A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved by other means.
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“Included” search phrases in URLs/titles/H1s and SEO
When designing a new URL/folder structure for our website, we faced one interesting problem related to choosing best keywords from SEO perspective. We call it "included search phrases". It will be ...
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Image folder name for SEO [duplicate]
We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for ...
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site home not at site root index
I have an SEO concern with a website that has just finished the development stage, basically the site has been in progress for a year. During this period the site has been accessible from the URL: ...
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Best practice: Should I note Gravatar is used on the website?
I am going to implement a comment system on a website and I'm going to implement Gravatar as user's avatars. Since the form for posting comments doesn't have a field for uploading an image, nor does ...
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Any suggestions for a change detection system?
As a webdesigner/webmaster I'm taking care of various websites. Recently one client's website got "hacked". It turned out that at their office one computer got infected by a trojan, that spied the ftp ...
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Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?
I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still ...
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Convenient practice for where to place images?
A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:
/i/img/
/images/
/img/
Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page SEO, code maintainability, filename ...
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rel=“nofollow” SEO impact
I saw a technique used where there was a block with three parts:
1. Image (wrapped in an anchor tag)
2. Heading (anchor tag with heading text)
3. Paragraph (regular p tag with synopsis content)
e.g.
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Pros and cons of creating a print friendly page to remove the use of pdfs?
the company I work for has a one page invoice that uses the library tcpdf. they wanted to do some design changes that I found are just incredibly difficult for setting up in .pdf format.
Using ...
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Strategy for hosting 700+ domains names, each with a static HTML site
I have a portfolio of more than 700 domain names, and ideally I'd like to put up a single-page HTML/CSS/JavaScript webpage for each domain. Is there a system/strategy/workflow that will allow me to:
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What is the best email address for a personal website with my name as the .com domain name? [closed]
I convinced one of my creative friends to finally purchase his own name as a domain name and start a portfolio. It has been years coming, but mission finally accomplished. Now I am helping him build ...
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Website Remodel Redirects
We've recently built a site for a new client who has not inserted all the content that they had from their old site into their new one. Also a lot of content is dynamic with ID's not matching from the ...
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HTML5 article tag application for the iPad/iPhone
I've used article tags on websites. My understanding and practice is to use the article tag for publication content. I always use HTML/HTML5 tags as their intended purposes and not at will.
Recently, ...
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What is the best way to create a blog site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
Like usually i have a query related to my blog but I am bit confused about a question.
I want to know the best way to create a blog. ...
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Purchasing traffic effects on SEO
I've found recently some websites which provides a specific number of visits by paying. I'm curios if this is a (very)bad practice for search engines ( like Google).
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I am the Webmaster now. Where do I start? [closed]
I just changed jobs and will soon be in charge of a custom-built ASP.NET CMS and website for a fairly large corporation with global offices. I have IT and developer FTE resources available to me but ...
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Choosing a subject to create a site for [closed]
For 6 years I'm working as web developer and I would like to finally create my own site. I thought I have everything needed: programming and administration skills, found a good designer, own servers ...
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Email links open in a new window [closed]
I'm asking this as an opinion question. How does everyone treat email links opening in a new window if their default email client is web based?
This way? <a href="mailto:[email protected]">email ...
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Is it good to buy multiple domains for competitive reasons?
I am attempting to convince the higher ups at my company that spending $55 to renew one domain for a year is bad when they end up having 3-4 domains names for one website.
They're reasoning for ...
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how to handle foreign content on a blog (double content)
I'm quitely new to SEO and I don't know how to handle foreign content on a blog.
I am writing content for two different blogs. The subjects of these blogs intersect partially, so there are sometimes ...
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Should forum signatures be statically stored with the post?
I have seen forums do this both ways in the past, but I thought it might warrant a wider discussion.
My question is, when a user posts in a forum which supports signatures, should that signature be ...
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Filtering your offices IPs from Google Analytics when each has a dynamic IP?
I found the documentation for filtering IPs from Google Analytics, but the address of the several locations of our company all have dynamic IP addresses that change every 30 days from what I'm told.
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Same product name in different categories
I have two questions about URL structure for SEO.
I have one product belongs to multiple categories. Is this OK for SEO OR shall I give them different product names?
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Podcast Best Practices - Page Development & Monetization Considerations [closed]
Our current podcast page has show notes and a link to download an mp3 of our podcast. We were advised to add an audio player to stream the file live from our website. The thought being this would ...
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Navigation: Sub-menu item for section page
I'm considering some small navigation changes to one of my sites. Consider the following (simplified) site structure:
About Some Technology
-About Some Technology
Our Products
- Products Overview
- ...
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Where can I find resources for best coding practices in web development?
You'd figure that this would be an easy topic to google, but unfortunately I've been looking for a couple weeks and have yet to find really anything that I'm looking for.
The problems I'm running ...
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SEO: ABBR and My Full Phrase (MFP)
In my company websites, we often have the situation at the start of a page where we introduce a [usually technical] phrase, followed by the acronym that it is often know as:
My Special Widgets ...
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Loading another domain's content in a modal iframe - acceptable?
Is it okay to load another page in an iframe in a modal pop-up window - in terms of legal and ethical standards around displaying 3rd party content?
I remember a few years ago there was controversy ...
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URLs - Hyphens or keywords?
Let's say I have an online database. The domain names somethingdatabase.* are taken.
seomoz says that
Hyphens detract from credibility and can act as a spam indicator
and also says that
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Rendering IPA characters like 'ŋ' correctly
(I hope this isn't too dumb a question)
When I go to this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
These 'special' phoenetic characters, such as 'ŋ' render ...
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Friendly URLs: is there a max length for search engines?
People from stackoverflow have been working closely with google team to help them make the panda algorithm more efficient, so I guess they've learned a lot from the google team.
Thus they may have ...
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How often should a website's disaster recovery plan be tested?
We all take backups hoping to never use them, but of course some day we are going to.
I was wondering if there has been any best practice guide written about how often a disaster recovery plan should ...
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Why not AJAX'ify entire websites?
Is there any solid reasoning as to why sites shouldn't be developed with ajax functionality that loads major parts of each part (assuming there are elements like the header, navigation etc that remain ...
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How to phrase the from field in system generated emails my site sends?
I have a community site that sends emails after certain actions like
1) When someone makes a comment
2) When someone does something called "suggest solution"
3) When someone makes a comment in the ...
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Is it acceptable to contact a potential customer who has accessed your site, using their IP?
We run ad campaigns to attract potential customers to our website. Sometimes customers click, but don't make contact. Is it acceptable to reach out to these customers, based on the public info ...
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SEO & Multilingual: would be this a good practise?
I am currently making a bilingual website and I'd like to get nice SEO results of course.
Here's my idea:
The internal links would be composed of the "www" subdomain so that people can share links ...
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Meta keywords single words or phrase?
It is acceptable or recommended to only use 1 keyword per delimiter? Or can we use a phrase?
For example:
car, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborgini
vs
Audi Car, Ferrari Car, Lamborgini Car
What is ...
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Is it correct to have domains with more than 3 levels?
I've been arguing for some time about this topic, now I'd like the opinion of professionals.
My point is that a domain should be made of 2 or 3 levels at most, like:
mysite.com
blog.mysite.com
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Developing hotel website [closed]
I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and some of PHP/MySQL. I've decided to create simple hotel website, just to exercise my skills, and to see what i can really do.
I wrote concrete technical details of my ...
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Should the Home Menu Button Display a Submenu?
Is it best practices to display/not display a dropdown menu for the Home button in menu navigation?
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Ultimate security checklist
I'm looking for a complete security checklist that will allow me to secure my websites. After some research here is what I got:
-use SSL to protect authenticated content
-tighten the server TCP/IP ...
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Should a webmaster use a design document?
Hey what do you think of IEEE publishing a standard called IEEE 1016–1998 "Recommendendations for Software Design - I think it's a good idea to follow that guideline and keep a "design document" that ...
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Is posting a document with a hand signature insecure? [closed]
Every once and a while, one of our departments would like to post a hand-signed document on the web site. Up until now I've scanned them in as a PDF and posted them without much thought, but recently ...
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What is the optimal folder structure for a web directory?
I've been doing web development for years, and I've always done a web structure similar to this:
public_html/login.php
public_html/css/login.css
public_html/js/login.js
public_html/img/logo.png
...
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What is the best way to exclude bots from view counts?
My website is counting visitor views on certain pages. I noticed that Google and other Bots are "clicking" to my site like crazy and some of the pages get unrealistic view counts (compared to those ...
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What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?
I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
As far as i know these are methods,
301 HTML redirect from www to ...
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What is best practice for securing access to GMail for an enterprise?
Is there any way to restrict access to Gmail accounts from certain IP/MAC addresses ? For instance, can I setup Google Apps so that my users can access their GMail account from within the corporate ...
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When linking pages, does google give higher value to href=“http://www.mydomain.com” than href=“/”?
When linking pages does Google give higher value to:
<a href="http://www.mydomain.com"> </a>
Vs.
<a href="/"> </a>?
I am wondering because I have heard that (for SEO) it ...
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Where to store project resource files?
You are working on a website for a client. He (the client) sends you a bunch of MS Word documents with text that you have to use in the website.
Where do you store them?
My approach would be to ...
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Recommended Site Redundancy Options
I am developing a site for a client who is emphasizing "no downtime allowed".
Now even cloud hosting doesn't provide a 100% up-time promise, so I've been thinking about mirrored hosting, where if ...
