Transfer domains without disrupting local email server

Perhaps I am thinking about this wrong, but maybe some of you guys can help me on this one. I have a client who currently has a domain from Network Solutions and is hosted via GoDaddy. Additionally, he has his email service with GoDaddy as well, but it seems to be forwarded to his local server at work. How can I transfer hosting accounts without disrupting email service (or at least temporarily)? Some MX info via Godaddy:               A          @ Points to GoDaddy Host     main Points to client's home server     sw Points to client's home server               MX     @ Points to main.example.com     @ Points to smtp.secureserver     @ Points to mailstore1.secureserver


Identify this user agent - claims to be IE7 on Windows 7

We have a tracking pixel in one of our emails and our the most frequent user agent is this strange one:               Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)      If you enter this into user-agent.info you will see that it claims to be Windows 7 (Windows NT 6.1) but at the same time IE 7, which isn't available for this OS version. Since this is an email I'm guessing that it could be some Microsoft email program (Windows Mail, Outlook Express?) that is embedding an IE7 engine. Does anyone know more? PS: I'm aware that user agents are easily spoofed but that would have to be a pretty determined troll.


Can I use UTM urls in Google Analytics to track the performance of different *sections* of my site?

If I start using the UTM links in Google Analytics to try and track the conversion rate on for instance, search results, or product recommendations, will I be getting an accurate representation of those section's performance or will it be skewed because it is tracking the user's behavior all the time after they click one of those links? In other words, if Page A links to Page B, with UTM info baked into the url, will Analytics give credit only for what they do on Page B, or if they continue to browse around will Analytics give credit for Page C, Page D, and so on? I want to find out how much we are making with product Recommendations, and I want to start tracking some other parts of the site too, like our Top 10 list in our sidebar, or stuff like that.


Dynamically rewrite URLs upon the user's selection - is it possible?

In my PHP based web application, there's a form that generates a URL according to the user's selection. The form has 7 different fields, each one of them affects the final URL, none of them is mandatory. The final URL can be: > > /field1/user_setting_of_field1/field3/user_setting_of_field3/field6/user_setting_of_field6/ or just: > /field4/user_setting_of_field4 these URLs should be rewritten to- > > /results.php?field1=user_setting_of_field1&field3=user_setting_of_field3&field6=user_setting_of_field6 and: > /results.php?field4=user_setting_of_field4 Is it possible to create a single rewrite rule that will cover these variations? I'd hate to create different rewrite rule for every possible scenario, it'll take forever... I'm currently developing the app on a Windows machine with IIS 7.5, but will eventually deploy it to an Apache server. Is it possible in both? I currently need to solve it for the IIS environment, and later on for Apache.


How do I disallow an entire directory with robots.txt?

I have two sites I am currently working on which is a shopping cart and another shopper...Both are under the same domain name so for example               http://someurl.com/first_url      http://someurl.com/second_url       Both these urls have tons of pages below them               http://someurl.com/first_url/product1     http://someurl.com/first_url/product2      http://someurl.com/first_url/product3          http://someurl.com/second_url/product1     http://someurl.com/second_url/product2      http://someurl.com/second_url/product3      How do I disallow the main url /first_url and /second_url to and all the subpages and sub directories ...I was thinking something like this but I don't know if this works or not and whether it was the correct syntax               Disallow: /first_url/*/     Disallow: /second_url/*/


Client asking for estimate to set up/ configure his server

I am building a web application for a client. I never set up a server using IIS. He needs me to configure the server to work with mySQL, php, and phpmyadmin. The server, is completely empty/unconfigured version of IIS 6. I need to set it up so the web application I built is completely accessible on the www. Not sure how long this will take me. It may take anywhere from 10-50 hours, I am not sure. I worked on set up servers using IIS, I never configured one from scratch. I am afraid that troubleshooting, and getting everything working as it should may take me days... What would be a reasonable charge for this service? I appreciate any advice, Many thanks in advance!


Searching for a Calendar Application That Meets the Following Criteria

My Step Father is starting his own company, and he gets the wonderful life of having to deal with multiple clients. He needs a calendar system that can do the following:   * Can be updated from iCal (I'm pretty sure this just means CalDAV support)   * Needs to be able to show different clients the details of whats on his calendar for them, while showing other client's arranged times as only busy   * Wants to show it in a professional way, preferably on his own website. I was looking at Google Calendar, but alas it doesn't seem to actually support it like I thought it would. He was looking at MobileMe, but its simply public. Is there a calendar app or PHP application that can be installed on his server that can do this?


The concept of virtual host and DNS

I have a dedicated server and a mydomain.com (bought from a hosting company). I want to host a website from my dedicated server with the domain mydomain.com i.e. when I enter mydomain.com from browser it should point to the IP(let's say X.X.X.X) of dedicated server(and a particular folder inside it). I have some following queries: **In Server**   1. I know I need to edit some of the files (like: host or hostname file) in the server but I do not know what exact file I need to edit.   2. How to add a Site enable or Site available in apache2 ? **In Hosting Company control Panel**   1. Which records to add (A or cname or anyother)?   2. Where Should I add DNS(in dedicated server section or domain name section)?   3. How it is going to affect the behaviour of the domain? in short the question is: **How the virtual host works & how to add DNS?**


What's the most efficient & economical way to do GeoIP redirects for a high traffic site?

So, I'm setting up a new potentially high traffic site that's made up of several simple static pages. We want to host it as efficiently as possible, as we're both on a non-existent budget and may have to deal with traffic spikes, so have been thinking CloudFlare, AWS S3/CloudFront, or some similar service. However, the catch is we need the root page `/` to redirect to `/ccTLD`, for example: redirect to `/us` for U.S. visitors or `/au` for Australian visitors. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can best approach this? So far I'm thinking either we have to resort to using JavaScript which looks dodgy, or simply pushing / requests through to a VPS or EC2 instance, which creates a bottleneck I'd rather avoid.


Putting Custom page summary in meta description

if putting "Custom" `meta description` for EVERY page of site, is harmful for SEO? (for example, summary of each article) And Google will show them on SERPs?


Section/Aside (HTML5)

I read about `<section>` and `<aside>` on the WC3 site a whole ago, but I can't remember if an `<aside>` should be placed inside a `<section>` or directly beneath it. Does anybody know? E.g. Should it be like this?:
...
      Or like this:
.........
      Thank you


SAAS for user registration on web site

Can anyone recommend a service which we can use to handle user registration on a website. I know of services like Wufoo, but they just offer forms. What we are looking for is a service which we can embed which has all the features like user signup, password recovery, etc.


Google indexes 301 source, with the destination content

It seems like when you 301 a page A to page B, sometime google indexes page A, showing the url in the results, with the contents of page B? Google "site:http://tinyurl.com/" to see some examples Is this by design or a bug? How do I avoid it?


What user agent should I set?

There is Ask bot, which sets this header:               Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)       Considering this, I have the following questions:   * If I'm writing a web crawler named Goofy, what user agent should I use?    * What is the difference if I put `Mozilla/2.0` or `Mozilla/5.0` ?  Any other suggestions about how should I format my user agent to comply to the current standards are more than welcome.


Subdomain as home page

I'm looking at how best to launch a project using subdomains to create around 10 'minisites' of sufficiently differing content using the subdomain as branding. There will never really be much content whatsoever on the main domain, it will only act as landing page for the subdomains with some aggregate content. Are there any pitfalls I need to be aware of with this approach? I assume I should set canonical link tag to subject.domain.com and add said address in webmaster tools, repeating the action for further subdomain minisites as they're added? With this approach I will never really have much content on the main domain, it will only act as landing page for the minisites with some aggregate content. Thanks very much for advice. While this is my first question here I'm seasoned on SO so not liable to hit and run.


Where do I find the Google tool for polling users about which option they like better on my website?

I remember a while back seeing a service offered by Google where you could pay to have people see for example two different logos for your company and could ask people to vote for which they liked best. Anyone know what tools this was?


How to solve this problem with my subdomain?

I have my site hosted at http://blog.rgksugan.in. I have set a subdomain in it for my blog. But after landing on my blog whatever other links I click i get the link as http://rgksugan.in/blog/wordpress/stack-overflow/. I want it to be http://blog.rgksugan.in/stack-overflow What should I do...?


Hosted web site builder for non-techies

I'm looking for an easy-to-use, well-supported tool for building your own web site, that a non-technical person can understand. Preferably something web- based and hosted, so they have to do as little as possible to get started. Any recommendations? I want something I can recommend to friends and family, when they ask me how they can build a site for their business, wedding, etc..


Can search engines change language and read the cookie?

I am building a multi language website in PHP and prepared all my strings in English by default using `gettext()`   My locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo file is working correctly and now I need to sort out the language detection and switching. I was thinking about using the approach with the GET parameter:                 English | Italian      I also thought that writing the parameter in a cookie should be better than in PHP's `$_SESSION`               $locale = "it_IT"; // default in Italian     if (isset($_GET["locale"])) {         $locale = $_GET["locale"];         setcookie("locale", $locale, time()+60*60*24*365*10, "/"); // for 10 years     }     if (!$locale && isset($_COOKIE["locale"])) {         $locale = $_COOKIE["locale"];     }          // locales directory     $locales_root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/locale";      $domain = "default";     // activate the locale setting     putenv("LC_ALL=$locale");     setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);     // bind it, than activate     bindtextdomain($domain, $locales_root);     textdomain($domain);      OK so far, so good.   Now my actual question……   How can a search engine index the English content? It follows the "?locale=en_US" link, than what?   Does the cookie get written? The first page is translated fine, but I am not adding the GET parameter to all my links. I saw this on some websites before; when you change the language the URL changes to somewebsite.com/it/ (mode_rewrite?) and the next click it's not added anymore.


How to refresh Google Reader cache for a specific domain

Brief history   * _domain.com_ was associated with a blogspot.   * _domain.com_ changed to an institutional site and features a small code instructing which file should be retrieved by RSS readers.              <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://domain.tumblr.com/rss" />         * Google Reader didn't update the RSS to the new blog.   * _domain.com/blog_ retrieves the posts correctly because it was never used for that purpose in the older blog. **How is it possible to force Google Reader to update the cached information?** I tried using another RSS reader and it worked perfectly with the new domain. However, when I tried to follow _domain.com_ in another Google Reader account, it still showed the posts from the older blog. It's been almost a month that the aforementioned changes were made.


User generated articles, how to do meta description?

If users submit a lot of good quality articles on the site, what is the best way to approach the meta description tag? I see two options:   * Have a description box and rely on them to fill it sensibly and in a good quality way   * Just exclude the meta description Method 1 is bad initially, but I'm willing to put time in going through and editing/checking all of them on a permanent basis. Method 2 is employed by the stack exchange site, and lets the search bots extract the best part of the page in the SERP. Thoughts? Ideas? I'm thinking a badly formed description tag is more damaging than not having one at all at the end of the day. I don't expect content to ever become unwieldy and too much to manage.


Setting up domain name and email servers for VPS

These are very beginner questions. I just got an instance of VPS with no domain name yet. The only way I can access my VPS is through SSH to a static IP. (1) How do I register a domain name and host it on my VPS? I know I can register a domain at some 3rd party registrar like GoDaddy, but how do I "host" that on my VPS? (2) How do I set up an email server that send emails and receive emails through the domain I register? What software do I need and how should I config it? Thanks a lot in advance


How can I associate my main domain to a RSS?

This is an institutional site which uses Tumblr to keep the visitors updated. The Tumblr is linked via frames in the subdirectory /blog/ of the domain to track stats. My question is: How can I allow my visitors to retrieve the Tumblr updates by simply inputing _www.domain.com_ in their feed reader instead of domain.tumblr.com? OR How can I allow my visitors to retrieve the Tumblr updates by simply inputing _www.domain.com/blog_ in their feed reader instead of domain.tumblr.com? PS. For some reason the main domain is still associated with the old blogspot address.


Is Amazon the cheapest cloud provider?

On AWS, bandwidth costs as little as $0.08 per GB and storage costs as little as $0.055 per GB. Are there any providers that charge less? These numbers end up being very costly for a web site that hosts pictures and videos, so I'm looking for cheaper alternatives.


Google Keyword Relevancy

I hope this is the correct place to ask this question. I've got a few websites going, so i'm ok with the usual terminology and have looked in SEO and tried to implement it as best i can on my sites. One thing i read is that Keywords are no longer really looked at or paid much attention by Google. So i have left Google to crawl my sites and let it figure out the Keywords for me. But on my Webmaster Tools Google page i can see all the Keywords it has found and ranked (great) but my question is how can i up the relevancy of some of the Keywords it has crawled? And is this going to have a positive effect on my SERP? Any advice welcome thanks :)


How to handle duplicate content in a tabbed area?

On my home page I have a tabbed section that loads the content via JavaScript. I have 5 tabs that can be clicked. For example, there's an "about us" tab that has a couple of paragraphs in it and a read more button at the bottom. The problem is, when you click on the "read more" button, you're taken to the aboutus.html page which contains those same two paragraphs that are on the home page. What's a good way to go about handling this? Or do I not even need to worry about it since it's only a couple of paragraphs?


What are some advantages of using Analytics like Urchin?

I'm interested in utilizing urchin. What are some advantages of self hosted analytics software like urchin over Google analytics?


Disavow a subdomain?

Disavow the domain `example.com`. What can I do if I want do disavow a subdomain? i.e. `spam.site.com`. I'm also assuming that if I were to disavow the domain it would include all subdomains?


Uses of .htaccess files

I only have a basic understanding of .htaccess files. What are some tasks that can be accomplished using them? What are good resources that would aid in learning how to use them on a more advanced level? What are downsides/risks/etc to using them? What are benefits to using them?


Any thoughts on Squarespace as a blogging platform?

I'd like to start a blog and I'm leaning towards a hosted, paid platform. I don't want to maintain a Web server. I also don't want the hosting company to put their own ads or branding on my site. Squarespace looks interesting, though kind of pricey. About the same price as TypePad I guess. (I might consider TypePad, but I personally find their UI difficult to use.) WordPress is cheaper but I think they're more known for their software than their hosting. Has anyone tried Squarespace? Are there other options I should consider? Thanks.


Regex Needed to allow mod-rewrite rule to work either with or without trailing slash?

Given the following rewrite rule:               RewriteRule ^user/([^/]*)$ /userprofile.php?user=$1 [L]      How can I have it work either with or without a trailing slash? Bonus points, how can I verify `([^/]*)` contains only numerals?


Determine content length to have a dynamic hr tag

Is there a way to determine the length of the content contained inside an h2 element, which changes. So an hr tag can be set to the same length plus some additional width? so it would look sort of like I tried some psuedocode to explain what I mean. I would move this to a css rule of course
SOME RANDOM TITLE LENGTH


Do search engines directly penalize bad grammar?

Let's say I have a web page with user-contributed content, which has good content but with bad grammar, slang terms, and an inappropriate tone. I know that bad grammar is also a problem, because it drives away visitors and scares people from linking to it, but let's put that aside.   Let's also put aside the fact that incorrectly spelt terms might be ignored by a crawler, potentially leading to fewer text-comparison hits. Do search engines like Google **directly** recognize and penalize bad grammar?   _For instance because they might consider bad-grammar as a sign of low-quality content._


Yahoo search: different results shown in two identical searches

searching on http://www.yahoo.it for `villa matrimonio bologna` I noticed Yahoo shows different results. You need to retry few times to get this done maybe exiting the browser and openeing it again, or maybe searching once and then clearing browser cookies and then search again (it's even easier to test if you use two different browsers at the same time to search for the same phrase). Anyway in order to reproduce this easily I write down here the query shown in the address bar after the search, so you can just click on these to see the results shown by entering these query:   * http://it.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AirvLYKvBMPP_6MpAmONN14brK5_?vc=&p=villa+matrimonio+bologna&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-709   * http://it.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AirvLYKvBMPP_6MpAmONN14brK5_?vc=&p=villa+matrimonio+bologna&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp Note the last parameter `fr` is different, but it's Yahoo that set it (not me), I don't even know what it means. You can see in the search box that **the searched phrase is IDENTICAL in both cases**. **So why Yahoo is giving out different results on same search phrase?** I used the same browser and performed the test in few minutes by simply trying more than once. You may also notice that the number of results returned (written on the left side of the page) is different, for the 1st search it returns 274K results, for the 2nd one 5.38M results. Actually you might think that this is just an error on Yahoo, but it's almost 1 year that while looking once in a while at some websites to see how they are ranking on Yahoo and also Google, I noticed that two searches on the same phrase show up different results even on the same day after few minutes/hours. **I couldn't reproduce this behaviour also on Google so I can not say for sure, but since it seems to me it happened sometimes I was wondering if anyone of you noticed it too.** **Do you know if this is the normal behaviour of search engines?** Because if it's normal (and it's just me that noticed it only now) **I wonder how do you understand how well a site is ranking on a search engine, you could even see one of your customer's website ranking differently compared to what your customer sees on his PC**.


can I forward "referrer" information to other address?

I have two addresses for two servers: www.urlA.com www.urlB.com I have all my websites installed in www.urlB.com, but visitors recognize www.urlA.com primarily. I have www.urlA.com/index.php as the following               <?php     header('Location: http://www.urlB.com/');     ?>      But, when I use this forwarding method, the tracking javascript in www.urlB.com cannot recognize where the visitors are from. I only obtain "NO REFERRING LINK" What should I do to do the following two jobs: 1. to forward urlA.com to urlB.com 2. to receive the referrer information


Shared IP vs. Dedicated IP

What are all the pros and cons of a dedicated IP rather than shared IP for my website? When would I need a dedicated IP?


Reasons for putting an application platform behind a web server

Application platforms like Node.js and Tomcat can bind to port 80 and serve external requests directly. Alternatively, these application platforms bind to a local port (like Tomcat's 8080) that is not exposed to external calls. A web server - like Apache or Lighttpd - proxy external requests from the web to the internal application platforms. What are the reasons for adding a web server between the application platform and the external web?


Help with Apache mod_rewrite rules

I want to change some legacy URL's like this:               /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=600      to this:               /news/story/600/      This is what I have tried:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^name=News&file=([a-z_]+)&sid=([0-9]+)     RewriteRule ^modules\.php /news/story/%2/ [R=301,L]      However I still get 404's on the old URLs. I do have some other rewrite rules working, so I am pretty sure mod_rewrite is enabled and functioning. These rules are in a httpd.conf file in a VirtualHost container. I should also mention this is for a Python application (using Django) running with mod_wsgi. Should the rewrites happen before the URLs are passed to the wsgi application? Any ideas? Thanks.


Static Google +1 button

Google+’ +1 button generator only shows options for generating dynamic buttons (i.e. via client-side scripting). For reasons related to German privacy & data protection law, this isn’t acceptable on our website: we need a _static link_ for users to click, without loading scripts or even iframes from third parties. Luckily, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ actually _allow_ providing sharing links via static URIs, as the related question “Google +1 something via a URL” shows. In particular, for Google+, the following link allows sharing a URI:               https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/confirm?url={url}&title={title}      Unfortunately, _this does not **+1** the page_, even though the dialog goes as far as saying “You publicly recommended this as {your name here}”. But the page neither shows up in my “+1’s” on Google+, nor in the “+1 Reports” on Google Webmaster Tools. **Is there a way of +1’ing a page via a static URI?**


Email forward to Exchange

We have a linux Webserver and one of our clients wants us to host their email only, not their site itself. NetworkSolutions manages the domain name. They want us to get their incoming mail and have it sent to their internal Exchange2010 server. Is this doable? I assume all it would need to be is just the A, CNAME, and MX entries at NS forward to my server IP address, but how would I get it to the exchange server? Cpanel/WHM based web server.


Google AdSense sometimes shows earning without click?

Google AdSense sometimes shows earning without any click. How is this possible? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xcfMM.jpg)


Google Analytics : visitors who visits once / more than once

I want to find out the following 2 metrics from Google Analytics:   * Unique visitors who visits once   * Unique visitors who visits more than once I have 2 sites' data in Google Analytics: Site A:   * Unique visitors : 520   * New visitors : 520   * Returning visitors : 320 Site B:   * Unique visitors : 6100   * New visitors : 5000   * Returning visitors : 8500 I try to calculate the above 2 metrics with the 3 numbers for each site, but seems failed. I tried: > Visitors who visits once = Unique visitors - Returning visitors Doesn't make sense, as Site B will give negative result. Also tried: > Visitors who visits once = New visitors But Site A tells us that 320 visitors are returning. What did I miss?


Which script for an audio sharing site?

I am going to build an audio sharing site. I am familiar with Drupal but I hope there are some more 'Specialized' CMS/Script for this purpose, whatever that is not ASP-based. So please suggest best candidates. It is OK if it is commercial, provided that it is proven to be robust.


How can a domain use its own nameservers?

I have to change the MX DNS records for our company domain name and I've come across this odd situation: A whois search shows up that the nameservers for ourcompany.com are ns1.ourcompany.com and ns2.ourcompany.com. In the DNS settings at the registrar there are no A/Cname records at all. However the nameservers are defined in the DNS settings for the domain on our dedicated server. (Registrar and host are two different companies). Using the DNS lookup on http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ shows that ns2.ourcompany.com is reporting the correct IP for our dedicated server. Its all very odd... the DNS on the dedicated server doesn't seem to have much effect, but its odd that the dns at the registrar's end doesn't have any records. thanks for your help.


Adsense Units of "Forbes" Magazine:: Frozen ADSENSE TERMS?

I was reading Youngest Billionaires of 2013 from Forbes Magazine, but surprised by seeing that they are using strange types of adsense unit in their posts. At first i thought that its done by adsense API, later i found that they did a iframe job to show **Search Result Ad**! Here is the screenshot: http://i.stack.imgur.com/xGMTe.png   Also, they show only adsense ads for few seconds for the first time you visit that website, this maybe sometime force the visitors to click those ads. Can any publisher do the same? isn't it breaking adsense terms?   May be i am wrong, what you are thinking? Is any publisher can do the same?


How can I get Google PR history of exact site?

As some pages of my site have gotten n/a of PR from Google, I need to see the history of PR's changing for those and other pages to estimate the situation and decide what to do. Where can I get the past PR's of exact site/page?


What's the best way to end a Web site?

I have a Web site, built on ASP.NET MVC 3, that will be closing down completely. The domain will still be required for a few months, so during that time I'd like to display a single message on at least the main page. I'm thinking that standards would dictate to either have all requests directed to a single page via 301 Moved Permanently, or serve a 410 Gone for all requests. This is the first time I've completely closed a Web site, and while I hope I don't have to do it again soon, I'd like to know the preferred way to do this. (I'm completely open to tag suggestions. Closing a Web site doesn't seem to be popular topic, which I suppose is sort of a good thing.)


Site is working with http:// not with http://www

My site is working if i type it as `domain.com`. But If I type it as `www.domain.com` I get an error 404 page. The domain is registered with Google Apps for Business and the hosting is done with another company. I have some A records that are pointing the site to this server. However, as it appears the A records are only working halfway. What do I have to do to make it working for both `http://` and `http://www` ?


Redirect subdomain (weblog) to new domain without access to .htaccess

I have a blog that has PR 1 on a subdomain `aaaa.domain.com` of a blog server `domain.com`. Now I want to buy a domain `newdomain.com` and I want to tell google webmaster to redirect the old subdomain to this new domain and send traffic to my new domain. I can't access .htaccess to use a 301 redirect. The only thing that I can do is put html code in the html. How can I do this? When I use "Change of Address" in google webmaster it say:"Restricted to root level domains only".


How to get detailed info about conversions with Google Analytics

I have a single target page on my site, the "Thank You for Signup" page. I would like to answere simple questions about people who visited this page:   * For each access where it came from? AdWords (from wich campaign?), Organic Saerch (with wich search, Referral (from where?) or direct? We have tried funels but it did not answere my questions. How can I do that?


Advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?

Is there much of an advantage of using a domain purchasing service through your registrar vs. and independent domain buying service?


Google Analytics API data for goals (funnels) doesn't match - how do they reconcile?

I have a Google Analytics account with a well-functioning funnel made up of 4 goals. I can query the API and get the data out, but it does not match the funnel report in Analytics. Without getting into specific values, I can give you an example with faked data. Here's how the funnel might look:               Shopping Cart     100 > 100 > 20            80 (80%)          Address Page     5   >  85 > 25            60 (71%)          Payment Page     2   >  62 > 10            52 (84%)          Checkout     1   >  53           (49.07% funnel conversion rate)      Okay, so you would **expect** the API to output data something like this:               goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons     100         80               20          goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons     85          60               25          goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons     62          52               10          goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons     53          53               0      Instead, it's different. Firstly, the abandons are associated with the following goal (so goal1 always has 0 abandons and goal4 always has >0 abandons. Okay, I can work with that. What's confusing is that the numbers are always a little different. The goal1Completions always match the report, as do the goal4Completions, but everything else is off by a small amount. Sometimes it's only 2 visits, other times it's off by 50. For the report above here's the kind of results I would tend to get:               goal1Starts goal1Completions goal1Abandons     100         100              0          goal2Starts goal2Completions goal2Abandons     105         84               21          goal3Starts goal3Completions goal3Abandons     90          65               25          goal4Starts goal4Completions goal4Abandons     58          53               5      Here's what I know: Goal(n)Completions + Goal(n)Abandons = Goal(n)Starts Goal(n)Starts >= Goal(n-1)Completions Goal(n)Starts - Goal(n-1)Completions != reported number entering at that level That third one is particularly disappointing. So, here's my question: What data do I need to pull from the API in order to recreate the counts in the Funnel report in Google Analytics? I don't need the pages exited to entering from - just the counts at every level.


Need to find hitchhiking websites/apps

I would like to fnd some hitchhiking websites or iPhone apps where I can find somebody who is driving and I can go with him the same day before making reservations too far in advance. Is there some website that can do that for Europe?


One domain name - two servers?

I am launching a website now and my boss has bought a hosting service in one webservice company, but they don't support what I need, then we bought another one where we get the support that we need. Now my question is: If I go to `www.test.com` (e.g.), the website from the first webserver appears. But I also use this domain name in the last new server also. I want that if I go to the url, the website should appear which I run on the second server, not the one which is on the first server. What should I do?


two domain names, one hosting

my client has registered a domain name on godaddy. He already is hosting a site on smartyhost. Now he wants his godaddy site to point smartyhost site. He does not want a redirect, instead he wants that two different BASE URLs will represent one site. I have read about this but i m confused as there are many solutions and none has worked for me. For example: 1- Domain forwarding 2- DNS 3- Site mirroring 4- A records 5- Point a domain to another and many more. I can't understand difference among them all. Can you tell me what is best solution for me and how can i use that solution. Thanks.


Will multivariate (A/B) testing applied with 302 redirects to a subdomain affect my Google ranking?

I want to do an A B test of an entire site for a new design and UX with only slight changes in content (a big brand site that has good Google rankings for many generic keywords. My idea of implementation is doing a 302 redirect to the new version (placing it on www1 subdomain) and allowing only user agents of known browsers to pass. The test version will have disallow all in the robots text. Will Google treat this favorably or do I have to use Google Website Optimizer (which will give me tracking headaches)?


URL Removal - Incorrect URL

I have recently updated a website for a friend and found that the WordPress 'Hello World' page was showing in Google results. I used the URL removal tool and asked for this to be removed, however it removed the homepage so now it is not showing in Google, only the Hello World one is. I went back in and 'Cancelled' the request but it is still not showing, do I need to do anything else?


Allowing users to create an email address

I am creating a website and would like to allow users to create their own email forward. Basically, the site will allow groups to create pages on the site, each of which will be able to have its own domain name. I would like users to be able to automatically create an email address on the site that will forward any incoming emails to their own email account. Right now I have to manually set these up in my hosting account control panel but I'm hoping there is a way to do this automatically. Does anyone have experience with doing something similar?


Search engine recognition methods

I am facing some problems making my site visible to all search engines. Google is recognizing my website and all pages well. Pages appear in search in 1st or second page. But when i use others like yahoo or Bing it does not appear at all. Is there any specific thing that i should do for it.


Multidomain website SEO strategy

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do dedicated IP addresses improve SEO? There are occasionally cases in which a client owns multiple domains for his business. For example a client may own landscaping.com, and also own newyork- landscaping.com and etc... I have a question regarding the SEO strategy for a business in such cases, assuming that there are 50 domains for different cities, and assuming that there is unique content on every one of those 50 domains. Is it better to have different IP addresses for each domain?


problem showing my website correctly in search engines

I have a website which i have indexed on google for example (like 15 days ago). some of my pages pass arguments like: http://www.bla.com/products.php? **pro=bla** & **page=view** suddently i saw that passing arguments like this isn't good for SEO purposes and started using htaccess rewrite. and changed the arguments to like this: http://www.bla.com/products/ **bla** /* _view_ */ now my site on google still shows as i showed at link number 1 what should i do? i thought i should wait for the search engine to crawl my site again but nothing happened. thanks in advanced, Din


Forcing SSL and www in .htaccess

I'm looking for a way to force SSL and `www`. I've been able to force both separately but together I keep running into redirection issues. The following code works when handling a URL in this format: `http://example.com` and properly redirects to `https://www.example.com` but when the incoming URL is `https://example.com` it will not forward to `https://www.example.com` - Any suggestions? EDIT: it should also send `http://www.example.com` to `https://www.example.com`.               RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !127\.0\.0\.0     RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]


Google Webmaster Tools shows wrong keywords taken from the source code

Google Webmaster Tools is shows wrong keywords for my site. For example, it shows > public_html   >  php   >  include_once and many more irrelevant keywords. I don't know why it's looking in the source code to find these keywords.


best/simplest way to inform search engine of sitemap location

AFAIK, there are 2 ways to make search engines aware of a sitemap's location:   1. Include an absolute link to it in `robots.txt`   2. Submit it to them directly. The relevant URLs are:                  http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL         http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL      Where `SITEMAP_URL` is the absolute URL of the sitemap. Currently, I do both. Regarding (2), I have a job that runs automatically every day which submits the sitemap to Bing and Google. I don't think there's any reason to do (1) and (2), but I'm paranoid, so I do. I imagine you can avoid both (1) and (2) if you just make your sitemap accessible at a conventional URL (like robots.txt). What's the simplest and most reliable way to ensure that search engines can find your sitemap?


How much text does the average person generate per day?

I'm figuring out how to do comment rate limiting, and have decided that I'll keep track of the number of bytes each user (defined as IP address + port) generates on my drive (so, each comment adds a constant metadata overhead of, say, 50 bytes in addition to the total number of bytes of comment) and limit the total number of bytes to some human daily maximum. Of course, I'll also limit the IP address to some sane multiple of that (so, not 65,536 * user_max, but more like 30 * user_max). The difficulty I'm having is in determining what user_max should be. If someone spends all day browsing my site and commenting on stuff, I don't want them to know there's a rate limit unless they're actually being intentionally abusive. So, to determine user_max, I need some research on how much typed text the average internet user generates daily. Or, better yet, I'd want the bell curve. I can limit at 3 sigmas from the mean, and safely cover the overwhelming majority. ## EDIT: I should clarify that the site hasn't gone live, yet, so I'm just looking for a sane baseline. Since I'll be moderating the comments manually (at least to begin with), what I want to know is primarily "could this be a human given the level of output?". Apart from that, I'm treating the users as gently as I can- like fawns venturing from the underbrush. They're majestic, beautiful, shy creatures, so I really don't want to spook them, but I also don't want to get kicked in the face. I'm working on the assumption that the first users matter disproportionately, but that's more a gut feeling than anything and I'm willing to be corrected about that. ## EDIT 2: A back-of-the-envelope calculation says 16 KiB is a good number. 16 KiB is about 8 typewritten pages (in practice they'll be able to write less, because I factor in metadata + indexing overhead. But unless they write a bunch of tiny comments, not much less). If someone's typing an 8 page manifesto into my site, chances are they need to take some time off, anyway. And at 16 KiB, assuming I limit each IP to 32 times (2 ** 5) that, the total data I can get per day from each IP would be 2 ^ 14 * 2 ^ 5, or 2 ^ 19 (half of 1 MiB). If a botnet 2 million strong tries to DoS my site via the comments (assuming each bot has its own IP address and is smart enough to use multiple ports) I have a worst-case influx of 2 ^ 21 * 2 ^ 19 bytes, which comes out to 2 ^ 40 bytes, or one TiB / day. Now, that certainly would crash my site. However, that also assumes I have no contingency for such a situation (e.g. disabling comments if the disk starts to get too full, or gradually bringing down the maximum limit per IP as the disk fills), and also assumes that I don't do any filtering based on content at all (not happening; I _will_ do some sanity checks), and that my database can't compress any of the information (it does try compression), and that my network bandwidth wouldn't suffer so much that my site actually being technically up would matter (unlikely). Of course, the other caveat to that would be that I've pissed off someone willing to rent a 2 million strong botnet. Which, although I can't say I'm friends with everyone, I'm still filing under "unlikely". Botnets are expensive, and realistically this site won't be that important.


SEO, better to start a new domain or it's also fine start over again on an existing one?

I have a site that I'm going to close or replace with new content. Basically the site's topic is the same, but contents can't coexist for a bunch of reasons (e.g., different CMS, lack of time, different audience) For example let's say the site was about car tuning parts, now will be about car selling adverts. Old pages (about 5000) will all be dropped and new URLS will be created. What should I do? Since it's a 7 year-old domain (possibly trusted by Google) I want to try to take advantage of this fact if possible.


A one-day loss statistics from Google

My stats dropped 50 times pls help me ! I did not see any problem with the site! Google also did not report any problems url: **Food.Sooran.com** 200 was my previous online But now one people! **The strange Tip!:** Every few months, a high statistics comes a time for no reason! ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ocRgm.png) ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QxRSN.png)


URL Rewrite in IIS 7.5

I have a web site (hosted on IIS 7.5) that has bindings to four URLs. Something like:   1. www.example.com   2. example.com   3. www.example.net   4. example.net What I would like to accomplish using URL Rewrite is that:   1. Surfing to www.example.com will auto redirect to example.com (and return 301)   2. Surfing to example.net will auto redirect to www.example.net (and return 301) I tried using the URL Rewrite (I have no experience using this feature) using the IIS MANAGER > FEATURES > URL Rewrite > Add Rule > canonical domain name, but the problem is that then I can choose one address of those four, that will cause all the other three to be redirected to that, which is not what I need to do. Can you please help and advise? Is URL Rewrite is a good and possible way to do this?


Can you search for code in google?

can you search for code in google ? not just git hub ect but i mean live code so instead of searching by site content, search by sites source code ? (obviously only client side code)


Alternative to Google Adsense which has good international coverage

I have a technical blog (programming related) which has around 500 visit per days, 70% are international visitors and 30% are from US/CA. Google Adsense disabled my account due to invalid clicks so I can't use them (no need to explain here, they suck hard and never respect and listen to the publishers' appeal) I have tried adbrite and recently using chitika but they almost give me nothing, e.g. **chitika** 13,865 Page Views 4 clicks $0.01 The performance is so poor even I don't want to mention about it. I am already putting a full top banner and a 350x200 box in article body. I am researching if any alternative would provide more revenue for my internation visitors or technical visitors. Thanks.


Should I submit my RSS feed as Google Sitemap?

I currently have no sitemap for a website I'm creating. I do have an RSS feed which includes the N latest updated posts on the site. It doesn't include everything on the site though, just blog posts. Creating a full sitemap would be a bit of a hassle I think.   1. Should I submit the feed instead?   2. Is there a difference between using a regular sitemap and a feed?   3. Is it important to have a sitemap? What happens when you do/don't?


2048 bit SSL overhead

Can you guys help me learn some ssl networking basics plz?   * What is a SSL transaction (a full handshake?)    * Why do people think 2k ssl will melt netscalers (ssl trans/sec exceed netscaler max ssl trans/sec?)   * Can't you install ssl on a cdn's edge nodes to save thecomputational overhead on netscalers? Thanks


Placing h2 and h3 tags around words in paragraphs

If I have a page with an `<h1>` heading and a long paragraph, is it ok to write the paragraph (see below - with the h tags mixed with broken p tags to make up the whole block of text) and just style it so it looks all the same so that I get the benefit of using `<h2>` and `<h3>` tags? I'm aware this is not the 'proper' use of the H tags as they're meant to be headings but can I use them like this, as the site isn't built using multiple headings on the same page?
Red shoes

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Red shoes

Lorem ipsum dolor     sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus id dui id mi consectetur tincidunt.          Mauris at sem non urna congue eleifend sed quis nulla. Aenean nisl porta eget auctor vel,      semper eget massa.

red shoes

Lorem ipsum.
      (please ignore over optimization this is just for illustrative purposes)


SEO Implications of creating Niche Product Blogs vs Main Company Blog with Categories.

Our company has a dilemma that I am hoping the users of Pro WebMasters can help us with. Right now as it stands we create a seperate website for each product that we sell. We also have our corporate site which lists each of these brands. For Example: www.Apple.com < --- main company site www.Ipad.com <--- Product www.Iphone.com <--- Product www.Imac.com <-- Product We are looking to build a wordpress blog mainly for the purpose of increasing our SEO rank. Here are our two options:   * **SINGLE BLOG - On Our Corporate Domain**   * http://apple.com/blog   * Each post is categoried http://apple.com/category/ipad/ipad-5-realeasd.htm   * Easier to manage than multiple blogs   * More content since its listing about all our products.   * **ONE BLOG PER PRODUCT - on each site**   * http://ipad.com/blog   * Each product has its own blog with only its own articles   * Harder to manage, but does it benefit SEO? Can the team here tell me the SEO benefits of either approach? Similar to Apple all the products our company sells are loosely related. Although its not likely that a customer of product A would be interested in product B.


Facebook comment and other commenting system for SEO

Lately i see some of big websites begin using Facebook commenting system in their wordpress websites. There are also websites that stick to commenting system like Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre. My question is between Facebook Comment and Comment System (Disqus, IntenseDebate and Livefyre) which one is better in terms of SEO?


Is my Document Type Definition Still Up to Date?

currently all my php generated rich html webpages start with this line, which I have been adding to my tempaltes YEARS ago...               <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">      # UPDATE **Who Should Use Which Doctype? When Should One Change Doctype?** When I remove this line all still works fine. Is it still essentially needed to put all that at the top of my pages? What are my alternatives? Thanks very much for your suggestions.


Is there a problem if I don't setup google analytics in my website?

is there a problem if I don't setup google analytics in my website? I have read lot of articles describing use of google analytics but I have not added it in my site. In Cpanel I can check all things like stats, unique visitor etc and in google analytics its almost same but if I want sponsor for my site then is it necessary to have google analytics? or can cpanel stats be shown to sponsor? Thanks for reading! I hope I get an answer!


I am changing my file extensions in URLs, how to keep my good SEO results?

We have a website with good SEO results. For design reasons I have to update the design and I have to change file names from `.html` to `.php`. But I keep my domain name! What should I do in order to keep my good SEO results?


will main domains be more seo friendly than subdomains?

Web hosting providers offer services such as hosting multiple domains in one account. Then my concern is about seo friendliness. say the main domain of my account is maindomain.com on which I have added an addon domain say domain2.com. That means cpanel will generate domain2.maindomain.com and the contents of domain2.com will be practically stored into a subfolder in maindomain.com. Now, assume both maindomain.com and domain2.com have same structure both optimized for seo same way. My question is that would maindomain.com links be more seo friendly due to that fact that maindomain.com is the mani domain of my account?


Using Analytics and URL forwarding to count conversion rate in emails

Google analytics offers the nice feature of letting one know, where a user is coming from. We are currently sending out emails containing links to our website and I would like to know how many people click on that link. For that I was hoping that there exists some Web service which allows one to register a url www.myurl.com. The Web service would then generate a new url something like www.service.com/myurl which redirects to wherever myurl.com was pointing in the first place. By including the redirect url in the emails, it would easy to see how many people actually clicked on the link. If there is an alliterative solution for the above scenario I am more than interested in learning about it.


Page loading indicator

I have a page, and it takes a few seconds to load. I know, and I will make the site load faster (and not the question), but due to animations animating the site in, I am thinking of adding a page loading indicator. This will be injected trough JavaScript and removed again by JavaScript, and removed trough JavaScript, making a non JavaScript page work as normal. Is this a good or bad practice to add a page loader indicator on a standard HTML/CSS based site?


How to achieve SEO for XHTML pages which load data in DOM using a JQuery-AJAX service calls?

I have a simple website (5-8 XHTML pages and a payment gateway to be done) with about 1500 products having a fix SKU/product code. sample URL for the query: **http://www.domainname.com/product- detail.html?20001-1P16AX** and I'am pulling data via a **JQuery/AJAX service calls** and pushing it to to the DOM. The meta tags, (data in bold italics) i want to populate via **service calls** as under   * <meta name="description" content=" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001 - 1P 16AX 1-way switch grey,EIKON,175_** " />   * <meta name="keywords" content=" ** _20001-1P16AX,20001,switch,grey,EIKON,175,SWITCH,GREY_** "/> * * * My query is ...   * Can we load SEO data in meta tahgs via **JQuery/AJAX service calls**?   * Whether Google or other popular search engines cache this dynamic data and redirect to the **EXACT** product page when searched?   * Is there any better way to achieve SEO/perform search for the above said scenario? I would be very happy to hear from all you experts, please suggest. Thanks   NBaua


Visits from internal path

I have an online shop with a blog structured this way:   * Shop: `domain`   * Blog: `domain/blog` Both index have the same Google Analytic Code (UA). In the blog I write articles about some products with a link to the product page. Now the problem is, I want to get all visits whose referral links have this pattern `domain/blog/*`.


Should I disallow(robots.txt) archive/author pages with links already available on the front page?

I am working on a simple Wordpress blog where when an article is published, it appears on ALL these pages:   1. Homepage - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   2. Parent category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   3. Child category page - Headline(clickable) + 3-line summary   4. Author page - Headline(clickable)   5. sitemap.xml A good example of what I mean is: http://wp-themes.com/twentyfourteen/ The "Worth A Thousand Words" article is available on the homepage. But it's also available on the category page: http://wp-themes.com/?cat=1 And finally, it's also available on the author apge: http://wp- themes.com/?author=1 Does it makes sense to let Google crawl http://wp-themes.com/?author=1 knowing that all links on that page were already crawled elsewhere? I've been in fact told that I should add all author pages to my robots.txt, under disallow, so as search engine bots do not spider /author/*(or anything with ?author for the above example) since all links on these pages are indeed available elsewhere. Is this a good approach or maybe rel=nofollow is better, or maybe I shouldn't worry about this at all?


Country specific SEO

I have a wordpress site which is located at a .com address. The site is a simple 4 page personal site with my academic credentials, publications and a health blog that I started. I have done quite a bit of seo and I rank pretty high for the keywords i want on google.co.uk. However, I do not rank at all on google.com.mt which is the Malta specific search. I have therefore just bought the .com.mt domain and pointed the DNS nameservers to my current host provider and redirected it to the .com address. My goal is to make sure I don't screw up my google.co.uk search ranking, while starting to rank on google.com.mt I'm I doing the right thing or do you have any suggestions??


Does it matter that the TTL is higher than I've been told?

Ok, so the title isn't very descriptive, I know. Basically, I'm trying to configure Outlook.com to use my custom domain! I've followed the steps and made the account etc. and now I have the DNS settings to configure from Windows Live. I added the MX Entries and everything last night but Windows Live is still saying I need to prove my ownership of the domain. The only thing I can think of that I had to use a differrent TTL to the one provided because my web hoster will only allow a minimum of four hours, whereas Windows Live told me to configure the TTL as one hour. Would that stop anything? By the way, my web hoster is JustHost (Shared Hosting)


Use of hgroup tag and how much well for SEO it is?

I used `hgroup` tag like as in section. I want to know that it's well for SEO or not and this is a correct use of `hgroup`. HTML:
           <hgroup>
CCTV Camera's online view on your 3G phone

 Shadman, Lahore

 29 Aug 12:22 2014

Ad ID: 1249586

 Views: 2
             </hgroup>
      CSS:               section h1{         font-size:24px;         text-transform:capitalize;         line-height:25px;         font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;         font-weight:normal;}     section h6{         font-size:10px;         font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;         font-weight:normal;         text-transform:capitalize;         float:left;         padding:0 0 0 1%;         color:#999;}     section h6 i{         color:#85B7F3;}     section h6:nth-child(4),     section h6:nth-child(5){         color:#000;         float:right;             padding:0 1% 0 0%;}     section h6 span{         font-weight:bold;}


Google adsense bombing

I made a website few months ago and put google adsense on it, but someone kept clicking on ads with bad intentions, e.g. google bombing I guess but as result they disabled my google adsense account, now I wonder how did this all happened and what steps should I take in future to stop such kind of attacks. Is there any tricks or tips to save your website from bombing of invalid clicks ? what ways do normally hacker use to bomb adsense on a website ?


How to batch remove spamming users and pages they created on MediaWiki?

I'm trying to clean up a MediaWiki instance which has been subjected to spamming and vandalism for a period of time. The current status is that there are a large number of users which only created spam pages but typically not altered legitimate pages. And there is only < 10 users which I know are legitimate users and created a small number of legitimate pages. Abstractly, my idea of fixing the messy situation is to find the complete list of users that are not in that small set of legitimate users, and use RenameUser extension to rename them all to a `Spammer` user, and use Nuke extension to mass delete all pages it created. Any practical advice on how to proceed? Since there are hundreds of spammer users, how do I effectively rename them? It seems Renameuser extension does not support automated batch renaming of users by allowing users to be renamed with a list or file.


How do I temporarily reference a new web host using my existing domain name?

On provider A I have an existing web hosting account running my site. On provider B I have my domain name registered pointing to the web hosting on provider A. I've just purchased a web hosting account with provider B and want to move my site there. Is there a way to temporarily use my domain name to point to provider B while I set up the site (e.g. just from my computer)? I tried to change the HOSTS file (Windows) and while pings resolved to what I set, HTTP requests don't.


WYSIWYG vs. BBC Code vs. Plain Text

When Putting in a place for users to put it content, (for example, posting a question,answer or comment on this site) What are some things to consider when deciding to use some form of WYSIWYG editor, some form of BBC like markup, or just giving users a plain textarea to work with?


Reporting and stopping fake website

On Bing and Yahoo (and apparently briefly on Google), we have some websites that are buying up somewhat randomly named domains like `autquahna.com` and `autmusgfn.com`. They put our company name in the meta keywords, and are essentially stealing web traffic from us by putting our company name in the footer of their website. Of course, WhoIs lookups only show fake/protected information. At the end of the day, we want to get these pages reported/removed, as the sites aren't associated with us in any fashion. How do we go about reporting them, etc?


Allow directory listing for subdirectories only

I am using webspace hosted on IIS 7.5 (according to phpinfo() ). Currently, I am enabling directory listings for a directory and all its subdirectories by placing a web.config like               <location path=".">         <system.webServer>           <directoryBrowse enabled="false" />         </system.webServer>     </location>      in it. Is there a way to disable the directory listing in the directory itself but enable it for all its subdirectories without placing a web.config in each subdirectory or listing all subdirectories here?


Links shown in organic keywords in Google Analytics

While using Google Analytics, I have observed that many a times some URLs of my website are themselves shown as the keywords. I think its very odd that my users would type complete URL in Google search. So, how do URLs get into the keyword section? I am attaching a screenshot where you can see some of the URLs: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/I2kjH.png)


adsense click spamming

## Questions   * What software do people use for adsense click spamming ?   * How are they structured ?   * How does it work ?   * How can we block them ? I tried looking at google but not much information there already.


how to restore email from only a full website backup?

I am in a helpless position right now..Till last month,I was hosting my website and email accounts with hostgator and everything was going fine till I decided to switch hosting for some services that they dont currently offer.I cancelled my account with them and was given a couple of hours to move my files.I created backup of the entire website from cPanel and downloaded everything from their server to my PC.The problem is,since this was a first time procedure for me,I didnt know that I had to download all my emails to my desktop client.I had read some tutorials providing information on moving my website to a new host and all ,but none of them mentioned about email backups.Now i have all my emails downloaded onto my desktop as part of the full website backup and not on any email client.And Hostgator has closed my account with them.The new host I have decided to move my website to,doesnt host email and they are asking me to host my emails on google apps.Thats ok with me,but I need all the emails in my account since all of them contain my registration and billing details and passwords and other such important things.Please,can someone find me a solution to this problem?


Where is the data for items added to a shopping cart stored if not logged into the site?

Sites like Amazon allow you to add items to your shopping cart without requiring you to first log in. My question is where do they store this data? This data still seems to be there even if you restart the browser too.


My Sites Were Hacked. What To Do?

I host multiple domains with this very popular hosting provider and I just went into one of my sites and... I see a black page with message "Hacked by...". I checked and all my sites with the provider are showing this same page. Inside of file system I have seen the hacker placed all default.* and index.* files with this message. So the hacker overwrote all index pages, placed new pages and that is under every, I say again, every folder. Cleaning this up will be close to a most horrible job. What to do (right now I am awaiting the restore of files from hosting provider)? How to prevent this? Whom to blame?


"Local" results from a google search

I entered "online dating" in Google, and I found some of the results are "local" (I'm in Ottawa, Canada). In the attached images see the results for `www.okcupid.com` and `www.eharmony.com`. Is this something Google does automatically or is there some metadata that the sites publish? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/CVHAV.png)


Troubleshooting Google Author

I have successfully implemented the neat Google Author feature on my Computer Performance website. However, I am struggling to set it up on my fashion- era.com website. The only difference is that the site where it does not work lacks the pure tag:               <!DOCTYPE html>      Instead fashion-era has               <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">      One more thing, the Google snippets tools indicates it should work on the fashion era pages. Question: Could this Doctype prevent the Google Author feature working?


URL masking with .htaccess

I need a hardcore programmer to help me with URL masking. So this is my situation.   1. My website www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ is the main site that needs to be configured.   2. I have another website/webhotel called www.umagepar.dk   3. www.umagepar.dk is redirected to www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/   4. The blog is an ongoing project where i post a lot of stuff to get my ranking higher on google.   5. www.umagepar.dk which redirect to www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ is also a project on is own, so I do not want people to know, that it is a blog connected with www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/   6. I therefore need to mask www.michaelfotograf.dk/blog/ so it will be called www.umagepar.dk in the URL in the searchbar at all times! How can I do this?


Include number and date in Apache log file names

I'm trying to figure out how to include the current date and the IP number of the current host inside the Apache log file names, but I fail how to see how I can do that. Part of that has to do with the fact that I don't understand the log rotation mechanism that seems to be enabled by default. Haven't been able to find any documentation on why I have `access.1.log`, `access.xxx.gz.log` files. (I mean, I _do_ understand that it is log rotation, but I _don't_ see how I can influence it. I also understand I could pipe log output through some sort of command to include the current IP number in the file name, but I would assume I would lose my log rotation that way. Basically I want the current mechanism, but then include the IP number in the name, and a date rather than a number.)


How to wildcard 301 redirect inner blog so all current posts work with new blog name?

Say I have the following:               http://example.com/blog-domain-name/blog-post.html      I want it like this:               http://example.com/blog/blog-post.html      Can I do this with a simple 301 redirect using wildcard without complex apache mod_rewrite? Like /blog-domain-name/* /blog/* Will new blog URL know that I want all requests arriving at destination blog posts?


A simple message room

Can anyone recommend a simple message room (not chat room) which I can use for a private communication between my users. My idea: to grant some users (2-3 at the most) a specific privilege to talk privately in a message room. none of them would be administrator there. I need such features:   - admin panel for adding users allowed to post messages in room   - room invisible to anyone except users   - filtering not-allowed words   - Ajax-enabled so that replies appear immediately   - other message room features I have a linux hosting so PHP message room would be the best option. I thought of using a forum for this, but it's too much work as a forum is public by nature and I need something **private by nature**. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.


How to successively transform a static page (image gallery) to a product type page?

A website with about 700 static pages, where about 20 of these are basically the same page that displays products that are custom made in a image gallery like enviroment. The point of having these pages is to attract people that search for different keywords in the same category. All products are built differently, with different materials, sizes, etc, even though they fall into one category. I've noticed that this page does not receive a lot of visitors, and I would like to make it more "Product like" than an image gallery per se, attracting more visitors willing to buy such items. I've done the following:   * Created a master page with all products, codes and material available Then, in each page:   * A button to request a product quote with a form   * Material type (and option for different materials, so the same product can attract people looking for the same thing in a different material)   * Description of product   * Details   * Product code But still, these will be static pages, and I can't really sell anything online, since all products are custom made to order. What other techniques can I also apply so these pages become more "catalog like" to search engines? Is adding things such as "Buy such product" on keywords, and on description tags, title a good idea? What else can I do to improve these pages visibility to potential customers? **Note:** I'm not asking about user experience in these pages, I'm asking about search engines. **Other considerations:** All pages are indexed by SEs, and most traffic comes from image search. All images are named after product (not product code), and they all have proper alt and title tags. Thanks, Cheers!


Daily blog archives and duplicate content

A few weeks back I realised that my blog software was creating daily post archives. Which basically resulted in duplicate content especially if I only had one post a day. The situation is something like this:               www.sitename.com/blog/archives/2013/06/01 - daily archive for 1 June 2013     www.sitename.com/blog/archives/2013/06/my-post-name.html      So, here we have two pages that are basically identical except the daily archive has some meaningless title like "Daily Archive for 1 June 2003". And I have no control over which content Google decides is the primary content. It's quite possible (and likely) that the daily archive could be the "primary" content and the actual post itself the "duplicate". Once I realised it was doing this I modified the daily archive template to include               <meta name="robots" content="noindex">      Here we are a few weeks later and I still see some daily archives coming up in Google search results. I realise some of those deep pages might not be crawled yet but I am worried that the original post (which should be the PRIMARY content) has been marked duplicate content by Google. Now I've no indexed the daily archives I might end up with no indexed content AND the original articles still flagged as duplicates. And nothing will show up in search at all. Have I screwed myself here or is there a way out?


How can I create a review site which is similar to craigslist?

I want to create a site where you can review different things in the town. Example could be a Restaurant, a park, a doctor, a school. The user creates review and uploads pic if he has. I want to create a new page for a new item. Basically it would be similar to what craiglist do. When you create a new ad, a new page is created, as in example below. > http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/hab/2770582006.html   1. Does anyone know what framework craigslist is using?   2. How would I achieve this in PHP, MYSQL?   3. A side question. I know of one approach that I can take but I am a little reluctant on that. For example www.mywebsite.com/review.php?item_id=12. There is basically one page and the review is taken of out the database based on the item_id supplied. Is this approach better or the craiglist approach? In short > www.myreviewwebsite.com/review.php?id=123 vs > > www.myreviewwebsite.com/12345.htm Which one is better from marketing point of view, esthetic effect, functional, maintenance and more practical. (note I think I am going to create a separate question of no.3)


Are icon fonts bad for SEO?

Instead of using `<img>` tags for your icons, you can use icon fonts on `<span>` tags (which offer some advantages such as not having to create a sprite, being able to scale icons up/down without degrading quality...). However, by using an icon font you give up the `<img>` alt attribute (that attribute can help you with SEO). There is a way to add text to the `<span>` and hide it, but I wonder whether this is recognized / penalized by Google (as it seems to go against the quality guidelines). Are icon fonts bad for SEO (i.e. by using icon fonts you give up the alt attribute)? Would inserting text in font icon tag and hiding it with CSS (`text-indent: -9999px`) be recognized / penalized by Google?


Will a redirected subdomain lose Google SEO links?

Because of a change in brand, I want to redirect our `subdomain.domain.com` to `newdomain.com`. The content being exactly the same, I was thinking of using a 301 wild card redirect to `newdomain.com`. I noticed it is not possible to do a redirect in Google Webmaster Tools as you can with a root domain. Is there a way I can do this redirect without losing all the backlinks referenced with Google?


How to use Google Analytics to get a histogram or distribution for time on page?

Google Analytics provides a fairly comprehensive breakdown for **session** duration under Audience > Behavior > Engagement: ![session duration histogram - Google Analytics](http://i.stack.imgur.com/JC0jz.png) But I'm having trouble finding a similar GA view or other means of pulling data on the distribution of time on a single page or set of pages. All that's available is "Avg. Time on Page," which of course could be totally thrown off by a handful of extreme outliers. Is there any way to break down this average into a distribution?


How to find out if a logo has already been used/exists?

I have few concepts of logos for a website. How do I know a specific concept that is finalized, is already used by some other website or not?


Is there an index of the IP addresses used by indexing bots?

I have a page that gets minimal traffic, but I set up static notifications when it gets hit. Now, I want bots to get ignored, so what I'm doing now is adding bots I see to a "no notify" list. Is there a reference listing of the IP addresses used by indexing robots? e.g, a list like:               $no_mail = array(         '67.195.115.105', // yahoo bot         '207.46.199.50', // msn bot         '61.135.249.246', //youdao bot         '207.46.199.32', // msn bot     );


Google Webmaster Central Channel

Since there are so many Google Webmaster Central videos on Youtube which one do you think every Webmaster should see? http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp


I'd like to use iframe to videos and contents posted other sites?will I be violating any law

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Loading another domain's content in a modal iframe - acceptable? My url is www.indiaracetips.com and if I use iframe in my site will any one sue me?


Adding comments to static pages?

I've used disqus on a few sites successfully. Are there any other solid solutions for comments for static websites? (For new sites, I tend to use a CMS that includes comments).


Is there a program to prevent downloading a whole site

I want to avoid reinventing the wheel, so I am wondering if there is an (open source) program that you can use to protect a web server that has paid content by preventing a user from downloading all content to its hard drive; such as detecting atypical behavior (e.g. saving each page, quickly working through all contents) and being able to automatically react on it. Most bigger sites have something like that, throwing you onto a captcha every now and then, so I assume that there is some implementation also in the open source world, but I did some searches, e.g. for ‘outlier detection’, ‘behavior analysis’ or ‘intrusion detection’ and found nothing except Snort, which rather seems to be a desirable part of a firewall than a web server. I would have expected the solution to be more like a proxy server, Apache module or Typo3 extension. Maybe I conducted unfortunate searches in lack of a precise English expression for such a component. Do you know a way to protect against this by some sort of behaviour analysis/outlier detection, something more than checking for easy-to-fake user agent and referrer?


Looking for the name of a top bar notification provider

Not long ago I saw a website that had a top notification bar that was provided by a third party, customizable and all by I can't for the life of me remember what those guys were called. I'm looking for something similar to what the "Stack" website have (including this one) when visiting the first time. Just a simple bar that can be dismissed or slit closed. Any answers appreciated.


Link value of links from social media

As a SEO you can benefit from Social Media activities and it even seems key according to Matt Cutts recent video on SEO in 2011. However besides getting 'inbound links' from third party websites or blogs as a result of people that have noticed e.g. your Twitter Tweet or Facebook Post you will, most likely, also receive links from the social media pages itself. **Now, when talking about 'link-value' would Googlebot consider a link from a Social Media page the same value as a link from a website or blog?** Please note: It goes without saying that I understand that the page must be publicly visible, not restricted by e.g. htaccess, should be lacking no-follow tags and that in case an url is shortened it should be done by applying the appropriate redirect. The question is solely about the valuation of a link published on a social media platform.


Being a Good Webmaster is so hard?

How do you define a good Webmaster ? Because there are a lot of people can say "I'm a webmaster". And i say them "Yes you can use a lot tools, software etc. but this doesn't make you a Webmaster".. What is the features of a Good Webmaster? Is it so hard to be? What do you think about that?


If you run a split test, how long do you let it run before you conclude it is inconclusive?

When running A/B tests with Google Website Optimizer, Google tells you when a variation has "won". However, sometimes, the test runs for a long time and still there is no winner. When should one decide that there is no significant difference between two variations and stop the test?


Google Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect

My website URL structure is:               http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/{human-readable-name}      If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL. I've noticed recently that Google has started indexing partial URLs, i.e:               http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/      If I make requests to those indexed URLs, I am 301 redirected to the correct page. Is there a way to force Google to use the 301 redirected URL?


Does Internet Explorer 'timeout'?

Within my website I have a single page that dynamically updates via AJAX / JSON in a plain HTML page. Now this page may be left open for up to three or four days. When I left it running over the weekend the data had frozen, the server was still running perfectly and upon a refresh everything started going again. So my question is **Does Internet Explorer(or even other browsers) 'timeout'?**


Is there value in creating additional backlinks when you're already first on Google?

My site is already ranked #1 in Google for the keywords I care about, but I'd still like to increase traffic. Is there value in trying to create additional backlinks to my site?


Meaning of hack request

We've been logging GET requests on our domain to the following: `XX/YY/ZZ/CI/MGPGHGPGPFGHCDPFGGHGFHBGCHEGPFHHGG` Is this a known kind of attack? What might it be targeting?


Kunena forum permissions problem

I am using a Kunena forum, and I have made some pages accessible only for a new group made by me named "Member". The problem is that when I make someone "Member", some of them can see the pages and some cannot. I have no idea what's the problem because I use the same mode to make all of them "Member".


Undefined 404's not logging

Our custom 404 page sends us Emails to notify us of broken links. We've been lately getting emails with such a missing page: `http://domain.com/undefined` However, no log entries (IIS) exist on that time with such a request. Further - no log entries exist with the requesting IP (also sent in the email). What can this mean?


Control over the Internet Archive besides just "Disallow /"?

Are there any mechanisms to control what the Internet Archive archives on a site? I know to disallow all pages I could add:               User-agent: ia_archiver     Disallow: /        1. Can I tell the bot that I want them to crawl my site once a month, or once a year?   2. I have a site/pages that doesn't/don't get archived correctly because of assets not picked up. Is there a way to tell the Internet Archive bot what assets it needs if it's going to grab the site?


Do sites in subfolders affect the ranking of the main domain?

Does putting an unrelated site in a domain's subfolder (to avoid buying a new domain name) affect the domain's search engine ranking even if there are no links between them? For example, is it a bad practice will placing a cooking site at `programming.com/cooking` affect the search engine ranking of `programming.com`?


Online advertising program where publishers (site owners) can choose ads?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Self ads targeting I'm wondering what online advertising programs there are out there where the site owner can chose which relevant ads to put on particular pages from a large selection of possible ads. Is there such a thing? (As opposed to adsense style 'auto-relevance' which often produces poor results)


no follow in a form action

Imagine i have a page on my website that i don't want to be followed by robots. So i put a "rel='nofollow'" on every link to that page. Now imagine i have a form on another page which action is a link to that page. I heard that SEs try to post form. If it is true, they will reach a page that i don't want to be indexed. Am i falling into paranoia ? Do SEs really try to post forms ? Thanks in advance Guillaume


DOwnload file from IIS7 server with # in file name

I'm running IIS 7 web server and getting an error 404 when trying to download a file with a `#` symbol anywhere in the file name. http://www.server.com/files/my#filename.doc <-- does not download leads to 404 error. If I remove the `#` symbol it works fine. Can anyone suggest why this is happening and if there's a workaround? Thanks


Will using all the Google web tools boost trust of a website or help SEO?

I have using a single Google account and using that I created Google webmasters account so my website uses single User account access all the service provided by The google like adwords, adsense,webtools, google Map etc. Will this increases trust of my website?


PHP accessible shared content between two websites on the same VPS on different domains/IPs

I have two ecommerce websites, selling music digital downloads, on the same VPS, currently using cPanel/WHM (but thinking of switching to Virtualmin). They have separate domains and IPs of course. They both share from the same set of music files, so I have duplicate copies in each website directory, which takes up a lot of disk space. How might I go about sharing the same set of music files across both sites, allowing PHP access, so that it does not break my shopping cart's functionality of serving customers the downloads after they have paid for them? I thought of maybe using symlinks or something, but I don't know if it's possible, or if it would have to somehow circumvent built-in security features of the server. I'm new to VPS management.


How can the Google Analytics "Screen Colors" metric be remotely accurate?

This metric has been around a long time in GA, but only today have I realized I don't think it's possible for it to be useful. Is there some way for GA to tell what monitor a user has? As far as I know, they can only tell what the system color is set to. The reason this is an issue is that nearly all of the cheap LCD panels sold are only 6bits per pixel. http://compreviews.about.com/od/multimedia/a/LCDColor.htm http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/6bit_8bit.htm It seems like the majority of users should show up as 6bit (18bit combined, 24bit if you count alpha) color. Instead, looking at some high traffic sites, 32bit is the vast majority. Is there some way this GA metric can be accurate?


When do videos appear in google's web search results?

Sometimes videos appear in google's web search results (and not only in Google Videos).   * For a video to appear in the web search results, does it have to appear in Google Videos first?    * Does each and every video that appears in Google Videos has a chance to appear in google's web search results (given that the video is very relevant to the query, more relevant than all the other videos)? Please note: I'm not asking about video sitemaps or mRSS. I'm just asking when do videos appear in google's web search results compared to when do videos appear in Google Videos.


Multiple domains with one host - SEO point of view

Lets say I currently own the `mycompanyname.com` domain. After some time, I found that it's very hard to rank at the top of the SERPs. After searching, I find there is domain that matches one of my keywords. I built the website in two language and I'm able to assign each language different URLs. Will that impact with SEO? There will be a load of duplicated content between those domain (image video etc). I'm afraid one of my website will have marked as plagiarist because much of the content will be the same.


Using SSL Certificates with shared hosting/different domain provider

I need to add a HTTPS address to an existing domain. Unfortunately there two companies involved: One for shared web-hosting, and one for the domain. How do SSL Certificated domains work in such instances? Does the company who hosts the domain issue the SSL Certificate? Or is it the web-hosting company that the domain points to? Additionally, are they usually considered separate to their normal HTTP counterparts, with me needing to update their name servers manually (and transfer to the new hosting)? Or are they part of the same domain, and so I won't need to do anything?


How an offline main domain can influence traffic on an active sub domain

The website(s) design is for a company active in 3 different areas. As an example lets use the following structure:                                   www.example.com      [sub1.example.com] [sub2.example.com] [sub3.example.com]       `sub2.example.com` and `sub3.example.com` are ready to go live but `www.example.com` really isn't and send a 503 HTTP error code. I would like to know if this situation will affect the traffic and ranking of the subdomains ready to go live? Is it preferable to wait and go live with the main domain? Or there is nothing to "fear" and one doesn't affect the other? Thank you


Google redirected blog no longer getting found easily

I found to my surprise that when I published a new post on my blog (hosted by Googles blogspot.com) and then searched for the title in Google Search it would show up as one of the top hits almost immediately. But now I have the post redirecting to my own subdomain, and even though behind the scenes it is still hosted by Google the blog is not coming up in the search results, although a link to the page from my GooglePlus account is coming up (but this is not as good for me as an actual link to the blog itself)


What is the folder picture_library on my Plesk panel on a site hosted at GoDaddy

I have my website hosted with godaddy. It's not even a month since I hosted with them.( _actually, the site itself isn't older than a month_ ) When, I logged in to my Parallels Plesk, I saw a folder named **picture_library** I tried to see what's inside that, but there was nothing. It came back even after I deleted it twice.   1. I didn't create a folder with that name, so its not in my code.   2. I didn't think my website, ( _which is not even a month old_ ) will attract hackers :)   3. There's little possibility of virus or something because, GoDaddy is the Market Leaders and I don't think that their servers will be vulnerable to such attacks. My Actual Question: Is it a virus or hacker and how to disable it?


Why do characters display funny in <input type="password">?

I have the following HTML and css               <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">     <head>     <style type="text/css">     #test     {        font-family:helvetica;        color:#000;        font-size:10px;     }     </style>     </head>     <body>     <input type="password" id="test" name="pass" size="30" max="100">     </body>     </html>      When I open it up in Firefox and enter some chars as expected bullets are displayed, however if I open it in IE 7 or 8 ugly little squares show up. If I comment out the font-family line in the style definition then both IE and Firefox properly display the bullets. My question is not how can I work around this, (I know i can just use a diff font-family or just not specify one) but what is causing IE to not properly display the bullets when the font-family is set to Helvitica?


add stock intro and outro to a set of .mp3's?

If I have a bunch of existing podcast mp3's, with no intro and outro, can I do something simple to add a stock intro and outro (supplied as .mp3's) to each podcast?


Using GoDaddy email AND Google Apps

We have 8 people that need emails addresses in our company. 3 need email only, while 5 need emails and the features from Google Apps. We would like to continue to host email for the 3 on GoDaddy, while using Google Apps for the 5. When we insert the MX records in GoDaddy, the 3 no longer could send/receive email, since we were redirecting email to Google. How can we redirect email to these 3 employees through GoDaddy, while keeping the 5 on Google Apps?


Creating an SSL Certificate

I have a barracuda SSL VPN. I also have a website hosted on winhost.com. On my website, I have a link to login to my VPN. I always get the "untrusted certificate" message. It says its untrusted because the certificate is not signed. This leads me to believe there is a certificate there, it just isn't set up correctly. Can I make my own SSL Certificate for the barracuda VPN, or do I have to buy one? Does barracuda provide a certificate for me? Could I call them up and get them to give me a certificate? I have dabbled in web design/programming a bit, but I know NOTHING about these SSL Certificates other than what I've researched this morning. If I can make my own, how do I go about doing that? Thanks


Is tos.html some kind of standard Terms of service filename?

I periodically check my log of 404 errors on my site, and aside of most curious hack attempts I often encounter requests for files that are some kind of standard on a specific platform (apple-touch- icon-`SIZE`x`SIZE`-precomposed.png is one of them). And I have just found failed request for tos.html. When I searched it on google, it automatically searched for key "Terms of service", which has led to many terms of service pages, but no information about this kind of filename. I'm quite curious if there's a word for files that should be on the site (index.php, favicon.ico, robots.txt - I couldn't find any relevant tag for this question)


Can Google track the referring URL from their Google Maps URL Scheme on Android and iOS devices?

If you click on a Google Maps URL link (`comgooglemaps://`) on a website in Safari or Chrome on an Android or iOS device that opens up the native Google Maps App, can/does Google track the referring website that you clicked the link on? For example: if you clicked on `comgooglemaps://?q=Pizza&center=37.759748,-122.427135` from `webmasters.stackexchange.com` in Chrome or Safari on iOS or Android, this takes you to the Google Maps native app. Can Google track the referring site (`webmasters.stackexchange.com`)? If yes, do they?


How can I know if my site is down?

I would like to be alerted if my site is down (for example have an email sent to me). The site is written in asp .net it is deployed on a dedicated server, windows 2008 with IIS 7


Where can I find Mambo 3 downloads / documentation?

Does anyone know where I could find copies of the Mambo 3.0.x distributions, manuals and (ideally) instructions for upgrading to Mambo 4.x or Joomla? I have an old site implemented in Mambo 3 that needs to be upgraded. It doesn't work with PHP 5 without hacks that compromise PHP security, and the site admin and navigation menus are broken for "modern" browsers; e.g. IE6 and later.


Is there any reason to still use a standard shared web host?

There are a few PAAS providers that now provide a free tier of service and cheap prices afterwards. Some, such as AppFog and OpenShift, also offer easy installations of common web apps such as Wordpress. Is there any reason to still use a standard web host for hosting things like PHP scripts or Ruby on Rails apps?


How to handle browser-compatibility check for your website

Whenever I redesign a website, I spend a lot of time manually checking whether the new website is still supported on all major browsers by opening the website on the corresponding browser. What is a time-efficient way of testing cross browser compatibility?


What did I do wrong when buying my domain through Google Apps?

Several times in the past I've bought a domain through Google Apps, and every year Google automatically renews the domain for $10. Somehow when I did this today, I ended up additionally being signed up for an annual Google Apps for Business plan at $12/license/yr. I don't need this; I'm only one user. I'd like to cancel this $12/yr Google Apps plan without cancelling the automatical $10/yr domain renewal. However, there is no "cancel" or "downgrade" link, apparently (according to the help docs) because I have an annual pre-paid account. If I choose not to auto-renew my annual account, it also declines auto-renewal of my domain. How can I make this domain just like my others -- auto-renewed at $10/yr, with a free Google Apps account in front of it?


Browser compatibility with external links to icecast streams

My website is offering a list of links to radio stations streaming audio content hosted on other servers. Many of the audio streams are based on _icecast_ servers There is a big question on what is the better way to link to the streaming audio. The following options are considered:   * many icecast servers (not all) offer .m3u files. This works in most cases, but not all, particularly on old windows machines, where no player is linked to this type of files   * linking directly to the streaming content (direct link example): this gives the worst results, because the browsers do not handle the audio as a streaming, but they start downloading endlessly the audio.   * create a .pls file (pls example) This has a better effect. I also set the MIME type to be correct. But I still got reports from people, particularly using Firefox on Windows 8, that the file gets downloaded but does not start playing Do you have a better experience on how to link to external streaming content? Any reports on the best way to achieve maximum compatibility with browsers and systems?


How to evaluate a web developer?

I want to hire someone to set up a website. What do I ask to determine competence and integrity of the individual? Is there a chart of reasonable charges/costs? How do I know if I am being over-charged?


Google Translate: tracking the foreign language in web page

How do I track where the language is coming from? If I'm building a website, and I end up putting together plugins, I'd like to know where the foreign language is coming from? When I'm testing my page, I'm getting Google Translate.


How does Wikipedia's SEO work?

I'm currently developing an app for Android and iOS and of course I'm thinking about the best ways to market it. Last night I Googled somebody else's app and the third link in was a Wikipedia page on it. I never even thought of apps having Wikipedia pages, but alas there it was. And of course it was very helpful in determining exactly what the app did and in what cases it was useful for (something that's absolutely crucial for potential customers to understand). So then I got to thinking that I should create a Wiki for my app, but how does Wikipedia apply SEO? I know that the question could be overly complicated or specific, I'm just looking for general answers. For instance when somebody Googles my app, where does Wikipedia display on the results? When I create a Wiki for my app, how do I ensure that the Wikipedia page shows in the search results (is there any way to do that? ) I'm sure I'll find all of this out later when I create a Wiki for my app, I guess I'm just asking this out of curiosity. So how does Wikipedia's search engine optimization work? (on a page by page basis)


Googlebot can't access my site

For some reason, Google Webmaster Tools started showing all these errors while crawling my site, saying that it couldn't reach my pages. I checked my robots.txt everything checks out, so I'm not sure what's wrong.


Funnel Visualisation not showing drop out in steps

I have a site where users will follow this path (hopefully): `mysite.com/entity`   `mysite.com/entity/pay`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/details`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/confirmation`   `mysite.com/entity/pay/payment`   `mysite.com/entity/paymentsuccessful?lotsofuniquestuff`   The `entity` section could be any one of a multitude of entries, but once the user is on a journey it will stay consistent. I have a goal set up for this as a regular expression, with the match being `.*PaymentSuccessful.*`. This detects goal successes perfectly (as checked with data stored by the site directly). I have set the following steps within the goal:               /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/details     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/confirmation     /[a-zA-Z0-9]+/pay/payment      My funnel detects entry into the funnel (e.g. 47 users) of which say 10 complete the funnel. However, all drop offs are after the first step, even though the exist page is listed as the second step! My data also suggests users are getting further in the funnel before failing to reach the goal. What have I done wrong?


Why Google asks for "Title" for MIME type "image/*" in Google Webmasters?

In my Google Webmasters account, in **Optimization** section, under **HTML improvements** I see that Google has indexed more than 100 links complaining that these links has no **Title** associated with them ( _Missing title tags_ ). However, these links all result in thumbnails of images and they are served as MIME type (Internet Media Type) of "image/png", or "image/jpg", etc. What's wrong here? How should I tell Google that an image can't have a title tag? Note: An example link can be see here.