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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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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
As we enter the second week of public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we ...
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Welcome to Stack Exchange Pro Webmasters!
Welcome to Stack Exchange Pro Webmasters, a community-driven, free Q&A community for webmasters, part of the Stack Exchange network.
What should I ask here?
Questions regarding the management of ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 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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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Use review first posts to welcome new users, don't use "No Action Needed"
I'm seeing lots of first posts on our site that have gone through the "first review" queue but come out the other side with no action.
It is unacceptable that we are not using the opportunity to ...
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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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Our "what topics can I ask about here" help page has been updated
Based on this Meta discussion, our what topics can I ask about here page in the Help Center has been updated. The following details the changes that were made from the previous version with the goal ...
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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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New Catch-All: Why aren't search engines indexing my content?
Update 2/7/2013: Question and answer now available for updates/edits at "Why aren't search engines indexing my content?"
The topic of why particular sites/sites' pages are not being indexed ...
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How should mods be notified of bad migrations?
This question was recently migrated to ServerFault. It's clearly a shopping/product recommendation which is off-topic per the SF faq, and has also generally considered off-topic throughout the network ...
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Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups 2012: You're invited!
We're having a Stack Overflow meetup to get together with fellow programming, web, and other technology enthusiasts. But not all of our programmers and technology enthusiasts live on Stack Overflow, ...
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Increase margin-bottom on list elements to make them more legible
List elements on other Stack Exchange sites are displayed with a margin-bottom of 0.5em. Here's an example screenshot from this UX.stackexchange answer:
But on Pro Webmasters, list items like the one ...
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Information on the moderator candidates
I've posted this same question on the meta of all the other sites undergoing elections, so just in case you've missed it I'm adding it here.
Yi Jiang has put together a nice site that use the Stack ...
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"Help us grow this site" improvements
I was clicking in the "Help us Grow this Site" box on the Pro Webmasters beta site, and there's a couple things that caught my notice.
First off, when focusing on the various icons, the layout shifts ...
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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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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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An old member removed the link to my site on the question should I re-add it?
Here is my question: What are the reasons RPM falls this much?
And here is the edit: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/posts/127180/revisions
Removed link to site. Please note that links to ...
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Why doesn't URL appear in this question's rendered output?
In the following question:
How to make custom footer in page stick to bottom when the content is less?
The question text stops abruptly, which suggests something is missing:
You could find the ...
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Warning: SEOChat has been compromised
Just as a warning, SEOChat has been compromised. This is not the first time either. Your browser will be hijacked.
If you make the same mistake I did, it is best to dump your computer, power off, ...
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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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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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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Feature Request: Embedding Youtube Videos
Currently, some StackExchanges allow for Youtube videos to be embedded in either answers or questions. I believe it may be a feature that can be turned on by the top moderators. The only Stacks that I'...
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Rename [hidden-text] to [hidden-content]
Suggestion: Let's rename the tag hidden-text to hidden-content.
I don’t think there is a need to handle text differently from other forms of content (images, videos, …).
Example question (to which I ...
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Question has not been migrated but has answer from non-user?
This recent question (asked 5 hours ago) was answered (and accepted) 2 hours ago by a user that does not appear to have an account on this site. It was also edited by the same user just 1 hour ago.
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Cleanup: unanswered questions from 2011
There are only 40 6 questions left from 2011 that have no upvoted answers. To view these questions navigate to Unanswered -> Newest, then navigate to the last page. Since there are so few left, here ...
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New Catch-all: How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control?
Community Wiki: How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control?
The topic of spam prevention comes up fairly often, but the answers which are provided aren't consistent (because everyone has ...
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More SE site options when migrating an off-topic question
I think it's safe to say by now that this site attracts a very broad spectrum of questions many of which belong on other SE sites. Unfortunately the migration system only allows us to migrate ...
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Wouldn't more Altruists and Announcers to help growth of the site?
There aren't many people with high enough reputation to offer up bounties on their questions, but I think that bounties do encourage more answers.
Also, bounties, combined with Tweets and other forms ...
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Retag - Get rid of meta tags
I've removed all traces of the subjective tag from Pro Webmasters. Fortunately, no questions had this tag as the only one.
I also re-tagged one instance of poll to visitor-poll.
Can anyone else find ...
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Ask and answer GitHub / Domain question for duplicate or wiki
We have been getting a lot of GitHub / Domain Name questions lately. After looking at a few various answers, it seems like the process is pretty straight forward regardless of the registrar though it ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - ProWebmasters
Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.
More information on the project and ...
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How is the help feature for writing comments implemented on this site?
Of the half dozen or so stackexchange sites I have personal experience with, this one, webmasters, is the only one I have seen where as soon as I start to write a comment, the Help cheatsheet is ...
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Should web hosting control panel questions be asked or migrated here?
I am a moderator at Server Fault, and I have come to seek your advice on whether certain classes of questions can be asked at, or migrated to, Webmasters.
In particular I am concerned with questions ...
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Horizontal scroll appear in all user page
All the user page in webmasters site overflow with horizontal scroll bar, but those pages no need of that scroll bar. And I'm using updated Firefox browser on windows 7. Is this normal ?
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"Minor edit" capability on own questions/answers
Any edit of one's own post, no matter how trivial, has the effect of pushing the question to the top of the activity stream on the front page. Would it be worthwhile to add the ability for a user to ...
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Where can I get the 10k common English dictionary words which Stack overflow uses in related question?
Where can I get the 10k common English dictionary words which Stack overflow uses in related question?
Here in SE podcast -
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/podcast-32/
One of our major ...
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Isn't it more clear to say "View votes to close" than the current "View close votes"?
First, the word "close" can have a few very distinct meanings, some being:
"to come to an end or terminate" such as, Close the door [or close this question].
"having the parts or elements near to one ...
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What are the biggest and best SEO and Webmaster Conferences
We need to help with marketing this site so it continues to grow. Check out Robert's post about it beta site promotion.
I found a site which lists 18 of the best SEO conferences in 2010. A ...
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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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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Clean up broken links to Google Plus
There is a bunch of information for webmasters that used to live on Google Plus. Google employees such as John Mueller posted there. We have about 150 posts that link to Google plus:
https://...
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Where did my comments go?
I'm pretty sure I made two comments on this question yesterday, one of which I deleted. However, today I have no comments on the question?
Just curious what happened to my comment?
UPDATE 2018-05-20:...
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Can we have a catch all question for marketing a website / blog other than SEO?
There is a catch all question to What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google? .
Can we have a catch all question for marketing a website / blog other than SEO? Here I am ...
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Is 'that's not the right tool, here's why' an acceptable answer to a question about a tool?
Long time stackoverflow user here; new user to webmasters though.
Can anyone clarify if answers that suggest that the user is using the wrong tool for the task they've outlined (with an explanation ...
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Tag request: DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a very large VPS company, not unlike Linode.
Linode has a tag yet DigitalOcean does not. I'm sure that there are other people other than me wanting to ask questions about DigitalOcean....
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 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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July 2012 Moderator Town Hall Chat
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Is there value in allowing bounties on a small SE site like this?
I was looking at the recent and only "featured" question, as it currently stands it was set up 14 days ago and has only been viewed 28 times.
I could understand this stat if maybe the question was on ...
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