One example that omitting a stop word would make a big difference in the returned search results can be observed by Googling these two queries “the who” and “who”. If you search these two on Google you will see that “the who” returns results related to an “English rock band” and “who” returns results related to “Word Health Organization”

On the other hand, It seems that having or not having stop words in a text link do not make a major difference in the final rankings of a website for one specific targeted key phrase. For example if you are targeting “orthodontist in Miami, FL”, you can both link back to your site using “Orthodontist Miami” or “Orthodontist in Miami” as the text link (anchor text).

But in your link building efforts you must use both versions (with and without the stop words) and even you have to use other versions of the same key phrase such as reversed version (Miami Orthodontist) or plural version (Miami Orthodontists) to look natural to Google in order to avoid being penalized for one specific key phrase.

If you have a set of keywords that you want to write an article based on, as far as content developers are concerned, if a stop word in one of your key phrase get in the way of writing naturally and omitting it won’t make a big difference in the returned search results I would advise to omit it.

This might mislead you and you might end up sending emails to wrong people and not even notice that your message has not been delivered to the correct person.

To fix this you have to remove the addresses that are no longer needed by going to “Contacts” and find the mistyped or deprecated email address from one of the “Most Contacted” or “Other Contacts” categories and delete them by selecting them and clicking on Delete contact under the “More actions” drop-down menu.

If you mistakenly remove some contacts that you didn’t mean to, don’t worry there is a way to undo this, you can easily restore your contacts list to its previous saved status by going to “Contacts” and choosing “Restore contacts” from the “More actions” drop-down menu.

This is called Alexa incorrect merged listings problem. Why this happens?

Alexa spider, identified as ia_archiver in the HTTP “User-agent” header section, crawls the Web whenever it notices that the content of 2 websites are identical it will merge listings for those two sites, this might happen even for more than two sites and is called merging site listing or aliasing. When this happens the traffic of all those listings will be summed to form one ranking that would be listed under only one domain, the one with the most incoming traffic. With a huge number of websites on the Web, this procedure of identifying which domains are displaying the same content may go wrong or become outdated.

Now how to get this Alexa merged problem fixed? Continue reading below.

You have to login to Alexa site information editor (http://www.alexa.com/edit/dealias) to report Alexa that your website has been merged with another website by mistake. And your problem will be fixed within a week or so. The image below is the page you will see after signing into the Alexa site using the above URL:

All pages that have /index.php at the beginning of their permalinks come up with no problem means that the post pages if permalink is set in such a way that the /index.php is at the beginning of it would be accessible.

Deactivating all plugins, switching to Word Press 3.1 default theme won’t fix the issue because this is not a theme-related or plugin-related problem.  Even altering the permalink structure would not resolve it. Clearing the browser cookies also won’t fix it.

This is known as canonical redirect issue that would result in too many redirects (better to say infinite redirect) in windows platforms.

The quick fix would be disabling the “canonical URL redirect” feature which can be done either by installing the “XO Permalink Fix & Disable Canonical Redirects Pack” plugin or by adding the following code to the function.php file of your current theme:

remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical')

What you need to do first is to download every single folder in MBOX format and then create each folder in the new Horde environment and after that import each downloaded file to its corresponding folder in the new server.

Below are the steps you should take to transfer your folders over to the new hosting server:

Exporting folders

• Login to the Horde with your email as the username and its password
• Navigate to “Mail” and then click on the “Folders” icon from the top bar
• Then select the folder you want to export (one folder each time) and from the “Choose action” drop-down menu click on download folders
• Then a window will pop up asking you to click on the OK to download that folder in a MBOX file format

Importing folders

• Login to the Horde in you new server environment click on “Mail” and then click on the “Folders” icon from the top menu icon bar
• From drop-down “Choose action” menu click on create folder and in the small window that pops up enter the name of your folder you want to import and finally click on OK
• Then checkbox the new created folder and this time click on import messages from the “Choose action” drop-down menu
• And navigate to the location where the MBOX file has been stored while you were exporting folders
  And that’s it

301 redirect: is the server side, permanent and search engine friendly redirection.

302 redirect: is used for temporary redirection. This means although the requested page now resides under a different URL but the preferred address to be used in the future is the original one (source one). This means when a URL returns a 302 redirect the users are asked to continue using the source URL as the redirect is temporary and could be modified in future.

Meta redirect: not only is not a SE friendly redirect but also is considered as a spam technique and might cause ranking penalty. For this reason it should only be used when you don’t have any server access.

In case of Meta redirect, search engines sometimes tend to index the URL of the original page with the content of the target page (it seems this happens when the original page has a higher page rank than that of the target one.)

Apparently zero delayed Meta redirect is somehow considered as a 301 redirect by some major search engines.

Different web inspectors have different features but most of them have some main common features and that are as follow:

• Highlighting the node on the page while it is being selected in the DOM hierarchy.
• By clicking a node you can dig deep into the DOM hierarchy which is perfect for debugging web pages with nested structures.
• All the CSS rules applied to a selected node can be viewed under the “style pane” with the overridden properties crossed out. This live easy access to CSS styles is perfect for fixing cross-browser issues.

Latest versions of most of the major browsers have their own built-in web inspector tools. In most cases you can simply open up the web inspector by right clicking on a web page and then selecting “Inspect element” this is true for “Google Chrome” and “Opera”.

For Firefox you need to install the firebug add-on then you will be able to right click on a web page and select Inspect element.

For Safari you have to first activate the web inspector feature by going to “preferences” and then “advanced section” and check the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” checkbox now by right clicking on a web page you can click on “Inspect element” to open up Web inspector.

In case of IE you can access the internet explorer built-in web inspector by selecting the “developer tools” under the IE “Tools” menu.

A web directory is defined as a Web site containing list of other Websites assorted under different categories and subcategories. Web directories were intended to send traffic/visitors to the websites at the very beginning but later on they were mostly used to build back-links rather than sending direct traffic.

The first thing about directory Web sites is that Google treats them the same as any other web site. So if you submit your Web site to a high page rank good quality web directory then the back-link is going to be helpful for your website other way around a low page rank poor quality directory might not be useful or even might damage your Web site ranking on Google and other important Search Engines.

A web directory might come in different types according to their categories, their listing plan and the way they are maintained. Most of the general and some of the niche directories provide all the 3 below listing options.

Base on their categories type

1- All-inclusive directories: General directories that have all sort of typical categories.

2- Specific directories: niche directories that have just technical categories related to their niche area.

Base on the way they are maintained

1- Human-edited directories: Have a strict and hard-line submission policy and the submitted Web sites are reviewed by the human editors before being included. For this reason the Human-Edited Web directories are of a higher quality.

2- Non human edited directories: Have a less strict submission policy and don’t have a human editorial revision and have less control over their listings.

Base on their listing plan

1- Free listing: Is free of charge, inclusion is not guaranteed and it might take long time for being included (even up to 6 months or one year)

2- Featured link or paid listing: require money for being included. Most of the time inclusion is guaranteed and support fast inclusion (24 or less and up to a week) your link would be placed on top of the free listings and often in a highlighted eye-catching way.

3- Reciprocal link: they require you to link back to their website in order to be included.