Securing/running a server

I have recently moved from a shared hosting account at hostgator to the rackspace cloud. I have never utilized a server directly before, so have found it somewhat hard to setup the server for my purposes. I have finally got there, and got ftp, phpmyadmin etc setup such that it essentially works the same way that my previous shared hosting account worked. I am developing some websites for a commercial release, and I expect they will grow quite quickly. Given this I want to mae sure my server is secure, and fully understand my requirements and how/when they need to be upgraded and why. For example I am hosting the database on the same instance as my files.. is this correct? Essentially I am looking for some guidance on where i can develop my knowledge to a sufficient level that i can manage my servers.. given that programming is really my area.. Thanks


Site violates Google's quality guidelines - Can't figure out why

I am at a loss! Our website has been delisted due to "Site violates Google's quality guidelines" and "We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines. Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank.". After months of cleaning up backlinks and jumping through hoops, we re- submitted and have yet again been knocked back. HOW can I identify which links Google is penalising us for? Is there some sort of tool that can provide hints as to which links I should review?


Force www. on multi domain site and retain http or https

I am using CakePHP which already contains an `.htaccess` file that looks like:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>        RewriteEngine on        RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]        RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]     </IfModule>      I want to force `www.` (unless it is a subdomain) to avoid duplicate content penalties. It needs to retain `http` or `https` Also This application will have multiple domains pointing to it. So the code needs to be able to work with any domain.


HTML5 article tag application for the iPad/iPhone

I've used article tags on websites. My understanding and practice is to use the article tag for publication content. I always use HTML/HTML5 tags as their intended purposes and not at will. Recently, I've seen an HTML template that uses the article tag for the non- publication page content such as the content of an About Us page or any other generic page. I asked the why it was used this way and the (vague) explanation was that it had to do with the way the iPad read the tag. Is this true?


Software with a blog, CMS and a forum all-in-one?

Requirements:   * PHP (5+ Preferably)   * MySQL (5+ Preferably)   * Apache (2+ Preferably)


Cost of using SSL

I am wondering on the cost of using SSL sitewide. It would be for a standard LAMP site. I know that this will be dependent on the many factors but, can some give me an 'average' or 'guesstimate!'. By cost I mean server load. So in a super simple average scenario if: x = w/o SSL y = With SSL an estimate on y in terms of x?


Robots.txt and sitemaps

If i where to block a web page, say 404Error.aspx, in robots,txt (i see no reason for this page to be indexed by google). However, do i still include this page in the xml sitemap or not? Edit: If i wanted my page to be indexed (google follows the links in it), but not show up in search results, should i remove robots.txt and use the robots meta tag with "noindex" ?


Looking for a package allowing user-entered profiles

Title was a little hard to work, but take this as an example. User goes to site, creates account, and then has his/her own profile to edit. Let's say the profile includes height, weight, sex, eye color, etc.. I've really only used wordpress before, but I'm sure something else would cater to this better. The entire site is focused around a person having their own profile page with the info they supply. Thanks!


detailed access statistics for audio files

We have an external hosting company for our video files. They provide us with detailed access statistics e.g. The duration how long how many people have seen a specific video. This is quite interesting because you can see how interesting a topic was or how fast people have switched off the video. Unfortunately they do only video hosting and not the hosting of audio files. With the limited bandwidth need for audio we could also host it on our own servers. But there is by far not that good access statistic like we have for video. I have googled quite a lot but did not find anything similar to what I saw about the video access statistics. Of course when I just provide a link to the mp3 file I can see only one line in my apache log file. Are there other solutions e.g. with a dedicated player that sends back some feedback about each second/10 seconds/minute that the user was listening to? Or any other idea? Am I right with my question at this Site "Pro Webmasters"? Thanks for any kind of feedback to this topic. I highly appreciate it.


Set expiry date for image or resource

How do I set expiry date for an image? Is this a server side operation or can it be done as an html tag attribute? What if I only want to set different expiry dates for different images/resources?


How do VMs in the Cloud work?

I have been exploring moving some of my high traffic sites to the HPCloud over the past few days. While I have a general grasp of the idea behind a VM in the cloud there are things that are not quite clear to me. Here for instance is one thing I find myself wondering about: If I host a site on a server in the cloud do I have an automatic guarantee that attempts to access that site will be served up from an instance of the VM in the geographic vicinity - with one being spun up if none is deemed to be "nearby"? If the answer is "yes" then the next question that follows is - will the cloud infrastructure also deal with the process of running PHP scripts on each VM instance? And now about databases - will it be up to me to ensure that I connect to a fixed instance of the database server (mySQL in my case) or is it better to rely on one of the "cloud database" offerings that appear to make this process transparent. I suspect that my questions are perhaps a bit naive - I don't know much about hosting in the cloud.


Website Not Cached by Google Since 1 and Half Months

My website `www.rushinformation.com` is not being cached by Google since 1 April 2013 but pages are getting indexed. My robots.txt file is fine. So please tell me what could be the reason for this and how should I fix this issue? Does it affect my website rankings in the future???


How do I categorize my website (domain)?

I recently purchased a domain and created the website. I found that this belongs to "None" category and so found blocked in cyberoam firewall. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2xhVO.png) I tried with all possible meta tags at index.html. But any content from this domain is blocked (otherwise can say categorized NONE). The image's url is also blocked * * * In Godaddy I can find only "Auto-Renew, Lock, Nameservers, Forwarding, Premium DNS, DS Records, Host Names, Authorization Code" features to customize. And Some Upgrade features like "Privacy, Domain Ownership Protection, Certified Domain , Premium Listing, CashParking, GoDaddy Auctions, SSL Certificate, Business Registration, Domain Appraisal". Please help me where / how to categorize my domain as "Personal"? Is anything needs to be changed in robots.txt?


Is there a way to retrieve a FTP/cPanel accounts password using WHM?

I know you can reset an accounts password with WHM, but does any one know a way to retrieve an existing one?


Robots.txt on one line

Can I combine robots.txt rules on one line, separated by whitespace? Will this work?               User-agent: *  Disallow: /


Using list vs div for gallery like items display

I'm making a webpage for the company i'm working in, and I've been tasked with creating two display for items in content (it's a search result display page): Gallery and List. The thing is that I've used divs, but seen in Google images that they're using unordered list for displaying results. I'd like to know if there's any advantage of using list instead of divs like I did. Thanks a lot. Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/USX34/ Expand the HTML result so you can see clearer. Thanks a lot. PS: I have posted question here but I'm not certainly sure that it's the right place, but I think it will be closed if posted i


How does Popup dialog affects the Bounce Rate?

Suppose a user lands on a particular page on your website from Search results and as soon as he lands he is shown a link which opens a modal dialog box or some window popup(formed from another url of the same website where user landed from search engine) and he clicks on the link. Will this cause an increase in bounce rate. What i mean to ask is if Google sees bounce rate as rate of users left from the landing page to some other website or it even considers the users going to other page of the same website ?


If H1 tags are not used for page titles, what is the impact on SEO?

I'm wondering what kind of effect will be witnessed on SEO if, say, a `div` was used rather than an `h1` tag for page titles. I imagine it would be very frustrating for screen readers and wouldn't give crawlers any guidance as to what the page is about, but I'd like to know exactly how negative this is.


Is static HTML the fastest?

I have been researching several different techniques to deliver web content fast, like nginx and node.js. When it comes down to performance optimization http expires headers and gzip come to mind. After that come common techniques like sprites and CDNs etc. But I am wondering. What would be the very fastest technique to load a website? Is static html the very fastest that can be? Or is there something else even faster?


Accept Credit Cards / PayPal on Website for Delayed Processing

I'm trying to setup a basic system on my site to accept credit cards for delayed processing. What I will be doing is collecting a bunch of orders/credit cards for a group of people, then after a certain period I will need to process those cards and make the charge. This is so that a group of people can individually place their order knowing that their card will be processed in X number of days once everyone has placed their order from the group. My question is what would be the best way to go about doing this? I want to ensure I am accepting Visa/Master Card/American Express and possibly Discover Card. Also, with this system would it be possible to accept Pay Pal information so that I could then process that instead of a credit card for their Pay Pal account? Also, what is the best way to store these credit cards. Obviously a secure DB and a page that uses SSL for submitting their order, but what all do I need to accept? Obviously card number, CVV, Expiration Month, Expiration Year, can this all be normalized in a database. And what would you recommend for encrypting/decrypting these cards? I will need to decrypt them for processing later on. Any advice on any of my questions would be great.


Why is a domain transfer taking "days" of time?

1. What exactly is happening during a domain transfer? - what is the underlying mechanism   2. In how many places the information is updated?


Why would a php file return 404 while in the bin directory on IIS7?

I'm running IIS7 and I have fastCGI installed and php code works just fine normally. Today I added a php file that contained only code an no html markup to the bin directory. And when I try to access it via http, i get a 404 back. I've verified the file is on the server, and I've verified that the problem goes away if I move the file out of the bin directory. My question is why does the bin directory hide php files? (and html files too, incidentally.) Is it some IIS security precaution? thanks.


SEO perspective on non existent directory base in URL?

I'm wondering if there will be any SEO/readability/memorability benefit to using this kind of URL structure for my upcoming project: `www.moviereviews.com/movie/name`? Considering that `/movie` is not a real directory. So that page doesn't exist. Something similar to wordpress `/category/` base that is used purely for content separation on the site. What do you think? For user it will be beneficial, if domain doesn't signal what content is about my extra dir will tell what it is about. Correct? But from SEO perspective?


Server log what does "ho=<something>" mean?

I have got a Joomla site that got hacked and I am looking at the server logs and I see something like: > GET /bind.php > ho=mx01.1and1.es&po=25&ma=cristina%40bpmlighting.com&lo=cristina&pa=cristbpm2013&mt=johnkarpan%40yahoo.com&fn=Dr.+Sue+Metts&or=docswgacm&eh=bpmlighting.com&sd=95.141.32.169%2Fstat1&sh=&sp=&sl=&sc=&rt=5&ch=utf-8&cm=1&ht=1&at=&su=%E1%BD%92%E1%BF%97%E1%BE%8C%C4%9E%E2%84%9C%E1%BE%8C+%D0%85%E1%BE%8C%E2%86%B3%C4%98&bo=%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fpaowcx.coolebrity.com%2Fod5ba77.html%22%3E%E1%B9%BE%E1%B8%AE%E1%BE%B7%C4%9D%C9%BC%E1%BE%B7+%C5%A1%E1%BE%B7%E2%8C%8A%E1%BC%9C%3C%2Fa%3E > 80 - 95.141.32.169 HTTP/1.0 - - - mywebsite.com 500 0 64 0 544 308 I guess that is a hit on `bind.php` - I am not sure what the "ho=" stands for. Can anyone clarify?


mod_rewrite with .htaccess to make dynamic page search engine friendly

I am trying to make search engine friendly pages with _.htaccess_. The page look like `/en/hotel.php?id=nice-hotel-7-patterson-street` and I would like the page to look like this `/en/nice-hotel-7-patterson-street` or `/en/hotel-nice-hotel-7-patterson-street`. I am using this in my _.htaccess_ file at the moment:               RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-([0-9]+)$          hotel.php?id=$2 [L]      but it does not seem to work in the `/en/` folder and does not seem to work if letters are in the variable.


Replacing the 404 Page Not Found error page

I am new to managing websites and just set up a personal website for myself. I had like to replace `404 Not Found Error` page, in the same way many websites do it. How do I go about it?


Is <span> inside <h1> the same as just <h1> for search engines?

Are search engines still able to recognize the below as `<h1>` text, even with the other tags inside?
AppStrap.


Robots.txt Disallow command

How do I use _robots.txt_ to disallow folders which are being crawled due to a bad URL structure? They're currently causing a duplicate page error. The URL which been crawled incorrectly is:               www.abc.com/forum/index.php?option=com_forum      However, The correct page is:               www.abc.com/index.php?option=com_forum      Is _robots.txt_ a correct way of excluding this? I'm thinking about using:               Disallow: /forum/      Will that not block legitimate content in the `/forum/` folder of my site?


How to disable application pool timeout on IIS7?

On IIS6, there is a checkbox for this. On IIS7 there isn't. When the App Pool reaches its idle time, it stops. The restart is automatic, when the app is used again, however it takes 1-4 seconds to start up. This is not desirable, nor it is necessary.


Status of Crawlable Ajax?

I saw that Google had a nice proposal/standard for making Ajax applications crawlable, via #! (hash bang). http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-for-making-ajax- crawlable.html My questions are:   * Are they currently using this "proposal" in the real world already?   * Are other search engines -- Bing specifically, also using or planning on using it?


Increase development speed for .NET website

I am curious to know that how we can make web site development much faster. I am specific about asp.net. As far as my knowledge is concern, we can make asp.net website development faster by Using Log4Net - to capture logging information Entity framework - to increase database operation speed. So, is there other tools also which we can use to optimize the development process? If you have used in any of your project, whether it was a small project or large.


Can you use Google's Mobile Analytics API for non-mobile sites?

While doing research for one of my company's mobile sites, I discovered that Google has provided an entire **serverside** API for mobile analytics. Meaning that it doesn't require javascript and that the tracking is done immediately, because the pagetracker .gif URI is constructed on your server and called straightaway from Google. My question is, What prevents me from using this across my ENTIRE site, mobile AND desktop?


Bandwidth heavy site... use co-location?

I'm working on a web site that is likely to be very bandwidth-heavy. A major feature of the site when in active use can pull up to 1Mbps for a single session. Luckily, once users get over the new toy factor, the use of this feature will probably be 1-5% or less (probably much less) of session time. However, new users are likely to play with this feature a good bit, especially at launch. I'm very concerned about bandwidth use. This is more or less a niche market, so I won't ever be needing to scale to crazy levels like YouTube. However, it is entirely possible for it to be a couple terabytes/month. Is co-location my best option? What cheap bandwidth services (colocation/hosted/cloud/whatever) are out there?


Google AdWords have flagged my site as containing malware

However, there Webmaster Tools does not - and never has. And we have never had a message via Webmaster Tools or Analytics that we have malware. To quote Google: > [The Malware Team] have looked at the most recent scan and have found that > your site is not actually clean. You are using a redirect on your landing > page which is the site that is causing the problem. And then I am advised to: > Check your site request logs to find the bad domain and resolve the issue. What should I look for in my request logs, has anyone else experienced a similar situation? Obviously as far as I am aware we have no malware, we had a couple of redirects in htaccess but they were not on landing/homepage and have were just normal redirects that have not caused a problem elsewhere (and are now removed). It's a WordPress site.


Broken URL Finder?

Is there a broken-URL finder application that I could use to scan a website for broken links? (A Mac application would be better.)


How to see how much 2 segments overlap in Google Analytics?

I want to see the amount of traffic that is in both "Segment A" and "Segment B". Can I do that in Google Analytics?


What does “Multiply keyword lists to get new keyword ideas” do in the new keyword planner tool?

Does any body know? What does "Multiply keyword lists to get new keyword ideas" do in the new keyword planner tool? Please see the attachment. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/if6sL.png)


optimize htaccess

I have two condition which are conflict               RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$  subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC] and     RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$  specilitydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC]      How do I set condition for that? I am doing:               RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/radiationoncology\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatricsurgery\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/generalsurgery\.html$ [OR]           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/neurosurgery\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/neurology\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatrics\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatriccardiology\.html$ [OR]        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatriccardiacanaesthesiology\.html$ [OR]             RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/paediatriccardiovascularthoracicsurgery\.html$ [OR]          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/bonemarrowtransplant\.html$ [OR]         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/kidneytransplant\.html$ [OR]           RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/patients/findadoctor/cardiacanaesthesiology\.html$     RewriteRule ^patients/findadoctor/(.*)\.html$ subcategorydoctor.php?id=$1 [L,NC]


SEO (or other) problems with a 404?

I am a member of a writing website called HubPages. We are each given a subdomain on which to write articles and are also given access to Google Webmaster Tools for our subdomain. Upon checking out my stats in Webmaster Tools, I see that Google is running into some 404 errors for two reasons:   * I took down an article   * Google (or someone) got the url totally wrong. I am essentially getting view-only access for webmaster tools (HubPages must have set it up to allow view only so that a user doesn't mess things up) so I can't submit a url removal request to Google. Could this be hurting the SEO for my subdomain? If not, are there other problems that could occur for me or for HubPages by leaving these URLs as is and not submitting a removal request? Should HubPages be submitting url removal requests to Google for dead or incorrect urls?


Does hiding images on 404 error affect SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO (or other) problems with a 404? I have a dynamic website that allows registered users to upload and display images on the their profile page. As each user may upload less than the maximum limit of 20 images, there would be some "empty" images on the page. I am using javascript to hide these empty images. The loading of the profile page would generate a series of 404 errors depending on the number of empty images. Would these 404 errors affect the SEO of the page and the website?


Content change on front page

I am building a blog type website with articles. In one category, new articles will be posted every 2-3 days. I need the last article from that category to be (totally) displayed on the front page with sharing options comments. Once a new article is posted, the old one gets a specific URL and is put in his category. I was wondering the impact it has on SEO to change that article periodically on the front page. As shares made on the featured article will share my home page, will the old articles still benefit from their rank once the URL has changed?


Domain transfer + Microsoft exchange

I have a client who has their domain name registered through Network Solutions and their site hosted at GoDaddy. I checked at GoDaddy and they're not hosting the email accounts, so I asked the client and all they could tell me is they have Exchange. I'm trying to transfer the domain and hosting to a new host, but I don't want to mess up their email addresses at all. Since GoDaddy is not hosting the email and it's through exchange, will I be okay just transferring it, or will I need to do something with exchange to point to the new ip/nameservers/etc?


Panda-struck Diagnosis

I have been reading about the Panda Update going to be on a rollout launch in the year to come. As a webmaster, how do I know for sure that my website has been struck by the Panda update? Does a warning message show up in my GWMT?


SEO optimization by related content search

My case is like this: In a product page there is related products section and we pick products from same category. Simple SQL query , no magic magic Is it any better to execute similar documents query on full text search instead of this? for both user and SEO? eg: lucene/solr or db full text index it would be like wordpress related post plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/ this way related products will contain more common keywords than current product list. I wonder any usage of this kind of related content in a detail page is helpful for SEO? I don't need it for users , but is it worth to do for search engines ? Thanks in advance.


Should I depaginate my webpages? What is the best usability?

My website is mostly a collection of things I've written, ranging from short to long; the very shortest are a large screenful and the very longest are the length of a short book. Most of the longer ones are broken into pages. One Alertbox column said basically that pagination was very common practice, but it's better to have all of one logical page located on that one single page. Basically I wanted to get a usability and other purposes suggestion on whether I should depaginate works so that they are one single page, and redirect the other pages to the combined page. If it's a judgment call, what are the pro's and con's?


Javascript or GET request, what is best for seo?

I small navigation bar (just 2 tabs: "Aluminio lacado" and "Cobre natural") inside one of the sections of a website. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/0XrvD.jpg) I'm wondering if, in this small nav bar, I should create normal links that request the content to the server or just create a javascript code that switch the content. I like more the second option but I don't know what is better thinking in seo, since I would have to set `display:none` to the hidden content... Javi


Mobile site redirection and Google crawlers

I have a HTML website where users can select a product (going through categories/subcategories) and then when they choose the product they can customize it in a Flash application. I would like to redirect users with no Flash Player to a mobile site (which is also HTML) where they will have a smaller range of categories and a non-Flash version of app:               var hasFlash = ((typeof navigator.plugins != "undefined" && typeof navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"] == "object") || (window.ActiveXObject && (new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash")) != false));          if( !hasFlash ){         document.location.href = '/mobile';     }      But I suppose this method will cause Google spiders/crawlers to omit the original HTML website and just index the mobile site (limited categories and less content). Is there any way that I could redirect the users with no Flash to the mobile site, but make the Google crawlers to index the original site?


Is it ok to nofollow all outbound links?

I'm currently adding a nofollow to almost all of my outbound links thinking this will keep the PR inside my domain. Is this a bad approach?


How to write a generic .htaccess file rule, regarding RewriteBase

The following rule in my `.htaccess` works just fine for routing calls to `index.php`:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]      However, this does **not** work when running on a temporary URL like `http://example.com/~test/`. In such a case, the .htaccess file needs to read:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /~test/     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]      Note the extra `RewriteBase`. Question: is it possible to write a rule in .htaccess to "detect" whether to apply that `RewriteBase`? The reason is the .htaccess if version controlled, and I'd like for it to work on multiple installations.


What is "SSL Server-Client Authentication"?

In comparing different SSL certificates I see " **Server-Client Authentication** " listed as a benefit of a paid certificate over a free one. (see it here) But what exactly is this added benefit that basic SSL does not already provide? EDIT: This other link here does NOT answer this my question. In other words, if you search that other question for the term, "Server-Client Authentication", it's not found.


What is the effect of using common colloquial words in page title?

I am wondering what is the effect of using common words while writing a title of webpage. For Example for my home page, I am trying to write an effective title. I worked out on few titles like:   * Starx (Nabin Nepal): Wanna know about me?   * Starx (Nabin Nepal): Software Developer & Designer   * Nabin Nepal, You can call me Starx And now I am wondering if using colloquial words like `wanna` and common terms like `you can call me` is considered good for a title. Could someone clear this concern?


Using .htaccess for proper indexing/SEO of timthumb images

I don't know a whole lot about the intricacies of SEO so I was wondering if someone here could provide some insight to this problem. When you use the php script timthumb on a website, it means images are referenced in the HTML as a PHP script rather than a `jpg`, `png`, etc. After some reading on the net I learned that apparently this is _bad for SEO_ , can someone confirm this? I don't know the details but it was something about the images not being indexed properly. I would definitely appreciate some more education on this issue. I did some research and after looking at a google group discussion this is the solution I came up with to put in my `.htaccess`:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^thumb/([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)/(.*)/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)/(.*) http://xxxxxxxx.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/tireconnection/functions/timthumb.php?src=http://xxxxxxxx.org/wp-content/uploads/$4/$5/$6&h=$2&w=$1&a=$3 [R=301,L]      This means that in the HTML itself, the images are referenced as `.jpg` or `.png` files. However when you visit that `.png` or `.jpg` directly it redirects you to the timthumb script. Can someone tell me if this is a proper solution to the problem? (Assuming there is actually a problem to begin with)


Microdata vs RFDa

I am wondering whether to use Microdata or RFDa to mark information for search engines on my Webapplication. Google supports and has documentation for both. But i was not able to find a summary comparing both formats and giving suggestion on which one to use.


How to find linkless mentions of my website?

Recently I noticed some mentions of my Website, or a whole story but without a link. I was wondering is there a way to search for my brand name and filter for pages which do not link to my website? I am aware of Google alerts and Yahoo Pipes, but it seems those will only work for the future, but not for old mentions.


google not showing indexed pages

problem #1 on my sitemap.xml is my home page.. www.sitename.in.rs, but when i search google using full url, or just a sitename, it doesn't show my website in results at all (45 pages of results, but not my page) problem #2 on a list on indexed pages are all of my posts and pages, but when i search using page/post name only my site is not in results at all, i can only search by typing "site name page/post name", and some pages or posts are found only if i type in search "www.sitename.in.rs page/post name", then my result is first. **on yahoo/bing search my site is first result if i search for full url or just sitename, and if i search for a specific page/post i need to type sitename page/post name** sitemap was created like a month ago.. so, is there any help for me? site url www.pronadjinas.in.rs


What is the ideal user-interaction for full album download as MP3s?

I want to offer a full length album as a free digital download. I can easily throw the MP3 files up on a webserver and put a link to it. I've used this method before and it works ok. Savvy users know what to do with it:   1. Right click each MP3 link and save them to your desktop or downloads folder   2. Drag them all into iTunes and let it copy them into its database   3. Delete the originals My worry is that most users just click them, and their browser loads them and plays them. I want to streamline the user-interaction experience and optimize it for "download the whole album into my iTunes library." Posting the entire thing as a ZIP file is slightly better, but not by much. Does anyone know of examples of other sites that have done this really well? Any other ideas or tips for how to package this? Disk Image? M3U file? Platform-specific scripting?


When did you decide to use a CDN? How did you measure the "success" of using a CDN?

When did you decide to use a Content Delivery Network? How did you measure the "success" of using a CDN to help justify the additional cost? _**Added a bounty.** Hoping to get interesting stories from other folks who had existing sites that changed for the better (or the worse) after migrating to a CDN._


Updating browser window title with Javascript

Can I target the window title with Javascript and have it update based on certain events?


$100 coupon from Google AdWords - how to put it for the best use?

I keep getting this email with $100 coupon from Google AdWords that doesn't explain much what is it for and what can I do with it. Is it something worthy or as usual? What should I do with it?


Livestreaming website

I am looking to implement my own live-streaming feature into a website. What kind of software is there to implement this feature?


How do I setup a filehosting site

I want to start a filehosting and filesharing website like rapidshare.com / mediafire.com. I'm thinking of using hostmonster as my webhost, as they are offering unlimited hosting space and bandwidth. What things I'll have to be concerned with? Any further suggestsions **EDIT:** Just found that, hostmonster doesn't allow such services. What are the alternatives then?


Is there any book or video that explains internals of webhosting?

I always wondered, how to setup webhosts manage the website. I wanted to know all the internals. By internals, I mean   1. How they manage so many(thousands of) websites?    2. How do they setup those? What Hardware & Softwares do they use?   3. What security issues do they deal with?   4. Setting up Cpanel/one click installer/languages etc.   5. ...   6. ... I want to try all these things for myself first on my localhost by hacking hosts file or by setting up a domain server. If there are any blogs/videos where a real webhost is demonstrated, would be great. In short I'm looking for **Setting up and Managing webhosting from beginners to pro**


My Tumblr blog keeps returning "This webpage is not available"

I have a tumblr blog at http://blog.amir.rachum.com/   About 50% of the times I enter it, I get a `This webpage is not available` error. Other stuff I host myself in other subdomains, etc., work perfectly. When I get this error I have to hit refresh several (2-4) times until I get the page.   Any idea what could be causing this and how to fix it?


Are creating websites for backlink blackhat?

**The problem** I have been looking for a reputable company to help a client of mine generate some backlinks. Now I thought everyone these days would try and talk us into **good content** and **competitions** our **users want to share**. Which is **great** , I just needed someone to do run that. But I've found that companies are offering a different strategy in the form of: Creating 100's of average quality websites within the target niche then linking them back to the core site. Using claims of "we have never been caught because we are careful with what websites we create and the rate we create them" I'm fighting that this is a bad idea.. But the client also knows I'm a total hippy when it comes to "keeping Google happy and best practises" in everything I do... and in business sometimes you get a little dirty. **My points has been as follows:** "Looking at this from Googles point of view, if they are seeing this strategy taking off they will target it.. As they do not want 200 “backlink websites” per 1 site in their search results. " **Why here?** The reason to post this here is i'm sturggling to find any good information on this exact strategy.. Lots about old "just getting as many links as you can.." Also lots of things on "Getting good quality links natrally" But not much on "Setting up 100's of 25-40 page rank sites in your niche just to target you with good quality links" **What I need** Does anyone have any good words or articles about this exact strategy and why it isn't viable in the long term? Or am I being a hippy and this is just the "new thing"??


A particular IP address hits our form and submits an empty page every few days. Possible reasons?

We look after a low volume website which has a contact us form which looks like this:               <form method="post" action="http://www.*****.com/cgi-bin/contact.cgi">      Starting a few weeks ago, every few days we receive an empty form submission. No subject, no nothing. They must be bypassing the submit button and hitting the server directly because if I submit even an entirely a empty form (validly, via the browser) I get subject line. Additionally, the form _is_ working because valid forms with genuine customer enquiries are coming through too, one every few days. The IP address is always the same. Checking the IP address all I can see is it's a webhosting outfit in Germany. I _don't_ think it's causing us a problem. But the customer wants to know why it happens. What are the range of possible explanations to tell him?


I need to create view permissions of some extensions and some parts of other extensions for users.   Can Joomla 1.7 ACL control view permission of extensions for users? Thanks


SSL issue and redirects from https to http

I have a site www.example.com for which i purchased SSL cert and installed. And it was working fine, I also have a subdomain with app.example.com which was not on SSL. Both www.example.com and app.example.com are on same IP address. At later we decided to put SSL only on app.exapmle.com and then i configured SSL with app.example.com and it worked fine, Now the issue is that Google is indexing my site as https://www.example.com/ and when users hits the web , Invalid security warning is issued and when user allow security issue they are shown my app.example.com contents. Note: I have my SSL configuration files in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf The contents of the ssl.conf are below. http://pastebin.com/GCWhpQJq NOTE: I tried solutions in .httaccess but none of those worked. Like redirecting 301 redirects etc


Chinese CAPTCHAs

I need to implement a CAPTCHA for a Chinese (Simplified) website. Does anyone know how CAPTCHAs are normally presented on Chinese sites? I have seen some which just display standard decimal numbers but since there's less variation these are not as secure as I'd like. Is it acceptable to use a CAPTCHA containing letters from the standard English alphabet?


Apache: keep track of non-404 errors (e.g., 403, 500, et al)

In cpanel I always have the error log open ("This function will display the last 300 errors for your site.") which is nice for 404's but what about the rest? I'm working on a few things in htaccess, such as this:               RedirectMatch 403 /(\$|\*)/?$      So now when I try any URL with a dollar-sign or an asterisk in it, bam, 403 forbidden; perfect. So I refresh cpanel's error log page, and nothing. It seems to only care about 404's. Incidentally, httpd.conf, which I cannot alter, is setup this way:               CustomLog "logs/access_log" common      The errors I'd like to know how to monitor are: 400, 401, 403, and 500.


How could I manage Google Adsense to approve my Web App? It keeps denying it

Google adsense keeps denying my app from having ads, because of an "insufficient content" issue. I manage a Web Application that allows the users to set Youtube Videos as Alarm Clocks. It includes an in-site Youtube search to retrieve videos from user queries and lists the users alarms. The site has a good traffic (500 users per day), is currently promoted by Google in Google Chrome Webstore, and the ajax requests are crawlable, following Google's guidelines (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax- crawling/). Although I understand there is not much content, beyond the user-generated, I really don't what else should I include in the site. Perhaps adding contact and about pages, and maybe another section would increase the navigation. Google argues I need a **"fully launched and functioning site, allowing users to navigate throughout your site with a menu, sitemap, or appropiate links"**. They also ask for "full sentences or paragraphs" Isn't a Google Adsense solutions for Web Applications? Would all the web-apps have to include useless navigable subpages?


How to create a cloud server based website?

i have bought a domain from go daddy. i have bought a cloud hosting windows 2008 server from rack space. how do i link my domain to my host server and how do i utilize Dreamweaver/fireworks to create the website on the server? any help would be very much appreciated.


Segment subdomains with Google Analytics?

So, when a website has multiple subdomains:               www.example.com     foo.example.com     bar.example.com      What is the best way to use Google Analytics to segment the data? I would prefer have access to 'All Data', 'Data from foo.example.com', and 'Data from bar.example.com'. I tried setting up 3 different views, and setting a filter on the foo/bar views that says:               Include only traffic from the ISP domain that are equal to foo.example.com.      However, I am not seeing any data collected into that View. I do, however, see all data in the 'All Data' view, but I can't figure out how to segment the data. I am including the `analytics.js` in the `application.haml` layout, which is always loaded in this app.


Nginx frontend, Apache backend, and Magento

I've got a Magento installation, which works perfectly from a customer's point of view. However, when you try and do batch tasks with the admin, Nginx often closes the connection to the browser early, causing an "empty reply from server" error in the browser. The backend task still goes on inside Apache until it completes. PHP is configured with Magento's default max_execution_timeout of 18000 seconds. I found an article that kind of related to this, and suggested using the "send_timeout" directive in Nginx's config. So I set that to the same as max_execution_time of 18000 seconds. Then I created a PHP script which simply sleeps for 65 seconds (it seems to timeout at 60 seconds). It's not just the browser that's got the issue. I get: > curl: (52) Empty reply from server from cURL as well. I don't have any other obscure Nginx config rules in the HTTP directive. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here, and how to go about stopping this from happening? I'm getting a bit lost.


Is eCPMs dropping by about 50% in January a usual behavior on Google AdSense?

So I just got semi-serious about running some AdSense sites over the past 6 months and the eCPM's have hovered between 1.38 and 1.42 [yes it's that close] when I look at the eCPM for each month. Obviously some deviation day to day but pretty damn close to a buck forty in aggregate. So far for January I am sitting at 0.80 for an eCPM. I know it's not a huge sample size but the daily pageviews are fairly consistent [actually a bit higher] than where they were in December. I am trying to justify this by thinking that somehow a lot of ad buyers buy inventory for the year and have to get setup to do another big buy now that it's a new calendar year but that thought isn't close to comforting. Is this happening to anyone else? **EDIT:** I run a lot of websites and the ratios of pageviews are about the same this month to last month but just to be clear the eCPM I posted is for >20 websites in a variety of niches, it doesn't accurately depict any one domain.


How does a plus one on a post carrying a link, help for SEO?

How does a `+1` on a post (from Google Plus) that carries a link help for SEO? Will it help the PageRank in Google? If yes, how?


I am looking for a developers friendly, simple credit card processing service for a business outside of the US. Any recommendations?

We are located in Israel and suppose to receive payments from all over the world, but mostly from North America and Western Europe. Can one recommend a developer friendly, reliable and simple service which I can use? (hint: PayPal is a wrong answer!) I wish Stripe were serving customers outside of US, but this is not the case yet.


Domain redirects to cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

I have recently moved my domain to new hosting. Now when I try to access my site (`example.com`) it is being redirected to `http://example.com/cgi- sys/defaultwebpage.cgi` If I use the domain name with a dot at the end, the website loads normally. I do not have any redirection configured, so what might be causing this?


DNS and Whois problem

I have encountered a problem or atleast that's what I think, I have recently started an ec2 instance and I changed my A records at Godaddy to point to my new elastic ip and it worked fine and then I signed up to Route 53 and changed the name servers at Godaddy and imported the DNS zone file to Route 53 and it all worked fine, but for some reason when I do whois search for my domain I get Godaddy's ip address, but my site loads fine. Here is the link for whois records: http://goo.gl/a3z0MI The reason this question aries in my mind is because I have seen other site's whois with ec2 and route 53 and they seem to be normal here is the example: http://goo.gl/lPE8OY Thanks in advance Ankit Yadav


How can I add meta tag for multi-lingual website?

Currently I m using               <meta name="keywords" lang="en" content="..."/>     <meta name="description" lang="en" content="..."/>      for meta lang declaration. But my website is multilingual. Now how can I change this meta tag to support multilingual meta lang tag?


Does Google News index HTML5 websites?

Does anyone know if Google News properly indexes HTML5 websites? For example, since HTML5 allows for to have an h1 tag (instead of having it where the heading tags are done downward, i.e. the article gets h1, a sub section would get h2, the sidebar navigation gets h3, etc.), if I had the tag have an h1, would Google News get confused or do they already support and would notice the h1 and index as they normally do for an HTML4/XHTML page?


How quickly does Bing index URLs submitted through Webmaster Tools?

In Bing's Webmaster Tools, there is a Submit URLs page that allows you to "Submit URLs that are currently not in the Bing index or that should be reindexed due to recent changes." Does anyone know how long it takes Bing to index pages submitted here? I submitted several pages yesterday; Some are listed in Bing (they have been live for a week so may have already been indexed) but most are not. I'm not expecting miracles since it's only been ~30 hours; however, I assume they will be indexed through this tool faster than they would be naturally.


How to markup non-human-language text in HTML?

Considering the needs of screen readers, browser spell-checking, search engines, etc. how should non-human-language text be marked up in HTML? Should it be wrapped in a particular tag?   Is there a standard special `lang` attribute for the enclosing tag (eg. `""`)? Note that we may wish to mark up a form input as accepting some sort of non- human-language text. Examples of non-human-language text:   * a short cryptographic hash   * a large block of encrypted data    * proprietary formal notation   * ASCII art


Does Google Search know if your site is mobile?

When a user does a search from their desktop, do Google search results know if any site is mobile aware? Does that affect their placement? What if a site is responsive? Many mobile validators don't recognize responsive sites and give them a fail, when they in fact look great across many screens.


Does Rel=Canonical Pass PR from Links or Just Fix Dup Content

One of the issues with duplicate content is that links can be split across several versions of your page, it was my understanding the a 301 redirect is really the only option for retaining some of the link juice, however, looking at some answers here and on other forums it looks like some people believe the canonical tag will have the same effect as a 301 (in the search engines eyes). Does the canonical tag tell the search engines that the links pointing to duplicate pages should count for the original or does it simply tell them which version of the page you want indexed?


The correct domain for canonical tag

If my site domain is a naked domain (non-WWW). Should the canonical tag for my site be:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://mydomain.com/" />       or               <link rel="canonical" href="http://mydomain.com/" /> ?


Discrepancy in Google Analytics multiple accounts

I am reporting my traffic to 2 different Google Analytics accounts. Using Universal Analytics, I am doing something like:               ga('create', 'UA-XXXX', 'auto');     ga('send', 'pageview');     ga('create', 'UA-YYYY', 'auto', {'name': 'community'});     ga('community.send', 'pageview');      I see data flowing in on both accounts, however I see the numbers don't exactly match. I can see about 16% less page views in the "community". I declare my account only in this one spot. Also after looking at the OS/Browser section and the content drilldown section, I don't see any specific drop anywhere. It seems to be spread across users seemingly randomly. Is this a known issue?


Why is cached page showing after clearing all browser data

I have cleared all browsing data from Chrome as well as pressed Ctrl+F5, but a cached home page is still displayed. My test homepage shows the new page correctly. I am absolutely positive the new page has been uploaded. The same problem occurs in IE11 after pressing Ctrl+F5. I do not want to use meta tags for obvious (bandwidth, slow user browsing, etc.) reasons. Is there anything else I can try? **Notes** This is a Windows server. Although the new page is displaying properly on my laptop, it has not been updated on several other machines I have tried. **Update** My ISP seemed to have fixed the problem last night, but it has recurred. It is as if they restored the old files from a backup. Here is a partial report from Firefox HTPP Headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:54:33 GMT Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Pragma: no-cache x-content-type-options: nosniff X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-FB-Debug: nmuGzYXWYFP/OJF3oT7UTEXBADzlWnIE176a9iLFCjk= X-Firefox-Spdy: 3 Let me know if more of the report is needed.


Do Not Track feature of IE10

One of our clients is getting a bit worried about the new "Do Not Track" feature of Internet Explorer 10. Her site is heavily dependent on php sessions (as I imagine many other sites are). This was what she was reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18288710 I need some clarification, will this affect how sessions (or cookies) work on normal web sites that use the PHP $_SESSION array? Or is it regarding only how advertising works (engadget's article seems to insinuate this)? Can anyone provide a more technical overview (and the ramifications) of PHP- powered websites?


HTML Sitemap URL format

When adding a html sitemap to a site, for SEO purposes should the links it contains be locally referenced or is it better to use the full URL? Eg:

About Us

Environmental Policy

Recruitment

FAQs

      or

About Us

Environmental Policy

Recruitment

FAQs


When do I need a website certificate?

Can someone explain me _when_ I need a web site certificate? I will have a web app that will be used for representing live data. Do I need a certificate for that type of web application? A user will be allowed to enter some new records in the database and make queries. If the answer is yes, then can you provide me with some "cheap" options as this is a new expense for me which I haven't thought of.


Can I test my affiliate ID on a dummy webpage without it being suspended?

I was recently accepted into the Amazon affiliate program, as I'm planning on advertising books I read on my website. Before going live with my website, I would like to:   1. test the whole affiliate program to make sure it's working properly.    2. buy the books I will review and promote on my website under my own affiliate program in order to get some cash back and therefore save money. To do so, I thought about setting up a simple HTML page which will just list the products I will buy before going live. That way I test, get some cash back, and don't expose my website before going live. Can I do this without having my account suspended by Amazon (i.e. won't Amazon think I only applied to the program to get some cash back, will Amazon be happy with receiving affiliate traffic from an almost empty website...)?


Standard way to mention website's developer

I want to know what is the best standard way to mention a website developer's name. I mean is there specific meta tags? In case that customer does not want the designer ads its name in the footer or somewhere in the vieable content.


how to deal with domain names + Intellectual property rights in worldwide?

I have some premium domain names , and I have received many dispute emails, most of them from china, and I am in the middle east. They are mainly talking about Intellectual property rights regarding my domain names. What I should do when I get these kinds of dispute emails?


Google Analytics www 301 causing issues with In-Page Analytics

The closest question I could find to my problem is this one. The similarity is: > I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for > a year. The domain setting in GA is `http://example.com`. The site, however, > will redirect any non-www request, to `www.example.com`, via a typical > .htaccess refinement. We do this to keep the traffic on the load balancers. I don't know the method the original user had in place, but we're doing a 301 on any `no-www` to the `www` equivalent. I believe this has to be somewhat standard. Where I differ from this question is in the error message I receive when trying to load the In-Page Analytics? I'm instead receiving: > Error: The Website in your settings (`http://example.com`), redirects into a > different domain. (`http://www.example.com`). In-Page Analytics currently > works on only one domain. Note that `www.example.com` and `example.com` are > NOT considered to be on the same domain. Also, make sure you're not > redirecting from http:// to https:// or vice versa. I understand what's being explained, it just seems as though this can't be the end-all. I tried updating the Analytics settings, which from day one has been set as "One domain with multiple subdomains", but I don't see any options to change the URL (which is currently set to `http://example.com` and not `http://www.example.com`). I'd prefer not to have to change the URL if that was at all possible, but I can't seem to find any documentation or anything that provide any possible solutions.


Google search show my website only if i search for the link itself

I uploaded my website, then I add it to Google search to be shown in the results, after a while , I searched for my website by using it's name/unique keywords, but nothing was shown even I searched for the name of my website without(`.com`).   I can only see my website when searching for the website itself(like `example.com`).   Also search results only shows the main page. Information about the website: -The website main page redirects to a long URL, for example: openning `example.com` redirects to `example.com/site/catagory/mainCatagory`.  -all links to my website must start with:`example.come/index.php?`. -I added the meta tags for keywords/discription.  -The website has unique contents.


Who is the official registrar of the .com domain name?

I know there are official registrars for some domains (especially 2-digit country domains), so are there registrars for all of them? For example, who is the **official** registrar for `.com`, `.net`, or `.org`?


How do I transfer an SSL certificate to a new server

I have a site running on GoDaddy shared hosting, which is going to be moved over to a VPS. The site has a SSL certificate from GoDaddy. How can I move over the certificate in a seamless way, so that the certificate is there, and all I have to do is change the DNS over?


Random links seo and spam

I built a mini-forum with social features for a client, to promote user registration, i planned to add a box on the forum pages to display pictures with profile links of random registered users. I managed to make this random selection static for a day, i mean the list will be renewed each day and not change on every page refresh. Could this random list of link could be harmful to seo by being considered as some kind of spam?


Are there privacy considerations in using Google web fonts?

I am required to create the design of a website for my institution. I am not a designer or webmaster, and I am very badly informed in this area. I am already a bit stuck in the font selection. The project budget does not allow the purchase of commercial font licences. A quick web search showed that a very convenient way to use free fonts would be to use the Google web font service. Another option would be self-hosting, but as far as I understand, it is 1) somewhat more challenging technically, and 2) more limited, as there are fonts which can be used for free through Google, but their licence does not cover that we redistribute them through hosting. (If this is not true, please correct me). We are an European institution with high requirements for privacy. The web site in question has an area with sensitive data (R&D know-how not yet protected by patents) and we may extend it to also save some personal data of users in the future. So we are very wary of embedding external services. What are the privacy risks connected to the use of the Google web font API? How much access will Google have to our data if we use their font service? Is it feasible to use their fonts if we wish to keep part of our website secured against unauthorized access? Or am I limited to self-hosting open source fonts?


Displaying google analytics data on my website

I sell ad space for my websites directly to the advertisers. I ad page where I want to show Google Analytics information that updates automatically without me having to manually update everyday or every month. Something like this: http://wstats.net/en/website/riverplate.com#stat_trafic I don't want to use embedded or iframed third party services. I know Google has a public API and you can connect it to Google Graph API to to show pretty graphs. There is a tutorial by Google here on how to do it: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/articles/gdataAnalyticsCharts Few problems:   * I don't know much javascript   * The javascript seems to prompt for authentication as opposed to login automatically, from my understanding by reading comments on the code. Does anyone know of any ready made script that does what I am looking for or know how I can fix this code that will allow me to display analytics info without authenticating?


Can I post the same content in my Wordpress site and my Blogspot?

I have been submitting the same content in both of my sites. But the problem is that Google is not recognizing my Wordpress site.


category title and affect on SEO and ranking

We are working on a jobs and skills website (similiar to Skill Pages) and are deciding on categories. Rather than having load of categories like, for example, Builder, Electrician, Carpenter etc, we would like to have one word more general categories. So for example we have House, Computer, Education, Art etc. So a builder would be in category Home and a few others. Will this style negatively effect our SEO and ranking? And if so, should we abandon and go back to traditional categories and sub-categories?


What bug tracking system is this, or is it Drupal?

Can't figure out is this is Drupal, or some other bug tracking system: http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/redesign?issue_tags=drupal.org+redesign+qa Any ideas how to figure it out? Also, in general how do you tell if a site, or part of a site is using Drupal? Thanks!!


SSL Certificate

I've received the email below from Google about my WordPress site and have no idea how to follow the instructions. Any help out there? > Dear Webmaster, The host name of your site, `https://www.example.com/` does > not match any of the "Subject Names" in your SSL certificate, which were: > *.wordpress.com wordpress.com This will cause many web browsers to block > users from accessing your site, or to display a security warning message > when your site is accessed. To correct this problem, please get a new SSL > certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) with a "Subject Name" or > "Subject Alternative DNS Names" that matches your host name. Thanks, The > Google Web-Crawling Team


Where can I find a list of related search terms?

Does Google, Bing, or any of the other major search engines make a list or index of related search terms available?


Server Space / Server Cost

Okay basically, I want to know some details about how much it would cost to buy a web server for what I want to do. The site we're making is going to accept uploads from users. A LOT of uploads. How much is this really going to cost in server space? Videos, Pictures, Audio, everything. And how easy/expensive is it to increase server space/speed to handle all of these concurrent uploads happening. I really have no idea where to start with this, haven't been a webmaster before =/


Wordpress doesn't use domain on anything apart from the home page

I have WordPress installed on a GoDaddy deluxe account. I'm using this account to host multiple sites and just map the domains to the folder: i.e. www.mysite.com/awesome would be www.awesomesite.com. This is transparent to the user. When I setup wordpress I installed it to a folder www.mysite.com/wordpress. I have a domain www.thesite.com mapped to www.mysite.com/wordpress. When I go to www.thesite.com it looks perfect. As soon as I click on a link it switches the domain to www.msite.com/wordpress. Is there a way to change this behavior?


Using Public Key Authentication for websites

I know GitHub uses it for code development (not user authentication for the website though). I saw this article on the idea: http://neverfear.org/blog/view/3/Secure_website_authentication_using_GPG_keys Is there a plugin or some open source code to authenticate users in a CMS (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, Django, etc) with public-private key signatures? Has anyone implemented this type of website authentication before?


HTML comments and SEO

Is there anyway that too many HTML comments in a document can effect SE rankings? Do the spiders ignore all of them?


?Referer links in WordPress site getting indexed

I have a WordPress site which is more content centric. Today, I found that certain URLs are getting indexed in Google Search results. They look like:               http://example.com/page/42/?referer=www.wwwdnal.com      The URL is not returning a 404 error but is displaying same content as in:               http://example.com/page/42/      I checked my entire site and haven't found any such links coming out of my site. How to get rid of these?


PageRank: will links pointing to pages protected by robots.txt still count?

If every single link to a given website www.example.com points to a page in a particular subdirectory (i.e. www.example.com/user/[something]), but that directory is off limits as per robots.txt, i.e.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /user/      because I don't want these pages appearing in google search results, am I shooting myself in the foot in terms of pagerank? Does the incoming "link- juice" still count if the target page is forbidden to Google in my robots.txt?


Unify google sites and my own domain in webmaster tools and google search

Currently my website neolisk.com appears as itself and also as sites.google.com/site/neolisk in webmaster tools. Sometimes it is also an issue when users do Google search - results appear under both domains. Is there any way to tell Google Search and Webmaster Tools that both are the same website, and to reference only neolisk.com?


How do you transfer a domain hosted on WordPress to Media Temple?

WordPress offers this service for $120, but I think that's too much. Is there an easy way to do this besides paying the wordpress guys a bunch of money? I'm just not sure of of all the steps i need to do in order to get my domain moved. This includes moving the domain as well as export and moving my content. Also I'm transfering to Media Template because I want to host other sites as well and I want them in one place.


Unable to update social meta description for home page with WordPress SEO by Yoast

I am using WordPress SEO plugin. It is working fine except an issue with home page. I am unable to give social description for it. I have tried at least 10 times, but after hitting "update", it always shows empty. Please check the debug page for my site on Facebook and the documentation for the WordPress SEO plugin


If I am correct, the content makes the title of a particular page stronger, and in turn the all titles together makes the category stronger, and then the categories makes the domain name stronger to rank higher on the keywords in the particular page, where the content is there. Is this one of the 200 factors of Google for SEO?


What CSS rules are causing extra space in the footer of this blog on blogger?

I am having some problems with the footer on my blog. Take a look at it here. Right above the footer, there is a blank, black space with nothing in it. Above it is the feed url, but it isn't on the black background, it's on the background image of my blog. I code HTML and CSS, so I can apply custom rules, but the system is so complex that I don't know what to change. Any suggestions? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bAY4K.png)


In the website for a mobile app, is it legal to show photos of actual phones?

In most websites that showcase mobile apps, photos of actual phones are shown as an example of what the app looks like. Sometimes, the phone's brand is visible; other times, the device is clearly an iPhone. For example:   * Instagram   * Photobucket My question is: is it legal to display phones like this, or do we need to obtain permission?


Apache2: How to host apps at different ports with SSL?

I'm trying to achieve quite simple task actually. I bind application to a port, I enable SSLEngine at each VirtualHost entry for that port. Everything works beside one thing: if you type url that starts with HTTP://, not HTTPS://, you get the Bad Request error hinting you to use HTTPS:// request scheme. So the real question is how to redirect (302) from `http://sub.domain.tld:4000/` to `https://sub.domain.tld:4000`? Example seen there: http://isil.monsternett.no:8443 Thanks. Edit: Maybe I'm making mistake in core structure? This is what I use:               Listen 4000     NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4000               <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4000>         RewriteEngine On         ...     </VirtualHost>               Listen 4001     NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4001          <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:4001>         RewriteEngine On         ...     </VirtualHost>               Listen N     NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0:N               <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:N>         RewriteEngine On         ...     </VirtualHost>


Mass email service without "watermark"

I have to send large number of emails every month. Is there a service I can use to help me do that? I am not concerned about the cost. The only thing I am concerned about is that the emails should not have "watermarks" (or banners from the service I am using). I tried MailChimp and several other mass email services but they all seem to include their banners indicating that the emails were sent using some email service. In other words, every email should look like it is sent from a human user. I am a PHP developer myself and my first approach was developing a mass emailer myself, but according to the first answer on this question it seems very very hard to do it yourself. So, is there an already existing mass emailing service that would let me do that kind of thing?


Schema to use for general web pages

I am implementing Schema across my website I am remodeling. I am trying to determine which schema to use for general webpages. These pages contain general information about the company and other information that is not specific articles. For these pages which schema should I use? Looking at the schema website it seems that the following could apply:   * Website   * Webpage   * Article Which would be best to use for a page that contains information but is not a specific article?


Would a backlink to a website template affect my SEO?

I am going to start a new website project. It's my personal project and I am using a template which I downloaded from a website that has a condition that its users have to provide backlink to their website. Would this backlink affect my website's SEO in the future or is it OK?


Blatant copyright theft

Found a user on the forum trying to solicit business for his website, a good user reported it and I checked the website out. Firstly and most dangerously it's attempting to sell our original software, which is _open source_. Our open source software is around 15mb big and he's serving a 50mb download and trying to sell it for $20. He's also stolen our CSS/images/site design in general which is all custom built. I attempted to open reasonable discussion with him, and he responded promptly saying he would remove offending materials if he could just have 3 days to sort it out which I accepted. I'm not sure what his plan was because _everything_ on that site is offending material. Anyway he messaged back saying the site was offline, and it was, but it went back online shortly afterwards. It's pretty sickening that someone is selling open source work as their own, (the site about us page references him as the sole developer etc etc, it's unbelievable to read it). I want to shut it down, what are my options? I'm going to contact his domain registrar, web host, and Paypal (that's how he's selling the program). Any other ideas?


% new visitor vs. % returning visitor

I'm not sure how to interpret the results in Google Analytics. I understand that some metrics should be high, and some should be low. But this one I don't get:   * % new visitor vs. % returning visitor:   It's good that users are returning, but surely it's also good to get new, fresh visitors. How do I evaluate this %-vs-% ratio? The higher the better:   * visits   * unique visitors   * pageviews   * pages per visit   * avg. visit duration The lower the better:   * bounce rate   * drop-offs


Google Analytics - drill into single session

If a site has been using Google Analytics for a while and someone wants to drill in and see data on individual sessions, how would you go about doing getting that data? Is it even possible?


Does an image's filename affect its seo?

When I name my image files, I always use a descriptive file name such as `red- mercedes-slk.jpg`. I've always done this without thinking, but I wondered if it actually benefits my rankings in any way. Would I be just as well off writing an uninformative file name like `r-slk.jpg`? I would still use alt text.


Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link?

Does google consider bounce rate, if the user right click open in a new tab and continue on google clicking some more link ? Is this correct? In my opinion the work for bounce rate is to determine, whether a user have found relevant for what he is searching in a simple organised way.


Creating a Google Analytics report on how many pageviews for a page came via another page

Our site runs Google Analytics and we want to find the pageviews of   * a set of content pages - identifiable with a page title regex   * visitors that came through a certain section listing page - identifiable with a page title fragment There will be an intermediate category listing page between this one and the content page, so the navigation path goes like this: > → [wherever] → section listing page → click → category listing page → click > → content page. I'm not really interested in the middle category page, just how many pageviews to these content pages had that section page somewhere back in their navigation history, if you see what I mean. I have been grappling with GA for the last couple of days but despite a couple of promising leads regarding landing pages/page path levels I have not been able to get the stats needed. Has anyone done anything similar that they are able to provide some hints as to how to achieve this?


Is there any good reason I would want my website to be framed?

I'm building a website that's not security-critical in any way at all, so having somebody put a page in an `<iframe>` is not particularly dangerous to its users. However, as my website doesn't have script plugins that will be used anywhere else, is there any reason why I shouldn't just apply:               X-Frame-Options: Deny      to every page on my website? Is there any valid reason for any other website to embed mine? I've seen plenty of content-stealing ones and attempts to hijack user accounts, but never an actual good usage of frames that's not an explicit feature of the website.


Screen resolution of Googlebot mobile?

Does Googlebot-Mobile have a viewport resolution it sends across? If so, what is it? It's a general question with broad relevance, but I am asking with reference to responsive design: particularly when serving different image resolution to different viewports via JavaScript. While Googlebot has its issues with JavaScript, it will become better with time. Thus, it would be good to know which version of the same image would be crawled (since most responsive image JS solutions base their logic on resolution). > Feature phones Googlebot-Mobile:               SAMSUNG-SGH-E250/1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/6.2.3.3.c.1.101 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)          DoCoMo/2.0 N905i(c100;TB;W24H16) (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)      > Smartphone Googlebot-Mobile:               Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)


Force directory listing even if index.html is present

I have some files in my /www/ directory. Is it true that by simply putting an index.html into that directory, the rest of the files are now "protected from public"? Could an _outside_ hacker still force directory listing or gain access to those files? How would they do it if it were possible? I'm aware of the ways to make my filesystem secure, but I was wondering to what extent does **just** putting an index file have on protecting files/directory listing.


Static Backlinks vs Rotating Backlinks?

I'm creating a sort of widget for use on our partners' websites. This widget will contain several links to our site which will help greatly with our backlink building efforts. For the purposes of this question, let's assume that we have 10 different keywords that we'll be targeting. I have two options:   1. Generate the backlinks dynamically within the widget. Every time the widget loads, one of the 10 keyword phrases is loaded randomly and displayed.   2. Generate dynamic backlinks when the widget embed code is created. Every time a user accesses our embed code, one of the 10 keyword phrases is loaded randomly and inserted directly into the embed code. Every time the widget loads on our partner's site, the same keyword phrase will be used. However, with many partners using the various keyword phrases, all keyword phrases will receive equal coverage. (I suppose this is similar behavior to a 'Random Posts' widget on a blog) Is it better to have a backlink that doesn't change and is the same over a long period of time (option 1), or a backlink that changes slightly every time a page loads (option 2)? Or, is there no difference in the long run? **From an SEO perspective, which approach do you feel is superior?**


Is it proper (or legal) for the government to buy non-.gov TLDs to monopolize a topic?

I came across a government site that had also registered the .com, .net, .org, etc of a specific topic. It seems like squatting and monopolizing a topic to me. Just seems wrong to me but I'm no lawyer. Gov site: www.cdc.gov/healthywater/swimming/ Domains:   * healthyswimming.com (parked)   * healthyswimming.org (gov site in a frame, not a redirect)   * healthyswimming.net (gov site in a frame, not a redirect)   * healthyswimming.biz (gov site in a frame, not a redirect)   * healthyswimming.info (gov site in a frame, not a redirect) Are there any rules against this? Will the frame effect the search rankings of the source site?


Google Blog -- adsense. How to proceed further?

I started Blogging today and I have used Google Stats and i found that there are 108 visitors(for past 7 hours the time i created by blog). As i'm novice in blogging, this 108 number is good enough to apply for Google adsense? Or I have to wait for some more time so that my page visitors increase,if so why?


Problem with browser caching images

I'm sure many site admins must deal with this sort of problem all the time, but I don't have a really good and simple solution myself. It is what happens when you overwrite an existing image on the server. The site visitor's browser still displays the old one and must be refreshed to see the updated image (and stylesheet for that matter). So is there any simple solution to trick the browser to refresh the cache when there's a new image using the old name? And yes, of course the obvious solution is to rename the image, but please bear with me on this and assume that's not always a good solution... And this is for Drupal sites in case that bears on the question. ============================ ANSWER: Based on the answer below, I am now using this code:               <?php     echo 'niceimage.jpg?'.date("dmHi", filemtime('niceimage.jpg'));     ?>      This automatically updates the image query string whenever the image-file is changed, based on the modification date of the image-file.


Creative ways to build e-mails lists and contact info

What are some of the most creative, ethical, and dare I say fun ways to build local e-mails lists that you have heard of or done yourself? For example--and although not e-mail lists-- Quora, using mechanical turk to create twitter accounts is pretty cool. So what interesting ways can you think of or done to build a base of contacts?


Activate Catalog in Prestashop on every category

I'm new to Prestashop and have used it for two days or so. The issue i'm currently facing is how I can activate the Catalog sidebar (so users can define their search after pricing, fabric etc) when creating new categories. It works fine with demo categories that was made when installing Prestashop. Tried to search on Google and different sites to find a decent solution, but no luck. Any ideas? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/KLSlD.png)


Presenting very simple and minimalistic stats graph to final user, unique visitor or visits?

Often if you present too much stuff to normal audience (non geeky tech guys) they might go in confusion. If you had to present a simple minimalistic website's monthly statistics to someone, with **one and only one graph**. Would you show them a graph of total visits per month, or a graph with total unique visits per month? And why one vs the other?


How to correctly track the analytics when using iframe

In our main aspx page we have this analytics code               <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1301114-2']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'florahospitality.com']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);       _gaq.push(function() {          var pageTracker = _gat._getTrackerByName();          var iframe = document.getElementById('reservationFrame');          iframe.src = pageTracker._getLinkerUrl('https://reservations.synxis.com/xbe/rez.aspx?Hotel=15159&template=flex&shell=flex&Chain=5375&locale=en&arrive=11/12/2012&depart=11/13/2012&adult=2&child=0&rooms=1&start=availresults&iata=&promo=&group='); });            (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);       })();          </script>      Then inside this aspx page is an iframe. Inside the iframe we setup this analytics code               <script type="text/javascript">            var _gaq = _gaq || [];       _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-1301114-2']);       _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'reservations.synxis.com']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowLinker', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', 'AvailabilityResults']);            (function() {         var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;         ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';         var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);       })();          </script>      The problem is I see to pageview when I go to find the AvailabilityResults page. The first one is a direct traffic and the other one is a cpc. How come that they have different source? I was expecting that both of them is using a direct traffic.


Tag link suggestion plugin for WordPress?

Every time I write a post I make sure I add links to words that I have tags for. For example:   "The economy of Brazil has improved in the last few years" This ensures that when people re-post my content, a lot of back-links will be created to my tags. This is quite a lot of work to do manually for every post. It would be cool if there was a plugin that would suggest tags to be applied when they match existing words in the text of the post. Is there such a thing?


Same content over multiple sites

I have an account on wordpress. I am writing blogs there. Now I have published my same blogs with same content over DZONE and geekswithblogs.net and few other . Now my question is whether the SEO ranking of wordpress blogs will be hit. If yes then may I know how can I prevent that to happen if I post the same content over the other blogs publishing sites. Can I cross-link (by giving the original link of wordpress) on other sites, will that help me to prevent the SEO hit ? Any other suggestions will be so helpful. Should I stop posting over other sites and remain stick to my original one?


Adobe Edge Reflow - how to get the code?

I am building a project using Reflow. It allows to play with the layout, set the breakpoints and so on. How can I get the code (HTML and CSS) for the finished page? There is an option _Preview in Chrome_ which creates a preview files, but the code is not perfect and it says: `<!-- This code is only meant for previewing your Reflow design. -->`


Does google restrict more than one sites on same server with identical design or content?

I have two websites [url removed] and [url removed] with resembling content hosted on same server. Google pick only one of them. Is this a criteria of google to pick only one website from one server for identical content?


Whether posting link to high PR sites should be a continuous process for SEO?

My website [url removed] got 2 PR by posting links on high PR websites. It fell to PR 1, when I stopped posting links. Should it be a continuous process to maintain our ranking?


From 302 to 508 rediect, how is Google indexing it?

I'm working under an IIS environment. I would like to put up a splash page for our site maintenance, however, the splash page (app_offline.htm) has to be served on a separate site, since our developers still want to be working with the site while the app_offline.htm is up. My plan: Use URL-Rewrite to separate traffic to two groups by IP, Public and developers. For developers, "None" action is applied, for public, they will be **redirected** to an app_offline.htm (503) page on a separate server. Since it is a redirect to app_offline.htm. I'm assuming when Google robots will first pick up a 302, then pick up a 508? Eventually does the 508 counts? or the 302 counts? I figured I had to put app_offline on another site since it brings down the entire site and beats the purpose of separating the IPs. But any better alternative to my plan will be appreciated too.


Avoid penalties for duplicate (multilanguage) shared hosting

My concern is about SEO. Now let me explain the scenario. I am making a 3 languages website. The development is alright, but I was targeting local customers with one domain, and international (English version) with another. Eg: Local `http://www.minhalojadesapatos.com.br` (this is not the real website, just example!) Other               http://www.myshoesstore.com.br      Both domain point to exactly the same hosting and content, but when user comes through local domain, default language is set to Portuguese, otherwise, default is English. Language handling on backend uses PHP Sessions and cookies, so with just a click users can change content language. How to avoid being SEO-penalised in this context? (yeah, I was hungry when focusing market for choosing two domains but the activity really needs that, it is a travel agency). ## **EDIT** **Clarification** If client enter by domain #1, he/she will see a Portuguese page. But there is a link on top to change language for English (this link contains a rel="nofollow"). Clicking this link, a session variable will be set, and content will display English, which contains the same content as domain #2 directly accessed, and vice-versa. That's my concern about duplicate content.


Which of these 3 URL-Rewritings are better SEO friendly URLs?

Imagine my current flat-file no-CMS website with an URL like `http://website.com/en/tomato`. This is of course very unsexy and could be anything really from _tomato soup_ , _tomato the music band_ , _tomato the movie_ , or more unlikely but still... _just about tomatos!_ So, I want to make it more specific for both real humans as well as search engines. Given: both the language code and short filename code are essential and cannot be replaced so somewhere there has got to be `en` and `tomato` preciding/following whatever delimiter like `/` for _.htaccess_ to do the correct invisible redirects to `/tomato.php?language=en`. Some options occured in my mind for the added words in URL:               A   website.com/en/tomato/just-about-tomatos     B   website.com/en/tomato/just-about-tomatos.htm     C   website.com/just-about-tomatos/en/tomato     D   website.com/en/tomato_just_about_tomatos     E   website.com/en/tomato-just-about-tomatos      **Question1:** Which of these is the best for humans as well as search engines? **Question2:** Which single elegant rule should make this happen in _.htaccess_? Thanks for your suggestions and answers! Much appreciated.


Is it better to use slash or hyphens for SEO

I have a website with url like that :               www.xxxxxx.com/card/wow/20-euros      In term of SEO is it better to use slash or hyphen?               www.xxxxxx.com/card-wow-20-euros      Even though it will be trickier with hyphen to route correctly with only hyphen ... Or it doesn't matter?


EV SSL Certificates - does anyone care?

Is any one aware of any data or studies from an impartial source that show the impact of EV SSL certificates on customer behavior? I've been unable to find any such studies. If an EV SSL certificate increases sales on a web store front by even a few points, I can see the value. Aside from data targeted at EV SSL it may be possible to guess at customer behavior based on user interaction with regular SSL certificates. Are users even aware of SSL security? Does regular SSL have any proven effect on web store front sales? Note, that I'm not asking about the necessity of good encryption - I'm asking about a potential customer's _perception_ of security & trust.


How does linking a domain and hosting work?

I've looked everywhere for a good explanation of this, but all I get is a tutorial on how to do it instead of what's going on in the background. If someone could go through an example of what's going on in the background when you link a domain to hosting, I'd appreciate it. What exactly is update, where is it updated, and when/in which order? The process I'm referring to is specifying the domain in the hosting settings and specifying the name servers in the domain provider settings.


What are reasons some people can't access a website while most others can?

I have a .NET MVC 3 Website hosted on a Server 2008 r2 VPS. The site only uses SSL 3.0 connections, so if you connect using HTTP it will bump you up to HTTPS. The site is for a small company, just for staff to check messages, etc. but for some reason a couple employees and one sister company are unable to access it. The DNS records were set months ago, and most people have never had a problem. I had heard that IE may have some issues accessing secure pages so to check if this was the problem I made one page non-secure and sent out the link and they were still unable to access it. I also connected to random proxies trying to see if they would have an issue and had no problems. The business that can't access it uses Internet Explorer (I don't know what version) and the IT department said it was not being blocked on their end. I don't know what browser the people who can't access it are using. I'm in the process of getting more information as to what exactly the error people are having, but I thought I mine as well ask here for some common things to check, or what you think it may be. Is there any DNS stuff to check, I have both an A record and AAAA, the only thing weird is that the name server fields are blank and it won't let me change that (perhaps this has something to do with the domain being bought via Google Apps originally.) I can't think of anything else to try. * * * **Update** The reason a few people weren't able to get to the site was their own firewall or security settings etc., and these have now been fixed. However the business that still can't get on may have a different problem: on Internet Explorer if they enter the URL and press enter, they get the busy icon for a long period of time (I don't know how long but would assume over 30 second or more) then it redirects them the Bing and searches for the domain name. I don't know what the problem is, but I have a meeting with their IT department later this week. My guess would be some third party add-on or malware is redirecting them.


find all pages that link to abc.com and all pages under it

So I have been using the `link:` operator in google search, however, some things aren't clear. For example, does it only show results that point to my site exactly as `www.abc.com` or it also includes `contact.support.com/other` or something like that.


HTML + CSS Template

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Where is the best place to find stock website templates? I need some html + css templates (not for wordpress or any kind of cms) used for custom website. It's not important if they are free, opensource or premium templates to buy. I'd like to hear your opinion about the website you suggest to me. I actually use these website:   * templatebox.com   * os-templates.com   * freecsstemplates.org These are good website, but sometimes I can't find what I need because they are too "standard" and not creative! Thanks to everyone for help me!


Unique visitors in real time in Google Analytics

Is there any way to get most recent unique visitors like in Piwik? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZsN3q.jpg)


Multilanguage website optimized for SEO

I've seen that a good choice of multilanguage while keeping a high performance for SEO, would be a duplicated content in a subfolder for each language, but this way every change must be done once for language, which looks a bit weird, at least to me. Isn't it a string table like to just modify it with new changes, and keep only one version of the website to prevent errors? By the way, is that the best approach, or there's something better? Thanks in advance!


Why does XFBML work everywhere but in Chrome?

I try to add simple Like button to my Facebook Canvas app (iframe). The button (and all other XFBML elements) works in Safari, Firefox, Opera, but in Google Chrome. How can I find the problem? EDIT1: This is ERB-layout in my Rails app                    ...          ...

          <fb:like></fb:like>     ...      JS error message in Chrome inspector:               Uncaught ReferenceError: FB is not defined       (anonymous function)     Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'appendChild' of null       window       (anonymous function)      Probably similar to http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=84684


.com domain transfer failing

I'm trying to transfer one of my .com addresses between registrars. I'm down as the owner contact (confirmed working) and the losing registrar is down as the tech and admin contact. Last week I received an email stating that the domain transfer had been rejected by the losing registrar. I contacted the losing registrar and they denied that. My money from the winning registrar was refunded and I was told to try again. I've initiated the transfer again and received confirmation of pending transfer, I gave the correct EPP code and confirmed the transfer. Currently the status on the domain is set as OK, should it not be transfer pending? According to my name.com transfer page if the transfer is not authd in 5 days it will auto transfer anyway. I don't believe this will happen. Name.com have been really helpful but they can't really do much more now. The losing registrar is not being helpful hence me turning here. What can I do to make sure the domain transfers? The domain transfer is set to expire on the 17th. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


What are the benefits of a more expensive SSL certificate?

I've been comparing prices of different SSL certificates and found a massive difference in prices between different providers. If we take http://www.namecheap.com/learn/other-services/ssl-certificates.asp as an example, what would be the advantage of going for the Geotrust certificate for $48.88/year over the RapidSSL $9.95/year option?


Should I block Wordpress archive pages from search engines?

I use WordPress and `/sample-post/` URLs for my posts and `/yyyy/mm/` for the archives. Google has indexed the site fully. Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't let Google index the archive pages because they contain the full posts and that will be duplicate content. Thus my robots.txt contains:               Disallow: /2009/     Disallow: /2010/     Disallow: /2011/     Disallow: /2012/     Disallow: /2013/     Disallow: /2014/     Disallow: /2015/      Do you think this is good practice or would it harm my rankings and/or reachability?


Symbolic link of file on ftp server to file on dropbox

Can I create a symbolic link from an ftp server (file on website) to a Dropbox URL? I'm trying and it's seeming to work correctly. My problem is a video isn't playing correctly on my site, but I know it plays perfectly every time for the Dropbox URL. Rather than sendign out notification that the link has changed once more, I thought I could create a symlink to the new file


Is a canonical link to the HTTP page OK for a Facebook app?

We are running a webshop and Google should index it on the normal HTTP pages. But because there is also a "Facebook app" in front of the same shop, and a fb app requires https, all pages are reachable on HTTPS also. The question is, if I add a `<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/thesame-page">` to all HTTPS pages, will this be ok for Facebook? (This link tag would be needed to avoid google seeing duplicate content iin our shop) But this is a Facebook app question. Will Facebook just happily ignore it?


Get phone number of (via mobile networks) browsing mobile device

I recently figured out, that the web site of my phone provider (mobile) mysteriously identifies me and automatically logs me into my account when I'm accessing with my android phone, as if it knew my phone number. (I used several browsers. When I'm using the phone as WLAN hotspot and access the same site from another device that doesn't happen.) How does my phone provider do that? On the one hand, as a programmer, I'd like to be able to do that too, but on the other hand, as a user, I'm kind of scared. What information do they have, such that they (believe they) are able to _identify_ me just by my device? I hope this question isn't completely inappropriate for this site; feel free to add better tags — it's hard to find the right ones without knowing the _Webmasters_ site at all.


HostGator and 123reg

I am trying to set up my website to work with Hostgator, and 123reg. I have mapped my IP address that HostGator gave me, to my 123reg domain name I just bought. What I did was the following:   1. Mapped the IP address to my domain name using 123reg (control panel).    2. I also changed the Nameservers values (in 123reg) to what HostGator gave me.    3. I have setup a Joomla Service using the HostGator Control Panel. everything seemed to be working fine. Joomla gave me credentials, an admin URL and everything. Now the problem that has been bothering me is, that WHATEVER I type it redirects me to the 123reg default site as if my changes had not taken any place. For example:               www.mydomain.com -> 123reg default page     www.mydomain.com/home -> 123reg default page     www.mydomain.com/admin -> 123reg default page     www.mydomain.com/whatever -> 123reg default page      Can somebody please help me through?


How a free (no ads) site maintain itself?

The past few years a trend has grown concerning a startup creating a webapp, paying a staff and priced hosting and yet offering a service for free and with no ads. Sites like droptask, Geeklist, koding and many others are practicing this kind of business and I don't know what are they planning in terms of revenue. There might be a huge interest path I'm not seeing, but it's clearly not obvious. Do you know the paths theses companies are taking to make profit out of those applications?


filter admin access by IP with httpd.conf

I am trying to filter all backend url to one IP in the httpd.conf file using this code:               <Location /admin>         Order deny,allow         Deny from all         Allow from 100.x.xxx.xxx     </Location>      This one works fine. I can't find a way to do the same with /?q=admin.               <Location /?q=admin>         Order deny,allow         Deny from all         Allow from 100.x.xxx.xxx     </Location>      Do I need some regular expression with backslash to escape some of the characters?