Top new questions this week:

Tens of marketing emails within hours of registering a .COM - How are they doing it?

I registered a .COM 3 days ago, and since have received over 30 emails and 5 direct phone calls to the contact details I used when registering (via Fasthosts), which is now of course showing in WHOIS. ...

domains marketing

asked by Digital Lightcraft 6 votes answered by Stephen Ostermiller 5 votes

What if using rel="dofollow" and rel="nofollow" together for a link?

How does google consider these links? for example : <a href="url" rel="nofollow" rel="dofollow">text</a> Is it a dofollow link or nofollow? Which one has more priority over the other ...

seo nofollow hyperlink rel dofollow

asked by M. Safari 4 votes answered by Simon Hayter 13 votes

Serving PDF file via download script and via direct link: duplicated content?

I have a website which hosts a PDF document (math paper). Main page of the website provides link to the document, which is http://example.com/download.php?file=Document.pdf The purpose of ...

seo google duplicate-content

asked by Leo 4 votes answered by w3dk 4 votes

Will space typos help my page ranking? (Dutch language)

In the Dutch language we concatenate all words that are a combined noun. Some examples of English words where this happens: spacebar, doorbell and whitespace. In Dutch words like "app development", ...

seo keywords ranking content

asked by Bart Burg 4 votes answered by Martijn 1 vote

Is there any way to use a sub-domain as your root domain

I have been asked by my supervisor to look for a way to make the website's root domain access the sub-domain instead. Like: example.com is the root domain test.example.com is the sub domain ...

domains subdomain

asked by Lord Biscuit 4 votes answered by norcal johnny 11 votes

Site was hacked, need to remove all URLs starting with + from Google, use robots.txt?

Could you please let me know how to block such URLs from robots.txt for Googlebots to stop indexing? http://www.example.com/+rt6s4ayv1e/d112587/ia0g64491218q My website was hacked which is now ...

google robots.txt google-webmaster-tools

asked by Hussain 3 votes answered by w3dk 6 votes

Allow Google custom search engine to work when the site is launched without Google indexing the site for web search beforehand

We are using Google Custom Search, and have run into an issue related to site launches. We would like our sites searches to actually produce results on launch, and not before... Is there anyway to ...

google-webmaster-tools google-custom-search

asked by DjungleDev 3 votes answered by Yhorian 2 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Xampp not displaying PHP pages in htdocs due to "failed to open stream: Permission denied"

I installed xampp this evening and none of my PHP pages will display. I am storing all my pages in the htdocs folder as directed too and calling via http://localhost/index.php and nothing appears? All ...

php localhost xampp

asked by ez87 1 vote answered by vector 1 vote

How can I test my site in IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and Internet Explorer 11

How can I reliably test my site on all old versions of Internet Explorer ranging from IE6 all the way up to version IE11?

internet-explorer testing

asked by ilhan 72 votes answered by Marco Demaio 76 votes

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Heroku app + 1and1 domains - Custom domain name switches back to default heroku app's domain on click within the web app

The issue Hey guys, I'm having some issues concerning my website ( http://colegiojeffersontoday.com ). The issue is that although the custom domain works upon first entering the website, for some ...

domains dns heroku 1and1

asked by Carlos Lahrssen 1 vote

My blog is on both blogspot.com and blogspot.co.id, how do I put it only on .com and get Google to recognize that?

When I search my blog on Google, I found that there are 2 blog URL, http://xxx.blogspot.co.id (doesn't have description) and http://xxx.blogspot.com (has description). How to make my blog URL only ...

Google reports URL injection - but the reported URL returns a 404 even when fetched as Google

Yesterday we found out that in Google Search, the website is reported as "This site may be hacked." It is a Joomla website. In webmasters tools there is a report for URL Injections. There is ...

google-webmaster-tools google-search security hacked-site

asked by FFrewin 2 votes