "Is there a googlebot equivalent for RSS feeds?", "text": "I have a lot of feeds generated on my pages - and it seems to let them go to waste (Googlebot does not seem to see them). The RSS feeds display correctly in the pages when viewed through a browser, so I know they are working correctly. Is there a way where I can somehow make the RSS feeds 'discoverable' by the world? (so I can drive traffic to my site?)"}
{"_id": "3746", "title": "How to charge for banner ads in a web application", "text": "I'm developing a web application which contains banner ads, and I don't know how to teach my clients how much to charge their customers for banner ads. Can someone help with a book or business strategy?"}
{"_id": "17628", "title": "What % of a page needs to be unique in order to prevent duplicate content penalties?", "text": "I have a site with uses a some content generated by myself, some from users, and some from a source such as wikipedia. The wikipedia sourced content is unmodified but makes up no more than 30% of the page and is never the entire wiki article, just an extract of a few paragraphs. How much new content do I have to add to the wikipedia source to avoid being marked as duplicate content and penalised in my SEO?"}
{"_id": "57966", "title": "Error while importing .sql file in phpMyAdmin", "text": "Getting error while importing `.sql` file in phpMyAdmin please help. Error SQL query: CREATE TABLE `sbbleads_admin` ( `sb_id` BIGINT( 20 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT , `sb_admin_name` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL , `sb_pwd` VARCHAR( 255 ) DEFAULT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `sb_id` ) ) TYPE = MYISAM ; > MySQL said: Documentation > > 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that > corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near > 'TYPE=MyISAM' at line 6"}
{"_id": "3742", "title": "Confirm (enter twice) pw and email at registration - good idea?", "text": "Many sites seem to require that their users enter their email and password twice during the registration process. How useful is it really? It seems it could be a pain in the neck for many users, for limited gains, no? Thanks, JDelage"}
{"_id": "62959", "title": "Google Analytics: View for Affiliates: How to include only one brand in E-commerce module?", "text": "I am trying to create a view for a partner that is selling their products on our site. I assumed that filtering their brand name with **_E-commerce Item Name_** would result in the same report as filtering their brand name by **_Product_** in **_E-commerce_** > **_Product Performance_** report, but it didn't. How should I approach creating a view, which would include only e-commerce data related to their products?"}
{"_id": "3741", "title": "Looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?", "text": "Been having issues with stackexchange creating weird usernames for me and grouping them with my account, it appears to be a known issue, and emailed the stackexchange team... which leads me to my questions, I'm looking for usability studies of user authentication methods and interfaces, do you know of any?"}
{"_id": "18321", "title": "rel=\"nofollow\" in img tags?", "text": "Does it make sense to have a `rel=\"nofollow\"` attribute in `img` tag? Do search engines' crawlers use this attribute in some way for calculating PageRank score? What is the practical sense for using it (if any)?"}
{"_id": "4622", "title": "Nameservers at freehostingcloud", "text": "How can I change the nameservers at freehostingcloud? I got a message: You need to change the nameservers for your domain exampledomain.net. The nameservers should be ns1.freehostingcloud.com and ns2.freehostingcloud.com."}
{"_id": "4624", "title": "Is Google Sitesearch better than internal search?", "text": "In terms of SEO is there any benefit about using Google SiteSearch over internal search (eg. Wordpress' own search engine)?"}
{"_id": "4627", "title": "How to stop Google indexing both www. and no-www versions of my website", "text": "When I do a search of my site in Google it shows both: * `mydomain.com` * `www.mydomain.com` In my .htaccess file I added code to redirect the non-www version to the www version, but both versions are still showing in Google's search results. _**Is there anyway to have Google only show the www version?_**"}
{"_id": "11019", "title": "Adding custom handlers", "text": "I have a number of D language programs (.d extension) and a compile-and-run tool (rdmd)--I'd like to configure Apache (version 2.2) to handle URLs such as \"mysite.com/d/hello.d\" by running rdmd with the requested resource. The programs do output valid HTTP headers. I've researched AddHandler and Action, but have been unsuccessful in getting them to do what I want, namely executing rdmd with the resource. I suspect that the problem is that rdmd needs to be in some special cgi directory. Can someone walk through the steps necessary to configure Apache on a Debian based system, such that it executes my files instead of offering them up for download? Directory specific ('/d') or site-wide execution are both fine."}
{"_id": "39647", "title": "Redesigning a page while not using old images but also not losing rank", "text": "I have redesigned one of the pages of a website I'm current working on, and some of the images on this website, 2 to be exact, rank on the very first page of public google search results. Those pictures are okay, but have a nasty looking background, look a bit blurried. I removed the background, did a bit of work on them and they are better now. All of the other pictures are also indexed by google but don't rank so well. I have found that **certain file naming techniques worked better for ranking** than the ones previously used for all those images for example, so since that page was redesigned, I have a couple of alternatives: > 1 - Leave the old files on the server, and don't use them. Name the new ones > the correct way and hope they rank better. (Old pictures would probably not > be listed on newer sitemaps, since are not linked to, which may cause rank > loss?!) > > 2 - Name the new files the exact same name as the old ones, discarding the > old files (They would be the same image in most cases, but cleaned up). > > 3 - Name the new files with new names, 301 redirect old files to new ones. **What's the best alternative to achieve best results?**"}
{"_id": "11755", "title": "The best approach to ranking well when site is NOT content oriented?", "text": "I'm just about to launch a website and I'm concerned about ranking well on Google's SERPs. I've done a lot of searching for information regarding this new change to their algorithm and all I keep turning up is basically \"write good content to rank well\". The way I understand it Google is now ranking sites with _useful and unique content_ better than other types of sites and my question is this: what about business related sites that are not content based and whose content will rarely change over time? The site I'm about to launch is concerned only with offering a video creation service, it's purpose to provide an online portal to customers so that they can order a video from our company. We're not in the business of writing content and the content on our site will be updated only in line with how our business model changes. In short, the site is NOT there to entertain people - it's there to serve a practical, business related purpose. My question is twofold: First of all, are we doomed to suffer poor rankings because we refuse to change our site into something that google thinks is _better than_ or _more useful than_ other sites? And secondly, if not then what might be the best approach to ranking well with such a site?"}
{"_id": "11754", "title": "Site on 2 hosts", "text": "is there a way yo add 2 hosts per domain so if i host dies it automatically switches to the other one? or if its slow you can easily switch to the second host? Thanks!"}
{"_id": "11752", "title": "Why is video streaming so slow from my site?", "text": "I have some .flv files on my site and I've been using JWplayer to embed them into my webpages. The embedding looks like this: