Webmasters Weekly Newsletter - Friday, November 28, 2014

Top new questions this week: How did new users come to my site and is it safe to keep them? I'm launching a website as a hobby, it is somehow a stackoverflow clone. I noticed a very weird thing that I can't understand, I don't know if this is normal because I'm pretty new to the web ... web-hosting analytics users   asked by Mhmd 11 votes answered by Shivam 23 votes 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 ... google proxy bandwidth   asked by boot13 7 votes answered by nunorbatista 2 votes Broken URL requests with "?rand=0.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn" querystrings from Chrome users I've recently noticed a number of errors in our sites' error logs which are a result of what appears to be a cache-buster being incorrectly added to URLs. The requests in question all seem to have ... google-chrome query-string bugs   asked by Carson63000 5 votes answered by Rich 3 votes How to override LESS colour variables without creating a new skin in MediaWiki? I have a default MediaWiki install using the Vector skin. I would like to change the colours, but I want to keep maintenance to a minimum so I don't want to duplicate the skin (because I will have to ... mediawiki css   asked by Malvineous 4 votes answered by Mario Awad 1 vote Many "429" crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools with GoDaddy Managed Wordpress Hosting and Cloudflare Following setup: GoDaddy Managed Wordpress Hosting + SSL Cloudflare as CDN Google Webmaster Tools shows all pages with 429 crawl error. I tested manually and with tools like monitor.us and I ... google-webmaster-tools wordpress godaddy cloudflare   asked by sebastiansieber 4 votes answered by Stephen Ostermiller 3 votes Where should I put the sitemap of mobile version of my site? I have two sites www.example.com and m.example.com. As it is shown, the latter is the mobile version of the first site. Basically each URL in the www.example.com have a counterpart with same URL ... seo sitemap   asked by Eric Hancock 3 votes answered by nunorbatista 0 votes Is using an external blogging platform and URL bad for SEO? I want to add a blog to my website to update the user on the new features. The rest of the website is custom code and does not use any CMS. For the blog, I want to use something like Blogger and put ... seo search-engines blog blogger   asked by f.lorenzo 3 votes answered by zigojacko 4 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How do I transition to SSL without affecting PageRank? Here at Stack Exchange we're working on moving all traffic to SSL. The reason we're not doing logged-in-users only is that one side of the login divide would suffer a redirect from Google every time. ... seo https pagerank   asked by Nick Craver 66 votes answered by John Conde 20 votes How can I simulate a slow connection for page load? I have a fast server, and a reasonably fast home Internet connection. How can I simulate my page loading on a slow connection? performance page-speed   asked by Macha 51 votes answered by Adam 21 votes Can you answer these? Can Apache .htaccess convert the percent-encoding in encoded URIs from Win-1252 to UTF-8? I want to add a directive in my .htaccess, such that if the browser is pointed at a URI containing %E4 (ä) - or any other special character - the .htaccess automatically rewrites %E4 (ä) as %C3%A4 ... htaccess apache mod-rewrite   asked by Rounin 1 vote Trying to include a file from parent domain in subdomain? I am trying to include a php file from a parent domain in a subdomain. In subdomain.parentdomain.com/test.php i have include ('/var/www/vhosts/parentdomain.com/website/wp-blog-header.php'); My ... php subdomain   asked by alex 1 vote Sharing CodeIgniter installation between different servers Current situation: I've got 2 different servers, each one hosting its own CI installation, and everything is working fine, except a lot of code is duplicated (custom libraries, some views, etc) My ... php apache codeigniter   asked by Mdk 1 vote

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