prevent IIS from executing scripts in a specific directory

I have a php web application that allows file uploads to a specific directory. I would like to prevent the execution of any file that is uploaded into that directory whether it is ASP, PHP, or anything else that may be supported by IIS. I'm already blocking the upload of asp and php files at the application layer, but as a measure of defense in depth against a possible error in that validation code I would like to add a configuration to IIS to prevent execution of these files. Is there a way to do that in IIS?


What resources are available to get an experienced .net developer up and running quickly with Wordpress/PHP development?

Specifically,   * what are the preferred development tools (free?)   * Are there any good tutorial sites that are up-to-date with the latest version of Wordpress   * Has anyone ever done Wordpress/PHP development using Visual Studio? Is that even possible? I am aware of the API documentation on the wordpress site; however it all assumes that the development environment is already set up. I don't even have PHP on my local machine, and have never done any PHP development. I _know_ that the coding can all be done in Notepad and then uploaded to the server; I was hoping for some substantive advice from someone else who has actually made the jump from .Net to PHP about what tools and tutorials are available to help make the jump.


Is it necessary to re-submit modified sitemaps?

Assuming a `sitemap.xml` has been registered properly to major players, do these players come and revisit those `sitemap.xml` from time to time to check for updates and modifications (say new entries are added or removed)? In other words, it is really necessary to resubmit `sitemap.xml` once they know the URL? Or do we have to re-submit it each time there is a modification to it? Thanks.


Getting indexed after removing meta noindex, Google

My question is, will my pages be indexed now in Google if they had `<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />` in the past, since they were created? Of course, now they are `<meta name="robots" content="index" />`. If yes, then how long it will take to have them in Google? To give you some background, I'm making a site with the manual translation of some text to another language. This surely takes time, and I want to run the site already, having non-translated pages (with the Google machine translation option) along with completed translated ones. My idea is to block indexing of non-translated pages, so they appear to curious people, while not obstructing search engine index. After I get to some particular page, I translate it and change noindex to index. Is that a good idea?


Redirection to load a CSS file

I have in a remote server with this `index.html` that I can _not_ modify:               <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />       But my _styles.css_ file is not at the web root, that is `/styles.css` but at `/css/styles.css`, is possible through an _.htaccess_ file load that file? I have tried with:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /css/     </IfModule>      but it _styles.css_ is not loaded yet. NOTE: of course this is a minimal example, I would like to find a rule to load more than a CSS, not just one.


Archive structure and effects on SEO

With a wordpress setup as follows of pages, custom posts, a custom taxonomy of colours and rewrite rules in place:               Pages:          Archive:     -fruits          Single:     --fruit/apple     --fruit/orange          Archive by colour:     ---fruits/colour/%colour%               -vegetables     --vegetable/potatoe     --vegetable/carrot     ---vegetables/colour/%colour%          -colours     --colour/red     --colour/green          etc ...      I could quite feasibly structure archives to be found at the following               fruits/colour/red or               colour/red/fruits In the context of how a user could navigate a site I can see the benefits of having both paths available but pointing to what is essentially the same content. Should this be avoided with respect to SEO and avoiding duplicate content?


Webhosting company able to unhash passwords?

Tonight I was using the cPanel of a web-site I host and when I went to change the password I received a warning that I couldn't change the password to my desired password because it was too similar to my previous password. Now these immediately raised my eyebrow because it means to be able to compare the string of my new password to previous password, they are either stored in plain text (surely not for a webhosting company), or stored with an algorithm that can be decrypted (which isn't really much better)? Or is this an issue with cPanel as a whole? Earlier this week I signed up for a plan with a .com company that uses cPanel and I noticed when I entered my password on the next screen it said your password was successfully changed to "xxxxx"... I don't know if this data was ever stored but I haven't put anything on this site due to this concern. Is it possible that they are using an encryption technology like PGP to decrypt the password? I have e-mailed both companies asking for clarification on this issue but I fear I'll only get "company speak" back from them. I'm not sure this question is exactly fits in with SO's Q&A structure however password security is one of the most important things on the internet IMO, and if the company hosting your websites has poor security then that is a serious issue.


I want to purchase a (.IN) domain name with Crazy Domains

I want to purchase only the domain name with Crazy Domains, I already have web hosting. Can any one advise me on whether or not going with Crazy Domain is fruitful or not? **Issue:** they have an option with internet banking but at the same time they are providing me details of some account in Dubai but it's an Australian company. So I am bit hesitant with sharing my details with it.


Spam bot constantly hitting our site 800-1,000 times a day. Causing loss in sales

For the past 5 months our site has been receiving hits from these 4 sites below; sheratonbd.com   newsheraton.com   newsheration.com   newsheratonltd.com Typically the exact url they come from looks something like this; http://www.newsheraton.com/ClickEarnArea.aspx?loginsession_expiredlogin=85 The spam bot goes to our homepage and stays there for about 1 min and then exist. Luckily we have some pretty beefy servers so it hasn't even come close to overloading our servers yet. Last month I started blocking the IP address's of the spam bots but they seem to keep getting new ones everyday. So far I have blocked over 200 IP address's, below are a few of the ones I have blocked. They all come from Bangladesh. 58.97.238.214   58.97.149.132   180.234.109.108   180.149.31.221   117.18.231.5   117.18.231.12 Since this has been going on for the past 5 months our real site traffic has started to drop, and everyday our orders get lower and lower. Also since these spam bots simply go to our homepage and then leave our bounce rate in analytics has sky rocketed. My questions are; Is it possible that these spam bots are affecting our SEO? 60% of our orders come from natural search, and since this whole thing has started orders have slowly been dropping. What would be the reason someone would want to waste resources in doing this to our site? IP's aren't free and either are domain names, what would be the goal in doing this to us? We have google adwords but don't advertise on extended networks nor advertise in Bangladesh since we don't ship there so they are not making money on adsense. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this? What did you do and what was the final out come?


Is there an XML sitemap generator with command line interface for nginx on Linux?

I'm looking for an **XML sitemap generator** that can be triggered from the **command line** , supports **nginx** , and works on **Linux** (Debian). What can you recommend?


Canonical Tag Not Being Recognized

I'm puzzled by the first Google search result in this list. The first result has the following rel="canonical" tag:               <link rel="canonical" href="http://seatgeek.com/colorado-buffaloes-basketball-tickets/" />      So shouldn't the URL in the tag be indexed instead of the one with "?date=2011-03-29" on the end?


Google Custom Search Engine: How can I get all of my site indexed?

I am trying to use Google CSE for my website however without any success as it is not able to find half of the pages? what could be wrong?


Apache URL rewriting with masking and includes outside of DocumentRoot

I have an Apache 2.2.15 web server with the primary site at `/web/mybiz` which corresponds to `http://mybiz.domain.com`. We now have a new subdomain `http://abc.mybiz.domain.com` with the homepage living at `/web/mybiz/abc/index.html`. Currently, I have a simple rewrite so when people visit `http://abc.mybiz.domain.com`, they get redirected to `http://mybiz.domain.com/abc/index.html`. The includes for that homepage live in `/web/mybiz/static` and `/web/mybiz/images`. I need to have it so that people visiting don't see the URL change in the browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it work and keep the includes all working.


Force hostname for request

I have a web server running Apache HTTPD 2.2 serving as a reverse proxy for my IIS 7.5 server.   This worked fine, until I wanted to use OpenID (using DotNetOpenAuth). Since DotNetOpenAuth throws an exception if I try using any realm other than the domain. To fix that I want to set the hostname server-sided (either on the reverse proxy or on the IIS server).   I was able to do that when using HTTPD as the back-end but I haven't found the configuration directive for IIS.


How to upload a HTML file on server so that it displays like a webpage?

The question is about uploading a file to a web server which could be accessed from a domain address and is not specific to WordPress only. My server runs WordPress, so there's a japanaddicts.org directory in the root space. Now, I created a sub-domain through my hosting provider. The address is paperwork.japanaddicts.org I checked through FTP, and saw that a directory named the same has been created. When I open it, then the htaccess folder, and add my paperwork.html file (with an embedded stylesheet), it doesn't work properly. When I open paperwork.japanaddicts.org, it opens a directory listing, which is fine for a rudimentary start. But after opening the paperwork file, paperwork.japanaddicts.org/paperwork, it opens the html file, instead of parsing the code within. Please advise on how to make that page view as a webpage with all the styles.


SEO Friendly URL for search keywords

I have a website where you can search for a brands, item, and content inside my web. It was designed with tab for each search type, but I want to make the url when changing the tab user friendly and good for SEO. Is it better to have a url for search result like this               www.example.com/search/{search_keyword}/{tab}      or               www.example.com/search/{search_keyword}?tab={tab}      or               www.example.com/search/?search={search_keyword}&tab={tab}      where {search_keyword} is the keyword that user input, and {tab} is either brands / item / content, because when I look at facebook, stackoverflow, and some other website, they use query string for their search keyword ## Edit My past url is only `www.example.com/search/{search_keyword}`, and I just added the tab design recently. Consider that I should go with option 1 from the above option, should I make `www.example.com/search/{search_keyword}` the default for 1 of the 3 tab, and make the other 2 tab with `www.example.com/search/{search_keyword}/{tab}` to retain the score for the page, or should I make all the tab url with               www.example.com/search/{search_keyword}/{tab}      and use a permanent redirect from `www.example.com/search/{search_keyword}` to one of the url tab


Backend admin interface with multiple web services

What is the easiest way to receive data from different web services (Shopify, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, CRM applications, social media platforms, etc.) for an Internet retailer who wants to be able to see everything in one place? They basically want a dashboard that collects and displays sales and customer data to help them make business decisions. The data from each web service may need to be used in conjunction with other web service data. I am familiar with PHP and XML, but my development skills are limited.


Add custom Nameservers for Subdomains

Is it possible to add custom Nameserver for my Subdomains? For example: My main domain example.com uses MX record from Gmail. Then my subdomain subdomain.example.com needs to use MX record from Office365. Is it possible to achieve that by adding different Nameserver for subdomain.example.com so it can use different MX record? Or let's just say I want to completely separate the subdomain.example.com's nameserver from my main domain for some reasons. Is it possible?


What is the best way to calculate bandwidth needed for my website?

What is the best way to accurately calculate bandwidth needed for my site? I have come across several formulas and wondering what one is the most accurate? Here are a couple examples:               (Average Daily Visitors x Average Page Views x Average Page Size) +      (Average Daily File Downloads x Average File Size) x 31 x Fudge Factor      Source and               amount of visitors * the size of one page = total bandwidth needed       Source So what is the best way? Thanks!


Enable 'mod_rewrite' Using .htaccess File On cPanel Shared Hosting Server

I'm using cPanel to host my website. I need to enable 'mod_rewrite' on this Shared Hosting cPanel account to run my script. I've tried to Google the solutions high and low but did not find any luck yet. Those tutorials that I found only work well with VPS and some of them said that, only hosting provider can change and enable it. But, some of them said that, it can be done easily by editing the .htaccess file. My question: If I want to edit the .htaccess file, what should I include in that file? What the 'rules' and 'conditions' that should be included?


Delete unknown and undesired custom variables

I'm creating a custom report in Google Analytics because I have implemented the typical custom variable to track logged/anonymous users. To do it I choose the "unique table" type, 2 dimensions values (custom variable key and value) and visits metrics scope. When I generate the report, some strange, unknown variables appears! There is my custom variable: `__user kind__` with its 2 possible values, and some unexpected others like:   * Cuevana Plugin   * UnderHen Plugin   * Z Plugin   * CL and so on... I don't know from where they come (Cuevana plugin had viruses isn't it?) but I know I don't want to see them. Does it exists any way to delete or filter them?


Google Analytics tracking on the same domain account through an iframe

I have written an advertising system for a client that serves adverts on one website (say, www.adhost.com) as a small HTML page and a second website (say, www.addisplay.com) pulls this page in as an iframe to be displayed as an advertising banner. Google Analytics is present in the adverts in order to track clickthroughs, but the clicks are being tracked under www.adhost.com's profile because the clicks are occurring within the iframe and Analytics knows no better. Would it be possible to make these clicks track under www.addisplay.com's profile, even though they are occurring within a page hosted on www.adhost.com? If so, how? Thanks, Alex


Google Author information in search results still havent displayed my details in search results

I followed the following instructions but still not clear whether i had completely understood it. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=1408986 http://www.labnol.org/internet/author-profile-in-google/19775/ I did the above last week and i did not find my picture in google search result. First i added google + link in certain web pages and in my google profile i added those pages which had google + anchor link with rel=author tag. After updating i used the following to verify. http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvikku.info%2Fcodesnippets%2Fphp%2F&view= You can see that my pic is appearing at the right. here is a screen shot. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/GQqfI.png) so, what am i missing? why it is not in the search result. The author of labnol.org said it will take 3 days for my profile photo link to appear... ? Google has stated the following Note that there is no guarantee that a Rich Snippet will be shown for this page on actual search results. For more details, see the FAQ( http://knol.google.com/k/google-rich-snippets-tips-and- tricks#Frequently_Asked_Questions ). Fingers crossed. Thoughtful.


How to transfer domain registered through Blogger to a new registrar?

I'm preparing a client for migrating his Blogger blog to a self-hosting WordPress site. The client is currently running his Blogger blog using a custom domain name which he registered through Blogger. Now that he wants to move to a self-hosted `wordpress.org` site, how can we transfer ownership of his domain name from Blogger to another registrar? Or, is this even necessary? I mean, can you set your Blogger domains' nameservers just like you can with any other domain registrar?


What Tools Exist for Comparing Two Files?

what tools do you guys use to compare two scripts, basically i modded an template and need to compare this template with the new release of this template. Any help greatly appreciated.


imaginaryTeachingToolUrl

I found an increased access to my website on `www.mydomain.tld/imaginaryTeachingToolUrl`. _This isn't a valid URL on my site_ , I tried to Google this, but there are under 10 results. So I guess this specific title isn't something common - but could this be some kind of approach to _hack_ my site? A snippet from the Apache logs. Actually this looks like a regular request. But this requests are for two reasons kind of odd:   * requester: from SA   * request on: non English, European page   * high number of requests (for three days now)   * unique ip (seems not to be a bot network or sth. like that) > 66.249.88.*** - - [03/May/2014:01:36:59 +0200] "GET /.../style-custom.css > HTTP/1.1" 200 1489 `"http://www.google.com/imaginaryTeachingToolUrl"` > "Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google PP > Default) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36" > > 66.249.88.*** - - [03/May/2014:01:36:59 +0200] "GET /.../css/responsive.css > HTTP/1.1" 200 3584 `"http://www.google.com/imaginaryTeachingToolUrl"` > "Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google PP > Default) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36" > > 66.249.88.*** - - [03/May/2014:01:36:59 +0200] "GET > /.../js/jquery.hoverIntent.js HTTP/1.1" 200 470 > `"http://www.google.com/imaginaryTeachingToolUrl"` "Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) > AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google PP Default) Chrome/27.0.1453 > Safari/537.36" > > 66.249.88.*** - - [03/May/2014:01:36:59 +0200] "GET > /.../js/jquery.omslider.min.js HTTP/1.1" 200 1008 > "`http://www.google.com/imaginaryTeachingToolUrl`" "Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) > AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google PP Default) Chrome/27.0.1453 > Safari/537.36" > > 66.249.88.*** - - [03/May/2014:01:36:59 +0200] "GET /.../js/libraries.js > HTTP/1.1" 200 870 "`http://www.google.com/imaginaryTeachingToolUrl`" > "Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google PP > Default) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36"


Can using div with width = 0px affect SEO?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Does google always downrank pages with hidden texts Right now I'm working on my new website and I'm really concerned about SEO since the old version of my site(which is from a script that is unusable now) has PR of 4 and I want to lose it So here is my question There is a panel that has 4 tabs Each tabs has tag which has a href like "/box-page/tab/2" and when javascript is not activated it will go this page and shows the corresponding tab and if it's activated it will just make a simple animation to show the other tab There are four boxes(and for tabs) and since I needed to fix the height of the panel I had to use width: 0 for the rest of tabs to keep the height of the box the same as the longest one and inside these boxes(which have width: 0) there are some information that can be indexed by google So as you know google doesn't have javascript and it will go to /box-page/tab/2 and /box-page/tab/3 and ... in all of these pages the information is the same but with different box showing up in the page So here is my question Does google penalize using a div with width: 0px? And if not does it just ignore the content of the div with width 0?(Which is perfect for me ^^) Thanks


What books or articles are must reads for learning about SSL management

I have found it very hard to find any books or articles that assume no understanding and take you from nothing to a master at managing SSL certificates on web servers. Most articles I have found deal with specific implementation on particular machines or stop after a very basic overview. Are there any that are heralded as must reads for someone wanting to know more?


Web analytics accuracy - log files vs JavaScript

I've just read a claim on a web stats package site that suggests that log files generate more accurate stats than their JavaScript-based counterparts. This seems to be an over-simplification at best; completely incorrect at worst. Surely if it is a good-quality stats package, it would deliver accurate results regardless of whether it's JS, image-tag or log file-based? What are the trade-offs between different analytics engines?


Is it good for SEO when I use the same keywords in many pages on a site?

On my website I have photo wallpapers. I want to optimize this page for search engines. There is one main page where all of this photos are listed. On this main page I use keywords like "photo", "free photo", and "wallpaper" in the title, h1, descriptions, and text. When user clicks on some photo, it opens in second page with the same keywords. I'm not sure if it is good for rankings when I use the same keywords on other pages. On this second page, should I use meta tag with rel='canonical' for better SEO?


How to verify app engine backend site using webmasters?

I have my backend servlet like following :                 public class BackendServlet extends HttpServlet {            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;            private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(BackendServlet.class.getName());            @Override       protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws IOException {         LOG.info("backend");       }     }      And then I put the google verification html file into my project root folder. And I also use google OAuth2 for the frontend. Then I verify it using webmaster tools, but it's said :               Reverification failed. Your verification file redirects to a disallowed location      And so I tried the alternative method, by using the meta-tag. I included the meta-tag that given on the webmaster page into the BackendServlet class as following :               protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws IOException {         resp.setContentType("text/html");         resp.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");         PrintWriter writer = resp.getWriter();         writer.println("<!doctype html>");         writer.println("<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"verification_string_here\" />");         writer.println("<title>backend</title>");         writer.println("");       }      Then again I verify it, but it still gave me an error like following :               Verification failed. We couldn't find the verification meta tag.      Would anyone be so kindly to tell me what I did wrong and what I should do to get my backend site got verified by webmaster tools? Thanks.


Add multiple payment options in Google Product feed XML

In my Google Product feed I have both Visa and MasterCard listed as accepted payment methods. Is it possible, and is there any benefit, in adding the remainder of my payment options; American Express, Delta, Maestro etc.                       <g:payment_accepted>Visa</g:payment_accepted>             <g:payment_accepted>MasterCard</g:payment_accepted>      I can't find anything in the specification that mentions the payment methods. My feed applies to the UK, US and EU.


How to handle canonical url changes like Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow sites all have pretty urls which include the question title. In the HTML it also have canonical url for that page. I just found out that when I change the question title, the url is changed immediately. The canonical url is also updated. Does it mean that as long as the page with the old canonical url redirects to the new canonical url, then search engines will update their records of the canonical url as well? Is there anything else that one can actively do to make the url change even more smoother?


Can I use a list of blog ping services for a portal?

I'm setting up a list of ping services for a portal.   It has a blog, forum, articles, restaurants, hotels and many other information, so it is far beyond a blog. I have a list of standard ping services for WP blogs - but I do not know if this should be literally only for blogs. My questions are:   1. Is it recommended to ping blog services from a portal, such as http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2?   2. Are there any penalties for sites that are not recognized as blogs?   3. Is there some list of ping services for regular websites and not only blogs? Thanks!


How to know if my web site is blocked in China (Great Firewall of China)

I have a new site (with new domain), when I access it from China, it is being blocked. As the domain is a new domain, I am wondering if it is due to the site domain or in fact the IP we used is being banned before. How to verify and fix?


Google Authorship image only visible to author

I have a website where all the links have an authorship tag added. It used to show up in the Google results properly, but for the past couple of days, it is not appearing for other users. My photo is visible only if I search and find a URL while logged into Google. It doesn't show up for other users, it just shows my name in that case. The tag that I am using on my website is:
By Prashant Singh
      The div was kept invisible from very beginning! What could be the possible issue?


My page no longer shows up in Google's results for a keyword

I have a small website about a commercial product, with a description and tutorial. 2 days ago it was in position 11th in Google search results, without any kind of SEO optimization on my part. Today it's gone. Totally gone - not even in the first 200 results. It's still very high in bing.com and duckduckgo.com. The site is very on topic. It's hosted under domain Keyword.com, and it's about commercial product which addresses the Keyword. How can I know what happened?


While loop causing website to vanish

http://pastebin.com/V0tUrzwV Why doesn't this code work? If I do it maunally without database. You know, just thinking you're PHP and creating the code in HTML and CSS, it works. But as soon as you mix PHP to it, everything goes blank, entire website.


How to prevent a specific website from linking to our domain?

We have a landing page which is used only for running an ad campaign. There is a website that has found this link somehow and is linking to it. I've been told by marketing they don't want that website linking to the landing page. How can I prevent a specific website from linking to our domain? I don't want to block all websites from linking to it, just this specific one. Is there solution something to do with .htaccess? If so, please provide an example of doing this or a link to example because I've been unable to find one.


How steep is the learning curve when moving from shared (cPanel) webhosting to a VPS (e.g. Linode)?

In all shared hosting environments, one can be agnostic to the running OS. What happens in the case of Linode? I know it allows pretty flexible Linux installations, but for starters, besides choosing a distro, does one need to do more Linux sysadmin stuff besides the basic web hosting (DNS management, MySql database creations, users ftp/ssh access/ backups)? Does Linode have a module that would cover cPanel's basic features? Does one need to install/start/upgrade each aspect of LAMP (software bundle)?


Are schema.org microdata attributes valid on any element?

Is it valid to add schema.org microdata attributes, such as `itemprop="name"`, to HTML elements that aren't spans or divs? E.g.
Baseball Glove


Prioritize webhost for a domain?

I have a sub domain( I do not own the domain) but using Cpanel I am able to set A, NS, Cname records for a sub domain. What I want to do is to associate the subdomain with two webhost and prioritize them so that if the one with higher priority is down then the second webhost is used instead. Now I have already set the NS records for both webhosts to the sub domain but I do not know if there exists a priority. How do accomplish this task if it is possible?


SEO non-English domain name advice

I'm starting a website, that is meant for a non-English region, using an alphabet that is a bit different than that of English. Current plan is as follows. The website name, and the domain name, will be in the local language (not English); however, domain name will be spelled in the English alphabet, while the website's title will be the same word(s), but spelled properly with accents. E.g.: 'www.litterat.fr' and 'Littérat'. Does the difference between domain name and website name character use influence the site's SEO? Is it better, SEO-wise, to choose a name that can be spelled the same way in the English alphabet? From my experience, when searching online, invariably, the English alphabet is used, no matter the language, so people will still be searching 'litterat' (without accents and such). ## Edit: # To sum up: Things have been said about IDN (Internationalized domain name). To make it simple, they are second-level domain names that contain language specific characters (LSP)(e.g. www.café.fr). Here you can check what top-level domains support what LSPs. Check initall's answer for more info on using LSPs in paths and queries. To answer my question about how and if search engines relate keywords spelled with and without language specific characters: Google _can_ potentially tell that `series` and `séries` is the same keyword. **However** , (most relevant for words that are spelled differently across languages _and_ have different meanings, like `séries`), for Google to make the connection (or lack thereof) between `e` and `é`, it has to deduce two things:   1. Language that you are searching in. Language of your query. You can specify it manually through Advanced search or it guesses it, sometimes. I presume it can guess it wrong too. The more keywords specific to this language you use the higher Google's chance to guess the language.   2. Language of the crawled document, against which the ASCII version of the word will be compared (in this example – `series`). Again, check initall's answer for how to help Google in understanding what language your document is in. Once it has that it can tell whether or not these two spellings should be treated as the same keyword. Google has to understand that even though you're not using french (in this example) specific characters, you're searching in French. The reason why I used the french word `séries` in this example, is that it demonstrates this very well. You have it in French and you have it in English without the accent. So if your search query is ambiguous like our `series`, unless Google has something more to go on, it will presume that there's no correlation between your search and `séries` in French documents. If you augment your query to `series romantiques` (try it), Google will understand that you're searching in French and among your results you'll see `séries` as well. But this does not always work, you should test it out with your keywords first. For example, if you search `series francaises`, it will associate `francaises` with `françaises`, but it will _not_ associate `series` with `séries`. It depends on the words. Note: worth stressing that this problem is very relevant to words that, written in plain ASCII, might have some other meanings in other languages, it is less relevant to words that can be, by a distinct margin, just some one language. Tip: I've noticed that sometimes even if my non-accented search query doesn't get associated with the properly spelled word in a document (especially if it's the title or an important keyword in the doc), it still comes up. I followed the link, did a Ctrl-F search for my non-accented search query and found nothing, then checked the meta-tags in the source and you had the page's title in both accented and non-accented forms. So if you have meta-tags that can be spelled with language specific characters and without, put in both. Footnote: I hope this helps. If you have anything to add or correct, go ahead.


ecommerce item deleted by user, 301 redirect to HOME PAGE or 404 not found?

I know this question is someway similar to this one where they recommend using 404, but after reading this other one where they suggest to use 301 when changing site URLs (in the specific case was due to redesign/re factoring) I get a bit of confused and I hope someone could clarify for this specific example:   1. Let's say I have an eCommerce site,   2. let's also say the final user inserted some interesting items in the site and the eCommerce webapp created the item pages at the URLs: `http://...?id=20`, `http://...?id=30` etc.   3. Now let's say some of these interesting items got many external links toward them from many other sites because some people found those items very interesting and linked to them.   4. After some years the final user deletes those items, so obviously the pages and URLs `http://...?id=20`, `http://...?id=30`, etc. **now do not exist anymore, but still many pages on the web are linking toward them**. **What should the eCommerce site do now, just show a 404 page for those items?** But, I'm confused, **wouldn't this lose all the Google PR passed by the external links to the items pages?** So isn't it better to use 301 redirect to HOME PAGE that at least passes the PR to the HOME PAGE? * * * **EDIT:** Well, according to answers **the best thing to do so far is to do a 404/410**. In order to make this question more complete, I would like to talk about a special case, just to make sure I understood. properly. Let's say the user creates those items again (the ones he previously deleted at point 4), maybe he changes a bit their names and description, but they are basically the same items. The webapp has no way to know these new added items were the old items so it obviously create them as new items with new URLs `http://...?id=100`, `http://...?id=101`, **does it makes sense at this point to redirect 301 the old urls to the new ones?** * * * **ANOTHER EDIT (It would be VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND):** Well according to the clever answers received so far it seems for the special case, explained in my last EDIT, I could use 301, since it's something of not deceptive cause basically the new pages is a replacement for the old page in term of contents. This is basically done to keep the PR passed from external link and also for better user experience. But beside the user experience, that is debatable (*1), in order to preserve PR from external broken links why not just always use 301, In my understanding Google dislikes duplicated contents, **but are we sure that 301 redirect to HOME PAGE is seen as duplicated contents for Google?!** **Google itselfsuggests to redirect 301 index.html to document root so if they consider 301 as duplicated contents wouldn't that be considered duplicated contents too? Why do they suggest it?** Let me provoke you: _“why not just add a 301 to HOME PAGE for every not found page?”_ (*1) as a user, when I follow a broken URL from some external link to some website's page I would stick more on this website if I get redirected to HOME PAGE rather than seeing a 404 page where I would think the website does not even exist anymore and maybe I don't even try to go to HOME PAGE of the website.


Best practice to update website links after web-site re-design and structure update

I have just finished my web-site's re-design, so now all products have different, more user friendly URLs. Old link: `mysite.com/show_product.php?uid=cool-product` New link: `mysite.com/products/category/cool-product` The problem is that old links appear in Google index and/or referred from another web-sites. Now anyone who follow them gets `404`, including those who comes from Google. What is the best practice in such situation?   * implement redirects to make sure old links work? What if I change the structure again later? Will I end up supporting redirects of redirects of redirects?   * remove old links from Google index (will I lose my position in Google after that?)   * Something else? Thank you.


Redirecting non existing post to homepage; is that good for SEO?

I am checking my website out on `Google Webmasters` and I am seeing an astonishing 5000 links that could not be found by Google's Crawlers. That's normal, because my website is built in a manner that users can drop their own things, which also lead to `404 pages`. Not a problem at all if I can find a workaround of course... So my question is: what if I made a function or a mod rewrite that will check if the link exists (a post for example) and if not, it will redirect it to the home page. Is this good for `SEO`? Will Google see this as 'link found'? How do I have to look at this problem?


Removed pages. set them 404 or 301 to home page?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  SEO: ecommerce item deleted by user, 301 redirect to HOME PAGE or 404 not > found? I decided to delete about 2000 pages because of panda update. Should I just set them 404 or redirect them to home page with 301 ?


What is the most compatible video player?

I have a number of videos that are each in WMV, MP4 and FLV format that I will be hosting. I would like to embed a video player that, when activated, will automatically select and play a compatible version of the video. This means that the website visitor will not have to guess what format will work for them. My initial search ended up with http://videojs.com/ but before I go and start tinkering here, I would like to hear any experience here? The video player must work, without failure in IE6+, Safari 4+, Opera 10+, Google Chrome 7+ and Firefox 4+.


How to add a certain parameter (ad_id) to URL?

On my WordPress site, there is a page `http://www.example.com/doc/list/` that dynamically shows all DB entries (76,000). Google does not index the different entries. The URLs looks like this `http://www.example.com/doc/list/44444/name/`. How can I tell Google that the `/44444/` is the parameter that makes the content unique, even if the name is the same? I read the Google Webmaster Tools help for URL Parameters, but don't understand how that applies to my problem. So far I am not able to produce a sitemap that contains all these URLs with available plugins.


**How can I check the position of newly indexed pages within Google Search** Exactly what the title reads what is the best way of finding out the position and page number of newly indexed pages within Google Search.


How to publish the NewRelic tags using Google Tag Manager?

The tag for NewRelic consists of 2 parts: one for the head and one in the body. How can I publish this tags using Google Tag Manager?


Web traffic analysis of third-party sites

Is there any way we can know how many people landed on an article page of a third-party site directly or by searching from Google?


Fixed Mini Feedback Form Widget on the Bottom Corner of a Web Page

On some websites, there are fixed mini contact forms on the bottom corner of a web page. An example website is Olark. I couldn't find out the name of this kind of form apps. Does anybody know what they are called and is there any ready made component or tutorial how to implement them? ![Contact form minimized on the corner](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gppmz.png) ![Contact form expanded](http://i.stack.imgur.com/dbq01.png) Note: There is a similar widget question here as well: What is the online survey/feedback widget that looks like "[+]" (a crosshair) in the bottom right


The site of football club (CMS ready fo use)

Small football club wants to build your own site. Main sections: news, interviews, reports on matches, statistics, a list of players (photos, achievement), tournament standings, communication forum fans. Maybe there are special engines (CMS) designed for this purpose? Scripts statistics and tournament standings of teams in the table should be integrated into the site.


What bots are really worth letting onto a site?

Having written a number of bots, and seen the massive amounts of random bots that happen to crawl a site, I am wondering as a webmaster, what bots are really worth letting onto a site? My first thought is that allowing bots onto the site can potentially bring real traffic to it. Is there any reason to allow bots that are not known to be sending real traffic onto a site, and how do you spot these "good" bots?


How long does it take for Google to remove page from index? Or, why aren't these pages excluded?

A set of pages are marked as `noindex` and `nofollow`, both in `robots.txt` and with `X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow` When checking with Google Webmaster Tools, the pages are reported as _"Denied by robots.txt"_ , which is nice. Also, as mentioned in this answer, disallowed pages may still be indexed even if not technically crawled, cause that's how Google rolls. However, after adding the `Robots-Tag` two weeks ago, the pages still appears in Google search results. For example, this test page http://www.english-attack.com/profile/scott-s- sober is found when searching for its `h1` title _"Scott S. Sober"_ https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Scott+S.+Sober%22 Why is this?


How do you add scroll bars when window's width is reduced

I have completed a login webpage, which gets distorted when the browser is narrow. I added `min-width` property to my body tag, but this does not help.   1. How can I keep all the contents fixed when the webpage is narrow? I don't mind having scroll bar.   2. What is causing this problem? Is it related to different browsers?   3. Can using some form building application help overcome this issue.


Discrepency in Google Analytics between user count in audience overview and users per browser

Having a bit of an issue with Google Analytics. We use it in my workplace for 90+ sites. In the past number of months there is an issue with the count of users. In the Audience Overview section for a time range, the 'Users' total is 250k. Based on the the previous time for the same period for the previous year it is down 750k. Now, fair enough, there have been changes in the how GA calculates users, not an issue. However when I create a custom report of Metric 'Users' and Dimension 'Browser' I get a the same total as the Audience Overview 'Users' total but the 'Users' per browser are way above the Audience Overview total. For example our number browser #1 has 500k users and browser #2 is 275k and so on. When I run the same report for the previous year the totals of each browser match the total 'Users' in the report which also match the total for the Audience Overview report. Is there a specific reason by the totals are not summing?


What is Google's tolerance about cloaking with unwanted crawlers (fraudsters, scammers, etc)?

We have a classified ad website. Some fraudsters, scammers and kids crawl the content. Some can be:   * aggressive, running several EC2 with multi-threaded curl requests resulting in 100'000s requests per hour.   * unfair, they will use the content for their website.   * dangerous, they will use the content to spam (email or SMS) the users.   * very dangerous, they will try to scam the users. To protect our users against them, we would to do some cloaking (only with these limited and unwanted crawlers): modify the phone number, scramble the text, etc. Is Google tolerant with this kind of cloaking?


Is there a way to distinguish Analytics logs between Universal and pre-universal code?

I'd like to filter the Analytics log by the version of the code who made them. The goal is to grant that all the Analytics logs id done by the new Universal version.


Should I include the current language code in <link rel="alternate" hreflang="" />?

I have a multilingual site and I have the following `<link rel="alternate" >` in the head section.               <link href="http://www.example.com/en" rel="canonical" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com/en" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="http://www.example.com/ja" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="zh-CN" href="http://www.example.com/zh-CN" />     <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ko" href="http://www.example.com/ko" />     <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.example.com" hreflang="x-default" />       I have read several articles including Google guidelines, but I'm still confusing to include the current language code for `rel="alternate"`. In the example above, the current languague is `en`. Should I include `<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://www.example.com/en" />`?


Is GoDaddy a good hosting service?

I was looking for a basic hosting, not big one, with a least 1GB of storage. I took a look at GoDaddy, and it has great prices and really give a lot for that amount. So that's why I'm wondering, since they have really cheap plans, do you recommend it? If not, can you give me an advice where to get one? I was interested in their Economy 4GH plan. I just need, MySQL , PHP, and at least 1GB storage, and 2 DB at least


How should I upload videos to Amazon S3?

I have a project which is basically a website like YouTube. I am hosting my videos with Amazon S3. I am confused as to whether I should upload videos (200mb+) by a PHP script or by browser-based upload. What I mean by browser-based is uploading the videos directly to Amazon S3 using JavaScript and REST. Which is a better way of uploading videos to Amazon S3?


Only IPv6 errors in apache error "file does not exist" (while the file exist in IPv4)

**Situation:** VPS with Apache, multiple websites. Document root is `/var/www/html` but nothing can be found there because the files of the websites are found in `/domains/mywebsite.com/public_html/` **Problem:** I'm getting "file does not exist" errors in the Apache error log and they are always related to clients with an IPv6 address. No errors are shown with an IPv4 (except for the regular hack's on pages that don't exist on my VPS). The files that can't be found are most of the times existing webpages on one of my websites. **Analysis:** I have visited my own webpages with a web browser that the errors are referring to but no problems occur and no extra error log in my Apache error log while I'm visiting those pages (and I use a IPv4 address). Example 1: [client ---IPv6 address---] file does not exist: `/var/www/html/specificwebpage, referrer: https://www.google.be/` The "specific webpage" is one of my webpages of one of my sites (and is rewritten by .htaccess to specificwebpage.php). Example 2: [client ---IPv6 address---] file does not exist: `/var/www/html/css, referrer: http://mywebsite.com/subdirectory/` When I visit this webpage (its rewritten by `.htaccess` to `subdirectory/index.php`) then there are no error seen in my browser and no extra error log line in the Apache log.


Upload image, resize, and save multiple copies in ASP.Net VB

I need to allow users to upload an image to a web server (running IIS7.5, + sql server 2012), the web application it being written in ASP.NET(4) VB. I want to allow the user to select am image, then click upload, i then want to check if its under a certain size both pixels and file size, and only jpg or png. Once we know its a usable file, upload it to the server and save (for example) 3 copies of different sizes (thumbnail, medium size and original) What is the best way to achieve this? I am also running PHP on the same server so this is an option.


Font rendering issue

I realized there are problems about how fonts are rendered in different browsers/OS for a site I'm working on. I'm using Cantarell from Google Web Fonts, size 16px, it that matters. Here is some screenshot. Firefox Ubuntu, good: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/oLPQL.gif) Firefox WinXP, good: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ksHQy.gif) Chrome WinXP, bad: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/pct7k.gif) IE WinXP, bad: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/9QgwH.gif) I can assure that in a page full of text the problem manifests greatly. Why this happen? Any trick to fix the issue? **-- EDIT:** I'd like to clarify what the problem is: in Chrome and IE, if you look closely at the `€ 500 stats` part, you will see spurious pixels making the font really ugly.


abusive registration?

I once owned a gTLD domain that was none profit, there were a fair few links around the internet that linked to my site from other respected websites. After my work was complete on this domain, I unfortunately let the domain fall to auction as I did not auto-renew. Now this domain has pornography on it by the new owner and I am very worried as children may click on the links (containing my company name)found around the internet. Please can someone advise me on the best route to sort this out? could this be considered an abusive registration? Thank you very much for your help.


Error in Custom Domain Name for my Tumblr account

I have a top level domain (harib.co.in) which already hosts a WordPress powered blog. I need to associate it with my tumblr account (harihb.tumblr.com). In my blog settings screen, I selected 'Use custom domain name' and entered my domain name there. When I clicked the button "Test your domain", it says               This subdomain’s CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. You need to change your subdomain’s CNAME to:         domains.tumblr.com      I logged in to my registrar's control panel and deleted the existing A records and added a CNAME record. It finally looks like this               harib.co.in    domains.tumblr.com      After waiting for about a day, I still couldn't get the redirection done. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/hzWY5.png) Please let me know what is the mistake that I'm doing? EDIT: Now, I am getting page not found error whenever I try to access harib.co.in which means the CNAME has been validated, right? However, the settings in Tumblr page still gives               This subdomain’s CNAME is not pointing to Tumblr. You need to change your subdomain’s CNAME to:         domains.tumblr.com


Reference single javascript file from many web applications

I have a javascript file (called `secure.js` that has several functions defined in it. I also have a Visual Studio solution with ten different ASP.NET web applications. I want to be able to call the javascript functions in `secure.js` from aspx pages in all of my applications. Do I have to copy the .js file into a directory under each of the applications, and in my aspx pages reference the `secure.js` file that is local to that application? Is there a way to serve up the javascript file from a single location (something like jQuery being referenced from a CDN)?


iPhone-like jQuery Text Flipper?

I'm looking for a jQuery-based, cross-browser (with support down to IE7), text "flipper" with behavior similar to that on the iPhone. I think it's an iOS 5 feature - if a text message or other notification comes in while I'm doing something else on the phone, a small horizontal region at the top (full width and maybe 15-20 pixels high) shows up with some text. After a few seconds, the rectangular region and text "flip" and fade away. I'd like to do something similar on a web page. But in addition to the flip/fade effect, I need the text string to change to the next one is a list. I might have 10 or 20 strings all together - I'd like each one to show up for a few seconds, flip/fade to the next one, then start the entire list again after reaching the end. Anyone know of a jQuery plugin that does this?


How to merge www.mysite.com and mysite.com on google AdSense?

I am new to Google AdSense. I have a small website (let's call it `www.mysite.com`). Unfortunately, AdSense handles `www.mysite.com` and `mysite.com` separately (different stats). How can I merge these in AdSense? I saw some documentation about implementing a 301, but now really sure how this would help. After all, both `www.mysite.com` and `mysite.com` do get me to the same site/page already.


How does the Google country search filter change results?

E.g. If I search for a result in www.google.co.uk, then afterwards I click "Search Tools" and select "Country: UK" from the "Any Country" dropdown, the results will change... But how does country UK change things when I'm already using google.co.uk? Why do both exist? I'm confused :/


Difference between two kinds of Bing URL Referers

Most of the referral URLS that I get from Bing have the following syntax: `http://www.bing.com/search?q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]` However I just noticed that maybe 10-20% of them are coming in like this: `http://www.bing.com/url?source=search&[some other variables]&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com/user-landing-page-on-my- site&yrktarget=_top&q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]` The first syntax gives me the keywords the user typed in, but the second actually gives me the keywords the user typed in _and_ their landing page on my site. I was originally unaware of this second kind altogether because I have a customized referral report that filters out URLs containing my domain. But now that I noticed them I want to know why they occur to see if I can get more to occur this way because the second syntax contains more valuable information. If I go to one of the first URLs, it gives me a typical Bing query page. The second URLs seem to just redirect me to the Bing home page. I'm not sure if it has to do with the kind of search being performed (I also get a few `http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=` referers) or some other metric. **Does anyone know what causes some referral URLs from Bing to have the _/search?q_ syntax and others to have the _/url?source_ syntax?** P.S. I have verified that I am getting both kinds of URLs from non-advertising clicks. P.P.S. I am not talking about data in Google Analytics or similar software but the raw $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] value coming from the client's original request.


Preventing download of files while allowing them to be viewed

We have a site with a login area for customers to download documents that the client uploads for them. Got some 'sensitive' documents though that the client is forbidden from making available for download, but are allowed to display in the login area, provided the file can't be downloaded by the user. Obviously as soon as the information is on screen there are ways of capturing it, but I think as long as there's no file > save (or right click > save as) kind of option possible then it's OK. Better still if the information couldn't even be copy / pasted. Any ideas how something like that could be achieved?


How to track HTTP and HTTPS from the same Google Analytics account?

I have a website with tutorials and a discuss forum. The website load on http protocol and the forum load with https for security reasons. For both of them I run the default Google Analytics code, but I saw that the forum it's mot tracked. Besides that, in Analytics, landing pages are noted very weird:               /forum/http://my-address.com      or     /article_id/http://my-address.com     or     category/article_id/http://my-address.com      The tutorial site is like `http://example.com` and the forum is like `https://example.com/forum` Can I track both of them with only one Analytics account?


How to noindex a 404 page using .htaccess?

I have several 404 not found pages which I would like to noindex through _.htaccess_. how do I do it with `X-Robots-Tag`?


How do I block US users from my website without interfering with SEO?

My website uses Apache 2.2.14 (which forwards all requests to Tomcat underneath). I need to block all US users from accessing the website (and potentially users from other countries). But importantly I do not want this to interfere with any any Google/Bing/Yahoo indexing and page ranking (the bots must be allowed access). What is the best way to accomplish this?


How to keep a local copy of all images and still serve images from Amazon S3?

I'm using amazon s3 to host assets for my site (mainly images). At the moment when a user uploads an image via a form, the php script uploads the image directly to my bucket on s3. I would like to keep a local copy of every image that's uploaded so that if amazon decides to drop me as a customer for whatever reason, I will at least have all my images to backup from and not have my site be forever lost. Right now I am doing manual backups by downloading all the images that were uploaded at the end of each day via the Control Panel on the AWS site. I'm looking for a better automated way to achieve this. I'm sure there are others that also keep a local copy of assets and use amazon to host just for the CDN benefits. What method/script or tool do you guys use to achieve this?


Should I use a subdomain or subdirectory for a Q & A forum section of a site?

I run a coupons and deals website in a niche market, and I'm in the process of adding a questions and answers section to it. Based on my research, I found popular websites that use either subdomains or subdirectories for the Q & A forum section of their site. What I want to know is, which is a better option, and if there are any advantages of using one over the other?


Should I ping to Google sitemap-index.xml or only the sitemap file that has been modified?

I have a sitemap-index.xml with 7 files. After updating one of the 7 with new content should I ping Google with the index file or with the updated file? In my index I also use lastmod so Google can see when downloading it which item is newest.


Page load speeds effect on crawl rate

We've noticed a big drop in the total pages crawled per day on our site, we have no control over the crawl rate in Google Webmaster Tools so it's possible this has been changed by Google. However it's a fairly large site and I wouldn't of thought that the crawl rate would've been decreased. What we have noticed though is a sizeable increase in page load times, in my mind this would be the cause. Can anyone else confirm if the crawl rate is directly correlated to page load time? Seems logical, longer page load time, less pages crawled. Any decent documentation on this would be appreciated, I don't normally have any input on SEO so this is new to me.


Hosting plan Specifications preference to create an Online Image Editor

I intent to create an Online image editor like http://pixlr.com/editor. I want to use ASP.NET as the P-language and so prefer windows hosting.What should i look for like Bandwidth,Space,Database etc.I wonder how many concurrent users can use the site(with/without db connection)


Recommended online monitoring services with similar bare-bone scripting feature than Alertra?

I'm looking for an online service which would allow me to regularly trigger a sequence of `GET`s and `POST`s against a https website in order to mimic a simple web site navigation. The service should also allow handling of cookies. I've registered a free trial account at **Alertra** and successfully leveraged their simple, yet efficient **scripting language** to do just that. As I'd like to be able to _choose_ , I'm looking for some alternative online services with similar scripting functionality. I've made some research but I've only found two kinds of offers   * Services that only monitor one URL at a time (not a sequence of them)   * Services that provide you with a tool to record a navigation and replay it in cloud hosted browsers (which is far too heavyweight, as I don't need to "visualize" the user interaction) Would you know any other online service that simply leverage the HTTP protocol through script?


How can I measure website page load times from different countries?

Recently, I migrated one of my personal projects into cloud and hosted the app on UK based servers. I reside in Turkey and I would like to see how long it takes for my pages to load for UK based users and those from other countries. I tried to ping the web site but I am getting time outs. I think it is because of the load balancer. Are there any services around that will allow me to monitor my website's page load times around the world?


Is there a way to hide from Alexa?

My competitor is using Alexa to see what I am doing. I need to get rid of my sites from Alexa. How to do so? How to kick out all Alexa toolbar bot requests or mislead them to other places?


Google Webmaster Tools shows invalid data

Webmaster Tools shows 1 URL error (not found page). The report says that 5 pages are linking to a page (let's call it x) that does not exist (and because it doesn't exists it returns a soft 404). HOWEVER, I look in those 5 pages (in the source code) and none is linking to the x page. It is like Google sees an old page that was indeed pointing to x. What is the problem? How do I know if Google cached an old version for those 5 pages?


can source code be downloaded from server?

I am developing an asp.net website and decided not to have a database. I need to store 5 sensitive data so I decided to create 5 private variables on my code. They are well protected and readonly but I am concerned if sourcecode can be accesed or downloaded from the webserver, I mean hacked. The hosting is provided by go daddy with ssl protection. Thank you.


SEO effect on retiring a subdomain

I have a website `mysite.com`, which had a subdomain which was very popular in Google: `abc.mysite.com`. Due to a site redesign we had to consolidate the domains and the content of `abc.mysite.com/*` now started appearing in `mysite.com/abc/*`. After this change I am seeing sharp decline in SEO traffic. I have proper `301` redirects in place, but still the SEO is degrading by day. Any insights on why this may be happening?


google result only shows canceled domain

I created a blog with blogger. Then I took .tk domain for my blog. However later I bought .com domain. Then I canceled my .tk domain. now google search shows .tk results. But ger error once click that results. Can't find .com doman results. what should I do. Thanks in advance.


Is it recommend to create sitemaps with query strings (i.e. URL parameters)?

I am considering creating a "My products" page on a site where a user will be able to search for product information. This page will also display the product information. I need google to know about my products, but since these will be on one page, I am considering creating a `sitemap.xml` with query strings, something containing all the links with the URL parameters:               http://www.mywebsite.com/myproducts.html?productid=1     http://www.mywebsite.com/myproducts.html?productid=2     http://www.mywebsite.com/myproducts.html?productid=3     ...      Is this a recommended practice? Or is it considered harmful?


Diagnosing Bootstrap 3 Glyphicon Button Icons Not Showing

I have a glyphicons in Bootstrap 3. They work very nicely here:   * latest Chrome   * latest Firefox   * latest Safari   * latest Explorer   * latest Android  At one facility, the glyphicons don't show. The buttons come up blank. How do I troubleshoot? They are security sensitive there. I don't have systems or network access.. and am not in a position to request that. Troubleshooting with advanced tools isn't going to happen. Here's what I have access to:   * Internet Explorer 9   * Behind a very secure firewall Sometimes, I think the glyphs not showing is the IE 9.. but my code should be addressing that. Sometimes, I think their firewall is blocking the CDN. Can I enter a URL into a browser to test if the CDN is there? Sometimes, I think my FB share and like buttons upset this facilty's firewall, and they tie the whole thing down. Any suggestions at how I begin to research this? Or maybe you have an outright idea for IE 9 and glyphs (though my code is very-very close to the demo's which work). **UPDATE:** I never did solve the problem of getting glyphs to render. However, out of deadline driven desperation I did do a successful workaround: I switched to Font-Awesome. FA works as desired, though I like the Glyph graphic design better.


Tool for managing support requests from end users

I am looking for help desk webapp that can help a small team manage support tickets. I would like the tool to be able to convert email received via an email address like support@mydomain.com into tickets and any subsequent replies to be added to the ticket. The tool should also have a web interface where users can log on and post new tickets and track their progress. Support team members should be able to reply to the ticket from a web based user interface. Googling gets me lots of results but what I would really like is some recommendations of what the best ones are. I'm prepared to pay for the right piece of software but i'm not going to complain about some cheap or even free suggestions.


How can I create email accounts on my web server?

I'm wondering how to create an `info@domain.com` or any other email account (e.g., `john@domain.com`, `ann@domain.com`). What should I do? I have my domains in GoDaddy, but I would like to not pay for creating emails accounts. I have my sites on a server with Ubuntu + Apache as the web server. I don't have cPanel in my server.


SEO cost of garbage text

For SEO, "Content is King". I wonder what would be the SEO cost of garbage text inserted between descriptive content. The case I have in mind concerns ascii art. Such page would contain consecutive blocks containing a description of the ascii art, followed by the ascii art itself. Example:

here is an hideous kitty

        (%(//    (6%(        /%7%CCGG66%%C        (%7%%G#QO%C%(       /%7%%%OOGC777%/        77(%G6C6GQ%(%/        C67%%776%7%%%         (O%OGQQ#GCC         (77%G6CGQG%(         7%%%%%GQ%%C%/        (%77%%GQ6%%%%(       /#O((%GQGGG%%7(        O%7%%%OOGC%%%%(       (%%77%CGQ@Q%%%(%%/      /C%766OQQ#OQG6C777%(      7%C7%%6GGQGQO6%%%%7%     (7%77%OQ@Q#@#QC%((%%%/     (7%7%%GG(%OQ#Q#QGC%77/      7%77%6OOGQ@#%O6%(7%%/      /77%%6GQ@#QCOQGCO%%(        /(%C6G##@@QOO%%%/           ///(O@#@(/(/                /#@6/                  (GG#/                   /@@O                    /@@6                     Q@O             (      /O@O             @@6 /(QQ@@               (@@6@#

      or maybe worse, instead of `<pre>` element, the ascii art can be composed of consecutive `<span>` in `<div>` in order to set different colors to each part of the art. In both case, the page is full of textual data that are non-sense for a search engine. If this implies a negative impact on SEO, is there a way to tell the search engine to ignore these garbage parts?


Where can I find graphic artists who can draw clean Windows 7/Mac style icons?

Not sure if this should be a community wiki, but I'd like to find some graphic artists who can create beautiful Windows 7 icons (for use on the web)... somewhat similar in style to the image below. Does anyone have suggestions on who has a similar style? ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iMtlC.png)


I don't think my site is being detected/crawled properly/having backlinks, and it's ruining SEO

This is really frustrating. I'm setting up a computer repairs business called Darley Tech. I have listed my site on many online directories to encourage backlinks. I have relevant and useful information on my site, including a technology blog. The site itself seems to be fine. But when I check my PageRank, it's 0. When someone searches for "computer repairs ", I'm on page 21, despite having relevant information. I used a couple of backlink scanners and they all suggest no one else is linking to the site, despite it being listed in more than 15 other places on the web - in fact, people find my site through directories far more often than directly. What's going on? I can't figure out why my site is being penalized, if at all.


Google Analytics property permissions

I have a Google analytics account that contains 20 properties with only one login to all those properties. I'm trying to give permissions to a client for only one of those properties. How do I give them permission for a single property?


How do I choose the proper font & size for my site?

I once saw a textbook that recommended a certain pica range for each of several various fonts. Is there any online guide that's available? What are my options? What should I know as a beginner?


Configuring my domains for best search engine results

Couldn't think of a more decent question title, sorry. Basically, I have 3 domain names:               mydomain.com     mydomain.net     mydomain.co.uk      The website is actually hosted at the .co.uk address, using nameserver addresses. What is the best way to deal with the two top-level domains. Do I add the same nameserver addresses to them, so all point at the same place? Or do I do a permanent redirect through my domains control panel? Or do I add a redirect in my windows IIS7 web.config file. What I don't want, in Google listings, is all three domains listed. I just want .com or .net listed, but when visited, it goes to .co.uk site. Any help or suggestions gratefully received.


Sitemap file getting double compressed

I have a script that generates my XML sitemap and writes it to the file `sitemap.xml.gz` - i.e. an XML file, compressed with gzip. This file is definitely written correctly as when I download it via FTP it's all good. However, when I download the file direct from the site (over HTTP), the resulting file appears to be doubly-compressed. When I unzip the file, the `sitemap.xml` file is a binary file. If I rename that to `sitemap2.xml.gz` and try unzipping again, I get the true XML file. So I think the server (Apache2) is for some reason taking the `.gz` file and serving it with gzip compression again. The headers for the file come back as this:               Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK     Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:47 GMT      Server: Apache       Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:35:26 GMT         ETag: "89fff2-3bc46-4c4e6c48deb80"       Accept-Ranges: bytes         Vary: Accept-Encoding        Content-Encoding: gzip       Connection: close        Transfer-Encoding: chunked       Content-Type: application/x-gzip      In my httpd.conf I have this:               # compress all text & html:     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript application/javascript      My VirtualHost declaration only has some mod rewrite stuff. Anyone have any ideas why Apache might be sending the gzip header for this file? * * * **UPDATE:** I removed the `application/xml` entry from the `AddOutputFilterByType` line, and the file now downloads normally like any other binary file. However, the problem now is that regular `.xml` files are no longer sent gzipped. So it seems like the server is deciding that `.xml.gz` files should be parsed as `application/xml`, even though it sends it with the header `application/x-gzip`. Also, I checked the `/etc/mime-types` file, it doesn't have an entry for gzip and has this comment at the top: > Note: Compression schemes like "gzip", "bzip", and "compress" are not > actually "mime-types". They are "encodings" and hence must _not_ have > entries in this file to map their extensions. The "mime-type" of an encoded > file refers to the type of data that has been encoded, not the type of > encoding.


Opensource package for securly allowing users to log in and provide information

I have a site written in mostly php and html. I also have a sql database of personal information like names and addresses. I would like my users to be able to log in to my website with a login I can email or snail mail to them, and view and edit their information on my database. Users can currently enter information online I and store it in my database but they can't view or edit stored information. I can add the code to do this, but when I give users the ability to view information I suddenly have a lot more security concerns. Is there an open source package to deal with allowing users to do something like this? Or is there an established convention for this? I know this is a pretty basic question, and there might be some good literature about it that I have yet to find, so if someone can just point me in the direction of some of that information, or better yet give me firsthand some information about this that would be great.


How does server connection speed affect website performance?

A web host I'm considering quotes their server connection speed for their basic package as '15Mb/s burstable.' They offer an upgrade to a more expensive package with a '35Mb/s burstable' speed. I also understand that 10Mb/s connections seem to be common with shared hosting, that 100Mb/s are more common with dedicated hosting, and that some hosts advertise connection speeds of 1000Mb/s. What difference does network connection speed make to website visitors and general site performance? More specifically:   1. How can I evaluate what connection speed I'll need for a particular project?   2. What sort of projects need large connection speeds, and what sort will be fine on smaller ones?   3. What are the signs that I need to upgrade to a server with a faster connection speed?


GPL 3 and "webapps"

I am working on a "webapp" (no content by me, all user driven) and want to license it with the GPL 3. I do plan on having a tarball with the php, html, css, javascript, etc as well as an installer to set up a mysql database for it and some other small stuff so someone else can host a personalized one if they want (like phpbb). The GPL requires that the user be allowed to modify and run the modified software. I obviously cannot allow that on my server, but am not sure if that stopping the user like that violates the terms of the GPL. Also, I do plan on an easy, readable (probably csv) export/import option so the user can move their data around if they want. Is that enough to placate the GPL?


rel="nofollow" SEO effect

Google Webmasters Tools shows `rel="nofollow"` links as a backlink. I believe that `rel="nofollow"` helps SEO and PageRank but according to many people it is not. What is your idea about this? Did you see that `rel="nofollow"` links also helps your rank and SEO?


Does using free webhosting affect a site's search ranking?

We have two sites, one which uses free hosting and one which uses paid hosting. The site with free hosting is taking a while to get indexed by Google, while the site with paid hosting was indexed really quickly. Both sites are very similar in design, content, and keywords. This made me wonder whether using free hosting has any effect on the rate that a site gets indexed and, ultimately, on its search ranking?


Family History Website

I want to develop a website that has family history information. Something like Ancestry.com but much simpler. I want to display photos, family tree, have logins and allow members to upload family photos,documents,stories and comments and have tags for the docs and photos and maybe a message board and blog. Also, this is not for the general public but just my extended family. I'd like each person to have their own page with a bio, pics and information. Is there anything that already does something like this? I don't want to waste time writing this if it already exists. thank you I'm familiar with asp.net and php.


htaccess 301 redirect subdirectory one level deeper - why is this not working?

it is probably a stupid question, but I have real troubles figuring out, how to redirect /products to /products/item It is a simple redirect, no regex needed. The toplevel site /products should just always redirect to /products/item I tried:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RedirectMatch 301 /products(.*) /products/item/$1     </IfModule>      I receive the error, that the webserver is redirecting in an infinite loop. That might be because of the rest of the htaccess file. Which looks like that:               # Custom Rules     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RedirectMatch 301 /products(.*) /products/item/$1     </IfModule>          # BEGIN WordPress     <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>          # END WordPress      But the strangest thing: When I load the page, I get the error. When I then hit reload, it works??? Thanks for your help! ole


In Joomla how to change the module mod_news_show_gk3?

How can I change the mod_news_show_gk3 module to:   * Change the size of the post image. It uses the first image of the post, but it seems to not be resizing the image.   * Add an extra field: It is important to show in the main page what is the source of the post. I would then like to add an extra field during post editing time, namely "source", and then I would like to show the source below the title and before the text.   * Change the title size. Title is oversized and I couldn't find any way to decrease its size.   * Add a border around the section. Here is the address: `http://central.antinovaordemmundial.com/`.


Language Specific URLs for SEO

I'm currently building a website that is not targeted to an English speaking audience. So my thoughts are that if I were to make the URLs in the language of choice (in this case Spanish) then would this help or hinder my SEO for the website? Is it always better to have english URL paths for getting picked up by search engines?


SEO - multilingual issue

Hi   In my site, the multilingual path is look like: e.g. www.example.com/en/index.html I want to ask is it necessary to use sub domain for SEO best practice? e.g. www.en.example.com/index.html Thanks


.htaccess and 301 redirects .co.uk to .com

I want to redirect a `.co.uk` to `.com`:   * `example.co.uk/any-file-or-folder` and   * `example.com/any-file-or-folder` to   * `www.example.com/any-file-or-folder`. I've refered to this question/answer: htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains. Which lead me to write:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.co\.uk$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      Which redirects `example.co.uk` and `example.com` to `www.example.com` just fine but `example.co.uk/test/` does not go to `www.example.com/test/`. Any pointers on where I am going wrong?


Tumblr and Sitemaps

I was wondering if anyone knew how to add a sitemap to a tumblr blog. It was what i use to share stuff online. Since tumblr doesn't let you upload to > example.com/sitemap So there lies my problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.


How can I redirect URLs in Google App Engine to new ones?

I need to redirect a couple of my old URLs to new ones. I use Google App Engine for deploying my website online. Is _app.yaml_ the only way I can redirect the URLs? I am very new to Python and wish there was another way in which I could redirect my URLs For example: I have changed a couple of my URLs from `www.xxx.com/abc.html` to `www.xxx.com/folder/abc.html`. Since these urls are already indexed by Google and appear in a couple of forums, I want users to be redirected to the new pages when they click the old URLs.


Mail group managers similar to Plesk

I'm relocating my client's pages to a new server. Their old system was running Plesk and had some email groups and a few mail forwards defined. The new server has no Plesk and I'd really rather not install it just for the email groups either, so I'm looking for a new alternative for creating and managing the lists. Their main site is going to run on Drupal 6.x, so a module for that would be the preferred choice. I tried searching for one myself, but to no avail. Anything else that gets the job done will do as well, as long as the client who is not very tech-savvy can modify and add lists herself. The server is a Debian 5, root access is available. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.


Sitemap specified in robots.txt not found by Google

I would like Google to find my _sitemap.xml_ via _robots.txt_ , rather than having to manually upload it. My _robots.txt_ looks like this:               User-agent: *     Disallow:          Sitemap: https://www.recreyo.com/sitemap.xml      I've done the following:   * Checked via Google Webmaster Tools that _robots.txt_ validates correctly   * Checked that _Sitemap.xml_ validates correctly (via Add/Test SiteMap)   * Verified that a Googlebot has paid a visit to the site However, in Google Webmaster Tools > Crawl > Sitemaps it says "No sitemaps found for this site." The links listed in my sitemap.xml are not being indexed, while the landing page and related links _are_ being indexed correctly. How do I get Google to read my Sitemap?


Bot crawling my site, blocked it, now it's back and can't stop it

I had a bot of some sort crawling my site like crazy for the last day or so. It says in Google Analytics that it's from San Jose in the US. The IP addresses that appeared in the access logs were 38.99.82.224, 38.99.82.197, 38.99.82.229. I blocked each of those and then it stopped for a couple of hours. Now it's back and in the access logs, it says that the domain accessing the site is my own, i.e. `www.example.ie` How can I stop this? I blocked the whole range of 38.99.82 by placing the following in a htaccess file.               # Block Site Crawling our website #     Order Deny,Allow     Deny from 38.99.82.224, 38.99.82.197, 38.99.82.229, 38.99.82.0-255


Google crawlers screen size

Imagine a I have two types of images (A and AAA(heavier)) for the same website: depending on the size of the screen it will show one image or other. Now I'm wondering what images (A or AAA) loads the Google crawler when it visits my site. In other words: has the Google crawlers any "screen size"? I suppose, in case the it loads the A images, the page-speed puntuation will be better than if it loads the images AAA.


Vertically center h1 in div

I know there are various solutions posted for this issue here, but for the life of me I can't get any of them to work. For a responsive website I'm trying to center an h1 text in a div. Centering horizontally is not an issue, but I'm having problems getting it centered vertically. Probably I'm doing something wrong or misunderstanding the explanations I found here (and in all probability both). So as I'm probably interpreting earlier solutions given the wrong way, could someone please explain what exactly I have to add to the code beneath to get the h1 to center vertically? (As you can see, I've already stripped the code of all my previous attempts to do so myself) My CSS:               html, body {     height: 100%;     margin: 0;     }          #section1 {     min-height: 90%;      text-align:center     }      My HTML:

Lorem ipsum


How to find out successfull keywords in Google SERPs for a domain?

There are services and tools where I write domain name, keywords and it checks what position in SERPs these specific keywords are at      How do I discover the most successful keywords, the ones that have high SERP rankings, by entering just domain?


Mobile Redirect vs Mobile Responsive for SEO

Given that I'm using `<link rel="alternate" href="http://m.example.com">` on my desktop site and `<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com">` on mobile, is there any SEO reason for me to replace the mobile site and desktop site with a single responsive site? If I keep my separate mobile site, is there anything else I should be doing to ensure optimal SEO? Secondly, what is the most SEO-friendly way of redirecting `example.com` to `m.example.com` when a mobile user requests it? Javascript? Apache? Something else? Or are all these redirection approaches the same for SEO?


Problem loading a local file in html using the "iframe" tag

I am trying to load a local html file within an iframe but nothing happens. I hear this is a security feature of my OS (windows 8). I am designing a website that is not domain registered yet and need to load this local html file within my iframe as it contains my menu bar which i do not want to copy and past to all 8 (currently unhosted) webpages, as this would make further customization tedious. Does anyone know the correct syntax to load a local file (one that is actually stored on the same computer) and/or the security settings I may have to change?               <iframe scr="file:///C:/Users/davey666/Desktop/Dion/menu.html"> </iframe>


Why are other sites ranking for our content?

I co-run a job board, and part of our service is to post jobs that people post with us on multiple boards. The content originates with us, and we are basically the god version, any updates made on our site by our clients gets pushed out to the other job boards. The problem is, when you search in Google for the specific job by its title, we are nowhere to be found. Instead the other job boards that we publish the job to come up as search results. I have added a tag for `<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/117671874862128537527"/>` to try and tell Google that we are the owner of the content, which looks to appear correctly using their snippet tool, but we still are nowhere when it comes to searching Google for our content. Any ideas? A running example: `QUALIFIED HAIRDRESSER FOR SALON - HAIRHOUSE WAREHOUSE CHURCH ST, BRIGHTON` The content on our site: here Google search for the job title: here It's extremely frustrating since we are driving traffic to other sites for our own content.


Sharepoint 2010 as framework for website?

So I'm looking at several solutions for our new website. And we've looked at ExpressionEngine first and foremost. Now, during brainstorming today, one person said "why don't we use Sharepoint 2010 to build the site on?", and it doesn't seem like a horrible idea. I mean, we're based around Office anyway. We use Lync and have an intranet based on Sharepoint 2010 anyway. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Would it cost more to develop an internet webpage on Sharepoint 2010 opposed to using ExpressionEngine?


What is the best way to set up a company web site for little to no money?

I am starting a Corporate Consulting company and need a web site but I'm not a designer and I don't have a lot of money to purchase templates or to hire. Can any one suggest a known source for good and free HTML5 templates that are suitable for business and provide a good user experience?


How to limit the output of certain categories in the blog on Wordpress?

I want to display only the specified categories in the blog. Thanks.


When changing my domain name, can I preserve all the Google +1?

My website has the Swedish TLD but is focused on a Dutch audience. Google sees it as Swedish. So I have to transfer from `Bloei.se` to `Bloeise.nl`. I see the following steps and have some additional questions: **STEPS**   * Get my backlink profile   * Change or ask for changes on any links I can   * Implement 301's for the best links I can't change.  Would I also need 301's for links shared on G+? Can I transfer the pluses my page got or do I have to start all over?


Shared hosting site has issues

Although I have many years worth of coding experience, I'm a complete n00b at managing sites. So I need help. Basically I have this new site on a shared hosting provider, and sometimes I get these errors:               Warning: fopen(/home/baysescp/public_html/system/logs/error.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home5/baysescp/public_html/system/library/log.php on line 12          Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home5/baysescp/public_html/system/library/log.php on line 14          Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home5/baysescp/public_html/system/library/log.php on line 16      Also this:               Warning: require_once(/home/baysescp/public_html/system/startup.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home5/baysescp/public_html/index.php on line 21          Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/baysescp/public_html/system/startup.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home5/baysescp/public_html/index.php on line 21      These errors come completely randomly .. If I ever get such errors while I'm myself browsing the site, and I hit refresh, the site loads .. I am also monitoring my site through uptimerobot.com through a keyword search. Its loads my site every 5 minutes and searches for a specific keyword, to make sure that the site loaded. On most days it only registers a break in service like 1-2 times, each lasting not more than 5 minutes (interval). But a few days ago, for some reason it registered like 50 such disrupts ! And I was working on the site that day (developing behind the scenes), and I too faced a lot of slowness, non-responsiveness, and such errors. FTP was slow and non- responsive at times too that day. So what's the culprit here ? Is it something I need to configure ?


Switch off unwanted responsive behavior of widget

On a site that's intentionally non-responsive we're loading a class-schedule widget from a third party. But they've now made their widget responsive, which doesn't work very well for us. The widget loads through a bit of javascript. Here's the code:               <script type="text/javascript">       healcode_widget_id = "bk3750svbz";       healcode_widget_name = "schedules";       healcode_widget_type = "mb";       document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='https://www.healcode.com/javascripts/hc_widget.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"))Widget     </script>      We're happy with the content it outputs for desktop devices, but unhappy with what it outputs for mobile devices. The widget authors don't provide the option to switch the responsive feature off. Would there be a way to disable the responsive content/layout from showing and display the desktop content across all devices?


Whats the best module or method for A/B testing with Drupal?

I'm looking into rolling our company's static websites into Drupal. I need to ensure that I won't ruin our chances for split testing our designs and layouts. I have found several modules out there, and was wondering if you folks had any advice as to which ones worked the best and why. Additionally, if you know of any alternative methods, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!


SEO - why did my google search rank drop?

My nutrition shop websites for tampa and brandon were coming up on page one of google search results and now they have dissappeared. The 2 websites serve different markets although they are close geographically and have the same products, keywords, and layouts. Brandon, FL is considered a suburb of Tampa, FL and could be grouped into the Tampa Bay area. There's also a mirror site nutrition shop setup for orlando. Is the google search ranking drop because: 1) from a flash banner recently added on the front page 2) is the site just being re-indexed on all search engines b/c of new content? 3) is it seen as duplicate content as there are separate websites for the cities of Tampa and Brandon but with the same content? What can be done to fix this? Thanks!


Should I bother supporting IE6?

IE6 is deprecated and Microsoft is bent on killing it. However, I know that a lot of people still use it. Should I continue to support it anyways?


Should we still support IE6

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Should I bother supporting IE6? As an independent web developer, should I still be supporting IE6 on my own site/or client web sites?


How to get number of posts to appear in extended information section?

I have forums website, and I am looking through Google search engine, and I can see that some (not mine) forums have something like this under the link of the site: > 28 nov 2005 - Number of posts: 4 - Number of authors: 3 (This may not be exactly what this text since I translated it from my native language) How do I get this information to appear? What do I need to add to my forum in order for Google to catch it? I am aware of microdata, I just don't know which one (and how) should I use here.


Widget for accepting email addresses

I have a non WordPress website in which I'd like users to submit their email addresses. Is there a website widget that I can use to plug this in quickly?


Prewritten App for Used Car Dealer?

Is there somewhere I can find a prewritten WebApp (with database) for a used car dealer? The application would need to support the following:   1. Easy setup in a low cost Shared or Cloud Host   2. Give potential customers easy way to browse current inventory (cars on lot) with suggested prices   3. Give dealership easy way to login and update inventory (cars on lot) and suggested prices   4. Give potential customers easy way to send the dealership an inquiry about a specific vehicle on the lot with CAPTCHA style SPAM protection  I prefer ASP.NET MVC and Microsoft SQL Server, but I _might_ consider other technologies such as WebForms and LightSwitch (HTML5). I am reasonably comfortable with MVC and WebForms, but I really don't want to waste a bunch of time writing an application that might already exist. I did find a few interesting templates via Bing that seem to control CSS and Layout, but I'm not sure if they contain any business logic or if they would integrate well into an MVC App.


What is the best way to maintain translations of a user guide website?

I have static HTML files of a Japanese user guide website which I need to translate into English every time they come out with a new version. I've been using html2pot and using pootle to translate, then converting back with po2html. I'm thinking there must be a better way though, I just don't know what.


Good php+mysql system for managing library of books (book catalogue/database software)

Anyone know a good web based system to manage libraries (of books)? It's like a book catalogue/database software, but with web interface, because I want people to be able do searches / queries in the web system. I prefer systems based on PHP and MySQL, because in general they are easier to install and administer, but others are also welcome.


Routing and relative paths

CodeIgniter and many other PHP frameworks rout URLs, e.g. if default controller is root.php then both URLs will work               website.com/     website.com/root      if controller has a function 'login' then this URL is valid               website.com/root/login      This is very handy, but the HTML template that used to work in first example, doesn't work in the second, e.g. this relative path is no longer valid               <link rel='stylesheet' href='stylesheets/style.css'/>      and instead I have to use               <link rel='stylesheet' href='../stylesheets/style.css'/>      Is there a way around it?


Building a brand around a domain / word that has UK & American spellings

I'm trying to decide if I should run with an idea I have for a website, and the domain would contain a word that has an American and UK spelling. I can only purchase one of the spellings. I've inquired about getting the other, but I am doubtful that I could get it at this point. Is it still worth it to centre a brand / domain around a single spelling?


Accepting Online Payments in Canada?

I need a solution for accepting payments online via website. My first choices were Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments. Both of which don't seem to be available in Canada. Are there any alternate options or a way to process payments on site?


display adsense when ajax post is done

I have a main page that I want to keep ad free, unless a visitor submits a form on the page. In that case I would like to display an Ad on the page. I only want to display that Ad once and it will stay there until the visitor leaves. Now, I read quite some posts on here that this may be a violation to the T&C of Google and/or that there's no adsense for Ajax (fyi: I read this, also this, this as well and quite some other posts as well as the Google T&Cs). I feel this should not be a violation, cause I might as well display the Ad immediately upon loading of the page and since I'm keeping it static after that I'm not doing any reloading or anything. Any ideas or suggestions?


Text doesn't fit on ONE page - This same text is too large

Lets say I am describing the text in, for example, 2100 words for the same keyword. My purpose would be to have 700 words per page. Obviously I need to have 3 pages so I can divide the text with, in average, 700 words per page. The first page (where the text will begin) has doindex attribute, other two have noindex attribute. This way I can protect myself from getting visitors on the website in the middle of the text (second page) or at the end of the text (third page). So I can get visitors always where the text starts and that's why it is doindex. Obviously, since its the same text but split on 3 parts due its size, I am targeting the same keyword. All 3 URLs will have either exactly the same URL or similar. What do I have to care about so I create preventive solution in advance so I'm not going to have issue with duplication or cannibalization? What are the list of tasks I need to keep in mind? I have instinct that if I do this, it is very possible I will have duplication issue but don't want that or cannibalizaton. I already know that I should NOT use pagination but rather nofollow internal links from page1 to page2 and from page2 to page3. Anchor text of them should probably be the same - keyword which I'm targeting.