Microdata: How to set itemprop="duration"?

I'm trying to set a song's duration in microdata format. What is the best way to describe a duration in microdata? Is it by using itemprop="duration" in span?               4:05      Or using the time tag?               <time itemprop="duration" datetime="PT4M5S">4:05</time>      Or using the meta description?               <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT4M5S"/>4:05      Or a combination of all of them?                        <time itemprop="duration" datetime="PT4M5S">             <meta itemprop="duration" content="PT4M5S"/>4:05         </time>           I tried and they all worked in google's Structured Data Testing Tool except for the last one where the result was a three durations!


Image Hot-links & Google's Instant Previews

I'm trying to adjust my site:   1. stop Image Hot-links   2. block Googlebot-Image (because I do not want my images to be searchable)   3. allow Google's Instant Previews   I've tried this but the _Instant Previews_ still do not show my images. (I really do not want to start blocking/allowing by user-agent.) Has anybody achieved it ? .htaccess > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(favicon.ico)   >  RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !(mydomain.com|google.)   >  RewriteRule .(jpe?g|gif|png)$ - [F] robots.txt > User-agent: Googlebot-Image   >  Disallow: / > > User-agent: *   >  Disallow: /phpcart/


Google Site SEO after domain mapping change

I have a google site https://sites.google.com/a/fractalsystems.org/buuf- decisions/ which used to be mapped http://buuf.fractalsystems.org Since stripping away that mapping SEO has not changed and it still points to the mapped domain name instead of the site.google page. Any idea if I can push this along or any ways of speeding it up? Am I SOL in any way?


What's the best (fairest) way to select a web designer?

I've been a freelance developer for nearly a decade, but have no desire to do web design. Most of the projects I get are maintenance-type projects that require only minor tweaks to existing graphics, or someone coming in with a new design already on hand. However, on rare occasions I get a request to do both programming and design. I've no problem farming out the work to capable designers, but I don't do enough design work to maintain any working relationships with any one particular designer. So what is the best way to shop around for a good designer? I'm willing to pay more to get good quality work (i.e. you won't find me asking on craigslist for free design work "to boost your portfolio"). For designers, what do you expect when a new client contacts you? (what do you expect in terms of information for the project, and what do you expect to be paid for conceptual work? For final design work?) For developers, what has worked for you in the past? I once tried this approach: > I'd like to commission some low-res, high-level design ideas from you. > Something the represents what you have in mind for the project, but it > doesn't have to be a production-ready design (watermarks, copyright, etc. > are OK as long as they aren't distracting) . I will pay you US$200 for your > time regardless of whether your idea is selected. Feel free to submit more > than one idea if you would like. Again, I'm only asking for ideas, not > complete designs. > > Once I have all of the ideas, I will run all of them by my client and he > will choose the one he likes the most. If your idea is selected, I will hire > you at a rate of US$1000 for the project (50% up front and the remainder on > sign-off). For that price I will expect you to work with me over the next 4 > weeks to tweak and finalize the over-all design for the site as well as help > me organize information for each of the pages (about 13 pages total) and > create a nice visual presentation. The client will be providing most of the > copy text; you will be provide the conversion of the final design to HTML > (including CSS; I can help with any JavaScript). It worked fine for the project at hand (the client was willing to pay quite a bit for design services), but I wonder in hind sight if it was too much (or too little). Thoughts?


Screen resolutions and browser canvas sizes

I've yet to find the ultimate resource that lists 'all' browsers and the actual visible canvas size (excludes browser chrome) for content. The closest was a table in the O'reilly book Web Design in a Nutshell: ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/RBsOh.png) The one thing is that this doesn't have the latest browsers. I figured that this community would be a good place to gather this info. I'll start by adding some: **Mac:** 1024 x 768   * Safari 5.0 - 1012 x 656 (w/ tabs)    * Chrome 6.0 - 1010 x 672   * Firefox 3.5 - 1009 x 654 (w/ tabs)


Why doesn't httrack follow robots.txt?

I'm trying to use httrack to mirror my blog, which is currently hosted on blogger. Problem: in spite of the robots.txt file, httrack tries to download everything in the /search subdirectory. This leads to an infinite regress of searches on searches. Here's the robots.txt file (I've replaced my blog name with "myblog"):               User-agent: Mediapartners-Google     Disallow:           User-agent: *     Disallow: /search     Allow: /          Sitemap: http://myblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated      I can limit the crawl to depth 3 or 4, but I still get tons of search*.html and search/label/*.html files in the mirrored directory. httrack claims to follow robots.txt. Why doesn't it work here? What can I do to fix it?


MediaWiki plugin for dynamic content via forms

Are there any plugins for MediaWiki that would allow me to create a page that has a form at the top that when filled in populates tags further down in the document? Say someone would put a form with "Source Server:" and "Destination Server:" fields at the top. Once those were typed in it would automatically populate those names into the content lower so that when following the instructions you could just read the docs and not have to mentally replace things, and possibly mess it all up. I'm not looking to make pages that are permanent, just ones that can have values entered before they are followed. Any suggestions?


Google apps for buisness redirect to Amazon S3

I want to make a domain on Google Apps For Business with a single page on Amazon S3 on the same domain Is there a way to do this?


What features in a website make you want to revisit?

I'm looking for features in websites that I may not have seen before that are unique, and are _excellent features_ that not only improve the user- experience, but help the surfers come back for more. Such as:   * StackOverflow's status update banner (seriously now this is awesome.)   * RSS feeds (when they were new)   * Hotlinks to social networks (facebook, twitter, etc..)   * Auto-posting to social networks (popup and auto-post link/content)   * Mobile phone integration   * OpenID login passthrough   * AJAX push/pull technology for content updates   * tinyUrl and others that concatenate URLS shorter. I can think of many more, but if there is something you've seen that is unique to a site or isn't very well known, I'd love to know.


What is the best way to launch a website to make it go viral?

Say for example I have a website that has finished BETA and is ready for full launch. I'm at the stage now I want it to be _very_ visible to start getting traffic. Right now, I am just getting some random search engine hits, word of mouth and a few referrals. How do I break out of this and really get some serious traffic to my site? Do I need to launch a huge ad-campaign? If so, what is the best/most cost effective way to do this? I have tried google adwords but at $0.45+ a click this jsut isn't practical for what I have.


CMS fails at finishing setup with PHP-FPM and Apache, but why?

I have installed Apache and PHP-FPM by following this tutorial. Unfortunately when I try to set up Drupal or PHP-Fusion it simply fails at the end of the setup. I mean it accepts everything and at the last step it does not load anything but a blank page. I suppose I have not installed a required PHP package, but I do not know which one it is. Thanks for your help in advance.


Show a single DIV from remote site to new site. Only http access to remote host

we have cisco CWS working which has a web administration site. On that site it has DIV with 'overall summary'. We would like to show that DIV on a centralized monitoring system web that we are doing for ourselves. Is it possible to do a proxypass from apache to only that DIV? How I should manage the autentication process before reaching that DIV?


Question regarding domain names and web servers

Say there is a website, www.website1.com, that is hosted on a web server, web server A. Is it possible to have another website, www.something.website1.com on a different web server, web server B? Or is the www.something.website1.com still considered a sub domain of www.website1.com, and must be hosted on the same web server, A? For clarification: www.website1.com is hosted on a third party web server, but a client wants us to host www.something.website1.com on one of our own web servers, NOT the third party. Is this possible?


Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such?

here is my htaccess file......               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/billing/FAQ_billing\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/billing/getintouch\.html$        RewriteRule ^patients/billing/(.*)\.html$  $1.php [L,NC]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/a\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/b\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/c\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/d\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/e\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/f\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/g\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/h\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/i\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/j\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/k\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/l\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/m\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/n\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/o\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/p\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/q\.html$ [OR]       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/r\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/s\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/t\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/u\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/v\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/w\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/x\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/y\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/patients/findadoctor/z\.html$       RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$  findadoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC]      like that there is lots of rules around 250 line please help me...


How many keywords can I put in my page for google spiders ?


Ways for client to include page ID in query?

I'm no expert on web development, and need to find a way to let the browser call a PHP routine on the server with the current document ID as parameter, eg. http://www.acme.com/index.php?id=1 I then need to call eg. /change.php with id=1 to do something about that document. Unless I'm mistaken, there are three ways for the client to return this information:   * if passed as argument in the URL (as above), it will be available as HTTP referrer   * by including it as hidden field in    * by sending it as cookie I suppose using a hidden field is the most obvious choice. Are there other ways? Which solution would you recommend? Any security issues to be aware? Thank you. * * * Edit: I needed a way for the client to learn some of the information returned by the server, such as the document ID. Apparently, the right way to solve my problem is by changing the server-side code so that this information is included in hyperlinks/forms included in the HTML page.


How does google handle 2 img tags to different images with the same content and different alt tags

On the website I am working on I have a few hundred product pages. Some of the products look identical and I am positive we now have the same images with different alt tags and different source files. For example we have                                 In this example Product1.jpg and Product2.jpg would have the same image in them. Is there any real issue with this as far as SEO goes, is it pretty minor, or is something I should be concerned with fixing?


Is there a good way to filter all the robots and domains they are on?

I have been working more on the bot filter for my website, but by no means is it complete. So far I have the main ones: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Baidu, Amazon, and a few others... Right now, I am using a filter to compare the referral URL, existing domain, and known browsers vs. non-browser useragents. Are there any other good techniques to detect if the hit is coming from a bot or not?


lot of internal links to one not relevant internal page may distort google's opinion of site content?

if I have a lot of pages talking about cars, and nearly any of them point to               /gray-cars.htm or /city-cars.htm      because they are the most sold ones... do you think that               /red-cars.htm and /super-cars.htm      will appear less important in google's opinion about the site, that talks about any type of car, not only the gray / city ones?


How to force browsers to always reload xslt files?

_Related:Apache: How can I force the browser to reload CSS files?_ I'm building an xml page (on an apache2) that is supposed to be translated to xhtml by the browser, so my server also serves a `main.xslt` which is used as stylesheet by the xml file, similar to the scenario with the css files in the linked question. However, none of tricks provided in either that answer, nor some issues on SO solve the issue for Opera. While Firefox responds to F5 by fetching not only the xml file but also the xslt file, Opera only reloads the xml file. I tried both, setting the `Last-Modified` HTTP header via an `.htaccess` file and using the `expires` module of apache2. This is what my `.htaccess` looks right now:               AddType text/xsl;charset=utf-8 .xslt     ExpiresByType text/xsl "modification plus 1 second"     Header set Last-Modified "Wed, 08 Jan 2000 23:11:55 GMT"     #Header set Last-Modified "Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:11:55 GMT"      If I open the xsl myself and manually reload it, the xml presentation is updated as well, but this is tedious **for development**. Note: There is no php or any kind of scripting involved. Everything is static.


MediaWiki: Show newest Pages from an Category

We are organizing most of our work inside an self hosted MediaWiki Installation. Now we want to show an overview page for an category, where the visitor can see the newest pages/changes from this categorys. Like: Category: PHP   * New Page: Added Documentation   * Changes to PHP 5. Is there any built function or an working plugin available? I know about the possibilty to show recent changes on all kinds of content.


Would a different IP address for each site in a network of sites help with SEO or prevent a penalty?

I'm working as a bit of a webmaster for a guy that runs a network of backlinked websites to increase his PR for a couple of his eCommerce sites. I don't know much about them, I just know they generate content and funnel the link juice back to where it's needed. He is hell-bent on making SEO as good as possible on every one of the sites under his network. We have a VPS running about 10 of these sites on a single IP address and he has been struck with the somewhat logical assumption that if Google thought they all came from different servers, as opposed to one, their SEO and pagerank would be better. I'm however a little more skeptical of this idea, as I don't see why on earth Google would consider the content generated from the same server more valuable than content generated from different servers. In terms of SEO, would a network of sites that link to each other benefit from having different IP addresses? Or could they result in a penalty if they all used the same IP address?


Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeyword2.com or myotherwebsite/some-keywords, myotherwebsite/some-keywords

Hello   I'm thinking of creating a family of websites which use the same engine, but target different topics.   Given the choice is it better to have somekeywords.com, somekeywords2.com or myotherwebsite/some-keywords, myotherwebsite/some-keywords2.   For example: stackexchange.com/stackoverflow stackexchange.com/askubuntu instead of stackoverflow.com   askubuntu.com   Thanks


When embedding a YouTube video with a playlist how can the next video not autoplay?

Is there a way to stop autoplay of the next playlist video upon completion of the currently embedded video? I just want to play the one that's embedded but nothing else.


Google indexed my main site's content under subdomains

Google is indexing top level domain content as though it belongs on subdomains and I want to disable this. My site has wildcards enabled and we also have two subdomains with unique content. The first subdomain serves as a blog, the second one has only one page. Both have backlinks. Google has indexed content from the main site under the subdomains as well. Let's say that we have a page at example.com/page.html . The same page has also been indexed as subdomain.example.com/page.html as well and sometimes ranks better than the one located at the main site. The thing is that we never placed this content at the subdomain. I've thought about adding canonical tags at the subdomains to help with the duplicate content issue. How can I stop Google from indexing those pages? I don't even know how Google found those, since we never placed them at the subdomains.


Google Analytics Goals Not Adding Up With Goal Funnel

In my Google Analytics, I have a Goal URL defined for an exact match of a "thank you" page. When I view in my reports under Conversion > Funnel Visualization, it says at the bottom of my report that 27 people completed the funnel and saw the "thank you" page. However, when I look at my content report and check for how many unique visitors saw the page, it says 38. It also says 38 when I click "goal flow" under the conversions reports. Shouldn't the numbers all be the same? Anybody know why it's not?


HTML Improvements Duplicate title tags in images

For my website Google Webmaster Tool is showing more than 700 duplicate title tags. All are images url. I am in a trouble, because I have uploaded all images to wp-content/uploads. But in WMT the link of images are indexed as url of the post added with alt text of the image as attribute. I don't know from where they are coming from, as I have uploaded them on wp-content/uploads. What should I do to get rid of. Anyone who helps me will be appreciated. This website is on WordPress. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CDl98.png)


How do I setup origin domain for Google PageSpeed Service?

I have a WordPress site with cPanel (WHM) with VPS. Today I configured Google PageSpeed Service for my WordPress site. After I submitted my `WWW` domain, PSS automatically added my naked domain (without `www`) to Hosted By You. PSS works few hours without any issue. Now it's giving me "Fetching content failed due to a DNS error". According to this official DNS failure tutorial I added an origin domain to my WP site. If added `orgin.mydomain.com` (A record) and pointed it to my site IP (VPS main IP), it doesn't display my site. If I added `orgin.mydomain.com` to PageSpeed Service displays a blank site. How do I fix this issue? How do I setup origin domain name for my site?


How do I disallow robots to access links on a certain port?

I have a private web server set up on a non-conventional port (say 6677). All people can have access to the whole site's urls from 6677. The links by `mysite:6677` are also indexed by Google, which is not desireable, as I need to keep port 6677 discreet as a kind of workaround behind the front proxy which runs on 80. So, how can I disallow access to 6677 in `robots.txt`?


SEO effect with different font for some characters?

I have a different font for some characters in my website, so the code is like this:
La Charte qualité mes Rideaux
      It's good looking on my website, but words are cut by the HTML tags, is this a problem for SEO?


Which hosted ecommerce solutions allow customization?

Following my previous question, I'm now evaluating the possibility of using a hosted platform for the ecommerce project I have to implement. Before I start "playing" with each one of them, I'd like ask if anybody knows which ones allow a good degree of customization. At the moment I'm looking at BigCommerce, but it seems that customization is limited to templates, while I need additional features which require PHP Coding. Also, I'd need to be able to import additional product data into the system, and I'd need to do this via code; I had a look at some integrations, but they gave me the impression that they all run on the rendered page via JavaScript. For example, if I want to show Facebook Reviews on a product, I'll have to add some JS that will fetch it and show it on the page. This is not optimal, as I must cater for people with JS disabled, therefore I'd need to run my own PHP code. **Update**   As suggested, I'd like to explain that "customization", in my case, means altering or extending the normal ecommerce workflow by "tapping" into events and performing specific operations (in my case, I'd have to add a handler of a hypotetical "AfterPurchaseComplete" event). This can't be achieved in a system that just allows to add JavaScript (which, as I wrote above, can be disabled and, therefore, useless), as it has to be executed by the server itself, in the same way many framework's run plugins. I could understand that hosted solutions don't normally allow arbitrary code to run on their systems, but, unfortunately, this would preclude all chances of using them.


Webmaster tools give 404 error on good crawlable pages

I have seen that Webmaster tools is giving back a 404 error for the urls which are perfectly fine, like these ones: http://www.peliculas21.com/adam-sandler/ http://www.peliculas21.com/robin- williams/ Why can this happen? Should I just mark them as solved?


SMTP on a different port?

I would like to be able to run a SMTP server on port 25, but my ISP blocks it. Is there a way to use a different. I'm running XAMPP Mercury.


How much of a benefit does a changing landing page give in terms of SEO?

I have a friend with a small business with a website. He asked me if he should make a put a section on his landing page under the fold that with his most recent review (or something along those lines). Specifically, he wants to know if that's the most efficient use of his time. Is there a list or such of things google values compared to each other, so that these kinds of answers could be easily answered?


wrapBootstrap is no updated and what about copyrights

My questions are:   * Is wrapBootstrap site (for buying themes) no updated? I'm watching the statics of subscribers and of buyers a couple of days and none has been increased. Is it safe to buy a bootstrap theme from there?   * And what about the copyrights of the buying themes? On my footer I must notice that designer is: "e.g. Company blah blah" or I can only write that I'm the delevoper of the site and nothing about the design?


Problem downloading .exe file from Amazon S3 with a signed URL in IE

I have a large collection of Windows exe files which are being stored/distributed using Amazon S3. We use signed URLs to control access to the files and this works great except in one case when trying to download a .exe file using Internet Explorer (version 8). It works just fine in Firefox. It also works fine if you don't use a signed URL (but that is not an option). What happens is that the IE downloader changes the name from 'myfile.exe' to 'myfile[1]' and Windows no longer recognizes it as an executable. Any advice would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.


Cloud hosting vs self hosting price

I was looking at some cloud hosting price. Consider an entry level self hosted server:               PRICE: 40€     ----------     CPU: i5 (4x 2.66 GHz)     RAM: 16GB     hard disk: 2TB     Bandwidth: 10TB/month with 100Mbps      Now consider an equivalent on a cloud structure... (for example phpfog)                PRICE: 29$      --------------      RAM: 613MB (LOL WUT?)      CPU: 2 Burst ECUs      Storage: 10GB (WUT?)      Basically with cloud, to have the same hardware of your entry level dedicated server you have to pay 300-400€... Is it normal? I am missing something?


What's A Good Option For Plug and Play FB page Customization?

I am looking for a good FB plug and play custom page service. Something like pagemodo, but a little more robust. Any suggestions? I don't mind if we have to pay for it. Thanks.


Accessing server stats using PHP

There are over 10 stats packages installed in my server (AWStat, Webalizer, etc) and cPanel has an interface to show them in terms of visitors, bandwidth, popular pages, etc. **It is possible to access those stats through PHP?** Possible applications include getting a list of most popular content, reporting on visitors and taking actions depending on bandwidth, etc. I know that many of these features can be implemented by creating my own stats counting system but since that information is already somewhere, it could be awesome not to have to write more code to collect it.


How to implement user-friendly paths in PHP without creating a file or directory for each page?

_NOTE: My terminology may not be entirely correct. I believe StackExchange does something like what I am asking, in case this can make things clearer._ Using **PHP on Apache** , I would like to handle URLs such as:               http://www.site.com/info/<brand>/<model>/<page>      For example with `<brand> = toyota, <model> = camry, <page> = 'safety'` And have all the URLs starting with 'info' (let's say) be handled by **a single PHP file like 'info.php' without the URL in the location bar changing**. In other words, someone navigates to:               http://www.site.com/info/toyota/camry/safety      But the code to handle this is in `info.php` but the URL in the browser stays as is. I do not want to have to create all the /toyota/camera/safety directory structure (there would be 1000s). My guess is that info.php would get the path components as parameters in order to know what content to serve. So the internal invocation invisible to the user would be:               info.php?brand=toyota&model=camera&page=safety      Seems like the question here are doing something similar since they get URLs like:               http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/13978/how-to-implement-user-friendly-paths-in-php-without-creating-a-file-or-directory      and I presume the path there is not actually created on the server.


Am I changing my title of the site for SEO reasons in a correct way?

I have a slang dictionary website. I saw that they only have the postname / title and there own website as the title. That was what I have, but I want to grow and to get higher on Google, so I changed it to `Posttitle ('definition' and 'meaning') > websitename` So I have added the terms `definition` and `meaning`, because I think that people look op un a word like `What is the meaning or definition of...`. Am I overthinking this? Is this overkill? Is it recommended? The post title can exceed the 70 characters, so will that be a problem? PS: changing it to `Posttitle ('what is it')` is also a thing that I can do. Is this fine?


gTLDs... Should they be something to look at?

I've received a few marketing emails in the last couple of days trying to sell seats at conventions wanting to explain the concept of gTLD's. My understanding is that gTLDs will allow the average joe (or at least, an average joe with $xx,xxx) to register custom domain extensions? For example '.sony' or '.band', allowing for phones.sony or metallica.band to be full domain names. Is this new functionality of any concern for the regular web user? Obviously it won't (or **shouldn't** affect search rankings - after all, it would allow those with the money to spend to buy their way up SERPS, but thats a different kettle of fish). Is the new gTLD system going to be another kind of 'domain' rush like in the late 90's? Is my understanding completely wrong?


Will redirecting my domain name temporarily to a placeholder website affect my SEO?

So we have this new customer, and they wanted to register their domain name themselves. Now they have this old company and old website which is outdated. So what they did, is register their domain names and redirected it to their old website. Normally I advice to not do this, just register and keep it, until the new site is up but it's already been done. So I have this question, should I act immediately telling them to disable the redirect, or should I just leave it. I know the old website is going to be indexed, this is not a good thing but my question is how harmful this is?


What is the default type search done by google, while, processing a query. Does it do 'broad' 'phrase' or 'exact' match searches?


Can I host a website on a different address from the webmail?

I have what is to me an unusual situation. I have a client for whom I have built a website which I will be hosting, they have been using their domain name for their email addresses for a long period before I came along so moving their email account to my host would be problematic and building the website with their current host would also be problematic because their host is very restrictive. So to fix this I altered the A record in their existing control panel to point the domain name to my server. As a result I can see the pages that I have created at their domain and they can still access their existing webmail. However, it appears that they are now experiencing problems receiving email so I can only assume my solution was incorrect. What is the correct way to point their domain at my website but keep their webmail with the existing host? EDIT: 25/5/2012 - My client has finally responded to me after changing the MX record on their existing C-Panel. Email to their email address were being bounced back with the error 'no such recipient', so I set up the same email address in the new C-Panel and changed the MX record there to 'Remote mail exchanger' which has stopped the emails bouncing but has apparently lost them in cyperspace! Unfortunately I can't add a new record because this would require a fully qualified domain name and their domain name is of course pointed at our server!


Placement of code in HTML document affecting SEO

I have a **navigation bar** div with all my navigation code, a **sidebar** div with all my code and content that goes in my static sidebar, a **footer** div with all my footer code that goes in my static footer, and a **content** div with all my content for each page (changes on each page). Should I list my content div first in my HTML to optimize my SEO since my content is what changes on each page of my website and houses the "meat of my webpage" (although my sidebar does have good content but it is static on all pages), or is it OK to list my navigation code before my content code? As an extension, if the order I list these div's makes no difference to the appearance of my site, would it make a difference either way how I list the code, or should I play it safe and list my content code first? **Note:** As far as how this differentiates from other similar questions, I am not inquiring so much about duplicate content as I am about the weight given to code based on its placement within HTML. I know a lot of websites list their navigation code first, so I'm wondering if that would be a bad tactic considering the content is thus listed lower in the document.


What is a CSS form? How does one embed an AdSense ad into a CSS form?

One of the Google AdSense optimization tips says to, "Use a CSS form to embed the ads unit for more seamless design." What does this mean? How does one implement a CSS form?


Submitting new site to directories - will Google penalize?

I just started a new site with a forum to discuss stocks. I've already submitted my site to DMOZ. To help promote my site and to help people who are looking for stock discussion forums to find it, I'm thinking of submitting my site to a few more directories but I'm hesistant because I know Google will penalize a site if it believes the backlinks to the site are spammy and/or low quality. So, I have a few questions: 1) If I submit my site to directories with a PR between 4 and 5, will those backlinks be considered spammy/low quality? I noticed most free directories have a PR between 4 and 5, but I don't know if backlinks from those directories would be considered spammy by Google. 2) I'm thinking of submitting it to Best of the Web and JoeAnt, but these are paid. Does anybody have any experience with these two paid directories? Are these two directories considered higher quality by Google?


Google doesn't always show rich snippets when the site uses structured data

I'm so tired of the Google structured data recipe. After some days, it loses the image and the extra information. Then I test it again, and it shows again. Some other days in the future it might go away even if it is still showing in test tool. What i can do? I tried with RDFa and schema.org microdata.


Add rules (filters) to ftp programs to avoid uploading certain files/folders

i use Filezilla as my ftp client, but this question goes to any other client that could be useful. Can i (in any client) add rules (filters) to an ftp program to avoid upload of certain files or folders? For example: Expression web creates those annoying _vti_cnf folders, or, certain folders in which i have the original version of a picture without a watermark that i don't want to upload. Example, i have a folder A, that has sub folders "original" and "current", i would like to add a filter, so every time i select A to be uploaded, "original" wouldn't go, but "current would".


JavaScript to stream video files

Is there a JavaScript API for streaming WMV/AVI/MOV files?


How can I resolve HTML validation errors when using Facebook Comments?

I am trying to validate my document that has the following facebook comments tag               <fb:comments width="425"></fb:comments>      I am getting validation error: > Line 333, Column 45: Element name fb:comments cannot be represented as XML > 1.0.               Element fb:comments not allowed as child of element div in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)      Any idea how to fix it? Joel


Which online test should I take or any method to know, how much knowledge I acquire as web designer? Both. **1. Practical knowledge** & **2.theoretical knowledge.**


How do I use the include directive under IIS

I just took over a local web site and it uses IIS 6. There is a lot of code repeated across all files, and I would like to use some directive to include the same generic code over and over in each file. I tried the directive in the html file, but it does not work. Do I need special configuration in my .htaccess file ? I don't know much IIS, and I am not an administrator on the box. The site is hosted on GoDaddy. Is there something I need to do on my IIS config file for my account ?


I have travel site that has some link exchange to another with free links. Last time, I and some friend use link exchange to give my links has good on PageRank and search engine that can give more visitor. Recent, I read some article on forum that know links exchange is violate, this article I get from Google. Does Link exchange technique become down my site? What should I do? Does I must delete my link exchange page.


Chrome causing 404's ending with "/cache/[hex-string]/"?

Since the last weeks we see many 404's on our sites caused by Chrome adding `/cache/[hex-string]/` to the current page URL. The hex strings we have seen are:   * e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728   * 1d292296547f895c613a210468b705b7   * 408cfdf76534ee8f14657ac884946ef2   * 9b0771373b319ba4f132b9447c7060a4   * b8cd4270356f296f1c5627aa88d43349 If you search for these strings you get matches from different sites, but they are most likely auto-generated (`/search/cache/e9c5ecc3f9d7fa1291240700c8da0728/` for example). Is this a known issue with Chrome (or an extension)?


Recommended way on implementing 301 redirects

I am rebranding a website, which involves changing the domain name. I want to know the best way of redirecting traffic to the new domain, using 301. Ideally, I will do this at the webserver (Apache) level, rather than at the page level. There are lots of articles on Google - but I would like to hear from people who have actually undergone such a transition - so I know if there are any gotchas etc to be aware of.


Google Analytics: Why does  "/" appear in goal funnel visualization?

This is the goal funnel for checkout. Does anyone have any idea where the "/" is coming from? The cart page is at site: game on glove dot com (I don't want this stackoverflow page being indexed in google particularly well). ![google analytics goal funnel](http://i.stack.imgur.com/74OiL.jpg) Go to the site, click on the order button, make your selection, and click the button to enter the cart (it resolves to /Cart and /Shop-Cart). I believe I used the regular expression matching to match "cart". So why the "/" (I don't know what is causing the home page to reload when users are on the Cart page within a Colorbox lightbox where the only way back to home or "/" is to hit the exit button in the top right of the lightbox)? Here's my one guess for the former question but it doesn't seem likely: See the "check out with paypal" button? If you hovered over it, it does default to the home page which is what might be the "/"... but it really redirects the user to the paypal.com page so it shouldn't also load the home page.


What other choices do we have other than the 301 redirect and CNAME on DNS?

I have a main site http://qweop.com, and I would like to add an alias to it called http://qwepo.com. Now if I use a CNAME (currently this is what I'm using) on qwepo which maps `www` to `qweop.com`, then when i go http://qwepo.com I will be shown the content from http://qweop.com This is fine, however I want the browser address bar to show qweop.com instead of qwepo.com even if the user types visits http://qwepo.com and not http://qweop.com. Now I've heard of the 301 moved permanently, but it seems like it's a solution for people who have a new url for their website (which is of course not in my case here). What other choices do we have other than the 301 redirect and CNAME on DNS ? Basically the end result is that whenever someone types qwepo.com/foobar it will bring them to qweop.com/foobar AND the address bar will show qweop.com/foobar PS: is domain forwarding the same thing as a 301 redirect? is masking the same thing as a CNAME on DNS ?


i got mysql error on this statement i don't know why error is:               #1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CONSTRAINT fk_objet_code FOREIGN KEY (objet_code) REFERENCES objet(code) ) ENG' at line 6      sql code is               CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `class` (       `numero` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,       `type_class` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,       `images` varchar(200) NOT NULL,       PRIMARY KEY (`numero`)       CONSTRAINT fk_objet_code FOREIGN KEY (objet_code) REFERENCES objet(code)      )  ENGINE=InnoDB;;


host and share files in my hosting

I currently have a domain+hosting with unlimited hosting space for our website. On the other hand, I use Dropbox to share our organizational files and photos between about 10 users. The thing is that sharing photos uses too much space for what a free Dropbox account offers. So I am thinking of taking advantage of my hosting space, but using FTP seems not to be ideal for users who are not too skilled with computers. In addition, it doesn't handle versions in case some user makes a mess of it. And using a public FTP to upload and giving them only download permission doesn't seem a good idea as I am only the CTO. So what I want is basically to implement a local Dropbox for a few users, but I'd prefer something that is not too complex to install/mantain. Thank you a lot.


Is there a visual web application builder or rapid webapp prototyping framework?

**Question:** Is there such a thing as a self-hosted framework or CMS especially tailored towards the creation of _interactive web applications_ **without -- or with an absolute minimum of -- programming?** (Substantially less programming than say a simple Rails app or a plugin for Wordpress, Joomla etc would require.) As for desired features I'd settle for whatever is available, but some ideas could be:   * A User authentication and Permissions system.   * A GUI-driven **input form** builder.   * A GUI-driven **template** / visual site design builder.   * A simple **scripting language** (think AppleScript-like simplicity)   * A highly modular architecture, with high-level business objects (users, forms data, etc) exposed for easy re-use. If something like the above doesn't exist, then what comes near this? **Need:** This is for self-hosted rapid prototyping of web applications, and limited user testing of webapp user interface designs in a closed user test. **Notes:** I know about Ruby on Rails (Rails), Django, Pyramid etc. I'm looking for something much faster to work in, for making prototypes. I know about CMS's in general but find that most of them are tailored towards _displaying_ information to the end users. If there is an exceptionally easy- to-master CMS with easy scripting (lets say much more so than for example Wordpress) then I'd be interested.


how can I change cpanel default page to index.php / index.html

I have created a new domain and uploaded index.html to public directory. but it isnt displaying and cpanel default page is displaying instead. how can I change the same??


Will the content of a PDF on our website affect SEO?

I know that Google crawls websites including PDFs, but does the content contained within PDFs affect SEO rankings? We want to put some PDFs on our website but don't want to see our results take a nose-dive as a result. I know I can just add a _robots.txt_ directive to exclude them, but I would rather not do this if I don't need to (and frankly don't trust the crawlers to not just index them anyway).


Is it legal to charge extra fees for copyrighted content on mobile platforms?

this question just came up as we recently bought content from image stock portals. Many of those altered their license agreement in favor of charging more for using in mobile apps. So instead of using their standard licenses, you need to pay an "extended" licenses which multiplies the fee easily by 5-10. That doesn't make sense as the mobile device is just a smaller browser and protects the content even better than a desktop computer. Are those stock agencies allowed to do that, and is it legal at all ? I am not a lawyer but I would even risk to go on with the standard license and wait to be sued in that matter.


RSS feed aggregator

There used to be things called planets that aggregate all RSS feeds on a given subject. How legit are these sites? Can they legally repost the RSS contents (as much or as little it is supplied by the feed publisher and given the due credits)? I believe Google News did just that and got in trouble with some news outlets. Is the legal landscape on these things a little clearer now?


Can someone sue me/take my domain?

I have found a great domain that isn't in use, but the .com and .net domains are already taken. There's nothing on the domains though, it just says they are registered with Network Solutions and are under construction. My question is: If i buy the .org version of the domain, and the .com guys later start a company on that domain, can they sue me or make me change name because it is too similar to their .com domain? Should i avoid using domains that have already been registered but with a different ending?


Redirect multiple cctld's subdomains to tld subdomain

I have a site I use for development testing on one of our development servers, it is hosted at `dev.domain.com`. I basically want to have `www.domain.com`, `www.domain.ca`, `fr.domain.ca` all point to `dev.domain.com`, yet I want the site url to remain `www.domain.com`, `www.domain.ca`, `fr.domain.ca` (whichever was originally requested). How do I set this up in IIS 7? Right now, all I am worried about is testing on the development machine. I also have access to the development machine if I need to run the browser directly on the dev machine. Is this a simple hosts file change and host headers change in IIS 7? Either way, how would I go about doing this in detail?


What can we do to promote meaningful comments on our blog?

I am not so much worried about the inevitable spammers, but I would like to see more comments from people with something worthwhile to say. How can we entice them to talk?


cookie not being sent when requesting JS

I host a webservice, and provide my members with a Javascript bookmarklet, which loads a JS sript from my server. However, clients must be logged in, in order to receive the JS script. This works for almost everybody. However, some users on setups (i.e. browser/OS) that are **known to work** for other people have the following problem: when they request the script via the javascript bookmarklet from my server, their cookie from my server does not get included with the request, and as such they are always "not authenticated". I'm making the request in the following way:               var myScript = eltCreate('script');     myScript.setAttribute('src','http://myserver.com/script');     document.body.appendChild(myScript);      In a fit of confused desperation, I changed the script page to simply output "My cookie has [x] elements" where [x] is `count($_COOKIE)`. If this extremely small subset of users requests the script via the normal method, the message reads "My cookie has 0 elements". When they access the URL directly in their browser, the message reads "My cookie has 7 elements". What on earth could be going on?!


Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop

I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum or any social networking aspects. Would like to add a cms to each site that can be centrally run and would like it to take over the front end content from Magento. Also would like it to maintain an online blog/publication of sorts with videos, articles, and the like with privileges to edit the content given to a dozen or so people with different privileges. Want to add a forum to each site that is fairly robust and to possibly add some social networking aspects down the road, so extandability and available plugins/mods in each cms is important. Other than shared login between the forums,blog/publication and store, would like to be able to integrate some content from the forums and blog/publication into the store as well. After researching this a bit, I am inclined towards Drupal, but I haven't found any modules to integrate it with Magento. Also, since the blog content will be done by about a dozen nontechnical people, I want something that is very easy to work with. Lastly, since the site gets a good amount of traffic, speed and security are very important. What CMS would you recommend integrating in this context? Deciding between Drupal, Wordpress and ModX. Also Plone as well. Thanks.


How is Apple's enormously image-heavy site served so fast?

Took a profile of the "Smart Cover" page on Apple's site using Pingdom. It's requesting 241 objects for a total page weight of 3472.6 KB! An absolute mammoth. How does this possibly translate into a 4-second download time? I'm not even on a great connection and it still loads in seconds using my clogged-up DSL. That interactive graphic towards the middle loads over 90 images per selected cover, at around 40k each. Still, it's done at blazing speeds. How do they do it?


How Do I Prevent Users from Accessing a Page More Then Once?

Hi I have a URL say for example `http://www.xyz.com/form1.html`. Now i need to hide this URL since I dont want people to keep coming back to this URL and using it. What I mean is I need this URL to be usable only once per visit. On this URL a form resides which sends out an email after submission to get an attachment. After a user is directed to this URL that is after his payment from paypal so I need that user to use that URL just once. Next time when next user comes he should see the same form but that URL should be masked or should expire in terms of validity sort of. The Main URL remains same but it should expire or get masked and if some copy pastes that masked URL it should work. How can I make this happen?


Does responsive Web Design affect SEO?

I have watched the Webmaster Central 2013-11-18 hangout that is now on YouTube. According to John Mueller, a site will benefit in terms of SEO if it will be optimized for mobile devices. He said that in order to do this the webmaster needs to follow the Webmaster Guidelines for mobile websites. However John answered to this recent question in a completely different way. He stated that only common configuration errors are taken into account. According to the "Building Smartphone-Optimized Websites" guidelines, it's recommended for websites to be responsive: > "i.e. sites that serve all devices on the same set of URLs, with each URL > serving the same HTML to all devices and using just CSS to change how the > page is rendered on the device. This is Google's recommended configuration." 1) Is it true that **only** common errors are taken into account for SERP, or it was true at the time of that question? 2) I have a website that gives the same URL, same HTML and same CSS to all the kind of devices. There are absolutely nor rules that display the site in a different way to mobile. If I open my site on an iPhone for example, I see the website displayed full screen, and the users have to tap and zoom in order to read it. This means that my site provides the same HTML, CSS, and URL to ALL the devices, but it's not responsive because it does not adapt to mobile browsers. For example a responsive website for smaller screens might have a different navbar, the sidebar goes to the bottom automatically, etc... I would like to know whether it is advisable (specific to ranking benefits) to edit the theme of my website to make it responsive, for example using a framework like Bootstrap or Foundation, or just adding media specific CSS. Or maybe I can avoid making the website responsive because it's already fine as it is, since the same URL, CSS, and HTML are given to all devices, thus switching to responsive design will not affect my site's rankings at all?


Need a CDN with SSL

We currently use Edgecast through Speedyrails. Back when I did my research they were both fast and very cost-effective. I haven't looked in a while, but now we need SSL on our assets as well. I reached out to our current provider and they want a setup fee and something like 260 USD **per host per month** (we use multiple hosts currently). I looked at AWS Cloudfront and it seems the most cost affective way to get SSL, but it's not a custom domain then (e.g. cdn.example.org), which I could live with. Has any else researched this lately and has any providers to get in touch with - can be resellers or direct buys. I'm not looking for a bargain, I just want to get an idea what these things cost. **Edit, 2012-08-23** : Must have is custom origin. E.g. I don't want to manually upload files somewhere else. Edgecast and Cloudfront both support this.


Does Google Webmaster Tools allow me to find out which pages are indexed?

If I'd go to Crawl -> Sitemaps section there will be a list of sitemaps with the number of total pages in each one and the number of indexed pages indicated. However I didn't see any way of finding out which pages of the sitemap actually indexed. Of course I could use Google search with keyword "site:mysite.com" to have a look at the list of indexed pages but there will be no correlation to the sitemap. I will not be able to do any analysis of reasons the pages are not in index.


apache2 subdirectory access

I am setting up an apache server on my linux (debian) machine. I am making a website, with sub directories that contains my css and image file. Here is my config.               <Directory /var/www/*>         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews         AllowOverride none         Order allow,deny         Allow from all     </Directory>      Is that configuration correct for access to sub directory


canonical or redirecting

When I have a page with the URI lets say `www.example.com/page` there might be the possibility that users or links end up sending the user to pages like this: `www.example.com//////page?` I could just use a canonical on the page which refers to `www.example.com/page`, but my fist question is whether a redirection via PHP with: `header ("Location: http://www.example.com/page")` might be more useful. It is definitely more user-friendly, which should be the overall goal. My second question now is, in case I use the canonical, should I include the canonical tag into the page standard html or should I just put it in there via PHP if the canonical differs from the current page URI?


How to get email from depreciated mail server (without FTP)

OK... a client of mine has switch DNS and webmail hosts - They have their email set up on the new host and is ready to go. However, there are still a whole bunch of emails on their old server - they didnt back them up locally before they switched. The old mail server is really minimalistic. It has CPanel but you can only access webmail and set up new email accounts from it. There is no file manager and you cannot access the mail via FTP. - Only via Roundcube or Squirrel Mail. Does anyone know a way I can pull the email off this server via Roundcube or Squirrel Mail? Or any other way for that matter?


Moving a WordPress site to a new domain - need help with an Apache htaccess URL rewrite rule

I'm helping to move a WordPress site from one domain to another, which includes a change in permalink structure. I know I can use a _.htaccess_ entry, but I'm not that well-versed (yet) in regular expressions. I need to change this:               http://www.oldwebsite.com/2013/09/title-of-post.html      to this:               http://www.newwebsite.com/title-of-post      dropping the year, month, and `.html` from every URL.


Why not AJAX'ify entire websites?

Is there any solid reasoning as to why sites shouldn't be developed with ajax functionality that loads major parts of each part (assuming there are elements like the header, navigation etc that remain the same)? Surely it would be less resource-intensive since the server wouldn't have to serve content that appears on every page, benefiting both the host and end- user. Answer the question taking into consideration:   * The sites javascript behaviour degrades gracefully in every instance   * For my question I'm talking about new sites where this behaviour could be implemented rather from the off, so it doesn't technically cost any money - we're not returning to a finished product to implement it.


Remove home page from Google cache

The Google Webmaster Tools Remove URL section allows you to specify a page URL to be removed from the index, or cache, or both. However, I want to remove just the home page, which is / I want to remove it from the cache because it is indexed when the "under construction" page was up. This URL is not recognised by the Remove URL section as an individual page. Instead Google assumes you want to remove the entire website from the index. I've specified /index.php and /index.html to be removed from the cache, but this is not the URL listed in the search results for the home page I want removed from the cache.


SSL 128bit... Why not 256bit

Have set up an SSL certificate for a new site, and in checking with the browser, the SSL states it's encrypted with 128bit encryption. I have tried with the latest versions of Chrome, IE9 and FF, all with the same result. The certificate is from trustico - RapidSSL - which states up to 256bit is supported. This makes me think that it supports 256bit if the browser supports it. The site is being hosted on IIS 6. Has anybody run into this?


Need suggestions for automated file and MySQL database backup on shared web host

We have several websites at multiple hosting companies (all shared hosts - some using cPanel, others using Plesk) and we're looking for a way to backup all files and MySQL databases for each site. We'd like nightly or more frequent backups and prefer that it is completely automated. My current plan is to store all the backups on an Amazon S3 account or similar. But I'm not sure what tools are out there to accomplish the collection and transfer of the files and databases. It would be nice if there's a way to do everything through a centralized management system, but that's not an absolute requirement. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


Can I have a backup name server?

Is it possible to have a third backup name server in case the first two fail? Recently I had a site go down for about an hour when a CloudFlare datacenter went down. We have the option of setting a tertiary name server. Would this act as a failsafe, or do names servers work on a first come first server basis? If a tertiary name server isn't the way to go, what's the best way to ensure the site stays up in case Cloudflare fails again?


Value of the HTML5 lang attribute

I'm working on a website which will offer localized content following the `language+region` approach as described on this W3.org page (e.g. `fr-CA` for Canadian French content, and `fr-FR` for "French French" content). As we consider content for each `language+region` to be unique, it is crucial to us that search engines properly identify and serve the content accordingly. By looking up on the Internet (e.g. this question), it appears that most people recommend the use of an ISO639 language code in the `HTML lang` attribute to describe the content language. Following this recommendation, we would en up using `<html lang="fr">` which wouldn't enable the differentiation between the aforementioned `language+region` combinations. When reviewing the `HTML4` specification, it seems that using `language+region` as a language code would be perfectly OK, as the `en-US` example is given as one possible value. However I couldn't find any confirmation of this in the `HTML5` specification which doesn't seem to provide any example as to the possible allowed values. From there I tried to get a de facto answer by looking at what the web giants are doing. I looked at what Facebook are doing: they offer Candian French and French French versions of their websites with (slightly) different content, whilst the `HTML lang` value remains the same: **fr-CA**   URL: http://fr-ca.facebook.com   HTML lang attribute: `<html lang="fr">`   translation of the word 'email': `courriel` **fr-FR**   URL: http://fr-fr.facebook.com/   HTML lang attribute: `<html lang="fr">`   translation of the word 'email': `Adresse électronique` **Q: What is the recommended/standard way of describing content that was localized using the`language+region` approach in HTML5 ?**


What does it mean that hosting ToS DOESN'T allows HOTLINKS and WHY is it like that?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Hotlinking: what is it, and why shouldn’t people do it? Free hosting services often **doesn't allow** to use **hotlinks**. I'm not sure if I understand it well and what is the reason of such a disaproval. I would like to have pictures for my webpages in _Photobucket_ e.g. which is allowed to have hotlinks and use those pictures using hotlinks on my sites. Is it that what is not allowed? **What is a problem** for free host server owners to **accept such links**? Bandwidth of _Photobucket_ is used only as I understand and it is completely legal. I'v read quite enough abt hotlinks, but I can't understand this simple issue.


Suggestions for cross platform graphics technologies which support older browsers

I need to present a lot of information to my users pulled from a MySql. I am looking for various options to display the data with cool graphics. Are there any ways to make use of SVG, for instance, in various old browsers like IE5? I am mainly looking for the right web technology with cross platform support. Thank you all for your suggestions!


Does Google pick up anchor text that is in nested elements?

When Google looks at anchor text on a website, will it pickup the text if it is inside nested elements? So for example:               Visit Google      To:
             Visit Google
           The reason I ask is because I want to use css3 elements for certain links on my website, to style them as circles. But the anchor text needs to be picked up for these links, so I want to know wether or not the above is bad practice in this case.


robots.txt ignored

I'm working on a joomla website, and robots.txt is messing with me... i have it in domain.com/website/robots.txt and I just wanna prevent users from browsing directories. By default it had Disallow: /images/ and the rule works, can't access the folder. I tried to add Disallow: /images/thumbnails and that one didn't work. I commented out Disallow: /images/ just to test. The folder IS STILL inaccessible. There is no other instance of robots.txt on my domain. Why are my changes on robots.txt being ignored ? Is there some other file that could override it ?


Why are Google and AOL results different?

AOL is powered by Google but I am seeing different results if I use the same search terms in each one. Why is this?


whois shows status "pending delete"

I want to buy a domain that is in a status pendingDelete. who.is shows:               Registrar: NAMEKING.COM, INC.     Whois Server: whois.nameking.com     Referral URL: http://www.nameking.com     Status: pendingDelete          Expiration Date: 2011-10-08     Creation Date: 2003-10-08     Last Update Date: 2011-12-08          Name Servers:         ns1.dsredirection.com         ns2.dsredirection.com          Information Updated: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:14:18 UTC      Can I know why this domain isn't expired yet (considering its expiration date)? Consider that I have actived a backorder from godaddy too


Google Analytics: Can I track conversion rates from specific sources?

I'm looking around GA to see if I can find a way to track from specific websites and their progress on our website. I need to know the amount of people finding our marketing material on website A, then out of them showing me how many of the website A traffic has then signed up. Is this possible? I've looked into using PadiTrack but if I wanted to know the results from a specific website, I would have to create a landing page for each website where I post marketing material (I think). Are there any other ways to track conversion rates like this for specific traffic sources?


Nameserver problem

I recently bought a new VPS, and I was trying to set private nameservers in my domain cPanel. I went ahead and added 4 A records:   * ns1.mydomain.com - points to my IP   * ns2.mydomain.com - points to my IP   * www.mydomain.com - points to my IP   * mydomain.com - points to my IP and changed the nameservers to ns1 and ns2.mydomain.com. The problem is that now while typing www.ns1.mydomain.com and www.ns2.mydomain.com in the browser, it points to the correct IP address, but the www.mydomain.com domain is returning an error:               The webpage at http://mydomain.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.     Error 137 (net::ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED): Unknown error.      The error message above was received in Chrome.


Will search engines penalize my site if I reuse a paragraph from the frontpage on the subpage?

My website's frontpage lists my various services with a synopsis for each. If I use that short synopsis as an introductory paragraph on the subpage for that service, would that be considered duplicate content? The subpage would have much more than just the synopsis on it.


What is bounce rate in google Analytics?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How does google calculate bounce rate? I hosted a new site and used google analytics in it. I noticed that they're giving a value called bounce off rate. Can anyone explain what it it?


Website Registration Date

I recently registered a website : cinematrailers.net. I was aware that this domain was expired ( registered in 2007 until 2011) My question is when I go to view the registration date on this domain, it says 2012 instead of 2007. Why is that when it was clearly registered in 2007? And will this affect seo? I was under the assumption that the domains age would be great for seo, but now I'm not sure.


How much attention should I pay to page-load metrics?

My site scores a `D` in YSlow. How important is it that I get it up to say a `B` or an `A`? I feel the page already loads quickly. I tested it at home on a modest 512k connection and it loaded in an acceptable time and was quick to browse etc. But according to YSlow there's heaps of room for improvement? Is it worth it?


Server flooded with Wordpress login requests. Need advice

Recently I was looking at the nginx access logs and found on 2 ocassions a large ammount of requests pointed towards my WP login page. There were over 50.000 requests coming from 2 different IP adresses. I don't think that these are coming from automated bots, but rather a person that knows what is he doing. My website published an article about government surveillance, and after it was published, the next day I was flooded with requests like these. Previously I haven't noticed any strange activity showing up. Is there any way on the server side to throttle / block this kind of requests? I'm using LEMP stack on a VPS from Digital Ocean. I see a lot of people are mentioning fail2ban as an option, but is there a more simple solution? If not, how do I properly configure fail2ban to identify and block requests that exceeds "n" requests / sec? Can you advice me something else to properly secure my website? I'm planning to implement https to the login page, I'm already using SSH keys, and using pretty hard to bruteforce passwords. Here's a small capture of the requests that were coming yesterday. I've already reported the IP address for abuse at the provider, but I don't think it will make a difference.               195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"     195.159.29.178 - - [26/Aug/2014:18:32:08 -0400] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "-"


What are the good blog/rss feeds about SEO?

What are good blogs or RSS feeds about Search Engine Optimization ?


pointing Apache to the fresh log after newsyslog rotation?

OK, I've set up my Mac OS 10.8 2.2.24 Apache server, and it's serving well. Now I'm just trying to understand how to do log rotation. I'm using newsyslog, and it seems to work very well ... as in, I tell it to make a new access log file at 4am on Sunday, and roll the old one over to access_log.0. It does that. Shabang! BUT, my server keeps writing to the old one!! I have to stop, and then start Apache to tell it to wake up and start writing to the fresh access_log file. That is, at 8am, Apache is blithely appending new log entries to access_log.0 when the new access_log file is sitting right there. How do I rotate the log file AND automatically tell Apache to start writing to the fresh one??? This is a bit baffling, since you'd think that Apache would just write to whatever access_log file is there. But that's not what happens.


Can a domain registrar prevent me from keeping my domain name?

I have bought domain names from multiple companies (e.g, GoDaddy, `nic.com`, eNom, and Google Apps). Assuming that one of my projects will be successful, I wonder if one of these companies can take advantage of that and arbitrarily say that they won't renew the domain name for me, and eventually sell it to somebody else. Or maybe they could increase the renewal fee so much that will be impossible for me to pay it? Can this actually happen? If yes how can I prevent it?


Google Analytics events: set page url parameter

Is it possible to set custom page url parameter (named **utmp** in request), when tracking events with Google Analytics? I have set custom url for tracking pages ['_trackPageview', 'www.my.url.com/...'] But that does not have effect for events.


Are these technical reasons correct for not providing 1GB mailbox for each e-mail ID on shared hosting environment?

Following is the response from the server space provider, I have got upon requesting 1GB mail box size for each e-mail id for the website hosted in shared environment. > Please note that in the normal shared hosting environment, you will be > facing the following issues if you are allocated with more email space: > >   1. Generally domains that have more number of Email id's and email space > have lot of mails stacked in the server which creates spike in inode > creation in the server . This in turn creates file system errors affecting > the disk integrity. > >   2. Note that since you are in a shared hosting environment , the CPU usage > per domain is 12 to 15 % only. If lot of mails is stacked in the server, the > mail server CPU usage for your domain will go high and it will affect the > performance of the entire server > > > > Hence in order to maintain the highest level of performance on our shared > servers, we are limiting the mail box maximum size to 100MB only. ### Questions:   1. How appropriate are these technical reasons?   2. Is there any way they can provide 1GB mail box and simultaneously keep constraints or check on other factors and avoid above mentioned problems?


Plesk 11 SQL Server DB Restore from Zip Fle

This is a feature i had in DotNetPanel which i guess i took for granted because now that I've moved to Plesk 11, I don't have it anymore, and boy does it hurt. My database restore uploads have increased from around 2mb (for a specific site) to around 50mb uncompressed. No big deal in first world nations with super fast internet, but try this over a shitty connection in GUatemala or Nicaragua, and you'll know my pain. I'm wondering if anybody out there knows of any third-party apps that can help me? Sure i can ftp a zip file, RDP to the server, unzip, then restore from there, but RDP is sometimes painfully slow or even unavailable from some of these connections i'm forced to use, so i need something web-based. Thanks in advance Greg


SEO for Google Maps

Can't make sense out of the way Google Maps position their results. Here is my places page, that I'm trying to optimize for the "sprinkler hollywood florida" keywords and appears at the end of 3rd page, and here is the 4st place for those keywords. Their listing in Google places has less information than ours, they have a bad review and we have a good one, their web site is a 1 page web site, our is about 6, our site has more backlinks than theirs. I just can't find anything they could be doing that we are not. Maybe just that they have been longer in Google Places. Could this be what makes the difference? **Edit:** I just found one other difference that might be _what_ is making the difference. Their domain name includes the word "sprinklers". Could it be this?


Rewrite rule not working for redirect in subdomain hosted in a subdirectory of the main site

I am running a WordPress network. This means there are multiple websites produced by one installation of WordPress. Each website is a subdomain of the parent website. WordPress handles the creation of subdomain websites through a wildcard subdomain entered into cPanel, which points `/public_html`, which is where WordPress lives. This means there is one . _htaccess_ file serving all subdomain sites. My parent website is `www.doig.com.au`. My problem website is `tech.doig.com.au`. I need to 301 redirect `http://tech.doig.com.au/venom-media.html` to `http://tech.doig.com.au/portfolio/venom-media/`. Previously, I had the following in my _.htaccess_ file:               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^tech\.doig\.com\.au$ [NC]     RewriteRule . - [S=120]     |     RewriteRule ^venom-media.html http://tech.doig.com.au/venom-media/ [R=301]     |     RewriteRule ^services.html/feed http://tech.doig.com.au/services/feed [L,R=301]      However, this no longer works. This is my _.htaccess_ file. Why is the `RewriteRule` not working?


SEO - alt and title attributes for thumbnail images in recommended products?

I think that title almost explains it. What is best for SEO to use in section Recommended products for alt and title attributes of thumb images? Should they maybe be empty? Recomendded products are show on a page where one main product is opened, below main product in slider (as seen in most web shops).


My site is down everyday for about 15 minutes, how does this affect SEO?

Will this affect the site's ranking with Google and if so, how?


How can I stop adware affecting my site?

We have just started running our own ads on our site but are now getting bombarded with complaints from users that "Russian Bride" ads are showing up **below** our ads. We know this is caused by AdWare like the Ask tool bar etc. My question is, does any one know how to stop the AdWare from affecting our site?


How to find out the hosting provider of a website protected with CloudFlare?

We are doing a competitive analysis of our competition, but we can't figure out how to find out the website's hosting provider, if it's protected with CloudFlare. Is it possible?


How I will know a company dedicated hosting is taken?

Can anyone tell me how i could know a company which providing web hosting and domain registration .By which company this Dedicated hosting server is taken. Suppose I have a company i am providing web hosting and domain registration.but i have taken my dedicated hosting from other company.I think this is clear now.


How hard is to be the anonymous owner of a website?

I'd like to create a website with a very radical political message. It won't be unethical (encouraging violence, etc) but I feel the points I plan to list in it will definitely make me a lot of enemies. How hard would it be to protect my identity from anyone finding out who I am? I know domains always have a $10/year option for privatizing your registration information but is there any other protection I should think about having?


How often should a website's disaster recovery plan be tested?

We all take backups hoping to never use them, but of course some day we are going to. I was wondering if there has been any best practice guide written about how often a disaster recovery plan should be tested. At the moment I do dry runs every so often when I am feeling particularly paranoid, but there is no schedule and nothing is automated.


Do paid directories help with ranking and exposure?

Some companies offer to register one's websites in their directories against a fee. They filter for quality and make sure you site is indexed properly in their pages. Has anyone tried these directories? Did it improve your website ranking and exposure? Did you get more visit from Google bots? Is it money worth spending to promote a new website?


Is there a Lightbox style plugin that fits images to screen size?

I'm looking for a Lightbox type js plugin that would take into account the browser window size and resize the currently displayed photo so it fits - like the jquery-imagefit plugin does.


Could AJAX + caching be seen as cloaking?

I have a website where we use a technique to speed up loading times based on a combination of AJAX + caching. Basically, when we have a section in a page with content which is slow to retrieve, we first check if it's cached. If it is, then we serve the content; if it's not, we serve a placeholder and then make an AJAX call in the client to retrieve the content, which is then cached for subsequent requests. As a consequence, sometimes you get the entire page content in the first request, and sometimes you get those placeholders, which get filled immediately with the responses of the AJAX request. You can see an example in the results count by category in the right column of this page: http://www.inzoco.com/crits/2-1-3-28-185-0-28079-0-0/listado-piso-en-alquiler- en-madrid-madrid.aspx I'm worried if it could be seen as cloaking by search engines because if you make a request for a page which content isn't cached and then ask again for the same page, you would get different responses, the first with the placeholders and AJAX requests and the second one with all the content rendered.


Can I use ClamAV on GoDaddy shared hosting?

My Linux shared hosting (godaddy) doesn't have ClamAV installed. Unfortunately, I'm not a Linux expert; so I don't know exactly what is involved in installing an application on a Linux. So, my question is:   1. Can I install ClamAV on my shared hosting?   2. If I can't install it, is it possible to still use it somehow? Thanks, James


Upload multiple images via website

I have a requirement to allow the users to upload multiple images at once, like the way you upload photos to a photo printing website. I am looking for suggestions as to what technology and which libraries that can be used to do this. I'm guessing Flash and JavaScript.


How to setup a small static page on Google Apps?

I've bought/registered/verified a domain with Google Apps, setup an email etc. so far so good. Everything works. How to now setup/host a small static page (plain HTML saying "Soon! :)" or something), on that domain using Google Apps?


Similar category titles with minor changes

I have an eshop that has say a 100 categories. 50 of them are different types of products, say potatoes, tomatos etc. The other 50 are another classification of the same products (a different menu) that have titles like Greek organic potatoes, Greek organic tomatoes, and some are like Greek non- organic tomatoes, French organic tomatoes, etc. Is the repetition of "Greek organic" in front of most of those 50 categories a bad thing for a seo?


If a blogger writes a whole article about my website, how important are anchor texts?

If there is a full article about my web-service, with my brand name in the title, and many relevant keywords that I would like Google to consider in my rankings, and links to my web-site with simple anchor text such as `<brand name>` and `<page title>`. Does it make a big difference if I get links to the actual keywords I'm after, or is it enough that these keywords are part of the written text?


In SEO & SEM terms, use of a international domain vs a local domain

In terms of SEO & SEM if I have a .com and a .co.uk. Would it be better to use the .com and park the .co.uk, If I am selling the product locally (in the uk) and later moving out into the international market? Will I struggle more to compete locally with regards to local searches and Google Adwords, if I make the .com as the primary domain? Does the parking of the .co.uk or the .com effect the relevance of a web domains search locally and internationally?


Does registering .uk domains require being a UK Citizen?

I'm a Canadian citizen and I'm looking to register a .uk domain for a future project of mines. I know that anyone can register a .co.uk domain, but I'm talking about the recently released .uk top-level domain. Can I just register it as a Canadian, or can only British Citizens register .uk domains like how only Canadian citizens can register .ca domains?


Website Redirects

I've been having a bit of an issue today. I run Gematsu.com. At first I thought the site has been going slow all day due to the amount of hits we've been getting the past couple days. But then I realized we'd received even less today, so something wasn't adding up. I ran a check on a website testing site.Turns out I have a bunch of redirects from URLs that I've never heard of. I don't know if they're what's slowing the site down, but I can tell you the site wasn't taking a minute to load yesterday. I tried removing my advertising to see if it was anything on their end, but I still got largely the same results.


Permissions suddenly changed to '00' on sites images directory

A client's site images directory permissions have suddenly changed to `00`. This means no one can access the directories content; not even the browsers. I cannot access the directory or change its permissions via FTP. What could have caused this? Is there a way to reset the permissions?


Highlighting Data for an Architecture Firm

I'm doing some design work for an architecture firm here in town over the next few weeks. They had a very lacking website previously and want something newer and easier to use. In the process they asked if I could go in an do some basic stuff to optimize for Search Engines. They are a pretty well respected firm locally so they already have pretty good page rank locally but like anyone else they want to be as high as possible and be as relevant as possible to what different people are searching. Outside of doing other things to help Google better crawl and under stand the data on the pages I decided to go into their data high lighter and tag various information. For the most part it is all rather straight forward and easy to understand for me as someone who has limited experience with this. What I don't really know what to do is what category should I put their portfolio page under? At first I started out as local businesses because they are a local business and have photos of local businesses with information for the name of the business and space they designed. They have them then separated out into categories for all the different type of work they do. I tagged the categories and their company information as well and it kept giving me a warning saying Google can't quite figure out the category structure. Would it be better to tag the portfolio items as products even knowing they aren't for sale. They are just space design and building shots of what they've designed. In a sense I guess they could also be articles maybe. Even knowing they aren't really articles they are just a portfolio of pictures with a minor amount of text descriptions at the bottom. So what I'm generally asking here to not be so long winded is what is the best way to highlight data in a mostly image portfolio in Google Web Master tools. Specifically what category should I sort the high lighted data into?


Single billing cylce for paypal subscription?

The subscriptions method only allows at least 2 billing cycles. What's the best alternative method I should use?


Need an EV SSL certificate

Hi buddy I desperately needed EV ssl certificate for one of my client urgently. Do you know any SSL provider who is providing low price then regular? Please let me know, so I can save some of my dollars. Thanks in advance.


What is this logo image?

Can you identify the filename of the logo image (spelling "Abrax") on this homepage? I've having trouble finding it in the offline files I unzipped from the paid template. Thanks.


Usefulness of the Backlinks shown in Webmaster Tools

Is the list of links for a site shown in Google Webmaster Tools a complete list or just a sample? I've noticed that the links in there appear to be all the ones I didn't think would have any real value - either because they were `nofollow` or from irrelivant sites. The few I did think would be some use have never shown up and there's also some links that are sometimes there and sometimes not (such as my linkedIn profile). Does this mean that the missing links don't/no longer carry any value? It almost appears that the list is there for Google to either inform you about problems (there was a useful list there when someone tried to SPAM my site) or mis-imform you about which link-building strategies work or not (to keep people guessing about what works or not).


Why I see my page sitemap XML link in Google?

I am using Yoast SEO plugin for my WordPress website. I am also using Yoast's XML Sitemap. Today I checked my pages in Google and found this indexed by Google:               Title: http://example.com/ 2014-02-15T22:23:51+00:00 weekly 1 http ...     Link: example.com/page-sitemap.xml     Description: http://example.com/ 2014-02-15T22:23:51+00:00 weekly 1 http://example.com     /contact/ 2014-02-06T13:47:35+00:00 weekly 0.8 http://example.com/blog/ ...      Any idea which caused this problem? I guess this is not good for my site SEO.


Auto backup website database using cpanel

Is there a way to automatically backup a website database, say once a month? I have cpanel and WHM running on all my shared hosting packages. It has a backup option but it's manual. Important info:   1. **Needs to be Mac software**   2. **I'm on shared hosting**   3. **My FTP client is Transmit**   4. **It needs to be a free solution** Update: We've got Dropbox so if there was some way to automatically grab the mysql databases say once a month that would be great. As all our other backups are there anyways. But in the first instance let's just try to get an automatic backup to my computer!


Should keywords exact match keywords on a page be <h2> or <h3> tags?

On a search results page, the `<h1>` contains the searched keyword. However, should wherever the keyword appears in the results be `<h2>` or `<h3>` tags? I have had these as `<h3>` tags and there is no `<h2>` on the page. **-- UPDATE --** For example: `keyword = cat breeds`
Cat Breeds
      `There are a number of different <h3>cat breeds</h3> to choose from. The most common of the list of <h3>cat breeds</h3> below is the calico cat...`


Can changing nameservers while keeping the same host impact SEO for websites?

I host several Italian sites in a Virtual Private Server (VPS) located in Italy. At the moment, most of the domains are registered by the same provider, so all the nameservers are located in Italy too. I want to switch to a new ISP, whose nameservers are located in the UK, USA and Canada, for domain registration, while keeping the same VPS hosting. Could the DNS change have an impact on those websites' SEO? Keep in mind that the actual host (the `A` record in DNS) will remain the same.


When viewing an svn repository through Apache in a web browser, is there a way to specify an old revision in the URL?

I think the question says it all. I am using a server that exposes an svn repository through HTML, and am wondering if I can specify a previous revision of files when linking to it. I believe the server uses Apache and mod_dav, but am not sure as I don't administer it.


Using cPanel through company proxy/firewall keeps resetting login

It's really frustrating; my cPanel access keeps logging me out with an "IP address changed" message whenever I try to access it from a work computer. I'm assuming this maybe has something to do with the company's webproxy or firewalls. It's virtually impossible to get anything done, as every page refresh requires me to log in again. Is there any way I can stop cPanel moaning about this?


URLs in Google Webmaster Tools are shown with "percent-encoding"

Our site is using Greek characters for some pages. So in _Webmaster Tools -> Crawl -> Crawl Errors_ , the URLs are shown in a format like: `http://www.pandafun.gr/%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%AD%CE%B4%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B7/%CF%83%CF%80%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B9/%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BF/tag/order:updated/criteria:23` Other people told me that they see in their computers URLs with Greek characters and not by "percent" encoding. I tried a lot of setup in different browsers, but didn't have any success. Is there any way to see them properly in Google Webmaster Tools? (I am using Win XP, if that matters ...)


Web host deleted webpage after 30 days and need to recover

I've allowed web host to delete my website, but I've now decided that I need to keep it. Since it was more than 30 days ago it is no longer recoverable according to the host. How can I recover the site? I do not have a backup of the site.


Website Example for User Engagement for first time user

I would like to add step by step Login instructions for first time users on my website (like what we see in the Facebook game, show popup instruction one by one to follow). Any website can you suggest which has this feature as reference. Thanks in advance.


What is the difference between <span> and <div> tags?

I am curious, the span tag seems to work the same as a div.


Tool to generate list of redirections (sitemap for .htaccess)

Is there any good tool (preferably for Ubuntu), that can help me generate a list of URLs used on a site? I'm building new version of some site, but I don't want to get 404 errors for the old pages. Instead I want to return 301 redirection, but first of all I need the list of all the old links, then redirect to new ones. The only one I've found so far is xenu webcrawler, but it's for Windows.


How do I fix "high response time" warnings from Google Webmaster Tools?

In my Google Webmaster Tools account, there is warnings about my site: > Some URLs listed in this sitemap have a high response time. This may > indicate a problem with your server or with the content of the page. They are particularly talking about the _location.html_ page. This page address has maps that are available. What do I need to do to fix this?


How to redirect a old URL using web.config (IIS)

I'm still very new to using URL rewrites and redirects and I'm having some problems on something I thought was quite simple... I've just rebuilt a website and want to redirect the old URLs to the new ones. For example:               http://www.mydomain.com/about.asp?lang=1<br>      Should now be:               http://www.mydomain.com/content.asp?id=100230&title=about&langid=1      Unfortunately, everything I've tried is giving me errors or simply does nothing. Here is one rule I tried:               <rule name="redirectoldabout" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">         <match url="( .*)" negate="true" />         <conditions>         <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^mydomain\.com/about\.asp\?lang=1$" />         </conditions>         <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.mydomain.com/content.asp?id=100230&title=about&langid=1" redirectType="Permanent" />     </rule>      but I get an error back: > HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be > accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?


Link tracking with google analytics

I am mailing a newsletter which has some links to my website. I need to keep count of these link clicks. How can i keep track of this using google analytics. I am new to google analytics. i tried this link builder http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578 http://www.xyz.com/?utm_source=src&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=support but these parameters are not appearing in traffic sources of dashboard. please help.


Why do people (or bots) spam a site with comments when its obvious that they end up being blocked?

Whenever I visit the Admin page of my WordPress site, I always find about 1000 new spam messages waiting there for me. The question is what is the motivation for people (or bots) to spam a site with comments when its obvious that anti-spam WordPress plugins are bound to catch them and filter them out?


Do sites using YouTube video API get indexed by Google?

Suppose I design a small app that heavily depends on Google YouTube API to dynamically fetch hundreds of YouTube video data. My site will be able to respond to users' requests, and generate several video pages. But what I don't get is this: does it means there's no hope of getting found (or indexed) for those videos on search engines since none of those videos actually resides on my server? Since I'll have very limited pages, what options do I have for SEO?


I have installed opencart and now looking to enable paypal pro services for UK, i am newby to paypal, do i need to register for payflow services on https://manager.paypal.com ? if not then what information should i place so that i can get out of the following error: This transaction cannot be processed due to an invalid merchant configuration.


Can I provide free subdomain service of TLD .pro ?

Can I provide free subdomain (second level) for free like `.co.cc` do? I'm trying to register a `.pro` domain individually.


Is Googlebot case sensitive? Should I use a 301 redirect to choose a preferred URL case?

The Googlebot reports the following: Pages with duplicate meta descriptions   1. `/Default.aspx?p=2`   2. `/default.aspx?p=2` Should I use a 301 redirect from `Default` to `default` or vice versa? Is Googlebot case sensitive?


Does text in the title attribute of links count as page content?

I've been told it is bad practice to have keywords in the meta tags that do not appear in the page content. In this context, does text in the title attribute count as content? For example if I had:               <meta name="keywords" content="apples">      And the word "apples" does not appear anywhere on the page, but I also had:               Fruit      Would this be considered bad?


Is using keywords without comma in title tag wrong in a SEO point of view?

On the `<title>` tag of one of my webpages I used keywords without comma. Is thist wrong in a SEO point of view?


.pw domain name risks

I am considering using a set of `.pw` domain names to provide CNAME access to content stored on a CDN. I have come across recent articles about how the `.pw` domain has become associated with spam. Given that I will not be using the domain to deliver mail should I care? Put it another way, - suppose I deliver an HTML page that contains:               <img src='http://example.pw/images/myimg.png'/> or     <script src='http://example.pw/js/myjs.js'></script>      Need I be concerned that a browser may automatically block download of that resource - or a firewall may do so?


Appending Apache log files with the date

I used to use _cronolog_ to manage my Apache log files. However, after getting back into website hosting, I noticed it is no longer being updated. I want to append the date of the log file, so I have a new file each day. (i.e., _apache-error_2014-05-02.log_ ) instead of the typical _error.log1_ , _error.log2_ , _error.log3_ that Apache does. How can I do this with Apache?


Is there a way to add Google Docs-like comments to any web page?

You know the comments on Google Docs word processing documents? And how it creates a little discussion over in the right-hand margin? I love it. Great for collaboration. I want to free it from Google Docs so I can use it with clients to discuss mock-ups or scaffolded websites. Searching Google for "add comments [or discussions] to any website" only gets you results for adding blog-like comments (Disqus, JS-Kit, etc.) Anyone know of a solution for what I'm after here?


Transfer .cn domain to another registrar

I have to transfer domains hosted by a deficient local ISP in China. Can I transfer my domain registration without my current ISP's cooperation?


How can i host my website on amazon aws?

How can i host my website on amazon aws ?? i have two websites with two different domain names for e.g www.webnil.com & www.security.com so with two different domain names how can i host it using one amazon aws account


Analyze Drupal and Wordpress sites CPU load in shared server

Our hosting company is complaining that both our Drupal and Wordpress websites running in a shared server are consuming too many CPU resources. The traffic for each site is not more than 100 users per day and, at a first glance, we don't have very many plugins/add-ons. Is there any tool or resource to analyse what is causing that high CPU load? Thanks Update: We decided to suspend our accounts while the problem was being debugged but still our hosting (Site5) said that they saw unacceptable activity on our sites so we had to move to a dedicated server... asked them several times to provide us with more information and they always came back saying that we had to purchase a higher account. Finally decided to move to another hosting service.


How to push through a domain transfer in spite of the 60 day rule

I recently purchased a domain through a registrar which I won't name here. Within the first five minutes of logging in, I found a severe vulnerability that allows me access to all registration details of all users. Simply put, I do not trust this registrar with any kind of business. But I'm unable to transfer the domain because, for some reason, it has to exist in its current state for 60 days. We're planning to launch the site this weekend - we can't wait 60 days. But I can not trust this registrar: if I found such a severe vulnerability in the first few minutes, how many more similar un- trustables will I find in those 60 days? Is there a higher authority to whom I can submit a case to get my domain transferred to a different registrar?


Is it possible to have Google index one page with one URL and have it link to another URL?

We want to tell Google to crawl a content heavy page but list a link to a much more performant JavaScript version of the page. Is this possible? I.e. Give Google a sitemap, then put canonical tags to the JavaScript version of that page.