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Set secondary receiver in PayPal Chained Payment after the initial transaction
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 ...
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Percentage of users that get to business website by searching vs typing business url into address bar
My friend's company(lets call it SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney ) has been affected by a competitor's cybersquatting attack. SomeThingsAreWorthTheMoney is primarily an offline, real-world company that ...
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A record point not working
I'm trying to do an A record point to transfer the hosting of a domain from one provider to another. I don't want to change the nameservers as this will result in emails going down.
The output when ...
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Duplicate Content Problem due to plugin
Actually i am running website on wordpress where i have installed Transposh plugin on my site 'example'. Unfortunately, despite having English as the default language and therefore available at ...
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Automatic linkrot solutions? [closed]
Linkrot is a major problem on the Internet. When I construct a page, or write a blog post, I often use external links to provide information or support a point. Sadly, however, the linked pages often ...
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Accuracy Of Google Keyword Tool, Compared To Google Trends
Does anyone have any insight into how accurate Google Keywords Tool is? The reason why I ask is because I have found a keyword phrase using Google Keyword Tool that has 83,100,000 local monthly ...
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Finding the email/account associated with a Google Analytics “UA-XXXXXX-X” id?
I set up Google Analytics for a client some time ago, so the tracking code is installed. I can't for the life of me find which email account I used to set it up, so now I can't access the stats. We ...
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How to view Web Server Activity via a command line or terminal
Is there a way to monitor the activity of a web server via the command line.
I have seen in many movies webmasters watching a command line screen in which data is continuously moving up, seems to me ...
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Are images with non-standard extensions (such as “.ashx”, instead of “.png” or “.jpg”) bad for SEO?
Certain CMS' running on IIS like Sitecore do not give image files appropriate file formats like .png or .jpg by default, but instead link to images as:
<img src="/media/Some Folder/EX-IMG.ashx" ...
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Is using ads module in any content management system perilous?
Is using ads module in any content management system to deliver Adsense ads perilous? It states that delivering Adsense ads through advanced scripts is prohibited.
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Pagination for product listing, what to use? “canonical” or “rel-prev-next” or do nothing?
I want to make sure my product listing is 10 products per page which are not in a series (link).
They have explained how to use canonical or rel prev for pagination when a long page has been divided ...
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Impact of migrating home page from HTTP to HTTPS on search results
I've just had to change one of my site's home page to HTTPS from HTTP. I had plenty links coming into the HTTP page and was performing well in Google against many of my targeted search phrases.
I did ...
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Creating Google sitemap.xml , is it okay for the images to be wrapped in URL tags?
I'm using a tool to generate the sitemap.xml file for me, it started to crawl my website, got the pages and all images, but when exporting it, I review the XML (to make sure nothing is wrong) and I ...
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Unimportant words on page being seen as keywords, due to repetiveness
I have a list of products on my site, and each product has a number of descriptors such as features, price, etc. Next to each product, I list the 10 features, with a graphical icon which lets the user ...
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How do I change an existing custom domain with Blogger to a new custom domain
I have a Blogger site which has a custom domain which I want to move one old domain to new. Let's pretend this is old-domain.com and new-domain.com
I want to:
1. preserve my search engine ranking as ...
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Big traffic change for top URL [closed]
My site was stable doing fine for last 2 years, but just 2 weeks back it's traffic dropped all of sudden by 35-50%. After 4-5 days of this I received this message(below after --- line) from GWT.
For ...
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Extensive GET /wpad.dat HTTP/1.1 requests
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 ...
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Did anyone experience negative SERP movement after implementing rel=author?
I am not intrested in why I don't see the picture in SERPs.
So I know this is borderline off-limits but I turned every stone in the web (including DDgo) trying to find anybody experiencing a worse ...
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Make all subdomains point to root unless otherwise specified
I'd like all subdomains that aren't being used for anything else to go straight to my domain.
ns1.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.55
ns2.mydomain.com. A 198.123.44.66
*.mydomain.com. CNAME ...
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What wireframing tools can produce something that looks like a finished website?
I've long done this using photoshop, but lacking photoshop skills this takes me ages and is little more than a poor sketch. I'd like a program that has all the common interface elements, theme styling ...
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Best to archive a website for scholarly purposes?
A non-profit is going through a major website renovation. It's a large website, with about 3,000 pages. These was done using HTML, CSS, JPGs and lots of Adobe PDFs. This was designed long before ...
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SEO effect of redirecting to 404 page
In a dynamically generated site (PHP, Python, pick your poison), 404 pages are normally handled dynamically to simply send a 404 header and display some error page on the URL that the user visited.
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Highly SEO optimised forum posts
Given the following forum post:
Basics of how internals of Construct work
I've used GameMaker in the past. And I
know some C++ and have used a few 3d
engines with it. I have also looked ...
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ClickThrough on Google Webmaster Tool and Traffic Source in Google Analytics [closed]
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 ...
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RewriteRule not working for certain URLs
There are a few domains pointing towards the same server, and of course I need them all redirect to only one of them.
Redirects work, but only for certain URLs.
What works: http://www.domain.com, ...
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Multiple domains
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 ...
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Comparisons of Javascript 'data grids'?
I've found plenty of questions between here and StackExchange of people asking for the 'best' data grid / data table, or one that has a particular feature, and plenty of lists out there (of various ...
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Google cache has been updated but not the real search results; How come?
I updated a page title a couple of weeks ago, and just yesterday I saw the Google cache the updated title. However, in the search results, the old title is still displayed.
This confuses me as I ...
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How to integrate authorize.net CIM and ARB
I have created some customer profile id's and customer payment profile id's.
What i want is to use existing customer payment profile id for ARB so that users don't have to type their credit card ...
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Trying to Host Server for External Access - Apache, VirtualBox & Portforwarding
Banging my head on the wall at this stage.... trying to host my Apache site on Ubuntu 12.10 with VirtualBox. Running Windows 8 host.
Things I've done:
Ensured Apache is listening on ports 80, 443 ...
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Directing from a 1und1 hosting solution, with urls intact
I have done this before on GoDaddy without a hitch, but I cannot seem to figure out this particular case.
I have a domain space with temporary url http://yogainun.mysubname.com and am hosting the ...
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Ahrefs is checking my site for backlinks all the time
I have a Magento site and I realize that the ahrefs.com crawler visits my site all the time everyday. I visit ahrefs.com and I check my backlinks (they are good).
Is it good or bad, something like ...
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Tracking the content
How to track a particular event at regular time intervals?
For instance tracking the Linkedin companies, jobs related to specific technology (cloud computing, big data, etc.). How can we do that?
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How do I make an AJAX block crawlable?
I have a block with a few tabs. When the user clicks the tab the content of that block get loaded.
Now I would like to make it crawlable by the search engines and at the same time I want to maintain ...
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How do you exclude yourself from Google Analytics on your website using cookies?
I'm trying to set up an exclusion filter with a browser cookie, so that my own visits to my don't show up in my Google Analytics. I tried 3 different methods and none of them have worked so far. I ...
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Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop
I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum ...
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dynamically rewrite URLs upon the user's selection - is it possible?
In my PHP based web application, there's a form that generates a URL according to the user's selection.
The form has 7 different fields, each one of them affects the final URL, none of them is ...
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Apache virtual hosts - Resources on website not loaded when accessed from other hostname than localhost [closed]
Running virtual hosts on Mac OS X 10.6.8 running Apache 2.2.22.
/etc/hosts is as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost 3dweergave studio-12.fritz.box
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 ...
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SVG images grow and create scrollbars when on the server
Okay so I embedded some SVG images into my page and opened it locally on Chrome and it looked fine.
I upload the same file to the server and look at the page online and the SVG images have grown by ...
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Website images stop loading
I have a website at www.bdgregg.com.
The website was once hosted on a different server. I have moved the site to a new server. Everything remains the same as far as site content, images etc. However ...
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Where do I get the standard, tiny Facebook and Twitter icons?
I've seen a lot of sites with tiny 't' and 'f' logos for Facebook and Twitter. They're pretty common, but the only images I can find available are for paid icon sets.
Are people really using custom ...
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Assemble static site from templates? (don't want to reinvent the wheel)
I have a site that is 100% static content (no php, just some javascript). There's several "blocks" like the header, menu, footer, etc. that are the same on each page.
Rather than do a lot of ...
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Setting up a VM testing server [MySQL, HTML, & PHP webstore] Testing for SQL correctness?
Question: Is there a way to test for correctness once the SQL DB copy has been installed on the local machine so I can confidently move to step number 3? Is there any information on the web that would ...
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Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends
If I compare three phrases in google trends :
house
sale house
white house
I get the following numbers:
house -> 91
sale house -> 3
white house -> 2
The question is: Is "sale house" and ...
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Google local search rankings is it possible without the use of citations
I have a client that is wanting a website design for his self-run business... Basically he is a self employed plumber so his home address is not visitable by the public, however the problem here is ...
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CDN CNAMEs not resolving to customer origin
I have set up an Edgecast CDN to mirror all my static content. Because I use the root of my domain (donaldjenkins.com) to host my main site—using Google Analytics which sets cookies—I've stored the ...
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I have added my site to google webmasters and bing webmasers but 0 backlinks
I added my site to webmasters since 3 weeks,
I did some SEO, posted anchored links in directories, some forums, local directories, and most of them are do follow.
Then I wanted to check if Google can ...
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Separating static/uploaded content from the site
I have a site where I anticipate to have a large amount of users. I've heard that it is a good idea to separate user content (uploaded images) and place them on a separate static server where lighttpd ...
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How do I specify the Google sitemap generator destination directory
Is there a way to specify the location of generated sitemap files using the lastest version of the Google Sitemap Generator?
Version is: 1.0.0.0? (a very un-google version number, lol):
> sudo ...
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How to backorder a .io domain name [closed]
There is a .io domain name I want to buy when it becomes available in 12 months time.
What is the best tool to buy this automatically?
