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Cheaper alternatives to 99Designs.com (outsource CSS design)

I'm designing my own website as a side project and I want the site to look professional. (Read, not designed by a programmer.) I don't mind spending a little money to have a professional do it, but design sites like 99designs.com cost way to much.…
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Why don't browsers respect cache headers for initial page request?

I'm scratching my head a bit on this. A Drupal site I run is setting appropriate cache headers that should indicate that the page can be cached for 15 minutes. However, every time I hit the page it always sends a GET request instead of loading the…
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Why do bots search for / fill and send contact forms?

I'm a bit confused as to why people make bots to do this - is it to find vulnerabilities? I recently upgraded my contact form security with more client and server side validation, including a honeypot and log/ban to stop erroneous submissions on my…
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What's the proper way to handle Allow and Disallow in robots.txt?

I run a fairly large-scale Web crawler. We try very hard to operate the crawler within accepted community standards, and that includes respecting robots.txt. We get very few complaints about the crawler, but when we do the majority are about our…
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Should I include the current language code in ?

I have a multilingual site and I have the following in the head section.
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Sex - in domain name is this bad?

In short I am working with a company that does trade shows... one of their new domain names has the word 'sex' in but completely innocently. EXAMPLE: www. someproductsexpo .com (Being 'some' 'products' 'expo'). The content is completely inoffensive…
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SEO ranking when copying content from other website with permissions

I have a website which I started recently, with this website I have partnered with many other websites who have agreed to let me copy and use thier content on my site for link exchange. So in this manner in a very short time I have some really good…
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How do I temporarily disable a website?

I have to take a website down for a month, which is the least intrusive way to keep achieved SEO optimizations? should I just add in apache config: Redirect 301 / …
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Does Google have bad SEO?

I find this quite curious. When you search: Search engines Search engine Best search engine Search the web Quickest search engine Bing: Search engine Dogpile: Search engine Basically, unless you spell it out for it, you won't see Google…
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WWW.example.com or HTTP://example.com – which one is futureproof?

http://example.com www.example.com http://www.example.com example.com Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with from 2016 onward? Which domain name would you mention to your clients, websites that link to you, your…
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Is it a problem (e.g. for Google) when my site has no root page?

I have a multi-lingual site, which contains languages in this manner: http://www.example.com/en/ http://www.example.com/de/ http://www.example.com/fr/ To avoid duplicate links, is it ok not to have the root (/) page? I.e., the root 301 redirects to…
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How to submit sitemap to Baidu?

I've some pages in my site in Chinese but I don't understand Chinese (it's some GIS data). Is there any way to submit sitemap to Baidu?
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What happens if I try to set a cookie on a bot?

I'm building my site to include some user-identifying cookies. When a visitor chimes in, I will set a cookie with a unique visitor id (a guid) and the date-time of the visit, and save a visit record (including his user-agent, referer (if any), and…
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Do people really use social network sharing buttons?

I'm making a website that you can upload images to. Implementing social network sharing buttons for content is turning out to be a pain and not to my liking in that it requires extraneous Javascript to be introduced and negatively affects the…
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"Read more" link bad or good for SEO?

I have seen that most bloggers are using "read more" as link text to posts on their home page that link to the full article or blog post. I understand that it's quite important for navigation of site. But when you see Google's official blog or other…
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