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What do I need to do to make my site compatible with Safari's iCloud Keychain so that it saves passwords?
I've noticed that a vendor's web application triggers Safari's "suggested password" feature at "create password" forms, but does not actually save this password when the form is submitted. That is, after submitting the form and logging back out…
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What is the most effective way of deploying a website?
I am aware of a few ways to deploy websites:
FTP
Export from source control
Base the site on a source control checkout
I can see some upsides and downsides of each. Is there any consensus on the most effective way to deploy new sites OR site…
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Why would I choose UTF-8 over ISO 8859-1 as the content encoding for my site?
Assume that the site is still in it's design phases so there's no initial work to pick one over the other from the start.
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Should every page on my site have our company name in the title?
How different should the tags be for each page on my domain?
Which of the following are better examples are "better practice":
Home - Example Dog Grooming Company
About Us - Example Dog Grooming Company
Contact Us - Example Dog Grooming…
ggle
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When responding with a HTTP 3xx Redirect status, should there still be a response body?
When a service is answering an HTTP request with a "3xx Redirect" status code response (and the accompanying Location header) should it still send a meaningful response body along with the response?
I could imagine that maybe a page providing a link…
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How Can I Use An Email Address From A Domain To Register The Same Domain
I want to register a domain called webmasters.com. Can I enter admin@webmasters.com as the contact email when filing for the domain name? The forseeable problem is that the email address has not yet been set up at the time of registration, but could…
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Difference Between php_admin_value[memory_limit] and php.ini memory_limit
I have Nginx + php-fpm + Mysql. With the php memory settings, I always set this in php.ini like this:
memory_limit = 256M
Now, I bumped into another similar looking setting in pool.d/www.conf file like this:
;php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 32M
My…
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quickest way to research a set of pages backlinks
I have a list of 300+ pages (they were chosen based on which pages rank for a keyword I'm interested in) and I want to compile a list all the (known) inbound links to those pages.
What's the fastest way to do this? It seems like the only tools out…
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How to fix "Soft 404" to firm 200 OK?
Some of the web-pages on my site are very slim. I've recently noticed that Google appears to qualify such pages as "Soft 404":
The target URL doesn't exist, but your server is not returning a 404
(file not found) error. Learn more
Your server…
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Block a random domain pointing at my dedicated IP
I have a random domain name which has it's A record going to my dedicated IP. Therefore duplicating content. Is there a way I can disable the domain at IP level maybe in iptables?
I have a .htaccess setup to redirect to the main domain as its always…
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Why is Google downloading binaries from my web site and using bandwidth?
Since about mid-August 2014, several Google servers have been downloading all of the (very) large binary files on my web site, about once a week. The IPs all show as owned by Google, and look like this: google-proxy-66-249-88-199.google.com. These…
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Is splitting keywords with HTML tags bad for ranking?
I have a site that uses span tags mid heading to put a different style on the words.
So for the sake of argument I have a keyword/phrase of knitting patterns:
Knitting Patterns
From an SEO point of view would this still work…
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Why is Disallow: /search in Blogger's robots.txt?
Can anyone tell me what does this mean in Blogger's "robots.txt" file? Do I need to edit anything in it? Should I remove /search from the Disallow: line?
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap:…
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Should we modify our Joomla robots.txt after Google's announcement on crawling of CSS and JavaScript?
Have come across an announcement from Google: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.html
It states:
For optimal rendering and indexing, our new guideline specifies that you should allow Googlebot access…
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Should meta descriptions be unique for each page?
Specifically, I'm wondering about pages that have a purpose that is sort of removed from the main site. For example, a privacy policy page - would you duplicate the description of the main page or is it best left alone?
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