How do you get Drupal to go to a page other than the User Profile on login?

**ISSUE:** Please help, I've tried a few things to get Drupal to STOP going to the User Prolfile page on login, even installed a module called LoginToboggan; which has nice features, just doesn't stop Drupal from sending all users that login to their User Profile page. **Just to be clear,** LoginToboggan's "optionally redirect [of] the user to a specific page when using the 'immediate login' feature" -- is ONLY for new users, not existing users... Yes, I know, makes no sense. **GOAL:** Just need to be able to set the login page; don't need to set the page load based on role, but hey, that would be nice if it's not crazy complex. **Related Links:**   * Drupal   * LoginToboggan **UPDATE:** Figured out a fix based on my needs, see my answer below. Please feel free to comment, and/or post another answer. Thanks!


Should forum signatures be statically stored with the post?

I have seen forums do this both ways in the past, but I thought it might warrant a wider discussion. My question is, when a user posts in a forum which supports signatures, should that signature be appended to their post at the time of their post, locking in their signature at that point in time. The alternative would be to load their signature dynamically each time - meaning the latest signature is always shown... If the idea of a signature is to emulate the way it works on email, then the former is the way it should be done. I would love to hear peoples ideas on what their preference is and why.


site not loading with the www. prefix ( PyroCMS)

I am using PyroCMS 2.1 pro. With multi site manager. I have a website that I have setup as somedomain.com.au. It works fine, however when i type in the www. prefix the CMS tells me its not setup. If I go into the CMS and change the domain to www.somedomain.com.au it works but then doesnt work if we ommit the www. Should I be redirecting something or have I missed a setting in PyroCMS that I should have set.


web design business: use my personal name or create a business name. which will attract more customers?

I am about to set up a website to sell my skills. I already own a domain in my name e.g. `www.firstnamelastname.com` but I see other businesses around my area using a made up title e.g. something like `www.midlanddesigns.com`. I'm wondering if it make a difference? Would setting it up under a personal name make it more personal to customers? Or would a made up title look more attractive?


Which ads return more revenue

i have a blog, i want to display ads and earn money as part time work. Can you suggest me which ads bring up more revenue except Google ads?


AdSense is adding a meta robots tag with noindex,nofollow - would this negatively affect my SEO?

When I add AdSense code to my webpage, I noticed that AdSense has a meta robots tag like below:               <meta content="noindex,noarchive,nofollow" name="robots">      My page has no other meta robots tags. Would this negatively affect SEO for my page? Should I add a meta robots tag with `index,follow` to my page?


Can I use Google AdSense within a banner rotator?

I have 3 rotating banners on one 728x90 position on my website, so every time a page is loaded another banner is shown. One of these is AdSense. Is it legal, I mean is this strictly prohibited or not? Because, the code is basically stored in db table in my CMS module in Wordpress, so I guess it is OK. But I am asking to be sure. What is your personal experience? Does Google penalize sites with banner rotators?


Configure clean URLs using Laravel using a rewrite rule to index.php

Recently I've started learning `Laravel` , I have none experience with framework before. I'm encountering the following problem .I'm trying to configure the _.htaccess_ file so I can have clean `URLs` but the only thing I get are `404 Not Found` error pages. I have created a virtual host - you can see below the configuration file - and changed the `.htaccesss file` on the public directory. `/etc/apache2/sites-available`               <VirtualHost *:80>         ServerAdmin admin@laravel.lar         ServerName  laravel.lar              DocumentRoot "/home/giannis/Desktop/laravel/public"         <Directory "/home/giannis/Desktop/laravel/public">                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews                 AllowOverride All         </Directory>              <Directory /var/www/>             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews             AllowOverride None             Order allow,deny             allow from all         </Directory>              ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/         <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">             AllowOverride None             Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch             Order allow,deny             Allow from all         </Directory>              ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log              # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,         # alert, emerg.         LogLevel warn              CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined              Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"         <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">             Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks             AllowOverride None             Order deny,allow             Deny from all             Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128         </Directory>          </VirtualHost>      _.htaccesss_ file: `laravel/public`               # Apache configuration file     # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/quickreference.html          # Note: ".htaccess" files are an overhead for each request. This logic should     # be placed in your Apache config whenever possible.     # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/htaccess.html          # Turning on the rewrite engine is necessary for the following rules and     # features. "+FollowSymLinks" must be enabled for this to work symbolically.                    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         Options +FollowSymLinks         RewriteEngine On     </IfModule>          # For all files not found in the file system, reroute the request to the     # "index.php" front controller, keeping the query string intact          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>         RewriteEngine On         RewriteBase /         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f         RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]     </IfModule>      In order to test it, I have created a view named `about` and made the proper routing. If I link to `http://laravel.lar/index.php/about/` I'm routing to the `about` page instead if I link to `http://laravel.lar/about/` I get a `404 Not Found` error. I'm using a _Debian_ based system.


How to get useful feedback/bug reports from users

I'm sure most webmasters have recived a mail like this: > Creating [insert item here] is not working! When you check it out there is no general problem with the function but rather the user has discovered an edge case. Almost every mail I get is like this and in the long run it gets a bit annoying to always have to ask the user for more information. Is there anything I can do to get my users provide more useful feedback? Right now I have a mailto: for the webmaster mail in the page footer. I was thinking of changing this so that they have to report through a form on the site. Anyone got any experience with this? Do you get better/more reports by having a feedback form instead of giving the users the email?


How do I see what pages on the internet link to my site?

I thought I could see this through Google Webmaster Tools, and according to a help file, in Google Webmaster Tools, there should be an 'internal links' and an 'external links' menu item. But in my Webmaster Tools, there's an 'internal links' item, but no 'external links' menu item.


Search engine friendly, SEO blog software

Is there a comparison of the SEO capabilities of different blogging software/blogging plugins? I'd like things to be as optimised as possible. I have a basic grasp of SEO principles, probably 12-24 months old. I'm about to start a blog, after having a few previously. Also, I'm not up to speed on what pings are in the blogging world. What are they, and how do they work? I assume it is best to have blogging software that automatically pings.


How to transfer a domain (securely)

This might be a stupid question but I am buying a domain name from a private seller. It is an individual & not an established organization. How can I securely make the transaction so that he doesn't screw me and i get the domain & he gets the money? Does the 3rd party charge for it? Who can do this the cheapest (and still make a secure transaction)?


Which tool can tidy/indent HTML5?

I've already spent about 2 hours searching google and trying various tools but either they don't do indent tags per say or they aren't HTML5 compatible such as the famous HTML tidy which was last updated 3 years ago… N.B. I don't want to apply this to the source of a page (like PHP or JS would do) but to the code in the editor so that a clear hierarchy appears between tags. Ideally I'd like a Mac OS X tool but I'll take any online tool and in last resot a Wine compatible one. P.S. at the moment I use Coda from Panic


How to ban registrations from TOR exits?

I am getting far too many fake registrations through TOR exits. I would like to block these registrations like major sites do. What is the proper way to do that?


Ho do I get my website tools used by other websites

I hope someone can help me. I'm new to SEO and as of now have just about no budget. I'm trying to get more traffic to my site. Someone suggested that I use the tools on my site, shown in the links below, to generate traffic. I wondered how I go about this? What sites could I target and how I would approach this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. www.debt-out.co.uk/budget-calculator www.debt-out.co.uk/debt-test


Inserting WordPress in a site with .htaccess Rewrite Rule

I want to insert a WordPress blog in a website which is programmed in PHP and that uses includes() to select what content to show, and that uses .htaccess Rewrite Rule to get friendly URLs. The problem is that when installing WordPress in a subdirectory the rewriteRule executes and doesn't let the user get to the subdirectory where WordPress is located. One way to solve this could be trying to program the includes to include all the WordPress content, but I think it would be quite difficult (wouldn't it?). Advantage: CSS style preserved! The other solution I thought about was disabling the Rewrite Rule for the WordPress subdirectory (is it possible? How can it be done?). Disadvantage: CSS nod preserved, should be reinserted modifying WordPress files. The third way I see is to install WordPress in a subdirectory, although I don't want to use this due to SEO optimization. _.htaccess_ file:               \# Activar RewriteEngine     RewriteEngine on          \# When only 1 var is set in the url     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?lang=$1          \# When 2 vars are set in the url     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)?$ index.php?lang=$1&link0=$2          \# When 3 vars are set in the url     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?lang=$1&link0=$2&link1=$3          \# When 4 vars are set in the url     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?lang=$1&link0=$2&link1=$3&link2=$4          \# When 5 vars are set in the url     RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?lang=$1&link0=$2&link1=$3&link2=$4&link3=$5


What are the advantages and disadvantages of site mirroring

The user Jason Towne advised me to put this question here, rather than on SO. So here goes: ## Question 1: When sites are mirrored, the content of their respective servers is synchronized (possibly automatically (live mirrors) or manually). **Is this true?** Are all servers 'equal', or does a main server exists? which then sends it changes to other 'children servers'? So all changes have to happen on the main server, and children servers are not allowed changes? ## Question 2: **Expected advantages:**   * Global advantage: when a site that is originally hosted in the US is mirrored to a server in London, Europeans will benefit from this. They will have a better response time and because the amount of downloaders is cut down into two pieces (American and European servers) their download speeds can be higher.   * Security: When one server crashes or is hacked, the other server can continue to operate normally. **Expected disadvantages:**   * If _live mirroring_ is not used, some users will have to wait for renewed content.   * More servers equals higher upkeep costs. What other items can be added to these lists?


When should I add a subdomain to my website?

I'm working on the correction of a website. To keep it simple I added a subdomain to it and use it to install the template I was working on. Now - after fininshing the work, I'm thinking about keeping it (Order Form) on this subdomain and consider to simply delete the original one from the website. My question is about any problems this might cause. What are the pros & cons of dividing the website in subdomains - is there any disadvantage of doing so? Right now it looks like this:               www.exampledomain.com     www.orderform.exampledomain.com      I'm not sure if and when it would makes sence to create further subdomain for the other functions of the website?


WordPress bot issues

I need to implement a blog into a clients site as he is unhappy with his current basic CMS driven solution. It needs to suit both seo and the current style and as I'm a front end dev/designer and they don't have budget to redevelop - the only solution I can think of is to setup a Wordpress blog and restyle to suit. My only worry about this is the current press reports on WordPress being affected by webbots. I understand the main worry Is if you use an id of admin, but I'm concerned that regardless of this the site could be bombarded with bot requests and cause timeouts! Is this valid? If so is there any way to avoid this issue!? If not can anyone recommend another good SEO friendly blog solution!?


Site being repeatedly hacked: any useful tips for tracking down entry point?

I'm suffering from a spam hack where my site periodically starts to show Viagra spam to Google and other spiders. The method of the hack is basically that my .htaccess file gets modified to route all requests through a file called "common.php", which is a big chunk of base64 encoded evilness. I've noticed it happening on a weekly basis: every time I remove the hacked files, it pops back up a few days later. These are the steps I've already taken to secure things:   * Changed my FTP password   * Scanned my (shared hosting) directories for world-writable (777) files/folders and changed them to 755 or something more appropriate   * Removed old copies of Wordpress from unused directories (the site itself is a custom-written PHP CodeIgniter app)   * Downloaded the entire site to my local box and scanned the directories for occurences of strings like "base64" and ".ru" (spam domains?). I'm a little uncertain what to do next as the problem still seems to be there. Is there some smart shell command I can run to figure out how these files are being uploaded? When I last checked, the .htaccess file was edited today by my own FTP user despite me changing the password a week ago and logging out any logged-in users. I don't leave it logged in on public machines, and a few other administrators of the site haven't been given the new password yet. Any tips / ideas gratefully received. I'm happy to provide the output of any specific commands as needed. Matt


how to make sure an individual website is not indexed by search engines?

I'm setting up a personal website with a blog that I would like to be indexed by search engines. But the blog will link to CV with personal information that shouldn't be indexed. Can it be reliably achieved without publishing that personal content in non- document format (e.g. image)?


Google Indexing Issue after htaccess changes

I have a site called www.FuneralCoverFinder.co.za. I have about 30 pages on the site and usually have 29 indexed. (Excluding 15 blog posts) They are new. I recently upgraded my entire site and made some redirection changes in my .htaccess file. I have made my url's more SEO friendly (Removing index.php/) and redirecting dead pages to working pages. I have tons of unique content all checked by grammarly and plagium to ensure I have no duplicate content. I have since resubmited my sitemap to Google and now have only one page indexed. It was within a couple of minutes. I usually see results almost immediately after submitting, now it's stuck on 1 page indexed. I assume I might have made errors in the .htaccess file as this was my first attempt. The site runs perfectly and all the url's redirect the way they should. I'm scared I have some or other loop, although the website runs fine. I still see many of my old indexed pages in the SERP's, I'm just worried that the issue with the new sitemap can cause my rankings some harm. My website is pretty SEO optimized onsite. I have about 1500 indexed backlinks and have been building them steadily over about half a year. I would really appreciate some clarity on this matter.


What is the correct frequency of changing content regularly? Suppose I have a site "Seven Sea" having 5 links name as Home, About Us, Product, Sitemap, Contact Us. It is good for site to change the site content regularly. But is there is any minimum and maximum frequency for do this job. Suppose I do change my content daily then is that good for SEO point of view. OR suppose I change my content once in a year Is that bad for SEO. What is best or more better choice? A REQUEST: If this type of question already answered then give me that answered link and do not close the question.


I'm using a shared server, and as such Gmail marks my email as spam (all from headers are different from the same IP)

I have a shared server, meaning many people share the same IP. When I send an email, the `@website.com` is different from someone else that shares the same IP with me, therefore Gmail marks it as spam. For example:   * My website's IP is `1.2.3.4`. My website is `mywebsite.com`   * Person 2's website's IP is hosted by the same host, and as such their IP is `1.2.3.4`   * Person 2's website is `person2.com`. When they send an email, it gets sent from `theiremail@person2.com`   * When I send an email, it gets sent from `myemail@mywebsite.com`   * According to Gmail's spam thing: "Use the same address in the 'From:' header on every bulk mail you send." Again, the only similarities between our websites is the IP. However, this causes Gmail to mark both our mail as spam. Is there a way to sort this out with Gmail?


What are the dis-advantages of installing the ssl certificate for the naked domain?

I might buy an SSL certificate for my sie. I know that it will help me in many ways. But will there be dis-advantages also? eg.   If I load an image from another server (using plain http), will that alert the customer saying something is wrong?   Will I be able to use all existing codes like phpbb, awstats etc without a problem?   Will there be any issue if redirect a page from my **domain.com** to my **subdomain.domain.com** using a meta refresh or .htaccess?   Will there be any issue if redirect a page from my **subdomain.domain.com** to my **domain.com** using a meta refresh or .htaccess?   Any other issue that I might get into? Thanks.


Websites or tools similar to Ginwiz (mobile website creator)

I have a website which i want to make more mobile friendly(currently its not). While searching about this i found this awesome website Ginwiz; my website can be modified into an mobile friendly site without any additional coding. But i find two disadvantages with this website (free version)                 1)We cant add our domain to it with out upgrading          (i dont have enough money to pay for it)       2)We can only "Advanced edit" one page      Do you know any website which is similar to Ginwiz but can use our domain address instead of theirs (in free version). Do you have any idea about any tools which can be also used to convert my website to mobile website by trimming my current website easily.


SEO actions on a new domain that has only a launch page, for better future results?

I have bought a domain name for a website I will create in the next few months. I am really concern about the SEO for this new page. So, the launch page has a very good SEO score but my question is, what actions shall I make to build earlier for the future? Does the SEO actions are different because of a launch page?


Can I use same 'itemtype' in Microdata twice?

I have an Element in My website that it shows last update of my website: My curect structure of website is this:               <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/webpage"

...some text...

last update: 23/1/2014
 //last update for whole site
                The 'last update' is for whole website. Not for sidebar! Can I used 'itemtype' twice to solved this problem? for example Do you think this is correct?               <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/webpage"

...some text...

              last update:               <time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2014-01-23 13:52:00">23/1/2014</time>


Capturing site search parameters from the URL hash in Google Analytics

We want to capture aggregated, anonymous search query history for analytic purposes to improve our internal search engine performance and metadata practices. I found this article: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012264?hl=en Unfortunately, our search engine uses a hash tag instead of a question mark (nonstandard query string). For example: `http://www.example.com/search#q=search%20term` Is there a way to configure Google Analytics to recognize hash tag values in the URLs and capture these given a defined pattern?


Does Google App Engine allow adult content?

I am going to make a social photo album site with explicit adult content. I am wondering whether Google allows adult content/sites to be hosted on GAE? If so can you show some examples? if not, where is it formally stated?


Since Google actively supports the Music microdata structure, I would like to implement this on a site that publishes music mixtapes. In context of this website, music mixes are usually 60 minute compilations of music, weaved together in a seamless fashion, much like the experience you'd get when going to an Electronic Dance Music festival. **Problem with theMusicRecording schema** The format of the website doesn't match this microdata structure closely enough. For example, Google Webmasters indicates that my submitted microdata is missing the `inablum.name`, `location` and `startDate` properties. I have no desire of fixing these errors because they do not actually befit my content. **Alternative microdata structures** The main problem with alternative schemas is that I haven't seen official recognition by Google. Other problems are:   * BlogPosting The expected schema for content that is delivered through WordPress, the software on which the website runs. While content can be considered a blog post, its contents are usually little more than a blockquote from the mix artist, and a tracklist for the music used in the mix.   * Review While supported by Google, my content doesn't actually review the mix. It provides information about it. At best, my visitors' comments could be considered mini-reviews, but I have already structured them as Comments.   * MediaObject The main issue with this schema is that it's supposedly used inside another schema as a complement. I don't think it's a good solution to build my entire page's content around MediaObjects.   * AudioObject While more accurate than MediaObject, it faces the same limitations. **What is a suitable microdata structure for music mixes?** What I need seems to exist in schemas, but I only a little bit from each of them. Ideally, a schema that is _right_ for me, would include the following microdata properties:   * Name of artist who created the mix compilation (may be a sub schema, for instance a Person or PerformingGroup)   * Name of the mix compilation   * Artwork of the mix compilation   * List of musical works incorporated in the mix compilation, in order of appearance.   * Duration of mix compilation   * URL to audio file: the actual mix compilation   * Date of publishing   * Audio format and encoding (for example MP3)   * Comments about this content (may be in sub schema, for instance Comment) Perhaps someone could produce a example of a combination of schemas to include all required properties that Google Webmaster could throw errors on. I'm kind of lost at this point which schema is best for my content.


Google is appending branded url to title in search results with undesired capitalization

I work for an organization with a website domain that is two words that are placed together. For branding reasons, we always display the url as `Loremipsum.com` or `loremipsum.com` and NEVER `LoremIpsum.com` (referred to as camel-case). Recently, it appears that in Google search result pages the domain name with the unwanted capital letter is getting appended to the page title like: > This is My Awesome Page Title - LoremIpsum.com when we would prefer it to be: > This is My Awesome Page Title - loremipsum.com I have scoured the source code of the site and nowhere do I see the domain displayed this way. It certainly isn't in any `<title>` or `<h1>` tags. It is as if Google determined that this how the domain name should be displayed. I've looked in Webmaster Tools and Analytics to see if the site was ever claimed using camel case but can't find anything.


Changing nameservers breaks Google MX records

I purchased a domain from Hover and I'm setting up Google Apps for Business on it. I went through the steps to change my MX records to Google's MX records, and everything was working fine. However, when I changed my nameservers to my hosting service, FreeHosting, my GMail setup in Google Apps stopped working properly. Is there a step I'm missing, or do my nameservers need to be pointing to Hover at all times for my Google MX records to stay intact?


Does using HTML header tags as links have any SEO downside?

My homepage has several internal links which I would like to use as header tags. For example: `<h2> <a href="http://www.example.com/about/"> About example.com </a> </h2>` Does this pass PageRank to these internal links and therefore take some away from the homepage? Is there any SEO downside to using header tags as links, as exemplified above?


Does server location matter in same country?

I run a regional website in the US, where I'd say about 40% of our traffic and most of our returning visitors are located in 3 states. In shopping around for a new dedicated server I'm wondering how important location is, and whether it makes the most sense choosing a provider that is closest. I did find this post but it deals with the server being located in a different country. Does it matter where a server's physical location is? How important is a servers location to the largest concentration of users? Additionally, are there things to consider like making sure your servers datacenter is located next to a major hub?


Hide elements for Google

I have some elements which I don't want Google to see. Usually repetitive content, e.g. header and sidebar. As Googlebot doesn't handle AJAX requests, I load these resources with AJAX and insert them into the DOM. Does this cause any SEO problems? Does Google even recognize this activity? Regards.


What is the purpose of leading slash in HTML URLs?

I have noticed that some blogs posts have links using a value starting with `/` in the `href`. For example:               My Page      Does the leading `/` mean the path is starting from the site root? In other words, if the site URL is `www.mysite.com`, the effective `href` value is `www.mysite.com/somedir/somepage.html`? Is this a convention accepted in all browsers?


How to check VPS is performing optimally?

Like for measuring Load time of a website we have Pingdom tools, do we have something similar to measure if the VPS I currently have is good or not. I'm looking for some kind of metrics, because I have simple one page wordpress website which according to Pingtool takes approximately 30 secs and then timesout, that's pretty(x 10) bad. The same website on a different server takes 8 seconds. So I'm guessing something wrong with the VPS. Also I'm running Ubuntu with virtualmin on VPS. Its 512 MB ram and


Disabling well perfoming organic keywords in AdWords

One of the best performing keywords on my clients AdSense also returns them at the top of the organic rankings. Is it good practice to disable this keyword in Google AdWords and allow the organic ranking to do the rest of the work, and subsequently allow the balance to be invested in other keywords?


Google Maps links: deprecated attributes

When I validate this page, I'm getting kind of these errors: > Error Line 161, Column 438: The scrolling attribute on the iframe element is > obsolete. Use CSS instead. > > …95,0.023378&z=14&output=embed">   > > > ✉ Error Line 161, Column 438: The marginheight attribute on the iframe > element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. > > …95,0.023378&z=14&output=embed">   > > > ✉ Error Line 161, Column 438: The marginwidth attribute on the iframe > element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. > > …95,0.023378&z=14&output=embed">   > > > ✉ Error Line 179, Column 477: The frameborder attribute on the iframe > element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. > > …=40.566625,-3.261292&output=embed">   > > > ✉ Error Line 179, Column 477: The scrolling attribute on the iframe element > is obsolete. Use CSS instead. > > …=40.566625,-3.261292&output=embed">   > > > ✉ Error Line 179, Column 477: The marginheight attribute on the iframe > element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. > > …=40.566625,-3.261292&output=embed">   > > > ✉ Error Line 179, Column 477: The marginwidth attribute on the iframe > element is obsolete. Use CSS instead. > > …=40.566625,-3.261292&output=embed">   > Is there any way to get a Google Maps link with that erroneous code?


Increasing server speed(More info in question)

So I have recently been employed as a webmaster at a local High School, and I have walked into a nightmare. Their are 3 servers which hold about 300 WordPress/wiki sites for all the teachers. As well as the student grades via some 3rd party program called WordPress. Not to mention the fact that the servers are low grade 6 year old servers. The servers are connected to the main network in the school which is very bad because **Every single student is connected** (That's about 1000 kids using the WiFi for Facebook or whatever) along with about 500 mac books the school as in many different classrooms. Because of this the server take **FOREVER** (Best load time was 14 seconds, for the main page) to load anything but the school homepage. I have a small/no budget. How am I supposed to make this network usable? Is it even possible?


Duplicate content on the same page - SEO ramifications?

In certain situations, I've seen Responsive Design websites with duplicate content on the same page. The pages had duplicate HTML structure and content in some parts of it due to Responsive Design. For example, a menu structure for mobile layouts, and then a separate menu structure that is only for tablet + desktop layouts. So in these situations, where you have content duplicated on the same page, simply because a user was forced to separate their HTML structures to respond to different layouts, does this have any negative SEO ramifications?


Adsense image ads only unit is displaying image and text ads

Adsense 'image ads only' unit displaying image and text ads on my website. I have double checked to make sure that the adsense unit format is set to 'image ads only'. Have anyone else has experienced this and how did you resolve this issue? Thanks for help.


hreflang tag for different design and different site?

We are going to extend our business to a different language and brand (English, `abc.com`) rather than our local one (German, `bcd.com`). Whilst the content for both focuses on same subject, the design and site names differ. Can we safely use `hreflang` in this situation?


How to manually list set of urls for search engines to index

So I have created a video website which has thousands of videos and thousands of videos get added to it on a daily basis. Here is my problem :- I have created a website which basically loads the skeleton in html and puts all the content through javascript and Ajax. The problem is search engines aren't going anywhere except for the home page. Is there a way say in robots.txt where i give a link to a single html which has links to all these videos ? I agree my site is not accessible for a non-javascript user but stats show that this ratio is very low ( > 0.2 % ). Is there a way I can still keep the complete AJAX website and still get each individual videos listed on google ?


enable email on Godaddy when using Zerigo on Heroku hosted app

A little recap of what I have done ... and then my questions Q1, Q2 and Q3 1 - I developed a RoR app that I deployed on Heroku.               biowatts.heroku.com      2 - I bought a domain name at GoDaddy:               biowattsonline.com      3 - I am using Zerigo addon as for the DNS               heroku addons:add custom_domains     heroku addons:add zerigo_dns:basic      4 - Added my domains in Heroku               heroku domains:add biowattsonline.com     heroku domains:add www.biowattsonline.com      and subdomains               heroku domains:add calculator.biowattsonline.com      **Q1: Where do we configure the forward tohttp://biowattsonline.com/biogas_calculator ?** 5 - Configured GoDaddy adding the Zerigo domains In the Nameservers section               a.ns.zerigo.net     b.ns.zerigo.net     c.ns.zerigo.net     d.ns.zerigo.net     e.ns.zerigo.net      The GoDaddy DNS section is empty: "Not hosted here" Ok this works all fine ... http://biowattsonline.com is correctly found 6 - Subdomain forward I want calculator.biowattsonline.com to be forwarded to biowattsonline.com/biogas_calculator   **Q2: So I created the forward in GoDaddy ... but is that correct?** 7 - GoDaddy email **Q3: I have one free email account with go GoDaddy, only now that I am using Zerigo I don't know how configure GoDaddy to make it work again?... because it work with the default values** Any ideason Q1, Q2 and Q3? Thanks, Joel


What free icons fonts are available?

With the possibility to embed fonts in websites using @font-face CSS, some creative webdesigners developed their way to display icons using fonts, instead of images. But most of the available icon fonts (or "font-face" kits) are paid, such as:   * Pictos   * Fico   * Tipogram   * KDN Media   * IconMoon *free version, with less icons So, what free icons pack in font format do you know? _Please limit one "font-face" kit per answer - and include why you enjoy/recommend it._ **Edit:** This question can be converted into a community wiki, if the moderators want, because there is no best answer, and each response is welcome as a knowledge that can be enjoyed by many.


Which languages are supported by reCAPTCHA?

The documentation states that `"Any supported language code."` is supported, but then says: > Which language is used in the interface for the pre-defined themes. The > following languages are supported:   >  - English en   >  - Dutch nl   >  - French fr   >  - German de   >  - Portuguese pt   >  - Russian ru   >  - Spanish es   >  - Turkish tr > > If the language of your site isn't supported, you can always use custom > theming to put reCAPTCHA in your language.   * If the first statement is meant to mean:      * _Any language_. It isn't true because Japan (ja/jp/jpn) isn't supported as far as I can see. (Plus then, the last statement disproves the first one.)      * Languages in the list (above), then what about Italian? "it" is supported but not in the list. ## So which languages are actually supported?


Debating between different kinds of URL and see if one is more seo-friendly than other...

So something like `domain.com\x\y\z\t` and `domain.com\x?var1=y&var2=z&var3=t` (var1, var2 and var3 will be replaced by legit words that make more sense). **Which one is more SEO friendly?** For my purpose, second one seems more convenient, because it's easy to manipulate.


Enabling drag and drop in my CMS (Content Management System)

I'm using Drupal as CMS for my websites and I was wondering if there is a way to enable dragNdrop functionalities to upload images to the website. I mean dragNdrop images into the back-end (in the browser window). If not, can I build a desktop application integrating with Drupal ? (such as. Adobe Air application.. or something else..) ? thanks


Bootstrap responsive does not work?

Can anyone master take a look at my template travel website, I'm new in responsive design and have a template to reference. It was coded in responsive way, but when I open it, nothing happen. This is my site www.lacda.vn, could you guys suggestion any error. Thank you so much.


Magento e-Commerce cannot generate reports

Good day, My magento cannot generate reports from the admin panel. I get the following error: This report depends on timezone configuration. Once timezone is changed, the lifetime statistics need to be refreshed. Last updated: Oct 21, 2010 3:04:33 PM. To refresh last day's statistics, click here." I follow the instruction and refresh the statistics, still same problem. I confirmed the timezone is right and didn't change before... Please help.


wwwstumbleupon.com referring domain in web stats

I've noticed in my own stats, as well as searching on other sites, a fair amount of traffic that comes from urls that look like this: http://wwwstumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http://[mydomain]/[myurl] Which looks a lot like a valid stumbleupon referrer, but from a bogus domain. 'wwwstumbleupon.com' is not running a redirector themselves there, so I'm guessing this isn't something nefarious from the owners of that domain. Does anybody know if this is valid traffic from stumbleupon? Perhaps from a beta version of their toolbar or something along those lines?


What kind of algorithm is Panda

Matt cuts said in a Tweet : > Short version is that it’s not data that’s updated daily right now. More > like when we re-run the algorithms to regen the data. In my opinion, it tells us two things:   * Whatever algorithm panda is, it's not in the classic workflow of the referencing of a website.    * Panda is some kind of reranking algorithm which takes in input the 'classic' algorithm and penalizes aimed websites. what do you think about the last point ?


IIS XML encoding seems to be wrong

We are moving our web application from Apache 2.0 to IIS 7. Everyhing is fine with UTF-8 encoding, but just one thing. There's a flash movie in the page that reads an xml content (dynamically generated by php) which if served by Apache correctly displays french-specific characters (èé, for example), while if the same content is served by IIS 7 those characters are screwed up. "Hm, server encoding", I thought. Well I put in my script the line               header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');      before anything else; the XML content is correctly quoted with UTF-8 encoding:               $str = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';      and the encoding of underlying MySQL database and tables is utf8-general-ci. After that nothing changes: characters like èé are still screwed up if the XML is served through apache. What am I doing wrong?


Global UTF-encoding, the right way

I'm curious, as to what is the right way to have UTF-8 encoding on all web files **All my files (incl. CSS and JS) are made and saved in UTF-8 encoding** In PHP, I set the char-set on top of the main page (this page includes all others) with:               header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');      In the same page I have this html meta tag:               <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />      Then I stubled upon an external css file that has this on first line:               @charset "UTF-8";      And now I wonder, should I set the charset INSIDE all my CSS/JS files too, like that? And/or should I serve each file with _charset=utf-8_ in the meta tag? UPDATE: Character encoding of the linked resource (charset="utf-8") is obsolete


Blog on my Google Apps Domain

I just got a domain with Google Apps. What are the options for hosting a blog on my domain ? I know of the option of using Blogger hosted on my domain but was wondering if there are any other options ?


How do I design a website without relying on images and photographs, but still be eyecatching?

I've recently been charged with my first professional gig as a web designer. I've made a few pages before, very basic pages, that were for student groups or nonprofit organizations. Those were free and the client were more than satisfied with a product based off of a template or very simple markup. I'd like to go above and beyond for this, my first professional job. My client wants to set up a website to market his skills so he can consult while also working full-time. Since he is an architect he has an eye for design that I haven't built up yet. Also he has no images to share for the website. I would like to make a breathtaking design, or at least an eyecatching one. I've searched sites for templates but everything is so photbased, a privelege that I do not own. Do you have any advice on designing for a non-photocentric site? Or any examples that show it done beautifully while also being eyecatching? Any tips or tricks on how to have my cake and eat it too? Thanks


Why does google only index a part of my site?

For a while now I have been having issues with google indexing my site. For some reason it would'nt take over 33 pages from my xml sitemap: (images not allowed for new users...) It has been the case for the past couple of months. Why does'nt Google index my entire site? it's only 37 pages!


Has anyone used Genetify for A/B testing

I'm working on a small project that will likely run on Wordpress, I always like to run some split testing to improve conversion rates for various goals. Typically if its a small site that I either don't have a budget for or want to keep it as inexpensive as possible I use Google Website Optimizer if I do have a budget I go with Visual Website Optimizer both are great and affordable, but for fun I was checking out alternatives and found Genetify which is an open source project and has some neat features. In searching around I don't see many people talking about it and wondered if anyone here has used it. If so what do you think about it?


Is it possible to use Google Analytics to track file downloads?

It's always bothered me that Google Analytics (and similar embedded web traffic monitoring services) can only see a reflection of the traffic going to my server and can only see page visits since it depends on the browser executing a Javascript snippet. If I want to track real downloads of a software package (ZIP file), there's no way Google Analytics can possibly tell me that because its javascript can't be attached to a ZIP file. Is there a way I can upload my log files to Google so that the pointy-haired boss can see downloads of our ZIP/PDF/BIN files and not just visits to the download page?


Issue On Setting SEO For My Website

Can you Please take a look at This Demo and let me know why This Page of my Website is Presenting in Google Search engine instead of My First Page (Home Page). As far as I know and learned from Google SEO Tutorial I followed every thing standard for SEO on home Page! If you search Google with "vancouver spray foam insulation" criteria the page shows at 4th page of google.ca Thanks


Google search preview shows content not on the website

My website google search entry is messed up. In the preview in google search results, I get things like cracks, serials, random ip addresses. I scanned all files and my computer for viruses and malware and could not find anything. I also tried to download and reupload all content from a friend's computer and still that content persists. I also scanned the source code of all files, but the content does not appear in any file. Google also does not detect any malware on the website, as seen in their webmaster tools. I have searched using the same keywords in other search engines such as bing and yahoo and the search results there are fine. I am quite clueless as to what the causes would be for this and what would be a possible remedy.


black background & white letters or white background & black letters?

What is better for user? The site has a lot of text to read and I would like to make it as user friendly as possible.


Are there any differences between URLs with and without "www" and "http://"

Are there any differences among these addresses?   * `www.example.com`   * `http://www.example.com`   * `example.com`


Using mixed A-Type and CNAME

A (IPv4 Adresszeiger)     doc.domain.de.      IN  A   301 to domain.atlassian.net      jira.domain.de.     IN  A   23.23.xx.xx      domain.de.          IN  A   301 to www.domain.de         work.domain.de.     IN  A   23.23.xx.xx      www.domain.de.      IN  A   46.252.xx.xx         CNAME (Canonical name)     source.domain.de.   IN  CNAME   bitbucket.org.       test.domain.de.     IN  CNAME   domain.force.com.      Found this today at a customers domain settings. Planning on adding Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools. Will there be any problems with this setup? Could there be any problems with all these confusing redirects? `46.252.xx.xx` is the webspace host.


Do long domain names reduce or increase your PageRank?

Let assume if everything being equal, which domain name might rank higher if I search for "How to fix computer" term?   1. HowToFixComputers.com   2. htfc.com


Sitemap.xml.gz. can I have a compressed file with more than one sitemap in it?

I've got quite a few sitemaps as my site is quite large. Is there any way that I can have a compressed with with multiple sitemap files in it ? I've googled but can't find the answer to this


Can a web page have two keyword meta tags?

If I have 2 keyword meta tags on my page how are they read? Both together? Only the 1st? Only the 2nd? Neither?


Internet Explorer 8, content negotiation and missing file extension

I'm using Apache to serve a webpage that contain some images. I have imags in both SVG and PNG format, and use content negotiation to serve the format that a client understands. As a result, the files that are referenced in the HTML do not have any extension (i.e.  instead of ). This works fine in most browsers, but now I tested in IE8 and it does not display any of the images. It seems like IE is not able to determine the MIME type of the image, despite the server providing it in the HTTP response. Is there any reasonable workaround for this problem? Is the same bug also present in newer versions of IE?


Moving directory to domain and maintaining SEO

I recently completed a website for a client, which was hosted on my own personal server until we were ready to move it to their own dedicated domain. Inadvertently, the sub-directory got indexed when it still resided on my domain, and thus searches for the site show up for its existence on my server. I set up a 301 Permanent Redirect and put in a crawl request to Google hoping to rectify the search results, but unfortunately the results are still the same. All the literature I have been reading talks about setting up 301s when moving from domain to domain, but little to none talks about moving a site from a sub-directory to its own TLD. Is there a specific process to go about when moving a site from a sub- directory to its own domain while maintaining its preexisting SEO?


Can't add HTTPS site to Yandex Webmaster Tools

I've recently changed a website to run only on HTTPS. HTTP connections are 301 redirected to HTTPS and a HSTS header (`Strict-Transport-Security: max- age=31536000`) has been added. I've added the HTTPS version of the domain to both Google & Bing Webmaster Tools, but when I try to add it to Yandex Webmaster Tools it tells me the site is a mirror: ![Yandex add a site](http://i.stack.imgur.com/5DG3J.png) When I click the "add www.domain.com" link I then get a warning that the site redirects and I should instead add the HTTPS domain, which is what I've already tried: ![Yandex add a site warning](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Pkl1h.png) Is there a way around this catch 22?


Setting up mod rewrite

I spent hours in finding how to make my url pretty but no luck. I am hosted in DreamHost and using php under fcgi. I'm triying to make my:   http://www.wallpapers- football.net/wallpapers.php?id=705&cat=National%20Team%20Wallpapers   URL into pretty one :   http://www.wallpapers-football.net/705/National%20Team%20Wallpapers.html Why is this not working:               RewriteEngine On     RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /wallpapers.php?id=$1&cat=$2 [L]      my htaccess:               #--- DH-PHP handlers ---     Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI     AddHandler fastcgi-script fcg fcgi fpl     AddHandler php5-fastcgi .php     Action php5-fastcgi /cgi-bin/dispatch.fcgi          Options All -Indexes          <files .htaccess>     order allow,deny     deny from all     </files>     ErrorDocument 404 /404-Page.php


How do review sites backlink to review blogs?

I have discovered several review sites that link to blog reviews on the same subject. How do these review sites get their links and can this be done programmatically?   * One example is this site (Look under Bloggers' Review).   * Another example is urbanspoon.com which also has Blogger Review section.


301 redirects for all except me

i want to my site down for an hour and i was using               order Deny,Allow     Deny from all     Allow from my.ip.add.ress      but i dont like the default error page, is there a 301 redirct where i can redirect everyone whos not on my ip address to a nice and pretty page?


Identical spam coming from many different (but similar) IP addresses

A forum I run has been the victim of spam user accounts recently - several accounts that have been registered and the profile fill with advertising/links. All of this is for the same company, or group of companies. I deleted several accounts weeks ago and blocked some IP addresses, but today they have come back with the same spam. Every account has a different IP address, but they are all of the form `122.179.*.*` or `122.169.*.*`. I am considering blocking those two IP ranges, but there are potentially thousands of IPs in that range. They appear to be assigned to India (although the spam is for an American company) so given the site is for a western, English-speaking audience maybe it doesn't matter. My questions:   1. How are they posting on so many IPs?   2. Is there likely to be a limit to the number of IPs they have access to?   3. Is there anything else I can do at the IP-level to block them? (I am looking into other measures like blocking usernames/links.)


Meaning of Crawl errors

My question is about definition of **Crawl errors** in **Google Webmaster Tools**. Crawl errors is devided into few sections. Let's first consider **HTTP** section. I assume that all broken links in this section was somehow found by crawler, this is not the links from sitemap. If all this links was found by scanning pages from sitemap for links, why it doesn't mention what was the source page, like in sitemap section with column **Linked From**. Please correct me if I am wrong. **Sitemap** section. Looks like all those links came from my sitemap. But there is **Linked From** column, I already know, that all those broken links is from sitemap, so in order to fix the error, I should revise my sitemap. Am I wrong? **Not followed** section. I don't know what does it mean. Looks like it accumulates all links that caused redirect, but for some reason Google considers all those redirect as wrong redirect. Do you know if there are any set of rules how to determine wrong redirect. Actually I found were was my mistake, I tried to normalize URL and redirect it to the right URL, but I did normalization in a wrong way. **Not found** section. This section like HTTP section but with 404 errors. This section has **Linked From** column. But very often **Linked From** has **unavailable**. What does it mean, Google can not say me how it found this non existing page. How this section related to sitemap section. Does this section contains all 404 links from sitemap too. But there is too many 404 links, much more than in sitemap. I tried to take a look what we have in **Linked From** , and I saw that this link came from sitemap two month ago. But why Google keeps it indexed, the link is already dead, new sitemap doesn't have it. If there is any expire date for old links? **Unreachable** section. Looks like this section for 500 errors. This section doesn't contain **Linked From** column. There are too many completely meaningless links, I really don't know where this stuff came from, and without **Linked From** I am not able to figure out how to deal with it. Sorry for such a big topic, but I just want to make it clear, what every section stands for, because it's extremely crucial in order to deal with all those problems. Hopefully it will be useful not just for me. Thanks!


Redirecting to a default (or last visited) subdirectory. Does Google like this?

i have a site that has 3 web applications, lets use this example:   * example.com/nicy   * example.com/mash   * example.com/zoken The main application is **nicy** , so if the user comes for the first time (or if Google indexes my site) that will be the default choice. This is the code placed inside example.com/ **index.php**               <?     header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');     header('Location: http://example.com/nicy');     die();     ?>      Is this solution SEO friendly for Google to index the **nicy** subdirectory as the main entrance page for the domain? (because of the 301 redirect).


Github pages and custom domain issues

I have used jekyllbootstrap to setup my blog at primux.in about 2 weeks ago. The blog has been hosted at github pages at primalpop.github.com. Following the advice from here I have created a CNAME file and pushed it to repository and also added the relevant CNAME records pointing to 207.97.227.245. Now the problem is that, sometimes the website doesn't load at all from github pages. Most of the times, it loads the index page but every other url is broken. This has been the problem for some time. I initially thought it would take some time for DNS to propagate but it's been nearly 2 weeks now and still most of the urls doesn't work on the website. It has been frustrating to say the least when someone who reads the blog, comes back and say that the link is broken. Any help would be much appreciated.


What happened to HTML table tags?

I started to code HTML in 1998, and in that time I used a lot table tags, playing with tr and td, I learned many things analyzing the source code of many portals on the internet with notepad and Microsoft FrontPage, the latter, aw, how many tables overlapping others, it was fun, I loved that time. However, I abandoned web programming for almost seven years and this year I decided to see what web programming is like today. It seems completely different, as most sites do not use table tags, and instead use div and span tags. Why did this happen? What are these new tags and why are table tags no longer used?


Are the contents in the front page considered as duplicate of the post?

I asked this same question on stackoverflow, but closed being off topic. Therefore, I am posting it here. In Wordpress blogs, the front page of the blog will display many posts in whole or excerpts. When the link to the post is clicked, the content will be opened with an other template file(single.php). Can we say that the content displayed in the front page and the post pages are considered as duplicate? Does it harm SEO in any way?


Does keyword density within a title tag make a difference in SEO?

Recently, I changed the title tags for a site that I work on SEO for. See the changes made: Previous title tag: Flat Fee Listing in MLS, Flat Fee MLS Listing For Sale By Owner. Revised: Flat Fee MLS Listing | Sell Your Home for a Flat Fee Shortly after this change was made, the site dropped from a #1 ranking in Google to #2 for the search phrase "flat fee MLS". The site owner insists the reason is because we removed the second "MLS" term from the title tag. While I know keyword density is important within your site content, I've not heard of it being critical within your title tags. Any opinions out there? Could removing the 2nd occurrence of "MLS" from the title tag have made a difference in our ranking? Has anyone proved this to be the case within their own site experimentations? Please advise - I either need to prove this guy wrong, or correct my error.


Need a study about average latency due to HTTP request and server processing time when downloading images that are a part of DOM

I'm writing a thesis about css sprites and need to know the of the average HTTP request overhead when establishing a connection to download an image file that is a part of DOM. We conducted a study on one of our personal websites (the median time was 350ms) but this is server specific and can really screw up the perspective we have on the problem. Does anyone know a study that measured this for more than one server? An alternative would be some sources about average latency of serving image file by popular dedicated servers (such as nginx or Amazone S3).


eCommerce Site - CC Expiery Year Date?

I have an eCommerce Site and I am building the payment form. I have a dropdown list for the user to enter the year, how many years in advance should I program? I obviously start with 2013 and go up but how far in advanced should I program? 10 years? I do not want to have to few but also not to many. How far in advance is common?


Redirecting requests to a subfolder

We have multiple WordPress installations on our IIS7 (Windows Server 2008) Server as follows:               http://www.example.com/site_one     http://www.example.com/site_two     http://www.example.com/site_three      These all work properly. However we would like to configure it so that when users visit the root domain (`http://www.example.com/`) or any page underneath, ie:               http://www.example.com/     http://www.example.com/page1     http://www.example.com/page2      They would actually see the corresponding pages for `site_two`:               http://www.example.com/site_two/     http://www.example.com/site_two/page1     http://www.example.com/site_two/page2      How could we achieve this?


How is Facebook avoiding mixed content (SSL/non-SSL) warnings?

I signed up to Farmville and I get a URL like: https://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/index.php?ref=tab At the bottom of the page are ads which are served not using ssl - they are pulling in regular http calls. How are the mixed content warning dialogues suppressed? Is it trickery or due to frames?


Remember me or not?

_I was told to post this on webmasters instead of stackoverflow._ Is it safe to have the remember me feature? Would it be somewhat safe (knowing it won't be 100% safe) to allow users to close their browser and come back still logged in? I am not exacting sure which way I should go after reading different things about safety. I learned about session fixation and implemented security to add more protection. From experience, if remember me is checked then only your username/email appears and requires you to re-enter your password. Other sites allow you to come in and out as much as you way without logging out after the browser has closed. If it is safe, what is the current best way of implementing remember/stay logged in?   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3531377/best-practise-for-remember-me-feature   * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5087969/what-is-the-code-for-stay-logged-in-or-remember-me-while-user-login-in-php   * http://bytes.com/topic/php/answers/881197-stay-logged-remember-me-php-sessions-cookies   * http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/41/good-session-practices Also: The site I am working on is email & password login type.


Is it bad to use Japanese characters in search-friendly URLs?

I'm new to SEO and I'm implementing SEO-friendly URLs in my site. The code works perfectly, however I would like to know if using Japanese characters (Kanji / Hiragana / Katakana) in the URL affects my page rank negatively? I'm making this question as most SEO-friendly URLs (say, StackExchange's) remove all non-alphanumeric characters from the question title and replaces spaces by dashes/hyphens/minus signs (`-`) before putting it into the URL, which is basically the approach I'm using at the moment. However, many thread in a forum that I manage utilize Japanese characters in their titles (e.g. anime/manga titles), which would surely serve as good search keywords. So, are there any drawbacks in utilizing (properly url-encoded) Japanese characters in the URL or is it ok to use these? **update:** Couple more details/background:   * About 90% of our content comes from/is relative to Japan;   * We are a medium-sized forum where users are allowed to share and discuss content;   * We are a worldwide community, but due to the points above, users are expected to have a minimum of Japanese culture;   * The titles which I'm referring to are (99% of the time) not random Japanese words, but rather names that generate many hits on Google from all parts of the globe. With the points above in mind, there is no harm in adding these Japanese characters in the URL, or is there? Even though, less than 5% of the threads contain Japanese characters in the title. Therefore it shouldn't be much of an impact on SEO, but I believe it'd look a little weird to have semantic SEO-friendly URLs in English-titled threads and "empty" names on Japanese-titled threads. This would be considered bad pattern design, am I right?


How to Do htaccess 301 Redirect from Old Filename Pattern to New Filename Pattern?

I have a bunch of old files prefixed with "old-" (e.g. "old-abcde.php"). I need an htaccess rule to set up a 301 redirect so that any request for a file starting with "old-" goes to its corresponding new version (e.g. "abcde.php"). To be clear, I have _many_ files, not just one, so I can't do a literal filename match. I basically just need to strip off the "old-" from request and redirect to the version without it. I know I probably just need a simple regular expression, but I'm not good at writing them. Can anyone provide assistance?


Which TLD would be suited to a personal site?

I'm planning what is essentially a "business card" website for myself, and have been looking at domains. My primary site (a `.com`) is for my blog and portfolio and the like, but I want a separate site for basic information, contact, networks, and the like. In this light, there are a few TLDs that seem to be suitable: `.info`, `.me`, and `.name`. I'd appreciate remarks on the differences between these options, and suggestion on which would be suitable for my need.


Webmatrix fails to connect PHP website to MySQL

1. I downloaded the latest versions of Webmatrix and MySQL.   2. I downloaded a PHP-MySQL Connector: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php-mysqlnd/   3. In the "Databases" Workspace I pressed "New Connection" button and choose "MySQL Connection"   4. In the Dialog box I filled-in all connection details  --> It looks like the database was added. But then when I double-click on the database, I get a short error message saying it cannot connect. I tried everything, searched the web... I'm sure it's a very simple question, so please whoever can help I'll be grateful. I think best solution for me would be if someone could please just give me a link to download of: Webmatrix,MySQL,Connector; and instructions on how to install and then how to connect. This would be the safest way to help me.


Problem with .htaccess and mod_rewrite after moving site to new server

The site seems to draw the correct links but its not redirecting me to the correct view. The same code works fine on the old server here http://ruse.systemio.net/q&a/. The new server is here http://www.rusereplays.com/q&a/ The problem I'm having is if you click a link on that page to a question it rewrites the link and redirects to the site, but for the new server it seems to just redirect to `index.php`. This is my `.htaccess` I'm using on both servers               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>          RewriteEngine On     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]     </IfModule>          ErrorDocument 404 /index.php      This is the `phpinfo` for the two servers   * old -> http://ruse.systemio.net/scripts/phpinfo.php   * new -> http://www.rusereplays.com/scripts/phpinfo.php Anyone having a suggestion on how to fix this or too help me find a solution to my problem?


Password protect an alias virtual directory

I have a main domain being hosted through CPanel. I also have a sub-domain that I would like to appear as a path under the main domain instead of as a sub-domain. So I have:               http://example.com/ pointing to the main hosted file.     http://example.com/mydir pointing to the subdomain files.      This is achieved by a _httpd.conf_ include from the main domain section to set an alias:               alias /mydir /path/to/subdomain/files/      Now, that works fine so far. The problem is that if a _.htaccess_ file under `/path/to/the/subdomain/files/` contains an error, the alias is completely skipped, and `/mydir` goes instead to the main host files. That is kind of surprising to me - I would expect an error to return an error instead. Now the killer: if I try to password protect `/path/to/subdomain/files/`, then trying to access `http://example.com/mydir` will again attempt to deliver from under the main hosted files and not from `/path/to/subdomain/files/`. I am not seeing any errors reported on the _.htaccess_ file in the apache error log, so I am assuming the _.htaccess_ is valid:               AuthUserFile /path/to/valid/readable/.htpasswd     AuthName "Secure Access"     AuthType Basic     Require valid-user      This kind of behavior does not seem right to me. Is there something obvious that could be causing it? Or is this just the way it works? Perhaps using an alias is the wrong way to go?


PCI compliance when using third-party processing

My company is outsourcing the development of our new e-commerce site to a third party web development company. The way they set up our site to handle transactions is by having the user enter the necessary payment info, then passing that data to a third party merchant that processes the payment, then completing the transaction if everything is good. When the issue of PCI/DSS compliance was raised, they said: > You wont need PCI certification because the clients browser will send the > sensitive information directly to the third party merchant when the > transaction is processed. However, the process will be transparent to the > user because all interface and displays are controlled by us. The only > server required to be compliant is the third party merchant's because no > sensitive card data ever touches your server or web app. Even though I very much so trust and respect the knowledge of our web developers, what they are saying is raising some serious red flags for me. The way the site is described, I am sure we will not be using a hosted payment page like PayPal or Google Checkout offers (how could we maintain control over UI if we were?) And while my knowledge of e-commerce is laughable at best, it seems like the only other option for us would be to use XML direct to communicate with our third party merchant for processing. My two questions are as follows:   1. Based off everything you've read, is "XML Direct" the only option they could conceivably be using, or is there another method I don't know of which they could be implementing?   2. _Most importantly_ , is it true our site does not need PCI certification? As I understand it, using the XML direct method means that we **do** have to be PCI/DSS certified, and the only way around getting certified is through a payment hosted page (i.e. PayPal).


How to point a domain to another subdomain?

I'm really a newbie about this issues so excuse me if this is a rather dumb question, I'm trying to point a domain a client of mine bought to a sub-domain of mine, they're both from different companies, I'm not looking for a redirect but instead let's say his domain is www.clientdomain.com and mine is www.mydoamin.com I need to point dev.clientdomain.com to test.mydomain.com for example keeping the URL as it is, so when I visit the 'about' page it'd be dev.clientdomain.com/about instead of test.mydomain.com/about. I hope it makes some sense, I have seen this done before but have no idea if its using .htaccess files or changing some configuration options in the host control panel, if so I assume each host has their way of doing this so a general example would be great to point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!


Modernizing traditional Marriage Application Web Form

We have an issue in our company right now where gay people are complaining that our forms are not "gay friendly" we have a wedding registry page where it says groom and bride but they want a different way of presenting it so that it would be acceptable by that demographic. Any good suggestions on how we handle this? (Hope no one gets offended, Its a legitimate question and were actually dealing with this right now) Here is a screenshot of the form ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/YLaIL.jpg)


Adding 1 subdomain using .htaccess

Alright, so unlike other solutions I only want one subdomain to appear to be added. Say I wanted `example.com/folder/page.php` to be displayed as `foo.example.com/folder/page.php`, how would I go about doing this? The `foo` will never change, and it only needs to be for one page. Various other sites have been unable to provide an answer, thanks in advance. Edit: Oh, and I also have full DNS records to the domain.


Different folder and web structure

Is it possible to keep a different folder structure than the web structure that users see when browsing the website? I.e. I want all my main pages to be accessed the following way: **www.example.com/main-page-1/** Do I need to necessarily have each page in a separate folder, or can I keep all them in the same folder and define the structure somewhere else?


How search engines see reciprocal links?

Reciprocal links cancel each other out from a search engines point of view but what counts as a recpirical link. Do reciprocal links work on a site level or an individual page level? If you where to say get an inbound link from `site-a.com` to `mysite.com` and then linked back from `blog.yoursite.com` would that be reciprical. I'm aware Google sees subdomains as different domains all together but in this instance is that the same?


How Citing Sources in Website Content affects Google Rankings

I am planning to scour various press releases from the web (particularly from science companies) and directly copy the material into my website. According to many of these companies, the press release can be directly used in our websites but you must include a source link at the bottom of the content. I suspect that many webmasters would be doing the same and hence there is a chance for Duplicate content. What do you suggest?


Payment gateway providers in Abu Dhabi - UAE

I have been tasked with setting up a reasonable size ecommerce site in Abu Dhabi (united arab emerites). It seems PayPal Pro is not available in this region. I was wondering if any one could share some experiences working in e-commerce in this region. Also any good payment gateway providers in this region.


One gzip test returns positive, one returns negative.

Can anyone help me figure this. If I use this compression test it tells me my site uses gzip. But when I run the yslow Firefox plugin it tells me my site does not use gzip. Has anyone came across this before? Is there a more conclusive test I could do? **Addition** The site in question is http://www.thefootytipster.com, if you copy and paste that into the first link it will say compression is enabled. But if you try it against ySlow it will not.


no-CMS front end WYSIWYG website editor

Is there a front end WYSIWYG website editor that can edit a webpage without having to install a CMS?


How does google regard subdomains with regard to SEO?

For example, in the past, links to www.example.com wouldn't have meant Google would pass any value to say, forum.example.com. What is the current status of this? (Please provide a reference if possible).


can 2 sub-domains under same root domain effect each other's ranking?

i have a few classifieds ads websites, each with the're own sub-domain "city1.rootdomain.com", "city2.rootdomain.com"...etc.each with about 1000 indexed pages. recently i added a street-index website under the same root domain: "maps.rootdomain.com". i submitted its site-map (50,000 records) to Google. after some time i noticed my classifieds website's traffic were cut almost be half. can the two be related ? are sub-domain's rankings under a same root domain divided between them ? Should i move "maps.rootdomain.com" under a different root domain to avoid it effecting my other websites ranking ? Thanks


Should I make sub-domain for different kind of content?

At this time I am running technology related blog and I'm tired of it because of writing only tech related articles, because of this reason I want to make a blog on sub-domain of root domain where I'll share stuff that I like and mostly stuff that make me feel good. Its content is totally going to be different from root domain's. Is it secure to make another blog on sub-domain of my main blog or should I buy new domain name. Thing is, I want to stick with my old domain name. I am going to make a sub-domain like this fun.domain.com I read somewhere that Google treat sub-domains as spam. Because it could be used to takeover search results by making too much subdomains e.g. About.com have different sub-domains for different categories but Google don't take it as spam. **Update:** Thanks for letting me know about another question about this topic. Do subdomain help/hurt SEO. It answered my question but I want to know little more if anyone can help.


Do subdomains have an impact on a root domain?

My domain discountbox.in was performing well on the Google search engine. A couple of days back we launched the blog and forum on the subdomain discuss.discountbox.in and within the next 2 days we were kind of penalized heavily. What could be the cause of this? Do subdomains have an impact on the primary domain?


Sub domain or sub-folder?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Do subdomains help/hurt SEO? In terms of SEO is there any advantages/disadvantages to using a sub-domain over a sub-folder:   * www.mysite.com/company   * company.mysite.com


SEO: PageRank association in subdomains

If User A is able to store the URL of his website on a very popular highly ranked website by creating his own subdomain on that website, is this at all beneficial? This may sound like a stupid question but I thought that no matter the popularity/quality of the website which is hosting your link, in reality it is the individual page that hold the rank and so your new subdomain means nothing as it is not yet cached by search engines, let alone is it even ranked! Am I right here, or is there indeed a hopeful transferal of at least some authority to subdomains of a popular domain? Lastly would you say it is the job of the website admin to submit his new content for inclusion, or is that our job?


New domain vs Subdomain vs new Folder for each new project

If I have a domain like `http://example.com/` which would be the best to use for every new project I create. Would it be a subdomain `http://exampleprojectname.example.com/` or a new domain `http://exampleprojectname.com/` or a new folder `http://example.com/exampleprojectname`. Which one would be the best and good for seo.


About rel="nofollow" inside links

I'm curious about this since many website use `rel="nofollow"` and I don't know why. If you have a site that's ranked very good in Google, and you don't add rel="nofollow" to links inside article comments, how does that affect your rank? What if someone posts a comment with a link to a viagra website? Does that lower the rank of your site?


Are page ranks for subdomains independent?

If I have a domain name say `stackexchange.com` and I want to host 2 sites X and Y as subdomains of that site. Will `x.stackexchange.com` help out `y.stackexchange.com` in page rank? Or will google treat them as 2 separate sites as far as page rank is concerned? Is there any SEO benefit at all? The question stems from this post and its answers and comments by the way: http://meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/624/webapps-stackexchange-com- verus-nothingtoinstall-com Comments like this one and others: > No doubt the site will be great either way. But all things being equal > questions from a "smaller site" (with less traffic and less overall > linkbacks as far as Google is concerned) will have a lower Google ranking > than if the site is "seen" as part of a huge network (made up of all the SE > sites combined) with ONE top-level domain. Is it worth it? – Robert > Cartaino♦ 2 days ago Or this one: > Is it worth sacrificing the network effect of being on the Stack Exchange > Network AND the lower Google ranking on every question (smaller sites will > have lower rankings than a large network) to have the independent domain > name? That's what I am asking. – Robert Cartaino♦ 2 days ago Or this one: > @alexanderpas correct, and nothing will destroy that search ranking faster > than splitting pagerank across 25+ unique domain names. – Jeff Atwood♦ > yesterday


Are there any significant disadvantages of forwarding a naked domain to the www. homepage always?

I have a website set up at `www.example.com`, and I have `example.com` set to redirect to `www.example.com`. The problem is that it's set to redirect directly to the homepage. For example, `example.com/page/123` takes you to `www.example.com` instead of `www.example.com/page/123`. The reason I'm doing this is because I don't have access to the .htaccess file, and the only solution I can use is setting up a 301 redirect. My question is if this will negatively impact my SEO rating at all. I never link to the non-www version of the site. It's mainly a convenient way to get to the homepage of the site, which is hosted at the `www.` version. I doubt anyone will take a `www.` link to a page, strip the `www.` and link to that version instead (which won't work). Thus, I don't think there are any cases of anyone using the naked domain to get to anything but the homepage of the site. Am I overlooking anything?


S1000D JavaScript search engine

I am developping a static web application. My goal is to create a search engine. So, I have a list of training's documents and I want to search a fulltext from each one; My documents are stored on my disk in the norm S1000D. I want show DM-code for each founded fulltext. Does exists this type of engine?


Domain manager to consolidate many domain here and there

I have about 20 domains to manage. Some registered to the client (i impersonated him) and other register by me, under different name and address (over the years). I like to get ALL THE DOMAINS under one roof, one easy to manage all the registration and order in one place.. what do you suggest...   * once in my life, i have try doteasy, which make domain managing super easy, but i don't like the prices...


Feedback/bug tracking system for an alpha/beta phase website?

I'm developing a website and it's closing onto a private alpha/beta phase. It will be exposed to a small selected group of individuals who will provide a fair amount of feedback. What options do I have for this feedback system? I would certainly like to make it collaborative (excluding email). I could mock up a really simple message board, but would rather use my time elsewhere. The feedback will mainly consist of feature suggestions and bug reports. Edit: Actually, would prefer if it's a free hosted service.


phpMyAdmin: Remove Table Drop and Empty Controls

I'm not sure this is the place to post this as there are very few questions tagged phpMyAdmin; I thought of stackoverflow, but it's not really programming. In any case, mods should feel free to move this to whatever SE site is appropriate... I'm looking for a configuration option that would hide the Drop and Empty tabs in the Table screens. I've looked at the documentation and there are all kinds of config options, even down to letting you change the background colors of the various panes. Fun, but not as useful as controlling access to the Drop and Empty table tables would be... Can anyone point me to where I can change this? I know I've worked on hosted servers that had those tabs hidden, so it has to be possible somehow.


Can I use Google Analytics to count QuickTime installations?

By default, Google Analytics produces reports on which versions of Flash and Java my users have. Is it possible to set up a report on which versions of QuickTime (if any)


How can I clear the "crawl errors" of Google webmaster tools? On my webmaster tools page, there are some "Not found" crawl errors dating back two years which I cleared up a long time ago, but they are still hanging around on webmaster tools. I thought they would go away naturally once the mistaken links were fixed, but they don't seem to. Is there any way to clear old crawl errors manually?


How does client side XML+XSLT affect SEO?

I have a site that is built completely in XML and is transformed by a single XSL file. How does this affect SEO? Is it possible to store page-specific metadata? Will robots see the transformed page (the result of the XSL stylesheet) or the plain XML?


Unnatural flip of Google local results

For many years I have been helping companies gain a better presence though legit methods though on page optimization to fating up the pages to give Google more indicators and the visitors a more rich experience. This week I'm completely mind blow to what Google has done to a local search result and I just don't know what to say to my client because I have no idea why its happened, it looks like a manual adjustment to the LOCAL SERPS. It may help if I explain whats happened, this is not a natural shift in results but a completely drastic flip of results. I'll try and explain by using an example as for NDA reasons I can't disclose any information. Basically this is last weeks result (ones with letters are the first 7 results that are returned that a have Google maps/Places presence). All sites that end with ingo are a set of groups and another set is ending with uffa - to illustrate a completely shift.   1. Gumtree   2. Checkatrade   3. Dingo - (A)    4. Lingo - (B)    5. Bingo - (C)   6. Singo - (D)   7. Gingo - (E)   8. Yingo - (F)   9. Hingo - (G)   10. Muffa   11. Puffa   12. Duffa    13. Suffa   14. Ruffa   15. Tuffa That was last week and here's the shocker, it now looks like this: Now this week:   1. Muffa - (A)    2. Puffa - (B)   3. Duffa - (C)    4. Suffa - (D)   5. Ruffa - (E)   6. Tuffa - (F)   7. Gumtree   8. Checkatrade   9. Dingo - (G)   10. Lingo    11. Bingo   12. Singo   13. Gingo   14. Yingo   15. Hingo The 'Ingo' sets are completely different sites and are fairly high quality sites, the sites that are now displaying are much less quality, very thin and so on. I've tested in multiple browsers, cleared cache, and even used various of other devices such as phone on a different IP to see if Google is caching the results, sadly its not because I got some online friends to confirm. So has anyone heard anything official, in the past week or month that could have this huge effect, its not a nature shift in rankings, you just don't get 9 sites lose their rank and have the bottom half of the page become the new leaders. I'm actually really annoyed about this because its a waste of hard work if Google are not going to return the sites that deserve returning.


Could an adult site affect the other sites in same server?

One on my clients want me to host an adult website. Will it affect my other websites on the shared server or should I get a separated server?


Rounded corners in IE7 and IE8

Now every major browser supports `border-radius`, I was wondering what the best way to get rounded corners in IE7 and IE8 is until IE9+ becomes most dominant version of IE. I've seen several javascript based solutions, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend one they've used themselves?


Advice on web app to make pdf (documents) library

I want to create an online pdf library. Is there any free solution exist, CMS or something? It should allow to upload pdfs, search documents and download them Thank you!


How can I figure out what technologies a site is built on?

I'm researching building a site by looking at what other people have done but I don't know how to determine what technologies or platforms are being used. How can I tell what any given site is running when I visit it?


Indexing search results

Is this good for SEO? I see some sites doing it, I find their results on Google and click on them, do they do work right? Given a site search, someone searches for: 'Peanut Salad' The search is processed on the URL http://www.domain.com/Search/Peanut-Salad The results are returned, nice meta tags/titles generated, etc. The search can then appear on a list of 'popular searches' on some page on the site. These can be manually filtered to prevent spammers gaining entries on the list. Is this worth doing? Good to get more visitors from engines? Is it useful for them?


WAMP icon suddenly orange

**I've been running WAMP for like 6 months+** with Skype (also did the Skype port change just for the sake of it) - **with no problems**. Today I open up WAMP -> get a green icon ->I then add an "alias" to the "alias directory" (already have 10+ other aliases working) -> **WAMP restarts and stay on the ORANGE icon** :/   * I've installed nothing new on my computer for ages   * I haven't changed any settings for ages   * I've restarted the computer several times   * I've closed down Skype and opened WAMP afterwards I checked both MySQL + Apache log, but don't seem to see any errors.               MYSQL     --------------------     131205 16:42:07 [Note] wampmysqld: Normal shutdown          131205 16:42:07 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events     131205 16:42:07  InnoDB: Starting shutdown...     131205 16:42:08  InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 54497659     131205 16:42:08 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown complete          131205 16:42:13 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool     131205 16:42:13 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.     131205 16:42:13  InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start     131205 16:42:14 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 54497659     131205 16:42:14 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '(null)'; port: 3306     131205 16:42:14 [Note]   - '(null)' resolves to '::';     131205 16:42:14 [Note]   - '(null)' resolves to '0.0.0.0';     131205 16:42:14 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'.     131205 16:42:14 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events     131205 16:42:14 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.     Version: '5.5.24-log'  socket: ''  port: 3306  MySQL Community Server (GPL)     --------------------               APACHE ERROR LOG     --------------------     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [warn] pid file C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.2.22/logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Win64) PHP/5.3.13 configured -- resuming normal operations     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Server built: May 13 2012 19:41:17     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Parent: Created child process 9272     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Child process is running     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Acquired the start mutex.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting 64 worker threads.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 100.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 80.     [Thu Dec 05 15:30:52 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Starting thread to listen on port 80.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:12 2013] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:12 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:13 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Released the start mutex     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Child 9272: All worker threads have exited.     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Child 9272: Child process is exiting     [Thu Dec 05 15:31:14 2013] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.     --------------------


.htaccess and gzip compression

i have question about GZIP compression, actualy my wordpress website doesn't have .htaccess to be able to use that feature, so can i create .htaccess file only for gzip, it won't change anything on website?


What is the best way to exclude bots from view counts?

My website is counting visitor views on certain pages. I noticed that Google and other Bots are "clicking" to my site like crazy and some of the pages get unrealistic view counts (compared to those produced by humans). **I am asking for best practice to exclude those bots from my view counts.** Obvious a simple "user agent" contains "bot" won't do it. _I do not think there is a bullet prove solution nor I need one._ **Note:** I am using PHP + MySQL.


Resized background images blurred in desktop Safari

The website I'm creating (test6.lazyfoxdesign.co.uk) is responsive and makes heavy use of images for the background. I use high resolution images and scale them down using CSS for smaller resolutions. In all web browsers, except desktop Safari images are nice and sharp. I attached screenshot of the issue. Google Chrome on left and Safari on right. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/bj96k.jpg) Source: http://imgur.com/e3EmrQS   (Enlarge the imgur image to see difference.) In the screenshot below (actual size) Chrome is top, Safari is bottom: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/579AD.png)


How can I let robots access my site?

I have a webpage on my university's server, which means I cannot access the root directory and change files there. Is there some other way to give access to robots to my page? Thanks.


What is the different between these two sets of Google Analytics tracking code?

Does anyone know the different between these two sets of code for Drupal Google Analytics module? Which one is correct? ** ### Code 1: ** **_before_**               _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);      **_after_**               _gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-XXXXX-X-2"]);     _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);     _gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);      ** ### Code 2: ** **_before_**               _gaq.push(["_setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["_setAllowLinker", true]);      **_after_**               _gaq.push(["b._setAccount", "UA-XXXXX-X-2"]);     _gaq.push(["b._setDomainName", "none"]);     _gaq.push(["b._setAllowLinker", true]);     _gaq.push(["b._trackPageview"]);      I found these codes from here and from Google; the 2nd one is from Google with "b."


Will a simple domain validated SSL certificate show a 'green lock'?

I'm looking into buying an SSL certificate for my domain. I'm considering buying: https://www.ssl.nu/en/products/regular+ssl/ssl+basic/ which is just a domain validation certificate I think. Will there be a 'green lock' in the addressbar when using the certificate? ![https lock](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SzjnV.png) When looking at Google or Mozilla Developer Network I see they don't use an EV certificate. Are those certificates also only domain validated domains? P.S. I've asked a related question some time ago, but that was more a question of invalid certificate warnings on the client side and doesn't answer this question. **Update** To be clear the screenshot of the green lock is displayed in Chrome browser.


What is the most effective way to obtain SEO benefits from content while still protecting most of it behind a paywall?

I'd like for search engines to recognize the content that is hosted on my website, but I'd also like to protect most of it behind a paywall. Are there any proven strategies for doing this?


I think there is a problem with my url encoding

I took someone's advice and started encoding my image sources, but Google doesn't seem to be able to decode them. I probably did something wrong, because basically Google is taking the full path as the image's name. See this page as an example. If you go on the top most thumbnail and do "Save as", you will see the path is not being decoded. Should I stop decoding or am I doing it wrong? Should I encode only the image name itself? Thanks!


Does valid HTML, CSS and/or XML affect SEO?

Can a page's HTML validity affect search engine optimization (SEO)? Assuming all other factors are exactly equal, will an HTML document with 0 errors and 0 warnings (W3C provides a tool to validate your HTML validator.w3.org) rank better than a page with 20 errors and 10 warnings? Does markup validity apply to CSS and RSS as well?


Does adding LinkedIn button to a website result in cookies that track users?

We are planning to add the LinkedIn button in our website. But the restriction we are having is, the website should not use the cookies which collect the personal information. No impersonation.   But I read the LinkedIn website privacy policy, which says it uses both persistent and session cookie. So i need some more inputs on this one - is LinkedIn website tracking the user's login information ??


Does anyone know if Angie's List is using an off-the-shelf CMS or is their website proprietary?

I was wondering if anyone here knows what Angies's List is based on? I am looking for a CMS to use for an upcoming project, and am impressed with their site. If they are using an off-the-shelf CMS then I'd like to consider it. If they're using proprietary software (or is built in-house) well then that's that.


How do I temporarily shut down my MediaWiki?

I have installed MediaWiki on my website. I want to shut it down temporarily, until I completely fill it with articles. Is this possible? Is there any maintenance shut down feature? (Version: 1.18.1)


Google search result showing unknown results

I'm facing serious issues with Google search results. 'Till yesterday everything was fine. Today when I search with my top ranking keyword, Google gives some other URL with my website's title & description. If I open that site it's getting redirected to my site. Please tell me how to fix this.