Force users to use Google Chrome

I have a very selected group of users on my web application. Not everyone can just visit the website, and if they do they will need login information to see anything but the login box. The users have to contact in order to get an account. I am almost complete with my application, and it is not so friendly with ie, and has a few glitches with firefox. It works perfect with safari and chrome. Now, since I'm only going to have 100-200 users, is it OK to force users to use either safari or chrome?


Providing search engines with hints on contents vs navigation and sidebars

Currently, certain search engines prefer showing sidebar information instead of content in search results. Is there a way to hint the search engines which `<div>` represents content on the webpage, and which `<div>` represents status data in a sidebar?


Should I preemptively register alternate domain names?

If I register a really good .com domain name, should I also register:   * alternate spellings   * mis-spellings   * hyphenated versions   * other variations: iExample.com, eExample.com, myExample.com, etc.   * other TLDs: .org, .net, .biz, .info   * international TLDs Which definitely, which maybe and which no? How do you know where to draw the line?


Making Search Queries Indexable

Looking around, most sites (eg. Amazon) encode the parameters of searches into query string. This means that search engines cannot index these queries. Why don't such sites use URLs rather than query strings to store search parameters, as this would allow google to index searches? Search using a query string:               example.com/search?author=john+smith&year=2007&title=do+dogs+have+lips      Search using a URL:               example.com/search/author/john_smith/year/2007/title/do_dogs_have_lips      This URL would then point to a unique page, containing the results of this search. If a strict order of parameters was observed (eg. author always comes first if used, year always comes next if used etc.) This would seem like a great solution. What am I missing?


edited and reversed changes on .htaccess - site starts redirecting to .comindex.php/

Site is a Joomla 2.5 site. I wanted to add a non www to www redirect to the htaccess file, did so, then the redirection went mad, reversed but still the site redirects. **When i click view site in admin panel, i get linked to`http://domain.comindex.php/`** The website is `http://www.domain.com` Visiting the website URL works without www, but once you click on projects it acts mad too. Projects is managed with joomshopping extension. EDIT: the redirect also happens when rewrite is deactivated in admin panel.               ##     # @package      Joomla     # @copyright    Copyright (C) 2005 - 2012 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.     # @license      GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt     ##          ##     # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!     #     # The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems     # with some server configurations.  It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already     # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in     # your .htaccess file.  If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to     # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's.  If they work,     # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.     ##          ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.     Options +FollowSymLinks          ## Mod_rewrite in use.          RewriteEngine On          ## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.     # If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below     # This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!     #     # Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]     # Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]     # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]     # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.     RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})     # Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage     RewriteRule .* index.php [F]     #     ## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.          ## Begin - Custom redirects     #     # If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to     # www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those     # redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.     #     ## End - Custom redirects          ##     # Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL     # is not directly related to physical file paths.     # Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).     ##          # RewriteBase /          ## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.     #     RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]     #     # If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request     # has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php     # and the request is for something within the component folder,     # or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the     # requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     # and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     # internally rewrite the request to the index.php script     RewriteRule .* index.php [L]     #     ## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.               Redirect 301 /index.html /index.php     Redirect 301 /services /project     Redirect 301 /projects/projects.html /project     Redirect 301 /projects/project1.html /project     Redirect 301 /projects/project2.html /project     Redirect 301 /projects /project     Redirect 301 /keypersonnel.html /about-agrin/keystaff     Redirect 301 /cooperation.htm /about-agrin/intcoop     Redirect 301 /member.html /about-agrin/memberships     Redirect 301 /contact.html /contacts     Redirect 301 /hr.htm /jobs     Redirect 301 /index.php/404 /index.php


Private NS propagation

I have a client that asked me to move his domains to a new private server, this is my first experience on using private name servers so I am unsure if I am doing something incorrectly. According to what I have read, at my registrar I have to register the private name servers, in this case ns1.vetology.net and ns2.vetology.net which I have done last Wednesday and testing the name servers they are pointing to the correct IP   * http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=NS1.VETOLOGY.NET&type=nameserver   * http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=NS2.VETOLOGY.NET&type=nameserver So that means that Godaddy did it's job and registered the nameservers, the very same day I pointed a domain which is not in use at the moment. dogcatmri.com to the private nameservers, since them I have been receiving a not found error on some browsers and chrome gives me a `Error 137 (net::ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED): Unknown error.`. First I thought well I have to wait for both the private name servers to propagate and then the domain DNS change to propagate but since Wednesday up to today it seems a very long time for me. Note that if I use Google DNS servers 8.8.8.8 the domain resolves, but the domain does not resolve in any other way. So my questions is, does the fact that using Google's dns resolve the domain means that the NS servers are setup correctly and I just have to wait for propagation to complete and it is taking an awful lot of time or there is something not setup right but Google's DNS uses some other sort of domain resolution and there maybe something wrong on my setup? This is some further testing I did, the command was run from the host machine:               [root@web ~]# dig dogcatmri.com          ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6 <<>> dogcatmri.com     ;; global options:  printcmd     ;; Got answer:     ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 60662     ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0          ;; QUESTION SECTION:     ;dogcatmri.com.                 IN      A          ;; Query time: 325 msec     ;; SERVER: 4.2.2.2#53(4.2.2.2)     ;; WHEN: Mon Feb 25 04:27:53 2013     ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 31      ## Edit 1: I am not sure if I am doing something incorrectly but my assumption is that given the following setup > domain.com   >  domain2.com   >  server1   >  server2 So server1 is hosting `domain.com` properly   server2 is hosting `ns1.domain.com` and `ns22.domain.com`   `domain.com` has nameservers `ns1.domain.com` and `ns2.domain.com` Not moving `domain.com` to point to `ns1.domain.com` and `ns2.domain.com` will cause the other domains not to resolve or the two things are independent? Just to clarify, my reason not to move `domain.com` at the moment is because `domain.com` is a live site and I don't want to mess with it unless I am 100% sure the server is responding as expected.


Dropped impression 25 days after restructure

Our website is a non English property related website (`moshaver.com`) which is similar to `rightmove.co.uk`. On September 2012 our website was adversely affected by Panda causing our Google incoming clicks to drop from around 3000 clicks to less than a thousand. We were hoping that Google will eventually realize that we are not a spam website and things will get better. However, in August 2013 we were almost sure that we needed to do something, so we started to restructure our web content. We used the canonical tag to remove our search results and point to our listing pages, using the noindex tag to remove it from our listing pages which does not have any properties at the moment. We also changed title tags to more friendly ones, in addition to other changes. Our changes were effective on 10th August. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/gGxTm.png) As shown in the graph taken from Google Analytics Search Engine Optimization section, these changes has resulted in an increase in the number of times Google displayed our results in its search results. Our impressions almost doubled starting 15th August. However, as the graph shows, our CTR dropped from this date from around 15% to 8%. This might have been because of our changed title tags (so people were less likely to click on them), or it might be normal for increased impressions. This situation has continued up until 10th September, when our impressions decreased dramatically to less than a thousand. This is almost 30% of our original impressions (before website restructure) and 15% of the new impressions. At the same time our impressions has increased dramatically to around 50%. I have two theories for this increase. The first one is that these statistics are less accurate for lower impressions. The second one is that Google is now only displaying our results for queries directly related to our website (our name, our url), and not for general terms, such as "apartments in a specific city". The second theory also explains the dramatic decrease in impression as well. After digging the analytic data a little more, I constructed the following table. It displays the breakdown of our impressions, clicks and CTR in different Google products (web and image) and in total. What I understand from this table is that, most of our increased impressions after restructure were on the image search section. I don't think users of search would be looking for content in our website. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/2FYtp.png) Furthermore, it shows that the drop in our web search CTR , is as dramatic of the overall CTR (-30% in compare to -60%) . I thought posting it here might help you understand the situation better. Is it possible that Google has tested our new structure for 25 days, and then decided to decrease our impressions because of the the new low CTR? Or should we look for another factor? If this is the case, how long does it usually take for Google to give us another chance? It has been one month since our impressions has dropped.


filtering out excessively long views from google analytics

I have a landing page I'm watching pretty closely and I'm trying to track the avg view time on that page to see if it's going up or down based on changes. The problem is some day in December the avg view time is registering over an hour which is throwing off the readability of the graph (most views are 30 seconds to 6 minutes). Is there any way to filter out views over 20 minutes so I can view the graph more easily?


Traffic services: useful or a waste of time?

I found some services which offer to buy traffic.               buysitetraffic.com     revisitors.com     perfectraffic.com      Has anyone works with them? Or maybe You have own experience with another services? Is this idea useful or I waste time?


How To Hide From BuiltWith?

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how builtwith.com works? How does it identify the platform or app a website is using? And most importantly does anyone know how to hide the details from it? Somehow I'm not very comfortable with users being able to identify the platform I am in.


Bots inside chrome v31?

I am currently running a wordpress site with the plugin "Wassup" installed. In the last time I have registered around 30 users **per day** that call /wp- login.php on my webpage. And all of them always use Chrome 31 and even worse everyone uses a different IP, no IP occurs twice (at least not within a day) The plugin "Better WP security" does not block them. So I am wondering if Chrome 31 may have a plugin or something, that is used for hacking purposes without the knowledge of the people using it? Has any one seen the same?


Google Analytics account transfer

Is there a way to transfer Google Analytics account from one account holder to another? The original account holder was managing the site via MCC. That person is no longer associated with the website and would like to bring analytics control inhouse. Any ideas?


Open Source website backup tool suggestions

I'm looking for an Open Source website backup tool. I'm more interested in Open Source so I can make changes if need be and possibly contribute to the software.   1. Automatic scheduled FTP backups from mutiple web servers.   2. MySQL backups from databases (only partially important as I can just do mySQL dumps and get those with ftp)    3. Differential and/or Incremental backups (improtant for bandwidth and disk space.)   4. Windows 7 or Linux support. I'm not really sure if this is a better question for Server Fault but I feel it can live here easy enough. Thank you for any suggestions. Software I've found   - Cobian Backup Note this for backing up data on web servers, usually shared hosting. Installing software on the remote server is impossible, so ftp and mysql access is about it.


What is the Google Chrome equivalent to Firebug?

I'm looking for a tool that can:   * inspect HTML elements   * manage/debug JavaScript   * profile performance    * modify elements in real-time


www subdomain for my webpage

How many customer do I lose if my webpage is not accessible from www subdomain. Can anyone who has webpage analytics with large number of visitors provide me statistic how many users use www.domain.com and how many only domain.com? Thanks a lot


What is the best kind of checkout system for a website?

I have worked with quite a few checkout systems and eCommerce platforms. Are there certain kinds of interfaces that convert sales better than others? For me there are really only two questions:   1. SSL self hosted vs. 3rd party checkout     * for SSL this requires an SSL certificate and secure website routines to handle a credit card.     * for 3rd party, there is PayPal, Authorize.net, and GoogleCheckout   2. Single-Step vs. multicheckout see: step two on this page     * Single-Step seems easy enough, but does it convert better?     * multicheckout can get convoluted, but with a progress bar does it help the user convert? Hopefully this will focus on _the four possible answers_ given either/or answers to the above.


Webpage Post Submits vs AJAX?

Which is better and why? I can see where a site that works 100% in AJAX might optimize a bit better, due to not having to reload the page on each click. But I am a huge fan of the big submit button at the bottom of the screen. Is it worth spending the time to convert a site to AJAX when it mostly only optimizes page load times?


Chrome Extension or online tool to access and edit files on server via FTP/other protocols

I recently got a Chromebook Pixel, and find it to be a great alternative laptop to my Macbook Pro, especially for non coding tasks like email etc. I was wondering if there was any IDE style extension or web app that I can use to access my server via FTP or some other protocol, which would allow me to view and edit the backend files (PHP, HTML, images and so on) and upload them back when I hit save. This would allow me to edit and develop my website without starting up the MacBook Pro, which can be quite slow due to all the other stuff I run on it. I was looking for either an extension that plugs straight into Chrome, or something along the lines of eXtplorer, which is a PHP based file manager for servers. It has some of these features inbuilt, and can edit files, but is quite slow and doesn't have stuff like code autocompletion.


Ensuring secure downloads for IIS

One of my customers wants to make sure that when someone downloads a file from their website the file being downloaded is secure from third parties capturing the downloaded information. Their site is IIS and is using a SSL certificate. My question is, are there any other issues I need to be aware of, or, is this enough to protect their customers whom download these files?


What's the catch with a 4.99$ ssl certificate

I was browsing the web in search of a cheap SSL certificate just for domain validation. Then I came across a site that sells a certificate for 5 year in a ridicules price of 4.99$ and the one year is also cheap 8.95$ I am wondering where is the catch? Am I am missing something is it possible that they real and not cheaters?


Receive anonymous users' input by web upload form or email. Any online service for that?

Are you aware of any online service or online "platform" allowing users, not previously registered, to upload pairs of picture+comment to a database? It would be a collaborative database of picture+comment pairs. I'm not going wiki or googlegroup, picasa or such because I'd like the user to have the least to do to participate, that is e.g.: take a picture with his phone and email it to an email to an email address. Or go to a web page with an upload form, type in a description, hit OK and that's it. And the goal is also that it be as hassle-less to put up as possible. Yeah I know, it can't programme itself to my requirements :) by I'm suspecting there's a tool or tool combination going a decent way through my needs. Thanks for any info/advice! SJA (NB the final goal is a kind of crowd-sourced census of specific urban items. If you have comment about the potential for spam-overload of my idea, other than "you're doomed", you're welcome!)


Do internal intranet websites need to be secure?

The question is in the title. Does an internal site need to have `https` security? For example we have an internal site that handles our client's license keys -- do we need for that to be secure since it is on out internal network?   (The website is secured with IIS and windows user validation)


Moving Wordpress to another domain with different permalinks

I want to move Wordpress to another domain and also change the permalinks. So basically what I want is to move from: oldsite.com/PostId-PostName.html to newsite.com/PostName/ I know this can be done from .htaccess, but I don't manage to get it right. Can you please help me ?


Ubercart for 'serious' eCommerce?

I'm big Drupal fan, and some very high profile sites use Drupal which also suggests that its a good system. Can the same be said for Ubercart? I've used it for some small eCommerce sites purely because I know Drupal. It seems to lack some basic features and also relies on JavaScript. I don't know of any high profile eCommerce sites using it. My productivity would take a big hit if I had to learn a new eCommerce platform and also if I couldn't use my favorite CMS with it, but do I have a choice? If not I guess I can hope that Drupal 7's Commerce module will be an improvement.


How can I backup my websites files and folders and MySQL database using PHP and send them to an email address in splited 1 MB pieces?

A quick example would be very helpful.


Adsense Earnings and multiple websites

Does placing my Adsense publisher's account code over many website's will reduce earnings? I mean by many websites, that sites are mine or I have exclusive rights to publish my ads there. Keep in mind that, some of those websites may has just 30 visits per day while others may exceed 1000 visits per day.


How does amazon get away without verifying emails?

I was playing around with Amazon's Check out process today and I noticed something odd. Amazon does not make you activate your account or verify your email address. I only had to enter my email twice during the registration process. They never sent me an activation email. Is this becoming standard? I can understand the reasoning that if you entered someone else's email address during registration the person who actually owns the email address could change the password on the account. It just seems really odd. Can someone explain how they get away with this?


WordPress multisite and Google Analytics in subfolders with mapped domains

I have a WordPress multisite with sub folders. The site's subfolders are mapped to domains, which are set to primary. I'm using the Google Analytics Multisite Async' code to track things. From what I can see it's tracking the sites fine (getting page hits for each site in Google Analytics) baring the original site in the multisite which in content overview lists domains then the amount of traffic it's getting along with the orginal domains traffic. I don't want to track any other traffic for my orginal site than what goes to that. i.e. I don't want it tracking my other sites in multi-site. e.g. `domain1.com` is my orginal and I have lots of other sites in the multisite lets say `domain2.com`, `domain3.com`. In content overview in Analytics it's listing say `domain2.com` as content. Can I tell it to filter these out some how either in Analytics or within WordPress? Hopefully explained that clearly!


Auditing ads served on websites for malware / badware - Does such a service exist?

We recently had a bit of a scare on one of the web properties we administer. One of the 3rd party advertisers that we use had an advertiser who was distributing malware. Although this only took place for a day, the effect was dramatic. Google blocked our outbound links from google, chrome / firefox and safari all showed a message stating that the website the user is visiting has been found to be distributing malware. Although this passed quickly, after disabling the offending advertisers, we would like to prevent this from ever happening in the future. So the question is as follows: Is there a service which audits the ads served on a website for malware / badware? We have done a few google searches and were unable to find anything. Thank you.


Why is Google Webmaster Tools account showing fewer indexed pages than a site: search?

When I have check my website index pages it is showing only 252 pages are indexed but when I checked through Google Search by typing `site:http://www.example.com` then is showing more then 900 pages are indexed. What is this issue and even on Webmaster Tools I have submitted XML sitemap and number of pages are submitted 900+ but why index is showing low?


Google bots are severely affecting site performance

I have an aggregate site on a linux server that pulls in feeds from a universe of about 2,000 blogs. It's in Wordpress 3.4.2 and I have a cron job that is staggered to run five times an hour on another server to pull in the stories and then publish them to the front page of this site. This is so I didn't put too much pressure all on one server. However, the Google bots, which visit a few times every hour bring the server to its knees in the morning and evenings when there is an increase in traffic on the site. The bots have something like 30,000 links to follow at this point. How do I throttle the bots to simply grab the new stories off the front page and stop there? EDIT- Details of my server configuration: The way we have this set up is the server that handles all the publishing is an unmanaged instance via AWS. It mounts the NFS server and connects to the RDS to update content, etc. You get to this publishing instance via a plugin that detects the wp-admin link and then redirects you into there. The front end app server also mounts the NFS and requests data from the RDS. It is the only one that has the WP Super Cache on it.... The OS is Ubuntu on the App server and the NFS runs CentOs. The front end is Nginx and the publishing server is Apache.


Is there a way to scan websites externally for the recent PHP CGI flaw?

The recent PHP CGI flaw exposed (CVE-2012-1823) has me wondering if some of the legacy sites that I've inherited might be vulnerable. (see Physorg article) Does anybody know of a means to externally scan your websites to see if they might be running a PHP setup that is vulnerable to this problem?


Schema SiteNavigationElement markup

Should the Schema.org SiteNavigationElement be structured like this..

Link 1

      or like this?

                 Link 1


AdSense ads are not being displayed on my homepage

I have a relatively new site that has AdSense installed in the same location across each page. Ads however are not (and have never been) displaying on my homepage. I have checked that I have enough content, that my image to text ratio is OK, I have no warnings or messages in my AdSense account, and the ads are displaying fine on all my other pages. I have also ran the Google Debug URL string on my homepage which does display ads. What might be the issue here?


Removing 301 redirect from site root

I'm having a look at a friends website (a fairly old PHP based one) which they've been advised needs re-structuring. The key points being:   1. URLs should be lower case and more "friendly".    2. The root of the domain should be not be re-directed. The first point I'm happy with (and the URLs needed tidying up anyway) and have a draft plan of action, however the second is baffling me as to not only the best way to do it, but also _whether it should be done_. Currently `http://www.example.com/` is redirected to `http://www.example.com/some-link-with-keywords/` using the follow `index.php` in the root of the Apache2 instance.               <?php     $nextpage = "some-link-with-keywords/";     header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );     header( "Status: 301 Moved Permanently" );     header("Location: $nextpage");     exit(0); // This is Optional but suggested, to avoid any accidental output     ?>      As far as I'm aware, this has been the case for around three years -- and I'm sorely tempted to advise to not worry about it. It would appear taking off the 301 could:   * Potentially affect page ranking (as the 'homepage' would disappear - although it couldn't disappear because of the next point...)   * Introduce maintainance issues as existing users would still have the re-directed page in their cache   * Following the above, introduce duplicate content   * Confuse Google/other SE's as to what the homepage actually is now I may be over-analysing this but I have a feeling it's not as simple as removing the 301 from the root, and 301'ing the previous target to the root... Any suggestions (including it's not worth it) are sincerely appreciated.


Is it safe to block redirected (but still linked) URLs with robots.txt?

I have a website that has all URLs optimized and 301 redirected from nasty URLs to clean ones. However, everywhere throughout the site the unclean URLs are linked in menus, content, products, etc. Google currently has all clean URLs indexed, along with a few unclean URLs too. So the site still has linked everywhere the old URLs (ideally this wouldn't be the case but this is how it is ATM). I would like to block the unclean URLs with _robots.txt_. The question: if I block these unclean URLs with the _robots.txt_ , when the entire website is linked with them (but they all redirect to the clean version), will this affect the indexing status at all?


Should I split a large CSS media queries file into separate files for each screen size?

I am working on a responsive design website to deliver content for all screen sizes. I have media queries for 5 different "steps", and the CSS file is around 30 Kb. Would it be better to split this into separate files and make them similar to this:               <link rel='stylesheet' media='screen and (min-width: 701px) and (max-width: 900px)' href='css/medium.css' />      or should I keep them in one CSS file? Update: I just wanted to add, that my main concern was cross browser/device page opening/rendering speed, not ease of development.


Set Up Of Common Name Of SSL Certificate To Protect Plesk Panel

A PCI Compliance scanner is balking that the self signed SSL certificate protecting secure access to Plesk Panel contains a name mismatch between the location of the Plesk Panel and the name on the certificate, namely the self- signed cert's name is "Parallels" and the domain to reach Plesk is 'ip address:8443'. So I figured I would go ahead and get a free SSL certificate to try to fiddle with this error. But when I generated the certificate I used my server domain name as the site name when I generated the certificate. So if I visit 'domain name:8443' all is fine, no ssl warning. But if I visit 'ip address:8443' (which I believe is what the scanner does) I get the certificate name mismatch error, Digicert's ssl checker says that the certificate name should be the ip address. Can I even generate a certificate whose common name is the ip address? I am tempted to say I should just do what the PCI scanner accepts, but what is really the correct common name to use? Anybody run into this issue before?


SEO - which URL's are the best?

In my application I have users who can post offers. An offer belongs to a category and a subcategory. The title of the offer can be long (~80 characters) My options to have url's uniqueness, are:               i) /users/:id/offer/:title          ii) /category/:name/offer/:title-:number          iii) /category/:name/subcategory/:name/offer/:title-:number      where, :number is a different identifier if there are 2 offers with the same title 1) Which of the 3 is the best in terms of SEO (or there is another combination that is better than the 3 options)? 2) Is there any difference on the order of the words? For example, is there any difference if I choose `/users/:id/offer/:title` instead of `/offer/:title-:number`


What is the cheapest .se domain registrar?

I'm looking to register a .se domain but I can only find registrars that charge ~$50 and I was wondering if there's anything cheaper.


Why does Google crawl  my site very slowly [recently]

recently it takes 5 to 8 days for my site (www.StudyHorror.com) to be indexed. I'm updating the website everyday. What are the possible causes for this problem?


How can I put a totally new prestashop store on a sub-domain I created?

I need a bit of advice. I have an e-commerce site on www.mydomain.com and I have now created a sub domain that will have a totally new store running on it (all installed any ready to go). I use prestashop and I want to point a category on www.mydomain.com to my new sub domain www.mydomain/sub.com. Can this be done? How would I do it?


Should I use a canonical URL?

I'm currently in the process of building a charts website with music from Soundcloud. The charts will be 'cleared' every week. My base URL will be: `http://example.com/` Which will contain the charts of the current week. Every week will also have its own URL: `http://example.com/{year}/{week}` E.g. `http://example.com/2011/50` This would mean that the current week will be accessible by two URLs. The base URL and the week URL. So I'm thinking about adding a canonical URL on the page @ the base URL to the URL of the week. Is that a good idea? Or will it impact the ranking of my home page (the base URL)?


Using modproxy to get around China's Great Firewall

I'm using WIX service and I like it very much. However, one big problem is that some of my colleagues are in China but their IP is blocked. I'm wondering if modproxy can help me. I would like to setup a clean server (not blocked by the stupid Chinese government). Pointed the DNS cname to it and have modproxy get the page in background and send the page to viewers in China. Will it work? If yes, can anyone post any examples? Thanks a million


Dotted subdomain name or new domain?

I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name). The company want to develop a "micro website" for one of their campaigns, named "Inspired By BRAND". I have two directions:   * inspired.by.BRAND.com - which I personally don't like too much. I don't know why but I don't recall any web address similar to this one subdomain.subdomain.domain.com.   * inspired.BRAND.com - which I this is best suited for it. Fewer dots and similar to "more friendly" addresses subdomain.domain.com. Any hints, guidelines, any thoughts is well appreciated. Thanks in advance


How can I make my MediaWiki Table Sortable again?

Anyone able to help me with MediaWiki Tables? I've created a table in my companies Wiki (using mediawiki 1.13.4) which I can't for the life of me get to sort correctly. It will sort on the first two columns, but any column after that the sort doesn't happen. Here's the Wiki Markup i'm using (note I'm using templates to make it easier for others to help me maintain the table) The table itself (with only one item shown for brevity in the question)               {| border="1" class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"     |+'''PTFS Europe Hosted Servers'''     |-     !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="150px"|Customer     !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="100px"|IP     !rowspan="2" scope="col" width="100px"|Usage     !scope="col" width="100px"|Type     !scope="col" width="100px"|Details     !scope="col" width="80px"|Renewal     !scope="col" width="80px"|Cost     !scope="col" width="80px"|Renewal     !scope="col" width="80px"|Value     !rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes     |- class="unsortable"     !colspan="4"|Hosting     !colspan="2"|Maintanence     |-     {{server_item     |name=[http://abcd.abcd-abcd.eu Customer 1]     |ip=[[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]]     |usage=Stuff     |htype=Semi Dedicated      |hdetail=Linux     |hrenewal=XXXX-XX-XX     |hcost=£XXX.XX     |mrenewal=XXXX-XX-XX     |mvalue=£X,XXX.XX     |notes=Bi-Annual Support     }}     MORE ROW ITEMS HERE     |}      and the template I've created to use to help fill the table.               |- class="sortbottom"     | {{{name}}} || {{{ip}}} || {{{usage}}} || {{{htype}}} || {{{hdetail}}} || {{{hrenewal}}} || {{{hcost}}} || {{{mrenewal}}} || {{{mvalue}}} || {{{notes}}}      Can't quite see what I'm missing... probably a case of can't see the wood for the trees..


Is Paypal the best solution for payment gateway for a website?

I have a realty website that needs a payment gateway for their property reservation. The reservation fee range from $500-$600 and about 5-6 people per month. I was wondering if Paypal is the best solution for accepting Payment. What will be the Pros and Cons using Paypal. Paypal was my first choice because It's easy to integrate on my existing website and I wouldn't be minding so much on the security. P.S. It's not a part of the question, But If you can site some realty website that accept payment and would be a good inspiration. It would be highly appreciated. Thanks!


Does a large (hidden) submenu count towards site content in tems of determining page similarities?

Basically, I have this site that recently lost a lot of traffic after I optimized the html, the exact reasons to which are uncertain. The graph of impressions (times a page appears on search listings) is continuously going down like an e^-x function. Because the content, previously occupying five pages of tables, now fits within a few paragraph tags, the menu now occupies about 80% of the live html code and I am starting to have doubts wherether this affects the "similar pages" factor that Google punishes. Questions:   1. As far as I know, Google ignores invisible material and the submenus are only visible when hovered over. Has anything at all changed in this area?   2. If I ajax in the submenus, leaving only the main eight menu items to load, will I be punished for "hiding" information?   3. Is the idea worth testing or is it frankly retarded?


Apache mod_rewrite problem

I try to use Apache mod_rewrite to redirect some pages on my customer's website to the homepage. The .htaccess file is the following:               <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>     RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteRule ^environment/teach-your-kids-to-go-green/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/event\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/films\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/lastcomm\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/join\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^capturenature(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/blog\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^capturenatur(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/roadtomecca\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^capturenature/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^shopping/engagement-rings-for-men/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/thecallhome\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteRule ^a3ff/stateofthings\.html(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d     RewriteRule . /index.php [L]     </IfModule>      For some reason, this rewrite rule - `RewriteRule ^a3ff/(.*) [DOMAINNAME]/$1 [R=301,L]` - doesn't work on the production server. It does work on my development server, however. When I use `RewriteRule ^a3fff/(.*) DOMAINNAME/$1 [R=301,L]`, for example (one character appended), it works perfectly. It's probably the strangest .htaccess problem I've ever seen. Can anyone help me?


Does AdWords have search volume for advanced operators like minus?

I am seeing some weird words in the keyword planner like the following: `lingerie -ebay` with lots of search volume. In search that would mean "show me results for _lingerie_ but exclude _ebay_ ". However the search volume for _lingerie_ and _lingerie -ebay_ is exactly the same. So what is this mysterious minus?


Using Adsense as a SEO tool - does the adsense bot have the same understanding as the normal web crawler?

I make valid (X)HTML documents that are also semantically correct. I try to use all tags as they were intended and this has yielded good results as far as my placement in Google and other search engines. What I've been doing for the last few years is using Google Adsense as a sort of barometer to ascertain how well Google understands my content. Normally, I place one Google ad at the bottom of the page and wait for it to change. If the ad reflects the topic of my site and the text on any given page, I assume that I've done my job well and just remove the ad. I'm wondering, does anyone else use this strategy .. and has it also worked for you? I realize that my ranking depends on many factors, but making sure the crawler could understand my pages seemed like the first battle to win. Am I just throwing salt over my shoulder by doing this?


Helping search engines identify what a blog post is about via tags

I was thinking about implementing a tagging system for my blog to attach one to five tags to each blog post. Are there any tricks to help search engines identify that these are tags though and that they should use this information to help determine what the blog post is about? Or is tagging completely ignored and not given any extra weight from other text on your web page to a search engine?


Can two ore more breadcrumbs lead to the same end site?

I have a question about breadcrumbs and SEO! Currently my website's navigation is with the links above site where user can click desired category and continue with different filters. On next update we are planing to add site navigation on bottom of the site where some popular tags will be listed and will lead to another page that will give most recent results in table and will enable tags drill down... So basically this will be another way to browse data... The whole idea about building this is to make data more SEO friendly - That is why I want to add breadcrumbs here. I am not sure if multiple breadcrumbs are allowed to lead to the same URL. If they are allowed than I would like to ask for the solution for breadcrumbs on last site in chain... This should also have 2 because user can go back on one or another chain ... Any idea?


Will link exchange with similar sites improve my PageRank?

I have a programming blog and I was wondering if link exchange with other programming blogs (where I link to them and they link to me) is a good idea to improve my site's PageRank. I know in general it is desirable because it will increase my page views and reader base. Specifically my main page has a PageRank of 4 and I'm wondering if I could ever reach a PageRank 5 by doing a lot of link exchange for similar blogs around the same PageRank? Or do the links cancel out the backlinks in terms of PageRank?


How does DNS detect changes in nameserver IP address?

Suppose I have a domain such as example.com and I configure the domain's primary and secondary nameserver to be ns1.example2.com and ns2.example2.com. Questions:   1. Does the IP address of the nameservers get retrieved and stored in the registry's database (ie VeriSign for .com domains) at the time I set these nameservers for my example.com domain? Or is it both the IP and the domain name for the nameservers as well?   2. If both pieces of information is stored, what happens if at some point in time the IP address of the nameserver itself is changed? I mean how would the registry know about the IP address change? EDIT: The question is not about what happens if the web host’s IP address changes but rather what happens if the _nameserver’s_ IP address changes. I know this would not normally happen as all nameservers would have a static IP. But let's say that the nameserver is moved to another physical server on another network and hence it is given a new IP address. In this case wouldn't the domain name system have an issue with this due to the fact that the nameserver itself cannot be found? Thinking this through for a moment, and someone please correct me if my thinking is incorrect here. Assume no cache is used throughout and the domain name example.com needs to be resolved to find the web host's IP address. **Step 1:** The root will be queried which will return the nameservers for the .com TLD. **Step 2:** The .com nameservers will be queried and this will return the nameservers for example.com. The information that we would get as a result of this query will be something like:   * ns2.example2.com internet address = 216.239.34.10    * ns1.example2.com internet address = 216.239.32.10 Now, won't these IP address that are being returned be out of date? One way I can think of so that the .com nameservers could possibly keep these in sync every time is if the .com nameservers resolved ns2.example2.com in real time every time the query for the example.com domain was made! Obviously this can't be happening because it would create even more load on the .com nameservers. This is the part I don't quite understand about the Domain Name System and hence my questions.


Would an elastic IP affect SEO?

I am considering moving my site to Amazon EC2 instances. Would an elastic IP affect SEO?


Are the following assumptions about indexing and ranking correct?

Are the following statements true or false:   1. If a page is crawled by Google, it automatically gets into the index (unless explicitly blocked by `robots.txt`)   2. An indexed page always gets a ranking (high or low)   3. A page which is not referenced by any other pages, and which does not appear in a sitemap, will never be crawled by Google, and will never get into the index   4. Google will update its index and ranking for some sites faster than for others   5. More popular sites are indexed and ranked faster than less popular sites


Best tools to build an auction website

Can I get your feedback on the best tools to build an auction website with the following features:   * The site takes a commission (like 5%) on each transaction   * Each user can assign a rating (like 4.5 stars) to his completed transaction,   and comment on the seller's profile.   * Accept payments in paypal and credit card I've been looking into Joomla! and JomSocial but they haven't convinced me much so far. I have some programming experience in C, Python and Java. If no CMS tools are of use I'd appreaciate if you could tell the best route to take in programming to get the auction site done.


Why isn't HTTP Authentication working on this Apache HTTPS site?

I have set up a private MoinMoin wiki, accessed through HTTPS, but I cannot get Basic HTTP Authentication to work on it. I have it working on another site, using a similar vhosts file, so I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. When accessing the site, the connection gets redirected to HTTPS, as intended, but there is no request for authentication credentials. Nothing relevant seems to be appearing in the access log or error log either, which is strange. I am not sure if MoinMoin sites keep their own logs, but I have defined logs in the vhosts file.               <VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:80>             ServerName wiki.mysite.net             Redirect 301 / https://wiki.mysite.net             CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined             ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log     </VirtualHost>          <VirtualHost 00.00.00.00:443>             ServerName      wiki.mysite.net             DocumentRoot    /var/www/mywiki/                  ### Serve static contents (images, javascript, css...) ###             AliasMatch "^/moin_static[0-9]*/applets/FCKeditor/(.*)" "/usr/share/fckeditor/$1"             <Directory "/usr/share/fckeditor/">                     Options None                     AllowOverride             </Directory>                  # The path to static contents changes (named after moinmoin version).             AliasMatch "^/moin_static[0-9]*/(.*)" "/usr/share/moin/htdocs/$1"             <Directory "/usr/share/moin/htdocs/">                     Options -Indexes -FollowSymlinks                     AllowOverride None             </Directory>                  Alias /robots.txt /usr/share/moin/htdocs/robots.txt             Alias /favicon.ico /usr/share/moin/htdocs/favicon.ico                  WSGIDaemonProcess mywiki user=www-data group=www-data processes=4 display-name=moin-wsgi-mywiki             WSGIProcessGroup mywiki             WSGIScriptAlias / "/usr/share/moin/server/moin.wsgi"             # WSGIPassAuthorization On             # Read: http://moinmo.in/HowTo/ApacheWithModWSGI                  <Proxy *>                     AuthUserFile    /var/www/.htpasswd                     AuthName        EnterPassword                     AuthType        Basic                     require         valid-user                     Order           Deny,allow                     Allow           from all             </Proxy>     </VirtualHost>


Google analytics and Adwords showing very different figures

In AdWords I have 1 advert running only. The landing page includes a querystring so I can track it. EG, www.mydomain.com/products?source=CPC I also use Google Analytics. For February I have approx 1450 clicks in AdWords. This means, 1450 went to my website. In Google Analytics, according to my landing page, there were only ~850 visits. In Google Analytics, in the Acquisition -> All traffic page, it suggests that Google CPC brought 517 visits... I know tracking tools are not 100% reliable but this figure seems to be showing something is very wrong. How can I tell which of the figures is accurate or is this just a limitation of reporting tools?


Import Analytics goals and Ecommerce transactions directly into AdWords account

I have a Magento-ecommerce site. Recently I migrated to Universal Analytics from Google Analytics. In Uiversal Analytics, I have tracked transaction data. It's tracking fine. I have linked Analytics and **AdWords** account. In **AdWords** , accounts are integrated fine. But it did not integrate transaction data from Google Analytics. After referred this link, I did the importing of transaction data goals after checking all other settings. Even after 24 hours and more, in tracking status of Google AdWords, it shows **no recent conversions**. Till now it did not track transaction data. As I'm referring **Google AdWords** for the first time, I could not find what wrong with this? And one more thing I got from the same link, We need to Import transaction data and goals once in 30 days manually. Can it be made to automatically import transaction data by any settings or any other? Can anyone help on this issue?


Are there any risks involved in Hosting your website on free webhosts?

I am planning to host my collage project web site on any such free webhost, is it secure or are there any **disadvantages** or **risks** or security issues that i may experience if i go for **free web-hosting**? any inputs are appreciated!


What is the replacement for the Web Intents HTML standard?

"Web Intents" were deprecated in Chrome 24 (November/2011) and are no longer supported in any browser: > We also gathered a lot of valuable data and feedback from our experimental > support for Web Intents and decided to disable the feature in today's Beta > release. Is there an HTML5 standard that I can look into as an alternative to what Web Intents intended? I'm interested in how web services can be stitched together. For example, imagine a website that can import a image from any number of web- services, modify the image in some way, then push the file back to any number of other web-services, all via HTML5 standards.


How to notify Google about expired content?

We run a classified ad website. When the users delete their ads, they want the indexed page removed instantly from Google. We have seen 2 complementary strategies:   * Adding a `noarchive` (Craigslist is the only one doing it).   * Adding the deleted ads in the sitemap with the deletion date used as `<lastmod>`. We have an decent number of pages crawled/indexed by Google (+15'000'000). So it is important that the added and deleted ads are handled in priority and promptly. Modified ads or categorie pages can be handled next. How can we do it?


Possible for using a surrogate to buy a .it domain?

I'm a US citizen interested in buying an Italian TLD (`*.it`). However, those domains can only be registered by EU citizens or residents, or businesses with a registrant who is an Italian citizen and resident. Are there companies that provide a 'surrogate' like service? They fulfill the requirements for registration but I can administer the domain properties? What are they and what can I expect to pay for the middleman? Or am I a horrible person for even considering 'circumventing' the intent of the restriction?


A POST request on a page with HTTPS is done automatically in HTTPS?

If I make a request to `page.php` (AJAX) with JavaScript from a HTTPS page, the request is automatically made `page.php` directly with HTTPS or HTTP? If HTTP, how to send a request (to the same domain) with HTTPS with pure JavaScript?


Good quality icon libraries

I am looking for some well designed icon libraries either for purchase or for free. Any suggestions? I need vector images of various things, like rain cloud, hitchhiking thumb, briefcase, and more. Thanks.


Is it possible to correlate goals with search terms in Google Analytics?

I have a goal set up (let's say the goal is "buy a product"), and I can see which search terms lead to the most conversions. However, I want to know which search terms lead to which products. Is it possible to track this? There are more products than the maximum number of goals you can create, so I can't just make lots of goals.


How can I find out how many times a specific term has been searched on Google?

Is this information possible to get? If not is there any other source of information that can provide this? Thank you


Best practice when modelling a website's code

When developing with object oriented code you use an UML diagram to describe all the classes of the program. What about websites? I have a prototype made with justinmind prototyper so I know how the program looks like and roughly how many webpages I will have, but I will probably have some sort of database in the website, I will also take/receive calls from outside sources. So how would you model a website, with what method, what is best practice?


Touch-friendly radio buttons for mobile devices?

I am using WordPress and WP Pro-Quiz to create a quiz. Each answer has a radio button on the side (`input type="radio"`). When I click anywhere on the same row from the touch-screen on my computer, the radio button is being checked. But when I click on the row on my mobile device (in this case an iPod touch), the radio button is not being checked. I have to click exactly on the tiny radio button to check it. So I see two possible ways of solving this problem. Either I try to make a large radio button, or I try to make the whole row "mark"-able. What would be the easiest approach? Could someone please point me in the right direction?


what should be my initial address for sitemap and robots.txt if I'm using redirection

What should be my initial adress when using this site: http://www.xml- sitemaps.com? I have a folder inside my root where I have all my files. For example I have domain.com and my start directory is domain.com/en so I have made a redirection to domain.com/en but the main question is what should be the starting point for sitemap? domain.com or domain.com/en? Same thing is with robots.txt. should I put it in the root or in the en folder? Thanks


301 redirect specific URLs

I have a lot of 404 pages looks like that:   * `lalala/lalala/Users_PasswordReminder.aspx?something=lala`   * `lilili/lilili/Users_PasswordReminder.aspx`   * `/Users_PasswordReminder.aspx?username=admin`   * etc. I want all of the URLs who have `Users_PasswordReminder.aspx` redirect to my main page of my domain. how can I do that with _.htaccess_?


TV Shows for Web Master and Design Firms

Are there existing TV Shows we're they talk about the Web Industry? (Web Mastering, Web Designing, Web Developing, Interviews and Tips and Tricks). TV shows can be interesting for us, It can be a good source of inspiration. Information from TV shows can be delivered to your audience fast and would be good for people who don't like to read much. Topic I'm interested to watch are Successful Stories of Design Firms and Their Workflow. Another is some sneak peak on their Company and WorkStation (similar to MTV Cribs) lol. I'm open to Internet Channels (Youtube, Adobe TV).


Capturing client request headers (complete) along with IP address information?

I want to write client request to a file with two things/information   * headers   * ip address  The code I'm testing on free hosting service.Code is               <?     $headers= apache_request_headers();     foreach ($headers as $header => value)     {     echo "4header: $ value </br >\n";     }     ?>      Above, work for headers; but I'm confused what does `apache_request_headers()` means its given as example in offical php website. Does it work for apache only? If, the request header doesn't contain IP address I want to capture it as under               if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) {         $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];     } elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) {         $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];     } else {         $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];     }      Merging the two, I want to write in single file and append it with time information for every request?. If time info is included as part of request...then its not required for new code. Also, please suggest what the best way to capture such request, be it in separate php which is reading all the request to particular page or directory ; or put it inside the i.e index.html page. Thanks. Thanks.


Statistics for facebook like button

I have a small site with facebook like button. I want to find out the information about what pages are liked. I've found url http://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://imdb.com but it shows only overal count for the site. I think that I can ask http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=url1,url2 with all my pages as the parameters to get detailed information, but this seems to be an ugly solution. A have lots of pages, so I have to ask facebook many times. Maybe there is some simple way of finding the information I need?


Gallery of HTML/JS animated graphics

I'm looking for a few sites where I can browse hundreds of animated graphic effects in well-coded HTML5 and Javascript. That's it. Just some standards-compliant animation code that I can make trial- and-error modifications to.


Tracking multiple subdomains and domains going to the same site, separately in Google Analytics

I have a new site that has multiple top-level domains and subdomains all going to it: `www.domain.com`, `campaign.domain.com`, `chicago.domain.com`, `domain2.com` - all go to the same site/site directory. Right now I have one Google Analytics account profile set up for it, but I want to be able to track the traffic that is hitting those different URLs separately. The domains are being routed on the server-side (not _.htaccess_ ). How can I do this in Google Analytics? Do I need to create filters? Or create different profiles for each domain?


How is the scrolling in mobile browsers (touch) different from desktop browsers?

I know scrolling works differently on mobile devices since they don't fire the `scroll` event right away. What else is different? Where can I learn more about it? I want to know if it has any other limitations. Did anyone give a name to this kind of scrolling?


How is the hierarchy of .htm/.html/.php decided?

If I have a folder with files named index.html, index.htm, and index.php how it is decided which one will be used if you only list the URL to that folder? Is that something you can chose or is that up to the host?


Automatically convert CSV file to MySQL

I was finding automatic .csv file converter to web based to put the .csv file report as web based. but i can't find one. instead, i found one system which is taken MySQL database and show the report. Now what i need is a tool which automatically convert a .csv file to MySQL and the other tool will take the MySQL file and show as report. What opensource web tool you recommend? Thanks,


Free user submitted plugins/themes manager for software project

I am looking for a plugin/themes manager that users will be submitting. Pretty much I would like to have something like these: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/ http://addons.sonGBirdnest.com/addons https://addons.mozilla.org/


Image not appearing when publicizing to facebook

I'm using WordPress and the problem I have is that I don't see any associated images being used when I paste a link into Facebook. Below is my Facebook OG:Data.               <meta property="og:type" content="article" />     <meta property="og:title" content="Plitvice Lakes National Park" />     <meta property="og:url" content="http://nomadicnabeel.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/plitvice-lakes-national-park/" />     <meta property="og:description" content="Since I watched the documentary of Plitvice Lakes National Park on BBC few years back, I knew I had to visit it at some point. From Split it was 3 to 4 hours drive. It was raining and I slept all t..." />     <meta property="article:published_time" content="2014-08-08T14:47:38+00:00" />     <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2014-08-08T14:47:38+00:00" />     <meta property="article:author" content="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=589050513" />     <meta property="og:site_name" content="Nomadic Nabeel" />     <meta property="og:image" content="http://wordpress.com/i/blank.jpg?m=1383295312g" />


Google search question, front page not showing

I know this is probably a dumb question but I hope someone can give me some insight; I was ranked on Google first page of search results for "funny st patricks day shirts" but I was third from the bottom and not familiar enough with SEO, so I signed up for "Attracta" to rank higher. Big mistake. Since using Attracta, I've lost the first page and I'm now on the fourth page in that search. What I noticed is that Google is now just showing a sub-page or side page, (a link from my front page, to a page which has only a few designs in it) this is not where I would want customers to land first... but my front page is not showing in that search anymore. Obviously, the title of this side page is not geared toward that search result, so I know that's why I have the pr drop. Why is my front page not ranking over that page, though? Why is it apparently gone from that search, or so far back no one will ever find it? I need to know how to fix this quick if anyone has any advice at all for me. It's the busiest season for my website and the people who were stealing design ideas from me are all ranked higher than my site now. (I can prove this, lol) So, I'm very frustrated by that. I would be very grateful to have any advice at all as to what I can do to fix this. THANKS in advance for any advice you can offer. Catelyn


Why use a Top Level Domain

I am trying to understand the use of Top Level Domains. Do they help from a SEO perspective? Lets say I have a US site and a Canada site. For US, I create www.foo.com and for Canada I create www.foo.ca. Does this provide better functionality, or is it better practice, than www.foo.com/us/ and www.foo.com/ca/? Thanks for any insight given...


How does URL Rewriting affect SEO?

The following paragraph is from SEO Google Guide > Google is good at crawling all types of URL structures, even if they're > quite complex, but spending the time to make your URLs as simple as possible > for both users and search engines can help. Some webmasters try to achieve > this by rewriting their dynamic URLs to static ones; while Google is fine > with this, we'd like to note that this is an advanced procedure and **if > done incorrectly** , could cause crawling issues with your site. What makes URL re-writing implementation incorrect for GoogleBot? I am using Asp.net 3.5 framework.


Legitimate and Credible SEO Sites and Seminars/Webinars

In my opinion a lot of SEO information online tends to have a very "spammy" feel to it. Can anyone point me to some truly credible and legitimate SEO websites and/or seminars/webinars (other than stackexchange)? I'd like to learn more about SEO but I'm not sure where to look.


Landing page not showing in Google Analytics report

The PPC campaign is redirecting from third part URL, and the conversions are tracked by Google Analytics. From organic, the referral and direct sources are not tracking. I have installed the e-commerce tracking properly. In my Google Analytics report, none of the source URLs are not displaying except PPC campaigns. When I go to content and view the landing page option there, it's showing. How do I fix this issue in my Analytics?


What is appropriate for creating a booking system?

I need a booking system for a theoretical project website. It would be an in- house job (not outsourcing to a web service) but all google searches on the subject yield results for said web services. I'd want to be able to use the system as such: For each day, there is availability recorded and if available a user can book in using the website, which sets that date to unavailable. There are other complexities, but this is the basic system I am trying to achieve - what would allow me to implement something like this?


SEO for dynamically inserted content?

I've reviewed other questions and answers, but none fit my use case. Frankly, I'm not even sure if I'm asking the right question. Here's my scenario: I work for an organization that is in the process of rewriting their website. Let's assume we want to list a phonebook with some entries on a web page. There is a "phonebook component", designed in JavaScript and uses Handlebars as templates. Using grunt it is all uglified, concatenated, and minified in one file called `phonebook.js`. The way it works is this:   1. Content editor opens up the page where s/he wants to insert the phonebook. All that person has to do is open the CMS HTML editor and insert this: `<div class="phonebook-component"></div>` And that's it. Now, what happens is that there's a `global.js` file that's loaded with every page. This script recognizes any class names that end with `-component`. When it recognizes the component, it makes a sync call to load the `phonebook.js`. The component is inserted, and it looks wonderful. The problem is probably obvious. When you look up at the source code, there where the source code should be is just hat `div` tag I mentioned. This is what crawlers see too. My question is: how can I make this crawlable? Is there any way? All my searches so far resulted in answers like "oh, this is how you make your AJAX SPAs crawlable".


When is it time to move on from WordPress?

My company's blog it closing in on 30,000 posts and get around 1,000,000 visits a month. Things seem slow even though we have a good server. At what point to you move on from WordPress or does it not matter? Would I have better luck splitting the DB?


CSS3 animation to start only when page is scrolled to the right place

I want to show an CSS3 animation with a delay, but it is below the fold of the page, meaning, that animation may start and end before user scrolls to the area where it should perform. How can I set up to start the animation when a container DIV gets visible for the user when he scrolls down to this DIV?


SEO Ramifications of double breadcrumbs

I have a website that lists hotels, restaurants, bars, etc for a small resort town in Asia. I employ breadcrumbs to aid in user navigation, but I ran into an issue regarding categorization. Many places easily fall into two categories, such as restaurants that are also bars. They can be reached by following links from the "Restaurants" pages, as well as "Bars" pages. Is it bad practice to have TWO sets of breadcrumbs, SEO wise? Example:               Home > Dining > Mexican     Home > Bars & Nightlife > Cocktail Bars      The breadcrumbs appear just like this at the top of the page for listings which I have under multiple categories. I know it's good for user navigation, but does this adversely affect SEO, in particular how Google handles indexing of your pages?


We changed our domain a year ago to .com but old site is still number one when searching

I changed our companies domain name a year ago from radfan.co.uk to radfan.com. When typing radfan into Google the number one result is still radfan.co.uk rather than the .com. This is not the case for Bing and Yahoo. This is the .htaccess rule I have used               RewriteEngine on     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^radfan\.co\.uk$ [OR]     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.radfan\.co\.uk$     RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.radfan\.com\/" [R=301,L]      Is there something else I need to do? UPDATE: Turns out if I search for radfan.com google finds it but asks if I meant "radfan.co.uk" ... UPDATE 2: I moved the domain in January 2012, so 14 months now


"X-Robots-Tag: noindex" on an HTTP 301 response

I understand that a resource with `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` forces some search engines, including Google, not to index the resource further. I also understand that an HTTP 301 response causes search engines to use the redirected URL instead of the original URL to refer to the resource. But what happens if both `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` and status code 301 occur on the same response? It's likely that the original URL will no longer be indexed, but will that cause the redirected URL to no longer be indexed too? This possibility is not mentioned in the X-Robots-Tag specification.


Does removing links for certain anchor text would affect my sites Google ranking?

After Google penguin update i found some of my website's keyword lost ranking. I checked all the inbound backlinks of my website and all anchor texts. I noted two or three keywords has been getting backlink from a particular blogspot. Now I plan to remove those backlinks, but if I do that i would lose more than 1000 backlinks. Does decreasing backlink would affect all my keyword's ranking in Google? or would it affect only those two or three keywords? Overall backlink count according to GWT is 18,403 (it may varied on other SEO online tools).


Does specifying full webpage path in robots.txt would affect my website?

It may be a silly question but I need to clarify my doubt because it's related to _robots.txt_. I need to prevent some label path of my website using _robots.txt_ file.               User-agent: *     Disallow: /directory/wp-admin/path/label      If I give like this, would it affect all the paths separately? Which means, does Googlebot consider `directory`, `wp-admin`, `path` and `label` separately?


Where can I find the full list of Google/Microsoft CDN hosted AJAX files?

While Google hosts this list and Microsoft hosts this one there are several files missing such as jQuery UI CSS. Where can I find a complete listing of all the resources offered for major AJAX CDNs, especially Google and Microsoft (due to popularity)? **CDNs listings found so far** (mostly thanks to artlung):   * Google: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation _(Darryl Hein also found http://scriptsrc.net for easier access)_   * Microsoft: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx   * AOL: http://o.aolcdn.com (can only find http://dev.aol.com/dojo for references to URLs)   * Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting **Google CDN Hosted jQuery UI Themes** Base, Black-Tie, Blitzer, Cupertino, Dark-Hive, Dot-Luv, Eggplant, Excite- Bike, Flick, Hot-Sneaks, Humanity, Le-Frog, Mint-Choc, Overcast, Pepper- Grinder, Redmond, Smoothness, South-Street, Start, Sunny, Swanky-Purse, Trontastic, UI-Darkness, UI-Lightness and Vader. **EDIT:** Just use CDN JS for all the hosting from one domain.


PrestaShop preformence with 100.000 + products

I am i the process of finding a replacement for an old web-shop (Compumail.dk), we are looking at a lot of possibility's and one of them is PrestaShop. The site has in the area of 100.000 products, and we need a solution that can handle this number growing (200.000 - 600.000) in the coming years, i found this: http://blog.egrovesys.com/ecommerce-development/magento-prestashop- latest-comparison where it says that it can only handle 25.000 products. So can a PrestaShop be made to handle 100.000+ products, and preform well? Thanks in advance.


Is it necessary to browser QA different versions of non-IE Browsers?

For example, is there a chance that Chrome 25 will render an element differently than Chrome 26? If the answer is "no", a link to a resource that explains why there are no differences in redering between versions would be ideal. **Edit** Thanks for the feedback. Everyone seems to indicate that, yes, it's possible that something could change in the redering engine. In my original question, I asked for a resource if the answer was "no". Now that the answer seems to be "yes" can anybody point to a specific redering difference between to versions of non-IE browsers? For example, Chrome 23 renders X as inline, while Chrome 24 reders x as block.


How do I install a Web Application to the root of the domain using Plesk?

I'm trying to use Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5.5 for Windows, and I'm trying to install Mediawiki using their installer. I want the wiki to be on the root of the domain, but I can't figure out what to put in this field ![Plesk](http://i.stack.imgur.com/aR0xC.png) I found similiar questions on different sites that suggested using `.` or `/` and neither worked. `httpdocs` just placed an `httpdocs` folder inside the exisitng `httpdocs` folder. This is a required field so I can't leave it blank. It seems like this should be possible, any ideas?


Alexa indexing browsing history?

We have this test.php sitting around in a forgotten folder. It is a script which just sends an email to our site admin. We never had a page linking to it. It is not indexed by Google. It does not exist in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. But every now and then it gets crawled by ia_archiver. I wonder how it got indexed. Could it be because of the Alexa toolbar installed on our computer? Does Alexa index our personal browsing history?


Making a site available at http and https after installing an SSL certificate

I just had hostgator install an SSL certificate on my site. As a result, my site is only available (right now) at https://mysite.com. Based on the answer to this question, it sounds like it's possible to make it also available at http://. How can I go about doing that?


Adwords: Is there a drawback to setting a really high max CPC to learn what works faster?

I'm toying with increasing my max CPC really high on all my keywords so ensure my ad gets shown in the top spot on page one in order to draw more clicks. I think this will be a good way to **quickly** figure out whether the ads I'm writing have a decent CTR and, more importantly, whether the landing pages I'm building are converting. Since I can set a max daily budget for my campaign, I won't risk breaking the bank. I can't think of any drawbacks, personally. Am I missing any?


Multiple google analytics instances on a page?

My company creates (and hosts) sites for many different clients. We allow clients to send us tracking code, including Google Analytics, and we put them on the page. We would also like to include our own Google Analytics code for internal tracking. When we first investigated this issue a couple years ago, Google warned about including multiple bits of GA tracking code on the same page due to cookie conflicts. Has this changed? Is it now safe to include multiple copies with different accounts?


two columns text block with an image

I have a dilemma. Here is the layout: ![sample](http://i.stack.imgur.com/eiAjE.png) How should I markup this kind of layout? P.S.: The columns have different width.


Breadcrumb using and schema.org rich snippets

I am having problems implementing the breadcrumb rich snippets from schema.org. When I construct my breadcrumb using the documentation and run via Google Rich Snippet testing tool, the breadcrumb is identified but not shown in the preview.               <!DOCTYPE html>                     <title>My Test Page</title>                              You are here:
             Home >             Test Pages >
                  If I change to use the snippets from data-vocabulary.org, the rich snippets show correctly in the preview.               <!DOCTYPE html>                     <title>My Test Page</title>                         You are here:

                                Home

                                Test Pages

                  I want the breadcrumb to be shown in the search result rather than the url to the page. Given that schema.org is the recommended way to be using rich snippets, I would rather use this, however as the breadcrumb is not showing in the preview of the search result using this method, i'm not convinced this is working correctly. Am I doing something wrong in the markup for schema.org example?


How to eliminate /wiki/ directory in rewrite rule on a site dedicated for a wiki

I have set up a subdomain of my site (for the purposes of this question I'll call it `wiki.example.com`), installed a wiki there, and set up URL rewrite according to the article on MediaWiki's website (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache). But because my subdomain is purely dedicated to the wiki I was hoping that I could have my URLs in the format `wiki.example.com/ArticleName` rather than `wiki.example.com/wiki/ArticleName`. I tried this by modifiying the rewrite rule in a way I thought would be correct:               RewriteRule ^(/.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/index.php [L]      Disclaimer: it may not have been exactly like that as the syntax I had written is no longer available for me to retype into this question. This partially worked, as I could reach the page at `wiki.example.com/Main_Page` but none of the images or CSS had loaded. I suspect the URL rewrite rule was trying to point everything at `index.php` but I'm wondering if there's any way to get a URL in the format `wiki.mysite.com/ArticleName`?


What method should I use for copying data from one table to another one?

I'm wondering what method I should use for copying data from one table to another one. I'm letting users post data through a form which uses table1 to save data. Now for displaying results I use data from table2 but I also need some data from table1.   * Method 1: Copy the needed data on pageload, when the user executes it. Might get slower, but uses live data.   * Method 2: Use a cronjob. Less resources, but not live data I'm interested in how much this will affect the speed of the website.


"Remember me": Best practices for expiration and refresh

There are _many_ questions with similar titles, but I couldn't find any asking the same thing. Most sites that support user login have a "remember me" functionality, where you can check a box and have your session persist through multiple browsing sessions. Are there any standards or best practices or recommendations in terms of how long the session should last until it expires again? What about for how the expiration time is "refreshed" (e.g. if it expires in one month, should it be updated to one month away on every logged-in page view, or handled some other way)?


Database Management System do exist?

I want to build a database for my no-profit association, and i was planning to do it by myself. But then i realize that really i don't have the time to buid a solid, secure system. So i was thinking, maybe like cms do exist, maybe there are also database management systems. I mean a layer of abstraction over the database that allow you manage data, manage access to data, create widgets with and expand the data. Maybe with a frontend to use this data and a backend to manage it. that is a cms but not based on pages and post but on data! Moreover, i would like some standard solution, because my IT management position ends this year, so i need something that will be easy to use and expand even by someone that is not a developer. So do exist something that fit my need? PS: i would really like some modern and visually pleasant solution, javascritp and ajax heavy and that relies the fewest is possible on server and reloading of the pages.


How do I serve dynamic WebDAV directory listings using Apache

I can use mod_rewrite to redirect `/dynamic.php/xyz.php` to `/dynamic.php` and then server different content for xyz.php using `$_SERVER` - where `xyz.php` is any arbitrary filename requested by a client. No problem so far. When a client connects to my WebDAV server they can list the contents of a directory, eg `/` or `/dynamic.php/` - how do I intercept this request so I can dynamically generate a list of available files for the client (which requests this list using `PROPFIND`)?


looking for a free site like vectormagic

I am looking for a FREE site like Vectormagic that takes pixellated images and makes them vector antialiased. any ideas? I need something I don't need to download. just upload an image and they antialias for you.


IIS 7.5 Compression is not working when loading the page on a local computer

If I try to access our website inside our servers using the remote desktop connection. YSlow and PageSpeed is reporting that our website are compressed. But If I try to access our website in my local computer, both the YSlow and PageSpeed reports that our site is not compressed. I'm confused with it. I don't know anymore what configuration I needed to check to make sure compression is working.


Restricting crawler activity to certain directories with robots.txt

I would like to use robots.txt to prevent indexing of some parts of my website. I want search engines to index only the `/` directory and not search inside my controllers. In my robots.txt, I have this:               User-Agent: *     Disallow: /compagnies/     Disallow: /floors/     Disallow: /spaces/     Disallow: /buildings/     Disallow: /users/     Disallow: /      I put this file in `/mysite/public`. I tested the file with a robots.txt validator and got no errors. However, Google always returns the result of my site. For testing, I added `Disallow: /`, but again, Google indexed all pages. `floors`, `spaces`, `buildings`, etc. are not physical directories. Is this a bug? How can I work around it?


Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors reported after using Geo IP delivery

I am using Magento for my site. Recently I blocked my website for the U.S. using the PHP Geo IP Location country database. This means that when people visit from the U.S., the site will show just a restricted access message. But the next day when I logged into my Webmaster Tools account, I see errors for 300 pages. It shows `500` errors for the links, however the pages are working for me. Here is the error reported by Google: > http://example.com/: Increase in server errors May 4, 2014 Google detected a > significant increase in the number of URLs we could not access. It is likely > that your server had an internal error or was busy when attempting to > process these requests.


Make blogger load faster

I use Blogger as a platform for an electronic music blog. Because of the thematics of the blog I embed many iframes (Youtube & Soundcloud). Of course this makes the articles load slowly. Almost every article on this blog consists of some text and many iframes below. What should I do in this particular case in order to make the pages load faster. Is there any available solution or I should use some jQuery like lazy load to load iframes once the scroller reaches them?


Google Position Ranking for Specisific Keyword and Domain

How i can now my website position ranking for specific keywords? example my website is `gusdecool.com` and i want to know my position ranking on Google search for keyword `Rapidleech` How to do that? or maybe google has service to do it?


Different filter settings in report tabs of Google Analytics Custom Reporting?

I'm wondering if it's possible to have different filter settings in different report tabs of custom report in Google Analytics? It looks like the filter settings can only be set for all report tabs of the custom report. I'm trying to get 2 graphs   * 1 shows just home page visits (page exact = **_/_** )   * 2 shows article page visits (page regex = **_/[Pp]age/._ ***) Is this possible?


SEO best practice for a breadcrumb made by a CSS drop-down menu

Usually I make my "breadcrumb" with a `<h1>`, at the pages top, which is perfect for the SEO, like following : `<h1>Section > Category</h1>` But in a new project, I wish to display a drop-down menu that will be the "breadcrumb" too, like the following (see the **fiddle** ) :

Selected section

Other section

Other section

Other section

     <>

Selected category

Other cat

Other cat

Other cat

Other cat

      URLs will be rewrote like : `http://www.mydomain/selected-section/selected- cat/` The Title tag will get the value : `<title>Selected section > Selected cat</title>` **My question(s)** How the search engines will index this navigation? Is it a better way to declare this navigation with something like following in the menu:               ...
Selected section
     ...
Selected category
     ...      Any other idea or advice will be appreciated. **Edit** A solution could be the `microdata` with a `breadcrumb` type, about breadcrumb microdata Please let me know if this is the best practice.


Web page element width

i saw this on a website, and looked a bit through the css, but coudn't quite find what I am looking for. How to make a html element let's say a `<div>` with width of eg. 3000px but make so that page doesen't put up scrollers automaticlly so that you can scroll to the right most and see the end of that content. But if the page is resized to let's say resolution smaller then 800x600, scrollbars appear (becouse the MAIN content is bigger than that), but they only let you scroll and see the MAIN content, not the right most part of the said `<div>`.   So basically, how to a browser ignore an elemets width or height no matter how big or sall it is?


Google Analytics: How can I traffic and referrals from iPad applications?

In Google Analytics, there is extensive information on the mobile device, version and browser version. However, this doesn't seem to go beyond the mobile browser. I would like to determine which application is responsible for visits to my site. Specifically, I want to know how many visits are coming from zite. http://www.handsetdetection.com/properties/vendormodel/Apple/iPad/page:4 seems to indicate this information is probably available, where/does Google Analytics expose this?


My first web development client - SEO pricing

I've gotten my first prospective client (lawyer) to build a custom website. I'm charging on a fixed-contract rate for development work. I've offered SEO as an option, but am not sure how to price these services. Should they be counted under "site maintenance", or a "Monthly Retainer Model"? Basically, should I be charging a fixed monthly rate? From my limited SEO knowledge, I'm assuming I would be responsible not only for ensuring proper use of SEO HTML tag standards (utilizing h1, h2, h3, title, p, meta, etc...), but would also be doing:   * regular analytics reports   * on-site content improvements   * press releases   * link building   * keyword research   * optimization This would require me to keep up with the latest standards so that her site will be crawled effectively by search engines and ranked at the top. That being said, what are your thoughts on how to price my services for SEO? I've read this article too which states average rates for SEO... These look higher than what my hourly rate is for development: http://moz.com/blog/seo-pricing-costs-of-services


Do I really need to test on different OSes?

I know testing websites on different browsers is important, but do browsers really render pages differently on different OSes? For example, do I have to test Chrome for Mac, Linux and Windows to prove it works or is one fine?


Using local DNS and public DNS during site development

I'm a web designer and I often develop new sites for existing businesses. Sometimes I find it useful to point my DNS address (for my personal computer) to the development servers local DNS (instead of Googles 8.8.8.8 or the default isp's address). I like this as it let's me see that the new site's internal links, etc, operate before switching over the authorative DNS from the old site. However outgoing links (Like a Google map) would not route with my local dns. The first thing I thought was, oh I just need to fill out my DNS directory with Google and every other domain I might need to link to, wait... that sounds insane. I was wondering if anyone could give me insight into a better way or more functional way to get use local DNS addresses when they're available and public supplied DNS address when they are not? Kinda like a DNS to 'roll- over'? Or maybe a completely different approach to development all together. Thanks in advance for your insight. All the best!


Where can I find a web service for fast food nutrition information?

Does anyone know where I can find a web service (or even an XML file or spreadsheet I can download) that will let me pull in nutrition information from the major fast food chains (U.S.-based only)?


.htaccess issue (500 - Internal Server Error) error

I was trying to learn how to edit and make a .htaccess file using a tutorial found at corz.org, I copied an existing .htaccess file from another site on my localhost and pasted the following content in it the follow:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $a.php [NC]      I was trying to learn how to redirect HTML pages to some PHP page. **My questions are:**   1. I tried doing Right Click > New > Text Document > Renaming it '.htaccess'. It should work but it gave an error that I must provide file name. But when I pasted .htaccess file here it was pasted successfully... Why is this? the same rules should apply to .htaccess file and it should generate some error.   2. I have pasted the exact code and checked for any space UN-intentionally left, but still internal server error 500 occurs. Why is this? Note: I am using Microsoft Windows and Wamp version 2.2


The adress without WWW points to the old server

I have just changed Web host but I have a small problem, the domain.com site points to my new server but www.domain.com is always on my former server. How to remedy it?


Copy another website's template

i've found a website with a great template. Is there any legal way that I could use the template? I don't want to copy and paste the css file, but is it ok to use the exact colors and styles?


How not to get blacklisted using BCC

We have a legitimate need to send out emails to groups of our users (it's system info, not marketing email), and we want to just add the list of people to the BCC field rather than the TO field. However, we're worried that we could get blacklisted as spammers for these periodic emails to small groups. Is it true that if you have the FROM email address listed in the TO field, and BCC everyone else, you won't be seen as spam? Should we just use BCC without worrying about the TO field, and try to set up something like Sender Policy Framework?


Looking for big list of shortening service websites

Does anybody know where to get list of working long2short service websites? The bigger the better - I need at least 100 of them.


Google Analytics In-Page Tracking For <input> Clicks

The in-page view in Google Analytics shows the website in an IFrame and overlays the statistics of link clicks. How is this done to track and show clicks (or entered data) for textbox ( elements)?


Astroturfing your own name in Google?

Ideally, when a prospective employer or client googles you or your companies name, they get the most relevant things first. However, this is rarely the case. In a perfect world, if I were able, I would have my first 5 hits be some order of my website, twitter, linkedin, github etc. Right now its a hodgepodge of social networking profiles and mailing lists, changelogs on software etc. I have control over my own website and can fiddle with the seo there obviously, but how can I promote the importance of say, my github profile over say, a 3 year old reply to some mailing list?


Foreground sprites and the alt tag

I would like to reduce the number of HTTP requests in this website I'm building, and sprites would be a simple way to do that; however, for semantic reasons some of the imagery should remain in the foreground. Assume for the sake of this question that I have a perfectly functional way to sprite a foreground image. So what should my alt tags look like? Here's one thought I had:               <img src="mysprite.png" alt="Product photographs of all the frobnobs we offer, organized by gauge">      …but does that really provide accessibility to the visually impaired, given that the image would only be showing one "frobnob" at a time?


Get the number of concurrent users in Apache?

We want to know how many concurrent users the apache is serving at one time? Can I do it by installing some statistics tools? I tried webalizer but it only shows hourly hits, not the number of users. Or I have to analyze the log using some tools?


What are the security implications of using Google Analytics?

I'd like to start using an analytics tool (namely Google Analytics) to collect information on how my web app is used, by whom, and what our user's technical capabilities are. As part of the introduction of this tool, I'm going to be asked what the security implications are. Does using Google Analytics pose any security concerns? Are there any PCI compliance issues that it might introduce? And if there are no unreasonable concerns, how can I document this? I have searched Google Analytics website, and have found a privacy statement, but not a specific statement of what information their tool collects, or how it is stored.


How can I make the Twitter sharing button on my site tweet unique message with each page?

I had set up my Twitter button using this tool from Twitter here And I put it on every page of the website. But it generates the same message on every page. But ideally I would need it to generate a unique message and url per page so people can land on the page which is being shared. Is there a way to do that? Thanks!


How to remove duplicate URL in Magento site?

I have Magento site and there are so many 301 redirected pages. For example, `www.example.com/catalog/product/view/id/910/category/3` is redirected to `www.example.com/engine-parts/2000-2004-vw-sharan-starter- motor`. After this type of all pages redirect for `www.example.com/2000-2004-vw-sharan-starter-motor`. My website redirect pages above 2000. So how to remove all the redirects in Magento site?


How do I create a circular gradient in HTML or CSS?

Hey guys I'm wondering if you know of any way on how to create a circular/elliptical gradient that has many colors? An example of this is shown on the background of this Microsoft logo picture: ![MS Windows 8 Meter](http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8800/wsmicrosoftwindows8metr.jpg) Any idea on how I would create it in HTML or CSS? Or would I have to use an image editing software like Photoshop?


List view pages in google index

We have a large database of items which are viewable as individual items (they are plants) (url example http://www.plantify.co.uk/Abelia- chinensis/plant-5087) or in a list view (url example http://www.plantify.co.uk/page-1/plant). There is a link on the individual page to the list view. We want to index in google for the term Abelia chinensis. My question revolves around the list view and its impact on SEO. Should we prevent google from indexing the list view? Should we put a no follow on the link to the list view to prevent us from losing link 'juice' to a page that is really on for navigation/


Vbulletin on nginx?

As an nginx fan, I need to set up a VB for a friend so I am wondering whether one can server VB site using nginx/php-fpm instead of apache? What are the specefic rewrite rules for that? How common this approach is and whether there are any benefits in doing so? Thanks


Will Google crawl a news/RSS aggregator site?

I know how to code. I know how to set up a news/RSS aggregator site. But I don't know if Google will crawl it. Will Google crawl such a site? The site will have a listing of all the aggregated news with the title, a short snippet of the news, and an image (not all will have an image) of the original news article. When a user clicks the article the user will get redirected to the source. Something like drudgereport. I haven't seen a drudgereport link when I search so I can't tell. (Maybe because it has something to do with my location I don't know.) Anyway any ideas?


Implementing Google ecommerce tracking code

I am trying to set up e-commerce tracking on my custom e-commerce site. On the thank you for ordering page I have added this code at the bottom, it also has the normal ga.js tracking code in the header, as it does on every page of the site.               <script type="text/javascript">     // Google Analytics     var _gaq = _gaq || [];         _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-31467450-1']);         _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);                  transactionId = <?php echo $order_id ?>;             affiliation = '';             total = <?php echo $grand_total ?>;             tax = <?php echo $vat_total ?>;             shipping = <?php echo $shipping_total ?>;             country = <?php echo $address ?>;              _gaq.push(['_addTrans',             transactionId,             affiliation,             total,              tax,             shipping,             city,             state,             country         ]);              <?php          $item_qry = mysql_query("SELECT `products_price`,`products_quantity`,`products_name`,`products_model` FROM `orders_products` WHERE `orders_id`=$order_id");              while($item_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($item_qry)) {         echo"_gaq.push(['_addItem','$order_id','$item_row['products_model']','$item_row['products_name']','','$item_row['products_price']',$item_row['products_quantity'])";     }     ?>              _gaq.push(['_trackTrans']);     </script>      Is this all that is required to track ecommerce? I added the loop so it runs through every item added, do I do this correctly?


Automatic registration on release, for new gTLD's

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