SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml

I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there? I know there is a lot reading out there for seo, urls, xml sitemaps. I read a lot. Seams like search engines become more sophisticated nowadays. Many new possibilities in the sitemap xml protocol. So I'm asking for up-to-date practical experiences! So maybe define the problem a little bit closer: For usability I prefer having one landingpage like facebook, foursquare, twitter with the url mydomain.com/ for all incoming visitors because it is quite an act to set up a individual landingpage for every city. localizing and regionalizing this site is technically not a big deal. Depending on the ip, cookie and session i know the region and the city of the user and page areas can be individualized. Is there any way to tell google that this url is regionally individualized? That the same url maybe in english as well as german, french or spanish. I know I can set a alternative page url in the sitemap.xml. What happens if I link one and the same page with different languages? Why not link one and the same page for different regions, cities, streets this way? Is there anyway to tell google the site is regionalized for cities or areas? Are search engines and crawlers capable of this at all? Some of this is already implemented in the current version of the sitemap.xml protocol. Is this only working for the famous big sites since their websites are already linked from external sources having a extremely high page rank and public awareness? Are individual url landing pages for upcoming services necessary for seo?


I see files in Filezilla, but the internet denies their existance

I am doing some updates to a 10-year old site, and I am baffled. Everything worked great locally, so I uploaded a bunch of stuff to the server using Filezilla. Within Filezilla I can see all of the files, but for some reason I get a 404 when trying to view them. It seems as though (at least for the folder I'm currently checking) this is happening for items which are "farther down the list" alphabetically. I tried to re-upload a file individually but it didn't change anything. Is this an indication that I hit some sort of limit with the hosting company? And if so why can I still view the files from Filezilla?


Should expired or deleted eShop links be removed from an XML sitemap?

If I delete a product should I remove its link from the _sitemap.xml_ also? Is there any penalty from Google for leaving a lot of dead links in my sitemap? What is the most common practice and why? It seems to me illogical to offer somebody non-existent content. This way I could fake 1000 or more links, just by creating wrong URLs with nice names. Or am I wrong? Does it matter if sitemap.xml is up to date or not? I can update it every day via cron, so that's not a problem.


Weird Results A/B Test in Google Website Optimizer

I set up a test in Google Website Optimizer that has a 3 variations - original (A), B, and C. In order to further validate the results of the test, I added a variation C that is exactly the same as the original. And thats where the results get weird. 6 days into the test, the best performing variation is C. It outperforms the original by 18.4%! How is that possible? Do I now discount the results of this test entirely?


How do I add Google Tag Manager on Blogger?

I tried to paste the code generated through Google Tag Manager to my blog and I verified that the code was copied exactly, but always I get the same message error: > "The reference to entity "l" must end with the ';' delimiter"


How to comply with the Google AdSense policy that ads should not be placed on auto-generated pages?

I have a website `post4city.com`. Sent an application for Google AdSense. It was rejected with message. > Site does not comply with Google policies: We're unable to approve your > AdSense application at this time because your site does not comply with the > Google AdSense program policies > > Tips to improve. > > Don’t place ads on auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original > content. Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear > navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through > your pages and find the information they’re seeking. Before I resubmit I need suggestions about what changes I should be making? The site is in Joomla 2.5 - Adsmanager.


Google new algorithm: My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website

My company have a 40 sites with different domains that some of their articles appears in my main website with reference to their source. Our articles write by high level processionals in the field that they write about - we also pay them high salary. In recent google algorithm change my main site rating down very seriously. **What should we do to restore company main site google rating?** our solution and ideas that not working well:   1. rel="canonical" to source website (we already have it before google change without results)   2. meta "original-source" but not have rating influence (we already have it before google change without results) Edit:: maybe we should delete rel="canonical" from main website articles that refer to our other small websites (because this articles in main website not indexed in google)? Thanks in advance


Setting up a server at home to host a Webservice created using .NET

I am presently working on localhost. I have created few web services(.asmx) using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. At the same time I have a mobile application (client) that consumes these web services. Now I plan to make these web services public by hosting them on a home server. I need to set up a home server for that purpose. I have a Windows 2003 Server CD with me. I want to know how do I configure the server so that I can host my web services? What requirements are necessary for set up? Also since my database would be SQL Server 2003 or later, how can I manage it once I have set up my server?


Difference between alt and title of img - which one to use - and impact

For years I've been writing my HTML for images like this: `<img src="picture.jpg" alt="my picture" >` But I recently ran a audit of my site using Raven SEO tools and it reported loads of errors which I was really surprised with. When I went through the report 99 % of these errors were because of missing image title text. I know that the title text for an image can display a little pop over when you hover over an image, but apart from that what's the purpose and does it have an effect on SEO? Also if you were to implement it, what would you put in there? Would you just put the same info that's in the `alt` attribute? i.e. `alt="my picture" title="my picture"`


In HTML, how can I create a box with a curved banner scroll on the left hand side?

I was in a website and it had some boxes with content in them and an image on top of the boxes with some text in them. Like a title for what the box is for. The problem is that I don't know how to do this kind of design. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9XSOH.png) I am talking about the left side with the curves.


What is the next step after writing a .txt doc?

I've been studying htlm and css lately, and wanted to practice so I stated writing one txt. I have put the txt and the image used in the same folder. I'm not sure what to do next though... I've tried reading online, but I couldn't find anything. DISCLAIMER: I know this might be a very trivial question, but then again it's better to ask and learn, right? :) Thanks so much!


Recovering from an incorrectly deployed robots.txt?

We accidentally deployed a robots.txt from our development site that disallowed all crawling. This has caused traffic to dip dramatically, and google results to report: > A description for this result is not available because of this site's > robots.txt – learn more. We've since corrected the robots.txt about a 1.5 weeks ago, and you can see our robots.txt here. However, search results still report the same robots.txt message. The same appears to be true for Bing. We've taken the following action:   * Submitted site to be recrawled through google webmaster tools   * Submitted a site map to google (basically doing everything possible to say "Hey we're here! and we're crawlable!") Indeed a lot of crawl activity seems to be happening lately, but still no description is crawled. I noticed this question where the problem was specific to a 303 redirect back to a disallowed path. We are 301 redirecting to /blog, but crawling is allowed here. This redirect is due to a site redesign, wordpress paths for posts such as /2012/02/12/yadda yadda have been moved to /blog/2012/02/12. We 301 redirect to wordpress for /blog to keep our google juice. However, the sitemap we submitted might have /blog URLs. I'm not sure how much this matters. We clearly want to preserve google juice for URLs linked to us from before our redesign with the /2012/02/... URLs. So perhaps this has prevented some content from getting recrawled? How can we get all of our content, with links pointed to our site from pre-and-post redesign reporting descriptions? How can we resolve this problem and get our search traffic back to where it used to be?


Best way to distribute an ISO? (open source, so must be free)

I want to distribute a LiveCD of my Open Source project.   * ~300MB ISO file.   * No revenue, so no money.   * Around 1000 downloads per month expected. What is the best way to distribute it?


Google Analytics - bad experiences? (esp. adult content)

I work for a rather large adult website, and we're currently not using Google Analytics. There is an internal debate going on about whether we should start using Analytics, but there is hestitation from certain parties. The main argument is that they fear that Google will get too much insight into our website, and might even block us from the index as a result based on our adult content. Has anyone here ever had such an experience, or know stories about bad experiences with Google Analytics in such a manner? I personally think it will only improve our website if we were able to use Analytics, but the dev team was asked to look into possible negative effects. Any help would be appreciated.


How to pick up dataLayer variables in new version of GTM with event listeners

With the help of a friend (And people on this forum) I set up a Google Analytics installation over the summer. Here is an example of a custom html tag I set up back then to track clicks on social media buttons:               <script>         $('#social a').click(function(event){                  var linkTitle = $(this).attr('href');                  dataLayer.push({                      'event':'GAevent',                      'eventCategory': 'Social', //create a datalayer variable macro called eventCategory                 'eventAction': 'Click', //create a datalayer variable macro called eventAction                 'eventLabel': linkTitle //create a datalayer variable macro called eventLabel             });         });     </script>      But now it seems that GTM has been updated. We have "Event Listeners" and I have placed these throughout the site to fire on all pages. I wanted to use the "new way" to track events but am a little confused. Now, the internet tells me, I create a tag to fire on gtm.linkClicks (having already set up this listener) and add in all of my event parameters there: category, action label. Like in this image: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6LmL4.png) Then things get a little confusing. It seems the "right" way now is to create rules based on Macros that apply filters, and then to apply these to the tag, But how would I continue to use my existing tag above, but linked to the click listener? I tried changing the piece of code in my example custom html tag above: EXISTING: 'event':'GAevent', THEN TRIED THIS: `'event':'gtm.linkClick',` Can you see what I'm trying to do? I'm trying to fire my custom html tag when an anchor tag is clicked and use macros from the event listener to populate the event parameters. Should this work? Am I doing something wrong? The benefit of maintaining this style of tag is that I can grab elements (anchor tags) with a css style selector, something I'm comfortable and familiar with.


Generating snapshots of Ajax content for BingBot vs GoogleBot

We have a website whose content is generated dynamically via JavaScript. For the purpose of search engine indexing we also provide snapshots of the pages. Here are some examples: https://www.recreyo.com https://www.recreyo.com/yangtze-river-cruise-china https://www.recreyo.com/beijing-xian-train-china If you view the HTML source of one of these links, you will notice that there is content specified within "noscript" tags. This is a mirror of the dynamic JavaScript generated content that users will see, and has been put in place for search engine crawlers to process. Now GoogleBot has correctly processed the noscript content and displays them in search results, but BingBot is not indexing the pages. Google Results Bing Results I've made sure the sitemap has been submitted and waited for about four days. How do we solve the problem? Ideally, I'd like to do it the noscript way as it is simple and elegant. Alternatively, I could add the content in standard markup and use CSS to hide it, but I would like to avoid doing that if possible, because that is just unnecessary extra work for the browser. Does any have any insight into this problem? Specifically, is there any evidence that BingBot will not process content within noscript tags? Thanks.


Trouble with encode URL rewriting ASP.NET

Some mounths ago I used links to image as: http://rielter77.ru/imgrs.axd?w=300&file=24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg 3 weeks ago I create a URL rewrite rule: from http://rielter77.ru/imgrs.axd?w=300&file=24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg to http://rielter77.ru/images/300/24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg if I searching my image in google I see my images and they URL as: http://rielter77.ru/imgrs.axd%3Fw%3D300%26file%3D24587263-7fdf-415a-86fe-9de5f4c18fbb.jpg and URL rewrite rule doesn't work with this URL. Why?


Blocking all countries except US/Canada/UK

I have a site which is only for US/Canada/UK visitors. I don't want to make it visible to other visitors. I tried to put IP ranges in _.htaccess_ (Deny IP) but it does not work for me. May be I have inaccurate IP lists or I am doing something wrong.


Setting The Right Website MIME Type?

I have been testing my project using the W3C Validation tool and it passes 100% with no errors and just 1 warning - XHTML 1.0 Transitional.               Warning - Conflict between Mime Type and Document Type      After some research I can find tons of definitions of the various MIME types, so the correct one for my project is 'application/xhtml+xml'. But, where does it go - is it part of the DTD? What other code do I need as this doesn't look complete on it's own?


Mobile traffic of my second site redirected to my base site [Edited,have a look]

I have a strange issue with my website and it seems i am unable to understand what cauese the problem.I would highly appreciate your help.The Scenario is I have two websites.   1. Website A    2. Website B  Website A is simply hosted within the **root directory** of my hosting account.Within this **root** * _directory_ * i have a sub folder " **subfolder A** " and within which is another subfolder " **subfolder B** " that contains my site **Website B** so the path looks like root/sublfolder_A/subfolder_B/ that contains my **Website B ( i.e subfolder_B) ** All goes fine.When i access the website B from my desktop/Laptop Website B is loaded normally. **but when i access the Website through a mobile device , mobile site of Website A is loaded while as it should load website_B** Also , to let you know , both websites have different URL's and not subdomain's or anything. What could be the problem ? htaccess of website B or website A ? or something else ? Here is the htaccess of my website B               RewriteEngine On      RewriteRule .* index.php [F]      RewriteBase /      RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d      RewriteRule .* index.php [L]


Where to put rich data markups?

I have a company website which I'm trying to make rich snippets. Where should I put the `<span itemscope..` tags for Corporation? In every page? Or just the "about us" and/or "contact" pages? ## P.S Will it work if I use more than one page? For example, the address info is in "Contact" page, whereas employees info is in "About Us" page. can I merge two tags on different pages?


Is it possible to wikipedia-ize one's own site?

My website lists the all-time winners of several prestigious awards presented for books (Pulitzer, etc.), movies (Oscars, etc.), and music (Grammies, etc.). I would like a link to my site to appear at the bottom of wikipedia articles (external links) about those awards. Is this possible? Anybody, supposedly, can edit existing Wikipedia articles, but is such "self promotion" frowned upon or even santioned? IOW, would it be a waste of time, as such an addition would be immediately redacted/removed/elided?


Google Analytics goal

I need help with setting up Google Analytics Goal. Actually I have set it up but I have problem connecting the site with the goal. I have two optional goals - destination and event. Event goal is supposed fire when a contact form is submitted. The destination form is is exactly the same as a goal but it is fired when redirect url is visited. This url is provided after successful form submission so I think this is the better one. I have set it up in the GA admin panel but I don't know what to do next. When adding event tracking I need to add the snippet of code in the anchor as an attribute. What should I do now? Thanks


How to mark up acceptable payment methods for an offer with microdata

I am not sure how to markup accepted payment methods for an offer. Here are the schema: Offer PaymentMethod Here is my basic example, is this correct?
         Product Name              Product Description
           $19.95           <meta itemprop="priceCurrency" content="USD" />           <meta itemprop="availability" content="in_stock" />           Buy Now           <meta itemprop="acceptedPaymentMethod" content="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#PayPal" />           <meta itemprop="acceptedPaymentMethod" content=" http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#PaymentMethodCreditCard" />


Compromised private RSA key

What sorts of problems can be caused by a compromised private RSA key? Is this even that big of a deal? I'm getting very little specific info on Google. :(


My WordPress site is not tracked by Google Analytics anymore

I have changed my WordPress theme. Suddenly I could see that Google Analytics is not tracking anymore for the past two days. How to re-verify that? Also I have enable tracking code in _All in one SEO plugin_ today?


Migrating Wordpress blog to New Webhosts, something is adding a # and gibberish

I just migrated a WordPress blog from one host provider to another. Did a clean install on the new server, and everything seems to be working fine except all the permalinks for some reason add a string on the end like this: http://keefermadness.com/2011/09/behind-the-scenes-of-my-nasa-grail- experience-day-one-am#.Tpq5DpzpP-g That #.Tpq5DpzpP-g shouldn't be there. Any idea where this is coming from and how to eliminate it? Thanks, Ryan


We are getting a slew of requests from IE9 for /scanImageUrl

The requests are all from Internet Explorer 9 with compatibility mode turned on. We know compatibility mode is on, because of the trident attribute being sent in the user-agent string. This just started recently.(3/28 around 6AM) These are legitimate users, not bots, we have determined that and we cannot reproduce the issue. Here is one new Google search result, and it appears that others are having the same issue.


In apache, how to map site.example.com to example.com/site

I'm sure there is documentation for how to do this, but I don't know what it's called so I don't even know how to start searching. On my webserver, `example.com`, i have a site called `site`. It's accessed by going to `example.com/site`. I want it instead to be `site.example.com`. Can someone point me to apache documentation to enable this?


Amazon Associates - Reporting on revenue generated by particular pages?

Is there any feature in the Amazon affiliates system which will allow be to know, for a given month, what revenue was generated by individual pages? Perhaps e.g. by adding a querystring param to the referral link?


Can I use a .net domain for selling goods?

I have a .net domain. I plan to use it for selling goods/commercials. Is that ok? Are there any rules about domain usage? Thanks in advance.


Using Photoshop (psd) files in Linux

Web projects offered to freelance web developers and designers often include creating a website using graphics already prepared by an employer in Photoshop .psd files. But Photoshop is not available on Linux. Are there any tools available to work with .psd files on Linux, what quality do they have and is there any loss of information associated with using them instead of the official Photoshop software?


Google Doorway Penatly

Ok so i have been trying to figure this out for about a month now. The case: I have a blog network with unique content on each post and at the end of each post each blog links to x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post before linking to x1 in the post i use a redirect with like this: theblog.com -> redirect-url.com/redirect.php?=x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post -> x1.com/unique-url-for-each-post (all links at the bottom of the posts have no-follow) For some strange reason about a month ago all blogs which i have done this on lost around 90% of their traffic. Could this be the cause of the penalty? Is this type of linking considered as link farms by google? All help and tips are greatly appreciated!


Prevent azure subdomain indexation

Let me explain my situation, I have an azure website (with azurewebsites.net sub domain), and a custom domain.com, built with asp.net MVC Both are being indexed by Google, but I've noticed the custom domain is being penalized and it doesn't show up in results, it only shows when I search for "site:domain.com" I want to remove and block the azurewebsites.net subdomain from Google. I've read the "possible" solutions:   * Adding robots.txt: won't work, because the subdomain and the domain are the exact same content, so subdomain.azures.net/robots.txt will lead to domain.com/robots.txt, removing the domain as well.   * Adding the tag, is the same situation as the previous point.   * I'm using a CNAME register to redirect the domain to the subdomain, so I can't redirect to a sub directory. Do you have any other ideas?


Why doesn't Google remove my noindex and 404 pages?

I've added 404 error codes and no-index meta tag to pages quite some time ago. However, when I check in Google Webmaster Tools, looking at the graph of "removed" pages from their index, I see very low numbers that don't correspond with the amount of error codes and no-index tags I have on my pages. I can also reach those pages through Google Search. I've double checked the implementation and it seems fine. Can there be another reason?


WordPress mod_rewrite redirect specific folders

_As a new user, I'm not allowed to post more than two hyperlinks here. So I have added a space after every http (ignore them and read as full URLs)._ System: Debian Etch, Apache 2.2 I have a WordPress instance with multiple blogs. I would like to redirect some of the folders based on the year and month, while leaving other folders go to the actual locations. Example: I have archives for a few years, like 2010, 2011 and 2012:   http ://mydomain.com/wordpress/myblog/2010/02   http ://mydomain.com/wordpress/myblog/2011/01   http ://mydomain.com/wordpress/myblog/2012/01 I would like to redirect all 2010 and 2011 posts to another blog with the same folder structure:   http ://mydomain.com/wordpress/myotherblog/2010/02   http ://mydomain.com/wordpress/myotherblog/2011/01   and so on. I would like to have 2012 and beyond to go to the actual site (http ://mydomain.com/wordpress/myblog/2012/01). I tried mod_rewrite with the following, one rule at a time to test redirection for just one year (and to expand later for other years), and none of them worked!   * RewriteEngine is already on since there are some default WordPress rewrites.   * RewriteBase is set to http://mydomain.com/wordpress/ .   * I put my rule before all the other default WordPress rules are processed.  # Didn't work solution #1 RedirectMatch 301 /myblog/2010/(.*) /myotherblog/2010/$1 # Didn't work solution #2 RewriteRule /myblog/2010/(.*) http ://mydomain.com/myotherblog/2010/$1 [R=301] # Didn't work solution #3 RedirectPermanent /myblog/2010/(.*) http ://mydomain.com/myotherblog/2010/$1 I've also tried the above rules with and without a fully qualified URL for the new location. The rewrite log, with log level set to 9, did not provide any useful information. It shows that it looks at the pattern specified against the URL (as mentioned in the rule), but finally what happens is a passthrough to http ://mydomain.com/myblog/ for all URLs or a 500 Internal Server Error. Any ideas on where I could be going wrong or any alternative solutions?


Are these hacking attempts or something less sinister?

I just had a look through our web server error logs, and Terminal services is reporting: "Remote session from client name a exceeded the maximum allowed failed logon attempts. The session was forcibly terminated." Hundreds of times, every 10.5 seconds or so for a period of about 5-10 minutes, once at 2pm yesterday and once again at about 1am this morning. We CURRENTLY have RDP open to the outside, as I am just completing the setup and now and then I/Others need to jump on from an outside office/location (VPN isn't an option) As these are so regular, am I right in assuming that they may be the result of some sort of dictionary attack? or could something like an internal admin's hung session cause such a mass of events? (Win Server 2008 R2)


How does Facebook advertising tool calculate estimated reach?

I'm trying to understand how Facebook advertising calculates the reach. Here is the issue: I have 10.000 fans from my country, but when I select "show only to my fans", the reach is estimated do 6.000. Why so?


Why SPDY-enabled pages are not loading faster?

I've just enabled the SPDY module on nginx, as explanained on the SPDY module site. I expected a speed enhacement on my site, but I haven't noticed it. Using Firefox 25 and Firebug, I tried to take a look at the site loading to try to find out what's going on. This is what I got: Without SPDY: ![Page load without SPDY](http://i.stack.imgur.com/qhFs6.png) With SPDY: ![Page load with SPDY](http://i.stack.imgur.com/daV57.png) The total page load is the same, but without SPDY all the resources seem to be requested and served sequentially, and with SPDY all at the same time. But with SPDY there's that emptiness just there, where the navigator seems to be doing nothing. I got similar results on another SPDY-enabled websites. The Wikipedia says that > The goal of SPDY is to reduce web page load time. This is achieved by > prioritizing and multiplexing the transfer of web page subresources so that > only one connection per client is required What happens? Is that normal? If the transfer is multiplexed shouldn't the resources be fetched faster? Please notice that on subsequent requests the pageload was way better for SPDY, but there's still that emptiness doing apparently nothing. I've deleted the cache between every request, jsut in case.


Multiple Themes Duplicate Content

I have about 10-15 pages in a specific category, and I use three templates to write the meta descriptions of each. Each page has it's own meta description, but it follows one of the three templates that I wrote, I just replace the keywords and make it sound nice and fluent. For example a template could look like:   1. On this page you'll find all of the X secrets and codes. We have over X secrets to blow your mind. I would just replace X with the specific names, however I have three different templates like the one above. I would just choose a random template one to fill in a meta description. Would this be considered as duplicate content, even though they all do look pretty different from eachother? I just want to be on the safe side.


What are the search engine affects of registering the same domain on multiple top level domains?

I'm looking to register a few more domains for my company, I have my- company.com at the moment, but now require my-company.com.au and my-company.nl and others, for example `.ie`. I'm running through my options and wondering what is the best.   1. Duplicate all the content on the .com package and make a replica at the other domains   2. Buy the other domains but do a 301 redirect back to the .com domain   3. Create a full new website with different content for the new domains, thus having no text duplication We currently sell all over the world so would like to raise our search rankings in various countries. Can this be done by buying the domain in the country, and if so, how will the above methods affect our search rankings? Any other suggestions are welcome!


Canonicalization of single, small pages like reviews or product categories

In general I pretty much like the idea of canonicalization. And in most cases, Google explains possible procedures in a clear way. For example: If I have duplicates because of parameters (eg: &sort=desc) it's clear to use the canonical for the site, provided the within the head-tag. However I'm wondering how to handle "small - no to say thin content - sites". What's my definition of a small site? An Example: On one of my main sites, we use a directory based url-structure. Let's see:   * example.com/ (root)   * example.com/category-abc/   * example.com/category-abc/produkt-xy/ Moreover we provide on page, that includes **all products**   * example.com/all-categories/ (lists all products **the same way as in the categories** ) In case of reviews, we use a similar structure:   * example.com/reviews/ **product-xy** / shows **all review for one certain product**   * example.com/reviews/product-xy/ **abc-your-product-is-great** / shows **one certain review**   * example.com/ **reviews** / shows **all reviews** for all products (latest first) Let's make it even more complicated: On every product site, there are the latest 2 reviews at the end of the page. So you see, a lot of potential duplicates. **Q1:** Should I create canonicals for   * a: example.com/category-abc/ **to** example.com/all-categories/   * b: example.com/reviews/product-xy/abc-your-product-is-great/ **to** example.com/reviews/product-xy/ **or to** example.com/review/ **or none of them**? **Q2:** Can I link the collection of categories (all-categories/) and collection of all reviews (reviews/ and reviews/product-xy/) **to the single** category respectively **to the single** review. Example: example.com/reviews/ includes - let's say - 100 reviews. Can I somehow use a markup that tells search engines: "Hey, wait, you are now looking at a collection of 100 reviews - do not index this collection, you should rather prefer indexing every single review as a single page!". In HTML it might be something like that (which - of course - does not work, it's only to show you what I mean):
     HERE GOES THE REVIEW
      **Reason** : I don't think it is a great user experience if the user searches for "your product is great" and lands on example.com/reviews/ instead of example.com/reviews/product-xy/abc-your-product-is-great/. On the first site, he will have to search and might stop because of frustration. The second result, however, might lead to a conversion. The same applies for categories. If the user is searching for category-Z, he might land on the all-categories page and he has to scroll down to the (last) category, to find what he searched for (Z). So what's best practice? What should I do?


Cross domain conversion tracking using goal funnel visualiation

We have a product signup process that takes the user from our website to a signup form on a separate tld and then, following successful signup, they are directed to the payment and product selection stage which is on a subdomain of the starting domain. website1.com -> signup.website2.com -> controlpanel.website1.com We have installed the the new analytics.js tracking code on each of the sites and we are loading the auto linking module for multiple /cross domain tracking. We are getting real time data from users browsing controlpanel.website1.com so the tracking is definitely working. To see drop off rates in our checkout process we have set up two goals to track different behaviour. Unfortunately absolutely no data is being collected in these goals. This is very odd as we have been testing the processes using dummy user accounts to simulate a signup in order to test the tracking so there should have been some data collected. So here are my questions..   1. When setting up a goal do we need to have every single step in order, or can we skip a step and still have the goal tracked?   2. We have a feeling that each link in the process needs to be tracked individually. Is this correct?


Remove third/nth level domains from google Index

Somehow google has indexed some third(and fourth!) level domains that I had attached to my server temporarily, eg. my.domain.root.com. I now have these redirected properly where I would like them to go, however with a carefully crafted search one can still find them and I'd rather they not be exposed. My google foo skills have failed me in finding an answer, so I come to you wonderful folks: Is there a way/How do I remove sub-level domains from google search results? I have the site in google webmaster tools and verified, but all the URL removal requests I can perform append the url to the base url, not prefixed. And finally, how can I prevent this in the future?


Good idea to use Google Sites for static content and custom PHP for dynamic

We have a site based upon Google Sites. Now we would like to create a login area (HTTPS) with a mixture of dynamic and static content. Is it a good idea to utilize Google Sites and use iFrames for the dynamic parts of the content? The reason why I like Google Sites, is that it is so easy to change content and immediately see what it will look like.


Override .htaccess from parent directory

I have a local LAMP stack (without the MySQL. LAP stack? Anyways..) and I am using this as a development environment for a production website. The site is placed in a sub-directory of the Apache2 document root and managed by Git. My Issue is: I have an .htaccess file tracked in that subdir by Git for URL rewriting on the production server. On my local test site, these rewrite rules break almost everything (because the site is in a subdir, not the doc-root). Is there any way to override/disable that .htaccess file without modifying anything in the subdir? My doc root is /var/www/ with the site being hosted at /var/www/foo/


Redesigning foreign website for my portfolio and offer it?

I've had an interest in web design for a long time and am constantly trying to learn something new. I do not have any references in my portfolio, but would like to start freelancing. Is it bad practice to redesign a website from a local company and use it for my portfolio? Do I infringe any copyright? What if I offer the redesign to the company? Has someone done this before? If so, share your experiences.


Is the programmatic addition of keywords and descriptions worthwhile?

I see here: http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/1648/seo-for-aspnet-web-site/ this code:               protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)     {       // Add meta description tag       HtmlMeta metaDescription = new HtmlMeta();       metaDescription.Name = "Description";       metaDescription.Content = "All winners of major book, movie, and music awards, namely Pulitzers, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, Hugos, Oscars/Academy Awards, Sundance, Cannes, Golden Globes, Grammies, American Music Awards, Country Music Awards, Indies";       Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaDescription);            // Add meta keywords tag       HtmlMeta metaKeywords = new HtmlMeta();       metaKeywords.Name = "Keywords";       metaKeywords.Content = "Books, Movies, Music, Prizes, Awards, Pulitzer, Pulitzers, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, Hugos, Academy Awards, Oscars, Golden Globe, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Grammy, Grammies, American Music Awards, AMA, Country Music Awards, CMA, Indies, Indies Music Awards, Amazon";       Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaKeywords);     }      ...but if you already have the description and keywords in your html, like so:               <meta name="keywords" content="Books, Movies, Music, Prizes, Awards, Pulitzer, Pulitzers, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, Hugos, Academy Awards, Oscars, Golden Globe, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Grammy, Grammies, American Music Awards, AMA, Country Music Awards, CMA, Indies, Indies Music Awards, Amazon" />     <meta name="description" content="All winners of major book, movie, and music awards, namely Pulitzers, National Book Awards, National Outdoors Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, Hugos, Oscars/Academy Awards, Sundance, Cannes, Golden Globes, Grammies, American Music Awards, Country Music Awards, Indies" />          ...would adding the code be a waste of time? What effect would it have?


How can I route traffic between two hosting servers?

I have a web site. It is designed for **two** target groups of users: **one from Eastern Europe** , **second - from USA**. I also have two hosting accounts - one in USA and one in Europe. I'd like to route the traffic in such a way that visitors from USA are pointed to hosting server in USA, while visitors from Europe are pionted to server in Europe. Is it possible to configure my DNS server (or whatever...) and how can it be done?


sitemap.xml approach on non-indexed site

On a site that has a _robots.txt_ file that disallows all crawling...               User-agent: *     Disallow: /      ...does it matter what the _sitemap.xml_ content is? Is it better, or does it make a difference at all, if requests to _sitemap.xml_ return a 404, a 403, or an empty XML file?


Using post title and file name as alt text?

There is this plugin in WordPress called "SEO Friendly Images," it replaces the `alt` text in all of the images on my site with the combined version of the file name and post title. For example if the title of my page is " **How to Start a Car** ".   And then the file name of the image is " **car-keys.png** ".   The plugin will make the `alt` text of the image " **car keys How to Start a Car** ". The URL for this plugin is: http://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-image/. It sure seems like it got some good reviews (and 1,000,000+ downloads), however would this be a good idea to use? I don't want to mess up my site's SEO and get penalized for something like keyword stuffing, etc. by Penguin/Panda.


Why is the bounce rate high and how do I improve it?

I recently launched a site for reviews on mobile application games and after a couple weeks of running it I have a really high bounce rate 92%. I was just wondering if anyone could have a look at my site and give me your thoughts on it and how I could improve this bounce rate it would be very much appreciated, thanks in advance! _Website link_ http://www.theapplist.com/


What is the difference between not found and not followed in Google Webmaster Tools?

In Google Webmaster Tools under Crawl Errors I found 18 Not Found and 16 Not Followed errors. What does this mean, and what is the difference between them?


Understanding product search links in sitemaps

I am looking at sitemaps of a few large websites like `ebay.com` and I noticed that the URLs in the sitemap point to search results rather than the actual product page and I have confirmed that all the URLs are pointing to search results of some keywords. For example this is a sample URL in the sitemap of `ebay.com`, it points to search results of a set of keywords passed in the URL.               http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=womens+spenco+sandals+9      Is this a best practice to not to include the actual product pages in the sitemap to reduce the sitemap size? if it is indeed the case then how do the actual product pages get discovered then? Any guidance understanding this would be greatly apprecitated.


How to maximise revenue from limited number of advertisers

Suppose you have a page that ranks very well for a very specific subject (and gets a reasonable amount of traffic). You don't provide what the visitors are looking for but there are **just 3** companies in the marketplace who do. What strategies could you use to place advertisements on that page to get the maximum revenue? Some initial thoughts   * Adsense - obvious, but I thought this was better suited to long tail situations rather than a very targeted traffic with a limited number of potential advertisers?   * Affiliate Links (assuming some/all of the 3 companies do these, but what if they don't?)   * Auction off advertising space directly with the 3 companies involved. In which case would you do either as     * 'Sealed bids' - where they get to place one offer, highest wins. No bidding war but chance to get more than 'market price' as determined via auction.     * Do as traditional auction where bidders can see whats been bid, but not by whom - could introduce bidding war.


Do hotlinked images follow 301 redirects?

Site `www.example.com` hotlinks an image from site `www.example-photos.com` (with permission). Site `www.example-photos.com` redirects its images to a new domain, `www.photo-center.com`. Will the `<img src="">` tag on site `www.example.com` follow the 301 redirects to `www.example-photos.com` so that when a page is viewed on `www.example.com` the image will still be displayed? Or would `www.example.com` need to update its `<img>` tag ?


Why subdomains of Blogspot/WordPress like sites are treated as different domains or sites?

As I know, `maps.google.com` or `mail.google.com` all comes under the same domain and its all are subdomain. Entire web treats these subdomain as the part of main domain and they have same Alexa rank, PageRank and all. But in another hand, take a look on `blogspot.com`/`wordpress.com`/`webs.com`; these are different sites but blogs or websites under those domains are treated as different sites. Its new URL, all have different PageRank and Alexa rank as well. Tts about millions of subdomains under those few domain, have almost similar IP address, hosting and CMS, still why they are called different domains?


Dozens of private IP addresses in Google Analytics

I was reviewing my Analytics for the past year and noticed a couple dozen different IP addresses showing up as referrals. I tracked a few of them down to be Google (why are Google IP addresses coming in as referrals?), but there are still quite a handful that come from "private" IP addresses: `10.x.x.x` `192.x.x.x` `172.x.x.x` for the `10.x.x.x` range of IP addresses, they are all using Port `15871` which I found interesting. I have the company IP address blocked from Analytics, so it shouldn't be any internal visits. Any clue what's going on here?


How to prevent Blogger from converting relative URLs to absolute URLs

If you create relative links in Blogger, it tends to automatically convert them into absolute links or to add `http://` in front of the URL. Is there any way to prevent this? **Update** : I have reported this to the Blogger forum as an issue. Let's hope Google will fix it.


When IIS rewrite rule fails it triggers or moves on to a 2nd rewrite rule

Windows 2008 Server: IIS 7.5   I want to construct a rewrite and redirect rule so that if it fails, (can't find the page because the condition is not met, or perhaps page does not exist) another rule is activated that redirects the user to a custom 'explanation' page (not a general 404 error page). I have a redirect rule in place now that adequately redirects the user from a PDF file located on the old server (old domain/URL) to a PDF file with the same name on the new server (with new domain/URL but same folder structure). However, if the requested PDF file is not found on the old server a 404 error from the new server displays 'Not Found'. I would like instead for all pdf files not found under the /assets/pdfs/ folder on the old server to display a custom 'Help' page preferably located on the new server.               <rule name="ABC resources redirect" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">         <match url="^~abc/assets/(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />            <action type="Redirect" url="http://mainsite.org/abc/assets/{R:1}" />       </rule>      I have tried a another rule which does this 2nd action but it is an either or situation. Even with both enabled it stops after the first (above) rule. If I switch them the 2nd rule (below) runs. This rule should only affect those PDF files not found in the old /assets/pdfs/ folder.               <rule name="ABC Help Page redirect" enabled="false" stopProcessing="false">         <match url="^~abc/assets/(.*)" />           <action type="Redirect" url="http://mainsite.org/301ABCHelp.html" appendQueryString="false" />       </rule>      Changing the `stopProcessing` value does not seem to make any difference. I don't simply want to say 'Does not match URL', as there are other rewrite rule is place for this site.


How can I figure out how much my site is worth?

I run an entertainment website that gets about 4.5-4.75 million pageviews a month and 30k+ visitors daily and I have been thinking about selling it. The website brings in $6,000-$9,000 a month but I have no idea how to evaluate or how to prepare information for someone that would be willing to buy the website. Are there any guidelines that I should follow? How much do websites sell for?


In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain

I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps:   * `http://www.example.com`   * `example.com`   * `hostedsitemaps.com` Furthermore, since we were having hard to placing the XML sitemap on our site(FrontPage Issues) we decided to hire **pro-sitemaps.com** to create, host and upload the XML file which they did. Thus, I have another site `hostedsitemaps.com` on our webmaster tools for the site. **`Hostedsitemaps.com` displays:**   1. 900 urls submitted 800 Indexed.   2. Crawl errors and Search queries: No data available. **`www.example.com` displays:**   1. 889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed.    2. Crawl Errors: 14 Soft 404 796 Not found    3. Search Queries: 8104 **`example.com` displays:**   1. 889 URLs submitted 1 URLs indexed    2. Crawl errors: 48 Soft 404 91 Not found    3. Search Queries: 8104 **My questions and need for help are as followed:** **1.** Why are our domain based sites in webmaster tools (`example.com` and `www.example.com`) showing only 1 URL indexed while the `hostedsitemap.com` has 800 indexed? **2**. Should we have 3 domains configured for this "one" domain in Google Webmaster tools? **3.** Should we eliminate/delete the `hostedsitemap.com` from webmaster tools completely and take off that XML sitemap? **4** Does having `example.com` and `www.example.com` impact web ranking? **5.** Any other thoughts or help in this very complicated matter for us.


HTTPS for entire site

I'm working on a fairly standard web site with public content plus personal/customized content for registered users. I know I need to use HTTPS when users are logging in or sending credit card details. Is there a reason I shouldn't just use HTTPS for the whole site?


Making a div wrap around the content

I have a div but it fits to the borders of the container instead of wrapping around the text. I tried float:left but it will push it to the side and there's no way to make it go to the center. Help? Code:               div.warning-stripe {      padding:2px;      border:1px solid #FFA11B;      background-color: #FFC71B;      vertical-align:middle;      color:835600;      margin-left:auto;      margin-right:auto;      text-align:center;          }


Amazon associates access with multiple logins?

Is it possible to set up multiple logins for access to an Amazon Associates account? (in a way similar to Google Analytics, for example) If so, how?


Registering a .ru domain in USA

I am located in the USA and am interested in registering a .ru domain. I am having some trouble finding a good domain registration site -- light research on 101domain turns up more than a handful of poor/scammy reviews and I haven't found a single review for http://nic.ru though I like the looks of it (at least, more than 101domain). If anyone knows of a good domain registration site for .ru domains or has any insight into finding such a site, any help would be much appreciated. Thank you,   Bunny


possible to use an IP derived from Dynamic DNS in htaccess IP allow/deny commands?

On a website I manage, I want to use an .htaccess file to allow access to a certain administrative directory only from my home IP address, which is dynamically assigned by my ISP and therefore changes -- not regularly, but it does happen. I also have an account from DynDNS and have one of the auto-update clients making sure it always points to my actual home IP address. I don't actually host anything at home; I just have set up the Dynamic DNS account. Is there any way to combine these features: that is, is it possible write the .htaccess allow/deny commands at my outside webhost in a way that my home IP address is not hard coded into the command, but instead is somehow derived from the Domain Name that the DynDNS has assigned me, by doing a real-time lookup every time the directory's .htaccess file is hit?


Site too large to officially use Google Analytics?

We just got this email from the Google Analytics team: > We love that you love our product and use it as much as you do. We have > observed however, that a website you are tracking with Google Analytics is > sending over 1 million hits per day to Google Analytics servers. This is > well above the "5 million pageviews per month per account" limit specified > in the Google Analytics Terms of Service. > > Processing this amount of data multiple times a day takes up valuable > resources that enable us to continue to develop the product for all Google > Analytics users. > > As such, starting August 23rd, 2010, the metrics in your reports will be > updated once a day, as opposed to multiple times during the course of the > day. You will continue to receive all the reports and features in Google > Analytics as usual. The only change will be that data for a given day will > appear the following day. > > We trust you understand the reasons for this change. I totally respect this decision, and I think it's very generous to not kick us out. But how do we do this the right way -- **what's the official, blessed Google way to use Google Analytics if you're a "whale" website with lots of hits per day?** Or, are there other analytics services that would be more appropriate for very large websites?


Are there any pre-fab CSS Sprites and styles I can apply to my page?

I'm more of a computer programmer than a designer and I need some sample CSS images that includes images for:   * TabControl   * Close Button for TabControl   * Folder Open/Close   * Buttons   * etc... Does any premade themes exist that I just start using? I don't want to start at zero and learn everything at once!


Testing a simple PayPal "Buy Now" button - but why are there two different PayPal "looks"?

Just testing a simple single product "Buy Now" button in PayPal and finding that when clicking through to PayPal, PayPal will opt to show either one or other of two different "flavours": There's this look: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QVRqC.png) and then there's this look: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ba6Sw.png) Sure, I'm familiar with both, having experienced them both as an end user, and assumed it was down to the merchant's options or his choice of PayPal configuration. But testing - now as a merchant - I'm finding either one will show, as I say at random. Don't get me wrong, either flavour performs its job. It's just a bit unsettling. Do I need to be concerned? And why does PayPal do this? **Update:**   From a bit more digging around, I believe these PayPal's terminology for these two themes are **_Classic_** and **_Enhanced_**. But I'm still no wiser as to when and where PayPal opts to show one or the other.


What am I doing wrong ? Google adsense application got rejected 3 times, reason "Page type". I am running blog http://photoforu.blogspot.com/ from sometime, but able to approve the adsense account for it, the issue they say is Issues:   - Page type * * * Further detail: Page type: Your website is a type of website that we do not currently accept into our program. Such websites include, but are not limited to, chat sites, sites that drive traffic through cybersquatting, and sites that use excessive keywords in the content or code of their pages. * * * I don't understand whats wrong with the content, Google webmaster tools don't show any error.. and there are only 82 keywords yet. What am I doing wrong ? List of keywords: (for reference only)   1. image (3 variants)   2. love (4 variants)   3. post (2 variants)   4. blog (3 variants)   5. baby (2 variants)   6. photoforu    7. girls    8. new (2 variants)   9. blogspot    10. fashion    11. car (2 variants)   12. cute    13. photo (2 variants)   14. funny    15. google    16. share    17. india (2 variants)   18. beauty    19. photograph (2 variants)   20. beautiful  ...loads more


Facebook contest policy no-no?

I would like to post a link on a Facebook page where it will exit Facebook entirely and go to a client's website, where people will be on a page (client's) where they can enter their e-mail address to be entered in a temporary database file with rules and disclosures etc., for a draw once the number of entries reaches 100 for instance. Once the number of entries reaches 100, a random winner is picked and notified via E-mail. The functionality is as follows:   * A link is place on a Facebook page leading to an external page   * The page is a form to merely enter their email address for a contest   * The email is placed in a temporary file   * An automatic E-mail is sent to the address used for confirmation using SHAH-256 hash   * The person receives the Email saying something to the affect "Please confirm your Email address etc. - If you did not authorize this, simply ignore this message and no further action will be taken".   * If the person clicks on the confirmation link, the Email is then stored in the database and the person is again notified saying "Thank you for signing up etc."   * Once others do the same process and the database reaches a certain number, the form is no longer accessible and automatically picks a random Email.   * Once picked, an Email is automatically sent to the winner stating the instructions, and notifying me also.   * Once that person clicks yet another confirmation link, the database is then automatically deleted. I have built this myself and have no intentions of breaking any rules, nor jeopardize the work/time/energy I have put into this project. Is this allowed?


Can other domain registrars view non-public whois information?

If my domains are hosted at a registrar (lets take Gandi, for example) and it has privacy protection on the whois information, can another ICANN-accredited registrar (GoDaddy, for example) still view my actual information that is behind the privacy guard? i.e. I don't have a GoDaddy account. But, since they are ICANN-accredited, could they access the real whois info without the privacy protection?


Documenting browser support

Are there any good articles or standards for documenting browser support for a web application? We test in IE 7+ and develop in IE 9/10+, as well as chrome, and would like to come up some good legal verbage to describe supported browsers for our product.


Confused for writing robots.txt file

I am getting DNS error from last few 5 days in my Google Webmaster Tools. That's the reason I would like to confirm my _robots.txt_ file. Is the below _robots.txt_ file is correct or not?               User-agent: *     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml      Please help me to solve this doubt.


If I use the same image on multiple pages, should it be on my sitemap multiple times?

Following Google's guide to Image sitemaps `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"> <url> <loc>http://example.com/sample.html</loc> <image:image> <image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc> </image:image> <image:image> <image:loc>http://example.com/photo.jpg</image:loc> </image:image> </url> </urlset> ` If let's say I use `ford.jpg` on a broad `/car-manufacturers.html` and then again on `/ford.html` Should I list the same image twice in my sitemap, in each of those two URLs? Otherwise which one should it go on?


What is the correct format and attributes for adding a PDF to an XML sitemap?

I have found numerous questions and blogs about including PDF files in an XML sitemap but cannot find a single one that gives a working example or which attributes to use: What document types can be included in an XML sitemap? Should I include PDF files in my sitemap.xml On Google's Sitemap Guide it states: > The following table outlines the tags required for Sitemaps listing web > URLs. To add more detailed information about specific content types, see > video, images, mobile, News, and software source code. Should .PDF be treated as a regular URL or News or is this out of date and there is one specifically for .PDF files? Most of my PDFs are not news but brochures, case studies, and high resolution image files... speaking of should the high resolution image files be treating with `<image:image>` then set the `<image:loc>` to the .PDF?


IE6 and IE7 rendering issues

How do I get my pages in IE6 and IE7 to render the height like in IE8 and Firefox? right now in both IE8 and Firefox the page dimensions is 1024 x 800 but in IE6 the dimensions are 1024 x 859 and IE7 the dimensions are 1024 x 855.


GoDaddy URL redirect won't work with affixed www

I have a `mydomain.com` that I recently redirected to `my-new-domain.com` using the forward option 301 in GoDaddy. It is working fine when I typed in `mydomain.com`, but when I typed it with the affixed `www.mydomain.com`, it won't redirect and just shows "This webpage is not available". What do I do next? Needed it to work since most of my traffic comes from `www.mydomain.com`. By the way, the website is at Blogspot if it's relevant.


www is not displayed in Google Search result

I have a website at `www.matrimonyteam.com`; when I perform a Google search it is only displaying `matrimonyteam.com` in search results rather than `www.matrimonyteam.com`. Is there is any setting required at the time of hosting or in a config file to force the full domain name, with the `www`, to appear in search results?


Is there an advantage to using HTML versus PDF for printable product information?

I want to create a printable informational sheet for the products on my website. I have over 1000 different products. Each product has a product page and each product page needs a link which will display the product's info sheet and offer an easy print option. Some factors are:   * Info sheets will contain product specific info which will come from a database.   * Info sheets may include product specific images, stored on the web server.   * Info sheets will contain info that is user specific (supplied by form fields).   * We are considering emailing a copy of the info sheets.   * Info sheets will display the company logo and simple design elements. I have lots of reasons to use HTML:   * Less CPU intensive on server   * No need to save or delete files   * Can be shown directly in emails   * Can be formatted with the same css as my website   * Versions automatically change as the database changes.   * Less cumbersome to view and download I don't have as many reasons to use PDF:   * Widely accepted standard.   * Files can be saved by the client easily.   * Files can be shared. HTML looks like the way to go, but this is new territory for me. Are there other compelling reasons to use one over the other?


Video Player for hosted videos

I'd like to add videos for a webpage, but I don't want to use Youtube or any other site to host them, i'd like to host them on my own server. what are some good tools availible for video players on a site?


What is a good program for optimizing images on a website?

I have some extensive website that I need to analyze the images and see if they can be optimized. Can any one recommend a good program for this?


Mapping a domain to my virtual server using an A record

I bought a virtual server from Hetzner. It has Debian 7.0 minimal installed, and I also installed Apache server using `apt-get install apache2`. That's about everything I did on the server. This URL works: `http://78.47.140.229/` I have my domain registered on an unrelated registrar, and it allows me to set the name servers as displayed in this screenshot: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ljk57.png) After doing some research it seems that I also need to set something called "A Host Record". I can't find any option to do this, do I need to set this on my domain registrar's side, or my server provider's side (Hetzner)?


Htaccess 301 redirect dynamic URL

I don't know a whole lot about _.htaccess_ rules so forgive and help me ask the correct question. Currently I have a _.htaccess_ rule like:               RewriteRule ^surveys/(\S+)/directory/(\d+)/(\d+)/entry/(\d+)/?$ directories/index.cfm?sFuseAction=XXX.YYYY.ZZZZ&nDirectoryID=$2&nEntryID=$4&nCategoryID=$3&sDirectory=$1 [NC,L]      which I want to do a 301 redirect to:               RewriteRule ^(\S+)/directory/(\d+)/(\d+)/entry/(\d+)/?$     directories/index.cfm?sFuseAction=XXX.YYYY.ZZZZ&nDirectoryID=$2&nEntryID=$4&nCategoryID=$3&sDirectory=$1 [NC,L]      I'm unsure of the correct syntax to go about making these redirect correctly.


Domain expired- possible to find content that was on websites?

I had a domain that I let expire, and was subsequently purchased by someone else. I have several links on my website that are now directed towards their new site. I was wondering if it is possible to find a cached version of the website from when I still owned it, and that way I can save the materials from that page.


Several domains using 302 redirect to our domain

I am wondering what implications we can run into if one of our dealers is redirecting several of their domains using a 302 to our domain. The reason they are doing this is because they want to have time to build on their current sites but still want some content on the domains they own. Currently our domain is under a Manual Penalty for back links that we are working on removing. I do not like the idea of them linking back to our site but I need logical reasons other than "because I don't want you to".


How to get Google to display a list of posts in the SERPs for a self hosted WordPress blog?

My website is `javatechig.com` and is around 6 months old. I have used All-in- One SEO WordPress plugin for SEO tricks. Definitely after using SEO plugin, my website page view is increased, but still it is not giving one good site-link in Google Search. I have followed the following steps:   1. Created _sitemap.xml_ and submitted to Google Webmaster Tools   2. Edited all posts with meta tags   3. Header tags are carefully taken care I want to make a sitelink similar to the attached image: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/7zUEW.png)


What do you do if you don't want to put a keyword in your title?

Suppose you have a website about a subject, for instance, popcorn. Everything in your site will be about popcorn and your regular visitors are popcorn enthusiasts who will understand that even articles without the keyword "popcorn" in the title are about popcorn. How do you tell this to Google, if meta tags are not being used any more? Or do you have to keep adding "popcorn" to titles to have your articles show up in searches and news alerts? It's very awkward to keep adding a word to titles for this reason. For instance, your title is `Why corn is good for you`, but it won't show up in Google searches, so do you really have to change it to "Why corn, from which popcorn is made, is good for you"? I've noticed that adding the keyword to the website name, as in `Why corn is good for you | Popcorn Every Day` is not good enough.


css issue in wordpress

I am using a WordPress plugin and it has collapse arrows in the option. However, by default the word press theme has bluestar(*) being used for ul. In the page http://everything-evans.com/, on the sidebar, under the title 'In the past', I want to display the collapsing arrows, and the star and yellow dots should disappear. Let me know how to achieve this. Thanks.


How to manage Google Webmaster Tools for Multiple Clients

I need to set up Google Webmaster Tools for several of my clients. Is it alright to add multiple sites under my own Google account and then add clients as other owners if they need access? If further down the line my clients decide they want control would setting it up like this cause problems? Any advice appreciated, thanks.


How do you get Google product rich snippets working on WooCommerce

I have just set up a WooCommerce site and I am trying to get the reviews on it to show up in the Google rich snippets. How can i do this? Is there any out- the-box plugins to make it work? Currently it pulls in some data in the Rich Snippets Structured Data Testing Tool but it does not show the 'Star rating' and 'Price' in the search results?


DNS servers not set properly? Site failing to load by hostname, though loads fine by IP

We run `www.tekiki.com`. Some users, including us, cannot reach `www.tekiki.com` because of DNS issues. The site resolves fine on the desktop, but it fails from our iPhones and iPads. This doesn't happen to everyone. We noticed the problem yesterday, then set our DNS servers to Cloudflare's DNS servers, hoping that would fix things. Accessing the site by IP addr loads the site fine. Two questions: 1) Does anyone know what the solution is? 2) Should we use other DNS servers besides Cloudflare?


Indexing a multilingual website

I am trying to create a multilingual website using the Django framework, all default content is English. I have added a native translation (Dutch). https://mydomain.com/ redirects to the user request language setting. (This is default behaviour by adding Django's LocaleMiddleware) > LocaleMiddleware tries to determine the user's language preference by > following this algorithm: > > First, it looks for the language prefix in the requested URL. This is only > performed when you are using the i18n_patterns function in your root > URLconf. See Internationalization: in URL patterns for more information > about the language prefix and how to internationalize URL patterns. > > Failing that, it looks for a django_language key in the current user's > session. > > Failing that, it looks for a cookie. > > The name of the cookie used is set by the LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME setting. (The > default name is django_language.) > > Failing that, it looks at the Accept-Language HTTP header. This header is > sent by your browser and tells the server which language(s) you prefer, in > order by priority. Django tries each language in the header until it finds > one with available translations. > > Failing that, it uses the global LANGUAGE_CODE setting. So visiting '/' will result to either: https://mydomain.com/en/ or https://mydomain.com/nl/ Title, description, keywords and content are language based so every page is (almost) entirely translated. So: https://mydomain.com/en/my-awesome-page/ has a Dutch flag (language switch) that holds this link: https://mydomain.com/nl/mijn-fantastische-pagina/ This works great. Also my page's header holds alternate content based upon the language variable, here's the pseudo code:               <html lang="{{ current_language }}" />     <head>         {% for lang_code in other_languages %}             <link rel="alternate" hreflang="{{ lang_code }}" href="{% url current_url language=lang_code %}"/>         {% endfor %}     </head>      This will result the english page to look like this:               <html lang="en" />     <head>         <link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl" href="https://mydomain.com/nl/mijn-fantastische-pagina/"/>     </head>      Now my problem is Google indexes my Homepage in english, while I want dutch visitors to see the dutch title and description in google's results (unless they look for the english translation). I believe the problem might be due to auto redirecting the root url ('/') or automatically setting the language, should I exclude robots somehow? I have read this article but I haven't figured out the problem: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.nl/2010/03/working-with-multilingual- websites.html Also if I add a site map to a multilingual site, would it be better to add a different sitemap for each language, or make one large tree based on language roots?


Can a site be penalized for releasing a large volume of content in one go?

Let's assume I have a website of approximately 40,000 web pages, all of which are currently indexed, and most rank fairly well on Google. I plan on creating new content which will result in a total of almost 200,000 new pages being created (so, 240,000 pages total, six times the original amount). Can the site be penalized for releasing such a large volume of content in one go? Obviously, if it's poor quality content, I can get penalized for that, but let's assume that it's good content, and pages do not consist of duplicate data. Is there a benefit to releasing these new pages in batches instead? For example, if the pages are organised by category and sub-category, and I release one category a week, or simply releasing a few thousand pages per week. If so, is there any sort of guideline as to how many should be released, and on what time-scale?


Is there a permalink to the latest version of Joomla (zip archive)?

I'm trying to automate WHM to download and install Joomla into any new cPanel accounts I create, rather than doing it manually each time. However I can't find any permalink to the latest version of Joomla that I can use to grab the required zip. Does one exist?


Huge spike in traffic tracked by Google Analytics from Safari browsers

My site `urbanindo.com` recently experienced huge spike in traffic tracked by Google Analytics. The huge spike sometime shows in several same pages. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/juWeb.png) This is odd because I rarely experienced that much traffic before. Some pages can have hundreds of visitors at the same time. But when I read the webserver log, those pages only showed up in only one or two entries, not hundreds like the GA showed. But the only similar thing about the entries is that they are using similar browser agent.               Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3     Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3      And when I opened the **Google Analytics > Audience > Technology > Browsers & OS** and I plotted the chart based on the browsers, I saw that the huge spike came from Safari. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pbXc0.png) This huge spikes started to happen since the beginning of this August, which happens to be when I use multiple webservers behind load balancer (although I'm pretty sure those two are not relevant). Is there something wrong with my GA configuration?


htaccess/cPanel 301 redirects not working for add-on domain

I've already looked at many samples and tutorials how to set up those 301 redirects on Apache and can't figure out why some are not working. Whenever I want to redirect any still existing page from the old domain to the new domain the page on the old domain is still used. But it "works" if you type in a page which does not exist on the old domain. The same is true for directories which do not exist on the old domain. So whenever you type a non-existing URL (page or folder) the redirections is taking place (but of course produces 404 errors of on the new domain). In addition it also works for the domain name itself. So just typing "old.com" correctly redirects to "new.com". Any input is much appreciated because this is slowly driving me crazy :) **EDIT:** I added the complete htaccess file. **EDIT 2:** So I removed almost all redirects and currently my htaccess looks like this:               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old\.com$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.old\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.new.com/$1" [R=301,L]      The only redirect that is working is the simple one from old.com to new.com. A redirect like old.com/page.htm to new.com or even new.com/page.htm is not working. **EDIT 3:** This is the .htaccess of the top-level domain:               # -FrontPage-          IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*          <Limit GET POST>     order deny,allow     deny from all     allow from all     </Limit>     <Limit PUT DELETE>     order deny,allow     deny from all     </Limit>     AuthName www.toplvl.com     AuthUserFile /home2/a_user/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd     AuthGroupFile /home2/a_user/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^toplvl.com [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.toplvl.com     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.toplvl.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]


Need to redirect all files/folders under subfolder but leave subfolder alone

I hope my title makes sense. Here is what I have: On our previous website, we had URLs similar to the following: www.example.com/support/BIOS/JXT/0ABWDA22.zip This same file on our new site has the structure: www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/support/BIOS/JXT/0ABWDA22.zip However our new site also has a page located at: www.example.com/support so I cannot use something like ^/support/(.*) as it rewrites and breaks the main support page. I am looking for any suggestions. I thought that perhaps the easiest way to handle this would be to ONLY rewrite urls where there is a file extension present? I have been googling for this very thing but haven't really stumbled across a solution as of yet. Thanks


domain, subdomain and ranking

we have a well ranking site on the domain(e.g. www.test.com) running for 2 years having good PR i.e. 5 and the site having its 400000+ url indexed and then we have a new site on the subdomain(e.g. data.test.com) which is relatively new(6 months) having only around 20k url indexed. what we are planning to do is move the main site to a new subdomain(from www.test.com to new.test.com) and promote the other site on the subdomain(data.test.com) to main domain(www.test.com). what would be the effect on ranking, PR once this switch is done? assuming 95% of the URL's are handled properly through 301 redirect. any help would be highly appreciated.


Purchasing domains from "unstable" country TLDs

Is there any risk associated with purchasing a domain with a TLD for a politically unstable or authoritarian country? ex, if I purchase a `.ly` domain and there is a dramatic political change in Libya, could the new government cancel existing registrations or something along those lines?


What does this code mean that was placed in my hacked Web site?

My website was hacked, with the following code added to the end of the page:               <img heigth="1" width="1" border="0"          src="http://imgddd.net/t.php?id=########">      (The id had an 8 digit number in place of the ########) The link didn't work. Also, the page would crash until I removed the link. What else do I need to be worried about? Why would hackers put such a poor link on a website?


Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS) Metadata - Is it widely adopted?

Recently, I have seen in a couple sites around Australia's meta data AGLS tags.               <meta name="AGLS.Audience" scheme="agls-audience" content="All"/>     <meta name="DC.Publisher" scheme="AglsAgent" content="Hyundai"/>      I have never seen this kind of mark-up before and discovered: http://www.agls.gov.au/ Just wondering whether there is a big community / support out there for the adopting these tags? Any thoughts would be great.


Subdomains vs folders, for multi account/users application

So, for a multi user web app, what is better:               http://username.domain.com      Or               http://domain.com/username      I would like to get feedback about security, scalability and maintenance specifically, app is php based, so it is .htaccess based for url rewriting.


Streaming audio from a webpage

I want to be able to stream audio from another webpage through mine, but i do not know how to find the url for each audio file located on a separate webpage. It would also be extremely helpful to do everything in bulk so instead of writing a separate line of code for each audio file, simply writing a few lines of code to upload links to 100 audio files, etc. I am also using Ruby on Rails for my webpage. How do you find a file located on a separate webpage? Does anyone know, if possible how, to upload file links in bulk?


Yahoo media player not working with Ruby on rails

I have a yahoo media player embedded in my webpage. I am currently using Ruby on Rails to create/edit my web page. When i click the play button next to a track the YMP waits a while and then goes to the next track without playing the first one. I then get a warning on my second (last) track that its file could not be found. Does anyone has a better recommendation for an audio player or a way to fix this one?


Grapeshot crawler ignoring robots.txt

Has anyone come across a crawler called Grapeshot? They are hammering the same page repeatedly on our website. I believe they are looking for ad related keywords, based on previous content ad campaigns. The odd thing is we never ran any such campaigns on the page they are so interested in. We do have only a few pages running AdSense, is this what has attracted Grapeshot? I've added the following declaration to my robots.txt, but they don't seem to be honouring it?               User-agent: grapeshot     Disallow: /      Any ideas on how to block this nuisance crawler? I'm starting to think the best way is by setting up IP rules in IIS?


Site Template Images - Borders, Lines, Curves

Most of the sites posted here and elsewhere mentioning sites with free full- sized backgrounds. I was curious if there is a site that has free graphics for creating a template, with images like corner radiuses, gradient borders, and other smaller graphics to help put together the site template. That's something I'm in need of, and was wondering if its around anywhere. Thanks.


Feasible to send marketing emails as an image?

Is it feasible to send marketing emails entirely as images - apart from a link at the top, giving the option for the recipient to view the email online (in their browser) and one at the footer to unsubscribe from our mailing list? Anyone who's coded a html email template before knows how much of a pain it is to end up with the final design that displays 'properly' (rarely does it display the same in all clients) and doesn't break. I understand there's the possibility of people simply ignoring the email altogether should their email clients be set not to automatically download images, but many of our email primarily feature images anyway. Thoughts?


Managing multiple web servers for clients

**I'm looking for a way to manage many combinations of FTP's, hosting company usernames and passwords, and what websites are on what web server.** We manage 3 of our own web servers and some where around 20 client web servers (which is constantly growing). We have multiple sites on our web servers and some clients also have multiple sites their servers. So, we may have a server that has 10 sites with lots of different DB and several different FTP credentials. Because we set up clients with their own hosting plan, we have alot of unique information about each website that we've ever done. We've been using highrise and creating notes containing hosting logins, FTPs, and DB logins but we're losing alot of visibility. For example, how many clients are on media temple vs. dreamhost. How many clients are on media temple's GS vs. DV and so on. Finding FTP information based on the client or the website URl, and so on. Does anyone know of a good tool to manage many different web servers?


Is bad, from a SEO perspective, to have many pages on a website that only contain YouTube embedded videos?

Will Google penalize my website for having plenty of pages that only contain YouTube embedded videos. Is this a bad idea SEO-wise?


Google's usual behavior on examining articles

There is an original content(article) from a website, I copied it and paste it in a Paraphrasing tool. The tool did a great job in paraphrasing. I tried checking using copyscape and it did detect paraphrased article. My next question is, how about google would I be penalized or not crawled for this. I understand the ethical issues on this.


Way to list "Contact Us" email address on web site, yet reduce likelihood of spam?

What's a good way to list a "Contact Us" email address on a web site, while reducing the likelihood it will get spammed? Is putting the email address in an image the best technique, or are there others?


What's a good wizard for creating HTML RSS feed widgets?

I'm looking to take a RSS feed XML link, and incorporate its contents into my site using a free online wizard to handle the scripting. To be more specific, I'd like to know if there's a tool that experienced webmasters use that's a) free [or low cost], b) creates standards-based HTML4+ code, and c) generates a list with summary with a slow scrolling effect as one of its options. Thanks.


Numbered list with subclauses

I'm trying to create a legal document with decimal numbered subclauses, then alpha and roman subsub and subsubsub clauses. (whew!) ` **1. MAIN HEADING**               1.1 This is an example of a sub-clause and you can see that even though the words continue on to the right, it would be best if it wrapped around and formed a block to the right of the decimal number     1.2 In doing so the normal second clause should also wrap around but the second subsequent clause should hang in from the left and be in a block.  See below for the remaining clauses         (a) this list is completely for demonstration and should  not be construed as legal language in any way, nor should make sense in that         (b) should the indentation take  more than:             i) this many lines it would be overly big             11) legal numbering continues in the sub-sub clauses with the use of lower roman lettering and should flow below in a block             iii) and continue the formatting on to the next line but be underneath the body of the the text and not begin directly below the number itself. In this example the text carries out to the right but I need it to wrap around underneath.      Sorry its so wordy, need this to show the example. **_2. Second Clause Heading_** 2.1 and so it continues thus   I've found the examples for decimal numbering but they do not create a block out to the right of the number, and they carry on with multiple decimals rather than alpha and roman sub clauses.


how to include zend library while uploading?

I have completed my project in zend framework for the first time. But I don't know how to include zend library in webhost. So, I uploaded(uploading) zend library about 24MB in my library folder. Can this be done without it? Or if there is any better solution or suggestion?


How easy is it to code in-built videos?

First time poster so please don't bite my head off. Basically, I'm having a site built for me and I don't really know anything about coding but I'm not too sure if I trust my web developer. I asked him recently about adding a feature where I could display built-in videos like in this page and he quoted me quite a high amount for it. I just wanted to double check with you guys whether this is a difficult feature to add in and whether it justifies a reasonable amount of money on top of what I'm already paying him. Thanks in advance for your help.


<!--hppage status="protected"--> Bad for SEO?

I've just come across this protection code:               <!--hppage status="protected"-->      It hides the html and page code from anyone who wants to right click and view source. I can't see a work around to this - so its great... However is this terrible for SEO?


What new cross-browser features can we use if we drop support for IE6?

My company is dropping support of IE6 and I just realize that we can use a set of great features.   Is there a list of CSS, Javascript features which we can use with IE6 RIP?


Managing OpenX campaigns for several advertisers

We're running our own OpenX instance with several advertisers. Each month, the advertiser's campaign should reset its available impressions, based on whatever plan the advertiser paid. I think this is a pretty common scenario. Question is: how do you manage this? Do you expire the old campaign and create a new one with the new amount of impressions? Or do you just add the impressions to the existing campaign?


Link of image and text

I am currently linking related and text (caption) in the following way:               This is caption      Meaning I combine both and text inside the same tag. Is that the right way to do it, syntax and SEO wise? Joel


average (x)html page per day

This question is just simple. I'm a web developer for 1 year now, particularly client-side html/css/jquery thing. I can do psd to (x)html average 3 pages per day. These pages are IE6,7,8,FF,GC,Safari,Opera compatible. The question is, based on my experience, am I slow? What is your average number of pages per day? If you have any suggestion to make my work faster, please do. Thanks.


How to share web content to mobile?

I am newbie. I built a site. But I am not know how to share web content to mobile? I mean add some button, user click the button, share site url or content to android, iphone or even basic symbian system. Should I make a contact to telephone company for a SMS service? Or only some 3rd part service on Internet? Is there any tutorial for reference or any software? Many thanks.


Separate Mediawiki Theme for Its Front Page

Is there any way to use a different theme file for a Mediawiki's front page, while the rest of the wiki uses the standard theme you set? For example, say I use Monobook.php for all of my regular pages, but Custom.php for my wiki's front page. I can't find anything that would allow me to do this.


Merge two domains with 301 redirect

I have two domains (`.com` and `.co.uk`) with different websites. In `.co.uk` domain I have a good ranking and my idea is to redirect the `.co.uk` domain to `.com`. I think I have to use 301 redirect. My questions is, I have two different websites, the two websites are different but with the same categories and some products, I have to create only one redirect of home to home or a should create other pages like similar products, categories and other similar pages in both sites? The created backlinks usually goes to homepage, so I thought I just needed to redirect the homepage. I don't want to lose the ranking and have problems with Google crawl.


.htaccess RewriteRule $1 contains wrong value

I have a RewriteRule that is not behaving as I expect. I want `site.com/author/fred` to map to `site.com/author/index.php?a=fred` I have an author directory within the site root. The author directory contains the .htaccess file below. My problem is that `$1` contains the value `index.php` instead of the regex match. The entire .htaccess file is below. Can you see my mistake? Thank you.               Options +FollowSymlinks     RewriteEngine on          RewriteRule ([^/]+)/?$  index.php?a=$1 [NC,L]


New requests for /cache/ URLs

A few weeks ago requests following this type of pattern:               http://mysite/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40       http://mysite/otherfolder/cache/7a226e8aa3a4380444a329a7b0dd0f40        started to appear in my logs. Almost all the requests come from Indian IPs. Anybody know what is generating these requests and the intent?


Accessible web design

Not sure if this question is a good fit for this forum, if not maybe some moderators can move it to StackOverflow. Where should I be looking to make an accessible web site nowadays? I remember 10 years ago there was the WAI Initiative. Is that still documenting best practices and issuing recommendation towards making an accessible website? I mean I know they do have an updated website but is someone still considering their recommendation meaningful or has some other standard emerged out of the real world practices? Or is accessibility nowadays about writing valid and semantically meaningful markup/css and applying micro-formats the way Wordpress does it?


File formats to download ringtones

What file formats and other specifications must be used to give ringtones (to download) in a website? I'm interested in giving away just one ringtone. The target audience uses smartphones with Android, iOS and Windows Phones launched in the last 2/3 years. Is it necessary to include instructions or is it something relatively easy to do? Or can't be done for some reason? The ringtone has to be downloaded to a desktop first? Or has to be downloaded from the mobile phone while accessing the web page with the download?


SEO: Full Redirect from Subdomain to Root Domain

I recently setup a staging site on our server's subdomain. Somehow Google managed to crawl the pages. Now we are ready to transfer the files to the main domain and delete the files on the subdomain. This is a big problem for our SEO which will make the pages on the root domain appear to be duplicates of the indexed pages on the subdomain. All paths on the subdomain is exactly the same with ones on the root domain, only the host part is different. Here are some of the many different path structures of the site:               http://beta.mysite.com/ --> http://www.mysite.com     http://beta.mysite.com/index.php?class=xxx&func=xxxx --> http://wwww.mysite.com/index.php?class=xxx&func=xxxx     http://beta.mysite.com/class/xxx/func/xxx --> http://www.mysite.com/class/xxx/func/xxx     http://beta.mysite.com/seo-text-here-class-xxx-func-xxx --> http://www.mysite.com/seo-text-here-class-xxx-func-xxx     http://beta.mysite.com/xxx-xxx.html --> http://www.mysite.com/xxx-xxx.html      As you can see only the host part changed, everything else remains as it is. QUESTION: Is it possible to redirect requests on the subdomain to do a SEO friendly redirect to the actual files on the root domain without having to explicitly write each rule for different path structures? NOTE: The redirection should be transparent to users which means they should see that the page actually redirects to the main site.


Best location for a websites CMS

As part of my job I recently started making numerous content management systems for websites. So many that obviously my next step was to set up a 'template' for the websites so I could quickly remove or add elements to suit the clients needs. Basically I chose Code Igniter, and now am ready to plug it in to a front end. In the past I placed websites CMSs in a sub-directory of that site, so mysite.com/cms for example. That was using 'spaghetti' PHP however. Using a framework such as CI or any MVC structure, is it better to host it in a subdomain, keep the front end and the back-end in the same application, or to split them on separate domains? Or does it really not matter?


Is it possible to create a "all keywords in adgroup must contain X"?

I run a Google AdWords campaign with (amongst others) the following AdGroups:               Accounting     Accounting non profits      in each group I have a bunch of keywords. I use broad match with a + before it. Like:               +accountingsoftware     +accountingsoftware non profit      I have the problem that sometimes phrases that should be matched by the first AdGroup get's matched by the second AdGroup. For example the phrase `simple accounting software` was matched by the AdGroup `accounting non profits`. I know there are negative keywords, but I would like something like a list of positive keywords. I would like to make it so that unless the word "non profit" or "NGO" etc are in the search phrase, the ads never show up. Is this possible?


Does MSIE recognise StartCom as an SSL Certificate Authority?

Ok, so I'm thinking about getting in on the SSL action, so that my sites can be secure etc, and after hours of shopping for the best priced certificate, I find out that StartSSL offer a free one. One of the responses to this question states: > The most significant downside of the free certificate is that, last I > checked, Internet Explorer did not recognize StartCom as a root CA, so if > you use a StartSSL certificate, visitors to your site who use IE will get a > certificate warning. At the base of their website, startCom state that they are recognised by most major browsers, including IE. Can anyone verify this? Also, does anyone know of any sites using such a certificate, so that I can see for myself next time I'm in the public library, where they have ancient machines that run early versions of IE. Finally, lets say for arguments sake that IE6, in the year 2010, didn't recognise StartCom, does this mean that IE6 in 2012 still doesn't recognise them? Is the list of recognised CA's hard-coded into the browser, or is the list independent of the browser version? Which versions of IE do recognise StartCom is probable the best way to phrase that, I guess.


Caching Google do not

I'm trying to test the speed of my site with `monitoring-transactionnel.com` I have an error `Vary: Accept-Encoding` with Google but I do not know how to settle the problem. ![look](http://i.stack.imgur.com/BhU3u.png)


making www.foo.com go to srv5.bar.net/~foo

What I need accomplished is when a person out there in internet-land types in www.foo.com they are actually getting served content from srv5.bar.net/~foo I have root access to both the nameserver ( bind9 ) and the webserver ( apache2 ). ( Yes, I do indeed use sudo rather than running as root ) I already know how to enable the UserDir module to make /home/foo/public_html into srv5.bar.net/~foo which is exactly what I want. I can also config the A name in dns so that foo.com is by bar.net I don't know how to make the connection of www.foo.com -> srv5.bar.net/~foo/ I don't even know what this is called to be honest. I don't want to use what I understand to be a cloak that simply puts what I want inside a frame that fills the window. Just in case it's required, I'm on debian.


Making profit - Adsense contains too many stopwords

I was thinking of using Adsense, but after I've read about the stopwords policy... Too many words are banned: `"a**, s**t, id**t, a****le, bu****it,"` etc.. That generally means that I cannot use Adsense, unless I edit my posts. How else would I go about making some profit out of my site? I don't want to use things like popups, text-link ads, I can't post many shoplinks, and my site is too small to sell adspace. For specific reasons, I also don't do videos, am not planning on starting a forum or premium content, or anything very close to what's in this sentence. The reason for this post is basically the fact that I've seen sites without any ads, huge sites, and I started to wonder: how do they make money? That was Gizmodo to be precise. Some info about my site: It's a blog where I review games and post news. There is no forum, no registration.


Canonical URL issue for www.takemyview.co.in

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