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A tag for duckduckgo?
There are some questions about DuckDuckGo, but no tag for it.
I do not have enough reputation to create it myself.
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Is there an on going tag clean-up / retagging effort?
I answered a question today slightly related to google-workspace. The question's core is "domains literacy" (domain registrar, domain hosting, alternatives to handle domain email forwarding )...
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Not getting the right answer to the questions I answered with effort
Newly opened accounts often ask questions about SEO. Since they are new accounts, I try to give long and clear answers as much as I can.
But after new users ask their questions, they don't even enter ...
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Can I ask questions about marketing purposes?
I have written open-source software but it's hard to gain any traction, so I'm looking for advice.
Can I post a question regarding this topic when the question includes links to repos / websites etc?
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Moving questions from Webmasters to Wordpress should be used sparingly
The Webmasters stackexchange is where webmasters hang out. The audience includes people knowledgeable in PHP, SEO, server issues, HTML (helpful with WordPress widgets), and lots of other areas that ...
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When someone adds only tags to a question, is it regarded as an improvement?
So someone has been adding tags to existing questions and they have been popping up in the review queue.
There have been existing tags in the questions and the person is simply adding one more tag e.g....
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Rename tag [google-apps] to [google-workspace] and synonymize [gsuite]?
According to Wikipedia, Google Workspace was formerly known as Google Apps, and later G Suite.
We've been getting some questions tagged google-workspaces, but most of them are tagged google-apps. I ...
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Is there a "Postmaster" (email / smtp) stack exchange?
I notice that sometimes there are pure SMTP-related / postmaster type questions posted here, but I'm wondering if there is a stack exchange devoted exclusively to all things email. SMTP, spam /abuse ...
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In which site should I post a question related to the configuration of an SSL Certificate
Where should I post my question
I want to configure an SSL Certificate while hosting a react application on my home web server.
I posted it on https://security.stackexchange.com/
but it has been ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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How can I do the "cleanup" badge task?
How can I do the cleanup badge task? I can't find any information about how to do it anywhere, I would be grateful if you can help me.
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Is my closed question of any value to future visitors
I don’t have a problem with my question What is the advantage to showing the Trusted Site Logo on your website being closed.
Should I delete it or does it have some future value?
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MODx crawling issue is not a duplicate of Why aren't search engines indexing my content?
I have a question about my Webmasters Stack Exchange post: MODx issue, cannot be crawled
My post was closed for a reason of duplicate. It is very hard to me to solve my problem. I had been read ...
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Why isn't there a "search" option on the site?
We expect people to do some research before asking a question, especially with duplicate questions. But I note that there is no site search option.
Wouldn't that be helpful for people, ultimately ...
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What are the most common spelling errors on the Webmasters site?
What are the most common spelling errors can be corrected across the site? How would one help edit spelling corrections?
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Goodbye "Pro Webmasters". Hello, "Webmasters!"
TL;DR: Our site's name is changing soon from "Pro Webmasters" to just "Webmasters".
Recently we had a discussion here regarding rebranding our site with a different name. Although ...
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My question isn't a good match for Stack Overflow. On reflection it might be a better fit, here. Would like to check first
Question is here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71924013
Its about being a responsible site manager/owner, rather than coding the site. Questions related to the correct/appropriate/best practice ...
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The Great Rebranding of ProWebmasters Stack Exchange
This post is an official follow-up to Mike Ciffone's meta post here:
Does ProWebmasters Need to rebrand?
Some community members here have expressed a desire to rename our ProWebmasters Q&A forum ...
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Synonyms: [site-deployment] or [website-deployment]?
We have two tags that appear to mean the same thing:
website-deployment - 10 questions
site-deployment - 35 questions
Making one of these a tag synonym of the other seems like a no-brainer to me. ...
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Should Webmasters allow 3 votes to close a question rather than 5?
I feel like it is currently too hard for non-moderators to close and re-open questions on Webmasters. According to 2021: a year in moderation in the last year our moderators closed 989 questions while ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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No dark mode available?
I notice that SO has a dark mode but it doesn't seem available on Web(whatever-we-are-going-to-call-it).
Or am I missing something?
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Does ProWebmasters Need to rebrand?
I was chatting with some people you might call "influencers" in SEO recently.
When I mentioned how stoked I was on how we've been doing here on Pro Webmasters lately, replies echoed "...
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Why was my account deleted?
Over the past month, I was searching for a good domain for my NGO... and came across various sites where I could find many interesting domain names. I came and opened an account in the webmaster ...
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Library of basic questions with reliable high quality answers [Ongoing Initiative Idea]
Recently Stephen brought up a great idea in his answer to my question re: internal linking and I thought it would make for a great initiative. The idea is that we would write up some basic questions ...
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Help Fixing Broken Internal Links [Ongoing Project]
I recently took a look at our site using Ahref's Site Explorer and noticed that we currently have ~1,400 broken links. Essentially, these are questions/answers that link out to pages that 404. Fixing ...
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If we're linking out, we ought to prioritize our own answers over of external resources
As a Q&A site, we naturally link to a lot of external URLs. Part of what makes q&a sites awesome is that we typically link to the right pages.
Before linking out, I encourage everyone to look ...
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Retire the tag "google-adwords", replace with "google-ads"
The name "Google AdWords" has been deprecated for several years. You do still hear google-adwords or just plain adwords every so often tho - mostly out of habit. Those could become synonyms.
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Should we merge [social-networks] and [social-media]?
Should we merge social-networks (x 64) and social-media (x 127)?
They seem very similar in the ways that they are used to tag questions.
If merged, I suggest social-media as the canonical tag.
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What is the tag wiki mentioned in the badges?
While looking at badges, I saw something called edit wiki tag. Although I searched the site a bit, I couldn't find anything like a wiki. Actually, I don't quite understand what a wiki is.
My question ...
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Is it OK to recommend our own services in a comment?
A question was closed for being off-topic, I was the first to vote to close.
I run a web hosting business and offer the service they are looking for. Is it OK to suggest that in a comment with or ...
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Can we optimize our own meta data?
Our title tag is currently:
<title>Webmasters Stack Exchange</title>
Our description is:
<meta name="description" content="Q&A for pro webmasters"/>
We ...
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How did my question in 1 day get so many views when there are so many inactive people on the website?
Question Link
I asked a question yesterday and when I looked at the screen of my question today, I saw that it was displayed a lot.
If this question got this many views, the other questions should get ...
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What to do with answer that has several dead links?
The accepted answer for Mobile phone detection (brand, model, browser etc) from 2010 has links that someone has edited to mark as "dead link".
There are enough dead links that to remove them ...
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Should Pro Webmasters unpin the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers?
September 19 Update
As of the deadline to report our preferences, this question has two answers in favor of unpinning and no answers opposed. Given that the overwhelming opinion is in favor of ...
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Tags - [serps] are the same as [search-results], right?
Are the tags serps (search engine results pages) and search-results (search results) the same?
If so, should (edit) serps be synonymized into search-results?
Doing a spot check of the tagged questions,...
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Change "Departed" to "User Removed" on our election page for a former moderator with a deleted account
Our election page uses the following image for a former moderator whose account is now is now deleted:
Based on Change the way deleted users are shown in the Community Moderator Elections page this ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #5 on Webmasters has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Should we get rid of [wordpress]?
A few minutes ago, I saw this question which was closed as "off-topic for this site." A comment stated that it would be better on WordPress.StackExchange.com.
But if these questions belong ...
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First post access flag bug?
Something seems to have gone a bit wonky. Did this only happen for me?
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Why do moderators sometimes comment on questions without closing them?
I notice that often questions that are eventually closed because enough people have flagged them, have comments from a moderator.
Why do moderators not close such questions instead?
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Status of Post url is "Submitted & Indexed" in GSC but url is not visible in google search manually
I have a question about my Webmasters Stack Exchange post: Status is "Submitted & Indexed" in GSC but url is not visible in google search manually
Are we blindly redirecting all the ...
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Why was a 10 year old question/ answer suddenly marked as low quality?
This came up in the review queue.
What would cause it to pop after all this time?
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What is it about some questions that makes them so popular?
I am curious if anyone has come up with what makes a question popular.
The question that triggered this curiosity is How to prevent pictures from being downloaded by right-clicking on them or ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Styles missing on Webmasters Meta - Elements not visible
Certain styles are not displaying on Webmasters Meta. The main site is OK. Other meta sites are OK. Tried Chrome 87/Windows, Chrome on iOS, Safari on iOS.
Even the "Ask Question" button is ...
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What triggers "active today" with no apparent activity?
A question asked in 2011 popped up Dynamic URLs and links to many affiliate links from one PHP page as active today.
There is nothing obvious that has changed (edit, comment), so what is it that bumps ...
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Can SEO students ask questions on Pro Webmasters?
I'm looking for a place to send my 240+ SEO students to learn and ask questions?
Will Pro Webmasters help them?