Will Checking Existence Of Email Be Throttled By Email Servers?

As part of a web application I am building, I must check if a particular email address exists. This check may be performed at around 1000 times an hour at a given server. Is there any mail server security policy that would prevent this? Edit: I do not mean any particular server. Would there be any reason for throttling to be enabled anywhere.


How should I evaluate how long a website can be down for regularly scheduled maintenance?

I'm working on a system that is going to need some regularly scheduled maintenance for:   * upgrades and releases   * regular data migration and database maintenance  How should I determine how long these maintenance windows can be and how often they can occur? For example, some data needs to be moved from the "recent transactions" database into the main database. The amount of data in the main database precludes updating the indexes in real time, so it has to be an offline process with downtime. Would it be better to do it daily for an hour, weekly for three hours, or monthly for eight hours? Each of those options is going to have an effect on users as well as SEO. Similarly, if a release takes an hour, is it acceptable to do it every night, or should it be done less frequently?


Managed Dedicated Servers vs Virtual private servers vs Hosting plans

Can any body tell me what is the difference between Managed Dedicated server and Virtual private server. Similarly what is difference between Virtual Private server and hosting package? And what to use in what situation? I read over internet but didn't get much idea of them. It would be highly appreciated if some reading material is also shared. If the answer depends on some technology, then i am mostly using ASP.net with C# and MS SQL Server for Database operations


Pointing Domain Name to new Hosting Provider

I am helping a friend switch hosting provider. He bought the domain through GoDaddy and currently hosts the site at http://www.wix.com/. Where do I need to update the ip address so that the domain now points to the new hosting provider (winhost).


Should sitemaps list their dynamic data, newest first or oldest first?

When we create an xml sitemap for a site with dynamic data, should we prepend all new data to the start of the sitemap OR append it to the end? Do search engines hate it when a sitemap is 100% different each time OR when they see that it's mainly the same, but just a bit different at the end. ### Example Lets imagine we're creating an XML sitemap for StackOverflow -> a site with dynamic data. Lets also assume that, ever day we have 1000 new 'items' to get added to the sitemap and we start out with 200,000 items. I'm also generating the sitemap every hour or every day... don't really care just yet. Now, with all these items to be sitemap'd, first I'll need to have a sitemap index that points to each page of items to get indexed. Kewl. If I add the new items to the START of the list of items to get indexed, then each 'page' in the index will be different, compared to the previous time the search engine grabbed the sitemap index. eg.   * **Day 1** : Page1 will have 100 items, with the most recent item having a timestamp of 1pm, day1.   * **Day 2** : page1 will now have a complete new set of 100 items, with the timestamp of the newest item in this page being 1pm day2. This also means every other page, in the index is different to the previous. So does this mean the search engine would need to go through EACH PAGE again to see what resources it needs to index? But at least all the new content is first, so the assumption here is that the search engine will be indexing the newest stuff, first. As opposed to .. appending any new data to the end of a sitemap ..   * **Day 1** : Page1 has 100 items. most recent is timestampe 1pm, day1   * **Day 2** : Page1 is still identical to page1, the day before. Now, page 22 has the most recent stuff, which didn't exist the day before. Here i'm assuming the search engine will see all of this stuff and say 'ahh! most of these pages haven't changed since i was last here .. so i'll ignore them .. but lets see AH! there's a few new pages that DO have some new data.. so lets check them out instead'. Anyone have any experience with this?


Email error "Authentication is required for relay"

I have recently moved all of my websites to a new (and more secure server). Out of 50 customers, 2-3 are having email issues, specifically with sending emails within the same domain and to domains on the same server. _Here's a sample error message:_ > Diagnostic information for administrators: > > Generating server: AMXPR04MB247.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com > > pat@moonspace.co.uk babcom-h2.lnc.net Remote Server returned '550 > Authentication is required for relay' > > Original message headers: > > Received: from DB3PRD0411HT001.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com (10.255.73.36) by > AMXPR04MB247.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com (10.242.72.18) with Microsoft SMTP > Server (TLS) id 15.0.800.7; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:54:25 +0000 Received: from > [192.168.1.10] (109.145.84.154) by pod51014.outlook.com (10.255.73.36) with > Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.16.371.2; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:54:24 +0000 > From: Franklyn Nevard Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple- > Mail=_2340A5CF-1977-490C-A345-7D19967ACFFE" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 > (Mac OS X Mail 7.0 (1822)) Subject: Re: Hosting invoice from MoonSpace Date: > Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:54:21 +0000 References: > <52851A01.7090302@moonspace.co.uk> To: Pat Dobson In-Reply-To: > <52851A01.7090302@moonspace.co.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1822) Return- > Path: franklyn@franklynnevard.co.uk X-Originating-IP: [109.145.84.154] > X-Forefront-PRVS: 0031A0FFAF X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: > SFV:NSPM;SFS:(71364002)(51704005)(199002)(189002)(24454002)(81342001)(74366001)(56816003)(16601075003)(76786001)(16236675002)(65816001)(63696002)(15202345003)(53806001)(82746002)(69556001)(15974865002)(81542001)(4396001)(80022001)(76796001)(51856001)(77156001)(15975445006)(87266001)(87286001)(66066001)(46102001)(85306002)(36756003)(74706001)(83716003)(83322001)(83072001)(71186001)(57306001)(33656001)(512874002)(74876001)(512934002)(31966008)(80976001)(76482001)(56776001)(81686001)(62966002)(47446002)(77982001)(54316002)(84326002)(19580405001)(79102001)(19580395003)(69226001)(74662001)(50986001)(567704001)(74482001)(47736001)(59766001)(81816001)(50226001)(49866001)(47976001)(87936001)(74502001);DIR:OUT;SFP:;SCL:1;SRVR:AMXPR04MB247;H:DB3PRD0411HT001.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com;CLIP:109.145.84.154;FPR:;RD:InfoNoRecords;A:1;MX:1;LANG:en; > X-OriginatorOrg: franklynnevard.co.uk > > Reporting-MTA: dns;AMXPR04MB247.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com Received-From-MTA: > dns;DB3PRD0411HT001.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com Arrival-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 > 08:54:25 +0000 > > Final-Recipient: rfc822;pat@moonspace.co.uk Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 > Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 Authentication is required for relay Remote-MTA: > dns;babcom-h2.lnc.net X-Display-Name: Pat Dobson The question is, is this something that I can do something about (i.e. is it a configuration error on my users email settings) or do I need to go to the server hosts about it ? I have already contacted the server hosts and they say that it's nothing to do with them. What makes me suspicious is that _most_ users have no problems.


Website Access...DNS, ISP, issue?

This isn't so much a code issue as it might be an issue with my ISP. For some reason when I visit a site very often, like one I manage or write stories on, it will just stop pulling data down after a while. It's very random when it happens, but probably happens once a week. If effects everyone who is accessing the site from this connection, and I can access other sites no problem. Also, if I go outside the office back home, which is right down the street, and access the site it is fine. I'm using Comcast in both locations. It's almost as if I have a limit on requests to each site and have hit my limit so it blocks the site for a while. Anybody have any clue what this might be?


For progressing signed_request, should we pay for using SSL?

I would like to ask you a few questions about signed request. As you notice, we must take SSL certificate on 1st Oct. When I researched, we cannot get it as free. I am wondering how you decied that the number of business facebook users must take SSL certificate by payment. Isn't there any other option for taking SSL free such as you provided? Or aren't you going to give the option on Facebook for processing? I can see there aren't many people realise this matter how big issue is. I tried to call you and ask some question on developer's blog, yet I haven't got any answer. I hope that I will get the answer for it this time.


Extremely large spike in traffic on the 1st - 4th of every month from mobile browsers

I've noticed that on the 1st - 4th of the recent months (since January), several sites I maintain are getting thousands of requests from mobile browsers, whereas throughout the rest of the month, the numbers are in the single or double digits. Has anybody else noticed this sort of behavior? I don't have the exact user agents logged, but my analysis software (WebTrends) reports the traffic as mostly iPhone/iPad/iPod, Android, and Blackberry.


When creating HTML for _escaped_fragment_ AJAX pages, how correct does it have to be?

I have a javascript heavy site (It really couldn't be coded in any sensible way with progressive enhancement) and I am using Google's advice for making AJAX websites crawlable. (i.e. use "`?_escaped_fragment_` in place of '`#!`') My question is this: How closely does my flat HTML need to match the AJAX created HTML for users? I imagine Google must be checking some of the AJAX content, as otherwise this would be an easy way to do cloaking. I don't want to cloak in any way, but it is difficult to produce the exact HTML source that AJAX generates on the server-side? Would a rough approximation be good enough? Anyone have any experience in doing this?


How do I make my website retina display friendly?

Recently the retina MacBook Pro was released at WWDC 2012. It has a resolution of 2880 by 1800. This makes websites look really bad if they haven't been optimized for the new high-res display, as noted by Marco Arment. What are some thing I need to do to optimize my website for retina displays?


Analytics referrer forum thread

When I'm in analytics I sometimes get a referral from a forum, something like:               http://forums.example.com      Then when I click on it, it gives me a page like:               /viewTopic.php      Is there any way to get it to return the topic ID so I can click on it and see which topic it is? At the moment I have to register, and run a search. Can be very slow.


PHP permissions

**Can someone please explain best practice for permissions with PHP.**   What case should something be writable, executable, what owner is best, etc. ? Using an apache server


Do all US providers refuse issuing a separate IPv4 address for a separate website?

My provider told me that they cannot give us a separate IP address for a separate website. I understand that they could give us one where an existing address absolutely cannot be reused, like if we had a second virtual server, or required SSL. Having browsed around, it seems that this isn't really up to them, and is imposed "from above", leading me to wonder if this applies to all hosts in the US. If this is not so, please could you recommend a good webhost with servers in the US which are happy to issue several IP addresses without requiring extra virtual servers? P.S. I _could_ get a separate virtual server for this, but that seems daft. It doesn't save any IP addresses whatsoever, and only wastes extra electricity in the process...


Implementing Facebook Like and Tweet Buttons into E-Mail

I am sending an email campaign out to subscribers and I would like to incorporate a Facebook Like and a Tweet Button into my email. Since I cannot use javascript inside emails I was wondering the best way to do this. Here is what I have so far: **Tweet Button**                          **Facebook Like**                          Here are a few questions: How do I pull the subject of the email to be posted along with the content? Is it possible to pull only an image from the email and have that posted vs the entire email content? Is there a better way to code the above buttons? Thanks for the assistance.


What is the technology used to let people drag and drop images on top of each other, then save the result?

Fairly simple really, I just want people to be able to drag an image onto another image, position it where they want by dragging it around, and then when they're happy with it, click a button to save it (on my server) as a file (preferably a PDF or PNG). This may sound like a simple, beginner's question, but I am not asking HOW to accomplish this, just what the best technology currently is (JS, HTML5, something else, maybe some existing libraries ala jQuery). I have been focusing on back-end stuff for a few years and am TOTALLY out of touch with what is the best way to do this. I don't want to use Flash, I know that. I'm looking for a method that is both cross-platform, and easy enough to learn, or preferably if there are good libraries I can adapt easily.


Indicating web design authorship in a design as a freelancer in a professional way

I thought this was probably already posted, but didn't know how to phrase it in order to search it. I was hoping the automatic duplicate search would turn up something, but nothing came up on the topic. So here goes: Some freelance web designers often "sign" a design or otherwise indicate authorship on them (I'll use the term "to sign" for that action, so we are clear). Not only does it entice future business, but it serves the main purpose of providing a simple way for a viewer to identify the designer should they wish to do so. A popular form of identification is probably adding a note to the footer, such as "Made by _Jon Allard_ " or "A design by _Foobar Productions_ " with a link. I have also thought of including an HTML comment in the source code. Now those means are sure useful for the designer and the soon-to-be new client, but the impact of those means on the brand being represented on the website is real. There might be some perceived lack of professionalism in those notices, both on the part of the client/website and the freelancer/designers. **Is there an commonly accepted practice on that regard, and if not, what is a viable way of indicating authorship of a web design without significantly hurting the client or freelancer's brands?**


Best Platform to build Business Directory Website ,which is SEO friendly?

We have plan to setup a business directory website. and our team thinking of suitable platform Php or ASP i want to know which is most commonly used in Commercial Business Directory Websites. How does Business Directory Websites get their pages indexed so fast , does we consider creating website just like Blog / forums which index's faster than static Website . How business Directory Website works ....??


Can I get user history with Analytics API?

Can I do so? that I will send user id from cookies to Google Analytics API and I will get all my site pages which was visited by user? I do not found any example of this.


GA goal match URL regular expression

I'm trying to setup a Goal URL with REGEX matching but it's not working. The Url I'm trying to match is:               user/12345/edit?registration=1      with "12345" being the userid that changes.               user/[0-9]*/edit?registration=1      Should work, but doesn't. When I do an advanced search for pages with RegEx match (in the new GA interface) it shows no results. If I search for "contains" /edit?registration=1 it shows all the Urls. What am I missing?


Duplicate Content Ranking Better?

On my news website, I scour various sources and write original news articles. However, one of my competitors is merely copying news articles from popular news websites directly with a few or no modifications whatsoever. Even though, it ranks better than us and he has very good traffic. Al they do is cite the original source but the entire article is same as the original. Does Google not consider duplicate content for news?


How do you handle bad scripts or plugins

As web developers obviously we don't want to reinvent the wheel with everything we do so best practice would dictate when necessary we should use third party scripts and plugins. Recently I have found a slew of 'bad' plugins for Wordpress, which fall into two categories;   1. The plugin works fine, but isn't written using current standards.   2. The plugin appears to work but is just written wrong. Both plugins do what they say they will do, but in the first category you can't minify the javascript behind them because the javascript hasn't been written to conform to say jslint or any other code validation and in the second category the plugin uses potentially insecure code or incredibly inefficient code so under normal use it seems fine but under pressure seams become undone and the server gets hit with unnecessary loads. The thing I can (and will) do is rate the plugin and provide feedback, but lets say 10000 people have downloaded the plugin and never need to minify it, or need to put it under pressure, my one negative review will be a drop in the ocean. It feels like more should be done. What else should I do as a developer and we do as an industry to ensure sloppy third party plugins get brought up to speed?


Linux Mint 15 + Rails with Apache/Passenger

I am only beginner and try to understand how to configure apach web-server for my RubyOnRails app. I have linux, installed apache2, passenger and apache2-module for passenger. While installing i got text like this               LoadModule passenger_module /home/rubys/.rvm/.../ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so     PassengerRoot /home/rubys/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/passenger-3.0.8     PassengerRuby /home/rubys/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.2-p290/ruby      I need add this to my apache config file, so, i use               $ apachectl -V | grep HTTPD_ROOT     $ apachectl -V | grep SERVER_CONFIG_FILE      file, which i need is here               /etc/apache2/apache2.conf      my rails app is here               /home/alexkd/WebDev/rails/depot      Also i have file in /etc/apache2/ **ports.conf** with text like this               NameVirtualHost *:80     Listen80      What I have to copy to my **apache2.conf**? and where i have to add this:               <VirtualHost *:80>        ServerName depot.yourhost.com        DocumentRoot /home/alexkd/WebDev/rails/depot        <Directory /home/alexkd/WebDev/rails/depot>          AllowOverride all          Options -MultiViews        </Directory>     </VirtualHost>


How much time does it take for a website to appear after a "Manual spam action revoked" message from Google?

We've had a site tagged as "spam" by Google. I wrote a reconsideration request on December 30th and on January 8th I received a "Manual spam action revoked" message. Now it's January 9th and the site still does not have any sites indexed in Google. How much time can it take until they will start showing up? Note that we had just acquired this domain name recently. We were not actually involved in any web spam, but due to an unlikely combination of events we became marked as spammers. UPDATE: We're definitely in the 12%. Three days later our site has 19 pages indexed.


Will "jailing" a single page inside an iframe using a JavaScript redirect be considered as cloaking?

**Background**   I have a website that uses iframes to display content. If the URL to a content is called directly by the user it should be "jailed" into the _main page_.   The _main page_ provides a header and a footer as well as the navigation menu. There is one iframe named _contentframe_. All links in the navigation (and footer and stuff) target this frame. **My Solution for "jailing"**   First I find out whether the page is already jailed via javascript (that's simply done with something like `var jailed = (window.self != window.top);` where jailed will be true if the page is "jailed" already.   Next I redirect (using javascript) to the _main page_ with a parameter called _referrer_ passing it the URL of the page which should get "jailed". This PHP script reads this parameter and sets it as the _src_ argument of the iframe.   This way the _main page_ is loaded within the iframe. This way I can directly link to a content and after only one reload everything will be displayed just fine. But I have questions regarding some issues. **My Questions**   1. Are there seo problems?   I think, that google can index the contents of my site (links provided at least by the sitemap.xml and of course through the navigation links). **But** what about this javascript redirect? It's not cloaking, but is it problematic? Will Google punish me for that somehow?   I found out, that it's hard to find some info material for this topic.   2. What about best practices?   I know how to do what I want to do technically, but how about best practices? I couldn't find anything so far, but maybe some of you had to deal with that. Or is my solution perfectly fine? **Note1**   I know iframes are not a very elegant way for displaying the content (from the same domain), but I'm stuck with it and I must deal with it, so please no "do not use iframes comments" :-) **Note2**   Please, no opinions. I'm quite sure there are some facts on how to do this the best way. **Note3**   The following link describes that the intent is very important. In a way I'm showing different content to GoogleBot than to my user, technically. But the content really stays the same only it is decorated a bit. But what does GoogleBot say? Cloaking and/or Sneaky Redirects


Facebook Comments Lost

I am using Facebook comments on couple of my blogs at the moment and I just found that somehow magically all the previous comments made on posts are gone and are no longer being displayed. I'm using wordpress for all of these blogs and Facebook Comments for WordPress to manage all the facebook comments. But somehow they all disappeared all of a sudden. Another problem which I've been facing lately is that I can't seem to moderate the faceboook comments. When I go to http://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments where there should be a list of all the comments made on my sites (against the Applications that I've created just for the sake of comments), there is nothing there. This has been the thing from the starting, **before the comments vanished on my site, today** So technically, there are two issues to solve here.


Does registering a second domain name with the dashes help SEO?

If I have a site registered and running on ThisIssomething.com for example, does registering This-Is-Something.com and redirecting it actually help SEO? Or is it mainly to protect your brand?


Does wordpress.com support 3rd party themes?

I just purchased WordPress Value Bundle worth $99 from WordPress and now I am having a hard time customizing my blog's theme. I am unable to install 3rd party themes. Can I just customize fonts, background images, etc.? What good is that? I am super confused and lost. Why cant I use a customized theme with all the jQuery stuff? Did I just lose $99? I wanted to use this theme for my blog. What do I do now? What can be done?


Decision to change domains to one that's almost the same - effect on Results?

I have a decision to make about whether to use a new domain for a business site that has been completely redesigned. The reason a new domain is needed is that the current one contains a small grammar mistake(missing letter 's'). The client has told me that he plans to expand his business, so I advised him that it would be better to change it to the proper spelling. However, I have discovered that this current domain is doing ok in the SERPs for various keywords. He has been using this address for over 2 years, advertising it and so on.. I have done some good SEO on the new site, and I'll do the 301 redirects for each page if we decide to change it. I know that if we move it that the rankings will probably be affected for a few weeks at least, but is it a safe bet that they will recover within a short time? I am thinking that it should be, as the redirects will mean that it's associated with the old site, and the domain name will be very similar(just adding the extra 's' at the end). But I have not done something like this before, so I'd really appreciate some insight from someone who has experience. I would hate to destroy the search ranking, or have it wait a long time to recover to a good position. But at the same time, the new address would be better for the future...


Does Google Analytics track users with multiple languages?

I'm assuming that when Google Analytics tracks a visitor's language it uses the Accept-language header from the request (most browser/OS combinations seem to populate it automatically). My browser sends:               Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,en-GB;q=0.6,fr-CA;q=0.4,fr;q=0.2      And yet I can't figure out how to get stats on what percentage of my visitors _can_ speak a certain language even if it isn't their primary one (in my case I normally use English but I can use French). Does any analytics program do this, or am I going to have to capture it in my logs and track it manually?


Google Analytics: How can I exclude a country from reports?

Hi is it possible to exclude traffic from a certain country in google analytics? If yes, how do I do it?


How to use google adsense and google analytics for my site

Hi i've got a site serving content to Brazil http://montao.com.br via google app engine getting comfortable with updating it with new function now also adding google adsense and analytics to the site. Now I want to know if you can follow the link to maybe give me some good advice how to use adsense and analytics since adding these tools is adding script that could slow down the pages' load times. Thank you


What DNS records are needed to point a domain to an IP address?

I have a newly registered domain ice-hot.co.uk which I have bought from 123-reg.co.uk and I want to point it to IP address 94.76.224.52 which is a VPS hosted by a different company. What DNS records do I need to create on 123-reg.co.uk in order to point ice- hot.co.uk and www.ice-hot.co.uk to 94.76.224.52? Is the following anywhere close to correct?...               ice-hot.co.uk.    A       94.76.224.52     www               CNAME   ice-hot.co.uk      As usual, documentation is long on explanations but short on examples. The 123-reg.co.uk tech support just keep quoting parts of their "help" manual back at me.


Webpage loading with wrong content-type after setting up CloudFlare

I recently migrated my blog to the Ghost service, I've also setup an alias DNS record with CloudFlare. While showing the blog to a colleague I discovered one of the posts wasn't loading properly and would instead prompt to be downloaded with an `application/octet-stream` content-type. I can view all the pages without any issues and I believe we're both on the same network as well. Has anyone received a wrong content type like `application/octet-stream` using CloudFlare, or know what I can do to correct this?


reliable place to buy .io domains

I'm looking around trying to find a good place to buy **.io** domains. Suddenly, I think I'm surrounded by scammers, since .io domain providers websites, are really badly-designed and I am not feeling of confident about dealing with them. I'm trying to deal with nic.io guys right now. If somebody could point me out some company, it would be appreciated. Specially because the domain costs £60. It's not that cheap to spend with someone that could just leave you waiting for some answer after the payment.


Checking correctness of site

I am looking for a way to thoroughly check my site against common errors (like 404 links, duplicated title tags and so on). I'd like to define some custom rules too, for example:   * We changed name of our product. So I would like to define a rule that any instance of "OldName" generates a warning (except at some predefined pages which actually refer to differences between old product and new one).   * I'd like to ensure that all instances of our company name or product name are properly marked as trademarked. So any instance of "CompanyName" that is not followed by a unicode character "TM" should generate a warning. I know that some basic checks can be made through Google Webmaster Tools or similar, but it is slow and does not check many things. I am now using a custom home-made crawler, but maybe there are better choices? It doesn't have to be free. It can be a SAAS or an installable app.


Plesk Migration MediaTemple dv 3.5 to 4.0

With things slower during the holidays, I'm taking the time to upgrade out web server account with Media Temple from a dv 3.5 to dv 4.0. I'm a little out of my element doing this, but have been following this document to get it done: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/241/Using+the+Plesk+Migration+Manager#dv_40 Just used the Plesk migration overnight, and it successfully migrated with a few errors. Unfortunately, I don't know what do do now. I've looked at the errors, and don't see anything alarming. I'm not seeing any of our domains, etc after the migration in our sever. In the migration manager, I always end up with two migration tasks, with the second never actually starting. Looks like this: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/yqYbz.jpg) The only difference in the two tasks are the source hostname Any help, tips, etc. would be appreciated. Just discovered a string of emails that had been held by our spam service: "Generating new Apache configuration on host failed because the following error(s) occurred: Syntax error on line 4 of /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/conf/vhost.conf: Wrapper /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/bin/php-cgi cannot be accessed: (2)No such file or directory Please fix error(s) in templates of Apache configuration and retry generating the configuration file." How do I enaable php-cgi on the new server?


How Can I create Webfont?

How can I create webfont? any software or online service which can create webfont from my custom TrueType font.


Disallowed Analytics email campaign names? Other reason emails might not be tracked?

I've had a successful email campaign series setup using Universal Analytics with the /collect `img` code for open rate, except there are two emails that are mysteriously not tracking. Tracked opens properly:                     Did not track opens:                     ...and the other was `cn=Newsletter+2014+02+Open`, the similarity of which makes me wonder if it is something so simple as the naming convention of the campaign. However I can't find locate anything about disallowed names. Any thoughts?


Indexing a page in which the content is discovered in a map

We want to improve our site's SEO. The page is a GWT (javascript based) web page and its content is discovered through a map or a GPS. Now we have just a normal landing html page, and the map and the detail pages referenced in a sitemap.xml. I want to achieve better results by:   * Leaving the html landing page as it is right now, but pointing to the map page (now it does it through JavaScript).   * In the map (JavaScript page) use the trick and change the body in the servelet with H1, H2, H3... but... do we put a list of links to the details simulating the map of the whole world? Or is better to leave this to the sitemap.xml? With the first way we keep the hierarchy (landing-->map-->details).   * In the details page use the trick and write html info. So the question is is it better to have a sitemap.xml or to change the page content to point to the details (they can be thousands)?


What organizations handle the TLD registries and what are the links to their whois search pages

**Cautionary Tale: Registrars get rich by screwing you out of money** My first foray into web design included a site with a handful of issues. The original designer/developer created it as a one-off and he didn't bother to mention to the owner that the name would expire in 2 years. When I stepped in to take over, the name had expired and the registrar (InterNIC) was charging $250 USD to get it back. The site at the time was a general static business site that didn't have a big enough following to warrant the price of the .com name so we opted to move to .net. All in all, it took 5 years before the registrar finally released the name so we could finally recover it. **tl;dr: Don't trust registrars.** Considering the emergence of Domain Front Running: > This is where a domain registrar or an intermediary (like a domain lookup > site) mines the searches for possibly attractive domains and then either > sells the data to a third-party, or goes ahead and registers the name > themselves ahead of you. In one case a registrar took advantage of what's > known as the "grace period" and registered every single domain users looked > up through them and held on to them for 5 days before releasing them back > into the pool at no cost to themselves. I have good reason to distrust 3rd party registrars. To compensate, I only use the whois of the TLD owner to do domain searches. I have been using verisign to look-up .com/.net domains for years now but what I'd like to know is: **Who owns the following TLDs and where can I find their Whois search:**   * .com - Verisign Inc. - whois   * .net - Verisign Inc. - whois   * .org - PIR - whois   * .edu - Educause - whois   * .biz - Neustar - whois   * .pro - Registry.Pro - whois


Using RewriteBase in .htaccess to make links pretty

I'm working on a project right now and I'm trying to make the links pretty. We have urls like this: `http://subdomain.domain.com/DynamicCountry/DynamicName/file.php` What I'm trying to do is set the _RewriteBase_ to `/DynamicCountry/DynamicName`. Is this possible using Mod_Rewrite's variables?


Changing www to point to non-www, instead of the opposite, using .htaccess

I'm switching servers and need to change the following _RewriteCond_ and _RewriteRule_ commands in the _.htaccess_ file. Right now I'm pointing `domain.com` to `www.domain.com` using:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.domain\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]      I need to switch the commands and do the opposite, where I point `www.domain.com` to `domain.com`.


How to redirect requests to another folder using .htaccess?

How to redirect requests to another folder using _.htaccess_? I have my root directory and my website looks into that directory. I want it to look in the `/subdirectory/` instead. I can't modify the server config.


different confirmation boxes on firefox when running remotewebdriver tests

When testing my webapp manually I get a confirm box: ![http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/good_conf_box_1.png](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/good_conf_box_1.png), the browser renders it with an overlay, but when run with remotewebdriver the overlay is not present and the confirm is in a window ![http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/bad_conf_box_1.png](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1342388/syneto/bad_conf_box_1.png), any idea why is this happening? Same browser, FF4. The remotewebdriver sends an instantiated FirefoxProfile without modifications that adds this user.js to the Firefox Profile.


DNS hosting better managed by Domain provider or Hosting provider?

Is it better to let DNS be managed by Domain Provider like GoDaddy/Namecheap or point the nameservers to hosting providers like Linode? What are the differences and disadvantages/advantages of both?


Significant drop in SERPs on 12th November 2011

Earlier this year I decided to have a look at the SEO of our website. We noticed almost immediately that we dropped significantly in the SERPs for the keyword 'probiotics' (plural) on the 12th November. For the singular version 'probiotic' we did not shift at all. At the moment we think there are a few reasons for this. Firstly, a UK TV programme called 'The Food Hospital' talked extensively about our industry on the 8th of November. On that day we noticed a 5 fold increase in the search term 'probiotics'. Traffic spiked for about 4 days and we had lots of sales. Across the board all our statistics improved for that time, bounce rate on the day was down to 16%, conversion rate went to roughly 30%. We thought that was a fantastic result. Two days after the TV show, we dropped in the SERPs from 4th down to 7th. There was also initially a spike where we were 16th. In addition to this increase in traffic, we had recently switched to a CDN / proxy based in the US. We're a UK registered company and we have UK servers, but the name-servers are now in the US. Would that negatively impact our position in the SERPs? So really what we'd like to know is this : does Google's algorithm take into account the type of information a user is looking for, and could that have affected us? Would using a US based proxy affect us, and could this somehow be related to Panda? It also occurred to us that maybe the other sites did fantastically better than us. Although our bounce rate dropped, would a larger drop (say 90% to 10%) be more favourable in Google's eyes? Any advice on where to look next would be greatly appreciated.


When is it worthwhile to host your own website instead of using shared hosting?

I'm not new to web development, but I have always used shared hosting to suit my needs. However, I see some people choose to serve their websites from their own servers. In considering moving to administrating my own web server, what are the top issues that I should consider to determine whether it is a worthwhile endeavor for me to pursue?


Disabling Single Event and 301 Redirect

Is it bad practice to have a 301 redirect for an event that has been disabled or deleted from a system to the list view? or should a 404 page? I dont want Google to ban me or anything.


When a user changes their password, should I let the old password be valid for a few days?

I'm building a new web site. I'm now writing the code where a user can request an email to reset a lost password. As I'm writing it, it occurs to me that there could be several scenarios:   1. The user simply forgot their password and needs a reset, so it doesn't matter if I let the old password be valid.    2. A hacker got into the user's email account and has requested a password reset from my site, so it's best to leave the old password valid for a few days so the user can get back into the account and alert a mod.   3. The user's password is compromised and needs it changed immediately, so letting the old password be valid risks letting unauthorized persons into the account. What is the solution to this dilemma?


Would using a template for a Privacy Policy be considered as duplicate content?

I have to write the Privacy Policy for a website. I am thinking of using something along the lines of a template I found here on `wiki.dot`. If I use this template, and insert our company name, will this be considered 'duplicate content' because I'm thinking others have use this as well?


Can anyone tell me why does Chrome tell it is Mozilla and Safari also?

http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=try_nav_all I get > Browser CodeName: Mozilla > > Browser Name: Netscape > > Browser Version: 5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) > Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1 > > Cookies Enabled: true > > Platform: Win32 > > User-agent header: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, > like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1


User Friendly .NET CMS

I am looking for a recommendation for a somewhat powerful but more importantly user friendly CMS for .NET. The ones I have found seem decent at best. _If you say DotNetNuke I will be tempted to reach through this screen and slap you..._ Edit: I have made it community wiki. Please add 1 CMS per answer so the best may rise to the top.


What do I need to do to enable my site to accept credit cards?

I want to store my customers' credit card information in my database so that they can quickly check out again without having to re-enter their info. What do I need to know about security/https/etc to make sure this is secure and trustworthy (and also legal)?


Is example1.mysite.com called multiple domain or subdomain?

I have these sites, `example1.mysite.com`, `example2.mysite.com`, ... etc. I was wondering what is the proper term for that? I heard multi-domain, and subdomain being used. Are they interchangeable, if so, which term would better describe this?


Is there a multi-sub-website/group handling CMS?

I'm looking for a good, easy to use and manage, free Content Management System that is built for (or can handle) multiple sub websites, or groups. Something like Drupal's Organic Groups functionality, except I don't want Drupal. My goal is to create a main site mydomain.com that sells websites (for guilds) at guildname.mydomain.com. Thanks to Alerty for recommending the SilverStripe CMS, which works great! Although I've marked this as answered, if anybody else knows of any other ones, that would be great to know to. EDIT: preferably something that won't requite multiple installs? I want any subscriber to the main site to be able to just pay $n and then click a "start site" button, which would automatically set up a new group/sub-site.


Recommendations for a good personal resume/portfolio website

Sorry for the broad question, but I am looking for some kind of package that will look great for posting up some personal details online in a resume type fashion. Possibly with the ability to add extra pages. I've seen examples about, but not been too sure if they are running something specific or whether it is something custom. I would generally just knock out a WordPress install but I don't think it will fit the bill. Anything that utilizes current technologies would be great, i.e. HTML5, jQuery etc. I want the site to look smart and up to date.


Looking for bug tracking software

I'm looking for a bug/issue tracking system that can:   * Integrate with lots of other services. Basecamp, Beanstalk, etc.   * Integrate popular CMSs, such as WordPress, so the client can enter a ticket from the system that is familiar to them and not have one more login to worry about.   * Generate reports for my own purposes.   * Bonus if there's an iPhone app.   * Doesn't require additional development on my end (I have plenty of money and no time). I've already looked into Lighthouse and ZenDesk -- both are solid offerings -- but don't see what I need out of the box. I'd have to build CMS plug-ins. And I've looked through WP plug-ins for bug tracking software, but nothing I've found integrates with these products. Anyone know of something that meets these requirements without additional development, or am I stuck putting my business on hold to get this piece in place myself?


Side effects of using redirect pages to track external links?

I have been part of a push to implement better analytics on our company's web site over the last few months using Google Analytics. One request that has come in is for the ability to see clicks to outbound links (such as those to our Facebook page, Twitter feed, etc.) in the GA In-Page Analytics report. From my research, it looks like the only way to do this is by first redirecting the outbound link to an intermediate page, which will then immediately redirect to the external site (this is ASP.NET, so probably through Response.Redirect or something similar). For example, we would change our current Facebook link from facebook.com/ourcompanypage to something like (our company website).com/redirect.aspx?url=facebook.com/ourcompanypage. This way, to Google Analytics it will look like the person went to an internal page which will then appear in the In-Page analytics report. What I would like to know is if there are any potential issues using a redirect like this may raise, for example on things like SEO or usability?


Targeting Multiple Zones in the US best URL method required

This is kind of a newbie question, but my boss asked me and I wasn't sure exactly how to answer. Id like to get some opinions from others that have hit this issue before. **Scenario:** We are wanting to purchase a new chain of URLs for a new site expenditure. The #1 goal for my boss is when a customer searches for "This product Miami", or "Miami this product" that our URL will always show up first because the structure of the URL would be indicative of the search term. So if the user searched for "This product Miami", the search result would return               www.thisproductmiami.com      of if they search for "This product new york", it would return               www.thisproductnewyork.com       So, he is hellbent on getting `thisproductnewyork.com`, `thisproductmiami.com` and so on for every major city in the US. So we will end up purchasing a "`thisproductthiscity.com`" for every city. See my confusion??? To me as a web developer the best way I'd see this working is:               miami.thisproduct.com          newyork.thisproduct.com      That way, the city still searchable, but its all managed and aggregated by one domain. What would give us the best search results. Purely based on the URL. This would help me out so much, any advice with links to articles or anything covering the subject so I can back it up with docs, would be nice. Thanks in advance.


Where to get top 10 companies who have had paid the highest for PPC or CPC in Google Adwords

I want to know which company or website has paid the highest in a market for a particular keyword?


Why use microdata or rfda, and which one to use?

I was checking my SEO score on few SEO sites and few of them told me that I don't have microdata or rfda. I search and found this: Microdata vs RFDa Good question but I was wondering Why should I use them? and which one to use?


Does Google know how often a search result is clicked, and is it worth the effort to craft the webpage so you get those initial clicks?

Does Google have any notion of how often a result is clicked for a particular search term? If so how? None of the links I see on the page seem to pass through a redirect on Google's servers first. **Edit:** I've noticed that I do see them pass through Google when I do the search off of the home page. My initial tests had been from Firefox's search field, which apparently do not. To extend the question, does crafting the use of keywords on your web page in a way that makes a searcher more likely to follow the link going to improve your page rank? (aside from generally making your web page useful to the searcher)


Which schema.org type should be used for webinars?

I'm looking to improve the schema.org markup on a site, but I'm curious about a couple of things because of the content: webinars. See an example: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/667/83483 There are tens of thousands of webinars (and some videos) almost all of which are on-demand and therefore would seem to be clear-cut Video objects. The thing is, many of these webinars are scheduled well in advance and would seem (semantically) to be a live event, which would fall under the Event object category of schema.org. So I see three options:   * Tag everything as a Video   * Tag videos and on-demand webinars as Videos and upcoming webinars as Events   * Tag all videos as Videos and all webinars, upcoming and on-demand, as Events Thoughts?


Methods of Geotargeting and optimising for location

This is somewhat an SEO question and somewhat a general web developer question. Our company website is pretty awful, I'm currently redesigning the new one, the problem is they have a directory called regions, which contains page for around 200 different locations around the country, all stuffed to the brim with keywords and useless things. Some of these pages work and the traffic's good enough to keep a few of them. Apart from creating a page for everyone again, is there another way of targeting all these locations without having to create a new page for each or is the a more dynamic way to do it? Any ideas or suggestions?


Magnifier glass for text

I've seen scripts that allow you to zoom images, i want to do the same for text, is this possible? Like onmouseover or hover it zooms images. i want it for text! is it possible?


RSS Publishing Tool

Are there any good tools for publishing and maintaining an RSS feed for my site? I want to have nice way to create a compliant feeds. Ideally I would be able to have multiple people maintain the feed but that might be asking a lot.


Increase Servers folder depth limit for running scripts?

I have a CMS on my site that utilises TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor). The issue is that TinyMCE cannot browse for files (example: images) on the web server. I get the error: `Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.` I have been told this may be occurring because the server is configured to limit the folder depth for running scripts. Unfortunately I am primarily a front end developer so I am not really sure how to go about changing/viewing this. I have access to WHM and cPanel. Does anyone know how to adjust this?


10 websites or 1 big website for optimal SEO?

I have one site by thematic...I have 6 thematics (guaranty departures, adventures travel, classic travel, landscape travel, ...) and so I have 6 websites (each website has 4 languages). One of my objectives is to be as well as referenced on theses keywords (ex: _guaranty departures bolivia_ , ...) if theses 6 websites are just wrapped inside a bigger one. I hope that my question make sense..., thanks you by advance for helping.


How can I get a '.mo' domain?

I represent a business in the United States. I would like to grab a '.mo' domain name, but I see some restrictions on the domain. Is it possible to grab a '.mo' domain name without going through the hassle of registering a trademark through Macao, China? Do domain name brokers exist that will handle this cheaply and hassle-free?


How is Googlebot finding URLs that are only visible to authenticated users?

Here is one of my customers, performing some action after having logged in to his account. The unique token is simply an encrypted user id + timestamp. > 94.254.xxx.xxx - - [02/Jul/2011:22:25:46 +0200] "GET /some-action/unique- > token-123abc HTTP/1.1" 200 410 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; > Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)" Now, **Googlebot** somehow found out about this unique link and tried to access the exact same URL one week later. > 66.249.71.179 - - [10/Jul/2011:09:56:01 +0200] "GET /some-action/unique- > token-123abc HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; > +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" (status code is 302 because the token had expired) * * * Let me emphasize that this is a unique URL that was visible exactly once, for only 2 seconds, before the user clicked it and proceeded to visit that page. It was not sent in an email or published anywhere public. What is going on here, how is it possible that Google found this unique URL?


[pic] Possible to style a text with CSS?

Preparing for a meeting with our designer later today, I was looking through his Photoshop sketches and wonder whether the following one could be expressed in HTML/CSS, without the need to render the text in Photoshop: ![Example text with glossy effects](http://i.stack.imgur.com/s6zdt.png) Do you think the color gradient and the drop shadow could be done 70-90% similar to the original within **plain HTML and CSS** , too? Ideally even older browsers should at least be able to draw the text in a readable manner. I found this one back from 2008, maybe there is a more modern way of doing it nowadays?


Is title tag position relevant in html pages?

I'd like know if having the title tag positioned at the end of `<head>` tag or in any other position, always inside the `<head></head>`, can lead to some kind of problem, I'm not talking about SEO stuffs, I'm talking about standards, browser rules, web application rules, or something like this. I'd like to load a page from two different php file like this, is it a wrong way?               <!-- file1.php -->     <html>     <head>      ....          <!-- file2.php -->     <title><?php echo($var)?>     </head>      <body>     ...      `<head>` tag is not closed, because with the second file I dynamically add the `<title>` tag.


How to tell which advertiser is a commission from in CommissionJunction.com?

I recently joined CommissionJunction.com and I signed up for different advertisers. The problem in reporting is that it shows the commissions and leads, but not who the lead is from. Is there a way to determine which of the links that I used is responsible for the commission?


jQuery image slider with different sized images

All of the jQuery image sliders I've seen require images to be the same size. Do you know any which can dynamically resize their display pane to fit the size of the image. I have seen this done on commercial websites.


Best way to capture website user clicking/navigating behavior

I'm wondering if there is any analytics tool more sophisticated than google analytics which offers features such as user clicking and navigating behaviors. By which I mean, with such tools, I can see how users actually clicked and navigated across my site.


SEO: Getting site to show in location-specific searches

I'm really new to this SEO world and I've been reading a lot to try and figure it out. We have a site that allows users to browse/create events anywhere. And we fill it with content from the main cities in the US. We would like it to show for searches for things like "events in san francisco" or "what to do in new york", however, since the site is not really location-specific, I'm not really sure where to begin. I've been thinking a couple of things, maybe you can help me decide if these would be a good way to start or if I should try something different. 1- Allow something like location-specific urls (e.g. example.com/browse/san- francisco) could just show the main page centered in San Francisco. 2- Change the headers/title of the page so it adapts automatically to the city being browsed (and change this dynamically as the user changes the location of the map). 3- Add internal links to different locations (e.g. add a link at the footer of the page that says "Events in Seattle" that makes the site load events in that city. (this would probably depend on implementing #1). What do you guys think? will any of these really help or should I look for a different approach? any advice is welcome.


Sub category text in the URL of wordpress site

I am launching a site about mobile and it is in **wordpress**. URL structure is as follow example.com/unlock/company/model example.com/how-to/company/model **Unlock** and **how to** are **parent category** and **company** is **subcategory** of both. Now I have to create the company subcategory twice for both the parent category. In that case slug will be different. for eg. example.com/unlock/apple/something example.com/how-to/apple_/something Apple is present in both the unlock and how to category. Same slug cannot be used, so I am using **apple** for unlock and **apple_** for how to, as same **slug** cannot be used. I am try to get a user friendly URL. But does it effect the SEO negatively?


Does the SPDY protocol eliminate the need for cookieless domains?

With plain HTTP, cookieless domains are an optimization to avoid unnecessarily sending cookie headers for page resources. However, the SPDY protocol compresses HTTP headers and in some cases eliminates unnecessary headers. My question then is, does SPDY make cookieless domains irrelevant? Furthermore, should the page source and all of its resources be hosted at the same domain in order to optimize a SPDY implementation?


Google is crawling my website but not indexing any pages

I own the website http://ecservice.ro. I have added keyword description and everything any tutorial said but it looks like google is refusing to index any of my pages. `site:ecservice.ro` works but keyword searches no result.. I went to all the pages.. and didn't find any result.. If anyone can help me I will really appreciate it.. P.S. Not looking to get in the first page of the search.. But for now.. just show on any page.. and will work from there...


Utilising Open ID and third party auth services

I'm planning to utilise a third party authorisation service in order to allow users to sign in with their google/facebook accounts etc. In particular I am aiming to use the Yii extension here- http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/hybridauth/ I am uncertain of one point, however, and I'm hoping to clear this up before investing time into implementing this. How will I email a user? Are there third part API functions that I can use for this that vary between third party providers? It occurs to me that this must be the same for the StackExchange network as I frequently receive email from the site and only sign in with my google credentials. However, upon checking my profile I can see my email address is listed, so I'm no longer sure. Is anyone able to confirm how this works? If no-one is aware I will test this by registering a new account solely through google and check for emailed notifications.


Facebook like in business model

I have a website "www.example.com" and a Facebook page for www.facebook.com/example/123456 My website need active users. Now in my website I would like a like button, now the question is:   From a marketing point of view, where do I point my like to; to my website or to my Facebook page, having in mind that when a user likes your page any posts on that page gets shared on the user's wall, bringing more potential users.


Multi column flyout menu

I want to build a horizontal menu bar with a multi column flyout of the hovered item. It should be done with html lists, css and javascript (if needed) only. There should be a max height of the flyout so that the following ul's automatically break into the next column. An example of the mentioned navigation can be found on the italian microsoft website (first navigation point called "Windows").


Is there any reason to add pagination to sitemap?

Let's say I have the following site structure:               root       category1         item1         item2         ....         item99       category2         item101         item102         ....         item199       ...      Each category page contain pagination to allow reasonable amount of items on each page. From my point of view I'd keep the sitemap structure as I mentioned above (with out any care of pagination used on categories pages). Is that right approach?


Which media types is it worth including stylesheets for?

My website already has screen and print stylesheets, but there are several more. Are these still worth creating stylesheets for or are they no longer relevant?


What happens to my domain if the TLD fails?

I have recently registered some domains on the basically brand new `.directory` gTLD. Because of operating costs to maintain a gTLD, it is assumed that many of the hundreds being rolled out this year and next will fail. I will admit I am not very knowledgeable on how the TLD process works. What exactly does a new TLD failing mean? I realize that they lose ICANN accreditation, but does that just mean that they will be no longer be sold? If the `.directory` TLD were to go under, would my `.directory` domains be affected? I bought it from domain registrar Gandi if that helps.


What percentage of digg / reddit / hacker news users contribute to the site?

I am trying to get a rough idea on the critical mass of users necessary to make a digg clone work. To do that I need an estimate on what percentage of users submit links, post comments and vote. THANKS!


Is using HTML entities (for language-specific characters) in UTF-8 necessary?

As in the subject-line. Saw the situation the other day on a page which felt weird to me. Except for markup-delimiting characters such as pointy brackets or the ampersand, escaping, say, German umlauts shouldn't be necessary, should it? Checked the encoding server-side, in-page and by way of HTTP headers, looks completely UTF-8 to me. What's your take on this and do you reckon it could adversely affect SEO or SERP placement?the page


Simple HTML auto indentation tool

I have made the mistake of not indenting the HTML tags on a page that slowly grew to over 500 lines of dense HTML. I have looked for a tool to fix the indentation, but what I have found so far seem to insist on doing additional formatting, and I really don't need those 500 lines to become 1000 because big bunches of small tags get one line per tag. Any suggestions for a tool to do the job?


301 redirect blogspot to an existing domain?

Is it possible to redirect a blogspot site to an existing URL? Note that I don't want to buy a new domain and tell blogspot to use that, eg as per this question: How to have a blogspot blog in my domain?. Instead I am trying to 301 redirect to an existing website in order to combine the website and the blog in one place. So it needs to be:               301 example.blogspot.com/post to example.com/blog/post


Email Forwarding Service to use with my domain?

I just registered my domain with namecheap. One of the main purposes of me registering my domain was to use the email forwarding service. Well unfortunately i found out after i registered my domain that Namecheap only has 7 unique forwarding possibilities. That's not nearly enough. Does anyone know of a relatively cheap and reliable email forwarding service i could use with my domain?


how can I find out if a domain is used for email or webserving

Suppose there is a website at example.org, as proven by google results. Now there is also a domain example.com. It aliases to example.org. Google doesn't find any directories on that domain. How can I now for sure if example.com (or its subdomains) are used to serve (unspidered)pages or mail? Or can I be 100% sure that it's only use is an alias, just because searchengines don't see it?


How to create / find static targeted ads

I'm not sure how to ask the right question but I noticed on this website, each post has very specific targeted ads that fit the overall theme of the blog post. www.ma-petite-chou.com I'm only familiar with google adsense, in which a text box just displays dynamic ads. I just don't understand how this blog is displaying permanent very specific ads. Any pointers will be helpful.


70K of 301 redirects

I have a website with about 1.5M pages. I am condensing pages that do not have large amounts of content to improve the quality of the site. As a result I have about 70K pages that I have added a < canonical link> to, pointing towards the new master page for the content. Now I want to completely work the existing pages out of the system. I want to 301 redirect the existing pages to the new master pages that the content now resides upon. I am running IIS and normally would use < rewriteMaps>. I am concerned that adding 70k lines to my web.config, to be parsed for every URL, is going to affect performance. Any suggestions on a known/tested way to accomplish this? TY for your time.


Different robots.txt for two different domains point to same folder

I have the following two domains: > domain.com > > test.domain.com Both point to same folder which is "public_html". What I want is a different robots.txt file for each domain. So when someone browse domain.com/robots.txt then a different file is shown. And when someone go to test.domain.com/robots.txt then a different file is shown. How can I do this using URL rewriting in .htacces? Thanks


Translated content: Are they considered as duplicate or unique?

I saw some blogs in Turkish that contain translated content from English blogs. They are translated by humans not by automatic software. I wonder if Google counts those pages as duplicate content or not? In reality, the content is duplicate clearly but is there a way for Google to detect this?


aspnet_regiis -lk is not listing the site I need

I am trying to release a site to run under framework 4 on a server that also hosts framework 2 sites. By default the App has defaulted to framework 2, but when I try to change it's framework to 4 I get a message saying that the following action will cause the iis to reset. The problem I have is there are serveral active sites that I do not want to interupt with a restart. The message goes on to say you can avoid restarting by running the following: `aspnet_regiis -norestart -s [IIS Virtual Path]` I have been attempting to find the site virtual path but when I run `aspnet_regiis -lk` the site I am after does not appear to be listed. My first thoughts were that it has something to do with the app pool?, but I'm sure I saw sites that are inactive listed, and after creating a basic site to get it to run under framework 2, the site still did not appear in the `-lk` list. Can anyone tell me if there is an alternative location to the `-lk` that I can find the specific information realating to the IIS Virtual Path?


Joomla theme module without tables

I copied the 'com_content' folder from the 'beez' template to the html folder of my template. So now my content displays with divs and without tables. Now I want to same for my modules I add to the right side of my site. They are still build with tables and not divs. Anyone knows how to do this? Thanks


Caching preventing users seeing site updates

I'm experiencing a caching issue I can't explain. This is happening across browsers, IPs and ISPs. If a user force-refreshes, they see the new content. If they then refresh or return to the page, the old one displays. I've tried using headers via PHP such as               header( 'Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT' );     header( 'Last-Modified: ' . gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s' ) . ' GMT' );     header( 'Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate' );     header( 'Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0', false );     header( 'Pragma: no-cache' );      Laid out correctly, at the very beginning of the file. The problem persists. A pan-ISP proxy is unlikely. Suggestions?


Security risks posed by specifying technologies used

I am developing on-line tools for non-commercial use, which are hosted on dedicated hardware. I would like to include logos indicating the technologies I used (Apache or Python for example), at the bottom of the page. What are the security risks/implications, if any, of "advertising" this information? It is better not to reveal that the web server is Apache, and that I used Python and jQuery, for example?


Grid Favicon on [Scammy] Websites

I've seen this grid favicon show up on a lot of sites, most of which tend to be for scams like oxytocin accelerator, or make $300 a day posting links to Google type sites. ![Grid Favicon](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ulJyI.png) My question is: what is this icon and where does it come from? Is there some organization whose goal is to make terrible websites like this and they associate them with this icon or does it belong to some server software that for some reason scammy sites like to use? Does anybody know the origins of this icon?


Google Analytics recording event based on <a> title attribute

I am declaring:                var title = (typeof(el.attr('title')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('title') :"";         and then have the following:               else if (title.match(/^"Matching Content"\:/i)) {                     elEv.category = "Matching Content Click";            elEv.action = "click-Matching-Content";            elEv.label = href.replace(/^https?\:\/\//i, '');              elEv.non_i = true;            elEv.loc = href;          }         However, using Google Analytics debugger this is not being recorded. Any suggestions? The complete function is:               if (typeof jQuery != 'undefined') {       jQuery(document).ready(function gLinkTracking($) {         var filetypes = /\.(avi|csv|dat|dmg|doc.*|exe|flv|gif|jpg|mov|mp3|mp4|msi|pdf|png|ppt.*|rar|swf|txt|wav|wma|wmv|xls.*|zip)$/i;         var baseHref = '';         if (jQuery('base').attr('href') != undefined) baseHref = jQuery('base').attr('href');              jQuery('a').on('click', function (event) {           var el = jQuery(this);           var track = true;           var href = (typeof(el.attr('href')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('href') :"";           var title = (typeof(el.attr('title')) != 'undefined' ) ? el.attr('title') :"";                 var isThisDomain = href.match(document.domain.split('.').reverse()[1] + '.' + document.domain.split('.').reverse()[0]);           if (!href.match(/^javascript:/i)) {             var elEv = []; elEv.value=0, elEv.non_i=false;             if (href.match(/^mailto\:/i)) {               elEv.category = "Email link";               elEv.action = "click-email";               elEv.label = href.replace(/^mailto\:/i, '');               elEv.loc = href;             }             else if (title.match(/^"Matching Content"\:/i)) {                         elEv.category = "Matching Content Click";                elEv.action = "click-Matching-Content";                elEv.label = href.replace(/^https?\:\/\//i, '');                  elEv.non_i = true;                elEv.loc = href;              }                    else if (href.match(filetypes)) {               var extension = (/[.]/.exec(href)) ? /[^.]+$/.exec(href) : undefined;               elEv.category = "File Downloaded";               elEv.action = "click-" + extension[0];               elEv.label = href.replace(/ /g,"-");               elEv.loc = baseHref + href;             }                        else if (href.match(/^https?\:/i) && !isThisDomain) {               elEv.category = "External link";               elEv.action = "click-external";               elEv.label = href.replace(/^https?\:\/\//i, '');               elEv.non_i = true;               elEv.loc = href;             }                else if (href.match(/^tel\:/i)) {               elEv.category = "Telephone link";               elEv.action = "click-telephone";               elEv.label = href.replace(/^tel\:/i, '');               elEv.loc = href;             }             else track = false;                  if (track) {               _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', elEv.category.toLowerCase(), elEv.action.toLowerCase(), elEv.label.toLowerCase(), elEv.value, elEv.non_i]);               if ( el.attr('target') == undefined || el.attr('target').toLowerCase() != '_blank') {                 setTimeout(function() { location.href = elEv.loc; }, 400);                 return false;           }         }           }         });       });     }


What is the proper way to setup Google Apps email accounts for a subdomain?

Let's say I've registered domain.com at enom and set it up to use Google Apps for email by rerouting DNS to enom's servers and editing the MX records there. That works flawlessly. Now let's say I want to have email at a subdomain for that same site. I already have a working subdomain at the host, but I want to catch email traffic at enom before it gets that far. I've set up Google Apps as a new account for the subdomain, successfully verified domain ownership, and now they want me to update MX records. What's the right format? For domain.com, I just put @ for the hostname, and then provided the Address and Pref values that Google gave me. I tried putting subdomain.domain.com as new values under hostname for the subdomain, but that doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong?


SEO: If another website uses a iframe from our website, would the links in the iframe appear to be coming from our website or from theirs?

we are creating a "app" on our website that allows affiliates to simply use a generated iframe on their website, which would produce a list of all our products (we sell event vouchers). The links would obviously redirect back to our main website. We see the benefits of backlinking if the iframe links that pointed back to our website relevant products are treated to have come from our affiliates. My question is, if the iframe is embedded on their website, would the links be treated as if their are internal (coming from our website to our website) or external (coming from their website to our website)? If it appears that the links would be coming from our website, is the any other alternative to a iframe that we can use to embed generated code from our website that treats the links as external links to our website? Thanks for your time


Single backlink vs Multiple backlinks on the same page

Having one backlink of a website on other's website's page. vs Having more than one backlink of the same url on other's website's page (same page). Will the effect be same on PR?


Moving Articles From A Blog to Another Blog

I was writing on a blog (source blog) which all users can publish their articles. But now this blog will be closed. SO i want to move my articles to my personal blog. But I'm worrying about Google Sandbox. Can i move my articles to my personal blog without any SEO mistake ? (NOTE : I'm not owner of source blog so i can't do a 301 Forwarding etc.)


Do some mail clients automatically urldecode %2b strings?

We have an email address verification process on our website. The site first generates an appropriate key as a string               mykey      It then encodes that key as a bunch of bytes               &$dac~ʌ����!      It then base64 encodes that bunch of bytes               JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ==      Since this key is going to be given as a querystring value of a URL that is to be placed in an HTML email, we need to first URLEncode it then HTMLEncode the result, giving us (there's no effect of HTMLEncoding here, but I can't be bothered to rework the example)               JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D      This is then embedded in HTML that is sent as part of an email, something like:               click here.      Or paste http://myapp/verify?key=JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D into your browser.      When the receiving user clicks on the link, the site receives the request, extracts the value of the querystring 'key' parameter, base64 decodes it, decrypts it, and does the appropriate thing in terms of the site logic. _However_ on occasion we have users who report that their clicking is ineffective. One such user forwarded us the email he had been sent, and on inspection the HTML had been transformed into (to put it in terms of the example above)               click here     Or paste http://myapp/verify?key=JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ%3D%3D into your browser.      That is, the %2B string - but none of the other percentage encoded strings - had been converted into a plus.               key=JiRkYWN%2ByoyIhIQ%3D%3D     key=JiRkYWN+yoyIhIQ%3D%3D      So I think that there are a couple of possibilities:   1. I'm doing something stupid that I can't see, or    2. Some mail clients try to cope with the problem of people mistakenly URLEncoding plus signs by 'helpfully' converting them all back In case of 1 - what is it? In case of 2 - what mail clients? Or, alternatively, is there a standard, known way of dealing with this kind of scenario? Many thanks for any help


External links from search engine - Redirect?

I am making a site which is designed to contain a large amount of links to other sites, much like a search engine. I have seen two different approached with regards to linking to external sites.   1. Simply to link directly to the external content directly from the links on my own site   2. To redirect to the content via an internal link, such as www.site.com/r/myref123 -> www.internet.com/hello.php Would anyone be able to tell me what the advantage is with each approach? I am stuck at a crossroads here and can't find much information on which approach I should be using.


Having 2 hosting accounts in case one of downtime?

I'm looking for a simple solution to increase my website's uptime. My website consists of simple HTML and PHP pages with no database. Right right I use paid shared hosting and I sometimes find that my website is not loading. Would it be possible to put my website on two hosts and in case the main host is down the other one would get used? What is the best way to set this up?


Will moving a WordPress from one location to another result in broken links

I am having a WordPress installed at `www.mydomain.com/blog/wordpress/` I am planning to move it to `www.mydomain.com/blog/` **Will this cause any 404 broken links?** This question may seem stupid but please help me in this.


how do I enter multiple keywords and phrase in google adwords

As an example, how would I enter the following key words in google adwords/keywords tab: Best guaranteed "jump rope" -free For example, I would want to get any googler who entered anything similar to the following... best guaranteed jumprope top guaranteed jump ropes Best jump ropes with guarantees ..and NOT get the anything like the following.. best jump ropes top free jump ropes Note the terms are fictional but in general what I want to do is have two critical adjectives (ex: "best" and "guaranteed") a critical two-word phrase (ex: "jump rope") and a critical negative keyword (ex: -free) How exactly would this need to appear in the key word screen? I am a little confused because there is a Phrase Match but that seems to make the whole textbox a phrase rather than just one component within the textbox a phrase. And there are multiple textboxes. And a separate section for negative key words but also a negative symbol which implies no need for a negative keywords section. is this right? +best +guaranteed +jump +rope -free (do I select broad or exact match?) Thx


how to handle login between different domains?

I've a website with 2 domains (.nl and .com) and a translated version of the content is displayed depending on the domain. My issue is that when a client login under a .nl domain, and he moves to the .com domain, he is not anymore logged in. thanks


How can I clone or mirror a site without SEO penalties for duplicate content?

I am a web developer and I want to create clones of the sites I've developed for clients, so that I have an "original copy" on a subdomain of my own website, so that I can showcase my work to new clients. What is the best way to not get my clients original websites penalised for duplicate content? I am planning to have a robots.txt file that disallows all robots, as well as using `<link href="http://www.client-canonical-site.com/" rel="canonical" />` in the `<head>` of the pages. Is that sufficient? Should I use rel=nofollow on all the links as well?


Targeting advertising for T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile users

We'd like to target our advertising to Virgin Mobile users. However, Virgin Mobile is actually on the T-Mobile network. So when we do a lookup of the IP address it reports T-Mobile. So this gives 2 problems:   1. No way to target Virgin Mobile   2. When we target T-Mobile we accidentally target Virgin Mobile users too. We actually have 2 separate sites for T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile - So is there any way we can make sure we send people to the right site? Also would appreciate it very much if anyone has any suggestions on other places for this discussion, I'm not entirely sure this is "webmaster" talk?


How to change the way my website appears on Google Search?

When I enter my homepage URL on Google, it shows "Index of ~/user" instead of my page title, i.e, "User|Home". Is there a way to change the way my website appears on Google search? If yes, how?


Host header vulnerability reported by Acunetix Scanner

I am getting ready to launch a small web app and decided to scan the site with the Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. I was quite pleased with the results for the most part, but the scanner reports a high level security issue with the setting of the Host header. The scanner provides the following link for more information http://www.skeletonscribe.net/2013/05/practical-http-host- header-attacks.html Far as I can tell the vulnerability comes into play if you are using the host header to generate URLs, be they urls inserted into sent emails or inserted into pages. Am I correct in thinking that this is not an issue for a web app that is not using the Host header to create urls in any way?


How can I make Google crawl and index multiple pages?

There are several pages on the web that are not under my direct control but contain content about a product I'm involved with. I'd like make Google robots crawl and index those pages, is there a simple way to nudge Google's spiders towards those pages? I don't have _robots.txt_ access, and I can't provide a sitemap through Google Webmaster Tools since I don't control those websites. Also those are 100 webpages on 100 different domains that I'd like to Google to index so a single sitemap is not an option, I don't want to submit them one by one using the Google "Add URL" page since it is very time consuming. Do you know a simple way to accomplish this task? To somehow make Google scan a list of URLs and send it's spiders to index them?


Will my site containing duplicate content be accepted in Adsense

I've a new site just over 6 months with >50 unique visitors daily. It has good amount of duplicate pages which are not copyrighted. For example I've copied related companies product FAQ's "as is" in the site. Moreover I'm not supposed to modify a company's product's faqs. I fear my login may be banned by Adsense if I submit it. So I want to know: 1) Whether I can submit it for Adsense account 2) Whether Google can penalize me and in what way 3) How would Google come to know that the duplicate content on my site is not copyrighted?


Subdomains as external backlinks

as far as I know backlinks are good for SEO when they come from external or websites or domains, what about subdomain? do they have the same value of external backlinks or they are just like internal ones? especially when I have the possibility to put each subdomain on a different IP/country Thanks.


How to specify ingredients in Schema.org (other than recipes or drugs)?

I'd like to use Schema.org for a series of product specs pages. The products are cosmetics (shampoos, creams, etc.) and ideally an INCI declaration will be included for every product. I'd like to use Schema.org in the declaration, but I cannot find a suitable category in Schema.org. _Ingredients_ is meant for cooking recipes, and _ActiveIngredient_ for (medical) drugs and dietary supplements. Did I overlook some part of the tree? Any ideas for a workaround? Or am I trying to do something out of scope?


I have a large number of links on every page, for design reasons I want to keep it but is it hurting my SEO

The site is http://www.centralsaddlery.co.uk We have other issues which we are tackling in terms of content etc but the question I have is: "Is my main navigation hurting us in SEO?" Its a lot of links and it's on a lot of pages. If so - what is a way to get google to ignore links below the top level. I had thought google would see that the links are hidden by default and only shown on hover but I can't verify this at all. We absolutely want to keep the menu, our customers like it and so do we - we think it is pretty usable as we have a lot of products to look at. Any advice is appreciated (and any tips for any part of the SEO are welcome too)


Using Apache's rewrite module to set up local host names for development

I have several websites on my development machine under Apache's htdocs folder. Apache Directory root is htdocs, but I want to be able to access each different site there by individual domain names. For example, I have               htdocs/dev_site_com     htdocs/cre_site_com      I have added these lines to my hosts file               127.0.0.1       dev.site.localhost          127.0.0.1       cre.site.localhost      Now I want to add an .htaccess file in the htdocs to redirect `dev.site.localhost` request to `htdocs/dev_site_com` or `127.0.0.1/dev_site_com` I want to do this so that all of my relative URLs in my site work locally. If I link to a stylesheet in the dev_site_com site using the path `/css/style.css`, it will work in production, but not in development, because the root is htdocs and not htdocs/dev_site_com I've never been good with mod_rewrite.. but this is what I have so far..               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>              Options +FollowSymLinks         RewriteEngine on              RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^dev\.site\.localhost         RewriteRule %1 [L]          </IfModule>      and nothing is happening


What would be the correct html element for document author?

Which html element should be used when writing out the author of an html document, with regards to semantics, SEO and so forth? Thanx!


How should I add further servers to support potential increases in traffic to my website?

New here but I post on StackOverflow pretty often. **The scenario:** I am a paying customer of linode. On that account I have one 2GB server which hosts a web application. This single server currently acts as a web (apache2), database, email, and nodejs server. I'm planning on releasing my web application to 20,000 targeted users next week. All is well in saying this, but there's one problem that's bothering me. That problem being that the web application may completely fail as it does some pretty heavy file handling operations on the back-end. Of course I know that not ALL 20,000 users will be signing up to my application in an instant, but it may potentially get 20,000 hits. I want my server to support this high amount of traffic, so this is why I'm preparing for it's launch. * * * **My question(s):** How should I add further linodes to support potential increases in traffic to my website? Should I: A) Just buy a bigger linode to expand my website. Double the power means that the server can handle twice as many users, right? Of course I understand that there are limitations with this too as linode don't offer linodes with unlimited hardware resources. This wouldn't involve buying any additional private IP addresses either, would it? B) Buy the node balancing package from linode to expand my website? Does this mean I have to clone my current disk image and distribute it to all new linodes I buy? If this is the case, how do I handle newly uploaded user files? Should I have a linode especially for this too? Also: Is there a limit as to how many linodes I can buy and 'attach' to the node balancer and does each need an additional private IP address? How about pushing new code changes to the website? How would I deal with this if all source files were on different servers? How about SSL? would my current certificate continue to work across all servers? Is there anything else I need to consider? Apologies for all of these questions but I need a thorough idea of how all of this stuff works. I've done a few hours of pre reading on the topic already, but some of the things above have confused me a bit. Cheers, Joel


Adding my face to my web-site in Google's search result

I'm trying to accomplish the rich snippet to the template of my future web- site. The data format is `review` and I used the microdata formatting to add all necessary information to the web-page. The Structured Data Testing Tool delivered rating, author information and review date: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/uwQDF.png) However there is no my face image and the sections related to authorship are empty: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/34vNl.png) I made all that recommended to link my Google+ profile to the web-site: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/32TJk.jpg) I did something wrong? Or I will not be able to see my face in the test tools ever and it will be in the real SERP?


How to ensure that the domain name you are registering won't have licensing or trademark issues?

What are the conventions of domain registering? What domains and names someone can use as a brand/name for a website? How to determine if the name selected is available and there will be no legal issues later? Example.: A new website being developed, it needs a name, isn't it? So the team who is responsible for it decides, the name will be "WooLaCocaCola", means I should register the www.woolacocacola.com domain for the site. Let's say the domain is free to register, but that doesn't mean that the name as it is can be used, how can I check something like this?


Issue when changing Joomla! 3.1 server

I am changing my Joomla server from last host to another (the domain changed to). **First** I made a ZIP backup with all of my instalation files (even `.htaccess`/`php.ini`/etc...), I mean, ALL files from my old host. **Second** I upload my zip file into my new server and unziped to public_html folder **Lastly** I made a backup of my db from old domain & host and replace all db changes of my `configuration.php` (db name, user, password - the prefix of db remained the same). So far so good. My back-end works nicely, all function and stuff stills the same. The problem is my front-end, doesn't show nothing looks like my last site at the old host. I checked out my `.sql` file of my backup and I saw that it calls the root of my last server (gloper56). I already tried to change all calls from my last domain to the new one and if I do this it simply breaks my back-office. This is the old host, and this is the new host (just copy/paste this link, SE doesn't allow me to put IP as a link `http://188.93.229.100/~highplay/` (without right domain cause I need to fix this before change nameservers). Thank you


Google Analytics not tracking e-commerce events from AdWords

I have problems tracking e-commerce events from AdWords. The problem is that we can see the events in AdWords but we can't see them in Google Analytics. The rest of the events that come from the same booking engine are in Analytics but the one that come from an AdWords ad are not. Any idea?


Joomla internal only page

I have a LAMP setup and Joomla. I want to have some URLs/pages in my Joomla website only internally to my subnet. Is there a file/URL equivalent for `Directory` like this?               <Directory /usr/share/biowiki>         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews         AllowOverride None         Order deny,allow         deny from all         Allow from subnet-address     </Directory>      Or is there any alternative to achieve this?


How to disable gzip compression using htaccess

I want to disable gzip compression in my site using htaccess. I have the code below in htaccess:               php_flag zlib.output_compression off      But it is not working.


Good analytics tools that can track visitor actions from a particular source?

Are there good tools that can track what actions a certain subset of visitors (i.e. from a particular source) do once they're on your site? As far as I know (which could be wrong), Google Analytics can't do this beyond telling you how long they stayed, bounce rate, and average number of pages. I'm looking for something that can tell me which links they clicked on, and if possible break it down per-visitor. Free solutions would be great, but I'm anticipating that this would require a paid solution.


connection partially encrypted, SSL for perl app

I am getting error on FireFox "connection partially encrypted" other browsers show that's not encrypted... When I setup apache with ssl I use "/var/www/html/" for default directory, but all scripts are in /var/www/cgi- bin/ so is there a problem? or I'am on wrong way? But when switch to "/var/www/" I get an default CentOS web. (Like new server) Maybe, someone have an ideas? Thanks in advance. Strelson


Google ranking - difference between example.com and example.com/?ref=id

Does it impact a site's Google ranking if I link to the site with a "referrer" query-string? e.g: `example.com/?ref=mysite` instead of `example.com` ?


In Google Analytics, how can I plot an overtime line chart of the percentage of visitors from mobile devices out of total number of visitors?

how can I plot this metric? Note that I want to see a graph of the percentage of mobile devices visitors out of the total number of visitors, but **without** also displaying the total number of visitors on the same graph. (BTW it can be also visits, not visitors)


Affiliate programs offering redirects back to my site after successful conversion

I am building a website where members are rewarded for actions completed. For some of these actions within my site (such as uploading a photo), I would like to offer my members the ability to participate in affiliate sites as follows: Once they complete the required action, they are rewarded on my site. Ideally, I would pass in the redirect url when sending the member to their site. Are there affiliate programs that offer to redirect back to your site?


How do I use a domain name on a dedicated hosting server?

I recently purchased a domain name from godaddy and am probably going to set up a dedicated server soon. Are there any articles that people know of which can help me set up my domain name on the dedicated server (peer1, rackspace, etc)? A sub-question would be: how do I like the godaddy domain name to my IP address that I get on my dedicated server from one of these hosting companies? Thanks!


Can I find out the number of searches on a given keyword, per state?

I know that Google tells you how many times a certain keyword is used in a search. You can use the Google Keyword Tool for that. This tool also allows you to find out the number of "local" searches: this is the number of times a person from a given country searches for this keyword. My questions: can you also find out how many searches originate from a given American _state_ ? In the Keyword Tool, I can only select countries, not states. Any other systems I can use to determine _where_ people are searching for a given keyword?


How does Facebook saves images to my HDD

How Facebook downloads images, when you click "Download" near the picture? I see, that they are passing some argument:               _n.jpg?dl=1      ,but how it is managed 'behind the scenes'?


Guidance on building an au pair-to-family networking site

I'm building a website for an au pair agency business that will connect au pairs to families around Europe. I know nothing about website building, HTML etc. so I'm using a wysiwyg editer (weebly). How I would like the site to function:   * Families upload their information into profiles   * Au pairs do the same   * families can view a limited part of an au pairs' profile until they pay a deposit   * After deposit is payed, all au pairs' profile information becomes open to families   * Families can order au pairs and confirm their order with another payment   * payment must be made before 'order' is confirmed   * By 'order' I mean full communications become open between the family and the au pair they have 'ordered' as well as travel information being sent to another agency   * the site needs to be linked with a bank account (e.g paypal) and another agency, who will look after the flight bookings etc. A website already exists for this business however it just contains information on the business and application forms - if the site becomes fully automated it will relieve a lot of strain on administration in the office (dealing with applications, travel information etc.)


Learning PHP Framework for ecommerce site

Are there any books that can teach a good/useful PHP framework to build an ecommerce site? Please recommend.


Use JPEG for transparency instead of PNGs

JPEGs are smaller in size then PNGs. So. I thought that if I can make the "background" in a jpegfile transparent with some code maybe I save some kilobytes. So does anyone now for example how to make the color "#d67fff" in an image transparent, with PHP or JS?


Can't reach site from Firefox and Chrome but works fine using Safari

I've got a virtual server running Ubuntu which I recently set up. As I was trying to learn how to deal with vhosts and serveraliases I made a few errors before I finally managed to get the vhost files in sites-enabled and sites- available working. I kept testing my websites in Firefox (and Chrome I guess) during my various vhost tryout debacles and now when I got everything right I can't reach one of the sites from Firefox and Chrome but in Safari everything seems ok. It's working fine in all browsers if I'm not putting "www" in front of the domain name, the problem only appears when typing "www.example.com" in the address field instead of just "example.com". Also, "dig www.example.com" displays the correct IP. I've tried to clear DNS caches in Firefox and Chrome but with no luck, here's what I did in Firefox: http://www.kahunaburger.com/2009/03/18/clear-dns-cache- in-firefox/ And for Chrome I found "chrome://net-internals/#dns" and clicked the clear DNS button. I also tried to clear my client computer's (Macbook Air running Snow Leopard) DNS cache by running: "sudo dscacheutil -flushcache" No luck. If anyone has any suggestions whatsoever please reply, thanks!


Realtime HTTP notifications using Google Analytics when user views my page?

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