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How not to display the date on certain webpages
On most posts on my website the date is displayed. There are however some posts where I would not like to show the date.
Would it be better to use display:none; via css or actually remove the code ...
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Wild card redirection for HTTPS and Non-www version
i want to enable SSL for my main website and sub-domain websites. before that i want to redirect http URLS to https in htaccess but i'm already using a wild card redirect to redirect non-www version ...
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I need more insight on html color codes
I know that web colors use RGB color model in which red, green, and blue colors are ADDED together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. Now, suppose I have a color : #800080 (which is ...
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Hide Adsense blocks while page loads
While my page loads, I hide everything (opacity: 0) on it and just show a progressbar until it's finished. Then I show everything (opacity: 1). It is ok to hide the Google Adsense blocks too?
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What alternative to Microsoft Azure to host ASP .NET MVC application [duplicate]
I wanted to use Microsoft Azure, I can't register for free trial because they don't accept my debit card and I don't have(and don't want to have) a credit card.
Where else I can host ASP .NET MVC ...
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What's the easiest way to make my Wordpress site mobile supportive? [on hold]
I am fairly new to workdpress, but I have got it setup with a theme I like and it looks pretty good.
The theme however does not adapt to mobile browsers and requires a lot of pinching and moving ...
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Can we run scripts/plugins.php clean from a remote computer? [on hold]
I installed a wrong plugin and it took down the whole website. Now I am getting the message some plugins are missing. In my local instance I can solve this problem by running PHP clean or deleting the ...
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What defines a permenant redirect?
I'm a little confused between a 301 redirect, the javascript meta http-equiv="refresh approach and lastly using a 404 which can work out where you wanted to get to and then forward you on.
I can see ...
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How can I back-up/transfer files from a Linux-based web host, preserving their naming structure & permissions? [on hold]
I've faced a dilemma. I'm moving my web site's files from one web hosting company to another. I was first suggested to use a usual "Back-up and restore" solution off of most Control panels. ...
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Is there a way to get a custom domain name for free with google drive websites? [on hold]
I there a way to get a custom domain like www.example.com for free for a google drive website? I know that gweb.io has a 2 month trial but is there another service that would be able to do it for an ...
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Cross browser testing strategy on Mac OS? [duplicate]
I'm working on a Mac environment. Years ago I had four different "Parallels" installations to be able to test websites on four different IE versions. That worked for a while – but it is a bit crazy to ...
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High trafic: website crash and error
Since 1 week, my website crashes 1 or 2 times a hour.
The message error is:
504 gateway time-out - nginx
Then it crashes again. This problem appears when I edit something in the admin panel. For ...
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What tool will load a website step by step? [on hold]
I'm not sure how to word this question properly so please excuse me but is there any utility or browser plugin that will load a website in a step by step fashion?
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How can I use a favicon with my site? [on hold]
A favicon shows up in places like bookmarks. So how can I use one?
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1answer
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How to report spam sent through my website contact form without blocking it? [duplicate]
Despite the Google captcha protection I receive some spam from my website contact forms.
I want to report these spams but without blocking my contact form address.
Explaination: when somebody send ...
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Is it possible that Nginx blocks itself from requesting another URL on the same instance? [migrated]
I have a setup that worked in Apache and now it is failing in Nginx with php-fpm:
I have one PHP-script that is offering a service, you call the URL and get some data
I have a second PHP-script that ...
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Content keywords are incorrect on webmaster
I have recently opened a shopify store however the content keywords are linking back to the 'opening soon' message on the storefront password page. That page was there for about 2 months but I had ...
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Google Webmaster Highlight Data for paginated blog entries
I'm trying to get google to recognise my entries as articles using the "Start Highlighting" tool in the Webmasters Toolkit. Problem is that if I put a page set "...blog/*/*/" it says, "Pattern does ...
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Why do webhosts make you explicitly add which IP addresses can remotely connect to their MySQL databases?
In order to connect to a MySQL database, you typically use the following command:
mysql -h host_address database_name -u db_user -p
where db_user is associated with the database in question. ...
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What browsers support SNI?
Because of the way web servers and SSL works, previously a dedicated IP address was required for running an SSL certificate on a domain. But with a new technique (SNI, abbreviation for Server Name ...
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Issues sending emails via Mandrill service. Sometimes messages disappear
I've been using the Mandrill service to deliver automated emails from my web site (using their php APIs.) The service seems to work, except sometimes I get questions from my customers that claim that ...
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Using WordPress account on a domain?
I just got my own domain from SiteGround (first time doing anything like this.) and installed WordPress on it.
Is it possible I could use that as my main WordPress account? I'm not seeing any option ...
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Should URL paths be case sensitive?
My website's URLs are currently case-insensitive. For example, both of the following links show the exact same page:
http://example.com/about
http://example.com/About
However, taking a look at the ...
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Are these SEO methods guaranteed? [on hold]
I've been reading some SEO articles and found the following methods for creating high quality backlinks. You help people with their problems, then they get you a backlink.
Techniques:
Repair Broken ...
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How do I add “Results from” search box to my Google SERP? [duplicate]
A lot of sites now display a sub search box when shown in Google's results page. How do I go about doing the same for my ecommerce site?
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Robots blocked Issues [on hold]
We accidentally uploaded a robots file that was blocking Google, this has since been corrected (48hours ago) and everything is testing ok in WMT but we are still not seeing the home page indexed and ...
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For Facebook advertising, should I spend money on ads or promoting posts? [on hold]
I am working with a start up that has relatively few (~600) likes for their Facebook page.
The end goal is to get people using the startup's site regularly. I realize a potent way to get people to ...
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1answer
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Forbidden 403 for js file on localhost?
apologies if this isn't the right place to post this. I posted it on Stack Overflow and a user suggested I put it here.
Anyway, I've looked all over google and the site and none of the solutions I've ...
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serving static files with NGINX on a UNICORN served app [on hold]
I've just set up a Sinatra app running on Unicorn and served through a socket by NGINX.
I'm trying to get NGINX to serve my static assets with this in my nginx config:
upstream unicorn {
server ...
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Outgoing Links - Can they be routed through an internal link
I am very new to SEO so I apologize if this question seems basic. If I have a site that relies on outgoing links, however the links are routed through an internal link (e.g. to link to ...
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Google marking my emails as spam, out of nowhere [on hold]
Today 10/03/14 google began marking all of my emails as spam.
The only emails I send are between my boss, and some customers. I
I don't send mass messages or anything like that.
Any idea why this ...
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Does linking to HTTPS or HTTP make a difference for link popularity?
I am considering making my site HTTPS but I was wondering does Google treat a link to HTTP exactly the same as SSL HTTPS site, and will my site rank the same with HTTPS.
I guess it makes no ...
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explicitly whitelist every page using robots.txt
I need to allow only specific pages at some site. Let's say:
/
/page1
/page2
...
Now I don't get how to whitelist the root page at robots.txt
Disallow: / # block everything
Allow: /page1
...
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API or Homebrewed Solution? [on hold]
I know enough about web development to know I need to hire someone to build my site; but I still like to know what's available to save time and money.
I'm looking at using the Porto Theme from ...
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What is a good link profile ratio/balance? Internal links vs. External links
I have been doing some competition research using Open Site Explorer and I am a bit confused about Internal Links vs. External links reports. Ratios are all over the place when I compare them with my ...
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Excluding all locations in AdWords except US
Is there a way to exclude all locations in AdWords except the US?
I'm not sure if the only way to do this is the manually add countries that aren't US (I know the limit is 1,000. I'm also aware that ...
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Where and how should I host images for fast access and with least headache
I'm deploying my website on Heroku. I need to store around 5000 profile picture and each will be accessed around 100 times per week. All my traffic is coming from Europe, so I'd prefer them to be ...
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How to remove a website completely from search engine indexes except the home page?
I want to de-index all the pages of my website except home page. This is because it is an exact match domain (EMD) and I'm getting traffic on website just because of Domain name.
I want to restart ...
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“Temporarily unreachable” when using fetch as Googlebot from Webmasters Tools
The page I'm trying to fetch is public. The server logs show no request. Google reports that any page on my site is "Temporarily unreachable". It won't even fetch the verification file, a static ...
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What is the correct way of creating backlinks and anchor text?
I'm creating dofollow backlinks at web 2.0 websites, but I believe I'm doing something wrong.
Here is what I'm doing:
Have only one anchor text method, for example, right in the beginning of the ...
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2nd domain name pointing to 1st only works on some machines
I have 2 domain names. example.com is associated with the site and server and works fine. I want to point example.net to the same site and server.
To do this I have example.net as a Domain Alias in ...
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How do I find out where my server is?
I have this image hosted through Dropbox and it loads slowly. I need to determine if the location of the server is too far away from my main audience so I can determine if that is the cause of the ...
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Content Generator Software [on hold]
What do you guys think of content generator software for S.E.O and in general.
If their is a good software out there which one would you recommend ?
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1answer
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Does a link to your site with a URL parameter pass link juice?
If I link to http://example.com/?id=344, will that still provide link juice to example.com? Or will it provide link juice only to http://example.com/?id=344, which might have a link to example.com ...
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Good, or Bad? 'www A Record (IPv4)' - “website has a CName Record.”
Question #1:
One DNS Look-up service I use states: (BTW, moodle.org is not my website!)
Your website www.moodle.org does not have CName Record which is good.
Why is this "good"?
Introduction ...
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How should I deal with a reported image on an image hosting site? [on hold]
Let's say someone uploads an illegal image to my site.
Should the "delete" button actually delete the image while keeping the info in the DB, or should it keep the image on the server, but mark it in ...
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Limit pageviews from Google Analytics API to the last 30 minutes
I am trying to find a way to query Google Analytics through the API to get pageviews for the last 30 minutes. Like they have available through the Google Analytics console, but I want to put it in an ...
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Image link not working in html [on hold]
<a href=“https://www.google.com”><img src=“file:///Users/armonsafai/Documents/html/google.jpeg”style=“width:200px;height:200px;border:2”/>
</a>
<a ...
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Are there any in-depth resources for the SEO value of backlinks? [on hold]
I'm working on SEO for a company that has a bit of clout, so I'm on the unusual position of actually having a choice of other sites for which to pursue backlinks to our site.
I know the basics of ...
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Server-side language with good interprocess communication support and multithreading [on hold]
I need to create a scraper (spider + parser) and I wanted to know which programming language is the best pick for that?
I tried PHP, but it's very difficult to work with multithreading using it, but ...
