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Top new questions this week:

Difference between alt and title of img - which one to use - and impact

For years ive been writing my html for images like this : <img src="picture.jpg" alt="my picutre" > But i recently ran a audit of my site using Raven SEO tools and it reported loads of errors …

seo images title-attribute alt-attribute  
asked by sam 4 votes
answered by bybe 3 votes

Problem with my subdomain with .htaccess root as subdir

I am working on a site making my subdir to appear as root just like //domain.com/ is //domain.com/subdir and also access/load files hiding the subdir. My site have this .htaccess(below) and its …

domains htaccess url  
asked by seventhief 2 votes
answered by Dan 0 votes

Referral traffic not appearing properly in Google Analytics

We have a partnership arrangement with another site where we pay them for users sent to us. However, they claim our referral numbers for them are lower than theirs by 50%. They are tracking clicks in …

google-analytics traffic tracking  
asked by Crashalot 2 votes
answered by dan 0 votes

Searching on Google for mydomain, my domain name is shown as the page title instead of the actual page title

When I search for my domain on Google, eg: mydomain.com, my site shows up with a title like "MyDomain" instead of that page's actual title. Any clues on why this happens and how to fix it? Edit: …

seo google-search  
asked by Βασίλης Κερασιώτης 2 votes
answered by John Conde 2 votes

Naked domain to "www" redirect in Windows Server 2008

I have a Windows server. I have several websites hosted on my server. Currently, I can only visit these websites if I include "www" (e.g., www.techtint.com). I want the naked form of the URL to …

redirects dns url-rewriting iis7 windows-server-2008  
asked by user2592465 2 votes
answered by dan 1 vote

Session based redirect acceptable for search engines?

We have added a subsite (/usa) to an established global website. This subfolder has been made region specific to USA using google webmaster tools. Now we want visitors from USA to be automatically …

seo geolocation 302-redirect session  
asked by Thangaraj 2 votes
answered by Tim Fountain 1 vote

How to block referral traffic without .htaccess?

I'm getting a lot of spam referral traffic on blogger, I searched for a way to block this traffic but I need to edit the .htaccess file which I don't have access to on blogger. Are there any other …

traffic blogger referrer spam-blocker  
asked by Peter 2 votes
answered by dan 5 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

How can I buy my own personalized Top Level Domain (TLD)?

Starting fomm tomorrow January/12/2012 I heard it's possible to apply for your own TLD i.e. .whatever in place of .com .org etc. I thought it would require a huge amount of money (I heard stories …

domain-registration top-level-domains  
asked by Marco Demaio 5 votes
answered by Lèse majesté 13 votes

How does Google Plus select an image from a shared link?

If you share a link on Google Plus it will often grab a fews images you can attach when you post the image. Facebook has a similar feature. You can tell Facebook which is the primary image for a page …

social-networks social-networking google-plus  
asked by Justin 16 votes
answered by Jenny Murphy 12 votes

Can you answer these?

How to aggregate events across multiple sites in Google Analytics?

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 …

google-analytics reporting  
asked by ElHaix 2 votes

Share Google Analytics data excluding Google Adsense data

I have a Google Analytics provide linked with my Google Adsense profile. I want to share the Google Analytics data with some other users (I believe I'm permitted to do that by Google ToS), but I want …

google-analytics google-adsense  
asked by John Murdoch 1 vote

Problem with submitting URL to index for Ajax crawlable URLs

My site contains lots of dynamic data, so I am using Ajax crawling to crawl it properly. When I use the "Fetch as Google" tool in Google Webmaster Tools it's working perfectly, but the "Submit to …

seo google-webmaster-tools google-index ajax  
asked by Dipen 1 vote
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