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Remove Filter  | I would just like to say that I love Screaming Frog. That is all. Carry on. What is your #1 go-to SEO tool? |
| | I received this email: > > Hello Google Developer, > > We're writing to let you know that we detected the use of an embedded webview in requests to Google's OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoint in the past 120 days associated with one or more of your OAuth client IDs listed … |
| | Has anyone been impacted by the Google core algorithm update that started to roll out today? The last one was back in September 2022, for those who are keeping track.  |
| | I'm really bad with regex. For the purposes of URI rewriting, I'm trying to figure out how to match a word one or more times in a string. For example, I want to do something like: string/string/string/foo/bar => foo/bar string/string/bazbat => bazbat Currently I have: ^string/(.*)$ => $1 and that …  |
| | DaniWeb will be switching to new servers later today, and there is planned downtime of a couple of hours. Unfortunately, I don't have an easy way of putting the site into read-only mode. What will most likely happen is that we might lose a few hours of database content. |
| | I've been using CodeIgniter 3 for many years now, and have yet to migrate over to CodeIgniter4. Anyone here using Yii, Laravel, Symphony, CakePHP, or any others? CodeIgniter was my first foray with MVC and I liked that it was a lightweight framework that let me use what I wanted …  |
| | All this hoopla around ChatGPT and AI got me thinking about voice search. Has anyone created a version of Siri that actually *works*? (And, no, Google Assistant and Alexa don't really count. Google Assistant has never answered a single thing for me.) What about Cortana now that Microsoft owns a …  |
| | Sorry for the brief downtime today. I was refactoring some stuff on the web server when DaniWeb went down unexpectedly. I spent about 10-15 minutes going crazy trying to figure out why nothing was being written to the log file and what went wrong, when it turns out I forgot …  |
| | Currently getting increasingly frustrated with my 5K widescreen LG monitor for an assortment of reasons.  |
| | Everyone knows that PHP has such a bad rap for so much bad code being out there. I am a firm believer it is not a problem with PHP, itself, but rather the incredibly low barrier to entry (open source, readily available with nearly all web hosting packages, etc.) coupled …  |
| | In the interest of starting a flame war (hehe), what is your favorite Linux distro for newbies? I haven't thought about this in years, but just thought I'd see what Linux people think in 2023.  |
| | I'm following the list of [backward incompatible changes](https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.incompatible.php) while upgrading my code from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8. It says that `match` is now a reserved keyword. DaniWeb's matching algorithm has many instances of the variable `$match`, the function `match()` and even a class named `Match`. What do I need …  |
| | Trying to get some insight into motivation so I can come up with ways to do a better job giving you what you want. |
| | In light of being forced against my will, kicking and screaming, to use Google Analytics 4, can someone please walk me through how to pull up a report of where newly registered users are going immediately *after* a sign_up conversion event? Thanks in advance!! :) |
| | In an email conversation I was having with Jim last week, I wrote: > It’s a lot easier to google something than it is to find DaniWeb, sign up, create a username, activate your email address, navigate to the contribute page, come up with a topic title, figure out what … |
| | When is it appropriate to use which social network to promote your business in your feed? I am active on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If I have something to share about my business, do I cross-post on all three? Is it common for social networking content managers to use the … |
| | Are URLs submitted to Google in a disavow file excluded from the list of external links in Google Search Console? |
| | Google Analytics initially evolved from Google's purchase of Urchin Analytics, an Apache log analyzer. That's why legacy Google Analytics property IDs all begin with UA-. The familiar ?utm_ keywords that can be tacked onto URLs to track referrer statistics in Google Analytics are remnants of Urchin Tracking Modules. All these … |
| | On Tuesday, November 15th, the average response time (ms) in the Crawl stats section of my Google Search Console skyrocketed. It's been slowly coming back down since, but I was wondering if something changed outside my control that may have caused this anomaly. I'm still working on getting to the … |
| | A couple of years ago, I began using a Cloudflare worker to track my Googlebot traffic in Google Analytics. The initial code I used, and thought process to get there, is [here](https://www.daniweb.com/digital-media/digital-marketing/threads/522837/bot-traffic-in-google-analytics), but here's what my code looks like today: const analyticsId = 'UA-98289-3' addEventListener('fetch', event => { event.passThroughOnException() event.respondWith(handleRequest(event)) … |
| | I'm not understanding the recent obsession with companies switching their social presence from Twitter to Mastodon. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, how does that affect someone's day to day use of Twitter? Mastodon looks to me, at least at the surface, as just a Twitter clone. What am I … |
| | www.domain.com/favicon.ico is showing up as a Soft 404 in my GSC Coverage report. I can't imagine blocking it with robots.txt because it seems as if bots might want to access it from time to time. Suggestions? Or should I just ignore? |
| | Has anyone ever come across any authoritative statement from Google on their official position of whether RSS feeds should be noindexed or not? |
| | The Coverage section of Google Search Console shows 206K valid URLs, of which 174K are submitted and indexed, nearly all of which are Q&A pages. The remaining 32K are indexed, but not submitted in sitemap. However, the Core Web Vitals section only shows data on 28K URLs. In the Enhancements … |
| | The number of known pages in Google Search Console blocked by robots.txt in the Coverage report just recently started going down. Over the course of this month, it went down from about 400K pages to 200K pages. No changes to robots.txt file in 6+ months nor any big structural changes, … |
| | If a page is noindexed, but includes a meta reference to an AMP version, is this a mixed signal? Is the AMP version checked to see if it’s noindexed as well? Are there situations where you would want to index the AMP version but not the desktop version? Is Google … |
| | A lot of times when doing guest posting outreach, it's the recommended strategy to link to content pages (e.g. specific blog articles, etc.) as opposed to your primary landing pages. It's my understanding that the reason for this is because your link is more likely to be flagged as spammy … |
| | I’m using the UA tag to populate both my original UA account as well as GA4, and the users and page view difference is absolutely astounding. Probably like a 20% discrepancy in UA’s favor. UA is set to exclude bots. Is anyone else having a similar experience? |
| | In 2022 (as opposed to a few years ago, when Google was really prioritizing AMP in the SERPs), does it make sense to use AMP pages for a content-based site, but *not* news-based site (e.g. Google News is not relevant) if you can achieve all good core web vitals metrics … |
| | Search Appearance in Google Search Console performance report shows a line item "Education Q&A". Does anyone know how this differs from "Q&A rich results"? Education Q&A has a really good search position compared to Q&A rich results, which is the majority of our pages. When I look at top pages, … |
| | I am using GAM as so: <script async src="https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js"></script> <script> window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot('/86406173/ArticleLeaderboard', leader_size, 'div-gpt-ad-1321481451196-0').addService(googletag.pubads()); // etc. googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(); googletag.pubads().enableLazyLoad(); googletag.pubads().enableLazyLoad({ fetchMarginPercent: 200, renderMarginPercent: 100, mobileScaling: 2.0 }); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.enableServices(); }); </script> Is there a conflict of interest between `enableLazyLoad()` and `enableSingleRequest()`? Thanks! |
| | My office computer had a Linksys router (that supports VPN) connected to both a Windows Server Essentials 2012 (acting as a domain controller) as well as a Windows 8 workstation. I brought my workstation to my home office today, and I want to connect to my office network and continue …  |
| | We were recently hit hard by the latest core algorithm update. Since then, we turned off our AMP pages and our crawl rate, which had been rather consistent for the past many months, has been steadily climbing. Can we draw any conclusions? Is a climbing crawl rate a positive signal … |
| | According to [this page](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) we switched links within our forum posts from using `rel="nofollow"` to `rel="ugc"`. However, Do you think that it makes sense to use `rel="nofollow,ugc"`, or is the *nofollow* part already implied? Does anyone have any anecdotal evidence as to whether they've noticed a real world difference between … |
| | I admit I’m a bit stuck in the past when it comes to this. Does anyone know of any decent FREE Quantcast / Compete.com / Nielsen NetRatings alternatives? Don’t tell me Alexa :) |
| | When I run `getStats()` on my PHP instance, it results in the following: array ( '10.143.27.235:11211' => array ( '����' => '', 'pid' => 3602, 'uptime' => 49804, 'time' => 1663088274, 'version' => '1.5.22', 'libevent' => '2.1.8-stable', 'pointer_size' => 64, 'rusage_user' => 30.254434, 'rusage_system' => 62.188442000000002, 'max_connections' => 4096, 'curr_connections' … |
| | I'm trying to get Memcached persistent connections to work. We currently have a cluster of four Memcached servers each with 2GB of RAM, and four web servers. My code looks like this: public function __construct() { global $config; $this->cache = new Memcached('daniweb'); if ($this->cache->isPristine()) { $this->cache->setOptions(array( Memcached::OPT_NO_BLOCK => true, Memcached::OPT_BUFFER_WRITES … |
| | According to [this page](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/experience/signed-exchange), Google requires "as a rule of thumb" that the SXG expiration date is less than 1 day in the future if the content is JS, or otherwise 7 days in the future. My external Javascript files are immutable. Why should they have a 1 day cache … |
| | What page do you typically start at when using DaniWeb? * Using the search bar to conduct a search * [Activity Stream](https://www.daniweb.com/stream) * [Forums](https://www.daniweb.com/forums) * [Latest Recommended Topics](https://www.daniweb.com/articles/latest/recommended) * [All Latest Topics](https://www.daniweb.com/articles/latest) * [All Newest Topics](https://www.daniweb.com/articles/latest?sort=started) * Something else ...? |
| | You may have encountered a weird error message trying to log into DaniWeb today. We were victim to a signup attack yesterday where 1000+ bots figured out a way around our CAPTCHA and signed up. I've tightened up the signup + login forms today to prevent this from happening again … |
| | I'm back!! After a month-long break, filled with family visits, getting married, and going on our honeymoon, I'm finally back! Family is still in town for another couple of weeks, but I'm going to start returning to my desk most afternoons. |
| | Mine is READY. When I’m not playing in hard mode, my second is PIOUS. |
| | I’ve made some UI changes to our forums page after my husband told me it looked too old school and like a 1990s webpage. Let me know your thoughts: https://www.daniweb.com/forums As you may have noticed, I also made some changes to the sorting and filter buttons on forum listing pages. …  |
| | How can I tell how much bot traffic I'm getting in Google Analytics? I've been doing a lot of work on improving my crawl budget and I want to see if Google Analytics reports similar data to the Search Console Crawl Stats charts. |
| | What do you consider "ethical SEO"? What types of general techniques do you use? (No need to be specific or anything here.) The only reason I ask is because everyone has their own definitions of black hat, white hat, ethical, not-so-ethical, etc. :) |
| | To AMP or not to AMP, that is the question. For those who have decided to implement AMP (Wordpress users, I'm looking at you!), have you noticed a difference since doing so? For those of you who have chosen not to, what are your reasons? |
| | I am trying to get the hang of Google Analytics 4. One of the conversions that we track is sign ups. I'm seeing a lot of conversions attributed to the Organic Social group. However, a lot of these conversions are people who found the site some other way (e.g. organic … |
| | Google has always said that all of their bots do not use cookies. I caught a screenshot on Google PageSpeed Insights that displayed a modal that I only have implemented for users with a specific cookie already set. So there you have it, Googlebot uses cookies. |
| | Just thought I would start up a discussion and ask everyone ... what got you into tech? For me, I was 4 years old, my parents got me an Apple IIGS, and, in reading the manual, it came with a cheat cheet for booting into a BASIC interpreter with Ctrl … |
| | Many years ago, DaniWeb offered a pay-to-post system where each post was awarded a monetary value (typically between 5 and 50 cents), depending upon how in-depth it was, upvotes, etc. Members could cash out once a month if they earned $10 or more from their posts. Very few members took … |
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