A generic term for the text, images, video that make up the information on a web site.
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Why do websites have a contact form? isn't an email address enough?
What's reason behind having a contact form on a website, when a simple e-mail link is enough? Why do so many web sites have contact forms? Is it just a habit?
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Allowing customers to edit static website via WYSIWYG
I've set a few clients up with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Contribute to edit static html content. Add the comments to prevent them from causing too much damage and it works okay:
<!-- ...
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3answers
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Best Ways to Develop “Chicken and Egg Content” sites?
By 'chicken and egg content' I'm referring to user-contributed/crowdsourced content - sites like StackOverflow / StackExchange.
When SO launched, Jeff and Joel were essentially able to 'cheat' the ...
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2answers
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Are there any standards for marking the age suitability for website content?
As a responsible webmaster I want to mark some of my content as unsuitable for certain age groups, there's nothing illegal or pornographic but it does feature bad language and violence that might be ...
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Website content copied - How can I prove that I wrote it?
One of our competitors constantly copies all our website content.
Now, I assume the trouble is to proof that we wrote the content first and that it is not the other way round.
I checked on ...
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6answers
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Should I encourage clients to update content for SEO reasons?
Assume a website has quality content, let's say it's about a topic that does not change: a company whose services and staff stay the same, and they have no news to speak of. The content is accurate, ...
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398 views
Services to monitor if site is hacked and defaced?
Are there any services that will monitor a web site and report if it gets hacked and defaced? Which are reputable and recommended? How does the service notify you when your site is having problems?
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Content theft - Where can I go from here?
I am the webmaster of a very successful blog in a fairly small niche. Recently our success has started to bite us with people copying posts on the site without consent and trying to pass them off as ...
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What is the best way to get a huge amount of content to your website?
I have been working on 2 websites for a long time and the most challenging work is to create good content to them. I use to write the articles mysellf or sometimes hire an external service to do it ...
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2answers
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Does duplicate content on another site affect my ranking?
A competitors set up a new site and copy and pasted some copy from our home page.
When doing a comparison with a duplicate content tool the result was that the pages where 21% similiar.
Does the ...
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Directory structure for a website (js/css/img folders)
For years I've been using the following directory structure for my websites:
<root>
->js
->jquery.js
->tooltip.js
->someplugin.js
->css
->styles.css
...
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1answer
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How can I get my site's existing flash videos to work on the iPad?
My website has a number of instructional videos that would be very helpful to be viewable on an iPad.
The video player is SWF, and the video itself is FLV.
Questions:
Can I replace the flash ...
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1answer
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What are examples of services that track content-driven activity on social networks like Facebook and Twitter?
I'm trying to design the basics for a platform that enables users to access sets of statistics and information related to the way how their publications are handled and shared across social networks ...
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2answers
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Is it legal to host very, very detailed summaries of copyrighted material?
I have a website where people can discuss books of various topics, mostly technical and practical stuff. Lately I have noticed that some members are posting very, very detailed summaries/reviews of ...
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3answers
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Value of the HTML5 lang attribute
I'm working on a website which will offer localized content following the language+region approach as described on this W3.org page (e.g. fr-CA for Canadian French content, and fr-FR for "French ...
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4answers
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How can I inform search engines that the usefulness of some content on my site has a limited shelf life?
Let's say that I run a forum dedicated to computer hardware. Naturally, people are going to ask questions like:
What is the best laptop for running [os]
Or
What is the best video card for ...
6
votes
1answer
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Good tools to measure a page’s usefulness?
I'd like to add a "Was this page useful?" part at the end of multiple pages for visitors to rate the page and leave feedback.
I could program this myself, store the data and make the reports that my ...
6
votes
4answers
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text to code ratio and SEO
I've run sites that I've developed through various online SEO checkers over the years and some of them have checked me for my text to html ratio. I remember reading about this once or twice as well. ...
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1answer
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Meta descriptions for manual
We have a text heavy, high quality and original content online manual for our software:
http://www.scirra.com/manual/1/construct-2
I was about to embark on entering meta descriptions for these ...
5
votes
2answers
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Is there a Content Management System that allows multiple & independent blogs to be running on one domain?
I am a Wordpress fan, and I'm now building a new site and I'm not sure which CMS can achieve what I'm trying to do.
I am building a food blog network for a bunch of cities in the US, and I want to ...
5
votes
3answers
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Download as PDF - really worth implementing?
Many CMS systems (e.g. Joomla) offer the user an option to download the post content in PDF format.
Is this really worth implementing?
Are there any reliable stats showing how many users do use ...
5
votes
1answer
54 views
Dynamic Content Editor [closed]
I've asked this question around the net and still haven't found exactly what I'm looking for. Basically I have several sites that I run through a custom PHP framework. I'd like to add a way for users ...
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3answers
889 views
Meta tags again. Good or bad to use them as page content?
From a SEO point of view, is it wise to use exactly the same page title value and keyword/description meta tag values not only as meta information, but also as page content?
An example illustrates ...
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votes
2answers
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What is the most effective way to obtain SEO benefits from content while still protecting most of it behind a paywall?
I'd like for search engines to recognize the content that is hosted on my website, but I'd also like to protect most of it behind a paywall. Are there any proven strategies for doing this?
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votes
1answer
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Ideal word count per web page?
Are there any kind of standard word limit's based on SEO for web pages?
I've read around and I've seen advice saying that pages should aim to be no more than 500 words to maximise the SEO benefits. ...
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votes
2answers
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Embedding a Disqus forum on my website: showing scrollable area instead of expanding the height
I hope I put this question as it should, I am not an expert in html/css/javascript, so forgive me if it's not very clear.
The issue is as follows. I made my first website last week for the birth of ...
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3answers
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There must be a science to single-page product sales sites. What is it?
The sites I speak of are not landing pages, not really microsites in the sense that I've always had to deal with them. They are sites like the following:
Credit Contraction eBook
Homemade Strength ...
3
votes
3answers
120 views
Can a web site charge for inbound links
On our company web site, we have a page which lists all the magazine articles and web articles that talk about our products. It makes sense that magazine articles are shown in PDF format because they ...
3
votes
2answers
193 views
What SEO approach should I take to an empty category page?
My site is in its infancy and has a lot of empty categories as products are being added. What is the best approach SEO-wise for these practically empty category pages? Should I hide the links to them ...
3
votes
4answers
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What to think about for top navigation for an informational site
Our site is pretty old and the navigation is currently a large list of links on the left side of our page. (We use CSS similar to suckerfish to collapse it)
Our site is mainly informational, with ...
3
votes
1answer
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Appropriate response when client empowered with CMS destroys content to his own will
So, I just recently closed a website project that pretty much was The Oatmeals' Design Hell, but with content. The client loved the site at the beginning but started getting other people involved and ...
3
votes
4answers
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Improving FAQ SEO with multiple pages?
I have a client who has over 200 Question/Answer style content blocks. Neither the questions or answers are very long and most of them have almost the same question but with a word or two ...
3
votes
1answer
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SEO and reversed (key)words
I am frequently finding sites that use reversed words in domain names and content. Just an example: www.elgoog.com or something like "Sincerely yours elgoog".
Does these word have value in SEO and ...
3
votes
4answers
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Add valuable dynamic content to a mobile oriented (local) website, any suggestions?
HI to all,
I'm developing a mobile website containing some valuable dynamic content for people living in my city. I did find some useful informations that aren't available in a quick, light mobile ...
3
votes
1answer
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Is there a professional name for deciding which information should to be show in a website, it's not IA
It's not IA(information architecture). cos IA decide how to organize information, not to decide which information should be show in a website.
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votes
1answer
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Is the book “The Content Rules” still relevant in 2012? [closed]
"The Content Rules" was written by CC Chapman last year, and I was wondering if the book was still relivent in 2012, or if the ideas in it are dated. I started reading it in 2011, didn't finish it, ...
3
votes
1answer
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How can I ensure I'm protected by the “Safe Harbor” clause?
I run a site that allows users to provide their own content & have it publicly available. I've got a standard privacy policy but am wondering what measures I should take to ensure I'm covered by ...
3
votes
1answer
118 views
Is it illegal to use content in such a way?
I have a couple of questions about the legality of the content of some websites. I am currently working on two websites and I would like to make sure I am not breaking any laws, by using some content ...
3
votes
2answers
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SEO: Moving articles from one domain to another
Currently I have articles up on a website (site A) that is not mine (but I can remove the articles.) The article's aren't faring well (not only due to the recent Google changes) but because they ...
3
votes
1answer
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Do you need to have filed a Copyright to enforce the DMCA
I lead IS for my organization and the other day we found out a competitor stole all of the Copy Text from our corporate site and pasted it nearly verbatim to their own (the only changes were to ...
3
votes
1answer
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Effect of removing home page content
I have a business website that I'm working on and I'm replacing the text I initially had on the home page with new columnized paragraphs of text. The text I'm removing though has a h1 tag and probably ...
3
votes
4answers
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Personalized content (authenticated with a cookie) and impact on SEO
We have a big website with a lot of content, that is doing pretty well in terms of SEO. Google likes the site, visitors like it as well. Our problem is that there is a lot of content that would only ...
3
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2answers
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title, content copied and title, name used! trademark issue?
I have a video website, server and domain bought 3 months 1 week ago, website actually started 1 month 1 week ago. Domain name plain and simple, easy to remember, bought with a yearly fee, nothing ...
3
votes
3answers
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What steps should be taken to safeguard user-entered content on a CMS?
Assume you're building a bulletproof CMS for your company. Cost, time, and technology are no issue. You've got developers ready to go with the knowledge and experience to crank out outstanding code. ...
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votes
2answers
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How To Disallow Selection Of Text On Website?
I have a question about preventing the selection of content and right-clicking with your mouse on a website. Some websites that I have encountered display a dialog which prohibits right-clicking but ...
2
votes
3answers
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Why install a CMS for clients?
I am a beginner freelancer eagerly trying to get my first client but I am wondering is having a CMS for a website really that important? Before I thought about this question I thought that it goes ...
2
votes
3answers
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SEO: Monthly changing homepage, better to redirect or duplicate?
I have a website called What can I plant now which is a simple site with a page for each month of the year and a homepage which mirrors the content for the current month.
Example
...
2
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2answers
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SEO for websites with very less content and a lot of images
Let's say we have an image exhibition website that has got a lot of images but next to nothing content. The focus keyword for this website is "Artistic wallpapers".
What would be the best approach ...
2
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3answers
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I am looking for a script where users can create groups cms/social interaction site
I am trying to find a Content Mangement/social interaction script that requires a person to be a part of a group. Specifically:
My daughter is a cheerleader and there are a number of cheer groups she ...
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1answer
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Site Structure - practices
I just started working for a company and they're asking me for ways to improve the overall site design. One of the things that keeps standing out to me is their extremely odd internal file structure ...
