Top new questions this week:

Which meta "robots" tag gets preference?

My wife works at a high school in Germany. I recently noticed that it's extremely hard to find that school's homepage using Google. I looked at the source code of the page and I believe I've found the …

seo robots

asked by Tim Pietzcker 4 votes answered by Svartepjotr 4 votes

How to track HTTP and HTTPS from the same Google Analytics account?

I have a website with tutorials and a discuss forum. The website load on http protocol and the forum load with https for security reasons. For both of them I run the default Google Analytics code, but …

google-analytics ssl http

asked by Daniel 3 votes answered by nathangiesbrecht 1 vote

List of backlinks to a specific website, listed by decreasing PageRank

With backlinkwatch.com I can get a list of pages that link to a particular website. Unfortunately, it lists tons of obscure blogs and small forums, it has hard to find what link is really important. …

backlinks

asked by Nicolas Raoul 3 votes answered by Zistoloen 2 votes

Sub Domain Or Domain?

We have 2 different shopping carts sitting on the same server: www.HotBuckles.com - Retail www.HotBuckles.com/Wholesalebeltbuckles - Wholesale We want to completely separate our main domain …

seo subdomain

asked by SimplioLabs 3 votes answered by nathangiesbrecht 0 votes

HTTPS connection treated differently across browsers

I am using an SSL certificate for a website and the server redirects all http connections to https (a conscious choice). A tool provided by the CA says that the certificate has been installed …

ssl ssl-certificate

asked by alxs 3 votes answered by bybe 2 votes

Is there a MediaWiki:Topbar page?

The page MediaWiki:Sidebar allows you to change/add to the menu on the left. How to add or change items in the menu at the top? It shouldn't be necessary to use an extension. For example to add a link …

mediawiki

asked by Rob Kam 2 votes

using gmail for automated site emails - recommended? allowed?

is it okay to use gmail to send automated emails for your website via SMTP? i know there are services like Amazons SES, but i don't know if i need it. I want to only send the following types of …

email smtp

asked by Jonathan Ong 2 votes answered by nathangiesbrecht 1 vote

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

How to make background image black and white?

Are there any filters that would make background image black-and-white? I have an image set as the background image using css, but now I need to apply a filter so that an image is shown in black and …

css image

asked by Dmitri 2 votes answered by SubTypical 3 votes

What is the difference between <span> and <div> tags?

I am curious, the span tag seems to work the same as a div.

html

asked by rob 11 votes answered by Nick 19 votes

Can you answer these?

Ajax crawling : snapshot page dissimilar with user page

For ajax-crawling purpose I make snapshots pages. My problem is user view pages and snapshot pages are dissimilar (tags h1, h2...). Example: user view page: http://www.meomap.net/#!/place/1 …

seo ajax crawling

asked by nguyên 1 vote

Can a one off redirect hurt SEO?

I have a SaaS product which is hosted under several different domains. However, there is one company that manages all these domains. They asked for a system to be able to login at domain1.com and …

seo redirects

asked by jensendarren 2 votes

Google Analytics Dashboard: week-by-week view

Setting up Google Analytics Dashboard allows webmasters to get a weekly progress report of marketing achievements & keep a finger on what's going on at web properties. However, by default, the …

google-analytics

asked by Silver Dragon 1 vote